Author - Lucretia Free

Corona de Tucson Ponders Incorporation

… and Asserts Itself as a Sovereign Entity By Glenn Taylor, Kreg Lulloff, Edward Buster, Elizabeth Potter, & Manuil Chavez Incorporation is an inclusion of something as a part and whole for the people. The community of Corona de Tucson (CdT) has officially started the exploration process to incorporate. Its residents seek to preserve their...

Fall Festival

For 87 years St. Rita in the Desert has been the faith center for Vail’s Catholic Christian life. We have served the community through our daily Mass, Faith Formation classes, Outreach food distribution, clothing drives, the St. Vincent de Paul Conference, and the annual St. Rita Festival. The festival, dating back to the 1990s, was always...

Skyward for September 2022

On first looking through Baade’s window Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold, And many goodly stars and clusters seen; Round celestial islands have I been With telescope after telescope to the night sky hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That Galileo ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard...

Incorporate Vail Arizona? (IVA) Develops Feasibility Study

By Anne Gibson What is this Feasibility Study Incorporate Vail Arizona (?) keeps referring to? Basically a feasibility study is an assessment of the practicality of a proposed plan or project. A feasibility study analyzes the viability of a project to determine whether the project or venture is likely to succeed. IVA (?)’s feasibility study is to...

The Rewards of Volunteering

By Kathy Gately I was recently asked why I continue to volunteer at the Vail school my children attended, considering my children had graduated and moved onto college. I was surprised by this question because the person asking it knows that my full-time job for the past 14 years has been as a volunteer at the school and for several youth and...