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2022 PHOTO BY LCGROSS
The building sits at a ‘gateway’ entrance to downtown Globe via Hill Street. Abandoned for over two decades, the building has greatly deteriorated. The cost to replace all the windows alone is estimated at $500,000 by the Gorman Company. BY DAVID ABBOTT
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he crumbling shell of Hill Street School in Globe has new champions and if the process works out in their favor, the weedy eyesore with the broken windows at the southern entrance to downtown might soon become a senior affordable housing project, creating a fresh look for the entryway. “If we don’t jump on this opportunity, I think it’ll stay vacant for another 20 years,” said Globe Mayor Al Gameros in an interview the week before a pivotal vote on whether City
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARIZONA STATE LIBRARY, ARCHIVES
The Hill Street School completed in 1920 was designed by Henry C. Trost of the highly regarded architectural firm, Trost & Trost.
Council will choose to move forward with the project. The proposal in question comes from Gorman & Company, a limited liability corporation founded in 1984, based in Wisconsin and operating in Arizona since 2008. The firm specializes in procuring funding and revitalizing and redeveloping properties in communities throughout the U.S. According to a project overview presented at a Globe Planning and Zoning Commission meeting on Jan. 19, the company has “built
and rehabilitated over 9,000 units during its history,” and in Arizona has built 1,554 units, with 483 units under construction and 2,034 units in “pre-development” in the past 13 years. The Hill Street School project would overhaul the building and construct an additional three-story structure on the property to create 64-units of low-income senior housing with green space on the west side of the property.
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Nurses on the Front Line Fighting COVID-19 BY PATTI DALEY
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Tired of Covid-19? Imagine being a nurse on the front lines of a two-year infectious pandemic. “We have had sicker people in this hospital than this hospital has ever seen before,” says Rhonda Mason, Chief Nursing Officer at Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center (CVRMC) in Globe. “We have stretched people further than I thought they were capable of stretching.” Mason has worked in hospitals all her 30-year career, most of it in management. It’s her job to know what’s going on – surgeries, schedules, staffing, supplies. For the past two years, it’s been all about Covid. “This has taken everybody’s time, from every angle, every hospital (and) employee in the system, and supply chain,” Rhonda says. “It takes a village to make this work.”
FRONT LINE NURSES, Continued on page 22 Angelica confers with the team.
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten STORY AND PHOTOS BY PATTI DALEY
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Read one book a night to a newborn, infant or toddler. Within 3 years, that’s over 1000 books! That’s the simple idea behind the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program -– a little at a time adds up to a lot. “Reading opens up so much knowledge and curiosity and excitement about the world around us,” says Dr. Stephanie Chan, OD, mother of Lily and Micah Chan. Lilyana (Lily) Chan was the first child in Globe to post 1000 books. She began the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program just over a year ago, at 4 years old. Her younger brother Micah surpassed the 900 mark in January. He’s only 2.
Stephanie Chan with kids
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