After the comment period ended Dec. 19 for the U.S. Forest Service's Red Rock Trails Access Plan, the agency noted a trend.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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!