For every large, two+ topping pizza purchased at Crusty’s Pizza in Camp Verde, $5 will be donated to the Kelsea Freeman Fund. Offer expires Feb 28, 2011. Crusty’s Pizza is located in the Basha’s shopping center on Finney Flat Rd in downtown Camp Verde.
I am adding food pantries and food banks in the Verde Valley area to this list as I hear about them. Please leave a comment if you hear of another option! I will include Camp Verde and the greater Verde Valley, Sedona, the Prescott area, Mayer, Cordes Lakes and Flagstaff food banks and pantries.
No one in central Arizona should have to go hungry!
Camp Verde Food Banks -
- Bread of Life Mission Dinners (free meals) – Tuesday nights 5:30pm. Hot meals and bulk food boxes are distributed at the Camp Verde Community Center 435 South Main Street. From their website – “Devotions, music, and prayer begin at 5:30 p.m. Dinner is served at 6:00 p.m. Distribution of the food boxes starts after dinner. For emergency food boxes and other assistance please call 928-567-6931 or 928-300-2372.”
- Yavapai-Apache Nation Food Bank
– 3364 Hamaley Avenue, Camp Verde, (928) 567-8768 - Camp Verde Food Bank – Wed, 8-1pm, Boot Hill Road at the 7th Day Adventist Church. No proofs needed.
- Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op - Rimrock – 4810 E. Beaver Creek Road – Take I-17 North to Exit #293 to Rimrock/Lake Montezuma. Go straight through the stop sign and stay on Beaver Creek Road for approximately 2.5 miles. Stay on this road, even when it veers left at the gas station. The school sits a ways off the road and is on the left hand side of the road. It has its own fenced-in entrance. Saturday, 7am pickup.
Cornville -
- Cornville Food Bank – 9375 Forest 119 Road, Cornville, (928) 634-5846
- The Cornville Mission Food Bank, 1125 S. Page Springs Rd. Food boxes, produce, bread and meals – The food bank is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Mission is closed on Wednesday and Sunday.
- Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op – 11490 Purple Sage Road, at the elementary school – Saturday, pickup is 8am.
Cottonwood -
- Central Arizona Food Bank – Open Monday, Tuesday & Thursday 10 AM – 3 PM, 654 North Main Street, Cottonwood. Emergency food to the needy three days a week. Also Food Boxes. From the Verde Independant – “The $15 Care Club food box [is a] program [that] assembles a number of canned and fresh foods into boxes distributed once as month. The $15 box is actually two boxes and more. One box is cereal, canned goods, soups, fruit and vegetables. The second box includes bread, margarine, eggs, pastries and produce. Then there is also an 8- to 10-pound package of meat.On the second Thursday of the month, two truckloads go to Camp Verde for distribution there.” More information here.
- St Vincent De Paul Society (928) 634-9625 700 N Bill Gray Rd, Cottonwood.
- Old Town Mission – Hot Lunch is served Monday‐Friday; 12 Noon to 12:45. All are welcome. Monthly Food Distribution for Seniors and Thanksgiving Dinners for all. Please call for information 634-7869
Clarkedale - To be added
Sedona -
- Sedona Community Food Bank – Food distribution is Wednesdays from 8:30 – 12:00 noon or by appointment. Donations of food can be dropped off Monday – Wednesday 8:30 – 12:00 noon. Services the Village of Oak Creek, Page Springs, Cornville and Sedona.
Mayer -
- Mayer Meals on Wheels – 10051 Miami, Mayer. Free lunches Mon-Fri 8:00 am – 2:00 pm, walk-ins served. No requirement needed for lunch meals. 60 years old for meals on wheels home food delivery for these zip codes – 86333, 86327, 86329. 928-632-7511.
Prescott area -
- Yavapai Food Banks – 8866 E. Long Mesa Dr. Prescott Valley, AZ 86314 (928) 775-5255. From their website – Food boxes can be picked up each Tuesday and Wednesday between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., or Thursday and Friday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Boxes are limited to one per individual or family per week. An individual or head of household 18 years or older will need to fill out an application. Applicant must furnish identification for all members of their household. Identification could be a driver’s license, social security card, birth certificate, school report card, AHCCS health card or equivalent. Verification of income is also needed and may be provided by pay check stub, SS, SSI, or DES award letters, bank statement, or employer verification. There are also emergency boxes and commodities boxes (income application required). Value boxes are also available to everyone, full of healthy fresh and non-perishable foods. Anyone can buy these, regardless of income, up to no limits.
- Bountiful Baskets - Dewey, Saturday 8:15. Take Hwy 69 to Bradshaw Mountain Road in Dewey; turn into the Quailwood Subdivision. Take Bradshaw Mountain Road to Vidal; turn left. Follow the round about on Vidal to the left and enter the park.
Cordes Lakes – To be added
Flagstaff – To be added
Arizona in General – If you are income eligible, here is the information for applying for Food Stamps in Arizona – SNAP .
You can attend yoga classes in Camp Verde on Mondays at KC’s Family Tae Kwon Do (Carol’s Gentle Yoga). 55 S. Montezuma Castle Highway, Suite #A-5, 928-554-0140
Camp Verde Yoga Classes –
- 11am – noon – Chair Yoga
- 12:30 – 1pm – Pre and Post Natal Yoga, Partner Yoga
- 3:30 – 4:30 – Kids’ Yoga
- 5:30 – 6:45 – Adult Yoga
Schedule subject to change. For more information, see Carol’s Gentle Yoga.
Note – There are many other class options and times listed on her schedule link. Some are in Cottonwood and Clarkdale.
From the website:
Please wear loose or stretchy clothing
Allow 3 hours after a meal
No perfumes or colognes
Bring a Towel, *Mat, blanket and
props (i.e. blocks, straps & ties)
*Note: Some are available for new students
to borrow; continuing students please
bring your own.
Punctuality is much appreciated.
If this is your first class, please allow a few minutes at
the beginning of our session to complete some
important paperwork.
Located on Finney Flat Road near the Basha’s plaza, the Snap 24-7 Fitness gym offers a free week for people to try things out. This is a clean place with newer equipment. No sauna or jacuzzi, no pool. Classes available.
Other things you get free with your week:
Free personal fitness consultation, equipment orientation, online training center, fitness adventures, personal web page, personal nutrition plan and wellness assessment.
Call 928-282-SNAP.
Arizona Public Service is offering a $30 electricity rebate if you tell them they can come and recycle your old fridge. That is a whole lot better than scrapping it for metal yourself…plus you get to help keep a large item out of the landfill.
The idea is to encourage you to get a newer, more energy efficient fridge, which they are saying will save you an additional $100 a year on your electrical bills.
APS will even come and pick it up, and recycle it for you! Call 877-514-6654 or visit aps.com/turnitin. The units must be in working condition, and you can get two rebates per household.
BTW, loving this fridge:
We have a small but mighty library, with an excellent selection of fiction books. The non-fiction areas are decent, but could be expanded. Can’t complain; it’s just nice to have a library at all.
In order to comply with the four day work week adopted by the town, the Library is open four days at these hours:
- Tues: 8am to 7pm
- Wed: 8am to 7pm
-Thurs: 8am to 7pm
- Closed Friday
- Saturday: 8am to 4pm
- Closed Sunday
- Closed Monday
Golden Bone Pet Boutique (and Rescue & Rehab) has a fantastic fund for aging and diabetic dogs called the Hercules Fund. The fund helps support the use of supplements and alternatives to surgery for elder and diabetic canines, to help maintain a high quality of life for your pets.
It’s well worth checking out, to help your canine buddy in a natural and gentle way. Ask what the fund can offer your pet, and try to learn everything you can about safe supplements that might help!
Golden Bone is on Main Street, in the Wingfield Plaza next to Curves, and across from Healthy Thymes. They are open until 6pm Tuesday though Saturday.
Call 928-567-5555 for more information, or visit goldenbonerescue.org
If you live in Camp Verde – or are traveling though – it’s good to know where the banks are. We have a Chase bank on Finney Flats road (left side, just past the Basha’s Plaza), and a Wells Fargo full service bank inside Basha’s grocery store (Finney Flats Road).
The ATM for Wells Fargo is available during Basha’s business hours – meaning it closes at 9pm. The Chase bank is it’s own building and I assume the ATM is available 24 hours.
Here are some of the interesting and fun hikes we have in the Verde Valley. As I review each trail, I will add a link to photos and trail descriptions.
- Wet Beaver Creek: Bell Crossing
- Wet Beaver Creek: Gauging Station
- Bull Pen: West Clear Creek
- Bull Pen: Apache Maid
- Bull Pen: Blodgett Basin Trail
- West Clear Creek Campground
- Camp Verde Caves
- Verde River Walk (under town bridge)
- Fossil Springs
- Fossil Creek to the Waterfall
- Towel Creek to the Verde River
- Mail Trail
- Beehouse / Bishop Creek Loop
- Gap Creek Trail
- Cottonwood: Jail Trail to the Verde River
- Trails in the Dead Horse State Park
- Trail to top of Tuzigoot National Monument
- Montezuma’s Well
- Bubbling Springs to page Springs Fish Hatchery
- Child’s Hot Springs
- Stoneman lake Loop
- Sycamore Canyon: Parson’s Springs
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This list does not include the fantastic array of hikes in Sedona, which needs to be another list entirely.
Got a trail in the Verde Valley that was left out? Please make a note in the comments.
With Halloween coming up fast, it’s time to get on the ball creating your costume. Here are some ideas of where to shop and get ideas:
- New Thrift Store - on Roadrunner Lane, New Thrift Store is your NUMBER ONE local bet to get a costume going cheaply, quickly and creatively. As the largest Camp Verde thrift store with the best clothing selection, all you need to do is walk in and look around. Ask the employees what clothes on their racks might go with your costume idea. There is also an entire Halloween area with pre-made costumes and ‘scary’ home decor, and a craft area with fabric and accessories you can use to sew/glue to your costume masterpiece. At the very least, you can buy a used sheet or drop cloth (ask where these are) to make a ghost. Borrow their Sharpies and scissors to create the ghost right there in the shop. Done.
- Dee’s Alterations – bring her your too big or too small costume to alter, or bring in your fabric and ideas, and she can stitch you a fabulous Halloween look in a jiffy. Dee’s shop is located on the top floor of the Montezuma Inn on Main Street. Open wed – fri 10 – 5, or call and she will meet you at shop “almost any time.” 928-301-0662.
- Alco - They’ve got fabric, yarn, notions and all kinds of doo dads to give you ideas. Located in the Basha’s Plaza on Finney Flats Road.
- Senior Center Thrift Store – Located on Maryvale Road, this thrift shop has lots of clothes to help you plan your ensemble. FYI, they close at 3pm weekdays and are closed on weekends.
- Golden Bone Pet Boutique – Want a costume for your pet? Ask inside about pet clothes and ideas, and learn what is safe for your pets on Halloween night. And BTW, 1. keep your cats inside and 2. keep the chocolate away from the cats and dogs – it’s toxic to their systems.
Some homemade Superhero ideas to get you thinking…
