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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Johnny Ringo’s path to health after cancer

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor

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uring Johnny Ringo’s harrowing struggle with pancreatic cancer, he held onto the hopes of having coffee with and hugging loved ones.

Meanwhile, fellow Cave Creek residents and friends held their virtual arms around him. God did, too, according to Ringo.

He celebrated his newfound love of Him and his recovery from pancreatic cancer with an Easter Sunday baptism performed

by Pastor Steve Gilbertson. The church was packed—a true testament to his popularity.

“There were six others who were baptized with me,” Ringo said. “We are all siblings now of God. It was a beautiful day and lots

FEATURES ........17

Attorney named towns’ new magistrate

OPINION ................... 12

BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Contributing Writer

NEWS ................ 7 Wrong-way driver was Cave Creek resident

Ribbon-cutting ceremony at Stick Golf & Cigar Lounge

Bradshaw Mountain Festival brings rock collectors from around the state

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ttorney Tara Parascandola was unanimously approved as the new magistrate for the Carefree-Cave Creek Consolidated Municipal Court during the April 6 Carefree Town Council meeting.

“I am honored to have been selected for this position,” Parascandola said.

Johnny Ringo owns Carefree Adventures. However, his touring vehicles were incinerated by a wildfire. (Photo

by Pablo Robles)

“I’m eager to get started. I’m committed to continuing exactly the type of great service that the communities can expect from the consolidated court, continuing to model best practices and, of course, continuing to provide access to justice for all.”

A magistrate works as a civil officer that administers and enforces the law but with limited judicial power compared to a judge.

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of people were there to watch Johnny Ringo. I didn’t get dunked because of my incisions inside and outside of my body.

Pastor Steve dipped his cowboy hat in water, poured it over my head and blessed me that way. It doesn’t get any better than that.”

‘Divine experience’ On Cave Creek social media pages, Ringo is one of the most asked about residents. Folks worried about his health and wondered if he would return to his former job of hosting Jeep tours through Carefree Adventures.

“I read them at night,” said Ringo, as he started to cry. “I read them with a tear in my eye. It makes me feel happy that people are doing things for me. It’s unspeakable. I can’t even tell you how much support I’ve been getting from so many people. Most of them say, ‘Johnny, look at all you’ve done for the community all of these years. This is the least we could do for you.’

“I had a divine experience touching so many people in my life, through my business, and helping all the people in the community. I was president of the chamber for a while. I started all these western events.”

Ringo is living his dream — a dream of leaving behind the recycling business to live in the Wild West, become a cowboy and ride a black and white horse.”

“I’ve been sharing my dream with

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Johnny Ringo of Cave Creek has made no secret of his pancreatic cancer battle. (Photo by Pablo Robles)

Johnny Ringo with his life partner, Terre Mollnhauer, whom he calls the smartest person he knows.

(Photo by Pablo Robles) thousands of people,” he said. “So many people have been out on tours with me. We’ve become friends forever and they’re praying for me. Giving me strength are all the prayers and God watching over me. I’m giving this same thing back to others. I’m been counseling people here at my house. They know what I’m going through and they’re going through the same.”

‘Poster boy for pancreatic cancer’ Ringo, whose touring vehicles were incinerated in a wildfire, makes no secret of his cancer battle. To increase his chances of healing, he underwent a Whipple procedure, also known as a pancreaticoduodenectomy, according to the Mayo Clinic. It’s a complex operation to remove the head of the pancreas, the first part of the small intestine (duodenum), the gallbladder and the bile duct.

After performing the Whipple procedure, surgeons reconnect the remaining organs to allow patients to digest food normally after surgery.

He went through multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, “really aggressive radiation,” he said.

“After a couple months of chemo, I had another CT,” Ringo said.

“While I was having chemo, the doctor was looking at my CT and he didn’t say anything. Then, he said, ‘Who are you?’

I said, ‘I’m Johnny Ringo. You got a problem with that?’

“He said in all his years of dealing with cancer, he has never seen a tumor such

as mine shrink. He said he couldn’t find a tumor anywhere. They pulled the plug on my chemo right then.”

His doctors call Ringo the poster boy for pancreatic cancer, calling his recovery miraculous.

Ringo told friends and family that his pancreatic cancer would be gone eight weeks later, by his Feb. 15 birthday. It came true.

Ringo, however, had 33 lymph nodes removed, and 10 were cancerous.

“Twenty-three didn’t,” he said. “That’s the way I see it.”

Soon, he will begin chemotherapy once again. “They want to make sure, if there’s any other lymph nodes floating around, that they don’t have cancer cells.”

As always, Ringo thought about himself. He is participating in a study to help other pancreatic cancer patients. While doctors performed the Whipple procedure, they removed blood, cancerous tissue and cystic fluid to scrutinize.

“Doctors asked me if I wanted to be on their team,” recalled the National Guard veteran. “I said, if it’s going to help cure cancer, especially pancreatic cancer, and cure me and others, where do I sign up.

“I do exactly what they tell me to do.

Nothing goes in my body unless they give me the OK. That includes food.”

Ringo starts to cry again.

“I feel really good about myself doing that,” he said of the study. “That was part of my being baptized. God has given me a miracle and I just want to return it.”

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attorney for 22 years as both a public defender and prosecutor. She has also worked within the city of Mesa and Carefree courts.

“She’s very familiar with the culture, very familiar with the idiosyncrasies behind Cave Creek and Carefree and she’s going to fit us like a nice glove,” said Gary Neiss, town administrator.

“I would like to welcome her, and I am very excited for her to be part of the family here in Carefree.”

This vote comes after the presiding judge, Stephanie Olohan, accepted a full-time position with the city of Mesa Municipal Court after working for the Carefree-Cave Creek Consolidated Court for six years. “[Olohan] served us well,” Neiss said during the town council meeting. “She was a great part of the culture of the court and success of the court. I would really like to thank her for her time and dedication to our court. I think we are going to make a smooth transition with Parascandola, who is similar in character.”

Parascandola said when she saw the position available, she was eager to apply.

The town’s selection committee conducted a search for a new magistrate throughout the past month, with extensive interviews of the final candidates.

After review, Parascandola was recommended for the position.

“This young lady has excellent credentials, and we think she would fit in very well with the culture and the legal system that is exercised here,” said Mayor Les Peterson during the council meeting.

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Parascandola’s contract is for four years and is effective as of April 7, consistent with the previous magistrate’s contract. She will be paid a salary of $3,750 per month, with a 3% increase in July 2022. Because Parascandola will work as an independent contractor as opposed to an employee of the town, she will not receive workers compensation benefits.

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Junk belongs in the dump, not the desert

BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Contributing Writer

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orth Valley native, Dustin Holm, uses his own business, resources and time to keep the deserts clean, with the help of more than 50 volunteers.

“We started last March and have cleaned up almost 40,000 pounds of junk from the desert in the North Phoenix area,” Holm said.

“My business provides the equipment and does the disposal. We work with community volunteers and other business volunteers. We get 40 to 50 people showing up to each cleanup. It’s a lot bigger than I ever thought it would be.”

Dumping trash or any type of waste in unauthorized areas is illegal in Maricopa County, but many do it anyway to avoid the time or effort it would take to properly dispose of the item or to avoid landfill disposal fees.

Holm started his business, North Val-

ley Custom Hauling, with his family four years ago after repeatedly seeing junk left on the sides of the road and other places it doesn’t belong.

“We’d drive by a mattress five or six times, and you figure that someone will pick it up, but who? Well, I’ll pick it up,” he said.

“Then we wanted to take ownership, and we started picking up things on a daily basis. We started seeing areas that were beyond things that two or three of us should do. We used Facebook and created [a site for] volunteers and they came willingly and quickly.”

Holm said he started with about 17 volunteers, mostly from his neighborhood, but through social media advertising he has tripled those numbers. They have volunteers from residents, hiking groups and Boy Scout troops.

Johnathan Cox is a volunteer who has been at every cleanup event since the “Don’t Dump in Our Desert” campaign

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“I live here, so it directly affects me and my children,” Cox said. “We like to go out with four wheelers and dirt bikes, so my kids are constantly out there riding around, and we always see [the trash]. There are other people in the neighborhood who see it too. They ride, either on horses or bikes, and picking it up benefits us all.”

Cox said most of what they pick up is illegal dumping, and that closer to the mountains, they have to pick up trash left over from photoshoots. He said that while the photoshoots themselves are fine, some people use confetti or balloons and are not mindful about picking things up when they are finished.

According to Holm, they have found a variety of random items left in the middle of the desert.

“At one location, we picked up a Ford, straight-six motor out of an abandoned car,” Holm said. “We’ve picked up about a few thousand pounds of glass windshields that were dumped. There was a whole pile of them, about 4 feet tall. One area we had already cleaned, I went back to make sure it stayed clean, and found 107 aerosol paint cans.”

Holm said the worst part about seeing junk thrown in the desert is that it would have cost about $15 to $20 to take it to a landfill to be disposed of proper-

ly, but people chose to dump it in the desert, and that invites others to dump there, too.

Another long-term volunteer, Jason Pfeifer, said he and his fiancée have been to every cleanup because they feel they should do their part to help.

“It’s just part of being in the community,” Pfeifer said. “We’ll put in half a day’s work seeing the huge impact it does means a lot. How could you not do it? It makes me feel good about myself because it’s the right thing to do. If you don’t do it, who is going to?”

While Holm’s company provides as much as they can, many of the volunteers offer more than just their time, but their own trash bags, rakes, gloves and trailers to help out.

The most recent cleanup was held April 10 at a waterhole on the Emery Henderson trail outside Anthem. The day was a success, with 5,520 pounds of junk cleared from the area by more 40 volunteers and wild donkeys who spectated.

Holm said they hope to continue doing monthly cleanups and would welcome anyone who is interested. For more details on future cleanups, follow “Don’t Dump in Our Desert” on Facebook or Instagram.

“We welcome anybody that wants to donate their time. There’s plenty of trash to go around,” Cox said.

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Wrong-way driver was a Cave Creek resident

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor

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37-year-old Cave Creek man died at 10:34 p.m. April 2 after he drove the wrong way on U.S. 60 at milepost 123 and collided with an SUV with four occupants, said Sgt. Kameron Lee, public information office supervisor for the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

Michael Glen Sytsma was driving east in the westbound lanes in a white 2005 Nissan Titan pickup truck, without using headlights, when it struck a silver 2020 Chevrolet SUV head on. The impact caused the silver SUV to catch fire and become fully engulfed.

The driver, the sole occupant of the wrong-way pickup truck, died as a result of the collision. He has been identified

as 37-year-old Michael Glen Sytsma of Cave Creek. The medical examiner will complete toxicology and determine if impairment was a factor.

The four occupants of the SUV were all deceased on scene. Due to the fire, they were unidentifiable. The medical examiner will be working to positively identify the deceased victims.

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New hospital expected to create approximately 50 jobs

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor

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ecruiting is underway for nursing and other positions at the new Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital expected to open later this year. An on-site job fair is planned for 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, at the hospital located at 5227 E. Carefree Highway.

Applications are being accepted for emergency department and telemetry nurses, respiratory, physical and occupational therapists, radiology and laboratory professionals, and housekeeping jobs. Recruiters and hiring managers will be on-site during the job fair to greet prospective applicants at Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital.

Equipment and supply delivery and setup

are underway at the hospital, now that most of the building’s construction has finished.

Hospital leaders must complete hiring and training events, and certifications and licensing are required before opening.

Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital will include a 13-bed emergency department, an operating room and eight inpatient rooms, along with diagnostic imaging, laboratory and other services to meet patient needs. It will be capable of caring for patients of all ages and is designed with an emphasis on convenience, pa-

tient safety, surgical and emergency services.

“We are excited to expand Abrazo’s services in the North Valley,” said Sarah Bird, RN, BSN, administrative director. “Patients prefer to receive care closer to home, and Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital will be the community’s hospital for emergency care, low-acuity surgical services and related care.”

Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital is expected to create approximately 50 jobs. For more information or to see open positions, visit abrazohealth.com.

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AROUND THE BLUHMIN’ TOWN

Whole lotta lovin’ going on

BY JUDY BLUHM Foothills Focus Columnist

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ove is in the air! And so are the doves, finches and hummingbirds.

Spring brings the promise of hope, new life, fresh beginnings, green leaves and babies. Lots of them. Baby finches — in all their bright yellow glory — hang on the finch seed socks that I have hanging and chirp constantly, trying to figure out what they are supposed to do.

Mama finches take some of the Niger seed in their beaks and then regurgitate it into the baby’s mouths, as if to say,

“Start eating. Chew and stop crying!”

New starlings fly like jumbo jets without brakes, landing haphazardly on the edge of our hanging feeders, wondering what to do next. Baby quail the size of thimbles fan out and chase after their mothers, just trying to keep up.

Eat! That is the mantra of Spring. It is when birds, bunnies and lizards frolic in the grass, nibble on all things that are edible and decide it is time to expand their families. There is a whole lot of lovin’ going on in the wild right now and it has resulted in babies everywhere.

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trees, from holes in the ground and under the eaves of the house, something tells me that it is baby-making season.

Spring is more than that. It is hope in a sunrise, faith in a seedling that has taken root, wonder in a small bird with beating wings that flies 5,000 miles just to grace your feeder. It is light that streams in our windows at six o’clock in the morning, the breeze that gently caresses us, the flowers that push through dormant earth to greet us. Spring is here. It comes after the darkness of a long COVID-19 year of restrictions, quarantines and loss.

Spring spoils us. It reminds us of good things to come. Ice cream and family gatherings. Flowers and barbecues. Joy in unexpected places. Love that conquers all. My little pony, Buttercup, looks like a wooly mammoth in the winter months, all white and furry, a rotund beast. And now Spring is here, she has shed her thick wool and is a sleek palomino with smooth golden skin and a white shiny mane. That’s my dream! To shed my “fluffy” look from winter and emerge as a sleek, smooth pony. Hmmm . . .I can hope.

My friend in Phoenix says that since her husband died last year, she is “termi-

nally lonely.” Yet, I notice that since she got a little dog from the rescue, she has started opening up her blinds again and goes for walks every day. And so it goes.

Somehow, life finds a way.

The sunflower that arises in between cement blocks in a wall, as if to say, “I am here and I can’t be stopped.”

Or the baby birds that sing and chirp and shout out, “I am hungry and life is good.” Sometimes it takes a Spring day to help us realize that life is worth living. And like the sleek pony that sheds all burdens of winter, so can we. Spring is life bursting forth around us. Enjoy the splendor.

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Photo albums chronicle 60-year love affair

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Foothills Focus Columnist

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etween courtship and marriage, their love affair lasted 60 years. It spanned perfect health and terminal sickness, for richer and poorer, full measures of joy and sadness.

Inseparable, they accompanied one another from a park bench in Queens, where love at first sight took hold to a little white house in Florida where they lived for 40 years until death cleaved them apart.

Come the end, everything my parents owned fit into a few cardboard boxes stacked in what we called the family room.

Mostly, they left behind photo albums, thick parchment pages between leather covers. My mother filled these books with years of photographs, notes and keepsakes.

An engraved silver coin from an early date to Playland in Times Square. Whorls of my father’s hair wrapped in plastic.

New York Mets ticket stubs. The folio from my parents’ honeymoon night at a beachfront motel on Long Island.

The place was called the Ronjo. In 1964, it set back my father, who was 18, a cool 59 bucks.

The albums brim with photographs going back to my parents’ childhoods and forward through mine and my brother’s.

There’s the happy couple at Jones Beach, the ocean breeze lifting my father’s pompadour. There’s their first new car, a 1965 red Volkswagen Beetle, list price $1,650. There’s me as a baby, then my brother Matthew appears — the boys swaddled and held, playing with Evel Knievel toy motorcycles, riding bikes, dragging sleds up Suicide Hill.

My favorite picture tells a simple story.

I am 6, Matthew is 3. We are grinning and laughing with every tooth we can bare, each balanced on one of dad’s knees, with a birthday cake on the table before us. I cannot imagine being happier.

The more I flipped through the albums,

the more I felt loss in the depths of my heart. My father fought a grueling fight against Parkinson’s and dementia for three years, lasting until March 24, when he left to rejoin my mother, the one love of his life.

My sadness was not so much about losing him, but about the things we have lost as we jet forward through the 21st century.

Sitting in my parents’ kitchen for the first time minus my parents, I missed the elements that built their life together.

I missed photographs you can hold, pictures carefully pasted into books that may yellow and crumble with time, but never detach from the memories they capture.

Today, we have a trillion selfies, digital images of every last hamburger, every new outfit, every duck-lipped smile. It’s Instacrap, a style and volume of photography that cheapens memory.

Once, every photo mattered. You chose subjects carefully because you only had 12 or 24 or 36 shots. It took a week for Fotomat or the drugstore to deliver an envelope of celluloid treasures. Those were images worth keeping for life – because they held life in perpetuity.

Lifelong love also has fallen out of style.

Now it’s unicorn rare to see passion that begins with a smile shared on a junior high school playground and spans six decades.

I am talking about love that fills albums: with Father’s Day and Mother’s Day cards drawn by hand, with wedding photographs of the bride and groom looking more like prom royalty than adults a few months from parenthood.

I have had two marriages. We vowed till death do us part, but the relationships ended well short of the graveyard, in legal documents no one saves in an album full of treasures.

My parents, Lynn and Harvey Leibowitz, never owned much — just a few boxes of stuff and all those photo albums — but they had each other. And that was everything.

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Schulte said. “There’s a nice mix of everything. We like to include parks and reserves because we know they’ll always be there.”

Schulte said Late for the Sky can create games like this because Monopoly became public domain in the early 1980s.

New cities are released weekly.

Anthem-opoly was introduced in 2019, but there’s been a resurgence of talk about it on social media.

“Suddenly, the game is popular again,” he said. “We launched it in 2019 and we’ve been shipping that game pretty regularly since then. It’s been a really successful game for us and for Walmart.”

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Michael Schulte, marketing manager for Cincinnati-based Late for the Sky, witnessed that increase, especially with the game Anthem-opoly. Based on Monopoly, the game touches on Cave Creek Regional Park, The Tennessee Grill, Peoria Regional Preserve, Agua Fria River, Frontier Town, Cave Creek Museum, and the Outlets at Anthem.

“We try and incorporate points of interest, parks and some restaurants,”

Anthem-opoly covers Anthem, Cave Creek, Peoria and Carefree and is available at Walmart. (Photo courtesy of Late for the Sky)

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Sticks Golf & Cigar Lounge cuts the ribbon with the Carefree Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce.

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BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor

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he Carefree Cave Creek Chamber of Commerce hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Sticks Golf & Cigar Lounge, 37555 E. Hum Road, Carefree.

Sticks combines a premium cigar lounge with indoor golf and entertainment. It has a cedar, glass-cased 250-square-foot cigar humidor with more than 1,000 brands of premium cigars. Premium brands include Padron, Daniel Marshall, Ashton, Arturo Fuente, Paul Garmarian, Alec Bradley, AVO, Rocky Patel, Montecristo and Oliva cigars.

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Late for the Sky started making specialty board games in the early ’80s with a collegiate theme. From there, it branched to larger cities. The company’s staff didn’t think the business would be as successful as it is.

“As we’ve learned, definitely the smaller cities are just as popular or more than the biggest city games,”

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Uplifting passion is an inside job CHURCH COMMUNITY CONNECTION

Pastor Ed Delph Foothills Focus Columnist

Consider this statement by Pastor Bill Johnson: When we live out of discipline, we are admired. When we live out of passion, we are contagious. Passion and discipline are good, but today let’s explore passion. Passion creates commitment and commitment is the ignitor of momentum. Momentum turns thoughts into things.

In this article, I’m not talking about lustful passion. I’m addressing the kind of passion that can be used constructively for our personal good as well as the good of our community. Let’s get past the checked-out “whatever” attitude we often hear about these days. With contagious, constructive, God-empowered passion, we can wake up, shake up, and put on our makeup, and challenge the status quo of doom and gloom.

Years ago, I was meeting with Pastor Bob Hake of Orangewood Church in Phoenix, and noticed a poster in the church’s boardroom. It was called “Stir Me.” The poster quote said: “Stir me … surprise me … inspire me … include me … stretch me … convict me … save me … irritate me … challenge me … comfort me

… ignite me … thrill me … move me … anger me … educate me … lift me … center me … scare me … involve me! Just don’t leave me the way you found me when I walked through those doors.”

I don’t see any “whatever” in those words. The writer begs someone to challenge them, not control them.

Do you want to know a secret? When we live out of passion, we are contagious. Passion provides motivation for discipline or getting past those “whatever” times in our lives. Passion spirals us upward. Passion creates action, and then action momentum, which in turn creates unanticipated opportunities.

Ben Nicholas wisely said, “Most of life is routine — dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration, you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.”

Inspiration comes from the outside of us. Passion comes from the inside of us.

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What is passion? Passion means “to suffer” It’s no pain; no gain. It costs something. Are you willing to commit for the long term like Jesus did on the cross?

There was a man in the Bible who was passionate about God and people at the same time. Look at this verse: “For we have found this man a real pest and a fellow who stirs up” (Acts 24:5).

The fellow in this Bible verse was the Apostle Paul. Paul had a constructive God-given passion that made folks either better or bitter. He stirred things up. Paul was a Christian “virus” that moved people from anabolic to catabolic. You couldn’t be the same after an encounter with Paul. He was a pestilent fellow who brought God into every equation. His passion motivated ordinary people to be and do the extraordinary for the benefit of all the people.

Paul was a God-given “pest” to those who had a different than God’s agenda.

He didn’t tear things down unless it was to build back up. He understood passion is the fuel that puts the Word of God into action. He realized that everything stays potential unless someone channels passion.

He was convinced that passion activates the promises of God for the benefit of all. He recognized that half-hearted people produce half-hearted results causing everyone in a community to underachieve.

You see, we are like white blood cells in a body. White blood cells fight infection in the physical body. What if the white blood cells in an infected body said, “Whatever”? Paul could not stand by and allow an infection to go unchecked. That

is what you and I were designed by God to do — be the change for the better.

Here’s more wisdom from others about a passion that ignites. “The more I look at things, the more I believe the willingness to start is the littlest thing in life that makes the biggest difference in life.” “Step onto the field. Stand up in the meeting. Raise your hand in class. Get over the bar. Walk up to the podium. Ask the first question. Take a risk, get started, contribute something.”

How do you do that? Find something to get passionate about that is true, pure and good; not immoral or corrupt.

Whether or not you end up being No. 1 in the world is irrelevant. Most of the time, the value you provide isn’t nearly as important as pushing yourself to provide it. People who consistently get started are the only ones who can end up finishing anything.

Are we Peter, who feel asleep in the garden, or Jesus, who went on from the garden to change the world? Many times, that depends on passion! Don’t allow COVID-19 and inaction deactivate your passion. Passion gets you going and keeps you going until you’ve finished what you were pursuing. God’s passion is in you, you just need to let it go and then let it grow.

In short, passion starts at the finish and finishes what it starts.

Ed Delph is a native of Phoenix who lives in the North Valley. Since 1980, he has pastored three churches in the Valley. He is a noted author of 10 books, weekly columnist in several local and worldwide newspapers, teacher, business owner and speaker. Delph has been to or ministered in over 100 countries. He is president of a worldwide ministry, NationStrategy.

To learn more about Pastor Ed Delph, the Church-Community Connection and Nation strategy, call 623-376-6757, e-mail nationstrategy@cs.com or visit nationstrategy.com.

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Festival brings rock collectors from around the state

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor

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he Saturday, April 17, Bradshaw Mountain Festival will feature rocks and minerals, a chili cookoff and music at the Black Canyon Plaza.

“It’s a rock and mineral show and we’re going to have artists with us and a couple of established authors,” said Michael Sandford with the host organization Black Canyon Mining & Mineral Museum.

“We have rock collectors who will come down from Camp Verde and a few others from out of state. It’s not going to be as big as it once was because of COVID.” Black Canyon Plaza is located at 34301 S. Old Black Canyon Highway, Black Canyon City. The hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Collectors of rocks and minerals are invited to sell their collections at the festival. The cost is $10 for a 10 x 10 booth.

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Michael Sandford welcomes visitors to his Black Canyon City Mining and Mineral Museuem in the rear of Black Canyon Plaza. (Photo by Tim Sealy) Sandford is an authority on rocks and minerals, but especially fossils. When he lived in Lake Odessa, Michigan, he frequently found fossils, the most famous of which is the Petoskey stone.

He began collecting rocks as a hobby,

but studied geology at Phoenix College and ASU. After graduating, he worked for the U.S. Geological Survey in the hydrology department measuring the depth of wells.

Black Canyon Mining & Mineral Museum holds fossils, a bison skull, parts of

a woolly mammoth, artifacts and a black light room with rocks that glow.

“We also have a lot of mining tools that were popular in the 19th century,” Sandford said. “These are all obsolete right now. We have a lot of copper, silver and gold, too.

“We have a large collection of maps beginning with Arizona as a territory going up to statehood. It shows where the cities weren’t and where they are now.”

Open Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, the museum has free admission.

The gift shop boasts mining books and coloring and activity books.

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Resort gallery expands to a bigger space

BY SARA EDWARDS Foothills Focus Contributing Writer

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oyEful Gallery is growing with the expansion of its latest gallery space at the Boulders Resort el Pedregal in Scottsdale.

Owner Joye DeGoede said the bigger room will allow her to sponsor and host more artists she’s passionate about.

“This gallery space was the Sonoran Arts League gallery for six years and I was the resident artist,” she said. “I knew in December that it was going to close down. I talked to the Boulders when Sonoran moved out and took over from there.”

DeGoede has been a full-time artist since she left her job as an art teacher.

She told her students they could make a living off of becoming an artist. After her husband died, she decided to take a page out of her own book.

“So, I took that giant plunge in 2012

and was just painting in my home studio,” she said.

She started doing commission work for the likes of the U.S. State Department-Arts in the Embassies exhibition in Montenegro, and painted Gov. Jan Brewer’s official oil portrait in the governor’s office.

While doing this, she painted the “JoyEful Party Animals,” animals depicted with alcohol. As her “JoyEful Party Animals” collection took off, the Sonoran Arts League was offered space at the Boulders resort and was looking for an artist in residence. DeGoede stepped up to bat.

“Over the six years, I learned not only as an artist but from the gallery aspect to listen to people,” she said. “I’m thankful for the years I had with the Sonoran Arts League. I’m now taking all my knowledge from there and using it here.”

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Some of DeGoede’s art on display includes her “JoyEful Party Animals” collection featuring animals with alcohol. (Photo by Pablo Robles)

The new galler includes seven rooms, six for gallery space and one for DeGoede’s private studio. (Photo by Pablo Robles)

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DeGoede’s new gallery opened in January and has seven rooms, six for gallery space and one for DeGoede’s private stu-

dio. She said four artists will bring their work to the gallery — Jack Shilder’s graphite pencil works, Joanie Wolter’s clay sculptures, Pat Isaacson’s glassblown works and Gedion Nyanhongo’s

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“We’re really in a great location so we’re hoping to have some events and guest artists come out and do some live paintings or demonstrations when it’s safe to gather again,” DeGoede said.

DeGoede said foot traffic to her gallery space has started to pick up. When it’s officially safe to gather, she’ll announce gallery events.

“My opportunity and my goal are to bring music, the arts, all of it back to our

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BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor

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wo young women who have dedicated their high school years to remembering veterans will be honored on Saturday, April 17.

Emceed by Boulder Creek High School alumnus Emma Suttell and Jim Lednicky, a Shadow Mountain High School graduate, the Honor Roll event recognizes Lauren Anderson with the “Above and Beyond” scholarship, and Michelle Satran, who won a student essay scholarship. Anderson and Satran attend Cactus Shadows High School.

Satran has been involved with VHP since she was 8, as her older sister was a member.

She tagged along to events, helping her sister

with decorations. She said she deserves the scholarship.

“I’ve put in a lot of time and effort and I thought I should be rewarded,” said Satran, who will study biology at NAU. “It’s really special to me. It just shows my work has paid off.

“Interviewing veterans has been a pleasure. VHP really shows how much they care about the students and what they do with the veterans and others.”

Her senior year, she successfully interviewed her grandfather, who was a veteran, after her sister couldn’t do so.

“He wouldn’t talk about his story,” she said. “He’d give me tidbits and, to this day, he continues to open up and tell us stories none of us have even heard.”

She’s thrilled her stories will be in the Li-

brary of Congress.

“My grandchildren and great-great grandchildren will be able to read what I wrote,” Satran said. “That’s amazing.”

Anderson, who was unable for an interview, said in a statement that she’s excited about the scholarship.

“I volunteered at the Massing of the Colors event, attended Pearl Harbor Remembrance events, led the Pledge of Allegiance during the Memorial Day Celebration, and joined Barbara Hatch at the ADVS Military and Veteran Women’s Summit,” Anderson said.

“I’ve walked with my classmates at Veterans Day Celebrations, and finally, I ensure my attendance at every book reception. I volunteered to take on the position of lead editor for our 600-page book in 2020, spending

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VHP is the most valuable and irreplaceable feature in my life and every second that I’ve devoted to the club has been priceless.”

Suttell was the Boulder Creek High School VHP chapter president who interviewed nine veterans and Gold Star families in her four years. She said she’s honored to have “such a small role in a big event.”

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friend, and aiding the layout editors and designers of Since You Asked.

After graduating in 2020, Suttell took a gap year and continued her work with Boulder Creek VHP, as well as helped to produce the 2020 Anthem Veterans Day Ceremony.

This fall, she will attend University of Florida to study public relations.

“I can’t wait to continue pursuing my passion for storytelling in college — where there is service, there will always be stories,” she said.

“Every veteran leaves behind a story of triumph, sacrifice and unwavering love.

Documenting these legacies in each edition of Since You Asked has been a privilege that I will always be thankful for and will surely never forget.”

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Suttell said Honor Roll is a different approach to the annual event. Students write stories and interview veterans, and those interviews are turned into Michelle Satran will use her Emma Suttell, who wants to scholarship to study biology study public relations, is this memoirs of them. year’s emcee. (Photo courtesy at NAU. (Photo courtesy of “The year usually culminates Veterans Heritage Project) of Olivia Crommett) in a big ceremony with veterans, families, community members and a book signing at the reception and War II to the War on Terror, cheering stuceremony,” Suttell said. “The veterans feel dents — some in uniform from each era — a honored, and we show them they’re appre- flag line from The Patriot Guard riders, poster-size veteran service photos, and a flyover ciated.

The event will be livestreamed. During it, from the Arizona Stearman Squad.

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