Back in August, the Union Pacific Railroad started a project right behind our property line; first a shed and then a 200 foot tower. Let me first say that we bought this house in July of 2015 because of the views from our backyard, the fact that we had no neighbors directly behind our property line, and the privacy from neighbors, since it sits on...
The Autism Society of Southern Arizona will host the 11th Annual Autism Walk & Resource Fair on Saturday, April 1st, in Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium at Kino Park Sports Complex, 2500 E. Ajo Way, Tucson, Arizona. Registration is at 7:30am and the Walk and Resource Fair is from 9am – 1pm. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. and the walk...
Monday, the 16th of January, 2017, at the Cienega Boys Basketball game played at McKale Center, for the annual Coaches for Charity MLK Basketball Classic. Lucretia Free, the publisher of the Vail Voice, was celebrated as the 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. Honoree during the halftime celebration. As the Vail School District noted on their Facebook...
My neighbor, Sharon Fields, who lost her husband a year ago, yesterday, put out a table in front of her home with homemade cookies, Lemonade, and (if you can believe it) a birdseed ornament she made all herself! The note on her Facebook page read: “You, my friends and neighbors, have been so kind and generous over this painful last year. Your...
Church Youth on Mission Trips by Trent Thomas Dozens of young adults in our area recently received notifications they were selected to serve on a mission trip. They will join around 74,000 others that are currently serving locations in the United States and around the world. All of these young adults are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of...
Vail, Rita Ranch, and Corona Construction Updates by Tom Howard Road Construction Update Houghton Rd/Over Union Pacific Railroad. This project had its bid opening on November 30, 2016. As of writing the City of Tucson has not yet awarded the project. The preliminary low bidder was Pulice Construction out of Phoenix. Projected start dates are...
Faces of Vail: Steve Pakus by Kimberly Crossland Over twenty years ago, Steve Pakus lived in and met his wife, Patti, in Tucson. They soon moved up to Sedona, Arizona, but always had an urge to move back. Now, with two daughters and two grandchildren here, Steve, Patti, and their dog Sawyer are excited to have returned to the Sonoran Desert. For...
Vail Parent Network Update: “Classroom Space” by Stacy Winstryg For the first time in almost a decade, education is not facing funding cuts in the proposed 2017 budget. There are actually increases to education in the budget that Governor Ducey has proposed. The increases are still far from repairing the damage that has been done since 2008, but...
Do you have polybutylene plumbing in your house? Thought to be a cheap and easy replacement to copper plumbing in the 1970s, thousands of homes in Tucson were built with the gray plastic tubing. It wasn’t long before home owner’s had sudden, catastrophic plumbing failures; UV light exposure and chlorine in the water supply interacts with...
Vail Preservation Society Awarded Grant Vail Preservation Society (VPS) as the recipient of the $10,000 Storying Arizona Special Initiative Grant from Arizona Humanities. VPS provided a proposal that speaks to the heart of the Storying Arizona’s project, which is “collecting stories, hosting conversations, exploring different cultures, engaging...
