Births
- Justin and Hester (Kane) Stouder, Hamilton Lake, Ind, a girl.
- Jared “Joe” and Kelly Prock, a boy.
- Mark Wayne Daniels II and Shawna Michelle Daniels, Payson, AZ, a boy.
- Justen Williams and Tawni Foster, Payson, AZ, a boy.
- Thor and Alicia Smith, a boy.
- Richard David Lundholm and Heather Nicole Lundholm , St. Joseph, Mo, a boy.
- Dale and Lindi Funkhouser, Chino Valley, AZ, a boy.
- David and Carrie LaForge, a boy.
Couples
- Engagement: Brown and Benshoof
- Wedding: Sanders and Sanchez
- Engagement: Wright and Callaway
- Anniversary: Brown and Hart
- Engagement: Waterman and Eavenson
- Wedding: Goss and Schwark
- Anniversary: Gerard and Gerard
- Wedding: Burkhart and Christensen
Obituaries
Photos
Photo galleries
Polls
This is Super Bowl Weekend, what are you going to do?
| Response | Percent | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Watch the game | 52% | ||
| Not watch the game | 35% | ||
| What’s a Super Bowl? | 12% | ||
| Wait for Monday’s poll question and answer it (It concerns the Super Bowl) | 0% | ||
| Total | 40 | ||
| Note: This is not a scientific poll. | Vote | ||
Videos
- Back to the Future…
- Tonto Basin ranch owners demonstrate that draft horses and traditional methods of farming can restore the environment
- February 3, 2012
- If the land under the care of Bill and Lori Brown loses fertility, everything on their ranch in Tonto Basin suffers. So their draft horse clinic aims to resurrect the art of farming with horses, a sustainable method of farming. The Browns have a history of environmentalism. They were honored in 2008 by the Society for Range Management as a result of their work in redeveloping springs and maintaining 15,000 acres of land. The couple has worked on their family’s H-4 Ranch since the 1960s. Despite the many years of use, the ranch radiates vitality. Animals have a healthy coat and the land grows lush alfalfa for the stock. In 2006, they decided to purchase draft horses as a hobby, but now recognize how horses link to sustainable farming. “Connecting with the land is critical,” said Lori.
- February adoption special — all pets just $25
- February 3, 2012
- Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and love is in the air. There are many kinds of love, but the greatest of all is unconditional — the type of love many say can only be experienced by owning a cat or dog. As a mother, I feel it’s also something you experience with your children. For many pet owners, their dog or cat is their child, so I think pet owners and parents can relate. In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Humane Society of Central Arizona is running an adoption special. For the month of February, all adoptions are just $25. This includes cats, kittens, puppies and dogs. We have an unconditional love for the animals in our care and would like for them to find their loving, forever homes so that you can experience unconditional love too. Stop by the shelter at 812 S. McLane Road, open daily from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Five good reasons to create a comprehensive investment strategy
- February 3, 2012
- Some people buy investments here and there, now and then. Others open an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), put some money in it, and then forget about it. But this type of haphazard investment behavior can lead to haphazard results. On the other hand, you’ve got five good reasons for creating and following a comprehensive, long-term investment strategy. Reason No. 1: You want to enjoy a comfortable retirement lifestyle. For most people, building resources for retirement is the most powerful reason to invest. As a key part of your investment strategy, you’ll want to consider investments that have growth potential. The proportion of your portfolio devoted to these growth investments should be based on your individual risk tolerance and time horizon.
- Community Almanac
- February 3, 2012
- John Carpino and the Hot Cappuccinos will be providing live music for the benefit and fund-raising event for Payson cancer patient Jaci Hill, Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Buffalo Bar and Grill in Payson. The event starts at 7 p.m.
- New regulations will hinder America’s farm families
- February 3, 2012
- “Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens,” Thomas Jefferson once said. “They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands.” Indeed, to Jefferson and many of our founders, America’s small farms embodied some of the most important values upon which the country was founded — including hard work, self-reliance, and family. That’s why it’s so disappointing to see new rules coming from the Obama administration that threaten the very agricultural way of life that our founders deemed so important. Last September, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed new regulations that would ban anyone under the age of 16 from performing the most common of tasks — such as cleaning out stalls with a wheelbarrow and shovel, rounding up cattle on horseback, or operating a tractor — on a farm. As my colleague Senator Jerry Moran put it: “To most young people growing up on [a] family farm, those jobs are routine. It’s a part of their lives. And these Department of Labor regulations are going to intrude significantly in that ability.”
- Arizona Centennial exhibit will be unveiled at Rim Country Museum
- February 3, 2012
- Arizona will celebrate 100 years of statehood on Feb. 14. The Rim Country Museum will feature a Centennial Exhibit titled: Arizona’s Story — A Rim Country View. The exhibit features a section about Arizona’s Territorial Years from 1863 to early 1912 and will feature Rim Country personalities who contributed to Arizona’s growth toward statehood.
- Thai Café celebrates first year
- February 3, 2012
- To celebrate a successful first year of business, owners of Payson’s only Thai restaurant laid out a feast Tuesday for community members who helped make the family’s dream a reality. Mam and Mac Katepratoom had imagined opening their own restaurant for years, but never dreamed Ayothaya Thai Café, 404 E. Highway 260, would be such a success when they opened last year. That success is due both to the quality of and authenticity of dishes, diners said Tuesday. Gary Richardson, district sales manager with Sysco, said he has visited many restaurants in his career, and Mam and Mac are some of the easiest customers to work with and put out a great product.
- Marooned Pine hiker rescued from cliff Sunday
- February 3, 2012
- Volunteer searchers rescued a 68-year-old hiker from Pine Sunday after he found himself marooned on a cliff, unable to climb up or down. Ground searchers and a helicopter crew worked together to locate the man and get him safely back to his vehicle. The man had set out at Geronimo Trail to do a loop hike that went up on the Mogollon Rim and back to the trailhead, said Bill Pitterle, commander with Tonto Rim Search and Rescue. Somehow, however, the man got disoriented on the return trail and was soon lost. The man continued hiking down until he came to a 25-foot cliff that he could not descend. He found he could not go back the way he had come and was “ledged out,” Pitterle said.
- Some people are just not cut out to do some jobs
- February 3, 2012
- As much as I hate to say it, there are people in this world who would be a lot better off in almost any job except the one they have. I’ve run into a few of those in my time, and something tells me I’m not the only one. I’ve often wondered about that, haven’t you? Just about everybody is good at something, so why do some people stay in a job that is so-o-o-o wrong for them? Why not go do something you’re good at? Could it be that some people don’t know how bad they are at what they’re doing? Is that possible? Even when it’s as obvious as a dead rat floating in the gravy boat? I mean, if you’re a brain surgeon, your hand shakes, you cut your own finger during your junior high frog dissection, and you tend to forget what it was you started out to do, I would think that sooner or later you’d realize you picked the wrong career. But not some folks I guess. Not one I knew anyway.
- GCC board member ‘flying blind’ on budget details
- February 3, 2012
- Everyone on the Gila Community College board seems to agree they don’t have enough information on their own budget to make crucial decisions. But they mostly disagree on what they should do about that. Board member Tom Loeffler triggered an inconclusive discussion of the issue at the board meeting last week when he suggested the board hire its own full- or part-time finance director. “The state audit showed we are less than stellar in our financial report,” he said of a recent review of the board’s financial control systems. “I believe every one of us has experienced some problem in understanding the monthly reports” provided by Eastern Arizona College.
- Time to break up with EAC lobbyist
- February 3, 2012
- He promises the world. He inflates your hopes. Then sneaks out with your pretty sister. Time to break up? Most likely. So we suspect that the Gila Community College board made a mistake last week when it renewed Triadvocate’s $36,000 annual lobbying contract. The Phoenix-based Triadvocates represents several community college districts in the Legislature, including Eastern Arizona College — with which GCC contracts for its credential. Board member Tom Loeffler has in the past suggested that represents a conflict of interest, since GCC’s interests as a provisional community college may conflict with the plans of regular community colleges — who get far more state support. Not to worry, insisted Triadvocates: We can represent GCC’s interests too. So last year, Triadvocates set to work to help state Sen. Sylvia Allen pass two bills crucial to the future of GCC. One bill opens the door to independence. The second bill sought to ensure GCC gets its fair share of workforce development money all other districts already get to develop vocational programs.
- 90-year sentence in child porn case may be reduced
- February 3, 2012
- A 74-year-old man who received a 90-year sentence for possessing child pornography may be out in as little as five years if the governor approves a sentence reduction. A jury in August convicted Robert Thomas Flibotte on 10 counts of dangerous acts against children after prosecutors presented dozens of pornographic images and videos of underage children engaged in sexual acts, some as young as 3. The images were found on both Flibotte’s home and work computers and several other media devices. Superior Court Judge Peter Cahill sentenced Flibotte to nine, 10-year sentences served consecutively, the minimum under state law. While Cahill said that Flibotte’s consecutive sentences totaling 90 years was “clearly excessive” Cahill found that Flibotte’s 10-year sentence on each count was not.
- Community takes its name from French settler and explorer
- February 3, 2012
- Hello again, fellow Creekers. Feb. 14 marks 100 years of statehood for Arizona. This makes me think about our history right here in Christopher Creek. The quiet and friendly community of Christopher Creek is named after the French settler, explorer and cartographer, Isadore Christopher, who lived here in the 1880s with his mail-order bride, Mary Hope. Christopher was the original homesteader of the 160-acre CI Ranch, which has developed into the community of Christopher Creek. In 1903, when Isadore Christopher, after the death of his wife, decided to move away from the ranch, he sold it to John Bowman. In 1938, the ranch was sold by the Bowmans to Paul Revere and Polly Rodema Mendenhall Ashby, the parents of Glenn Ashby.
- Heartfelt thanks to those who attended Celebration of Life gathering
- February 3, 2012
- The Kendall family would like to send a heartfelt thank you to everyone that attended the Celebration of Life gathering in memory of Karl (Booger) Kendall.
- Two Pine-Strawberry School staff members retiring
- February 3, 2012
- Staff and students at Pine-Strawberry School are losing two of their staff members who are retiring from the district at the end of this school year. Combined, Doris Randall and Jan Clark have given 62 years to education, with a combined total of 42 years at Pine-Strawberry School. What an amazing track record they should both be proud of! For 35 years, Doris’ friendly smile has greeted students, staff and families at Pine-Strawberry School. She began as a teacher’s aide when the school was in the thrift store building and remembers making copies on a mimeograph machine and using the now obsolete typewriter. She worked in almost all areas of school till being assigned the important role of school secretary, governing board secretary and executive secretary to the superintendent.
- Hashknife riders coming to Rim Country
- February 3, 2012
- Neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night (nor traffic, highway construction or weekenders) shall stay these riders, and their mounts, from their appointed rounds. This year however, is a very special year for this ride. The Hashknife Pony Express ride has been chosen by the State of Arizona as one of the official events to celebrate Arizona’s centennial. The first leg of the 200-mile trip over the Mogollon Rim will start at the Holbrook post office. Each year the Hashknife Pony Express riders receive the oath of office from the Holbrook postmaster authorizing them to carry the U.S. mail by Pony Express. The familiar cry of “Hashknife!” will be heard in the chilled morning of Wednesday, Feb. 8. Members of the Hashknife Pony Express will then mount up for the 54th annual ride of the Hashknife Pony Express. Not all riders will start from Holbrook.
- Clubs and Organizations
- February 3, 2012
- The Payson Area Computer Association will meet at 6:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 3 in the meeting room of the Payson Public Library. Guests are always welcome. The first meeting is always free. Membership is only $10 per year, per family.
- Hire an old, new superintendent
- February 3, 2012
- When opportunity knocks, don’t complain about the noise and instead seize the potential possibility! Since the current superintendent of Payson Unified School District (PUSD) has announced his intent to retire rather than seek yet another position in the Valley, the PUSD governing board should look at his resignation as a golden opportunity to bring in new, old leadership to steer the district in a positive direction.
- Hashknife part of upcoming centennial celebrations
- February 3, 2012
- Can you believe it? January is gone and February is here. February is a very important month for many reasons, but most important is that it is Arizona’s birthday on Feb. 14, in becoming 100 years young! There are many celebrations going on in the state of various kinds. Just check out the newspaper for a list of activities from around the state. One event that is close to home is the Hashknife riders. They will be making stops in Christopher Creek and Payson to pick up the mail and carry the mail to Scottsdale. Again, check the newspaper for the exact dates and times they will be passing through. February is also National Heart Month, so check with your physician to see if you need a checkup.
- Survey crews working east of Overgaard to map out highway expansion
- February 3, 2012
- A cooling trend is under way from the lower 50s we experienced this week to the lower 40s for the daytime high this weekend. Night-time temperatures are expected to remain the same, with lows ranging from the upper teens to the lower 20s. No precipitation is expected in the near term. Survey crews continue work east of Overgaard this week for ongoing highway expansion.
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