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Keep Sedona Beautiful Urges Caution, Thoughtful Deliberation
Regarding Cottonwood’s Proposed Annexation of State Trust Land

The KSB Board of Trustees recently approved the following statement:

Keep Sedona Beautiful (KSB) urges the City of Cottonwood to take whatever time is necessary for full public consideration of its proposal to annex 10 square miles of state trust land northeast of the city. Among critical issues that must be addressed by Cottonwood, along with its Verde Valley and Prescott Valley neighbors are:

• Water sources, especially the impact on groundwater supplies and the Verde River
• Environmental impact, including potential pollution and congestion
• Effects on open spaces and the surrounding natural scenic area
• Sustainability issues associated with the possible addition of about 50,000 residents to the area

KSB encourages Cottonwood to embrace its standing as a good neighbor in the Verde Valley by collaborating with all stakeholders, including those outside of the city who may be affected by this transaction. Cottonwood’s hasty advancement of this proposal highlights the potential perils of state land trust annexations, as well as the need to protect and preserve natural scenic areas in Red Rock Country.

It takes volunteers to make things happen, and Keep Sedona Beautiful operates entirely on volunteer service. People work on the garden project, people volunteer to write news, and people volunteer to direct traffic for events. The Native plant Workshop is all volunteer staffed.

Bell Rock, Sedona AZ

People volunteer for many reasons. What is the ingredient that makes people volunteer for anything? We believe it comes from  a sense of caring. A sense of wanting to contribute to improve. To become a part of something worthwhile. To invest one’s self in something meaningful. A sense of wanting to make a difference.

We’re always looking for like-minded volunteers to join us in our many projects:

• Annual Awards
• Preserving our Wondrous Starlit Skies
• Environmental Workshops
• Land Preservation Task Force
• Landscape Design
• Litter Lifter Program
• Litter Prevention Promotion
• National Scenic Area Designation
• Native Plant Workshop
• Noise Abatement
• “Capture the Wonder” Photo Contest
• Scholarships
• Speaker Series
• Water Conservation

If you can give your community the gift of your time and talent, please contact Wendy in the Keep Sedona Beautiful office at 928.282.4938.

The wonder of Sedona as captured by the 2007 and 2008 Capture the Wonder photo contest entries provides the powerful images that are combined with a haunting sound track to complete your visual journey.

Keep Sedona Beautiful now has a YouTube channel!

Hear Ann Kirkpatrick  discuss the National Scenic Area designation  Saturday May 30, 2009 at The Lodge at Cliff  Castle Casino from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30.

Please RSVP by May 26th to Sam Frank: 928-830-8499, or sfrank@azwild.org.

With this opportunity, what will you ask her?

If you haven’t already read the editorial regarding the National Scenic Area in the May 15th 2009 issue of the Red Rock News, please read it.

I’m wondering what your reaction is and what you think ? Keep Sedona Beautiful has always stood for integrity and truth in its pursuit of Preserving the Wonder™ of Sedona.