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Desert Drought

Oct. Despite 7, 2020 recent rains, experts say there are no short-term solutions

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Monsoon concludes with cooler temps, showers

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Guest Commentary

The new book “Murder & Mayhem in Tucson” compiles the darkest and strangest stories from the Sonoran Desert’s past.

Read more on page 11.

Reducing community divisions | Page 8

Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

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Pandemic in a pandemic

Domestic abuse awareness month | Page 10

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Roadrunners and Pickleball | Page 17 $

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If the Marana Council approves the tax, completing the center’s design should take roughly a year, and accounting for 18 months of construction will put a rough completion date on the project for 2024, according to Town Manager Terry Rozema.

lthough the National Weather Service measures the monsoon season as desert rainfall between June 15 and the end of September, that didn’t prevent a rainstorm last week from feeling particularly monsoonal. On Tuesday, Oct. 5, Tucson and the Catalina Foothills were placed under a severe thunderstorm warning as a storm system rolled through Southern Arizona.

The storm brought nearly a quarter inch of rain and lightning to parts of the Tucson area, as well as gusts up to 50 mph. Further out, towns like Willcox and Bowie were even hit with hail. In total, more than 50,000 lightning flashes were recorded across Arizona due to the storm.

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he Marana Town Council is set to vote on a proposed half-cent-per-dollar sales tax to fund a $40 million community center and aquatic facility at the municipal complex.

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Experts: No short-term answers to problem of drought, water shortages Ulysse Bex Cronkite News

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tate and federal officials told a Senate panel Wednesday that there may be long-term solutions to the historic drought gripping the West, and the water shortages that come with it, but that the shortterm outlook remains grim.

The hearing comes against the backdrop of a 20-year-long drought has left about 90% of the West affected. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., said tree-ring and soil evidence indicates that the region may be going through the worst drought in 1,200 years—certainly the worst in the 100 years or so that records have been kept.

“Arizona is on the front

lines of this megadrought,” said Kelly, who chaired the Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee hearing.

When water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell fell to historic lows in August, it triggered a multistate water conservation plan that will take effect next year. Under that plan, Nevada will give up 21,000 acre-feet of water that it would otherwise pull from Lake Mead, Mexico will give up 80,000 acre-feet and Arizona will give up 512,000 acre-feet, or 18% of its total.

Kelly, who called Lake Mead and Lake Powell “the poster children for Western drought,” said Arizona is “prepared for these initial cutbacks” after years of planning and conservation

efforts.

But he and others at the hearing worried about what will happen when the situation gets worse—which they all agreed it will.

“The likelihood of deeper cuts in the future is high,” said Tom Buschatzke, the director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources. The first goal, he said, is to prevent further reductions in the levels at Lake Mead.

“Additional actions to protect Lake Mead fall into two categories: First, mandatory cuts or, second, additional conservation,” Buschatzke said. “Arizona is working toward achieving additional conservation instead of greater mandatory cuts, but that is a heavy lift.”

The first round of cuts to Arizona’s water supply will

likely not be felt by most people in the state, Kelly said. Buschatzke said almost all of next year’s reductions will come from Central Arizona Project allocations, with tribes, towns, private water companies, industrial users and others being affected.

Farmers would take the biggest hit, but the state’s drought contingency plan will offset many of the cuts with water from other sources or with financial compensation. But some farmers could still be forced to leave as much as 30% to 40% of their fields fallow if the situation does not improve, Buschatzke said.

“Moving into the future, which is going to be very different for them … they’re not going to be able to farm the way they have farmed historically and it’s a real paradigm shift to the agriculture community,” he said.

The drought has been aggravated by climate change, witnesses said, which has led to warmer, drier conditions that have reduced the runoff from Rocky Mountain snowmelt that would normally recharge rivers and aquifers in the region.

Kelly pointed to the $8.3 billion for water projects that is included in the mas-

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sive infrastructure bill that recently passed the Senate and is awaiting action in the House, and asked what kind of long-term relief that might bring.

“Here’s the thing,” he said.

“There is no country in the world—no country in the world—that is better at solving big problems when we put our mind to it. We can solve this.”

Buschatzke said there is “no end to the list of potential projects that could benefit Arizona, the lower basin and Lake Mead,” including water recycling projects in Southern California, enhanced storage and desalination projects in Arizona and the Sea of Cortez.

He said he sits on a panel that has determined a Sea of Cortez desalination project would be economically feasible, but that such a project is still eight to 10 years away. That’s why continued cooperation between states in the Colorado basin as well as the U.S. and Mexican governments remains a key element, he said.

“The funding alone won’t do it, we have to put together agreements and programs and find the most effective way to use that funding,” Buschatzke said.

In the meantime, gov-

ernments continue to plan for the worst, and recently downgraded their outlook for Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Buschatzke told the subcommittee that if future years turn out to be “wetter than this more conservative approach, I’ll do my happy dance.” But not yet.

Despite the grim outlook, both Kelly and Buschatzke said they are upbeat about long-term prospects.

“We have to come up with solutions, such as finding other sources of water or other ways to conserve water, but water storage is a critical aspect for us to address this problem,” Kelly said. “We are the most creative country in the world, we are really good at solving problems, particularly engineering problems. I know we can solve this.”

Buschatzke said the state has history on its side.

“Arizona has a history of meeting challenges both on its own and in concert with other water users in the Colorado River Basin and Mexico,” he said in his prepared testimony. “Collaboration with the basin states and Mexico is the only realistic pathway to achieve success.”

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Monsoon: La Niña conditions point to a cooler, drier winter Continued from P1

Although this storm had the strength and symptoms of a monsoon, it was not included in the NWS monsoon statistics because it fell just outside of monsoon dates. Had it been included, it may have produced enough rainfall to bump this year’s monsoon up to the second rainiest ever recorded. But as it stands, 2021 is the third rainiest monsoon in Tucson’s history since weather data is available dating back to 1895. From June 15 through September of this year, NWS measured that the Tucson area saw 12.79 inches of rain. This is only

behind 1955’s monsoon which saw 13.08 inches, and 1964’s monsoon which was 13.84 inches.

On an average year, Tucson only sees 5.69 inches of monsoon rain.

This July alone, Tucson was hit with more than 8 inches of rain—the rainiest July ever recorded, and the only month in Tucson’s recorded history to experience more than 8 inches of rain (as measured from Tucson International Airport).

This was quite a change from last year’s monsoon, which was only .03 inches away from ranking as the driest monsoon ever recorded. The only other times a top 10 wettest and

top 10 driest monsoon fell back-to-back were in 1918 to 1919, and 1989 to 1990. But neither of those included a Top 3 rainiest and Top 3 driest monsoon back-to-back like we just saw.

The active monsoon season improved drought conditions throughout Arizona, particularly along the borderlands. As of June 15, the majority of Pima County was categorized as D4, or “exceptional drought,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s most severe drought label. During the heavy monsoon, no part of Pima County measured above D1, or moderate drought, with

some corners of the county not even reaching drought conditions at all.

“While this will help with the ongoing drought in the southwest, in many regions the precipitation deficit has been building for a long time,” wrote Emily Becker, a scientist who works with NOAA, in an article about the North American monsoon. “The current drought outlooks expect that the drought in Arizona and New Mexico will improve in the short term, but persist.”

The monsoon brought a similar story to many other Arizona counties. As of June 15, parts of 14 out of 15 Arizona counties measured extreme drought—

only Yuma County was free of the label, and it still had mostly moderate drought conditions. But

by September, no counties had D4 “exceptional drought” conditions, and only five counties had D3 “extreme drought” conditions.

Looking forward, the NWS expects a drier- and cooler-than-average winter due to La Niña conditions. Forecasters use a complex flowchart to determine if a season is truly experiencing La Niña conditions, but ultimately estimate this winter has a roughly 75% chance of reaching it.

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ing the initial effects of the season. On Thursday, Oct. 7, NWS announced that we will see temperatures “well below normal” this week, as well as breezy conditions due to a pair of weather systems moving through the Southwest.

These may even result in the valleys east and south of Tucson experiencing freezing temperatures at night.

Sounds like autumn to us!

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Sales Tax: Half cent for seven years Continued from P1

The proposed “multi-generational” community center comes after a survey in the Town’s Parks & Rec Master Plan identified the community’s desire for more recreation in northern Marana. Town officials have been presenting the plan at various forums for the last few months.

“So there’s a lot of people saying they want the center,” Rozema said during the public outreach.

“But it’s one thing to want it and another thing to say how to pay for it. So we’re finding out how badly people want this, and if they’re willing to pay a half-cent sales tax to pay for it.”

The new sales tax would potentially go into effect as soon as January 2022, should the Town Council approve it next week. Marana has previously used a temporary sales tax increase to fund other municipal projects, including the new police headquarters at the municipal complex, as well as the Twin Peaks overpass. At the end of seven years, the Town may end the tax, or shift it to fund another municipal project. This new tax would increase the town’s sales tax from 2% to 2.5%, matching nearby Oro Valley’s sales tax rate.

“I think one of the things we’ve gotten positive feedback from people on is that we’re not raising taxes and people have no idea where they’re going.

It’s a clear result,” Rozema said. “Of course, everyone

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will say their taxes are already high enough, and that their property taxes keep going up. But we want to educate people that we don’t collect their property tax. Marana does not have a property tax.

That is Pima County and it goes to the fire district and school districts. This sales tax would primarily come from retail: entertainment, lumber, tools.”

The community and aquatic center would be built on the northwest corner of Bill Gaudette Drive and Marana Main Street on land that the Town already owns near the Marana Road exit on Interstate 10. The community center would be an addition to the Marana Municipal Complex, already home to police and fire stations, a health center, town court, a post office and more. It’s an area in north Marana where planners hope to develop a “downtown” gathering spot.

“Some people are questioning where we’re putting it, and we chose the location we did for several reasons,” Rozema said.

“Number one, we’re not in the business of competing with the private sector.

And northern Marana has

zero recreational facilities like this, but southern and eastern Marana have LA Fitness and Anytime Fitness and Crossfit. And the second thing is that we’re trying to build out the downtown and municipal complex. And as a community facility, we believe the traffic it can receive will spur more economic activity to Marana Main.”

The “multi-generational” center would host facilities for all ages, from children through seniors, as well as the special needs population. Should the center be built, Rozema says the existing recreation center at nearby Ora Mae Harn District Park may be converted into exclusively a senior center. Ora Mae Harn park also houses an existing community pool.

However, Marana recreation supervisor Kevin Goodrich has listed challenges with the current community pool, such as it being nearly 50 years old, ADA accessibility, small size and lack of adequate shallows for children.

The Marana Town Council meeting begins at 6 p.m.

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GUEST COMMENTARY

COVID-19 has heightened division in our community Rex Scott

Special to Tucson Local Media

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ast month, I represented Pima County at the annual meeting of the County Supervisors Association. All 15 of Arizona’s counties were represented and there was an admirable focus on the issues and interests that county governments share. Even in these polarized times, there was no evidence of

the intense partisan divisions that bedevil our state and national politics.

The large county caucus we belong to includes Maricopa and Pinal Counties. Our board has a Democratic majority, but the other two counties have boards with Republican majorities. Nevertheless, when we met prior to the general meeting to determine our positions on the matters to be discussed with the small and me-

dium counties, there was unanimity on every issue.

Local government, the level closest to the people, should always be the least partisan.

When all 15 of the counties gathered to determine the priorities we would push for during the next session of the Arizona Legislature, there was consensus on the need to advocate for greater investments in broadband and transportation, for the state

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to stop passing the costs for its responsibilities on to the counties and for more action by the state in dealing with increased pension costs for public employees.

There were differences of opinion between rural and urban counties on some other legislative issues, but the overall outcomes of our decisions were based in unity and acceptance of a common set of facts of what all counties need to move forward.

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped to exacerbate divisions that existed in our community before it hit us. It has also created new ones. One of the most significant has been the debate over mask wearing by students and staff in our K-12 schools.

My own beliefs are that masks have been an effective mitigation measure against the spread of all airborne viruses and that, at this stage of the

pandemic, they primarily protect the unvaccinated, especially our youngest children. Both the Centers for Disease Control and the Arizona Department of Health Services strongly recommend mask wearing in schools. The Pima County Health Department agrees and has provided resources and support to all schools in our county throughout the pandemic.

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school districts in Pima County enacted mask mandates and one of those six has repealed theirs.

Two of the other three voted against putting a mandate in place and the third has not brought the matter before their governing board. As these differing school district actions show, there has been intense debate on both sides of the issue throughout our community.

I have heard from many parents and grandparents who are concerned for the safety of the children they love if masking is not more pervasive in their schools. I have also heard from many parents and grandparents who are convinced that mask wearing does not protect

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“We must stop demonizing each other. One way to reunite after the virus is defeated is to recognize the love we all have for our kids,” Scott said. against the virus and can be harmful to their children. One of the saddest features of the pandemic has been our failure as a nation to unite behind a

common set of facts with regard to public health.

However, there is no questioning the love both sets of people have for the children in their lives. We all need to acknowledge and take joy in that fact.

It may be one thing that helps us to come back together. We must stop demonizing each other.

One way to reunite after the virus is defeated is to recognize the love we all have for our kids and use it as a basis for finding areas where we can work together to create the future community they need and deserve.

Rex Scott serves District 1 on the Pima County Board of Supervisors.

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GUEST COMMENTARY The Pandemic Within the Pandemic

Joseph Kertis

Special to Tucson Local Media

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ctober is here, and that means Domestic Violence Awareness month is upon us.

This month is a designation that is observed annually in America to spread awareness about the important issue of domestic violence and help people connect with resources.

But this year, with so many serious public health issues afflicting our nation, it would be easy for the event to pass by without receiving the attention it deserves.

In October 1987, the first Domestic Violence Awareness Month was observed. That same year marks the inception of the first national domestic violence toll-free hotline. In 1989, the U.S. Congress

passed a law designating October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. And it is still relevant today, as over 10 million adults experience domestic violence annually.

But domestic violence is an issue that often comes second to other problems, like COVID-19. Yet, we find that almost twice as many women were murdered by their current or ex-partner between 2001 and 2012 than American lives were lost in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq during the same period.

Statistics like these clearly show the magnitude of the problem compared to the public attention the topic receives.

With attention comes education. Many people have been surprised to learn that the pandemic has made domestic violence more common and often more severe. World-

wide, surveys have shown domestic abuse rates spiking since January of 2020, jumping markedly compared to the same period in 2019. In cities across the U.S., police departments have reported increases in domestic violence incidents. For example, there was a reported increase of 18% in San Antonio, 22% in Portland, Oregon, and 10% in New York City.

This pandemic within the COVID-19 pandemic is being exacerbated by another public health emergency known as addiction. While 2020 brought the highest death toll our country has ever seen, thanks to the coronavirus, drug overdose rates played a major part as well. More than 93,000 people died by overdose last year, also a record-breaking tragedy.

More people died last year from addiction than during the height of the opioid epi-

demic, which many experts believe is actually happening now.

Is it simply a coincidence that COVID-19 worsened the rates of both domestic violence and substance abuse? No, it isn’t.

According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, as many as 60% of domestic violence crimes are committed by someone who struggles with substance use disorder. And this phenomenon isn’t just isolated to the perpetrators. Another report shows that 42% of victims used alcohol or drugs the day they were assaulted.

Among those fatally attacked, toxicology screening found that around one-third of victims had alcohol in their system and around one-quarter had used drugs.

According to Marcel Gemme of addicted.org, a former intake specialist for

substance abuse treatment facilities, there is a strong link between addiction and domestic violence. “Individuals become intoxicated and or under the influence of drugs, and violent and hostile emotions come to the surface. Alcohol and other drugs act on brain mechanisms that cause a high-risk individual to engage in aggressive and violent behavior.” In other words, using substances increases the chances of becoming both a perpetrator and a victim of domestic violence.

One of the problems that make it so difficult to eliminate domestic violence is fear. Victims are often cowed into staying in an abusive relationship and even shielding the abuser because they are afraid of the repercussions of attempting to leave or seek help. But thankfully, since 1987, there have been ad-

vances that have made it easier than ever for people to find support and get help with domestic violence.

The National Domestic Violence Hotline offers a website where anyone can get help anonymously. The person can call, chat, or text and access templates to create a “Safety Plan.” This tool helps potential victims lower the risk of being hurt by their partners. These tools can mean the difference between life and death for someone.

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doctor murdered outside of his office. Tucson’s very own “Pied Piper.” The man who killed Santa Claus. These are some of the dark and strange stories in the annals of the Sonoran Desert’s history that can be found in the new book, “Murder & Mayhem in Tucson.”

The History Press publishing company has multiple installations in their “Murder & Mayhem” series, but now the grim and fascinating collection comes to the Old Pueblo.

The new book was compiled and written by Tucson resident Patrick Whitehurst, who has published multiple fiction and nonfiction books about crime and fascinating, if little-known, community tales. Murder & Mayhem in Tucson includes dozens of dark stories, beginning with the battles between Apaches and Spaniards, through the Wild West, the gangster era, and into the 2000s. While the book covers more famous stories such as John

Dillinger in Hotel Congress and the 2011 Gabby Giffords shooting, it also shines light on forgotten cold cases and stories that are simply too strange to be lost to time.

“I’ve always been drawn to dark stories. I’ve been a fan of horror movies my whole life, and I also used to be a newspaper reporter in Sedona, Flagstaff and Prescott,” said Whitehurst, who has also written compendiums about paranormal stories in Monterey and about the history of Tusayan near the Grand Canyon.

Whitehurst says he spent six months researching Tucson’s seedy history for the book, gathering information and archival photos from libraries, historical societies, police departments and more. However, he also gathered information simply by speaking with locals to gather lesser-known stories. In total, the book took a year to make: six months of research and six months of writing.

“I gathered a ton of stories and looked at which would make a good fit for the book. Basically, I looked

at mostly historical stories, but I felt like I had to add a few more recent stories as well,” Whitehurst said. “I don’t intend for the stories to paint a bad picture of the community, just an interesting picture, because of how unique so many of the stories are.”

Whitehurst’s history writing fiction noir helps bring life to the historical stories, such as when he describes serial killer Charles Schmid, also known as the “The Pied Piper of Tucson.”

In the mid-’60s, Schmid killed three or four people and buried them in the desert outside of Tucson.

As Whitehurst writes: “In 1964, Schmid stood at five feet, three inches in height.

He’d hang out on Speedway Boulevard dressed in jeans with the cuffs rolled up and wearing face makeup he believed added to his tough charisma. That charisma and threatening demeanor worked, too, as the silence that surrounds the murders would prove.”

However, the book covers more than murders. It also documents the impact of the 1918 pandemic on Tuc-

son, the 1983 flooding from Tropical Storm Octave, and an Air Force jet that crashed into a grocery store in 1967.

Perhaps the most humorous story in the book follows a newspaper editor who, in 1930, became known as the “Man who killed Santa Claus.” So the story goes, John McPhee was planned to jump out of an airplane dressed as Santa and parachute down into a holiday parade. However, McPhee was too drunk to maneuver the stunt, so he substituted himself with a department store mannequin dressed as Santa. He threw the mannequin out from the plane, but the parachute failed to open.

And to onlookers’ horror, Santa Claus plummeted to the ground below.

While many of the stories in the book are self-contained and over with, others involve cold cases from the Tucson area that are yet to be solved.

“A lot of the cold cases are kind of forgotten. I’m sure there are people who remember them and are hoping they get solved, but to me, they always need more attention because

these people lost their lives and there’s no resolution to their story,” Whitehurst said.

“I came across quite a few of these cold cases and tried to pick out the most interesting. Especially the ones that were never solved. A lot of the stories really are stranger

than fiction. You can’t make some of these things up.”

Murder & Mayhem in Tucson is currently available from The History Press, and can be purchased at Barnes & Noble among other retailers.

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hen I was growing up in The Projects in Southern California, living in the other apartment of our duplex was my friend, Bobby Chacon. He and I played multiple sports together, but when he got out of high school, he became a professional boxer. He

was also going to college at the time, so they billed him as “Schoolboy Bobby Chacon.”

He got really good really fast and moved up the ranks. He eventually won World championships in two different weight divisions (eight years apart), but his life was just one tragedy after another. You can Google him if you have the stomach for heartbreak.

It’s been five years since he died and I miss him. I went to see him in his later years, but his pugilistic dementia was so bad (and I had grown fat), he didn’t recognize me. He barely knew who he was.

Early in his career, I went to see him at the Olympic Auditorium in downtown L.A. As I was watching the fight, a hockey game broke out.

That’s my segue to tell you that I’m not the biggest fan of hockey. I have never understood why people fight in a game where it’s perfectly legal to slam into your opponent as hard as you can. You almost never see fights in football because football players know that, no matter how mad they are, they can always just hit the guy on the next play. Not all pro hockey

players have figured that out.

When my daughter was getting her Master’s in Engineering at Cornell, she fell in love with college hockey, a super-fast game in which there are almost no fights.

Maybe it has something to do with their being in college. For several years (but not last year), my daughter and son would spend Thanksgiving in New York

City, going to the Parade on Thursday, doing insane Black Friday shopping at Macy’s and Bloomingdales in Manhattan on Friday and then watching Cornell play hockey in Madison Square Garden on Saturday. It’s a different opponent every year, but it’s always her beloved Cornell Big Red (and it’s always a sellout crowd).

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There’s something you are resisting, and now it’s time to question that instinct. What do you think will happen if you entertain the notion? What are you afraid of? Could you make room for the idea and its opposite at the same time? With your sophisticated and expansive mind, anything is possible.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Here comes a dream, a sign or a flash of insight. It may seem risky or counterintuitive to act on this before the meaning of it becomes clear to you. However, if you make your move in the heightened state, you won’t be sorry. Motion has a way of bringing the vision together.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). No one is great at everything. Most humans excel at a handful of endeavors and specialize in a couple. You’ll soon be adding to your arsenal or changing your specialty. You’ll seize a chance to experiment, which will lead you to explore. You’re at your best in new environments.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’ll use your talent for finding the good in things.

There’s even something good about worrying.

Apprehensions will fuel you to be more prepared. Instead of one backup plan, work out a multitude of them. The process of thinking them up will help you get to your most brilliant solution yet.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Getting away from a thing isn’t the same as running scared from it. Not every retreat is an escape. Think about what you’re going toward instead.

Start building that and you may just find that you drift quite naturally from what no longer serves you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There is no concept of correctness that is universal. You cannot tell exactly what other people are dealing with, but being intimately aware of the complex problems of modern life, you are determined to cultivate the spirit of generosity and abide by the belief that people are doing their best.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Most times you can cross the distance between the ordinary and the extraordinary with effort, talent, taste or something of the sort. This week, you’ll cross that chasm with dumb luck. You’ll stumble into the mood, the beautiful lighting or the perfect timing and you’ll experience sheer magic.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The one who sweeps onto the scene and brings the fun is attractive to all. You are this person when you decide to be, so you know how much work it is.

Whether it’s worth it depends on your need of the moment. Low-key connections can be just as sweet. Relating tenderly to one person will bring you everything you need.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It’s not so easy to be creative. It requires you give attention even when it’s uncomfortable or tedious. It requires you repeat actions until they work. Your creative success will be hard-won, which is what makes it so worthwhile. Keep coming up with new ideas and building on them. You’re onto something.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You want something from the situation that you don’t feel entitled to. Good. Entitlement breeds an off-putting arrogance. Your doubt makes you humble. Your vulnerability makes you relatable. Your hard work makes you qualify to get what you want. These qualities plus your efforts to connect will equal success.

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You’ll probably have to let go of the fun you planned to embrace the fun that’s waiting for you.

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One other thing that bothers me about hockey is that I don’t think that any human being has ever actually seen a goal scored. We watch as they swing at the puck and then sometimes a light goes on and all of the players on one team raise their sticks, but who knows what really happened? You have to wait until you get home and hope they show the highlights in slow motion on “SportsCenter.”

Having said all that, I think it’s time to give the Tucson Roadrunners a try. Longtime Tucson sports fans can count on multiple hands the number of fly-by-night sports franchises that have come through here, but this obviously isn’t one of them.

This will be the third season of (Arizona Coyotes-affiliated) Roadrunner hockey, but not the last.

The season opens on Friday at the Stockton

Heat. The Roadrunners return home for games with the Texas Stars on October 23 and 24. When they get into the Tucson Convention Center, they will have a new set of announcers ready to raise the excitement level to Ridiculous.

The Roadrunners will introduce Kim Cota-Robles as their new Public Address announcer. She will be the first full-time female PA announcer in all of professional hockey.

(Won’t it be great when we finally run out of firsts for women?) Joining her will be Channel 4 Sports Guy, Paul Cicala. Paul will probably be the most enthusiastic person at his own funeral. What he will do in a hockey arena is scary to contemplate.

KFMA morning deejay Beef Vegan and KOLDTV weekend reporter Yasmine Lopez will serve as in-game hosts.

Also this weekend will be the Picklin’ For a Cure Pickleball Tournament at Kino Sports Center. The tournament will bring

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together many of the top pickleball players from around the Southwest and will also serve as a fundraiser to fight two diseases—Lewy Body Dementia and Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome.

The tournament will run Friday through Sunday with Women’s Doubles on Friday, Mixed Doubles on Saturday, and Men’s Doubles on Sunday, with Age Group play each day. The home page for the tournament says that players must be at least eight years old by October 15th to be eligible.

Local player Tony Abram, who won a State championship playing with Mark Hardy (J.J.’s dad) will be teaming up with Devin Crowley on Sunday. Saturday, he will be partnering with Sahuaro High grad Taylor Hughes, who was part of the 2018 National Championship golf team while playing collegiately at Claremont-McKenna.

Temperatures are supposed to be in the low80s, but since the sport is so new, no one is quite sure what perfect pickleball weather is.

Athlete of the Week: Sam Hala’ufia Tom Danehy

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am Hala’ufia is a big guy. His dad was born in Tonga, which is an entire island nation of big guys. Oddly enough, his name is pronounced just like it’s spelled. The first half is Holla (like Gwen Stefani sings in “…Back, Girl.”)

Then, it’s ooh-fee-uh. The Mountain View High senior has used his size quite well.

At 6’ 4” and 240 pounds, he anchors the defensive line for the Mountain Lion football team and he is also the defending state champion in both the shot put and the discus. (Sam’s older sister, Grace, was also a champion thrower at Mountain View and a super basketball player; she is now a member of the University of Arizona track & field team.)

Besides being athletic, Sam is also thoughtful, studious, courteous, and musically talented. When he called me the other night after 10:00, he apologized for the lateness of the call but said that he had to get his homework in his Calculus II class done first.

Of course, everyone knows that getting your Calc II work comes before everything

else…like, NEVER! Taking Pre-Calc is enough to make most high school kids’ knees buckle. Getting through the first year of Calculus with your GPA and dignity intact is a monster accomplishment. But playing football and taking Calc II definitely puts one in a special category.

His senior season got off to a rough start when the Lions dropped a heartbreaking 13-12 decision to their District rival, Marana. They rebounded with a big win at Sahuaro, but then dropped two straight to teams from Phoenix. The squad is hoping to have a strong second half, but there are games looming against always-tough Salpointe and suddenly tough Desert View.

“We’re good,” says Sam. “Whatever happens, Coach (Matt) Johnson has done a great job instilling a sense of family in us.”

As for his blood family, everybody is a musician. “My dad has always played the guitar and he wanted each of us to learn how to play at least one instrument.”

So, naturally, the young man who can throw a discus 160 feet, put the shot 54 feet, and smash through thousand-pound offensive lines

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chose the cello.

“I really like it,” he says. “It has such a full sound. I hope to play it my whole life.”

His sister plays the viola.

As for what else he wants to do with his life, he knows that he wants to be some kind of engineer. Right now, he’s thinking either civil or mechanical, but that’s still open. He wants to go to college somewhere in-state and, if he’s going to continue with sports, he would probably prefer football over track.

Maybe at the UA. Right now, however, he’s enjoying his senior year.

Like all high-school athletes, he’s glad to have COVID-19 somewhere in the rear-view mirror. He’s got a football season to complete and then two State titles to defend.

I forgot to ask if he can play “Bear Down, Arizona” on the cello.

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