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EXPLORER The Voice of Marana, Oro Valley and Northwest Tucson

July 7, 2021

Volume 28 • Number 27

Pedaling from the Meddling

Oct. Cycling 7, 2020 challenge just one way seniors are keeping connected as

pandemic eases grip | Page 4

INSIDE

Advocates blast Supreme Court decision upholding Arizona election laws

ARTS AGAIN It took a pandemic to get the Arizona Theatre Company and the Tucson Museum of Art to join forces once again. Sort of.

Reeling from pandemic closures, some arts groups have found new ways to work together.

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County falls just short of mid-year COVID vaccination goals Christina Duran Tucson Local Media

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s 2021 reaches its midpoint, Pima County continues to push for more people to get vaccinated.

At the start of June, the Biden administration announced their “all-of-America” sprint to have 70% of adults vaccinated with at

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least one dose by July 4. However, as the holiday weekend grew close last week, Biden conceded that the country would not reach the goal.

The state of Arizona and Pima County hadn’t hit the goal at the start of the holiday weekend last week, either.

As of July 4, the U.S. falls just

short at 66.7% of the U.S. total adult population vaccinated with at least one shot. According to County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry’s July 1 COVID-19 update memo, 62.1% of adults have received at least one dose in Arizona and 69.6% in Pima County.

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he Supreme Court Thursday rejected claims that Arizona’s ballot-harvesting and out-of-precinct election rules discriminate against minority voters, a ruling that one critic said “takes a sledgehammer” to equal voting protections.

The 6-3 ruling said that while the state laws may result in some voters’ ballots being rejected, they do not “exceed the usual burdens of voting” and do not affect one group of voters more than any other.

In dissent, Justice Elena Kagan said the majority’s “tragic” opinion rewrites the Voting Rights Act “to weaken … a statute that stands as a monument to America’s greatness.”

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Cycling challenge just one way seniors are keeping connected as pandemic eases grip Christina Duran Tucson Local Media

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o a medley of uplifting dance music from KC and the Sunshine Band to the Village People’s “YMCA,” more than 20 older adults pedaled for half an hour on the second floor of Villa Hermosa, a senior living community in Tucson on last week.

In a 10-day Tour-deFrance inspired race, residents 80 years old and older participated alongside the facilities staffers in a friendly competition in the first in-person, community-wide event since before the pandemic.

Inspired by the community participation of Tour de Tucson and with the small window when COVID-19 regulations loosened, Zest Director Ashley Seeber created Tour de Zest, hoping to bring the community to-

gether after months of quarantine.

Seeber strapped on a GoPro and cycled around the Loop. She then cut the video into 30 minute increments to display on a projector that the residents could then pedal along to while listening to some music.

“They loved it. Some of them have ridden in the Tour de Tucson. Some of them have kids that ride in the tour, so they were just super happy to be a part of what was going on outside the walls,” said Seeber.

Since the 1980s, Rosemary Ifflander, 88, has loved to cycle, but had to give it up nine years ago.

When Ifflander heard about Tour de Zest, last year she did not hesitate to sign up.

“I said, well that’s great, because we could get people out of their rooms, so that they could do exercise. It’s a lot of fun,” said Ifflander.

Last time, Mary Davis, 91, did not get to participate, but joined this year.

Davis joined before she knew about the friendly competition among the Senior Resource Group’s sister communities. However, like Ifflander, Davis is prepared to win.

“Instead of ‘Fight, fight!’ it’s ‘Ride, ride, ride!’” said Davis, as she warmed up before the start of the group cycling event.

On Tuesday, before the start of the class, Seeber told participating residents they had cycled 1,356 miles while the second leading competitor had around 800. The race was scheduled to end on July 5 with a finish line party.

This year, Tour de Zest expanded to include friendly competition with other communities and also allowed staff to participate as well. Seeber said the Zest program emphasizes “intergenerational activities” and it was es-

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pecially important during the height of the pandemic when the communities limited access.

“Especially with COVID which put a limit on having kids come in and visit, one of the best ways to do that is we have a younger staff, obviously we’ve got dining room [staff ], my Zest assistants, the caregivers,” said Seeber. A resident told her Tuesday morning that her cleaning lady wore a Tour de Zest shirt. “I was just so excited that the staff is getting into this, how we are.

So the residents see it, they recognize it and it gives them team camaraderie, outside of just the resident population.”

Prior to the pandemic, older adults had struggled with isolation and the pandemic only exacerbated the issue with people being unable to see their family or friends, according to Pima Council on Aging CEO Mark Clark.

“We’ve been very concerned about isolation and the loneliness that accompanies it,” said Clark.

“Some people can live very, very good lives, isolated–I’m less likely to be one of those people–but it’s the loneliness that really has that dramatically negative health impact.”

Early on Clark said they encouraged people to be neighborly, while keep-

ing in mind COVID-19 mitigation strategies, like masking and social distancing.

“In the neighborhood I live in, which is of mixedage families, older adults like me, I saw more of my neighbors out on the street in front of my house than I had ever seen before, and know more of them,” said Clark. “I think being neighborly was so important and I think people were increasingly neighborly.”

However, neighborly services became difficult to provide with pandemic restrictions. Southern Arizona Senior Pride, an organization providing support services for LGBTQ+ older adults, had to shift their Community Cares program from visits and calls to only phone calls last March, said Executive Director Lavina Tomer.

“It was key to keeping people company, stimulated, know that somebody cared about them, that Senior Pride really worked hard to keep our program operating throughout the whole time, and continues to do that,” said Tomer.

The community cares program also provides services to LGBTQ+ older adults in assisted or independent living, beyond those who are homebound, as they face greater isolation due to a fear of stigmatization because of

their sexual orientation or gender identity.

“Even though they are living in a situation where they get their needs met–if they need to go to the doctor, they’ll get a ride or they get their food and all of that–we know that LGBT older adults are isolated, even in those situations,” said Tomer. “They might have company or they eat with other people, but they don’t always come out.

Actually what we know is that some people will go back in the closet, in order to survive those environments and not have people be hostile or negligent or discriminate against them.”

Over the past month, Senior Pride has offered in-person visits, but both the volunteer and recipients must be vaccinated, according to co-coordinator of the Community Cares program Leanna Crosby and one of the volunteers performing in-person visits.

While they increased the number of calls made over the past year, Crosby admitted that in-person visits helped them provide better care for their recipients and provided what a phone call can sometimes lack: warmth.

“You can pick up those cues that you would never get over a phone. Also we sometimes pick up on the fact that they need some

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resources, not only a walker or wheelchair, which we can certainly give them the resources to call,” said Crosby. “The social in-person interaction is so much more warm than a phone call.”

Senior Pride also held their first in-person event at Himmel park last month and plan to hold another outdoor event at the end of July.

Seeber believes body activities and socialization helps combat “cognitive decline” and hopes to continue encouraging those activities “to keep everyone healthy, happy and living their lives better, longer.”

A first-time participant

of Tour de Zest, 102-yearold resident, Ruth C. Goodman embodies this message.

“I think people should know they don’t want to have to stop doing things when they’re a certain age,” said Goodman. “Just keep going, so that you feel you’re part of the community.”

Goodman tries to stay as active as possible and feels inspired by the community and people around her.

“I think the inspiration you get from the people that work with you is very important. They enjoy what they’re doing and they get a thrill, like we do,” said Goodman. “I

am 102 years old and I’ve seen many things and I’ve been involved with many things, including people with handicaps. My daughter has Down Syndrome and learned to read and write and do things that they said they’d never do, but with the right inspiration and the right sizes, they get to do it. That’s my message: you don’t get anywhere if you don’t try.”

To the tune of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” Goodman and other staff and residents pedaled the last minutes of their group cycling event, hoping to rack up those miles to take home the gold.

Golder Ranch firefighter dies in motorcycle accident Ireland Stevenson Tucson Local Media

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he family of a Golder Ranch Fire District captain is seeking donations to help with family expenses following his death.

Capt. Lucas Giampa died Monday, June 28, in a motorcycle crash near Benson Highway and East Irvington Road.

“Captain Giampa was a man of conviction,” Golder Ranch Fire Chief Randy Karrer said. “He was principled and had a strong internal compass. He loved his job and we were blessed to work with him.”

Giampa had been a

firefighter for 21 years and held the rank of captain since 2016. Before coming to work for Golder Ranch, Giampa worked for the Mountain Vista Fire District from 2014-2017.

As a graduate of Flowing Wells High School, Giampa had always enjoyed serving his community, Giampa began his fire service career at Rural/Metro Fire Department in 2002.

He also worked at Pima Community College as an adjunct professor for the Fire Science Program and assisted with instruction in basic first aid and CPR to residents of his fire district.

Giampa is survived by his wife, Jamie, and their five children. Jamie Giam-

pa works as a paramedic, according to a GoFundMe site set up for the family, which notes that “Jamie and her family have a long road ahead of them and can use any help at this time.”

Contribute to the GoFundMe at gofundme. com/f/giampa-family.

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Humane Society trapping and neutering stray cats to reduce population Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

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ree-roaming cats throughout the country aren’t estimated to kill more than one billion birds and mammals every year, dealing a major blow to wildlife populations. Cats can even be a greater threat in areas like Tucson, which has diverse bird species thanks to our surrounding sky islands.

Local nonprofits like the Humane Society of Southern Arizona and Hermitage No-Kill Cat Shelter have programs to reduce stray cat populations, which may be the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for U.S. birds and mammals. However, there is debate over which process is most effective at herding the cats.

The Humane Society of Southern Arizona utilizes a “trap, neuter, return” process for feral cats,

which is often completed all in the same day. While other local programs have existed for years, HSSAz’s TNR program began last year, leading to a Community Cat Center within the nonprofit earlier this year. Although the program was initially slow due to COVID, it picked up steam by November.

“The feral cat, or community cat, population in Pima County has always been a problem,” said Angeline Fahey, community cat coordinator with the Humane Society of Southern Arizona. “But as the demand started to increase and people started to realize that the Humane Society started a TNR program, the calls have been coming in like wildfire.

We get dozens of calls per day about outdoor feral or community cats that need to be trapped, neutered and returned.”

While HSSAz occasionally gets calls about stray

cats’ damage to wildlife, most of the calls are due to their nuisance.

Fahey says they receive the most calls from the 85705 zip code area along the east side of I-10, because of the many mobile homes in the area that can provide shelter for the cats to hide and live under.

After the cats are trapped, they’re taken to HSSAz’s clinic where they are evaluated, ear-tipped, and given a rabies vaccination in addition to being spayed/neutered. Fahey says the cats are generally returned to the same area within the same day, because they perform surgeries in the mornings.

“This town has such a problem with outdoor cats that if you take one out of one area, it will be filled by someone else,” Fahey said.

“I came from the wildlife hospital and spent many years there, so I’ve seen the effect cats have on wildlife and it’s awful. But the only

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way to really combat that is to reduce their population, or it will just keep getting out of control. But if we have a very strong TNR program, and we can get these cats spayed, neutered and vaccinated, we can reduce disease and population.”

While the TNR process culls future generations, it also leads to less nuisance calls because of the change in cat behavior. Cats can fight less due to changes in their hormones, and can even be less likely to roam, reducing their threat to wildlife.

“We see some intense behavioral changes. Cats that always fight can mellow out, but it usually takes about a month. You see some extreme changes, there’s less yowling and screaming and fighting, especially in the males,” Fahey said. “We do our best to take in as many animals as we can. So if there are friendly cats that are super social, or if there are kittens, we do try to take them in if space is available, or find other shelters to help as well.”

HSSAz encourages locals to participate in their TNR program with the proper information. They provide tips for trapping and transporting cats, and locals can even borrow traps from HSSAz. However, TNR is by appointment only, so if you

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are trapping yourself, call ahead to determine surgery availability based upon your planned trapping schedule.

“We receive all kinds of calls. Either they’ll tell us of a location that has a lot of cats. But usually it’s people calling because there’s cats around their own property, and they’re either a nuisance with spraying or using the bathroom. But we’ll also get calls where people have a mom and kittens and need help,” Fahey said. “We try to encourage as many people as we can to get involved themselves and do the trapping. But we’re here for assistance and guidance.”

However, not all animal organizations support the TNR process. While stray cats cause massive damage to bird populations, the Tucson Audubon Society

opposes TNR programs, particularly due to the “return” element. According to Tucson Audubon, they believe the bulk of the evidence suggests that TNR is less effective at mitigating the effects of predation on already stressed native wildlife populations and diversity than municipal control efforts. They don’t argue with trapping and neutering, but disagree that releasing cats back into free-ranging colonies is effective for stewardship.

Instead, Tucson Audubon recommends local ordinances that prohibit cats from roaming off their owner’s property, developing a plan and a timetable for permanent removal of stray cats, and not feeding stray or feral cats.

For more information, visit hssaz.org/services/ clinic/trap-neuter-return

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GUEST COMMENTARY

Saving lives in Cochise County Steve Farley

Special to Tucson Local Media

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he Humane Society of Southern Arizona has been serving pets and the people who love them in the Tucson metro area for more than 77 years.

Starting this month we are finally living into the last two words of our name as we extend our mission— both within and beyond Pima County.

We currently operate a full-service shelter, clinic and humane education facility at 635 W. Roger Road in Tucson. As of Saturday, July 17, we will be opening a long-anticipated Eastside

branch at 1010 S. Wilmot (just north of 22nd Street) that will start up with an expanded thrift store (featuring deeply discounted Sam Levitz furniture!) and twice-weekly vaccination clinics and adoption events.

In the next few years we will be offering full-time adoption, admissions, and veterinary services there—including a 24/7 low-cost pet emergency hospital.

And right now, we at HSSA are embarking on an exciting new collaboration with Cochise County government, the City of Douglas, the City of Bisbee, and the University of Arizona College of Veterinary Medicine to save hundreds of

pets’ lives every year.

Working with little funding and space, animal shelters in Cochise County have been struggling to save as many pets as they can in cramped, small spaces that are inadequate for the pets they serve. With a yearly intake of more than 1,000 animals, this lack of room and resources has forced some of these shelters to make heartbreaking choices. In Douglas alone, 30% of dogs and 70% of cats are euthanized annually.

We can save those lives.

That’s why starting this July, HSSA is taking urgent action with your help.

Working with a wide variety of engaged partners and

committed volunteers, we will begin transporting an average of 10 animals per week—every week—from the Douglas shelter to our main campus in Tucson to save their lives, provide for their health and behavioral needs, and find them loving homes.

Simultaneously working with the UA College of Veterinary Medicine, we plan to provide weekly veterinary service to shelter and public pets in Douglas, including spay/neuter surgeries, vaccinations, wellness exams, and more, starting later this year.

We are also looking to institute innovative OneHealth programs that improve the well-being of pets and their human families during the same office visit.

This broad-ranging coa-

lition of partners is simultaneously seeking $2 million in funds to convert a former juvenile detention facility in Bisbee into a state-of-theart full-service high-quality HSSA animal shelter and clinic which we hope to open to the public by early 2024 to serve all of southern Cochise County.

In all, this project has the potential to help 10,000 homeless pets in its first five

years of operation.

This innovative collaboration for homeless and at-risk pets in Southern Arizona will become an inspiration for rural shelters and urban partners across the country, saving thousands and thousands of lives in the process.

If you would like to join us in making this lifesaving vision a reality, please visit HSSAZ.org/Cochise today.

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Oro Valley, Bike It! Nancy Ellis

Special to Tucson Local Media

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arm weather is a perfect time to get out and moving fast enough to have the wind whip by you. It doesn’t matter if you are interested in a road ride or a mountain adventure, Oro Valley has many options for all levels of cycling enthusiasts. I’ve listed two of my favorite rides that I think anyone can enjoy, utilizing Big Wash Trail and The Loop.

The mountain bike ride begins at the Big Wash trailhead off Ranch Vistoso. This trail is enjoyable from the first moment you begin your ride. It weaves back and forth and has a lot of fun S-curves.

There are a few sandy wash crossings which can make it difficult for a beginner to remain in their saddle.

After opening and closing the cattle gate, you will recognize that you are in a flat area perfect for desert cattle grazing. The next challenge on the trail is a rocky uphill.

The wonderful expanses of well used smooth trail make every challenge worth it for the beginner and add to the fun for the experienced rider. On this ride you will pass dense cholla cactus forests of many types, hills and valleys, and you may pass cattle, too, as you continue along the windy trails. In many locations, the views of the desert, mountains, valleys and city are so breathtaking you want to stop to capture the mem-

ories in a picture. This ride usually takes an hour and a half to cover 12.5 miles. An experienced rider could go much further in the same amount of time and a beginner would cover less territory, but any way you experience this area makes it worth the effort. It is beautiful from the beginning to the end. The whole way, you feel like you are on the greatest ride on earth.

For those who prefer a road ride, an 8-mile flat ride awaits starting at Christina-Taylor Green Memorial Park at the intersection of Magee and Shannon roads in Pima County. This park contains beautiful artwork that memorializes and celebrates the life of Christina-Taylor Green, the youngest victim of the January 8, 2011, shooting at Gabby Giffords’ Congress on your corner event. Going east on the CDO Shared Use Path, you will pass through a tree-lined section of path adjacent to the Omni Tucson National golf course. Wave to the golfers overhead as they pass over the golf bridges between holes of the course.

From La Cholla Boulevard to La Canada Drive, the car-free path passes through desert landscape and several ranches. Upon entering Oro Valley proper at the La Canada bridge, the path passes the Oro Valley Country Club; enjoy the smell of fresh cut grass as you travel by.

Passing underneath First Avenue and behind Home Depot, you will then en-

counter Steam Pump Ranch, the Town’s historic gem. On Saturdays, a bustling Farmer’s Market takes place at the ranch. Restroom facilities and water are also available if you would like to stop off the loop for a moment. Crossing the CDO on a bridge behind Basis High School, you then make a right turn close to the octotillo ramada. From there, the path goes under Oracle Road and puts you at the road entrance to Catalina State Park. On the return trip, examples of Oro Valley ranch brands are visible when you cross under the Oracle bridge. This ride allows connections to both other shared use paths and bike routes in Oro Valley, as well as to the Pima County Loop.

The adventure, beauty and excitement awaiting you in and around Oro Valley abound. The spring is the best time to experience it.

We hope these stories inspire you to get outdoors and enjoy what awaits you not far from your front door.

Please remember to always take plenty of water on any outdoor excursion.

Dehydration due to lack of water will quickly change the fun to something very different. A snack is also advised for any adventures taking more than two hours. Have fun and be prepared Oro Valley!

Nancy Ellis is an assistant recreation manager for the Town of Oro Valley.

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COVID: Cases increasing in low-vaccination areas

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“Almost everybody knows somebody who got a little sick and if they get sick, they’re going to miss work and they can’t afford to miss work especially with the economy.”

The county has shifted to provide mobile vaccinations sites, partnering with local organizations to administer vaccines at a church, school, or cultural center. In April, the county partnered with FEMA to administer vaccines through two mobile sites that changed to several different locations where they hoped to make it easy for those most at risk and vulnerable to get their shot.

As of June 26, the FEMA mobile unit vaccinations have ended and large vaccination sites shut down, with Gila River Arena in Glendale administering final doses on June 28.

However, the vaccination effort continues and the CDC has funded

Pima County Health Department Director Dr. Theresa Cullen had hoped the county could reach the goal, but said last week it would fall short of hitting the number by Independence Day. “We’re not going to meet it,” said Cullen. “But we’re close, hopefully we’ll be at 69%.”

Reaching the elusive herd immunity has proven difficult as vaccine administration steadily decreased beginning in April. While some people remain hesitant to get a shot or simply are refusing to do so, health officials attribute the struggle to vaccinate to a lack of access.

“One thing we hear repeatedly from people that are working hourly jobs is that they’re really fearful about getting vaccinated because they’re not salaried and they may or may not have any kind of medical leave,” said Cullen.

several initiatives across Arizona to address health disparities due to COVID-19 and the barriers to vaccination.

The Arizona Prevention Research Center (AzPRC) at University of Arizona’s College of Public Health received a one-year supplemental grant award of $500,000 from the CDC to increase vaccinations among rural, border and underserved Arizona communities and identify barriers to increase confidence in COVID-19 vaccines.

Tomas Nuño, the lead and co-investigator for the effort, said AzPRC will use its existing network to conduct the research, partnering with the university’s mobile health units, which have been administering COVID-19 vaccines to rural, uninsured and farmworker populations in Southern Arizona since February.

The funding would be used to conduct listening

sessions with AzPRC’s Community Action Board members and other key stakeholders to identify barriers to increased vaccinations and identify solutions. It would also support the Mobile Health Units to increase vaccine confidence and conduct surveys to understand barriers to getting vaccinated.

Nuño said they hope to learn what factors lead to “confidence or no confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine.” They would be asking what people consider their concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine, how they get their information and who might have influenced their decision, like their provider or family and friends. From the work conducted by the Mobile Health Units, Nuño said practical issues play the biggest role in the vaccination effort for the Hispanic community.

“For the Hispanic community it’s not about hesitancy so much, it’s more

about access and availability and fear of what are the requirements to get vaccinated, fear of giving personal information or work requirements, not being able to get off work,” said Nuño.

Nuño is aware a lot could change over the course of the year. He said they have already discussed the possibility of addressing the need for a booster shot or a surge in the winter, or even a decline in need with high vaccination rates.

“Hopefully we can increase the confidence and increase the access,” said Nuño. “So it starts with the ease of access in providing it and then confidence and then actually getting vaccinated.”

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a shorter period of time than if you had not been vaccinated.”

For Burgess, these findings showcase how remarkable the vaccines are and how lucky we have been.

“We’re really fortunate that we have these messenger RNA vaccines and they’re as effective as they are,” said Burgess. “These are not brand-new vaccines. The history of messenger RNA vaccines goes back 10 years and they’ve been improved over time, and I think that we benefited, when the COVID-19 pandemic occurred, from all that previous development. But we’re also fortunate, at least to this time, that so far it’s been effective against the variants, maybe not quite as effective, but still been effective against all the COVID-19 variants that have occurred.”

Burgess said there’s reasonable evidence to support that the Delta variant, which is becoming the dominant strain across the U.S., is more infectious and more severe. Since January, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Flagstaff has reported 122 cases of the Delta variant.

The county reported seven cases of the variant in the last two months, according to Huckelberry’s July 1 memo.

“We are worried about it, but it’s one reason why we monitor our daily cases so much and why they seem to be pretty stable right now,” said Cullen.

“The vaccine seems to be as protective, so we’re not worried about that. What we’re worried about is it

getting in the unprotected, unvaccinated community because it will spread quicker.”

MORE LOCAL COVID CASES IN AREAS WITH LOWER VACCINATION RATES County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry’s June 8 memo shows 160 cases of COVID-19 between May 30 and June 5 plotted across a map of Pima County, highlighting areas with vaccination rates 75% or higher or 40% or less.

The majority of cases fall within areas with lower vaccination rates. While the data may support the efficacy of vaccines, Cullen has not seen what they would have liked in the targeted areas.

“Ideally what I would be showing is that we target a census tract, which we’ve done, we go in, we offer vaccine, people get completely vaccinated, which might be two shots, maybe one shot, and then we see the rate go down,” said Cullen. “That’s what we want to see. We have not seen that yet.”

According to Cullen, it may be because they have only begun targeting areas by census tract about two months ago or because they have not targeted smaller census tracts, which could show significant differences versus ones that may have higher populations, requiring more vaccinations.

In order to target those areas, Cullen hopes people will request a mobile vaccination clinic for their community. The county health department also re-

ceived a small grant from the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). The COVID-19 Community Champions mini-grants will provide eight awards of $2,500 each to community-based organizations in Pima County, serving racial and minority, rural and highly impacted communities in order to increase access to COVID-19 vaccination information and resources through trusted community members, leaders and messengers.

Applicants have until July 12 to apply.

The Pima County Health Department also received $6.5 million from the CDC to address COVID-19 health disparities among high-risk and underserved populations, including racial and ethnic minority populations and rural communities, but with a focus on testing.

In order to increase and improve testing for those communities, the county will provide home testing for the first time. Cullen said the county currently tests people who have had contact with COVID-positive patients, such as people who are quarantining because they’ve been named as a contact. The county asks those people to test on day five of their quarantine, but are unsure of how many people actually get tested.

“For almost all of them, they have to go somewhere,” Cullen said. “We don’t know how many people test. We believe it’s a high number. We do follow up with them, and people self-reveal that they’ve tested. This is to accelerate the ability for

people to make it easier for people to be able to take home tests for COVID.” Further, Cullen hopes to facilitate the access of care after testing positive.

“It’s really up to us to say, ‘If you test positive, here’s the phone number, we’re going to make it really easy for you to get care and to get follow-up,’ and that’s the point,” said Cullen. “We want to remind people that case investigation and contact tracing is the way we really can stop the pandemic right now.”

The county has remained at below 50 cases per 100,000 individuals, fluctuating between 20 to 50 positive cases for more than a month.

“That’s a number that we can handle with case investigation, contact tracing with no problem,” Cullen said.

The county also plans to work with community-based organizations to offer home testing in place of their mobile testing sites. The funds would be used to improve the data collection and accessibility.

“We’ve been able to use data to identify atrisk communities and so our plan is to just make that more easily accessible,” said Cullen. “Work with the community to see what it would take for them to have a better understanding and ability to use the data that’s out there, because while it seems intuitive, I think it’s not intuitive and I think for some people, they don’t understand yet or don’t even know that it exists.”

In order to address disparities created by COVID-19, the county will

hire six community health workers, trained in public health, according to Cullen. They would provide referrals to community-based services, including eviction prevention, food security, transportation and outreach in the community and at mobile testing and vaccine events.

A part of the plan also looks to build on the need for trauma-informed care, especially following the pandemic, not only for public health workers, but also for the community at large.

In CDC’s latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), a little more than half of the 26,174 surveyed state, tribal, local and territorial public health workers reported symptoms of at least one mental health condition in the past two weeks. According to the report, symptoms were more prevalent among those who were unable to take time off or worked 41 hours or more per week.

“The goal is to develop

a way to identify and address the needs of people that have had trauma secondary to COVID, and while the focus will be on public health workers, it won’t be limited to public health workers, it’s really to work with the community,” said Cullen.

The county also plans on partnering with local legal organizations focused on providing legal services to communities with low socioeconomic status to create a dedicated public health legal team.

The team would provide expedited referrals and legal support focusing on eviction prevention, domestic violence, child abuse and public benefits.

While the majority of the funding focuses on testing, the county would distribute $925,000 to community-based groups disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 to help people access COVID testing, contact tracing and vaccinations, while also embedding a community health worker.

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Marana remembers longtime chamber president Ed Stolmaker Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

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n his goodbye message to the Marana Chamber of Commerce in 2018, president and CEO Ed Stolmaker explained that he planned to maintain a presence in the community he’d spent more than a decade growing. Not only did these plans come true in the following years, but Stolmaker’s influence seems to endure through the individuals and town he worked with.

Originally born in Boston, Stolmaker worked

for many years in New Jersey before coming to Marana in 1999. Though his work ethic benefitted the Marana Chamber of Commerce, of equal importance was his focus on networking for the local business community.

“Everything he did he gave 110%. Nothing was ever short-changed. If he was going to do something, he’d do it the right way. It was never a question,” said his daughter Dori Stolmaker. “As an older adult, I can look back and see all the sacrifices he made for all of us kids to be the amazing people we are today.

He taught us humility, to take pride in your work, to be kind to other people. Everything that he is, we were taught.”

Marana mayor Ed Honea estimates that when Stolmaker first joined the Marana Chamber, it had some 300 members.

But when he left 15 years later, the Chamber had 550 members—thanks to his focus on networking and supporting local business.

“He was a tremendous personal friend. You’re colleagues with some people, and others you get along with personally,” Honea said. “Ed was

one of the most likeable people I ever met, and I don’t think I’ve seen or talked to anybody that didn’t like him. I can even talk to people that don’t like me, and they’ll tell me they like him.”

Stolmaker’s work with the Chamber included organizing quarterly luncheons, guest speakers and even devoting time for every Chamber member to introduce themselves at functions allowing for more collaboration between local business owners.

“Even if he didn’t agree, he’d be very professional as to why he

didn’t agree and explaining things in detail that others could understand,” Honea said. “There were even times during State of the Town where I’d want to do something and he’d disagree, and 90% of the time he was right, doggone it.”

Stolmaker passed away due to cancer on June 22 at 75 years old. As health issues grew later in his life, he passed the role of Chamber president onto Audra Winters, who says he made the transition very easy, even staying on for extra time to ensure the Chamber was left in a good position.

“He was able to walk me through a lot of the process and introduce me to a lot of people, because I came from another state and really didn’t know a lot of people around Tucson,” Winters said. “He created this culture here at the Chamber that was more like a family and everyone wanted to get to know each other and support each other. Taking that over was such an honor.”

This work led to Stolmaker earning a Branding Iron award from the Town of Marana, awarded to those who’ve left a mark on the community.

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“The friendships I have formed in my time with the chamber will remain as close as ever. I will continue supporting Marana businesses and the chamber in every way I can. This is a strong organization that will accomplish many great things in the years to come. It was my honor to serve all of you, and I look forward to watching the chamber grow and thrive,” Ed Stolmaker wrote in his goodbye announcement from the Marana Chamber of Commerce.

“Whenever someone came to him with a project, he made it seem very effortless. He took it in and made sure it went with the mission of the Chamber, and connected with the right people to make it happen. It was a seamless process,” Winters

said. “He was a true gentleman. He treated everyone the same and genuinely cared about your story or business. He wanted to know the person first, and then got to know the business to see how the Chamber and business could work together.”

During his tenure, the Marana Chamber was voted the best chamber of commerce in the Tucson area multiple times.

Stolmaker also served on the Marana Health Center Board of Directors and served as president of the Sanctuary Cove Board of Directors.

“Individuals within the town have learned a lot from him, just as far as being understanding of other people’s situation from a business standpoint. Not to be so definite in a yes-or-no sense, and to work with people as best as you can, to make it work for everybody,” Dori said. “He really was accommodating, and if anything, his legacy is: ‘How do we make it work for everybody?’”

As news of his passing broke, many members and businesses of the community issued fond memories and condolences. To his family, this outpouring of support was to be expected.

“I was not surprised. I knew that was how much he impacted the commu-

nity, and I knew that was what he meant to so many people,” Dori said. “But I was surprised by how many people reached out

The client said he met Stolmaker years ago, and in just a brief meeting, he changed the client’s life.

“This is the influence

Whenever someone came to him with a project, he made it seem very effortless. He took it in and made sure it went with the mission of the Chamber, and connected with the right people to make it happen. It was a seamless process.

—Marana Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Audra Winters

that I didn’t know. I knew he was loved by so many, but I didn’t realize his reach outside of the Marana community.”

Dori even recalls a time she went to a client’s house, and was recognized by her last name.

he had on people. That gentleman is so grateful to this day to have the opportunity to meet my dad,” Dori said. “So there are so many groups, people from different walks of life, even groups outside Arizona, he impact-

ed. I take a lot of strength in knowing that’s who he was.”

After he retired from the Marana Chamber in 2018, Stolmaker balanced his time between his kids and grandkids, and golf.

In commemoration of Stolmaker and his love of golf, the Marana Chamber is renaming their annual golf tournament.

The Marana Chamber Golf Tournament is now the Marana Chamber of Commerce Ed Stolmaker Golf Tournament, and is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 27, at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Golf Course.

“I really just want to thank everybody for everything they said about him. It’s so comforting to know that my father was such an inspiration for so many. That gives so much comfort in his death, and I think that is speaking for my entire family,” Dori said. “I really don’t think he knew how much of himself he passed on to other people when they met him.”

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Reeling from pandemic closures, some arts groups find new ways to work together Margaret Regan

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t took a pandemic to get the Arizona Theatre Company and the Tucson Museum of Art to join forces once again.

Sort of.

Nowadays, ATC is the sole art organization that makes its permanent home in the Temple of Music and Art. But back in the 1920s, when Tucson was smaller, the Temple was host to a multitude of arts, including theatrical groups that were the precursor of ATC. And the Tucson Fine Arts Association—the forebear of the TMA—was the equal of the other groups.

It “used to occupy gallery space on the second floor,” says Jeremy Mikolajzak, director of the Tucson Museum of Art, displaying art and bringing in esteemed lecturers from the likes of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Eventually the association moved on to other digs, and in 1975 built the Tucson Museum of Art and took that as its name.

Now, thanks to the pandemic, ATC and TMA are sharing some space, just as their forebears did long ago.

The theatre now rents six offices in the museum’s Baker Center, while still maintaining its theatrical home in the Temple, a 15-minute walk

away. Luckily, the actors won’t be rehearsing Shakespearean sword fights or other scenes in the museum. The rehearsals will still be in the Temple, in a large hall that is also useful for stashing scenery.

The switch came about when ATC sold the Glenwood Hotel, a handsome historic building on Scott Avenue. It was sold this spring to developers for $1.1 million.

The theatre company had had their offices for 14 years at the Glenwood, which is conveniently right across the street from the Temple. But ever since COVID forced a shutdown in March 2020, the theatre has been dark.

Without ticket sales, ATC was strapped for cash. And like workers across the United States, the theater’s staffers fled to their homes to avoid the deadly virus; they quickly switched to doing their work on laptops and their meetings on Zoom.

“Once the pandemic hit, we had three or four people in the Glenwood,” ATC artistic director Sean Daniels says. “We were using half of that building. Empty offices, tons of storage. The office culture has changed” and it’s not coming back. “We learned in the pandemic that people are going to be able to work from home. We can work from

multiple places.”

It made sense to sell.

“For us to own office space is not where an arts organization should be. We should be putting money on stage or on our staff.”

Daniels says ATC was careful to sell to buyers who would respect Glenwood’s cultural value. One of the developers, Kevin Volk, told the Arizona Daily Star that the group is “committed to honoring the property and preserving the architecture.”

For a company that almost folded a few years back, the money is a gold mine. “We’re really in a fantastic place right now,” Daniels says, “looking to come back really strong.”

If the pandemic unexpectedly got the theater on a good financial footing, it also pushed the company into the online world.

“A year ago we were like every other theatre. We would put some ads on Facebook and wondered why it wasn’t working in terms of digital marketing,” he recalls. With live theatre impossible, COVID forced the staff to up their virtual game. Before long, Daniels was hosting a popular online talk show every Friday. ATC started staging free online readings of new plays, performed by actors in their homes all over the coun-

try. The audiences watching from their own homes have numbered as many as 24,000 over the course of one play, far more than the audiences the company attracts in person.

“Now we have a real base of people that we connect with online on a weekly basis,” Daniels says. “It’s a newer audience—a real silver lining. We won’t try to get them all into the theatre, but if 10% of them came, 20% came, that would be transformative.”

Over at TMA, director Mikolajzak can also count some blessings. Renting the rooms out to his ATC friends brings in some welcome cash.

The museum was closed for months, and then reopened on July 30 with limited hours and capacity, which means a loss in revenue. Unfortunately, the office rooms now occupied

by ATC staff are empty in part because some TMA staffers were let go.

To make the ATC folks feel comfortable, the art museum hung up an old print of a painting in the Fine Arts Association gallery in the Temple in those early days.

“Collaboration is something we in the arts talk about all the time,” says Mikolajzak. And now that they see their theatre colleagues often, “we’re talking about collaborative lectures, talking about

our summer arts program.

There might be a performance that goes along with an exhibition.

“I’m excited for this collaboration. I want museum patrons to go to the theater, to the university, to MOCA, to experience contemporary art, desert museum or zoos. Arts in a city like Tucson really do need to stick together.”

Some of the town’s smaller arts groups have also found positive ways to counteract the coronavirus. Ballet Tucson partnered with other organizations in a series of outdoor dance concerts this winter and spring, bringing attention to all of them. The troupe danced at Tucson Botanical Gardens, public parks, St. Philip’s Farmers Market and Tucson Museum of Art. After the two performances at TMA, audience members were invited to come inside and look at the popular Wyeth show, the new Latin American Art wing and others.

John Salgado of Raices Taller says that the 23-yearold gallery has weathered many ups and down, so COVID 19 was “one more to tackle.” The Latinx gallery has always been an in-person enterprise but early in the lockdown Salgado taught himself how to create online

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exhibitions.

“We’ve had great results,” he says, “and we have actually increased our outreach.” Artists from Croatia, Canada, Mexico, India, the Netherlands and others have now shown their work in the virtual gallery. Sales are up too, so much so that Salgado plans to make all future exhibitions hybrids, showing art both online and in person.

“Definite silver linings have allowed us to continue our mission,” he says.

Contreras Gallery has likewise assembled virtual shows. Husband and wife Michael Contreras and Neda Contreras have continued making their own art in their space, and their work, Neda’s paintings and Michael’s handmade silver and turquoise jewelry, helped pay the rent.

Last spring, Michael vowed that the gallery would not open its doors until an effective vaccination was widely available. That time has now come, and Contreras will open on the Fourth of July weekend. There will be no reception but the show of work by nine women is still a celebration.

“We’ve been in hibernation,” Michael says. “And now we’re finally emerging.”

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Supreme Court: “The mere fact there is some disparity in impact does not necessarily mean that a system is not equally open” Continued from P1

But Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich called the decision “a win for election integrity safeguards in Arizona and across the country.”

“Fair elections are the cornerstone of our republic and they start with rational laws that protect both the right to vote and the accuracy of the results,” Brnovich tweeted after the court handed down its ruling in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee.

Critics – from President Joe Biden down to local voting rights advocates – said the ruling guts a critical piece of the Voting Rights Act that the court weakened in a separate case eight years ago. It comes as state legislatures considered record numbers of voting restriction bills this year.

“Today’s decision

takes a sledgehammer to that foundation (of equal access to voting) and gives a green light to states like Arizona to enact further restrictions that target minority voters and limit their ability to exercise their right to vote,” said Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Tucson, in a prepared statement.

The ruling concerned Democratic challenges to Arizona’s 2016 ballot-collection law, which made it a felony for anyone other than a family member, caretaker or letter carrier to turn in a voter’s ballot. It also ruled on the state’s longstanding policy on ballots cast outside a voter’s precinct, which requires election officials to reject any ballot cast in the wrong precinct – thus voiding the voter’s choice in national and statewide elections not related to precincts.

Advocates said those rules targeted Black, His-

panic and Native American voters. They rely more heavily than others on mail-in voting and are more likely to face confusion about where to vote, because of shifting precincts, and have transportation issues that make it hard to get to the right precinct, the advocates said.

Two federal courts upheld the state’s policies, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2020 that the rules had a disproportionate impact on minority voters. The court said that violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits any procedure that makes it harder for anyone to vote “on account of race or color.”

The Supreme Court reversed that ruling Thursday in an opinion

by Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote that whatever hurdles the policies impose fall on all voters

evenly and are no more than squarely the “usual burdens of voting.”

“A policy that appears to work for 98% or more of voters to whom it applies – minority and non-minority alike – is unlikely to render a system unequally open,” Alito wrote.

He cited data from Arizona’s 2016 general election that showed that “a little over 1% of Hispanic voters, 1% of African-American voters, and 1% of Native American voters” who cast a ballot on Election Day, did so in the wrong precinct.

That compared to a rate of 0.5% for non-minority voters, he said.

“The mere fact there is some disparity in impact does not necessarily mean that a system is not equally open,” Alito wrote.

But Kagan said those numbers can make a difference in an election.

“A rule that throws out, each and every election, thousands of votes cast by minority citizens is a rule that can affect election outcomes,” she wrote. “If you were a minority vote suppressor in Arizona or elsewhere, you would want that rule in your bag of tricks.”

While the rules may not be discriminatory on their face, they are in

effect, she said. The outof-precinct policy results in “Hispanic and African American voters’ ballots being thrown out at a statistically higher rate than those of whites,” she wrote, and the ballot-harvesting ban makes voting “meaningfully more difficult” for Native Americans who “need to travel long distances to use the mail.”

Kagan said Section 2 should be interpreted broadly to guarantee a fundamental right, but that the majority instead “undermines” a law it considers too “radical.”

Section 2 should apply to the Arizona rules, she said, but “The majority reaches the opposite conclusion because it closes its eyes to the facts on the ground.”

Ryan Snow, an attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, called the ruling just another example of voting rights advocates and a conservative court butting heads.

And it won’t be the last time, he said.

“There’s going to be more litigation,” Snow said. “In the Supreme Court’s ruling they said they will take up more voting rights concerns, so it certainly won’t be the last.”

Korina Iribe, voting

rights activist with the Movement Voter Project, called the ruling an example of attacks from state legislatures on ballot access for some voters in response to the 2020 elections.

“Elected Republican officials are saying this has to stop, because they saw people get out and vote” in the last election, Iribe said.

But Lori Roman, president at the American Civil Rights Union, said “the argument against voting integrity laws are subjective and not based on facts.” She added that Arizona had merely enacted “common-sense election laws” which “should make it easier for states that are trying to protect the security of their elections going forward.”

Niles Harris, executive director at Honest Arizona, criticized Brnovich for pursuing the case that “undermined the most important voting rights law enacted in the 20th century,” a comment echoed by Grijalva.

“Once again, a conservative court has gutted a critical provision of the Voting Rights Act and made it more difficult for minority voters to prove discriminatory intent when state legislatures pass new voting laws,” Grijalva said.

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year ago at this time, some people were out spreading the virus, but a lot of us were staying close to home, making Netflix ridiculously profitable. (It’s true that Blockbuster Video, at the start of its downward slide, could have bought Netflix for only $50 million.)

Anyway, now that sports are back for real, you no longer have to watch sports movies on a streaming service. But since you did, let’s see how you do on this sports-film quiz: 1. Three people have won Best Acting Oscars for portraying boxers.

One was Wallace Beery in the 1931 film The Champ.

Name the other two.

2. Name three sports movies that won the Oscar for Best Picture. (Two hints: None of the winners involves baseball, football, basketball, or hockey…or horse racing. And one of the winners is a true story about a guy named Harold Abrahams.)

3. Only three baseball movies have been nomi-

nated for Best Picture (but didn’t win). They are Pride of the Yankees, Field of Dreams, and Moneyball.

Somewhat surprisingly, an equal number of movies involving football have been nominated for Best Picture. (None of those won, either.) Name them.

BONUS: Two of the films had people win acting Oscars for their performances—a Best Actress and a Best Supporting Actor. Name them.

Quaid. Name them.

7. This mini-series about a sorta-sport, and starring an Argentine-British actress, was all the rage last year among pandemic homebodies. Name it.

3. The three football movies that were nominated for Best Picture are Jerry McGuire with Best Supporting Actor Cuba Gooding, Jr.; The Blind Side with Best Actress Sandra Bullock; and Warren Beatty’s reincarnation comedy, Heaven Can Wait.

age dramedy Breaking Away, about white-bread Bloomington, Indiana teenager Dave Stohler who somehow believes that he’s Italian. Not Italian-American; actually from Italy and he wants to be part of the Italian racing team that competes in the Tour De France. This movie has so much heart.

watched the whole thing over a 24-hour period.

Taylor-Joy is amazing and, while it is such a cliché, she’s great at walking the tightrope between genius and madness (which, apparently, is a pretty common thing among chess grandmasters).

8. What’s the biggest 8. The Blind Side took money-making sports in over $300 million (on 4. The criminally unmovie of all time? See if 7. The Queen’s Gambit, a budget of only $29 milyou can provide the an- derappreciated drama seswer for the one that took ries Friday Night Lights starring Anya Taylor-Joy, lion). Adjusted for inflain the most money at the is widely considered to be was an absolute sensa- tion, the original Rocky is time of 2009 release and one of the best drama se- tion. It’s one of the high- a runaway winner in this the 1976 film that has the ries in the history of tele- est-rated streaming series category.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). People can pilfer power in a multitude of sneaky ways. Seduction is a fun one. Sensationalism is another, causing you to look. Once you see, you can never unsee.

Don’t give away your power. Stay vigilant in the protection of your attention and energy.

Surround yourself with those who bring out your best.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). While silence includes the absence of sound, golden silence makes even more space, spreading out a soft place for all to land. You’ll choose your words carefully, and your nonverbal responses even more so. You’ll often walk in nonjudgment and the welcoming emotional tone of gentle acceptance.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Awareness and action go together. This is why our minds often protect us from information, storing it in the subconscious until we’re ready for it.

Realizations can be painful rites of passage.

They indicate we’re finally strong enough to do something about the circumstance. Here comes your aha moment.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll have the flexibility to weather any change thrown your way. You’ll handle things like an action star in a fantastically choreographed fight scene, dodging blows and using the felicitous arrangement of your surroundings to help your cause. These are the battle stories you’ll remember fondly upon the return of calm.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’d normally execute hundreds of actions in response to cues so subtle they speak only to your subconscious.

But this week marks an awakening. You clearly see the most difficult thing of all to comprehend -- the environment you live in every day. A better way forward opens before your eyes.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). If you’re afraid to go against the tribe’s wishes, consider that such a thing may not exist. The tribe cannot wish; only people can, and each person does it differently.

Some wishes mesh, and others don’t. Arguing over it is a waste of time. Let your agenda play out in swift and loving action, and all will be well.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Rules, spoken and unspoken, will be obeyed. People will do as they are allowed to do. Change allowances and people change. Structuring interactions is an art requiring thought, practice, experimentation, adjustment, application -- rinse and repeat.

What works in one era may not in the next.

Keep finding what works.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Kindness is among the top attractive qualities, though it is often knocked down the list by flashier qualities such as courage. Having the courage to be kind when others aren’t will enable you to claim both qualities and activate a deep primal preference in others who will be inspired by and attracted to you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It takes a lot of energy to think, which is why overthinking is really an egregious waste. When you start repeating thoughts, get creative instead. Seek answers to the left and right; reach up; root down. Change the pattern and you’ll interrupt the swirl of energy headed down the drain.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Because you seek to understand a situation better, the rules of active listening will apply in crucial moments of the week. The hardest one to swallow: Anything your partner says is OK. When you hold a purpose of helping your partner get clear (instead of communicating your own agenda) you’ll make progress.

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