(Lyn's note: Please feel free to send us any pictures you'd like included.  If your photos are for sale, let us know and we will put them under that category.  We have a special section for that purpose.  If anyone would like to buy a print of any of Herbert's photos, all profits will be donated to one of the local non-profit organizations.)  Here's the link to this week's Pictures of the Week.

 

This week we had a lot of great photos, so we are again including 2 links.   Enjoy!

 

http://www.carefreeazbusinesses.com/pictures-8115.html

Photo by Herbert Hitchon

 

The tiny speck of black to the left of the big cloud is a commercial jet. You can see it better on the link.  Herbert did a second version of that photo, cropped to show the jet as a detail.  You can see both photos on the link above.  They are the 2nd & 3rd photos.  He's in love with his new 85mm Zeiss Otus lens, which allows him to take shots like these and crop them to that degree while maintaining integrity of something as distant as that jet.

 

http://www.carefreeazbusinesses.com/pictures-of-the-week--8315.html

Photo by Herbert Hitchon

 

 

 

 

The 2016 Carefree Desert Garden calendars will be available this fall at Carefree Town Hall, 8 Sundial Circle, Carefree. If you like to take pictures, visit the Gardens.  Our entry period for the Gardens photo contest is January.  Your picture could be in the 2017 calendar!

 

 

 

Desert Foothills Chronicle link:

http://www.desertfoothillschronicle.org/

City Sun Times link:

http://news.citysuntimes.com/

 

 

 

Dear Friends,

As you know, I am participating in the Scottsdale "Walk to Defeat ALS" in October as part of a team honoring my husband, David Schwan. Thank you to those who have already made a donation to our team - this message is just another thank you for your generous donation.  For those of you who might still want to make a donation, I have an extra incentive!  Many of you may be most familiar with ALS from the Ice Bucket Challenge last August.  If you're like me, you were living in fear that someone was going to challenge you and you would end up with icy water ruining your hair.  The ALS Association is sponsoring the Ice Bucket Challenge again this year for the entire month of August.  So here's where the "deal" comes in.

I am going to "take one for the team" for anyone who donates to my ALS walk during the month of August.  At the end of the month I am going to post a video to Facebook of me getting doused with ice water and I will mention your name as a donor.  That way if you get challenged during this month you can say that you have a proxy who took the challenge for you!  No ruined clothes, shock to your system or waste of perfectly good ice that could be chilling your drink on these hot August nights.

If you wish to donate and escape the Ice Bucket please click on the link below.  Thanks so much for your support.
http://web.alsa.org/site/TR/Walks/Arizona?px=6972161&pg=personal&fr_id=10960#.VcJ-4ngXzFI

Binka

 

 

Medical Bill Fund

My niece, Sarah Soaf was in a horrifying accident last week and is in ICU at Good Samaritan Hospital. Sarah is a full time BioMedical Engineering student at ASU and amazingly gifted. Friday, July 24, Sarah was in a car accident where she was critically injured. She suffered from fractures to her skull, a full orbital blow out of her left eye and a crushed face. She has undergone massive reconstructive surgery by a team of surgeons (Neurosurgeon and Maxillofacial Surgeons) at Good Samaritan Hospital. She had to have brain surgery as well as facial reconstruction. Sarah has pulled through surgery and is finally out of ICU. This week she will be transferred over to Banner rehab where a team of therapist will teach her to be a functioning adult again. Our goal is to reduce the financial stress that accompanies these medical expenses and to get Sarah healthy and back in school. Please donate whatever you can to http://www.youcaring.com/sarah-soaf-403799#.VbsDPUCgTI8.facebook

Thank you,

Michael E. Farrar

We are heartbroken… She really is an amazing young person, so wanting to change the world in medicine and find cures for cancer, etc.. She was actually interning this summer at a stem cell research lab before this terrible accident.

Mike Farrar

 

My god, what an awful story.  And I would guess, she had no insurance being in that age group that can’t afford much.  I would guess there will be additional fundraisers.  Let me know as it goes. 

Sara 

Desert Foothills Chronicle, Inc., an AZ nonprofit corporation, Editor

 

Lyn, thank you again for all your help! I have cc'd her mother on this email.
Thanks again,
Mike
(Sara and I will do what we both can to get the word out for Sarah.)

 

What is her political persuasion?

Maitland

(Lyn's note: I don't know what Mike Farrar's niece's political persuasion is.  It wasn't a factor that even occurred to us when we donated to her medical fund.)

 

 

Hi Lyn,

I re-posted Phil Corso's dog pond story on Bosco's Biscuits FB page.  Looks like a great time for dogs and people:)

Alison

(Lyn's note: See Bosco's Biscuits in our weekly ads.  Herbert did a neat video of her making the biscuits that you can see there.  Alison makes fabulous home baked biscuits at the store, using human grade ingredients.  Our dogs LOVE them.  Arthur Gimson's Husky, Katya, is another big fan of her biscuits.  Her shop is beside Cactus Flowers, in the Basha's Center.)

 

 

What a neat place. Will need to come visit.

Laurie P.

 

 

Hello Lyn!  I was speaking with my hair stylist in Carefree last evening and telling her what a wonderful resource you are for community updates.  Would you please add her email to your distribution list?  Also, if you still have the email with the photos of the planned updates to the Carefree Town Center she would love to see those.  I don’t think I explained it very well.  HA!  Exciting things happening and I always appreciate your emails.  I hope you’re doing well. 

 Thanks so much, Lyn!

Rhonda Heinricher | Sales Dept. Coordinator 
Carefree Resort & Conference Center

(Lyn's note: Thanks for the lovely compliment, Rhonda!   We are always happy to add readers to our email list.  See can see everything we've put out previously on our website, www.carefreetruth.com).

 

 

 

While talking with one of the owner's of a retail store yesterday she complained about the money being spent on a kiddie's pool and the new arches indicating you've arrived in Carefree and was very disgruntled with the way the Town is spending money.  She also was in favor of a movie theatre.  Something that will bring people into town and maybe have dinner before or after the show.  Also, people who might stroll the town while waiting for the movie to start.  I think I mentioned to you before that I lived in Marin County and they had a small theatre in Tiburon showing only 1 movie and that theatre has been there for years. I remember every time I went there I ate in town before or after the movie.  If you had afternoon movies for kids maybe mommies would shop the town waiting for their children.  It just seems a good idea to me and now I know others.

Lois Treacy

(Lyn's note: I would love to see a small theater in Carefree.  But I'm also looking forward to the splash pad.  I think we have a lot of exciting projects happening now, a combination of which will be good for our downtown.  I doubt that there is only one correct answer, and the Town is moving forward with lots of neat attractions.  I suspect, for a theater, one of the property owners will have to convert an existing building.  If it would be a successful venture, and I think it would, someone will probably make the effort.  I hope your letter gives someone the nudge needed to proceed with that.)