Features

Spring has arrived and we all know what that means for us Arizonans...spring training! With a total of 15 teams in the Cactus League and a brand new, amazing stadium, the baseball season is here and it's going to be an awesome one.

Television personality and AZfoothills.com columnist Nadine Toren is scouring the area, finding savvy Valley features, bringing readers “on the scene.”  Every day she’ll introduce you to celebrities, athletes, and give you an inside look into local events and hot spots.  She'll touch on topical issues, and keep AZ fans posted on all the big talkers around town.

For some, Spring Training is all about the game.

For others, it’s about who is playing the game, and how good they look hitting homers.

So I took on the “tedious” task of talking to a handful of baseball babes; finding out who they are off the field.

In a land overcome by ever-so evolving video game technology, Amen Iseghohi is bringing something new to the table: a tire. It’s that simple rubber object that we tend to overlook unless they’re flat or damaged. With Iseghohi’s AmeZone Primal Education non-profit organization, he’s hoping to positively impact the lives of today’s children.

The mission of Amen Zone PE is simple; to help end the nation’s epidemic in childhood obesity.

“The kids are our future and our future is in bad shape,” Iseghohi said. Both literally and figuratively, he...

Are you afraid of things that go ‘bump’ in the night? If not, the Jerome Grand Hotel is a great place for you. This hotel has been a hotspot for tourist and ghosts alike since 1997 when its doors first opened.

During the era of mining, more and more people found their way to Jerome, Arizona with hopes of striking it rich by mining copper, silver, and gold. In 1927, the United Verde Hospital began operating, and by 1930, it was known as “the most modern and well equipped hospital in Arizona and possibly the United States.” As the mining operations soon came end, the hospital closed its doors in 1950.

44 years later, the Altherr family, from the Phelps Dodge Mining Corps, purchased the old hospital and began to...