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Vol XII No 7

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Out My Back Door by Claire McJunkin I pledge allegiance to this earth, and all the peoples on it: and to the ocean which surrounds us all: all creatures, all beings, the sky abovewith understanding and compassion for all. - Adrienne Skyborne

“Cross Roads” by Nicholas Wilson oil on Belgian linen 36” X 32” Represented at K Newby Gallery www.nicholaswilsonstudio.com This journal is made possible through the support of local advertisers, artists and writers... please visit their unique businesses and let them know where you saw their ad, art or article. The Tubac Villager is a locally owned and independently operated journal, published monthly to celebrate the art of living in Southern Arizona. Opinions and information herein do not necessarily reflect those of the advertisers or the publishers. Advertiser and contributor statements and qualifications are the responsibility of the advertiser or contributor named. All articles and images are the property of the Tubac Villager, and/or writer or artist named, and may not be reproduced without permission. Letters are welcome. 'The Villager is made available in racks and at businesses throughout the Santa Cruz Valley and also made available at public libraries in Arivaca, Green Valley, Nogales, Rio Rico and numerous Tucson Libraries and businesses. May 2016 Tubac Villager printed 7,000 copies. NEXT ISSUE PRINTS MID-JUNE

an you hear the quiet? The sleepy village of Tubac is coming back. By June most part-time visitors will be back to their homes, and we will celebrate the slow pace of being able to park in the village and to not have to make reservations to eat at our favorite restaurants. Bliss. Of course, I realize that all the people that come here are helping our economy and that is a good thing. Santa Cruz County is the gem of Arizona. This small county at the bottom of the state is home to a vibrant culture of Mexico and America. We have amazing hiking trails, great restaurants, fun shops, birds, gorgeous scenery, mountains, and some of the nicest people in the world. As someone said the other day, “when you get to the frontage road, turn left instead of right.” Head towards Nogales, Patagonia, Sonoita, Elgin and see some of our spectacular views and cool people. Keep your dollars in this county and you will be repaid with a generosity of spirit like none other. The view out my back door right now is just incredible! Cactus blooming, flowers popping, birds galore, lizards scurrying, the lone squirrel eating plants faster than I can plant them. Amazing color, pure delight and serenity. I can sit for hours just looking and watching all the activity and listening to all the varied bird songs. The sweet Orioles are eating the grape jelly and oranges constantly, they are so gorgeous. We had a Western Tanager and several Grosbeaks in the yard today and a Say’s Phoebe catching bugs in the pool. Does it get any better than this? Morning at 5 o’clock is the perfect time to sit and immerse yourself in all of this bountiful nature. Every day, it seems, there is a new flower coming up from all the seeds I have broadcast over the years. Each year brings a different look to the backyard. The Queen Ann’s Lace is just blooming--that is considered a weed where we come from, here it is quite lovely. Also have 3 Amaryllis blooms that are huge. I think the word that best describes my yard is chaos...a state of disorder. I never know what’s going to surprise me, but I’m always happy. Let’s enjoy this month of May to the fullest. June is right around the corner and we all know what that means. Survival tips next month...

ow, I want to tell you about Bonnie Long. This sparkly, energetic woman is a go-getter. Born on Labor Day in 1929 in Huron, South Dakota, this day would turn out to be a very apropos date for this powerhouse of a lady.

After moving to Tubac from California 35 years ago, the dynamic duo of Bonnie and Dana started volunteering. They also ran an estate sale business, “Treasures” and an antique shop, “2nd Time Around.” Bonnie was and is an avid collector of antiques. She loves shopping for other people and finding that perfect something for them. The Long’s have three sons and Bonnie always says that she is so lucky to have three wonderful daughters-in-law, she adores them.

As the years went by, acquiring the old Tubac School for the community was foremost in their hearts and minds. Bonnie, along with her husband, Dana, and Loretta Lewis, worked tirelessly to acquire the Tubac school for a Community Center for the village. In 1997 when the county purchased the old school from the school district, this was the beginning of a long and at times, contentious battle for this building. The founders of this dream used to meet at the fire station or St. Ann’s to discuss issues about Tubac. After many delays the dream was realized. The Tubac Community Center was now a reality. This group of motivated citizens had a home. But Bonnie was not going to sit still. She almost singlehandedly organized and directed the blood drives at the Community Center. Her plaques of gratitude and achievements line the wall at the Center.

Then came the Senior Lunch program. Bonnie and Dana and Judy Rogers began this in 1999. Their goal was to get people out once a week for a healthy lunch and to have a time for social interaction. At the beginning, Santa Cruz Council on Aging supplied the lunches. After a few years it was decided that the Senior Lunch would be an in-house endeavor. Lunches, that are truly delicious, are now prepared by 2 women in Tubac. More about these ladies in a future column. Today the Community Center is a meeting place for dozens of committees, a library, classes for yoga and dance. Homeowner organizations have their meetings here, the Tubac Historical Society has an office here. The new Community Garden and the Santa Cruz Citizen’s Council meet at the Center.

We in Tubac have a lot to be thankful for, and Bonnie Long is truly is our treasure. One last thing...Bonnie still holds the record for the 50 yard dash in her grade school in South Dakota. What a lady!

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Monsoon Kitchen: Indonesia with Marion Hook $50 Sunday: 5/22/2016 From: 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm My first visit to Indonesia was in 1982, and I fell hopelessly, permanently in love with the fabulous food there. Fresh and healthy, it defied description as it was created with spices I’d never tasted before. Fall in love yourself when you create and enjoy feasting on Indonesian “comfort food.” - Marion Hook You will have hands-on experience cooking Indonesian Fried Rice (unlike any other fried rice); Marinated Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce; melt-in-your-mouth Pork Ribs in Tomato Sambal sauce; Padang Spinach in a Golden Spiced Coconut Milk; and Black Rice and Orange Tart for dessert. Wine will accompany the meal.

Sheet Pan Suppers - Balsamic Shrimp with Jeri Hoyle $40 Friday: 5/27/2016 From: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm If roasted vegetables, easy prep, and quick clean-up sounds like your king of cooking, this class is for you! This clever and popular method of One Sheet Cooking makes a delicious supper a snap. Baja Shrimp and fresh summer vegetables, fresh herbs and Tumacookery’s amazing 25 year Balsamic Vinegar will be used to demonstrate how easy gourmet can be. We will roast in the oven, and on the grill. We will provide summer and winter recipes, and a resource guide for additional recipes. Wine will accompany the meal.

Mixology and More with Jeff Marron $50 Saturday: 5/28/2016 From: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

A hands-on cooking experience where you learn and share and celebrate together!

Jeff Marron will show you how to use fresh ingredients to turn a classic cocktail into your own delicious creation. The featured cocktails that you will be experimenting with will be the Margarita (c1930), Old Fashioned (c1806) and Mojito (c1586). These cocktails are some of the most famous cocktails in the entire world. After this class, you will be able to master your own twist on these recipes using ingredients in common with Cesar’s Carne Asada, Mango Salsa and Grilled Shrimp Tacos. Grilled Steak Pops: Chef Cesar Alvarez will be crafting a cilantro-lime marinade from scratch. The steak will first rest in a coffee stout before moving to the the marinade. After grilling the steak to temperature, we will make a stout reduction finishing sauce. A mango salsa as a garnishment will complete the Asada lollipop. Grilled Shrimp tacos will be a easy and fun appetizer. The process will provide a good demonstration of knife skills and food preparation. We will build tacos using organic veggies such as tomatoes,onion,cucumber,lime, mint and grilled shrimp with fresh lemon juice and a crushed garlic cloves . The ceviche inspired tacos are a tasty and cool balance for the heat of the Asada lollipop.

Fresh from a Farmer’s Market with Jeri Hoyle $45 Thursday: 6/2/2016 From: 11:00 am - 1:30 pm Spring crops are in, and the farmer’s markets are bustling. Jeri Hoyle will prepare an impromptu menu, and guide the preparation of a meal in this continuing series on farm-to-table cooking. We will cover options for local Farmer’s Markets, Community Supported Agriculture, community gardens and other good sources for fresh local food. Jeri will show you how to select, and prepare a variety of healthy, organic, fruits, vegetables and herbs. We will discuss and suggest local sources for beef, eggs and seafood. In this hands on class, multiple dishes will be prepared and shared at our communal tables with a glass of wine. Students will receive copies of recipes and a local markets resource list.

Monsoon Kitchen: Morocco with Erica Swadley $45 Wednesday: 6/06/2016 From: 11:00 am - 1:30 pm

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Spice up your hot summer days with foods from Morocco. We will create a tasty Cauliflower and Chickpea Tagine enhanced with rich, spicy Harissa paste that we will make in class. Harissa is a mainstay of every North African home. A tagine is clay shallow pot with a conical lid that allows steam to rise to the lid and edge baste the food which enhances the way flavors mingle. The tagine recipes can also be made in a heavy pot. A Roasted Carrot Dip and Cracked Green Olives with Cardamom and Harissa, will perk up our appetites for the main event. We will finish with a luscious Cardamom and Pistachio Ice Cream for dessert. Wine will accompany the meal.

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by Kathleen Vandervoet

Santa Cruz County Update

Health clinic open house

April 21 public hearing. The location is in the Plaza de Anza on the south edge of the village of Tubac. Cullum said she hopes to open in July.

draws visitors

An open house at the Mariposa Tubac Regional Health Center on April 28 drew many interested individuals to meet the staff and view the exam offices and other facilities.

She said she wants to decorate the space in a rustic cowgirl style and an adjacent patio will be furnished as well.

The health center re-opened in early March and is operated by the Mariposa Community Health Center, which has health centers in Nogales, Rio Rico and Patagonia. The building is owned by the Tubac Health Care Foundation. Terry Colunga, Family Nurse Practitioner, provides care three days a week. A Rio Rico resident, she grew up in Nogales and has three adult children. Patients who need to be seen on other week days can go to the Rio Rico or the Nogales clinic, a spokeswoman said.

The clinic is open Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. More days will be added as the patient volume grows.

There will be cowboy boots for sale, and a small bar area. Beer on tap will also be available. “It won’t be a night club,” she pointed out.

Talking about patient care are, from left, Mariposa Community Health Center CEO Ed Sicurello, Family Nurse Practitioner Terry Colunga, and Kathy Fahey, board member of the Tubac Health Care Foundation. Photo by Kathleen Vandervoet

Tequila bar, boutique being planned

Rhonda Cullum, owner of the Cowgirl Ugly boutique which is currently closed, plans to re-open in a new location and to use her state-issued Series 6 liquor license to include a tequila-tasting bar and to sell packaged liquor. She was given a permit by the Santa Cruz County Board of Adjustment after an

Cullum has had the liquor license for a number of years but wasn’t able to use it in her former location. The current location has zoning that allows such a business.

Deadline for August primary

Anyone who wants to be a candidate for a county-wide elective office has until 5 p.m. on June 1 to file required paperwork with the Santa Cruz County elections office in Nogales.

Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors member John Maynard announced he won’t seek re-election in the Aug. 30 and Nov. 8 elections. Maynard has represented District 3 for more than 15 years. That includes Tubac,

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Tumacácori, the southern portion of Amado, the northern half of Rio Rico, along with Patagonia, Sonoita and Elgin. His term runs until Dec. 31. Arizona Revised Statutes 11-419 states that members of boards of supervisors in counties with populations less than 500,000, such as Santa Cruz County, are paid $63,800 per year, plus benefits.

Other elective offices for the August primary for which paperwork is required by June 1 include: County Assessor, County Treasurer, County Recorder, County School Superintendent, Clerk of Superior Court, Superior Court Judge Division 2, Supervisors for Districts 1 and 2, and County Sheriff.

Elections to three other governing boards, the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District No. 35, the Santa Cruz County Provisional Community College District and the Tubac Fire District, are held in November at the same time as the general election. The paperwork deadline is Aug. 10 for those.

42,000 visited park in Tumacácori

A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 42,146 visitors to Tumacácori National Historical Park in 2015 spent $2.4 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 36 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $2.9 million. “Tumacácori welcomes visitors from across the country and around the world,” said Superintendent Bob Love. “We are delighted to share the story of this place and the experiences it provides. We also feature the park as a way to introduce our visitors to this part of the country and all that it offers.

“National park tourism is a significant driver in the national economy, returning $10 for every $1 invested in the National Park Service, and it’s a big factor in our local economy as well. We appreciate the partnership and support of our neighbors and are glad to be able to give back by helping to sustain local communities.” “The mission at Tumacácori has served the people of the upper Santa Cruz River Valley for over 300 years, and we are proud of the continuing role the park plays in preserving our shared heritage,” added Love.

Report authors this year produced an interactive tool. Users can explore current year visitor spending, jobs, labor income, value added, and output effects by sector for national, state, and local economies. Users can also view year-by-year trend data. The interactive tool and report are available at the NPS Social Science Program webpage: go.nps.gov/vse.

RRHS ranks highly

Graduation is scheduled Thursday, May 26, at Rio Rico High School with about 275 seniors expected to graduate. Tubac residents support the high school and the Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District No. 35 through property taxes. “US News and World Report” in April identified Rio Rico High School as performing in the top 11 percent of all U.S. high schools. This is the second consecutive year Rio Rico High School has been in the national rankings with a “Silver Award.” The high school was awarded “Silver” in 2012-13, and “Bronze” in 2013-14, spokeswoman Carol Cullen said. RRHS is the only ranked high school in Santa Cruz, Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Gila and Yuma Counties. Rankings are based on four-step review: The first step determined whether each school’s students were performing better than statistically expected for students in that state. For schools passing the first step, the second step assessed whether their disadvantaged students – black, Hispanic and low-income – were outperforming disadvantaged students in the state.

New this year, schools have to meet or surpass a basic benchmark for their graduation rate. Schools that made it through the first three steps became eligible to be judged nationally on the final step – college-readiness performance – using Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate test data as the benchmark for success, depending on which program was largest at the school.

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The Tubac Historical Society is sponsoring an Oral History Workshop on Saturday, June 4, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Tubac Community Center, large meeting room, 50 Bridge Rd.

Many long-time residents are a great source of history but they need to be interviewed by volunteers, a spokeswoman said. Volunteers can learn how to proceed with oral history interviews through this workshop. The Sierra Vista Henry F. Hauser Museum curator, Nancy Krieski, will give the presentation.

To register or for information, call (520) 398-2020 or email to info@ths-tubac.org.

42 migrants found in truck

A truck driver was arrested near Tubac on April 18 after police found 42 undocumented immigrants hiding in the trailer he was hauling on Interstate 19, the Nogales International newspaper reported.

Authorities said federal agents learned from an investigative source that undocumented immigrants were hiding in some brush north of Nogales. The Department of Homeland Security’s Joint Intelligence Operations Center then coordinated with the U.S. Border Patrol, Air and Marine Operations, and the Arizona Department of Public Safety for air and ground support. “From high above the scene, an aircrew from (Air and Marine Operations) reported seeing a group of people leaving the brush and climbing into the back of a tractortrailer,” the Joint Task Force-West said in a news release. At approximately 9 p.m., DPS officers stopped the northbound tractor-trailer on Interstate 19 near Tubac and busted the driver and his passengers, the Nogales International reported. (For comments or questions, contact writer Kathleen Vandervoet at kathleenvandervoet@gmail.com) �

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2016 Hi-Art Award Winners: Rio Rico Senior Wins $3,000 Scholarship

Rio Rico branch of the Nogales-Santa Cruz County Library Opens On Monday, May 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held for the reopening of the Rio Rico branch of the Nogales-Santa Cruz County Library in its new location in the county building on Rio Rico Drive. The library moved from its location in Garrett’s Plaza in March. In attendance were: the Nogales mayor and City Manager, all three County Supervisors and the County Manager, the County Community Services Director, the Library Director and Library Board. Both the Mayor and the Supervisors mentioned the importance of the library and also the importance of the current IGA to assure the continued operation of the library and continuing cooperation between the city and the county. Further information on the event can be obtained from Suzanne Haddock at phone: 520-285-5710. Image and information submitted by Kate Havris.

The Tubac Center of the Arts ends each exhibition season with Hi-Art, a display of works submitted by high school students from throughout the Santa Cruz Valley. More than 138 students from Nogales, Rio Rico, Sahuarita and Walden Grove High Schools participated with over 190 works on exhibit. The scholarship award went to graduating senior, Dillon Riling, from Rio Rico High School. Dillon will be attending Grand Canyon University and plans to become a medical illustrator.

Other awards were also presented.

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The Hi Art program, scholarship and awards are sponsored by Rogoway Turquoise Tortoise Gallery and Tubac Territory with funds raised during the annual “Cowboy Christmas” event where local artists participate in a “Quick Draw” and their work is auctioned to benefit the Hi Art program. For more information please contact: Ruth Romano education@tubacarts.org 520-398-2371

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Hands-On Help for Historic Pennington House by Nancy Valentine

t’s a hands-on tradition, literally, that built and is preserving one of Arizona’s most historic buildings in Tubac—The Pennington House.

been an open entrance here. She claimed it was a gateway to a corral the Spanish garrison across the street —now the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park and Museum—had used for the soldiers’ horses.

Portions of the building located in the heart of Old Town Tubac’s National Historic District date back to the late 1700s Spanish Colonial Times.

The NPS adobe preservation assessment is one of a series of efforts being undertaken by Rygiel and a group of Tubac residents to preserve and plan for the future of this historically significant building that is the cornerstone of the “Tubac: Where Art and History Meet” tradition.

The Pennington House is built of adobe -- mud that was hand packed into wooden frames forming a brick which was then sun-dried. Those bricks, weighing close to 60 pounds each, were then carefully laid in place and held together with mud mortar.

If interested in hands-on helping or for updates about the preservation and planning for the future of the Historic Pennington House, contact Adam Springer, Chief of Resource Management, Tumacácori National Historical Park (520) 3775090 and David Yubeta, retired adobe preservationist with the National Park Service, at dyubet@aol.com.

The Pennington House remains today as the only unstuccoed adobe building in Tubac’s National Historic District and displays the traditional handy work of those who built it and maintained it. Any records of who actually built the Pennington House and the lives and times of the Tubac Hispanic Heritage Families living in the building remain to be uncovered in Spanish and Mexican historical archives. Early occupants included members of the Pennington Family, one of Arizona’s earliest Anglo settlers in the 1860’s. In 1948 the beginnings of Tubac’s artist colony began when painter Dale Nichols established an art school in a cluster of adobe buildings including the Pennington House. It was here that Tubac residents envisioned what is the Tubac Center of the Arts today. A succession of notable artists occupied the building to recent times including most recently, the late Hugh Cabot and his wife Olivia. Recently groups gathered at the Pennington House for another purpose - as part of the National Park Service’s Cross-Border Adobe Preservation Workshop hosted by Tumacácori National Historical Park. International partnerships made this workshop possible as part of a continuing 20-year mission

Images: to ensure North America’s most treasured adobe structures remain in place for the public to enjoy into the next century. Many hands over time tended to and altered the adobe building. The current owner of the Pennington House, Gary Rygiel, gave permission to NPS to conduct a training session and assessment of preservation techniques used on the property. During the assessment, one of the instructors pointed to a large beam imbedded in a wall stating that at one time, it appeared as though there had been a wide entrance which was bricked in. Olivia Cabot, wife of artist Hugh Cabot who lived, worked and sold artwork in the Pennington House from the late 1970’s to 2015 would have said, “I told you so.” Olivia, who passed away last year after outliving her husband by 10 years, was convinced that there had

(Top, left) David Yubeta, retired adobe preservationist with the National Park Service, shared adobe preservation techniques with participants during the Cross-Border Adobe Preservation Workshop at the Pennington House in Old Town Tubac—the only remaining unstuccoed adobe building in Tubac’s National Historic District.

(Top, right and inset) Participants in the recent National Park Service Cross-Border Adobe Preservation Workshop had the opportunity of learning hands-on preservation techniques during an assessment site-visit of the Historic Pennington House in Old Town Tubac. Participants seen here at the rear of the building were allowed access by current owner, Gary Rygiel, who is interested in preserving the building using traditional techniques. The Historic Pennington House is directly north of St. Ann’s Church (The steeple of St. Ann’s Church is seen in the background) and the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park and Museum.

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by John O’Neill

here may be more depictions of Gambel’s quail in Tubac shops and galleries than any other bird, plant or mammal -- more than roadrunners or coyotes or saguaros or horses or agaves or javelinas or ravens or cowboys and cowgirls, making them sort of the patron bird of Tubac, bringing us, we hope, long lives, good health and fortune. But the shocking, dreadful reality is that Gambel’s quail, the real ones with feathers, have all but disappeared from the area of our village. No more do we hear their cackles and plaintive qua-el calls as we roam the streets shopping for treasures or hungry for a plate of tacos. No more are golfers’ composures calmed and souls enriched by sights of quail adults and chicks bobbing through the desert scrub.

What, oh what, is causing this appalling dearth of quail? Lack of rain? Untimely rain? Heat? Bloodthirsty foxes and coyotes? Hunting? Lack of liver vitamin A? Migration to Green Valley where they are so common people have to shoo them away before closing their garage doors lest they crush a covey or two? This space will explore possible answers - scientific, anecdotal and quasi-scientific. But first some bloated paragraphs about the brave man whose name the birds carry, the quail themselves and the sad scope of their absence in Tubac.

The quail were named after William Gambel, a naturalist and ornithologist, born in Philadelphia in 1823, who traveled the Santa Fe Trail, then on to California, collecting and describing birds, including the mountain chickadee, the green-tailed towhee, and the bird that was to be named in his honor [people can’t name birds after themselves, somebody has to do it for them]. He joined the Navy and was able to visit major ports in California, which was then part of Mexico, birding as he went. Back east he became a physician and assistant director of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

Traveling west again over a land route, he got a late start and nearly died when caught in snows in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Still weakened from exposure, he was treating typhoid patients when stricken with the disease, and died at Rose’s Bar in Alta, Calif. in 1849. He was 27.

Gambel’s quail are grayish above with a prominent, forward-tilted black plume ending in a comma or teardrop shape (as anybody can see from the painting on this page). Their breeding season is from March to June, with nests containing 10-12 eggs which the female incubates. If all lived to maturity we would be up to our eyeballs in quail. When the chicks hatch they immediately set forth from the nest, never to return, and go in search of food, with the male in the front and the female in the rear of her brood. Gambel’s Quail Painting by Nicholas Wilson. Tubac artist represented at K Newby Gallery. www.nicholaswilsonstudio.com

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Somebody in 1930 measured the flight speed of the quail at 41 m.p.h.

Tubac residents who have been around for years often ask us birders what happened to the quail that were once so abundant. The answer is we don’t know, but have some theories anyway. If we were scientists, we would ask for additional funding.

“When we moved here in 2006 there were lots of Gambel’s quail. They’ve almost disappeared,” said Jim Karp, who leads birding walks in Tubac and probably knows as much about birds as anybody in town. “They were around my house and by the Presidio. We would see them on bird walks.”

Karp believes coyotes and foxes may be more prevalent than in past years. Leave a window open and you will hear “coyotes howl on and off all night,” he said. But the absence of Gambel’s means “they sure aren’t living off quail any more.” Karp and others say another plausible theory is that they have few if any young in dry years.

The Journal of Wildlife Management in 1964 reported on a five-year study indicating that reproductive success was associated with rainfall and the resulting green plant growth and amount of “liver vitamin A or a closely associated substance” (Huh).

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The same journal in 1999 reported on a study indicating that high temperatures in June-July and lack of rainfall in March are likely associated with fewer chicks. The authors also examined “climate change,” which has been blamed for everything from supernovas to babies burping.

The Wildlife Management Journal also reached the dubious conclusion that hunting has little effect on quail populations. But, [alert, illogical editorial opinion to follow] they shouldn’t be hunted in any event because they have more charisma than pandas, and blasting pandas to eternity for amusement is unthinkable.

Could it be they just became scarce in the flat lands in our valley and are prospering in the hill country to the west of I-19? Not so says Don Davidson, who lives west of the highway. “My impression is that quail populations have diminished significantly since 2005-2007,” he said. On reflection, Karp suggested that “maybe our habitat is not “deserty” enough and we are on the margin of their preferred range.” All theories seem to leak like sieves when Tubac is compared to Green Valley where Gambel’s quail are as common as pig tracks, as my mother, who never got within 10 hectares of a farm or a pig, used to say.

Temperatures probably aren’t significantly different in Green Valley than Tubac. Rainfall amounts should be similar in both areas year to year. There’s no shortage of bobcats, foxes and coyotes in GV. Yet yards and arroyos around Green Valley teem with quail while we are nearly clueless as to why we are nearly quail-less.

Said Carolyn Fowler, who lives west of I-19: “One of my first disappointments moving here in January 2015 was the absence of the quail. I was so used to seeing them everywhere in Green Valley, including nesting in my pots in the front courtyard.” So it remains a mystery. We’ve pondered a number of theories short of quail being abducted by aliens.

But as long as long as we have gas in the tank we can drive 20 miles north to Green Valley and get a Gambel’s fix. And we hope some joyous, warm, but not too warm, rainy, but not too rainy, year in the future, when the coyotes will lie down with the quail, will be just right for their en masse, providential return to our village where we miss them very much. In the Villager in April I wrote that the mulberry trees on Calle Iglesia and Bridge Road provide great birding when berries ripen in late April and early May. Not so this year. Probably because of variables in whether, many of the leaves are brown, berries are few and the birding is very mediocre. Sorry about that. �

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Park-To-Park Along the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail by Paula Beemer

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Adventure Shared With Pride... I experience a sense of great accomplishment when I gain my family’s enthusiasm over a hike and four hours later, when the adventure is over, their enthusiasm is still reflected by their smiles. All this, despite the reality that getting my two daughters, 13 and 11, excited about a hike is rather challenging. Through my years of motherhood, I learned a few maneuvers that puts them in quick motion. These are: inviting their friends and carrying snacks.

This was exactly what happened and what we did on April 9, 2016 when we participated in the Park-to-Park hike that involved an easy and very pleasant walk on the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail between Tumacácori National Historical Park and the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. This hike was organized by the two parks involved to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, NPS. All interested hikers of all levels of experience and ages were invited to participate at no charge. The hikers, not only were able to partially retrace the steps of the Spanish explorer, Cap. Juan Bautista de Anza and his people, but they were also able to visit both parks’ facilities.

According to Gaby Cook, park guide at the Tumacacori National Historic Park, the participation totaled 153 hikers including a family that flew from California specifically for this event. Four miles of dirt trail, sand, wooden bridges, river, bushes, butterflies, trees and flowers seemed like very short miles, as we talked, took photos, laughed, played games and shared snacks period

Although participants were able to start at either one of the parks, we started at the Tumacácori mission around 9 a.m. and arrived in Tubac closer to 1 p.m. It was far from being a record time, but we fully enjoyed the distractions along the way including a great long break by the riverside. The morning adventure that combined nature, fitness and history was an overly satisfactory experience that I was happy and proud to provide to my children and their friends.

For more information about this event or future activities like this, contact Tumacacori National Historic Park at (520) 377-5060 or Tubac Presidio State Historical Park at (520) 398-2252. Images:

(Facing page, top) The hike involved the crossing of the river in several spots along the Anza Trail. (Bottom, left) A break by the river was very welcomed by the children (Bottom, right) Adding interest to the adventure were these abandoned adobe homes

(Next page, top, left) The McDonald’s Saturday Coffee Hiking Club chose the Park-to-Park adventure for their Saturday hiking destination. (Bottom, left) Adventures always require a little humor for which someone sacrifice his hardboiled egg. (Bottom) A break by the river was very welcomed by the children. (Top, right) To welcome the hikers at the Tubac Presidion State Historic Park were: (from left) Ranger Rick Collins, Volunteer Cindi Folsom, Volunteer Rochelle Ulrich and Park Guide Gaby Cook. (Bottom, middle, right) For a closer experience to the expedition endured by Cap. Juan Bautista de Anza and his people, hikers needed a Royal authorization to leave and to enter the park property. (Bottom, right) Nicole de La Ossa and Trinidad Beemer celebration the completion of their hike!

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Colored glass inspires artist Nancy Geddes

by Kathleen Vandervoet

ancy Geddes is selling her glass jewelry and oil paintings in a new location, a half block west of her previous gallery. She moved in late April and now is at 8 Burruel Street, sharing a spacious, beamed-ceiling store with Pajolo Alpaca owned by Linda Peter. Geddes creates uncommon beauty using dichroic glass. The glass, with a special coating treatment, has interior micro-layers of glass and metals or oxides, with fantastic multicolor and reflective properties. These elements add sparkle and intrigue to jewelry. “I was one of the first to do it,” she said. An art background had prepared her to see the possibilities, even though she was working as an engineer in the aerospace industry at the time. In her opinion, “It’s pretty easy to make something beautiful,” with dichroic glass but it’s important to use enough glass, which is “very expensive.” The jewelry displayed in her gallery includes long, beaded necklaces, glass pendants in which the glass is imbued with fascinating colors and layers, earrings, bracelets and buttons. Wall hangings, music boxes and crosses are on view in smaller numbers. A wide range of her oil paintings are on view at the shop. She “loves the look of an abstract painting” of which she’s completed many, and has recently been painting landscapes and a range of other subjects such as flowers, fantasy scenes and her pet dog. Some of the dozens of paintings in the gallery incorporate fibers, netting, shattered tempered glass and beads to achieve an artistic vision. Images: (Top) An Impressionistic style of painting is used for these flowers by artist Nancy Geddes. (Above) Three crosses are studded with dichroic glass in rich colors. (Right) Nancy Geddes displays an example of the variety of glass jewelry she creates. Photos by Kathleen Vandervoet

Geddes’ paintings give her a great deal of satisfaction. “I started painting to relax,” she said, while she still worked as an engineer and traveled frequently for work. “I had paints in my suitcase and I would paint in the (hotel) room.” Out of high school, Geddes took art courses at California State University at Long Beach, and returned to college in her 30s for a degree in engineering from Sacramento State University. Geddes worked for many years as an engineer, with her final job being for Aerojet as a program engineer and manager. She said the “Star Wars” missile defense program the company worked on was the main focus for her. “It was perfect. I loved engineering and still do. I love problem solving,” she said. Her work “included a lot of work with glass” because the coating on glass can used to create a perfect wave length to transmit light through.

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Glass buttons proved to be an extraordinary business for her as she transitioned from working in engineering to developing her own glass business. She began making glass buttons following the suggestion of a button-buyer who was at Geddes’ booth at a craft show in San Francisco, she said. “We ended up with a pretty big line of glass buttons. We sold thousands; we probably sold a million buttons.”

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The glass she’s used over the years is purchased in large sheets from Oregon, and sent to California to be coated. “They have created different grids that sit on the glass, so when the coating goes on it gets vaporized and attaches to the glass. The thickness of the grid creates a different thickness of the applications.” Working with the fired glass is like stretching toffee candy, she said. “You turn the rod and melt the glass and end up with a ball. You can pull them, cut them, stretch them, and flatten them. It’s very fun.” Nancy and her husband, David, bought a home in Tubac about five years ago, moving from the Sacramento, Calif., area. She had large amounts of art supplies, kilns and finished work so she quickly rented studio space at El Presidito Gallery for the past five years. Even so, the idea of sharing with Linda Peter, who she’s known for about 15 years, made sense and she likes the tall-ceilinged, larger and brighter space she’s now in. Peter’s stock includes alpaca wool yarn, soft, warm wool sweaters and caps. The double-themed shop is filled with hand-crafted and highquality items, and everything is a delight to view and think about.

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The hours at Geddes Studio are from noon to 4 p.m., Thursdays through Sundays. A casual knitting group gathers there on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. and anyone interested is invited, she said.

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Community Garden of Tubac

“cultivating community through gardening” by Alyson Morvay

I’ve always considered Tubac an extraordinary place, secreted away in a tiny pocket of the world where there is something for everyone--a fascinating history, an ever-changing selection of art to enjoy, sports, interesting and active people, all amid spectacular sunsets and magnificent monsoons to break up the summer months. What more could there be? Then I met Pamela Ridgway, Executive Director of the new Community Garden of Tubac. What a wonderful place -a half acre of prepared garden plots and orchard ready and waiting for planting. Most of the plots have already been planted, some with corn, others with cabbage and cauliflower, tomatoes, roses, petunias and sunflowers. There are seven pomegranate tree starters and an orchard of peach trees, plums, figs and quince trees as well. An irrigation system has been installed and water spigots are at each plot. Gardening tools are provided for garden members. When I was last there a delivery of 22 yards of planting soil had just arrived for everyone’s use for their plot.

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Community Garden of Tubac has partnered with reNature, a small biotech start-up that quickly turns organic food waste into environmentally sustainable biostimulants and fertilizers. reNature will be donating biostimulants and two 4’x12’x3’ high raised planting beds that will be ideal for seniors, one of which I’m looking forward to planting and sharing with other seniors. I’m vacillating between tomatoes and garlic and peppers. It would be great fun to grow and then can tomato sauce for pasta and chili and taco soup. However, I’ve been reading up on planting sweet potatoes and that could be interesting. They require hot weather and not a lot of water. Pumpkins would be fun! Maybe someday we can have a pumpkin growing contest. Gardening classes have already started and more are in the works. Stay tuned for more information on those. There are plenty of shady places to park while gardening and tables and chairs are scattered under beautiful, full grown mesquite trees for chatting and sharing information with fellow gardeners.

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What I find to be one of the most appealing aspects of this project is that any surplus vegetables can be donated to the Tubac Community Center Senior Lunch Program and the Amado Food Bank. Tubac Community Garden’s motto is, “cultivating community through gardening.” What more could there be? For more information about the CGOT visit their Facebook page or contact Pamela via email: Pamelaridg@gmail.com or call 628-9287.

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Montessori Moment by Madeline Alcorta

7th Annual MdSC Kids’ Talent Show Charms Families and Friends

On a windy Saturday evening, our Montessori de Santa Cruz kids came together with their friends and families at the De Anza RV Resort Dance Hall to perform on stage for their school community. The Talent Show is the major event of the year that brings the teachers, students, their parents, siblings, grandparents and extended families together for a night of food, fun, and entertainment.

It’s a special evening filled with anticipation, as many of the kids have practiced their performances for weeks. Parents have helped the students prepare their costumes, make-up and props, and are excited to see their sons and daughters perform. This is the big night when they get on stage under the bright lights in front of their community and show us what they can do. The De Anza RV Resort Dance Hall was generously provided to the school by Bob and Amy Solfisburg for this special event, and the venue made the production feel like a real show. Teachers, administrators, students, and volunteers donated many hours outside of school hours to organize and arrange all aspects of the production.

Before the performances, there was a fundraiser dinner that everyone in the community was welcome to attend. There was also a silent auction filled with items donated from generous merchants and businesses throughout our community. MdSC greatly thanks you for all of your contributions!

Through the dinner and the silent auction, the school raised over $1300.00, which will be used to update and maintain classroom materials. It was a joy to watch the students from preschool all the way up to 6th grade perform on stage. We had some real breakout performances this year - several brave young kids took to the stage by themselves, singing and dancing for us all. We were delighted by a young science enthusiast that had charts prepared so that he could inform us about protons, neutrons, and electromagnetism. We also had a young lady play a song for us with her emerging guitar skills. There were a few ensemble performances that also delighted and warmed our hearts, we just love to see the kids working together.

The very best thing about the evening was having an opportunity for all Montessori de Santa Cruz students, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents and friends come together to support our children and their school. This is a great event that we look forward to every year, and we encourage and invite the surrounding community to join and participate in the fun. You will be amazed at what this great group of kids can do!

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Montessori de Santa Cruz is a non-profit 501c3 free public charter school and tuition-based preschool serving the Santa Cruz Valley area. For 16 years MdSC has served our children with continuous and generous community support from fundraisers, events, donations, and grant awards. For more information on how to enroll your child, participate in events or opportunities, to give or volunteer, please contact the office at 520-3980536 or mdsc3@montessoridesantacruz.org.

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Tubac Shots Something is getting my attention out there and luring me into fascinating and blissful afternoon walks.

Of the many things that are catching my eye and the glass of my camera are the blooming cacti and the less intimidating plant species that decorate our yards and the streets of our neighborhoods such as verbenas and poppies and daisies.

I don’t know if I forget every year, or if with age comes the super power to notice easily the beauty of things, but I feel there is more color than I have ever seen!

I stand high and look down, I lay low and look up or sit on my heels and look forward and all I see are the colors and the light blending into a an art piece right in front of my eyes. This gallery called Nature is well-worth a visit!!!

I couldn’t help to feel disappointed, but on the other hand it allowed me to explore the river course and watch the left overs of what not too long ago was live and highly active.

By observing the path, the moss, the vegetation, the rocks and everything that is left behind, a casual observer like me could On my walks, I also enjoy visits to the almost tell the river’s story, but I won’t Santa Cruz River in the north part of venture into uneducated statements of that Tubac on Chavez Siding. I love to watch how the water flow plays the game over the sort. seasons of coming and going. What I know, by the experience of all the years I have lived in Tubac is that it always Most always, I expect to see at least some comes back, it can gain great fury and it kind of puddle, but on my last visit, all can go without notice all in a matter of I found were layers and layers of dry days. corrugated moss. �

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Tu b a c Vi l l a g e r M a y 2 0 1 6 REGISTRATION OPEN NOW FOR 200 HOUR YOGA TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM October 2016 through May 2017. 16 weekend trainings. Early enrollment discount. Details at www.tubachealingarts.com. Further inquiries: 520.275.2689.

Ongoing WEDNESDAYS - 11AM ADULT COLORING HOUR at the Tubac Library. 50 Bridge Rd. THURSDAYS - WEEKLY REHEARSALS OF THE SANTA CRUZ SINGERS Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Music room SCFPA, 348 Naugle (Hwy 82), Patagonia. Still time to join! All are welcome! Information: call 520-394-0129. FRIDAYS: Tubac Rotary Club meets at 8am at the Tubac Golf Resort & Spa. 11am Children’s Story Hour at the Tubac Library. Books & Games. 50 Bridge Rd. Johnny Bencomo, a true western troubadour from Tombstone, playing his custom 18 string guitar! Every Friday night 6-9pm at Tubac Jack’s, 7 Plaza Road. 520-398-3161. www.tubacjacks.com. FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS: Live Music at Wisdom’s Cafe in Tumacacori. 1931 E Frontage Rd. 520-3982397. Live Entertainment on the Patio at Stables Restaurant at the Tubac Golf Resort and Spa. 520-398-2678. SATURDAYS: Audubon Walks at the Arivaca Cienega/Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge. Meet at the trailhead at 8am. You can expect to see 30 to 50 species depending on the season. To get there, take I-19 to exit 48 at Amado, then southwest on Arivaca Road approximately 25 miles to the well-marked trailhead about ½ mile before the town of Arivaca. More information: call Bob Rolfson at 520-399-2873. Farmers’ Market, 9am-noon. Downtown Arivaca. www.arivaca.net Mary Lou on the Piano at the Cow Palace Bar & Restaurant. I-19 exit 48, Amado. 398-8000. SUNDAYS: The Church at Tubac - Sunday School at 10 am. Worship Service at 11 am. 2242 West Frontage Road. Info: 398-2325. www.churchattubac.com AT 10 am, Unitarian Universalist Church Services, I 19. Exit 48. E to Territory Lane. 520-648-0570, uucgv.amado@gmail.com. www. uucamado .org Live Music Sunday Afternoons at Wisdom’s Dos! At the La Entrada shopping center, 4 Plaza Rd. 520-216-7664. Sunday Night Movies at The Goods. EVERY OTHER SUNDAY. 26A Tubac Rd. 398-2001. * * * * *

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NOW THROUGH MAY 30 - LIVING RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART. Local children share their view of the natural world in this exhibition of award winning poetry and mixed media art. All ages welcome. Monday-Thursday: 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Friday: 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Sunday: 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Library, 7800 N. Schisler Drive. Free. www.pima.gov/ nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, or 520-615-7855. NOW THROUGH NOVEMBER 8 - ELIGIBLE VOTERS RESIDING IN SANTA CRUZ VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 35 MAY RUN FOR THE DISTRICT 4 SEAT ON THE PIMA COUNTY JTED GOVERNING BOARD. The election will be held November 8, 2016. The seat is currently held by Wayne Peate. In 2010, SCVUSD voters approved entering into partnership with Pima County JTED (Joint Technical Education District) to expand career training opportunities for local students. As a result, JTED Member District 4 extended into Santa Cruz County encompassing the SCVUSD No. 35 district area. Other JTED Governing Board members eligible for re-election in November are Mary Jondrow (District 1) and Robert Schlanger (District 5). Those wishing to run for the District 4 seat must conduct all filings in Pima County, as this is the county of jurisdiction for the JTED. All pertinent information and required forms are available at the Office of the Pima County School Superintendent, and can be found on the School Elections page of their website: http://www.schools.pima.gov/elections. Prospective candidates can click on the “November 2016 Governing Board Elections Candidate Information” tab to access all the necessary forms to download and print. Also provided is a “Handbook for School Board Candidates – Nov 2016 General Election” providing details on the candidacy process, and a “Timeline for November 2016 Governing Board Candidates,” which is a summary of important due dates/deadlines throughout the upcoming 2016 General Election cycle. NOW - ART EXHIBIT: THE ARIZONA CAVALCADE OF HISTORY – The Alan B. Davis Gallery is open with 16 paintings by renowned Western artist William Ahrendt, each depicting a significant event in Arizona’s colorful history. The paintings and their historical narratives were featured as a special 16-part “Cavalcade of History” series in Arizona Highways magazine from 1987 through 1990. Arizona Highways remembers this series as “among the magazine’s most remembered illustrations.” The giclées reproductions on canvas were donated to the Tubac Historical Society in memory of longtime Tubac resident and businessman Alan B. Davis. The collection is on permanent display at the Tubac Presidio’s Otero Hall. Also on display: A RARE ORIGINAL 1800’S PERIOD CARRIAGE CALLED AN AMBULANCE. It has been restored and modified to replicate the ambulance that Phocion R. Way, an engraver from Cincinnati, Ohio, rode on from Mesilla on the Rio Grande River to Tucson in June of 1858. VIEW THE WASHINGTON HAND PRESS, THE FIRST PRINTING PRESS IN ARIZONA. It was used to print Arizona’s first newspaper The Weekly Arizonian in Tubac on March 3, 1859. Edward Cross was the editor. Manufactured by the Cincinnati Type Foundry Company, it was barged down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, then by packet ship to Indianola, Texas, and then by wagon train via San Antonio and Fort Bliss to Tubac. The press is still operational and a commemorative edition of the paper is available. A short 3 minute video shows Jim Pagels using the press and explaining its significance. Included with park admission: $5 adult, $2 youth 7-13, children free. Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St. (520) 398–2252. * * * * *

MAY 16 - PUBLIC COMMENTS DUE DATE TO THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE ABOUT THE PETITION TO REMOVE THE SOUTHWESTERN WILLOW FLYCATCHERS FROM THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST. Southwestern Willow Flycatchers are songbirds once found commonly in river and streamside habitat in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona (San Pedro River), New Mexico, and Texas. Today, the last 500 to 1000 breeding pairs of these flycatchers struggle to survive in regions where 90-95 percent of their historic habit has been lost and where they are beset with challenges from predation, nest parasitism, disturbance, and further habitat loss. You can find out more and send your own comments at www.audubonaction.org/ site/Advocacy?id=2208. MAY 17 - ELECTION DAY FOR THE STATE SPECIAL ELECTION. MAY 17, 8:30AM-10AM - BIRDING ALONG THE SANTA CRUZ RIVER. Join birding expert Jeff Babson to see the riparian birds that are attracted to the mature willows and continuous river flow along the Santa Cruz River in Marana. All ages welcome. Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Branch Library, 7800 N. Schisler Drive. Free with Membership, Non-Member $5 fee. Online registration required. www.pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, or 520-615-7855. MAY 19, 2PM - A SPANISH LANGUAGE FILM, “KINO: LA LEYENDA DEL CURA NEGRO” was filmed in Mexico in 1993 with Enrique Rocha and Rodolfo de Anda. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards. 109 minutes. Included with Park admission: $5 adult, $2 youth 7-13, children free. Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St., Tubac, AZ (520) 398 – 2252. MAY 19, 20 & 21, 2PM - FATHER KINO CELEBRATION FESTIVAL. Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino (1645-1711) is often called the “Padre on Horseback.” A missionary, explorer, astronomer and mapmaker, Father Kino surmounted numerous challenges as he journeyed through Mexico, Arizona and California. In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Padre Kino’s mortal remains, we will show three films in the 1885 schoolhouse. (The schoolhouse is not – yet – air conditioned). Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St., Tubac. (520) 398 – 2252. MAY 19, 5-7PM - CELEBRATE BIRDATHON SUCCESS! Join the staff of Tucson Audubon and your fellow birders at La Cocina’s Dusty Monk Pub to honor all the Birdathon participants who “Birded for the Birds” and helped us reach our spring fundraising goal. All Birdathon participants are welcome! For more information visit www.tucsonaudubon.org. MAY 20, 2PM - THE 1977 FACT-BASED MOVIE “THE STORY OF FATHER KINO”. Richard Egan stars as Kino with co-stars Ricardo Montalban, Cesar Romero and John Ireland. 93 minutes. Included with Park admission: $5 adult, $2 youth 7-13, children free. Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St., Tubac, AZ (520) 398 – 2252. MAY 20, 4:30PM - 6:30PM - SAN CAYETANO ELEMENTARY, LOVE OF READING CARNIVAL. Join us for fun, games, and food as the school caps off “Love of Reading Week.” Games will include inflatables, obstacle course, slides and more. Carnival bracelets will allow entry to all games, and will be presold for $15.00 each at the school’s main office. Food and drink will be sold separately; cash only. For more information, contact Fernanda Lopez at 520-375-8312. MAY 20, 7PM - CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER TAKES THE STAGE WITH DISNEY’S “THE LITTLE MERMAID,” based on the beloved story and classic animated film, at Crowder Hall at the University of Arizona. Tickets are just $15 and are available at cyttucson.org. MAY 20, 7:30PM - LIVE MUSIC - SOUL TRACK MIND. Ages 18 & up = $15 advance / $20 day of show (reduced rates for youth). Rising star 6-piece band from Austin brings an energized mix of R&B, funk, pop, rock and blues. Sea of Glass Center for the Arts, 330 E. 7th Street, Tucson, AZ. For info & directions – http://theseaofglass.org or (520) 398-2542.

Tu b a c Vi l l a g e r M a y 2 0 1 6 MAY 21, 7AM-11AM - SONORAN DESERT WEEDWACKERS. Join the Sonoran Desert Weedwackers to eradicate buffelgrass and fountain grass in Tucson Mountain Park. Work requires hiking and pulling buffelgrass on steep slopes. Meeting locations change frequently. Email eeducation@pima.gov for meeting location. Ages 18 and up. Free. www.pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, or 520-615-7855. MAY 21, 7:30AM-9:30AM - BIRDING AT SWEETWATER WETLANDS. Explore this urban birding hotspot with a naturalist to look for wetland, desert, and migratory birds as well as other wildlife. All ages welcome. Sweetwater Wetlands, 2667 W. Sweetwater Drive. Free. Online registration required. www.pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, or 520615-7855. MAY 21, 8AM-12NOON - FREE FISHING CLINIC AT PENA BLANCA LAKE. Arizona Game and Fish will provide loaner fishing rods and bait for this event, or participants may bring their own. Instruction will be provided by Game and Fish staff and volunteers. The event is open to all ages, and will include a raffle drawing with prizes. Fishing licenses are not required, during the planned hours of the event, for those who register at the Game & Fish Booth. Pena Blanca Lake is located off State Road 289 in Nogales. Pena Blanca Lake is stocked regularly by Arizona Game and Fish with trout, catfish and sunfish. Fishing license cost $24 for a community lake and $37 for other waters within the state. The Arizona Game and Fish Department has trust responsibility for managing more than 800 native wildlife species – the most of any inland state – for current and future generations of Arizona citizens. http://www.azgfd.gov/h_f/northamericanmodel. shtml MAY 21, 8:30AM-10AM - TOUR OF HACIENDA DE LA CANOA. Join a walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters to gain insights into the fascinating stories of the people that lived and worked on the ranch. Visit the historic ranch buildings and corrals, and enjoy scenic views of the Santa Cruz River Valley. All ages welcome. Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley. Free. Online registration required. www. pima.gov/nrpr, CanoaRanch@pima.gov, or 520-724-5520. MAY 21 - 2ND ANNUAL DOMINICK PUGLISI MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT. $60. per person, includes Cart & Range Balls. For more info, visit http://www.wisdomsportsandscholars.org or call 398.2397. MAY 21, 2PM - IN 2011 THE ITALIAN DIOCESE OF TRENTO CREATED THE “INVESTIGATION OF FATHER KINO”, A DOCUMENTARY of the most important events that took place during the 300th anniversary celebration of Kino’s death interwoven with the story of Kino’s life. 48 minutes. We will have special refreshments for the performance! $7.50 adult, $2 youth 7-13, children free. Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St., Tubac, AZ (520) 398 – 2252. MAY 21, 2PM & 7PM - CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER TAKES THE STAGE WITH DISNEY’S “THE LITTLE MERMAID,” based on the beloved story and classic animated film, at Crowder Hall at the University of Arizona. Tickets are just $15 and are available at cyttucson.org. MAY 21-22 - WOOD TO FIRE WOMEN’S RETREAT AT THE SPA AT THE TUBAC GOLF RESORT. Join us for a Weekend of Discovery, Creativity, and Community as We Apply the Insights of Chinese Medicine’s 5-Element Theory to Restoring Balance to Daily Life, Growth and Change. Package Includes: -One night stay at Tubac Golf Resort & Spa; -Choice of one 50-minute Spa treatment; -Gourmet catered lunch ; -Art & workshop materials; -All related resort fees & gratuities. $469 per person, single occupancy, $385 per person, double occupancy. For locals, $299 includes all components of the retreat except the resort guest room. For reservations please call the Spa at 520398-3546. MAY 21-22 - SURVEY FOR TROGONS IN THE SKY ISLANDS. Volunteers still needed this month. There is an abundance of evidence, both anecdotal and scientific, that the ecological influence of tropical Mexico has grown over the last century in southeast Arizona. Elegant Trogons are also part of this story with their United States range expanding over the last century. To further our understanding of how many Elegant Trogons there are in the US, organized surveys happen every year in the Chiricahuas and Huachucas. They were led by Rick Taylor for many years but beginning in 2013 Tucson Audubon assisted Rick and helped expand the surveys to three more ranges: the Atascosa Highlands, Santa Rita Mountains and Patagonia Mountains. Santa Rita Mountains – May 21 Saturday, Patagonia Mountains – May 22 Sunday, Huachuca Mountains – May 28 Saturday, Chiricahua Mountains – May 29 Sunday, Galiuro Mountains – June 3-5 Dates TENTATIVE. Visit www.tucsonaudubon.org to register. MAY 21, 6:30PM - RONSTADT GENERATIONS - LIVE MUSIC AT TUBAC JACK’S. 7 Plaza Road, 520-398-3161. www.tubacjacks.com. MAY 21, 7PM - BALLET TUCSON’S EXCEPTIONAL YOUTH COMPANY (BT2) PRESENTS ITS END OF SEASON CONCERT - LA BOUTIQUE FANTASQUE AND GISELLE, ACT II. La Boutique Fantasque, or The Magic Toyshop tells an enchanting story of a magical and fantastic toyshop in which the dolls come to life after hours. Giselle, Act II is considered the most famous of the romantic-era ballets. Act II is presented at the graveside of Giselle, a peasant girl, who dies of a broken heart after discovering her lover is betrothed to another; choreography by Chieko Imada, after Coralli and Perrot. ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCE SUNDAY MAY 22, AT 2PM. Tickets: Phone: 800.838.3006, Online: http://www. brownpapertickets.com/event/2375774. General Admission: $25.00/person. Stevie Eller Dance Theatre, 200 S. Tucson Blvd. (520) 903-1445. ballettucson.org.

MAY 22, 2PM - CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER TAKES THE STAGE WITH DISNEY’S “THE LITTLE MERMAID,” based on the beloved story and classic animated film, at Crowder Hall at the University of Arizona. Tickets are just $15 and are available at cyttucson.org. MAY 22, 3-6PM - COOKING A-Z - MONSOON KITCHEN: INDONESIA WITH MARION HOOK. $50. My first visit to Indonesia was in 1982, and I fell hopelessly, permanently in love with the fabulous food there. Fresh and healthy, it defied description as it was created with spices I’d never tasted before. Fall in love yourself when you create and enjoy feasting on Indonesian “comfort food.” - Marion Hook. You will have hands-on experience cooking Indonesian Fried Rice (unlike any other fried rice); Marinated Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce; melt-in-your-mouth Pork Ribs in Tomato Sambal sauce; Padang Spinach in a Golden Spiced Coconut Milk; and Black Rice and Orange Tart for dessert. Wine will accompany the meal. www.cookinga-z.com. Tumacookery, La Entrada de Tubac. 520398-9497. MAY 24, 8:30AM-10AM - TOUR OF HACIENDA DE LA CANOA. Join a walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters to gain insights into the fascinating stories of the people that lived and worked on the ranch. Visit the historic ranch buildings and corrals, and enjoy scenic views of the Santa Cruz River Valley. All ages welcome. Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley. Free. Online registration required. www. pima.gov/nrpr, CanoaRanch@pima.gov, or 520-724-5520. MAY 24, 5PM - SCVUSD NO. 35 GOVERNING BOARD MEETING, DISTRICT OFFICE, BOARD ROOM, 570 Camino Lito Galindo. The public is invited to attend the regular bimonthly meeting of the district governing board.

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MAY 25, 7AM-11AM - SONORAN DESERT WEEDWACKERS. Join the Sonoran Desert Weedwackers to eradicate buffelgrass and fountain grass in Tucson Mountain Park. Work requires hiking and pulling buffelgrass on steep slopes. Meeting locations change frequently. Email eeducation@pima.gov for meeting location. Ages 18 and up. Free. www.pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, or 520-615-7855. MAY 26, 7PM - RIO RICO HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION, RRHS Athletic Field, 590 Camino Lito Galindo. The public is invited to join family and friends for the high school’s annual graduation ceremonies. Approximately 275 seniors will be graduating. Guest speaker is the Honorable Kimberly Corsaro, Santa Cruz County Superior Court. Valedictorian is Victor Miranda; Salutatorian is Brianna Brown. Traffic patterns will be changed to accommodate the increased traffic volume during the RRHS Graduation Ceremony between 4:30pm and 9:30pm. For additional information on traffic logistics, please contact Deputy/SRO Sergio Lopez, at 520-375-8715. For more information on graduation, contact Yolanda Felix, 520-375-8717. MAY 27, 7AM-9:30AM - CACTUS HIKE. Enjoy the showy flowers of our local cacti and learn about their ecology and uses. Botanist Meg Quinn leads this 2-mile loop hike at the Sweetwater Preserve in the Tucson Mountains. Ages 12 and up. Sweetwater Preserve, 4000 N. Tortolita Road. Free with Membership. Non-member $5 fee. Online registration required. www.pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, or 520-615-7855. MAY 27, 11AM-1PM - COOKING A-Z - SHEET PAN SUPPERS - BALSAMIC SHRIMP WITH JERI HOYLE. $40. If roasted vegetables, easy prep, and quick clean-up sounds like your king of cooking, this class is for you! This clever and popular method of One Sheet Cooking makes a delicious supper a snap. Baja Shrimp and fresh summer vegetables, fresh herbs and Tumacookery’s amazing 25 year Balsamic Vinegar will be used to demonstrate how easy gourmet can be. We will roast in the oven, and on the grill. We will provide summer and winter recipes, and a resource guide for additional recipes. Wine will accompany the meal. www.cookinga-z. com. Tumacookery, La Entrada de Tubac. 520-398-9497. MAY 27, 11AM-2PM - LIVING HISTORY: FOODS OF THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD. Our Old World/New World foods program will focus on 1) the native and imported fruits of New Spain, and 2) how Mexico has developed and enhanced the notion of dessert. The presentations will educate visitors about the origins, nutritional/survival values and the incredible variety of these delectable foodstuffs. Featuring a special display and samples from the Old and New Worlds. Included with park admission: $5 adult, $2 youth 7-13, children free. Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St., Tubac. (520) 398 – 2252. MAY 27 THROUGH 30 - MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND IN ARAVAIPA CANYON WITH SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE. During this trip we will be removing an invasive plant called vinca (or periwinkle) from the understory of the creek banks. This will require digging and fastidious removal of root material, with tools provided by Sky Island Alliance. We’ll be bending, digging, and getting dirty. The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has donated the use of the Aravaipa Canyon Preserve guesthouse, nestled right along Aravaipa Creek. TNC’s Aravaipa Canyon Preserve guesthouse has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, with showers and a full kitchen (with basic implements). There is also a screened sleeping porch, and a bunkhouse with two rooms with beds. You may choose to sleep on a bed (bring your own comfy bedding) or camp under the stars in your tent. Beds will be first-come/first serve, unless you let us know that you need to have priority. Nightly campfires are a big possibility. For more information, please contact Carianne Campbell at carianne@ skyislandalliance.org.

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Tu b a c Vi l l a g e r M a y 2 0 1 6 MAY 31 THROUGH JULY 29, 8:30AM-3:30PM - ‘FULL STEAM AHEAD’ - SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM AT LOS NIÑOS DEL VALLE. A host of activities, field trips and hands-on fun is in store for children ages 5-8 enrolled in “Full STEAM Ahead,” this year’s learning enrichment program for school-aged children. STEAM stands for a curriculum focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. $160 per week. Casa Community Services by Posada Life, 780 S Park Centre Ave. Green Valley. 520-393-6823. www.PosadaLife.org

MAY 28, 2PM - FREE CONCERTS ON THE CONCERT HAUL FEATURING MEMBERS OF THE FORT HUACHUCA US ARMY BAND - FEATURING A JAZZ GROUP, THE CANNON BALL COMBO. Location: Patagonia Town Park on the Concert Haul. Information: scfpapresents.org or call 520-394-0129. MAY 28, 4-6PM - COOKING A-Z -MIXOLOGY AND MORE WITH JEFF MARRON. $50. Jeff Marron will show you how to use fresh ingredients to turn a classic cocktail into your own delicious creation. The featured cocktails that you will be experimenting with will be the Margarita (c1930), Old Fashioned (c1806) and Mojito (c1586). These cocktails are some of the most famous cocktails in the entire world. After this class, you will be able to master your own twist on these recipes using ingredients in common with Cesar’s Carne Asada, Mango Salsa and Grilled Shrimp Tacos. Grilled Steak Pops: Chef Cesar Alvarez will be crafting a cilantro-lime marinade from scratch. The steak will first rest in a coffee stout before moving to the the marinade. After grilling the steak to temperature, we will make a stout reduction finishing sauce. A mango salsa as a garnishment will complete the Asada lollipop. Grilled Shrimp tacos will be a easy and fun appetizer. The process will provide a good demonstration of knife skills and food preparation. We will build tacos using organic veggies such as tomatoes,onion,cucumber,lime, mint and grilled shrimp with fresh lemon juice and a crushed garlic cloves. The ceviche inspired tacos are a tasty and cool balance for the heat of the Asada lollipop. www.cookinga-z.com. Tumacookery, La Entrada de Tubac. 520-398-9497. MAY 28, 6:30PM - CHUCK WAGON AND THE WHEELS - LIVE MUSIC AT TUBAC JACK’S. 7 Plaza Road, 520-398-3161. www.tubacjacks.com. MAY 28-29 - SURVEY FOR TROGONS IN THE SKY ISLANDS. Volunteers still needed this month. There is an abundance of evidence, both anecdotal and scientific, that the ecological influence of tropical Mexico has grown over the last century in southeast Arizona. Elegant Trogons are also part of this story with their United States range expanding over the last century. To further our understanding of how many Elegant Trogons there are in the US, organized surveys happen every year in the Chiricahuas and Huachucas. They were led by Rick Taylor for many years but beginning in 2013 Tucson Audubon assisted Rick and helped expand the surveys to three more ranges: the Atascosa Highlands, Santa Rita Mountains and Patagonia Mountains. Huachuca Mountains – May 28 Saturday, Chiricahua Mountains – May 29 Sunday, Galiuro Mountains – June 3-5 Dates TENTATIVE. Visit www.tucsonaudubon.org to register. MAY 29, 5:30PM - SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIES AT THE GOODS - ALL IN THIS TEA - 70 MIN. Few people know the fascinating history of tea growing and making. This intriguing documentary aims to change that by following renowned tea importer David Lee Hoffman as he scours the far-flung corners of China to find the richest teas on earth. Tea making is an art and tradition that goes back generations in the East, and Hoffman makes it his goal to bring to the rest of the world the exquisite teas produced by struggling small farmers. FREE - Doors open at 5:30/Movie at 6:15. The Goods, 26A Tubac Rd. 520-398-2001.

JUNE 1 - DEADLINE TO SIGN UP FOR THE OCTOBER 29 THROUGH NOVEMBER 5 - TRIP TO EXOTIC OAXACA – DIA DE LOS MUERTOS. The exciting city of Oaxaca is a wonderful mixture of ancient archaeology and fascinating colonial history that is safe and easy to enjoy. It is also one of the best places to see the amazing Día de los Muertos celebration in all Mexico. Enjoy the colorful festivities during “Día de los Muertos” where the decorated altars and skeletal artworks are woven into the fabric of daily life in Oaxaca. Learn about these pre-Columbian traditions and how they blended with Catholic beliefs. You will also enjoy side trips to see the marvels of the preColumbian civilizations of the Zapotecs and Mixtecs as we visit the remarkable ruins of Monte Alban and Mitla. We’ll visit the villages surrounding Oaxaca where the people of the area exhibit their artistic creativity through ceramics, woodcarvings and weavings. Cost of tour: $2895.00 per person double occupancy. Does not include airfare to Oaxaca. Single Supplement $495.00. Tour escorted by Marshall or Cathy Giesy. Includes donation to the Friends of the Tubac Presidio. Minimum of 8, maximum of 14 people. Deadline to sign up: June 1. For more information, call Fiesta International Tours at 520/3989705 or email: fiestatoursint@gmail.com. JUNE 2, 11AM-1:30PM - COOKING A-Z - FRESH FROM A FARMER’S MARKET WITH JERI HOYLE. $45. Spring crops are in, and the farmer’s markets are bustling. Jeri Hoyle will prepare an impromptu menu, and guide the preparation of a meal in this continuing series on farm-to-table cooking. We will cover options for local Farmer’s Markets, Community Supported Agriculture, community gardens and other good sources for fresh local food. Jeri will show you how to select, and prepare a variety of healthy, organic, fruits, vegetables and herbs. We will discuss and suggest local sources for beef, eggs and seafood. In this hands on class, multiple dishes will be prepared and shared at our communal tables with a glass of wine. Students will receive copies of recipes and a local markets resource list. www. cookinga-z.com. Tumacookery, La Entrada de Tubac. 520-398-9497. JUNE 3, 7:30-9:30AM - BIRDING AT SWEETWATER WETLANDS. Explore this urban birding hotspot with a naturalist to look for wetland and desert birds as well as other wildlife. All ages welcome. Sweetwater Wetlands, 2667 W. Sweetwater Drive. Cost: Free. Online registration required. For more information contact: www.pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@ pima.gov, or 520-615-7855. JUNE 3, 10AM-1PM - LIVING HISTORY: MEDICINE OF THE SPANISH COLONIAL PERIOD. When the Spanish soldiers and their families settled Tubac in 1752, there was no doctor or surgeon among them. It was the responsibility of the women to treat their family’s physical complaints and wounds. Medicine was basic and dependent on herbs and plants known for their healing properties. This living history program features a display of medicinal herbs and plants, and knowledgeable commentary by an herbalist who will tell visitors how these plants were used by “curanderas” (healers) to treat illness and injuries. Included with park admission: $5 adult, $2 youth 7-13, children free. Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St., Tubac, AZ (520) 398–2252. JUNE 4, 8:30AM-10AM - TOUR OF HACIENDA DE LA CANOA. Join a walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters to gain insights into the fascinating stories of the people that lived and worked on the ranch. Visit

the historic ranch buildings and corrals, and enjoy scenic views of the Santa Cruz River Valley. All ages welcome. Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley. Free. Online registration required. www. pima.gov/nrpr, CanoaRanch@pima.gov, or 520-724-5520. JUNE 4, 10AM-12NOON - ORAL HISTORY WORKSHOP. Learn how to capture the “Living Voices” of historically important people and their uncommon stories in your area or in your family in this FREE two hour workshop offered by the Tubac Historical Society. Join Sierra Vista Henry F. Hauser Museum curator, Nancy Krieski, for an enlightening and educational opportunity! Handouts will be provided. Please RSVP by June 3 by calling 520-398-2020 or info@ths-tubac.org. Tubac Community Center Large Meeting Room 50 Bridge Rd. JUNE 5, 7PM - SCFPA ALL STARS A FUNDRAISING CONCERT FEATURING MEMBERS OF TAPESTRY CHAMBER MUSIC, VOX KINO, A CAPELLA SINGERS AND ENSEMBLE MELODICA. Location: Our Lady of the Angels church in Sonoita. Information: scfpapresents. org or call 520-394-0129 JUNE 6-10, 9AM-12 NOON - VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL AT THE CHURCH AT TUBAC, 2242 W Frontage Road, Tubac. Admission is free. Call for more information at 520 398-2325. Preregistration is recommended and is available on-line at churchattubac.com/vbs. Ages 4-12 are welcome. JUNE 6, 11AM-1:30PM - COOKING A-Z - MONSOON KITCHEN: MOROCCO WITH ERICA SWADLEY. $45. Spice up your hot summer days with foods from Morocco. We will create a tasty Cauliflower and Chickpea Tagine enhanced with rich, spicy Harissa paste that we will make in class. Harissa is a mainstay of every North African home. A tagine is clay shallow pot with a conical lid that allows steam to rise to the lid and edge baste the food which enhances the way flavors mingle. The tagine recipes can also be made in a heavy pot. A Roasted Carrot Dip and Cracked Green Olives with Cardamom and Harissa, will perk up our appetites for the main event. We will finish with a luscious Cardamom and Pistachio Ice Cream for dessert. Wine will accompany the meal. www.cookinga-z.com. Tumacookery, La Entrada de Tubac. 520-398-9497. JUNE 7 - JUNE 30, 9AM - 3:30PM, TUES, WED & THURS - TUBAC CENTER OF THE ARTS’ SUMMER ARTS PROGRAM. Our summer program for children ages 6-14 runs four weeks on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. TUITION:$200 / 4 weeks, $165 / 3 weeks, $115 / 2 weeks, $60 / 1 week. Classes fill up quickly; register right away. Call TCA NOW to register at 520-398-2371. JUNE 8, 6AM-10AM - SONORAN DESERT WEEDWACKERS. Join the Sonoran Desert Weedwackers to eradicate buffelgrass and fountain grass in Tucson Mountain Park. Work requires hiking and pulling buffelgrass on steep slopes.Location: Pima County Tucson Mountain Park. Email eeducation@pima.gov for meeting location. Ages 18 and up. Free. www.pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, or 520-615-7855. JUNE 8, 9AM-10:30AM - HERITAGE AREA STRUCTURES REHABILITATION TOUR. Architectural preservationist Simon Herbert discusses the processes and materials used for the rehabilitation of the structures at Historic Hacienda de la Canoa as he leads this behind-the-scenes tour. Learn about the work that has transformed the structures from deteriorating ruins to functional buildings. All ages welcome. Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley. Free. Online registration required.www. pima.gov/nrpr, CanoaRanch@pima.gov, or 520-724-5520. JUNE 14, 8:30AM-10AM - TOUR OF HACIENDA DE LA CANOA. Join a walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters to gain insights into the fascinating stories of the people that lived and worked on the ranch. Visit the historic ranch buildings and corrals, and enjoy scenic views of the Santa Cruz River Valley. All ages welcome. Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S.

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I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley. Free. Online registration required. www.pima.gov/nrpr, CanoaRanch@pima.gov, or 520-724-5520. JUNE 18, 6AM-10AM - SONORAN DESERT WEEDWACKERS. Join the Sonoran Desert Weedwackers to eradicate buffelgrass and fountain grass in Tucson Mountain Park. Work requires hiking and pulling buffelgrass on steep slopes.Location: Pima County Tucson Mountain Park. Email eeducation@pima.gov for meeting location. Ages 18 and up. Free. www.pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, or 520-615-7855. JUNE 18, 7:30-9:30AM - BIRDING AT SWEETWATER WETLANDS. Explore this urban birding hotspot with a naturalist to look for wetland and desert birds as well as other wildlife. All ages welcome. Sweetwater Wetlands, 2667 W. Sweetwater Drive. Cost: Free. Online registration required. For more information contact: www.pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, or 520-615-7855. JUNE 18, 8:30AM-10AM - TOUR OF HACIENDA DE LA CANOA. Join a walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters to gain insights into the fascinating stories of the people that lived and worked on the ranch. Visit the historic ranch buildings and corrals, and enjoy scenic views of the Santa Cruz River Valley. All ages welcome. Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley. Free. Online registration required. www.pima.gov/nrpr, CanoaRanch@pima.gov, or 520-724-5520. JUNE 18, 10AM - CASTING FOR THE SANTA CRUZ SHOESTRING PLAYERS’ FALL PRODUCTION OF SOMEONE WHO’LL WATCH OVER ME. Frank McGuinness. Directed by Amanda Urbaniak. Performance Dates: November 4-13th. This powerful and moving play, set in Beirut, Lebanon in the 1980s, is based on a true story. In the perma-darkness of a windowless room, with one ankle shackled, English academic Michael, JUNE 4, 10AM-12NOON - OR AL HISTORY WORKSHOP. Learn how to capture the “Living Voices” of historically Irish journalist Edward, and American doctor Adam wonder what they important people and their uncommon stories in your area or in your family in this FREE two hour workshop offered by the Tubac have done to deserve captivity and when, if ever, they might see their Historical Society. Join Sierra Vista Henry F. Hauser Museum curator, Nancy Krieski, for an enlightening and educational loved ones again. Having little contact with their unseen captors, and opportunity! Handouts will be provided. Please RSVP by June 3 by calling 520-398-2020 or none whatsoever with the outside world, the men use dark humor and info@ths-tubac.org. Tubac Community Center Large Meeting Room 50 Bridge Rd. their vivid imaginations to forge their own reality within the walls of their cell. As victims of political action, powerless to initiate change, what can they do? How do they live and survive? Filled with humor and pathos, JUNE 20, 6PM - CASTING FOR THE SANTA CRUZ SHOESTRING PLAYERS’ JULY 4, 10 AM - 12 NOON - OLD-FASHIONED FOURTH OF JULY Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me is ultimately a remarkable celebration of the human spirit. This play was first staged in July 1992 at the Hampstead FALL PRODUCTION OF SOMEONE WHO’LL WATCH OVER ME. Frank CELEBRATION. Tubac Presidio State Historic Park will be the site of an Theater in London. It was later produced on Broadway at the Booth Theater McGuinness. Directed by Amanda Urbaniak. Performance Dates: November assortment of free games for the kids including hula hoops, water balloon and ran for almost 300 performances. CASTING: 3 men of any (adult) age. 4-13th. CASTING: 3 men of any (adult) age. Irish or British accent a plus. Play and bean bag toss, coin guess, and others. For a special treat kids can make Irish or British accent a plus. Play contains strong language. Contact Amanda contains strong language. Contact Amanda Urbaniak for more information authentic adobe bricks to take home. A face painter will be available to brighten kids’ faces. Free hot dogs, nachos, and lemonade. The “squirtUrbaniak for more information 520-399-1750. CPAC 1250 W. Continental Rd. 520-399-1750. CPAC 1250 W. Continental Rd. Green Valley. down” courtesy of the Tubac Fire Department will be the cooling grand finale. Green Valley. JUNE 21, 8:30AM-10AM - BIRDING ALONG THE SANTA CRUZ RIVER. Join birding expert This old-fashioned family celebration is organized by the Tubac Chamber of JUNE 18, 10AM-1PM - LIVING HISTORY: MEDICINE OF THE SPANISH Jeff Babson to see the riparian birds that are attracted to the mature willows and continuous Commerce with help from our local non-profit organizations. Park admission COLONIAL PERIOD. When the Spanish soldiers and their families settled river flow along the Santa Cruz River in Marana. All ages welcome. Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. is FREE during the event. Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St., Tubac in 1752, there was no doctor or surgeon among them. It was the Branch Library, 7800 N. Schisler Drive. Free with Membership, Non-Member $5 fee. Online Tubac, AZ (520) 398–2252. responsibility of the women to treat their family’s physical complaints and registration required. www.pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, or 520-615-7855. wounds. Medicine was basic and dependent on herbs and plants known JUNE 22, 6AM-10AM - SONORAN DESERT WEEDWACKERS. Join the Sonoran Desert for their healing properties. This living history program features a display Weedwackers to eradicate buffelgrass and fountain grass in Tucson Mountain Park. Work from advertisers of medicinal herbs and plants, and knowledgeable commentary by an requires hiking and pulling buffelgrass on steep slopes.Location: Pima County Tucson and non-profit, public events. herbalist who will tell visitors how these plants were used by “curanderas” Mountain Park - Meeting location provided with reservation. Email eeducation@pima. (healers) to treat illness and injuries. Included with park admission: $5 gov. Ages 18 and up. Free. www.pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, or 520-615-7855. Please format: Date, Time, Event, Details, Contact Info adult, $2 youth 7-13, children free. Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Repeat contact info on repeat entries Burruel St., Tubac, AZ (520) 398–2252. JUNE 28, 8:30AM-10AM - TOUR OF HACIENDA DE LA CANOA. Join a and renew event listing each month. walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters to gain insights into the JUNE 18, 6:30-8:30PM - NATURE NIGHT: BATS IN FLIGHT. Discover the fascinating lives fascinating stories of the people that lived and worked on the ranch. of Mexican free-tailed bats and watch as hundreds of bats emerge from their daytime Send to editor@tubacvillager.com Visit the historic ranch buildings and corrals, and enjoy scenic views of roosts under the Campbell Avenue Bridge over the Rillito River. Pima County naturalists or mail to PO Box 4018, Tubac, AZ 85646 the Santa Cruz River Valley. All ages welcome. Historic Hacienda de la and volunteers provide information and family friendly activities. All ages welcome. Where: Canoa, 5375 S. I-19 Frontage Road, Green Valley. Free. Online registration Pima County Rillito River Park, 4200 N. Campbell Avenue, Tucson. Cost: Free. For more required. www.pima.gov/nrpr, CanoaRanch@pima.gov, or 520-724-5520. information contact: www.pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, or 520-615-7855.

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behind which screams wait to name questions he can’t form. Why is his home is gone, his village, his food and family? He must want his blankie, his grandma, the sounds of a peaceful early morning. He cannot feel gratitude as he is torn from his mother’s arms, from the rocking rubber boat, from the desperation of those wanting only stable ground and their feet planted back on earth.

by Carol St. John How easy it is not to see. To let your eyes slide over the things you don’t want to face, the faces you don’t want to confront and the pain you don’t wish to share. We plain folks are in over-drive, over-exposure and oversaturated with information that frightens and appalls us. It is easier to think We are We and They are They as Rudyard Kipling once wrote. Maybe the following verses will spark your memory of some of his famous lines.

We and They FATHER, Mother, and Me Sister and Auntie say All the people like us are We, And everyone else is They. And They live over the sea, While We live over the way, But - would you believe it? - They look upon We As only a sort of They! We eat kitcheny food. We have doors that latch. They drink milk or blood, Under an open thatch. We have Doctors to fee. They have Wizards to pay. And (impudent heathen!) They look upon We As a quite impossible They! All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And everyone else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!

Rudyard, (yes, we are on a first name basis) was inspired by not only the arrogance of colonialism but the challenge of those turbulent years of mass migration. From the mid-nineteen hundreds until the midtwentieth century, millions of people arrived at our shores to participate in The Great American Experiment. Most of those, yearning to breathe free, sailed past the Lady in the Harbor with little more than dreams and the courage to survive. They were the sweat and mortar that helped build this nation, a nation unlike any the world had ever seen. My grandparents were participants in those extraordinary times. I am not unlike many others in that I occasionally swear off the news and burrow my lazy head under the comforter. But I can’t do that for long, because the simple truth is that I want to know. I want to see, I want to bear some of the burden, I want to participate. I don’t want to devolve into my lizard brain and grow scales to protect me from the world or resort to that old ostrich trick of sticking my head in the sand. I don’t want to turn away from the child’s eyes that stare at me from the front page; eyes that look into a camera he cannot hold, eyes lit with the shine of terror and

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Snot runs from his nose, the same stuff that makes the stars and the seas, that gleams on a horse’s back. The same stuff as grew the olive trees and the wild wheat that survived the millennia. We are all made of common components; we are all part of the complex design of life, of its purpose and function. Why do we continue to allow the world’s hope to be destroyed by hatred? Is this child’s suffering necessary in the scheme of things? I must look at his face, the face of that child, the face of potential placed in this world only to find a spot on the planet that would require extreme measures to survive. Is that child part of my family? Is that child mine? If I go beyond caring, to some vague turpitude of senselessness, does that mean that this child’s life or any child’s life will be no more valuable than trampled grass, a lost idea, a torn page from a book? Is he reduced to a statistic? Who is gathering these statistics, anyway? When we know longer care, do we die to the essence of who we think we are? Do we lose our highly touted humanity in ignoring his? I must not let this happen before I submit to the death of feelings, before the awful numbness seeps in and takes over. I must look and remember the child on the front page and the questions in his eyes. I want to find ways to open his doors and not shut them, place love before fear, to remember at the core of life, there is a longing for life, for a chance to be. My safe ground has been a gift I didn’t earn, and a treasure I fail too often to name. But it should never preclude that others don’t deserve the same. �

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Ann Davies Smith

In Memoriam

Ann Davies Smith was born on May 2, 1934 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Mary Elizabeth (Willey) & James “Morris” Davies. She died at her home in Tubac, AZ on April 12, 2016. As a child growing up in The Depression, Ann learned the values of hard work and the importance of family. Many summers were spent on the shores of Lake Michigan at the family cottage in Grand Haven. Ann graduated from East Grand Rapids High School. She attended the University of Colorado in Boulder. While there she joined the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism.

After college, Ann married and lived in Denver where she put her degree to work and taught High School English for 18 years. In 1978 Ann began her 25 year successful career selling real estate in Colorado Springs.

Ann and husband, Jim Johnson, had a second home in Tubac, AZ. For their annual winter vacation, they would drive to Tubac, AZ to visit Ann’s lifelong friend, Virginia “Ginsie” Hall and enjoy some R&R at the Tubac Golf Resort. Thus began Ann’s love affair with Tubac’s charm and people.

Ann never lost her love of journalism and in her retirement years, penned articles for local newspapers and wrote a novel! The setting of Ann’s novel is her beloved Grand Haven where she spent so many wonderful summers. Ann’s time ran out before she could publish the coming-of-age story. We will remember Ann for always having an opinion and rarely being wrong, for her sense of humor and masterful storytelling, for her fierce loyalty to friends and family and for her admiration of Andy Rooney and the philosophies they shared: I’ve learned That life is tough, but I’m tougher.

I’ve learned That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. I’ve learned That opportunities are never lost: someone will take the ones you miss.

Ann is survived by her daughter, Jane of Ft. Collins, CO; brother, Jim (Lorraine) Davies; niece, Lori (Kerry) Welty and nephew, Bob (Tracy) Davies all of Phoenix, AZ; and numerous friends and extended family in Arizona, Colorado and Michigan. A memorial celebration of Ann’s life will be forthcoming this fall in Tubac, AZ.

Donations can be made in Ann’s memory to: Soulistic Hospice, 26 Tubac Rd, Suite C-2, Tubac, AZ 85646-1990 or Tubac Center for the Arts, 9 Plaza Rd, Tubac, AZ 85646

Woodcarver Alfonso Flores has died by Kathleen Vandervoet

A long-time Tubac artisan, Alfonso Flores, died March 13 at the age of 85. His wood carvings were displayed in his gallery “La Tienda de Oaxaca” on the Tubac Plaza for many years. He was predeceased by his wife, Tiburcia, and they had no children, according to a family friend.

The couple came from Santa Maria del Tule in Oaxaca, Mexico, to work for Will Rogers Jr. and his wife, Collier, who moved to Tubac in the late 1950s. Tiburcia was a cook and Alfonso was a gardener. “Tiburcia enkindled in the Rogers a love of Mexican cuisine and Collier was so impressed with Alfonso’s ability as a wood carver that she helped to promote him and start his own shop” which was open for more than 30 years according to “Images of America Tubac” by Shaw Kinsley, published in 2009 by Arcadia Publishing.

The shop’s name still exists on the building’s side. It’s on the west side of the Country Shop in the plaza. Flores also became a skilled silk screener and worked with Harwood Steiger at the fabric shop on Tubac Road which no longer exists, Kinsley’s book said.

William Todd Wallace, 55, died on April 15, 2016 of diabetic complications. He was born March 7, 1961, in Danville, Il., and moved with his parents to Tubac in June 1976. He graduated from Sahuarita High School in 1979; attended Northern Arizona University; and graduated from the University of Arizona in 1988 with a degree in business administration. He is survived by his parents, William and Judith Wallace of Green Valley, his brother, Timothy Wallace (Cathy) of Glouchester, Va.; three nieces; four great-nieces; and four-great-nephews.

Wallace worked in the maquiladora industry in Nogales until 2012 and was a member of the Santa Cruz Sportsman’s Club. He was an Eagle Scout who loved the outdoors, fishing and hunting, an avid golfer and gardener, and an animal lover. He moved to Green Valley in 2013. Donations can be made in his memory to the Crossroads Nogales Mission in Nogales, AZ, 338 N. Morley Ave. “Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.” St. Francis of Assisi

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THE ART OF HEALTH

by Jennifer Bek, R.N., CHHC

ost of us have had a family member who was diagnosed with some type of cancer. Watching my beloved grandmother suffer and then die of liver cancer when I was 13 motivated me to go to nursing school. In spite of the advent of newer drugs to treat cancer and a focus on early diagnosis, cancer rates have continued to climb in the past 60 years since my grandmother passed away. The odds now are that one in three women will get cancer in their lifetime; for men it’s one in two. Because I currently have four friends who are dealing with some type of cancer, my attention is drawn to articles and lectures on cancer prevention. I recently heard Dr. Michael Greger, author of the New York Times bestseller, How Not to Die, talk about causes of death and disease, including cancer. He quotes the results of a study showing the number-one cause of death and disease in the United States is our diet. Death and disease from tobacco smoke is now number two. He equates the standard American diet (SAD), consisting of excess sugar, bad fats and not enough whole foods, to smoking in the 50s. Even though there were decades of science linking smoking with lung cancer, it was ignored because . . . smoking was normal. Even the American Medical Association was saying that smoking in moderation was okay. According to Greger, the same is now true of the food we eat. We have science to show the link between certain foods and cancer, yet we are encouraged to eat these foods through government subsidies that make them cheaper than healthy choices. Carcinogenic foods are even included in the federal Food Stamp program. It also turns out that 98 percent of Americans eat potassium-deficient diets and only 3 percent get the minimum recommended intake of fiber. The government refers to these as “shortfall nutrients” and they are the ones found in whole-plant foods. Greger points out that we really need to take personal responsibility for our own health. In How Not to Die, Greger discusses a clinical trial in which women with pre-cancerous lesions in the esophagus were given large quantities of strawberry powder, equal to a pound of fresh strawberries daily, for six months. Results showed progression of the disease was reversed in 80% of the patients and 50% of them walked away disease-free. He then points out that only strawberries were tested and suggests that maybe strawberries aren’t a miracle fruit and, in fact, it could have been blueberries or blackberries that would have produced the same outcomes. Another study from Harvard that found women who ate at least one serving of blueberries or two servings of strawberries each week showed slower rates of cognitive decline. Bring on the berries! While teaching medical students at Tufts University School of Medicine, Greger’s lecture included information on an amazing new therapeutic agent called iloccor-B. He spoke about the large amount of evidence

showing that this agent offers protection against cancer and cardiovascular disease, only to eventually reveal he had experienced a moment of dyslexia and that iliccor-B was actually “broccoli” spelled backward. Surely if this were a patentable drug, we would all be racing to buy it. He goes on to rave about the value of all the other non-patented cruciferous vegetables like kale, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, collards, arugula and cauliflower. We really do need to understand that Socrates was right when he wrote “Let food be thy medicine.” Here are some cancer-fighting foods that are easy to incorporate into your diet. TEN CANCER-FIGHTING SUPER FOODS: Mushrooms, Dark Leafy Green (Kale, spinach, chard) Garlic, Legumes (beans, peas, lentils, soybeans), Berries, Red Grapes, Turmeric, Walnuts, Cruciferous Vegetables, Celery

CRUCIFEROUS STIR FRY INGREDIENTS: Assorted Vegetables* of your choice chopped into bite-sized pieces. (Amount will depend on size of wok and number of servings desired.) Onion Garlic (minced) Broccoli Bok Choi Cauliflower Zucchini Yellow squash Asparagus Red or yellow Pepper Snow Peas Kale, spinach or chard, chopped Red or green cabbage, shredded 1 tablespoon minced ginger 2 cups mushrooms, sliced Tamari soy sauce or Braggs Liquid Aminos 2-3 tablespoons toasted sesame oil Raw cashews 2 cups cooked quinoa Cooked chicken* or wild-caught shrimp (optional) * buy organic when possible DIRECTIONS: Pour oil into wok and heat. Stir-fry garlic and onion for 2 minutes. Add all vegetables plus ginger and stir-fry for about 5 minutes. Add soy sauce to taste Add mushrooms and chicken/shrimp (if using) and continue to stir-fry until mushrooms slightly cooked and vegetables still crunchy. Serve vegetables over quinoa. Sprinkle cashews on top of vegetables and add soy sauce.

BERRY HEALTHY SMOOTHIE 2 Servings

INGREDIENTS: 1 cup unsweetened almond milk* or non-GMO soy milk 1 cup Green Tea or 1 cup coconut water 1 cup organic kale, packed 1 cup organic spinach, packed 1 cup organic blueberries (frozen or fresh) 1 cup organic strawberries (frozen or fresh) 1 banana 2 scoops protein powder 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa 2 tablespoons ground flax seeds or hemp seeds ½ teaspoon turmeric powder Ice as desired. DIRECTIONS: Using a Vita-Mix or other high-powered blender, add kale and spinach to the milk and process. Add remaining ingredients and process, adding water for thinner shake. Add ice as desired. *Be sure to buy Almond Milk in refrigerated section of food store and make sure it does not contain Carrageenan.

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There is this great place of integration and relaxation in a yoga pose called Śavāsana. Once yoga practice is done, lie down on your back, close your eyes and release all physical tension and emotional attachments. Yes... this is a lot to ask and, also the reason this position is one of the hardest yoga poses to achieve. How often do we consciously relax? Sitting in the comfy chair in front the television is not relaxing. We think it is, but our mind is still receiving stimuli, our eyes and brain are watching and/or listening. Crawling into bed at night and those brief moments before we drift off to sleep is not the technique either. So why do we want to be in this pose of quiet space? When we gift ourselves with twenty minutes of quiet awareness while resting the body, true relaxation occurs. Conscious relaxation invigorates and refreshes both body and mind.

Śavā is the Sanskrit word for corpse. So the object of Śavāsana is to imitate the stillness of a corpse but to remain conscious. Not conscious going over the grocery list, but conscious of breath and emptiness. B.K.S. Iyengar in his book “Light on Yoga” suggests 15 to 20 minutes as a minimum amount of time in the corpse pose. It is not “nap time” either. The desired state is emptiness with awareness while the body is allowed to release tension. It works both ways, calm the body and the mind calms, tame the mind and the body can let go. Śavāsana is a practice like all the other poses in yoga. Training to bring the senses under control (pratyāhāra) is one of the limbs of yoga. This physical and mental interval is very important. Its nonaction allows the benefits of the physical practice to assimilate into your body. Again, Iyengar states in “Light on Yoga” that “[i] f a man’s reason succumbs to the pull of his senses he is lost.” How often does our busy data center (the mind) keep us churning over something insignificant or ridiculous? Throw in a bit of ego and emotion in to the mix and we can work up to being furious at the fact that someone did something we thought they shouldn’t have done, not only creating mind clutter but tense muscles. I want to be in this space to give my mind and

31 form a well-deserved time-out. Sometimes I feel like it is pushing that little trashcan icon on my computer and throwing out the junk. Śavāsana asks that you let all the senses go, physical and mental. Keeping the body still is hard, but either lying flat on the floor or using a blanket and props for comfort gets you there. If you can allow the sense withdrawal to happen, the mind and body will slowly release tension and clamor. A lot of yogis and non-yogis have the idea that asana practice is all about the physical, but every pose, every breath and every second is about leaving the busyness of the mind behind and embodying the moment. Ignoring the mind’s noise is much easier when attempting to get into a yoga pose that is challenging. Once you are lying on your back in silence and you are no longer working hard, the mind jumps right in with its commentary. This is the nature of mind, its job is to feed us the play-by-play action of our life. However, giving our attention to these observations when resting mind and body is not the proper form of the pose. Letting go of the endless mind chatter is the point. Letting the body lose its corporeal form and melt into the mat helps us to give up and “die.” We can free all that no longer serves our practice and let it dissolve. When we enter this state of awareness and emptiness and stay there for twenty minutes or more, the body does unwind. It is different than most types of things we consider relaxing. Come to your mat, play hard, then give it up and rest harder. Kathy Edds, Yoga Instructor (ERYT 500), Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coach, www.kathyedds.com Kathy teaches yoga at The Tubac Healing Arts Center in Tubac. www.tubachealingarts.com

Tumacácori Mesquite Sawmill EST. 1982 Open Mon - Sat, 9am-5pm 2007 E. Frontage Rd (520) 398-9356 MESQUITEDESIGN.COM

ARIZONA’S OLDEST MESQUITE SOURCE Every single mesquite tree harvested by “The Sawmill” is destined to come down for one reason or another. We turn parts of the mesquite tree into beautiful works of art: Logs turn to lumber, crotches into matching leg bases, trunks and root-balls into table bases … and much more! Come by and pick out the pieces for your project – you finish or we’ll finish it for you. Remnants are still $1 per pound!

Wisdom’s Café EST. 1944 Owned & operated by 4 generations of the Wisdom Family Home of the WORLD FAMOUS FRUIT BURRO AWARD WINNING MARGARITAS

Mon-Sat 11-3 & 5-8 Live Music Fri/Sat (520) 398-2397, 1931 E. Frontage Rd. WISDOMSCAFE.COM

WISDOM’S CAFE ¡DOS! in Tubac EST. 2013

Street Tacos * Margaritas *Craft Beer and featuring our FAMOUS FISH TACOS

Open DAILY 11-6 PM Live music Sundays (520) 216-7664 4 Plaza Rd at La Entrada Plaza

Santa Cruz Chili & Spice Co. EST. 1943 HOURS: MON.- FRI.8am-5pm SAT 10 am-5 pm Sun. CLOSED SUMMER HRS. STARTING MAY 28th thru SEPT 3rd MON- FRI 8- 5 SATURDAY 10 – 3 Sun. CLOSED 1868 E. Frontage Road Just south of the mission

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New for summer, liven up your grill with CaJohn Cayenne Garlic Ketchup and Raspberry Vodka BBQ Sauce. Then cool down with Almond Cherry Jubilee Jam. Restock your spices for summer and come cool down in our book room full of local history, children books and new cook books.