Noteworthy, the big band that played Walker Day 2017, can be found on their FaceBook page at facebook.com/noteworthyprescott/
From Johnny –
I told you I would forget to thank someone. And it’s a BIG one. MY BIG BAND! “Noteworthy”.
Weren’t they awesome?! What a great sound. Really took this years Walker Day party to […]
Over on the Walker Day.org web site, there’s a photo upload form where you can upload any photos that you took.
We want to update the web site with them. We’ll take any and all photos. They don’t have to be masterpieces.
Thanks!
Click here now: WalkerDay.org
Here’s Johnny O’s wrap up email below.
Because he won’t say anything about himself, I want to say, as a sponsor this year, I got to see behind the scenes. I saw Johnny resolve problems, technical, logistical, and emotional, through out the entire process.
He did it all with humor, grace, and dignity.
While he […]
All of the garage sale stuff was pulled out of it’s hiding place inside that tiny little station one building today and spread out for all the world to see.
There was a ton of people there helping. Thanks to everyone who was there.
The good part is that tomorrow, Walker Residents will have first […]
A couple years ago, I had just gotten a drone to take videos and was anxious to use it, which I did at Walker Day.
A couple days ago, Johnny O, the Walker Day organizer, asked me to contact someone who was making a video to promote Walker Day to give him my video.
Sure, whatever. […]
Here’s the video in the article:
We made the paper!
“It really is a miracle that a nonprofit fire department can still be in business after 50 years. It’s quite a complicated machine that we’ve created,” Ohanesian said. “We could be a model for fire departments across the county. That’s how smooth this place runs, but it only comes from the […]
The WFPA sent out notice that the next WFPA Board of Directors Meeting is this Saturday, on June 10th, 2017.
They meet in private first, then the public session starts at 9:15am.
The agenda PDF file can be downloaded here:
AGENDA_06-10-17_WFPA_Board_Meeting.pdf
The WFPA Annual Meeting was held on May 27th, 2017. That’s the Saturday morning of Memorial Day.
Bill Loughrige did a fine job of leading the meeting as the President of the WFPA.
He mentioned that it seemed like there were fewer people attending this one than have in the past.
There were no contentious issues […]
Woke up to smoke in the Walker Valley this morning.
After a bit of investigation, it looks like it’s a fire that down south, in Black Rock Canyon.
From Walker Fire Department:
From trail 307, we have smoke blowing over from Black Canyon City, no fire here.
https://www.facebook.com/walkerfiredept/
From Yavapai Regional Alert:
Wildfire In Black Canyon City […]
