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PANDEMIC BRINGS NEW FOCUS TO SHOP LOCAL Supporting homegrown local businesses has never been more important
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BY LINDA GROSS
his holiday season, “shop local” takes on new urgency as the impact of the pandemic is felt by our many small businesses who find themselves struggling to make up ground from the drop in business over the impacts of COVID-19. Shopping locally not only supports a small business owner and helps them help us live in a community we love to call home, but for every $100 spent at a locally owned business, $73 remains in our local economy. This is not true when our purchases are made in the Valley or online. In fact, the money spent here recirculates over and over again while creating up to 75% more tax revenues for local governments.
Copper Mining in the Corridor
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Shop Local, Continued on page 6 The Festival of Trees hosted by Cobre Valley Center for the Arts is a holiday tradition. Photo by LCGross.
Globe-Miami Sports
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WHO’S TAKING CARE OF THE LITTLE ONES? BY PATTI DALEY
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Gila County Sheriff Glenn Reynolds
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The Fear Right Here
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Sylvia Ducharme has an in-home preschool in Globe that is licensed, accredited, credentialed and has a five-star rating. She is filled to capacity. Photo by Patti Daley
There is near universal agreement that quality care and education for pre-K children (ages 0-5) benefit not only families but society at large. Ninety percent of brain development occurs during these early years of childhood. Yet child care costs run higher than most than families can afford. And public assistance is erratic and insufficient. Half of Arizona communities, including our own, suffer from a lack of childcare providers. “There is such a need for the children in this area,” says Pam Trobaugh, Site Manager for Miami Headstart. Prior to her eight years with Headstart, Pam ran a licensed in-home daycare for 16 years and home-schooled her own children. “I could not imagine being a young parent right now.” In 2019, more than one in every three Arizona children live in single-parent households. The U.S. Department of Labor reports that two-thirds of all mothers with children under five are in the workforce.
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Bravo Americano Moderno, the much anticipated new restaurant designed by Chef John Wong, opens this month in downtown Globe. Wong, who successfully introduced sushi and Asian-fusion food through the opening of his restaurant Bloom, is banking that this community is ready for another food adventure: wood-fired cooking. Wong will be channeling his memories of culinary travels in southern Europe. “What was so wonderful about staying in Portugal and those countries was their wood-fired chicken,” John recalls. “Such an amazing flavor! I loved that aroma.” When thinking about Globe, Wong says, “I really want to do this wood-fired thing. I don’t want to do open pit, I want to do inside. Pizza, wood-fired chicken, wood-fired salmon. So that’s how it got started. I tapped into my experiences in Spain and Greece. I always wanted to go back to that feeling, the joy of smelling wood-fired food.”
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