#Sahuaro Ranch

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Sahuaro Ranch, Glendale, Arizona.

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Experience Historic Charm and Natural Beauty at Sahuaro Ranch Park in Glendale, AZ

Nestled in the heart of Glendale, AZ, Sahuaro Ranch Park offers a captivating blend of historical charm and scenic beauty. This unique park, rich in history, invites visitors to explore its well-preserved buildings, lush gardens, and diverse wildlife. Whether you're a history buff, nature enthusiast, or just seeking a peaceful retreat, Sahuaro Ranch Park promises an unforgettable experience.

A Journey Through History

Visiting Sahuaro Ranch Park is like stepping back in time. The park showcases historic buildings from the late 1800s, providing a fascinating glimpse into Glendale's agricultural heritage. As you wander through the grounds, you'll encounter the original farmhouse, barns, and other outbuildings, all meticulously preserved. Informative plaques and guided tours offer intriguing insights into the lives of early settlers and the ranch's significance in the area's development.

Scenic Gardens and Lush Landscapes

Beyond its historical structures, Sahuaro Ranch Park is known for its beautifully maintained gardens. These gardens, vibrant with color and fragrant blooms year-round, are a feast for the senses. The rose garden is a standout, with a variety of roses creating a picturesque setting for leisurely strolls or quiet reflection. Shaded pathways meander through the park, offering serene spots to relax and take in the natural beauty. The lush landscapes provide a perfect backdrop for photography enthusiasts eager to capture the park's scenic charm.

Wildlife and Outdoor Activities

Nature lovers will be enchanted by the diverse wildlife at Sahuaro Ranch Park. Peacocks roam freely, adding a touch of exotic beauty. Birdwatchers can spot various bird species that make their home here, making it a prime location for avian enthusiasts. The park also boasts spacious picnic areas and open fields, ideal for family gatherings, picnics, and outdoor games. For those looking to stay active, the park's walking trails offer a great way to explore the natural surroundings while getting some exercise.

Events and Community Engagement

Sahuaro Ranch Park is not just a historical site; it’s a vibrant community hub. Throughout the year, the park hosts a variety of events, including historical reenactments, cultural festivals, and farmers’ markets. These events offer wonderful opportunities to engage with the local community and learn more about Glendale's rich heritage.

Visiting Sahuaro Ranch Park in Glendale, AZ, is a delightful experience that intertwines history, nature, and community. Whether you're exploring historic buildings, enjoying the scenic gardens, observing the wildlife, or participating in community events, the park has something to offer everyone.

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Ballet Under the Stars 2023

https://ift.tt/Gw4Ne75 Ballet Under The Stars Returns To Sahuaro Ranch Park September 06, 2023 at 10:38AM

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Top Picnic Spots In  In Glendale, AZ  85308

To locate the city called Glendale, head to Arizona, United States of America. The major sectors of Glendale’s  diverse economy include defense, financial services, telecommunications, transportation, and information technology. The city features a lot of beautiful picnic spots any of which you can choose to visit. Are you planning to visit Glendale with your friends? Then, you shouldn’t hesitate to check out the top picnic spots in the city. Below are the top picnic spots in Glendale:

Glendale Heroes Regional Park: Drive to 83 W Bethany Home Rd, Glendale, AZ 85303, United States, there, you will set your eyes on the beautiful view of this fantastic picnic spot. The Glendale Heroes Regional Park is an 81-acre park featuring a variety of amenities. It offers playgrounds, water play area, skate & BMX facility, picnicking, basketball & more. It features a cool and calm atmosphere that’s perfect for relaxing and reading novels.

Grand Canal Linear Park: Grand Canal Linear Park is a great park for walking, horseback riding and biking. It is roughly 3-1/4 miles of trail that runs along the Grand Canal. It has a paved, lighted trail with wonderful landscaping throughout and crosses the canal several times. This park is a great trail park that links to the Glendale Heroes Regional Park and State Farm Stadium and Westgate.

Sahuaro Ranch Park: It offers children of all ages several playground choices and a great experience. This park is unique with its historic ranch buildings and its recreational park areas. Visitors can picnic, play on the playgrounds, smell the roses, view peacocks, tour the old ranch grounds and  play a ball game. It is located at 9802 59th Ave, Glendale, AZ 85302 , United States.

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Glendale, Arizona has an unusual group of patrons hanging around their entrance and even sitting on their benches. Peafowl, aka as peacocks and peahens, have taken roost! And for this species of pheasants, the men are easy to tell apart. They have the fancy tails and do a dance to get a woman interested. Oh, to be a peahen in my next life!

  The peafowl gang technically lives in the historic Sahuaro ranch park next door. According to a friendly librarian, they prefer hanging around the grounds of the library. Cultural birds!

  Glendale’s main library has many unique gardens open to the public around the building that promotes Xeriscape water-efficient landscaping. The areas include a garden habitat, a cactus garden, tree and serpentine trails, and more.

  A 44-mile canal was built in 1885 bringing irrigation and much-needed water for the desert homesteaders. The Sahuaro ranch park is a fascinating look at what life was like in the late 1800s on a 2000-acre ranch. The city bought 80 acres of the ranch in 1977 including 13 historic buildings, a rose garden, barnyard, and orchards.

  Below, I’m posing with a Spineless Yucca since my childhood nickname was Yucca Marie. As a New Years Resolution, I’ll try to follow their sensible advice.

  Karen Stensgaard is the author of the novel AQUAVIT, the first book in the Aquamarine Sea Series. Her second novel, BLUENESS, is now on Amazon and being processed by other booksellers. Check out what BLUENESS is about and free chapters here: Amazon link.

BLUENESS, like AQUAVIT, will be available as a paperback from Amazon and Ingram Spark and as an ebook from almost everyone else. Libraries receive free access via Overdrive.

Libraries Round the World: Where Peafowl Roam! The Glendale Public Library in Arizona has some unusual patrons hanging around. Glendale, Arizona has an unusual group of patrons hanging around their entrance and even sitting on their benches.

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Ballet under the Stars atSahuaro Ranch Park in Glendale, Az on 20210930. #ballet #dancephotography #palmtrees @greycoopre #sq1photography (at Sahuaro Ranch) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjJks2PP3IG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Swaying palm trees in December at the Sahuaro Ranch, Glendale, Arizona😍

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Fun little photo shoot with @kggoodenberger . Mom needed a new headshot. (at Sahuaro Ranch) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEn3Z3nn2lW/?igshid=1atit4s02mzey

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Something something jokes about Italians showing #love for tomato sauce. (at Sahuaro Ranch Park Historic Area) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuWs_ktnOOU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4spui3u3krk1

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New story in Politics from Time: ‘It’s About Standing Up for What’s Right.’ How Hundreds of Teachers Running for Office Are Putting a Jolt in the Midterms

Last September, school speech therapist Kathy Hoffman was settling into the new academic year, working with youngsters in her small classroom behind a playground at Sahuaro Ranch Elementary School in a blue-collar neighborhood outside Phoenix.

This year, the political novice is gone from her classroom and on the campaign trail across Arizona full-time as the Democrats’ choice in the race to become superintendent of public education, overseeing the state’s schools. It’s a post typically held by career politicians or political insiders.

“My tipping point was realizing we need more teachers running for office, people who understand what it’s like in the classroom, who have seen the effect of having the lack of resources from our lawmakers,” Hoffman said.

Hundreds of current and former educators, most of them Democrats like Hoffman, are on general election ballots from school board to governor — far exceeding educator candidacies prior to this year’s #RedForEd protests.

In her first campaign during the Democratic primary, the 32-year-old Hoffman beat a former state senate minority leader, illustrating how much a surge in teacher activism centering on higher teacher pay and increased educational funding have shaken up November midterm elections around the U.S.

She and the other teacher candidates represent a wild-card political movement following the teacher-driven #RedForEd effort that drew support from parents and school children in Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, Oklahoma and West Virginia and also focused on outdated textbooks, crowded classrooms and teacher shortages. Across the country, some educators have already won primary races against the incumbent state legislators they blamed for public school spending cutbacks.

“It’s about standing up for what’s right and bringing that teacher’s voice to that position,” Hoffman said. “I felt it should come straight from the classroom.”

After years of dense education debates over teacher evaluations and the Common Core learning standards, the new teacher candidates’ simplified message for higher pay and more funding for schools represent “talking points (that) are resonating,” said Frederick Hess, director of education policy at the conservative American Enterprise Institute public policy think tank.

“What we might be seeing is the emergence of a number of individuals who will be an elected mainstream set of advocates for these teacher issues,” he said.

In the state senate races in Maine and Minnesota, teacher candidates could help flip state legislatures to Democratic control, according to Mara Sloan, spokeswoman for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. She said her group knows of 650 educators running for state legislative positions across the country this year and that more than 450 are Democrats.

In Kentucky, at least 34 current and former teachers are on the ballot in the general election for seats in the state legislature, 29 of them Democrats. In Connecticut, former National Teacher of the Year Jahana Hayes won the Democratic primary for a U.S. House seat. The Oklahoma Education Association said 55 educators are running in the general election for the state legislature.

As for the Republicans, Oklahoma City assistant school principal Sherrie Conley upset three-term incumbent state lawmaker Bobby Cleveland in a primary runoff election. Cleveland is one of six Republican state House members in Oklahoma who lost their jobs after voting against a tax hike used to fund a teacher pay raise.

Experts say it’s too soon to say what sort impact the teacher candidates may have on policy if elected. Republican State Leadership Committee communications director David James accused teacher unions of fielding Democratic candidates who would use “their education platforms to defend a Bolshevik monopoly, that turns to the Prussian model of classroom teaching, rather than new innovative techniques.”

He also said “Republicans have a sizable force of educators that will win this cycle.”

Hoffman said she decided to run out of a feeling that too many education decision-makers don’t understand how public schools work. She was dismayed with the confirmation hearing of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who stumbled over questions about students with disabilities.

Hoffman became more politicized after Arizona state lawmakers refused to grant the same 20 percent raises Arizona teachers got to school support staff and a decision by the state’s outgoing education chief, Diane Douglas, to support an ethnic studies ban that a federal judge ruled was discriminatory. Douglas ended up finishing third in a five-way Republican primary.

“That’s when I realized it’s not how many offices you’ve run for and how many political campaigns you’ve had,” Hoffman said.

She calls her opponent, Frank Riggs, one of the “establishment politicians” who have put the state’s schools in crisis. Riggs is a three-term Republican California U.S. congressman who was the CEO of a nonprofit company that helps charter schools with financing and is the founding president of an online K-12 Arizona charter school.

He has criticized Hoffman for being “inexperienced and extreme” and has said she holds “radical views.” In an interview, the 68-year-old Riggs called Hoffman “a very nice young person” who is dedicated to education but said she has limited teaching experience and no leadership credentials.

“The job involves high-level executive leadership. It requires a deep knowledge of education policies and practices at the local, state and federal level,” Riggs said. “And to be a credible advocate as our state’s chief K-12 officer, it requires a degree of legislative and political expertise, which I certainly feel I have as a former member of Congress.”

Hoffman said getting her campaign going was like starting a new company. Her campaign workers in the primary were all under 40 and one was an Arizona #RedForEd protest leader. She had to learn about branding, logos, messaging and hone her public speaking and networking skills.

“Every little piece of that had to come together, and I know I’ve grown so much professionally and personally from this experience,” she said.

But candidates like Hoffman in states like Arizona that lean Republican must not only get votes from Democrats, but also Republicans or independents. And they are dependent on voters who are still thinking about public education as a key issue in November — months after the #RedForEd protests demonstrations captured national attention.

“Even if the moment is ripe and even if the message resonates, and even if there is concern about the state of public education in these states, these candidates for the most part, are still going to have to overcome the partisan disadvantage that they face at the ballot box,” said Patrick McGuinn, a political science and education professor at Drew University in New Jersey.

By Carolyn Thompson / AP on October 03, 2018 at 11:11AM

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GPM members were appreciated at the 2018 Spring Member Appreciation Day at Sahuaro Ranch Park in Glendale on April 15th. See the slide show HERE.

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