by Lynne LaMaster

Madam Minister Marisol Argueta de Barillas, who serves as the El Salvador Minister of Foreign Affairs, will visit Prescott in February.

The role of the Minister of Foreign Affairs is very much like the role of Secretary of State in the United States. Madam Minister Argueta de Barillas took office as the Minister of Foreign Affairs a little over a year ago, on January 16, 2008. She is a Salvadoran lawyer and a career diplomat; and has studied at the University of Oxford, England, New York University, the International Peace Academy and at Harvard.

With all of that, it’s not surprising to note that she speaks fluent Spanish and English, and intermediate French.

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Jan. 27, 2008

The Yavapai County Attorney’s Office began receiving complaints about employers hiring illegal workers in violation of the state’s new employer sanctions law.

Jan. 27, 2004

Arizona Public Service estimated it would cost $34 million to cut down all the dead pine trees along its electrical powers lines in Arizona.

Jan. 27, 1999

The Board of Supervisors took a major step toward cooperation between eastern and western Yavapai County with the formation of a new water advisory committee.

Jan. 27, 1984

Chino Valley Mayor Sam Green instructed Town Manager Cathie Rodman to investigate an allegation that the town road crew built a road encroaching Yavapai County’s jurisdiction without the council’s knowledge or consent.

Jan. 27, 1959

“Dr. Kenneth B. Babcock, director, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, has advised Paul Schmoll, Whipple manager, that the board of the Joint Commission on Accreditation has approved Whipple for accreditation as a result of an evaluation of the hospital on Dec. 12, 1958, by Dr. Harold Kazmann, a field representative of the commission.”

Jan. 27, 1934

“Yavapai County is one of the four superior courts in which the state banking department has filed a total of 25 suits against stockholders of the defunct Arizona bank to recover stockholders’ liabilities amounting to $215,000.”

Jan. 27, 1909

“The junior class of the Prescott High School will present J. Palgrave Simpson’s well-known play of ‘A Scrap of Paper’ at the High School Auditorium on Saturday evening, Jan. 30, at 8:15 o’clock.”

Jan. 27, 1880s

“All the Mexicans heretofore employed on the Southern Pacific have been discharged. Chinamen have been put in their place.”

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Horses with H.E.A.R.T. will host its sixth annual bowl-a-thon - a “sweet event” taking place on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, Feb. 14, at Antelope Lanes in Prescott Valley.

Registration starts at 11 a.m. and bowling will begin at noon, according to a press release. The cost is $25 per person for three games, shoes and snacks.

The organization needs individual bowlers, teams and/or sponsors for the event. There will be prizes for the most sponsorship money collected by an adult and child. A silent auction will be available, as well as a raffle for a Nintendo Wii including a Wii Fit game.

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January 26, 2009

by Ken Hedler

PRESCOTT VALLEY - Ten or more households with modest incomes here will benefit from a home repair program.

The Arizona Department of Housing Tuesday awarded the town a $275,0000 grant, Community Services Manager Al Sengstock said.

Kristina Fretwell, legislative liaison for the department, confirmed the award of the grant, which contains $25,000 to cover administrative costs.

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January 26, 2009

By Joanna Dodder Nellans, The Daily CourierPRESCOTT - Members of Yavapai County’s new state centennial committee had no trouble coming up with a wide range of ideas Monday to celebrate statehood’s 100th birthday in 2012.

The commission’s nine members met for the first time Monday at the county government offices in Prescott. The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors appointed three people from each supervisor district.

Committee Coordinator Bev Staddon already did quite a bit of work before Monday’s meeting, including a list of local websites and books.

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Monday, January 26, 2009-By Cindy BarksPRESCOTT - The sluggish building economy finally has yielded some good news for the city road budget.

After months of watching declining revenues exacerbate a shortfall in Prescott’s streets/open space sales tax fund, city officials learned this week that the competitive market likely would result in millions of dollars in savings for the Highway 89A/Side Road interchange.

More than a dozen people representing contracting firms, the city, and the Arizona Department of Transportation gathered at the Prescott offices of Fann Contracting on Monday morning for the interchange bid opening.

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SEDONA, Ariz. (Jan. 22, 2009): From “Little Miss Dewie: A Duckumentary” to a new film starring Jane Seymour and James Keach to a documentary featuring a behind-the-scenes look at Warner Brothers, the 15th annual Sedona International Film Festival will offer a diverse selection of features, documentaries, shorts and foreign films from Sunday, Feb. 22 to Sunday, March 1.A team of 30 screeners has officially announced its selection of the final 140 films to be shown on six screens at the Harkins Sedona 6 Theatres and at Sedona Red Rock High School, where additional screenings of the most popular films will be scheduled during the week.

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The Prescott Astronomy Club, (PAC) has always been a forerunner in the area of getting science information out to the general public, but this year is special. The club has received the rights to screen the documentary, “400 Years of the Telescope: A Journey through Science, Technology & Thought” at the Elks Opera House on March 8th, which is before the programs national air date on PBS.Asked about this coup, PAC President Patrick Birck said in an email, “Fr. Chris Corbally, a Jesuit priest and astronomer at the Vatican Observatory in Tucson, has been a regular presenter at PAC events and is a close friend of the Prescott Astronomy Club. He was instrumental in the production of the “400 Years of Astronomy” video. He offered to send up a copy of the video and he encouraged us to show the video at a variety of events, which we will do beginning with its showing at the Elk’s Opera House on Sunday, March 8.”

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