Verde Valley News – Camp Verde Community Library recently received grants for two unique collections for the Children’s Library, from the AZ State Library, Archives, & Public Records. One is a Welcoming Libraries grant and the other is a Checkout Learning 2022 grant. Both collections are available now for checkout when you visit the Children’s Library. About Welcoming Libraries: The Welcoming Library, a collection of 30 picture books from I’m Your Neighbor Books, is designed to promote conversation on immigration and new-generation communities. That conversation gets started through a collection of acclaimed picture books featuring new arrival and new-generation families. Readers of all…
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By Amaya Gayle Gregory You want a little more abundance, a little less discomfort, a bit more of the green stuff to pay the bills and a few dollars left over to fill that empty space in your wallet. It doesn’t really matter if it is something you’ve never had, or had and lost, something within aches for it, knows you deserve it. You want a sweet relationship, one that hugs your heart, someone to snuggle with you and fill up your big empty bed and hold you when you don’t want to be alone, someone to light you up,…
Sedona News – Sedona Toys for Tots is accepting family requests starting October 15 for toys for the holiday season. Toys for Tots provides toys, books and stocking stuffers to children newborn to 14 years old living in the Sedona area. Families may register at the Sedona Community Food Bank, St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry or at West Sedona School. Registration is also available at http://sedona-az.toysfortots.org. Sedona Toys for Tots provides one bag of toys for each family. Families who request toys are pre-screened to assure there are no double requests. Sedona toys for Tots is sponsored by the…
By Rabbi Alicia Magal Shalom and greetings from the Rabbi, Board of Directors, and congregation of the Jewish Community of Sedona and the Verde Valley. All the services, classes, and programs are listed on the synagogue website, jcsvv.org. Visitors are welcome to attend services. On Friday, October 21 a Friday evening Erev Shabbat service, led by Rabbi Alicia Magal, begins at 5:30 pm both in person and on Zoom, and live-streamed for members and their invitees. Congregants participate by lighting candles, doing a reading, or having an Aliyah for the Torah service. Verses from the Torah portion will be chanted from the…
… leaving for the lake in four hours so this will be a wee bit short. I’ve spent the last while browsing through flower shots I have taken over the years and these two spoke to me and insisted that they be chosen … the first is a Hollyhock that was in a planter outside a beauty shop in West Sedona where I used to take Corky … it was raining, so I held back, skipped my walk and shot the Hollyhocks and other flowers … the last from a shoot of Indian Blanket flowers along SR 179 … beauty…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the flashback encore return of “Carnage” showing Oct. 21-26 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon and Mary D. Fisher Theatres. “Carnage” features an award-winning ensemble cast, including Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. Foster and Winslet both received Golden Globe nominations for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for their performances in the film. “Carnage” is a razor sharp, biting comedy centered on parental differences. After two boys duke it out on a playground, the parents of the “victim”…
… and what a day it was … I was in the number 2 lane on I-17 heading into Phoenix, when BANG and some very weird noises. I was thinking blown tire, but I had full control and after pulling over and finding all tires in good shape, I looked up and whoops … the sunroof glass had exploded and although it is safety glass there was still a huge mess. So I continued on to my appointments and after them I used 200 mph duck tape (often used in aviation temporary repairs) to tape around the large hole and…
Sedona News – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is honored to continue to be the home for the Met Live Opera programs for the 2022-2023 season, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. The season will officially kick off with Luigi Cherubini’s “Medea” live via simulcast on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 10 a.m. and the encore presentation on Wednesday, Oct. 26 at 3 p.m. Plan to come early as Russell Fox will lead a pre-opera talk one hour before the LIVE production on Saturday. Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky stars…
Verde Valley News – NAMI Yavapai will be sponsoring a FREE NAMI Family-to-Family 4-session education program for family, friends and significant others of adults with mental health conditions. NAMI Family-to-Family provides information about anxiety, depressive disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other mental health conditions. Other topics covered include communication, problem solving, treatment and recovery. The program is designed to increase understanding and advocacy skills while helping participants maintain their own well-being. The class is taught by trained family members who have a loved one with a mental health condition. When: This class is four sessions long and will begin October…
Sedona News – After a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19, Hālau Hula Nāpuaokaleiʻilima resumes their only fundraising event, the 17th annual Hoʻike (hula exhibition show). Kumu Hula Kēhau Chrisman invites you to join her students (haumana) on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at the Phillip England Center for the Performing Arts at 280 Camp Lincoln Road in Camp Verde. Doors open at 1:15 PM, and the show starts at 1:30 PM. At the show, Haumana (students) will demonstrate hula they have learned over the years from Kumu Hula Kēhau Chrisman. You can also take advantage of purchasing reasonably priced Hawaiʻi themed items for sale as well as several unique Hawaiian artifacts…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory I’m going to tell you something you don’t want to hear. You already know it, but many of you have yet to fully accept it. Life isn’t fair. It will never be all roses and no thorns. Some people will appear to win in spite of seeming unworthy of any good fortune. Others will appear to lose even though they seem worthy of much more. It isn’t, nor will this dimensional life ever be, golden light and the absence of shadow. No matter how much inner work you do, how much knowledge you accumulate, how enlightened…
… what? That’s what I thought too, but it refers to the process of hornets collecting water or food, bringing it back to the nest and transferring the precious droplets of water or food to others in the nest. Hornets will hover low over the water and gently land on the surface in a manner such that they do not break the surface tension of the water and drink. I got this one in a very quiet bay of Lake Pleasant last week … there were not a lot of birds at the time and thus attention was drawn to…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with award-winning surround sound composer and producer Koz Mraz for “Dark Side of the Room” on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Everyone has experienced 5.1 surround in movie theaters, but hearing QUEEN’s Bohemian Rhapsody remixed specifically for six speakers is simply astounding. Be it popular, classical or electronic music, listeners are immersed in ever-evolving sonic landscapes that can only be experienced in a theater. “Dark Side of the Room” is a no-visuals sonic experience, reminiscent of lost art of listening to…
Sedona News – Arizona is home to two of the most famous UFO cases in history, and experts, including the primary witness of one of those events, will be sharing information at the 2022 International UFO Congress in Mesa, Wednesday, October 12, 2022 to Sunday, October 16, 2022. Beginning the night of November 5, 1975, former logger Travis Walton’s experience has become the most famous and perhaps most credible account of a UFO and possible alien encounter in history. The case is especially compelling because several of Walton’s fellow loggers witnessed the event. The loggers claimed they had all piled…
Sedona News – The gift-giving holiday season is fast approaching and the Sedona Heritage Museum hopes to make the lives of local shoppers just a bit easier by once again hosting their annual Fall Arts & Crafts Fair on October 22. This long-time Museum tradition is the ideal way to “keep it local”. The Museum curates this show with a focus on supporting local artisans and crafters who have unique, quality items to offer and as a way to ensure that residents can find one-of-a-kind pieces for holiday gifts or for their own enjoyment. This celebration of the Fall season…