Foothills News 8.10.22

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PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY AND CHRONIC PAIN TREATMENTS NOT WORKING!!

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As displayed in figure 1 above, the nerves are surrounded by diseased, withered blood vessels. A lack of sufficient nutrients means the nerves

cannot survive, and thus, slowly die. This leads to those painful and frustrating consequences we were talking about earlier, like weakness, numbness, tingling, balance issues, and perhaps even a burning sensation.

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MUSIC

Tuesday, Aug. 16 Shakey Graves performs at the Rialto Theatre with Abraham Alexander. Shakey Graves, aka Alejandro Rose-Garcia, is touring after the 10th anniversary of the debut album that changed his life, “Roll the Bones.” Rose-Garcia has gathered millions of listens to his music since this album was released in 2011. Rose-Garcia re-released the album with 15 additional tracks in 2021. Details: Doors open 7 p.m.

Show at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16. All ages show. $30 to $48. Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress Street.

THEATER

Saturday, Aug. 13 Have a blast at Gaslight Theatre this week at the new musical comedy “Ghostblasters.” As guessed, the storyline is a fun spin on the blockbuster “Ghostbusters” movie.

A team of eccentric scientists band together to stop ghosts and spirits from infesting New York City. This play will be running into August. Details: Shows run 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13. The Gaslight Theatre, 7010 E. Broadway Boulevard.

Tickets are $27 for adults; $15 for children (2 to 12); and $25 for students, military and seniors. thegaslighttheatre.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Friday, Aug. 12, and Saturday, Aug. 13 Tombstone is hosting a weekend of festivities celebrating Doc Holliday, or John Henry Holliday, the iconic gambler and gunfighter. Holliday is best known for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral on Oct. 26, 1881. Visitors can expect a Doc Holliday look-a-like competition, peach pie eating contest, “Tombstone” movie trivia and street entertainment. Details: From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, and Saturday, Aug. 13. Tombstone, 311 E. Allen Street, Tombstone.

Friday, Aug. 12, and Saturday, Aug. 13 Head down to Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens & Galleries’ summer series, Chillin’ at the Chul, on Friday, Aug. 12, or Saturday, Aug. 13. The botanical gardens are of-

fering visitors a chance to cool down on the grounds after hours. It is free of admission from 5 to 8 p.m. Enjoy live music by Diluvio on Friday or Sophia Rankin and The Sound on Saturday. The Garden Bistro will be open for service, offering light bites and refreshments such as Sonoran hot dogs and prickly pear margaritas. The series runs Fridays and Saturdays through Sept. 3. Details: From 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, and Saturday, Aug. 13. Tohono Chul, 7366 N. Paseo Del Norte. tohonochul.org.

Saturday, Aug. 13 Cool Summer Nights at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum are the best way to beat the heat. Plants and animals come to life in the desert at night. Details: 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13. General admission $24.95, seniors are $22.95 (65-plus), youth $13.95 (ages 3-12), children under 3 and Desert Museum members are free. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2021 N. Kinney Road.

ARTS

Open now, closing Saturday, Sept. 10 Take a weekend trip to Bisbee for a day of art, specifically portrait art, at the Artemizia Foundation Annex. This Bisbee treasure is unveiling a new exhibit featuring world-renowned fine art photographer Martin Schoeller. Martin specializes in portraits and his work has appeared in well-known magazines such as Time, GQ, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and more. Large-scale portraits will be available at the annex. Details: The Annex is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; 24 Main Street; open to all; artemiziafoundation.org/annex.

FOR KIDS

Friday, Aug. 12 TEEN Paint Night is a great chance to be outdoors while creating a masterpiece.

Instruction is included with registration, along with an 11-by-14 canvas and painting supplies. Maeve Huffmon will instruct this week’s class. Parents can accompany their teens as well. Details: From 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12. Marana Heritage River Park Barn, 12375 N. Heritage Park Drive. maranaaz.gov.

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Districts assess security ahead of school year By alexandra Pere Tucson Local Media

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ucson schools prepare to open their doors the first week of August for K-12 students.

With heightened fears after the Robb Elementary School massacre in May, parents expressed concern to school districts about safety procedures.

The Amphitheater United School District Governing Board members said they hired an external independent school safety expert who is a former law enforcement officer to conduct safety assessments of schools in the district during a meeting on Tuesday, July 26.

Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) Superintendent Gabriel Trujillo held a press conference on Wednesday, July 20, to announce safety developments, staffing shortages, and a minimum wage increase for TUSD employees.

TUSD schools and Amphitheater schools are now back in session.

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locks, keyless entry systems,” Trujillo said.

“We’re going to be coming to the governing board with a comprehensive package to make improvements and investments in those areas.”

Trujillo said they won’t have the budget to address every safety issue in the district, but certain changes will be prioritized. The district will prioritize funding for campuses that don’t have exterior fencing or surveillance systems, as well as campuses that need exterior fences replaced or fixed.

Trujillo said the district will also announce a new visitor procedure in response to an incident that occurred last May at Tucson High when a fight broke out between a parent and a student on campus.

“Coming into a school there’s going to be strict, designated places where they’ll

Wednesday, Aug. 10, and Saturday, Aug. 13 The Loft Cinema’s Studio Ghibli Summer Fest continues with “Princess Mononoke.”

Watch the classic Ghibli film on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. with subtitles and Saturday at 2 p.m. with dubbed audio. Details: Wednesday, Aug. 10, and Saturday, Aug. 13. The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Boulevard. General admission is $10, and Loft members and children (12 and under) are $8. loftcinema.org.

(parents) have to check in and visits will largely be supervised and that they can expect that they’ll probably end up being escorted from place to place, depending on what their business is on the campus,” Trujillo said.

Trujillo reported TUSD is experiencing teacher and bus driver shortages. The district is looking to fill 25 middle school and high school math teacher positions, 50 vacancies for a variety of special education positions, and 55 bus driver positions.

Trujillo said the bus driver vacancies have improved from the vacancies the district endured the year before.

The district has 300 substitute teachers available to fill positions, but Trujillo admitted those numbers haven’t returned to pre-pandemic levels when the district had 800 substitute teachers.

Even with subs, Trujillo said the district will have to go in and reassess class sizes to dissolve some of those vacancies.

“The goal is never going over,” Trujillo said. “Targeted class sizes are laid out in the TUSD TEA (Tucson Education Association) consensus agreement, and we try to hit those.”

The TUSD TEA consensus agreement sets limits to the number of students in specific classroom settings, like 24 students in a high school classroom or 12 autistic students to one special education teacher.

The TUSD board voted during its Tuesday, July 12, meeting to raise the internal minimum wage to $15 an hour with the approval of TUSD’s fiscal year 2022-23 See SCHOOL P5

LOCAL MARKETS

Saturday, Aug. 13 Come to the Oro Valley Farmers Market at the historic Steam Pump Ranch on Saturday, Aug. 13, to support your local farmers, ranches and small food purveyors offering their seasonal produce, farm-fresh eggs, meats and other goods. Operating every Saturday, year-round, the farmers market runs from 8 a.m. to noon. Attendance is free, but money is required for shopping.

Steam Pump Ranch is located at 10901 N. Oracle Road. For more information about the Oro Valley Farmer’s Market or other Heirloom Farmers Markets, visit heirloomfm.org.

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“We were able to make that happen and bring the entire workforce into TUSD to the minimum level of $15 an hour,” Trujillo said. “We will be coming back in November to be addressing any related salary compression issues that have emerged as a result of this internal movement.”

In regards to COVID safety precautions, Trujillo said the district adjusts its COVID restrictions in accordance with Pima County transmission levels. During the press conference, COVID transmission was low.

Trujillo said low transmission would result in a mask-optional policy.

“We are still keeping up with our COVID protocols with regard to cleanliness, with regard to having hand sanitizer present in every office in every classroom, with having masks available for those that request them, for committing to deep cleaning, still have our buses in our cafeterias and our classrooms,” Trujillo said.

In a statement to Tucson Local Media, Flowing Wells Unified School District Superintendent Kevin Stoltzfus said the district has evaluated every school site and is working on upgrading safety measures like fencing and door locks for campuses in need.

“Additionally, we are integrating a new emergency notification system that will empower employees to initiate crisis alerts much more quickly, with the goal of mass notification in just a few seconds from the time a dangerous individual is first identified on campus,” Stoltzfus said.

The first day of school for the Flowing Wells District was Aug. 4.

Stoltzfus said the district has four teacher vacancies, but the pool of substitute teachers has grown in comparison to last school year.

Stoltzfus said parents and students can look forward to progress on two buildings, the Community Learning Center and Early Childhood Center. Both buildings will be finished in the spring and will provide two new early childhood classrooms.

“Additionally, the bond-funded construction at Laguna Elementary School on Shannon Road will create new classrooms, office space, and outdoor play and learning areas,” Stoltzfus said.

Julie Farbarik, director of alumni and community relations for Catalina Foothills Unified School District, said in a statement to Tucson Local Media that the district

conducted thorough safety assessments over the summer. She said they won’t share specifics with the public due to security reasons.

“This year, we hired 55 new certified staff members, which includes teachers and counselors,” Farbarik said. “We are still looking for two fifth grade teachers (one is in our Spanish immersion program), an elementary P.E. teacher, and a middle school Spanish teacher.”

The first day of school for Catalina Foothills schools and Marana Unified School District was Aug. 8.

Sunnyside Unified School District (SUSD) Superintendent Jose Gastelum said the district had a safety town hall meeting for the community on July 7.

“Our goal was to bring comfort to them in terms of letting them know that this is a priority; the safety of our students has always been our top priority,” Gastelum said.

Gastelum said there were safety audits conducted over the summer at district schools. The first day of school for SUSD was Aug. 3.

“All of our schools have wrought iron gates; our middle and high schools have security guard shacks as you enter the property,” Gastelum said. “Also, all of our elementaries have caged-controlled entry and exit areas, so if you come in somebody has to buzz you in to come in.”

SUSD schools have access to radios with frequencies set to communicate with law enforcement. Campuses are also equipped with security cameras and a district security team. Additionally, students have access to a new “See Something, Say Something” anonymous reporting system on their electronic devices.

“If there’s a message to our parents, it’s that we’re paying close attention to it (safety). It’s a priority of ours, and we want to really provide their children a great school experience. It should be an experience where they can come and enjoy school,” Gastelum said.

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Green Chili Roast. Head down to Wilcox for Apple Annie’s renowned Green Chili Roast to pick yourself some delicious hot peppers. Buy a 50-pound bag of fresh picked hearty green chilies to watch them get roasted for free at the farm. Skip the 50-pound bag for a quart of Apple Annie’s mild, medium or hot roasted green chilies to take home. Take your chilies to the Orchard Grill for lunch to add roasted green chilies to your hamburger! Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday. The Chili Roast starts the weekend of Saturday, Aug. 13, and Sunday, Aug. 14. Located at the Apple Annie’s Produce Farm, 6405 W. Williams Road. The produce farm is open every day from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Ranger Led Hike. The National Park Service leads Ranger Hikes every Wednesday at the Chiricahua National Monument. Starting at 9 a.m., the hike begins at the Park Visitor Center, where the Ranger will then lead the group on a two- to four-mile hike.

The trails will be easy or moderate, and hiking boots are highly suggested. Bringing water and a snack is a must-have. All ages are welcome to join the hike. The hikes are educational, too, offering opportunities to learn more about the plants, trees, wildlife and history of the Chiricahua Mountains. The hikes are set for Wednesday, Aug. 10, and Wednesday, Aug. 17.

Guadalajara’s Grill’s Festivals.

Local restaurant chain Guadalajara’s Grill is celebrating 20 years since opening its first location in Tucson.

The chain is promoting a series of weekend festivals to give back to communities that bolstered their success. This week’s festival is from 5 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13 at the Broadway location, 4901 E. Broadway Boulevard. The festival is free to the public and will host music, food and vendors.

TEEN Paint Night. This teens-only painting class is a great chance to be outdoors while creating a masterpiece. Instruction is included with registration, along with an 11-by-14 canvas and painting supplies. Maeve Huffmon will instruct this week’s class. Parents can accompany their teens as well. From 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, at the Marana Heritage River Park Barn, 12375 N. Heritage Park Drive. Register ahead at maranaaz.gov.

Southeast Arizona Birding Festival. From Wednesday, Aug. 10, to Sunday, Aug. 14, the Tucson Audubon Society is sponsoring a plethora of bird-centric events at Reid Park.

Festival headquarters are at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Tucson-Reid Park, 445 S. Alvernon Way. From 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13, families are invited to attend the Family Birding Day event. The family event is free, but register ahead of time at tucsonaudubon.org/news-events/ southeast-arizona-birding-festival.

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TECH TALK Man arrested for arson in connection to Salpointe fire The possible origins of

By Katya Mendoza

fire might have started,” said Michael Colaianni, spokesman for TPD. Inhe Tucson Police vestigators handed over Department anevidence and samples to nounced an arrest TPD’s arson investigator, over the weekend of who was able to make the 26-year-old Forrest Harris arrest, Colaianni said. in connection to the SalThe fire, which began pointe Catholic Fire that in the attic space in the occurred on Sunday, July 700 English wing on the 17. southeast corner of camTPD responded to a call TPD officials identified 26-year-old pus, destroyed six classon Saturday, July 30, over Forrest Harris as responsible for start- rooms that will have to be a dispute about a dog near ing the fire at Salpointe Catholic High rebuilt.

North Country Club Road School on Sunday, July 17. Harris was On July 21, school ofand East Grant Road and also charged with third-degree bur- ficials announced in a glary and criminal damage. were able to identify and press release the first day (Tucson Police Department/Submitted) locate Harris due to an inof school would be postternal “stop and arrest.” A poned by one week “in stop and arrest means there is enough prob- order to guarantee a safe and fully operaable cause to make an arrest. tional campus.”

After interviews, TPD found further “When the students come back on Aug. probable cause to arrest Harris and official- 15, all of the classrooms will be functional ly charged him with arson of an occupied with the exception of six classrooms and structure, and booked him into the Pima held in high-quality modular units that will County Jail. He was also charged with (temporarily) work as our classrooms,” third-degree burglary and criminal damage. said Jennifer Harris, director of advanceBased on forensic evidence collected by ment at Salpointe Catholic High School.

Tucson Fire Department investigators at The high school is going through the resthe fire scene, blood DNA connected Harris toration process of smoke, water and electo the fire, according to Sergeant Richard trical damages that were found throughout Gradillas, spokesman for TPD. the 300 and 400 wings on the northeast side “Our investigators did a lot of work to of campus and estimates the damages to be identify various ignition sources and sent in the millions of dollars. off samples to labs to analyze where that Tucson Local Media

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The two-alarm fire that occurred at Salpointe Catholic High School on Sunday, July 17, destroyed six classrooms in the 700 English wing. The classrooms will be temporarily replaced by high-quality modular units when school resumes on Tuesday, August 15.

(Courtesy of Tucson Police Department)

COVID-19 and epilepsy

By Alexandra Pere Tucson Local Media

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ith a major research university right in our backyard, a strong military presence and innovative companies throughout the metro region, there’s often a plethora of interesting science, medical and technology news to be found in Southern Arizona. Here’s a breakdown of the most interesting recent developments.

COVID-19 culprit

Almost three years ago, COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was discovered in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The virus quickly spread across the world, becoming a pandemic that took 1,026,723 lives and counting, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The origin of the virus was shrouded in mystery, leading to conspiracy theories. University of Arizona researchers recently published two papers discounting many of these conspiracy theories, leaving a strong possibility for the origin of the virus: the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China. Led by University of Arizona virus evolution expert Michael Worobey, researchers tracked the start of the pandemic to the market, which sold wild animals like foxes, raccoon dogs and other live mammals. Mammals are susceptible to coronaviruses, and the virus could have jumped from animal to human hosts in the market. “In a city covering more than 3,000 square miles, the area with the highest probability of containing the home of someone who had one of the earliest COVID-19 cases in the world was an area of a few city blocks, with the Huanan market smack dab inside it,” Worobey said in a press release. Worobey heads the UA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The first study focused on the geographic location of cases, while the second paper analyzed the virus genomic data to see if animals in the market were, in fact,

where the virus contacted a human host.

The second paper was co-led by Jonathan Pekar and Joel Wertheim at the University of California, San Diego; Marc Suchard of the University of California, Los Angeles; Kristian Andersen at Scripps Research in San Diego; and Worobey. The researchers traced the virus’s early evolution with samples of its earliest genomes, then they used this data to establish parameters for molecular clock data. Clock analysis relies on the pace of genetic mutations over time.

They found two lineages of SARS-CoV-2 came from two separate infections traced back to animals. Prior studies suggested the first infection came from bats and then mutated into the second lineage. Worobey wasn’t convinced by this timeline of mutation. “Otherwise, lineage A would have had to have been evolving in slow motion compared to the lineage B virus, which just doesn’t make biological sense,” Worobey said. The animals could have acquired the virus from coronavirus-carrying bats in the wild and then spread it to humans in the market. The researchers said this should be a lesson to scientists and public officials about the risks associated with live animal markets. They said comprehensive testing should be used to prevent future pandemics.

The possible cause of epilepsy

Epilepsy is a disorder that often results in seizures due to a disturbance in the electrical activity of the brain. In many cases, the underlying cause of epilepsy is unknown, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Researchers at the University of Arizona are addressing these unknowns with new research from the UA Bhattacharya Lab. The team first focused on a gene in mice that connects to the function of muscle and motor neurons. These neurons control bodily movement. The team followed this gene, finding a protein called TMEM184B that lives on neuron cell membranes. It seemed See TECH TALK P7

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Oro Valley TikTok star is mightier than a mouse

By Hope Peters

Tucson Local Media

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ro Valley’s own Shaun Gray has achieved many goals living in Oro Valley for more than 15 years.

Known as mightyyyymouse by his TikTok and Instagram followers, Gray has had an extensive work history in Oro Valley.

Gray, 34, was born in northwest Tucson (Marana) but moved to Oro Valley at age 15. After high school, Gray obtained three degrees and a final degree in nursing.

“I am a certified (OV) police officer and certified firefighter. I went through the fire academy, so I am both,” Gray said. “And I just got my nursing degree.”

Gray was an OV police officer for four years, but he always wanted to be a nurse.

His 20-week mental health training with OVPD and his law enforcement phlebotomy (a procedure using a needle to extract blood from a vein) for the DUI unit cemented his decision to go to nursing school.

He said the in-depth police department mental health training is unique to the Tucson area police departments.

“Tucson is one of the biggest mental health advocates (in the state),” he said. “It (the OV police department mental health training) is pretty much statewide. We always had interdepartmental training.

“Being an officer takes a certain type of person, and it was a fun job,” he explained his move to nursing. “But I always said God had a plan for me. I am a very spiritual, religious person, so I believe in that. For a career, I always wanted to be a nurse.”

Gray recently graduated from nursing school and must now take his state exam to be a licensed registered nurse.

“It was hard, actually really hard to go to nursing school during COVID and hav-

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to the researchers when TMEM184B wasn’t present, the neurons were damaged.

Neurons in mice fired too often when damage was present. With this in mind, lead study author Tiffany Cho and study-coauthor Martha Bhattacharya moved their focus to study the corresponding protein called Tmep in fruit flies. “What we found in the fruit flies was that the neurons seem

The mental health training at OVPD and his psychology studies from nursing school have been a jumping-off point for his TikTok platform.

“I have been through a lot of stuff in my life,” he said.

“And I learned that nowadays, I look forward to stuff I can learn from. That is where I get most of my content that I post (on Tik Tok).”

“For someone like you and I, when we are speaking, with a sane mind, we can have a conversation,” he said.

“I can tell you that’s not OK to do, you Shaun Gray celebrates Father’s Day with his two youngest daughters. should look into do(mightyyymouse/Instagram) ing this, here’s some advice, and you’d ing COVID,” he explained. “When I had listen to it,” he explained. “For someone COVID it was … not when it first came that has a mental health crisis, they can’t out, but when it had left its first full wave, comprehend that. They can’t. … You need to find ways to be able to communicate it my whole family got it.”

Gray, a father of two young daughters, and to be able to use the science beforesaid he had to take care of his family and hand.”

Gray first went on TikTok to discuss his himself and go to school while also doing homework. It was a difficult time, but he own social anxiety.

“I first got on TikTok because I was sufdid it.

“Nursing is something you have to do fering from anxiety. I post things I have a lot of hands-on stuff. You can’t do it gone through, stuff I have been through virtually,” Gray said. “They (the school) that I know about and learned from,” Gray tried for a semester. They did the best they said.

“So I had anxiety, social anxiety, such as could, but nursing school is very hard on talking in front of people. So, I learned to top of that.” confront it, to face the fear I would start with TikTok,” Gray explained. “To do dancing, to do something I don’t know to overreact to an individual stimulus,” how to do.”

He said he knew he would look silly, but Bhattacharya said in a press release. Bhattacharya is an assistant professor in the De- to his surprise he gathered quite a followpartment of Neuroscience and director of ing on his platform. Also, Gray often referthe Bhattacharya Lab. To the researchers, ences his greatest inspiration, his grandfaTmep and TMEM184B are responsible for ther, in his videos.

“He was just one of those people, when controlling neurons and the gene that led them to these proteins could be the cause you look at him and you talk to him, ‘My goodness, that’s a wise person!’” he said. of some forms of epilepsy.

“He just had that impact on me.”

Gray said his grandfather taught him any “knowledge you have learned from life that you don’t share with people is wasted knowledge.”

After his first successful TikTok posts, Gray looked for more to share with the TikTok community.

“I started to look deeper in myself,” Gray said. “I thought I would make a couple of posts, like motivational stuff, inspiring stuff, stuff or quotes like that would help.”

It definitely helped increase his following. Gray saw a substantial surge of 230,000 community followers in the first posts to a whopping 1.3 million followers in three months after his new posts.

“It just blew up,” Gray said. “I had my first viral video on social media with over a million views.

“So I started to think, is this the content I should be doing? Is this what I should be concentrating on?” he asked. “So I did, and it just blew up.”

He started with the “Hard Hitting Quotes You Didn’t Know You Needed’’ series, posting 38 of them.

“Then people started to follow me and like me, and the fan base — I don’t like to say ‘fan base,’ the community of people who started following me — grew,” he said.

For upcoming projects and new posts, Gray is starting new videos, called “Bless a Stranger” videos.

“I have merchandise I am trying to sell that I’m not profiting from. I take a certain amount of money, $100 or couple, go right up to a stranger, walk up to them, and I give them a note card with an inspirational message and it will have the money in it.” he said. “They don’t know who I am, I don’t know them. Just one act of kindness that most people don’t get.”

Gray calls himself a one act of kindness product. He said he had a stranger change his life in one act of kindness.

“I was a teenager in a grocery store. I was having a real bad day, but not acting irate or anything,” he said. “I was walking out and an older man, maybe in his 70s said, ‘Hey young man, are you doing okay?’ I said, ‘Yeah, I am fine.’ He said, ‘Good, keep your head up, you have a long See MIGHTY MOUSE P11

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Higher Ground receives $2.3 million grant By toM leyde

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Tucson nonprofit that helps children and families in underserved neighborhoods will be expanding its efforts thanks to a $2.3 million grant from the Arizona Department of Education.

Higher Ground Resource Center, 101 W. 44th Street, received word of the grant in May, said CEO and co-founder Jansen Azarias-Suzumoto. The group will use the money (its largest grant to date) to expand its Restart SMART community schools program.

Higher Ground serves mainly low-income youth and families through inschool, summer and after-school programs that build life skills and provide multigenerational support.

The money comes from the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and is part of Arizona’s ARP School and Community Grantees. The money granted to Higher Ground was one of three such grants totaling $15.3 million.

“This grant will allow for an effective and targeted approach to supporting youth through the current disparities that can make learning so hard,” said Stephanie Anderson, chief community officer for Higher

Students enrolled in Tucson’s Higher Ground Resource Center meet with volunteer adults in an after-school learning program.

The nonprofit group has received $2.3 million from the Arizona Department of Education to expand its programs. (Submitted) Ground Resource Center, in a new release from the state.

“It will help us bring in more partners to fill the needs at the school sites where we work, and it will allow us to address learning loss and opportunity gaps at the individual level and the schools with Higher Ground,” Anderson said.

Restart SMART is a community school initiative of Tucson Unified School District. Restart SMART teams work at designated schools. They focus on family and community engagement, trauma-informed care, social and emotional skill development, workforce and career skills, positive behavior intervention support, enriched learning time opportunities, and after-school and summer enrichment programs.

Higher Ground’s application was among 140 applicants and one of 40 that were funded.

Azaria-Suzumoto said the grant will allow Higher Ground to expand its Restart SMART efforts from five to nine schools. These schools are in low-opportunity, high-proverty and high-trauma communities.

“We are part of the school and in the world,” Azaria-Suzumoto said.

“Part of the school engagement.”

Higher Ground staff talks to students, families and teachers. It steers committees to meet with neighborhoods, Azaria-Suzumoto said. “Different schools have different needs.”

Higher ground serves some 2,500 children, 500 families and 300 educators annually. By July it will have a paid staff of about 40, and it works with 100 nonprofit partners.

“I have an amazing team of people,” Azaria-Suzumoto said. “I have been fortunate to have a great team of people, and we have an amazing team of partners. Tucson has really embraced our organization,” he said.

Born into poverty in the Philippines in 1987, Azaria-Suzumoto and his mother were economically rescued from their situation by his father. When Azaria-Suzumoto was 16, his father acknowledged him as his son and made him a U.S. citizen. He dropped out of a university computer science program and came to Tucson.

Eventually, he married, embraced religious faith and became the father of two sons. Higher Ground was started in his living room, helping his wife’s son Timothy (then 10), who was struggling in school.

Soon Timothy began inviting friends to join him.

They were all struggling with school, but they also shared similar stories of trauma: divorced parents, single moms, incarcerated family members, family members

involved with drugs, gangs and alcohol abuse. Underlying these stories were poverty and abuse.

Higher Ground began being housed at Mission View Assembly Church in 2007, when Azaria-Suzumoto and his now-wife Barbi began offering their services for free.

In two years, Higher Ground was serving 60 students in its daily after-school program, with more on the waiting list.

The program reached out to Pima County Parks and Recreation to build a youth center. Higher Ground then became a 501(c) (3) organization.

Jansen and Barbi quit full-time jobs to work for Higher Ground as volunteer directors. Tucson Unified School District offered to partner with the group, providing six classrooms at Valencia Middle School during the 2011-12 school year.

After-school attendance at the free program grew from 60 to 130 students, and Higher Ground expanded. It started offering tutoring in math and reading, tackle football for middle schoolers, a boxing team, dance, art, choir, high school career internships, character development, martial arts and financial literacy.

When Wakefield Middle School was closed, its students were moved to Valencia Middle School, leaving no extra room there for Higher Ground services. Luckily, Higher Ground was allowed to move into Wakefield.

“Our success is not about numbers,” Higher Ground’s website says. “It’s about creating momentum for lasting sustainable change; it’s about the individual transformation that leads to community contribution; it’s about building a stronger collective impact in our community.”

Timothy, Jansen and Barbi’s son, is now serving in the Marine Corps in California, and he and his wife have a child. Jansen and Barbi’s other son Kenji is training to be an Olympian in judo.

“We have amazing people,” Azaria-Suzumoto said of Higher Ground. “That’s the secret. … We work alongside people in this journey to get to higher ground together, so it’s kind of a metaphor.”

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Drug pricing reform should include pharmacy benefit managers

By Sharon Joseph Lupus Foundation of Southern Arizona Executive Director

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s someone who works closely with the patient community, I feel it is my responsibility to monitor the actions in Congress when it comes to drug pricing.

Most often, I am left disappointed that various pieces of legislation that would have a real and tremendous impact on the patient community end up dying on the vine due to the bitter partisanship in our current Congress.

Opportunity after opportunity to receive real savings at the pharmacy counter for those who need it the most have been missed, despite the many promises made by our elected officials every campaign season.

Lupus is a very expensive condition to treat. New treatments have an annual cost

between $30,000 and $40,000. While the new treatments have had tremendous benefits to those with lupus, it has forced many patients to skip doses or delay prescription refills. These are choices that no patient, whether one has lupus or any other chronic disease, should have to make.

So, it’s refreshing to see there may be another way to tackle high out-of-pocket costs for our patients, and it is through the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In early June, the FTC announced it would launch investigations into major pharmacy benefit managers and their business practices. This has been a long time coming, as Congress has repeatedly called on them to take a closer look at these institutions and the role they play in the final cost of a prescription medication.

Explaining the role of pharmacy benefit managers is about as easy as explaining quantum physics to many of us, but it essentially boils down to this: Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) basically serve as the middlemen between your insurance

company’s drug plan and the drug manufacturer. Now comes the confusing part.

The role PBMs play is something of an enigma. As the online publication Fierce Healthcare put it, “The role (of PBMs) can’t be quantified, at least not for the public, because PBMs are secretive about their price negotiations with pharma companies.” That should be an enormous red flag, and it’s great to see that the FTC agrees.

Many of the tactics PBMs employ range from questionable to highly suspect, but of particular concern to the patient side of this issue is the topic of drug rebates. These are the rebates, or coupons, a manufacturer provides to discount the list price of a drug.

The intention of them is to obviously lower the price for the consumer, but the problem is PBMs often get in the way with its web of administrative and authorization hurdles, and the result is the discount is never properly passed through to the consumer.

It will be fascinating to see what the FTC finds in their investigation into PBMs, but we shouldn’t be relying on them alone to

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Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly, will work parallel to the FTC and demand action on PBMs through legislation or as part of the drug pricing reconciliation bill. Of course we know the answer to lower drug prices doesn’t rest with PBMs alone, and it will take all those in the prescription drug supply chain to come to the table in order to make tangible progress. But the FTC launching this investigation should serve as a call to action for Congress. The message of the FTC is clear: The solution to high drug costs is out there. We just need to work to find it.

A Tucson resident, Sharon Joseph is the board president at the Lupus Foundation of Southern Arizona (LFSA). LFSA’s mission is to provide support, education and partnership to those affected by lupus, while promoting the development and enhancement of health and social welfare at the local level.

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MIGHTY MOUSE Continued from P7 life ahead of you, don’t give up.’”

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He said, “I have the platform, I believe in using it for a purpose, for everyone. I have the platform for a reason. I’m using

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Gray’s advice for others wanting to start up a social media platform.

“Every single person possesses one elite trait that they have, that no one else has.

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SPORTS EXTRA POINT &RECREATION WITH TOM DANEHY In remembrance of broadcaster Vin Scully

BY TOM DANEHY Tucson Local Media

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t’s not often somebody gets to do what they love and do it better than anybody else… for more than 60 years. And no, I’m not talking about Queen Elizabeth II, who, despite the sometimes unflattering portrayal thereof on “The Crown,” has pretty much been nailing it since the early 1950s. Rather, we note with a touch of sadness and a giant silo full of admiration and great memories the passing at age 94 of longtime Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully.

When I was a kid growing up in Southern California, baseball was the coolest. It was cooler than football or basketball. It was a constant topic of conversation and,

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The Dodgers had some incredible stars, including the pitching duo of Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale. The latter was my pitching hero, mostly because he was friends with my high school coach and would stop by our practices every now and then. I also loved the fact that Drysdale, who (along with Robert Redford) had gone to a rival high school of ours, was a fierce competitor. When a signal came from the bench to issue an intentional walk to the upcoming batter, Drysdale drilled the bat-

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When his manager later asked why he had done it, Drysdale replied, “I saved myself three pitches.”

I remember when Scully told that story during a game with only the slightest hint of mischief in his voice. I think we all knew that despite the hitters (Tommy Davis, whose 153 runs batted in and .346 batting average in 1962 still stand as alltime team records) and the base stealers (Maury Wills’ incredible 104 steals) and the aforementioned pitchers (Koufax threw four no-hitters, including a perfect game), Scully was the most-beloved Dodger.

Scully was a painter of pictures, a teller of tales. He was the face of the Dodgers and the voice of the Dodgers. But, if you listened closely enough, he wasn’t a homer for the Dodgers. He just told his listening audience what was going on, on the field.

He did it with a calm voice that rarely got loud and, in that voice, you could just hear his love of the game and, in the process, you found yourself sharing that love.

My father, who was never much of a sports fan, would drive around LA, almost never turning on the car radio. He preferred to read the news, and he never wanted to listen to music. But when the Dodgers game was on, so was my dad’s radio. He swore Scully’s voice helped make him a better, safer driver, one who was less likely to speed or get angry when some jerk cut in front of him.

I remember writing a piece for my high school newspaper about how when I was a little kid and I had an actual bedtime, I

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would lie in bed with a clunky transistor radio under my pillow, listening to Scully call a game. I’m sure at the time I thought it was really clever, when talking about the radio-pillow-ear strata, to conclude, “I guess you can say that it left an impression on me.”

When I first came to Arizona to go to college and play ball, I was thrilled to find the Dodgers’ games were broadcast on one of the two local radio stations in the tiny border town of Douglas. I guess when I was young and stupid, I assumed Dodgermania extended northward to Bakersfield, after which it gave way to love of the San Francisco Giants, and eastward to about Blythe, which for someone growing up in LA, was about the end of the world.

Scully kept me from getting homesick those first few weeks of college. I would leave my dorm room and go out and sit in my car to listen to Dodgers games. He was a master at what he did, and there will never be anyone better.

One of my favorite things was, even as he was calling the game, he could slip in a folksy tale just for pure, heavenly entertainment. He once told a story about a student who asked a teacher, “What’s the most amazing invention of all time?”

The teacher thought for a minute, then answered, “The thermos.”

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“Well,” came the response, “a thermos can keep hot things hot and cold things cold.” After a pause, he concluded, “But how does it know?!”

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Nogales High School grad scooped by the Diamondbacks

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ogales High School graduate Demetrio Crisantes has committed to the Arizona Diamondbacks, after being picked in the seventh round of the MLB draft on Monday, July 18.

The 17-year-old former shortstop for the Apaches received a $425,000 signing bonus, well above the draft slot’s estimated value.

Crisantes, who bypassed his scholarship with the University of Arizona Wildcats, said the UA’s coaching staff was extremely supportive of his decision and excited for his new journey in pro-ball. Prior to committing to the UA back in August 2021, other West Coast programs were also in the running including his second choice Oregon State, Washington State and ASU. “I wanted to be in the PAC 12 Conference,” Crisantes said.

The infielder carries the torch of the Apaches’ baseball legacy, coming out of the Nogales National Little League pipeline, a top community program in Southern Arizona.

“Parents are doing everything possible to make sure the kids are going to tournaments at a young age, and it’s helping them when they get to high school,” 2006 NHS grad Rafael Valenzuela Jr. said in a direct message on Twitter.

A few notable players to come from the high school that Crisantes looks up to include Al Cruz, Justin Felix, Kevin Jimenez and many others who have made it to college ball and the pros.

“Just being a part of that group now and being a role model for the little kids means

(Above) Demetrio Crisantes (17) commits to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday, July 28, in Scottsdale. Crisantes was a seventh round pick, accepting a signing bonus of $425,000, well above the draft slot’s estimated value.

(Left) Recent Nogales High School grad Demetrio Crisantes was drafted to the Arizona Diamondbacks during the MLB draft on July 18. The Apaches finished their season 31-4 and second place in the state 5A championship.

(Demetrio Crisantes/Submitted) a lot to me,” Crisantes said.

Valenzuela, who played under Oscar Favela and Freddie Hernandez, said the school has such a strong program because of its supportive community.

“Nogales is a baseball town through and through,” Valenzuela said.

Many Nogales baseball fans can recall NHS pitcher Gil Heredia, who led the Apaches to their state championship title in 1981 and the Arizona Wildcats to Col-

lege World Series championship in 1986 before playing for the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics.

Valenzuela, who played second base for the UA under Andy Lopez from 2008 to 2010, is a manager for the Florida Complex League (FCL), the Tampa Bay Rays’ rookie team. He was drafted by the Kansas City Royals back in 2006 but opted to play his freshman season at Cochise College.

His advice for the D-backs’ new rook-

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“There’s going to be days that you don’t want to do it, but it’s what you’ve been working for so always look for the positives,” Valenzuela said.

Crisantes finished his senior season with stellar stats as a lead hitter, batting .485, with 26 RBIs, seven home runs, 15 doubles and four triples. He was also named Arizona Player of the Year by Prep Baseball Report.

The Apaches ended their season 31-4 and second place in the state 5A championship.

“It was a team effort, since the last time we lost in 2021 we all started hitting the gym, hitting, fielding, running more,” Crisantes said. “We put the extra work in and it showed when we made it to the state championship.”

Professional scouts took notice and had been going to watch Crisantes play, but the rookie said he didn’t see much interest until hearing from the Diamondbacks during the draft.

“I got really excited about (my) hometown team here in Arizona,” Crisantes said. He was torn between college or professional but ultimately made his decision.

The new pick has been spending his time at the D-backs’ Spring Training facility in Scottsdale and will begin training for the Arizona Complex League, the major league team’s rookie-level circuit.

One of his goals is to make it to the major league in 4 to 5 years, depending on the organization’s needs, and to help them win no matter what.

“My long-term goal is to be a big leader one day and help this organization win a world series,” Crisantes said.

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