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Local News Highlights
from 2020 March
Centennial Swing Jazz Band hosts Dance Saturday, March 21, 2020
Centennial Swing, a Jazz Band within the Globe Miami Band group, will present their annual fund-raiser on Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 7:00, in the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts third floor theater and ballroom, downtown Globe.
This event is always a great party. Dress is “date night,” but many folks like to dress up in swing-era outfits. The Copper Country Community Players will provide a nohost bar. The entire third floor is open so that guests can dance, nibble on great hors d’oeuvres, and visit with friends. Doors will open at 6:30. Music is from 7:00 to 10:00 Centennial Swing has 18 players and plays a wide repertoire from Big Band, Swing, Latin, Blues and Funk. Our smaller “Little Big Band” will play West Coast Swing numbers by artists such as Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Oscar Hammerstein, and Weather Report. The bands include professional players, experienced players and young people new to performing.
Centennial Band is a local Non-Profit community musical group that provides opportunity for young and old to rehearse and perform challenging musical literature. The organization has three groups: Concert Band, Centennial Swing, and Little Big Band, and incorporates 35+ community members. The groups have been playing together since 2011. The all-volunteer group is directed by Nolan Frost.
Seating is limited, so reserve your tickets soon. Cost is $25 per person. Tickets are available at the Arts Center or by calling 928-424-0884.
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2020 Historic Globe Cemetery Tour and Self-guided Building Tour
This year the Downtown Globe Downtown Association, in conjunction with the Copper Cities Community Players from the Cobre Valley Center for the Arts, will be presenting a self-guided tour of buildings in downtown Globe in addition to their ever-popular Globe cemetery tour.
Free maps and coupon sheets with deals from local merchants will be available at several downtown businesses including the Center for the Arts. Come early and stroll the historic district, learn some history of our buildings and cash in on deals from local merchants.
Then, that evening, enjoy a 90 minute +/- walking tour of a portion of Globe’s oldest cemetery depicting an old West time period gone by. Fun & engaging history for all ages.
Tours depart every 10 minutes from the grandstand in front of the Center for the Arts beginning at 5:00 pm. (101 N. Broad). There will be some walk-andtalk tours of buildings leading up to the tour going to the cemetery and the guided cemetery path will be filled with theatre and musical performers. The actors, dressed in period style, depict former residents and tales of the lives they once led. If you have never experienced one of our tours, you are in for a treat! Our shuttles will then escort you back to your starting point.
Tickets are $20pp and will be available online via Eventbrite or at the door. Children under the age of 10 are free with paid adult & supervision. Group rates available, please call 480-345-7477.
Note: The Cemetery Tour is NOT a ghost & ghoul tour, this is a history tour of the land and time of Globe’s past. We appreciate in advance the respect of our cemetery residents, and where they rest. Please wear comfortable closed toe shoes, prepare for paved-incline walking, and although backlit, bring a flashlight for your evening comfort level. The tour path was originally designed for horse and buggy, but is ADA compliant. We will also have handicapped-only parking available at the cemetery for your convenience.
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Boyce Thompson Arboretum to the Rescue: The effort to save the Wallace Desert Gardens
In October, 2014, GMT ran a feature story by Kim Stone on the Wallace Garden collection. At the time it ran BTA was in the process of receiving the massive collection. And this March, the park will unveil the Wallace collection to the public.
Boyce Thompson Arboretum recently announced that it is part of a massive effort to save the plant collection of Wallace Desert Gardens. Located in north Scottsdale, this garden contains 12 acres of more than 7,000 cultivated plants, including a 6,000 square foot pavilion of large specimen cacti.
HB Wallace built the Wallace Desert Gardens over 25 years ago and amassed 3,000 species of plants, including a wide variety of ephedras, boojum trees, agaves, cacti, and aloes. Adding this plant collection to the one at Boyce Thompson Arboretum will create a superlative garden of plants from arid lands around the world. With over 4,300 species combined, Botanic Gardens Conservation International estimates this plant diversity will place Boyce Thompson Arboretum in the top 100 gardens globally, and top 25 in the United States.
Mark Siegwarth, Executive Director of Boyce Thompson Arboretum, says, “This unprecedented project to relocate 7,000 plants in the Wallace Collection to Superior will be complicated, but we know this project is extremely important as over one fourth of the combined collection is held in fewer than 10 gardens globally, with a significant number representing threatened species.”
We initially reported this story in 2014 when news of the collection was first announced by Boyce Thompson Arboretum. You can read the whole story at: https:// www.globemiamitimes.com/saving-priceless-collection-plants/
The United Fund of Globe-Miami is accepting applications for Capital Grants of $5,000 or more through April 15th. According to the application itself, these grants are intended to “offer participating agencies from 2018 to 2020 the opportunity to submit funding requests beyond operational funding.”
The application is open to “strategic ideas that align with one of the following: • Improving facilities, service availability, infrastructure, technology, or access to agency’s participants. • A 2020 phase of a larger project or improvement. Please specify in your project title if this is a phase of an ongoing project (i.e. 2020 is phase 2 of 3), or • Strategic, Globe-Miami specific information-development investment requests for professional or technical services, community needs assessments, engineering studies, technological innovation assessments, or other data creation endeavors. The capital grant process is not to be used for: 1. Ongoing maintenance & operational expenses. 2. Salaries and employee related expenses (including those pertaining to grant writers or grant-finding software expenses). 3. Fundraising costs. 4. Reconsidering previously un-funded projects or organizations, unless specifically invited to apply. 5. Sponsorship of special events, unless specifically invited to apply. Applications must be submitted online to https://ufglobemiami.submittable.com/ submit/158034/capital-grant-funding-application-due-4-15-2020. For information, email UnitedFund@CableOne.net or call/text to 928-961-3620.
See Local News Highlights, page 19
NEW exhibit at Bullion Plaza Cultural Center and Museum features Pleasant Valley War
During the month of March, be sure to stop by the museum to see the exhibit on the Pleasant Valley War, on loan from the Pleasant Valley Historical Society and Museum. There is no charge to visit the Bullion Plaza Museum, which is open Thursday through Saturday from 11am to 3pm, and on Sunday from 12 to 3pm.
This special exhibit is made possible by the Tempe History Museum and the Pleasant Valley Historical Society and Museum. Courtesy Photo.
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