February 6, 2012

Meeting Notes – January 25, 2012

The Featured Speaker this week was our newest member Christopher Wales of Sir Moves A Lot. “Sir Moves A Lot has been proudly serving the Verde Valley since 2004 with transportation related services, focusing on three main classes: Moving & Delivery, Disposal & Transfer Station and Curb Appeal & Hauling.” As a licensed and insured in-state mover, they offer a complete suite of pre-move, move day and post-move services all reinforced with their calming “we’re here to help” attitude. The disposal & transfer station services provides convenient waste solutions including oversized and bulky items like mattresses, appliances, hot tub and defensible space disposals and more. Roaming pickups are ideal for mobile trades, enabling them to stay in market and focus on the revenue side of their business.

“Scheduling is easy: Call us today and your waste is gone tomorrow.” The transfer station, located across from Sedona Recycles, offers a residents and businesses alike a convenient location to bring their waste, saving them money and avoiding the 3 hour round trip dump experience. Rounding out the product mix is the curb appeal and hauling services where the focus is on arid landscaping, gravel and decorative rock delivery and installation. “Sir Moves A Lot is always looking to for loads to back-haul from our dump run. So if you need gravel delivered into tight spaces or weight restriction locations, we are a natural fit. With Sir Moves A Lot, the only thing you need to lift is the telephone.” Call them today at (928) 282-2150 or “move your mouse on over to www.SirMovesALot.com.”

The featured speaker was Mr. Larry Phillips of SUPERTREE Services, LLC.. He was born in London, “an Air Force brat.” He was back in the US at 2, his first father passed away with lung cancer when he was 6. His mother remarried another Air Force man, and has been married over 50 years. He has two older brothers and sisters. He was in Hawaii in the 1960s, and was “really wild at a really wild time in Hawaii, just 7 years after statehood.” He was sent to military school in 1968, graduated in 1972, transferred to NAU, met his wife in 1975, and has been married 36 years. He was in the Army for 14 years with the 82nd Airborne, jumped out of planes, went to Hawaii again, ran in the 1981 Honolulu marathon, lived in Texas and Alaska. He came back to Arizona in 1992, has one daughter who is now 33, was a full-time firefighter, worked at the Snowbowl in the winter, and started his tree business in 1996. Larry Phillips supertree8235@gmail.com

Meeting Notes – November 9, 2011

Dr. Tom Fernandes, DDS, of Sedona Dental Arts was the featured presenter at Wednesday’s meeting.

Dr. Tom spoke warmly of the Sedona Dental Arts’ on-the-spot conferences about patient care to make sure there is input and “3 minds in agreement between all three dentists in the office.”

The office uses the latest in dental equipment–laser for gum surgery, which is a-traumatic. They have a Cerec machine, which makes in-house crowns from start to finish. Dr. Tom spoke about his passionate interest in the medical aspects of dentistry; pharmacology is often on his mind, along with preventative dentistry.

Dental implants have become his specialty.

It is a family dental business in the truest sense: Dr. David Bill, dentist for 23 years, Dr. Tamara Bill Fernandez, daughter, and Dr. Tom Fernandes, son-in-law. Jeannette Bill, Dr. Bill’s wife runs the beautiful, pristine office in West Sedona. Call Sedona Dental Arts at (928) 282-1514 to book an appointment.

Ms. Laurie Wilson of Verde Valley Tile was the featured speaker at the meeting.

She was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and moved to Arizona when she was 21. She used to teach accounting and computers.

Now, she and her husband have 50 years of experience between them working with tile. She has a son, 26, two granddaughters and three stepchildren: one in Seattle, 2 in Phoenix.

She has been collecting post cards since she was a little girl, and she shared some of them with us–especially cards from Egypt from a recent trip by her stepdaughter. You can reach Verde Valley Tile at (928) 634-3484.

The Sedona Referrals Club meets Wednesdays at 7 a.m. at the Heartline Cafe in West Sedona. Each meeting features a showboater & a speaker. Each member and guest is allowed a one-minute commercial as part of the meeting format. The club promotes prospect referrals and each business category is represented by only one member. For information, contract Mr. Jeff Teele at 300-5361 or Mr. Bill Klauser at 202-7193 or visit our website www.sedonareferralsclub.org

Meeting Notes – November 2, 2011

Ms. Laurie Wilson co-owner of Verde Valley Tile was the featured presenter at Wednesday’s meeting.

Ms. Wilson touted porcelain tiles as the best product on the market, and will “last a lifetime.” Verde Valley Tile is a husband and wife team with over 50 years of combined experience. “Our most important mission is to provide quality installation, service and products to help the members of our community.

Everyone has different needs, our job is to listen to our clients and recognize each person’s individuality. We want to know what you are truly wanting, with the goal of granting that request. We have earned our clients trust because we sincerely care about them, their families and their home. From the beginning to the end of a job we feel open communication is key. No job too big, no job too small. Where service is not just words, it’s action.” verdevalleytile@aol.com

Mr. Carl Ramsey, President of Architectural Environmental Associates, Inc. was the featured presenter at Wednesday’s meeting, and spent his time warning us about our “dying planet,” with the goal of taking individual action. “In 10 years, the earth won’t look like this. Right now, take a deep breath in, and realize that is the best breath you’ll take for the rest of your life.” He suggested that of the 35 deaths in the obituary column, 90% were probably premature because of toxic environmental factors. He mentioned that Phoenix was now 13% warmer, and that a particular spider was moving north at 113 feet per day as a result. He offered a list of individual steps we can take, including converting to solar energy (prices are very low right now), rainwater collection, recycling, etc. It was a very alarming talk, and yet also inspirational. If you’re interested in the role you can play, contact Mr. Ramsey at carl@aeapower.com, or at (928) 214-0005.

The Sedona Referrals Club meets Wednesdays at 7 a.m. at the Heartline Cafe in West Sedona. Each meeting features a showboater & a speaker. Each member and guest is allowed a one-minute commercial as part of the meeting format. The club promotes prospect referrals and each business category is represented by only one member. For information, contract Mr. Jeff Teele at 300-5361 or Mr. Bill Klauser at 202-7193 or visit our website www.sedonareferralsclub.org

Meeting Notes – October 26, 2011

Mr. Carl Ramsay of Architectural Environmental Associates, Inc. was the featured presenter at Wednesday’s meeting.

The Mission Statement of Architectural Environmental Associates includes: “To preserve, conserve and enhance the natural and built environments in which we live by providing the most inspiring and cost-effective home and commercial building design and construction, incorporating the most energy efficient and environmentally healthy design and construction methods possible, designing and installing the most cost effective, efficient and creative solar photovoltaic (PV), passive solar, solar hot water, and wind turbine systems possible, providing the most environmentally friendly, sustainable and cost-effective building and home products possible through our retail and internet company, “Green Goods,” and providing state-of-the-art Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and environmental consulting, testing and remediation (abatement) for already-constructed buildings and for new buildings during their planning stages.”

Mr. Ramsey has been in business for over 28 years and he and his company (AEA) have over one hundred years of experience in the field of green, sustainable, high performance Architectural Design and related environmental areas, which include rainwater, solar, passive solar, and was awarded National Greenbuilder of the Year for 2008. They are asbestos, mold, and lead paint-removal experts. The corporate office is in Flagstaff.

Mr. Bill Klauser was the featured speaker today.

He emphasized his creative side with numerous, whimsical samples of his special kind of art work, which features artwork that uses recycled material. One of his great passions–personally and professionally–is recycling and environmental consciousness. He confided to the club that he was born in the same Hoboken, New Jersey hospital as Frank Sinatra, was an eagle scout, and is a dangerously powerful tournament scrabble player.

The Sedona Referrals Club meets Wednesdays at 7 a.m. at the Heartline Cafe in West Sedona. Each meeting features a showboater & a speaker. Each member and guest is allowed a one-minute commercial as part of the meeting format. The club promotes prospect referrals and each business category is represented by only one member. For information, contract Mr. Jeff Teele at 300-5361 or Mr. Bill Klauser at 202-7193 or visit our website www.sedonareferralsclub.org

Meeting Notes – October 19, 2011

Mr. Bill Klauser, representing Bios Life Slim was the featured presenter at Wednesday’s meeting.

“In Bios Life Slim I have found a product that offers people a better way of life through weight loss and added energy. I am happy and proud to offer this product to others, enabling them to experience what myself and countless others have. It comes in packets (2 per day), is extremely easy to consume, and tastes delicious. It slows the rate that food is turned into glucose, so that there isn’t a glucose spike, even when eating carbohydrates. Bios Life Slim gets you into the fat burning zone, and keeps you there as long as you take it twice a day.”

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Ms Ahna Bridenbaugh, licensed acupuncturist and master of Chinese Medicine was the featured speaker today.

She was born in Billings, Montana, and still has a lot of country cowboy in her. Her father, a physician, was a large influence in her life, and despite her early interest in medicine, the strict German family background dictated women should be homemakers–or in Ahna’s case, a ballerina. Ahna was a dancer on the Sonny and Cher show, and toured around the world as a dancer. She performed for the Gloria Newman modern dance company, and was also a fitness trainer.

After 20 years, she didn’t feel she was fulfilling her destiny, and took her father up on an offer to go to a medical conference in Palm Desert, and in one 4-day weekend, was hooked–not on Western medicine, but on the alternative path of first chiropractic, then Chinese Medicine and acupuncture, and has been fulfilled in her wonderful healing career ever since.

The4 Montana background shows up in her love of everything outdoors–hiking, fishing, especially snow-skiing. acupunctureahna@gmail.com

The Sedona Referrals Club meets Wednesdays at 7 a.m. at the Heartline Cafe in West Sedona. Each meeting features a showboater & a speaker. Each member and guest is allowed a one-minute commercial as part of the meeting format. The club promotes prospect referrals and each business category is represented by only one member. For information, contract Mr. Jeff Teele at 300-5361 or Mr. Bill Klauser at 202-7193 or visit our website www.sedonareferralsclub.org

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