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Charter balks

Spring sprang too soon

Parents told school will delay or cancel Payson plan by

Michele Nelson

roundup staff reporter

Photos courtesy of DJ Craig

Frost may chill early bloomers by

Michele Nelson

roundup staff reporter

Tricked by a warm, dry spell, blossoms burst out two weeks early this year and could face a damaging frost.

California has been hammered by winter storms that dumped upward of a foot of snow in the Sierra Nevadas and coastal mountains.

Often, those storms then swoop down onto Arizona, but the one burying California now looks like it will leave barely a trace here — beyond the chance of some rain this week.

The National Weather Service forecasts a 20 percent chance of showers starting Monday night and staying until Tuesday. The Weatherbug Ap says there’s a 40 percent chance of frozen mix showers on Tuesday.

The NWS said the best chance for showers will be from the Mogollon Rim north through the White Mountains.

The American Leadership Academy (ALA) has reportedly postponed or canceled plans to build an 800-student, K-8 charter school in Payson.

ALA officials last Thursday reportedly told a closed-door meeting with parents who had expressed an interest in enrolling their children that the group has canceled or at least delayed plans to open a school here in August.

ALA CEO Brent McArthur said he could not provide an official response until Tuesday after press time because the school is contacting all “families that have signed up with ALA Payson. We’d like to finish those communications prior to releasing an official statement to the media.”

On Thursday, ALA officials barred a reporter from covering the meeting, saying the meeting was for people who “supported” the charter school, not people who “distracted” from it.

The comment was an apparent reference to a multi-part Roundup series on ALA, which has about 6,000 students, mostly at charter schools in the Valley.

The Roundup series quoted former ALA parents and teachers critical of ALA, as well as administrators and parents supporting the charter school.

The series documented that ALA pays teachers about half as much as the Payson Unified School District, while spending a more than twice as large a percentage of its budget on administration. The series also found

• See Charter, page 5A

Iwo Jima: A love story

• See Early blossoms, page 8A

Payson dusts off American Gulch plan by

Alexis Bechman

roundup staff reporter

Thanks to a grant from the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the long-awaited American Gulch project is finally moving for-

150 days for assault on ex-girlfriend by

Alexis Bechman

roundup staff reporter

A man convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend, biting her finger and holding her down, was sentenced Monday to probation and five months in jail.

Christopher Lee Wooley’s lawyer, Tait Elkie, asked Judge Tim Wright to let Wooley serve his jail term out in the Valley so Wooley could get work release, but Wright denied the request and ordered Wooley be taken into custody Monday and serve his sentence in Globe.

In February, a jury heard from Wooley’s ex-girlfriend, who testified Wooley held her down and choked her after they got into an argument. The couple’s two children, ages 2 and 3, were asleep in a nearby room when the assault took place.

The woman testified she thought she was going to die.

Wooley left the woman’s home and went to his mother’s house, where police caught up See Domestic violence, page 8A

ward with a loop trail connecting the Sawmill Crossing to Westerly Road.

The Payson Town Council recently received an update on Phase I and II of the project, which will start in two weeks and should be complete by August of 2017, said Sheila DeSchaaf, community development director.

Crews will add benches, interpretive signs and wildlife viewing areas along a walking path that follows a short section of the gulch.

The gulch has been a planned open space park since 2002. In hearings in updating the 2014-2024 General Plan, residents expressed a strong desire to see the area turned into a recreation destination to draw commercial activity back to Main Street.

At Thursday’s council meeting, one investor said his group wants to buy the Oxbow Saloon and turn it into a restaurant or microbrewery, but won’t touch the property unless

On page 3B see the second part of our series on the stories of Rim Country residents who survived the most ferocious fighting of World War II. Jack and Leora Day got married just before he shipped out for his trial by combat.

the town does something about the weedy, overgrown, trash-strewn gulch area.

Payne Palmer said an article in the Roundup that proposed making the Oxbow a focal point on Main Street got his attention and he had a Realtor give him a tour of the property. His group imagines leaving the front façade of the Oxbow, but tearing down the rest and building a microbrewery.

However, when Palmer went out back of the property, the condition of the surrounding area gave him pause.

“That is a critical part of town that needs to be enhanced,” he said.

Palmer learned there is a plan to upgrade the area, but it has never been implemented.

He suggested the town look into forming a special improvement district to clean up the area from Green Valley Park to Westerly

• See American Gulch, page 2A

Gentle steeds produce startling results for kids Dueker Ranch helping special needs children by

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Cory, 11, gets settled on his Haflinger mare for a therapy session at Dueker Ranch in Star Valley, which is raising money to support and expand its program for special needs kids.

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Ruthy Hodges is learning a new school this year.

She recently moved from Payson Elementary School to Julia Randall and like most kids, the move has been exciting, but scary. Faced with new teachers, staff and students, Ruthy does not know where she fits in and if the kids will accept her.

Ruthy, 10, has sensory processing disorder and not everyone at her new school understands what this means. As they work through the changes, she has suffered a few bad days when she came home upset and crying, said her mother Malia Richards.

But now Malia knows just what to do.

She has a place to take her daughter that will wash away the confusion and lets Ruthy be the carefree kid that loves to giggle, wear pink boots and ride the biggest horse around.

Since September, Dueker Ranch, at 214 N. Cornerstone Way, has welcomed Ruthy and Malia.

Dennis and Kathy Dueker started the nonprofit Star Valley horse ranch for special needs people last year. They offer free weekly lessons to ages 3 to 30.

On Monday, surrounded by excited onlookers, Ruthy beamed as she stepped up to saddle the biggest

• See Dueker Ranch, page 2A

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horse at the ranch, Rex, a 2,100pound, former Sedona sleigh horse that measures 19 hands high.

The first day Ruthy, a tiny girl no more than half as tall as Rex, arrived at the ranch she proudly pointed at Rex, 18, and declared she would ride the gentle beast.

An animal lover, Ruthy has always had a way with animals, her mother said. She once found Ruthy curled up in her closet, “hibernating” like a bear for a nap.

Dennis and Kathy said Ruthy would work up to riding Rex. They put her on one of the small horses at first, but in no time, Ruthy was ready to ride Rex. In February, Ruthy rode Rex for the first time. On her Facebook page, Malia wrote Ruthy was in heaven.

“She may be little, but she is fierce,” she wrote. “No fear!”

Holding colorful reins Monday, Ruthy, in a commanding voice, told Rex to “ride on” and proudly led the horse around the arena, her head held high as a pair of volunteers on either side kept a close watch.

On the opposite side of the arena, Cory Alderman, 11, directed Autumn, an 11-year-old Haflinger mare, to also “ride on.”

Shelly Alderman, Cory’s mom, sat outside the arena on a folding camp chair. She smiled and said Cory practices the commands at home. Cory has autism and ADHD. Malia told Shelly about Dueker Ranch and the services they offer.

Living in a rural area, families have few programs outside of Special Olympics for special needs children.

“It is very hard,” said Shelly, a single mom. “It is very challenging. So, I was very excited when I found out about this place.”

Three weeks ago, Cory came to the ranch for the first time and was instantly hooked.

Shelly said Cory took to Dennis especially quickly.

Dennis, who leads the classes, is certified by the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship International (PATH), a nonprofit that promotes equine-assisted activities and therapies for individuals with special needs.

Dennis fell into horse therapy unexpectedly.

Four years ago, a friend introduced him to the field when asked if Dennis could help at his ranch where he was starting a horse therapy program for special needs

Photos by Alexis Bechman/Roundup

Cory got a ride at a ranch specializing in horse therapy for children with help from volunteers and Dennis and Kathy Dueker (above and upper right).

Help Dueker Help Dueker ranch will hold a March 26 fundraising tribute to John Denver show at 7 p.m. at the high school auditorium. Tickets cost $15, with proceeds going to provide horse therapy to special needs children.

For other donations, contact Dueker Ranch, 214 N. Cornerstone Way, Star Valley, AZ 85541 or visit www.gofundme.com/ DuekerRanch.

Call 928-978-7039 for more information or to volunteer.

They are always in need of more volunteers. children.

“I told him I would help, but I did not believe that pony rides would help handicapped kids,” he wrote on their website. “After the first Saturday, I was a believer.”

Dennis said he has seen nonverbal children speak their first words sitting in the saddle. He has helped wheelchair-bound children feel freedom for the first time on the back of a horse. He has seen autistic children learn to focus and follow directions while riding.

He has had parents thank them for helping their children reach seemingly impossible goals.

“Miracles really do happen with the help of horses.”

Dueker Ranch currently provides free horse lessons for special needs children and adults and soon hopes to open it to veterans and first responders as a way to help with posttraumatic stress disorder.

Kathy said they use draft horses because of their easygoing nature and even temperament.

As Kathy watched Ruthy and Cory ride around the arena, Dennis directed them through several exercises, waving their arms and twisting their cores.

Kathy explained this helps with their balance and coordination.

He then held up a bucket full of Easter cards and had the riders pick their favorite one to give their horse. They then had to ride to three other buckets and find the matching card.

Kathy said tasks like this help them concentrate. Each lesson lasts about 45 minutes.

Kathy said most of the riders heard about the ranch from friends or through Dr. Judith Hunt.

Kathy said it has been amazing to see more and more kids come to the ranch each week.

The couple lived in the Valley for many years before moving to California. Kathy worked in the stables at Disneyland, tending to the draft horses that pull the streetcars.

The couple grew weary of

California and wanted to move back to Arizona. Dennis’ parents found the Star Valley property, which has a home, stalls and arena. In 2012, the couple moved back.

Today, Dueker Ranch is open four days a week and the couple hopes to expand hours.

They rely heavily on donations and volunteers to cover the $80,000 annual cost of running the ranch.

On Monday, volunteer regular Ronda Caldwell, helped several other volunteers get Rex and Autumn ready to ride.

Caldwell said she heard about the ranch at the Women’s Wellness Fair, where Dueker Ranch had a table.

Caldwell grew up with horses and said she was looking for a way to volunteer in the community and this felt like a good fit.

Caldwell said she has seen children blossom, from shy and timid to confident riders.

Shelly said Cory has really taken to the ranch and she uses it as a reward when he does well in school.

Malia said every aspect of the ranch is positive.

“She just loves coming here.”

Dueker Ranch is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and accepts donations.

They also hold fundraising concerts. Visit their Facebook page for upcoming concerts, see pictures of riders and follow Ruthy’s and Cory’s progress.

American Gulch trail loop planned From page 1A Road.

“It would make the backyard of Main Street come to life,” he said.

The council asked town staff look into it.

DeSchaaf said while the ultimate goal is to clean up the entire length of the gulch, a tributary to the East Verde River, Phase I and II are paving a smaller section behind the Sawmill Crossing.

Crews will build a pathway that loops the shopping center to just west of Westerly Road and back. The path will connect with existing pathways on the north and south of the gulch already installed by private businesses, such as Messinger Payson Funeral Home along the north. The project will include handicap accessible wildlife viewing areas with benches and interpretive signage explaining ecology and history of the gulch.

Interpretive signs will promote the preservation of the gulch as a recreational amenity and illustrate wildlife commonly seen from the viewing area plus birding and fishing opportunities farther downstream at Green Valley Park, DeSchaaf said.

Staff hopes the interpretive signs will help promote preservation of the gulch as a wildlife viewing/tourism amenity rather than a barrier to development.

Education about the ecology and historical significance of the gulch and development of designated trails will aid in the control of human caused damage to the ephemeral wash.

The project has sat shelved for many years, but the town can dust off the plans and move forward thanks to Heritage Grant Funds from Game and Fish.

DeSchaaf said benches have already been delivered and are awaiting construction.

The Payson Water Department fabricated some “beautiful” signage for the path and estimated completion is August of 2017, but construction on the viewing area and Phase I concrete walkways on the north side will start in approximately two weeks, she said.

The new loop is a link within the Payson Area Trails Systems (PATS), an interconnecting trail system of pathways, sidewalks and bike lanes that form an interior trail network.

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At the Mazatzal Casino

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).

• Mexican Buffet: Wednesday, March 9 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Cedar Ridge Restaurant.

• Bingo Dreamcatcher Jackpot! Thursday, March 10, win up to $2,000 cash with purchase of a Dreamcatcher Pack!

• Trail of Laughs — Pow Wow Comedy Jam is one of the fastest rising tours on the comedy circuit. See the performance Sunday, March 13. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., the show starts at 6 p.m. Tickets available at www.mazatzal-casino.com or at the cashier’s cage.

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p.m. at Tiny’s, 600 E. Hwy. 260, Payson.

Gosar will then have a Budget Town Hall Meeting from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Messinger Payson Funeral Home, 901 S. Westerly Rd., Payson.

Both programs are open to the public.

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 the church’s log building at the southeast corner of its campus.

Rock of Ages Lutheran Church is presenting “The Passion” at 6 p.m., Wednesday, March 9. Rock of Ages is at 204 W. Airport Road (corner of Airport and McLane), Payson.

Everyone is invited to join in “The Passion” Lenten meditation.

For more information, call Pastor David Sweet, (928) 970-7606.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Easy Street, Payson will have a Soup and Salad Supper at 5:30 p.m. followed by a Lenten Program on Wednesday, March 9.

Want to learn more about Saints? St. Paul’s invites you to join them for an interesting and insightful Lenten study. WE welcome everyone!

Shepherd of the Pines Lutheran Church, 507 W. Wade Lane, Payson will be serving a Soup Supper at 5 p.m., followed with and a Lenten Service at 6 p.m., Wednesday, March 9 with the theme, The Courtyard - A Place of Renewal. For information, contact Pastor Steve DeSanto, (928) 474-5440.

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Falls can result in severe injuries such as cuts, hip fractures and/or head trauma.

Falls are the most common cause of traumatic brain injuries and are the most common cause of nonfatal injuries and hospital trauma admissions.

Learn more at the Wednesday, March 9 Lunch & Learn at Banner High Country Seniors, 215 N. Beeline Hwy., Payson. The guest speaker is Mike Ward, R.N. Trauma Coordinator. Call (928) 472-9290 to register at least 24 hours in advance.

Gosar to speak

Congressman Paul Gosar is scheduled to speak at two Payson events Wednesday, March 9.

First he will take part in the Small Business Round Table from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30

Shepherd of the Pines Lutheran Church, 507 W. Wade Lane, Payson, is hosting a Community Breakfast from 8 a.m. to 8:45 a.m., Friday, March 11 at the church.

The menu includes scrambled eggs, sausage, hash browns and the “house” specialty - sausage and gravy. Coffee and Juice will also be available. For additional information, call Pastor Steve De Santo, (928) 474-5440.

Smart Driver class

The next AARP Smart Driver Course is from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, March 12 at the Banner High Country Seniors, with a 1-hour lunch break. To register, call (928) 472-9290 or register in person at Banner High Country Seniors. AARP members pay $15, non-members pay $20 (cash or check), payable on day of class. The class is designed for those 50 and older, but anyone who is at least 18 may participate.

Frugal Formal guest is ‘Survivor’ Joe Anglim The Animal Welfare Thrift Shop presents the 3rd Annual Frugal Formal Fundraiser from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday, March 19 at Belle’s Bar (Beeline Bowl) featuring special guest Joe Anglim from “Survivor – Second Chance.” The $20 ticket buys a buffet dinner with no-host bar and live music by Plum Krazy. There will also be a silent auction and 50/50 raffle.

Tickets are available at the Animal Welfare Thrift Shop, 434 S. Hwy. 87 (across from Wendy’s). For more information, call (928) 951-2587.

All of the evening’s proceeds will help local animals in need. The money is used to provide financial assistance for emergency vet bills and help local animal rescue groups (Aussies & Friends, Friends of Ferals and Wonders of the Wild Animal Sanctuary).

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The Payson High School Spring Concert is at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 9 at the District 1 Gila County Supervisor Tommie Payson High School Auditorium.

Cline Martin will be the guest speaker at The band will play a selection from its the Payson Tea Party meeting Tuesday, repertoire for the community.

March 8. She will discuss the county projThe Rim Country Middle School Spring ects planned for Payson, forest issues and Concert is at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 10 other items of interest to the audience. in the Payson High School Auditorium.

The meeting is from 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. at The students from the music department Tiny’s Family Restaurant, 600 E. Hwy. 260, will entertain the community.

Payson. For more information call (928) 951-6774.

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Eggstravaganza The 17th Annual Egg Scramble – the Eggstravaganza - for children ages 12 and under will begin at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, March 26 at Rumsey 2 Softball Field (near Taylor Pool) and is scheduled to conclude by 11 a.m.

Children can collect eggs filled with candy and coupons for special prizes. Scramble times and age groups are as follows: 9:30 a.m., ages 0 to 3; 9:45 a.m., ages 4 and 5; 10 a.m., ages 6 and 7; 10:15 a.m., ages 8 and 9; 10:30 a.m., ages 10 to 12; 10:45 a.m., special needs children.

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Congressman Paul Gosar is scheduled to present two programs Wednesday, March 9, one from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Tiny’s, the second from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Messinger’s. See details below.

Jazz concert March 13 Jazz and R&B vocalist Renee’ Patrick returns to Payson to perform at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 13. The program will feature a septet at the Community Presbyterian Church, 800 W. Main St., Payson.

Joining Patrick in the performance will be Beth Lederman on piano and special guest trumpeter and violinist Devon Bridgewater. Rounding things out are Mike King on upright string bass and local drummer Gerry Reynolds.

To reserve a $5 ticket contact gerry-reynolds@hotmail.com.

Learn Payson history Have you ever been curious about Payson’s prehistory? Then please join the Northern Gila County Historical Society at the Rim Country Museum for its continuing Local History Series at 1 p.m., Tuesday, March 15.

Scott Wood of the Friends of the Tonto National Forest will discuss Payson area prehistory, from the first hunter-gatherers through the Hohokam colonists, to the subsequent arrival of the Apaches, as well as the on-going excavations at the Goat Camp ruin.

The Rim Country Museum is at Green Valley Park. Please come early, as seating is limited. Light refreshments will be served.

Learn about federal nutrition assistance

An information session for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for seniors is from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., Wednesday, March 16 at the Payson Senior Center, 514 W. Main. Anyone 64 or older on a fixed income should apply even if receiving benefits from Medicare or Social Security.

To book an appointment to sign up for SNAP, call the Center at (928) 474-4876.

Appointments take approximately an hour and will take place March 16 after the information session. A second information session and sign-up is planned for Wednesday, March 30 at the Center.

Arts, crafts and bake sale

The MHA Foundation Auxiliary is having an Arts & Crafts Sale, along with a Bake Sale, at the Activity Center, 306 E. Aero Dr, next to the Almost New Thrift Shop, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday, March 18.

Many of the auxiliary’s top sellers will be available including: baby blankets, bibs and toys, potato bags, scarves, catnip toys, microwave bowls and much more. Get Easter and Mother’s Day shopping done early.

Proceeds from the sale will go to support the many programs and scholarships offered by the MHA Foundation. For more information, call (928) 472-2588.

Lincoln Day Luncheon Tickets are available for the Gila County Republican Committee’s Lincoln Day Luncheon Fundraiser with guest speakers Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and U.S. Congressman Dr. Paul Gosar.

The event is at the Mazatzal Casino (Hwy. 87 at MM 251, Payson) at 11:30 a.m., Monday, April 4.

The $60 per person price includes a prime rib luncheon, door prizes, silent auction, and raffle opportunities.

For additional details and to arrange for ticket purchase, contact Shirley, (928) 951-6774 or Gary, (928) 478-8186. Checks should be made out to the “Gila County Republican Committee”. The deadline to purchase tickets is Tuesday, March 29.

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

• Pine Library: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Blood drive, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Pine, First Baptist Church gym • Gila County Supervisor Tommie Martin: 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. at Payson Tea Party meeting, Tiny’s, 600 E. Hwy. 260, Payson

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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.

• Gosar visit: 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., Small Business Round Table, Tiny’s, 600 E. Hwy. 260, Payson; Budget Town Hall meeting, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., Messinger’s, 901 S. Westerly, Payson • Payson High School Spring Concert, 6:30 p.m., PHS auditorium

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Looking ahead

• 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.

• Rim Country Middle School Spring Concert, 6:30 p.m., PHS auditorium

• Community Breakfast: 8 a.m. to 8:45 a.m., Shepherd of the Pines, 507 W. Wade Lane, 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

• Pine Library: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• Payson Public 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

March 13 • Jazz concert with Reneé Patrick, Beth Lederman, Devon Bridgewater, Mike King and Gerry Reynolds, 3 p.m., Community Presbyterian Church, 800 W. Main, Payson March 15 • Program an Payson’s “pre-history” 1 p.m., at Northern Gila County Historical Soceity Museum, Green Valley Park

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• March 7, 1923: The New Republic publishes Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping

By Woods on a Snowy Evening.” The poem, beginning with the famous line “Whose woods these are, I think I know,” has introduced millions of American students to poetry.

• March 8, 1951: The Lonely Hearts Killers, Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, are executed in the electric chair in New York. The couple had schemed to seduce, rob and murder women who placed personal ads in newspapers.

• March 9, 1981: A nuclear accident at a Japanese power plant dumps 16 tons of radioactive waste into Wakasa Bay. Despite the risk to people eating contaminated fish, the public was not told of the spill for more than a month. Fish in the area displayed mutations for several years afterward.

• March 6, 1998: A Connecticut state lottery accountant gunned down three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself.

“When a man knows he is to be hanged, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

Samuel Johnson

Slack the rope, hangman, slack the rope awhile.

It looks like the American Leadership Academy has had second thoughts about its confidently announced plan to open a campus in Payson in August.

We don’t yet have an official word from ALA officials, but people who attended a meeting last week said the 6,000-student, multi-campus charter school told supporters it will put off plans to build in Payson for at least a year — maybe indefinitely.

So it looks like the Payson Unified School District has — for the moment — avoided the financially devastating blow that would result if the new charter school managed to enroll the 500 to 1,000 K-8 students it had targeted.

People who attended the meeting included 30 to 50 parents. The charter school said it had received commitments for about 200 students — but needed 500 to make a go of a campus here.

The ALA officials reportedly also said they were having trouble nailing down a lease agreement with the Rim Country Educational Alliance and the Rim Country Educational Foundation, which jointly owns the 253-acre parcel intended for a university on which ALA wanted to build a 10-acre campus.

The ALA officials also reportedly said that former ALA teachers and parents interviewed by the Roundup had lied about conditions at the Queen Creek campus.

The Roundup undertook an in-depth investigative series on the charter school in response to those complaints. In addition to high test scores and many happy parents, the series documented some unsettling statistics. Like many charter schools, ALA had far higher rates of teacher turnover, much lower teacher salaries and much higher per-student administrative costs than district schools like Payson. Like most charter schools in the state, ALA campuses have effectively promoted white flight and an increase in school segregation.

Some parents expressed frustration and anger that ALA has apparently put off or canceled plans for a campus in Payson. They maintain that Payson schools don’t meet the needs of their children — especially when it comes to preparation for college and careers. They want a choice — and hope competition will force the Payson School District to do better.

We certainly understand — and have often shared — that frustration.

Meanwhile, school officials have expressed tremendous relief at the change in plans at ALA. Had ALA opened in August and drawn 500 students or more, it would have dealt a crippling blow to the district, with little time to come up with a survival plan.

We certainly understand — and at the moment — share that relief.

However, the hanging judge has merely deferred sentencing — not handed down an acquittal.

Clearly, Payson schools must do better — or ALA or some other charter school will eventually build a campus here.

We must reduce our dropout rate, boost scores, increase vocational training, improve science education, increase college attendance rates and preserve a rich array of electives in things like art, music, writing and internships.

The district has made real progress since the arrival of Superintendent Greg Wyman. And community groups like the Friends of Gila Community College and the newly formed ASPIRE Foundation have vowed to help by paying the tuition for high school students dual-enrolled in college classes.

That’s a start — but only a start.

We hope the Payson School Board will make the most of this reprieve by redoubling its efforts to engage the larger community — and make overdue, essential improvements in our schools.

The noted writer Samuel Johnson wrote his famous line about how a hanging concentrates the mind in a futile effort to prevent the execution of a clergyman named William Dodd for a loan scam. It seems Dodd took out a loan he said was for the 5th Earl of Chesterfield — then had the audacity to spend the money. The money lender took him to court and Johnson was hanged.

“What must I do to be saved?” asked Johnson in Dodd’s name.

Well, time for the board of education to ask the same question.

Dodd ran out of time, so he dangled.

We’ve bought a little more time: So let’s not waste it.

Slack the noose, slack the noose: Our minds are wonderfully concentrated.

As Benjamin Franklin observed to the Continental Congress at the outset of the rebellion: “We must hang together, gentlemen, else we shall most assuredly hang separately.”

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Rotary Club continues to help with area food drives Editor: In the fall of 2009, under the leadership of Roger Kreimeyer, the Payson Area Food Drive was organized. The Rim Country Rotary Club Foundation volunteered to be the nonprofit organization to handle the funds for this drive.

We have just concluded the seventh food drive. Over the past seven years, from October 1, 2009 through March 3, 2016 the food drive received $236,756 in donations.

Of this amount, after startup expense of $264, we have reimbursed the three major food banks $226,464 for food they purchased to serve the hungry — $119,381 to St Vincent DePaul food Bank; $102,513 to the Presbyterian Church Deacons food bank; and $4,570 to the Pine-Strawberry Food Bank. (The P-S Food Bank joined the food drive in the last year.)

In the food drive that just concluded, $54,539 in donations was received of which 18 percent went to St. Vincent de Paul; 20 percent to the Presbyterian Church Deacons; and 66 percent to the PAFD (administered by the Rim Country Rotary Foundation).

During the drive, 30,152 pounds of food were received of which 70 percent went to St. Vincent de Paul; 10 percent to the Presbyterian Church Deacons; and 10 percent to the PAFD storage facility provided by the Town of Payson.

As of March 2, the PAFD storage unit is almost empty and there remains $10,029 in the bank to reimburse food purchases by the three food banks until the next drive in November 2016.

The Rim Country Rotary Club Foundation continues to administer the money collected by the Food Drive. Members of the Payson Rotary Club handle the receipt and distribution of the food collected.

John Wilson, PAFD treasurer

With some people, there’s always a ‘Yes, but ...’

Editor: An often-shown commercial on TV recently displays a person attempting to outline many advantages for a certain TV provider.

After each point, he is met by individuals who answer, “Yes, but …” It gets frustrating, and eventually he questions the challenge, but gets no satisfying explanation.

There is a certain segment of the public today which illustrates this behavior, and it is, indeed, frustrating.

For example, no matter how many investigations have thoroughly looked into the Benghazi tragedy and completely cleared Hillary Clinton, a dogged segment still claims, “Yes, but …” and accuses her of wrongdoing.

The same can be said of the investigations into her email server which have shown nothing of real consequences, but continue to bring forth the “Yes, but …” chants.

Additionally, the revelation that the attack on Planned Parenthood was staged and false, even though the instigators have confessed and are under indictment, still brings forth the cry, “Yes, but …” have you seen the (rigged)

videos?

I suppose this just goes to illustrate the famous quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln that you can fool some of the people all of the time.

People who want to see images in the dark of Bigfoot in the woods are always convinced of their own perceptions.

Noble Collins

Repeating the same lies Editor: Conservative men are the first ones to shout, “I’m not a scientist” when faced with climate change facts. But when it comes to women’s health issues, they’re all gynecologists!

Like it or not, abortion is protected by our right to privacy. It’s private. None of your business.

Planned Parenthood makes a variety of health care services available to men and women.

Many lies have been told about this fine institution, and it seems everyone knows about these lies, but these lies keep being repeated.

Deb Paulk

88 deaths a day Editor: A friend of mine and I were discussing guns and gun control and to my surprise he stated that the reason he possesses guns is that he did not trust the government and he felt he needed guns to defend himself from the government.

The reason I was surprised is because my friend works for the government and takes home a government paycheck.

Of course, I had to ask why he felt strongly about this point of view. I had heard it many times before from other gun huggers, but this fear was coming from a person, I thought, was somewhat fearless.

I pointed out to him he worked for the government and since he was an American he was the government. You know the “of the People, for the People” ideal set forth by the Founding Fathers. Thus he was afraid of himself and his neighbors. All I got from that logic was a curious stare.

I let it go at that because he was obviously infected by fear.

Fear is highly contagious. It is spread by direct contact with others who have the same fear or through the mass media. You start to see it in others and begin to feel the gun fever is normal.

As the condition gets worse you join the NRA and subscribe to conspiracy websites.

Your view of the world becomes more and more cynical. The fear is growing like a tumor on your brain.

Soon it spreads to your friends and family members. Donald Trump sounds sane to you no matter how inflammatory he gets.

You buy more guns and lots of ammunition.

If the fear totally takes over you become a survivalist, move to a rural area, post your property and stockpile food. At this point there is no cure for the fear that has taken over your life.

However, if your fear hasn’t progressed to this point, there still is hope for you to recover and put your fear in remission.

Sell your guns. There will be no lack of buyers in this fear-driven market. Take the money and go on a nice vacation. Decompress.

Stop watching the shock and awe TV news.

Know that the government is far too busy doing nothing to care about you or your guns.

Rest assured the gun lobby won’t allow the government to screw up a profitable business operation.

Don’t worry be happy. You have nothing to fear but fear itself.

You and your family are far safer not having a gun in your home than having one given a simple statistical fact: Eighty-eight is the number of gun deaths each day in this country.

Roy C. Starr

Fighting the drug problem Editor: First of all, I would like to thank the Roundup for printing my letter in honor of my grandson this week, and for the article that was written. I have received several comments on the article and want to make it clear that I am solely responsible for the information that was provided.

That said, I would like to take the time to correct a couple of things in the article. First, Tanner only lost a portion of one lung, not the entire lung. Secondly, although the account of Tanner’s last day was as I had received it, I have since been informed that it was not Community Bridges that sent him to the Valley in a cab, but another facility by ambulance.

I have received several comments from people who have been touched by Tanner’s story and several by people who are angry at me. I would like to say that my letter and statements were in no way intended as an indictment of any person or organization, but a wake-up call and a rally call to our community to get serious about fighting the drug problem in our community.

This is not just about Tanner or our family, but about the many families who are suffering through similar experiences to ours. I hoped that by being open about our family’s experience others would be compelled to act.

If my thoughts or opinions have offended anyone, I am truly sorry, I only want to encourage our community to do everything we can to fight this drug problem and especially to take the dealers off the street, and get effective help for the addicts.

It is my understanding that Arizona has recently passed a law allowing judges to mandate treatment programs in lieu of incarceration.

It is my opinion that those convicted of serious drug violations should be required to do a minimum of three months in-house rehabilitation in lieu of incarceration.

Additionally, I understand that heroin in particular is such a strong addiction, that it takes nearly one year for effective treatment, so those convicted of heroin charges should be sentenced accordingly to allow them enough time to get clean to resist the addiction.

Ted Tatum

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American Leadership Academy, which has a total of 6,000 students in Valley campuses like this one in Queen Creek, has reportedly decided not to build a campus in Payson — at least for now.

From page 1A that the teacher turnover rate approached one-third annually — perhaps three times as high as Payson Unified.

Moreover, the charter school chain generally does not reflect the racial diversity of surrounding school districts, with a much higher percentage of white students than the surrounding districts.

On the other hand, the students attending the charter school chain as a whole last year had AzMerit test scores above the state average, while Payson Schools had scores generally below the state average.

One parent who attended the Thursday meeting said ALA officials hoped to have 500 students sign up, but got only about 200. About 50 people attended the Thursday meeting.

Julia Callahan, the director of community development for the Payson Christian School, did attend the meeting.

“Basically they talked about the land and that the land lease was not ready and the building would have to be downsized,” she said.

ALA had submitted plans to Payson to build a school on about 10 acres of leased land. The plan originally called for athletic fields available for public use on a 20- or 25-acre parcel, but the school quickly downsized those plans after meetings with town officials to discuss things like water impact fees.

Callahan said ALA officials also insisted the press had reported “lies” about the school by interviewing former parents and teachers.

Many questions continue to swirl about how the land sale proceeded through the Rim Country Educational Alliance and Foundation.

With backing from the MHA Foundation, the

Alliance and the Foundation bought 253 acres from the U.S. Forest Service on which to build a 6,000-student university and various support facilities. The Alliance plans to set up a new, Special Purpose Entity to actually lease portions of the land to a university and various spin-off operations like the proposed charter school. That arrangement would give a big tax break to possible investors, although ALA officials have said the tax break would not benefit them since a nonprofit entity operates the schools. A for-profit parent company would build the school.

In any case, the Alliance board continues to study the possible structure of that arrangement, which might mean it can’t yet actually sign a lease with any of the spin-off businesses — like a hotel, research park, dorms and commercial center.

“The big battle cry was you deserve choice,” said Callahan.

Administrators for ALA insisted that not only would students get a better education, but that the district schools would have to improve their programs to compete for students.

Callahan quoted ALA administrators as saying the accounts given to the Roundup by former ALA parents in the Valley were lies.

Former Payson Mayor Craig Swartwood and former Payson Unified School Board member Rory Huff, who had put numerous ads in the Roundup opposing the charter school, said they felt great relief.

“I think I’m very, very happy that we’ve forced all of this for now,” said Swartwood. “It gives us an opportunity to make this school district something to be proud of.”

He said he has committed to making this school district the best in the state.

After a Payson School Board meeting

Monday night, PUSD Superintendent Greg Wyman also expressed relief. He said if the district lost 500 students to a charter school it would result in a $3 million hit to the budget, probably forcing the closure of at least one school site and other extensive cutbacks.

He said he’d heard rumors that the charter school had sent a letter to interested parents that said it had scrapped all plans to build a school in Payson.

He said the district will work hard to improve its programs so the parents thinking about moving their children to the charter school will be happy with the district.

“The issue is that we’re always looking to up our game — whether the charter school comes or not.”

He said the district both has to educate the community about what’s going on in the schools — and improve its programs.

“We can always educate people better to what we’re doing — our kids are fantastic kids,” said Wyman. “At the same time — every single day we’re trying to do a better job of providing quality education — it doesn’t matter whose coming in. Why are we looking at expanding programs over the course of time?

Why are we talking to Gila Community College and ASPIRE AZ about paying tuition for high school students taking GCC accredited classes? We’re always looking to do a better job.”

The debate about the possible arrival of the charter school revealed deep divisions in the community. Some parents decried the lack of career and college preparation in the district, pointing to a low college attendance rate and test scores generally below the state average.

Other parents said the school has helped their children and feared the loss of so many students would cripple the district.

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Parents plead for charter school alternative Michele Nelson

his children.

On the SaveALA.com website, James has Crystal Whitlock decided to support included a petition that indicates the interest American Leadership Academy coming to of Payson parents in the charter school comPayson because her elementary-aged chil- ing to Payson.

So far, 73 people have signed the petition. dren, who accelerate at learning, were frus“There are many parents who have already trated and started losing interest in going signed the petition who have tried the public to school when they were placed in Payson Elementary School classes with slower learn- schools, but for one reason or another, they failed to live up to their expectations for their ers.

So, Whitlock signed a petition on the web- kids,” wrote James.

In Whitlock’s case, her oldest son went to site SaveALA.com to support the charter Payson Elementary School, he was beyond his school coming to Payson to offer choice for classmates in kindergarten. He soon strugher children.

“What are the children that don’t have gled and she took him out to home-school him.

“When I sent my oldest child to kindergara good fit at PUSD supten at PES he was ahead posed to do? Are they supCharter School Report for his age. Because PES posed to continue to go has no accelerated or giftto a school that is failing ed programs he became them? We need options,” very bored at school. He she said. “Not everyone started hating school and has the luxury of home he no longer wanted to do schooling because of work anything that resembled and other financial needs. “work” because it was borThe Christian school is an ing. He has always had a option, but isn’t affordable great love for reading, but for many families. Again I started to fall behind in writing and math ask, what are we supposed to do? Plain and because he no longer wanted to learn. Then simple, we need choices! Why not make one of half way through the school year, my son told those choices a great school like ALA?” me he hated reading and I pulled him out of Payson parents started the SaveALA.com website in February to combat the nega- school the next week. It took me a year and a tive comments from former ALA parents in half to undo the damage that was done.”

Whitlock is not alone in her frustration the Valley and negative ads placed in the over PUSD’s lack of options for advanced and Roundup. accelerated students. Parents have struggled The website, SaveALA.com, managed by in the past with the Payson district to improve parent Chris James opens with a banner proclaiming: “The Payson, Arizona, Community its offerings for those students that excel Says: We Want American Leadership above grade level.

Each time, parents say PUSD administraAcademy.” tors have ignored those requests from parents James, a parent with two young girls, is to test for gifted students, offer challenging preparing his oldest for kindergarten this fall, advanced courses and address the needs of and has concerns.

“For a long time we have been considering students who need more.

(Please see – Class Offerings For High what to do about our children’s education School – Still No Calculus: http://www.payson(i.e., public school, home-school, or some sort roundup.com/news/2014/apr/04/class-offerof private school) and have not felt that the current school choices would be the right fit ings-high-school-still-no-calculus/ Parents Seek Better Gifted Student for our children,” he wrote to the Roundup.

Classes: http://www.paysonroundup.com/ When he heard that ALA was planning on news/2011/jun/03/parents-seek-better-giftcoming to Payson, he and his wife researched the charter school and found that the aca- ed-student-classes/ Parents Pushing School To Offer Creative demic, behavioral standards, discipline and Classes: http://www.paysonroundup.com/ values ALA holds its students to would align news/2011/may/17/parents-pushing-school-ofperfectly with what his family expects from by

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Choice TOUGH

fer-creative-classes/ Brightest Students Most Neglected: http:// www.paysonroundup.com/news/2014/jan/10/ brightest-students-most-neglected/) But the Arizona Department of Education actually pays school districts to spend their time on the bottom quarter of their students.

In its letter grading system, the ADE gives 50 percent from the current year’s test scores, 25 percent from overall student growth and 25 percent from the growth rate of the lowest performing students — in other words, the bottom 25 percent get counted twice in a school’s letter grade performance.

Those who have added their names to the petition have often made comments that mimic what James and Whitlock hope for their children — choice, wholesome school environment, competition and improved academics.

“More education choices for families and competition to public schools is a healthy thing,” wrote a former PUSD teacher.

“I’ve been home schooling for the past three years in Payson because there is no good fit for my child in the public schools. I would love the opportunity to have my child go to an amazing school,” said another Payson parent.

James and Whitlock hope ALA does decide to come to Payson.

“Based on our conversations with friends and family in the Valley, ALA has been a great asset to their communities, which further strengthens our support for the school,” said James.

“While looking into ALA’s gifted programs, I was very excited to see that they focus on each child’s individual needs,” said Whitlock.

“They create an environment that is designed to challenge each and every child not just the average student.

“I have spoken to friends that currently have children in ALA and they rave about how great it is. One of my friends said that they expect a lot out of the kids and her kids are excelling and absolutely love it there.”

James said it’s all about choice.

“We also respect other parents who wish to support the (district) public schools or who feel they offer the best choice for their children,” said James. “But we feel very strongly that all parents in Payson should have the freedom to choose what is best for their kids in terms of publicly funded education.”

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Memory – within the pages of your mind 2016 Women’s Wellness Forum set for April 23 by

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Dee McCaffrey will return as a presenter at the 2016 Women’s Wellness Forum, to be held April 23 at the Mazatzal Hotel & Casino. She is scheduled to discuss food and fitness.

What sight is most breathtaking over the mountains? Sunset or dawn?

Got a favorite song to sing (maybe when nobody else is around)? Do you remember all the lyrics?

The taste of _____ brings you back to your college days ...

Do you remember feeling the butterflies in your stomach just before your first kiss?

What scent immediately reminds you of your childhood?

Now that the neurons in your brain are pinging with memories, one more question: What event has addressed the health needs and concerns of women in our rural community for nearly two decades?

That’s right, the Women’s Wellness Forum! You may have guessed the theme this year is memory.

Now in its 18th year, this annual event for women of all ages, will offer four dynamic speakers, vendors, raffles, food and surprises on Saturday, April 23.

“Just like you exercise the rest of your body to stay fit, you have to exercise your brain; certain exercises target different areas,” said Joanne Conlin, a trainer for Alzheimer’s caregivers and director of the Payson Senior Center.

Conlin’s presentation will focus on fun tips, tricks, puzzles and games to play that will stimulate your mind.

Do you want to take time to play in the weeks leading up to WWF? • The act of identifying a jigsaw puzzle piece and placing it in the right spot targets special recognition and dexterity.

• Adult coloring books stimulate creativity and coloring within the lines spatial awareness.

• The letter and number identification and the physical act of daubing or placing jelly beans on a particular space as one plays bingo deals with executive function.

“Even regular exercise can require additional brain function,” Conlin said.

“Kick your right leg out while you lift your left arm or vice versa.”

Of course brain health also has to do with what you feed your body and how well you take care of the fist-sized muscle that pumps blood to your brain.

Dee McCaffrey, director of nutrition education at Processed-Free America is back by popular demand to talk about food and fitness.

McCaffrey is an organic chemist, nutrition educator, and co-founder of the Center for Processed-Free Living.

She appears regularly on television and radio shows throughout the United States and Canada. She lives in Tempe, Ariz.

Among the books she has written about her personal weight-loss journey and applying her knowledge to her own effort and that of others are “The Science of Skinny: Start Understanding Your Body’s Chemistry and Stop Dieting Forever” and a complementary cookbook, “The Science of Skinny Cookbook”; “Plan D: The Amazing Anti-Diet That Will Change Your Life Forever” and a cookbook, “Plan D Cookbook: Flourless & Sugarless Cuisine”; and “Dee’s Mighty Cookbook: Tasty Cuisine for Flourless and Sugarless Living.”

New to the Rim Country and WWF is the dynamic and witty Kim Alten, a family nurse practitioner. Her father was a small town family practitioner/ surgeon who went on house calls and made rounds in the days when patient records might say, “Joe Jones, list the treatment, $7.” Kim remembers going on hospital rounds with her father at the age of 3 in her PJs. “Dad would sit me on a chair or on the foot of the bed as he talked to his patients.”

Alten will speak about heart health and its effect on the brain and memory loss.

Dr. Ed Zamrini from Banner Sun Health Research Institute’s Cleo Roberts Memory and Movement Disorders Center (a part of Banner Alzheimer’s Institute) will deliver the keynote address “Recent Developments in Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis and Research.”

Grab a friend and come on out to learn something new and connect with other women.

The Women’s Wellness Forum will be held in the Mazatzal Hotel and Casino Ballroom on Saturday, April 23. Sign-in begins at 8 a.m. The program begins at 8:45 a.m. Snacks will be served in the morning and lunch is buffet-style. A vendor show comprised of organizations and businesses in and around Payson who promote women’s health are available for women to visit.

The pre-registration fee is $15 at the MHA Foundation office, 308 E. Aero Drive, Payson, or by calling 928-4722588. Registration is $20 at the door and available ONLY if there are seats remaining.

Scholarships are available for those who cannot afford the fee.

WWF is sponsored by MHA Foundation, Banner Health, Rim Country Health, Payson Care Center, Powell House and Hospice Compassus.

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The MHA Foundation offers need-based scholarships for use at the Senior Fitness Center of Rim Country Health & Rehabilitation, 809 W. Longhorn Road.

The facility is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The cost to use the facility is $24.95

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The state is suggesting limited consumption on three types of fish caught from popular angler lakes.

Last week the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and the Arizona Game and Fish Department issued advisories on fish consumption amounts to protect public health from elevated levels of mercury.

The two agencies recommend adults eat no more than 2.4 ounces (uncooked weight) and children, 12 and under, no more than 2 ounces (uncooked weight) per week of largemouth bass from Apache Lake; striped bass from Lake Pleasant; and flathead catfish from Bartlett Lake.

The advisories are based on recent analysis from fish tissue samples taken from these lakes.

Any potential health risks from eating fish on the ADEQ’s advisory list are based on long-term consumption, not eating fish occasionally.

A fish consumption advisory is a public health alert that recommends amounts of fish to eat when ADEQ determines contaminant levels in fish tissues taken from Arizona waterways exceed state health standards. They are not for commercial fish sold in markets.

Mercury in the environment can come from various sources. Fish can accumulate elevated levels of mercury when larger fish consume smaller fish and insects.

The advisory did not address where the contaminant may have originated.

Ingesting mercury can cause numerous health problems such as damage to the central nervous system. Infants and pregnant or nursing mothers are considered most at risk to possible health effects.

The state officials said fish can be an important part of a healthy, diverse diet and are an excellent source of protein and are low in saturated fat. The American Heart Association recommends eating two fish or seafood meals weekly as part of a healthy diet.

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Striped bass from Lake Pleasant were recently found to have elevated levels of mercury, so state officials recommend limiting consumption.

Namias of Arizona, Inc., a Tucson, Ariz. establishment, is recalling approximately 19,200 pounds of chicken products due to misbranding and an undeclared allergen, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has announced.

The products contain hydrolyzed soy protein, a known allergen which is not declared on the product label.

The fully-cooked chicken items were produced on various dates between Sept. 2, 2015 and March 1, 2016. The following products are subject to recall: • 20-pound cases containing 5-pound bags of “Carlotta’s Kitchen Chicken Chile Verde.”

• 20-pound cases containing 5-pound bags of “Carlotta’s Kitchen Sports Chicken,” a chilitype entree.

The products subject to recall bear establishment number “P-6006” inside the USDA mark

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What’s up with this alkaline diet fad? acidic and alkaline (base) in order to Google stalks me.

I try not to freak out too much survive.

That’s called the pH level. because I regularly search for some The body works pretty hard to keep pretty weird stuff, especially when I do itself balanced in the pH department the food column.

Copper sinks, bathroom tiles, Viagra — somewhere between 7.35 to 7.45 is ... Viagra? Sometimes it’s just wrong, perfect — and an orange actually helps other times it reads my mind, it even to keep the body less acidic.

In fact, fruits and veggies serve as seems to delve into my subconscious.

Frankly I feel it goes so far as to chan- the body’s best defense against becomnel my evil twin separated at birth. ing too acidic.

I’m telling you: it freaks me out.

At the same time, the stomach needs For a while now, the alkaline diet has to maintain relatively high acid levels to popped up on my feed, having somehow digest foods. That organ has an acidic mysteriously for the moment replaced level of 1.35 to 3.5, the highest levels of the Beverly Hills Diet, the war on belly any organ. fat and colon health.

Even the skin’s surface is acidic so “Stay healthy! Eat the alkaline diet! it can fight off microbes. The typical An acidic diet ruins your health.” pH for the skin is somewhere between Why does Google think I need an 4 and 6.5. alkaline diet? Does On the other hand, Google know I eat an a high acid level really hurts the kidneys. orange in the mornThe ing with my coffee?

Those poor litHealthy tle blood-cleansCan it figure that ing organs are the out? What’s with the first line of defense anti-anxiety natural in maintaining a supplements?

by Michele Nelson healthy pH level Really, quite by either excreting creepy. more or less acid or But Google knows I’m weak — and as insatiably curious base to balance the internal environment. as the elephant’s child.

Get this, if the body has too much So, facing my fears, I decided to acid in it, the bones will give up their research this alkaline diet thing.

Turns out, the National Institute of calcium to bring down the acidity in the Health has compiled all the information body — which can lead to osteoporosis on alkaline diets from the fad to the sci- in the face of a high acid diet. entific to figure out the same thing I’m Nasty stuff! trying to figure out. (http://www.ncbi.

So, what makes up a diet that’s too nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3195546/) acidic? It surprised even me — meat, Guess other people must have called dairy, fish, grains and beverages, such the NIH after having been harried into it as pale beer and cocoa, make up that by the Google stalkers as well. list.

NIH has found some interesting stuff.

I thought those were alkaline!

I didn’t realize it, but life must mainThe alkaline foods include fruits, tain a delicate balance between the vegetables, fruit juices, potatoes and

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Traditionally, the alkaline diet has advocated for avoiding meat, poultry, cheese and grains in order to make the urine more alkaline, changing the environment of the urine to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections and kidney stones.

low phosphorus beverages, including wine, mineral and soda waters.

Wine! I can do this!

But hold on, NIH also said those fad diets Google stalks me with don’t really show as marked a difference as adding fruits and veggies grown in soil that has been bulked up with minerals and nutrients organically.

Hey wait — a balanced diet high with lots of fruits and vegetables — especially organic — heck, that’s the bottom line advice I’ve been ladling over my daughter’s head for years — not to mention the punch line of about half my columns.

Take that, Google!

I don’t need you after all — you and your Viagra ads.

So, really, I was feeling quite smug, writing this column.

But then I got to wondering: What will happen when the paper posts the column?

Will Google get upset?

What will Google do?

This is very worrisome.

Think I’ll go back and check out that anti-anxiety supplement ad.

Tomato Basil stuffed Spaghetti Squash with Garlic Almond Cheese From Alkaline Sisters (http://www.alkalinesisters.com) Yield: 4 servings 2 medium organic spaghetti squash 12 organic Roma tomatoes, diced 4 organic leeks chopped, or one organic onion diced 3 cloves garlic, crushed 1-1/2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil Pinch Himalayan salt Pinch Stevia powder 8 tablespoons chopped fresh basil Optional — 6 sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil, diced Halve both squash, scoop out seeds and loose fibers. Bake face down on baking sheet with 2 cups water in pan for approximately an hour at 300 degrees until spaghetti squash is fork tender and spaghetti strings pull freely from the skin.

While squash is baking, sauté onion and garlic with olive oil in sauté pan over low heat until translucent.

Alternatively, you can steam fry the garlic and onions adding 3 to 6 tablespoons water as needed, until tender and then add olive oil upon completion of sautéing.

Add diced tomatoes (and sun-dried tomatoes now if using) and cook on low for about 6 to 8 minutes until heated through and softened. Add half of chopped basil, salt and a pinch of powdered green Stevia to sweeten slightly — don’t overdo this or you can ruin the dish — taste as you go. Place half the mixture in blender and process until combined but not pureed. Be careful, as this mixture is very hot and can pop the lid off your blender. If blender pitcher is more than one-third full, do this process in two batches.

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According to Wikipedia, leafy greens, onions and cruciferous vegetables are key parts of the alkaline diet.

Pour back into pan and stir mixtures together. Turn off heat until squash is ready. Using a paring knife stroke the squash lengthwise once or twice to cut “noodles” in half or in thirds making them easier to eat. Re-heat sauce gently if needed and spoon half into each squash portion and top with fresh basil. Sprinkle with almond nut cheese

(recipe below) and serve with extra nut cheese.

For Garlic Almond Cheese 2/3 cup organic raw almonds 1 clove fresh garlic 1/4 teaspoon Himalayan salt Combine in food processor or highspeed blender until nicely ground. Pour into bowl for serving along with squash.

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Communications upgrade intended to make officers safer by

Teresa McQuerrey

roundup staff reporter

Gila County is spending about $150,000 to improve the safety of county deputies by upgrading the communications system.

The board of supervisors approved a request by the Gila County Sheriff’s Office to upgrade its communication system at its March 1 meeting.

With all the news reports about law

enforcement officers being shot, the upgrade makes a wise use of taxpayer money, according to the presentation to the board by Sarah White, chief administrative officer for the GCSO. “This module improves officer safety, allows us to know where they are. It allows the officer to remain out in the field and decreases the amount of time in the office and improves response time in the field,” she told the supervi-

sors.

The upgrade is the Spillman Mobile Module, which is compatible with the GCSO system. Dispatch, records management, jail, patrol and civil service use the current system, said White.

The module has multiple features: • Mobile Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) and Mapping – allows all units to view each other’s location, update status and gives location to dispatch

• Mobile records – With a search in the mobile environment, it gives access to search local records with alerts, warnings and prior history • Mobile state and national queries – Along with local information, this gives deputies access to search state and national databases.

• Mobile voiceless CAD – allows deputies to see all calls in dispatch, to add themselves onto a call.

• Mobile field report and field interview – Allows deputies to complete reports in the field.

• Driver license scanning – Lets deputies scan driver’s licenses and automatically import that data into reports The GCSO staff will have on-site training with the program.

Some deputies are already testing the system and it is expected to be in full operation by the end of the year.

Early blossoms face a damaging freeze From page 1A Either way, a low front will move across Arizona bringing cooler temperatures.

The forecast called for a high Monday of 54 and a low 32.

On Tuesday, the high will be 58 with a low of 35.

Just enough chill to mess with those trees that decided to go for

broke and put out blossoms.

Consider protecting them from their rash enthusiasm for spring.

Glen McCombs of Plant Fair Nursery in Star Valley has some ideas. He said he usually recommends a frost cloth for customers or building a temporary greenhouse around the tree with a 150- to 200-watt light bulb that will help keep it warm enough to

protect those blossoms.

But that’s only if the trees are short enough.

“We try to encourage people to keep trees at eight feet,” said McCombs.

Other methods include wrapping the branches with those larger Christmas tree lights.

“If you have a timer, have it set to go on at about 2 a.m.,” he

He calls for help, gets jailed

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Alexis Bechman

roundup staff reporter

Two boaters had to be rescued from Roosevelt Lake Saturday, one after their boat started to sink and the other found themselves lost in the middle of the lake.

The first call to the Gila County Sheriff’s Office came in at 2 p.m. when a man noticed his boat was sinking.

The man had launched the boat and taken it over to the

marina near the fuel station.

The boat started to take on water while it was docked.

Although his friends tried to bail the water out, it was clear the boat was going down.

Marina staff agreed to tow the boat over to the boat ramp so he could load it back on a trailer before it sank.

Later that day, around 8 p.m., Andrew Phelan, 23, of Phoenix, called for help after he found himself lost on the lake.

Phelan had gone kayaking and after it got dark, couldn’t find his way back to shore. With his headlamp running out of power, Phelan called for help.

Deputies found Phelan halfway between the marina and the Windy Hill boat ramp. He and his gear were safely loaded up.

Back at shore, deputies discovered Phelan was wanted on a warrant out of Maricopa County and arrested him.

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If it’s snowing, however, McCombs said to go ahead and leave the light on throughout the snowstorm.

Then he said, there is always the traditional smudge pot method, but he’s having trouble locating those pots for people.

So far, the blossoms on his trees in the nursery have survived.

“It was cold this morning, but our blooms are intact,” he said on Monday morning.

McCombs said this year everything has come out way earlier than normal.

“We’re about two to three weeks early and we’re usually later in the month,” he said. “All the Bradford pear and purple plums are out, too ... we just had that false spring.”

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This egret at Green Valley Park seems eager for spring.

Domestic violence jail sentence From page 1A with him. Wooley denied choking the woman and said she had punched him, although he had no bruises.

The jury did not convict Wooley of felony aggravated assault, but misdemeanor simple assault.

The felony conviction would have carried a sentence of six years in prison.

For simple assault, Wright could sentence Wooley up to six months in custody.

Probation recommended he serve 18 months probation.

Wright said he “definitely” did not agree with that recommendation and would give Wooley some jail time.

Duncan Rose, with the Gila County Attorney’s Office, said Wooley had not learned his lesson and after the verdict was read, Wooley was heard saying, “I did it again.”

Rose said Wooley needs to learn that it is not

“open season” to beat up Gila County women and if Wooley is arrested again for domestic violence, he is ready to prosecute him.

Wooley’s ex-girlfriend told Wright that this was not the first time Wooley had choked her. She looked at Wooley and said he is a dangerous person and a “scumbag.”

Addressing the court, Wooley said he was sorry for what took place that night and he should have left the minute they started arguing. Wooley admitted to holding his ex down and biting her finger and said he felt remorse that his children were sleeping in the next room and could have walked out and seen the fight.

Wooley said the fight was alcohol fueled.

Elkie said although Wooley has prior felony convictions they are not recent and they are not violent offenses.

Wright sentenced Wooley to 36 months probation and 150 days in jail. He also ordered Wooley to attend domestic violence treatment.

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Matching drug charges for husband, wife by

Alexis Bechman

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After her husband was sentenced late last month for smoking marijuana in the Mazatzal Casino parking lot with her, Melissa Marie Clark was sentenced Monday for her part in the tryst.

Judge Tim Wright sentenced

Melissa, 37, to probation for possession of drug paraphernalia.

Wright also sentenced Melissa’s husband, Shane Edward Clark, to probation.

Melissa got 18 months probation while her husband got a year because it is his first felony conviction. Melissa has prior felonies and has been convicted of similar offenses in the past,

according to a pre-sentence report.

In early April, a Tonto Apache Police Department officer saw the couple smoking marijuana in a vehicle in the Mazatzal Casino parking lot, according to a police report.

The officer reportedly found 1.4 grams of heroin, nine grams of marijuana, drug parapherna-

lia and an AK-47 in the vehicle.

Melissa told a probation officer that she was using marijuana for medicinal reasons after a serious physical health ailment.

While she got a medical marijuana card several years ago, she could not pay to renew the card and it expired.

She said she plans to reapply for a card.

Payson library hosts March events for kids by

Teresa McQuerrey

roundup staff reporter

All through March, the Payson Public Library is making a special push to get the children of the Rim Country to read.

It is hosting a Spring Reading Round-up — just in time for Spring Break.

Rim youngsters are invited by the library staff and volunteers to join them for short reading session that will be complemented by prizes and special programs.

Stop by the library, located at 328 N. McLane Rd., Payson and pick up a reading log — the reading program is from March 7 through March 31.

Participants are asked to read for at least 20 minutes at a time and then color in a boot (on the reading log). For every eight boots colored in, the participant receives a prize.

Attend one of the Spring Reading Roundup programs at the library and color in a hat.

For every two hats a participant colors in, they will receive a prize.

The Spring Reading Round-up schedule of events includes: • Tuesday, March 15, 3 p.m. – Round-up Sing-Along • Wednesday, March 16, 3 p.m. – You Wouldn’t Want to live in a Wild West Town, for ages 8 to 12

• Thursday, March 17, 2 p.m. – Learn Western History with Gary Sprague, the Singing Cowboy, and his trusty horse, Dusty • Tuesday, March 22, 2 p.m. – Cowboys – The Real Story with the Kid’s Cowboy Dentist, Dr. Stephen Miller • Wednesday, March 23, 4 p.m. – Lego Building event • Thursday, March 24, 3 p.m. – Gussy Up a Guitar craft event for ages 5 to 12, sign-up is required • Friday, March 25, 4 p.m. – Easter Storytime Eggstravaganza.

To learn more, stop by the library or call (928) 474-9260.

O B I T U A R I E S Raymond “Pedro” Wong (1938-2016)

Raymond “Pedro” Wong, born on December 7, 1938 in Guang Dong Province, China died peacefully on March 3, 2016. He is survived by his wife Mei Ha “Mona” of nearly 50 years, sons Wiatt and Wilhem, daughter in law Jodie and granddaughter Kaylee Wong. Raymond grew up in Flagstaff, AZ arriving in 1947 and graduated from Flagstaff High School. He served in the Army Corps of Engineers from 1960 - 1964. After the Army he travelled to China to bring back his mother and new bride, they were married in 1966. Raymond spent most of his early years working in restaurants and dreamed of having his own business where he could ensure that he could go fishing at least one day a week. The opportunity came in 1972 and he moved his young family to Payson. There he opened Pedro Wong’s Drive In, a nickname the former owner

gave him after he burned a pot of refried beans. Pedro and Mona proudly ran the Drive In for the next 21 years, providing both locals and visitors thousands of orders of Sweet and Sour Pork and Combos. Pedro’s cooking skill was only equal to his fishing skill, something he continued to do until his final days. Upon retirement, the family moved to Tucson where he fished regularly, cared for his family and spoiled his granddaughter.

In 1994, Raymond received a Kidney Transplant at the University of Arizona Medical Center. His quality of life improved greatly, adding over 20 years of memories to all of our lives. It is due to that gift of a stranger that the family requests that in lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the National Kidney Foundation of Arizona and that you become an organ donor.

Ronald Edgar Randleman (1925-2016)

Ronald Edgar Randleman, 90, passed away peacefully on Feb. 20, 2016 in Tempe at home with his loving family.

Ronnie, as he was affectionately known, was born in St. Louis, Mo., on June 17, 1925 to William Edgar Randleman and Olive Armstead Randleman. He was raised in Stanton, Mo., and attended Sullivan High School.

His father and mother operated an automotive service and restaurant on the old Route 66.

It was the middle of World War II and Ronnie knew he would be going into the service close to his 18th birthday; having met the most beautiful girl in the world, he married Aileen Sons on Dec. 28, 1942.

Ron enlisted in the Marine Corps by September 1943 and trained at the Marine Corps base in San Diego, Calif. and was stationed at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, Calif., where he joined the 5th Marine Division in July 1944 and was sent overseas. He was involved in the invasion of Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945. His company of 260 troops lost 58 and 22 were wounded in action, but Ron was lucky he was never wounded. The 5th Marine Division went to Japan as an occupying troop and he was discharged Dec. 31, 1945. On Jan. 1, 1946, Ronnie saw his son, Eddie, for the first time since he was born while Ron was in Iwo Jima. Gary, another son, was stillborn previously in Missouri. In 1950, Charles was born and then in 1954 came Earl, who passed away unexpectedly in 2003 while at the family cabin in Payson, Ariz.

Ron started his own automo-

tive business in 1955, Ronnie’s Auto Service in Tempe and successfully operated it for 40 years. He sold the business and retired in 1995. Ron was a member of the Masons, Scottish Rites, Eastern Star, Shriners, Elks and the American Legion.

He was Potentate of the El Zaribah Shrine in 1991 and also President of the Western Shrine, which is comprised of 19 temples in the U.S. and Mexico, and he hosted the 1991 convention in Phoenix. He was also an Imperial Marshall for 23 years.

An avid antique car collector, he often drove them in Shriner parades. Ronnie was a fun-loving guy who lived life to the fullest and was loved and respected by all who knew him. He will be dearly missed.

Ron is survived by his loving wife of 73 years, Aileen; sons Eddie (Joyce) of Payson, Ariz., Charles (Susan) of Tennessee and Earl’s wife (Laura) of Tempe, Ariz. Also surviving him are grandchildren Joanne Hanson and Troy Randleman of Tempe; Amy, Kelly, Danny and Douglas Randleman of Wisconsin; Amanda and Joscelyn Randleman of Tempe; Ian Kennedy and Willow Randleman of Wisconsin.

A niece, Denise Astell of Phoenix and a nephew, Vincent Clark of Colorado, also survived by Ron. A celebration of Ronnie’s life was held at The El Zaribah Shrine Center at 552 N. 40th Street, Phoenix, AZ, followed by a luncheon and procession to Green Acres Cemetery for a committal. The family requests in lieu of flowers donations will be accepted by the El Zaribah Shrine General Fund.

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Forecast by the National Weather Service

Mostly cloudy; slight chance for showers

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Wednesday

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67/35 Thursday

Sunny

71/36 Friday

Mostly cloudy; slight chance for showers

71/37 Saturday

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Weather courtesy of Bruce Rasch, weather.astro50.com

Payson Statistics DATE H Feb. 26 73 Feb. 27 73 Feb. 28 74 Feb. 29 74 March 1 74 March 2 74 March 3 72 March 4 75 March 5 71 March 6 66 March 7 56

L 33 33 32 34 33 34 34 32 33 38 26

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Precipitation 2016 thru today 4.24 30-year Average through March 6.28

March 2016 0.00 March Avg. 2.36

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

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Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

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Dominant pollen: Juniper-Ash 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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(1917-2016)

Elaine Demarest Savage born June 23, 1917, passed away on March 3, 2016 at her home in Payson, Ariz. with family by her side.

She married Coleman Savage June 25, 1936 and they were married 65 years.

Elaine was legal secretary to John Clark, then later a homemaker. She loved to sew, crochet, paint, stain glass, carve Kachina dolls and did other arts and crafts.

She is survived by her daughter Nelaine Lowry; three grandkids, John Bolton (Carmella), Susie Carlson (Mike), Patrick Lowry (Karen); six great-grandkids Lawrence Bolton (Lisa), Alicia Lopez (Michael), Shawn

Bolton (Tonja), Brandon Bolton, Tyler and Megan Lowry; eight greatgreat grandkids Elyna, J.P. and Olivia Lopez, Mando, Luke and Isabella Bolton, Alyssa and Quinton Bolton.

She was preceded in death by her husband Coleman, mother and father Ruth and Fred Demarest and son-in-law Pat Lowry.

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, March 11, 2016 at Desert View Cemetery, Winslow, Ariz.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Hospice Compassus of Payson, 511 S. Mud Springs Rd., Payson, AZ 85541. Condolences can be sent to www.greersmortuary.com.

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Delbert “Del” E. Newland (1926-2016)

In loving memory of husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend to many Delbert “Del” E. Newland passed into the loving arms of our Lord on March 1, 2016 at home with family.

He was born on Sept. 14, 1926 in Wyandot County, Ohio to Edward E. Newland and Myrtle I. “Burks” Newland.

He was the only son with two sisters. He attended Morral, Ohio schools, graduating in 1943. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force his senior year, going into service in 1944 and returning home in March of 1945. He served in the Ohio National Guard from March 1945 to 1949, then the Oklahoma State Guard 1949-1950.

He was in Tulsa, Okla.

Spartan School of Aeronautics 1948 – 1949, graduating as an airplane and engine mechanic where he met and married Ella Jean Riddle Aug. 5, 1950.

He worked for Convair of Fort Worth, Texas March 1950 - July 1951. Then for American Airlines August 1950 - April 1987, retiring after 36 years as a flight engineer.

He was a member of Payson First Church of the Nazarene and helped in the construction of the church. As a Life Member

of the NRA, he helped establish the Jim Jones Gun Range, working with the NRA, MSA and TRSC banquets. He was the owner of Diamond Point Gun Shop from 1981 to present. He was a past Councilman and Vice Mayor of Star Valley.

Survivors include: wife Jean; children Carolyn (Sharon Brinks) of Colorado Springs, Colo., Patricia of Payson, Nancy Milnes (Glen) of Flagstaff, Ariz., Michael (Jenny) of Star Valley, seven grandchildren and spouses, six great grandchildren, plus two sisters Clarabelle Clark (Don-deceased) and Doris Flack (Wayne-deceased), and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his parents Edward E. Newland and Myrtle Newland and his son Douglas E. Newland I. We are so grateful to the Hospice of Payson for the wonderful help and service they provided.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to the First Church of the Nazarene.

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A taste of the best of chefs

Library fund-raiser indulges the inner gourmet EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second part of profiles of the participating chefs in the March 12 “A Taste of Rim Country” fund-raiser, hosted by the Library Friends of Payson, Inc.

by

Romaine Brophy

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Ticket-holders will get a sampling of the art of the best chefs in Rim Country at the Payson Library’s crucial A Taste of Rim Country A Taste of fund-raiser on March 12.

Rim Country The $35, partially tax-deductible, ticket includes appetizers, desserts, Saturday, March 12 wine-tasting, a 50/50 cash raffle, silent 5-7:30 p.m. auction and more, all to support the Payson Library library.

The 10, top-ranked participating chefs come from the The Randall House, Mazatzal Hotel & Casino’s Cedar Ridge Restaurant, Sal & Teresa’s Mexican Restaurant, Gerardo’s Firewood Café, Pine/Strawberry Senior Center & Meals on Wheels, Zane Grey Country Barbecue & Pizza, Payson Senior Center, Shelia’s Creekside Steakhouse, Rim Country Health & Retirement, and Kendra’s Country Bakery.

Here we offer profiles of some of those chefs.

Pine-Strawberry Senior Dining Room George Sanders has taken a long and winding road to becoming chef at the SCAF Pine-Strawberry Senior Dining Room. He lost his mother at a very young age. His widowed Marine father was a good man, but a bad cook, so George learned to cook for himself at an early age.

He apprenticed at the Culinary Institute of America (the other CIA) and over the years has had many different jobs, including preparing food for three American presidents.

He was chef and general manager of what is now That Brewery in Pine before settling into the Senior Dining Room.

The Senior Dining Room and the Meals on Wheels program are financed entirely through the adjacent Thrift Store revenues.

While he adheres to good nutrition standards, many of the recipes he uses are his own creations — shrimp jambalaya, tamale pie, sweet and sour pork, salmon crepes and stew to name a few.

Each weekday, George and his assistant chef feed 30 in the winter and 70 in the summer, with the numbers rising rapidly in the past year.

The meal costs just $3 per person and includes protein-rich entrée with vegetables, salad bar, dessert, and drink, thanks to help from the thrift store revenues.

This is the Pine-Strawberry Senior Dining Room’s first time participating in A Taste of Rim Country. George is planning to serve an exotic dish of elk meat, green chilis and feta cheese.

Zane Grey Country Barbecue Since the early 20th Century, Kohl’s Ranch has been a watering hole for local ranchers and hunters. Over the years, the owners have changed, but the hospitality remains — along with a reputation for great food.

The Zane Grey Country Barbecue and Great Pizza Restaurant is managed by the Wild Thyme Restaurant Group, a family of upscale American cuisine restaurants in the Southwest.

At Kohl’s Ranch the atmosphere is laid-back and casual. The Zane Grey team consists of manager Mike Beers and chefs George Skinner and Christopher Taylor.

Breakfast is served on Saturdays and Sundays from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and features apple wood smoked bacon, signature Wild Thyme potatoes, homemade honey biscuits, Chef George’s own sausage

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gravy, steel cut oatmeal and the popular Grab & Go mini-burritos made with fresh eggs, cheese, bacon and potatoes. Classic homemade flapjacks and Belgian waffles come with topping options of fruit, chocolate chips, or pecans.

The lunch and dinner menu highlights slow apple wood/mesquite-smoked pulled pork and brisket sandwiches, served on brioche buns and Italian hoagie breads, respectively. The team uses a pepper/garlic savory house rub to prepare its briskets, a process that takes 12 to 14 hours, and a brown sugar-based house rub to prepare the pork, which takes 6 to 8 hours.

The barbecue sauce is another Zane Grey original recipe.

Pizzas are made artisan-style with homemade dough and topped with the restaurant’s own sauce.

Try the classic Margherita pizza with tomatoes, mozzarella, and fresh basil.

Classic rib-eye and bacon-wrapped filet mignon steaks are made from fresh Angus beef grilled to order, with homemade biscuit, seasonal vegetables, and real (not boxed) mashed potatoes.

The Zane Grey restaurants have always been strong competitors at A Taste of Rim Country events.

Sal & Teresa’s Mexican Restaurant If you are looking for truly authentic Mexican cuisine, try Sal and Teresa’s Mexican Restaurant on the south end of town on the Beeline Highway.

Manager/chef Larry Chavez received a degree in hotel management and hospitality from Northern Arizona University and grew up in the food service business. He uses recipes that have been in his family for three generations and he was taught by the original Sal and Teresa, chefs at Larry’s parents’ restaurant, the El Rancho here in Payson in the 1970s. Sal and Teresa later opened their own restaurants in Show Low and Payson.

The restaurant’s décor is light and lively, with bright primary colors. Customers are greeted by a duo of 7-foot metal sculptures of mariachi musicians that have become a favorite photo opportunity for patrons.

Sal and Teresa’s has one of the most extensive menus in Rim Country, and everything on the menu is created from scratch.

Larry and his associate chef Scott prepare the refried beans by a slow, overnight process.

The restaurant’s signature ingredient is the Hatch green chili.

These chilies are grown near Hatch, N.M., which purportedly has the perfect soil, climate, and moisture levels for creating the best tasting green chilies. The house specialty is the chili relleno dinner with two fire-roasted green chilies stuffed with cheese and hand-dipped in egg batter and fried golden brown, with rice and refried beans and sopapilla with honey.

To accompany your dinner, Sal and Teresa’s offers the choice of flour or corn tortilla chips, deep-fried on site every day, served with homemade salsa and hot sauce. Alcoholic drinks include the house Margarita and traditional and boutique Mexican beers.

Breakfast is served every Sunday and features: breakfast burritos filled with eggs, cheese, and choice of green chili, beans, or beef; Mexican-style omelets served open-faced with cheese, onion, jalapenos, tomatoes and diced green chilies; a churro waffle covered with cinnamon sugar, butter, and maple syrup.

Live entertainment is now offered from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. every Friday. Sal and Teresa’s can also cater large parties. Call (928) 4744305 for details and menus.

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The Meals on Wheels program operates Monday through Friday each week, and delivers the same meal that is served at The Center for that day. Approximately 160 meals are delivered to homebound individuals. To register for the Meals on Wheels, call Pinal-Gila Council for Seniors at 1-800-293-9393.

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Every Thursday, the men prepare double meals — one for in-house dining and Meals on Wheels, and another for Friday’s Meals on Wheels. That’s more than 300 meals in one day!

Whenever possible, Luis and Austin add items not on the posted menu, such as salads and hot, homemade soup on especially cold days. Bashas’ supermarket also makes a daily donation of surplus food items like pastries or fresh fruit.

This is the first time the two chefs will be working as a team at the Taste of Rim event.

Gerardo’s Firewood Cafe Gerardo Moceri has literally traveled the world developing his skill as a master chef before making his home in Payson. His restaurant, Gerardo’s Firewood Café is one of the enduring success stories of the capricious restaurant business.

He began as a teenager delivering goods for his grandfather’s produce business in the Detroit area. At the age of 19, he apprenticed with the world-renowned chef Angelo Paracucchi in Italy, studying the business and rooming with Angelo’s son Stephano.

He was deeply affected by the kindness of the Paracucchi family and credits them with inspiring excellence in his own work. He received intensive training in all aspects of the restaurant business — pastries, meats and fish, vegetables, breads, even the art of winemaking.

From this solid foundation, Gerardo traveled to Switzerland to develop expertise working with chocolate, and later went to Paris where he honed his international skills. Coming home to America, he debuted at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas and was later transferred to another Hyatt resort in Hawaii, where he met and married his wife Maria.

In 2000, Gerardo moved his family from Phoenix to Payson and opened his restaurant (originally named Cucina Paradiso, later changed to Gerardo’s Firewood Cafe), which has been at the same location at 512 N. Beeline Highway ever since. The restaurant boasts one of the largest brick wood-fired ovens in northern Arizona. He gets heirloom tomatoes from a Camp Verde farmer. He makes his own mozzarella cheese and sausage, and makes all his sauces, artisan pizza crusts and breads onsite. Some of his pastas are homemade; the rest are imported from Italy.

The cuisine at Gerardo’s is authentic Italian, with creative variations. His appetizer menu includes bruschetta pomodoro e basilico, (toasted bread topped with marinated tomatoes, garlic, fresh basil, and olive oil) and calamari rritti (fried calamari with marinara sauce on the side). Specialty entrees include tagliatelle and sausage (classic fettuccine pasta tossed with homemade fennel sausage in a tomato basil sauce; chicken Paradiso (panko breaded chicken breast with mozzarella and tomatoes served with cheese raviolis in tomato cream sauce); lasagna, shrimp scampi, and Italian mac and cheese.

Gerardo’s pizzas are served artisan style, with a crisp finished crust. Toppings include usual choices (homemade sausage, Canadian bacon, pepperoni, onions, bell peppers, mushrooms), and specialty toppings — fresh spinach, black and Kalamata olives, feta cheese, diced fresh tomatoes, roasted red peppers, seasonal local goat cheese, prosciutto, and artichoke hearts. Consider the Parthenon (original Greek style with feta and mozzarella cheeses, grilled chicken, Kalamata olives, roasted red peppers and fresh spinach). Or, the Primavera, Gerardo’s version of all-veggie pizza, with artichoke hearts, fresh mushrooms, onions, roasted red and green peppers, Kalamata olives and diced tomatoes.

For dessert, Gerardo offers classic Italian crème Brulee, gelatos, and his original recipe tiramisu.

Gerardo continues Paracucchi’s tradition of mentoring and teaching his methods to new generations of chefs. He employs young people to train them in all aspects of food service, just as he learned it from Angelo. Gerardo has been recognized many times for his continuing community service, especially to the youth of Rim Country.

In the coming months, Gerardo will open a café in Sedona with a small wood-fired oven. He will offer his signature hand-tossed pizzas and a limited Italian menu.

Gerardo’s Firewood Café offers catering services, and the restaurant is available for private parties. Call the restaurant at (928) 4686500 for more information.

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Hitting their stride by

Max Foster

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Gerardo Moceri made a blazing, first-place run in the 3200-meter at the Desert Classic Invitational on March 4. Other runners also finished strongly, but girls track star Abby Greenleaf struggled.

Low season – high honors by

Max Foster

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The idiom “To the victor belong the spoils” often applies to high school sports, meaning when it comes to naming postseason allstar teams, winning teams usually receive the most honorees.

The idiom, however, was tossed out the window last week when coaches chose the All-Section V team.

Although the Payson girls finished with a very unimpressive 9-18 record, coach Miles Huff managed to have five of his players named All-Section, which is almost unheard of in coaches’ voting.

Rylee Chapman, Kylee O’Donnell and Aubrielle Paulson were selected to the All-Section V second team and Sadie Sweeney and Arissa Paulson were named honorable mention.

Most surprising was the selection of Arissa Paulson because she only played in six games during the season due to a shoulder injury that continues to keep her on the sidelines as the softball season gets underway.

The choice of Chapman, Aubrielle Paulson and O’Donnell was entirely expected because as now-retired New York Yankee baseball star Reggie Jackson supposedly once said, the three were “The straw that stirred the drink.”

Chapman, a senior power forward/center led the team in scoring averaging 10.7 ppg.

She also led PHS in rebounding, corralling 202 missed shots and was widely considered one of the most ferocious rebounders in the section.

Chapman wrapped up the year with 20 steals, seven blocked shots and was charged with only six turnovers.

Aubrielle Paulson, a sophomore, handled point

guard responsibilities all season long, dishing out 134 assists to go along with her 48 steals.

She also was a consistent offensive threat, averaging 7.2 ppg, second only to Chapman.

From three-point land, she made good on 25 of 55 attempts.

Aubrielle’s stats, however, don’t tell the whole story because they don’t include the floor general duties she was assigned by Huff.

In his scheme, almost everything that happened ran through the point guard and Aubrielle was up for the challenge.

The coach must be smiling ear to ear knowing he has a talented point guard to guide the team the next two seasons.

Because O’Donnell is also a sophomore, Huff will also have her services for two more years.

All season long, O’Donnell shone in the low blocks, hauling in 186 rebounds — the second best on the team. Defensively she was a demon, blocking a whopping 44 shots.

Opponents who got past Longhorn defenders usually found themselves having to deal with O’Donnell’s defensive prowess.

O’Donnell also averaged 6.4 ppg, many of them scored in the low blocks.

Sweeney, a junior, averaged 2.6 points and four rebounds a game, playing tough muscle defense inside.

During the past season, the PHS girls earned a No. 6 seed into the Division III, Section V postseason tournament, but were eliminated in the first round by a 51-40 loss to the Alchesay Falcons.

Following that game, Huff praised his players saying, “The girls played their hearts out, I could not ask any more from any player.”

With the All-Section selections now made, the All-Division III honorees will be announced Friday, March 11.

PHS golf team struggling by

Max Foster

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The Payson High School varsity golf team struggled in its 2016 debut. The team lost to host Wickenburg, but whipped a Bagdad team that was short one player.

Playing March 1 at Wickenburg Country Club, the Longhorn card of 196 fell well short of the Wranglers’ winning tally of 160.

“We had the first match jitters, the greens were very tough and it was a ‘target’ golf course and we just didn’t hit the shots,” said coach Randy Matthews.

The coach was making his varsity debut after leading the jayvees last season.

Individually, freshman Rayce Matthews led the Horns with a 41. Mitchell McGuire and Bryce Goodman tallied identical scores of 49.

Clay Kaufman and Carden Wood both finished at 57.

The season opener was originally to be played March 2 at Whirlwind Golf Course against Valley Christian, but a last-minute schedule change sent

the team to Wickenburg.

The Longhorn junior varsity also played its opener in Wickenburg, where it drove past the Wranglers behind Tyler Heskett’s team-best score of 51. Kobe Smith turned in a 58 and Ken McCarthy checked in at 60.

The varsity Horns returned to action yesterday, Monday, March 7, at Eagle Mountain Golf Course against Fountain Hills. (Results not available at press time.)

At 2 p.m., Friday, March 11 at Chaparral Pines, Payson will play host to Gilbert Christian, Show Low and Blue Ridge.

In the coach’s preseason predictions, he named both Show Low and Blue Ridge as teams to beat in the chase for postseason honors.

The Valley area Christian schools also traditionally field tough teams.

Friday’s three-way showdown is one of only two regular season home matches PHS will play in 2016.

The other home match is at 2 p.m. April 7 also at Chaparral Pines.

Payson High School senior Gerardo Moceri stamped himself a legitimate contender to win state long-distance championships by legging his way to a first-place finish in the 3200 meters at the Desert Classic Invitational.

Running March 4 in Queen Creek, Moceri turned in a very respectable10:17.14 that was about six seconds better than the second-place finisher Patrick Tansill of Gilbert.

Most impressive about Moceri’s win is that he was competing against tracksters representing the state’s so-called “big schools.”

Moceri holds the school 3200-meter record of 10:07.29 set last spring.

In addition to Moceri winning the 3200 at the Desert Classic, he ran to a third-place finish in the 1600 meters, clocking 4:42.32 — roughly one second off the runner-up ET of a Campo Verde athlete.

Prior to the boys and girls teams leaving for Queen Creek, coach Jonathan Ball scribbled a list of athletes he expected to do well in the prestigious invitational.

Moceri topped his list.

In the weights events, Korben White and Franke Apodaca were also on Ball’s list.

White finished 11th of 75 discus entries with a heave of 121 feet, 11 inches. Apodaca threw 114 feet 4 inches and was 16th.

With a toss of 104 feet, 4 inches, Trey Glasscock was 32nd.

In the shot put field of 80 throwers, White was 17th (40 feet, 11inches) and Apodaca 39th (36 feet, 7 inches).

The coach also expected the boys 4x100 team to do well which it did running to an eighth-place finish in 45.56.

The foursome was, however, without senior speedster Wyatt Chapman who holds school records in the 60 (7.13) and 100 meters (11.00).

“We are just going to try to ease (Chapman) into the season,” said Ball. “We have 12 meets including state and Wyatt is the kind of athlete that only needs one meet to qualify for state.”

In the past Chapman has been plagued by injuries.

Without him at Queen Creek, Chaz Davis, J.T. Dolnich, Angel Jacquez and Blythe Smith ran the relay.

As a team, the Payson boys compiled 17 points to finish 13th among the 18 schools participating.

Girls compete Abby Greenleaf topped Ball’s “athletes to watch” list for the invitational probably because she has been a rock-solid distance runner for several season.

But she struggled at the invitational, taking 24th in the 1600 meters in 6:21.62.

In the 800 meters, Greenleaf scratched for unknown reasons.

Payson did get a 10th place, 1600 finish from Anna Schouten who clocked 6:04.22, Kyra Ball ran to 16th in 6:12.81.

In the 800 meters, MacKenzie Mann ran 2:56.97 to take 24th.

Taryn North cleared 4 feet, 10 inches in the high jump and scored eighth of 29 jumpers.

Heralded freshman speedster Meredith Kiekintveld made her varsity debut at Queen Creek after starring for several season on the Pine-Strawberry School track team.

In the 110-meter hurdles, she turned in a 17.05 to take fourth behind two seniors and a junior.

In the 300-meter hurdles, she was 16th (54.37).

Teammate Shay England ran 53.11 to claim 12th.

As a team, the PHS girls were 11th with 16 points.

That finish probably brought “atta girl” from Longhorn alumni athletes who saw in the standings that longtime archrival Snowflake was 11th, one-half point behind PHS. As former PHS football and basketball star Mike Loutzenheiser once bemused, “Beating Snowflake is always special.”

With the Queen Creek Invitational in the books, PHS fans might be focusing on the current 4x100 relay team to see if it has the speed and “right stuff” to break the school record of 42.94 set in 2013 by Trevor Clawson, Noel Struning, Payson Bobier and Chapman.

In preseason, Ball praised the current team as possibly one of the better foursomes during his tenure at PHS, but it remains to be seen if it is a record breaker.

Next up for both the boys and girls teams is the Nike Chandler Relays March 18-19 in Chandler.

The meet is one of the most competitive and prestigious in the country drawing athletes from around the West.

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CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS Rim Country Optimist Club

Rim Country Optimist Club meets once a month on the second Tuesday at the Cedar Ridge Restaurant of the Mazatzal Hotel & Casino starting at 5:30 p.m. The next meeting is Tuesday, March 8. There is no speaker, but members will discuss the 10th Annual Fishing Festival on April 9. There will also be a board meeting. As always, visitors of all ages are welcome.

The club wishes to thank all the people and businesses that supported, donated, and/or attended our Lip Sync Contest/Concert. See the club’s website and Facebook for pictures.

For further information about the club or future events contact Joan Young at (928) 472-2264. The website is at http://www.rimcountryoptimist.com/

Masonic meeting

The Sy Harrison #70 Masonic Lodge has its monthly Stated Meeting Tuesday, March 8. There will be a dinner starting at 5:30 p.m.

All Freemasons and their guests or anyone interested in Freemasonry in general, are invited to attend.

The regular meeting for all current members of the fraternity will start at 7 p.m. Any member of any regular lodge and holder of a current dues card is welcome to attend.

There is some important Lodge business to attend to so all members of Sy Harrison #70 are encouraged to attend.

For information about Sy Harrison Lodge #70 or Freemasonry in general, please contact the Lodge Secretary, Bill Herzig at (928) 4741305.

Moose Lodge events

The Loyal Order of the Moose meetings are at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesday of each month.

The Women of the Moose meet at 5:30 p.m. the first and third Tuesday of each month.

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.

Payson Tea Party

The Payson Tea Party will have its regular meetings at 6 p.m., the second and fourth Tuesday of the month at Tiny’s Restaurant, 600 E. Highway 260, Payson.

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The Mountain Village Foundation meets every second Thursday of each month at 5 p.m. to socialize, with the meeting at 6 p.m.

The foundation’s mission is to help the children in need in Pine and Strawberry; sometimes it also provides a helping hand to a family in need.

The group has several fund-raisers a year. To learn more, call (928) 476-5940 for meeting place.

Donations, by check, may be sent to Mountain Village Foundation, P.O. Box 715, Pine, AZ 85544.

Payson United Methodist Church, 414 N. Easy Street, will host the meeting for Beyond Limits this month from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 8. A free meal and inspirational program is planned for all. Family members, caregivers and service providers are always welcome to participate.

Beyond Limits is an interdenominational Christian group for adults with developmental disabilities.

The ministry is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization. For questions or further information, call Mark or Jennie Smith at (928) 4688434.

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PAL plans two programs

The Payson Art League offers two programs at its meeting in March. Members of PAL invite Rim residents to join them from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday, March 8 at the Payson Public Library, 328 N. McLane Rd. The evening’s first program is by representatives from the Town of Payson’s planning department.

They will be discussing bringing more art to the community for the betterment of both residents and visitors.

A program by artist Shakey Walls follows. He is a former Payson resident and member of the PAL. He has explored many different art forms for more than 60 years.

Walls will share the art he designs and how he takes his digital art to cover canvases and metal pieces.

He will also demonstrate how he makes his designs in Photoshop and adjunct programs.

Pro Rodeo Committee Payson Pro Rodeo Committee meets the second Tuesday of every month in the Swiss Village Quality Inn (formerly Best Western) conference building at 6 p.m. New members welcome. For information, call (928) 472-7294.

Posse members wanted

The Gila County Sheriff’s Posse is looking for new members.

The Posse is a uniformed volunteer group who serve the Sheriff and the people of Northern Gila County.

The Posse is called on for emergencies such as forest fires, floods and snow events as well as many critical daily support roles such as court security, prisoner transports and more.

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The Rim Area Gardeners meet at 6:30 p.m., Monday, March 14 at the Church of Christ, 410 E. Tyler Pkwy. The program is about gathering and saving seeds by Dean Gooding. Connie Cockrell will have information regarding the Northern Gila County Fair for 2016. It is not too soon to plan for the fair.

Meetings are held at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month at the Gila County Sheriff’s building located just north of Main Street on McLane (this building was also known as the old Gila County Jail). Women and men are both encouraged to join.

Call Ellen Prentice at (928) 9700812 for further information.

Soroptimist celebrate Women’s History Month

Soroptimist is proud to support National Women’s History Month with a variety of upcoming activities. Congress designated March as National Women’s History Month on March 1, 1987. The local club’s plans for the month include: March 8 - International Women’s Day March 23 - 5 p.m., Annual Awards Banquet, Tiny’s Restaurant, 600 E. Hwy. 260, Payson; $20 per person, reservations requested; the event celebrates the non-profit groups that have worked with Soroptimist on the annual Radio-thon and includes the presentation of financial awards to “Live Your Dream” recipients If you are interested in Soroptimist and their work with

women and girls, please contact Jean Oliver, (928) 474-6167 or jmojmo60@yahoo.com.

Rim Country Rotary Club The Rim Country Rotary Club meets at 6:45 a.m. Thursdays at the Cedar Ridge Restaurant of the Mazatzal Hotel & Casino.

Members invite Rim residents to join them in their work for Payson youth and the area’s food banks.

For more information, go online to www.rimcountryrotary.

will gain valuable information while meeting caring members who have “been there, done that”.

We look forward to seeing you Thursday, March 10. For questions, call Ilona at (928) 472-3331.

New DNA study group

The Northern Gila County Genealogical Society will hold a meeting from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday, March 10 for those who signed the intent letter at Genealogy Society meetings to attempt to form a DNA study group/learning class.

President of the Northern Gila County Genealogical Society Griff Breast Cancer Brown will kick off the initial discussion of the goals and purpose of Support Group The Breast Cancer Support this group.

All interested are welcome; no Group is holding its monthly meetbackground knowledge is necesing Thursday, March 10 at the Senior Apartments, 313 S. McLane sary. We will go into the journey (just past the high school on the together and learn the immense power of DNA to enhance genealogy corner of Wade and McLane).

The meeting starts at 12:30 p.m. searches.

The meeting takes place at the and concludes around 2 p.m. and is for anyone who has been diagnosed Genealogy Society Library, 302 E. with breast cancer, be it just yester- Bonita St., Payson.

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Chapter DF of the P.E.O. Sisterhood meets at 9:30 a.m., Friday, March 11 at the Church of the Nazarene, 200 E. Tyler Pkwy., Payson. Judy Herbolsheimer and Shirley Montgomery will present a program concerning P.E.O. Courtesies. Our hostess will be Vicki Harris. Visiting P.E.O.s are welcome. For further information, call Vicki at (928) 474-9490.

Daughters of the American Revolution

The March meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will be at 1 p.m., Friday, March at Mount Cross Lutheran Church, 601 E. Hwy., 260, Payson. This is a change from our usual meeting location.

Patty Ipolito from Time Out Inc. will be the guest speaker and she will give updates on Time Out. For further information about the DAR, please contact Regent Kathy Farrell at (928) 472-9752 or Registrar Cathy Boone at (928) 4743960.

Rim Area Gardeners

Join the Rim Area Gardeners for its monthly gardening program Monday, March 14. As spring is in the air, the program will be all about gathering and saving seeds by Dean Gooding, who has implemented this program in Payson. Connie Cockrell will have information for us regarding the Northern Gila County Fair for 2016. It is not too soon to plan for the fair.

The Rim Area Gardeners meet the second Monday of the month at the Church of Christ, 410 E. Tyler Parkway. The program starts at 7 p.m., with refreshments at 6:30 p.m.

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IWO JIMA: A LOVE STORY

Jack Day had the best of reasons to survive World War II’s most ferocious battle — no matter how long the odds by

Peter Aleshire

roundup editor

Jack Day felt the excited calm settle over him as the frail landing craft gunned its engine to run up onto the volcanic sands of Iwo Jima. He’d discovered he was blessed with this fearless detachment in two island invasions already.

Still, he could hardly have imagined the month of hellish combat that lay ahead of him on this bloody island.

He never could account for that calm under fire. “I was a Louisiana boy — I think I was too stupid to know any better,” he said recently, recalling those events 71 years later in an interview with the Roundup.

“After we got on shore,” recalls the Tonto Basin resident, “I remember seeing all these people — I thought they were just laying in the sand,” he said.

“Come to find out, that beach was covered with the deceased.”

That 8-square-mile chunk of volcanic rock rose in the midst of an empty sea, close enough to Japan for fighter planes to accompany longer-range bombers.

On that speck of ash and lava, 110,000 Marines and 21,000 Japanese defenders would fight murderously for weeks in an area half the size of Payson. Of those, more than 6,000 Marines and 21,000 Japanese defenders would die.

Front-line units like Day’s would suffer 50 to 70 percent casualties — both dead and wounded, a nearly unheard of ratio in most World War II battles.

Day would earn a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart and experiences and memories that would both define and haunt him in all the years to come.

Day talked his mother into letting him join the Marines at 17. His father worked in a sawmill and supported his nine children.

Battles of Vella Lavella & Bougainville

Day trained as a Marine paratrooper and was already a combat veteran by the time he splashed ashore at Iwo Jima, having gone ashore at both Vella Lavella and Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.

Those invasions, along with the more famous Guadalcanal, came as the U.S. turned the tide against Japan, whose victorious troops had overrun the Pacific in the opening stages of the war. Starting with the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese shattered both the U.S. and British Pacific fleets and overran Thailand, Malaya, Hong Kong, Burma, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia and much of China.

Upon entering the war, the U.S. focused on Europe and played for time in the Pacific as the Japanese swept across half the world.

The tide began to turn with the Battle of Midway in June of 1942, when the Japanese suffered their first major defeat trying to take that U.S.-held island.

The Americans and their allies then shifted to the offense, island hopping across the Pacific toward Japan. The U.S. and its allies started by turning back the Japanese advance on New Guinea and Australia with a series of landings and sea battles in the Solomon Islands.

Here, Jack Day first saw combat in November of 1943.

Those battles involved fierce jungle warfare to secure airfields.

The fight around Vella Lavella amounted mostly to a naval battle, after which the Marines came ashore to root out the 600 defenders effectively stranded on the island between Aug. 15 and Oct. 9 of 1943.

The airfield built on the island was the setting for the Black Sheep Squadron led

by Gregory Boyington, celebrated in the TV series “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep,” which renamed the island “Vella La Cava” for the television audience.

As it happens, the naval battles for the island also included the incident in which future President John F. Kennedy’s PT boat was cut in half by a destroyer, leading to his heroic efforts to survive and save his men.

Next, Day found himself going ashore on the jungle island of Bougainville. The U.S. wanted to build an air base on the island to conduct bombing missions against Rabaul, the main Japanese base in the Solomon Islands and a marshalling point for any attack on New Zealand or Australia.

The 3rd Marine Divisions were part of a force that ultimately numbered 144,000 that quickly captured half of the island needed to build the air base after the landings in November of 1943. However, the bulk of the 65,000 Japanese troops remained dug in on the other half of the island. The U.S. troops ultimately beat off fierce attempts by the Japanese to break through a heavily defended perimeter.

Day remembers the intense fighting in the thick tropical growth.

“The jungle was so thick that you couldn’t see the sun streaming through the trees,” recalls Day. “Right around Christmas Day, I got malaria. Next thing I knew I woke up in a hole about the size of this room with four of five bunks and I was in one of those bunks. I said, ‘What time do they serve breakfast?’ And the corpsman said, ‘You been with us three days and you been pretty rowdy.’”

Later in the battle, he recalls the struggle to take a hill.

“We had to cross a swamp before we got to it. We got up on top of that and we stayed that night and the next morning we went down to stir up these Japs. I had to take one guy back up the hill on my back. We had what they called sulfadiazine powder and we’d put that on a wound. He’d been shot through the flesh of the leg. So we ran a piece of gauze through there and tied it and put that powder on it and that stopped the

Jack Day (above) met and married Leora just before shipping out for war in the Pacific. He came ashore at Iwo Jima, one of the most deadly battles of World War II (top). He lives now in Tonto Basin with his wife of 72 years. The battle lasted from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945. Marine casualties included 6,821 killed and 19,217 wounded. Japanese casualties including at least 18,375 dead and perhaps 3,000 more missing. Only 216 Japanese surrendered. bleeding. About halfway up the hill, I was on my knees and he was on my back and shoulder and I said, ‘I got to rest a minute.’ So we kind of stopped. And he said, ‘Hey, Jack, look what they got in there.’

I looked and he was pulling that gauze back and forth through the wound. I said, ‘You stop that right now.’”

Falling in love

After those campaigns, Day half hoped they’d rotate him back home.

That’d be fine with him — since he was in love.

In fact, Jack Day’s long, intense military career is intertwined with a love story. He was in the midst of training in San Diego when he decided to learn to surf — which was how he met Leora, the woman he’d end up married to for 72 years.

“This kid, her baby brother, came running down the beach and he wanted to ride on a surfboard,” said Day. So Day took the kid out into the surf.

Next thing he knew, Leora came running down the beach, yelling at him.

“Get my brother back here,” she yelled.

“He can’t swim.”

Day was instantly smitten.

So, of course, “I kind of just tossed him back on the beach.”

That angered Leora something awful, as she glared at the man who would turn out to be the love of her life.

“Well, I just disliked him intensely,” she recalls.

But he fell for her on first sight. He pressed for a chance to see her, ignoring the artillery barrage of her gaze.

All these years later, she recalls. “I always had a sure-fire way to get rid of people I didn’t want to be bothered with: I’d say, go meet my father. But this time, there he was.”

“And here we are,” laughs Jack. “I’m telling you, she looked like a dang movie star.”

Leora shakes her head at the impossibility of the man. “That’s all right dear,” she says. “We went together for six weeks and we weren’t speaking to each other for one of those weeks. I just didn’t like him. He was obnoxious.”

And yet, they ended up married before he shipped out.

Such is love.

Such is war.

Landing on Iwo Jima

So Jack Day had every reason to get home — and the confidence of combat experience.

But nothing could have prepared him for Iwo Jima, which accounted for a third of the U.S. Marine casualties in the entire Pacific War. Jack Day’s confrontation with death came near the end of the month-long struggle to exterminate the Japanese on an island with thousands of bunkers and machine gun nests connected by an astonishing 11 miles of tunnels.

The brilliant Japanese commander —

General Tadamichi Kuribayashi — was a fifth-generation samurai. But he swore off the suicidal Banzai charges practiced by other commanders faced with a hopeless battle. The Japanese warrior code preferred death to surrender.

Instead, Kuribayashi urged his soldiers to kill 10 Americans before they faced their own, inevitable death. They knew from the start their position was hopeless, but they sought to make the battle so costly that the U.S. would give up the war rather invade the Japanese mainland. That decision forced the Americans to fight for every inch of ground.

Day fought nearly every day for weeks, blasting the Japanese out of the caves and tunnels with flamethrowers, grenades and bombs.

“We was told not to go into those caves. But you know Marines, they’re going to go anyway and try to come out with a souvenir — and a lot of them are still in those caves.”

But the day that changed Jack Day’s life came near the end of the campaign, as the Marines moved into a terrible piece of ground they called “Bloody Gulch,” where the last organized resistance was concentrated — including Kuribayashi’s bunker. Day’s actions on that day would earn a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

The leaders of his platoon gathered in a group to figure out how to advance through the interlocking fields of fire from the hidden defenders. The lieutenant decided to try a different approach.

Lieutenant’s last words

“The lieutenant’s last words to me were, ‘Jack, run down there and stop that other truck and gun that’s on its way up here.’ I took off running.”

But Day noticed an already badly wounded sergeant named Sgt. Rich Richardson had also heard the order.

Richardson had staggered to his feet and headed off to comply.

“I yelled, ‘Stop that man, he’s wounded.’”

A medic jumped up, exposing himself to fire and tackled Richardson, whose wounds proved so grave that he never walked again. “But he was running to stop that truck — I knew he was wounded and wounded pretty bad,” said Day in admiration.

Just then, a massive explosion knocked the whole group to the ground.

“I got hit in the leg. Just above the knee. Hit bone. It didn’t damage me that bad.”

But the explosion killed the lieutenant, the platoon sergeant and a reconnaissance sergeant. “We’re not sure to this day whether it was a mortar or a land mine. It also killed the communications guy and two corpsmen. It got seven of us, that one round.”

They hauled Day out to a hospital ship, where the next morning he insisted on returning to his unit.

As soon as he emerged onto the deck, the doctor demanded, “Where are you going?”

“I’m going back over the side,” responded Day. Several sailors offered to help him

• See Iwo Jima, page 6B

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LEGAL NOTICES 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, stopping 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

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LEGAL NOTICES 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 Institutions. 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 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 16078: 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22/2016; NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE File ID. #16-00497 O’Meara Title No: 21600402 The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of sale under that certain trust deed recorded on 12/30/2002 as Document No. 2002-020520 Gila County, AZ. 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 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 on May 18, 2016 at 11:00 AM, at the front entrance to the County Courthouse, 1400 East Ash, Globe, AZ. 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 33-811). 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: Lot 108, MESA DEL CABALLO TRACTS PLAT THREE, according to Map No. 215, records of Gila County, Arizona. The street address/location of the real property described above is purported to be: 108 Cherry Ann Lane Payson, AZ 85541 Tax Parcel No.: 302-34-128 6 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

LEGAL NOTICES 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: $60,000.00 Original Trustor: Rosie O’Meara, a single woman 5814 North 8th Place, Phoenix, AZ 85014 Current Beneficiary: OneWest Bank N.A. (formerly known as One West Bank, FSB) Care of / Servicer OneWest Bank, FSB 2900 Esperanza Crossing Attn: Foreclosure Dept, 3rd Floor Austin, TX 75758 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 State Bar A-4563986 03/01/2016, 03/08/2016, 03/15/2016, 03/22/2016 16079: 2/23, 3/1, 3/8/2016 INVITATION FOR BIDS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO PAYSON AIRPORT PAYSON, ARIZONA A.D.O.T. PROJECT NO. E5S1X Sealed bids for improvements to the Payson Airport, A.D.O.T Project No. E5S1X, will be received by the Town of Payson at the Council Chambers, Town Hall at 303 North Beeline Hwy, Payson, Arizona 85541 until March 22, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. MST and then opened and read aloud.

The work involved includes the following: SCHEDULE I Evaluation and Repair Twy A1 and A2 Infield Drainage For a complete set of Plans, Specifications and Contract Documents all purchases must be made through our website at www.armstrongconsultants.com.

A digital copy may be downloaded for $25.00. A hardcopy may be purchased for $75.00 for each set.

There will be no refunds.

Each bid must be accompanied by a Certified Check or Cashier’s Check in an amount not less than five percent of the total bid made payable to Town of Payson, or by a Bid Bond in like amount executed by a Surety Company.

The Bidder must supply all the information required by the proposal forms and specifications and he/she must bid on all items of every schedule. The Town of Payson reserves the right to waive any informality in or to reject any or all portions of the various bid items. No proposal may be withdrawn for a period of sixty (60) days from the opening thereof.

A Pre-Bid meeting will be held at the Payson Airport Restaurant overflow parking lot on March 9, 2016 at 10:00 a.m., MST. All bidders are advised to examine the site to become familiar with all site conditions.

The proposed contract is under and subject to Executive Order 11246 of 24 September 1965, as amended and to the equal opportunity clause and the Standard Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Construction Contract Specifications, including the goals and timetables for minority and female participation.

A Certification of Nonsegregated Facilities must be submitted prior to the award of the proposed contract, including any subcontracts in excess of $10,000.00.

The proposed contract is subject to the provisions of Department of Transportation Regulations 49 CFR Part 26 (Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Participation).

Minimum wage rates as established by the Secretary of Labor are applicable to all schedules awarded for this project.

Any questions regarding this project are to be directed to the office of Armstrong Consultants, Inc., AZ Office: Mesa, Arizona, (602) 803-7079, for interpretation.

PAYSON, ARIZONA Published: February 23, 2016 March 1, 2016 March 8, 2016 16082: 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22/2016; NOTICE OF HEARING ON DEPENDENCY PETITION NO. JD 201600002 Honorable Timothy M. Wright IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF GILA

LEGAL NOTICES In the Matter of: ANTHONY JOHNSON d.o.b. 04-02-2002 GEORGE ABBOTT d.o.b. 02-10-2004 JORDAN ABBOTT d.o.b. 02-10-2004 Person under 18 years of age.

TO: SONYA ABBOTT, ERIC JOHNSON, LUIGI GROSSI, and JOHN DOE, a fictitious name, parent(s) and/or guardian(s) of the above-named child/ren.

1. The Department of Child Safety, (DCS or the Department), by and through undersigned counsel, has filed a Dependency Petition pursuant to Title 8, of the Arizona Revised Statutes, Rules 4.1 and 4.2 of the Arizona Rules of Civil Procedure; and Rule 48(D) of the Arizona Rules of Procedure for the Juvenile Court.

2. The Court has set a continued initial/publication hearing on May 5, 2016, at 11:00 a.m., at Gila County Superior Court, 714 S. Beeline Hwy., #104, Payson, AZ 85541, telephone number 928.474.3978, for the purpose of determining whether any parent or guardian named herein is contesting the allegations in the Petition.

3. You and your child/ren are entitled to have an attorney present at the hearing. You may hire your own attorney or, if you cannot afford an attorney and want to be represented by an attorney, one may be appointed by the Court.

4. You have a right to appear as a party in this proceeding.

You are advised that your failure to personally appear in court at the initial hearing, pretrial conference, status conference, or dependency adjudication, without good cause shown, may result in a finding that you have waived your legal rights and have admitted the allegations in the Petition. In addition, if you fail to appear, without good cause, the hearing may go forward in your absence and may result in an adjudication of dependency, termination of your parental rights or the establishment of a permanent guardianship based upon the record and the evidence presented to the court, as well as an order of paternity, custody, or change of custody in a consolidated family law matter and an order for child support if paternity has been established.

5. If you are receiving this Notice by publication, you may obtain a copy of the Dependency Petition, Notice of Hearing, and Temporary Order by submitting a written request to: TRACEY L. HEINRICK, Office of the Attorney General, 120 W. 1st Ave., 2nd Floor, Mesa, Arizona 85210. The assigned case manager is Sheena Walters and may be reached by telephone at 928.468.9804.

6. Requests for reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities must be made to the court by parties at least three (3) working days in advance of a scheduled court proceeding and can be made by calling 928.474.3978.

7. You have the right to make a request or motion prior to any hearing that the hearing be closed to the public.

DATED this ___ day of February 2016.

MARK BRNOVICH Attorney General TRACEY L. HEINRICK Assistant Attorney General 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22/16 CNS-2849571# 16088: 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22/2016; IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE OCUNTY OF GILA TAX LIEN INVESTMENTS, L.L.C., Plaintiff, v.

LUCILLE R. SMITH aka LUCILLE ROBINSON AND JOHN DOE SMITH, wife and husband; GILA COUNTY TREASURER; JOHN DOE I-X AND JANE DOE I-X; ABC CORPORATION I-X; The unknown heirs and devisees of any defendant, if deceased, Defendants. No. CV201600019 SUMMONS THE STATE OF ARIZONA TO THE DEFENDANT: LUCILLE R. SMITH aka LUCILLE ROBINSON AND JOHN DOE SMITH, wife and husband; GILA COUNTY TREASURER; JOHN DOE I-X AND JANE DOE I-X; ABC CORPORATION I-X; The unknown heirs and devisees of any defendant, if deceased.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to appear and defend, within the time applicable, in this action in this Court. If served within Arizona, you shall appear and defend within 20 days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you, exclusive of the day of service.

If served out of the State of Arizona-whether by direct service, by registered or certified mail, or by publication-you shall appear and defend within 30 days after the service of the Summons and Complaint upon you is complete, exclusive of the day of service. Where process is served upon the Arizona Director of Insurance as an insurer’s attorney to receive service of legal process against it in this state, the insurer shall not be required to appear, answer or plead until expiration of 40 days after date of such service upon the Director. Service by registered or certified mail without the State of Arizona is complete 30 days after the date of

TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016

LEGAL NOTICES filing the receipt and affidavit of service with the Court.

Service by publication is complete 30 days after the date of first publication. If service is by publication, a copy may be obtained from Plaintiff’s attorney. Direct service is complete when made. Service upon the Arizona Motor Vehicle Superintendent is complete 30 days after filing the Affidavit of Compliance and return receipt or Officer’s Return.

RCP 4; A.R.S.§§20-222, 28-502, 28-503.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that in case of your failure to appear and defend within the time applicable, judgment by default may be rendered against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

YOU ARE CAUTIONED that in order to appear and defend, you must file an Answer or proper response in writing with the Clerk of this Court, accompanied by the necessary filing fee, within the time required, and you are required to serve a copy of any Answer or response upon the Plaintiffs’ attorney.

RCP10(d); A.R.S.§12-311; RCP 5.

Request for reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities must be made to the division assigned to the case by parties at least (3) judicial days in advance of a scheduled court proceeding.

The name and address of the Plaintiff’s attorney is: Barry Becker, BARRY BECKER, P.C., 2516 N. 3rd Street, Phoenix, AZ 85004, (602) 252-1822. SIGNED AND SEALED this date: 2/8/26 Anita Escobedo, Clerk; By: /s/ Karen R., Deputy Clerk 16090: 3/1, 3/4, 3/8/2016 NOTICE (for publication) ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR 1.

Name: HARPER WELDING & EXCAVATION, LLC L20648914 2.

The address of the known place of business is: 111 W. Cedar Lane Suite C Payson, AZ 85541 3.

The name and street address of the Statutory Agent is: Michael J. Harper Harper Law Offices, PC 111 W. Cedar Lane Suite C Payson, AZ 85541 4.

Management of the limited liability company is vested in a manager. The name and address 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: Wrigley G. Harper 202 W. Standage Drive Payson, AZ 85541 [X] member [ ] manager Steven M. Kamp 296 W. Standage Drive Payson, AZ 85541 [X] member [X] manager 16091: 3/1, 3/8, 3/15/2016 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF GILA In re the Estate of: HAROLD JAMES KINTNER JR., Deceased.

CASE NO. PB201600012 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF INFORMAL APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT: 1.

Connie M. Franz has been appointed Personal Representative of this Estate on January 21, 2016.

2.

All persons having claims against the Estate are required to present their claim within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or the claims will be forever barred.

3.

Claims must be presented by delivering or mailing a written statement of the claim to the Personal Representative by and through her attorney, Law Office of Jo Ellen Vork PLLC, 615 West Main Street, Payson, Arizona 85541.

LAW OFFICES OF JO ELLEN VORK, PLLC Date: January 28, 2016 /s/ Jo Ellen Vork Jo Ellen Vork, Attorney for Personal Representative 16093: 3/8, 3/11, 3/15/2016 Notice Of Publication Articles Of Organization Have Been Filed In The Office Of The Arizona Corporation Commission For I Name: GQB Homes LLC. L-20-68493-0. II The address of registered office is: 1006 S Westerly, Payson AZ 85541.

The name and address of the Statutory Agent is: National Contractor Services Corporation, 1010 E Jefferson St Phoenix AZ 85034. III Management of limited liability company is reserved to the members. The names and addresses of each person who is a member are: Dawn Marie Guerrero, 1006 S Westerly, Payson AZ 85541, member; Ricky Paul Hamer Guerrero, 1006 S Westerly, Payson AZ 85541, member.

16094: 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 3/29/2016; Trustee Sale No: LC-30799 Notice Of Trustee’s Sale Recorded: 2/22/2016 The following legally described trust property will be sold, pursuant to the power of sale under that certain Deed of Trust and Assignment of Rents (if applicable) dated September

LEGAL NOTICES 11, 2009, and recorded on September 11, 2009 in Document No. 2009-010936, Records 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 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 on the Front Entrance to the County Courthouse, 1400 East Ash Street, Globe, AZ on May 27, 2016 at 11:00AM of said day: Legal: Lot 279, Payson North Unit 3, According To Map Nos. 419 And 419A, Records Of Gila County, Arizona. The street address is purported to be: 415 E. Forest Dr. Payson, AZ 85541 Tax Parcel Number: 302-66-279A Original Principal Balance: $ 176,265.00 Name and address of original Trustor: Wilburn A. Nicholson, III, An Unmarried Man 415 E. Forest Dr. Payson, AZ 85541 Name and address of the Beneficiary: United States Of America, Acting Through The Rural Housing Service Or Successor Agency, United States Department Of Agriculture PO Box 66889 St. Louis, MO 63166 Name and address of Trustee: Marc S. Gladner Crosby & Gladner, PC 1700 E. Thomas Rd., Ste 101 Phoenix, AZ 85016 Conveyance of the property shall be without warranty, expressed 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. Trustee’s Phone number: 602.274.9100 Sale Information:

LEGAL NOTICES www.mkconsultantsinc.com/ Dated this 18th day of February, 2016 Marc S. Gladner, Successor Trustee By: /s/ Marc S. Gladner, Successor Trustee Manner of Trustee Qualification: Member Of The State Bar Of Arizona Name of Trustee’s Regulator: State Bar Of Arizona State Of Arizona }} ss. County Of Maricopa } On this 18th day of February, 2016, before me, the undersigned notary public, personally appeared Marc S. Gladner, Successor Trustee, Crosby & Gladner, PC personally known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same in his authorized capacity, and that by his signature on the instrument the person or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted, executed the instrument. Witness my hand and official seal. My commission expires February 25, 2017 /s/ Chris Peterson Notary Public 16096: 3/4, 3/8, 3/11/2016 NOTICE (for publication) ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR I. Name: TAYLOR MAID CLEANING SERVICES, LLC File No. L-2070527-9 II. The address of the known place of business is: 616 N. Mountain View Road, Star Valley, AZ 85541.

III. The name and street address of the Statutory Agent is: Yvonne Phyllis Alvarez, 616 N. Mountain View Road, Star Valley, AZ 85541.

(A) 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: Yvonne Phyllis Alvarez, (x) member, 616 N. Mountain View Road, Star Valley, AZ 85541; Haileigh Taylor Alvarez, 616 N. Mountain View Road, Star Valley, AZ

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LEGAL NOTICES 85541.

16097: 3/4, 3/8, 3/11/2016 NOTICE (for publication) ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR I. Name: SRMH CONSULTING, LLC File No. L-2068989-7.

II. The address of the known place of business is: 3701 Hopi Lane, Pine, AZ 85544.

III. The name and street address of the Statutory Agent is: Suzan Miller Hoover, 3701 Hopi Lane, Pine, AZ 85544.

(A) Management of the limited liability company is reserved to the members. The names and addresses of each person who is a member are: Suzan Miller Hoover, 3701 Hopi Lane, Pine, AZ 85544.

16101: 3/8, 3/11, 3/15/2016 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF (Arizona Non-Profit Corporation) 1. ENTITY NAME: GRACE WORKS GLOBAL, INC. FILE NO. 2062111-3 2. CHARACTER OF AFFAIRS: Train pastors worldwide, to disciple pastors worldwide, and to work among the poor worldwide.

3. MEMBERS: (X) The corporation WILL have members.

4.

ARIZONA KNOWN PLACE OF BUSINESS ADDRESS: (X) YES - the place of business address is the same as the street address of the statutory agent..

5. DIRECTORS: Richard Allen Mann, Jr., 783 W. Colt Lane, Payson, AZ 85541; Stephanie Sheree Mann, 783 W. Colt Lane, Payson, AZ 85541; Joseph E. Falkner, 612 W. Coronado Way, Payson, AZ 85541; Michael D. Hughes, 200 W. Roundup, Payson, AZ 85541; Katelynn A. Petkoff, 5763 W. Kuvasz Ct., Pine, AZ 85544..

6. STATUTORY AGENT: Richard Allen Mann, Jr., 783 W. Colt lane, Payson, AZ 85541.

7. CERTIFICATE OF DISCLOSURE: enclosed with

LEGAL NOTICES Articles of Incorporation Non-Profit Corporation.

8. INCORPORATORS: Richard Allen Mann, Jr., 783 W. Colt Lane, Payson, AZ 85541; Stephanie Sheree Man, 783 W. Colt Lane, Payson, AZ 85541: SIGNATURE: By checking the box marked “I accept” below, I acknowledge under penalty of perjury that this document together with any attachments is submitted in compliance with Arizona law. (x) I accept; /s/ Richard Allen Mann Jr., RICHARD ALLEN MANN JR., Grace Works Global, Inc. 02/22/2016; (x) I accept; /s/ Stephanie Sheree Mann, STEPHANIE SHEREE MANN, Grace Works Global, Inc. 02/22/2016 16102: 3/8, 3/11, 3/15/2016 Notice: (for publication) ARTICLES OF ORGANAZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPRATION COMMISSION FOR; I. Name: HOME M E N D ERS LIVING THE DREAM LLC File # L-20648164 II. The address of the known place of business is: 286 N. Palo Verde Dr., Roosevelt, AZ 85545 III. The name and a d d r e s s of the Statutory Agent is: Katherine D. Rulon-Aultman, 286 N. Palo Verde Dr., Roosevelt, AZ 85545 (B) Management of the limited liability company is reserved to the members. The members of the company who have voting shares in the company and their addresses are as follows; Katherine D. Rulon-Aultman 286 N. Palo Verde Dr., Roosevelt, AZ 85545nd Grover C. Aultman, address 829 N. Deer Creek Dr., Payson, AZ. 85541 and Terry Rulon address is 5300 Nesting Osprey Way, Helena, MT. 59601

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Jack Day and Larry Norton both wound up living in Rim Country 71 years after surviving the Battle of Iwo Jima.

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Iwo Jima veteran wanted to make it home From page 3B climb down the netting into the waiting boat below, but the doctor stopped them. “If he can’t go over the net by himself, he stays,� said the doctor.

So Day walked to the railing, climbed over and started to climb down that netting with his one good leg.

Down in the boat the sailors shouted, “Turn loose and we’ll catch you.�

Day peered down at the bobbing boat, realizing if the swells hit the boat wrong, he’d be crushed between the boat and the steel hull of the ship. Nonetheless, he launched himself. “Three of them caught me in their arms like I was a baby,� he says, smiling at the memory.

So he stayed with his unit to the bitter end. The Marines took about 200 prisoners from among the 21,000 defenders. Some of the Japanese remained hidden in the caves for months, doing what damage they could.

The exhausted Marines finally left the island, convinced they’d get retrained for the task they all dreaded — the invasion of Japan.

In all the years since, historians have debated whether Iwo Jima was worth the enormous cost.

Several thousand B-29s did land on the island, but a few of those were so damaged they couldn’t have made it back to a more distant base. The island never did serve as a base for fighter aircraft to support the bombers — partly because the Japanese quickly ran out of planes and pilots to resist the bombing.

But the Marines going ashore don’t have the luxury of second-guessing the generals and the admirals. They just resolved to take the beach or the hill — and never let their buddies down.

The first morning back at sea, they were thunderstruck by the news that President Franklin Roosevelt had died.

But before the dreaded invasion could get underway, President Harry Truman approved dropping the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “I’ll tell you what,� says Day. “When Truman dropped that atomic bomb, he saved us all,�

says Day. So Jack returned to Leora.

Leora recalls, “He didn’t even let us know he was coming. He just knocked on the door and there he was, early in the morning too, come to think of it. It was a shock.�

She had spent two years, mostly alone, mostly listening to the filtered war news, reading his letters with passages blanked out by the censors — struggling against her fear, going on with her life. “To be honest with you,� she says now. “I don’t know how to explain how we just carried on all that time — not knowing where he was, what was happening to him. We just got on with our lives — but you did that then.�

Jack eventually ended up in the Air Force, fought in Korea, traveled the world — and as his military career continued, Leora followed him to each posting. He was based at Luke Air Force base at one point and the couple decided to move to Arizona when he finally quit the military. “Did my 20 years and left,� a master sergeant in the Air Force, and left the Marines as a corporal.

He worked a full career after retiring from the military. He built thousands of houses — and bought one of his own in Tonto Basin in about 1974.

He never made much of his combat, just got on with his life. “I guess sometimes when I went to sleep, I’d just jump clear out of bed,� he admits. “Then I’d go right back to sleep and never know I’d done it. I guess that was my nervous system.� “Oh, he screamed during the night,� said Leona. “Scared his older brother half to death.

You’ve got to understand, in the first three years we were married — we were only together about a year. He came back a nervous wreck. He smoked and sometimes his fingers would just pop open. He’d just levitate out of the bed at night. So I guess he was different — but I didn’t know it because I didn’t know him.�

Still, they’ve had a good life.

Jack got to spend the whole of it with his one, true love.

As for the memories, well, you just live with that.

Marines had to use flamethrowers to kill thousands of Japanese hidden in underground bunkers, connected by 11 miles of tunnels. Only 200 of the 21,000 Japanese surrendered.

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