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Arizona again near bottom of states for per pupil spending, Census says

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kyrocketing housing costs and out-of-state competition are pushing many Arizonans out of the housing market.

First-time homebuyers or middle to low-income homebuyers can barely compete with cash offers that go way above the asking price. Even those in the health industry are having difficulties in finding homes. Dre Thompson became uniquely aware of this problem when she read a story about a nurse in Phoenix who couldn’t buy a house.

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Hot Picks Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The Loft Cinema will be showing the 22-year-old-cult-classic, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” on Wednesday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m.

Taiwanese film-maker, Ang Lee reimagines traditional Chinese wuxia, a sword-wielding genre, in his 2000 martial-arts epic.

The film is action-packed, filled with ingenious fight sequences and a doomed love-triangle. Starring Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All At Once” and “Crazy Rich Asians”), Chow Yun-Fat and Zhang Zi Yi (“House of Flying Daggers” and “Memoirs of a Geisha”). Tickets are available through Fandango or at The Loft Cinema, which requires masks in the lobby. $10 adults, $8 student, teacher, military, $7 senior or children 12 and under. The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Blvd.

Chillin’ at the Chul Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens & Galleries kicks off their “first-ever summer series” Chillin’ at the Chul, offering visitors a chance to cool down in the gardens after-hours and free of admission, beginning June 3, 2022, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., with a performance by local DJ Humbleianess. The Garden Bistro will also be open for service, offering light bites and refreshments such as Sonoran hot-dogs and prickly pear margaritas. The series

runs Fridays and Saturdays from June 3, through Sept. 3, in partnership with the Children’s Museum of Oro Valley offering entertainment for children on Saturday nights.

Tohono Chul, 7366 N. Paseo Del Norte.

Spinnin’ Wheels Outdoor Roller Disco Dance Party!

The MSA Annex is hosting an outdoor roller disco and dance party at its festival grounds on Sunday, June 5, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. with local DJ Herm. Bring your roller skates and get your groove on with The Doobie Brothers, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Fleetwood Mac and other yacht rock classics. Admission is $10 per person. MSA Annex, 267 S. Avenida del Convento.

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Housing Continued from P1

“Serving frontline throughout the pandemic and wasn’t able to buy a home in the city of Phoenix and I just felt that there’s something problematic there,” Thompson said.

Thompson is the first CEO of Tucson’s Industrial Development Authority (IDA), a nonprofit economic development organization that brings together different stakeholders to create projects for Tucson’s community like affordable housing, climate, and infrastructure projects.

Thompson said essen-

tial workers needed to be supported in the frenzied market. Thompson worried that essential workers may end up leaving Tucson to find housing elsewhere and this would be incredibly detrimental to the Tucson community.

In partnership with the City of Tucson, Tucson Realtors Charitable Foundation, FHR Cares, CIC, Pima IDA, and Pima Tucson Homebuyers Solution, Tucson IDA will begin offering down payment assistance to essential workers in June through the Essential Workers Housing Fund.

Tucson IDA will use the Centers for Disease Control’s definition of an essen-

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tial worker to assess qualified applicants.

“There’s a lot so this does to help people be more competitive because they can come in with a stronger downpayment and the good thing about this program is that it doesn’t slow down the home buying process, there are down payment programs out there that aren’t going to look as desirable to go to the seller because there’s a delay, but this doesn’t delay the timeline at all,” Thompson said.

The housing fund will provide 1% of the first mortgage loan, up to $2,500, to assist with closing costs. What’s more, applicants can layer this on top of the Pima Tucson Homebuyer’s Solution Program (PTHS) if their income is under $122,100.

The PTHS Program covers

2% to 5% of the first mortgage loan in downpayment assistance. The assistance in both programs can be considered a grant if the buyer stays in the home for three years and makes the home their permanent residence.

“But what homeownership brings to families, it brings financial stability, so they can go from renting, moving from place to place and school to school, to homeownership to wealth creation,” Tucson Mayor Regina Romero said at the Essential Workers Housing Fund press conference on Wednesday, May 25.

These programs came at just the right time because housing is getting much less affordable. According to RealtyHop’s May 2022 Housing Affordability Index, 90 cities out of 100 experienced housing price increases ev-

ery month. Tucson ranks #45 out of 100 and it is reported that 35% of household income goes to homeownership costs. This is a 1.69% increase from April’s Index report.

Homeownership is one of the easier ways for Tucson residents to begin wealth creation and the current housing market exacerbates wealth inequality.

If only high-income people can buy homes, then Tucson loses the opportunity to build wealth throughout all aspects of the community.

“Ninety percent of them (PTHS participants) are first-time homebuyers, but you don’t need to be a first-time homebuyer to participate,” Thompson said. “Fifty-five percent of the participants in this program identify as Hispanic or Latino and so we really

see homeownership as a part of building generational wealth.”

By layering the benefits of PTHS and the Essential Workers Housing Fund for homebuyers, Thompson believes this will address some of the inequality in the housing market at the moment.

“It’s very meaningful, just because of the way that essential workers for so supportive in our community during the pandemic and this is just some ability to say thank you to them for the work that they did,” Thompson said.

Find more information, lender checklists, and a list of essential workers that qualify for the fund at essentialworkershousing fund.com or pimatucsonhomebuyers. com/essentialworkers.

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Former Vistoso golf course renamed Vistoso Trails Nature Preserve Nicole Feltman Tucson Local Media

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ikki Dilbeck won the renaming contest for the former Vistoso Golf Course with the name submission Vistoso Trails Nature Preserve.

Dilbeck has been chosen out of more than 1,500 name ideas that were sub-

mitted. A committee of five reviewed the submissions and narrowed the pickings down to ten in the second round. Around 500 Oro Valley residents then voted for their top three out of the ten options. The top three names with the highest votes were then set forth in front of the Oro Valley Town Council on May 18

for a final vote.

Dilbeck has won a prize package that includes more than $1,700 dollars’ worth of gifts, including an annual family membership to the Oro Valley Community and Recreational Center and the Oro Valley Aquatic Center.

Dilbeck has been an Oro Valley resident for ten years, spending the last eight in the

Vistoso community with her husband Ron. “I feel honored that the Council, and the community members who voted in the first round, think Vistoso Trails Nature Preserve would be a fitting name for this wonderful property. When I saw the initial call for name suggestions, Vistoso Trails Nature Pre-

serve popped into my head, and it just felt like the right fit,” Dilbeck said in a press release. “It’s such a wonderful resource for the whole Oro Valley community. Preserve Vistosos, the Town of Oro Valley, and The Conservation Fund worked long and hard to acquire this acreage so that it can be preserved without

threat of development.”

The other two finalists are Denny Iceman with the name Oro Valley Nature Preserve and Rod Depperschmidt with the name Vistoso Preserve at Oro Valley.

The Town of Oro Valley will not take full ownership of Vistoso Trails Nature Preserve until sometime after July 1.

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School Funding Continued from P1

the amount spent on actual instruction, at $4,801 per pupil.

Both were well below the national average of $13,494 overall and $8,176 on instruction per pupil for that year.

The data “reflects the continued failure by Arizona’s legislature to appropriately invest in our state’s future,” a spokesperson for the Arizona Department of Education said in a statement.

But a spokesperson for Gov. Doug Ducey said the numbers “may not portray the complete picture of

what’s happening in Arizona.” C.J. Karamargin said that higher spending does not equal a better educational system.

“If spending were a measure of success, then Washington, D.C., and New York would have the best educated kids in the country,” Karamargin said.

Many advocates remain frustrated by the state being historically and “generally underinvested” in public education in relation to the population, said Chris Kotterman, director of governmental relations for the Arizona School Boards Association.

That was echoed by Beth Lewis, the director of Save

Our Schools Arizona, who said many teachers and those involved with the education system have “kind of gotten used to” the state’s low ranking on school funding.

“Schools are not able to afford a music teacher, an art teacher, a classroom aide,” said Lewis, who is also a teacher. “Teachers are trying to be everything; counselors, assistant principals, nurses.”

Arizona remains mired at the bottom of the rankings despite a 17.3% increase in per pupil funding between 2015 and 2020, according to the Census Bureau. But that still lagged behind the national average of an 18.5% increase during the period.

Advocates are hopeful – but not optimistic – that the situation will change next

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year, with the state sitting on a budget surplus that could be as high as $5.3 billion.

They also point to the will of the voters in the form of Proposition 208.

Approved by voters in 2020, it would have dedicated more than $800 million in new taxes to schools in the first year, primarily to teachers’ salaries, but it has since been struck down in Arizona courts.

The Arizona Education Association has created an “educator’s budget” that calls for allocating up to $1.2 billion of ongoing revenue in the surplus to the public education system. It calls for increased spending on base salaries, full-day kindergarten, special education funding and career and technical education programs, among other initiatives.

“We’re not asking to

go from 50th to one,” said AEA Vice President Marisol Garcia of the educator’s budget. “We’re asking to go from 50th to 30th.”

Garcia said the fact that Arizona voters approved Prop 208 proves that low education funding in the state is “not aligned with the priorities of parents, teachers, students.”

But Kotterman said schools are likely to receive only a fraction of that request, although he hopes lawmakers can increase school funding closer to the $500 million to $700 million range.

The Legislature has until July 1 to approve a budget for fiscal 2023. The Arizona Education Department spokesperson said lawmakers “must pass a budget that supports fair pay for our state’s educators and meets the needs of every student

in our classrooms.”

For now, advocates say, with teachers being forced to take on more and more in the classroom, many schools are struggling to hold it together.

“Arizona is not providing even close to an adequate amount of resources for our children,” Lewis said. “We know that our poor children definitely bear the brunt much worse than more well-off areas.”

The lack of funding has led many teachers to quit their jobs because of burnout, said Garcia, who said schools are being held together “with a Band-Aid and a prayer.” Kotterman said new teachers in Arizona often only last three to five years before leaving the profession.

“The trend is that teachers are leaving because they’re just so tired and they

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feel like they are not able to do the job anymore,” Lewis said.

In September 2021, 25.9% of teacher vacancies in Arizona schools remained unfilled and 55.4% of the vacancies were filled by teachers who did not meet the state’s standard certification requirements, surveys from the Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association showed.

Garcia said lawmakers need to listen to what voters said in passing Prop 208.

“It’s the voters who are behind this, they’ve passed propositions,” Garcia said.

“If parents didn’t want schools to be starved, they wouldn’t be sending their kids to public schools.”

For more stories from Cronkite News, visit cronkitenews.azpbs.org.

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The free ev ent will take place from 8 a.m. until noon,

or until the trucks are full.

Residents are encouraged to bring up to five medium si ed bo es filled with papers that will be shredded at the ve nue, 810 W. Naranja Drive .

Out with the old and in with the new, folks.

Contact Jessica Hynd the Constituent Services Coordinator at jhynd@orovalleyaz.gov for more information about this event.

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Pima County helping families through preschool program PEEPs Rex Scott

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nited States Senator Edward Markey once said that “education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.”

He could have been talking about the Pima Early Education Program scholarships (PEEPs) when he made that statement. As schools close for the summer, this essential program is celebrating the end of its first year. We are also looking forward to how the program will help more children in the years to come, especially since there is a stable source of funding now in place.

My colleagues on the Board of Supervisors and I created this program last spring to help families who wanted their daughters and sons to have the benefits

of preschool, but struggled with the cost. The average monthly cost for preschool in Pima County is $800 per child. If you are parents whose budgets are already stretched thin by paying for housing, food in your kitchen, gas in your car and all the other expenses families confront, putting your child in preschool may seem like a luxury. Children from those families are then denied everything a quality preschool experience can grant them.

If your family income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, your child can qualify for a scholarship that will get them into the preschool of your choice.

For a family of four, that is an annual income of roughly $53,000 per year. Next year, we will pilot an initiative for parents in the Tucson Unified School District that will

allow families whose income is at or below 300% of the federal poverty level to qualify for assistance.

In this first year, PEEPs helped close to 700 children who might have missed out on preschool had the program not been in place.

Think of what that opportunity means for these kids and their futures! For their families and their peace of mind!

For our community and its future! In the years to come, even more children will be served. One superintendent told me recently that the preschools in his district will be able to accommodate almost half a kindergarten cohort next year based on their plans for expansion.

During this last year and for the next two, Pima County is using pandemic relief funds from the federal American Rescue Plan Act

to fund our portion of the program. We also receive financial support from the City of Tucson, the Town of Marana, the Town of Oro Valley and all participating school districts. Donations to the United Way from individuals and businesses also provide necessary support.

When pandemic relief funds are exhausted, we will make use of a small portion of the secondary property tax that funds the library district to pay the county’s share of the program. A law passed by the Arizona Legislature and signed by Gov. Doug Ducey last spring gave all counties this authority. With this assurance of annual funding, our school district partners and their counterparts in the private sector can move forward with confidence to ensure that we have the capacity to enroll

any child in preschool whose parent wants that for them.

The support from United Way mostly assists PEEPs through a program known as Accelerate Quality, which is designed to help preschools meet the State of Arizona’s standards for high quality early childhood education. Thanks in part to this program, there are now 208 preschool providers in our county that meet the state’s expectations. That number will grow as school districts and other providers expand their capacity.

Please visit the Pima County website to learn more about PEEPs, the Accelerate Quality endeavor and to read the progress reports from this first year. If you live in one of the participating school districts, are a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, or the Pascua Yaqui

Tribe, find out what is being done in your area to increase preschool enrollment. If you are interested in any private sector preschool provider, find out if they are part of the program.

President Kennedy admonished us to remember that “our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.”

We should never allow any of our children to be denied the benefits of education, no matter their family income.

The investments we make in our children and their future are always necessary and worthwhile. I hope that every citizen in Pima County will see the potential inherent in knocking down the barriers to access to quality early childhood education.

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FIT IN THE OV Renew Active is now at the Community & Recreation Center Nick Scala

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n an effort to continue to provide high quality recreation opportunities to the community, the Town of Oro Valley is happy to announce that beginning June 1, the Oro Valley Community & Recreation Center (CRC) will begin offering Renew Active to qualified UnitedHealthCare members.

Renew Active is a Medicare fitness program similar to Silver Sneakers. UnitedHealthCare members over the age of 65 that qualify for this program and would receive a Classic Membership at the CRC at no charge. This membership includes access to strength and cardio equipment, group fitness classes, and the lap pool. The CRC is excited to offer this program to the OV community, which will benefit existing eligible CRC members and other community members who are not currently utilizing the facility.

So how do you know if you are eligible for a Renew Active membership at the CRC? It’s simple, go to partneroptumfitness.com, provide the required personal information and if you are eligible, you will receive a nine-digit code beginning in an A, B or S. Beginning June

1, those who are qualified and interested can bring their code to the CRC, and the front desk staff will set you up with a new membership.

Then you may start enjoying all the amenities and offerings at the CRC! The facility offers a variety of activities for individuals 65 years and older, including nearly 60 group fitness classes each week. Fitness class offerings include yoga, Tai Chi, core and strength, Zumba, spin, high intensity interval training, aqua aerobics, line dancing. Each class offered at the facility is led by a certified and experienced instructor.

Our instructors are highly skilled and go above and beyond to provide a challenging and fun experience.

In addition to aqua aerobic classes offered five days a week, the facility also offers lap swimming throughout the day. The lap pool is 25 yards in length, open yearround (heated in winter months) and a lifeguard is always on duty during operational hours. Open swim is available on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m.

For those looking for cardio and strength equipment, we have you covered as well!

The facility has a full suite of machines and equipment including treadmills, ellipticals, upright and recumbent bikes,

rowing machines, and a stair climber. Our free weight area includes a variety of equipment and weights, ranging from plate-loaded machines, squat racks, benches and functional training equipment. Our dedicated circuit machine space includes all the essential pin-in-place machines for a full-body, resistance-training workout in a relatively short period of time.

The facility also features 15 tennis courts and 10 pickleball courts, which access to these are also included as a part of the classic membership. The courts are available to reserve online, and leagues, clinics and other opportunities are offered throughout the year. However, all courts are currently closed while they are renovated to improve conditions.

They will reopen in October and be available for use.

By becoming a Renew Active facility, the Community & Recreation Center will be more accessible to the Oro Valley area, resulting in a healthier and more active community. We look forward to welcoming all Renew Active members and helping everyone achieve their fitness goals!

Nick Scala is Oro Valley’s Community & Recreation Center manager

NOTICE OF CALL OF ELECTION The Golder Ranch Fire District hereby notifies the registered voters of all precincts within the Golder Ranch Fire District that the District will hold an election for the purpose of electing two Board Members. The election is non-partisan and will be part of the November 8, 2022 General Election.

Nomination petitions for the election must be received by Pima County Elections Department, 6550 S. Country Club Road, Tucson, AZ 85756 or Pinal County Elections Department, 188 S. Main Street, Coolidge, AZ 85128 on or before July 11, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. All voters must be registered on or before October 10, 2022, to vote in this election. Contact Golder Ranch Fire District Administration, 3885 E. Golder Ranch Drive, Tucson, AZ 85739 or Pima County Division of Elections for particulars concerning this election.

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AVISO DE CONVOCATORIA DE ELECCIÓN El Distrito de Bomberos de Golder Ranch por este medio notifica a los votantes registrados de todos los precintos dentro del Distrito de Bomberos de Golder Ranch que el Distrito llevará a cabo una elección con el propósito de elegir dos Miembros de la Junta. La elección no es partidista y formará parte de la Elección General del 8 de noviembre de 2022.

Las peticiones de nominación para la elección deben ser recibidas por el Departamento de Elecciones del Condado de Pima, 6550 S. Country Club Road, Tucson, AZ 85756 o el Departamento de Elecciones del Condado de Pinal, 188 S. Main Street, Coolidge, AZ 85128 en o antes del 11 de Julio de 2022, en 5:00 pm Todos los votantes deben registrarse a más tardar el 10 de octubre de 2022 para votar en esta elección. Póngase en contacto con Golder Ranch Fire District Administration, 3885 E. Golder Ranch Drive, Tucson, AZ 85739 o Pima County Division of Elections para obtener información sobre esta elección.

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D’s Island Grill is a family-owned business in Tucson led by head chef Duwayne Hall. He fuses traditional Jamaican foods with Southwestern flavors. Hall told the Prickly Pair Podcast that these crosscultural menu items give new customers a more approachable option on the menu if they have never tried Jamaican food before.

“They could always start with a jerk chicken taco or a jerk beef taco or chicken quesadilla,” Hall said. “It’s small but it’s got a bunch of flavor in it. They can break that barrier, like ‘If this taco tastes like this, I wonder what the jerk chicken tastes like or the oxtail.’ And then they get more brave.”

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Hosts Pere and Feltman were lucky enough to sample Hall’s jerk tequila glazed shrimp. Although Hall’s family recipes are a trade secret, Hall was willing to share his quick and easy Jerk shrimp recipe.

A traditional Jamaican style of cooking meat or seafood, jerk is paste or marinade that combines seasonings including scallion, onion, salt, thyme, black pepper, paprika and all-purpose seasoning along with many other spices.

When the meat is cooked, it is typically smoked or cooked for long hours over a griddle or pimento wood to give it a deliciously unique flavor.

Hall uses this way of cooking with the shrimp recipe and adds a splash of tequila to incorporate the Southwestern flavor Tucson has to offer.

The heat of the Jerk Te-

quila Shrimp pairs perfectly with Hall’s refreshing Watermelon Splash, a mixture of watermelon juice and ginger beer.

Get to D’s Island Grill this summer for an unforgettable meal. They are open Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Make sure to check out Hall’s interview on the Prickly Pair Podcast, linked online at the top of this article and available on all streaming platforms. Listeners, be sure to tag hosts Pere and Feltman on Instagram @pricklypairpodcast when trying the finished recipe!

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Jerk sauce (Jerk can be purchased at D’s Island Grill) Butter Bring a saucepan to medium-high heat. Sautee shrimp until they are cooked halfway. Shrimp cooks very fast so keep an eye on the pan. Glaze the saucepan with tequila, followed by a little water. Expect flames to rise from the saucepan, be careful! After the tequila burns off or flames dissipate, add jerk sauce and add butter (personal preference). Turn heat to low and simmer for a few minutes. Serve with your choice of vegetables, fried plantains, coconut rice, or by itself.

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Who gets the Morgan Silver Dollars: Only AZ residents who find their zip code listed on the Distribution List below are getting the Gov’t issued coins. If you find your zip code listed below call: 1-800-867-0152 UMD146 “The vaults at Federated Mint are going empty,” said Laura A. Lynne, U.S. Coin and Currency Director for Federated Mint.

That’s because a decision by Federated Mint to release rarely seen U.S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dollars, some worth up to 100 times their face value, means unsearched Bank Bags loaded with U. S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dollars dating back to the 1800’s are now being handed over to U.S. residents who find the first three digits of their zip code listed in today’s publication.

“But don’t thank the Government. As U.S. Coin and Currency Director for Federated Mint I get paid to inform and educate the general public regarding U.S. coins. Ever since the decision by Federated Mint to release rarely seen U.S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dollars to the general public – I’m being asked, how much are the unsearched Bank Bags worth? The answer is, there’s no way to tell.

Coin values always fluctuate and there are never any guarantees, but we do know this.

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“These are not ordinary coins you find in your pocket change. These are rarely seen Morgan Silver Dollars some dating back to the 1800’s so we won’t be surprised if thousands of U.S. residents claim as many as they can get their hands on. That’s because after the bags were loaded with 50 U.S. Gov’t issued Morgan Silver Dollars, each verified to meet a minimum collector grade quality of very good or above, the dates and mint marks were never searched to determine collector values and the bags were securely sealed.

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The phone lines will be ringing off the hook beginning at precisely 8:30 AM this morning.

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Thus Passes the Glory At Etherton Gallery, Kate Breakey’s photography explores the tangle of unbearable beauty and unbearable sadness

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arly this week a blood red moon hovered over Tucson—and over the much of the rest of the world.

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It was a joy to see the colors change from faint orange to red in the darkened sky.

More than once, Kate Breakey, a longtime Tucson photographer, has captured the extraordinary hues of that red moon. And in my mind, I couldn’t help but call this heavenly beauty the Kate Breakey moon.

Coincidentally I had just seen Breakey’s gorgeous moon photos at Etherton Gallery.

In her show, Transience, she has knitted nine of her full moon photos together into one glorious piece, “Nine Lunar Eclipses.” The nine moons are lined up in three rows of three, placed on a black backdrop. Each one has a different color, capturing a distinct phase of an advancing eclipse: white, gray, orange and red.

Breakey is known for her splendid images of nature; her earliest works I can remember were her oversized pieces that were giving homages to tiny dead birds.

The current show, 57 pieces strong, is about all kinds of nature: birds for sure, but also trees, clouds, a grand cavalcade of flowers, one snake, a random ship-ina-bottle, and, oh yes, anoth-

er lovely moon, an Arizona special called “A Fingernail Moon Setting Over Safford.”

And a charming white lace dress for a little girl.

The photos, mostly color, some others black and white, hint at the cycle of life and death. Pink flowers slump down from their vase in “Drooping Daises.” In another Arizona piece, “Tall Dead Pine Tree, White Mountain, Arizona,” the branches and trunk are stripped bare, silhouetted against a stormy sky.

Elsewhere, a dead raven, all funereal black, is carefully laid to rest on a piece of white lace. Even the little child who wore the lace dress will someday die.

“Nothing lasts,” Breakey writes in a statement on the gallery wall.

“Stars eventually go out, the moon pulls away inch by inch…I make pictures of things in the natural world so that in the short time I’m here I can hold them close, marvel over each one—remember it as it is, commem-

orate… Unbearable beauty and unbearable sadness, everywhere, coming and going all the time, all tangled up.”

Breakey has reported that she is an admirer of Alfred Stieglitz, a famed photographer in the early 20th century, who developed Pictorialism. Stieglitz insisted that beauty stands above the real world. Instead of sharp, gritty streetscapes, for instance, he would soften figures and buildings to the point that his work often looked more like paintings than photos. The same can be said of Breakey, as she strives to make her flowers and snakes and trees beautiful.

Like a latter-day Pictorialist, Breakey experiments like mad. The gallery’s Daphne Srinivasan counts paints, pastels, colored pencils, and embroidery among the many materials she uses. Then there’s the handmade papers, glass and silk and, magically, the orotone that gives a golden luminosity to her art.

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Spoon’s Britt Daniel breaks down four of the band’s essential songs ahead of Tucson show Vincent Arrieta

could have been written any other time, really,” he says.

“That kind of perspective.” n the eerie closing Here’s what he had to say title track to Spoon’s about five of Spoon’s most latest album Lucifer essential songs: on the Sofa, frontman Britt Daniel sings “The Mystery Zone” from “Now you’re thinking ‘bout turquoise.” Is that turn of Transference “I wrote that one in phrase a nod to Bob Dylan?

After all, Dylan’s 1976 trav- Portland. I had a house for elogue “Isis” features the lyr- the first time. I never lived ic: “I was thinkin’ about tur- alone in a house before, quoise, I was thinkin’ about and suddenly I could afford gold.” one. I had just seen I just “Maybe,” Daniel says seen Chuck Berry play in laughing. “I think that prob- St. Louis. He was 80 years ably snuck in there some- old and was doing duck where. It’s not something walks. Several times during that I was thinking about the show he stopped and directly. But it was a one read little bits of lyrics or of those things where lat- poetry that he wrote as a er I look back and I’m like, kid. One of them had a had ‘Oh yeah, I can connect the something about a faraway dots.’”

Ahead of Spoon’s upcoming tour, including a stop at Tucson’s Rialto Theatre on Friday, June 3 at 8 p.m. with special guest Geese, Britt Daniel was relaxing in his Austin when Tucson Local Media caught up with him. While the song in question can easily be interpreted as either a lament of a failed relationship or a snapshot of loneliness amid the COVID-19 lockdown, Daniel goes on to say of “Lucifer on the Sofa” that it was written in April of 2020 at the height of the panic surrounding the initial lockdown, after a majority of the record had already been written. “I don’t think it

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place and building a house, and that became a sort of jumping off point for ‘The Mystery Zone.’ A house in a faraway place.”

“Wild” from Lucifer on the Sofa “It had been suggested to me that I tried doing some co-writing. It’s something I’ve never really done.

I’ve done co-writing with bandmates, but not with people outside the band.

[Jack Antonoff] was suggested, we got together, and he was the guy that by far I thought like, ‘Well, OK, he’s providing something that I wouldn’t normally do.’ And we were working fast. We kind of came up with chords, he put down

a bass line, and I hummed a melody, and that was as far as we got that day. And then the melody I hummed didn’t end up being what I used. Years later, I finally got it together to write the words for that song during lockdown.”

“Us” from Hot Thoughts “‘Us’ has got a lot to do with that song ‘Pink Up.’ I recorded Ted Taforo playing sax on ‘Pink Up,’ and it was so good. After he left that day, I listened back with no instruments and just his sax and I was like, ‘Okay, this is going to be its own song. And I thought it would be a cool thing to have this sort of theme that runs through the record where you hear it here and then you hear it again at the end. It was sort of a special

recording session for me.”

“New York Kiss” from They Want My Soul “I wrote that one in Austin in the same one-bedroom apartment that I wrote ‘The Way We Get By,’ ‘Small Stakes’ and all those of that era. I think I wrote it during the time of writing Gimme Fiction, and Jim and I disagreed on how to present it. I wanted to have

sort of a dance beat. Jim didn’t want to do it. And I said, ‘Fine, I’ll save it for later.’ And we didn’t end up recording it for another 10 years or something. It was Alex [Fischel] that came up with all those great keys that sound like Eurythmics at the top of it. That’s a very Alex keyboard line, sort of a repeating three notes thing.

He’s great at that.”

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he very last matter of business for the Arizona Interscholastic Association each school year is a giant gala, an event celebrating the most outstanding coaches, administrators, officials and, most importantly, student-athletes. The AIA has been giving out the ultra-prestigious Voie Stuart Coy Student-Athlete Award for decades and it has almost always gone to someone from a Phoenix-area high school.

(This isn’t surprising, considering the ratio of the number of schools in the Valley of the Sun versus those in the rest of the state, combined.

The real surprise comes when someone from outside of the Phoenix area wins it, as happened last week. Mi Meh, a three-sport athlete and straight-A student from

Amphitheater High School won the AIA’s top honor at the gala, becoming one of only a handful of Tucsonans ever to do it. (No one calls her Mi; it’s always Mi Meh, pronounced Mee-May.)

(I must disclose that I am proud to have coached Mi Meh in basketball and tennis—and tutored her in Calculus and Physics—and I cannot think of a more deserving recipient.)

Her story is one of tragedy, unbelievable challenges, familial sacrifice, and then, finally, personal excellence across a broad spectrum. Mi Meh’s family is Karenni, an ethnic group that goes back centuries in Burma (now Myanmar). Lest I risk her ire, I must mention that the Karenni are different from the Karen, the ethnic group whose members include Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel

Peace Prize winner who was elected President of her country, then deposed and imprisoned by a brutal military.

For decades, that same military has been conducting a campaign of genocide against the Karenni. About 20 years ago, soldiers were advancing on the village in which Mi Meh’s parents lived. In the middle of the night, the villagers left everything behind and fled across the Moei River into Thailand.

Mi Meh was born in Thailand. After several years, the United Nations helped the Karenni resettle in the United States. Many settled in Phoenix, but Mi Meh’s family (being a little bit smarter than everybody else), moved on to Tucson.

All the way through elementary school, Mi Meh’s one goal was to not only learn English, but to be great at it. It’s actually hilarious;

when she speaks she enunciates all of her words properly, as I am doing in a slightly British manner in my head as I type this. She doesn’t use contractions,,,EVER! I will not. I do not. I cannot. I once told her that I would give her cash if she would say the word “ain’t.”

She did not.

Mi Meh didn’t start playing sports until middle school, but once she started, you couldn’t stop her. She had played soccer during the winter season her first three years of high school, but as a senior, she switched to basketball. Standing maybe an inch over five feet tall (maybe), she took to the game with a vengeance and became a part of Amphi’s first winning season is 22 years and only its second-ever conference champion.

After basketball, it was back to her beloved tennis.

She and her fellow senior and doubles partner, Leilani Ioane, roared through the competition, leading Amphi to its first winning season in two decades. (From 2018-20, Amphi’s record was 1-29. This year, the Panthers went 10-3.)

Mi Meh’s finest hour came at Sahuaro. Playing in the No. 2 singles slot (Ioane was No. 1), Mi Meh lost the first set badly and was down 4-1 in the second set. Then, she found something. Maybe it was a tell in her opponent’s game. Maybe it was an extra bit of fire in her own belly. Whatever it was, she roared back to tie the second set and go to a tie-breaker, which she won easily.

In high school tennis, they technically play best-ofthree, but if a match is tied, 1-1, they do a tie-breaker, with the winner being the first one to 10 and winning by two. Mi Meh won that

tie-breaker, as well, and the match, after which she was mobbed by her teammates. It gave Amphi a 5-4 win, probably the first team victory over Sahuaro ever.

After the match, I went to talk to her and congratulate her.

She looked up and said, with no emotion of any kind in any direction, “I made her cry.”

That was funny, because as part of her entry in the competition for the honor, she had to write an essay about sportsmanship. Having played three sports, she wrote, “Sportsmanship is different in different sports.

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Schedule some play time What’s Your Play Profile? for yourself. “If you can find If you’re unsure how to play, something that gives you that consider your favorite types of feeling of flow, where you lose play as a child. A recent study track of time and self, that’s identified four play personali- a good start,” says Caroline. ty types: “Your brain is relaxing, and that in turn means you’re reapOther-directed (playing with ing the lifelong wellness beneother people): This could fits of being playful, whether be sports, card games, or any alone or with others!” class- or group-based activity.

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Splendido resident Pat Lee says, “This program is helping residents figure out how to play when you’re older. I do find that at my age it’s easier to be open to play or to doing things just for fun. Even if something isn’t productive, it’s still a positive thing to do for myself.”

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Give-and-take relationships won’t work that well this week. It’s the taking that’s the problem. Whereas givers can only give until supply runs out, takers don’t know when to stop. When one supply stops, they’ll move to the next and the next. Seek clearly defined working arrangements and avoid ambiguous relationships.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re a self-directed person, doing things for your own reasons. Some won’t be able to appreciate your efforts, only because they have never contributed thusly and cannot relate. Continue undaunted. Though you don’t need it, eventually you will be acknowledged by those who understand what you do.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ve come this far -- proof that you can handle what comes, however big, little, amazing or inconvenient it might be. There’s no reason to look back with pride, shame or other because that’s all over now. It’s time to make your next best decision. Do it by yourself now and you’ll have support later.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). We equate wealth with hard work, but it’s not always the case. Tremendous labors can pay very little, and many fortunes are made without huge effort. Be open-minded as you look for opportunity this week. Seek input from people very different from yourself because a

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Compliments are much easier to give than constructive criticism.

So you actually consider it more of a compliment when people are brave, honest and thoughtful enough to do the harder work of applying their critical mind to an assessment. You appreciate the value of critique and will apply it to great effect.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your development is a co-creation between the world and you. The world asks you to play a role, and you’ll apply your mind to building it uniquely. Imitation will be part of your process, but you’ll quickly outgrow the need to match yourself to an example. You’ll become your own example.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The “no guts, no glory” approach worked for you in the past, but these days you’re not after glory, so you take things in a different direction. “No guts, no fun” is the adage that keeps your week humming with excitement, risk, silliness and unforgettable moments of shared glee.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The obstacle between you and what you want is caused by misunderstanding, differences in ideology and generational clashes. A breakthrough will require tolerance. The key is offering the benefit of the doubt, seeking understanding and deciding not to take offense.

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In 2018, he retired to Tucson to experience a new adventure in environment and community. He leaves behind his beloved constant canine companions, Rodan, Ranger and Rocko. Kevin is survived by his siblings, Cindy (Bob) Pitcher, Kim (Margaret) Coutts, Corre (Stuart) Breen, Krista Coutts, several nieces and nephews, cousins and friends.

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