When Prescott’s public airfield opened in 1928, private planes were the only traffic. The same year that New York City decided to build its first airport, Ernest A. Love Field in Prescott was dedicated to honor a heroic pilot from our city who lost his life in World War I. In the 1940s Prescott opened its tiny single-gate terminal, and in 1947 TWA brought the first commercial passenger flights.

We have gained a fair number of new regular readers over this challenging year, so we thought a quick review of where it’s taken us at 5enses would be in order to point up what you might have missed.

Despite the exhausting year finally behind us and an election season that’s left us generally done with politics, the actual work of government is just getting started again. Your voice can make a big difference, and there is help available to navigate the difficult process of being heard in the state Legislature.

In youth and throughout a career, to be a-fire – passionate, industrious, dedicated – is enviable and encouraged. It feels righteous, virtuous and enlivening to be burning with a purpose, a position, to be wanted and needed.

A prop-filled stage, costumed kids moving across it on cue, suspense one moment, laughter the next, feeding the energy of the performers — you’ve just imagined what happens in every performance by Prescott Valley Performing Arts (PVPA). It’s magical.

Following completion of his June 2019 production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Prescott Center for the Arts, a successful mounting of RED in Flagstaff led Don Langford to pitch the show to PCA. He wanted to direct something more intimate with a smaller cast, and this show fit the ticket.

Since July Yavapai County Community Health Services has been at the table with the AZ Department of Health Services, the other 14 Counties and Tribal Health Entities working on the Covid-19 vaccine rollout. Plans have changed many times in that time and will most likely continue to change as more vaccines are approved. Even as you are reading this, plans will have evolved.

Through 2020 we have all had to devise new ways to solve problems we've never faced before, and nonprofits are showing the way.

In 2004 human speech turned to a new and deeper journey. Software developer Dave Winer and Adam Curry, a former MTV video jockey (yes, back when MTV still ran music videos), created a program for making audio presentations for download to the iPod. Today podcasts are everywhere, and best of all, most of the content is available online for free.

There's a moment in a recent episode of Grey's Anatomy where the irrepressibly positive Link has an argument with his dark and twisty girlfriend. What he needs, he tells her, is to focus on the positive, not wallow in misery. Then he turns to play his guitar. "Whatcha playing?" she asks him. "Just a little something I made up," he replies. “It's called ‘The If-the-Virus-Doesn't-End-Us-Then-Climate-Change-Probably-Will Blues.’”

The Center for the Future in Prescott promises to help create jobs and raise wages in the area.