http://dcourier.com en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 12:17:34 GMT Daily feed of articles. No commercial use of these feed links is permitted without the written permission of the publisher. http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119512 The Powerball winner will pay Uncle Sam $224 million in taxes when he cashes Saturday's jackpot this week. The U.S. government is anxious to find out the person's name. They don't want to christen the next battleship the Anonymous Winner. Features Sat, 25 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119513 Most homeowners recognize the need to remodel the insides of their homes but don't realize that their landscaping also benefits from updating and refreshing. Features Sat, 25 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119514 As a foodie, I am always looking for cookbooks and column ideas, and love to try regional foods in my travels. Features Sat, 25 May 2013 03:59:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119460 We have all experienced poor "functional flow." This is a loss of water pressure when turning on two plumbing fixtures at the same time. (Fixtures refer to anything that uses water, e.g. showers, sinks, toilets, etc.) Home inspectors are required to check functional flow. Features Fri, 24 May 2013 04:02:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119497 Children from Liberia and Peru who make up the Matsiko World Orphan Choir will be in Prescott for two performances on Wednesday, May 29. Features Fri, 24 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119478 American Lutheran ... Pastor Jack Shannon delivers the message "Sorry, Grandma, but Jesus Really Is God!" at the 8 and 10:30 a.m. traditional services in the sanctuary and the 9:15 a.m. and 5 p.m. contemporary service in the Fellowship Hall. Features Fri, 24 May 2013 03:57:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119457 The Town of Prescott Valley apparently has seen another sign of improvement in the economy with fewer property owners owing money to community facilities and other special districts. Features Fri, 24 May 2013 03:56:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119458 Q: My parents are thinking of relocating to Prescott. They are in their late 70s and do not want to move to a retirement community. What other options are there in the area? Features Fri, 24 May 2013 03:55:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119477 Two accomplished handbell choirs from Trinity United Presbyterian Church, Santa Ana, Calif., will appear in concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at American Lutheran Church. These two high school handbell choirs are auditioned groups that participate regularly in worship services at Trinity as well as tour annually. The Carillon handbell choir is a mix of first-time ringers and ringers continuing for junior high and currently ring with 12 ringers. The Chapel bell choir is an 11-member handbell choir with more experienced ringers. The concert is free and a free-will offering will be accepted, which will go toward the expenses of the bell choirs. For information, contact 445-4348. Features Fri, 24 May 2013 03:55:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119459 Arizona Public Service, which provides electricity service to western Yavapai County and to a total of 1.1 million customers statewide, is well prepared to meet demand during the summer, APS stated in a news release. Features Fri, 24 May 2013 03:54:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119496 Bagdad High School seniors Delcina Sandoval and Anna Webster became the inaugural recipients of the Carbajal Memorial Mining Scholarship established by the friends and family of Abelino Leon Carbajal Sr. during the school's annual Honors and Awards Convocation ceremony on May 21. Features Fri, 24 May 2013 03:53:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119446 The Westminster Concert Bell Choir, conducted by Kathleen Ebling Shaw, will perform at the American Lutheran Church in Prescott on Friday at 7 p.m. Features Thu, 23 May 2013 04:03:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119438 Over the last two weeks, I have either led or participated in four bird walks at the following locations: the Cottonwood Peninsula on the west side of Willow Lake, the Highlands Center, Watson Woods and Goldwater Lake. This has been a fantastic spring for birding! Features Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119420 HOLLYWOOD-God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama's job approval ratings held steady Monday in CNN's latest poll. The numbers split exactly along party lines. Fifty-three percent of Americans approve of the job Obama is doing as president while the other forty-seven percent are being audited. Features Thu, 23 May 2013 03:56:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119396 HOLLYWOOD-God bless America, and how's everybody? Cannes Film Festival got off to a rollicking start in France Saturday when red carpet interviews were interrupted by gunfire from a man in the crowd with a starter pistol. It was chaos. Order was restored when France surrendered to the guy with the starter pistol. Features Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119403 Making household cleaners can save a significant amount of money and give peace of mind because of the ability to control which ingredients and chemicals are in them. When Ross and I began researching recipes for cleaning supplies we had three requirements: The products should work well. They could only require common, easy-to-access ingredients. And, of course, they needed to save us money. Features Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119405 Animal Sheltering magazine is considered the gold standard for reliable information for people who care about the animals in their community - from humane society directors and city animal control managers to kennel staff, volunteers, and private individuals working as activists, breed rescuers, wildlife rehabbers, veterinarians, and more. Features Wed, 22 May 2013 03:59:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119362 The Daily Courier's Community Page on Tuesdays features "What is it, where is it?" - photographs from the local area that we encourage readers to figure out. Features Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119369 Lee Proper - a vintage veteran voyager of the Prescott "wars" who is aware of my nose for nostalgia - passed over to me a fistful of decades-old local newspapers earlier this month. Prompting the paper purge was his decision to rid his home of a lot of the "stuff" that he and his wife, Pat, had accumulated while living in the home for 40 years prior to her death in 2009. After all, the place has five bedrooms, and as its sole occupant Lee was starting to rattle around in it. Features Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119368 Senior Menus for the week of Monday, May 27 through Friday, May 31: Prescott Meals-on-Wheels serves from 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at 1280 E. Rosser Street, Prescott; 445-7630. Menus subject to change. Monday: Closed for Memorial Day Features Tue, 21 May 2013 03:59:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119370 OLLI turned 20 years old in 2013. Come help us celebrate! We are so excited about our accomplishments that we want to share our happiness with the entire community. Features Tue, 21 May 2013 03:59:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119376 Classes for the Taking (For fees and times, call the number provided.) "Wake up the healer in you" class, 133 Bradshaw Drive, #214, Prescott, 273-3837. A Good Yarn and Fiber Creek, 371 Garden St., Suite D, Prescott offers classes in knitting and crochet, wheel spinning and weaving, 717-1774; and beading with Kim (formerly from Bead It), 899-7675. Features Tue, 21 May 2013 03:58:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119341 The courthouse plaza will turn into an open-air gallery over Memorial Day weekend for the Phippen Museum 's 39th annual Western Art Show and Sale. Features Mon, 20 May 2013 04:02:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119335 USA Today reported Wednesday that liberal groups got a pass from the IRS as the IRS targeted GOP conservative groups. Hollywood took note. It appears that Lindsay Lohan was going to jail for tax evasion till she shrewdly changed her name to Obama for America. Features Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT http://dcourier.com/Main.asp?SectionID=74&SubSectionID=114&ArticleID=119342 Did you go to the prom? For most Americans, prom night is a landmark, a once (or twice) in a lifetime event that designates the ending of an era. High school days start coming to a close and, when it's all said and done, the prom is one shining moment of how good we were, how grand life could be, how young we were. Features Mon, 20 May 2013 03:55:00 GMT