This Valentines Day enjoy  and raise money to help children with serious illnesses discover the healing power of laughter with the Camp Soaring Eagle Foundation. Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts is hosting a special fundraising dinner for Camp Soaring Eagle, a medically based camping program for children with serious and life threatening illnesses.   The evening will include a four... 

Flagstaff, AZ (January 25, 2010) – Coconino Community College (CCC) has created a new user-friendly, more simplistic website for students and faculty to use that will launch Wednesday, January 27, 2010. CCC decided to change the look of its website due to the challenges students and faculty reported when trying to find important information. “We found students had difficulty locating application... 

Sedona AZ (January 27, 2010) – It’s a Rally for State Parks! If you want our State Parks to stay open and to remain STATE Parks, not private enterprises, please come to a rally in Phoenix, Arizona, on February 1, 2010, to show your support for our State Parks system. The Benefactors of Red Rock State Park are sponsoring a FREE bus from Sedona to the rally. Email benefactorsofrrsp@earthlink.net... 

This new year is a chance for a lot of people in District One to start fresh. 2009 was a tough time for Greater Arizonans, and too many had to fight to make ends meet. For the next 12 months, I will be focusing on ending the downturn so that this year is not just more of the same for folks here. Getting our economy moving again is and remains one of my top priorities, and I will continue to push for... 

Sedona AZ (January 25, 2010) – Save Arizona State Parks from closing is the rallying cry for park supporters now heard across the state. Locally, Jerome State Park has closed and Fort Verde State Park in Camp Verde, Arizona, is scheduled to close March 29, 2010. Red Rock State Park in Sedona is scheduled to close June 3, 2010. The Verde Valley is facing the loss of major parks under the new... 

Dear Loved Ones, It seems that we have heard certain "buzz words and catch phrases" forever , often without understanding what they really mean. They are repeated and embellished with various spins and approaches and the next thing you know you have a conviluted mess that is no longer delivering the keys of its origin. The truth is always found within, at the "mouth of God" . It is a wellspring... 

My boyfriend and I moved from hectic, overcrowded Southern California to the slow pace and immense beauty of Northern Arizona. At first, we talked about building an eco-friendly earthship in northern California. Yet, further research informed us of the troublesome and toxic out-gassing from building with recycled tires. Then, after alot of packing, re-packing, moving, storage units, unreliable... 

Artist in the Classroom - Nancy Robb Dunst The Artist-In –The-Classroom program has been up and running since September in the Sedona Oak Creek School District.  And what an exciting program it is. It combines artists in the community with teachers in the schools, using art as a teaching tool for academic studies in the classroom. The program runs through out the school year at West Sedona Elementary,... 

Sedona AZ (January 20, 2010) – A new uranium boom is under way in the West, while thousands of mining and mill sites from the last boom and bust cycle still require cleanup and remediation. The current pace of  primarily taxpayer funded cleanup could take decades to complete. There is an alarming disconnect between financial realities and the economic benefits attributed to this new boom cycle. Near... 

  ByJulie D. Friess–Consider pebble dropped in a glass smooth pond.  Close to where the pebble enters the water, the ripples are big.  The farther the ripples move away from the pebble, the smaller they are.  If the pond is large enough, by the time ripples reach the edge, they are unnoticeable.  They are still there, just small.  Real estate and mortgage fraud act in the same way. Close...