Monday, August 1, 2:30 p.m.Arizona Senior Academy —Lecture by Emma Califf, Invertebrate Keeper, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, “Collecting, Rearing, and Representing Invertebrates.” 13715 E. Langtry Lane off Old Spanish Trail Friday, August 5, 11:30 a.m.Arizona Senior Academy —Concert, Violinist Heather Hardy and Guitarist/dobro player Alvin Blaine...
Our volunteer cactus rescue crews work with developers to rescue cactus before the building lot is cleared. The plants are then sold to the public at great prices. The Society can rescue Saguaros up to 4 feet tall. We sell them at $30 per foot versus the $70 to $100 most nurseries charge. Barrel and Ocotillo are very reasonably priced. To get a...
By Chuck Colbath Education has always been very important to our family. Among others, my grandmother, her sister, their aunt, my sister, my father and his brother, were all teachers. When my grandmother and her sister were studying to be teachers, it included 60 mile rides to the school in an open Model T Ford or a stagecoach during the harsh New...
by Sheila Storm Starting this Saturday, July 16, Sabino Canyon Crawler will offer a night ride at 8 p.m. on Saturdays through October at the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area. Tickets may be purchased online atwww.SabinoCanyonCrawler.comThe Crawler shuttle seats up to 60 people and depending on demand, two shuttles might be in service for a capacity...
Lux, a 9-week-old Goldendoodle is the sweetest, most mischeavious pup I’ve encountered. My wife and I adopted our first pup 2 weeks ago and it’s been non-stop ‘awes’, hiding chewable shoes and replacing puppy ‘pee pads’. My name is Stephen, a 37-year Arizonan, the newest addition to the Vail Voice newspaper in...
by Lizzy Cuphead is a run and gun indie video game that was released in 2017. Cuphead was inspired by Fleischer Studios and Walt Disney. It is about Cuphead and Mugman, who gambled at the Devil’s casino and lost their souls to the devil. To get them back, the cups have to get the “soul contracts” from runaway debtors. Studio MDHR, the developers...
by Sierra Hansen JoAnne is an active member of the Tombstone Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution. She is very excited to be working alongside Kelly and Sierra Hansen and the organizing team to bring DAR to Vail. JoAnne is a proud Navy Brat, having had the good fortune to live in Keflavik, Iceland, and Athens, Greece, before her father was...
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. – Sophocles Scammers PRETEND to be from an organization you know.Scammers often claim they are contacting you on behalf of the government. They may say they are from the Social Security Administration, the IRS, or Medicare. Some fraudsters will pretend to be from a business you know, such as a...
By Robert Samuelsen Pale and shaking, he stood there holding the “stop” sign at the beginning of the road construction site on this remote section of highway. As I stopped, the flagman approached me to show me a bullet hole in his sign, shot by the vehicle’s passenger immediately before me. The shooter had stuck his head and rifle out the window...
Monsoon moisture moved in very early this year. In fact, if the National Weather Service were using the “old” method of calculating when the monsoon starts, it would have been the 5th earliest start, June 21. June 21st was the first of three days in a row where the Dew Point was at least 54 degrees. Now, the National Weather Service defines the...
