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Last week, Trevor Dahlstrom left Marana and headed to lunch with friends. He got back later that afternoon. It doesn’t seem like an unusual thing to do.

“I love to travel,” he said. “Just yesterday I flew to San Diego for the day; it’s really cool to have that freedom to travel around the country.”

The next day he went to Prescott and planned to be home in time for supper.

As a flight instructor, it’s all in a day’s work for Dahlstrom, but that’s one of the advantages of pi loting a plane.

There used to be only one way to become a pi

lot: through the military. Today there’s another jetway to the cockpit, and it’s right up the road at Marana Regional Airport. At IFLY Flight School just about anyone can train to become a pilot. In about the same time it takes to get an associate’s degree and for about the same cost, you, too, can take to the skies.

Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Taking off begins in the classroom, where future pilots spend time studying for the student pilot certificate test. As with a learner’s permit, you must have a flight instructor with you, and you are prohibited from having passengers.

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BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Tucson Local Media

Before cancer claimed the life of PJ Quinn on July 5, 2020, first respond ers were frequent visitors to the fam ily’s home.

The 29-year-old’s parents, Michael and Bonnie Quinn of Oro Valley, are forever grateful — and wanted to show it.

The Quinns are bringing back the Rockin’ 4 Heroes fundraiser from 2 to 5 p.m. Sun day, Oct. 16, at James D. Kriegh Park in Oro Valley. The “4” represents the groups

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ARTS

SATURDAY, OCT. 12

The Tucson Desert Art Museum opens its exhibit, “Citizen/Enemy: Japanese American Incarceration Camps,” on Saturday, Oct. 12. The exhibit describes the tragic repercussions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9006, which sent approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans to incarceration camps in 1942. Many of these camps were in the American West, includ ing the Federal Honor Camp outside of Tucson. The exhibition will be on display through March. Tickets cost $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $6 students/ children and free for active military. Visit tucsondart. org for more information about permanent and ongoing exhibitions. Tucson Desert Art Museum, 7000 E. Tanque Verde Road.

THEATER

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12

TO SUNDAY, OCT. 16

Broadway in Tucson presents the energetic and original musical, “SIX” at Centennial Hall through Sunday, Oct. 16. “From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the six wives of Henry VII take the mic.”

The show runs for approximately 80 minutes with no intermission. For a full performance schedule and how to purchase tickets, visit broadwayintucson. com. Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Boulevard.

MUSIC

FRIDAY, OCT. 14

The “Queen of Maria chi,” Aida Cuevas visits the Fox Tucson Theatre on Friday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. Accompanied by Mariachi Aztlan, Cuevas celebrates her 46-year career and 41 album releases. She is an acclaimed artist in Mexico, beloved for her dedication to traditional mariachi music and mastery of her vocal range. Tickets for “Yo Creo Que Es Tiem po,” range from $37.50 to 57.50. Doors open at 6 p.m. For information, visit foxtucson.com. Fox Tucson Theatre,17 W. Congress Street.

SUNDAY, OCT. 16

“Wine” down your weekend, or start your week off right at Zin, Blues & BBQ at the Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort

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you to take passengers and fly a single-en gine plane without an instructor. This takes a minimum of 40 hours in the air.

“You are now an officially licensed pilot,” Erwin Castillo said. He has been piloting since 2009, and has been an FAA certified flight instructor since 2020.

Then pilots can work toward getting in strument rated so they may fly a single-en gine plane on a cloudy day.

What comes next?

be done. Castillo said from start to finish it takes a good year if you are talented and all you do is study and fly, to a more likely year and a half or so to complete all the training.

He estimates it costs about $50,000 for the commercial pilot license, but a mere $7,000 to $12,000 to get a private pilot’s license.

Once you have the license and want to fly on your own, there’s the cost of renting a sin gle-engine plane with fuel at $160 an hour. Fuel these days runs about $7 a gallon.

Oro Valley, AZ – When it comes to chronic pain and/ or neuropathy, the most common doctor-prescribed treatment is drugs like Gabapentin, Lyrica, Cymbalta, and Neurontin. The problem with antidepressants or anti-seizure medications like these is that they offer purely symptomatic relief, as opposed to targeting and treating the root of the problem. Worse, these drugs often trigger an onset of uncomfortable, painful, and sometimes harmful side effects.

The only way to effectively treat chronic pain and/or peripheral neuropathy is by targeting the source, which is the result of nerve damage owing to inadequate blood flow to the nerves in the hands and feet. This often causes weakness, numbness, tingling, pain, and balance problems. A lack of nutrients causes the nerves to degenerate – an insidious and often painful process.

cannot survive, and thus, slowly die. This leads to those painful and frustrating consequences we were talking about earlier, like weakness, numbness, tingling, balance issues, and perhaps even a burning sensation.

The drugs your doctor might prescribe will temporarily conceal the problems, putting a “BandAid” over a situation that will only continue to deteriorate without further action.

Thankfully, Oro Valley is the birthplace of a brandnew facility that sheds new light on this pressing problem of peripheral neuropathy and chronic pain. The company is trailblazing the medical industry by replacing outdated drugs and symptomatic reprieves with an advanced machine that targets the root of the problem at hand.

1. Finding the underlying cause

2. Determining the extent of the nerve damage (above 95% nerve loss is rarely treatable)

3. The amount of treatment required for the patient’s unique condition

Arrowhead Physical Medicine in Oro Valley, AZ uses a state-of-the-art electric cell signaling systems worth $100,000.00. Th is ground-breaking treatment is engineered to achieve the following, accompanied by advanced diagnostics and a basic skin biopsy to accurately analyze results:

1. Increases blood flow

2. Stimulates and strengthens small fiber nerves

3. Improves brain-based pain

The treatment works by delivering energy to the affected area(s) at varying wavelengths, from low- to middle-frequency signals, while also using Amplitude Modulated (AM) and Frequency Modulated (FM) signaling.

It’s completely painless!

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The number of treatments required varies from patient to patient, and can only be determined following an in-depth neurological and vascular examination. As long as you have less than 95% nerve damage, there is hope!

Arrowhead Physical Medicine begins by analyzing the extent of the nerve damage – a complimentary service for your friends and family. Each examcomprises a detailed sensory evaluation, extensive peripheral vascular testing, and comprehensive analysis of neuropathy findings.

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“Now, let’s say you really enjoy flying,” Castillo said. “The next rating is called the commercial rating.”

Pilots need 250 hours in the air to get this rating, but it allows them to get hired and paid.

How do they get that many hours? Many become instructors and use that time to ward those hours.

After 1,500 hours in the air and some more studying, a pilot may get an airline transport pilot rating.

Somewhere along the line, a pilot who wants to fly with the big boys such as American or Delta airlines has to also get a multi-engine plane rating. For private jets, you need a type rating.

It’s complicated and expensive, but it can

At IFLY, students work one-on-one with a flight instructor and the instructors there will never let students take any of the licensing tests until they believe the student is ready.

“Here, we actually work with you,” Castillo said. “We’re not going to assign you to take an exam with the FAA unless we feel con fident (about your ability) because we want to make sure you’re safe in the air. We don’t sign everybody off. We want to make sure you really know how to fly and that you can get this airplane with my daughter in the airplane (safely down). That’s how I treat it. If you can get my daughter down safely and if there’s an emergency in the air and you’re calm about it, I think you’re ready.”

Getting a pilot’s license means quite a few

As displayed in figure 1 above, the nerves are surrounded by diseased, withered blood vessels. A lack of sufficient nutrients means the nerves

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of honorees — first responders, active duty, veterans and Gold Star families.

“The last seven months of his life, he was in and out of the hospital on a weekly basis for seizures and other things,” Michael said about his son, who exuded positivity.

the inaugural event last year in front of about 900 attendees. The performers return for this weekend’s second iteration.

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“It spread to his brain and his lungs. They took out two lobes in two separate procedures. That was during COVID. He couldn’t have any visitors. He is an amazing young man, and we miss him dearly. The first responders were so kind and generous and loving after he passed. My wife and I wanted to find a way to thank them. I felt a tray of cookies, or a pizza party wouldn’t suffice.”

Then, the Quinns saw the 11-musician Chicago tribute act Leonid and Friends in Glendale and Michael had an epiphany.

“They’re not good,” he said with a slight chuckle. “They’re spectacular. I needed to get them to Tucson somehow. They’re phenomenal musicians. They’re classically trained musicians who started playing rock ‘n’ roll on the side.”

The Moscow-based band, which also per forms songs by Earth, Wind and Fire, Steely Dan and Tower of Power, hit the stage for

“Everybody in the community came up after that and said, ‘This was wonderful.’ We needed to do it again and thank all of those who serve us selflessly. They have no idea if they’re coming home that night, especially police and fire. The community liked to have a venue that thanked them as well.”

The Quinns insist on offering the event with free admission — and Leonid and Friends agree. The band solicits donations on its website.

HSL Properties is a presenting sponsor, while Dr. Richard Carmona is the honor ary chair. The former U.S. surgeon general, Carmona is a combat-decorated Vietnam veteran with over 50 years of service as a first responder.

Michael is a Navy veteran and, he and Barbara are longtime veterans supporters.

“My wife and I have been supportive of veterans organizations, of Gold Star orga nizations, which help those who have lost children or spouses in defense of our coun try,” he said.

Guest Ranch Resort on Sunday, Oct. 16, from 5-8 p.m. Featuring a “mouth-watering gourmet barbecue,” enjoy live blues music with a variety of Zinfandel wine from local distributors, this is a 21-and-older event. Tickets are $65 per adult without alcohol or $85 with alcohol and a souvenir wine glass. Visit haciendadelsol.com to book tickets. Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch, 5501 N. Hacienda Del Sol Road.

SPECIAL EVENTS

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12 TO THURSDAY, OCT. 20

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

THURSDAY, OCT. 13 TO SUNDAY, OCT. 30

Nightfall celebrates its 30th anniversary at Old Tucson Studios with a plot twist this spooky season. Its return in full throttle offers a more immersive storyline that invites the whole family to follow clues and engage with cast members to uncover multiple mysteries, allowing themselves the opportunity to determine their night’s outcome. Visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets ahead of time, due to the park’s timed-entry approach on nightfallaz.com. Nightfall at Old Tucson Studios, 201 S. Kinney Road.

FRIDAY, OCT. 14 AND SATURDAY, OCT. 15

Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens and Galleries hosts its autumn series, Brewin’ at the Chul, Friday, Oct. 14, and Saturday, Oct. 15, through Saturday, Nov. 26. From 5 to 9 p.m., with free admission, visitors can roam the grounds after hours and imbibe in a rotating food menu that includes beers, brats and more from the Garden Bistro. Enjoy live music by singer-songwriter Oscar Fuentes on Friday, or guitarist Derdog on Saturday. For a full list of performers throughout the series and the menu, visit tohonochul.org. Tohono Chul, 7366 N. Paseo Del Norte.

SATURDAY, OCT. 15

Mission Garden hosts its Membrillo Fest and Observance of Hispanic Heritage Month from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15. Otherwise known as quince, the membrillo is a versatile fruit generally used to make preserves. This festival highlights this underappreciated tree that has played a unique role in Tucson’s “agricultural and culinary history” with a series of talks, demonstrations and tastings. The Friends of Tucson’s Birthplace: Mission Garden ask for a $5 donation at the gate. Visit missiongarden.org for the full schedule. 946 W. Mission Lane.

SATURDAY, OCT. 15

“A fall evening for all ages,” the Marana Fall Festival is happening at the Marana Heritage River Park from 2 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15. Join Marana residents for an evening of live music, carnival rides, a Family Fiesta Fun Zone, creation station, a mutton bustin’ competition and a sunflower field. Many artisan exhibitors and vendors will sell their goods. Food trucks will be available, too. Visit discovermarana.org for more information. 12375 N. Heritage Park Drive.

SATURDAY, OCT. 15

Escape the city light pollution and head to the Star Party at Catalina State Park on Saturday, Oct. 15. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., hang out with local astronomers from the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association to answer questions about celestial objects and phenomenon as you look through a high-powered telescope. Bring water, snacks and a red light, if one is available. Meet at the main trailhead. Visit azstateparks.com for more information. Catalina State Park, 1150 N. Oracle Road.

SATURDAY, OCT. 15

Take a day trip down to Bisbee to participate in the Bisbee 1000 The Great Stair Climb on Saturday, Oct. 15. This 4.5-mile course, which features nine staircases connected by winding roads, allows participants to see the Old Bisbee’s grandeur. Registration is sold out but the event is definitely worth checking out. The event runs from 7 a.m. to noon. Visit bisbee1000.org to learn more. 201 Tombstone Canyon Road.

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SATURDAY, OCT. 15 AND SUNDAY, OCT. 16

Pumpkin (spice) season is here, so grab the family and take a day trip down to Willcox for Apple Annie’s Orchards, Fall Pumpkin Celebration, throughout October. Take a hayride or get lost in the corn maze as you enjoy the fall weather at the pumpkin patch located at The Farm on 6405 W. Williams Road. Apple Annie’s Orchard is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., no charge for admission but bring money for

produce purchases and hayride tickets. For more information about seasonal produce availability or Apple Annie’s Orchard, visit appleannies.com or call 520-384-2084.

SATURDAY, OCT. 15 AND SUNDAY, OCT. 16

The “world famous and tasty” Salt and Lime Fiesta comes to the Rillito Downs on Saturday, Oct. 15, and Sunday, Oct. 16, starting at 3 p.m. The festival includes live performances by Tyler Rich and Schwayze, taco trucks and vendors, a margarita- and tequila-tasting experiences, and Lucha

Libre. Passes range from $15 to $120 and cover different experiences of the weekend. Visit saltlimefiesta.com to buy tickets. Rillito Regional Park 4502 N. First Avenue.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12 TO SATURDAY, OCT. 20

During October, the Sonoran Glass

School hosts its annual Pumpkin Fiesta. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., SGS offers its popular Make Your Own Pumpkin Experience during which participants can choose colors and design elements and work with SGS artists to create their own glass pumpkin. This event is $115 per pumpkin, reservations are required. Proceeds from the program support SGS and its youth education programming. For information on how to make your reservation and other ongoing activities, visit sonoranglass. org. Sonoran Glass School, 633 W. 19th Street.

full-time, said he used to be a bank executive.

hours of classroom time. Some of the subjects covered include pre-flight prepa rations, take-offs and landings, perfor mance maneuvers, air space, stall aware ness and recovery techniques, and weather recognition. In fact, as Castillo gave a tour of the airport, he looked up to the blue sky and remarked on what looked like benign, puffy clouds to the uneducated. As a pilot, you learn to recognize and avoid those.

“Those clouds are cumulonimbus clouds,” he said. “A thunderstorm could happen at any moment there. You thought monsoon season was over? That’s what I thought. Those dark clouds over there? That’s not good.”

Why? Because those clouds contain three ingredients that can quickly develop into a thunderstorm: unstable air, uplifting force and moisture.

There are a few restrictions for potential pilots–mainly physical ones. You cannot be

HEROES

Born in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, but raised in Tucson, PJ graduated from Iron wood Ridge High School in 2009. He was diagnosed with osteosarcoma his junior year, at age 16.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in ele mentary education from NAU in 2017. Mi chael paused before describing the lengths PJ took to obtain his degree.

“Banner and NAU got together and gave him credit for tutoring children at Dia mond Children’s Medical Center while he was in chemotherapy,” he said choking up.

“He walked up and got his degree at NAU. The dean made a big deal about him.”

Rockin’ 4 Heroes is a project of the Quinns’ Light Up Lives Charity Foundation.

“This year we anticipate another big turnout in the park for an afternoon of

on certain medications or have diabetes, Castillo said. Heart disease, epilepsy and poor vision will also bar you. There’s no hiding these conditions, either. Potential pilots have to pass an FAA Class II physi cal, which is a fairly comprehensive exam.

There’s also age. You must be at least 16 years old and under the watchful eye of an instructor to be able to fly solo, and 17

great music, food, drink, and comradery.

Admission is free to the public, thanks to the generous support of corporate sponsors like HSL Properties and private donors,” Bonnie said.

“More importantly, it’s a chance to come together as a community to honor our he roes. Based on last year’s strong response we know that many community members real ly enjoyed the concert and appreciated the opportunity to thank our public servants.”

Net proceeds of this year’s event will go to the Arizona Heroes Memorial being built at Naranja Park in Oro Valley. The memo rial will serve to educate citizens about the meaning of service and sacrifice, and to honor what these brave men and women have given to our country.

This festival-style event will feature mul tiple food trucks, refreshments, beer and wine in the outdoor setting of the Catalina

years old to get a private pilot’s license and to apply to be instrument rated.

Still, despite these restrictions, anyone can learn to be a pilot, Dahlstrom said.

“Flying is a great career,” he said. “Anybody who wants to know how to fly, they can.”

“Anybody can learn at any age,” Castillo added. You don’t even have to come from an aviation background. Castillo, who teaches

Foothills.

Carmona has served his entire adult life in the public service sector.

“These are individuals who commit their careers to protecting us, and they deserve our gratitude and thanks. I am proud to be part of Rockin’ 4 Heroes,” Carmona said.

“This event is a great opportunity to not only recognize the many first responders, active military and veterans who serve us, but also to pay respect to our Gold Star families whose loved ones gave it all in the line of duty.”

HSL Properties is the presenting sponsor of this year’s Rockin’ 4 Heroes.

“We appreciate and align with their mis sion of bringing the community together to honor our heroes, and we are proud to be a part of this year’s event,” said Humberto Lopez, founder and CEO.

“Rockin’ 4 Heroes exemplifies our core values: It is truly all about community.”

There are lots of reasons to learn to fly, some interesting ones. Take Jessey Ferbey re, who flies helicopters. He is getting fixedwing training to increase his employability. There is another reason he’s working on his ratings, an unexpected one.

“(Flying) is a challenge,” he said. “The challenge is fun.”

That challenge includes mapping out a safe flight plan to Prescott, which he was doing on this day.

Walking around Marana Regional Air port on this sunny, puffy-cloud day, you understand why Castillo and all the pilots there spend a lot of their time looking up.

“We’re always on the ground, wishing we could be up in the air,” he said.

If you think you might like to learn to fly, IFLY offers a $199 discovery flight, a one-hour flight to give you an idea of what it’s like to be up in the sky. Call the school at 785-435-9001 or visit iflyflightschool.wixsite.com/home

The mission of Light Up Lives Charity Foundation is to raise awareness and sup port of various organizations and individ uals who work to protect, serve, and care for communities and country. As a local non-profit, Light Up Lives Charity Founda tion was specifically established to develop and host special events, programs and drives to recognize and benefit those who diligent ly serve the community, state or country. They are an all-volunteer organization and 100% of donations support their mission through events like Rockin’ 4 Heroes.

Rockin’ 4 Heroes w/Leonid and Friends

WHEN: 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16

WHERE: James D. Kreigh Park, 23 W. Calle Concordia, Oro Valley

COST: Free admission

INFO: lightuplives.us

At Marana Regional Airport, single-engine planes may be rented for $160 an hour (Photo by Noelle Taro-Gomez)

Financial adviser wins prestigious award

BY TOM LEYDE

Independent financial adviser Dan Karls berg has been awarded a prestigious award for services to his clients and industry.

Karlsberg, president and founder of Freedom Trail Wealth of Marana, recently received the 2022 Financial Services Institute (FSI) Advocacy Circle of Excellence Award. He was one of 15 people nationwide to receive the honor and the only one in Arizona.

“There are 300,000 independent financial advisers in the United States and to be one out of 300,000 (to receive the award) is pret ty awesome,” Karlsberg said.

The FSI Advocacy Circle of Excellence Award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to advancing a more business-friendly regula tory environment. It is presented by Cam bridge Investment Research Inc.

Cambridge is an independent, privately controlled broker-dealer with more than $65 billion in assets, more than 600 asso ciates and nearly 3,000 independent reg

istered representatives. FSI members earn engagement points for meeting with legis lators and regulators, hosting congressional events and responding to calls to action.

Karlsberg operates a one-man office at 12120 N. Dove Mountain Road, Suite 182.

The 44-year-old started his independent financial adviser business, Cambridge In vestment Research Advisors Inc., in 2017. The company offers a full-service financial planning practice, specializing in working with pre- and post-retirees on retirement income planning strategies, legacy plan ning and long-term financial plans.

Before entering the investment field, Karlsberg worked in the sports indus try for 15 years. He was single and didn’t mind moving around the country. His first job was as general manager for the minor league baseball team the North Carolina Durham Bulls. That was the team featured in the 1988 movie “Bull Durham.”

From there, Karlsberg went on to work for Major League teams, where he served in

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Martha Cooper Library to undergo renovations

BY TOM LEYDE Tucson Local Media

Patrons of Tucson’s Mar tha Cooper Library will want to mark their calendars for Nov. 20, when it closes for a major overhaul.

The library, at 1377 N. Catalina Avenue, will be closed through spring of 2024. Customers should be moving holds to a new pick up location now. Outdoor Wi-Fi will not be available and food distribution ser vices will be paused, Situated north and east of Speedway Boulevard and Columbus Street, Martha Cooper Library opened in 2006 and has outgrown its usage from day one, said Tara Foxx-Lupo, managing librar ian.

“It’s always been a heavily used neighborhood library,” Foxx-Lupo said. “It is in an area with lots of apartments and lots of folks who can really benefit from the many services of a public library.”

The Tucson architectural firm Line and Space LLC de signed the Martha Cooper Library remodel. (Line and Space LLC/Rendering)

• A programming area.

• More space for studying.

• Outdoor improvements.

However, she said, “It’s amazing how many folks come in and say, ‘Oh, I’ve nev er been to this library. How long have you been here?’”

The library, Foxx-Lupo said, has always been brimming at the seams and many days every seat and every computer is filled with patrons. The remodeling, she said, is going to benefit so many people.

Pima County Public Library will be near ly doubling the space of Martha Cooper Library with the remodeling, to 13,554 square feet. The entire interior will be re configured, while the building exterior will look similar to the way it looks now.

Plans will include:

• Expanded children’s space.

• Upgraded space for teens.

• More books.

• Larger computer lab.

• Expanded staff space.

Adding teen space is particularly import ant, Foxx-Lupo said, because the library is close to both middle and high schools. The current teen space contains a small section of books, a couple of computers and a small seating area.

The new adult section will have leisure furniture and will be farther away from the children’s section. “Kids can be a little loud, but we want them to have fun, too,” Foxx-Lupo said.

A large meeting room will be connected to an outdoor, shaded meeting area. It will feature a glass sliding wall that will allow for large-scale indoor and outdoor pro gramming of events.

various capacities, including vice presi dent of sales, sales manager, general man ager and account executive.

Among the teams he worked for were the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets and Orlando Magic, MLB’s Washington Nationals and Milwaukee Brewers and the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers.

But the constant moving and less than sat isfactory salaries led Karlsberg to look for an other career. He asked two close college friends about what he should do. Both worked in the financial field and suggested he do the same.

One the the friends, Karlsberg recalled, gave him the best piece of advice. “He tells me, ‘Dan, you already know how to do the job, you just don’t know how to speak the language.’ You’d be a great financial adviser.’”

Karlsberg took the advice and went to

Existing solar panels will be raised and placed above a shade structure with bench es and amenities for people who want to enjoy the library grounds from a shady spot. Also, the grassy area in front of the

library will be expanded.

“It’s going to be great,” Foxx-Lupo, said.

The Tucson architectural firm Line and Space LLC designed the remodeling project. “They’ve been such a pleasure to work with,” Foxx-Lupo said. “They got a lot of input from the staff and the com

munity. We’re just really impressed. They very much listened to us during the design process.”

During the closure, library staff will move to other libraries in the 27-library Pima County Library system. Customers are encouraged to enjoy nearby libraries

work for Edward Jones Investment. There, he learned the language, passed the tests and began his new career. In 2015, he moved from Florida to Tucson with his wife and three children. His wife, Annette, was born in Tucson and has many family members here.

Karlsberg stayed with Edward Jones for two more years then went independent. He’s now in his 10th year.

His company helps people set up Fidelity accounts. “A lot of people have their 401ks with Fidelity,” Karlsberg said. “With one phone call you can make changes. It gets better every day.”

Dan Karlsberg’s resume includes stints with the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets and Orlan do Magic, MLB’s Washington Nationals and Milwaukee Brewers and the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers. (Dan Karls berg/Submitted)

or visit the E-Library for streaming movies and TV, music, e-books and audio books.

Nearby libraries include: Murphy-Wil mot Library, 530 N. Wilmot Road; Eck strom-Columbus Library, 4350 E. 22nd Street; and Dusenberry-River Library, 5605 E. River Road.

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Jackpot Veterinary Center extends hours

BY HOPE PETERS Tucson Local Media

ackpot Veterinary Center has extended its hours due to an increased volume of work at its small animal veterinary clinic and the 24-hour equine emergency room.

The move gives Jackpot the opportuni ty to space out its veterinarians, said Dr. Lindsey Smogor, owner and large animal veterinarian.

“We don’t have four or five doctors work ing on top of each other in a fairly small practice,” she said.

“Now each of them has a little more el bow room to practice during the week.”

The small animal clinic is open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, giving Jackpot the chance to align with customers’ schedules and ac

commodate unexpected vet appointments.

On the large animal side, the equine clin ic is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Fri day, with routine appointments available between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturdays.

The 24-hour ER service is available for equine emergencies. Jackpot has four small animal veterinarians and three large animal vets. It is looking for a large animal surgeon so horses can get complete care.

Smogor owns the large and small animal practices, but administers care to large an imals only, primarily horses and, occasion ally, goats and sheep.

“As far as a veterinarian goes, all my ex perience and what I feel really confident in is equine practice,” she explained. “I never have wanted to do small animal work. But I just ended up buying a property to build an equine practice on (the property) that al

ready had a small animal clinic and I kind of fell into a little more operation of that.”

The property housed the small animal clinic, so once she purchased it in 2017, she built the large animal clinic two years later. Smogor’s business was mobile from 2014 to 2017, when she bought the property.

Smogor was raised just west of Las Vegas. Prior to veterinary school, she managed her family’s horseback riding stables and arena. Smogor earned a Bachelor of Sci ence from the University of Las Vegas Ne vada (UNLV) in pre-professional biology with a minor in psychology and chemistry in 2008 prior to veterinary school.

She spent her first year of vet school in the Caribbean at Ross University, before transferring to Oklahoma State University, from which she graduated in 2013.

Smogor elected to complete an intern

ship at Arizona Equine Medical and Sur gical Centre in Gilbert. She has a special interest in podiatry and lameness.

She attended farrier school in 2011 at Oklahoma State Horseshoeing School and started a horseshoeing business while ob taining her DVM at OSU. She recently completed 240 hours in animal chiroprac tic education and passed the AVCA exam becoming certified in animal chiropractic.

In 2014, Smogor and Dr. Karla Lombana created Jackpot Equine, a 24-hour mobile equine veterinary service in the Tucson area. The practice has since expanded to include the equine practice and small an imal clinic and dog/cat boarding facility on La Canada off Ina Road, renaming the practice Jackpot Veterinary Center.

Left: Owner and large animal veterinarian, Dr. Lindsey Smogor purchased Jackpot Veterinary Center in 2017, and built the equine/large animal hospital in 2019. Center: Taylor Kersey, Jackpot Veteri nary Center equine manager, describes the small- and large-animal sides of the clinic. (Jackpot Vet Center/Courtesy) Right: A horse is ready for an evaluation at Jackpot Veterinary Center. (Hope Peters/Staff)

“We still do mobile and haul in,” Smogor said of their services. “Haul in is for both (reg ular appointments and emergencies) and that is definitely preferable for emergencies, be cause we are finding it so hard to get to every one’s appointments when we have to drive 45 minutes to an hour between appointments.”

The equine emergency call range covers Avra Valley, Marana, Catalina, Northwest Tucson, West Tucson, South Tucson, East Tucson, Sahuarita, Vail and Three Points. She said for emergencies if ranchers bring in or haul in their horses, “I can triage three to four things at a time on the equine side when people bring them in rather than one at a time, and then drive an hour.”

Equine manager Taylor Kersey walked through the practice describing the six day stalls and four emergency stalls, the latter of which are for horses hauled in for exams or emergencies.

“All of these have cameras inside so we can monitor the horses,” Kersey said.

A surgery sedation room and surgery suite are ready for a surgeon.

Because it has 24-hour emergency ser vices, staff/vets have a sleeping quarter and video screens used to monitor the horses.

Jackpot Veterinary Center expanded in

2019 with the completion of its equine hos pital and haul-in clinic.

The equine veterinarians provide com prehensive examinations, diagnostic test ing, treatments and emergency hospitaliza tion for their equine patients in a safe, clean and climate-controlled environment.

Another expansion/remodel is on the way.

“We are getting ready to remodel the small animal clinic so it can staff more veterinarians and see more patients,” Smogor said. “So we are leaving an area in the back of that practice where potentially it could be a grooming area or it could be a rehab area. We can make it whatever we want when the occasion arises.”

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Moderne closes on 14 acres at Gladden Farms

BY TUCSON LOCAL MEDIA STAFF

Moderne Communities will devel op a build-to-rent community on 14 acres it purchased from Glad den Phase II LLC in Marana for $4.35 million.

The new gated community — which will feature 182 single-family homes — will be dubbed Moderne at Gladden Farms. Con struction is set to begin in 2023.

The neighborhood will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging from approximately 839 to 1,565 square feet. The gated community will include 24-hour se curity, pocket parks, a community fitness center, clubhouse, resort-style pool, barbe cue areas and electric car charging stations.

“We are excited to be building a commu nity in Gladden Farms,” said Randy Bury, Moderne Communities founder.

“The expansion of businesses and new jobs coming from companies like Shamrock, CTI Trucking, Southwest Gas and the new regional headquarters for Roche is prompting a grow ing demand for housing options in the area.”

The community will offer easy access to I-10 and is within about a 30-minute drive to the UA and Raytheon in Tucson and to Nikola, Lucid, Kohler and new distribution centers opening in Casa Grande, Bury added.

Will White of Land Advisors Organization represented Moderne Communities in the purchase of the 14-acre parcel.

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Moderne Communities is constructing two other build-to-rent communities, one near Tucson and the other in Tolleson. Mod erne at Rocking K will include 224 single-sto ry homes for rent within the Vail masterplan. Moderne at Roosevelt in Tolleson is a gated rental community with 185 homes. Both projects expect to begin leasing in early 2023.

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Opera gives dramatic insight into wounded soldiers lives

BY BRIDGETTE REDMAN

When Tess Altiveros was debating whether to take on a new project at the Seattle Opera, the conduc tor, Michael Sakir, told her, “This opera will change your life.”

She took the job — performing as the central character in a new opera, “The Fall ing and the Rising,” roles which she and Sakir will reprise for the Arizona Opera Saturday, Oct. 22, to Sunday, Oct. 23, in Tucson.

“I will never forget him saying that and it did change my life,” Altiveros said. “It changed my perspective. It changed my understanding and made me sit up and pay attention to the fact that I had my own prej udices that I needed to deal with. Mostly, it enabled a path for dialogue with a group

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“The Falling and the Rising” is a five-per son opera based on the true stories of American military service members and veterans who have been wounded in the line of duty. Conceived of by Army Staff Sgt. Ben Hilget, who was an opera sing er before he enlisted, it took shape when he, Zach Redler and Jerre Dye visited the Walter Reed Medical Center to interview wounded soldiers.

“The Falling and the Rising” breaks ground in its goals and its staging. Pro jections play an important role in the pro duction. It is filled with humor — there are traditional opera singing deliveries of such

lines as “You’d better get your ass in gear.”

Hilget says the opera aptly captures the sacrifices that modern service members make. He said he and the other opera cre ators were immediately floored by the sto ries that they heard when they started in terviewing people at Walter Reed.

“I don’t think I’ve ever heard, to date, more powerful stories of resilience and strength,” Hilget says.

One of the first interviewees was a spe cialist who had been in a coma after being thrown from a Humvee. He dreamt a life that he didn’t have and even six months af ter he woke up, he was still trying to figure out what was real and what was not.

“He gained the power of speech back through music therapy — he actual ly learned to sing before he could speak,” Hilget says. “He spoke with a profound wisdom for someone of his age and still in the middle of trauma.”

They spoke to so many people in a threeday period that he said they could have written 10 operas.

Dennis Whitehead Darling had just fin ished serving as the inaugural McCleave Fellow in Directing at Opera Memphis, a

fellowship designed to fostering the careers of directors of color, when he went to see Opera Memphis’ production of the opera.

“It’s quite beautiful and poignant and pain ful and emotional and rich with beautiful themes of sacrifice and pain,” Darling says.

He is now directing the Arizona Opera production. As someone who contemplat ed going into the military and whose father, uncle, brother and stepsister all served, this opera touches on his ties. He says he feels people get a better understanding of what it takes to serve in the military and the sac rifice, duty and honor involved.

“There are no live scenes of people being shot at, but it does deal with injury and that sort of falling that the soldier goes through emotionally and physically,” Darling says.

“Then it’s about this wonderful triumph of the rising of how they somehow find this mi raculous strength to overcome any sort of emo tional or physical pain. It honors their sacrifice.”

Altiveros says the music and score are de signed to attract civilians and soldiers. She describes it as accessible and melodic.

“It’s meant to help us appreciate and ac knowledge the sacrifices that are made, the good parts and the bad parts about enlist ing and the hardships of it,” Altiveros says.

While not traditionally a subject of op era, the stories of sacrifice and injury trans late well to the art form, Altiveros says.

“The stakes are so high — there is a risk of life and death and injury and things like that, but real human relationships are affect ed and in a very large way,” Altiveros says.

“Anytime you can tell that story of human relationships on stage, it lends itself to opera. Opera can heighten that sense of emotion.”

She recently spoke with art producers who were concerned about whether this opera

would be too heavy and traumatic for audi ences who are stressed in a post-pandemic world. She was eager to allay those fears.

“It’s not that this does not address (trau matic) topics — the whole premise essen tially is when a female soldier is hit in a roadside bombing, and they put her in a medically-induced coma. The entirety of the rest of the opera is her wandering through her subconscious and coming across these different soldiers’ stories,” Altiveros says.

“That is the background for these stories to happen, but it’s meant to leave you feel ing uplifted. It’s not a downer.”

Altiveros said she cries in almost every single rehearsal because she is so moved by the stories, and she is certain the audience will be moved too.

“But it’s not meant to traumatize,” Alti veros said. “It’s meant to leave you feeling really hopeful about and grateful for the work that our soldiers are doing. It’s not meant to take you to a really, really dark place and then leave you there. I want to make sure people know that.”

The Arizona Opera’s “The Falling and the Rising” by Zach Redler, libretto by Jerre Dye

WHEN/WHERE: Various times Satur day, Oct. 22, to Sunday, Oct. 23, at the Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Avenue in Tucson

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The premise of the new opera, "The Falling and the Rising," is when a female soldier is hit in a roadside bombing, she is put into a medically-induced coma. The audience follows as she wanders through her subconscious, encountering different soldiers' stories. (Submitted photo)

Kernza and its nutty flavor could replace wheat

BY MIA SMITT

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Is there truly a grain that can produce an annual crop with planting only every four years?

Thinopyrum intermedium is an in termediate wheatgrass, known by its trade name, Kernza. It has a sweet nutty flavor, similar to the traditional wheat that we are used to eating. Most of our cereal crops such as wheat, corn and soy are planted and har vested every year. The yearly soil tilling and nitrogen-based fertilizers can damage the soil and pollute the air, which can lead to the ever-increasing climate change worldwide.

Kernza is very different in that its roots may grow to a depth of 10 feet and will stay in the ground for up to four years. The plant above ground produces grain every year and the roots build healthy soil by ab sorbing water and nutrients.

Those deep roots also deliver carbon from the atmosphere to the soil carbon. Kernza can withstand extreme climate events such as flood and droughts. After harvesting the grain, the remaining leaves and stems can be used for cattle and other livestock feed. Compared to wheat, Kern za is actually more like the ancient grains that grew on the Midwestern grasslands 200 years ago before homesteaders started plowing the fields for annual farming.

The Land Institute is an agricultural research institution in Salina, Kansas. Chief scientist Tim Crews has been leading the Kernza research and development project for the past 20 years.

“People are very excited about perennial grains,” he said in a report. Twenty years is a very short time for a grain development when wheat has been cultivated for about 10,000 years. Land Institute scientists hope perennial crops will like Kernza to replace the annual crops we grow today.

Carmen Fernholz has been an organic farmer far longer than when organic gardening became popular. He cares for the soil and believes in let ting the soil live as naturally as possible so does not use commercial fertilizers of pesticides.

“I just cringe when I see soil disturbance,” he said in an interview with National Pub lic Radio (NPR). He started growing Kern za on 2 acres with funding by the University of Minnesota. Today, he is growing about 80

acres and is in the forefront of farmers seeking a better way to care for crops and their soil.

Fernholz stated that he gets many calls from other farmers who “are seeing soil degrada tion, herbicide resistance, and increasing costs of production.” They’re sort of on a treadmill with corn and soybeans. And they’re looking for something to break out of that,” he contin ued. “It’s exciting,” Fernholz said. “It’s just a tre mendous gift to our food system.”

Land Institute researchers are pushing for perennial crops to replace our familiar annual crops with grains such as Kernza. “Perennial crops are the key to a future of farming that actually benefits the earth in stead of degrading it,” Crews said.

“It’s just a matter of getting them to the point where they can actually start to re place the annual crops economically.”

More than 70% of the world’s farmlands are planted with annual grains now, but Crews hopes this will change as the pe rennials become economically viable. The number of seeds exceeds that of traditional wheat and researchers are working to in crease seed volume each production year.

Silvia Secchi is an economist at the University of Iowa. She has stated that for Kernza to replace our currently grown grains, the U.S. farm subsi dy program will have to change. This includes the federal insurance subsidies for annual crops such as corn and soy. This is a very expensive endeavor as we experience increasing climate change. In 2020 federal insurance subsidies for extreme weather such as flooding and drought were over $4 billion. Farmers would be unlikely to change with these continued subsidies. Sec chi describes the system as the “corn and beans treadmill” with no incentives to change. “You can’t just change the crops. This is a whole sys tem we need to modify,” she said.

It’s a very small market right now with only about 4,000 acres of Kernza being grown worldwide with most of those acres in Minnesota. It is there that local chefs, bakers, brewers, and other small business people are experimenting with Kernza products — the whole grain itself as well as ground into flour, malted and added to beers and whiskey. Breads, crackers and cereals are the most recognized products. They are be ginning to hit some market shelves (Whole

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Artist amplifies positive images of Black Americans

BY BRIDGETTE M. REDMAN Tucson Local Media

As much as she loved art, Alanna Airitam felt she didn’t belong in museums.

There were few people who looked like her on the walls and those who did were often portrayed in traumatic or violent situations.

When she left a 20-year career in adver tising to become a full-time fine art pho tographer, she knew her art had to be dif ferent. The photographer moved to Tucson from San Diego in 2019, looking for larger, more affordable studio space.

Through Oct. 29, her series “The Gold en Age” is on display at the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photogra phy. Ten large-scale portraits depict Black Americans in a way that is designed to be uplifting, empowering and dignified.

The portraits are modeled on the gold en age of the Harlem Renaissance and each portrait is dubbed with the name of a saint, names pulled from street names in Harlem.

Saint Sugar Hill, 2017, is just one of 10 large scale works by Alanna Airitram now being exhibited at the Center for Creative Photography. (Alanna Airitram/Submitted)

In her artist statement about “The Gold en Age,” Airitam wrote, “Weary from expe riencing how people of color are treated, I feel called to create images of people who

look like me presented with reverence and dignity. I began working on ‘The Gold en Age’ during the spring of 2017, during which time I came to recognize ways I’ve

allowed negative projections of others to hold me back artistically. I would spend time in museums admiring the lighting in European Renaissance paintings, while feeling how far the whole experience was from my own reality. I understood how un comfortable I was in art spaces, that in so many unspoken ways I didn’t belong.”

Airitam said she learned while creating this series how important it is for people of color to use their voice. She said Black people have historically been put into po sitions where they must silence themselves for self-preservation.

“We’ve learned these ways of acclimating to our environment,” Airitam said.

“Sometimes that looks like taking a lot of abuse. Sometimes — a lot of times — it looks like code switching. In a lot of these situations where we’re not able to really, fully be ourselves and to be heard and to be taken seriously, we’ve learned to silence ourselves. One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned working on ‘Golden Age’ is that

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that is not acceptable anymore. We have to use our voice and it is important for me to use my voice. That’s the only way we’re going to incite some level of change in a way that is encompassing of human rights.”

Rebecca Senf, the exhibition’s curator at the Center for Creative Photography, said she first saw Airitam’s work at the Museum of the African Diaspora in California.

“I was just blown away,” Senf said.

“The work was so strong and hearing her talk about her process really deepened my understanding of the project. Then realiz ing she was local to Tucson made it seem like such an exciting opportunity that we might be able to share this work with the Tucson audience.”

“The Golden Age” was the first collection she created after committing to a career as a full-time artist. It was a way to stave off the depression and the insecurity that came from switching careers.

The models were friends and friends of friends, people she reached out to as a way of making sure that she was doing the work she needed to do.

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sure I was going to pick up my camera ev ery day,” Airitam said.

“I knew that if I called people and asked

them to come over and sit for me, then I didn’t have an excuse. I had a friend come over and she sat, and we did a portrait and then I looked at it and thought, this is amazing. I’m going to go back and do an other one tomorrow with somebody else.”

The title of the collection refers to the era of portrait painting when Dutch Old Masters created images of the merchant class celebrat ing their wealth and social status. Airitam used many of the same looks and props to create her contemporary portraits — dramat ic lighting, rich fabrics and symbolic items.

As an artist, Airitam felt excluded and that her voice was silent.

“The work is gorgeous evidence to the fact that she has something to contribute to that conversation,” Senf said.

“By producing these works that offer a vi sion of her colleagues, her peers, her com munity and the way she perceives them — it brings a kind of vision into a larger conversation and enriches the kind of con versation that can be had.”

The work, Senf said, brings into focus a vision that circulates and becomes part of the language used to discuss issues of rep resentation, race, identity and inclusion.

When it came time to display the works, Senf said that Amy Baker, the CCP’s exhi bition designer, researched the Netherland ish tradition of still life and portrait paint ing and the blossoming of the new middle and merchant class in Harlem.

“She studied that period and looked at how residences were painted and she stud ied a lot of other bodies of work in this group of paintings and listened to how Al anna talked about the project,” Senf said.

“She and Alanna just worked back and forth. It was really this great process of us producing an exhibition where the whole design underscored and supported the body of work.”

This included giving each of the portraits plenty of space, with each work nearly hav ing its own wall.

“The environment allows for people to engage with a print individually and then together as a group,” Senf said.

Airitam said she was thrilled with the vision the staff had for how they wanted to present the work. She loved the idea of painting the walls in the sort of colors that you would see in an old colonial building

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Artist Alanna Airitram recreates Renaissance-style portraiture in her photography. (Alanna Airitram/Submitted)

Union Jack brings Brit fare over the pond

BY MATT RUSSELL

When Dr. Sukhi Ghuman speaks about the hub of British culture, this native of England’s East Midlands region and longtime resident of Nottingham waxes nostalgic about the pub.

This is a place that he calls “a congrega tional point” where “assembly is a social necessity.” And it was his longing for this atmosphere after moving to Arizona a de cade ago that inspired the 2021 opening of his Union Jack British Pub and Restaurant near Scottsdale Airport.

A second location opened earlier this year in Mesa, which triggered “more phone calls, e-mails and Facebook messages than we could handle from people asking us to open a location in Tucson,” Ghuman said.

Lest he be rebuked for robbing Southern Arizonans of our rights to properly assem ble, he and his partners decided to expand the congregational concept to 800 E. Uni

The fish and chips at Union Jack, with a side of mushy peas, stands as a symbol of “proper British grub.” (Union Jack British Pub and Restaurant/Submitted)

versity Boulevard, in Tucson’s Main Gate Square, with plans to open in mid-October.

“The demand from Tucson has been mas sive,” Ghuman said. “Our location near the university is perfect; it connects to the campus’ international feel and this block is very well integrated with the broader local community.”

Congregating in true British style requires a nod to tradition. This is exemplified by Union Jack’s fish and chips, bangers and mash, shepherd’s pie, meat pasties, and the like, along with standard American pub fare like burgers, wings and salads. But Ghu man’s menu offers other, lesser-known culi nary connections to his homeland that his fellow British expats will surely celebrate.

Branston pickle is a garnish that accom panies several items on his menu. Ghuman described it as a chutney-like sauce, made with diced vegetables, with a medium-thick texture and a slight crunch.

“If you haven’t had Branston pickle, you’ve not lived,” Ghuman said. “Once you have it, you’ll definitely be back,” he promised, noting that one of his favorite dishes as a child was a cheese and onion sandwich with Branston pickle.

Green peas are also a staple at British pubs and guests have a choice at Union Jack — regular or mushy.

“Mushy peas are exactly what it says,” he grinned. “Mushy. peas.”

He said mushy peas, which are served as a gar nish or as a side dish of their own, are “a beautiful complement to fish and chips, with plenty of salt and vinegar on both the fish and chips.”

The desserts provide opportunities to con gregate over confections as well, with five distinct expressions of the traditional British pudding. Though the sticky toffee, golden syrup and chocolate fudge varieties got my attention, I felt a responsibility as a journalist

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— deep reds and blues. She described it as working very well in that space — in large part because of the people she worked with and their vision for the exhibit.

Airitam’s portraits celebrate the strength and beauty of each person who posed for the collection. While she uses props and cos tumes, she stressed she wasn’t trying to make them into characters or caricatures, rather she was capturing the way she really saw them.

“As I’m draping the fabric on them, I’m working with a really organic and sort of intuitive energy,” Airitam said.

“I allowed the feeling to sort of guide what the portrait was going to look like.”

She tried to give as much freedom to her sitters as possible, a process that she said taught her she doesn’t have to control ev erything. Sometimes she even grabbed un expected moments. In the St. Nicholas por trait, he happened to be looking off camera and talking to his mother when Airitam shot the picture, capturing him with his hand on his hip and the grapes in his hand.

“A lot of those poses were just poses that they pop themselves into,” Airitam said. “Once the wardrobe was set into place, this other sort of energy arose out of them. It was just a beauti

to do some digging into the spotted dick.

Ghuman said Spotted Dick is a British dish dating back to the mid-19th centu ry, a steamed pudding with the texture of sponge cake made with dried fruit. It’s typi cally served with ice cream or custard.

“And it’s got spots all over it,” he quipped.

While “proper British grub” is central to congregating, as Ghuman pointed out, the restaurant’s full bar truly anchors the spirit of assembly. This is done with a wide selection of European ales and lagers, American brews, and other libations for sipping in this “dimly lit, old school, and unpolished setting.”

So, what’s Ghuman’s prescription for the perfect pairing at Union Jack?

“I always get an ice-cold pint of Carlsberg in me first,” he said. “Then I have a sausage roll, with Branston pickle, and an ice-cold Harp lager.”

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ful collaboration between all of us.”

Airitam said the CCP has one of the larg est photo archives in the country and that it is an important place for photographers.

She said she feels honored to be a part of that and part of the history.

And unlike how she felt at museums for the longest time, she now feels included.

“From my perspective as a Black female artist, it’s important to me to be in that space and inhabit that space because, in large part, it’s been a very white male-dom inated space,” she said.

“For them to open up that space for the first time (since the pandemic started) with this work is impactful. There is a lot of meaning in that, especially in the state our country is in right now. Coming out of this was this wonderful affirmation of belonging.”

“The Golden Age” by Alanna Airitam

WHEN: Through Oct. 29

WHERE: The University of Arizona Center for Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Road, Tucson

Athlete of the Week: Tanner Thornton

BY TOM DANEHY

Local Media

For reasons that are generally simple, the world of high-school golf in South ern Arizona has something of a natu ral caste system. Golfers who achieve at a high level almost certainly come from families (and schools) where golf is a normal part of existence. The parents play golf, grandparents played or maybe still play it. To excel at it takes focus, determination, access to facilities, and, quite frankly, money. When it comes to golf, schools are generally divided into the Haves and the Never Will Haves.

Further delineating things is that in sports like golf and tennis and swimming, the kids who excel are one-sport athletes, giving their all year-round.

But every now and then, we come across an outlier. Tanner Thornton of Flowing Wells is just such a person. We don’t know if anyone has ever referred to Flowing Wells

Tanner Thornton fires a pitch for the Flow ing Wells baseball team. The junior is also the top player on the Caballero golf team. (Tanner Thornton/Submitted)

as a golf school. Over the years, they’ve been good in softball and girls’ tennis, ev

ery now and then in football and track and field. These days, Flowing Wells is definite ly a girls’ basketball school; three straight trips to the state championship game. But golf? Huh-uh.

Thornton wants to change all that. “We’ve got a pretty good team this year, but next year, we can be really good and maybe challenge for a spot at state,” he said.

His coach, Ken Urdahl, agreed.

“Tanner’s got a great work ethic and he takes his sports seriously. It’s going to be in teresting to see how good he can become by next year (when he’s a senior).”

Indeed, he takes his sports — plural — seriously. He is also an outstanding base ball player, roaming the outfield and han dling pitching chores for the Caballeros. He’s big into baseball. On the mound, he has the full complement of pitches. He can bring the heat and he has an assortment of off-speed pitches, as well.

He plans on attending college where he hopes to study something in the medical

field, but mostly he wants to play ball in college. “I’ve always dreamed of being a college athlete. I think it would be so cool.”

Which sport would he want to play? “Ei ther one; both. Whatever.”

Thornton is also an excellent student. While a lot of student-athletes often say math or science is their favorite subject, Thornton quickly answers with English. “I really like English. I enjoy writing, especial ly creative writing.”

The Caballeros finished their golf sea son Oct. 4. They’re not in the running for a shot at the state tournament for teams and Thornton’s average nine-hole round score in the low-to-mid 40s, while impressive, probably won’t be enough to get him to state as an individual.

Still, “it’s been a really fun season,” he looks back. “I learned a lot from coach and I feel like I got better and more competi tive. I look forward to baseball season, but I also really look forward to next year’s golf season.”

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Throwing down the ‘gauntlet’ on grammar

BY TOM DANEHY

This is a great time of year for sports. College and NFL football are in full swing, Major League Baseball is final ly playing semi-meaningful playoff games, and beloved basketball is right around the corner. Still, no matter how much we love sports and, even here in a sports column, we must acknowledge that there are things that are more important than sports. I am talking about, of course, the wanton destruction of the (American) English language.

My sainted Italian mother, born Teresa Maria DiMarco, once told me in her native tongue (so it sounded like a song), “You can either have friends or you can correct people’s grammar.” Being the friendly sort, I have endured decades of people misus ing “hopefully,” and/or using “impact” as a verb. I’m not perfect; occasionally, I blurt something out when someone says, “I just want to go home and lay down.”

Human beings “lie” down; they don’t lay down. I’m sorry, I can’t help it.

I had been in a happy place recently. The Arizona Wildcat football team won a confer ence game, albeit against Colorado, one of the worst teams in recent Pac-12 history. After that win on Oct. 1, the Cats had a winning re cord (3-2) on the season, a marked improve ment over the previous two years, where they had won one game in two dreadful seasons. But then I opened the daily newspaper sports page and saw the headline, “Cats’ gauntlet of games will be measuring stick.” And then

they used it again in the article.

Gauntlet?! Really, gauntlet?! It’s like someone dragging their fingernails across a chalkboard while Emo Phillips and Tiny Tim do a mash-up of Parliament’s “We Want the Funk” and AC/DC’s “Back in Black.”

A gauntlet is an ordeal involving either literal or figurative flogging. The most common example thereof is the person be ing forced to run down a path between two lines of people, with those in the lines beat ing the person doing the running. A gaunt let is a metal glove that is thrown down to issue a challenge. Someone who accepts the challenge picks up the gauntlet.

They are not the same thing and the spell ings are not interchangeable. And you don’t get to misspell it just because most people don’t know the difference. I imagine that, back in the old days, when newspapers had copy editors, those poor people probably ag onized over the use of the word, knowing that if they used the proper spelling, they would get bombarded with cards and letters from readers who only know the wrong spelling

Two of the teams in the aforementioned Arizona gantlet know the difference between the two terms. Just as Arizona and Arizona State compete for the Territorial Cup, USC and UCLA compete for something called the Lexus Gauntlet. It’s a metal glove.

Having looked at the Cats’ schedule be fore the season started, we all knew that the season could be divided into three parts. The first part consisted of the tough non conference schedule (at San Diego State, then home against Mississippi State and

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North Dakota State) and the first two con ference games (at Cal and home against Colorado). Those latter two games would almost certainly be the easiest Pac-12 games on the schedule.

Then would come a brutal stretch of six games against the best teams in the Pac-12. And finally, in a category all its own, would be the game against Arizona State.

Pretty much nobody believed that the Cats would be 5-0 or 0-5 after those first five games. Mississippi State was too good and Colorado was too bad for either of those cases to happen. As it turned out, the Cats’ record of 3-2 was just right.

Arizona could have beaten Cal, but they blew a halftime lead. And they very easily could have lost to North Dakota State if the shaky Cat defense hadn’t risen mightily to the run-heavy challenge late in the game.

The season-ending match-up with ASU is always a toss-up, even when one team has taken a 70-7 whuppin’ just a couple years ago.

That leaves us with that aforementioned nasty six-game stretch that began on Oct. 8 against Oregon. At press time, the six teams in that group had a combined record of 264. Oregon and Utah had lost to national powers on opening day, while Washington and Washington State had only lost to un defeated UCLA and USC, respectively.

Let’s hope that the Cats can get through this stretch without getting demolished (or maybe even with stealing a win somewhere). What ever happens, after the nice start they’ve had, if they can cap off the season with a win over ASU, Coach Jedd Fisch and his squad will have thrown down the gauntlet to the rest of the conference for 2023 and beyond.

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CANCER (June 22-July 22). Though you're not exactly a mind reader, your empathy and intuition allow you to make pretty good guesses about what's happening for others this week, and you'll make your moves accordingly. You realize that what others demonstrate is likely only the tip of the iceberg of what they are really feeling.

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