Sedona News – The Arizona Community Foundation of Sedona is pleased to announce three new members of its local Board of Advisors. New members include Jill Iurato, Dr. Bruce Peek, and Richard P. Zahner Lieutenant General US Army (Retired). Jennifer Perry, Regional Director of the organization, states, “Each individual brings professional and community service expertise to the leadership team of ACF of Sedona. We are excited to continue building our community impact with the help of this talented group of community members.” JILL IURATO, CRPS®, MBA is a Financial Advisor with Edward Jones. Prior to becoming a financial advisor, she…
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Verde Valley News – Music in the Stacks returns on Thursday, April 14th at 5:30 pm in Camp Verde Community Library’s Fireside Room. Music in the Stacks is a showcase of local and national musicians who entertain regularly in Northern Arizona. There are 3-5 different performers during the show, with a rotating variety each month. April’s concert features the following talented local musicians: Ed Cooper, Tim Young, and Gioia. Ed Cooper performs great solo acoustic rock & roll all around the Verde Valley and Northern Arizona. Originally hailing from New York where he performed and recorded several albums, Tim Young moved to Arizona in 2013 where he recorded his newest album, The Lucky Ones, and presently performs…
Sedona News – Join Keep Sedona Beautiful on Wednesday, April 13, at 5:00 p.m. for its monthly Preserving the Wonder™ Speaker Series. This event will be held both live at 360 Brewer Road in Sedona and virtually via Zoom. Please visit the KSB website, www.keepsedonabeautiful.org for details. Dr. Nancy Steele, Executive Director of Friends of the Verde River will speak about water issues in the Verde Valley. A recent study published in Nature Climate Change reported that the current drought in the southwest was the driest 22-year period since 800 CE. For the Verde, stream gag data shows summertime flows have declined significantly over the last thirty years.…
Sedona News – Any user of Apple products- iPhone, iPad, Mac- is invited to attend the April 2022 Zoom meeting of the Oak Creek Apples Macintosh User Group (OCAMUG, or OCA, for short). Alan Gore will facilitate a general question-and-answer session. He often covers recent and upcoming trends, as well as bugs and fixes. There is no charge to participate. OCA will continue its monthly virtual/online meetings on the 3rd Saturday of April, Saturday, April 16, 2022, beginning at 10:00 AM at the following online address: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86134474777 Meeting ID: 861 3447 4777 If you want to attend the meeting by phone, please follow the above zoom…
Sedona News – Emerson Theater Collaborative Present Underneath the Lintel, April 15 and 16, 7 p.m. Underneath the Lintel is The DaVinci Code meets the dewy decimal system. In this gripping ghost story, an eccentric librarian discovers a weather-beaten book in a return bin — 113 years overdue. Sparked by a message left in its margins, he embarks on a magical quest that takes him around the world and 2,000 years into the past. With astonishing twists and turns, Underneath the Lintel draws us into an unforgettable odyssey. The show features Craig Schneider as the librarian. Tickets are $35 – $45 for regular seats or reserve…
… five hours on the lake produced some of the most beautiful shooting I have had in a while … above is a Great Egret that flew right at us from the end of a small bay on the NE part of the lake and below a diminutive Horned Grebe in breeding plumage just as he rose out of the water to enter flight. If you click on the photo to see the full size image you can see the sheet of water rising up against his breast as he leaves the water. Hundreds more very nice shots…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Sedona premiere of acclaimed new drama “The Outfit” showing April 15-20 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. From the Academy Award-winning writer of “The Imitation Game” (Graham Moore) comes “The Outfit” a gripping and masterful thriller in which an expert tailor (Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance) must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night. Leonard (Rylance), a master English tailor who’s ended up in Chicago, operates a corner tailor shop with his assistant (Zoey Deutch) where he makes beautiful clothes for the…
Camp Verde News – Camp Verde Community Library received a Libraries Launching School Readiness grant from the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, a division of the Secretary of State. The grant was used to purchase 50 media-enhanced Wonderbooks from Playaway©. Wonderbooks are high-quality print books with a ready-to-play audiobook inside. All the titles can be viewed in the online catalog and are now available for checkout at Camp Verde Community Library. We invite the children and the parents and guardians of Camp Verde to visit Camp Verde Community Library to explore Playaway© Wonderbooks. For additional information, contact Letty Ancira at…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Benefactors of Red Rock State Park to present a very special free event “Only One Earth” on Wednesday, April 13 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre at 7 p.m. Calling all parents, educators, students and anyone who loves our state parks! Participate in an evening of fun, films, facts and a discussion on Environmental Education with Red Rock State Park Rangers. The event will kick off with a short film of the park’s history, from prehistoric times through to the current day. It includes the geological…
Verde Valley News – WARNING!!! Gift cards are a popular and convenient gift for all occasions. They’re also a tool that scammers use to steal money from people. Scammers have been targeting Yavapai County residents by asking them to pay a fake fine or probation bill with gift cards. They may also use a compromised email account to send emails requesting gift card purchases for friends, family, or co-workers. YCSO would like to remind the public that gift cards are for gifts, not for paying fines. YCSO will never ask anyone to make a payment with a gift card. If…
Sedona News – Emerson Theater Collaborative presents Underneath the Lintel, written by Glen Berger, on April 15 and 16 at 7 p.m. at Arts Academy of Sedona in the Village of Oak Creek. Underneath the Lintel is The DaVinci Code meets the dewy decimal system. In this gripping ghost story, an eccentric librarian discovers a weather-beaten book in a return bin — 113 years overdue. Sparked by a message left in its margins, he embarks on a magical quest that takes him around the world and 2,000 years into the past. With astonishing twists and turns, Underneath the Lintel draws us into an unforgettable odyssey. The…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory It’s not about becoming … anything. It’s not even about freedom, truth or peace. For me, anyway, it was always about giving up the fight, letting go of the need to be anything but what I am, even though I didn’t know it at the time. That’s the only thing that is ever wanted in the hope for peace, the drive to find the truth, the search for love – the Grand Becoming Plan. Becoming can never offer freedom — the freedom to be what we are without exception, without need of betterment, without desire for…
… it has been a very good day, as is affirmed by the fact that I am still breathing and getting this missive and two new photos out … however no particular thoughts, topic or direction came to me tonight so it shall be a little of this and a little of that. There are days like that and it is just nice to be be here. Perhaps it has something to do with my diet of the past couple of days … yesterday my friend from Boston brought over two cherry turnovers and two cinabons and that with copious…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona encore of the award-winning historical comedy/drama “Delicious” showing April 15-20 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. “Delicious” premiered at the recent Sedona International Film Festival where it received the festival’s highest honor “Best of Fest” Award, as well as the Directors’ Choice Award for Best International Feature Film. Audience members and critics have been raving about the film. Writer/director Éric Besnard’s mouth-watering new historical comedy indelibly pairs Grégory Gadebois and Isabelle Carré as a gifted chef and his unlikely protégé, who must find the resolve…
Sedona News – The Sedona Historical Society has announced that a limited number of ticket holders will 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…