Verde Valley News – Is safe yield attainable? Achieving the long-term balance between groundwater withdrawal and replenishment, or safe yield, by 2025 has been a central talking point in Quad City water management since 1980 when the Arizona Groundwater Management Act first established that goal for the Prescott Management Area (PrAMA). But with no regulatory penalties for not meeting safe yield, action to do so has been minimal, and aquifer overdraft has increased. Dr. Peter Kroopnick, retired hydrologist and head of the Science Committee for the Citizens Water Advocacy Group (CWAG), will talk about the water outlook for the Quad…
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By Rose Boerner, NAMI Yavapai Sedona News – Our next Mental Health Monday program will take place via Zoom on April 25th, 10:00 to 11:30 AM, and will focus on what to do after a mental health crisis. Join us for this informational meeting during which our speaker Dawn McReynolds will discuss what happens after the emergency of a mental health crisis is over, how will you know if another crisis is headed your way, and what steps you can take to prevent a situation from escalating into a crisis. Dawn McReynolds is originally from Detroit, Michigan, where she transitioned from working for a non-profit organization…
Sedona News – Guest artist Cicely Parnas will perform Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Verde Valley Sinfonietta, under the direction of Music Director Kevin Kozacek, on Sunday, May 8, at 2:30 PM, in the Sedona Performing Arts Center. The program includes Mozart’s Overture to the Magic Flute, K. 620, Gioachino Rossini’s William Tell Overture – Finale, Johann Wilhelm Hertel’s Concerto in Eb Major for Oboe and Trumpet, and Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 45 in F# Minor “Farewell.” Praised for her “velvety sound, articulate passagework, and keen imagination” (The New York Times), American cellist Cicely Parnas leads a dynamic career as an international performing artist.…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival — in partnership with Plan B to Save Wolves and Wolf Dogs — will host a night of films about wolves on Thursday, May 5, 2022. The films are by director Jean-Michel Bertrand and the event will screen two of his breath-taking documentaries, “Valley of the Wolves” and “Wolf Walk,” about his observation of wolves in France. “Valley of the Wolves” will show at 4 p.m., and “Wolf Walk” will screen at 7 p.m. at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre. VALLEY OF THE WOLVES In “Valley of the Wolves”, Jean-Michel Bertrand observes wolves in…
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. Come join us either in person or online. See jcsvv.org for instructions to register for in-person services. On Friday, April 29, a Friday evening service, led by Rabbi Alicia Magal, begins at 5:30 pm both in person and on Zoom, and livestreamed for members and their invitees. Congregants participate by lighting candles, doing a reading, or having an Aliyah for the Torah service. Holocaust Remembrance…
Sedona News – From Bach to the Beatles and barn-burners to ballads, audiences delight when world-renowned fingerstyle guitarist Richard Smith returns with his solo concert to Sedona by popular demand. There will be one show on Sunday, May 1 at 7 p.m. at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. Having witnessed one of his live performances, fellow musicians and music lovers alike sing hymns of praise about Richard Smith. With fretboard fireworks and lyrical endeavors, he will melt your heartstrings, make your toes tap and your jaws hang open. Richard’s ever-growing repertoire comprises a wide…
Cottonwood News – Old Town Center for the Arts is pleased to announce Ken Koshio & Kenzoo appearing at OTCA in a special evening concert on Saturday, April 30th at 7:00 PM. This special event is sponsored by Mount Hope Foods. Ken Koshio is a world class Japanese Taiko drummer. Taiko is a Japanese style of percussion, which combines music, movement and spirit. Ken pushes the boundaries of Taiko through various collaborations, creating a totally authentic and unique style of music and Taiko performance art. Joining Ken for this special evening of world music is Kenzoo, which includes: John Paul Mendes, Taiko…
Sedona News – Red Rose Inspiration For Animals is a local 501c3 nonprofit that supports animal welfare and has been promoting Art Shows in West Sedona since 2009. These are the only art shows throughout the Verde Valley that proceeds benefit a non-profit for animal welfare. The Red Rose shows generate revenue for the various long term existing animal related programs such as spay and neuter of homeless feral felines specifically in Camp Verde, along with low-cost spay and neuter services of felines and canines belonging to pet owners on a fixed income and needing financial assistance. Animals that continue…
Sedona News – The Sedona Heritage Museum is again offering a performance of “Throwback Thursday”, on Thursday, May 5, at 3:30 p.m. at the Museum. Visitors will enjoy a glimpse of parts of the Museum through encounters with costumed reenactors. These impersonators will breathe life into several Sedona area pioneers and share a bit of that person’s life story and adventures in the Sedona of 70-120 years ago. Guests will rotate through the Museum buildings, delighting in parts of a “day-in-the life” of our early settlers and community-builders, and getting a peek at some of the hopes, dreams, and hardships…
Sedona News – The city opened new May and June appointments for Straight Talk with Karen, a program in which once a month, residents can come to City Hall and sit down with City Manager Karen Osburn to discuss any topic of their choice. The goal of the program is to facilitate an opportunity for residents to meet with Osburn on any question, concern, issue or general topic they would like to talk about. The May and June format will feature an open forum, so that up to four residents can sit down together with Osburn, hear each other’s questions…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory How much anger is stuffed inside? Every time someone hurt me and I didn’t know how to respond … when I didn’t say something and held my tongue while my insides were slashed open … when I let the hurt pass, forcing a laugh at a friend’s joke — a friend’s not a stranger’s or an enemy’s. It wasn’t funny, it hurt, oh how it stung, but I didn’t have the courage to step forward, to step out and honor myself … all those times when my precious open heart was wounded and snapped closed, building…
Sedona News -The Sedona Historical Society invites everyone to travel back in time to meet some of Sedona’s earliest pioneers at a cemetery walk at Sedona’s oldest cemetery on April 29 and 30. The Schuerman Red Rock Cemetery on the Upper Red Rock Loop Road will be the site of this cemetery walk, introducing attendees to some of the brave souls who experienced triumph and tragedy while carving out a life in Red Rock country. “Voices from the Grave-Spring Spirits Rising” is an open-air cemetery tour with re-enactments by professional actors where original pioneers are interred. This cemetery dates from…
… we’re into the weekend, at least for me, and what a glorious week it has been. Avail yourself of the opportunity this weekend to head out into nature for a concert. Redwing Blackbirds and other song birds are waiting to give you a free concert and Rudy Ducks will be showing off their tight formation takeoffs as they barrel down the watery runway. Enjoy the day. smile and be kind … we all can benefit from it! With Joy! Ted Everything is still, and the soft night air is cool. The sky seems very near. and the stars lie…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of the award-winning documentary “Viva Maestro!” showing April 29-May 4 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Superstar conductor Gustavo Dudamel faces the test of a lifetime when social unrest in his Venezuelan homeland challenges his conviction that music has the power to unite, in award-winning writer/director Ted Braun’s emotional affirmation of the resilience of art in a time of political crisis. Dudamel has set the music world afire with his electric and original interpretations of the greatest symphonic works. While leading orchestras around the…
Sedona News – As part of the Sedona in Motion (SIM) program, the city of Sedona and their contractor, Fann Contracting, Inc., will begin construction of the Forest Road Connection Project the week of April 25, 2022. The project includes the construction of a new two-lane roadway that will connect the current terminus of Forest Road to a new intersection on State Route 89A, just west of the “Y” roundabouts. Additional work includes the installation of new concrete curb and gutter, retaining walls, a shared-use path, drainage infrastructure, landscape improvements and the extension of sewer infrastructure. Once complete, this project…