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Page 33 Are you craving adventure? Is your new year’s resolution to get out and see nature? A white water rafting trip down the Salt River might be just what you need. Last year the season was cancelled, and rafting enthusiasts are looking forward to this season, which already looks promising.

“Why go rafting on the Salt River?

Get out and live! Enjoy the adventure and the world around you,” says Alex Mickel, who, along with his wife, are the owner/operators of Mild to Wild Rafting and Jeep Trail Tours (http://mild2wildrafting.com/) serving Arizona, Colorado, and Utah.

Recent rainfall and snow at Sunrise translates to water on the Salt River in the springtime. Consistent snow – which is the forecast for this winter – means a longer high water season. If you’re a thrill seeker, check out the Salt River mid-March to early April during high water season, when water is the highest and rapids are Class II, III, and IV. Rafting, Continued on page 41

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Rather, her baking expertise In a way, Anita Stapleton is like an stems from trial-and-error, architect, except she relies on cake YouTube tutorials, online batter and icing for her designs. classes and an upbringing Using pliable icings like gum in baking. paste and fondant, coupled with “Sometimes that miscellaneous household items means just sitting with my such as cans, upside-down sugar tools and hashing it out with cones and lollipops wrapped in gum paste,” she laughs. parchment paper, the local baker and “I can’t remember a time in cake decorator makes cakes topped One of Stapleton's my life when I didn’t bake,” she handmade cakes. with giant edible crowns, flowers, adds. “My mom always had snowmen, cartoon characters, Christmas baking going on in the house. It’s something trees, Eiffel Towers... you name it.

I just immediately started doing as a kid.”

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Photos by Kim Stone/Boyce Thompson Arboretum

AUSTRALIA DAY at Boyce Thompson Arboretum

By Kim Stone

Australia Day celebrates the landing of the First Fleet of eleven convict ships from Great Britain in Sydney Cove on January 26, 1788. Also known as Foundation Day, this national holiday celebrates Australia’s first permanent settlement in what is now the city of Sydney.

But why does Boyce Thompson Arboretum bother to celebrate this island country from the southern hemisphere, 7,500 lonely ocean miles from the west coast of the U.S.? The answer, as you might expect, has everything to do with plants.

The tallest gum trees that you see dominating the skyline along the Main Trail – including our largest red gum tree, “Mr. Big” – were planted in the mid to late 1920s and early 1930s. As these trees grew, even more were planted, many with exotic-sounding names like tea tree, mallee, she-oak, ironbark, and gimlet. Over the years, these plants eventually formed a dominant forest canopy and understory that is unmistakably Australian. Volatile eucalyptus oil fills the still summer air, and long sinuous strips of gum tree bark peel and pile at the base of every gum tree in the heat of June, just as they do in Australia.

Yet, as impressive as this eight-acre collection of plants had become by the late 1980s, it had never benefited from a formal development and interpretive plan.

In 1989, a landscape architecture firm was retained that specializes in exhibit development within botanical gardens. Over the span of nearly three years – with input from Arboretum staff and other experts – an exhaustive document was created that identified and described eight distinct Australian plant communities.

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Admission is $10 adults; $5 children 5-12.

Winter hours 8am-5pm every day. Last admission 4pm.

General tour every day at 11 a.m.

January 15 – Build Your Own Terrarium Class (fee) January 17 – Australia Day January 17 – Plants of the Bible Lands January 18 – Behind the Scenes Camera Class (fee) January 18 – Tree Tour January 18 – Edible and Medicinal Plants January 22 – Tipsy Pots Class (fee) January 24 – The Science of Soils Class January 24 – Geology Walk January 25 – Edible and Medicinal Plants January 31 – Bird walk January 31 – Terrarium Class (fee) February 1 – History Walk February 7 – Bird Walk February 7 – Geology Tour February 7 – Amazing Aloes February 7 – Pine Needle Coiling Gourd Art Class (fee) February 7 – Life in the Desert walk February 8 – Bird walk February 8 – Plants of the Bible Lands February 8 – Tree Tour

Detailed plant lists were included for each community and authentic cultural amenities added to augment the realism of the overall exhibit. Several Arboretum staff members spent three weeks in Australia in 1995 to see the country first hand and develop sources for wild collected seed that, once grown and planted, became the Mulga, Mallee, Shrubby Woodland, Blue Bush, and other plant communities that you see today.

The Benson Outback Bridge across Silver King Wash, the Drover’s Wool Shed, Papuana Pass, the Aboriginal Seep, and the Aussie Pavilion all sprang from this landscape plan (directly or indirectly), corroborated by hundreds of photos of the cultural landscapes taken by our staff in the outback of both western and southeastern Australia.

With the finest Australian Desert exhibit in North America (and one of the largest Eucalyptus collections), we thought it fitting to celebrate our version of Australia in much the same way that the Aussies celebrate theirs. So, for nearly 20 years, we’ve featured Australia’s most famous musical instrument, the didgeridoo, along with the botany, food, lore, and culture of both indigenous and non-indigenous Australians on Australia Day. This year, we’re celebrating it a week early on January 17.

It’s the day to say g’day, and spend a Saturday down under – on top.

For more information: Call 520.689.2811 • Click Arboretum.ag.arizona.edu /boycethompsonarboretum • Follow /BoyceThompson • Find us on and on instagram.com/boycethompsonarboretum

WINTER 2015 This article originally appeared on our website in December. We are reprinting it here to give Ed Gardea the extra attention he deserves.

For another year in a row, vehicles decked out in Christmas lights made their rounds on the streets of downtown Globe last night. Even in the pelting rain, the sidewalks were packed with people watching Globe’s annual light parade carry on. With 43 entries and more than 100 moving parts, this year’s parade, themed “Broad Street Glitters,” was one of the larger ones to make its way through Globe.

Ed Gardea is one person to thank for that.

You may know him as the longtime manager of Ortega’s Shoes, which he began managing in 1988, or as the former president of the Historic Globe Main Street Program. Perhaps you recognize him as a member of the public safety board for the local fire department. You might have spotted him working on one of the sets for a play at the Center for the Arts, or scrubbing down tables with his family for a downtown event. Or, maybe you know him as a coach for Globe’s AYSO soccer league, Globe’s High School varsity soccer team, or the Piranhas swim team.

However, this busy man is also the founder and chairman of the light parade, and he has just guided the popular event through its 18th year.

It all started back in the ‘90s, when Gardea moved back to downtown Globe.

“Every year, they had Santa come

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THE MAN BEHIND THE LIGHTS

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Gardea was easy to spot on his well-lit bike yesterday, clipboard in hand, riding along the parade route before start time.

to town six or seven times,” the Globe native remembers.

Meanwhile, Gardea had watched the impressive light parade put on in Douglas

on several occasions. It inspired him to pose a question to the members of the Main Street Program.

“Why don’t we have a light parade instead of Santa coming to town four times this month?” he asked.

Donna Anderson, the president of Main Street Program at the time, swiftly replied, “That’s a great idea Ed, you’re in charge.”

Suddenly Gardea had a Globe parade to organize. He wasted no time advertising.

He hand-drew a poster of three carolers and had Oasis Printing print copies. (The original poster design is still used on parade applications.)

He made press releases and gave them to local radio stations like KIKO. “We would go and talk on it and try to drum up business,” he remembers. “KISS was fairly new then, they had just started,

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but we would put out news press releases and just ask.”

The word spread. APS decorated a vehicle. So did the City of Globe, the highway department, the fire department, the city police, and Gila County Search and Rescue. Of course, Gardea entered a float for Ortega’s Shoes.

Compared to the turnout these days, the first light parade had a modest turnout.

“I think there was only a dozen of us in that initial parade,” Gardea remembers.

But as years passed, the light parade’s turnout continued to grow.

“It just kept getting bigger and bigger,” he says.

The year of Desert Storm set a precedent for Globe’s light parade. As local troops were deployed, it was probably the largest parade to date. There were 50-plus entries in the parade that year, Gardea recalls. That meant even more vehicles parading down the streets, because one entry alone can include many vehicles.

“It was way more than we could handle,” he remembers. “That parade was so big that it just set the standard from then on. It was just a huge parade.”

“Christmas Around the Globe” was the theme that year. One of the entries included a giant semi hauling a scud missile on the back. Written along the side of it was the words, “To Saddam, with love.”

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WINTER 2015 Publisher Linda Gross Creative Director Jenifer Lee Contributing Writers Linda Gross Ann McAuley Libby Rooney Kim Stone Jean Sullivan Jim Turner

It’s a fresh start to a new year, and with the recent snow we had

Jenn Walker

on New Year’s Eve we’re looking

Contributing Photography

forward to a great rafting season

Boyce Thompson Arboretum Staff

on the Salt river this spring (pg 1 )

Elizabeth Eaton

and wildflower season beginning

Linda Gross

in February. Here in Globe-Miami

Jenn Walker

we may live and work in a small town but we play in a big back yard from the Pinal Mountains to Roosevelt Lake and the Salt River.

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We invite you to join us.

Before leaving 2014 behind us though, we want to highlight several good things that have come out of this last

a hub of social and community activity. Along with many in

year beginning with our look back at the year on our Facebook

the community, I’ve enjoyed dozens of fundraising events to

page (pg 36). We gained 800 new fans this last year to end

help get us to this momentous occasion; an elevator rising

with a little over 2,700 people following us on the page. Our

from the ground. Visitors may not understand the full impact

top video submitted by Darrel Yerkovich which shows Pinal

of this since they may be used to such things, but trust me

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Creek flooding after a summer rain got so many views that it

when I say putting a modern elevator in a historic structure is

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prompted us to launch a video contest for 2015. You can check

no small feat.

out the the rules on (pg 40) and we look forward to sharing more of your videos with others this year.

There were also a lot of accomplishments this past year and we have highlighted just a few in this edition.

It reminds me of the never-ending hard work done by the folks behind Main Street and the Center for the Arts. Behind all the memory making events and downtown enhancements, are those who keep doing so much, for so little, for so many,

Apache women made the top of the list this Winter with

and have done it for so long that it is easy to take their

our story on Roberta Hunter-Patten, the first Apache elected

accomplishments for granted. With Valentine’s Day around

to the Globe Unified School Board (pg 17), and Christabelle

the corner, we wanted to take this opportunity to say we love

Mull who was promoted to General Manager at Apache Gold

you for all that work. (pg 7)

Casino (pg 25) with former GM Gary Murrey taking on the role

While we acknowledge the current crop of ‘doers and

of Chief Operating Officer. Mull is also the first woman to hold

shakers’, we are careful not to let old stories go untold either,

that position in the casino’s twenty year history.

which is why we’ve included several stories with subject

You won’t want to miss our story about three passionate

matter that dates as far back as the late 1800s. See our stories

locals who recently formed the Copper Canyon Community

on Arzilla Spencer Benton (pg 6) and Uncle Wade (pg 34)

Gardens. CCCG is a new nonprofit with a vision to develop

as well as local historian Jim Turner’s piece on Pinal City’s

community gardens, and revitalize, beautify and connect the

Harrdscrabble Days (pg 38).

community at the same time. See what they’ve accomplished

Here’s to a fresh start and another year…

so far. (pg 30)

What’s on your bucket list this year?

And, no list of accomplishments in 2014 would be complete without praising the new elevator being installed at the Center for the Arts. It has been a goal for as long as I can remember; to get an elevator installed at the Center which is

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Gardea rode around checking on each group of participants to make sure things were running smoothly.

“That thing must have been 40 feet long,” Gardea says with a laugh.

Year after year, in between managing Ortega’s, coaching multiple soccer teams, raising three kids, and more, Gardea organizes the parade, trying to include as many people as possible. There is no limit to how many people can enter. Days beforehand, he had yet to find out how many entrants were in this year’s parade– he was still accepting applications.

“You know what, it’s Globe, and we don’t know until the last minute,” he laughs. “A week ahead of time, we may have six, seven entries. I have people sticking stuff underneath the store door on Saturday morning, asking ‘can we still enter?’”

Once applications are in, Gardea has to figure out how to spread out and mix bands and musical groups, dance groups, marching bands, single vehicles, semis and trailers over set distances. Of course, Santa brings up the rear.

“Then I go out there, and I actually physically mark it on the street. If that first entry is 50 feet long, then I have to go back 60 paces to start entry number two,” Gardea explains. “So it’s quite the process.

I spend a good time at night trying to line up the parade, and then I get up early on Saturday morning, and I go mark the parade route on the street.”

Then, once the parade begins, Gardea is at the starting line pacing it.

What all of this means, unfortunately, is that Gardea doesn’t see his hard work play out.

“I’ve never seen the light parade,” he says. “Never.”

Neither do the other volunteers who are out helping, he points out. Every year, there are handfuls of volunteers joining forces to make this parade happen.

“I mean, it’s work. You have street traffic, people trying to go around the barricades, you’re trying to get people in their places. There are people that come into it backwards. There are people that break down,” Gardea explains. “It’s dangerous because there’s cars moving, there’s big floats, it’s hard to see, and you’re trying to squeeze them in.”

Of course, it’s all worthwhile.

“You go work that parade route, and you just see all the kids. Their eyeballs are just this big” he laughs, motioning with his hands. “They’re so excited to see Santa and see all the lights. It’s one of the great things about being in a small town–we’re able to pull this off.”

His hope, he adds, is that young people will continue this tradition into the future.

Ortega gives special thanks to his volunteer crew: Greg Szpotowski, David Polkabla, Ruth Oviedo, Greg Anderson, Quinn Anderson, Katie Gardea, Geri Gardea, Noah Gardea, Nico Gardea, Gang at Ortega’s Shoes.

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Globe resident Jean Sullivan was first introduced to Arzilla at a restaurant in Globe, where she learned that the diminutive black woman had been a daughter of a slave and was close to her 98th birthday. Sullivan was intrigued and asked if Arzilla might be interested in letting her conduct an oral history on her.

Sullivan explains that Arzilla was shy at first but soon warmed up. “I placed a tape recorder on the floor and just started with a few questions. She took off from there. I very rarely had to ask anything. She just kept going.” The interview took place over three such sessions, in addition to a trip to the Salt River Canyon.

Arzilla was born on August 13, 1905. I met her in Globe when she was 98. She was seated across from me in a local restaurant, one which had refused to serve her in the ‘50s but had changed with the times. I soon learned that Arzilla Spencer Benton was the daughter of a former slave.

At first I thought the math didn’t support that claim. Upon my first interview, however, I found out that her father, Isaac “Ike” Spencer, was well up in years at the time of Arzilla’s birth. He talked little about the slave years, but did reveal to his family that he remembered being on a slave ship at a very young age – perhaps six. He remembered two men gambling over him and that the winner was a man named Spencer, which is how Ike received his last name. He became a personal servant to the owner’s young son, who secretly

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taught Ike how to read. At the end of the Civil War, Ike was somewhere around the age of 16, although there were never any birth records, and no one really knew how old he was. He was luckier than most freed slaves who never had the opportunity to be landowners. A plantation owner hired him to build a picket fence around his property in exchange for 30 acres off land. On that land in Mississippi, halfway between Meridian and Jackson, Ike built a home and raised his first family. After his first wife’s death, and after raising one family, he remarried and began a second family. Arzilla was the second child of the second family.

Arzilla’s childhood was one off hardship. She was raised on the farm that her father acquired. She recalled that she would start school in the fall only when the crops were harvested and the white farmers’ cotton had been picked.

She and her siblings would walk to the schoolhouse, except during heavy rains.

After completing the sixth grade, Arzilla longed for more education. I asked her what she would do if she could start over again. She answered immediately, “I’d be

a teacher. I would teach the children.”

She told me of the days when she worked the fields. “I was a tomboy. I drove the mules. I could plow and hitch the wagon. Sometimes I’d be so tired I wouldn’t feel like eating supper. I would go to bed. I enjoyed it, though. I didn’t know anything else.”

During our interview sessions, I would often take her out for lunch or dinner.

At that time, she was still in relatively good health. Although she walked with a cane, she refused help. “Just you walk in front of me,” she insisted. “I’ll be right there – Don’t fuss over me!” This was remarkable for a woman who had lived through two world wars, the “Roaring ‘20s,” the “Great Depression” and the inventions of television. She remembered being frightened when she encountered her first automobile, thinking it was a horse wagon out of control. Incredibly, she would become a well-traveled woman, taking excursions across country by plane, train and automobile. She even managed to go on a cruise to the Virgin Islands.

Arzilla and her husband arrived in Arizona in 1937 when she was about 32.

Her husband had been recruited to work in a lumber mill in McNary. As fate would have it, they were turned back at the bottom of Salt River Canyon because the bridge was impassable, as US Highway 60 was still under construction. They ended up in Globe, where Arzilla got a job as a cook for various families, and her husband went to work for the railroad.

They never had children, and her husband later returned to Mississippi.

She never saw him again.

I once took her on a day trip through Salt River Canyon to see if it would jog up old memories. She was alert throughout the ride, remarking, “Oh Lord, would you look at that! That’s just beautiful! Just m magnifi cent!” When we drove a around the switchbacks of S Salt River Canyon, she said, “ “This old road winds around sso much you almost meet y yourself coming around t the other side!” She spoke of her trip in 1937 and how frightened she had been and how she had never seen mountains. But on that bright day in 2003, she was fearless and eager to see every twist and turn of that canyon. We drove on to Show Low for lunch, and I pointed out to here where the RodeoChedisky Wildfire had destroyed so much of the forest the summer before.

She just said, “I guess it will grow back in time.” Then she saw dead trees and asked if those had been part of the fire. I explained that those particular trees had been victims of bark beetle infestation. She only said, “Well, I guess they’re (bark beetles) God’s creatures too.”

Throughout all her years, she suffered from “Jim Crow” discrimination. One incident occurred during a bus trip when she tried to follow white passengers to the restroom. A woman exclaimed, “Just what do you think you’re doing here? You get on back and go to the woods. You know you’re not allowed to use this restroom!”

After listening to this and similar stories, I asked her why she wasn’t angry.

She told me, “You know how it says in the Lord’s Prayer, ‘Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us?’”

Arzilla was truly the most forgiving woman I ever met. She once asked me, “Do you think we have forgiven those men who flew the planes into those towers?”

(She was referring to 9/11.) I answered, “No ma’am! Definitely not.” She sat quietly for a moment and then remarked, “I guess the good Lord will take care of that.”

I asked her what she would do if she were president. She answered, “Now let me think a minute. I’d stop the wars.”

The last time I saw Arzilla was on her 100th birthday party. Shortly thereafter, her family took her back to the state of her birth: Mississippi.

Arzilla Spencer Benton died in a Mississippi rest home on October 12, 2014 at the age of 109.

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GMT's Valentine to Globe's Main Street Program and the Center for the Arts

How do we love thee? Let us count the ways!

The downtown historic district was one area identified as being a key to economic development and something that is important to both residents and tourists.

City of Globe Economic Planning report

projects

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Repainting Store Fronts and scraping the teepee Bringing an excursion railroad to town – The Copper Spike Awning for local merchants Grafitti Abatement – Keeping it clean!

MOB – $98K Street Scape Improvement Grant and more!

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I am continually amazed by how much one man can get done! Kip's passion for Globe/Miami is contagious and the economic impact he has made on the region is nothing short of astounding. I tip my hat to Kip and wish every day that there were more folks around the state like him! We are all so lucky to have him!

– Kimber Lanning, Local First Arizona

preservation

• The new facade/cornice for the Territorial Jail • The new roof for St. John's Episcopal Church • Restoration of the old Freight Office and Train Depot • New displays and Exhibits for the Jail – increasing visitation by 40% • New electrical upgrades – and soon an Elevator for the Center for the Arts and more

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Copper Spike 2007-2012

I always make a point to drive through Globe to see what Kip is doing. He always has such cutting edge ideas.

specialty events

These fundraisers over the years have helped to raise money for projects and/or improvements to the Center for the Arts primarily the Elevator Project.

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Governor’s Ball Oz Ball All Aboard for the Arts Centennial Ball Jail House Rock Bawdy Broad Street Tour Cemetery Tour Sisters on the Fly House of Terror and more!

Managing an Army of Volunteers My wife and I love bringing our grandchildren, who live in the Valley, to the events downtown. It's part of our community we can share together. We're lucky to have Kip and Molly in Globe and willing to put in the kind ofeffort it takes to host so many events that local families can enjoy.

– Mike Pastor Gila County District 2 Supervisor

When it comes to downtown development there is never enough money for all the wants and needs.

It has only been through multiple partnerships and collaborations with groups like the Center for the Arts and others that so much has been accomplished.

Much of the credit has to go to the many volunteers who share the vision of Main Street and have a passion for the Globe community. They have helped to paint, clean, carry, host, tear down, and clean up. They help to host the front desk and give tours to visitors. They often donate more than their time. They also donate materials, money, good will, ideas and energy to the cause. We salute you all!

– Dustin Welker Planning & Community Director for Safford

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Halloween on Broad Street Ghosts of Globe Tour Light Parade Santa Comes to Town Easter Parade Summer Fest Fall Fest Dessert Social and more!

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Why two local gold prospectors keep up the hunt

Photo by Jenn Walker

Dik Mickle holds up 0.5 ounces of gold in a jar. It took a good three years of prospecting to recover and is worth $700.

By Jenn Walker

Shortly after I moved to Globe-Miami two years ago, I was invited to go on a gold prospecting trip with Miami locals Don Reiman (also Miami’s new Vice Mayor) and Dik Mickle.

I met them on Sullivan Street in downtown Miami on a summer morning just before dawn. We loaded up in what has been locally known as the Prickly Pear – Reiman’s white Chevy with prickly pear plants painted along the sides – for an adventure that only GlobeMiami folk can appreciate.

We drove through Globe and continued on Six Shooter Canyon past the college. It wasn’t long before we were rattling onto a dirt road with a full-load of prospecting supplies in tow just as the sun was beginning to rise.

Our bumpy ride led us to a mining claim owned

by Elvan Fant, Sr. This is where we were going to hunt for gold. We unpacked the prospecting gear from the trunk: shovels, a vacuum, gold pans, gallons of water, a dry washer, storage jars and a motor (for power). We strapped it onto a wagon and wheeled it from the top of a hill down to the creek bed. It was a full morning’s work, and on this particular day, we were a team of four.

On most occasions, though, Reiman and Mickle are

Photo by Jenn Walker

The long haul to the creek bed with a wagon full of prospecting gear.

a team of two, and on a good day, they might retrieve $20 worth of gold. On that morning, we retrieved a couple tiny flakes.

Some may wonder – what drives these two men, both in their 60s and 70s, to haul a bunch of heavy gear around in 100-plus degree heat when they are often rewarded with very little, if any, gold?

Two years later, I finally got the opportunity to sit down with the two friends and ask these questions.

Reiman and Mickle have been gold prospecting in Globe-Miami since 2009. Mickle had already been living in Miami for 13 years, and Reiman had just relocated to the area from Mesa three years before.

You could say the gold fever runs through Reiman’s veins – his interest in gold began when he was a child.

His grandfather got caught up in the Alaskan gold rush in 1902, and he brought back enough gold to raise his family in the southwest of Washington state. Reiman found his own first piece of gold at age 13 in the Cascade Mountains in eastern Washington.

“It was just a little piece of gold,” he remembers.

He had been interested in gold ever since, prospecting from time to time in California and around Quesnel Lake in B.C., Canada.

Reiman knew Mickle from conversations outside the antique shop downtown, but it was the mention of gold during a conversation inside the Howlin’ Javelina, Mickle’s former bar on Sullivan Street, that caught Reiman’s attention.

“Dik told me there was gold in this area,” Reiman recalls. “And I didn’t believe him.”

Hank, a bar patron, offered to show the two where they could find gold nearby. He took them to Richmond Basin. They didn’t find anything on that trip, but it nonetheless sparked an interest in Mickle and Reiman.

Back in the 1800s, that basin had a population of about 4000 or so, including prospectors, Mickle says. Globe was still a camp back then, and the basin is supposedly how Globe got its name. There, pioneers found a massive silver nugget and named Globe after it.

Reiman and Mickle returned to the basin, this time crossing all the way through.

“It’s ravines,” Mickle says. “It’s basically sandy washes. There are no roads. You’re lucky if you find a Forest Service sign.”

“We nevertheless explored,” he adds. “We spent many a day looking for gold in Richmond Gulch.”

They tried different areas, collecting plastic bags of samples. At that time, all they had were shovels and gold pans.

“All day we went up and down through the cat claw, live oak and yellow jackets,” Mickle adds. “Me with my snake boots and a bear bell on my staff, and Don with his tennis shoes.”

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Time and time again, they came out with nothing; but by that point, they had the gold fever. Reiman and Mickle asked geologists and old timers for tips on where to find gold. They read books on the subject, went to gold prospector shows, and watched gold prospecting shows on the Outdoor Channel and Discovery Channel.

It was some time later that the two met Fant, another local. Fant owns the gold mining claim in Six Shooter Canyon – the one that Mickle and Reiman later brought me to – and offered to take the duo out there.

“We didn’t believe there was gold there,” Reiman says. “We had gone places where people said there was gold. We played with the dirt and there was nothing there.”

To their surprise, for the first time, Mickle and Reiman did find gold on Fant’s mine claim – it was a few flakes, maybe 0.6 grams.

“They were about this big,” Mickle says, pinching his fingers into a circumference the size of a pinhole.

“That’s all it takes. It looked like a boulder.”

Up to that point, Reiman owned a dry washer and a gold wheel, but he had never used them.

“I thought my new wife would be interested in gold,” he says with a chuckle. “But she is interested in the gold in the jewelry store, not gold in its raw form.”

There are only a handful of gold prospecting enthusiasts in this area, and Reiman had been waiting a good 10 years for the right prospecting partner to come along. Mickle was that person.

“I was the new kid on the block,” Mickle remembers.

“I hadn’t studied gold prospecting, but I knew the history.”

Thus, the gold hunting adventures began, dry washer, gold wheel and all. They invested in more used equipment from garage sales and joined the White Mountain chapter of the Gold Prospector’s Association of America.

One prospecting excursion is usually an all-day adventure, at the least, and sometimes up to several days. Sometimes they prospect in the Pinals, other days they venture to places like Wickenberg, Lynx Creek in Prescott or Queen Valley.

They factor in geology, studying things like mountain erosion and the layout of the land to infer where gold might be. The two can often be found hunting in dry washes, sifting through deposits at river benches and the turning points of the river, areas where gold has likely settled.

“There is a saying that gold rides the iron horse,” Reiman says.

Whenever the flow of water slows, gold drops out before anything else because it is 19 times heavier than water, and twice as heavy as iron, Mickle explains.

I still remember the process. Once we reached the creek bed on Fant’s claim that morning, we used a large vacuum powered by a generator to suck up heavy particles of the bedrock. The same generator powered a dry washer. Once a good amount of material was collected into the vacuum, we dumped it into the dry washer. The dry washer blows the lightweight material off of the ore. Then we could pan the heavy material for gold.

Their best find was in 110-degree weather, when, after moving about 80 five gallon buckets of rocks, they walked away with 1.2 grams of gold.

Most recently, Reiman and Mickle invested in a UTV for their adventures, which makes hauling equipment up and downhill a whole lot easier. Gone are the days of packing four miles in and out with beach wagons, two-wheel dollies, or single unicycle wheels with a rack on top.

Wherever the two prospect, they make it a point to reclaim the area afterward.

“There are a lot of idiots that think the outdoors is a place to dump their household trash and make a mess,” Reiman notes.

“But we have also seen areas where people have prospected, and three months later, you can’t tell,” Mickle adds. “Mother nature repopulates everything.”

Photos courtesy of Elizabeth Eaton

Don Reiman and Dik Mickle using the gold wheel, which is used for sluicing.

Being outside is one of the reasons the two enjoy prospecting in the first place.

“You should see the vistas,” Mickle beams.

“Sometimes you can see almost all the way to Tucson.”

Clearly, gold prospecting is not about making money. You have to have the fever, the two agree.

“It’s the hunt, searching for something that was once created in a supernova,” Mickle says.

Next, the prospectors have their eyes set on the Bradshaw Mountains.

“I want to find a big nugget!” Reiman says with a grin.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Paul Tunis Art Exhibition When: Throughout January Where: Cobre Valley Center for the Arts Cost: Free Local illustrator and graphic designer Paul Tunis will have his art on display through the month of January at the Center for the Arts. Tunis has illustrated several children’s books. His work has been published by the likes of San Francisco’s McSweeney’s Press and in numerous journals and magazines.

His art has been displayed in the Poetry Foundation Gallery in Chicago and the Winkleman Gallery in Manhattan.

Call the center at 928-425-0884 for additional information.

58th Gem and Mineral Show When: Jan. 16, 17 and 18; Fri-Sat from 9 am to 5 pm; Sun from 9 am to 4 pm.

Where: Gila County Fairgrounds Cost: Adult admission $3 per person or $5 per couple; students and children get in free This will be a fun time for rock and mineral collectors, fossil hobbyists and kids of all ages. There will be more than 40 displays, numerous vendors displaying their wares and products, and interesting demonstrations. Lapidary equipment, jewelry, books, mineral specimens, fossil and gem pit, copper art, geode cutting, stone paintings for sale, and much more will be offered. Each day from 9 to noon a local artist will be available to paint your favorite pet on stone. (Bring a 5x7 or larger picture.) Free fossil presentations are scheduled each day at 11 a.m. and 2 and 4 p.m. There will also be demonstrations of bead making, silver smithing, wire wrapping and more!

25th Annual Pieces of Friendship Quilt Show When: Exhibition from Feb.7 through March 29 Artists’ reception on Feb. 14 from 11 am to 1 pm Where: Cobre Valley Center for the Arts Cost: Free (donation appreciated) Get ready Globe-Miami quilters!

The Copper County Quilters of Globe, a chapter of the Arizona Quilters Guild, is hosting their annual Pieces of Friendship Quilt Show. As many as 60 pieces will be on display! Take a trip to the Center for the

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Arts to see what local quilters have been making! If you have your own quilt you want entered into the show, make sure your entry form is received by January 12. Forms are available at Julie’s Sewing Corner, Hill Street Mall, the Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce and Cobre Valley Center for the Arts. Call the center at 928425-0884 for more information.

Masquerade Ball When: Feb. 14 (tentative) Where: Cobre Valley Center for the Arts Cost: TBA Celebrate the long-awaited installation of the elevator at the Center for the Arts and come out to the ball! Details are still getting firmed up, as this big project is still in the works, so call the center at 928-4250884 for the latest information!

Launch of Rafting Season Beginning of March See article on cover for more details!

Annual Intertribal Pow-Wow When: March 13, 14 and 15 Where: Apache Gold Casino Cost: $5 daily admission; $3 for children 5 and under and seniors 55 and over If you have never been to a pow-wow, here is your chance to attend Apache Gold’s annual pow-wow! Pow-wows are Native American gatherings that have taken place throughout North America Calendar, Continued on page 11

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for ages. Native dancers, singers and performers from the U.S. and Canada travel throughout North America to perform and compete in pow-wows.

Performers of all ages participate, dressed in ornate regalia. More than a dozen different dances are performed, including the Grass Dance, the Smoke Dance and the Jingle Dress Dance. Many of these performers follow the Pow-Wow Trail, traveling and performing throughout the U.S. Needless to say, the pow-wow at Apache Gold is always well attended!

Sixth Annual Miami Loco When: March 21 through 22 Where: Downtown Miami Cost: Free Don’t miss the annual Miami Loco Art Walk! This celebration of art is an allinclusive festival experience aimed at all ages and tastes, showcasing live art, music, and poetry. The festival features more than 20 art exhibitions around town, including local and regional artists, plus vendors and stage performances.

When: March 27 (tentative) Where: Makes a stop at the Drift Inn Saloon Cost: See firefighterspokerrun.com for details One of the biggest rides of Arizona Bike Week makes a traditional stop at the historic Drift Inn Saloon in downtown Globe, hosting more than 1,000 riders!

The City of Globe shuts down the street in front of the Drift Inn and the bar gets moved outdoors. Don’t miss out on the action of this premier ride! Call the Drift Inn at 928-425-9573 for more information and updates.

Laurie Manzano Art Exhibition When: Throughout April Where: Cobre Valley Center for the Arts Cost: Free For the first time ever, renowned local artist Laurie Manzano will have her art on display at the Center for the Arts!

Manzano is both a painter and sculptor who formerly owned Globe’s Blue Mule Art Gallery. She was also an original member of the Cobre Valley Fine Arts Guild. This is a not-to-miss! Call the center at 928-4250884 for more information.

Sixth Annual Easter Parade Art showings usually run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and performances take place at the Veteran’s Park on Sullivan Street from around 3 to 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Contact Jim Coates Gallery at 928-473-4367 or 928200-2743 for more information.

Arizona Bike Week When: March 25 through 29 Drawing more than 70,000 motorcyclists per year, Arizona Bike Week is one of the largest and fastest growing rallies in the country! This annual rally kicks off bike riding season and Arizona’s beautiful weather with tons of rides and events lined up. For more information, be sure to check out: azbikeweek.com!

When: April 4 from 9:30 to 11:30 am Where: Begins at Train Depot in Globe Cost: Free Here is your chance to stroll the sidewalks of Globe in your Easter finery and channel your best Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers, rain or shine! (For those too young to remember, check out the movie “Top Hat” to see what we mean!)

The Easter Parade is based on the classic holiday song and old tradition of taking a stroll to welcome spring. Think hats, parasols, finery and fun for all ages. Of course, you can enter the contest if you think your Easter finery is prize-worthy!

Contestants promenade from the Train Depot, down Broad Street, and back to the Center for the Arts. For information, call the Center for the Arts at 928-425-0884.

CVRMC Health Fair When: April 11 from 8 am to 1 pm Where: Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center Cost: Free The annual CVRMC Health Fair is all about promoting health, wellness, exercise and diet. This year’s fair will kick off with the Get Fit Run combined with the March of Dimes starting at 8 a.m., followed by the fair starting at 9 a.m.! As usual, expect

crafts and all kinds of booths, including informative booths and food booths! Last year’s fair included 1,000 attendees, and 94 different organizations participated, including infant care, hospice, skilled nursing facilities and everything in between! There is more than one way to participate, whether you want to set up a booth (free of charge) or participate in the walk/run! Contact Evelyn at 928-402-1141 for more information.

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31st Annual Historic Home and Building Tour When: April 11 through 12 Where: Meet at the Train Depot in Globe Cost: Admission $15; $10 for children 12 and under Don’t miss this annual event which has been held since 1984 and highlights our area’s historic quality! These guided tours will transport you to an assortment of territorial homes and buildings throughout the area by car, stopping at each location. The tours last one to two hours, highlighted with history, architecture and storytelling at every stop.

Also, be sure to check out the antique shows held during the tours on both days at Globe High School. Commemorative copper tickets for the tours are sold from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Globe’s Train Depot.

You can reserve tickets in advance and find out more information by calling the Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce at 928-425-4495.

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Miami Boomtown Spree When: April 17, 18, 19; Fri from 1 to 9 pm; Sat from 9 am to 9 pm; Sun 9 am to 4 pm (Times and dates subject to change) Where: Downtown Miami Cost: Free The Boomtown Spree is back! This is hands-down one of the most renowned traditions in the Globe-Miami region, with origins dating back to 1939! Try your hand in a competition in drilling, mucking, or spike driving; or see if you can fill an ore cart with sand! For years, the community has organized this big party in Miami centered around competitions, food and dances in the streets. The Boomtown Spree has traditionally included a parade, competitions for all ages, a street fair, races, live entertainment, mining equipment displays and historic tours. Don’t miss your chance to take part in this great tradition! Contact Bullion Plaza Museum and Cultural Center for the latest details at 928-473-3700.

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When: April 25 from 9 to noon Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free Look out, STEMFest is returning to Gila County! STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math; this free, interactive festival is aimed at sparking interest and engagement in youth in those subjects. Each year, local organizations, schools, small

businesses and agencies come together to create a variety of interactive booths, games and activities highlighting these different fields, which include aerospace, defense and engineering, sustainability and Earth sciences, technology and computer science. For more information, contact the Gila County School Superintendent’s Office at 928-402-8784.

And, don’t forget to check out these regular happenings around town!

Open Mic Nights When: First Friday and Second Saturday of the month at 7 pm Where: Vida E Caffe in Globe

Karaoke When: Wednesdays at 7 pm Where: Drift Inn Saloon in Globe

First Friday Lecture Series and Hardscrabble Series See ad on page 10 for dates!

Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being.

In short, they make cities better places to live.

– David Binder

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CVRMC's Kristin Berner, Megan Martinez and Jenifer Swanson taking in the event.

Craig Jones enjoying a good time with Susie and Bob Hollis.

The theme this year for the Art & Wine Auction was Hollywood Movies.

The woman who heads up this event each year for the hospital, Evelyn Vargas with sponsors, Apache Gold GM Gary Murrey, and Ted and Diane Schaeffer. The event raised over $36,000 this year.

Helping to support a good cause‌ James Sheneck and Bryan Seppal with Resolution Copper and Bobbie Ravenkamp with Lions and the Gila County Museum.

Light Parade This years parade brought sleeting rain, but warm hearts and good cheer. We were out taking photos just before the parade began and the rain had not begun.

Jane Hale, Udon McSpadden and Peggy Snow

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Annual Chamber Holiday Mixer Center for the Arts ~ December 10th

Apache Gold GM, Gary Murrey and his wife Kristie brought the staff of Ruby Pearl Productions. (L-R) Pam Hait, Gary, Laura Dahlby Nicolai, Rungano Mashapure, Kristie and Martha Hunter. The group has been working with Murrey on several web and social media projects for the casino.

Toastmaster members Debbie Fogle, Patricia Glover and Joe Skamel want to invite you to join the local branch of Copper Talkers every Tuesday at 6:30 at the Fogle agency. And to wish you a Happy Holidays.

Nancy McKay, Molly Cornwell, Aleks Slaski and JohnU Brown enjoying a little holiday cheer.

Joanne and Bob Zache with Ian Lamont

Roger Lucero with Kim and Jason Marr. Jason just wrapped up his role as Lurch in the Community Players production of The Addams Family Musical.

Amanda Moors and husband Paul Wolterbeck with Bullion Plaza Executive Director Tom Foster. Amanda gave a lecture on December 17th at Bullion regarding her work with Mexican Spotted Owls.

Out And About

Linda Gross, Jonelle and Willie Brantley

Southern Gila County Network Christmas/Awards breakfast at Dream Manor Inn

Sherry Olofson, Jennifer and James Hicklin, Diana Cook and Wendy Hankin (sp) attended the holiday gathering at the Bernstein’s house.

The good folks at Capstone delivered a check to the local Food Bank for $2500 which goes to support the Meals on Wheels project – providing hot meals (and hugs) to our local Seniors who can’t get out of their homes.

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50th Anniversary Gala Event We are sharing the photo booth pics from celebration of United Funds' 50th Anniversary which was held November 14th. The photographer was Yevette Vargas who helped everyone channel their best look for the camera. *To see all the photos please visit our Facebook page.

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Welcomes You

Globe Unified School District Home of the Tigers

Roberta Hunter-Patten is preparing to serve as the first Apache on the GUSD school board this January after winning last November’s election against Frankie DalMolin and Robert Howard for District 1.

Total, Hunter-Patten has spent 30 years teaching students in kindergarten, elementary and junior high school.

Until three or four years ago, she was teaching courses at the community college on the San Carlos Apache Reservation.

“I’ve been in education forever,” she says.

She previously coached junior high volleyball, and continues to coach seventh grade boys’ basketball. Now she works for the San Carlos Apache Tribe as a career development coordinator for the Wellness Center, and teaches GED classes as well as a health program to fifth graders.

She spent a considerable amount of time in school herself, receiving a BS in education from Northern Arizona University, and an MA in special education from the University of Texas-El Paso.

For someone from modest beginnings, Hunter-Patten has come a long way.

“I was taught to work for everything,” she says.

A full-blooded San Carlos Apache from the clan Ch'ilniiyenanaiye (Where Black Walnut Tree Stands), HunterPatten was born in Chicago. Her family came back to San Carlos by train when she was in second grade, where she grew up during the ‘60s as one of nine children.

Life was hard, she says.

Her family emphasized academics, and her father expected her to get a good education. He was a laborer with an eighth grade education, and HunterPatten’s mother only had a fourth grade education.

“She housecleaned for the white people in San Carlos,” Hunter-Patten remembers.

In those days, kids could only go to school up to fourth grade. After that, they were bussed to Globe for school. Hunter-Patten was one of those children.

Times were different then.

“Kids were slapped on the hand for speaking Apache,” she remembers.

“Western education was the only way.”

As a student at Globe High, her

counselor encouraged her to become a secretary. All Hunter-Patten knew was that she wanted to go to college so she could escape from home and her strict family.

She graduated from Globe High in 1972. After she graduated, she would work as a secretary for forestry during the summer. Her boss encouraged her to keep going to school.

“And, that’s when I decided I didn’t want to be a secretary,” she says with a laugh. “I didn’t like making coffee and serving donuts.”

Apaches, and she wanted to facilitate change.

“As a teacher, I felt many things needed to change,” she recalls. “I felt like I could make a definite change because I’m an educator... As my career progressed, I felt that’s where I needed to be.”

“If I get a chance, I’m going to do it,” she remembers thinking to herself. “If I’m brave enough, I’m going to do it.”

Finally, she convinced herself that she had nothing to lose, and she entered in the 2014 election.

Roberta Hunter-Patten The first Apache elected to GUSD School Board

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Then she got accepted into Northern Arizona University. Walking by an elementary school one day, she wondered what it would be like to be a teacher. Something clicked in her mind.

“That’s where I was meant to be,” she says.

She decided to major in education and minor in business, receiving her BS in education in 1977. After she graduated, she returned to San Carlos, and that same year, she started teaching second grade.

“I didn’t realize that college didn’t prepare me at all,” she laughs. “That first year of teaching, I didn’t know I had the naughtiest kid in second grade until he held a bat up to me.”

Her four children, she says, taught her more about teaching than anything else.

“As my kids grew, so did my level of teaching,” she says. “I evolved through motherhood. It enabled me to be a wiser and more outspoken person.”

Throughout her 30 years teaching in San Carlos, she learned the importance of addressing different learning styles.

In the early ‘80s, she won an award for teacher of the year. Later, she went back to school, and received her master’s degree in 2003.

In 2004, she moved to Globe.

Meanwhile, she had been contemplating running for the school board. She wanted to represent

“I never had it to begin with, so if I lose, I’d still never have it,” she reasoned.

“The difference is that I tried.”

She wrote her statement and collected 24 signatures for her nomination, but she did not campaign.

“I left it in God’s hands,” she says. “I thought if it was meant to be, it would come to me.”

She was not expecting to win. She was eating dinner with her family at a Globe restaurant when her niece went on her phone and saw that HunterPatten was in the lead.

Her daughter stayed with her until midnight, waiting to find out the results.

Once she found out she won, HunterPatten was in disbelief.

“I was quite surprised,” she says.

“I never dreamed I could be here as a board member because of the cultures that exist in Globe. Plus, people don’t know me here.”

“I was so honored I was going to be doing something to help teachers, parents, and students,” she adds.

“Everybody was happy. They were happy because a Native was in.”

The experience has completely changed her perspective on life. She doesn’t let opportunities pass her anymore, she says.

Now, when she talks to her children, or counsels a student, she tries to pass on that same fearlessness.

“Why are you afraid of a challenge?” she will ask them. “Life should be interesting.”

Heading into the new year, she is eager to fill her new role on the school board.

“I look forward to becoming a part of the Globe community,” she says. “My hope for GUSD students is that they receive a well-rounded education...

My hope is that I learn, and learn to accommodate diverse learners.”

And, by becoming the first Apache elected to the GUSD School Board, Hunter-Patten hopes she has created a new path for the Apache people.

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail,” she says, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson. “I hope I have done this for the Apache people.”

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Whole Brain Teaching

By Linda Gross

“Class, Class," says Mr. Holley as he addresses his fifth graders at the beginning of a math lesson. “Yes, Yes,” they respond in unison, matching his tone and energy level. All eyes are on him.

Today’s lesson is on multiplication and fractions, and as he walks them through the process of converting fractions to whole numbers he asks them to “mirror” what he just said.

They mimic his teaching – his words, his actions, his inflection. It becomes a game that even the quiet kids seem to go along with.

Then he turns to them and says, “Teach-OK,” and the students without further ado repeat back, “Teach-OK” and turn to their shoulder-mate in a speed-dating sort of conversation and teach the lesson they were just taught

by Holley to each other.

Holley’s classroom can seem chaotic at times – and noisy, but there is a method to this madness.

It is known as Whole Brain Teaching and was pioneered by Chris Biffle, a college professor who developed it to keep his students engaged during his

classes instead of withdrawing into their earbuds.

It was so successful, he went on to share his methods with others and today there is approximately 4,000 teachers from elementary school teachers to college professors using Whole Brain concepts in their classrooms.

“I’ve never seen anything like it," says Assistant Principal Lori Rodriguez who took me over to Holley’s classroom to observe. Test results haven’t been available to compare how his students do against more traditional methods, but she acknowledges what Holley tells me – that there are fewer discipline problems. And I observe that the kids in this classroom do seem engaged.

All of them.

Don Holley, who was born and raised in Globe and graduated GHS in 1999, left to attend Yellowstone Baptists College where he got his teaching degree. He first learned about Whole Brain teaching when he moved to Park City to teach second grade. His principal at that school had been to a training on Whole Brain Teaching and encouraged

her teachers to adopt the methods in their classrooms. Holley says he watched videos, did online training, and went for a two-day training with founder, Chris Biffle, which he terms “an experience of a lifetime.”

“It really changed how I do things in the classroom,” he says. “Including classroom management and instructional strategies.”

"Whole Brain helps me engage the kids and get all of them participating in the lesson." He points to a scoreboard at the front of the room with a smilie face and a frown(ie). “Everyone is responsible for those points,” he explains, “so when I have 100% engagement the class gets a smilie.”

When he doesn’t get it – well, it’s frownie-time.

Holley remembers his own college days sitting in large classrooms where he was sorta invisible.

He doesn’t plan on letting any of his students get by in his class being invisible.

There are a million distractions during the day he points out, and I can see the challenge in the short

Comes to GUSD Whether it was to let parents know that the phones were out at High Desert or announce the first Lego League competition for students coming this summer, GUSD’s new Facebook page is proving to be a good tool in keeping parents – and the community – informed on district news without waiting for a story to break in the newspapers or sending out emails.

The ability to get the word out quickly and share photos and videos easily is, of course, the power of social media and the allure which Facebook holds.

So why haven’t more school districts adopted social media? The reason is simple. They are bound by rules and expectations which complicate the process. Privacy issues concerning students and parental expectations have to be carefully factored into launching and maintaining a Facebook page for a school district.

Marcy Hernandez, who is assistant to Superintendent Jerry Jennex, has attended several

workshops on the subject to get familiar with the issues facing school districts and social media. She is now one of the co-administrators of the new page along with Noelle Anderson. Noelle brings a strong background in social media and, like Marcy is connected to all aspects of the district.

Together they have outlined what the page is and is not up front. Following the advice learned in the workshops and the lead of other successful district pages, the GUSD page is set up to share information, not be a social forum for airing opinions and or grievances.

Marcy and Noelle

time I’m in his class. There are several announcements over the PA which come mid sentence as he is explaining a fraction. The effect is sort of like having a conversation with a friend when the 10:05 train rumbles by. You just have to wait it out and pick up where you left off – that is if you even remember where that was. Then the phone rings from the administration office requesting a student come to the front desk and later to request something else. The distractions are numerous and the lesson on fractions is just 45 minutes.

Through it all, Holley brings students' attention back to him and their lesson using the tools of whole brain teaching. Studies show that with whole brain teaching – involving as many of the senses as possible – children learn faster, retain more, drop out rates decrease by 90%, and the health of the brain is improved.

The objective of brain based teaching, according to Biffle, is to move from memorizing information to experiencing information.

Holley’s class is an experience where learning takes place.

Marcy also points out that they do not identify kids by name on the page, but if a parent tags their child in a post, that’s OK. “As long as we didn’t do it, we’re fine,” she says.

In addition to sharing their own content, they regularly pick up content from community sites like the public library and area news agencies, as well as ‘sister pages,’ like Globe High School Cheer, Tiger Baseball and Globe High School News.

“Our total likes is not that much right now," says Noelle, “but we get a lot of shares and feel the information is getting passed around. Especially when we post photographs!”

So if you haven’t checked out the district’s page, we invite you to head over and LIKE the district on Facebook.

It’s about more than just following snow days and phone outages.

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Drawing in Teachers from Across the Country

By Linda Gross

Recruiting new teachers can be a challenge for rural school districts like Globe. For the most part, the pay is less, and the rural, small-town environment is not a first choice for many twentysomething teachers coming out of college and looking for their first teaching assignment.

Yet, a connection with friends in Michigan helped GUSD Superintendent Jennex and his wife, Debbie, find two new teachers for Copper Rim Elementary.

In a visit last summer to Michigan Debbie mentioned the need for elementary teachers in Globe to a friend. That friend told one of her friends who then called her daughter, Emily (Schock). Schock had just graduated and was looking for her first teaching job along with her friend and roommate, Jenna VanderStelt.

Schock says they filled out the application online as soon as they heard about the positions and both were granted a phone interview with Principal Brian Pearce the following day. Within weeks they were packed and on their way to Globe to teach third and fourth grades.

Now, with a full semester under their belt, they reflected on their first impressions of Globe and small-town life, the challenges of having their own classrooms, and the future.

GMT: Were you concerned about traveling to a new place that was so far from home?

Emily: Not really, I have a minor in ESL(English as a Second Language) and was originally considering teaching in China – so Globe actually feels close to home!

Copper Rim's newest teachers, Jenna VanderStelt who teaches third grade and Emily Schock who teaches fourth grade are both from Michigan and have known each other since college where they were roommates, graduating within six months of each other.

Ms. Schock greets one of her students.

Ms. Schock and her fourth graders. This photo was actually taken by one of her students who asked if he could try out my camera. The photographer-to-be is Kenneth Irving, Age 11.

Ms. VanderStelt and some of her third graders. The others had already left to perform in the school's Christmas program that morning Jenna shows her holiday spirit as she gets the attention of her students.

GMT: How do you like Globe so far?

Emily: I like living in Globe, although I’m used to living in the city. There you can pretty much go anywhere you want and there is a ninety-nine percent chance you won’t see anyone you know.

But here you go out to get groceries and it’s like “Oh, there’s a kid in my class… or a parent I just met…or a teacher I work with.”

She went on to explain that same familiarity is one of the things she’s had to get used to. She says she can’t run to the store in sweat pants for the same reason she cited before; she is likely to run into someone who knows her as the new fourth grade teacher at Copper Rim School.

Both women marvel at how quickly they were able to find a place to stay, get the paperwork filled out for cable, utilities and phone and get settled. “In Grand Rapids, it would take weeks to get all that done!”

They agree things tend to happen quicker in Globe - and the people here are friendlier.

“People have really been helpful,” says VanderStelt. “They have looked out for us.”

GMT: What has your first semester teaching been like?

Jenna: It’s been different than student teaching. There we had six weeks of teaching. Here we have a full year with a class all to ourselves. It can be overwhelming at first.

Emily: Yes, it’s definitely an adjustment..

For instance when it comes to teaching history, we learned to teach Michigan history. I knew nothing about Arizona history when I came here so I had to learn about Arizona and how to teach it to my kids.

Plus, there are a lot of terms that are just different because of where you’re raised. I brought up lawns this year and the kids asked me, “what is that?” I told them it was massive expanses of grass.

GMT: With long days spent in the classroom, what do you like to do when you get free time?

Emily: Now that we live in a small town like Globe it’s fun to go to The Valley and shop and take in a movie.

We appreciate the big stores we used to take for granted - like Target! Plus we go downtown for events and parades. And we love going to Irene’s once a week to eat Mexican food!

Jenna: It’s been great for us to have each other when we first moved here. There aren’t a lot of people our age to hang out with - or we haven’t found them yet. It would be harder for someone who comes here on their own to settle in as we have. Together we’ve gotten to know our school and Globe.

We even went to the Grand Canyon last Fall and plan on exploring Sedona over Spring Break.

Emily: Getting out of your comfort zone is what moves you forward. The money is only slightly less than what new teachers in Michigan are making and here gas prices are cheaper. I love teaching at Copper Rim and we both plan to come back next year if they will have us back.

Jenna: That…And visit California!

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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius

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Getting Healthy In The New Year

By Anne McAuley

The New Year is an opportunity to start over or set a course for meeting a goal or life aspiration.

For many of us, it means getting healthier and we’re considering working out or joining a gym. Women often want to get healthier, lose weight, or tone their bodies while men want to get a six pack, gain mass, or increase strength. While we have different reasons for going to the gym, the bottom line is that we all want results.

We spoke to Amanda Haas and Ted Quinn, personal trainers at Globe Gym, to ask them about myths and truths of working out, getting healthy, and working with a trainer.

“Exercise is one of the best medicines for everything,” says Haas, “We all need movement. Having a personal trainer helps you progress in a way that is healthy for your body. We teach you the why and how of working out and empower you to work out on your own.”

Quinn adds, “Exercise is increases mobility, energy levels, and core strength.

You instill a feeling of confidence in your body. You can stand up from a sitting position; you don’t want to age and not be able to move anymore.”

Gina Garvin has been working with Amanda for several months.

Amanda Haas and writer Anne McAuley at Globe Gym.

Fighting the American epidemic of obesity is Quinn’s passion and, through Globe Gym, he offers programs for children and a weight loss camp for adults.

Haas is passionate about helping women, “I love seeing them empowered and the confidence they get. I love when they can come into the gym and do a workout on their own.”

Women often think working out will cause them to bulk up rather than tone their muscle. The truth, according to Haas is that as women we often think we can eat whatever we want if we are working out.

“When you’re eating whatever you want and working out, you’re actually creating fat on top of muscle, whether you’re a man or a woman, and not bulk,” says Haas.

If we change the way we eat, we can change our body composition. A healthy balance of fat, carbohydrates, and protein, and a consistent workout plan are keys to meeting your personal health goals.

While that is true that you will lose weight while sticking to a rigid diet, that plan doesn’t allow for real-life situations

like dining out or parties with friends and family.

The key is to allow yourself a cheat day. Quinn suggests focusing on your workout and meal plan for two weeks and then allowing yourself to celebrate with a cheat day.

He warns that the less healthy food could cause you to feel sick, making it even more enticing to go back to your healthy ways.

“It’s a mindset shift. We’re all going to cheat on our diets but we don’t have to feel guilty.

I want the ladies I train to be good to themselves and make healthy choices. I don’t want them to be stuck in the cycle of dieting, cheating, and feeling guilty,” says Haas.

Eating healthy also doesn’t mean giving up your favorite meals. While you can allow for cheat meals, you can also alter your dishes to accommodate your new healthy lifestyle. Hormone-free meat and chicken, lean cuts of meat, brown rice, and dark leafy vegetables are healthy alternatives.

“It’s not about making pretty people.

It’s about making healthy people,” says Quinn.

He suggests planning your meals a week in advance to avoid fast or processed food choices when you’re hungry and on the go.

We’re all busy with work and family obligations. The biggest gift you can give yourself is to get healthy. Make and stick to your commitment to yourself – and if you choose to hire a trainer, the commitment you made to your trainer. Haas works three part-time jobs and says that if she has time to work out, anyone does.

Amanda checks on Gina's form during a lift.

Use a calendar to schedule time for workouts, whether it’s a yoga DVD at home, a workout class, or a session with a trainer. Once you’re in the habit of working out, it becomes easier.

“Consistency is key. If you’re not consistent, you won’t see changes. I like to weigh, measure, and take pictures so my clients can see the changes in their bodies

over time. And sometimes those changes are in inches or clothing size and not on the scale,” says Haas.

Often we think hiring a personal trainer is expensive but it’s not as expensive as you might think.

“You don’t have to be a member to take classes at Globe Gym. You can take your first class for free. It costs nothing to walk the track,” says Quinn, “There are no more excuses. The internet provides workout videos and guides that complement what I teach you in a few sessions at the gym.”

Stylin' with fitness coach, Ted Quinn, Anne gets tips on how to stay healthy year round.

Quinn and Haas agree that three meals a day, snacks, and consistent exercise are key to a healthy lifestyle, no matter your goals.

The most important meal of the day is breakfast. It sets your metabolism and if you’re skipping breakfast, your body goes into starvation mode and stores fat. It thinks you aren’t going to feed it again and calories are stored rather than burned. Quinn says oatmeal and protein, like protein powder or eggs, makes for a healthy start to any day.

Whether you’re working with a trainer or not, it’s helpful to have an accountability partner, someone who will support you in your efforts. Ideally they are eating healthy and working out right alongside you and you’re both on a path to a healthier life.

The choice to get healthy is up to you.

No one can force you to go to the gym or make healthier food choices. You have to be ready. And remember, if you fall off the wagon, you can always climb right back on. It’s up to you.

If you’re ready to get started creating a healthier you in 2015, Ted Quinn, Amanda Haas, and the rest of the team at Globe Gym are ready to help you!

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CASINO & RESORT

By Linda Gross

Christabell Mull, Director of Support Operations, was recently promoted to General Manager, while former GM Gary Murrey moves up to Chief Operating Officer, focusing more on the development of the new casino property near Oracle and strategic partnerships for the future.

The new roles help to ensure day-to-day operations run smoothly while giving careful attention to the casino’s future, including the expansion of a new property near Mammoth.

We sat down and talked to them about the changes and what it means for the casino.

Trying to juggle the demands of both jobs as GM and COO; each of which call for a 60 plus hour work week, meant Murrey was eventually stretched beyond capacity and not able to give the full attention both positions deserved.

PROMOTIONS AT APACHE GOLD SET THE STAGE FOR 2015 GROWTH Gary Murrey “One of the challenges, prior to my coming on board three years ago,” says Murrey, “was a lack of solid strategic planning, including a business plan that could provide a blue print to follow in the absence of a manager.

We’ve got that now, so we don’t have to stop and regroup and ask a lot of questions about what needs to be done if a manager is not available or when a new person is hired.”

A mentorship program which was begun under Murrey now reaches out to employees to find out what they want to do and then sets out to help them accomplish those goals. For instance, a front line employee who may have aspirations to be the Director of Human Resources will get mentored through education, job shadowing and other training opportunities.

“It is slow growing, and costly, but we feel the investment will pay off,” Murrey says.

Several years ago, during the recession, the casino had to let a lot of people go, and during that time they lost valuable experience and time in doing so. Murrey puts it another way: ”If you think of it in terms of horsepower - during any recession you make yourself as lean as possible and shut down the horsepower. You keep just enough to get down the road, but later when you get to a hill you don’t have enough horsepower to get up the hill.”

“Our goal is to slowly rebuild that engine so we have enough power to start climbing again,” he says.

Apache Gold has been doing this, he

says, by improving the property, rebuilding the golf course, adding food and beverage services, offering better customer service and rewards programs, and launching the mentorship program.

“We’ve had great ideas in the past, but many of them didn’t get anywhere because we lacked the bandwidth to implement and sustain them.

Developing our own talent and increasing that bandwidth to sustain us into the future is something we’ve been working on for the last three years and will continue to do. “ Murrey explains the decision to promote Christabelle to General Manager came about as part of the natural growth of the casino property and future planning.

When Murrey was hired on, he says, it was clear the tribe was looking for opportunities to develop the property. Although the focus for the last several years has been in overseeing a program he calls, “Polishing the Gold,” which involves everything from bringing on new programs for both guests and employees, developing new food and beverage outlets, putting on fresh paint and new signage throughout the facility and rebuilding the Stronghold Golf Course, Murrey’s time has increasingly been focused on bringing the tribe’s new casino, Apache Sky, online and dealing with the bigger strategic picture.

He now spends more time at the ’80,000 ft level’ where he has increasingly become involved in community relations and sits on several boards for economic development and tourism, with an eye towards the greater economic role of the casino in region.

“It made sense to bring on a General Manager to ensure we had someone who was available onsite eighty to ninety percent of the time and provide the team with cohesive leadership,” Murrey noted.

“Especially with our new push to roll out our Guest Services Initiative in January and February, it was important to have someone owning that one hundred percent and helping everyone to live and breathe it every day.”

The search for a new manager included several viable candidates, but Murrey believes Christabelle Mull was a natural choice in many ways.

“One of the tribe's goals is to develop tribal employment and look for ways not to have to go outside to fill positions.

Christabelle has been my right hand person since I got here and has assisted in all the operations of the casino. This fact, plus her knowledge of people and past history, has been invaluable to me and will be an asset in her role as General Manager.”

Christabelle Mull Having been raised on San Carlos, Apache Gold’s new GM is no stranger to the tribe or the casino. She began working for the casino just out of high school.

Christabelle Mull is a full blooded tribal member, attended Rice School, and later graduated from Globe High School in 1994 - the same year the tribe opened its casino.

“They were looking for student workers and since I was only 18 at the time, I wasn’t allowed to work on the floor and got a position in HR,” says Mull. She continued to intern in HR through college and came back to take a full-time position in the department,

eventually working her way up to HR director. Over those thirteen years in the HR department she got to know every employee, and says she could call each of them by name. She knew what they did and what the position required. Then in 2008, Mull was moved up to Director of Support Operations, overseeing six departments, a position she has held until her recent promotion.

“I’ve been raised with the Apache Gold family and have been a part of the organization since it began. We just celebrated our 20th anniversary last fall, and there are quite a few of us who have been with the casino that long,” she says proudly.

She has seen quite a few changes and has experienced the upheaval caused as top management kept changing every couple of years. For awhile each new manager would bring their own brand of focus and priorities to the casino, and while it may have felt like shifting sands to some, she smiles and finds the positive in that bit of history, saying that having those different management styles gave her a better insight into why each of those areas were critical to the success of the property.

When she first sat down with Murrey in 2011, she says he asked her what her ambitions were, and she told him she wanted to be General Manager. She added, ‘but only if you can prove to me that General Managers can last more than two years.”

She praises Murrey for bringing on a lot of positive changes to Apache Gold and building a cohesive team. She knew she would need more training in other departments to be ready to take on the role of GM, and that, she says, has been provided over the last three years through the mentoring program, Murrey’s support and close networking with other staff and management.

“As a general manager,” she says, “you are only as good as the people you put in charge. I will continue to focus on our hiring process so we get good people and support our mentorship program so that each employee can have the same kinds of opportunities I’ve enjoyed. I am proud to be a San Carlos Apache tribal member who is entrusted with over seeing a multimillion dollar operation for my tribe.”

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WHAT'S NEW ON THE FLOOR As the New Year begins, there is quite a lot to talk about that is new on the gaming floor at Apache Gold Casino. We met up with Director of Operations, Linda Michels to discuss some of the latest additions and here is a look at the top ten you’ll want to know about:

#5 “APACHE PRIME” STEAKHOUSE

#10 ELLEN IS COMING TO APACHE GOLD

The Apache Prime Steakhouse opened in September and offers several cuts of steak, prime rib, salmon and more, plus generous side dishes, and excellent dessert selection as well as wine and spirits. For a fine dining experience, you’ll want to share with friends, visit the Apache Prime Steakhouse.

Open: Wednesday through Sunday 4:00 p.m.- 11:00 p.m. $$$ Fine Dining Pricing

The Ellen Degeneres Show game brings the best of video, pop culture and game show madness to the floor. Here is what one reviewer says of the game:

#6 “TABLE GAMES” Black Jack and Poker are now in the same location on the upper floor. Tables open at 12pm during the winter months. A Wednesday night Poker Tournament which starts at 4 p.m. is perfect for anyone who likes to pick up a nice friendly game.

#1 “THE POINT”

#7 “NEW SLOT PRODUCT”

The new Sports Bar has it all for the sports fans and their friends. It features a dozen 52” screens, plus the best line up of beer on tap you’ll find anywhere around and food can be ordered from the grill.

Plus – it’s the only place in town fans can catch UFC fights! Ten dollars gets you in the door on fight nights where you can enjoy the show and $3 well drinks all night long. Open: 10:00 a.m.- 2:00 a.m.

Forty-eight new Konami slot machines have been added to the floor. The company, is one of the leaders in machines which incorporate the latest fantasy, action, sci-fi and movie-based themes into the design of its products.

Did you know? Konami, a company based in Tokyo, began by repairing slot machines in 1969, but within four years realized an opportunity in slots and began developing products for that market. They got a big break when they received the rights to the Rocky film series - and the rest is history. You may recognize some of their products from Rock Around the Clock to Beat the Field, and Dragons Victory.

#2 REDEEMING TICKETS No more standing in line to redeem tickets! Spend less time standing in lines at the cage and more time playing.

Our new Redemption Kiosk’s all-in-one ATM, CHANGE, and TICKET REDEMPTION. There are two locations for your convenience.

#8 “KNOW YOUR SLOT MACHINES!” Want to know how to find the newest games on the floor? Just look for the new tags which now identify both the newest games on the floor as well as the 25 most popular slots.

"Ellen DeGeneres wants me to win. And big! She cheers me on from inside her very own slot machine on the Sands convention floor. The more she cheers, the more I want to keep playing. We’re united in the comfortable realm of daytime talk TV packaged in a casinofloor penny slot. When luck tilts in my favor, she dances across the 42-inch vertical touchscreen display, emitting sparkles. I hope it’s bonus time,” she says. “I feel so alive.”

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Gila County~ $10,213.93 ~ Sheriff’s Office Drug, Gang, & Violent Crimes Task Force to further disrupt, interdict, and dismantle criminal activities within the community

#9 “BINGO”

#3 “SNAX” The newly redesigned Snack Bar across the casino floor offers an expanded menu including freshly made pizza by the slice, breakfast muffins, and cinnamon rolls to name a few items. Open: 24 Hours. $ Low Range Pricing

#4 “THE WICKIUP BUFFET” AND “BLACK RIVER GRILL” The Buffet and Grill has been updated with new interiors, menu offerings and renamed. Check out our buffet or order off the menu. Open: Daily – Buffet Lunch: 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. and Dinner: 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.; Grill- 6:00 a.m. $$ Mid-Range Pricing

The newly designed digs for Bingo mean fewer seats – about 80 - down from 150, but guests love the new cozier feel of the room. Electronic Hand Held Devices are very popular, they give you the opportunity to play more cards than you could possibly daub bettering your odds.

Wednesday through Sunday 12:00 p.m. matinee sessions, Friday and Saturday 7:00 p.m. evening sessions. (admissions open one hour prior to Session). The 1st Monday of every month Bingo Blow-Out admissions open at 5:30 p.m.

Pinal County ~ $10,213.93 ~ To improve the Dudleyville community multi-generational-center water system

City of Miami ~ $15,600 ~ To purchase fire protection equipment

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14 Unique Ways to Say

By Anne McAuley

Saying I Love You shouldn’t only happen on Valentine’s Day. Take time each day to tell your special someone that you care. Saying I love you doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. Here are 14 unique ways to say I love you: AquaNotes – Never let your good ideas – or amorous feelings – go down the drain when you leave love notes for your sweetie in the shower. (http://www. myaquanotes.com/) Love Notes in a Jar – It doesn’t sound too sexy at first but one boyfriend took it to a new level when he put 365 love notes in a mason jar for his special lady.

She had one to open each day of the year. (http://elitedaily.com/news/world/ boyfriend-writes-365-notes-for-girlfriend-photos/883379/) Make a Mix Tape – Maybe we’re aging ourselves when we say mix tape! Make a CD of your honey’s favorite songs or create a playlist on Spotify.

More than just Valentine’s Day – Tell your special someone that you love them by giving them love notes and Valentine’s Day cards throughout the year when they least expect it.

Date Night – Put on your best dress or suit and go on a special date night, just the two of you.

The Stars – Leave your cell phone at home and hold hands and walk under the stars. The quiet will rejuvenate you and you can have an uninterrupted conversation.

Coffee in Bed – Instead of just rolling out of bed and starting your day, bring your special someone a cup of coffee in bed.

Take that Cup of Coffee up a Notch – and make your Valentine breakfast in bed. Using a cookie cutter, you can make a heart-shaped fried egg and piece of toast.

Hide a Note – If your loved one travels for work, leave notes in their suitcase so they remember you even when they’re on the road.

The Look Back – I love when my special someone walks away and takes a look back at me. It shows he cares and makes my heart skip a beat.

Dinner at Home – Turn off the television and phones and turn on the music while you make dinner for your sweetie. Dim the lights and sit at the table. Pretend it is 1993 and talk to each other.

It’s in the Cards – Tell your Valentine you love them 52 different ways when you add a note about why you love them to each card of a deck of playing cards.

Make a List – Write 100 Reasons I Love You for your sweetheart.

Movie Night – Make popcorn, snuggle with your sweetie for a romantic movie.

Do you have more unique ways to say I Love You? I’d love to hear them! E-mail me at anne@annemcauley.com.

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Sometimes, all you have to do is ask.

When Adrian Marks moved to Globe last year, one of the first things he noticed was the empty lot across the street from him, behind the old Nob Hill grocery store on Devereaux Street.

In September, he approached the owner of the property, JP Cruz, struck up a conversation, and asked if in exchange for fixing up the porch and storefront, he could turn the eighth or so of an acre behind the building into a community garden. Cruz agreed.

The following month, Marks got permission from the Gila Community Food Bank to create a garden on its two-third acre lot, which would supply fruits and vegetables to the Food Banks’ recipients.

Throughout the fall, Marks was spending just about every weekend at Nob Hill or the Food Bank, along with local residents and soil scientists Paul Buck and Amber Riordan. Equipped with shovels, rakes, wheelbarrows, and a mini-excavator, using hand-drawn aerial blueprints of the properties as guides, they moved rocks, sifted and turned soil, set irrigation fixtures, dug garden beds and created walkways lined with rocks. For a couple hundred dollars in parts, and a couple weeks worth of labor, Buck built a sifting table for them to use.

“We spent weekend after weekend moving rocks and digging,” Buck says.

In a matter of months, the areas behind Nob Hill and the Food Bank were transformed into garden plots. As of late December, two main gardens, a winter garden and a native crop garden had just been planted with non-GMO, heritage seeds at the Food Bank, including cover crops like black eyed peas, rye and oats, as well as winter crops like lettuce, onions, spinach and winter squash.

With the exception of occasional help from neighbors, most of the time, it has been just Marks, Buck, and Riordan working, driven by a shared vision.

“When you can pay for a value meal

Building Gardens In The Name Of Community New nonprofit is building gardens throughout Globe-Miami

By Jenn Walker

The Nob Hill storefront on Devereaux Street in Globe. Photo by Jenn Walker

for a couple dollars that includes burgers, fries and a drink, but you have to spend $3 for a bell pepper, something is wrong there,” Buck says.

The trio intends to change that, which is why during the fall of last year, they formed Copper Canyon Community Gardens, a local nonprofit on a mission to create edible gardens around town, and lots of them. Whether a garden is created for local a school, neighborhood, or charity, each one is intended to make healthy food accessible while beautifying the community and bringing people together at the same time.

“Healthy food is expensive,” Marks says. “To be able to grow your own is affordable and fun.”

Anyone can join the organization and/ or obtain a plot in the community gardens.

“The whole concept of the gardens is for them to be all-inclusive,” Marks says. “It brings individuals together.

People that wouldn’t normally come out of the house are suddenly coming outside and hanging out.”

I met with Marks and Riordan behind Nob Hill one crisp Sunday morning in December.

Marks pointed out the 10 by 16 plots, intended for families. There are 14 total, in addition to two communal plots that individuals can share. He made it a point to note that the pathways we walked along would eventually be paved and made wheelchair accessible. He pointed out cardboard boxes behind the building filled with glass bottles. These had been donated by the Huddle, a local bar, and will be used to build retaining walls.

The housing rehabilitation specialist with a master’s degree in accounting – who in the past has taken herbal intensive classes, learned about wild edible plants as a survivalist, and studied native trees – is familiar with this kind of work.

Back in Tucson, he created a nonprofit organization called Trees Please! in 2009, which, over the course of three years, planted more than 300 trees in that region.

The following year Trees Please! created an urban community garden. It was the first community garden in the city to successfully incorporate livestock, and the group frequently hosted music festivals and movie nights at the garden.

Prior to moving to Globe, Marks had a strong drive in his gut to start another community garden. If there is a big contribution he could make to society, he thought, more community gardens is one of them.

“If I’m not helping others, or not doing this type of work, I don’t feel healthy,” he states bluntly. “Utilizing all of my experience, minus accounting, I think that I can help a little.”

Marks was considering moving to Globe from Tucson last spring to join his girlfriend, Riordan, who had just gotten a job in Globe as a soil scientist for the USDA. Riordan, who is originally from California, has spent plenty of time working on small farms in ranch towns.

Like Marks, she believes in free access to produce.

“Just gardening is non-polarizing, and it’s good for kids,” she says. “There are limited options for kids in free time.”

Once Marks saw Globe, he was sold.

“I’ve been wanting to do a community garden,” he says. “This is the perfect place for it.”

He quickly found work with the county.

Meanwhile, he started networking with people like Cruz.

Shortly after gaining Cruz’ approval to transform the Nob Hill property, Marks got permission from the Apostolic Lighthouse across the street to plant another garden.

“Draw up the paperwork and we’ll sign it,” he was told.

The timing of all of this was serendipitous.

Local resident and soil scientist Paul Buck had been dreaming of starting a community garden ever since he helped found the Globe-Miami Farmers’ Market.

When he caught wind of a guy in town rallying to start community gardens, he was eager to meet him. Buck met Marks, and the two realized their visions aligned.

Shortly thereafter, Copper Canyon Community Gardens was born.

In the process of creating gardens, the nonprofit aims to simultaneously revitalize and beautify the community, and eventually use the gardens as a way to bring the community together over things like movie nights and picnics.

Adrian Marks and Amber Riordan behind the Nob Hill property, where they recently created a community garden space.

Photo by Jenn Walker

In addition to bringing the community together, community gardens are also a means of food security, Buck says, reducing dependency on mass-produced food, which is typically unhealthy. Foods that are synthetic, processed, or made with corn syrup, are often the cheapest and most accessible in grocery stores, he explains, yet they are the very foods wreaking havoc on the health and weight of so many communities across the country.

“My vision is food production and community,” he continues. “I hope each garden will serve as a gathering point for each neighborhood in town.

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mass-produced foods from peoples’ dinner tables.”

Each garden that the group creates is also designed to be organic and selfsustaining. Methods like composting, crop rotation and vermiculture (using worms in the soil) will be encouraged so that the gardens won’t require store-bought pesticides, fertilizers and weedkillers.

Each garden will have native flowers that will create natural pollinator areas.

This keeps things inexpensive and keeps potential toxins out of the picture – pesticides, fertilizers, and weedkillers can contain things like carcinogens.

So far, the Food Bank is perhaps where the group has made the most

physical progress. At this point, the irrigation is in. Locals Nancy and Jim Mackay donated a large greenhouse which is now on site. The soil is turned and prepared for ground cover.

As many as 1,500 individuals receive food from the local Food Bank. The experiment, Marks says, will be to see how many families a 9,000 square-feet garden can feed. The Food Bank will be used as model to show what can be grown on less than an acre.

Buck and Marks break down the greenhouse donated by Jim and Nancy Mackay so it can be relocated to Gila Community Food Bank. It’s not as heavy as it seems. Photo by Jenn Walker

In January, the organization will give presentations to Miami High School and the Globe Education Center. Both schools have given the organization the go-ahead to start building gardens at each property. Now it is a matter of helping the

schools decide what to plant and how to involve students.

“We’re basically a catalyst getting these gardens into the schools,” Buck explains.

The group has offered to come in with a backhoe and do the heavy lifting to create garden spaces on the school grounds. The students and teachers can then use the gardens to learn about things like irrigation, seeding, soil properties, food production and native seeds.

Glen Lineberry, Miami High’s principal, is thrilled.

“I think what these guys are doing is incredible... We’ve got two empty, ugly acres on the north side of the school,” Lineberry says. “We can do something really great together.”

Miami High School is in the process of expanding the career and technical education programs it offers. Two programs to be added to that list are agriculture and bioscience, according to Lineberry. The garden would be used for both programs.

“The gardens are a great way to raise awareness among students of where their food comes from, the role they can take in producing their own food, and food for people who need it,” he says.

Eventually, he would like to see the project evolve into a school farm.

“Imagine fruit and nut trees, big sunflowers, strawberries and tomatoes,” he says, his voice trailing.

That’s the long term vision, anyway, he adds.

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Meanwhile, Buck, Marks and Riordan have no shortage of work on their hands as they continue to acquire seeds, plant, apply for grants and recruit more volunteers.

The Copper Canyon Community Gardens is alway looking for additional help, whether it is in the form of monetary donations, materials, or volunteer time.

Contact Adrian Marks for more information at ajm137@hotmail.com or 928-961-0655.

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Old Tales of Law & Order Miner chases down roommate for missing cash in railway holdup

By Jenn Walker

There was a time when, if you thought your roommate stole from you, you hunted him down. That’s what happened in June 1905, anyway, when Charles Mandel discovered $115 missing from beneath his mattress after a day of working at the Starlight Mine.

Mandel, masked, heavily armed, and mounted on a mule, rode to the San Carlos train station platform.

There, he found his roommate Tony Zeimer with two other men. He held-up the three at gunpoint and had one of the other two search Zeimer, who was carrying $255. Mandel took the cash and rode off.

Soon after, San Carlos police were in pursuit of Mandel. Sheriff Shanley caught word of the incident also, and set-out on horseback to find the bandit. According to the Silver Belt, “Even the Sheriff was led to believe he had his work cut out for him and that he would be unloading his sixshooters into the atmosphere or the robber’s anatomy somewhere on the road between here and San Carlos.” Lieutenant Sparks of the rangers followed to join the pursuit.

The following morning, Mandel showed up for work at the Starlight Mine, as usual.

There, he was arrested by Lieutenant Sparks. Zeimer claimed the cash he had been robbed of was his own, and made a felonious charge against Mandel. The last that was reported on the matter was that the case went to trial.

[Newspaper clipping and original story sourced from the Arizona Silver Belt, June 1, 1905.]

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Superior and Globe Host Home Tours

By Libby Rooney

Home tours have become a local tradition in both Superior and Globe, being wonderful opportunities for houserehab enthusiasts, antique lovers and dabblers in history to get a look inside beautiful vintage homes that otherwise you could only see from the outside.

In Superior the 7th annual Home Tour, Antique and Art Show will be held on January 24th and 25th. In Globe the 31st annual Historic Home Tour will be held on April 11th and 12th. On exhibit will be, not only the homes of the wealthier managers and businessmen of days past, but also the more humble dwellings of the hard working miners and their families. Big or small, they display historic craftsmanship, artistic creativity and traditional design.

SUPERIOR The home tour in Superior features a self guided tour and several noteworthy programs including Sam Lowe, longtime Arizona travel writer, who will be discussing his latest book”Arizona: Lens, Lyrics and Lore,” Steve Grimlick from the U.S. Forest Service and a historical archeologist whip will give a talk on Mattie earp and how she came to live and be buried in the area, demonstrations by the Mata Ortiz potters and a stage presentation based on Doc Holiday’s life

by Wyatt Earp, a performer and a direct decedent of the original lawman and his wife, playwright Terry Tafoya Earp.

While Doc Holiday may best be remembered as Wyatt Earps’ friend, his full history tells a much broader story.

A story which has been meticulously researched and developed for stage by the

husband-wife duo is largely based on a book by Karen-Holliday Tanner who is the closest living relative of Doc Holliday and the author of “A Family Portrait.”

Wyatt’s performance of Doc Holliday shows him in Denver where he is being held for his own protection against Sherriff Pitkin. Using historical documents and Doc’s own words whenever possible, the bio-drama brings audiences closer to the man – than the myth. Having seen other performances by this duo we would give this a big recommend and suggest you not miss it. Performance is at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

Tickets for the Superior Home Tour may be purchased at the historic Magma club for $12 the day of the event or $10 by pre-paying at the Superior Chamber of Commerce. The ticket price includes all performances on both Saturday and Sunday and in addition, ticket holders will receive a 2-for-1 pass to the Renaissance Festival and Boyce Thompson Arboretum.

GLOBE This years home tour in Globe was moved up from mid-March to midApril to avoid traffic generated by the Renaissance Fair which ends on March 31st. The last couple of years attendance at the Renaissance Fair has often backed up traffic for miles making the trip from the Valley to Globe for home tour weekend difficult at best. The organizers feel by moving the tour to mid-April, they will not only solve this issue, but the weather will be better for visitors and there is even talk of putting a few of the gardens of Globe on tour!

The Globe home tour takes place April 11-12th from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. and the tours begin at the historic train depot on Broad street where tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for children 12 and under.

Shuttle service is provided to all the stops on the tour and run approximately every 15 minutes allowing visitors to stay for as long, or as little as they like before moving on to the next location. In addition to the home and building tour, there is the annual pancake breakfast, antique show and various performances. Full details were not available at press time, but you can check with the Chamber for more details by calling: 928-425-4495.

Find the ad for the Superior Home Tour on page 17.

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WALKING THE PIPES –

AND OTHER STORIES OF GROWING UP IN GLOBE

By Libby Rooney

Eighty-four years young, my uncle Wade is tall and broad, kind of like a bear.

My uncle Wade is a lover of history, a fool for dangerous adventure, and a storyteller of the best kind. Having lived nearly all his life in these parts, he has a lot of stories to tell about Miami. I like his stories about life in the 40’s and 50’s when time flowed slow like molasses, “the gang” was an elite group of friends who went on the kind of adventures boys didn’t tell their parents, and fried catfish dipped in cornmeal tasted a lot like home.

I was lucky to hear many of my uncle’s stories like the ones with his neighborhood friends and the mischief they got into. Not yet in their teens, the weekends were long and the boys had nothing but time and energy to spend.

That was when Wade and his gang would walk the pipes that ran for three or four miles to Solitude, an area just south of Central Heights, developed by Miami Copper for disposing of mine waste.

“The pipes were made of Redwood slats, about 2 1/2 inches wide and routed on the outside edges,” Wade remembers.

“Each slat had the proper angle cut to make a perfect circle.” They carried sludge (waste from the mines mixed with water) from the Miami Copper mill to the Solitude tailings pond. After it was dumped, the sludge would dry out and form tailings like we see so much of in this area: long, flat-topped mountains the color of sand.

Two pipes, about 28 inches in diameter, were mounted on a catwalk with a walkway between them. The pipes

ran through tunnels and crossed over the ravines of the high desert terrain, level, or nearly so, so the sludge could move through them.

The boys would set out, equipped with miners carbide lamps or flashlights to light their way through the five or six tunnels they would be passing through.

Starting at Elam Street, out of sight of the watchmen, they would climb up to the catwalk and begin their expedition along the pipe line trail. They would cross the gullies between the hills and move through the dark tunnels using their lamps to spot rattlesnakes or any other unwelcome surprises.

Now, this next part of the story is not something my uncle is proud of today, and he is quick to explain that he hasn’t killed an animal for many years, having grown to appreciate and respect life as he grew older. But my uncle grew up not long after the Great Depression in a home where hunting was how my grandfather helped feed his family. In a home where deer, rabbit and quail were regularly served for dinner, it’s not so surprising that a boy from that home would kill an animal without giving it much thought.

Back to our story, while walking the pipes one warm Saturday morning, Wade and his best friend Max Watkins met a skunk in one of the tunnels. They dispatched of the poor critter and decided to play a joke on one of their friends. They hung the smelly carcass before a bend in the tunnel at a place where you couldn’t see daylight at the opposite end, and came back the next day with their friend

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Bud Mitchell. Conned into taking the lead, Bud carried an old flashlight, the batteries almost dead, shining dimly in the tunnel. With an air current at their backs, they couldn’t smell the skunk and innocent, unsuspecting Bud “ran square into it, encircling it with both arms,” Wade grins. After that episode, Bud was a little less cooperative about being the lead man on adventures.

Now the pipe walk was, in itself, an adventure but the point of the whole thing was a swim in the Solitude tailings pond at the end of the hike. Wade remembers, “Dad constantly told us there was acid in the water to keep us from swimming in it but our reasoning told us the acid was pretty dilute by the time it reached the lake.” Being smart adventurers and not ignorant of the possibility of danger, the boys would check the pond for copper sulfate by immersing a shiny knife blade in the water. Wade explains, “If it didn’t turn copper color we deemed it safe.” They checked it every time they went out there and the knife blade never changed color. They swam often in that pond of recycled sludge water.

Max Watkins and Wade had other adventures through the years. In the early

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1950’s, as young men in their twenties, they were fishing on the Salt River and talking about things they hadn’t yet done. Max said to Wade, “Let’s float down the Salt. It can’t be too difficult for two, young intrepid explorers such as us.”

The two friends spent the next year making plans, getting equipment and preparing. Max’s cousin in Tucson had a four-man rubber raft, standard equipment for B-29 World War II bombers. My uncle found two Mae West inflatable life Uncle Wade with his best friend, Max Watkins circa 1952.

jackets (a good example of sexual objectification of women in that era, by the way) that were activated with small CO2 cartridges by pulling two cords on the vests. Max said he had the perfect bag to keep the supplies dry, saying he had “packed valuables in it all over the South Pacific and it never leaked.” They bought an emergency first aid kit, and a pint of Jim Beam, in case of snake bite. As the date drew near they bought food: “Beanie Wienies”, chili, stewed tomatoes, a jar of peanut butter, two loaves of bread and a box of crackers. July fourth, fifth and sixth of 1952 were the dates set for the expedition.

Max’s father, Pappy Watkins, drove them north to the Highway 60 bridge that crosses the Salt River. They made camp on a sandy bank, slept alongside the river and started out the next morning at daybreak. Early on they hit a rough spot and, being loaded too heavy in the front, the raft flooded. They pulled over and discovered that Max’s perfect, waterproof bag had already failed. The fresh bread and crackers were lost, but they still had their canned goods and a jar of peanut butter so it didn’t seem too tragic.

It was lunch time so they got out of the raft, dumped the water from the “sorry-excuse-for-a-waterproof-bag” and hung their wet clothes out to dry. Looking into their food cache Wade asked Max what he’d like for lunch. “Whatcha’ got?” Max responded. “One hell of a mess,” Wade answered as he looked at the pile of cans whose labels had washed away in the flood. So they opened a can at random and it

was tomatoes. They ate their lunch of canned tomatoes with peanut butter and drank water from the river to wash it down.

They drifted on down through a calm stretch where Wade did some fishing. Using grasshoppers for bait, he caught over half a dozen Bonytail that would taste awfully good for breakfast.

They stopped for the night on a sandy beach, killed the rattlesnake that greeted their arrival and made camp. Their blankets were wet, but the campfire was warm and they ate a dinner of canned chili and peanut butter. Wade put his string of Bonytail in the river to keep them fresh until morning. After a questionably good night’s sleep they got up to stoke the fire in preparation to cook their breakfast of fish. Pulling the string out of the river, Wade was surprised to find only fish bones hanging from the string. Apparently a family of otters had enjoyed a good meal. For breakfast Wade and Max ate canned tomatoes and, you guessed it, peanut butter.

They loaded up the raft and set out on day two of the expedition.

Approaching a section of whitewater that narrowed to a small chute, the raft hit a large boulder that flipped them over, throwing Max free of the raft.

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rapids, “Pull the cord on your Mae West” as Max disappeared under the foaming white water. My uncle righted the raft and paddled down river, scared as the dickens. He found Max a short distance downriver wedged into a V between a couple of boulders, hanging on for dear life. Max told Wade that he pulled the cord on his life jacket “a little too hard and ripped the CO2 cylinder out of the vest.” He then sank down and hit bottom, pushed up with his legs and ended up between the two boulders. The two weathered explorers continued down the river.

The next time the now-no-longer-fearless-duo heard the river roar like Armageddon, they pulled over to check it out. Lucky they did because a fifteen foot waterfall with a vortex at the bottom was in their path. They tied a rope to the raft and let it go over the falls, watching as the suction pulled the raft down so far they nearly lost the rope as the raft disappeared beneath the water and popped back up after some time. They climbed down the cliff, re-boarded their rubber raft and floated on down the river as the terrain flattened and the water calmed. They passed Cherry Creek and as the sun set they drifted around Horseshoe Bend, the fishing hole where the idea for this crazy adventure was born. A fisherman and his wife fed the tired crew fried catfish dipped in cornmeal and gave them a ride back to Miami.

If you ask my uncle if he would ever float the river again he says, “I wouldn’t take anything for the experience, but I don’t think I would do it again.”

We sit in his small living room, stories lingering in the air like the smell of fresh baked bread. I can almost see my aunt Gladys, who passed away a few years back, sitting on the couch near my uncle.

“Oh Wade, you’re such a storyteller,” she would say.

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Year End Review – 2014 Top Video Honors A video showing Pinal Creek flooding during one of the summer monsoon rains was submitted to us by Darrel Yerkovich. The video reached over 5,000 people and was shared 51 times. We awarded Darrel Top Honors and $100 for the most viewed video of 2014.

See 2015 Video Contest Rules on this page.

Most under-rated video: Kip Culver performing ‘The Typist.’

A Look at Our Print Editions in 2014 < Winter Featuring Bass Fishing at Roosevelt Lake, the Globe-Miami Centennial Band, the Pow-Wow tradition, The Back Pack Program, featuring our new Tourism Guide and more!

Top Photo Albums GMT’s Archive Album posted in December topped the list with images dating back to 2008. Other fan favorites included the light parade in downtown Globe, Selina Curley’s Fashion Show at Chrysocolla Inn, and the GHS Hall of Fame luncheon.

Spring > Featuring Hip Hop teaching and tools, Baking with Dana, Bicycling the 60, Volunteering for the Forest, Get 'R Done with Molly Cornwell and more!

Top Nine Posts of 2014 Based on organic reach, we start with #9 and count down to our most popular post of the year.

< Summer Featuring an interview with Senator Ed Pastor, Get 'R Done with Christine Marin, 30 Years with the Center of Arts, Baking with Olga Rogers and a special pull-out section for Globe High's 100th Centennial Anniversary and more!

#9 Easter Parade Downtown Globe This annual event gives all photographers ample opportunity to capture the finery and fun of Globe’s annual Easter Parade.

#8 GHS Centennial Album The 100 year celebration of Globe High School highlighted the schools long standing history in the area and the generations who graduated from Globe High.

Fall > Featuring the old territorial jail, Bread Baker Bert Archer, History of United Fund of Globe-Miami, Photographer Chris Couture and the local Find-a-Grave project and more!

#7 Coverage of the United Fund 50th Anniversary #6 Bill Taylor When Bill Taylor, the irascible owner and voice of 101.9 passed away in December, we shared our feature story we’d done on his career printed in the Fall of 2012.

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#5 Light Parade This years light parade include sleeting rain, but we caught the action before the rain began and smiles were abundant.

# 4 Coverage of the GHS Centennial Events Favorite Promotion of 2014 Let it Snow! We shared fan photos of the Dinner for Two from Apache Prime Steakhouse

snow storm which blanketed Globe on New Year’s Eve.

Our Audience We reach both local residents and visitors to the Globe-Miami area.

We gained over 800 new fans this year and ended with 2704 Fans in 2014!

71% are women; Biggest audience is 35-65yrs; 55% from local region, 43% from Phnx & Tucson, 2% Worldwide Biggest month for new fans and engagement: September *This included the Gila County Fair & Globe High School 4-Day Centennial

Favorite Guest Post Growing

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up on Euclid Avenue by Christine Marin (5-8-2014)

A look back through our archives dating back to 2008 generated over 3000 views.

#2 Video on the rescue in Pinal Creek

Thank you for capturing so many wonderful events and people in our community. You provide a flavor and dynamic portrait of this truly wonderful jewel in Arizona. :)

When a hiker got caught in the middle of a creek during a flash flood it took a host of responders to get him to the bank safely.

#1 Flooding Creek Video

– On Memories Album Post Dec. 24, 2014, Bobbie Ravenkamp

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NEWSPAPER REVIEW Advertising Fun Special Edition for GHS Centennial Summer 2014 We shot a series of ads featuring Tigers and Vandals in the same photo under the banner “What brings Tigers and Vandals together.” Although the school rivalry is fierce, the truth is many families, work environments and social gatherings happily blend the two. We gave advertisers a chance to showcase their Tiger/Vandal employees for this series.

Join our fan base on Facebook to follow the latest news, photos and videos of the area brought to you by the Globe Miami Times!

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We go the distance when it comes to designing ads to suit the client. In July we staged a vintage photo shoot, complete with a 1920’s baseball uniform, at Soda Pop’s new 1914 ice cream parlor which opened this year.

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The Beauty in Dissent Reviewing the book “Beautiful Souls” by Eyal Press

By Jenn Walker

Perhaps more than ever, going against the grain is terribly underrated. No wonder. Speaking out against your family, friends, community or country is uncomfortable, if not downright terrifying. It means being different. It means standing out. It may mean standing alone. Yet, whatever punishment a nonconformist faces, whether it be a shattered reputation, shame, humiliation, imprisonment or death, stepping outside a circle is possibly the most courageous and monumental move a person can make.

Just two years ago, author and journalist Eyal Press published “Beautiful Souls,” a book that traces true stories of four people from four very different worlds – four nonconformists. A journalist at heart, Press travels to different parts of the world to better understand why each of these individuals chose the path of dissent. He dedicates a chapter to each of them, artfully combining firsthand accounts and research with historical, psychological and philosophical analysis. The final product is a book that speaks volumes about humanity.

Press begins with the story of a state police commander in Switzerland who falsified immigration documents of 21 Jewish refugees so that they could take refuge during the Nazi reign. In the second chapter, Press interviews a Serbian man who saved Croatian prisoners of war from detention centers during the Yugoslav Wars. The next chapter describes the conflict faced by a young Israeli soldier who refused to serve in the most elite unit of his country’s army. The last account is about a successful broker who refuses to sell her company’s product to her clientele.

The impact made by each of these acts changed lives. What would this world look like if more people chose to follow their moral compass instead of just “follow orders”?

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DAILY LIFE IN PINAL CITY’S HARDSCRABBLE DAYS

Freight wagons carrying up to twelve tons of ore left these ruts in the road from the Silver King mine to the mill at Pinal City.

By Jim Turner, Arizona Historian

Pinal City, what a grand sounding name. Unfortunately, like many of Arizona’s boom towns, it only lasted fifteen years. Then, similar to J. Ross Browne’s facetious description of Gila City, there was “nothing left but three chimneys and a coyote.”

Pinal City (or just plain Pinal) began in 1875 with the discovery of the rich Silver King Mine near present-day Boyce Thompson Arboretum. Word spread fast, and two thousand residents rushed to the scene.

By 1878, a mill town and post office were established at what was first called Picket Post, but became Pinal the following year. When the price of silver dropped and the mine played out, Pinal Photo by Jenn Walker Freight wagons carrying up to twelve tons of ore left these ruts in the road City collapsed and the post office closed from the Silver King mine to the mill at Pinal City. in 1891. freight, and stock the jockey box with his rations for the What was daily life like in Pinal City? It was rough, day: a quart of whisky and a one-pound of plug tobacco. demanding, and often dangerous. Levi’s or denim Everyone worked long days, but kids still had time overalls for men and simple cotton dresses or denim for fun. Wild burros roamed the hills, and a band of skirts and wool shirts for women were the fashion, and small boys could easily whoop up a stampede. After a both wore rugged boots suited to the rocky terrain. short chase, the donkeys found themselves trapped in a Sometimes women even wore men’s clothing. corral. From then until dark, the boys risked their necks Pinal’s main business was mining. Journalist Georgia trying to ride these bucking burros.

Moore interviewed people who lived in the town of In her memoir, Es Verdad, Florence native Lottie Silver King, three miles north of Superior, around that Devine writes about a trip they took to Globe around time. She said that people didn’t sleep late in those days.

1900: “Up, up the hills the sides of which were covered They had too many things to do, and it took longer to with blue and yellow flowers. Over the mountains the do them. air was wonderful. We had crossed the Pinals, and The sounds of a day’s work were rattling harnesses, bumped over boulders in Pinal Creek. At last we reached muleskinners’ curses, and the scrape and scuffle of our destination and Clarissa and I jumped around and mule hooves clattering up the rocky slope with a load of around.” ore for the mill. Two wagons lashed together could carry Once work was done, it was time to eat. From the twelve tons of ore, and their wheels measured as much following prices, you can easily see why certain dishes as twelve feet in diameter with thick metal rims that cut were a major part of the daily fare. Corn meal cost a into the rocky road. Every morning one old freighter penny a pound, molasses was seventy cents a gallon, named Black Jack would hitch up his team, load the

Pinal City mill, 1880

but sugar was ten cents a pound. Roasted coffee was 42 cents a pound, but you had to beware that it wasn’t cut with counterfeit baked clay “coffee beans” to give the merchant a little extra profit.

Cooking in those days was done on the hearth or a cast iron stove. These consumed about fifty pounds of wood per day.

Ashes had to be emptied twice a day and flues and dampers carefully adjusted. Someone had to watch the fire all day long.

Once the fire was ready, food had to be prepared. Poultry was killed and plucked, cows milked, butter churned, and flour sifted. Meals were usually roasted meat, stews and bean pots, and various corn meal dishes. There was corn meal mush, corn pone, johnnycake, hoecakes, and other names for baked or skillet-fried cornbread, depending on where you came from.

Bacon grease, lard, and pork rinds added extra flavor.

Georgia Moore recorded this memory of camping near Silver King: “The smell of frying bacon probably is the most fetching of all foods. Suddenly and without fuss Mother had fresh hot biscuits, bacon, mush, and coffee set out.”

They didn’t have air conditioning, paved roads, or laborsaving devices, but Pinal City pioneers liked the same basic things we do today. Rest at the end of a hard day, children laughing, and the smell of bacon frying on an open fire.

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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

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Miami There are 20+ Antique and Art shops in Globe-Miami, with everything from old clocks and mining memorabilia to vintage and Turquoise jewelry, linens, quality furniture, glassware, western, fine art and much more. Pick up a free brochure and map and enjoy a day of shopping the Antiques Corridor of Globe-Miami!

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Pickle Barrel Trading Post 404 S. Broad St. 928-425-9282

Donna by Design 413 W. Sullivan St 928-200-2107 Grandma Weezy’s Attic 411 W. Sullivan St 928-473-9004 Gramma’s House of Antiques and Treasures 123 N. Miami Ave 623-670-01717 Julie’s Sewing Corner 600 W. Sullivan St. 928-473-7633

• Limit of three videos per person can be entered per quarter (winter, spring, summer, fall) • Videos can have music, voice over and text, but are not required (check out 2014’s • Winning video on our Facebook page).

• Please make sure any music used does not violate copyright.

• Include a title with your video, a description (where it was taken, what it is), and your name and current city of residence.

• Upload the video to your Facebook page or YouTube or Vimeo channel and email us the link. Weಬll review it and decide whether to post to GMT. • Videos cannot exceed ten minutes.

How to Win! Lemonade’s Uniques 413 W. Gibson St. 480-213-8817

Pretty Patty Lou’s 551 S. Broad St. 928-425-2680

Miami Rose Trading Company 401 W. Sullivan St 928-473-2949

Simply Sarah 386 N Broad Street 928-425-3637

Soda Pop’s Antiques 505 W. Sullivan St. 928-473-4344

Yesterdays Treasures 205 W. Hackney Ave 928-425-7016

Turn the Corner 501 W Sullivan St. 623-910-9033

Once you send us your video, GMT will decide whether or not to post it on our Facebook page.

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For those less adventurous, Mickel recommends waiting until later in April.

The water is lower and warmer with Class II and III rapids; it’s a perfect time for families with children to experience a white water rafting adventure.

reflect, rejuvenate, and connect to the river in way you can’t on a shorter trip. My wife and I have a passion for the river because it’s about more than just the white water.

It’s about connecting with people whether it’s our coworkers or visitors on a tour.

Remembering what it’s like to experience the river for the first time makes 100th trip

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What makes Salt River rafting unique is the geography, geology, and wildlife.

It’s one of the few places on the planet where you can ride the white water, a traditionally cooler weather activity, next to the landscape of saguaro cactus and desert flowers and wildlife that includes bears, javelina, gila monsters, and wild horses.

The best part, says Mickel, is that each trip is different.

“You can raft the Salt River 100 times and have a different experience each time.”

He recommends the four-day trip where visitors have the chance to experience the transition of the landscape from the upper to lower Sonoran desert including the beauty of the white granite walls smoothed by the river.

“On a longer trip you have time to

as cool as the first because we get a chance to see it through other people’s eyes.”

If you’re ready to make your first trip down the Salt River, Mickel recommends contacting the tour company. Ask what they provide in terms of clothing, meals and equipment. Some will provide food, camping gear, and wetsuits while others provide some or all of what you will need depending on the length of your trip.

“We like to say, ‘dress for the swim.’

While it doesn’t happen often, it’s an important part of trip planning. We want to be sure you’re dressed properly whether that’s a wetsuit or quick-dry clothing.

Most importantly, come with a sense of adventure,” says Mickel.

Visit Mild to Wild Rafting and Jeep Trail Tours at http://mild2wildrafting.com/ for more information and to book your Salt River Rafting trip.

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Nowadays, Stapleton is creating cakes that tower four-plus feet and weigh up to 125 pounds, from scratch. Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether or not her cakes are, in fact, cakes. Whether it is a chocolate, carrot or red velvet cake, she can shape it to look like just about anything, even a suitcase or a body dressed in nurse’s scrubs.

“I never thought of myself as a creative person until I started doing this,” she says.

“I’ve always enjoyed baking, but I didn’t know I could decorate until I got older.”

On the Friday morning after Christmas, Stapleton is working on two cakes for a local wedding reception. Already, she has the cake batter made and poured into two pans. One is a marble cake, the other is white velvet. Her homemade batters call for things like water, milk, flour, eggs, baking powder, salt and oil, yet somehow she has managed to keep her small homebased kitchen spotless.

“It’s not normally this clean in here,” she says with a laugh. “I’m a messy baker.”

As she stands in front of her bright red KitchenAid mixer, blending powdered sugar, shortening, milk, butter and vanilla into buttercream frosting, she explains how she entered the world of professional baking.

Stapleton, who has lived in Arizona for the last 40 years, began baking professionally ten years ago.

“It kind of happened by accident,” she remembers.

In 2004, she was making gift baskets as a member of the Chamber of Commerce in Mesa. When the owner of the Lexus dealership was looking for goodies to give to her customers, Stapleton offered to bake something.

The company agreed to let Stapleton make a batch of samples for the general manager first. She developed a recipe for fudge brownies, and they were a hit. The company asked her to make an order of 125 dozen at a dozen per customer.

In response, Stapleton ordered commercial ovens, mixers, pans, a refrigerator and a steel table, and toted them into her home. She transformed her living room and dining room into her new baking quarters.

“I scooted everything out, got big metal shelves, and started this crazy business,” she remembers.

Soon after that, Stapleton got a request to bake for a Toyota dealership. It wasn’t long before Stapleton was baking two dozen snickerdoodles for every car purchase, averaging at about 600 to 700 cars a month, roughly 14,000 to 16,000 cookies total.

When a friend needed to let go of a space in downtown Mesa in 2004, Stapleton took over the lease, and for five years, she ran a business out of it called

The Jersey Girl Cafe. In 2007, she opened another cafe inside Power Nissan, which lasted until 2009.

A year later, Stapleton and her husband Mike (Globe’s District 4 councilman) stumbled across Globe. It wasn’t long before the town’s charm won them over, and in 2011, they bought a house here.

Initially, Stapleton had let go of baking.

She was working as a dispatcher for the Globe Police Department. But her mother pushed her to give it another shot.

“Bake a cake up there,” she told her.

Stapleton did, and, being the small community that Globe-Miami is, wordof-mouth spread fast. One by one, locals began requesting Stapleton’s cakes.

“It just became my thing,” she says nonchalantly.

“She’s busier here than she was in Mesa,” Mike pipes in.

Photo by Jenn Walker

Stapleton applies a crumb coat of buttercream frosting to the sides of the cakes.

Nowadays, Stapleton works out of her home kitchen. Though she had to downsize from her four ovens in Mesa, it’s well-equipped with everything she needs.

Her kitchen is stocked with stainless steel measuring cups and spoons, cookie cutters, decorating tips, and two KitchenAid mixers. Those last forever, she says. Her pans are critical, she adds, and she advocates commercial pans over store-bought ones.

As far as ingredients go, she always has two-pound bags of sugar, tubs of fondant, flour, eggs, milk, buttermilk, baking soda, baking powder, butter and vanilla on hand. She will often maker her own vanilla extract and fondant from scratch.

There is no shortage to what Stapleton can bake, whether it is cakes, brownies or cookies.

In 2011 and 2014, she was selling out of her cinnamon rolls, pecan sticky buns, and scones at the Globe-Miami Farmers’ Market on a weekly basis.

However, she is probably best known for her handmade, specialordered cakes. She has been known to bake and deliver three wedding cakes in one weekend; her family’s car now serves as a

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Cake photos courtesy of Anita Stapleton

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mini-delivery van. Already, she has seven wedding cakes booked for next year.

There is no set time for how long it takes Stapleton to make a cake. It simply depends on the cake, she says.

Something simple might take a couple hours, whereas something complex could take a week. If she is making a cake with flower, leaf, or snowflake decorations, she will make them out of gum paste at the beginning of the week and let them dry for a few days.

“It’s hard work getting something to look and taste nice, so it’s nice to get appreciated,” she says. “If it’s something spectacular you want, I can do it for you.”

How she develops a recipe will vary, too. Sometimes she will start with a base recipe and change the flavors or play with what amounts or which extracts she uses.

Other times, she’ll come across a recipe that works as is.

Photo by Jenn Walker

Stapleton uses gum paste to shape rose decorations for her cakes.

The most important thing, she notes, is to bake with precision.

“When you’re cooking, you can change things around,” she explains. “But baking is more of a science.”

It’s incredible, then, that Stapleton is able to be interviewed and bake two cakes without missing a beat.

In total, she makes three batches of

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butter cream the morning of her interview.

Meanwhile, she sticks the half sheets of cake in the oven to bake.

Once she pulls the cakes out, she levels out the tops with a sharp knife; this way they can be layered on top of each other.

Then she brushes a base coat, or a crumb coat, of buttercream frosting to each side of the cake. It’s important to not let the cake show, she says.

Later, she will make snowflakes out of royal icing. To give a better idea of how she brings icing to life, Stapleton demonstrates how to make roses out of gum paste.

“I could stay up all night doing this,” she says, leaning over her kitchen counter and wrapping gum-paste shaped petals around a lollipop. “You challenge yourself with every new thing you try.”

For her daughter’s wedding cake, she made 200 of these roses lining the bottom of it.

Of course, baking can get stressful, especially when, after she’s already spent hours on a cake, she has to spend many more decorating it. When things get particularly frustrating, she has been known to hurl spatulas across the room.

Her stress, she says, mainly stems from one concern – she never wants to give her customer something substandard.

“In our minds, we put our heart and soul into it,” she explains. “There is nothing more devastating than giving something to someone who doesn’t like the final product... I never want to disappoint someone.”

In the end, though, her product always turns out, she says.

“Even with all of the frustration, I have a love for it,” she adds with a smile.

“I like making people happy, and I like the interaction. It’s just fun; I really enjoy what I do.”

In the not-so-distant future, Stapleton dreams of opening a small bakery in Globe.

There was a time when it was common for people to head over to the local bakery to buy a cake, she recalls. There was a special hometown feel to it.

“Maybe we can bring that back,” she says.

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