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Village Rotarians: Community Builders

November 22, 2020No Comments

Sedona AZ (November 22, 2020) – During November members of the Rotary Club of Sedona Village kicked off the holiday season early with three community outreach events.

The Club’s first 100 Holes of Golf tournament drew forty-three golfers competing as eleven teams at the Oak Creek Country Club on November 7. Raising over $8,000 for the Special Olympics Golf Program of Northern Arizona as well as Rotary projects, the event was a success, even on a windy day. The winning team included William Eaton, Kevin Reno, David Bill and Ed Southwell.

Veterans’ Day found Village Rotarians, led by Rob Schaefer, recognizing Veterans from all branches of the United States Armed Services at Sedona Winds Assisted Living Center. In a moving ceremony, color guard members of Scout Troop 7048 raised the American Flag and shared their thoughts about what the United States flag means to them. Jeannie Carrol provided a stirring musical program that all enjoyed.

Rob Schaefer saluting flag and members of Boy Scout Troop 7048

The Village Rotary’s Community Garden project continues to make progress. With the cooperation of Fall weather, Village Rotarians and community volunteers have worked three weekends transforming the baseball field at Big Park School into a garden to be shared by all. The latest workday on Nov. 21 started the task of building the first of 20 raised garden beds, about half of what is planned. There also was work done on the butterfly and pollinating garden. Cinder blocks for the project were donated by Builders First Source in West Sedona.

The club’s mission: Where neighbors, friends and problem solvers share ideas, join leaders, and take action to create beneficial change within our local and worldwide communities. Members gather via zoom twice monthly for club meetings. Visitors are welcome to join the zoom meetings by emailing president@sedonavillagerotary.org for the zoom link.

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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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