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A Conversation with Globe’s City Manager on the Eve of the Election

By Patti Daley

rizona holds its primary election on August 4, 2020.

Arizona has an open primary, which means all registered voters can participate, including independents.

“We encourage everybody to get out and vote,” says Paul Jepsen, Globe City Manager. “One of the few things society asks of everybody is to participate.”

Globe residents will choose new City Council members and vote on Prop 406.

The City of Globe is run with a Council Member form of government, common in communities of less than a half million. City Council is composed of the mayor and six council members. Mayor Al Gomerez is running unopposed for reelection, as is Freddy Rios in Council Member District 1. Mike Pastor and Dan Shinder are running in District 2. Charlene Giles and David Phillip Rodriguez will be on the ballot for District 5.

GMT met with Globe City Manager Paul Jepsen outside on a picnic bench as we socially “Everyday people who live in the city are elected to watch distanced and discussed the upcoming election cycle. Photo by LCGross. over the government,” Jepsen says.

The role of the council is to set priorities, enact legislation and approve a budget to address the priorities of the City. Jepsen executes the budget through the City’s fourteen departments; he’s been on the job since March 2016.

“I serve all seven members on the council, but my direction comes from the body,” Jepsen explains. “This council and the council past has aimed to make Globe business friendly.”

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2nd Generation Miners

By Patricia Sanders

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lowering plants don’t just look pretty – they can also do some serious garden work.

Beautiful, aromatic blossoms attract beneficial insects – such as pollinators – to the garden.

And in vegetable gardens, you can enlist flowering plants to help with pest control, either attracting predators that keep populations of damaging insects down, or repelling pesky insects themselves.

Plants that attract or support friendly insects are called “insectary” plants. And when you plant an area specifically for attracting, feeding, and sheltering insects – such as a pollinator garden – it’s called an insectary planting. By some reports, insectary plantings can increase beneficial insect populations tenfold.

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SPIRIT OF EDUCATION with Darrel Yerkovich

By Patti Daley

Darrel Yerkovich learns as he goes, following his interests.

“All the things I’m interested in now are hobbies,” he says.

As a youngster, Darrel built bike ramps, and worked on cars. Today he works full-time, teaches machining at Cobre Valley Institute of Technology (CVIT), mentors the Globe High School First Robotics Team, and is launching a machining business of his own.

“My goal is to get much better at machining,” Darrel says, “and learn about how to run a business.”

Born and raised in Globe, Darrel graduated from Globe High School in 2003 without “money for college or a plan,” just a need to “get out of town.” He joined the U.S. Navy and served four years as a nuclear machinist mate, operating reactor plant systems on carriers. In 2010, his aunt passed and Darrel went to Buffalo, New York to help relatives settle her estate.

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t’s really too bad heat waves don’t kill off the coronavirus. Even with the dismal leadership we’ve seen from the Governor, we would be sitting in the catbird seat with this pandemic if heat made a difference. But, alas, that was a myth, like many others, born of wishful thinking without a hint of reality. Arizona ranks #1 in the world right now with cases of Covid-19, and we’re seeing the impacts throughout our communities in Gila County. We all know someone who has it, is recovering from it, or is in the hospital fighting for their life. The impacts can be seen everywhere, as schools, business and government offices struggle with managing the fallout.

As our editor, Patricia Sanders, writes in this month’s op-ed (p. 3), if there’s any blessing of this chaotic and challenging time, it could be that we can see things more clearly, however uncomfortable that may be. And it’s apparent now, if it wasn’t before, that who leads matters. This holds true in normal times, but in a crisis like this, where lives and livelihoods are so dramatically on the line, it matters even more.

This August, you have a chance to select those leaders through the votes you cast in the upcoming primary (p. 1). And managing through a challenge like this will also take money - that’s why the 2020 census is so incredibly important.

If you haven’t done so, please go online and fill it out. It takes less than ten minutes, and the data from the census will affect the funding we get for the next ten years. With the challenges ahead, we’ll need every dollar...and that depends on counting every person (p. 20).

As for our features this month, we’re thrilled to announce a new series on mining for 2020-2021. Beginning in July, our mining page will feature secondgeneration miners each month. Having just wrapped up a year-long series on women in mining, it seems appropriate that our second-generating mining series kicks off with a profile of a woman who followed in her father’s footsteps to carve out a career in the industry (p. 9). The mining page will also include a series of FAQs on mining generated from the mines themselves and you as readers.

And as if we didn’t know it already, Globe-Miami is the “Mexican Food Capital of Arizona.” It’s even better than that, as Thea Wilshire points out in her Globetrotting article this month (p. 5).

As GMT heads into a new year - it was just last July that we went monthly - I’m grateful for the support throughout the community and the ability to continue working as we always have, to bring you the stories of our community, reflecting the people who live here and the times we live in. Next month we’ll be rolling out an all new media kit, plus some new programs to reflect the challenges faced by our advertisers and local small business. We’ll also introduce you to a new member of the GMT team who’s moving here this month to work for us and live in Globe.

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OPINION ’m in southern New Hampshire, visiting my brother at his new house – he’s just retired from the Army – and helping him put in a new vegetable garden. It’s a beautiful time to be in New Hampshire: temps are in the mid 70s to low 80s, and it rains about every other day. My sister-in-law is a great cook, and I get to hang out with my awesome nieces and nephew. This feels like a magical oasis in amid all the crises and chaos of the world.

Meanwhile, my work – writing for GMT and producing summaries of books and articles on business and world events – brings me into contact with the realities of the larger world. As I read about the worsening pandemic situation, continuing protests over structural racism, distressing political news, and, last but certainly not least, the accelerating environmental catastrophe, I can’t help wondering if I could – and should – be doing something more. Or living differently in some way so as to make sure my impact is positive or at least a little less negative. Things are bad enough without my adding to them.

Life is always presenting choices and sometimes dilemmas. Sometimes it’s “should I snack on cookies or carrots?” But now, issues and events of the day seem to be becoming more and more insistent, more and more personal, more and more unsettling. And constant. And difficult. And sometimes revealing of who I really am – and therefore uncomfortable. Is it okay to break my quarantine to go to dinner out with the family (it seems safe)? Should I drop everything and risk losing an eye, or worse, to join a protest I claim to believe in?

Should I go ahead and buy the three-quarter ton truck I want, or stick to my little fuel-efficient Nissan?

I’ve always been, in my own mind, a live and let live person. I feel we all should be free to make our own choices, without pressure or shame. I don’t tend to raise issues or call people out even when I deeply disagree with them. As the issues and questions escalate, though, it’s becoming more and more clear that I’m really just conflict avoidant, and I often don’t push my opinions or desires because I’m afraid to make waves.

I’m also afraid to find out that my opinion doesn’t count, doesn’t actually matter.

Only it’s become more and more obvious, in a hundred ways, that it does. That all of our opinions and preferences and desires matter. They’re matters of life and death – literally.

A couple of months ago, an authority on public health – I wish I could remember the person’s name; it was a former European health minister, I think – called the new coronavirus “the virus of truth.” He was referring to the way the covid-19 pandemic is revealing politicians’ true colors, as well as structural weaknesses in national societies and economies.

Whether the topic is covid-19 or tearing down Confederate statues, reducing carbon footprint or speaking up about abuses of power, or a thousand other questions, we’re all undergoing daily litmus tests that reveal what’s really going on behind our altruism and accountability. Often it turns out that all of that is only a facade, and the truth is much darker.

I say this with awareness that I’m not exempt.

While I was double-digging a new garden bed Monday afternoon, I had time to think, and realized, I’m doing this gardening because, even though it’s hard work, I enjoy it. I love being outdoors, digging in the earth, getting dirt on my hands, watching plants grow and nurturing them, and then partaking of their bounty.

Those are all good things, but they’re not unselfish. If I didn’t thoroughly enjoy the process, I realized, I wouldn’t be doing this. My brother would have to put in his own darn garden.

July 2020

GOOD RAIN

by Patricia Sanders

I do feel that I’m usually a generous, empathetic person – but nevertheless, you won’t find me exerting a lot of effort to do something that doesn’t benefit me personally in some way. Either through enjoyment or inflating my ego a little bit, or subtly creating obligations on the part of the person I’m giving to, or helping me feel a little less remorse about not doing what I could be doing, but won’t.

Although I’m not living in Arizona right now, I understand that masks are a highly polarized issue.

I’m one of those people who wear a mask every time I go out. I was an early adopter. The second week of March, when the virus was just starting to hit in Italy, I flew from Boston to my favorite place, the Azores. I was headed to an island with a small, mostly elderly population.

I would have been devastated if I’d been the one to bring the virus to the island and possibly hurt these people I was beginning to think of as friends.

As it happened, Santa Maria remains virus free, and there hasn’t been a single case on the island. Flights connecting the island to the rest of the world were suspended in late March. So throughout April and May, there was practically zero chance of the virus even being on the island. Still, you saw pretty much everyone there wearing masks and social distancing. Whether that was out of simple obedience to the law or a strong sense of community responsibility and care for others, it would be hard to say. But either way, it was a stark contrast to images I saw online of Americans intentionally coughing on produce cases or even in other people’s faces.

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Life puts us to these tests every day. It’s always been happening, whether we noticed it or not. It’s always been the case that we have the choice to make each moment holy. Life is sacred – not because of what we’re doing with it, usually – but because of what we could choose to do with it. That’s always been true.

The difference now is that more and more, it seems the tests are becoming clearer, plainer. For one thing, other people’s character, their true colors, are becoming easier to perceive. Sometimes it’s as easy as noticing if they’re wearing a mask or not.

But more personally, as we absorb the events of the world and respond to them one way or another, it’s as if a mirror has been put up to each of our faces.

And at the same time, it’s as if someone’s turning the lights up, brighter and brighter. It’s becoming harder and harder to avoid seeing the face that looks back from the mirror.

Sometimes that’s good news – you find out that you’re a person who doesn’t mind enduring a little discomfort and inconvenience for the sake of protecting strangers from harm. Sometimes, you find out you’re not quite the person you’d like to be. You break quarantine to go out to dinner with the fam.

You fly across the ocean, even though you know Greta Thunberg’s right. You realize you’re not about to go to a protest and put your own body on the line, at least not yet. You realize you have some work to do to develop more empathy, compassion, generosity, integrity, and courage.

That’s the blessing of these times, as I see it.

And it’s a huge one, a life-changing and world-changing one. We’re like people with poor eyesight, and with these crises it’s as if God is giving us spectacles – along with the mirror and bright lights. We can finally see who we are, warts and all, and that gives us the opportunity to change who we are. It’s on us to open our eyes, to be willing to see the uncomfortable and sometimes regrettable truth. And then do something about it.

It’s not easy or comfortable to witness your own selfishness, distrust, and fear. That clarity brings remorse and sometimes shame. But seeing the truth also brings a new level of self-respect, and the possibility of change. Rural Arizonans, with their history of hard work and toughness and their git-er-done spirit, know that building a good life in a difficult environment means enduring discomfort and risks – and that you won’t get anywhere by pretending facts aren’t facts.

The secret to being willing to face the whole truth about yourself is knowing that you can change it. I can work every day to be a little more considerate, a little less self-centered, a little more generous.

And, even more, it’s knowing that this daily progress is in many ways what life is all about. God is an excellent gardener. (I think he invented it, actually.)

He knows sometimes you have to rain down a pile of – let’s call it fertilizer – to get things to grow.

Patricia Sanders lived in Globe from 2004 to 2008 and at Reevis Mountain School, in the Tonto National Forest, from 2008 to 2014. She has been a writer and editor for GMT since 2015. She is currently traveling long-term and researching a book on dance. You can follow her writing on the website medium.com, under the pen name SK Camille.

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Insectary Plants, Continued from page 1

Consider the following plants to beautify your space – and to welcome the beneficial insects that serve as essential workers in the yard and garden.

Bachelor’s button (cornflower) attracts ladybugs, lacewings, and wasps – all effective predators of aphids. These predator insects also consume caterpillars, mealybugs, and mites. Many other members of the Asteracaea family are just as effective, inviting beneficial insects by producing plenty of pollen and beautiful, attractive flowers. Aster, cosmos, sunflowers, and blanket flowers (gaillardia) all make gorgeous, useful additions to a garden.

Lavender can be a workhorse in the garden – and a beautiful one to boot. Its tiny, aromatic blossoms feed beneficial insects, attracting honeybees, bumblebees, and other beneficial insects – as well as having many culinary, medicinal, and household uses. Lavender doesn’t do well in regular garden soil, so you often see it in drier beds or borders, often among other Mediterranean herbs.

Or consider lavender’s siblings in the mint family (Lamiacaea), such as basil, lemon balm, catnip, oregano, peppermint, or sage. If you allow them to flower rather than cutting them back, they’ll produce spikes of blue or purple flowers that invite beneficials to your yard.

Speaking of plants that you may already have in your garden – such as carrot, parsley, cilantro, and dill – these members of the Apicaea or Umbelliferae family can also serve as very effective insectary plants. Their umbels of miniature flowers produce attractive aromas and lots of pollen and nectar for small beneficial insects. These tall, stalky plants – once they bolt – also offer perfect habitats for helpful predator insects.

Sweet alyssum, with its low masses of tiny white blossoms, grows quickly in areas of part shade, making it ideal for planting among vegetables. Alyssum is highly attractive for predator insects – including lacewings, which feed on alyssum nectar and pollen and then lay their eggs on the plant. The lacewing larvae go on to eat aphids – each of them can consume up to 100 aphids per day. Alyssum makes an especially good companion for onions, as it also helps control onion thrips.

These flowering plants are insect magnets (much like me). But there are also attractive plants that repel unwanted insects, by producing essential oils that act as natural insect repellents. They won’t completely rid your garden or yard of pests, but they can make a difference.

Calendula, also called pot marigold, might be the most well known of the insect-repelling flowering plants. Calendula both attracts beneficial insects and repels unwanted ones – including asparagus beetles, aphids, whiteflies, and mosquitoes. It’s even said to deter rabbits. Normally, pot marigolds are kept as an annual, but if allowed to grow a second year, their roots will begin to repel nematodes.

Alliums – from low-growing chives to leeks and shallots, all the way to the huge Allium giganteum – will drive away slugs, aphids, Japanese beetles, carrot flies, and cabbage worms. Plant them throughout the garden, especially near tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, broccoli, and carrots.

All kinds of cole crops will benefit from the presence of lovely hyssop. Its fragrant purple spikes are said to repel cabbage moths, white butterflies, flea beetles, and slugs – while attracting lots of helpful bees.

Nasturtiums have long been well loved as companion plants, especially as an edging for vegetable gardens. They will protect tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, kale, collards, broccoli, and cabbage from whiteflies, squash bugs, aphids, cabbage loopers, and many kind of beetle.

Chrysanthemums are the natural source for pyrethrum, a common ingredient in commercial bug sprays and pet shampoos. Plant chrysanthemums for use as a cut flower and to control roaches, ants, Japanese beetles, harlequin bugs, root-knot nematodes, and even ticks, lice, and fleas. But please don’t attempt to concoct your own insecticidal spray from chrysanthemums – or be very careful if you do!

Concentrated pyrethrum is toxic to humans as well as insects, and can cause problems ranging from skin irritation to nausea and unconsciousness. The small amounts found naturally in the flowers won’t hurt you – in fact, the flower petals make a pretty garnish for a salad.

Borage’s small, vibrant blue, nodding flowers accent a sprawling plant with soft, fuzzy leaves. Borage repels tomato hornworms, while attracting pollinator bees.

Planted near tomatoes, borage will not only help protect the tomatoes but even improve their flavor.

Insectary plants are most helpful when you plant a variety – the different shapes and sizes of flowers will attract and feed different types of insects, and varying blossoming times will ensure nectar, pollen – and color – throughout the season.

So don’t hold back when you add these beautiful plants to your garden – the insects will thank you. And you’ll be rewarded with more colorful, healthier garden. u

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GLOBETROTTING:

“MEXICAN FOOD CAPITAL OF ARIZONA!” Food sustains our bodies, evokes emotion, marks ritual and ceremony, shows relational connection, and defines culture. The gathering, cooking, and eating of food is unique between different ethnicities and distinctive to places, including a community like Globe-Miami.

We have our own local food history and culture, which is one of the many things I love about this place.

Let’s start with one of our bigger food claims-to-fame: Globe-Miami is the self-declared “Mexican Food Capital of Arizona”. While some border communities may want to challenge this assertion, the truth of the matter is actually much greater: Globe-Miami is in fact the Mexican Food Capital of the United States.

Let me explain…

When looking at the per capita rate of Mexican food restaurants per 10,000 residents, Datafiniti Catalog of Business Data states that Humble, TX has the highest rate in the nation with 7.3 restaurants, and Littleton, CO is second with 4.8. They probably didn’t look at our area because we didn’t meet the screening criteria of having at least 10,000 residents. If we extrapolate our current Mexican restaurants by our town populations, Globe has a rate of 16.3 and Miami has 16.9. If we combine our two communities using the 2018 population data, we have a combined population of 9,120 people. Without extrapolating because we’re now close to 10,000 people, we have 15 restaurants between our two communities.

Without a doubt, we are the campeonas (champions).

Even with a handicap of 880 fewer people, we’re more than double what is recognized as the highest per capita Mexican food restaurant rate in the nation!

I already loved Mexican food when I moved to this area, but had to learn new things here – like “burros” are what the rest of the country calls “burritos”, everyone gets their own salsa dish in Globe-Miami, and you will wait all week if you’re expecting your bill to be brought to your table. I love that locals know our Mexican restaurants so well that most of us have different favorite places depending on what we’re craving: tacos, burritos, fajitas, taquitos, enchiladas, or flour tortilla chips (does anyone else miss Libby’s chips that were fried, then doused with melted butter before arriving at the table?). Globe-Miami residents are spoiled to Mexican food in other U.S. communities because ours is so good.

But, Globe-Miami is more than just Mexican food. Did you know that cheese boats originated here? I had never heard of cheese boats before moving to this area and absolutely love them! These delicious treats are made by hollowing out small hard bread rolls, then filling them with a mixture of shredded longhorn cheddar cheese, El Pato sauce, olives, green onions, chopped green chilis, pimentos, and chunks of the bread that was removed before replacing the bread “lid” that was cut off, and baking the entire thing until melty. Local sports teams, service groups,

and churches will have cheese boat sales as fundraisers, and they freeze well, so stock up when you have a chance.

Another local favorite and unique hallmark of mining communities is our proud history and love of pasties. A Cornish pasty (rhymes with “nasty”, not “tasty”) is a handheld meat and vegetable pie that looks like a D-shaped turnover with a golden crust. A descendant of the medieval meat pies, pasties were developed for men working deep within the English tin mines. These semi-circular pies with a ropelike crust both fed and protected the tin miners, as their hands were frequently coated with arsenic dust and the crust could be thrown away after the pie was eaten. Some pasties were twoparters with the larger half consisting of meat and vegetables while the smaller

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Local restaurants sometimes feature pasties, the Old Dominion Days hosted a pasty dinner, and they are frequently sold as fundraisers, so keep your eye on local news to grab a few when available.

Food holds memory, evokes joy, and shapes identity. Even halfway around the world, the right type of burro, pasty or cheese boat can transport a Globe-Miami resident immediately back home.

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CHERRY L. ROBERDS Teacher | Coach | Legend

JANUARY 21, 1937 - JUNE 6, 2020

A candlelight service was held at Miami High School in which over 100 people came to pay their respects and share memories of Coach Roberds. The facebook page, ‘The Legacy of Coach Cherry Roberds,” was launched to allow people to share their memories. This page is a brief selection of these memories. (Photos from Laura Goutcher Barrow’s post)

“There aren’t enough words to properly explain how much this woman means to me. How much she impacted my life and helped me become a better person….She instilled discipline, hard work, dedication and determination into us and these traits have carried over into my life as a mother, teacher and citizen.”

“To me, Mrs. Roberds was the English teacher.

She taught English as hard as she taught sports, and there were winners and losers. I shared with her the revelation I stumbled upon in the middle of my career, a lesson for everyone. This is important. If you know my background, you know my whole career has revolved around bringing to life the most cutting-edge products and technologies in the world. I’ve taken dozens of classes in software and hardware engineering, and thought all these career-oriented engineering classes were the only ones critical to advancing my career.

It turns out I was wrong. It turns out, to my surprise, that the key to unlocking a successful career was actually in the first college class I took - English 101, starring Mrs. Roberds. That class, combined with Mrs. R’s high and unwavering bar for absolute perfection, was the foundation that anyone needed for a shot at changing the world….while everyone has good ideas, without the ability to effectively communicate the vision to rally a team, sell customers, or gain investors, those ideas will go nowhere…”

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“You never imagine people like Mrs. R. to ever be gone. People like her are supposed to live forever. Everyone I have talked to has a story about her. These stories and memories will make her live forever!”

“She was such a blessing to all that knew her.”

“The emotion was indescribable when I heard the news of Coach Cherry Roberd’s passing. Memories of tremendous gratitude as a player, assistance coach, and fellow teacher flooded my mind. The many personal stories Cherry shared with me, gave me insight to the irony of the deeply complicated, very simplistic woman she was. The thunder she brought to every practice had purpose and we may not have realized it then, but somewhere in the stormy parts of the journey of each of our lives, the memory of Coach Roberds surfaces, we dig deep, and we get through it. Thank you, Cherry, for every sprint, every drill, every word of wisdom, and every mile. I will forever be grateful to you.”

“A good coach can change a game! A great coach can change your life!”

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Scott’s Oriole; Photo by J. Burns

Magnificent Hummingbird; Photo by J. Burns

Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay; Photo by J. Burns

Red-faced Warbler; Photo by O. Niehuis

A BIRDING BONANZA

By David L. Pearson, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe

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ising from the southern edge of Globe to over 7,800 Blue Grosbeak; feet elevation, the Tonto Photo by J. Burns National Forest Pinal Peak Recreation Area is one of the best kept secrets in the bird watching world. With a checklist of 209 species that includes dense populations of several species difficult to see elsewhere, this area is becoming a must for birders visiting from all over North America.

During migration in May and again in August, you can find 110 species in six or seven hours of birding up the slopes. Even in winter when higher elevation roads can be closed because of snow, it is possible to find 50 to 60 species in a day birding the lower elevations. Late spring into early summer, however, is the favorite time for most birders to be here. Not only is it 10 to 20 degrees cooler than the oven-like temperatures of Phoenix and Tucson, but a different set of colorful and unusual birds is in each habitat as you ascend the mountain.

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All year the lowest elevation mesquite bosques and cottonwoods along Russell Road, Kellner Canyon, and Ice House Canyon Road are full of early morning bird activity. These range from brilliantly-colored Vermilion Flycatcher to more somber-colored desert species. In the summer Blue Grosbeak and other migrants from Mexico add their songs to the predawn chorus and help make this habitat the most species rich in the area.

As you drive farther, you encounter a sea of low madrone and chaparral bushes that extends for miles up the slopes. At first sight they appear birdless and not worth stopping for, but there are many secretive species uniquely adapted to this open habitat. In the spring and summer, Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay and Scott’s Oriole become obvious. During the winter, some of these birds are replaced by visitors, such as Fox Sparrow, escaping the harsh months in northern states.

Higher along USFS roads 651 and 112, junipers are scattered in among the chaparral, and they are home to Juniper Titmouse and Spotted Towhee. Then

above 5,500 feet elevation the first Ponderosa pines appear, and soon you are in a cathedral of pines and oaks 80 feet tall or more. In the winter most birds of this area are packed into mixed species flocks. An hour can go by with no birds around, and then, all of a sudden, a flock of 30 birds made up of eight or more species comes through, led by the noisy Bridled Titmouse and Yellow-eyed Junco. In the summer, birds are a more constant presence, and jewels like Painted Redstart and Hepatic Tanager make for jaw-dropping views.

Finally, above 7,000 feet the coolness allows Douglas firs, maples and aspens to grow. Among them live higher altitude birds, such as Red-faced Warbler and Magnificent Hummingbird. Picnic and camping areas along several parts of this route are always handy places to stop, eat and review the dazzling bird species already seen that day. Whether you are taking photos or just observing, a day in the Pinal Mountains is one you will brag about to your friends and remember for a long time. u

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*Note: Our new series on mining will feature second-generation miners and a column which will address frequently asked questions about mining in general and specifically about the operations in our region. If you have a question you’d like to ask please send it to editor@globemiamitimes.com.

AIMEE MUNDY-ELLISON Principal, Health Safety Environment BHP Miami AZ

“This is what I’m meant to do.”

In 1924, Hopkin Williams worked underground at the Old Dominion mine.

100 years later, his great granddaughter Aimee Mundy-Ellison works as Principal for Health Safety Environment at BHP in Miami.

Responsible for fostering a health and safety culture, Aimee guides employees and contractors in health and safety standards.

“The leaders of each department are responsible for safety,” she says. “I am a resource for them, someone to lean on.”

This includes help with documentation, safety meetings and refresher training, workplace inspections and recommendations for implementation and improvement of health and safety controls.

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“As a kid, I never had any desire to work in mining,” Aimee says.

At age 4, she moved with her mother and brother to Globe, to live with her grandfather, Richard “Dick” Williams.

He worked in Castle Dome, Copper Cities and Pinto Valley mines. As a mine foreman, the trained operators and directed mining in the open pit. He left for work in a hardhat and carried a lunch pail.

“As a kid,I thought of mining as digging up dirt,” Aimee says. “You don’t see all the other things that are available to you.”

Aimee got a good look at what was available to her when she landed a temp job at Magma (later purchased by BHP) in the spring of 1992. Her job was to “pull together old documents” and “follow a geologist around.”

She and the geologist spent hours collecting historical documents and maps, reading them and cataloging them for future use.

“That was the best job to have to see what mining was really about,” says Aimee, “I learned what I wanted to do and where I wanted to do it.”

Career with BHP

Aimee’s temp job led to full-time work in mining, and an “amazing mentor” in Frank DalMolin, the Safety Coordinator whom she worked with for nearly 20 years.

The experience exposed her to working with regulators as well as the emergency

Dominion Mine in its hey day. Circa 1920’s.

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management systems development that occurs at higher levels within the organization.

“I learned that I was really good at training people,” Aimee says, “and my passion for health and safety could be used to help others understand why certain things were important.”

BHP’s tuition assistance program helped pay for Aimee’s ongoing education. She earned a B.S. in Business Management and a Masters in Emergency & Disaster Management online through American Military University. Fellow students included people from FEMA and the military. She was the only one from the mining industry at the time.

Aimee has been in mining for 28 years.

She began her career working for active mines.

Now her career is focused on mine closures.

“The challenge is to take 100 years of mining and return the land to the way it was,” she says, “or give it a new life.”

She says the ability to find new sites and develop new mines depends on what is done to close properties, in ways that are good for the communities. She’s proud to work for BHP because it “takes the evolutionary part of mining seriously.”

“This is my home, too,” Aimee says. “I want to see Globe-Miami thrive.”

Her daughter, Erin Ellison Wager, got her 4th generation start in mining – a summer job in the HR department at BHP. While sorting laborer applications, she found hers in the ‘no’ pile. The reason: lacking equipment operator skills. Her father, Alfred Ellison, who also works for the mines, taught her to drive a forklift and skid steer that he borrowed from a contractor friend. She reapplied and got hired as a laborer in the Mill and Crusher. Now she’s pursuing a nursing degree and may consider occupational health.

Dick Williams, Mine Foreman

FAQ ON MINING

How long has there been mining in our region?

By Thea Wilshire Mining has occurred in our region for over 1000 years. Prehistoric mining by the Ho-Ho-Kam and Salado people focused primarily on jewelry making using turquoise, a copper mineral found in prevalent surface deposits. White explorers in 1864 listed prominent mineralization along Pinto Creek, but modern mining didn’t begin until 1870 with the discovery of silver. The next two decades saw numerous claims filed for this region, including the start of the Old Dominion Mine (OD) in 1881 that concentrated on silver extraction. By the late 1880’s, silver had played out and copper became the primary focus. This was perfectly timed as the start of electrification required massive amounts of copper wiring. In 1909, the monthly publication The Border stated there were over 35 operating mines in the region. The OD was the largest mine in the region until 1931 when it closed during the Great Depression due to falling copper prices coupled with vast expenses to pump water out of the mine shafts. Over the decades, changing technology and fluctuating copper values resulted in the closure or consolidation of most smaller mines. Now a handful of multinational corporations continue to actively extract and process minerals in our region and steward heritage mining sites. The OD has come back to life, but now serves as a community mine park.

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A Look at Covid-19 in JUNE We will take a look at the pandemic as it unfolds each month and have divided our coverage into four categories: Pandemic Numbers, Economic Impacts, Healthcare Impacts and Personal Impacts. Each category is then broken down into world, USA, Arizona, and Globe-Miami WORLDnews.

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Pandemic by the Numbers WORLD VIEW

✦ The world began the month of June with approximately 6.23 million confirmed cases and 374,000 deaths, and ended it with approximately 10.4 million cases and 509,000 deaths: an increase of roughly 4.17 million cases and 135,000 deaths during the month.

✦ Total cases passed 7 million on June 7. The number of cases reached 10 million on June 28.

On the same day, global Covid-19 deaths reached 500,000. (Bloomberg.com, June 28) ARIZONA VIEW

✦ That day, June 28, marked a significant uptick in the number of new cases. The day set a new recordVIEW for number of cases: 189,777 in one day, with about half of those cases in the WORLD United States and Brazil. (World Health Organization)

USA hot VIEW ✦ Globally, spots were occurring in Mexico, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Chile, Columbia, and the United States. (Dr. Safa Mote)

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GLOBE-MIAMI VIEW USA VIEW

✦ The United States began the month of June with approximately 1.8 million confirmed cases and 105,000 deaths, and ended it with approximately 2.624 million cases and 128,000 deaths: an increase of roughly 824,000 cases and 23,000 deaths during the month.

Compared to May, more people were infected in June, but fewer died.

GLOBE-MIAMI ✦ June 10, US coronavirus cases topped 2 million.

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✦ June 9, 14 states recorded their highest-ever weekly infection rate. (ow.ly/RwvF30qOaxw) ✦ By June 22, daily new Covid-19 cases were surging in more than half of U.S. states.

Several were beginning to break their former daily records. (The Guardian) The number of new cases in the United States was 25% higher than the week before. In Arizona, the number of new cases increased 89.7% over the number of new cases the prior week.

Arizona’s daily rate of new cases was twice as high as the next closest state (South Carolina). (Eric Feigl-Ding) Arizona also had the highest increase in hospitalization rate of all the states. (Washington Post, June 26)

WORLD VIEW

✦ During the two weeks from June 14 to June 28, 31 states were classified as hotspots, mainly in the West and the South. https://bit.ly/2ZaF92S ✦ Indian lands remained hotspots for the coronavirus. If Native American tribes were counted as states, the five states with the highest infection rates in the country would all be native tribes. https://nyti.ms/3e99lj6

ARIZONA VIEW ✦ By June 29, at least 14 states had paused or rolled back their reopening plans to slow

the surge of coronavirus cases. Vice President Pence postponed campaign events in Florida and Arizona “out of an abundance of caution,” while White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany played down the spike in cases, saying, “We’re aware that there are embers that need to be put out.” Texas Medical Center hospitals stopped updating metrics showing hospital capacity or projections of future capacity after their base intensive care capacity hit 100% for the first time during the pandemic. https://wapo.st/38IGvFm

USA VIEW

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✦ Gila County began the month of June with 40 confirmed cases and 2 deaths, and ended it with 337 cases and 8 deaths: an increase of 297 cases and 6 deaths during June.

✦ June 3, the San Carlos Apache Tribe reported the first death of a tribal member.

✦ Arizona began the month of June ARIZONA VIEW with about 20,000 confirmed cases and 906 deaths, and ended it with approximately 97,935 cases and 1,829 deaths: an increase of roughly 78,000 cases and 923 deaths during the month.

USA VIEW ✦ June 7, Arizona reached the top of the list as the U.S. state with the highest rate of increase in cases. ✦ June 9, Arizona passed 25,000 cases. June 11, cases reached GLOBE-MIAMI 30,000. June 14, the state reached 35,000 cases.

June 17, cases VIEW reached 40,000. June 24, Arizona passed 60,000 cases. https:// bit.ly/3ef7t8k ✦ Cases had began a dramatic rise around May 25, ten days after the expiration of Gov. Ducey’s stay-at-home order. https://wapo. st/2DksEsY ✦ June 18, Arizona passed Brazil and Peru, as well as exceeding all European countries, now ranking as one of the hardest-hit regions in the world. Arizona has passed the highest peak that was experienced in Lombardy, Italy, in terms of cases per capita. https://bit.ly/3eiebuq ✦ Arizona set new records for number of confirmed cases per day on every weekday of the month, except June 24 and June 30.

As of the end of June, the daily record stood at 5,025, June 29. https://bit.ly/2ZgjYwt ✦ The mean age of Arizonans recorded as dying from Covid-19 decreased from April to June. In April, the mean age was 78, and

by June 14 it had dropped to 69. Three of four people testing positive in Arizona were in the 20 to 44 age bracket. (Washington Post, June 26) ✦ June 30, Arizona informed hospitals they had permission to implement the Crisis Standards of Care Plan, which means, because of lack of capacity, doctors could make decisions about which patients would receive what levels of care. According to Banner, it was the first time in the state’s history that this plan had been implemented. Will Humble, a former director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, explained, “If you’re in a bed, normally they’ll keep you for a few days, but they’re going to send you home with oxygen.” Nicole Grigg, ABC15 Arizona, https:// wapo.st/32dtxyb

Please keep our residents and staff in your prayers.

Covid-19, THIS IS REAL.” – Rim Country Health & Rehabilitation

✦ June 11, Gila County passed 50 cases. June 24, Gila County passed 200 cases. ✦ According to the Gila County Health Department, “The month of June brought an alarming increase of new cases in Globe, Payson, and San Carlos – community-specific totals are 114 in Payson, 86 in Globe, 22 in Miami, 4 in Claypool, 6 in Pine, 5 in Star Valley, 2 in Tonto Basin, and 1 each in Hayden and Winkelman.”

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PERSONAL IMPACTS WORLD VIEW ✦ Dr. Anthony Fauci called COVID-19 his “worst nightmare” come to life as the coronavirus continues to rapidly spread across the globe. “In a period of four months, it has devastated ARIZONA VIEW the whole world,” Dr. Fauci said. “And it isn’t over yet […] Where is it going to end? We’re still at the beginning of it.” https://nyti. ms/2CoPGOM ✦ June 30, the European Union formally extended a travel ban for U.S. residents, deeming the American response to the coronavirus pandemic USA VIEW insufficient. https://nyti.ms/3iLm278

✦ June 23, President Trump held a rally at Dream City megachurch in Phoenix. According to Politico, most ARIZONA VIEW attendees did not wear masks. On June 26, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued cease-and-desist letters to both Clean Air EXP and Dream City Church regarding false claims that the air purification system installed in the church could eliminate 99% of COVID-19 within ten minutes, despite the system USA VIEW not being tested against COVID-19. (Wikipedia) ✦ June 30, eight cities in the Phoenix metropolitan area (including Phoenix itself) announced the cancellation of their fireworks display events to reduce viral spread, while three other cities in the same area announced a continuation of fireworks display GLOBE-MIAMI events. (Wikipedia) VIEW

The GLOBE-MIAMI VIEW

bigger flaw in Ducey’s approach: just because you have hospital beds doesn’t mean you need to fill them. Since when is this a strategy? Go ahead and smoke.

Good news – we have room in the cancer ward.”

– Andy Slavitt, former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

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People keep talking about a second wave.

We’re still in a first wave.”

– Dr. Anthony Fauci

Public health isn’t blocking economic recovery, it IS the road to recovery.”

ECONOMIC IMPACTS ✦ The U.S. Congressional Research Service forecasts a “partial recovery in 2021, assuming there is not a second wave of infections.” https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R46270.pdf

WORLD VIEW

– Infectious disease and public health physician Dr. Tom Frieden

WORLD VIEW

✦ According to the International Monetary Fund, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity in the first half of 2020 than anticipated, and the recovery is ARIZONA VIEW projected to be more gradual than previously forecast. In 2021 global growth is projected at 5.4 percent. Overall, this would leave 2021 GDP some 6½ percentage points lower than in the pre-COVID-19 projections of January 2020. The adverse impact on low-income households is particularly acute, imperiling the significant progress made in reducing extreme poverty in the WORLD VIEW world since the 1990s. https://bit.ly/3iSYxcH

✦ June 10, Gov. Ducey held a press conference to address the rise in ARIZONA VIEW cases and hospitalizations. The press conference focused primarily on the fact that hospitals have capacity to care for patients.

At one point Gov. Ducey stated: “The plan going forward is USAand VIEW we are going to continue to focus on public health the education campaign around it.” (Wikipedia)

USA VIEW

✦ In Britain, traditional flour mills saw a boom in sales. Some historical mills have restarted production – such as the Warwick Bridge Corn Mill near Carlisle, where there’s been a mill ARIZONA VIEW since at least the tenth century. https://bit.ly/2ObWLVC

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✦ June 12, the President of Arizona State University announced that face coverings are mandatory, effective immediately.

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✦ The U.S. officially entered its first recession since 2009, ending the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. (National Bureau of Economic Research, June 8)

✦ June 13, news outlets reported that a number of restaurants and businesses voluntarily closed temporarily due to visits by individuals or employees who had tested positive for the virus.

(Wikipedia)

✦ June 30, the deadline to apply for the Paycheck Protection Program passed with more than GLOBE-MIAMI $130 billion left unused. For many small businesses, the process to receive PPP funding was VIEW and some businesses were hesitant to apply as forgiveness guidelines shifted confusing multiple times. https://wapo.st/322k1gT

✦ June 17, Gov. Ducey announced that local governments would be able to set mask-wearing regulations after previously having blocked local mask wearing requirements. Soon after, many city and county officials began implementing face covering mandates or announcing plans to discuss possible regulations.

(Wikipedia)

✦ Almost one-third of unemployment benefits owed to Americans who lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic haven’t been paid yet. The Treasury disbursed $146 billion in unemployment benefits in the three months through May – short of a total bill that should have reached about $214 billion for the period. https://bloom.bg/324P5N9

✦ June 29, Governor Ducey ordered bars, movie theaters, and gyms to close again in a partial reversal of the state’s reopening.

(Wikipedia)

✦ June 25: For the 14th straight week, claims for unemployment benefits exceeded 1 million.

Previously, the most new claims in a single week had been 695,000 – in 1982. https://wapo. st/3iLnerk

HEALTHCARE IMPACTS WORLD VIEW

✦ June 17, Chinese officials raised the country’s emergency warning to its second-highest level in response to a new outbreak of coronavirus in Beijing. Chinese officials described the situation in Beijing as “extremely grave” and said the new outbreak “has truly rung an alarm bell for us.” https://bit.ly/2Cm8XjW

✦ The pandemic is testing health care systems across the globe. According to a Deloitte report, “In the ARIZONA VIEW near term, healthcare systems will face two major, additional, ‘collateral’ issues. The first will be the WORLD VIEW physical and mental exhaustion of the healthcare workforce, along with worn-out hospital infrastructure.

The second will be the growing ‘backlog’ of healthcare procedures. For example, the inability or fear of high-risk patients to consult a doctor is disrupting chronic disease management and delaying some criticalUSA cancer care procedures.” https://bit.ly/38FYImM VIEW

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✦ By June 6, 586 U.S. healthcare workers had died from the coronavirus. https://bit.ly/320FRBB

✦ June 15, the FDA revoked the emergency use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19 because it’s “unlikely to produce an antiviral GLOBE-MIAMI effect,” according to the FDA’s chief scientist. Doctors still have the option to VIEW prescribe hydroxychloroquine as an “off label” treatment for coronavirus because the drug is approved for other uses, and clinical trials will also be allowed to continue. https://bit.ly/2W2eCCJ ✦ June 26, the White House Coronavirus Task Force held its first meeting in two months. https://wapo.st/3edl8gp ✦ Many hospitals began adopting a protocol called MENTS, for the Medically Necessary, Time-Sensitive System, to help doctors make decisions about what procedures to offer or delay during the pandemic. Often, physicians, surgeons, or small teams are forced to make these frequently life-or-death decisions on their own. Against this backdrop, many small, independent medical practices are struggling to stay solvent. https://bit.ly/2Zfjfva

When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases, so I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’”

- Donald Trump https://wapo.st/320InI3

WORLD VIEW

✦ By June 9, Arizona hospitals were bracing for crisis as cases surged. Arizona hospitals ARIZONA VIEW were seeing more patients in emergency rooms and more admissions. Banner Health reported that its ICUs were at full capacity in Maricopa County and rapidly approaching full capacity in Tucson. (“Arizona hospitals bracing for crisis as COVID-19 cases surge,” tucson.com)

USA VIEW

✦ By June 17, statewide, hospitals were treating 1,582 patients and had reached 85% of capacity.

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“Science is not our missing ingredient in beating this virus. Empathy is.”

– Andy Slavitt, former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

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Methods for testing for COVID-19: • PCR – polymerase chain reaction technique copies small amounts of DNA to detect the presence of the SARS-CoV virus antigen – collected by swabbing the nasal cavity

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If a person is asymptomatic and awaiting COVID-19 test results:

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If a person is asymptomatic and tested positive for COVID-19 by PCR or antigen testing: • Stay home away from others or under isolation precautions until 10 days have passed since specimen collection of the first positive COVID-19 PCR/antigen testing while asymptomatic. If symptoms develop, follow guidance for symptomatic and tested positive for COVID-19 on page 13.

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“Our mission is your health.”

Telemedicine appointments are now available at all CVRMC clinics.

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Gila County Health Department recently launched a 2-1-1 health hotline to answer your questions. You’ll find the links to these sites listed below:

CVRMC www.CVRMC.org

Gila County Health Department www.gilacountyaz.gov

Arizona Department of Health Services www.azdhs.gov

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WHAT WILL SCHOOL LOOK LIKE THIS FALL? If anyone tells you they know what’s going to happen this fall, ignore them. We’ve rewritten this article twice just to keep up with the Governor’s office, and spent the summer preparing for three scenarios: ALL STUDENTS BACK EVERY DAY. This is the least likely to happen, at least in August, but we planned out ways to do it and minimize the risks.

HYBRID SCHEDULE WITH STUDENTS SPLIT BETWEEN ON CAMPUS AND ONLINE. Students would be on campus half the time, and working online from home the other half. We call it “Bricks & Clicks” – Brick days on campus and Click days online.

Students attend class Mondays and Tuesdays and then work at home Wednesdays and Thursdays, or vice versa, reducing the infection risk while maintaining face-to-face instruction. It means less time in the classroom, but much of the lost time is balanced out by more teacher contact. We have ordered enough computers so that every student can take one home for the online days.

Miami Athletics & COVID-19 Athletics are important at Miami. Our players and coaches work hard to continue Miami’s long history of success in interscholastic sports, as evidenced by all the championship banners in the MHS gym and at the Miami Sports Hall of Fame. Sports play a major role in a school as a place students learn about competition, fairness and following the rules; as a source of school spirit and competitiveness; and, as a link to Miami’s past.

That’s why it was a bitter disappointment to see our softball, baseball, golf, tennis and track seasons cut short by the school closures this spring.

Rest assured, once we’re back in school, we’re back on the field and the court.

We are working closely with other schools and with the Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) to figure out how to return safely to competition.

This is even more challenging than planning a return to the classroom. Sitting quietly in a desk is a lot less risky than when a lineman, still breathing hard from the last play, takes his position before the snap. Or when a volleyball player rises at the net to spike the ball. We’ll play as soon as we can play safely.

Vandals Vanquish the Virus

Our student-family-teacher-alumni film project about life during the pandemic has yielded its first film, Vandals Vincere Virum.

The film can be viewed on the district website.

100% ONLINE. This is our only option if schools are closed, plus we know there will be students needing to work from home –they’re quarantining or isolating after exposure, someone in the family is immune-compromised and it would be dangerous for the kids to go to school each day, or families are worried about exposure.

Governor Ducey has forbidden face-to-face instruction until at least August 17th and possibly later. Miami plans to start instruction online in early August. Once it’s safe to resume on-campus teaching, parents will be able to choose between a hybrid schedule or 100% online. We will keep students and parents posted as details come into focus.

Miami Teachers Did the Hard Work this Spring and Summer Teachers work hard. That’s the consistent message from parents this spring, as having the kids home every day made clear just what teachers really do. It’s not just delivering lessons hour after hour, grading papers during the evenings, constantly seeking out new ways to engage students and get them excited about learning.

In fact, it’s way more than that, as exemplified by what Miami teachers have done this spring and summer. Once we knew school wouldn’t reopen after spring break, the Miami faculty sprang into action, converting their lessons into pieces that could be digested online, and into packets for students who lacked either a computer or a strong internet connection.

Teachers held hundreds of Zoom sessions and made thousands of telephone calls to connect by voice with students and parents. And they paid attention to what was working and what wasn’t, adjusting the lessons as they went and adapting to new technologies like Zoom and Remind and Google Classroom.

With the faculty’s accumulated experience and insights, the school developed a strategy for the new school year.

• All students will be issued Chromebook notebook computers, so that they don’t have to share devices with siblings and parents at home.

• Courses are being transferred to Canvas, a sophisticated online learning management system, so that every student will have access to the curriculum in class and at home. No longer will a child be unable to do homework because something was left at school, or to miss out in class because something was left at home. And no dog ever ate an electronic file, so that excuse goes out the window.

• Faculty have taken several days of training on how to teach remotely, leveraging Canvas and Zoom and new approaches to lesson planning.

• Teachers have reassessed curriculum and lessons, aware that even if we are able to return to on-campus instruction, we will likely have some students working from home.

Being a Vandal is about more than just athletics, it’s adopting a mindset that you will be prepared for anything life throws at you, and Miami’s teachers are true Vandals.

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Election, Continued from page 1

Shelly Salazar began working for the City in 2001 as a Payroll Clerk. She has been serving under Council as City Recorder and is the official record keeper for the City.

“It’s exciting to work for the city of Globe,” she says, “as a longtime employee, to see economic development – that we have a plan.”

They both speak with pride of the top-notch fire and police service that Globe provides its citizens.

“Public Safety departments are really great,” Shelly says. “They care about our community.”

Police, Fire, Administration and Public Works departments account for 72% of the $13.5 million general fund. The council has approved a tentative budget that sets the legal limit of spending in 2021. There is room for subtle adjustments before it is finalized.

“This is a very engaged council,” Jepsen says. “They want to hear from you.”

ELECTION YEAR DETAILS Supervisor 1

Tommie Cline Martin* R Hallie Overman-Jackman R

Supervisor 2 Tim Humphrey * Fred Barcon

Supervisor 3

Woody Cline * Bernadette Ann Kniffin

County Assessor Joseph Williams*

County Attorney Bradley Beauchamp*

R D R D R R

County Recorder Sadie Jo Bingham*

County Sheriff

Adam Shepherd* Ron Hanse Richard Shaw Darrell Stubbs Christopher Bender

R R R R R D

County Superintendent of Schools Roy Sandoval *

R

City of Globe Mayor: Al Gameros

Council District 1 Freddie Rios

Council District 2 Mike Pastor * Dan Shinder

Council District 5

Charlene Giles * David Phillips Rodriguez

Judge of the Superior Court Division Bryan B. Chambers *

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Prop 406 Every four years Globe citizens vote on Prop 406. It has historically passed since 1981.

“We define our own budget,” says Jepsen.

“Otherwise the state mandates it.

A Yes vote on Prop 406 establishes an alternative expenditure limitation for the City of Globe.

A No vote on Prop 406 allows the state to mandate spending limits for the City of Globe.

In the era of Prop 13 and other tax revolts, the state imposed expenditure limits to keep city budgets from growing too fast. The Arizona State Constitution allows for cities to opt for the alternative expenditure limitation and base their city budget on the revenues they receive.

Globe operates on a balanced budget.

The city project revenues and expenses.

“Approval of Prop 406 allows us to spend what we receive,” says Jepsen. “It is not a tax increase.”

The Rest of the Ballot Gila County residents (Arizona State District 8) will be choosing candidates for State Senator and candidates for the State House Representative; the winners from each party compete in the November election.

Arizona residents will be choosing new Corporation Commissioners. The Arizona Corporation Commission has five members who are elected to four-year terms. The Commission regulates the rates, business practices, health and safety of many utilities, including gas, water, electricity, and telephone services. It also regulates corporations, securities, railroads and pipelines. That’s a lot of power. Who do you want to give it to?

“When it’s your time to decide, do your education, read multiple sources, make your choice based on the best information available,” Jepsen encourages. “It’s something a lot of people fought and died for you to be able to do. And it’s one thing you can do.” u

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Mail Print a voter registration form from Gila county Recorder’s website at: gilacountyaz.gov/government/ recorder/voter_forms.php. Fill out the form and mail it in to the County Recorder’s office.

Phone To request a voter registration form be mailed to you, call the recorder’s office at 928-402-8740 or 800-291-4452 Note You must update your voter registration any time your home address, name or political party preference changes. Election mail is not forwardable. It’s important to keep your mailing address current with the Gila County Recorder’s office even if you are only temporarily away.

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EARLY VOTING VOTE BY MAIL Voters who are on the Permanent Early Voting List (PEVL) and are not registered with a recognized political party must let the Recorder’s Office know which ballot they want to receive.

The easiest way to do this is return the yellow form mailed out to every voter 90 days prior to the election. Otherwise, you can call our office and request a Democrat, Libertarian or Republican ballot for the Primary. Voters who are registered with a party may only vote on that party’s ballot. Voters who are not registered with a recognized political party, including Independents, may choose one party’s ballot for the Primary.

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If you want to be on an early voting list, you must sign up 11 days prior to the election, which is July 24th for the upcoming primary.

You can sign up for the PEVL when you register to vote. Or print, complete, and sign a PEVL request form and mail, fax, or email a scanned copy or photo of the completed form to the Gila County Recorder’s office.

LOCATIONS IN-PERSON VOTING Gila County has six voting centers and 11 precinct polling sites.

Poll/vote centers are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on election day.

Globe Vote Center #1 Globe Elks Lodge 1910 E. Maple Street Miami Vote Center Miami High School 4635 E Ragus Road Copper Basin Hayden/Winkleman School 824 Thorn Avenue Roosevelt Sierra Ancha Roosevelt Baptist Church 18659 Hwy 188 Tonto Basin Tonto Basin Chamber of Commerce 45675 Hwy 188

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Spirit of Education, Continued from page 1

He found temp work monitoring lab equipment at Praxair, an industrial gas company in New York. Every 20 minutes he performed five minutes of “brute force labor.” The other 15 minutes were free. He heard about a project the company needed help with, and volunteered to build it in his downtime.

“It was a pivotal moment for me,” says Darrel.” They trusted me to give it a shot.”

Seizing an Opportunity Meeting design requirements given to him, Darrel built a hot oxygen burner for an experiment at the University of Utah. At 4ft by 6ft, the burner was micro in scale and had to be mountable and shippable.

With access to expert machinists and a good working environment, Darrel took full advantage of the challenge.

“I could talk to brilliant people who knew everything about combustion and process and automatic controls.

I always had an interest in machining but I didn’t know what I didn’t know, and finally I had mentors that helped me develop the vocabulary of what I was seeing,” Darrel explains. “This was critical to where I am today.”

When the hot oxygen burner was completed, Darrel flew to Utah and helped install it.

“It was the big moment that gave me the confidence that I could do something like this,” he says.

Praxair hired him full-time and gave him specifications and a budget for the next project – an oxygen transport membrane high pressure reactor.

A room-sized machine he would build himself. After that he joined a team of 7-10 people and worked on a much larger module test system that took a full year to build.

“For all those systems I found myself in a situation where I needed a piece of metal that could connect a lot of pieces,” Darrel says. “Praxair had a great team of machinists. I hit it off with them and developed friendships and they offered an open-door policy and mentored me.”

Darrel developed such an interest in machining and developing stuff to be machined that in 2012 he bought a miniature mill and lathe that he squeezed into the second bedroom of his apartment. He found the hobby at home gave him practice for what he was encountering at work and helped him to develop the skill sets he needed to progress professionally.

“They were pretty junky machines,” Darrel says, “but they’ve been priceless to me in just how much they’ve taught me about machining and what I like and what I don’t like, how to hold tools, how to hold parts.”

In 2013, after 3 ½ years in New York, Darrel returned to Gila County.

“I need mountains,” he laughs. “I feel claustrophobic in the city.”

Back Home in Globe With his laboratory experience back east, Darrel got a job at BHP monitoring water and calibrating machines.

Since 2017, he has been employed by AJAX Ltd., an engineering firm that provides services to the mining industry. He monitors the quality of the water and soil through an “over-the-top complicated procedure” that pumps water out of the ground and sends it to the lab.

“Every day is a mixed bag, which is what I love about it,” Darrel says. “Preparing the truck and paperwork for whatever task needs to be done and driving out to the middle of nowhere.”

When Darrel heard CVIT had bought a computer numerical control (CNC) mill, he asked who was running it. They didn’t have anyone yet, so Darrel stepped up to teach courses in manual and CNC machining.

On May 1st, 2020, Darrel bought a machine to launch Solitude Components, a sole proprietorship. The machine costs as much as tuition at a 4-year university,

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and that’s just how Darrel views the investment.

“If I do stuff for myself I have a much quicker turnover of learning and experience,” he says, “more parts and setups, experiencing the whole process.”

Among all his hobbies, Darrel most looks forward to First Robotics Build season with Globe High School students and a skeletal crew.

“I love it!” he says unequivocally. “Everyone is pushing the boundaries of what they know.”

Since 2014 he’s been involved with the team as mentor/coach. He’d like to see more students give it a try. A lot of people, he says, are intimidated by robotics and feel they shouldn’t join the team because they don’t know anything about robotics.

“But that’s not how it works at all. You do it because you’re slightly interested,” he says, “and you learn everything you need to know as you go.”

Last year the Globe High School First Robotics Team won the Arizona North Regional competition.

Darrel credits the Robotics program for fostering an environment where people can share ideas, understand each other and communicate effectively. Without those skill sets, he says, the hard skills (professional machining, electronics) don’t matter so much.

“Once I started to really value the communication, the diversity, and going that extra step to have an equitable environment,” Darrel says, “the technical performance of the team grew exponentially.” u

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