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Volume 29 • Number 5

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ady Hawbaker has seen a lot of stress within the Banner Health Emergency Department where she works. She’s seen patients need so much attention that nurses don’t have time to help others seeking help in the ER. She’s seen the hospital get so crowded that intubated patients had to stay in the ER waiting for days instead of being admitted to a bed. “Not only does that take away nurses, that also takes away rooms, so our normal ER patients are sitting out in the lobby for hours because there is literally no where they can go,” said Hawbaker, 24. “Nobody is going upstairs. We can’t open rooms because that is overwhelming the nurses. So, the wait times have been absolutely crazy.” See HEALTHCARE, P9

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Trico: Solar Switch Continued from P1

The generated solar energy will be automatically distributed to anyone in the SaddleBrooke subdivision, without any need for at-home installation. “Trico’s aspiration is to be our members’ energy provider choice,” said Trico CEO and general manager Brian Heithoff. “The majority of the grading has been done. Now we have to shift into actual erection of the solar and storage units.” The battery units are going to be delivered in the last week of January and the solar panels will be delivered in March. Next, Trico will work to construct the solar titling structures, mounting the panels, and installing the Tesla mega pack batteries. Heithoff ensures that

the ongoing construction will be secluded in the construction zones. There may be some truck traffic near the highway exits, but it will not result in any road closures. Over the long run, producing energy with solar panels is environmentally and financially beneficial. Heithoff said that the primary environmental benefit will be the reduction in carbon emissions. “Generating energy with solar and storing it in batteries will reduce the amount of energy that we source from facilities that produce carbon emissions,” Heithoff said. And without the need to buy fuel such as coal or natural gas, Trico and their members will increase savings over time. Additionally, Tucson’s 350+ days of annual sunlight only strengthens solar prospects.

“We are seeing solar power being implemented across the country, but Arizona for sure,” Heithoff said. Although it may vary by day or season, the desert sun will charge the batteries and store the energy. Heithoff explained most of the power generation will ramp up in the late morning, and peak in the afternoon. Then the batteries will be able to discharge in the early evening hours. “During the rest of the night, when the sun doesn’t shine, we will continue to provide power from our other sources,” Heithoff said. “We are displacing some of our other generation with renewable resources.” Trico plans on expanding their sustainable energy footprint in future projects.

Red Cross urgently needs blood donations Nicole Feltman

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here’s an urgent need for blood donations—and if you sign up, you could get a $10 Amazon gift card. The incentive comes as the American Red Cross faces an urgent need for blood across the nation. The nonprofit organization urges people to donate their blood, platelets, and plasma to recover from America’s worst blood shortage in a decade. Due to harsh storms in January, many blood drives across the country have been canceled, so the supply is roughly 6,500 blood and platelet donations behind the expected level. The surge of Omicron is also a contributing factor to this shortage. Those who give blood or platelets by Feb. 28 will receive a $10 dollar Ama-

zon gift card via email. The American Red Cross urges people to schedule the earliest available appointment in the upcoming weeks through their website, RedCrossBlood.org; through their mobile Red Cross Blood Donor App; or by calling 1-800-733-2767. Donors are encouraged to schedule an appointment before arriving on site. Through their website or app, you can complete a RapidPass to save 15 minutes at any blood drive by filling out a health history questionnaire and completing a pre-donation reading on the day of donation. All persons must bring either their driver’s license or two other forms of identification the day of donation to check in. Donors must be 18 years and older and meet height and weight requirements. American Red Cross

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Pima County Library hosting donation drive for Afghan refugees Jillian Bartsch

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he Pima County Public Library system is hosting a drive through Feb. 10 to collect supplies for Afghan refugees who recently settled in Tucson. The library’s Welcome to America Team started the drive to collect items such as newborn essentials (especially newborn clothes), personal hygiene items and cleaning supplies. The Welcome to America Team is working with the Tucson Afghan Community and the International Rescue Committee to collect these items. Irina Delone, librarian at Miller-Golf Links Library and Welcome to America team member, helped organize the effort. Delone has personal connections with the Tucson Afghan Community, so once she learned about the refugees’ needs, she contacted the Tucson Afghan Community to organize the list of items needed. According to the Welcome to America team, around 400 Afghan refugees have arrived in Tucson since September. They are expecting more refugees to arrive and predict that the number may grow to 2,000 by this September. “When they brought this influx of Afghan refugees to America and particularly in Arizona and Tucson, many refugee settlement agencies were not properly prepared

to accept these families right away in these big numbers,” Delone said. The Tucson Afghan Community has storage facilities available to collect donated items because not all of the refugees have found housing since their arrival. “A lot of people are still staying at the hotel, and government agencies have problems with finding homes for the families,” said Ritiek Rafi from the Tucson Afghan Community. “They are brand new so we try to help introduce them to the new culture here, to find ways to go to school, to learn the language and to find jobs.” Many of the refugees are housed in hotels right now and agencies like the International Rescue Committee are working to find apartments and housing for them. The City of Tucson has been helping the refugees by providing them with free hotel rooms, Delone said. “As soon as they get their housing, it is empty,” Delone said. “For example, they get a house and this family has like four, five, six children, empty house, nothing is there. They need many items like basic necessities, so that’s what we do for them.” As soon as the Afghan family or individual gets a house, they are brought into the Tucson Afghan Community’s storage facility to choose what they need for their house. The refugees also need

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n December 8, 2021, I sent an email to the entire Town Council delineating the monthly water usage for 2021 at the Pusch Ridge nine-hole golf course. The total was 34,608,000 gallons. The bill due Nov. 11, 2021, indicated water usage of 10,382,000 gallons for the month of October. I wrote to the Water Utility to question if I was reading the bill correctly since October water usage was about four

to five times the amount of normal usage. The response I received was “The water increase was due to the over-seeding process and watering of the seed.” Therefore, the cost of over-seeding was $37,367.16 of your tax money. When I informed the Mayor/Council, in an earlier communication, that the potable water usage at Pusch Ridge for the bill due Dec. 12, 2021, was 4,045,000 gallons, the response from Mayor Joe Winfield was: “The Council by a 6-to-

1 vote agreed to operate the Pusch Ridge Golf Course for three years. We are in the first of a three-year commitment. The course is operated in the cooler months of the year to reduce water consumption.” Mr. Mayor: November is one of our cooler months and still the usage was over 4 million gallons. I have to wonder, does the mayor (and council) not care about water waste? Are we all supposed to just suck it up because the Council voted to continue operating the Pusch

Ridge course for another three years? That decision, along with the associated waste of millions of gallons of our drinking water, is irresponsible. Let me put the total usage of 34,608,000 gallons in perspective. The average home in Oro Valley uses 7,000 gallons a month, or 84,000 gallons a year. This means that the amount of water wasted on the Pusch Ridge course in 2021 is enough to service over 412 homes a year. The water issue is real and is not going away. There are real issues with the CAP water and Col-

orado River allotments. However, this is ground water, not reclaimed water or CAP water. Oro Valley residents need to tell the Town Council to STOP THE WATER WASTE. Mike Zinkin Oro Valley Want to see you opinion in the paper? Send your letter to the editor to tucsoneditor@tucsonlocalmedia.com. Submission does not guarantee print. Limit your letter to 350 words. Guest commentaries should be limited to 600 words.

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Healthcare: ‘hospitals are getting crushed by a slow-moving steam roller’ Continued from P1

As a technician, it’s her job to assist nurses. She says it gets difficult and “a little scary sometimes” trying to provide for so many patients. Hawbaker is one of thousands of healthcare workers statewide who are facing stress as COVID numbers once again surge thanks to the Omicron variant. Last week, Arizona passed a grim milestone: More than 26,000 people have died in the state after contracting COVID. January will set a record for new COVID cases and while the Omicron variant has been less severe, COVID patients—the vast majority of them unvaccinated—are still crowding emergency rooms, general ward beds and ICUs. While some forecasters say the state is peaking in transmission of Omicron, the pressure on hospitals is expected to continue through mid-February, Banner Health Chief Clinical Officer Majorie

Bessel said in a Jan. 24 press conference. Dr. Joe Gerald, a professor with the UA Zuckerman School of Public Health who has been tracking weekly numbers since the start of the pandemic, noted that as of Jan. 27, Arizona hospitals had 167 days of 2,000 or more patients, while the previous two waves had only seen numbers past that threshold for 57- and 98-day streaks. Even worse, the number had been above 3,000 for 62 straight days and had topped above 4,000 in recent days. While the total number of COVID patients has been lower than during other waves, the relentlessness of the half-year has been tough on healthcare workers. “Just like Wile E. Coyote, hospitals are getting crushed by a slow-moving steam roller,” Gerald wrote in his most recent report. “No end in sight.” In mid-January, more than 1,100 healthcare workers, including physicians, nurses, allied healthcare workers, public healthcare profession-

als and other clinical support staff, signed an open letter pleading with elected officials to implement mitigation measures such as mask mandates to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and prevent unnecessary deaths. Dr. Cadey Harrell said healthcare workers were worn out “after watching our patients, our families, community members suffer despite knowing the suffering is preventable and completely unnecessary.” Dr. Eve Shapiro, a longtime advocate for public health measures, said she had been excited when the COVID vaccines had first rolled because she thought it would be a “game-changer” that would significantly reduce cases. But she’s become discouraged by the large numbers of people who refuse to get vaccinated. In Arizona, as of Jan. 31, roughly 73% of all eligible Arizonans had been vaccinated, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. “Somewhere along the

line, the vaccine became a political and partisan issue, instead of the public health issue that it should have been,” Shapiro said. “Thanks to misinformation on social media and by many elected officials, refusal rates have been far higher than anyone expected.” But the pleas from healthcare workers have largely fallen on deaf ears. While Pima County supervisors passed a mask mandate, it has no enforcement mechanism. Some local school districts still require students and staff to wear masks, but others do not. Republican state leaders have abandoned all COVID protocols in the Arizona Legislature and some GOP lawmakers have proposed various bills that would prohibit future government mandates. As a result, patients are facing longer waits when they show up at overcrowded and stressed hospitals. At Banner, Hawbaker switched over to the ER in the last year because

she “got bored” upstairs and wanted to contribute more where she felt her talents were needed. She says the crowding of patients comes and goes. At one point, “we were holding so many ICU patients down in the ER because of COVID stuff and we had no rooms upstairs and we had to innovate here and there. Basically, intubated people would just be in the ER for like four or five days because there was nowhere to put them.” In the emergency room, the typical ratio of nurse to patient is one to five, according to Hawbaker, but with ICU patients, the ratio can vary depending on the level of care required for the patient. The ratio could be narrowed down to one nurse to three patients or even one nurse to one patient. Technicians are seeing the crunch as well. Usually, they are helping two nurses with assistance such as diagnostic measures and providing medication to patients, but sometimes, they are try-

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Abortion fight in Arizona heating up, even as Supreme Court weighs Roe

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he Supreme Court is expected to weaken or reverse its landmark Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling this year, but advocates on both sides of the issue in Arizona are not waiting for the court to act. Opponents have filed a half-dozen bills in the Legislature, including bills that mirror the laws the high court is considering: A Mississippi ban on abortions after 15 weeks and a Texas ban after about six weeks or so. And abortion-rights advocates, while acknowledging that the climate “toward abortion and reproductive rights is very hostile” in Arizona, are backing a bill that would allow women to get abortion medication via telehealth. They are just the latest efforts in a battle that both sides expect to continue, no matter what the court rules. “The moment that Roe is overturned, the work is just beginning in many ways,” said Cathi Herrod, president for the Center for Arizona Policy,

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which backs abortion restrictions. “I’m sure that we will have significant political activity by the pro-abortion proponents to change our laws if the states were able to restrict abortion.” As both sides gear up to fight, both are also keeping their eyes on the Supreme Court, which is widely expected to severely weaken – or overturn outright – its 1973 ruling in Roe, which recognized a right to abortion. That right was upheld in 1992 by another ruling, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, that prohibited the right to an abortion after a fetus can survive outside the womb, generally considered to be about 26 weeks. But Mississippi, claiming that scientific advances allow fetuses to survive much earlier in a pregnancy, that passed a law in 2018 lowered the cutoff for an abortion to 15 weeks. Texas went even further, approving a law last year that prohibits abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can occur as early as six weeks – often before a

woman realizes she is pregnant, critics say. The Texas law also prohibits state officials from enforcing the law, empowering private citizens to do so – what opponents call a “bounty hunter” provision aimed at letting the state get around abortion protections. Bills mirroring the Texas law – including the bounty hunter provision – have been introduced in both the House and Senate in Arizona. But lawmakers have yet to take action on either, and abortion-rights advocates say they are more concerned about the Mississippi-style proposals. “Arizona has a tendency to introduce very extreme anti-abortion bills as a way to pass something that seems watered down or less severe,” said Murphy Bannerman, communications manager for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, referring to the Texas-style laws. “The bill we’re most concerned about is SB 1164,” the bill patterned after Mississippi’s law, Bannerman said. Introduced by Sen. Nancy Barto, R-Phoenix, SB 1164 would prohibit abortions after 15 weeks, except in the

case of a medical emergency, and would make physicians who perform such a procedure guilty of a class 6 felony. Herrod called the bill “essentially the Mississippi law that limits abortions after 15 weeks gestational age.” Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, said that is by design. “No one knows what’s going to happen with the court ruling on the Mississippi law, but we expect them to rule on the Mississippi law sometime this summer,” Kavanagh said. “And because we will be out of session … we are passing this bill now so that if, in fact, the Supreme Court upholds the Mississippi law, we will have in force an identical law here in Arizona.” The Supreme Court could also overturn Roe entirely – something that Mississippi officials specifically requested in their petition. At least some of the justices appeared agreeable to that possibility during oral arguments in the Mississippi case, and with a 6-3 conservative majority on the court, many believe that day is closer than ever. If that were to happen, both Bannerman and Her-

rod agree that abortion would again be illegal in Arizona because of a 1912 law, still on the books, that bans abortion unless it is necessary to save the life of the mother. “If Roe is overturned, then Arizona’s law prohibiting abortion, except to save the life of the mother, would be back in effect,” Herrod said. “Our forecast is that abortion would not be available in Arizona.” Bannerman agreed that Arizona has “a law on the books from 1912 that bans abortion outright.” “We also have a legislature that is very conservative and has been pushing anti-abortion bills for a number of years, which has led to a reduction in the number of clinics we have throughout Arizona,” she said. Against that backdrop, Bannerman said, abortion-rights advocates can only do so much. They have so far introduced just one bill, by Rep. Athena Salman, D-Phoenix, that would let women get abortion medication via telehealth. “We have been introducing proactive legislation over

the last several years, working with our legislators to strip away all of the different restrictions that are currently in place to getting an abortion in Arizona,” Bannerman said. “With the makeup of the Legislature, we don’t have the votes to pass that and with our current governor, it wouldn’t be signed into law.” Despite having the upper hand, Herrod said abortion opponents are not about to relax. And she does not expect their opponents to do so, either. Bannerman echoed that statement, but said that any meaningful change will only come by electing “level-headed” politicians who will support abortion-rights legislation. “That’s why this election year is critical to potentially changing things up in the Legislature, getting more reasonable level-headed folks elected who are going to defend people’s right to healthcare, people’s right to access abortion,” she said. For more stories from Cronkite News, visit cronkitenews.azpbs.org.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Amaranth: A resurgence of an ancient grain

Mia Smitt

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he New Year is well underway and how many of us have already abandoned our resolutions to eat more healthfully? Perhaps this is due to utter boredom with the same foods day after day. Maybe we need to look beyond the diet books that seem to propagate exponentially and look at the array of grains as well as vegetables in a healthier diet with less meats and saturated fats. The Mediterranean Diet has been declared the healthiest by US News and World Report for the fifth year in a row. This diet is based on plant-based foods, including vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, legumes and whole grains which are minimally processed. A vegetarian diet is also plant based. Rice (brown is best!) and beans are staples in both Mediterranean and vegetarian diets. Oatmeal, barley, bulgur, couscous, olives and cornmeal can be cooked into various recipes. Quinoa has become a staple in non-specialty grocery stores. A special plant with slowly growing popularity in American markets is amaranth, an ancient plant used for centuries in various parts of the world. This is actually an herb with a variety

of uses; its leaves are used as vegetables and the seed is used as grain. Amaranth is widely known in Central and South America. It was a staple of the Aztec diet in pre-Columbian times, the grains were mixed with honey and formed into the likeness of various gods. These images were worshiped, then broken up for the assembled people to eat. The Spanish conquistadors, in their zeal to convert the new World to Christianity, outlawed indigenous religious ceremonies. They saw the eating of the amaranth images as a blasphemy of Christian Communion and banned the farming of the plant. It was rarely seen for several hundred years and may have become extinct but for its cultivation in remote areas of Mexico and the Andes. Today, it is used in a variety of ways. In Mexico, it is popped (like popcorn) and mixed with a thick sugary paste to make a candy called allegria, which means happiness. The amaranth seed is milled and roasted to make the traditional drink known as “atole.” Peruvians ferment the seeds to make a beer. The flowers have been used to treat fever and toothaches past and present by the Incan peoples of the Cusco area. In both Mexico and Peru, the leaves are eaten as a vegetable. In many other countries from South

America to Southeast Asia, there are novel nutritional and medicinal uses of this versatile plant. Amaranth is gaining popularity in the United States. It is grown commercially in Nebraska, Illinois and Colorado (as well as in Africa, India, China, Russia and South America). It is a very hardy plant and adaptable to various growing conditions and climates with a resistance to heat and drought. Amaranth is found usually in health food stores, but more grocery stores are carrying this and other “ancient grains.” (It is available at Whole Foods and is not expensive.) The seeds can be cooked as a cereal, ground into flour, sprouted, toasted or popped like popcorn. Amaranth is gluten free and the seed is high in protein and contains lysine and methionine, two amino acids not usually found in grains. It also is high in manganese, phosphorus, folate, copper and Vitamin b6. Combining amaranth with corn, brown rice or wheat provides as much protein as a serving of meat, fish or poultry. It has three times more fiber and five times more iron than wheat and twice as much calcium as milk. It also has tocotrienols, a form of Vitamin E which may help to lower cholesterol. Cooked amaranth seed is 90% digestible and tolerated by most peo-

ple across the age spectrum. The leaves taste like spinach and can be used cooked or in salads. Amaranth has several health benefits. It is considered an anti-inflammatory food. According to a study published in Molecular Nutrition and Food Resource (2014), amaranth inhibited inflammation and can be considered a natural supplemental treatment for arthritis and other inflammatory processes. The calcium in amaranth is beneficial for bone strengthening and re-

pair. Cholesterol levels could be reduced significantly, according to a 2003 study published in the International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research. Its high fiber content stimulates the digestive system for regular bowel movements. The manganese in amaranth may help control blood sugar levels. The folate in amaranth is especially beneficial for pregnant women, as this is essential for DNA replication and the formation of new cells. Try something new!

Broaden your culinary horizons. Pick up some amaranth on your next trip to a grocery store. If not readily available, ask the manager to order it for you! This highly nutritious food is available and easy to use. Experiment with new recipes and adapt old ones to incorporate this ancient but new (to many of us) food into a healthy diet. Mia Smitt is a nurse practitioner with specialty in family practice. She has recently retired and settled in Marana.

Marana News, Feb 2, 2022

Concerts at the Courtyard series returns to Marana Alexandra Pere Tucson Local Media

ring a lawn chair and enjoy free music every third Thursday of the month with Concerts at the Courtyard at the Marana Municipal Complex, 11555 W. Civic Center Drive. The concert series starts on Feb. 17 with a performance by ONESALL, a Tucson band known for blending rock and funk sounds. Dance to the music and grab some food from a wide variety of food trucks, including Al Gusto Coffee Company, Ciao Down Pizza, Tuxson Tacos

& Sunset Sammies, Romero’s Sonoran Hotdogs, and The Sweet Coquí. Marana employees, police and Northwest Fire Department staff are privileged to discounts from all food trucks by showing a valid ID or badge. Kevin Pakulis and his band will perform on March 17. Like many blues artists, Pakulis’ songs touch on everything from politics to troubled relationships. He’s opened for big artists like Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Leon Russell, Dwight Yoakam, and Billie Joe Shaver. Get a taste of Pakulis’ style through his latest album Holliday. Contemporary pop/

rock Tucson-based band Heart & Soul will perform April 21. Listen to hits by Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, Maroon 5, Santana, Tom Petty, Doobie Bros, Incubus, and more! Lastly, Little House of Funk will perform on May 19. It’ll be difficult not to tap your feet to old-school covers and original funk songs. Limited seating is available so bring foldable chairs for comfortable viewing. Shows are from 5 to 7:30 pm

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• Southern Arizona SCORE offers an online event Ask the CPA 2022 – Tax Advice for Your Small Business with certified CPA and small business tax expert Micah Fraim. Details: 11 a.m.; free; southernarizona.score.org. • The Rotary Club of Dove Mountain meets. Details: 5-6 pm; Highlands of ht t p s : / / w w w. m ara Dove Mountain Clubhouse; naaz.gov/tow n-calendar/2022/2/17/concerts-in- 4949 Heritage Club Blvd, Marana; dovemountainrothe-courtyard tary.org.

Friday, Feb. 4 • YWCA Southern Arizona holds its 33rd Annual Women’s Leadership Conference. Details: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; UA Tech Park, 9040 S. Rita Road or online; $25$100; ywcatucson.org.

Monday, Feb. 7 • Oro Valley Toastmasters meets. Details: 6:15 p.m. (on Zoom); https://2854329. toastmastersclubs.org or 520-314-8008.

Tuesday, Feb. 8 • The Rotary Club of Marana meets. Details: 7 a.m.; Northwest Fire Dept., 5125 W. Camino de Fuego (in person first 3 Tuesdays of the month); via Zoom (first 4 Tuesdays of the month); maranarotary.org or text 520-909-9162 for virtual meeting information.

Wednesday, Feb. 9 • Arizona Sands Club meets with local business spotlight, education and networking. Details: 9-10 a.m.; UA Football Stadium, 565 N. Cherry Ave., 5th Floor; 520-621-7674 or clubcorp.com.

• Southern Arizona SCORE offers an interactive workshop on Preparing for the 2021 Tax Season: Business Tax Basics for Sole Proprietors and LLCs. Details: 10:30 a.m.; free; southernarizona.score.org.

Thursday, Feb. 10 • Southern Arizona SCORE offers a webinar on The 7 Secrets to Mastering Your Sales Pitch with Oratium CEO Tim Pollard. Details: 11 a.m.; free; southernarizona.score.org. • The Marana Chamber of Commerce holds a Business Connection Luncheon: Talent Pipeline & Education. Details: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; The Highlands at Dove Mountain, 4949 W. Heritage Club Blvd.; $45; maranachamber.com.

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Wynne Brown selected as Pima County Library’s latest Writer-in-Residence Cameron Jobson

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ynne Brown, who writes about Arizona and the women who helped build it, will serve as the Pima County Public Library’s Writer in Residence for Spring 2022. Writers in Residence offer workshops for local writers, as well as seminars on their own books. Brown will serve from February through April. Brown is the author of multiple books and other publications covering topics from history to science to travel, but often centers her work around the Southwest. On Feb. 24, Brown will deliver a seminar about her latest book, The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art. Over the last seven years,

Brown has studied Lemmon’s life and legacy, including being the namesake of Mount Lemmon. Sara Lemmon is also one of the subjects of Brown’s book, Remarkable Arizona Women. Brown says history and biology have always fascinated her. On these topics, she strives to keep her audience engaged with a balance of good storytelling and accuracy. “There are so many good stories in science, I can’t resist writing about it or illustrating it,” Brown said. “And The Forgotten Botanist is a book that I’m certainly the proudest of. I want the reader to get to the end of the book and say, ‘wow that is an amazing woman.’” Brown will also be attending the Tucson Festival of Books to host her second workshop on March 12. She will dis-

cuss all the nuts and bolts of building a book, providing tips and tricks to developing a successful book proposal. And in her last workshop on April 23, Brown will talk about finding balance in the life of a writer, “from paying the bills, keeping the car running, and filling the refrigerator. I’m hoping to learn a lot from whoever comes.” Throughout her residency, Brown will also offer 30-minute one-onone sessions with emerging or established writers. “They can talk about whatever project they have in mind,” Brown said. “Maybe they just started and want me to look it over, or maybe they have a finished manuscript and want to get it published.” Every event that is offered to the public through the WiR program is free of charge.

“You just have to sign up in advance,” said Holly Shafer, PCPL’s community relations manager. However, due to the ongoing pandemic, writing sessions will be hosted online via Zoom. But even virtually, Shafer says these sessions still fill up and remain popular. “When COVID shut things down and upended our lives, we had to pivot quickly,” Shafer said. “But the Writer in Residence program is a perennial favorite for library customers and community members. So there was nothing stopping us from going virtual and keeping it going.” In addition to the consultations, Brown will also be hosting a presentation and two interactive workshops. With collective conversation and writing prompts, attendees will be able to work in a public and welcoming environment.

The programs are available to writers of any age, experience, or genre. Since 2016, PCPL has hosted 11 Writers in Residence from a variety of backgrounds. Each has brought their own expertise and talent to help others with all aspects of the writing and editing process. “There’s a nice variety of writers in the program, and a nice selection of specialties,” Shafer said. Previous Writers in Residence include Margaret Regan, who has written two books about undocumented immigrants; Jennifer J. Steward and Marge Pellegrino, who are known for their children’s books; Janni Lee Simner, who dabbles in fantasy, and Alice Hatcher, who specializes in creative nonfiction and poetry. “I’m really honored and looking forward to being the Writer in Res-

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A pair of shows at the Tucson Museum of Art explore radically different art Margaret Regan

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f you ever wanted to test your taste in art, get yourself down to the Tucson Museum of Art. The curators have spiced the place up with two radically different art forms on view at the same time but in different galleries. Olivier Mosset, a Swissborn artist now in his 70s who has lived in Tucson for many years, is devoted to pure abstract painting and color. Patrick Martinez, an LA artist, prizes multimedia work that exposes injustice and highlights the lives of people of color. Upstairs in the main gallery, a show named simply for its artist, Olivier Mosset, is stacked with enormous abstractions. Many hue to one color: you’ll see a giant painting of three yellow circles, another piece that’s a rectangle all in white, and a deep black work that stretches over an entire gallery wall. The trend of all black painting goes back to a Russian artist Kazimir Malevich from

Olivier Mosset until Feb. 27 Patrick Martinez: Look What You Created until April 24 Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday to Sunday. $12 adults; $10 seniors 65 and up; $7 college students and teens ages 13 to 17. Free for children 12 and under, members, veterans and active military. 140 N. Main Ave. Tucsonmuseumofart.org. 520-6242333 Visitors must reserve timed tickets online in advance. Masks and social distancing required. EXTRA: The museum is open 5 to 8 p.m. on First Thursday, Feb. 3. Free. Music and art activities included. Reserve tickets online two weeks before the event.

the avant-garde in 1915. The point of Mosset’s single-colored “monochrome” piece, writes curator Julie Sasse, Ph.D., is that it’s the “ultimate vehicle to eliminate all meaning from the painting and allow the work to stand on its own as an object.” There is no meaning beyond color and shape. Those are fightin’ words for diehard fans of narrative art. But the other show at the museum is equally serious, if not as cheerful. Patrick Martinez, an LA artist born in 1980, created

the installation Look What You Created, a painful exploration of racial discrimination. Inspired in part by the horrors of 2020—including police murders— Martinez’s work is about history and injustice. He uses his narrative art to denounce evils across the centuries in his first solo museum exhibition. Like Olivier Mosset, Martinez uses materials both beautiful and ordinary. Tongva Landscape, a masterful, multimedia painting uses neon lights, stucco, earth and metal

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or a time in 2020— too long a time— when it came to sports, the pandemic was undefeated. It wiped out the conference basketball tournaments and then the NCAA Tournament. It erased Grand Slam tennis events and golf majors, auto races, horse races, and the Olympics. Sadly, it wiped out spring sports for high-school seniors. As we wearily approach the third year of COVID, the disease is trying to wring out the last of its scourges. At the high-school and college level, there are still games being canceled and rescheduled, which is a nightmare. Entire programs are being shut down for a week or two at a time. While those who play the games for love of the sport are still being buffeted about, there are some people who make millions playing games who simply can’t play by the rules and then try to pass themselves off as victims.

Consider Novak Djokovic. He was never a racquet thrower like Andre Agassi or a screamer like John McEnroe. He wasn’t flashy or charming or controversial. He and Roger Federer would finish tied for last in a twoman personality contest. But he was a really good tennis player, one of the all-time best. And he displayed a certain measure of sportsmanship. When he accidentally hit a line judge with a ball that was struck in anger, he apologized, politely argued his case, and then accepted his punishment under the rules. He was on a hot streak. He entered 2021 with a combined 17 wins in major tournaments (Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open). Only Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, with 20 each, had more Grand Slam wins. Djokovic blazed through the first half of 2021, winning the Australian Open on hard court, the French Open on clay, and Wimbledon on grass. Djokovic entered the season-ending U.S. Open tied with Nadal and Federer and within one victory of joining Don Budge

(1938) and Rod Laver (1962 and 1967) as the only men to win all four Grand Slam events in one calendar year. Djokovic lost in the Finals of the U.S. Open, preventing him from completing the Slam and keeping him tied with Nadal and Federer. But the Australian Open was just a few months off and Djokovic has already won that event nine times. However, despite (or, perhaps, because of) the fact that Australia has a conservative government and a very conservative Prime Minister, the country has very strict anti-COVID policies and, accordingly, a death rate per million people that is one of the lowest in the world and less than onethird that of the United States. They won’t allow anyone into the country without being vaccinated. Djokovic is a wellknown anti-vaxxer, one who obviously missed science class while becoming a tennis prodigy. Among other things, he believes that positive thought can purify water. At first, he wrangled an exemption that would have allowed him to enter the country and play, but

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after a huge public outcry (and the revelation that Djokovic had lied about his travels before entering the country), he was expelled from the country and there’s a good chance that he won’t be allowed back in Australia until 2025. Leaving politics aside, Djokovic’s case is just another example of a celebrity demanding (and initially receiving) special treatment, of wanting to have his cake and eat it, too. At press time, Rafael Nadal, who is vaccinated and has made it to the Finals, is poised to become the all-time leader in Major wins. And now there is talk that Djokovic won’t

be allowed in France for its Major in May. Here in the U.S., we’ve had to deal with the whininess of a guy who used to be widely admired. Aaron Rodgers is one of the finest quarterbacks in the history of the National Football League. Just ask him; he’ll tell you. He is blessed to play in the NFL, a pro sports league that has done more to allow its athletes to compete during the pandemic than any other league. Vaccinations are highly encouraged, but not mandated. If somebody doesn’t want to get the shot, all he has to do is publicly proclaim that and then wear a mask in public gatherings and get

tested regularly. Having a big, macho football player stand up and admit that he won’t get a shot doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it was too much for Rodgers to handle. He lied to his teammates, he lied to the public, and he lied to the League. I was born and raised in Los Angeles and have been a Rams fan my whole life. Accordingly, I don’t like the 49ers. But, I was soooooo happy when they beat Aaron Rodgers’ team in the playoffs last week. I’m proud to admit that. EXTRA POINTS: With only a week left in the regular season, we’re

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getting a good idea of which Northwest teams will be moving on to postseason play in highschool basketball. On the boys’ side, Marana’s Tigers, with a win over defending State champion Catalina Foothills, looks to be a lock for the 5A postseason. Ironwood Ridge is right on the cusp, sitting at No. 23 in the Power Points (the top 24 in the State advance). The Nighthawks can play themselves into the playoffs with wins over 4A power Canyon Del Oro and 5A rival Marana. The aforementioned CDO team sits at No. 11 in the 4A rankings and has a chance to earn a first-round bye at State. In the Class 3A, Pusch Ridge has a gaudy 9-2 record but only sits at No. 18. The boys’ squads from Flowing Wells, Amphi, and Marana Mountain View will almost certainly not be making it to the postseason. For the girls, Flowing Wells, which reached the State championship game last year, is the No. 1 team in the entire state this season. They are a perfect 14-0 and have an insurmountable lead in the Power Points. They will be the top seed in the State Tournament. Ironwood Ridge sits at No. 8 in the 5A rankings. Other girls’ teams with at least a shot at making it to the postseason include Pusch Ridge in the 3A, Amphi in 4A and Marana Mountain View in 5A.

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anielle Tuakalau ( To o - a h - k a h lau, last syllable rhymes with “now”) had never really been injured before—a bump here, a jammed finger there, but certainly nothing serious. She had just finished up a successful volleyball season, being one of only two non-seniors on an Amphi Panther team that reached the postseason. The sophomore joined the Panther basketball team almost on a whim, not knowing what to expect. But after only a couple weeks of practice, she had moved into the starting lineup on a team that would start off the season with six straight wins. It was during one of those wins that she shot and made a three-pointer from the corner, but came down on the foot of a defender who had illegally slid under her. The pain shot up her leg and she would be out for a couple weeks with a high ankle sprain. Coming from a family of tough people and athletes (her grandmother lives in Tonga and a relative, Jason Kaufusi, is a defensive coach for the Arizona Wildcat football team), she tried to tough it out. When she eventually came back, she decided to try out the ankle in a

slower-paced JV game. Everything was going well until she bumped into a kid on the other team. Her knee twisted, she felt a pop, and she crumpled to the ground. Weeks later, she got the news that she had been dreading. She had torn her ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) and would require surgery. For more than a generation, it has been known that women athletes are far more likely to sustain serious knee injuries than are men playing the same sport. There was a brief time when some proponents of women’s sports preferred not to talk about it lest if dampen enthusiasm and/or decrease participation in sports by girls and young women. Others were concerned that some small-minded people might use the statistics (and the fact that certain physiological differences between men and women might be part of the cause for the injury imbalance) as an excuse to denigrate women’s participation in sports. What we do know is that a variety of factors enter into the disparity. Besides the oft-mention physiological differences (pelvic width, leg alignment), there is now evidence that women are more likely to land from a jump with their knees closer together than do men and, quite interest-

ingly, women are more likely to trigger a quick leg movement using their quadriceps, while men use their hamstrings. While all of that is interesting, it matters not to Danielle, who will be starting her rehab after surgery. She had been planning on playing beach volleyball (and maybe even giving tennis a try) once basketball season was over, but now all that stretches out ahead of her are months and months of rehabbing the repaired knee. Physical therapy, regular trips to the weight room, maybe some light aerobic stuff in the pool. Then walking,

lots of walking, perchance to lead to running sooner rather than later. We’re going to check in on her every now and then to chronicle her progress. And we’ll be there when she first sets

foot back on a court, be it volleyball, basketball, beach volleyball or tennis. Editor’s note: Tom Danehy is coach of the Amphi girls varsity team.

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CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ve felt trapped by jobs before, but now you have choices. You work to earn money but you’re not strictly motivated by it. You’ll consider other factors before you take on a task. Who does it help? How does it stretch you? What talents does it hone? What connections does it facilitate? Do you actually enjoy it? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You tried to end the year on a high note and now you’ll try even harder to end the first month of it in a way that sets you up for success. Note what pushes your emotional buttons. Whatever helps you manage your energy and moods will be key to keeping your energy high and your resources stocked. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). In the moment, action triumphs, and words are forgettable minor details. As for history, there is no action that can change it, so the words win. How you tell a story will manage the perspective and even influence the future. So, give serious thought to how you frame the events that led up to this day.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Having hit a few milestones of this journey, more roads are now open to you. You won’t go wrong with this guiding principle: Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. The life you want is exciting yet uncomplicated. Don’t let anything distract you from the beautiful simplicity of it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Don’t wait for the perfect company. You think of certain activities as group activities, but celebrating, dining, dancing, traveling and even working on big projects can each be a marvelous adventure for a party of one. What if anything worth doing with someone else is worth doing alone? Test the premise this week. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Many relationships don’t start off with total reciprocity. It can take a while for mutual feelings and interests to start flowing. There are benefits to sticking with a one-sided interest for a short period of time just to see what happens. Set the countdown timer, then chalk it up to research and development. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Whatever the situation, it will help to remind yourself why you’re in it. And if you don’t know anymore or never did, do some soul searching. Get curious, ask yourself good questions and figure it out. Because when you know what’s in it for you, you’ll contribute gladly and fully and get back what you put in. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You feel fine about where you’re at, then along comes a measuring stick. Other people’s ideas of scale can be eye-opening, intimidating, funny or just plain wrong. Develop your own system of accountability to the greater scheme and then answer to that instead of the assessments and comparisons of others.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’re a thought leader, whether you realize it or not. You don’t have to share your opinion because you live it. No need to formulate a social media post about your ideas, goals and priorities; you’re already radiating with every quality you’d care to broadcast. This week, everyone gets it loud and clear.

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“Camino de Oeste” by Olivier Mosset shows the artist’s use of large, flat colors in abstract painting.

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Other works include drawings of Chicano teens, sometimes dealing with the police. A couple of “cake paintings” feature portraits of the late heroes Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist, and Nipsey Hussle, a rapper who particularly inspired black men. They too are honored with flowers. Neon signs are everywere. “I am tired of talk that comes to nothing,” says one; “Hate is too great a burden to bear,” declares another. The title of the show, Look What You Created, has two possible meanings: the past may have been heartbreaking, but we can try like hell to create a better future. Mosset’s work is also about making the world better, by creating beauty that gives us joy. When

you step into his galleries, you (or at least I) get transported by the colors and shapes. Some of the works remind me of the first objects that are given to infants. The clear colors—think of those yellow circles—are just the thing a baby wants to see, and chew. If that’s what we loved as newborns, yellow circles might be just what we need now. The artist, born in 1944, moved around in radical circles early on. In the 1960s, he went to Paris, a hot spot for new work, and became enamored with monochrome. According to the text at the show, Mosset, following the efforts of other artists, became known for his single-color works. By 1977, he was in New York and a member of the Radical Painting group. By the ’90s, in Tucson, he began experiment-

ing in “shaped canvases,” a form that banished the idea that paintings had to be rectangles. He works in paintings of all shapes, from giant X forms to Ls and circles and arrows. The new shapes brought a fresh geometry to his work. One piece work in the show is a gloriously colored pieces of geometry with, a big triangle in blazing orange and a second triangle—pure white—that’s upside down. Mosset is still working. Lately he seems interested in flat rectangular canvases once more. He has a number of delightfully painted squares: a long one in shades of pale green, and some lovely rich blues on paper. The most dramatic, perhaps, is a giant flat checkerboard in the colors of the Tucson sun. Called Camino de Oeste, its red and pink squares blaze in the sunset sky.

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