What's
New
Music
in the Canyon
Saturday March 13 from 12 noon to 6:00 pm
Come out and enjoy a beautiful day in Sabino Canyon! Lace on your sneakers, slather on the sunscreen and bring the whole family!
Featuring
- An array of talented musicians performing Native American Dance and Music, Calypso, Mariachi, Jazz, Western, Blues and everything in between
- Tasty food and drink from local vendors
- An expanded children's area with ongoing fun activities throughout the day
- A raffle with prizes from local businesses, including Canyon Ranch and Ventana Canyon.
Money raised at the event goes to Friends of Sabino Canyon, working to preserve, protect and enhance Sabino Canyon.
Suggested Donation: $5 per person or $10 per family
Food, drinks and raffle tickets will also be available for purchase
Location: In Sabino Canyon, 1/2 a mile up the main road, you can't miss it.
Check
back here for more info as it becomes available
New
Donor Recognition Program
Friends
of Sabino Canyon unveils the new Donor Recognition Program
in December. Click below to see an advance copy
of the brochure.
Donor
Recognition Program
From
the President's Messy Desk. 10/18/09
Mission
accomplished. I have crawled out from under my three
week excursion in the wilderness to find the world still
turning and bills still having to be paid. It started
out as a pursuit for my quarry with my bow and arrow
set, but I knew it would end up being far more than
that. The thing with the outdoors is you have no control
of you perception of the outcome. I hiked Sabino Canyon
for months in preparation for the physical challenges
that could lie ahead of me. Off I went, just like I
often do. Alone, 8500 feet in elevation, surprisingly
cold coming from the desert floor, I began to take it
all in. There was the coyote pack that I ran into that
set me back a bit. They would play in the woods without
any knowledge of me being the inquisitive observer and
I couldn't help but think how they scratch and claw
to survive and yet have time for play. I ask myself
if I do enough playing, or is my life tougher than theirs?
At times I would almost have to reveal myself, as wildlife
would almost run me over. Dave was starting to become
one with nature. Then there was the mouse. It was late,
after a very challenging trek, that this mouse came
a squeaking. Well, I would coax him from behind the
shadows and share my peanuts. Then I thought, my camp
is always pretty clean but he has been coming around
for the last two weeks making sure there weren't any
leftovers. This, from an animal that most likely, has
never seen a human being before, dang. I ate like a
horse and lost 15 pounds. My point is, this is why we
come to Sabino Canyon, we become one with the canyon
and the wild around and in us. There has been many times
in my life that I would be strolling through the canyon
and wham, it hits me. Some big business issue, family
issue, something, and then, clarity. The writing is
on the wall. No, it may not be a three-week wilderness
hike but it's the contact with nature, friends, a thought
we just couldn't bring to the forefront. Yes, that's
our charge as Friends of Sabino Canyon. Small, tall,
old, black, white, handicapped, when you and I are dead
and gone, our loved ones can feel this connection. This
connection that feels so fleeting to us, and no doubt,
more fleeting for future generations. That, some day
in the future, our decedents will see their lives just
a bit more clearly in the canyon walls.
Dave
Bushell
President,
Friends of Sabino Canyon
P.S.
I miss that little mouse.
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