Efforts to bring adult learning courses to Camp Verde have started to pay off in the form of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
While the OLLI program seeks to expand education in a variety of fields — everything from the history of the Internet to introductory palm reading, participation in those programs can cost a modest fee.
The program is coordinated through Yavapai College but funded through a grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation, a San Francisco-based organization with a focus on education.
The program hosts lectures and events at locations in Clarkdale and Sedona.
The program had an arrangement with the Town of Camp Verde to use some local town-owned buildings but didn’t have any events to put in them.
That will change this fall, said Ed Lee, who was appointed earlier this year by the Camp Verde Town Council to serve as a liaison to the OLLI program.
Lee has managed to bring more Camp Verde residents to a steering committee.
“Since then, a lot of things have happened,” Lee told the Town Council at its June 3 meeting. “For all intents and purposes, OLLI is here.”
To read the full story, see the Wednesday, June 10, edition of The Camp Verde Journal.
