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CJ Herrell, the “main lady” of the store, Burke calls her, agreed. “I have been in and out of the store since 2010. And each year it seemed to get a little moreDannydepressing.”Coomer started the feed store in the mid1980s. He and his family lived in the home behind the store. They had two ponies and bought hay to feed the ponies, then people started showing up
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“So, the rats basical ly lived in the building, and they would come up through the floor,” Burke said. “We had to jackham mer out that concrete floor. We had years of mice that lived in the store.”
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will not sell any hay that I wouldn’t feed to my own horses.”When Burke purchased the store, it was a rental in poor condition. The building was so dilapidat ed, it almost needed to be demolished. Rats were living there so, Burke said, they sealed the store and installed new drywall, walls, concrete and solid doors.
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With its 1800s western general store feel, custom ers come not only to pick up their feed, but to social ize with ranchers, farmers and other residents living in Picture Rocks. They gather at the store to share their“Westories.getaload of hay in and then it’s gone,” said Sally Burke, who purchased the store with her husband, John, in December 2021. She has 11 horses.
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munity,” Burke said. “I saw the potential. This is my passion; a full-service feed store. Before they were predominantly selling hay, it was a hay store. Now, this is a full-blown, full-service feed store. If we don’t have it, we will get it.”
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and asking if he could sell themCoomerhay. brought hay out on the top of the hood of his car, Burke recalled. Customers then asked for dog food and other supplies.“Hence, he built what is today, the store. I believe in 1987 it was permitted by Pima County to operate as a feed store,” Burke said.
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Valley Feed & Supply’s staff includes, from left, Louie Perales, CJ Herrell, Guadalupe Grijalva, Sally Burke and Shane Driscoll.
“After the Coomers moved out of Picture Rocks, the store was rented to various people who ran it as a feed store, all the way up until the day I purchased the property.”Burkesaid the goal is to accommodate everyone so “they don’t have to drive into
“I can take something and turn it into something,” she explained. “I grew up living with someone who was always thinking outside the box.”
“I am kind of like the little bookstore, then Barnes & Noble took over,” she said. “I think more of these small businesses are starting to come back. I would rather
Herrell added, “People come in to talk and it is great, you learn different things about them.”
“I really didn’t know any one here,” he said of living in Picture Rocks. “The tension that was here in the store has been released. As the store started to fill up, it became really neighborly, really quick. It made me feel really comfortable being here.”
Louie Perales has been working at the store for four
Burke said she owes her work ethic to her father, Ned Robinson, who died in 2010. He was an hon ored World War II veteran, who was wounded on Iwo Jima. Eighteen days later, he received a Purple Heart from then-President Harry Truman. He came to Tuc son and later became the director of the Pima Air and Space“HeMuseum.builtthe museum,” Burke described. “When he went out there, all it had was an old trailer and 30 airplanes. My dad built all those hangars we see today. He built the air museum to what it is today.”
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“I learned your limita tions can’t hold you back,” she said. “Growing up with a disabled parent, and the things he accomplished, gave me the strength to do what I do in my adult life.”
Burke said the store has been known as “the feed store on Orange Grove Road.” Now, Burke runs it like a general store where customers gather and talk. She compared it to book shops of the past.
For her feed store, Burke kept in mind what her dad taught her.
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New owners massively renovated the building that now houses Valley Feed & Supply.
She plans to expand the shop, but slowly, to keep that mom-and-pop atmosphere.
Tucson.” Burke said the radius of Picture Rocks is 71 miles, with 9,300 residents. There are small backyard farmers raising animals and livestock. The store offers discounts for 4-H and FFA and for the military, active and retired.
go into the little hardware store down here than a Home
“Like CJ here, people walk in the door and she has a big smile on her face that
is welcoming. That’s what we are trying to create here — that little, small-town country store where you get treated like a human being.”
months but has been in Ar izona for 30 years. He said he noticed the store is calm and comforting.
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According to the non profit, in 2020, 150,000 Arizonans older than age 65 had Alzheimer’s. By 2025, that number is expected to balloon 33.3% to 200,000. That said, there are 92 geriatricians in Arizona. There needs to be a 294.6% increase to meet the demand in
“Arizona2050. has the fastest growth rate in the coun try,” Hartford said. “It’s the epicenter of the crisis. If you stand in a room and ask how many people are impacted by Alzheimer’s, 90% of the room will raise their hand.”
The Tucson couple vol unteers with the Walk to End
Sports have played an important role in Mark and Debi Hall’s relationship.
Alzheimer’s set for Saturday, Oct. 22, at Reid Park, 900 S. Randolph Way. Walkers have a choice of 1- or 3-mile routes.“We’re so excited to wel come thousands of people to the events,” said Morgen Hartford, Southern Arizona community executive with the Alzheimer’s Association, Desert Southwest Chapter.
Hartford said his organi zation offers free programs and services throughout
“It took her probably a year before she just came to accept it,” Mark said.
When Debi Hall was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in March 2020, she wanted to end it all.
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Hearing those words, her husband, Mark, called the Alzheimer’s Association’s 24/7 Helpline, whose staff immediately contacted her neurologist. Debi was prescribed an antidepressant that lifted her mood.
“One of the things I kept telling her was, ‘I’m not quitting on you and you’re not quitting on me.’ I told her to promise me to be the best Debi that she can be.
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That’s it. Don’t worry about anything else. It took a while to tell our friends what was going on.”
“We were one of the largest in-person events that the city of Tucson welcomed last year after the pandemic. We did do a walk-at-home oppor tunity during 2020 and that was phenomenal, but noth ing like the in-person event.
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“We had 1,200 last year and this year, we’re hoping to have between 1,500 and 2,000.”
Part of the activities, too, is El Tour de Tucson set for Saturday, Nov. 19. The Alzheimer’s Association is a beneficiary of the bicycling event. For information, visit eltourdetucson.org.
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A retired nurse, Debi started having headaches, so she went to a neuro oph thalmologist, that ruled out any eye issues. At the end of 2020, a neurologist at Banner Alzheimer’s Institute ordered a PET scan, which detects early signs of cancer, heart disease and brain disorders.Thatconfirmed the Alzheimer’s diagnosis.
Southern Arizona and Pima County, including the helpline with a clinical social worker staff that speaks 200 languages between them.
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cultural events,” Hartford added. “One of the things we really strive to do is keep people connected with the community. We have ear ly-stage social engagement programs where we come to gether and, say, tour the Tuc son Museum of Art together and witness art making. Or we go to the zoo together or attend music-making programs where we come together and jam.
“I got a call saying she was lost,” Mark recalled. “I figured she made a wrong
“We need people to stay socially engaged and not as isolated. That’s really important. Whatever the disease, people just can’t do it alone. Even if they’re the only ones providing that care, they’re not the only one going through that. Support groups and outings do pro vide a level of comfort.”
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something else. She had a CT done and they thought they saw high pressure in the spinal cord.”
“They’re available 24 hours a day. That’s a big touchpoint for us. People attend our education pro grams throughout the area, too, whether it’s at libraries, churches or places of busi ness. Our business partners have lunch and learn pro grams for employees, too. The education programs are core to what we do.”
“She went to a neuropsy chologist, and it tanked her for about a week,” Mark said. “They were scheduled to talk for four hours, but after three hours, she came out just crying. She couldn’t answer the questions. She didn’t care after a while. She just started answering so she could get out of there.”
“When she told her she had signs of dementia, she flipped out and fell apart,” Mark recalled. “They gave her Aricept (donepezil) right then and there. It was really hard. She was a nurse for 40 years. She knew what this meant.“The first year was really hard because we kept getting our hopes up that it was
He knew something was wrong, though, when they played
Debi was diagnosed at age 67, but Mark witnessed symptoms — unknowingly — previously. He was at a base ball game while his wife went to a sewing class at Cathey’s Sewing and Vacuum.
Key to the programs is the list of warning signs, which include increased memory loss and confusion; inability to learn new things; difficulty with language and prob lems with reading, writing and working with numbers; difficulty organizing thoughts and thinking logically; shortened attention span and problems coping with new situations, according to the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute onToAging.help families, car egivers and friends, the Alzheimer’s Association offers support groups.
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turn because it was dark and, a lot of time, she uses the mountains for directions.”
The two saw a neurologist, who performed a lumbar puncture and MRI, but the pressure was fine.
“Since then, we’ve been trying to find voices who will talk about Alzheimer’s because, on TV, you see ads for cancer or Parkinson’s or cystic fibrosis. I don’t know
“Anothercards.time, we played cards, rummy 500, and she would always beat the pants off of me. We were camping at Big Lake and playing cards. She couldn’t get the suits straight. She would confuse diamonds and hearts. She couldn’t figure out sequential numbers. Those were probably the biggest“Earlier,clues.there were small er things. She had always done the checkbook. When we moved back to Arizona (from California), she said she’d done the checkbook long enough. Why don’t I doTheit.” two visited their pri mary care physician in March 2020 for their annual check ups. The doctor gave Debi a rudimentary dementia test and she didn’t fare well.
why there’s this stigma with Alzheimer’s. It’s not part of the daily conversation like other diseases.
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“They’re there just to vent or for access to local resourc es,” Hartford said.
Emotionally difficult
“I do not want to diminish what everybody’s doing for other things. What they’re doing is absolutely fantastic. But patients sit down and hear devastating news, ‘I’m sorry. You have cancer.’ At least you’re able to step back, take a deep breath and hear the physician say, ‘Let me get you with so and so to determine what course of treatment we have for you.’
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Debi Hall, shown here with her husband, Mark, promotes Alzheimer’s awareness by wearing an Alzheimer’s Association ballcap on vacation, even at Disneyland.
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When Jeka Bosworth goes out, she takes on a new name: Isabela, just like the character from Disney’s “Encanto.” She can identify with her.
er, Bosworth likes to be Jasmine from “Aladdin” or another Disney princess, Elena of “They’reAvalor.both dark like me with long dark hair, and they love their fami lies,” she Bosworthadded.proves that Disney princesses are real, or at least sort of real. At the nonprofit pose.whichtofundraisers.attheprincessesaEnchantmentsTimelessArizona,numberofDisneycanstepoutintocommunitytoappearbusinessopeningsorIt’sawayservethecommunity,isreallytheirpur
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“I know what it’s like being the oldest daugh ter, the child who needs to be the perfect child,” Bosworth said. “In the movie, Isabela breaks out. She lets go of the perfec tionist and it’s nice having that being translated that it’s OK to do that, and also, it doesn’t hurt to have someone who looks like me: brown skin, dark hair.”Sometimes, howev
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“It can be very challenging to overcome the stigma of not speaking about it publicly.”
“Afterneed.a lot of negotiating, we sort of came to the con clusion that that legally could not happen,” Martin said. “Especially the mechanism for survivors to report without a policeTheinvestigation.”organizationpivoted
Since its incorporation in September 2021, Survivor Shield Foundation has reached about 40 people. Using a
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Through “destigmitization,” Survivor Shield Founda tion seeks to create change by creating a safety net, one
investigation.Hesaidthe low convic tion rates of abusers within the criminal justice system disincentivizes people from reporting and getting the help they
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“We want to get all of the people that we can to be in a venue in which sexual assault is the primary reason that they’re there because it’s a great way to open up the dia
to assisting survivors without forcing a police investigation or a trial, Martin said.
tion relies on donations made through its website, and from fundraising events like its monthly art show at El Jefe Cat Lounge. Martin said on the first Saturday of April, which is sexual assault awareness month, the organization hosts a larger art show with 30 to 40 artists, live music and food.
Survivor Shield Foundation — a nonprofit that provides direct and discrete financial assistance to survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence — celebrated its oneyear anniversary on Sept. 17. Founded by 19-year-old Jake Martin, a UA sophomore studying history and Spanish, Survivor Shield Foundation started as a lobbying organi zation to meet with govern mental entities about policy change.Martin, who serves as president, said the goal was to try and establish a government agency that would provide survivors with a method to report sexual assault or do mestic abuse without a police
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“We try to bring as much fairytale magic to our com munities so all kids, like underprivileged kids, can experience that,” Bosworth said.“They can’t travel out of town or state, so we bring the magic to them.”
“We can usually hear them down the hallway,” Bosworth added. “We can hear them from a pretty far distance screaming at us, and then sometimes we have to brace ourselves for a tiny person running into our legs and hugging (us).”
“(Kids) like to yell out the character’s name,” Padgen said. “‘It’s Isabela!’ ‘It’s Elsa!’”
Night to Shine is a prom night at hundreds of churches in 39 countries centered on “God’s love, for people with special needs.”Aswith Bosworth, the people who don the costumes choose their characters because they understand their charac ters’ journeys.
Yes, they have been requested for funerals; it’s just not something they do.
They travel throughout the state, not just Tucson.
and self-discovery,” Padgen said. “I really connected to Elsa on that level.”
“We are there strictly for charity events, fundraising events, anything to help our local enchantmentsarizonaArizonaBosworthcommunity,”said.TimelessEnchantmentsfacebook.com/timeless
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There is no charge for the appearances, but there are“Mainlyguidelines.wedo outreach programs,” Padgen said. “Say, it’s Lugo Charity’s Bike in a Box event. Basi cally, they raise their own funds. We’re there to help them with their event, so we don’t do (private) par ties. We don’t do funerals. We don’t do paid gigs.”
“We help out local community efforts for fundraisers, awareness, community outreach that brings everyone together,” said leadership member Nikki Padgen, whose alter ego is Elsa from “Frozen.”
“One of our events that we do is Tim Tebow’s Night to Shine,” Padgen said.
“I relate to Elsa in her journey of self-acceptance
The princesses seem to be a welcome sight. Kids get loud when the prin cesses are spotted.
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In its 33rd year, the 2-mile procession starts at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6, at Grande Avenue and Speedway Boule vard, and they walk to the MSA Annex, 267 S. Avenida delItCovento.istheflagship event of Many Mouths One Stomach, a Tucson nonprofit collective of artists, teachers and commu nity activists who create, in spire, manifest and perpetuate modern “festal culture.”
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“It’s many artists, many nonprofits and many organ izations coming together to
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create All Souls, to create this weekend,” artistic director Nadia Hagen said.
Procession allows the public to honor lost loved ones
Hagen said that various cul tures are represented during the“Certainly,procession.because we live in Tucson, the Mexican tra dition is really strong because there are so many people that
The All Souls Procession features a number of local dance and music groups.
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Events and workshops lead up to All Souls Procession. The season kicks off Sunday, Sept. 25, with a mixer at the MSA Annex, where commu
The All Souls Procession draws thousands of people to Tucson to honor and grieve for the dead.
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Those who can’t make it to the procession can watch the livestream via the Many Mouths One Stomach and Visit Tucson websites.
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“There are musicians who bring Balinese gamelan. There are musicians who bring Japanese obon, which is part of their ancestral ceremony. There are Brazilian baterias. They bring the sounds from Brazil. There are groups that are from the Pascua Yaqui and Tohono O’odham. There are a lot of groups of Aztec dancers. We encourage for people to come with something that feels authentic and real to them.”
Hagen said last year the procession drew its largest crowd, 150,000 people. The procession averages 100,000 participants.Theceremony ends with a ceremonial burning of an urn, where wishes, hopes, offerings and prayers are gathered.
that is their ancestry and cul ture,” Hagen described.
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Hagen said it is important that those taking part in the procession are respectful of others.“We just encourage every one who is participating to be sober, respectful and safe.”
INFO: allsoulsprocession.org.facebook.com/AllSoulsProcessionWeekend.
PRICE: Free
WHERE: MSA Annex, 267 S. Avenida del Convento,
WHEN: 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25
WHEN. Gather at 4 p.m. and start walk 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6
During the All Souls Procession, people can honor and celebrate their lost loved ones.
children’s community altar; stories about grief and death, collected from local school children and told by the “Stories that Soar” cast; and upcycled mask-making, sugar skull and angel wings art projects.
111.“They have graphic-render ing bays. They have wood working shops, metalwork ing shops, costume shops, robotics tools, 3D printers… It’s an incredible resource,” Hagen said.
WHERE: Armory Park, 220 S. Fifth Avenue, Tucson
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nity members can learn how to get involved and meet the event’sAmongdirectors.theworkshops is Xerocraft’s LED event on assorted days from Thursday, Oct. 13, to Thursday, Nov. 3, at 101 W. Sixth Street, Suite
PRICE: Free
On Tuesday, Oct. 11, Wednesday, Oct. 12, and Friday, Oct. 14, Red Herring Puppets will have mask work shops at its studio in Tucson Mall at 4500 N. Oracle Road.
All Souls Procession
Artist Susan Johnson started the All Souls Proces sion in 1990 as a ceremonial performance piece following her father’s death.
Founded in 2006, Many Mouths One Stomach has continued Johnson’s tradition.
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the MSA Annex. The altar was designed by Jose Duran and hisDaycrew.of the Dead-themed concerts are Friday, Nov. 4, and Saturday, Nov. 5, the latter of which features a cacao ceremony and ancestral liberation.Asmallevent geared toward families known as Procession of Little Angels is Saturday, Nov. 5, at Armory Park. This event will feature glowing altars dedicated to children who have died; a
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If you go
Procession of Little Angels
WHERE: Starting point Grande Avenue and Speedway Boulevard, and walk to MSA Annex, 267 S. Avenida del Convento
(Photo by Warren Van Nest)
WHEN: 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5
From Tuesday, Oct. 18, to Sunday, Nov. 6, community members can add to an altar in the All Souls Mausoleum in
The group is the organizing body for the event and serves as a “vehicle” for organizations to come Communitytogether.members can also join the procession at any point in the route.
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means networking with small businesses to try and plant roots for what we are doing and spread awareness of our mission in the community.”
work with the organization. “I would like to see this frame of social service where we provide financial aid to replace the old system,” Martin said. Instead of using a “group home support hotline,” he said he would like to see more sur vivors provided with what they actually need — funding. ITB
After the diagnosis, the couple chose to take a lot of photos and create new memories. Mark and Debi traveled to Hawaii in 2019 before her diagnosis and “she had a “Sheblast.”said she wanted to come back,” Mark said. “I said we could afford to go
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blankets and baby blankets. She did 250 of those. Now it’s to the point where she can’t do it by herself. I sit down with her, and we do it together.”Yearning to still be active, Debi volunteers with the Alzheimer’s Association’s walk“Shecommittee.wantsto get out there and help and raise funds so sometime in the future peo ple won’t have to go through what she goes through,” Mark said. ITB
WHAT: Walk to End Alz heimer’s
WHAT: Survivor Shield Tucson Art Exhibition
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“With the diagnosis and
“I (started) this month trying to bring a lot of what we do in Tucson up to Flagstaff,” Siegel said. “At this point that
WHERE: El Jefe Cat Lounge, 3025 N. Campbell Avenue, Tucson
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As a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the organization is not affiliated with the UA, but relies on student volunteers like Eliana Siegel, its director of Siegel,operations.who recently moved
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Alzheimer’s from all these other diseases. You don’t have that secondary conver sation. It’s just they want you to come back in six months to see how you’re doing.”
WHEN: 9 a.m. ceremony; 9:30 a.m. walk begins Saturday, Oct. 22
logue,” Martin said.
“We also go camping all the time, picnic at Mount Lemmon. We try to get out and do as many things as she can.”Born at St. Mary’s Hospi tal and a graduate of Sahuaro High School, Debi is a caring person, according to Mark, and that hasn’t changed.
every other year. Then she had the diagnosis. I told her I would do whatever it took to take her back every year. We went back earlier this year.
this thing progressing as fast as it’s progressing, she has remained that way,” Mark said.“When she was first diagnosed, she was doing dresses for girls around the world. I don’t know how many she did, but then she couldn’t do that. So, we teamed up with Mending Souls and we started doing masks during the pandemic. We did 1,500. She got to the point where she couldn’t do that. She started doing lap
INFO: Instagram:survivorshieldfoundation.com@survivor_shield_foundation
SURVIVOR SHIELD
WHEN: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29
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WHERE: Reid Park, 900 S. Randolph Way, Tucson COST: No registration fee, donationshowever, are suggested INFO: act.alz.org
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“When you hear you have Alzheimer’s, you don’t get to take a breath. It’s a death sentence. There are no treatments. There’s not a cure. There’s not a physician across from you saying, ‘Now that this is out, let’s get you with a specialist.’ There’s never going to be that conversation until we find a treatment or cure for this. That’s what differentiates
from Tucson to Flagstaff, started as a volunteer “about this time last year,” assisting with events and networking. She shadowed Martin before becoming an official board member a few months ago.
She said she hopes to begin hosting events in Flagstaff by nextMartinspring.said he hopes to see a continued growth in busi ness partners and people who
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and learn about the dif ferent volunteer oppor tunities they have availa ble. From working directly with clients to helping with essential tasks to serving on a committee or board of directors, there are many ways to contrib ute your time and talents to help serve our com munity and improve the quality of life in Southern Arizona.Whatever approach you choose when you sup port Southern Arizona’s nonprofit sector, you are helping to provide critical services for our community’s most vul nerable populations and increasing the efficacy and sustainability of Arizona’s fifth-largest nongovern ment employer. Nonprof its in Arizona generate more direct jobs and have payrolls exceeding those
If you are interested in learning more about the principles and practices of trust-based philan thropy, I would like to personally invite you to join us for a special event from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 18, at the Community Foundation Campus. CFSA lead ership will discuss our foundation’s journey in implementing trust-based philanthropy and how we are actualizing our commitment to building grantee and funder re lationships grounded in
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transparency and mutual learning. Local nonprof it leaders from across Southern Arizona will also be present to share how trust-based funding has allowed them to max imize their impact within the communities they serve. This event will be informative for current and prospective CFSA donors, as well as fund ing partners interested in learning more about trust-based philanthropy.
To learn more about CFSA’s services, funds, and initiatives, visit cfsaz. org or call us at 520-7700800. Together, we can have a greater impact for good in Southern Arizona.
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project was developed by CFSA in partnership with local donors and Solar United Neighbors and received additional gener ous support from Tucson Foundations and Tucson Electric Power.
The first round of recipients has just been announced. I am excited to share that $630,000 will be invested in the coming months to provide solar installations for the following organizations:nonprofit
In addition to collective impact funding, CFSA is also committed to an intense focus on general operating support grants and other tenets of trustbased philanthropy, which increases the capacity and strength of non profit organizations and partnerships throughout Southern Arizona. CFSA recognizes that an effective philanthropic community is one where nonprofits receive sustained, flexible funding and one where donors are directly con nected to the causes they care about most.
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If you are looking to contribute to our nonprof it sector as a volunteer, our Center for Healthy Nonprofits is hosting a highly interactive Board Connect event from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25. This event offers commu nity members throughout Southern Arizona the opportunity to meet with over 30 local nonprofits
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Two of the most significant barriers to a vibrant Southern Ari zona are environmental risks and inequity. By coming together through CFSA’s Impact Funds, members of our generous community have direct ly and impact.esthemwithnonprofitbyaddressedsimultaneouslythosebarriersconnectingthesesevenorganizationstechnologythatsavesdollarsandreductheirenvironmental
of most other local indus tries – including construc tion, transportation and finance.Beyond the numbers is the social impact of investing in our nonprof it partners. A thriving nonprofit sector increas es educational attain ment, food security, housing affordability, and many other factors essential to creating a vibrant and equitable community that I am proud to join my neigh bors in supporting.
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It turns out there’s a helmet designed for every style of riding, every bike and every type of trip.
Rev up for the road at Cycle Gear
The new store is not just for neophyte riders. More experienced motorcycle riders can find what they need here, judging from the selection a brief glance around provides. There are tires, gloves, chaps, jackets and T-shirts, boots, batteries and spare parts for engines and exhausts. Even higher-end stuff for side-by-sides. What he doesn’t have in stock, Parag explained, he can“Iorder.haveaccess to everything,” he said.
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“It’ssaid.going to be more comfortable for wearing for long periods of time versus something that’s more budget focused.”
He advises taking them to grassy parks to practice. Parag tells the tale of a crash he had that left him with headaches and per manent memory issues. A concussion is no joke.
At the new Cycle Gear store on Broadway Boulevard, find all manner replacement parts for your motorcycle.
Parag said the shop is for everyone, and each mem ber of the staff loves to ride and help customers.
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What used to be a tiny shop on Stone and Grant is now a department store — 9,000 square feet — full of gear needed to ride a motorcycle comfortably andCyclesafely.Gear’s new loca tion, which opened in mid August, is bright, spacious and, above all, friendly.
“Normally, my first question would be, ‘What kind of bike are you going to get?’” he said. “Obvi ously, the category of bike you’re into is going to tell me, like, what you’re look ing for as far as the style andSize,protection.”yes,there’s also how you ride, how often, how far and how fast.
For parents interested in getting their children riding, there are bikes designed specifically for
the miniature set. Take, for example, the cute little bike with 12-inch wheels and a Paragbattery.saidas soon as kids can put their feet flat on the floor while sitting on this bike, training can begin. It’s best, Parag said, to train a kid to ride prop erly and safely, and this little bike is a good place to start. It even comes equipped with a battery so a kid can learn to control a power vehicle.
Ask Nick Parag, the manager of Cycle Gear, on the northwest corner of Broadway and Craycroft, next to the old Toys R’ Us.
“You tell me it’s going to be a bike you ride every day, you’re going to look for a helmet that’s going to be wind tunnel tested,” Parag
Then there’s this: the cost. Helmets start at about $100 but you can easily invest $700, $800.
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ping at Cycle Gear.
“I think they’re fair with every customer,” he said. “I’ve seen them sometimes and that’s why I’m a repeat customer.” ITB
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riding safely on the road. Plus, I like to spend mon ey so they help me even more.”There’s something else Delfakis likes about shop
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“I was definitely doing substantial speeds that I should not have been do ing because I was a young kid and didn’t know any better,” he said.
Find helmets, sunglasses and clothing to stay safe on the road. There’s even 12-inch electric bikes for sale that are used to train little riders on how to safely ride a motorcycle.
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Cycle Gear has all manner of customers. Nelida Castro of Tucson is a regular. She owns a Har ley-Davidson Dyna Fatback and a Road King and finds shopping at Cycle Gear comfortable.“Iloveithere,” Cas tro said. “People need to come to see the helmets, the protection, the jackets, the shoes. They have everything to be safe when youAnotherride.” loyal customer is Pannos “Peter” Delfakis, a longtime rider. He is all about the accessories Cycle Gear carries. What keeps him coming back is, “their service, their ability to find other items if they don’t have it,” he said. “They are very helpful. They will direct you to whatever you need for
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