The English language is ripe with gardening metaphors to describe some everyday human behavior and characteristics. Last month, I used “turning over a new leaf,” an apt expression for the New Year, when resolutions for positive changes are made.
Keep Sedona Beautiful will hold its next Preserving the Wonder Speaker Series event on Wednesday, Jan. 17, at 5 p.m.
To start the New Year off a good and positive note, I decided to write about a book. I was gifted it mid-last year and I read it cover-to-cover, and then some.
An old adage says it takes a village to raise a child. In the case of Sedona’s Red Rock trails, it takes more than a village. And the Sedona Red Rock Trail Fund does many things to inspire and involve different groups to get involved.
Standing in awe and surrounded by artistic beauty is the general feeling for those who wander into the Village Gallery of Local Artists. This gallery is a “treasure find” for those who are looking for something unique.
The Rotary Club of Sedona Village announced the launch of the “Choose Your Adventure” Raffle, a dynamic fundraising event set to captivate participants with the allure of incredible prizes while supporting impactful community initiatives.
Village of Oak Creek Church of the Nazarene (VocNaz) will host a community blood drive with the American Red Cross on Jan. 18 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 55 Rojo Drive in the Village of Oak Creek. Rojo Drive is a quarter-mile south of the Hilton/Collective roundabout.
Why do organizations host Red Cross blood drives? Hosting a drive ties up their space, uses their resources and may even result in temporary disruption to their staff and organizational function. So why do they do it?
Friday, Feb. 1, through Sunday, Feb. 3, Emerson Theater Collaborative and the Arts Academy of Sedona are elated to present “Democracy and Fayettenam” with a special appearance by Daveeh Nelson, one of the founding members of the renowned collective” The Last Poets.”
The past two years (2022 and 2023) the trail improvement projects in the Red Rock Ranger District in the Sedona and VOC vicinity have focused on restoration and renovation, in addition to general maintenance of the trail system at large. Additional trail miles have not been added since 2021 when the 5-mile Rabbit Ears/Little Rock project was completed.
Dr. Tom Swaninger reviewed their first annual “Love Our Schools Day.”
President John Wichert called the meeting to order at 9 a.m. with 14 Member Organizations and 8 guests present. Guest speakers (reported elsewhere in the Villager) were Dr. Tom Swaninger, Dr. Ben Lee, Supervisor Donna Michaels and Sergeant Anthony Horn.
In my first Big Park Council President’s column this year I presented a vignette of myself, a physician educator, and Vice President Colleen Hinds, a health educator, encountering a patient (the BPC) in an ED severely ill. Our patient, BPC, needed “new blood” (YOU).
Sedona Village Rotary’s Veterans Raffle Raises Record-breaking $12,133 for Prescott Veterans Hospital
The Sedona Railroaders will have their annual holiday train show this year from Dec. 15 to Dec. 30. It will be closed on the 24th and 25th.
If gold grew on trees we would think we were living in a fairy tale. Yet, as I watched the leaves of our fruit trees turn from green to gold I felt blessed by wealth!
Before arriving at Verde Valley School this part summer, I’d been living in Shanghai, China, for seven years. From a gigantic school (around 3,000 students) in a huge urban megalopolis (around 27 million people) with skyscrapers everywhere, I landed at a tiny school (120 students) in a small town (around 10,000 people) without tall buildings but with towering red rock formations surrounding our campus… What a contrast!
Christmas should be a time of joy, laughter, family, friends, kindness, generosity, merriment and expressed love. But for many, it can be a difficult time.
“Life is an inherently dangerous sport,” in words of Justin Howell, a Free Soloist climber, who fell 80 feet to his death in North Carolina.
Friday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. the curtain rises on Emerson Theater Collaborative’s hilarious and deeply moving production of John Carini’s “Almost Maine.”
Clark Sheppard, a painter of vibrant Southwestern landscapes, will be the Featured Artist at the Village Gallery of Local Artists for the month of December 2023.
In November, the Sedona Red Rock Trail Fund is kicking off a year of activities to raise public awareness of the organization’s mission and to celebrate their 10-year anniversary.
President’s Report: John Wichert summarized correspondence with ADOT on the community’s concerns with safety at the intersection of I-17 and SR 179. With the help of David Gill and Mary Morris, John wrote another letter to the Director of ADOT. The letter requests interim mitigation to make the interchange safer.
Never believe that one person cannot make a difference in the world, even if it arises by just asking a question.
Approximately 29,000 units of red blood cells are needed every day in the United States. Where does all of this blood go?
