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EXPLORER The Voice of Marana, Oro Valley and Northwest Tucson

Volume 28 • Number 39

Explorer and Marana News, Sept 29, 2021

EXPLORER The Voice of Marana, Oro Valley and Northwest Tucson

Sept. 29, 2021

Volume 28 • Number 39

Paper Work Three London artists bring fresh work to PCC’s Bernal Gallery | Page 14

INSIDE

A MUSICIAN’S GARDEN

UA Events

For singer and keyboardist Rachel Eckroth, her new album “The Garden” is a return to jazz and the desert, after moving to Tucson. Read more on page 13.

Compassion series at Fox Theatre

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Photo by Eugene Petrushanskiy

Election review: Biden won AZ by wider margin than official count Jeremy Duda Arizona Mirror

Health & Wellness

Pepper beneﬁts | Page 11

Sports & Rec

Have the Wildcats hit rock bottom?

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OV Council approves $25 million in parks bonds Alexandra Pere Tucson Local Media

he Oro Valley Town Council voted 5-2 in favor of issuing $25 million in bonds for parks and recreation improvements on Wednesday, Sept. 22. The council then voted unanimously to declare an emergen-

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the town’s 2021/2022 budget but final approval did not come until Wednesday’s vote. Councilmembers Steve Solomon and Harry “Mo” Greene voted against the bonds. Town Administrative Services Director David Gephart told the council that when the bonds were paid back with interest, the

he long-awaited and repeatedly delayed report of the Senate’s purported audit of the election in Maricopa County featured a plethora of unsubstantiated allegations that files were deleted, equipment was improperly connected to the internet, signatures weren’t properly verified and ineligible voters may have cast ballots. The county vehemently denied all of the allegations, and said the election review team’s ignorance of election laws and procedures led them to make false claims.

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Día de los Muertos at Tohono Chul. Modern celebrations of this holiday, which recognizes and celebrates death, are a rich and beautiful part of Tucson’s cultural heritage. This exhibit features 61 works from 42 different Arizona artists, who bring the spirit of the holiday to life in works with both personal and universal meaning. Manuel Fontes, who studied fine art photography at Phoenix College and earned his BA and MA in ecological anthropology from ASU, is joining Tohono Chul’s team as co-curator for the exhibit. His art has been shown in 11 Tohono Chul exhibitions since 2015. On display through Nov. 8 at Tohono Chul, 7366 Paseo del Norte. Galleries open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. $15 adult entry, $13 seniors/military, $6 kids ages 5 to 12.

ommended when physical distancing cannot be observed. No outside alcohol will be allowed. Feel free to bring in your own food. Food trucks, beer, wine, soda and water sales courtesy of the Lions Club. 7 to 9:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 1. Steam Pump Ranch, 10901 N. Oracle Road. Free.

Friday Night Concerts at Steam Pump Ranch. The Town of Oro Valley is continuing their outdoor community concerts at Steam Pump Ranch. This week, local rock band Good Trouble will be performing some classic rock and Motown music. Good Trouble is a six-piece band performing music from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, anywhere from country to rock to soul. As they say, “We want to play your favorite song!” The Town of Oro Valley asks that all attendees maintain six feet of physical distancing and masks are strongly rec-

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University of Arizona Hosting Series on Compassion at Fox Theatre Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

e’ve all experienced more than our recommended dose of dread over the past year. Rather than lean into the strife, the University of Arizona’s College of Social & Behavioral Sciences is going in the opposite direction for their annual lecture series. The College’s signature event at downtown’s Fox Theatre will examine various definitions of compassion, from how we define it through religion to how it impacts the structure of society. Running every Wednesday through October, SBS’s free lecture series includes four guest speakers each presenting a different side of compassion. Previous lecture topics include music, women’s power and animals. Every year, SBS dean John Paul Jones III and SBS associate dean of community engagement Maribel Alvarez select a topic that is both familiar, yet open to interpretation. “For this year, we knew

there was a sense of exhaustion that everyone was feeling, and social unrest,” Alvarez said. “So we could have easily done it on a more incendiary topic, like crises or the pandemic. But a lot of people don’t want to hear about that. We know what the problems are, so let’s focus on solutions. What do we need for our political, social and health divides?” The community lecture series opens on Wednesday, Oct. 6, with a talk from UA instructor Leslie Langbert, who also serves as executive director of the Center for Compassion Studies. Langbert will explore the power of compassion on communities, and how it is essential for our survival. Langbert’s Center for Compassion Studies investigates the impact of “compassion and contemplative practices on individual, group and environmental well-being.” On Wednesday, Oct. 13, Joseph Lacoste Sanguinetti, a postdoctoral fellow in UA’s Department of Psychology, will explore the science behind caring for others. Sanguinetti will ex-

amine new neuroscience detailing how our brains are wired for compassion, and how “training practices like meditation activates brain circuits related to positive emotion, reduces stress, and leads to overall well-being.” “They’re all different definitions of the same topic. An interesting thing about compassion is that it’s not just a feeling. It’s wired into our need for cooperation,” Alvarez said. “But it’s also a kind of enigma, in that we don’t exhibit care for all others equally. What is the science between feeling compassion for some but not others? In that sense, we realize it’s a scientific and social conundrum worth exploring.” On Wednesday, Oct. 20, Maha Nassar, associate professor in the UA’s School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, will look at compassion on the scale of international diplomacy. In particular, she will examine the shifting conversation around Palestine and Israel. Nassar specializes in Middle Eastern cultures, having published the book “Brothers

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Apart: Palestinian Citizens of Israel and the Arab World.” The final installation is on Wednesday, Oct. 27, featuring Buddhist minister and author Lama Rod Owens discussing compassion as a tool of liberation and justice. Owens reaches into his knowledge of Buddhist teachings and social justice movements to help listeners “think about compassion as a practice more intentional than simple gestures of benevolence or charity.” Owens earned his Master of Divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School, and blends his formal Buddhist training with experiences growing up in the South.

“Lama Rod Owens is an amazing speaker who met a very important criteria for us: He works in the arena of healing and the Buddhist tradition of compassion, but he also looks at how we use our senses of rage,” Alvarez said. “In that tradition, there might be a lot of spiritual masters or gurus, and also speakers focused on social injustice, but I think there are very few people who combine the topics. He isn’t soft about the questions of justice and liberation, nor does he let himself be consumed by the negative. He has that equilibrium.” Attendees can register online for free tickets for the Downtown Lecture Se-

ries “Compassion: A Tool for Liberation and Understanding.” The Fox Theatre requires all attendees to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours prior to attendance. “Often we see the public come to hear about something that is interesting and familiar, but they leave scratching their heads because their ideas on the subject change. That has happened with music, animals and privacy. And we hope it happens again here,” Alvarez said. For more information, visit foxtucson.com or sbs. arizona.edu/dls-2021

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Election: Cyber Ninjas’ hand recount shows Biden won AZ Continued from P1

What effect the “audit” will have remains to be seen. The hand-recount of nearly 2.1 million ballots reached the same result as the official tally: Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in Maricopa County and in Arizona. (The “audit” concluded that Biden actually won by about 260 more votes than the official election results.) Lead auditor Doug Logan, head of the Florida-based firm Cyber Ninjas, presented the audit’s findings along with former Arizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen, CyFir CEO Ben Cotton, former Secretary of State Ken Bennett and Shiva Ayyadurai, an engineer and promoter of conspiracy theories, during a three-hour presentation at the Senate on Friday afternoon. Some of the alleged findings were included in draft reports that were widely circulated Thursday evening, while

the “audit” team aired other claims publicly for the first time as they made their presentations to Senate President Karen Fann and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Warren Petersen. Inexperience led ‘auditors’ to inflammatory false conclusions, county says A common refrain was that there may be innocuous explanations for many of the potential problems they found, but the election review leaders don’t know for certain. The “audit” team members lacked experience in election matters, often exhibiting a lack of understanding about common election policies and procedures throughout the past six months. The county wouldn’t cooperate with them in any way, to the point of refusing to even answer questions. The most inflammatory allegations came from Cotton, who claimed he discovered that thou-

sands of files had been deleted from election department servers, and that several pieces of election equipment had been connected to the internet. In one case, Cotton alleged that someone purged the full results of the general election from the county’s system. Many of the alleged deletions happened before key moments, he said, such as a forensic audit the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors ordered of its tabulation machines in February, or when the county turned over the machines to the audit team in April. “So, who did it? Why did they do it?” Cotton asked. But the county, which fact-checked many of the claims in real-time on its Twitter feed, said many of the files Cotton referred to weren’t deleted at all, but were instead archived and backed up elsewhere, which it described as a standard process. “Nothing was purged. Cyber Ninjas don’t understand the business of

elections. We can’t keep everything on the EMS (Election Management System) server because it has storage limits,” the county said. And the county said none of its employees have intentionally deleted any data, and that any claims that they “were intentionally overriding logs is disingenuous. This is part of normal Windows configuration.” Maricopa County said the allegation was reminiscent of another claim Cotton made in May that he’d discovered deleted files. The county said the claim was inaccurate and that Cotton simply didn’t know where to look for the data. Cotton also alleged that several pieces of computer equipment were connected to the internet, though he largely focused on things besides tabulation machines, which are air-gapped to prohibit any online connections. “I would like to sit here today and tell you I had fully ruled out any un-

authorized access, but … I cannot do that at this time,” he said. The county said its tabulation equipment was never connected to the internet and that Cotton’s claims were misleading. One of the machines Cotton cited was connected to the internet because it’s the server for the Recorder’s Office, the county tweeted, adding, “This is not the election system. We shouldn’t have to explain this.” One of the alleged cybersecurity lapses that Cotton explained was that the county failed to update tabulation machines with patches to their security systems since 2019, when the county elections department acquired them. But he left out some important details that would have explained why it’s rare for such systems to be updated. Because the machines are part of closed networks that aren’t connected to the internet, all patches must be approved by the U.S. Election Assistance

Commission, a far more rigorous process than simply downloading an upgrade for periodic, automatic upgrades like conventional consumer software does. The issue came up in the Michigan Senate’s review of a debunked audit of the election in Antrim County, Mich., which Cotton participated in. John Brakey, a former official with the audit, told the Arizona Mirror he’s explained the issue to Cotton. Hand count shows Biden won AZ Logan’s portion of the presentation covered the hand count and other reviews of the physical ballots and the processes used to cast them. While he acknowledged that the hand-count affirmed Biden’s win in Arizona, he cast doubt on various batches of ballots, alleging that thousands of mail-in votes were cast by people who had moved to different addresses than See Election, P6

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the ones listed on their registrations, that some potentially dead voters cast ballots, and that others may have voted in multiple counties. Logan said one of the audit’s findings, that 3,432 more ballots were cast than were shown in a file of voters provided by the county, was resolved when election officials explained on Thursday that those voters didn’t show up in the files because their addresses are protected. The addresses of certain voters, such as law enforcement members, judges and domestic

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violence victims, are kept confidential under state law. “I can’t validate whether that’s accurate or not accurate. That is information we just received,” he said. The county argued that Logan’s findings were largely the result of him not understanding election procedures, and said spot checks of some of his claims found no discrepancies. Earlier in the day, a group of election experts working with the bipartisan States United Democracy Center raised a potential problem with Logan’s findings regarding the ballots, which were part of the draft reports from Thursday. Logan’s team used commercial databases that are

sometimes out of date or otherwise inaccurate to conclude thousands of voters didn’t live at their registered address; those databases rely heavily on change-of-address, which are not always indicative of where a person lives for voter registration purposes, and people can direct the companies to remove or stop updating their data. The first presentation was made by Ayyadurai, a conspiracy theorist known to fans as Dr. Shiva, who outlined his alleged findings regarding voter signatures on ballot envelopes. Ayyadurai claimed he found several thousand early ballots that shouldn’t have been approved and verified by election workers because they either lacked signa-

tures or had signatures that were only “scribbles” and couldn’t be verified. Ayyadurai and the “audit” team did not have any of the voters’ signatures that election officials used to verify the early ballots. And many of the instances of “duplicate ballots” that he focused intently on were because voters who fail to sign ballot envelopes or whose signatures don’t match voter registration records are given an opportunity to fix the error—and can do so up to five days after the election. Fann: We never looked for fraud While many “audit” supporters declared that the audit proved the election results were wrong

and that Trump was the election’s rightful winner, Fann declined to say there was fraud, instead saying it showed numerous flaws with the election system in Maricopa County that the legislature needs to address. “I have never said the word ‘fraud’ since Day One because you don’t say ‘fraud’ unless you can prove it. And you can’t prove it just by doing an audit. Fraud is intentional malfeasance, intentional actions. We can’t prove that there were intentional actions that caused these problems. What we do know is that there were problems and that they need to be fixed,” Fann, R-Prescott, told reporters after the presentation. Fann referred the findings to Attorney General

Mark Brnovich for review. The “audit” team made a number of allegations about possible illegal activity, such as Cotton’s claims that data was deleted and Bennett’s claims that election workers ignored laws on chain-of-custody for election materials and other statutes. “Arizona voters deserve an unimpeachable electoral process—and the State Senate is already working hard on new legislation to deliver that,” Fann said in a letter to Brnovich. “As the Senate enters that next phase, there are several items in the reports that merit the attention of your office.” In a press statement, Brnovich said, “I will take all necessary actions that are supported by the ev-

idence and where I have legal authority. Arizonans deserve to have their votes accurately counted and protected.” The audit team also proposed a series of changes to Arizona’s election laws, including tightening up rules on maintaining voter rolls, creating a state audit department, making ballot images publicly available online and making it a crime for anyone to obstruct or interfere with a legislative investigation. Fann suggested that Gov. Doug Ducey could call a special session to make at least some changes while they await the results of Brnovich’s investigation, as well as additional review of data from the county’s routers, which Fann subpoenaed but the county refused to turn over for months. The county and Fann reached an agreement last week in which former Congressman John Shadegg will serve as a special master who will answer the Senate’s questions about the routers and associated data logs, which will remain in the county’s possession. Ducey quickly made it clear, however, that any changes to the law stemming from the audit will have to wait, tweeting that the legislature should take up any such proposed changes in the next regular session that begins in January. The governor, who has mostly refused to comment on the audit for months, suggested that it’s time to move on. “When it comes to the

audit, like the three audits that preceded it, it’s now over. The outcome stands and the 2020 election in Arizona is over,” he said. Jack Sellers, chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, excoriated the audit team and its report, saying they made wild and baseless claims that falsely accused county officials and workers of crimes. “The Cyber Ninjas’ opinions come from a misuse and misunderstanding of the data provided by the county and are twisted to fit the narrative that something went wrong,” he said. From baseless claims to biased ‘auditors’ The audit, which had its origins in the weeks after the election in the false and baseless claims that the election was rigged against Trump, was plagued by problems and beset by drama from the beginning. Fann subpoenaed ballots, tabulation machines and other election materials from the county in December, despite a total lack of evidence of any fraud, malfeasance or irregularities. The Senate ultimately prevailed in litigation that the county brought challenging the subpoenas. When Fann announced her audit team in March, it quickly became apparent that its members had no relevant election experience and were committed supporters of the conspiracy theories that the election was stolen from Trump.

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Fann told Capitol Media Services, “You can’t tell me they’ve been involved in conspiracy theories.” But Logan’s advocacy of conspiracy theories became quickly apparent as the Arizona Mirror uncovered Logan’s deleted Twitter account, which he used to promote false claims about election fraud—including in Arizona. But Logan was far more than just a keyboard warrior: He’d taken an active role in the #StopTheSteal movement and was working directly to overturn the election. For example, Logan had authored an “election fraud facts” report for U.S. senators who were planning to object to the Electoral College results on Jan. 6, which included a number of baseless and debunked claims, including the discredited allegation that Dominion Voting Systems, the vendor that provides Maricopa County’s ballot tabulation machines, has ties to the socialist regime in Venezuela. And Logan worked with pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood on his efforts to challenge the election results, The Daily Beast reported. And text messages obtained by the Arizona Republic indicated that Logan had a role in crafting the subpoenas that Fann and Petersen issued to the county in December. Other members of the “audit” team had similarly problematic ties to the #StopTheSteal movement. CyFIR and Logan had both been involved

in a widely discredited report alleging fraud and irregularities in Antrim County, Mich. The lead contractor on the report was Russell Ramsland of Allied Security Operations Group, Fann’s first choice to lead the “audit.” Wake Technology Services, Inc., which originally led the hand count portion of Fann’s audit, appeared to be the only member of the team with something resembling experience in elections-related work, having conducted a hand count and audit of election results in Fulton County, Penn. But it turned out that Fulton allowed the audit at the request of a leading #StopTheSteal advocate in the Pennsylvania Senate and that Wake was hired by a nonprofit group

led by Sidney Powell, the former Trump campaign lawyer behind the disastrous “kraken” lawsuits against election results in Arizona and other swing states won by Biden. When Fann announced her “audit” team, she released a contract showing that the Senate would pay Cyber Ninjas $150,000 for its work. What she didn’t disclose was that the audit would cost far more than that, and that she’d knowingly outsourced most

of the funding to outside groups. Cyber Ninjas would not disclose the identities of those funders initially, but one became apparent when Christina Bobb of the right-wing One America News Network announced that a nonprofit she’d started was raising money for the election review. This article originally ran online in Arizona Mirror.

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total cost would be $31.5 million. Gephart mentioned some of the proposed projects may not come to fruition and his costs were estimates. Town Manager Mary Jacobs said some of the proposed projects may not be achieved, but the council won’t know the detailed financial plan until projects are designed. “We have the cart before the horse situation here,” Solomon said. “I don’t know how this council can consider moving forward with a $31.5 million bond when

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there are so many unknowns and we are basically saying we are going to spend whatever it costs.” Councilmember Bohen said he agreed with Councilmember Solomon on the path of uncertainty, but said it was not unusual and the council has been transparent about the proposed plans. With passing the bond resolution, Oro Valley residents will see major changes to the Oro Valley Community Center, including resurfaced tennis courts and updated parking. Roughly half of the $25 million will go to improvements at Naranja Park, where the town will build two new multi-use fields as well as pickle-

ball courts and basketball courts. The plan also calls for a splash pad for kids and a new skate park and pump track. Pump tracks, used by bikers and skateboarders, are designed to allow riders to generate momentum without pedaling or pushing. “I really see how this could benefit our community. I see kids, parents, and grandparents gathering on the field to watch or play soccer, football, and lacrosse together,” Councilwoman Melanie Barrett said. The bonds will also support new paths for community walking, biking, and hiking. New paths will be placed along La Canada Drive between Lambert and Naranja; Naranja Drive between

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The Oro Valley Community Center will see resurfaced tennis courts and updated parking after a 5-2 Town Council vote in favor of issuing $25 million in bonds for parks and recreation improvements. The Town of Oro Val- Town will pay this yearLa Canada and park entrance; and from Cañada ley expects to pay the ly debt with the half-cent del Oro wash to James D. bonds off over 20 years at sales tax enacted in 2014. $1.7 million annually. The Kriegh Park.

Business Calendar Thursday, Sept. 30 • The Marana Chamber of Commerce holds a groundbreaking at The Alexander Apartments. Details: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; 3915 W. Aerie Dr.; free; 529-8217. Friday, Oct. 1 • The Tucson Metro Chamber holds the 2021 Copper Cactus Awards. Details: 5 p.m.; Casino del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road; tucsonchamber.org. Monday, Oct. 4 • Oro Valley Toastmasters meets. Details: 6:15 p.m. (on Zoom); https://2854329.toastmastersclubs.org or 314-8008.

Details: 9:30 a.m.; 7354 N. La Cholla Blvd.; free; 297-2191.

• The Arizona Small Wednesday, Oct. 6 Business Association (ASBA) offers Virtual Cof• The Marana Chamber fee Connect. Details: 8:30of Commerce holds a Net9:30 a.m.; asba.com. working Breakfast. Details: 7:30 a.m.; The Highlands Tuesday, Oct. 5 at Dove Mountain, 4949 W. Heritage Club Blvd.; $40, • The Rotary Club of Marana meets (weekly). De- $30 members; 682-4314. • The Arizona Small tails: 7 a.m.; Northwest Fire Business Association Dept., 5125 W. Camino de Fuego (in person first 3 (ASBA) offers a webinar Tuesdays of the month); via State Bar of Arizona: PPP Loan Forgiveness – What Zoom (first 4 Tuesdays of the month); maranarotary. Your Clients (& You) Need org or text 520-909-9162 to Know Right Now. Details: 9-10:30 a.m.; asba. for virtual meeting inforcom. mation. • SCORE offers One-on• The Greater Oro Valley One Business & Nonprofit Chamber of Commerce Mentoring. Details: 9:30holds a Grand opening 11:30 a.m. Joel D. Valdez and ribbon cutting at the American Red Cross Foot- Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave.; free but appointment hills Blood Donation and required; 791-4010. Platelet donation center.

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Border communities face another month of ‘nonessential’ travel limits By Kimberly Silverio-Bautista travel was first imposed in March 2020 in an effort to Cronkite News stem the spread of COVhe ban on nonessential ID-19 and has been regulartravel on land cross- ly since then, most recently ings between the U.S. as the delta variant of the viand Mexico will be rus led to a spike in new casextended another month, es. The last extension was set a “disheartening” develop- to expire at midnight Sept. ment for border towns and 21, but the White House businesses that have already said Monday that it would had to cope with the travel be continued through at least Oct. 21. limitations for 18 months. That announcement “It’s very disheartening came the same day that the to have it extended again,” Biden administration said it Douglas Mayor Donald C. planned to ease COVID-19 Huish said Monday. “Our economy is suffering due to related limits on internathat, we estimate approx- tional air travel beginning in imately two thirds of our early November. Under that plan, adult sales tax revenue comes foreign travelers will have to from … our neighbors to prove they have been fully the south. So, it’s a very big vaccinated before they can blow.” come here. U.S. citizens of The ban on nonessential

any age who are not vaccinated could still fly home, but would have to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test within a day before their travel, and have to prove they have a viral test to take after they arrive. The plan also calls on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a contract tracing order that will require airlines to collect contact information that can be used in case anyone is exposed to COVID-19 during their travel. In a briefing Monday afternoon, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said there are “no updates or predictions at this point” on when the restriction on nonessential travel at land borders might be lifted.

“But obviously, we’re continuing to consider … how we can return to a place of travel and people being able to move from country to country, including our land borders,” Psaki said. One expert called the continued closure of the land border—now extended to at least 19 months— “ridiculous.” “You can fly into the United States from Mexico City, with proof of a COVID-19 vaccination or a test and you’re allowed to travel,” said Andy Carey, the executive director of the U.S. Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership. He said people should be allowed to do the same thing at the land ports of entry. Huish said that the re-

strictions do not just affect cities at the border, but cities well inside Arizona, too. Huish said that on a typical weekend at a mall in Tucson, 66 miles north of Nogales, about half of the license plates would be Mexico, but “now, maybe 10%.” He said he has written to the Biden administration, urging it to “reconsider lifting the restrictions,” and was hopeful they would be lifted in July when large numbers of people were getting vaccinated. But the ban was extended to August, and then to September and now until October—at least. Huish said the restrictions have been tough on everyone, but that local mom-and-pop shops have been the most affected. They

are struggling to survive, he said, and not all have made it. “Many have had to shut their doors, many of them have … tried to survive by shortening their hours, laying off employees and the owners are having to spend more time down there as employees,” Huish said. He just wishes someone from the Biden administration would come to see the issue in person. “It’s a beautiful place, it’s a great place of opportunity,” Huish said. “We just want people to see it and allow it to happen.” For more stories from Cronkite News, visit cronkitenews.azpbs.org.

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New estimates show Colorado River levels falling faster than expected Ulysse Bex and Emma VandenEinde Cronkite News

ew projections show that Lake Mead and Lake Powell could reach “critically low reservoir elevations” sooner than expected, spurring experts to say that “bold actions” will be needed to change course. The Bureau of Reclamation report released Thursday shows an 88% chance that Lake Powell could fall below 3,525 feet by next August, a level that would endanger hydropower production, with chances Lake Mead will hit critical levels in the next few years. The five-year projection is grimmer than estimates released just two months ago, and shows that a drought contingency plan triggered earlier this year by low reservoir levels, while it was aggressive, may not be enough, one official said. “We need to take more actions in both Lake Powell and Lake Mead,” said

Thomas Buschatzke, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources. “More actions mean finding a way to get people to conserve their water, or more mandatory reductions to stabilize the lake.” That was echoed Thursday by Sarah Porter, director of the Kyl Center for Water Policy as Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute. “We need to take additional bold steps to keep Lake Mead from declining precipitously,” Porter said. The Bureau of Reclamation report estimates river levels in the lower Colorado River basin over the next five years, particularly the levels needed for the two main reservoirs in the basin to keep functioning—3,525 feet above sea level in Lake Powell and 1,025 feet in Lake Mead. The latest estimates say there is an 88% chance Lake Powell will fall below the critical level by next August, with odds falling to 53% in 2023 and falling to 41% by 2026. For Lake

Mead, the chance of falling below the critical level is 12% in 2024, rising to 22% in each of the next two years. Both estimates are several percentage points grimmer than a five-year forecast released in June, when analysts included water releases that were expected from upper basin dams would help the downriver reservoirs. Because those releases are still being worked out, they were removed from the latest forecast. That makes sense, said Porter, who said planners could no longer assume water would “magically appear” from upriver, which had low precipitation this year, in a region going through a decades-long drought. “When you’re in a prolonged drought, you have to get real and say let’s get rid of that part of the model … because we shouldn’t be betting on wet years,” she said. The immediate threat is to Lake Powell and its abil-

ity to generate hydropower. Thomas Meixner, the head of the University of Arizona’s Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, said that poses the risk of “dead pool, no power generation and the ability to meet users’ request and demands.” That was echoed by Buschatzke, who said the “critical elevations of Lake Powell are more, at this point at least, about power production.” “We saw higher risks of falling below minimum power pool elevation of 3,490 feet, but also higher risks of falling below elevation 3,525, at which there might be some concern about somewhat of a reduction of power production below the 100% threshold,” he said. A two-year projection of water levels by the Bureau of Reclamation shows the “potential for going below the 3,525-foot elevation, and in 2023 it’s worse” for Lake Powell, Buschatzke said. “There are several months in 2023 where it

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Peppers: Great health and flavor beyond the burn Mia Smitt

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hili peppers are great little flavor add-ons to any meal and Southwestern culinary specialties and they also give a positive boost to a healthy diet. Many medicinal benefits have been attributed to chili peppers. Capsaicin is the compound in chilies that gives the distinctive spicy and burning sensa-

tion. Numerous studies have linked capsaicin with a variety of health benefits, including lowered blood pressure, diabetes and obesity prevention, pain relief and as a possible additive treatment for cancer. The capsaicin in chili peppers has been used in Mexico for 7,000 years for its anti-infective and anti-inflammatory properties. It is most widely recognized as a remedy for pain. The capsaicin interacts with the receptor

TRPV1 found in the brain, peripheral nerves, blood vessels and bladder. This particular receptor is actually found throughout the body, so potentially many therapeutic effects are still to be researched and discovered. Capsaicin in a topical gel or cream is an effective treatment for joint and arthritis pain, and may help to relieve the pain of neuropathy. Capsaicin can inhibit “Substance P”—a neuropeptide in the brain

that transmits pain signals. Substance P can cause a swelling in nerve fibers which can cause pain on the skin, and cause headaches. Capsaicin can both prevent and relieve migraines and cluster headaches. Capsaicin is both a strong anti-inflammatory agent and anticoagulant and these effects may decrease the risk of heart disease and strokes. Cultures such as those in Southeast Asia, India and

parts of South and Central America in which the diets are rich in capsaicin have a lower incidence of heart attacks, pulmonary embolism (blood clots in the lung) and strokes. Red chili peppers, such as cayenne, have been shown to lower cholesterol levels and reduce the clumping of platelets while increasing the body’s ability to dissolve fibrin, that sticky substance necessary to form blood clots. Capsaicin also boosts

the immune system with its high amounts of Vitamins A and C. Two teaspoons of red chili peppers has 10% of the daily recommended amount of Vitamin A and 6% of the Vitamin C we should consume every day. Vitamin A is a basic building block of healthy mucous membranes—the linings of the nose, lungs, gastrointestinal tract and urinary tract—which are the See Health & Wellness, P12

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body’s first line of defense against various bacteria and viruses. Who has not noticed the effect that chili pepper has on sinuses? The “heat” from the peppers stimulates secretions from the nose. This, in turn, can dislodge thick mucus and relieve congestion almost immediately. Can chili pepper be a weight loss agent? Capsaicin is “thermogenic”—it increases metabolic activity in the body for about 20 minutes after being ingested. An addition-

al 75 calories per meal may be burned due to the increased metabolism. A Taiwan study (2007) showed that capsaicin inhibited the growth of fat cells in mice. Many over the counter diet supplements that claim to be “fat-burning” actually are capsaicin. Of major interest to researchers and patients alike is the potential of chili peppers to lower the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Chili peppers as a regular part of the diet may reduce high blood levels of insulin, seen in people with diabetes. Australian researchers from

the School of Human Life Sciences at the University of Tasmania found that capsaicin in the diet lowered the amount of insulin needed to lower blood sugar after a meal as much as 24% when the chilies are a regular part of the diet. (Studies including the capsaicin effects on C-Peptide were published in the July 2006 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and the June 2013 issue of the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry.) Can eating chili peppers fight the spread of cancer? Dr. H Phillip Koeffler, professor of medicine at the

University of California at Los Angeles (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), led a research study investigating whether capsaicin had any affects of cancer cells. They found that capsaicin actually caused 80% of prostate cancer cells in mice to die. Prostate tumors treated with capsaicin were reduced to about one–fifth the size of the tumors in untreated mice. His study was published in the March 15, 2006, issue of Cancer Research and has been replicated showing that capsaicin causes oxidative stress and apoptosis (a programmed cell death). A study published

in a 2014 issue of Molecular Medicine Reports researched the effect on gastric cancers and “suggest that capsaicin may serve as an ant-tumorigenic agent (prevent tumor growth) in human gastric cancer. There are hundreds of different edible chili peppers. The amount of capsaicin varies from those that set your mouth on fire to those that are very mild. The Scoville Heat Scale ranks the peppers from zero, such as bell peppers at the baseline, to pure capsaicin at 16 million Scoville units. Most of the popular pepper varieties for cooking and snacking, such as ancho, cayenne, and jalapeño, measure in at about 10,000-30,000 and the habanero pepper is 35,000. An even hotter

pepper, Bhut Jalokia (also known as Ghost Pepper), was tested in 2000 and measures at 1,041,000 units (ouch!) Biting into a “too hot” chili can be painful but the fire can be cooled off with some yogurt, a glass of milk, or some bread. Add peppers, a few at a time, to your daily diet and reap the benefits! Mia Smitt is a nurse practitioner with a specialty in family practice. She recently retired and settled in Tucson. She is originally from San Francisco.

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Rachel Eckroth returns to her jazz roots on The Garden Jeff Gardner Tucson Local Media

s the absurdity of the last 18 months would have it, it took musician and singer Rachel Eckroth returning to the desert to release an album titled The Garden— admittedly, it’s not a standard album, either. So the story of how The Garden came to be might actually make sense in its own scattered, jazzy way. When the pandemic first started, Eckroth and her husband Tim Lefebvre still lived in Los Angeles. Eckroth has multiple releases both as a solo artist and a featured artist, playing piano, singing and performing with artists like St. Vincent and Rufus Wainwright. Lefebvre is also a musician and producer, playing bass and guitar. Needless to say, during those early days of social distancing, Eckroth and Lefebvre had plenty of time to jam at home. Eckroth describes it as improvising “crazy music” with all the instruments, keyboards and pedals in their house. The founder of a Russian jazz label, Rainy Days Records (who Lefebvre has worked with), heard their home improvs and thought it would be great to turn them into a full album. Eckroth began formally writing the album after moving to Tucson toward the end of 2020. Eckroth grew up in Phoenix and earned her master’s in

jazz, so The Garden served as a kind of literal and musical homecoming. “So I was a jazz musician from the beginning, and around 30 I started writing songs with lyrics,” Eckroth said. “I sort of went that direction for a while and had personal success writing lyrics. I was able to take my songwriter songs and open for people like Rufus Wainwright. So it wasn’t like I ever fully left jazz, I was putting something else at the forefront. But for this, we had a lot of time to play around with sound and figure out what kind of record we wanted it to be.” The Garden is an unique jazz record, led by Eckroth on a variety of synthesizers, but still leaving room for multiple saxophones, guitars and drums. Songs like “Under a Fig Tree” and “Low Hanging Fruit” combine busy jazz rhythms with electronic elements, bass and piano grooves, and a dark production style. Eckroth says the album’s theme comes from every sound having “different colors and textures” like a garden. However, she says most of the music on the album came before the tracks had thematically linked names. “It’s very free yet angular, and there are a lot of strange textures. In that way, it’s definitely not like a traditional jazz vibe,” Eckroth said. While there are some wild avant-garde jazz horns and drumming, many

songs still leave enough room for brass solos and some beautiful piano sections. Eckroth says some of her biggest influences going into The Garden were jazz pianists Carla Bley and Herbie Hancock, though she maintains that the album is “less like a Herbie Hancock synth record and more like a Miles Davis electrified record.” Because The Garden was written and recorded during a pandemic, recording sessions were kept small. The Garden was recorded at Sonic Ranch near El Paso and overdubbed here in Tucson. “It was a pretty small group of us who were able to lay out the basic parts of the songs. We did some improvisation there, as well. But the other four players were overdubbed,” Eckroth said. “In my mind, I had most of it planned out. At least where the guys were going to play. It was a little different with [guitarist] Nir Felder on ‘Dried Up Roots,’ because we needed him to do solos and play over the whole track. So we did a virtual session, listening along to him in New York. Basically we were producing it from Tucson while he was recording.... But for the saxophone players, I actually left space in the arrangements. I trade off with Donny McCaslin on one of the songs, so I literally just left space when we were recording.” “Dried Up Roots” is a clear standout track, and

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me online are as a singer, but I wanted to distinguish myself as a keyboard player as well. So adding those few vocals in kind of puts it all together,” Eckroth said. “It fits, because I’m returning to my roots in a way. Returning to Arizona was a very similar experience, exploring familiar terriPhoto by Eugene Petrushanskiy tory. And Tucson is also Rachel Eckroth: “It’s very free yet angular, and there are a lot of strange where I started as a composer. I found myself here textures. In that way, it’s definitely not like a traditional jazz vibe.” writing the way I used to write music.” not only because it’s the began to lose my way,” an only one with lyrics. The off-kilter synthesizer sends longest song on the album the song into a claustroat more than seven min- phobic middle passage. utes, “Dried Up Roots” The whole song stays in a works as a kind of pro- murky blend of rock, amgressive centerpiece. The bient and jazz, leaving just hushed intro leads to Eck- enough room for an upliftroth’s soulful vocals about ing guitar solo and Eckalienation. Just as she sings roth’s powerful singing. “Most of the records of “My roots dried up and I

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Three London artists bring fresh new art to PCC’s Bernal Gallery Margaret Regan

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ay back in 2019, in the carefree days before the pandemic, David Andres flew all the way to London to see art. Traveling with members of the Contemporary Art Society of the Tucson Museum of Art, Andres scoured art studios all over the old town and hit gold in the warehouses of south London. He met a trio of talented young Brits who had studied at the prestigious Royal College of Art and exhibited their work abroad. Andres invited all three –– Alice Browne, George Little and Anthony Banks –– to display their work in faraway Arizona at the Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery at Pima College West. Andres, the gallery’s respected curator, lined up an exhibition for the UK artists to be mounted in the 2020-2021 school year. That didn’t happen, of course; the pandemic forced the gallery to go dark for a year and a half. But there are silver linings. The three artists all used the lockdown year to do intense work, laboring alone in their studios and creating whole new suites of art. And now they have the honor of reopening the gallery with art shipped overseas from England. Each of the artists made works on paper, richly layered in a raft of materials,

from oil and acrylic to gouache and charcoal to pen and pencil and wax. Their fresh work, made in a historic time of sorrow, is like the proverbial balm in Gilead. When you walk into the radiant white gallery, the first things you notice are George Little’s out- ofthis world colors. Andres sees in them the glorious hues of Matisse – red, orange, blue, green and white. Interestingly, Little’s work is more like that of the modernists of the early 20th century – Matisse included -- than the contemporary artists of today. Little grew up in London in a family of chefs and restaurateurs. He spent plenty of time clearing tables and washing dishes, eventually worked as a chef and bartender. In these new paintings, he uses his beautiful colors to conjure up plates, tables, menus and even leftovers. At first glance, these restaurant-inspired paintings seem to be pure abstractions, made of appealing shapes and curves and lines. “Tossed,” for instance, is a cheery medley of small irregular forms colored in green and red and orange. But Little manages to make his work both abstract and figurative: squint at the ebullient “Tossed,” and you’ll see it’s also a portrait of a salad. Likewise, “Menus” is a cascade of white shapes,

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“Tossed” by George Little embedded in abstract curves and lines, framed by rich colors. Those white shapes are also a set of restaurant menus. Little’s inventive new suite also conjures up the loneliness of the pandemic. In all the clutter of his painted restaurant, there is not a single human being. Alice Browne’s gripping paintings are more solemn than Little’s. A few of her pieces are colored in pretty pinks and sky blue, but others are somber and even scary. A fetid yellow here, a midnight purple there, give an ominous backdrop to painted ropes, arrows and chain link. In her artist statement, Browne says, “There is no perfection, no truth; instead, I hope to make

works … that embrace the mutability and failings of human experience.” The painting “Sebastian,” Browne’s contemporary version of the story of St. Sebastian, seems to fulfill this sorrowful goal. The work is covered in square patches of that unhealthy yellow, and dangerous tree branches vault across the scene. In the middle of this troubling work is a human hand, and a host of arrows piercing flesh. The martyr St. Sebastian, of course, was regularly painted by artists of the Renaissance; they showed him nearly naked and shot through with arrows. The artist’s version makes the saint almost invisible; in 2021 this Sebastian is just a suffering everyman. Much bigger arrows fly

across the midnight purple of “Untitled.” In another piece, another batch of arrows sails past the moon and above a treacherous chain link fence. Its chilling title? “Portent.” But there is some relief. In the painting “Portal,” a doorway to a house that’s a pleasant pink and blue, seems to offer a shelter from the doom. Of the three artists, Anthony Banks is engaged with nature and the outdoors. His 12 works are full of birds and boats and the land around the sea. But these pieces of familiar subjects are by no means saccharin. “Fruit Bowl and Coastline” is an abstraction that boldly breaks the images into quickly dashed outlines. “Sailing Boat” is more a collection of col-

orful curving boards than a portrait of a seaworthy dinghy. Banks has perhaps the most interesting layering technique. He does a lot of collaging and he prefers a long “slow layering” of his paper. He welcomes accidental mistakes, he writes, and waits “for the works to finish themselves, for marks and paint to accumulate, for the dust to settle.” The result is a marvelous, muted texture that reminds me old-fashioned prints in children’s books. The aviary in “British Birds and Finches” nearly disappears in luminous pale green, and the lovely “Heron under Willow,” a mixture of deep navy, golden tan and white, turns into a guessing game of find the beautiful bird.

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• Laugh out loud with comedian George Lopez whose multi-faceted career encompasses television, film, standup comedy, and late-night television. Details: 8 p.m.; Casino del Sol AVA Amphitheater, 5655 W. Valencia Road; $24-$100; casinodelsol.com.

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THURSDAY TO SUNDAY THROUGH OCT. 3

• Catch a performance of Jacqueline Goldfinger’s Babel featuring a dark sci-fi comedy set in the near future raising the specter of eugenics. Details: 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre in the Historic Y, 738 N. Fifth Ave., #131; $28-$30, $15 students and teachers; 448-3300 or scoundrelandscamp.org.

THURSDAY TO SUNDAY THROUGH OCT. 9

• Catch a performance of the time-traveling Irish love story Bloomsday dancing backwards through time as an older couple retraces their steps to discover their younger selves. Details: 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday; Live Theatre Workshop, 3322 E. Fort Lowell Rd.; $15-$20; 327-4242.

TUESDAY TO SUNDAY THROUGH OCT. 16

• Catch a performance of the delightful award-winning musical My 80-YearOld Boyfriend about the magic that happens when we throw aside our fears and cross generational barriers based on the true story of a Broadway performer. Details: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday; Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave.; $40-$73; arizonatheatre.org.

MUSIC THURSDAY, SEPT. 30

•Tap your toes to the traditional tunes performed by Old Pueblo Bluegrass and Cadillac Mt. Bluegrass at the return of the Bluegrass Jamboree. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

FRIDAY, OCT. 1

• Bring chairs and blankets and listen to Friday Night Concerts at Steam Pump Ranch featuring the classic rock and Motown music of Good Trouble. Details: 7-9:30 p.m.; 10901 N. Oracle Road; free; orovalleyaz.gov. • Tighten up your dance shoes and hit the floor with Zo & the Soul Breakers at the Soul Train Dance Party. Details: 7 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $20; 529-1000 or gaslightmusichall.com. • Get ready to experience a high energy show with all the bells and whistles and the biggest hits from Motley Crue, Guns n Roses, Van Halen, Quiet Riot, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and more performed by The Dirt – 80’s Hair Metal Experience. Details: 8 p.m.; Casino del Sol AVA Amphitheater, 5655 W. Valencia Road; $9-$20; casinodelsol.com.

SATURDAY, OCT. 2

• Don’t miss The Music of the Traveling Wilburys along with a mix of the solo hits of Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and George Harrison starring Gaslight favorites Mike Hebert, Michael P. Nordberg, Todd Thompson and Mike Yarema. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 5291000 or gaslightmusichall.com.

zart with conductor José Luis Gomez, Martin Kuuskmann on bassoon and Dario Brignoli on clarinet. Details: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; Catalina Foothills High School, 4300 E. Sunrise Drive; $47-$59; ticketmaster.com.

SUNDAY, OCT. 3

• Enjoy Mamma Coal along with her 5-piece band at Heartaches & Highways, A Tribute to Emmylou Harris. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Music Hall, 13005 N. Oracle Road; $27; 5291000 or gaslightmusichall.com. • Listen to the Tucson Pops Orchestra fall concert series featuring music director/conductor László Veres with guest vocalist Jack Neubeck. Details: 7 p.m.; DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center, 1100 S. Randolph Way; free; 722-5853 or tucsonpops.org.

MONDAY, OCT. 4

• Get up and dance along on a tour of the songs made famous on American Bandstand with the cool beat of Motown and the sweet harmonies of the girl groups at the 50’s and 60’s revue Rockin with The Manhattan Dolls. Details: 6 p.m.; Gaslight Theatre, 7010 E. Broadway Blvd.; $31, $18 children; 8869428 or thegaslighttheatre.com.

TUESDAY, OCT. 5

• Listen to the acclaimed classical guitar of Pat Metheny Side-Eye with pianist James Francies and drummer Joe Dyson. Details: 7:30 p.m.; Fox Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; $45-$85; foxtucson.com.

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• Come to the grownup fundraiser Evening of Play at the Tucson Children’s Museum featuring food from local restaurants, live music by Naim Amor, dancing, karaoke, lawn games and roving entertainment. Details: 6:30 p.m.; 200 S. 6th Ave.; $150; eveningofplay.org.

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a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday; Tucson Expo Center, 3750 E. Irvington Rd.; $10, $5 children (cash only admission fee); tucsonreptileshow.com. • Shop till you drop at the Oro Valley Fall Artisan Market showcasing some of the Southwest’s finest artisans in fashion, food, home goods, painting, visual arts and unique handcrafted products along with pop-up music performances and food trucks. Details: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday; Oro Valley MarketPlace, 12155 N. Oracle Rd.; free admission; saaca.org.

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• Learn simple techniques to break your subject down into simple shapes and draw more accurately with colored pencils at the Tucson Botanical Gardens class Pollinators: Drawing Bees and Hummingbirds with artist Devon Meyer. Details: 2-3:30 p.m.; Zoom link provided; $30, discount for members; tucsonbotanical.org; 326-9686.

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ack when I was coaching girls’ basketball at Green Fields Country Day School (NOT the school that is called Green Fields today), we went down to St. David High in Cochise County for a Saturday afternoon game with our main rivals for the conference championship. When we walked into the gym, I saw one of the better players on the St. David boys’ team. He was wearing a T-shirt and a frown and he had brandnew, super-white casts on both wrists. When I asked him what had happened, he explained that in the previous night’s game, he had gotten a steal and had a clear path to the basket for a breakaway layup. As he neared the basket, he decided to dunk the ball. He took off, but the ball got hung up on the front part of the rim. He tried to force it over the rim into the cylinder, but it was no go.

Meanwhile, his bottom half kept going in a horizontal direction. As he fell to the ground, by reflex, he put his hands down behind his back. He landed hard and broke both wrists. I felt really bad for the kid, but then I said, “Well, try to look on the bright side.” He did a double-take, then asked, “What bright side?!” I said, “When it comes time for you to go to the bathroom, you’re gonna find out who your real friends are.” Which brings me to the NAU game. First off, it was not a case of mass hallucination. The University of Arizona football team did lose to Northern Arizona in a real game where both teams had 11 players on the field at all times. And it wasn’t even a good NAU team. The Lumberjacks went into the game 0-2, having lost their first two games (to D-II teams) by a combined score of 76-23. But we’re here to look on the bright side. For example:

The UA doesn’t play NAU again until September 2, 2023. That means that for the next two years, NAU won’t be able to beat up on the poor Wildcats again. Or, if you’re an incredibly cockeyed optimist, Arizona has 714 days to prepare to get their revenge on those mean Lumberjacks. People can get all of those horrible puns they’ve been holding onto ever since Jedd Fisch was hired to coach the Wildcat football team. He’s a Fisch out of water. For NAU, it was like shooting Fisch in a barrel. Arizona is floundering. The Cats were up 130, but Fisch let the ‘Jacks off the hook. That game smelled worse than surströmming. That last one requires an explanation. Apparently, the Swedish, driven insane by the cold, eat a dish that is lightly salted, raw, fermented Baltic herring. The salt is added to keep the fish from completely rotting during the six-month-long fermentation process. Here’s a fun fact: For a time, there was a law in Swe-

den that made it illegal to sell surströmming unless it was completely fermented. By official royal decree, it was decided that none of that spring’s catch could be sold before the third Thursday in August. (I’m not making this up!) That law is no longer on the books, but all of Sweden’s retailers still respect that date for the “premiere” of the product. Surstömming is said to have the most putrid smell of any food product in the world. Which, again, brings us back to the NAU game. The UA can’t possibly lose more than 12 games this season. After Arizona lost at home to Arizona State last year by the ignominious score of 70-7, Wildcat fans wondered whether that was rock bottom or could things actually get worse. We now know that the answer is the latter. Losing to NAU at home is definitely worse that losing to Arizona State. This HAS to be Absolute Zero rock bottom. Now, it’s upward from here.

Wells at Amphi High Friday, Sept. 24. The Tigers have a stout defense and multiple weapons on offense. When the first rankings are announced on Oct. 12, Marana should be ranked as one of the top 5A teams in the state… Canyon Del Oro finally broke through into the win column with a 21-14 victory over Catalina Foothills… Ironwood Ridge held the lead over Salpointe late in the first half before Salpointe scored 34 unanswered points to win, 34-9… Pusch Ridge had started the season off 4-0, but ran into a Snowflake team that came to town and handed the Lions their first loss. Pusch Ridge and Snowflake are two of the best 3A teams in the state and could very easily meet up again sometime late in the state playoffs… The Canyon Del Oro volleyball team ran its record to a perfect 100, winning three matches in a four-day span, beating Rio Rico, Rincon, and Sahuaro, Extra Points: Marana all by the score of 3-0… ran its record to 4-0 with a 56-7 thrashing of Flowing Reportedly, there were fewer than 20,000 people in the stadium during the debacle, so Tucson probably has enough mental health professionals to deal with the trauma. So, you know what: Good for NAU. Those guys are going to have a memory to last a lifetime and it will get even better for them when (that when, not if) Arizona gets good in football again. I was one of those people who thought that Arizona had a good chance to win two of its first three games. Turns out San Diego State, which beat Utah, and BYU, which beat Utah AND Arizona State, are both really good. So, winning two of the first three was a pipedream. But Arizona should have won one. It’s going to take a while to get over it. But, this, too, shall pass…and probably be intercepted and run back for a touchdown.

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Ryan Torres: A winner on the links and in the classroom Tom Danehy

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yan Torres can’t believe how quickly it is going. The Flowing Wells senior has only a couple weeks left in his prep career. This weekend will be the Southern Arizona Invitational at Dell Urich and then next weekend is the Flowing Wells Boys Invitational and then that’s that. (Other fall sports—football, volleyball, and swimming—stretch into early November, but they get the kids off the courses early to make way for the arrival of high-paying snowbirds.) “Man, it’s over fast,” he says. And, as with all high-

school athletes of this period, COVID took its toll. But, fortunately, Ryan has other things going for him, as well. An outstanding student who plans on attending the University of Arizona next year to study business management, he is also a member of the Caballero Marching Band, in which he plays clarinet. “I love music,” he says, and his favorite part of school is Jazz Band class. Ryan’s coach is Ken Urdahl, something of an underground legend in these parts. Of course, there is the stuff about how he used to go head-to-head with Phil Mickelson back when both

of them were stars on the spoiled-rich-kid junior golf circuit. But that’s just gold. What’s really interesting is how Urdahl came to be known as “E-Dog,” a name that has stuck with him for three decades. Back in the early 1990s, Urdahl, fresh out of college, became part of the Brian Peabody Mafia. The legendary Peabody, now the men’s basketball coach at Pima College, had won a state championship at Green Fields Country Day School his first-ever year of coaching varsity basketball. He made it back to the state title game his next year before being hired away by

Green Fields’ in-town rival, St. Gregory (now The Gregory School), which he took to the state semifinals. By that time, Urdahl, a hip-hop aficionado, was working at Peabody’s summer camps, reffing highschool summer leagues and basically hanging out. One of the down-time activities of the group was playing dominoes. One time, the guy keeping score asked Ken’s last name and mistakenly wrote down for Urdahl’s initial. When Ken asked who the “E” was for, he was told, “That’s you! That’s your hip-hop name. You’re E-Dog!” Making this story almost

tragic is that the birth of his nickname coincided with the emergence of a Seattle rapper who went by the name of E-Dawg. The rapper was horrible, but E-Dog would cruise through town, blasting E-Dawg. Urdahl made it through that stage of his life and became a respectable member of the community. Ryan Torres is glad to have Urdahl for a coach. “He has helped me a lot. I’m not a scratch golfer, but I’m a bogey golfer and that’s pretty good.” The Caballero squad is a mixture of returning veterans and first-timers and it shows. It’s been an up-and-

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down season, but one Torres wouldn’t have missed for anything. “I’m glad I got to play. And I’m glad I got to play for E-Dog,” Torres said.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Stay responsive to social and power dynamics. Thinking about how you come across is part of this, though too much self-consciousness can interfere with your ease. If you don’t judge yourself harshly, you’ll be less worried about the judgment of others. Breathe in confidence. You’re doing better than you think.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Plain and simple; there’s too much pressure. Something has to give. Drop one of the rules, for instance, the one about the timeframe. Or what if you let go of the rule about whose responsibility it is? Could you delegate? Wiggle room is not enough. Expand the margins until there’s room to actually dance.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You learned long ago that doing what’s good for you doesn’t often feel amazing in the moment. Awkwardness and pain are part of growth. When you push out of your comfort zone in one area, the experience builds you up, making you better in other areas, too. It’s how you’ll take a proud leap forward this week.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). What you keep track of gains importance. What you don’t measure may still have an impact, but no psychic weight leading up to the event. You don’t always get to decide what you’re aware of, though it helps to place yourself well. A simple success key: Get close to good influences. Flee bad ones.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You have a beautiful array of options. Remember when you had none? Too many options cause decision paralysis, but you’ll get around that by paying attention to the three choices that fit a specific criterion. Also, if you are having trouble seeing your options, seek other perspectives -- especially from an Aquarius.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You warn people in your own nice way: give them subtle signals, nonverbal clues and a free pass or two if necessary. Not everyone is in tune to social nuances though, and there will definitely be a learning curve to the interactions of the week. Patience and kindness are a start; boundaries and clarity go the distance.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). This week’s games happen in the social and professional sector. You won’t play until you’ve observed enough to understand the rules. The power player is the one controlling the options. Many options are not presented. Your creativity will produce more still. Observation, timing and guts will put you on top.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It’s better if you don’t answer every question asked of you. Society already extracts a certain amount of your individuality for the common good. You should not have to give up too much more for a fulfilling personal life. You deserve to feel free and powerful in relationships. Assert your independence and autonomy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Don’t expect yourself to know it all, to do it right or to feel like you have it together. More people are “faking it” than you think. Top performers are frequently feeling some degree of inadequacy or vulnerability because they are pushing themselves into new territory. With persistence and time, you’ll gain the skill.

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