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County prepares for potential monsoon floods worsened by wildfire scar

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e’re less than a month into the monsoon, and the Tucson area has already received more rain than the entire 2020 monsoon season. While the cooler days and rainstorms are a welcome sight for many, the heavy downpours have also caused flash flooding throughout the state.

On Thursday, July 15, the City of Flagstaff and Coconino County declared a state of emergency due to monsoonal flooding. This declaration came as videos were widely shared of flash floods damaging homes and vehicles in Flagstaff, worsened due to the nearby burn scars from Arizona’s drought-heightened wildfires.

Luckily, Tucson, Catalina and Oro Valley have not experienced extreme flooding, but the possibility remains due to the large burn scar from 2020’s Bighorn Fire, which burned nearly 120,000 acres of the Catalina Mountains.

However, the Pima County Sheriff ’s Department has already documented road closures and downed powerlines due to the monsoon. Golder Ranch Fire District and Northwest Fire crews have also had to assist drivers with their vehicles stuck in flooded streets.

“It doesn’t matter what kind of vehicle you have, please, turn around,” Northwest Fire District warned. “Find a detour instead of driving into a dangerous situation.”

In early July, the Pima County Board of Supervisors and Flood Control District sent information to nearly 1,000 property owners in districts 1, 3 and 4 who may be affected by flooding near the Bighorn Fire burn area.

“Although a year has passed since the fire, the risk of flooding and debris flows remains high, primarily due to the lack of significant rainfall over the past year, which has limited vegetation regrowth and left soil conditions unchanged since the fire,” a county memorandum read.

Locals may recall haunting footage from last year showing jet-black waters rushing down Canada Del Oro wash, choked with ash and burnt wood.

Don Falk, professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Arizona, said extreme wildfires can cause soil to become “hydrophobic,” meaning it won’t absorb water, leading to worse flash floods.

According to the county, after the Aspen Fire on Mount Lemmon in 2003, flash floods and mudflows resulted in at least one reported fatality and caused

extensive property damage in watershed areas downstream of the burn area.

In response to these threats, the town of Oro Valley is providing free sandbags to residents who may need to protect areas of their homes from flooding. Due to a limited number of supplies, only Town of Oro Valley residents are eligible. Pickup is at Naranja Park (810 W. Naranja Drive) in the area known as the “Christmas tree recycling lot” while supplies last. Sandbags are self-service. Residents will need to bag and load their own sand, with a limit of 10 sandbags per vehicle.

The Town of Marana is also distributing sandbags for residents. Marana Public Works will assist town residents concerned with flooding by providing sandbag pick-up locations and offering pre-filled sandbags at the Marana Operations Center Yard (5100 W. Ina Road) and Marana Heritage River Park (12205 N. Tangerine Farms Road) while supplies last. There is also a limit of 10 sandbags per vehicle.

Pima County is providing a limited number of sandbags for impacted properties, available at the Department of Transportation facility (1313 S. Mission Road), Brandi Fenton Memorial Park (3482 E. River Road), in Catalina at the northwest corner of

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While Mount Lemmon is recovering from the Bighorn Fire, large sections of the burn scar remain, which can increase the severity of flash floods during the monsoon.

Golder Ranch Drive and Twin Lakes Drive, and in Summerhaven on Carter Canyon Road at the north side of Snyder Road and Lason Lane.

The Town of Oro Valley Stormwater Utility has also created a “Monsoon Preparedness Guide’’ with resources for residents.

The Preparedness Guide recommends families to formulate an emergency plan, which includes identifying meeting locations both inside and outside of the neighborhood, making sure everyone in the household is familiar with alternate routes through town, and naming an out-

of-area contact if your family gets split up. The Preparedness Guide also lists the “5 Ps” in the rare event of an evacuation: People (and pets), papers, prescriptions, pictures and personal computers.

Pima County also recommends homeowners purchase flood insurance, stating that new policies for flood insurance generally become effective following a 30-day waiting period. However, the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 provided an additional exception to this requirement related to flooding caused by post-wildfire condi-

tions, referred to as the Post-Wildfire Exception.

According to the National Weather Service, as of Friday, July 16, this July has already seen 1.5 inches of rain (as measured from the Tucson airport), beating out the .46 inches of rain seen all of last July. Every day for the rest of July and the first half of August are predicted to have a chance of rain.

For more information, visit pima.gov/BighornFireFloodRisk or pima.gov/ FloodsFollowFires. To sign up for the county’s emergency alerts system, visit MyAlerts.pima.gov

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At Long Last, the Historic Teatro Carmen Is Set To Be Restored Margaret Regan

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n 1914, a determined Tucson woman by the name of Carmen Soto de Vásquez set out to create a theater that would showcase Mexican culture.

The Old Pueblo was small in those days, with about 15,000 residents.

More than half were Spanish speakers, but only a few of the town’s 10 or so theaters showed Mexican plays or movies, and they did so only in between English language offerings.

Soto was eager to bring sophisticated Spanish and Latin American plays to Tucson, performed entire-

ly in Spanish by traveling troupes from Mexico.

Soto owned a plot of land on Meyer Street, a bustling thoroughfare of the Mexican community, and she hired a mason to build her glamorous theater. On May 20, 1915, Teatro Carmen opened its doors to a packed audience, decked out in their finest to watch “Cerebro y Corazon” (Head and Heart). Notably, Soto chose a play by female playwright, Teresa Farías de Isassi, for the inaugural performance.

A critic in the El Tucsonense, a Spanish language newspaper, gave it a rave review, writing that the “comfortable, roomy seating, good lighting and magnificent artistic décor accom-

panied by the high level of artistic performance with which it was inaugurated provides a new note to our art and society.”

A new note of art was exactly what Soto wanted, but she was also a good businesswoman. She paired serious plays with short comedies and music, and she quickly added the newfangled movies that were capturing the nation.

She even put a boxing ring inside her elegant theater.

Despite these efforts, Teatro Carmen failed by 1922. It was sold in 1926 and morphed into a range of uses, including an adult school and, some say, a car repair shop. Soto died in 1934, and eventually the

building was sold to an African American group, the Pilgrim Rest Elks Lodge No. 601. The Elks used it as a clubhouse for almost 50 years.

A few times, the old place was used again for performances. Borderlands Theater Company, specializing in Latino plays, mounted dramas there in 1987-1988—until the roof collapsed. Later, scenes in the star-studded 1995 movie Boys on the Side, featuring Whoopi Goldberg and Drew Barrymore, were shot inside and outside the theater.

But around 1996, the theater was bought by the Rolling real estate family, who own more than 20 buildings

in Barrio Viejo. Soto’s dream was reduced to a storage repository.

Now, Teatro Carmen is set to return to its theater roots. Herb Stratford, who spearheaded the rehabilitation of the Fox Tucson Theatre, now intends to bring back Carmen’s theater to its original glory.

“It’s pretty cool,” he says enthusiastically: The theater is one of the oldest in Arizona. (Only the 1881 Bird Cage in Tombstone is believed to be older.)

Stratford’s involvement started almost two years ago, when Demion Clinco of the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation called him up out of the blue.

“I have your next proj-

ect,” Clinco said.

Stratford rolled his eyes.

Since he left the Fox, he’s been, among other things, a consultant for historic theaters across the country and the director of the annual Film Festival Tucson. Busy as he was, he said, “I can’t take anything on.”

Then Clinco said the magic words. “Teatro Carmen.”

What arts loving theater maven could say no?

“I started talking with Don Rollings,” Stratford recalls. Rolling wanted to sell, and he was looking for someone with experience in theater and an ability to get grants. Stratford fit the bill.

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A new era in PAC 12 Softball as Caitlin Lowe steps up as UA head coach Katya Mendoza

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ollowing longtime coach Mike Candrea’s retirement announcement, the University of Arizona announced last month that Caitlin Lowe would become the next coach of the UA softball team.

The legendary softball coach Candrea accrued an NCAA record of 1,674 overall wins, 11 Pac 10/12 conference titles, eight Women’s College World Series titles and two Olympic medals throughout his 36 years with Arizona Softball. Lowe said working with Candrea helped her feel confident in taking the reins.

“I just think that he’s been preparing me for this,” Lowe said.

A four-time All-American at the UA, Olympic silver medalist and hall-of-fame professional from the National Pro Fastpitch league, Lowe has spent the past nine seasons working various coaching and management roles for the local softball

powerhouse, including spending the last three years as associate head coach.

Lowe’s appointment comes among multiple women stepping up to leadership positions in UA sports in recent years, including assistant softball coaches Taryne Mowatt-McKinney and Lauren Lappin.

Mo w a t t - Mc K i n n e y, who has coached the team’s pitching for the past three seasons, was a second-team All-American and selected in the first round of the 2008 National Pro Fastpitch Draft.

“I think that you’re seeing a bunch of roles being filled by female coaches,” Mowatt-McKinney said.

“When we graduated from college, we were trying to find jobs in the fields where we got our degrees. I had seen female coaches, but it just didn’t cross my mind that that could be a career for me because there wasn’t an abundance of powerful female coaches.”

Candrea established a lasting legacy and his softball alumni are extraordinarily

invested in the success of the program, Lowe said.

“I always tell our recruits that we have 100 people or so come back for our alumni games, and that’s just madness,” Lowe said. “I think we have the highest return rate at our school, but that’s just Coach in the culture, the culture that he’s built here,” Lowe said.

Those close to Candrea have often described the “culture of tradition,” “Candrea-isms,” or the “pillars of Candrea,” that have served as the foundation of the program and established that there’s more to the UA’s softball legacy than its NCAA championships.

Hopeful Wildcat recruits in softball and other sports may find themselves looking to the female pioneers who have been champions under Candrea, both on and off the field.

Erika Barnes, executive senior associate director of athletics who also serves as senior woman administrator and Title IX liaison, was also one of Candrea’s players. She

played alongside softball legend Jennie Finch on the UA 2001 National Championship team.

“I’ve been blessed to have a relationship with him in different walks of life,” Barnes said. “He likes having softball players around the university in Tucson and all that.”

Barnes, who has served in numerous positions within the athletic department since 2005, is also a member of the NCAA softball selection committee and Pac 12 council. Lowe says Barnes has invaluable insight due to her experience as a former student athlete.

“I think we can both say that she’s really enhanced the softball program at Arizona way far after her playing days,” Lowe said.

The UA is the final softball program within the Pac 12 conference to be led by a female head coach and is the sixth out of nine head coaches in the conference to return to their alma mater. Besides all the wins under Candrea, the legacy of the UA softball tradition has opened doors

for those who have played in the program to enter leadership positions within collegiate athletics.

While Title IX has made strides in collegiate sports for women, they still only make up approximately 40% of the head coaching positions and only 7% of the athletic administration positions.

Lowe’s promotion has signified a step in the right direction, following suit of UA women’s basketball coach Adia Barnes and women’s golf coach Laura Ianello.

As the industry of collegiate athletics continues to evolve, new opportunities such as recent legislative efforts for student athletes to capitalize on their “name, image and likeness” have been in the works. The UA has been developing the Arizona Edge program as a means for its student athletes to take advantage of both academic and athletic success.

“It’s a new space that student athletes in schools can benefit from and I think it would be a great opportunity to see students and student

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athletes being able to capitalize truly on their name, their image, their likeness but also their personal development and growth,” Barnes said.

Women often make financial sacrifices in the form of volunteering to gain coaching experience for these leadership opportunities. Additionally, they have to balance work and their personal lives but many find a common support network that aids in their success despite these “unorthodox schedules.”

“When we talk about Arizona athletics, it really is the people that keep us here, it’s the people that made us come back to Tucson and settle down here and start our adult life in our careers here, because we’re surrounded by great people that have been there for us since we were 17, 18 years old and they’ve kind of watched us grow up in the community here in Tucson,” Mowatt-McKinney said.

“It doesn’t compare to anywhere else in the country when it comes to the softball community.”

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UA Breaks Ground on $85M Science Lab Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

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he University of Arizona is strengthening its focus on engineering, space science and optics with a new Applied Research Building just off Speedway Boulevard. Construction on the three-story, $85 million building broke ground on Tuesday, June 29, and the university expects the building to open for occupants by spring 2023.

The 89,000-square-foot facility will be devoted to advancing research, and will contain a number of unique scientific tools. These include a thermal vacuum chamber used to simulate space environments, an anechoic chamber designed to absorb reflections and electromagnetic waves for antenna testing, a high bay lab for high altitude balloons, and a dynamic testing lab for large objects.

The ARB is located at the southeast corner of Helen Street and Highland Avenue, next to the university’s Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Building, serving as a confluence for advanced manufacturing and technology.

“When you think about advanced materials, you may think about advanced manufacturing and advanced manufacturing methods like 3D printing.

However, advanced materials are also key to almost all of our advanced energy technologies,” said Betsy Cantwell, UA’s senior vice president for research and innovation. “They are created in the laboratory, but this building will allow us to translate those scientific developments and advanced materials into products that can be built in the real world and turned into companies.”

As with many scientific developments at UA, ad-

ministration highlighted the building’s role in the “Fourth Industrial Revolution,” which involves the ongoing automation of manufacturing processes, smart technologies, and the internet.

“The Fourth Industrial Revolution is all about the world increasing our interconnectivity, and I can’t emphasize that enough,” said UA president Robert C. Robbins. “I think of the juxtaposition of this building right along Speedway. This is the merging that makes science and engineering work with business and law and medicine and pharmacy and nursing.”

Research in the ARB will include work on CubeSats (or nanosatellites) that reduce the cost of access to space; additional space for UA’s Imaging Technology Laboratory with advanced sensors for astronomy, satellite imagery and laboratory chemical analysis; 3D printing of aerospace parts; and stratospheric balloons potentially for observation, military sensor testing, and preparation for balloons on other planets.

“From the College of Engineering’s perspective, the timing of this building is ideal,” said College of Engineering dean David Hahn.

“As we compete with other top universities for talent, like faculty talent and student talent, it’s this type of facility that will allow us to improve those efforts and in fact beat out other universities for the very students and the very best faculty.”

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Architectural mockup courtesy of UA

An illustration of the Applied Research Building, which will contain a thermal vacuum chamber used to simulate space environments, an anechoic chamber designed to absorb reflections and electromagnetic waves for antenna testing, and a high bay lab for high altitude balloons. cludes five “pillars” of focus.

Specifically, the ARB is dedicated to research programs related to the “Grand Challenges” pillar, which deals with pressing issues for humanity like space access, artificial intelligence, health care technology and the environment.

“These are areas that drive the Fourth Industrial Revolution. And that revolution and change in how the world builds things, delivers them out into the real world, and recognizes economic impact is a core to the principles of the university going forward,” Cantwell said. “We will not build new buildings at the university without some version of innovation space somewhere in that building.”

The strategic plan’s four other pillars are the Wildcat journey, Arizona Global, institutional excellence, and the benefits of Arizona.

“Beyond attracting and reinforcing our industry partners with companies including Honeywell, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, research conducted in the ARB will translate into major societal impacts, from

the development of wearables and noninvasive imaging for better health care outcomes to the construction of advanced sensors for modern autonomy, robotics and AI applications,” Cantwell said.

In total, the ARB will connect faculty across four colleges and eight departments: the College of Engineering (which includes the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering); the College of Science (which includes the Department of Astronomy and the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory); the College of Optical Sciences; and the College of Medicine.

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“There are less than 20 universities in this nation who have $1 billion in research expenditures. We’re creeping up on $800 million… and we believe in the coming decade we will be one of those universities,” Robbins said. “That’s a tremendous asset, not only to the students, faculty and staff, but to the region of Southern Arizona. You can track economic development directly to the amount of research expenditure a university has.”

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Back to School! That means things are completely normal again, right?

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ith the amount of people who gather together after summer vacation and head into the cooler school months, it’s no surprise that December, January and February rank as the worst time of the year for flu and cold cases. It also provides evidence for the argument that schoolteachers have some of the strongest immune systems to be found outside of a hospital.

But there’s a bit of hope that this upcoming school

year won’t be as crazy as the last one (and a half).

Arizona’s COVID cases are at a steady low and we’ve never been more vaccinated as a population.

According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, daily COVID cases in Arizona have averaged around 700 new cases per day since mass rollout of the vaccine around March.

Compare this to the peak in January, when the state saw more than 10,000 cases per day.

Definitely good news, but there is room for improvement as local and national doctors push for

continued vaccinations and general caution (same as it ever was).

Ahead of our local students returning to school for what is poised to be the most normal school year since this whole thing began, Tucson Local Media presents our annual Back to School edition, which features information on how various school districts are handling updated guidelines, an update on student athletes getting back to work, and listings of local school foundations that provide supplies and scholarships for Tucson area students.

Despite the Arizona Legislature banning mask requirements in public schools, local districts are still allowing individuals to wear masks if they prefer. In a nutshell, we’re not finished, but we’re looking better than we have in a good while.

Here’s to our future scholars.

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nlike this time last year, when the state grappled with the surge of thousands of daily COVID cases, the number of cases has remained low at around 50 cases per 100,000 for the past two months. With about half of Arizonans vaccinated with at least one dose and state and local mandates loosening restrictions, educators are preparing for a mostly in-person school year and optional masking.

After more than a year of students and educators dealing with remote learning, hybrid instruction and in-person learning, students and staff from Marana and Amphi will begin the new school year with fixed in-person learning.

Marana Unified School District will return to

in-person learning the coming school year with no remote option. But will continue to offer Marana Distance Learning, a selfpaced, online program for students in grades 4-12, said Director of Public Relations and Community Engagement Alli Benjamin.

Like Marana, Amphitheater Public Schools District will offer full in-person learning while also offering full online education through Amphi Academy Online, their K-12 online school, said Amphi Director of Communications Michelle Valenzuela.

Both Marana and Amphi school districts continue to follow the same COVID-19 mitigation strategies as before, like physical distancing, encouraging hand hygiene, ensuring cleaning and sanitizing, as well as monitoring and communicat-

ing with the district about COVID-19 cases.

Marana district school leadership continues to review and update mitigation plans, but have not approved them, said Benjamin. The school welcomes visitors to campus so long as they are symptom-free, but does not survey them or check their temperature. Schools in the district have also added more bottle-fill fountains.

Aside from summer school, Amphi currently runs their Summer Institute, which offers professional development classes for staff to enhance their skills. Once teachers return from summer break, Valenzuela said they will have an opportunity to review assessment data for students and work with their teams to determine any additional support students may need.

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zuela, Amphi has no limitations or restrictions for lunches and recess and will not limit spectators for school events or require masks.

However, MUSD will continue to stagger lunches and recesses and outdoor seating will be encouraged to allow for physical distancing. Tables will be disinfected between uses. Similar to Amphi, Marana will allow recesses without any limitations, but teachers will encourage hand-washing and sanitizing when students return to class.

In the midst of summer school, on June 30, Gover-

nor Doug Ducey signed a budget passed by the Arizona Legislature, which included provisions that would block schools and universities from requiring masks.

In a virtual panel organized by the Committee to Protect Health Care, a national organization advocating for quality and affordable health care, Arizona doctors and experts criticized the Arizona legislature and Ducey’s decision to ban masking in schools.

Much of the concern centered on the fact that children younger than 12 are not yet eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and can still get

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sick and spread the virus, especially with the rise in the Delta strain in Arizona.

“There really just is no justification in my mind for putting not only their children but also school teachers and staff at risk,” said Tucson family physician Dr. Cadey Harrel.

“We know with Delta, that even those that are vaccinated, are still at risk of breakthrough cases. They are not completely 100% immune, no vaccine provides 100% immunity.”

The Arizona Department of Health Services reports 17% of the population younger than 20 years old have been vaccinated with at least one dose in Arizona. Those 12 and older are currently eligible for vaccination and only the Pfizer vaccine has

been approved for use on children 12 to 17.

On Friday, July 9, the CDC updated school guidelines, encouraging in-person learning and recommending individuals age 2 and older who are not fully vaccinated to continue to wear masks indoors and in crowded outdoor settings.

Under the law passed as a part of the state budget, local school boards cannot mandate unvaccinated individuals wear masks.

While schools cannot require masks, Marana continues to encourage masks for unvaccinated individuals and students and staff can still choose to mask.

On May 27, prior to the passage of the state budget, Marana Unified School District board voted to make face coverings

optional for all staff, students, vendors, visitors and volunteers.

Benjamin reports the majority of employees are not using masks and mask usage among students participating in summer programs varies by site.

However she said about one-third of students district-wide have continued to wear face coverings since they made them optional.

Before the budget’s passage, Amphi had heard from parents on both sides of the mask debate.

“We did hear from families who were not comfortable with masks not being required,” Valenzuela said in an email response. “Now, our families seem to understand it is out of our hands.”

Amphi must also make masks optional for all, but Valenzuela said “anyone who wishes to wear a mask will be allowed to do so.”

Marana Unified School District has paused tracking of its cases during the summer and as of May 20, the last day it was updated, had one active case at MCAT High School from the more than 14,000 students and staff in the district. Amphi school district continues to update their COVID-19 dashboard during the summer, but has changed the updates to once a week unless they have cases to report.

Since their last update on June 30, the district has no reported cases.

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awyers representing Catalina Foothills School District and Peoria Unified School District on Thursday responded to a letter from Governor Doug Ducey’s office that called their quarantine protocol “unlawful.”

On Wednesday, Kaitlin Harrier, education policy advisor for Governor Ducey, sent a letter addressed to CFSD Superintendent Mary Kamerzell claiming the school’s isolation policy violated the Arizona Statute, particularly the section on face coverings, signed by Governor Ducey on June 30.

“Specifically, the practice

of instituting a mandatory 14-day quarantine for unvaccinated students who have a COVID-19 exposure, but exempting vaccinated students, is contrary to Laws 2021, Chapter 404, Sec. 12, which states, “A school district or charter school may not require a student or teacher to receive a vaccine for COVID-19 or to wear a face covering to participate in in-person instruction,” wrote Harrier in her letter. A similar letter was sent to the Peoria Unified School District.

Harrier stated, under the Arizona Parents Bill of Rights, parents have the right to make healthcare decisions for their minor child, including vaccinations, and added that the policy would have detrimental

effects on a child’s education, with students unable to meet attendance requirements to advance to the next grade level.

“This policy will lead to entire classrooms of students under 12 being kept at home for nearly two weeks at a time and potentially on multiple occasions with no way to make up for that lost learning time,” wrote Harrier.

In a letter responding to Ducey’s office, John Richardson of the DeConcini, McDonald, Yetwin, and Lacy law firm said the statutes referenced in Harrier’s letter do not apply to the school districts’ COVID-19 isolation policies, nor do they restrict districts from following guidance from federal, state and

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“Parents and other community members have a right to expect that their local school district will do what it reasonably can to provide a safe educational environment for its students, and CFSD and PUSD are committed to providing such an environment,” wrote Richardson.

“Students who are required to quarantine based on exposure to COVID-19 are not abandoned. Both school districts provide instruction and assistance to such students during their temporary absence from school.”

Catalina Foothills and Peoria Unified School Districts, along with other school districts across Arizona, follow the same Arizona De-

partment of Health Services guidelines for quarantine and isolation, which states fully vaccinated individuals are not required to quarantine and quarantine can vary from 7-14 days depending various factors, like whether the person is symptomatic or lives in a congregate setting. School districts like Tucson and Marana Unified School Districts reference the ADHS isolation and quarantine guidance.

Other districts, like Chandler and Gilbert, follow the Maricopa County Department of Public Health guidelines, which along with ADHS state fully vaccinated individuals are not required to quarantine.

In her letter, Harrier said “This policy must be rescind-

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ed immediately,” and states the Arizona Department of Health Services is “prepared to provide guidance.”

According to Ducey’s office, the language in the legislation is specific to schools and is not the same as general public health guidelines.

“It takes into account that school is the safest place for kids, whether they are vaccinated or not, and that they have a right to receive in-person education,” said C.J. Karamargin, communications director for the Governor’s office, in an email response.

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SPORTS EXTRA POINT WITH TOM DANEHY &RECREATION As pandemic wanes, high-school athletes return to training for the season ahead Tom Danehy

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fter the school sports seasons were shut down in the spring of 2020, crushing the dreams of athletes across the country, there were those who hoped that by that summer, there would be a tiny movement back toward normalcy. But such was not the case. There would be no open gyms, no organized off-season

conditioning, and no summer leagues. It was the worst of time and…well, just the worst of times.

This summer has seen a glorious burst of enthusiasm. While the pandemic should be gone but isn’t totally (blame fringe politics), it’s mostly gone and high-school athletes have returned to the drudgery (and sheer joy) of off-season work with glee on their faces.

It’s a brutally hot Tues-

day out in the middle of nowhere, where sits Marana High School and nothing else for as far as the eye can see. Out on the football field, at least 60 guys are doing conditioning drills in the late-afternoon heat. There are no complaints seeing as how a week earlier it had hit a record 115 degrees. During that entire week, the Amphitheater School District (and others) had banned all outdoor athletic ac-

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tivity on all of their campuses basically during the 14 hours that the sun was up. For nearly a week, the mercury hit 100 degrees just after 8 in the morning and didn’t drop down to double digits until almost midnight. The average overnight “low” was a miserable 83 degrees.

But that was last week.

Today it’s only 105 and it’s go time. The seven-on-seven squad from Ironwood Ridge walks in groups down to the football field.

Soon it will be game time.

Seven-on-seven football has gone from being the gridiron version of a pickup game of three-onthree basketball to being de rigueur for just about every prep football program in the country. It’s basically a way for quarterbacks and receivers (including backs) to work on pass patterns and timing.

Linebackers and defensive backs work on various zone or man-to-man schemes.

The rules are simple.

Everyone on offense (except the center who snaps the ball) is eligible to go out for passes. There are no running plays and there is no rushing the quarterback. The QB has a strict four seconds to throw the ball. If he doesn’t get rid of the ball in that time, it’s a loss of down. There is no tackling; strictly two-hand

touch below the neck. Even run-happy teams play summer seven-on-seven, if for no other reason than to give their defensive players some work.

It’s played on a short field with a limited number of first downs, so a team can’t nickel-anddime its way down the field. If a DB picks off a pass, it’s a change of possession. Turnovers can be killers. If a defensive player intercepts a pass and runs it back to the end zone, it may look cool, but it doesn’t count as a touchdown.

In Marana’s Norm Patton Gym, there are enough boys to have three fullcourt games going on side by side in the (with about a dozen others waiting on the sidelines to get in the games). The first day of open gym this year, the day after Memorial Day, more than 50 boys showed up for workouts.

The numbers have fluctuated somewhat with families finally being able to go on vacation and several of the hoop players spending time out on the football field.

The girls program, with somewhat smaller numbers, is in the Alumni Gym, working on plays that will be tried out in summer league competitions. Like everybody else who lived through (and

missed out on) the summer of 2020), they’re just happy to be in the gym with their teammates and coaches.

The next night, both gyms on the Flowing Wells High School campus are going full tilt, two games on the hour in the big gym and another game in the East Gym. Twice a week, games featuring girls’ teams go from late afternoon until nearly 10.

Besides giving the athletes much-needed competition and the chance for team building, the Flowing Wells Summer League also serves as a much-needed training ground for future referees.

The ref school, run by legendary local refs Chris Rastatter and Bob Schofield (both of whom have reffed NCAA Final Four games), has established refs teaching newcomers on the fly, throwing them in the deep end to see how they react to game-time conditions.

Flowing Wells Coach Michael Perkins’ squad reached the Class 5A State championship game this past spring despite not having the summer league last year. But even with the madness of multiple games going on in one gym with tag-team novice refs, he and all the other coaches (as well as the players and parents) are just thrilled to be back at it.

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mitigation strategy should comply with the law.”

However, ADHS K-12 School Guidance for COVID-19 references their own isolation and quarantine guideline document, which schools use as reference for their policies. Under key mitigation strategies, they list “Contact tracing in combination with isolation and quarantine” with a link to the guidance.

Both Catalina Foothills and Peoria school districts made masking optional and do not require vaccinations in compliance with recently signed statute.

The Arizona Department of Health Services had not responded as of deadline regarding whether officials will update their own guidelines to match Ducey’s position on the statute.

Unlike this time last year, when the state grappled with the surge of thousands of daily COVID cases, the number of cases has remained low at around 50 cases per 100,000 for the past two months, although numbers have been ticking upwards in recent weeks. With about half of Arizonans vaccinated with at least one dose and state and local mandates loosening restrictions, educators are preparing for a mostly in-person school year and optional masking.

After more than a year of students and educators dealing with remote learning, hybrid instruction and in-person learning, students and staff across Pima County will begin the new school year with fixed in-person learning.

Catalina Foothills School District will not be offering any remote learning options for the coming school year.

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remote learning is inferior to in-person learning. Second, due to our district’s size, we cannot justify the reassignment of teachers to exclusive remote-learning positions.

Third, Arizona continues to fund remote learners at less than 100%,” said Director of Alumni & Community Relations Julie Farbarik in an email response.

While some districts had online learning schools prior to the pandemic, others, like the Catalina Foothills School District, do not have an online-only school that would provide parents with an alternative.

While there will be no remote options, Catalina Foothills plans to follow other mitigation strategies including social distancing when possible, encouraging hand hygiene and sanitization of shared spaces. The school district will also continue to monitor COVID-19 cases. Recess and food services would return to pre-COVID guidelines, while visitors must have site approval, but are allowed on campus.

On June 30, Ducey signed a budget passed by the Arizona Legislature, which included provisions that would block schools and universities from requiring masks.

In a virtual panel organized by the Committee to Protect Health Care, an national organization advocating for quality and affordable health care, Arizona doctors and experts criticized the Arizona legislature and Ducey’s decision to ban masking in schools.

Much of the concern centered on the fact that children younger than 12 are not yet eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and can still get sick and spread the virus, especially with the rise in the Delta strain in Arizona.

“There really just is no justification in my mind for putting not only their chil-

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dren but also school teachers and staff at risk,” said Tucson family physician Dr. Cadey Harrel. “We know with Delta, that even those that are vaccinated, are still at risk of breakthrough cases. They are not completely 100% immune, no vaccine provides 100% immunity.”

The Arizona Department of Health Services reports 17% of the population younger than 20 years old have been vaccinated with at least one dose in Arizona. Those 12 and older are currently eligible for vaccination and only the Pfizer vaccine has been approved for use on children 12 to 17.

“What politicians have done by banning schools for implementing safety protocols, like masks, is put people at risk and stifle local decision-making with a one-size fits all, top-down approach,” said Harrel. “This completely strips local municipalities and governing bodies from implementing their own policies that are rooted in actual science. It can protect communities from further harm and economic strain as a result of the pandemic.”

On Friday, July 9, the CDC updated school guidelines, encouraging in-person learning and recommending individuals age 2 and older who are not fully vaccinated to continue to wear masks indoors and in crowded outdoor settings.

Under the law passed as a part of the state budget, local school boards cannot mandate unvaccinated individuals wear masks. While schools cannot require masks, Marana continues to encourage masks for unvaccinated individuals and students and staff can still choose to mask.

While Catalina Foothills has made masks optional, officials said it would provide masks for anyone that wished to wear one, but had not brought one to school.

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Teatro Carmen: Estimated project price of $5.5M Continued from P5

This past June, the two parties sealed the deal, with nonprofit Stratford Art Works, Inc., paying $940,000, to Bacon Industries, Inc. The 106-year-old building, easily visible with its cheerful yellow façade, is at 380 S. Meyer Ave., just south of the Tucson Convention Center.

In an interview on a sweltering summer day, Stratford showed me around. The inside has been swept clean—unlike the Fox, where in its abandoned days pigeons ruled

of the building also needs a roof replacement. Stratford hopes to turn the space into a restaurant and bar; he plans to add photos and memorabilia that celebrate its Black origins. An empty lot outside will be transformed into a patio, which could be used for outside events.

As for the theater itself, Stratford plans for just 300 seats.

“None of the existing theaters nearby hit that number,” he points out.

The Cabaret at The Temple has fewer than 100 seats and Leo Rich has 500. “There’s nothing else downtown at the 300 sweet

and trash prevailed. But the Teatro needs plenty of work.

Adobe and brick still grace the façade, but the door will be remade to mirror the original entry.

The sheet metal roof must be replaced and the indoor walls need attention. The actual stage was unfortunately torn down in the ’40s or ’50s, Stratford says.

“We will build a new stage.”

But the proscenium, possibly from 1915, is still there and so is the tin ceiling. And two prized 1920s “skyscraper” lights still dangle down from above.

A big room the Elks added on to the south end

spot.” And to make the Teatro Carmen more flexible, the seats won’t be nailed down.

The programming will feature genres from live theater to movies and music and dance, performed by both touring and local artists. Local organizations will also be welcomed, Stratford says, and a new advisory committee is charged with “connecting with the with the neighborhood, future audiences and the Latino performing arts community.” The comMargaret Regan mittee already includes “This is a multimillion dollar project,” says Herb Stratford, who also Dan Guerrero, son of Lalo spearheaded the rehabilitation of the Fox Tucson Theatre. “It’s probably a two to three year project. It will be six to nine months before we begin.”

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During Summer Safari Nights, Reid Park Zoo staff also discusses conservation and sustainability of their highlighted animals. Due to giant anteaters’ nighttime navigation, light pollution is a concern. But more than that, giant anteaters suffer major losses in Brazil, becoming some of the most common roadkill in the country.

The zoo is also using the time to show off their reptiles, including skinks and bearded dragons. During the event, zookeepers will set up different display areas throughout the park for closer animal encounters. While Tucsonans are no stranger to reptiles, the zoo’s blue-tongued skinks are much larger than most lizards you’ll find in the Sonoran Desert.

“A lot of reptiles have desert adaptations, like the bearded dragon, even though they’re adapted for deserts on the opposite side of the world,” said lead keeper Katie Hutchinson.

“Reptiles are great at water conservation themselves.

So I think we can learn a lot from them, especially during the monsoon, about how to use our water resources properly.”

Summer Safari Nights takes place every Saturday evening through Aug. 14 at the Reid Park Zoo. The events include live music, recreational activities, food and drinks, and wildlife activities. Live music for this upcoming installation will be performed by Jamie’s Gang, and the zoo will also host astronomy activities.

For more information, visit reidparkzoo.org/event/summer-safari-nights-2021.

This article is the last in a series of three detailing the Reid Park Zoo animals highlighted at the Summer Safari Nights event series.

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New book celebrates the symbolism of saguaros in Arizona and beyond Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

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riving into the Southwest from any direction, the first sight of a saguaro cactus waving on the horizon serves as a “welcome” for Arizona residents and tourists alike. But even more than a welcome sign, the saguaro is an icon of the American South, even for those who don’t know what the Sonoran Desert is or pronounce saguaro with a hard G. A new book, “In the Arms of Saguaros,” tracks the iconography of the accordion-pleated colossi alongside the development of the Arizona territory. At first a food source for Native Americans, the saguaros came to be used in art, architecture, clothing and tourism — but it wasn’t always that way. What was at first ignored by American developers gradually became critical.

Author William Bird followed the appropriation and influence of the saguaro through decades of American history. “In the Arms of Saguaros” serves as both a picture book rife with saguaro imagery, and a timeline of Arizona’s growth.

Bird originally came to Tucson to earn his master’s degree in history at the University of Arizona. Though he first lived here for fewer than two years in the mid’70s, he says he was quickly enthralled by the desert landscape and flora, and research for this book served as a kind of “exercise in nostalgia.”

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posing in the arms of saguaros really suggest to me a kind of effort to become one with the plant, at one with botany, even at your own peril,” Bird said. “It’s become a kind of meme or regional identifier that has gone national, and even international.”

“In the Arms of Saguaros” is published by the University of Arizona Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill.

most compelling things featured in the book. But I also like the more modest things available to anyone.

Like back in the day, the items made by saguaro rib crafters, those are charming and highly collectible… As a museum person, I’m into the materiality of it. The icon is always there, and people always riff on it and make it their own. But my job as a curator and author is to find things that are interesting to look at, and build the story Saguaros are easily around that. recognizable, and can be I see that you’re the cuenormous, but do you rator emeritus of the politithink there’s something cal history collection at the about their vaguely huNational Museum of Amermanoid shape that people ican History.

During your connect with? research, did you see any Well, I always feel like fascinating ways the saguathey’re waving at me. That’s ro had political impacts? kind of a joke, but in every Iconography is sort of an joke there’s an element of the accumulative process, like truth. That is always comgetting on a slow-moving mented upon when people train.

So I assumed quite use it to promote the desert naturally that this process Southwest. It reflects the anthropomorphic moods of was an arc that went from humankind. You’ll have bal- the lower left, and up in a lerinas mimicking saguaros, steady climb. But it’s more and everyone who writes like a sawtooth. There was about the Southwest poses a great effort made around with a saguaro. That pose is 1893 at the Chicago World’s very telling. And you can’t Fair to represent the Arizoget close enough to them, na territory with saguaros clearly, with all the old pho- transplanted to the fairtos of people climbing in grounds in Chicago… Oddthem, hence the title of the ly enough, there were people who complained that was book. not the appropriate symbol In all your research for for the territory, because the book, what is the most it suggested that was the unique saguaro memo- only thing that could grow rabilia or art you came in Arizona’s soil. So if you look through the territory across? and the state’s iconography, I’d have to say the Mary there’s actually a paucity of Eaton botanical illustration saguaro imagery. In fact, the on the back of the book. state seal today has a dam, a That to me is one of the lake, a miner, a cow, but no

saguaro… It isn’t until the ’20s or ’30s that you begin to see saguaros on the edge of the brochures, and gradually it moves to the center. So politically, it sort of begins as this fraught, problematic symbol for a lot of people…

There’s almost a reluctance or “desert denial,” but they really come around to it by the ’50s and are actually creating a botanical landscape for advertising purposes that has no basis in reality.

They take a golf course brochure and add in saguaros to the background. I think they recognize people are curious about it. It’s an attraction that is unique to the Sonoran Desert.

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you see any appropriation of the saguaro imagery by artists outside of the desert or around the world? If so, how was the saguaro iconography changed?

Well sometimes you’ll even see it reproduced in this country and it’s wrong.

Or you’ll see the Peruvian apple cactus in decorating magazines and they’ll have arms that suggest it’s a saguaro. But the ones I have seen are an English T-shirt with a saguaro outline, that was surprisingly accurate if you’re just trying to show someone what a saguaro looks like. There are others that are completely abstract but still spot-on, like an artIn your research, did ist who had a knit stocking

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over their head with two eye-holes that looks quite dramatic, if impractical.

For more information, visit tumamoc.arizona.edu/ InTheArmsOfSaguaros

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Stratford also plans to invite people in to tell their memories of the building, a place he believes is “unique in its ties to both Hispanic and African American communities.”

Likely there are very few people still living who will remember the theatre in action, but he’s hoping that African-Americans who had ties to the Elks lodge will contribute their own stories. The theater won’t be up and running any time soon.

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The group has already reached out to federal and state officials for possible grants, and now that the nonprofit owns the building, the team will stage fundraising campaigns.

Stratford hopes the public will be excited by an enterprise that blends the arts with culture and history.

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