Fun Examples of LED Lights in Arts and Crafts by Leigh Marcos LEDs are offering high-quality lighting to art. As with any art-piece or craft, light is the most important aspect in bringing it to life. Natural light can increase the rate that ancient art can fade or discolor, but through LED lighting, these paintings can be given a new lease of...
Giving Thanks With the Holiday’s upon us, I would like to take a moment to thank all of our neighbors who are helping ReSources along the way. Soon Vail Depot thrift Store will be open between the tracks along Colossal Cave Road. This accomplishment is due in large part to the support of the community, the Greater Vail Area Chamber of Commerce...
Aging in Place at Academy Village by Gary D. Fenstermacher Academy Village has made an amazing evolution in the last eight years. While retaining (and expanding) its active adult community status, it has added facilities that bring it within a hair’s breadth of a continuing care, life planned community. That means one can move in at 55, live a...
In October of 2016, Audrey Sher-Walton released her collection of poetry, All the Colors of My Life are Red. The reader at once becomes immersed in her very personal, yet universal experiences. She traces a path that is engaging, sensuous, self-conscious, and lyrical. Audrey Sher-Walton grew up on Fresh Meadow Lane. Surrounded by asphalt, it...
Konnor Kiefer, son of Kent Kiefer and Melissa Kiefer and a Senior at Empire High School, earned the highest possible ACT composite score of 36. On average, less than one-tenth of 1 percent of students who take the ACT earn a top score. In the U.S. high school graduating class of 2016, only 2,235 out of nearly 2.1 million graduates who took the ACT...
How To Not Blow It This Holiday Season by Jerry Trubman Being in the health/fitness industry for over a decade, I’ve seen some very sad, yet predictable, patterns: Start crazy diet and/or exercise program that is unsustainable long-term. Grit through said program for a defined period of time (usually under 90 days). Attain a moderate amount of...
Shooting Opportunities In Our Area by Trent Thomas Just a few miles from our community you will find the Southeast Regional Park Shooting Complex. Constructed in 2004 and maintained by the Pima County Natural Resources Parks and Recreation Department, this range complex handles around 20,000 shooters per year. “We offer three different...
It was a flash, a single streak of light that got me started in astronomy almost sixty years ago. I have written in this column about this event before, but in thinking about it, I want to refer to it again. The streak could not have lasted more than a second on that clear evening of July 4, 1956. I was terribly homesick. At age 8, just four...
Vail Colossal Cave Road Improvements are underway. See details page 17. Safeway Grocery Store Still in development. Unconfirmed information indicates the project may be delayed for up to one year. New Housing Projects Lennar: Discovery Mountain Vail Mountain Vail is located on the north side of MaryAnn Cleveland across from Esmond station school...
Halloween Safety Tips Trick-or-Treaters: Cross the street at corners, using traffic signals and crosswalks. Look left, right and left again when crossing and keep looking as you cross. Put electronic devices down and keep your head up and walk. Teach children to make eye contact with drivers before crossing in front of them. Always walk on...
