I often get asked, “LeeAnn, how did you create and host a conference? I’d love to do that too!”. Like I tell everyone . . . if I can do it, you can too. With a clear vision, a lot of hard work and some help along the way I’m confident you can host the conference, seminar or event of your dreams (maybe with a few tweaks to fit your budget!). I am not an event planner by trade, but have learned a number of best practices you should implement (and worst practices you should avoid). Feel free to schedule time with me so that I can help you lay the groundwork for a successful and high-impact small, mid-sized or large-scale event. Can’t wait to chat! – LeeAnn
The City of Sedona is situated at the mouth of spectacular Oak Creek Canyon and is characterized by massive red rock formations and incredible views. It is entirely surrounded by pristine National Forest wilderness.
Located at an elevation of 4,500 feet in Arizona's high desert country, Sedona is blessed with four mild seasons, abundant sunshine and clean air. The annual average high and low temperatures are 74.7 and 45.6 degrees.
Of the city's approximately 19-square mile area, only 51% is privately owned. The remaining 49% is part of the Coconino National Forest. Along with the nearby Village of Oak Creek (often referred to simply as VOC by locals), some 18,000 people reside in the area.
Although the Village of Oak Creek is located solely in Yavapai county, the City of Sedona is divided between Yavapai and Coconino Counties. Residential property taxes are similar in both counties, and are less than 1% of a property's selling price.
Although unusual for a community the size of Sedona, the city has its own medical facility, a branch of the Verde Valley Medical Center (VVMC), located in Cottonwood. In addition, VVMC also operates a small clinic in nearby Oak Creek Village. The Sedona Campus boasts a complete Cancer Treatment Center and a newly installed Siemens 16-slice CT Scanner. It also has a 24/7 Emergi-Center with Board-Certified physicians trained in the latest Cardiac, Pediatric and Trauma Life Support procedures. Although it only offers outpatient services, visitors requiring inpatient care can be quickly transported by ground or air to the main hospital, a 110-bed facility, in Cottonwood. A staff of 800 professionals, including 80 physicians provide care in 21 different medical specialties.
Residents of Sedona also have access to numerous skilled practitioners who operate in private offices throughout the area, as well as to the Sedona Urgent Care Clinic.
The Sedona-Oak Creek Joint Unified School District includes Sedona Red Rock High School, a modern campus consisting of four buildings, the West Sedona Elementary School and the Big Park Elementary School in the Village of Oak Creek. A Montessori and a Waldorf school and numerous private elementary and college prep schools also serve the area's educational needs.
Yavapai Community College, headquartered in Prescott, has a local Sedona campus offering a varied curriculum of adult courses. Sedona is also home to the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Film Making. Northern Arizona University is located in Flagstaff, approximately 35 miles north of Sedona.
Community Facilities: A full complement of public services are offered by institutions such as the Sedona Public Library, the Sedona Center for Arts and Technology, the Sedona Creative Life Center (to the right), the Sedona Historical Society and the Sedona Humane Society, plus a long list of charitable organizations. In fact, volunteerism is essentially a profession in Sedona because so many corporate executives, educators, and private entrepreneurs have retired here.
There are more than 30 religious sanctuaries in the Sedona-VOC area, many of them in beautiful edifices specifically designed to take advantage of the inspirational views that surround them.
The Chapel of the Holy Cross (see image to the right), sitting high up in the red rocks east of Highway 179, has been a compelling landmark since its completion in 1956. The towering cross and awesome panorama of buttes, valley and sky are a source of spiritual reflection and prayer.
For people with disabilities, Sedona is a visitor-friendly place where one can find enhancing quality-of-life experiences. Most of the community's newer facilities, including City Hall and various visitor centers, comply with requirements imposed by the Americans With Disabilities Act. In addition, parks, picnic and camping grounds, restaurants and lodges, tour companies and theatres have made sincere efforts to meet the special needs of the physically disabled. All visitor centers operated by the Sedona-Oak Creek Canyon Chamber of Commerce have an extensive list of facilities with accessibility information.
Click on the white or blue panels below to view slideshows of current properties for sale in Sedona and the Village of Oak Creek, Arizona. Each photo can also be clicked on to view more information about each listing.
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Please accept our deepest sympathy for the loss of your beloved mother. May the memories of happy times shared with her bring a measure of peace during the difficult days ahead. May God comfort each of you during your time of mourning.
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Rev. William Cecil Taylor, Jr., 86, of Strasburg, Virginia, passed away Thursday, February 14, 2013, at Greenfield Senior Living, Strasburg, Virginia, of natural causes.
A funeral service for Rev. Taylor will be conducted at 11:00 a.m. Monday, February 18, 2013, at Strasburg United Methodist Church with Rev. P. Douglas Martin and Rev. Edward P. Winkler officiating. Burial will follow in Refuge United Methodist Church Cemetery.
Rev. Taylor was born January 8, 1927, in Washington, D.C., to William Cecil Taylor, Sr., and Gladys Lucille (Brown) Taylor.
Pastor Taylor was a graduate of Toledo University, Toledo, Ohio, and Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey. His ministry of 50+ years in the United Methodist Church included pastorates in New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, and Virginia. He will be remembered for his storytelling and children's sermons. He had a loving heart for birds and wildlife. At one time, he dabbled in mineralogy. Pastor Taylor's friends in Strasburg will remember his kite-flying expertise.
He is survived by his wife, Delores Kay (Andre) Taylor of Strasburg, Virginia; daughters (of Linda Wilgus Taylor) are Krista Lynne (Taylor) Hutchings of Ashland, Kentucky; Kara Leigh (Taylor) Penley of Portsmouth, Ohio; and Klaire Lori (Taylor) Purtee of Portsmouth, Ohio; grandchildren, Jennifer Penley, Christopher Penley, Timothy Penley, Jesse Hutchings, Cecilia Purtee, Alexandra Hutchings, and Abigail Purtee; one great-grandson, Owen Hurst; two step-children, Karen (Howerton) Shaw and Amy (Howerton) Selby, and two step-grandchildren. Rev. Taylor is also survived by his sister, Shirley (Taylor) Priest, of Columbus, Ohio.
Stover Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc., Strasburg is serving the family of Rev. William C. Taylor, Jr.
Doris Ruth Gross was born June 10, 1921. She passed on peacefully June 26, 2015 at Retsil Veteran's Home in Port Orchard. Doris was born in Grangeville Idaho, but grew up in Yakima WA. Her life was one of service to Veterans and love of her family. She joined the Navy in WWII at the age of 20, where she was a link instructor for Navy pilots. There she fell in love and married Captain Ivan Crouse, who died in the war. Doris returned to Washington State to attend college at U of W, married Wallace Gross, had a family and worked as an examiner for new recruits and co-founded the West Seattle based American Legion Post 204; an all-female post known as the "service girls". In 1979, Doris was the FIRST women in history to be elected to serve as Commander of any state in the USA for the American Legion. In 2013, the West Seattle's Veteran's Legion Post honored Doris by naming the soon to be renovated Center board room the Doris Gross Executive Board Room. Doris continued on being extremely active in Veteran affairs. She acted as a lobbyist for Veteran's and was appointed by President Reagan to be on a board to consult for Veteran Affairs. Doris was instrumental in working on the WWII memorial in Washington DC, and the National Veteran's Cemetery in Kent, WA to name just a few issues that she fought for the Veterans.
Doris raised two daughters as a divorced woman, often working two jobs. She was a loving mother to Leslye Bergan( Louis), and Sydney Johnson-Gorrell (Christopher), five grandchildren, Ryan Johnson, Kara Donahue, Eric Bergan, Brent Bergan, Tyler Bergan, and 7 great grandchildren. She shared 37 years with Lewis Brewer, who every morning brought her a cup of coffee and told her she was the most beautiful woman in the world. And she was to everyone who knew her. She had a great love of life, organizing parties and events for veterans, dancing, owning race horses, reading, spending time with family and friends, and always keeping a positive view on life in any circumstance. She was loving and giving; always believing in the goodness of people. When Doris Gross walked into a room you always saw a true lady that made the world a better place.
A memorial Service will be held on Tuesday, July 14 at the West Seattle Legion Post 160 of West Seattle, 3618 SW Alaska St. at 11:00 am. To be followed by a Military Funeral Honor service at Tahoma National Cemetery, 18600 SE 240th St. Kent at 2:30.
"We of the 20-4 Honor Society of Women Legionnaires of The American Legion send our thoughts and prayers to her family...."
The Serious Offenders Act 2018 ('The Act') commenced on 3 September 2018. It repealed, replaced and significantly expanded on the Serious Sex Offender (Detention and Supervision Order) Act 2009 which has operated as Victoria’s post-sentence detention and supervision order scheme for serious sex offenders for just under a decade.
The Act incorporates the recommendations of the Harper Review which examined the scheme in 2015. Community protection is the primary purpose of the regime and it does so by placing strict limitations on the liberty of people – all whom have served their sentence. Accordingly, it is important for practitioners to understand this regime and the new changes.
The most significant change introduced by the Act – which incorporates the two preceding interim pieces of legislation introduced in 2016 and early 2018 – is to expand eligibility to include serious violent offenders. This includes 11 serious violent offences such as murder and manslaughter.
The practical consequence for practitioners is that there will be supervision order applications (and the corresponding breach, review and renewal hearings) heard in the Supreme Court where under the old Act this was largely the domain of the County Court. Procedurally, the application process will remain largely the same though it is fair to expect that the serious violent offender cohort will be much different to the serious sex offender cohort so it is unclear how it will operate in practice e.g. risk assessments, breach rates etc).
The Act also introduces emergency detention orders, which allows the secretary to apply to the Supreme Court to detain a supervised offender in custody for up to seven days in order to contain their escalating and imminent risk to the community until different supervision arrangements or an application for a detention order can be made. It also introduces the Post Sentence Authority, an agency created to take over the management function of supervised offenders from the Adult Parole Board. Additionally it introduces the creation of a secure residential treatment facility, Rivergum, which is currently being built next to Hopkins Correctional Facility and designed to provide intensive treatment and supervision in a secure environment.
Guideline name change – ATLAS and Guideline 10 will be changed to reflect that the scheme is governed by the Serious Offenders Act 2018.
Change to simplified grants process – Significantly, applications for aid will now fall under the simplified grants process and will not require assessment by Assignments. The exception will be for special disbursements like expert reports and for applications to review conditions which will still be considered by Assignments.
Emergency detention orders Guideline 10 will include funding for Emergency Detention Orders and Table Z has been amended to include a fee to accommodate this hearing - –comparable to a Supreme Court bail application fee.
Offender Application to Review SO - In order to ensure that orders under the new Act are proportionate and lawful, Guideline 10 has been extended to allow for an offender subject to an order under the new Act to make an application to review conditions.
Supervision and detention order matters in the Supreme Court – given the new scheme will result in more applications in the Supreme Court fees have been updated to reflect the work involved with these orders in that jurisdiction.
The County Court breach proceedings guideline will be updated to reflect the new legislation and to include breach proceedings in the Supreme Court.
Training was provided on Monday 27 August 2018. If you would like a copy of the recording and presentation materials, or more information on the changes, please email ple@vla.vic.gov.au
35(1)This paragraph applies where a reference is made under paragraph 34 in relation to a devolution issue which relates to the proposed exercise of a function by a member of the Scottish Executive.
(3)No member of the Scottish Executive shall exercise the function in the manner proposed during the period beginning with the receipt of the notification under sub-paragraph (2) and ending with the reference being decided or otherwise disposed of.
(4)Proceedings relating to any possible failure by a member of the Scottish Executive to comply with sub-paragraph (3) may be instituted by the Advocate General.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009, Cross Heading: Local Government Act 2003 (c. 26).