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A former journalist finds her niche as a research assistant for Bullion Plaza Museum STORY & PHOTOS BY LINDA GROSS

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Lee Ann Powers has had a varied career in broadcast and print journalism, but her latest gig, for the past ten years, has been as a research assistant for Bullion Plaza Museum.

ee Ann Powers’ desk is littered with stacks of papers and books. On the wall, there’s a corkboard cluttered with notices and what look like to-do lists, one on top of the other so it’s impossible to know. Sticky notes appear to track personal requests, reminders about upcoming museum events, and a price quote for t-shirts the museum might purchase. She pulls open desk drawers full of reels of microfilm on loan from the Arizona Silver Belt, which she is digitizing. A computer monitor hooked to the microfilm reader towers above her. As each page of the microfilm comes into view, Lee Ann adjusts the parameters to fit the screen and lightens the page to clean up the muddiness – a result of age. Then, pausing, she scans the page for items of interest before capturing the image and moving on to the next. Lee Ann works at the Bullion Plaza Museum and Cultural Center as a research assistant, spending most of her time digitizing old copies of local newspapers – the Arizona Silver Belt and Arizona Record. Her part-time position was initially established through a grant from Freeport-McMoRan, which also paid for the digitizing equipment and library room she uses. After the initial grant ran out, the museum found other grants and funding sources to keep her position.

PRESERVE HISTORY, Continued on page 18

Stacey Murry would like to see more developments like the one planned on the site of the old Apache Drive-In which will address the needs of workforce housing. Photo by LCGross

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Central Arizona Governments delivers draft housing study BY DAVID ABBOTT

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A draft version of a housing study by Central Arizona Governments (CAG) that was supposed to be finished in mid-2019 finally made its way to the City of Globe in October 2021 after withstanding the COVID pandemic and unforeseen changes of personnel at CAG. The study is intended to be a “snapshot” of the housing market and a tool the City can use for future development, as it grapples with the realities of a glaring need for housing of all types and plans for future growth. Globe’s Economic Development Department (EDD) Director Linda Oddonetto said the final version of the study should be complete by the end of April after it was officially presented to City Council on Feb. 22.

HOUSING STUDY, Continued on page 22

Day Trip in Globe-Miami: Land of Unexpected Treasures

BY THEA WILSHIRE

Welcome, Poppy Fest visitors, and congratulations on discovering the Globe-Miami region, one of the best kept secrets of Arizona. If you’re here for a day or the weekend, you’re in for a treat.

DAY TRIP, Continued on page 23

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As March rolls in, we’re greeted with the promise of all things Spring, even when the temperatures at night still feel like winter and the ground is still brown. Yet the bare-root trees are budding out and a guy in shorts and t-shirt jogged by my house yesterday - all enjoying the warmth of late afternoon sun. Wildflowers and poppies can be seen on hillsides from Apache Junction to San Carlos, and we’re looking forward to this year’s Poppy Fest in a few weeks! The event brings visitors and photographers to our area to enjoy the show and explore the area. Our writer Thea Wilshire outlines a host of things to do while here for a day (p. 1), and the official lineup of events is provided by the Chamber of Commerce (p. 18). A new feature in the paper will explore the routes that bring people to Globe-Miami. Our community is a central hub, connected to Superior and Apache Junction, San Carlos and Safford, Tucson, Payson, and Roosevelt. We all criss-cross this region for work and play, and Globe-Miami draws visitors here for the same reason. Location, location, location - we got it covered! As we like to say, “All roads lead to Globe-Miami!” (p. 10). Our rich history as a community is one that never fails to resonate with both locals and visitors, and Lee Ann Powers, who’s celebrating her 10th anniversary as a researcher with Bullion Plaza Museum, is continuing to preserve and promote that history (p. 1). And the new housing study is out, confirming much of what we already knew: that we’re short on housing - all kinds, including affordable, workforce, and single-family housing. Our writer David Abbott offers highlights of the study and its limitations (p. 1). While the housing study provides the kinds of numbers that are helpful if you’re applying for grants or attracting investors, if you want the kinds of insights that are gained only by living and working the market here for years, you’ll also want to talk to the local realtors. And this brings us to the resource guide that we’re producing for the area, which will come out this summer. Sure, there have been healthcare guides, membership guides and visitor COVER guides in the past, but each, by its design, leaves a lot out of the picture. One annual guide PHOTO will bring them all together (p. 2). We’ve designed the guide to reflect both commerce and History is contained community, and look forward to representing all that Globe-Miami has to offer. I hope you’ll join on reels and us by supporting the guide and looking for it when it comes out this summer. reels of old microfilm Enjoy, from the Arizona Record and SilverBelt dating back Linda Gross over 100 years. Photo Publisher by LCGross

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MARCH 2022

The Colors of Hope

BY PATRICIA SANDERS

ave you ever been to a butterfly pavilion? I went to the one in Scottsdale years ago. It was just after I left Reevis Mountain School, where I’d been living for six years. I was full of feelings of transformation, new beginnings, and freedom. I wandered around the pavilion among the gorgeous fluttering butterflies for a couple of hours and thought about what I wanted to do next. For a while I sat on a bench and watched the other people interacting with the butterflies. Several times, I saw a person approach a big, resplendent beauty and put out their hand, or slowly edge closer to one that was fluttering around. The person was obviously hoping the lovely creature would hop onto their hand or land on their shoulder. In a couple of cases, the person who was so hopeful, and trying so hard to get the attention of the butterfly, didn’t realize that there was already a beautiful butterfly sitting quietly on top of their head. Hope is a double-edged sword. Often hope leads people to try so hard, to strive after things painfully – or to wait endlessly, holding onto the hope of something happening or changing. I’ve stayed far too long in more than one unhappy relationship or job, in the desperate hope that it would get better. Hope can paralyze you, but it’s not always a passive thing. Hope can spur you to activity, too – like the mythical character Sisyphus, who rolls a boulder up a hill over and over, only to see it roll right back down again every time. In the myth, Sisyphus is trapped in this futile repetition because that’s his punishment for trying to become immortal. But I’ve done the same kind of thing to myself many times, trying to make something happen again and again in the constant hope that eventually, what I’m doing will work. I can’t think of a single time it ever did. It was just the classic definition of insanity – doing the same thing over and over, hoping to get a different result. There’s a play by Terence Rattigan about a woman who loves a man who doesn’t love her back. She reaches the point of attempting suicide, when a friend forces her to face the facts, at last. The friend tells her the man is never going to come back. The friend says, “That word never. Face that and you can face life. Get beyond hope. It’s your only chance.” The woman asks, “What is there beyond hope?” The friend says: “Life.” Misplaced hope can keep you from living, from getting on with your life. But there’s another kind of hope, one that doesn’t get in the way of living. It’s humbler and quieter, but enormously more powerful, because it’s rooted in truth and not self-delusion. Václav Havel – the dissident, and later president, of the Czech Republic – wrote, “Hope is not a prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons.” This kind of hope goes beyond whatever the future may hold, or even whether a future can be expected at all. Hope, Havel writes, “is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.”

Hope like this springs from values. Clearly, it goes beyond facts, but it doesn’t turn a blind eye to them. It’s a hope you can hold onto and live by even in times of hopelessness. To me, genuine hope is a confidence in an unseen reality, a bigger picture that puts a present situation in a new light. It relies on a larger vision and understanding: knowing that the sun will rise, the seed will bloom, the chrysalis will become a butterfly. “Confidence in Daybreak modifies Dusk,” Emily Dickinson wrote. Of course, hope like this depends on faith: you can hope for a brighter tomorrow if you believe there’s going to be a tomorrow. And to be honest, that kind of faith, for many people today, is running thin. But as desperate as things can get, I think it’s never time to give up. The bare facts of life on Earth are bad enough – war, division, disease. We need to face these and keep working for a better world as long as we can, as Havel says. But there are also questions where the jury is out – the big questions, like whether things can get better and whether there will be a tomorrow. In regard to these questions, I remain in favor of optimism – the humble kind of hope, that trusts in bigger pictures and ultimate order beyond what we can see today.

I see no reason to close off the possibility of the deepest truth being something better than we can imagine – something wondrous. I’m in favor of Brandon Sanderson’s Zeroth Law: “Always err on the side of what’s awesome.” And then there’s Concetta Antico. She’s an artist from Australia who was born with a condition called tetrachromancy: whereas most people have three types of “cone” cells in their retinas – the cells that separate out colors in your field of vision – Concetta Antico has four. A normal person can distinguish between about 1 million colors, but Antico can see 100 million. Antico says, “I’m sure people just think I’m high on something all the time, but I’m really just high on life and the beauty that’s around us. I often think to myself, how could you be unhappy in this world? Just go sit in a park. Just go look at a bush or a tree. You can not appreciate how magnificent it is.” That’s what I mean. Hope, to me, is knowing we live in a world like that, even if we ourselves don’t have the ability to see all its colors. Knowing it’s a magnificent world, even if at this particular moment it looks dark and perilous. It’s a world where a butterfly could be perched on the top of your head, for all you know. Where, even amid war, strife and disease, hope still makes sense.

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MAYOR’S MONTHLY REPORT AL GAMEROS | CITY OF GLOBE COVID UPDATE The average daily positive numbers have continued to drop drastically in Gila County, especially the last week in February. For a recap of 2022 in Gila County, positive cases in January were 104/ day, February were 40/day, and the week of 2/19 through 2/25 was at 9/day. With the numbers continuing to decrease in our state and community, we are getting to a point that this virus is more manageable. The CDC is now recommending that indoor masking can be eased up and is leaving it up to businesses on how they move forward for enforcement. Please continue to respect those who choose to continue to mask up until they reach their own comfort zone. For now, we can enjoy the opportunity to not wear a mask, but we should have contingency plans in place to immediately address spikes as they occur, to keep them from getting out of control. The Gila County Health, Emergency, and Prevention Department continues to recommend getting a vaccination and booster shot. For questions, you can contact the Health Department Hotline at 928-200-7668. To schedule a test, call 928-961-1284. To schedule a Covid vaccination or booster, call 928-910-4009.

ARIZONA REGIONAL AIRSPACE EIS In January, the Department of the Air Force released a notice of intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Regional Special Use Airspace Optimization to Support Air Force Missions in Arizona. There are four alternatives proposed for consideration, in which alternatives 2 through 4 have an effect on the various zones of training in Arizona by lowering the subsonic floor to 100 feet and

lowering the altitude for releasing flares. On February 23, the Globe City Council approved a response letter in regards to the Air Force EIS proposal to meet the deadline date for comments of March 4. Council’s letter supports alternative 1, which has no changes to current procedures. The letter states that while the City of Globe has a long history of supporting the needs of our military and will continue to do so, there are two distinct concerns with alternatives 2 through 4. First, as you may recall, last summer’s Telegraph Fire caused an enormous amount of damage in and around the city, and we are continuing to experience the negative consequences of that catastrophic wildfire. Because of the burn scar, the city and surrounding areas experienced multiple severe post-wildfire flooding events during our monsoon season because the soil has become hydrophobic and water flows unfettered into the city, flooding homes and businesses. While no firm conclusions have been determined, many believe the fire was started by the release of a lowlevel flare from a DAF aircraft. Lowering the above-ground-level height may help in training, but it could cause another catastrophic wildfire that we would like to avoid. If DAF can provide assurances that low-level flares will not be used, or anything that is potentially flammable, we would be happy to reconsider our support for additional alternatives. Second, we are deeply concerned about the effect of sonic booms in and around the city of Globe. As you may know, several of these have occurred in the last several years that have resulted in homes and businesses having their windows blown out. This is uniquely dangerous in the Globe downtown area where we have

100-year-old two- and three-story buildings built with zero setback to the street, and the glass falls directly onto the sidewalks and the pedestrians below. This is an undue and avoidable hardship on property owners and a danger to residents. Again, if there is a mitigation tactic that could avoid these types of incidences, we would be more amendable to the other alternatives. This letter, along with a list of questions concerning our entire community, was delivered for consideration in the future process.

PUBLIC HEARING ON HILL STREET SCHOOL On February 8, a public hearing was held during the scheduled City Council meeting to consider Ordinance 878, a request to rezone the property located at 450 S. Hill Street, AKA Hill Street School. There were comments by the public against and for the project. The major concern is the parking at the location. There are various options that are being discussed with the developer to address the parking. After the hearing was closed, the City Council voted unanimously in favor of the rezone. The rezone allows the developer to move forward with the application process to apply for funding. If the developer is successful with funding for the project, it is still a way out from groundbreaking, which is anticipated in 2023. The project proposal is to build a 64-unit affordable senior housing facility at an estimated cost of $18 to $20 million. This building has been vacant for the past 16 years and has been an eyesore that is seen from the highway. There have been several investors and developers interested in this building, but none have been able to secure the funds needed to make it happen. The Gorman Company can make it happen. Housing has been identified as a major concern in our community. We need to be open-minded and consider all options. We need all levels of housing, from high-end expensive to medium income to low income and senior housing. We understand that parking has been brought

up as a major issue, but we believe that this problem can be worked on and resolved. There was a comment to demolish the building and build new that I believe would be devastating to our historical value. This is the gateway to our historic district, and this building is unique and could attract visitors to enter and visit. Erecting a new modernized building would take away from the historic atmosphere of our community. This project would address two issues by bringing back to life an amazing historic building and helping alleviate the housing shortage.

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR COMMITTEES The City of Globe is always seeking applicants to become board members of the various sub-committees appointed by the City Council. There has been a tremendous response from our residents to volunteer for these positions. We currently still have one open position on the Board of Adjustments and one position open on the Library Committee. Only requirements are that volunteers are 18 years of age and live within the city limits of Globe. Applications can be picked up at City Hall by contacting our City Clerk, Shelly Salazar, at 928-4257146, extension 206.

CITIZENS ACADEMY This is a reminder that the second City of Globe Citizens Academy will be held March 23 through May 4. Classes are held every Wednesday from 6 pm to 8 pm. To register, contact City Clerk Shelly Salazar at 425-7146, extension 206, or by email at ssalazar@globeaz.gov.

FIRST FRIDAY EVENTS AND DOWNTOWN CRUISE The First Friday events continue to grow each month, with more participation from downtown businesses, vendors, and cruisers. Everyone is invited to participate in the downtown cruise. We invite all the community to come downtown and support the participating businesses, enjoy live music, food trucks, and vendors, and watch the vehicles cruising.

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“We worry about all of Globe,” says John Angulo, Public Works Director. From parks to potholes and the new pool, water, sewage and, city facilities, Public Works is a part of almost everything happening in the City of Globe. They manage the fleet of city vehicles and the safety of streets for outdoor events. In recent natural disasters, the role of Public Works ranged from sandbags to helipad maintenance. “We get called to help,” says David Kemp. “We’re the ‘do it all’ guys - plumbing, construction, carpentry.” There are up to 34 employees in the Public Works department; together they take care of Water, Streets & Parks, Wastewater Management, Facility Maintenance, Fleet Maintenance & Engineering. “If all those people were cutting weeds and doing maintenance work we’d probably be sitting fairly well,” says John, “but that’s not the case.” There are only 16 employees doing the physical work of the city. Crack sealing can consume 8 of them.

Support for Public Projects John Angulo has seen more council and mayoral support for public projects in the past five years than in his 26 years in the city. He wants his department to be ready. “We want people to come to Globe,” says John, “and we want them to want to come back.” Managing a multi-functional department that provides ongoing essential service, executes on special projects and responds to emergency services is “a balancing act” John says. “We do the best we can with what we’ve got,” he says, “but don’t make a schedule or you will be disappointed.” If there was vandalism overnight at the park, that becomes a priority. The crew can’t crack seal in the rain. The sandbagging machine is idle right now, but soon they’ll anticipate the flooding. Culverts must be cleared before monsoon season. Maintenance runs constantly, but if there’s a waterline break, there goes the crew. “We’re known for moving bodies around as needed,” says John. Even when short-staffed with COVID, the Water Department helped out at the dog park. When there’s a big project at Besh Ba Gowah, they help out there. “Some people say just get more DOC crews working on it, but it’s not so simple,” John explains. Pre-pandemic, city work crews were supplemented by up to 21 Department of Corrections (DOC) inmates. Currently, they have only six. The process of clearing inmates for the work program has been slowed and issues of training and transport within COVID restrictions have further constrained their use. This year John will focus DOC crews on special projects, like assisting Streets & Parks to ready Round Mountain for the Sunrise Challenge. “I learned what I learned by being a part of every group,” he says. “That’s something I try to instill in my team.” The Streets & Park Department has an 8-man crew led by Supervisor Richard Thomas. They service 85.43 miles of Globe roads and more than 2600 street signs. There is a twoman crew responsible for 12 parks and 10 baseball fields. They maintain the grounds, service the bathrooms, abate graffiti and more. More than 7000 graves in Globe Cemetery are maintained by one employee.

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The Fleet Department services approximately 150 city vehicles and large equipment with a 4-man crew including supervisor. The Water department is on call 24 hours a day. They maintain the city’s 7 wells, 9 storage tanks and nearly 95 miles of waterlines, including a water main that runs through the door windows of a Ford Model-T. During the fires last summer, the team turned the water toward the Hagen tanks and kept the pumps running full throttle 24-7. “We worked through the fire, through the floods and COVID,” says David Kemp. “A lot of people worked from home. Not us.” David has been with the City of Globe for 24 years. He shares an office with Vincent Mariscal, Water/Wastewater Facility Manager. “Overall, we are responsible for providing the city with quality water, providing fire flows for emergencies and on the waste end, to provide treatment to the sewage water before it is released into our country’s waterways,” Vincent explains. Globe’s wastewater treatment plant is operated by two dedicated employees. It has become the standard-bearer for the company that supplies it. “We’re pretty high-tech for a small town,” Vincent says proudly.

Master of Special Events Through his career, John Angulo has worked in all areas of Public Works. “Everyone’s always known me for special events,” says John; his eyes light up. “If I’m out in public and I’m not in a vest, they’re not going to recognize who I am.” Even before crews got paid overtime for special events, like parades and Halloween parties, John was there. It’s a job he’s had a hard time letting go of as he moved up the ladder. “Working those special events, you become part of the community.” As Director of Public Works, John’s mornings consist of communications. He begins by checking in with his office mate, Superintendent of Parks & Streets, Richard Thomas. Then he walks across the parking lot to check in with the “water guys,” (complaints, concerns, streets closed, water disruptions), then over to Fleet Maintenance (Steve Wolfe). “He listens to us and trusts us to handle our projects,” says Vincent. “He doesn’t micromanage.” Next John heads over to City Hall to coordinate with the city manager, Paul Jepson and update him on the status of various projects and concerns. After that, he might stop by and check on the remodel of the police station. “It’s not a must-do, but if there’s a problem, it’s going to come back to us,” says John. It’s a recurring theme for the Public Works Director. Look for problems before they happen. Consider long-term maintenance before a building, pool slide or sun sail goes up. Monitoring the budget is also a big part of his job; he sees all bills from all departments and makes a phone call when an expenditure stands out. “We definitely don’t want to go back to council if we overrun our budget,” says John solemnly. John began his career on the back of a garbage truck in 1996. “If you came out late with your garbage, we got to know each other,” says John. “As funny as it seems, you got those

personal relationships; you knew everybody.” When sanitation services were outsourced, he says, city workers lost the human connection with community members. “I think we lost some of our humanity,” John says. “We’re getting it back. “ With work beginning on the trails, the pool, and the parks, he says, the public sees there’s something happening in Globe. “That’s exciting,” says John. “The continuity, the collaboration has come back.“ Public Works has collaborated on plans for the pool (water line rerouted), playground equipment (they’ll spread the chips) and the outdoor space at the Globe Public Library. John is frequently tapped in meetings with Linda Oddonetto, Economic Development Director and Jerry Barnes, City Engineer as they bring new developers to town. “I am grateful for that because I don’t like being brought in after the fact,” he laughs.“If it’s not done effectively for the long term, we have a maintenance concern.” Public Works has been a big part of I ART Globe’s Stair Arizona project that encompasses 5 staircases and 3 footbridges. “It’s a good project to show what the guys are capable of getting done,” John says, “but also the importance of public support.” “We met with John and Richard Thomas a number of times on the stairs, and they made tons of great suggestions,” adds Thea Wilshire, founder of I ART Globe. “We organized artists and volunteers, and Public Works stepped up to not just clean and maintain the trails, as they were already doing, but to make them better.” When the city wanted to get its ballpark back on Noftsger Hill, Public Works went “above and beyond” in creating a new dog park, according to Thea, a community leader on the project. They could have just put in a faucet, but they found an old fire hydrant and made that the water source. They made a bone-shaped bench. “There is creativity and love in the projects,” says Thea. “It shows they’re proud of what they do.” The city got a $10,000 grant from APS for trees, and new trees have been planted throughout the city, on the perimeter of the Public Works office site and K-9 Mine Bark Park. According to Tree Cities of the World, trees yield 3–5 times their cost in overall benefits to the city. “It’s just a good feeling,” says John. “I love trees.”

National Public Works Week “I’ve been rewarded for my efforts over the years,” John says. “I want to share that and encourage others..” May 15-21 2002 is National Public Works Week. This year’s theme is “Ready & Resilient.” For those working for the City of Globe, it’s just a day’s work. Which sometimes lasts all night long. On a Thursday night in late February, a leak discovered at 10:30 pm kept the crew busy until 5 or 6 in the morning. “Nights like that you work all night and come back at regular hours and do your shift,” says David Kemp. So how does a hard working Public Works team seek recognition? A banner. A t-shirt. A pizza party. “Small things go a long way for the worker guy,” says Vincent. u

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rom museums in the East Valley to hiking trails and rock climbing in and around Superior, the road from Apache Junction to Globe is filled with history and adventure for the intrepid desert traveler on US 60, one of Arizona’s oldest stretches of highway. Originally dubbed the “million dollar highway,” the 21-mile stretch of the Miami–Superior Highway cost $1 million to build and was constructed with prison labor between 1919 and 1922. The road was dedicated on April 29, 1922, and the original 300-foot tunnel named for state senator W.D. Claypool was completed in 1926. In 1952, the route became US 60 and the Claypool tunnel was replaced by the 1,200-foot Queen Creek Tunnel. But the road’s history goes back decades, if not centuries before, to the first appearance of Europeans in the region that came to be Arizona. What was to become US 60 is one of the oldest, most historic sections of highway in the entire state, according to an Arizona Department of Transportation historical report commissioned in 2011 ahead of the state’s centennial. Once Spaniards, led by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, entered the region in 1540, Europeans’ movements along ancient indigenous trails created a framework for centuries of travel throughout the territory. It wasn’t until 1853, in the wake of the California Gold Rush, that the United States began to invest in surveying and creating roads and railroad routes to speed up travel in what would become the Arizona Territory in 1863. In 1877, the Territory’s first road project was a “wagon road” between Phoenix and Globe, funded with $10,000 in Territorial bonds, the first highway construction bonds issued in Arizona’s history. Prior to WWII, between 1917 and 1938, and with the aid of $40 million from the federal government, the majority of the state highway system was mapped out and developed, although only a small percentage was actually paved until much later. By 1938, the Arizona highway system had grown to include nearly 3,500 miles of highway, and the state’s tourist economy had been given a “tremendous shot in the arm,” in the words of an ADOT study. During that period, the author says, “the foundation had been laid for the highspeed and high-capacity highways that would be built after the Second World War.” From that time to the present, the state and federal highway systems have evolved from routes built locally with whatever materials might be at hand, to the intricate and complex system of urban superhighways and rural roads that exists today. US 60 is still evolving, with modern projects like the Pinto Creek Bridge and Devil’s Canyon widening project east of Superior that weighed in at nearly $9 million. For the modern adventurer to truly appreciate this stretch of road, though, it’s important to take time to slow down and absorb what Arizona has to offer along one of the most beautiful stretches of road in the state.

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The downtown district of Superior. Courtesy photo Starting from the west, Apache Junction offers a first glimpse into Arizona’s past with two museums dedicated to the pioneers who carved a home out of an often brutal and inhospitable landscape. The Superstition Mountain–Lost Dutchman Museum and Goldfield Ghost Town feature relics from the region’s mining past, offering tours and historical reenactments throughout the year. Goldfield Ghost Town has even added a zipline, in addition to jeep tours of the area that sits at the base of the Superstition Mountain range. The Superstition Mountain–Lost Dutchman Museum offers lectures and demonstrations, along with the Elvis Presley Memorial Chapel, a movie prop built for the King’s 1969 western “Charro!” The museum also features vintage mining equipment and replicas of old western buildings, with a cast of characters that bring history to life for observers. Apache Junction is also home to the Arizona Renaissance Festival, which runs through April 3 this year – but the Ren Festival is not the only festival in these parts. Further east, in Superior, during the summer months people gather in the town square for Second Fridays, featuring music in the park and extended hours for businesses along Main Street. High points on the Superior calendar are the Apache Leap Mining Festival, which usually takes place in October, and the Prickly Pear Festival in August, celebrating the iconic desert fruit. If hiking is your thing, there are opportunities galore from Apache Junction to Globe. Along the way, you’ll find entry points for trails into the Superstitions for the advanced hiker, as well as less challenging trails for less experienced nature lovers. The Peralta Trail in Gold Canyon is a popular 12.4-mile round trip that offers a gateway into the Superstitions and access to more challenging trails. For the more casual hiker, the Hieroglyph Trail, also in Gold Canyon, offers a fairly easy 1.5-mile trail that winds gently through a classic Sonoran Desert canyon to a place with seasonal pools and rock carvings dating back to a civilization that existed as much as 1,500 years ago. Closer to Superior, a section of the Arizona Scenic Trail intersects with several trails on and around iconic Picketpost Mountain, a postcard-worthy formation that should only be tackled by the most experienced hikers. Novice hikers should check out the trails within Boyce Thompson Arboretum, founded in 1924, the oldest and largest botanical garden in Arizona and one of the oldest botanical institutions west of the Mississippi River. The trails meander through stunning desert landscapes populated with plants collected by founder William Boyce Thompson, whose house still sits on a rocky outcrop with a view of Apache Leap, another iconic geological formation, in the background. Tours of the house are available throughout the year.

The Legends of Superior Trail (LOST) trail is a favorite hiking trail, following the original path of Highway 60. Pictured are the Claypool Tunnel, which was replaced in 1952 with the Queen Creek Tunnel, and the Pinto Creek bridge, which carries Highway 60 over the canyon just east of Superior. Courtesy photo

Boyce Thompson Arboretum is a popular destination, offering pleasant shade and entertainment even during the warm summer months, thanks to the towering trees throughout the property. Photo by LCGross Superior itself is a hiker’s paradise, boasting miles of trails and world-class rock climbing within a short drive. The Legends of Superior Trail, or LOST, features a 4-mile out and back that follows the original path of the old Miami–Superior Highway and overall stretches 11 miles from the historic Claypool Tunnel to the Picketpost Trailhead. To the east of Superior, just beyond Apache Leap, is Oak Flat, which offers trails and rock climbing as part of the Queen Creek Canyon outdoor recreation area. The Queen Creek Coalition is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding climbing opportunities, overseeing nearly 1,000 routes throughout the area. For those who would rather ride than hike or climb, the Superior Tour Company offers off-road jeep tours, including of the historic Silver King Mine. These tours are by reservation only. Climbing east through Queen Creek Canyon, Highway 60 rolls past the Pinto Valley Mine into Miami and on to Globe. There’s plenty to do on arrival, from art galleries to outdoor recreation in the Pinal Mountains, as well as a variety of restaurants – Mexican food aficionados will find plenty available for the discerning palate. As a spring bonus, March is the time of year when the Copper Corridor blazes with wildflowers – hillsides abound with poppies from Miami to the bluffs around San Carlos. Be sure to mark your calendar for the two-day Poppy Fest on the first weekend in April, hosted by the Globe-Miami Chamber. u

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ast year, the Miami Police Department installed a new SpillmanFlex system to help with records management and improve coordination among first responders. The system allows the PD to plug in easily to a shared network of area first responders, including the Gila County Sheriff’s Department, Globe Police Department, the TriCity and Globe fire departments, and the drug task force. The system also enhances transparency. All police vehicles have installed the Spillman Mobile system in their computers. Now, officers can pull up the full range of data, as well as be able to see what kinds of calls are being taken by the Sheriff’s Department and others in the network. Everyone is now on the same system. The system will allow law enforcement to have better access to information about the people they deal with. “We all deal with the same people,” says Police Chief Keith Thompson. With the old system, officers wouldn’t know if a person they arrested might have a record of arrests in Globe or the County, without doing a lot of legwork. Thompson said, “Take a domestic violence charge: after three strikes, the individual is facing a felony. But if we can’t easily cross-check the person’s records with the other agencies, we treat it as a misdemeanor.” He said it’s important for officers to be able to access a complete picture when they go out on calls, and with the new system, they have that. The SpillmanFlex system has become a favorite of agencies nationwide. The company boasts of having thousands of agencies relying on their product. The investment will also put the department in a better position to receive future grants. Thompson says its records management under the old system was spotty, and it didn’t accurately track all calls. The SpillmanFlex system will record all calls and make it easier for the department to document its efforts and include accurate numbers in grant applications. Thompson came from the Sheriff’s Department when he took the position in Miami. He says transitioning to Miami PD’s environment based on a 1995 system - one that lacked the robust database capabilities he was used to and was prone to crash was difficult to say the least. Almost immediately, Thompson began to lobby for the new system, but was told the town lacked funds to pay for it. “I got on the phone and begged every agency in the State for assistance,” Thompson says, “but it wasn’t until I connected with Director Alberto Gutier of the Governor’s Office of Public Safety that things really began to move in our direction.” Thompson said Gutier stepped in and helped find the money to fund the system. Thompson already had contacts at Spillman from his time at the Sheriff’s Department and, he says, “They wanted to see us get this for our town. In the end, I got a great deal on the software, and we had the money from the Governor’s office to pay for it.” Thompson says the system cost approximately $65,000, and none of that came out of the Town’s budget.

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Thompson also worked with Town Manager Micah Gaudet to arrange for a contract with the County for dispatch services. Thompsons says the biggest advantage the system offers is speed. A person who calls 911 is typically panicked, and the dispatcher has to ask a series of questions to understand the situation and determine the best response. Thompson says in the past, when a 911 call came in from Miami, a County dispatcher would forward the call to Miami PD, where the local dispatcher would have to go through a second set of questions before sending an officer. The local dispatcher would then have to call the County back to confirm whether

The previous dispatch system required several shifts of dispatchers and cost the department over $200,000 in salaries and benefits. Now that same capability is being handled by the County for just over $53,000. And provides great efficiency and speed in dispatching calls. Photo by LCGross

Stephanie Borunda is Chief Thompson’s administrative assistant and also serves as the personal contact with the public for non-emergency issues Monday thru Friday 8 am to 5 pm. The department has also installed a call box outside the police station which connects callers to dispatch 24/7. Photo by LCGross

medical had been sent. All of that took minutes the person might not have. The new system means the person in distress only has to tell their story once, and both police and medical assistance can be dispatched at the same time. The efficiency of the system shaves minutes off response times. This can mean the difference when dealing with a heart attack, an in-progress criminal act, or a domestic violence incident. Mayor Sammy Gonzales praises the move for both speeding up service and enhancing officer safety. “The dispatch being serviced by the county is important to our community and also to our police officers,” Gonzales says. The change makes financial sense, too. Gaudet

Chief Thompson has served with the Globe Police Department, Gila County Narcotics Task Force and the Gila County Sheriff’s Office before hiring on with the Miami Police Department in 2018. Appointed Chief of Police in January of 2019, he has made big strides in improving his department. Photo by LCGross

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Lee Ann with museum Executive Director Tom Foster. Their work, and the museum, is supported through memberships, room rentals and generous grants from the United Fund of Globe-Miami and the Arizona Commission on the Arts, as well a strong relationship with community stakeholders, including the mines and Gila County Board of Supervisors.

Preserve History, Continued from page 1 Some of her work stems from requests. Local residents come to her for help, such as a man interested in local aviation history and a woman writing a book on the Chinese. Lee Ann will keep her eye out for articles on specific topics, and she maintains a folder for each. Then she forwards the clippings to the interested parties. When the Miami Rotary was preparing to celebrate their 100th anniversary, they asked Lee Ann to look through newspapers dating back to 1921 and pull all the clippings she could find relating to the club. She filled four three-ring binders with clippings on their behalf. “I wish I was able to do more for those celebrating a 50th or 100th year anniversary,” she says, but many times she learns about events like these only after seeing them on Facebook. Lee Ann herself is now celebrating her ten-year anniversary with the museum. Powers has singlehandedly digitized most of the Arizona Record, a leading newspaper whose heyday was in the first part of the nineteenth century. And she’s digitized decades’ worth of the Arizona Silver Belt, which has been in publication since 1879. In the past, these local newspapers archived their issues on microfilm reels, which were then kept in oft-times dusty boxes in poorly lit storerooms. These reels were loaned out to anyone who asked, many times without even a signature to track who had borrowed them. But after it became apparent that not everyone was diligent at returning them, the practice was dropped. Today, only trusted researchers get access. She says most of the research requests she receives focus on the 1940s or 1960s. But some of these are the very years that are missing in the archives. “The years that people want now,” says Powers, “like 1963, 1969, we don’t have at all. And the early part of 1912 is completely missing. That was the year Arizona became a state. Even the Arizona State Library Archives do not have these Silver Belt issues in their files.”

“So it’s important to take what we have, in the condition it’s in, and preserve what we can before it’s lost for good.” When the museum first purchased the digitizing equipment, it was thought the process would be more automatic than it has proven to be. Powers laughs, “We thought we could just load the microfilm and the equipment would do the rest.” Instead, she’s found that a good deal of tweaking is needed to get pages lined up properly. Powers also makes enhancements, like lightening a page to make it more readable. For Lee Ann, spending the extra time has a silver lining. Powers often ends up reading the headlines or being drawn into a story that connects to another topic she’s researching for the museum or others. Or she finds a snippet of history she feels is worth sharing. She has dozens of folders with clippings, spanning decades, with labels like “Films Made Here,” “Pancho Villa,” or “Jewish Community.” She even keeps separate folders for articles about jail deaths and jail escapes. “It’s like a library of clippings,” she says. Sometimes, her work leads to bigger projects. While reading about the victory gardens in Miami during the war years of 1917 and 1918, she came across an article about the Miami Women’s Club, which had taken on the task of raising funds for a “War Garden Canning Kitchen.” The effort raised enough funds to also publish a cookbook. When Lee Ann reached out to the community on Facebook to see if anyone still had a copy, a woman came forward who still had her family’s copy. Powers was able to get the copy reprinted, and it’s now available in the museum’s gift shop. She followed a similar process when she ran across a feature story on the ways Christmas was celebrated by the many immigrant families who called Miami home. “I was amazed to find that we had people here from over 30 countries,” says Powers. Titled “Miami: The Great Melting Pot of the Nation,” it contains short descriptions of

Facebook photo showing the work on the two second floor Congressman Ed Pastor rooms with volunteers Pilar Carbajal and Tom Meredith. Powers has maintained Bullion Plaza’s Facebook page for a decade. With nearly 2,000 fans, it has become an excellent platform for her to share the history that comes out of her work with the newspapers. A fan favorite of the page is the “Today in History” posts, where Powers shares writing duties with local historian/author Virgil Alexander.

Christmas celebrations from Denmark, Canada, Ireland, and many other places around the world and was initially published in the Daily Arizona Silver Belt on December 15, 1920. Lee Ann republished the article as a booklet, with cover art by Patty Sjolin, and it too is available at Bullion Plaza Museum. Her current project involves gathering the history of buildings lining Miami’s business district—the makings for a book. The significance of these buildings is undeniable when their history is revealed. Most have existed since the heyday of mining in the first part of the nineteenth century, which brought monied interests and architectural talent to Miami’s downtown district. Many of Miami’s buildings on Sullivan Street represent some of the best work of the day from wellknown architects like Henry Trost of El Paso and Henry Jaastad of Tucson. While Powers originally undertook the project at the behest of several Miami merchants, curious to know more about their own buildings, the book project promises to offer an important historical record of value to the community. Lee Ann’s work as a researcher and digitizer also benefits the website Find A Grave and Globe’s annual Cemetery Tour, which takes place each spring. What began with her signing up to take pictures of grave markers as a volunteer for findagrave.com—an online database of cemeteries—has evolved into another way to tell the stories of those who are buried there by including biographies, interviews, and obituaries she finds in the newspapers while digitizing them. “It became very important for me to give those people a voice,” Lee Ann says. She works with volunteer Wanda Rackoczy, who transcribes the obituaries that Lee Ann sends to her and incorporates them into the findagrave.com memorials. Over the years, Powers has uncovered a treasure trove of previously unknown and unsung tales of Globe and Miami residents that she has brought to light … and to life. In the same vein, she has been instrumental in the success of the popular Globe Cemetery Tour, now in its tenth year, which attracts hundreds of visitors each spring. The event, put on by the Copper Cities Community Players each year, involves actors portraying people who lived and died here. Powers provides dozens of stories she has gleaned from obituaries and news accounts for the Players to consider, and only 10 to 12 are then chosen for development into a script that an actor will perform. “We try to keep the tour fresh by doing new stories each year,” Powers says. As we were going to press, the naming of the old Silver King stairs was on her mind. The City has purchased the property in downtown Globe that housed the remnants of a business known as the Silver King (a furniture store) before it was vacated in the 1980s. The City plans to tear down the remains of the building for much-needed parking in the downtown area and has partnered with I ART GLOBE to repair and re-enliven a set of stairs dating back to the early 1900s at the back of the property. The hope is to create a set of urban hikes that link a series of historic stairs throughout Globe like this one. Powers believes that the name Silver King hardly seems fitting and lacks much historical punch for a downtown property and set of stairs that date back well over 100 years. But the question of what to name it remains. True to form, she has done extensive research on the site, which dates back to Pascoe Stables and later the Barclay and Higdon Livery Stables. As always, Powers is working to bring back history to add context and complement community projects like this one. And lobbying the community not to forget our rich history. I ART GLOBE has set up a post on their Facebook page to hear from the community on this issue. You can see Powers’ suggestions, along with others, and submit your ideas. The City and I ART GLOBE plan on a big reveal of the stair project and will announce the name chosen on April 2 during this year’s Poppy Fest, so stay tuned. Looking around Lee Ann Powers’ office, you get the impression of a woman who’s passionate about her work, busy with a dozen projects, and enjoying every bit of it. She’s one of the unsung heroes who are making Globe-Miami a better place and ensuring its history is preserved and appreciated. u

A master’s thesis by Wilma Gray Sain, titled “A History of the Miami Area, Arizona,” published in 1944, is a comprehensive look at Miami’s rising status as a major copper producer and community heavyweight during the first part of the 19th century. Powers worked on an edited version and included many of the original photos. Only one copy of the thesis exists, and the museum carefully guards it, but the hardcover book is available to the public.

The Arizona Silver Belt has been a paper of record since 1878. A display has been set up in the museum to recognize the paper’s contribution to the area.

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MARCH 2022

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COVID-19 UPDATE BY THE NUMBERS • On March 9, global total reported cases of COVID stood at 450 million, and total official deaths had reached 6,038,177. (1) • Total reported cases in the USA reached 81,012,955 and total official deaths exceeded 987,615. (2) • Arizona has seen a total of 1,980,769 cases and 27,946 deaths attributed to COVID. (3) • Gila County has had 16,863 reported cases and 352 deaths, with 4,002 cases in zip code 85501. (4)

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Spring in Globe and Miami can only mean one thing—poppies, poppies, and more poppies. A display as magnificent as the one Mother Nature puts on in the area deserves to be celebrated, which is exactly what the AZ Poppy Fest is all about. This is the second year for the popular event, which was the brainchild of Christie Cothrune, president of the Miami-Globe Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and owner of Bouquets on Broad Street. This year’s Poppy Fest occurs the weekend of April 1st, with festivities surrounding everything poppy in both Globe and Miami. Good poppy growth depends on the area getting a good soaking rain once a month in the six months prior to spring, and according to Tianna Holder, Executive Director of Globe-Miami Regional Chamber of Commerce, 2022 is on track for a good bloom.

• Total global recorded deaths passed 6 million on March 7. (5) • Scientists found that people who’ve had COVID suffer long-lasting losses to brain tissue, resulting in loss of sense of smell, “brain fog,” and lack of ability to concentrate. In the study’s subjects, the effects lasted at least four months. It’s uncertain whether the symptoms will be permanent. Most of the people in the study had only mild COVID cases. (6)

ACROSS THE COUNTRY • Hospitalizations and case counts have dropped significantly across the United States – by about 85% – since the end of January. (7) • However, public health officials warn the future is uncertain. And a majority of Americans believe the pandemic is still only somewhat or not at all under control, while 6 out of 10 say we still need to take measures to control the virus. 52% of Americans support an indoor mask mandate. One out of five say they’ve completely returned to normal life. (8) • President Biden announced a new pandemic road map calling for increased tracking of new variants and more use of antivirals, in an attempt to help return life to normal. (9) • The Centers for Disease Control switched to an emphasis on hospital-related measures rather than case counts in assessing local severities. The new guidelines mean about 90% of Americans can safely reduce their masking. (7),(10) • Congress is working on a new bill for coronavirus aid. It’s expected to come in around $15 billion and to help fund vaccines, treatments, and testing. (11)

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Events in Globe The weekend kicks off with downtown Globe’s First Friday event from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., with food trucks, vendor booths, and a classic car cruise. The fun continues from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday with food, vendors, and live entertainment, as well as Poppy School from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Silver King lot. With the goal of educating the public on the recovery and restoration of the Pinal Mountains and surrounding areas after a summer of flooding and wildfires, Poppy School demonstrates how folks can help the land heal after natural disasters – with lots of fun hands-on activities. Highlights of Poppy School will include educational presentations, recognizing native flora and fauna via native plant trading cards and native animal bingo, a fingerprint poppy craft, and storytelling/puppet show about watersheds. Visitors can create their own native seed balls to take home and plant by pedaling a stationary bike, or take advantage of the poppy seeds available for free at the event. There will also be live entertainment and local dancers performing throughout the day, and ebikes will be available to rent from E-volve Adventure Rentals for festival goers who want to pedal around downtown.

• After a large spike in the second part of January, cases have dwindled to their lowest point since last summer. (3) • As of the first week of March, only two Arizona countes fell into the high risk category according to the CDC’s new system – Yuma and La Paz. The rest of the state is in the medium category. That means people in most of the state can stop masking up indoors, unless they have symptoms, have recently tested positive or have been near a person with COVID. (12)

GLOBE-MIAMI • As of March 7, Gila County public health authorities reported the following town-by-town case numbers: Payson: 19, San Carlos: 16, Globe: 9, Peridot: 5, Hayden: 3, Miami: 2, and one case each in Pine, Tonto Basin, Winkelman, and Young. (13) (1) https://bit.ly/3sUsT5u, (2) https://bit.ly/3Cvj2q3, https://politi.co/3pSiDsy, (3) https://bit.ly/3IXgK57, (4) https://bit. ly/3tHE0xK, https://bit.ly/3IXuAEI, (5) https://bit.ly/3hPTcU9, (6) https://bit.ly/3tLP7pk, (7) https://wapo.st/34sgY5o, (8) https://wapo.st/3HYXHX4, (9) https://wapo.st/3sTcUEK, (10) https://bit.ly/3MzJLGp, (11) https://bit.ly/3HYr5gb, (12) https:// bit.ly/3Kx57Co, (13) https://bit.ly/3pRoaQd

Events in Miami In Miami, Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum will be open on Saturday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., with live music from the Globe Centennial Band from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., followed by a family-friendly movie on the plaza and food trucks – including Cowboy Kettle Corn – to enjoy during the show. Be sure to bring a blanket or lawn chair. There will also be live music, food trucks, and vendors on Sullivan Street from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., with downtown Miami shops open late. Ghost Tours with the AZ Paranormal Investigation & Research Society will start at 7 p.m. at the Miami Mercantile & More building. Reservations are required. Contact Vincent Amino at (480) 489-7146 or vinnie@azpirs.com to purchase tickets. Miami Mercantile & More will have a pop-up bar inside starting at noon, with tours of the historic building from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Best Poppy Bloom Viewpoints Of course, the highlight of the weekend is the poppies themselves, and there’s no better place in the Copper Corridor to view them than at Peridot Mesa in the San Carlos Apache Reservation. Here, wildflower aficionados will find expansive swathes of the gorgeous gold and orange poppy blooms blanketing the rolling hillside. Visitors will need a recreation permit to visit, which will be available to purchase for $10 from tribal members at the entrance on Sunday. The Peridot Mesa trail is clearly marked and easily navigable without a guide. The reservation is sacred land, so please stay on the trail and be respectful of both the land and the poppies. Looking for other ways to enjoy the poppies? On Sunday, First Christian Church will be hosting a 7 a.m. poppy hike at Round Mountain Park, followed by a free pancake breakfast at the church. You can also enjoy hillsides of flowers, along with boating, kayaking, fishing, or picnicking, at Roosevelt Lake. Across from the lake and just 25 miles from Globe-Miami, the trails up to the 800-year-old Salado-style cliff dwellings at Tonto National Monument also typically have a good poppy bloom. Or you can catch glimpses of plenty of roadside blooms in downtown Miami.

Additional Information Wristbands for the weekend-long event can be purchased for $20 from the Chamber of Commerce. The entrance fee includes a brochure or digital download of a list of deals and discounts available with the wristband. For more information, visit https://www.globemiamichamber.com/azPoppy Fest.

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SHIRLEY ANN LONG, March 22, 1951 – February 27, 2022, age 70, of San Carlos, passed away at Valleywise Medical Center in Phoenix. (LM)

MYRA KEY, June 6, 1959 – February 21, 2022, age 62, of San Carlos, passed away at Promise Hospital in Mesa. (LM) PATRICIA JOY SCOTT, October 19, 1944 – February 19, 2022, age 77, passed away at her home. Patricia worked as an activity director for Monte Vista RV Resort in Mesa. (BM)

MICHAEL ANTHONY FERNANDEZ, July 11, 1957 – February 27, 2022, age 64, passed away. Michael worked for the Department of Homeland Security, most recently as a deportation officer. (LM) DOROTHY ANN SALTER GIBSON, December 18, 1943 – February 26, 2022, age 78, of Anadarko, OK, passed away at Oklahoma State University Medical Center in Tulsa. Dorothy was born in San Carlos but left the reservation to work under a U.S. Employment Act relocation program. (LM) PATRICIA SALCIDO, September 7, 1951 – February 26, 2022, age 70, passed away. (BM)

SYLVIA CAMPBELL, September 7, 1920 – February 17, 2022, age 101, passed away. Sylvia was active with the Church of LatterDay Saints and served as Stake President of the Relief Society. (BM)

TOM SMITH JR., March 2, 1979 – February 25, 2022, age 42, of Bylas, passed away at his home. He was a self-employed laborer. (LM) JOHNSON DOSELA, June 26, 1990 – February 24, 2022, age 31, passed away in Peridot. He worked as a seasonal firefighter for BIA Forestry. (LM) MICHAEL CLEVE ADAMS, October 2, 1949 – February 23, 2022, age 72, of Globe, passed away at Banner Baywood in Mesa. Mike was originally from San Diego and loved Elvis Presley. (LM)

MANUEL RAY GONZALEZ, December 15, 1968 – February 23, 2022, age 53, passed away. (BM)

GRACE LAZARIN, November 20, 1962 – February 19, 2022, age 59, of Miami, passed away. (BM) HENRY CLAY NOETZEL, May 10, 1930 – February 18, 2022, age 91, of Superior, passed away in East Mesa. Henry served in the Korean War and then worked at Magma Copper and Roger’s Manufacturing. (BM)

ARIZONA ELIZABETH ZEISER, July 4, 2020 – February 26, 2022, passed away at 19 months. Arizona was born in Tucson and she loved to throw things, most recently darts. (BM)

DOREEN FRANCISCO, January 30, 1964 – February 23, 2022, age 58, passed away at San Carlos Apache Health Care. (LM)

RAYMOND SAENZ GARCIA, September 9, 1946 – February 19, 2022, age 75, passed away in Mesa. Ray received a Purple Heart in Vietnam and later worked for the Arizona Department of Highways, Magma Copper/ BHP, Intel, and TRW Automotive. (BM)

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KATHY LOUYSE COLEMAN, June 8, 1957 – February 14, 2022, age 64, passed away. Kathy raised her family on a farm in southern Colorado and most recently drove a haul truck at the Ray Mine in Kearny. (BM) LAURA JEAN ROTEN, October 7, 1986 – February 14, 2022, age 35, of Globe, passed away at her home. (LM) TIMOTHY WARD SR., November 27, 1957 – February 13, 2022, age 64, passed away at CVRMC. (LM) GEORGE A. GATES, November 28, 1944 – February 12, 2022, age 77, passed away at CVRMC. George was born in Portales, NM, and served in the Air Force for over 20 years. (BM) DEBRA ANN JUENGER, September 16, 1951 – February 10, 2022, age 70, of Miami, passed away at her home. (LM) FLOYD EMMERSON REYNOLDS II, March 22, 1976 – February 10, 2022, age 45, of Globe, passed away in Miami. He loved woodworking and fishing. (LM) RUTH ROGERS, February 16, 1932 – February 9, 2022, age 89, of Peridot, passed away at San Carlos Apache Health Care. (LM) CRUZ “PEE-WEE” L. AGUIRRE, August 17, 1948 – February 9, 2022, age 73, passed away. Pee-Wee worked at ASARCO for 34 years and was church keeper for the St. Joseph’s Catholic Church for many years. (BM)

WILLIAM HOZIE, June 4, 1940 – February 15, 2022, age 81, passed away. Bill was the staff anthropologist at the Petrified Forest Dinosaur Park and served on the faculty at Diné College of the Navajo Nation. (LM)

MARGARET CATHERINE TROWSE, August 23, 1930 – February 8, 2022, age 91, of Globe, passed away. Margaret once worked as a clerk at the justice court and as assistant city magistrate in Globe. (LM)

TINA MARIE GARCIA, October 17, 1956 – February 15, 2022, age 65, of Globe, passed away in Globe. (LM)

ELDRED WATERMAN, March 3, 1952 – February 8, 2022, age 69, of Tucson, passed away at Banner University Medical Center in Tucson. Eldred was born in San Carlos and, as a young man, acted in three Westerns. (LM)

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MARY L. PALACIO, January 24, 1927 – February 7, 2022, age 95, of Superior, passed away in Chandler. Mary was active in church and community affairs. (BM) ALICIA WYNNE HENIO, May 8, 1980 – February 7, 2022, age 41, of Globe, passed away in Peridot. Alice was a librarian at Copper Rim Elementary. (LM) TIMOTHY JACOB HAAS, February 10, 1996 – February 6, 2022, age 25, of Globe, passed away. Jacob was an EMT and firefighter for the Tri-City Fire Department. (LM) DIEGO PINO, June 28, 1936 – February 5, 2022, age 85, passed away. (BM)

PATSY HAZEL COTHRUN, January 29, 1930 – February 15, 2022, age 92, of Globe, passed away in Reseda, CA. Patsy was a librarian at Miami Inspiration Addition Elementary School for 20 years. (LM)

MARY COLLINS, July 4, 1955 – February 14, 2022, age 66, passed away. (BM)

CURTIS HIGHTOWER, April 18, 1962 – February 12, 2022, age 59, passed away. (BM)

SHEILA ROSE SISTO, April 1, 1968 – February 4, 2022, age 53, of San Carlos, passed away at Chandler Regional Medical Center. Sheila worked as a clerk for the U.S. Postal Service. (LM) RAFAEL R. SANDOVAL, March 13, 1938 – February 3, 2022, age 83, of San Pedro, passed away at Foothills Rehabilitation Center in Tucson. Ralph worked at ASARCO for 41 years. (BM) FERNANDO ANTHONY KITCHEYAN, April 28, 1967 – February 3, 2022, age 54, of Phoenix, passed away at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix. Fernando was born in San Carlos and worked as a nursing assistant. (LM) BUDDY CONSTANT, January 27, 1942 – February 2, 2022, age 80, passed away. Bud ran Constant Automotive in Pinetop and served on the White Mountain Sheriff’s Posse. (BM) CHARLES BIBBS, June 24, 1938 – February 1, 2022, age 83, passed away. (BM) MERRIL E. SCHUTT JR., September 12, 1967 – February 1, 2022, age 54, of Roosevelt, passed away. Merril worked for SRP for 30 years. (LM)

The Pascoe name factored prominently into Globe’s history. Brothers B.F. Pascoe and Tom Pascoe came over with their parents from Cornwall, England in the 1840’s and both sons would eventually make their way to Globe in 1881. B.F. Pascoe was elected County Sheriff in 1882 with Tom Pascoe serving as Undersheriff until 1886. In that year he established Pascoe’s Livery & Feed on Broad Street at the Pinal Creek crossing. He would later establish the Miners & Merchants Bank, which eventually merged with the Gila Valley Bank & Trust (on the corner of Broad and Mesquite). In 1899 he sold his interest in the Livery & Feed to his brother in order to devote himself to his duties as vice-president of Gila Valley Bank, and president of the Globe Water Works. He died on January 13, 1926 and is buried in the Masonic section of the Globe Cemetery.

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HOUSING STUDY, Continued from page 1 The study had its inception when the City hosted a series of meetings in 2018 to get input on what residents considered the most important aspects for future community development. As a result of those meetings, the City contracted with CAG in early 2019 for a study that was expected to be completed in a 30- to 90-day window. But the world had other plans as shortly thereafter, a global pandemic placed everything on hold. “We lost our project manager from CAG midstream,” says Oddonetto. “Then we hit pause when COVID hit, and everything just came to a screeching halt.” The CAG study was funded with $45,000 from several stakeholders including the City of Globe, the Town of Miami, Gila County, the Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center, Southern Gila County Economic Development Corporation and Freeport McMoRan, and encompasses the communities of Globe, Miami, Claypool, Central Heights and Midland City. Like housing studies in the past, CAG determined a need for housing in every sector of the market, from lowincome housing to transitional housing to family housing for professionals, such as teachers, health care workers and mine workers.

Aging and obsolete houses CAG utilized similar studies completed in the 21st century, including a 2006 Globe-Miami Housing Assessment done by the University of Arizona Drachman Institute; a 2011 Economic and Fiscal Impact Report financed by Resolution Copper Company for Superior, Arizona by Elliot D. Pollack and Company; a CAG Superior Housing Assessment completed in 2014, and a Market Study - Globe Workforce Apartments in 2015 by Griffin Consulting. Overall CAG determined that there are nearly 7,000 housing units in the area. Of those, 1,718, 31.9 percent, are rental units, while 3,676, 68.1 percent, are owner occupied. One statistic that illustrates the challenges to the housing market though, is that there are 1,492 vacant units, representing 21.7 percent of existing structures. According to CAG, that includes vacant homes, mobile homes, condominiums for sale or rent, homes rented or sold but not occupied, seasonal and vacation homes, and “functionally obsolete or non-viable units.” Most of those vacant houses are not being actively marketed either for rent or for sale. Age is also a factor, as the majority of houses in the area, about 90 percent, were built prior to the year 2000. Most houses in the Town of Miami were built in and around 1954 and in Claypool, 1955. Housing in Central Heights/Midland City and Globe are relatively newer, with the majority built around 1972 and 1968 respectively. More than 75 percent overall were built prior to 1980 and 24.6 percent prior to 1940. Only 9.1 percent of homes were built after the year 2000. The study also pointed out that “well over half” of the houses in the area are functionally obsolete and are in “noticeable deterioration.” “Most of these older homes face maintenance issues, both from deferred maintenance and general neglect. This is a major problem within the Study Area and has been exasperated year after year, as the housing market, labor and material shortages take their toll. This area also has an issue with absentee owners, some of which own multiple properties and do not maintain them to livable standards,” it concludes. “There’s a need in every market segment,” says Oddonetto. “We need housing from affordable to market rate to work force. So we have to start somewhere.” In addition to its needs assessment, the study also included suggestions on how the City can proactively encourage development by “fine-tuning local codes and ordinances [as] an ongoing effort.” Suggestions include considering what is working and what is not; streamlining application processes; setting community development goals and re-examining zoning ordinances to facilitate residential development, among other regulatory changes.

Linda Oddonetto, Director of EDD for the City of Globe, says the housing study is a tool the City can use for future development. Photo by LCGross.

Bad timing for a study The timing of the study was unfortunate, given the circumstances. Originally, it would have taken place using information available in 2019. Since that time, 2020 census numbers were released in late-2021, but CAG used demographic information from the 2019 American Community Survey 5-year estimates of data collected between 2009-2019. The study suggests the results be updated, “to reflect any significant changes in demographic data that may become apparent.” While the City considers the draft to be a solid snapshot of the housing situation in the Globe-Miami area, some members of the community believe that, given the two-year delay, it could have been delayed further in order to get more up-to-date information. “In the midst of all of this, another census happened, and those numbers are not in this,” says Stacey Herrera Murry, owner of Kachina Properties, an early participant in the project. “I have more concern about that than anything else. We waited a very long time, why didn’t we just wait for the census?” Murry says there is much she agrees with in the study, but there is information about the housing market she thinks would have been better had the local real estate community been more involved. Much of the housing market statistics are taken from Zillow and realtor.com, websites that remotely calculate home values based on square footage. “Zillow is a computer software program that pulls data from the county [and calculates prices] based on square footage,” Murry says. “But Zillow doesn’t come and look at the inside of those houses.” She added that while there are needs throughout the housing market, she thinks the most glaring issues are in housing for a workforce that is bypassing the region entirely and commuting from the Valley to be closer to goods and services. “They didn’t get to hear how we have to call those people locally that cannot take a job because there’s no housing here,” she says. “We have an employee leakage for a reason, and that’s a problem: Those are people that would be eating here and going to the movies here.” Debbie Cox, who manages most of the rental properties in the area through Service First Realty, said she was initially excited by the prospect of the study after seeing a diverse

CAG determined, via realtor.com, that the median list price of a house in Globe was $199,900, but the median sales price was $187,000, an increase of 55 percent from the previous year. Miami, on the other hand, had a median list price of $189,000 with a sales price of $116,000, an increase of 191 percent over the previous year.

group of stakeholders getting together. “This is not what I anticipated and I am disappointed,” she says. “COVID was in full bloom so it looks like Google research. Seeing things on Zillow is not the true picture.” She says there is a huge demand for rentals, but much of the activity takes place by word-of-mouth. Further, she says she was never contacted by CAG for the study and questions where the rental numbers came from. But the City seems to be satisfied and Oddonetto says the study will serve as a basis for City planning, and to assist potential developers with marketing studies and financing efforts for future projects. “Globe is on the precipice of a wave coming: We’re truly a regional hub,” she says. “We have beautiful weather, we have access to recreation, and we truly are a bedroom community for the East Valley. Now that the virtual workspace is so much more normal and acceptable, I think that just opens us up for so many more possibilities.” u

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MARCH 2022 DAY TRIP, Continued from page 1 Most people who say “I’ve driven through Globe” have never ventured off the highway. They are unaware we hide our treasures to pass-through travelers, then lavishly reward the intrepid adventurers who turn into our historic downtowns, visit our museums and shops, and explore our natural areas. This article will help you hone in to the activities that best fit your interests. If you are interested in history, you’ll want to visit Besh ba Gowah, our archeological museum and park that celebrates the Salado people who lived in the area in the 1100s and offers a treasure-trove of prehistoric artifacts and knowledge. You may want to visit our restored 1910 Old Sheriff’s Office & Jail and the 1916 train depot, then spend time at either Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum in Miami or the Gila County Historical Museum in Globe learning more about the fascinating people, geology, and events that have made this place what it is today. If you enjoy shopping, please explore the wares available at The Pickle Barrel, Simply Sarah, and Simply Kind Boutique in Globe, then catch the unique Arizona art sold at Splash of Copper and the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts (don’t miss the gorgeous multistory copper handrails in the center staircase of this historic building). For antiques, Sullivan Street in Miami provides hours of shopping at a variety of stores (don’t miss Bruce Barry’s Banjos workshop or Phil Stewart’s vintage radios at Stewart’s Antiques). If traveling with children, the Copper City Rock Shop offers affordable gems and minerals, and perhaps a piece of petrified dinosaur poop. For bargain shoppers, the High Desert Humane Society’s Thrift Shop and Furniture Store are sure to please. For those wanting to hike locally, check out Round Mountain Hiking Park for aerobic trails with great views of the Pinal Mountains or the Old Dominion Historic Mine Park for both hiking trails and educational signage coupled with mining artifacts that celebrate the history of the region. The just-being-developed Stairizona Trail is an urban pathway that leads walkers through historic Globe neighborhoods while accessing 90 to 130-year-old concrete staircases and pedestrian bridges built for residents prior to automotive travel. If willing to drive a bit, you may enjoy walking to the Kellner Canyon Picnic Area, particularly when the stream is running, and –while our Tonto National Forest trails are closed for fire recovery – the trails and streams of the Sierra Ancha Mountains, just north of Roosevelt Lake and the Salt River. As one of the few rivers to flow through the saguaro forests of the Sonoran Desert, the Salt River Canyon is sometimes called “Arizona’s Other Grand Canyon” because of its stunning beauty and vast array of flora and fauna species. The Upper Salt River (below the metal bridge on the way to Young) is a nice place for swimming and the Diversion Dam Recreational Area offers a seasonal up-close-and-personal opportunity to watch thousands of catfish and carp migrating through the 6” deep water. If you enjoy nature and/or outdoor adventures, Gila County is inordinately blessed with natural beauty and the “Discover Gila County” website is a great resource for exploring the area with sites categorized by activity and region. E-Volve Adventure Rentals (928-200-1489) offers affordable hourly and daylong rentals of e-bicycles, kayaks, and stand-up paddle boards to support your outdoor play. Globe-Miami is known as the “Mexican Food Capital of Arizona” for its plethora of long-established Mexican dining options and locals will passionately promote their favorite restaurants (mine include El Ranchito in Globe and Guayo’s El Rey in Miami). However, Globe-Miami offers more than Mexican food and now offers Asian-fusion cuisine at Bloom; wood-fired pizzas at Bravo; one of the 10 best hamburger spots in the state at Nurdberger; amazing breakfasts and lunch options at Copper Hen; and delicious salads, burgers, and steaks at Copper Bistro. Locals love to spend time reading or hanging out with friends at Vida e Caffe for coffee and homemade baked goods. In the summer, residents can be seen lining up for ice cream at Dairy Queen or cooling off at Zona Ice in downtown Globe. If you are traveling with children, consider exploring the Bullseye Trail at Round Mountain Hiking Park for its accessible distance and interesting natural caves. The Old Dominion Mine Park is great for rock hounds of all ages. Besh ba Gowah has a few interactive displays for children in the museum and a grind-your-own-corn activity in their ethnobotanical garden. Per local kids, our best playgrounds are the mining-themed play features at the Old Dominion Mine Park which includes a 100-foot zipline, the playground and ballfields at the Community Center, and -for toddlers and preschoolers --the playgrounds at Veteran’s Park in front of the Globe Municipal Building and Miami Memorial Park. By summer 2022, Globe’s new pool and splash pad should be open, as well. Finally, pick up a local newspaper and look for any activities being sponsored by the Miami or Globe Public Libraries as they provide some of our most fun and usually free children’s and adults’ programming. If traveling with pups, check out the “Got Dogs Will Travel” article (https://www.globemiamitimes.com/got-dogwill-travel/) which describes local restaurants and shops that allow you to visit with your well-behaved, leashed dogs. New dog-friendly additions since that 2019 article include Splash of Copper and Bravo Americano Restaurant. Also, don’t miss the free ice cream “pup cups” offered at Dairy Queen and the newly opened Globe Dog Park for a great offleash play area. If up for a little drive, you might consider the Apache Cultural Center in Peridot if traveling east, Boyce Thompson Arboretum if traveling west, or several stops at Roosevelt Lake if traveling north, including the Tonto Cliff Dwellings, the Roosevelt Lake Visitor’s Center, and the Roosevelt Dam overlook. Actually, all roads leading to and from Globe-Miami make for beautiful drives. Again, welcome to Globe-Miami. We’re glad you’ve come and we’re sure you’re about to discover your next “favorite place” in Arizona. u

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