Explorer September 7, 2022

September 7, 2022

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ummer is almost over and that means we can go outside again without being seared. Oro Valley is ready with lots of activities that will interest seniors, adults and kids. These activities all take place in October but now is the time to plan and register. Here’s what’s on the docket.

For information on the programs or to register, visit orovalleyaz.gov or call 520-2295050.

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ute Olson is viewed as one of college basketball’s greatest coaches, and in Tucson, where he built his legacy at the University of Arizona, there was no bigger celebrity. His former players, though, view him as the patriarch of a family bigger than basketball.

For Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, the basketball court became home and Olson became a mentor after Kerr’s father was killed during his freshman year at Arizona by Islamic extremists in Beirut.

“The thing that kept me going was playing basketball,” Kerr said. “The team became a second family and he really looked after me.”

Memories of Olson’s accomplished journey remain vivid.

Aug. 27 marked the two-year anniversary of his death.

Olson’s attentiveness and tough-love shepherding of his players from adolescence to adulthood were evident long before he arrived in Tucson. At the University of Iowa, where he

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Lute Olson, right, shown here with former player Jason Terry, led the Arizona Wildcats to their first Final Four in 1988. (Arizona Athletics/Courtesy) spent nine seasons before being hired by Arizona, he lifted the program from mediocrity to

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SONORAN RESTAURANT WEEK Sonoran Restaurant Week returns to Tucson from Friday, Sept. 9, to Sunday, Sept. 18. The fourth annual foodie festival is a 10-day celebration of local restaurants offering a variety of three-course meals highlighting what the UNESCO City of Gastronomy has to offer. Food specials range from $25 to $45, depending on the restaurant.

Just ask for the Sonoran Restaurant Week menu. Choose from a classic cacio e pepe from Bellissimo Ristorante Italiano made from Sonoran wheat spaghetti or, perhaps, a fresh-white-fish ceviche mixto from Inca’s Peruvian Cuisine. For dessert, preorder a Persian love cake from Agave Pantry or get drunk on an apple rum cake from Maynards.

Whatever you’re craving, there are more than 90 participating restaurants to choose from. For more information about Sonoran Restaurant Week, visit sonoranrestaurantweek.com MAKE AND TAKE PIZZA GARDEN Marana Parks & Recreation are hosting the Make and Take Pizza Garden at the Marana Heritage River Park Farm from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9. Guests can “plant a pizza,” or at least some of their favorite organic toppings, to grow and harvest at home. Herbs and veggies include basil, tomatoes, peppers or pineapple. Residents pay $40; nonresidents $50. Enoy refreshments as a teacher shows you a thing or two about gardening.

Registration includes all planting materials. No experience is necessary. The activity location is at the Heritage River Park Brad DeSpain Stables at 12375 N. Heritage Park Drive. For more information about how to register visit, maranaaz.gov MOONLIGHT GUIDED HIKE Let the neon moon be your guide, and maybe a tour guide.

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Fellow hikers will meet at the Wild Burro Trailhead located at 14810 N. Secret Springs Drive.

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Before he arrived, the Hawkeyes suffered four consecutive losing seasons. Olson inherited a team that went 8-16 and finished 10th in the Big Ten. In his second season there, in 1975-76, the Hawkeyes went 19-10 and finished fifth in the Big Ten. They improved every season under Olson, but 1980 was their breakout year.

Iowa finished 23-10 and fourth in the Big Ten and advanced to the Final Four, where it lost to the eventual champion, the University of Louisville.

Iowa would play in the next three NCAA men’s basketball tournaments, but Olson felt stymied, his daughter Jody Brase said.

“He felt like he was in a fishbowl while he was coaching there,” Brase said. “After my mother lived in Minnesota and my dad lived in North Dakota, they knew the cold too well.”

The unrealistic expectations of the Iowa faithful, who expected their team to make a deep tournament run every year, mixed with the all-too-familiar winter chill prompted Olson to pack his bags and head for the Arizona desert.

Once again, he faced a rebuilding process, having inherited the worst team in the Pac-10, one that managed only four victories the season before he took over. Bruce Fraser, an assistant coach for Golden State, was a year behind Kerr at Arizona. In his three years in Tucson, Fraser could see that Olson was putting together something spe-

cial.

“Lute was very strict at the time, but part of his rebuilding was to connect us as a team and the family,” Fraser said.

Olson earned his players’ respect by holding them accountable not just on the court, but off it, too. Olson nurtured his players, yet he was also a strict disciplinarian.

“When he recruited you, he seemed jovial, fun and nice, and once you came to play, it was all business,” Fraser said. “So there was definitely a separation of coach and player in a good way.”

That separation was key. Olson commanded respect from his players. Some might have found him overly demanding, but for Georgia Tech men’s basketball coach Josh Pastner, it motivated him to give his all.

“The respect that people have for him, it was almost like when he walked into a room he was a movie star,” said Pastner, who played for Olson from 1996-2000.

“There was almost a fear factor of not being afraid of coach Olson but not wanting to let him down.”

To outsiders, Olson had a Hollywood-esque aura, but his players saw him as a no-nonsense father more than anything else.

“There was still an arm’s length distance because we were intimidated,” Fraser said.

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LUTE from page 4 “I don’t know if that was intentional or not.”

He added, “We would all run through a wall for him.”

On the strength of his players’ respect and love for their coach and the foundation Olson established, the Wildcats made the NCAA tournament in three straight seasons. However, the team struggled to advance past the first round until 1988, when the No. 1-seeded Wildcats went all the way to the Final Four. They lost to the University of Oklahoma, marking the second time that Olson went to the Final Four and lost.

It also marked the end of Kerr and Fraser’s tenure with the team.

Kerr moved on to the NBA and had a 15year career, where he won three championships with the Chicago Bulls and two with the San Antonio Spurs. He remained in the NBA as a general manager for the Phoenix Suns and was named coach of the Warriors in 2014.

Fraser also has made an impact coaching.

He worked as a graduate assistant coach under Olson from 1987-90, was a member of the Indiana Pacers’ staff in 1994-95 and served as an assistant coach at the University of Missouri from 1999-2000.

Fraser’s close relationship with Kerr led him to work as Steve Nash’s personal shooting coach from 2010-13. After that, he became an assistant on Kerr’s Golden State staff, where his duties include working with the offensive star Steph Curry on his shooting.

After the departures of Kerr and Fraser, Arizona continued its winning ways under Olson, building to the ultra-special 1997 season.

“We were part of that foundation and that foundation really culminated in ’97,” Fraser said.

That was the season where the improbable became reality. The Wildcats won their first and only national championship by defeating Kansas, North Carolina and, finally, Kentucky in the national championship game.

Arizona is the only team in NCAA men’s basketball history to defeat three No. 1 seeds in the tournament. As the final buzzer sounded and players celebrated, Pastner thought about how the title cemented Olson’s legacy.

“I was very fortunate to be with UA for a long time, both as a player and then a staff member,” Pastner said. “Lute was an incredible teacher of the game. He was an incredible educator. He’s one of the best to

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ever do it.”

Pastner’s playing career ended after college, but he wasn’t done with basketball.

Like many of his former teammates, Pastner pursued a career that grew Olson’s family tree in coaching. He landed head positions at the University of Memphis in 2009 and at Georgia Tech in 2016. Like Olson, Pastner took two programs to the NCAA tournament.

Olson died in 2020, but Pastner continues to feel his presence on the bench.

“I’ve got to be myself. I’ve got to run my own program. But every decision I make, in the back of my mind, I’m thinking what would Coach Olson do,” Pastner said.

One of Pastner’s teammates was Jason Terry, a 1998 Pac-10 Player of the Year and 2011 NBA champion with the Dallas Mavericks who was thankful for the bond that he formed with Olson.

“I’ll just never forget being miles away from my home in Seattle, not having any family there and being able to go to Coach’s home or his office and his door was always open,” Terry said. “The relationship between player and coach, mentor, mentee, teacher and student … you can’t put a price tag on it.”

The culture that Olson created survived after his health-related departure from the school before the 2008-09 season.

Successive coaches, led by Tommy Lloyd, maintained the program’s elite status.

Lloyd, who led the Wildcats to the Sweet 16 in his first season, described what it is like to uphold that legacy of winning.

“The impact that he had on Tucson was tremendous,” Lloyd said. “I’m fortunate to follow in his footsteps.”

Before the beginning of the 2021-22 season, the university held a memorial for Olson, their winningest coach, at McKale Center, the building where fans and players experienced his larger-than-life presence.

He was also immortalized with a life-size statue outside McKale Center in which he is holding the 1997 NCAA men’s basketball championship trophy.

Olson compiled a 587-190 record during his 24 years with the Wildcats. He turned the program from nothing to one of the best in the country.

“No coach can say that he literally built not only a basketball program from ground zero, but a university,” Pastner said. “Lute Olson single handedly built a program, a school and the city, all through basketball.”

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Plenty of new grub to savor during Sonoran Restaurant Week

BY KAREN SCHAFFNER Tucson Local Media

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t’s 1 a.m. Saturday and while most of us are having a good time or sleeping, Scott Martley is prepping his northwest Tucson kitchen for the hours of hot, hard work ahead.

He turns on the commercial ovens he has at his home. He gives his commercial mixer a twirl. Then it’s measure, scoop, mix, grease, knead and everything else that goes into baking a fragrant, delicious loaf of crusty, German dark rye bread. Sometimes it’s different. Perhaps today it will be a jalapeno and polenta loaf.

At a more reasonable hour later in the morning, wife and partner Nikki Martley gets up to harvest her home- and lovingly grown microgreens.

At the cottage bakery, Blue Finch Bakery — not a storefront — this is a weekly routine.

It’s hard work, but satisfying.

“Food is one of the magical substances,”

Scott said. “It crosses borders, it crosses everything…You’re trying to put a local influence on a deep tradition. Everybody comes to the table with their personal background. “‘This is what I think bread should taste like.’ It’s really hard to meet those expectations because everybody has a different one.

The binding quality is togetherness.”

Blue Finch Bakery is one of Tucson’s many establishments celebrating the 10-day Sonoran Restaurant Week. From Friday, Sept. 9 to Sunday, Sept. 18, more than 100 restaurants will offer fixed-price menus, giving guests the opportunity to visit restaurants they’ve never tried or to check out old favorites.

Tucsonfoodie.com, a digital magazine that writes about the UNESCO City of Gastronomy and its offerings, recently took ownership of the fourth event. It is aided in the endeavor

by Visit Tucson.

“The purpose of Sonoran Restaurant Week is to encourage people to go out and explore the restaurant scene in Tucson,” said Shane

Reiser, who owns tucsonfoodie.com.

“It’s a week where a lot of great restaurants — we now have 100 — offer a fixed-price menu, so all you have to do is go to any of the participating restaurants, ask for the Sonoran Restaurant Week menu.

You’re going to get a delicious meal for a deal.”

Ana Aguayo started Taco At Taco Fish on 12th Avenue, owner Ana Aguayo offers Fish as a food truck selling shrimp tacos and quesadilla de marlin, just a couple of fish tacos 17 years ago. That seafood items available for lunch or dinner. Taco Fish is one business expanded to a brick- of the more than 100 restaurants participating in Sonoran and-mortar, casual restaurant. Restaurant Week. (photo By Karen Schaffner) Want something besides fish or shrimp tacos? There are also Aguayo manages the place but still helms manta ray, stingray, octopus and marlin com- the kitchen. ing in the forms of quesadillas, caldos, tostadas “I like to cook food in my house, like and cocktails. homemade food,” she said, “and, yes, I have A serve-yourself fresh garnish and pico de gallo stand waits on the side. These days, see RESTAURANTS page 7

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RESTAURANTS from page 6 loved cooking here at the restaurant.”

Just a few blocks down the street from Taco Fish is another casual dining place, Rollies Mexican Patio. On this Saturday afternoon, finding parking was a challenge, but the atmosphere inside was full of fun. Chef Mateo Otero wants guests to feel they’re on his home patio.

Eating there is like participating in Otero’s family tradition, and that tradition is long indeed.

“I was born and raised here,” Otero said.

“My mother’s family has been here for seven generations already.”

It pairs with why he and his restaurant are participating in Sonoran Restaurant Week.

“I feel that Tucson’s a part of the Sonoran Desert, and this is Tucson’s food right here that we represent here at Rollies,” Otero added. “I call it Tucson Chicano food. It’s our twist on Sonoran food.”

More than anything, however, Otero says that when he serves his food, he is offering his Tucson heritage.

“I truly believe that this food is my blood,” he said. “These are the dishes that I grew up eating, but I want to put my own twist on them.”

The menu reflects Otero’s interest. Look for

Executive chef Ralph Felix of Augustin Kitchen works with a rather large staff in his restaurant’s kitchen. Agustin Kitchen is just one of more than 100 restaurants participating in Sonoran Restaurant Week. (photo By Karen Schaffner)

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Nana’s tacos, a Tucson specialty where a ground beef patty is fried right into a corn tortilla. There are also rolled tacos, street tacos, quesadillas, birria, flat enchiladas and loaded fries. Quench your thirst with horchata and sodas.

For the adults try a local brewski, michelada or margarita.

In addition, a food truck will soon make its appearance at The Annex.

Satisfy your hankering for freshly made pasta and pizza at Downtown’s Reilly Craft Pizza & Drink on Pennington, or in northwest Tucson at its second location at Oracle and Ina roads. Both locations are popping, but that’s no surprise.

The food and drinks speak for themselves.

“Reilly is a modern take on Italian cuisine,” said Courtney Fenton, one of the partner-owners. “We focus on quality ingredients, local ingredients and an elevated dining experience, so all of our pasta is made fresh in house. We make our own sau-

sage, really trying to have the best, freshest ingredients. I think that really translates well in the food.”

Fenton and her brothers own both Reilly locations and a new restaurant, Bata, on Toole. She said their good memories revolve around food, which drew them to the industry.

“There’s something innately unique in providing comfort for other people and being able to share in those moments,” Fenton said.

“Food is a great way to show that you care; it’s a great way to feel comfortable and welcome.”

Cross I-10 at Congress to the west side, go just a little way down the road and you are in a different Tucson, but that is where Tucson native Chef Ralph Felix runs the kitchen at Agustin Kitchen.

General manager Neil Scott describes it as casual fine dining, tucked in a corner of Mercado San Agustin. The bar side has a large counter open to the outside courtyard. Food is graciously served in the wood-paneled dining room.

The kitchen overlooks the dining room and, when he gets a second, Felix peeks past the large marble counter and the fresh

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oysters on ice to see how dining service is going. When he sees patrons enjoying what he and his staff have created, he’s happy.

“It makes all the work worthwhile,” Felix said. “When I’m working long shifts, long hours, long days, when I’m not spending the holiday with my family, but then I put out great food and people call me out to the table, and say, ‘Thank you, this is the best meal we’ve ever had,’ it just makes it worthwhile.”

On the regular dinner menu find halibut crudo, lacquered duck breast or littleneck clams. There is also lunch service and a weekend brunch menu.

It’s sophisticated food, but what does Felix like to eat at home?

“You know what?” he said. “As a chef we work so hard, such long days, sometimes you get home you’re happy just to eat a bowl of cereal.”

Scott credits his team with the At Blue Finch Bakery, Scott Martley and his wife and success of the place.

“I tend to give credit to the peo- business partner Nikki combine their talent for prople who are actually performing it,” ducing freshly baked goods with their love for their he said. “I may be here helping di- local community, donating a portion of their earnrect it but these are the guys that are ings to charities every week. (photo By Noelle Gomez) putting it together every day.”

Sonoran Restaurant Week Reiser said it’s a joy to work with eateries like these during Sonoran Restaurant Friday, Sept. 9, to Sunday, Sept. 18 Week. He wants everyone to be proud of, sonoranrestaurantweek.com and enjoy, Tucson’s food traditions and newcomers.

“The Tucson food scene is really explodBlue Finch Bakery ing,” Reiser said. “Lots of new restaurants thebluefinchbakery.com are elevating the whole scene, and we’re increasingly a gastronomy destination.”

Taco Fish Meanwhile, at Blue Finch Bakery, Nikki is 4841 S. 12th Avenue, Tucson getting orders ready to go out to customers 520-777-6235 who have texted their arrival times. That’s Facebook: tacofishtucson how it works at Blue Finch. On Sunday, the website opens to orders and, because it’s a Rollies Mexican Patio cottage bakery, Scott only makes so much.

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Verdugo began working for YWCA-Main Campus on Bonita as CEO in January 2020, just before the pandemic. The YWCA has a second facility in South Tucson known as the House of Neighborly Service (HNS).

However, even with the pandemic, business picked up for the YWCA by the end of 2021.

“We grew significantly,” Verdugo said.

“We went from seven staff members to 22 staff members by 2022.”

Successes came in other ways, too. She also said as a result of the women’s business center, they partnered with the city of Tuc-

For example, she said those businesses were minority-, veteran-, disabled- and women-owned businesses.

“We deployed all those resources,” she said. “I gather, because it is about business, the (Hispanic Businesswoman of the Year) award is noting on our (YWCA) growth, not only in revenue but staffing and growing the YWCA in the past two years.”

Verdugo said the experience she gained gave YWCA the leverage to step in and directly administer federal dollars.

“Recently, we administered the state CDBG-CV, (Community Development Block Grant-Coronavirus),” she said. “In addition, we were able to leverage more resources through the city ARPA funding to continue our work with small businesses.

“When I stepped in (as CEO for YWCA) on Jan. 2, (2020), I had dedicated the first three months to what I call the ‘road trip’ and going out there in the community and listening,” she said about the first three

son.

It administered $9 million in grants in Somos Uno as part of the CARES act, now called ARPA, she said.

“We were the pass-through, per se, for the city of Tucson, in getting grants or resources into the hands of small businesses,” she said.

The YWCA was one of three organizations initially selected to do this work.

Community Foundation for Non-Profit, and the Women’s Foundations for the State of Arizona for Working Families were the other two. The YWCA was appointed to work in the small business venue.

“We had to set up a process for being able to manage those resources,” she said.

“At that time, in 2020, the faster you could get these resources to small businesses, or individuals or nonprofits…was critical. We worked really quickly to develop a process that would be equitable…what the city charged us with was to ensure those resources went to small businesses that were the most vulnerable.”

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“It was the listening tour, just to learn from the board, the community and the staff. I wanted to go out and connect with the community, I had one on one discussions with staff, to get a pulse on what is going on in the organization, on what was their (the staff ’s) vision, as well as, with board members and select community members, who knew the YWCA before I was there and then while I was there, who I would sit down with. I was in the middle of my listening tour when we were shut down because of the coronavirus.”

The organization had to pivot quickly.

Servicing about 4,000 women a year, the YWCA became information gatherers and distributors.

Verdugo said larger businesses and corporations were no different. Unfortunately, Tucson’s smaller businesses were at a disadvantage.

“These small businesses were created to create jobs for the family,” Verdugo said.

“Small businesses, such as Mexican restaurants and small Chinese restaurants didn’t have that capacity to do that (update their websites or create websites). For the small family businesses, the cottage businesses, they did not have the tools or the resources to get there.”

She said the YWCA was headed there to help the small businesses get the tools and resources they needed to survive the pandemic, but they were too slow, she said.

“It happened quickly. They realized they didn’t have the tools that the larger businesses did,” Verdugo said.

“Small businesses were not prepared for this. The big corporate businesses already had the technology to deal with this, like to take online orders, to change their marketing and websites.”

She said for the small businesses, the pandemic just went too fast. Small businesses were not prepared, “so we focused our efforts in building their websites for them to take online orders and set up the paying mechanisms, so they could take payments online, but we weren’t fast enough.

“A lot of our women-owned businesses are service businesses. They are our hair stylist, our nail technicians, they’re like our personal spa services, and they couldn’t do it anymore, because of the epidemic.”

Now she said some of those businesses are reopening and it is important what the YWCA learned.

“These resources we made available

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didn’t deploy to them until June and July 2020,” she said. “We went into this technology world, and our small businesses couldn’t get there as fast as the more advanced, larger companies, who pivoted earlier, and just changed their websites and marketing.”

She said it is most important to acknowledge what the pandemic did.

“We learned this has allowed us to shift or redesign programming to meet the needs of these small businesses,” Verdugo said.

“We launched the food entrepreneurship training program. We relaunched our programming to meet the needs of the business.

So, we separated the new businesses from the existing business and by separating them, the information we share with them (the particular small business) is going to look different.”

She said the YWCA not only learned from the small businesses, but they also learned from its clients.

“As women, we carried a lot during the pandemic. Learning and quickly pivoting, to teach them how to manage federal dollars,”

businesses we helped, for each grant, what ZIP codes.”

Also, she said, the YWCA wants to know how many businesses survived the pandemic, how many employees or jobs were retained.

“Are you back? Did you bring the employees back? To tell their stories,” Verdugo said. “It’s part of our annual report for 2020 and 2021.”

Verdugo has more ideas for the YWCA. “The climate justice piece of it,” she said. “Mayor Romero on Sept. 9 (2020), issued an emergency climate declaration.

We (YWCA) issued a publication in 2021 written by Karen Peterson… it is one of the things we saw, as well as how our community is being impacted (by the pandemic).

“So, we issued a publication in 2021 where we talked about the work we have done in environmental justice and how we are being impacted by the climate change.

“So here, at the YWCA, we talk about what we are about…eliminating racism, empowering women and doing justice…

A lot of our women-owned businesses are service “businesses.

They are our hair stylist, our nail techni-

cians, they’re like our personal spa services, and they couldn’t do it anymore, because of the epidemic.

”

Verdugo said, “to help small businesses stay in business…a lot of our small businesses didn’t leverage the PPP (Payroll Protection Program) loan because they didn’t have relationships with their financial institutions.”

If those relationships were in place, the small businesses may have been able to weather the pandemic.

“They (small businesses) missed out on those resources,” Verdugo explained. “For small businesses to be carried for three months, we are talking about anywhere from $1,500 to $10,000.”

She said YWCA rolled out and provided grants to support operations or rental fees and utilities. Verdugo said they launched a number of grants — the Small Business Continuity grants, the Small Business Utilities and Rental grants, and Survivors grants, for survivors of domestic violence.

“The survivors grant is a small grant to support survivors of domestic violence to help them address their needs, like moving and rent…a kind of emergency support,” she said.

“One thing we want to learn is how many

for me it was very personal, my focus,” Verdugo said.

“I am a daughter of migrant farm workers," she said. She is aware of issues of agriculture, conservation of water and use of water and the lack of green spaces in local communities. "When we looked at the way we pivoted through the CDBG, at what ZIP codes are impacted, (that's when we noticed) predominantly impacted businesses that didn’t get the resources that they needed, as well as our dry deserts,” Verdugo added.

She said they focused on five ZIP codes.

“It’s not surprising South Tucson is one of those ZIP codes. And we have a facility there (HNS),” Verdugo said. “We took it upon ourselves and two years later, we continue on this climate justice. We literally transformed HNS, we have a little park next to the HNS owned by the YWCA but we share it with the community.”

She said they keep it environmental sustainable and safe. Environmental justice, reduces emissions and keeps up on water conservation, she explained.

“It’s not urgent yet, but it is mildly urgent.

We have to see how to get our resources to our communities and with limited resources, because the stuff we are doing isn’t cheap,” she explained.

The YWCA took its small businesses into the Greens Champion Program, which is through Local First Arizona.

“It showed them how they can do small steps,” she said. “They are paying the mortgage or rent and paying the utilities, but by doing these little things, they will lower their energy cost.”

To help with the education on climate change impacts, the YWCA puts out a YClimate Action publication.

“We were piggy-backing on Mayor Romero’s emergency declaration on climate change,” Verdugo explained. “So we started auditing our buildings to see what we have to start for energy and water. We focused on HSN first, because it is in a community that is most vulnerable. Low income, the elderly, We are surrounded by long-time residents, and the elderly. Our elderly have become the most vulnerable (since COVID).

“On Sept. 9 last year and Sept. 9 this year, which coincides with the launched anniversary of the declaration we got in the Tucson 2030 district," she said. "It talks about Tucson 2030 district as part of their geographic district, including Bonita Drive YWCA and HSN. It (Tucson 2030 districts) is about educating and tapping into resources, and about pulling a network together to do this work.”

She knows she is biased.

“For me, my climate justice world has to be led and done by women,” Verdugo said.

“As women we see the importance of it.

Our hope is at the YWCA, to work in collaboration with the Tucson 2030 district.”

She said it is really about reducing the percentage of emissions and our carbon footprint on the world.

“I am looking forward to these opportunities to share our stories,” she said. “And to also share our work. So, I am very grateful for the platform.”

Verdugo explained how privileged she feels about her position as CEO at the YWCA. “To be able to relay what that platform is going to be,” Verdugo said, "whether for myself or other women, it is time to share our stories. Sometimes we are not in a place where we are empowered to be able to share.

That’s what I want to be. I want to be that for women and to be able to share my voice.”

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ORO VALLEY from page 1 A pre-course test must be passed on the first day of class. Students will be tested on their ability to swim 300 yards continuously using a combination of freestyle and breaststroke and treading water for 2 minutes with only legs. You must also be able to swim 20 yards and surface dive to 10 feet and retrieve a 10-pound brick, return to the surface and swim 20 yards back to the start, using both hands holding the brick and keep your face out of water, and exit the pool without using the ladder or steps.

These skills must be completed in a minute and 40 seconds.

Cost is $90. For information, call 520-297-7946.

Lifeguard recertification for those 15 years or older will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at the aquatic center classroom, 23 W. Calle Concordia Drive.

Participants should bring a swimsuit, towel, goggles, notebook, pencil and lunch.

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exam and demonstrate water skills.

Cost is $50. For information, call 520-297-7946.

Junior Olympic archery development intermediate for students ages 8 to 20 years old will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Mondays from Oct. 3 to Oct. 24, or Wednesdays from Oct. 5 to Oct. 26 at the archery instructional area in Naranja Park, 810 W. Naranja Drive. This is the next step in starting archery. Students are trained based on their personal goals, and could include competition, recreation or physical exercise.

Cost is $10. For information, call 520-229-5050.

Oro Valley Walking Club for those 18 and older is 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at Riverfront Park, 551 W. Lambert Lane.

Cost is free. For information, email Margret Parnell, mparnell@comcast.net Personal Training with Reach Your Potential for those 14 and older is available.

Instructors are Julian Turner and Leanne Turner. Cost is based on the instruction

provided. For information, call Julian Turner, 520-907-0514, or visit reachyourpotentialaz.com Second Saturdays at Steam Pump Ranch will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 8 at 10901 N. Oracle Road. The event includes tours, presentations and displays at the Pusch House. There will also be an heirloom farmers market, and an artisan and antique fair. Kids can partake in crafts from 9:30 a.m. to noon in the Heritage Garden, and prehistoric demonstrations with Archeology Southwest are in the same location from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Live music will be performed from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Camp Swim Play Fun at the Oro Valley Community Center for children ages 6 to 12 is hosted from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. every weekday at the Community and Recreation Center Camp Room, 10555 N. La Canada Dr. Morning and afternoon snacks will be provided but children must bring a sack lunch, water bottle, swimsuit, town and sunscreen. However, lunch may be purchased for $30 for the week. Extended care from 7 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. is also available for $20 each. Cost for the week is $150.

Cost for a single day is $40.

Nature Camp at Catalina State Park for children ages 6 to 12 is from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Catalina State Park Group Campground, 11570 N. Oracle Road. Activities include nature talks, hiking and building a fort. Children will be grouped by age and must bring a sack lunch. Morning and afternoon snacks will be provided. Extended care from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. is also available. Cost for the program is $90 or $120 for extended care.

Children’s activities are plentiful. Several activities are planned for fall break, set for Oct. 10 to Oct. 14. For information on any of the activities, call 520-229-5050.

Flag football camp for children ages 5 to 14 years 11 months will take place from 8 to 11 a.m. every weekday at the Multi Use Field 1 North, Naranja Park, 810 W. Naranja Drive. Cost is $179.

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911 Tower Challenge honors terrorist victims

BY COLLEEN FORSYTH Tucson Local Media

T

he 911 Tower Challenge Foundation will never forget Sept. 11, 2001.

On the anniversary of the terrorist attacks, the group hosts the 911 Never Forgotten Tower Challenge, a 2,071-step climb that represents the 110 floors of the Twin Towers.

This year’s 911 Tower Challenge is set for 8 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, at Tucson Arena, 260 S. Church Avenue. Doors open at 6:30 a.m.

A virtual registration option is also available.

Anyone climbing the stairs must be 16 or older. The concourse walk is also available for all participants during the event and younger children.

The first 911 Tower Challenge was held in 2011. Since then, it has grown to include over 4,000 participants. Police, military, firefighters and other first responders attend and often wear full gear.

During the climb, participants see the photos and names of those who lost their lives that day.

“The attack on Sept. 11 was the Pearl Harbor of our generation,” said Ben Buehler-Garcia, vice president of the 911 Tower Challenge Foundation.

He hasn’t served in the military or worked as a first responder, so he said he feels it’s his duty as a civilian to support those who have.

“When you talk to someone from World War II, all of them remember Pearl Harbor. When the 20th anniversary of 911 hit,

First responders and the military honor the fallen at the 911 Never Forgotten Tower Challenge. (911 Tower Challenge/Submitted) it struck me that it might be fading from people’s memories. I think we, as a society, should never forget that.”

Buehler-Garcia said most people enlisting into the military now were not yet born or do not remember the Sept. 11 attacks.

To help bring awareness, the Tower Challenge opening ceremony features new recruits taking their oath of enlistment. The goal is to make the ceremony meaningful while also helping people remember those lost in the attacks so they do not fade away.

The registration fee is $50, and all pro-

The opening ceremonies start promptly at 8 a.m.

ceeds go to benefit the event’s selected charity beneficiaries. The 2022 beneficiaries are the 100 Club of Arizona and Basecamp for Veterans Inc. The Arizona 100 Club supports statewide law enforcement, first responders and other emergency services that support city, country, state, federal and tribal communities. Basecamp for Veterans Inc. is an immersive equine therapy program for veterans and their families using rescued mustangs. Participants receive mentoring and continued therapy. All of this is provided at no cost to the veteran.

The 911 Tower Challenge Foundation has donated more than $320,000 to charities serving law enforcement, first responders, military personnel and their families.

The group also is hosting a pre-event dinner at Site 17 Event Center, 840 E. 17th Street, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, with speaker Tim Brown, a retired and decorated 20-year New York City firefighter who won a Peabody award for his documentary, “Rebirth.”

He survived the Sept. 11 attacks, but lost 93 friends overall, including his two best friends. He also responded to the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing and was dispatched in 1995 to assist with rescue operations in the Oklahoma City bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

Robert Brandt helped found the 911 Tow-

er Challenge Foundation in 2011 when the 10th anniversary was approaching. Working at the Tucson Police Department, Brandt said he was disappointed that Sept. 11 remembrances were falling by the wayside.

They came up with the idea of doing what would become the first 911 Tower Challenge.

“When we set up the first 911 Tower Challenge, it had about 100 participants and imagined it as a one-time thing,” Brandt said. “The feedback we got from everyone was it was great, and we should continue to do it. Eleven years later it’s grown from 100 participants to last year over 4,000 statewide. We have people all over the country and even the world participating.”

Brandt said everyone should take a few minutes every Sept. 11 to remember those who were lost. He also hopes, especially with the current climate of the country, it will remind Americans how to come together in times of difficulty.

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Your look ahead at what’s happening in local museums, galleries and theaters!

EXPLORER • MARANA NEWS • FOOTHILLS NEWS • TUCSON WEEKLY • DESERT TIMES

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Tucson awaiting a plethora of productions

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LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP 3322 E. Fort Lowell Road 520-327-4242 livetheatreworkshop.org Mainstage: “Boston Marriage,” Oct. 13 to Nov. 19 Children’s Theatre: “Dia De Los Muertos the Musical,” Oct. 29 to Nov. 13

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SCOUNDREL & SCAMP 738 N. Fifth Avenue, Suite 131 520-448-3300 scoundrelandscamp.org “Faustus: That Damned Woman,” Oct. 13 to Oct. 30

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n a world where little has seemed normal, Tucson arts organizations are preparing their fall seasons with a good, solid mix of music, comedy, drama, new works and familiar tales.

While some organizations are still working on the upcoming season and have not yet made announcements, others are ready to share all that they are working on.

ARIZONA ROSE THEATRE 4500 N. Oracle Road, Suite 329 520-888-0509 arizonarosetheatre.com “The Broadway Experience: New Beginnings,” Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY 343 S. Scott Avenue 520-884-8210 | atc.org “The Lion,” Sept. 24 to Oct. 15 BROADWAY IN TUCSON Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Boulevard 520-903-2929 broadwayintucson.com “The Lion King,” Sept. 14 to Sept. 25 “Six The Musical,” Oct. 11 to Oct. 16 “Cats,” Oct. 20 to Oct. 23 GASLIGHT THEATRE 7010 E. Broadway Boulevard 520-886-9428 thegaslighttheatre.com “The Wizard of the Rings,” through Nov. 6 ROGUE THEATRE 300 E. University Boulevard, Suite 150 520-551-2053 theroguetheatre.org “Sweat,” Sept. 8 to Sept. 25 INVISIBLE THEATRE 1400 N. First Avenue, 520-884-0672 invisibletheatre.com “Lifespan of a Fact,” Sept. 7 to Sept. 18

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, SCHOOL OF THEATRE, FILM & TELEVISION 1025 N. Olive Road, Suite 239 520-621-7008 theatre.arizona.edu “Legally Blonde,” Oct. 2 to Oct. 16 “Polaroid Stories,” Oct. 23 to Nov. 6 MUSIC True Concord Voices and Orchestra P.O. Box 64912 520-401-2651 trueconcord.org “Timothy Takach: Helios,” Sept. 30 at Valley Presbyterian Church, Green Valley; and Oct. 1 and Oct. 2 at Catalina Foothills High School FOX TUCSON THEATRE 17 W. Congress Street 520-624-1515 foxtucson.com “Fortune Feimster: Hey, Y’all,” Sept. 11 Jefferson Starship: Mother of the Sun Tour, Sept. 17 Bill Blagg Magic in Motion STEAM Show, Sept. 22 Get the Led Out: A Celebration of the Mighty Zep, Sept. 25 Weird Al Yankovic, Sept. 27 Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite Duo, Sept. 28 Lewis Black: Off the Rails, Sept. 30

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Top: The Black Moods headline the Rialto on Oct. 14. (Jim Louvau/Submitted) Bottom: “The Lion King” roars back into Tucson starting Sept. 14. (Broadway in Tucson/Submitted)

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Broadway in Tucson The 2022/2023 Season PHOTOS: (backround, l - r ) Abby Mueller (Jane Seymour), Samantha Pauly (Katherine Howard), Adrianna Hicks (Catherine of Aragon), Andrea Macasaet (Anne Boleyn), Brittney Mack (Anna of Cleves), & Anna Uzele (Catherine Parr) in the Broadway production of SIX (© Joan Marcus); (above) Darian Sanders as Simba and Kayla Cyphers as Nala in THE LION KING ©Disney (Photo by Deen van Meer.

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ARTS PREVIEW from page 15 The Passing Zone, Oct. 1 False Negative: An Evening with John Waters, Oct. 15 Aida Cuevas and Mariachi Aztlan, Oct. 16 Graham Nash: An Intimate Evening of Songs and Stories, Oct. 18 The Fab Four: The Ultimate Tribute, Oct. 21 Ronstadt Family in Concert, Oct. 23 THE RIALTO THEATRE 318 E. Congress Street 520-740-1000 | rialtotheatre.com Deconstructing the Beatles - the White Album, Sept. 8 Dwight Yoakum, Sept. 9 Circles Around the Sun, Sept. 13 John Mark McMillan, Sept. 14 Life with the Afterlife: A Supernatural Evening with Amy Bruni, Sept. 15 Marc Maron: This May Be the Last Time, Sept. 16 Fontaines DC, Sept. 20 Rodrigo y Gabriela, Sept. 21 Brubeck Brothers Quartet, Sept. 23 Harry Rollins: Good to See You, Sept. 28 (spoken word) Nurse Blake, the PTO Comedy Tour, Sept. 29 Apocalyptica: Cell-O Tour, Sept. 30 Manchester Orchestra, Oct. 2 Kevin Morby, Oct. 3

Too Many Zooz, Oct. 4 Dirty Honey and Dorothy, Oct. 5 The Midnight, Oct. 6 DEHD, Oct. 7 Dayglow: People in Motion Tour, Oct. 10 The Afghan Whigs, Oct. 11 Bonobo: Fragments Live, Oct. 12 The War on Drugs, Oct. 13 The Black Moods, Oct. 14 Damien Escobar,” Oct. 15 Teddy Swims, Oct. 18 Vir Das’ Wanted World Tour, Oct. 21 La Dispute, Oct. 21 Deerhoof, Oct. 24 Black Jacket Symphony, Oct. 26

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TUCSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA For locations, visit the website tucsonsymphony.org Orkestra Mendoza & The Magic of Mexico, Sept. 17 Fandango Fabuloso, Sept. 13 and Sept. 25 The Four Seasons, Reimagined, Oct. 8 and Oct. 9 Fairy Tales and Firebirds, Oct. 14 and Oct. 16 Revolution: The Music of the Beatles, Oct. 22 and Oct. 23 “Coco” in Concert: Live to Film, Oct. 29 Comedian Lewis Black goes “Off the Rails” at the Fox Tucson Theatre on Sept. 30. (Lewis Black/Submitted) and Oct. 30

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Ballet Tucson’s season reveals new faces

BY MARGARET REGAN Tucson Local Media

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he city’s only professional ballet company has made of lots of changes this year.

But the future looks great. The new company director, Margaret Mullin, danced for years at the revered Pacific Northwest Ballet and rose to the coveted role of soloist.

She’s young and energetic, a Tucson native who studied at Ballet Tucson as a child.

She’s already created her own works, and she knows star choreographers.

For the November concert, just for example, she has lined up Justin Peck, the choreographer at The New York City Ballet, to mount one of his pieces. Mullin has brought in a pair of married dancers, Danielle Fu and Liang Fu, who have danced for years in Kansas City and at Cincinnati before that.

Liang has hit stages around the world.

The two of them will take the stage as principal dancers and serve as co-directors of the school. Chieko Imada, long a mainstay of the company, now also holds the title of choreographer in residence, in addition to associate artistic director.

With the company now 31 dancers strong, the troupe is raring to dance. They will have plenty of chances in the company’s three concerts this fall. Here’s a brief list of the shows.

FOOTPRINTS AT THE FOX: NEW WORKS CONCERT This fun annual show gives the troupe’s dancers the chance to try choreography on for size. The dancers create original works and teach their creations to the eager young apprentices. After the final bow, audience members get to vote for their favorite budding choreographers. The winner gets to reprise their dance in the spring concert.

7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, at Fox Tucson Theatre FALL CONCERT The fall concert’s four dances launch the company’s new direction.

Justin Peck’s “In Creases” brought him to national attention in 2012. The 15-minute modernist piece, with eight performers, shows off “his mastery of geometry with

Associate artistic director and resident choreographer Chieko Imada (Tom Spitz/ Submitted)

dancers,” Mullin says. The music is by Philip Glass, and Peck was the choreographer for Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.”

Left: Artistic director Margaret Mullin Right: School directors Liang and Danielle Fu Next is “Pas de Deux” from “Klein Per- (Ed Flores/Submitted) spectives,” a work by Andrea Giselle Schermoly, with music by Olafur Arnalds. The dance is a short series of vignettes inspired by the French artist Yves Klein.

“Raymonda Variations” is a 19th century classical ballet choreographed by Chieko Imada, after Marius Petipa. Danielle Fu and Liang Fu play lovers who dance the famous pas de deux. The dance has with a big cast of dancers in fluffy white tutus.

In the final piece, “Felicity Found,” Mullin has reimagined and expanded a digital piece created for film only that she choreographed for the Kansas City Ballet during the pandemic. The work is an affirmation of joy and beauty, and its 22 dancers are immersed in the splendid music of Vivaldi.

7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11; 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, and Sunday, Nov. 13, Leo Rich Theater.

‘THE NUTCRACKER’ This cherished holiday ballet will be even better: for the first time in years, the beautiful music of Tchaikovsky will be performed live for Ballet Tucson as a part of a new part-

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Ruby Mather (Ed Flores/Submitted)

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STOLEN. RECOVERED. RESTORED. HOME. Restored: The Return of Woman-Ochre Opens October 8, 2022 The University of Arizona Museum of Art See a free screening of the related documentary The Thief Collector at Centennial Hall on October 6.

azart.fyi/WomanOchre Willem de Kooning, Woman-Ochre, 1954–1955, Oil on canvas, Gift of Edward J. Gallagher, Jr. © 2022 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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DANCE from page 20 nership with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. The Snow Queen, the Sugar Plum Fairy, Clara and all will usher in the joyous season at the newly christened Linda Ronstadt Music Hall (and how sweet that name is!).

Various times Thursday, Dec. 22, to Saturday, Dec. 24, at the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall.

MORE ‘NUTCRACKERS’ Stay tuned for the avalanche of other local “Nutcrackers” that rise up every November and December.

Madeleine Kuebler (Ed Flores/Submitted)

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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SCHOOL OF DANCE JAZZ IN AZ 2022 Every year in September, hot jazz swings onto the UA campus. But that’s not all. The student dancers showcase their chops in modern dances and tap as well. The organizers promise nationally recognized choreographers in a fast-paced show. Stay tuned for more shows later in the fall.

Various times Tuesday, Sept. 20, to Thursday, Sept. 23, at Stevie Eller Dance Theater on campus.

Danielle and Liang Fu (Ed Flores/Submitted)

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Art season is blooming with color

BY MARGARET REGAN Tucson Local Media

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rom a famed Mexican photographer’s first major show in Tucson to the return of a stolen painting, the art season is chock full of landmark moments.

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ETHERTON GALLERY Known especially for photography, the revered gallery provides a spectacular launch to the fall art season. Famed Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide is coming to Tucson in honor of her first major show in the city. The exhibition, “Sueños, Simbolos, y Narración (Dreams, Symbols and Storytelling),” will be showing some of her greatest pics, Her beloved “Mujer Angel, Desierto de Sonora” is just one treasure among the 35 gelatin silver prints on view.

Born in 1942, Iturbide will give a lecture at the Center for Creative Photography at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23. It’s free but you will need go early to get a seat. The next night, Saturday, Sept. 24, Iturbide will attend the opening reception; the fun will be at the gallery from 7 to 10 p.m. Some of her books will be for sale. The show runs through Nov. 26. Coming up in December, artists Alice Briggs and Albert Chamilard will grace Etherton’s gallery in Barrio Viejo. ethertongallery.com PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY The vibrant glass gallery in the happening 5 Points neighborhood is getting ready to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The proprietor since 2019, Alison Harvey will showcase sparkly works by giants in the field: gallery founder Tom Philabaum, Michael Joplin, Carole Perry, Dan Enwright and Louis Via. All are “legendary Arizona

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artists,” Harvey says. In the meantime, she’s adding new artists to the gallery, including Joseph Ensno and his glistening wall works. The festive party rocks on from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15. philabaumglass.com TOHONO CHUL The lovable gallery in the middle of a beautiful garden is blazing with fiery art.

“The Elements: Fire” has gorgeous works.

Check out Anne Muñoz’s quilted “Perfect Storm” raging flashes of golden lightning against a blue sky. Carrie Seid’s silky work simmers in orange red and Brian Hooker’s blackened sky is pierced with strings of light. The show of 70 pieces by 50 artists is the third in a series of artwork mixed with science and the environment; the first shows examined earth and air. The fire show runs through Nov. 9. Water is still to come. tohonochul.org

LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY The excellent art gallery at Pima Collage West begins the season with “A Tribute to Clay.”

The nine ceramic artists in the show include the late Marcy Wrenn, an award-winner who taught at the college and got this show in motion, as well as the late Maurice Grossman, another beloved Tucson artist.

The reception is 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

8. Aurore Chabot, a UA prof, will give a lecture at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15. Joy Fox McGrew, an artist at Rancho Vista speaks at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22. The show runs through Oct. 7.

Next comes “Invisible Borders: Women Photographers from Fotógrafas del Norte and MAPA, Mexico City, and BorderLens Southwest” Organized by photographer Alejandra

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UNTITLED GALLERY This collective gallery typically exhibits its own artists’ work in the Steinfeld Warehouse. This time around, for a show called “Still,” they’ve invited more than 40 guest artists who work in a variety of mediums. untitledgallerytucson.com

Platt-Torres and gallery director David Andres, the show features 31 female photographers from both sides of the border, primarily northern Mexico, Mexico City and Tucson.

The reception is 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2. A panel discussion will begin at 6 p.m. in the recital hall. Show runs from Oct. 24 to Dec. 9. pima.edu/arts CONTRERAS GALLERY In the Arts Warehouse District just north of downtown, Contreras has mounted a show of 17 artists who make all kinds of fine art prints. At least nine types of prints are on view, including woodcut, etching, engraving, and more. Among the cavalcade of artists you can find are Jo Andersen, Julia Andres, David Andres, Neda Contreras and Glory Tacheenie Campoy. Show runs through October 22. contrerashousefineart.com RAICES TALLER 222 ART GALLERY & WORKSHOP Up the stret from Contreras, Raices Taller has reopened after a long pandemic hiatus. The new show, running from Sept.

EVERYBODY GALLERY “Hole in the Fence” is an exhibition of five artists at Everybody, a young, contemporary gallery at 437 E. Grant Road.

Standouts among are stoneware by zenas proa, and colored pencil on paper by Drew Miller. The show runs until Sept. 17. In October, they’ll open up a show named “Flor.” everybody.gallery

MUSEUMS Graciela Iturbide, “Mujer Angel, Desierto de Sonora México,” 1979 gelatin silver print, © Graciela Iturbide, (Etherton Gallery/Courtesy) 10 to Oct. 15, is all about paper. But paper can take different forms. There are drawings and photos, of course, but you will also find paper sculptures, paper paintings and

mixed media using — you guessed it — paper. The hybrid show will have every piece on view in the gallery, but some will also be online. raicestaller222.com

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MUSEUM OF ART The big news at the museum is the return of “Woman-Ochre,” the Willem De Kooning painting that was a stolen from the museum in 1985. This is the first time Tucsonans will get to see it after its recov-

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ery in Silver City and its restoration at The Getty in Los Angeles. A new movie about the heist will screen on Oct. 6 at Centennial Hall on campus. The painting itself goes on public display on Oct. 8. The galleries will also display other mid-century abstract works in the museum’s collections, including a precious painting by Mark Rothco.

TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Frances Murray and Harold Jones, two photographers formerly of Tucson, are

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being feted in their old stomping grounds with a year-long exhibition of their work titled “Simpatico.” The pair were part of a 1970s wave of notable photography in Tucson. Murray is known for her striking nudes and still lives. And Jones, the founding director of the Center for Creative Photography, created, among other works, hand-colored photographs.

The museum is also featuring a dramatically different exhibition devoted to a single painting from the early 19th century.

It’s a portrait of a well-off young woman, painted by José Gil de Castro, a celebrated artist with an unlikely pedigree in time of

racial conflict: he was an Afro-Peruvian born to an enslaved mother. tucsonmuseumofart.org THE CENTER OF CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY An exhibition of wonderful photographs

by Alanna Airitam, “The Golden Age,” continues until Oct. 29. An African American who moved to Tucson, Airitam makes richly colored photographs of African Americans.

She pointedly dresses them in fine aristocratic clothing, cleverly appropriating imagery from the old Dutch masters’ portraits to celebrate the power and beauty of contemporary

Black women and men. ccp.arizona.edu MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART MOCA continues with a potpourri of exhibitions that opened earlier in the year.

They range from the big, colorful canvases of Grace Rosario Perkins, a Diné and Akimel O’odham artist (until Oct. 16), to the playful video art of Kenneth Tam on about immigration and masculinity in the American West (Feb. 5). Intimate watercolors of the great outdoors by the Tucson Plein Air Group (Feb. 5) nicely fill another corner of the museum. moca-tucson.org

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da Redd Austin has come a long way since the days of singing songs from Dionne Warwick, Sarah Vaughan and Nancy Wilson into her hairbrush.

The Tucson jazz artist is looking forward to packing the house on Saturday, Sept. 10, at The Dunbar Pavilion when she’ll perform the R&B songs that made her famous in a concert titled “An Evening of Beautiful Music.”

The event is a fundraiser, produced by Jennifer Davis-Paige, the founder of Boom Goddess Radio, Tucson’s top Black woman-owned podcast company. The beneficiary is KRDP Radio, a public station of Desert Soul Media.

The two women have a lot in common.

Both have blazed trails for women of color and pursued their dream with passion and perseverance. They met a year ago when Davis-Paige was doing a podcast on Juneteenth. Austin, in addition to being a musician, is a retired schoolteacher with plenty of knowledge about the holiday celebrating the day the last enslaved people in Texas got word of their liberation.

“When I was looking for people to interview to talk about it, her name came up,” Davis-Paige said. “I have a four-part interview and that’s how she and I met. At that time, she told me she was a singer. I went to a couple afternoons that she was perform-

ing, and I loved her voice. Then COVID came and nobody could go anywhere or do anything.”

When the opportunity came up for this fundraiser both jumped at the chance to make it a concert featuring Austin.

KRDP Radio is Arizona’s first Blackowned radio in more than 20 years and they are raising money to pay for their FCC licensing. While they are based in Phoenix, they have plans to expand to Tucson and people can listen to the station online.

Davis-Paige’s podcast is carried on the station every Sunday from 6 to 6:30 p.m.

Her podcasts are also broadcast in Tucson Sundays at 3:30 p.m. on KXCI. KRDP launched after years of effort on the part of the founders, Kaja Brown and Calvin J. Worthen, who are also the top executives for Desert Soul Media. They recently secured their FCC license.

“I would like (Tucson residents) to know how important it is that there hasn’t been an African American-owned and -operated radio station in Arizona for over 20 years,” Davis-Paige said. “These two young men have been working on getting a station for four years. This has been their goal and their dream.”

The benefit evening will have two parts and patrons can buy tickets for either just the concert or the concert and VIP event.

The concert will be $30 in advance and $35 at the door and the VIP event is $250. The Ada Redd Austin is thrilled to be performing in the city where she made her career sere-

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ADA from page 28 VIP event starts at Urban Grove at 4 p.m. with wine and hors d’oeuvres.

The Tucson Jazz Institute is sending over African American twin brothers who are in 11th grade. One plays the sax and the other the bass and they have agreed to donate their music for the VIP reception. The president and vice president of KRDP Radio will talk about the studio’s history and goals.

A luxury van will then take participants to the Dunbar where the concert will take place from 7 to 9 p.m.

The concert will feature about 18 songs that are jazz and R&B classics and standards. Austin said she will likely sing songs from Billie Holiday, Bonnie Raitt, Nancy Wilson and even some stylistic interpretations of Marvin Gaye.

Austin has a long history in Tucson. She began singing as a child with Mount Calvary Baptist Church choir. Then, when she was 11, she competed in a talent contest at the Dunbar — the site of this month’s event. She took first place.

In the 1980s and 1990s, she sang jazz and R&B at jazz festivals, benefit concerts and community events. She’d pack the house at the former Obsessions night club. She even performed at the Apollo Theater in Harlem and was filmed for the series “Showtime at the Apollo.” She and the band she sang with performed for the NAACP and the Urban League.

“We got top-notch gigs,” Austin said.

“Never enough, they were few and far between and they didn’t pay a lot. We did it because that’s what I loved to do. It’s a gift that God gave me.”

She even sang twice for then-governor Bruce Babbitt.

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Jennifer Davis-Paige is the founder of Boom Goddess Radio, Tucson’s top Black woman-owned podcast company. (Noelle Haro-Gomez/Contributor) to sing at my inaugural,’” Austin said. “That was a great compliment.”

Then family needs called, and she moved to Houston to live with her son for several years. Upon returning to Tucson, she landed her first gig within a week when the president of the Tucson Jazz Society heard she was in town and wanted her to sing for a Valentine’s Day gig at the Tucson Museum of Art. However, for the next couple years she struggled to find the number of gigs she

wanted, despite her series of sold-out shows. It was then she decided to take a different track with her career.

“I decided maybe I can produce my own show,” Austin said. “I had never thought of doing that at this late state in my life. I prayed about it, and everything just started falling in place.”

She approached Doug Martin, her longtime bandleader and pianist, and he was on board. His wife, Cheryl Martin, helped to publicize her first self-organized event that

took her back to the Dunbar.

“The night of the show — it was standing room only,” Austin said. “It was packed. I was so grateful for the community. I’m a people person, I’m a retired schoolteacher. I taught kids in sixth grade and love to interact with the audience. I have them singing. I talk to them and serenade them.

I love on them.”

It was the start of her launching her own series of concerts, often as fundraisers or celebrating events like Juneteenth.

Like Austin, Davis-Paige grew up listening to the great female jazz stars such as Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald.

“Ava reminded me of those women’s voices,” Davis-Paige said. “She’s got wonderful followers in Tucson. This will be her first concert since COVID.” The Dunbar has been remodeled since Austin last performed there in 2017, but she said it will build a smaller stage for her designed in a crescent so that she can be closer to the audience.

“I don’t like to be way up,” Austin said. “I don’t want to be looking down at the audience. I want to be looking at them the way they’re looking at me. I like that intimacy.”

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loe Vera was considered the “plant of immortality” by the ancient Egyptians because of its many perceived health benefits.

It is a cactus-like plant that grows in hot dry climates like Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and California in the United States and many subtropical regions of the world.

The healing properties of aloe have been known for centuries and it has been used by many cultures as a medicine and as a beauty product.

Most notably, aloe was and still is used for various skin conditions. It has been shown to speed the healing of burns, rashes, insect bites and other allergic skin reactions, blisters, allergic rashes, athlete’s foot and other fungal skin diseases, blisters, acne, rosacea and dry skin. It is used often to relieve the pain and drying effect of sunburn and can be found in most over-the-counter sunburn products.

Though it looks like a cactus with its thick thorny leaves, the aloe plant is actually a lily. It is considered a succulent perennial and can grow to 2 feet. It thrives in warm, sunny locations and it grows most in the spring from seed, its own shoots, or leaves from a mature plant. It is not a harvested plant; a piece of the leaf is just cut when needed and the plant is left intact.

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Aloe was discovered by crusaders from Europe and, by the middle ages, was in widespread use as a common remedy for various skin diseases and rashes.

Explorers to the New World took the plant on their ships as medicine and then planted it in the Americas and Caribbean where it flourished. Missionaries planted it around their missions and compounds as part of medicinal herb gardens to treat the native populations.

Researchers are looking at the medicinal value of many plants, including aloe vera.

Externally, it may help surgical wounds heal faster and possibly reduce the inflammation of chicken pox and shingles viruses.

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zema and control the proliferation of acne pimples.

When applied to skin injuries, it increases blood flow to wounded areas and stimulates new skin cells called fibroblasts, which promote wound healing. Many cooks keep a plant handy in the kitchen as a quick and effective treatment for kitchen burns. It is also a part of many people’s beauty treatment to reduce wrinkles.

It also has been used as an internal medication. Aloe may treat a number of gastrointestinal illnesses such as constipation, acid reflux, Crohn’s disease, colitis and irritable bowel syndrome.

It has been shown aloe vera helps to normalize gastrointestinal wall structure and function. It has fungicidal, viricidal and bactericidal properties and can help

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There is ongoing research into possible uses for aloe in reducing the adverse effects of radiation and chemotherapy cancer treatment.

Aloe’s natural plant anthraquinones might help to prevent tuberculosis and HIV infection. Aloe may become a reasonable treatment for arthritis pain in that it has anti-inflammatory properties and can be used to prevent the gastrointestinal effects of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen. Aloe has been shown to reduce blood sugar in people with type-2 diabetes.

It has been added to various health supplements for its antioxidant properties and as an immune system enhancer.

Aloe, like other plant supplements, should be used with caution. Taken internally, adverse side effects may include diarrhea and subsequent lowered potassium levels, an irregular heartbeat and stomach cramping. It should not be used by people who have allergies to onions, garlic or tulips. Aloe may interact negatively with certain medications so always check with your health care provider before adding any supplements to your medication regimen.

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A community conversation on mental health

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he town of Oro Valley hosted a mental health event called “A Community Conversation on Mental Health” on Aug. 9.

The event featured a panel of individuals from various groups, including Oro Valley Parks & Recreation, Oro Valley Police Department, Golder Ranch Fire District, Arizona Complete Health and Community Bridges.

The panelists provided a variety of perspectives related to mental health, which led to an insightful conversation and discussion.

While the conversation did not focus on any one aspect of mental health, it gave attendees the opportunity to learn about local resources and potential care options.

More than 40 individuals attended the event, in person and via Zoom. The event lasted 90 minutes and featured an engaging back-and-forth between panelists and attendees.

The intention behind this event was to have an open conversation with community members so the town could learn how to better serve its residents, as it relates to mental health. Throughout the course of the night, the attendees were given a chance to share their stories and ask questions of the panelists.

Before the event concluded, the attendees were asked what types of mental health programs or events they would be inter-

ested in from the town. This led to great feedback and ideas that will help guide the town as it works to build out its mental health program.

Kristy Diaz-Trahan, Oro Valley Parks & Recreation director, served on the panel for the event.

“The first Mental Health Community Conservation event was very well attended,” she said.

“The attendees participated in engaging dialog, heartfelt stories, and resource sharing. Great ideas related to future programs and events were discussed and the town of Oro Valley Parks and Recreation Department is excited to take the lead in this important community topic. With the pandemic (mostly) in the rearview mirror, many of us are, for the first time facing mental fatigue or perhaps have intensified feelings of existing conditions. Regardless of how we got here, we need each other to help navigate the sometimes-chaotic world of mental wellness.”

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HEALTH AND WELLNESS FAIR Thanks to a great suggestion from one of the attendees of the August event, the town will be hosting a community health and wellness fair. This event will provide community members with the opportunity to learn about mental health resources from local organizations. The town is looking to host this event in the spring of 2023.

QUARTERLY MENTAL HEALTH ARTICLES In coordination with the quarterly Com-

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19 Grads, now 20 Some natural fences 21 Doing some mess hall duty, in army lingo 22 Apt name for a financial planner?

23 Sch. with the most Pac-12 football championships 25 ___ jure (by the law itself: Lat.) 28 Late to a Harvard Lampoon meeting?

32 Hubs of activity 33 Catherine of “Home Alone” 34 ___ story 35 “Uncle” in chess

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48 Oracle 49 Autobahn units: Abbr.

50 Abu Dhabi’s land: Abbr.

51 Buffoon 53 Waves, perhaps 56 Certain Arabian Peninsula resident 58 Unexpectedly high interest rate for a borrower from a Boston bank?

61 Herky-jerky dance, with “the” 62 Beyond great 63 ___ O’s (breakfast cereal) 64 Chasm 65 Bit of chicanery 66 Some body art, informally Down 1 General ___, “Superman” villain

2 Alibaba and Grubhub had them in 2014, for short 3 Big field for start-ups, informally 4 Facing ruin, say 5 Center of Bollywood 6 You can get two for a sawbuck 7 Spearheaded 8 Don’t give up, say 9 Nobelist Pavlov 10 Rapper with the double-platinum album “Hard Core” 11 “Sounds about right” 12 Convenience often promoted in store windows 13 “___ Rheingold” (Wagner opera) 18 “Animal Farm” pronoun 21 Earthy tone 23 [groan] 24 Scottish island home to Fingal’s Cave 26 Got the point?

27 “Well, see you later then!”

28 “Tuesdays With ___,” Mitch Albom best seller 29 1990 #1 rap hit that ends “too cold, too cold” 30 Corporal or sarge 31 Body part that “pops” 32 Hobbles 36 ___ Lupino, first woman to direct a classic noir film 37 Commercial mascot whose name sounds like that of its company 39 Comment after a swish 42 Podcast interruptions 45 King of the Titans, in Greek mythology 46 Subtlety 47 Cries of glee 52 Popular comic strip about a 17-year-old high school student 53 It’s rigged!

54 What often includes a chairlift?

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58 ___ Wallace, “Ben-Hur” author 59 Nail polish brand with the color “Espresso Your Inner Self” 60 Wallops

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You have someone in your life who you trust enough to be silly around. You can disclose a bit of foolish nonsense to this person and feel accepted, loved even, for the perfectly flawed human you are. A relationship like this is a treasure, and you count yourself among the blessed. You love and are loved.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You've seen plenty of projects through to fruition, so you should trust yourself when you feel like something is a little off with the plan.

Certain processes begin to feel cumbersome and become not worth it. Heed your instinct. Better to cut a bad investment loose than to go deeper in, trying to prove something.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). This week highlights the difference between love and positioning. Positioning is situational and conditional. Love moves freely.

You'll experience both. Note that both people can benefit from a relationship even if feelings aren't mutual. Giving love is its own benefit, which expands and strengthens the heart.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). It always takes more than one person to create a power struggle. One way to end the backand-forth of a psychological tug-of-war game is simply to let go of the rope. The other person may go reeling backward, but if you don't pick it up again, you're free of the arduous game, which may be even better than winning.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There's no shortage of difficult tasks to potentially take on, but just because it's a challenge doesn't make it worthwhile. Seek relevant endeavors. It's not about looking for an easier way to do things; it's about making sure a thing is worth doing in the first place. Does it bring you closer to the person you want to be?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You won't waste your brainpower coming up with answers in realms that already have many experts. The right strategy for you has already been proven by hundreds of others just like you. Just follow the formula. You'll get the best results working inside a group, especially one that meets in person.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You're bursting with creativity this week, so it will be challenging to focus solely on what's immediately relevant. But once you meet the needs of the current situation, the world will be your oyster and a felicitous pursuit of your wild imaginings will ensue. Fire sign compatibility figures prominently in.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You're feeling curious, and you may dabble in this or that in hopes of getting a more realistic feel for how much the pursuit really holds for you. This week's mood is good for shopping but bad for buying -- good for borrowing, renting and posing hypothetical questions but bad for making promises, commitments and deals.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). As you repeatedly work or hang out with the same people, a culture forms around you.

Maybe you don't love everything about it, but there's much in this group that seems about right for where you are now in your life. You just may look back and call these times "the good old days."

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The language of your heart speaks in feeling and attraction, in a sense of expansiveness, oneness and connection. Fear has a language, too. It speaks through judgment, restriction and the urge to hide or flee.

You're an expert interpreter and will find helpful ways of applying what's communicated to you this week.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You can't help how you feel, but a funny thing happens once you accept and express those feelings -- they change. Full expressions will be particularly lucky this week. Instead of smiling, dance; instead of pouting, sing the blues. Your scene will be painted beautiful by freed feelings.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your imagination is strong, and as you visualize your own success, you'll figure out which version seems to fit well. Still, your mind can get to a place in seconds that your reality may take years to catch up to. Don't let it stop you. These hopes and dreams are the first steps to setting goals and making plans.

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Rapper B.o.B. is ready to start a new chapter We spent a lot of time rehearsing and working on this set.”

Calling from his tour bus on the way to Shreveport, Louisiana, B.o.B. said he’s been tweaking his set as he goes along. When he’s not doing that, he’s working on new music for the second part of his “Elements” series and another in his line of Halloween tracks.

“I have a lot of music in the pipeline,” he said. “I can’t sit still. I have to do something.

Even

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rammy-nominated rapper B.o.B. is preparing to push chatter of a flat earth and moon landing conspiracies behind him and let his music do the talking once again.

The Decatur, Georgia, entertainer born Bobby Ray Simmons will explain all in his forthcoming song, “TED Talk.”

“I’ll be clearing the air on misconceptions about me and things that I’ve said,” he explained. “There’s been a lot of controversy.

I was so frustrated with the music industry.

I stepped away. I’m really looking forward to the next chapter. It’s sort of like we’re clearing the air. You hadn’t heard from me in so long. I’m so ready to put this chapter behind me.”

B.o.B. is coming to Tucson to perform at 191 Toole on Thursday, Sept. 8. The set will feature a retrospective of hits and those from his new 12-song album, “Better than Drugs.”

“My shows are a diverse set,” said B.o.B., who scored the hits “Airplanes” with Hayley Williams, “Nothin’ on You” featuring Bruno Mars and “So Good.”

“I’m bringing my live band back out.

when I retire from music, I’m going to have to do something. I’m going to fly drones.

That’s what I’m going to do.”

He understands that his extracurricular activities are of interest. He recently held an event for his Patreon subscribers and when he opened the floor to questions, fans asked about everything but music.

“They all asked, ‘What’s up with you?’” he said with a laugh. “I feel like my path in life has extended beyond music. I just balance the two. It’s really interesting. Some artists, they can literally just do one thing — not that that’s bad. I’m a huge Coldplay fan.

“They’re Coldplay then, and they’re Coldplay now. Some artists, they have to put out a book, music, star in a TV show.

It’s tricky to navigate it. I follow what I’m inspired to do. There’s a purpose for all of it. If fans are interested in what type of gluten-free bread I eat, that’s cool.”

B.o.B. B.o.B. is writing new music while on a tour that hits 191 Toole on Thursday, Sept. 8.

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Tennis’ Rafael Nadal chasing another major

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y the time this appears in print and online, the U.S. Open might well be over for Rafael Nadal. The limits to which he has pushed his body and his mind in pursuit of tennis excellence are taking their revenge. At the age of 36, he is both a living icon and something of an old man.

It’s like what Apollo Creed said to Rocky Balboa, “It’s a shame that we have to get old.” A great athlete like Nadal spends the majority of his life getting in top shape, working on his game, toughening himself up mentally (a big part of tennis), only to get to a point where things start going downhill.

He holds the record for the most major tournaments won (22), but he could have several more were it not for injuries popping up at the most inopportune times. He was cruising at Wimbledon when an abdominal injury caused him to forfeit in the semifinals.

He’s in a good spot if he can stay healthy.

A couple of top challengers got upset in the first round and knucklehead Novak Djokovic was not allowed in the country because he still refuses to get vaccinated.

All politics aside, the absolute worst thing the vaccines have proven to be for some people are ineffective.

Nadal can win a few more before his 36-year-old body fails on him for the final time. It will be tough for him to stay ahead

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal in action during a match of the Barcelona Open tennis tournament Conde de Godo on April 27, 2017, in Barcelona (123RF) of Djokovic, who is one year younger than Nadal, but much less injured.

Whatever happens, Nadal is guaranteed to go down as one of the all-time greats in the history of tennis.

I played tennis in high school and college, but it was always No. 4 for me. It was miles behind football and basketball for me and, at the time, it was even behind baseball! (Oh, the folly of youth!) When I was a kid, I loved to watch Rod Laver play tennis.

He was like a bully gnome.

Listed as 5-foot-8, that was either vanity or a defective measuring device. He couldn’t have been more than 5-foot-7 (and

probably shorter). Adding to his vertical deficiency, he walked somewhat stooped over; I guess his greatness was just weighing him down. Laver was (and, at 84, still is) a pale Australian who had a constant sunburn during the season. (I guess they didn’t have sunscreen back then.) He was a left hander who, like most people back then, hit a one-handed backhand.

What he did mostly was demolish people. He once won the Wimbledon title match in 58 minutes! If you don’t know how crazy that is, watch the U.S. Open this week. They have a giant clock showing how long the match has been going on. It often

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says three or four hours. So, the year after he won the championship match in 58 minutes, he won it again, this time in 57 minutes.

Laver is the only player ever to win the Grand Slam twice. He probably could have done it more times, but during the peak years of his career, there was an upheaval in tennis where some events were reserved for amateurs, while others were for professionals only. He missed out on around 20 opportunities to win majors during that period.

When you mention Grand Slams, you just have to mention what Don Budge did in the late 1930s. He was the first person to win a Grand Slam and he also won six major titles — in a row. At the age of 22 (and 23), he won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 1937, and then the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open in 1938.

Those turned out to be the only major titles he would win because tennis basically shut down with the onset of World War II in Europe in the late 1930s and the rest of the world in the early ’40s.

The early focus of this U.S. Open was on Serena Williams, who announced that this would be her last major. She won her opening round match easily, but then faced the No. 2 player in the world in the second round. All Williams did was knock off the highly favored Anett Kontaveit in a threeset thriller.

How cool would it be for Williams and Nadal to both go out as champions?

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Athlete of the Week: Isaiah Ramirez

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saiah Ramirez learned a hard lesson about inflation at the beginning of this school year. The senior two-way football player at Marana Mountain View High School actually lives in the old mining town of San Manuel. It’s a 45-mile drive each way; not a bad drive, really. Up Veterans Memorial Boulevard, past the airport and the golf course, until you get to State Route 77 (which we in Tucson know as Oracle Road).

Route 77 takes you past the town of Oracle and the Biosphere, into the town of Catalina and finally to Oro Valley. Isaiah sees this every single day and has for three-plus years.

But this year is different. “Man, the price of gas hit really hard. I was spending like $100 a week just to get to school and back.”

Why would someone who lives in San Manuel go all the way to Mountain View for school? “I did it for football. I love football. I love everything about it, and no offense to San Manuel, where I grew up and a lot of my friends still are, but I wanted to challenge myself.”

in Class 2A, the second-smallest level for schools in Arizona. But recently, the Miners were dropped down to Class 1A, the lowest level. Not only did it mean that they would be playing the smallest schools in Arizona in every sport, it also meant that the football team would go from playing 11-man football to playing eight-man football. (Small schools often have enrollments of around 100 students or less, so playing eight-man is often the only way that a school can field a team.)

“I miss my friends and all, but I’m glad I’m not playing eight-man football. Like I said, I want to challenge myself, but I would also like to continue playing football after high school. It would be pretty hard for a player from an eight-man squad to get a scholarship or even get looked at by colleges.”

Isaiah plays running back and linebacker for coach Matt Johnson’s Mountain Lions.

Johnson, who had remarkable success as a Isaiah Ramirez loves football and, especially, member of Vern Friedli’s staff 20 years ago before turning around a moribund proMountain View football.

(Isaiah Ramirez/Submitted) gram at Rincon and then winning a state title at Ironwood Ridge, has struggled a bit at For the first couple years that Isaiah Mountain View. His program got slammed E HIS FRANC ITIES N was at Mountain View, San Manuel was U T

by COVID-19 two years ago and his team R OP P O E!

was only allowed to play two games.

Last year was supposed to be a good year, but the Lions lost a heartbreaking, season-opening 13-12 game to district rival Marana and stumbled home to a 4-6 record and missed the playoffs.

“This year is different,” Isaiah said. “Last year, we had good players, but the team didn’t come together all that well. This year, you can just feel the energy. You feel it in the weight room, on the practice field, and I think everybody is going to feel it when we start playing games.”

Mountain View opened its season at home Sept. 2 against Marana. Both teams are hoping to reach the 5A state playoffs this year and that season opener might go a long way toward determining whether one or both teams have a shot at the postseason.

As for a long way, Isaiah knows all about that. Having driven that route through blazing heat and thick snowfall, he has never regretted his decision.

“It was a really serious decision I made when I was pretty young, but I’m glad I did it. I love football and I love Mountain View football.”

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5:00 pm Saturday evening Worship

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Online worship available anytime to fit your schedule.

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