Sedona AZ (November 26, 2021) – The city of Sedona recently made three big strides to assist in offering solutions to the limited workforce housing options in Sedona – the hiring of a housing manager, approval from City Council to implement a down payment assistance program with Housing Solutions of Northern Arizona and approval from City Council to enter into a public-private partnership with Sunset Lofts, LLC for the development of a 46-unit apartment complex dedicated to local workforce. With rising home and rent prices, workforce housing concerns have become a major City Council priority for the last several years,…
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Camp Verde AZ (November 26, 2021) – Community members are cordially invited to the ribbon-cutting and opening of two recently installed Little Free Libraries in Camp Verde on Wednesday, December 1 starting at 2:00p at the Verde Valley Archaeology Center (VVAC) and then moving to Rezzonico Family Park at 2:30p. Camp Verde Community Library and VVAC are recipients of a grant from the Rural Activation and Innovation Network (RAIN) to bring the Little Free Libraries (LFL) to Camp Verde and fill them with books and SciTech Institute take-and-make kits. The LFLs will hold a variety of science, technology, engineering, art,…
Sedona AZ (November 26, 2021) – Love quilting? Got questions? Members of the Red Rock Quilters will be the featured guests for Monday at the Museum on Monday, December 6, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Perhaps bring a small project to work on and enjoy the fellowship of quilting by getting your questions answered or just talking about the joy of quilting. They welcome all levels of quilters, fabric lovers, guests and traveling quilters. There is no charge for this demonstration. “Mondays at the Museum” is a workshop/ demonstration held every Monday; please call for a current schedule. The…
Sedona AZ (November 26, 2021) – City Manager Karen Osburn named Andy Dickey as the new public works director/assistant city manager for the city of Sedona. Dickey’s promotion to public works director/assistant city manager is the result of a reclassification of his current position with added responsibilities. He will now oversee not just the Public Works Department, as he has in his role as public works director for over five years, but also the Parks and Recreation Department and transit program. Dickey has over 20 years of experience in public works and engineering management, and has worked for the city…
By Ted Grussing … I found a treasure trove of Bald Eagle shots that I forgot I have … about six years ago I quit sorting and filing newly shot images in an extensive folder system that I had established and instead I simply set up folders based on year month and date shot and relied on my key wording of the photos to find them again. Everyone knows that the most recent shots you take are your best, but in fact many of the older ones are as good or better than those of today. Anyhow, I found several…
Sedona AZ (November 24, 2021) – Come and experience a holiday treasure! The Sedona International Film Festival presents Ballet in Cinema on Sunday, Dec. 5 when it hosts the big screen encore of “The Nutcracker” from the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. There will be one show at 4:00 p.m. at the festival’s Mary D. Fisher Theatre. Christmas would not be complete without the enchanting tale of young Marie and her Nutcracker prince! E.T.A. Hoffmann’s fairytale staged by Russian ballet master Yuri Grigorovich will transport children and adults alike to a world of magic and wonder for the holiday season. “The…
Sedona AZ (November 24, 2021) – Between Monday, Nov. 29, 2021 and Dec. 30, 2021 at the Sedona Public Library, the city of Sedona seeks the public’s help in voting for which art pieces to select for three roundabouts along State Route 179 as part of its ongoing Art in Public Places Program. The artwork will be placed in the roundabouts at Canyon Drive, Morgan Road, Chapel Road and Back O’ Beyond Road. The city was already offered a donated sculpture for one roundabout. The past few months, the Roundabout Art Selection Work Group, a group of citizen volunteers, were…
By Carson Ralston Camp Verde AZ (November 24, 2021) – Join us in the Fireside Room at Camp Verde Community Library at 5:30 pm on Thursday, December 2nd for the return of Donna Hazlewood, the winner of Verde Valley’s Got Talent. Donna Hazlewood was born and raised in the South and has been living in Arizona over the past 30 years. She has been a nurse for 10 years and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree as a nurse practitioner. She has always enjoyed singing, and over the past several years competed in singing competitions reaching a plateau. It was then…
Sedona AZ (November 24, 2021) – Many painters will tell you color and light play big roles in their artwork, but for sculptors and jewelers, it’s all about form. Rowe Fine Art Gallery celebrates all shapes and sizes in December with Good Form: Sculpture and Wearable Art. The show opens Friday, December 3, at 4 p.m., and continues through the month, giving you ample time to finish – or start! – your holiday shopping. What can art lovers expect to discover in December? The latest pendant in always-popular jeweler Liam Herbert’s Peace collection features a figure holding a peace symbol with…
By Ted Grussing … and he is leaving his perch and on his way to pick off the creature that he has target acquisition on … eagles have incredible eyesight and because they have two foveae or centers of focus this allows them to see forward and to the side at the same time and their eyesight is such that they can likely see a rabbit moving from a distance of a mile … and like all birds, they have color vision. An eagles eye is nearly the same size as the human eye. The photo below is a reminder that we…
Sedona AZ (November 23, 2021) – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is honored to be the home for the Met Live Opera programs for the 2021-2022 season, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. The season will continue with Matthew Aucoin’s “Eurydice” on Saturday, Dec. 4. There will be one show at 11 a.m. — a live simulcast as it is happening at the Met! Plan to come early as Ed Ingraham will lead a pre-opera talk one hour before the production. The ancient Greek myth of Orpheus, who attempts to harness the power of music to rescue his beloved…
Sedona AZ (November 23, 2021) – The Sedona Heritage Museum will host “Throwback Thursdays-Pioneers at the Museum”, on Thursday, December 2, at 3:30 p.m. at the Museum. Visitors will enjoy a glimpse at parts of the Museum through encounters with costumed reenactors. These impersonators will breathe life into eight 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,…
Sedona AZ (November 23, 2021) – The Sedona Arts Academy is pleased to announce the third in its ongoing series of art shows celebrating the visual artists of the Verde Valley. Building on the great success of the inaugural exhibit in March, the current show features an extraordinary range of fine pieces from gifted local artists, including several whose work has not previously been shown in the area. Many of these works are the perfect gift for loved ones. The show runs until January 18th 2022 and is open week days from noon to 6:00 PM and 11am to 6pm…
Camp Verde AZ (November 23, 2021) – Starting Wednesday, December 8 from 3:00-4:00p Lynn Sweitzer will present in-person or virtually a series of five hands-on classes on how to successfully and safely do online banking. The class, part of the Community Connect: Digital Access at Home project, will meet weekly through January 5 on Wednesday in the Key Lime Room at Camp Verde Community Library or at the same time via Zoom. Ready, Set, Bank is an online and in-person, blended learning program designed to help seniors learn about online and mobile banking. Technology is rapidly changing the financial industry…
By Ted Grussing … when our family first moved into our home on Diamond Lake in Minneapolis the refrigeration for our food was provided by an ice delivery truck which brought blocks of ice to be used in the fridge to keep things cool … I checked with my brother and he remembers it too. Fast forward to November of 2021 and my beautiful GE Monogram built in refrigerator decided it was time to return to the “good old days” and died. Friends are storing my frozen food (thank you) and for about a week I have returned to the…