News from our neighbors
Around the Rim with stories, news and events from Pine-Strawberry, Christopher Creek and Tonto Village.More News from our neighbors
- Crazy for cooking
- Rim woman shares years of kitchen expertise
- February 5, 2010
- Star Valley resident Shirley Snyder is one of the contributors to the 2009 Taste of Home cookbook, Freezer Pleasers. A few years ago, she was one of the winners in the Roundup’s recipe contest.
- Helping families survive
- Donations to Food Bank help mother and six children
- February 5, 2010
- After her husband climbed a communications tower and threatened to commit suicide in April, Michelle Williams-Boal said she is doing all that she can to keep her family of six from poverty with the little income she receives from the state.
- A picture’s worth a thousand words
- February 5, 2010
- Once a month, the Humane Society of Central Arizona will present a photos-only
- Furry characters come to life
- Teen uses anthropomorphism to give back to community
- January 29, 2010
- Sixteen-year-old Deanna Biesemeyer lives a furry lifestyle. From her hobby, to her business, to her friends, most everything is connected in some way to furry fandom.
- Shelter takes in 13 evacuated pets
- January 29, 2010
- Well, the first big storm of 2010 has come and gone. And to the amazement of us all, our little old shelter held up. We had buckets under many leaks and some things had to be lifted up to get them out of the water running under the door.
- Irises help bring woman to the Rim Country
- January 22, 2010
- In a roundabout way, it was the irises’ fault. Before Barbara Gustafson spotted them during an unplanned stop in town many years ago, she was not contemplating moving to Payson. But the irises created the possibility, and without seeing them, she never would have ultimately become Rim Country Literacy Program’s new director, as she did this month.
- Bad weather brings challenges
- January 22, 2010
- Winter is here again. Fortunately, here in beautiful Rim Country, the cold spells are not too extreme and usually don’t last that long. But they do come. While they’re here, they do make life a bit harder for us here at HSCAZ. Especially for the dogs.
- The Last Dream
- A chance encounter within the world’s grandest canyon reveals life’s deepest lessons
- January 22, 2010
- He sat on a boulder beside a small stream just off Bright Angel Trail near the bottom of the Grand Canyon, looking frail, oddly content, and out of place. A fly-fishing rod jutted crookedly from his pack, which was brand new and his hiking boots were barely scuffed. A curious combination of weariness and joy struggled for dominance on his finely etched features.
- Think Adoption First day Jan. 16
- January 15, 2010
- Saturday, Jan. 16, the Humane Society of Central Arizona will partner with PETCO Fountain Hills (16835 E. Shea Boulevard) during the pet store’s national Think Adoption First day. With every cat or dog that goes to a new home this Saturday, PETCO will give adopters a coupon book worth 50 percent off on cat or dog food, and 10 percent off an entire purchase at any of their locations.
- Folk art comes in all shapes
- January 15, 2010
- For many years, while Mario Belvedere lived in New York City, he would return home from his job on Wall Street, take off his gray flannel three-piece suit, crisp white shirt and black shoes and then put on his overalls to pain
- Put on the glitz: Black & White Ball is Jan. 16
- January 10, 2010
- Dust off the tails and evening gowns, put on the glitz — the annual Black & White Ball is Saturday, Jan. 16.
- Grant money will help fund humane society programs
- January 9, 2010
- The Humane Society of Central Arizona (formerly Payson Humane Society) has received a $5,000 grant from the Arizona Companion Animal Spay/Neuter Committee, to be used to spay and neuter our community’s feral cats.
- Pets react differently to shelter closing time
- January 8, 2010
- It’s closing time here at HSCAZ, and as you watch the animals, you can see the many different reactions to this time of day.
- Drip Castle Dreamland
- January 8, 2010
- The earth breathes — its intake and exhalation measured in seasons. Standing in the caverned heart of the earth — red as blood and warm as a womb, people stand and stare, fleeting as cave crickets — sensing both the vitality of stone and the frailty of flesh.
- Believing ‘because they matter’
- December 31, 2009
- Another year has come and gone. There were days we thought would never end, and days we looked up and said, “Where does time go?” There were days when we’d look around and say, “I give up,” only to turn around and keep going.
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