Sedona News – Have you heard of macular degeneration? Learn about this common eye condition at The Sedona Women (“TSW”) program on January 12, 2022 at 10:00a.m. via Zoom. Sedona Optometrist Dr. Kendra Ivy will describe the latest science on this condition and discuss how to keep macular degeneration at bay. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss among people 50 years and older in the U.S. It can affect the central vision needed for reading and driving and may significantly impact independence. Dr. Kendra Ivy will discuss the causes, symptoms and latest treatments during this important eye…
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Sedona News – Keep Sedona Beautiful will host Desert Botanical Garden’s Wendy Hodgson, on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. for its monthly Preserving the Wonder™ Speaker Series. This event will be held via Zoom. Please visit the KSB website, www.keepsedonabeautiful.org for details. The evening’s topic is titled “Agaves in the Southwestern United States: Discovering Lost Crops Among the Hohokam and Other Pre-Contact Arizona Cultures.”. Ms. Hodgson is the Herbarium Curator Emerita and Senior Research Botanist at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix and has extensively researched Sedona’s rare domesticated Agave species. According to Ms. Hodgson, “Researchers have long…
… it was a very good day at Lake Pleasant today if you like eagles … we saw more bald eagles, adults and juveniles than we have seen before and had great opportunities for wonderful shooting most of the day on the lake regardless of where we were. The lake level is up a couple more feet and encounters with the lake bed are becoming fewer. This is a sequence of three photos of a juvenile bald eagle taking off from a tree limb near shore. The total elapsed time for the sequence is only 1/6th of a second ……
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “June Again” showing Jan. 14-19 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Live again. Love again. In the heartfelt comedy “June Again”, a twist of fate gives family matriarch June (Noni Hazlehurst) a reprieve from a debilitating illness. Much to their amazement, June re-enters the lives of her adult children, Ginny (Claudia Karvan) and Devon (Stephen Curry), and learns that ‘things haven’t gone according to plan’. With limited time but plenty of pluck, she sets about trying to put everything, and everyone, back on…
By Dave Myers Sedona News – We hope your 2022 is off to a grand start. Maybe you acquired a new Apple product (iPhone 13) and/or related software (IOS 15, Monterey OS) in the past few months and would like to know more about how things work. Any user of Apple products is invited to attend the January 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…
… in flight … beauty that has intrigued mankind since forever … we watch the beauty of birds of all kinds as they wend their way through unseen and unmarked highways in the sky. The photo above is an Osprey that has just launched from his perch on a tree in Lake Pleasant and is on his way to do some grocery shopping … nothing like fresh fish for dinner! And then there is the view … what does it look like to see what they do and without the aid of devices we make we would never experience?…
Sedona News – The Sedona Heritage Museum is hosting the next in its Living History speaker series on Thursday January 13 at 10:00 a.m. at the Museum when Ken Zoll will present an introduction to the new Verde Valley Archaeology Center in Camp Verde. He will trace the Center’s development from an idea in 2010 to its property that contains a pit house village dated to 650 AD, development of a Native American Pathway and Garden, and the new 11,000 SF facility. Ken will preview the current and planned exhibits and present highlights of the Center’s collection. Zoll is a…
Sedona News – First Friday with music by Kaleidoscope Redrocks, Friday, Jan. 7, 5 to 8 p.m. Join us to celebrate First Friday and enjoy our art gallery and live music by Kaleidoscope Redrocks, the sister duo of Gracie and Tivona from the Village of Oak Creek. They’ll be playing rock, country, folk and pop favorites from the 1970’s. Free and open to public. Professional Development Introductory 101 Series, Mondays beginning Jan. 10, 10 a.m. Arts Academy of Sedona’s introductory professional development series plans to elevate, align, and grow Sedona’s nonprofit landscape with professional development, consultation, community events and more.…
Sedona News – Professional photographer Laurent Martres will present “Capturing the Essence of the American West – Themes and Techniques” at the Sedona Camera Club’s meeting which will be held online due to the risks presented by the Omicron variant of Covid-19. The meeting will start at 6 p.m. on Monday, January 31st. Sedona Camera Club members will receive an email with instructions to access Laurent’s presentation via a Sedona Camera Club webinar. Guests may obtain a link to register for the webinar by sending an email to programchair@sedonacameraclub.org . In Part 1 of his presentation, Laurent will discuss a…
By Ted Grussing … we made it, we’re here and beginning another terrific year … it is hard to complain about much when you are alive and able to enjoy all that is available to us on this little planet we call home. We’ll start the year with this photo of a Grackle that I shot whilst he was perched on the handrail of a steel dock at Bubbling Ponds Fishery in Page Springs this past week. He may be looking for some food in the bucket at the end of the dock … checking us out or perhaps…
Sedona News – The Sedona Historical Society will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the vintage western film made in Sedona, ‘Pony Soldier’, on Sunday, February 6 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. The afternoon of cinematic excellence and Sedona movie history will begin when doors open at 3:00 p.m. 2022 celebrates 70 years since the release of ‘Pony Soldier’, which starred several Hollywood greats, including Tyrone Power, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Horton, Thomas Gomez, and Penny Edwards. As usual back in that era, Sedona doubled for someplace else, in this case cast in the movie as the Canadian Rockies. During the pre-film…
By Craig Swanson President, Keep Sedona Beautiful Sedona News – Keep Sedona Beautiful was formed fifty years ago by a group of dedicated citizens to protect the beauty and natural environment of our area. Throughout our golden anniversary year of 2022, we’ll be celebrating our past accomplishments and highlighting our current and future initiatives. We’ve created an anniversary logo that you see to the left, and have revised our mission statement to more accurately reflect who we are and what we do. The mission of KSB is “To protect and enhance the scenic beauty and natural environment of Sedona and…
By Nikki and John Ramagli and Joanna Horton McPherson Sedona News – After the closing of the Big Park Community School (BPCS) families longed to have a place in the community where our kids could learn together. We had the vision to create a neighborhood school in a dedicated space, and that vision became the Sedona Village Learning Center (SVLC), an early childhood program currently located on the former BPCS campus. Going on our 2nd year our kids are thriving at SVLC. As working parents, we are grateful to have an excellent school right in the Village. It is what…
Sedona AZ : On Saturday, January 8, 2022 from 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM MST sat the Sedona Artists Market Gallery located at 2081 West State Route 89A, Suite 11, Sedona, AZ 86336, here will be a Prayer Painting event with Sheryl Rogers. With your energy and prayers, the forgiving nature of paint – you will create a powerful tool to manifestation, meditation and healling. Your Prayer Painting is a beautiful visual way to amplify the process of your connection to your deep desires and to bring Inner Peace. Paint N Play is an expressive and joyful process of creating works…
By Tommy Acosta Sedona, AZ. — What a year. What a sad, sad year for so many. We lost relatives, friends, homes, our freedoms, our sense of well-being and peace of mind. A constantly mutating virus that continues to wreak havoc across the planet, weather gone wild, tornados decimating communities, floods, fires, riots and insurrections; criminals running rampant through stores, killings and muggings, rapes and murder abound, there almost seems to be no end to this plaque of calamities. As we stumble into 2022, it appears that things will only get worse. For some, the damage has not just been…