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To Kin (Desmond) Siu, music has always been about bringing people together. He started playing violin when he was around eight or nine. His elementary school friends were taking lessons and encouraged him to join them….
Community Leader Profile: Cheryl Barron Community Leader Profile: Richard Sidy Community Leader Profile: Michele Sullins
Michele Sullins is one of Sedona’s major players in the retail and restaurant space. She’s the former owner of Sound Bites Grill and The View Coffee Café, businesses she recently sold. Michele is the current owner…
Educator Richard Sidy (pronounced like “city”) taught for close to 40 years. He started his career in Los Angeles before he and his wife moved to Sedona in 1982. He taught at his own private school,…
Cheryl Barron is a true veteran of the hospitality industry. She started her career in Denver in 1983, where she learned the ins and outs of the hotel business. During her decades in hospitality, she has…
After 42 years of working in education, Sedona resident Connie Tate started a new career as a children’s book author. She fell in love with reading at a young age. “I can still remember that feeling…
Heather Feher has worked in arguably some of the world’s best kitchens, but did not grow up in a food-centric home. She didn’t fall in love with food until she moved to New Orleans for art…
For a chef with decades of experience and four of Sedona’s most prominent restaurant under his management, Mercer Mohr knows that the key to success is not being complacent. “I pride myself on trying to stay…
Manzanita Outreach started out as an organization in 2011 as a mission of the Verde Valley Christian Church. The nonprofit initially focused on large scale, meal-packing events and sent food down to Haiti following the 2010…
Jonathan Lutz is a self-described water person and a fly fisherman who grew up in western New York appreciating the wilderness. “Conservation to me is really critical. I grew up as a naturalist in the country,”…
Annie Glickstein grew up loving the great outdoors. “Horses, dogs, being out by the ocean. I just I’m an outdoors person,” says Annie. “Anything outdoors was me.” She even met her husband on a camping trip…
Arizona native Nancy Steele fell in love with biology as a young person. But as she was working on her master’s degree, she realized she didn’t want to work in that field. She was debating between…
