Verde Valley News – Yavapai College held its 54th commencement ceremony at the Verde Valley campus’s Mabery Pavilion in Clarkdale on Saturday, May 4, honoring the students who completed their degree or certificate. With 1,750 total graduates and 1,981 total certificates and degrees awarded, Provost of Yavapai College Dr. Doug Berry opened the ceremony by recognizing the faculty members and friends, family and classmates of the graduates who helped in supporting them in their achievement. Keynote speaker Arizona State Representative Quang Nguyen then took to the podium to deliver his remarks. “It’s impossible not to feel the weight of both…
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Prescott News – The ‘Tis Art Center & Gallery is proud to present “Journeys in Spirit 2024: Traditional and Contemporary Native Art” in partnership with the Museum of Indigenous People. Journeys in Spirit, which will open on Thursday, May 16 and run through Tuesday, June 25, is a captivating exhibition of Native American art that celebrates the rich cultural heritage and artistic traditions of indigenous communities. Featuring a diverse collection of artworks, including paintings, basketry, jewelry, photography, beadworks, ceramics and other traditional and contemporary mediums, the exhibition is free and open to the public. Journeys in Spirit showcases the extraordinary…
Arizona News – Today marks one year before the federal deadline for domestic airline travelers to have a federally compliant form of identification. If you plan to use your driver license or state-issued ID card for travel after that date, now is a good time to make an appointment at an Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division office to get your Arizona Travel ID. Without the Arizona Travel ID or other form of federally compliant identification such as a valid U.S. passport, you’ll risk missing an airline flight because the standard Arizona driver license and ID card will no…
Sedona News – The Mary D. Fisher Theatre is honored to be the home for the Met Live Opera programs for the 2023-2024 season, presented by the Sedona International Film Festival. The season concludes with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” live via simulcast on Saturday, May 11 at 10 a.m. and the encore presentation on Wednesday, May 15 at 3 p.m. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4OCc8T3aHk Plan to come early as John Steinbrunner will lead a pre-opera talk one hour before the LIVE production on Saturday. In her Met debut, Asmik Grigorian tackles the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the trusting geisha at the heart of Puccini’s…
… back from a short trip to northern California to celebrate my granddaughter’s graduation from Pepperdine … now it is on to the real world and methinks that she will be doing just fine! She is moving to Denver today and beginning her new life and that is exciting! A busy week is beginning in just a few hours so this will be a brief missive … the shot above is of a Caspian Tern that we saw down at Lake Pleasant last week and I got the shot just as he was flaring for a landing on a spit…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Forgotten Man” showing May 10-16 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre. From Switzerland comes an intimate World War II psychological thriller — “A Forgotten Man” — examining the implications of neutrality in times of war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbKUaEg2Nak In the spring of 1945 as Nazi Germany collapses, Swiss ambassador Heinrich Zwygart flees bombed-out Berlin after serving eight years in the capital of the Reich. This is the end of a dreadful mandate, during which he had to make fatal compromises to preserve the neutrality and…
Sedona News – Cave Springs Campground, located 11 miles north of Sedona in Oak Creek Canyon, is closed till August for public health and safety as construction personnel work on a bank stabilization project. Work will center on the Cave Springs Campground main access road (Forest Road 89D) and preventing further erosion and undercutting of the road. Construction crews will be staging heavy construction equipment at the parking area for the Harding Springs Trailhead—located on the west side of state Route 89A at the entrance of Cave Springs Campground. The Cave Springs Campground area is under a closure order until July 31, and…
Arizona News – Summer is nearly here and with it comes heat that’s all too familiar to Arizonans. With temperatures rapidly rising and in recognition of Heat Awareness Week (May 6-10), the Arizona Department of Transportation wants to remind motorists to prepare themselves and their vehicles for driving in extreme heat. Whether you’re planning summer road trips or a daily commute, ADOT has safety tips for drivers and passengers as triple-digit temperatures settle in for summer. Your car becoming disabled or breaking down in extreme heat can be dangerous, especially if you’ll need to make repairs, like fixing a flat…
Keep Sedona Beautiful will hold its next Preserving the Wonder Speaker Series event on Wednesday, May 15 at 5:00 pm via ZOOM. This month’s speaker is Denise Gibbs, Retired Interpretive Park Naturalist and Monarch butterfly expert. Her topic will be “For the Love of Monarchs: Join the Push to Save a Beloved Butterfly”. Please visit the KSB website, www.keepsedonabeautiful.org for details. To join the Zoom presentation, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81835656458. The Zoom link will also be posted on the KSB website. Denise will share information on Monarch butterflies and will discuss their serious decline in numbers. Learn the reasons why, and how…
By Steve Segner Sedona, AZ — Arizona’s city government works differently from a direct democracy. Instead of everyone voting on every decision, we elect people to choose for us. This prevents special interest groups from taking over and making decisions that don’t represent the views of the 8000+ Sedona citizens and business. If Ms. Todd wants to run for city council, she must understand that her job is not just listening to people’s ‘wants’ but, more importantly, what the community needs—not what large or small special interest groups want. It’s crucial to remember that community ‘ needs’ are defined in the community…
By Amaya Gayle Gregory Life is so strange. One moment I am fascinated with this crazy, unnameable Isness, in awe of this unreasonable aliveness, fractured to my very soul, unwilling and literally unable to even try to comprehend why there is anything here at all … and the next moment I am sighing, laughing, crying, feeling my humanity, adoring its expressions, deeply in love with the totality while simultaneously heartbroken by the pain we feel the need to inflict on one another. I guess it’s not all that strange, after all we hu-mans — (hu) God man — are both…
Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “Nowhere Special” showing May 10-16 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. A single father dedicates the last few months of his life to finding a new family for his four-year-old son in “Nowhere Special”, starring Edward Norton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPNVZ4pFgw John — a 35-year-old window cleaner — has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child’s mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to…
Sedona News – The Rotary Club of Sedona Village is proud to announce the recipients of its annual summer camp scholarships. This year, all the winners are high school students from Red Rock High School. On Tuesday, Russ Snider, a member of the Rotary Club of Sedona Village, presented scholarships to five deserving students, enabling them to pursue their passions and further their skills in various fields. The scholarship recipients, along with the camps they will be attending, are as follows: 1. Ari Tedrick – AZ Pole Vault Academy 2. Sofia Wolf/SRRHS – Sedona Dance Academy 3. Teddy Arizmendi/SRR JRH…
By David Stephen What would be different if consciousness was defined as the subjectivity of a function like memory or a feeling, rather than the commonly expressed subjective experience of say, seeing red or the smell of rose? How can the self, subjective experience or self-awareness be measured to rate consciousness in an instance? For example, every part of the skin is a part of the self for which any experience can be subjective. What is the difference between touch on an arm and elsewhere? If there is a sweet taste at a time and a sour taste at another,…
Sedona, AZ — It can happen to anyone. One second you are enjoying robust health. The next moment you are pierced with tubes in the Intensive Care Unit. This happened to me and this is my story. A story of pain and gratitude for the wonderful medical staff of HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center, Arizona. Two months ago, out of nowhere, I began experiencing pain and sluggishness in my legs. I went to see a vascular surgeon about it and was told I had abdominal aortic aneurysms that were twice normal size and could burst any moment. I was then…