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PANDEMIC BRINGS NEW FOCUS TO SHOP LOCAL Supporting homegrown local businesses has never been more important

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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.

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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.

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WHO’S TAKING CARE OF THE LITTLE ONES? BY PATTI DALEY

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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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s this issue was going to press, I received my copy of a book I was keen to get my hands on: Love Meets Life, by a woman I had met on the campaign trail in 2018. Tara Ijai is a Muslim woman who served as campaign manager to then Senate candidate Deedra Aboud, who is also Muslim. The two had spent a year traveling the state campaigning, experiencing loud and ugly vitriol - as well as love. The book is a compilation of 50 stories that show how and why love shows up in unexpected ways. It’s a perfect complement to the times we are in now, and this month of Thanksgiving. Since our press dates don’t always dovetail with the big news of the day, I’ll want to give a big SHOUT OUT to the Miami Vandals on their win over the Globe Tigers in the annual match between the two long-time rivals for ownership of the Copper Kettle. Vandals won this year in a decisive fashion: 43-14. They’ll keep the copper kettle for another year. Congratulations! While this holiday season lacks the anticipation of some of our most cherished events – the annual light parade, Santa’s visit at the old Depot, and the Lighting of the Luminarias at Besh Ba Gowah – as COVID numbers have risen to new heights, we can all look forward to the opening of Bravo (p. 1), John Wong’s new restaurant featuring wood-fired pizzas and seating on a huge outdoor patio.

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Paulo Coehlo once said, “It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.” John’s pizza comes to mind. Simple, but, yes, extraordinary. This idea also echoes the book Love Meets Life. In the words of Linda Donegan,

“You may not be able to change the world, but you can alter how someone experiences living in it. Your smile reminds people that they are not alone. Saying hello reminds people there is kindness in the world. Be the reason people believe there is good in the world. Kindness matters.” As local business owners Erica Flores and Sarah Alexander say of their shop, Pretty Kind Boutique, “Kindness is always in style.” Happy Thanksgiving,

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OPINION

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The Fear Right Here

BY PATRICIA SANDERS

hen people hear that I’ve been traveling for the past four years, they’ll usually ask me two questions. First: What’s your favorite country? I never know how to answer that one. I love them all. The second question tends to be: Weren’t you afraid? That’s easier to answer: Yes. Of course. But the truth is, I don’t think travel is any more frightening than everyday life. Just being alive is terrifying. It’s why we work so hard to create stable, safe lives for ourselves, and why we usually stick to what’s familiar. It’s why we buy six different kinds of insurance, and wear a helmet when we ride a bike, and leave the chain on the door when a stranger knocks. Part of the reason I went traveling in the first place was that I realized this. I figured, if life is always going to be scary and basically unpredictable, I might as well spend it seeing the world. Fear didn’t go away, but when I accepted it as a fact of life and stopped trying to fight or avoid it, it turned into a passport. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, he was speaking from personal experience. He had contracted polio twelve years earlier, which put him in a wheelchair. He surely had gone through the terror of not knowing whether the disease would kill him, or how it would affect his life and career. Then, just before his inauguration in 1933, he had nearly been assassinated. FDR knew fear. I think President Roosevelt’s phrase meant much more than just encouragement toward positive thinking. I think FDR was pointing to the fact that fear – when we fear it, and think of it as something unmanageable and overwhelming, that we need to avoid at all costs – develops enormous destructive power.

When he used that famous phrase, Roosevelt was trying to coax Americans to step up to the challenges of the Great Depression. He felt that fear had paralyzed Americans, and he was attempting to stir them up into positive action that would help lift them out of the economic morass. Fear can paralyze, and paralysis can destroy an economy, a career, a relationship or a life. Fear can also spiral into paranoia, and it can spur people to violence. This, I believe, is the risk that America faces now – and not only America at large, but every city and community within it, even Globe-Miami. It’s already happening on Facebook pages and in Twitter feeds. Many Americans have noticed the divisiveness and polarization in politics and society – and most (60%, according to a recent Canadian research study) feel pessimistic that we will ever be able to unite enough to address the country’s challenges. Fear is ripping us apart. We’ve become so afraid of each other that we’re destroying our communities. And well on the way to destroying our democracy. The tragedy is that this fear, like most fear, is unfounded, unnecessary, and blown way out of proportion. It’s being stirred up by social media platforms and their advertisers, which profit from getting our attention. When people are afraid, their attention becomes heightened and they will set aside other priorities in order to learn more about the source of their fear.

They will listen to people who validate and encourage their fear. And they’ll obey people who claim to have a solution to the supposed threat. That’s how fear becomes an effective method of control. That’s how it becomes real. Much of the scary or appalling material we see on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other platforms isn’t true – it’s made up of messages tailored to each of us individually, intended to get our attention and keep it. Often that’s done through fear and outrage. Social media creates a nightmare full of our own personal demons, and it’s so terrifying that we don’t know how to wake up from it. No one can get our attention away from it or talk us out of it, because our screens are full of it. We’re mistaking our Facebook feeds for reality. And mistaking reality for something terrible. The documentary The Social Dilemma describes how artificial intelligence systems at Facebook, Twitter and other platforms are propagating fearinducing opinions and misperceptions. These platforms have no real agenda, apparently, except to maximize ad revenue. It’s happening automatically, through these algorithms. And the executives at the tech companies that own these platforms are making too much money to want to change things. But in the process, they’re irresponsibly creating a state of fear that makes Americans brittle, guarded and, at worst, prepared to engage in violence against one another. Because of this social media– induced fear, Americans of both political parties are becoming more and more suspicious of one another. Democrats believe Republican policies “are so misguided that they threaten

the nation’s well-being” – and vice versa. Republicans feel the same way about Democrat policies. The Canadian study concluded that “at its current level, polarization threatens the stability of American democracy.” Fear doesn’t have to be a killer. It doesn’t have to drive us over the edge. Fear that is accepted as the price of life on earth – the price of living in a diverse, free society – loses its cutting edge. It turns into courage and openness and trust. Fear, accepted, makes possible community and democracy. It’s possible to say, “I’m afraid, I’m not sure I can trust you, but I’m willing to talk to you and find out if that’s really true.” That’s essentially what I did four years ago when I flew off to Bangkok. I gave the world a chance, and it changed my life. But social media is teaching us to let fear be our master. To give ourselves up to misunderstandings, manipulation, division and violence. To stop thinking, and keep scrolling. To share memes instead of understanding. To like outrageous posts instead of loving one another. We always thought that America’s greatest enemies would come from overseas – from Russia, China or the Middle East. Turns out we don’t need any help to bring America to its knees. The call was coming from inside the house. And the answer isn’t complicated: Put down the damn phone. The Social Dilemma features interviews with executives, designers and engineers from tech companies, as well as psychologists and researchers to explain why social media is so addictive and so threatening to our society. The Social Dilemma is currently showing on Netflix. If you don’t have Netflix, information is available at www.thesocialdilemma.com.

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Shop Local, Continued from page 1 With Black Friday and the 10th Annual Small Business Saturday just around the corner, this is the time to step up and shop local. So take a stroll in the Historic District and discover a world of hometown enterprise. Show them some love this season and you’ll find it coming back to you a thousand fold.

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High Desert Humane Society 150 W. Mesquite, Globe/669 N. Broad Street, Globe The HDHS has been finding forever homes for the area’s dogs and cats for decades. They operate two facilities: one for dogs on Mesquite Street and one for cats on South Broad. They do great work on behalf of our homeless furry friends, including the very successful Trap, Neuter and Release program for feral cats. Show them love this season by donating to the TNR program, dropping off dog or cat food, or adopting a furry friend this holiday season.

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United Jewelry 135 N. Broad Street, Globe United Jewelry, owned by the Bernstein family, has been serving the community for over 75 years. The shop offers not only a large selection of watches, fine jewelry, and gifts, but also musical instruments, accessories and more. They offer layaway, gift wrapping and engraving will have extended hours during the Christmas season. Hollis Cinemas 161 N. Broad Street, Globe The pandemic has hit theaters especially hard, and Hollis Cinemas was just recently able to reopen. Prior to that, they have offered popcorn and pickles on Fridays for pickup which was a big hit with the locals. Hollis has socially distancing protocols in place, so you can still enjoy big-screen entertainment this holiday season. Thinking of a stocking stuffer? Consider a gift pack of tickets from Hollis Cinemas.

Knotty Fox Workshop 101 N. Broad Street, Globe This local business is a craft shop specializing in custom, one-of-a-kind rustic pieces, hand-carved signs, furniture, art and more. They even made the custom pizza peel for Bravo! They will be hosting Black Friday specials and a special Knotty Fox Holiday Photo Op. The Photo Op will take place on December 3 from noon to 6 p.m. Bring your family to snap a photo on their specially designed Western boardwalk!

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Bouquets on Broad 610 N. Broad Street, Globe Every event and occasion is made better with flowers and Bouquets on Broad is where to go. Christie Cothurn, owner and certified florist never closed shop even this Spring when the pandemic forced the temporary closure of many businesses. “We were considered essential”, she says. Funerals. As a family-owned flower shop, Bouquets on Broad is passionate about supplying fresh, long-lasting floral arrangements. This holiday season try saying it with flowers. Where you can also find an array of holiday gifts as well. And if you want to just pick up some fresh flowers to brighten your day, you can do that too! She is offering 25% off on Nov. 28th, National Small Business Day.

Pickle Barrel Trading Post 404 S. Broad Street, Globe It’s hard to overstate just how much is packed into this one shop. Their tag line, “You Won’t Believe What’s Inside,” has held true since they opened over 15 years ago. They have an excellent online store as well as their flagship store on South Broad, where they offer everything from Native American artisans to yard art and Southwestern books and music. Covering all price points and interests, the Pickle Barrel Trading Post has been a destination stop for both locals and visitors since opening. They welcome the entire family, including well-behaved pets. Shop Local, Continued on page 7

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Shop Local, Continued from page 6 The Cobre Valley Arts Center 101 N. Broad Street, Globe The Arts Center will be hosting their Annual Festival of Trees this holiday season where they invite community members and organizations to decorate a small tree to put in one of the many windows throughout the Center. The CVCA has served as an anchor for social and cultural events for over three decades while also representing the arts - from live theater to fine art and the local quilters guild. Although the pandemic has curtailed many events and theater productions this year, they remain open to visitors and their gift shop offers a wide array of items from books on our area to fine jewelry and crafts from local artists. Support the arts and visit the Center this season.

Splash of Copper 656 N. Broad Street, Globe Owner Lori Trobaugh Luipold spent over four years on the road working art shows before coming home last year to open her own shop in downtown Globe. She now works with more than 50 artists and craftsmen, representing a range of Arizona copper art and decor,

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and hosts a slate of craft classes at the shop, from wreath making to holiday cards. You can register and pay for the classes through the shop’s Facebook page. There will be specials throughout the store on Black Friday. The store is open seven days a week and will offer extended holiday hours in December. Simply Sarah 701 S. Broad Street, Globe We welcome you and yours to explore a truly unique and extraordinary Boutique. Celebrating and elevating the daily experience for over 2 decades. We offer a well curated collection of exceptional quality goods with global panache. Clothing and jewelry and accessories, toiletries, gourmet goodies, garden and one of a kind artisan treasures. Offering tidings of comfort and joy, this holiday season and everyday!

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Turn the Page 101 N. Broad Street, Globe Specializing in vintage Western and rockabilly apparel for both men and women, this shop carries Wranglers including kids’ sizes - and is the only place where you can ask for special order sizes. Owner Cindy Phillips shows off the latest Scully Western shirt, which Willie Nelson recently sported in his current album. Cindy will be offering holiday specials and helping you dress to impress this season, whether that’s in a pair of wranglers and a Scully shirt or a vintage attire.

Holiday Eats When downtown, also check out these local restaurants and eateries: Bloom, Bravo, Farleys, La Casita, Vida e Cafe, Nurdbergers, Copper Hen, Leonard Paul’s Pizza, Los Robertos and La Luz.

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Pretty Kind Boutique 364 N. Broad Street, Globe This thoroughly modern, eclectic clothing store seeks to offer something for everyone to feel pretty. As they say, “Pretty Kind, where kindness is always in style.” The shop, which opened in September, is the newest retail business to open on Broad. The name of the shop came from a quote by Britt Nicole: “We get so worried about being pretty. Let’s be pretty kind. Pretty funny. Pretty smart. Pretty strong.” The owners, Erika Flores and Sarah Alexander, plan on hosting a Black Friday sale with prices dropping throughout the day, and they offer a free t-shirt with purchases of $100 or more. Look for the Small Business Saturday Pretty Kind patio event coming soon.

Kino Floors 401 N. Broad Street, Globe Kino Floors offers a huge selection of home furnishings, accessories and flooring in their large showroom. If you don’t see exactly what you want, they can work with you through their online catalogue of Ashley furniture to get that perfect piece. This holiday season they have a sale on all holiday accessories and gift items running through Christmas! u

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Executive Order: Local Response Child care was defined as an essential service in Executive Order 2020-12, and according to the Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES), more than 500 child care providers have continued to offer safe child care services through the pandemic. “I never closed,” says Sylvia Ducharme. “I have parents that work for the police department and for Haven.” Sylvia works three shifts a day: morning preschool, afternoon daycare and overnight, for parents on the graveyard shift. Her in-home preschool in Globe is licensed, accredited, credentialed, fivestar-rated and filled to capacity. Sylvia has been serving the community for 25 years and has seen a decline in the availability of DES-certified providers. “When I started, there were a hundred in this area,” she says. “Now we’re down to five.”

Harmon says social distancing is the hardest rule to implement. Although licensing doesn’t require her students to wear a face covering because of their age, the school encourages it because it is a public school space. “The mask-wearing is easy compared to keeping them socially distanced,” says Misti. “If you want to play with your friends, you have to wear your mask.” Hand sanitation for preschoolers is nothing new. Her class had previously established routines of washing hands before entering or leaving the classroom. “We are not taking the germs inside or outside,” Misti explains, in a way small children understand. Ideally she would like a return to how things were.

Misti Harmon has worked for GUSD for 25 years and is a full-day preschool teacher and Assistant Director of the preschool program at Copper Rim. Photo by LCGross

Headstart Miami The Miami Headstart center closed for in-person operations last spring and is currently delivering services virtually. It serves 31 children (down from 50 before the pandemic) through toddler and preschool classes and also offers a homebased service. Every family was loaned an iPad. Teachers employ Dojo Classroom, online learning games and a daily live video conference. The first weeks were “rough,” says Pam Trobaugh. She cites connectivity issues and lots of training for staff and families. “Headstart looks at the whole child – not just academic or social, but support for the family,” says Pam. “We help the parent teach the child.” Her team focused on helping parents and grandparents, as caregivers, deal with the changes and handle the strong emotions their young ones were experiencing, as well as their own. They also provided strategies and resources to help families with older children who were attending school online and figuring that all out for the first time. “Our little ones were low on the totem pole in terms of getting attention,” Pam says.

Copper Rim: Back to School “Some kids did regress over the six months,” says Misti Harmon, referring to the gap in learning services for preschoolers. “And others gained because their parents were really committed.” Born and raised in Globe, Misti Harmon has worked for the Globe Unified School District (GUSD) for 25 years. She’s a full-day preschool teacher and Assistant Director of the preschool program at Copper Rim. Kids have returned this fall, with reduced class sizes and a few other changes.

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“Not the big class sizes,” she says, “but being able to interact with people and families, building those relationships.” Family events like the Thanksgiving Feast potluck and March track and field day are still on hiatus during the pandemic.

Miami Little Vandals Preschool: Reduced Services At Miami Little Vandals Preschool, only the students with special needs, about 10, are onsite. Prior to the pandemic, 58 preschoolers were receiving services. “Once the District makes the decision to return in person, we will bring all preschool students back,” says Sherry Dorathy, MUSD Superintendent and director of the preschool program.“We really want and need the kids in school.” The children that do come to Miami Little Vandals preschool wear their masks and “act as though nothing has changed.” The school continues to make improvements.

From preschool teachers to PhDs and politicians, there is general consensus that access to high-quality child care has a huge positive impact on the lives of children and families – especially lowincome ones – and produces long-term benefits for society.

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One question remains: who should pay for it? Despite low pay for child care professionals, high-quality preschool costs a lot – sometimes in excess of instate college tuition. For an Arizona family, preschool can cost up to 17% of their income. “You have to pay for the quality,” says Trobaugh. “Many parents can’t pay, and that’s why Headstart and then Early Headstart began.” Headstart is a comprehensive preschool program enacted by President Lyndon Johnson as a weapon to fight the scourge of poverty. “We don’t intend to lose generations of our children to this enemy of the human race,” Johnson declared in 1965. Since then, tens of millions of children have been served by Headstart nationwide. But three generations later, a quarter of Arizona children live in poverty, and

nearly two out of three Arizona children don’t attend preschool. The Headstart Globe center closed two years ago. “Minimum wage raised statewide, which raised the cost of providing daycare,” Pam explains. “But our agency didn’t get an increase.” With a lack of available preschool spots, families rely on grandparents, older siblings and, increasingly, mothers who are leaving the workplace. Some families find just the right place. At Sylvia Ducharme’s in-home preschool, five 4-year-olds occupy themselves with puzzles at a table. Next, they play a memory game. There is a lot of washing of hands and faces, along with squabbles to resolve. Sylvia listens to the children with patience, and she expects patience from them when she’s talking. Her voice has a cheerful authority. In the midst of a disagreement between two children over a toy, Ducharme tells one, “She didn’t take it.” She explains to her young charge, “You’re sharing it.”

An Economic Imperative Early childhood education “is absolutely critical to our economic recovery, so parents can go to work,” says Arizona State Senator Kate Brophy McGee, during a September 2020 panel discussion titled “What’s Next for Early Childhood Education in Arizona?” Access to safe, quality childcare is a problem nationwide and for nearly half of all Arizona communities. The pandemic has compounded the problem. According to Siman Qaasin, President and CEO of Children’s Action Alliance, nearly half of all child care centers closed during the shutdown due to the cycle of start and stop, staff shortages, cases of Covid-19, and lack of PPE and cleaning supplies. Many of these centers may not reopen given decreased revenues and increased costs of taking care of children. Governor Ducey announced in August that $88 million from CARES Act funds would support child care programs through the pandemic. Siman calls this “a drop in the bucket.” “It breaks down to about $20K per center, for six months and counting,” Siman says. In Arizona, federal money for child care assistance is distributed by the DES through the Child Care Assistance program. The DES reimbursement does not cover the full cost of preschool, and the shortfall must be paid by parents, absorbed by the provider or, in effect, subsidized by the other parents. This is not a sustainable business model for providers, and it is largely responsible for the dearth of child care in our state and region. Also participating in the September panel, Representative Lorenzo Sierra (District 19) stressed that the child care sector was already under strain after the state lost millions last year in federal grants to support low-income families. u

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Administrators and Board Watching COVID Metrics Miami Unified decided last spring to follow the health metrics in deciding when to have students on campus, to play sports, and to shift to distance learning. Those metrics guided us to start the school year with distance learning and, once the metrics

turned green, to have students attend campus on a hybrid basis. We will continue to work with the Gila County Health Department and to follow guidance from the state education and health departments. Our goal is to remain on a hybrid basis but, should

indicators turn red for multiple weeks, we will consider a return to distance learning. Families with questions are invited to contact their school principals. We will share what we know with parents, but do not post our thinking on social media.

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What makes a great teacher great? Some teachers are incredibly nurturing, emotionally as well as academically. Other teachers are caught up in the subjects they teach, and convey their enthusiasm to students in exciting lessons and stories. Still others are tightly organized, meticulous lesson planners, or great at communicating practical life and career wisdom. What all of these great teachers share is that their students learn and enjoy going to class. No sitting-and-getting for the students while the teacher drones out a laminated lesson. These are not Charlie Brown’s teacher monotoning from the front of the room, or Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off filling in the blanks in an oral worksheet. Think instead of Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos) in Stand and Deliver, teaching the tough kids calculus in East LA. Or Sidney Poitier and Suzy Kendall in To Sir With Love. Or, after a long day at school, Tom Berenger in The Substitute. Learning isn’t always easy and it’s never effort-free. This new student-centered approach, which will prepare students for the future, takes extra work from everyone. Teachers have to work harder. Miami Junior-Senior High School is lucky in its extraordinary faculty, but making the curriculum available on a 24-7 basis to home-based or hybrid students necessarily means reorganizing lessons to create more opportunities for students to explore new ideas. Students have to work harder. When the bell rings and the teacher says to leave your assignment on the desk, it takes a lot of gall to walk out the room without doing so. But students working at home have to monitor and manage themselves, keep their own calendars, and meet deadlines on their own.

Last May we invited alumni and students to send in stories about life during a pandemic, and last month we asked for stories about great things that have happened to them at Miami High School. We have more than 50 short films and 150 stories in hand. Keep them coming! Email your videos or stories to vandalpics@miamiusd40.org.

Families have to work harder. School has never been the only place students learn. Students learn as much from their immediate and extended families, friends and their parents, ministers, coaches and Scoutmasters as they do from their formal teachers. It truly does “take a village”, and strong family support is critical to every student’s success. Miami Homecoming Queen Bryanna Hodson and King Tanner Peery. Photo Mary Yazzie

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A Look at Covid-19 in OCTOBER Globe Miami Times takes a look at the pandemic as it unfolds each month and have divided ARIZONA VIEWour coverage into four categories: Pandemic Numbers, Economic Impacts, Healthcare Impacts and Personal Impacts. Each category is then broken down into world, USA, Arizona, and Globe-Miami news.

Pandemic by the Numbers ✦ The world began the month of October with approximately 34.125 million confirmed cases and 1,017,000 deaths, and ended the month with approximately 46 million cases and 1,194,482 deaths. This is an increase of roughly 11.875 million cases and 177,482 deaths during October. For comparison, during September, the number of cases increased by 8.825 million and deaths increased by 168,000.

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✦ The first week of October, the world saw more than 2.2 million infections in just one week. By the second week of October, the world was setting new records for reported cases of COVID, particularly in Europe and the Americas. October 9, 10, 11 and 12 all set records. Cases in the United Kingdom doubled in one week.

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✦ By the second week of October, Europe was seeing a second wave of infections. Countries such as France and Ireland saw one-day records in cases. Paris was on maximum alert. Germany and France imposed new nationwide lockdowns. https://bit.ly/32MIG8O, https://bloom.bg/38FwUkz

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✦ October 12, Russia recorded a new record for daily cases, with 13,634 cases in 24 hours. Russia at the time has the worlds fourth-highest total of infections. https://bit.ly/32MIG8O ✦ October 23, the World Health Organization warned that some countries are on “a dangerous track” as hospitals began to run out of capacity. https://bit. ly/2Ur7BKQ, https://cnb.cx/36DKKkE

✦ According to numbers from AZDHHS and the county health department, Gila County began the month of October with 1,432 confirmed cases and 60 deaths, and ended it with a total of about 1,989 cases and approximately 76 deaths: an increase of 557 cases and 16 deaths during October. In September, the number of deaths was 13 and the number of new cases was 326.

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✦ Between October 16 and October 23, the county recorded a rate of 57 new cases for every 100,000 population – the highest rate of increase in the state. Maricopa County had just 11 new cases per 100,000 during the same week. https://bit.ly/3ksZCHx ✦ According to the Payson Roundup, “The county numbers suggest that right now the problem’s centered in southern Gila County, with 60 active cases in Globe, plus five in Claypool and Miami. Payson and Star Valley had just seven active cases. However, the most recent daily tally includes five confirmed cases and four cases under investigation, with five in northern Gila County and four in southern Gila County.” https://bit.ly/3ksZCHx

✦ The United States began the month of October with approximately 7.27 million confirmed cases and 208,000 USA VIEW deaths, and ended it with 9,122,114 cases and 232,000 deaths: an increase of roughly 1.85 million cases and 24,000 deaths during October. For comparison, in September those numbers were 1.27 million cases and 24,000 deaths, and in August, there were 1.3 million new cases and 27,000 deaths.

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VIEW ✦ Analysis by a public health expert indicated that on our present course, the United States would see 400,000 deaths from Covid-19 by the end of the year. Covid-19 was thus poised to become the third leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease and cancer. https://wapo.st/36xXQ34 ✦ By the middle of the month, across nearly all states, the number of new cases had skyrocketed – up 50% over the numbers a month earlier. At least ten states started to set new records for case counts. Deaths were significantly higher per capita than in Sweden, which had never had a lockdown and hasn’t ordered strict social distancing. https://bloom.bg/3pCNtnk

✦ Cases raged in the upper plains and Midwest. Between October 5 and October 19, the number of U.S. cases increased by 30%. October 9, six states set new records for daily coronavirus cases: Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and West Virginia. https://nbcnews.to/36DhPNA ✦ On October 16, the total number of cases passed 8 million. By then, 10 states had set new records for single-day case counts. https://politi.co/2IC8QUu, https://cnn.it/2UpLlRn ✦ By October 21, the United States was seeing approximately 60,000 new cases daily. Twenty-one states were reporting new records by then, and most states were seeing increasing hospitalizations. By October 23, some hospitals in western and midwestern states were running out of beds. https://bloom.bg/2Uu9Pc0, https://bit.ly/2Ur7BKQ ✦ The United States set a new daily case record of more than 85,000 on October 23. Daily deaths began to pass 1,000. Between October 20 and October 26, more than 500,000 new cases were reported. https://bit.ly/3pqIqGk ✦ The USA broke 90,000 new cases in one day on October 29 and logged its 9 millionth case on the same day. https://nbcnews.to/32JWwsK

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✦ Cases shot up during October. Arizona began the month about 218,507 confirmed cases and 5,650 deaths, and ARIZONA VIEW with ended it with an estimated 245,946 cases and 6,166 deaths: an increase of roughly 27,439 cases and 516 deaths during October. In September, those numbers had been 16,672 cases and 621 deaths.

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HEALTHCARE IMPACTS ✦ October 5, the CDC updated its guidance to reflect the fact that the virus is airborne and can be spread by aerosols as well as droplets – meaning it is more easily spread than initially believed. https://nyti.ms/2Uu3E7O

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✦ October 13, the World Health Organization’s director general warned that the strategy of herd immunity - controlling COVID-19 by letting it spread unchecked throughout the population - is “unethical” and “not an option.”

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✦ Two vaccine trials, one from Johnson & Johnson and the other from Eli Lilly, were suspended over safety concerns. https://wapo.st/3eVQavh

✦ It was revealed that the White House has been making changes to CDC recommendations and reports before they were publicized, raising the question of whether politics were influencing the CDC’s guidance. October 19,GLOBE-MIAMI the Government Accountability Office announced an investigation into whether the TrumpVIEW administration had interfered with the CDC’s and FDA’s coronavirus responses. https://on.wsj.com/3no8vUQ, https://politi.co/3lx66q3 ✦ October 23, the FDA approved Remdesivir as a coronavirus treatment, making it the first drug to be approved in the United States for that purpose. https://cnb.cx/36xnO6B

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If we are going to sustain another several months to year of this marathon, we need better ways of coping. We need to communicate. We need to try to break down barriers. And we need people who GLOBE-MIAMI VIEW make this a game & perpetuate the problems to get off the stage.” ~ Andy Slavitt

November 2020

A Look at Covid-19 in OCTOBER 30% of those infected never develop symptoms and never realize they’re spreading it. The virus seems to spread mostly through the air during close contact, especially when people are crowded together, talking loudly and not wearing masks.”

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✦October 1, AZDHS reported that all counties ARIZONA VIEW in the state had met benchmarks for safely reopening certain businesses, such as gyms and movie theaters. They had been closed since June 27.

ECONOMIC IMPACTS ARIZONA VIEW ✦ Throughout the month, the House, Senate, and Trump administration over a coronavirus relief package without coming to an USA VIEW wrangled agreement. October 2, the House approved a $2.2 trillion relief measure, to be sent to the Senate. October 5, Trump ordered the negotiations to be broken off, because he would not agree to a deal until after the election. A few hours later, he reversed course and ordered Congress to pass a stimulus package immediately. October 15, Mitch McConnell refused to bring the White House’s proposed package, worth $1.8 trillion, to the Senate GLOBE-MIAMI floor. McConnell suggested that, due to political and time constraints, the Senate had to choose VIEW between voting on the stimulus package and holding confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett. https://politi.co/3lw7bOS, https://nbcnews.to/32KEvKV, https://nbcnews.to/32KQJTA, https:// bit.ly/38MLRBv, https://nyti.ms/38IAlqK

✦ October 28, Gov. Ducey announced $7 million in funding USA VIEW to help people stay in their homes. There will be $2 million in assistance to help renters avoid eviction and $5 million to top up the Rental Property Owner Preservation Fund, which assists property owners and helps prevent foreclosures. GLOBE-MIAMI https://bit.ly/32L5fuF

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✦ October 29, Gov. Ducey announced $1.6 million in additional food bank assistance. It includes $600,000 for St. Mary’s Food Bank, $525,000 for Community Food Bank and $500,000 for the Double Up Food Bucks Program, which doubles people’s SNAP/EBT benefits at farmers markets.

✦ October 1, United Airlines and American Airlines reported that they would have to furlough tens of thousands of employees if they didn’t receive immediate aid. ✦ October 19, more than 1,000 current and former CDC officials published a criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, pointing to the “absence of national leadership on Covid-19.” https://on.wsj.com/2IFavsM

✦ The Arizona Gem & Mineral Show, scheduled for January 2021, was canceled due to the pandemic. https://bit. ly/3kAFtPQ

✦ October 26, El Paso imposed a two-week stay-at-home order and curfew. (New York Times)

✦ October 30, Arizona tourism official reported that the pandemic has led tourism spending in the state to decline by more than half. Spending plunged in March and April, increased somewhat in May and June, and plateaued since then. https://bit.ly/3nnpk23

✦ At the end of October, the U.S. economy remained 3.5% smaller than it had been prior to the pandemic. The last week of October was the Dow’s worst week since March, and October was its worst month since March. https://wapo.st/3kvcEV0, https://on.wsj.com/38GmC3r

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PERSONAL ARIZONAIMPACTS VIEW ✦ Donald and Melania Trump, along with Hope Hicks, one of his advisers, USA VIEW tested positive for the coronavirus on October 2. In the following hours and days, it was revealed that Ivanka and Barron Trump, Jared Kushner, Mike and Karen Pence, Sen. Mike Lee, Ronna McDaniel, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Alex Azar, Mark Esper, Mike Pompeo, Larry Kudlow, Bill Stepien, GLOBE-MIAMI Kayleigh McEnany, Chris Christie, Karoline Leavitt, Chad Gilmartin, Nick VIEW Luna, Sen. Ron Johnson, Notre Dame president John Jenkins, three White House journalists, the vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, one of Trump’s valets, and Stephen Miller all tested positive. https://bit.ly/3knNxU4, https://cnn. it/3ptDwZ1, https://bloom.bg/35udLjB, https://cnn.it/36wMRGY ✦ A few weeks later, around October 26, five of Mike Pence’s aides tested positive, including his chief of staff and his senior political adviser. https://bit.ly/3pqIqGk ✦ October 28, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that it could be 2022 before the country could return to “some semblances of normality.” https://cnn. it/2IyikAq

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✦ October 4, Arizona State Rep. Lorenzo Sierra was hospitalized with Covid symptoms in Washington, ARIZONA VIEW D.C. Monday, he was transferred to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and intubated in the ICU. He remained on the ventilator until October 9. https://bit.ly/3prpuat, https://bit.ly/2UoDFPo ✦ The University of Arizona decided to change spring break in 2021 in order to reduceUSA Covid spread. VIEWInstead of a week off, students will have five days of vacation spread out over February, March and April. https://bit.ly/35vIXyV ✦ AZDHS announced that 1,200 fans will be able to attend the Cardinals home game on Oct. 25 – the second time this season that fans will be allowed in the stands. They will have to wear masks. https://bit.ly/3lwOuup

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✦ By October 4, Gila County had slipped below the threshold for “moderate” spread, in terms of state requirements. Hence, the county failed to meet benchmarks for holding hybrid classes. https://bit.ly/3eZNBII

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This pandemic is far from over.” ~ Science journalist Kai Kupferschmidt

✦ According to the Payson Roundup, “Health workers say the public’s observance of social distancing guidelines and use of masks has declined even as schools and businesses have opened up. Sick of the restrictions, more people are gathering in larger groups without taking precautions.” https://bit.ly/3eZNBII

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Bullion Recognizes Gila County Sheriff Glenn Reynolds

Executive Tom Foster commemorated the anniversary of Reynolds’ death by filming a video at the gravesite. You can view this by going to Bullion Plaza’s Facebook page. WITH LINDA GROSS AND TOM FOSTER

his month, Bullion Plaza Museum recognizes Gila County Sheriff Glenn Reynolds, who was killed in the line of duty on November 2, 1889, as he was transporting nine prisoners from Globe to the railhead at Casa Grande, where they would be then transported to the territorial jail in Yuma. The prisoners were considered dangerous and included the Apache Kid, seven other convicted Apaches who were charged with terrorizing the settlements of the Arizona Territory, and a Mexican embezzler by the name of Jesús Avota. The first leg of the trip, requiring a two day journey by stage, was considered so risky because of a full cargo of “dangerous Apaches” by the stage line drivers that owner Gene Middleton was left to do the job himself. Newspapers would later question

Reynolds’ choice to take on the dangerous task with just his deputy and stage driver. One newspaper editor point suggested it was the Gila County Supervisors who refused to provide “proper guard” and others suggest that Reynolds may have been swayed by confidence in his own abilities and that of his deputy, Hunkydory Holmes. Confidence that proved fatal. At the time, he was 35 years old and had a reputation for being “one of the best shots in the whole Southwest,” according to writer William MacLeod Raine. “In a land where men are quick on the trigger, Glenn Reynolds commanded unusual respect for his nerve and skill.” The party of ten made their way across the Pinal Mountains, crossing the Gila River, and came to rest at Riverside Station. The morning dawned and brought a light drizzle and snow. By the

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Glenn Reynolds gravesite in the old Globe cemetery. Photo by LCGross

time the party reached the Kelvin grade, they faced inclines and deep sand, which bogged down progress. Reynolds made the call to offload the prisoners and have everyone push the stage forward. It was a fateful call. Usually cautious and requiring prisoners to always be in front of him, Reynolds had taken the lead beside Holmes, with the prisoners pushing from behind. It was bitterly cold, still drizzling rain and snow, and the two lawmen had on heavy coats, fully buttoned, and gloves, to protect them from the cold. As they proceeded up the incline, the Apache prisoners began to close the distance, and seized the opportunity to grab Deputy Holmes. They beat him to the ground, took his Winchester rifle, and fired one shot… killing him instantly. As Reynolds turned, he found it was too late to go to Holmes’ aid. He was shot with Holmes’ rifle as he was driven to the ground. He tried desperately to retain his shotgun, and reached for his revolver, but he was held fast. His buttoned coat and heavy gloves kept him from his revolver. His shotgun was removed, and both barrels were fired point blank into his face. Avota, witnessing the carnage, fled for his life and he managed to make his way to Florence for help. (He would later be pardoned by Arizona Governor Lewis Wolfley for this act). The Apaches then returned to the stage, and freed the Apache Kid and one other prisoner who had remained shackled inside the stage. Gene Middleton, who had been shot in the initial fray, lay on the ground, covered in blood, near the stage. According to Middleton’s later account, when one of the warriors raised his firearm to shoot him again, the Apache Kid - speaking in English- waved him off, telling him to save his bullet, that he was already dead. Middleton would later manage to walk and crawl the five and a

Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Reynolds circa 1880, taken in Texas before the couple packed up and moved to the Arizona territory and eventually to Globe, where he accepted the job of Gila County Sheriff. The photograph is part of the collection provided by the Matthews Family and Lambshead Ranch to The Portal to Texas History.

half miles to Riverside station. He would survive his brush with death, managing his stageline and living well into his 80s. In the end, all but the Apache Kid was rounded up and either shot, hung, or sent to prison. Governor Hunt placed a reward on the head of the Apache Kid, which was never claimed. The bodies of Glenn Reynolds and Hunkydory Holmes were brought back to Globe and buried in the old section. You can visit the cemetery where their graves have been prominently marked. The Apache Kid was never caught and no one knows what happened to him. During a gun battle in Mexico in 1890 with a band of Apaches, Glenn Reynolds’ watch and Colt single action revolver were retrieved. Through the Mexican Consul, these items were returned to the United States and presented to Glenn Reynolds’ widow in Texas. Bullion Plaza Cultural Center & Museum in Miami has reopened to the public with limited hours, Wednesday through Friday, from 11am to 2pm. See ad on page 15.

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A Trip to an Ancient Sea Shore in Gila County BY JOHN TRIMBLE

This week, our time travel trail will be taking us to a seashore beach. You say Gila County doesn’t have a sea? I say, now it doesn’t, but back in deep time, it did. But we don’t want just any beach: we want to find the oldest one in Gila County. To achieve this objective, we need to know how to find the beach. What clues remain after a billion years or so that tell us we’re at the beach? If we were going to a current beach, we could check a map for a body of water and then head toward it until our feet got wet. This doesn’t work so well when we want to travel to the oldest beach, as it dried up before animals existed. So to time travel to the oldest beach in Gila County, we need to know where the oldest beach is. Luckily, those strange humans known as geologists go around identifying rocks, age dating and mapping them. So if we get a map of Gila County’s geology, then we can hunt for that seashore using what we know and like about beaches. The Arizona Geological Society keeps a database of geologic maps on the web and has one for Gila County. Checking for beaches, we should look on the map for the oldest rocks that were formed from sandy beach deposits. We all love to run our toes through the beach sand and to play tag with the waves, which is way more fun than thrashing around in deep water.

surface. This understanding is required for walking the time travel trails. If you squeezed all of Earth’s history into one calendar year, the first 4 billion years (informally known as the Precambrian) would last from the first of January into late November. The oldest rocks discovered at Earth’s surface would date from mid-March. Geologists know very little about what happened during the Precambrian compared to later periods. They do know that very primitive life forms first appeared in the late Precambrian seas. On the calendar, that would have happened in late November. The vast majority of what we know about Earth’s history would fall into December. Dinosaurs became dominant in mid-December but disappeared the

Deep Time: An Age of Earth Metaphor to Guide the Time Traveler Our Earth is at least 4.6 billion years old. Such an expanse of time is hard to grasp, but understanding deep time helps us read geologic maps and grasp basic geologic processes, such as the buildup and erosion of the rock layers that are constantly shaping and reshaping Earth’s

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Dripping Springs Quartzite ripple marks – note that the ripples have equal slopes on both sides, so were formed by oscillating waves – meaning they occurred at the shore.

Two types of ripple marks: current or oscillation/wavetype ripple marks. We’re looking for wave ripples to be on the beach. On ridge south of Quartzite Canyon, looking east at Quartzite Mountain. White patch is a water catchment liner.

day after Christmas. At about the same time, the Rocky Mountains were uplifted. The first human ancestors appeared sometime during the evening of December 31 – the last x on the calendar. Everyone on Earth today would have been born in the last millisecond of New Year’s Eve – the microscopic dot at the end of December

Finding the Oldest Beach

I’ve always liked geologic maps because of the multiple colors, one for each rock formation and for different ages of rock. First, to make sure we’re at the oldest beach, we need to know the time scale to read the map – the time scale of … drum roll ... deep time.

formation is widespread throughout Gila County and beyond. It was formed from sand washed into a sea located in central Arizona and has sedimentary features in its upper unit. Dripping Springs Quartzite of Precambrian age is 50 to 700 feet thick. It’s divided into the following parts: Barnes Conglomerate (5 to 20 feet down), Middle Member (140 to 470 feet) and Upper Member (180 to 400 feet). Study of the deposition of the DS quartzite indicates that the Barnes Conglomerate was sorted and redistributed from talus outwash by an encroaching sea. Then the sea retreated, and then subsidence caused it to come back. So we can use the geologic map to find outcrops (on the surface) of the Dripping Springs Quartzite.

Looking at the Gila County geologic map (the best map for deep time travel trails), we can determine that the Apache Group of sediments, deposited in the late pre-Cambrian, includes a formation named the Dripping Springs Quartzite. Quartzite is a rock formed from sand after it has been squeezed and possibly heated up over geologic time, The Dripping Springs Quartzite is an amazing formation – it includes prehistoric turquoise mines located in Canyon Creek up in the White Mountain Apache area, and uranium deposits and workings in the Workman’s Creek area. Plus, the Salado Indians used its softer layers for cliff dwellings, such as the ones at the Tonto National Monument. Best of all, the Dripping Springs Quartzite preserved shoreline features that will allow us to place our blanket on the shore and not underwater. I had the best time researching it – there are lots of articles on the web, partly thanks to funding that the Atomic Energy Commission provided for geologic research back in the late ’50s. The

The Upper and Middle Members of the Dripping Springs Quartzite contain ripple marks and shrinkage cracks. This mix of features indicates that they were caused by waves cutting and depositing at the surface of water-saturated muds and sands. Which sounds like a beach to me! So how do we know where to put our blanket to be close to the shore, even if we are close to a billion years too late for the water? We need to look for ripple marks that indicate waves and for mud cracks that indicate being above the water. You can’t sunbathe if you’re underwater.

Diagram courtesy of dranablog.com.

The Beach I found my beach! Note the ripples and mud cracks. The gray shading might be signs of the first life on earth: bluegreen algae. I found my beach, and here’s how you can find it. Take Forest Service Road 224 north from the end of Copper Canyon Road and travel 2.1 miles to, strangely enough, Quartzite Canyon. This is a rough rock outcrop road in places and best done in a 4X4 with high clearance. The Dripping Spring Quartzite outcrops appear along the south slope of the canyon from Quartzite Mountain to Nugget Mountain. Look for the mud cracks and ripples in the Upper unit, and enjoy a beautiful canyon hike and walk. Watch out for the rip tide. There are lots more beaches in the county, so read that geologic map and keep looking, u

Shrinkage cracks in Dripping Springs Quartzite Mud cracks when it dries and then gets filled with later deposition. It forms a rock surface that looks like this, so we’re sure the rock dried out on the surface.

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*Note: Our new series on mining will feature second-generation miners and a column which will address frequently asked questions about mining in general and specifically about the operations in our region. If you have a question you’d like to ask please send it to editor@globemiamitimes.com.

“Communication is key, to achieve safety and production goals.”

MARK ALBERTSEN

Smelter Manager Freeport McMoRan–Miami Operations Interview by Patti Daley

Hot metal flows and gasses are processed at Freeport-McMoRan’s smelter in Miami. Smelter Manager Mark Albertsen loves it here. “I always told my wife that I would love to finish my career at the smelter,” he says.

After 41 years in the industry, Mark manages one of two operating smelters in the U.S. and a team of 450 employees. “You have to have a lot of energy and love for what you do,” he says. “The workforce here has that. They do some of the toughest work within our organization.”

The Smelter

The Miami smelter processes copper concentrate from Freeport-McMoRan’s Arizona and New Mexico copper mines. It is also a significant source of sulphuric acid, a by-product of smelting concentrates that is used in the leaching operations. Miami’s smelter was the first smelting operation to commercially utilize IsaSmelt™ technology, a fully enclosed system that meets the toughest emissions standard. The large scrubber, with condensation coming out of its stack, is designed to make sure virtually no emissions get released into the air. Copper concentrate smelted in Miami makes its way to a refinery in El Paso and becomes copper rod, all within FreeportMcMoRan operations. “Rock to rod,” Mark says. “FreeportMcMoRan takes it from the earth, all the way to rod, which many customers turn into wire and cable products.”

From Laborer to Leader

Mark never thought about mining in his youth. He was going to be in the Doc Severinson band, as a drummer for a late-night show. While in pursuit of that dream, he took a summer

student job at Sierrita operations near Tucson and swept and shoveled moly as a laborer.

“I was surrounded by equipment and machinery,” he says, “and was just fascinated by it.” Mark worked his way up to operations. He was an instrumentation journeyman for several years, then held supervisory positions and maintenance planning. He was,“roasting concentrate and making acid” in Casa Grande prior to learning from the great smelter managers in the region. He has worked with coal, copper, cobalt and molybdenum in plants around the U.S. and abroad in Europe, Indonesia and Africa. He was working in the Phoenix corporate office in Health and Safety for several years before getting the call in February to return to Miami and manage the smelter. “I have the greatest technical people here on the planet,” he says. “I spend the majority of my time making sure they have what they need to do their job well.” That entails a lot of time in meetings, which begin at 7:30 a.m. each day with a review of the past 24 hours and a look at what’s coming up. “Communication is key,” says Mark, “to achieve safety and production goals.” The most satisfying aspect of his job, Mark says, is watching people on his team advance in the company. He notes his management style has adjusted over the years to the younger workforce; now more empowering, less directive: This is what I need. How can you provide it for me? “We provide a lot of feedback,” Mark says. “Immediate feedback.”

Today Mark’s son, Rick Albertsen, is responsible for the instrumentation and automation that reports back to the smelter control room. “The focus is on preventative maintenance vs. reactive maintenance,” Rick says. Rick graduated from Miami High School and began his mining career as a laborer in the crusher at Sierrita. He obtained an electrical apprenticeship at Miami and earned an AA degree in Electrical Engineering and Instrumentation. He’s now an electrical maintenance supervisor at the Miami site, and his top priority is ensuring that employees are safe and inspecting for hazards before beginning a job. “A worst-case scenario is that the plant shuts down,” Rick says. Mark agrees, having experienced shutdowns over the years due to copper prices.

Last spring, concern of shutdown came from another source, Covid-19, and Freeport-McMoRan responded. Office personnel are working from home, but the smelter is a physical operation. Mark’s team needs to work together, but not too close, he says. They separated offices, took out the tape measures to ensure 6-foot social

RICK ALBERTSEN

Electrical Maintenance Supervisor distancing, split day shift crews to help with social distancing and cut training class in half. “I’ve seen it all, but I’ve never experienced anything like Covid-19,” Mark says, “It’s tough on everyone.” For both father and son, the advantages of a career in mining are clear. The pay. The benefits. The camaraderie. Meeting people all over the world. When asked if he encouraged his children to pursue a career in mining, Mark says he did not.

“I did not encourage them one way or another,” he says. “They need to find their own path, their own passion.” “For me,” declares Mark, “it’s molten metal.”

JOB POSTING

Family Mining Lineage

Mark’s grandfather came to the U.S. from Denmark and got an instrumentation job in mining at the Homestake Gold Mine in South Dakota.

Globe Miami Times November 2020 Issue

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Copper Mining in the Corridor

Bullion Recognizes Gila County Sheriff Glenn Reynolds

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