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Yavapai College, the Wine Industry, and Smart Planning

Yavapai College, located in Clarkdale, Arizona, serves as a model for innovative and visionary thinking at the community college level. Over the past several years, the school has implemented a viticulture program, the only one in the state of Arizona, and planted twenty acres of wine-producing grape vines. This supports the local community, which is becoming a wine mecca. The vineyard “provides students with hands-on real world, scientific experience in

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An Intuitive Healing

An intuitive healing can be considered an addition to or expansion of Western medicine. Whereas conventional medicine functions as a form of body mechanics, healings unblock energy stoppages that can lead to physical and psychic toxins building up and doing damage to the body and mind. The healer serves as a conduit for channeled energy, freeing the recipient from whichever unhealthy symptoms the blockages engender. With all of this in

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Arizona Wildfires and the Need for Community Action

Fires in Arizona have created a major environmental issue due to the state’s lack of water and desert climate, making fire prevention a key effort for Arizona’s citizens. In the past four years, this state was affected by several fires, particularly the Wallow Fire (near the community of Alpine), which destroyed more than 500,000 acres of land. These fires not only demolished land and forest, they also burned houses and

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Ten Reasons to Visit Your Local Haunted House

Recently, I visited the local haunted house, Chambers of Fear, in Surprise, Arizona, and it was absolutely fantastic. I screamed my lungs out and experienced a great range of emotion, witnessed some spectacular costumes, and got to watch others express themselves freely in a way only available in such houses of fear, awe, and weirdness. I highly recommend haunted houses for every one of the ten reasons I’ve detailed below.

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Vertical

Aaron stared out the window of the helicopter at Cathedral Rock and wondered if he and the pilot would make it to Sedona Airport before the storm moving in from the north overtook them. He knew the risks based on the weather report, but he had paid a handsome fee for the ride. His father Jim was deteriorating rapidly in an assisted living home due to dementia and Parkinson’s, to

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The Amitabha Stupa in Sedona, Arizona

The Amitabha Stupa in Sedona, Arizona is 36 feet tall and filled with rolls of prayer mantra, grains, medicines, objects of beauty, and even meteorites, all to protect and replenish the five elements of earth, air, fire, water, and space. Consecrated and sacred, the stupa serves as a beacon of compassion designed to overcome the misery and delusion of attachment, all while casting healing prayers for the betterment of mankind.

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