The Connection, November 2012

November 2012 VOL 29 No. 10 An Open Forum publication allowing all voices to be heard since 1983

ARIVACA YESTERDAYS The Ronstadts in the Altar Valley

by Mary Noon Kasulaitis

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he Ronstadt family was prominent in early Southern Arizona history, and many of us are familiar with Fred Ronstadt of Tucson and his descendants, of whom the best known is Linda.

However, Fred’s younger brother Jose Maria “Pepe” Ronstadt was also prominent in Tucson politics. In the interest of local history, Pepe was responsible for the development of several ranches in the Altar Valley and the establishment of a strong tradition in the cattle business.

Jose Maria Ronstadt was born in Altar in 1879, the son of Frederick Augustus Ronstadt and Margarita Redondo. Frederick Augustus, a university-educated engineer, had come to Sonora from Germany in the 1850s. He was active in business, especially mining, and also served in the military. His second wife, Margarita Redondo,

was the daughter of Don Jose Maria Redondo, a prominent Sonoran cattleman and merchant.

Their children were raised in mining camps and haciendas all over Sonora, wherever Frederick found mining work or was prospecting. Their oldest son, Fred, came with his father to Tucson in 1882 to serve an apprenticeship as a carriage maker to Winnall Dalton and his brotherin-law, Adolfo Vasquez. Winnall was the son of Henry Dalton, an early California ranchero who had owned much of Los Angeles county at one time. Winnall’s mother’s father was the Governor of California. The U.S. seemed to afford more promise than Sonora, so on the advice of their father, the Ronstadt children settled here. Jose Maria “Pepe” went into ranching, politics and public service.

Pepe (also known as Joe) came to Tucson in 1885 with his family and began attending public

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schools. His father passed away when he was quite young. When he was in high school, he edited a Spanish-English newspaper called El Trueno. Keeping busy as did brother Fred, Pepe worked for several businesses, the Citizen newspaper and later ran a mining company store in Altar. He made good use of his bilingual skills.

In 1901 Pepe met and married Hortense Dalton, daughter of Winnall and Maria Jesus Vasquez Dalton. (Fred’s second wife was Hortense’s sister, Lupe.) In 1903, the only son, Carlos was born.

Pepe purchased the Verdugo ranch in the Altar Valley in 1908 and named it the Santa Margarita after his mother and daughter.

A trip to the ranch from Tucson took three days in a wagon. Pepe loved the ranch and put a lot into it. In 1929 the ranch was described by Bernice Cosulich: “ A charming ranch house is... surrounded by trees, giving off somehow the atmosphere of an

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old Mexican hacienda. Bunk houses, corrals, barns and all other equipment required for ranching life are about...” In 1950, Carlos remembered: “Cattle were cheap in those days. Even in 1923 cattle were selling at 2 cents a pound.

Today’s prices are 10 to 15 times that sum.” (!)

In partnership with Henry Dalton, his uncle, Pepe purchased Las Moras ranch and the Thomas Canyon area in the early 1900s, and also part of La Osa. Las Moras had been built up in the late 1800s by Col. Sturges. The lower part of Thomas Canyon had been homesteaded by Manuel King, who didn’t end up proving up on it. Henry Dalton was instrumental in bringing in registered Hereford bulls to cross with the Mexican corriente cattle they had imported.

Because of this, Santa Margarita Ranch was one of the first to fence.

Before that, open range prevailed.

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Arivaca Yesterdays The roundups were communal affairs, starting at Sasabe and ending up at Robles Ranch (now Three Points).

Pepe formed the Baboquivari Cattle Company in partnership with Alex and Harry Berger, and in 1929 they bought the Aros Ranch, Buena Vista and Los Encinos. The latter had been owned by Harold Bell Wright, noted western author whose stories had attracted many people to Southern Arizona. When Pepe added them to Santa Margarita, he had one of the largest ranches in the area. Separately from Pepe, Fred also acquired a ranch in the area and named it Las Delicias, after the Cananea homestead where he was born. As was typical, the family had a home in Tucson, where Pepe was active in the Democratic party.

After helping Woodrow Wilson get elected, he became Postmaster of Tucson and served for eight years. He was also a founder of the Southern Arizona Bank and later Pima County Supervisor. It was during his term of office that the courthouse was built and the first bridge across the Altar Wash constructed. Pepe was involved with the cattle industry, including the livestock sanitary board and the Arizona Cattle Growers Assn. Sadly, Pepe died of heart disease in 1933 at the age of 53.

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Meanwhile, his son Carlos had become involved with his father’s businesses from an early age. Spending summers at the ranch, he came to love the cattle business. He majored in agriculture at the U of A and worked for a year or two in Texas for Armour Meat Co. He married Betty Graves of Phoenix and they had two children, Karl and Nina.

Upon his father’s passing, Carlos became president of the cattle company and with his mother’s assistance, bought out several of the partners. Continuing the tradition of public service, he became an officer of the Southern Arizona Bank and a board member of Tucson Gas and Electric. He expanded into the Santa Cruz valley when he bought the Agua Linda operation which had originally been a Mexican land grant to the Otero family. However, the usual cycle of ranching prevailed, where smaller ranches are bought up to form a big ranch that lasts a while and then is broken up again, and in the fifties, Carlos sold the Altar Valley ranches. Carlos’ son Karl owned and operated the Baboquivari Cattle Company until a few years ago.

Thanks to Karl Ronstadt and Nathan Sayer.

References: Borderman: memoirs of Federico Jose Maria Ronstadt, edited by Edward F. Ronstadt; Pioneer Cattlemen of Arizona by Roscoe Willson; Tucson Citizen and Arizona Daily Star articles

17th Annual Folklorico Festival aturday, November 3rd is a day of celebration in Arivaca. Activities begin with the Farmers' Market at 9am then the Folklorico Festival, including a costume contest, Folklorico dancing, mariachis, music, food and the fun lasts until 4 pm.

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We take the memory of all departed sisters to the party.

Dress in costume or come as you are to participate in the procession to the cemetery.

After visiting the cemetery, rest a spell at Las Esquinita de Arivaca (Little Corner of Arivaca) next to the The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Artist’s Co-op. At the All Muertos) procession starting Souls Corner leave a picture, on Main Street - Clara’s house prayer or flower on the (across from St. Ferdinand Community Altar. Carne Church) - begins at noon.

Asada will be expertly The procession travels to the prepared by Rudy. historic Arivaca Cemetery.

There is a Community Altar at Area children will entertain by dancing Folklorico. Ceth All Soul’s Corner. and Jaycee will play their Marian’s Farmers' Market will violins. Join in the Cake be alive with garden harvests, Walk. Music with DJ Pete artisan bread, canned goods, and dancing continue until 4 and vendors. Artists and pm when the festival ends. crafters offer work for sale.

La Gitana Cantina will host Human Resources has a BIG a Patio Party starting at 11 yard sale 8 am-noon. with music by Side Effects.

Traditionally, Day of the Dead Stop by their Memorial festivities have a theme and photo wall and spend time this year it is The Seesters. remembering old friends.

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Marian’s Market Newcomer

Jay’s Garden Variety

“Caring for the land. Growing and preparing food to help feed our local community.” Another goal is power by renewable energy off the grid. They use solar for most needs.

Jay’s Garden Variety photos on Facebook show many of the baked goods they brought to market in Mentone, such as cupcakes, quiche, bagels, and wonderful bread. A sense of adventure is present in the foods they prepare and share. Les says, “Jay’s the grower, I’m the picker, he’s the cooker and I’m the eater.”

Leslie "Les" and Jay Rivett at the Market

by Becky Meade Jay and Les Rivett are enthusiastic about this new adventure in life.

They moved to Arivaca last July from Alabama, started farming and are now bringing goods to market. A variety of homemade breads, herbs and honey buns are sold each Saturday at Marian’s Market. A tasty addition to the market.

This adventure started about ten years ago. Taking stock of their lives, they set a goal to live healthy. They began eating natural foods that they cooked at home and when possible, grew in the

garden. Their passion grew while their combined weight dwindled by 120 pounds. The journey continued when in 2006 they left the corporate/industrial world of work to share their passion with others. While in Alabama, they were very active in the Mentone (on top of Lookout Mountain) and Chatanooga Farmer’s Markets.

They believe in sustainable farming defined by Les as,

The Rivett’s daughter and first

grandchild live in Sahuarita.

Their son is in Tucson and works at A.J.’s Fine Foods. Family and good food are their priorities in life. With a grandchild in the area, Arizona was the place to move to.

Like others who settle here, they feel the love and adventure in Arivaca. They confess to falling in love with Arivaca.

Please welcome Jay and Les any Saturday at Marian’s Market. Jay will do cooking demonstrations at the market on the 1st Saturday in November. If the past is a predictor of the future, they’ll be bringing a variety of fresh and prepared foods to market. What a treat for Arivaca.

Jay’s is also known for good pie.

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Cooking Demo Artisan Bread, Pies, HoneyBuns Sat - Nov 3rd Fresh Herbs & Vegetables At Marian’s Market in Arivaca every Saturday morning.

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Folklorico Festival 11a - 4p • Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) procession begins at Noon • Community Altar at All Soul’s Corner, • Costume contest • Folklorico dancing • Mariachis • Music • Food & FUN

Our Farmers' Market will be alive with garden harvests, artisan bread, canned goods, and vendors. Artists and crafters set up tables offering work for sale.

La Gitana Cantina Patio Party!

11a - 2p - Music by "Side Effects" • Human Resources Yard Sale

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We have visited the stock pond many times since we moved back here but when we went on our field trip, we discovered, we hadn’t seen anything yet. We took the pond’s temperature, which was 72 degrees Fahrenheit at the time. We also found bunches of tracks of critters we had never seen at the pond. We made a cast of a skunk track using plaster of Paris.

The cast came out great so we sent a picture of it for you to see. We also saw snake tracks and Jaycee almost stepped on a black snake that scooted into the water to be safe. He didn’t even see it. We also could identify rabbit tracks, human tracks, Blue Heron tracks, quail tracks and many little birds’ tracks and, maybe even a fox track but we weren’t too sure of that.

The pond is a home for frogs, leeches and snails, oh my. We hope that our stock tank is home to some Chiricahua leopard frogs but we didn’t see any. We did see other green frogs, though. It also must be a good place to grow algae because there are bunches of green algae floating in the water.

I wonder if it is the same kind of algae they use to make fuel-the famous blue-green algae.

We struggled to get a sample of the water so we could look at it under the microscope. Of course, Jaycee had to get a round leech and I just had to have a snail. We found many kinds of microscopic critters like an amoeba, which is a critter made up of one cell. It looks like the blob. We learned that amoebas live in fresh water like our stock tank but they also seem to live everywhere else. Amoebas like to eat algae and bacteria and a bunch of other stuff. They are always changing shape so they are fun to watch.

Ponds, like the stock pond, are an important part of the eco-system.

We ended up having a lot of fun with the pond life project. Now when we look at the stock tank, our neighborhood watering hole, we see a lot more than we did before. Our next science module is rocks and minerals—BORING!!!

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Meanwhile, religious affiliations and issues continue to dominate events around the world. To name a few: conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, the persecution of Coptic Christians, riots protesting the negative portrayals of the Prophet Muhammad, the desecration of Hindu temples, the slaying of Sikhs in their Temple.

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Religion has shaped the development of human civilization throughout recorded history.

To this end, CBS has recently released a program entitled, “What They Believe: HINDUS, ZOROASTRIANS, BAHA’IS, a Religion Special.” The Bahá’ís of

South Pima County will show this video at the Conrad Joyner Public Library in Green Valley on Wednesday, November 14 at 2:00 pm.

According to Dr. Daniel Wegener, Chairman of the local Bahá’í Community, “We think it is vitally important to promote a deeper understanding of the role of religion in past and present society. We can overcome the barriers between religions and cultures by acquiring information about them. Bahá’ís believe that there is only one God and that all the major religions originate from the same divine source. We see religion as one book with many chapters.

Each new Divine Revelation advances civilization to a higher level of development in the ongoing process of Progressive Revelation. Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í Faith, revealed a blue print for a future civilization while validating the religions of the past and the spiritual truths they all share.”

An open discussion will follow the video. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome. For more information, please call 663-5944.

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LetterS:

Richard Carmona is one of the most impressive men I have met in my 81 years. The depth and breadth of Dr. Richard Carmona’s maturity is one of his striking attributes, given the poverty of his early life.

A youthful Richard Carmona was headed toward delinquency and, possibly, a life of crime. Instead, he entered the military service, where he found morality, discipline, purpose, and heroism.

As a combat medic, he was both wounded and decorated. After his military service, he became educated through the G.I. Bill, eventually topping his class in medical school. Graduating at the top of a medical school class takes brains, hard work, exceptional skill and a broad vision of what medicine, at its best, can be.

For decades, he has served his state and nation as physician, deputy sheriff and SWAT team member, teacher, and in numerous other ways. During his four years

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as Surgeon General of these United States, he showed independence of judgment. He refused to set aside scientific evidence and common sense for partisan politics in spite of great pressure to do so.

Dr. Richard Carmona has led an exceptional life. He could have rested on his laurels and gone quietly into retirement as one of Arizona’s revered citizens.

However, as throughout his mature years, when a compelling duty called, he answered. He has an unusually firm and refreshing grasp of the issues facing our nation, from immigration policy and education challenges, through how to deal with partisan gridlock.

I ask each voter to study the man, his record, and his position on key issues. If you do, I think -- like me -- you will vote for him to become the next U. S. Senator from Arizona.

Sincerely, Hal Mansfield, Green Valley

Dear Maggie: I realize that politically we are probably at opposite poles, but I know we both hope for the best for our great nation. I have some comments about presidential candidate Mitt Romney. He has been married to the same woman his entire adult life and has remained faithful despite her battles with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.

He has no skeletons in his closet, but has graduated with honors from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School (MBA), programs which he undertook simultaneously while he was married with a couple of children. Since he is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Saints (Mormon), we know he was also active in his church and probably serving in a leadership position. He doesn’t smoke or drink, nor has he ever taken any illegal drugs. He is the father of five sons, all of whom are productive citizens. He did not inherit his wealth from his father, but instead gave the inheritance away. He was a cofounder of Bain Capital in 1982 which started out with a small office supply store in Massachusetts that turned into Staples, with over 2,000 stores and employs 90,000 people. Bain Capital’s expertise and experience was also applied to advance other businesses such

as Domino’s, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, and Home Depot Supply. He has been an unpaid bishop and stake president of his church for many years, meaning the spiritual and temporal leader/advisor of hundreds of families. He was the unpaid President/CEO of the 2002 Olympic Games. After being elected governor of Massachusetts, taking no salary, he eliminated a $1.5 billion budget deficit. He is probably one of the wealthiest self-made men in our country, but has given more in money, service, and time than most men.

In 2011 he gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19% of his income.

Comparatively, Obama gave 1% and Biden gave $300. Or .0013%.

Mitt Romney has no problem disclosing his school transcripts, his social security card, his law degree, his draft notice, his birth certificate, medical records. He is a man to be trusted and honored for his good works. He is genuinely a patriot and proud to salute our flag. Knowing what he stands for in every area of life, I will vote for him.

Sincerely, Barbara Stockwell, Arivaca, October 24, 2012

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FLOUNDER/CONMAN

J. Wilson, Green Valley Much like a fresh caught fish out of water, Willard “Mitt” Romney, flips and flops on the sun baked planks of a fishing dock.

A man with no core values other than the accumulation of capital, he flounders to find purchase for his vacillation on every issue that affects the country. In deference to space and short attention spans,the following is a list I copied and pasted of five (out of 14) issues that Willard “Mitt” has done an about face on over the course of his “stellar” career as a Vulture capitalist, failed Governor, and Head of an Olympic Committee that depended on a Federal Govt. handout to succeed. So,let’s let John McCain tell it. These flipflops have been resourced from www.businessinsider.com/14bald-faced-mitt-romney-flipflops-that-were-dug-up-by-johnmccain-2012. #1 On Immigration- For a path to citizenship, then Against.

FLIP: “Gov. Mitt Romney expressed support ... for an immigration program that places large numbers of illegal residents on the path toward citizenship ...

Romney said illegal immigrants should have a chance to obtain citizenship.” (Evan Lehmann, “Romney Supports Immigration

#2Program, But Not Granting ‘Amnesty’,” The Lowell Sun, 3/30/06)

Bush,” Mitt Romney said during a debate with Ted Kennedy FLOP: “’Ronald Reagan is one of my heroes,’ Romney said as he praised Reagan’s strategy for winning the Cold War: ‘We win; they lose.’” (Michael Levenson, “Romney Links Gay Marriage, US Prestige,” The Boston Globe, 2/26/05)

FLOP: “[I] think I’m best off to describe my own positions. And my positions, I think I’ve just described for you – secure the border, employment verification and no special pathway to citizenship. I feel that’s the course we ought to take.” (CNN’s “The Situation Room,” 5/22/07)

#4 On the NRA & Gun Laws FLIP: “[Romney] said he will take stands that put him at odds with some traditional ultraconservative groups, and cited his support for the assault rifle ban and the Brady gun control law.

‘That’s not going to make me the hero of the NRA,’ he said. ‘I don’t line up with a lot of special interest groups.’” (Andrew Miga, “Mitt Rejects Right-Wing Aid,” Boston Herald, 9/23/94)

#2 On Geo. W Bush’s Tax Cuts FLIP: “[R]omney spoke at the 10th annual legislative conference organized by U.S. Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Lowell) and met with the Massachusetts delegation. ...

Congressional sources said that a point of contention arose when Romney refused to take a position on Bush’s massive, 10-year tax cut plan.” (Noelle Straub, “Romney Talks Policy With Bush Staffers, Mass. Delegation,” Boston Herald, 4/11/03)

FLOP: Romney told a Derry, N.H., audience, ‘I’m after the NRA’s endorsement. I’m not sure they’ll give it to me. I hope they FLOP: “McCain opposed President will. I also joined because if I’m Bush’s tax cuts, Romney noted. going to ask for their endorsement, ‘I supported them,’ the former they’re going to ask for mine.’” governor said.” (Lee Bandy, (Glen Johnson, “Romney Calls “Romney Targeting McCain,” The Himself A Longtime Hunter,” The State [SC], 2/4/07) Associated Press, 4/5/07) FLIP: “I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. #5 Tax Pledges are beneath I’m not trying to return to Reagan- Romney, until the presidency was in front of him.

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FLIP: “Four years ago, Mitt Romney broke with GOP tradition and refused to sign the [Americans for Tax Reform] pledge [to ‘oppose and veto any and all efforts to increase taxes’].” (Lisa Wangsness, “Healey Will Sign Antitax Pledge,” The Boston Globe, 9/4/06) “Romney’s Gubernatorial Campaign Spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, Dismissed Such Pledges At The Time As ‘Government By Gimmickry.’”

(Scott Helman, “Romney Finds ‘No New Taxes’ Promise Suits Him After All,” The Boston Globe,

1/5/07) FLOP: “Almost five years after he refused to sign a ‘no new taxes’ pledge during his campaign for governor, Mitt Romney announced ... that he had done just that, as his campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination began in earnest.” (Scott Helman, “Romney Finds ‘No New Taxes’ Promise Suits Him After All,” The Boston Globe, 1/5/07) Beware, by the time you read these bold stands on the issues by Willard “Mitt”… they will have changed. To believe this is a man of principles, and values, is a fool's game.

-<>I received the Oct/Nov 2012 AARP magazine. An article entitled, “Confessions of a CON man,” is a story about a man who spent a career scamming people out of their hard earned money with fly-by-night-schemes. He explains how he was able to scam even the most sophisticated… “On the outside you will see nothing but charm, engaging personality and swagger. On the inside lies a predator…..It’s every man for himself, and the goal is to acquire as much money as possible.”

As I read this particular passage, my thoughts turned to Willard “Mitt” Romney. This IS Willard “Mitt,” a man who has no compunction about closing companies here in the USA, laying off American workers, sending the jobs to China, India,in order to pad his pockets, and those of his multi-millionaire friends. This was his business at Bain Capital for fifteen years. This was the business experience he is so proud of. To this day he still benefits from these same practices.

There is no end to reasons why this man should never set foot in the White House, except as a tourist standing in line and taking the tour like the rest of the 99%.

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“There can be no doubt whatever that the people of the world, of whatever race or religion, derive their inspiration from one Heavenly source, and are the subjects of one God.” – Bahá’u’lláh

“What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal? Unless these thoughts are translated into the world of action, they are useless.”

-- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

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emocracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

H. L. Mencken

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emocracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Bertrand Russell

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Arivaca Coordinating Council Human Resource Group, Inc.

by Maggie Milinovitch On Arivaca’s Main Street sits a small, older house that now is home to the Arivaca Coordinating Council Human Resource Group, Inc. (The name is almost longer than the building.) However, the size is deceptive for what is going on inside. Known locally as Arivaca Human Resources (AHR), it is a non-profit organization set up in 1988 to serve the needs of our lowincome and aging population. For all those years staff and volunteers have done just that with an amazing array of services.

AHR’s primary goal is to serve nutritious, hot meals to their clients. Mike Marden has been volunteering for the last 10 years and is responsible for planning and purchasing the food for the hot meals. He cooks one day a week and handles whatever else falls into the food category. After spending most of his life in the food service industry, (he operated The Stuffed Olive in Green Valley from 1990 to ‘96), he decided on a bus driver’s retirement – preparing food. Mike also handles the monthly fundraising yard sale and is a member of the board of directors.

In the last year or so AHR has hit a couple of bumps in the road; I asked Mike about them. He said, “We’re past all that now and carrying on with what needs to be done for our clients.”

In further conversation with Mike he emphasized the ongoing need for volunteers to help with meal prep.

He recommended, “Get a friend to come with you and have lots of fun cooking together. Everyone who does really enjoys their day.” Also, they need non-perishable foods for their food pantry, which supplies emergency foods for those in need.

Currently 44 meals are prepared and most delivered Monday through Friday. There is a dining room for those who want to come in for “social” dining. The meals, as well as most of their services,

are for those who meet eligibility requirements. 55 years or older at 125% of poverty and disabled persons qualify. Meals are also available to others, if available and cost $3.75 per meal. The meal funding comes from Pima County Community Action.

The people who work at AHR are: Maria Alvarez – Program Coordinator and Office Manager, Conchita Alvarez – Office Assistant, Bobby Johnson - Senior Meals and bus driver, Mark Stern – back-up driver, Maria Amaya – Kitchen Maintenance and Cindy Cain Bookkeeper. The board of directors: Eileen Vogel – VP, Diana Dougherty – Secretary, Bruce Hall – Treasurer, Kelley Franz, Carlotta Wray and Mike Marden – members.

Other AHR activities include: distribution of bread furnished by the Green Valley Food Bank on Tuesdays. Excess donated produce is distributed and if there is plenty, it is stacked outside for the whole community to use. (They need donations for a ramada to cover this bounty.) There is a Food Pantry, which accepts local donations of non-perishable foods.

Recycling is alive and well at AHR. They have a Clothing Bank (donations from Buffalo Exchange and locals). The clothes cost from 25 cents to a dollar. On the first Saturday of each month they hold a Yard Sale – 8am to Noon – for treasure hunters. (Donations may be dropped off at the storage garage in back.)

AHR works with income eligible clients in getting help with such programs as Low Income Housing Energy Assistance, WIC, DES programs and AHCCCS, providing information, applications, help with forms and transportation to interviews if necessary.

Transportation and Senior Activities call on “El Burrito” the bus for trips to interesting places such as a guided boat tour of Patagonia Lake.

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Mike Marden, Maria Alvarez and Maria Amaya On Wednesdays the bus loads up for a trip to Green Valley for doctor appointments, shopping and just getting out of Dodge.

have a phone, and the County Nurse visits once a month to do blood pressure checks and to visit homebound persons.

For people with children worrying about Christmas, AHR signs up kids and each will receive a toy from Toys for Tots. Parents just need to stop by the office to sign up

As I said, it is an amazing array of services that would otherwise be lacking in our community. So if you’re thinking of volunteering, donating items or money – keep this valuable community asset in mind.

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Give Thanks to your Gardens If you are inspired to do more, depending on your climate zones, there is plenty you can plant.

Greens are easy to grow when it’s cooler as well as some of the root vegetables.

season Tarenta Baldeschi

t’s the season of Thanksgiving.

We have all experienced the joy of an abundant harvest of cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, beans, corn, squash, pumpkins, melons and so much more.

It makes all the hard work worthwhile when we see the flowers blooming one more time before it gets too cold, and then watch the seeds scatter to bring more next year. Most of the canning and drying of vegetables and fruits is completed, and the pantries show their wealth. In the not so distant past this was how we all used to live—filling up the pantries and root cellars with the season’s last harvest. We gave thanks for the little we had and shared with our family, friends and neighbors.

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In the cycle of life, through giving and receiving, our gardens are a vital force of health and goodness.

Instead of walking away after the plants die and others go dormant, gather the leaves and any other mulch materials like straw or woodchips and apply them thickly in the garden beds and paths that need it the most. The microorganism and mycorrhizae in the soil can continue to work underneath the mulch. It will create beauty, and it’s another form of giving thanks to the garden.

There is an exchange of energy that occurs between you and the natural cycles in your gardens that brings you back to the center of the rhythm of life. You become a part of the Tree of Life.

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Here at Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage we make big efforts to grow all year round. Even in November it’s not late to plant your garlic cloves. If you haven’t done it, you should give it a try.

By next May or June your garlic harvest will be abundant. One clove will make one garlic bulb.

That’s a pretty good return. Plant as many as you would like to eat in a whole year. You can keep them stored to eat throughout the season.

One exciting change and addition that can bring you closer to a sustainable lifestyle is growing your own grains. This year we were successful in growing, harvesting, cleaning, and grinding the authentic Sonoran White Kino Wheat. We built an outside bread oven with mostly natural materials and are now baking many loaves of bread. It was a cooperative effort with several farms and organizations to bring this Kino Wheat back to the Sonoran Desert. If you haven’t tried growing some wheat, you may want to experiment with this variety. Contact Native Seeds/ SEARCH which is the best source for this seed. Loosen your soil and broadcast your wheat seed all over it and rake it in slightly.

If you can, cover it up with some straw to keep the environment moist enough after watering.

You will see the sprouts emerge within a week and they will keep on growing all winter. In the early spring they will make a significant jump of growth until

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their full maturity around June.

If you planted just a small area you can easily cut it by hand and start to process it according to your needs. The new experience of growing your own wheat can be another special milestone in your gardening. It also helps secure this “Ark of Taste” historical seed for future generations to enjoy.

When celebrating Thanksgiving this year, don’t forget to use your harvest or purchase the ingredients from your local farmers and gardeners. And in your prayers add a thanksgiving to your gardens that give so abundantly.

I hope you enjoy this season. We give tours all year round—call the office at (520) 603-9932; visit www. avalongardens.org; or email csa@ avalongardens. You can sign up for our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program all

year round with seasonal produce grown organically. We have several pickup places and accept SNAP debit cards.

We are going to participate at the Saturday, Nov 10th Sahuarita Pecan Festival http://www. sahuaritapecanfestival.com. This will be our fourth year!! See you here or there.

We all want to thank you for supporting the Earth Harmony Festival this past October which brought people from all around the county, state, country, and from Sonora/Mexico as well.

It was a celebration with the encouraging message that all of us can, even in small ways, participate in building a sustainable future that is wholesome and balanced on all levels: physical, emotional, mindal and spiritual.

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TaliasVan’s Bright & Morning Star Choir at Tubac Luminaria Nights Friday, December 7th and Saturday, December 8th from 6-9pm during the beautiful Tubac Luminaria nights, TaliasVan’s Bright & Morning Star Choir & Orchestra will perform several sets throughout the evenings at the Tubac Plaza Main Stage. This will be the choir’s sixth year performing at Tubac’s Luminaria Nights and they are a favorite attraction of this annual family event.

This magnificent, 40-voice choir will be performing traditional Christmas Carols, as well as a few original sacred holiday CosmoWorship™ songs written by the choir’s founder.

CosmoWorship is a cosmic, lyrical, and melodic celestial experience. The harmonies and arrangements are other-worldly and take the listener to heavenly realms. There is nothing else like it on the planet.

TaliasVan’s Bright & Morning Star Choir & Orchestra have recorded three CosmoWorship CDs, one of which is a Christmas Album called “The God Child Came.” “The God Child Came” is also a wonderful musical Christmas play by the Global Change Theater Company, for which the choir’s music is the backdrop, and is available on DVD. This Christmas play makes a wonderful Christmas gift for children and grandchildren every year.

The concerts will take place at the Tubac Plaza Main Stage next to the Out Of The Way Galleria at 29 Tubac Plaza. Donations are appreciated, which go toward Global Community Communications Schools for Teens & Children. For directions or more information call (520) 398-2542 or visit www.

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By Martin Levowitz, M.I.A. TO TELL THE TRUTH, Mitt Romney’s not such a bad fellow.

He used to be a moderate, and probably still is, but competing with such fungi as Gingrich and Santorum pushed him ever-further right ― in rhetoric, at least. Even so, as a Preppie who seemed to lack substance and grit, he attained little strength with his party’s more hard-core right wing.

I think the first debate helped him a lot. Not only was he confident, his views became more moderate – or “centrist,” as they say. He’s almost sure to get the right-wing vote ― Obama won’t ― so now he has to concentrate on wooing those more moderate, who still can’t quite decide. Some may deride him as a flip-flopper, and he is that, but he might also be seen as a savvy helmsman adapting, moment by moment, to changing conditions.

It’s sad to watch someone – anyone – abandon who he really is in order to be liked or to succeed. In Babylon, where I grew up, that’s not what’s called integrity. In fact, it’s called selling your soul. We all knew that in kindergarten and, beneath the hype, we know it now.

Caveat Emptor!

A candidate has got to tell us what we want to hear. Importantly, he has to seem sincere. In our so-called democracy a candidate will always have to sell part of his soul to make the cut. The system doesn’t sponsor outright authenticity. You’ve got to blur your edges with a bit of camouflage, like certain navy ships in times of war. Makes you harder to hit.

The G.O.P. berates Barack for lacking leadership. And they are right; he’s not so hot. Yet it’s ironic that their man, who seems to have no rudder and no keel, is like a tuft of lint or plastic bag, wafting this way and that in a changeable

Romnry, Redux breeze. It’s hard to say where Romney’s really at, because he isn’t really sure himself. That might be merely humorous, but it is also worrisome because, as a Republican President, he’d be frontman for the same powerful consortium of self-serving profiteers ― the Cheney-RumsfeldHalliburton-Kochs ― who pulled the strings on that poor puppetpawn-without-a-clue George“W.” and dumped us in the tarpits where we flounder to this day.

It seems, these days, as if more millionaires and billionaires run for elected office. Forbes, Perot, Bloomberg, Trump, Romney, et al.. They’ve risen as far as a human being can in the business world attaining sainthood, so to speak, with money and prestige.

They’re members of prestigious boards for charities and opera companies. Already owned: The Hamptons summer mansion and the Aspen ski chalet, the yacht and the corporate jet. O.K., what’s next? Such CEO’s may still possess some narcissistic energy and, not uncommonly, dream of adding one final, dazzling paragraph to their already-glorious eventual obituaries: Public Service, where all sorts of shiny new badges, like stars in a limitless sky, glimmer alluringly. What more delicious candied cherry could one set atop the gilded sundae of ones fabled life?

and fashionable fetes, are really just facsimiles made out of glass and glue, which look fantastic if you’re standing far enough away and do not know. Perhaps there is a pattern here, beginning to emerge, where what is real must take a back seat to that which just seems real? Hmm, call it Zeitgeist, if you like.

It seems as if petty partisanship and bratty stubbornness are the chief business of government these days. By the time Obama had won, back in ’08, both Palin and McCain were worn quite thin. They’d lost charisma and appeal. The pundits kept asking, “Now who will speak for the Republican Party? Reporters besieged Demagogue Limbaugh, the Grand Old Man of Toxic Gas, seeking comment. “Just give us something short, Rush; a couple hundred words. How do you feel about an Obama Presidency?” Cavalierly, Rush

replied, “I need only four words: I Hope He Fails !” Looking back over these last four years – one word per year – that seems to have been the more or less official operatingslogan of a disgruntled G.O.P., dedicated first and foremost to frustrating any Obama initiative.

“This Kenyan Muslim Socialist, who does he think he IS? We must deny him all success, no matter what the cost. Above all, we must make damn sure he doesn’t win a second term. Foreclosures, jobs, and gasoline? Don’t bug us with such trivia. We’ve got much more important work to do!”

And so, Dear Fellow Citizen, don’t be surprised if you should see this headline someday soon: U.S. Suffers Fatal Nosebleed, Totally Exsanguinates! A face will always hemorrhage when its nose has been cut off in spite, verdad?

Please read this article’s companionpiece, ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION, in this month’s Patagonia Regional Times. Gracias.

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What priceless gem to dazzle them when hung about my tan though scrawny neck? Spending tens of millions of their own money, such men bid for public office the way society matrons collect staggeringly expensive jewelry, which, by the way, as you know, is never really worn, but kept safe in a bank vault, underground, while what they wear, three times per year ― if that ― to World Premieres

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Local Artists Highlighted in Tubac's Art Experience November 3 & 4, 2012

isitors to the historic artist colony of Tubac will enjoy a variety of demonstrations by local and visiting artists during the weekend of November 3 & 4, 10am to 5pm both days. New this year, “An Art Experience” will host outdoor “working studios” tents set-up in front of the village galleries and studios.

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Art Experience, is a celebration of the creative process. A wide variety of art will be featured including painting, sculpture, fiber art, and botanicals. There will be artists demonstrations throughout

the weekend. Visitors to the event can meet the artists and watch live demonstrations throughout the weekend; they can also actively participate by voting for their favorite works of art.

Tubac: An Art Experience 2012 is a departure from previous Art Experience and ArtWalk events.

Tents will be setup throughout the village where artists will create their works and meet the public.

“This is a unique opportunity for the public to see Tubac’s gallery artists outdoors in the scenic beauty of the village,” says Angela Kirkner, executive director of the Tubac Chamber of Commerce.

Known as a haven for artists and a must-see for shoppers, Tubac offers an eclectic mix of more than 100 shops, fine art galleries and working artists’ studios, as well as dining, lodging and golf.

Diane Lisle, Clay Hands, Tubac , demonstrating raku

Tubac is located at Exit 34 on I-19, 45 miles south of Tucson. To find out more about the artist colony of Tubac, please contact the Tubac Chamber of Commerce at (520) 398-2704 or visit their website www.tubacaz. com.

Huachuca Mountains

Poetry

Seven Cities of Cibola, Seven Cities of Gold.

Marching north they searched.

Estévan, a black Moor slave.

Coronado, a Spanish conquistador.

Estévan killed by natives.

Coronado defeated, tired, empty handed.

A northward quest continues.

Some fail, some prevail.

Mile Post 102 and Mexico at our back.

A mountain trek and sweat to Huachuca’s Crest.

Gold not our prize, an Arizona adventure is.

Fire and ice blanket Miller’s granite flanks.

Surviving Douglas-fir, white pine and aspen tickle a mountain high.

A great white tethered guppy scans San Pedro Valley and Huachuca Crest for “evil doers” and black knapsacks bobbing in the night.

A miner’s bathtub spring quenches thirst.

Drop dead views abound this lofty perch.

From leeward slope Elegant Trogon hoarse, barking love calls.

Blackheaded Grosbeak bathing a shallow pool sporting dandelion, horsetail, maple.

Rufous-sided Towees flit about the hillside bush.

Western Tanager all red, yellow and black perching piney bough and Red-shafted Flickers, expressionless, listening for bugs and grubs.

Down climbing Thunder Mountain’s cliffy, snow patched switchbacks, we join a Sunnyside Canyon old miners’ double track.

Inviting cathedral-like sycamores, oaks and pines await and welcome adventuresome souls.

Straddling Scotia Canyon’s path two forest monarchs — a beauty, a beast.

Silky skinned and silvered sycamore festooned leaves red, yellow, green and orange twinkling autumn’s light.

Fire scarred and tortured juniper limbs rotted heartwood’s eleventh hour.

Portends adventure, misadventure. s. chaffee

SANTA RITA LULLABY The dark creeps down as lights go on all over town.

Now in the distance I can hear a sigh It’s the Santa Rita song, a lullaby.

Small creatures call; twilight spreads its mantle over all.

Our mountain skyline melts then fades from sight As I hear that faint refrain, “All’s well. Goodnight.”

Silent watch we will keep; Dream in sweet slumber deep We will guard you until morning.

Here I belong; here where the Santa Ritas croon their song.

My mind grows tranquil while the hours go by When I hear that Santa Rita lullaby.

Peg Rock, Green Valley

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Cappuccino El Grande Even the word, ”Cappuccino” sings with poetry, cries with mystery, with delights yet undiscovered . . . a joy to speak, a promise unfulfilled.

I have learned that one Cappuccino Grande usually is good for three poems.

The fact that the Cappuccino is good is no guarantee that the poetry will be, also.

smoke detector sporadic nighttime chirping ~for the birds

Ann M. Penton

emptying out opening to the present ~ garbage day

Ann M. Penton

by Cal Lambert

November

the halloween candy is eaten and gone but it sure was dandy the pumpkin is still standing where it was put outside on the porch landing soon it will be time to carve our thanks with all the delicious trimmings while waiting for you to return home to our beginnings. j.j.kazlauskas

Blue

Blue is the color of water blue is the color of sky blue is the color of a tear when a loved one dies The body returns to the Earth and the blue to the morning dew

by Daniel Chitwood

Heart to Heart

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Crying again, maybe forever.

How could I stop this pain from ever Stirring my heart, until it cries.

“I’m lonely? Where are you? “ I know, you died.

I held you as calmly we ended your pain, I wonder now, if I’ll see you again?

People talk of bridges and rainbows and such, I know they mean well, but it doesn’t touch Me in any kind of meaningful way.

I held you. You died. They took you away.

Sometime they will call me to pick up your cremains, I’ve prepared a place for you- there you’ll remain With me, until it’s my time to depart, Then we”ll be blended together,to stay, heart to heart.

Jan Gaylord

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Part 2 - A Broken Relationship - Healed lease him and he stopped eating and ran the fence day and night.

Home he came as a rack of bones. It wasn’t the people’s fault, Mo did it to himself. Our problems continued.

We needed an intervention.

Judi Oyler & Mo My friend Judy wisely said, “Regret and guilt are a deadly combination.”

So went the scenario with Mo. By the time Ray arrived I was deep in guilt and regret - the what-ifs were dragging me down and killing my horse. Mo and I fought all the time; we had a love-hate relationship going on. I cried buckets of tears out of frustration and fear.

You would think because I teach riding, I would have a clue. Nope. I learned a long time ago my training skills with horses were limited to my endurance horses and my school horses. I did have a lot of horsey people of all kinds stop in to see Mo over the years. Some of them ended up in my stories. I know some very unique horse people. They range from New Age folks to the cowboy way people and everything in between. Again “he just needs a job” was the stock answer. But I knew that now it went a lot deeper. Our relationship was on the rocks!

My problem was, as I saw it, I didn’t have the time to ride him on a consistent basis. I tried to feed-

Quite by accident one day my farrier Ray was respectfully listening to me complain about Mo as he trimmed his feet. I was ranting and raving about the fact I needed to be able to ride this stinken’ horse during the winter to take ladies on trail rides.

Ray intervened. “Well,” he said “ya know I also train horses. How bout if I come by and we take a look see at what’s going on between you two.” Whoa! Be still my heart, maybe there is hope for us yet.

When Ray arrived I was lunging Mo. Our plan was for Ray to ride him and make some suggestions.

Ray walked into the arena with Mo and it was “mano y mano.” They sized each other up and the games began - Mo is good at games.

Mo knew this was going to be a tough human. He dropped his head and quick as a snake he came in on Ray. Ray stepped to the side and pulled Mo off balance. The look on that horse’s face was priceless - utter shock! Human one, horse zero. He finished lunging Mo and moved over to his truck to get his saddle.

Mo stood quietly as Ray got ready to saddle him. Everything was fine until Ray drew the cinch. That rotten horse tried to sit down but again was met with a firm hand.

He stood up as fast as he tried it sit

down. Next came the bit and Mo clenched his teeth and reared up. As his feet left the ground so did Rays.

Mo came down with Ray in control!

His eye went soft and he took his bit! This was better than RFD TV! I could not believe my seasoned endurance horse, the love of my life, had totally lost it.

Ray stepped aboard and Mo dropped his head to the vertical and quietly walked off. This could work.

Ray asked for a working trot and got it right off. He asked for the lope and Mo blew! He went to bucking - not a kill you buck but a leave me alone buck. Ray took it all in stride and Mo settled down. We then left on a trail ride for the next hour and a half that stinkin’ horse was perfect - no spook, spin or buck. Ray rode him on a lose rein; I on the other hand always rode with light contact.

What Ray told me was I had a great horse but I needed to stop with the guilt stuff and take control back. No

Timeless Meditations:

Mandalas & Patterns in Nature “Timeless Meditations: Mandalas and Patterns in Nature” is an exhibit that is inspired and supported by a community coming together through art and compassion. Highlights of the “Timeless Meditations” exhibit juried by Catherine Nash will be the construction of a Tibetan sand mandala painting from November 5-November 10 by visiting Tibetan monk Lama Ngawang, a talk by Dr. Dean Pielstick explaining the symbolism of the Tibetan mandalas on November 7 in partnership with the Tubac Buddhist Meditation Center, a mandala making workshop on November 10 with Cathi Silliman, and a Mandala Dissolution Ceremony on November 10th. For more information, visit our website or call TCA at 520-398-2371.

more, “Oh poor Mo.” I learned that if Mo touched me first, little by little he would take over control. So, Mo had to be a perfect gentlemen and no touching, no turning his head or any of the tons of things he used to subtly take control. It took a while for me to relax and breathe when I rode him. I learned to let him have rein and take responsibility for himself and me, which he used to do all the time. Ray rode with me and Mo for several weeks and continued observe and recommend.

Then the day came and we went out alone. It was one of the most thrilling days of my life and we had a great ride. We still work on stuff but our relationship is healing and we are a team again! I love that darn horse! Thank You, Ray. “The horse through all its trials has preserved the sweetness of paradise in its blood” ~Johannes Jensen~ Happy Trails

Patagonia Players Do --IMPROV. If you’ve seen the TV show “Who’s Line is it Anyway?” starring Drew Carey, you know what on-the-spot Improv is. Starting with suggestions from the audience (such as an activity or location), the Improvers spontaneously create unrehearsed scenes and act them out. The newly formed Improv troupe of George Davis, Olivia Lopez, German Quiroga, and Wendy Russell, with Janice Pulliam as director, invites you to come “play” with us in the Tin Shed Theater (corner of 3rd Ave and Mendoza Alley) on Saturday, November 17 at 7 pm and again on Sunday, November 18 at 2 pm. As a special treat, audience members are encouraged to bring an everyday item from home, to have it “appraised” during an improvised spoof of public television’s “Antiques Road Show.” In addition to comedy Improv, Helen Chester will lead Patra Kelly and Olivia Lopez in a unique Dance Improv number.

As Thanksgiving Day approaches, let’s celebrate together something we are all thankful for: the unique quality of life in southeastern Arizona. And that includes our embracing extraordinary things, especially when they’re FREE (with suggested donation of $5).

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Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge 4th Annual

Grassland Fair!

Saturday, November 17th10 -3:30

Featuring:

educational talks • music • art demonstrations & exhibits archery lessions • vendors food •activities for kids

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GRASSLAND FAIR AT BUENOS AIRES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

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uenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge hosts its annual Grassland Fair, a day of music, education, local crafts, fun for the kids and much more on Saturday, November 17th, 2012, from 10:00 am to 3:30 pm. Admission is free.

Exciting events will go all day.

Discover the sweeping grassland and its wildlife, and learn about the rich history of this former ranch.

The Fair is held at Buenos Aires Refuge Headquarters at the 1880s ranch house that is now the refuge Visitor Center, with a grand view over the grasslands and majestic Baboquivari Peak. This year’s theme is “Birds, Bats and Butterflies,” and experts will teach about the “B’s of Buenos Aires!”

See new visitor center exhibits and demonstrations of the masked bobwhite quail, live birds of prey and live reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrate “creepy crawlies.” A special presence at the fair is the Wilbur-Cruce Spanish Colonial Horses, a type of Spanish horse that originated here on the Buenos Aires Ranch. Bring the kids, as there will be ongoing hands-on projects for them to enjoy in our Kids Corner.

A children’s wildlife art contest will have entries filling the walls of the Visitor Center, and awards will be presented at the fair.

Food and shopping are available throughout the day in the openair venue. Local artisans will offer a variety of

crafts, including photographs, jewelry, clothing and more, as well as delicious regional foods. Latin American musicians are featured midday, and the rousing and athletic Aztec dancers perform at 2:45 pm.

Come and learn about grassland and riparian ecosystems and the challenges of managing the special plants and animals of this beautiful area. Enjoy the wildlife, the stunning mountain views and learn about efforts to bring back the endangered masked bobwhite quail and pronghorns back to their native grassland.

You may want to allow extra time to explore trails, take a driving tour, or amble along the boardwalk at the beautiful Arivaca Cienega.

The Refuge is located near Sasabe.

The scenic drive will take you past the Arivaca Cienega and its boardwalk trail. Take I-19 to the Amado/Arivaca Road exit (Exit 48) and follow Arivaca Road 23 miles to Arivaca, then angle right onto Arivaca-Sasabe Road. After 12 miles turn left onto AZ 286 and drive four miles, then turn left onto the headquarters’ entrance road.

For more information go to the Friends of Buenos Aires NWR website at http://friendsofbanwr. org, or look on Facebook. You may also call the Refuge at 520.823.4251.

How to Process Grasshoppers for Eating

by Abe Paris

Step 1: Get a bottle half full with water because this keeps the grasshoppers from jumping out of the bottle.

Step 3: Put them in salt water and set to boil for 5 to 10 minutes.

Step 2: Go after dark. You will see them up in the trees. You will need a headlamp. Grab the grasshoppers and put them in the bottle.

Step5: Eat them Grasshoppers will taste like what they eat. For example if they eat mint they will taste like mint. Do not eat the spiny leg parts.

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La Fiesta de Tumacácori: 42nd Annual Celebration at Tumacácori National Historical Park The 42nd annual Fiesta at Tumacácori National Historical Park will take place from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, December 1, and 10 to 4 pm on Sunday, the 2nd. There is no charge for this event, and admission to the park is free during the fiesta. This is a celebration of all the cultures which have lived in and influenced the historical Santa Cruz Valley. The two-day event will feature Native American, Mexican, and Southwest food, crafts and performances.

Fifty booths, representing a wide variety of local non-profit historical, cultural and religious organizations, will provide food, handicrafts, and information. On the main stage, there will be all-day, continuous free entertainment, featuring a multi-cultural variety of dance and music groups. There will be all-day demonstrations of paper flower making, rawhide braiding, leatherworking, horse hair rope making, and tortilla making. For children, there will be piñatas, hands-on traditional crafts and

activities, and live raptors. Guided tours of the mission will be available both days, as well as guided walks to the Santa Cruz River.

Sunday will begin with a traditional Mariachi Procession and Mass in front of the old mission church. The procession begins in front of the visitor center at 10:00. Mass begins when the procession returns to the church, approximately 10:30. No photos are permitted during the procession or mass, or while sacred dances are being performed.

No dogs or other pets are allowed in the park or on the fiesta grounds during the fiesta weekend. The Anza Trailhead is closed to horseback riders during the fiesta.

The Tumacácori Fiesta is sponsored by the National Park Service.

Tumacácori National Historical Park is located 45 miles south of Tucson and 15 miles north of Nogales.

Take exit 29 off of I-19 and follow the signs. For information, call the Tumacácori Visitor Center, (520) 398-2341, extension 0.

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Laurel Loew don’t remember life without my sister, Erika. She and I are only 18 months apart and (other than a few squabbles) have been best friends for 40 years (Ugh – 40???). As kids, we were the perfect blend of frilly princesses and rough-and-tumble tomboys! Our daily pleasures consisted of hours of bike riding (we pretended our bikes were horses), producing variety shows for our parents (complete with commercials), building forts in the woods, hosting tea parties (all pets invited, of course) and playing any version of dolls (miniature, baby and Barbee). One of our favorite activities was building forts. On the weekends or on summer vacations – Erika and I would move out of our bedrooms and move into our unconventional dwellings - a refrigerator box outside became an apartment with window cutouts and crayonapplied kitchen appliances (we slept curled up together, with at least one small dog and the box upright – not lengthwise, (Ahh, the days before stiff knees!).

Sometimes the living room would be transformed into a complex series of caves and tunnels with tables draped in blankets. As kids in Nogales, we had an elaborate fort in a small forest in our neighborhood and while living in the Bahamas, a small dingy became our “guest house” - we actually slept in that thing, floating in the salt-water canal behind our house.

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In our quest to make the most of impending adulthood, (a future I dreaded!) Erika and I made promises to stay close. We knew that we would have separate families and separate homes, but we planned to be neighbors – within walking distance - and have our children at the same time.

We would take turns babysitting for each other and spend time together being moms and best friends. Well the reality is – I live on the farm that my husband’s family owns in Amado and Erika lives an hour away in Tucson where her husband works. I can’t move my farm and there is no work out in the country for Scott.

We get together as often as we can and talk on the phone quite a bit, but an hour is actually pretty far away when you have a job and kids and school and all the other stuff that limits your time.

It was about 8 years ago when

Erika and I made another promise.

We were visiting our Grandmother in Minnesota when an article in a magazine tickled both of our insides. It was about a group of women who have renovated old travel trailers, adding gitchy western décor – who would get together and go on little excursions. We were so enamored with the little trailers equipped vintage appliances and frilly curtains that we hatched a plan to (someday) get our own! (It seems that we were still looking for a fort to escape to).

Even as I was making my promise, I didn’t believe that we would ever actually do it. I had already learned how life flies by and responsibility keeps you from indulging your personal desires.

When would I ever have an extra couple of thousand dollars to spend on a trailer instead of on utility bills, car payments or groceries? But we planned away that week in my Grandmother’s house. We even named our trailers – Erika’s would be Mexicali Rose (she was still being teased for sneaking across the border in high school on a regular basis) and mine would be Ramble On Rose (in keeping with the rose theme and to honor the Grateful Dead song of the same name).

The dream was all but forgotten until recently Erika, who was taking a break from mothering, housekeeping, studying (she is going to college to be a nurse) and working a part time job, did a Craigslist search and by the end of the week, she had bought a rundown 14’ travel trailer for $600! I started looking on Craigslist too, but I couldn’t find anything I could afford. Then, I got a call from Erika. She and her husband had found a vintage 1965 Shasta and bought it for me (“if you want it…” they said) for $250!!!! The Shasta smelled awful – apparently it’s latest inhabitants were packrats, but Erika and I proudly admired our new forts – parked side-byside in her front yard – and have been getting together weekly for “Shasta Days” to clean, paint, refinish and decorate our little trailers and to plan our new adventures. Somehow, despite our busy lives, we are finding the time for our dream.

Erika’s 40th birthday is coming up. For her present, I ordered two books on renovating travel trailers and I am embroidering and framing the following phrase for her as a gift; A sister shares childhood memories and grownup dreams.

e can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Louis D. Brandeis

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Two: Lucretia Talks the Walk While Socarides Walks the Talk

by Mark Dresang Persons of the Dialogue: Lucretia and Socarides “We write our own story . . .

Singularly, we develop the players, the scenery, and all that matters. . . . The story is complicated no matter how it begins.”(1) LUCRETIA. Keep mopping Socrats, I can easily talk while you mop.

SOCARIDES. Then, because of “equifinality – the view that many beginnings can lead to the same results . . . [i]n other words, a specific outcome,”(2) the two of us will have made a clean sweep of the whole matter?

LU. We will have only begun to clean house. Yale’s edifice is large.

SOC. “The greatest challenge that the United States has to face since its founding. . . . a struggle for the American soul.”(3) This is not Lincoln’s log cabin.

LU. I particularly agree with Yale that individuals need to be independent, responsible, selfreliant, accountable, productive, autonomous – keep mopping Socrats – and, imaginative.

SOC. As he says, we cannot be dependent on the government to take care of us. That would be a state of dependency and a result of deficit thinking.

LU. What made and makes America great are personal liberty and independence, ingenuity, invention, “the right to succeed and fail on our own,” and “courageous determination.” “We are sovereign, independent actors,” and we “create our own success stories.”

and that “society [is] increasing in size and becoming more complex,” and that “life is complicated,” and that “the American narrative is one of continuous outbursts – disorder and confusion,” and that it is intimidating to live in “a world whose composition transforms from moment to moment . . . [and] is in a constant flux.”

LU. But, too complex for individual persons to understand? Too complex to allow success?

SOC. I was afraid you would bring up success. I think success needs to be defined, Lucretia.

LU. We don’t all know what success is, Socrats?

SOC. I don’t. Listen to this, please, Lucretia. “Our ideas about success are themselves based on preconceptions and are also part of a self-perpetuating cycle preventing us from achieving the genuine success and happiness that we seek. . . . Fixation on [mundane] concerns subverts our best efforts, leading either to counterfeit success or true frustration.”(4) Some other day, some other time, we must talk about success.

LU. Rome wasn’t destroyed in one day, Socrats.

SOC. “Wasn’t built” you mean.

LU. Built, destroyed, whatever, Socrats. Yale’s point is that “it is up to each individual to use their natural strengths to create their own success, for themselves, their families, and their communities.”(5) SOC. Please don’t use that word.

LU. What word?

SOC. He is very insistent on that, and who would argue that position?

SOC. Natural. It opens up a whole other can of worms.

LU. And that things are not too complex for individuals to understand and figure out?

LU. You’re just dying to talk about Darwin, the State of Nature, the organic model, natural law, natural rights, natural rules, self-generation, the natural instincts . . .

SOC. Well, Yale does say “society was not as complex as it is today,”

SOC. And free will. Page one hundred sixteen.

LU. Socrats, we need to identify the major premises of Yale’s book. We must start with those first.

SOC. And we have. Don’t depend on the government, be autonomous and independent, and success will be the result . . . or . . . sometimes . . . failure. . . like . . . perhaps . . . .

Penn State. “The right to succeed and fail.”

LU. The possibility of failure aside, Socrats, the point is that we must stick with what made America great. Regain that greatness. Take the constitution seriously.

SOC. We have become deficit thinkers and depend on the government to take care of our basic needs.

LU. And if we return to the principles of the founding fathers, we will regain our greatness. And, in short, let’s start “focusing on what’s right about America and the American People.”

SOC. This is not a good time to be Greek, is it?

LU. We don’t have time to talk about the rest of the world, Socrats.

It’s America we’re interested in.

SOC. Yale suggests that America is skating on thin ice.

LU. The thin ice idiom yet again? C. Hues was right, Socrats, you need to “get . . . a . . . life.”

SOC. What-do-artists-know-anyway?

SOC. Well, their stuff is sort of different . . . some might say, complex.

LU. Too complex for independent, self-reliant, autonomous persons like ourselves?

SOC. Well, Yale’s profiteers and politeers will-not-care-for-it-at-all, let’s put it that way.

LU. And we should care about them?

Screw ‘em. Keep mopping Socrats, we’re not half way done.

SOC. Surely we are at least half way done.

LU. In your dreams Socrats. We have undertaken a large project here. Although we are tired, we shall not rest until we have looked at these things from all the angles. . . . There’s a spot there, Socrats . . . no, right there.

SOC. “Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee,”(7) but please move your feet, Lucretia, you’re standing on the mop. Would you de-feat me?

LU. Oh, sorry, Socrats; no, I would simply . . . help you . . . under-stand.

LU. I think Yale is an artist, the way he has put his thoughts and ideas together. Did you read his “Ode to Words”? He really cares about his country and the people. I can admire a person who takes the time to do such a thing.

SOC. Merci beaucoup, mon cherie.

Thank you, beloved.

SOC. Don’t forget people like Maggie and library Mary. They’ve been putting their ideas down on paper for years.

LU. They make me “feel Barefoot all over, as the Boys say.”(8) Ciao, for now.

LU. I don’t get the connection.

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and the social sciences have to do with dependency and success? What ideas have they possibly added to the great thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment and the principles propounded by the founding fathers? What can they do about our “finding our harmonic place, [and] ending the culture of dependency for our children and everyone else”?(6)

SOC. You should start. And, anyway, I have been wondering if there is another way to look at the whole thing.

LU. And you, Socarides, are – I suppose – the one who has this other way of looking at this “culture of dependency/culture of success” theme?

SOC. No, actually the ideas belong to Otto Rank and Ernest Becker.

LU. What could psychoanalysis

LU. Il n’ya pas de qua, mon petite pois. Don’t mention it, my little pea.

SOC. Nice sandals by the way.

Hasta proxima.

The web site for Yale’s book is: www.strengthbasednation.com (1)) Wishnick, Yale, From a Culture of Dependency To a Culture of Success, p. 164 1. Ibid, p. 15 2. Ibid, p. 127 (4) Wallace, B. Alan, Buddhism with an Attitude, p. 19 (5) Wishnick, p. 103 (6) Ibid., Part Three, Eight (7) Bible, Song of Solomon, 4:7 (8) Habegger, My Wars are Laid Away in Books (The Life of Emily Dickinson) p. 583

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• Family ThursDon & Fri Smith, - 9 - 4 • MD 3rd Sat 9-12 Practice

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Wednesday Evening Meeting & Bible Study - 6pm - Potluck at 5pm Rev. Rebecca Gibson, Pastor

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More Places to Go - People to See - Things to Do Sunday, Nov. 11 - 12 – 5pm Celebrate the River Community Picnic - Friends of the Santa Cruz River will host the second annual community picnic on at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Tubac Road in Tubac. The event is sponsored by global Community Communications Alliance and the Hilltop Gallery. Bring your family, a picnic, blankets and chairs and spend the afternoon celebrating the Santa Cruz River. In addition to guided river walks there will be a youth art contest featuring the art work of students from kindergarten through grade 12. Contact Nanette at (520)761-4001.

Thurs. Nov. 15 – 1 to 3 p. Green Valley Genealogical Society, St. Francis in the Valley Episcopal Church, 600 S. La Cañada Drive, Green Valley. Main Program: Suzanne Brayer on information that can be found in “Wills and Probate”.

As genealogists we depend on clues to aid our trek along the ancestral trail. Probate records can be a mother lode of clues.

Decedent’s date of death, names of spouse and children, in-laws, places of residence, land ownership, religion and military service are just a few of the juicy tidbits these records can reveal. Suzanne will provide strategies and sources to help analyze probate records and reconstruct family relationships.

Short Program: Jon Ott will demonstrate “IrfanView”, a free to use image file manipulation software that is a very fast, small, compact, and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows users. Visitors are welcome. Contact JoAnn Herbst (396-4630 or joannherbst@cox. net) for more information or Google “gvgs az”.

Friday, Nov. 16, 1pm - “The History of Mineral Art” with Dr. Wendell Wilson. Noted Tucson scientist and artist Dr. Wendell Wilson will be the guest speaker at the Tubac Historical Society’s membership meeting. His illustrated presentation on the history of mineral art will feature extraordinary photographs of world famous mineral specimens, as well as his artwork of minerals and mining artifacts. Dr. Also a display of his original paintings and rare publications from his personal collection. The public is invited.

Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel Street in Tubac.

Admission: $10 general public and $5 THS members. Seating is limited and reservations are recommended. Contact (520) 3982020 or info@ths-tubac.org.

Fri., Nov 16 - 2:15 pm. - The Democratic Women in Action present “The Separation of Church and State.” Richard Miller, Member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Phoenix Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State will be our speaker. This is an important topic in these times as religious values are creeping into our policymaking. This is a fascinating talk that everyone should hear. We’ll see you at the Joyner-Green Valley Library The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Sat., Nov. 17 hike about 5 miles on the Arizona Trail from Kentucky Camp to Apache Springs with Friends of Sonoita Creek. We wlll begin with a visit to the restored buildings which housed the Santa Rita Water Company, and then

at the Library . . .

• WiFi - access available on patio • Free Computer classes! Individual help or tutoring - Internet use, Microsoft Word, Excel, Publisher or Power Point.

• Homework help available •Pima County Public Library’s Virtual Library at www.library.pima.gov Caviglia-Arivaca Branch Library Hours are: Closed Sundays and Mondays; Tues and Wed 11-8; Thurs 10 – 6; Fri 11-5 and Sat 9-5.

To renew books call the renewal line at 903-2865 or Caviglia-Arivaca Branch Library at 594-5235.

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follow the route of their pipeline through the foothills east of Mt. Wrightson. Wonderful views enhance this well-designed trail.

Meet at the Patagonia Post Office at 8:30 a.m. with lunch and water. Call hike leaders Chris and Mary Strohm to register or with questions. 530-545-1191.

Dec 7th & 8th, 6-9pm TaliasVan’s Bright & Morning Star Choir & Orchestra - During the beautiful Tubac Luminaria nights, this magnificent, 40-voice choir will be performing at the Tubac Plaza Main Stage. The choir will be singing traditional Christmas Carols, as well as a few original CosmoWorship™ sacred holiday songs written by the choir’s founder. Donations appreciated. www.GlobalChangeMultiMedia.org (520) 398-2542 Sat., Dec 8TH, 11a - 3p - Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary Holiday Open House in Amado Celebrate the holiday season at our fourth annual Open House.

Meet Gulliver, our mascot and symbol of horse rescue, and our other 40+ equine “residents”.

Relax and enjoy music, food, raffles, and, of course, shopping at Gulliver’s General Store! Tours of the ranch will be available and horse training techniques will be demonstrated. Parking and admission are free. Handicapped parking will be available. For the safety of horses and humans, no dogs will be allowed. For more information call 398-2814 or visit our website: equinevoices.org.

Fri., Dec 14, 7 pm - Holiday Celebration - Live music, baked yummies, Santa Claus, a Christmas play called “The God Child Came”, and a special children’s Christmas songs presentation. Ages 12 & up - $9 advance / $12 day of event; Ages 6-11 - $6 advance / $9 day of event; Ages 5 & under – free. Proceeds benefit Global Community Communications Schools for Children & Teens.

Avalon Gardens, 2074 Pendleton Dr., Tumacacori, AZ www.

GlobalChangeMultiMedia.org (520) 398-2542 Sunday, Dec. 16th, 2 pm Christmas Concert by TaliasVan’s Bright & Morning Star Choir & Orchestra, a magnificent 40-voice choir! Opening performance by Israfel Awakened. Donations appreciated and benefit Global Community Communications Schools for Children & Teens.

Tubac Plaza Main Stage. 29 Tubac Plaza, Tubac, AZ. www.

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Around Arivaca Library News

By Mary Kasulaitis am retiring from the CavigliaArivaca Library on November 17. I would like to thank everyone for all your help during the 12 years that I have been here. It has been a wonderful place to work.

But don’t worry, you may still see me: I plan to volunteer!

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A list of books about Arivaca and its history is up on the CavigliaArivaca Branch web page at www. library.pima.gov/locations/ arivaca Used books are for sale every day in the Meeting Room at the Arivaca Library, courtesy of the Friends of the Arivaca Library.

New copies of Ruby, Arizona: Mining, Mayhem and Murder and also Frontier Lady of Letters: the heroic love story of Ines Fraser

by Al and Bob Ring are available as well. Ask at the desk for more information.

Remember to sign up for individualized computer instruction any time. Call Coey for more information at 594-5239. We can help you with e-readers!

We would like to thank Beverly and Ranch Yach for the donation of a microscope to the Library!

Dia de los Muertos

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ia de los muertos is a time to honor and celebrate those who have died. We celebrate the lives of our loved ones and prepare altars for them. In addition to friends and family, we in Arivaca can honor all those who have lost their lives in our surrounding desert. Many of you have most likely encountered belongings left in the desert by travelers. And some of you may have picked up a few of these items throughout the years. We have no way of knowing what happened to the person who was carrying them. We can only hope that they made it through this harsh desert safely. But it is possible that they are missing or lost their life in attempting to cross this land. We invite you to bring some found objects from the desert to the All Souls Corner so we can honor and celebrate those who have struggled and possibly died while walking through this area.

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Arivaca Community Desert Aid Medical Training & Dialogue

Significant Progress Being Made

by Chief Scot Van Boerum

As mentioned in last month’s Connection we are in the process of updating our Five Year Strategic Plan. We recently had a meeting at which several members of the public expressed their views on the District. One of the suggestions that came out of the meeting was to provide a more specific picture of the District. I believe the two most important measures of the success of the District are the services we provide and the tax rate. We want to provide the best service at the lowest tax rate possible.

The strategic plan called for the District to effectively manage expenses through several efforts which directly resulted in a carryover of $50,000 from last year into this current year.

When I assumed the role of Fire Chief this past March 64% of the budgeted revenues were based on taxes. This is generally in line with the fire districts in Pima County where the average is 71%. For the current budget year only 34% of our anticipated revenues are derived from taxes.

The balance of the anticipated revenue, $253,949.63, is coming from alternative funding sources.

This is in line with our strategic plan which called for finding alternative revenue streams to maintain or reduce the tax burden on the residents of the District.

The current year’s budgeted income includes grants that make up 27%. To date we have applied for seventeen grants and successfully received $115,699.11 in grant funding with seven of the applications still pending.

In addition we have diligently

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worked on improving our response capability for wild fire incidents both within and outside of the District. Through training, acquisition of equipment, and vehicles we are able to more effectively respond to these incidents which also generate income when we respond outside of the District. We currently have over $70,000.00, 20% of income, in receivables from the state of Arizona for wildland responses under our state cooperative agreement.

Finally, we are working on shifting some of the burden from the taxpayer to the people who utilize our services. To do this we have started charging for EMS responses by the District.

This is a revenue stream that has previously gone untapped. To date we have already received over $1,200.00 in unbudgeted revenue from insurance companies. This includes sending bills for all responses involving illegal border crossers, which account for over 15% of our EMS responses, to the Border Patrol health insurance system. We are anticipating additional income of approximately $10,000.00, or approximately 8% of the tax revenue, between now and the end of the budget year, June 30, 2013.

If you utilize our services and receive a bill please forward the bill to your insurance company.

Payment by the insurance company will be taken as payment in full for taxpayers of the District, even if it is less than the full invoice. For non-taxpayers we will continue with collection efforts to receive the full payment of the invoice.

Thank You! DanSun Ranch, especially Danny, would like to thank all of the people for all the help since my accident! Sunny could not have done it without you!!! Arivaca is a great place to live. People are willing to get down and dirty, if their neighbor has fallen on difficult times.

Thank you all for your concern and support. DanSun Ranch.

Sunday, November 18 o1-4pm, Arivaca Community Center Dr. Norma Price will be offering a basic medical training to the Arivaca community that will cover common illnesses and injuries that residents may encounter when coming into contact with people crossing through the borderlands.

Topics will include blister care, dehydration and heat-related illness, sprains and strains, hypothermia, problems associated with drinking dirty water, along with learning to access support with medical situations, how to recognize medical emergencies, and knowing when to call 9-1-1.

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This training is designed for Arivaca residents with no previous medical training. We also invite area medical workers from the Arivaca Clinic, Arivaca Fire, and No More Deaths Byrd Camp to join us to dialogue about providing effective medical care in the borderlands.

Norma Price MD practiced medicine in Atlanta, GA for 25 years before moving to Arizona. Since retiring, she has been active with the Samaritans and No More Deaths since the organizations began. She participates in administering humanitarian care, and serves as medical consultant and educator for both organizations.

Thanksgiving Potluck

ome one, come all, to the fabulous Thanksgiving Potluck Feast at the Arivaca Community Center. It will be held on November 22nd from 1-3. Please bring a dish to share, and your own place setting. Join the c-ommunity to celebrate our gratitude for all the blessings in our lives! It is such a beautiful

thing to share food while celebrating the spirit of our community!

Everyone is welcome! Bring all your family and friends!

Instruments and musicians welcome! If there’s interest, a drumming circle will follow the feast!

Helping Ease Arivacans' Rough Times

Arivaca Helping Hear ts We're here to help serve the needs of Arivaca residents (living within the 85601 zip code area). If you need a little help with any of the following expenses, give us a call:

• Propane • Rent

• Water Company • Gasoline

• Clinic Co-pay • Phone

• Medical • Auto Repair

• Taxes • Eyeglasses

& Other approved expenses Restrictions apply on types of expenses, amounts and frequency of disbursals. Arivaca Helping Hearts pays the expenses directly to the vender.

Contact us at: 398-8515 or 398-3033 P.O. Box 156, Arivaca, AZ 85601

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Around Arivaca Arivaca Action Center on the Move!

submitted by Glo Williams Greetings! The Arivaca Action Center Inc. is pleased to report that we received our 501(c)(3) exemption determination from the IRS as a public charity so gifts and contributions are deductible through the IRS. We can also pursue additional possibilities that align with our mission of providing space for opportunities that enhance rural life. Bring your ideas forward at the next board meeting on Sunday November 11th at 4:00.

Free open computer hours and one-on-one classes are ongoing thanks to instructor Michele Fournier Thursdays from 5 - 8 pm. Stop by and walk through the Art Gallery while you are there.

Featured artist Mark Dresang’s work is on display this month.

The Early Learning Center will

be getting our licensing inspection visit at the end of October from the Arizona Department of Health Services. Many of us have worked very hard to create a beautiful, quality learning center for our youngest community members, birth to 5 years old. Glo Williams and Kathy Sheldon are overseeing this center and Rachel Barry is stepping up as Center Director.

We could use some help and donations getting the inside and outside of the building painted before the Artist Studio Tour in January. The Arivaca Action Center will be hosting this event and several artists will be displaying their art at the Center. If you are ready for little gardening, we could also use help with our crop circle plot and invite all to stop by and join in the fun.

Meetings &Activities Thrus. Nov 8 - 6pm - Arivaca Clinic Annual mtg. & dinner at Sweet Peas Cafe - call Julie Beal for reservations 398-2160 $$12 Sunday, Nov 18 - 1-4pm - Desert Aid Medical Training & Dialogue.

Arivaca Community Center. Free & open to the public SATURDAYS Every Sat - 9am: Marian's Market.

1st Sat - 9am - Human Resources Rummage Sale 3rd Sat - 1pm - Arivaca Family and Community Education Assn.

At the Old School (or at Library-call 594-5235 first).

3pm - Friends of the Arivaca Library - Board Meeting Sundays - am - Heat Yoga (Comm Garden Yoga Greenhouse) Call for times - 398-2839 1st Sun - 3:30pm - Arivaca Water Coop Assn meet at town water yard 2nd Sun 4pm. Arivaca Action Center - Board Mtgs. 15925 W. Universal Ranch Rd, arivacaactioncenterinc@ gmail.com Last Sun - 5:30pm - Arivaca Potluck at Obe Sweetwater’s home Mondays - 4pm - Gentle Yoga at Old Schoolhouse, Call Nancy 398-9859 5:30- 6:30 pm - Silent Meditation at Old Schoolhouse 2nd Mon - 6:30pm - Ariv. Fire Dist. Auxilary - at the Fire House TUESDAYS: 1st Tues. - 5:30pm Arivaca Alive, promoting Arivaca - La Gitana Cantina - all welcome.

1st Tues. - 6pm - People Helping People - - Border Issues Community Chat - Providing hospitality and community support in the borderlands. Arivaca Library

Happy Birthday Mary Jane! rivaca’s Grande Dame, Mary Jane Broadhurst, will be celebrating her 97th birthday, on Sunday, November 11, 2012.

I am hoping you have some room in the November issue to announce this milestone, and to add that everyone is invited to her birthday celebration, on Sunday, November 11th, at an Open House, 3:00 p.m.

- 5:00 p.m., at the Old Schoolhouse, to come by and wish her a most happy!! And, of course, there will be cake!

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Candy Shack and Holiday Gift Bazaar submitted by Nancy Fricchione Arivaca Alive’s holiday event raising funds to benefit the kids of Arivaca will be held December 8th. We will be looking for donations of handmade crafts and candy for an old-fashioned holiday bazaar. This will be a great time to pick up some low cost gifts and decorations for Christmas.

Proceeds will go towards buying something great for the children of Arivaca. Last year we bought an airplane teeter-totter for the community center playground.

Please bring your donations of candy and crafts after Dec. 1st to the Arivaca Artists’ Co-op or the La Gitana Cantina. For information call 398-9859

2nd Tues:- 2pm Arivaca Library Book Club call 594-5239 3rd Tues - 7pm - Adyashanti Gathering Call for info 333-8311 or 576-4466.

WEDNESDAYS: 2nd Weds. -4pm - Arivaca Coordinating Council – Human Resources Group mtg. - Human Resource Office Public Invited Last Weds. - 4pm - Arivaca Clinic meeting at the Clinic THURSDAYS: 4pm - Gentle Yoga at Old Schoolhouse Call Nancy Fricchione for more info. 398-9859 3rd Thurs - 7pm - Arivaca Fire District board mtg @ Fire House www.arivacafiredistrict.org FOR KIDS: Tues & Thurs - 10 am to 12 Creative Play Recreation (ages 5-12) & KAPP (ages 3-5) (Comm.

Center) . Call Ellen- 398-3010 Teen Night - Call Ellen 398-3010 WEDS - 11:30am Pre-school & Toddler Story Hour, Arivaca Library.

Babytime at 11:30 am on Fridays Girl Scouts for all ages. Contact Nathalie Dresang - 398- 3009 FOR SENIORS Teatime for Seniors (Arivaca Christian Center) Fridays - 1 - 3 pm Senior Outings One trip per month. Call 398-3010 or 398-2771 Send your notices to: Connection, POB 338 or email SoAZVox@aol. com

Kids enjoying the Teeter-Totter airplane at Arivaca Community Center playground purchased with funds from last year's Arivaca Alive's Candy Shack proceeds.

Southern Arizona Wildflower Guide Describes plants growing in our area of the desert. Includes 204 flowering plants with over 400 full color photographs. Designed for amateur wildflower enthusiasts, the descriptions are written to easily aid identification. Index of Spanish common names Available at: Cactus Rose Gallery, Gadsden Coffee and La Gitana Cantina in Arivaca Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac Presidio State Park in Tubac Buenos Aires Nat'l Wildlife Refuge, Sasabe Mariposa Books, Patagonia

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Mail to: Connection, POB 338, Arivaca, AZ 85601 or email: SoAZVox@aol.com Due to the grasshoppers, mosquitos, and lack of local foods, the Community Center is cancelling the Desert Harvest Festival and local foods buffet that was scheduled for November 10th. Please join us for our annual Thanksgiving potluck on November 22nd at 1:00 and share the delicious desert bounty there!

Thanksgiving Potluck November 22nd 1pm. at Arivaca Community Center. Everyone Welcome! 398-3010 for more info.

We have anonymous donors who are matching funds for all donations and membership fees we receive right now. We are in need of some costly repairs and maintenance for the Community Center, and very much appreciate your support! Please mail all donations to: ACC PO Box 36.

Thank you so much!

The vegetables available in November at the Arivaca Gardens booth are turnips, radishes, peppers lettuce and spinach. Organic dates are also available. The garden will be planting garlic. Contact the garden about the days.

We also need volunteers to sell vegies at Marian’s Market on Saturdays. Contact Rex Tucker at 398-2000. Hope to see you at the market and at the garden.

Save the Date for the Arivaca Artists’ Studio Tour - Saturday, January 26, 2013. Featuring a diversity of talent that makes our tiny town proud! More info in upcoming Arivaca Connection and Green Valley News. Tickets available beginning of January.

RENT / SALE - The Honey House.

Country living, close to Arivaca, $650 per mo. / $189,500. 2400 feet of space, slump block construction.

Spacious, comfortable, place to live. Used to be a honey processing plant. Has a great kitchen with stainless appliances. Great views of surrounding hills. Can be rented partially furnished. Separate Studio space and storage / workshop on 2.5 fenced acres ~2 miles from town. Call 398-3915

520-399-1302

Johnnie Lake’s

Relaxing therapeutic massage by Kathishealingmassage. com in Arivaca at the Arivaca Action Center, corner of Universal Ranch and Mesquite Roads. Call Kathi Abbott at 520-904-9442 to schedule for Wednesdays between 11 am and 6 pm or Thursday mornings.

HORSES BOARDED - Full service care. Lg. pens w/ shelters or box stalls with turnouts. Close to trails. Arena and round pen. Trailer storage. $ 235./Mo. THE RIDING CENTER, Amado, 520 398-2392 FOR SALE OR Rent - BY OWNER 4.3 acre,for $47,000 Home site with excellent views. On the corner of Hardscrabble and Cedar Creek Rd. Power, water, septic and phone.

Terms. Call 480-993-8272 URANTIA BOOK -Classes Mondays & COSMIC FAMILY VOL. 1 Classes Wednesdays 7:30 p.m.9:00 p.m at Avalon EcoVillage, Tumacacori by Elders & Ministers.

Call first (520) 603-9932.

Gentle Touch Colt starting & training. 35 yrs exp. Certified. The Horseman Jimmy 398-3031 FOR SALE BY OWNER: 20 Acres, secluded in a canyon on Cedar Creek Rd., Arivaca, AZ. 2,240 sq .ft.

2002 4-bedroom, 3-bath home w/18 x 80 vaulted ceiling, deck w/wet bar and ceiling fans. Separate adobe wall B.B.Q. area and landscaped, shaded yard all enclosed by block wall. 24x32 adobe block shop w/ concrete floor, electric and 21 ft. electric door. 4-stall metal horse barn, power/water, electric horse walker. Enclosed tennis court, horse shoe pit, volleyball and more. $325,000. Terms. By appointment only -l 480-993-8272 CosmoService, Sundays 10 a.m. Discussion Format - URANTIA BOOK , Avalon EcoVillage, Tumacacori – Gabriel of Urantia & Niann Emerson Chase & Elders, The Bright & Morning Star Choir Organic lunch follows. Tours available. Donations appreciated.

Call first (520) 603-9932.

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RD's BACKHOE SERVICE Septic, perks, trenching & grading.

Licensed & Insured. 30 yrs exp.

398-9654.

November 6th - Your vote counts - go out and do it!

20 acres For Sale. 14050 W. Jalisco Rd. Well, electric, small septic, horse corral, sheds, small structure, and fully fenced.

Asking $79,000. 520-396-0865 or jferris94@yahoo.com

WHITLOCK’S AUTO BODY REPAIR Color matching . Some Mechanical Insurance Estimates Welcome Air Conditioning Repair

398-9734

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TUBAC AL-ANON / AA MTGS Weds, 7pm - Tubac Community Ctr, 50 Bridge Rd. Hotline 624-4183 ARIVACA AA MEETINGS Saturdays 8am next to Gadsden Coffee Amado Nooners-AA mtg - Unitarian Church, Amado Territory, every Saturday at 12:00. I-19 to exit 48, turn East.

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Places to Go m People to See m Things to Do In Arivaca Sat., Nov 3 – 9 to 4 – Farmers’ Market, Celebration of Dia de los Muertos – see ad page 3 Thurs., Nov 22 – Community Thanksgiving Potluck at Arivaca Community Center.

Sat., Nov 24 – 7 – 11 – Dance to Al Foul – La Gitana Cantina

In Amado Oct.11- 10a Talk- Facing the Climate Change Challenges, Derek Lemione, Ph.D.The challenges arise from complex social and natural systems interacting. UU Congregation, Amado Territory, I-19, Exit 48, Turn East Sat., Nov. 17 - 9a 3rd Annual Amado Chili Cook Off - Amado Territory. Classic Car Show, Youth Talent Show & lots of Chili. Music

by Beau Renfro & Clear Country, Maxima 99 Radio, and Uncion Nortena. Parking $2 or two cans of food - chili is $5 for all the tasting you can eat. The Cook Off features CASI, as well as a local cooks and fire departments. Amado Territory, exit 48 off I-19. Visit www. amadoaz.com. Proceeds benefit Amado Food Bank, Elephant Head Vol. Fire Dept & Amado Youth Alliance.

In Tubac Sat, Nov 3 & Sun, Nov 4 - 10am to 5pm - Tubac: An Art Experience Historic Tubac Village. Sponsored by Tubac Chamber of Commerce Info: 520-398-2704, www.tubacaz.com Sun., Nov. 11 - 12 – 5pm Celebrate the River Community Picnic Friends of the Santa Cruz River Contact Nanette at (520)761-4001.

Details on Page 16 Fri., Nov. 16, 1pm - “The History of Mineral Art” - Tubac State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St. Admission: $10 general public and $5 THS members.

Seating is limited and reservations are recommended. Contact (520) 3982020 or info@ths-tubac.org. Details on Page 16 Dec 7th & 8th, 6-9pm - TaliasVan’s Bright & Morning Star Choir & Orchestra - Tubac Plaza Main Stage. www.GlobalChangeMultiMedia.org (520) 398-2542. Details on Page 16

In Tucson 9am – Noon – Nov 3 – Visit the Desert Museum as the guest of Trico Electric Cooperative. For members only – bring you Trico bill – meet the board, learn about Trico’s programs and then learn about the animals. Contact: 520-744-2944 or www.trico.coop

Tumacacori

Nogales

Dec 1 & 2 - 10a - 4p - 42nd annual La Fiesta de Tumacácori at the National Historical Park, Tumacacori.

A celebration of all the cultures which have lived in and influenced the historical Santa Cruz Valley. Free.

Contact: Tumacácori Visitor Center, (520) 398-2341, extension 0.. See article on Page 14 for details

Sat., Nov 10, 4:30-7:30 pm – St. Andrew’s 60th Annual Barbecue, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 969 W. Coungry Club Dr., Nogales.

Pit-roasted beef barbecue, tortillas, beans, cole slaw, dessert, beverage for $10 (adults), $6 (children). Takeout available. $8 for lb. barbecue. Gift shop and bookstore open; raffle of theme baskets. Tickets available from Church members and at the door.

Green Valley weds., Nov 14 – 2 to 4 pm - Video showing of “What they Believe: HINDUS, ZOROASTRIANS, BAHA’I.” Joyner-Green Valley Library. Contact person: Dr. Daniel Wegener, 520-6635944. See article page 5 for details.

In Patagonia Fri & Sat, Nov 23 & 24 - 11a - 4p Patagonia's 13th Annual Holiday Art Walk Contact: Patagonia Visitor Center at 520-394-0060 or 1-888-7940060. See ad page 7.

In sasabe Sat., Nov 17 - 10a - 3:30 Grassland Fair - Buenos Aires Nat'l Wildlife Refuge. See artice on page 11 for details

Sunday, Nov. 18 at 4 pm - The Merling Trio in concert - Presented

by Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts at Americas Trade & Commerce (formerly Sunrise Bank building), 825 N Grand Ave, Nogales.

Contact: Christina Wilhelm at 520394-9495 or Janice Pulliam at 706614-6959 Sun., Dec 2, 2-6 pm Wine and Cheese Among the Trees, 781 N. Linda Vista Dr., Nogales. 23rd annual event will benefit St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic. View 20-25 distinctly decorated trees (mostly different each year) and numerous nativity scenes as well as a portion of the largest private collection of the late Hugh Cabot’s art work. Sample 4 varieties of wine and about 10 different cheeses and several pates. For tickets, call Clapper/DeLong at (520) 287-5929 or St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic (520) 648-3242, 75 Calle de las Tiendas, Ste. 129B, Green Valley. Tickets: $25 (adults) and $5 (children) are available at the door.

Bill's Gems & Minerals &

Bill & Connie Sparks

Reopening November 1st

To welcome you during our reopening -with the purchase of a semi-precious stone necklace, you'll receive a free matching bracelet.

Our gems are all natural stones - no synthetics.

Hours:Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays 10 to 4 and by appointment. 520-398-3033

Antiques & Collectibles