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Cooking contests at Yuma Lettuce Days

Got a sharp knife and a smokin' family recipe? Yuma Lettuce Days will give you the chance to see how your creation stacks up against the best in the West – or at least the best in Yuma.Five different cooking contests will be held over the two-d... Full story

Agriculture glance 1-27-13

FROM STAFF REPORTS

Agri-U features seminars, cooking, field tripYuma's Agri-University, a new agriculture education program launched this year by the Yuma Visitors Bureau, includes five weeks of seminars with a field trip and culinary class. The second session of Agri-... Full story

Agriculture at a glance

FROM STAFF REPORTS

New farmer trainingThe Yuma County Cooperative Extension is again offering a training program for people who want to learn how to farm and market the vegetables they grow to the local community in a farmers market.The new farmer/farmers market traini... Full story

CROP OF THE WEEK: VALENCIA ORANGES

FROM STAFF REPORTS

• In 2010, Yuma County citrus growers harvested about 150 acres of Valencia oranges. The area had around 750 acres when production peaked during the late 1980s.• This late season citrus variety is known for its amazingly sweet and colorful ... Full story

ON DECK: Mike Brown fired

By Jesse Severson @YSJesseSeverson

On Thursday night I was talking with a local coach who happens to be a Los Angeles Lakers fan — he's actually a good guy. I asked before he said good-bye what was wrong with his Lakers, who came into the season a favorite to make the NBA Finals... Full story

Bike riding while texting?

BY TERRY ROSS - NEWS AND INFORMATION CENTER DIRECTOR

Most of us are familiar with the term DWI (driving while intoxicated). Well, we could soon have a new abbreviation - TXW (texting while walking).It was recently reported that health care providers have been seeing an increasing number of injuries rel... Full story

Yuma fans preparing for summer without baseball

EDWARD CARIFIO - @YSEDWARDCARIFIO

The large bus sits at the Somerton airfield, plastered in “for sale” signs, collecting more and more dust by the minute.It's a lonely sight. But with its sale, the funds will be able to pay off various debts, allowing the new ownership gr... Full story

ON DECK: Left to go right

RANDY HOEFT - SPECIALIZED CONTENT EDITOR

If you've seen the movie “Cars,” you no doubt remember the lesson Doc Hudson tried to teach Lightning McQueen: “I'll put it simple: If you're going hard enough left, you'll find yourself turning right.”To which McQueen replied... Full story

Did you know? NIE is here to help!

Did you know? Our Newspapers in Education website offers a variety of educational information for children, parents and teachers.For example … Do your kids argue all day long? Maybe it's time to give them a civics lesson on the U.S. Supreme Co... Full story

Hawks' doubles team through

BY JESSE SEVERSON - @YSJESSESEVERSON

In the second round of the doubles tennis state tournament, Gila Ridge's Kevin Qian and Scott Nickerson lost the first set to a team from Apache Junction.Then the pair decided they didn't want their season over that quickly. Qian and Nickerson rallie... Full story

Bon appetit

From the area's chefs to you

BY JOHN VAUGHN - BAJO EL SOL EDITOR

JOHN VAUGHNFOR SOUTHWEST LIVINGIf good food is your passion, you're likely to be a recipe collector.You clip recipes out of newspapers and magazines, get them off the Internet, copy them down as you see them prepared on one of the cooking shows on te... Full story

ON DECK: Welcome back, baseball

BY ERIN REDMOND

I had the pleasure of covering an Arizona Western College baseball game on Saturday and it reminded me just how much I missed the sport.I've written before about how excited I was for spring training this year, but full blown excitement set in on Sat... Full story

Jordan a customer for YPG surveillance testing

CHUCK WULLENJOHN - SPECIAL TO YUMA SUN

Yuma Proving Ground tests weapon systems and munitions for a wide variety of customers, most of whom hail from the United States.A growing number of tests, however, are conducted for customers from friendly foreign nations. Recent years have seen tes... Full story

Coaches Corner: Hager, Bosch great coaches from N.D.

JOHN BLABE - COACHES CORNER

Hello sports fans. I'm here to entertain you for a minute of two if I can. I'd like to give you a little bit different tilt on Yuma area sports. I've coached in Yuma for 28 years and I've been interviewed by 28 different reporters. They have all bee... Full story

Enforcement of SB 1070 to go before federal judges Monday

BY HOWARD FISCHER - CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES

SAN FRANCISCO —Three federal judges will hear arguments Monday by attorneys for the governor on why Arizona should be allowed to start enforcing SB 1070.John Bouma, Brewer's lead attorney, will argue the law that Jan Brewer signed last April de... Full story

Crazier things have happened

CHENG SIO - SUN STAFF WRITER

The first time Gila Ridge senior Mike Pancrazi played quarterback may have been the most confusing time of his life.Pancrazi said he didn't understand the football lingo when formations and plays were being called. Furthermore, some plays were run in... Full story

AWC beats Phoenix on penalty kicks

EDWARD CARIFIO - SUN STAFF WRITER

The penalty shot rocketed off Danny Hernandez's foot and sailed over the head of Johnny Chavez, hitting the back of the net — the fifth consecutive time an Arizona Western player beat the backup Phoenix College goalie.Mere seconds later, he was... Full story

Great opportunity for youngsters to learn how to hunt quail

JEAN WILSON - SPECIAL TO YUMA SUN

A real treat is in store this month for all youngsters in the Yuma area (open to youngsters outside of Yuma as well) who enjoy hunting quail or would like to learn how, when and where to hunt these tasty birds along with getting in on a share of cam... Full story

Facing the facts about Prop 109

JEAN WILSON - SPECIAL TO YUMA SUN

Following is a “Discussion of Proposition 109 from a Sportsman's Perspective” that appeared in the latest Yuma Valley Rod and Gun Club newsletter by Joe Ruttle of interest to a lot of Yumans who enjoy the outdoors for one reason or anothe... Full story

Playing the blame game

BY EDWARD CARIFIO - SUN STAFF WRITER

Ten years ago, the Internet was a strange anomaly, limited to nerds discussing “Babylon 5.”Now it's to the point where we take it for granted.For instance, you can type anyone's name into Google and find out pretty much anything they've e... Full story

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