Organizations as diverse as The Boy Scouts of America, the Center for Disease Control, and FEMA all recommend that Americans have a basic level of preparedness for emergencies, disasters, and disease outbreaks. Although we are less prone to...
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Two Arizona Department of Education “Exceptional Student’s Services” awards were given to Vail community members at the 17th annual ADE Transition Conference in Phoenix this week. Rhonda Warren was recognized for her great work helping...
The Post 109 family is proud to be a part of their rapidly growing community and is growing along with it since they were charted in 1979 by a small group of dedicated patriotic Vail veterans. Post 109 family membership now measures well over...
The topic for this month is about what you’re seeing all around the community in abundance during and after this year’s monsoon season, which is wild grass and desert brush. In fire parlance, this is called fuel. We have seen exceptional growth...
This last summer, thousands of students from around the world donned their Rotary blazers, hugged their families goodbye, and jetted away to live in a foreign country for nearly a year. They left everything that was familiar and comfortable to...
A total eclipse of the Sun is possibly nature’s grandest show. And to be somewhere in the path of totality, looking at a darkened sky and seeing the jeweled crown around what was once the Sun, is truly an experience like no other. Throughout...
Several of my neighbors have observed a cougar in the desert scrub between their homes and the golf course or on the golf course fairway. Cougars are also known as American lion, Mexican lion, mountain lion, puma, panther, and catamount...
There’s a new organization coming to give Southeast Tucson a voice and you’re invited to be a part of it. The South East Regional Council (SERC) is taking root to give a previously underrepresented community a coordinated way to...
Knowing how to listen well is an important component in relationships at work, in marriage, bringing up children, in leadership, and even taking the time to hear a homeless person. Listening is an act of compassion and caring. If you’re going...
Houghton Road Over the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge Work continues on the northbound side of the new Houghton Bridge. Crews have the grade nearly complete for the new roadway. Bridge girders (support beams) should be one of the next items we...