Maverick Magazine July 2014 Issue

A Celebration of the American West: Our History, Our Heritage, Our Home

Also:2014 Pow Wow in the Pines • Edgar Perry • Jo Baeza’s When All the Work Was Horseback • the Story of Jeff Storey www.themaverickmagazine.com

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Native American Youth Shines at 17th Annual Pow Wow in the Pines Photos by James Bruner Hundreds of Native American Pow Wows are presented annually throughout the US and are always a feast for the eyes as well as an expression of Native American spirituality, emotion, history and traditional society.

The annual Pow Wow in the Pines at Hon-Dah Resort and Casino took place on June 7th and 8th featuring an impressive number of beautifully attired dancers, but this year, it was the Native youth that really took center stage and caught the eye of photographer James Bruner. Here are just a few of the breathtaking and memorable images James captured including Chance, a dancer we featured on our cover a couple of years ago (shown just above with his sisters).

During a special ceremony this year, his proud family watched him receive his Eagle Feather, an important symbol of his journey toward manhood. www.themaverickmagazine.com

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Jo Baeza Remembers When All the Work Was Horseback Cover photo taken at 2014 Pow Wow in the Pines

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The Life and Times of Jabilataha:

An Interview with Living Legacy Edgar Perry

by Amie Rodgers Edgar Perry is a history, sociology and anthropology scholar of his people. His work has taken him all over the world teaching language, dance and crafts. This esteemed White Mountain Apache Elder was born in the old Whiteriver hospital on December 30, 1937 to parents Wilmot and Marie Perry. He is of the Eagle Clan. His grandfather was an Apache Scout and his father was born on the Cooley Ranch. At the time he was born, his mother was working as a cook and housemaid for Edgar and Minnie Guenther, the first Luthern missionaries who arrived in 1910. “My mother lived in the guest house near the street. The Guenthers married my parents in the church office. My mother was twenty two and my father was twenty four,” says Edgar, “I spent a lot of time in that beautiful church and was baptized there.”

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born into at least two worlds from the very start. His love of language and teaching would later lead him to travel the world sharing his culture and appreciating many others. During our interview, Edgar shared the meaning of his Apache name as well as the story of how he was almost named after a beautiful African woman. “One day Mrs. Guenther and I were in the church and she said, ‘Edgar, I am going to tell you something that I have never told anybody. When your mom was pregnant, we had a beautiful name picked out for you... but it was a girl’s name!’” he laughs, “‘We were going to name you after this African woman who worked here during the summer.’

Since I was a boy, they gave me the name of Edgar. My grandmother in Canyon Day never liked my name. So, she gave me the Apache name of Jabilataha. It was the name of an Apache man in Canyon Day who used to be in charge of chaperoning the dances. The name means one who watches the kids.”

In 1941, the family of fourteen moved to McNary where his father worked at Southwest Forest Industries. “My mother and dad were real nice people. They didn’t speak English, but they taught us Apache, which was my first language.

When I was young, I went to school in Canyon Day. In McNary, I went to school with students of every color and culture. It was nice because we spoke a lot of languages. I learned a lot of things from a lot of people. We were poor and lived in a very crowded two room house. I enjoyed sports in school and was the number one pitcher for McNary for four years,” he smiles.

Edgar met his wife Corrine at school and they were married young. “I was seventeen and she was fifteen. We saw a judge at the old courthouse in Holbrook.

He asked me if I was sure I was going to support my wife. I promised him and I never did lie because I was afraid,” he laughs. Edgar graduated from McNary High School and attended a year at Grand Canyon College. Later, the couple moved to Kentucky where Edgar graduated in 1963 from the Clear Creek Baptist Bible School. He also attended Wayland Baptist College for three years. An accomplished linguist, Edgar speaks Apache, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

The couple had five daughters: Evangline, Angline, Deborah, Paula and Elizabeth.

When speaking of his children, Edgar notes the Apache tradition of strategically burying the umbilical cord. “When a baby is born, the cord is cut and kept. For a boy, they will bury it underneath horse or cow manure so their son will be a good cowboy. If it is placed under deer manure, the boy will be a good hunter. For the ladies, the cord was buried under the mulberry bush so they could make good burden baskets or underneath the wickiup so they would be good housewives and learn to build a wickiup. I have often joked that if I had really thought about this a long time ago, I would have put all of my daughters’ cords underneath the bank for their educations,” he laughs heartily.

Edgar has been a life long teacher, which is apparent in the pride in his eyes when he speaks of his students. He taught 6th grade at the Cibecue BIA School as well as extention courses in Apache language for Northern Arizona University and Eastern Arizona College. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Arizona Historical Society, a past member of the Council on Abandoned Military Posts, a Board Member of the Native American Merchandising Enterprise Inc and an Associate Pastor for the White Mountain Apache Baptist Church where he has taught Sunday school. He has also coached Little League. He is a well known as an artist.

It was while he was the Director of the White Mountain Apache Culture Center that Edgar came to be the author of the first Apache dictionary. “When my wife and I worked at the Cultural Center, we were asked to translate the Apache legends and names. Apache was traditionally an oral language. It was a challenge because we didn’t know all the words and so we needed a dictionary. So, we published the Apache dictionary so we could translate.”

The opportunity to speak with Edgar is one I will always cherish. This charismatic storyteller possesses a wealth of knowledge, which he happily shares whether it is by breaking out into a soul stirring rendition of Amazing Grace in Apache or mentioning how on that particularly windy day, we could use some Na golsh ti (rain). “In the old days, everything was done in fours: four colors, four clans, four directions, four seasons... The Apache were a very sincere people who prayed to God every morning and every night. East is the direction we pray in and build our doors toward. In the crown dance, everything goes to the East and clockwise. West is a bad direction. When people die, they would be placed in a wickiup and the next day, a hole would be broken in the West side. A door towards the West means death.

All living things like the sun come from the East.”

Traditionally, one never addresses their in-laws in the first person as a sign of respect. Another sign of respect is not to touch one another. “Growing up, girls and boys are to never touch. Even as adults, we don’t touch each other much. In the old days, when a baby was born, they were blessed by the medicine man with yellow pollen. Therefore, we don’t touch anybody because we don’t know if they have been blessed or not. When a baby is expected, the grandmother makes the cradle board. We never step over a cradle board or blanket because the baby has been blessed and we should never step over things that have been blessed. We never step over each other in life because we are blessed.”

Although the only corn pollen I’ve ever worn probably came from running through a corn field, I indeed feel blessed that the world includes Edgar Perry. “We may all come from different cultures, but we are all the same. We have five fingers and our blood is all the same. I think I’m A +, but that doesn’t stand for Apache,” he says with a laugh I had quickly come to love, “It is a beautiful world when you can share the old ways and learn of others’ ways.” www.themaverickmagazine.com

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When All the Work Was Horseback

by Jo Baeza, Special to the Maverick Magazine

Sixty years ago fall roundup on a northern Arizona ranch began with a cool breeze in August that tapped you on the shoulder and said, “It’s time to line out the work.” Many things have changed since I was a ranch wife living on 100 sections south of Holbrook in the 1950s, but cattle still have to be rounded up by cowboys who ride and rope for a living. Ranch life has never been easy in northern Arizona - not for cattle, not for ranchers. They do it because that’s who they are and that’s what they do.

We didn’t have a telephone or TV or electricity on the ranch back then. We didn’t have stock trailers or quads or computers or global positioning systems. We were part of the cosmos. Horses and humans could smell a rattlesnake before they saw it, and taste a coming storm in the wind. Ranching is more efficient nowadays, kinder to the body, but I’m thankful I knew a time when all the work was horseback and the sun was our clock.

September. A cow buyer from Texas drives up to the ranch in a Cadillac. We take him on a V.I.P. tour in our Jeep Wagoneer. The buyer sees a uniform bunch of Hereford calves and yearlings that will gain on wheat over the winter in the Panhandle. He and my husband agree on a price and close the deal with a handshake. A delivery date is set. We’re gambling it won’t storm before November 1.

Old time cowboys called fall roundup “the work.” A century before, roundup was known as the “rodeo.” The work begins before the buyer’s dust settles. The cowboys ride fence, repairing the bottom wires that antelope have pulled up, fixing water gaps that have washed out in flash floods, tightening gates so they’ll hold the cattle we’re working.

Our year ‘round cowboys are Sam Yellowhair at headquarters and E.P. “Ep” Casner, who stays at the West Camp. Sam sees more with one eye than most cowboys do with two. Sam’s boy Samuel hires on for roundup. That makes five counting me. I ‘m a long way from being a cowboy, but I’m a fair hand with a horse. Our partners are a couple of Australian shepherds, Bess and Annie. They would rather work than eat.

Ep lives in a one-room cabin made of railroad ties with his dog, Brownie, his tomcat, Snip, and a few chickens. He cooks on a wood stove and sleeps on an army cot. If he has coffee, canned milk, pinto beans, salt pork, potatoes, dried apples, Grandma’s Molasses and Day’s Work tobacco, he’s happy.

The cracks around his mouth are stained with tobacco juice. He doesn’t need glasses, but he wears store-bought teeth that he keeps in his shirt pocket when he’s not eating.

He has two gray saddle horses at the camp, Old Smoky and Little Smoky. His main job is

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keeping the windmill pumping and checking on the cattle that come in to water. Eppie has a family back in Texas, but they stay in Texas.

Sam and Samuel drive the remuda in from the horse pasture to be shod. We have 18 head and need all of them. The saddle horses know what’s in store for them. They grunt and groan and lean on the horse shoer, but don’t throw fits. Our cow ponies take as much pride in their work as we do.

We buy most of our saddle horses from my husband’s brother in Chihuahua. All our horses are geldings. They are mustangy - light, quick, short-coupled, tough. They can go all day without breaking a sweat, and they’ll all buck given the proper occasion. We trust our horses with our lives. We know they won’t step in a badger hole or balk at water. We expect them to pitch a little in the morning.

When a horse gets too old for the work, we turn him out to run free.

Our “pensioned” cow horses spend their last days just being horses. If they come in we feed them, but they prefer to fend for themselves. The working life of our saddle horses is 12-14 years. A horse with stiff joints and slow reflexes is a dangerous horse on a cattle drive.

The old turnout horses may be running in the farthest corner of the ranch, but somehow they always know the day the work begins. A half dozen gimpy old veterans line up at the corral gate reporting for duty.

They are dim-eyed, sway-backed, yellow-toothed and sand-footed, with tails dragging the ground and matted manes. The oldest, “Nightie”, nickers to the young horses in the corral: “The circles were longer and the cattle were wilder in our day!”

We each have four horses in our string. A wrangling horse is kept up each night. We’ll be making circles every day from now on, starting with the Woodruff pasture in the east, working our way back to the home ranch. There we’ll put the cattle we want to sell in a holding pasture and turn the others back out. After that, we’ll work the west pasture of the ranch. With luck, the work takes about a month.

October. My day begins with the sound of hooves outside my bedroom window as Sam drives the remuda through the gate and into the corral. I get coffee in bed, my only luxury. I dress, make biscuits, fry thick slices of bacon, and baste the eggs in bacon grease. The men hang morrals on the horses. We eat while the horses are being grained.

I clean up the kitchen while the men catch and saddle the horses.

Mornings are nippy already. The saddle horses snuff and crow hop around the corral a little to warm up. The windmill and corrals take shape in the growing light. We jog four abreast to the top of the ridge above the ranch. The night air holds the fragrance of juniper and piñon close to the ground. The boss lights a smoke and tells us what to do. We pay attention. He won’t repeat it. He always takes the outside circle, the longest, hardest one.

We spread out over the country, close enough to catch sight of each other now and then. Our horses will tell us where our partners are if we watch their ears. I follow a dry wash while the men throw little bunches of cattle down to me. By noon I have about 100 head of cows, calves and yearlings. We meet at a dirt tank when the sun is high.

It looks like we’ve made a clean drive. We let the cattle water out, then push them down the trail to the headquarters ranch. The boss rides point to slow down the leaders. Sam and Samuel take the flanks, heading off cattle that try to break out. Bess and Annie help them work the flanks. I ride the drags, the dustiest, most aggravating position. If I get in trouble, the dogs help me out. In an hour or so, the herd settles down and strings out down the trail.

When the cattle are penned, we saddle fresh horses and hold the herd in the corner of a fence while the boss cuts out what he wants to sell. The cattle are tired and cranky. So are we. Someone is likely to get yelled at before the day is over. “Eppie, turn that horse around! He can’t see with his rear end.”

Before we call it a day, the horses are grained and turned out to the horse pasture to have a good roll. We eat a bite and go to bed. We have to sleep fast as daylight holds another circle. It will be a repeat of the first day, over new country.

We ride when our lips crack from the dust and heat, when our noses and ears are numb with cold, when our boots slosh with water and it rains down our necks. We work from sunup to dark. We count every day a blessing and love our own misery.

By the end of October we’re wearing long underwear, flannel shirts and warm jackets. Sam wears an old plaid cap with ear flaps. The cool breeze that whispered across the high plains in August is a blast of north wind coming down off snow in the Rockies. Wobbly formations of geese fly over us on their way to Mexico.

Friends from town come to help us round up the holding pasture and pen the cattle. The cattle we sold are held in dry corrals so we won’t have to take a “shrink” on the price. The mother cows bawl to their calves all night. There’s little sleeping this night.

At the break of dawn, stock trucks drive up to the loading chute. I put

Pictured above, Jo and Cooney. Photo at far left from Jo’s Book, Ranch Wife. Inset photo by Alec Pearce. on a big pot of coffee for the buyers, livestock inspector, truckers and cowboys. We can see our breaths as we work the gates. The cattle are pushed through the alleys and the weighing begins. By mid-morning, the cattle are on their way to Texas.

Slowly, the mother cows turn away from the corrals and walk back to their home ranges. They will give birth to new calves in the spring. The shoes are jerked off the saddle horses. They can rest and blow, chase rainbows and play. The big work is over for another year.

We’ll ride all winter, checking on cattle, fences and water. We’ll chop ice, repair windmills, doctor sick cattle, help 2-year-old heifers calve, and put out salt and supplemental feed.

Some say a cowboy values his freedom above all things. I say he values his livelihood. A cowboy’s life is a calling - to take care of the land and cattle. A cowboy moves to the rhythms of earth and sky at the pace of nature. Like no other, he understands the oneness of living things.

This article appeared, in edited form, in Arizona Highways magazine in July 2014. Jo Baeza was married to rancher Cooney Jeffers from 1956-1964, and lived on a ranch south of Holbrook. She moved to Pinetop in 1965 and has lived there ever since.

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Arizona... Our State with a Heart (etc.)

by Peg Matteson, Maverick State Historian (with a lot of help) Wind, wind go away... come another summer day! Can you believe these many windy days we have had this year? Oh well, at least we don’t have to endure the awful flooding, landslides and tornadoes they have had in many of our other states. Besides, the wind has kept me indoors searching for more Arizona stories and history to share with you. So, today we are going to go waaay back, and pick up some really early “beginnings and facts in our “Diamond in the Rough” state and mention some names of those who gave of themselves and their talents to make us what we are today, Arizona.

We will start in the fall of 1736 when a Yaqui miner named Antonio discovered the first native silver near the tiny Papago village of Arissona (no, that is NOT a typo). News of this fabulous strike spread through the wilderness like wildfire. Of course, it brought a stampede of Spanish prospectors like made to the area and as they went about their successful mining, the fame of Arissona spread far and wide.

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“All Arizona needs is less heat, more water and a few good citizens... but then that is all Hell needs.”

-General William Tecumseh Sherman Now this little community called Arissona was located about 25 miles southwest of Nogales. The name was a Spanish word, ali-shonak, meaning “place of small springs.” Over a period of time, while the silver strikes lasted, “boom” towns grew up around little Arissona, but eventually the silver, the miners, the Spaniards and the “boom towns” disappeared, but all this land one day would be called Arizona. During the 1850’s in this wilderness land, the American occupation began even though it was recognized as a remote western part of the New Mexico territory. During early 1860, Charles Poston, another miner, was using the name Arizona (Obviously couldn’t pronounce Arissona or maybe he couldn’t spell it). In 1863, the new territory was admitted into the Union and officially named Arizona.

Even with the heat, the malipai and the wilderness, the gold and silver in Arizona continued to bring many hardy searchers and lookers to Arizona in the 1860’s. The arrival of the railroads in the 1880’s was man’s most dramatic 19th century achievement. Still, the elements that label our state such as the wind, long droughts, searing heats in parts, not to mention Apaches on the war path, gunslingers and an immoral majority of unchurched, unmarried, and even unwashed citizens, gave our Arizona a notorious reputation that spread far and wide. (In my opinion, the Eastern part of even our own country still thinks we are riding wagons and fighting Indians half of the time, am I right?) In the past Eastern journalists and writers fed the reading public a steady diet of wild and wooly Arizona, contributing to its reputation as a forbidding place inhabited by rattlesnakes, scorpions, cactus, desperadoes, and Renegade Apaches. What General Sherman said when he paid us a visit in 1880 (and he even was one of Phoenix’s early day promoters) tells you what most people thought of our territory, “All Arizona needs is less heat, more water and a few good citizens... but then that is all Hell needs.”

And so, dear readers, once again we have gone back in years and history of our great state (no matter WHAT the early pioneers thought and said) and through these summer months, we will continue reviewing many of the early years and events and well known people. Hope you enjoy our travel through time and by the way, when you get up in the mornings, walk our your front door and enjoy your clean fresh air and your 60 degree weather as Central and Southern Arizona are only 3 or 4 hours away if you want to suffer over 100 degrees and smog. See you next month, the good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.

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Exploring Arizona’s Past on the Web

By Mark Jeffries, Special to the Maverick Magazine When one hears the word “history,” few of us would think of the Internet. However, the web offers a multitude of online resources that can shed light on our collective past.

For a good overview of state and local history, including that of Arizona and our own community in Show Low, Wikipedia can be a great place to start. It makes sense given that Wikipedia is, in essence, the 21st century’s version of yesterday’s encyclopedia. Look up the history of Arizona, and you’ll discover that Europeans began their first explorations of the state in 1539, led by Marcos de Niza and later by Francisco Vasquez de Coronado. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Arizona.)

The state was part of Mexico until 1822, became part of the Territory of New Mexico in 1848, and split from New Mexico to become the Territory of Arizona in 1863.

Few European settlers resided in Arizona in part because of the larger Indian populations. (The state still today has a sizable percentage of land designated as tribal areas). That changed somewhat when silver was discovered in Tombstone, AZ, in 1877. Wyatt Earp and his brothers arrived in 1879, and soon Tombstone had attracted more than 10,000 miners. After the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the state’s Wild West reputation began to grow and has continued ever since. More information can be found at http://www.tombstoneweb. com/.

Speaking of the Wild West, there are a number of history-themed video games for those looking for a Western adventure. At www.thegamereviews.com, you can find a list of the top 10 Wild West themed video games, including the “Outlaws,” the “Oregon Trail,” “Desperados,” and “Red Dead Redemption.” As you can imagine, given the theme, many of them are not appropriate for children, but older teen and adult gamers may be interested in exploring them.

The History Channel’s online site is another great resource for state history, http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/arizona. There you’ll find that Arizona’s nickname is the Grand Canyon state and it officially achieved statehood on Feb. 14, 1912. The site also includes the basics. Population? More than 6.39 million.

Motto? “Ditat Deus (God Enriches).” The state tree is Palo Verde, the state flower is the Saguaro Cactus Blossom, and the state bird is a Cactus Wren.

The state’s Indian history is rich, and some of it can be discovered online as well. Oraibi, a Hopi Indian village dating back to 1150 AD, is believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the United States. Those interested in its near-ancient past can learn more at http://www.experiencehopi.com/villages. html.

More recently, Navajo Indians from Arizona were enlisted to transmit secret communications for the Marines after Pearl Harbor in 1941. Known as Navajo Code Talkers, they created an oral code the enemy was unable to decipher, fulfilling a crucial role during World War II and saving countless lives. More detailed information on their amazing story can be found at http://navajocodetalkers.org/.

For those interested in local Show Low history, Wikipedia describes how, according to legend, the city was named after a marathon poker game between C.E. Cooley and Marion Clark. The two men decided there was not enough room for both of them in their settlement. The two men agreed to let a game of cards decide who was to move. According to the tale, Clark said, “If you can show low, you win.” Cooley turned up the deuce of clubs (the lowest possible card) and replied, “Show low it is.” (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Show_Low,_Arizona). Even more local history can be found on the Show Low Historical Society’s website, http://www.showlowmuseum.com/.

All in all, if a trip through history is what you’re looking for, you no longer need to reach for a dusty book on a shelf. Instead, reach for your laptop, and explore the past — online.

For new service, please call our local Show Low office at 928-537-6610. Mark Jeffries is Area General Manager - Frontier Communications for Arizona, Southern California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah www.themaverickmagazine.com

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The Story of Jeff Storey

by Amie Rodgers

“Jeff Storey is as much a work of art as the pieces he creates.

Much like his work, he is authentic and full of stories...”

Jeff with one of his haunting works of “found” art as well as some of his sought after silversmithing triumphs

With these words, I introduced Mr. Jeff Storey in his interview that appeared in the March 2010 Issue of the Maverick. Since then his watercolors have appeared in every single issue and through his whimsical characters I have learned not only more about Jeff, but also about myself and our society as a whole, especially when it doesn’t seem to make sense (ie: tragedies like bombings, shootings, and politics in general). The strong declarations of the Storyteller J. Pinkeye, the poetic advice from Grandfather and the common sense musings of saddle sore cowboys all have a way of putting things into a perspective truly unique to the American West and its storytellers.

The story of our man behind the watercolors begins on a little farm in Missouri. Of four children born part Irish and part Cherokee, Jeff was the only one born at home. “From the beginning, I felt connected to the land, to the Earth. I didn’t do well in school, but always excelled in art and general outdoorsy junk. I was good at these things for some reason. I don’t know why,” he chuckled when we first had coffee in a Tucson truckstop.

Jeff started doing pen and ink work at around ten years old when he remembers drawing on a piece of white cardboard that came out of a package of new shirts in the ‘60’s. “My first blue ribbon was a pen and ink drawing of President Lincoln that I copied from a $5 bill. I painted supermarket front windows for years. You know, sale items like Bacon 50 cents a lb, lettuce 10 cents a head, etc. I got a nickle a letter and it paid for me to surf (professionally) up and down the coast of California for years. I began making jewelry with a piece of turquoise I wore on a bootlace. I sold my first big mass of pen and ink at Mardi Gras, New Orleans at a famous church at Jackson

Square where all the street artists hung out and listened to Jazz and Blues.

Back then, I drew on paper plates because the paper quality was good and they were cheap. I just cut the edge off when I was done. People liked them and I could make $50 or more a day at it. Ahhh, life was good and care free back then,” he smiles.

After his surfing days, Jeff moved to the mountains of California and opened an art and antique shop. He later headed for Cripple Creek, Colorado when he heard you could find turquoise in the streets. “In the ‘40’s, the city fathers had bought the dirt from the turquoise mine to fill in the streets after long, cruel winters and there just happened to be turquoise in it, which brought tourists.” There Jeff opened the Long Hungry Trading Company.

The name was inspired by a gulch a couple of miles out of town where Jeff found gold the first time in his life.

Jeff got into silversmithing by the way of Native Americans from New Mexico who would buy turquoise at his store. “I prospected for 20 years hunting crystals, gold and turquoise that I traded with the Indians in Taos.

The oldest man in the tribe offered to teach me silversmithing in return for turquoise. His name was Joseph Three Clouds and he was one of the tribal elders in the clan of the Red Willow People. They get their name from the

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‘Sorey’ (Sorey-I’m-Not-A-Better-Artist) Art willows that grow near the river where they live,” explains Jeff, “I would go down there every few months to learn silversmithing and trade turquoise. I learned on a forge with billows. It has become somewhat of a lost art with today’s use of the torch. I just loved it. I remember when I made my first bracelet and wore it. It was such a feeling of accomplishment. I dug the turquoise, I took it to New Mexico, and worked with a master to create an object of beauty from the Earth.”

At one point, Jeff owned a company employing over thirty employees who helped him produce over 875,000 pairs of ear rings alone. He has sold pieces to celebrities like Paul McCartney, Ben Johnson, Wayne Newton, Cystal Gayle, Shirley McClaine, Sam Elliot, the lead guitarist for the Eagles and Willie Nelson. It was thanks to Sue Malinski at Western Village in Payson (another true treasure of an individual like Jeff) that Jeff Storey became a beloved part of the Maverick Magazine. Like me, Sue loves a good story and it was on her recommendation that I bought a cup of coffee at the Triple T Truckstop in Tucson and left with not only a storyteller to share, but a life long friend.

“I started painting again after many years because I broke my foot and needed to pass the time while I healed. I started painting things that triggered old memories like teepees, pueblos, rainbows or roads that led to happy valleys or that go nowhere at all. I like the place it took me to, sort of like yoga. Getting your emotions and thoughts combined is very calming. The more I explored my mind, the more fun my work got. I even found myself laughing out loud at what I painted or wrote. Now I get calls nearly every month from somebody who saw my drawing in the Maverick, cut it out and hung it up somewhere because it made them laugh or feel good. Life is good when people let you know they appreciate what you do,” smiles Jeff, “Life can be tough and I’m just trying to get people to slow down long enough that their smile has a chance to catch up. Life is a pressure cooker. If you don’t take time to laugh, you’ll wind up with beans on the ceiling every time. I don’t have a bucket list of things I want to do, but rather a list of things I am glad I did.”

Because Jeff’s watercolors are comprised of his thoughts and are an avenue of expression, they are often timely and depict current affairs. His work is featured in the 9/11 Memorial Museum and he has personally delivered hundreds of watercolors to wounded warriors at the Tucson VA. He has helped raise money for organizations like the ASPCA, dog and horse rescues and EMTs and donated an original to the Tucson Art Museum. He invites requests for donations for fundraisers. Western Village in Payson features his work and you can also purchase his prints directly from him for $10. To request prints to help raise money for a good cause, please contact Jeff at 505-470-7077. www.themaverickmagazine.com

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Above, Oleta’s picture in the newspaper being named Pioneer Woman of the Year. At right, she and her husband on their anniversary.

Living History

by Amie Rodgers

Oleta Wilson Ninety five years ago, Oleta Wilson was born in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma on Feb 24, 1919 to Menard and Pearl Field. “There was a blizzard the day I was born and Daddy had to go get the doctor on horseback. He put a tarp over Mother’s bed because the snow was blowing in through the cracks of the log cabin,” smiles the 2014 Floyd County Pioneer Woman of the Year, “My parents brought me to Texas when I was six months old in a covered wagon. It took two weeks to get to Haskell, Texas where we lived until we moved to Floyd County when I was eleven. I have lived there the rest of my life.”

Oleta was raised during the Depression with two sisters and a brother. “The house I remember had just one bedroom and a little living room, dining room, kitchen and a very little bath. I guess we didn’t have one before, but it was before I remember.

All four of us kids and Mother and Daddy slept in the same room. They called it a sleeping porch because it had lots of windows in it,” she remembers, “I will always remember my Daddy coming home on Friday night when he had been paid (he was a mechanic) and brought hot tamales from a man selling them on the street. On Saturdays, we would do the shopping and we always got bananas, which was a luxury.”

Oleta loved school and was involved in many school activities and sports. She had always lived in a small town atmosphere and did not know much about hardships of rural life and having to make do with what you had in your pantry or cellar.

Marrying the love of her life at a young age changed that. “I married real young (16) and married a good teacher who was older (26) and he taught me everything I know. He taught me enough that I could farm for two years after he was in a wheelchair,” says Oleta, “I will never forget when he said to me, ‘I will love you all my life if you marry me.’ I said, ‘That is a long time’ and he said, ‘It won’t be near long enough.’ I’ll always treasure that. He was a good Daddy who really loved his children. We were farmers and ranchers. We had a good life. Music was number one in our family and food was always number two. I’ve been happy all my life even though I’ve had some sad things happen. God takes care of me.”

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As newlyweds, the couple received fifteen dozen “Brown Leghorn Fertile Chicken Eggs” for a wedding gift. Oleta learned how to fill the incubator with eggs and how to turn each egg to a different position twice a day so the eggs would hatch properly. Selling eggs was a way the young couple could have a little extra money for needed staple grocery items.

While on their honeymoon, Oleta’s Mother-in-law remodeled her four room house into two small apartments with separate entrances. They lived there for two and half years until their first child was born and they bought a “little” 90 acre farm where they lived until they bought their section of land with help from her father.

Oleta worked hard on their farm for many years. Whether it was driving a tractor, setting irrigation tubes or repairing equipment, she was the perfect help-mate. When her husband’s health began to fail, she stepped up to the task of care-giver for him. She could give shots or do whatever was needed for her husband of family. The Wilsons lived on the farm until they retired and Oleta’s husband later passed away. “He lived nine years after his stroke and I took care of him with the exception of the two times he was in the hospital. He really showed me how to live and he showed me how to die. It has made me strong, I think,” she says with genuine pioneer strength.

Oleta chuckles as she remembers all the things she had to learn as a farmer’s young bride.

A practical lesson that she learned early in her married life was that you can provide a way for baby ducks to get into a tub of water to swim, but you must also provide a way for them to get out of that tub of water. (A little someting she learned when all her baby ducks drowned). She also learned you don’t take the lid off a 55 gallon barrel of chicken feed and let the chickens feed themselves. (The chickens happily flew into the barrel and smothered themselves to death.) In addition to trial and error, Oleta learned a lot from her Mother-inlaw and along the way picked up a number of skills such as quilting, which has kept many of her friends and family warm and hairdressing, which saved the family money.

Oleta and her husband had three children: Johnnie, Sue and Gary. The family was a farming family and everyone did their share of work. Oleta was known for her ability to prepare a banquet of food from scratch and never use a measuring cup or spoon. She prepared and delivered meals in the fields to feed the hired men working on their threshing crews. Oleta always had a garden. She would prepare her vegetables and take them to the Locker Plant before she had a freezer or can them in a pressure cooker to provide vegetables for her family during the winter. Her homemaking abilities led her to giving a number of demonstrations at her home as a member of the South Plains Home Demonstration Club. Oleta also taught Sunday school and Vacation Bible School. She always made time for her children’s school activities and actively participated in PTA, Cub Scouts and 4-H. .

Oleta is an accomplished artist and has painted many beautiful oil paintings. She has shared many of these with family and friends and has had several exhibits of her artwork at local banks. She is an avid “Duplicate Bridge” player and her goal is to become a “Life Master” bridge player. She knits beautiful caps that she gives as lovely gifts to magazine writers, fellow bridge players and premature babies at the hospital. She also confessed that she is a sports addict and is currently rooting for the Diamondbacks.

Oleta is technically in the White Mountains on loan from Texas for the summer and enjoying her new friends at Solterra. She will be returning to Texas this fall to put her house on the market and move to Lubbock. She looks forward to playing more bridge and spending time with her six grandchildren, three step grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren.

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“World Shoe Project”:

Calling All Old Shoes for Donation

Play Cow Pie Bingo at Vernon Day August 2nd The biggest FUNdraising event of the season for the Vernon Community Park is being held on August 2 at the park. The festivities will begin with a Swap Meet beginning at 8am.

Food, including homemade pastries, funnel cakes, snow cones and popcorn will be available throughout the day, with a lunch of hot dogs or hamburgers, chips and a drink being sold at lunchtime. The evening meal will be pulled pork sandwiches (the pig is cooked right there at the park), salads, beans and a drink. A homemade foods auction will be held following dinner.

Cow Pie Bingo, one of the park’s most entertaining as well as profitable activities, will be held, as usual, around noon. Games, along with fire truck rides and wagon rides, will keep the children happy, while musical performances will entertain the entire crowd.

Raffle tickets will be sold all day for two great prizes---A 3-foot-tall handcrafted replica of an American Bald Eagle AND a Mossberg 5-shot 12-gauge shotgun. The drawing for both prizes will be at the end of the day. Tickets are $5 each or $10 for three. Call Chuck Crane at 527-0092 for more details.

All proceeds from this event will be used for park maintenance and for needed park improvements. Join us for the Vernon Day Celebration. It will be a day of food, FUN, and friends that you won’t want to miss.

Navajo County Drug Project (NCDP) is raising funds for its substance abuse prevention and youth programs by collecting any and all old shoes! Singles, blowouts, flip flops, high heels, slippers, sports shoes, whatever—are collected and shipped to third world businesses to repair and sell. NCDP receives 40 cents per pound/±per pair of shoes. “We target collecting 7,500 pounds of shoes by October 30,” said NCDP Director Debe Campbell. This volume will earn the program $3,000. Last year more than $4,000 was raised! Currently, donation boxes are located in in Pinetop-Lakeside at St. Mary’s Church and Yellow Jacket Youth Center. Drop off locations will be expanded. Midway Self Storage in Wagon Wheel is donating storage space for the shoes. Thrift shops are encouraged to save shoes that are too used or mismatched to donate to this project. Anyone interested in assisting as a collection point, please visit www.navajocountydrugproject.com

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11th Annual Show Low Days:

More Fun Than You Could Shake a Stick Horse At! Photos by Amie Rodgers and Jane Harris On June 6-8th, kids of all ages had a ball during the 11th Annual Show Low Days celebration weekend.

Early Saturday, the EAA held their Deuces Wild Fly-In Pancake Breakfast at the Show Low Airport, (see middle right). Then the main drag was lined with straw bales in preparation for the wildly popular Derby Down the Deuce (see above and the Pour Station’s Mike Bosley and his steaming hot “Expresso Shot” at right). After the Derby, crowds headed over to the Cruz’n the Rim Car Show at Frontier Park to oogle beautiful rides and the kids enjoyed the absolutely adorable Stick Horse Rodeo at Show Low Park’s Little League Field organized and wrangled by State Farm Agent Jill Tinkel and her dedicated ranch hands.

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“Revitalizing Our Communities”:

27th Annual Native American Arts Festival Photos by Judi Bassett and Amie Rodgers

On June 21st & 22nd, the Pinetop-Lakeside Chamber of Commerce presented the 27th Annual Native American Arts Festival. This year’s theme was entitled Revitalizing Our Communities. During the Pre-Show at Hon-Dah Resort, World

Renown Chef Nephi Craig demonstrated elegant approaches to traditional cuisine to the sounds of the Apache Spirit family (above). The Pre-Show was a memorable opportunity to meet artists like my good friend Don Whitesinger (at left) and Jesse T. Hummingbird who was chosen as this year’s poster artist. His original painting (shown at far left with Marty LaMar of Native Women Scholars, Inc.) is valued at $1,500 and is being raffled along with a 1913 Treadle Sewing Machine to raise money for scholarships for Native American young women. Only 100 tickets will be sold in each raffle. The tickets sell for $20 each and can be purchased at the Pinetop/Lakeside and Show Low Chambers of Commerce.

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Mardi Gras in the Pines Summer Gala Come and join the fun for this first time event held at Hon-Dah Resort and sponsored by the White Mountain Woman’s Club and benefitting local charities. On August 22nd, beginning at 6 pm, there will be live music, Mardi Gras masks and beads and of course, great food by Hondah’s own Chef Ed. Our raffle will feature great items such as a Frederick Remington bronze piece “Bucking Bronco”, airline tickets, golf packages and restaurant certificates.

Tickets will be available at Pinetop-Lakeside, Show Low and Snowflake Taylor Chambers of Commerce, Made at Nana’s, Classic Cookware and the Candle Factory. The cost will be $55 a person and we will have a wonderful choice of delicious entrees in keeping with Mardi Gras and delicious delights to tempt the pallet, such as Prime Rib, Jambalaya, pasta with crab sauce, salad, roasted potatoes and more. Dress is “snappy casual” and you can wear Mardi Gras theme, or more elaborate to simply casual. This will be an evening event welcoming ladies and gentlemen to come out for an unique and fun filled evening helping those in need in our communities. For more information or to donate a raffle item, please contact Joan Lora at 928-251-4177.

Join the White Mountain Base Submarine Veterans for a fun-filled day of golf to benefit our local veterans and recognize their service.

CellularOne® Invites Locals to Hit the Links on Aug 2. to Support White Mountain Base Submarine Veterans A fun, themed day of golf for a great cause will feature food, drinks, giveaways, and prizes!

(SHOW LOW, Arizona) – Cellular One announced that it will serve as the title sponsor of the 2014 Cellular One Golf Tournament at Snowflake Community Golf Course to take place on Saturday, August 2, 2014. Four-player teams are encouraged to secure a spot for this fun day of golf for a worthy cause, which will feature prizes for Hole in One, Vegas Hole, Beat the Dealer, Shoot Out, and more!

2014 Cellular One Golf Tournament Details: When: August 2, 2014 (8:00 a.m. Registration; 9:00 a.m. Shotgun Start) Where: Snowflake Community Golf Course (90 N. Country Club Dr.) Why: A fun day of golf to benefit White Mountain Submarine Veterans How: Registration is $70 per player, which includes green fees, food, drinks and prize giveaways. ContactSponsorships@cellularoneaz.com or call 928-537-0375 x2493 to register your foursome!

“We anticipate a great turnout on August 2nd for a day of golf and socializing to benefit a very deserving group– the White Mountain Base Submarine Vets,” said Cellular One CEO Judd Hinkle. “We deeply appreciate their service to our country and wholeheartedly support all they do for our White Mountain community.”

About Cellular One: Cellular One is a leading provider of wireless communications service and best-in-class products to individuals, families and organizations in rural areas and small metro communities in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

Headquartered in Show Low, Ariz., Cellular One operates a network of more than 201 cell sites, with additional sites in the works, and a total of 22 stores within its coverage area—providing nearly 200 jobs in the region. In 2013 the company invested more than $40 million to upgrade and expand its network, culminating in the launch of its FASTER NETWORK in November 2013. For more information, visit www.cellularoneonline.com and www.facebook.com/CellularOneOnline.

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2nd Annual FAC Golf Tournament: Golf & Good Times for a Good Cause Photos by Amie Rodgers and Aaron Ulibarri On June 6th, the Navajo County Attorney’s Family Advocacy Centers invited good hearted golfers to “Put It On the Tee for the FAC” at Torreon Golf Course in Show Low. In addition to auctions and Hole In One contests sponsored by Horne Auto and Dixon Golf, guests enjoyed a “Beat the County Attorney” contest (shown at top), live entertainment with the Fool’s Hollow Band and sliders prepared by Personal Gourmet Mark Henning (pictured with FAC Director Aaron Ulibarri).

The proceeds of this event benefitted the FAC, which provides services to children who have suffered physical and/or sexual abuse. For more information on how you can help, please call Aaron at (928) 242-6565.

Photos by Amie Rodgers and Evelyn Shaw

White Mountain Clothe-A-Child Thanks Community for Successful Fundraising BBQ “May 26th America’s Pie Company hosted the 2nd annual Fundraiser for White Mountain Clothe-A-Child. What a fun and successful event it was. Hospice Compasses had a fun walk/run in the morning and part of their proceeds were donated to WM Clothe-A-Child. At America’s Pie – WE AMUSE donated all of the inflated jumps, slides, obstacle course, spin ball and of course, the Dunk Tank – thank you to Show Low and Pinetop’s police and councils for literally jumping in – getting dunked – and having fun. The raffles were many, the hamburgers, hot dogs, cake and drinks were all donated. We thank everyone who participated and who donated to help put this event on – but most of all we THANK ALL OF YOU for donating to this very special charity who does so much for the children in the white mountains.”

-Jack Wade, White Mountain Clothe-A-Child President.

ATTENTION ALL CLOTHE-A-CHILD VOLUNTEERS!!!!

Due to additional funding we received this year, White Mountain Clothe-A-Child will have TWO events to help the children on the mountain with new clothes.

There will be a BACK TO SCHOOL shopping event on August 23, at Kmart starting at 7am. We will also have the Christmas Shopping on December 13, starting at 6:30 am. These are the only two events sponsored by White Mountain Clothe-AChild. We have been doing this for 26 years and we really appreciate the support of the community. If you would like to shop with the children on Aug. 23 or Dec. 13, please come to Kmart and volunteer. It is heartwarming and fun. For more info, contact Jack Wade at 928 537-9663 www.themaverickmagazine.com

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About Town

July & August 2014 Got an event to list? It is free. Call us at 928.532.NEWS or email us at amierodgers@hotmail.com.

Toastmasters International Club in the White Mountains meets every Wed. from noon-1pm at the Lakeside Fire Station, 2922 W. White Mountain Blvd.

Guests are welcome. Info: Gayle Tyler, 406-920-0157.

The Show Low Elks Lodge #2090 located at 805 E. Whipple invites you to their weekly Bingo games every Friday night at 7 pm. There are cash prizes for every game and it is open to the public.Info: 928-537-4901.

Quilts for Kids Open Sewing Workshops at Made at Nana’s in Pinetop.

All summer Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-3 pm. Bring your machines and scraps and join in the fun while we make quilts to donate to various organizations for distribution to children who need them!

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Photo by Jane Harris

24-26 Snowflake Pioneer Days Celebration. Parade at 10 am, arts and crafts fair at the Golf Course along with a car show. See pg 5.

25 “What’s Up on Planet Earth?!” with Linda West. See pg 55.

25 Intuitive Healer - Public Talk. Gifted intuitive/sound healer and

facilitator of prayer, Patricia Hurley will explain & demonstrate her healing practices at Open Spaces Yoga Center, Ponderosa Village, Lakeside. 6:30-8pm. Q&A + private session info: (928) 367-4636

25 1st Annual Golf the Summit. See pg 66 25 & 26 Live performance of Thunderhorse at Avery’s in Spring-

erville. 9 pm.

17 Beer Olympics at Avery’s in Springerville. www.averysaz.com.

18 & 19 Live performance of Thunderhorse at the Lions Den. 9 pm.

18 Kids Day At The Museum. Every Friday in July will be KIDS DAY at

the museum. Make it a family event. Each time you visit there will be different activities for all to enjoy. 10:30 am-2:30 pm. Info: (928) 532-7155

25 1st Annual Golf The Summit. Torreon Golf Club. See pg 63 26 BBQ and Dance. 4:30 pm in Nutrioso.

26 AAWM People’s Choice Art Show Awards. See pg 53 26 Itty Bitty Olympics. 9 am at Show Low City Park. Competition is

open for boys and girls 0-6 years old. All participants will take home a ribbon and contest winners will get an award. Info: 928-532-4140.

31 Christmas Cabin Guild Craft Show @ Pinetop-Lakeside Town 19, 26 Show Low Farmers Market & Art Walk. Festival Marketplace Hall Gym (7/31 – 8/2) & Cooley St. between 9th & 11th Streets. 9am – 1pm thru Sept. 27th. Local 31 “THURSDAY NIGHT AT THE PARK” presented by Snowflake/ produce, food products, artisans & craftspeople. Info: (928) 532-4124 Taylor Recreation Program. 7pm at Pioneer Park north of Snowflake.

19 SIRINGO, with Lynzie Spears on vocals, will be your special treat on- Live performance by Jazz Monkeys. stage at the Pine Lakes Ampitheater. Bring chairs, blanket and a picnic basket, (beer and wine okay). 6-9PM. No cover.

August

19 Chili Cook Off at Bison Ranch in Overgaard. 9 am-3 pm. Team Set Up from 7:30-8:30 am. Public testing from 1:30-3 pm.

1 Live performance of Apache Spirit at Avery’s in Springerville. www.

19 Pioneer Day Celebration @ Mtn Meadow Rec Complex, Pinetop. averysaz.com 19 Summit Healthcare’s Dark Skies & Black Ties Gala 19, 26 Concert Series at Green Valley Park in Payson. www.rimcoun- 1 & 2, 22 & 23 Live music: Thunderhorse at RT’s. 9 pm 1-2 Eagar Daze. Info: (928) 333-4128. trychamber.com 2 Vernon Day. Fundraiser for the Vernon Comm. Park. Swap meet 8 19 WMWC Annual Home & Garden Tour. See pg 40.

19, 23 Tours of Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center. 9-10:30 am. Sug- am. Cow Pie Bingo at noon. Food, wagon rides, games, live music.

2 Project Runway 2 Fashion Show benefitting the Navajo County gested donation to help support the Center is $5 per person.

19 The White Mountain Reptile Rescue invites you to “Take a Walk on the Family Advocacy Center. 11:30 am at Torreon. See pg 27.

Wild Side!” Experience giant tortoises and large snakes up close with fun, 2 AALF Quilt Show at the Alpine Community Center. 9 am - 3 pm. hands on experience followed by a Herp search. Noon at WM Nature Center 2 Submarine Vets Golf Tournament at Snowflake Community Golf on Woodland Lake Rd in Pinetop.

Course. See pg 18

20, 27 GAME DAY! Horse Shoes, Pool, Darts, Arcade Games at Avery’s 2, 30 Pig Roast at Moose Henri’s in Lakeside. See pg. 11 in Springerville. www.averysaz.com 2 Bison Ranch hosts the AZ Crawfish Festival. Arts & Crafts vendors.

21, 28 Pool & Horse Shoe Tournament at Avery’s in Springerville.

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Overgaard. Info: (602) 885-1078.

Jungle Safari MOMS Club Open House. 10am-12pm at Show Low City Park Playground. Come explore the MOMS Club! Meet up with other moms in the area while the kids enjoy a safari scavenger hunt, snacks, and a binocular craft. Learn more about becoming a member of the MOMS Club.

2 Free Pet Blessing. 9AM – 12PM. Unity of the White Mountains, 257 Woodland Road, Lakeside. (928) 242-5307 www.unitywm.org. All pets must be on a leash or in a carrier. The first 100 pet owners will receive a silver heart charm with their blessing.

‘Meals on Wheels’ program will benefit by joining us for lunch. Enjoy a variety of half sandwiches and Chef’s special house made soup. Lunch includes salad bar & beverage. Reservations at 928-535-5525. $6 or $7/under 60.

Lake Rd in Pinetop.

22, 29 Guys Night Out at Avery’s in Springerville. www.averysaz.com 2 Join the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation experts for “Enjoying Elk in the White Mountains”. Experts share the life history, habitat, and 23, 30 Karaoke at Avery’s in Springerville. www.averysaz.com of the largest member of the deer family. Learn where and how to 23 Purple Sage Cafe at the Rim Country Sr Center in Overgaard. Our habits find them and even how to call them. WM Nature Center on Woodland 24, 31 Ladies’ Night at Avery’s in Springerville. www.averysaz.com 20 The Maverick Magazine July 2014

2 Pinedale Dutch Oven Festival. 11AM See pg 23 7 White Mountain Woman’s Club meeting, 10:30. HonDah. Pro-

gram: “Wolves” Info: Jean Krall, 928-369-4021.

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8 Tribute to Lynyrd Skynryd at Mazatzal Casino in Payson. See pg 29 16 Show Low Emblem Club’s annual fashion show. Americana: A Red, White, and Fashion show. Doors open @ 11 am. Admission price includes 8-9 Foxfire Bluegrass pickers conference starts at noon at Foxfire in Al- lunch and fashion show. Lots of gift baskets and door prizes to win. Show

pine.

Low Elks Lodge Bingo hall. Info: (718)644-2407

9-10 Gun Show at Show Low Elks Lodge. Sat. 8 am - 5 pm & Sun. 9 am 22 WMWC Mardi Gras in The Pines Gala at Hon-dah Resort & Confer- 3 pm. $5 admission to benefit Elks Scholarship Fund. 641 S. 5th Ave Show Low. Info: (928) 537-7711.

ence Center 6PM – 10PM. See pg 6.

Happy Tails Auction in the Orchard at Charlie Clark’s Steak House 9 Join Beci Rohkohl, nutritionist, for a hands on healthy cooking class. 23 (Pinetop) to benefit the Humane Society of the WMs. 11 am - 4 pm.

After preparation, enjoy lunch. $20. Rim Country Sr Center 11-1, Overgaard 928-535-5525.

23 Mini Mudder at the Show Low City Park Senior Field for ages 0-8. Race 9 Bellydance Performance to benefit the WM SAFE House. NPC Perform- begins at 10 am. Preregistration required at (928)532-4140. ing Arts Building, Snowflake Taylor. 7 PM. $5 tickets. Dessert Bar. 27 The Cabin Bar & Grill is the Restaurant Partner at the Rim Country Sr Center in Overgaard. ‘Meals on Wheels’ benefits by joining us for lunch.

9 19th Annual Tri in the Pines. See pg 65.

Enjoy Chef’s Cheesy Chicken Pasta. Lunch includes salad bar& beverage.

9, 16, 23, 30 Show Low Farmers Market & Art Walk at Festival 928-535-5525. $6 or $7/under 60.

Marketplace & Cooley St. between 9th & 11th Streets. 9am–1pm every Sat. 30-31 Fine Arts & Craft Show in Charlie Clark’s Orchard. 9 am - 5 pm. thru Sept. 27th. Local produce, food products, artisans & craftspeople.

See pg 6.

9 Workshop on “How to Reduce Back Pain by 79% or less in 5 minutes” 30, 31 & Sept. 1 12th Fallfest Arts & Crafts Fair at Blue Ridge

by Monte Cunningham from 10am–noon. Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center. The suggested donation to help support the Center is $10 per person.

School Grounds in Lakeside.

Summertime Blues ‘14. Standford General Store 8AM – 4PM, Music, 9 White Mtn. Sheriff’s Posse BBQ, 1-7 pm. Pinetop-Lakeside Civic Center 30 open market & benefit for the Concho Elementary School. Admission – Items for the Student Store- school supplies, back packs, etc. $4.50 Benefit Lunch 14 Women’s Pro Rodeo Association Rodeo at Payson Event Center.

15 -17 August Doins Rodeo. Payson Event Center. 8/16 August Doins 10:30AM hamburgers/hot dogs/brats/chips & drinks. Info: (928) 537-7755 Parade. Historic Main Street. www.rimcountrychamber.com.

30 Great Greer Boat Race.

15 AAWM Starry, Starry Night. 6–9 PM. 251 Penrod Road, Show Low. A 30 Rummage Riot & Chamber Open House at Heber-Overgaard Champresentation of painting by modern & contemporary masters from Europe & the United States, including a Picasso. Wine, hors d’oeuvres & music. Tickets $30 each. (928) 532-2296

15 & 16 Live Performance of Thunderhorse at Lions Den. 9 pm 15 The Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons Concert Re-Creation. Hon-

Dah. See pg 51.

ber of Commerce. Info: 928-535-5777

30-31 Bison Ranch hosts 2nd Annual Wild West Days 30 9th Annual Woodland Wildlife Festival at WM Nature Center.

30–31 USDAA Dog Agility Trials @ Mountain Meadow Rec. Complex on Woodland Lake Rd. (& 9/1)

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Blue Corn Dumplings

Food and dining

2 c blue cornmeal 2 t baking powder 2 T bacon drippings ½ t salt 2/3 c milk Combine corn meal, baking powder, bacon drippings, salt. Stir in enough milk to make a stiff batter. Drop by the Tb into stew during the last 15 mins. of cooking.

Cowboy Recipes The master cook ruled the trail with his skillet and talent. He often slept in the chuck wagon. Dishwater was poured under the Chuck wagon to protect his domain and discourage the hands from napping underneath. Here are a few recipes the cowboys gave us, some of them from the Mountain area.

Recipes of the Old West

by Melissa Carrington, Local Foodista

Native American Recipes Native Americans have long looked to the Earth for sustenance. The original American hunters and gatherers have some delicious foods and recipes.

Many of which still sustain all.

Fry Bread Vegetable Oil for Frying 2 ½ c flour ½ t salt 1 t baking powder 1/4t sugar 1 t oil 1 c warm milk Heat oil over med- high heat until hot, but not smoking. Combine all ingredients. Shape dough into round disks.Fry until golden brown and crispy.

Hunter’s Stew 2 lbs Deer meat cut into 1” pieces 3 stalks finely chopped celery 2 T chopped beef suet 3 finely chopped med onions

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2 t salt 2 potatoes peeled and diced.

1 t pepper 6 finely chopped carrots Place all ingredients in soup pot. Cover with water. Cook until meat is tender.

Corn Stew with Blue Dumplings 2 T Bacon drippings 1 ½ lb ground beef or goat meat 1 medium onion, chopped 1 Bell Pepper, chopped 1 T ground red pepper 4 c fresh corn kernels 1 zucchini, chopped 1 yellow squash, chopped 4 c water 2 T whole wheat flour Brown meat in Bacon drippings over medhigh heat. Add onion, bell pepper, and ground red pepper. Sauté until onions are translucent.

Stir in zucchini and yellow squash. Cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer for 30- 40 minutes. Mix flour with 2T broth. Add to stew, and whisk until thickened.

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Cowboy Beans 2 lbs pinto beans 4T sugar 2 lbs ham hocks or salt pork 2 whole green chilies, grilled and chopped 2 med onions chopped 1 can tomato paste 1 t toasted coriander seeds Wash beans and soak overnight. Drain and place in a Dutch oven with all other ingredients. Cover with water and simmer until tender. Add water as needed. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Black Pudding This ranch recipe is courtesy of Winkie Crigler, who founded The Little House Museum in Greer.

6 eggs 1 c sweet milk 2 c flour 1 t baking soda 1 c sugar 1 t cinnamon 1 c molasses Mix all ingredients well pour into a 1 lb can. Steam for 2-3 hrs in a covered kettle of boiling water.

Pudding is served with a Vinegar Sauce.

Vinegar Sauce Mix 1 c sugar, 1 T butter, 1 T flour, 2 T vinegar, ½ t nutmeg. Add enough boiling water for the amount of sauce wanted. Add two eggs slightly beaten.

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Baked Apple Pudding This recipe was brought west by the ancestors of the Crandell family of Linden.

3 lg apples grated 1 c sugar 1 cube butter (4 sticks) 1 egg 1 c flour 1 t baking powder ½ t cinnamon ½ t nutmeg Beat the egg, sugar, and butter together.

Add apples, and mix well. Combine in the dry ingredients. Place in a greased baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 30- 40 minutes.

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The Shaffery family on Pat’s Place’s closing day in 2008. Left to right is Trish, Ryland, Rainie, Bryna, Pat, Jason, Nathanael (Jason’s son), Katie (Jason’s wife).

Beloved Family Restaurant Lives On In New Cookbook Show Low, Arizona - Mention the name “Pat’s Place” to just about anyone from the White Mountains and memories of delicious homemade food in a cozy family atmosphere come flooding back. For over 30 years, Pat’s Place was where you celebrated birthdays, played pool in their game room, caught up with friends while waiting for your food, enjoyed end of season sports parties or just met for a comforting family meal.

Pat’s Place was the place where everyone went, like a second home. Sadly, in 2008, Pat’s Place closed its doors and left a legacy of memories with locals and tourists alike, until now.

For those who salivate over the mere thought of your favorite meal at Pat’s Place, there is hope. Now you can recreate Pat’s Place dishes in your own home.

Former owner, Trish Shaffery, has just completed the first of three cookbooks based on the Pat’s Place menus called Pat’s Place Pizza Cookbook – Breakfasts, Soups and Secrets. The first book contains all the recipes for their breakfasts and homemade soups, along with local and family history. Also included in the book are pictures of family, the building and some of the food. Since Pat’s Place customers were one of the keys to its longevity, the book features customers sharing a few of their own special Pat’s Place memories and experiences, as well.

An integral part of Show Low’s main street landscape for many years, Pat’s Place was a local institution located right on the Deuce of Clubs. It was owned and operated by Pat and Trish Shaffery and various family members. Originally, Pat’s dad, John, together with Pat and Trish, purchased an existing business called The Horseshoe Pizza Parlor in 1978. John’s dream was to create and sell chicken dishes with an international flavor. They named the restaurant The Irish Chicken Ship because John was in favor of everything Irish, probably because of his heritage.

The front of the building was covered with plywood and then an ocean liner was painted on it. Chickens dressed in international costumes were peeking out of the portholes. Fortunately, the menu also included the pizza and burgers from the Horseshoe menu because the chicken dishes were not very successful.

Over the years, the restaurant expanded to fill the entire building. Eventually, the name was changed to Pat’s Place since most people thought Irish Chicken Ship was difficult to say and, thankfully, the plywood was removed to let in the sunshine. For a short period of time, the restaurant even included an ice cream parlor.

One of the biggest draws of Pat’s Place was the game room which included pool tables, video games, pinball machines, and later, the infamous claw machines. One of the first games added to the room was an Atari Pong table. The Pac Man game was a favorite for everyone. The game room made Pat’s Place a favorite gathering place for families and people of all ages.

Over time, the menu expanded to include breakfast. The food was homemade and served with genuine Irish hospitality. At Pat’s Place, everyone was family, even the customers. Each person had their favorite menu item so any menu changes were given a great deal of thought. Many times, if an item no longer was listed on the menu, it was still prepared for the customer who just had to have their favorite dish.

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Delicious food was certainly an important part of Pat’s Place but equally important was the fellowship and sense of family in the restaurant. Many people celebrated every childhood birthday at Pat’s or attended parties to celebrate a victory in sports or the end of the season. The restaurant became a significant part of the community as a meeting place and as a place for young people or families to relax and spend time together.

After Pat’s Place closed and the building was removed to connect 9th Street through to the Deuce of Clubs, former owner, Trish Shaffery, spent time with her family and eventually opened Coffee Mania, a quaint little coffee bar. Ironically, Coffee Mania was located just a short distance down the Deuce from where Pat’s Place once stood.

While it has been several years’ journey to publication, Trish always planned to produce the Pat’s Place recipes into cookbooks after the restaurant closed. Along with all the family recipes, she had collected many restaurant related photos and historical memorabilia while Pat’s was in business and knew they would be useful when putting together the books. With the publication of Pat’s Place Pizza Cookbook – Breakfasts, Soups and Secrets, faithful fans of the restaurant can get another taste of the Shaffery’s home cooking while reminiscing of good times had there with family and friends.

If you are interested in purchasing the Pat’s Place Pizza Cookbook – Breakfasts, Soups and Secrets, you can purchase it online at http://shop.patsplacepizza.com or contact Trish Shaffery directly via email at patsplaceshowlow@citlink.net. Trish will also be having local book signing events throughout the year, including the first one at Classic Cookware in Show Low on July 12 from 10 am to 1 pm. To check for upcoming book signings, please follow Pat’s Place Pizza at https://www. facebook.com/patsplacepizza.

Two more cookbooks, covering the remaining menu items, are already in the works. Trish is asking any former customers and employees to share their favorite Pat’s Place stories with her so they may be included in the next books. Stories can be e-mailed to: patsplaceshowlow@citlink.net or mailed to 9323Grizzly Bear Road, Lakeside, AZ 85929.

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Marinade: 2 Tbs. tamari* 2 Tbs. oyster sauce* 2 Tbs. Ponzu sauce* 2 Tbs. white wine 1 tsp. cornstarch 1 tsp brown sugar ½ tsp Worcestershire sauce ½ tsp ground black pepper 1 lb. top sirloin steak, trimmed and sliced into 1-inch wide strips about 3” long Combine all marinade ingredients in a large bowl, stir to mix well. Add the meat and stir to coat. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour, or up to 24 hours.

Stir-Fry 3 Tbs. white wine 4 Tbs. peanut oil, divided 1 ½ lbs. asparagus, trimmed, peeled (if needed), and cut into 1-inch pieces 1 ½ inch fresh ginger, peeled and chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 3 Tbs. chopped fresh cilantro for garnish Cooked Jasmine Rice

Asian Inspiration for Abundant Asparagus

by Liz Turner, Blue Apron Cooking School One of summer’s great pleasures is the abundance of fresh asparagus being offered at a reasonable price at farmer’s markets and grocery stores. Most everyone enjoys this incredible delicious, versatile, and healthy vegetable. It can be served so many ways and at any meal making the possibilities endless. But, as hard as it is to believe, it is possible to have too much asparagus for a single meal! That would be if you grow your own, as asparagus must be harvested when it is ready.

Delay of even one day and it will have grown too far. Under ideal circumstances a spear can grow as much as 12 inches in 24 hours, although perhaps 6-8 inches is more typical.

Some more interesting facts about asparagus are - it can be green, white, purple or black. Its peak season is April through September, but is now usually available year around. Asparagus is high in fiber, foliate, and potassium as well as vitamin K, E, A and C. Each spear has just 4 calories and contains no fat or cholesterol.

Stalks that have a smooth skin, uniform color with dry compact and purple-tinged tips are best. Best to store the stalks upright in a cup of shallow water lightly covered with a plastic bag – they will keep for a few days. Snap off woody ends and to make the stalks more tender, you can peel them with a potato peeler before cooking. There are countless wonderful recipes for preparing asparagus – I think this one is extra tasty!

Asian Stir-Fried Asparagus with Beef If you marinate the beef ahead of time it takes only minutes to put this dish together

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Drain beef, but reserve 3 Tbs. marinade and add white wine. Mix well. Place a large skillet over high heat. When hot, add 2 Tbs. oil. Add beef, stirring and turning about 2 mins. or until browned. Remove the meat, add remaining 2 Tbs. oil and add asparagus and ginger. Cook 2-3 mins., stirring. Add the garlic and continue stirring for about 15 seconds. Mix in the 3 Tbs. of marinade-wine mixture and reduce heat to low. Cover and cook slowly for about 4 mins. or until the asparagus is tender. Add the beef back to the skillet and cook until the meat is hot and cooked through. Sprinkle with cilantro and serve immediately with Jasmine rice. Serves about 4.

Notes: A wok works great instead of a skillet if you have one. *Tamari, oyster, and ponzu sauce are available in the Asian section of most stores or at Asian markets.

(Ponzu is a citrus-based sauce commonly used in Japanese cuisine. If you can’t find it, substitute 1Tbs. fresh lime juice and 1 Tbs. soy sauce

Upcoming Classes: Basics of Cooking - Plus! Tue 7/22 @ 10:30 am or Wed 7/23 @10:30 am $45 Everybody wants to cook great food, but somehow we have it in our heads that great tasting food requires lots of planning, skills, and special equipment. Come to this class and you will see how easy it can be to prepare delicious food in your kitchen. Simplicity is the key – top notch ingredients, a few good pots, pans, knives and a couple of key appliances are all that is needed. We will cover such basics as, correct recipe reading and terminology, basic prep set-up (mise en place), knife skills, basic seasonings with herbs & spices, and the concept of cooking clean – an almost guarantee of success in itself! Each student will receive Liz’s list of tips and hints that will make cooking so much easier and enjoyable. You will to

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learn how to make basic stock and broth, a variety of sauces, how to quickly and properly chop vegetables, how to work with yeast and eggs and more. You will use these new skills to make a soufflés with sauces, bake breads, clean, de-bone & sauté chicken, make a rich creamy vegetable soup, and more. This is a great class for the accomplished cook (we can always learn something new) as well as those just getting started. It is also a good class for young cooks ages 12 – 92!

Best of 2013 Recipes! Wed 7/30 @ 10:30 am or Thur 7/31 @ 6 pm $45 Each year we pick out the very best recipes from the previous season and offer them again in one class. This is that class – what a deal! Because these recipes are from a variety of classes they don’t necessarily fit into a theme, but they are versatile and can be incorporated into your menus at home. We will make such outstanding dishes as, Creamy mushroom-chestnut soup with rosemary shortbreads, Hoisin-glazed scallops, Spinach cilantro & lime Jasmine rice, Gluten-Free lasagna with homemade noodles, Butternut squash & mushroom tart, Grilled pineapple tart, and an almond chocolate-chip cookie that is gluten free. In fact, the two gluten free recipes in this class were not chosen because they were “good-for-gluten free”, but because they are excellent all around delicious! You know when you sign-up for this class you are guaranteed every recipe is a winner!

- and later in the season we will be offering: 9/25 or 9/26 – Cuisine of Cuba – Popular traditional dishes, highly seasoned, but not too spicy, from this most exciting cuisine.

10/2, 10/3, or 10/4 – Foods Guys Love – Men love to eat and eat hearty. This class is all about putting the “heart” & soul in those favorites. Come flex some culinary muscle. Great couples class – date night anyone?

11/5 or 11/6 – Holiday Entertaining and Celebrations – a fun and festive class full of inspiring ideas with recipes for a wide variety of dishes that will carry you through all your holiday celebrations. Last class of the season, always a party!

Article and recipes provided by Liz Turner & The Blue Apron Cooking School.

For more information or a current schedule of classes, please contact Blue Apron Cooking School at PO Box 1037, Pinetop, AZ 85935 or visit www.blueaproncooks. com.

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At left, Bill and Tricia Gibson in front of the original hearth and above, the Orchard on opening night. Photo by Lloyd Pentecost.

Charlie Clark’s Steakhouse:

A Part of Pinetop’s History Since 1938

by Amie Rodgers In as early as 1885, Anglo settlers began calling what we now know as Pinetop home. Beginning in 1886, pioneer families such as the Penrods began to build log cabins and Pinetop became a popular stop for Calvary making their way to Fort Apache. In the mid ‘20s, a gentleman by the name of Jake Renfro opened his Famous Log Cabin Cafe where he was known to hide illegal barrels of whiskey under the bar floor of today’s equally famous Charlie Clark’s Steakhouse.

It was in 1938 that Charlie Clark bought the cafe. “Charlie Clark was born back East. His mother died and his father remarried. He didn’t get along with his stepmother so at the age of fifteen, he ran away from home and never saw his family again,” says Charlie Clark’s owner Bill Gibson during an interview with him and his business partner and lovely wife Tricia, “He worked for Henry Ford in one of his first car plants. He got married and had a child. Later on, his wife passed away and he moved to Arizona. He moved to Concho where he had a cattle ranch.

He got married again and had another daughter. When it got hot during the summer months, he would bring his family by wagon to Pinetop. He met Jake Renfro and they became friends. As the years passed, Charlie lost another wife and decided it was time to move into town with his daughters. He made a deal with Jake and bought his Famous Log Cabin Cafe, which he named Charlie Clark’s Famous Log Cabin Cafe. Eventually people just called it Charlie Clark’s. As the story goes, Charlie himself would go in the back to cut steaks and would even have customers peel potatoes and tend their own bar. It wasn’t uncommon during the winter for people to throw out bed rolls and stay the night. His daughter Dottie married into the Crosby family and his other daughter owned Elaine’s dress shop for years. Charlie Clark died in 1952 after running this place for fifteen years. He is buried up the road in the Pioneer Cemetery.”

As of July 8th, 2014, Bill and Tricia have owned Charlie Clark’s for thirty three years and three months. Over the years, they have made their own mark on the historic location by adding and remodeling space as well as acquiring the Orchard ten years ago. Inspired during a trip to the Florida Keys where many old buildings have been remodeled into bars, Tricia suggested that the Orchard would be a great summer venue for dining and entertainment. She was right.

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The Gibsons remodeled the old homestead site into Pinetop’s popular hangout. “Part of the old homestead is still standing as three old barns. We remodeled the middle barn as a bar and the barn that sits next to it is where they used to store their apples in sawdust. There was a chicken coop and loading shoot for cattle behind that. Where the dance floor is today was the foundation of the old house,” says Bill.

With so much history made within the walls of Charlie Clark’s, it is no wonder a number of people have cited supernatural experiences. “Through the years, we have had quite a few incidents with what people call ghosts. I myself have never had an experience, but my wife and bartenders have. Late at night, I have had bartenders have things happen that sent them running out without locking up. Tricia has felt hands on her back and I have often closed up and returned the next morning to find all the stove burners on,” laughs Bill, “During a Rotary Club meeting in our Mesquite Room, a picture came crashing down on a gentlemen who was over six foot tall and it knocked him to his knees. Everyone agreed that it didn’t fall off the wall like a frame normally would. On another occasion, we had a girls’ softball league come in and later bring us a picture.

It was three of them standing by the bar door and hovering above them is the outline of a man who looks very similar to Charlie Clark. Charlie was small and balding, a kind of funny looking man with one noticeably bigger eye than the other. He was definitely someone you would recognize.”

It would appear no amount of spooky activity will keep the devoted customers of Charlie Clark’s from making memories of their own at this popular steakhouse. “We are not fancy by any means but we pride ourselves on putting out good food,” smiles Tricia, “We are a steakhouse and Prime Rib is our biggest seller.

We sold twenty six tons of Prime Rib alone last year. In addition to steak and chicken, our ribs are done on the rotisserie and are very popular. We smoke our own brisket and we just added a mesquite smoked trout dip to the menu that has really taken off. We have never really changed our menu drastically, but we have added a few new appetizers like a cheese board and a hummus dish.”

Charlie Clark’s is open seven days a week serving lunch from 11 am to 3 pm and dinner beginning at 4:45. They boast daily lunch specials such as Thursday’s popular Meatloaf Sandwich and Monday night’s dinner special of Prime Rib is a huge crowd pleaser. “The Orchard is open Wednesday through Saturday from Memorial Day Weekend to the end of September depending on the weather. We have live music in the Orchard every Wednesday,

In addition to steak, Charlie Clark’s is famous for their homestyle lunch specials like their popular Meatloaf Sandwich.

Friday and Saturday. The restaurant and Orchard are available for parties, weddings, rehearsal dinners, receptions and reunions. We host a lot of events in the Orchard including our Pig Roast, the NEAFAA 4th of July Art Show and the Humane Society’s Happy Tails Auction in August, which is always fun,” smiles Tricia, “We have a family friendly atmosphere and allow pets on the patio and in the Orchard (provided they’re on a leash). People really seem to appreciate being able to bring their dogs to lunch.”

In closing, Bill and Tricia wanted to express their appreciation to their customers and dedicated staff. “We have been blessed with a really great staff and one of our cooks has been with us thirty three years. Without the support of the locals, visitors and our staff, we wouldn’t be here. There are a lot more dining choices than there were thirty years ago,” grins Bill, “and we appreciate our customers for continuing to come in and make Charlie Clark’s what it is today.”

Charlie Clark’s Steakhouse is located on Hwy 260 at the East end of Pinetop.

For more information, please call (928) 367-4900 or visit www.charlieclarks.com.

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At top left, the fresh, healthy Bruschetta at Cattlemen’s Steakhouse & Lounge is a welcome taste of summer and so is the famous wineburger (above) at the Lion’s Den in Pinetop.

Torreon Grille

Samurai Sam’s Teriyaki Grill

1650 E. Deuce of Clubs (928) 251-1965 Who says eating healthy can’t taste great? Serving breakfast and lunch, PersNIKKIty’s proves that you don’t have to sacrifice taste for fresh, healthy choices in salads, soups, sandwiches and more. Of course, life is too short to skip dessert so check out the variety of mouthwatering pastries and cakes. The Friday Night Fish Fry is not to be missed! Open Mon.-Sat. from 7 am - 3 pm. www.persnikkity.com.

Cattlemen’s Steakhouse & Lounge

Pinetop-Lakeside

Sweetheart Cafe

The Pour Station

Dining Guide Show Low

PersNIKKIty’s Cafe & Bakery

1201 E. Deuce of Clubs 928.537.0300.

Open Sun-Thurs 7am - 3pm. Fri. & Sat. 7am - 8pm.

Breakfast (all day), lunch and dinner on Fri. & Sat. A great Fish Fry every Friday night!

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651 S. Torreon Loop. 928.532.8000.

The Torreon Grille is casual golf club dining with fantastic views, comfortable surroundings & an enjoyable and fun atmosphere. Open to the public 7 days a week for lunch and dinner. Breakfast served Sat & Sun. 7-10 am.

1231 E, Deuce of Clubs 928-537-9797 This family owned and operated steak house and cocktail lounge specializes in Prime Rib (above) and also serves seafood, chicken, burgers, sandwiches, wraps and a great Soup & Garden Bar. Open 7 nights a week for dinner from 4-9 pm and on Fri & Sat. until 10 pm. Lunch is served Mon-Fri 11am-4pm. CattlemensSteakhouseShowLow.com.

360 S. White Mtn Rd 928.537.2962.

Coffee, tea and more. Open 6 am Mon. - Fri. serving the “purest cup of coffee on the mountain.”

Wi-fi now available.

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5171 Cub Lake Rd. 928-532-SAMS Samurai Sam’s offers fresh, healthy Japanese fare including rice bowls, Yaki Soba noodles. and your choice of grilled steak, chicken, salmon, shrimp or vegetarian.

Special dietary requirements welcome. Call for delivery.

My Lil’ Bakery Coffee Bar & Eatery

476 W. White Mtn. Blvd. 928.358.1959 Breakfast & Lunch. Delectably delicious baked goods. Home of the famous Grande Cinnamon Roll. Open Tues.-Sat. 7am5pm. Sundays 7am-2pm. WI-FI Hot Spot. www.mylilbaker.com.

SALT Restaurant & Wine Bar

476 W. White Mtn Blvd. 928.367.1819 Open daily at 5 pm Tues-Sat. Tues: Half priced bottles of wines all night. Live jazz

on Wednesdays. Sunday brunch 11-2 pm.

Moose Henri’s Grille, Corks & Taps

4207 Hwy 260 White Mtn Blvd. 368.5127 Voted as one of the Arizona’s Highways Top 15 Restaurants. Monthly Pig Roasts. Specializing in Arizona Microbrews. www.moosehenris.com.

Charlie Clark’s Steakhouse

Hwy 260, Pinetop (928) 367-4900 A part of Arizona’s History since 1938! Specializing in Prime Rib, Mesquite Broiled Steaks, Ribs, Chicken & Seafood. Serving lunch daily in the Bar & Patio. Orchard open at 4 pm. Live Music Wed, Fri, Sat. Early Bird Menu SunThurs. 4:45-6:30. www.charlieclarks.com.

The Lion’s Den Bar & Grill

2408 E. White Mtn Blvd. 928.367.6050 Home of the famous Wineburger. Live music and Karaoke. www.lionsdenpinetop.com.

Johnny & Dee’s Picnic Basket

436 E. White Mountain Rd. 928-358-1992 Sandwiches, soups, salads and burgers.

Breakfast served all day long. Homestyle good food with lots of healthy choices including turkey burgers, black bean burgers and Pitas.

Free delivery to local businesses.

Springerville

Avery’s Waterhole

262 W. Main Street (928) 333-1111 Visit Avery’s for slow smoked BBQ and all the trimmings. Live music and dancing. Avery’s

also features a convenience store and RV park. www.averyaz.com

Greer

Molly Butler Lodge

109 Main St. 928-735-7226 Recognized as one of Arizona’s Top 25 Restaurants in Arizona Highways and ranked 101 Best Places to Eat in Arizona by Dining in Arizona, Molly Butler Lodge makes Greer a true dining destination. Popular menu items include: Award-winning Prime Rib, Hot Dang Chili, Molly’s Special Steak with Mormon gravy and fresh vegetarian fare. From Chef’s Specials to casual burgers and appetizers or fresh vegetarian fare, there is something to satisfy everyone’s appetite. Open 7 days a week. www.mollybutlerlodge.com.

Payson

(See map in centerspread) Cardo’s Pizza & Italian Restaurant

203 E. Hwy 260. 928.468.1626 Family owned & operated, Cardo’s is legendary for their pizza and serve a variety of homemade Italian dishes, subs, grilled sandwiches, & Steak Burgers. Weds. Family Nites: all you can eat spaghetti, salad & bread for $6.99 and kids 3 & under eat free. Thurs: St. Louis Style BBQ Rib Night, Fri: All-you-can-eat fish fry, Sat: Prime Rib. Live music every Fri. nite. Happy hour 2-6 pm. cardospizzapayson.com

11-12. Happy Hour Mon-Fri 3-6 pm. Daily specials including 1/2 lb burgers $4 on Thurs plus Texas Hold ‘em Poker, All-you-can-eat ribs for $14.95 and reverse happy hour from 8-10 pm.

The Historical Journigan House

Sal and Theresa’s Mexican Restaurant

202 W. Main St. 928.474.2900 Lunch and dinner Sun-Thurs 11-10 pm. Fri-Sat.

Summer Like Grandma Used to Bake: Strawberry Rhubarb Pie at My Lil Bakery in Pinetop

1111 S. Beeline Hwy 928-474-4305 Happy hour 3-6 pm 1/2 price drinks & apps. Dollar Taco Tuesdays 11-9 pm. See us in Show Low too!

Bring in this coupon (or mention the Maverick Magazine) for $1 off your order!

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Long Wong’s Two Hippies: Food and Fun For The Whole Gang

by Amie Rodgers A well known building in Lakeside, Lumberman’s Village overlooks Rainbow Lake’s pond and is comprised of four rental cabins and a number of friendly businesses including the brightly colored and whimsically decorated Long Wong’s Two Hippies. According to owner Robert Berta, the paperwork associated with the property dates back to 1896. The lodge is believed to have been built in 1906 and the restaurant in 1935. “My wife Kellie and I own a real estate company in the valley and bought the Lumberman’s Village about two years ago. She was born and raised in the area and we have been spending our summers here for the last twelve years. We fell in love with the place.

It required a lot of remodeling, but we were committed to bringing the building up to date without changing the beautiful aesthetic. We wanted the restaurant to be a very upbeat, family friendly place to relax and get good food while the kids play in the arcade or enjoy a cocktail with friends.”

In opening their restaurant, the Bertas decided to look for a franchise that had a good reputation and customer appeal. “We looked at a lot of franchises, but they just weren’t good fits. I have been going to Two Hippies in Phoenix for years and decided to call them up. At the time, they weren’t offering any more franchise agreements, but after twenty minutes, they reconsidered,” laughs Robert, “Long Wong’s was started in 1973 as a hot dog stand in Scottsdale. The brothers were from Buffalo and were starving trying to sell just hot dogs. Their mom insisted that they add wings to their menu even though nobody knew what they were. They gave away thousands of wings and by the mid ‘70s, buffalo chicken wings were becoming popular in the mainstream. In 1980, the first wing competition was won by Long Wong’s. Our wings are crispy, fully cooked and the meat just falls off the bone.

Later, they opened their location on Mill Avenue, which is famous as the place that the Gin Blossoms got their start. They still have a number of family owned locations around metropolitan Phoenix. One of the brothers decided to venture off to try something different and opened Two Hippies, which operates burger shacks (like the burgers we serve here) and beach houses, which specialize in fish tacos.

In addition to the franchise support, which has been very flexible, we have created a lot of recipes in house with the help of our friends and family.”

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One such unique family inspired menu item is the Aussie Burger. “My brother in law is Australian and always had to have ‘beet root’ and a fried egg on his hamburgers. I finally tried it and it was amazing. It is a monster of a burger,” grins Robert.

The beets are pickled in house and are so popular that they offer 8 oz containers to take home. In addition to the Aussie Burger, the selection of burgers at Two Hippies is impressive. “Our hamburgers are awesome. They are made fresh with 100% beef and they, like our wings, are never frozen. Our salads are made fresh daily. Our garden side salad features mushrooms, cheese, croutons, carrots and tomatoes for just $2.99. If you add it to your meal in place of french fries, you get it for $2. Our small salads are very good sized and the large salads are enormous,” smiles Kellie, “We serve our breakfast plate of 2 eggs, 4 strips of bacon or sausage, toast and french fries all day for $5.50. We

have tons of sandwiches to choose from. We have 4 different kinds of ¼ pound hot dogs that come on a locally baked sub roll. For instance, the Golden Wong has cheese and bacon and the Dragon Wong is smothered in chili, but like our hamburgers and pizza, you can order just about anything on a hot dog.

Our newest item is the riblets. You can choose from our 11 flavors of sauce on the side. You can eat them right off the bone and they are served with fries, sweet potato fries or our onion rings, which are really good.”

In addition to the arcade, the kids menu is loaded with kid approved food like hot dogs, chicken nuggets and personal pizzas at parent approved prices of under $4. For dessert, kids of all ages go mad for the brownies and brownie sundaes. The new french silk and apple pies are also quite popular. A fish fry is served all day every Friday featuring all you can eat fish and fries (or potato salad). The every day special of a large pizza and a dozen wings for $19.99 has become very popular for both dining in and take out. Tuesdays are family night and a 16” pizza and two dozen wings are just $24.99 or you can buy one large pizza and get half off the second. Happy Hour is Wednesday through Friday from 4-6 pm with drink specials and a dollar off any cocktail or appetizer. This summer, their most popular drinks have been their flavored frozen lemonades and their signature margarita (limit 2 per customer).

In addition to their customers and staff, Robert and Kellie thank NPC’s Small Business Development Center for their support. “The Small Business Development Center is a great resource for knowing what is going on in the area in terms of market trends and marketing ideas. There is always something you can improve on and they have been amazing in providing the kind of help we need. They have been great in brainstorming and even brought a business specialist in before we opened to look at our business plan and help us focus where we needed to. I’ve been self employed for twenty years and I wish I had them from the beginning! I would highly recommend them to any business,” smiles Robert.

Long Wong’s Two Hippies is open 7 days a week from 11 am to 9 pm and 10 pm on Fridays and Saturday.

In addition to the restaurant (and arcade), the glass atrium is available for private parties and meetings at no additional charge. For more information or to place a take out order, please call 928-358-1972.

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Uniquely Different: G&G Emporium Opens in Pinetop

by Amie Rodgers On May 1st, the folks at G&G Emporium opened their doors to invite the community to come check out their selection of uniquely different merchandise. “We love being here in Pinetop.

We are having fun and want people to see things they have never seen before. Our motto is ‘uniquely different.’ The people working here are very different and our products are unique,” laughs Gary Pearson who along with his wife Gayle, friends Dick and Irene and Steve Shannon have brought together over thirty product lines, lots of fun gift ideas and countless items you didn’t even realize you needed until you see them.

Located next door to Cafe Bocado, G&G Emporium is a fun addition to Pinetop’s popular dining and shopping neighborhood. Upon venturing in, one of the first things you will notice is the large selection of sharp knives. Gary and Gayle have been selling RADA cutlery for 8 years and offer professional knife and scissor sharpening. “Our cutlery is made in the US with a lifetime guarantee and is made from surgical stainless steel. It is very sharp and will stay that way for a very long time if it is minimally maintained. We have a wide variety of sets as well as single knives. It has been a great product that is very affordable.”

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Equally impressive in selection is the jewelry offered by Irene and Dick including necklaces, ear rings, pendants, neck wires, chains and magnetic clasps. They also offer useful little things like shoulder bags, glass nail files, files that remove dry skin from your feet without damage, streak free cloths, aluminum ID wallets, handmade scrubbies for vegetables or dishes that can be laundered, styluses for touch screens, and sticky mats to hold your cellphone or GPS in place.

Not unique enough for you? How about combination banks made with post office box doors dating back to the 1800’s, flash cards you can carry your medical records on, magnifiers, handmade rugs, wrist watches, hand carved plaques, stunning Arizona photography by Karen Finley, Mexican yard art, anti-aging cream or solar dancing flowers? You have to see it to believe it. Stop in Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm and let them know the Maverick sent you.

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and entertaining way.

If you’re not full-time resident of the White Mountains, you can still be a fully involved resident by buying a subscription to the Maverick Magazine. It helps the local businesses, it keeps you up to date on things happening around town, and it supports a wonderful White Mountain institution and a great person.

Kahau Kai appears courtesy of Silversword Asset Management in Show Low. For more information, please contact him at 928-532-7900.

Do Unto Others

by Kahau Kai, Silversword Asset Management One morning I went for a swim at the Show Low City Pool. I got there after all the lap lanes had filled so I took some time to stretch and psych myself up. I watched as people swam at whatever speeds were comfortable to them; up and down the lanes.

Ready to get to it, I asked a gentleman if I could share lanes with him. He said, “Yes,” and I got in the water. One time up and back and I was already wanting for air and my eyes were burning due to the fact that I hadn’t brought goggles. The gentleman with whom I was sharing the lane looked at me then did something I will appreciate for the rest of my life. He noticed my lack of proper eyewear, and not only offered to let me use his goggles, but insisted that I keep them...for the next time.

I was (now the following words don’t accurately describe my feelings, but they’re all I have so far) shocked, stunned, taken aback at this man’s generosity. I guess I can describe my feelings as what you feel when you see a person rush to a door to hold it open for someone or when you see a kid pick up his puppy and love it. (In a field of daffodils as the sun dances her dance bringing peace, happiness and joy to the world filled with mangos, rainbows and candy-canes...yeah, it was just like that.) It wasn’t the goggles, but the gesture that is so special.

We live in a beautiful place. Pine trees abound surrounded by lakes and open pastures where horses, cows, and in some places, llamas graze. Antelope and elk and deer all fatten themselves up and play chicken with cars, and the wind is always blowing under a normally clear sky.

And then there’s the people. People like this guy whose name I didn’t get who gave his goggles to me, a stranger, just because he saw me in need. In January, Dawn Hall, who runs a local florist donated flowers and her time to a couple for their wedding, just because their prior arrangements fell through. Steve Arey, Barbara Bruce, the Hornes, the Hatchs, the hospital donate literally thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours helping our community and the local charities...local people helping local people.

Here’s one that I left off, and it’s one that’s dear to me. She helps small businesses like mine grow and thrive, is patient, and gives great marketing advice, whether she directly benefits or not. She’s also the editor, photographer, and owner of this fine locally owned and operated magazine that you’re reading. Amie Rodgers and her publication, the Maverick Magazine, is a great ambassador of the White Mountains. She puts us in front of thousands and does it in a professional

From left to Right: Carol Boyce, CFO, Pinky Peterson, Office Coordinator, Dawn Boron, Office Coordinator, Diana North, Office Administrator, and Samantha McCanless, Sales & Marketing Director

MBO Suites Hosts Fun Evening of Business Networking On June 20th, MBO Executive Suites hosted a Quarterly Mix co-sponsored by the Show Low Chamber of Commerce and Show Low Main Street. Business neighbors mixed, mingled and enjoyed delicious food catered by Cattlemen’s Steakhouse. MBO Executive Suites is located in downtown Show Low and specializes in small business solutions designed to maintain and grow your business. For more information, please call Diana North at (928) 532-2680. You’ll be glad you did!

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Carpenter’s Wife’s on Wade Lane, Sandra Whitenack of The Boutique finally has enough space for all those gorgeous fashion items you need for any special occasion.

Whether you are looking for a new dress, jewelry, purse, hat, or scarf (or all of the above) you’ll find the complete outfit you’ve been wanting.

In addition, you can stroll through the beautiful array of antiques collected by Kristie Dillman, owner of The Carpenter’s Wife. Perfect accents for your home décor, ideal gifts, and that special piece needed to complete your collection, plus a large assortment of cards can be found in the many intriguing rooms of Kristie’s store.

Above, some of the Boutique’s cool and colorful summer fashions and Sandra Whitenack relaxes in her spacious new setting at The Carpenter’s Wife.

Payson’s Popular Boutique Moves to The Carpenter’s Wife Antique Store

by Lita Nicholson, Special to the Maverick Magazine Payson’s favorite fashion spot, The Boutique, and one of our best antique browsing adventures, The Carpenter’s Wife, have combined their businesses to provide a unique shopping experience. Moving from the Beeline Highway to The

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Over the years, the two business owners had talked several times about joining forces. When you visit, you’ll ask, “Why didn’t they do this sooner?”

Stop by 112 Wade Lane and shop two of your favorite Payson stores, now at one charming location. Open every day but Sunday. Call 928-4681181 for more information. Be sure to let ‘em know the Maverick sent you!

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sources and general merchandise. By culminating these resources designers can help to make your space look more collected, unique and pulled together.

6. SAVE YOU FROM BAD SERVICES: In addition to vendor resources, designers have many home improvement industry contacts. They can save homeowners time and headaches trying to identify reliable, contractors, plumbers and electricians for their projects.

7. SAVE YOU FROM “BLAH”: Designers can help to

give you the “wow” factor you’ve been looking for. They are trained to think differently, spatially and to see an overall picture that clients often cannot. Thinking outside of the box is what designers do all day long.

8. SAVE YOUR LISTING: A decorator can potentially

8 Reasons to Hire An Interior Designer

by Roxanne Roud of Loft 54 Interiors Interior design is a skill and an art that will only enhance the space and the quality of your life in the space. Hiring a pro raises the level of that experience and makes your house look and feel like a home.

1. SAVE YOU MONEY: It might sound strange that hiring someone to decorate your home would save you money since you have the additional fee of the designer, however, a designer can help you to avoid costly mistakes that will not only help you save money but can increase the value of your home.

2. SAVE EXISTING PIECES: A designer can give you a professional assessment of your situation, that will lead to a solid plan of action. The order of things in a design plan is key in determining what can be repurposed or should be edited. This will not only effect the budget but help you to spend it more efficiently. A designer offers an extra set of eyes, but these eyes are trained to see and notice things that you may not.

3. SAVE YOU TIME: A designer can keep you on budget and save you time

and effort. A designer knows where to go for resources for everything related to your home. This will save you endless amounts of time researching products, brands and prices. A designer will have all this readily on hand, and should he or she not, will spend the time researching so that you don’t have to.

4. SAVE YOU FROM MISTAKES: A designer will be able to build a stron-

ger bridge between you and your architect or contractor early on and can head off design misses in your overall plan. Also designers are trained to think about things we may overlook. It is so important that the lighting and furnishing needs are addressed before construction. If your living room sofa is floating in the middle of the room you want to make sure you have the proper placement for floor outlets for lamps.

5. SAVE YOU RUNNING AROUND: There are things available to designers that are not available to the general public in terms of connections, re-

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add a great deal to the aesthetic of your home, which in turn can increase showings and sales. This increased appeal can exponentially speed up the amount of time your home sits on the market before it is sold. The benefit here is two-fold, a faster turn-around time and more money in your pocket.

Roxanne appears courtesy of Loft 54 Interiors in Show Low. For more information, please call 928-532-0561 or visit www.loft54interiors.com.

Tour Beautiful Gardens and Homes July 19th The White Mountain Woman’s Club will have their sixth annual Home & Garden Tour on July 19 from 9 am - 3 pm. Tour six beautiful home and gardens - one showcasing 17 raised gardens. Start at the Show Low Community Gardens OR start the tour in Pinetop Lakes Country Club Area. Mid way – On the Rim – tour garden home with vendors, snacks, and raffle baskets!! Tickets are $15 and are on sale at Show Low Chamber, Pinetop Chamber, Snowflake Chamber, Classic Cookware, Nana’s, and the Candle Factory.

The tour will also feature a “garden boutique” with hand crafted items for sale, raffle baskets, and a special drawing. You do not need to be present to win just be sure you print your name and phone number on the back of the ticket. At one of the gardens, you will be able to buy live plants. This is a fun event and everyone always has a good time. For more information, please call Esther Dreos at 928-369-1592.

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Barbara Kerr: One of the many great “Pioneers” of the Southwest (but also, of the World)

by Maria Donaghy One of the full definitions of a Pioneer from The Merriam-Webster Dictionary is “a person or group that originates or helps open up a new line of thought or activity or a new method or technical development”.

Barbara Prosser Kerr met this definition a long time ago.

I met Barbara Kerr through a synchronicity of events. I had a good friend that was a friend of the Hockabouts of Lodestar Gardens who were friends of Barbara Kerr’s and I had a neighbor friend who told me she had just given a ride to this amazing 80 something woman named Barbara Kerr to her passive solar home in Taylor, AZ. My interest was sparked to meet the Hockabouts and Lodestar Gardens and then Barbara Kerr which all happened several years ago and will forever impact my life.

When I first met Barbara, she used a walker and wheel chair mostly and oxygen when needed but with degenerative arthritis and respiratory problems she knew her body would give out but she was always living in the present moment and always eager to find joy in whatever she was doing. I offered to take her to lunch on Saturdays which she gladly accepted and aside from the organic preference for food at Amelia’s Gardens, she loved desserts, especially chocolate. I was a sponge to her stories and just plain fascinated by her love of life. She became my mentor and dear friend. I learned so much about her personal life that it wasn’t until I moved to her home more than a year after her death that I got to appreciate all that she put into this passive solar home and what an impact she had internationally from her solar cooker designs and promotion of such to all humankind but especially to women in third world countries and areas of natural and manmade disasters.

She mentioned that she was not a scientist yet she was listed in, “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.” There are numerous certificates, attributes and records of her accomplishments on the wall of her study: she is listed in “Who’s Who in American Woman,” had a chapter in “Eco Women Protectors of the Earth” by Willow Ann Sirch, authored three books (two of which were edited by Barbara Hockabout), designed a passive solar home that amazes me to this day for it’s functional simplicity - total heating cost for the year might involve 1/3 to 1/2 a cord of wood for the year, and loved to play rummy 500, which she often lost until she figured out my strategy. But it was her incredible journey that will forever amaze me.

Barbara was born in Asheville, NC on 12/28/25 to a second grade teacher (prior to marriage) named Gertrude Berenice Parker and a farmer/inventor named George Holcomb Prosser. They rarely bought items from a store. Rather, they would find materials suit-

able for use and make what they wanted themselves.

Barbara was a sickly child with respiratory ills who spent the 3rd thru 11th grade (her school only went to the 11th grade) in Special Ed. She did not lack intelligence, in fact, according to Jim Scott, the electrical engineer who lived at the Kerr-Cole Sustainability Living Center for more than ten years, “When she took her nursing exam, her high score stood for over 20 years... but she couldn’t balance her checkbook.”

Barbara became an RN in Washington D.C. in the early 1940s, got her BA from the University of Chicago in 1951, bicycled through parts of Europe twice with her husband whom she married in 1950, then chartered a Windjammer with him and her year old child for a year (about 1955) in and around New York before her divorce and onset of tuberculosis around 1959 that resulted in her living in a sanitorium for a year and a half.

At age forty or so, she responded to a friend in a letter that she often felt deep depression (often due to being incapacitated from health problems) and that she felt herself a failure for not finding her niche in life. In the late sixties, she moved from Philadelphia to “cleaner air” (according to the medical profession back east) in Tempe, AZ where she worked and got an MSW and a job working the emergency room at a hospital in Maricopa County.

To relieve the stress from counseling and helping victims of accident, rape, abuse etc. she started experimenting with solar box cooking. As a child, her family would spend weekends at their cabin and her job was to turn on the spigot for water from the river to fill up the 55 gallon tank her father put on the roof for hot water. Well, she attempted taking a shower during the hottest time of the day and almost scalded herself. That was her “aha” moment that solar works.

Her neighbor and life friend, Sherry Cole, helped her by suggesting certain tweaks and perks to Barbara’s designs and through her skills as a marketer. Between the two of them solar cooking went international and for the next twenty plus years both dedicated their lives to the promotion of solar cooking especially to third world countries and areas of devastation. Barbara patented the solar box cooker and she and Sherry mailed the only wooden “Eco Cooker” to Dr. Bob Metcalf in CA in 1994 who started a company called “Solar Cookers International (SCI)” that still exists today helping third world countries and in areas of devastation for thousands of people.

Barbara became an advisor to SCI as well as life friend of the Metcalfs. In 1983 after recurrent illnesses and poor air in Tempe, she moved to Taylor, AZ to real “clean air” and a perfect location for her passive solar home which she later co-founded as the Kerr-Cole Sustainable Living Center to educate people on solar cooking, passive solar designs with emphasis of one leaving few carbon footprints. The Center includes her passive designed solar home with solar chimneys, solar wall oven which she patented, passive solar water heaters, distiller, wind mill, solar pump, passive solar down draft dryer (dehydrator) and so much more.

Barbara died April 2, 2012, a true friend to many, a teacher, inventor, someone who inspired many, was internationally renowned for her promotion of solar cooking and her life, author of three books, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and to me, a person who changed my life forever. She found her niche and I was honored to have such a special friend. To me, Barbara was a true pioneer. Her home is an absolute example of that as well as her international acclaim for her design and promotion of solar cookers.

Come tour the Center. There will be advertised tours but you can also call for a private tour, workshops and solar cooking demonstrations to help benefit “Freehold” an organization collecting non-perishable food for the Shepherd’s Food Bank serving the Snowflake and Taylor areas. Be inspired and call us at 928.536.2269 for tours and more information.

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sometimes in as little as two months!

Tepary beans are still grown today, and are popular among gourmet chefs.

These beans were also one of the ‘Three Sisters’ of traditional farming.

Corn, beans, and squash were grown together, with each plant providing a service to the others. Beans provided nitrogen to the soil and provided stability for the corn stalk as they climbed it. Low growing squash acted as a sort of living mulch, shading the soil below and helping it retain moisture. The hairs on the squash plant helped repel hungry pests. Each crop also provided nutrients that the others did not, making the ‘Three Sisters’ a nutritionally balanced harvest.

Growing Traditions in Arizona

by Hannah Carver at Pico’s Nursery It’s the middle of the growing season and many of you are watching your hard work in the garden begin to pay off. As you admire your veggies and flowers, have you ever stopped to consider how you are part of an agricultural tradition in Arizona that is thousands of years old? Despite being dry and hot, and even without the fertile soil of other parts of the country, Arizona has been home to productive agriculture. It seems incredible today that thousands of people could support their crops without the aid of our modern technology, but many historical planting techniques were just a productive and efficient, if not more so. There is evidence of crop cultivation in Arizona as early as 4,000 years ago! The Las Capas site, near Tucson, was home to the earliest irrigation system in North America.

Agriculture in the Southwest probably began with the cultivation of native grains, gourds, and beans. The tepary bean, a remarkably resilient bean, is native to the southwest. Native American farmers would rush to plant these beans after a rainstorm. The beans would be able to germinate and mature before the soil dried out,

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Aside from crops, people also foraged the many edible plants in Arizona. We’re all familiar with prickly pear as an example of a forgeable food, but you may not know that a lot of common “weeds” are actually edible! Lamb’s quarter, desert dandelions, and even stinging nettle (when steamed) are all plants that one can consume. Pinon nuts, cholla buds, and even saguaro fruit have also been traditional foods for centuries. Wild plants often contain higher concentrations of minerals than their industrial counterparts.

When Europeans began settling in the west, they brought with them their own crops. Settlers often took cuttings of grape vines to start their own vineyards. They also brought with them Old World crops such as oats, barley, cabbage, and wheat.

Today Arizona produces sizable crops of lemons, cotton, lettuce, and hay.

Next time you’re out in your garden, consider how you are taking part in Arizona’s surprisingly rich agricultural tradition. Next year, perhaps try growing an ancient crop, like tepary beans or amaranth, a grain-like crop that can be used in dozens of ways. Try using the ‘Three Sisters’ method next time you want to grow beans, corn, or squash. Or, provided you can identify plants with certainty, you might try foraging to taste the natural flavors of our state. For suggestions and help with your garden, please call or stop by Pico’s Nursery!

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White Mountain Community Garden News The White Mountain Community Garden invites everyone to join us this summer to start your own plot, learn how to garden, volunteer in the garden proper, and meet and share with other gardeners. The growing season is in full swing and there is much to do to keep things running smoothly.

Every Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8 to 11 am many volunteers gather to work in the garden. Volunteers also come Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5 to 7 pm. Every Saturday from 9 am to 1 pm produce picked fresh from the garden is for sale. Starting after the 4th of July, produce will be available for sale on Thursdays.

Right now the Garden is offering large straw bales for sale. They are $7/each or 4 for $25. Please contact Jan Mathis at 928-892-9798 to purchase or visit the garden during the hours folks are there.

There will be a garden tour and open house on Saturday, July 19th, from 9am to 4 pm. Gardening techniques, recipes and canning ideas will be shared throughout the day. For more information regarding the garden and activities email: wmgardeners@gmail.com or visit groutit.org.

The White Mountain S.A.F.E. House offers Domestic Violence Survivor Support Groups Pinetop, AZ - The White Mountain S.A.F.E. House (WMSH) offers Domestic Violence Survivor Support Groups for individuals who are currently experiencing or have previously experienced domestic abuse (including but not limited to physical, emotional, and/or verbal abuse). Domestic Violence Survivor Support Groups are open-ended groups where individuals are able to discuss issues regarding the cycle of abuse, self-esteem, empowerment, relationships, and many other related topics.

About The White Mountain S.A.F.E. House: Since 1986, WMSH has provided shelter, care and advocacy to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and elder abuse regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status. WMSH is the only full-service shelter located in the White Mountains, providing a safe, home-like environment for victims escaping the unsafe environment of domestic violence. WMSH services include a 24-hour crisis line, crisis intervention, case management, education, advocacy, victim’s rights, referrals, relocation, and community outreach programs.

To learn more about Domestic Violence Support Groups, Call: (928) 367-6017 or (800) 224-1315. For more information about the White Mountain S.A.F.E. House, please visit http://www.wmsafehouse.org

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White Mountains Real Estate Market: A Mid-Year Analysis

By Linda Cedarblade & Bryan Anderson As Realtors, we are constantly asked the usual questions: What is the market doing? How are real estate values?, etc., etc. These are such opened ended questions because our market is so diverse within specific geographic areas and even down to particular neighborhoods and subdivisions. We can however take a look at some basic data comparing the first half of 2014 versus the same time period from 2013. This data can give us a glimpse into some basic trends and interesting conclusions.

Let’s first take a look at sales numbers from 2013 vs. 2014. For purposes of this article all data compiled is for site-built homes, townhomes, and condominiums located in the Show Low, Lakeside, and Pinetop markets. (If you would like information on a different type of property and/or a different region, just let us know and we would be glad to provide you with that information).

Two major factors can be determined by the above chart. First, sales are down minimally (just 7%) from 2013. This indicates a steady rate of demand. While we would like to see an increase in sales, year over year, the fact that demand is flat is not all bad. Secondly, and most significant to current property owners in these areas is the median sales price. This price is up across the board in all price ranges. While not huge increases, these increases indicate a turn- around in property values over the massive declines of the past few years.

Next, a review of actively marketed properties in 2014 versus the same time frame in 2013: Again, two points of interest from this chart. First of all, the number of properties on the market on June 23rd, 2014 is significantly higher than it was on June 23rd, 2013 (8%). With a stable demand for housing, as indicated above, this is a negative factor for current property owners. We have the same number of buyers chasing an increasing number of homes. This is great for home buyers as they have more options to choose from; not so good for home sellers, as they will have to be more competitive with their pricing to compete. This is why you see the median list prices are almost identical year over year. Secondly, unless we see a significant increase in demand in the immediate future, median sales prices will begin to drop.

Now on to a couple of extremely positive factors which are having, and going to continue to have, a significant impact on property values and the improvement of our real estate market over the next 24-36 months.

First, the impact and significance of REO’s (foreclosures) and short sales: In the first 6 months of 2013, 80 foreclosures and 16 short sales closed escrow. In the first 6 months of 2014, those numbers have dropped to 37 and 7, respectfully.

With the impending virtual disappearance of foreclosures and short sales, we can get back to traditional market factors dictating values and sales. The foreclosure/short sale dominated market of the past few years drove values and prices down to record low levels. With these properties having a less significant role in our market, we are beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of values improving.

Secondly, the importance of new construction on existing home values: In the first of 2013, the City of Show Low issued 10 residential building permits. During the same time this year, the City has issued 22 residential permits. That is more than double! This is extremely significant because new construction costs more than purchasing an existing home. As new home construction and sales increase, the value of existing homes will rise accordingly. Why is this? While existing home values were being decimated because of foreclosures and short sales, materials and construction costs continued to rise with inflation. It cost more to build a new home than it does to purchase an existing home. But many buyers want the advantage of getting exactly what they want, extended warranties, and the avoidance of the unknowns associated with buying a used home. Not all buyers can afford to go this route, but they can buy a resale home, and those resale home values will rise as the impact of the more expensive new construction influences market conditions.

All in all, we see an overall positive future for property values in the White Mountains. If we can achieve a little better demand, then values will definitely start to improve more significantly. *All data based on information from the White Mountain Association of Realtors for the period of 1/12013-06/23/2014. All information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.

Article provided by Linda Cedarblade, Owner/Broker Cedar Ridge Real Estate and Bryan Anderson, Associate Broker, Accredited Buyer’s Representative and certified Resort and Second Home Property Specialist. For more information about selling or buying a home, please call them at 928-537-1374 or email at pinetopbryan@ gmail.com or linda@cedarridgerealestate.info.

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Cultivating a Spirit of Experimentation at Lodestar Garden Learning Center

At top left, Maria Donaghy helps with the high tunnel harvest and above, Dave Foster, Taos Earth ship graduate and workshop presenter, and workshop participant, Michael Howell during June tire-filling session. At left, our Singing Hands program explores art and agriculture.

“Give it a try—Let’s see what happens.” This is a common phrase among folks who work at the Lodestar Gardens Learning Center in the Vernon/Concho area east of Show Low. Ideas spawn more ideas and innovation, IF there is an opportunity to talk about them and then try them out. At the Learning Center we invite inquisitive people to explore our two-pronged focus: (1) learn the best ways to produce as much nutrient-dense, chemicalfree food as possible for our local communities and (2) live a good life.

Presently, Zach Tandy, a former resident of Tucson who currently serves as Lodestar Gardens Farm Manager, is conducting three experiments. One concerns developing a more efficient composting system. After researching vermaculture (worm composting) techniques, Zach was curious to try out a new compost repository that promises to yield more worm castings that can be used to enrich the soil more frequently. Curious to compare the growth of tomato plants saturated with botanical teas to those without the additional dandelion/alfalfa additive, Zach marked out a half dozen plants to study. Zach also researched the merits of using Neem Oil solutions to fortify young plants against pests, and now routinely sprays vegetables with this organic plant immune system booster.

We are all pleased to see that the leaves of eggplant, peppers, and brassica plants, typically vulnerable to insects, are vibrant green and not spoiled with insect-chewed pinholes. In each case, Zach’s curiosity, his love of inquiry, motivated his experiments. Zach knows his experiments will ultimately help him be a better gardener, and he gets a kick out of contributing information that will help all of us attain greater regional food security. Check out lodestargardens.com and learn more about Zach’s experiments, including his botanical tea recipes The Lodestar Gardens Grassroots Co-Op consists of five families who two years ago made a commitment to share the labor required to grow vegetables year-round in a 35’X72’ growing tunnel at Lodestar Gardens. Together they helped create a pond which served as a fertigation system (well water fertilized by ducks and fish), construct the high tunnel, and maintain the inside garden to enjoy chemical-free food throughout the entire year.

This Co-Op operates differently from other work-share programs in that there is no money exchanged for labor, and it is a self-organized and self-motivated food village.

Each participant donates a percentage of the sales of their

hand made wares to the co-op in order to buy necessary seeds, fencing, equipment replacement, and other maintenance costs. The Co-Op decided to make an outside garden in order to plant the Three Sisters (corn, beans and squash) this summer. They collected seeds from the high tunnel produce that they can use for next winter’s planting. The Lodestar Grassroots Co-Op is, in other words, a social experiment with a mind to helping a small group of people have a good life.

The experimentation continues through our summer local workshop series – Singing Hands - wherein a small community explores how art and agriculture work together to create a host of life-enriching experiences. We host residential students in our Pen and Plow program—now accepting applications for 2015. We offer free workshops such as the Alternative Building Materials demonstration held four times/month until October—see our website for the August – September workshop dates. Go on our website or Facebook – Lodestar Gardens Learning Center – in order to follow the building progress as Dave Foster, workshop presenter and Taos Earthship Academy graduate, constructs an SBret ‘nest’ on Lodestar Property. Family Farm Days are also scheduled each month.

This year Lodestar Gardens has a mind toward good health. We are experimenting with vegetables that grow most successfully at our 7000 ft elevation and are best suited for juicing and fermentation. Lodestar Gardens sells produce to Café Bocado and you can find us on their porch throughout the summer every Friday 11 am – 3 pm. We also sell produce and have great conversations with customers and out-oftown visitors at the Show Low Farmers Market every Saturday 9 am – 1 pm. Register for workshops and classes at the markets or go to our website for more info: lodestargardens.com.

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Debunking the Myths & Mysteries of Medicare

by Carl Dye, Independent Agent Owens Insurance Marketing, Show Low, AZ Let’s take a closer look at some of the perceived advantages of “STAYING WITH THE COMPANY’S RETIREMENT PACKAGE”! Be honest, very few of us handles change very well, so we tend to stick with that which we already know, particularly when it comes to insurance of any kind. In doing so, however, we may be missing out on substantially better coverage for a lot less money. Items such as deductibles and co-pays also have to be evaluated if the insured wants to get the best deal for his/her dollar.

One of the very best retirement plans is called Tri-care for Life. This is for retired military and fully supplements Medicare’s 80/20 coverage. The exmilitary must be retired officially, but pays no premium for the equivalent of a Supplement Plan F! Amazingly, I have met several retired military veterans (my Mom included) who have been told they need additional coverage from either a Prescription Drug Plan (PDP), Medicare Advantage Plan, and ,in one case, a Supplement Plan F! In every case there was no need for these plans, only a commission for the writing agent. Again, each of you should be evaluating your insurance at least every two years. Contact your agent or find another.

On the flip side of Tri-care is our Veterans’ Administration plans. Of course, the VA has been in the news a great deal lately, but let’s not dwell on the organization, but rather look at the coverage and the ease of access.

First, the VA has taken very good care of many of my friends, but there are often restrictions that may apply such as pre-approval for many procedures that may NOT be covered if approval was not first obtained. There are also income restrictions that prevent many of us veterans from qualifying for benefits. Ease of access to facilities, particularly in low population areas such as ours can also present individuals with out of pocket expenses not usually found in metropolitan communities. NOTE: There are currently Medicare Advantage Plans throughout the country that provide additional benefits and flexibility at no cost to the Vet. If this raises questions for any

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of our veterans, please ask!!

Federal, State, County and other Government retirements run from great to pathetic. Make certain, if you fall into one of these categories, that you do due diligence and find out what else may be available in your area. Privately owned companies also vary greatly in both coverage and price. If you are one of the MANY still working after your 65th birthday, you owe it to yourself to compare your coverage and premium with available supplements in your area. The difference in Arizona can be as much as $300 per month!!

In almost all retirement plans, there are choices that reduce the cost by raising the deductibles. We all need to understand just what we are paying for each and every month. If you could save $100 to $300 per month per person, would you feel good about the results? This was possible in many of the cases reviewed by myself over the last few years! Check it out.

Also, should you relocate from another state or even a county within the state, you may find that there is better coverage for less premium in your new location. This is particularly true for folks moving from a metropolitan area to a more rural community. Rates and available plans are often determined by ZIP code, so you should always find a local agent to bring you up to speed.

To assist you in knowing more about what is available in the White Mountains, I will be conducting education seminars at The Owens Insurance Office in Show Low beginning this July on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month at 10AM and 2PM each day and continue through AEP (December7th). As our meeting room can only accommodate 10 to 12 people, we ask that you call to set appointments. The office is located at: 640 South 20th Avenue.

Feel free to stop by at anytime you see us open, but you can always call for an appointment. Please keep the questions and any/all input flowing! I am still available at 928.245.1388 or carledye64@gmail.com and look forward to hearing from many more of you in the coming months. Perhaps with perseverance and study, we can overcome some, if not all of the myths and mysteries of Medicare.

Open for Business on Radio and Television

by Barbara Bruce, Talk Show Host and General Manager KVSL Radio A Chinese Proverb says “To Open a shop is easy; to keep it open, is an art.”

KVSL Radio & City 4 Television salute the many chamber members that are OPEN FOR BUSINESS! This weekly Business Radio/TV Show shines the spotlight on chamber events and local chamber businesses. The show is a gift from KVSL & City 4 free of charge to The Chambers and their business members. The show airs on City 4 TV each Saturday at 10 am, Sundays @ 3 pm & Mondays & Thursdays @ 5 pm; the show airs on Radio each Sunday Morning @ 8:30 am on 107.9 FM/1450 AM and streams live at www.kvslradio.com. Note that 3 months of the shows are archived at www.showlowtv.com. For more info or to have your small business featured on Open for Business, please contact Barbara Bruce at 928-434-0320.

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Thyroid and Hair Loss

by Minnesota Jodi

A large amount of my clients including myself have a thyroid disease. It seems to be more and more common these days and for anyone who has it can definitely bring big changes in their hair. Now I hear people time and again go running to get their thyroid checked every time they notice some hair loss. Yes hair loss is a symptom, but so are many other things like feeling hot or cold, lack of sleep, irregular bowl movements and tremors.

Sometimes hair loss is just hair loss.

Even if you don’t have a thyroid problem, hair can tell you a lot about your health. Things like a major flu, surgery, injury, starvation, and stress, can cause hair loss. This is because hair cells need nutrients and are fast growing but if your body notices something wrong elsewhere it will shut down your hair growth and redirect the nurturance that makes hair grow elsewhere. The thyroid is a vital part of nutrition. If it’s not working, it is going to affect the hair. Thyroid medication also affects the hair. The drug for thyroid disease is synthroid, or levothyroxine. It is a hormone replacement. The hormone DHT which is part of the hormone replacement can shrink hair follicles or make them disappear entirely making the hair thinner.

The conversion of testosterone into this DHT happens to everyone, which is why hair is thinner the older we are, but for people with thyroid problems this process seems to be sped up. This is why even after a person gets on a thyroid treatment they still seem to have hair loss. It is unfortunate, but thyroid treatment doesn’t really help with the hair problem.

A person with thyroid issues will lose hair in other places like the body or the corners of the eye brows. I like that I don’t have to shave my legs every day but the lack of full eyebrows kind of sucks. Sometimes seeing a dermatologist can help. They know all about skin which includes hair follicles and they may be able to assess if there are other things also at play like other autoimmune conditions causing hair loss. Autoimmune problems like to have friends. Alopecia areata, or a topic dermatitis for example are also autoimmune diseases. I’m also blessed with the dermatitis, lucky me. A cosmetologist with bad hair and bad skin go figure. I know hair loss sucks and there are lots of medications that cause hair loss, but I’d rather have a functioning thyroid, kidney or heart than have thick hair. Vitamins can help grow hair but vitamins can also screw up your thyroid medication. I’ve noticed vitamins with a high dose of iodine screw me up.

I know that’s weird because iodine plays a part in thyroid function but too much is too much. It’s best to get vitamins from your doctor or a recommendation on ones that are safe to take.

At first with a thyroid problem the hair loss can be pretty significant, but once you get on medication and your body gets used to it and all your levels are good, the hair loss will slow down a bit for most people. I’ve noticed my hair texture has also changed. It’s coarse, dry, and dull.

I’ve learned how to deal with my hair. I keep it short so it looks thicker, I color it which helps soften it a bit, I use oil every morning to combat the dryness because conditioner alone isn’t enough, and I use shiny products. It seems to fool people into thinking I have great hair. The hardest thing with the thyroid as far as hair is concerned is just learning that this is the hair you have now. You have to learn to work with it and accept that the long shiny thick hair is probably never coming back.

Minnesota Jodi hails from Duluth, MN. She came to Pinetop in Oct 2009. She has been a cosmetologist since 1999. She has been a Educator for the National Cosmetology Association of Minnesota. She’s been Member of the Duluth Chapter of Business Networking International. She has done hair and make up for plays, a music video and series of commercials for Summit Healthcare. For more info, visit www.minnesotajodi.com.

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by Barbara Bruce, Talk Show Host

... into the Living Room (depending on the weather)

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Welcome back. If you read last month’s issue of The Maverick Magazine, you are now acquainted with FROM THE FRONT PORCH. To recap for those who missed the June issue, this is a two hour three part show each Saturday from 9-11 am which focuses on local entertainers, one of 247 plus things I have learned of how to live on our Mountain the hard way and then last, but certainly not least, Neighbor to Neighbor - neighbor helping neighbor. In our community we would like to help everyone, but just can’t so I had an idea: introduce the business, non profit or individual and let them share their issue and then whomever out there has their heartstrings “tugged at,” will be led to help that person. That way, we can make sure everyone gets a shot at helping someone.

This month we have a variety of entertainers, subjects and people to help. On July 5th we had Davylyn Dennison, an extraordinary entertainer on the show. I was actually a judge the first year she entered a Colgate Country Showdown. I can tell you now that I VOTED for her; she is all grown up now but has only gotten better and better since the first time I saw her. We also had one of the barbershop quartets, The Lakesider Band and a symphony member.

Subject-wise, we had some real dedicated campers who are not the norm... they have the cutest little campers they built themselves and they are caravan-ers. We also had a whole segment on cycling - bicycling...it is still great exercise, lots of fun and we have mountains and trails here to ride in this great weather. Pioneer Days happens every year in Snowflake and Taylor and it is full of things many have never even heard about. See what an education you get on FROM THE FRONT PORCH! For our neighbor segment, we will had St. Rita’s to tell us about their annual Fiesta, and some other folks/ businesses who need your immediate help; this changes from week to week, based on the immediate needs of the person, the business or the non profit. You can be sure that this segment will make a difference in your life and in the life of whomever is asking for help.

We also invite you to not just listen via the radio on 1450AM/107.9FM, via our stream at kvslradio.com or via our FREE AP for your Smart Phone, but we invite you to come by and see who is on the show, sign our guest book, sit on the front porch in one of our beautiful rocking chairs, and enjoy some of the special treats that we have for our visitors on Saturday mornings.

We are located in the beautiful American Log Home Broadcast House - the Carolina Model - at 3417 West White Mountain Blvd. in Lakeside, sandwiched between AFLAC and The Dog House Thrift Store. If you like our log cabin, you just might want to investigate our other models and meet Robert Kellogg, our Log Home Marketing Specialist in our Sales Office just behind the station. Whether you are looking to just visit us at the station or want to check out the log home kits and cabins, we love company!

The foregoing are just some of the things you will find on FROM THE FRONT PORCH. If you haven’t listened, perhaps you will now. One little thing you need to know about FROM THE FRONT PORCH...we are often inside because of the wind, the cold or the heat...because we are REAL RADIO for REAL PEOPLE! Come on by!

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White Mountain Woman’s Club 36th Annual Junque and Bake Sale Benefits Community On June 27th and 28th, the White Mountain Woman’s Club held their 36th Annual Junque and Bake Sale at the Blue Ridge High School Gymnasium. In addition to an interesting selection of fun ‘junque’ you can’t live without, there was also a bake sale, which is always a crowd pleaser because these ladies know how to bake! As with all the WMWC’s fundraisers, all monies raised will go to help the charities in the White Mountain community and of course, the youth of our community. Bravo, Ladies!

Don’t miss the next opportunity to have fun and help local non-profit organizations and youth at the GFWC-WMWC’s Mardi Gras in the Pines Summer Gala on August 22nd!

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Mountain Music

High Mountain Music Fest

Greer Riverside Music Fest

Greer Riverside Music Fest

Alpine Country Blues Festival

Mountain Summers Are Made for Music Photos by Amie Rodgers and Lloyd Pentecost

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During the summer, the great outdoors become Mother Nature’s fresh air amphitheater in the high country. Music festivals such as the popular Pinetop-Lakeside Chamber of Commerce’s Annual High Mountain Music Fest at Pinetop Lakes Activity Center & Stables (June 14), the Greer Riverside Music Fest held on the lush lawns of Greer’s Red Setter Inn (May 31) and the 2nd Annual Alpine Country Blues Festival at Alpine’s Mellody Field (June 20 & 21) were a few of the many opportunities for locals and visitors alike to kick back and enjoy the simple pleasures of live music and cool summer breezes.

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Live Music at the Lion’s Den What are you doing this weekend? Those looking for good food, fun and live music are going to the Lion’s Den in Pinetop to grab themselves a famous wineburger and dance the night away. There is live music every Friday and Saturday night. All performances start at 9 pm, but get in early to get some grub. With summer in full swing, there is even more music in the newly remodeled back patio and yard. Info: www.thelionsdenpinetop.com.

The upcoming entertainment schedule includes: July 18 & 25, Aug. 9, 15, 16, 29 Michael Salerno July 18 & 19, Aug. 15 & 16, Sept. 26 & 27 Thunderhorse July 19 Fall River Band July 26, Aug. 30 Steve Bacon July 25 Quartermoon Aug. 1 & 2, 22 & 23 John Darst Trio Sept. 5 & 6 Ryan David Orr Sept. 19 & 20 Tripleplay

Live Music Every Wednesday at Salt Restaurant & Wine Bar Looking for a midweek music (and wine) fix? Stop into Salt Restaurant and Wine Bar every Wednesday for live music from 6-8 pm. Enjoy the sounds of the John Darst Trio and enjoy some amazing local cuisine and a glass of wine.

Salt is open Tuesday through Saturday at 5 pm. Salt is located at 476 W. White Mountain Blvd in Lakeside. For more info, call 928-367-1819 or visit www.saltpinetop.com.

Music in the Pines at Pinetop Lakes Golf & Country Club Summer is here, which means it is time for Music in the Pines at the Pinetop Lakes Golf & Country Club. Music in the Pines is free and open to the public from 4:307:30 pm on these dates: June 18, July 2 (with special events), July 16, July 30 and August 13. Line dance lessons will be held 1 hour before the music (by ARMOUR or WALLY) starts. Bring your lawn chairs or blankets (please leave your pets and coolers at home). Enjoy a hamburger or hot dog along with your favorite adult beverage or soft drink at the grill.

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Mountain Art ArtSpace features Judi Jordan and Steve Harrington Article by Kay Alderson and Judi Bassett, Photos by Lisa Jayne and Judi Bassett ArtSpace, on City 4 TV, is a program dedicated to the promotion and education of artists and musicians of the White Mountains of Arizona. Each month, two new artists are featured on ArtSpace, depicting the different types of art that are available in our community. These programs can be viewed for the entire month, on Wednesdays each week at 5 pm, Fridays at 10 pm, Saturdays and Sundays at 9:30 am. If you cannot view it on regular programming, it is available on the same days and times on the internet: www.showlowtv.com, click on Live TV or if you want to view past programs, check the archive section, scroll down to ArtSpace, and choose the date of the show you would like to see. This program is brought to you by Arts Alliance of the White Mountains and North Eastern Arizona Fine Arts Association (NEAFAA).

ArtSpace welcomes Judi Jordan, an artist that was born “...with a pencil in her hand”. Judi shares that she started drawing, at a young age, on any paper she could find. Grocery lists, receipts, small scraps all became her canvas. In High School she was taught how to draw large and has not returned to small pieces. In 1986 she stopped painting for awhile due to health issues, but began again in 2008 with a complete comeback in 2009. This return saw the addition of several large paintings to her collection and she credits her husband’s encouragement to this homecoming. While Judi explored photography for a time, after seeing her paintings from the 80’s, he told her to “...give up photography and return to painting.” The result was the completion of her favorite piece she titles, “Shattered Dreams.” A journey of wanting a life that seems unattainable is “...a testimony that you can get your dreams back.” This signature piece, which she originally sketched in the 80’s, became an inspiration and she finished it in 2010. Much to her surprise and delight she placed in her first juried show with this piece.

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Judi is self taught and has also taken several art courses through the years. Her inspiration for her paintings is not only drawn from what she sees in America but also “...a spoken phrase, scripture from the Holy Bible, or perhaps a song.” She has shown her work in several juried exhibits both locally and internationally and her art is displayed in private collections in the US and abroad.

Judi began with oils and loved the feel of the medium and enjoyed the blending that they offered. In recent years she has switched to acrylics which at first she struggled with as they did not afford the style that she had become accustomed. Upon finding Atelier interactive acrylics, which can be lightly sprayed resulting in a “re-opening”, she was once again painting in a style that she enjoys. While Judi has created gray tones of full Grisaille style she is currently exploring mixed media.

She explained how the buildup of acrylic paint layers with a collection of clipart, icons, pictures, etc. creates a realistic yet contemporary base for her final image. Adding a section of titanium white and gesso to the background she is ready to finish the painted portion of her piece.

Judi shows her work at the AAWM Center for the Arts, Gabriel’s Landing Christian Gift and Bookstore in Show Low, Arizona and Xanadu Art Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. To learn more about her work visit www.judijordanfineart.com or call 928-536-3931.

Music is an art that can bring gentle memories to the moment with a smile or a tear, rekindle or embrace our faith, warm our heart and touch our soul. Steve Harrington also joins ArtSpace this month, and he is one of those rare musicians that conveys it all. From gospel that brings “...a good word from the Good Book”, to old and new cowboy music Steve has the ability to bring gentle and poetic verse to lyrics that will not only conjure up lovelorn tenderness but also elicit laugh out loud moments as the vision of the verse settles into your mind.

Steve grew up in Michigan and wasn’t even a teenager yet when he joined the adult choir at his church and started his singing career with Gospel. While in Junior High School he worked for a construction company. When he had enough money saved he went out and bought a twelve string guitar and learned how to play. Steve and his wife have been married for almost four years and he shares a tender story about their wedding day. As they were planning the event Steve’s wife asked him to write a song for the occasion. He was concerned that writing a love song would turn him into an emotional wreck and so he told her that he wouldn’t be able to. In the meantime, about two weeks prior to the wedding, a song came to him. No one but the Pastor knew that he had written it and during the ceremony with a nod to a friend, he was handed a guitar and played “The Together Trail.” A beautiful love song that expresses what they were feeling in their hearts and how the Lord had led the way to bring them together. Accompanied by Steve Taylor on harmonica this gentle love story with verses of “...cowboy life where he rides is a lonely way.... until today” and “...out of a prayer you came to me” depicts the love of his wife and the Lord and will move you to tears of happiness.

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Visit Steve’s biography and you will learn that he incorporates a wide range of experiences to his music and writing. As singer, song writer, minister and founder of Mountain Saddle Band, where he is the lead singer and guitarist, Steve keeps busy locally and with extensive cowboy and gospel music performances throughout the West. As an ordained minister with the International Cowboy Church Alliance Network he serves as the Arizona Territorial Director. Steve is also President of the Western Music Associate Arizona Chapter which is a natural fit as he shares that his heart is in Western/Cowboy music and “…I always wanted to be a cowboy”. He not only founded the Mountain Saddle Band but also Old West Chapel which performs as a traveling cowboy church for rodeos, festivals, and special events.

From the fast and light “Cowboy Shuffle” to “The Together Trail” you will travel an emotional journey from laughter to tears, just in the regular Cowboy way.

Mountain Saddle Band inspires you to dream of sitting in a saddle and heading down the trail with a song in your heart and a yodel in your voice. To learn more about Steve Harrington and the Mountain Saddle Band visit their website www. mountainsaddleband.com or call 928-242-4574.

If you would like more information about local artists and upcoming events visit the Arts Alliance of the White Mountains Center for the Arts located at 251 N. Penrod Road, Show Low, Arizona or visit www.aawmcenterforthearts.com.

Award Recipients gather to mark the occasion (l-r) Deborah Austin, Judy Underdown, Victoria Frazior, Valry Coltharp, Karen Lewis, Bob Eikenberry, Gerald Underhill, Stuart Holmes, and Gretchen Boyer.

Arts Alliance of the White Mountains Center for the Arts 7th Bi-Annual Juried Art Show

by Kay Alderson and Judi Bassett, Photos: Judi Bassett

AAWM People’s Choice Art Show July 15 - 25 The Arts Alliance of the White Mountains People’s Choice Art Show featuring Jewelry, Fiber Art & Artisan Creations will be held at the AAWM Center for the Arts, 251 Penrod Rd, Show Low from July 15 through 25 from 10 AM to 4 PM, Tuesday thru Saturday. Awards will be presented on Friday, July 26 at 5:30 PM in conjunction with the Cork & Canvas Event from 5 to 7 PM. During the Show, until July 24, the public will will vote for their choices which will lead to cash awards to the artists. The Show is open for entries by all artists living in Arizona. The entry form can be downloaded from the Home page of our website www.ArtsAllianceWM.org. Entries are due at the Center by July 10.

Adult Art Classes This Summer From June 25 - September 24, artist Beth Zink will hold weekly adult painting classes at the Gathering Place on Bucksprings Rd in Pinetop. Classes will be held from 1:30 - 4:30 pm on Wednesdays.

There will also be three All Day Workshops scheduled for July 15, August 12 and September 9 from 9:30 to 4:30 pm with 10% of the class fee going to the NEAFAA Art Scholarship Fund, which goes to local students in local schools. (All supplies are included in the Workshop fee.) For more information, please visit www.paintinginthepines.com or contact beth at beth@paintinginthepines.com.

Arts Alliance of the White Mountains Center for the Arts celebrated with an Award Ceremony and Reception June 14, 2014 at the Center. Jim Beck and Jackie Johnson judged this year’s entries in Photography, Two Dimensional, and Three Dimensional categories. Jim Beck shared that, while this was their first joint effort, Jackie Johnson and he developed a judging style that was smooth with a simpatico result. While all entries were juried into the show, Bruce Taylor, emcee of the event and AAWM co-chair of the show with Sharon Dixon, reflected on how some artists while they had entered the show, juried their own pieces prior to submitting and declined entry.

Patron of the Arts, Joy Wili, was this event’s first Special Award judge choosing her favorite from the entries. She chose Teri Wilson Williams two-dimensional piece “The Beloved” an acrylic painting of Teri’s daughter. Rose Hutchinson presented Joy with a Special Recognition certificate during the ceremony. The AAWM appreciates Joy’s continued support of the Center for the Arts.

Award recipients were awarded: 1st Place $100, 2nd Place $75, and 3rd Place $50. Photography Awards: 1st Place: Stuart Homes, 2nd Place James Terrell, 3rd Place Deborah Austin, Honorable Mentions: Stuart Holmes and James Terrell.

Two Dimensional Awards: 1st Place Karen Lewis, 2nd Place Beth Zink; 3rd Place Victoria Frazior, Honorable Mentions: Victoria Frazior, Bob Eikenberry, Teri Wilson Williams, Masa Crook, Judy Underdown, and Valry Coltharp.

Three Dimensional Awards: 1st Place Karen Lewis, 2nd Place Gerald Underhill, 3rd Place Gretchen Boyer, Honorable Mention Karen Lewis.

Participants of this event included Deborah Austin, Judy Underdown, Victoria Frazior, Sharon Dixon, Gerald Underhill, Karen Lewis, Ester Custis-Moolick, Terry Hook, Marianne McGuire, Barbara Peacock, Teri Wilson Williams, Beth Zink, Valry Coltharp, Sheryl Franklin, Ron Hildreth, Kathleen Mendes, Stuart Holmes, Bob Eikenberry, Greg Roske, James Terrill, Don Alman, Gretchen Boyer, Laurie Nelson, Phyllis Karow-Trella, Masa Crook, Judi Bassett, and Bruce Taylor If you would like more information about local artists and upcoming events visit the Arts Alliance of the White Mountains Center for the Arts located at 251 N. Penrod Road, Show Low, Arizona or visit www.aawmcenterforthearts.com.

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Local Literature

experiences with her own first 29 day giving challenge. As Cami learns to focus outwardly and connect with the world, she learns a great deal about herself.

The reader shares her journey to self-acceptance and growth. It is raw, powerful, sometimes ugly, and deeply honest. And inspiring.

This review appears courtesy of the Bookworm. Love a good book? The Bookworm is a locally owned independent book shop that carries new and used books.

The Bookworm offers several discount options, holds special events and hosts a monthly community book club. It is located in the Safeway Plaza in Pinetop. For more information, call 928-367-5335.

Book Review:

Arts Alliance of the White Mountains Lakeside Writers invites you to join them on the 2nd Saturday of the month at 1 pm at the AAWM Center for the Arts at 251 Penrod in Show Low. The group participates in writing exercises designed to get writing and having fun. If you have a project you are working on bring in six copies of up to six pages of your work. You will be given opportunities to receive constructive, yet kind, critiques from other beginner and seasoned writers.

To learn more about the Lakeside Writers, visit www.aawmcenterforthearts.com and click on the link for Lakeside Writers, or call K. Alderson at 928-241-2194 or the AAWM center at 928-532-2296.

Patio Sales and Craft Fairs at Juniper Ridge Resort

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life

Looking for Adventure this Summer?

by Cami Walker

Reviewed by Gayle Cain In 2006, fear, addiction and extreme anger were welcomed into Cami Walkers’ previously idyllic life.

There was no graceful acceptance of a chronic disease diagnosis for her. As multiple sclerosis wrecked havoc on her physical body, Cami’s emotional being began breaking also. She was overwhelmed and selfmedicating for fatigue and pain, and verbally abusing those who loved her. At a desperate juncture, she decided to follow an unorthodox “prescription” suggested by a spiritual healer, Mbali Creazzo. The prescription was easy: Cami was to give away 29 gifts for 29 consecutive days. The gifts could be simple - such as a kind word or smile. There was a requirement that each gift be made consciously, and that Cami journal daily about her experiences.

The act of giving consciously each day changed at first Cami’s perspective, and then ultimately, her life.

She not only found herself improving mentally and spiritually, but also her physical symptoms became more manageable. She was so altered by her personal experiences that she began a 29 Gifts website which resulted in an international giving movement.

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AAWM Lakeside Writers Monthly Meeting

Come to Pinetop-Lakeside Public Library for all of your summer entertainment. In addition to books, movies, music, board games, and video games, we’ve got a ton of activities and events, including Summer Reading (June 3 to July 18), Paws for Reading (Fridays at 10 am), Movies of the Month (2nd Saturday at 3 pm), SCRABBLE™ Clubs (2nd and 4th Fridays at 1 pm), Computer Classes (3rd Wednesday at 1 pm), Parent Gatherings (2nd Tuesday at 11 am), and Book Clubs (1st Thursday at 9:45 am). For more info, call 928368-6688 or info@pinetoplakesidelibrary.org.

July Arts and Crafts Show at Mazatzal Casino in Payson On July 12th and 13th, the Event Center at Mazatzal Casino will be busting at the seams with lots of wonderful works of art and crafts including paintings, mosaics, clocks, beautiful covered boxes, jewelry of all kinds, crocheting, sewing, tote bags, purses and more! Admission is free and show hours are 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday and 9 am to 3 pm on Sunday. Stop in to shop and enjoy a free soft drink or coffee. For more information, please contact Judy at 928-468-2244.

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Juniper Ridge Resort is hopping this summer with lots of fun events including their popular Craft Fairs. Upcoming Craft Fairs will be held July 12 and August 9th from 9 am to noon. Juniper Ridge Resort is located on White Mountain Lake Road, 3 miles in from Hwy 77.

Bag of Books Sale at Pinetop-Lakeside Public Library The Friends of Pinetop-Lakeside Library is holding a used book sale. Buy a bag for $5; then fill it up with books, movies, music, and more. All proceeds support the library’s mission to provide access to information, materials, and services for community residents of all ages. For more information, contact the library at 928-368-6688 or info@pinetoplakesidelibrary.org.

A Deep Breath of Life

by Author Linda West

It’s summer in the White Mountains, finally, as I look at my back yard with all the leaves on the cottonwoods, aspens, and oaks, I feel so completely blessed. Summer is my favorite time of year, the long days, warm sun and all that growing of plants and flowers, and those tomatoes, wow!

Summer is very short at 7000 ft. elevation and seems to go by in a blink of an eye, so be sure to

make the most of each moment.

Life, in general, is certainly like that, time not only feels like it is going by faster but it has been scientifically proven that the planet itself is vibrating at a faster rate now than it did 20 - 30 years ago. So a minute is still a minute, an hour is still an hour but, well, you get it. We are moving through life faster and the frequency is increasing, even as I write this. And you thought it was just old age, not so!

I was at the salon the other day when a women came in and said, ‘I’ve been seeing your face everywhere lately!’. My response could only be ‘Wow, really?’ I keep a pretty low profile in my home town, so admittedly, I was kind of surprised.

She said she just came from her office and someone was reading my blog. Again, ‘Wow, really?’ I was pleased, someone was actually reading my blog. The Universe again giving me validation for what I do. What you should know and many of you do, if you have read my book, I do not like to write. As a matter of fact I wait until the very last minute, citing every excuse I can to procrastinate. I was won over by the Steve Madden shoe ad pulsating to the right of the page on my computer before I started this……oh boy, did not, however, buy the shoes. The task that I slog through does always impress me, some how, some way the message gets through, in spite of me or because of me…..who knows.

Each of us is a spiritual being connected to the most powerful energy in the Universe, why then, am I surprised each time my blog or an article like this gets written. It never ceases to amaze me all the synchronicities that are created in my life, the flow of grace that is presented in front of my face. Sometimes I get it, sometimes I may miss it for awhile, then looking back I get the ‘aha’ moment. I imagine you know what I mean.

Grace is available to all of us at every moment. It is the flow of energy and our willingness to flow with it that creates grace. Perhaps you have learned in your journey that it’s supposed to be simple and easy, you know, ‘go with the flow’.

Since your thoughts create, focus on what you want, not what you don’t want.

Even with those people who seem to be the angriest, even with situations that do not seem to have a reasonable solution or any solution at all. There is always a solution, it just isn’t in this moment yet, but it is always in your frequency.

Everything you need is on your pathway and shows up in your frequency at just the right time. Then, you sit down in front of the computer to write the blog, it all comes together with grace, without effort, with love. I am then filled with humility and gratitude, again. You see, it’s okay not to have all the answers, it’s about believing, trusting and detaching, allowing the Universe to fill our lives with grace to meet all our needs and wants. It just doesn’t get much easier than that.

So, my friends, enjoy summer in the White Mountains, sit back understand all is well, embrace this perfect moment and take a deep breath of Life.

On July 25th, join me, Linda West, for an evening of angelic, positive information. Learn more about the changing energy on the planet and how to maneuver through it, details on this page or call me at 928-367-2040.

Show Your Colors at the First Annual Paint Me in the Pines 5k run/walk/crawl Event Paint Me in the Pines, a new event coming to Show Low, will make you think you have died and gone to hippie heaven! The Show Low Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring this 5k run/walk/ crawl event. (Not a race) Participants arrive wearing white, and leave with every color in the rainbow on them. As they stroll or run the streets, spectators throw a colored ‘hippie’ powder on the runners.

It is a fun and crazy spectacle that everyone loves! The walk will start near Main Street Show Low at the Card Players statue, continue all around downtown, then back to finish at the Main Street Park. A free hot dog BBQ will welcome the walkers back for pictures and showers by the Firemen. Vendors will be available for an afternoon of music, food, and shopping at both the Farmers Market and sidewalk sales.

Entry fee will be $30 each and includes a t-shirt and fun package from local businesses. For more info and entry form, please visit www.showlowchamberofcommerce.com.

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Travels and Trails White Mountain Wildlife & Nature Center Nature Discovery Programs Photos by Judi Bassett On Saturdays at 10 am, the Nature Center, in cooperation with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, Town of Pinetop-Lakeside and other partners offers hands-on, outdoor presentations, hikes and workshops. Programs provide familyoriented fun with a discovery focus on increasing awareness, understanding and responsible action towards nature, and most are free of charge. The Nature Center is located at 425 S. Woodland Rd., south of the stop light on White Mountain Blvd. (State Route 260), next to the Big Springs Environmental Study Area.

On July 19, the White Mountain Reptile Rescue invites you to “Take a Walk on the Wild Side!” Experience giant tortoises and large snakes up close with fun, hands on experience followed by a Herp search. On August 2, join the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation experts for “Enjoying Elk in the White Mountains”.

Experts share the life history, habitat, and habits of the largest member of the deer family. Learn where and how to find them and even how to call them.

On August 16, the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary & Mexican Wolf Recovery Workshop will allow you to get up close and personal with a live wolf and learn about wolf behavior and habits, along with presentations by local wolf recovery experts on the Mexican wolf recovery effort. On August 30th, the 9th Annual Woodland Wildlife and Science Festival will host the Wildlife World Zoo. Enjoy interactive booths and displays with lots of live critters, an archery range and casting pond. The Wildlife World Zoo will make presentations from 11 am to 1 pm. There is a nominal charge for the programs, but the festival is free.

For more information, please visit www.wmnature.org or call (928) 358-3069 for more information.

Summer Fishing Tips with Johnny Johnson When the heat of summer arrives, bass do a couple of things. They either go deep to cooler depths on main lake points, or if you have a lot of matted weeds on your lake then a lot of times they pull up underneath the weeds. In any case here are a few tips for you for this time of year. When bass go deep on main lake points, that is when I like to go to a Jig or dropshot. A spider jig is a great way to get to them and my favorite color would be green pumpkin. As for the dropshot rig I like a 1/4oz. dropshot with a #1 rebarb hook with a 5 inch curly tail oxblood worm. Remember to work both techniques slow. Now when the bass get up under the matted weeds, I like a Spro Frog, and if there are any holes in the weeds I will hook up a Stic-O bait weedless and throw it in the holes.

As for trout remember that early in the morning when the water is the coolest is the best time to get some surface action with flies or spinners. Good Luck out there and always remember when the storms roll in to get off the water when the lightning starts popping. Also don’t forget to catch my show Fishing with Johnny Johnson on Fox Sports Az. Sundays at 9:30am. and on Cable One’s channel 58 Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights at 8:30pm. If you would like to book a trip with me go to www.thearizonafishingguides.com.

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White Mountain Wildlife & Nature Center Annual Benefit Dinner to be Held September 20, 2014 Mark your calendars now for the White Mountain Wildlife and Nature Center Annual Benefit Dinner. You know how fast Summer whizzes by and before you know it September 20th will be here! Be ready by purchasing your tickets in advance for this annual event.

For a donation of $40 you will be presented with an evening that includes dinner, music, raffles, fun games and amazing auction items. The Lakesiders will join us this year as our live entertainment for your dancing and listening pleasure. Add a delicious buffet, a delectable dessert auction with creations so sweet they will not make it home, throw in some friendly bidding competition, and you have a night that offers a perfect evening of fun for a great cause!

The Annual Benefit Dinner is one of the major fund raisers for the WMNC and helps cover the expenses of the Discovery Programs during the summer.

Tickets are available through Pay Pal online at www.wmnature.org. For more information call 928-358-3069.

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CruisiNews With Eva

by Eva Desjeunes, Maverick Travel Guru

What’s so Great about Pre/Post Cruise Stayovers?

Planning great vacations at sea can be as easy as, one, two... three. I believe there should be a beginning, a middle and an end. This is true of great cruise, I don’t confine myself to the voyage itself, but begin the trip with a pre-cruise overnight stay at the port city, followed by the actual sailing and ending it with a post-cruise overnight stay in the debarkation city as well.

The pros when it comes to pre-cruise and postcruise overnights is abundant. Arriving at the port city the day before the sailing is a great way to avoid the stress that comes with worrying about late or missed flights- (and throwing stress overboard is sort of what cruising is all about, isn’t it?).

Cruise lines offer some of the best pre and post cruise stay packages, I always, by the way, purchase my air and hotel through the cruise line, its easy and usually comes with the added value of complimentary transfers, plus if something goes wrong with flights the cruise line steps in. Also, a pre-arranged transfer means no hassles of waiting in line for taxis at airports and hoping the driver I get speaks English, knows where to take us, and takes us there quickly without taking the scenic route and I have had some interesting rides! This is a great comfort as I have encountered taxi drivers even in cities like New York and Miami, whose English is not something to write home about!

Many cruise travelers feel the need to book their own flight and hotel arrangements, and I have no issues with this, however, I think in this day and age of travel use caution. I always make sure my cruise clients are aware of what they are getting for their money and advise them to read the fine print. There are many websites offering a variety of hotels and flights, all at discount pricing but, please read the fine print, how much if anything are you really saving? Do you know most websites charge a service fee? and cancellation fees above and beyond what the cruise line charges if you cancel your trip? There are also fees for any type of changes made after you book the trip. I would rather pay a few dollars more and have a seamless vacation with no nasty surprises.

On my last cruise to the Western Caribbean which was out of Houston, TX on the Caribbean Princess, we were actually met at the airport by a private Chauffeur, and he even had a sign with my name on it, I felt like a Star! He handled our luggage and transported us to our hotel which was also very close to restaurants and some of the local sites which is another added bonus, as most cruise lines use good quality hotels and are centrally located for convenience. We could walk in almost any direction to find a great restaurant and we did.

Whenever possible, if you are not on a cruise that has a round trip port of embarkation and debarkation, consider a post cruise stay in the final port. The benefits of a post cruise overnight stay are also many. One great way to do this is to choose a cruise itinerary that overnights in the final port. This allows you to use the ship as your hotel and not having to rush to debark, collect your luggage, clear immigration and customs, and head for the airport to catch your flight home all in a matter of a few hours. Even if the cruise ship does not offer an overnight in the final port, it is relaxing to just be able to take that extra day or two a enjoy a world class city, then fly home refreshed and ready to share the great time you had with family and friends.

Now I know, and of course, I am the first to admit that making cruising as easy as one, two... three is not always possible. Yet, the only disadvantages to pre / post cruise stay overs that I can come up with are that they extend the days needed for and increase the cost of your trip. But in the absence of time and budgetary constraints, try letting your cruise vacation have a great beginning and end, a perfect plan for great time. As always, Cruise and travel with Cruisitude!

Eva Desjeunes-Sunder, MCC, appears courtesy of Cruiseplanners and can be reached at 928-5327740 or 888-201-6626. You can also explore her website at www.planetcruising.com for more travel adventures.

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Kids & Family

car windows to remind parents to look inside the car, even if they don’t think the child is in the car. The stickers are sold as a set that would outfit two cars through their website, www. babysafetystickers.com.

With the addition of passenger-side front airbags in the 1990’s, car-safety experts recommended moving child seats to the back seat of the car. Then, for even more safety for the very young, the recommendation came that baby seats be turned to face the rear. This led to lessened visibility of the child in the car seat.

Unfortunately this lessened visibility, along with the hectic and distracted lives many parents lead, has caused parents and child care providers to sometimes forget the child is in the car when exiting.

These stickers will not save your child’s life, but they can help you develop the habit of always checking the back seat, even if you think you know they are not in the car.

It only takes a second. Your child’s life may depend on it. Please don’t let your baby become a statistic.

Always Check!:

Arizona Company Raises Awareness of Heat Related Deaths.

If you knew of a way to prevent one child dying in the United States every 9 days, would you do something, especially if it was as simple as placing a sticker in a car window?

On average, 38 children each year die from heat-related deaths after being trapped inside motor vehicles, or one every 9 days. As of May 2013 the total number is over 650 children. Even the best of parents or caregivers can unknowingly leave a sleeping baby in a car; and the end result can be injury or even death.

A local company started by two Valley residents is focusing attention on the issue of children left in locked cars when parents or day care providers forget the child is in the back seat in the rear facing car seat. The company, Precious Cargo Enterprises, has developed a set of stickers to go on

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Show Low Family Aquatic Center’s Summer Hours Expanded hours allow for more swimming fun!

Show Low, AZ – The aquatic center has expanded its hours for the summer season. In addition to its regular schedule, open swim will be offered Monday through Friday from 1 to 5 pm and Saturday from noon to 5 pm. The aquatic center is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 5 am to 9 pm, Tuesday and Thursday from 5 am to 7 pm and Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm. Call (928) 532-4130 for regular lap swim, open swim, water aerobics, swim team and swim lesson hours. Fees for open and lap swim are $1.50 per child (0 to 17 years), $3 per adult (18 to 54 years) and $2 per senior (55 and older).

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Bubbles, baking and bath toys:

Building science and math skills in young kids

U.S. students rank in the lower third among developed countries when it comes to science and math literacy, meaning our kids may not be able to compete for the jobs of the future.

Happily, there have been some highly successful STEM events here in the White Mountains at our wonderful schools! Thanks to Kal Mannis, STEM Education specialist and coach, the push to improve these skills in our youth has been progressing steadily. Economic development and educational efforts focus on building Science, Engineering, Technology and Math (STEM) skills in K-12 schools, but we may be missing a critical opportunity if we ignore kids under 6.

Toddlers and preschoolers learn naturally by exploring and experimenting. What appears to adults as play is really forming and testing theories, then trying out different variables.

According to the Center for Early Education in STEM, simple childhood games can promote significant STEM skills. For example: Building structures – knocking them down, testing them with weight, etc. – engages kids in reasoning about physics.

Cooking engages children in science, math, and literacy through measuring ingredients, seeing how foods combine and change, and reading recipes.

Singing and dancing convey counting concepts, and making musical instruments with everyday objects helps kids learn how to control aspects of sound like pitch, loudness, timbre and duration.

Through water activities, kids experiment with movement and volume, filling cups or pails, then watching how holes in objects affect water flow.

In playing card and board games, children use math, oral language, reading and writing; reason about strategies; and, learn to take turns, take another person’s perspective and negotiate.

Families can help kids develop those skills by asking questions like: What do you think will happen? Why do you think it ended that way?

How do you think things will be different if we change something?

In addition, parents can share their knowledge, starting in the early years. Things that may seem obvious to us – like weather changes, traffic patterns and the change in an egg when it’s cracked, then cooked - are fascinating new concepts for children that give them a foundation from which to build future knowledge.

By encouraging the development of STEM skills in the early years, we help kids learn by experimenting with their environments and give them skills that will help them be successful in school and in life.

For more information on Early Childhood Development visit www.readyazkids.com. For a presentation on the importance of Early Childhood Development contact Michelle Pansulla: mpansulla@azftf.gov

Summit Healthcare Receives Planning Grant from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Great Job! Blue Ridge Junior Leadership Academy students and teachers completed a community service project by cleaning the grounds of the Yellow Jacket Youth Center in Lakeside.

The service was part of the two-week summer program conducted by Navajo County Drug Project in Lakeside, Show Low and Whiteriver.

Today, Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center announced that it has received a $78,520 Rural Healthcare Planning Grant from HRSA. This grant will be used to establish a formative network of mental health providers. These providers will assist Summit Healthcare with the guidance and expertise needed to establish a patient-driven model for outpatient tele-psychiatric clinical sites in our service area in order to meet the needs of underserved populations.

“Summit Healthcare conducted a Community Health Needs Assessment in January 2013 and our communities stressed that mental health and substance abuse is our number one need,” said Angie Kolling, Chief Marketing and Development Officer for Summit Healthcare, “Because of these results Summit began looking for grants that will help us formulate a plan to meet those needs.”

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What Does “Heart Failure” Mean?

By Gretchen Schaber, NP, Board-Certified Nurse Practitioner in Adult Cardiology at Summit Cardiovascular Services What a scary term, “Heart Failure”! You wonder if there might be a simple test for it, a specific cause? Unfortunately, it is not that simple. In medical language it is “a complex clinical syndrome that can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the ventricle to fill with or eject blood”. It is a clinical diagnosis, meaning that a provider has to put the pieces together (diagnostic tests, patient history, and physical exam) diagnose “Heart Failure”.

How big is the problem of Heart Failure? There are over five million people in the United States with Heart Failure, and about twenty three million world wide. The risk of developing Heart Failure increases as we age. It costs the nation about thirty two billion dollars per year.

Though prognosis has improved over the decades (and varies considerably from one patient to the next), still about half the people with Heart Failure die within five years of the diagnosis. Early diagnosis and treatment is very important in improving an individual’s prognosis.

Because Heart Failure can result from anything that reduces the amount of blood moved forward from the heart, the list of causes if very long. The most common category is disease of the heart muscle itself, the myocardium. The general term for these causes is Cardiomyopathy (literally meaning heart muscle disease).

What exactly is the job of the myocardium? The heart is made up of four rooms, or chambers whose walls are muscles, and doors are valves. The chambers must be the proper size to hold enough volume of blood, and the muscles must maintain the proper strength to move forward enough volume. These muscles must work, nonstop, from before we are born till our last heartbeat! This constant muscle action must keep the blood moving throughout the body so that all the organs and tissues get all the oxygen and nutrients they need all the time.

What a miracle!

What can go wrong to cause Cardiomyopathy? The heart muscle can become diseased when a segment of the heart muscle dies from a heart attack. If enough muscle dies to weaken the pump this is called Ischemic Cardiomyopathy. Muscle can be injured or die from a direct attack on the muscle from microorganisms like bacteria or viruses, or from toxins such as alcohol, cocaine, methamphetamines, and some chemotherapy agents to name a few. Sometimes systemic diseases such as Sarcoidosis, Amyloidosis, some autoimmune diseases, or severe kidney disease, and other metabolic diseases can weaken the heart muscle. These causes for a weakened pump are called Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy.

Sometimes the electrical system of the heart (on its own or caused by things like overactive thyroid) can increase to sustained fast heart rates for long enough to weaken the heart, called Tachycardia-Induced Cardiomyopathy. Some inherited disorders cause Cardiomyopathy.

Sometimes pregnancy can mysteriously affect the heart muscle, making it weak, this is called Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. There is a more rare phenomenon which occurs most often in postmenopausal women, when a person is exposed to intense psychological distress causing the heart muscle to weaken in a characteristic way. This Stress-Induced Cardiomyopathy (or Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy) is sometimes referred to as “Heartbreak Heart”.

This is certainly not a complete list, but lists the majority of causes.

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blood emptied from the left ventricle with each squeeze. A normal ejection fraction is between 50% to 65-70% of the blood it holds.

Alternatively, if the heart muscle has to work harder than it was intended to work the muscle can do what other muscles do when they work hard, get bigger or thicker. This may be fine for other muscles, but when this happens to the heart muscle it gets thick and won’t relax normally. That muscle thickening, called Hypertrophy, encroaches on the heart cavity (the space inside the heart muscle that holds the blood) and the stiffening of the muscle (called Diastolic Dysfunction) further reduces the cavity size (or container size) so that the volume of blood available to move forward with the next heartbeat is significantly diminished. Without an adequate volume available in the left ventricle, no matter how strong that thick muscle may be, the overall output from the pump is reduced. The end result is the same as for the weakened heart muscle, reduced cardiac output. There are several processes that can make the heart have to work too hard and result in this problem. The most common is uncontrolled high blood pressure. Another common cause is untreated sleep apnea. There are other causes, including inherited disorders for Hypertrophy as well. When Heart Failure occurs from a thick, stiff pump it is called Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (abbreviated HF pEF, pronounced “hef pef”). HF pEF occurs in at least half of the people who develop Heart Failure.

When the pump cannot move blood through the body adequately there are many symptoms that can occur, some very serious. Common symptoms of heart failure are fatigue, shortness of breath with exertion, and retaining water. As symptoms progress Heart Failure patients can begin to have trouble breathing at rest, become unable to lay flat because of increased shortness of breath, and eventually become so short of breath and fluid overloaded they require hospitalization. Low ejection fraction patients have a higher likelihood of sudden cardiac death from abnormal heart electrical patterns that can suddenly occur.

Many causes for Heart Failure can be prevented through following a healthy lifestyle, avoiding substance abuse, and getting regular treatment for underlying contributors such as high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, and sleep apnea. Unfortunately, many of the causes of Heart Failure are not preventable.

The good news is that research has resulted in improved treatment options for Heart Failure. Without proper treatment Heart Failure usually progresses more rapidly. There are medications which can help the ejection fraction from worsening, and even in some cases allow it to improve. The lower the Ejection Fraction the higher the risk of Sudden Cardiac Death, and in those patients an Implanted Defibrillator may be indicated. Ongoing research is exploring stem cell, artificial pump, and other options. Even with current treatment options people are living better and longer with Heart Failure. If you or a loved one suffers from Heart Failure it is important to follow closely with your Healthcare Providers, take your medications correctly, and take good care of yourself through proper diet and lifestyle.

Summit Healthcare offers a series of three free classes for Heart Failure patients with much personal attention to each person’s questions and concerns. To qualify for these classes you simply need a referral from one of your Healthcare Providers. You can call Summit Cardiovascular Services at 928-537-9944 to arrange to attend. Remember, with proper management many patients continue to live quality lives!

Above, lots of folks enjoyed the free information and promotional items as each booth. At top left, AZ Game and Fish had a lot of animal skins for indentification and hands on exploration. At left, Donate Life’s Tania Kemp displayed the best t-shirt there! For more info, call 602-222-2241.

Summit Healthcare’s Community-Wide Health, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Resource Fair Photos by Judi Bassett On May 31, Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center invited the community to explore resources for health, mental health and substance abuse. From basic health screenings at no cost to educational opportunities for the kids, the event was fun and informative for the entire family.

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During the June 24, 2014 Navajo County Board of Supervisors meeting, County Manager James Jayne presented two national awards from the National Association of Counties to County Attorney Brad Carlyon, honoring Navajo County Drug Stories and the Navajo County Attorney’s Family Advocacy Centers.

NAVAJO COUNTY EARNS TWO NATIONAL AWARDS FOR DRUG STORIES, FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTERS HOLBROOK, AZ – Navajo County has earned two national awards for “Navajo County Drug Stories” and the Navajo County Family Advocacy Centers in Show Low and Holbrook. The National Association of Counties (NACo) has named Navajo County a recipient of two “2014 Achievement Awards” for the two initiatives in the category of Criminal Justice and Public Safety, citing the innovation of those involved with the programs, and the commitment of both initiatives to serving County communities and improving the lives of Navajo County citizens.

Navajo County Drug Stories is a web-based drug awareness platform, located at www.NavajoCountyDrugStories.com, which features true stories of addicts; victims of drug abuse; and service providers who deal daily with the effects of drug abuse, including first responders, medical professionals and educators. The online program is intended to initiate conversations about the impacts illegal drugs are having on children and families across Navajo County in an effort to begin curbing first time users and encourage addicts to seek help. Viewers can watch video stories, read blog entries and find drug facts along with regional resources for drug education, interven-

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tion and rehabilitation programs While accepting the NACo awards, County Attorney Brad Carlyon said of the web-based program, “When we realized we had a tremendous meth problem in Navajo County years ago, hundreds of people gathered at town hall meetings to discuss the problem. Well, people don’t turn out for town hall meetings like they used to. Social media is the new town hall, so we’re taking our message there in the hopes that parents, friends and teachers will engage in the conversation online, then take the discussion to the dinner table, the classroom and all over our county and begin focusing on solving this awful problem we face.”

With leadership from Carlyon and Navajo County Sheriff KC Clark, Drug Stories was created and is produced in partnership with regional radio personality Barbara Bruce, the City of Show Low’s City 4 Television and the Arizona Narcotics Officers Association.

The Navajo County Family Advocacy Centers (FAC), located in Show Low and Holbrook, are the first place suspected victims of sexual assault, child molestations, or child abuse go after reporting a crime to law enforcement or Child Protective Services in Navajo County. The FACs convene under one roof a multidisciplinary team of medical, legal, law enforcement, social service experts and crisis counselors for children who are suspected of having been sexually or physically abused. The FAC’s aim is to ensure victims are treated with respect and dignity throughout the investigation process. One of the FAC’s goals is to minimize trauma and re-victimization by limiting the victim to only telling their story one time and, if needed, to only have one medical examination. The centers provide an on-site forensic interview room that is set up with cameras so the only people needed in the room during an interview are the interviewer and the victim. While the interview is taking place, there is a viewing room specially designed for the remaining members of the multidisciplinary team to watch the interview out of sight. This approach allows all those who will be involved in the investigation to have their questions answered, without a victim enduring going to police station interview rooms, sterile hospital exam rooms, and back and forth for more interviews.

County Manager James Jayne said of the FACs, “The Family Advocacy Centers are helping us better – and more compassionately – serve sexual assault, molestation and abuse victims in Navajo County.” Jayne continued, “The National Association of Counties has heralded the innovative thinking of County Attorney Brad Carlyon and his team, and I’d like to do the same. I’m proud of the care, thought and planning behind Drug Stories and the Family Advocacy Centers and congratulate all those who are involved with both, because they are providing critical service to those who are most vulnerable in our communities.”

The National Association of Counties (NACo) is the only national organization that represents county governments in the United States. Founded in 1935, NACo assists America’s 3,069 counties in pursuing excellence in public service to produce healthy, vibrant, safe and resilient counties. NACo promotes sound public policies, fosters county solutions and innovation, promotes intergovernmental and public-private collaboration and provides value-added services to save counties and taxpayers money.

With its headquarters on Capitol Hill, NACo is a full-service organization that delivers its services through its dedicated and skilled staff who comprise the following departments: Executive Management, Legislative Affairs, Public Affairs, County Solutions and Innovation, Information Technology, Finance and Administration and the Financial Service Corporation.

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End Old Patterns and Get Unstuck

Happiness Is An Action Word “Because I’m happy… Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof, Because I’m happy… Clap along if you know what happiness is to you.”

-Pharrel Williams, Happy Song, Despicable Me 2 Feeling as if you have no control over your negative thoughts or emotions? An unkind word ruins your day? Your life needs a boost? If your answers are yes, you’re in good company. Less than 30% of people say they’re deeply happy and 25% of Americans report being depressed.

Did you know that you have a “happiness set point”? No matter how much you think about it, go on shopping sprees or spend countless hours on the phone, you will eventually return to that point. Where did this set point originate?

Interestingly, the programming in your upbringing established this point; the mottos you live by, for better or worse, began in early childhood. But there’s good news! You can change this mindset.

Three habits leading to inner happiness The old adage goes that practice makes perfect. It took a while to get to the place where you are right now, but practicing three habits will move you toward your goal of lifelong happiness. They are: · Cultivating friendships and relationships.

People who have one or more close friendships report being happier than their counterparts.

It’s not the quantity, but the quality of the relationship that makes the difference. · Developing caring and kindness. Caring can include volunteering as part of a group (church, Love Kitchen, Humane Society) or it can be as simple as calling a friend who may be lonely or struggling with a problem. · Keep moving. Regular exercise has been connected with higher levels of happiness and lowered depression. Even better to combine it with a friendship, working in a community garden or moving toward a personal goal of physical fitness.

However, if this is a major problem for you, consider a brief form of therapy with techniques as Neuro Linguistic Programming and visualization to end those old patterns. Or explore some options while in a group setting. Don’t Worry, Be Happy: Change Your Thoughts For The Better will be given from 4:30-6:30 pm on Thursday, July 17th at the Northland Pioneer College White Mountain Campus. Come learn easy-touse processes to almost instantly change your state of mind for the better.

For further information on this workshop, contact the Admissions Office at (800) 266-7845.

Come on and clap along with life!

Having over 25 years of experience, Joan Courtney is a clinical hypnotherapist and an NLP Practitioner. Transformation Hypnotherapy is located at 163 White Mountain Road, Pinetop/Lakeside, AZ (next to Johnny D’s Pizza). She can be contacted at (928) 367-8208 or www.joancourtneyhypnotherapy.com.

Register Today For Show Low’s Annual Tri in the Pines on August 9 Individual triathletes or relay teams may register by July 25 deadline Show Low, AZ – “Tri in the Pines” is a high-altitude, challenging sprint triathlon in the beautiful White Mountains, set for Saturday, August 9. The 19th annual triathlon will test your skills and endurance beginning with a 625-yard swim at the Show Low family aquatic center, an indoor facility, and transitioning to a 12.3-mile bicycle ride on city streets. The final leg is a 3.5-mile run on a paved multipurpose trail in Show Low City Park.

This USA Triathlon-sanctioned event promises a workout at Show Low’s 6,500-foot elevation amidst the cool of the Ponderosa pines. Registration fees for current USA Triathlon members are $65 and $77 for non-members. (For information on becoming a USA Triathlon member, visit www.usatriathlong.org.)

Want to partner with family and friends? Relay teams may consist of two or three members, with team registration for current USA Triathlon members of $95 and an additional $12 per nonmember per team. All relay teams are judged in the same category.

USA Triathlon rules apply to Tri in the Pines.

Registration deadline is July 25. For more information or to have a registration form mailed to you, e-mail twade@showlowaz.gov or call (928) 532-4143. Registration accepted online at www. activityreg.com or by phone at (928) 532-4143. www.themaverickmagazine.com

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Cellular One employee/Live Healthy Challenge weekly winner Sue Brock, the recipient of a new bike purchased locally by Cellular One from Cycle Mania.

CellularOne® Kicks off its Second Annual Live Healthy Challenge on International Health Day to Encourage Employees to Get and Stay Fit 119 Cellular One Employees Embark on the 13-Week “Live Healthy Challenge,” gaining support from their coworkers -- and cool, locally-sourced prizes – along the way!

(Show Low, Arizona) June 18, 2014 – Cellular One selected International Health Day on April 14th to kick off its second annual Live Healthy Challenge, an internal, camaraderie-building initiative aimed at promoting health, fitness, and overall wellness among employees. The 13-week Challenge runs through July 11th, with participating employees amassing points for taking part in endurance challenges and fitness-oriented classes, activities and outside events. To reward their efforts to live healthy, Cellular One is giving participating employees the chance to win terrific weekly prizes sourced from local vendors and the choice of a coveted grand prize trip to Fire Sky Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, AZ or an expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas upon completion of the Live Healthy Challenge.

In order to encourage and motivate employees throughout the 13-week Challenge, Cellular One created a Facebook page with inspiring messages and tips for participants: www.facebook.com/LiveHealthyChallenge2014. Live Healthy Challenge participants also look forward to the chance to win a selection of fantastic weekly prizes awarded by Cellular One, including a bike from local bike shop Cycle Mania.

“I am thrilled to see so many of our employees participating in, and supporting each other, during this year’s Live Healthy Challenge,” said Cellular One CEO Judd Hinkle. “While our goal is to promote a physically, emotionally, and socially healthy workplace, we hope the impact of the program extends beyond the 13-week challenge, inspiring our employees and the surrounding community to live healthy for years to come. We are also pleased to support local businesses and vendors by purchasing prizes from their shops to reward our employees throughout the Challenge… it’s truly a win-win for all involved!”

About Cellular One Cellular One is a leading provider of wireless communications service and bestin-class products to individuals, families and organizations in rural areas and small metro communities in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Headquartered in Show Low, Ariz., Cellular One operates a network of more than 201 cell sites, with additional sites in the works, and a total of 22 stores within its coverage area—providing nearly 200 jobs in the region. In 2013 the company invested more than $40 million to upgrade and expand its network, culminating in the launch of its FASTER NETWORK in November 2013.

For more information, visit www.cellularoneonline.com and www.facebook. com/CellularOneOnline.

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“Looking to buy a new ride? Let Jill at State Farm help you choose wisely.” - O.D. (Office Dog) ments. Check the websites of auto manufacturers and dealerships, and read reviews in consumer and auto publications.

Arrange Financing First Comparison shopping for financing is just as important as it is for vehicles.

Every time a dealer or loan company checks your credit report to determine your creditworthiness, your credit score actually goes down. Ouch! To obtain the best financing rates, you many wish to secure a loan from your preferred lender ahead of your actual vehicle purchase. Your local State Farm Agent like Jill Tinkel can help you compare insurance rates on different models and get financing in place before you even hit the car lot.

Cover Your New Car With Insurance

How to Shop For a New Ride

Before you drive your new vehicle off the lot, it must be covered by insurance.

Call your insurance agent before you buy to make the arrangements.

by O.D. (Office Dog) at Jill Tinkel’s State Farm Office

Buy Your New Vehicle

Buying a new vehicle can be both exciting and stressful. A new vehicle is a major cost, the second most expensive purchase for most Americans after their home. To help you accomplish your goals wisely, my good friend Jill has assembled these useful tips for buying a new car.

With all your advance planning completed, you are ready to enjoy shopping for a new vehicle. Be sure to test-drive each vehicle on your short list to ensure you like the way it handles. Once you have made your decision, negotiate with the dealer for the best price, and contact your insurance agent with the vehicle’s details. Now drive away in your new car!

Assess Your Needs for a New Car • • •

Size: Consider the amount of room you need based on how many people (and pets) and how much equipment you need to carry on a regular basis.

Essentials: Determine your must-haves in terms of automatic or manual transmission, length of manufacturer’s warranty, safety features, fuel efficiency, and so on.

Optional features: Do you want a moon roof, power-assisted windows and seats, GPS, leather interior, DVD Player, etc?

Calculate Your Budget

O.D. O.D. appears courtesy of Jill Tinkel State Farm. For more information on banking, please call 928-537-5700. You can also visit O.D. at 1881 E. Deuce of Clubs in Show Low. Stop in for Free Cookie Fridays for a fresh baked cookie and a quote!

Know how much vehicle you can afford before you shop. Stick to your budget to avoid the temptation to buy on impulse or agree to a price that could pinch your lifestyle for years to come. Personal finance experts recommend keeping the expenses related to transportation, including car payments, gas, insurance, and repairs to no greater than 15% of your monthly household income. Insurance costs will vary by vehicle model and other factors, so be sure to talk with your insurance agent at an early stage in your planning.

Preview Vehicles for Free You can comparison-shop automotive models, features and options, ratings and even get pricing over the Internet without having to make any commit-

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When You’re Ready to Bring Home Your Llamas Submitted by Barbara Peacock, Photo by Dave Salge How can you resist those big eyes looking you in the face and saying take me home. After you have seen how calm they are and beautiful as well, you will want to take at least 2 home. Adopting llamas from Arizona Llama Rescue is to be taken seriously. These camelids live a long time, as much as a horse, and they are a lifestyle change if you have never had large animals. They must be tended to everyday with watering and feeding. Llamas are otherwise easy to take care of with few health issues. Here in Arizona, especially the Sonoran Desert areas, llama can breath the spores that give them Valley Fever. Heat stress is another factor. Those wooly coats can shield out the heat as well as keep heat in. They can even sunburn if sheared to closely.

Before we place any llamas at your facility we spend some time talking to you and asking lots of questions. We want you and the llamas to be satisfied with your decision to bring them home. Then we make a field inspection of your facility. The kinds of things that we look for are good fencing. Fencing is mainly to keep out predators so a sturdy fence is required. Do they have access to shade or shelter? If you have dogs are they controlled? Is the corral clear of garbage? What kinds of other animals are living there and are they in a separate area? We check for poisonous plants such as oleanders. And of course, answer more questions.

If you decide to adopt we spend as much time with answering questions and helping you with the care of the llamas. This is all part of our mission. We know a little history about each llama which helps in appropriate and happy placement.

If we receive a pair of llamas, we try to keep them together. Some of these llamas have been together their whole lives and we try to continue that relationship.

Right now we have two gorgeous appaloosas (at right) looking for a home. They will be placed as a pair because it is a mother and her daughter.

We have around a dozen llamas up for adoption right now. Both girls and boys.

They have been recently sheared for the summer. Shots have been given. Socialization is being carried on year round. Some are at our Snowflake ranch and the others are at my place in Show Low. Please feel free to call me at any time with your inquiries at 928-537-8983. We also have a website with lots of pictures and information at www.AZllamarescue.org and you can find us on Facebook.

Payson’s Humane Society Thrift Shop & Vintage Boutique Did you know that the Humane Society of Central Arizona’s Thrift Shop and Vintage Boutique is located in one of the oldest buildings in Payson?

The store in in the center of what was considered the original downtown Payson, the intersection of Main Street and Mc Lane. The building was first a general store, then the Payson Library until the Payson Women’s Club purchased it and used it as an Archaeological Center. The Humane Society Store moved there in 2011.

What makes them unique? Not only the best of quality at fair prices, but the broadest selection of resale merchandise in town. Where else can you find at one location name brand clothing, fine furniture, gift items, vintage collectables, a complete library and movie media room, hardware and sporting goods, and everything you need for any seasonable holiday. And to top it all off, all proceeds go to help support our four legged friends at the local shelter. Please remember them when it comes time to remodel, upgrade or downsize. They accept good quality donations during business hours and can arrange a pick up of any large items such as furniture, appliances, or recreational vehicles. Visit 510 West Main Street in Payson or call 468-6419 for more info.

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Fight the Fright

by Dr. Lindsey Workman, DVM with Aspen Ridge Animal Hospital Fears and phobias can occur in our pets due to inadequate socialization as puppies or kittens, traumatic events, and genetic predispositions. Thunderstorm anxiety, noise phobias, fear of strangers or other animals, and fear of new places are some of the most common phobias we see in our pets. Signs that may indicate our pet is fearful include: hypervigilance, panting, drooling, yawning, lip licking, pacing, hiding, immobility, whining, barking, hissing, anal sac expression, and lack of appetite. Body signals may include ears in a held back position, tail tucked, dilated pupils, and shaking. Chronic anxiety and stress can lead to emotional distress, self-injury, and even decreased immune function. It also weighs heavily on the bond we have with our pet.

Before dealing with any behavioral problem, your pet should be examined by a veterinarian to ensure that there are no medical components involved. Animals with hormonal imbalances, animals in pain, and animals with brain abnormalities may exhibit behavioral problems that should be treated by a veterinarian.

Once medical problems have been ruled out or treated, dealing with fears and phobias in our pets requires both behavioral and environmental modification.

Three common techniques we can utilize include: avoidance, desensitization, and counter-conditioning.

Early in behavior modification, we should identify and attempt to avoid the situations and stimuli that trigger fear in our pets. If the situation cannot be avoided, we can attempt to modify the pet’s environment so that the intensity of the situation is lessened. For example, if a pet exhibits fear during thunderstorms, they can be placed in a room without windows and a TV playing in the background. Desensitization involves presenting a pet with a fearful situation or trigger at a decreased intensity that they are no longer fearful of. The intensity is then slowly increased. You should

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not advance the intensity of the situation if the pet is showing signs of fear and should decrease it if a new level of intensity results in fear.

Finally, counter-conditioning involves creating a positive association with the fearful situation. For example, a pet afraid of strangers can receive a treat each time a new person comes to their home. Some owners worry that counter-conditioning strategies reward their pet for bad behavior, but we are simply attempting to create a positive response to a previously negative situation.

In addition to these behavior modification techniques, there are a variety of alternative therapies that can be used. Use of D.A.P (dog appeasing pheromone) or Feliway (feline facial pheromone) may help decrease the overall stress of a pet. D.A.P contains pheromones produced by nursing female dogs to help calm nursing puppies and has been shown to have similar effects in adult dogs. Feliway contains the facial pheromones produced by cats when marking and familiarizing themselves with a new environment. There are also a variety of body wraps that can help reduce anxiety by applying a constant, gentle pressure. Thundershirt is perhaps the most well known of these products. Finally, Royal Canin (a reputable pet food company) has recently introduced a prescription stress reducing diet for small dogs and cats (Royal Canin Calm).

In the end, medical management may be necessary to fully control a pet’s fears and phobias; however, these medications are not without potential side effects, and therefore, should be considered only once behavioral and environmental modification have failed to produce the desired results.

For more information, please call Aspen Ridge Animal Hospital at 928-537-4000.

Take a “Paws” for Reading at Pinetop-Lakeside Public Library Want to see your child become a more confident reader? Sign them up now for a 15 minute session to read to a dog! This program is perfect for readers who are shy, struggling at school, or just love dogs.

All appointments are on Friday mornings starting at 10 am in June and July. For more info or to sign-up, call the library at 928-368-6688 or info@pinetoplakesidelibrary.org.

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