November 2009
Photos for November 6, 2009
The St. Vincent de Paul food bank serving the Rim Country is seeing more residents, such as Debra Sontoya, coming for help in recent months. As a result, the food bank needs help as well.
Marilyn Knauss does some last-minute cleaning at a new Habitat for Humanity home on the corners of Longhorn and McLane roads.
Amber DeWitt is all smiles as her mentor, Marilyn Knauss, hands her the key to her new home in the Longhorn Village.
Eugene C. Knorr
Helen Hodges
Rim Country residents got through a smoky week, with major controlled burns sending up smoke throughout the region. A 1,000-acre burn near Whispering Pines (above) sent smoke wafting through Payson early in the week. By week’s end, fire managers had also treated 3,000 acres near the Clear Creek Pines and Starlight Pines subdivisions off Highway 87, north of the Blue Ridge Ranger Station.
Payson Concrete and Materials held its annual October special to raise money and food donations for local organizations. Shown in front of Payson Concrete and Materials with their checks are: John Wakelin and Bill Enlund, vice president and president of the Humane Society of Central Arizona; Becky Derwort of Gila Payson Special Olympics; Dr. Judith Hunt and Ramona Coppelli, FPN, of Payson Christian Clinic; and Kim Turney, Janice Short and Eddie Duran of Payson Concrete. Donated food was given to the Optimist Club’s Food Basket Program. Each group was given a check for $700.
Bonnie Helder (clown) and Carleen Williams, Safeway employees, ham it up.
Andrew Hensley, a Payson firefighter, takes a donation from Jill and Dan Curtis for breast cancer research.
. Others taking part in the project were (back row above) Joshua Sampson and Tiger Rensch (graduates), Nikki Mendibles, Dorian Rensch, Juan Valdez and Gavin Mendibles, (front row) Nedra Galloway, Sarah Loney, Adianna Siegrist, Alecia Starkey, Connah Erdman, Amanda Luckman, Lillian Rubio and Riley Schreur.
Gavin Mendibles played the part of the Chained Skull Man.
Shelby School students created a haunted house for Halloween. Sarah Loney was the Graveyard Ghost.
Join the Rim Country’s fans of jazz at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 8 at the Community Presbyterian Church, 800 W. Main St., for a concert with Judy Roberts, Renee Patrick, Tony Vacca, Ted Sistrunk and Gerry Reynolds. A $5 donation is requested at the door and reservations are recommended. E-mail gerryr@cox.net for a spot.
Felix is the guest of honor at tonight’s bake sale at Bootleg Alley on Main Street. The sale is to raise funds to pay Felix’s vet bill.
Felix is the guest of honor at tonight’s bake sale at Bootleg Alley on Main Street. The sale is to raise funds to pay Felix’s vet bill.
Felix is one of the most well-behaved dogs at the shelter, and finding a new home would be the happy ending he deserves.
Matthew J. Vaillancourt and Hope E. Lancaster
Ramsey Milam and Mick Pageler
Jilleen Jane Jones and Jon Scott Alessi
Although Westin Gibson’s (18) season was cut short by an injury, he remains a candidate for all-region honors.
Logan Garner (60), Schaffer Keith (72) and Gunner Bauer (84) bring down a Mingus ball carrier in an early season game. Garner and Keith could be candidates for postseason honors.
Nick Johnson (34) might soon be named to the all-East football team as either a linebacker or running back.
The area’s first major bass fishing tournament this past spring drew about 250 anglers, along with their families and friends to the Rim Country. Organizers expect even more participants in the next major event, set for September.
Pro Tommy Cardoza wrestles with the fish in the net as co-angler Keith Adams steadies his fishing rod for his first catch of the day at the FLW Bass Fishing Tournament on Roosevelt Lake.
Roosevelt Lake was hopping when 250 anglers hit the water in last spring’s FLW Stren Series bass finishing tournament. The success of that event has prompted sponsors and organizers to select Payson and Roosevelt Lake as a host sight for one of four 2010 National Guard Western Series Tournaments. It will be held the weekend of Sept. 22-25, 2010.
Looks like this six-pack had a lot of fun at the big Halloween party held at Creekside Restaurant. Rumor has it they were not the only ones.
The stream picks up the mineral as it seeps through buried layers of limestone, which are comprised of the compressed skeletons of sea creatures that settled on the bottom of ancient seabeds. The travertine gives the water its distinctive clarity and blue green-color.
Arizona Game and Fish fisheries branch manager Kirk Young pauses on the banks of Fossil Creek. The spring that feeds Fossil Creek, just west of Strawberry, is laden with travertine, a form of dissolved limestone.
The most scenic waterfall on Fossil Creek lies about two miles upstream from where the road from Strawberry to Camp Verde hits the creek near the abandoned power plant.
Fall colors should peak along the creek in the next week or two, offering brilliant still-lifes, like this sycamore leaf caught in a pool of water tinted with natural oils.
Two Arizona Game and Fish Department researchers compare notes on the banks of Fossil Creek, which has become a refuge for native fish.
The Community Health and Care Fair Saturday will have something for everyone with free and low-cost screenings, tests and lots of helpful information to stay well this winter.
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Question of the week
Do you think the community should be involved with the selectioin of a new School Board Superintendent?
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