Unfortunately, the Walker Art Market that was scheduled for August 10th has been cancelled. This is due to conflicting shows and poor vendor sign up. We are hoping to get one planned for next summer.

Yavapai County has lifted the fire ban that has been in place although there are exceptions in the southern part of the county where there has been less precipitation.

The Fire Department would still point out the need to remain very cautious when engaging in any sort of activity involving flame or where there could be any sparks involved. We would request that for these activities you have a charged hose line nearby.

BINGO AT THE WALKER FIREHOUSE

THIS SATURDAY JULY 20th

4:00 P.M. UNTIL 7:00 P.M.

BRING A FINGER FOOD DISH TO SHARE

LOTS OF MONEY TO BE WON

LOT’S OF FUN TO BE HAD

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC -BRING SOMEONE WITH YOU

SEE YOU SATURDAY

The upcoming Walker Board of Directors Meeting Agenda can be viewed at the following link:

WFPA Board of Directors Meeting Agenda

We are looking forward to a lot of dancers this coming Saturday from 2-5 at the FireHouse Dance in Walker. If you don’t dance, please come and enjoy the music and food.

$5.00 per person and please bring a snack to share. You folks have been bringing really wonderful foods and all is appreciated. We will furnish the drinks.

Justus 2 with Barbara Jean and Keith bring our foot stomping music for great dancing.

Remember, no dance scheduled for August.

The up coming dances will be:

Sept. 14th and Oct. 12th.

Come and bring your neighbors and friends.

We had a very successful second year “return of Walker Day”. Over 400 Walker residents, friend and Prescott area visitors turned out to join in the festivities. The fun included live music courtesy of “Guys with day jobs”, a huge community yard sale, games for the kids, (including a bouncy castle), a beautiful silent auction and our traditional, old fashion cake walk.

The live Rock and Roll music was once again a gift from, (mostly area residence), “guys with day jobs”. The yard sale was the biggest I’ve ever seen. Hundred and hundreds of items were donated by the community. The silent auction featured items like beautiful gift baskets filled with donated gift cards from restaurants and retailers and even a pair of sterling silver candelabras. We had over 20 cakes donated for the calk walk and awarded throughout the day to the lucky winners. What fun!

My sincere thanks go out to the dozens of community members that step up each year to help pull off this great event. Special thanks to Laura MacQuen (silent auction), Jean Lupa and Timi Reed (yard sale), Charlie Hyman and Russ Courtney (set up to tear down), Bill loughrige and his team (grill masters), Ellen Odart (kids games), Chief Roger, numerous firefighters… and to all those I missed.  Also, behind the scenes are always generous donors like Gene Tomek (all the food) and the Walker Community Church (all the water).

On top of all the fun, we raised about $5000 profit from Walker Day, received numerous additional contributions and made some great new community friends.
I hope to see you all at next years Walker Day, (no excuses!), and I hope you can all come to this years firefighter appreciation day/pig roast on October, 5th from 4-6pm.

Sincerely,

John Ohanesian
Walker Day Chairman

The tragedy at Yarnel has affected all of us.  This terrible event points out the danger our Volunteers face when they are helping keep our community safe.  We cannot emphasize enough our gratitude to them for the effort they make on our behalf.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots were active in Walker and had last been in our area at the Green Gate Fire.  While our Volunteer’s might not have know them personally they had worked side by side and had the bond that Firefighters share.

If you know any of the families affected please send our condolences for their loss.

We have received offers of assistance from the community for the victim’s families.  The WFPA will be making a donation to the memorial fund established for the families when one is identified.  Any funds donated to the WFPA for that purpose will be forwarded on.

The owners of Nikita report she was found in Groom Creek.  Go figure!  She was seen on various days and several times near Renegade Hill, Pink Car Hill and on Mary May.

The owners were impressed with, and very grateful for, the response our community made to find this dog.  Several of you actually went out looking and were in contact with the owners.

Thanks to all of you involved in this search.

An orange tabby cat was found near Millsite (Potato Patch area) on Friday.  It seems to be young, very skinny and very friendly and it is unknown if it is a male or female.   It appears to have a collar impression on its neck and it comes when called….It is thought to be someone’s pet.

If you have any information as to the owners of this cat, please contact Deb at 480-628-2437 or send an email to lolasmom19@yahoo.com.

Here is a picture of the cat:  http://walkerfire.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/043.png

There is a 300 acre fire near Yarnell that is blowing smoke our way. It is about 300 acres so we may continue to have smoke here for a couple of days or so.