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Harassment?

Slave war grips Rim Country

County attorney accused by

Alexis Bechman

roundup staff reporter

A former deputy county attorney has filed a discrimination claim with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office against the Gila County Attorney’s Office.

Joy LeAnn Riddle, 29, filed the complaint with the attorney general’s office and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Jan. 30 just a few weeks after she says the latest episode of discrimination took place.

Riddle left the GCAO around Dec. 22 after she says County Attorney Bradley Beauchamp fired her.

In her complaint, Riddle alleges that Beauchamp sexually harassed her repeatedly after she joined the office in January 2013.

Beauchamp denied any discrimination.

“It is always difficult to terminate someBradley Beauchamp See Prosecutor accused, page 8A Gila County Attorney

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Gas prices low Alexis Bechman

roundup staff reporter

After months of paying amongst the highest gas prices in the state, Payson drivers now pay some of the lowest.

One local gas station owner says he knows why: Competitors are trying to force him out of business just weeks after opening by undercutting gas prices.

Team CB Petroleum owner Chip Becks says since he opened his Chevron station on Feb. 6 off Highway 260, across from the Giant Gas, gas prices have stayed

low despite a surge in crude oil prices and statewide prices at the pump.

“I have never experienced anything like this,” he said Thursday afternoon from a small office in the back of the station.

The Roundup asked Maverik and Giant corporate offices for comment, but had not heard back as of press time. However, Safeway officials said they set prices according to market conditions.

Gas prices in Payson have

• See Gas prices, page 8A

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Ball courts in places like Wupatki hint at a complex relationship between the Hohokam and Central Arizona groups.

The silent tumbles of stone on hilltops scattered throughout Rim Country and much of Central Arizona have revealed a startling lost world, marked by warfare, violence, slavery and a desperate struggle to survive.

Archaeologist David Wilcox revealed the outlines of a dramatic new theory to explain the construction of fortress-like, hilltop ruins over a wide area in a talk Saturday to the Rim Country Archaeological Society.

He and other archaeologists now believe that after centuries of peacefully sharing culture and trade, a grim state of war developed between the people of the north and the dominant Hohokam Civilization in the Valley.

Faced with an insatiable need for labor to maintain their enormous network of canals, the Hohokam staged mass raids.

“New field checking … reveals striking patterns,” said Wilcox. “We have a theory of conflict and resistance … The hilltop sites were so remote, it’s clear the peoples were trying to escape something.”

Wilcox started in the 1990s looking at areas such as Perry Mesa. He wondered if those sites, many of which had been built in and around the 1300s, could have been for a military purpose.

At the time, Wilcox served as head of the Anthropology department of the Museum of Northern Arizona.

“I knew a guy named Jerry Robertson that had been in the military, so I asked him how would he defend sites,” said Wilcox. “Early warning was one of the ideas he had.”

Based on that early conversation, Wilcox, Robertson, J. Scott Wood (the Tonto Forest archaeologist) and an intrepid group of scientists, adventurers and an airplane pilot named Joe Vogel began mapping out hilltop ruins from Burro Creek west of Prescott to Flagstaff, then over to Payson and then on down to the foothills north of Phoenix.

“Now over a 1,000 sites have been identified from the air by Joe Vogel,” said Wilcox.

Wilcox said Vogel is a local pilot who flew in a radius of “85 nautical miles” around the

• See Hilltop ruins, page 10A

Hospitals, doctors fear a budget disaster scenario by

Pete Aleshire

roundup editor

Arizona hospitals and doctors face a potential disaster scenario this year, with lawsuits and state proposals pending that could hit them hard on the bottom line.

Two different lawsuits could increase the number of Arizona

residents without medical insurance by some 500,000, which will add to the impact of $50 million in state cuts in payments to doctors and hospitals.

Worse yet, every dollar saved by the state on the AHCCCS budget triggers the loss of two to three times as much from the federal government.

Health care analysts say that if all the potential cuts take effect, it could mean a $2 billion to $3 billion hit to the state’s economy. That could cost the state perhaps 25,000 jobs and increase premature deaths and bankruptcies caused by medical bills.

The reductions could hit rural

hospitals like Payson Regional Medical Center especially hard.

More than 30 percent of Gila County residents rely on the state/federal Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System for their health care.

The Mogollon Health Alliance recently announced a plan to merge with Banner Health

Systems. This would effectively shift management of PRMC from Community Health Services to Banner, the largest health care provider in the state.

Banner also operates the University of Arizona’s health care network and dominates the health care market in the Valley.

Banner would therefore like-

David slays Goliath – with arrows, not slings Pine archers prove the bigger they come the harder they fall by

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The Pine Strawberry School’s straight-shooting archery team recently won the State Middle School Championship, humbling many much larger schools. Now the students must raise money to compete in a national championship tournament in May.

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David slaying Goliath was a walk in the park compared to what Pine Strawberry School accomplished at the 2015 Arizona Archery in Schools State Championships held March 14 at Ben Avery Shooting Range near Phoenix.

There, the tiny rural school of 140 students fielded an archery team that massacred the state’s finest teams some representing so called “big schools.”

Most impressive, is that the Buffalos didn’t have sufficient middle school students to compete, so four elementary school students, Rae Ann Ramirez, Cash York, Darby MacFarlane and Josie Cottrell moved

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up a division to fill in the middle school roster.

“Three of them shot their personal best scores,” said team co-coach Margaret Johnson.

In winning the Arizona State Middle School Championship, the P/S archers shot a tournament high 2,971 that included 63 “10s” or perfect hits.

With the state crown in hand the entire team has qualified for the National Archery in Schools Championships to be contested May 7 to 10 in Louisville, Ky. There, the local archers will compete against thousands of other qualifiers from around the country in what is billed as the country’s largest

• See Pine archers, page 2A

ly face a major impact in its statewide operations as a result of the potentially far-reaching cuts in medical coverage and payments.

The first hit will come with the state budget for fiscal 2015-16, which includes a $37 million cut for doctors and hospitals treating AHCCCS patients — which will trigger about four times that loss from the federal government.

In addition, the 2015-16 budget includes a $16 million cut in payments for hospitals that treat an unusually high number of uninsured patients, which will mostly affect the county-owned hospitals in Maricopa and Pima counties.

The other potential hits could follow from two different lawsuits that will affect the coverage of patients by the federal Affordable Care Act, popularly referred to as ObamaCare.

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• See Hospitals, page 2A

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expand AHCCCS coverage from 100 percent to 133 percent of a federal poverty level wage.

That provided coverage for people making up to $15,521. The expansion extended coverage to about 321,000 childless adults.

Both of Rim Country’s representatives in the House — Brenda Barton and Bob Thorpe — joined in the lawsuit effort.

The lawsuit maintains that a $250 million annual ”assessment” on hospitals to cover state costs for the expansion represents a new tax, which means it would have required a two-thirds vote in the Legislature.

The hospital assessment actually is used mostly to reduce the state deficit this year and next, since the federal government is covering the full costs for the expanded population.

Voters had twice voted to expand coverage, but lawmakers effectively overrode the ballot measures during the recession. Gov. Jan Brewer then pushed through a measure to restore coverage when the Affordable Care Act offered 100 percent coverage of the added population. Normally, the federal government covers about two-thirds of the cost of people on AHCCCS. A study by researchers from Harvard documented a drop in the death rate after the states of Arizona, New York and Maine expanded coverage, while death rates rose in neighboring states that didn’t expand coverage. The improved coverage correlated with a 6 percent reduction in death rates, according to the study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Applying those figures to Arizona suggests eliminating insurance for 500,000 people in Arizona would result in about 2,800 additional deaths annually, nearly as many as died in the World Trade Center attacks.

The Joint Legislative Budget Committee estimates that the state will lose $1.8 billion in federal funds in Fiscal 2015 and $2.5 billion in fiscal 2016.

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Rural hospitals like Payson Regional Medical Center could face a “perfect storm” of budget problems as a result of state budget cuts and lawsuits. of the state’s hospitals stems from another lawsuit now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court has already heard arguments in King vs. Burwell, brought by the Koch Brothers-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute. The lawsuit maintains that the federal government can only provide insurance subsidies based on income in states that operate their own insurance exchanges. Arizona and 35 other states opted to let the federal government run the exchanges.

If the Supreme Court agrees with the critics’ interpretation of one phrase in the 1,000page law some 7.5 million people could lose their insurance subsidies, including an estimated 200,000 in Arizona. That could trigger a “death spiral” in the insurance rates overall, with only the people with existing health problems willing to pay the unsubsidized rates.

The loss of the most of the healthy people from the exchange in the affected states could drive

up insurance costs across the board, since the law requires insurance companies to take people with pre-existing conditions.

Economic impacts of expansion

Meanwhile, the federal government recently released an assessment of the economic impact of the Affordable Care Act in 28 states that expanded their Medicaid programs, which in Arizona goes by the name of AHCCCS. The study found that hospitals reported big drops in uncompensated care.

Based on the study, hospitals nationally reduced uncompensated care costs by 21 percent ($7.5 billion), bad debt by $1.9 billion and charity care by $5.5 billion.

If a state reduces Medicaid coverage or shuts down its exchange, the hospitals would still have to provide potentially uncompensated care to anyone in critical condition who shows up in the emergency room, according to federal law.

Pine archers beat big schools to win title From page 1A archery tournament.

It’s not unusual for Pine Strawberry School archers to advance to Nationals, last year 10 competed. However, this is the first time the entire team has qualified.

The Buffalos’ showing at state

immediately caught the attention of school principal-superintendent Cody Barlow, “It’s great to see kids experience success, especially when they’ve been practicing so hard.”

In Louisville, the Buff sharpshooters will be led by Caleb Barlow, the principal’s son, who at state scored a team high and

personal record 274 with a whopping 13 10s.

He opened the shoot on a hot streak, scoring four consecutive 10s and equally as remarkable, had only three “sevens” in 30 shot attempts.

Barlow’s tally ranked first among sixth-grade boys, second of 45 middle school boys and sixth

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“I focused real hard,” said Barlow who is a two-year member of the team.

“Winning felt really good.”

Barlow, only a sixth-grader, obviously has a bright future in the sport if he decides to continue with it, which will pose a problem in two years because Payson High does not field an archery team.

Michael Aguon, a frequent tournament winner the past two seasons finished second on the team with a 269.

The eighth-grader has been on the team since fourth grade and is considered by coach Dean Pederson, an unofficial team captain.

Last year in the Nationals, Aguon finished among the top 10 percent in his age group and has his sights set on doing even better.

“My goal this year is to be in the top 5 percent,” he said.

Posting a 259, sixth-grader Emma Paine was third and Veronica Blanch took fourth at 252.

Others competing were Raci Miranda (249), Raeanne Ramirez (242), Joerge Ramirez (240), Cash York (240), Darby MacFarlane (239), Emma Branson (229), Josie Cottrell (228), Makenzie Aguon (228), Kendall Brooks (217), Angelina Blanch (212), Joey Ramirez (208), Kyleigh Fadley (197), Seth Helmer (193) and diminutive fourth-grader Vinnie Paine (197).

In today’s society, public school budgets are mostly cash strapped, with little money for extracurricular activities, like archery. So the fledgling archers must earn the money to pay their way to Louisville — about $600 per student-athlete.

To cover those costs, team members are conducting a series of fundraisers including a benefit Shoot-a-Thon to be held Friday, April 10.

The students are asking sponsors to make pledges on the individual’s shooting accuracy.

Sponsors who wish to pledge a per-point (average shooting score is 240-275) amount or a flat amount toward an archer’s Shoot-a-Thon effort, should call the school at (928) 476-3283.

In addition to the Shoot-aThon, the team is holding a benefit bake sale on April 3 in front of Safeway in Payson.

Also donations can be made through Credit for Kids and items are being accepted for upcoming raffles.

It’s obvious the young student-athletes have done their job by storming state with a vengeance, now it’s the community’s turn to help earn the money needed to make the trip.

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Special push for food bank

special food drive today

There is a one-day “Stuff the Truck” Food Drive taking place until 4 p.m. today, Friday, March 27 at the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store, 1000 S. Beeline Highway.

The goal is to fill the thrift store’s truck with donations for the food bank. Everyone making a donation will get a 10 percent discount on purchases from the thrift store.

There will be live music until 3 p.m., with both Junction 87 and the John Scott Bank participating.

Rim residents and visitors are invited to a special showing of the new “Cinderella” film at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 28 at Sawmill Theatres. Admission is only $3 per person.

Proceeds will be used for the Grad Night program, which is an event to help Payson’s graduating seniors celebrate this milestone in a safe, fun and substance-free environment.

For more information, call PHS at (928) 474-2233.

Frugal Formal

Join the Animal Welfare Thrift Shop’s 2nd annual Frugal Formal from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday, March 28 at Belle’s Bar (Beeline Bowl). Tickets are only $20 and

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The Community Presbyterian Church is hosting a varied event from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. for First Friday, April 3.

Members of the Payson High School Drama Department will perform musical numbers from “Tarzan” and Buckshot Dot and Anne James will also be performing with stories and songs. With The Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan coming up soon, they will be sharing Scottish stories and songs. Dar Harris will be available to look up your Scottish Tartan too.

The evening’s menu features Scots-Irish Stew and Bread.

The Payson Public Library will have a children’s Easter party with a variety of events at 4 p.m., Tuesday, March 31.

Community members have two opportunities to learn about sex trafficking Wednesday, April 1 at Mount Cross Lutheran Church, 601 E. Highway 260. The presentations are free to the public.

The first is designed for senior citizens and grandparents and is at 9:30 a.m. in the Mount Cross log building.

The second, at 5 p.m., will target all community members, especially preteens, teens and their parents.

For more information, contact Mount Cross Lutheran Church, 474-2552, or Jodi Lorenz, Jodi.lorenz@pusd.com.

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You have until 4 p.m. today, Friday, March 27, to make a donation to a special Stuff the Truck Food Drive at the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store, 1000 S. Beeline Highway, Payson. Make a donation of non-perishable foods to the drive and get a 10 percent discount on a purchase from the thrift store.

may be purchased at the thrift shop or at door.

Dress as you want, enjoy some good food and music, and help animals in need. Enjoy potluck buffet, no-host bar, silent auction items, a 50/50 raffle, and live music from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. by Band X. All proceeds will benefit local animal rescue groups and hardship grants supported by the Animal Welfare Thrift Shop, 434 S. Highway 87, Suites B, C and D. For more information, call (928) 951-2587.

Palm Sunday services Catholic Church of the Holy Nativity The Catholic Church of the Holy Nativity, 1414 N. Easy St. (corner of Bradley & Easy Street) plans 10 a.m. services Sunday, March 29 for Palm Sunday Mass and Reading of the Passion; and 10 a.m. services, Wednesday, April 1 for Mass and Holy Unction.

Mountain Bible Church This Sunday, Palm Sunday, is “Friend Day” at Mountain Bible Church as the congregation gathers together for Messiah Madness.

Bring a friend this Palm Sunday to hear the moving message, “On the road to Jerusalem.” Services are at 8:45 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. at 302 E. Rancho Rd. Call (928) 472-7800 or visit mountainbible.org

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Mount Cross Lutheran Church Walk through Passion Week with Mount Cross Lutheran Church, 601 E. Highway 260 (across from Tiny’s Restaurant) starting Palm Sunday, March 29. There is a traditional worship at 8:30 a.m. and a special Sermon in Song service (more contemporary) at 10:30 a.m.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Easy St., Payson will have Palm Sunday Services at 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., Sunday, March 29. For details, call (928) 474-3834 or go online to: www.stpaulspayson.org.

Shepherd of The Pines Lutheran Church Shepherd of The Pines Lutheran Church, 507 W. Wade Lane, Payson, will have Palm Sunday Services at 10 a.m., Sunday, March 29. The theme is “Leaving Clamor Behind.”

For more information, call Pastor Steve DeSanto at (928) 474-5440 or go online to www.shepherdofthepineslutheran.com.

Tax returns prepared

Volunteers with AARP Tax Aide will prepare tax returns for those with low to moderate incomes through Wednesday, April 14 at the Payson Elks Lodge, 1206 N. Beeline Highway, on Airport Road, from 8:30 a.m. to

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Down the Stree Gallery hosts student show for First Friday

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Latex paint disposal event

Special ‘Cinderella’ screening for Grad Night celebration

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This coming weekend, the Regional Payson Area Project… for a Fire Wise Rim Country (RPAP) will be staffing free brush drop-off points at the following locations, weather permitting: Saturday, March 28 the Blattner Pit will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Blattner Pit is located at Milepost 259.7 on Highway 260, east of Payson; Sunday, March 29 the Pine Pit will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., the Pine Pit is located .7 of a mile east of Highway 87 on Control Road, south of Pine.

All RPAP free drop-off locations are for brush, leaves, pine needles, trimmings and other vegetative materials only. Properly bagged Yellow Starthistle, or other listed noxious weed species will also be accepted and will be burned.

RPAP brush pits are intended for the use of private citizens who are working to clear their properties for wildfire risk reduction and to create defensible space around their homes.

The Buckhead Mesa Landfill will coordinate a latex paint recycle day on Saturday, March 28 from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. for Gila County residents.

Bring in leftover latex paint for disposal or recycling to the Gila County landfill. All unusable paint will be properly disposed of and the good paint will be bulked and distributed.

Please read paint can carefully; only latex paint will be accepted at this event.

To dispose of other painting supplies: pop the lid and let oil paints and varnishes dry to a hard substance, as a solid they may be disposed of in small quantities with your household trash. Adding kitty litter will advance the drying.

1:30 p.m., Mondays and from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Tuesdays.

The service is free, but is only for basic personal income tax returns.

Mogollon Health Alliance is now accepting applications for its Human Health Career Scholarships. The deadline for application submissions for the fall semester is Tuesday, March 31, 2015. For more information, call (928) 472-2588.

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April’s First Friday will be full of fun and great savings at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. The new ReStore is located at 425 N. Beeline Highway, next door to ACE Hardware.

The ReStore offers free pick-up for larger donations; just call (928) 474-4247 or the website at www.paysonhabitat.org.

Supporting Habitat for Humanity helps us build homes and hope in Rim Country.

Facing a chronic or progressive condition

Find out what you and your family need to consider and plan for when diagnosed with a chronic and/or progressive condition that affects your life — financially, estate, health care, available benefits, quality of life and survivorship.

Matt Baehr, WMS financial advisor and planner, and Lora G. Johnson, elder law attorney, specialize in advising those who have had life-changing events requiring a different approach.

This certainly can be overwhelming for you and/or your family members to navigate on your own. With professional assistance you and/or your family will have answers and most likely not be caught off guard or devastated regarding surprises that come up now or in the future.

Baehr and Johnson will present a program from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Friday, April 3 at Payson Care Center, 107 E. Lone Pine Dr. in the main dining room. Refreshments will be provided.

Reservations are required. Call Daniel Bryant at (928) 472-7450 or email Cindy

Down The Street Art Gallery is hosting the Payson Community Christian School Kids Art Show from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., First Friday April 3. The show will be available for viewing throughout April.

Entries were judged by Donn Morris and Minette Hart at the school and the top three works from each grade was sent to a statewide art show.

At the Mazatzal Casino

There’s always something happening at the Mazatzal Hotel & Casino, located on Highway 87 at milepost 251. For more information, call 1-800-777-PLAY (7529).

• Hogs Gone Off-Roading Ranger & RZR Giveaway: Earn tickets through May 2. Two Grand Prize Drawings. Drawings are May 1 and May 1 starting at 6 p.m. $11K cash prizes on drawing nights!

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Earn 10 base points and receive $10 Maz Cash! (Valid service industry I.D. required.)

• Easter Buffet, April 5 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Cedar Ridge Restaurant. Slow roasted prime rib, applewood smoked ham, salmon filets in lemon butter sauce, assorted vegetables, potatoes, rice and pasta, soup and salad bar, awesome variety of homemade desserts, coffee, tea or soft beverage included.

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Friday • Stuff the Truck: donate non-perishable foods at St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store until 4 p.m.

• Payson Public Library: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Pine Library: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Rim Country Museum: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 700 Green Valley Pkwy.

• Pine/Strawberry Museum: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Pine Community Center • American Legion Fish Fry: Noon-8 p.m., American Legion

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• Dispose of latex paint for free at Buckhead Mesa Landfill, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• Rim Country Museum: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 700 Green Valley Pkwy.

• Pine/Strawberry Museum: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Pine Community Center • See Cinderella at Sawmill Theater for just $3: 10 a.m., benefits Grad Night celebration • Frugal Formal: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Belle’s Bar (bowling alley) to benefit animal rescue efforts

• Rim Country Museum: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., 700 Green Valley Pkwy.

• Bingo: 1 p.m., Elks Lodge, open to the public

• Payson Public Library: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Rim Country Museum: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 700 Green Valley Pkwy.

• Payson Public Library: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Pine Library: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Easter party: 4 p.m., Payson Public Library • MHA Scholarship application deadline: call (928) 472-2588 for details

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Looking ahead April 1 • Program on Children and Sex Trafficking, 9:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Mount Cross Lutheran Church, call (928) 474-2552 for details April 3 • Life planning for those suffering from a chronic or progressive condition: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Payson Care Center, make reservations, (928) 4727450 • First Friday events: Community Presbyterian and Down the Street

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4A Friday, March 27, 2015

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Another crazy federal rule

• March 26, 1804: President Thomas Jefferson attends a public party at the Senate and leads a crowd in consuming an enormous loaf of bread. The giant bread was baked to go with the remnants of an enormous 1,200-pound block of cheese given by a group of Baptist women two years prior.

• March 28, 1963: Sonny Werblin announced that the New York Titans of the American Football League was changing its name to the New York Jets.

• March 27, 1973: Marlon Brando declines the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in “The Godfather.” American Indian actress Sacheen Littlefeather attended the ceremony in Brando’s place, stating that the actor could not accept the award, as he was protesting Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans in film.

• March 29, 1993: The South Korean government agreed to pay financial support to women who had been forced to have sex with Japanese troops during World War II.

It’s gotten past crazy.

Consider the curious case of Forest Service policy when it comes to the archaeological work required on a 253-acre site for a four-year university.

Never mind the nearly four years of delay, the $160,000 environmental assessment, the year-long wait for an independent appraisal. Let’s just focus for a moment on the requirement that the Rim Country Educational Alliance put up $540,000 to ensure the complete evacuation of a spot on a steep hillside where a survey found pottery scatters and evidence of a seasonal campsite. The Forest Service wants the Alliance to pay a consultant about $240,000 to carefully dig up around the pottery scatter near a pile of boulders on a hillside the Alliance has no intention of disturbing when it builds the campus. The Alliance might therefore get some of the $540,000 back if it turns out there’s nothing of significance buried below the pottery shards — which is what all the experts expect.

That always seemed nutso to us.

But then this weekend, we took a tour of Goat Camp Ruins on a six-acre site owned by the Town of Payson on top of a hill off Tyler Parkway. The hillside holds the remains of a bustling village, with about 40 rooms of striking architecture. The Rim Country Archaeological Society, with the help of now-retired Tonto National Forest archaeologist Scott Wood, has already excavated three or four rooms and found treasures aplenty.

They’re dying to preserve and study the whole ruin.

Alas, they haven’t got any money and must rely entirely on volunteer diggers.

Now here’s what would happen in a sane world.

The Forest Service would tell the Alliance to give the Archaeological Society, or the Town of Payson, the $240,000 to excavate and preserve Goat Camp Ruins.

In return, the Alliance would promise not to bulldoze or build on the patch with the pottery scatters — and proceed directly to buying the land.

The Alliance saves two months on the land purchase.

The Archaeological Society saves Goat Camp Ruins.

Payson gets an attraction for residents and visitors.

It makes perfect sense.

But we’re betting it’s not going to happen.

Because this whole thing has gotten way past crazy.

Restore payments We’re delighted to learn that Rep. Paul Gosar has taken the lead in Congress in a bipartisan attempt to restore urgently needed federal payments to rural counties hobbled by the impact of the federal governments vast holdings in the west.

Gosar joined some 85 western representatives in signing a letter urging the Congress to restore full funding for the PILT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes) program on which rural counties and schools have long relied.

The money goes to counties struggling to pay for basic services because so much land in their jurisdiction belongs to the federal government — which pays no property taxes. Gila County is a dramatic example, with some 97 percent of the county owned by the federal government or Indian tribes.

For decades, the federal government made payments to rural counties affected by this lack of property-tax-paying land. Under the old formulas, Gila County would get more than $3 million — with much of that going to the schools. In years past, the Payson Unified School District could count on something like $400,000.

The federal government long relied on revenue from logging, grazing permits and mining royalties to raise the money to make the PILT awards.

The payments shrank as federal mismanagement all but wiped out logging and grazing on millions of acres.

Instead of regulating logging and grazing to ensure a sustainable harvest and consistent source of revenue for counties and schools, the Forest Service and other agencies made one misjudgment after another — resulting in an unhealthy forest and programs drowning in lawsuits.

Rural counties and schools proved the victims of this mismanagement.

This year, Congress failed to reauthorize the PILT program, denying counties and schools still struggling to recover from the Great Recession money on which they have long counted. Trapped in a sea of non-taxpaying federal land, counties have struggled to stave off disaster.

So we’re excited that the Prescott Republican has joined with other western representatives to demand the reinstatement of the money due to rural counties in the West. We hope he will make it his top priority for the current session, now that Republicans control both the House and the Senate and so have responsibility for the budget.

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Real budget casualties – nearly 1 million public school students by

Timothy Ogle

asba executive director

The state budget is approved, and many think the battle for public education is over for the year. This coming fall, with the implementation of this new budget, we will reach a crisis with one-half of Arizona’s school children having never attended a classroom fully funded as the voters mandated with the passing of Proposition 301 in 2000.

Timothy Ogle Yes, we have a crisis. The teacher shortage and the coming school facility challenges compound this dynamic. The real costs to our state with the loss of economic development opportunities and diminishing human capital will be felt for years to come.

Some say to try harder next year or begin advocating earlier. But, the simple truth is the battle for public education never ends. As we

recognize the governor and Legislature’s willingness to work with school districts to acknowledge quality schools and provide needed flexibility to move more dollars into all classrooms across Arizona, school districts will continue to face budgetary blows entering 2016. The reduction of revenue to Arizona’s most successful JTED system (a loss of $30 million) and the move to current year funding (a loss of $40 million) are prime examples.

Polling indicates Arizona’s voters, across party lines, support more revenue for Arizona’s school districts, and the majority of parents select local public schools as the educational choice for their children. With the acknowledgment of the sluggish revenue we face as a state, this budget does little to move our state forward.

What can be done today? The simple truth is that our public school children depend upon us every single day to fight for a quality public education so that their future is a promising one.

We found unexpected partners this session to advocate for flexibility while the state still rights itself from the recession.

It’s now time to plan for the long term.

Correcting for the prior indiscretions of not funding inflation puts resources directly in the hands of our students and schools, which would immediately increase the dollars being directed into the classrooms of Arizona. Let us not forget who the real casualties are in this battle. It is the nearly 1 million students who attend our local public schools throughout the state. You can win a battle and not win a war. We owe it to them to be better than we are today.

It is time for strong leadership! As James Freeman Clarke wrote, “A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.” Whether they realize it or not, decision makers at every level of government need your perspective as a citizen of our state. Elections matter and whether you are an educator, a parent, or a community member, consistent communication and a positive approach will prompt lawmakers to become more responsive to the needs of our public school students.

Timothy Ogle is executive director of the Arizona School Boards Association.

funding to bring them at least up to national spending standards, our law enforcement personnel need proper financing in order to keep us AND them safe, our roads need to be repaired and safely constructed, our child safety organizations deserve proper funding to help protect the most vulnerable population in our state, our prison system needs proper funding to compensate and retain professional personnel as well as keeping criminals safely incarcerated, and a “safety net” needs to be in place to help care for citizens with problems that are beyond their ability to control, pay for, or to treat.

We live in a state with wonderful weather, positive and productive people, and unsurpassed beauty. It’s long past due that we understand that services we expect and need cost money.

Reducing tax cuts on corporations and increasing them on “ordinary” citizens would improve the quality of life for all of us.

Where is the leadership in Arizona to increase our revenue sources so we can improve the living standards we already have to a level that will benefit ALL of our citizens? Excellence costs money and while our plentiful sunshine is wonderful and free, only cash pays for items that many of us deem necessary to become a beacon of progress for the rest of the country to see, and most importantly, for us Arizonans to enjoy.

Richard K. Meszar

seeing our local resident eagle down by the lake, and to have you so able to capture their presence to share with us is wonderful. Thank you!

Mr. Aleshire’s articles about his dad and Lobo are always so heartwarming, you can feel his love for them, and for our beautiful Rim Country, show through.

We live by the little lake at Payson Parkway and Longhorn and often have one of the blue herons standing on the shoreline under a tree watching for fish. A couple of weeks ago, I was walking down to the lake and suddenly two of them lifted off just a few feet from me with their tremendous wingspread. And, this week, I saw the first egret in the same spot. We love seeing the elk come out from the gulch to munch on the bushes, our resident white geese waiting for the Canada geese to arrive, all the ducks and other wildlife is so fun. Unfortunately, I don’t have such a good, fuzzy feelings about the javelina herds that trash my flower beds, but they come with the territory!

Thank you both for sharing your experiences with us in our really fine local newspaper. We are blessed to have you.

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The logic of Congress Editor: People say that Congress should face the facts about climate change. But why “must” Congress acknowledge climate change is real?

They don’t use the same math as the rest of us when it comes to budgets. They exempt themselves from Obamacare. To suddenly hold their collective feet to the fire over climate change is optimistic at best. Not going to happen.

Expecting Congress to do anything that is logical or rational and does not serve their own interests is loosing expectation.

Jeffrey Aal

Picking up the tab Editor: On behalf of my class at Rim Country Middle School, I would like to thank the person(s) who so generously paid for our lunch at Denny’s on Feb. 20.

My aides and I took my class of seven students out to one of the local restaurants for lunch, as we try to do once a month. While we were eating, the waitress came over and told me that someone (a couple, I believe) had paid for all our lunches.

We would very much like to thank them for their generosity!

Phyllis McGinnes

Excellence costs money Editor: When and why did tax increase become the two most desired words in the English language to our state politicians? Our schools need and deserve (including Payson Unified) adequate

Blessed to have you Editor: Had meant to compliment photographer DJ Craig sooner on the magnificent spread of pictures and article that appeared in our paper recently.

Coming from Alaska where we have tens of thousands of eagles, I have always treasured

Split up Gila County Editor: If the inequity in Gila County policies and spending between north and south continues, maybe it’s time to seriously consider a split from Globe and Southern Gila County.

I believe Payson and the surrounding communities in Northern Gila County would be better served with local governance and funding control.

Sometimes it takes a good fight , sometimes nasty, to force an issue to resolution.

Karl Moore

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Congressmen urge payments to rural counties Gosar joins effort to restore federal payments nationally Congressman Paul A. Gosar (R-Prescott), whose district includes Rim Country, joined in the call for restored funding for the Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) program and the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP) in fiscal year 2016.

The programs provide federal payments for schools and other agencies in counties with huge tracts of tax-exempt federal lands. For instance, the federal government owns about 97 percent of the 1.8 million acres in Gila County.

Gila County has previously gotten about $3.2 million annually from the program.

Gosar’s letter said, “Western states like Arizona face unique challenges that other parts of the country are not required to withstand. These challenges are not a result of poor financial management but rather a result of the federal government owning massive swaths of land and not enforcing the rule of law. As Vice Chairman of the Western Caucus, I have a civic duty to hold the federal government accountable for promises made

COUNTY

PAYMENT

TOTAL ACRES

Gila

$3.4 million

1.8 million

La Paz

$1.9 million

1.8 million

$3 million

2.4 million

Mohave

$3.5 million

6.4 million

Pinal

$1.2 million

.6 million

Yavapai

$3.2 million

$2.6 million

Yuma

$3.4 million

$1.6 million

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to states in the West counties often proand demand it provide critical services vide adequate supon these very lands,” port for critical rural wrote Gosar. programs like PILT The federal govand SCAAP.” ernment has for nearMost of the fedly 40 years provided eral land is concenthe PILT payments to trated in the West, counties with a large which means many percentage of federcounties, schools and al lands. Gila County cities generate much passes most of that Paul Gosar less money from money along to local property taxes than school districts. Historically, the they would if the land were pri- money Congress used for the vately owned.

PILT payments came from pay“Local property and sales ments from logging and mining. taxes typically fund county gov- But as logging dwindled, so did ernments, allowing them to pro- the payments. The payments vide essential services like law amount to about 72 cents per enforcement, infrastructure and acre. education needs. The inability This year, Congress didn’t for counties to collect local taxes fund the PILT payments at all. on federal lands is particularGosar also urged funding for ly burdensome, especially when SCAAP, which has long provided

payments to counties to compensate for the costs they incur to help enforce immigration laws.

“By law, the federal government is responsible for immigration enforcement, including the incarceration of undocumented criminal offenders. When this is not possible, the law requires the federal government to compensate state and local governments for their incarceration costs. Compensation to local law enforcement agencies under SCAAP typically covers less than 18 percent of the actual cost of incarcerating undocumented criminal offenders. Further reducing federal SCAAP reimbursements is irresponsible and forces state and local law enforcement agencies to absorb a greater portion of the costs of a federal responsibility.”

Congressman Gosar also submitted a letter with Congressman Scott Tipton to the House Appropriations Committee and signed onto a bipartisan letter with 94 House colleagues calling on House leadership to allocate full-funding for PILT for Fiscal Year 2016.

Congressman Gosar led a bipartisan legislative effort and was joined by 47 of his House colleagues in seeking to ensure resources for SCAAP are maintained in the Fiscal Year 2016 Appropriations Bill.

ADEQ Electronic Waste Recycling Event set for April 4 ADEQ announces an Electronics Waste Recycling Event will be held Saturday, April 4 at the Town of Payson Multi-Event Center.

Rim Country residents can get rid of their electronics waste for free at the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality Electronics Waste Recycling Event on Saturday morning, April 4 from 8 a.m. until noon at the Town of Payson Multi-Event Center, 1400 S. Beeline Highway.

ADEQ and its partners — Payson Water Department, Gila County, Tonto Apache Tribe, Northern Gila County Sanitary District, Pine-Strawberry Water Improvement District, CH2MHill and eGreen-IT Solutions of Phoenix — anticipate collecting tons of unwanted televisions, computers, monitors,

batteries, chargers, cell phones, VCRs, CD and DVD players, printers, small appliances, fax machines, cables and cords during the event. No more than two televisions or monitors per vehicle will be accepted during the event. eGreen-IT Solutions uses state of the art software to erase all hard drives and will provide companies and individuals donating e-waste a certificate of disposal for their records. The event has grown in popularity since its inception with 10,601 pounds collected in 2010, 20,345 pounds in 2011, 23,350 pounds in 2012, 29,842 pounds in 2013 and 29,047 pounds last year.

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Recently the County Supervisors Association elected Tommie Cline Martin and Liz Archuleta to represent Arizona counties for Western Interstate Region Leadership. Pictured, from left, are Coconino County Supervisor Liz Archuleta, Maricopa County Supervisor and CSA President Clint Hickman, Gila County Supervisor Tommie Cline Martin.

County Supervisors Association names Martin to represent state The County Supervisors Association (CSA) Board of Directors elected Gila County Supervisor Tommie Cline Martin (District 1) and Coconino County Supervisor Liz Archuleta (District 2) as Arizona’s representatives to the Western Interstate Region (WIR), an affiliate of the National Association of Counties organization (NACo) on March 19.

NACo represents counties before the federal government and WIR is a coalition of 15 western states focused on public land issues, community stability and economic development.

Supervisor Martin accepted the appointment as the designated voting member, stating, “I greatly value my colleagues’ confidence in my ability to serve our state on important natural resources issues. These issues are important to all counties, both rural and urban. WIR ensures that the needs of western counties are heard at the national level.”

Supervisor Archuleta accepted the appointment, stating, “I look forward to continuing my work with elected officials from across the west in this new role on the WIR Board. My work as the Chairman of the Federal Land Payments Subcommittee will complement WIR’s advocacy efforts on Payment in Lieu of Taxes and Secure Rural Schools.”

CSA President and Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman expressed his enthusiasm about the appointments, stating, “I am very pleased Supervisor Martin and Supervisor Archuleta will serve in these roles. They both bring years of valuable experience and strong personal awareness of the issues facing rural communities. Just as importantly, they have the determination to get things done.”

CSA is a non-partisan, non-profit research and advocacy organization representing the 61 county supervisors leading Arizona’s 15 counties.

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Forest restoration efforts increase Fire budget threatens to sap maintenance, recreation programs The Forest Service is struggling to increase the pace of forest restoration and thinning efforts, but the soaring cost of fighting wildfires threatens to “cripple” the agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Natural Resource and Environment Robert Bonnie this week told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

“The U.S. Forest Service is accelerating restoration and management of the national forests, despite budgetary challenges, though we agree more must be done,” said Bonnie. “The good news is that the agency is making significant progress.”

Bonnie noted that since 1998 the Forest Service staff has shrunk by more than one-third, but last year the Forest Service still met or exceeded all of its targets related to forest management on the national forests.

He detailed projects throughout the country, including: The agency has funded 23 projects through the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program to reduce wildfire threats while exceeding the five-year target for timber volume sold by nearly 25 percent. In addition to making 1.45 million acres more resilient to wildfire, the program improved the health of 1.33 million acres of wildlife habitat, and helped local economies support an average of 4,360 jobs each year.

The Forest Service is developing larger, landscape-scale projects like the 200,000-acre project in the Black Hills to restore ponderosa pine.

The Forest Service is implementing new authorities in the Farm Bill, which last year identified 46 million acres of lands impacted by insects and disease.

The Forest Service is partnering with the Natural Resources Conservation Service to engage in 28 restoration projects across private and public lands.

Through the Forest Products Lab, the Forest Service is investing in markets for woody biomass, solid wood products, and other forest products to support a viable forest industry.

“These examples reflect the growing consensus around the need to restore our national forests,” said Bonnie. “We have moved to a more collaborative approach.”

In 2014, the Forest Service exceeded its targets by producing over 2.8 billion board feet of timber, up 18 percent since 2008.

Bonnie told the committee, however, that the way the Forest Service budgets for fire suppression is crippling the agency.

“Our fire seasons are 78 days longer than they were three decades ago.

Fires are increasingly larger, more catastrophic, and more expensive,” said Bonnie. “In 1995, the agency spent 16 percent of its budget on firefighting.

Today, the figure approaches half of our annual budget.”

Every year the Forest Service must transfer dollars from non-fire budget line items — recreation, research, conservation and forest management to fight fires.

“If there is one action Congress could take to further forest restoration on the national forests, it is to change the way we budget for fire,” Bonnie said.

The bipartisan Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, now pending in Congress, would end the practice of fire borrowing.

That legislation, which is mirrored by a proposal in President Obama’s budget, would allow the agency to increase the number of watersheds and acres treated while increasing timber production, Bonnie said.

The under secretary also pressed for reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools program, which provides payments to eligible states and rural counties to help fund public schools and roads and has provided funding to counties for community wildfire protection planning, emergency search and rescue reimbursement, and Firewise programs. Congress failed to reauthorize the program last year, but the Obama administration has asked that it be restored in this year’s spending bill.

The Forest Service manages 193 million acres of public land, provides assistance to state and private landowners, and maintains the largest forestry research organization in the world.

Public lands the Forest Service manages contribute more than $13 billion to the economy each year through visitor spending alone. Those same lands provide 20 percent of the nation’s clean water supply, a value estimated at $7.2 billion per year. The agency has either a direct or indirect role in stewardship of about 80 percent of the 850 million forRoundup file photo ested acres within the U.S., of which 100 million acres are urban forests where The fire seasons are 78 days longer than they were three decades ago with fires most Americans live. increasingly larger, more catastrophic and more expensive.

Merging boards will streamline process for new businesses

An Irish tale

by

Alexis Bechman

roundup staff reporter

The Payson Town Council recently took the first step toward consolidating the Design Review Board with the Planning and Zoning Commission.

Staff hopes merging the two boards will expedite the approval process, keep costs low for developers and make the best use of staff time.

On Thursday, March 19, the council held the first public hearing on the issue and only Design Review Board member Barbara Underwood commented.

Underwood said she supports the merger since the DRB had accomplished 99 percent of what it set out to do, which is establish design guidelines for new development, such as the number of windows on the front of businesses and paint color schemes.

The only issue the group has not tackled is guidelines for multi-famAlexis Bechman/Roundup ily homes.

Still, Underwood said the town Local author Mark Plets held a book signing St. Patrick’s Day for his new book “Kelly: a tale of ould Ireland.” Plets said he has always had a passion for words and was inspired to write a loosely historical novel set in 17th century Ireland. The book centers on could accomplish everything with just the Planning and Zoning Kelly, a high-spirited bar maiden, who finds herself the heir of County Whelan, Ireland.

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He suggested keeping the Design Review Board to handle projects that don’t meet those guidelines.

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This is just one more step in that process.

The council will hold another public hearing on the issue April 2.

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Disaster at thrift store develops into a blessing by

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A disaster at the Pine Community Center a little more than two years ago has become a blessing. And it’s a blessing with a delightful surprise.

Jan. 16, 2013 — a Wednesday — the volunteers who operate the Pine-Strawberry Thrift Shop came in to find a flooded facility.

Frigid temperatures had frozen a water pipe, causing it to burst and then flood the building. It took until April to make the most necessary repairs and reopen.

The expansive thrift shop supports the Pine-Strawberry senior lunch and Meals on Wheels programs. It is also an important resource for many low-income residents of the two small communities, according to manager Rhonda Bossert.

“We try to keep our prices low — especially on children’s clothes — to help our neighbors with children make ends meet,” she said.

The repairs after the flood uncovered a whole range of shortcomings in the building — originally constructed in the mid-1940s as a school. The building lacked, an adequate electrical system and double-pane windows.

The buildings of the PineStrawberry Community Center are owned by the Pine Strawberry Elementary School District and leased by the Senior Citizens Affairs Foundation.

On Feb. 22, the group undertook a remodel of the thrift shop area to address the shortcomings.

Taking out drywall to enlarge a hall, the contractors discovered a rock wall — the back of the 70-year-old school.

The men of Pine and Strawberry used the hand-quarried materials to construct the “Stone Building School,” Bossert discovered after

researching the building. It was started around 1944 or 1945 and finished by the start of the 1946 school year, according to a former Pine resident who attended class in the building.

The Stone Building School was built to replace another school that had burned down. By Bossert’s count, with help from Margaret Hunt Parker, president of the PS Archaeological & Historical Society, the Stone Building School was Pine’s fourth. The first was built in 1882 and had a canvas door and a wall of canvas inside to separate the classes. It stood on property on the other side of the road that is now North Highway 87 and opposite the community center site.

Workmen dismantled that first school in the 1900s and built another on the Pine Thrift Shop site. Bossert and Parker could find no record of its fate.

A third school was built in 1936 and it burned one winter in the early 1940s.

In one of those schools, Pine had the Rim Country’s first high school. Children elsewhere were sent to the Valley, usually Mesa, when their parents wanted them to have an education beyond the eighth grade. Parker’s father, the late Lufkin Hunt, was one of the students at the high school and played for its basketball team.

A former Pine resident, and a descendant of area pioneers, Anna Jane Lazear Jarvis, shared her memories of the Stone School with Bossert.

“Between 1942 and 1943 the Pine School House burned to the ground one winter night. It had snowed and the snow was deep on the ground, which probably kept our house (where the Isabelle Hunt Memorial Library now stands), which was pretty close across the lane, from burst-

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A busted water pipe at the Pine-Strawberry Thrift Shop led to the discovery of the “Stone Building School.” Alice Fay and Anna Jane Lazear (at right) were students at the Stone School. ing into flames.

“Frank Randall, who lived on Main Street (now SR 87) directly across the street from the school to the east, was awakened and was shouting, ‘fire, fire’. As there was no fire department we watched the school burn to the ground.

“Construction started soon after to build the rock building, which now stands as the Thrift Store. As correctly as my memory has it, the building was finished in 1945 or 1946 and we started school in the new schoolhouse and it even had electricity.

“The Randalls had a Koehler plant in their garage, which they ran until about 9 o’clock in the evening so some had a little electricity before then.

“The Randall cabins down

by Pine Creek housed the students while the school was being rebuilt. I remember that year was a heavy snow year, and my dad would carry me on his shoulder to the school, as it was too deep for me to walk through. At lunch

he would bring a pint jar with hot beans and a piece of Mama’s homemade bread for my lunch.

“The year the school was finished was the year the war ended.

A jeep load of soldier boys came through Pine and my dad was on the roof nailing on the tin.

They were shouting, ‘Why are you working? The war is over!’ What an exciting day!

“There were teachers for the grades. Grades one through four was in the southerly room and the fifth through eighth grade were in the northerly room.

“During my third-grade year, 1946-47, the paved road was built.

The construction workers’ kids went to school in Pine that year.

Seems like both classrooms were pretty much filled.

“We recited the Pledge of Allegiance each morning. There was even a cloakroom where we could hang our coats. The merry-go-round, swings and monkey bars were the favorite of everyone who visited the area. The school bell was on the southwest side of the school and it rang every morning at 9 o’clock. We played workup baseball, ‘annie-i-over’ over the tall roof, marbles, hopscotch and jacks. (There were) bike rides and hiking the surrounding area and parties at the camp grounds. All these and many more activities are fondest memories of the days of the rock schoolhouse in Pine.”

The remodel of the shop is primarily taking place in the clothing, craft and linen room, Bossert explained. Workmen will open up the space to about 40-feet-by-30 feet, upgrade the electrical system and install insulation. They’ll also put new dual pane windows framed by old barn wood (as are the doors).

The exposed rock wall will be featured in the hall, which is now wider to accommodate the disabled. Bossert plans to put com-

memorative markers on the wall’s smoothest stones.

The remodel has made it necessary to temporarily shift the shop’s inventory into other rooms and outside, behind the building, under a metal canopy and the building eaves over the walks where there is an ongoing sidewalk sale.

The shop will hold an open house and rededication party for the community when it completes the remodel, Bossert said.

Shop, eat, get educated The Pine Thrift Shop is still operating in spite of the ongoing remodeling work.

You can find clothes, linens, dishes, glasses, pots and pans, toys, tools, housing fixtures and furniture.

Hours for the Pine Thrift Shop are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. The volunteers will pick up donations and also deliver purchases locally, call (928) 476-4633 for details.

Both the Thrift Shop and meal program are operated by the Senior Citizens Affairs Council, which was started 22 years ago. Anyone in the PS area, 50 and older, can join for $5 per year and enjoy discounts at the Thrift Shop and reduced prices for meals.

The Pine-Strawberry Community Dining Hall started

before the Thrift Shop open. The group serves meals for $3 at 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday for members; non-members can eat a full meal for $6 or enjoy just the salad bar for $3. The meals are for those 50 and older. The Community Dining Hall also operates the PS Meals on Wheels program. The cost to participate is $4 for members. To learn more, call (928) 476-2151.

The third partner in activities at the Pine Strawberry Community Center is the Pine Strawberry Archaeological & Historical Society and its museum, which is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday until mid-May; at that time summer hours will go into effect. Those will be posted on the museum website at www.pinestrawhs.org.

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AARP Tax-Aide volunteers offer the free service to low and moderate income taxpayers, with special attention to those 60 and older.

Volunteers make tax time pain free by

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roundup staff reporter

There is a little less than a month to file taxes and local AARP Tax-Aide volunteers are still available to help residents file free.

Volunteers have already helped 690 Rim Country residents file since Feb. 1 when the makeshift tax preparation center opened in the Payson Elks Lodge, 1206 N. Beeline Highway.

Tax preparation and electronic filing are free and is administered through the AARP Foundation in cooperation with the IRS. The 21 volunteers range from those like Joan Stevens who has helped with the program for 23 years to Eileen Martin who started just two years ago.

Bob Sanchez, district coordinator, said they have about 14 fewer volunteers this year and can only open two days a week, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“Still, our theme this year is ‘Make Tax Time Pain Free,’” Sanchez said. “We treat all taxpayers professionally and with

courtesy and respect. We safeguard the confidentiality of taxpayer information and apply the tax laws equitably and accurately to the best of our abilities.”

All returns are triple checked and the average refund is around $1,271 in Payson.

The free service is offered to low to moderate income taxpayers, with special attention to those 60 and older. You do not

need to be a member of AARP to qualify.

“I would like to thank the Elks Lodge in Payson for allowing us to use their facilities at no expense.”

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Riddle writes in the complaint that almost immediately after she started work in the office, Beauchamp made sexual comments directed toward her. Those included asking what she had done to get flowers from her

boyfriend; sending text messages asking if he could shower with her before work; commenting that she must be having sexual contact with police officers she had worked with on cases; telling her he would never be happy “until it was him” and telling her how good he was in bed, according to the complaint.

“I repeatedly told him to stop the unwanted and unwelcomed sexual comments and invitations to no avail,” she writes.

Riddle says Beauchamp even showed up at her Globe home unannounced and uninvited, which made her uncomfortable.

In October, Riddle claims she told Fuller about the harassment, but he refused to deal with her complaint.

“Shortly thereafter, he (Fuller) began to pressure me for a resignation,” she writes.

Police investigate ‘suspicious’ vehicle fire by

Alexis Bechman

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Officials are investigating a suspicious vehicle fire in Star Valley Tuesday evening.

Around 9 p.m., residents spotted an SUV on fire in the Pine View RV Park off Highway 260. They sprayed it with a fire extinguisher, but it had little effect on the flames because

the fire was in the engine compartment and they could not get it opened, said Hellsgate Capt. Bob Eavenson.

When firefighters arrived, they found the entire engine on fire, but within a few minutes had it out. The vehicle was away from any buildings and no other structures or vehicles were impacted. No one was injured.

From page 1A hung below the state and national average for weeks, a dramatic change from last year when the town had some of the highest prices in the state.

While the average price for unleaded Thursday sat at $2.38 in Arizona and $2.43 nationally, the average price in Payson was $2.15, with Maverik at $2.14 and Circle K North and Safeway holding at $2.09. The lowest price for gasoline in the state currently is a station in Peoria at $1.99.

Becks’ price is higher than the rest of the Payson stations, with the exception of the station at the Tonto Apache Reservation.

Becks’ price is $2.25 for regular unleaded, which he says is too low to recoup costs.

He says it costs him $2.29 a gallon just to get gasoline to town. He also pays an average of 7 cents on credit card fees, which the majority of buyers use.

That puts his average cost at about Chip Becks $2.36.

He likes to have at least an 8-cent-a-gallon margin, but right now he’s losing money on every gallon he sells.

Becks owns one other gas station in the Valley and says with that he is still making money overall and has no plans to close or give in to local competition.

“The minute I close, prices will skyrocket

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The cost of gas at Payson’s Maverik is the lowest in the state for the franchise, which owns stations around the west, according to its website. The corporate office did not return a call seeking comment.

A Safeway representative said it is not operating below cost by selling at $2.09 in Payson (for cash or debit cards).

“Beyond that, I am unable to share how Safeway sets its pricing as that’s proprietary information. However, I can tell you that Safeway works to stay competitive in the marketplace,” said Nancy Keane, with the company’s public affairs and government relations office.

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“We called it our ‘Go Green in the Garden’ since it was St. Patrick’s Day,” said Roger Kreimeyer, Community Garden administrator. “This was an opportunity for the kids to say thank you to the community for the food donations to them.”

About 14 children from the Payson Unified School District paired up with Allic Bales, the PADS Coordinator with PUSD, Kreimeyer, Pastor Rich Richey from the Church of the Nazarene, Pastor Carl Peterson from the Payson Methodist Church and 15 members from the Student Weekend Food Program Missions Team to remove all of the rocks around the security fence. The rocks needed to go before the Community Garden could install a rabbit-proof fence.

Then everyone chowed down on a barbecue of hamburgers and hotdogs — with that green mustard.

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The vehicle’s owner was asleep in their home at the time, Eavenson said.

Hellsgate Capt. Rick Heron is investigating the fire, but had not determined a cause as of press time.

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Then on Dec. 22, Beauchamp terminated her employment.

Fuller would not comment and referred the Roundup to Beauchamp’s written statement.

Riddle said she was discriminated against because she is a female and pregnant. She is set to have a child in August.

The Roundup contacted the AG and EEOC media offices for more information.

An AG office representative said they could not confirm or deny if the office was conducting an investigation. Only after an investigation is complete can they release information on it. The EEOC did not respond as of press time.

Riddle said she has not heard back from the AG office regarding her complaint or received a response from the GCAO.

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Amateur Radio Operators (HAMS) and any who are interested in becoming a HAM operator are encouraged to join the Tonto Amateur Radio Association (TARA) this Saturday, March 28 for breakfast at 8 a.m. at the Crosswinds Restaurant at the Payson Airport.

Club members participate in community projects and are known for providing emergency communications during natural disasters.

Please see the website for more information: www.TontoRadio.org.

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Payson Flycasters, Trout Unlimited meeting

Want a progress report on where the missing trout are? Lorraine D. Avenetti, with the Arizona Game & Fish Department Research Branch, and a wildlife technician will provide a preliminary report to the Payson Flycasters and Gila Trout Unlimited Chapter 530 at the monthly meeting at 9 a.m., Saturday, March 28 at Tiny’s Restaurant, 600 E. Highway 260.

Xeriscape Council

The High Country Xeriscape Council has scheduled a work day beginning at 9 a.m., Saturday, March 28 in the demonstration garden at Gila Community College Payson Campus.

Please come to help and check the Kiosk there for free information about zeric plants and coping with javelina, elk and rabbits. We are also looking for new members. Call Donna at (928) 468-0727 if you wish more information.

Presbyterian Church contemporary worship

A new contemporary worship service begins at 2 p.m., Palm Sunday, March 29, 2015 at the Payson Community Presbyterian Church, 800 W. Main St. This service is open to the public and includes live contemporary worship music.

If you need more information, please contact the church office at (928) 474-2059.

Republicans host wildlife manager

The Rim Country Republican Club meets Monday, March 30 at Tiny’s Family Restaurant, 600 E. Highway 260, Payson.

Members and guests may gather at 11 a.m. to order lunch and socialize. Beginning at 11:30 a.m., David Daniels, wildlife manager with the

Play is Thursday mornings, with the season-opening breakfast planned at 9 a.m., Thursday, April 2 and tee-off at 10 a.m.

To sign up, call Mary Quigley at (928) 957-2017 or Nina Szakal at (928) 970-0495.

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Men 60 and older are invited to come out for the Payson Cougars Senior Softball Team.

Practices are at 12:30 p.m., Monday and Tuesday at the Kiwanis Fields at Rumsey Park.

Call Lou Felix at (928) 970-1991 for details.

The Northern Gila County Genealogy Society meets at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 2 at 302 E. Bonita. Vicki Farnsworth will present a program on Indexing: Making Records Searchable Online.

Everyone deserves to be remembered and you can help make this possible. No special skills or time commitments are required.

Together, we can help people from around the world find and trace their ancestry for free.

During Vicki Farnsworth’s presentation, participants watch a guided, interactive tour of how to do indexing. They will then watch an actual member attending the meeting get signed up by creating an online account to utilize the Familysearch.org site and/or Indexing. Finally, those attending will watch as the new indexer processes a batch of records with the audience’s help. Depending on time and how many participants bring their own laptops, members may be able to have many attendees sign up and complete a batch of records.

If you speak a foreign language,

there are many projects available in the language of your choice.

Indexing birth, death, marriage, probate, and military records are just some of the projects available. The presenter’s favorite is obituaries.

Meet with fellow genealogists afterwards at Denny’s Restaurant for an informal group question and answer session. Denny’s provides a 20 percent discount to senior citizens who are members of AARP.

Computer Club

The Payson Area Computer Club meets at 6:30 p.m., Friday, April 3 in the Payson Library meeting room.

Club President Ray Baxter will show members and first-time visitors what we can expect when Windows 10 is released later this year. He will give a demonstration using the Preview Version he has downloaded to a spare laptop.

Windows 10 has the best features of W7 and W8.1. More importantly it will be a free upgrade for those using these older operating systems.

Bridge results

Bridge winners Wednesday, March 25 were: Diane Bricker and Kathy Salvaggio, first; Flo Moeur and Joan Young, second; Mike McGlothin and Harry Young, third.

For information and reservations, call Kay Hutchinson at (928) 474-0287.

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Arizona Game & Fish Department, will speak. He will give an update on the Mexican Gray Wolf reintroduction and on the importance of hunting to our economy. Call Nancy Cox at (928) 472-1172 for more information.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other to help others recover from alcoholism. For more information on local meetings, call (928) 474-3620.

Overeaters Anonymous

Overeaters Anonymous meets from 2 p.m. Mondays at Shepherd of the Pines Lutheran Church, 507 W. Wade Lane, Payson.

There are no fees or dues. The only membership requirement is a desire to not compulsively overeat anymore.

Call the following members for

more information: Denise, (928) 9783706; Mary Jo, (928) 978-4663; Ted, (928-) 951-3362; Alice at (602) 8280917 or (928) 478-4361.

Write Your Story

Write Your Story is a group of ordinary people who are in the process of writing short narratives from their life experiences. The group meets at 1 p.m. every Monday. For more information call Nadine, (928) 476-4659.

Senior Singles With Spirit

Senior Singles With Spirit is a group of men and women who are young in spirit and have an enthusiasm for life. The purpose of the group is to build lasting friendships, share ideas, have fun, and enjoy activities with like-minded people.

The choices are many and varied and all up to you. Come check us out.

The group meets at 8:45 a.m. every Tuesday for breakfast at the Cedar Ridge Restaurant located in the casino.

For more information, call Paula at (480) 695-2786.

PAWS meets

The PAWS group (Payson Area Woofers Society) meets at 6 p.m., Wednesday, April 1 at the conference room at the Payson Public Library.

Members will discuss the annual Easter bake sale, to be held Saturday, April 4 in front of Safeway.

Everyone is invited to come and have refreshments on us. We will need bakers and helpers at the event. If you have any questions, please call Dorothy Howell, (928) 472-7396.

Ladies wanted

The Payson Lady’s 9-hole Golfers are inviting Rim Country women at all skill levels to join.

Think twice before getting an Easter pet furniture and upholstery. One Ka Trina Reese With St. Patrick’s Day behind more thing to consider — it’s us and Easter just around the very common for fowl to carry corner, we’re reminded that this salmonella, which can easily be is a time of year to celebrate, contracted by anyone who is and what better way to celebrate handling them.

Rabbits also aren’t than to give your low maintenance. loved ones gifts. You While you could cerhave quite the selecHumane tainly keep a small tion, too! There are Society of Central rabbit in a cage in chocolate bunnies, Arizona the house, a lot of the Peeps, gift baskets of time they do get bigall sorts, lilies, pretty ger, thus requiring a decorations, pets — ADOPTION rabbit hutch. Hutches wait, pets? Well, yeah. OPTIONS can be indoor or outThe holidays are a door, but both have popular time of year to give animals as gifts. What their setbacks. Outdoor hutchcould be better than seeing the es can be bigger and give the smiles on children’s faces when rabbit more space, but due to they see a little chick or baby zoning restrictions, they may not be acceptable where you live. bunny Easter morning?

Now, before you start eyeing Also, keeping rabbits outside the pet shops or farms for a cud- can make them more of a tardly present, let’s consider a few get for predatory animals like things. According to the “Easter coyotes, foxes, etc. On the other Pet Statistic” presented by the side of the coin, indoor hutches Humane Society of Utah, 30 per- keep the rabbit in a more secure cent of Easter pets including environment, but some of the ducklings, chicks and, of course items needed for the care of a rabbits, actually die within the rabbit can irritate people with first week home. When it comes allergies, like alfalfa hay and difto giving an animal as a gift for ferent types of bedding. If you’re any situation, a lot of people thinking of getting a pair of rabtend to get caught up in the bits, remember — they breed cuteness factor, and don’t con- like crazy! While you can get a sider that taking on any animal, rabbit spayed or neutered, a lot whether it’s a puppy, kitten or of people overlook that and end rabbit; is a big responsibility. All up with a whole slew of unwantof these animals can live to be ed pets.

A lot of the time when these 10 years old or older, and with a lifespan like that, getting one is a animals are purchased as gifts for Easter, none of these factors big responsibility.

One thing to consider is are brought up until after the that some residential areas purchase. Thousands of chickdon’t allow these types of pets ens, ducks and rabbits end up due to zoning restrictions. without homes every year, only Chickens, ducks and rabbits all to wind up either fending for need considerable space and a themselves in the wilderness, lot of maintenance. Chickens, the streets, or in animal shelters.

While getting a new pet is a for example, are compulsive scratchers — they could easily fun way to give a gift, it’s always scratch through carpet or mess best to do a little research and up wood floors, as well as peck find out if the animal or animals through an assortment of other you’re thinking of bringing home by

(1917-2015)

Thelma L. Scott, age 97, of Payson, passed away on March 25, 2015. She was born on May 22, 1917 in Murray, Neb. to Franklin E. Dill and Agnes (Lloyd) Dill.

She graduated from high school in 1934 during the Great Depression and drought. Employed by the Nebraska Masonic Hospital for three years, she moved to California in 1939. At a friend’s home she met her future husband, Dale W. Scott, and was married in June 1939. Their son was born June 1944. Their 58-½ years together were ended by

Dale’s death in 1998.

Five years later she married Herbert A. Gregg. He passed away in 2012.

She was preceded in death by her parents, sister (Mary Helen), one grandson and two husbands.

She is survived by her son, Phillip Dale and his wife Kaye; three grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.

Private family services will be held at a later date, per her request. In lieu of flowers, donate to Hospice Compassus.

John “Roger” Mandock (2015)

John “Roger” Mandock, age 77, of Payson, Ariz., passed away at Payson Regional Medical Center March 16, 2015 due to long-term health problems.

He was a graduate of Alpena, Mich. High School, class of 1956.

He was preceded in death in 2007 by his devoted wife, Althea DeCaire Mandock.

He is survived by his two sons, Roger Lee Mandock of Grand Rapids, Mich. and Ricky John Mandock of Herron, Mich.

Also surviving are his three grandkids, Mysti Root of Dexter, Mich., Marle Till of Perryville, Md., Charles of Middleville, Mich.; and four great-grandkids, Allen Rochowiak, Brayden Root, James and Katlynn Till.

Charles “Chuck” Thompson Jr. (1963-2012)

Curry

Tyler

will get the care and time they will need. Sure, having a new pet to wake up to in the morning could be exciting. But it’s also exciting to take the family on a visit to a humane society or shelter to pick out a new pet — that way everyone in the family is on board with the decision, and everyone gets their say in the animal that is chosen to join the family.

Another fun option is gift certificates. Many shelters and humane societies offer these as an option to surprise a loved one with a new pet, and it gives that person a chance to consider all of the changes that having a new pet in the home can bring.

Animals can be a great addition to any household — they can be lots of fun, they’re great for companionship, and really interesting to interact with. However, they are a big responsibility and do require some time and care.

It’s always best to treat animals not like a basket stuffer, but a new addition to your family.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m., or visit www. humanesocietycentralaz.org.

Adoptable Pets

Following are just two of the many wonderful pets available for adoption at the Humane Society of Central Arizona. All pets are already spayed or neutered and current on vaccinations. To learn more, stop by the shelter at 605 W. Wilson Ct. Monday through Saturday

CURRY

Hello there. I can be a shy and quiet little guy, who will take some time to warm up to you! After some gentle petting and quiet time I will be your best friend! I am a gentleman with a minor heart condition; I don’t let it slow me down, though! I still enjoying romping in the yard with my pals! I greatly enjoy getting out to the yard to play with my friends, and afterwards cuddle up for a nap! I would do my best in a home with a doggie buddy that is playful and equally as snuggly as I am! Since I am a little on the timid side, I would be more comfortable in a home with older kids that I can chill with while they do their homework or play video games; after all I would make a great mascot, look how cute I am!

TYLER

I’m a very talkative guy who just loves attention. Whether you’re petting me, talking to me, feeding me, playing with me or whatever, I always want to be the center of everything. I’m not conceited or anything, I just like feeling the love! I’m friendly and would make a great companion.

So what do you say? Do you want to be friends?

Charles “Chuck” Thompson Jr., was born in Michigan May 29, 1963 and died Oct. 30, 2012.

He is survived by his daughter, Amanda; parents, Chuck and Gail; sister, Tammy and many extended family members. Chuck continued to be in the prayers of his ex-wife, Lisa, and many friends.

He was a passionate servant

of the Lord, talented gymnast and gifted coach.

A casual prayer service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, April 11 at the Mountain Bible Church outdoor prayer garden, 302 E. Rancho Rd., Payson, Ariz.

Memorials may be gifted to Celebrate Recovery at Mountain Bible Church.

Judith Ann Signeski (2015)

Judith Ann “Judy” Signeski, 71, daughter of Piero and Anna Achilli, loving wife of Leonard Signeski, passed away on March 20, 2015 at her home in Scottsdale after a long battle with cancer.

She is survived by her husband, Leonard; son, Richard; and daughter, Sarah. She is also survived by three grandchildren, all living in the Phoenix area.

Judy and Len celebrated 50 years of engagement on New Year’s Eve 2014 and May 1, 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of their wedding. Until recently, Len and Judy were fulltime residents of Payson. Judy worked in the

medical field for several years in Michigan.

She loved to paint, enjoyed her grandchildren, had a passion for gardening and was an accomplished amateur chef. More than anything, Judy loved to help others. Through either her personal work or through the Signeski Family Foundation, Judy touched the lives of so many people in a profound and positive way. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.

Services will be held Wednesday, March 25 at 12 p.m. at St. Patrick’s Catholic Community Church, 10815 N. 84th St., Scottsdale, Ariz.

George D. Knox (2015)

This is in memory of George D. Knox who passed away on March 4, 2015 at Hospice Compassus.

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Hilltop ruins reveal possible warfare with Hohokam raiders From page 1A Prescott airport, often in queasy circular patterns to positively identify ruins.

Other sites were recorded by hikers and added to surveys done by Kenneth Austin — a passionate retiree who visited and recorded more than 1,000 archaeological sites around the Prescott area between 1972 and 1981. Many credit Austin for fueling the modern interest in the hilltop ruins of the Central Arizona Tradition.

However, prior to Austin, interest in the hilltop sites in central Arizona dates back to the 1850s and has been an enduring puzzle to all observers.

“Today, a theory of resistance and conflict is postulated to explain some of these hilltop patterns, which were established by what archaeologists call the Central Arizona Tradition post AD 1100,” said Wilcox.

Prior to that, the building and pottery styles of west-central Arizona indicate these people had a close relationship with the Hohokam in the Phoenix Basin and were a cultural hinterland of that cultural center.

Evidence of ball-courts, great

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Retired Tonto Forest Archaeologist Scott Wood led a tour of Goat Camp ruins off Tyler Parkway.

Research suggests many such hilltop sites may offer evidence of escalating warfare between the Hohokam living in the Valley and people living throughout Central Arizona. excavations with high earthen sides and clay or caliche floors postulated to be sites of religious ceremonies or ball-games,

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The opening reception is April 2 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

indicate to Wilcox and other archaeologists that the people in the Rim Country and Prescott areas could have been Hohokam colonists or “locals buying into a version of Hohokam religion.”

That lasted until around the year 1050. Within 50 years, all connections with the Hohokam seem to end according to archaeological evidence.

Wilcox said that could have correlated with a period of raiding by the Hohokam of the northern peoples for labor.

“By A.D. 1150 a wide buffer zone had opened up between the large Hohokam labor intensive irrigation based villages in the lower Salt River Valley and the Central Arizona Tradition area,” he said. “If you’ve seen those

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huge canals — they were dug using wooden sticks and baskets, and they were built again and again and again — there was a tremendous amount of labor involved. Having young people for the labor involved raids. Ruins show occupation continuously and then a buffer zone and this hilltop pattern.”

Once the Central Arizona Tradition peoples broke with the Hohokam, they started to connect with the Northern Pueblo ancients, such as those living in the Flagstaff and Kayenta areas.

On Perry Mesa, about 50 miles north of Phoenix, what Wilcox calls the first gated community, was established ca. AD 1275.

These mesa and hilltop communities within line-of-sight communication with each other could protect each other’s backs against outside attack.

“Starting in 1275, much of the outlying territories of the Central Arizona Tradition were suddenly depopulated as the people coalesced into large hamlets or small nucleated villages in the better watered central area of their overall territory,” he said.

Wilcox said scientists believe that was to better fight off war-

rior societies of up to 1,000 Hohokam men for at that time, the Hohokam population was estimated to be between 9,000 and 15,000 people — the greatest collection of people in the whole North American Southwest at that time, said Wilcox.

Centuries later, devastating floods that destroyed their canal systems seems to have forced the Hohokam peoples into abandoning their settlements. Wilcox postulates the Hohokam might have moved on to Mexico. “(The) collapse, like that of the Hohokam polity ca. AD 1425, may have precipitated long-distance migrations into Central Sonora, maintaining the southern Southwest as Pima Bajo and Opata village clusters (“Sonoran statelets”), as reported by Spanish observers in the middle 1500s (Riley 1987; Wilcox et al.

2008);” wrote Wilcox in his presentation, “Pima Alto, Pima Bajo & Tepehuan are dialects of a single language called Tepiman by linguists, a fact this proposed migration by Hohokam could explain.” The remnants of the Central Arizona Traditions people seemingly merged with Hopi populations in northern Arizona.

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Photos courtesy of DJ Craig

At top, Cori Barnett strolls to the plate as Payton Petersen greets Anilese Hayes following a home run. Above, Arissa Paulson has been an absolutely dominant pitcher. At right, Aubrielle Paulson and the Longhorns haven’t needed to score many runs thanks to strong pitching and defense.

Keith Morris

The ace pitcher didn’t even glance at the Tanque Verde player dancing off of second base.

The runner didn’t matter. That’s as close to home as she was getting.

Arissa Paulson mowed down all three Hawks who crept to the plate in the bottom of the eighth inning. In that final show of lethal skill, she secured a 1-0 victory over the Tucson team and Payson’s victory in the 11th Annual Gracie Haught Classic championship on Saturday night.

It took the Payson High junior phenomenon just 12 pitches, 11 of them strikes. She snuffed the first batter looking and the next two swinging.

Paulson struck out a remarkable 21 batters in her second no-hitter of the weekend. Get this: Out of her 93 throws, 81 percent were strikes.

She didn’t come close to walking anyone, miss-

ing the strike zone just 18 times.

The performance was really nothing new for the talented flamethrower.

She served as the spark for a team on fire, with the meticulous attention to detail it takes to win a championship.

This year, Payson has combined nearly flawless pitching with a smothering defense and hits and sacrifice bunts when they count most.

It’s clear if Paulson continues to do what she’s been doing this season, the Longhorns are as good as any Division 3 team in the state.

Heck, they’re as good as any Division 1 team, for that matter.

The Horns demonstrated the lethal effect of their shutdown pitching and airtight defense throughout their run to the Gracie title last weekend. Paulson went 5-0 with 80 strikeouts in 31 shutout innings to power Payson to the title.

Meanwhile, her little sister, Aubrielle, baffled Joseph City hitters, in an impressive 10-strikeout one-hit shutout to get things started on Friday morning.

Arissa overpowered helpless batters, who might as well have gone to the plate with toothpicks for all the good their bats did them. And some of the opposing batters were good hitters.

But it’s hard to look like one when an artist is in the circle, wafting vapor past you one moment, taking something off the next pitch to leave you way out front looking silly, then painting the corner to send you back to the bench shaking your head.

Batters managed just four hits against her in those 31 innings. Payson outscored its six opponents 26-0. The closest an opposing team came to scoring came in the eighth inning of the championship game, thanks to the international tiebreaker rule that started Tanque Verde off with a runner on second base. Opponents should lobby for a rule change so they can start every inning with a runner on second whenever Arissa pitches against them.

Or better yet, third.

It wouldn’t matter.

It certainly didn’t save the Hawks in the thrilling tournament finale.

Mind you, Tanque Verde entered the game 15-0 and ranked No. 6 in Division 3 by the Arizona Republic. Moreover, the Hawks beat defending state champion Winslow 7-6 in the semifinals.

Tanque Verde coach Chris Voutsas marveled

at the Longhorns, and most notably, Paulson’s performance.

“That’s an outstanding team,” he said. “She was absolutely astounding. It was everything we could do to just put the ball in play. She commanded the plate and she earned that victory. Obviously, she throws the ball hard, but she was spotting the ball tremendously, keeping our hitters off balance and we’re an outstanding team, so for us not even to be able to put the bat on the ball, it was something.”

P a y s o n won the game against Tanque Verde with just two hits. The Longhorns also won another game with just two hits and two others with only three hits.

That’s because they didn’t need a lot of offense, thanks to pitchers that surrendered just five hits in six games. Moreover, the rest of the team played superb defense, with just three errors in the six games.

The Longhorns have outscored opponents 147-9 and have posted nine consecutive shutouts in a 12-game winning streak that left them with a 17-1 record entering Thursday’s Section 5 opener at Lakeside Blue Ridge. They return home to play Morenci in a non-section game at 2 p.m. Saturday before

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Realignment has PHS teams facing several long trips by

Keith Morris

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Gas up the bus, Payson teams will spend a lot of time on the road in the next three years thanks to the Arizona Interscholastic Association’s new division and section alignment.

Beginning this fall, many of Payson High’s athletic teams must endure agonizingly long, financially draining bus trips.

That’s a challenge, for a program living on parent donations and gate fees.

In football, the Longhorns will find themselves one of six teams in Division 4, Section 1. They’ll still face current section foes Lakeside Blue Ridge, Show Low and Snowflake. But Page and Winslow will replace Fountain Hills and Globe.

Payson played Page in non-section games twice in the past two years and the 488-mile round trip proved a bus-breakdown nightmare the Longhorns don’t want to endure again.

Unfortunately, one of the teams will have to hit the road for that trip twice in the next three years and Payson officials can only hope it’s not the Longhorns.

Boys basketball features some of the most drastic changes, with the Longhorns moving from their current nine-team section into a 12-team mega section featuring eight Valley schools. It’s a similar situation in girls basketball, although only 11 teams landed in the new section.

Volleyball is similar to basketball, as Payson moves from the current nine-team section to a 12-team section. Fortunately for the Longhorns, powerhouse Flagstaff is moving up a division, but several strong reservation teams take their place.

New rivals include Kayenta Monument Valley (530-mile round trip), Page (488), Fort Defiance Window Rock (400), both Tuba City and Tuba City Greyhills (386) and Ganado (350).

In baseball, the Longhorns move from their current nineteam section to an eight-team section. That includes Eagar Round Valley, Globe and Whiteriver Alchesay, all moving down in division. Instead, the Longhorns will face strong Cottonwood Mingus and Page teams. Of course, that means another long bus ride to Page.

In softball, the Longhorns will compete with just six other teams in Section 1. Winslow has moved up to D2, removing a major hurdle to a possible state crown for everyone else in D3.

Along with familiar rivals Blue Ridge, Holbrook, Show Low and Snowflake, PHS will now also face long road trips with both Page and Window Rock.

Appeals are still pending for the placement of teams in cross country, golf, spiritline, track and wrestling.

Look for stories focusing on the Longhorns’ situation in various sports in future editions of the Roundup.

Photo courtesy of DJ Craig

Payson High’s volleyball team is one of several Longhorn athletic teams facing the challenge of long, costly road trips the next three years in the Arizona Interscholastic Association’s new alignment.

Young wants players to enjoy their baseball experience by

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Brian Young believes that winning and losing comes second to the overall experience of the athletes.

The Payson High varsity baseball head coach, who spent seven years as the junior varsity coach before taking over the varsity squad three years ago said, “My biggest goal is to give every player the best experience of their life playing on my teams.”

Young is an easy going and happy individual. He makes it his priority to connect with students and athletes on and off the field.

“I want every player to feel like they are the most important player in the world,” he said.

The coach said he does his best to be completely available to all of his athletes, interacting with them via Twitter, Snapchat and by texting.

Young said he wants all of his athletes to have a good time on and off the field.

“To me being a part of our program isn’t just two hours a day after school for practice — I want the athletes to get involved and just enjoy the whole experience of being a PHS baseball player,” he said.

“Most players are going to judge their

sport by their performance on the field, but there is a lot more to it. You can go out and win but hate what you are doing. I want our guys to enjoy it.”

The team might not win the state championship but if the foundation is built on a group of student-athletes that have a good time and want to be a part of the program, as long as the players leave the team with good memories and life lessons, the baseball program would be considered successful, said Young, who is pursuing his master’s degree in athletic administration in an online program through Grace College.

Former PHS baseball player Garrett Geske said he enjoyed playing for

Young. “We had a good time on and off the field with him,” Geske said. “I still interact with him today on Snapchat and Facebook.”

Geske also was a student in one of Young’s English classes and remembers his teacher hosting him and his classmates in a fantasy football league.

“The fantasy league was a good time; it was fun to do something like that with a teacher,” he said.

Mira Richey, another former student of Young’s, said he was a playful guy who’d joke around with students. “He Keith Morris/Roundup was a fun teacher, he really related to the students, and made learning enjoy- Brian Young makes baseball fun for able,” she said. his players.

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aroundthe rim Fuel program waits on county action The Pine Strawberry Fuel Reduction at the Pine Community Ramada.

Several guided hikes will be held Committee is hosting a public meeting at 2 p.m., Tuesday, April 14 in the Pine throughout the day including birding Senior Center that will be highlighted with Tom Conlin, a llama hike with by an update on the 2015 brush pickup Joyce Bittner, AZTrail hike with Windy program and a PowerPoint presentation and Jim Quinton, Strawberry to Pine on the committee’s progression since its hike with Rick Heffernon and bike the new Bearfoot Trail with Roland Maier. inception.

In addition to those activities, there The future of the 2015 brush pickup program appears to be in limbo will be information booths, raffles and while the committee awaits notice demonstrations.

“We will have several groups includon whether the Gila County Board of Supervisors agrees to waive dumping ing the U.S. Forest Service, Arizona Trails people, Payson Rimstones, geofees at Buckhead Mesa Landfill.

Pine Strawberry Fire Chief Gary caching hosts and several others we are Morris and PSFR president Melvin working on,” said Trails Day organizer Palmer have said the brush pickup pro- Maureen Walsh.

Pine and Strawberry are hot spots gram cannot be held if those fees are not waived, as they were for the 2014 for many hikers partly because the two towns have been designated program.

“Gateway Communities” to the “We are still waiting (to hear rattlin’ Arizona Trail. from the supervisors),” Palmer the rim Local adventurers will said. “I presented our plan at remember last spring’s Trails the January supervisors meetDay celebration attracted ing and Gary and I have written renowned hiker Sirena Dufault letters to all three supervisors who was in the midst of a hike on the importance of the waivalong the full 800 miles of the er.”

Arizona Trail.

Both Palmer and Morris are While in Pine, she said her scheduled to call the supervimission was to draw attention sors later this week to urge the Max Foster to the 33 Gateway Communities. waiver.

The communities, she said, pro“I will encourage everyone vide access to the trail, offer food and else to call,” said Palmer.

This columnist’s emails to Supervisor lodging and stimulate the local econoTommie Martin, who represents the mies.

Call Walsh, (928) 978-1086, for more Pine and Payson areas, regarding the information about the 2015 Trails Day. landfill fee waivers were not returned by press time.

Trail work tomorrow The brush pickup program, which was a huge success last year, could cost Volunteers are needed to continue as much as $75,000 in 2015. the improvement work being done on “Donations are coming along steady,” the Pine View Trail. The next session Palmer said. “We are reaching the half- is 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, way mark for reaching our goal.”

March 28. Volunteers should bring their The question on some homeowners’ own snack and water and meet at the minds, however, is “What happens with Pine Trailhead. the money if the program doesn’t go off Buff scholars named as planned?”

Palmer answers, “We are keeping The Pine Strawberry School printrack of every check and if we are cipal/superintendent has released the unable to proceed this year, we will be names of students who were named to asking donors if they want their contri- either the Principal’s List and Honor bution back.”

Roll during the third quarter of the 2014The committee is continuing this 15 school year: week to accept donations for the pro- Principal’s list students are: gram.

Fourth Grade – Mrs. Utz: Mackenzie The pickups are considered the most Aguon, Winnie Paine, Grace Robbins; important safety checks in protecting Fifth Grade – Mrs. Donaldson: Alyssa our two communities from a catastroph- Baeuerlen, Darby MacFarlane, ic wildfire.

Sebastian Quintero, Jacob Roberts; Tax deductible donations can Sixth Grade – Mrs. Flanagan: Raci be made by check payable to: Pine/ Miranda, Emma Paine; Eighth Grade – Strawberry Fuel Reduction, Inc. and Mrs. Fran: Mercedes Miranda, Meredith mailed to P/S Fuel Reduction, P.O. Box Kiekintveld, Quaid Tanner.

67, Pine, AZ 85544.

Honor Roll students are: For more information, call (928) 970Fourth Grade – Mrs. Utz: Zeke 0713 or visit: www.psfuelreduction.org.

Alvarado, Chloee Boyle, Kyleigh Fadley, Melody Larson; Fifth Grade – Trails Day hoopla Mrs. Donaldson: Hector Alvarado, Rae The annual Pine Strawberry Trails Anne Ramirez, Cash York; Sixth Grade Day celebration will be held from 8 a.m. – Mrs. Flanagan: Haley Hargett, Lexi to 3 p.m., Saturday, April 18 beginning Ward; Seventh Grade – Mrs. Johnson:

Max Foster photo

Barry Hoff and his crew are building the Pine Strawberry Timeline for the Take Pride Project at the community center.

Abby Ast, MaKenzie Abney, McKenna Banning, Holly Carl, Lizzie MacFarlane, Cameron Taylor; Eighth Grade – Mrs. Fran: Jerusha Paine, Brian Wintrich.

Pine Strawberry Timeline

With permission from the Pine Strawberry School Board to build a Timeline in front of the Pine-Strawberry Museum, organizers from the Take Pride Project are enthusiastically going forward with the project.

The Timeline remains a work in progress, but thus far begins in 10,000 B.C. with the Paleo Indians inhabiting Arizona and continues through the war in Afghanistan 2014/15, which became the longest in American history.

There are also numerous Timeline entries unique to the Rim Country.

Timeline suggestions were submitted

by Take Pride officers, members of the historical society, CERCA (Community, Educational, Recreational, Cultural Association of Strawberry and Pine) and a school board representative.

Take Pride President Ira Gibel said at midweek, “Barry Hoff and his team are replacing the old concrete with new concrete.”

Those wishing to help sponsor the Timeline may do so by purchasing inscribed bricks which will be placed adjacent to the Timeline.

One line on a brick is $50, two lines are $75 and three lines $100. There is a maximum 18 characters per line.

Purchases may be made from Gibel

or any other member.

Work begins

Remember the good times that were enjoyed last fall at the inaugural Wine Around the Library benefit?

Its success has Isabelle Hunt Memorial Library governing board members, employees and volunteers already working on the 2015 to be held next fall.

Word is it will be even bigger and better than the first.

Nominate a volunteer

Pine and Strawberry is fortunate enough to have throngs of enthusiastic volunteers who willingly share their skills and time.

Each year, the Take Pride organization recognizes those persons with their annual volunteer of the year awards.

The citation is given to the volunteer who has contributed to the community.

Entries may be sent to Take Pride Project, P.O. Box 1204, Pine, AZ 85544.

Entries should be submitted by April 15.

Kindergarten prep

The Pine Strawberry School Kinder­ garten Transition Team is hosting informational meetings for prospective kindergartners and their parents at 5 p.m., Tuesday, April 21 and Tuesday, May 19 in room 108.

Parents should RSVP the school at (928) 476-3283 so staff can have sufficient materials and refreshments available.

The roar of summer fun in the distance Another quiet week in the Village … but wait a few more weeks and our little hamlet will be buzzing with quads and dune buggies. Who said you needed sand?

Mud is just fine.

Our part-time residents will be busy as beavers cleaning out the cobwebs from their cabins, changing linens and stocking the fridge.

There will be kids galore out on the streets with their bikes and not looking for cars. By Memorial Day the weekend, the residents will be ready village to enjoy the pleasant weather in the mountains as compared to the Valley, where the temperatures will be moving into the 100-degree range.

The fishing poles and all the gear that comes with them will be ready for visits to favorite fishing holes.

Hopefully they are not the same ones I will be going to … last year, the Janet Snyder fishing was sparse at best and the fish were small.

According to the Payson Roundup, the Arizona Game and Fish Department is still looking for trout that were tagged. I wonder where they are? If any of the fish you catch has a tag, Game and Fish want to know about it.

Good weekend

On Saturday, March 21, I attended this year’s Women’s Wellness Forum sponsored by the Mogollon

Health Alliance of Payson. The format for the forum was totally different from that of years past. The Mazatzal Casino fit all of the women in their banquet room — at least 200 of us. No longer did we have to trek to different classrooms at Payson High School to hear the various speakers. We were comfortably seated at tables, water was at our fingertips, and coffee and tea were readily available. I talked with the CEO of Mogollon Alliance Sanja Long and she told me that she hopes this setup will continue in coming years. The ladies I spoke with were very appreciative of the fact that they didn’t have to walk around the campus to listen to the speakers.

Instead of breakfast, a brunch was served about mid-point and the food was outstanding. The casino had staff on hand to assist every lady.

The keynote speaker was Diana Jordan, a very funny comedienne, who related to all of the ladies.

Diana even made fun of the drive to Payson. As she was driving through the desert, she spotted a name of a creek that cracked her up. I suspect she will be using “Kitty Do Creek” (a misread of the Kitty Jo Creek sign on Highway 87) in her material from now on.

I like the new format, and I hope the wellness forum committee members vote to continue this new format.

Easter fun

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our fine restaurants. My husband and I are in the latter group. We have done our share with Easter egg hunts — coloring the eggs and buying baskets filled with toys and candy. We entertained five kids through the years and now I am ready to take the day in stride and have someone else wait on me. Check the Payson Roundup in the coming week for all the activities that will be available.

The Tonto Village Chapel will be having its Resurrection Celebration at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 4 and will offer an opportunity to do crafts, enjoy a bounce house and have an Easter egg hunt.

Easter service starts at 9:30 a.m., Sunday, April 5. Also Bible study class is at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays.

Everyone is welcome.

Get well

I just received word that Tonto Village resident Sam Coe has been very ill. We hope that he is well on the way to becoming as fit and healthy as possible.

Domino Divas

Come and enjoy the fun at 1 p.m. every Wednesday at the Tonto Village Fire Station. You might get a chance to meet our new mascot, Jake the hound dog.

He gets a little independent about showing up at the fire station, but he finally did just as the Divas were wrapping up for the day last week. The Divas were calling for him all afternoon and he finally showed up with a giant howl and a scratch at the door. So we know where Jake the hound dog is — for now.

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Last week we talked about Bette Davis’ comment on aging, including how tired you can get at times. My mind was working as I wrote, as it often does. I realized that most 83-year-olds do not have the energy and interest in life I still have, and I decided that some of that has to be attributed to good genes.

But to be honest with you, there are two things I have done over the years that I genuinely believe have made a very large difference. One reason I am fairly sure of that is because I am often looking across the room right now at someone whose genes could not possibly be more different from mine — my beloved wife, Lolly — who is 80 as you read this, born in India, and who is extraordinarily young for her age despite a serious illness.

What do I call “extraordinarily young”?

Can you picture a woman of her age whose skin is like that of a 30-yearold? Someone without a single wrinkle?

Not one. Someone who despite her illness tests perfectly in every routine test given her — heart, liver function, glucose, cholesterol, blood count, calcium, kidneys, whatever. Everything! your turn Were Lolly not cursed with Lewy Body Parkinsonism, a genetic disease, she would still be as healthy and active as ever.

And sure, there are bound to be some good Tom Garrett genes involved, but I believe that some choices we both made decades ago are important.

For what it may be worth I’ll pass them on to you.

Please understand. I am no health nut, nor do I believe that what works for one person has to work for everyone, but these two things are so fully-proven that I just can’t help recommending them. The first one began in 1959 just a few months before we were married. I was out on the flightline in Karachi. It was four in the morning and I was very tired even though I was only 27. I’d been up since six the morning before, working hard taking care of Air Force aircraft that landed and which had to be loaded or unloaded by yours truly because as far as the Military Air Transport Service in Karachi was concerned I was the whole show.

I had just finished offloading and onloading tons of cargo from a large cargo aircraft and I was getting the loadmaster on the aircraft to sign the manifests. Eyeballing him because he was so full of energy, I asked him how in the world he managed it.

He grinned. “We don’t get to eat regular at this job do we?”

“You can say that again!”

“Well, I figure that if there are some things called vitamins my body must have every single day, and I am not likely to get them on our work schedule, I’d be smart to take a vitamin pill every day.”

I started taking a daily vitamin pill that very day, and I have been taking them now for 56 years. So has Lolly. And I’ll tell you something I learned when I was taking my undergraduate degree; if you were to go read what happens in your body when any of your cells doesn’t have the vitamins it must have to do its job, you’d run all the way to the store to buy a bottle.

The other thing is lecithin. Thirty years ago I began having a problem remembering things. It happened that a pediatrician was talking to my science classes on careers day. I mentioned it to him. He said memory problems were right up his alley since children have problems because they are learning all the time.

“Do this,” he said. “Get lecithin pills.

Take them every day. They’re a precursor for acetylcholine, which is essential to memory. You won’t notice a difference right away, but in a few months you’ll say, “Hey! You know what? I don’t have that problem anymore.”

That’s exactly what happened.

Thirty years later, I have a memory like a steel trap.

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And for those of us who enjoy sports, it’s also a wonderful time of the year. Pro basketball and hockey are wrapping up their regular seasons and in a couple of weeks will begin their playoffs. Professional baseball is finishing spring training next week, and will leave behind their winter fans in Florida and Arizona to head north to start the 162-game regular season.

Also, both men’s and women’s college basketball seasons are in the midst of March Madness, with many of us cheering on our favorite team and hoping we strike it rich in the office bracket pool. And for those of us who enjoy and support high school sports — the Payson High School baseball, softball, track and golf teams are in mid-season form and providing plenty of action and entertainment.

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This week’s question

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Bob Marley was noted for his soccer skills as well as his gifts as a musician.

In the music industry, there have been a number of top artists who have also been accomplished athletes, including current Rock, Reggae,” “Jamming” and “One Love/ pop-rockers Sheryl Crow (track) and Avril People Get Ready.”

Marley was a committed Rastafari who Lavigne (ice skating) and country singer infused his music with a sense of spirituality.

Kenny Chesney (football).

He tragically passed away from melanoma My favorite singer-athlete has always on May 11, 1981 at the age of 36. been Bob Marley, who held a deep passion This week’s music question is: The lyrfor soccer. So deep, that he would bring a ics to Bob Marley’s “One Love/People Get ball with him on every tour and start pickup Ready” hit begin with “One love, one heart games with anyone who wanted to play. He — let’s get together and ...” Which of these would specifically organize his music tours phrases follows those beginning lyrics? A) in the area where the World Cup was being heal the world, B) dance the night away, C) held so he could watch the games. keep it that way, or D) feel all right.

He was born and raised in Rhoden Hall, Jamaica in 1945. Since he grew up Last week’s question in extreme poverty, Marley was unable to Last week’s music trivia question play at the college level. He did asked if you could name the currentplay during grammar school and dj’s music ly popular, 30-year-old pop-rocker became a lifelong friend to soccer trivia who has scored recent No. 1 hits star Alan Cole. Cole believed Marley with her songs “Roar,” “California could have been a highly successful Gurls,” “Teenage Dream,” and this professional soccer player, but he year’s “Dark Horse.” The choices refused to play on that level because were A) Lady Gaga, B) Katy Perry, of his love for music.

C) Meghan Trainor, and D) Sanja Marley was not only a wonderful Long. singer, but was also an extremely The correct answer was accomplished songwriter and guiCalifornia-born Katy Perry. The tarist. Starting out in 1963 with the DJ Craig eccentric Lady Gaga (real name group the Wailers, he forged a disStefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) tinctive songwriting and vocal style that debuted in 2009 with the chart-topping sinwould later resonate with audiences worldgle “Just Dance” and quickly followed up wide.

After the Wailers disbanded in 1974, that single with the No. 1 hits “Poker Face,” Marley pursued a solo career that culminat- “ Born This Way” and “Bad Romance.”

Breaking onto the charts last year was ed in the release of the album “Exodus” in new artist Meghan Trainor with her smash 1977, which established his worldwide reputation and produced his status as one of the hit “All About That Bass.”

Sanja Long, as many readers may already world’s best-selling artists of all time, with know, is the talented and always affable sales of more than 75 million records.

Some of his most famous hits were “Roots, director of the Mogollon Health Alliance.

A couple of final notes

I’d like to extend my congratulations to the Payson High School softball team for taking home the first place trophy in last weekend’s 20-team Gracie Haught softball tournament. The lady Longhorns were unscored upon in the six games they played over the two-day tournament. It was nice to see such a large crowd at each game cheering on the Longhorns’ athletic prowess and sportsmanship.

I was fortunate to photograph the girls in action during the tournament and I have posted many pictures onto my Facebook account at “DJCraigWeddings&Parties.” To see the action, send me a friend request or just go to my account, which is open to all. Once there, you’ll also be able to view other pictures and albums of life in the Rim Country — events, wildlife and miscellaneous photographs of what I think make our little corner of the world a very special place.

And last, you may want to mark your calendars for three upcoming April events that will be held in the Rim Country and should prove to be fun for different age groups.

On April 4 the annual Eggstravaganza will be held on the ball field at north Rumsey Park — a chance for the little ones to gather Easter eggs. On April 18 both the annual Kids Fishing Festival (at Green Valley Park) and the Rim Country Chamber of Commerce Business Showcase (this year at Steve Coury Ford in Star Valley) will be taking place.

These are two events that are always fun for the entire family.

Have a great Rim Country week!

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Celebrations all around the Creek Christopher Creek crossed the vernal equi- another week nox last Friday without in the creek any problem that we have heard. It just seems to me we did it on the wrong day.

Growing up we learned that March 21 was the first day of spring. That was one of those things you could take to the bank. So we thought. Rod Britain You just can’t trust folks who go around wanting to change things.

Springtime came on the evening of the annual ladies’ pajama party. Each year these gals gather up at Karen’s house in all their best nightclothes. Each year they try to outdo one another with the best hors d’oeurves. This year Marcia’s stuffed dates and Anne Marie’s chocolate mousse were the best in my book. This year the 28 lovely ladies set a record for attendance. Their ages ranged from 21 to 94. Let me tell you, the picture-taking isn’t getting any easier.

Everybody has the smart phones and everybody wants a picture taken on their camera or phone. Before you know it, the subjects get bored and begin to wander off. It was another great party, all around.

Down along the creek Saturday evening there was a group of celebrants having dinner and enjoying the ambiance. Jim and Dee White from over at Tonto Estates were on the Landmark patio to mark their 57th wedding anniversary. They told me that they were wed at ages 15 and 17. Jim was the older. Now, don’t go adding things up or you may not come to with what Dee confesses to.

They made such a lovely couple. Soon an entire entourage surrounded their tables and the cake was presented. Again Jim asked if special mention of his beautiful wife could make it in the paper. It’s OK this time, Jim. Happy anniversary!

Inside they were singing the birthday song for Cindi. Afterward two cakes were served: one Karen’s lemon cake and the other a pineapple upside-down cake. Do

R. Cook photo

Jim and Dee White celebrated their 57th anniversary at the Landmark recently.

believe we had our month’s ration of cake in about 15 minutes.

Speaking of anniversaries, Kenn tells us about asking his wife, Pat, “Our anniversary is next week. What do you want to do?” Pat answered, “Ooh, you’ve been pretty good lately … I think I’ll keep you.” He didn’t see that one coming.

Reservations for Spring Wine in the Pines are filled and Sheila announced there would be 50 folks in attendance on April 11. She also asked me to mention Creekside’s new hours: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday and Tuesday; 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday; 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and

7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday. If you’re going to eat, you better be there 30 minutes before closing time.

Sedona has them. Payson has them.

Coming up on April 18, Christopher Creek is going to have one. Creekside’s Paint Your Palette will feature Terry Glad Flores in a stoke-by-stroke instruction in the art of painting. Terry is an accomplished Native American artist living out on Colcord Road. Her art has seen shows across the Southwest. The class is limited to the first 12 enrollees and the cost is $50, which includes your supplies. You will go home with your own masterpiece to hang above the mantle.

Our last rainstorm saw amounts in excess of an inch all around Payson, particularly north of town under the Rim. For the Creek there wasn’t but a quarter inch.

Recent sightings around the Creek include Greg Kuntz, who says he’s going to spend the entire summer here. Iiene Kittick has returned for the season. It won’t be long until we see Leo and Mary back. Dave and Brandie, who have a place on Apple, were here for a week. Brandie is working in Austin, Texas, so it is quite a trip for her.

There’s this fella who has a place up on the ridge above the Creek by the name of Pat Perkins. He has a lovely wife named Trudy.

Well, Pat has taken up this brand new hobby and from what we’ve seen already, he has become quite talented at it. He was sporting a new hatband the last time we talked to him.

This hatband had six or eight arrowheads on it and it looked great. No, he’s not making hatbands — he’s making arrowheads. He sits out back of the house and spends hour after hour with a deer antler chipping away on the obsidian or whatever appropriate material he can find. That obsidian makes the prettiest little shiny black specimens you ever saw.

He got started with his undertaking partly to help him with his Parkinson’s. He tells me working with his hands like that is quite therapeutic. He also says that it’s still a learning process. Good job, Pat … and that’s another week in the Creek.

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2006 Kia Spectra, nice economical car, $4895 1999 Toyota Camry, very clean car, very well taken care of, like new 119k miles $4650.

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1991 Playmor travel trailer. Sleeps 3, great condition, AC, refrig, heater, new tires, new awning, $2995, (928) 472-7443.

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TRAILERS For sale: 8’ long, 6’ wide, 5’ high, hydraulic dump trailer $600, 928-970-1399.

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Town of Payson Parks, Recreation and Tourism Part-Time/Temporary/Seasonal Various Positions, Mostly Seaking weekends and/or Weeknights * Softball Field Prep * Youth/Adult Sports Officials & Rec Leaders * Event Center Laborers * Special Events laborer Must be 15 years or older Pick up applications at Parks and Recreation Office 1000 W. Country Club Dr. Payson, AZ

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LEGAL NOTICES 15709: 3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27/2015 TS#: 15-33149 Order #: 150001218-AZ-VOO NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of sale under that certain Deed of Trust dated 8/28/2007 and recorded on 8/31/2007, as Instrument No. 2007-014677, the subject Deed of Trust was modified by Loan Modification Agreement recorded as Instrument 2007-020636 and recorded on 12/21/2007. And Further modified

by Loan Modification Agreement recorded as Instrument 2011-012028 and recorded on 11/01/2011, in the office of the County Recorder of Gila County, Arizona, at public auction to the highest bidder at the main entrance to the Gila County Courthouse, 1400 E. Ash Street, Globe, AZ , on 5/13/2015 at 11:00 AM of said day: LOT 19, OF COUNTRY CLUB ANNEX UNIT 1, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF GILA COUNTY, ARIZONA, RECORDED IN MAP (S) NO. 695 AND 695A. Per A.R.S. Section 33-803 (A)(2) the successor trustee appointed here qualifies as a Trustee of the trust deed in the Trustee’s capacity as a member of the State Bar of Arizona. ACCORDING TO THE DEED OF TRUST OR UPON INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE BENEFICIARY, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED PURSUANT TO A.R.S. SECTION Street address or 33-808(C): 614 FIRST identifiable location: AVE MIAMI, AZ 85539 A.P.N.: 207-02-119 Original Principal Balance: $158,906.00 Name and address of original trustor: (as shown on the Deed of Trust) KATHY CANIZALES, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN TERRI GAONA, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN 614 FIRST AVE. MIAMI, AZ 85539 Name and address of beneficiary: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Christiana Trust, a division of Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as trustee for GFT Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2014-1 440 S. LaSalle St., Suite 2000 Chicago, IL 60605 NAME, ADDRESS & TELEPHONE NUMBER OF TRUSTEE: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Carrie Thompson Jones, a member of the State Bar of Arizona Law Offices of Les Zieve 112 North Central Avenue, Suite 425 Phoenix, Arizona 85004 Phone Number: (602) 688-7420 SALE INFORMATION: Sales Line: (714) 573-1965 Website: www.priorityposting.com Dated: February 6, 2015 Carrie Thompson Jones, a member of the State Bar of Arizona Per A.R.S. Section 33-803 (A)(2) the successor trustee appointed here qualifies as a Trustee of the trust deed in the Trustee’s capacity as a member of the State Bar of Arizona. State of Arizona )) ss. County of Maricopa ) On February 6, 2015, before me, LaKisha M. Eaden, a member of the State Bar of Arizona, a Notary Public for the State of Arizona, personally appeared Carrie Thompson Jones, a member of the State Bar of Arizona, personally known to me (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same in his authorized capacity, and that by his signature on the instrument the person, or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted, executed the instrument. WITNESS my hand and official seal. LaKisha M. Eaden Notary Public LaKisha M. Eaden Notary Public - Arizona Maricopa County My Comm. Expires Sep 21, 2018 P1133373 3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 03/27/2015 15714: 3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 4/3/2015 Notice of Trustee’s Sale Recorded on: 2/6/2015 TS No. : AZ-15-656530-CL Order No. : 150009618-AZ-VOO The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of Sale under that certain Deed of Trust dated 12/10/2012 and recorded 12/14/2012 as Instrument 2012-015459 , in the office of the County Recorder of GILA County, Arizona at public auction to the highest bidder: Sale Date and Time: 5/12/2015 at 11:00 AM Sale Location: AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE GILA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 1400 EAST ASH ST., GLOBE, ARIZONA 85501 Legal Description: LOT 6, BLOCK 14, EAST GLOBE MAP NO. 1, ACCORDING TO MAPS NO. 2, RECORDS OF GILA COUNTY, ARIZONA. Purported Street Address: 605 SOUTH THIRD STREET, GLOBE, AZ 85501 Tax Parcel Number: 208-05-267 Original Principal Balance: $124,178.00 Name and Address of Current Beneficiary: JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association C/O JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. 3415 Vision Dr Columbus, OH 43219 Name(s) and Address(s) of Original Trustor(s): JESSICA NICOLE MORGAN, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN 605 SOUTH THIRD STREET, GLOBE, AZ 85501 Name and Address of Trustee/Agent: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street, San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: ( 866 ) 645-7711 Sales Line: 714-730-2727 Login to: w w w. s e r v i c e l i n k a s a p . c o m AZ-15-656530-CL The successor trustee qualifies to act as a trustee under A.R.S. §33-803(A)(1) in its capacity as a licensed Arizona escrow agent regulated by the Department of Financial Institutions.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations . If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE . TS

FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015

LEGAL NOTICES No.: AZ-15-656530-CL Dated: 2/5/2015 QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION By: John Pascual, Assistant Secretary A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document. State of: California County of: San Diego On 2/5/2015 before me, Annette Johnson a notary public, personally appeared John Pascual, who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument . I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct. WIT NESS my hand and official seal. Signature Annette Johnson Commission No. 2073844 NOTARY PUBLIC - California San Diego County My Comm.

Expires 7/12/2018 IDSPub #0078660 3/13/2015 3/20/2015 3/27/2015 4/3/2015 15715: 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17/2015 TS/File 134807.10093 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of sale under that certain Deed of Trust recorded on JANUARY 19, 2005, in INSTRUMENT NO. 2005-000880 in the Office of the County Recorder of GILA County, Arizona at public auction to the highest bidder AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF PIONEER TITLE AGENCY, INC., 421 S. BEELINE HWY, PAYSON, ARIZONA on MAY 13, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. of said day: PARCEL NO. 1 Parcel “D”-1, as shown on Record of Survey, recorded as Survey Map No. 2887, being a portion of H.E.S. No. 418, in Sections 31 and 32, Township 11 North, Range 11 East of the Gila and Salt River Base and Meridian, Gila County, Arizona.

PARCEL NO. 2 An easement for roadway purposes, as created in instrument recorded in Docket 814, Page 492, records of Gila County, Arizona, 20 feet in width, 10 feet on each side of the following described centerline in Lots 1 and 5, Section 31, Township 11 North, Range 11 East of the Gila and Salt River Base and Meridian, Gila County, Arizona; Beginning at a point in the Northerly right of way line of State Highway 260 (as it existed January 10, 1990) said point bearing South 29 48’10” West, 131.81 feet from Corner No. 6 of said HOMESTEAD ENTRY SURVEY NO. 418; THENCE North 25 53’21” East, 127.14 feet; THENCE North 40 02’10” East, 171.93 feet; THENCE North 19 05’57” East, 354.66 feet; THENCE North 08 13’53” West, 244.88 feet; THENCE North 25 06’03” West, 453.93 feet to a point 10.00 feet West of the line between Corner No. 6 and Corner No. 7, of said H.E.S. No. 418; THENCE North 00 03’00” West, parallel to said line, 193.93 feet to a point of terminus, which bears South 00 03’00” East, 64.28 feet and South 89 57’38” West 10.00 feet from Corner No. 7 of said H.E.S. No 418; EXCEPT that portion lying South of the line between Corner No. 5 and Corner No. 6 of said H.E.S. No. 418; AND EXCEPT that part of H.E.S. No. 418, records of Gila County, Arizona, described as follows: BEGINNING at Corner No. 7 of said H.E.S. No. 418; THENCE East (true bearing) 800.58 feet; THENCE South 30 00’40” West, 644.61 feet; THENCE North 82 17’53” West, 482.59 feet, more or less, to a point on a line between Corner Numbers 6 and 7 of said H.E.S. No. 418; THENCE North 0 00’30” East, 493.51 feet to the Point of Beginning. Purported Property Address: STAR VALLEY, AZ. Tax Parcel Number: 302-56-014L. Original Principal Balance: $80,000.00 Original Beneficiary: CITY NATIONAL BANK, TTEE FBO WILLIAM F. BROCE IRA ACCOUNT #974215014, ATTN: NOTE DESK, P.O. BOX 60520, LOS ANGELES, CA 90060-0520. Current Beneficiary: PENSCO TRUST COMPANY CUSTODIAN FBO WILLIAM F. BROCE IRA ACCOUNT, P.O. BOX 173859, DENVER, CO 80217. Original/Current Trustor: PAULA M. PYLE, HC 5 BOX 40F, PAYSON, AZ 85541.

Said Trustee’s Sale will be held without covenant or warranty express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the unpaid principal balance of $41,429.12 plus monies due as provided under the terms of said Deed of Trust, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trust created by said Deed of Trust. Dated: JANUARY 26, 2015. Current Trustee: Pioneer Title Agency, Inc., an Arizona corporation. 580 East Wilcox Drive, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635. (520) 458-3500 Pioneer Title Agency, Inc., an Arizona corporation, as Trustee. By: /s/ Shannon E. Copp, Assistant Secretary. Manner of Trustee Qualification: Escrow Agent. Name of Regulating Agency: Arizona Department of Financial Institutions. STATE OF ARIZONA, COUNTY OF MARICOPA. The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me on February 9, 2015, by Shannon E. Copp, Assistant Secretary of Pioneer Title Agency, Inc., an Arizona corporation. By: /s/ Erin C. Klabough, Notary Public. My Commission Expires: January 7, 2018.

15721: 3/13, 3/20, 3/27/2015 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE OCUNTY OF GILA in the Matter of the BILLY D. EWAN, Deceased.

No. PB2014-00056 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENN that JACKIE A. DICKERSON has been appointed Personal Representative of this Estate. All persons having claims against the Estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or the claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be presented by delivering or mailing a written statement of the claim to the Personal Representative as follows: JACKIE A. DICKERSON c/o Black Law Group, 4500 S. Lakeshore Drive, Suite 280, Tempe, AZ

LEGAL NOTICES 85282. Dated this 6th day of March, 2015, Black Law Group, By: /s/ Clare Black, Clare Black.

15723: 3/10, 3/27, 4/3, 4/10/2015 Notice of Trustee’s Sale Recorded on: 2/13/2015 TS No. : AZ-15-658997-JB Order No. : 733-1500150-70 The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of Sale under that certain Deed of Trust dated 3/29/1999 and recorded 4/6/1999 as Instrument 1999 5915 , in the office of the County Recorder of GILA County, Arizona at public auction to the highest bidder: Sale Date and Time: 5/18/2015 at 11:00 AM Sale Location: AT THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE GILA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 1400 EAST ASH ST., GLOBE, ARIZONA 85501 Legal Description: Lots 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14, in Block Forty-Seven, East Globe Townsite, according to Map No. 17, records of Gila County, Arizona. Except that portion beginning at the Northeast corner of Lot 10, Block 47, East Globe Townsite, running; Thence Southerly along the Easterly line of Lots 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 to the Southeast corner of Lot 14; Thence Northerly parallel with Second Street to Cedar Street; Thence Easterly 40 feet along Cedar Street to the place of beginning.

Purported Street Address: 822 EAST CEDAR STREET, GLOBE, AZ 85501 Tax Parcel Number: 208-04-103 Original Principal Balance: $74,800.00 Name and Address of Current Beneficiary: MIDFIRST BANK C/O MidFirst Bank 999 N.W. Grand Blvd., Ste. 100 Oklahoma City, OK 73118-6116 Name(s) and Address(s) of Original Trustor(s): STACI GARCIA, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN 822 E. CEDAR ST., GLOBE, AZ 85501 Name and Address of Trustee/Agent: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street, San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: ( 866 ) 645-7711 Sales Line: 714-730-2727 Login to: w w w. s e r v i c e l i n k a s a p . c o m AZ-15-658997-JB The successor trustee qualifies to act as a trustee under A.R.S. §33-803(A)(1) in its capacity as a licensed Arizona escrow agent regulated by the Department of Financial Institutions.

If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations . If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE . TS No.: AZ-15-658997-JB Dated: 2/11/2015 QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION By: Silver De Vera, Assistant Secretary A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document. State of: California County of: San Diego On 2/11/2015 before me, Annette Johnson a notary public, personally appeared Silver De Vera, who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument . I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct. WIT NESS my hand and official seal. Signature Annette Johnson Commission No. 2073844 NOTARY PUBLIC - California San Diego County My Comm.

Expires 7/12/2018 IDSPub #0079048 3/20/2015 3/27/2015 4/3/2015 4/10/2015 15726: 3/20, 3/27, 4/3, 4/10/2015 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of sale under that certain Deed of Trust recorded on September 26, 2008 in Instrument No. 2008-012599 in the office of the County Recorder of Gila County, Arizona, at public auction to the highest bidder at the front entrance to the Gila County Courthouse, 1400 E. Ash St., Globe, Arizona at 11:00 a.m. on June 2, 2015: THAT PORTION OF LOTS 10 AND 11, BLOCK 2B, EAST GLOBE (MAP NO. 1) ACCORDING TO MAP NO 2, RECORDS OF GILA COUNTY, ARIZONA, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE WEST SIDE OF SAID LOT 10 DISTANT 50 FEET SOUTHERLY FROM THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT 10; THENCE SOUTHERLY ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT 10, 60 FEET; THENCE EASTERLY, PARALLEL WITH ASH STREET, 95 FEET; THENCE NORTHERLY, PARALLEL WITH PARKER STREET, 60 FEET; THENCE WESTERLY PARRALLEL WITH ASH STREEET, 95 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING Purported address: 459 S Parker St, Globe, AZ 85501 Tax parcel #208-05-125 Original Principal Balance $139,500.00 Name and Address of Beneficiary: James B. Nutter & Company, 4153 Broadway, Kansas City, Missouri 64111.

Original Trustor: Frederick T. Martin, an unmarried man, 459 S Parker St, Globe, AZ 85501 The Trustee qualifies pursuant to A.R.S. §33-803(A)(2) as a member of the State Bar of Arizona.

The name, address, and telephone number of the Trustee is: Jason P. Sherman, 3636 N. Cen-

15727: 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17/2015 TS/File 109284.10104 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of sale under that certain Deed of Trust recorded on DECEMBER 9, 1996, in FEE# 96-019911 and re-recorded DECEMBER 13, 1996 in FEE# 96-020237 in the Office of the County Recorder of GILA County, Arizona at public auction to the highest bidder AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF PIONEER TITLE AGENCY, INC., 421 S. BEELINE HWY, PAYSON, ARIZONA on MAY 19, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. of said day: Lots 16 and 17, WOODLAND MEADOWS PHASE ONE, according to Map No. 577 and 577A, records of Gila County, Arizona. Purported Property Address: 1223 W. BIRCHWOOD RD., PAYSON, ARIZONA. Tax Parcel Number: 304-01-036 and 304-01-037. Original Principal Balance: $130,000.00 Original/Current Beneficiary: HERTHA A. TURLEY, 96 E. BROWN RD., PAYSON, AZ 85541.

Original/Current Trustor: DAVE CROWELL, 1223 W. BIRCHWOOD RD., PAYSON, AZ 85541. Said Trustee’s Sale will be held without covenant or warranty express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the unpaid principal balance of $55,245.79 plus monies due as provided under the terms of said Deed of Trust, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trust created by said Deed of Trust. Dated: FEBRUARY 10, 2015. Current Trustee: Pioneer Title Agency, Inc., an Arizona corporation. 580 East Wilcox Drive, Sierra Vista, AZ 85635. (520) 458-3500 Pioneer Title Agency, Inc., an Arizona corporation, as Trustee. By: /s/ Shannon E. Copp, Assistant Secretary. Manner of Trustee Qualification: Escrow Agent. Name of Regulating Agency: Arizona Department of Financial Institutions. STATE OF ARIZONA, COUNTY OF MARICOPA. The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me on February 13, 2015, by Shannon E. Copp, Assistant Secretary of Pioneer Title Agency, Inc., an Arizona corporation. By: /s/ Erin C. Klabough, Notary Public.

My Commission Expires: January 7, 2018.

15729: 3/20, 3/24, 3/27/2015 APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO TRANSACT BUSINESS OR CONDUCT AFFAIRS IN ARIZONA 1.

ENTITY TYPE (x) FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION 2.

NAME IN STATE OR COUNTRY OF INCORPORATIONS (FOREIGN NAME) Crystal Clear Maintenance, Inc. FILE NO. F19698405 3.

NAME TO BE USED IN ARIZONA (ENTITY NAME) (x) Name in state of country of incorporation, with no changes.

4.

FOREIGN DOMICILE: New Mexico 5.

DATE OF INCORPORATION IN FOREIGN DOMICILE: 07/28/2000 6.

DURATION: presumed to be perpetual.

7.

PURPOSE: the foreign corporation’s purpose is to engage in any or all lawful business or affairs in which corporations may engage in the state or country under whose law the foreign corporation is incorporated.

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CHARACTER OF BUSINESS: Janitorial Services 9.

PRINCIPAL OFFICE ADDRESS - FOREIGN DOMICILE STREET ADDRESS: Crystal Clear Maintenance, 315 Central Avenue, Albuquerque, NM 87102.

10.

ARIZONA KNOWN PLACE OF BUSINESS ADDRESS: (x) yes; is the same as the street address.

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STATUTORY AGENT IN ARIZONA: InCorp Services, Inc. 2338 W. Royal Palm Road, Suite J. Phoenix, AZ 85021.

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DIRECTORS: Douglas R. Craft, PO Box 46016, Rio Rancho, NM 87174 dated, 07/28/2000; Endia C. Craft, PO Box 46016, Rio Rancho NM 87174, dated 07/28/2000.

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OFFICERS: Douglas R. Craft, (President/CEO), PO Box 46016, Rio Rancho, NM 87174 dated, 07/28/2000; Endia C. Craft, (Vice President), PO Box 46016, Rio Rancho NM 87174, dated 07/28/2000.

14.

FOR-PROFITS ONLY SHARES AUTHORIZED: Class: Common, Total: 100,000 Par Value: 0.

By checking the box marked “I accept” below, I acknowledge under penalty of perjury that this document together with any attachments is submitted in compliance with Arizona law. (x) I ACCEPT; /s/ Douglas R. Craft, Douglas R. Craft 12/5/14, (x) I am a duty-authorized officer of the corporation filing this document.

15730: 3/20, 3/27, 4/3, 4/10/2015 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF GILA In the Matter of the Adoption of: KENNEDY ELIZABETH BELL, (D.O.B 01/18/2013) a Minor. NO. SV 2015-00001 NOTICE OF RE-SETTING HEARING ON PETITION FOR TERMINATION OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition for Termination of Parent-Child Relationship with respect to the above-named minor child has been filed by Dawn and Douglas Billiot, Husband and Wife, Petitioners. Said Petition alleges that Tammy Bell and William Graham are the biological mother and father of said child and seeks to terminate any and all parental rights they may have with respect thereto, on the basis of abandonment.

A hearing was originally set for April 17, 2015, at 4:00 PM. Due to lack of service, the hearing has been reset. A hearing is now set to consider the Petition on: May 8, 2015 at 9:00 AM (1 hour allotted) before the Honorable Gary V. Scales in the Gila County Superior Court, 714 South Beeline Highway, Payson, Arizona (85541). All persons interested in this matter are notified to then appear and show cause, if any they have, why an Order terminating your parental rights with respect to the minor children should not be granted.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that, if you are found to be indigent, the Juvenile Court shall appoint counsel to represent you in this matter, if you so desire.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that: Failure to attend the Initial Termination Hearing - or any subsequent Pro-Trial Conference, Status Conference, or Termination Adjudication Hearing - without good cause, may result in a finding that the Parent is deemed to have waived legal rights, and is deemed to have admitted the allegations in the Petition for Termination. Unattended Hearings may go forward

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LEGAL NOTICES tral Ave., Suite #400, Phoenix, AZ 85012, (602) 222-5711.

The Trustee’s Regulator is the State Bar of Arizona.

Dated: March 3, 2015 /s/ Jason P. Sherman, Jason P. Sherman, Trustee STATE OF ARIZONA)) ss.

COUNTY OF MARICOPA) The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me on March 3, 2015, by Jason P. Sherman, a member of the State Bar of Arizona, as Trustee. /s/ Kari Sheehan, NOTIARY PUBLIC, My commission expires: 9/12/2018

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LEGAL NOTICES in the absence of the Parent and may result in the Termination of Parental Rights base on the record and the evidence presented.

A copy of the Petition is being served upon you herewith or, if not, may be obtained from Petitioner’s attorney, whose name, address and telephone number are: Chuck Walker, WALKER LAW OFFICE, PC; State Bar ID #: 011343, 620 E. Hwy. 260, Ste. C, Payson, AZ 85541. 928-474-0322. DATED: March 16, 2015.

KENDALL RHYNE, Court Administrator, By: /s/ Celia L. Kenyon 15731: 3/20, 3/24, 3/27/2015 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION NONPROFIT CORPORATION 1.

ENTITY NAME: Horses for Hope, Inc., File No 1988195-5 2.

CHARACTER OF AFFAIRS: Therapeutic Riding Instructing.

3.

MEMBERS: (X) The corporation WILL NOT have members.

4.

ARIZONA KNOWN PLACE OF BUSINESS ADDRESS: 4.1 Is the Arizona known place of business address the same as the street address of the statutory agent? (Yes).

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DIRECTORS: Cheryl Sweet, PO Box 1162, Pine, AZ 85544.

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STATUTORY AGENT: Cheryl Sweet, 10490 W. Fossil Creek Rd., Strawberry, AZ 85544; PO Box 1162, Pine, AZ 85544.

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INCORPORATORS: Cheryl Sweet, PO Box 1162, Pine, AZ 85544.

By checking the box marked “I accept” below, I acknowledge under penalty of perjury that this document together with any attachments is submitted in compliance with Arizona law. (x) I ACCEPT: /s/ Cheryl Sweet, Cheryl Sweet, Dated, 2/24/2015.

15733: 3/20, 3/24, 3/27/2015 NOTICE (for publication) ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR I. Name: PROPELLER ARC AVIATION, LLC File No. L-1984877-8 II. The address of the known place of business is: 1508 W. Bravo Taxiway, Ste. 5, Payson, AZ 85541.

III. The name and street address of the Statutory Agent is: Stephen P. Nurre, 1508 W. Bravo Taxiway, Ste. 5, Payson, AZ 85541.

(B) Management of the limited liability company is reserved to the members. The names and addresses of each person who is a member are: Stephen P. Nurre, (x) member, (x) manager, 1508 W. Bravo Taxiway, Ste. 5, Payson, AZ 85541.

15734: 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17/2015 TS#: 15-33596 Order #: 150020213-AZ-VOO NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of sale under that certain Deed of Trust dated 7/9/2007 and recorded on 7/10/2007, as Instrument No. 2007-011636, in the office of the County Recorder of Gila County, Arizona, at public auction to the highest bidder at the main entrance to the Gila County Courthouse, 1400 E. Ash Street, Globe, AZ , on 5/26/2015 at 11:00 AM of said day: LOT 13, TONTO VILLAGE, ACCORDING TO MAP NO. 188, RECORDS OF GILA COUNTY, ARIZONA Per A.R.S. Section 33-803 (A)(2) the successor trustee appointed here qualifies as a Trustee of the trust deed in the Trustee’s capacity as a member of the State Bar of AriACCORDING TO THE zona.

DEED OF TRUST OR UPON INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE BENEFICIARY, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED PURSUANT TO A.R.S. SECTION 33-808(C): Street address or identifiable location: 236 W STANDAGE DR PAYSON, AZ 85541 A.P.N.: 302-63-014 Original Principal Balance: $60,000.00 Name and address of original trustor: (as shown on the Deed of Trust) DAVID GARCIA AND LISA BAKER, HUSBAND AND WIFE 8432 E SAGE DR SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85250 Name and address of beneficiary: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee of the PrimeStar-H Fund I Trust 5680 Greenwood Plaza Blvd.

Suite 100S Greenwood Village CO 80111 NAME, ADDRESS & TELEPHONE NUMBER OF TRUSTEE: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Carrie Thompson Jones, a member of the State Bar of Arizona Law Offices of Les Zieve 112 North Central Avenue, Suite 425 Phoenix, Arizona 85004 Phone Number: (602) 688-7420 SALE INFORMATION: Sales Line: (714) 573-1965 Website: www.priorityposting.com Dated: 02/19/2015 Carrie Thompson Jones, a member of the State Bar of Arizona Per A.R.S. Section 33-803 (A)(2) the successor trustee appointed herein qualifies as Trustee of the trust deed in the Trustee’s capacity as a member of the State Bar of Arizona. State of Arizona ) ) ss. County of Maricopa ) On 02/19/2015, before me, Joseph John Tirello, Jr., a Notary Public for the State of Arizona, personally appeared Carrie Thompson Jones, a member of the State Bar of Arizona, personally known to me (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same in his authorized capacity, and that by his signature on the instrument the person, or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted, executed the instrument. WITNESS my hand and official seal. Joseph John Tirello, Jr. Notary Public JOSEPH JOHN TIRELLO, JR. Notary Public - Arizona Maricopa County My Comm. Expires Aug 5, 2017 P1136345 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 04/17/2015 15735: 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17/2015 TS#: 15-33584 Order #: 150020071-AZ-VOO NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of sale under that certain Deed of Trust dated 4/12/2005 and recorded on 4/15/2005, as Instrument No. 2005-006123, in the office of the County Recorder of Gila County, Arizona, at public auction to the highest bidder at the main entrance to the Gila County Courthouse, 1400 E. Ash Street, Globe, AZ , on 5/20/2015 at 11:00 AM of said day: LOT 173, OF THE RIM GOLF CLUB, PHASE TWO, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF GILA COUNTY, ARIZONA, RECORDED IN MAP(S) NO. 733A THROUGH 733N. Per A.R.S. Section 33-803 (A)(2) the successor trustee appointed here qualifies as a Trustee of the trust deed in the Trustee’s capacity as a member of the State Bar of Arizona.

ACCORDING TO THE DEED OF TRUST OR UPON INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THE BENEFICIARY, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS PROVIDED PURSUANT TO A.R.S. SECTION 33-808(C): Street address or identifiable location: 700 S MONUMENT VALLEY PAYSON, AZ 85541 A.P.N.: 302-43-173 Original Principal Balance: $275,000.00 Name and address

LEGAL NOTICES of original trustor: (as shown on the Deed of Trust) BILL ROZAKIS, A SINGLE MAN 1335 E BRENTRUP DR TEMPE, AZ 85283 Name and address of beneficiary: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee of the PrimeStar-H Fund I Trust 5680 Greenwood Plaza Blvd. Suite 100S Greenwood Village CO 80111 NAME, ADDRESS & TELEPHONE NUMBER OF TRUSTEE: (as of recording of Notice of Sale) Carrie Thompson Jones, a member of the State Bar of Arizona Law Offices of Les Zieve 112 North Central Avenue, Suite 425 Phoenix, Arizona 85004 Phone Number: (602) 688-7420 SALE INFORMATION: Sales Line: (714) 573-1965 Website: www.priorityposting.com Dated: 02/16/2015 Carrie Thompson Jones Carrie Thompson Jones, a member of the State Bar of Arizona Per A.R.S. Section 33-803 (A)(2) the successor trustee appointed herein qualifies as Trustee of the trust deed in the Trustee’s capacity as a member of the State Bar of Arizona. State of Arizona ) ) ss. County of Maricopa ) On 02/16/2015, before me, LaKisha M. Eaden, a Notary Public for the State of Arizona, personally appeared Carrie Thompson Jones, a member of the State Bar of Arizona, personally known to me (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same in his authorized capacity, and that by his signature on the instrument the person, or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted, executed the instrument. WITNESS my hand and official seal. Lakisha M. Eaden Notary Public LAKISHA M. EADEN Notary Public - Arizona Maricopa County My Comm. Expires Sep 21, 2018 P1136156 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 04/17/2015 15736: 3/27, 4/23/2015 NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS FOR WATER LINE CONSTRUCTION C.C. CRAGIN TREATED WATER LINE “A” PROJECT Sealed bids for the construction of the C.C. Cragin Treated Water Line, Line “A” Project, WILL be received by the OWNER, the Town of Payson, at the office of the Town Clerk located at 303 N. Beeline Highway, Payson, Arizona, 85541, until 1:00 p.m., Arizona Time on Wednesday the 6th day of May, 2015 for the installation of approximately 7,995 L.F. of 18-inch Ductile Iron Water Line, 404 L.F. of 8-inch Ductile Iron Water Line, three (3) Pressure Management Stations, two (2) Jack Bore crossings of State Route 87 and associated miscellaneous pipes and appurtenances.

(18-inch Ductile Iron Pipe supplied by the Town of Payson.) Immediately following their receipt, at 1:15 p.m., the bids WILL be opened publicly and read aloud in the Town of Payson, Council Chambers, located at 303 N. Beeline Highway, Payson, Arizona, 85541.

Bids SHALL be on Official Bid Forms enclosed in the envelopes supplied in the Bidding submittal package. Bids sent by mail or messenger SHALL be enclosed in a separate outer envelope marked “BID PROPOSAL - C.C. CRAGIN LINE “A”.

The work includes the furnishing of all labor, MATERIALS and EQUIPMENT for the installation of a portion of the C.C. Cragin Treated Water Line, and appurtenant facilities as described in the plans and specifications to serve the Town of Payson. The project is located in Payson, Arizona.

BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO ATTEND A MANDATORY PRE-BID MEETING - to be held at the Town of Payson Council Chambers on Tuesday the 14th day of April, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. Arizona Time. All Bidders SHALL be registered on the Bid Plan Holders List, and attendance WILL be recorded.

Copies of the bid documents, plans, specifications and Official Bid Forms WILL be available on Friday, March 27, 2015 for inspection and purchase at Tetra Tech, Inc., 405-B W. Main Street, Payson, Arizona 85541, Telephone: (928) 474-4636. Cost for a set of plans, specifications and Official Bid Forms are: $75.00/set, if picked up or $100.00/set, if mailed.

This cost is non-refundable. Bidders must be eligible and licensed to do said work under and in accordance with, and must agree to conform to, the laws of the State of Arizona.

Each bid SHALL be accompanied by a bid GUARANTY bond or a certified or cashier’s check payable to the order of the Town of Payson in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the amount of the BID as a GUARANTY that the bidder WILL execute the contract if it be awarded in conformity with the bid form.

The OWNER reserves the right to reject any or all proposals or bids or to withhold the award of the contract for any reason it may determine. The OWNER SHALL determine which bid is the lowest and most responsive bid of a responsible bidder. The OWNER reserves the right to cancel this notice at any time.

Bidders SHALL comply with all federal, state and local nondiscrimination statutes in the operation, implementation and delivery of, including state and federal civil rights and disabilities laws. In particular, the CONTRACTOR SHALL ensure that the Town of Payson’s obligation for program, facility and service accessibility in Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act are complied with in all activities arising under this contract, and SHALL hold harmless the Town of Payson for any and all loss, including but not limited to damages, costs or expenses, incurred or arising from any alleged violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act under the auspices of this contract unless resulting from an intentional or actual negligent act of the Town of Payson and its employees.

Failure to comply with the nondiscrimination or accessibility requirements herein SHALL be construed as nonperformance and may result in termination of funding, civil action or both.

Published: 03-27-2015 04-03-2015

Payson Roundup SPORTS Friday, March 27, 2015

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Wild turkeys are beginning to gobble Spring is officially here, Sierra Anchas, which is the days are getting longer, outdoors Unit 23. Consequently, early flowers are bloom- under the rim many more tags are ing, and the gobblers have allocated for that area. been sounding off in the A legal gobbler is a woods. This is the beginbearded turkey. The ning of the mating season beard protrudes from for the Merriam’s wild turthe chest of the male key, which lives in the high bird and the older the country of Central Arizona gobbler, usually the and the White Mountains. longer the beard. This Springtime is when the Dennis Pirch is the distinguishing male turkey welcomes the telltale sign, which early morning dawn with designates it can be that unique gobble inviting hen legally taken during the spring turkeys for a romantic rendez- season provided the hunter has vous. the proper permit issued by the Wild turkeys are extremely lottery drawing. There are a few talkative during the mating sea- units in Arizona that offer an son, which begins in late March over the counter archery tag for and continues through mid-May. the springtime hunts. Consult the The female or hen turkey will also Arizona Game and Fish hunting sound off with a yelp, purr, or a regulations for units that are “kee kee run” in responding to open to archery turkey hunting the loud gobble of the tom turkey. during the spring.

Both genders are susceptible to The wild turkey population in a call in the spring, which makes the United States has grown from it quite entertaining to be in the 1.3 million birds in 1973 to over 7 woods trying to call them in. million in 2015, which is a real sucArizona has a spring gobbler cess story in managing wildlife. hunt that is by permit only for This has been accomplished by those lucky hunters who drew a a combined effort of the National tag by the lottery drawing last Wild Turkey Federation, predomfall. The local area of unit 22 has inantly made up of hunters and a very limited number of tags the various state game agencies because the overall turkey pop- throughout the country. There ulation is down with the extend- are now huntable populations in ed drought and the high density 49 of the 50 states and many of of predators, namely the coyote. those states allow more than one East of Tonto Creek, the turkey gobbler to be taken during the population is much better from spring season. the Mogollon Rim south into the Growing up in eastern Iowa, I

Photo courtesy of DJ Craig

Becky Bauer slides into second base ahead of the throw against Safford in the quarterfinals of the Gracie Haught Classic.

Pitching, defense power Horns to title From page 1B returning to section action at Holbrook on Tuesday.

Then it’s a much-anticipated rematch at Winslow on April 7

against the team that beat them in last year’s state title game and also eliminated them in the semifinals two years ago.

The Longhorns look ready for a little revenge.

PMGA opens season The team of Jesse Smith, Jim Kennedy, Bill Davis and Herb Sherman combined to shoot 60 and win the Payson Men’s Golf Association’s season-opening four-man scramble at Payson Golf Course on Wednesday, March 18.

Don Pollock, Kevin Bailey, Alex Armenta and Don Gyde finished second with a 62 score and

Chip Yeomans, Dave Rutter, Lou Crabtree and Bill Mullins placed third with 63.

Gray Vaplon won the longest putt, sinking it from 7 feet 2 inches on No. 9. Closest to the pin winners were: Bill Davis (No. 2, 6-5), Bill Mullins (No. 5, 7-7), Jim Kennedy (No. 8, 2-0), Dan Dorough (No. 14, 7-0) and Jack Greenshield (No. 17, 8-9).

Announcements Spring co-ed softball league

Today is the deadline to register for the Spring Co-Ed Adult Softball League featuring competitive and recreational divisions. The fee is $280 per team.

Games will be played weeknights at Rumsey Park. Register at the Payson Parks & Recreation Office. Call (928) 474-5242 ext. 7 for more information.

Women’s Golf Assoc. breakfast

Prospective members are invited to the Payson Women’s Golf Association kickoff breakfast to begin the 2015 season at 9 a.m.

Tuesday, March 31 at 260 Café, with a friendly game of golf to follow at Payson Golf Course. The group plays every Tuesday morning at PGC from the beginning of April to the end of October.

For more information about the group, go to www.pwgaonline. com, or contact president Claudia Bullard at (602) 284-4812.

Shoot for the Heart

Shoot for the Heart is hosting a spring fishing seminar on bass and crappie fishing.

Art Chamberlin is the guest speaker who is known statewide

as a fishing guide and has spoken at all the major outdoor conventions in Arizona. He has over 40 years of experience in teaching tips on catching bass and crappies.

All ages are welcome to attend this free seminar at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 31 at Mountain Bible Church, 302 E. Rancho Road.

There will be fishing door prizes for those in attendance.

Refreshments to follow the talk.

Kids Fishing Festival

The Ninth Annual Rim Country Optimist Club Kids Fishing Festival is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 18 at Green Valley Park. A fishing license is not required for registered participants of any age. Call Jim Tye at (928) 468-2456 or Joan Young at (928) 472-2264 for more information.

Monument Peak PATS Hike

The next Payson Area Trail System hike is set for Saturday, April 19 on the Monument Peak’s 3-mile trail, which is rated easy.

The hike is free and begins at 8:30 a.m. Call (928) 474-5242 ext. 7 for more information.

never saw a wild turkey, but now they are abundant in the hardwood forests, which border most of the river bottoms. Last summer driving through this area, I saw numerous flocks of wild turkeys along the highways feeding in the fields and grasslands. The science of game management and the investment of hunting dollars can improve all wildlife for everyone to enjoy.

Whether you are hunting them with a shotgun, bow or camera, the wild turkey in the spring can be lured by a call into close quarters. It takes a little practice, but when it happens, seeing that old tom strutting his stuff and gobbling for a mate, is a real thrill in the wilds of Arizona.

Take an early morning trip on a back road in the Tonto National Forest, listen for the distinct gobble of a wild turkey, and enjoy the Arizona outdoors, God’s creation.

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Mating season offers both hunters and wildlife lovers a great opportunity to get close to wild turkeys.