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Fire season roars in with a vengeance
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The Type 2 crew assigned to the Telegraph Fire is lending a hand in more ways than one. Photo courtesy of Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management. Posted on the Telegraph Fire Information Facebook page June 14. BY LINDA GROSS AND PATRICIA SANDERS lobe–Miami had been bracing for the potential of an intense 2021 fire season, but its early onset was unexpected. Two fires broke out in the early days of June that quickly grew to historic proportions. Globe– Miami Times held the presses in order to include coverage of these fires. For some perspective, we looked back to the Woodbury Fire, which threatened our communities just over two years ago – again in June – of 2019. That fire burned over 123,000
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acres and was the 6th largest fire in the state’s history, before it was finally contained. It too began in the Superstition Mountains and is believed to have been human caused. The arrival of monsoons helped to bring it to a close by the middle of July. According to a report in August by the Forest Service – who took to the air a month later to get a better look at the impacts – the Woodbury fire, which had progressed relatively slowly and burned in a mosaic pattern, showed that a majority of wildlife had been able to survive the
fire and that regrowth was even beginning in places. However, the 2021 fire season was said to look grim, even before the Telegraph and Mescal fires became front–page news in June. According to the National Weather Service, the “current drought is much worse than it was in the previous years when the state had its top five biggest wildfire seasons,” with 95% of the state experiencing severe to extreme drought conditions.
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Adventure motorcycling makes a stop in Globe PHOTOS AND STORY BY LINDA GROSS
Dirt bikes came to Globe in early May when Dusty Wessels of WEST 38 MOTO hosted a two–day training camp as part of a five–day/ six–night Backcountry Discovery Routes (BDR) tour of Arizona. We caught up with the group at their camp in Six Shooter Canyon in Globe. Over a dozen riders signed up for the training in Globe, with several coming from out of state.
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DIRT BIKES, Continued on page 23
Communicating love through flowers
Dottie Durham retires after 30 years of beautifying Globe BY THEA WILSHIRE
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PHOTO BY DEB YERKOVICH
Have you noticed the little garden at Hill and Ash streets? This small plot next to Hill Street School is actually a love note to Globe – using the language of flowers. The Globe Garden Club originally started the space, but Alice Lynn maintained it for years. When she retired, she tapped Dottie Durham to take over. Dottie had moved to the community a decade earlier, when her husband, Dr. Michael Durham, came to work as a physician. They loved their new town, and when Dottie noticed trash accumulating on the highway,
she decided to do something about it. “I called up Gene Pearsol on the radio and spoke about how trashy the city was getting and asked if anyone was interested in joining me to clean it up,” she recalls. Alice Lynn, Lee Baiza, Margaret Mendoza, and Sue Conto showed up, which led to the formation of the original Globe Clean and Beautiful group. When Alice later asked Dottie to take over the triangle garden, she agreed. “Lee helped me, and we took out
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