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By Patricia Sanders n south-central Utah, due east of Moab and north of the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, lives one of the most remarkable creatures on Earth. From the edge of an alpine lake, a forest of quaking aspen climbs the steep angle of a hillside. A portion of this highaltitude forest – 107 acres of it, comprising some 47,000 trees – is one single organism: a clonal colony of aspen growing from a single root system. The colony weighs around 6,600 tons, making it the world’s most massive organism. Pando, as this colony of quaking aspens is known, has been alive and regenerating itself for at least 80,000 years. The name is Latin for “I spread.” Painter Frank Balaam discovered Pando a few years ago, when he found himself – along with the painter Nora Balaam, his wife – sketching in the forest by Fish Lake, unaware that they’d stumbled into the arms of a single, gigantic tree. Since then, Balaam has painted several series of canvases from Pando. These canvases, ranging in size from 14 x 11 inches to 50 x 36, offer, in the artist’s words, “the sensation of being alive in a living forest” – achieved through the use of assertive color and a style suspended between representation and abstraction.
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Artist Frank Balaam, Continued on page 18
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Social Hour with the Dogs – Keeping Life Sane
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By Thea Wilshire
s the coronavirus turns the world we know it upside down, many are relearning the joy of simple pleasures and finding new ways to practice self-care. Something that does both is being around companion animals.
Globe’s Dog Park offers benefits to dogs and owners
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However, in the summer heat with most social opportunities closed due to the pandemic, people sometimes wonder where to exercise a dog, as well as safely connect with others. A growing number of residents are discovering the Globe Dog Park, the only space dedicated entirely to dogs in Southern Gila County. While people are being directed to avoid close contact, part of the joy of dogs is their complete disinterest in social distancing. Fortunately, both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the international World Organization for Animal Health report COVID-19 does not appear to be transmittable by animals. Globe Dog Park, Continued on page 16
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Local Real Estate Market Booms Despite Pandemic “We have people renting sight unseen on the short term [6 months],” says Debbie Cox, with Service First Realty, the largest property management firm in the area. By Cheryl Hentz
The way the world does business has changed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. That includes how real estate agents and brokers approach the business of marketing and selling houses, even renting them. Gone – at least for now – are the days of weekly open houses and agents driving buyers around from property to property in their search for a new place to call home. Instead, agents are meeting buyers at listed properties, sometimes even letting them tour vacant properties by themselves. In cases where the properties are occupied, agents and buyers are donning masks and sometimes gloves, using hand sanitizer, and touring the homes while physically distancing, not shaking hands, and making sure not to touch things for fear of possibly spreading the virus. Some agents are now slowly starting to hold open houses again – especially in the case of vacant properties – but when the pandemic first hit, sellers were reluctant to have a lot of strangers coming through their homes. Real Estate, Continued on page 19