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Mount Lemmon recovering from Bighorn Fire Rachel Johnson Cronkite News

t’s been a year since the Bighorn Fire blackened broad swaths of the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson. Now, a recent tour of Catalina State Park and Mount Lemmon reveals sprigs of new growth peeking through the forest floor. Wildlife, including bighorn sheep, are returning. Life in Summerhaven, a tiny community near the summit of Mount

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after lightning struck the Pusch Ridge Wilderness. It burned for 48 days, growing into one of the biggest fires in Arizona history at nearly 120,000 acres. Residents of the Southwest are intimately familiar with the devastating effects of fire on homes and businesses, but Hart said wildlife in the rugged Catalina range can benefit from such events as the Bighorn Fire.

n June 30, the Arizona Legislature approved the budget for next fiscal year, which bans public schools throughout the state from requiring masks or COVID-19 testing. This ban comes a few weeks after Gov. Doug Ducey signed an executive order banning state colleges and universities from doing the same. The ban does not affect private schools, and has already taken effect. Almost immediately after the budget was approved, some doctors and public health professionals weighed in on the subject, arguing the ban makes “no scientific or public health sense.” Shortly after the ban was enacted, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued

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Masks: Doctors react to restriction Continued from P1

new guidelines stating that vaccinated teachers and students do not need to wear masks inside the classroom. However, this leaves Arizona’s 600,000 students between pre-school and 6th grade who are ineligible for vaccination in a gray area between national guidelines and state legislation. “As a public health expert, I continue to recommend mask use in schools. Recent research shows COVID spreads less in schools where teachers and staff wear masks… It is no longer a matter of debate: Masks work,” said Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Arizona. “When pol-

iticians ignore science and evidence, they’re only giving COVID-19 time to mutate, regroup, spread and sicken more of our neighbors.” Jacobs spoke during a conference with other public health professionals organized by the Committee to Protect Health Care, a national group of doctors and healthcare professionals. Unsurprisingly, all speakers at the talk spoke against the mask ban. “The decision to prohibit these schools from requiring masks be worn is quite reckless, dangerous and short-sighted. The decision is also not informed by science or evidence, and politicians are making this decision when Arizona just in the last 14 days saw

a 16% jump in COVID-19 cases,” said Dr. Cadey Harrel, a family physician in Tucson and the president of Agave Community Health and Wellness. “What politicians have done by banning schools from implementing safety protocols like masks, is put people at risk and stifle local decision making with a one-size-fits-all, top-down approach. This completely strips local municipalities and governing bodies from implementing their own policies that are rooted in actual science.” Harrel argues that because the law does not apply equally to private schools, it unfairly affects lower- and middle-class families who may now see more COVID cases. She says the issue

is a “social determinant of health” that will worsen the pandemic’s impacts on minority and working-class families who have already been hit hardest by COVID. “As both a parent and a physician, I’m incredibly concerned about this. The first day this was implemented, I received an email from my child’s school, stating there have been a couple confirmed cases in her classroom,” Harrel said. “This is not safe, and this is not evidence-based policy. This is putting our children at risk, and for what?” Vaccinations are currently only available for children 12 and older. According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, only 13% of Arizonans under 20 have been vaccinated. A common point of argument is that even if masks were required

in schools to protect unvaccinated students, would elementary-aged kids properly and consistently keep their masks on? Harrel argues, for the most part, yes. “I have a 4-year-old who has been using one for the past year without any issues,” Harrel said. “If we teach our children to use masks, they will use masks. Just like we teach our children to be kind to others, use the toilet, or anything else. They will learn to do those things, but we need to lead by example.” Daily COVID cases in Arizona have remained at a relatively consistent low since the beginning of March, averaging around 700 new cases and a dozen deaths per day. Compare this to the peak in January, when the state saw more than 10,000 cases and 150

deaths per day. “I feel as though we’re sliding into a place where we’re only thinking about death as an undesirable endpoint of infection, which of course it is, but I do think that if we are seeing 70 or 80% of symptoms that are lasting 60 days and more after infection, then that makes me wonder what is going to happen with kids,” Jacobs said. “They’ve definitely exhibited having a less severe course of disease, there’s no question about that, but what we don’t know is what the potential long-term, downstream effects are going to be. And that is why I’m a strong advocate of using caution right now.”

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Mount Lemmon Continued from P1 “It clears dense vegetation, promotes new growth and, indeed, can alter the landscape in many positive ways,” he said. Wildlife has returned to the mountains, Hart said, including the population of bighorn sheep. “We have seen abundant deer on the mountain,” he said. “The mountain lion population is healthy as ever. So those are indicators to us that, other than the burnt landscape, that the ecosystem is functioning as it should.” Winding along the Catalina Highway up Mount Lemmon’s southern flank, saguaros give way to ponderosa pines as the elevation increases.

“Many people will remember this location as where the fire blew up, burning with extremely high intensity,” Hart said, referring to the 12 square miles of the Mount Lemmon Fire District. Russell Benford, the hazardous fuels program manager at the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, said burn areas are “almost entirely dependent on rain” to recover. But too much rain, he said, can increase the risk of flooding and mudslides. Precipitation also affects how much flammable vegetation is allowed to grow in a given season, Benford said. The mountain saw a wet spring this year, encouraging the growth of many non-native grasses and small flowering plants that creat-

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ed enormous fuel for fires when they dried out. Native plant species, however, have adapted to grow “with very little rain,” Benford said. “Even small sprinkles, a light monsoon season, could help bring back the native plants that are less prone to burn catastrophically,” he said. As plant life returns to normal, so does the unincorporated community of Summerhaven, near the 9,157-foot summit of Mount Lemmon. Residents, Benford said, have been involved in wildfire safety and recovery through the Firewise initiative, a nationwide effort to help communities reduce wildfire risk. Working with programs like Firewise allows towns to “create a community that is mindful of the risk that is around them … and to do something proactive about Continued on P6

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it,” he said. Firewise aims to “create conditions that reduce wildfire intensity in communities and neighborhoods and to prevent home ignitions” by teaching people about defensible and survivable space, which are meant to create space between homes and potential damage from wildfire. Wildfires are “no stranger to this mountain,” Benford said. In 2003, the Aspen Fire burned for almost a month and destroyed 340 homes and businesses in Summerhaven. The memory of that fire lingers for April Hudgens, supervisor at the Cookie Cabin, a rustic building near the end of the town’s unlight-

Fortunately, the Bighorn Fire didn’t destroy any homes or businesses in Summerhaven. Hudgens said it was “amazing” to return to homes and businesses after evacuations were lifted. The Bighorn Fire was officially contained on July 23 after burning nearly 120,000 acres through the Santa Catalina Mountains. It was just one of a string of blazes in one of the worst fire seasons in the state, burning nearly 1 million acres. Fires this year have been active. More than 20 wildfires have burned across the state since spring, and officials predict 2021 will have above-normal activity. However, recent rainfall has allowed officials to reopen the Coconino and Kaibab national forests after closures due to hazardous fire conditions. For more stories from Cronkite News, visit cronkitenews.azpbs.org.

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ollowing longtime coach Mike Candrea’s retirement announcement, the University of Arizona announced last month that Caitlin Lowe would become the next coach of the UA softball team. The legendary softball coach Candrea accrued an NCAA record of 1,674 overall wins, 11 Pac 10/12 conference titles, eight

Women’s College World Series titles and two Olympic medals throughout his 36 years with Arizona Softball. Lowe said working with Candrea helped her feel confident in taking the reins. “I just think that he’s been preparing me for this,” Lowe said. A four-time All-American at the UA, Olympic silver medalist and hallof-fame professional from the National Pro Fastpitch league, Lowe has spent the

past nine seasons working various coaching and management roles for the local softball powerhouse, including spending the last three years as associate head coach. Lowe’s appointment comes among multiple women stepping up to leadership positions in UA sports in recent years, including assistant softball coaches Taryne Mowatt-McKinney and Lauren Lappin. Mo w a t t - Mc K i n n e y,

who has coached the team’s pitching for the past three seasons, was a second-team All-American and selected in the first round of the 2008 National Pro Fastpitch Draft. “I think that you’re seeing a bunch of roles being filled by female coaches,” Mowatt-McKinney said. “When we graduated from college, we were trying to find jobs in the fields where we got our degrees. I had seen female coaches, but it just didn’t cross my mind

that that could be a career for me because there wasn’t an abundance of powerful female coaches.” Candrea established a lasting legacy and his softball alumni are extraordinarily invested in the success of the program, Lowe said. “I always tell our recruits that we have 100 people or so come back for our alumni games, and that’s just madness,” Lowe said. “I think we have the highest return rate at

our school, but that’s just Coach in the culture, the culture that he’s built here,” Lowe said. Those close to Candrea have often described the “culture of tradition,” “Candrea-isms,” or the “pillars of Candrea,” that have served as the foundation of the program and established that there’s more to the UA’s softball legacy than its NCAA championships. Hopeful Wildcat recruits in softball and other sports may find

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ith the amount of people who gather together after summer vacation and head into the cooler school months, it’s no surprise that December, January and February rank as the worst time of the year for flu and cold cases. It also provides evidence for the argument that schoolteachers have some of the strongest immune systems to be found outside of a hospital. But there’s a bit of hope that this upcoming school

year won’t be as crazy as the last one (and a half). Arizona’s COVID cases are at a steady low and we’ve never been more vaccinated as a population. According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, daily COVID cases in Arizona have averaged around 700 new cases per day since mass rollout of the vaccine around March. Compare this to the peak in January, when the state saw more than 10,000 cases per day. Definitely good news, but there is room for improvement as local and national doctors push for

continued vaccinations and general caution (same as it ever was). Ahead of our local students returning to school for what is poised to be the most normal school year since this whole thing began, Tucson Local Media presents our annual Back to School edition, which features information on how various school districts are handling updated guidelines, an update on student athletes getting back to work, and listings of local school foundations that provide supplies and scholarships for Tucson area students.

Despite the Arizona Legislature banning mask requirements in public schools, local districts are still allowing individuals to wear masks if they prefer. In a nutshell, we’re not finished, but we’re looking better than we have in a good while. Here’s to our future scholars.

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nlike this time last year, when the state grappled with the surge of thousands of daily COVID cases, the number of cases has remained low at around 50 cases per 100,000 for the past two months. With about half of Arizonans vaccinated with at least one dose and state and local mandates loosening restrictions, educators are preparing for a mostly in-person school year and optional masking. After more than a year of students and educators dealing with remote learning, hybrid instruction and in-person learning, students and staff from Marana and Amphi will begin the new school year with fixed in-person learning. Marana Unified School District will return to

in-person learning the coming school year with no remote option. But will continue to offer Marana Distance Learning, a selfpaced, online program for students in grades 4-12, said Director of Public Relations and Community Engagement Alli Benjamin. Like Marana, Amphitheater Public Schools District will offer full in-person learning while also offering full online education through Amphi Academy Online, their K-12 online school, said Amphi Director of Communications Michelle Valenzuela. Both Marana and Amphi school districts continue to follow the same COVID-19 mitigation strategies as before, like physical distancing, encouraging hand hygiene, ensuring cleaning and sanitizing, as well as monitoring and communicat-

ing with the district about COVID-19 cases. Marana district school leadership continues to review and update mitigation plans, but have not approved them, said Benjamin. The school welcomes visitors to campus so long as they are symptom-free, but does not survey them or check their temperature. Schools in the district have also added more bottle-fill fountains. Aside from summer school, Amphi currently runs their Summer Institute, which offers professional development classes for staff to enhance their skills. Once teachers return from summer break, Valenzuela said they will have an opportunity to review assessment data for students and work with their teams to determine any additional support students may need. According to ValenSee SCHOOL YEAR, P4

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zuela, Amphi has no limitations or restrictions for lunches and recess and will not limit spectators for school events or require masks. However, MUSD will continue to stagger lunches and recesses and outdoor seating will be encouraged to allow for physical distancing. Tables will be disinfected between uses. Similar to Amphi, Marana will allow recesses without any limitations, but teachers will encourage hand-washing and sanitizing when students return to class. In the midst of summer school, on June 30, Gover-

nor Doug Ducey signed a budget passed by the Arizona Legislature, which included provisions that would block schools and universities from requiring masks. In a virtual panel organized by the Committee to Protect Health Care, a national organization advocating for quality and affordable health care, Arizona doctors and experts criticized the Arizona legislature and Ducey’s decision to ban masking in schools. Much of the concern centered on the fact that children younger than 12 are not yet eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and can still get

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sick and spread the virus, especially with the rise in the Delta strain in Arizona. “There really just is no justification in my mind for putting not only their children but also school teachers and staff at risk,” said Tucson family physician Dr. Cadey Harrel. “We know with Delta, that even those that are vaccinated, are still at risk of breakthrough cases. They are not completely 100% immune, no vaccine provides 100% immunity.” The Arizona Department of Health Services reports 17% of the population younger than 20 years old have been vaccinated with at least one dose in Arizona. Those 12 and older are currently eligible for vaccination and only the Pfizer vaccine has

been approved for use on children 12 to 17. On Friday, July 9, the CDC updated school guidelines, encouraging in-person learning and recommending individuals age 2 and older who are not fully vaccinated to continue to wear masks indoors and in crowded outdoor settings. Under the law passed as a part of the state budget, local school boards cannot mandate unvaccinated individuals wear masks. While schools cannot require masks, Marana continues to encourage masks for unvaccinated individuals and students and staff can still choose to mask. On May 27, prior to the passage of the state budget, Marana Unified School District board voted to make face coverings

optional for all staff, students, vendors, visitors and volunteers. Benjamin reports the majority of employees are not using masks and mask usage among students participating in summer programs varies by site. However she said about one-third of students district-wide have continued to wear face coverings since they made them optional. Before the budget’s passage, Amphi had heard from parents on both sides of the mask debate. “We did hear from families who were not comfortable with masks not being required,” Valenzuela said in an email response. “Now, our families seem to understand it is out of our hands.”

Amphi must also make masks optional for all, but Valenzuela said “anyone who wishes to wear a mask will be allowed to do so.” Marana Unified School District has paused tracking of its cases during the summer and as of May 20, the last day it was updated, had one active case at MCAT High School from the more than 14,000 students and staff in the district. Amphi school district continues to update their COVID-19 dashboard during the summer, but has changed the updates to once a week unless they have cases to report. Since their last update on June 30, the district has no reported cases.

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Amphi, Marana Foundations and more providing school supplies and fundraisers ahead of the new school year Ireland Stevenson Tucson Local Media

ith the start of the school year right around the corner, some parents need help to provide their children with quality school supplies. On the north side of town, organizations like Interfaith Community Services, the Amphi Foundation and the Marana Schools’ 2340 Foundation are working hard to provide help for students and their families ahead of the new school year.

The Amphi Foundation has, for most of its history, focused primarily on services that helped make it possible for students to attend school ready to learn and participate in activities. The Amphi Clothing Bank, staffed entirely by volunteers, provides Amphitheater students and families in need with quality used and new clothing, shoes and hygiene kits. They also help defray travel expenses for students competing in regional and national academic Wcompetitions. Through the Amphi

Foundation, the program Shoes to Smiles was founded by board member Trindy LeForge in 2007. Multiple times per year, LeForge – along with volunteers – meet with Amphi students and assist these children in picking out two pairs of shoes as well as a package of socks. During the 201718 school year, 88 students had a chance to pick out new shoes with the group’s help. The Amphi Clothing Bank was founded more than 25 years ago by teachers to assist families providing quality used

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clothing. Every Amphi school has a liaison who works with the Clothing Bank volunteers and parents. Parents can make a request to their liaison, who can check the school’s inventory of clothing that can be distributed “on demand.” If the school does not have items that are needed, the liaison will send specific requests to the Clothing Bank so volunteers can fill the orders and send the clothing to the school for distribution to the students in need, with parents either picking up the clothing at the

school or kids bringing the clothes home. Parents can also request a referral form from the Clothing Bank Liaison at their school and come to the Clothing Bank on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons from 2-5 p.m. to pick out clothing for their children. Interfaith Community Services, founded in 1985, has a “Gifts of Love School Supply Program” which works to ease the financial difficulties that families face this time of year. ICS collects school supplies starting in June and distributes them to

pre-screened students and families that are in need, starting in July. The Marana Schools’ 2340 Foundation, named for the 2340 days from kindergarten through 12th grade, was established to provide support and resources to help students succeed inside and outside the classroom. They hold numerous fundraisers and programs to help families in need. The 2340 Foundation also funds multiple scholarships to help students advance to higher educaSee SCHOOL SUPPLIES, P7

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SPORTS EXTRA POINT WITH TOM DANEHY &RECREATION As pandemic wanes, high-school athletes return to training for the season ahead Tom Danehy

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fter the school sports seasons were shut down in the spring of 2020, crushing the dreams of athletes across the country, there were those who hoped that by that summer, there would be a tiny movement back toward normalcy. But such was not the case. There would

be no open gyms, no organized off-season conditioning, and no summer leagues. It was the worst of time and…well, just the worst of times. This summer has seen a glorious burst of enthusiasm. While the pandemic should be gone but isn’t totally (blame fringe politics), it’s mostly gone and high-school athletes have returned to the drudgery (and sheer joy) of off-season work with

glee on their faces. It’s a brutally hot Tuesday out in the middle of nowhere, where sits Marana High School and nothing else for as far as the eye can see. Out on the football field, at least 60 guys are doing conditioning drills in the late-afternoon heat. There are no complaints seeing as how a week earlier it had hit a record 115 degrees. During that entire week, the Amphithe-

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ater School District (and others) had banned all outdoor athletic activity on all of their campuses basically during the 14 hours that the sun was up. For nearly a week, the mercury hit 100 degrees just after 8 in the morning and didn’t drop down to double digits until almost midnight. The average overnight “low” was a miserable 83 degrees. But that was last week. Today it’s only 105 and it’s go time. The seven-on-seven squad from Ironwood Ridge walks in groups down to the football field. Soon it will be game time. Seven-on-seven football has gone from being the gridiron version of a pickup game of three-onthree basketball to being de rigueur for just about every prep football program in the country. It’s basically a way for quarterbacks and receivers (including backs) to work on pass patterns and timing. Linebackers and defensive backs work on various zone or man-toman schemes. The rules are simple. Everyone on offense (except the center who snaps the ball) is eligible to go out for passes. There are no running plays and there is no

rushing the quarterback. The QB has a strict four seconds to throw the ball. If he doesn’t get rid of the ball in that time, it’s a loss of down. There is no tackling; strictly two-hand touch below the neck. Even run-happy teams play summer seven-on-seven, if for no other reason than to give their defensive players some work. It’s played on a short field with a limited number of first downs, so a team can’t nickel-anddime its way down the field. If a DB picks off a pass, it’s a change of possession. Turnovers can be killers. If a defensive player intercepts a pass and runs it back to the end zone, it may look cool, but it doesn’t count as a touchdown. In Marana’s Norm Patton Gym, there are enough boys to have three full-court games going on side by side in the (with about a dozen others waiting on the sidelines to get in the games). The first day of open gym this year, the day after Memorial Day, more than 50 boys showed up for workouts. The numbers have fluctuated somewhat with families finally being able to go on vacation and several of the hoop

players spending time out on the football field. The girls program, with somewhat smaller numbers, is in the Alumni Gym, working on plays that will be tried out in summer league competitions. Like everybody else who lived through (and missed out on) the summer of 2020), they’re just happy to be in the gym with their teammates and coaches. The next night, both gyms on the Flowing Wells High School campus are going full tilt, two games on the hour in the big gym and another game in the East Gym. Twice a week, games featuring girls’ teams go from late afternoon until nearly 10. Besides giving the athletes much-needed competition and the chance for team building, the Flowing Wells Summer League also serves as a much-needed training ground for future referees. The ref school, run by legendary local refs Chris Rastatter and Bob Schofield (both of whom have reffed NCAA Final Four games), has established refs teaching newcomers on the fly, throwing them in the deep end to see how they react to gametime conditions.

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The Amphi Foundation awarded more than $20,000 to local teachers to purchase classroom supplies for the 201920 school year. Continued from P5

tion. Ten college scholarships are awarded to students who have been enrolled in the Marana Unified School District for the full K-12 experience, with five of those scholarships awarded to Marana High School students and five to Mountain View High School students. With coordination

from the Marana Unified School District, The Youth Education Supporters (YES), formed in March by Dot Santy, is working with the Student Services Department at MUSD to supply hundreds of students with backpacks filled with necessary school supplies for different grade levels for the next school year. Due to the pandemic, the MUSD Student Services department held a

drive-thru event last year and plans to do another this year, according to the Director of Student Services Cynthia Ruich. With YES raising funds and collecting donations, the department will distribute the backpacks at their drive-thru event on July 22 from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Early Learning and Resource Center on 7651 N. Oldfather Drive (formerly Thornydale Elementary School).

Sports: Training for the season ahead Flowing Wells Coach Michael Perkins’ squad reached the Class 5A State championship game this past spring de-

spite not having the summer league last year. But even with the madness of multiple games going on in one gym with tag-

team novice refs, he and all the other coaches (as well as the players and parents) are just thrilled to be back at it.

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themselves looking to the female pioneers who have been champions under Candrea, both on and off the field. Erika Barnes, executive senior associate director of athletics who also serves as senior woman administrator and Title IX liaison, was also one of Candrea’s players. She played alongside softball legend Jennie Finch on the UA 2001 National Championship team. “I’ve been blessed to have a relationship with him in different walks of life,” Barnes said. “He likes having softball players around the university in Tucson and all that.” Barnes, who has served in numerous positions within the athletic department since 2005, is also a member of the NCAA

softball selection committee and Pac 12 council. Lowe says Barnes has invaluable insight due to her experience as a former student athlete. “I think we can both say that she’s really enhanced the softball program at Arizona way far after her playing days,” Lowe said. The UA is the final softball program within the Pac 12 conference to be led by a female head coach and is the sixth out of nine head coaches in the conference to return to their alma mater. Besides all the wins under Candrea, the legacy of the UA softball tradition has opened doors for those who have played in the program to enter leadership positions within collegiate athletics. While Title IX has made strides in collegiate sports

for women, they still only make up approximately 40% of the head coaching positions and only 7% of the athletic administration positions. Lowe’s promotion has signified a step in the right direction, following suit of UA women’s basketball coach Adia Barnes and women’s golf coach Laura Ianello. As the industry of collegiate athletics continues to evolve, new opportunities such as recent legislative efforts for student athletes to capitalize on their “name, image and likeness” have been in the works. The UA has been developing the Arizona Edge program as a means for its student athletes to take advantage of both academic and athletic success. “It’s a new space that student athletes in schools

can benefit from and I think it would be a great opportunity to see students and student athletes being able to capitalize truly on their name, their image, their likeness but also their personal development and growth,” Barnes said. Women often make financial sacrifices in the form of volunteering to gain coaching experience for these leadership opportunities. Additionally, they have to balance work and their personal lives but many find a common support network that aids in their success despite these “unorthodox schedules.” “When we talk about Arizona athletics, it really is the people that keep us here, it’s the people that made us come back to Tucson and settle down here and start our adult

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up in the community here in Tucson,” Mowatt-McKinney said. “It doesn’t compare to anywhere else in the country when it comes to the softball community.”

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GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Beware the person who wants your validation more than your truth -- in other words, every person. This week challenges you to be thoughtful in your responses and diplomatic in the social dance. You can’t go wrong answering the needs of people. With loving observation, you’ll realize what those needs are. CANCER (June 22-July 22). What worked before might work again sometime in the future, but the fact is that it’s not working now. Staying current has everything to do with accepting what’s creating impact in this moment. Nostalgia has its place, but it would be a waste to indulge it with so many updates happening this week. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There are times when it’s important to keep yourself in check and other times when it’s best not to judge yourself. Negativity in particular is a state that gets a lot of self-criticism when it can actually be just the tone needed to respond to the day. The most creative frame of mind isn’t always a positive one! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The easy way is to ask how to do something. The hard way is to take it apart and try to put it back together for the sake of comprehensive understanding. The last way comes with the risk that you won’t be able to make it work again, but even if you can’t, you’ll still have knowledge instead of merely information.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). If love is an art (and who is to say it’s not?), you’re currently redefining a highly original creative process, with attractive results. In the art realm, many are casually drawn in by beauty, but the world turns on the action of an elite class of appreciators who interpret, care for and preserve the value of the gift. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). If you wanted to, you could listen to the dictates of time, money and reason, although don’t expect to be surprised or entertained by what they have to say. You could also ignore these factors as you formulate, scheme and imagine. Reality rules in the end... why give it the beginning and middle, too? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). When the resources tighten up, don’t worry; it’s just part of the pattern. Calmly, coolly take what you can get, and remain patient. Circumstances will eventually turn around, and quite obviously so at that. The ground will split and crack right open before you to reveal the glittering diamond vein. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). In your own way, you are cultivating a rebellion. It started back when you noticed the ineffectiveness of the status quo. Now you see, with increasing clarity, the ways in which you could improve matters in a sector of your influence. And the more you notice, the harder it is to stand by. Plans come together.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Those who believe themselves to be battling against overwhelming odds are bound to be vigilant in their defensive state. A change in an assessment of the odds will reduce jumpiness and suspicion. Trust, care, love and tenderness will change the game, too, as will tangible gestures, resources and provisions.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Patience is a type of endurance. Many find the waiting difficult because it feels passive. But is it really? If patience were an exercise, it would be akin to the plank -- more difficult as the seconds tick, engaging every faculty at once and eventually delivering results in every area. Breathe through it, and keep going.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The instinct to become secretive points to having something you deem worth protecting. You don’t always know exactly what that thing is, but this vague sense of its significance is worth pursuing on your road to self-knowledge. The thing worth hiding might also be a jewel to cut, shine and set inside wearable gold.

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ima County reached the goal of 70% vaccination for adults with at least one dose on Thursday, July 8. President Joe Biden in June set a national goal of vaccinating at least 70% of all U.S. adults with at least one dose by July 4. Although Pima County fell short by just four days, it is now one of four counties in Arizona that have reached the goal, including Santa Cruz County, which has vaccinated almost 100% of adults with at least one dose. As of Monday, July 12, the state of Arizona has vaccinated just over half of the total population with at least one dose. According to data from the CDC, Pima County had fully vaccinated 61.9% of adults ages 18 and older with two shots of the vaccine as of Monday, July 12 (for those vaccines that require two shots). For those 12 and older, 67.8% had received at least one dose and 93% of adults 65 and older has had at least one dose. “The science has become very clear – being vaccinated protects you from getting COVID,” said Pima County Health Director Dr. Theresa Cullen. “COVID is a serious illness. People can end up with significant disease and even death. For those who are still unvaccinated, I want to reassure them that the vaccines are safe and we encourage them to

seek vaccination.” The county has reported 401 breakthrough cases and 16 hospitalizations among the more than 535,000 fully vaccinated people in Pima County, about .07% of those fully vaccinated. Pima County is continuing its mobile vaccination efforts in order to reach traditionally underserved areas and census tracts with lower vaccination rates. For more information, go to pima.gov/ covid19vaccine. COUNTY RESCINDS COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESOLUTION On Tuesday, the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to rescind a resolution that declared a state of emergency because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Supervisors Sharon Bronson (D-District 3), Steve Christy (R-District 4) and Rex Scott (D-District 1) voted in favor of lifting the state of emergency, while Supervisors Matt Heinz (D-District 2) and Adelita Grijalva (D-District 5) voted against it. Since March 19, 2020, the emergency declaration allowed the Board of Supervisors to take immediate and urgent actions that included regulating businesses, limiting gatherings and requiring mask wearing in public as cases be-

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