Verde Valley News – Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) is pleased to announce expanded hours at the Verde Valley Medical Center’s Village of Oak Creek outpatient lab draw station. Starting Feb. 5, walk-in availability will be offered Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Patients need to have orders from their provider before they can be seen at the lab. The lab is located at 61 Bell Rock Plaza, Suite C in Sedona. Each of the NAH laboratories offer a comprehensive range of services, including routine and urgent clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology services. NAH’s board-certified pathologists, clinical laboratory scientists and phlebotomists deliver lab services with…
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Verde Valley News – Yavapai County Recorder, Michelle Burchill, would like to notify voters of the following: All voters in Yavapai County have been mailed a new voter registration identification card due to a change in precinct numbers, names, and boundaries. Voters who have recently submitted changes to their voter registration such as political party, residential address or mailing address, will receive another voter registration identification with those reflected changes. Please retain your newest ID card and dispose of older versions. For further questions, please contact Yavapai County Voter Registration at 928-771-3248, opt 9.
Verde Valley News – Opioid deaths among older Arizonans have spiked dramatically in the past year. In the interest of building healthier communities and arming citizens with useful information, Yavapai College’s Verde Valley OLLI program will present a FREE discussion on opioids, reducing deaths and the over-the-counter overdose treatment NARCAN on Tuesday, February 13, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on the Yavapai College Verde Valley Campus. MATFORCE and researcher Bernard Plaskett will lead the one-hour discussion. MATFORCE is a local coalition of hundreds of individuals from multiple sectors of the community, working to reduce substance abuse in Yavapai County. Plaskett conducted…
Sedona News – Sealed proposals for curbside yard waste collection services, RFP No. 24-005, will be received by the City, located at 106 Roadrunner Drive, Sedona, Arizona 86336, until 2:00 p.m., local Arizona time, on February 26, 2024. Department Financial Services, Public Works Category RFPs – Public Works RFP Number 24-005 Start Date 02/05/2024 9:00 a.m. Close Date 02/26/2024 2:00 p.m. RFP Post Status Open PROJECT: CURBSIDE YARD WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES, RFP No. 24-005 DESCRIPTION: The City of Sedona, Arizona is inviting firms to submit proposals to provide curbside yard waste collection services to collect curbside yard waste from residents of the City. CONTRACT TERM: The…
By Tommy Acosta Sedona, AZ — We are being baited. Iran knows exactly what it is doing; they are luring us in. They want us committed so that they can deplete all of our military resources—what’s left of them, anyway. Once that’s done, they will call for the Arab world to rise up and throw out what they consider their occupiers. We’re not ready for this one. Not like we were for the war with Iraq and Afghanistan. We had time to prepare. We don’t have any time now. We have very few soldiers out there, and our army at…
Verde Valley News – The Verde Valley Humane Society (VVHS) welcomes Catherine McCan to the Board of Directors. Board Chair Alice Klies stated, “I am pleased to welcome Catherine on behalf of the board, staff, and volunteers of the Verde Valley Humane Society. Catherine McCan (McCan Accounting) has been an accountant serving small businesses since 1979 and served the Verde Valley since 1987. Ms. McCan joins Board Chair Alice Klies, Vice Chair Maxine Belcher, Secretary Amber Polo; Treasurer Harry (Hank) Abrahams, and Mary Clark. The Verde Valley Humane Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the animals and people of…
Sedona News – The 30th anniversary of the Sedona International Film Festival will feature the locally shot and produced feature film HIM, directed by award-winning filmmaker Rebecca Wahls. https://vimeo.com/890508851?share=copy The feature film stars BAFTA winning voice actor Troy Baker (HBO’s The Last of Us), and social media star Kyle Prue who entertains his 1.4 million+ followers on TikTok. The majority female cast features Kira Omans (CBS’s CSI: Vegas), Tess Higgins (Kringle Time), Margaret Berkowitz (Fox Searchlight’s Marriage Material), Lucie Solene Allouche (Netflix’s Inventing Anna), and Sydney Battle (FX’s Swan Boy). Local Arizona actor Lisa Barnes is featured in a supporting role. This dark comedy is an unapologetically…
… clouds cause us to look up … and dream beyond that which exists on earth and all that is down here. We look beyond our planet and into the space beyond … seemingly portals open up and darkness fades as sunlight burns through the clouds. We’re receiving a lot of rain right now and it is cold and windy … I love this weather … time to close the day, open the bedroom window, dive under the covers and enjoy the storm. Have a beautiful day and weekend … the plan is to be back Monday morning. A Reminder…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theaters around the world for a global theatrical encore event: “Amélie” playing Feb. 14-17 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. “Amélie” was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Language Film. After two decades, the cinematic sensation returns to theaters in its original form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py7cDXQae2U Amélie (Audrey Tatou), the heroine of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s award-winning whimsical romance, is no ordinary young woman. A waitress in a Montmartre, Paris bar, Amélie observes people and lets her imagination roam free. One day, she suddenly finds her purpose in life: to solve…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory Many years ago when I volunteered at the prison I was talking to the men about the present moment. Even as the words came out of my mouth, I knew that something was off, something very important. For years, the present moment had been offered up as the golden talisman, a charm that once fully grasped would open the doors to life’s mysteries. Some still speak of it that way not realizing the fallacy and harm of what they do. That day, I squirmed inside because I knew I was missing the point and if I…
Sedona News – Following a highly successful first year of operations, the latest fine dining destination to hit the scene in Sedona, Forty1 – the sophisticated signature restaurant at the luxurious Ambiente, a Landscape Hotel that initially catered exclusively to hotel guests – announced today that it is now open to the public with a brand-new executive chef at the helm ready to launch his first seasonal menu. Situated centrally in the heart of the boutique property’s three rugged acres, Forty1 serves an ever-evolving menu of dazzling a la carte dishes anchored by locally grown and seasonal, natural ingredients sourced from the surrounding Verde…
The Sedona Women (TSW) will hear from Sedona resident Maudelle Terry, former San Francisco news reporter, executive, actress and author about her Grandmother Baker’s Black wisdom on a wide variety of topics. The TSW program will take place on the second Thursday, February 8, at the Sedona Public Library. TSW programs are scheduled monthly from September through May. When Maudelle was 3, her parents divorced, and her Grandmother Baker relocated to San Diego to become the legal guardian of Maudelle and her two brothers. Maudelle learned much from her beloved grandmother who was born in Lovelady, Texas in 1892 to…
Sedona News – More than 140 features, documentaries, shorts and foreign films from around the world will be screened at four venues during the 30th annual Sedona International Film Festival from Feb. 24 through March 3. Festival passes and 10-and-20 ticket packages are on sale now at www.sedonafilmfestival.com. Single tickets will go on sale two weeks before the screening of the opening-night film Isle of Hope starring Dianne Ladd, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andrew McCarthy and Sam Robards. Ladd and Masterson are expected to be on hand for the screening at the Sedona Performing Arts Center (SPAC) at Sedona Red Rock High School. “Isle of Hope will…
By Rabbi Alicia Magal The JCSVV offers services and classes which are life-affirming and soul enriching. All are listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Visitors are welcome to attend services after security check. People who cannot attend or who live far away can attend through zoom. Erev Shabbat services led by Rabbi Alicia Magal will be held on Friday evening, February 9, 2024, 2024 beginning at 5:30 pm in person and on Zoom. The Biblical reading is from Mishpatim, Exodus 21:1–24:18, outlining many of the ethical laws to be followed in order to create a compassionate society that is founded on justice and…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to join theaters around the globe to present the worldwide theatrical premiere of “Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive” showing Tuesday, Feb. 13 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRYW7MQEtUs “Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive” is the story of a Disco legend who, for five decades, has inspired millions with her words “I Will Survive”, but only understood the lyrics when she hit rock bottom at age 65. This film is about reinvention, the power of faith and a magnificent second act. “I am finally at a place of joy and…