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The Language of Music Globe Miami Centennial Band rekindles spirit of old Globe City Band

By Jenn Walker

n the fall of 2011, 25 or so local musicians got together in pursuit of one mission: to bring back the musical tradition of the old Globe City Band, which performed in Globe for more than 100 years.

The Globe City Band’s beginnings came about not long after Globe was established, in the late 1800s. Old newspaper clippings show mustachioed musicians dressed in uniform, posing sternly with their trombones, saxophones and tubas in hand. They had the support of the local media, who touted their talent on a regular basis.

In Sept. 1907, the band accompanied Globe’s baseball team on a train to Cananea, Mexico for a match celebrating the 100th year of Mexico’s independence.

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The Centennial Band, formed in 2011, has grown to about 35 members from ages 13 to 91 and plays concerts in both Globe and Miami.

“The band with its full strength of 22 pieces will be the leading musical attraction at Cananea tomorrow,” the Arizona Silver Belt wrote, “and the inhabitants of that camp will probably hear the best band they have ever listened to in their hometown.”

Centennial Band, Continued on page 34

REELING IN BASS

Award Goes To...

A glimpse into the world of bass fishing at Roosevelt Lake and beyond

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By Jenn Walker

It is a Tuesday afternoon, and no one else has the confidence to blast across Roosevelt Lake at more than 65 miles an hour on a $58,000 nitro boat. Maybe that is because there is no one else on the water, actually, except for some idiot with a radio, one of my two companions points out.

“All we want is some peace and quiet,” he gripes.

That’s Leroy Price. I don’t blame him for griping. The water below us is a chilly 58 degrees, according to the boat’s graph, but now that we’ve come to a halt we are warm,

just short of sweating, as afternoon sunlight pours over us. Luck is on our side. There is zero wind, and the water is calm enough that it mirrors our reflections perfectly. We just want to soak it in peacefully.

My other companion, Anthony Avalos, chuckles in agreement. He and Price brought me out to the lake to show me the ropes of bass fishing, so I could write this story. This is their splashing grounds. When they aren’t working their day jobs, they are fishing out here on the water.

Roosevelt Lake, Continued on page 32

Avalos holds a largemouth bass he caught during the interview.

Photo by Jenn Walker

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Winter 2014

The Fleur-de-lis

A living fleur-de-lis, meticulously sheared and shaped from the Mediterranean plant, Santolina, aka Lavender Cotton at La Citadelle in Quebec City, Quebec. Next to it, but out of the frame, is a similar topiary of the famous Canadian maple leaf.

A formal topiary of the fleur-de-lis adjacent to the George Washington mansion at Mt. Vernon, Virginia. The plant is European boxwood, Buxus sempervirens.

Peghead of an early twentieth century Gibson mandolin, inlaid with mother-of-pearl.

By Kim Stone

The fleur-de-lis – lily flower in English – ranks up there with the Nike swish, the peace sign, and the one-finger salute as one of the most iconic symbols of all time.

From the scepters of kings eight centuries ago to the uniform patch of the City of Louisville swat team, it’s difficult not to find it incorporated somewhere in any locale with a French history. It gets scuffed, scraped, and crunched on the helmets of the New Orleans Saints. It’s in all four corners of the Quebec flag and one corner of the flag of Montreal. A slightly modified version has been sewn on the uniform of every Boy Scout since 1919. And mother-of-pearl inlays of the fleur-de-lis are a common ornament on the peg heads of older Gibson guitars, banjos, and mandolins, though the French connection is more tenuous here.

In the span of a year, I saw it as a formal topiary, sheared and shaped from grey Santolina chamaecyparissus at La Citadelle in Quebec City, and then again as another formal topiary created from European boxwood in front of George Washington’s stone greenhouse at Mt. Vernon.

A classic wrought iron fence would be incomplete Boyce Thompson Arboretum without finial fleurs-de-lis crowning the top of each All walk, tours, and classes are included with paid admission. of the metal pickets, while $10 Adults, $5 Ages 5-12. Hours: 8am-5pm living room curtain rods are just abrupt stubs without Sunday, Monday, Friday 11am ~ General Tours one attached to each end. It also figures prominently in the tattooist’s repertoire.

January 11 ~ Edible and Medicinal Plants tour From a botanical point of view, the fleur-de-lis looks much more like an iris than a lily, and some historians think that its origin is patterned after January 12 ~ Natural Light photo class ($40) Iris pseudacorus, a common yellow iris that grows in wetlands throughout January 12, 18 ~ Plants of the Bible Lands tour Europe. All irises have the same basic flower structure, comprised of January 18 ~ Photo post processing ($30) three upright petals (standards) and three sepals called “falls” that arch January 18 ~ Painting with Light photo class ($40) gracefully downward, the middle sepal often tongue-like. So, really, January 19 ~ Trees of the Arboretum tour any local iris growing in the French countryside a thousand or so January 25 ~ Australia Day years ago could have served as the inspiration for this symbol.

January 25 ~ Geology tour Its significance begins with the French monarchs of the 12th

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century who considered the fleur-de-lis to be symbol of purity. For French rulers, it imparted a state of saintliness to their reign. Through the centuries, it has been incorporated into many coats of arms and flags, spreading throughout Europe and crossing the Atlantic with French settlement. The petals are thought to represent faith, wisdom and chivalry, while the religious context aligns them with the three parts of the holy trinity. The Boy Scouts added two stars, representing truth and knowledge, and gave each petal one of the three parts of the Scout Promise.

The fleur-de-lis is highly stylized, iconic, and instantly recognizable throughout the world. And while it will may never be as familiar as the almighty dollar ($) sign, or create the brand recognition of a bitten apple, its timeless, plant-based design and centuries-old history places it squarely in the world’s top ten enduring symbols.

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THIS ISSUE’S GIT ‘ER DONE AWARD GOES TO...

SUSAN HANSON

By Jenn Walker

Everything Susan Hanson has accomplished, is because of her son, she says adamantly. Sitting by the fireplace in her cozy house overlooking the town of Miami, next to a worktable surrounded by lampshade frames and styrene rolls, she proceeds to explain why.

Why she started and ran her own company the last 28 years, why she moved to Miami, why she successfully renovated her rentals downtown, and has rented them out the last ten years, why she wound up on Miami Town Council, why she lives in a beautiful home on a hill overlooking Miami—it all started with Joshua.

After dabbling with lampshade-making in college, Hanson started up her company Joshua Tree Lampshades 28 years ago in Phoenix. In the same year, she also had her son Joshua. From day one, he became the focus of her attention.

“As a mom, that’s your purpose in life,” she says matter-of-factly. “I wanted to give him the best life, and the best education.”

Just three years later, Joshua was diagnosed with autism.

Even as a single mom, she knew he wasn’t going to be in daycare. Sometimes they had to live in crummy apartments. But whatever the situation, she always tried to make the best of it. By the time

Joshua was 7, she also opened an antique shop, Joshua’s Tree House, in Glendale.

Then, thirteen years ago, she brought Joshua to Miami, along with her businesses, so that he could experience a different lifestyle.

“Education is better in the rural areas for special needs kids,” she reasoned. “Because in the Valley you’re swamped, there’s so many.”

And, to her surprise, the community welcomed them.

“Everyone was so nice, they took Josh and I in,” she remembers. “They were friendlier than we ever had it in the Valley.”

Living here in Miami also allowed Joshua more freedom and independence, with more space to safely roam. From the beginning, Hanson has always emphasized providing her son with independence.

Whether he is in school or working, she is always pushing him. That is why whenever she takes on a project, Joshua is often involved.

“We have rental property. We paint, clean, whatever it takes. We’re always remodeling something,” she says. “When he’s home I’m running around, making sure he’s busy, busy, busy.”

Susan Hanson, Continued on page 5

Most recently, Miami Town Councilwoman Susan Hanson was chosen as one of 15 rural leaders in Arizona to participate in Project Centrl, a program designed to make effective advocates out of rural leaders.

Photo by LC Gross

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Winter 2014 Publisher Linda Gross Creative Director Jenifer Lee Contributing Writers Linda Gross Darin Lowery Holly Sow Kim Stone Jenn Walker

Looking through our Winter issue this time and reflecting back on the holiday season which just wrapped up makes me think of the red wagon I got when I was five years old. As the handle was ceremoniously given to me I could feel the power of my possession. I was thrilled to have it all to myself. I sat in it, pulled it around and slept with it; allowing no one else near it for the first week.

And then one day I discovered the real benefit of owning a Radio Flyer red wagon.

My older cousins offered to pull me around which was more fun than sitting in it by myself. And pretty soon we were using it to carry supplies to build a fort in the back yard. By the end of that following week my little red wagon had become valuable group ~ Bil Keane property. A fact completely lost on me in the euphoria of being included in my cousins’ fort-building project.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift.

That's why it's called the present.

So here’s my take on the season past and the new year begun; Great gifts in life are best when shared.

Our feature stories in this issue are examples of people doing just that, sharing gifts.

Our cover story (pp 1) on the Globe Centennial Band will make you want to support this band every chance you get. They are part of a long tradition in Globe dating back to the late 1880’s when the town was first getting started. The band has been revived by a daughter following in her father’s footsteps and enlisting others with a mission to preserve a legacy. I’d say that is a great gift.

Our story (pp 8) on the backpack program explains how the folks at St. John's Episcopal church found out about kids in need and made it their mission to find a solution. They are doing it one backpack at a time, showing that gifts come in many forms and can be as simple as a bar of soap and a bunch of granola bars.

The Get Er’ Done Award this season (pp 3) features a woman I’ve respected for years who constantly is sharing her time and talents to make life better for others in her community. And while I consider her efforts to be a gift to the community, she considers her greatest gift to be her son.

As for us, GMT took a small step towards realizing our goal of having a blog just for the youth voice in our community by publishing the work of Globe middle and high school students on our website. Our plan is to expand this section to feature work by local students throughout the district in writing, photography and video. Take a look!

Lastly, you’ll discover that we’ve been extra busy with making improvements to our website and revving up our regional directory. The best thing I can say is please visit us online and let us know what you think. www.globemiamitimes.com.

Looking forward to the year ahead.

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Susan presented members of the Iowa Pacific during the Miami Rail Run in 2012.

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In fact, it’s not long before Joshua walks in the door. He had just been laying rocks down on his grandmother’s porch below.

When she refurbished the apartments above her business on Sullivan Street ten years ago, Joshua was by her side helping.

She calls it “our project,” referring to the two of them. It took her three years to get funding, but once she did, the project was completed on time in just four months.

She was the general contractor, and HUDD oversaw the project. HUDD used the successful project as a model.

“I think being hands-on was the ticket,” she says. “I knew every bit of that building. It was hard not to be excited.”

And, that was how they started getting to know people in town.

“That put us down there working with everyone,” she says. “You can’t not get involved, because when a festival happens it’s right outside your door.”

One thing led to another, and in 2008 Hanson was appointed to an empty seat on Miami’s Town Council. She has been

there since, now entering her fourth year.

In 2009, she was appointed as a board member of Habitat for Humanity.

She is now also the chairwoman of Genesis, the nonprofit committed to the restoration and preservation of Miami’s historic buildings, and the town’s economy. The organization takes on projects like painting and fixing facades of buildings along the highway. The town doesn’t pay for it, and it is 100 percent volunteer-operated.

“To the town, we’re like a second pair of hands you wish you had out of your back,” she says.

Most recently, she was chosen as one of 15 rural leaders in Arizona to participate in Project Centrl, a program designed to make effective advocates out of rural leaders.

Nonetheless, she proceeds to downplay it all.

“I’m just here and I work. Nothing exotic,” she says. “I fit my business schedule in between everything.”

What she doesn’t downplay, of course, is her son’s accomplishments. Joshua is in his second year at Eastern New Mexico University in Roswell. He made the dean’s list and the honors society, and he will graduate with an associate’s degree in July.

After he graduates, he will go to culinary school in Phoenix.

She pauses, glances out the window, and admires the view.

“When we first came here, this seemed like such a sweet, quaint, cute town,” she says. “I didn’t realized that it could have even greater possibilities.”

“If it weren’t for Josh, I’d just be in a legal office, bored,” she adds. “The ride that I’ve gotten along the way is nothing I could have ever imagined.”

Old Dominion Fall Volunteer Day November 16th

Photo by Jenn Walker

The Old Dominion Walking park continues to make improvements thanks to volunteers and contributions. This fall an all-volunteer group of 35 people worked to open new trails, put up new signs and bring in some of the geology displays to help educate visitors to the park about the mine history. Work was also begun on the new Welcome Center. This was the second workday. The group hopes to do two a year.

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Winter 2014

SMALL THINGS

IN BIG PACKAGES

By Darin Lowery

If you want to witness a slew of expletives at our house, ask me to open a new bottle of vitamins.

Supplements will help you live forever, if you believe the research by experts in the health field. I do. It is through a relatively small monthly investment that I intend to live forever. What gets the tension level higher than mercury on an Arizona afternoon is attempting to open the damn containers.

The outer boxes are usually simple to unfold, although the glue used today is much stronger than in years past. Perhaps it’s only because I’m getting older. Then there’s the cellophane ring shrink-wrapped around where the cap meets the neck, impossible to snap unless you have surgical scissors at the ready. Once the plastic cap is finally twisted off, there’s an induction seal to pry loose, with a tab which never seems to lift.

By the time I get the bottle opened I have to take two vitamin tablets—one as my daily dose; the second to replenish depleted minerals in my bloodstream caused by wrestling with the damn thing.

What seems a nuisance today goes back to 1982, when seven people in the Chicago area died of potassium cyanide poisoning.

Criminal investigators discovered all seven victims had ingested adulterated Tylenol capsules prior to their demise. A maniac, never apprehended, had opened the capsules and inserted the toxic substance. Thirtyone million bottles were recalled by the manufacturer; stringent packaging safeguards were instituted. Nowadays, everything is tamper resistant—and child resistant, even if you’re an adult.

You already know this if you’ve recently purchased a flash drive, compact disc, or box of the new light bulbs. Always have a tool kit handy.

Taken with this information, a few minutes of fumbling and cursing is probably worth it… but then again, I’m not an arthritic octogenarian with poor eyesight.

That said, the world of packaging— and by extension advertising--,is fascinating. In 1937, copywriter and marketing expert Elmer Wheeler’s book,

Tested Sentences That Sell, advised readers, “Don’t sell the steak—sell the sizzle.” Designers and advertisers have been doing so ever since. Products which promise sex, money, youth and fame seal the deal and create a feeling in the consumer of unlimited expectations and a distorted reality. These are the products which make it into our grocery carts.

My dream job was realized in the 1980s when I began a career as a print/production manager.

I worked with printing companies and affiliated vendors large and small. One of my first press approvals was at a new printer’s facility.

They were running a major cosmetics job that day which was detailed and intricate.

The salesman explained the various passes the sheets of paperboard would have to make through the presses. There were twelve special colors, plus black; two matte finishes and silver stamping, embossing and debossing, then die-cutting… then on to the bindery, where the goods would be trimmed, scored and packed for shipment. The end result, when folded, was a gorgeous paper fragrance box, intended simply to house a bottle of perfume. The box would ostensibly then be discarded after the customer purchased the item and brought it home.

The history of packaging goes back to the early days of commerce and was usually provided by the buyer, not the seller. Think loaves of bread, or fruit

and vegetables, placed in a customer’s woven basket. Things began to change when the Chinese created paper: this innovation moved through Europe during the 1300s and on to this country in 1700. By the mid 1800s merchants were using paper sacks and cardboard. The Egyptians industrialized glassmaking in 1500 BC, and in the nineteenth century, tin-plated steel cans emerged as a major convenience. Early plastic came next; celluloid was patented in 1870, and forty years later the phenolic resins (such as Bakelite) were widely available.

For the past thirty years polyethylene terephthalate (PETE) has been used to create all sorts of plastic containers, and of course the recycling boom has created a diverse and interesting twist to product packaging over the last decade or so.

But it is brilliant packaging design combined with an aggressive advertising campaign that creates the ‘sizzle’ needed to convince consumers to buy and buy often. Brands such as ROCKSTAR, Red Bull and Monster beverages come to mind because it’s all so ‘fresh and now’, as do Mrs. Meyer’s CLEAN DAY household products (fresh and clean, but in a retro way). Anyone remember L’Eggs hosiery?

The pantyhose was introduced in 1969; the package design was a white plastic egg. The aforementioned perfume products, with their million dollar budgets and highly paid talent, can turn a

sow’s ear into a silk purse just by swiping her Visa card.

Listed below are three types of modern packaging which have changed our lives, for better or worse. While they’re not terribly glamorous and may haunt us later on— think of those folks who choose not to recycle— each can make our lives easier in one way or the other: ASEPTIC PACKAGING: Commonly known as Tetra Pak, these paper, foil or plastic cartons are what you’ll find a variety of foods housed in, like milk or cooked rice. Unopened, they do not require refrigeration and will stay fresh Packaging, Continued on page 7

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for a year. In traditional canning, tins are filled and the whole lot is sterilized. With aseptic packages, however, the cartons and the foods are sterilized separately, then combined. This was groundbreaking technology in 1963 and it’s still impressive.

BLISTER PACKS: Such as you see with unit-dose medications and almost any other product which has a preformed bubble of plastic surrounding the items, with a backer board for product information. CLAMSHELLS are similar, though larger and fold into themselves.

The selling point to the consumer is that merchandise can be seen; the advantage to retailers is theft prevention, especially with smaller items which can be made larger with this type of packaging.

POLYBAGS: These are ubiquitous— think of those snug plastic sleeves your magazines arrive in—and almost anything else, such as grocery bags (“paper or plastic?”) in which a thin plastic bag is useful and convenient.

‘Shop Therapy’ has become a recognized condition in the Pop-Psych arena, and if you’re not cautious it can be very easy to go off the tracks at the mall. If you’re like me—anything shiny and brightly colored gets my immediate attention—then a simple shopping trip

can turn into a circus. While the altruistic version is that advertising is to inform and packaging is to make transport easier, the simple truth is that all of the stuff on store shelves is similar to a room full of first-graders: ‘Look at me!’ and ‘Pick me!’ Thousands of people the world over are tasked with designing, creating, manufacturing and selling these goods.

Which is all well and good with me…

I just wish I didn’t need a hammer and a hacksaw to take my daily aspirin.

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Winter 2014

Feeding Students In Need, One Backpack At A Time

By Jenn Walker

If you are young and homeless, perhaps your only chance to eat is at school, where you can get breakfast and lunch during the week. But on the weekends, you are forced to scrounge.

What many people don’t realize is that Globe-Miami has a homeless problem, and that includes a lot of homeless youth.

Within that population, high school students are more likely to get thrown out of the house than any other age group. Sometimes its a matter of parents choosing to spend money on alcohol or drugs, instead of their kids.

“A lot of them are literally homeless in a sleeping bag,” says Kelly Byrne, a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church. “And a lot of them jump from one friend’s house to another because they’ve been kicked out of their

own house. There is so much you don’t know until you work with a school.”

“None of us really realized there was a homeless problem in our area,” adds Cathy Lamont, another member of the church.

But when Byrne, Lamont and other members of St. John’s learned of the young homeless population in Miami, they assumed there was a similar problem in Globe.

And there is. Between Miami, Globe and Liberty High Schools, and Globe Literacy Center, members of the church have learned of 13 students who are homeless or living in a crisis situation.

It is yet to be determined how many others there are in the area.

“A lot of people are asking how many homeless teens there are,” Byrne says. “We are still collecting statistics.”

In an attempt to help these students, the outreach committee of St. John’s, including Byrne and Lamont, created a local backpack program modeled after a similar program in Phoenix this past summer. They connected with counselors, nurses, coaches and teachers at the four schools to find out how many students were at each, and going hungry.

They began filling backpacks with food, three-days worth to feed each student over the weekends, and distributing them to the schools.

The catch is, none of the members of the committee know the students they are serving.

“It’s a great system. We can still communicate with the student, but we don’t know who they are. If we saw them on the street, we wouldn’t know,” Lamont says.

St. John's Episcopal Church held an ice cream social over the summer, where they dished up homemade ice cream to raise money for the backpack program. They raised close to $300. Shown here: volunteers Kelly Byrne, Cyndi Mugridge, Manuel Romero and Kelly Jones.

dropped off in the school offices, where students pick them up on the way home before the weekend.

The only way the committee can find out about a new student in need is through a nurse or counselor, or someone the student feels comfortable confiding in.

“Sometimes students will come to me and say they’re hungry,” says Maria Antonia Johnson. She has been the school nurse at Miami High for the last three years, and serves as a liaison between the committee and the students who want to join the program. A lot of students know her.

“I’ll ask them questions like, ‘Did you not eat breakfast today?’

They’ll tell me ‘no’ and I’ll ask them why,” she says.

“Sometimes they will tell me and sometimes they won’t,” she continues.

“It just depends on how comfortable they feel talking to me.”

The program is designed to be completely anonymous, “that way [the students] can keep their dignity, nobody knows what they are carrying,” she adds.

“Kids don’t want to be embarrassed, they don’t want to stand out.”

St. John’s Episcopal Church gladly accepts food donations for the backpack program. Donation boxes are located at: Vida E Caffe, Safeway (off highway 60), Globe Fire Department, Globe Police, First Christian Church, and the second floor of the Gila County Courthouse.

Locations are subject to change; check the program’s Facebook page for the latest information, visit www.facebook. combackpackprogramforhomelessteens.

Each backpack is identical, except that they have labels with codes like “GEC1,” “GEC4,” etc., so each student gets a personalized backpack. There is a form in each backpack that the students fill out, listing any food allergies they have, or asking for additional items, like toiletries, underwear and socks. The backpacks are filled on Sundays, and then

St. John's Episcopal, Continued on page 9

Donation bins like this one at Vide E Caffe are located at various drop-off locations around town.

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Thanks to individuals like Johnson, in just a matter of months since the program began, the number of students served has increased from eight to 13 between the four schools. The responses have been incredibly positive.

“The students have expressed how grateful they’ve been,” Johnson says.

“The forms ask students if they need toothpaste, a toothbrush, shampoo, clothing,” she says. “Anything that they need that’s going to benefit them, so they come to school everyday and feel comfortable enough to be around the other students, because students can be very mean.”

Now the committee is working on outreach, educating teachers and administrators on how to identify other students in need. As the program is becoming more popular, they are also looking for more donations and volunteers.

“We’re not going to turn a kid down,” Lamont says firmly.

Currently, the program is run by ten committee members from St. John’s. They take turns buying food for the backpacks weekly, shopping for things like: cheese and crackers, fruit cups, individuallyboxed cereals, granola bars, juice packs,

and canned foods with pull-off lids.

They focus on getting foods that have simple packaging, don’t require refrigeration, can be carried in a backpack without being crushed, and don’t require heating or preparation.

“If you’re on the street, [it needs to be] something easy to eat,” Lamont explains.

They also focus on keeping the foods healthy and low in sugar.

The committee also asks for food donations from the community, collected in donation boxes at various drop-off locations around town. Whatever doesn’t fit in the backpacks is donated to local families in need. The program has also received generous donations from the likes of Carlota Mining Company, which contributed $6000 to the initial project, plus individual donors. The committee plans on holding more fundraisers, too, like the bake sale, spaghetti dinner and ice cream social held over the summer.

Now, they are contemplating how to get food to students during longer periods, like Easter break.

Already, the backpacks are brimming by the time the students get them.

“It’s amazing how much goes into those backpacks. Three meals a day for three days,” Lamont says. “They can’t carry a whole lot more than we give them.”

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Apache Jii ~ October 19th Hosted by the Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce, this annual event is a favorite for many.

L to R: Glenn Walp, Diana Maimin, Marilyn Hume, Emilio Miller, Bill Hunsicke

This was the first year that the Hashan Kehk basket dancers from the Gila River Reservation performed at Apache Jii. Back row, L to R: Brandy Donahue, Alaina Santos, Leland Thomas, Gabrielle Garcia. Front row, L to R: Ava Cachola, Norah Brooks.

Sheryl Miles and Laura Stennerson

Bryce Barnes and San Carlos artist Carrie Reede next to one of her paintings outside Vida E CaffĂŠ.

Art & Wine Auction ~ November 1 The "Streets of Paris" theme for this years 4th Annual Wine and Art Auction hosted by Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center

Carol Speight, Nan and John O'Donnell

Ian Lamont, CV Foundation Chairman and Evelyn Vargas is Director of marketing for CVRMC Ana Vargas-Gameros, Evelyn Vargas, Aubrie Vargas-York, Maria Jagles

Jim Childers CFO CVRMC and Neil Terry of Orcutt/Winslow

Zombie Walk and Halloween Night October 26th & 31st Just a few of the goblins, ghouls and goobers we discovered on the streets of Globe during the street fest on Halloween. This year's event also include a Zombie Walk which brought out the creative ghoul in everyone!

Winter 2014 The Annual Chamber Mixer at the Center for the Arts hosted a new act this year – The Children's Choir on the steps.

Bullion Plaza Gets A Fresh Gymnasium ~ October 25 Thanks to a Phoenix Suns-APS grant which was awarded to the Town of Miami.

See the full story on GlobeMiamiTimes website.

Claudia Dalmolin, Senator Barbra McGuire, Margo Badilla and Carmen Casillas

Dino and Robin Horta

The Children's Choir performed this year on the steps of the Center.

Fundraiser ~ December 12th

Hunter signs an autograph for a fan

Suns player P.J. Tucker (center, back row) with Miami Town Council, L to R: Don Reiman, Susan Hansen, Robert Baeza, Mayor Rosemary Castaneda, City Manager Jerry Barnes and Wes Sukosky, head of Miami Public Works.

Mark Clavell (back row, far right) brought his group from the Globe Boys and Girls Club.

Here they are joined by former Phoenix Suns player Steven Hunter (back row, center).

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The Annual Safe House fundraiser hosted by Ken and Sarah Bernstein brought out a crowd who enjoyed a perfect December evening of food and friendship – all for a good cause.

Light Parade ~ December 14th

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BECOMING AN OUTDOORS WOMAN DELUXE WORKSHOP AT SAGUARO LAKE RANCH January 24-26 Whether you love the outdoors or are a bit wary of the wilderness, you are sure to enjoy a fun-filled weekend with like-minded women.

The Arizona Becoming an Outdoors Woman program, also known as BOW, will hold its annual deluxe workshop on January 24-26 at Saguaro Lake Ranch, nestled on the banks of the Salt River across from the picturesque Bulldog Cliffs.

The BOW Deluxe weekend features comfortable lodging in nicely outfitted resort-style ranchettes, delicious meals and a beautiful location. BOW has something of interest to everyone and every skill level. There are workshops and activities for experienced outdoor enthusiasts and for women who have never hiked, camped, hunted or held a fishing pole. Kayaking on Saguaro Lake, birding, archery, landscape photography and horseback riding are just a few of the popular workshops offered at BOW. New this year is a class on optics. There will also be a session on hunting javelina, and a varmint-call stand.

Jean Groen, author of “Foods of the Superstitions,” will be on hand to give a presentation about edible and medicinal plants of the Southwest desert. The desert survival class is informative and fun. Dutch oven classes will guide guests through the preparation of the evening meals. After dark, things always heat up. There will be a fashion show, a wine and cheese tasting, and a javelina presentation.

The cost is $380, and includes instruction, program materials, use of equipment and deluxe lodging and meals Friday evening through Sunday lunch.

Details of class descriptions can be found at www.azwildlife.org or call 480-644-0077.

The Becoming An Outdoor Woman program is sponsored by Arizona Wildlife Federation with the support of the Arizona Game and Fish Department.

The Arizona Game and Fish Department prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, age, or disability in its programs and activities. If anyone believes that they have been discriminated against in any of the AGFD’s programs or activities, including employment practices, they may file a complaint with the Deputy Director, 5000 W. Carefree Highway, Phoenix, AZ 85086-5000, (602) 942-3000, or with the Fish and Wildlife Service, 4040 N. Fairfax Dr. Ste. 130, Arlington, VA 22203. Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation or this document in an alternative format by contacting the Deputy Director as listed above.

HIKING, AND LOSING, THE TELEPHONE 192 TRAIL

The Pinals are beautiful in the snow, but don’t expect to stay on the trail

By Jenn Walker

I committed to a hike in the Pinals the weekend after Thanksgiving. Wind and rain relentlessly shook my window that Sunday morning, before sunrise. I finally rolled out of bed and studied the southeast view from my window. The rain had stopped, but I could see that the Pinals had been hit, their shoulders dressed in white and their peaks cut off by swirling mist. I grabbed an extra sweatshirt.

It is roughly a 20-minute drive from downtown Globe to the Telephone Trail 192 trailhead at Ice House Canyon. By the time we set out on the trail, the sun was peaking through the clouds. It was probably around 10 a.m.

We were greeted by a mild stretch of trail. It was well-paved with a gradual ascent, lined with brush on either side. The Forest Service’s trail guide suggested otherwise— this trail was going to be “MOST difficult,” at a length of five miles jumping from 4,500 to 6,700 feet. We were also hiking during the wrong season (it suggests spring through fall). If you don’t have snow wear, that’s probably not bad advice, because about 40 minutes into our trek, there was an inch of snow on the ground. But, with our trusty LOWA hiking boots and heavy layers, we confidently carried on.

At that point, the trail’s ascent was still subtle, though the brush had gotten taller.

Soon, we glanced over our shoulders, and saw that Globe-Miami had shrunk into dots in the distance, drowned out by Gila County’s brown, dramatic landscape.

It wasn’t long after, however, that the path before us crept up to a 45-degree angle from our line of vision. The trail took a hard turn, and we were surrounded by white; the snow cover had gone up from about an inch to several inches. We spotted small animal tracks in the snow, And it was around then that I realized we had likely lost the trail. I had noticed occasional dots of red spray-paint along the way, but there was no indication of whether these were markings for Forest Service use, or in fact markings of a trail. At this point we were pressing our bodies through thick barriers of gnarled manzanita bushes. Either the trail hadn’t been kept up, or we had created our own. We certainly never reached the ruins of the old sawmill, which we were supposed to see if we were in fact on the Trail 192.

Around the same time we reached an overlook, I could no longer feel my toes. Even in my sturdy boots, I couldn’t escape winter’s icy grip. We stopped to admire the thick clouds gliding across the sky above us. Then we turned around, and made our way back down through the snow.

Photos by Jenn Walker

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FOOD FOR THE SOUL The traditions behind a Pow-Wow

By Jenn Walker

There is nothing quite as invigorating to Samantha Hunter as the jingle dress dance. She slips on a dress that she made by hand. It is flashy, covered in jingles and sequins. She slips the eagle plumes that her father gave her into her hair. They are an honor to wear, she says. She grabs her eagle-tail fan; now she is ready to dance.

She joins a group of more than 30 other jingle dress dancers down in an arena, each of them wearing 200 to 400 jingles on the bottoms of their dresses, and they start to move.

“All you can hear is the music and the jingles,” she says. “There are whole crowds of people, but you don’t even see them.”

Hunter, who is originally from Bylas, has been a Pow-Wow dancer for the last 12 to 13 years. Most recently, she picked up jingle dancing, which originated from the Ojibwa tribe. It is called the healing dance.

If someone was sick, they would often ask a jingle dress dancer to dance for them.

This is just one of many dance forms featured in a Pow-Wow. PowWows (originally called “pau-waus”) are intertribal social events that draw Native American tribes from across the country. Singing, dancing and drumming are the highlight of the event, as cultural traditions are exchanged and honored.

Performers wear ornate regalia and perform in a large arena. Dancing competitions are usually held.

Pow-Wows have a long history, though heir exact beginnings are unclear. Hunter says that the Sioux held Pow-Wows for entertainment, and started adding prizes to them. Then they got other tribes to participate.

Hunter grew up going to Pow-Wows with her family. Intrigued by the dresses and the dances, she eventually started dancing in them herself. She was on the Pow-Wow Trail for some time, traveling as far as Connecticut, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Canada to perform in different Pow-Wows.

Hunter at the Muckleshoot Pow-Wow.

Apache Gold will host the 2014 Pow Wow • March 14-16th Details in centerfold Guide of this issue of GMT.

“I wanted to make up my dresses and fancy them,” she says, because, after all, “You only make what you love.”

She learned how to beadwork and sew.

Depending on how detailed her dress is, it can take two days to two weeks to make it.

Beyond the dress-making, there are other reasons to look forward to a Pow-Wow. The Grand Entry is perhaps Hunter with another dancer at the Muckleshoot Pow-Wow in the most exciting part. That Washington in 2011. is when all the dancers come out into the arena dressed in their best, and She started out dancing Traditional show off, Hunter says. There is someone Dances. They dance at a slower pace, and taking down each dancer’s number. At the singer sings in a deep voice. The ladies the end of the Pow-Wow, the numbers are wear buckskin dresses, with a fringe that added up and prizes are given. sways gracefully. They dance with a slight “It’s a lot of fun for me and my bow in their posture to honor the drum husband, we get to travel and know the beat as they dance. other dancers,” she says. “I can’t wait to do “I liked it, the songs were beautiful,” it again.” she recalls.

“The music alone is very soothing,” But four years ago, she found a she adds. “I can’t explain it. It’s food for the dance she enjoyed even more: jingle soul, I guess you could say.” dress dancing. Instead of always wearing buckskin dresses, she could make as many different dresses to wear as she pleased.

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Apache Stronghold Golf Course Recognition GolfWeek Magazine, in their December 13-20 issue, has ranked the Apache Stronghold Golf Course as the #39 Best Casino Golf Courses in America for 2013.

Though absent from national rankings for several years, Apache Stronghold was ranked as the #1 golf course in Arizona and #65 in the Top 100 Courses You Can Play in America shortly after opening in 1999. In the past year, Apache Stronghold’s new Superintendent, Dave Russell, and his crew have completed rebuilding the golf course greens and bunkers and enhancing sight lines throughout the course. These improvements are reflected in the course’s return to national prominence. According to Dave, this is just the beginning. His goal is to restore the status of Apache Stronghold as one of the top-5 golf courses in Arizona.

The new ranking reflects an increased commitment of the San Carlos Apache Tribe to improve and enhance the entire Apache Gold Casino Resort.

New at Apache Gold Casino and Resort In other news, the Resort has begun a $4 million facelift under the guidance of General Manager, Gary Murrey, including: recent construction and opening of the Cutter Coffee Company, a drive thru coffee shop located just off Hwy 70; remodeling the Legends BBQ into a steakhouse (opening in May 2014); installation of a new sports bar called The Point (opening in April 2014); and upgrades to the Wickiup Buffet (anticipated completion in February 2014).

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We spoke recently with Tara Kitcheyan, the casino’s new conference and special events sales coordinator, and took a tour of the facility...

Winter 2014 General Manager, Gary Murrey shows off the property's new workout room which includes state-of-the-art equipment.

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The pool is heated in the winter and offers lap swimming and room to splash!

Did you know the Apache Gold Casino and Resort is the leading event host in our region? The casino not only offers excellent gaming options, but a large convention center, 18-hole golf course, Best Western motel, state-of-the-art workout room and olympic size pool, and a pavillion which hosts rodeos, concerts and major events.

The convention center can be opened up to hold 300 diners plus a dance floor and stage.

The Best Western offers a variety of accomodations including this suite with an extended living room and bar area.

Complete business center for guests.

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OUT AND ABOUT

Backstage with Aaron Tippen November 11th

Chairman's Tournament ~ November 11, 2013 30 teams participated in this year's Chairman's Veterans Day Memorial Golf Tournament.

1st Place: "The Turfs" Shreve Tso,Keith Begay, and Stan Overturf

2ndr Place: Ray Remos, Jerry Burgess, Ernie Valdez

3rd Place: Harold Francis Cecil Monteverde, Tommy Chavez

The team from Window Rock

Singer Darryl Worley and Aaron Tippen took the stage for a sold out concert.

12-D Funds This year's recipients included the Town of Miami, the Pinal County Sheriffs' department and the Dudleyville volunteer fire department.

Women's Conference Held in October

Navajo Code Talker Association President, and one of many keynote speakers for the women’s conference, Peter MacDonald, pauses for a picture with the San Carlos Veterans Association.

Sen Gaa Isdzane Association Officers with Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick. L-R Susan Wesley, Kathleen W. Kitcheyan, Congresswoman Kirkpatrick, Phyllis Wesley

Master of Ceremonies, Theresea Choygua with conference attendees, Agatha Amos, Monica Thompson and Gwen Bahe

Winter 2014

Law & Order Series

Catching the Power Brothers

By Jenn Walker

Shortly after serving as Gila County cowboys. But the news was wrong. sheriff, Frank Haynes became a Deputy The three outlaws were very much U.S. Marshal. In February 1918, he alive and still running by mid-March. was ordered by U.S. Marshal Dillon to By that time they had been on the run capture the Power brothers, two draft for about a month, escaping the murder evaders, or “slackers,” who were holedscene at the Powers’ cabin in the Galiuro up near the old Bowman gold mine.

Mountains, and evading posses of two Haynes recruited three Graham County hundred cowboys and officers, when six authorities to help him. cavalrymen captured them Accompanying Haynes at their camp just south was Sheriff R.F. McBride, of the Mexican border.

Chief Deputy Sheriff Martin The outlaws had made it Kempton, and Deputy almost 40 miles south of the Sheriff T. Kane Wootan. border when they ran out of When the four arrived at water in the desert, and had the Powers’ log cabin in hardly any food. They were the Galiuro mountains, headed back north when “old man Power” (father of they were caught. brothers John and Thomas Sisson and the Powers Power) came out of the were transported to Safford house wielding a gun, and a and “immediately placed shootout ensued. in the upper steel cage” The three Graham at the jail. The Graham County officers were killed, Guardian reported that the and old man Power was left outlaws “presented a tough A clipping from The Graham wounded and unconscious. Guardian on March 15, 1918. appearance as they sat in The Power brothers, their cells. Their clothing was accompanied by ex-convict Tom Sisson, torn almost into shreds.” John Power lost fled the scene. Haynes went to Klondyke vision in his left eye from a splinter of and then Safford, where he reported wood during battle with the officers, and the incident, and townspeople rounded Tom Power lost vision in his left eye from up posses to head back toward the a cactus thorn. As for Sisson, he was “a Powers’ cabin. hard looking specimen, unshaved and Before long, more than 200 men were dirty in appearance, but seemed to be at trailing the Power brothers, accompanied home in his cell.” by bloodhounds. Posses were rounded up About two months later, on May from Gila, Pima, Greenlee, Cochise and 17, the three were convicted in the Graham Counties.

Superior Court of Greenlee County Meanwhile, it was believed that to life imprisonment. They were Powers and Sisson might try to head to shackled and taken to the state Old Mexico, so two U.S. cavalry troops penitentiary in Florence. were dispatched to patrol the border east of Douglas.

[Based on reports from the Mohave Just days after the murder, on County Miner on Feb. 16, 1918, and The February 16, 1918, the Mohave County Graham Guardian on February 15, March Miner reported news from Bisbee that 15 and May 24, 1918. Clipping from The the outlaws were killed in a fight with Graham Guardian.]

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Sharing The Roads That Connect Us We have revved-up our popular regional directory, GMTeconnect, from top to bottom for 2014! You won’t believe all the features we are bringing to you with the new guide, starting with our snappy new name!

Globetrottersguide.co For starters, the guide now encompasses communities throughout Central Arizona, because we all are connected through the culture, people and events we share.

We know many of our small communities have a hard time being seen on the web.

Whether you are a local business who wants to sell to more than just the local community, or an event host looking to attract a bigger audience, our new guide is your ticket to greater exposure to the people who crisscross our roads on a regular basis.

A Basic Plus listing with us is $79 for a year and includes photos, text, contact, hours, location and details. That’s a great deal, right?

But it gets better!

We are waiving the fee completely and giving anyone who signs up in January a FREE Basic Plus listing for one year!

Act now! Submit your own listings online and claim your spot. For example, this listing (above) for the Apache Stronghold Golf Course is typical of our BasicPlus.

Event listings are just as comprehensive and will help you generate buzz for your event. Social sharing is built into every listing, and comes with location and event details.

Post your event and see how easy it is to share!

Visitors ... will love using the new site to find things to see and do! Will they find you?

Be sure your business or event is listed in the guide. Submit your listing now and get it free for the year.

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This striking image, done by local photographer James Lindstrom*, shows the old Miami Townsite Building which was built in 1912 by Cleve Van Dyke, the man credited with establishing the Town of Miami in 1907. The building housed his offices upstairs and Naders clothing store below.

The tall building next to it, which houses the future Soda Pops’ fountain, was added on to the Townsite building in 1914 and at one time was divided into a Western Union office and candy/cigar store. In 1972 an artist named Torres painted the Apache faces on the eastern side of the buildings.

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*The front cover photograph was done by James Lindstrom who moved here from the Valley in 2012 and now works for the Pickle Barrel Trading Post. He is an avid photographer with a background in graphic design and a natural eye for the unusual. He offers his work through his website at www.fineartamerica.com/ jameslindstrom and at the Pickle Barrel.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS Launch of Rafting Season When: Beginning March Where: Salt River!

Cost: Check with individual guide companies (See pp 30) Did you know our Salt River provides the first rafting season of the year in the U.S.?! The snow melt flowing into the river usually peaks in late March or early April, providing awesome opportunities to catch big thrills on some waves!

Gem and Mineral Show When: Jan. 16 from 9 a.m to 5 p.m., Jan. 17 & 18 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Where: Gila County Fairgrounds Cost: $3 for adults, $5 for couples, children and students: free The Gila County Gem and Mineral Society is hosting its 57th annual Gem and Mineral Show! The event includes demonstrations and presentations catering to the professional rockhound enthusiast, as well as the novice. You can also expect: dealers, jewelry by local artists, books, lapidary equipment and tools, mineral specimens, twist wire craft, channel jewelry making, copper enamel and bead making, rough cutting of materials, slabs and cabochons. Thursday is aimed at school kids from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with plenty of hands-on learning opportunities, and Friday and Saturday have extended hours until 7 p.m.

Annual Historic Home and Building Tour When: March 8-9 9 a.m. to 3 p.m both days Where: Begins at Train Depot in Globe Cost: $15 per person for tour The historic home tour has been held since 1984 to highlight our area’s historic quality. The tour begins on Friday and Saturday at 9 a.m., starting at the Train Depot on Broad Street, and ends at 3:00 p.m. Admission is $15 a person, and includes a copper admission ticket. You can also catch a pancake breakfast with sausage, juice and coffee at St. Paul's United Methodist Church for $5 a person, on both Saturday and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Or, you can enjoy the chili luncheon from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at the St. Paul's United Methodist Church for $8 a person.

Intertribal Pow-Wow “Seussical: The Musical, Jr.” When: Jan. 25 at 3:30 p.m.

Where: Cobre Valley Center for the Arts Cost: Free (donations appreciated) “Seussical: The Musical, Jr.” is coming to Globe! The Detour Company Theatre, based in Phoenix, is traveling to Globe to put on this one-time show at the Center for the Arts. The show will also be interpreted in sign language. Admission is free!

However, the group will appreciate any donations to offset their travel expenses.

For more information, call the Center for the Arts at 928-425-0884.

Pieces of Friendship Quilt Show When: Artist reception Feb. 8 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; exhibition Feb.1-March 31 Where: Cobre Valley Center for the Arts Cost: Free (donations appreciated) Get ready Globe-Miami Quilters! The Copper Country Quilters of Globe, a chapter of the Arizona Quilters Guild, is hosting their annual Pieces of Friendship Quilt Show. As many as 60 pieces will be on display. Entry forms are available at Julie's Sewing Corner in Miami, Hill Street Mall in Globe, the Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce and Cobre Valley Center for the Arts. Call the Center for the Arts at 928-425-0884 for more information.

When: March 14-16 Where: Apache Gold Casino If you have never been to a pow-wow, you should really go to this one! Pow-Wows are Native American gatherings, featuring Native American dancers, singers and performers from throughout the country.

Performers of all ages participate, dressed in ornate regalia. There are more than a dozen different dances performed, like the Grass Dance, the Smoke Dance and the Jingle Dress Dance. Needless to say, pow-wows are always very well attended.

Many of these performers follow the Pow-Wow Trail, traveling and performing throughout the U.S.

Gila County STEMFest When: March 29, 8 a.m. to Noon Where: Besh Ba Gowah Archaeological Park Cost: Free Look out, STEMFest is coming to Gila County (STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics)! This is a free, interactive festival aimed at sparking interest and engagement in science, technology, engineering and math amongst youth, from elementary school students to young adults. Local organizations, schools, small

businesses and agencies come together to create a variety of interactive booths, games and activities highlighting these different fields, ranging from aerospace, defense and engineering, sustainability and Earth sciences to technology and computer science. For information: contact Holly Sow at hsow@gilacountyaz. gov or (928) 402-8784, or visit www.gilacountyschools.org.

Arizona Bike Week March 28th-April 6 Arizona Bike Week drew more than 70,000 motorcyclists last year, and is a kick off to bike riding season with beautiful Arizona weather and tons of rides lined up. For complete information check out: http://azbikeweek.com.

Hardscrabble Series Bullion Plaza Cultural Center 6:30 p.m.

• Jan. 15 Dr. Jeremy Rowe on Arizona in Stereoopticon Views • Feb. 19 :Rick Powers on the History of the Highway System in Arizona • March 19: Jack San Felice on Lost El Dorado and Jacob Waltz

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April 19 is Globe’s 5th Easter Parade which begins at the Train Depot. This is a chance to stroll the sidewalks of Globe in your Easter finery and channel your best Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers. (For those too young to remember, check out the movie ‘Top Hat.’) Includes judging, prizes and fun for all. Call the Center for the Arts at 928-425-0884 for more information.

Miami Loco Art Walk Festival

East Valley Firefighters Poker Run When: April 4 at 8 a.m.

One of the biggest rides of the week makes an official stop at the historic Drift Inn Saloon in downtown Globe which hosts over 1000 riders each year for this event. Registration includes a free pancake breakfast and entry to the ride with all funds from the Poker Run go to the East Valley Firefighters Charities. Contact the Superstition Harley Davidson shop or the Drift Inn Saloon for details.

CVRMC Health Fair When: April 12 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center Cost: Free CVRMC’s annual health fair is set for April 12, and includes the Get Fit Run, a craft fair and lots of booths! Last year there were 74 vendors and 1,000 attendees!

There is no charge to set up a booth or attend the event. Contact Jessica Morgan for more information at 928-402-1230. To sign up for the Get Fit Run, call Evelyn at 928-402-1141. If you want to sign up as a craft vendor, call Donna at 928-402-1205.

When: April 25-27, Friday evening to Sunday afternoon Where: Downtown Miami Cost: Free Don’t miss the annual Miami Loco Art Walk! It’s a free, family-friendly art walk, including more than 20 art exhibitions around town featuring local and regional artists, plus vendors and stage performances. A launch party will be held Friday evening around 7 p.m. Art showings run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m on Saturday and Sunday, and musical performances will take place at the Veteran’s Park on Sullivan Street from roughly 3 to 10 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Also, don’t miss the twilight procession on Saturday evening, complete with spoken word and street performances. Feel free to bring candles!!

Plus! Check out some of these regular happenings!

First Friday Lecture Series Bullion Plaza Cultural Center at 6:30 p.m.

Hosted by Gila Historical Museum and Bullion Plaza Museum.

• Feb. 7: Special Evening with Governor and Mrs. George W.P. Hunt • March 7: Peter Bigfoot on herbs and survival • April 4: Pam Stevenson on Arizona Women in Journalism

• April 16: Jane Hale on the Clanton Family

Open Mic Nights • Globe-First Friday & Second Saturdays at Vida E Caffee 7-9pm • Globe – Karaoke Wednesdays at The Drift Inn Saloon 7pm

NOTE: If you have an event you’d like us to include in our calendar please e-mail us the details at editor@ globemiamitimes.com.

Submissions for the paper must be in by the 15th of the month preceeding our next issue.

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Lemonade’s Uniques 413 W. Gibson St. 480-213-8817

Pickle Barrel Trading Post 404 S. Broad St. 928-425-9282 Pretty Patty Lou’s 551 S. Broad St. 928-425-2680

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Julie’s Sewing Corner 600 W. Sullivan St. 928-473-7633

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TUCSON This information was provided by the Arts & Antiques group whose walking maps have been a valuable source of information about our local Antique shops for over a decade. They print their walking maps four times a year and you can pick them up in any of these shops.

The maps include the hours of operation and general offerings of each location.

Marina Village Boat Moorage Boat Rentals

28085 N. AZ Hwy, 188 Roosevelt, AZ 85545 602.912.1667

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1: The Old Dominion Mine & Walking Park At one time this underground mine was the largest copper producer in the United States.

Opened in 1881. Closed in 1931. The walking park was established in 2011 after years of negotiations and planning to make it possible. Today the park is open dawn to dusk and has signage along the paths to educate visitors about mine history.

2: Freeport-McMoRan Smelter (FMI) At one time the U.S. had 16 smelters processing copper. Today there are only three and two of them are in the “copper corridor” – FMI’s smelter in Miami and ASARCO’s smelter in Winkleman. The other is near Salt Lake City Utah.

Smelters extract the copper and other precious metals from the ore. The Miami smelter processes copper ore from FMI’s Arizona copper mines.

3: Copper Cities/Sleeping Beauty Mine – CLOSED After this copper mine closed in 1982, it was leased to mine turquoise. Beginning in 1990, “Sleeping Beauty” turquoise became known world wide and was highly prized for its’ purity. The name stems from the mountain range which looks like a woman reclining. The Sleeping Beauty mine closed in 2013 after their 25 year lease expired.

4: BHP Miami Unit (FMI) Copper ore was mined underground by block caving methods from 1911 to 1959. Mill tailings were deposited along Bloody Tanks Wash from 1925 to 1932 and across the valley at the Solitude facility (see#12) from 1928 to 1959.

Over 30 million tons of tailings were removed by hydraulic mining techniques, leached and stripped of copper from 1928 to 1959. The area immediately visible from Hwy 60 was reclaimed in 2006. In-situ leaching of the block caving subsidence zone began in 1943 and continues today which includes the SXEW plant.

5: Bluebird Mine (FMI) In 1968, this mine pioneered the modern SXEW process which is widely recognized as the most significant development in the copper industry and is used throughout the world. Now a part of FMI Miami Mine & Processing facilities.

6: Capstone Mining (BHP Pinto Valley) This large open pit mine was the site of the original Castle Dome Mine in the ‘40s and was purchased by BHP from Magma Copper in 1996.

It was sold again in 2013 to Capstone Mining of Canada. It is still an active site with an open pit and SXEW operation.

7: Carlota Copper Company (KGHM International) A recent addition, this open pit mine was commissioned in 2008 and has produced an average of 25 million pounds of cathode copper annually.

8: Asarco Ray Mine (ASARCO) The worlds largest open pit mine, producing 250,000/ton per day. Owned by Grupo Mexico SAB since 1999, the site includes the open-pit mine, two concentrators and a smelter. Asarco was first organized as the American Smelting and Refining Company in 1899. In the ‘50s Kennecott Mining would eventually swallow up the towns of Ray and Sonora as part of mine operations.

9:Asarco Smelter (ASARCO) This smelter has operated since 1912.

10:Freeport-McMoRan Rod Plant(FMI) Completed in 1969, this rod plant was the first of its kind to be located at a mine site. It produces copper rods which are the key material used in the manufacturing of wire and cable products.

The Old Dominion headframe and wheelhouse before they were dismantled to make way for a walking park.

Photo by LCGross

Hollis Cinema

COBRE VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS Home to the Oak Street Shops and Your Host to Arts, Entertainment and Social Events.

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Wildflowers

Be sure to plan a day-trip or weekend getaway to Globe-Miami this March-April when the wildflowers are at their peak.

You can catch two of the “best wildflower drives in Arizona." Although we are known for our poppies, the sheer variety of color and beauty is worth a day-drive, which takes you through Devil’s Canyon and on over to the San Carlos reservation, which is blanketed in bright orange poppies at this time of year. Check our website for more on wildflower season.

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Making the Case for Urban Chickens Locals explain why chickens are the next best thing

By Jenn Walker

It is hard to know the life expectancy of a chicken. Usually they end up on someone’s plate long before they have a chance to reach old age.

Yet Karen Donaldson has had chickens live more than 10 years.

In order to see Donaldson’s chickens, you have to make your way to Miami, and find the former urban trash heap that she reclaimed and transformed into an animal sanctuary 15 years ago. Once a terrible neighborhood eyesore, she now occupies these two lots with geese, rabbits, ducks, and of course, chickens.

“The main drive for me to raise chickens is because they lay eggs and eat bugs,” she says.

Originally from Maricopa, Donaldson has been raising chickens for the last 30 years, her entire adult life. She has a

good 24 chickens, which she keeps in a multi-level outdoor coop, which keeps predators out.

Raising urban chickens has been trending in recent years, as the organic and self-sufficiency food movements take hold in urban communities. More cities are facing the question: should chickens be legal? The debate has continued into this year in cities like: La Mesa, CA, Chattanooga, TN, Joliet, IL, Tampa, FL, and Huntsville, AL. Donaldson’s resounding response, of course, is yes.

When the debate came to Gila County, she vocalized her opinion, even organizing demonstrations. "An ordinance was passed this past summer in Globe allowing people to raise chickens as long as they have a permit," she says. No livestock ordinances have been passed in Miami, though there is a nuisance ordinance.

“If you have space, you ought to be able to have livestock,” Donaldson says.

“I believe people ought to have some authority over their own space.”

“At the same time we have to be good neighbors,” she adds.

By that she means cleaning up after livestock, and being mindful of noise. But, without their male counterpart, hens aren’t all that noisy. Chicken manure doesn’t smell, and it happens to make a nitrogenrich fertilizer, a valuable commodity for anyone who plants things. Chickens also eat what humans tend to have most trouble getting rid of. That includes not only fleas and ticks, but also food scraps and weeds, and scorpions!

Chickens make great pets, as well, Donaldson claims. They are generally easy to handle, and they don’t fly (not far, anyway).

“They will eat right out of your hand,” she says. “My three-year-old granddaughter picks them up.”

Donaldson holds one of her purebreds, which will be ready to show in the near future.

And of course, as long as they get enough sun (14 hours at least), they produce a lot of eggs. A hen will lay eggs for 28 to 36 days, and then rest before producing again. Of course, you don’t need as many birds as Donaldson to get eggs. For a consistent egg supply, you only need three hens.

Some of her chickens Donaldson raises specifically for eggs. The others, namely the purebreds, she raises with her son Isaac to show in 4H. She leans toward raising dual-purpose chickens, because they are big enough to eat but are not strictly meat birds, and they don’t require incubators for their eggs.

Chickens come in hundreds of breeds, some beautiful and exotic. Have you heard of Japanese silkies? Bantam cochins are exceptional mothers, and the Ameraucanas lay blue eggs, while the Marans lay chocolate-colored eggs. The Dorking is thought to originally hail from Italy, and the Sicilian Buttercup is named after its cup-shaped comb (a chicken’s comb is the often red, flesh growth on top of its head).

I wouldn’t know any of this, of course, had I not stood in Donaldson’s lot talking chickens for a couple hours.

For this reason, Donaldson raises chicken breeds that the American Livestock Conservancy considers threatened. The organization emphasizes genetic diversity, the importance of alternative livestock in the food system, and conservation of genetic traits like disease resistance, selfsufficiency, fertility and maternal instincts.

The beauty of raising chickens…. eggs

Photos by Jenn Walker

Donaldson's granddaughter holds a basket of fresh chicken eggs collected first thing in the morning.

In other words, Donaldson raises chickens breeds that, if it weren’t for people like her, would be eliminated from our food system and replaced by homogenized breeds, without people like me realizing it.

Nowadays, she might go to poultry shows to get different breeds, or even mail order from hatcheries in Pennsylvania.

Otherwise, she gets her chickens from Mary Hysong.

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Donaldson has about 24 chickens. They are kept in a multi-level outdoor coop, which keeps predators out.

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Hysong is a Miami native. She has always been fascinated with breeding animals, starting with tropical fish and hamsters as a preadolescent. After a stint in Texas, she returned to Miami and started breeding chickens. She is perhaps the only serious chicken breeder in town.

She breeds a lot of chickens that, unless you are a chicken enthusiast of sorts, you probably wouldn’t recognize the names of, such as the aforementioned Ameraucanas and Marans.

“I love genetics,” Hysong says. “I just enjoy breeding. Picking a male and female and evaluating their young to see improvements in their size, color and egglaying abilities.”

Good, quality livestock is hard to come by in Arizona, according to Hysong,

especially animals bred to a standard of perfection.

Birds are even harder to find, which is why Hysong started breeding chickens here in Globe-Miami.

Like Donaldson, she raises threatened breeds. She was particularly concerned for the Plymouth Rock, since she knows of no breeders west of the Mississippi River. They are considered a recovering breed by the conservancy that became popular for characteristics such as “its hardiness, docility, broodiness, excellent production of brown eggs, and meat that was considered tasty and juicy.”

Indeed, Hysong and Donaldson agree, if you don’t get too emotionally attached to them, home-raised chickens are great in the freezer, too.

In fact, Hysong relies on her ducks and chickens for meat, and hasn’t bought

store meat in more than a year, with the exception of a package of bacon.

“Butchering has been a part of my life,” she says. “My kids grew up at my knee in Texas.”

Often, they were told “those bunnies are probably going to be for dinner.”

“I rarely go to the grocery store,” Donaldson adds. “And most of what comes on the property doesn’t leave. Our food scraps go to the chickens.”

The two agree there are a lot of perks to eating home-raised chickens and their eggs. You don’t get the hormones and antibiotics that so often come with storebought meats. You know they were raised

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in humane, non-stressful conditions, and you know how they died, all of which affect the taste and quality of the chicken and its eggs.

For instance, Cornish chickens, which are most often used in the meat industry, are fed such high protein diets that they grow faster than they can support their weight, Donaldson says.

In contrast, she says, her chickens are not nearly as large, but they are much healthier. They get plenty of sunlight, as well as shade, air and space to run.

And, if they don’t get stuck in the freezer, they have a chance to live more than ten years.

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Winter 2014

Historic Home Tours 6th Annual Superior Home & Building Tour January 25th and 26th Nestled at the foot of Apache Leap Mountain is the little town of Superior, just 30 minutes east of Apache Junction. Thousands of people drive by and rarely get off the highway to look around. For the past ten years the town has been rebuilding, after being hard hit by copper mine shutdowns in the 1980s. Superior proudly shows off her progress at the 6th Annual Home and Building Tour on Saturday, January 25th and Sunday, January 26th, 2014.

Unique, renovated homes and buildings, several with an artist’s touch, will reach out to you. Visit Mattie Earp’s grave and meet Wyatt Earp on Saturday!

Enjoy a featured art studio along with an art show.

Shop a great antique show at the recently refurbished Magma Club (c.1920) while live music is played on the veranda. Authors and historians will share fascinating facts about the area. The famous Mata Ortiz potters from Mexico will be crafting and firing their unique pottery during the event. Learn how to make and play a didgeridoo on Sunday. Gaze at the majestic mountains and “Discover Superior."

The tour begins at the Chamber of Commerce, 165 W Main St. Saturday 9am to 5 pm, Sunday 10am to 4pm. $12 for tour ($10 prepaid), good both days. All other events are free. All ticket holders receive 2-for-1 tickets to the Boyce Thompson Arboretum and the Renaissance Festival! Visit www.superiorarizonachamber.org or call 520689-0200 for more information.

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Welcomes You

Globe Unified School District Home of the Tigers

Like a film festival, STEMFests help draw new audiences to the art of science.

“The world is steeped in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and our students need a solid educational grounding to ensure a successful future for themselves – and all of us!” says Linda O'Dell, Gila County School Superintendent.

With that in mind three years ago, O’Dell went about bringing more science opportunities to the kids of Gila County. Drawing on the state's efforts and the newly launched Arizona SciTech Festivals across the State in 2012, O’Dell signed on to the idea of enlisting schools, educators and community leaders in getting kids involved with the sciences. She and her One student took a cue from McGyver last year and made a battery out of two potatoes and a few wires.

office launched the first local STEMFest for Gila County the same year.

This year will be the third annual STEMFest in Gila County.

In rural areas of America like ours, the number of students that pursue a degree in STEM remains very low despite attempts made by school districts to introduce the newest technology in classrooms. Programs

would allow them to create the next “big thing” is much lower than expected.

Already dubbed the Net Geners (born between 1980 and 1989) and iGeners (born from 1990 to 1999), the young adult and teen population is consuming new technologies faster than ever before. To put this into perspective just consider this: Just think. The average cell phone

STEMFest Creates interest in science for a new generation

Master Gardeners group – Fred Jimenez had his worm hotels and explained to children how the worms can turn scrap paper compost into healthy soil for beautiful gardens.

By Holly Sow

like STEMFest are targeted at improving those numbers. While today’s youth have more technology and free flow of information at their disposal than any generation before them, their interest and achievement in the subjects that

today has more computing power than NASA had when it landed a man on the moon in 1969!

Catherine Rampell of the New York Times magazine offers the following explanation for this phenomenon: Several hundred people showed up at last year’s STEMFest, held at High Desert Middle School.

Freeport – Robotics (Robert Sharette had his various robots that children could program with simple commands. He then explained how the mining industry uses robots.

“Most young people simply don’t come into contact with computer scientists and engineers in their daily lives, and they don’t really understand what they do. A study financed by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media found that recent family films, children’s shows and prime-time programs featured extraordinarily few characters with computer science or engineering occupations, and even fewer who were female.”

Moreover, many schools with limited budgets find it difficult to fund courses in computer science, engineering, or higher level AP math and science. Schools that do offer computer classes tend to focus on a curriculum that teaches students how to use technology rather than how to

create (such as writing code).

These are the bridges which STEMFest aims to build.

According to the Arizona SciTech Festivals website, “science festivals do for science what film festivals do for films. They offer activities and events that engage, inspire and spark imagination across entire communities.”

O’Dell and her staff will be hosting this year’s STEMFest from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 29 at Besh Ba Gowah Archaeological Park, 150 Jesse Hayes Road. Everyone is invited to attend this free community event.

If you are interested in displaying an exhibit, volunteering, or donating to STEMFest, please contact Holly Sow at the Gila County School Superintendent’s Office by calling (928) 402-8784 or by e-mailing hsow@ gilacountyaz.gov.

(Note: This year a second STEMFest will be held in Payson on Saturday, May 3 at the Green Valley Park. More information on both schools can be found at www.gilacountyschools.org.)

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GUSD presents a selection of student work from High Desert Middle School and Globe High School. Below are excerpts from narrative stories written by 6th grade language arts students and on the following page is a selection of images from Tracy Miller's photography classes.

An excerpt from “Family Matters” by Samson Peden As Booker and Dewitt sat in the middle of the cold forest next to a small campfire, as Booker watched the blood gush from his open wound on his arm, and Dewitt desperately wrapped cloth around it keeping pressure on the wound, Booker started thinking back to the beginning when everything was so simple...

Booker was 17 years old when his dad passed away. Now he was 18, about a year since.

Grandpa was trying to grow the crops as best as he could but the cold weather made it too hard. It was winter, Booker remembered. It was cold with the clattering of the construction workers building houses. Then he heard Grandpa mumbling as he walked in the door. Booker knew whenever there was something bad Grandpa would always mumble. Booker walked up to Grandpa and said, “What’s wrong?”

“Grab the family. Take them to the living room, I have some bad news,” Grandpa replied. The family was there looking at Grandpa. Then, “With the cold weather it’s been hard to grow crops, and a lot of them died. I didn’t bring in that much money,” Grandpa announced...

An excerpt from “Super Heroes Having the Time of Their Life”

by Jeremy Kephart Have you ever just sat down and thought that there might be aliens right next door to your house? If you haven’t, you might consider it after reading this.

Everyone was sitting in the dining room eating supper, thinking about their past as normal people, when a huge horse bashed through the door, trying to get something to eat! Dad flew up out of his chair, picked up the horse and stopped it from eating their food. The horse said, “Ahh come on I just want some food.” That’s when the doorbell rang. Everyone was rushing to the door. Dad opened it, and it was one of their neighbors.

Dad super fast introduced everyone. “Hi I am Dad, and this is Mom, plus our two kids Jaydon and Kristen.” Then Dad quickly slammed the door shut. Dad said, “That was close, now everyone go get ready for tonight.”

When everyone was ready they flew off into the dark and smelly city for their overnight watch over the city. Every night they do this because they are super heros. It is on this night that they will fight for their life. The whole family knew something was wrong because it was silent. You would be able to hear a pen be dropped from a mile away. Then a gigantic stomp was heard, and everyone turned around and saw the worst thing ever!

It was The Villain, the most feared person in the whole galaxy. The Villain said, “I will destroy this world for my father.” Dad said “Alright everyone prepare for the time of your life.”

The fight was incredible. Flying fists, lasers shooting and people getting hurt. The Villain made the first move by shooting laser eyes at our heroes. Then everyone rushed in and started to fight. It was super scary to watch so I closed my eyes and opened them a little later, and this is what I saw.

Everyone was exhausted but the heroes had one more trick up their sleeve. They started to join hands, chanting “super move quadrupal.” A flash of very bright light, and when it went away The Villain was gone!..

An excerpt from “A Dancer’s Bad Luck” by Anessa Thompson My life as a dancer is everything to me. Before I go on, I should introduce myself. My name is Reenae Treasure and I am 13 years old. This is the story of how I lost an amazing chance to my dream school, “A Dancer’s School.”

It all started when I got a phone call from “A Dancer’s School.” Auditions were available, and they wanted me to try out. Once the day came, I was so nervous, and I was sweating like crazy. As soon as I got there, they called my name to perform.

When they called my name, I was so nervous. I thought I messed up. I needed to go home, but before I walked out the door, a lady asked me, “Have you done the tour?” I answered her, “No, not yet.” “Let’s go before you leave,” said the lady.

While I was doing the tour, I met some girls Chloe, Sal and Riley. I didn’t like them that much. They ket bragging of how well they did. I didn’t like that because what if I didn’t do well? They would be making fun of me pretty much. That is just rude.

One month later, I got a phone call again saying I was in the school. They wanted me to be there the next week. I was wondering what to do next. When my mom got off the phone, she told me to pack my bags because I was going to move into a dorm...

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Cheyenne Fuller

Angel Delara

Ben Sanchez

Kobie Bula-Ay

Ralph Castaneda

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Hailey Williams

Ashlynn Packard

Shianne Gregg

This piece was created by Globe High student Ben Sanchez. It started out as a pencil drawing and then progressed into a Photoshop piece.

Leah Rios

Molli Griffin

Students work from GUSD can now be found at www.GlobeMiamiTimes.com where we launched a new section for youth, ages 8-18, to submit work for publication. Want to know more? See "Youth Blog" for details!

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By Jenn Walker

A flock of adolescent girls fly across the stage as I enter the High Desert Middle School auditorium. If I know anything about ballet (I don’t, really) my guess is that they are practicing jetés, where a dancer throws themselves horizontally in the air, in leaps.

To the side of the stage, there is a young woman directing their motions.

That is Erika “Moquie” Flores, High Desert’s language arts teacher, dance instructor and cheer coach.

I don’t go unnoticed walking into her class. The minute the girls spot me entering the room, their focus shifts from their jetés to the camera in my hand. For a moment, the auditorium erupts into chatter and giggles. Today is the last day of school before winter break; I can feel the excitement. It is only a matter of seconds before Flores regains the girls’ attention.

At just 24 years old, Flores is more than two years into her teaching career, with seven classes on her plate, including this one. Observing her direct a class of 48 girls, it makes sense she has gotten so far in so little time. She commands respect from her students, and gives it back in return.

“I love teaching, I like working with kids. I’m more comfortable with my students than I am with adults,” she tells me outside her class. “I told my students that you were coming to interview me today. They asked if I was nervous. I said I was terrified!”

“I think I am a kid at heart, still.

So I can relate to them, they relate to me, and I’m not afraid to make fool of myself with them,” she adds. “They have to know you’re a real person.”

Flores knows what it’s like growing up here in Globe. She went on to study at Northern Arizona University after graduating from Globe High School.

And, once she got to college, she wasn’t entirely sure what she wanted to study.

“I changed my major five times,” she says. “I started out as a journalist, and then went to psychology, and just kind of dipped my toes in everything.”

She chose elementary education.

“I think that is what I had always wanted to do, but I had talked myself out of it just because teachers don’t make a lot of money,” she explains.

“But when it came down to it, I realized that was where my passion was, and was what I really wanted to do.”

During her time at NAU, she received the Rodel Promising Student Teacher Scholarship. She was placed in a student-teaching position at a lowincome school, and upon graduating she signed a contract that she would teach at low-income schools for three consecutive years.

Her father was diagnosed with cancer after she graduated in 2011, so for a

Moquie Is Back Teacher Returns to Globe and Brings a Little Bit of Everything to the Table

Photos by Jenn Walker

but four of her 28 students reclassified after taking their English language proficiency test.

“I wanted to cry when I got the results,” she says.

It wasn’t a happy occasion that brought her back to Globe, however.

She moved back home after her father passed away last August. She has been at High Desert ever since, teaching the subject of her choice: language arts.

Everything she learned at Laveen she brought with her to High Desert.

pushing for a dance class. Since Flores has danced all her life, including when she was on the dance team at NAU, and taught at dance studios in both Mesa and Globe, she was asked to teach the class. She gladly took on the challenge, and began a dance class covering jazz, lyrical and hip hop. They just had their first performance in October.

They performed “Thriller.”

“All of the girls who are in the class want to be there and are excited to learn,” she says. “The girls who have been dancing their whole lives are helping the girls who have never taken a dance class before.”

For a project, they had to research different styles of dance in pairs, from ballroom dancing and tap dancing to pop-and-locking.

“I think that sparked a lot of interest in a lot of different genres,” she says.

Students at High Desert expressed interest in a dance class, so Flores began teaching one.

Here she is pictured instructing her students.

“Hopefully we’ll be able to go over those before the year is over.”

Next they will be performing in the spring talent show.

On top of her dance class, she teaches six sixth grade language arts classes throughout the week, with up to 32 students per class. It makes for long days, days that start at 7:10 and end at 5:30, after cheer. That’s right, she also took over High Desert’s cheer team.

“Our team this year is really good, I’m really proud of them,” she says.

“They’re hard workers.” year she came home, and taught fourth grade at Copper Rim Elementary. Then, after getting married, she moved to Chandler and taught fifth grade ELD (English Language Development) in the Laveen Elementary School District.

“All 28 of my students did not speak English as their first language,” she says.

“The ELD program was not anything I had ever done before. I had heard about it in college courses. Nothing prepared me for what I was walking into.”

Not only did she have to cover reading, writing, math and social studies, she also had to teach by another set of standards for English language development. Challenging as it was, all

Moquie's Dance Class

“It's nice to be back home, and to be able to try to make a difference in a place that has meant so much to me!” she says.

What was most exciting, she says, was finding out that as a sixth grade teacher, she would be reunited with the students she taught as fourth graders at Copper Rim. “It’s been cool to see them grow and see how they’ve changed,” she says. “I feel like I have such a good relationship with this group of kids because I knew them prior.”

Right around the time Flores came to High Desert, students began

If there is one thing she feels strongly about when it comes to her students, whether it is her dance students or her language arts students, it is this:

“I want them to have big dreams. I know sometimes teachers say not to give them unreasonable expectations. But the fact of the matter is, they can be whatever they want to be. It doesn’t matter where you come from, if you want it and you work for

No matter what you do, you need to do something you love.”

it, you can achieve it...

If anyone has proved that, Flores certainly has.

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Veterans line up for a photo during this year's Veterans' Day ceremony in Downtown Miami.

Photo by Jenn Walker

Miami Memorial

The Miami Memorial was created to honor veterans including those from Panama to the Middle East and from WWII to present. Darryl Dalley’s (right) vision for the memorial began back in early 2012. A ceremony was held in Miami on November 11th, to celebrate Veterans Day and the dedication of a plaque to Darrell Stubbs, who lost his brother in the Vietnam War.

Darrell and Kelly Stubbs, with Darryl Dalley at the Memorial.

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Winter 2014 Alkyl Dimethyl Benzyl Ammonium Chlorides (C12-16) The EPA's review of toxicity data and the potential for human exposure concluded that it poses a high risk for human health.

Look for it in Lysol products

By Jenn Walker

When you bought that batch of strawberries or blueberries at the store, you probably weren’t expecting to pay for pesticide residues, no more than you were asking for formaldehyde with your shampoo.

Sadly, it’s next-to-impossible to buy things these days without addons. You can pick from any of the ten options at the grocery store, and they will all likely do the job: clean your floor, sanitize your hands, freshen your house or just taste good. However, you likely also got a slew of things you didn’t ask for, or didn’t even

realize came with that purchase.

It pays to read a label. Here are a just a few examples: Red 40, also known as FD&C RED 40, Allura Red or E129. Typically made of petroleum. It contains aniline, which is known to cause cancer, cause damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure, and is suspected of causing genetic defects.

Look for it in Pepsi, Gatorade, V8 Splash, Fritos, Fruit Loops, food dyes, fruit snacks, Kraft barbecue sauces, Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain cereal bars, and just about any candy... M&M’s, Skittles, you name it.

DMDM Hydantoin. Slowly releases formaldehyde, which is carcinogenic.

Look for it in Ajax Liquid Hand Soap, Softsoap, AXE shampoos and conditioners, and Revlon and L’Oreal products.

Propylparaben is proven to cause endocrine disruption, is listed as a high concern for developmental and reproductive toxicity, and is a human toxicant/allergen.

Look for it in Crest mouthwash, Orajel toothpaste, Jergen’s moisturizer, Coppertone Sunscreen.

Sodium Borate poses a high risk of causing developmental, endocrine and reproductive effects, and may also cause skin irritation, allergies and respiratory effects.

Look for it in Tide, Xtra detergent, Arm & Hammer Plus, liquid detergents, Air Wick Air Freshener, and Lysol cleaning products.

Pesticides There is a reason why organic is getting popular. Pesticides are used to help produce most non-organic fruits and vegetables. These four are the some of the worst: • Non-Organic Blueberries – The USDA pesticide data program found 52 different pesticide residues on blueberries, 14 being neurotoxins, which can harm brain development, and others that are carcinogenic or and suspected hormone disruptors.

• Non-Organic Strawberries – They found 54 different pesticide residues on strawberries, including ones that are carcinogenic, contain developmental or reproductive toxins and are suspected hormone disruptors.

• Non-Organic Apples – They found 42 different pesticide residues on apples, including ones that contain developmental or reproductive toxins and are probable carcinogens.

• Non-Organic Spinach – They found 48 different pesticide residues on spinach, including ones that contain carcinogens, suspected hormone disruptors, and developmental or reproductive toxins.

The good news is, you don’t have to buy this stuff! More farmers are going organic, and more companies are eliminating these ingredients from their products. It’s all up to you to read the labels, and decide what you want to spend your dollar on.

And, if you want to know more on these topics, check out these links.

Search more than 74,000 cosmetics, cleaners and more by brand or ingredient on this massive database at http:// www.ewg.org/skindeep/.

Want to know what’s on your tomatoes, potatoes, or green beans? Look up the USDA Pesticide Data Program’s findings, listed by the Pesticide Action Network at http://whatsonmyfood.org.

P.S. If you decide to clear out your cabinets after reading this, I don’t blame you. Just do me one favor – don’t dump your cosmetics down the sink.

You’re just passing on the problem to our water supply (it’s a huge problem). The trash bin is the lesser of the two evils.

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What's NEW with GlobeMiamiTimes online?

Fabulous Forty Pics of 2013 Staff picks for the best photos of 2013

NEW Youth Section

featuring work by students in the local school district.

New program offers teachers a chance to have student work published here.

NEW Music and Video Clips featuring SoundCloud

Social Sharing, Photo Galleries and Sound...

And that is just some of the new features we've added to the website.

So check us out online at

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Canyon Rio 800-272-3353 http://www.canyonrio.com Based out of Flagstaff, the company got their start guiding on the Grand Canyon in 1992 when owners Donnie and Caroline Dove started the business.

Noteworthy: A sister company, Canyon R.E.O. (River Equipment Outfitters) handles rentals of kayaks, canoes, and just about any other river equipment you may need. All rentals based out of their warehouse in Flagstaff.

Mild to Wild

Did you know that Arizona’s Salt River rafting season is the first white water rafting season in the U.S. each year?

Yep, we kick off the season right here in our own backyard!

This March, thousands will begin making their annual pilgrimage to our area to experience the white water thrills and scenic beauty of the Salt River, although the river itself is about 200 miles long, most of the action happens on a 20-mile stretch which begins at a ‘put in’ just 45 minutes north of Globe.

Winding its way through the Salt River Canyon, the Salt is a federally-protected wilderness area which has been likened to a mini Grand Canyon adventure. It is formed by the confluence of the White River and Black River in eastern Gila County and continuously fed by numerous perennial streams. It’s been called the “other Grand Canyon,” and is white water adventure combined with scenic Arizona at its best!

Since water levels on the Salt depend on snow melt as opposed to dam releases, rafting season here is dependent upon Mother Nature. Typically the season launches around early March and runs through April until the water drops and the rocks begin appearing.

The river offers enough thrills and chills for the adrenaline junkies, with Class III and IV rapids, as well as serenely calm moments where you can soak in the pure beauty of the wilderness around you and contemplate your purpose on Earth.

While the most popular trips are the one day 20-mile journeys, most of the rafting companies also offer two- to five-day trips as well. All of the companies working the Salt are good and each have their loyal fan base. Just check out the comments on Yelp.

Here are the “Fabulous Four” rafting companies which work the Salt each year. Pick one. Book your ticket. Hope to see you on the river this spring!

800-567-6745 http://mild2wildrafting.com/arizona-rafting.html Company operates in Arizona, Colorado and Utah.

Noteworthy: Rafts, premium boats and inflatable kayaks.

Check out their “Dash of Salt," running the two day trip in one extremely fast-paced day depending on high water.

SaltRiverRafting (SRR)

Wilderness Aware Rafting

info@raftthesalt.com 800-472-5194 One of the oldest rafting companies operating on the Salt, since 1992.

Noteworthy: Check out their “Super Wilderness One Day” which meets up at Bernies Steakhouse and includes 20 river miles, three Class IV rapids, a dozen Class IIIs and three hours of rugged jeep trails to and from the river.

800-462-7238 www.inaraft.com Headquartered in Buena Vista, Colorado and guiding on six rivers.

Noteworthy: Has been named Colorado Company of the year twice. Offers half-day to five-day trips on the Salt and maintains a great blog on their website.

All these companies have extensive experience on the Salt and have been wowing their fans for years. Just take a look at the comments on Trip Advisor or Yelp for any of these companies and you’ll find out why we think we have the best white water adventure you’ll find anywhere! Each of the companies offer a variety of trips, boats, ‘amenities’ and super experienced guides.

Check out their websites and book your trip in January before they fill up. Heck, you might have so much fun the first time you’ll want to get in a second trip before the season ends!

Scan for Rafting News and Rafting Check List.

Eva

Last year at this time we brought you the story of Eva, the mourning dove saved by GlobeMiamiTimes' contributors Darin and Jimmy, after falling out of the nest when she was just days old. They nursed her back to health, and regretfully turned her loose to fly away – which she did; only to return in a few days. She hasn’t left since. She knows where home is.

She happily shares the house with Darin, Jimmy, and their two dogs, Sandy and Nikki.

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Roosevelt Lake, Continued from page 1

Fortunately for them, bass fishing is a year-round affair. Between Roosevelt, Alamo, Pleasant, Bartlett, Saguaro Canyon and Apache Lakes, there is more than enough water to fish, and tournaments run just about every weekend throughout the majority of the year. Tournament entry fees might be $400 or $500, but if you place in the top, and there are a lot of boats, the earnings can be big. Big as in $100,000 for first place.

Price holds two big bass catches in 2009.

Last February, mountain snowpack and rising water drew as many as 300 proanglers from as far as China and Japan to Roosevelt Lake for the the EverStart Series, the western division circuit of the FLW (Forest L. Wood) tournament. The FLW is perhaps the most lucrative and prestigious bass tournament circuit in the world. Last year’s winner won $27,912.

“What’s nice about Roosevelt is that you can fish deep or shallow,” commented Brett Hite, a Phoenix pro-angler, before that tournament. “It is a very versatile lake and you can really pick your poison.

You can fish jigs and drop-shot rigs out deep, or you can throw spinnerbaits and crankbaits up shallow. There’s lots of good rock, and even though the water is down, there is still a little bit of brush in the water.”

By the time this issue comes out, the next tournament will be the All Star circuit, Arizona’s oldest bass fishing tournament, set for Jan. 18 at Apache Lake. Sometimes the All Star tournaments draws more than 60 boats, Avalos says, which is considered a big turnout. You can bet that Price and Avalos will be there.

Price and Avalos each have their claim to fame in the bass fishing world.

Avalos is on the Arizona Nitro Pro Bass Fishing State Team. Price started his own local business, Bass N’ Crappie Guide Service, in 2003, guiding visitors from as far as England and Alaska out on our waters. In 2010, Price caught a 10.5 pound largemouth bass at San Carlos Lake. He weighed in 32 pounds of fish in that tournament, five total, all of which he caught with crankbaits.

“People will call you a liar when you tell ‘em that,” he says.

Together, Price and Avalos caught a

9.79 pound bass, the biggest bass of the year, as a team in the All Star circuit last summer. They won more than $2000. In November, they finished in the top ten in the All Star circuit at Roosevelt Lake.

These guys are that good. They know the lakes, and for years, they have learned how to find schools of fish, and track their patterns and the depths they dwell at. By tracking shad, or bait fish, they can find where the bigger fish come around to feed. They test what types of bait the fish will “hit,” or clamp on to. The temperature and pressure of the water constantly change, so they are experts at knowing how the conditions affect the fish. Oh, and to fish in a bass tournament, you can only use artificial lures.

“If you see a shad that’s wounded, you see the way it flutters on top of the water, sometimes,” Avalos explains. “I see it flutter, and after awhile I look and see a big old bass that hits it, so I’m going to get one of these lures that float on top and do the same thing.”

Price and Avalos constantly test different baits in the water to see which ones will catch something. Each one serves a purpose. Some represent crawdads, some represent bait fish.

The shallow running crankbaits run one to five feet. If they don’t catch anything with a shallow crankbait, then they’ll throw in a medium diving crankbait at 10 to 12 feet. If they still catch nothing, then they throw a deep diving crankbait at 15 to 20 feet.

“In my boat, when I fish a tournament, I probably have 12 to 15 tackle boxes filled with different lures,” Avalos says.

You could see how this adds up.

And every fisherman fishes differently, Avalos says. Each one uses different lures and different techniques.

Much of what Avalos learned is from Price.

“Me and Anthony have been fishing together, shoot, since he was 12 or 13,” Price says.

Price himself started fishing about as early as he could walk. In 1958 he moved out to Globe-Miami, and started fishing with the Gila Bass Club. That is how he met Avalos. Avalos was the youngest member, and knew no one.

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Avalos (left) shown with another angler Jack Herman (right) at a tournament at San Carlos Lake.

Avalos won 1st place.

Avalos caught a smallmouth bass during the day trip at Roosevelt Lake.

“I’d get off the truck with my tackle box and my one or two rods, and I’d wait for someone to say, ‘Okay you can come with me,’” Avalos remembers.

That’s how Price became his mentor.

“He always took me with him,” Avalos says. Early on, they fished tournaments together at Roosevelt and San Carlos Lakes.

Avalos has been fishing for the last 35 years now. For the last ten, he has even hosted his own radio show on bass fishing Friday mornings on KIKO. Still, these guys profess they are nervous whether or not they will make a catch while we’re on the water. They don’t want to disappoint. It is mid-December, and most of the tournament circuits don’t restart until January.

“The barometer is dropping right now, so it’s gonna be rough,” Price forewarns.

Nine and a half pounds won the Jack Arizona Bass tournament just weeks before, he tells me. That was for a fivefish weigh-in.

But it’s not long before they’re onto something. Price breaks the silence first.

“The screen just blew up with a bunch of stuff,” he says.

The screen he is referring to is on the right side of the boat, in front of the seats.

It has GPS that maps out the boat’s route, and tells the temperature and depth of the water we’re hovering over. It also has sensors that detect whenever the boat comes up on movement in the water.

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Winter 2014 Price fishing out on Roosevelt Lake.

Avalos is sponsored by Nitro Boats, plus Bass Pro Shops, Interstate Batteries, Big O Tires, Jack Lewis Custom Baits, John’s Barber Shop, Chalo’s and Abell’s.

Price is sponsored by Horne Dodge Chrysler Jeep Nissan, Guayo's On the Trail, Bass N’ Crappie Guide Service, Jack AZ Bass and Cortez Tackle.

Roosevelt Lake, Continued from page 32

It’s probably shad, Price tells me. They have very little protein. He pinches his finger together to show me how much.

Crawdads, on the other hand, are all protein. So it only makes sense that both guys are using crawdad lures.

Soon enough, Avalos catches a smallmouth bass. He holds it long enough for me to snap a photo, and then dips it back into the water, where it wriggles off of his palms and disappears deep into the lake almost instantly.

“The majority of the fish I let go,”

Avalos says. “As a tournament angler, we’re taught to catch and release, because that’s there for the future for the kids.”

Not long after, he catches a largemouth bass. We reach 21 feet, at about 57 degrees, and Price reels in a yellow bass.

Even if neither of them had made a catch, I am certain we would have enjoyed ourselves just as much.

Price throws another line, his spinning reel lets out a long buzz. Then it is quiet again. We stand on the deck in silence.

How could you not love it out here, Price asks.

Truly, how could you not?

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Centennial Band, Continued from page 1

In August 1908, the Silver Belt stated that "hundreds of people gathered on the courthouse steps and in the street last night to hear the public concert given by the Globe City Band. The concert, as a matter of fact, would have done credit to many a metropolitan band, and to say that it was highly appreciated would be to put it mildly."

The band cycled through directors as the years past, I am told. Milton Nunamaker directed from around 1955 to 1970. School band leaders took on the task after him, then Cruz Mendoza led the band until around 1995. Some members left and others stuck around. One of its longest standing members was local musician Johnny Mercer, who joined the band as a teenager in 1939, and remained a member until its end.

In the ‘50s, Mercer’s daughter Kathleen would sit on the courthouse steps to watch her dad play in the band every weekend during the summer.

“When I was a child, the band still played in the bandbox by the courthouse steps,” she remembers. “People filled the steps or sat in their cars.”

The bandleader stood in the bandbox too. It was so cramped that the trumpet and trombone players leaned against the rails to fit the entire band in.

Mercer was still in the Globe City Band when it dissolved in '95. In 2010, Kathleen returned to Globe-Miami from Pendleton, Oregon with her husband Nolan Frost.

Like Kathleen, Frost is rooted in music.

(The two met while playing music for Oregon’s Inland Northwest Orchestra, in the flute section.) After years of playing the flute, he conducted school bands, as well as an orchestra.

Together, they dreamt up the “Globe Miami Centennial Band” with high hopes. Frost would lead the band (initially

An old photo of the Globe City Band on the steps of the Central School.

with Richard Franco), and Kathleen would perform alongside the other musicians. Mustaches and uniforms aside, they prepared to bring the old City Band back.

A year after Frost accepted a music teaching position at Miami High, the two began recruiting local musicians from both Globe and Miami to join the Centennial Band.

“We wanted to make sure it was not just a Miami thing or a Globe thing,” Frost adds.

“We wanted make sure people felt included.”

Once the word spread, they didn’t have much trouble finding others. By the first rehearsal there were 25 players, including Mercer, in addition to other former City Band players, like Keith and Linda Gustafson.

Hailing from Chicago, the Gustafsons

The Centennial Band has a concert band and a jazz band.

Photographed are members of the smaller jazz band.

“I didn’t have any aspirations of playing again, but it was something I just couldn’t let go,” he remembers. “So when Nolan and Kathleen put together the Centennial Band, I was more than willing to join.”

He was there the first night the Centennial Band rehearsed.

Since then, the Centennial Band has grown to about 35 members, from ages 13 to 91. Like the Gustafsons, a handful of other members have played professionally, either in the Navy, college or in symphonies. Other members live dual lives – employees by day, musicians by night.

Together, the band puts on a good five concerts a year throughout Globe-Miami, whether it is on a rainy day at the Globe Home Tour, or in the glaring summer heat during the Boomtown Spree. Like their predecessors, the Centennial Band

This old promotional photo of the City Band appeared in various publications around Globe in 1909, including The Border, a monthly magazine.

played in the City Band since the late ‘70s. Prior, Keith played saxophone and clarinet in a Chicago band called the Al Pierson Orchestra, traveling all over the Midwest. Linda played timpani and triangle in the Chicago Light Opera, and later played with the Lamp Lighters, a big band in Chicago.

After years with the City Band in Globe, it was a no-brainer for the couple to join the Centennial Band.

Linda switched to the alto sax and flute.

“We that love music find avenues to play,” Linda says.

“We stick together.”

Others, like Paul Buck (who now assists Miami’s high school marching band) hadn’t played music in years.

After playing percussion as a kid, and tuba and bass guitar in high school jazz band, Buck enlisted in the military.

continues to breathe life into GlobeMiami in the same fashion.

Unlike the City Band, however, the Centennial Band has two layers: a concert band and a jazz band.

A lot of players in the jazz band double on instruments. Flute players double on saxes, clarinet players double on saxes, or fluctuate between trumpet and baritone, or timpani and keyboard.

When Buck joined, he picked up the alto sax for the concert band, which meant learning treble clef in addition to bass clef.

“If you’re a good musician and you already know the language of music, it’s much easier to switch,” Frost says. “And then it’s just a matter of mastering the physicality of it.”

During any given performance, they might play one of the City Band’s old songs, just as easily as they might improvise, New Orleans-street style, or break from a slow ballad into funk.

You can thank Frost for the eclectic musical variety. Sure, he enjoys Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. ConcertCentennial Band, Continued on page 35

Winter 2014 in your section,” Buck adds. “We’ve got one song right now where it goes up and down, and up and down, and up and goers like marches, so he’ll frequently down. It’s supposed to be like a ship throw a march number into the set, too. crossing the ocean with the waves up and But, he confesses, “I’m a voracious down. To drop down to almost nothing, listener,” thus his varied musical tastes and then come all the way up and back bleed into the band. down over and over again is challenging.”

Most recently, the band performed Especially if you are coordinating your a baroque piece by French composer sound with 34 other musicians, or, if you Jean-Joseph Mouret, as well as Robert are leading the band.

Russell Bennett’s Suite of Old American “An interesting challenge for me as Dances, the Latin song “Brasilia," tunes the band leader is to work with that as from the Wizard of Oz, and the Three my instrument. You have less control, Klezmer Miniatures. ironically,” Frost Frost wanted to says with a laugh. move the jazz band from “You think the band dance numbers into leader has control, performance-style jazz, so but no.” they also learned “Struttin’ Needless to say, With Some Barbeque,” you have to have a written by Louis Armstrong good ear. and Lil Harden.

“We were playing “It has a couple a piece, and he stops different styles in it. the band and picks Rhythmically everybody out a single chord. is very exposed,” Frost Someone’s been explains. “There is a section playing the wrong in the middle of it where note.” Buck says. “So the whole band has to he can stop us and improvise together, in a An old ad found in the Arizona Silver take us back to one sort of New Orleans-style, Belt, dated August 16, 1907. chord and rebuild it street music kind of thing.” from top to bottom, and fix the problem.”

“It really pushes the knowledge of The band continues to expand its your scales, too,” Buck adds. “That song instrument collection to add to its sound. has more accidentals than anything else The local schools will sometimes lend we’ve got.” out instruments. When funds allow, the “Accidentals?” I ask. band will buy an exotic instrument that “Notes that aren’t typically in the is hard to come by, like large bass or scale,” he answers. percussion instruments. Most recently, Whatever the case, “I try to bring the band bought a baritone saxophone things into band that are different on and a keyboard. both ends of the spectrum, that people The hope, of course, is that the aren’t familiar with. Some traditional Centennial Band will live on, and things, some new things,” Frost says. continue to entertain, because as Frost “I always try to push us to the edge of our points out, “musicians primarily play for ability, at least in some of our numbers, themselves first,” and then for others who so we’re constantly growing and can appreciate their gift. stretching. If you’re not pushed, it’s Although Mercer left the Centennial really not that fun.”

Band last year due to health issues, he “Some of the biggest challenges are supposedly still has his horn within reach, playing on the upper and lower end of and plays along whenever a Lawrence your instrument’s ability, and matching Welk song comes on. your intonation with the other players

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