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Nominations Open January 14 for Spirit of Philanthropy Awards

Sedona and Verde Valley community members to be honored at celebration in April 2025

January 10, 2025No Comments

Arizona Community Foundation

Sedona News – The Arizona Community Foundation would like your help in recognizing the outstanding individuals and nonprofit organizations in Sedona and the Verde Valley. Community members are invited to submit a nomination in the following categories:

Philanthropist of the Year
Nonprofit Organization of the Year
Volunteer of the Year
Business Benefactor of the Year
Community Collaborator of the Year

The nomination process is simple. Starting on January 14, visit azfoundation.org/sedona to submit a nomination online and to find out more about the award categories. Nominations must be submitted before 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 14, 2025 to be considered.

Awards will be presented at the Spirit of Philanthropy Awards Celebration on Sunday, April 6 at Steps to Recovery Homes in Cottonwood from 3:00 to 5:30 p.m. Registration is not yet open but please check back at azfoundation.org/sedona for updates. For more information about the nominations or the event, contact Regional Director Sheri Denny at sdenny@azfoundation.org or call 928.399.7218.

The Arizona Community Foundation of Sedona was established in 1991 as a permanent philanthropic endowment for the enduring benefit of Sedona and Verde Valley communities. This regional office of the Arizona Community Foundation cultivates and stewards charitable funds established by donors, with guidance from a local Board of Advisors.

The Arizona Community Foundation is a statewide philanthropic organization dedicated to bringing donors together to build an Arizona where everyone can thrive. With five regional offices serving communities across Arizona, ACF is among the top 25 community foundations in the nation with more than $1.4 billion in trust and endowment assets and is certified under the National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations. Since inception, ACF has awarded more than $1.5 billion in grants, scholarships, and loans to nonprofit organizations, schools, tribal entities, and government agencies. More information is available at azfoundation.org.

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A Cauldron of Misconceptions: Sedona Enquirer
By Sean Dedalus

Sedona, AZ — I don’t know what happened to the Publisher of Sedona.Biz, the once moderate and reasonable journalist, Tommy Acosta. Or maybe I do. He must be pulling our leg.

In Mr. Acosta’s last Opinion piece, Cauldron of Chaos, Acosta pins together a necklace of current events and concludes we are on the verge of a “cosmic reckoning”. Acosta throws paint on the canvas with each hand slapping the slop on the imagination of the readers. He says in Georgia, a young college student jogging on campus was raped and murdered by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien. Shortly thereafter, Congress passes the Laken Riley Bill.

In Louisiana, Acosta points to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US Army veteran who killed 14 people and left 35 more injured after he drove a truck into a crowd on New Years Day.

In New York City Sebastian Zapeta, another illegal alien took out a match and set afire a sleeping woman to death on a Brooklyn subway. Meanwhile, up in Manhattan, the CEO of United Healthcare was shot in the back by Luigi Mangione an Ivy League graduate. Acosta also takes us to Colorado where the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua took over an entire apartment building.

Acosta is not finished as he suggests that Los Angelas County’s California looked like nine concentric circles of torment which constituted hell on Earth, as spelled out by Dante Aligheri.

Finally, Mr. Acosta draws our attention to the skies all around the world where US Black Op drones follow alien plasma orbs, while Joe Biden wears his typical dumbfounded look and mumbles that even though he does not know what is going on, there is no evidence of any danger to public safety.

Mr. Acosta warns American society is unravelling at the seams. He stops short of predicting the showdown between Jesus and the Antichrist. His Opinion reads like the script to The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock.

I am sorry to report to Mr. Acosta that there is no evil spirit spreading fear throughout America. That’s right. No evil spirit. Just greedy criminals and politicians. And very stupid politicians whose malfeasance borderlines on criminal conduct.

If we were to reflect as to events suggesting the end of the world we need only look back to World War II (1939-1945). Over 30 Nations were actually at war. Over 100 million people served in uniform. An estimated 70-85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the global population in 1940. On 6 and 9 of August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 286,818 people were killed.

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