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Saturday, March 12. And finally, the Strait Country Band & Jack Bishop are covering the music of country legend George Strait. The band aims to re-create the exact arrangements from Strait’s albums and in his concert performances prominently featuring pedal steel guitar and fiddle. 6 p.m. Sunday, March 13.

The Gaslight Music Hall does not require vaccines or masks at this time, but suggests the wearing of masks when not eating or drinking and when walking around the theater.

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ing, enjoying food from food trucks, and going on night hikes. “Animal enrichment” activities at the event include bobcats, ocelots, gray foxes and Mexican gray wolves. 6 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19. 2021 N. Kinney Road. desertmuseum.org Marana Bluegrass Festival. The Desert Bluegrass Association is hosting the Marana Bluegrass Festival at Gladden Farms Park over three days. There are more than a dozen musicians performing, including Kentucky Sky, Dan Levenson and the Cat Mountain Rounders, Ocotillo Rain, the Hard Road Trio and many more.

In addition, there are also workshops and band jams.

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OUR TOWN Deseret Industries opens new thrift store, seeks new employees Alexandra Pere Tucson Local Media

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ary Anderson is a busy mom of four with nine grandchildren to keep up with. Her previous job was physically taxing, but then her bishop at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints encouraged her to apply for a job at the Deseret Industries Thrift Store.

“When you start working here, you actually have a counselor that comes in and talks to you, which is so great, and then we are in training all the time,” Anderson said. “We go through this book with our job coaches and they also help you go to college, or any kind of special school that you want to go to.

They also help you build your resume, so you can get a job and keep a job.”

With this experience

in her career toolbelt, Anderson hopes to finish her degree in business administration.

“Getting a job here is more than just a job,” Anderson said.

Anderson is one of many employees at Deseret Industries who receive not just a paycheck but also job coaching, résumé building and counseling. These resources give Deseret employees a leg up on the job market competition and

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push them towards higher-paying jobs in the future.

Anderson was on hand for a grand opening of the thrift store and donation center’s new location at 3850 W. Orange Grove Road. The new spot increased the shop’s capacity by 5,000 square feet and led to more job availability.

Although Deseret is supported by the LDS Church, applicants don’t need to be members to receive employment. Half of the current employees are not members of the church.

Tucson local Beatrice

Gonzales is one of those employees. Gonzales was a longtime customer of Deseret at the old location before applying. Employment at Deseret usually lasts one year, so that more people in the community can have access to their job resources. However, Gonzales has been enjoying her experience to the point where she asked to stay longer. She was granted another six months.

“The people that I work with are wonderful people,” Gonzalez said. “I love the job coaches, even the ones that aren’t mine. They’re good job coaches. You can come to any one of them

whenever there might be a situation you might have or something and they’re always there to listen.”

Gonzales was thankful to her manager, Gary Nelson, for highlighting leadership qualities she didn’t know she had.

“Gary, my manager, just saw qualities in me that I didn’t really see in myself as far as team lead, which is something I never expected to be told that I had that in me,” Gonzales said.

Gonzales plans to continue a career in retail after Deseret.

Nelson said he enjoys training people and seeing them grow throughout

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their employment at Deseret. Nelson previously worked at several chain grocery stores that he felt treated workers like numbers, easily replaceable. Deseret departs from this by making employees leave feeling empowered and equipped to work a higher-level job.

Nelson recalled an instance of a young woman who previously worked at Deseret. Based on her appearance, one could say this 20-year-old woman was not confident in herself. She also had no job experience. She slowly worked her way through different positions at Deseret and as she went through each job duty she became more confident.

Nelson said this young woman became a team lead by the end of her em-

ployment at Deseret.

“So here’s this quiet young lady, that now we’re asking her to direct others,” Nelson said, “She rose to the challenge, accepted, and did an outstanding job. Everyone went to her for direction.

They never went to the job coach anymore.”

After she showed significant changes in her work performance, Deseret helped her purchase professional attire and start the job hunt. She found a new job within a few weeks. This success story is the goal of Deseret.

“It’s not just for people who have a hard time keeping employment, maybe it’s someone that hasn’t worked for a while and they just want to find out if they can work,”

Nelson said.

Deseret Industries is currently looking to hire and coach 20 more employees. Call 520-9031036 or visit in person at the new location to inquire about employment opportunities. You can also visit their website at deseretindustries.org for more information.

“Deseret Industries is all about hope and opportunity,” President Ken Moeller from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Marana said. “It is a place where one can get a fresh start, gain employment experience, and learn to be a dependable employee. It is a place where people can gain confidence in themselves.”

Photo by Alexandra Pere

“It’s not just for people who have a hard time keeping employment, maybe it’s someone that hasn’t worked for a while and they just want to find out if they can work,” said Deseret manager Gary Nelson.

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Nurse Iris Delfakis receives the first public COVID vaccine administered at Banner University Medical Center on Dec. 17, 2020. Since then, more than 4 million Arizonans have been vaccinated.

COVID: Looking back on two years Continued from P1

Last month, the Pima County Board of Supervisors declined to extend into March a mask mandate requiring people to mask up in indoor spaces when they could not be physically distant.

(Even when supervisors voted to enact the mask mandate in December, Pima County Acting Administrator Jan Lesher conceded that it was impractical to enforce the mandate, although she said it would be “a call to arms for everyone in the county to step up and do their part to help prevent the spread of a deadly virus, especially during the holidays.”)

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the pandemic is trending downward, although some express concern that restrictions are being lifted too soon and caution that a future variant could bring a new wave.

“All in all, nothing but good news on the shortterm horizon,” said Dr. Joe Gerald, an epidemiologist with the UA Zuckerman School of Public Health who has been tracking the pandemic’s spread in Arizona for the last two years.

But he cautioned that COVID could make a resurgence when school starts again in the fall.

Gerald started his work shortly after the first Pima County patient tested positive on March 9, 2020. Since then, Pima

County had seen just more than a quarter-million confirmed cases of COVID as of March 2, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.

Those same ADHS stats show a total of 3,623 people had died after contracting COVID in Pima County. Across the state, that grim tally had reached 27,708, although it certainly undercounts the actual number, as the official death toll lags for weeks as death certificates are processed by state officials.

In addition, a December 2021 study by the Arizona Public Health Association showed that Arizona’s “excess death” numbers—the number of deaths above the

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average in the years 2017-2019—jumped by 29% in 2020 (the second highest in the nation, behind New York’s jump of 50%) and by 24% in 2021, which was the highest increase among U.S. states. In total, APHA Executive Director Will Humble noted that “an estimated 36,000 excess deaths have occurred in Arizona due directly or indirectly to the COVID pandemic.”

In a November 2021 report, APHA determined that Arizona was the only state where COVID-19 was the leading cause of death during the pandemic.

“COVID-19 is a distant third (well behind heart disease and cancer) in states that had governors and health

directors who made evidence-based intervention decisions and who properly executed key operational priorities,” noted Humble, who headed up the Arizona Department of Health Services during the Brewer administration.

While accurate numbers are not available for recent weeks because of reporting lags, more than 10,000 of Arizona’s COVID deaths have come since mid-July 19 of last year, according to data gathered by Gerald.

Arizona has been experiencing more than 400 deaths a week between late November and the end of January, mostly among unvaccinated individuals, as the Omicron variant overtook the Delta variant.

Arizona’s Omicron wave starting rising during the holiday season.

Omicron, a more transmissible variant, resulted in record-breaking numbers of daily new cases during the holiday season, peaking with 17,907 new confirmed cases in Pima County in the week ending Jan. 9.

That number had dipped to 2,225 confirmed cases in the week ending Feb. 20, according to a Feb. 28 memo by Acting Pima County Administrator Jan Lesher. (By comparison, Pima County’s low point during the pandemic came in the first week of June 2021, with just 243 cases.)

Omicron’s high death toll came despite the widespread availability of vaccines. A year ago,

there was huge demand for the COVID vaccines, with drive-thru distribution points popping up at Phoenix-area stadiums, the county’s Kino Sports Complex and on the UA mall.

A year later, 74% of the statewide population had received at least one shot of the COVID vaccine as of March 2, according to ADHS. As of last week, roughly 75% of Pima County had received at least one shot of the vaccine. If you take away children under the age of 5, who are not eligible for vaccination, that percentage rises to 79.2%, according to ADHS. But according to the Centers for Disease Control, only 71.5% of the Pima County population

aged 5 and older were fully vaccinated with two doses and only 43% of the population had received a booster dose.

Seniors outpace other age groups, with nearly 63% of those 65 and older having gotten booster shots.

Boosters are recommended for anyone 12 and older five months after an initial series of Pfizer or Modena vaccines and two months after a Johnson & Johnson (aka Janssen) shot.

The low percentage of people who have received boosters concern from healthcare experts.

“Low booster rates, low prior infection rates and waning immunity among the elderly poses a risk of continued hospitalizations and deaths

despite improving overall conditions,” wrote Gerald.

Don Herrington, the interim director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, noted last week that booster doses “dramatically increase protection against COVID-19, including the Omicron variant.”

Herrington pointed to data that showed that compared to people who were vaccinated and had a booster, unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to test positive for COVID, 67 times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID and 180 times more likely to die after contracting COVID. Continued on P16

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Some participants even sported buttons that read things like “Ask me why I’m bald” and “Bald by choice.”

Funds are raised through traditional donations as well as a raffle.

“When I first heard about it, I asked ‘what can I do to help?’,” said Chris Dow, who organizes St. Baldrick’s Northwest Tucson chapter, and has participated for nine years.

Dow originally participated with the St. Baldrick’s chapter Coaches United Against Cancer. In his nearly decade organizing events, he has helped raise more than $45,000.

One of the participants, Jeff Piercy, is on his 10th year participating in the St. Baldrick’s head shaving.

He is also one of the top participants for the Northwest Tucson chapter, having

Photos by Jeff Gardner

(Above): Jeff Piercy has his head shaved for the 10th year at St. Baldrick’s Northwest Tucson cancer research fundraiser.

(Cover photo): Chris Dow has his shaved for the ninth year.

raised thousands of dollars for cancer research. As his hair was being buzzed away, he laughed and admitted he actually got a haircut just a few weeks ago.

“Back when I was in the Marines, I had my head shaved in probably 30 seconds. They’re doing a much cleaner job here, I have to say,” Piercy said. “I’m actually going to Colorado tomorrow, but I have a stocking cap ready.”

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a nonprofit organization that has raised more than $100 million in childhood cancer research grants. Their headshaving and fundraising events have taken place in every state and in more than 20 countries.

For more information, and to give a donation of your own, visit stbaldricks.org

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QUAGMIRE OF HUMANITY

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egarding Don Cox’s guest commentary “The Oro Valley Marketplace deal: A missed opportunity” (March 3): Cox and all the rest of you who want to live with wall-to-wall people can all go to h..., er, I mean, you can go live in Los Angeles or New York. Those of us who came here years ago, came to get away from it.

We were relatively independent. We didn’t care if it was 10 or 15 miles to a grocery store or restaurant. It was beautiful. The quagmire of humanity is already here and will continue to get worse. It’s just a matter of how fast you want it to get worse.

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am one of the minority of drivers who refuses to speed and I am more likely to receive a traffic violation for obstructing traffic than the drivers who pass me at extreme speeds. Look at Oracle Road between 6:30 9 a.m. and you will observe vehicles being driven at extreme speeds. Look at Rancho Vistoso Boulevard, same story. Look at Tangerine Road, same story. Look at Del Webb Boulevard, same story. I could go on with this list but for what purpose?

Drivers living in or just driving through Oro Valley, no matter where they reside, just don’t care about the legal speed laws. They are not being enforced.

Enforce the traffic laws already on the books and allocate the funds received from the fines back to salaries for the law enforcement. Then hire back or replace those officers who were let go because of lack of funds.

One other benefit would be safer streets for Oro Valley residents.

Larry Klein Oro Valley

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SUNDAY, MARCH 20

• Laugh out loud with award-winning stand-up comic Jo Koy: Funny is Funny World Tour. Details: 8 p.m.; Tucson Arena, 260 S. Church Ave.; $48-$75; ticketmaster.com.

MUSIC THURSDAY, MARCH 10

• Listen to Live Music Concerts presented by the Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance featuring the top 40’s of Corey Spector. Details: 5-7 p.m.; Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort and Spa, Lookout Tucson Bar & Grill; 245 E. Ina Road; $10; 602-349-3137.

• Bring a lawn chair and listen to a mix of familiar and lesser-known standards along with some originals

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FRIDAY, MARCH 11

• Dance the night away to the hits of the 60’s to the 80’s at the Vintage Rock Dance Party with Shell Shock

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The Gaslight Music Hall in Oro Valley is hosting a 60’s through 80’s Vintage Rock Dance Party on Friday.

Band. Details: 7 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $20; 520529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

• Listen to the classic jazz of internationally acclaimed The Hot Sardines making old sounds new again and bringing people together. Details: 7:30 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; $35-$70; foxtucson.com.

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SUNDAY, MARCH 13

• Listen to a Tribute to George Strait by the Strait Country Band starring Jack Bishop re-creating the signature sound prominently featuring the pedal steel guitar and fiddle. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 520-529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

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The Tucson Museum of Art Annual Spring Artisans Market takes place this weekend, March 11 - 13. p.m.; Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; $30; foxtucson.com.

• Enjoy an intimate evening with the many hit songs of Frank Sinatra featuring Chuck Moses at The Songs of Sinatra. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 520-529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

• Enjoy the country music of Platinum-selling entertainer Justin Moore with special guests Heath Sanders and Stephen Paul. Details: 7:30 p.m.; Tucson Arena, 260 S. Church Ave.; $43-$53; ticketmaster.

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SATURDAY TO SUNDAY, MARCH 1213

• Enjoy a performance of the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra featuring Flying High with Holland, Stravinsky, Gershwin and talented youth. Details: 7:30 p.m. Saturday; DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive; $30; dvpac.net; or 3 p.m. Sunday; St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7575 N. Paseo del Norte, $25; sasomusic. org.

MONDAY, MARCH 14

• Groove to 1970s folk rock with a tribute to the best songs and performers of a generation at You’ve Got a Friend with the Tributaries. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 520-529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 19

• Don’t miss The Marshall Tucker Band 50th Anniversary Tour with Dave Mason featuring their mighty music catalog and multi-platinum hits. Details: 8 p.m.; Tucson Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave.; $35-$95; ticketmaster.com.

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The Cologuard Classic returned to the Omni National Golf Course this year, with a few minor changes.

Many volunteers were happy about the sunshine but also happy that spectators were allowed back on the venue from Feb. 25 to Feb. 27.

David Doherty and Phillip Holmbade were both volunteers for the event and like to play golf as much as they can. They both were present for last year’s event and said that it was “pretty quiet.”

Volunteers at last year’s event were required to always wear masks, but for this year, they only had to wear them in enclosed spaces.

Holmbade said this year, he felt like he was back in 2019, pre-COVID. “We’re looking forward to having the spectators back, it changes the game,” he said.

Volunteer Jan Strzalkowski said it was great to be back outdoors for the tournament.

“I think people need to get outside and enjoy the nature and be around other people,” Strzalkowski said. “You can’t be inside all the time. So, I think it’s a great event to do that.

And it’s a good cause for all the donations that go to help the youth in the community.”

Exact Sciences, the maker of Cologuard, donated $1 dollar per yard for every tee shot on the 18th hole that landed in the fairway, as well as an additional $40,000 dollars.

Sam Workman, a visitor from Texas, participated in his first year at the

tournament as a caddy for Steven Aiker. He says he was happy to see such a great golf course and such beautiful weather.

He wanted to have some fun and enjoy his time but was looking forward to one thing.

“Once the tournament starts, it’s to have a good finish and try to win the golf tournament,” Workman said.

Michael Flanagan grew up watching many golfers in the event at the exact golf course. He is used to the players as well as the intimate venue and says his biggest objective for the event is to follow how the “old powerhouses” are doing in the tournament.

While he’s now living in Phoenix, Flanagan said he was happy to see new golf rules that seemed to have sped up the pace of play.

“I think golf in general is the best it’s been in my lifetime,” Flanagan said.

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“Especially for public golf—the public revenue for local courses is the highest it’s been in a long time, partly related to COVID. … I think golf is going in a good direction.

They’re adapting some good rules.”

New to this year’s event was the WynnBet booth set up in the entertainment area where food, drinks, and games were set up for spectators.

Flanagan was taking a wait-and-see attitude as to how gambling would

affect the golf event.

“I think sports betting is a delicate thing,” Flanagan said. “It is easy to abuse. So, I just hope that the sport stays true and isn’t affected negatively by gambling.”

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ast week, during the Arizona-Stanford men’s basketball game, they showed a really nice tribute to Lute Olson. It was great to see how many images they had of him smiling.

He had a warm and ready smile, but that Norwegian/Minnesotan Uffdah! mentality probably put a cap on any outward displays. I did, however, get to see him laugh out loud once.

We ran into each other in McKale one afternoon. He knew that I coached high-school basketball and he asked how my team had done in the just-completed season. He politely nodded when I told him that we had won our conference championship and then made it to the Final Four at State. I was hoping we could leave it at that, but the silence was deafening and his Presence demanded that I continue.

I told him that we had lost by one on the Final Four game, but then, shockingly, I heard myself adding, “we shot seven-for-60.”

He laughed hard and

long and then hard again.

He then said that he was trying to search his memory banks (he didn’t use that term) to find a similar experience. Finally, we agreed that 7-60 would be the benchmark until something more horrible came along.

The performance by the University of Arizona women’s team last week in their first game in the Pac-12 Tournament does not nudge 7-60 aside, but it does enter the Hall of Shame Top 10.

Think about this: Colorado made 15 baskets, shooting 32%, the entire game…and won! Arizona, meanwhile, made 12 baskets. Not in a quarter, not in a half, but in the entire game. They shot a bad middle-school 25% from the floor, including a legendary 2-24 from the three-point line.

That’s right, half of their shots were three-pointers and they made 8% of them. The most amazing thing about the game was that the same Arizona team shot a combined 17-18 from the free-throw line.

I watched the game and it was like watching a bus accident in slow motion. The Cats were missing their top scorer, All-American Cate Reese, but they shouldn’t

have looked as bad as they did. It was strange.

Now, they’ll be on pins and needles until Sunday’s NCAA Selection Show. They’re guaranteed to make it to the Tournament, but they’ll be walking a tightrope this entire week. In an effort to boost home-court attendance in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, the top 16 teams in the country are allowed to host the first two games. (That used to be a thing for the men, but was done away with 35 years ago, deemed to be too much of an advantage. Trivia note: The last men’s team to play a home game in the NCAA Tournament was Arizona, and the Cats lost to UTEP.) Two years ago, the Wildcat women, building on the huge crowds that had attended Arizona’s run to the WNIT crown the year before, were all set to host the first two games when the entire tournament was wiped away in the early days of the pandemic. Then, last year, they were again one of the top seeds, but then the NCAA, in an effort to keep games from being canceled and to have a complete tournament, gathered everybody inside the bubble in San

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Antonio and held the whole thing there.

(In case you were living in a cave, Arizona made it to the championship game, losing to Pac12 rival Stanford by one point.)

So this was supposed to be the year. All the Cats had to do was finish in the Top 16 in the country and play the first two games in McKale. How hard could that be, considering that the Cats started the season 11-0 and were firmly entrenched in the Top Five in the country?

They stayed in the Top 10 most of the year, but then suffered a couple head-scratching losses.

Only a couple weeks after taking second-ranked Stanford down to the wire on the road, Arizona lost to ASU. A team has to be one of the top four seeds in a Region to get to host the first two games. For a while, it looked like Arizona would be a one seed. Then they settled comfortably into being a two seed. Then they slipped to a consensus three seed. Now, having

lost four of their last seven (and with their best player still out), Coach Adia Barnes is publicly angling for a four seed.

The Cats have a solid resume and some good wins, but limping into the Tournament is never a good idea. We just have to hope that a 20-7 record is good enough.

Thankfully, we only have to wait until Sunday. In the old days, we would have had to wait until Monday.

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COVID: ‘Drawing down COVID-19 mitigations’ Continued from P7

Meanwhile, compared to people who had been vaccinated but hadn’t received a booster, unvaccinated people 1.3 times more likely to test positive for COVID, 4.1 times more likely to be hospitalized for COVID and 7.2 times more likely to die after contracting COVID. Pima County had seen 50,963 breakthrough infections among people who had been vaccinated, according to Lesher, or 7.6% of the fully vac-

cinated population. But only 962 of those cases (or .14%), required hospitalization and only 220 (.03%) died.

Fortunately, the number of hospitalized COVID patients continues to decline across the state. Arizona’s doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers have faced huge strains through the pandemic. Gerald noted last month that hospitals were just emerging from 191 days of having more than 2,000 patients in hospitals statewide. (By point of comparison, during the winter 2021

surge, hospitals only broke the 2,000-patient barrier for 98 consecutive days.) During that Delta-Omicron stretch, hospital faced 75 days of caring for more than 3,000 patients.

As a result, many healthcare workers are exhausted by the jobs and burned out. To add insult to injury, they often find themselves the target of conservative politicians who accuse them of overblowing the dangers of the pandemic.

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hit a high less than two months ago, in the third week of January, at 307, according to Lesher’s memo to the Pima County Board of Supervisors.

By the second week of February, it had dropped to 117—which, as Lesher notes, is still much higher than the low point of 15 in May 2021.

While COVID is still circulating in the community and health officials still urge caution, Gerald predicts more restrictions will be lifted, especially after the CDC issued new guidelines last month that have moved all of Arizona’s counties except Yuma and La Paz counties into a medium-risk category.

“During March more institutions and indi-

viduals will be drawing down their COVID-19 mitigations,” Gerald recently noted in an email. “For those who are healthy, vaccinated or recovered, normalization will pose little risk.

Those who have personal health conditions, family members with personal health conditions, or workers who interact with those who are vulnerable should continue to mitigate until transmission levels fall further. We are going to continue an awkward condition, where motivating the healthy to maintain their precautions to protect the vulnerable will become even more difficult.”

Sports & Rec Continued from P15

EXTRA POINTS: The Flowing Wells girls basketball team made it all the way to the Class 5A State Champion ship game, but ran into a brutally efficient Goodyear Millennium team that would cruise to its fourth consecutive state title. Flowing Wells jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead to start the game, but then quickly gave up 10 straight points and would never lead again. In fact, they would mostly not even get close again.

Millennium led by only 10 at the half, 2515, but it felt like a lot more. Then, it became a lot more. Somewhat amazingly, Flowing Wells did not score in the third quarter, missing all 15 of their shots.

(That’s actually pretty hard to do, especially for a team that had lost only one game all season and that was back around Thanksgiving.) Millennium wasn’t exactly on fire, shooting less than 30% from the field, but they did manage to push the lead up to 38-15 and that was that.

Navine Mallon had a rare off night shooting, scoring only 5 points, but she did grab 15 rebounds. Both she and teammate Sydney Lomeli-Capen were named to the Class 5A All-State team, with junior Mallon being named State Player of the Year.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Selfishness causes conflicts. Get to the bottom of it by trying to understand what exactly it is that people want.

It’s often not what they say or even what they think they want. You’ll sense how people are feeling and what they might be lacking. You can help get everyone on the same page, working together with aligned goals.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your attractions will drive you even when they are not at the front of your mind. Sometimes you will have to remind yourself what excites and delights you. Describe the moment when your passion ignited, and you will feel it flicker anew. The color of the fire may have changed, but it still burns just as hot.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). It’s exciting to watch people doing things. It’s not fun at all to watch people looking at screens. This is why the most attractive people are the ones who have at least a few hobbies that do not involve a computer. This week you’ll cultivate talents outside the digital world to stellar effect.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). According to Shakespeare, brevity is the soul of wit.

According to Dorothy Parker, brevity is the soul of lingerie. And according to this week, brevity is the soul of pleasure, as too much of any good thing will be a terrible thing. In moderation will be delight.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There’s a shroud of mystery over a relationship, especially its future. This doesn’t have to cause anyone stress. The less you want and need out of the tie, the more lighthearted and playful you feel. Maybe it’s better that you have no idea where things are going. This is what makes it so exciting.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your mind is skeptical of gut feelings. Your instincts come from a mysterious place your mind has never visited and doubts exists. However, more often than not, the wisdom that comes from the center of your being is right. No matter how illogical a notion may seem, give some credence to what feels right.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You feel pressure because you make rules for yourself. The rules that cause stress could easily be omitted or changed. This is all up to you. It’s a week to get curious about your expectations of yourself.

How harsh are you being? What would happen if you decided you have nothing to prove?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You believe in equality, and you treat everyone with the same respect. However, you also recognize that people have different needs, expectations and preferences. You’ll pull off something amazing this week. You’ll cater to people specifically yet still uphold the ethos of equality.

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