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85-Year Old AZ Woman Attempts to Break World Record Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro
Paradise Valley great-grandmother Anne Lorimor, 85 years old, is attempting to be the oldest woman to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. She leaves Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport on Saturday, June 27 for Tanzania, Africa as part of her mission to raise awareness and funds for underprivileged children. “While I am...
Local Auctioneer Wins National Competition and Puts Talents to Use Helping AZ Schools and Nonprofits
It’s not everyday one meets a national award winning auctioneer. Then again, it’s not everyday one meets an auctioneer at all.
Bobby Ehlert, a local auctioneer and founder of the company Call to Auction, competed against 138 other contestants and took home first place at the World Automobile Auctioneers Championship April 17 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The annual competition hosts the nation’s best...
RENEW Nonprofit Seeks to Empower Youth At Home and Abroad
“Together we can bring change” is the motto of nonprofit RENEW and its co-founders Adam Rubin and Uswege Mwakapango. Together, they have launched an educational program to assist youth in positively impacting their community. While the organization has primarily focused on helping Tanzanians, RENEW will make its debut in the United States next month in Phoenix.
Breaking Stereotypes: Arizona Native and California Queen, Sande Charles
As the saying goes, you can take the girl out of the California, but you can never take California out of the girl. You must arguably cannot ever take the Golden State out of this woman; nor the Grand Canyon State in her case either. In a crossroads of the two western desert states, we meet the *reigning Ms. California United States and MLB Network P.A. Sande Charles; the fire-filled, passionate beauty queen who thrives between her two homes, trades in her crown for a baseball cap and breaks stereotypes in the workforce wherever she goes.
The Glendale, Ariz., native, sister of five rowdy...
Kids Summer Fun with Circus School of Arizona
School’s out for summer and if you’re looking for something fun and unique to do with the kids look no further than the Circus School of Arizona! CSAs summer youth camps offer an introduction to a wide variety of Circus Arts including Aerial Skills like Silks, Rope, Trapeze, Lyra, and Wire Walking along with Ground Acrobatics such as Mini Tramp, Hula Hooping, Spinning Poi, Walking on The Rolling Globe, Juggling, Feather Balancing, and Basic Hand-Balancing.
The Circus School of Arizona proudly fosters a safe and non-competitive environment where children have the opportunity to be taught by experienced aerialists and performers. Students will learn to work in a team, build strength...
