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Hellsgate bills irk residents by

Alexis Bechman

APS grant will help kids read

Arizona Public Service (APS) has invested in the children of the Rim Country through a $4,000 grant to Changing Lives Through Literacy, better known as the Rim Country Literacy Program (RCLP).

The Literacy Program has provided services like GED test preparation, English language instruction, reading instruction and after-school and summer programs to Payson residents since 1994.

The grant money will go directly to the 2016 RimKids Project, an after-school and summer program that offers children in grades kindergarten through five a free opportunity to enrich their reading and math skills.

“The RimKids Project is a great program for children to not only strengthen their reading skills, but also provide an opportunity for those who may need a little extra assistance outside the school environment,” said Dr. Marilyn Horne of the Rim Country Literacy Program. “Grants like this from APS really help us assist more children so they perform better in school.”

RCLP partners with Payson Community Kids on this program in an effort to promote healthy growth and development for the children of Payson.

In addition, some of the grant money will go to purchase shoes for children through Kaitie’s Closet, a nonprofit committed to ensuring students in need of clothing or shoes receive them.

For more information about the Rim Country Literacy Program, please contact Dr. Marilyn Horne at (928) 468-7257 or visit www.rimliteracy. org.

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Payson will discuss updating a wildfire protection plan at a council meeting Thursday as well as some new rules regarding the use of the airport.

Gila County created the 78-page Community Wildfire Protection Plan in 2004 and ideally, every few years it is updated.

Payson Fire Chief David Staub recently went through the plan and added some broad goals for the area to reduce the risk of wildfire.

“These goals are not commitments, but best practice concepts to reduce risk,” Staub wrote in a memo.

Federal grants often require towns to have a protection plan in place to qualify for funding.

It has been at least seven years since the plan was updated and one of his top goals is to update the plan every year going forward, Staub said.

Staub noted the plan’s goals “could be misunderstood to be binding agreements” but the plan does not tie the community into spending money or resources to reduce the risk of wildfire.

The Kohl’s Tonto Creek Subdivision in January 2015 updated its Firewise Community Wildfire Protection Plan and Gila County is working to complete updates to the northern and southern Gila County wildfire protection plans.

Also at the 5:30 p.m. council meeting Thursday, the council will hold a first public hearing amending the use of airport premises, including the storage of vehicles or aircraft in leased hangars and leased/non-leased areas of the airport.

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Some residents protested Hellsgate Fire Department’s effort to bill for medical services, although Hellsgate says they’ll waive the bill if insurance won’t pay.

Two frustrated Star Valley residents recently spoke out after receiving multiple billing notices from the Hellsgate Fire Department after they called 911 for medical help.

The two residents attended a recent fire board meeting, each saying they are low-income and cannot pay the $500 bill for EMS services.

While the fire board and department staff tried to calm the residents’ nerves, one man said he will never call the fire department for service again.

Hellsgate started billing residents for medical calls to generate revenue after seeing a 54 percent cut in its budget over four years due to drops in property values, said former Fire Chief Gary Hatch.

Hatch, who attended the Feb. 10 meeting, said billing for EMS calls was never meant to create a hardship on residents, but to collect from insurance companies.

At the Feb. 10 meeting, the board dismissed 10 bills after residents said their insurance would not pay.

The fire board told the two residents in attendance that they too could petition the board to dismiss the bills and they would likely

• See Residents protest, page 2A

Parents disagree about charter school Teacher turnover rate spurs concerns by

Michele Nelson

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Every parent hopes for the best for their child, but what constitutes the best can be different sides of the same coin.

Parents on both sides of the American Leadership Academy experience have very different stories to tell.

Many parents appreciate the environment with its uniforms and expectations of wholesome and moral behavior, the rigorous curriculum, the responsiveness of the teachers and administrators and the opportunities ALA has given to their children.

Higher than average test scores and rapid growth attest to the success of their approach, say ALA administrators.

Amy Jensen and Rustie Wienberg took time out

of their day to meet with the Parents Elizabeth and Dan Charter School Report Roundup during a campus visit Glenn, April Wiltbank, Andrea to the Ironwood ALA schools to Gutierrez and Keri Mueller volunteered their concerns and visit and talk about how much frustrations to the Roundup. they appreciated the charter school. ALA CEO and parent Sharply contrasting views Brent McArthur also spent more than an hour talking about his In attempt to understand the daughter’s experience at the benefits and drawbacks of the school during one of the Payson proposed ALA charter school in open houses.

Payson, the Roundup traveled to Queen Creek in The boosters of ALA say it offers a nurturing, the Valley to experience the ALA environment. As creative, controlled and wholesome environment, reported previously in this series, students (espewhere parents have power because they have a cially in the elementary) were focused, engaged, choice. clean-cut, and happy. The facilities sparkled.

On the other hand, disenchanted parents say Administrators received hugs and handshakes they felt the school was run more like a business from students as they toured the campus. On the and they found themselves butting up against an surface, the school looked like a great place for administration that intimidated if they asked too students to enjoy learning. many questions. They said they felt frustrated at That picture stands in stark contrast to the comthe lack of a parent-teacher organization or an plaints of a dozen former ALA parents. The coneasy way to attend school board meetings and that cerns of those unhappy parents reveal perplexing they didn’t realize how much time and extra money the school expected parents to contribute.

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Homeowners protest neighborhood hunting Bow hunters too close to houses, say residents by

Alexis Bechman

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A Pine homeowners’ association says Game and Fish should change the way hunters act within their community before someone gets hurt.

Several residents and members of the Portal III HOA board have sent letters to the Arizona Game and Fish Department and Gila County Supervisor Tommie Martin asking that Portals III be designated a no-hunting zone and that Game and Fish change its requirements regarding bow hunting in residential areas.

Currently, hunters cannot discharge a firearm within a quarter-mile of an occupied residence, but the state has no distance requirement for bow hunters.

Residents can keep hunters, including bow hunters, off their property, however, by posting No Trespassing/No Hunting signs.

But if the 198 residents were to post No Hunting signs at each lot corner, the 792 signs would be an eyesore that would lower property values, some residents say.

Darwin Huber, HOA vice president, said the issue has come up at several HOA meetings where residents complained about Arizona Game and Fish Department’s hunting regulations.

First, each resident does not want to have to put up four signs to keep hunters off. Many prefer seeing the community designated a no-hunting area

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Bow hunters stalking elk and deer near homes in the Portals III community have prompted residents to appeal to Arizona Game and Fish to change hunting rules or designate the whole neighborhood a no-hunting zone. with signs placed at the entrances off Trail’s End Drive and Spruce Drive.

Second, residents want to prevent bowhunters from shooting within a quarter-mile of an occupied building just like gun hunters — whether the property is posted or not.

“So therefore, it is possible, and legal, for a bow hunter to hunt within any of our lots, if it is not properly posted with No Hunting signs,” Huber said. “Being allowed to shoot an arrow next to an occupied building is just an accident waiting to happen.”

In the two years Huber has lived in Pine, he

said he has spoken with three hunters. In each case, the hunters left after he talked to them about the dangers of hunting in a residential area. One of the hunters had already killed a deer on the border of Portal III. Other residents have reportedly found arrows stuck in trees and buildings.

“What really brought this issue to a head was a situation a couple of months ago where a hunter had followed a wounded deer into our Portal and he was crouched down next to a No Trespassing sign with a bow and arrow in hand ready to shoot

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The impact of the lack of a parent teacher organization and questions about whether the administration remains sufficiently open to parent concerns drew sharply contrasting responses.

On the tour of an ALA school in Queen Creek, parents interviewed provided glowing reviews of the administration’s responsiveness — despite the lack of a formal parent teacher organization.

Some former American Leadership Academy parents maintain that the school their chilWeinberg, a parent and enthusiastic sup- dren attended had a more than 60 percent turnover rate among its teachers in the past porter of the charter school, said the adminis- two years, which caused problems for students. ALA officials say their turnover rates are tration effectively communicates its expecta- normal and test scores higher than average. tions to students and families.

“Here’s one of my biggest driving forces http://www.alaschools.org. Parents may also loves going to ALA. with ALA as a parent — they support me,” she request a copy of board meeting minutes at “The teachers really love me,” McArthur said. “They don’t try to take over my family … each campus site. said she reported to him. “There are no bullies There are guidelines to being an ALA student However, Glenn asserts she had a hard here. I don’t hear any cussing.” and an ALA parent. You have to work together time getting answers to her questions.

He also told the story of how ALA’s teachto help your children succeed.”

“Parents are often ing of Covey’s 7 Habits helped her work with She cited ALA’s invited to attend a private her peers when he picked her up from a birthfocus on teaching meeting with the owner day party.

Stephen Covey’s “7 or administrator and the “Last fall, my daughter went to a birthday Habits of Successful ALA lawyer where ‘policy’ party,” he said. “When I went to pick her up, People.” She praised is explained and parental she said, ‘We had a little bit of a conflict.’”

ALA’s commitment to concerns are quashed. On McArthur asked how it all worked out. building up her chilone occasion, the princiShe told him that they first sought underdren’s self-esteem, pal explained to us that we standing of the problem, and then they went teaching them the ‘leave our constitutional through the conflict resolution training ALA country’s history and rights at the door when we had taught them. values and providing enter the ALA building,’” McArthur said he loved the sort of person extra help with classshe said. “Eventually, we his child was becoming. es. understood that concerns, “What is appealing to me is that children “If I have any consuggestions or expressed can learn leadership,” he said. “We hire the cern and email a teachdissatisfaction fell on deaf right people that have the vision and the leader, I do not feel left out ears.” ership (to teach those qualities).” of the loop. They help However, some parents who have left ALA Parent sought input me stay connected,” “I have all access (to teachers). say too many teachers lacked the necessary said Wienberg.

I’ve met with teachers all hours When Andrea Gutierrez training and experience On the other hand, of the day and night. Nothing is attended an ALA meeting Parent Keri Mueller had an experience some former ALA par- secret,” she said, “I get a response about the need to drop with an administrator that she had never ents said communicasome classes, forego a experienced before — piling discipline on top tion remained a big back quickly. I’m not waiting and two-week break and shift hounding for an answer… They are to block scheduling, she of discipline. problem.

Her son made a stupid mistake because of Of course, many all caring and involved.” urged the school to set up a sports injury. parents in district Amy Jensen a PTO. She did not find “My (teenage son) had found out when he schools also complain ALA parent support from the adminiswas seven he was allergic to Codeine, so he about a lack of commutration. doesn’t know what they look like — this kid nication and involve“For the most part, it came up and said, ‘You want some pain pills?’” ment. Teachers and administrators in both was OK, but after it, I talked directly to Mr. Her son thought they were Tylenol and took types of schools tell stories of disgruntled par- Way about the issues,” she said. “I explained them. ents that hound them about every little detail that I really wanted to help make ALA a great Another student reported the incident and until it gets in the way of educating their child. school and wanted to do more and wondered Mueller said her son was honest throughout Worse yet, teachers labor in vain to get some why there was no PTA. He very quickly got the whole situation. parents involved at all. defensive, which was very odd, and proceed“They were honest from the get-go,” said But after dealing with both the bureaucra- ed to tell me that in his experience, parents’ Mueller. “We had a meeting with the ALA cies of district schools and the less regulated groups ruin schools … He then asked me if the board and they came down with the discipline, environment of ALA, parent Elizabeth Glenn changes at the school were really that big of no playing in two football games, no homecomfound ALA frustrating. deal, I said yes they were. He then proceeded ing and suspension.”

“When I began questioning ALA, I started to tell the group standing around me that if She said she agreed because it was a conby asking about the parent teacher orga- that was the case, then we should find a new trolled substance. nization. I wanted to know who represents school for our kids!”

Once her son returned to school, however, parents, teachers and students to the board the director continued to pile on the discipline of directors. All of those questions lead to through write-ups and visits to the office. many more questions and the answers were She took her son out of the school and now astounding,” she said.

The whole theory behind charter schools he goes to the Chandler School District.

ALA has no parent teacher organization suggests the school can innovate and excel Of course, you hear complaints about (PTO) nor does it subscribe to the Parent- if freed from burdensome state regulations, school discipline and teacher motivation and Teacher Association (PTA), according to the including restrictions on who the school can approach in district schools as well. But in parents the Roundup interviewed. hire to teach based on credentials and for- district schools, teachers have substantially According to the charter school statutes, mal, educational training. Backers of charter the private company that operates a charter schools argue that schools should compete for more job protection — with an annual conschool doesn’t need an elected board like a students and the state should empower par- tract and a defined process when it comes to layoffs and firing. Moreover, students don’t district school. Since charter schools do not ents by giving them choices. as readily leave district schools — since in have defined geographical boundaries, they So charter schools don’t have to hire teach- communities like Payson there’s nowhere for can’t hold elections like district schools. ers based on training and credentials as them to go.

Operating as a business, charter schools required by district schools. have a completely different set of oversight ALA officials say they hire “highly qualiprocedures. However, the appointed charter fied” teachers, whether that involves life expeschool board must abide by open meetings rience, professional experience or formal acalaws and post a meeting agenda, location and demic credentials.

Both district schools and charter schools time 24 hours prior to the meeting. The charter Current ALA parents interviewed praised have responded to the continual cutbacks school board need not post its minutes online, the quality and motivation of the teachers. necessitated by dwindling state funding by though. ALA does post the announcement of McArthur said his daughter appreciates See Parents offer, page 5A its upcoming board meetings on its website: the culture of the school and told him why she

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This did little to soothe the residents’ nerves. One woman said she was frustrated to get billing notices from Hellsgate since Medicare usually covers all of her bills. Due to severe pain, the woman had called 911 so she could be taken to the hospital. Afterward, she received multiple notices from Hellsgate that she owed $500 for EMS services. She said she sent the bill in to Medicare, but they requested Hellsgate send the bill in directly.

Another resident said he could not pay the $500.

Fire Chief David Bathke said the department has had billing issues and will work out the kinks with the billing company to get the coding right and set up with an electronic patient reporting system.

He said Hellsgate is one of only three departments with electronic patient reporting and while it has many advantages, they are still smoothing out the bumps.

Since Hellsgate started billing residents for EMS assists, the fire board has written off 20 bills after residents requested, saying their insurance would not pay.

Board member Jeff Shaw assured the two residents at the recent meeting that they are not asking them to pay the bill.

Board president Gary Norem thanked the residents for their patience as they make the billing transition.

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The Hellsgate Fire Department has started charging for medical calls to cope with a 54 percent drop in its budget.

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Archaeology group hosts artist

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There’s always something happening at the Mazatzal Hotel & Casino, located on Highway 87 at milepost 251. For more information, call 1-800-777-PLAY (7529).

• Carnival of Cash: Slot Hot Seats every Tuesday in February, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. $36,000 up for grabs!

• Mystery Point Multiplier: Earn 2X-6X bonus points every Tuesday 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. to 12 a.m.

• Oriental Buffet $10: Feb. 24 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Cedar Ridge Restaurant.

• Frybread For Families $6: Feb. 18 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. enjoy a delicious frybread and drink!

The Rim Country Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society meets at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Fellowship Hall of the Church of the Holy Nativity. The church is located at the corner of Easy Street and Bradley, Payson. Guests are invited to attend. Visitors are welcome.

The guest speaker will be Bill Ahrendt, a renowned local artist (his home and studio are in Pine.)

For more than 11 years Ahrendt studied and worked on developing his technique in various European locations. Upon his return to the U.S. he chaired the art department of Glendale Community College and acted as contributing editor for Arizona Highways Magazine.

Ahrendt now devotes his efforts to interpreting a full range of southwestern historical sagas in his drawings, oils and tempera paintings. Anyone with a love of the history of the American west will not want to miss his presentation.

Free AARP Tax-Aide service

AARP tax-aide volunteers assist low-to-moderate income taxpayers prepare and e-file Federal and AZ personal income tax returns. Though special attention is given to those 60 and older, any age is welcome and you need not be a member of AARP. You must bring: your photo ID; social security cards or ITIN’s for everyone listed on the return; 2014 tax return; all 2015 tax related documents.

New this year: For those who are deaf and hard of hearing, assistance will be provided by someone fluent in American Sign Language. Spanish language assistance is also available.

Now through April 12, hours are Mondays 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Tuesdays 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Please arrive at least 2 hours prior to closing times. The Elks Lodge on Airport Road and the Beeline is the tax site location.

For more information, leave a message at 928-478-6518, and your call will be returned, or email paysontaxaide@gmail.com.

Lenten Services

• Mount Cross Lutheran Church, 601 E. Highway 260 (across from Tiny’s Restaurant), will have mid-week Lenten Suppers and Services held on Wednesdays during Lent. The suppers are held at 5 p.m. (free-will offering) and services at 6 p.m. Both the suppers and the services take place in our log building at the southeast corner of our campus.

• Rock of Ages Evangelical Lutheran church will have a Lenten Meditation “The Passion” at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 204 W. Airport Road, Payson. Everyone is welcome to attend this service. For details call Pastor David Sweet, (928) 474-2098 • Shepherd of the Pines Lutheran Church, 507 W. Wade Lane, Payson, hosts a soup supper at 5 p.m. and Lenten service at 6 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 17.

The theme of the service is, The Upper Room: A Place of Service.

For more information, call Pastor Steve DeSanto at (928) 474-5440.

Constitutional attorney is guest speaker

KrisAnne Hall, Constitutional attorney, national speaker, author and radio show host will present “The Disarming of America” at 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 18 at Tiny’s Restaurant, 600 E. Hwy. 260, Payson.

A former prosecutor, Hall travels the country teaching classes about how relevant and reliable our founding documents are and what we can do to defend, pro-

Special needs support group dinner

The Payson Special Needs Family Support Group holds its 6th annual lasagna dinner and dance from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Tonto Apache Recreation Center gym. The theme of the dinner and dance is Valentine’s.

All special needs families and caregivers are welcome and there is no charge this year. Optional swimming will follow the party at the Tonto Apache pool.

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The competitors in the Lip Sync contest, along with their predecessors and successors over the eight-year history of the event, always give their performances their all. Be sure to come out and support the efforts of these young people as they compete for scholarship money Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Payson High School Auditorium. The doors open at 5:30 p.m. to view silent auction items and the show is at 7 p.m.

mote and preserve liberty for generations to come.

Her presentation is co-sponsored by the Payson Tea Party, the Gila County Republican Committee and the Rim Country Republican Club. Check out krisannehall. com (she will have books and tapes to sell) or call (928) 951-6774 for more information.

Texas Hold ’em tourney

A Texas Hold ’em Tournament is held at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday at Beeline Lanes/ Belle’s Bar. Call (928) 468-1185 or e-mail Bstratton79@hotmail.com for details.

Christian concert

Chris Driesbach is coming to Payson to give a Christian concert at Rock of Ages Lutheran Church, 204 W. Airport Road, at 6 p.m., Friday, Feb. 19. His songs are all original Christian music, which he has taken throughout the country.

Marriage conference planned

The First Baptist Church of Pine is hosting a Marriage Conference — the art of marriage, going to the heart of God’s design in February. The deadline to register is Friday, Feb. 19.

The cost is $35 per couple. The event is from 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 20 and from 2:45 p.m. to 7 p.m., Sunday Feb. 21 at the First Baptist Church of Pine, 4039 N. Highway 87 in Pine.

First Baptist Pine will provide a light breakfast and lunch on Saturday and a light

dinner on Sunday, however the church is unable to provide childcare.

To register, call the church, (928) 476-3552 or email Marriage First at AOM&MarriageFirst.org.

Free Energy Healing open house scheduled If you are curious about Reiki, Healing Touch, and other forms of energy healing and how they might help you, come to a free “open house” from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 19 from at Payson Community Kids, 213 S. Colcord and learn more.

Unity of Payson is sponsoring the event and has invited local energy healing practitioners to both help guests understand how each type of treatment works and then let them experience a session for free.

For more information, call Gary Matheson at (480) 467-8375. If you are an energy healing practitioner, either call Matheson, or just bring whatever equipment you need to the Payson Community Kids building.

PATS Hike to seismological bunker Visit the Rim Country’s seismological bunker on a guided Payson Area Trails System (PATS) Hike starting at 8:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 20.

Meet at the trailhead at the end of the pavement on Chaparral Pines Road.

It is an easy 2-1/2-mile round trip with a mix of sand, dirt and rocks underfoot.

Lip Sync Contest

The Rim Country Optimist Club and the Rotary Club of Payson, with the help of Payson High Longhorn Theatre Company, present the 8th Annual Lip Sync Contest Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Payson High School Auditorium. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with the performance at 7 p.m.

Students will compete to win up to $1,100 in prize money.

In addition to student performances, four faculty groups from Payson High School, Rim Country Middle School, Center for Success and Administrative Leadership will be competing against each other for a $500 school grant provided by the two clubs.

Arrive early and bid on one or more of the wonderful silent auction items. Advance tickets can be purchased through Friday, Feb. 19 for $10 adults, $5 for students from club members at Payson Library, Christian Book Store and Rim Country Chamber.

Tickets purchased at the door are $12 for adults and $6 for students.

All adult ticket holders will receive a coupon to use at Sal and Teresa’s Mexican Restaurant.

For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Joan Young at (928) 4722264.

Jazz concert

Jazz saxophonist Tony Vacca performs at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 21 at the Community Presbyterian Church, 800 W. Main St., Payson.

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The Fossil Creek Gang, a local group that sings and performs on various instruments tunes from early-era jazz to soulful blues ballads, will join Vacca in his program.

The cost is $5 at the door and includes refreshments. RSVPs are encouraged: contact Gerry-Reynolds@hotmail.com.

Youth activities Registration is open now for a number of March youth programs planned by the Payson Parks, Recreation & Tourism Department.

Both Youth Soccer and High School Soccer League registration closes March 4, with practices starting March 14 and the season beginning March 28. The cost to participate is $30 per child.

Go online to paysonrimcountry.com or to the park office in Green Valley Park to learn more.

A camp for future Longhorn baseball players is slated from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, March 16 at the high school baseball field.

The program is for area youngsters in the third through ninth grades and costs $25 per participant and includes a T-shirt and lunch. Pre-registration closes March 15.

On-site registration will be held as well, but there is no guarantee of a T-shirt.

Go online to paysonrimcountry.com or to the park office in Green Valley Park to learn more.

A new offering this year is a dance camp from March 21 through March 24 at Vibe Dance Studio, 1207 N. Beeline Hwy., Payson.

The cost is $35 and registration closes March 15.

The camp offers a variety of styles and will include a closing recital: ballet and lyrical dance is the theme of the Monday, March 21 class; jazz and hip hop will be featured Tuesday, March 22; cheer and tumbling is the focus of the Wednesday, March 23 class; and the recital/showcase is Thursday, March 24.

The classes are for those ages 4 to 14: those 4 to 8 meet from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.; those 7 to 11 are in class from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.; and those 10 to 14 train from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Go online to paysonrimcountry.com or to the park office in Green Valley Park to learn more.

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Tuesday • AARP tax services: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Payson Elks, 1206 N. Beeline, for low-to-moderate income taxpayers • Payson Public Library: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Pine Library: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Wednesday • Payson Public Library: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

• Pine Library: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Rim Country Museum: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 700 Green Valley Pkwy.

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• Payson Public Library: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

• Pine Library: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Rim Country Museum: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 700 Green Valley Pkwy.

• Constitutional attorney speaks: 6 p.m., Tiny’s, 600 E. Hwy. 260, Payson

• Payson Public Library: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Pine Library: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Rim Country Museum: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 700 Green Valley Pkwy.

• Pine/Strawberry Museum: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Pine Community Center • American Legion Fish Fry: Noon-8 p.m., American Legion • Christian concert: 6 p.m., Rock of Ages, 204 W. Airport Rd., Payson

• PATS hike to seismological bunker, meet at 8:30 a.m. at end of Chaparral Pines Drive • Pine Library: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• Payson Public Library: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Bill Ahrendt at Archaeology meeting, 10 a.m., Payson’s Church of the Holy Nativity • Lip Sync Contest: PHS auditorium, doors open at 5:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m.

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OPINION

4A Tuesday, February 16, 2016

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An argument in a nut house Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas makes a great case for doing away with her toothless and obscure office entirely.

Even in a state accustomed to bizarre political sideshows, she’s outdone herself.

She ran on a one-note platform based on getting rid of national educational standards. Granted, the attempt to implement the so-called Common Core standards in Arizona has uncovered all kinds of problems. But Douglas’ campaign was so strange, lopsided and poorly reasoned that it made a case for the kinds of critical thinking skills Common Core is supposed to nourish.

But voters evidently looked not much further than the “R” by her name on the ballot and rejected the far more thoughtful and qualified David Garcia, running as a Democrat.

Well, all right. Maybe it made sense to put a Republican in the office — since she’d have to work with Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, with the Republican-appointed State Board of Education and the Republican-controlled Legislature. Gotta figure she could at least get along with her fellow Republicans to craft a coherent education policy.

Not a chance.

In office, the Superintendent of Public Instruction went crashing from one strange and needless conflict after another — like a demonically possessed pinball machine.

We can hardly keep track of her conflicts. First she accused Gov. Ducey of political corruption by the mysterious Common Core lobby. Then she accused the staff of plotting against her. Then she accused the State Board of Education of usurping her powers. Then she accused a member of the State Board of Education of assault.

She has filed lawsuits, refused to provide services to school districts in a power struggle over control of the staff and generally spread carnage, confusion and conflict.

Of course, now and then she issues a surprisingly rational press release and proposes a potentially useful policy.

However, on the whole the debate about education policy has sounded like an argument about ownership of a bong in a nut house.

So now the Legislature has proposed SB 1416, which makes a baffling attempt to sort out where the power of the Superintendent of Public Instruction ends and the authority of the State Board of Education begins. Senator Sylvia Allen, who represents Rim Country in the Legislature and also heads the Senate Education Committee, makes a valiant attempt to explain the bill’s balancing act elsewhere on this page.

Sounds reasonable enough.

Still, we can’t help but feel the only body in this whole mess more useless than the Superintendent of Public Instruction is the State School Board itself. Maybe we’d be better off dispensing with both of those institutions and letting the governor appoint a state director of education — charged with carrying out his policies.

Of course, that’s not going to happen. Getting rid of a useless political office on the whole is harder than winning an argument in a nut house — with or without a bong.

Responsible hunting Lots of people make silly arguments against hunting.

People who don’t think twice about buying eggs produced by chickens tortured in factory farms decry hunting as cruel.

People who care nothing about wild places and wild things pass careless judgment on hunters who revere the wilderness and the game they hunt.

People who have mindlessly supported the slaughter of predators to make the woods safe for Chihuahuas then decry the use of hunting to keep wildlife in balance.

Responsible, thoughtful, adequately regulated hunting remains not only vital to wildlife management — but essential to rural economies.

Still, the folks in Portal III have a point.

They want Game and Fish to require bow hunters to keep the same respectful distance from houses as hunters armed with rifles. They feel distinctly unsafe, when they see bow hunters creeping along their back fences.

Granted, you can’t find many examples of a careless bow shot hitting an innocent bystander. By and large, bow hunters remain the elite among hunters — given the terrific challenge of getting close enough to make a kill with bow.

Still, only about 43 percent of Arizona is privately owned.

That leaves millions of acres of state and federal land with scarcely a house in sight. That ought to provide enough room for hunters. We don’t see any need for bow hunters to stalk their prey within bowshot of any homes or structures.

Perhaps the buffer zone need not reach the same quarter-mile boundary enforced on hunters with guns, but some regulation seems reasonable.

So we hope Game and Fish will consider a new regulation, in light of the lethal power of modern, compound hunting bows. Responsible hunters have trouble enough maintaining public support in the face of all the silly arguments offered against them. So they don’t need to shoot themselves in the figurative foot by insisting on their right to let loose in residential areas.

• Feb. 14, 1849: The first photograph of a U.S. president, while in office, was taken by Matthew Brady in New York City.

President James Polk was the subject of the picture.

• Feb. 17, 1865: Soldiers from Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s army ransack Columbia, S.C., and leave a charred city in their wake. Sherman is most famous for his March to the Sea through Georgia in the closing months of 1864.

• Feb. 15, 1961: The entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team is killed in a plane crash in Belgium. The team was on its way to the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships in Czechoslovakia. After the crash, an American woman (Peggy Fleming) would not capture Olympic gold until 1968, while a U.S. man (Scott Hamilton) would not do so until 1984.

• Feb. 16, 1997: Jeff Gordon claims his first Daytona 500 victory, becoming at age 25 the youngest winner in the history of the 500-mile NASCAR race, dubbed the “Super Bowl of stock car racing.”

• Feb. 16, 2005: The Kyoto global warming pact went into effect in 140 nations.

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Senator backs bill limiting superintendent’s authority Senator Sylvia Tenney Allen

the issue. That is not an effective way to run government to let the courts decide every issue I know that there has been a lot of conversa- when there is a dispute or a problem to be solved.

The Legislature is the ultimate policy-cretion, and many of you are very upset and confused about why I heard SB 1416 in the Senate ating branch of government. The State Board Education Committee. As with many things here of Education and the superintendent can only at the capitol, legislation can be very complicat- do what we grant them the ability to do. The ed and hard to understand. To start with, you Legislature passes laws which are then delegatmust understand that the Legislature has the ed to the State Board of Education to develop policies and rules. The Department of constitutional authority to propose the Education is tasked with administering changes in this bill and the responsibilthose policies and rules, which is led ity to prescribe the powers, duties and by the superintendent of public instrucinteraction of the Arizona State Board tion. Without this process, there would of Education and the Department of be no public input for the implementaEducation. (Article 11 Sections 2, 3 and tion of these laws and would require 4 of the Arizona Constitution). that our laws be even longer and more I like Superintendent Douglas; I confusing than they are now. Over voted for her, I endorsed her. I feel she the last 100 years the Legislature has is doing a good job and advocating for written laws favoring the State Board Sylvia Allen the policies that she campaigned on. of Education or the superintendent, This is not a personal attack against her. Remember, the person who is superinten- depending on who was in office. This has created dent can change every four years, so it is not confusion and conflicting statutes. SB 1416 is about who is there but about the Legislature clearly organizing both of these constitutional doing its duty. Why let the courts rule on this entities so that each maintains their proper issue when the legislative process can work roles. That is why you must read the bill to see more effectively and include the input of the pub- where the cleanup is taking place.

Remember, the superintendent is part of the lic. When the courts are involved, no one comes executive branch of the state of Arizona. The out a winner.

You must read the bill (www.azleg.gov SB Legislature makes the policy, the superintendent 1416) to understand that we are simply separat- administers the policy. The superintendent sits ing the shared responsibilities so that they are on the board. In that capacity, she can persuade, clearly defined. The way the statutes are cur- influence, and impact the development of a polirently written has created much confusion over cy. In her capacity as a superintendent, she then who has authority over each situation. It is clear will administer the policy. She does have influthat there are confusing and conflicting statutes ence in both of those areas, but she does not run or there would not be two lawsuits in court over both of those areas. What we are trying to do is by

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to have a better relationship between the superintendent and the board. Clearly defining who is doing what will make for a smoother working relationship.

The most contentious part of this bill has been about the employees that must serve and work for the board. The superintendent was not out of line in feeling that she had supervisory authority over them because that impression is given in the statutes. It makes sense for efficiency and for the management of those employees to be supervised by the people for whom they do the work.

We made this clear in the language of the bill. As an example, if the Senate staff was being supervised by the governor, how would that make for efficient government? It would surely cause problems if you have different political views and parties running each of those entities. The superintendent has more than 175 employees that she must supervise. Giving control of 11 employees to the State Board of Education to supervise makes sense and is efficient, especially for the employees who must do the work of the board.

Last year, it was the superintendent who came to the Legislature and requested that she would like the Senate to run a bill that will put these employees under the board because she wanted to stop the contention. Her staff wrote the bill, and she testified in favor of the bill last year. By the time the bill got to the House of Representatives, Superintendent Douglas had changed her mind and did not support the bill.

Therefore, the bill died in the House. This part of the current bill is the same language she approved of last year.

SB 1416 is constitutionally designed and balanced.

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Cam for V-P! Editor: If it’s inevitable that Donald Trump secures the Republican nomination for president, he’s going to need a mate to run with him as a vice-presidential candidate. Where could The Donald find an egotistical, self-centered, narcissistic, bombastic individual that never admits he’s wrong and that almost everyone that disagrees with him is an “enemy”?

Bingo, the NFL’s Carolina Panthers Cam Newton!

What a team they would be! Of course, with their oversized egos the White House would have to be moved to Wyoming or perhaps Montana, but that would be a small price to pay to have this “dream team” lead us all ….

The slogan “Donald and Cam ’cause we don’t give a damn” might catch on like “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” did back in 1840!

Richard K. Meszar, Ed.D.

The reason we need guns Editor: Dr. Starr, Ph.D. doesn’t hunt so he wants to

make sure that no one hunts. He doesn’t target shoot, so he wants no one to target shoot. His is the view of the totalitarian left, to impose his notions on everyone else even when most of those victimized want nothing to do with his notions. He knows what is good for the rest of us and has no problem inflicting his wishes on us by force of law. Totalitarianism on its face.

He is also at odds with more knowledgeable folk on arms and invaders and arms and a tyrannical government.

“You cannot invade America. You would find a rifle behind every blade of grass,” said Admiral Yamamoto.

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government,” said Thomas Jefferson.

Andy McKinney

Last chance to register for the presidential preference Editor: Republicans have an exciting field of excellent candidates competing to be the next president of the United States. On March 22,

Arizonans will have the opportunity to vote in the presidential preference election. However, state law prohibits registered Independents (or others not registered as Republican or Democrat) from participating in the election because Independents do not meet the criteria of a recognized political party. So, those Independents who desire to vote for a Republican presidential candidate must register as a Republican by close of business hours on Feb. 22.

To register, one can go to www.

ServiceArizona.com and register online. You will need a valid Arizona driver’s license or an Arizona identification card to complete the registration. One can also go in person to the Gila County Recorder’s Office, located at 201 Frontier St., Payson, or call the office at 928474-7139 for assistance.

G. P. Morris, chairman, Gila County Republican Committee

worthnoting Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

— Mother Theresa

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Forest Service wants to speed up 4FRI thinning by

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lack of progress has drawn increasing political scrutiny, especially from Arizona senators and congressmen.

In the meantime, the Forest Service is struggling to cover the soaring costs of fighting megafires in the tree thickets that grazing and fire suppression have created on millions of acres throughout

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The U.S. Forest Service will invest another $100 million over the next 10 years in an effort to accelerate the largest forest restoration project in history.

The Forest Service plans to spend $10 million more each year to do the environmental and contract work to speed up the lagging, Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI).

Good Earth Power AZ is more than two years into a 10-year contract to thin 300,000 acres of dense, unhealthy, crown-fire-prone forest in Northern Arizona. That’s just the first installment of a project expected to ultimately thin dangerous tree thickets from 2.4 million acres, including most of Rim Country.

However, Good Earth has only cleared about 6,000 acres — far behind the projected 30,000-acre-per-year pace envisioned when the Forest Service awarded the contract.

Good Earth says it hopes to clear 20,000 acres this year, but has struggled to find or buy enough trucks, subcontractors and mills to ramp up as quickly as advocates for the 4FRI approach had originally hoped.

The additional Forest Service money would hire dozens more workers to do surveys, mark trees and clear large parcels for thinning by Good Earth.

The Forest Service has already completed a massive environmental assessment of roughly 100,000 acres that roughs out the mix of logging projects and controlled burns necessary to dramatically reduce tree densities while still protecting archaeological sites, wildlife dependent on thick forests, streams, recreation sites and other values.

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The Forest Service is spending about $2 billion annually on fighting fires, roughly half its budget. The Forest Service often finds itself delaying or shelving thinning projects to reduce fire risk to cover the cost of fighting the wildfires that result.

Controlled burn this week Peter Aleshire/Roundup

Controlled burns like this one near Payson will play a crucial role in the effort to thin and restore the forest through the 4FRI thinning project, the largest forest restoration effort ever attempted.

Traditionally, the Forest Service marks every tree slated for cutting when it awards a timber sale. The 4FRI approach relies on training the contractor to cut trees in certain patterns, without as much detailed supervision. The environmental blueprint for the thinning effort would reduce tree densities overall from perhaps 500 to 1,000 per acre to more like 50 to 300 per acre, while leaving most of the big, old-growth trees standing.

The approach calls of a mix of wide, open forests, with meadows and tree clusters to provide a diversity of habitats for wildlife and restore tree health.

The prescription would also create a lot more open spaces, which would prevent the spread of the kinds of massive crown fires that can consume whole communities and work permanent changes in

forest ecology.

The extra money from the Forest Service could help speed up the environmental assessment of the second, 200,000-acre block of the Good Earth contract — which includes much of Rim Country. It could also accelerate the release of specific projects for thinning.

However, Good Earth already has far more acres cleared by the Forest Service for cutting than it can cut, given its ongoing efforts to buy more trucks and build a mill that can handle the millions of small trees that constitute the bulk of the contract — and the core of the problem for wildfires and forest health.

The Forest Service has heralded 4FRI as the best, large-scale effort to restore forest health and reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires, but has fallen years behind its once-ambitious schedule. The

Tonto National Forest fire specialists will begin conducting a large, landscape-scale, broadcast fire treatment in the Houston Mesa Road area between Gillian Gap and 1st Crossing. Beginning Tuesday, Feb. 16, fire specialists will burn 3,033 acres of brush. Smoke from this large burn will impact all communities south of Diamond Rim. Residents and visitors to the area can expect to see and smell heavy smoke during the two-day burning operation. During the day smoke will impact Diamond Point and Ellison Creek summer homes, La Cienega Ranch, Bonita Creek, Whispering Pines, Verde Glen, Rim Trail, Beaver Valley, Freedom Acres and Cold Springs.

During the evening, smoke will impact Star Valley, Lion Springs, Payson, Diamond Point Shadows, Chaparral Pines, Rim Club, The Knolls, Freedom Acres, Beaver Valley, Flowing Springs and East Verde Estates. Smoke may linger in the area through Friday, Feb. 19. Fire specialists will terminate ignitions by 4 p.m. each day to minimize the impact of smoke.

Signs will be posted on roads likely to be affected by smoke. Forest Road (FR) 198, the Pyeatt Draw Road and FR 433,

in Mayfield Canyon, will be temporarily closed for public safety. Motorists are urged to use caution and slow down for the safety of the public and firefighters, especially along the Houston Mesa Road.

Prescribed fire treatments are always dependent on conditions such as wind speed and direction, temperature, relative humidity, fuel moisture content, and other variables. Broadcast treatments typically continue for several days and are conducted when fuel moisture content of the vegetation and weather conditions are favorable. Low-to-moderate winds are needed to carry flames and dissipate smoke.

Prescribed fire helps to protect the natural and cultural resources, while decreasing danger to the public and firefighters.

In 2001, the Payson Ranger District began implementation of a far-reaching, long-range, landscape-scale, threepronged fuels reduction strategy. The achievable goal is to reduce catastrophic wildfire danger in Rim Country, to initiate the restoration of natural ecological systems, and to develop and foster sustainable forest conditions, wildlife habitat and watersheds.

Parents offer sharply different views of ALA charter school From page 2A imposing a rising list of fees on parents.

In the Payson Unified School District, many parents pay hundreds of dollars every year to cover things like participation in sports, field trips, class and lab fees and extracurricular activities.

Those fees have risen year by year so that now most of the district’s extracurricular programs are funded through fees and donations.

Charter schools often add other fees, since they don’t get money from the state to cover things like transportation

— a key difference with district schools.

Some parents said the added fees at ALA took them by surprise.

They talked of fees for transportation, a lack of free and reduced lunch availability, entrance fees to attend sporting events, concerts and plays as well as the cost for uniforms, concerts, costumes and all field trip costs.

Dan Glenn also said his family had to pay far more in fees than they had at the district schools.

“To attend the public schools in our district and participate in all the classes and activities desired, our family spends

$80 per junior high student. The school year 2013-2014 at American Leadership Academy, we saw an increase to $415 for our junior high student,” he said.

ALA officials told the Roundup that in some areas they charge a busing fee of $500 per student with a cap of $820 for a family. However, administrators said they will probably not offer busing at all in Payson.

McArthur said even with those fees, ALA loses money on transportation.

“We lose somewhere between $650,000 and $700,000 on transportation,” said McArthur. “We are always

looking for ways to offset those expenditures (fundraisers, philanthropy, etc.).

“We charge small fees for busing and we are hesitant to charge more. We are working with the Arizona Charter Association to encourage state legislators to consider transportation reimbursement.

“It will be up to the Legislature to determine if they want to level the playing field.”

Nor does ALA plan on participating in the federal government free and reduced lunch plan. The federally funded program provides free or reduced

lunch and breakfasts for low-income families.

On its website, ALA explains why.

“ALA does not participate in the Free and Reduced Lunch program.

Enrollment in the program subjects schools to various restrictions and guidelines that reach far beyond the cafeteria; these restrictions heavily influence a school’s academic program.

We have declined to participate in order to preserve as much academic independence as possible. ALA is also able to serve higher quality food with greater choices by maintaining independence.”

Mazatzal Hotel & Casino – Notice of Potential Security Incident (02/15/2016) Mazatzal Hotel & Casino (“Mazatzal”) recently became aware of a personal information security incident affecting certain individuals who made a payment card purchase at the Mazatzal Casino, located at AZ-87, Payson, Arizona 85541. We are providing this notice as a precaution to inform potentially affected customers of the incident and to call their attention to some steps they can take to help protect themselves. We sincerely apologize for any frustration or concern this may cause you.

Based upon an extensive forensic investigation, it appears that unauthorized individuals installed malicious software designed to capture payment card information on the computer systems used to process payment card transactions at the Mazatzal Casino. We believe that the malware could have compromised payment card data (including name, payment card account number, expiration date, and CVV security code) of individuals who used a payment card at the Mazatzal Casino between August 12, 2014 and January 5, 2016. If you made a payment card transaction at the Mazatzal Casino during that timeframe, your payment card information may be at risk.

At this time, there is no indication that any other point-of-sale or network systems, other than those in use at the Mazatzal Casino, were impacted by this incident. If you made a payment card purchase elsewhere, including at the Mazatzal Hotel or at the Mazatzal Gift Shop, you were not affected by this incident.

Mazatzal takes the privacy of personal information seriously, and deeply regrets that this incident occurred. We took steps to address this incident promptly after it was discovered, including by engaging outside forensic experts to assist us in investigating and remediating the situation. We rendered the malware inoperable as soon as it was discovered, replaced and reconfigured various components of our point-of-sale environment, and are actively monitoring our POS environment and other network resources for suspicious activity. While we are continuing to review and enhance our security measures to help prevent this type of event from recurring in the future, the incident has now been contained.

We want to make potentially affected customers aware of steps they can take to guard against identity theft or fraud. We recommend that you review your credit and debit card account statements as soon as possible in order to determine if there are any discrepancies or unusual activity listed. You should remain vigilant and continue to monitor your statements for unusual activity going forward. If you see anything you do not understand or that looks suspicious, or if you suspect that any fraudulent transactions have taken place, you should call the bank that issued your credit or debit card immediately.

As a general precaution, we also recommend that you carefully check your credit reports for accounts you did not open or for inquiries from creditors you did not initiate. If you see anything you do not understand, call the credit agency immediately. If you find any suspicious activity on your credit reports, call your local police or sheriff's office, and file a police report for identity theft and get a copy of it. You may need to give copies of the police report to creditors to clear up your records. You may contact the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or your state’s regulatory authority to obtain additional information about avoiding and protecting against identity theft: FTC, Consumer Response Center, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20580; 1-877-438-4338; www.ftc.gov/idtheft.

In addition, we are offering one year of complimentary First Watch ID identity monitoring services to all Mazatzal customers who may have been affected by this incident. For more information about this incident and ways you can protect yourself, including eligibility and enrollment information about the identity monitoring services, visit www.mazatzal-casino.com/incident-FAQs, or contact us toll-free at 866-264-1050. Again, we are sorry for any inconvenience or concern this incident may cause you.

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Flu hits ‘widespread’ status — all counties have it The Arizona Department of Health Services reports influenza activity in the state has reached a “widespread” classification. More than 3,700 cases of flu have been reported throughout Arizona with 51 percent of those in Maricopa County.

“The flu is a serious illness,” said Dr. Cara Christ, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services.

“What’s important is to follow your mother’s advice: wash your hands frequently, cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze and stay home from work if you are feeling ill.”

Influenza symptoms are similar to the common cold. However, the flu comes on quickly and is more physically draining. For most people, the best care is to stay home, rest and drink plenty of fluids. For others, especially those with certain medical conditions, the flu can be more severe.

Health officials say it’s not too late to get a flu shot since Arizona’s flu season can last as late as May. “One of the best prevention methods we have is to get your flu shot,” said Dr. Christ. “In Arizona, the heaviest part of flu season typically occurs in late December, January and February.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issue flu activity classifi-

cations as no activity, sporadic, local, regional and widespread. The widespread classification is used when there is an increase in flu and flu-like illnesses and recent laboratory confirmed flu in at least half of a state’s regions.

Three other states have been classified as widespread so far this season.

There have been 3,710 lab-confirmed influenza cases reported for the 20152016 influenza season in Arizona. Cases have been reported in all 15 counties, with the most in Maricopa 1,909; Pima, 939; Yavapai, 207; and Pinal, 201.

At this time (as of Thursday, Feb. 11), Gila County has seven confirmed cases, reported Dr. Michael O’Driscoll, director of the Gila County department of Health & Emergency Management.

Dr. Christ said the numbers the state has likely represent just a fraction of the actual number of cases.

When most people get the flu they don’t see a doctor and not all those that do are “officially” tested for it.

A list of flu shot providers is available at Community Information and Referral. Call 602-263-8856 or go to http://www.stopthespreadaz.org.

For more information about influenza, go to http://www.azhealth.gov/flu or contact your health care provider or local health department.

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The flu is now widespread in Arizona, with cases in every county. Gila County’s director of the office Health & Emergency Management Michael O’Driscoll reported on Feb. 11 that there are seven confirmed cases in the county, but his information did not indicate where the cases are.

NAU researcher studies improving quality of life for the seriously ill Being diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening illness is distressing enough, but a dearth of cohesive services often compounds the difficulty, according to a Northern Arizona University researcher.

Mary Anne Hale Reynolds, an associate professor in the School of Nursing, focuses on adults, ages 20-59, and the phys-

ical, psychosocial, emotional and spiritual impacts following a life-threatening disease diagnosis.

Reynolds’ area of expertise is palliative care, which she described as an array of services geared toward people with serious illnesses.

“The interesting thing about palliative care teams is they are

almost always based in acutecare settings in hospitals,” Reynolds said. “But for people who are discharged home, then community resources become very important.”

Most people Reynolds has surveyed are unable to accurately describe palliative care, which she describes as similar to hospice services but provided

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referring people to a lawyer if advanced directives are needed.

In a recent northern Arizona study, Reynolds learned about inadequacies of services for people with cancer. She discovered recurring themes among the afflicted, including difficulty maintaining employment, financial burdens and the challenge of commuting to Flagstaff for health care.

Most of the people in Reynolds’ study, which was funded by the American Nurses Association and Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, were slow in being correctly diagnosed, postponing their cancer treatments. After a diagnosis, palliative care services could have improved their lives, she said.

“Palliative care models are all about improving people’s quality of life, not the quantity,” said Reynolds, noting that in many cases patients receiving palliative care early do actually live a couple of months longer than expected.

In addition to enhancing the quality of life following a diagnosis, Reynolds said, palliative care research shows an economic benefit from fewer hospital re-admissions.

Reynolds wants to expand her recent research to include cardiac patients and people with other types of life-limiting illnesses.

Educating primary care providers, including those in rural communities, would be a big step toward improving the quality of life for patients.

“With palliative care, it is about identifying services we have and what we need,” Reynolds said.

Nurses, including Reynolds’ students, will play significant roles on future interdisciplinary teams if the health care system moves to a more encompassing palliative care model.

Reynolds has received word that two of her grant applications were accepted and funding will be awarded for additional palliative care research.

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on an outpatient basis through community partners over a longer period of time.

Palliative care includes spiritual counseling, pharmaceutical assistance and health care services.

Unlike patients in hospitals, hospice and assisted-living facilities, many people in Reynolds’ research live at home, continue to work and often care for family members despite a potentially life-threatening diagnosis.

As the health care system in the United States continues to evolve, Reynolds has witnessed a move toward more palliative care, yet research on the topic is sparse.

With more people living longer with life-threatening illnesses, it is an imperative to improve the quality of their lives, Reynolds said, which could be accomplished through a robust model of palliative care.

Services could include managing symptoms and pain, transportation to and from treatments, navigating insurance and

Nurses will play significant roles on future interdisciplinary teams if the health care system moves to a more encompassing palliative care model to help the growing number of people coping with a life-threatening disease diagnosis.

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Medicare saving Arizona users money Medicare beneficiaries in Arizona saved $362,296,425 on prescription drugs since 2010 and 787,935 Medicare beneficiaries in Arizona utilized free preventive services in 2015.

The Department of Health and Human Services has released new information that shows that millions of seniors and people with disabilities with Medicare in Arizona continue to save on prescription drugs and see improved benefits in 2015 as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Medicare beneficiaries in Arizona have received discounts of $362,296,425 on prescription drugs since enactment of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. In 2015 alone, 96,954 people with Medicare in Arizona saved $93,694,466 — an average of $966 per Medicare beneficiary — thanks to the Affordable Care Act closing the Medicare Part D prescription drug donut hole.

Use of preventive services under the health care law has also expanded among people with Medicare: • In Arizona, an estimated 787,935 people with Medicare (including those enrolled in Medicare Advantage) took advantage of at least one preventive service with no coinsurance in 2015.

• 216,633 Medicare beneficiaries (including those enrolled in Medicare

Advantage) in Arizona took advantage of an Annual Wellness Visit in 2015.

Nationwide, nearly 10.7 million Medicare beneficiaries have received discounts over $20.8 billion on prescription drugs — an average of $1,945 per beneficiary — since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act. In 2015 alone, nearly 5.2 million seniors and people with disabilities received discounts of over $5.4 billion, for an average of $1,054 per beneficiary. This is an increase in savings compared to 2014, when 5.1 million Medicare beneficiaries received discounts of $4.8 billion, for an average of $941 per beneficiary.

Medicare beneficiaries also continue to take advantage of certain recommended preventive services with no coinsurance: • An estimated 39.2 million people with Medicare (including those enrolled in Medicare Advantage) took advantage of at least one preventive service with no copays or deductibles in 2015, slightly more than in 2014.

• Nearly 9 million Medicare beneficiaries (including those enrolled in Medicare Advantage) took advantage of an Annual Wellness Visit in 2015. Looking just at original Medicare, a million more people utilized an Annual Wellness Visit in 2015

than 2014 (more than 5.8 million compared to nearly 4.8 million).

“Medicare consumers are now more engaged and empowered in their own health thanks to the Affordable Care Act,” said Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt. “Millions are now able to access more affordable prescription medicine for their chronic conditions and millions more are staying healthier by accessing preventive services, especially vital for people living with disabilities or growing older.”

Today’s announcement is part of the administration’s broader strategy to improve the health care system by paying providers for what works, unlocking health care data, and finding new ways to coordinate and integrate care to improve quality. The Affordable Care Act provides tools — such as providing certain recommended preventive services at no cost sharing and closing the Medicare Part D “donut hole” — to make our health care system more affordable for patients and move it toward one that rewards doctors based on the quality, not the quantity of care they give patients. In January 2015, the administration announced the ambitious goal of tying 30 percent of Medicare

payments to quality and value through alternative payment models by 2016 and 50 percent of payments by 2018. More than 4,600 payers, providers, employers, patients, states, consumer groups, consumers and other partners have registered to participate in the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network, which was launched to help the entire health care system reach these goals.

The Affordable Care Act makes Medicare prescription drug coverage more affordable by gradually closing the gap in coverage where beneficiaries had to pay the full cost of their prescriptions out of pocket, before catastrophic coverage for prescriptions took effect. The gap is known as the donut hole. The donut hole will be closed by 2020.

Because of the health care law, in 2010, anyone with a Medicare prescription drug plan who reached the prescription drug donut hole received a $250 rebate.

In 2011, beneficiaries in the donut hole began receiving discounts and savings on covered brand-name and generic drugs.

People with Medicare Part D who are in the donut hole in 2016 will receive discounts and savings of 55 percent on the cost of brand name drugs and 42 percent on the cost of generic drugs.

For state-by-state information on discounts in the donut hole, go to: https:// downloads.cms.gov/files/Part%20D%20 dount%20hole%20savings%20by%20 state%20YTD%202015.pdf.

For more information about Medicare prescription drug benefits, go to: http:// www.medicare.gov/part-d/.

Medicare preventive services The Affordable Care Act added coverage of an annual wellness visit and eliminated coinsurance and the Part B deductible for certain recommended preventive services covered by Medicare, including many cancer screenings and other important benefits. By making certain preventive services available with no cost sharing, the Affordable Care Act removes barriers to prevention, helping Americans take charge of their own health and helping individuals and their providers better prevent illness, detect problems early when treatment works best, and monitor health conditions.

For state-by-state information on utilization of an annual wellness visit and preventive services at no cost to Medicare beneficiaries, visit: https://downloads.cms. gov/files/Beneficiaries%20Utilizing%20 Free%20Preventive%20Services%20 by%20State%20YTD%202015.pdf.

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Gum disease, also known as periodontal disease, is the most common infection in the United

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Gum disease has been linked

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All U.S. states, except California, have signed proclamations over the last four years to declare February as Gum Disease Awareness Month.

The sheer number of Ameri­ cans with the disease, coupled with the significant health implications of untreated gum disease,

underscores the importance of awareness.

This national campaign is aimed at helping people make lifelong improvements to their health and quality of life by spreading awareness of the risk factors, symptoms and treatment options available in the fight against gum disease.

Nearly 50 million Americans have moderate to severe gum disease. Of these, 40 million don’t

even know they have it and only 3 percent who know they have the disease seek treatment. Gum disease is easily prevented, yet when left untreated, it can lead to devastating effects well beyond tooth loss.

To date, 49 states plus the U.S. Virgin Islands have officially acknowledged Gum Disease Awareness Month to educate citizens and promote prevention and treatment; Arizona is one of these.

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Hike to Rim Country Cold War relic by

Teresa McQuerrey

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It is just a hike, but what waits at the end of it might get imaginations whirling.

This Saturday, Feb. 20, a guided hike will explore a seismological bunker located slightly northeast of Chaparral Pines.

The bunker even has a spy thriller connection, according to history columnists Tim Ehrhardt and Stan Brown.

Get this: the gigantic, 1,100-square-foot bunkers weren’t built to monitor earthquakes, they were built to monitor underground nuclear tests — around the world.

And they were “commissioned” through the 1950s, predecessors of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — more commonly known as DARPA (cue “X Files” music).

Opened in 1963, the Tonto Forest Seismological Observatory (TFSO) was the fifth station built under the VELA UNIFORM program, according to a 2007 article by Ehrhardt.

It occupied 23,000 acres and had a recording building with 5,600 square feet of floor space, a utility building with 1,200 square feet of floor space, and two 1,100-square-foot concrete-and-steel underground vaults, now known as the bunkers.

The site had 14 miles of unimproved roads and 400 miles of signal cable. The four other VELA UNIFORM stations could detect the vibrations from an underground nuclear explosion on the far side of the planet.

The federal government picked Payson for the granite basement rock and its remote location — far from most other sources of vibration.

VELA UNIFORM incorporated seven underground nuclear tests in the continental United States and Alaska from October 1963 to July 1971.

Ehrhardt wrote, “It was an active time in the Cold War between the United States and Russia, as both nations were building their nuclear arsenals. Simultaneously, the nations also rushed to create systems that could help monitor what the other was doing; hence the space race that took place during the same era. As it turns out, the geology of this area proved to be a perfect spot, putting it as a front-runner for such a station from the start.”

Residents soon began speculating the government would set off nuclear bombs in their backyard, all the massive installation did was listen for the vibrations of distant explosions.

Interestingly, the total area wired for

About the hike Visit the Rim Country’s seismological bunker on a guided Payson Area Trails System (PATS) hike starting at 8:30 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 20.

Meet at the trailhead at the end of the pavement on Chaparral Pines Road.

It is an easy 2-1/2-mile round trip with a mix of sand, dirt and rocks underfoot. vibrations covered more than 20,000 acres.

The Tonto National Forest quickly transferred the land for the project — proof that once upon a time the federal government could move quickly.

Ehrhardt wrote, “The Sept. 21, 1962 Payson Roundup estimated that 100 people would be employed in construction on the project. Construction on the project contin-

ued through the fall and winter. Finally the big day for the station arrived on April 6, 1963 when it was dedicated.

“Over the next 12 years the Cold War progressed and numerous technological advancements occurred, including man reaching the moon numerous times.

March 6, 1975 brought news of the closing down of the observatory. It was the last of the five stations to be shut down, in part because it was termed “the best in operation.”

A number of parties expressed interest in some or all of the facility, including Payson Schools, which tried to obtain at least one of the four metal buildings at the observatory site. Ultimately though, the observatory became a maintenance yard for Gila County, being obtained in April 1976.

“Today, part of Chaparral Pines is located where the observatory once existed.”

Historian Stan Brown also wrote this about the TFSO for the Roundup.

“Construction got underway in May 1962.

100 seismometers were installed in the ground in vertical tanks and vaults spread over six square miles. The center of this working and experimental observatory was adjacent to today’s Chaparral Pines subdivision. While cattle grazing and forestry was not disrupted after construction, a law was put in place withdrawing 44 mining claims in the area and outlawing any new claims.

A one mile buffer zone was set aside as top security around the recording building, a utility building and two underground vaults containing four rooms each.

“In December of 1967 the Phoenix Gazette announced the project was to be expanded by seven new sites, including sites at Pleasant Valley and in the Sierra Ancha Mountains. The installation was touted to be permanent, and cost the government millions of dollars. However, in 1973 ... it was shut down after operating only 10 years. Apparently, the testing was no longer thought vital to our national interests.

The Control Center became the Gila County maintenance yard along State Route 260.

One of the underground vaults was cleared and a hole punched in its side to be used for firefighting practice by the Forest Service.

Local residents eventually carried off other leftovers, such as the steel dome covers for the seismometers that inverted into barbecue cookers.

“Those seismometers could measure movement in the earth as minute as one-millionth of an inch. With the growing rumble of traffic along Highway 260, one imagines this site would not be chosen today.”

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Payson Roundup Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Events showcase local authors Teresa McQuerrey

roundup staff reporter

Several Rim authors are sharing new works and programs.

Wednesday at noon at the Payson Public Library, 328 N. McLane Rd., prolific Rim author Marsha Ward is the guest of the Arizona Professional Writers Rim Country Chapter.

New author Diane Dickerson will have a book signing for her “The Diaries of Margaret Klenke Tasset, 1930-1939” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 27 at the library.

Rim Country Chapter hosts Marsha Ward

Payson-area author Marsha Ward will speak on Creating Memorable Characters at the Arizona Professional Writers (APW) meeting at noon, Wednesday, Feb. 17 in the Payson Public Library meeting room, 328 N. McLane Rd., Payson. The program is free and open to the public.

Award-winning author and poet Marsha Ward has been a journalist, editor, and publisher, and lost count of the number of her published works several years ago when it hit 900. These days, she is best known for her acclaimed historical novel series, the “Owen Family Saga,” which is set in the American West in post-Civil War times. Her latest novel “Gone for a Soldier” is a prequel and details the horrors the Owen family endured during “The Unpleasantness” that took place in Virginia from 1861-1865, both on the battleground and the home front.

Ward is the founder of American Night Writers Association and a member of Western Writers of America and Women Writing the West. A popular workshop presenter and writing teacher, she makes her home near Payson.

When she is not writing, she loves to travel, give talks, meet readers, and sign books. Learn more at MarshaWard.com.

Diane Dickerson book signing Diane Dickerson will be selling and signing copies of her book, “The Diaries of Margaret Klenke Tasset, 1930-1939” from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 27 at the Payson Public Library.

A resident of the Rim Country for 10 years, Dickerson’s book is a transcription of the actual diaries her mother, Margaret Klenke Tasset, kept between 1930 and 1939 during the depth of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era in southwestern Kansas.

Margaret often references the conditions of life in those trying times, but for the most part, her diary writings reflect the daily accounts and typical musings of a young woman.

She had an active social life with friends and was courted

by a couple of her high school male friends, one of which was Clarence “Sweet” Tasset, whom she would eventually marry.

Through her diary entries, readers will see a love story unfold as she shares her innermost feelings for the man who becomes the love of her life.

This book was conceived at a family reunion in 2012 at the family farm, which is still owned and operated by one of the Tassets.

“We were passing around the two diaries of Margaret and it occurred to me that we should really preserve those books as they were showing some wear.

I proposed to the family that the diaries be transcribed and I volunteered to undertake the task. My sister-in-law, Rosann (Dockendorf) Tasset, stepped up and said she would transcribe the second diary. So we each took the diaries back home with us to begin the task. It didn’t go as quickly as I had hoped … Now, three years later, the diaries are transcribed and proof-read by all of the children of Margaret and Clarence,” Dickerson writes in the book’s foreword.

The book includes commentaries by all the children of Margaret and Clarence in which they reflect on her writings and her influence on them.

Images of her actual handwriting are included as well as photos of her family and of her friends and photos that portray the important events in her life with Clarence.

The author, Dickerson, is one of a set of twins, who were the fourth and fifth of eight children born to Margaret and Clarence Tasset.

She was born in Dodge City, Kan. and grew up on the family farm south of Spearville, Kan. and attended St. John’s Grade School and Windthorst High School. She graduated from St. Mary of the Plains College in Dodge City, Kan., with a bachelor’s of arts degree in mathematics in 1968. She taught high school mathematics for one year in Greensburg, Kan. before moving to Tucson, Ariz., where she married Brian Dickerson. She has lived with her husband in Tucson, Ariz., in Ventura, Calif. and now in Payson.

She earned a master’s of secondary education in 1973 while teaching at Canyon Del Oro High School in Tucson, Ariz.

Her careers include teaching, computer support specialist, residential real estate appraiser and QuickBooks bookkeeping consultant. She says she wrote the book to preserve and to share the diaries with present and future descendants of her parents.

Dickerson said she thinks it would also be a good resource for those interested in writing fiction or learning more about life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression.

Her publisher has asked if she would be interested in marketing it for a movie, but she said that was not why she wrote the book. However, if any of her family — some of whom have connections with the entertainment industry — were interested in taking the work in that direction, she would be alright with that, though some other family members don’t want to see the story commercialized in that way.

She said her favorite entries from her mother’s diaries were about life right after her marriage in 1934 when the newlyweds went to McAllen, Texas where Clarence worked in the

orchards. They were only there for four months, but so were their best friends — Margaret’s best friend had married Clarence’s best friend. Although the work was hard and wages low, they all still had a good time, getting together for card games and listening to baseball games and the Friday night fights on the radio, going to dances and the movies.

Dickerson said the thing that surprised her most as she read her mother’s diaries and transcribed them was the romantic triangle of sorts in which Margaret was involved. Two young men she had known in high school were courting her at the same time and while she was falling in love with Clarence, she worried about the other beau and always felt bad that she may have hurt him with her choice.

The publisher is AuthorHouse and the book can be found and purchased online at their website or at Barnes&Noble.com or at Amazon.com by searching its title and/or author. Dickerson will be selling the books for $18 at the book signing, which is a discount from online sales.

“Profits are going to the Windthorst Heritage, which is working to preserve an historic German Catholic church,” Dickerson said. Two of her family’s ancestors Frank Klenke and Henry Tasset, along with Herman Thesing, “were dispatched to Southwest Kansas in 1877 on behalf of the German Catholic Aurora Homestead Association of Cincinnati, Ohio to inspect land for their new settlement. The association eventually bought 10 sections of land for 10 dollars per acre from the Sante Fe Railroad. The new settlement would be named after Ludvig Von Windthorst.” (From the Windthorst Heritage, Inc. website.)

McKinney knows his zombie movies Andy McKinney really knows his zombies and he has a book that proves it, “A Gross of Zombies — Reviews of 144

Zombie Movies.”

Released in January by AuthorHouse publishing, the book shares McKinney’s take on zombie movies made over the decades. He includes a list of more than 700 zombie movies made from 1932 through 2015.

He says the 1932 movie, “White Zombie,” is the first known zombie movie made.

He includes movies that can in any way be considered a zombie movie: movies with the traditional slow-moving, brain-eating zombies, demon zombies, space alien zombies, funny zombies, metaphorical zombies and zombies in love.

McKinney says if a country has any sort of film industry it has probably produced a zombie movie, but most still come from the U.S. He reports that in 2014 alone, there were 50 new zombie movies released.

The 144 zombie movies are in alphabetical order, not year of production, so thumb through the 299-page book and see what titles jump out at you. Some of the earliest McKinney reviews were made in the 1940s.

His rating system? “Brains” — a good one is a four-brainer.

And how did he get to be such a zombie movie expert. He likes movies — writing about them on a weekly basis for The Rim Review is good indicator of that fact. McKinney’s book’s back cover tells the tale: He “lived for 30 years in Alaska. The long winters gave him plenty of time to watch movies … He loves the flickers and finds zombie films fascinating and loads of fun.”

In his book’s introduction, he writes, “I like traditional style zombies best myself, but the various subgenres are also worthwhile … This book is best used to inform and warn the zombie fan … We just want to have fun and be entertained … We don’t have to have a perfect movie to enjoy it but there are some that simply suck an hour and a half away from your life. Avoid them, I will tell you in the following pages which to avoid at all costs.”

rudds married 50 years

(1977-2016)

On June 8th, 1977 Colin Jay Sterling was born to Herbert Sterling and Nance Prahl. Colin was born in Duluth, Minnesota but was raised in Fox Lake, Illinois.

Sterling Home services was owned and operated by Colin.

When Colin wasn’t working he was enjoying the beauty of nature by either fishing, hunting, or camping. Colin also enjoyed cooking and hosted many memorable barbeques.

Colin is survived by: his mother Nance Prahl, his daughter Stevi Sterling, his sister Emilie Pardue (John) and their children

Paige and Morgan, his grandfather George Prahl, as well as many loving extended family members and numerous close friends.

Colin was preceded in death by his father Herbert Sterling and his grandmother Ann Prahl.

Colin passed away unexpectedly January 17, 2016 at home.

Colin was loved not only deeply but widely and he will be greatly missed. Although his physical body is no longer here, his memories and his spirit will live on within each and every person Colin touched.

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Tuesday

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Sunny

77/37 Wednesday

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76/42 Thursday

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66/35 Friday

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Payson Statistics DATE H L Feb. 5 50 24 Feb. 6 62 22 Feb. 7 65 26 Feb. 8 71 30 Feb. 9 71 36 Feb. 10 72 30 Feb. 11 75 30 Feb. 12 76 32 Feb. 13 74 31 Feb. 14 71 33 Feb. 15 74 36

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Precipitation 2016 thru today 4.24 30-year Average through February 3.92

February 2016 0.39 Feb. Average 1.91

Average Payson Precipitation from the office of the State Climatologist at Arizona State University.

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Dominant pollen: Juniper High: Pollen levels between 9.7 and 12.0 tend to affect most individuals who suffer from the pollen types of the season. Symptoms may become more severe during days with high pollen levels.

Medium: Pollen levels between 7.3 and 9.6 will likely cause symptoms for many individuals who suffer from allergies to the predominant pollen types of the season.

Low: Pollen levels between 0 and 7.2 tend to affect very few individuals among the allergy-suffering public.

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Walter Rudd Sr. and Patricia Rudd celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Feb. 20, 2016. They were married on Feb. 20, 1966 in Las Vegas, Nev. Wally and Pat have lived in Tucson for two years, moving there from Payson.

Wally retired from Mazatzal Casino on Dec. 31, 2013 as a black jack dealer. Pat retired from hair salons on June 20, 2000 as an owner.

They have six children, Becky (Bruce) Weber of Mesa, Ariz., Walter (Jodee) Rudd, Jr. of Tucson, Ariz., Kevin (Sherry) Rudd of Tombstone, Ariz., Ben (Amy) Rudd of Tucson, Ariz., Tom Parish, Jr. of Santa Barbara, Calif. and Cindy Parish of Tucson, Ariz.; 14 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Wally and Pat met in Tucson in 1964 and moved to Phoenix metro area in 1965. Wally has worked as a machinist, musician, radio D.J., advertising manager, hair salon owner, real estate sales and black jack dealer.

Pat has worked in retail sales, restaurants and hair salon owner. The couple moved to Payson, Ariz. in 1988 and lived there for 27 years. Wally and Pat moved back to Tucson in June 2014.

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Sally Ann (Bentley) Buchmann (1937-2016)

Sally Ann (Bentley) Buchmann, 78, formerly of Michigan City, Ind., now of Tonto Basin, Ariz., passed away at Payson Care Center in Payson, Ariz.

Feb. 9, 2016.

She was born in Michigan City on Oct. 7, 1937.

She is survived by her son Wayne Doehrer; brothers Lee, John, and Jack Bentley; six grandchildren; and five nieces and nephews. She was preceded

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Sound of music abounds around Rim Country by

Teresa McQuerrey

roundup staff reporter

This weekend, music lovers will find heaven in the Rim Country.

Beginning Friday, Feb. 19 and continuing through Sunday, Feb. 21, a wide choice of music will be offered for your listening pleasure.

Starting Friday, Feb. 19, the Rock of Ages Lutheran Church presents Chris Driesbach performing his own Christian music compositions.

Then on Saturday, Feb. 20 get over to the Payson High School Auditorium and see students from around the area put it all on the line for $1,000 in scholarship money in the annual Lip Sync Contest, sponsored by the Rim Country Optimist Club and the Rotary Club of Payson, with the help of Payson High Longhorn Theatre Company.

Wrap up the weekend at a great jazz concert with Tony Vacca and the local group, The Fossil Creek Gang, at the Community Presbyterian Church as the Payson Friends of Jazz and the church resume monthly programs.

Christian concert

Chris Driesbach is coming to Payson to present a Christian concert at Rock of Ages Lutheran, 204 W. Airport Rd., at 6 p.m., Friday, Feb. 19.

His songs are all original Christian music and he loves to tell the story of the church and his journey to faith. He played music professionally for 30 years before turning his talents to Christian music, which he has performed throughout the country.

8th Annual Lip Sync Contest

The Rim Country Optimist Club and the Rotary Club of Payson, with the help of Payson High Longhorn Theatre Company, are proud to sponsor the 8th Annual Lip Sync Contest. This family friendly event is Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Payson High School

Auditorium. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with the performance at 7 p.m.

Students will compete to win up to $1,100 in prize money including a $100 “audience choice” prize. In addition, four faculty groups from Payson High School, Rim Country Middle School, Center for Success and Administrative Leadership will be competing against each other for a $500 school grant provided by the two clubs.

The Rotarians and Optimists thank the school staff for their efforts, which are “beyond the call of duty.” Their support of this event helps the clubs give youth a different avenue of competition in addition to the proceeds being used for scholarships. Hopefully the staff will have as much fun as the kids.

Arrive early and bid on one or more of the silent auction items.

Advance tickets can be purchased through Friday, Feb. 19 for $10 for adults, $5 for students from club members at Payson Library, Oasis Christian Book Store and Rim Country Chamber. Tickets purchased at the door are $12 for adults and $6 for students. For more information, contact Joan Young at (928) 472-2264.

Jazz series resumes

After a brief hiatus, the popular concert series presented by The Payson Friends of Jazz and the Community Presbyterian Church resumes with a concert at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 21. Admission is $5 per person.

Taking place at the church, 800 W. Main St., Payson, the featured artist is saxophonist Tony Vacca, a professional performer, composer, educator and recording artist for Half Note Records, official label for world famous Blue Note clubs.

A native of New Jersey, Vacca began his professional career at the age of seven performing in the family band and continued throughout his teenage years playing sax and keyboards.

He received his formal training

Scenes from previous stagings of the Lip Sync Contest, which raises money for charity. Catch the show on Saturday at 7. at Arizona State University’s jazz department under the direction of Dan Hearle, Tom Ferguson and Chuck Marohnic and went on to perform and teach in the Phoenix area for the next several years.

Over the course of his career, Vacca has performed and recorded with such jazz legends as Lionel Hampton, Sammy Davis, Jr., Richie Cole, Conti Candoli, Irvin Mayfield, Jon Faddis, The Four Tops, Sam Moore, The Temptations, Tony Bennett, Frank Foster, Marvin Stamm, and Doc Severinsen.

His debut CD, “Three Point Landing” was released in 2001 and co-produced by Grammy nominated Irvin Mayfield. It received rave reviews around the globe as “thoughtful, demure, straightahead post-bop.”

A busy clinician and educator, Vacca has been a faculty member of the Jamey Aebersold summer jazz camps, as well as the Sedona Jazz On The Rocks Youth Program, the Chandler Jazz Youth

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64 “Break ___!” (“Do well!”)

66 Duo quadrupled 67 Gets close to 68 Dependents expecting meals, in Budapest?

74 Mortise’s counterpart 75 Full-speed, archaically 76 Place to live 77 Really tough puzzle, in Manama?

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104 Beach Boys hit, in Kigali?

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Program and the Prescott Jazz Summit Master class programs.

Since 2005, he has been a member of the Prescott Jazz Summit and has appeared there every year as a part of the Prescott Jazz Summit All Stars in addition

to being a member the Mike Vax Quintet.

The Fossil Creek Gang, a high-spirited local group that sings and performs on various instruments the tunes from early era jazz and soulful blues ballads,

to late century swing and pop, will join Vacca in his Payson performance at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 21 at the Community Presbyterian Church, 800 W. Main, Payson.

The Fossil Creek Gang includes Suzanne Knighton, Dale Knighton and Gerry Reynolds.

Singing since age 5, Suzanne Knighton has played upright bass, guitar and keyboard most of her life in restaurants, hotels, resorts and casinos in the western U.S., usually in varied styles from folk, rock, blues to jazz.

Making a living with music for more than 30 years, husband Dale Knighton joined her early in her career to form the group Whitewater.

Dale Knighton plays guitars, keyboards, banjos, harmonicas and he also sings. Touring with his wife, Suzanne, they achieved success in the western-states circuit.

For more than 20 years, Gerry Reynolds has been an active jazz combo and big band drummer in Arizona. He is known for organizing music events, mostly jazz, in Rim Country, and he played with many professional artists in more than 100 Sunday afternoon performances at the Community Presbyterian Church of Payson.

Bow hunters alarm Portals residents From page 1A when he was approached by a couple of residents,” Huber wrote. “Where he was, and in the direction he was about to shoot, a number of other residents were out walking on the street. This was a situation where things could have gone really bad if he hadn’t been stopped.”

While no one was injured, “it is our opinion that it is only a matter of time before someone does get hurt if these requirements are not changed.”

Many in the Portal III community are writing Martin and Game and Fish asking that bow and firearm regulations be made the same.

“With the advances in bow technology, an arrow is as lethal a weapon as a bullet fired from a gun and our HOA strongly believes bow hunting should be included in this quarter-mile minimum restriction,” wrote David Johnson, HOA president, in a sample letter the board encouraged homeowners to send Martin and Game and Fish.

Game and Fish officials did not return a call seeking comment as of press time.

Martin said the deadline to present new bills in this legislative session has passed, so the county would have to wait until next year to seek a change to the statute.

“To me it’s NUTS that you can ‘hunt’ in town with a bow ... IMO (in my opinion), that’s NOT hunting to begin with — again, IMO, NO ONE should be allowed to ‘fire’ an arrow OR a bullet that close to someone else’s house under the guise of ‘hunting’” Martin wrote in an email.

Under a section titled Ethics in the 2015-2016 Arizona Hunting Regulations, Game and Fish encourages hunters to ask permission before hunting on private property and for hunters to go out of their way to respect landowners and their property.

Not all Portal III residents are behind the movement. One resident, who asked to remain anonymous, said the HOA is overreacting.

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82 Waikiki site 83 Cease 84 Arm bone 85 Early utopia 89 “I’m not impressed” 92 The old man 93 Samara-dropping tree 95 Green gp.

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Hoopsters: One and Done by

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The Payson Longhorn boys basketball appearance in the 2016 Division III Section V postseason tournament is best described as “one and done.”

Playing Feb. 10 at Valley Christian as the section’s No. 6 seed against No. 3 Poston Butte, Payson was eliminated by a 54-47 loss.

In the other first round bracket, No. 5 Maricopa stung the No. 4 Blue Ridge Yellow Jackets 74-55.

With the PHS loss, the Horns ended with season 9-20, but possibly with at least three players who should be in the running for all-section and all-division individual honors.

Because Payson entered the showdown vs. Poston

Butte as an underdog, the defeat was not unexpected.

But what occurred in the second round of the section tournament was a stunner as Poston Butte rose up to defeat highly regarded Valley Christian 58-48.

VC entered the fray 18-7 and a favorite to give top-seeded Scottsdale Christian a tough battle for the S-V championship.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Poston Butte was a mediocre 16-13 and wrapping up a so-so season.

VC was also playing on its home floor, where it was 10-1 with some victories over heavy-duty foes.

In the other semifinal bracket, Scottsdale Christian dumped Maricopa 79-59.

The section championship on Feb. 13, saw Poston

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The Longhorns fell to Poston Butte in the first round of the postseason tourney.

Longhorn wrestlers suffer painful tournament fate by

Max Foster

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The Longhorn wrestling team’s showing in the Division III state tournament is not what fans, coaches and team members had their sights set on.

While the team had only four state qualifiers, all were considered top-notch athletes who would wrestle deep into the tournament.

But what unfolded Feb. 12-13 at the Prescott Valley Event Center was a frustrating display. Only one of the Longhorn wrestlers scored team points and the other three were eliminated in the first two rounds.

Dylan Keeney, competing in the 126-pound division, grappled to a second-place finish scoring all of Payson’s 25 points.

Brooks Randall (132), Chris Johnson (160) and Tito Vega (220) were shut out in the bids to score team points.

Keeney (50-5) opened his trip to the gold medal round with a technical fall win over Zach Lopez of Sahuarita and continued with another technical fall victory, this time against Joey Baslia of Sabino. In the semifinals, Keeney wrestled to a major decision 14-0 victory vs. Yuma’s Ramiro Vasquez (47-7).

Keeney’s three easy wins over formidable opponents seemed to indicate he was on a roll toward a state championship. But waiting in the wings was Chino Valley’s

highly regarded Kendall Foster (48-1) who had beaten Keeney, 10-5, one week earlier for the Section I weight class crown.

Keeney and Foster battled like two junkyard dogs before the CV wrestler survived an 8-3 decision.

For Keeney, it was Heartbreak Hotel.

In the 132-pound class, Randall lost 11-4 to Buckeye’s Jaiden Segundo in the opening round but took a forfeit in the consolation round. One match later, he was eliminated with a loss by a fall to Trent Miller of Mingus.

In the 160-pound competition, Payson’s Chris Johnson (42-10) was projected to be a title threat but dropped a 6-1 decision in the first round to Coolidge’s Jesus Zaorano.

Johnson didn’t fare much better in the second go-around, losing to Holbrook’s Jedde Bowman by a fall.

Vega, a section tournament silver medalist, lost a first round 11-5 decision to Humbardo Ayala of Kingman.

In the consolation round, Isiah Jacobs of Combs took a win by disqualification over Vega.

With the regular season and two postseason tournaments in the rearview mirror, Payson wrestlers will turn their attention to the USA Wrestling off-season program.

Payson returns several promising young wrestlers, including Keeney, Johnson and Randall who — with strong showings in the off-season — will form the nucleus of next year’s Longhorn team.

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Four Longhorn wrestlers qualified for the state tournament, but only Dylan Keeney made it past the first round. He ended up finishing second in the tournament.

Grand Canyon Monument could affect game management The area north of the Grand Canyon be designated as a national monument, is called the Kaibab Plateau and this additional layer of bureaucracy Arizona strip country which has some could make mule deer hunting on this of the best mule deer hunting in the 1.7 million acres off limits.

West. There could be a drasAnother key point was that tic change on the horizon if forest management and selecoutdoors tive timber harvesting would the Grand Canyon Watershed under the rim no longer occur. The affectNational Monument proposal is ed area is currently under signed by the president. the jurisdiction of the Kaibab There will be 1.7 million National Forest, which has acres that could be affected if already implemented a healthy this proposal is put into effect. forest plan to avoid another This land is currently under catastrophic forest fire which the jurisdiction of the U.S. has frequented Arizona over Forest Service and BLM which have worked effectively with Dennis Pirch the last generation.

The ranchers who raise catthe Arizona Game and Fish tle in the affected area have Department in the management of the land, wildlife and other natural worked “hand in hand” with the Forest resources. By adding another layer of Service and the AZGFD to improve the the federal bureaucracy, the multiple grazing and watershed for all existing use concept of this land will be a “thing wildlife. They likely will be forced to give up their grazing permits and forced of the past.”

The current five-member board of to move if the monument is approved.

The travel management plan in the commissioners for the Arizona Game and Fish Department and 10 other pre- Kaibab National Forest has already vious members all signed a letter urging been put into place with some desigthe president not to sign the document. nated road closures. If this becomes They openly disputed the claims made a national monument the remaining of why this new monument should be in roads will be closed and public access to this public land will likely be denied.

Northern Arizona.

The first point of contention is that This will greatly curtail any use by the there is a threat to the migrating deer public of enjoying their land!

Public land is for multiple use, with herd from Utah into Arizona and that is incorrect according to wildlife studies Arizona already having more nationdone by the AZGFD. If this land were to al monuments than any other state,

this one certainly is not needed. The management of this 1.7 million acres is effectively being done by the U.S. Forest Service, BLM and the Arizona Game and Fish Department. It is not

necessary for another federal agency to usurp this power. The AZGFD commissioners are to be commended for their position on this matter and their letter to the president. I encourage you

to write or email your congressman if you are concerned about this proposal.

This weekend enjoy this warm weather and take a walk in your Tonto National Forest, God’s creation.

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CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Moose Lodge events

The Women of the Moose meet at 5:30 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of each month. The Loyal Order of the Moose meetings are at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday of each month.

The lodge has a Thursday Fish Fry from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and weekly dinner specials are available.

Also, on the second, third, and fourth Thursday Diana Marie provides music from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The lodge is open to members and their guests.

The Moose Lodge is located on E. Hwy. 260 in Star Valley. For more information, call (928) 474-6212.

Masonic Lodge

The Sy Harrison Masonic Lodge #70, located at 200 E. Rancho Road in Payson, meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m.

For more information, go online to www.paysonmason.org or contact Bill Herzig, secretary, at (928) 474-1305 or (928) 951-2662.

Payson Walkers

The Payson Walkers now depart at 9 a.m. for daily walks which are about an hour in length on pavement.

Departure points are: Wednesday - Walgreens Thursday- Payson Library Friday - Home Depot parking lot, (south end) Saturday - end of Longhorn Road Sunday - Town Hall parking lot Monday - Payson Elks Tuesday - Green Valley Park, Parks and Recreation Office.

Rim Country 4 Wheelers

Members of the Rim Country 4 Wheelers (RC4W) invite anyone interested in four-wheel-drive back road travel to join them at 9 a.m.

Wednesdays in the Bashas’ shopping center parking lot in front of the Big 5 store.

The route and destination may be prescheduled or may be decided on the spot; the level of difficulty may range from easy to moderate.

Saturday trips are also scheduled at least once a month and are usually decided on at the previous month’s meeting. For all trips, have a full tank of gas, lunch, and a lawn chair.

For more information, visit the Web site at www.rimcountry4wheelers.com or call RC4W President Tom Doyle, (928) 600-9009.

Pine senior activities

The following activities are now available at the Senior Dining Room

in Pine. Come join and meet some new friends. The Senior Dining Room is located at the P/S Community Center, 3866 N. Highway 87, Pine.

Wednesday: Hand & Foot, 9 a.m.; Pinochle, 1 p.m.; Polish Poker, 1 p.m.

Thursday: Stitch ‘n Time, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.; Bingo, 1 p.m. third Thursday of the month Friday: Poker, 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Bridge, 1 p.m.

Saturday: Walkers Club, 9 a.m., meets at the P/S Elementary School Track.

Monday: Poker, 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday: Canasta, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Arts Party, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., held once a month.

For more information, call the P/S Thrift Store at (928) 476-4633.

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Mothers of Preschoolers

The Mothers of Preschoolers (MOPS) group is now meeting from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. the first and third Wednesdays at the Payson First Church of the Nazarene, 200 E. Tyler Parkway.

Childcare is provided.

For more information, contact Dixie Neal, (619) 990-2025.

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Payson Elks

Tickets are now on sale for the Men’s SUPERSTARS! show. The show is Saturday, March 5 and with the purchase of a ticket, you have a dinner choice of a stuffed pork chop or Cornish game hen. Tickets sell out fast.

The Elks Lodge serves lunch, open to the public, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Thursday.

The specials for the balance of the week are: Wednesday, Feb. 17 - Cheese enchiladas with beans Thursday, Feb. 18 - French dip with choice of side All specials are only $6.50 unless noted. Regular menu items are also available.

Soroptimists

The local Soroptimist club invites all women who are interested in working with and for the community to improve the status of women to join members for lunch at Tiny’s, 600 E. Highway 260, Payson, at noon Wednesdays.

Anyone interested should contact Jean Oliver, (928) 474-6167; or Audrey Wilson. (928) 468-3108.

APW Rim Country Chapter meeting

Payson-area author Marsha Ward will speak on Creating Memorable Characters at the Arizona Professional Writers (APW) meeting at noon, Wednesday, Feb. 17 at the Payson Public Library meeting room, 328 N. McLane Road, Payson. The program is free and open to the public.

An award-winning author and poet, Ward has been a journalist, editor and publisher and lost count of the number of her published works several years ago when it

the program is from 8 a.m. to 8:50 a.m.

Meetings are in the two-story building across from Walmart (formerly known as the Senior Circle), 215 N. Beeline Highway. If you have any questions, call Ilona at (928) 472-3331.

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The Rim Country Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society host Bill Ahrendt at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Church of the Holy Nativity.

hit 900.

These days, she is best known for her acclaimed historical novel series, the Owen Family Saga, which is set in the American West in post-Civil War times. Her latest novel, “Gone for a Soldier,” is a prequel and details the horrors the Owen family endured during “The Unpleasantness” that took place in Virginia from 1861-1865.

Ward is the founder of American Night Writers Association and a member of Western Writers of America and Women Writing the West. A popular workshop presenter and writing teacher, she makes her home near Payson. Learn more at MarshaWard.com.

Ukulele fun Rim residents, regardless of skill level, are welcome to join Ukulele Fun from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. every Wednesday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

If you have any ukuleles you would like to donate or sell, please call (928) 595-2086.

Alzheimer’s caregivers support groups The Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group invites caregivers, families, service providers and mem-

bers of the community to attend any or all of the following: • First and third Wednesdays of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Senior Center.

For more details, call Mary, (928) 474-3560. The Payson Senior Center is located at 514 W. Main St.

87 Mountain Biking Club

87 Mountain Biking Club meets at 4 p.m. every Wednesday at the 87 Cyclery shop, 907 S. Beeline Highway.

Members have group trail rides throughout Gila County for every level of rider (beginners to advanced).

Everyone is encouraged to join and learn about all the great mountain biking trails Payson and the surrounding area has to offer.

For more information or questions, please call (928) 478-6203.

Payson TOPS meeting

TOPS 373 (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) is a weight loss support group for anybody wishing to drop those extra unhealthy pounds — sensibly.

Come check us out. The first meeting is free and you get lots of information, lots of support, and you will meet caring, upbeat people.

We meet every Thursday morning. Weigh-in starts at 7 a.m. and

The Kiwanis Club of Zane Grey Country meets Thursdays at 7 a.m. at Tiny’s Restaurant, except the first Thursday, when it meets at 6 p.m. at Denny’s Restaurant.

For more information about Zane Grey Kiwanis, please visit www. zanegreykiwanis.com.

Sustainable Rim Country meets

Sustainable Rim County is a non-profit, non-partisan civic organization devoted to conserving the beauty of Rim Country for our enjoyment and for future generations.

The public is invited to its next meeting from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 18 at the Payson Library meeting room.

The agenda includes selecting 2016 projects and activities. For details, call Ray at (928) 478-6295.

Bingo at Senior Center

The Payson Senior Center and Payson Helping Payson host bingo every Friday at the Senior Center, 514 W. Main St. Tickets go on sale at noon and games start at 1 p.m.

Now offering 25 cent hot dogs.

Payson Lioness Club

The Payson Lioness Club meets at 9 a.m. the third Saturday of the month at Tiny’s Restaurant, 600 E. Highway 260.

Sponsored by the Payson Lions Club, the Payson Lioness Club is part of the world’s largest service organization. Members enjoy activities, service projects and events that benefit local charities. All interested persons are welcome to attend. You are never too young or young at heart to be a Lioness. For more information, call Carol at (928) 978-4132.

Tai Chi and Qigong Tai Chi and Qigong classes are offered at 9 a.m. Saturdays at Rim Country Health, 807 W. Longhorn Rd., Payson.

The program is especially de­ signed for seniors 50 or older, but is beneficial for all ages. There is no charge. For details, call (928) 478-6032.

Archaeology group hosts artist The Rim Country Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society meets at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Fellowship Hall of the Church of the Holy Nativity. The church is located at the corner of Easy Street and Bradley, Payson. Guests are invited to attend. Visitors are welcome.

The guest speaker will be Bill Ahrendt, a renowned local artist (his home and studio are in Pine.)

For more than 11 years Ahrendt studied and worked on developing his technique in various European locations. Upon his return to the U.S. he chaired the art department of Glendale Community College and acted as contributing editor for Arizona Highways Magazine.

Ahrendt now devotes his efforts to interpreting a full range of southwestern historical sagas in his drawings, oils and tempera paintings. Anyone with a love of the history of the American west will not want to miss his presentation.

Radio control car/truck enthusiasts wanted If you are a r/c (radio control) car or truck enthusiast then you are invited to a get-together at 3 p.m. this and every Sunday at the Payson Multi Event Center, north side of the warm-up arena.

Meet fellow enthusiasts and try your skills and your rig’s ability on one of several courses that will be set.

Being there will answer most questions, but if you have them, call (928) 978-2365.

Payson Mens’ Golf Association

The Payson Mens’ Golf Association 2016 Golf Season begins with a free breakfast, followed by a 4-man scramble tournament Tuesday, March 15. Anyone, not yet a member, interested in joining may call Payson Golf Course, (928) 474-2273. Join in the fun in a handicapped format.

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Bouncing along on a historic road HISTORIC ROADS #5 – HEADING SOUTH, SLATE CREEK DIVIDE TO SUNFLOWER

West Sycamore Creek and proceeds to the south along the main drainage of Sycamore Creek proper. This is the old route, but you can only follow it for a Today we have the fifth part of our short distance until it reaches a signed series about the route the old-timers gate where it crosses onto private ranch drove when they wanted to go to the land. You’ll need to backtrack.

Valley in the early 1950s. In this segTo get to the next section of the old ment we will travel from the Slate Creek route, head back out FR 25 to FR 201, Divide, at the Gila/Maricopa County line, and back to the paved FR 627. Instead on down to Sunflower. of turning left and heading back up the Our trip for today begins where we hill to the current highway, go straight stopped last time, at the Slate Creek and follow the old highway south down Divide on the current Highway 87. Just along Sycamore Creek. Just a little ways south of the large truck and you will pass the pullout, take the turnCross F Ranch on your off to the right, which is left. At this point, if you Forest Road (FR) 627. look to your right you This road connects to can see where the old the section of the old route joins the paved Beeline Highway that road you are now on. runs along Sycamore The paved road and Creek. The first part the old route are the of the road is paved, same for another mile but at the bottom the or so, until it ends at paved portion turns a gate just before the to the left, and to the old Sunflower Ranger right is FR 201 which, Jeepin’ in Rim Country Station complex, which although it is now gravby Chuck Jacobs is now an educational el, is still part of the old outdoor columnist and interpretive cenBeeline. Take this road ter. Stop here at this north to the top of the beautiful, quiet spot and take a break, hill, where it turns to the left and goes and we’ll talk about a little history. up the ridge to the west. At this turn, When the decision was made in the just across the cattle guard, you will see late 1990s to replace this section of FR 25 head back downhill to the south. Highway 87 with the current divided This is the old route that we are looking highway, the new road was moved out of for, and we can follow it for a couple of the narrow confines of this canyon and miles to the southwest, following and was constructed on what was called the crossing Sycamore Creek. When FR 25 “Kitty Joe Canyon Alignment.” It’s not reaches West Sycamore Creek, it turns difficult to see why. Putting a four-lane sharply to the right and heads upstream divided highway through this beautito the northwest. At this point, there is a ful riparian canyon could have been steep, rocky road to the left that crosses

A miraculous eagle Smashes into truck, but flies again The two-month effort to save a golden eagle hit by a semi truck had a happy ending recently, as representatives from the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS), the Arizona Game and Fish Department, and Liberty Wildlife released the bird back into the wild.

On Nov. 19, DPS troopers were called to the scene of a non-injury collision involving a commercial vehicle and a golden eagle on Interstate 40 near Seligman. Although the truck driver wasn’t injured, the eagle certainly was.

The bird had crashed into and shattered the passenger side of the truck cab’s front windshield. It then flew away a short distance before landing on the right emergency shoulder of the highway. The truck driver stopped and called DPS. A responding DPS trooper found the injured golden eagle standing in the middle of the shoulder, where it had been for about 20 minutes. Troopers called the Arizona Game and Fish Department to rescue the injured eagle. As the Game and Fish personnel arrived, the eagle

ran off the road into a ditch before it was captured and taken to Bearizona Wildlife Park near Williams. Veterinarians diagnosed the eagle with a cracked clavicle and transferred the bird to Liberty Wildlife in Scottsdale for treatment and to recover.

On Feb. 2, after more than two months of recovery for the eagle, officials from Liberty Wildlife, Arizona Game and Fish, and troopers from DPS climbed the top of a small hill in an area known as Pica Flats, which is in Aubrey Valley about 5 miles west of Seligman. The eagle was then released and flew back into his natural habitat near Chino Point.

“I couldn’t believe the bird was still alive after the crash and could recover from his injuries so quickly,” said DPS Trooper Douglas Redig, who was one of the first responders during the original collision.

This happy ending is a tribute to the great coordination between the Arizona Department of Public Safety, Arizona Game and Fish, Bearizona and Liberty Wildlife.

done engineering-wise, but it would have destroyed the place in the process.

Moving the highway saved it. There were, of course, other reasons as well.

Parcels of private land line the creek, so moving the highway eliminated all the right of way and property access issues.

As a part of all this, the decision was also made to not have this part of the old highway be a through road, so it is now essentially two long cul de sacs, this one ending here and the other one starting at Sunflower and ending about a mile or so south of this spot. In between, the old highway is still there, but inaccessible.

Getting back to our trip: Now you’ll need to backtrack all the way to the current highway, and head south down to Sunflower. After crossing the bridge over Sycamore Creek, turn right on the paved road, which will connect you to the other end of the old highway that we were just talking about. It only goes about a mile, and passes a number of picturesque homes and other private properties before it ends at a series of barricades, backed up by a large pile of dirt. There’s not much to see here, so head back toward the highway. These private lands, plus the tow truck yard on the other side of the highway make up the community of Sunflower, and the whole community is off-grid ... no outside power lines come here. The electricity needs of the residents are met with a combination of individual generators and sophisticated solar power systems.

When you get back to the highway, the old route goes through a gate on the left and passes under the two bridges, but the access road you are on bears to the right and goes up a hill to rejoin the current highway. This will be the southernmost point of our journey today, but before you head back home, there is one more thing to point out. On the far side (the east side) of the tow company property there is a large open field. South of this field is where the old Sunflower Store used to stand. When it was still open, almost everyone traveling either up or down the old route stopped in for a cold drink. Remember, summers were hot and cars didn’t have air conditioning back then. The store used to serve iced tea in quart Mason jars, and if travelers

FR 25 as it heads south from FR 201 is part of the old Bush Highway. On this day both roads were closed, probably due to snowy and icy conditions at the higher elevations from recent storms. During the dry times of the year, the roads are open.

Photos by Chuck Jacobs

In this view looking south, the old Bush Highway route passes under the current Sycamore Creek bridges at Sunflower.

wanted something stronger, they had that too. And it was always a noisy place, with a big generator chug-chugchugging outside. Late one night, the old store mysteriously caught fire and

burned to the ground. No fire department here.

In our next installment, we’ll head south from Sunflower.

Until next time ... Happy Jeepin’.

What the heck’s that trout really thinking, anyhow?

Editor’s note: Bob Hershberger’s a fisherman and he said for years he’s wondered what the fish were thinking. He came in all excited the other day and said that he’s “channeled” the thoughts of Big Daddy Brown, a wise old trout in a stream in Southern Utah. He swears this is what Big Daddy done said. by

Big Daddy Brown

special to the roundup

Looking 100 yards upstream, I saw two fishermen at Tree Hole. When will they ever leave us alone? Oh well, sometimes I enjoy their antics.

For instance, the little guy has his fly stuck in the tree limbs. Now, he’s wading deep into the hole, trying to push the fly out with the tip of his pole. Oops! The fly just broke off. So, he’s wading back to the shore while the big guy works the shore between Tree Hole and Stuck Log Riffles.

Oh, oh! He’s pretty tricky. He’s casting his fly up on the bank and letting his line float down stream until it pulls the fly off the grass on the bank into the water. Molly had better watch out.

Worse yet, he’s a “fish killer.” He has at least two dead fish in his creel. Mercy me, I hope it’s not Fred and Sam. Oh

Molly, don’t be fooled. Don’t strike!

Whew, she didn’t. But he’s trying again. Ha. He missed the bank and the fly plopped into the water. She won’t be fooled now. Yes, he’s moving on. That was too close.

Now the little guy has moved onto Log Riffles. No creel — hope he’s one of those nice catch-and-release guys. Still, Jim, Mable and Ruth had better watch out. Oh, oh! There he goes, he’s got Jim on his line. Wow! Jim really jumped high that time. Now, he’s running down the stream.

Yippee! He’s broke the line: now he’ll have a fancy new nose-fly.

Now the little guy is back in the water at Log Riffles. I know Jim will not bite again, but I fear for Mable and Ruth. He cast really well that time, perfect float.

Darn! Ruth took the fly — she’s hooked bad. He’s bringing her into his net, but, yes, he is pulling the hook out while she is still under water. He’s a good guy. Not like his fish killer friend.

Oh no! The fish killer is heading right toward my small hole. But he’s not fooling me! I didn’t reach four snow-times old by falling for their tricks. I’ll just let his fly drift buy. Now he’s false casting to dry his fly. He seems serious about catching a fish here.

Maybe I’ll embarrass him. I’ll take

the fly in the soft spot of my lip, the part that feels no pain. I’ll pretend like he’s set the hook good and put on an aerial display that will get his heart pumping, then I’ll head straight downstream toward the Bend Hole and throw the hook.

The fish killer’s next cast lands on the grassy bank just above me and the line pulls the fly into the water. Yes. It’s a perfect delivery. I take the fly in the soft part of my lip and he sets the hook.

Now, I’ll dive then swim straight toward him and see if he can keep the line taught. Ha. He couldn’t. But I’ll keep the fly for a second jump upstream, then another downstream. Yah. I’m putting on quite a show. Now I’ll run straight down stream and throw the hook. Ha! Now the fish killer’s upset and the little guy is grinning Makes my day.

I’d better swim down to the Bend Hole and warn the kids in the school to

watch out. They are just youngsters, so easily fooled.

Back at the school, Suzy’s teaching class. Maybe there’s a lesson here for the little ones.

So, when the two fish-buggers got to the hole, the little guy takes the top of the hole and the fish killer takes the bottom. So the school lines up to hit the little guy’s fly, making sure the fish killer doesn’t get a single nibble. I laughed watching his face go from amazement to frustration and then onto anger.

Disgusted, the fish killer moves downstream to where Old Charlie hangs out beneath an undercut bass. Charlie’s a mean old cuss and a fish-eater himself, snapping up the small fry. Can you imagine that? I wonder if those fly-buggers eat their young. I’ll bet that old bugger does.

Wait, Old Charlie took the fish killer’s fly. That old bugger’s running with him down through the rapids into the Big Hole. Old Charlie is still on his line and fighting for his life. Serves him right.

Yes, the fish killer’s reeling him in.

But what the heck? Now he’s letting Old Charlie go. Why keep the small ones and let “Old Charlie” go?

I tell you. I really don’t understand the fish-buggers. They behave strangely.

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LEGAL NOTICES auction on April 13,2016 at 11:00 AM, at the front entrace to the Gila County Courthouse, 1400 East Ash Street, Globe, AZ 85501. and the property will be sold by the Trustee to the highest bidder for cash (in the forms which are lawful tender in the United States and acceptable to the Trustee, payable in accordance with ARS 33Â811).

The sale shall convey all right, title, and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust, in the property situated in said County and State and more fully described as: Parcel No. 1 Lot 6, Block 28, EAST GLOBE PLAT NO. 3, according to Map No. 19, records of Gila County, Arizona.

Parcel No. 2 That certain portion of Alleyway Abandoned

by Ordinance No. 483, recorded in Docket 888, Page 431, lying between the Easterly Prolongations of the Northerly and southerly lines of Lot 6, Block 28, EAST GLOBE PLAT NO. 3, according to Map No. 19, records of Gila County, Arizona, and a line parallel to and 10 feet Easterly of the Easterly line of said Lot 6. The street address/location of the real property described above is purported to be: 393 South Sixth St Globe, AZ 85501-1302 Tax Parcel No.: 208-05-339 The undersigned Trustee, Leonard J. McDonald, Attorney at Law, disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. The beneficiary under the aforementioned Deed of Trust has accelerated the Note secured thereby and has declared the entire unpaid principal balance, as well as any and all other amounts due in connection with said Note and/or Deed of Trust, immediately due and payable.

Said sale will be made in an “as is” condition, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to satisfy the indebtedness secured by said Deed of Trust, advances thereunder, with interest as provided therein, and the unpaid principal balance of the Note secured by said Deed of Trust with interest thereon as proved in said Note, plus fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. Original Principal Balance: $108,900.00 Original Trustor: Mark Steele, an unmarried man 393 South Sixth Street; Globe AZ 85501-1302 Current Beneficiary: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Care of / Servicer Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc. One Home Campus Des Moines, IA 50328 Current Trustee: Leonard J. McDonald 2525 East Camelback Road, Suite 700 Phoenix, Arizona 85016 (602) 255-6035 Leonard J. McDonald Attorney at Law Trustee/Successor Trustee, is regulated by and qualified per ARS Section 33-803 (A)2 as a member of The Arizona Bar A-4558867 State 01/26/2016, 02/02/2016, 02/09/2016, 02/16/2016 16051: 2/9, 2/12, 2/16/2016 NOTICE (for publication) ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR I. Name: Spring Management, LLC FILE NUMBER: L20579800 II. The address of the known place of business is: 8709 W. Deer Drive Strawberry, AZ 85544 III. The name and street address of the Statutory Agent is: Durfee Law Group, PLLC 1423 S. Higley Road, Suite 127 Mesa, AZ 85206 Management of the limited liability company is vested in a manager or managers. The names and addresses of each person who is a manager AND each member who owns a twenty percent or greater interest in the capital or profits of the limited liability company are: Arthur Thomas Johnson manager P.O. Box 61 Coolidge, AZ 85128 The Mystic Family Trust, dated December 1, 2015 member manager P.O. Box 61 Coolidge, AZ 85128 2/9, 2/12, 2/16/16 CNS-2833789# 16052: 2/9, 2/12, 2/16/2016 NOTICE (for publication) ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARI-

LEGAL NOTICES ZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR I. Name: Rustic Enterprises, LLC FILE NUMBER: L20579764 II. The address of the known place of business is: 8709 W. Deer Drive Strawberry, AZ 85544 III. The name and street address of the Statutory Agent is: Durfee Law Group, PLLC 1423 S. Higley Road, Suite 127 Mesa, AZ 85206 Management of the limited liability company is vested in a manager or managers. The names and addresses of each person who is a manager AND each member who owns a twenty percent or greater interest in the capital or profits of the limited liability company are: Spring Management, LLC manager P.O. Box 61 Coolidge, AZ 85128 The Mystic Family Trust, dated December 1, 2015 member manager P.O. Box 61 Coolidge, AZ 85128 2/9, 2/12, 2/16/16 CNS-2833797# 16053: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23, 3/1/2016; TS No. AZ08000131-15-1S APN 304-20-047 TO No. 150047556-AZ-VOO NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of sale under that certain Deed of Trust dated May 24, 2007 and recorded on May 31, 2007 as Instrument No. 2007-009259 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Gila County, Arizona. NOTICE! IF YOU BELIEVE THERE IS A DEFENSE TO THE TRUSTEE SALE OR IF YOU HAVE AN OBJECTION TO THE TRUSTEE SALE, YOU MUST FILE AN ACTION AND OBTAIN A COURT ORDER PURSUANT TO RULE 65, ARIZONA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, STOPPING THE SALE NO LATER THAN 5:00 P.M. MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME ON THE LAST BUSINESS DAY BEFORE THE SCHEDULED DATE OF THE SALE, OR YOU MAY HAVE WAIVED ANY DEFENSES OR OBJECTIONS TO THE SALE. UNLESS YOU OBTAIN AN ORDER, THE SALE WILL BE FINAL AND WILL OCCUR at public auction to the highest bidder Front Entrance, Gila County Courthouse, 1400 E. Ash Street, Globe, AZ 8550 on March 16, 2016 at 11:00 AM on said day. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 906 E WAGON WHEEL CIR, PAYSON, AZ 85541 LOT 48, OF COW TOWN ESTATES, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF GILA COUNTY, ARIZONA, RECORDED IN MAP(S) NO. 221. APN: 304-20-047 Original Principal Balance $185,000.00 Name and Address of original Trustor JOSEPH A MUSTACA AND WENDY L MUSTACA, HUSBAND AND WIFE, AS COMMUNITY PROPERTY WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP 906 E WAGON WHEEL CIR, PAYSON, AZ 85541 Name and Address of the Beneficiary The Bank of New York Mellon FKA The Bank of New York as Trustee for the Certificate holders of the CWALT, Inc. Alternative Loan Trust 2007-17CB, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-17CB c/o Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC 4425 Ponce de Leon Blvd.

Coral Gables, FL 33146 Name and Address of Trustee MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps 17100 Gillette Ave, Irvine, CA 92614 949-252-8300 TDD: 800-367-8939 Said sale will be made for cash (payable at time of sale), but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the Note secured by said Trust Deed, which includes interest thereon as provided in said Note, advances, if any under the terms of said Trust Deed, interest on advances, if any, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trust created by said Trust Deed. The Trustee will accept only cash or cashier’s check for reinstatement or price bid payment. Reinstatement payment must be paid before five o’clock P.M. (5:00 P.M.) on the last day other than a Saturday or legal holiday before the date of sale.

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LEGAL NOTICES The purchaser at the sale, other than the Beneficiary to the extent of his credit bid, shall pay the price bid no later than five o’clock P.M. (5:00 P.M.) of the following day, other than a Saturday or legal holiday. If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. Conveyance of the property shall be without warranty, express or implied, and subject to all liens, claims or interest having a priority senior to the Deed of Trust. The Trustee shall not express an opinion as to the condition of title. DATE: December 8, 2015 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps Amanda Alcantara, Authorized Signatory Manner of Trustee qualification: Real Estate Broker, as required by ARS Section 33-803, Subsection A Name of Trustee’s regulator: Arizona Department of Real Estate SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLINE AT www.Auction.com AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: Auction.com at 800.280.2832. Order no.

AZ16-000002-1, Pub Dates, 02/09/2016, 02/16/2016, 02/23/2016, 03/01/2016.

16055: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23/2016 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF GILA In the Matter of the Estate of WALTER E. DIBBLE, JR. Deceased.

NO. PB 201600009 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that JAMES DIBBLE has been appointed Personal Representative of this Estate.

All persons having claims against the Estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented by delivering or mailing a written statement of the claim to the Personal Representative, c/o RICHARD C. KEYT, 7373 East Doubletree Ranch Road, Suite B-165, Scottsdale, Arizona 85258.

DATED this 2nd day of February, 2016. s/Richard C. Keyt RICHARD C. KEYT 7373 East Doubletree Ranch Road #B-165 Scottsdale, Arizona 85258 Attorney for Personal Representative 16056: 2/9, 2/16, 2/23/2016 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF GILA In the Matter of the Estate of KENNETH BUCKINGHAM, Deceased No. PB2016-00001 NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION NOTICE IS GIVEN to all creditors of the Estate that: 1.

Rebecca J. Buckingham has been appointed as Personal Representative of the Estate.

2.

Claims against the Estate must be presented within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or be forever barred.

3.

Claims against the Estate may be presented by delivering or mailing a written statement of the claim to Rebecca J. Buckingham, care of Rilus M. Dana, Dana and Associates, L.L.C., 1234 S. Power Road, Suite #102, AZ 85206.

Dated this 2nd day of February, 2016.

DANA AND ASSOCIATED, LLC By: /s/ Rilus M. Dana RILUS M. DANA 1234 S. Power Road, Suite #102 Mesa, AZ 85206 Counsel for Personal Representative 16060: 2/16, 2/23, 3/1, 3/8/2016; Notice of Trustee’s Sale Recorded on: 1/12/2016 TS No. : AZ-15-695738-BF Order No. : 733-1501891-70 The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of Sale under that certain Deed of Trust dated 7/29/2013 and recorded 8/1/2013 as Instrument 2013-009128 , in the office of the County Recorder of GILA County, Arizona . Notice! If you believe there is a defense to the trustee sale or if you have an objection to the trustee sale, you must file an action and obtain a court order pursuant to rule 65, Arizona rules of civil procedure, stop$22/hr., after 180 days $24.20/hr.

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LEGAL NOTICES ping the sale no later than 5:00 p.m. mountain standard time of the last business day before the scheduled date of the sale, or you may have waived any defenses or objections to the sale. Unless you obtain an order, the sale will be final and will occur at public auction to the highest bidder: Sale Date and Time: 4/27/2016 at 11:00AM Sale Location: At the Front Entrance to the Gila County Courthouse, located at 1400 E. Ash Street, Globe, AZ 85501 Legal Description: Lot 9 and 10, Pine Creek Subdivision No. 1, according to Map No. 190 and Amended Dedication recorded April 22, 1960 in Docket 114, Page 124, records of Gila County, Arizona. Purported Street Address: 3514 N PINE CREEK DR, PINE, AZ 85544 Tax Parcel Number: 301-26-009A Original Principal Balance: $255,189.00 Name and Address of Current Beneficiary: Wells Fargo Bank, NA C/O WELLS FARGO BANK N.A. 1 Home Campus X2504-017 Customer Service Des Moines, IA 50328 Name(s) and Address(s) of Original Trustor(s): David L Sutton and Terri L Sutton, husband and wife 3514 N PINE CREEK DR, PINE, AZ 85544 Name and Address of Trustee/Agent: Quality Loan Service Corporation 411 Ivy Street, San Diego, CA 92101 Phone: ( 866 ) 645-7711 Sales Line: 800-280-2832 Login to: www.auction.com AZ-15-695738-BF The successor trustee qualifies to act as a trustee under A.R.S. §33-803(A)(1) in its capacity as a licensed Arizona escrow agent regulated by the Department of Financial Institu-

LEGAL NOTICES tions. If the sale is set aside for any reason, including if the Trustee is unable to convey title, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the monies paid to the Trustee. This shall be the Purchaser’s sole and exclusive remedy. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Trustor, the Trustee, the Beneficiary, the Beneficiary’s Agent, or the Beneficiary’s Attorney. As required by law, you are hereby notified that a negative credit report reflecting on your credit record may be submitted to a credit report agency if you fail to fulfill the terms of your credit obligations. If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the note holders right’s against the real property only. QUALITY MAY BE CONSIDERED A DEBT COLLECTOR ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE . TS No.: AZ-15-695738-BF Dated: 1/8/2016 QUALITY LOAN SERVICE CORPORATION By: Martha Sanchez, Assistant Secretary A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document. State of: California County of: San Diego On 1/8/2016 before me, Courtney Patania a notary public, personally appeared Martha

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LEGAL NOTICES Sanchez, who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person(s) whose name(s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in his/her/their authorized capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument . I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct. WIT NESS my hand and official seal. Signature Courtney Patania Commission No. 2044156 NOTARY PUBLIC - California San Diego County My Comm. Expires 11/1/2017 IDSPub #0101496 2/16/2016 2/23/2016 3/1/2016 3/8/2016 16061: 2/12, 2/16, 2/19/2016 NOTICE (for publication) ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR I. Name: GASTINEAU CONSULTING LLC II. The address of the known place of business is: 9684 JUNIPER RD., STRAWBERRY, AZ 85544. The name and street address of the Statutory Agent is: MARC GASTINEAU, 9684 JUNIPER RD., STRAWBERRY, AZ 85544.

III. Management of the limited liability company is reserved to the members. The names and addresses of each person who is a member are: SUSAN GASTINEAU, MEMBER 9684 JUNIPER RD.,

LEGAL NOTICES STRAWBERRY, AZ 85544; MARC GASTINEAU, MEMBER, 9684 JUNIPER RD., STRAWBERRY, AZ 85544 16068: 2/16, 2/19, 2/23/2016 NOTICE ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR 1.

CHILSON INVESTMENTS, LLC L - 20643047 2.

The address of the known place of business is: 342 W. H Bar Ranch Road Payson, AZ 85541 3.

The name and a d d r e s s of the Statutory Agent is: Jeri L. Chilson 342 W. H Bar Ranch Road Payson, AZ 85541 4.

Management of the limited liability company is vested in a manager.

The names and addresses of each person who is a manager AND each member who owns a twenty percent or greater interest in the capital or profits of the limited liability company is: Jeri L. Chilson, Manager 342 W. H. Bar Ranch Road Payson, AZ 85541 Jeri L. Chilson, Member 342 W. H. Bar Ranch Road Payson, AZ 85541 John C. Chilson, Member 342 W. H. Bar Ranch Road Payson, AZ 85541

PAYSON ROUNDUP

Payson Roundup SPORTS Tuesday, February 16, 2016

6B

Big money, for big fish by

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A nice-sized field of 78 pro and amateur teams, including several from the Rim Country, turned out Feb. 13 for the fledgling Wild West Bass Trail circuit’s first-ever tournament at Roosevelt Lake.

The Star Valley father and son team of Jimbo and Levi Armstrong turned in the best showing among the local entrants, fishing to a second-place showing and $3,650 in prize money.

However, the pair would be celebrating a first-place showing had it caught three more ounces.

The Arm­ strong team weighed in a seven-fish limit that tipped the scales at 16.01 pounds, which was just short of the 16.04 pounds caught

by Victor and Debra Cun­ ningham of Tonto Basin.

The winners pocketed $6,500 in prize money and $500 worth of Lowrance and Yamamoto fishing equipment.

Clifford Pirch, a Bassmaster Elite Pro, teamed with longtime friend and high school teammate Reese Randall to weigh in a seven-fish limit of 12.69 pounds to take 12th place. The finish was worth $700 in prize money.

Jake Randall and Chuck Thompson fished to 15th place with a limit of 11.86 pounds.

The battle for “Big Fish” honors turned into a nail-biter when several anglers weighed in 4-plus pounders.

The team of Pawlik/Coplan took first with a 4.48-pound lunker, the Casner/Seay duo was second at 4.20 pounds and the Armstrongs third with a 4.09-pound largemouth.

The champion Cunningham team had a 4.08-pound fish.

Other local anglers entered included Keith Hunsinger, Buddy Randall, Ronnie Sexton, Bruce Johnson, Luke Plante, Tom Karavites, Adam Combs and Mike Elliott.

The Wild West circuit has upcoming tournaments scheduled for Feb. 27-28 at Lake Havasu, March 26 at Lake Mohave and the team championship is June 25-26 at Lake Mead.

Several will also be held in California.

There are those locally predicting Wild West has a bright future because in only about three months of existence it has already attracted an impressive list of sponsors and partners including Lowrance, Ranger Boats, Fishclipper, General Tire, Power-Pole and Gary Yamamoto custom baits.

The attraction of the circuit is that local anglers can compete without traveling long distances, low entry fees and nice-sized paybacks.

Longhorns lose From page 1B Butte’s upset magic evaporate in a 67-56 loss to a high octane SC crew.

With all the section tournaments now concluded, the top 24 teams have been seeded into the D-III state tournament set to begin Feb. 16 and wrap up with the crowning of the champion on Feb. 27 at Gila River Arena.

From S-V, Scottsdale Christian enters as a No. 3 seed and received a bye in the first round.

In the second round, the Eagles will play the winner of

a first round game pitting No. 19 Tuba City against No. 14 Verrado.

Poston Butte, despite being a section tournament runner-up, takes a not-so-advantageous No. 21 seed to the state tournament and opens today, Feb. 16, against No. 12 Holbrook.

Despite losing to Poston Butte in the section tournament, Valley Christian was surprisingly awarded a lofty No. 8 seed and a first round state bye.

VC will play Feb. 19 against the winner of an opener pitting No. 24 Lake Havasu against No. 9 Yuma Cibola.

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Roosevelt Lake hosted a national bass tournament that drew 78 pro and amateur teams competing for thousands in prize money.