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Duo behind I Art Globe create nonprofit Love Where You Live to expand positive vision

by David Abbott

Regina Ortega-Leonardi and Thea Wilshire are not content to rest on the laurels of the successes in their mission to make Globe and the entire Copper Corridor a more attractive place for people to live and love.

The pair is expanding their vision of “radical hope, gratitude, and defiant resilience” through the recent establishment of a new 501(c)3 organization that will act as an umbrella for a number of existing initiatives and projects they hope to champion throughout rural Arizona.

Love Where You Live recently gained its nonprofit status and will act as an umbrella organization for several other initiatives, including I Art Globe, the Globe Trash Mob and the Cathy SanchezCañez Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit founded by OrtegaLeonardi honoring the late Miami High School teacher who died in July 2019 when her vehicle was washed away in a flash flood.

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Years of Life

by Patti Daley

Marion Stewart is 100 years old. On December 2nd, 140 loved ones celebrated her birthday at the Apache Gold casino. Over 60 Stewart family members showed up, many friends from Globe, and cousins from as far as eastern Canada. How does one cultivate so many connections?

“Just going about ordinary life,” Marion says. “Some of them through church, and I volunteered quite a bit.”

She also raised six children and has 14 grandchildren, 20 greats, and 7 great greats. The youngest was born last month. At 100, Marion’s mind is sharp, her eyes are bright, and she laughs often and easily.

Marion thinks attitude has a lot to do with her good health, and also credits her lineage.

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The non-profit organization “Love Where You Live” talks about the power of one person, and how a place becomes “lovable” as a result of hundreds and thousands of individual moments of generosity and selflessness (p. 1). As we wrap up 2023 and look back on the year, we certainly have seen our community in these terms - from our first piece of the year on Master Kim, who teaches kids of all ages the art and discipline for life through his Taekwondo classes, to the sold-out Crossfit Legends class for those over 70 years old, taught by Gregg Walker.

(If you want to revisit these stories and more, you can find them on our website.)

This month we bring you a story on Marion Stewart, who turned 100 this month and was celebrated by family and friends at a luncheon event attended by nearly 200 people. She credits “just living an ordinary life” with the overwhelming turnout, but she was anything but ordinary to the many people I talked to about what she has meant to them over the years (p. 1).

Love Where You Live, the new organization launched by Regina Ortega-Leonardi and Thea Wilshire as an umbrella for I ART Globe and other service groups, has big plans LINDA GROSS to expand their mission and vision to not only Globe-Miami, but other communities of Publisher the Copper Corridor. The projects Regina and Thea have spearheaded here, and the successes they’ve had, all seem to have one thing in common: these two are excellent at the art of collaborating with others and inspiring individuals of all ages to join in the creation, expression and action necessary to make a difference.

It’s a reminder that in a community, every individual matters and every action can count.

In 2024, we’re looking forward to telling more stories of the people and groups who make Globe-Miami such a “lovable” place to live. We hope their stories inspire you to find your own ways, however small, to participate in and contribute to the lively and welcoming community we all enjoy.

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by Patricia Sanders

ast Friday was a busy day – I had lots of errands to run, then I was meeting my new boyfriend, Joseph, at a local bar and grill for a quick dinner, and from there we were going to the opening of a friend’s art exhibition.

By the time I got to the bar and grill, I was frazzled.

I was there early, though, and was looking forward to forty-five minutes of quiet solitude before he arrived. I sat out on the patio, which was nearly empty, and just let my mind and body rest, listening to the music and thinking nothing. It felt great.

Before I could really settle down, though, I needed to go to the toilet. And as I went inside the restaurant and crossed through the tables toward the ladies’ room, I heard someone calling my name. I turned around and saw three of my friends sitting together in a corner.

They beckoned me over, and we chatted for a few minutes – they were going to the art exhibition, too.

Then one of them said, “Why don’t you sit with us until Joseph comes?”

I enjoy these friends and under other circumstances would have been delighted to sit with them. But at that moment, my heart sank. All I wanted was a little time to myself, some peace and quiet. I needed it.

I stood there for a second or two pondering how to reply. Then suddenly, to my horror, I heard myself say, “No.” Just “No.” Emphatically. With a tone of voice as if spending time with them would be a torture of a kind prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.

It felt like I’d totally lost control of my inner filter – it broke down for a moment and “No” popped out, like a verbal fart.

There was silence for what felt like a thousand years, as I tried to gather my thoughts and come up with something to say to explain myself. My friends seemed to be just as horrified as I was. I don’t know what they were thinking.

Time was moving very slowly, like in a train wreck or a car accident.

I remember blabbering something like, “I’ve had a really busy day and need some down time before the thing tonight” – which was actually the truth.

Then I scurried away and started to think about where I could move to where nobody knows me.

Eventually Joseph arrived and I told him what had happened, and he helped me laugh about it. He thought it was hilarious. I did not.

But to be honest, as mortifying as that moment had been, it had also felt great – to be completely honest and unvarnished.

It probably isn’t necessary to be so blunt, but everyone needs a little peace and quiet at times, and it shouldn’t be offensive to say so. In this age of constant overstimulation, and especially around the holidays, when the constant activity ramps up, a few moments of calm can be golden. Surely we can all agree on that.

Of course, solitude and peace can be hard to come by, and people go to great lengths to get it sometimes.

When I was little, I took refuge in my bedroom closet to escape my brothers. Later I went for long bicycle rides.

As an adult, I go for walks, read a book (or pretend to read a book), or go sit in a cafe by myself.

I suspect many people attend church less for the spiritual experience than to sit in a calm, quiet place for an hour.

Which, come to think of it, can be a spiritual experience in itself.

Even in the midst of pandemonium, there are almost always ways to escape, if only for a moment. It’s more a matter of giving yourself permission. As partners, parents, family members, and employees, it can be easy to feel we’ve given up the right to seek serenity. But everyone needs down time – even God rested on the seventh day.

Julia Cameron, an author who writes about nurturing ourselves and our creativity, says everyone has the right to “tranquility, respect, and good humor” – and to the time involved in meeting those needs.

Everyone needs time to do nothing, time just to be and to remember who you are, apart from the demands, distractions, and diminishments of daily life.

“Defending our right to such time takes courage, conviction, and resilience,” Cameron says. “Such time, space, and quiet will strike our family and friends as a withdrawal from them. It is.”

Withdrawing your presence – briefly and at appropriate times – is okay and necessary. It’s how you remember you have an independent existence, and that there’s more to you than being a husband or wife, mother or father, daughter or son, or friend. We are all those things, but also much more.

Christmastime is all about taking time in silence – to contemplate existence apart from the hubbub, distractions, and demands of normal life. The family, school, and social events sometimes seem to be the heart of the Christmas season, but the soul of the holidays is in the words and mood of “Silent Night”: the quiet moments when you stop to absorb the spirit of the season, to let its wonder and serenity enter you.

More than anything, the holidays celebrate peace, calm, and the tranquil security of faith in love. That kind of celebration comes in the quiet spaces in between the parties and events.

Surely we each are allowed to take moments like this, at Christmastime and throughout the year.

My holiday wish for you, and for the new year, is peaceful, calm withdrawal when you need it – and friends and family who will warmly welcome you back when you’re rested and ready. u

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MAYOR’S MONTHLY REPORT AL GAMEROS | CITY OF GLOBE CITIZENS ACADEMY GRADUATION At the November 14th Council meeting, the graduates of the city’s fifth Citizens Academy were presented with their certificates. We want to thank the participants for their commitment to this program. Congratulations to the following students: James Yostrum, Maria Hannah, Tammie Grenier, Joseph Skamel, Marsha Skamel, Jesse Robertson, Bonnie Stidham, William Goslin, and Anthony Toner.

FREEPORT MCMORAN FOUNDATION COMMUNITY INVESTMENT GRANT We were informed that the City of Globe was one of the recipients of this year’s Community Investment Grant. This is an annual competitive local grant sponsored by the Freeport McMoran Foundation.

This a very complex grant application that requires partnerships, a scope of work, and has to be a sustainable project. The amount of this grant is for 160K that will be used to help stabilize the walls and roof of the ruins at Besh Ba Gowah. This grant does require a city match of $32,500.00. The city match will be split up in two payments. The first payment will come from the Economic Development Capital Outlay account and the second payment will be allocated as part of the FY-2025 budget.

ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GRANT The City of Globe was awarded

25K from the Arizona Community Foundation. These funds will go towards the construction of the concession stand at the Community Center Pool. Our staff continues their efforts to raise the amount needed to complete this project.

ADDITIONAL MISCELLANEOUS GRANTS AWARDED Our staff was also notified of the awarding of these additional grants.

A 25K APS grant was awarded for the purchase of a 6-foot by 12-foot trailer to store equipment for Globe’s First Friday events.

A Boyce Thompson Arboretum grant was awarded for the purchase of 6 Indigenous Trees (3-Velvet Mesquite and 3 Foothills Palo Verde).

An Arizona Foundation Grant in the amount of $500.00 was awarded to the Fire Department for the 2023 State Fire School Tuition cost. A Walmart Community Grant in the amount of $3,600.00 was awarded to the Police Department to be used for local events and operational costs.

SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS Council approved an IGA with the Globe Unified School District after being awarded state funds in the amount of 420K per year for three years that covers the cost for three School Resource Officers in three schools. This amount is for salaries, benefits, training, and equipment. There is no match to the city.

CITY WATER SUSTAINABILITY STUDY Council approved a contract for professional services from EUSI to perform a city-wide water sustainability study to evaluate the pumping capacities of our ground water wells. The cost of the study is 60K and has already been allocated in this year’s budget. This is another part of the continued efforts to evaluate and secure water for our city’s future.

WATER METER PROJECT Council approved to set aside $750K from the budgeted line item, “securing future water account” to be used as matching funds for the 3-million-dollar Water Conservation Grant that was awarded to the city. The scope of the project is to upgrade 3,299 AMR meters to AMI meters, complete a meter inventory, complete a lead and copper assessment, replacement of 475 lineal feet of waterlines on 4th street, replacement of 1,790 lineal feet of waterlines on Daybreak, and upgrades to our water billing system. The upgrade to AMI meters offers significant advantages to both the citizens and the city staff.

AMI meters communicate to the city utilizing cell towers providing real time data updates to the customer and utility office. These meters eliminate the need for city staff to collect data that improves billing, offers real time leak detection, and water resource management.

FIRST FRIDAYS First Fridays have become a monthly signature event and continue to grow each month with more participation from downtown businesses, vendors, and

cruisers. Our Economic Development team spends an enormous number of hours planning this event. This event is not only enjoyed by our local residents in the community, but by many more people who are now coming from out of town on this day with an average participation of approximately 9,000 people. Everyone is invited to participate in the downtown cruise that begins at 5:30 pm starting at the Active Adult Center. We invite the community to come downtown and support the participating businesses and enjoy live music, food trucks, and vendors. Anyone wishing to set up a vendor booth during any First Friday event may do so at no cost by contacting Melissa Steele at 425-7146.

• Salinas Smoke St. LLC • Billet Home Health and Hospice • Courtesy Ford of Globe • The Lyric Soda Fountain • Friends of the Miami Memorial Library • Pizza Hut

• The Turquoise Barn • Jet Cleaning LLC • Round Mountain Baking Co • Monsoon Youth • Anna’s Petals • Silver Tap .928

“Bridging Business and Community: we are your Globe-Miami Visitor center and commerce hub for travelers.”

The Globe Miami Chamber is proud to recognize our new members in 2023: • First Choice Lumber • Gallery Gwendolyn • Outpaw’s Pet Grooming • Dixon Rock and Materials, LLC. • Small Business Development Center • Western Wellness and Weight Loss • Monte Dei • Altima Realty

• EZPay America • United Rentals LLC • Bento Guy, LLC. • The Cactus Alley • Copper Town Courier • Ryleigh’s Ridge Mobile Home & RV Park • Dominion Pilates, LLC • Thema Home Health-Hospice • Pentecostals of Globe Church • First Things First Gila Region

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he City of Globe achieved many milestones in 2023 thanks to the hard work of City Council and staff members, giving the city momentum as the calendar turns to 2024 when Council embarks on updates to its Strategic Action Plan (SAP) and the City’s General Plan (GP).

The visible changes happening from Russell Road to the Gila County Fairgrounds reflect years of focus and planning made possible by an established core of people with a vision of sustainable economic growth for the future.

Thanks to strategic alliances and lobbying on state and national levels, Globe is rebuilding infrastructure and laying the groundwork for future growth and robust economic activity.

“It’s been a busy year bringing Council’s vision to reality,” Globe Mayor Al Gameros says. “Our staff has worked very hard going into this new, uncharted territory.

We’ve hit many visible milestones this year and I’m truly grateful for all the work that’s been done.”

The year 2023 saw a new level of progress in the building and repair of infrastructure that has not seen significant investment in many years.

That work could not be done without funding beyond what the City can collect in taxes.

To fill the financial gaps, the City of Globe was able to work with several outside government agencies and leverage its position to qualify for and receive $19.2 million in state and federal funding in 2023, and if all goes as planned, an additional $7.7 million will be available in 2024.

In addition to direct appropriations from the State Legislature, City officials have identified funding from the Arizona Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Army Corps of Engineers, among others, to acquire the necessary capital needed to rebuild bridges, repair water lines and determine where upgrades to existing infrastructure are necessary.

State and federal grants have provided $5.4 million toward the replacement of Connie’s Bridge and $3.5 million for sidewalks along Jesse Hayes Road from Connie’s Bridge to the Gila Pueblo Campus.

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CITY OF GLOBE, Continued from page 6 Additionally, a $2.9 million federal grant through ADOT will fund the replacement of the Cottonwood Bridge in 2024.

Through the Water Infrastructure Authority of Arizona (WIFA), $1.4 million has been dedicated to a study of existing sewer lines and $3 million in Water Conservation grants will finance the replacement of water meters in Globe with modern, accurate meters that improve service and help identify leaks in the system.

High-profile projects such as the Michaelson Building business incubator and co-workspace in Downtown Globe received $750,000 from the Federal bipartisan Build Back Better Bill, and the Globe Community Center Pool from City funds and donations from Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center, FreeportMcMoRan, United Fund of Globe-Miami, BHP, Gila County, Capstone Pinto Valley, Arizona Complete Health, and First Interstate Bank.

Projects slated to begin in 2024 include the replacement of the Yuma Bridge and the groundbreaking on the new $13 million fire station, funded in part through grants from the USDA. There will also be major progress on the Northeast development plan with new water lines to the Gila County Fairgrounds, thanks to a $2.1 million grant from the Army Corps of Engineers.

In order to acquire funds and manage the myriad projects in the works, the City has hired a number of professionals with specific talents, such as a Grants Manager and a Deputy Building Official to update City codes, as well as adding manpower to departments such as Public Works.

There is also a move to revive the Recreation and Parks Department to manage the parks that have

benefited from grants and local partnerships, including Veteran’s Park at City Hall and the Community Center playground, with more than $300,000 funded with the help of BHP and Community Development Block Grants through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

“These projects have to be managed all the way through. You don’t want to lose grant funding because your department can’t handle the work that it’s supposed to be doing,” says Councilman Freddy Rios. “It’s a good place to be. It really is. We’re starting to see the fruits of these labors and really, it’s the entire community and the entire region that’s going to benefit from this.”

The City of Globe now has the ability to compete for federal dollars working with an experienced Federal lobbying firm that was hired to help identify sources of funding and convince legislators that Globe can execute the projects and maintain them once they are built.

Lobbying efforts have progressed so far that in March 2023, City Council made its first-ever trip to Washington to talk face-to-face with the people and agencies that make these funding decisions.

Council’s five-day trip was the first in Globe’s history and gave City leadership an opportunity to strengthen relationships with state and federal officials at the National League of Cities Congressional Conference.

“In Washington, we were able to meet with councils and mayors from all over the country and share our concerns, discuss issues, solutions and to talk about our rural interests,” Rios says. “I think it was vital for us to not just be able to visit with our Arizona delegates, but at the national level as well. It was more impactful to meet face to face and discuss the goals of our community.”

While 2023 saw much progress for the City, Mayor and Council are gearing up to continue the momentum.

Starting in January, Council will update its Strategic Action Plan and discussions on the General Plan, with public input, will follow.

The most recent SAP covered a 3-year period through 2023, but the COVID pandemic paused progress for a time and the following year, fire and floods further drew city administrators’ attention and resources from implementing its goals.

The list of priorities for the new plan will include improved public safety, infrastructure development, and blight reduction in order to create a better quality of life for residents and visitors to the region.

The GP is required by State statute and must be updated every 10 years with input from the public.

“The General Plan is basically visioning, but also responsibilities,” says Councilman Fernando Shipley.

“We have to look at what our responsibilities and accountabilities are as a governing body of the municipality, and determine if we are doing what is needed or do we need to pivot the plan.”

As much of a watershed year as 2023 turned out to be, 2024 promises to bring even more positive action

by City leaders and staff, as there is still much to be done to continue fulfilling the vision laid out by Council.

“We owe much of the progress of our projects to the invaluable grant funding we’ve gone after. There are exciting announcements on the horizon, with numerous projects currently in the development pipeline. The sheer volume has reached a point where we need to assess and project future revenues, and prepare to expand our staffing to meet the growing demands of our City projects and coming development,” Gameros says.

He adds that overall, the feedback he’s received from the public has been positive and constructive as Globe evolves into the future.

“People are noticing positive transformations in our community, and overall the feedback has been supportive of the changes we’ve made and the direction we are going,” Gameros says. “2024 will be an exciting year for our City.”

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Miami High School sports is gearing up for the winter season and it looks to be a mixed bag this year, with plenty of promise for the future and plenty of connections to the past.

Basketball and wrestling will be in season through February, with plenty of opportunities for local fans to watch student athletes progress and jell as teams.

Lady Vandals basketball “I enjoy coaching this group of girls because they are hard workers who all have one goal: They take one game at a time and are locked in together,” says MHS girls’ basketball coach Crystal Pietila. “They are working hard toward their goal daily and make each other better because of the work ethic and intensity they bring to practice.”

Pietila is excited to build on the successes of last season with a team that has a lot of experience together. After losing in the first round of the section playoffs two years in a row, a solid core of girls is returning to the court with the loss of only one senior from last year.

“Our young ‘uns were freshmen and sophomores last year, but they are now upperclassmen and juniors,” Pietila says. “We have that experience now, so we definitely will be making a run this season.”

Pre-season rankings from the AZ Sports Network had the Lady Vandals varsity team ranked third in the 2A Conference.

The Lady Vandals came out of the box hot, beating the Hayden Lobos 79-9 on November 27 for a statement nonconference victory.

From there, the team went to Hawaii for the I MUA Invitational Basketball Tournament, founded in 2022 by Kamehameha Schools Kapālama. I MUA is the motto of Kamehameha schools and translates to “move forward,” which the team did in the first round, winning the first game by a score of 57-46.

The second round was a 74-43 loss, however, but it gave the team experience on the road and lessons learned for the future. The team came in fourth overall in the 8-team tournament.

Pietila, whose husband is Principal and former Athletic Director Shawn, has been coaching girls’ hoops at the school for the past three years, adding a family element to the program on a team that features two of the couple’s daughters, Savannah, a junior and sophomore Tamia.

In the IMUA, Tamia was named Impact Player of the Game and named to the All-Tournament Team but she had plenty of help in Hawaii thanks to the efforts of teammate Demetria Dosela, a talented point forward who is a junior this year.

Tamia Pietila, Freshman The rest of the team consists of seniors Ann Mary Terrence and Layla Thompson; juniors Leeyah Goss, Alexus Finkelman, Anastacia Newman, Lauren Stevens and Aeriana Brown; freshman Drianna Dosela, and sophomores Olivia Chacon, Kayana Jackson and Mariah Shaffer. The team’s manager is sophomore Ryder Guerrero.

“This is a special group of girls because the majority of them have been playing together since they were in second grade,” Pietila says. “It’s probably one of the most talented group of girls I’ve coached in 16 years.”

Basketball runs deep in the Pietila family. Crystal coached at San Carlos High School for several years and was so dedicated to the sport that she continued coaching when she was pregnant with her son, who is now in second grade. San Carlos was in the final four of the state tournament and the baby was due any day.

“I kept telling him throughout the entire pregnancy not to come on this date, because we expected to be in the championship game,” Pietila says. “We ended up losing to the team that moved on to the championship game, so that night I told him, you can come anytime now, and he came the next day.”

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Miami High School wrestling had a 3-1 record as of December 8. Pictured are team members who reached the podium at the Firebird Tournament in Mesa on December 1 and 2. Elise Combs 3rd place, Luke Grainger 3rd place, Diego Pino 4th place , Austin Rubin 4th place.

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Vandals Boys Basketball The Vandals boys basketball team is in rebuild mode, but is coached by local sports icon Brandon Powell, who is also the football coach and former baseball coach who led some powerful Vandal teams.

He was also a quarterback for the rival Globe Tigers and up until 10 years ago coached Tigers hoops for a decade. Powell had decided to retire after he found someone to replace him on the baseball field, but with the retirement of longtime Vandal hoops coach Kenny Vargas, Shawn Pietila asked him to take over the program.

“I just couldn’t ask for a better administrative and support staff than I have here in Miami,” Powell says. “From the top all the way down: Dr. Dorathy, [former principal] Glen Lineberry, and now Shawn and Paul Fine the new AD. A former high school teammate from my Globe days, Richard Ramos, is the assistant superintendent and he just made the dream team even bigger.”

The school’s athletic facilities have had a major facelift over the past few years, but despite a solid foundation, the Vandals boys team is in rebuild mode.

“We’ve got so many young kids, but I can see that they’re improving game by game and week by week, so that in itself is encouraging,” Powell says.

“We might take it in the shorts and have a rough season this year, but eventually it’s going to pay off in the long run.”

The Vandals roster is filled with youth and Powell believes it might take a year or two to rebuild the program. A number of seniors on the roster have not been able to play and Powell says he often starts games with as many as four freshmen.

Yet despite that and given that the team is 0-2 overall and won’t play again until mid-December (after press time), the Vandals spent several days in November and December atop the 2A Valley region. That is due to the fact that as of December 5, no one in the region had won a game yet.

But Powell is taking a lot of positives from the roster and says the team has a lot of potential.

“We have a really good freshman group, and they’re good basketball players,” Powell says.

“They’re just not ready for the varsity level yet and still trying to catch up to the speed and quickness of the game.”

The varsity roster includes seniors Nick Curiel, Isiah Tarango, and Kyle Monroid; juniors, Ab Casteneda, DeRay Matthis, Morgan Stewart and Chance Nosie; sophomores Noah Combs and Koen Breuman, and freshmen Raejon Way, Hector Mariscol, Dakota Edwards and Kris Tarango.

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Vandals Wrestling “We have a younger roster this year, and we have a lot of newer people,” says MHS wrestling coach Tony Grainger. “But this is the biggest team we’ve had probably in over five years, so it’s not looking too bad.”

The Vandals’ wrestling season began on December 1 and runs through February so the mixed team of 17 boys and four girls will have a busy three months ahead of them.

Grainger, whose day job is battalion chief for the Tri City Fire District, is a multigenerational Miami native who graduated from MHS in 1999.

His brother was the first to graduate from MHS and his mother was a secretary and his father was a teacher there in the 1970s.

The wrestling program was eliminated when he was in his senior year, but he returned to coach at his alma mater in the wake of the pandemic.

The boys roster includes Kaden Harris, Owen Uto, Emiliano Brewer, Eli Verdugo, Domanik Gonzales, Jefferey Askew, Luke Grainger, Diego Pino, Austin Ruben, Dawson Dho, Xavier Mancha, Aden Ruben, Caleb Shaffer, Isaac Shaffer, Cameron Mabbitt, Alex Martinez and Viren Roojam.

The girls roster consists of Grace Cruz, Naveah Reyes, Elise Combs and Dani Vargas.

While the standings have not been published as of press time, Grainger has high hopes for his team.

“I’m hoping to get the top five of our section, but top three would be nice,” Grainger says. “We should be taking, hopefully, six to state and with that number place in the top 15 out of the 54 in our section.”

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Sophomore Anaya Juan drives through the blanketing defense of the Morenci Wildcats.

Senior Jenessa Victor shoots from outside for the Lady Braves.

Junior Ellysia Cutter with the flawless layup for 2 points. The Lady Braves opened the season with a 61-28 win over Morenci.

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Sophomore Audreanna Carlyle shoots from the paint for the Lady Tigers.

Sophomore Tanyka Cepress breaks through the Trojans defense.

Senior Myranda Patten found herself at the free throw line multiple times against Valley Christian.

Globe Boys Varsity Soccer

Senior Levi Robison crosses the ball against the Santa Rita Eagles.

Junior Joshua Barnes dribbles through the defense to score one of the Tigers’ goals. The Tigers beat Santa Rita 20-0.

Senior Carter Pollock plays the ball forward for the Tigers.

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Creating Opportunities – Building Futures CVIT is the Copper Corridor’s public Career & Technical Education School District providing local students with the knowledge & technical skills for tomorrow’s workforce.

Students thrive in non-traditional career instruction at CVIT

By David Abbott

There was a time in American primary education when boys took shop classes and girls studied home economics to prepare them for a world with clearly defined gender roles. But changes in demographics and more acceptance of women in the workplace have blurred the lines of what constitutes jobs appropriate for men or those associated with women.

Those trends are often mirrored in the makeup of Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs, like the ones offered at Cobre Valley Institute of Technology (CVIT).

“We have many students in programs considered nontraditional for their gender,” says Aja DeZeeuw, CVIT’s Central Campus Counselor. “We have some awesome males in our cosmetology, medical and nursing assistant programs, and females in our industrial trades programs that are doing great work.”

In October 2020, the Department of Education’s Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education released a report titled “Crosswalk,” providing workplace employment statistics to help CTE leaders identify programs that prepare students for nontraditional fields.

The study provides occupational data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics regarding employment in “occupations or fields or work ... for which individuals from one gender comprise less than 25% of the individuals employed in each such occupation or field of work.”

The information is vital to help schools obtain grant funding through the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V), which was signed into law in 2018 and provides nearly $1.4 billion annually for CTE programs nationwide.

While programs such as cosmetology and welding might seem like more obvious gender-specific careers, medical fields such as phlebotomy and medical assistant fall into that category as well.

According to the Crosswalk report, women made up 92.8% of the medical assistants in the workforce in 2019, and men just 7.2%. Of those practicing phlebotomy, 89.5% were women and 10.5% men.

“As far as CVIT goes, it’s often a jumping off point for something,” says Jennifer Carlson, an advisor for CVIT’s Phlebotomy and MA programs. “One of my male students wants to get into veterinary medicine, but we don’t have a vet tech program or anything like that. His mother works in healthcare, so she kind of directed him into the program just to get an idea of healthcare in general.”

Carpenter Bryce is a senior at Ray Junior Senior High School, currently enrolled in CVIT’s medical assistant program. Bryce wants to eventually become a veterinarian or doctor. He plans to spend two years on a mission for his church before deciding on a career path.

As to the idea that medical professions are genderspecific in nature, Bryce thinks the numbers are somewhat misleading - despite being one of only two males in a program overwhelmingly populated by women.

“I believe that healthcare classes should include a

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“I believe that healthcare classes should include a lot more males, because healthcare is and should be an equal opportunity for all genders. When you look at the quality of the jobs in the field, I think it doesn’t doesn’t really make sense for it to be so one-sided.”

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lot more males, because healthcare is and should be an equal opportunity for all genders,” Bryce says.

“When you look at the quality of the jobs in the field, I think it doesn’t doesn’t really make sense for it to be so one-sided.”

Another student in Bryce’s program, Francisco Estrella-Ponce, started at the same time. He says there had been four male students at the beginning, but as time went by, he and Bryce were left as the only men in their class.

Estrella-Ponce hopes to get a bachelor’s in nursing at some point after graduating from Miami High

School. He is in CVIT not only for the certificates that will help him get started, but also to allay the steep cost of college when he graduates.

He says that coming from Globe, it’s no surprise there’s more male participation in the industrial programs CVIT offers.

“In a small town, you really get to know everyone, so I’m not really that surprised that there’s very few men in the medical assistant field,” Estrella-Ponce says. “I see a lot of them in HVAC and fire science though.”

Carlson has been working in the field for 16 years and says she has seen no stigmatization of males in medical professions, as there are plenty of men working throughout the profession.

“I feel like the stigma might be on the outside looking in,” Carlson says. “I went to school with many males that were going for nursing, I’ve worked with male CNAs and male nurses and male respiratory therapists, the list goes on and on. And I don’t feel like anyone that actually works in the field thinks any different.”

Cosmetology is another profession heavily skewed toward women, but it does draw a small proportion of men into its ranks.

CVIT, Continued on page 15

Cosmetology | Dental Assistant | Fire Science | HVAC | Medical Assistant | Nursing Assistant | Welding High school graduates should submit their applications and other required documents to their high school counselor.

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CVIT, Continued from page 14 The Crosswalk report shows people involved in cosmetology — including hairstylists, manicurists and those who perform other associated services — are overwhelmingly women, at 92.3%, while men make up just 7.7% of the workers in cosmetology.

“We’re in one of those industries that a lot of people pooh-pooh, like it’s not important, or we’re just dumb hairstylists who couldn’t do anything else,” says cosmetology advisor Alison Zache. “But it really can be an amazing profession, and, really, a craft.”

Zache says there’s a lot more to cosmetology than cutting hair and doing nails. There are many chemicals involved, and much to learn about hair, skin and anatomy to avoid harming clients. A rudimentary knowledge of electricity is important, too, in order to manipulate the many tools involved.

Additionally, there are the “soft skills,” such as communication, leadership and time management. Cosmetology is also often a physically demanding job, with practitioners on their feet for many hours a day doing labor that involves a lot of repetitive motion.

While there may be a perception from movies and television that men in the field are effeminate, LGBTQ+ or incapable of doing “manly” work, Zache says that’s not a fair depiction and defies the history of the industry.

“Our field really did start out as a male-dominated field. Historically, barbers were also dentists and doctors,” Zache says. “Most of the movers and shakers in our history, from Vidal Sassoon to Farouk Shami, have been men. So it’s kind of ironic that it is female dominated, since a lot of the pioneers were male. It’s caretaking and nurturing and growing, and men can be very good at that.”

Globe High School senior Hector Ortiz is following in the footsteps of his older brother Javi, who completed the program several years ago and is now a successful hairstylist alongside John Daniel Flores at Dominion Cutting Co. in downtown Globe.

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Daisha Dosela Ortiz has seen firsthand what a lucrative field cosmetology can be, and that even though there may be a certain amount of stigmatization for men in the field, those perceptions are changing.

“There’s a really big misunderstanding that cosmetology is just for girls,” Ortiz says. “I think there’s still sort of a stigma, but people are starting to realize it’s not really specifically for women.”

Ortiz sees cutting hair as an art form to a certain extent, and also thinks that once he builds up his clientele base, it will be “easy money.”

Zache says the financial aspect of the business is a big draw, even for people who don’t necessarily want to get into the business.

“People are always gonna grow hair, and it doesn’t matter where you are, you can move anywhere on the earth and as long as there are other humans, you have a job or a trade,” Zache says.

“I’ve also had a lot of students that don’t ever want to get behind the chair, they just want to be able to save the money, especially people who plan to have big families. If you have four children and you’ve got to take them all in for a haircut, that’s a lot of money every couple of weeks. So if you can do that yourself, you save some money.”

Another locally popular CVIT program is welding, due to the proximity of the mines and the availability of construction work throughout the state.

Welding jobs are heavily skewed towards men, with 98.4% compared to just 5.2% women in the field, and enrollment in the CVIT program is roughly the same.

“I don’t see welding anymore as a non-typical gender thing, because I see women mechanics and I see women welders,” says welding instructor Ernie Baca. “They might not be physically as strong, but they’re generally more mentally aware of the situation.”

Baca says there are certain aspects of welding that women tend to be better at - TIG welding, for example - because they are often more dexterous than men and able to work with more precision.

He says some of the best welders he’s seen in nearly 30 years in the business have been Native American women, and adds that in his classroom, everyone is equal.

“My auntie always said that you should try to find a job that you’re good at, something that you love, and make it a job. I took welding to see if I liked it and because it seemed pretty cool. I liked it and can actually get a job with it, so I thought it was pretty cool to do something I like but get paid for.”

Daisha Dosela “Women who work in this industry tend to have thicker skin, and I don’t mean just from getting physically burned. I mean thicker skin in general, because it is a hard industry,” Baca says. “It’s not hard because because men are a**holes. It’s hard because it is a physically demanding industry.”

San Carlos High School senior Daisha Dosela is in her second year in CVIT’s HVAC program, but decided to pursue a certificate in welding thanks to the guidance of her aunt, Ada Elgo.

Dosela sees TIG welding as an art form that is soothing to perform and believes women can do just about anything a man can.

“I’m more of a hands-on person, and I thought the program that would be most hands-on would be HVAC,” Dosela says. “I went back for the advanced course and they were talking about welding, so I enrolled in welding as well.”

She expects to graduate from SCHS next spring at the age of 17, and by then will have two certificates in hand that will help expand her opportunities beyond the walls of the school.

Ultimately for Dosela, it comes down to finding a career doing something she loves that will pay her sufficiently to do what she wants with her life.

“My auntie always said that you should try to find a job that you’re good at, something that you love, and make it a job,” Dosela says. “I took welding to see if I liked it and because it seemed pretty cool.

I liked it and can actually get a job with it.

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Broad Street Does Broadway

“Master of the House”

Nov. 4, 10, 11 and 12 by Copper Cities Community Players

from ‘Les Miserables”

Kim Stone and Molly Cornwell with Cathy Montoya, Krista Monsees, Rachel Hansen, Nicole Gregory, Mollimae Griffin, Cecile Hudson, Andreanna Penrod, Garrett Gregory, Nick Smyers, Norman Uptain, Jason Marr, Chris Jones

“All That Jazz”

from All That Jazz

This year nearly 40 players helped produce the show. Producer Kim Marr, Director Jonell Brantley Thomas, Music Directors Linda Gustafson & Nolan Frost (not shown)

Gina Miranda with Annabelle Gregory, Annabelle Visnaw, Rachel Hansen, Kelly Stennerson, Mollimae Griffin, Moquie Flores and Andreanna Penrod

“Greased Lightning” from Grease

Jason Marr with Johnnie Griffin, Johnny D. Flores, Norman Uptain, Nick Smyers, Ben Griffin, Christopher Jones and Kim Stone

Holiday Celebration at Gila Historical Museum Nov. 30

Ribbon cutting for Landfill Expansion Gila County – Russell Gulch Nov. 30

Jay and Therese Spehar

Mary Testa and Fernando Shipley

Supervisors Woody Cline, Steve Christensen, and Tim Humphrey spoke at the event. The expansion will give the landfill another 9+ years of use, during which time a second expansion of similar size will come online. Landfill manager Melanie Mendez spearheaded the project.

Sue and John Armer visit with Deb Yerkovich and Dee Hunt

Santa and Elves Arrive at Train Depot-Globe Nov. 25 The event hosted 600+people with over 300 letters to Santa written and delivered!

The Gila County 4-H Stock Feeder Club with Hadley DalMolin, Melva DalMolin, Andrew Brown and Traci Marlow were outside the Depot serving up deluxe hot cocoa.

Mrs. Claus (Carolee Jackson) and her favorite Elf helper Steve Small.

Molly Cornwell, event host and Director of Globe Downtown Association with her go-to elf, Caresa Shipley.

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High Desert Humane Society Reminds You to Spay and Neuter Spay & neuter data for 2023 to date: The following numbers reflect High Desert Humane Society Fur the Paws pets, companion pets for folks needing financial assistance, last litter participants, and feral cats from Globe, Miami and San Carlos:

Jan Feb Mar Apr

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May June July Aug

62 65 96 96

Sept 91 Oct 123 Nov 159

*November includes the Off-Road Veterinary Services DC Ranch Animal Hospital spay-neuter.

That’s 941 surgeries! And in case you didn’t read that right...

9 4 1 pets. And our funds are going even further because of our partnership with the Humane Society of Southern Arizona that supports ourTNR program (partnership started in October).

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Running on empty hasn’t been a problem for High Desert Middle School ever since the beginning of the current school year ushered in a new crosscountry program – and the school apparently won’t be hitting a wall in the near future, either.

The new program, organized and directed by HDMS paraprofessional Rebekah Haverland, has already attracted significant interest from students who enjoy the camaraderie – and the snacks – that go along with distance running.

“I really try to push unity, because it’s a really self-motivating sport. They need to understand that we’re there for each other.

I’ve noticed having this cross-country team has started new friend groups, and the kids are sticking together more.”

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Haverland has been an employee with the Globe Unified School District for six years. Last year, she coached cross-country and track and field at Globe High School when that program lost its coach midseason. Cross-country differs from track and field in that it’s purely devoted to running, while track and field in middle school has running as well as long jump, high jump, shot put, and discuss.

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CROSS-COUNTRY, Continued on page 18 Tiger runners check out the trophies before the race.

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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.

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Roosevelt Lake is the largest lake within the borders of Arizona. Located just 30 miles from downtown Globe, 80 miles east of Phoenix, and 150 north of Tucson, it’s the place to go for folks wanting a wet way to beat the summer heat.

“Two and a half hours door to door, it’s a really easy trip up here from Tucson,” says Kim Turk. “I make Globe part of my journey – for lunch, to see friends, to shop.”

She takes the trip monthly during the winter and more often during lake season, which runs approximately May 1 through the end of October – though many lake lovers also spend Thanksgiving there. Semi-retired, Turk often comes up midweek and stays anywhere from two to five days at a time. She stays at her mobile home in Lakeview Park, at the southern end of the lake.

Activity at Roosevelt Lake, the marina and Lakeview Park, she says, has boomed.

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Shelby enjoyed hunting and fishing with his family. He did not play sports in high school. Nor was he impressed by any teacher.

“I was always business-minded, but I lacked direction,” says Shelby. “I didn’t have the right product for sale.”

After high school graduation (GHS 2009), Shelby followed many of the men in his family into construction – his maternal grandfather, great uncles, brother-in-law, stepdad. He got his start doing industrial construction – copper mines and powerhouses. He specialized in electricity.

For ten years he traveled around the U.S. and Mexico, working and learning the trade. His early jobs had him digging holes for the electricians. A decade later he was the senior project manager for Rural Electric. Along the way he built a personal portfolio of single family homes and multi-unit rentals.

“I read Robert Kiyosaki,” Shelby laughs. “Basically, I read real estate books.

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Shelby Barrowdale, owner of Gila Monster Construction (GMC), has been into construction all his life and all around the U.S. and Mexico. He grew up here in Globe – here he mostly got into trouble.

“Working in construction probably saved me from that,” he says. “I learned some discipline and structure.”

The business is off to a big start. In what has become a familiar story, GMC is “super booked”. Completing a roof a week for the past couple of years, the company is currently booking two weeks out. For interior remodel work, it’s March.

For Shelby Barrowdale, it feels good to be filling a community need.

“We intend to stay in Globe and provide quality, honest service to the community,” he says. “Help teach people how to do construction, provide jobs.”

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Get Away from Congestion “Covid has encouraged people to get out of the city and congestion and work from home,” says Margaret Rambo of Rambo Realty. “Many are moving onto property they already own.”

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The building at 110 Broad Street was the first two-story brick building in town. It stood alone for years. Built by the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) in 1898, the second floor was then, and remains today, the meeting hall of the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs of Globe-Miami.

“There’s a lot of history in this building,” says Greg Parisoff, current lodge President. “Once it’s gone, it’s gone.”

Sometimes behind glass encasement, but often under harsh light, the second floor holds historical records and ceremonial relics of a social organization once prominent in our society, now struggling to survive.

“It’s a challenge just to keep this beautiful building open and to keep the Odd Fellows going,” says Greg, “not just here but in the whole state. The whole country.”

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Cali Mayfield, 13, wakeboarding at Roosevelt Lake, where her family has a 2nd home in Lakeview Park and spends weekends on the water regularly. Courtesy photo

Ira Dickison’s family has lived on the property since 1965. According to him, his family gave the county an easement to the creek in exchange for a paved road. The lane beside the wash is named after the Dickison family.

Residents along Six Shooter Canyon Road have tangled with Gila County administrators and Supervisor Tim Humphrey’s office for the past few months over a project that is expected to remove a number of large trees from the wash that parallels the road.

There may have already been 18 to 30 trees removed, according to Floyd Krank, who has led the charge to protect the trees being removed in response to the massive flooding in Globe-Miami last July in the wake of the Telegraph and Mescal fires that ravaged the Pinals.

The County has been working with engineering firm J.E. Fuller to create a flood mitigation plan that includes shoring up and clearing streambeds along Six Shooter Canyon Road, Icehouse Canyon Road, Russell Gulch and Bloody Tanks Wash in Miami.

Construction is slated to begin in the fall, after the monsoons have passed, and is expected to be finished by next summer, before the next monsoon season begins.

The projects are being funded by about $13 million through a 2021 supplemental appropriation for the Department of Forestry for wildfire management, as well as a $10 million grant from the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), according to Gila County Emergency Manager Carl Melford, who touched on the project at a June 7 post-fire and flooding Globe-Miami Town Hall meeting at Miami High School.

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A Humble Beginning Marion Jean Howse was born on December 2, 1923, in Wesleyville, a small fishing outpost in Newfoundland. The home had no running water or electricity.

“People think I was born to nothing there, but it isn’t so,” says Marion. In fact, her mother once met the Queen of England.

Marion was the only daughter, with five brothers, who let her sled down the hills with them but made her carry it back up. The only childhood aspiration she recalls is “maybe something without all men.”

Marion earned her teaching credentials at Memorial University in St. Johns, Canada, and taught one term, grades 6-9, at a small outpost school.

“There was absolutely nothing there,” she recalls. “There were no people there my own age.”

A Good Guy Marion met her husband, Homer, at the USO club at Fort Pepperrell, in Newfoundland. He was a young man in uniform and the drummer in the U.S. Air Force band.

“He was an excellent dancer and a good guy,” says Marion.

They were married seven months later, on November 4, 1947. Marion immigrated to the U.S. in 1948 under the War Brides Act of 1945, which was about to expire.

The young couple traveled into and across the United States by train with their infant daughter, only three weeks old. They didn’t have money to tip the porters, but their newborn baby offered comfort to soldiers and grandparents they met on the train.

They were married for 63 years, until Homer’s death in 2010.

“We did everything together,” says Marion. “We each had our own things also.”

Homer loved to hunt. He always got his deer with one shot. Marion didn’t want to touch a gun but was happy to be the camp cook. On one Thanksgiving Day hunt, she served up a full turkey dinner, including the pumpkin pie.

Marion’s advice for a long-term marriage is to be happy and to be truthful and honest.

How best to settle an argument?

“Oh just give in, I guess,” she laughs.

A Large Brood In 1952, Marion and Homer settled in Globe, to be close to his parents. Homer worked for the mines and then the highway department, and played in a country band.

By the time they moved here, Marion had three children – Peggy, Pat, and Jim. Three years later, she had three more – Jeri, Sandra, and John.

The Stewarts lived on E. Cedar Street until 1966 and then moved to Little Acres.

Their house was a meeting place. A place to play basketball. A place to laugh.

“We were taught how to behave and how not to behave in a loving way,” says Peggy, the eldest child, now 75.

It was important to be home for dinner.

After dinner everyone would stay around the table and play games. A favorite game, called Gossip, went like this: Someone whispers a line into the next one’s ear, that person passes on what they heard into the next person’s ear, and it goes around the table like that. The last person says the line aloud - which is usually very different from how it started out.

Actual gossip was not permitted. The children were expected to follow their father’s example and never say a negative word about anyone.

“Never,” says Marion. “That was a law… well, the rule.”

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A Social Life For many years, Marion worked the election boards, a service she wholeheartedly recommends.

“You had to pay attention and do things right, but it wasn’t hard work, and there was a table with snacks on it,” she says. “It was a chance to see people you hadn’t seen in some time. I liked it.”

For more than 30 years, Marion volunteered at the Gila County Historical Museum, every Wednesday. Then she went home, fed the family, and went out bowling. Everyone cooperated. Her husband watched the kids.

“Bowling was something that I dearly loved to do,” says Marion. “It was my one thing that was mine.”

At age 80, Marion competed against 19,000 women to place third at the WIBC Nationals. Scoring a 602 series, she was two pins away from first. Her previous average was 135.

Marion is also known for her skill at playing cards – pinochle and gin rummy. Cards were a form of entertainment for her and Homer, and enhanced their social life.

Marion has a smartphone but doesn’t use it.

“I don’t care for that — the iPhone,” says Marion.

“Truthfully, I don’t know how.”

Since TV went from cable to streaming, her son sets up her shows in the evening. She still enjoys reading and crossword puzzles and can add up a column of numbers in nothing flat, without a calculator.

“We think our mother is absolutely amazing,” says Peggy, the lead planner of the 100th birthday bash.

For the party, four of Marion’s grandkids wrote an original song, and all of the grandkids performed it.

Part of the song goes like this: Tea parties and bowling to camping and cards We’ve shared laughter and love, through good times and hard So take a look around at the faces in the crowd We are the legacy that time cannot erase.

Marion and Homer never missed an activity they were participating in, and the kids were in everything. The boys were in sports. Peggy was a cheerleader. Pat played softball.

Jeri was in the band. Marion would pack up the station wagon with kids and food, and one of the parents would always be there, cheering the kids on.

“It wasn’t a hardship,” says Marion, “because we enjoyed it so much.”

The family did a lot of camping and fishing in the White Mountains – Big Lake, Crescent Lake, Rainbow Lake. They still do. In the summer of 2022, the Stewarts had 54 people at camp in the White Mountains. Marion was right in the thrill of it, riding with Jim in his side-by-side.

“It’s the only way, with a large family,” she says.

The biggest challenge of Marion’s life has been the death of her youngest son, John. He was 51.

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For a while, Marion and Homer fished professionally.

Even for an adventurous couple like Homer and Marion, the idea of selling their home, buying a commercial vessel, and fishing for a living was outlandish. Peggy recalls expressing her dismay to her mother.

“This is your father’s dream, and we’re doing it,” Marion told her.

It was the mid 1970s. Homer and Marion headed to Juneau, Alaska. They acquired a commercial fishing license and a suitable boat, named it the Goofy Newfie (after her homeland), and lived on board, fishing for 10 days at a time. Then they would come ashore for five days to go to a movie, play cards with friends, buy food, and prepare things for going out again. They caught salmon, mostly, and made enough money to live and pay their way home, with a little extra to go in the bank.

“And we had a ball doing it,” says Marion. “Met some great people.”

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Email submissions to gross@globemiamitimes. Subject: Recognitions Neal Jensen was recently honored as the recipient of the 2023 Grassroots Champion Award, given by the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association.

The honor, given annually, recognizes a hospital leader for advocating on behalf of patients, hospitals and their communities by cultivating and leveraging relationships with lawmakers and their staff.

Jensen is CEO of Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center as well as board chair of the AZHHA. He has served as CEO since 2008, and prior to that was the hospital’s Chief Financial Officer for 10 years. As CFO he made dramatic financial improvements that helped the hospital become fiscally sound, and as CEO he presided over the hospital’s major expansion in 2017, as well as the establishment of new clinics in Superior, Kearny, Young and Tonto Basin.

The AZHHA also honored Rep. David Cook, a Republican representing District 7, with the 2023 Legislator of the Year Award. Cook lives in Globe and works as a rancher with the DC Cattle Company, which he founded.

He graduated from Miami High after moving to the area in 1985.

Cook has served in the Arizona House since 2016, representing central and eastern Pinal County and southern Gila County, and is a member of the committees on commerce; land, agriculture and rural affairs; military affairs and public safety; and transportation. The Legislator of the Year Award recognizes Cook’s “unwavering dedication and outstanding work in the Arizona legislature on behalf of Arizona’s hospitals.”

The AZHHA works toward better healthcare and health for Arizonans by bringing together diverse voices and helping hospitals take collective action at the state legislature.

The next Citizen’s Academy will take place in March 2024! Courtesy photo.

The Globe City Council is proud to recognize the graduates of the 2023 Citizens Academy Class

Joseph Skamel Marsha Skamel James Yostrum

Maria Hannah Tammie Grenier Jesse Robertson

Bonnie Stidham William Goslin Anthony Toner

IN LOVING MEMORY MARGARET SANCHEZ, February 22, 1931 – November 29, 2023, age 92, passed away. Margaret was the secretary for State Farm Insurance in Globe for 18 years. She also worked as a waitress, in retail, and selling Tupperware. (LM) CYNTHIA PATTEN-GOSEYUN, November 21, 1978 – November 29, 2023, age 45, passed away. (LM) LELAND JOHN DAGGETT, June 15, 1985 – November 29, 2023, age 38, passed away. Lee was working as the contract and procurement manager for the San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation. (LM) PAUL BACA TAFOYA, November 7, 1946 – November 26, 2023, age 77, of Globe, passed away. Paul served in the Navy for five years and then worked as a machinist at Inspiration Mine (later Cyprus and then Phelps Dodge) for over 30 years. (LM) FELIX “FLEX” ASHLEY, June 18, 1977 – November 25, 2023, age 46, of Peridot, passed away at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix.

He worked as a heavy equipment operator. (LM) MEGAN RAE DOANE, November 11, 2002 – November 25, 2023, age 21, of Globe, passed away in Globe. (LM) AVON BROWN, December 22, 1937 – November 21, 2023, age 85, of Peridot, passed away at CVRMC. (LM) STEVEN CHARLES LOPEZ, September 11, 1949 – November 21, 2023, age 74, of Superior, passed away. Steve worked in the mines in Miami for 35 years. (BM)

JEAN FRANCIS WIGMAN-CROWLEY, November 11, 1930 – November 20, 2023, age 93, of Globe, passed away.

Jean lived her entire life in Globe and graduated from Globe High School in 1948. (LM) PHILLIP NORMAN, September 17, 1948 – November 18, 2023, age 75, of San Carlos, passed away at Heritage Health Care in Globe. Phillip proudly served in the Air Force. (LM) ERNEST “MINNOW” ENCIZO, February 2, 1956 – November 18, 2023, age 67, passed away. Ernest worked for Freeport-McMoRan for 45 years. (BM) SHIRLEY MARIE FROST, September 24, 1942 – November 17, 2023, age 81, passed away at her home.

Shirley had a long career working for the Abbotsford (British Columbia) News, doing paste-up, layout and proofreading. (LM) EVA MARIE ESCALANTE, September 18, 1978 – November 17, 2023, age 45, of Hayden, passed away. Eva was a graduate and employee of Hayden High School. (BM) ZACHERY HARVEY TRUAX, March 13, 2002 – November 16, 2023, age 21, of Whiteriver, passed away in San Carlos. (LM) INFANT NOAH JARED BENCOMO, November 13 – November 16, 2023, passed away. (LM) JO ELLEN DAVIS, January 15, 1932 – November 15, 2023, age 91, passed away. Jo Ellen was a teacher in the Globe School District and at Holy Angels, and later worked as a case manager for ALTCS. She was

instrumental in getting hospice care for Globe. (LM) AUGUSTINE TSOSIE, September 13, 1971 – November 14, 2023, age 52, passed away. As a young man Augie worked as a cowboy, and later was a blackjack dealer and manager for the Apache Gold Casino. He also worked as a tribal gaming inspector. (LM) ROSELYN JUNE RAMBLER, November 18, 1944 – November 13, 2023, age 78, of San Carlos, passed away in Tucson.

(LM) KENNETH LEE PEARCE JR., January 1, 1948 – November 13, 2023, age 75, passed away. (BM) MCCARTHA NOSIE, December 2, 1975 – November 11, 2023, age 47, of San Carlos, passed away. She was a seasonal firefighter and bartender and worked at Apache Gold Casino. (LM) HAZEL PLUMER, February 7, 1929 – November 8, 2023, age 94, of Central Heights, passed away in Mesa. After raising her family, Hazel worked at various jobs in downtown Globe, including as a clerk at the vitamin shop and as cashier at the Copper Hills gift shop. (BM)

MARIANNE G. SHAW, November 21, 1940 – November 6, 2023, age 82, passed away in Globe. (LM) MARYLITA SMITH, July 1, 1943 – November 6, 2023, age 80, passed away. (LM) JOHN RICHARD HERRERA SR., February 28, 1934 – November 4, 2023, age 89, passed away. (BM) DENYSE WILLIAMS, January 10, 1948 – November 4, 2023, age 75, of Globe, passed away at her home. (LM) GERALDINE HUNT, July 29, 1939 – November 3, 2023, age 84, passed away. (BM) THOMAS R. L. MURRIETA, August 16, 1938 – November 2, 2023, age 85, of Superior, passed away. Tom was a boiler man in the Navy, where he served for 20 years. (BM) ROBERT GONZALES ESCOVEDO, September 24, 1954 – November 2, 2023, age 69, passed away. (BM) SYLVIA PACHECO MADUENO, August 13, 1957 – November 2, 2023, age 66, of Superior, passed away. (BM) JAMES A. KELLY, August 23, 1946 – November 1, 2023, age 77, passed away. (BM)

EDWIN LONGSTREET JR., May 27, 1982 – November 8, 2023, age 41, of Peridot, passed away. Edwin was a San Carlos firefighter and was a construction worker by trade. (LM) PAUL STEPHEN BUCK, March 7, 1973 – November 7, 2023, age 50, of Bylas, passed away at his home. He worked as a laborer in the copper mines. (LM)

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Regina and Thea are well known for their work in launching the Stairizona project and I ART GLOBE, and they are expanding their vision with the newly formed Love Where You Live. Courtesy photo

LWYL collaborated with the City of Globe and Boyce Thompson in securing these five desert trees at Globe’s Dog Park. Courtesy photo

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forward from mayors of towns including Hayden and Superior.

“We’re one of the stronger communities in the Copper Corridor and I think that we as a group could brand together and help each other so all of us benefit,” Wilshire says. “The five murals will hopefully be visible from the highway at Winkelman, Hayden, Kearney, Superior and Miami, because we just finished

An umbrella organization functions as a fiscal sponsor for the initiatives and programs it oversees, and with a 501(c)3 designation can raise money that donors can deduct from their taxes.

LWYL will also be able to provide grants that Wilshire hopes to eventually offer as she identifies revenue streams through grants and donations to become more fiscally stable.

“Love Where You Live is more than just art, it’s about placemaking,” Wilshire says. “If you get an emotional connection to a place, it could be an event, it could be a park, it could be all sorts of things that are more than just art.”

The work Wilshire and Ortega-Leonardi have done through multi-year efforts include projects under I Art Globe, from the murals throughout the city to the recently created Stairizona Trail, a community project that rehabilitated public stairways in town to highlight a piece of Globe’s history and to create an attraction for visitors.

Wilshire, who served on City Council from 2008 to 2012, took the lead on the creation of the tool lending library at the Globe Active Adult Center, the establishment Old Dominion Mine Park, which is no longer open to the public, as well as the dog park at Noftsger Hill and the annual Dogtoberfest celebration.

Ortega-Leonardi has led several urban renewal efforts and in the wake of the death of her friend Sanchez-Cañez spearheaded efforts to teach people about the dangers of flash flooding, particularly during the monsoon season.

She also took the lead in the creation of a 2023 Fiesta Bowl float honoring Arizona’s first female governor and Globe native Rose Mofford.

It was during her stint on Council that Wilshire met Ortega-Leonardi when they both joined the Globe Arts Advisory Commission to become a powerhouse of hometown positivity.

Now they want to spread that throughout the entire region.

“I feel Thea and I were very much the champions of all of our activities through I Art Globe and with Love Where You Live, we’re having more of an opportunity to find champions, folks with their own ideas, and

support them,” Ortega-Leonardi says. “That being said, we already have four pages of different ideas and thoughts and initiatives.”

True to form, LWYL’s first big project is likely to be art-based, with a five-community mural project the organization has already received a $20,000 grant to pursue.

They’ve reached out to several towns in the area and have received support moving

LWYL gained its nonprofit status recently and will act as an umbrella organization to groups like Globe Trash Mob and the Cathy Sanchez-Canez Memorial Foundation who spearheaded the clean up at Cherry Flats. Courtesy photo

the giant mining mural in Globe.”

Until the planned projects come to fruition, Wilshire and Ortega-Leonardi are working on the basics of getting the nonprofit up and running, including creating content for the new website at https:// livable2lovable.com. They are also moving their social media presence on Facebook from I Art Globe to LWYL at www.facebook. com/groups/258088903887839.

“One of the top things I’m working on right now is getting our website established and figuring out the transition from folks thinking about I Art Globe, and all the good things that we’ve done, to having them to get more involved and plugged into Love Where You Live initiatives,” Ortega-Leonardi says.

“Between Thea and I, our resources go deep, so that is definitely a big, positive contributing factor for anything that we participate in.”

Beyond the local work, the duo hopes to create a template that can be replicated in other communities throughout the state or even the country.

“We’re definitely helping create a model or a template,” Ortega-Leonardi says.

“Looking at a larger scale, one of the skill sets Thea brings to the table is her public speaking ability. So for her to take our story and expand it to other states, as she already has, is important. Our story is worth telling and sharing with other communities.” u

Learn more about the vision, opportunities and projects taking place with LWYL by checking out their publication, which can be found on GMT’s website (www.globemiamitimes.com)

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