February is Authors’ Month at Cave Creek Museum

January 27, 2010

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CAVE CREEK – Cave Creek Museum’s popular “Authors’ Month” returns in February! In honor of the Museum’s 40th Anniversary, the museum has lined up an exciting roster of renowned and local authors to speak and sign books each weekend in February. Delicious “Anniversary” cake and refreshments will be served after each program. The February event schedule follows:

Saturday, Feb. 6 from 2 – 3:30 p.m. – Author Clay Thompson
“Valley 101” Arizona Republic columnist Clay Thompson has made a living out of answering the strangest questions in the newsroom and snarking on some of the people who ask them. Thompson is author of The Valley 101 Cookbook: What Not to Eat, A Slightly Skewed Guide to Living in Arizona and The Great Big Book of Life.

Sunday, Feb. 7 from 10:30 a.m. – noon and 1:30 –3 p.m. – Author Conrad Storad
Award-winning author, and Valley resident, Conrad Storad inaugurates the Museum’s Children’s Author Series by reading and discussing his newly released book Rattlesnake Rules.

Admission to each “Authors’ Month” presentation is free. Cave Creek Museum is located at 6140 Skyline Drive. Call 480-488-2764 or visit www.cavecreekmuseum.org for more information and the complete February Author’s Month schedule.

Teen Motivational Workshop at Desert Foothills Library

Teaches techniques to boost happiness and lower stress?

CAVE CREEK – The Desert Foothills Library, 38443 N. School House Rd., is offering a free teen motivational workshop on Sunday, Jan. 30 at 1 p.m.

“Teen Essentials: Tools for Building a Stronger You” is presented by life skills coach Breon Michel. The interactive workshop offers proven techniques to boost happiness and lower stress. Teens will discuss important strategies with their peers for solving common problems and getting the most from their high school years.

Attendees will learn techniques for positive thinking, coping, strengthening relationships with peers and family and how to manage daily stress and still perform at their best.
Food and refreshments will be served.

RSVP is recommended by calling 480-488-2286.

Reptile Sanctuary earns State’s highest conservation honor

January 27, 2010

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PHOENIX – The Phoenix Herpetological Society (PHS), Maricopa County’s fastest growing reptile sanctuary and educational facility, has been named to receive the Arizona Game and Fish Commission’s most prestigious award for contributions to wildlife, habitats and conservation. This is the first time that the state has honored a reptile facility with this prestigious award.
PHS was honored with the Arizona Game and Fish Commissioner’s Award of Excellence at the agency’s annual Awards Banquet on Saturday, Jan. 16.

PHS, established in 2001, is a non-profit organization that promotes conservation and preservation of native and non-native reptiles through education, rehabilitation and relocation.

PHS has provided comfortable living spaces for its almost-800 snakes, lizards, tortoises and exotic reptiles – including alligators, crocodiles, water monitors, cobras, pythons, and other cold-blooded critters from all over the earth.

Onsite tours and outreach education programs for youth groups, schools, churches and business organizations can now be scheduled seven days a week. The PHS education program teaches the public what to do if they should encounter a snake, lizard or other reptile, and how to determine if it is venomous or non-venomous, and what to do in those circumstances.

Two-to-three-hour tours, which involve interaction with some of the sanctuary’s non-hazardous reptiles, can be scheduled at $10/person by calling 602-550-7029 or e-mailing
[email protected].

PHS provides a 24-hour/7 day a week hotline, 602-550-7029, for the benefit of Arizona Game and Fish and Police and Fire Departments. The hotline, which averages 20 calls per day, is also available during the day to the general public for information calls as well as when a reptile (rattlesnakes) is at residence and needs to be rescued and relocated.