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OV resident, walk support those who lost babies

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI

Oro Valley resident Sherokee Ilse empathiz

es with families who have lost babies.

As a bereaved mother years ago — “It doesn’t matter how long ago it was,” she said — Ilse didn’t know what to do.

“It’s very lonely,” Ilse said.

“You think something is wrong—you’re an inade quate mother, the siblings think it’s their fault. It can eat away at you.”

Since her losses, Ilse has become a nationally recognized expert, parent advocate, author and international speaker on helping families receive compassionate and wise care from the time they receive the sad news as well as in the days, weeks

and years that follow. She has trained staff for al most four decades and co-facilitates the monthly Genesis OB/GYN/Embrace Circle support group.

“It’s been my life mission for over 40 years to really help people understand it’s the loss of their future,” she said. “It’s not just a tiny baby. What a lot of folks don’t understand is it isn’t just the size of the body. It’s really about love. Even if you love them deeply for 12 weeks in utero, chances are you wanted the baby all your life—especially for girls.”

Ilse and her team founded Walk to Remember in Tucson to remember babies and infants gone too soon. This year, it is scheduled for 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, at Children’s Memo

David Udall continues his family’s legacy

BY KAREN SCHAFFNER Tucson Local Media

David Udall, 35, has a lot of responsi bility.

As assistant town attorney, he gives legal advice to Marana’s staff, includ ing the water department — one of his inter ests. Now, he has added a new job: Marana’s new clerk.

“My new job, the official title is clerk-slash-town-assistant-attorney,” said Udall, who has five children with his wife.

His new duties include oversight of town records, “so records management across the town,” Udall said. “The town clerk oversees town elections and prepares agendas for town council meetings and taking minutes at those meetings.”

There are plenty of records under Udall’s watch: marriage and property among them, but whatever falls under public informa tion. These documents are accessible upon request, though there is a process to obtain them.

Then there are documents that contain Social Security numbers and documents that contain critical infrastructure informa tion that need to be protected. Udall handles those, too. The town clerk also prepares the

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Fellow Oro Valley resident Jeanne Den aro co-facilitates the group and helps with the walk.

“The event is powerful in so many ways,” Ilse said. “They realize they’re not the only one when they meet someone else who had a miscarriage or still birth — even if it’s three or four years later.”

The walk, which happens around the world, falls during Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.

“It’s open to the public and they will meet and welcome everyone, read poems, talk about the importance of these babies, and go to the microphone and name their ba bies,” Ilse said.

“It’s just touching. It’s just beautiful. We just walk a little down a path — five to 10 houses — and back. When they walk and then turn around, they see all the people gathered with their families and walking. It’s a nice way to seeing they’re not alone. Then, we come back and make mementos.”

FORGING AHEAD

Ilse has two living children, Kellan and Trev or, and three who died, Marama, which means “moon” in Polynesian, Brennan and Bryna.

“My husband and I had an early miscar riage that was pretty devastating, but we tried again,” she said.

“We had the perfect pregnancy. That baby got all the way to a couple days before the due date when I quit feeling movement. I didn’t call in or go in. I thought I would be bothering them. But Brennan had been

Left: A heart is made of memory rocks that were painted during Walk to Remember.

Right: Sherokee Ilse co-founded Walk to Remember. (Sherokee Ilse/Submitted)

dead for a few days.

“We delivered him and made every mis take in the book. We didn’t know what to do. We had nobody to guide us. Nobody ever saw him. We didn’t take pictures. We never clothed him. We never diapered him. We never wrapped him in a blanket. We just left. We saw him for a few minutes and said, ‘Take him away.’ We had to deal with a baby who died and a family expecting to meet him.”

grieving parents.

“I can’t change what happened to me, but I can be a catalyst in changing it for others,” she added.

She and Dr. Stephanie Hedstrom found ed Embrace Circle, which brings immedi ate awareness and care to families within hours of receiving the news that their baby will die or has died.

appropriate, and a phone/email contact with a baby loss family adviser/loss doula.

This parent advocate helps with the next steps and offers guidance about how to nav igate the emotions and practical aspects of welcoming baby and dealing with the loss.

This can include how to tell the children and talk with family members, how to minimize regrets and create memories and ideas on how to plan an intentional and special goodbye.

“Families often reframe their attitudes from one of fear and lack of control to a place of making decisions based on the love they have for their son or daughter, no matter how small or short the pregnancy or life,” Ilse said.

In addition to interacting with parents within hours of receiving the news, the Em brace Circle holds a monthly support group at the NW Genesis Clinic, 6261 N. La Chol la Boulevard, Suite 277, Tucson, the third Wednesday of every month from 6:45 to 8:30 p.m. And they offer ongoing support and resource sharing to families as needed.

“Death does not define your baby,” Ilse said. “Love does. When love defines that baby, the parents make less poor choices. They can feel more comfortable. They ask, ‘Could I let my children see their brother?’ Of course they can. I can help them. They can cremate and keep the remains, bury them or scatter them. They could have a birthday cake, too.

She learned a valuable lesson that she continues to share.

“We can’t stop all these babies dying,” she said. “But we can stop the regrets by doing a better job at welcoming them.”

The emotional component and the ques tions about what happens next after receiving such news is often missing in clinical care un til the family gets to the hospital, Ilse said.

The deaths changed the trajectory of her life. Ilse said she waded through the lack of memories, trauma and regret to help other

During the past three years, the Genesis OB/GYN and Embrace Circle teams have reached out immediately to hundreds of newly bereaved families with written mate rial, memorial gifts, miscarriage kits, where

the acting clerk for a time, where he evi dently made a good impression.

“We try to teach them how to be the par ent and not to operate out of fear. This is not happening around the country. We do this with miscarriages, still births or babies in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit). It’s a miracle when we connect with people. I can hear the change in their voice. They cry less, but remember, tears are important.” and posts the minutes.

Elections are under his purview, too.

“The town clerk is the filing officer for town elections,” he said. “As the filing officer, what I do here at the town is receive election-related filings for town elections, so a candidate for town office such as mayor, council member or if it’s some sort of ballot initiative that in volves the town, we’ll prepare ballot language and send it to the county and the county ac tually will get that language out to voters, on early voting ballots and polling places.”

Neither Udall nor his staff handle the bal lots. That job, he said, is contracted out to Pima County.

Udall is no stranger to Marana. He was

“When that vacancy occurred, (Udall) filled in for a while until we decided what we were going to do,” Mayor Ed Honea said. “He did such a phenomenal job that (town manager Terry Rozema) said, ‘Hey, we should hire David as the town clerk,’ and I completely concurred. He is a bril liant young man and a good guy and very articulate. He does everything well, and I liked him when he did water and stuff with the legal department.”

Udall’s lineage is politically minded. For him, it is a family legacy to serve.

“I grew up with very service-minded par ents and grandparents,” he said.

Then, while in law school, Udall interned

for the public sector, which cemented his future. Udall said it’s meaningful to make a difference in the community. It’s also some thing that comes from deep within him.

“I am a man of faith, and (service) really helps me feel good,” Udall said. “More than that, I feel good when I see others having a bet ter day or being able to be helped in some way through my actions; it’s just very fulfilling.”

Then there are the people he works with.

“For me, and I know it probably sounds cliche, but really, I am honored to serve the town of Marana,” Udall said. “I’ve worked in other government positions and one thing I’ve been really impressed with in the town of Marana is the people here really care about their work and doing all that they can to serve the constituents of the town.”

TOWN CLERK

David Udall is the town of Marana’s new clerk. (Town of Marana/Submitted)

til the family gets to the hospital, Ilse said.

During the past three years, the Genesis OB/GYN and Embrace Circle teams have reached out immediately to hundreds of newly bereaved families with written mate rial, memorial gifts, miscarriage kits, where appropriate, and a phone/email contact with a baby loss family adviser/loss doula.

This parent advocate helps with the next steps and offers guidance about how to nav igate the emotions and practical aspects of welcoming baby and dealing with the loss.

This can include how to tell the children and talk with family members, how to minimize regrets and create memories and ideas on how to plan an intentional and special goodbye.

“Families often reframe their attitudes from one of fear and lack of control to a place of making decisions based on the love they have for their son or daughter, no matter how small or short the pregnancy or life,” Ilse said.

In addition to interacting with parents within hours of receiving the news, the Em brace Circle holds a monthly support group at the NW Genesis Clinic, 6261 N. La Chol la Boulevard, Suite 277, Tucson, the third

Wednesday of every month from 6:45 to 8:30 p.m. And they offer ongoing support and resource sharing to families as needed.

“Death does not define your baby,” Ilse said. “Love does. When love defines that baby, the parents make less poor choices.

They can feel more comfortable. They ask, ‘Could I let my children see their brother?’

Of course they can. I can help them. They can cremate and keep the remains, bury them or scatter them. They could have a birthday cake, too.

“We try to teach them how to be the par ent and not to operate out of fear. This is not happening around the country. We do this with miscarriages, still births or babies in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit). It’s a miracle when we connect with people. I can hear the change in their voice. They cry less, but remember, tears are important.”

Left: Chris Cornelison, Oro Valley deputy town manager, will serve in the town manager role until council appoints a replacement. Right: Oro Valley Town Manager Mary Jacobs submitted her resignation Sept. 23. (Town of Oro Valley/Courtesy)

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serve as acting town manager.

Jacobs has served as Oro Valley’s town manager since Sept. 5, 2017. She was work ing as an assistant city manager in Sierra Vista when she was recruited for the Oro Valley town manager position.

Jacobs was hired to replace Greg Caton, who returned to his native Colorado in

2016. She was hired with unanimous sup port from the council.

After her first year in the role, Jacobs re ceived a $20,000 raise, increasing her an nual salary to $180,000 in 2018, after her performance review that year. The raise in cluded additional vacation hours, doubling the yearly amount to her retirement savings

Knowing

PCC celebrates its HSE 2022 graduating class

BY HOPE PETERS

Local Media

Pima Community College High School Equivalency students cele brated their graduating with pomp and circumstance Sept. 23 by sharing intimate stories with a large audience of cheering friends and family.

Graduate Athena Martinez, a 32-yearold mother of six, passed her GED in 2021 and is now enrolled in PCC’s Building and Construction Technologies IBEST pro gram with emphasis in electrical. She plans to open a youth center to teach basic and advanced carpentry skills.

“If there is only one thing you leave here with today, it’s to follow your dreams…let your hard work and perseverance drive you for a better future,” Martinez said. “Don’t give up, challenge yourself!”

Her plans won’t stop after receiving her Build ing and Construction Technologies certificates.

“Next year, in the spring, I plan on get ting my teaching degree,” she said. “I will start pursuing that so that way I can come

back and get my certificates, so I can open up a program for the youth and help them learn advanced carpentry skills. That way, they can build their own houses or find sta ble income rather than go the route that we see our youth going toward.”

Jennylee January-Hocking, a 29-year-old, was homeschooled until high school. She was forced to quit high school after her mom was injured in a car crash to keep their ranch and businesses afloat. For years she carried shame

about not finishing high school. She found Pima’s adult education program at the 29th Street Coalition Center and was welcomed with open arms. After passing the GED, she continued her educational goals at PCC. She is pursuing an associate’s degree in liberal arts with an emphasis on education and plans to be a teacher.

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Marana PD seeks administrative, patrol volunteers

BY TOM LEYDE

Marana’s Police Department needs more than a few good volunteers. The department has 36 volun teers, but “We’re always looking for more,” said Tom Cox, the program’s volunteer coordinator. The group is super vised by officer Ashley Espinoza, commu nity resource officer.

Cox is a civilian who has been with the volunteer program for six years. He is re tired from the Air Force and Raytheon. The program began in 2004 with about 25 peo ple, some of them winter visitors. Almost half of the volunteers are administrative who support the department during com munity events. The other half are patrol volunteers.

“We are another set of eyes for the police department,” Cox said. “We have vehicles with the same communication equipment as officers. ... We are a visible means to con vey that the police department is there to help and serve the community.”

While volunteers have no law enforce ment power, they can back up officers who are involved in investigations of accidents and other incidents. They can, for instance,

take over traffic control while officers are involved in an accident investigation or other emergency scenes.

Volunteers must be at least 21 years old

and have a driver’s license. They must be able to lift 25 pounds and stand for two to three hours at a time. Volunteers also have to complete 60 hours of training. It consists of 30 hours of academics and another 30 hours of patrol under the supervision of a trainer.

Volunteers also must undergo a back ground check and be fingerprinted. They are held to the same standards as sworn officers.

“You have to realize this is an introduc tion to police work and it’s very interest ing,” said Darrel Gleddie, Neighborhood Watch coordinator, in a town news release. “It’s not for everyone, but if you have an interest in what police do, then this is one way to find out.”

“The biggest thing is giving back to the community,” said volunteer Kerry Schrad er, in the same news release.

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Marana Police Department volunteer coordinator Tom Cox, left, and Neighborhood Watch coordinator Darrel Gleddie. (Marana Police Department/Submitted)

Country singer Luke Bell died of overdose

BY LAURA LATZKO AND CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI

Country singer Luke Bell died of a fen tanyl intoxication and arteriosclerot ic cardiovascular disease, according to the Pima County medical exam iner’s report.

Drug paraphernalia was found with Bell in a shaded area of a parking structure in the 5500 block of East Grant Road in Mid town Tucson on Aug. 26, police and the autopsy report said.

It also said Bell, 32, was identified by FBI fingerprint comparison on Aug. 30. He was found dead after missing for a week.

Among Bell’s songs were “Jealous Guy,” “Where Ya Been?” and “Sometimes.”

His death was initially reported by his friend and fellow country artist Matt Kin man in the blog Saving Country Music.

Bell, who was born in Kentucky and raised in Wyoming, suffered from bipolar disorder, according to published reports.

According to the blog post, Kinman and he had been in Arizona playing music when he disappeared during a food stop.

During his life, Bell lived and played in Texas, Wyoming, New Orleans and Nash ville. He also worked as a ranch hand.

His breakout self-titled album was released by Nashville label Thirty Tigers in 2016.

It was his third overall album. He also recorded another self-titled album and a second album called “Don’t Mind If I Do.”

His single “Sometimes,” off his 2016 album, was heralded by NPR and Rolling Stone.

In 2016, Rolling Stone named him as one of the “10 Country Artists You Need to Know.”

Bell also collaborated with Martha Spencer on a cover version of Guy Clark’s “Dublin Blues” in 2021.

Bell opened for artists such as Dwight Yoakam, Hayes Carll, Hank Williams Jr. and Willie Nelson and collaborated with Margo Price, Alabama Shakes and Lang horne Slim.

He was known for his traditional

Luke Bell’s songs include “Jealous Guy,” “Where Ya Been?” and “Sometimes.” (Photo courtesy of Wikibio)

“honkytonk” style that paid tribute to the past.

On social media, his friends and col leagues shared stories and condolences.

Price shared on Twitter: “I was just thinking of a memory of Luke Bell and his dog, Bill, hitching a ride in our van on the way to wildwood revival in Georgia in 2015. Bill was ripping these terrible dog farts and we were all laughing so hard we cried. We swapped stories, listened to music and got drunk as skunks with no plan of where we were staying and ended up sleeping on a hardwood floor.”

She also stated: “I don’t always have the right words when something tragic hap pens. But I do feel deeply for Luke’s family and all of his friends who knew him well. I hope one day we can shake the stigma surrounding mental health problems and addiction and let people know they aren’t alone.”

Catlin Rutherford of Mike and the Moonpies tweeted: “So sad to hear the news tonight our buddy, Luke Bell. I don’t really know what to say. Thank you for the friendship and great music.”

Country singer/songwriter Kelsey Wal don expressed on Twitter: “I have been heartbroken to hear about the passing of

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office,” she said. “He knew how much I wanted to get it.”

The stigma of getting a GED and HSE, weighed heavy on her, like others who did not finish high school in their teens.

“I was too prideful and too full of myself,” Jan uary-Hocking said. “I am too old and I’m an offi cer’s wife…And I didn’t want to go through that.”

But she did, along with 20-year-old mother of two, CC Flannery

Flannery left high school at age 16 to raise her daughters. Many hardships fol lowed, but Flannery was committed to pur suing her dreams and being a role model for her daughters. Once she decided to get her HSE diploma, it took her two months to prepare for and pass her GED. Since then, she has earned her peer mentoring certificate and is preparing to continue her education at PCC in January.

“I want to use (the peer mentoring certif icate) and my life experiences to help other youth like me,” she said. “I want to be a life coach or peer mentor when I am older.”

Flannery said she does want to continue her college education through PCC.

“I might go further,” Flannery said

Left: New PCC HSE grads, from left, CC Flannery, Athena Martinez and Jennylee January-Hocking. (Hope Peters/Staff) Right: Jennylee Janu ary-Hocking is proud of her PCC HSE diploma and plans to continue her education. She is enrolled at PCC for a liberal arts degree with emphasis on education and will continue to a four-year university to pursue a teaching career. (Hope Peters/Staff)

post-associate’s degree work. “I was think ing of (degrees) in psychology, or I like phi losophy, too. I want to work with people, that somehow, some way helps people.”

She faced a big obstacle.

“I lived in my car, that was my biggest thing,” she said. “I am nervous about my

speech (tonight), but I want to inspire (at least) one person. “

PCC’s HSE program has been successful. For more information, visit pima.edu.

Laurie Kierstead-Joseph, PCC assistant vice chancellor of adult basic education for college and career, said three HSE pathways

are available to learners in Arizona.

There are three ways to obtain an HSE in Arizona, all of which require a passing score in the Arizona civics test. Visit azed.gov for more information about the GED testing pathway, the college credit pathway, or the HSE Plus career readiness pathway.

For Cesar Romero, creating a meal is art

BY KAREN SCHAFFNER

When Cesar Romero was 11 years old, he started cooking for his family. While his parents worked, somebody had to get dinner on the table. He loved food and its preparation so much, he did didn't mind.

“When I was about 11, my mom went back to work, so I was actually cooking for my brothers,” he said. “I had my hands early in the kitchen.”

Romero is now satisfying palates on Or acle at Wildflower Restaurant, where the style is New American with a hint of Asia and Mexico.

The interior is a bit hushed and the ser vice impeccable. Everything here is pre pared fresh. In the back, one might see a huge metal bowl of hot clam chowder chilling in a sink full of ice. There’s a hot grill with flames licking the sides of a frying pan. Chef is preparing a New York strip or pan-roasted chicken to order.

Romero, however, didn’t begin his career at the high end of the restaurant spectrum. His beginnings were humble.

He started his career at 18 as a dishwash er at San Diego’s Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, where he worked his way up. To watch

the chefs work, Romero finished his tasks quickly.

“I would just try to get my work done so I could start prepping,” he said. “Then they (officially) moved me to prep, so I learned all that. Finally, I got moved to the line, and that’s when I really started to get experience because I didn’t go to (culinary) school. My parents couldn’t afford it, so I just bought books and books and books.”

He bought the study guide for the Culi nary Institute of America and learned to make mother sauces, the foundation of sauces used in American cooking, as well as how to use and take care of his knives properly. Then he practiced.

“On my days off I was cooking,” Romero said. “When I went home after work I was cooking. I was just trying to figure it out because I just have a passion for food.”

Romero has been creating in the back of the house for more than a decade. He worked at the Cheesecake Factory, hiring and training staff, and opening the stores.

Locally, he has worked at Snooze, where he once again found himself a student. Still, chef Marlene Portillo, who trained him there, said one of Romero’s best qualities is that he can take the heat and use it to im

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schedule and how to purchase tickets, visit broadwayintucson.com. Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Boulevard.

LOCAL MARKETS

Sunday, Oct. 9

The fifth season of the Mercado Flea begins on Sunday, Oct. 9, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Mercado District near the MSA Annex and Mercado San Agustin. The open-air, urban flea market will feature over 45 vendors selling vintage, antique, used and collectible goods. The Mercado Flea will be every second Sunday through May and has two stops on the streetcar. For a list of future dates, visit mercadodistrict. com, 100 S. Avenida del Convento.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Thursday, Oct. 6 to Sunday, Oct. 9

The Screening Room presents the 18th annual Tucson Film & Music Festival start ing Thursday, Oct. 6 through Sunday, Oct. 9. Enjoy music-related films with a connec tion to Arizona or the Southwest. To keep up with the TFMF announcements visit their Facebook page, Tucson Film & Music Festival or its website for ticket information and showings, visit eventbrite.com. The Screening Room, 127 E. Congress Street.

Thursday, Oct. 6 to Sunday, Oct. 30

Nightfall returns to Old Tucson Studios, Thursday, Oct. 6. The spooktacular event celebrates its 30th anniversary with a plot twist, a more immersive storyline that in vites the whole family to follow clues and engage with cast members to uncover mul tiple mysteries, allowing themselves the opportunity to determine their night’s out come. Visitors are encouraged to purchase

tickets ahead of time, due to the park’s timed-entry approach, on nightfallaz.com.

Nightfall at Old Tucson Studios, 201 S. Kinney Road.

Friday, Oct. 7 and Saturday, Oct. 8

Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens and Galleries hosts their autumn series, Brewin’ at the Chul, from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7 and Saturday, Oct. 8, through Saturday, Nov. 26. Admission is free and guests get the chance to roam the grounds after hours and imbibe from the rotating food menu that includes beers, brats and more from the Garden Bistro. Enjoy live music by local singer and guitarist Jason Kelly on Friday, or Natalie Pohanic on Saturday. The Tuc son Hispanic Chamber of Commerce will also present a free screening of Disney’s “Coco,” for Hispanic Heritage Month at the Performance Garden. Gates open at 6 p.m. The movie starts at 7 p.m. For a full list of performers throughout the series and the menu, visit tohonochul.org. Tohono Chul, 7366 N. Paseo Del Norte.

Friday, Oct. 7 to Sunday, Oct. 9

The 49th annual Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival returns on Friday, Oct. 7 through Sunday, Oct. 9. Eat your way through Downtown Tucson and enjoy tra ditional and ethnic dances, live music, the craftmanship of lowrider cars, a corrido contest and more. Tucson Meet Yourself includes over 30 cultural communities. For more information about the event and its location, visit tucsonmeetyourself.org.

Saturday, Oct. 8 and Sunday, Oct. 9

Pumpkin (spice) season is here, so grab the family and take a day trip down to Will cox for Apple Annie’s Orchards’ fall pump kin celebration in October. Take a hayride

or get lost in the corn maze as you enjoy the fall weather at the pumpkin patch lo cated at The Farm on 6405 W. Williams Road. Apple Annie’s Orchard is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., no charge for admission but bring money for produce purchases and hayride tickets. For more information about seasonal produce availability or Ap ple Annie’s Orchard, visit appleannies.com or call 520-384-2084.

Wednesday, Oct. 12 to Thursday, Oct. 20

The Loft Film Fest returns to the Loft Cinema in full force for its 12th year Wednesday, Oct. 12 through Thursday, Oct. 20. The festival will showcase over 45 features and short programs, guest speakers and other eclectic programming including a documentary about “The New Loft,” in celebration of the Loft’s 50th anniversary. For a full list of the lineup and ticket pric ing, visit loftcinema.org. The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway Boulevard.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS

Tuesday, Oct. 11

Learn how to cook carne asada three ways with the Visit Tucson President/ CEO J. Felipe Garcia on Tuesday, Oct. 11. Presented by the Flying Aprons Tuc son Cooking Class at the Catalina United Methodist Church kitchen, the two-hour crash course will provide everything cooks need. The class is $75 and is limited to 16 participants. Classes are nonrefundable. To register or check out other classes, vis it flying-aprons-tucson.myshopify.com. Catalina United Methodist Church, 2700 E. Speedway Boulevard.

KIDS

Saturday, Oct. 8

The Children’s Museum Tucson features

its new Art After Dark series, Cuentacuen tos, starting Saturday, Oct. 8, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The interactive storytelling pro gram has free admission for children and their guests. The first storyteller is Dr. Praise Zenenga, director of the UA Africana Stud ies Program. For more information about the many other diverse programs that the CMT offers, visit childrensmuseumtucson. org. Children’s Museum Tucson, 200 S. Sixth Avenue.

SPORTS

Thursday, Oct. 6 to Sunday, Oct. 9

The Vamos: A Tucson Mexican Base ball Fiesta returns to Tucson at the Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium on Thursday, Oct. 6 to Sunday, Oct. 9, during Hispanic Heritage Month. The 11th annual baseball series brings Mexican baseball teams and a performance by the popular Sonoran band La Brissa. Presale tickets are $8 for children 6 to 16 and seniors, $15 general admission and $20 for box seats. Prices will increase two days before the event. For information about game times, visit mexicanbaseballfi esta.com. Kino Veterans Memorial Stadi um, 2500 E. Ajo Way.

Saturday, Oct. 8

The Arizona Wildcats play Oregon at Arizona Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 8. This special home game will feature Arizona Athletics’ Hispanic Heritage Night celebration in honor of the vibrant Hispanic cul ture and community in southern Arizona. Kick off starts at 8 p.m. Arizona Stadium, 1 N. Championship Drive. Tickets start at $5. Visit arizonawildcats.com to reserve tickets.

ORO VALLEY

SATURDAY CONCERTS AT SPR

UPCOMING

For more information, please visit www.orovalleyaz.gov.

It’s for sale, and it’s a butte

BY TOM LEYDE

Sonoran Desert land is for sale and it’s a butte.

Owl Head Butte, the only private ly owned of seven buttes in the Owl Head Buttes area, is for sale for $600,000. The land includes 9.1 acres and spectacular views.

The owner, who prefers to remain anony mous, is a Tucson resident who bought the property in 2001. It is about 35 miles from Tucson at the north end of the Tortolita Mountains. The land has a well and a hous ing site, but building a home would require bringing in power or living off the grid.

The other six buttes in the Owl Head Buttes area are on federal Bureau of Land Management land. The area has drawn hikers and off-road enthusiasts for many years. The butte for sale rises about 300 feet off the valley floor. It’s easy to see because the ground slopes to the west.

The current owner is a former East Coast resident who came to Tucson to work in

the medical field. Owl Head Butte is the former rim of a volcano. Indian lore claims it is one of the petrified seven sisters.

“There’s really nothing like this (for sale) in the state,” the owner said. “It’s over-thetop crazy.”

He is selling the butte because he is tran sitioning from the medical field to his new

interest: ceramics. During the more than two decades he has owned the butte, he has enjoyed visiting the area. “You can watch birds of prey just spend the day riding on the thermals below you,” he said.

He was off roading when he first visited Owl Head Butte. “I drove up and saw the for-sale sign and contacted the owner and

the realtor,” he said. “He genuinely seemed like he loved the property. ... It was an inter esting purchase.”

Owl Head Buttes has a rich history.

Thomas Jefferson Jeffords, a U.S. Army scout, Indian agent, prospector and su

Views of Owl Head Butte, which is on the market for $600,000. It is situated 35 miles from Tucson north of the Tortolita Mountains. (Special to Tucson Local)

prove his dishes.

“I remember the first time he was on the line, and he prepared over-medium eggs,” Portillo said. She sent them back. “As I was leaving, he said, ‘I overdid those eggs.’ I said, ‘I know you did,’ but after that his over-medi um eggs were amazing. He takes constructive criticism really well, and he learns from it.”

Romero has had his share of disasters. One happened on a Sunday.

“One of my biggest kitchen disasters was when I worked at the Cheesecake Factory; it was the Fourth of July weekend,” he said.

“We had just opened up a new patio, and that particular Cheesecake was No. 5 in the company (in sales); we did about half a mil lion dollars a week.”

The new patio sat another hundred diners.

Everything was going fine — and then, “at 8 p.m. the dishwasher breaks down,” he said.

“Because it was a holiday and the week end, we couldn’t get a repairman to come out, so everyone had to pitch in (washing dishes). We had plates lined up on the floors, all in the back. I was there until about 5 or 6 in the morning washing dishes.”

He has another memory, his first food memory, at his grandmother’s house.

“She would make sopa de fideo, but it wasn’t fideo, it was elbow macaroni,” he said.

Fideo is pasta that’s shaped like little pieces of vermicelli or capellini.

“She would make me a bowl with toma to broth and the elbow macaroni, and she would give me a stack of three American cheeses to throw in there. It just became

this cheesy broth. That dish and also her Mexican rice were phenomenal.”

But back to today.

One of the best things about working at Wildflower, he said, is it’s a teaching kitchen. Although staff members move on as they are trained, it’s a very satisfying aspect of the job.

“I have a lot of young guys here and they move on,” Romero said. “I’ve actually pro moted about three sous chefs here.”

Even though Wildflower’s kitchen is vi sually accessible to diners, it is hot; with out air conditioning. Summertime can be particularly trying—add to that the hard work of prepping, cooking and cleaning Still, Romero and his staff come back every single day.

“I do it for the reaction of the guests,” he said. “I love making people happy. Just tak

ing that first bite of something that I creat ed…Making it an event: someone’s birth day, a funeral even, an anniversary, just making that moment special. I just love it.”

Wildflower is Romero’s last kitchen. This is where he hopes to end his career, un less he moves up to the corporate kitchen, where he gets to design the recipes served.

“That’s something I would strive for,” Romero said

Wildflower Restaurant

Casas Adobes Plaza, 3737 N. Oracle Road, Tucson

520-219-4230, wildflowertucson.com

11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily

3 to 6 p.m. happy hour

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perintendent of overland mail in Arizona Territory, was a presence in the area. He befriended Apache leader Cochise and was instrumental in ending the Indian wars in the region. The book “Blood Brother” by

Elliott Arnold chronicles the story of Jef fords, Gen. Oliver Howard and Cochise.

The novel was adapted into the film “Bro ken Arrow” in 1950. James Stewart played Jeffords.

Jeffords homesteaded in the Owl Head

Buttes area, spending the last 22 years of his life there. He died in 1914.

It takes about an hour to reach Owl Head Buttes from Oracle Road in Tucson. The property is being listed by Long Realty Company. Drone footage of the property

for sale can be viewed on Youtube. Enter the words “Tucson Butte” in the search bar.

“If it sells, fine. If it doesn’t, fine,” the owner said. “It was such an accomplish ment purchasing this thing I kind of will be fine with it either way.”

Luke Bell. A bunch of us met in Nashville when we were so young and obsessed with country music-those years were so forma

tive. He was extremely gifted & special.”

Lorie Liebig, editor of The Boot and a contributing writer for Taste of Country, tweeted: “When I first moved here in 2014, I saw Luke Bell as part of the cool

crowd of artists trying to bring traditional country back to Nashville, back when Santa’s was still smoky wood paneling and tourists hadn’t found the Legion yet. What a heartbreaking loss.”

Saving Country Music tweeted: “This is a hard one. He was one of the most authentic and magnetizing artists to grace the country music art form in the modern era.”

6 1/2 years. “Sometimes they are full-time employed and can go out on weekends,” he said.

There is no set schedule for volunteers, Cox explained.

“It’s whenever we can schedule ourselves. I and another volunteer like going out on Friday evenings. The officers are really busy. If there’s a traffic hazard, we can take care of it rather than assigning an officer to pick up debris,” he said.

Last year, Cox said, volunteers put in

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account to $10,000, and an additional month of severance pay each year, up from seven months.

Before moving to Oro Valley, Jacobs

more than 7,000 hours. A federal formula equates the service at about $28 an hour, so volunteers saved the town more than $200,000 in labor in 2021.

“I love it,” said Cox about being a police department volunteer. “We have 36 of the very best and we enjoy working with each other.”

Anyone interested in becoming a volun teer can visit maranaaz.gov/police-volun teers. There you can view the qualifications and submit an application.

had a lengthy career in local government. She served as Sierra Vista’s assistant city manager for 17 years. Prior to that, she was assistant town manager in Barnsta ble, Massachusetts, for six years.

Above: Volunteers put in more than 7,000 hours with the Marana Police Department. Right: Marana Police volunteers on patrol are, from left, Terry Jellison, Daniel Mash burn, Tom Cox and Kerry Schrader. (Marana Police Department/Submitted)

The team at P3 ARIZONA helped me understand my MEDICARE OPTIONS

MIKE CANDREA, Former University of Arizona Head Softball Coach

I always taught my players to be prepared. In turning 65, I knew Medicare was a whole new ball game. P3 Arizona helped me understand my optionsincluding the benefits of a Medicare Advantage plan versus traditional.

P3 Arizona supports seniors in getting the care they DESERVE.

Breast

BY HOPE PETERS Tucson Local Media

Women — or men — can be at their best, healthy, strong and feeling in tip-top shape. They can be 23 or 73, religious or not, Democrat or Republican, any race or nationality, rich or poor, any occupation.

Out of the blue, the perfect life comes crashing down when a breast cancer di agnosis comes. A deep feeling of doom is overwhelming. The fear? A death sentence.

Through the tears, the fear, the excruci ating pain, the hair loss and the scarring, Nadia Larsen’s nonprofit organization, Na dia Strong, offers photography and breast cancer resources to help restore beauty. She brings hope to those who have begun their journey and to those who won the battle, but still carry the physical and mental scars, the terrifying reminders of the biggest fight for their lives.

In 2015, Larsen was diagnosed with stage-4 breast cancer. When she was de clared cancer-free in early 2016, she knew

she had to help other women. As a pho tographer, she documented her treatment, and felt that doing this helped in the every

day struggles of her treatment. She came to consider it an important component, among others, in her proactive battle to

conquer cancer.

Nadia Strong is designed to empower and assist women and men undergoing breast can cer treatment and all survivors of the disease.

“What I did when I was going through ra diation…I did the chemo, they (removed) the breasts, removed the lymph nodes, then the re construction and radiation, and after that I had several more reconstructions,” Larsen said.

“I was thinking, is there somebody in town that went through this hell…I literally call it my year from hell…is there a photog rapher who can document their journey.”

Larsen said she looked but found no such person, so she decided she would have to do it herself — a photographer and breast can cer survivor. It was the start of Nadia Strong.

“What I do, women (and men) who are sur vivors, conquerors…someone just told me, ‘I’m in remission,’ and I said, ‘No, don’t say that word...there’s no such thing,’” she said. “Remis sion means it may be coming back. I don’t like that word ‘remission.’ I am cancer free.”

The person asked Larsen how she knew

Ronstadt Familin Concert

October is breast cancer awareness month

BY MIA SMITT Tucson Local Media

More important than pumpkin spiced everything, October is also breast cancer awareness month. This is the second most com mon cancer in women, as skin cancer is first. While the vast majority of those who develop breast cancer are women, this dis ease also can affect men.

The most recent compilation, 2019 sta tistics, showed 264,121 new cases were reported in the United States and 42,280 women and 500 men died of breast cancer that year.

In Arizona, 5,234 breast cancer deaths occurred.

According to the National Cancer Insti tute, 12% of women in the United States (that’s 1 in 8) will develop breast cancer during her lifetime. One in 800 men, or .12%, will be diagnosed. While most breast cancer occurs in women over age 55, young women are not immune and 12% occur in women under 45.

So, what is cancer? It is the rapid growth of abnormal cells when the DNA in some normal cells somehow becomes damaged. Sometimes the body can destroy these ab errant cells but more often they proliferate and divide more quickly than healthy cells.

They form a mass or lump and can spread to other parts of the body, invading healthy tissue. There are several types of breast can cer depending on where it is in the breast. Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is an early form of breast cancer. The abnormal cells inside a milk duct have not spread to other parts of the breast or adjacent lymph nodes.

Invasive ductal carcinoma is the most common type of breast cancer and starts in those cells that line a milk duct. Can cer cells break through the duct wall and spread into adjoining breast tissue and can then spread to other parts of the body though the bloodstream or lymph system.

Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) starts in the milk-producing glands, or lobules. This, too, can spread to other parts of the body. Of interest is that this form of breast cancer will affect both breasts in about 20%

of women with ILC.

What can be confusing is lobular carci noma in situ. This is not actually cancer but the precursor and is often found on biopsy or imaging studies other than mammo grams for another suspicious lump or mass.

Triple negative breast cancer does not have the cell receptors estrogen, progester one and HER2, (human epidermal growth factor) that are usually found in breast can cer (a receptor is a site on a cell surface that can bind with a particular substance). This cancer is more difficult to treat because many drug therapies need those receptors to get into the cancer cells. There are other, less common, breast cancers also, such as angiosarcoma, Paget’s disease, and inflam matory breast cancer.

There are breast cancer symptoms that warrant evaluation. A lump that is new and not associated with the menstrual cycle (but not all breast lumps are cancer), changes in the appearance of the nipple, any change or puckering of breast skin, any nipple dis charge, and changes in the size or appear ance of one breast compared to the other need to be evaluated. And these symptoms apply to men as well as women. Breast pain is not a common symptom of cancer.

Treatment of invasive breast cancers will depend on the type and “stage” of the can cer — how advanced it is and where it may have spread. Different surgeries include lumpectomy (just tumor removal), mas tectomy (breast removal) and lymph node removal.

Radiation treatment is an external beam to target either just the cancer site or the entire breast. Systemic treatments include chemotherapy, anticancer drugs that may be given as intravenous medication on a scheduled basis or an oral pill taken daily depending on the cancer.

Hormonal therapy is used when the can cer cells have receptors for estrogen or pro gesterone. Hormone blockers help prevent cancer growth and may be taken for many years. Then there is “targeted therapy,” which kills cancer cells by interfering with

she was cancer free. “I just took this test, here’s the bro chure,” Larsen explained. Larsen is talking about the Galleri test.

The Galleri multi-cancer early detection test shows more than 50 types of cancer through a simple blood draw.

Offering the benefits of ear ly cancer detection, it detects many cancers that are not commonly screened for today, to allow for earlier treatment.

If a cancer signal is found, the results can point to the location with high accuracy to help a health care provid er guide the next steps.

Through nadiastrong. org, women and men share their breast cancer journey.

“Then we meet up and I do a photo shoot for them and I send them all the digitals they want, all free, I don’t charge them for anything,” she said.

They then pick their favor ite photos from the shoot to put on the Nadia Strong site.

“It gives hope to the other women who are just diag nosed,” she said.

“The photography is either during (their treatment), so they don’t have hair, or after ward, and they dress up and put on makeup to show them you can be beautiful beyond breast cancer.

“Then put it on social media or do whatever they want because this is not the end, you fought it and you’re going to keep fighting it.”

Nadia Strong is not just about photographing and sharing breast cancer survi vors’ and fighters’ journeys. Her site offers recommenda tions and life-saving resourc es, such as the Galleri test.

Larsen said primary care providers can order the test, which is currently not cov ered by medical insurance. The price is $949, or $80/12

months billed afterward.

Larsen and photogra pher Jana Suchy of Way Out West Creative will host the Pink-Ribbon Boudoir Photo Exhibit and Silent Auction from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, at The Post Workspaces, 7400 N. Oracle Road.

Admission is free and open to the public.

The show will feature boudoir photos from an

August retreat for survi vors. For more information, visit pinkribbonboudoir. com or email jana@way outwestcreative.com.

Nadia Strong Photography Inc.

“Beautiful Beyond Breast Cancer”

Nadia Larsen

6371 E. River Road, Tucson 520-245-8888 nadiastrong.org

Nadia Larsen after her year from hell fighting and winning the battle: Beautiful beyond breast cancer. (Nadia Larsen/ Courtesy)

Nadia

specific proteins in the cell that promote

Research has opened new avenues

successful treatment and continues to explore ways to treat breast cancer.

The five-year survival rates are approx imately 99% for localized disease (breast tissue only), 86% for regional involvement (cancer affecting nearby lymph nodes) and 28% for distant reach (a farther spread such as to bones, lungs and liver). But these sta tistics change with improved treatment and should be individualized.

Breast cancer cannot be prevented but there are ways to reduce the risk of any cancers. Not smoking, staying physically active, maintaining a healthy weight and eating vegetables and fruits every day are healthy lifestyle choices that promote over all good health.

Excessive alcohol consumption and obe sity are considered risk factors for devel oping different cancers including breast cancers. And approximately 5% to 10% of breast cancer is hereditary. If a close rel ative has it, your chances of developing breast cancer are greater.

As with many other illnesses, screen ing is essential. Monthly self breast exam is recommended by some organizations and health care providers but has not been found to be as effective as clinical exams.

Routine mammograms, ultrasound imag ing and MRIs can detect the smallest cancers for earlier treatment. Certain blood tests are more widely available for those who have a hereditary risk. Screening rates vary by state with Massachusetts taking the prize last year at 87% and Wyoming the worst at 66% as re ported by the National Cancer Society.

Arizona’s screening rate was 75%, not bad but we can do better.

Unfortunately the COVID-19 pandemic halted or delayed many screening exams but hopefully we are getting back on track this year.

There are many national campaigns to raise awareness and promote screening. From the CDC’s serious “Right to Know Campaign” and The National Breast Can cer Foundation’s “Together We Rise” to the humorous “Know Your Lemons” and “Lux Soap with a Lump” promotions, there are messages galore that can appeal to women across the age and demographic spectrums.

The Estee Lauder Companies have had a

goal and a mission to help eradicate breast cancer worldwide since 1992 and have do nated over 108 million dollars to prevention and research. The Susan G Koman Founda tion sponsors an annual walk to raise mon ey. There are many other organizations with various campaigns and projects also.

Get that mammogram. They are not the painful procedure noted in cartoons. OK, sometimes a little uncomfortable but well worth the effort. Maybe we should offer pumpkin spiced lattes or cookies with the mammograms in October.

If I may share a personal note — my dear

grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 99. She had a total mas tectomy followed by oral chemotherapy, tolerated both and lived alone till she was 102. She had no cognitive decline when she died, not from breast cancer, just before her 104th birthday. So don’t let age stop you from following up on any suspicious symp toms and enjoying good health.

Mia Smitt is a longtime nurse practitioner. She writes a regular column for Tucson Lo cal Media.

Homemade Taste of Italy on Historic 4th Avenue

Double Feature of Films of Director John Waters

SAT 10/14

FOX TUCSON THEATRE

THE PLACE TO BE • THE ARTISTS TO SEE

Johnny Depp

False Negative: An Evening with Director John Waters SUN 10/15

A rapid-fire one-man spoken word “vaudeville” act that celebrates the film career and joyously appalling taste of the man William Burroughs once called The Pope of Trash.

Wurlitzer Haunted Halloween Concert SUN 10/30

An eerie mood prevails. The curtain rises. You start to believe something is lurking in the shadows when suddenly the organist pounds a familiar cord and you JUMP — The Phantom has arrived!

Relive the thrill of one of the greatest horror films of all time in our historic, haunted theatre, Lon Chaney’s 1925 Phantom of the Opera. Dave Wickerham will accompany the fully restored silent film on Fox’s own Mighty Wurlitzer organ. Join us if you dare!

Artists fly, balance, float on air, and defy gravity in an exhilarating tale of the unrelenting tug-of-war between man and nature. A fresh approach to “cirque,” using pure human energy to harness the power of the wind!

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Film by John Waters

HEALTH & WELLNESS

Should we worry about hantavirus?

MIA SMITT

Do we have something new to worry about? Aren’t we all pretty tired of reading about COVID-19, influenza and the concern for other possible illness outbreaks? We should be diligent without being paranoid; viruses and other germs are all around us and they can rear their ugly little heads when we least expect it.

Hantavirus is carried and spread by ro dents, especially deer mice. About 15% of healthy deer mice carry this virus. The virus lives in their feces and urine but the animals themselves are not ill.

Humans are exposed when dust from mice droppings and their nests is spread to the air and inhaled. This can happen easi

ly when cleaning areas that may have been closed for long periods, or even homes and sheds where mice may have lived. The virus is not spread from person to person.

Hantavirus-carrying rodents have been found in many national parks across the country but most illnesses have been found in the Western states.

This virus was first identified in April 1993 when a mysterious outbreak of illness occurred in Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. A novel species of hantavirus had appeared and was names “sin nombre virus,” which is Spanish for “no name.” This outbreak is now known as the “1993 Four Corners Outbreak” and it sparked research into the evolution of hantaviruses and na tional surveillance began.

From 1993 to the end of 2020, 833 cases were reported, according to the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention, 96% oc curring west of the Mississippi River.

There are two main types of hantavirus disease. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome is found primarily in North America and hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome is usually seen in Europe and Asia. Symptoms of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome usual ly appear within two to four weeks after exposure (but can be as early as one week and as late at five weeks). Early symptoms of hantavirus disease are similar to the flu with fever and chills, severe headaches, and muscle aches in the large muscles (back, thighs, hips and sometimes shoulders).

The symptoms may seem to resolve after a few days then come back with worsening shortness of breath, headache, a dry cough, nausea and vomiting, and low blood pres sure.

The breathing difficulties can start with in two to seven days of other symptoms and people who experience these symp toms should seek medical help immediate ly. People diagnosed with hantavirus may develop severe kidney impairment and with the respiratory compromise will need hospitalization.

Oxygen, sometimes mechanical venti lation, and medication to reduce kidney problems may be necessary. This is a seri ous illness with a mortality rate of 38% to 50% if the disease leads to lungs and heart failure. The symptoms of the hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome usually appear within a week or two after exposure. Be sides the above symptoms listed, stomach pain and nausea, blurred vision and facial

Lauren Monroe, Rick Allen bring healing to 191 Toole

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Tucson Local Media

AFTER SPENDING THE SUMMER

on the Stadium Tour with his band Def Leppard, drummer Rick Allen is stepping back into clubs to support his wife, Lauren Monroe.

Monroe is celebrating the release of “Messages from Aphrodite” at 191 Toole on Thursday, Oct. 6. Allen will be part of her band.

“We’ll be playing for the evening and tell ing stories of empowerment and healing and playing original music,” Monroe said.

“I empower people through energy and drumming. I like to weave that through the whole set to explore some of the things you go out to escape. We wanted to bring every one together in the venue. Now is the time where people are coming out more. We’re on the heels of experiencing something very traumatic.”

The world is divisive and worrisome, she added. Monroe uses music to heal.

“Lauren’s music, in particular, speaks to community and shows us what we have in common,” Allen said.

During the performance, the couple will raise funds for suicide prevention and veter ans programs.

In 2001, they founded the Los Ange les-based Raven Drum Foundation, which serves, educates and empowers veterans, first responders and trauma survivors to prevent

suicide through innovative wellness-support programs. They do so through advocacy, storytelling and the promotion of comple mentary and alternative medicine.

At shows, they partner with local orga nizations to provide free tickets to veter ans, and raise funds by auctioning their mixed-media art.

Released in September, “Messages from Aphrodite” was recorded in 2021 and “all the songs are about love in some facet and how we use our ability to love through various stages of life and circumstances,” she said.

“Aphrodite is a goddess of love and she’s a warrior goddess, too. All of these songs reflect attributes of her. She became the icon for the album, and she brings about a point of view that’s from the higher feminist.”

The two spent time at home “using our gifts and talents to rehearse.”

“We love our band,” she added. “To be with everyone together is great. To look be hind me and have him there (is great). I like to tease him when we are on stage.”

Allen added with a laugh, “The only thing I get to see is behind her. It’s kind of a win-win. I actually really love it. I play acoustic drums, which I hadn’t played in Def Leppard since 1984. That’s what inspired me to play in the first place. I don’t have to rely on electronics. I get up there and play. It’s a great way for me to hone my skills on acoustic drums.”

Allen and Monroe said it’s also a victory when Def Leppard fans come to the show

to see him not knowing what to expect and leave a fan of hers.

“It’s nice when there’s a crossover,” he said. “We have an awesome band. We sound really good. We’re happy about our live performances.”

Lauren Monroe

WHEN: 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6

WHERE: 191 Toole, 191 E. Toole, Tucson

COST: Tickets start at $20

INFO: 520-445-6425, 191toole.com

Lauren Monroe is celebrating the release of “Messages from Aphrodite” at 191 Toole on Thursday, Oct. 6. Husband Rick Allen will be part of her band. (photo by tracy moyer)

EXTRA POINT WITH TOM DANEHY

The boys of autumn — and maybe winter

BY TOM DANEHY Tucson Local Media

The Major League Baseball season comes to an end today (Oct. 5). It usu ally ends in late September, but they had to go longer this time because there was a strike/lockout back in March.

The two sides — the owners and the players — dug in their heels and both sides were making noises about dragging things out to the bitter end. But then they looked up and realized that nobody cared, one way or the other, so they decided to settle and squeeze in a full season, complete with doubleheaders and games into early October.

One thing they agreed on was expanding the playoffs. Now, in each league there are

three wild-card teams to go along with the division champions. This will undoubtedly lead to more baseball.

The two division winners with the best record will get a bye into the second round of the playoffs. The division winner with the third-best record gets dumped down into the first round with the wild-card teams and faces early and ignominious elimination.

That’s still better than the Arizona Dia mondbacks, who made great strides from last season and lifted themselves up to the bottom rung of mediocrity. The members of the Diamondbacks will have to endure the four-hour-long playoff games on televi sion, just like the rest of us.

That third division winner and the wild card team with the best record get to host the first round best-of-three series. All

home games, no time-consuming travel back and forth. They got that part right.

The winners of those initial series will move on to face the teams that got the byes. Those division series will be best-of-five tussles in a 2-2-1 split.

Sometime before Halloween, we will finally get to the league championship series. Those series (and the World Series) will be the traditional best-of-seven in the 2-3-2 format. Even if there are no weather postponements, the World Series will spill into November. And the later it goes, the more likely it is to be at the mercy of the weather. Two of the four teams that have the best odds of making the World Series are the New York Yankees and the New York Mets. They might be playing for the championship on Thanksgiving.

Another (bad) thing about the rushed agreement that led to the expanded play offs is that there won’t be any one-game tie-breakers. That playoff spot won’t be determined on the field. Major League Baseball has come up with an arcane set of rules for breaking ties. I think they’re get ting chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen to explain them to us. It’s too bad; those single games for all the marbles used to be as close as MLB would come to being exciting.

At press time, 11 of the 12 spots in the playoffs were sewn up. (There was still a chance that Milwaukee could overtake Philadelphia for the final wild-card spot in

the National League.) The wild-card teams all hope to get hot at the right time and pull off a miracle — but you know, they won’t. Take the Seattle Mariners, for example. They were limping along, playing so-so baseball, and then suddenly, they went on a 14-game winning streak. It lifted them out of the cellar and put them in position for a wild card spot at the end of the season. The thing is (on Sept. 28) their record is 83-70. That means that, except for that glorious and inexplicable winning streak in the middle of the year, the Mariners have been a sub-.500 team for the other 5 1/2 months of the season. They’re not catching fire.

The Blue Jays play in Canada and the Rays play in Florida. Neither has any chance. San Diego’s best player got busted for using Barry Bonds’ leftover “cream” and got suspended for half-a-season. Karma will not allow them to win.

Whichever of the two teams fighting for that last spot — Philadelphia and Milwau kee — emerges victorious will be totally drained from that stretch-run battle that they will be toast.

Nobody wants Houston to win because they cheated their way to a World Series; they will forever be cheaters. It would hurt Diamondback fans to see St, Louis in the series. Paul Goldschmidt might win the MVP this year and the cheapskate D-backs

Athlete of the Week: Adam Velazco

BY TOM DANEHY Tucson Local Media

Adam Velazco is good at following in the footsteps of others. In academ ics, that’s a really good thing. And in his chosen athletic pursuits, that’s not always so bad. The Marana Mountain View junior is in the middle of the cross country season and he and his teammates are focused on improving their times.

“It’s a team effort,” he explained, “and our coaches, coach Vargas and coach Kennerly, tell us that it’s a process. We each have to work on improving our times as the season goes along so that, at the end, we can go to state as a team.”

On Sept. 30, the Mountain Lions were in the Desert Twilight XC Invitational up in the Valley of the Sun. With tongue firmly in cheek (we imagine), the event bills itself as “a mid-season competition with races for everyone in the cool night air of Mesa.” Over the past 30 years, the average daytime high in Mesa on Sept. 30 is 99 degrees.

Anyway, running at night on a lighted course is probably better than running in late afternoon with the blazing light and blistering heat provided by El Sol. When asked why he does it, he answers simply, “I like running.”

The “home course” for Mountain View is a trail that goes around the back of Arthur Pack Park and ends up at Tortolita Middle School. “It’s all right,” he said, but it doesn’t really matter because Mountain View won’t have any home meets at all this season. Run ning on a variety of course (some hilly, some sandy, all grueling) can pay huge benefits as the season progresses.

Finishing an assignment for his AP U.S. history class (he refers to it as A-PUSH), he said his favorite class this year is pre-calc. He wants to follow his older brothers into engineering.

“I want to go into aerospace engineering,”

Adam said. “I’m only a junior but I’ve started looking at colleges. I like Cal Poly and Embry Riddle, but the UA is a really good school for engineering, so it would be great if I can go there.”

Adam also runs track in the spring. Not surprisingly, his events are the 1600 and 3200 meters. There’s a different mentality to running track, especially if the athlete is doing multiple events. In running the 1600, one tries not to “save” anything for the 3200. But, in cross country, one must expend every ounce of energy in that 20 minutes or so.

He has been working hard at it and recently medaled for finishing in the top 50 (out of more than 140 runners) at a meet in California. He has never finished in the first five at an invi tational and that’s probably a goal, but “I don’t know if I will ever be great enough to go to state as an individual. I think I can. But going to state as part of a team would be just as great.”

gave him away for a guy with a bad arm and a bag of peanuts to be named later. I personally don’t want Atlanta to win because they’re in a state that might elect functionally illiterate Herschel Walker to the U.S. Senate just because he used to

carry a football. Come on, people, aim a little bit higher.

That leaves the two New York teams, the Dodgers and Cleveland (managed by former Wildcat Terry Francona). Someday

I’ll tell you why I hope it’s anybody but my once-beloved Dodgers.

Adam Velazco’s goal is to finish in the top five at an invitational. (Adam Velazco/Submitted)

Lodge

BY JORDAN ROGERS

Local Media

Lodge on the Desert, an authentic Old Pueblo boutique-style hotel, has been purchased by Atira Hotels, a hotel management company based in Chi cago.

For Atira Hotels founder and president, Sanjeev Misra, the acquisition of Lodge on the Desert was “kind of like a love story.” He said he and his family have spent a lot of time in the Southwest region and fell in love with the idea of the area.

“We have stayed at a few hotels where they’ve really done a good job of incorpo rating the feel of Pueblo, of tribe, of all of these,” Misra said. “Also, the ambiance and the feeling of history, not just in the root product, but also in the food.”

Simply speaking, he wanted to be in volved in that experience from a profes sional standpoint. In addition, the growing market in Tucson is something that was greatly intriguing to Misra.

“I always wanted to do something where

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is such a fast-growing market. There are a lot of great upsides and both business de mand generators, but also from a tourism perspective of things to do in the market. It just felt like a very strong community.”

With the acquisition, Misra is looking forward to adding to his hotel’s identity.

“We really want to make this that full Pueblo oasis in the marketplace, and some thing that really feels like Tucson, some thing that feels like desert that you’re not going to be able to experience if you stay with one of the brand name hotels here.”

Luckily for Misra, however, he said Ati ra Hotels won’t exactly have to pick up the pieces and completely turn Lodge on the Desert around the way they normally would when acquiring a new property.

“You can tell that the previous owner ship cared about the product, taking care of their team, and their place in the commu nity,” he said. “Normally when we’re going to buy a hotel, we have to turn it around, we have to fix broken things, we have to find

we can really get that, that historical and local connection, so when this came up for

sale, I came out immediately to see it,” he said. “From a business perspective, Tucson

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Lauren Grabell of Tucson made the dean’s list at Washington University in St. Louis’ College of Arts & Sciences. To qual ify for the dean’s list in the College of Arts & Sciences, students must earn a semester grade-point average of 3.6 or above and be enrolled in at least 14 graded units. Brook Wang of Tucson was named to the dean’s list in the Olin Business School at Washing

ton University in St. Louis. To qualify for the dean’s list in the Olin Business School, students must earn a semester grade-point average of 3.6 or above and be enrolled in at least 14 graded units. The university draws students to St. Louis from more than 100 countries and all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The total student body is more than 15,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students.

Cat Alvarado, Zach Bates and Kerrig

an Miranda, all of Tucson, were named to the spring 2022 dean’s list at Pacific Uni versity in Forest Grove, Oregon. The dean’s list recognizes undergraduate students in Pacific’s colleges of arts and sciences, busi ness and education who earn a grade-point average of at least 3.70 and complete 12 or more graded credit hours.

Lucia Iurino, who is studying music at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, was named to its dean’s list for the spring semester. Iurino is the daughter of John

Iurino and Joni Wallace of Tucson. The dean’s list recognizes students with a se mester grade point average of 3.75 or high er on a 4-point scale.

Bella Almazan of Tucson was named to the dean’s list of academic distinction at the University of Northern Colorado in Gree ley, Colorado. Students who received this distinction earned a combined GPA of 3.75 or higher during at least two academic se mesters and completed a minimum of 24 semester hours.

talent and upgrade the team and deal with problems.

“Here, it’s like we’re the third runner in a relay race and you’re handing us the baton and we’re so far ahead of everyone else. It’s a good position to be in.”

Lodge on the Desert features 103 casi ta-style rooms for lodging. It is situated on 5 acres in Midtown Tucson and set against the backdrop of the Santa Catalina Mountains.

Misra said location, affordability, ameni ty variety, and historical aspect to the hotel are some things that set it apart from local competition.

A huge thing, however, is that Lodge on the Desert is not like many other hotels in the area from a lodging standpoint. The ca sita-style rooms provide a much different look from anything the competition may provide.

“You don’t have one building, you have

kind of like you’re coming into an old vil lage,” Misra said. “Each casita normally has about four lodging rooms. Especially at night, you can see the stars out while you’re wandering between the casitas in this arid landscaping with lighting and some sculp tures. You just feel like you’re in this old village, going to your part of the village and that’s pretty exciting.”

For Misra, the scenic view of the Santa Catalina Mountains is a huge added bonus to guests at the hotel as well.

“All of these rooms, you basically open your blinds and you’re staring right out at those beautiful mountains,” Misra said. “We talked about resort and being in leisure and enjoying the environment. The fact that you can just look out your window and can you see these beauties there, you’re not looking at a hotel tower, you’re not looking at a gas station. You have unobstructed views.”

As far as changes go, Misra said noth ing big will have to be changed, but the

hotel will be making a concerted effort to be more environmentally friendly moving forward. This includes using silverware, glasses and coffee mugs in the casitas rath er than paper cups and plasticware.

“We want to be responsible and reus able,” Misra said. “We understand what’s going on with the environment and our

water crisis and climate and we want to be good stewards of that. These reflect what type of positioning the hotel has there.”

In addition to all of that, the hotel has an on-site restaurant, dubbed “Cielos,” which offers Southwestern-inspired dishes and

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“When he was a chef several years back, we really had a great local following,” Misra said. “We’re going to be redesigning the en tire menu and bar menu and cocktails and everything at the restaurant.”

With the hotel headed in a good direc tion after the acquisition, Misra is excited to welcome guests — whether they have already stayed or not — to Lodge on the Desert in the upcoming year.

have come

or haven’t come in a while, we’d love to wel come them in this upcoming year because we are going through everything and try ing to create some really exciting elements,” he said. “This is your oasis in the desert, and we want to create that feeling with so many touch points.”

Lodge on the Desert

That Really Stands Out from the Crowd

you walk through the doors of Splendido at Rancho Vistoso, you enter an environment where talents are nurtured, passions are pursued, and possibilities abound. It’s ingrained in the culture of the Life Plan Community for those 55 and better, leading to extraordinary experiences for both the residents living there and the team members providing a multitude of services.

When

James Edwartoski, Executive Director at Splendido, explains, “We challenge employees to make the most of every day and reward them for their passion and profes sionalism.” Those rewards include a generous paid time off program, excellent medical and dental ben efits, tuition reimbursement, and even a yearly opportunity to get re imbursed for learning something new—from a language, to yoga, to classical guitar.

The supportive and welcom ing atmosphere emanates from Mather, one of Splendido’s two parent organizations, which runs day-to-day operations adhering to a unique philosophy it calls “Eliminating my Impossibilities.” Created to help residents take their lives in bold new directions, it’s a principle the 80+-year-old not-forprofit organization embraces for employees at Mather communities by helping them learn new skills, advance their careers, and elimi nate barriers to personal happiness and fulfillment.

Samantha Peacock has worked as a server in Splendido restau rants for more than seven years. “This is my first job ever, and I’ve loved it,” she says. “I like the flex ibility with my school schedule— first high school and now college. And I love my coworkers and the residents. I really feel that the work we do makes a difference.”

“We have ample opportuni ties for people to get promoted or move to different areas—and many do, particularly when they take advantage of our tuition re imbursement program. We’ve had CNAs get their nursing degrees, and high school students who start out as part-time servers who use our benefits to pursue higher edu cation,” says James.

And it’s not just the tangible benefits that set Splendido apart. Things like incredible Halloween costume contests and communi ty-wide art projects involving res idents and staff provide invaluable connections and strengthen cama raderie.

Splendido offers a wide vari ety of rewarding job opportuni ties through multiple restaurants; a spa and fitness center; a robust program of creative arts, holistic wellness, and lifelong learning opportunities; and a highly rated

on-site health center, just to name a few. No matter what their niche, each team member is focused on hospitality and providing excep tional service, and the organiza tional commitment to excellence has not gone unnoticed.

All of this contributes to Splen dido receiving a growing list of workplace and wellness awards,

including being named as one of the “Top 5 in Wellness” in North America with a 2021 ICAA Nu Step Pinnacle Award, which hon ors the Top 25 Best in Wellness se nior living communities in North America, and a 2019 Copper Cac tus Award finalist in the category of Best Place to Work by the Tuc son Metro Chamber. And Mather

recently received a Nation’s Best and Brightest in Wellness Award from the National Association for Business Resources for the fourth year in a row, for promoting em ployee well-being, worksite health, and wellness.

Just as today’s adults are look ing at life after 50 in a whole new way with a renewed emphasis

on the things that matter most, Splendido recognizes that em ployee niceties should be necessi ties… and an inspired, appreciat ed workforce is key to propelling its vision forward.

If you’re interested in join ing the team, or know someone who is, browse open positions at splendidotucson.com/jobs.

Community spirit and a passion for excellence pave various career paths at Splendido.

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