October 30, 2019 • Vol. 17, No. 49
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Census officials will work to accurately count all communities in 2020 BY DEAGAN URBATSCH CRONKITE NEWS
The Census Bureau is making changes to its process in an effort to better communicate its purpose, diversify workers and improve its representation of hard-to-count communities.
(Photo by MacKinley Lutes-Adlhoch/Cronkite News)
PHOENIX – Federal officials are determined to recruit workers and accurately count residents for the 2020 census, especially such historically underserved minorities as Native Americans and Hispanics, census leaders said Tuesday. “It’s important we hire people in every community in order to have a complete and accurate census,” said Timothy Olson, the Census Bureau’s associate director of field operations. This year for the first time, the census questionnaire can be completed online, Olson said. Officials will leverage social media for outreach but still will rely on door-to-door canvassing for people who don’t use or have access to the internet, such as
people who live in rural areas or far-flung reservations. Native Americans were among those who have been historically undercounted during the census, a constitutionally mandated headcount conducted every decade since 1790. “The 2010 census left Native Americans with a 4.9 percent undercount, which is more than double the undercount rate of the next closest population,” Patricia Hibbeler, chief executive of the Phoenix Indian Center, said in an interview Monday. Hibbeler and others are reaching out to Native Americans, especially in metro Phoenix, to urge them to be counted.
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Celebrate local history at Fall Carefree Fine Art & Wine Festival Cave Creek Miner's Dinner Featured artist uses gourds as her canvas BY TARA ALATORRE
CAVE CREEK – Celebrate the local region’s mining heritage, watch the historic Golden Reef 10-Stamp Mill crush ore and enjoy a meal under the Western stars at Cave Creek Museum’s Miner’s Dinner. On November 12, from 4 to 7:30 p.m. the Cave Creek Museum (CCM) will host its 11th annual Miner’s Dinner. Proceeds will support the museum’s preservation and exhibit development efforts. “For the first 10 years the [CCM] Dream Team used the funds [from the Miner’s Dinner] to pay for the supplies and services required to retrieve
CAREFREE – The awardwinning Thunderbird Artists is kicking off the arts season with its 26th annual Fall Carefree Fine Art & Wine Festival. It takes place on Nov. 1-3, along Ho Hum and Easy streets in downtown Carefree. The popular Carefree show features 165 renowned, juried artists who will showcase and sell their original work from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. A popular event for locals and tourists alike, Thunderbird Artists’ Fall Carefree show was recently ranked as the
and rebuild the Golden Reef 10-Stamp Mill from Continental Mountain in the Cave Creek Mining District,” CCM’s Executive Director, Karrie Porter Brace said. Brace says that CCM’s stamp mill is unique because all its parts were located and retrieved from the original site on Continental Mountain from the Golden Reef Mine, and it is still in its original mining district. The stamp mill is also the only one in Arizona operating within five miles of its original site. “In the last year we’ve also
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Pictured: The festival's featured artist, Jane Boggs, who will exhibit a variety of gourd pieces at the festival. (Photo courtesy of Thunderbird Artists)
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Annual Shred-a-Thon will
Free presentation by AZ's Hip
Daisy Mountain conducting
benefit local food bank
Historian in Black Canyon City
first-aid and CPR classes
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