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AROUND TOWN
CRAB & MERMAID DEBUTS NEW BYO MENU Crab & Mermaid Fish Shop has recently introduced tasty, new ‘build-your-own’ (BYO) menu items and weekly dining specials. The new menu features the largest and most diverse offerings of ‘BYO’ poke bowls, tacos and seaweed-wrapped rolls in Arizona. Tableside checklists offer lots of flavor options including shrimp, lobster and fish, always hand-cut, and proprietary seasonings and specially crafted sauces, such as a sesame soy vinaigrette. For more information, please visit CrabAndMermaid.com.
ARIZONA HELPING HANDS RECEIVES STERLING AWARD Arizona Helping Hands (“AHH”) was presented with the 2016 Sterling Award for Non-profits by the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce. The Sterling Awards celebrate the people and companies that make our community a great place to live, work and play. The Non-Profit category recognizes a 501(c)(3) organization that is making an impact on lives locally. For more information, please contact Dan Shufelt at 480.889.0604.
I.FLY TRAPEZE CLASSES RETURN TO THE PHOENICIAN Every
Tuesday
through from
Sunday now
until
April 30, 2017, these
APEX MOTOR CLUB COMING SOUTH OF PHOENIX
classes
Scottsdale-based Private Motorsports Group has secured
will be at the resort’s
280-acres in the City of Maricopa to develop the future home of
recreational
center,
the Southwest’s premier motorsports country club. Designed by
known as The Park,
Bob Barnard of Motorsports Service International, constructed by
next to the Tennis
Phoenix-based LGE, and backed by some of the biggest names in
Garden. Under the
Arizona’s car world, Apex Motor Club will have all of the amenities
guidance
high-flying
I.FLY
of a luxury country club that racing enthusiasts demand. In addi-
partici-
tion to the up to four-mile multi-configuration asphalt road course,
pants will learn timing and techniques for swinging, locking their legs
Apex will feature a 12,000 square foot clubhouse containing indoor
on a bar and completing the celebrated wrist-to-wrist catch. Each
and outdoor dining rooms, a fitness center and much more. For more
session is offered to individuals four years of age and older. Group
information, please visit ApexMotorClub.com.
instructors,
of
packages and workshops are available. For reservations, please call 480.599.2345 or visit IFlyTrapeze.com.
DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN BREAKS GROUND ON NEW BUTTERFLY EXHIBIT
PARADISE VALLEY AUTHOR DEBUTS NEW NOVEL Debut author Jeanne Burrows-Johnson draws on a multi-faceted background in the performing arts, education and marketing to com-
The Desert Botanical Garden is pleased to announce that it has
pose novels such as Prospect for Murder: A Natalie Seachrist Mystery.
recently broken ground on a new, expanded butterfly exhibit. Opening
The well-researched elements of her Natalie Seachrist mystery series
in March 2017, the new Butterfly Pavilion will be located on the Harriet
invite the reader and listener into the sensory rich environs of Hawaii,
K. Maxwell Desert Wildflower Loop Trail and will feature hundreds of live
where she lived for over twenty years. Like her heroine, she and her
butterflies, as well as a caterpillar nursery and emergence chamber. The
husband enjoy feline companionship in an environment featuring
Garden’s newest exhibit will provide visitors an opportunity for up close
dynamic skies, landscapes and characters. For more information,
interaction with butterflies while learning about their role as pollinators,
please visit JeanneBurrows-Johnson.com.
characteristics of the butterfly in different lifecycles, and conservation efforts to protect them. For more information, please visit DBG.org.
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Paradise Valley Lifestyle | January 2017