Author: Tommy Acosta

Save on Lift Tickets and Helmets Flagstaff AZ (January 13, 2012) – Snowbowl is preparing for the MLK holiday with a discount web coupon for an all-day Adult lift ticket valid all weekend long and half-price helmets to promote the National Ski Area Association’s “National Safety Awareness Week”. Snow riders can download a coupon for a $40 all-day lift ticket from the website www.ArizonaSnowbowl.com valid Saturday – Monday, January 14-16, 2012. There are 300 new helmets for sale on a first-come, first-served basis during the holiday and will continue the following weekend, January 21-22. The cost will be $40 per…

Sedona Korean American Association Hosts the 2nd Annual ‘Lunar New Year Festival’ to share culture and festivities of the New Year Sedona AZ (January 13, 2012) – The Lunar New Year presents a special opportunity for new beginnings. Considering it is the most important holiday in South Korea, as it is for roughly 1.7 billion people throughout China, Japan, Mongolia, Tibet, and Vietnam, this year’s celebration is sure to bring a unique and refreshing energy to Sedona. The festival celebrating the New Year traditionally begins on the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar and ends with…

Sedona AZ (January 13, 2012) – Sedona’s Young Voice Be Heard, a non-profit youth poetry organization, received a $5,000 grant from the Sedona 30 on December 5th, 2011. Peter Fagan made the presentation at the Sedona Public Library during YVBH’s weekly afterschool Poetry Club meeting. The students in attendance were told by their mentor, Ya’ir “Christopher” Lane, that they would receive a surprise later in the meeting. “Is it pizza?” Mackinzi Taylor, a Junior at Sedona Red Rock High School, asked. “Nope, way better!” replied Lane.

Sedona AZ (January 13, 2012) – On Friday, January 13th,  from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., the Alumni-Poets from Sedona’s Young Voices Be Heard performance poetry group will reunite to share their worldly excursions through spoken word “slam” poetry, at the Sedona Public Library in the Si Birch room. Young Voices Be Heard is a powerful program of NORAZ (Northern Arizona Poets), northern Arizona’s literary arts organization, that mentors young people through spoken word poetry. Poets set to perform at this “homecoming” event include Sedona Red Rock High School alumni David “Black” Scandura, Jessica Guadarrama, Jacob Seemann, Champion Max Boehm-Reifenkugel, Lila Rodriguez, Scotty Thompson, and Julia…

Sedona AZ (January 13, 2012) – Three Sedona area officials are readying their taste buds for a return engagement as Judges for The Rotary Club of Sedona’s Great Sedona Chili Cook-Off. Sedona Mayor Rob Adams, Sedona Police Chief Ray Cota and Verde Valley Fire Chief Nizih Hazime will judge chili prepared by top chefs of the Sedona area at the annual Cook-Off to be held at Tlaquepaque on May 5, 2012. March 1, 2012 is the deadline for Verde Valley restaurants and chefs to sign up for the Great Sedona Chili Cook-Off, a special event at Tlaquepaque’s Cinco de Mayo…

“Using Solar Power” will be the topic at Keep Sedona Beautiful, Inc.’s monthly Preserving the Wonder™ Speaker Series on Wednesday, January 18. The evening will begin with offerings of wine and hors d’oeuvres at 5:30 pm, and the presentation will begin at 5:45 pm.

Cottonwood AZ (January 12, 2012) – Arizona Music legend Walt Richardson will perform at Old Town Center for the Arts on Saturday, January 21st at 7:00 pm.   Walt has toured all over the country, but has based out of Tempe, Arizona since the 1970’s.  He is one of the most endearing, lasting, talented, and influential musicians in Arizona’s history.  Since the 70’s Walt has entertained and inspired audiences who have come to love his original songs and arrangements of classic pop, folk, world and reggae tunes.  

Suspect in Custody: Meticulous Investigation and Detective’s Determination Result in Arrest  Sedona AZ (January 12, 2012) – The combination of an exhaustive investigation by deputies, detectives and evidence personnel, exemplary forensic work, and determination by the lead detective to see this case solved on behalf of the victims, has led to the arrest of 48-year-old Kenneth Birchett from Cottonwood.

Celebrating Four Decades of Treasures Featuring Sedona Schnebly’s Great-Granddaughter Sedona AZ (January 12, 2012) – Keep Sedona Beautiful, Inc. will launch its 40th Anniversary with its Annual Awards of Excellence Luncheon at Los Abrigados Resort & Spa on Sunday, February 19, 2012 starting at 11:30. This will be a commemorative luncheon when KSB will recognize the most significant achievements in the greater Sedona area over the past forty years that have sustained KSB’s mission of keeping Sedona beautiful.

Phoenix AZ (January 11, 2012) – The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission has scheduled a meeting for Friday morning in Tempe. The panel will meet at 9:30 a.m. in the Fiesta III Ballroom at the Fiesta Resort and Conference Center, 2100 S. Priest Drive. The agenda includes discussion and possible action regarding technical changes to the congressional- and legislative-district maps. There also is a chance the commissioners could approve final maps. Agendas are available at azredistricting.org/Meeting-Info/default.asp. Meetings are open to the public. However, if an agenda item involves legal advice, the panel could go into executive session, from which the public…

Flagstaff AZ (January 11, 2012) – Flagstaff Area National Monuments will be joining national park units around the country as they waive entrance fees on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, in recognition of his civil rights efforts.  Entrance fees will be waived for all visitors to Flagstaff Area National Monuments and Wupatki National Monuments, January 14 through January 16, 2012. Visitors arriving in the monuments on any one of those three days will be allowed to enter free of charge.  The visitor centers will have Interagency Senior and Annual Passes available for those who wish to purchase them.

Sedona AZ (January 11, 2012) – In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the U.S. Forest Service will waive day-use fees for the weekend of January 14 through 16, associated with many recreation sites on the Coconino National Forest, including the Red Rock Pass Area. This fee free weekend is being offered in cooperation with other agencies that collect recreation fees under authority of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (REA), including: the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Management.

Flagstaff AZ (January 10, 2012) – Pending favorable conditions, fire managers on the Flagstaff District of the Coconino National Forest are planning two prescribed pile burn projects tomorrow, Wednesday January 11. Woody Ridge Project: 50 acres of piles located approximately 2 miles northwest of the Oak Creek Canyon Vista and 5 miles southwest of Kachina Village, west of Highway 89A off Forest Road 535. Some smoke will drift southerly toward Oak Creek Canyon overnight.

Sedona AZ (January 10, 2012) – Great balls of fire! Tom Tayback and the Daddy O’s are back at Canyon Moon to shake the rafters with the Golden Oldies of the 50’s and a60’s! Don’t be Mr. Lonely! Grab Long Tall Sally and return to the days of rolled up t-shirts and pedal pushers at 7:30 on Saturday, January 21. You don’t need Love Potion #9 to Rock Around the Clock!

Sheriffs Experts Agree: Ballastic Evidence Links Two Murders Phoenix AZ (January 10, 2012) – Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said today that weapons experts from his office confirm that the murder of one of his veteran deputies and the murder of a couple in Sedona last week were likely committed by the same man using the same weapon. In a press conference this morning along with Yavapai County Sheriff Scott Mascher, Arpaio said ballistic experts from his office confirm, after a careful and scientific analysis, that the cartridges taken from both crime scenes are a match.