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Peacemakers celebrate America with fans BY LAURA LATZKO

Peoria Times Contributing Writer

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oger Clyne & the Peacemakers have helped shape rock in the Valley with their Southwestern sound. Traveling around the world with its music, the band will return to the Valley to perform at the city of Peoria’s All-American Festival on Monday, July 4. This is the second All-American Festival for the band — lead singer and guitarist Roger Clyne, drum-

mer P.H. Naffah, bassist Nick Scropos and guitarist Jim Dalton. The group performs 150 to 170 shows a year nationally, with three to four of them around Arizona. The festival was one of the first events the band did coming out of COVID-19. Clyne said that playing again for a lively, engaged audience was exhilarating. “It was great to come out to our hometown and play to an audience who wanted to hear rock ’n’ roll and celebrate life The band Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers is made up of, from left to SEE AMERICA PAGE 4

right, P.H. Naffah, Nick Scropos, Roger Clyne and Jim Dalton. (RCPM photo 2022 by Charlie Stout/Submitted)

Lake deaths come as a ‘mixture of circumstances’ BY JORDAN ROGERS

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hen it comes to accidents out on the open water, the public can often fall back on alcohol as being a cause, according to Sgt. Jason Gilchrist. But Gilchrist said “there have been a mixture of circumstances that have occurred” to cause the seven casualties at Lake Pleasant thus far in 2022. “A misconception which I’ve noticed that a lot of citizens asked me about is al-

cohol,” he said. “I tell them that you’d be surprised at the lack of alcohol or drug usage in a lot of these incidents.” Gilchrist is the Underwater Search and Recovery Unit ROV/fatal watercraft investigations supervisor for the Lake Patrol Division of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. He has worked in the division since 2001. The seven deaths at Lake Pleasant this year are already higher than the totals for both 2020 and 2021, at six and two, respectively. Gilchrist said he has seen this sort of

high death toll in the past, just not at the frequency it has been occurring at Lake Pleasant. Five of those deaths occurred over the course of six weeks during April and May, and Gilchrist did admit that the string of deaths was “alarming.” “Those five in a row definitely get you to look a little more closely to see if there’s something overall that might be contributing that we can take into consideration,” Gilchrist said. Gilchrist said the deaths have been most-

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