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Halloween takes to
the street! For a Fashionable, Funky, Fun-tastic Night!
By David Abbott
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS 15
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS 8
Looking back on the event to the early days when Halloween portraits were done at The White Porch. ‘Pictures on the Porch’ became an annual part of the Halloween tradition for many years. Photo by LCGross
Halloween is coming on a Monday this year, and the streets of Globe will once again be filled with ghosts and goblins. Even a vintage Ford flatbed truck - named Garbage Gus - will attend ... dressed as a cowboy. This year’s event will be the first full-on Globe Halloween celebration in the wake of the COVID pandemic. “Last year, we got rid of all the music stages so we wouldn’t cause grouping,” says Molly Cornwell of Globe Main Street. “We separated the booths further away from each other and tried to do what we could, but to me it felt sterile compared to what we normally do.” What Cornwell and Globe Main Street normally do for Halloween is organize the Globe Downtown Halloween Block Party, a community celebration that, during a normal year, attracts as many as 5,000 people to Historic Downtown Globe. But the signature event was not always as big as it is now. It had fairly humble beginnings. According to Cornwell, the event began its evolution in October 2005, shortly after she arrived from the Valley, when the late local icon Kip Culver took over the directorship of Globe Main Street and eventually the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts.
HALLOWEEN, Continued on page 22
CITY OF GLOBE 11
VOTING 20
Artist Aili Sneezy, age 14, completed this large mural with help of her mother. She has been painting since age 2. (See pg 21)
Stairizona Trail offers ‘History by the Foot’ By David Abbott
DOWNTOWN MAPS 12
While hikers from all over the world come to Arizona to hike the 800-mile Arizona Trail, they may soon be coming to Globe to hike the local attraction known as the Stairizona Trail, which made its public debut during Old Dominion Days at the end of September. Billing the attraction as “History by the Foot,” I Art Globe committee member and Globe native Regina Ortega-Leonardi has worked with Chair
Thea Wilshire to bring the project to fruition in the wake of BHP’s temporary closure of Old Dominion Mine Park and the loss of Forestry trails after a series of wildfires. “It’s been fun, but it’s a lot of work,” OrtegaLeonardi says. “But it’s very purposeful work. I just love it, it gives me an opportunity to give back to my hometown and also work with people like Thea, the mayor and the community at large.” The Stairizona Trail is actually two trails
with a third under development. The first is a short 1.4-mile route encompassing four sets of stairs and one hidden pedestrian bridge. The longer, 2.6-miler covers six sets of stairs and two bridges. Still under construction is a 6.4-mile trail that includes eight sets of stairs and three bridges as well as a portion that takes urban hikers to Globe Historic Cemetery and the “G” hill west of Globe.
STAIRIZONA, Continued on page 21