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About this month’s cover artist
Tubac Villager
Enrique de la Vega
His first work in sculpture was a portrait of Lincoln, which the quality of his work amazed the instructor and she encouraged him. His second piece was a sculpture of his horse, Smokey. Enrique became serious about art after he left the U.S. Air Force. “I struggled with my calling. It took traveling throughout Europe, catholic education, a college professor of philosophy, the reading of Aquinas and Augustine, studying the old masters and making serious life changes to find my calling.” He attended Los Angeles City College in which business and economic classes did not appeal to him. It was the art classes offered there which titillated his appetite, and within his hungry psyche he always wanted to go back to art. Tracing a creative path in Europe traveling through Italy, Spain and France, Enrique felt at one with the essence of early Christian art, and the works of the Renaissance artists which he felt saw God through g the same eyes y as he did.
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n artist since the early 1960’s, Enrique de la Vega has been widely recognized for his contribution in the virtues of religious art. For him, delving into his Catholic faith has a more profound meaning than selfexpression. “Faith permeates everything,” he says. “I create what I believe in.” That faith is encapsulated in much of his art, as the icons inhabiting the walls of his gallery stand as a shrine to his mystical motivation. Such representative sacredness can be found in de la Vega's illuminative Madonna piece that graves this month's cover. The painting is done on wood with acrylics and mosaic. Enrique explains, "The mosaic painting is a metaphor for peace and reconciliation. The rising dove is peace being released.” Enrique paints in acrylics and creates in mosaics, although he considers himself primarily a sculptor. “Painting is more of a struggle," he says, "for I mostly work in three dimension.” In 2003 de la Vega was commissioned to create a bronze - an eight-foot statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe for a Marian Shrine in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The Virgin Mary is said to appear in many forms in various parts of the world throughout history and her image is revered by millions of Christians. Enrique explains, “In Italy she is Our Lady of Loreto. In Ireland she is Our Lady of Knox. My favorite is Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. Creating her was a major milestone in my life.” Along with his religious works he has created many secular pieces throughout the years, bronze portraits of a number of famous personalities, a bronze equestrian statue for a park in Montana, a large metal fountain piece for Air Force Village in San Antonio, Texas, two large relief panels “Birth and Rebirth of Mexico” for the Southwest Produce Center in Nogales, Arizona to name a few.
Enrique realized he was an artist at an early ag age g ge and ever since it has been an organic process. s. As A an only child he had to rely on his own resources urrcces to keep occupied and constantly worked with h his h hands, always building and creating. As a young un n ng child his grandmother had a friend who wass a sculptor who gave Enrique lessons.
Cover: "Peace & Reconciliation" acrylics on wood with mosaic, by Enrique de la Vega
Left: one of de la Vega's jeweled crosses available for sale at his working Tubac studio. (photo Joseph Birkett)
Top: The sculpted bust of Padre Kino by Enrique de la Vega. (photo Enrique de la Vega)
Right: Enrique often plays classical Spanish guitar to relax in his Tubac studio.
Far right: Sculpted "Ave Maria" with glass mosaics and paint. (photo Joseph Birkett)
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4 If you are having a public event, please send your information (one month in advance) to tubacvillager@mac.com There is no charge for posting non-profit events. For posting other events: advertising your display ad in the Tubac Villager will allow you up to 100 words to describe your business's special attractions or sales for that month. SAT, APR 4TH – TCA 2009 GOLF CHALLENGE. Play the beautiful Tubac Golf Resort, enjoy great food, win prizes and support the programs of the Tubac Center of the Arts. Call 398-2371 for more information. SAT, APR 4TH – 7TH ANNUAL TASTE OF TUBAC. A celebration of fine wine, savory cuisine and a silent auction. Feautring All Bill Band with Mindy Rondstadt. 5 to 8pm. 398-9371 or 398-1913 or 3988603.
MON, APR 6TH - A FREE TALK AND DISCUSSION ENTITLED “COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE (CSA) AND ALTERNATIVE LIVING IN A WORLD CRISIS” will be held at the Joyner-Green Valley Branch Library from 10 to 11am. The talk will be presented by Minister Kamon Lilly and Minister Tarenta Baldeschi, master gardeners of Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, Ranch, and EcoVillage, which is operated by Global Community
Communications Alliance, a nonprofit in Tumacacori, founded by internationallyknown spiritual leaders Gabriel of Urantia and Niánn Emerson Chase. The average produce travels 1,500 miles to get to your table. Eating locally is environmentally friendly and sustainable. Community Supported Agriculture is a concept of partnering between resident agriculturalists and the people who use the gardener’s produce. CSA provides
Amado Territory Ranch & Michael Arthur Jayme Studio•Gallery invite you to an afternoon performance by R. Carlos
MON, APR 6TH - LA FRONTERA CORRAL OF WESTERNERS INTERNATIONAL will meet at 4pm at Casa de Esperanza-La Posada Campus, 780 S Park Centre Ave. The speaker is Diana Hadley from the Arizona State Museum and she will speak on "Ranchers Response to Drought and Climate Variability in Southern Arizona. The public is invited to attend. Call 520-625-6080 for more info.
in conjunction with the Tubac Center of the Arts “Hidden Treasures of Santa Cruz Valley” studio tour. Be our guests on Saturday, April 25, 2 - 4p.m. at Michael Arthur Jayme Studio•Gallery. Sun. - Wed. 11 - 5 520-270-7462
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THURS, APR 9TH – THE SCIENCE OF SPIRITUALITY MEDITATION GROUP is offering a free, one-day meditation workshop, for new and experienced meditators, from 10am to 4pm at the Amado Territory Inn. Activities are fun and uplifting. The group also offers weekly meditation classes for new meditators and meditation sessions for experienced meditators in Green Valley. All are free, no donations. Nonsectarian, can be practiced by all. Must pre-register, due to limited space, by April 6. For this special event, call Pat at 398-4266, sitaaraa@aol. com, or George at 625-8312, gdshively@cox.net for agenda and to register. THURS, APR 9TH - JIM MC MAHON WILL SPEAK at 1:30 in Cady Hall to the Patagonia Woman's Club about the
Montessori method of teaching, how the Montessori method relates to the rural setting and plans for developing the thirty-seven acre Montessori School campus located on the northern edge of Patagonia. The public is invited to very interesting and informative presentation. Questions please call; Anne Hummel 520-3942532. THURS, APR 9TH - “HUMANMAMMOTH ASSOCIATIONS IN THE SAN PEDRO VALLEY: WHY SO MANY?” Topic for Tubac/SCC AAS Program. According to archaeologist Jesse Ballenger, the San Pedro Valley in Southern Arizona contains four mammoth kill sites between Sierra Vista and Naco—the densest concentration of mammoth kill sites known to science. Ballenger will explore this phenomenon from methodological, ecological, and geological perspectives during his talk. Evidence of intensive human-mammoth interactions at the time of Ice Age extinctions is clear, but this relationship continues to puzzle archaeologists. Ballenger will discuss current thoughts and questions surrounding the San Pedro Valley sites, ranging from “overkill” interpretations to recent arguments that a Clovis-age comet is to blame. Hosted by the Tubac/Santa Cruz County Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society. Public invited. $5 Admission. Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, Old Town Tubac. Meeting/potluck 5pm. Presentation 6pm. 520245-9222, or tubacval@msn. com for more information. FRI, APR 10TH - LIVE MUSIC BY EDUARDO VALENCIA at Wisdom's Cafe from 5 to 8pmish. Call 398-2397 for details. SAT, APR 11TH – The Green Valley Gardeners will present their 29TH SELF-GUIDED ANNUAL GARDEN TOUR & GARDEN FAIr from 9am to 3pm. 5 private gardens in the Green Valley/Sahuarita area are featured. The Garden Fair will be located at the GVR East Rec Center with vendors, fresh produce, educational booths, and food. Tickets $10. For more information contact the Crowes Nest in Tubac or the GVR East Recreation Center.
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Celebrating 30 Years in Tubac! IT’S A BUYER’S MARKET! There are over 100 resale homes listed for sale in Tubac,
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On the other hand... If you’re thinking of listing your property, please give me a call. I will give you a free market analysis, work for you on open houses, if desired, and “spread the word” with advertising in all media and the internet.
FEATURED HOMES This Month
CAMINO KENNEDY – FORTY ACRES at the north end of Tubac Foothills Ranch. Several great building sites. Views all around. Adjoins state land on the north. Can be split into three parcels. Electric at the lot line. Investment Potential! OFFERED AT $159,000.
WESTERN RANCH-STYLE HOME WITH EVERYTHING – AND MORE Three Bedroom, 3-bath main house PLUS two-room hilltop studio/ workshop. Shady porches on three sides, room to entertain, amazing mountain views AND a master bedroom suite that would make a queen envious! The list of wonderful things in this beautiful home goes on and on. Mere words cannot describe all this house has to offer – you have to go look! Give me a call and you can see it for yourself! Reduced to $499,000
OTHER FINE HOMES! - Call for a showing! SPACIOUS 3BR HOME AND 2BR GUEST HOUSE ON 1.8 ACRES. MOUNTAIN VIEWS, CLOSE TO I-19 AND THE VILLAGE! The home has a large, well-lit studio AND additional workroom. Enjoy the mountain view from the long front porch, or entertain on the lush, walled garden patio. Fireplace in the living room, stainless appliances in the roomy kitchen with breakfast bar. Green lawn and tall trees complete the picture. The 2BR guest house is handicap-enabled, and is only two years old. Let us take you on a tour! Offered at $575,000.
KENYON RANCH RD – 8 ACRES – 360 VIEWS – JUST A HALF MILE FROM TOWN! This parcel has more than one building site, and views of all the mountain ranges from Mexico to the Catalinas. GR Zoning – can be split. Electric and phones on the property. OFFERED AT $259,000. AMADO - 5 ACRES, Mountain Views $125,000.
128 AVENIDA DE OTERO Fairway lot, Gorgeous house, Foreclosure $Call 2207 EMBARCADERO WAY 3BR Deluxe Townhome, Bank owns it $Call 15 CIELITO 4BR, Pool, Much More! $645,000 22B NIELSON LANE 3BR, Views, Privacy $375,000 2251 PALO PARADO 4BR, Big Yard, Views $325,000 6 TROCITO CT. 3BR, Pool, Privacy! $459,000 49 PIMERIA ALTA The General’s House - Fix `er up! $460,000 38 PIEDRA DRIVE 3BR on 3Ac – A Total Remodel $499,000 256 MARKET CIRCLE 3BR Patio Home Bank Owned - $Call
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...continued from page 4 SAT, APR 11TH – WALK THE ROCK: THE GEOLOGIC STORY OF BROWN CANYON. Around and within the towers and buttresses of the Baboquivari Mountains is concealed an extraordinary story of shattered landmasses, megavolcanoes and vanished landscapes. Spend a day walking the trails of Brown Canyon. With your eyes to the rocks and ridge-tops you will learn to recognize the clues that reveal the area’s geological history. With the help of your leader by the end of the day you will see things close up and in the scenery that will change your view of the world. Walks begin at 8am and conclude about 2pm. For more information on Brown Canyon and the Environmental Education Center visit the Friends of BANWR website at http://www.friendsofbanwr.org. SUN, APR 12 - EASTER CELEBRATION AT AVALON ORGANIC GARDENS, Farm, and Ranch from 10:30 to 2. For all ages by Freewill Donation. Egg Hunt, Feast, Hay Rides, Live Music & Theater, Garden Tours. Tumacacori, AZ (520) 603-9932. TUES, APR 14TH - THE TUBAC TUESDAY MORNING BREAKFAST FORUM PRESENTS MARCIA CLARK SPEAKING ON "SURVIVING A WWII JAPANESE PRISON CAMP, 194245". Forum meets at Plaza de Anza - Artist's Palate Restaurant, 40 Avenida Goya, Tubac. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling 398-3333 for $10or for $12 at the door. TUES, APR 14TH – POETRY READING IN TUBAC! From 5 to 8pm. First part is happy hour, bring or share the refreshment of the evening. We will spend the remaining part of the time having an open forum to read, recite and receive feedback from our fellow artists that attend. It is an open forum which means, you are encouraged to participate with an original piece of your work, another piece from another Artist that you are inspired by. We then will take turns discussing our work amongst the group. We are meeting at Aldea de Artisticas, 14 Calle Iglesia, Old Town Tubac. For more information, you may reach Martita at 520.398.3113 or e-mail her at Martitamfoss@yahoo. com. WED, APR 15TH - TUBAC CHAMBER BOARD MEETING at 8am at the Tubac Community Center. WED, APR 15TH - BBQ NIGHT WITH LIVE MUSIC BY BILL MANZANEDO at Wisdom's Cafe from 5 to 8pm-ish. Call 398-2397 for details. THURS THRU SAT, APR 16TH - 18TH - Santa Cruz Drama Boosters presents CHATEAU LA ROACH. The award-winning farce, by Lauren Wilson, is about the comic complications which result as the French proprietors of a tourist hotel await the visit of the health inspector disguised as a typical guest. There shouldn't be any problem except that they are in the midst of an invasion of cockroaches, who seem intent on taking over the place. A wild combination of visitors and hotel employees are portrayed by one of the most gifted groups of students we have ever had here.....nine of whom are graduating. Don't miss this one! Tickets for performances on April 16th, 17th & 18th are available from a Rio Rico Thespian student or at San Cayetano Veterinary Hospital. For the low, low price of $10 you can enjoy a wonderful night
of food and fun, as well as support our troupe of hard-working Thespians. Dinner will be catered by Las Vigas and everyone's favorite Dessert Table will be set up. Doors open at 6, dinner served until 6:40 and the performance begins at 7. Children will love this one! Adults, too! Call 520-841-3157 for more information. FRI, APR 17TH -6TH ANNUAL RIGATONI ROUNDUP presented by the Rio Rico Rotary from 4:30 to 8pm at the Rio Rico Community Center at 391 Ave Coatimundi. This fundraiser is to help us help the community. Adults $10. Kids under 12 $5. Entertainment by the Rio Rico High School Jazz Band. Call 377-8669 for details. FRI, APR 17TH - LIVE MUSIC BY LUCKY NEVADA at Wisdom's Cafe from 5 to 8pm-ish. Call 398-2397 for details. FRI THRU SUN, APR 17TH – 19TH - SECOND ANNUAL CHARLES MINGUS HOMETOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL will be held in both Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora. Thirty years after his death, Charles Mingus continues to entice and mesmerize his many fans. This festival is in honor of this remarkable Jazz icon, born in Nogales, Arizona. The Friday night festivities are scheduled at the Pierson Field Complex (451 N. Arroyo Blvd., Nogales, AZ) at 7pm and are free to the public. There will be food, arts and crafts, and displays, as well as games for kids. Special guests will be the Borderline 7 Dixieland “Jass” Band and Señor Q y Su Nuevo Son, an Afro-Cuban jazz group. Saturday will start with an all-day event from 11 to 6pm bringing art, crafts, food, music, fun and games for kids and the entire family. There will be a special Buffalo Soldier Presentation, Jazz For Kids Sessions, Jazz for Adult Sessions, an Art Exhibit, and a Charles Mingus Film Festival. This too will be at the Pierson Field in downtown Nogales. Saturday Night, a Big Band Gala Concert is scheduled at the James K. Clark Performing Arts Center at Nogales High School (1905 N. Apache Blvd., Nogales, AZ). Adult tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door and $5 for students, $10 at the door. The concert will begin at 7pm with the Santa Cruz Jazz Orchestra, Ken Tittelbaugh directing. Joining the band will be special guest renowned jazz trumpeter, Jesse McGuire. Following that performance, Young Sounds of Arizona, Barb Catlin, Director takes over. The group, made up of all-star student players from the Phoenix area, will feature Jazz Vocalist Dennis Rowland, formerly with the Count Basie Band. Sunday takes us to the Esplendor Resort in Rio Rico for a Margarita Jazz Brunch from 10am to Noon. The highlight of the brunch will be Jazz Vocalist Julie Anne and her Band. Tickets for this event will be sold for $25 and must be purchased in advance as there will be no sales at the door. Sunday night Sinolojazz will present a free Jazz Concert in Nogales, Sonora at 5pm at the Teatro Auditorio de Nogales Ayuntamiento located at Avenida Obregón no. 286. A reception will follow. Log on to www.mingusproject.com for more information and details on tickets. You may also contact Olivia Ainza-Kramer at the Nogales Chamber of Commerce at 520-287-3685. This festival is brought to you by the Santa Cruz Advocates for the Arts and local sponsors. continued on page 8...
Top Photo: Azteca Dancers perform at the Tubac Plaza on Sat, April 25th. Upper mid Photo: David Voisard opens his studio for the Hidden Treasures of the Santa Cruz Valley Tour Lower mid Photo: Michael Jayme also opens his studio-gallery for the Hidden Treasures of the Santa Cruz ValleyTour. On Sat the 25th - Don't miss R. Carlos Nakai at the Michael Jayme Studio-Gallery in the Amado Territory Ranch. Bottom Photo: The Santa Cruz Shoestring Players present The Great American Trailer Park Musical at The Community Performing Arts Center in Green Valley. Back Row: Mary Lee Taylor, musical director, Jane Groendyk, Jerry McAllister, Jessica Pomeroy, Edie Lake; Seated: Jean Vickers, Janet Bruce; Floor: Benjamin Shaffer
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SAT, APR 18TH - IT’S A SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY EARTH DAY EVENT...Come One...Come All...Benefiting “The Friends of the Santa Cruz River” Gathering Point... Plaza de Anza. Events are scheduled thru out the day starting at 10am to 5pm. There will be music, food, speakers, demonstrations, and games for the kids, along with face painting, papermaking and complimentary make up by appointment at “Josef’s of ing Tubac” The Nogales High School Marching ent Band will perform at 2pm. This is an event designed to bring all those living and working in Santa Cruz county together to learn and to teach people of all ages about the Santa Cruz River and how precious this vital resource is to our community, natural environment, native plant life and wild life. For more information or to participate call Cammyy 55 or Mueller at 520-398-9426 or 520-576-8855 email mcammym77@yahoo.com. SAT, APR 18TH – THE TASTE OF SANTA CRUZ VALLEY WILL PRESENT AN EXCITING SILENT AUCTION AND RAFFLE at Lavender Restaurant in the Country Club of Green Valley from 11am – 6pm. Make plans to attend this worthwhile endeavor, which offers outstanding Raffle packages and wonderful baskets filled with all sorts of desirable and useful items plus there is art work and jewelry as well as gift certificates from excellent restaurants, service providers, area merchants, businesses, entertainment sources, lodging, salons and much more for the Silent Auction. Last year, approximately 87 restaurants, merchants, businesses and service providers from throughout the Santa Cruz Valley contributed over $3,500 in baskets, gift certificates, items and/or services. This year it we have already surpassed those figures and have many more commitments that will make this year’s event even bigger, better and more successful. Current sponsors include Lavender, Country Club of Green Valley, GV News and KGVY Radio. Area graduating seniors will benefit from scholarships provided by the Unity in the Valley Scholarship Foundation – Adrianna Rebecca Klawson Memorial. For more information or to see the items up for bid visit www.tasteoftsantacruzvalley.org. SAT & SUN, APR 18TH & 19TH -FIRST ANNUAL TUBAC/TUMACACORI EARTH DAY WEEKEND from 11 to 5pm. For all ages by Freewill Donation. Learn about water harvesting, organic gardening, EcoVillage living, and much more. Activities for the whole family will include Street Theater, Environmental Booths, Speakers, Global Change Music, Food, and a Youth Forum. A variety of fun, entertaining, and informative
events will take place throughout the weekend. Spirit Steps Tours will offer Pedicab tours to other sites and merchants around Tubac and van rides for tours to Avalon Organic Gardens, Farm, and Ranch in nearby Tumacácori! Main Stage Gazebo, 29 Tubac Plaza, Tubac, AZ. www.GlobalChangeMusic.org (520) 398-2542. SAT & SUN, APR 18TH & 19TH – HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE SANTA CRUZ VALLEY ARTISTS’ TREASU OPEN STUDIO TOURS. The free tour, sponsored OPE by the Tubac Center of the Arts, is a rare opportunity for art lovers to visit the working o sspaces of more than 65 of the artists who make SSanta Cruz Valley famous across the nation for beautiful and innovative work. Call the TCA for b details at 398-2371. d SAT & SUN, APR 18TH & 19TH - OPEN STUDIO TOURS AT ALDEA DE ARTISTICAS—Working TOUR Artists’ Village in Old Town Tubac—Discover a sampling of what creative endeavors and artistic spirit thrive in Old Town Tubac. Meet the artists where they work and exhibit and participate in guided “Where Art and History Meet” walks in Tubac’s National Historic District. Aldea de Artisticas, Historic Lowe House, 14 Calle Iglesia, Old Town Tubac. For more information, contact Nancy Valentine at 520-245-9222 or tubacval@msn. com. SUN, APR 19TH - TUBAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY PICNIC AT THE TRES ALAMOS HACIENDA - from 2 to 4 pm. Fr more information see page 19 or call 3982020. THURS THRU SAT, APR 23RD TO 25TH - THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL PRESENTED BY THE SANTA CRUZ SHOESTRING PLAYERS. Talented local players from Arivaca, Vail, Green Valley and Sahuarita present a delightfully trashy, totally fun production of this 2005 off-Broadway play that will rock the walls of the new theatre at the Pima County Community Performing Arts Center in Green Valley. Start with a unique trio of babes in Armadillo Acres, South Florida's “most exclusive trailer park” who rock’n’roll you through the show; add a very dull toll collector and his agoraphobic wife in trailer #79. Then throw in a stripper running away from her exboyfriend who is out for revenge and ….. a hurricane? And 14 songs. Road kill and Rock’n’Roll! Flashbacks and flirting. Babes and the blues! Dishing about the neighbors and Disco. Tickets $12 in advance and $15 at the door and are available now online http://www. scshoestringplayers.com or by calling the Pima County Community Performing Art Center 399-1750. Thursday matinee April 23rd, Friday and Saturday evenings April
Images on this page: Saturday, March 14 marked the 2nd Annual St. Patrick’s Day Fashion Show at Old Tubac Inn, modeling fashions from Tubac’s Cowgirl Ugly, (located on Buerrell Street, near the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park.) The stars of the show were the young ladies modeling the clothes – Andrea, Tara, Nicole, Sue, Tia, Michelle, Robin and Lynn. Images by Murray Bolesta Have an event you'd like covered, email: tubacvillager@mac.com
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24th and 25th. And Thursday matinee April 30th, Friday and Saturday evenings May 1st and 2nd. At the Pima County Performing Arts Center 1250 W Continental Road. FRI, APR 24TH - LIVE MUSIC BY CONTRA SWINGS at Wisdom's Cafe from 5 to 8pm-ish. Call 398-2397 for deatils. SAT, APR 25TH - THE TUBAC BUDDHIST MEDITATION CENTER is having its SECOND ANNUAL NONATTACHMENT YARD SALE on from 8am - 3pm at 14 Placita de Anza (behind Virginia Hall's residence) in Tubac, AZ. Items of extraordinary interest and practical value will be displayed for sale. Also, this is an opportunity to release yourself from your attachments and donate to the continuation of Tubac's first Meditation Center. If you would like to donate items to the yard sale they can be dropped off behind Virginia Hall's residence after April 6. TBMC is a nonprofit organization and all donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Proceeds from this sale will go to ensure the continued mission of the center which is to provide a public place for the practice and study of Buddhism and to bring qualified teachers to the center. Also note that the center will be moving to its new location, Suite #2, 2247 West Frontage Rd. Tubac AZ. For more information please visit our web site at www.TubacMeditation.org. SAT, APR 25TH -TUBAC PLAZA WORLD MUSIC DAYS PRESENTS THE AZTECA DANCERS from 11 to 5pm. For all ages by Freewill Donation. The Azteca Dancers are part of the Danza Mexica Cuauhtemoc, a community of people dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Mexica/Azteca culture, ceremonies, warrior dance, accurate history and traditions. Danza Mexica Cuauhtemoc works to build unity, understanding, mutual respect and harmony amongst all nations. The dancers corporal, strengthening, and complex movements are synchronized and coordinated with the sounds of the drums, which in Nahuatl are called Huehuetl, the percussion wood box(Teponaztli), the hand rattle (Ayacaztl), and the rhythmical ankle band (Chachayotes). Wearing colorful, indigenous regalia the dancers will be performing throughout the day and sharing the experience of cultural revival. Main Stage Gazebo, 29 Tubac Plaza, Tubac, AZ. www. GlobalChangeMusic.org (520) 398-2542. SAT, APR 25TH – GRAMMY NOMINATED CARLOS NAKAI PERFORMS at the Michael Arthur Jayme StudioGallery in the Amado Territory Ranch. Free. From 2 to 4pm. In conjunction with the Hidden Treasures Open StudioTour. For more information contact 520-270-7452.
SAT, APR 25TH - THE SANTA CRUZ COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IS HOSTING ITS ANNUAL FOLKLORICO FUNDRAISING EVENT from 4:30 to 9pm. The event features live music by local Nogales, AZ group Caray, folklorico dancing by Lourdes Catholic High School, catered dinner and auction. Tickets are $99 each; $69 is tax-deductible. Proceeds from the event support the work of the Santa Cruz Community Foundation, which provides community leadership, strategic funding and technical assistance to nonprofit organizations on both sides of the US/Mexico border. Last year’s event raised nearly $40,000 which enabled the Santa Cruz Community Foundation to organize historic communitybased efforts like the Economic Summit on the Future of Nonprofit Organizations held in January 2009 and the launch of an Executive Roundtable for nonprofit CEOs. These initiatives strengthen the Santa Cruz nonprofit sector and, therefore, services available to the region. The 2009 Folklorico event is held at Hacienda Corona de Guevavi. Tickets are available by calling (520) 761-4531 and at La Vina (Tubac), Santa Cruz Chili Company (Tumacocori), Alexanders (Nogales) and Brackers Department Store (Nogales). SAT & SUN, APR 25TH & 26TH – HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE SANTA CRUZ VALLEY ARTISTS’ OPEN STUDIO TOURS. The free tour, sponsored by the Tubac Center of the Arts, is a rare opportunity for art lovers to visit the working spaces of more than 65 of the artists who make Santa Cruz Valley famous across the nation for beautiful and innovative work. Call the TCA for details at 398-2371. SAT & SUN, APR 25TH & 26TH - OPEN STUDIO TOURS AT ALDEA DE ARTISTICAS—Working Artists’ Village in Old Town Tubac. For more information, contact Nancy Valentine at 520-245-9222 or tubacval@msn. com. TUES, APR 28TH - TUBAC TUESDAY MORNING BREAKFAST FORUM PRESENTS JEWEL LIVERS, a RN, a life coach and a massage therapist who lives in Tubac, speaking on "HOSPICE: HELPING PATIENTS AND FAMILIES LIVE WITH A TERMINAL ILLNESS". Forum meets at Plaza de Anza - Artist's Palate Restaurant, 40 Avenida Goya, Tubac. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling 398-3333 for $10 or for $12 at the door. THURS THRU SAT, APR 30TH – MAY 2ND - THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL PRESENTED BY THE SANTA CRUZ SHOESTRING PLAYERS. Call the Pima County Community Performing Art Center 399-1750 for more information. continued on page 31...
Images on this page: Art Walk, March 21 and 22 many artists demonstrated their craft - educating and entertaining. Upper Photos: Feminine Mystique Gallery hosted artists at La Entrada de Tubac. Mid Photo: The new TJ’s Tortuga Books & Coffee Beans hosted authors Jane Loew Scharples and Murray Bolesta. Lower Mid Photo: Recording artist Léo Gosselin played to the crowd with his unique “Chapman Grand Stick.” Bottom Right: Karen Newby Gallery’s featured artist this weekend was Louisa McElwain of Santa Cruz, New Mexico. Bottom Left: Original art on stone is a specialty of Sue Nowell. Images by Murray Bolesta
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Fire district taxes may hold steady The board of the Tubac Fire District, which includes Tubac, Tumacácori, the section of Amado inside Santa Cruz County, and the northern portion of Rio Rico, heard a report on March 25 from Santa Cruz County Assessor Felipe Fuentes. He said the total value of property inside the district is expected to rise by $17 million when the new tax year begins on July 1. After the meeting, Fire Chief Kevin Keeley said he’s already working on the budget, and he intends to recommend that the current tax rate remain the same. The operating budget this year is $5.8 million and the district has 34 employees. Fuentes said that for the 2010 year, the valuation will drop by about $9 million, if there is no additional building. Keeley said that it is his intention to keep the tax rate steady even if the valuation drops. In a related issue, Keeley told the board that the district will likely grow in size this year with the possible annexation of Morning Star Ranch and Salero Ranch. Those are areas of large home sites southeast of Tubac in mountain foothills. In other business, the board approved the purchase of three new ¾-ton GMC or Chevrolet staff vehicles to replace old ones that have mechanical problems. Keeley said he believes they'll cost somewhat less than $50,000 each, which includes the light package and siren. Radios can be transferred from the older vehicles. New water district in Tubac gets OK The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors in March approved a resolution establishing the Aliso Springs Domestic Water Improvement District west of Interstate 19 and south of Exit 34. The developers of the proposed 28-residential lot Casas de Guadalupe project requested that the board create the improvement district to provide them with the legal framework for funding and
operating a drinking water system to serve their 104-acre development. A memo from the county’s community development director, Mary Dahl, said the developers will submit an application to the Arizona Department of Water Resources for an assured water supply for the Casas de Guadalupe. Obtaining the certificate of 100-years assured water supply is required prior to final plat approval. The Aliso Springs Water District officials are also planning to engage in negotiations with the residents further west of their development with an eye toward expanding the boundaries of the district to serve them as well, Dahl said. Future of Tubac state park still in peril After a tumultuous February when it appeared that a budget crisis might close the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, action was postponed in March. A meeting of the Arizona State Parks Board on April 3 (after press deadline) could mean a decision was made. In March, Gov. Jan Brewer issued an executive order reviving a task force that will recommend ways to preserve parks. The order asks the Sustainable State Parks Task Force to discuss creative options that would allow the parks system to achieve financial self-sufficiency, including leasing, selling or cooperatively managing parks. Facing $35 million in legislative budget cuts for fiscal 2009, the Arizona State Parks Board has temporarily closed Tonto National Bridge State Park near Payson, Florence’s McFarland State Historic Park and Jerome State Historic Park. The Tubac Chamber of Commerce sent Executive Director Carol Cullen and vice president Susan Walsh to the parks board’s February meeting, and both were scheduled to attend the April 3 meeting to testify about the importance of the Tubac park to the community and to all of southern Arizona. As well, a meeting was tentatively planned on March 27 with Arizona Senator
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Jonathon Paton, whose District 30 includes Tubac, to explain concerns and request support, Cullen said. An earlier meeting set for March 13 was rescheduled when Paton had to travel to Washington, D.C., she said. The website for Arizona State Parks is azstateparks.com and current information will be posted there, spokeswoman Ellen Bilbrey said. Another source is arizonastateparksfoundation.org. Supervisors have gone paperless In January, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors moved to reduce the amount of paper used for the board’s weekly meetings. Each supervisor has a laptop with all the documents on it. Through a website, anyone else can also see what the three supervisors are looking at. The web site, www.co.santa-cruz.az.us/, has a simple link to the meeting and the supporting letters and forms. There, anyone can read all the documents that will be publicly discussed during the meetings, which generally are held every Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. In an email, County Supervisor John Maynard, who represents Tubac, Amado and Tumacácori, said, “We have been working on this transition for a few months. It greatly reduces the amount of time, the amount of copying and the amount of paper used to prepare our weekly Board of Supervisors meeting. We still have some bugs to work out in the system; each week it gets better.” 120 attend water rate hearing A state-level hearing to decide about a proposed jump in water rates for Tubac residents began March 19. One spokesman said residents should know the decision in September. A large turnout greeted four of the five elected members of the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) who visited Tubac on March 18 to gather comments about proposed water increases by Arizona American Water Co.
They were met by about 120 individuals and business people and listened to speakers who included Cha Cha Donau, Bruce Pheneger, James Patterson, Richard Toye, Nancy Bohman, Al Waters, Carol Cullen, Sandra Bushmaker, Mindy Maddock, Rich Bohman, Jim Swiggert, Linda James and Tom Hoffman. Several others had signed a form to speak but then said earlier speakers made their point. They included Karl Friedmann, Alan Hyde, Richard Hunter, April Erickson and Lil Hunsacker. Attending from the ACC were Gary Pierce, Paul Newman, Sandra Kennedy and Bob Stump. Commission chairperson Kristin Mayes had to attend a meeting elsewhere. Tubac residents have been advised that their monthly water bills could increase 226 percent or about $111 a month, from an average of $49.38 a month to $160.85 a month based on the average customer who uses just more than 11,700 gallons of water a month. That would include two components – an increase for inflation and maintenance spending, along with a new regulations mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to decrease the amount of arsenic in the water, said Joni McGlothlin, external affairs manager for Arizona American Water Co. Al Waters, general manager of the Tubac Golf Resort, and representing Tubac Management LLC, said on March 18 higher water fees could cost the resort $100,000 a year. “We operate a 600-acre golf resort and we employ about 200 people full time and part time. In addition to our resort, we’ve developed 186 single-family home sites, and on top of that we have new home sites for 100 homes. We have put in a water treatment plant for the 100 homes plus the resort. That’s cost us over $1.5 million and takes between $5,000 and $8,000 a month to operate. “Under the current proposals, the increase to the golf resort will be over $100,000 a year,” he said. “In today’s economy, it’s just not available for us.”
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y friend, the old Navajo silversmith, likes to drink slow cups of coffee at fest-food establishments late at night while discussing whatever needs about four cups’ worth of contemplation. The other night, the subject was turquoise, and he started off with things you already know if you’ve hung around the reservation much – like how you aren’t supposed to leave a turquoise necklace lying in a heap or tangled up in a box where it doesn’t have room to be comfortable. It’s really best to hang it on the wall. Another thing he said is that when you are making jewelry and you have some chips left over, you don’t just throw them out. You treat them with respect. Maybe you grind them up or mix them with some earth and put them in your cornfield or your melon patch so the harvest will be good. You shouldn’t have bad thoughts when you work with turquoise. You never use it in a greedy way or you can bring harm to many people. You have to be careful how you think of it, remembering how it was brought to this world by First Man and First Woman when they came from the underworld.
He told me how, when he was a boy first learning jewelry work at home, he had seen certain remarkable demonstrations of the power in that ird sacred green-blue stone. So, finally, about the third refill, I told him my turquoise story. I had just moved into a small town by the Rioo Grande in New Mexico, where my window looked out at the cotton wood bosque along the river and the mesas of the Indian pueblo a mile north. Even before I finished unpacking my boxes of books, I thought I ought to go visit the river, so I followed the dirt road past an alfalfa field and through the trees. At the edge of the water I took off my shoes and walked in the damp sand. Almost instantly, I saw a tiny piece of turquoise at my feet. I knew it had to be a sign that I was in a good place, so I took it home and put it on my windowsill. After that, turquoise seemed to come to me. Every day I went to the river and – not every day, but most days – I came away with turquoise in my hand. By the end of the month, I needed a small basket for my treasures. Of course, I was late at finishing a manuscript I’d told my New York editor I would be mailing any
th at the typewriter and look day. I would sit there t at myy basket of turquoise and pretty soon I’d be walking out the door again. I tried to work. I even put up a sign that said: ALL THE WRITERS IN NEW YORK ARE AT THEIR DESKS. WHERE ARE YOU GOING? But I soon devised a way of getting out the door without seeing it. I had to write several notes to my editor explaining that a series of crises had come up, but I never actually mentioned that I was spending my life down on my hands and knees in shallow water. It seemed to me that I was living in the center of a dream and the power of turquoise was all around me. I began to feel that I might be the best turquoise-finder in New Mexico, if not the world. I thought perhaps I had been blessed by the re Turquoise People. I didn’t mention it, but secretly, I could tell that I was becoming smarter, stronger, happier and infinitely betterlooking. One day a man from the pueblo stopped bby to visit. He noticed my basket of turquoise, picked it up, touched a few of the stones. I told him how the river gave it to me, and he did not seem surprised.
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A few days later, he stopped by again. We talked about the best way to make posole and whose horse had won a race and who was trying to find a ride to Santa Fe.
The minute I read the letter, I realized, of course, that I must give the river something of my own. Clearly, the almost finished manuscript was it.
And then he said, “Well, looks like a bad year in the village. Looks like all the crops going to be bad. Looks like everybody might get a lot of bad luck.”
I ran all the way to the river and sailed my book, page by page, into its wet southward journey. I tell you, I felt wonderful.
When I asked why, he said, “Because the people put their turquoise in the water to make blessings and it flows down here and you come and take it out.” He said it very matter-of-factly, and I (equally matter-of-fact and casual) replied that I’d take care ot if. I did. Early the next morning, just as the sun was coming up, I slid the turquoise pieces, one by one, into the Rio Grande. I sat there for a long time watching the water carry them downstream, and I even freed one or two that were tangled up in weeds. Then I walked home missing the turquoise power I had become accustomed to, and feeling somehow that my private ceremony had not been quite complete. Maybe the river needed a little something else from me. I thought about it all morning. Meanwhile, back at the typewriter, I was trying to get in a few hours’ work. Another nice note had just arrived from my editor, saying, “We continue to look forward to the new book, which must surely be near completion now.”
The only hard part was explaining to that editor in New York. I thought a telephone call might be better than a letter, but I was probably wrong because when I said I’d had to throw it in the river, there was a long pause. Finally, he said, “But what about the carbon?” I tried again to explain about the cornfields and all the other crops and the general bad luck I might have caused, but he never did seem to understand it.
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Miguel Patio Homes, Trails Head, Sanctuary and Tubac Golf Resort Gallery Collection. In Green Valley, projects included Estates at Alamos, Madera Reserve, Pasadera, Madera Shadows, and Madera Foothills. Among the commercial projects she’s tackled since opening her own firm have been construction of Central Pet in Amado, tenant improvement for Vista Eye Center’s new Green Valley office, and remodeling areas at the Montessori School in Tubac. Now, one of Jacobson’s undertakings is the Floating Stone Inn and Spa on Calle Iglesia in Tubac where an expansion to provide nine guest rooms, therapy pools, and other spa facilities will begin soon. She’s also working for developer Gary Brasher on the Tres Alamos 475-home residential project on 1,700 acres east of the Santa Cruz River. “I’m excited about it. It think it’s some of the most beautiful, choice property” in Tubac. There, she’s completed a renovation of the hacienda and of two casitas. Meanwhile, she’s completed two full home remodels in Canoa Ridge in Green Valley. An avid hiker, Jacobson has a private pilot’s license. “I fly occasionally, mostly from Ryan Airfield” west of Tucson, she said. Because new-home construction is lagging due to the country’s economic troubles, Jacobson has positioned herself to assist clients in related ways, she said. “There’s
a tremendous amount of flexibility in my service. I would like to be known as the person to call if you’re looking for a subcontractor.” She said she can provide recommendations and additional help. She can answer questions about the cost of renovations when a person is considering buying an older home. “A lot of times people will go with a remodel environment because they’re able to get an opportunity on the home and they’re able to manage their square foot costs to be a little less expensive, versus going to brand new. You’re not bringing in infrastructure and you get mature landscaping. People are doing that because it’s a little more value for their money,” Jacobson said. In Tubac and Green Valley, her clients are different from the Philadelphia area, she said. “Back East, my clientele were more of that developing career age, 30 to 50. Once the contract was set it in place, it was just like, get the work done. “Here, the clients are much more engaged in their projects. I prefer the engagement. That way, we’re getting what they want at the end of the day. Often, as a project becomes three dimensional, what you want changes. That’s what makes it fun.” Her website is lorinjacobsonhomes.com. The phone number for her office, on Plaza Road in the courtyard behind Red Door Gallery, is (520) 975-8469.
this month’s advertisers in the Village
Text: Tubac To:48696
Business Name
Phone #
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Anza
520-398-1010
85
The Artist’s Daughter
520-398-9525
5
The Artist’s Palate
520-398-3333
50
Beads of Tubac
520-398-2070
60
Brasher Real Estate, Inc. TEXT: TUBAC BRASHER TO: 48696
520-398-2506
17
Bruce Baughman Gallery
520-398-3098
3
Café residio P
520-398-8503
15
Casa Fina de Tubac
520-398-8620
99 La Paloma de Tubac
65, 48
Casa Maya de Mexico
520-398-3933
98 Tubac Villager
2
The hef’s Table C
520-398-8501
7
Emmy’s Pilates Studio
520-275-3323
21
Feminine Mystique
520-398-0473
32
Grumpy Gringo Fine Cigars
520-980-5177
84
Hal Empie Gallery
520-398-2811
Heir Looms RUGS
TEXT: TUBAC
98
520-398-2369 TO:
48696
Jane’s Attic
6
Josef’s alon
21
Dr. Brian Kniff, DDS
520-398-8408
99
La Paloma de Tubac
520-398-9231
35
Lavender Bay Antiques
520-870-8332
46
La Viña
520-398-8142
64
Long Realty TEXT: TUBAC LONG
520-398-2962
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Old Presidio Traders
Old Town CALLE IGLESIA
97
97 St. Ann’s Church
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Plaza Road
520-398-9301
40 Heir Looms
520-398-0900
46 La Viña
48696
The Old Book Shop
PLACITA DE ANZA
48 Casa Maya de Mexico
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Camino Otero 37 Tubac Online Sales
520-393-1415
36 Roberta Rogers Studio
520-398-9333
35 Lavender Bay Antiques 32 Grumpy Gringo Fine Cigars
52
Out of the Way Galleria
520-398-9409
38
Quilts Ltd.
800-255-2306
36
Roberta Rogers Studio
520-979-4122
45
Rogoway allery G
520-398-2041
70
Sempre ella
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520-398-9489
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Shelby’s istro
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520-398-8075
70
Sunrise Jewelers
520-398-1121
75
TJ's Tortuga Books & Coffee Beans
520-398-8109
41
Tubac Center of the Arts
520-398-2371
37
Tubac Online Sales
520-398-2437
21 Dr. Brian Kniff, DDS
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Tubac Ranch TEXT: TUBAC RANCH
520-398-8381
21 Feminine Mystique
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HESSELBARTH
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24 Visitor’s Center
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17 Bruce Baughman Gallery
98
Tubac Villager
520-398-3980
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Tumacookery
520-398-9497
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Yardwoman
520-398-9565
15 Casa Fina de Tubac
more shops along the Frontage Road
50
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La Entrada Parking
main entrance
60
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99
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Tubac Presidio State Historical Park Museum & Shop
97
this month’s advertisers outside of the Village
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SERVICES A Dog’s Life
520-237-4422
Fiesta Tours
520-398-9705
First United Realty
800-726-0100 TEXT: TUBAC UNITED TO: 48696
Jacobson Custom Homes
520-975-8469
Ken Michael, Art Framing
520-398-2214
Sustainable Arizona, Design Services
520-240-1018
Village Counseling
520-820-1678
Along the Frontage Road, North Tubac Plaza 52 Out of the Way Galleria
Dos Silos Mexican Cuisine
520-398-3787
Pancho’s (at the Tubac Golf Resort)
520-398-0003
Realty Executives, Bill Mack
520-398-2945 TEXT: TUBAC TEAM TO: 48696
51 Jane’s Attic
Realty Executives, Charlie Meaker 520-237-2414 TEXT: TUBAC CHARLIE TO: 48696
BURRUEL STREET
Tubac Road
Realty Executives, Sally Robling
84 The Artist’s Daughter 85 Hal Empie Gallery 85
Spa Zen
520-398-9886
Stables Ranch Grille
520-398-2678
70 Sempre Bella
Tubac Art Exchange
520-398-2312
68 Galleria de la Vega
Tubac Golf Resort and Spa
82 Old Presidio Traders 70 Sunrise Jewelers
TUBAC RO AD
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64 Long Realty 82
Along the Frontage Road, South
61 The Old Book Shop 60 Brasher Real Estate, Inc.
Mercado de Baca
TUBAC
Mercado de Baca
Santa Cruz Chili Co
520-398-2591
75 TJ's Tortuga Books & Coffee Beans 78
Plaza de Anza
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Hesselbarth Lane
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520-398-8003
7 Emmy’s Pilates Studio
Kristofer’s Bistro
520-625-0331
8 Josef ’s Salon
Long Realty, Cha Cha Donau
520-591-4982
5 The Artist’s Palate
Lordex Spine Center
520-207-9345
Michael Arthur Jayme Studio & Gallery
520-270-7462
2 The Chef ’s Table
Poco Cayuse, interior design
520-398-9793
1 Anza Market Place
Ventana Mortgage
520-885-9594
4 Tubac Ranch 3
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Amado RV & Self Storage
6 Anza de Tubac, LLC
Plaza de Anza
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Tubac Villager Advertiser Map drawing by Roberta Rogers Provided as a courtesy by the Tubac Villager. Information edited by the Tubac Villager. This map is an artistic rendering of the Village of Tubac and Tubac Villager supporting advertisers of April 09 Unlisted map structures may be active businesses. Work in progress. For questions or comments call: 520-398-3980
Beaujolais - The Joyous Country Wines of Two Seasons
by Bernard Berlin
“Look into a glass of wine from Beaujolais
and see the harmony of the hillsides, the smiles of the winegrowers, and the charm of the vineyards and its cellars.” The late Compte Henri de Rambuteau and former president of Confrérie des Compagnons du Beaujolais said this of his beloved province of Beaujolais to an American friend. There is no other wine in France that epitomizes the personality of the area’s countryside and its people, as much as the wine from Beaujolais. A single mouthful of this wine reveals a subtle effervescence that bursts forth with mouthwatering fruity berry flavors, beckoning the introduction of food. The French enjoy this light red wine with almost any dish, including fish. The ability of these wines to accompany such a wide variety of food comes from their simple, almost innocent nature. The first sip will be as delightfully revealing as the last swallow, pleasant and fruity. Its lighthearted feel in the mouth invites the company of sausages, hearty vegetables such as mushrooms and potatoes, roasted chickens or rich creamy quiches, brimming with vegetables or ham or both. The wines of Beaujolais are the perfect choice for springtime’s lighter fare or as a year round, everyday table wine. November is harvest time in the province of Beaujolais. There are a total of twelve growing areas or appellations in this province. Only two of the twelve appellations, Beaujolais and Beaujolais Villages, situated in the southern half of the province are the home of Beaujolais Nouveau (new Beaujolais). This “new” wine, released as early as three weeks after harvesting is an exuberant expression of the ancient winemaking process called carbonic maceration. Very few wine growing regions, other than Beaujolais, still use this method. First, whole grapes internally ferment for several days while sitting in steel vats, then the grapes undergo crushing and fermentation to become wine. The color of Beaujolais Nouveau has an appealing luminous iridescence. The strawberry aromas wafting from this “new” wine are light and fresh, provoking a Proustian memory of summer mornings on a country fruit farm. When sipped it dances on our palates with mild fruity acids; a good-natured companion to whatever food we are having.
Chef Arturo welcomes you to experience the tradition of Wisdom’s excellence.
In April, all twelve of the appellations in the province, including Beaujolais and Beaujolais Villages, release what the French refer to as the “mature” Beaujolais. In just a few short months, after carbonic maceration takes place and waiting in wood barrels, the “mature” wines replace the “new” wine. They are whimsically playful on the palate and spring into our mouths alive with lighthearted fruity energy, slightly tempered by their brief stay in wood barrels. Beaujolais’ location is near perfect for growing grapes. Their winemakers say that their vineyards are where the winds of the Atlantic Ocean and Loire River Valley join with the winds coming up from the Rhone River Valley and the Mediterranean Sea, to caress their vines. The province lies southeast of Paris between the celebrated terroir (soil) of Burgundy, at its northern most point and south to Lyon, the home of some of the most celebrated restaurants in France. The long history of Beaujolais, the wine and the region, is one of honest, hardworking people making an unpretentious drinking wine for everyone to enjoy. Their winemaking skills pass on from generation to generation. Some of the winemaking families in Beaujolais have lived there for many generations. Each succeeding generation grows up with the feel of the soil on their hands and an understanding of the grape that sitting in a university classroom cannot impart. Long ago, long before wine cooperatives were established and prior to négociants selling most of the wine produced in Beaujolais, their winemakers sold their wine by the barrel, directly to the cafés as far south as the city of Lyon. Le Beaujolais Nouveau est Arrivé!
Every year, in the cold darkness of night, on the third Thursday of November, precisely one minute past midnight, caravans of trucks laden with millions of cases of Beaujolais Nouveau, stream away from the vineyards in the southern half of Beaujolais to distribute their fêted cargo. Celebrating the arrival of “Beaujolais Premeur,” its original name, is a two hundred year old French tradition that originated with horse drawn carts delivering barrels of the “new” wine throughout the nearby towns and villages. Today, not just the French but also the world celebrates
Beaujolais Nouveau’s arrival. In cities all over the world, from Paris to New York, in wine shops and restaurants, posters are proudly displayed declaring, Le Beaujolais Nouveau est Arrivé! No wine’s release is as heralded or as anticipated as that of Beaujolais Nouveau. In the springtime, when the excitement of Beaujolais Nouveau has subsided, the “mature wines” of Beaujolais takes center stage. These are the wines from the appellations of Saint-Amour, Juliénas, Chénas, Moulin-à-Vent, Fleurie, Chiroubles, Morgon, Régnié, Côtes de Brouilly, Brouilly, Beaujolais and Beaujolais Villages, that are slightly aged compared to their “new” wine cousin. In human terms, the “mature wines” would be akin to teenagers, still teeming with unbridled energy but less youthful, by comparison to their “new” born relative. A favorite of mine from this historic French region and a very good expression of the “mature wine” from Beaujolais is from Chateau de La Chaize, in Brouilly. The domaine or property is one of the largest and grandest in the region. The same architect of the Palace of Versailles, built for Louis XIV, signed the château’s plans; their sumptuous, regal gardens are the work of the same designer of the beautiful and colorful Tuileries Gardens, adjacent to the Louvre, in Paris. The wine of Chateau de La Chaize is estate bottled and is one hundred percent Gamay, which is the principal grape of Beaujolais. It is an affable, fruity wine that feels as if it is gently sparkling on the palate. I have been enjoying this wine for over ten years and each vintage is consistently pleasurable with almost any food. Delight in any of the wines from Beaujolais while they are young, within six months after the November release for Beaujolais Nouveau; drink the “mature wines” within one year to three or possible four years after their date of vintage. Remember the pleasure of Beaujolais lies within its youthful exuberance. It excites the palate with mild fruity acids; the aromas inspire memories of fresh cut fruit, with hints of garden soil. The colors are invariably shimmering garnet, luring the beholder to take pleasure in the joyous country wines from Beaujolais. This year, burst forth into springtime with me and enjoy any of the lively, energetic wines from Beaujolais!
(1/2 Mile North of the Tumacácori Mission) Tumacácori, AZ 85640 (3 Miles South of Tubac)
Montessori de Santa Cruz Talent Show & Silent Auction Saturday, May 2 at 6pm at the De Anza Trails RV Resort. 2869 E. Frontage Rd., Amado (just south of Central Pet) ~ Join our local school community for a fun-lled evening of talent & shopping and homemade dessert.
TIME FOR GREAT LIVE MUSIC AT WISDOMS
www.w wisdo omsca afe.ccom Contra Swings
Lucky Nevada
Edwardo Valencia
TUES 2-FOR-1 MARGARITAS
Shrimp Taco Salad
Chimichanga
Steak & Potato Dinner
Combination
Great food. Great service. Great prices. Great atmosphere.
Friday, April 3 ~ FIRST FRIDAY w/2-for-1 Margaritas & LIVE MUSIC by Bill Manzanedo, 5-8pm-ish Friday, April 10 ~ Live Music by Eduardo Valencia, 5-8pm-ish Wednesday, April 15 ~ BBQ NIGHT by Chef Arturo, come see what everyone’s raving about! 5-8pm-ish w/Live Music by Bill Manzanedo Friday, April 17 ~ Live Music by Lucky Nevada, 5-8pm-ish Monday, April 20 ~ NEW SPRING FOOD SPECIALS, call for details Friday, April 24 ~ Live Music by Contra Swings, 5-8pm-ish Friday, May 1 FIRST FRIDAY 2-for-1 Margaritas & Live Music by Amber Norgaard, 5-9pmish
THS Update:
by Patty Hilpert
The Map Collection
W
e were lucky enough to have a volunteer familiar with maps (and their storage and preservation) take a look at our collection over the last few months. Don Davidson says the THS collection provides a “pretty decent” cartographic coverage of our area through time. Perhaps the most numerous collection of maps is the topographic map collection issued mainly by the U. S. Geological Survey. We have a number of these maps for areas in southern Arizona and northern Mexico at various scales, and they are in good condition. Our “historical” maps fall into four main categories: Maps before 1799, Maps between 1799 and 1899, Maps between 1900 and 1960, and Maps after 1960, which might be considered “Development maps.” These are also in good condition for the most part. We have a number of “Resource maps” (water, minerals, environmental, geological) that aren’t comprehensive in their coverage, but the ones we have are in good physical shape. Our "Development" materials are spotty in terms of coverage, but are also in decent physical condition. We haven’t finished the survey of the physiographic maps, and we are comparing the actual collection to what was cataloged by Mary Bingham in the 1990s. As a new volunteer at the THS this year, I was thrilled to see that THS was using PastPerfect Museum Software. I’d used it as the person in charge of Collections Management at the historical society in Dover, Massachusetts. PastPerfect made working with the collection much easier. Easier than the old card file system, that is. Information can be found and crossreferenced with a few taps on the keyboard. PastPerfect divides a collection into four
categories: photos, library, objects, and archives which are collections of historical records. Such as letters, postcards, articles, clippings, files, oral histories, and maps. Maps? Yes, the maps that volunteer Don Davidson is working hard to sort and organize. The information for each map is being entered into the computer program. PastPerfect has a special map component with a place for latitude, longitude, scale (Don’s good at this) as well as the creator of the map, where and when it was published, the area the map covers, and so on.
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It also has a place to list ‘subjects’ or ‘keywords’ for each map which is helpful if we want to look up something of particular interest in the collection. For example, if we look up ‘railroads’ together with ‘map,’ we will find entries for two maps. One of them from 1868 has the marvelous title, ‘Map of the Route of the Southern Continental R.R. Giving a General View of the Recent Surveys of the Kansas Pacific Railway Co. Across the Continent.’ This is what makes the tedious work of data entry fun: the chance to pause and take a peek at an interesting map. We have a long way to go to enter data for the entire collection into the computer, but you can see what we have done so far by typing the phrase ‘PastPerfect online Tubac Historical Society’ into your Google search box. The Past-Perfect Splash Page should pop up. ‘Click here for the online catalogue!’ is at the bottom of the page. In the next search box, try putting in ‘Acuna.’ You’ll find a listing that includes a book by Rodolfo F. Acuna, Sonoran Strongman: Ignacio Pesqueira and His Times; an Oral History by Luis Acuna Gastellum; and the biographical cards written by Elizabeth Brownell while researching They Lived in Tubac. Then, hopefully, you will be so intrigued you will stop by THS and take a look at some of the many fine things we have in our collection.
to our World of Art.
Where for over 40 years, our family has selected the finest.
TUBAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PICNIC AT THE TRES ALAMOS HACIENDA! THS has a once-in-a-lifetime picnic lined up this year. It will be held on Sunday, April 19, 2009, from 2 to 4 pm at the hacienda of the Tres Alamos Ranch. Formerly owned by Gary and Leslie Troyer, the hacienda has never before been opened to the public. Mrs. Troyer used exquisite taste to authentically re-create the romantic ambience of a cattle baron's lifestyle. The house has a magnificent hand-carved mesquite and leather bar, many antique doors and a host of hand-hewn beams. In addition to the hacienda, ticket holders will be able to tour the many outbuildings of the ranch, the guest cabins, stables and show corral, all of which reflect the historical character of the hacienda. This 1,706 acre ranch is amazing in every respect, and the THS picnic is one of very few chances for members of the general public to see it. The menu for the picnic, catered by the Tubac Golf Resort, features a barbeque of beer-brined roasted pig, ranch beans, coleslaw, pasta salad, cornbread, cobbler, iced tea and coffee. Once you’ve picked up your plate, you’ll be able to sit back on one of the hacienda’s patios and watch the wild ducks on the ponds, the longhorned cattle and horses grazing in the pastures, and the spectacular views of the Tumacacori Mountains while you listen to music of the West by Bill Manzanedo.
Hajji Baba says... “Check out our newly expanded Zapotec Room.”
With a comfortable patio to smoke on...
Attendance will be limited. Tickets to see one of Santa Cruz County's most beautiful settings, enjoy a delicious bar-b-que picnic, and listen to great music are only $40 per person. Contact the Tubac Historical Society for more information at 398-2020.
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OPEN 7 DAYS TUES - SAT 10 - 5 SUN - MON 11 - 4
Murray Bolesta’s CactusHuggers Photography specializes in borderland images and supports the preservation of southern Arizona’s natural, rural, and cultural heritage. Murray’s home gallery in Green Valley can be visited by appointment and he can be reached at www.CactusHuggers.com.
Walter Blakelock Wilson American Artist b. 1929
Top left: A caterpillar at Bellows Spring decides not to take a flying leap. Top right: Among the birds at the higher elevations is a Steller’s Jay. Bottom right: A bee and mountain lupine on the trail. Left mid: Warmer weather yields a healthy harvest of reptiles.Below left: Facing the Mt. Hopkins telescope facilities. Above: Your faithful photographer upon his crowning achievement.
T
he ambitious borderlands photographer is an achiever in high places. Climbing to the top of our area’s highest mountain, Mt. Wrightson, can be a peak of reward for the photo trekker. Recently, while trudging my way up the trail and carrying all sorts of heavy loads, I was passed by runners in skimpy workout attire who appeared to be training for the next triathlon. They zoomed past me racing uphill at a hundred knots, probably reached the summit in minutes, and later careened downhill in a blur, spraying pebbles while passing me again with a grin and a wave. At the most, these Olympians were carrying a lightweight titanium water bottle filled with energy juice. In my case, being the borderlands photo slogger, I was packing my usual heavy array of supplies, equipment and protective clothing. One look at my clunky boots and shoulders laden with a knapsack and dual cameras spawned some half-polite comments from a few of the sleeker folk. Nevertheless, I made it to the top. Mt. Wrightson is the crown of the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson, and reaches 9,500 feet of elevation in early summer and somewhat more during other less hospitable seasons. In April, the critical concern is to watch for spring snows. In June, good planning results in a very comfortable hike for the photographer, with clear vistas spanning the entire planet and beyond.
The lower trail starts out hot if you begin too late, but the mountain possesses all of the temperature variations that are characteristic of the “sky islands” of the southwest U.S. Always windy, the Mt. Wrightson’s peak has the most pleasant temperatures after lunch. One of the most popular routes is the one I took, via the Old Baldy Trail and Baldy Saddle and from there a quick jaunt to the peak. The Saddle, at about 8,500 feet, is a great place for a lunch rest followed by some good-old-fashioned bird photography. I lugged my telephoto lens to this elevation and put it to good use capturing images of Olive Warblers, Steller’s Jays and other winged wonders. Every stage of the mountain climb offers great opportunities for nature photography: birds, springs, bugs, reptiles, views. At the top, though, Mt. Wrightson stands high enough for the borderlands photographer to achieve some frankly lackluster pictures in every direction. You see, photos from mountaintops often are not appealing, like pictures from an airplane: the distances are too vast to form a striking image, especially when the photo is reproduced in a smaller size. Squinting for details is often induced by these images. You should add perspective with a person or other object in the foreground, such as a rock wall. Watch that depth of field, to make sure to have both foreground and distance in focus. The borderlands photographer accomplishes this with a combination of lens focal length, aperture setting, and distance from foreground subject. The only problem with climbing mountains is that you have to come all the way down again.
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by Carl A. Olson
Crane Flies
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very Spring here in Arizona, insects start emerging, and because so little has occurred in the preceding months, they are more visible to the public. These bugs tend to cause great concern since few people have been taught much about minifauna. One of the critters emerging now which sometimes causes alarm is a large, gangly fly that seems to always have an abundant population: the crane fly.
Photographs by Julián Cardona Words by Charles Bowden
Exodus 11.75 x 9.5 in. 295 pp., 115 duotones in four sections ISBN: 978-0-292-71814-2 $50.00, hardcover with dust jacket
This long-legged beast unfortunately looks a lot like a giant mosquito, and is sometimes even called a “Texas Mosquito.” The crane fly is not a good flier and is attracted to lights at night, and thus is often found by homeowners in the morning. Since there has always been very negative press about mosquitoes, it is not hard to imagine why people become concerned by the presence of this fly, as it has a pronounced head, which might be mistaken for the proboscis of a female mosquito, and long legs, with other typical mosquito appearances. The crane fly is a nectar feeder if it feeds at all. Most likely you may encounter them in pairs, because the main chore for the adult is reproduction. After
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Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama by Hattie Wilson When starting out for Kenya, Barack described himself as, “...a Westerner not entirely at home in the West, an African on his way to a land full of strangers.” He was met at the Nairobi airport by his half-sister Auma, a teacher at the university there, and stayed at her apartment. When she took him on tours of the city he wrote of experiencing, “the freedom that comes from not being watched, the freedom of feeling that your hair grows as it’s supposed to grow and that your rump sways the way a rump is supposed to sway.” He concluded, “Here the world is black, and so you were just you: you could discover all those things that were unique to your life without living a lie or committing betrayal.” But while waiting to be served at the café of the New Stanley Hotel he learned of the status of blacks in the new Kenya. When waiters served the Americans at a nearby table and came to theirs only after repeated signals from Barack, Auma marched out of the restaurant, furious. After she calmed down she explained that this was typical of the treatment of blacks in Kenya and that she could not enter a club of a hotel in Nairobi unless accompanied by a white person. “That’s why,” she said, “Kenya, no matter what its GNP, no matter how many things you can buy here, the rest of Africa laughs. It’s the whore of Africa. It opens its legs to anyone who pays.” Barack explained later in his book that Kenya’s president, as soon as the revolution had succeeded and he was released from prison, assured the whites that businesses would not be nationalized and their landholdings kept as long as the blacks controlled the government. As Barack put it, “In Kenya a white man could still walk through Isak Dinesen’s home and imagine romance with a mysterious young baroness, or sip gin under the ceiling fans of the Lord Delamere Hotel and admire portraits of Hemingway smiling after a successful hunt, surrounded by grim-faced coolies.” The rest of Barack’s trip is spent with his family of aunts, and cousins, ending with a trip to the Obama farm in the back country near Lake Victoria. There he met Granny, one of his grandfather’s several wives, and learned the story of his grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, known as the Terror because of his tempers. Onyango, a member of the Luo tribe, was born in 1895, the year a railroad was started by the British to run from the Indian Ocean to Lake Victoria. The railroad brought British settlers and the creation of their large plantations for coffee and tea, administrators for the new colony, missions and churches and the breakdown of African tribal customs and loyalties. Onyango took advantage of the new ways. He left the back country to work for the British, learned to read and write, and became a cook working for Englishmen, among them Lord Delamere, who the hotel was named for. At the same time Onyango saved money to develop his family lands in the back country and acquired several wives there, among them the mother of Barack’s father. She ran away from Onyango’s temper strictness, leaving Barack’s father to be brought up by another wife, known in the book only as Granny. Share the beauty of southern Arizona with the non-migratory snowbirds...
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After World War II Onyango retired to his farms, where he lived like an Englishman, eating at a table, using china, sleeping under mosquito nets, dressing his children in European clothes and insisting on cleanliness. This was the childhood home of Barack’s father, who grew up criticized by a perfectionist father. Barack’s father was a quick study, so often he would not attend school until just before the exams, then pass them with high grades. He was intelligent and contrary and during his teens was expelled from a secondary school, fired from his jobs, became estranged from his wealthy father and by 20, was married to his first wife, Kezia, and had two children. Then he met two women teaching in Nairobi and seeing how smart he was they arranged for him to take a correspondence course to earn a secondary school certificate, next they encouraged him to write universities in the United States asking for scholarship. Finally, a university in Hawaii accepted him. Two years later he wrote back to Africa that he was marrying a white woman. This was Barack’s mother, Ann. Onyango wrote back his disapproval, arguing that his son already had a wife and besides, the old man asked, “Will this woman return with you and live as a Luo woman? Will she accept that you already have a wife and children?” Within two years of his marriage Barack, Sr. accepted a scholarship to Harvard, left his wife Ann and son Barack for Boston and from there returned to Africa and success as an educated African with a government job in Nairobi. He also married another white woman and had two children by her, meanwhile he would visit his first wife Kezia in the back country arriving in a grand car with expensive gifts and money. But Barack, Sr. has a drinking problem and a tendency to speak his mind so that he lost his job. Granny remembered, “I would tell him he was too stubborn in his
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dealings with the government. He would talk to me about his principles, and I would tell him his principles weighed heavily on his children.” Before he died Barack, Sr. did straighten out and was able to build a house on the family compound for Granny and his back country family but he never made up with his father. Granny said the last time Barack, Sr. came back to visit Onyango, “The two of them sat in their chairs facing each other and eating their food but no words passed between them.” Barack Obama left Africa with sympathy for his angry father and grandfather. He decided Barack, Sr. had “remained trapped on his father’s island with its fissures of anger and doubt and defeat.” He saw their silence as coming from shame and that if his father could only have been able to tell his father that a different way of seeing the world was needed, one “that wasn’t black or white or Christian or Muslim but that pulsed in the heart of the first African village and the first Kansas homestead – a faith in other people.” This, to me, seems to be the unique philosophy that guides Barack Obama: his belief that we are all similar but trapped in our past like those two African men. His own peace must come from working to understand his father so he could forgive the man who had abandoned him. In his introduction to the 2004 printing of this book written in 1995, Barack wrote with no reservations of his mother who died a few months after the book was published, “I won’t try to describe how deeply I mourn her passing still. I know that she was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known and that what is best in me I owe to her.” The Barack Obama book, Dreams from My Father, was borrowed from the Tubac library.
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Dear Tubac: I am leaving Tubac in May but before I go I would like to pay tribute to a great organization which has done and continues to do so much for Tubac: The Tubac Chamber of Commerce. I'm guessing that many people are not aware that the stunning Tubac sign (even more stunning at night) at the entrance is all thanks to the Chamber. Tubac may very well be the only tourist destination in the U.S. to have such a dramatic and eye-catching entrance. Until a few years ago, the sign was a yellow vinyl banner hung between two telephone poles, constantly battered by the wind and destroyed by the sun. The Tubac Chamber of Commerce began a movement to replace it with a permanent sign. Chamber members and supporters donated money for it for years until there was finally enough. The design was donated by architect Bruce Pheniger. Chamber member Lee Blackwell donated the design of the letters and I believe, the letters. He and Chamber member Garry Hembree built and installed the lettering, no easy task. The Chamber continues to maintain the sign as well as the colorful array of flags next to it which are hung and maintained by the Chamber, usually by Garry Hembree and volunteers. The Chamber's map lists all the merchants, both members and non-members. This was done at the request of member merchants for the benefit of customers so we could show people where all the other shops were. It also benefits the non-members. The environmentally friendly composting public restrooms in the Plaza are maintained by the Chamber. The beautiful landscaping of the Plaza was done and is maintained by Chamber member Out of the Way Galleria. The striking black block ads which run year round in the Tucson newspapers are paid for by the Chamber, not to mention the thousands of press releases that are sent out every year and all the phone calls that are answered. The annual Festival of the Arts takes hundreds of hours of work which goes on year round in the Chamber office and benefits every merchant in Tubac as well as all the visitors who enjoy it every year. The classy and elegant Chamber Director Carol Cullen is the visible face of Tubac at many public appearances, making us all look good. She is often accompanied by her charming assistant Kim Etherington who adds an especially nice touch. I've been proud to be a Chamber member since 2003. It has greatly enriched my time in Tubac. Barbara Young The Old Book Shop
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Volunteers were out in force on March 7 to remove a pile up of empty plastic bottles and other debris from the Santa Cruz River in Tubac. The clean-up project filled 66 large garbage bags with items taken out of the Santa Cruz River. (Photo by Sherry Sass) by Kathleen Vandervoet The beautiful Santa Cruz River is an asset to those who live in and visit Tubac. The treeshaded river offers protection for migrating birds and local wildlife, and the Anza Trail that parallels the river provides a rewarding walking or jogging experience. But the river tends to collect ugly debris in some spots. Three local groups sent volunteers last month to clean up what’s called a “bottle dam,” a dam made up of empty plastic soda bottles, Styrofoam and other odds and ends. A huge tree had fallen in the river, which happens from time to time, and the bottles and other items were pushed against it by the northward flow of the river, said Glenn Vierra of the Anza Trail Coalition. The bottle dam was in the river east of the village of Tubac, next to the Santa Cruz County Ronald R. Morriss Park off of Calle Iglesia. A total of 66 large garbage bags full of trash was removed, said Sherry Sass of the Friends of the Santa Cruz River. The trash accumulates in Nogales in the Nogales Wash, which joins with the Santa
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Letter from Africa Shaved head blends with Africans
by Tim Vandervoet
Towns in Malawi, Africa, aren’t large. Every other week or so, I find one of the few small narrow alleys in Liwonde, where I currently live and proceed down its muddy path - the width of my shoulders - to Ibra Hair Salon and get my hair cut. Buzzed, actually. I do this out of both my need for style and climactic necessity. It’s hot and tropical here, and long hair exacerbates the temperature and humidity. It’s also, more importantly, the only style that barbers offer in Malawi. The weapon of choice is the electric hair clipper - I’ve yet to see a pair of scissors in a barbershop - thus, a shaved head is infinitely more feasible than combed hair. Every time I go into the small room, lit by a single light bulb hanging from the roof, decorated with images of early-90’s advertised hair styles on chipped, cement walls. I’m usually the only customer. I notice an “In Allah we Trust” sign and a list of cuts and styles: a trim, a shave, a trim and a shave, and the mysteriously vague “style,” which I have yet to try out. I’ve heard a shaved head referred to here as a Shaolin – as in the Shaolin monks featured on the ever-present, cheap 80’s ninja movies. My friend in Kenya tells me it’s called a Jordan there, and I assume that each region has its own term for it, as it certainly is the international look of choice in Africa. The first time I had my head shaved I got dozens of compliments – it was me assuming the look of everyone else and, whether conscious of it or not, a lot of people seemed to appreciate that. Even still, I find it pretty amazing that I blend
in to Africa better looking like a skinhead. Before each trim at Ibra’s, the clippers are sterilized with a cheap and ubiquitous purple rubbing alcohol, and, at the end of the experience, so is my head and face. I hold my breath as a ball of cotton sweeps along the short, stubby hair - and I routinely emerge from the dark and hot little room smelling of disinfectant, feeling the cool of it quickly evaporating. There’s no language barrier between me and my barbers, but often they try to play games with me. Perhaps they’re curious about my diminishing and greying straight hair, or maybe they’re just bored sitting around all day making pennies. But last time the guy tried to leave me with a moustache and soul patch. It took some explaining that I didn’t want or need that look, nor that I had come into the shop with it, so I might as well not leave with it. Still, it’s a leisurely experience. The dull clippers that pull and tug at my beard become quite relaxing after a time. I find myself staring at my reflection in the dirty mirror as my eyes droop, and I struggle to stay awake through the routine. Maybe I’m getting too accustomed to it, or maybe the heat coupled with the overwhelming smell of alcohol puts me to sleep. Who’s to say? I like Ibra’s for a lot of reasons, but a big draw is that a shave and a hair cut runs you $0.30. It’s no $0.10, but I suppose that’s just a consequence of high electrical bills. The more things change, I’ve found, the more they stay the same. (Tim Vandervoet, who grew up in Tubac, works in Malawi, Africa, for the Clinton Foundation.)
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The Frugal Gourmand of Tubac
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POTAGE PARMENTIER SOUP Ingredients: 2 medium sized leeks ½ tablespoon sweet butter
If the soup is being prepared a day or more in advance, store the potato leek mixture without the milk product in the refrigerator. On the day of serving, warm the soup first and then add the warm, not cold milk, half and half or heavy cream and slowly simmer for 5 minutes or until thick and creamy. Serve the soup as above with a thick pat of butter and chopped chives for color and taste.
3 three medium sized potatoes, russet preferred, peeled and quartered 1 pint of chicken stock, homemade preferred ¼ cup of whole milk, half and half or whole cream Salt Pepper, white preferred Chopped chives Finely mince the white portions of the leeks. In a sauce pan, sauté the minced leeks in butter until soft, not brown, add the chicken stock and quartered potatoes, salt and pepper to taste. (Note, warm the chicken stock before adding to the sautéed minced leeks to avoid splattering.) Once the potatoes are cooked soft, remove the pot from the burner and mash them in the pot with a potato masher, wooden spoon or fork. Many recipes suggest rubbing the soup through a fine sieve at this point. I prefer the hearty bits and pieces of the potato and leek swimming in the soup and do not follow this part of the recipe. However, if you prefer a smoother version, now is the time to rub the soup through a fine sieve. Return the soup mixture to the pot
V ICHYSSOISE To transform Potage Parmentier soup into refreshing Vichyssoise cook as above. When the potatoes are finished cooking, remove the pot from the burner to cool the soup down to room temperature; then in an electric blender or food processor puree with milk, half and half or cream. Refrigerate and served cold, preferable in chilled bowls or tureens, garnish with chopped chives, omitting the pat of butter. (Note, salt loses its flavor in cold food, adjust seasoning before serving.) Whether it is hot Potage Parmentier soup or cold Vichyssoise, they are delicious and simple to prepare. The cost to make this delightful all purpose soup is the price of some potatoes, leeks, milk or cream and chicken stock. Enjoy it as an inexpensive meal by itself or as the basis for a light dinner accompanied by salad, cheese, some fruit and crusty bread. White wine goes best with either the hot or cold versions of the soup. I prefer Riesling over Chardonnay with this soup. Try one from Alsace France or the Riesling made by Hogue in Columbia Valley, Washington State. Enjoy!
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Hearty Potage Parmentier soup is a classic French recipe from the country villages of France. It can also serve as a base to make other soups by adding watercress or chopped mushrooms, diced carrots, cooked beans, diced cauliflower or whatever your culinary imagination can conjure.
and slowly add about ¼ cup of warm, not cold whole milk, half and half or heavy cream, stirring constantly; simmer slowly to thicken for about 5 minutes. Serve the soup in a bowl or a tureen with a thick pat of butter, which adds a nutty richness to the soup. Garnish the soup with chopped chives for added color and flavor.
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We weren’t treated too badly by March, had a few crying spells, here’s hoping April gives us some real tear jerkers. Remember the snow we had on Easter some years ago? Short and sweet and beautiful, anything can happen. That’s why my raincoat is always handy and my electric blanket is still on the bed, you never know. April is a happy month, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, so close, Earth Day and Arbor Day, what a wonderful earth we live on! All things, great and small are looking beautiful right now, you are too, Happy Easter everyone!
Swallows or not? A few words about March. On the fourth of the month, Terry Barber, a volunteer at the Tubac Community Center, spotted a number of ‘scout swallows,’ they precede the main flock to check out housing. Willie Armijo, the Community Center meal supervisor gave the welcome back party on the eleventh. Irene Deaten of the historical society attended, Linda Lage, the librarian was at the ready with binoculars and camera, Vicki Trout, Terry and I rounded out the coffee and cookie party and even though it was for the birds, they didn’t come! They didn’t even send regrets.
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Willie played a beautiful musical recording in Spanish, “The Swallows,” then he translated it, truly lovely. We are patient, we are not giving up, we will persevere, we will keep you posted. HOLD THE FORT! THEY’RE BACK! It’s Thursday, March 26th, 2:30 pm, Willie just called, the swallows came in today, Joseph Birkett, editor of the Villager will pick this article up in a few minutes... timing is everything.
How Sweet It Is In February, a recipe for ‘flourless’ peanut butter cookies was published and many of you asked what “held everything together?” The peanut butter is the glue. After baking several dozen making the dough the size of marbles, I changed my modus operandi and now make quite large cookies, over a tablespoon of dough, much better, yield about 2 dozen cookies. Please try. The apple fritters are very tasty, the lemon pie a cinch and delicious with whipped cream, the cream cheese crust is so easy and fast, just the ticket over cobbler.
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ARTIST ENRIQUE DE LA VEGA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3... “I came back home with a sense of conversion for the fine arts,” Enrique says. When he returned to the states, he enrolled in the Los Angeles County Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles to study fine art, and graduated with a Masters Degree with a major in sculpture and design. Enrique de la Vega feels blessed to be both Hispanic and Irish as both cultures are reflected in his evolving life as an artist.. “The Southwest inspires me, living in California, New Mexico and Arizona,” he explains, "with the color of the sky, the mountains, the adobe, the cactus and especially the history of the southwest.” Enrique spent a great deal of time in Ireland when that country was still poor. Speaking of his admiration he offers, “There isn’t any other place
on this planet as green, with all the different colors and shades of music, as Ireland has.” Enrique explains that Ireland had programs set up for artists enabling them to work there tax free and, while he had children to look after in America, he seriously considered moving to the “Emerald Isle.” Enrique always allows the transition of life to take him from one motion to the next inspiration. His master thesis was a sculpture of "The Birth and Rebirth of Mexico”: a male figure with Aztec attire and an Indian woman holding a child next to a saguaro cactus. He was commissioned to do the ambitious piece by a Mexican family in Nogales. It was his master’s thesis as well as a commissioned work. “Through the mystery of faith, the art that I do is a transition into the unknown, whether it is a technical challenge or a metaphysical leap of
faith.” Enrique describes using art as a means of expressing one’s hopes, fears, doubts, and beliefs and adds, “Living one’s faith and doing unto others as they would have done unto you, is the essence of a life worth living,” he adds. An artist for the people, Enrique de la Vega offers a constant production of new, original creations, while remaining affordable to collect. His jewelry art is perfect for these difficult economic times, “To me, it is about how much my work inspires people and promotes a sense of well being.” Enrique says his wearable art is created with fire and metals such as copper, bronze, brass and silver is formed to create “unique jewelry that is art.” Among other recent creations, by de la Vega is the face of Christ above the sanctuary in St. Anne’s Church in Tubac.
Enrique's wife, Darleene, also lends her creative talents with her mosaic crosses and beaded jewelry to the de la Vega Gallery as well as taking care of the business affairs. His daughter, Leonor, is a graphic artist in California. Some of her beautiful painted masks on palm fronds are on display here as well, so as you can see this gallery is essentially a family affair. Enrique is also an amateur astronomer. For this artist the beauty of the universe and the laws of nature are proof for the existence of God. “I’m not interested in the theories of mathematics, but the essence of the metaphysical,” he adds. For Enrique's artistic efforts, he was bestowed the Mother Teresa Laureate Award in 2006. This award is given to those who offered the contribution of beauty to the world through their works. Others who have been granted this award were Maya Angelou,
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To be an advocate or a mentor is to open the way for another. A Mr. Azziz of Pakistan, who began micro-loans for small businesses is an example of a new age mentor. Visiting scientists who speak to local classrooms are doing their share. Those neighbors willing to talk at forums and speak at local meetings are adding real value to our communities. It is impossible to know how many people take something away from such talks that will add to their lives. Sometimes we are unsuspecting mentors. When a child shows us the poem she has written, and we place it on the refrigerator. When a friend shows us the photos of their last vacation and we see beyond the subject to the photographer who has beautifully recorded a place. We are often given opportunities to saying yes to anotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talent. How many times a day do we see the skills and efforts of those around us? Helping others can only lead to helping ourselves. As a mentor you get to reap the rewards of those you have supported. Emerging talents take you,
the observer, to a new place; teach you over and over again the possibilities of potential met. In my case the mentors have been too many to name. My mother first, then artists I admired, then poets and writers with whom I trembled upon meeting and then tried to emulate. Friends, family, neighbors, community leaders, teachers and students have all been my mentors. As were all those who saw something worthy in me, making it possible to take risks and perform. Rogaway Gallery has recently shown the work of twenty-four local artists. This outstanding body of work is a direct result of the mentorship of a woman named Eva Briggs. She set out to encourage artists to recognize the excitement of abstract art. She even funded a yearly competition for healthy prize money so that people would go for the gold. Her enthusiasm was supported by more than 85 artists from the Santa Rita Art League and by individuals who made it their mission to educate those willing to try. One of those stalwart teachers is Ann Ober. Wheelchair bound, with a spirit that is boundless, Ober held Friday morning workshops for years, acquainting anyone interested in the on-going story of modern art through film, prints and dialogue. This year, one of the top prizes of the Briggsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Competition went to Dora McIlleny who has entered the show since its inception. She had a feeling she had finally caught on to the essence of abstract art, despite macular degeneration and her advanced years.
(89 in April). In her own wordsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; The loss of central vision forced me to examine an alternative way of painting. One morning at sunrise I looked out of the window through the trees. The light was brilliant , the colors were dancing in the breeze. At that exciting moment, I knew what I was going to do. An accomplished draftsman, illustrator, prize-winning gardener and librarian, this is a woman who is clearly not done yet. She has that zest for life we all want to find and hold onto. Painting differently is presenting a challenge and joy to the other people who participated in this exhibit. I saw the same show three years ago and was amazed at how the overall quality had improved. Blanche Davidson, well-known for her charming renderings of southwestern scenes, was the top prize winner. Her painting of large warm spaces filled with fruity colors and grace made a person want to dive in or better yet, grab a spoon and devour the canvas. It was fascinating to see Davidsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new voice, so bold and yet soft, so palatable and yet challenging. Eva Briggs created a movement with her mentorship and enthusiasm that will live on. We all can do the same in different venues. Prize money, donations to scholarship funds, caring, showing up for creative showcases and speaking out for the arts will keep us moving culturally forward. Culture is our greatest legacy and highest hope. It represents not only the spirit of the times but the adventure of the mind.
Congratulations Carmen Green and Zak Campbell are getting married on May 2nd. It will be a backyard ceremony in Tubac. May 14th Zak gets his PhD. in Biochemistry, May 15th Carmen gets her MD. They are planning a honeymoon trip to Thailand before moving to Madison, Wisconsin. Both are graduates of Nogales High School class of 2001
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... continued from page 9 FRI, MAY 1ST - FIRST FRIDAY at Wisdom's Cafe featuring Live Music by Amber Norgaard, 5-9pmish call 398-2397 for details. SAT, MAY 2ND - CANOE AND/OR KAYAK ON PATAGONIA LAKE at 9am. Meet at Sonoita Creek Visitor Center in Patagonia Lake State Park. Bring your own water craft or rent at park (Call 520.287-5545 for information & reservation). Launch at the marina. Explore the shoreline and coves around the lake. Great exercise and beautiful scenery. Canceled if too windy or cold. Call Leader, Reed Menke 520.394-2899 to Register. SAT, MAY 2ND - MONTESSORI DE SANTA CRUZ TALENT SHOW & SILENT AUCTION at 6pm at the De Anza Trails RV Resort. 2869 E. Frontage Rd., Amado (just south of Central Pet) ~ Join our local school community for a fun-filled evening of talent & shopping and homemade dessert. SUN, MAY 3 - TUBAC PLAZA WORLD MUSIC DAYS PRESENTS CINCO DE MAYO WITH THE LOPEZ BAND from 11 to 3pm. For all ages by Freewill Donation. Cinco De Mayo celebration featuring live music by The Lopez Band of the Tohono O'odham Nation, Mexican food, Mexican dance, and other fun events for the whole family. The Lopez Band is a fantastic 5-piece Waila band from the San Xavier Reservation. Waila music is the traditional social dance music of the Tohono O'odham Native Americans of southern Arizona. Pronounced why-la, it is a hybrid of popular European polka and waltzes with a variety of Mexican influences mixed in. It originated in the 1800's and comes from the word "baile" which is Spanish for "dance". Main Stage Gazebo, 29 Tubac Plaza, Tubac, AZ. www.GlobalChangeMusic. org (520) 398-2542.
JUNE 1ST THRU 26TH - GREEN VALLEY OLLI JUNE PROGRAM. How do you use blogs, wikis and podcasts to expand your information horizon? Want to learn to “tweet?” Are snow and ice character elements in movies such as Fargo and Transsiberian? How can seniors communicate more effectively with their children and grandchildren? Titles of the 13 classes are: From Showboat to Spelling Bee: The American Musical Comedy; Formation of the Modern Middle East; Passages: Support and Education in End of Life Issues; Current Events – Advanced Civics; Non-Fiction Addiction: The World Without Us; Health Care Reform: A Snap Shot; The Life and Lines of Dorothy Parker; Shakespeare from Page to Stage: The Tempest; UnSpun: Finding Facts in the World of Disinformation; Dinosaurs: Do Your Grandkids Know More Than You Do?; Web 2.0: The Brave New World of Blogs, Wikis and “Tweets”; Films to Cool You Off ; Reaching Across the Generations. Study groups will meet weekly for 1½ hours, either from 1:30 to 3 p.m. or from 3:30 until 5 p.m Part of a nationwide, university-affiliated program for adults over 50 who love learning, OLLI/GV membership is open to residents of Green Valley, Sahuarita, Tubac and neighboring communities. For current OLLI/GV members there is no additional cost to enroll in the June study groups. For new members, the fee for the June program is $40. Class sizes are limited, and the registration deadline is May 22. Call (520) 626-9039 or ollimail@u.arizona.edu JUN 16TH THRU JULY 9TH - TUBAC CENTER OF THE ARTS SUMMER ARTS PROGRAM. Let your friends and neighbors with children and grandchildren know the dates for this outstanding summer program offering learning in mosaics, painting, drawing, mask-making, collage, printmaking, music and drama. Call 3982371 or come in to enroll students ages 6-15 starting Monday, April 6th – 4 weeks, $195.
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Real Estate Market Regionalized For months now, we have all heard about the tough real estate market. The market certainly has taken a big hit to be sure, BUT, all states have not been affected by the real estate cycle in the same way. As you look at states hit the hardest, such as Florida, Nevada, California, and yes, Arizona, seems to top the list. However, within Arizona communities, such as Prescott, Sedona, Show Low and even Green Valley, Tubac and Rio Rico have not experienced nearly the drop in values as did the major metropolitan areas such as Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tucson. If you have held true to the most time honored fundamentals of Real Estate, HOLDING POWER, and have made your purchase in one of these smaller communities, you should be able to hold on and ride this out. However, if you do find that you need the services of a Real Estate professional, please give Brasher Real Estate a call and talk to any one of our agents. We are ready and able to assist you with all of your real estate needs.
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1027 Morning Star Dr. -Tubac $2,250,000 Truly a magnificent reproduction of a Tuscan farmhouse on a grand scale with lovely entry courtyard, perfect for entertaining and a covered porch on the north side facing the most spectacular view of Josephine Canyon and the Santa Rita Mountains. Intimate balconies on both sides of the home. Built of adobe, rammed earth and antique oak beams from a Wisconsin barn. Call Fred Johnson at 275-7050 for more information. Call Cary Daniel - 520-631-3058
62 Rosalies Court - Tubac $685,000
From a rock walled private courtyard into a fully decorated former model home! Rancho Grande, 2BR/2.5BA, plus separate casita w/bath. Viking appliances/river rock fireplace, many top upgrades. Fully furnished. Call Jacque Brasher at 398-2506 MLS: 105816
TBD MOUNT WRIGHTSTON - AMADO $3,118,400 Stunning 780 acre parcel of land located in the foothills of the Santa Rita Mtns. bordered by National Forest & State Land. Fenced on 3 sides w/rolling hills, fantastic views of the Santa Cruz River Valley. Call Carey Daniel or Jacque Brasher at 398-2506. MLS: 106216
12 CALLE DIAZ-Tubac $639,000
Located in the quiet and secluded north end of TVCC with Mtn. views, this home is suited for full or part-tme living. Front gated courtyard w/ fireplace & fountain. Landscaping w/ mature trees designed for low maintenance. Owner/Agent Call Cary Daniel at 631-3058 MLS: 41233
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65 ROSALIES COURT – TUBAC $859,000
Experience “Santiago” in Barrio de Tubac Offering the best of all worlds, this is a luxury home, yet an easy turn-key for seasonal living. 3 bed/2bath/den offers plenty of space for guests of family Call Jacque Brasher at 398-2506 MLS: 107159
This 2248 sq. ft. Moderno Grande was a former TGR/ Sanctuary model & has 632 sq. ft. casita w/fireplace. Viking appl., wine cooler & wet bar, upgraded cabinetry, central vac, sky terrace, outdoor fireplace w/gorgeous golf & mtn. views. Furnishings avail. w/SBOS. Call Carey Daniel at 631-3058 MLS: 106745
53 Calle Maria Elena $750,000
1168 MORNING STAR DRIVE – TUBAC
$1,475,000 Elegant home in exclusive Morning Star Ranch. Lovely ranch style with covered patios, beautiful lap pool, horse facilities with five stall barn and prepared arena. On 36 acres with four bedrooms, four baths, three fireplaces and only 20 minutes from Tubac. Underground utilities, including electric, water and phone, plus high speed internet. Call Fred Johnson at 275-7050 for more information.
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Tubac Golf Resort home on the 7th fairway with great mountain views. 2BR / 2.5 BA w/2 car garage and golf cart garage. Close proximity to Golf Resort restaurants and Village of Tubac. Call Carey Daniel at 631-3058 MLS: 39382
50 Circulo de Prado -Tubac $399,000 A classic 1800 sq ft fired adobe home with 3BR, 2BA, two fireplaces. Located on .50 acre lot in TVCCE, this cozy home has possibilities for expansion. Exceptional mountain views. Call Cathy Marrero at 990-8127 MLS: 107351
35 CAMINO COCINERO -Tubac $619,000 Unique 5+ AC mini ranch w/horse paddocks, riding arena and large storage bldg. w/2bays. 1100 sq. ft. 2BR, 1BA guest house w/2 car garage. Mountain views. Guest quarters could provide income to owner. Great horse property! Call Carey Daniel at 631-3058. MLS: 106849.
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