THE GREEN VALLEY COMMUNITY DIRECTORY
Now in its 40th year of sponsorship by the Green Valley Community Coordinating Council, the Green Valley Community Directory has been a fixture in Green Valley and surrounding communities. Through a contract with AT&T Advertising and Publishing, the Directory is the major revenue stream for the Council, providing almost two-thirds of the Council’s operating income.
Directory activity comes to its climax each February when over 350 volunteers distribute over 31,000 Directories to the area’s residents, businesses, assisted living facilities and houses of worship. (Four thousand additional Directories are distributed throughout the year to new residents and businesses, winter visitors, and to individuals wanting additional Directories.) Work on the Directory is a yearlong project. Volunteers work all year to provide updated information for the Directory. Processed for the 2010 Directory were 1494 additions, changes and deletions to residential listings: 501 additions; 543 changes; and 450 deletions. Since Green Valley is still growing, GVC staffer, Susan Jones, updates the map and that information is forwarded to the cartographer. Each of the 250 plus entries in the “Clubs and Organizations” section is contacted for updated information. Likewise, all of the entries in the Community Information Pages are reviewed and updated for each new edition of the Directory.
Another yearlong activity is the Directory Cover Contest. Each spring, after the Directory is distributed, the theme for the following year’s Directory is announced. Flyers and other advertisements are distributed to the Camera and Computer Clubs, GVR facilities and interested individuals. Entries are due in early October and the winner is announced in late October. In honor of the Arizona Centennial and our area’s I-19 Corridor project, there will not be a cover contest for the 2012 Directory. The Green Valley Community Coordinating Council is very proud of the Community Directory. The Directory provides a common frame of reference for our community and a service for the thousands of greater Green Valley residents and businesses.
If you need to make changes to your listing or would simply like another copy of the Directory, just stop by our office. We will be happy to help you. And, now you can add, change or delete your listing by using our online Directory Application.
PAST DIRECTORY COVERS
Please scroll down to view covers from past years.
Year: 2010
Theme: Flowers
Artist: Joyce Harrison
Media Digital Photography
Artist Comment: Friday, April 24, 2009, 6:50 a.m. Digital photography is wonderful; among many other things it gives you the exact time and date of your photograph! This was a glorious spring – many plants were blooming more than once! Even though I’ve lived here in Green Valley for six years I still get excited about the cactus blossoms every year. Many friends are kind enough to tell me when they spot a particularly beautiful bloom and a plant ready to blossom. I get out there early in the morning, that’s the best time as they are relatively short lived, and shoot away! I use a Nikon digital SLR and PhotoShop Elements to edit my work. I make prints and cards for family and friends.
Year: 2009
Theme: Arizona State Mammal
Artist: James Hammel
Media Photography
Artist Comment: Mid-morning last Spring a neighbor discovered an unusual animal in a tree in her front yard at La Posada. With my Olympus C-3020 digital camera I took several shots of this Ringtail. At the time I thought it was a Codimundi but upon a little research I discovered it to be a Ringtail cat. The Ringtail is also known as a “miner’s cat” as its body resembles a cat with the prominent dark, round eyes of a cat and a long, bushy tail with white and black rings. It is very unusual to find one in the mid-morning as it is a nocturnal animal and dwells in rocky areas. Because Arizona has many, many mountainous areas in which it can abide, the Ringtail was selected as the Arizona State mammal.
The animal posed from the tree but always faced away from the sun so the photo was flashed and taken into the sun. It was a real thrill to take such a picture and even more when we learned just what it was as we never have seen a Ringtail before.
Year: 2008
Theme: Green Valley—A Rainbow of Possibilities
Artist: Nancy Martin
Media: Photography
Artist Comment:
It was a spectacular sight and an exciting experience to see and photograph this beautiful rainbow scene within a block of my Continental Vistas home in Green Valley!
One September afternoon, after spotting this rainbow, I had quickly taken 13 previous shots down the street and from my patio. When I saw this composition with the Arizona Bird of Paradise and the Santa Rita Mountains, I slowed down, and knew this photo-op had waited for me to arrive. Rainbows create feelings of awe and wonder for most of us. This one created a feeling of gratitude as well. Capturing this special combination right where we live reminded me that what we seek is often at hand.
My camera is a pocket sized digital Casio EX-Z750, 7.2 megapixel, with 3X optical zoom that was used on this shot. The shutter speed was 1/100,
F-stop 7.4. The setting I used was Best Shot/Scenery…that made it easy.
Year: 2007
Theme: Pads, Paws & Claws
Artist: Bob Martin
Media: Photography
Artist Comment:
One of the first lessons you learn at the Green Valley Camera Club is to always have your camera at the ready. So when my neighbor called me one morning and said there were three Bobcat Kittens on his patio, I grabbed my Canon Rebel digital camera with a 100/400 zoom lens. When I went out, two of the kittens had come on to my patio. They started playing, paying no attention to me. I started shooting and in the next 15 minutes, took 42 pictures. I never saw the third kitten or Mom. They then went off into the brush and were gone.
Year: 2006
Theme: For Spacious Skies
Artist: Norita Nickerson
Media: Photography
Artist Comments: How fantastic is an Arizona sunset?
The Tumacacori mountains set off the bright palette of our spacious skies, filling the lens and the soul with color and brilliance. Just south of Green Valley, these peaks often frame a wonderful sunset.
I used a Fugi Finepix 2400 for this, appreciation the immediacy of a digital camera for review. I’ve shot thousands of pictures with this camera since our grandson was born (the catalyst for the purchase!). Every cactus that blooms within range gets its picture taken, as well as any sunrise that shows color. And our walks with Maggie, my collie, often turn up interesting subjects. What a wonderful place to live!
Year: 2005
Theme: How Green Is My Valley
Artist: Joyce Harrison
Media: Photography
Artist Comments: My picture for the directory was taken in September 2003, our first year here in Green Valley. Elephant Head has epitomized Green Valley to me and I have taken many pictures, this being my favorite. I have used it on many greeting cards. I am pleased to have it chosen for the cover.
I used my Olympus C2500L Camera for this shot. I also use Adobe Photoshop7, a computer program, for digital enhancement.
Year: 2004
Theme: Magnificent Southwest
Artist: Ruth Huking
Media: Computer Art
Artist Comments: My picture for the Directory Cover was drawn/painted in the computer using Corel PhotoPaint. I used a Wacom digital tablet and a stylus pen. The pen is my “brush”, but I have the choice of many tips in the computer. My paint program also has a palette and I can make a custom color when I need. I started working with Corel in 1993. There is a bit of a learning curve in this program!
This picture is all imaginary. I am able to work on layers in the computer so pieces in this picture can be moved around. The best part about painting in the computer is that there is no mess to clean up.
I am very pleased to have been chosen this year’s winner.
Year: 2003
Theme: Natural Beauty of Green Valley
Artist: Walter Heilman
Media: Photography
Artist Comments: Agave plants, which abound in Green Valley surroundings, display their glorious bloom stalks only once—in the last year of life. One variety native to southeast Arizona and northern Mexico, the Agave parryi huachucensis shown here, has arguably the most colorful flowers of the species. Beginning with buds of deep pink, the florets change to a golden yellow when at their peak.
As I was composing the image in my view finder, I noticed a bird flying onto one of the bloom stalk branches. How rewarding an experience to have a colorful Hooded Oriole to complement this scene of natural beauty!
Year: 2002
Theme: Green Valley Is My Home
Artist: Tom Allen
Media: Watercolor
Artist Comments: It is impossible for an artist to visit Green Valley and not paint the beautiful Santa Rita Mountains and cacti. An adobe house set in this Garden of Eden seemed appropriate. How fortunate we are to live or visit in this place. I truly enjoy portraying Green Valley in watercolor. This painting was done in February 2000 on my first visit to the area.
A resident of Corvallis, Oregon, Tom Allen painted his first watercolors when he was in the third grade, and sold his first paintings as a high school student. He continued his artistic endeavors throughout his career as a professor in agriculture. He has been an art instructor at various community colleges in Oregon and was artist-in-residence at Yellowstone National Park in 1992. He is currently giving frequent workshops.
Tom is one of the founding members of the Watercolor Society of Oregon and has received many awards for his paintings. His watercolors are hanging in galleries and private collections around the country. “I prefer to work in watercolors and acrylics,” he says, “because of their speed of statement, before the inspiration has dimmed.”
Year: 2001
Theme: A New Beginning
Artist: Walter Heilman & Don Spear
Media: Computer Enhanced Photography
Artist Comments: The photograph by Walter Heilman was taken at the Valley Presbyterian Church in Green Valley just days before the young owlets left the nest. He used a Canon T-90 single lens reflex 35 mm camera with a Tokina 75-225 mm telephone zoom lens and Kodak Gold ASA 800 print film.
Color enhancement by Don Spear was accomplished with a Minolta Dimage Multi film scanner, a Macintosh Power Mac G4 500 Mhz computer and Photoshop V. 5.5 software.
Year: 2000
Theme: Volunteerism
Artist: Ted Ross
Media: Photography
Artist Comments: Green Valley should be called the “Community of Volunteers.” When there is an opportunity to help a worthwhile cause, people line up to offer assistance, with no thought of compensation, other than the sheer joy of making someone else’s life a little better. My goal was to honor the thousands of volunteers through a photo collage on the front of the Green Valley 2000 Community Directory. But space and time constraints caused us to limit the number of organizations that could appear on the cover. I humbly offer this collage as a tribute to all of the selfless people who are there to help and all of the organizations that offer the leadership to make it happen.