2018 - Fall

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Treasure Hunting in GlobeMiami

By Libby Rooney

Antiquing in historic downtown Globe and Miami never fails to fill a weekend with adventure and surprise.

From vintage porcelain figurines to a carved oak rocking chair, a roaring 20s fringed flapper dress or a 1950s tin windup carousel toy, you never know what you might find. The people you meet and the historic buildings you’ll see only add to the richness of the experience.

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In Miami

First stop is Grandma’s House of Antiques and Treasures at 123 N. Miami Ave., just off the highway as you turn into historic downtown Miami.

Built in 1912, it once housed Wilton’s Paint and Wallpaper. Now Sammy, the cat, sits proprietarily on the counter keeping an eye on his realm of treasures.

Open Thursday through Sunday, 10 to 5.

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The Great Pinal Creek Flood

Grandma’s House of Antiques and Treasures / Photo by Libby Rooney

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A Champion of the People

THE BRAINS & THE BRAWN

Miami's Miami's Roberto Reveles Reveles Roberto

By Patti Daley

Photo by LCGross

Roberto Reveles, 86, is living democracy. A civil rights activist, his CV includes 24 years as a congressional aide and 12 years as a gold mine executive, three years as President of ACLU-Arizona, decades of volunteer service for numerous civic and cultural concerns, and leader of one of the largest marches in Arizona history.

He was born to Mexican immigrants in the rural mountain town of Miami, Arizona in 1932.

Reveles, or Bobby, as his childhood friends call him, grew up in a “pretty diverse” neighborhood of mostly Yugoslavian and Mexican families.

He attended the newly opened elementary school for Apache, Mexican and Mexican-American students. It was a beautiful building, now the Bullion Plaza Museum. Across the highway was a little building for the handful of African-American students, and up the hill, Inspiration Addition School, for the ‘light-skinned’ Americans.

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Sharing a look that says it all.

A 70-YEAR ROMANCE Story and photos by Patti Daley

Young love. Hard work. Sweet success. And rodeo.

This is the love story of Leroy and Velma Tucker, lifelong ranchers. They have been married 69 years and held ranches in five states, and the adventure all started, and now ends up, on a peaceful 30 acres near Pinto Creek.

“I remember every raindrop that fell since we moved here,” says Leroy Tucker, 90, marveling at how they ended up with “the best ranch in the state,” Bar 11.

He was born in 1928 on Greenback Mountain. He can still see its peak from his kitchen window. The family ranch was small and tough, and the move closer to town was a good one for Leroy, then 16. It opened him up to rodeo, and through rodeo, to Velma.

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FILMMAKING COMES ALIVE IN GLOBE-MIAMI AND SAN CARLOS

An award-winning filmmaker plans to create a film academy and shoot a feature film, while continuing his role as a multimedia educator for local high school students.

Kim Stone

ocumentary filmmaker and University of Missouri film professor Christian Rozier is bringing a film academy to Gila County. Selected participants between the ages of 18 and 29 will learn the technical skills of film production in an intensive 80-hour course beginning in March 2019.

Students will earn a stipend during their training and then move on as paid film crew members in the production of the feature-length film Peridot. This independent film will be shot locally in San Carlos and Globe-Miami in April 2019.

Who is the filmmaker and why has he chosen Gila County?

For young adults who want to pursue their interest in film production, this is a compelling opportunity, to be sure. But why did Christian Rozier, formerly based out of Los Angeles with 20 years of experience as a film maker, pick this rural patch of Gila County to create a film academy and shoot a feature film?

As it turns out, Christian has already been sharing his talents around these parts for quite some time.

During the past seven years, he has either facilitated or directly participated in workshops in poetry, music, the visual arts, digital photography, and multimedia production in San Carlos and Miami schools.

Beginning in June 2011, Christian worked with the Media Arts Xchange (MAX), an organization from

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Los Angeles that integrates the arts and digital media to unlock the creative story-telling potential in students.

Together with Street Poets, Inc., the Rhythm Alliance, The Tiziano Project (all from Los Angeles) and Navajo artist Dennis Jeffry, MAX held month-long collaborations from 2011 to 2013 with high school students on the San Carlos Reservation.

“We brought visual artists and musicians together from the outside to collaborate with Native youth to co-create something together,” Christian explained to me in a recent interview.

He documented this experience with the sevenminute short film “Media Arts Xchange on the Apache Rez”

(on vimeo.com) which showcases the students’ energy, expanding emotional openness, and creative output that emerged from these sessions.

John Tandy, who co-founded MAX with Patricia Wyatt, and who co-wrote the screenplay with Christian Rozier for the upcoming film Peridot, told me in a phone interview that the results of these collaborations were magical.

“It enabled the students to discover themselves, their deeper selves,” he said. “They all found they were special in some way. It brought beautiful things out in all these kids.”

In 2014, Christian directed “Racing the Past – Voices from the Apache Rez.” Filmed entirely in San Carlos, the interviewees become the narrators—the voices— in this 14-minute film. The film has won several film festival awards and spurred a lively string of 500 reactive comments on YouTube.

Although he spent the first 10 years of his career honing his craft by making music videos, commercials, and reality TV, his experience working with young people in San Carlos in 2011 provided the source of inspiration that indelibly altered the arc of his professional growth.

“I found that my entire focus as a filmmaker dramatically shifted from my experiences with them,” Christian said. This sea change led him to four different continents, seeking out underrepresented and marginalized communities to tell their stories. And it’s why he has returned to Globe-Miami and San Carlos at least once each year since 2011.

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From the Desk of the Publisher

n the eve of an election like no other; one that I am personally involved in after throwing my hat in the ring for a seat in the Arizona House, I echo the words of Robert Redford who recently said in an interview.

“We don’t have to share the same motivations to want the same outcomes. Let’s focus on each other, and strengthening our communities…”

Nowhere is that more apparent than at the community level - especially rural communities - like ours where we know our neighbors well, where we talk to them in Safeway, sit on the bleachers with them at football games and can track friendships back several generations.

Our Fall issue again reflects the richness of people and culture at the heart of our two small towns and reminds me that when the going gets tough, the tough stand tall.

There has been much written about Roberto Reveles over the years for his work, but we wanted something that was more personal and would bring his story back to where it began, here in Miami. He grew up with segregation at school, at church and the movies, and as he says, it emphasized the “contrast of treatment”. He has spent a lifetime working on behalf of others and is well known for his work with the ACLU and co-founding and leading one of the largest marches in Arizona’s history. (PP 1) This September I attended the 90th birthday of Leroy Tucker, whose wife, Velma (at 86) had organized, and which drew over 250 friends and family - mostly Gila County ranchers who could recount decades worth of stories about this amazing pair. And for every story told, there was one underlying element that seemed to shine through and that was the partnership that Velma and Leroy built over their 70-year marriage. It’s a story worth telling. (PP1) Another story unfolding on Broad street in Globe is Johny D and the Old Dominion Cutting Company. It is one of love, passion and belief in this community. Starting his own shop at the age of 26, he has built a large following in Globe-Miami and is helping to bring energy to the downtown historic district. This fall he will be hosting the 4th annual Beards of Broad Street contest which he began in 2014. The event draws contestants from near and far and gets bigger every year. See our events calendar (PP 11) and the story of Johny D (PP 6).

And this fall visitors and residents alike will have a full roster to choose from if they want to get out and enjoy the community with friends. From Apache Jii which kicks off October 13th, to Ghosts of Globe, Halloween in the historic district, the electric light Parade and the Christmas program at the Core Valley Center for the Arts, you’ll be able to find plenty of reasons to smile this season and enjoy time with those you love.

Publisher Linda Gross Creative Director Jenifer Lee Editor Patricia Sanders Contributing Writers Patti Daley Linda Gross Libby Rooney Kim Stone Sammi Wicks Contributing Photography Patti Daley Linda Gross Libby Rooney Kim Stone

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ON THE COVER

10 Events Calendar

Treasure Hunting in Globe-Miami

12 Society Pages

A Champion of the People The Brains and The Brawn

15 Visitor's Guide Walking Maps

3 Filmmaking Comes Alive in Globe-Miami and San Carlos

20 Check Your Fire Extinguisher

6 Old Dominion Cutting Company – Built on Beards and Buzz Cuts

21 Painter and Muralist Delights Local Community and Visitors Alike

9 The Great Pinal Creek Flood of 1904

22 Globe-Miami Real Estate Pages

14 My Labyrinth

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“I feel like something personally was really born here,” he added.

Inspiring filmmakers at Miami High School

continue to address these issues in a way that is specific to our students—in house.

Our students will do the interviewing and our students will make the films.”

The school plans to launch a film festival that showcases the films made

by Miami students and students from other schools, as well as a publication of students’ creative writing.

The upcoming Film Academy will take place during the school year and is designed for older young adults ages 18 29, so it will preclude the participation of high school students.

Since spring 2017, Christian has traveled to Miami High School from his home in Missouri on four separate occasions. Working closely with Principal Glen Lineberry, he is guiding a core group of students through the film making process, imparting skills and building confidence to tell meaningful stories through the medium of short films.

The funding for this program comes from a High School Health and Wellness grant that Miami High School received in 2017 to develop a curriculum to oppose teen use of alcohol, marijuana, and prescription drugs.

“We received permission to use part of the grant to work with our kids on story telling, on telling the story about being tempted, about resisting, about succumbing, about recovering,” Principal Lineberry explained.

The grant also helped to fund two recent workshops by Street Poets, Inc., the same Los Angeles-based arts organization that was so successful in catalyzing students to tell their Christian Rozier with MHS students stories with the written word in Yet this won’t bench Christian’s eager San Carlos seven years ago. group of Miami student filmmakers to Miami students created two short the sidelines. Their next assignment is films that documented the interactive to go behind the scenes and create a experience with Street Poets at their school documentary short film of the making of (posted on www.miamiusd40.org). the movie Peridot.

Their current project is a documentary about the impacts of substance abuse.

“They’re asking deep questions about why a young person in particular might be susceptible to falling into that trap in the first place,” Christian said.

Beginning this spring, a group of Eventually, this informal group of film young adult trainees will be chosen to students could be the seed that grows into participate in the planned Gila County an accredited class that becomes an arts Film Academy. They will gain a full elective at the school. range of filmmaking expertise, and then “Part of what we’re doing,” Mr. produce their own short films as part of Lineberry explained, “is developing the the program. They’ll gain proficiency in capacity so when the grant runs out, we can the techniques of videography, audio

The Film Academy and the movie, Peridot

recording, lighting, post-production, and the all-important art of telling a good story—and receive a stipend while they learn.

The following month, with two weeks of immersive film production experience under their belts, the trainees will take a giant step into the world of professional filmmaking as paid (and credited) crew members for the movie Peridot.

The film is now in pre-production and shooting is slated to begin in April 2019.

The movie will be shot in Gila County and a majority of the talent and crew will come

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from the local area, as well.

“Our one and only goal is to make a great film,” said Christian, who will direct the movie. “We want to make a film that is very competitive in the film festival circuit.”

After the production of Peridot is complete, the Film Academy students will return to the classroom and begin the process of editing their own short films.

In June, the short films will be screened at a public premiere, exhibited in local schools, cultural centers, and shared online. “[Public screening] is an absolutely essential component of the transformative learning process,” Christian emphasized.

After the movie is a wrap and the Film Academy ends in July, these seasoned trainees will become an undeniable resource to both brick and mortar and online businesses, institutions, and others in need of video production services.

The cameras, microphones, and other production equipment purchased for the Academy will all stay within the community, available for use on a “check out” basis.

To find out more about the process of applying to the Gila County Film Academy, auditioning as an actor for the film Peridot, or becoming a crew member, follow www.peridotmovie.com and social media. n

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Old Dominion Cutting Company –

BUILT ON BEARDS AND BUZZ CUTS Story by Sammie Wicks.

Photos by Elizabeth Eaton

Most people wouldn’t think of hair care and men’s beard styles as major marketing vehicles for promoting and developing their local community. But Globe’s own JohnyD did.

“I’ve seen so many historical districts in America,” says John “JohnyD” Flores, owner/operator of downtown Globe’s Old Dominion Cutting Company. “And of course, all of them had hair-styling salons. But I didn’t want to be just any salon--I wanted my company to be the cornerstone of downtown Globe.”

Flores says one marketing venture that initially helped him succeed was the annual Globe Broad Street Beard Battle.

“If you can believe it, we started this thing by running around and putting notices under the windshields of cars in towns all over this area, as a way to promote the salon and the town,” Flores remembers. “And soon, people started calling by the droves, wanting to enter.”

Contestants in the local annual event start by getting clean-shaven in the summer and growing their beards until the following November, entering in such divisions as Creativity, Mustache, Goatee, Beauty and the Beard, and Beard Over Eight Inches. Flores adds that entrants have come from Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, and other Valley towns, and from all over Gila County, with proceeds going towards worthy community causes.

“In contradistinction to other partytype beard contests, some of which can get pretty wild and loud,” Flores remarks, “we always strive to have an event that has a family atmosphere where everyone can attend and enjoy themselves.”

Never to young to style.

"I'm just very, very particular, always have been," he says, "I just have this hyper-focus...

OK, I'm a perfectionist.

That is always driving me."

He says the upcoming event will include a fun surprise.

“This time, we’re going to have a women’s category,” the young promoter says. And when this plan meets with a quizzical response, he laughs and explains that, “Women are some of our most creative entries – come see for yourself.”

Flores, a Globe-Miami native, says his desire to return home after his cosmetology training was the perfect segue into his major life goal.

“I formed a strong personal goal of having my own salon at the age of 29, my age now,” says Flores. “But I beat that goal by three years--I started my own shop when I was 26. I admit the beginning was a bit of a struggle, you know, a chair

that wouldn’t go up and down, and other daily issues like that – but I just worked past the limitations and kept making the facility better and better.” And what better place than Globe to develop his original vision?

Perhaps “visionary” is the most appropriate descriptor for a young entrepreneur whose plans for his community – and his business within it-seem to have no bounds. But he says he came by that personal quality through the life-long mentoring of his father.

“My father was the greatest Visionary I’ve ever known,” Flores says admiringly. “There was almost nothing he couldn’t do, and he always inspired me to do the very best possible.” Flores has his own self-description beyond the vision, however.

“I’m just very, very particular, always have been,” he says, “I just have this hyper-focus . . . OK, I’m a perfectionist.

That is always driving me.”

The local style artist believes the future promotion of Globe depends on a rare commodity not always found in small towns: local will.

“Eventually, there will have to be many more other entrepreneurial individuals who grab onto other forwardlooking ideas and make them work here,” Flores declares. “When that happens, it will make Globe’s downtown, and its unique history, a model to imitate.”

True to these values, Flores is involved in teaching and inspiring young people to follow an entrepreneurial path.

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“I’m mentoring a young man now just out of high school,” Flores says, “who has some great ideas for downtown parks and such. I would love to see what his dreams develop into.”

The dynamism and eventual marketing footprint of his enterprise came, Flores suggests, not just by his own unflagging efforts, but through the action of sometimes unseen forces.

“There have been many times during steps along the way when things looked very bleak and challenges were hard to overcome,” Flores remembers.

“But then, no matter how dark things seemed, inevitably, there came a breakthrough that showed me how even the difficult things had a purpose, and a sense of direction--I call it that ‘thing’ that just happens, and events go forward.”

JohnyD and wife, Moquie Photo by LCGross

“That ‘thing’ is like a lot of different gears turning,” Flores elaborates, “that eventually lead to the stars aligning.”

Even though his business has enjoyed great success due to hard work, Flores acknowledges that serendipity-or call it what you will--has played an important role in what later would prove to have great importance.

“For instance, why did I choose cosmetology in the first place?” Flores asks, smiling. “Well, I needed a job! So that’s the direction I went at the time.”

And that same force, he says, led him to his future wife.

“My wife and I met when we were both taking Yoga classes downtown,” he recalls. “It seemed like happenstance, but things just worked out really well from that point on.”

Flores is quick to credit the positive outcome of events unfolding as they should to his own religious faith.

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“As a Christian, I believe that things will turn out for the best, because there is a higher purpose for each of us, irrespective of our own plans as individuals,” he declares. And the positive outcomes in his life, he adds, are further enhanced by the fact he found an ideal partner in his wife, Moquie.

“We’re both spiritual people,” Moquie says, “and we believe there is a plan for each of us.” When not teaching First and Second Grades at Copper Rim Elementary School, Moquie works

operating his business or helping to promote his chosen home town, he travels around the country working as what in the industry is known as a “Platform Artist,” demonstrating advanced style techniques and the use of a product line headquartered in Los Angeles called Johnny B Hair Care to other beauty care professionals.

Asked what types of techniques he specializes in, Flores says, “Everything-I’m a hybrid artist.”

Hybrid, he says, meaning that he uses his cosmetologist’s license to explore all areas of beauty and hair care.

Old Dominion Cutting Co. moved from upstairs to the larger ground floor space in the old Gila Bank building on Broad Street in September.

alongside her husband in their business, and says associating with him closely has “completely changed” her. But Flores also says his own life has been altered by his wife’s steadying influence.

“Johny’s always thinking of some new idea and saying, ‘Well, let’s just go do this thing right now!’ and I stay more grounded,” Moquie says, laughing. “But for us, our differences have not only not caused any discord, but have actually been good for both of us. We truly complement each other.”

She echoes her husband’s own belief in a level of significance which goes beyond the simple human dimension.

“When something meaningful happens, it’s not luck,” she says.

“Everything that happens is predictable.

There is a plan for all of us.”

Nowadays, when Flores is not

“I, for one, do not believe in what the industry standard seems to dictate: that each specialty must have its own separate license,” he declares. “So I want to be outstanding in all areas of style – whether it be color, clip work, shear work, or anything else.”

“These are the times when I feel like I’m truly giving back to my world – when I’m demonstrating,” Flores says. “Being in front of other professionals who, you know, speak the same language,” he explains, “is like nothing else I do.”

Teaching his craft, then, seems to represent a pinnacle of meaning for the young artist.

“No matter how I may feel in the everyday world – when I’m behind the chair,” he says, “I feel completely comfortable and in my element. At those times I especially feel like I’m making a difference.”

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The Great Pinal Creek Flood of 1904

By Jim Turner, Arizona Historian

Floods, Fires, Flu – looks like all Globe needs now is a good famine and a plague of locusts to take its history to Biblical proportions. Of all of these, the floods seem to have hit the town the hardest, especially the big one in the summer of 1904. I’ve talked about this one with several longtime area citizens in the past few weeks, and only a few had ever heard of it. Many knew about the even bigger flood fifty years later, but the earlier one wreaked more havoc; the railroad was knocked out, buildings were washed away, and several people lost their lives to the raging wall of water.

It started as a gentle shower, the kind that might hit big, but then again might go around the town as many late summer thundershowers still do. But in a few minutes it really began to come down, and in less than an hour six people were drowned and property damages amounted to half a million dollars. The out-of-town papers called it the “Globe Flood,” but the name on the official government reports was the Pinal Creek Flood, since it was the creek that did the flooding, not the town.

Locals agree that the rain began as a light sprinkle around 5:30 on Wednesday afternoon, the seventeenth of August. Twenty minutes later, Pinal Creek started to rise and continued to flood throughout the night. By 6 o’clock that evening it reached cloudburst proportions; witnesses said it was accompanied by a “brilliant electrical display.”

According to O. T. Reedy, reporting to the United States Geographical Survey, the water only dumped heavily on about 30 square miles surrounding the town.

Rain gauges registered a little more than two inches, but Reedy estimated that 80 million cubic feet of water moved through the area during the flood, moving at speeds of more than 14,500 feet per second! Reedy said he heard from Mr. Devore at his Wheatfields Ranch north of Globe that the water continued to flood all night and did not resume a normal flow until about eight the next morning.

Within minutes the wall of water engulfed the little adobe casita of Arizona pioneer Addison T. Epley and washed it away.

He may have been asleep at the time; probably never knew what hit him.

According to an article that ran two days later in the Sunday, August 21 edition of the Phoenix Republican (before they dropped the “an” from the end of their name), “The other victims were all in the Mitchell Boarding House on low ground near the smelter and could have escaped had they heeded a warning.” One wonders if there had actually been a warning, and how it would have reached them in an era when most homes did not have a telephone.

Proprietor W.K. Mitchell, his wife Johanna, and three boarders – Ella Brashears Hurd, Josie Moody, and another person named Symes, were trapped in Mitchell’s boarding house. According to Reedy, there were eight people in the house when the flood began to rage but one escaped onto higher ground.

Another, Mr. Mitchell’s son, got out of the house to get some rope to rescue the others, but by the time he got back the whole house, with its captives trapped inside, had been swept downstream. Reedy said that three of the victims were women, and another was a cripple.

Later that night, five of the flood victims’ drowned bodies were recovered from Pinal Creek several miles from Globe. The next day the sixth body was found six miles from town.

According to Reedy, the Gila Valley, Globe, and Northern Railway received the most property damages from the flood.

The stockyards and cottages occupied by railroad workers were washed away, as well as about a mile of railroad track,

five bridges, and all the culverts in the lower part of town.

The flood waters lifted several downtown buildings right off their foundations and waltzed them into the street. Several others were left with a foot and a half of muddy standing water in their first floor rooms. The Republican said a dozen small houses and twenty businesses washed away.

More specifically: “buildings occupied

by H.H. Pratt, fruits and confectionary; Jenkins and Zellner, pianos; and W.A. Crawford, Barber; were moved into the middle of Broad Street. The Pratt Building and stock is a total loss,” said the Republican reporter.

Although the total damages were estimated at only $20,000, you have to remember what the dollar was worth at the turn of the 20th century. Accounting for inflation, that would be about half a million dollars in today’s currency.

Exactly half a century later, on July 29, 1954, another big flood washed through downtown Globe. Bigger than one in 1904, that one dropped 3.5 inches of rain in 40 minutes. It did a great deal of damage, and water flowed over the roadway bridge at Broad and Yuma streets. Several telephone company trucks were scooted down stream as though some giant kid was playing with his Tonka toys. It seems as though people were more prepared for this one though, with concrete culverts that let the water run its course, and no one was living too close to the creek bed.

There were other floods before 1904, and in 1894 a big fire destroyed 39 buildings on north Broad Street, wiping out all the wood-framed buildings and leaving only concrete and adobe structures. They rebuilt in ’94, had the railroad running within a few days after the 1904 flood, took the 1954 flood in stride, and bounced back again after the Pioneer Hotel fire in July, 2005.

Just like that old World War II song, “We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again,” stalwart Globe citizens love their town and always manage to keep on going through fire, flood, all sorts of natural disasters – let’s just hope the locusts don’t learn about the town!

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First Friday Lecture Series

Miami Hardscrabble Lecture Series

When: Friday, October 5, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

What: Dowsing for Water, Minerals and Graves Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free, donations appreciated Before there were machines and technology to help people find things, our pioneer ancestors used their wits to find water, minerals and other necessary things.

Many used the old technique of “dowsing.” For this presentation, a panel of three presenters will tell and show their expertise in water dowsing (rancher Leroy Tucker), mineral dowsing (Bullion Plaza’s executive director, Tom Foster) and grave dowsing (retired teacher and genealogist Lynne Perry).

When: Wednesday, November 21, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

What: Ancient Water in the Tonto Basin Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free, donations appreciated Wednesday Hardscrabble programs are hosted jointly by the Gila County Historical Museum in Globe and Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum in Miami.

Programs are always free (although donations do help us pay utilities and bring great programs to our area).

Miami Hardscrabble Lecture Series When: Wednesday, October 17, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

What: SRP History, Local Connections and Water with Andrew Volkmer Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free, donations appreciated Since its founding in 1903, and the completion of Roosevelt Dam and five other dams along the Salt and Verde rivers, the Salt River Project has played a vital role in supplying water to central Arizona. To ensure a sustainable and reliable water supply into the future, SRP is involved with multiple watershed stewardship activities across Arizona. This lecture will dive into some of these activities and how they impact the Salt River watershed. Andrew Volkmer is a hydrologist at the Salt River Project.

35th Annual Apache Jii When: October 20 Where: Downtown Globe on Broad Street Cost: Free Native American arts and crafts, entertainment and food booths. Demonstration craft booths and large-scale live art.

Ghosts of Globe Walking Tour – 20th Anniversary When: October 27, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Where: Starts at Oak & Broad Street, Globe Cost: $20 per person Tours are approximately 90 minutes in length and leave from the 1910 Territorial Jail every 20 minutes.

This year, enjoy the fun bonus stop, traveling by shuttle throughout Globe’s Historic District with a glimpse of the bars and bordellos of times past. For ages 8 and up only. Proceeds go to the building restoration fund.

Downtown Halloween Block Party When: October 31, 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Stroll the downtown district with your kids while local merchants hand out more than 6,000 pieces of candy. DJ and party continues at the depot until 9:30 pm. Street closures from Sycamore to Yuma. Activities include a zombie paintball event, live Halloween music, car show and costume contest. See the Globe Main Street Program Facebook page for updated information.

When: November 24, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Where: Train Depot, Downtown Globe Cost: Free Bring your cameras and look out for the elves along the way. Santa will be traveling in the vintage fire truck and arriving at the Depot at 10 a.m., where he will be available for photo ops and present requests. Visit the elf toy shop to make a free take-home ornament, and bring along that letter to Santa to put in the official U.S. Post Office direct to the North Pole.

First Friday Lecture Series When: November 2, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

What: Local Aviation History Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free, donations appreciated Arvin Schultz spent many years in the aviation industry, and the history of it is his passion!

Festival of Lights

GMCCA Concert: Alley Cats

When: Saturday, December 1, dusk Where: Besh-ba-Gowah Archaeological Park Cost: Free Beginning at dusk, the program will feature Native American dancers and stories of the life of those who lived at the pueblo. There will be music inside the auditorium, and refreshments will be served. The pueblo will be illuminated with luminarias during the evening.

GMCCA Concert: Firefly When: Saturday, October 20, 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Where: Miami High School Cost: Season tickets – Facebook: globemiamiconcert Globe-Miami Community Concert Association presents Firefly, an all-woman band that created quite a buzz in country music when they won the Arizona State Country Showdown. Since 2010, they have opened for LeAnn Rimes, Martina McBride, Donny Osmond, Little Big Town, Wynonna Judd, Clint Black, David Archuleta and many others. Firefly’s songs can be found on YouTube and iTunes.

Santa and His Elves Come to the Depot

When: Wednesday, November 7, 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Where: High Desert Middle School Cost: Season tickets – see facebook.com/ globemiamiconcert Globe-Miami Community Concert Association presents the Alley Cats, a six-piece band covering all music from the 60s to the present. With their energetic stage performance they always have the dance floor full. For information visit http://thealleycatsband.com.

Annual Christmas Open House When: December 7, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Where: Gila County Historical Museum Cost: Free; donations appreciated Everyone is welcome to this annual Christmas event for Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Gila County Historical Society, celebrating the season as a community.

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4th Annual Broad St. Beard Battle When: December 8 What: Contest for Best Beard of Broad Street Cost: Free; donations appreciated Broad St. Beard Battle is a competition for those beards and whisker hairs that constantly grab attention!

Full, untamed, sparse, long – all beards welcome. For more info call (480) 766-2998.

Annual Light Parade

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Miami Hardscrabble Lecture Series

GMCCA Concert: Acoustic Eidolon

When: Wednesday, December 19, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

What: Music of the Culture of Globe-Miami Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free, donations appreciated Globe-Miami is made of an astonishing variety of heritages! The countries represented here in the early years of our towns include England, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, Austria, China, Syria, and many others! Come enjoy the music of many of these cultures, which made our area a rich “melting pot,” indeed!

When: Thursday, January 17, 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Where: High Desert Middle School Cost: Season tickets – see facebook.com/globemiamiconcert Globe-Miami Community Concert Association presents Acoustic Eidolon, the duo of Hannah on cello and Joe on guitjo. Their music has been described as “pure musical poetry…a moving combination of Celtic, classical and contemporary folk!”

First Friday Lecture Series When: January 4, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

What: Miami Teacher/Historian Wilma Gray Sain Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free, donations appreciated First Friday programs are hosted jointly by the Gila County Historical Museum in Globe and Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum in Miami. Programs are always free (although donations do help us pay utilities and bring great programs to our area).

When: December 8 What: Hometown Holiday Light Parade Where: Downtown Globe – Broad Street One of the largest holiday events of the season presents floats of all shapes, sizes and types in this fun-for-all community event.

First Friday Lecture Series When: February 1, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

What: Charlie Steen, First Ranger at Tonto National Forest Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free, donations appreciated Charlie Steen was the first National Park Service employee to work at the Monument, where he was stationed from July 1934 to July 1935. He then returned in 1938 as a naturalist and worked on the excavation of the Upper Cliff Dwelling. During the 1950s he compiled a geologic history of the Monument. Steen’s archeological records are the most complete and useful source for Tonto park rangers today.

Power Brothers Shootout – 101st Anniversary

Miami Hardscrabble Lecture Series When: Wednesday, January 16, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

What: Tonto Basin Astronomy Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free, donations appreciated

When: Saturday, February 9, 4 p.m.

Where: Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum Cost: Free, donations appreciated It was Arizona’s bloodiest shootout. February 10, 1918, four lawmen rode out to a cabin in the Galiuro Mountains to call out two “slackers,” draft dodgers for the Great War. At dawn, the shootout began... and ended with the death of three of the four lawmen, and the death of the patriarch of the Power family. His two sons and a hired hand went to prison. The lone surviving law man, Frank Haynes, was from Miami, AZ.

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Leroy Tucker Celebrates His 90th Birthday July 21 ~ Over 250 people attended the 90th Birthday Celebration held at the Apache Gold Casino.

Everett Stewart at 94 remembers his team roping days with Leroy, where they were the team to beat.

Four generations of the Tucker family came together to celebrate.

Ken and Debbie Donaldson with their children, Sarah and Caleb.

Photos by LCGross

Tony Lewis; Victoria Cabot and Marsha Hick

"Clothes aren't going to change the world.

The women who wear them will."

Photos courtesy of Elizabeth Eaton

~ Ann Klein

The Arizona Territorial Band performed on Saturday, 15.

Molly Cornwell as Big Nose Kate is introduced

by Master of Ceremonies Barbra Osborne.

Vintage photo of Kathrine Fredricks (center) and her friends, taken in an alley in Globe. Circa 1920's

Old Dominion Days

Sept. 12-15 ~ The inaugural Old Dominion Days hosted by the Gila Historical Museum covered 4 full days of events including a chuck wagon dinner, fashion show, lecture series, mine tour, taco tossing contest and more!

Carmen and her entourage included Front: L-R: Liz Kinney, Toni Ann Wantland, Aurora Wallace, Carmen Slough, Marcy Hernandez, Kelly Ireland.

Back: Wil Bowen

Three young beauties model the fashion of the day.

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Photos by Elizabeth Eaton

Sept 22 ~ Bullion Plaza Museum and Cultural Center

John R. Hoopes, Vice President at Salt River Project and wife Nancy. Hoopes gave a presentation on his family history in the area and the evolution of the Salt River Projecy.

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Opening of the Water Ways Exhibit

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Cutting the ribbon – Mary Anne Moreno, Former AZ Congressman and Miami native, Ed Pastor, Joe Sanchez, John R. Hoopes and Tom Foster

Miami Fiesta

The Museum staff and volunteers who put the exhibit together Charlie and Peggy Snow, Chris Jones, Jayce & Anna Petty and Executive Director Tom Foster.

Tom Foster, Elizabeth Eaton – Eaton's photographs of the local community are displayed throughout the museum.

Sept 8 at Bullion Plaza Museum – The Charro performance at this year's Fiesta delighted the crowds.

The Torres Family: Miguel, Hilda, Ambrosio, Esmeralda and Rogelio Torres.

Photo by Elizabeth Eaton

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MY LABYRINTH

One Woman's Journey

Photos and story by Marilee Lasch

At the age of 40, I discovered something about myself that had been there all along, hidden underneath all the shoulds and shouldn’ts I had been raised with. Others would label it a mid-life crisis; for me, it was an awakening, a new path to pursue.

The awakening I refer to came as a result of an art class I had taken in Great Falls, Montana. It was my very first venture into the creative world, and I got happily lost in the class. For the first time in a long time, I was happy. I soon discovered I was talented, and decided to pursue that path, which led to a divorce and a move to Phoenix.

It was after this move that I discovered the labyrinth at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Phoenix. A labyrinth is a silent meditation walk, where during the process of walking to the center, you contemplate your worries. Once you reach the middle, you lay your worries down and offer up a prayer for future revelations about your life. The walk back to the entrance is made in silent contemplation on the wonders of life.

I wanted to learn about the purpose of labyrinths. I discovered they had been around in one form or another for over a thousand years. Different religions and groups had holy sites that their followers would have wanted to visit before their death, but because of the distances to the sites, a meditation circle would be built

on local property, with local construction materials. The purpose was to give the congregants an opportunity to walk in faith to their holy place and say their prayers, which in truth was a journey to their own soul and a deepening of faith.

Upon pursuing the artistic world, I then followed the desire to live in an artist community, which brought me to Superior. It’s a town that’s a little destitute, and locked into its past history, while not really seeing its potential and possibility for the future. For a starving artist like myself, it was a perfect place to live and start a community of like-minded people.

Being a dreamer, I could see the future for this beautiful town, and about

15 years ago I moved into a three-story house on a hill with a gorgeous view of the surroundings. While the house was fairly done, the yard was a mess. To landscape the four lots, the previous owner had gone to the riverbed and brought truckloads of river dirt, full of rocks, and spread it all over the yard. Rocks, rocks everywhere, and not a drop of good dirt.

What to do, what to do? Having been raised as a farmer’s daughter, I’ve picked a lot of rock, and became determined to re-purpose the rock for a higher purpose.

I decided to build my own labyrinth. A labyrinth in the middle of the desert, my friends asked? And I responded, why not?

One rock at a time, I lifted, tugged and laid those rocks in the circular pattern based on the design of the labyrinth in the church in Chartres, France.

When it was completed, some of my neighbors thought I might be a witch! To ease their concerns, I invited the locals and my friends to participate in a fall labyrinth party, upon which I had information on the history and the meaning of the labyrinth written up. Along with lots of food, we gathered, made new friends and learned about new things. I have continued to hold these Fall Festivals for 10 years.

People have told me that when they walk the labyrinth, they enter with some trepidations, but upon exiting, they feel a sense of calm and more confident in the direction of their lives.

I feel proud that I can enhance this beautiful space, which I am convinced is holy ground. I love to encourage people to expand their horizons. The next Fall Festival will be October 27.

If anyone would like information on how to build a labyrinth or obtain an invitation to attend the next labyrinth party, please e-mail me at mlasch62@ yahoo.com.

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HOURS: MON-SAT 10AM-5PM; SUNDAYS NOON-4PM

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October 13 • 7 p.m.-10 p.m.

Old West Jail Tour

Step back in time and tour the old Territorial Jail. Suggested $5 donation goes to the care and maintenance of the facility.

October 27 • 6 p.m.-11 p.m.

Ghosts of Globe 20th Anniversary Tour

Join us for a Old West Period, theatrical tour of our Historic District's Tales. $20 per person.

Tours launch from the 1910 Jail on Oak every 20 minutes starting at 6pm, last tour at approximately at 8:30pm. Optional bonus stop includes a ride on a vintage fire truck and this year a Paranormal Investigation Group will be on hand for any Q & A.

November 6 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.

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The work is done, the votes have been cast.

Its time to have some fun. Please join us for an evening of live music by the band Imagine, plus great food and libations. A suggested $10 donation for the evening will go to support our local teachers: both supplies and library books. (Suggested/not required!) Hosted

by GlobeMiamiTimes and Friends of Linda Gross. State & Local Candidates welcome to participate for a nominal fee. Please inquire to editor@globemiamitimes.com or call 928-701-3320.

GIFT SHOP

Explore our gift shop representing a wide array of our local artisans. And we do lay away!

Please join us for our Trick-or-Treat Event in Historic Downtown Globe! With crowds exceeding 5,000 folks, come ready for some fun! Complete with live music stops, a car show and more fun along the way! Then keep the fun going for the Block Party at the Depot, and the Haunted Jail Haunted House Event.

Festival of Trees: Promote your business or organization by decorating a holiday tree for display on the gallery level. Contact the Center for more information.

December 5 • 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Chamber Holiday Mixer at the Center

Tis the season! Come and enjoy a holiday cheer as the Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce and the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts hosts an evening of holiday cheer. What better way to begin the holiday season?

get involved in the Center. Be part of a great tradition in helping the arts thrive in Globe-Miami.

Santa and Elves Come to Globe

Halloween in Downtown Globe

December 2 – Month of December

Volunteers Needed! Lots of opportunities to

November 24 • 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

October 31 • 5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Become a member of the Center and support the local arts and community events which has helped define the Arts Center for over 30 years.

Santa arrives in the Vintage Fire truck and join Mrs. Claus and the elves at the train depot. A make and take ornament table, letters to Santa, and a fundraising Elf deluxe cocoa & snack bar, along with photo ops with Santa and Elves make this a memorable annual event.

November 30, December 1 & 2 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Community Players present a Christmas Program

The Copper Cities Community Players and Cobre Valley Center for the Arts are pleased to present their annual Christmas Concert.

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December 8 6 p.m.

Annual Electric Light Parade 2018 Theme: "The Songs of Christmas"

The Globe Downtown Association/Historic Globe Main Street Program once again is pleased to bring you the Annual Christmas Light Parade. Applications will be available at Cobre Valley Center for the Arts, GlobeMiami Chamber of Commerce and The City of Globe in Downtown Globe.

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After 20 years, Cedar Hill will be closing as a B&B.

December 10 & 11 8am-5pm

Preview: Friday, December 9 11am-6pm All furnishings, drapes, lighting, artwork, accessories, outdoor furniture, tools and equipment to be sold.

See also: www.cedarhillaz.com

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WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU CHECKED YOUR FIRE EXTINGUISHER?

By Kim Stone ~ www.SecureTheBeast.com

If it’s been awhile, you may need to have your fire extinguisher serviced or replaced. Here’s how to do it.

If you haven’t checked your fire extinguisher in awhile, today is the day. If it’s fully charged, the dial on the pressure gauge should be centered in the green zone. It will look very similar to the one in this photo.

If the needle is pointing straight up into the green, you’re probably okay.

But, if any of the following are true, you need to replace it or have it professionally serviced.

1. Needle is outside of the green zone.

2. The pin that locks the handle in place is missing or the seal is cut or missing.

This means the fire extinguisher may have been partially discharged, even if the dial is still in the green zone.

3. There is any obvious damage to the tank or nozzle, or if there is any sign of corrosion.

4. The hose that attaches to the nozzle is missing.

5. It is over 12 years old.

So, STOP READING RIGHT NOW and go inspect your fire extinguisher. If you have more than one, check them both.

I’ll wait.

Should I replace my fire extinguisher or have it serviced and recharged?

If you find your fire extinguisher deficient in any of the five ways listed above, you need to deal with the situation pronto.

You should replace it if any of the following descriptions apply.

1. Most inexpensive fire extinguishers (priced under $50 or so) aren't rechargeable. The brands that most often fall into this category are the homeowner-targeted models of First Alert and Kidde extinguishers sold at big box retailers like Target and Walmart.

2.

Many off-the-shelf consumer extinguishers might say on the packaging that they are rechargeable.

But if they are manufactured with plastic handles, nozzles, or contain other internal plastic parts, most fire protection companies won’t recharge them.

3. Generally, fire extinguishers with less than 5 pounds of extinguishing agent are not rechargeable. (Note: Fire extinguishers are often referred to as “5-pound” or “10-pound” extinguishers.

This is the weight of the extinguishing agent only; the actual fire extinguisher weighs considerably more.)

If your fire extinguisher is made by Amerex, Buckeye, Badger, Ansul, or certain “Pro” and commercial versions of First Alert and Kidde, it can probably be inspected and recharged by a fire inspection company.

Where do I go to get my fire extinguisher serviced and recharged?

Now it’s time to locate a fire protection company that can inspect and recharge your fire extinguisher. The Yellow Pages used to be the source to find all things commercial, but now, the best way is to type “Fire extinguisher service near me” into your favorite internet browser.

I did exactly this and after placing a phone call to a half dozen fire protection companies in Phoenix, all of them said they would service and recharge my 5-pound Amerex fire extinguisher— for a fee, of course.

I was quoted a range of prices between $25 and $40, so it pays to shop around.

If your fire extinguisher is older than 12 years, it will have to be pressure tested, which may incur an additional fee.

In addition to recharging, the fee includes inspection, replacing seals, o-rings and internal parts as necessary.

Some will do it while you wait, for others, you'll have to leave it with them for a day or two.

When you make your own inquiry, you’ll want to be ready to answer several questions that the friendly person on the phone will undoubtedly ask.

• What is the manufacturer?

• What is the manufacture date?

• W hat is the type of fire extinguisher?

(Hint: yours is most likely ABC.) • What is the size?

All of this information is either listed on the label or on the tank of your fire extinguisher. Some of this can be hard to find, so I give detailed information with photos in my full article at www.securethebeast.com fire-extingusher-service.

About www.SecureTheBeast.com Our lives are now irrevocably chained to the exploding world of technology and the boundless expanse of the internet, and this presents an entire new ecosystem for hackers, thieves, and opportunists to test your vulnerabilities every minute of every day.

We created Secure the Beast to help you understand the threats and provide you with the information you need to stay ahead of the beast.

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Painter and Muralist DelightS Local Community and Visitors Alike

Rooster at Dick's Broasted Chicken, Miami

Miami Merchants, Miami

Step Back in Time, Miami

Wings, Miami

urals have always played a part in Globe-Miami beginning in the 90’s when local artist Lois Monarez offered up summer art classes for kids. In the last several years, a new artist, Patti Sjolin, has been busy creating murals all around town for business owners and community spaces.

Sjolin, who started out in a small town in Texas, moved to Miami in 2015. She originally worked at Lisa Frank Inc., one of the world’s most creative and successful design companies at the time, known internationally for its school supplies, toys, and clothing for girls with colorful, whimsical designs featuring cute animals.

These are some of her murals which have been completed over the last two years which you can find in Globe and Miami. You can reach her at her shop in Miami, My Mom's House, open 10am-4pm on Saturdays and Sundays or visit www.pattysjolin.com.

Bullion Plaza, Miami

Lilacs on a wall at Cedar Hill B&B in Globe

Miami Library, Miami

Waggin’ Vineyard, Globe

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G lo b e - M i a m i R e a l E s tat e LOCAL LENDER OUTLINES FINANCE OPTION$ IN GILA COUNTY or those purchasing or refinancing a home in Gila County there are four main options-USDA, FHA, conventional, and VA. USDA is a very popular option for those that can qualify for it. The biggest advantages are there is no down payment required and the Guarantee Fee (their version of mortgage insurance-Ml) is very reasonable. A couple of the negatives are this loan has household income limits that you cannot exceed and you typically cannot own another home.

FHA has several advantages. The down payment of 3.5% is reasonable.

This program allows for both the lowest credit scores and typically lets you buy the most house on a given income of any of the four types of financing. FHA is also the most lenient of recent bankruptcies, foreclosures, and short sales. The biggest downside is fairly high mortgage insurance that never drops off.

Conventional is by far the best if you are putting 20% or more down-especially

Experience is one of the most important things you need in a loan officer when choosing the financing for your home.

I have 30 years of experience in mortgage banking doing loans throughout the state of Arizona. With all the changes in the mortgage industry, you need someone with knowledge, expertise and the ability to stay on top of this constantly changing environment.

My goal is to make your loan process as easy as possible and insure that your loan closes on time.

if you have good credit. And if you put less than 20% the Ml will eventually drop off.

You can own multiple homes-primary, second home, and investment properties.

The rates and Ml are very FICO score driven.

VA is a great option for those who have served our country and are eligible. No down payment required. No monthly Ml. The biggest issue we run into in the Globe area is low credit scores, even though most people make enough money to qualify. Always make your payments on time. Keep your debt to a minimum. If you think you might purchase a home in the next couple years, do not make any big vehicle or "toy" purchases that you finance. If you know your credit isn't the best, call me and we can put together a plan so that you can buy a home in the next 6 to 12 months. We have done this with many in the area.

Another issue is potential buyers with no money in the bank. If a new home purchase is a goal within the next few years, start saving your money. The more money you have in the bank the stronger

you are as a borrower. And save it in the bank-not under your mattress at home (cash at home cannot be used).

The other thing we see is homes that need to be updated but the buyer doesn't have the cash to do it. If you find a home that you really like but it is very dated and needs some work, we have renovation

loans for that. Just imagine-new carpet, paint, cabinets and counter tops, appliances, a new roof, new AC, windows – call for details.

This is very general information and every situation is unique. Please call me at 480.467.1075 to discuss what will be best for your specific situation.

Dallin Law

Mortgage Loan Originator

Purchase • Refinance • HECM Reverse Call today for a 15-minute pre-qualification!

480.832.4343

Call for a Quote: 480.467.1075 www.sunamerican.com/members/dallinlaw/

NMLS: # 259942

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Courtney Lane!

You can drive along Globe looking for your favorite neighborhood and you might miss this gem tucked away on a street where homes rarely come up for sale. The Courtney Lane property offers lush green landscaping and producing fruit trees. There are 3 large bedrooms, plus a den, each bedroom has its own private bathroom. There are separate living and family rooms, formal dining and a large eat-in kitchen.

The views from this home are fantastic and large mature trees provide welcome shade in the summer, plus you'll enjoy the outdoor kitchen when entertaining!

Oak Realty is the #1 Real Estate company in Globe-Miami. Call us today!

Call Today! (928) 425-7651 2035 Hwy 60/70 Globe, AZ 85501 www.oakrealtyaz.com

Beautiful Mountain Cabin

A Peaceful Oasis

Beautiful Secluded Mountain Cabin situated on 3.55 acres at the "Top of the World" West of Globe on Hwy 60. Built in 2005, full wrap-around 2 level composite deck with ramp. Vaulted ceilings, fireplace, Hickory Kitchen cabinets, ss appliances, stack washer and dryer, double sized master bedroom can be made into 2 bedrooms by adding 1 wall. Two 3/4 baths. Private well, covered workshop area, fenced walk-in garden. All natural landscaping with mostly Cedar, Oak and Juniper trees. Seasonal stream. Parcels to the East and West also available for additional purchase for a total of just over 10 acres combined. Borders National Forest. Owner will consider carryback with reasonable down payment!

Surrounded by magnificent mature landscaping – four gigantic lush lawns, orchard, grapevines, garden area, chicken coop, workshop/ storage and even a pond with lily pads. The spacious 2 story home includes over 3,000 sq ft w/ 20' ceilings in the living room. Valuable natural light comes through the incredible windows and skylights throughout. Create exquisite meals on the stainless steel gas range in the remodeled kitchen with granite countertops. Attractive brick flooring on main floor, wood flooring upstairs & stylish tile in the bathrooms. Modern fixtures/ hardware. Completely remodeled bathrooms.

Huge master bedroom. Tons of storage. Call today to see this beautiful unique property!

What we offer is the very best experience when it comes to Buying your Home.

What are you waiting for?

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Rodeo Life

70-Year Romance, Continued from page 1

“Oh yes, so much, so much better,” Leroy laughs as he remembers the time.

He first noticed Velma, a young towhead, walking the long mile and a half to school near Roosevelt Lake. Driving by, running cattle, he stopped to offer a ride in his truck. Mother had always told her not to ride with strangers, so she declined.

He wasn’t a complete stranger. Their families were ranching friends. But they didn’t really get acquainted until the Snowflake rodeo in 1948.

Leroy claims Velma was stood up by her steady, but Velma laughs and says she was there with her mother, who had a racehorse in competition.

“You know, it seemed we got more rain then,” she recalls. “It rained all day long.”

“We got in my car out of the weather, so to speak,” Leroy says, “and just one little thing led to another and uh…”

Velma went to the dance with Leroy that night. They didn’t dance much.

“She was quite a companion,” Leroy recalls, “and … extra friendly.”

And what about him?

“I was a big, tall, good-looking cowboy,” Leroy says.

“Yeah, he was,” Velma agrees. “I was thrilled to death that he paid attention to me. You know, for a long time, I never thought I was good enough for him.”

Seven decades of togetherness dispels any notion of that.

Leroy extols Velma’s attributes. “She is very, very intelligent. She has such a good sense of humor … and she’s a beautiful person.”

“Thank you,” Velma says quietly.

Leroy claims not to compliment her much, but Velma knows how he feels.

“It’s pretty easy to tell,” says Velma.

“We could just look at each other and know.”

“Yup,” says Leroy.

Their Song Velma attended Globe High School, and during the week she stayed with her cousin in Icehouse Canyon. On Fridays, Leroy would come by, take her to a picture show, then drive her home, on dirt roads, to Roosevelt.

One evening, Leroy showed up to find that Velma had a date with someone else.

“I was going steady,” he begins the story.

“Were we?” questions Velma with a smile.

She drove off with her date, and Leroy was left behind. From the house radio, they both heard the strands of the Tennessee Waltz.

Now, whenever they hear that song, they get up and dance.

“In a sense it kind of got us together,” Velma reflects. “I realized right away that who I was with (that night) was not who I needed to be with.”

“It brings back memories, but overall, the memories was good.” Leroy breaks into song, “I was waltzing, with my darling…”

For the young Leroy, money was very scarce, and he got involved in rodeo to earn some extra cash. He became a champion roper, winning $300 for team roping in Show Low in 1947. He retired a couple of years ago at age 88.

Rodeo remains a primary source of enjoyment and community for the Tuckers.

“It’s not so much what you made money-wise, it’s the people you got acquainted with,” Leroy says, noting that it’s where he and Velma got acquainted. “It’s so true, it opens up such a vast area that once you know all those people, they never forget you, and vice versa. Otherwise, you’re, you know, all locked up in one little ranch or something.”

“They’re just sincere people,” Velma adds. “You compete against each other, but if anyone needed something like a horse or a rope, you lend it.”

Velma and Leroy in front of the Honeymoon Shack.

Newlyweds In May 1949, Velma Lucille Stewart completed her sophomore year of high school, turned 16, and married Leroy Tucker.

“A young bride,” Velma laughs.

Her mother gave consent. An old aunt advised against it. She thought Leroy had too little money.

Velma was lovely in a three-quarterlength dress and white hat. She sported a big diamond ring and a wedding band.

The set cost $30.

Leroy’s family welcomed Velma.

“She was an easy keeper,” he says.

As newlyweds, they lived in the Honeymoon Shack, an outside storeroom on his parents’ ranch.

“We didn’t have a stove or anything,” Leroy says. “It was quite primitive.”

For a young bride, living close to the in-laws had its challenges.

“His mother had her way of doing things, and I wasn’t really welcome to do these things,” Velma explains.

Instead of household chores, Velma ranched with the men. That wasn’t easy, either.

“When riding, we worked cattle,” Velma recalls. “Oh and it really bugged me. If I did something wrong, he would start whistling.”

In 1961, they moved to northern California, lured to a ranch with white picket fences and sprinklers on green grass. When they arrived at Easter, the grass was covered with snow.

In the seventies, anxious to be back in Arizona, they bought 5-Slash, a big ranch 20 miles east on highway 60, southwest of the Salt River.

It was a lot of hard work, Velma remembers. The evergreens made it difficult; the bluffs made it dangerous.

Interest rates were at 17%.

Aside from a little rodeoing, and some fun country dances, Leroy says, “Everything was just work, work, work.”

Velma agrees. She’s kept a daybook of their activities since year one.

“Just reading it would tire you out,” Leroy says.

Through a series of sales of trades, the Tuckers reacquired the Bar 11.

“We did a good job. Had good weather,” he says. “One little thing happens, and that’s your life.”

Ranching Family The Tuckers have owned ranches in Arizona, California, Kansas, New Mexico and Texas, where they still have a ranch, with their son, Roy Dale.

“We have a little corporation,” Leroy explains. “He owns all the cattle and takes care of it. He takes care of us, and we take care of him.”

Velma remarks how smart Leroy is, “not only about ranching, but so many things. He’s so good with numbers.”

“Well, one thing about ranching, boy, common sense, you use it,” Leroy says.

“You learn something new every day.”

Leroy acknowledges Velma’s efforts.

During their ranching life, Velma helped form the Gila County Cowbelles and the junior rodeo. She was appointed by three governors to the board of the Arizona Beef Council, and served many other positions.

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Married Life Leroy and Velma started building the house they live in today. In 1951, they moved in. By the summer of 1954, they had three children.

Velma had trepidation about taking on household duties.

“I was scared to cook for him,” she remembers. “I didn’t ever think I could ever fix things right for him.”

Velma took on the culinary tasks, and in 1979 she was featured in The Phoenix Gazette for her roundup cooking: Frito pie, son-of-a-gun stew, rocky mountain oysters, and chile relleno pie.

It was the food that would fuel their adventures.

The Tucker family, at their 40th wedding anniversary, 1979. Courtesy photo

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Leroy demonstrates dowsing at his home in Roosevelt.

70-Year Romance, Continued from page 24

“She was motivated and did such a hell of a job,” says Leroy proudly. “I was chairman of the first mule races they had in Globe, for what’s it’s worth.”

“Those were such fun races,” Velma recalls.

“Our kids tell us we don’t know how to vacate,” says Velma. “We only know how to work.”

It was Velma’s work that took them traveling to annual conventions. Once in Chicago, just back from a walk about the city, Leroy entered the auditorium, amazed to see his wife at the podium, addressing a huge audience.

“Brains and brawn, is pretty much what it amounted to,” Leroy says of their partnership. Thinking back on their biggest challenges, he adds, “You can’t pay off a mortgage without a lot of support from your spouse.”

“Well, that’s true in all of life,” Velma adds. “We’ve always said, you have to work together.”

“I have a temper, and Velma holds her cool,” Leroy admits. “That makes a lot of difference.”

“He also has a sense of humor,” Velma says, “and you know, most of the time we’re pretty good together. Pretty good.”

To what do they credit the longevity of their love?

“Living out on a ranch is quite a bit lonelier than living in town,” Leroy says,

“so I think it’s a little easier to get close to each other.”

“Yeah, it is,” Velma agrees.

The Tuckers remain close to their family. Their daughter, Lee Ann, lives down the road, and their daughter Tenna lives in Tucson. In addition to their three children, they have five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Two of them live in Globe.

“Your children see you, the way you live and your lifestyle, and they pick it up and appreciate,” ponders Leroy.

“But the grandkids, they don’t pay much attention to old people.”

“No they don’t,” Velma agrees.

As for dreams for the future, their focus is close to home.

“But if he’s able,” Velma says, “maybe next year for our 70th, we’ll take a cruise on up through New York.”

New Challenge “Basically, we’ve been real healthy,” Leroy says. “We’ve worked through the aches and pains. That has made us pretty healthy.”

At 90, Leroy is facing a daunting challenge. He has stage four prostate cancer that has metastasized into his bones. Recommended treatment costs $10,000 per month and is not covered by his insurance. Subsidy requests have been denied. Leroy is taking another treatment.

The message he wants to pass on:

Leroy surprised Velma by renewing his vows, complete with flower girl and ring bearer.

“Tell any of your relations or your friends over 65, they need a blood test every year.”

Their Latest Project With many of his ranching responsibilities behind him, Leroy’s focus has shifted to water, the lifeblood of ranching life. He has concerns about rising temperatures and disappearing grass, and studies the flow of water through rock.

“The old-timers, they thought you got water along the creek, and that’s true for about 20 yards out,” Leroy explains.

“Most of the good water is up here on the edge of the mountain.”

Leroy’s latest project is finding a new well for the A-Cross ranch. Once again, Velma is his workmate.

“He had me witching,” Velma says, referring to the use of metal rods to detect underground water. “It was hot. And I’m climbing under this fence thinking, ‘What in the hell am I doing?’”

“Velma helped me,” Leroy says with enthusiasm. “We got four or five faults running into one.”

“It’s going to be damn sure exciting,” says Leroy, and notes, “You can witch a dry fault, but if there’s water in the country, it’ll be in the fault.”

On October 5, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., Leroy will present his expertise at the Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum in Miami, as part of a First Friday program on dowsing.

The Renewal “I don’t make much money,” Leroy says, in summary of his work in ranching and witching.

On his 90th birthday, though, Leroy surprised Velma with the greatest of gifts: a renewal of their wedding vows.

“After 69 years,” Velma says. “That was something. I couldn’t believe it.”

Their great granddaughter carried the bouquet; a great grandson, a new wedding band. To replace the rings she’d been taking off.

“I was afraid of wearing them out,” she explains.

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FALL 2018

Treasure Hunting, Continued from page 1

u After Grandma’s House, you can walk across the little arched bridge over the creek to the recently opened Inspired

by Time at 51 N. Miami Ave. With a vintage boutique feel in the very quaint and cute historic Deanda’s Grocery, there you’ll find pretty vintage collectibles for gifts and home. Open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 to 4, and Sunday, 12 to 3. t

At the corner of Miami Ave. and Sullivan St. is

Miami Rose Trading Post. Selling all sorts of interesting antiques since 2001, it is located in the 1915 Savings and Loan building. As you walk in the door you’ll see the old bank vault, as big as a small room, now a shrine of catholic relics and prints. Open Saturday and Sunday, 10 to 5, sometimes on Friday.

Call (928) 473-2949 for more information.

u Donna by Design at 501 Sullivan Street has a nice selection of lightly restored vintage furniture. Donna calls herself a “rescuer of furnishings and other treasures – old and new.” Open Thursday through Saturday, 10 to 5, and Sundays, 12 to 4. t Next stop would be Soda Pop’s Soda Fountain at 503 Sullivan Street, where 50s music is playing on the jukebox and you can enjoy an ice cream float and a good old-fashioned slice of apple pie. Open on the weekends, it was originally a cigar and confectionary store with a Western Union office upstairs. While there, don’t miss the 1860 soda fountain made of solid marble with silver fixtures. t

A few doors down is Sullivan Street Antiques at 407 W. Sullivan Street, open 9 to 4 Saturday and Sunday. Owner Dick Baker continues to use a 1920s cash register with a cash drawer that opens with a crank, and the maximum cash amount it can register goes no higher than $9.99. Like so many buildings in historic downtown Globe and Miami, the second floor of the 1913 building served as a brothel in wilder days. Prostitution in Miami was, if not legal, prevalent, until 1962, when a local business owner blatantly advertised massage services by “women attendants only” in the local phone directory. This created a community outrage, the telephone directories were “recalled” and reprinted, and the business was closed.

t Across the street is Cowgirl Antiques at 416 Sullivan St. Entrance to the store is through the Wild Horses Saloon, and the store is open seven days a week from 9 am until the bar closes. Built before 1915, it was the first two-story building on Sullivan Street and today boasts of being the only antique store that has its own saloon. u

u Next door is Soda Pop’s Antiques, with a whimsical one-ofa-kind statue of a French Fries Man at the entrance. Open Friday and Saturday, 10 to 5, and Sunday, 11 to 4. Built in 1914, the second floor was where the founder of Miami, Cleve Van Dyke, had his real estate and town development offices. An interesting bit of Miami trivia: In the booming copper mining community of the early 1900’s, residential and commercial properties were sold to a depth of 40 feet, leaving the deeper earth in ownership of the mines for future mining opportunities.

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Treasure Hunting, Continued from page 26

The Globe Antique Mall at 171 W. Mesquite St. is open Wednesday and Thursday from 10:30 to 3, Friday and Saturday 10:30 to 4, and Sunday 12 to 3. It’s located in the old Elks Lodge, which has been given the curious distinction by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not of being the tallest three-story building in the world. It was built in 1910, and the story goes that the contractor ordered too many bricks, so rather than waste bricks, they built very high ceilings.

The store carries a wide selection of antiques and collectibles, large and small. t

In Globe Yesterday’s Treasures Antique Shop and Collectibles at 209 Hackney Ave., just behind Art and Soul on Broad Street, is open six days a week, 9 to 5ish, closed on Sunday. Owners Myrtle and Eddie Means sell goodcondition secondhand clothes and toys in the front section of the store, and the back section includes all kinds of interesting glass and kitchenware, vintage clothing, dolls, furniture and more. “If you need something, just holler,” says Eddie, with an accent from Arkansas that is slow like molasses as he goes out in the yard to finish repairing a vintage piece of furniture for the store. Built in 1914 as a boardinghouse for railroad employees, the shop is nestled next to the railroad tracks. The Arizona Eastern Railroad reached Globe in 1899, passing through the difficult mountainous terrain and making large-scale mining in the area possible. t

u Turning the Page Vintage and Western Apparel is located at 274 N. Broad St., open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 to 5. Owner Cindy Philips’s love of old movies is what sparked her interest in vintage clothing, and her love of old Westerns is what sparked her passion for western wear. So, whether it’s Scarlett O’Hara, Clark Gable or John Wayne that tickles your fancy, you’ll have loads of fun looking through the racks.

Cindy doesn’t know the history of the building, but she does know that under the floorboards, during a 70s renovation, old movie posters and beer bottles were found – relics from cinema and beer-drinking cowboys for this vintage store. t u The Pickle Barrel at 404 S. Broad St. is a “nearly everything” store, including vintage collectibles. There you will also find Apache and Navaho jewelry and crafts, camp dresses, mocassins, cowboy hats, yard art, books, rocks and minerals, copper art, Mata Ortiz pottery, raw leather for leathercraft, beads, Pendleton products and more. Built in 1905 as a warehouse for the railroad, the west side borders the railroad tracks, the opposite side on Broad Street, making it easy to unload mining equipment and mercantile goods from freight cars to storage and then reload wagons or trucks on the street side through large ports with sliding wood doors. Open Monday through Saturday, 10 to 5:45, Sunday, 11 to 5.

u Hill Street Mall at 393 S. Hill St. was built in 1916 and, interestingly, was built in the shape of Arizona. It was originally a Payn’ Takit grocery store, which merged with Safeway in 1928. After Safeway, it was a Chevrolet dealership, then a Coca-Cola bottling plant, then Johnny’s Trading Post, then the Country Corner, and today the Hill Street Mall. With so much history, a few ghosts may still be wandering around the old building. Sometimes you can hear gentle footsteps in the upper level, and there’s a stuffed toy bunny that seems to move to different places in the store without explanation. The store has a large collection of every sort of antique and also has a wide selection of fabrics. Open Wednesday through Friday 10 to 3, Saturday 10 to 4, and Sunday 11 to 3.

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FALL 2018

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

FALL 2018 Democracy is Alive!, Continued from page 1

“From the very beginning it was obvious to me with every daily experience that things were different, “ says Roberto, recalling the experience of segregation at school, church, the movies and the YMCA. He remembers thinking he was ‘less than’ because of the color of his skin.

“Oh, hell, yes, I thought it,” says Roberto.

“Because everywhere you turn, you’re being told you’re less than white people.”

Things started to change when the World War II soldiers returned home to Miami, determined that the rights they fought for overseas be honored here at home.

“They would not tolerate what they previously tolerated in our community,” says Reveles, impressed by their determination of the men, and how they ran for public office.

The community began to integrate.

The pool and the ‘good seats’ opened to all.

“It was more a transformation than a revolution,” Roberto says.

The experience had big influence on him, a young adolescent at the time.

“All of that had a very strong impact on the development of my social conscience.”

Roberto explains. “It emphasized, for me, the contrast of treatment.”

Despite gratitude for his upbringing, Reveles is aware anger of the anger that wells up when he recalls the mistreatment. He hopes his efforts will keep others from experiencing it.

“I think that has been the main driving force and energy in my life,” he reflects.

“Because I just can’t tolerate seeing people abused, and I don’t care who it is.”

Career Ambition After high school, Reveles joined the U.S. Air Force. He served as a court reporter during the Korean War, and decided to pursue a career in Diplomacy.

His military connections catapulted him into the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, one of the best schools in the country.

Four years older, Roberto found

that undocumented workers were living under – raids of neighborhoods, being arrested doing daily errands, losing family members.

“The terror that people lived under,” Reveles states, “permeated both communities.”

He proclaims that today, as for the last 20 years, that the main driving element in Arizona politics is fear.

“We have perfected it now to a science,” Reveles laments, and says it starts at the top.

“Self-serving office holders, starting at the governorship, promoting the free exchange of capital, but restricting the free movement of labor,” says Reveles, referring to the border strike force.

“Historically the presence of law enforcement has been used as an intimidation tool in Arizona,” Reveles remarks.

The son and grandson of Mexican immigrants, Reveles paints his family tree.

himself out of sync with the other students, who seemed more interested in the Russian suppression of the Hungary uprising, than in the fight for civil rights currently underway in their own country.

“It was a challenge,” Roberto says of his college experience. “But I stuck with it.”

He graduated in 1962, and had a successful 30-year career spanning public and private sectors. As both a congressional aide and a mining executive, Reveles engaged in the legislative process. He retired to Arizona in 1992, and became a social activist, often advocating for the civic participation of Arizona’s Latino community.

Social Activism Reveles has an extensive list of volunteer affiliations and appointments; they range from public policy, energy and the environment, to education and the arts. He is a long-standing member of Arizona Hispanic Community Forum, and volunteers with Humane Borders.

In 2006, as co-founder of Unidos en Arizona and founding President of Somos America / We Are America, Reveles led one

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of the largest marches in Arizona’s history, joining in solidarity with other parts of the country to protest HR-4437, federal legislation that would have made it a felony to give aid to an undocumented immigrant, including acts of mercy.

The march drew ‘a mass of humanity’ that flowed from the fairgrounds to the state capitol. Reveles can still evoke the feelings of the day – excitement for the turnout, fear of a disruption and potential disaster.

He speaks of the snipers on the rooftops, and his eyes well up.

“Law enforcement with automatic weapons, guarding us,” says Reveles, there to protect our right to peaceful assembly.

It was a peaceful event. The bill failed in the Senate.

The State of Arizona, however, went to pass S.B. 1070, a law requiring police officers to request documentation from anyone they suspect is undocumented.

Fear of the Other

Reveles considers the huge turnout in 2006 a response to the level of fear

American Dream Reveles now lives in one of the few non-beige houses on a long stretch of upscale homes in Gold Canyon.

An American flag flies high in front. In back, past the the pool and putting green he rarely uses, is his art studio.

On the back wall of the huge studio hangs the immigration card his family used for legal entry to the U.S., magnified 200-fold.

His grandfather was the first to come. His wife and children followed, among them, Roberto’s mother. He never knew his father.

A clay bust of his mother sits atop a white pedestal, unlabeled.

“She never felt it was critically important to become a citizen.” Reveles explains that his mother was content to be a permanent resident, and renewed her green card each year at the post office.

“Then again,” says Reveles, “it was pretty much an open border.”

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FALL 2018 Busts of his mother (left) and Governor Raul H. Castro in Reveles’ art studio. She became a U.S. citizen in 1972, when Reveles ran for Congress.

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pre-911 times, Reveles tells how his grandmother, living in El Paso Texas, would cross the border to stay with relatives when she gave birth, “so her children would be Mexican citizens.”

In 1972, Roberto’s mother, Antonia Apodaca Contreras, became a U.S. citizen. In so doing, she earned the right to vote, for her son, who was running for public office.

“I wanted to make sure that everyone had access to the American Dream,” says Reveles of his 1972 run for Congress. “And I was promoting healthcare for elderly, promoting equal rights, obviously, and promoting withdrawing from the [Viet Nam] war.”

Reveles lost his congressional race, but two years later, Raul Hector Castro was elected Governor of Arizona. To date, he is the only Hispanic to hold the office.

He, too, is honored with a clay bust in Roberto’s studio.

A carving of mother and child, in rose-colored stone, honors his daughter, Rebecca. He began the sculpture before he knew he would lose her, and her sister, to breast cancer.

He moves onto a paper mobile. It’s a messy piece depicting the path from

Mexico to the U.S. Hundreds of tiny white crosses hang from a halo beneath an American flag.

“The lives lost on the journey each year,” he explains.

Positive Change

Reveles implores people to notice the positive change and influence that comes with each wave of immigration.

“There is an opportunity, with planning,” he says, “that people can be absorbed to reenergize an area.”

He remarks on the aging population and shortage of willing and able workers right now in Arizona and our country.

“There are young people who are wanting to come in and be part of this wonderful experiment we call America,” he says. “Those people coming across the south border – they’re Americans. South Americans. Central Americans.”

Roberto is quick to note the dynamic is not unique to the southwest.

Remarking on immigration and refugee challenges in other parts of the world, he concludes, “It’s a global phenomenon.”

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Participation Legislative change. Public protest.

Volunteer action. Voter turnout.

When asked which actions are most effective, and most needed, Reveles says, “All of the above.”

“It is such a massive challenge.”

Does he see change as a result of all the effort?

“Yes, things have changed, but the underlying stresses remain. We no longer have open segregation. But there is de facto segregation based on poverty, language skill.”

He cites tighter restrictions on access to voting and the push to cut funding for public language classes as ways new laws sustain built-in biases.

“For example, in south Phoenix, in the sixties, during election time the government announced that federal agents had been invited into Arizona to monitor voting places to ensure that voting is done only by authorized citizens.”

When Reveles called the Maricopa County Assessor’s office to inquire about alleged cases of voter fraud, he learned that only five cases filed; none had illegal intent. The federal monitoring did have impact, of another kind.

“Soon as those announcement was made, our challenge as folks interested in getting people to come out and vote, our challenge grew exponentially,” Reveles says.

Interaction with Others Despite setbacks and creeping cynicism, Reveles sees potential for reducing fear between people of different backgrounds.

In various community positions, Reveles has talked with countless Arizonans, from midwestern transplants to middle school students. He learned many were new to the area and unfamiliar with the history of the region.

“Many did not know that under force of arms, the United States honorably took nearly one-third of the landmass of Mexico in the US-Mexican War,” says Reveles.

He also learned how little interaction there was between the Latinos and the whites.

“It’s the lack of interaction that leads to the growth of fear of the other,” says Reveles.

“If we don’t associate with people who speak a different language, we can’t understand them, and there’s a tendency to assume the worse, and assume they think the worst of you.”

A polished speaker, Reveles can reel off a number of personal tales of how when people come together, they can see their similarities and appreciate their differences.

“I am hopeful,” he says. “Because those cultural traits of cuisine, music, art forms, they energize and make life interesting.” n

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