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Vol. VI No. 3

January 2011

Curandera Business Profile

Prime Health At the THS

IRENE DEATON Santa Cruz County Update Desert Broom

Borderlands Photographer Platitudes of Time Remnants from Ruthie Stars That Shoot

Patagonia's

Ravens-Way Wild Journeys John Yoas

& the Salero Cattle Camp Murder

Events & More...

Splendor at the Tubac Golf Resort & Spa

ongoing TUESDAYS, JANUARY THROUGH MARCH - Tumacácori National Historical Park is oﬀering TOURS TO its two sister missions, GUEVAVI AND CALABAZAS. Beginning at 9:30 a.m. and returning to Tumacácori at 12:30 p.m. The cost of the tour is $20 per person. Reservations are required. The tour meets at the Tumacácori Visitor Center. Participants ride in a single 15 passenger van to Guevavi and Calabazas. At each site, a ranger or volunteer provides an interpretive walking tour. There is some walking on unpaved trails to reach the mission ruin at each site, including one section of uphill trail at Calabazas. All tours involve hiking on moderately improved trails with no shade, so wear appropriate clothing and footwear. Restroom facilities are available only at the beginning and end of the tour, at Tumacácori. For more information or to make reservations, call the visitor center at 520-398-2341, ext. 0. WEDNESDAY MORNINGS, JANUARY THROUGH APRIL 2011 - RIVER WALKS OFFERED AT TUMACÁCORI NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK - Tumacácori National Historical Park is oﬀering walks to the Santa Cruz River. One hour walks leave the Tumacácori Visitor Center at 10:30 a.m., following the level, unpaved trail to the Santa Cruz River and back. The forest along the Santa Cruz River is an excellent example of the rare southwestern riparian environment providing a critical habitat for abundant wildlife that live in, and migrate through, the Santa Cruz Valley. Discussions during the walks may include several themes, including the O’odham people, missions and settlement, plant and animal identification, the mesquite bosque (forest) and riparian environments, and current issues related to the Santa Cruz River. For information about the guided walks, call Tumacácori National Historical Park at 520-398-2341.

as a Woman in Black takes to the streets of Tucson in opposition to war. She is a frequent contributor to the Arizona Daily Star. Forum begins at 8:30am at Maria's Restaurant, Plaza de Anza, 40 Avenida Goya, Tubac. $10 admission includes full sit down breakfast. Seating is limited. Advance reservations, call 429-5556 or email bdank22@msn.com. More infohttp:// tubacbreakfastforum.wordpress.com. FRI, JAN 7TH - FIRST FRIDAY AT WISDOM’S CAFÉ in Tumacacori ~ enjoy 2-for-1 Margaritas all day plus our Famous Fish & Chips and live music by Amber Norgaard from 5-8pm. 398-2397.

MONDAYS - BIRD WALKS AT PATAGONIA LAKE STATE PARK. Join a bird walk with a local birding guide at 9am at Patagonia Lake State Park. These walks, which are sponsored by Friends of Sonoita Creek, are free, but you must pay the State Park admission of $10 per car. (Turn right at the stop sign after the gatehouse.). The walks begin at the east end of the camp ground at the kiosk. Additional parking is across from the restroom in the campground. The walks last from 2 to 3 hours, but it is easy to turn around and return to your car. For more information call 520-8205101.

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THURS, JAN 6TH - TUBAC THURSDAY MORNING BREAKFAST FORUM PRESENTS GRETCHEN NIELSEN SPEAKING ON A WOMAN IN BLACK. Gretchen is a poet, writer and peace activist, and a 76 year old grandmother who

WED, JAN 12TH - STUDIO TIME WITH ROBERTA ROGERS - STILL LIFE SUBJECTS: A CLOSER LOOK AT VISUAL TREASURES. At the Tubac Center of the Arts, call 398-2371 for more info. Fee: $45 Members, $50 Non Members 9am -12pm. OPENING THURS, JAN 13TH - OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE AZ AQUEOUS EXHIBIT at the Tubac Center of the Arts. 5 – 7pm. 9 Plaza Rd. 398-2371. FRI, JAN 14TH - LIVE MUSIC WITH BILL MANZANEDO AT WISDOM'S CAFE in Tumacacori from 5 to 8pm with Fish & Chips. 398-2397. FRI, JAN 14TH - MOVING RIGHT ALONG: THE ART OF AGING GRACEFULLY TCA Workshop. Instructor: Carol St. John. First Session: Fri 9-10am. 5 Ongoing Sessions: Mondays, 1/ 17, 24, 31 & 2/7,14, 9-10am. First Session is free, fee for all of the next five Sessions: $65 for TCA members ($75 for nonmembers). Call the TCA for more info 398-2371.

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SAT, JAN 15TH - TUBAC CENTER OF THE ART'S ANNUAL HOME TOUR from 10am to 4pm. Visit 6 unique & historical homes on the self-guided home tour. Featured homes include the first Dorn "build to suit" residence on The Tubac Golf Course, the former home of Will Roger's Jr., and “La Querencia” Ranch. Nestled between the Santa Cruz River and Santa Rita range “La Querencia” is an exciting example of early 20th century living in the valley. It is a working ranch including a main house, and an adjoining school house actively used in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Of special note is the fireplace modeled after the design of the Tumacacori Mission. Other homes feature distinct styles and breathtaking views of the Tumacacori mountain range, the Santa Cruz river valley, and floor-to-ceiling views of the glorious Santa Rita Mountain range. Advanced ticket purchase recommended. $20 members, $25 non. 9 Plaza Rd. 398-2371. SAT, JAN 15TH - GHOST TOWNS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. PICTURES, STORIES AND FACTS at 7pm. Visitor Center at Patagonia Lake State Park. Judy King, Presentor. SUN, JAN 16TH - PHOTO TOUR OF THE KINO MISSIONS BY LINDA RUSHTON at the Tumacacori Mission Church at 3pm. Please note that the church is unheated and open to the weather. Dress warmly! The entrance fee for Tumacácori National Historical Park is $3. For more info, call 398-2341, extension 0. SUN, JAN 16TH - DEADLINE TO SIGN UP FOR SEDONA’S RED ROCK TOUR – Feb 16 – 18. For more info visit www. fiestatoursint.com or call 398-9705. TUES, JAN 18TH - DAY TOUR TO BASHA’S GALLERY AND CASA GRANDE RUINS. For more info visit www.fiestatoursint. com or call 398-9705. WED THRU FRI, JAN 19TH – 21ST - GRAND CANYON RAILROAD TOUR. $745 per person double occupancy. Fiesta Tours International 398-9705. THURS, JAN 20TH – TUBAC THURSDAY MORNING BREAKFAST FORUM PRESENTS TONY BISHOP SPEAKING ON CRANIAL VAPOR LOCK OR WHY THE MORE THINGS

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CHANGE THE MORE THEY REMAIN THE SAME. Tony, born in the UK, retired in 1990 as Director of HR for Rockwell International; then for 13 years he was a faculty member in the Distance Learning Department, USC, specializing in internationalizing broadcast courses. He has been active in politics in both the UK and the USA. Forum begins at 8:30am at Maria's Grill, Plaza de Anza, 40 Avenida Goya, Tubac. $10 admission includes full sit down breakfast. Seating is limited. Advance reservations, call 429-5556 or email bdank22@msn. com. More infohttp://tubacbreakfastforum.wordpress.com. FRI, JAN 21ST - LIVE MUSIC WITH DAVID BLIXT AT WISDOM'S CAFE in Tumacacori from 5 to 8pm with Fish & Chips. 398-2397. FRI, JAN 21ST - DIXIE CATS at 7pm at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W Continental Rd in Green Valley. 520 399-1750. Don’t miss this six-piece swinging jazz band playing the music of new Orleans-style Dixieland. $8 in advance, $10 at door. SAT, JAN 22ND - HIKE ON THE VISTA LOOP AND BLACKHAWK TRAIL at Sonoita Creek State Natural Area at 9am. Meet at the Visitor Center at Patagonia Lake State Park and car pool to trail head. 5 miles round trip. Bring snacks and water. Ron & Judy King leaders. Call 970.749-9065 for reservations and more information. Sponsored by Friends of Sonoita Creek. SAT, JAN 22ND - NATURE WALK FOR FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN at 10am. Meet at the entrance of the Patagonia Montessori Elementary School, 500 North 3rd Avenue, in Patagonia, AZ and take a nature walk for about an hour along the new Animal Tracks Trail. Ron Hummel, teacher/ naturalist, will talk about the natural exhibits contained in the Trail brochure (copy provided). Call 520.394-2532 for reservations and more information. SAT, JAN 22ND – BRENT NAGELI DEMONSTRATES his art at the Rogoway Gallery 5 Calle Baca from noon to 5pm. 398-3958.

On January's Cover:

La Curandera oil painting by Hugh Cabot

A curandera is a medicine woman in the Mexican Indian traditional practice of faith healing and medicinal plant knowledge. On page 8 in this issue of the Tubac Villager, Cathy Giesy has written an article about the tradition and interviewed a local, modern-day curandera to illuminate the social role of these mysterious healers.

The Curandera cover portrait was painted in 2004. Olivia Cabot explains that Hugh Cabot was so captivated by the woman's visage that he had to paint her at once. Hugh Cabot passed away May 23, 2005.

You can view Hugh Cabot's original artwork and giclee prints at the Hugh Cabot Studios and Gallery in Old Town, Tubac. Call 520-398-2721 for more information about this celebrated American master painter.

In this issue of the Tubac Villager

Page 4 Santa Cruz County Update by Kathleen Vandervoet

Page 16 Tubac Golf Resort & Spa by Kathleen Vandervoet

Page 8 Curanderra by Cathy Geisy

Page 18 At the THS IRENE DEATON by Hattie Wilson

Page 12 Tubac Business Prime Health by Kathleen Vandervoet Page 14 Borderlands Photographer by Murray Bolesta

Page 20 Ravens-Way Wild Journeys by Joseph Birkett Page 24 John Yoas & the Salero Cattle Camp Murder by Mary Bingham

Events Around Tubac continued on page 10...

Page 26 Stars That Shoot by David Voisard Page 27 Remnants from Ruthie Page 28 Desert Broom by Vincent Pinto Page 29 Platitudes of Time by Carol St. John Page 30 St. Andrew's Clinic by Gloria Thiele

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Before he and his wife, Gail, moved to Tubac almost eight years ago, Rich was principal at Stapley Junior High School in Mesa.

Rod Rich named superintendent

He earned a bachelor’s degree at Purdue University in Indiana and a master’s degree in Rod Rich, a Tubac resident for nearly eight counseling there. He also completed extensive years, was named on Dec. 21 as incoming courses in educational administration at superintendent of the Santa Cruz Valley Unified Northern Illinois University. School District No. 35 (Tubac and Rio Rico). The school board voted 5-0 to offer him a County jail completion contract.

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Currently assistant superintendent at the school district, Rich will replace Dan Fontes, who announced he plans to retire at the end of his contract on June 30, 2011.

Construction has spanned more than two years on Santa Cruz County’s new $53.8 million jail complex.

Rich has been in his current post for more than five years and was principal of Calabasas Middle School in Rio Rico for two years before that.

The jail is funded by a half-cent sales tax approved by voters in November 2005. Capt. Ruben F. Fuentes of the Sheriff ’s Office said it’s expected that the employees will move

into the facility in mid-February. Inmates will be transferred in late February, he said. In December, CORE Construction Services of Arizona, Inc., the contractor, turned over the jail to the county and punch list items were being completed, Fuentes said. Some of the detention department employees have been working in the new jail already, being trained on the security systems he said. The jail replaces the current facility built in 1974 and is on the east side of the Santa Cruz County complex in Nogales, east of Interstate 19 and north of Mariposa Road. The design includes an expansion of courtrooms and new offices. Work started Oct. 17, 2008. Jennifer St. John, county administrative services director, said the final cost for the jail will be about $500,000 less than the $53.8 million originally approved.

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Santa Cruz County Update continued...

Library tax under consideration The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors could impose a new library district tax in the upcoming months to ease an increasingly tight budget. In Tubac, a branch of the Nogales-Santa Cruz County Public Library is open Monday through Friday and provides fiction, nonfiction, audio books, a children’s section and two computers with Internet connections. There are also branches in Rio Rico and Sonoita. The county pays library costs through a portion of the general fund. But Interim County Manager Carlos Rivera said that aspect of the budget is squeezed and state law limits increases there. If the library funds came from another source, it would free up money inside the general fund budget. The supervisors voted 2-1 on Dec. 15 to authorize a study of a new county free library district. A secondary property tax would provide income if the district is formed. The

supervisors have the authority under state law to take action without asking for a vote from citizens.

carrying marijuana from Mexico to cities in the United States since “marijuana crops are in full bloom” now.

To learn more, contact District 3 Supervisor John Maynard at (520) 375-7812.

He suggested that concerned people form a Neighborhood Watch. When contacted in a follow-up interview on Dec. 23, he said no one had called him about the program. He can be reached at (520) 761-7869.

Follow-up on burglaries No one has been arrested in connection with four residential burglaries in late November in Tubac. Lt. Raoul Rodriguez of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff ’s Office spoke about the situation at the Dec. 13 meeting of the Santa Cruz Valley Citizens Council. He said he didn’t believe the burglaries were “related to UDAs” or undocumented aliens but rather he thought it was possibly individuals who had knowledge of the habits of the homeowners. “Be very conscientious of who you hire,” Rodriguez said. He said he increased deputy patrols in the Tubac Country Club Estates area after the reports came in to the office. He cautioned that residents might see more migrants in the area

Morriss County Park volunteer praised David Voisard has been an extraordinary volunteer at the Ronald Morriss County Park in Tubac, said Katie Munger, who heads a group that works to keep the park open. “He’s just been amazing,” she said. Voisard regularly empties trash and takes it to the county’s transfer station, among other work. Munger said the park looks wonderful and people are using it. However, more volunteers are always needed. To learn about ways to help, she can be reached at (520) 403-7374.

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ACCESS WISDOM HOME CARE (520) 398-8088

Tubac Community Center: follow Calle Igelsia around the bend, or from the East Frontage Road, take Bridge Road to the end.

ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH (520) 777-6601 AMADO RV & SELF STORAGE (520) 398-8003

Hugh Cabot Gallery (520) 398-2721 January 2011 Villager Supporters Map art rendering by Roberta Rogers. Work in progress. Unmarked structures may be open businesses. Call 398-3980 for corrections.

De Anza Restaurante & Cantina (520) 398-0300 Clay Hands Studio (520) 398-2885 Cobalt Gallery (520) 398- 1200

BARRIO CUSTOM PAINTING (520) 648-7578

Hal Empie Gallery (520) 398-2811

Galleria Tubac (520) 398-9088 Jane's Attic (520) 398-9301

Schatze (520) 398-9855

Rogoway Gallery (520) 398-2041

Tubac Center of the Arts (520) 398-2371 Beads of Tubac (520) 398-2070

Heir Looms Old World Imports (520) 398-2369 Tumacookery (520) 398-9497 Bruce Baughman Gallery (520) 398- 3098 Casa Fina de Tubac (520) 398-8620 Damian Koorey Tubac Deli Designs (520) 398-3330 (520) 398-8360

FIESTA TOURS INTERNATIONAL (520) 398-9705

Old Presidio Traders (520) 398-9333 James Culver Leather Studios (520) 398-1841 Shelby's Bistro (520) 398-8075

Roberta Rogers Studios (520) 979-4122 Tubac Professional Services (520) 398-2472

D. SIMONS CONSTRUCTION (520) 331-9735

The Artist's Daughter (520) 398-9525

Casa Maya de Mexico (520) 398-9373

FOWLER CLEANERS (520) 270-4105 LONG REALTY CHA CHA DONAU (520) 591-4982

Maria's Grill (520) 398-3350

MATKO PAINTING (520) 398-3300

TJ's Tortuga Books & Coffee Beans (520) 398-8109

REALTY EXECUTIVES TEAM BILL MACK & SALLY ROBLING (520) 398-2770 CHARLIE MEAKER (520) 237-2414

Casa Maya K. Newby Gallery de Mexico (520) 398-3933 (520) 398-9662 Brasher Real Estate, Inc. (520) 398-2506

Take the Frontage Rd north to Tubac Art Exchange (520) 237-5439 Tubac Villager Oﬃce (520)398-3980 Village Counseling (520) 820-1678, Realty Executives Team Bill Mack & Sally Robling (520) 398-2770 & Charlie Meaker (520) 237-2414, and the Tubac Villager (520) 398-3980. Head further north to the Tubac Golf Resort & Spa (520) 398-2211

AMADO TERRITORY STEAKHOUSE (520) 398-2651

SCOTT POTTINGER, BUILDER (520) 398-9959 TUBAC ONLINE SERVICES (520) 398-2437

Take the Frontage Road south to Wisdom's Café, (520) 398-2397 the Tumacacori National Historical Park (520) 398-2341 & the Santa Cruz Chili Company (520) 398-2591

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Curandera

by Cathy Giesy

hile at the dermatologist’s office the other day getting checked out for those irritating little actinic keratoses that pop up on the skin of most native Arizonans who were raised during the age of looking healthy only if you were tanned a lively bronze, we started to discuss a crusty little place on my hand between my thumb and wrist. We decided it was a wart and he could get rid of it. As he was digging/burning away, he said it smelled like a wart. I mentioned that the last warts I had were wished away by a curandero in Mexico. He said, “It works, you know. It has been written up in the pediatric journal of medicine.” So when I got home I googled “curanderos + warts” and up came all kinds of articles about curanderos, warts, and, of course, a multitude of ads on how to get rid of warts.

There were several folk medicine cures listed, not all of them from Mexico. A most bizarre cure for warts requires taking a dead cat to a graveyard at the witching hour of midnight. When you hear a noise, throw the cat in the general direction of the sound. It was believed that the sound came from the devil. The person throwing the cat must say, "Cat follow the devil and warts follow the cat."

Other strange cures involved leather soles, chalk lines, and buried dish rags. I finally found reference to the cure used on me. My curandero tied a knot in a thread for each wart on my hands, then he threw the thread into the Sea of Cortez. Pretty soon, all the warts disappeared. As it turns out, warts are mostly caused by viruses, and most of the time your body heals itself by fighting the virus with its own immune system, and the warts eventually disappear on their own. But I like to think mine were cured by the curandero. He was an interesting individual.

What is a curandero? Some kind of healer. Over our years of traveling in Latin America, we have run across various kinds of healers. The most common kind of healer is an herbalist, a hierbero or yerbero. This person recommends different kinds of herbs to cure various ailments. Most people living in the countryside are very familiar with native plants that have curing properties. One time we were on one of our camping tours in the Baja Peninsula when I burned myself cooking over the fire. Without even looking, our local muleteer reached up and grabbed a chunk of a little succulent growing on the side of a cliff by our camp and applied it to the burn. It immediately quit hurting, and there was not even a sore spot. The plant turned out to be siempre vive (live forever) which is a cousin of the well known Aloe Vera, the burn plant.

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Some herbalists are moms with a back yard herb garden. My friend in Hermosillo was always recommending different kinds of teas for different ailments. This was knowledge passed down through the ages from mothers and grandmothers. Some of her favorites seemed to be chamomile or manzanilla tea for stomach ailments, cinnamon or canelo tea for colds, or sotol with honey for coughs. Once she recommended garlic for a spider bite. I dutifully taped a clove of garlic to the bite and ended up with a blister from the garlic much worse than the bite itself. She did not tell me how much to put on, how to do it, or for how long. The most respected curanderas seem to have a sixth sense concerning the “amount” of plant cure you might need for your particular ailment. The spider bite was not very bad, and perhaps just a little rub of garlic was all I needed.

Some healers are “hueseros” (bone healers), soberos (massage specialists), or others who may specialize in a certain kind of healing technique such as working with bone or muscle manipulation.

In the Cayo District of Belize, we encountered a napropathic physician from the states who was practicing medicine in the back woods of an area outside of San Ignacio. Rosita Arvigo had studied in Chicago, and moved to Belize with her husband. Napropathy is a healing method that works through manipulation of the connective tissues holding the skeleton together. Often times it is combined with spiritual healing as a holistic mind/body/spirit approach. Eventually Dr Arvigo met Dr. Eligio Panti, a Mayan medicine man who had a little palm-thatched ramada out in the jungle where people came to visit him with all kinds of ailments. Dr Panti combined the spiritual healing techniques of the ancient Maya with herbs, massage, prayer and anything else he felt necessary to help heal someone’s problems. Dr Panti was about 80 years old, and had found no one to pass his knowledge onto as he had learned his practice from his grandfather. Rosita was able to combine her interest and training with the practices of Dr Panti, and in her own way, preserved and recorded much of the Mayan medicinal practices that otherwise may have been lost. She was able to send samples of many of the jungle herbs to the University of Chicago for analysis to determine their medicinal properties. Occasionally, a new pharmaceutical was developed from the plants of the jungle. Rosita developed the “Mayan Medicine Trail” through the jungle, and labeled many of the trees found along the trail and their uses. Occasionally she consented to lead one of our tour groups along the trail, and explain the uses of the plants. We learned about the doctrine of “similarity” in which a plant might be able to cure an ailment that resembles what the plant resembles. For example, a heart shaped leaf may contain a chemical that would be good for ailments of the heart. Red stems running to a leaf might provide medicine that is good for the blood. Once again, this does not always work, so a good healer who is well versed in herbs and sensitive to the needs of his or her patient is necessary to determine what to give to help the ailment.

We learned about the poison tree that grows in the jungle. If you brush against the tree, the toxins in the bark can cause a rash on your skin that will not heal. It will only grow, ulcerate, and eventually can kill you. However, always within 10 feet of the poison tree, there grows an antidote which will cure the rash caused by the poison tree. You just have to know your trees, and how to use the cures available to you. A hard trick, as many of the trees look alike in the jungle. Rosita Arvigo wrote a wonderful book called SASTUN about her progression of becoming a Mayan curandero – a faith healer who was accepted by the local people. It was published by Harper Collins in 1994.

In Belize, you will frequently see the cashew tree. It provides wonderful shade and often grows in the front yards of the wood slat homes built on stilts. We learned that not only does it provide a tasty nut, but the fruit that grows between the nut shell and the branch is a commonly used medicinal…..and makes a wonderful wine. The juice of the fruit is rich in vitamin C, is astringent, and has a little antiinflammatory property. The only thing we used it for was to drink a little wine to shorten the road from Crooked Tree to Dangriga!

Curanderos are still revered in South America, and we have run across them amongst the Quechua people of Peru and Ecuador. One time we hired a curandero in a little village outside of Quito, Ecuador, to perform a cleansing ceremony for our tour group. This particular curandero was into theatrics, and into the local hootch which greatly helped him in his ceremony! He had learned how to take advantage of the local lore to entertain tourists. Unfortunately he probably did more harm than good in encouraging disdain for ancient curandero practices which more often than not include faith healing in ceremonies. Many anthropological studies have tried to explain the phenomenon of the healing powers of the faith healers and herbalists of the Amazonian tribes of the eastern side of the Andes. It is a fascinating area of study. Often curanderos are accused of charlatanism, quackery, or witchcraft (brujeria). The Yaqui are particularly susceptible to the spells or curses of witches or brujos. Many tribal people of Mexico believe that an ailment or bad moods or bad luck are caused by the “mal de ojo” – the curse of the evil eye put on you by a witch who was hired by an enemy, a jealous wife or girlfriend, or someone who wants revenge.

The cure for a “mal de ojo” can be a raw egg passed over your body to absorb the evil contained therein. When the egg is broken into a glass, sometimes the evil can be seen there as little black flecks, and you know the evil has been drawn out of your body. I was told a story about a friend who poked a very tiny hole in the egg and inserted a straight pin. When the egg was broken into the glass and the straight pin appeared, the sick person turned pale and began to shake. He thought really bad things had been planned for him by his enemies. It took a while to make him realize that he was the victim of a very poor prank. Belief is a very powerful phenomenon, and often is the curandero’s best ally.

Sometimes love potions are brewed up by the local witch to…well, you know. Quite often we hear of a plant called “toloache” – which is usually considered an aphrodisiac. However, the word is used to refer to different plants in different parts of Mexico, and sometimes the plant can be a dangerous hallucinogen, or is a poison of some sort.

The Tarahumara actually do not have a word for “poison”. They have medicinal uses for most plants, and if what we consider a poison is used in very tiny doses, it can actually do you some good. I was trained as a kid to stay away from Lantana bushes as the berries are poison. The Tarahumara use the plant in very tiny doses as a cure for kidney ailments. Once again, an herbalist or curandero must know just how much a person needs and just how to prepare the concoction so as to do you good, not harm. The Santa Cruz Valley is very fortunate to have its own curandera. Danette Soto was born and raised in Nogales, Arizona, and is becoming more and more well known in the area as a curandera. I was lucky enough to sit down and talk with Danette about her life as a curandera. I asked what was the difference between a shaman and a curandera. They are very much the same according to Danette. Mostly it is in the way they go about healing an individual that marks a difference. Danette believes very strongly that in healing an individual, she is helping to heal

a community. Very often an ailment is “community” related. She tries very hard to communicate with an individual to find out the cause of an ailment as opposed to just dealing with symptoms. Oftentimes, there is an uncomfortable situation in which a person finds himself or herself than can inadvertently cause problems over time. By dealing with the situation, the individual needs support of the people around him or her in order to make the situation more livable and thus helping to relieve the stress that is causing a physical problem.

“Community” is always changing – so the concept changes. One culture may move into another culture, technology influences culture, a person may move into a new community, someone might die within a community, the idea of community may involve close family relationships, or any number of situations. Danette enjoys the “community” of Tubac because so many people here are from such diverse areas of the country and from all walks of life. Yet so many of the people are open to new ideas and accepting of the changes that it makes it fun and challenging for her to work here.

During my research, I came across an article about a curandero in Los Angeles who had a neighborhood practice in a room in his home. Although he never charged for his services, people would give him money or some kind of payment for helping them. One day a county official came by and told him he needed a license to be a health practioner. He became very nervous and was afraid he would be thrown in jail. In the local community, one of his regular patients was an attorney. The attorney quickly made arrangements for the curandero to get a license and a permit to practice on his property. In this case, the community rose up to serve the curandero. Danette works with the spirit world also as the mind and body are connected in the spirit. She feels that the spirit leads you to a time and a place – be it good or bad. She

tries to give people joy by allowing them to do what gives them joy.

For example, she worked with a depressed woman whose upbringing had repressed her ability to enjoy her world. Danette was able to free her spirit from her oppressive background and eventually the woman no longer had to take antidepressant drugs.

Danette’s grandmother was a curandera and Danette learned many of her skills through her family environment. She said the idea of a curandera was always within her family, and her grandmother noticed that she had special sensitivities when she was a child. Danette’s grandmother encouraged her to develop her skills. Her grandmother was raised in Patagonia, and her family has a long history in southern Arizona. As Danette grew up, she rejected her natural tendencies for a while, and tried to do other things with her life. But she seemed happiest following her instincts for faith healing, and continued along that route until she feels stronger in that realm today than ever before. We discussed my wart, and I was expecting to hear of some strange kind of traditional cure. Instead, after thinking about it for a few minutes, she asked me if there had been an event that happened to me earlier in life - possibly in my twenties – that had possibly caused a “rub” – an uncomfortable situation. That surprised me. I told her about a “falling out” I had with a sister-inlaw that caused an estrangement between me and my brother. She suggested I maintain communication with my brother and invite him over for a visit. Meantime, I grew to understand the feeling of “community” that Danette was trying to get across. The world around you and your interactions with people certainly make a difference on how you feel. I invited my brother over for a visit. We’ll see how that affects the wart….or other things in life!

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The Tubac Historical Society is pleased to have Alan Day as the speaker at their annual luncheon meeting on Thursday, January 27, in the Geronimo Room of the Tubac Golf Resort at 12:00 noon. Everyone is invited to hear Alan talk about what it was like growing up on a cattle ranch, managing that ranch and other ranches. Alan and his sister, US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, co-authored the best seller Lazy B, Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest in which they tell the story of the Day family on the Lazy B ranch which was homesteaded in 1880 by their grandfather, H.C. Day. The Lazy B Ranch with additional grazing rights leased from Arizona and New Mexico comprised roughly 250 square miles straddling the Arizona-New Mexico line between Duncan, AZ and Lordsburg, NM. Alan’s father, Harry Day, took over the ranch in 1922. In 1962, after graduating from the University of Arizona, Alan became the third generation of Days to manage the Lazy B. The ranch was sold in 1993. Alan will share stories of growing up on the Lazy B with his family which included the cowboys who helped run the ranch. He’ll tell about living in a huge expanse of the arid Southwest where rain was the essential element and about the many components of such a life: raising cattle, breaking wild horses,

building and mending fences, round ups, drilling wells, and building windmills. These were the everyday struggles of ranchers and cowboys , challenges to be met and shared in a way of life that instilled traditional values of self-reliance and hard work. For most people the word “cowboy” means actors like John Wayne starring in classic western movies — mythical figures in American history. Alan’s presentation will provide a real life portrayal of this uniquely American way of life that today is almost lost to history. Alan is a lifelong rancher who, besides managing the Lazy B for over 30 years, purchased the Rex Ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska in 1987. He then bought the Mustang Meadow Ranch near St. Frances, SD, in 1989 where he provides a sanctuary for 1500 wild horses of the American West. Alan is the recipient of the Steward of the Land Award from BLM and the Lifetime Award for Stewardship of the Land by the U of A College of Agriculture. He has served as the President and Director for the Public Land Council of AZ Cattle Growers Association and Chairman of the Public Land Committee of the AZ Cattlemen’s Association. The cost for the luncheon and presentation is $30 per person. Reservations must be received by noon on Friday, January 21, 2011. Call THS at 398-2020 or Susan Buchanan at 398-2614 for more information. Please join us for a wonderful meeting with Alan Day! Autographed copies (by both Alan Day and Justice O’Connor) of Lazy B, Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest will be available. �

SAT, JAN 22ND - INTRODUCTION TO SONOITA CREEK STATE NATURAL AREA at 7pm. Learn about this riparian area's plants, animals, and history. Visitor Center at Patagonia Lake State Park. Jen Parks, Presentor. SAT & SUN, JAN 22ND & 23RD NICHOLAS WILSON WOOD ENGRAVINGS PRINTING DEMONSTRATION from 11 am to 4 pm at TJ’s Tortuga Books and Coﬀee Beans, 19 Tubac Road. 398-8109. MON, JAN 24TH - BLUES AND SOUL EXPLOSION at 7pm at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W Continental Rd in Green Valley. 520 399-1750. Rumble with Gaslight favorites Mike Yarema and Charlie Hall as Joliet Jake & Elwood Blues, Chicago’s own blues-loving-rabble rouser Blues Brothers. They’ll be joined by The Bad News Blues Band in this memorable musical event. Robert Shaw production.$22. TUES, JAN 25TH – DAY TOUR TO SONOITA VINEYARDS & ALPACA RANCH. For more info visit www.fiestatoursint.com or call 398-9705. WED, JAN 26TH - REBALANCING THE OCEAN from 8am to 5pm at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W Continental Rd in Green Valley. 520 399-1750. Free. WED, JAN 26TH - STUDIO TIME WITH ROBERTA ROGERS - FIGURES AND PORTRAITS: USING PROPORTION AND COLOR TECHNIQUES OR FIGURATIVE WORKS. At the Tubac Center of the Arts, call 398-2371 for more info. Fee: $45 Members, $50 Non Members 9am -12pm. THURS, JAN 27TH - THS ANNUAL MEETING PROUDLY PRESENTS ALAN DAY, A LIFELONG RANCHER at the Tubac Golf Resort at noon. Alan will tell us what it was like growing up on a cattle ranch, managing that ranch and other ranches. Alan and his sister, US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, co-authored the best seller Lazy B, Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest in which they tell the story of the Day family on the Lazy B ranch which was homesteaded in 1880 by their grandfa-ther, H.C. Day. $30 per person. Reservations must be received by noon on Fri, Jan 21. Autographed copies (by both Alan Day and Justice O’Connor) of Lazy B, Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest will be available. Call the Tubac Historical Society at 398-2020. THURS & FRI, JAN 27TH – 28TH - SHRINE OF CONTEMPLATION TCA WORKSHOP. Instructor: Rebecca O'Day. 10am - 3:30pm, bring a sack lunch. Fee: $180 for TCA members ($200 for non-members) Material Fee: $15. Call 398-2371 for more info. FRI, JAN 28TH - LIVE MUSIC WITH EDUARDO VALENCIA AT WISDOM'S CAFE in Tumacacori from 5 to 8pm with Fish & Chips. 398-2397. OPENING FRI JAN 28TH - SANTA CRUZ SHOESTRING PLAYERS' PRODUCTION OF “SYLVIA” - this hilarious love triangle between a man, his wife and a dog, Sylvia, is a play no one who enjoys a good time should miss. Written by A.J. Gurney and directed by Susan Ford. Fri & Sat - Jan 28-29, & Feb 4-5 at 7pm. Thurs, Feb 3rd at 2pm. $12 in advance; $14 at the door. Community

Performing Arts Center, 1250 W Continental Rd in Green Valley. 520 399-1750. SAT, JAN 29TH - SANTA CRUZ VALLEY CAR NUTS 17TH ANNUAL COLLECTOR CAR SHOW at the Tubac Golf Resort. 10am to 3pm. $3.00 for Spectators. Net proceeds from this show to fund scholarships at Sahuarita High School and to purchase a car which is given away to a lucky graduating senior at the "all night graduation party". Come join the fun, see the 500 collector cars, and enjoy the grounds of the beautiful Tubac Golf Resort. 398-3545. SAT, JAN 29TH - 1ST ARIVACA ARTIST STUDIO TOUR. 10 exceptional artists - 9 fascinating studios.10am - 4pm. TICKETS: $10 each, available at the Green Valley Chamber of Commerce and at the Arivaca Community Center on the day of the event. Call 398-3262 for more information. A fund raising event to benefit the Arivaca Community Center, a not-for-profit organization. 85646. SAT, JAN 29TH - THE GIFTS OF THE GODDESS a mystical afternoon learning experience with Virginia Ellen. From 1 to 4pm at The Sonora Center for Spiritual Living at the Amado Territoty Ranch. I-19 exit 48. Visit www.virginiaellen.net or call 207-5536 for more info. SAT, JAN 29TH - THE ARIZONA TRAIL FROM MEXICO TO UTAH at 7pm. Visitor Center at Patagonia Lake. Dave Baker, Presentor. MON, JAN 31ST - BLUES REDEEMERS at 7pm at the Community Performing Arts Center, 1250 W Continental Rd in Green Valley. 520 399-1750. Blues and Boogie Woogie piano master Arthur Migliazza and English blues harmonica sensation Tom Wallbank lead a foot stomping blues quartet. $15 in advance, $20 at the door. TUES & WED, FEB 1ST & 2ND SCULPTURE WORKSHOP at the Tubac Center of the Arts. Instructor: Kaye Guerin. 9am – 4pm, bring a sack lunch. Fee: $180 for TCA members ($200 for non-members). Material Fee: $43. Call 398-2371 for info. WED, FEB 2ND - DAY TOUR TO TALIESIN WEST AND CULINERY INSTITUTE – PHOENIX. For more info visit www. fiestatoursint.com or call 398 9705. THURS, FEB 3RD – TUBAC THURSDAY MORNING BREAKFAST FORUM PRESENTS LEE GELB AND SHELLY MILANO, FOUNDERS OF ZAVIDA GEMSTONES, SPEAKING ON REBUILDING LIVELIHOODS; THE ARTISANS OF KUTCH INDIA, Lee, of Tubac and Vashon Island, and Shelly, of Tubac and Mercer Island, have created the Zavida Silversmith Project in Kutch, India. The Project provides tools, training materials and loans. The project also has initiated a program which trains young girls in silversmithing, a role that has traditionally been reserved for men. The Zavida Project has attracted trade from throughout India. Forum begins at 8:30am at Maria's Grill, Plaza de Anza, 40 Avenida Goya, Tubac. $10 admission includes full sit down breakfast. Seating is limited. Advance reservations, call 429-5556 or email bdank22@msn.com. More infohttp://tubacbreakfastforum.wordpress.com.

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Baker, who retired as a Sahuarita area family practice and gerontology physician in 2004, offers a free 30-minute introductory seminar at his office in the La Entrada Plaza in Tubac. The seminars are scheduled for the convenience of interested individuals, he said.

Most people say they’d like to feel better. Banishing aches, having more energy, being more cheerful. Yes, it’s all very desirable. For the past 10 years, Tubac resident Carlton Baker, M.D., has been following just such a program that includes replacing hormones lost due to aging, along with exercising, careful eating and appropriate supplements. He’s found such outstanding health benefits that he now offers the program, called “Prime Health.” Baker said hormone replacement works best for people in the age group of early 40s to late 60s, although those older than that will see some benefit.

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He and his wife, Sherry Sass, have been adherents since 2000.

“For us, it’s been a wonderful thing for our energy and strength and a good outlook on life. We exercise a lot, but we don’t have any aches or pains,” he said.

“We’re just really enjoying our life now. So it’s made a difference to our health and we’d like to spread it around.”

In an interview, he explained how Prime Health can reverse some unpleasant health issues. “As we get older, several things happen to us. One is that we get higher levels of inflammation. Secondly, we get higher levels of insulin, and third, our hormone levels decline.

“All of these things are inter-related. They all affect each other, and they all lead to a downward spiral in your health. “Therefore, if you can start correcting one, two or preferably all three of them through hormones, diet, exercise and supplements, you can make that spiral go up. Instead of a downhill spiral, you get an upward spiral.

“You can actually achieve pretty dramatic improvements in your health rather quickly if you positively affect those three things.” Crista Simpson is thrilled with the change she’s undergone. “I was very fatigued in the afternoons and that’s gone now.” She’s on her second three-month segment of the Prime Health program.

Simpson said she “appreciates the monitoring” Baker does of her hormone status. “It’s really important” that Baker continually adjusts her levels. She feels she’s sleeping better and has more energy. Meg Vickery and her husband Vic, of Tubac, began the program several months ago. “So far, it’s been great. What he’s had us do has worked. I recommend the program, most definitely,” Meg said.

Baker said he uses blood tests to evaluate hormone levels, and then prescribes bio-identical hormones to raise hormone levels to what they were when an individual was younger. Those are mixed in a compounding pharmacy, so are different from brand-name synthetic hormones.

“If you’re using bio-identical hormones, you can individualize your strength to whatever you want.”

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“Fat around the middle is called abdominal or central obesity and it’s not just fat that sits there. It works like an endocrine gland and it makes inflammatory chemicals which then travel through your bloodstream so it’s a very unhealthy thing to have. It leads to diabetes and vascular disease. “One of the first things men may notice is decreased erections because their vascular system is inflamed and not working. Decreased erections may be a sign of poor cardiovascular health,” Baker said. Women respond differently than men to hormone replacement. “I don’t want to be sexist,” he said, “but I guess I have to. In general, men tend to get a better response to this program than women. It’s just that replacing testosterone, for men, can have such a dramatic effect on abdominal obesity and their mood, energy, their libido.

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“Women, unless they’re low in thyroid, don’t seem to get quite the dramatic results (but) they still get significant improvements in many areas.”

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Sleeping soundly evaporates for many people as they get older. Baker said part of what he evaluates for Prime Health.

“Absolutely, this has a connection to interrupted sleep at night. We What’s the difference between taking know around the age of 45 or 50, hormones and taking bio-identical melatonin drops off dramatically. hormones? “That’s the crux of the That’s important for sleep, as well as program,” Baker said. for boosting your immune system. “With bio-identicals, it’s the absolute “It’s the most potent antioxidant in identical structure to the hormone your body. It’s probably a strong antithat you and I have made all our cancer agent. So even in people who lives. It’s a human hormone. We have don’t have sleep issues, I encourage them to take melatonin for its other receptors on all our cells that are benefits,” he said. made for human hormones, not for something made in a lab.” Baker wants people to become aware that they have more control over how He said brand-name hormones they feel and that it’s never too late are developed by drug companies. to begin. “Anybody can get benefits. However, “You cannot patent a “I say; come listen to the seminar, natural product, so drug companies see what the specifics are. You’ve have no interest in making a natural got nothing to lose. It’s free. It will hormone because they can’t make take 30 minutes or so, and then you any money on it.” can mull it over and see what you The effects of aging shouldn’t be decide. It’s not high pressure. I’m just passively accepted, Baker said. For showing you what there is.” example, “If you’re starting to get To schedule a seminar, or for more big around the waist, it means your information, call Baker at hormone levels are dropping. (520) 398-8269.

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n the dim of winter, your disposition is brightened with more exposure.

Photographers know that if you must have “wrong” exposure, it’s best for an image to be somewhat over-exposed than underexposed, since adjustments can later be made more readily. This fact applies to both film photography and digital. Darker moods, thus, can be accommodated later in the darkroom or software. However, taken to its extreme, overexposure means that areas of your image have lost the capability of being adjusted at all. My photography often doesn’t include lighter hues and softer tones, usually fixating on the sharp realities and vivid contrasts of the borderlands. But this is purely a stylistic choice: photography provides infinite options for rendering the character of a subject, in the desert or anywhere else. In this article, we’ll explore the brighter side. The borderlands photographer doesn’t hesitate to increase the exposure settings on a camera a notch or two above normal, as the overall effect to an image can be striking. Setting the tone of an image before it hits the film or digital sensor always produces a higher quality result than doing it later, in the darkroom or computer. But it can be done in either, or both. In software, such as Photoshop, there are many ways to segregate an image into sections to allow adjustment of each section separately. This process of applying various tools to discreet image segments is the basis of fine art photography. However, this article will concentrate on just two overall image adjustments: brightness and exposure. In the software there is the histogram, which is a graph of values on an x and y axis showing the number of pixels at each color intensity level, and indicating exposure levels. “Off the chart” thus has meaning when using a program’s histograms for measuring exposure. In most cases, all values should remain visible on the chart; if not, this means that parts of your image have become unmanageable. A photo’s initial exposure is the result of a camera’s shutter speed and lens aperture size. In this article, I’m suggesting that you increase exposure by increasing your aperture size while fixing the shutter speed in place. Or, more easily, you can adjust your “EV” setting, or exposure value, a program of logarithmic values which adjusts your camera’s variables by simple increments.

Try increasing the exposure value by a notch or two. This will accomplish the same thing as increasing your aperture size, and will brighten your image. In the software, brightness and exposure controls are separate. They both accomplish the same general objective, but the exposure adjustment, used carefully, produces an image with better detail in the mid-tone and highlight areas as compared with the brightness adjustment, which disrupts the mid-tone areas more noticeably. The exposure setting will eradicate content in bright areas more quickly but has a sharper and higher-contrast effect on the entire image. Further, the two adjustments have different impacts on colors. Since each image must be approached differently, you should experiment with both settings. Obscuring detail with over- or underexposure is taught to be avoided, by controlling exposure within acceptable zones. Photographer Ansel Adams invented the “zone system” to define precise gradations of light in an image, zones 1 through 10. Zone 1 is pure black, zone 10 pure white. Detailed image content within both of these areas is lost. However, rules were made to be tested. Artful results can be achieved by the obscuration of detail. Often this comes from partial elimination of content in a small area of an image, for example by using optical lens flare caused by the glare of the sun. Using direct rays of the sun is a fine way to accomplish a dramatic result. However, shooting straight into the burning sun is a safety issue - don’t do it! How do you do this with less risk? There are options: first, shoot the sun when it’s near the horizon and much less intense; second, shoot the sun when it’s partially blocked by an object; and third, shoot the sun without looking through the camera at all, by just aiming the lens in the general direction. With experience you’ll find that in most cases, you’ll want to increase a photograph’s exposure. A brightened image, using sunlight or other sources, will improve your entire outlook. Murray Bolesta has written this article monthly since 2007. His CactusHuggers Photography is a celebration of southern Arizona; it specializes in borderland images and supports the preservation of our natural, rural, and cultural heritage. Murray’s art can be seen at www.CactusHuggers.com and Creative Spirit Gallery in Patagonia.

Images from opposite page Top, left: A sunrise in the Sonoran desert west of Tucson. Top, right: The sun makes an impact on a scene of a wary but confident great horned owl. Mid, left: A common mourning dove, fluffed up in the January chill. The image is brightened almost to the point of detail derailment, but not beyond.

Mid, right: This is an example of increasing exposure beyond what your camera wants to do. “Pale Valley” was photographed near the Mexican border east of Patagonia. Bottom, left: Lens flare adds drama to a pastoral river scene in the San Rafael valley. Bottom, right: A January display of color in Arizona often means a lemon tree or orange tree, seen here at Tohono Chul park in Tucson.

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There are times when pampering yourself can easily be justified. The hacienda-style charm of the spa and salon at the Tubac Golf Resort offers that splendid experience. The spa was created and opened about three years ago and fills a niche between the hospitality of a rural ranch and the perfect details of a high-end resort. New spa director Kristina Valdiviezo brings vivaciousness, positive energy and a professional background in the business.

Overseeing about 15 employees, Valdiviezo has been at the spa and salon since September. She’s lived in Tubac nine years while raising a family of three young daughters with her husband, Oscar. Now that her children are in school, she said she was excited and anxious to return to work. “When I lived in Phoenix I ran the Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salon and Spa for several years. It was such a great learning experience. Everything we offer here, we did there,” she said.

Laura Fernandez, a Tubac resident, has found pleasure in visiting the spa. “I’ve been there with friends, and alone, and either way it’s a relaxing, peaceful environment. “You walk in and you just feel like you’re somewhere else; you’re disconnected from the rest of your obligations.” Fernandez added, “I wish I could go more often. I strongly recommend it to anyone who wants to get away for a bit.”

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The “Timeless Beauty” facial was enjoyed by this writer. While I relaxed prone on a cushioned table, esthetician Lori Warrender provided gentle cleansing and massage. She continued with deep cleaning, exfoliation, and a te locker rooms for men and for women. cleansing alpha hydroxy mask. She next neutralized the mask with milk cleanser and skillfully used a light he facilities aren’t restricted to resort massage with several firming techniques on my face. ot a members’ only place. It’s not b. You don’t have to live in the An antioxidant vitamin mask was applied and be a part of the resort. It’s for the next 10 minutes she provided an one,” she said. “People can arm and hand massage. That mask was ng, big or small. They removed with warm towels. Before I ed, like they’re taking left, a moisturizer was the final addition. es.” My skin felt soft, smooth and plump. What a success! rooms and saunas are

omen’s and men’s locker er rooms are as nice as h polished mesquite wood oth stone floors, set off by med in colorful Mexican tiles.

An enclosed, shaded private patio next to the spa features a whirlpool tub and lounge chairs for added relaxation. A boutique at the spa’s entry offers cleansers and creams used in treatments so clients can take them home. Unusual soaps and candles make a great souvenir present.

s are designed to stimulate circulation, and increase the flow of nutrients. A with 13 showerheads is incorporated in rvices. Using a variety of deliciously s, the spa also offers 11 different types

In addition to her previous work experience in Phoenix, Valdiviezo said she ran her own small business in Tubac called Stockfitness. “I’m a Pilates instructor and I have a dance background. I have a passion of guiding people to improve their mental and physical wellness.”

mall, softly lit treatment rooms provide Massages can last from 25 minutes nd focus on differing problem areas. A few steps from the spa, the salon provides manicures e couples massage and golfer’s delight and pedicures along with a full range of hair care ncture is offered weekly by appointment. options including cuts, styling and coloring.

ski. Above, photos of the Spa at the Tubac Golf Resort by Kathleen Vandervoet.

That allowed her to work flexible hours when her children were younger. Now Mirabella, 10, Gabriella, 8, and Ariella, 4, attend Montessori de Santa Cruz School in Tubac.

Linda Cormier, vice president of hotel operations at the resort, is pleased to have Valdviezo on staff: “She is energetic and knows how to reach out to many people on a personal and professional level. She puts her staff and clients before herself and we are so delighted to have her as our spa director.” The Tubac Golf Resort Spa and Salon is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Information is available at the web site, www.tubacgolfresort.com, or call the spa at (520) 398-3545.

Valdiviezo is at home at the spa. “I love what I do for a living. Everyone should feel they’re given an experience of splendor and extravagance.” Cormier said the spa is an important component of the resort. “Many see a spa as a place to treat the body – work out the kinks, smooth out the lines. We want to create a spa experience that is engaging and meaningful. “Towards this end, we have added an acupuncturist and will be adding more wellness programs such as nutrition and exercise so the spa experience will go deeper and be more meaningful to our client’s wellbeing.”

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by Hattie Wilson Irene came on the board of the Tubac Historical Society 30 years ago in 1980. She remembered those as “pen, pencil and typewriter days.”

That was two years after she and her husband, William Deaton, bought a house in Tubac, when, she said, “Tubac was still a village.”

Irene had worked in the offices of Title and Insurance companies before meeting and marrying Bill in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He had retired from the military and she said, “We decided to take a six months’ trip that ended in six years, starting with camping and then trailering.” She remembered, “We used to go hunting in Oregon in the fall, then to Tombstone for the Hell Dorado Days.” After several years of that they thought of settling in Tombstone, but then, Irene said, “We heard about Tubac,”

When Irene joined the Tubac Historical Society in 1980 the president was Loretta Lewis and the board meetings and members’ meetings were held at the Art Center. “We had no home,” Irene said. She said that “In the old days there was nothing going on in Green Valley and back then everyone was young and drove at night to the evening meetings at the Art Center, but as Green Valley grew so did organizations and arts and crafts and golf.”

The Society had its office at the Art Center and its library started there with the first books from the Kenyon Ranch after it closed. The Society met at the Center during the early 1980s. In the mid-1980s the Society moved their headquarters and library to part of what had been the district school and is now the visitor center of the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. That was from 1985 to 1995. During those years the Tubac Historical Society headquarters was on a glass windowed porch along the west side of the building and included a kitchen and bath, since this had once been an apartment for the teachers.

Irene remembered, “We had no telephone and no heat. We used plug-in heaters and the girls sometimes wore their ski clothes to keep warm.”

Among the volunteers then were Ovella Owen, Betty Lane, Elaine Flint, and Lillie Sheehan. Lillie presented a program called Los Tubuquenos with volunteers dressed in the clothing of the 18th century Spanish settlers of Tubac and serving their food. Especially popular was Lillie’s pozole.

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After 10 years at the Presidio the Society moved in the spring of 1995 to what was known as the Pink House nearby on Placita de Anza. It was rented from Nancy Valentine. In a letter to the members this was their reason for the move: “The state’s master plan for the Presidio museum is coming together, hence they will soon be needing what the Tubac Historical Society was using as their office and library.” The letter went on to describe the move; “April 20th, sunshine and the moving crew arrived. John Garrett donated his flat bed trailer and his two employees’ time, Gus and Angel, to move a few books and a couple of file cabinets and some book cases. Well, it took three big loads to accomplish the feat. Of course, it took a few volunteers to help huff and puff and do some tape measure mathematics regarding door ways.

Irene Deaton, photograph by Chuck Myers.

“Oh, yes, it took a few days to box the library books, reference files and empty the supply shelves. The great crew of volunteers who helped pack for the move know just how much the Tubac Historical Society has grown since it was started In 1967.

“Cheers to these volunteers for a job well done: Loretta and Bob Lewis, Irene Deaton, Sara and Dan Rusinko, Gini Davis, Ed and Mary Ann Van Dyk, Chuck Broman, Carl Armentrout, Betty and John Lane, plus Chuck Dexheimer.” The letter ended with the announcement that besides heating and cooling, the Society would now have a telephone. There would be another first, a gift shop. The Society stayed at the Pink House 12 years.

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Joyce Thompson, Irene Deaton and Barbara Ruppman photograph by Patty Wilson. The last move was made January 2007 to the present quarters in the Community Center which is off Bridge Road, a mile north of the Village of Tubac. During those years T. H.S. as it is called, was helped by volunteers. Among them Mary Bingham, who spent nine years as secretary and treasurer. She wrote the newsletter, found speakers, among them Father Polzer, and helped Irene with the picnics and bus trips. Irene remembered those bus trips, “When we’d be gone all day and served Bloody Marys.” She named some of the allday trips: the Amerind Foundation, the Chirichua National Monument, and the Bisbee-Douglas trip which included the Slaughter Ranch. Then there were the short field trips with members driving their own cars to Ruby, Arivaca, Fort Buchanan and the Pennington Stone House.

The Tubac Historical Society Library’s collection of files and books, many of them primary sources, is at the new headquarters with a staff to help writers and genealogists. The catalog is also available online at www.ths-tubac.org A retired librarian, Joyce Thompson, helps researchers on the Spanish colonial period, the Arizona Territorial period when Tubac was a mining town, and the stories of the settlers

Gary Brasher and Sam Chilcote photograph by Patty Wilson. thrown off their land by owners of the Baca Float.

Joyce is helped by Barbara Ruppman who has been greeting visitors to the Presidio State Park since 1989 and worked on the archaeological digs south of the Presidio. Another volunteer is Patty Hilpert, who is recording on the library’s computer material in its collection of more than 3,000 volumes on Arizona’s history, geography, geology and the biographies of its colorful settlers. The library is open Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m, October through April. Irene Deaton is the Executive Director with Shaw Kinsley, president. Other officers are Sam Chilcote, vice president; Don Davidson, treasurer; Karen Lang, secretary, and Susan Buchanan, co-secretary.

This June the society took on the responsibility of managing the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park after the state closed it. This is being done under the direction of Shaw Kinsley with volunteers working at greeting visitors and keeping up the maintenance of the buildings and grounds. The cost this year of heating and cooling the several buildings and the repairs is being paid with

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The Tubac Historical Society took on the responsibility for managing the Park thanks first to Carol Cullen. Shaw Kinsley explained, “Basically, Carol Cullen called a meeting and said, ‘They’re going to close the park,’ and we said, ‘Oh, no.’”

Kinsley said, “Credit goes to Sam Chilcote and Gary Brasher. They convinced the county supervisors,” and he added, “Greg Lucero, county manager, is one of the heroes.”

In an article by Shaw in the August-September Villager, titled “Saving Tubac’s Presidio: An Ongoing Challenge,” he writes of the series of meetings before the May 17 agreement signed by the Arizona State Park, the Santa Cruz County Supervisors and the Tubac Historical Society. The Society has been managing the Park since May 17. Contact the Tubac Historical Society at 520-398-2252 Photographs courtesy of the Tubac Historical Society.

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As the changing light of wide open spaces between sky islands reveals the strange and hearty ways plants and animals fill challenging niches, the beauty and specialized diversity experienced in the high Sonoran Desert helps to foster a love and curiosity of the wilds. We all interact with this interesting desert environment to varying degrees. Some hike the trails with a keen eye for species identification while others settle for catching the occasional sunset and could use a little perspective. Whatever your level of interest, Vincent and Claudia Pinto offer to expand on it at their 42 acre reserve and nature discovery center in Patagonia, Ravens - Way Wild Journeys with nature adventures and lessons on ecology, stone age and wilderness survival skills, and consultation with solutions for sustainable living and earth stewardship.

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ave been in Patagonia have since 2007 where they base many of their nature activities, demonstrations and walks. The Pintos explain that they can accommodate just about any sized group, and have led adventures with elementary school classes, small nature groups, and one-on-one survival instruction.

Vincent has been sharing his skills as an outdoors instructor and naturalist since 1987. With a background in environmental studies and wildlife biology, he has a particular fondness for ethnobotony and is currently working on a book about the Arizona and New Mexico Sky Islands.

Originally from Pennsylvania, Vincent says he fell in love with the nature while exploring Philadelphia's Penny Pack Park. Claudia describes Vincent's passion and knowledge of the environment as inspiring. Speaking to Vincent's expert wilderness and survival skills, Claudia and Vincent share an experience when Vincent spent five days in the remote mountains of the Chirichahuas with only a day's worth of ration and his survivalist skills - which includes being able to identify and gather edible plants, bugs and animals, and the willingness to consume them.

Claudia is originally from Columbia and finished her education at Wharton and Harvard with an emphasis on international business, Claudia speaks several languages, has traveled the world and lived abroad in her professional capacities in places like China where she says she witnessed massive infrastructure projects at the expense of the environment. When she discovered Arizona she says that she fell in love with the vast natural expanses. Claudia explains her concern for sustainable living and wilderness preservation, and is involved with advocating for women's causes. Directing the business aspects of Ravens - Way Journeys, Claudia also develops displays and creates original art pieces made from colorful seeds and techniques from her native Columbia. Located a valley or so from Patagonia Lake, two, tenthousand gallon water tanks dominate the property which the Pintos refer to as Raven's Nest which had previously been heavily grazed land with a barn and a large area of dead, bladed earth. Vincent and Claudia rejuvenated the flat spot to foster growth for a diversity of native plants and renovated the animal barn to house their nature and science discovery center. The water runoff from its large, metal roof is captured and diverted to a leveed area with a pump in a nonmortared brick "filter." That nutrient-rich water is Now Live-in Care for 50% less than hourly

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Inside the steel barn, the large space is filled with informative displays of the natural world, and walls lined with terrariums. Tables support a collection of skulls, furs, plants and references. Vincent describes his appreciation for Claudia's talent in composing the thoughtful educational space and overall esthetics.

In a wood hutch there looks to be a natural apothecary. Vincent picks two specimens from the collection of edible and medicinal plants he has organized in small bottles and offers a hand-full of dried juniper berries and jerky made from a desert succulent's root. The berries have a subtle but pleasant juniper taste with tough seeds inside and the strip of jerky is surprisingly sweet and palatable. Vincent has collected the sundry items from the Patagonia property and also from

their 50 acres in the Chiricahua Mountains which the Pintos refer to as Raven's Mountain.

Stalls that once held horses now compartmentalize the various nature disciplines: Earth Stewardship, Natural History, Stone Age Wilderness and Survival Skills. Each space presents the various subjects with posters, labels, illustrations crafts and hands-on interactive skills and displays and space to sit.

Vincent shows how having the option of lesson areas indoors allows for comfort and convenience in instructing the fundamentals. Kneeling down in the Primitive Skills area, he picks up a straight stick and a halved soltol stalk with a notch in it, and, vigorously rolling the stick in his palms, produces an ember of hot dust which he deposits it into a bundle of gathered fiber. Loosely cupping the fibers in his hands, with a few blows, the ember erupts into a plume of smoke and burst of flame. Fire produced from local sticks in less than a minute in a setting where students can

comfortably get familiar with new concepts through a variety of techniques. The center also has two portable toilets which feature an interesting solution to sanitation, where human waste is burned. The process is relatively straight forward and powered by electricity.

Outside of the lesson areas are the Pinto's organic gardens where they experiment with agricultural ideas to successfully grow otherwise challenging, organic crops in a sustainable way with solutions like dahlias planted nearby to attract pollinators, small, native shade trees grown in the garden, and beds fed by the nutrient rich, captured rainwater.

While he has hiked in many places around the world and is in constant practice as a naturalist, Vincent says that when he first came to Patagonia he was taken aback by how exotic seeming and diverse this area is.

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Ravens - Way Wild Journeys, continued from previous page... An elegant trogan is a bright reminder of that wild diversity, which Vincent describes spotting on the land, but so too can be the small, grey birds darting along through the brush. Ravens-Way provides comprehensive lists of the birds and plants found on their sanctuary. The plant list also includes annotations for potential human uses. Vincent and Claudia have also transformed their property into miles of trails that meander through bottomland grasses and native brush, confluences of washes, between mesquites, into arroyos, and up onto a high shoulder of the rolling hills. It is an easy walk following a path of least resistance, but requires attention even in the dry season. Cairns and nature anomalies like a pinecone on a mesquite branch mark the path and Vincent describes how jungle-like the valley becomes after the rains.

The valley's features culminate at a place that Vincent considers to a as a particularly special spot where he has also constructed a windbreak and more complete huts housing useful and decorative primitive objects near a large, spiral shaped firing pit, lined with boulders and stones.

Many of the shelters feature grass as a cover, made with lehmann's lovegrass which Vincent works to remove from the land, by hand, in an effort to enable the return of the many native grasses which are otherwise dominated by the nonnative and invasive lovegrass.

Dotted along the way are places to rest and interact with the various types of shelters which Vincent has created. From quick shade ramadas made from bundles of grass, to sturdy, multiple person protection from the elements, the shelters form what the Pintos refer to as, "the Village." Along the side of the wash, at the edge of the Village, a hide is stretched between mesquite branches. Further along, under a ramada are fragments and stones piled from flintknapping demonstrations. Local earthen pigments in their raw form are also displayed.

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Vincent Pinto writes a column for the Tubac Villager about his interests and discoveries in the Arizona wilds. This month, read his article on desert broom on page 28.

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The Yoas Brothers - Part 2

John Yoas & the Salero Cattle Camp Murder by Mary Bingham

John Stockton Yoas was not quite as notorious as his brother Thomas “Bravo Juan” Yoas, the Fairbank, AZ train robber, but he too would make headlines a little over a quarter of a century later. The event was his own murder at the Salero roundup camp located at the base of the San Cayetano Mountains east of Tumacácori. Second in line of Charlie & Mary Yoas sons, he was born December 8, 1874 as confirmed by his headstone located at the Live Oak Cemetery in McCulloch County, TX. He lies next to his parents and younger brother Hugh, all of whom died after John. John probably arrived in the Arizona Territory in 1900 or 1901. That would have been about the same time that brother Tom took up with the Alvord-Stiles gang. John lived and worked in the Tombstone area for a while as did his younger brother, Bird. In fact, the two of them were living together in 1910 on a cattle ranch near Elgin. It may be the same ranch homesteaded by John in 1918 at Canelo. 1907 huaChuCa event

Stories about John and his exploits come down to us from many sources. The earliest story to mention John appears to have been written by Eugene Larrieu who wrote for a number of publications under the nom de plume of Joe Bush. The Tombstone Epitaph for March 10, 1907 in an article titled ‘Joe Bush’ Writes From Huachuca, announced an upcoming St. Patrick’s Day celebration at Huachuca (a.k.a. Huachuca Siding or Turner in those days) and notes: … Prizes will be awarded to the best riders of bronchos. Among the riders will be Col. John Yoas and ‘Doc’ Goodwin, of wild west fame, Al Turner, John Jobe, Bert Hand, Jim Parker, Sid Simpson and others. A large crowd of soldiers will attend and take part in the exercise, and everybody is cordially invited.

Interesting! Did John Yoas serve in the military? Turns out there are no records of a colonel with the name, John Yoas, living in 1907 and no record of a John S. Yoas serving in the military at all. So was this a title bestowed on Yoas by Bush as a joke, or was it a southern gentleman’s designation? The title was never associated with his name again from what I can find.

In any case, Yoas had the honor of competing against Doc Goodwin, a highly respected rodeo and wild-west show legend who had toured with Buffalo Bill Cody. Goodwin won the title of Saddle Bronc Champion of 1893 at what is known today as the “World’s Oldest Rodeo” in Prescott, Arizona. The Huachuca event was probably Goodwin’s last appearance and no results of the event have turned up. Sadly, in March of 1908 Goodwin died from blood poisoning in the Huachuca hospital.

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The Tombstone Epitaph in 1911 ran the following tidbit on page one for November 19th:

J. S. Yoas, a prominent cattleman of Santa Cruz county, is a business visitor in Tombstone today, having arrived yesterday. Mr. Yoas reports stockmen prosperous in his section of the new state.

The Epitaph was jumping the gun a bit on Arizona’s official statehood which took place February 14, 1912. homesteading & ranChing

A search of homestead records for John turns up only one homestead document — the one located near Elgin. However, by 1920 John also owned a ranch which bordered brother Bird’s Agua Caliente Ranch in Amadoville. John’s ranch, the Lame Coyote, was to the south and bordered the Otero Ranch in Tubac. Sabino & Teofilo Otero’s grandniece, Ana Maria Maldonado Fimbres, years later mentioned that the brothers were not above rustling cattle from the Otero ranch. John yoas lore

Adding to the lore of John Yoas is the fact that he served as a constable for Santa Cruz County Precinct No. 11 (Sopori) from 1921-24, and the Nogales Herald even noted that he had been a candidate for Santa Cruz County Sheriff. Seems John may have picked up the idea of working both sides of the law from brother Tom’s friends Alvord & Stiles. A couple of John Yoas stories crop up during the early 20s and attest to John’s attitude about things and the law in general. Santa Cruz County historian Alma Ready noted the following:

A story was current in 1920 that J. D. Rountree had reached a depth of 330 feet on the John Yoas property near Tubac, while drilling for water. He suggested that the peculiar blue mud encountered might indicate oil. “Cattle won’t drink oil,” Yoas reportedly said. He ordered the drilling stopped.

The late Ray Logan, a retired U.S. Border Patrol agent assigned for many years to the Nogales area was intrigued by stories of big brother Bravo Juan Yoas and interviewed two local ranchers who were also his friends — Austin E. Moss and Raymond Bergier. Both men knew John and Bird. Although they confirmed that Bird admitted that Bravo Juan was an older brother, Bird always denied that it was his brother John. The late Ray Bergier told Logan:

“Bird and John didn’t get along with one another. John gave Bird a fistfight every Christmas. John always won.”

They often stole from each other. On several occasions, John rode over from the Lame Coyote to the Agua Caliente when he knew Bird wasn’t there. Bergier said John would:

…steal his canned goods and flour. Then he’d slice open a sack of grain, dump some on the ground and with a convenient hoe or shovel handle, kill the first 4 or 5 chickens which came up to eat the grain. He’d put their bodies in the empty grain sack and then leisurely ride on back to the Lame Coyote with his groceries hanging off his saddle.

Logan recorded another Bergier story that happened when he was only 12 or 13.

About an hour before dark he [Bergier] left camp with his .22 rifle to kill a cottontail to have for breakfast. He hunted for about ¾ mile when he came to John’s house. He said there were burning sticks all over the yard. Apparently John’s wife was mad at John and they’d had a fight. As John walked across the front room she took a shot at him with a .30-30 rifle, missed and hit the cast iron potbellied stove. The stove immediately disintegrated throwing burning sticks all over the house. The burning sticks Bergier saw in the yard were the ones from the stove that John and his wife had to hastily throw outside to keep the house from burning down.

About the same time period, the young Bergier told the following story:

Mr. and Mrs. John Yoas came to the Alto post office [located in the Santa Rita Mountains 1907-1933] for a dance. John was wearing a new pair of khaki pants which he had torn that day in the mesquite. Mrs. Yoas asked Bergier’s mother for a sewing needle and some “string” of the same color to sew the pants. Mrs. Bergier loaned her said items and Mrs. Yoas carefully sewed the tear on the knee.

When she finished sewing, she looked at the needle and then quickly stabbed John the leg to the depth of 1 to 1 ½”, shouting, “That’ll teach you to tear your new pants, you old son-of-a-b----!” She pulled the needle out while John held his leg and moaned.

Bergier’s father, Bob, told Ray the following story that remains a mystery to this day:

John Yoas had been cutting brush around his homestead and stacking it up away from the house. Bob Bergier rode over to the Lame Coyote one morning and John had a large bonfire going. He was burning the brush up. He enlisted Bob’s help to stack the rest of the brush and mesquite onto the fire. It made a huge blaze and burned all day and was still burning when Bob left that evening. Bob Bergier didn’t see Mrs. Yoas all day and John didn’t answer to her whereabouts when Bob asked. Mrs. Yoas was never seen again, anytime, anywhere or anyplace.

This last story about John happened in 1927 shortly before his death. Bergier told Logan: …Sarah Bailey’s father (or grandfather) had a couple of large Percham [Percheron] horses at his place near Tubac. John was riding by, pulled out his pistol and shot both horses, commenting, “Those damn things aren’t good for nothing and eat too much range.”

25 General consensus about John Yoas was that he was a mean old man and people who knew him were leery of him. He would have been about 52 years old in 1927. No records have turned up to give us a clue as to who Mrs. Yoas was or what happened to her. Bergier said he thought she was from “Tucson or Benson or somewhere up north that way,” and he said there were no children. Bergier had one more memory of John.

John loved clabbered milk. He would go to the Bergier Ranch and get it from Ray’s mother and then drink it on the spot. Ray said it was a good thing to like clabbered milk in those days because without refrigeration the milk clabbered about as quick as you got it out of the cow. murder at salero Cattle Camp

John’s prickly if not downright nasty disposition caught up with him on September 25, 1927 when he was shot and killed by Milo Shellenberger.

Lil Garrett, the late James Garrett, Jr.’s wife, wrote an excellent article for Hattie Wilson’s Monthly Arizonian in the 1990s about the tragedy. Lil’s husband and brother-in-law Stan, ages 19 & 12 at the time were witnesses to the event. Other witnesses included: brother Bird Yoas, Bob Bergier owner of the Alto Ranch, Glenn Perry manager of the Rail X ranch in Patagonia, and Fred Barnett a rancher from Patagonia plus cowboys Joe Kane, James Regan, F. Alvarez, and Reynaldo Salcido. Jim Garrett remembered John as being “a rough and tough talking cowboy,” while Ray Bergier described Milo Shellenberger, as a “peaceful old man who never bothered anyone.” Milo was two years older than John at the time.

The following is a combination of memories from Ray Bergier, Jim Garrett and articles from the Nogales Herald. Events leading up to the tragedy began at breakfast on the 25th. Milo was the camp cook and had been friends with John for a number of years as both were from Texas. John sought out Milo showing him a broken riata (lariat) and asked Shellenberger to fix it. Milo told him he didn’t know how, which set John off. He cussed out Milo, “told him he wasn’t good for nothing and he’d fix it himself.” John grabbed Milo’s wash pan, filled it with water to soak his riata so that it would be pliable whenever he got around to fixing it. Since equipment was scarce at camp, Milo asked John not to use the pan because “some of these boys like to wash up.” John ignored him and mounted up to ride out of camp. As he left he said to another cowboy, “I might have known that old son-ofa-b---- couldn’t fix it.”

Milo was probably irritated with John’s attitude, especially if he heard that last remark, and dumped the riata and water on the ground where it dried with caked-on mud during the day. Late that afternoon, when John returned he spied his riata dried up and muddy lying on the ground. He told Milo, “I’m going to kill you, you old son-ofa-b----.” Milo replied, “Leave me alone, I’m an old man.”

As the cowboys sat around the campfire eating, John sat with them and kept saying he was going to kill Milo. Meanwhile, Milo who was sitting on the tongue of the chuck wagon couldn’t help but hear. He told John, “I don’t want you to call me that name. It hurts my feelings. My mother was not a b---- and I am not a son-of-a- b----. “

John’s was reported to have replied, “I did not say it, you son of a b----.” Things escalated quickly. Milo told John, “I can’t fight you.” John replied by using the s.o.b. term again and adding “I will kick the s--- out of you.”

At this point, Milo feared for his life and stated that he was going to his tent to get his gun. Milo had one of those pointy sheep-heeder tents with a flap. John went after Milo, picking up a large rock as he walked across the camp and continued to curse and threaten. Pulling back the flap, he verbally threatened Milo once more and threw the rock. It struck Milo in the forehead peeling back all of the skin from between his eyes to the top forward section of his head. Milo fell backwards, but somehow held on to, or located his gun. He pointed it at John and shot him twice in the chest and a third bullet grazed his face. John pitched forward and fell on Milo and the two struggled for a short time. The cowboys pulled them apart, but it was too late for John. Joe Kane rolled John over and John said to him, “He got me! Joe, you can have my bay horse.” Milo was hurt pretty badly with blood streaming down his face. Milo told the boys, “I will go to jail with whoever takes me.” It was decided that Bob Bergier should ride to his ranch as it was the closest to get his Model T and they would transport John and Milo to Nogales. By the time he got back to camp, John was dead. Bergier, Perry and Barnett helped the shaking Milo into the back seat where he sat “staring at the floor and shaking like a leaf.” Jim Garrett told Lil that the ranchers: …were so sure of Milo that on the way they stopped off at his house in Nogales while he got some things and brought them a bucket of water for the Ford’s radiator. After that they went to the sheriff ’s office where he turned himself in. The men gave the deputy Milo’s hand gun.

Three cars headed out to Salero, Sheriff Nicholas P. Sinnott led the way followed by Nogales Police Chief John J. Lowe and the mortuary car. The Herald reported they were much delayed arriving at the site due to “punctures and blowouts and lack of gasoline supply.”

When the 5th of March arrived a worried Milo Shellenberger appeared in court. Witnesses testified all day on the 6th and Milo testified for three hours on the 7th. The case went to the jury in the afternoon and continued till 9:30 a.m. on the 8th. The Herald reported that one juror held out for 1st degree murder. He held a strong belief in the Law of Moses — “an eye for an eye & a tooth for a tooth.” The other jurors argued that Milo had acted in self defense and finally convinced the juror to vote with them. Milam “Milo” Shellenberger was acquitted on March 8, 1928. Milo lived quietly in Patagonia for the remainder of his life. He died March 21, 1954 at the age of 81 and is buried in the Black Oak Cemetery. Next month: Bird Yoas: A Legend in His Own Time Sources:

- Garrett, Lillian Gordon, “Death Comes to Roundup Camp: the 1920s.” The MonThly ArizoniAn: The BesT of The TuBAc ArizoniAn collecTed By hATTie Wilson. Tubac, Ariz.: The Tubac Historical Society, c2001. - invenTory of The counTy Archives of ArizonA, no.12. sAnTA cruz counTy (nogAles). Phoenix: Arizona Statewide Archival and Records Project Division of Community Service Programs (Work Project Administration), November 1941. - Logan, Raymond, unpublished interview with Raymond Bergier February 7, 2001.

- nogAles herAld: September 26, 1927, December 13-18, 1927, March 5-8, 1927. (Available at the Pimeria Alta Historical Society, Nogales).

- Ready, Alma, open rAnge And hidden silver: ArizonA’s sAnTA cruz counTy. Nogales: Alto Press, c1973. - ToMBsTone in hisTory, roMAnce And WeAlTh. Tombstone, Arizona: Published by dAily p rospecTor, April 1903. For interesting books about Arizona and the History of the American West, visit www.bluetravelerpress.com

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Bird accompanied his brother’s body to Texas for burial. Upon his return to Nogales, he filed charges against Milo for the murder of John. Milo, not considered a flight risk was let out on a $10,000 bond. Milo’s case went to trial in Nogales on December 13, 1927. Three days later, the case went to the jury. Deliberations continued for over twentytwo hours and resulted in a hung jury with 10 in favor of acquittal and two against. A new trial was scheduled for March 5, 1928.

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After years of hiking in the Tumacacori mountains, Micki, the dogs, and I explored a path that was new to us. We wandered west to the ridge top and a bit beyond. At trail’s end we stumbled upon an old mining shack clad in weathered wood, surrounded by tools rusted beyond use and the thick steel wheels from old mining carts.

Exploring inside this very small shelter we found only one faded blue chair and an old crate beneath a brown, mesquite table. Atop this table lay a dusty, yellowed book bound in a faded leather cover not yet totally chewed up by mice. Gracing the inside of this book were pages of inked images and scribbled notes. The penmanship was precise, the words not in English, and the drawings a gold mine of brilliant ideas. Sketches of gears turning gears with ropes pulling loads. Levers and winches moving earth from here to there. Notes on geology, weather, applied physics related to mechanical advantage, and sketches of constellations.

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“These must be what the prospector was fixing to launch as shooting stars. But how?” I said. Always quick and never daunted, my good wife said “We’re clever. Dusk is upon us. Let’s launch these suckers!” She pointed to the nearby cliff.

We dragged the chest around the shack’s rear porch to this mountain’s crest and prepared to launch our treasure with good mojo and vigor. As darkness fell, from the cliff ’s edge we took turns flinging these bright, pointy stars. We staggered their direction of flight and the angle of their trajectory. But most of those we tossed aloft were sent in the general direction of the village we call Tubac, sitting far below in a saddle of the Sonoran Desert. Being a California girl, Micki tossed hers like frisbees. I wound up and set them spiraling as one throws a discus. Some we threw ninja style into the evening breeze that raced up the mountain side helping carry these streaks of light into space where they shimmered briefly before trailing away to who knows where. After an unknown amount of time, our arms grew tired. We threw. We rested. We threw until the dogs got anxious for our return to the cats near the fireplace and our warm beds.

Before blessing the last of these wondrous stars to be sent into the night, we heard faint voices from far below in the gorges or ravines. Muted by cactus, a quiet stream of spanish was heard. Spoken not harshly but with determined tone, wrapped in trepidation, offered in what sounded like prayer.

We looked to the dogs who all stared in the same direction off to the southeast. Taking their cue we could see faintly a thread of travelers. Most appeared to be women and children. All were headed due north towards the brightest star in the sky that this night hung above the town that was once known as Fort Tucson.

Trailing this group by a good margin was a bearded man, his hand gently guiding a rope tied to the harness of a burro. Atop this animal sat a very pregnant woman who had a glow about her head. On the long walk home we wondered if that long dead miner, F. P. Voisard, would mind if his silver stars had now been set free into that evening’s night. MONDAY - FRIDAY 8 am to 5 pm

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Happy blessed New Year to all people, great or small, in this wondrous world we share with one another.

Everyone seems to have a habit of making a resolution, oh, so many things we want to do differently, there are literally hundreds of ways we want to change. You know of course, “Resolutions go in one year and out the other,” I too made one.

Mine is from Psalms 141:3, “Set a guard over my mouth, Dear Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.” Sounds easy doesn’t it? I’ll give you a report as we entertain the coming months. I’ll close with a thought, “Think twice before you speak, then speak to yourself.”

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1 c. cut up celery 3 tbl. tapioca 1 8oz can tomato sauce

Place cut up meat on bottom of casserole dish, sprinkle with tapioca. Place potatoes over meat, then onions, carrots and celery. Pour tomato sauce over all. Cover tightly with foil. Bake in a 250⁰ oven for 4-5 hours.

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Remember the party the javalina had in my daughter Claire’s yard? I knew it was an inside job, after several days, Claire discovered the culprit!

It was her dear, sweet husband Gary! She checked the gate several evenings after the party and he had been outside and the gate was not latched! I’m happy to report the javalina parties are over. Gary repaired the latch and all has been forgiven, I’ll keep you posted on anything out of the ordinary. Thank you for your calls about the intruders. Wouldn’t it be heavenly if all the ills of the world could be fixed by adjusting a part of a latch on a gate?

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wildlife habitat. That victory goes to where the money and effort was put! Still, we've had a number of these bought natives benefit from the shade and overall protection of nearby Brooms. Fast forward to Autumn in the Sky Islands - a time when most other plant species have already flowered, but when Desert Brooms burst forth in a veritable orgy of mating. Both the male and female plants - basically the same sexual arrangement as humans - send out their blooms in a synchronous manner in order to effect the act of pollination. This means that the pollen from the male plants must, by action of wind or animal pollinator, find its way to an awaiting female blossom where it will fertilize an egg, eventually forming a viable seed. Neither flower gender particularly shines in the beauty department according to conventional logic. They are small and a dull white color and, though in abundance, boast only a relatively mild scent.

I can see where some may acquire a less-than-enlightened view of this handsome species. After all its own success seems to mirror that of our own species, as this opportunistic and pioneer plant often germinates and grows in the wake of humanity. Newly cleared house sites, freshly razed roadways, and even cracks within older pavements are all places where Desert Broom gains footholds and thrives. We don't like to share our spaces with other, equally successful , species it seems. It ranges from parts of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts up into the arid grasslands, even infiltrating the lower recesses of creeks spilling out from the mountains, mostly in disturbed habitats - a versatile plant indeed!

It is perhaps the versatility as well as the sheer abundance of Desert Broom in some localities that sometimes offends. We tend, rather, to relish the rare, the grandiose, and odd, and the delicate species found in the plant world. You will rarely hear a discouraging word uttered about a stately Saguaro, a negative explicative directed at a winsome Mariposa Lilly, or a verbal or literal siege laid upon an Ocotillo springing up near a home. These unflattering feelings and the resultant actions are reserved for the seemingly coarse and undistinguished Desert Brooms of the world. Even the so-called "broomy" growth of this species is shared by an apparent legion of both closely and distantly related plants contained within the Aster Family. For those of us so interested in the identification and use of wild plants, these species are sometimes relegated, albeit temporarily, to the "another damn composite" category (referring to the type of flower that many members of the Aster family possess).

You may find it a bit odd, then, that I am here to sing the praises of this much ignored and maligned plant. Those who know me know better already. I am one of those die-hard Nature fanatics who leads the cheer for all native plants, wildlife, and fungi. To me they deserve our admiration and affection, even if it comes after some personal mishaps and after ingesting much bad press and sometimes even outright lies. The lowly Mosquito, stinky Skunks (we boast 4 species in Arizona), homely Vultures, pesky Poison Ivy, painful Harvester Ants, shocking Mala Mujer (a stinging plant), and terrifying Tarantulas are among the species that I hold near and dear to my heart in the Sky Islands. I once found myself defending the honor of Spotted Hyenas as I watched a Nature video with my wife, Claudia. She, understandably, found both their appearance and habits (brute scavengers in marauding packs) to be less than appealing. So it is with many people as, quite honestly, this is literally the sensible thing to think. These species tend to - in one way or another offend our senses - why would we like them?! That's why I think that they need more kind words and a warrant a second look - beyond our evolutionarily bound, sometimes knee-jerk reactions. The proverbial "don't judge a book by its cover" concept comes to mind. The Elegant Trogons, Jaguars, Apache Pines, and Great Purple Hairstreaks (a fabulously beautiful Butterfly) of the world have no shortage of defenders and admirers. They elicit as much positive responses as the aforementioned species do negative. So, if you are willing to stay with me, here are a few thoughts about Desert Brooms that may change or elevate your opinion of them. I'll begin with the natural history of the species, which in and of itself is a marvel to behold. After an achene (the parachute-like seed structure common to members of the Aster family) lands in a favorable spot and germinates into a young Desert Broom the life cycle of the species effectively begins. This is also where the species can start to falter in the eyes of those who desire and demand neat and tidy garden and landscaped spaces. In these often disturbed patches, which approximate those found in Nature and which favor Desert Brooms, the horrified homeowner can sometimes find almost countless seedlings popping up at every turn. The "I didn't plant this, so it must be a weed" mentality now kicks into full gear, particularly since

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young Brooms have little to distinguish themselves from a host of other would-be plant invaders.

We are blessed to live on a 42-acre Nature Sanctuary where we treasure every native species, including the plants. When we first purchased the land we inherited a horrible weed-whacked manmade disaster, notably lacking and plant diversity or density around our house. I suppose that the previous owner was either plant or fire phobic or both. Of course, its only common sense to avoid an abundance of dry plants very close to a structure, as you are inviting any wild fire to raze it to the ground. The polar opposite attitude, where any plant within a huge radius of the house is subject to anihiliation is just as bad in my opinion. No, your house is very unlikely to suffer any fire damage associated with the outside landscape, though you will feel the brunt of the sometimes brutal southwestern Sun and the incessant winds that not only try your patience but which will also eventually wreak havoc upon your now naked dwelling. Noting the perils of each of these extreme attitudes we tend to trod the middle road, allowing intrepid Desert Brooms to augment and even dominate the native landscaping around our home. Since March of 2007 when we first moved in Desert brooms have risen from the hardest soil in the most disturbed area like a plant version of the proverbial phoenix bird. They now form dense thickets of evergreen abundance over large patches near our house. They have noticeably diminished the sometimes vexing winds, attracted a broad spectrum of native wildlife, and blessed our senses with its attractive shape, rich colors, and subtle,flower-born scents. A wide variety of small birds, including Canyon Towhees and several Sparrow species are among the birds that seem to relish the deep shade and cloaking cover of Desert Brooms, as evidenced by the frequent flushing that occur when we come too close to these hidden realms for the comfort of the birds. The deep green foliage also seems to be a favorite haunt of the equally verdant Praying Mantises that seek their invertebrate prey amongst the dense, needle-like leaves of the Broom. When the Brooms come into flower, however, is when they truly shine as a wildlife plant extraordinaire.

As an aside and just so I balance the picture here, we do have many Desert Brooms pop up in less-than-convenient places where we then feel compelled to play plant executioner. It's simply not the most sage of decisions to allow them to grow at the base of your home's foundation, as the roots can likely cause at least some minor damage. Nor do we deem it ideal if a young and robust Broom is rapidly overtaking one of the many native species that we've planted in an effort to rehabilitate and create

Apparently the hordes of potential pollinators that descend upon the flowers could care less about what most people think! When Desert Brooms are in full bloom they are a veritable blizzard of insect activity. I liken the spectacle to an ephemeral and diminutive insect version of the Serengeti in Africa. The various wasps and mantids, as well as ambush bugs take the place of lions, hyenas, and leopards - no less fierce and deadly despite their small size. They lay in wait and prowl for diurnal (daytime) moths, butterflies (including the aforementioned and dazzling Great Purple Hairstreak), and a particularly abundant species of Longhorn Beetle that may specialize in feeding at the flowers of Desert Broom. The list of insect species to be found at a patch of flowering Brooms is indeed impressive. Its the type of spectacle that gives even the Nature curmudgeon pause, if only to avoid "all those damn insects!". Since Brooms bloom at a time when few other plants dare brave the increasingly dry autumnal soil conditions and perilously chilly nights, they seem to have nearly "cornered the market" on the available pollinators at that time of year.

So, have I given you reason enough to reconsider the the status of Desert Brooms in your own personal plant hierarchy? Don't worry, I have yet a few more thoughts to share in this vein! In addition to its many wildlife-related benefits, Desert Broom also excels in the eyes of the resourceful herbalist, frugal survivalist, and clever stone-age technologist. I like to wear all of these hats, sometimes simultaneously, so I'll briefly speak to each of them. The evergreen stems of Desert Broom contain powerful astringents that make them an ideal skin wash for a variety of external ailments. These include sunburn, Poison Ivy dermatitis, and minor wounds. Simply steep the cut or crushed stems in boiling hot water until it cools and use topically. I would not hesitate to mash up the stems between 2 handy rocks to make a paste with which I could treat minor wounds in the field.

In the wilderness survival realm Desert Broom excels as a shelter material. Given that the branches are generally easily broken by hand and that they lack sharp spines or thorns, I consider them an expedient solution to certain shelter challenges. One of these is to create quick shade amidst the searing southwestern Sun. Thus, Desert Broom makes an excellent horizontal shade layer atop ramadas or simply added to the branches of a live or dead tree. The same branches can be used as a bedding layer with which to insulate your body from excessive heat or cold. The freshly removes fine branches are excellent as a quickie brush for removing the irritating deciduous spines (i.e. glochids) of Prickly Pear fruit and pads, rendering them consumable. These plants often grow in the same localities and make for a convenient juxtaposition of useful plants.

Finally, you can use the dead and dried branches of Desert Broom for fine to medium-sized fuel in your wilderness fires. The wood burns quickly and evenly, providing plenty of light and some modest coals when the blaze has receded. With the normal plethora of dense desert woods that yield longlasting coals (e.g. Mesquite) having ready access to finer, more flammable fuels is certainly a useful thing. Perhaps next time you see the "lowly" Desert Broom you'll have reason to take a second glance and to ponder its many unexpected virtues! Vincent Pinto operates Ravens-Way Wild Journeys in Patagonia, AZ. Contact the writer at: nature-journeys@hotmail.com

PLATITUDES OF TIME by Carol Egmont St. John (Dedicated to Norm Johnson) 2011!!!

ow! How time flies! It waits for no man. It marches on. In no time at all it will be 2012. It’s time to make the donuts. Don’t waste time. A stitch in time saves nine. The time has come. Time will take care of it. Time out.

Time has elicited a host of platitudes, some with urgency, some with melancholy, some with practical advice. But, we make it all up, don’t we? Time’s a trickster-–it seems eternal when our car is out of control and we see the trunk of a tree headed straight for us. Time drags when a kid awaits his birthday. Time flies after the first two days of a glorious vacation. What happened ten years ago seems like yesterday. What will take place in the next ten years is unfathomable. The human psyche is predisposed to deceit. We are protected by our blindness and failure to compute. And history repeats itself, as sure as the sun comes up each morning. In 1961 Pete Seeger wrote and sang, “Where have all the Flowers Gone?” Remember these words? Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing? Where have all the flowers gone, Long time ago? When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

Where have all the young men gone, Long time passing? Where have all the young men gone, Long time ago? They’re all in uniform, everyone O’ when will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? This song is as relevant today as yesterday. Our brave, loyal, strong, confident young men continue to fight in hapless wars somewhere on the planet. Too many don’t come home. We cannot deal with the rational. We refuse to know. Instead, we build temples, mosques, cathedrals and shrines. We create holy stories and epic tales, but we don’t seem to be able to glean their meaning, compare them, juxtapose one on another and get down to the nittygritty truths of our moment in time. I suspect throughout time we remain little packages of energy trying to pump ourselves up with righteousness. And to what avail?

Like time, we march on, hearing different drummers, believing in a cause that may be folly. We wear ourselves out mentally and physically believing there is something we must correct. We get backaches, headaches, have breakdowns, send our children off to war and work with the same tired myths that drove us. Our anxiety disorders may be by-products of grief or failing to achieve all we feel we should set right, our self-ordained missions. But, we make it all up, don’t we? If we sit very still and feel the sun beating on our faces; if we watch clouds transform in waves of invisible wind, and listen carefully, we can know how little the planet needs us as it unfolds in time. Instead, we fan our illusions of importance to the world as we know it. We claim to be stewards and yet we watch catastrophic pools of garbage form in the oceans, block treaties meant to reduce the risks of nuclear war, continue to contaminate the land, pursue distant planets instead of protecting our own. We call the true stewards of the earth names and sneer at their concerns.

Unfortunately, these are times when human extravagance has become dear. Humans have the ability to destroy and the temptation to forget the obligations that come with supremacy in the chain of life. We have extinguished millions of buffalo, billions of fish, the humming of a trillion bees, the desecration of primeval forests. Ten thousand species have disappeared in the last nanosecond of earth’s history. We are the only creatures that can bring it all down, burn the planet and lay it to waste.

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The gift of time allows us to see through a wider lens. Instead of quick fixes to handle problems, take time to try to see what is at the root of the cause and what new problems the cure may bring about. Time and again we learn that situations are more complex than first assumed. It is time to make time. Time to let go and let live. Time to look away from ourselves to a needy planet and a time to make decisions that create, forgive and forbear. Happy New Year you time-travelers you. OPEN DAILY

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shooting matches and taught firearm instruction to new recruits. He was a life member of the National Rifle Association.

Jobs were scarce in the 1930s but he was hired for construction of Boulder Dam and was there when the first bucket of cement was poured. After a year at Boulder Dam, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps for four years.

After moving to Tubac, Davis became interested in real estate and acquired a license. In 1981, he married Virginia “Gini” Klockau in Salem, Ore. Together they established Santa Cruz Valley Realty in Tubac.

He was born in Pine Bluffs, N.Y. and graduated high school in Las Vegas, Nev. He had a full life, and enjoyed working summers during high school at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and at Zion National Park.

Davis served with the San Diego, Calif., police department for 33 years where, in addition to law enforcement, he organized and built-up competitive

He is survived by two sons, Gary and Brian. Last August, Davis and his wife, Gini, held a week-long birthday celebration for himself and for both sons and their families in Tubac. Other survivors include a stepdaughter, Elaine Bailey, and her two children, Stephanie and Tony.

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Santa brings gifts and Smiles to St. Andrew’s Children's Clinic

Article and images submitted by Gloria Thiele Smiles lit up the faces of young patients and their families when Santa Claus walked into the crowded waiting room at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Nogales, Arizona, Dec. 2. With a hearty, “Feliz Navidad!” the jolly old elf hugged many children but gave a gentle pat and kind word to those too fragile to embrace. The first Thursday in December is always a special day at The Clinic because the kids know they will see Santa and receive gifts of handmade toys, sweaters, quilts, caps and candy. Santa toured each department of the monthly non-profit, non-denominational clinic which has been serving poor, handicapped children who live in Mexico for over thirty five years. It is their last resort, the only chance they have for a better life. Some travel for days to reach the border where St. Andrew’s volunteers drive them to and from The Clinic for their appointments. Between 200 and 250 children are seen each month. Most are repeat patients because of chronic conditions like cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, spinabifida or seizure disorders. Others return periodically as they grow for new prosthesis to replace the old ones. When a child walks on new legs for the first time, everyone in the room feels they have witnessed a small miracle.

That small miracle and others like it inspire people of all faiths to continue helping in any way they can, whether it be kitchen work, translating, admissions, setting up the furniture or donating funds to pay for the costly prescription medicines, prosthesis and other vital supplies.

The specialized medical staff also volunteers their time and talent. Dr. and Mrs. Karl Friedman, are loyal volunteers among others from Tubac. Patients are assigned to one or more of the sixteen different departments, depending on their disabilities. They are audiology, cardiology, dermatology, neurology, nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy, orthopedics, pediatrics, pharmacy, physical therapy, Reiki, speech cleft and hearing, speech, vision, and the Shriners hospitals physicians and their assistants who perform surgeries in Spokane and Sacramento. If ongoing treatment is necessary, patients will be seen at The Clinic until age 18. Every October, in cooperation with Children’s Surgery International, approximately forty children receive cleft palate and cleft lip surgery at the hospital in Hermosillo.

Parent education is crucial for the care of the disabled child at home. Clinic therapists teach moms and dads how to exercise their child’s wasted

muscles, communicate with those who cannot speak, feed babies who cannot swallow and other necessary activities to improve their children’s life.

Each patient is carefully screened by Coca Romero, patient coordinator, before she makes the first appointment. Desperate parents call her home day or night. She also facilitates the family’s legal entry in and out of the United States. Coca is a much loved person in northern Mexico. She recently received the Ohtli, one of Mexico’s prestigious awards for her work. Because of the weak economy, funding has been down although costs continue to go up. Prosthesis (legs) are now around $3,000; surgery and eye prosthesis cost about $2,000, wheelchairs around $500 to $1,000, depending on the size. Ninety-two percent of cash donations go directly to patient care. The clinic publishes a lengthy wish list of needed items like diapers, exercise equipment and powdered milk in the quarterly newsletter. For information or to arrange a tour, call St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic office in Green Valley at (520)648-3242. The address is P.O. Box 67, Green Valley, AZ 85622.

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