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By Kerrie Snyder Verde Valley News – Join us on Main Street in Historic Downtown Clarkdale Saturday March 11th for our 12th Annual Car Show. Show starts at 9am featuring cars, trucks, beer, food  and a live remote broadcast with Yavapai Broadcasting. New this year will be an area for vendors selling anything car related. Come join us on Main Street for another fun event in Clarkdale! For more information on the event, to volunteer, to register your vehicle or reserve your vendor space please visit www.clarkdalecarshow.com Registration is limited to the first 150 vehicles.

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Sedona News – The Sedona Heritage Museum is again offering a performance of “Throwback Thursday”, on Thursday, March 2, 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…

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… whilst doing my morning exercises, I looked out the bedroom windows and there were numerous Robins flitting about in our Heavenly Bamboo bushes along the cart path of the golf course … the lighting was nice, so I picked up a camera and spent a few minutes shooting them … they are in the photo below … a constant reminder that beauty is everywhere and all you have to do is open your eyes to that which surrounds you. Lots of errands and meetings today so I brought a camera along in case I had an opportunity to get…

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Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with the Sedona Mountain Bike Festival for a special premiere of “Biketown” on Saturday, March 4 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre. There will be two screenings of the film at 7:00 and 8:30 p.m. “Biketown” is a story of mountain bikers, unlikely partnerships and the communities they create. Specialized and Soil Searching present “Biketown”, a film by Freehub magazine. This is a story of local communities and struggles that ultimately inspired collaboration around shared visions and goals. “Biketown” immerses viewers in mountain biking’s coming-of-age era — now…

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Sedona News – Love quilting? Got questions? Members of the Red Rock Quilters will be the featured guests for Monday at the Museum on Monday, March 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 Museum is always looking…

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… another day I woke up … still breathing and grateful for the beautiful day made possible by those simple things … same plan for tomorrow. Leroy, Michele’s Harris’s Hawk is above and cranking and banking as he leaves a perch in a juniper tree up on the plateau, north of Flagstaff. Check out the website for International Raptor and Falconry Center and have your own experience with these marvelous raptors. Few creatures inspire the awe that raptors do. Below is a Great Blue Heron fishing in solitude early one morning at Lake Pleasant … kinda misty and in its…

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Sedona News – The National Theatre of London continues its season with its acclaimed new production of “The Crucible” showing in Sedona on Sunday, March 5 at 3 p.m. The Sedona International Film Festival hosts the big screen premiere at its Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power — “The Crucible” — with Erin Doherty (“The Crown”) and Brendan Cowell (“Yerma”). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power.  As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads…

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… a wonderful weekend … bird feeder up and thus feeding the whole food chain has begun … used my new chain saw to clean out a lot of the lower branches in the Pinion Pine in the back … work in the garage … jewelry projects and a lot of photos worked on. Looks like a trip to the Lake is out of the question what with a new storm system approaching this week. Been taking a bit of a break from wildlife photos and focusing on aerial shots that have been dormant for too long. The photo above…

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Sedona News – The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is returning to Sedona. For the ninth year, the Sedona International Film Festival is bringing the spirit of outdoor adventure and mountain culture to red rock country. This year’s screenings feature the world’s best mountain sport, culture and environmental films, letting you experience the thrill and challenges of the mountain environments that inspire us all.   The Sedona tour stop is two nights again this year: Tuesday, March 7 and Wednesday, March 8 at 7 p.m. at the Sedona Performing Arts Center. Each night will feature a different program of films.…

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Sedona News – The Sedona Heritage Museum will host a talk and book signing event on Thursday, March 2 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. with local author Ken Zoll. Zoll will introduce his new book “H.H. Nininger-Master of Meterorites-The Story of Sedona’s Meteorite Man”. This biography covers Nininger’s colorful career from his hunt for meteorites around the world, to his museums, and his many discoveries in the field of meteoritics. Harvey H. Nininger is considered by many to be the “Father of American Meteoritics” – the study of meteorites. He was a pioneer and innovator in the field. During…

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Sedona News – The Sedona Women (TSW) will be doing a lot more than sitting and listening to a speaker when improv artist Shaeri Richards engages with the group: interactive playful workshopping will happen. Richards, a founding member of Sedona’s Zenprov troupe, has been doing improvisational theater for more than 20 years.  Even if that’s not something you plan to do, her presentation of “Improv and Being in the Moment” can help you increase your enjoyment of interacting with others and be open to the energy of being alive more fully. And, yes, you laugh while you learn. Richards engages…

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Sedona News – Enjoy great shopping at the art show, lunch, dinner, and happy hour at the Stagecoach Country Roadhouse. This event is sponsored by the Wild Thyme Restaurant Group, the newest restaurant to West Sedona known as the Stagecoach Country Roadhouse located at 1405 West Highway 89A. Beautiful patio dining on the lower and upper-level patios with red rock views. Totally remodeled with a western theme, private dining for special events, live music, and mechanical bull riding. The entertainment hub with a separate bar area featuring large screen televisions, live entertainment, karaoke and much more along with a relaxed…

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March marks the start of spring, the season of renewal when many people start to refresh their surroundings. That frequently includes bringing in new artwork, like one European couple who discovered Rowe Fine Art Gallery online – then proceeded to travel to Sedona specifically to see painter Jen Farnsworth’s art in real life. They now own five of her oil paintings. Bringing new art into their home, explains the couple, serves two purposes. “First, we enjoy each individual piece of art because of its intrinsic value and its very own message, which add – like the pieces of a mosaic…

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… another beautiful winter day in Sedona, and I’ve been sifting through aerial shots that I have taken and finding many new ones that I like a lot … like the photo above taken over the Colorado Plateau and looking north. The photo was taken just 29 minutes before sunset and the light was filtered through a lot of the atmosphere before getting here … colors were softened and the scene was done in pastels. I was a few miles south of A1 Crater, a famous landmark located just left of center where shadow and light meet. A1 steak sauce…

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Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Chamber Music Sedona for a special presentation of “Viva Maestro!” in celebration of the Chamber Music Season on Thursday, March 2 at 4 p.m. 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…

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