Tubac Villager May 2017 by tubac villager

Vol Xi1i No 6

May 2017

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By Kathleen Vandervoet

Santa Cruz County Update

COMMENT ON I-11 REQUESTED A state agency is asking the public to submit comments on the alternatives for the proposed new Interstate 11 that in the areas south of Tucson will potentially be part of Interstate 19 or run parallel to I-19. The segment being planned is Nogales to Wickenberg, northwest of Phoenix.

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The purpose of I-11 is to provide a high-priority, access-controlled transportation corridor for the movement of people and freight, according to an ADOT announcement, and the comments are related to the Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement. Comments are being accepted until June 2, 2017. For more information, call (844) 544-8049 or visit www.i11study.com/Arizona. People can take an online survey at that website. The Arizona Department of Transportation held public meetings in Tucson on May 2, Marana on May 3 and Nogales on May 4. Other meetings this month are planned in Casa Grande, Wickenburg and Buckeye.

WILLIE ARMIJO STEPS DOWN After more than 16 years as coordinator of the senior lunch program every Thursday at the Tubac Community Center, Willie Armijo is stepping down. As a volunteer, he was a mainstay of the program. He also arranged for community food bank deliveries every Thursday morning so attendees could get fresh produce and other items. For many years he was in charge of the lending service of medical support supplies such as walkers, canes and wheelchairs. He also drove a van to provide transportation to medical appointments at no cost. Armijo, an Amado resident, retired years ago after a career as an elementary school teacher in Rio Rico. He was also a volunteer with the Tubac Fire District before it transitioned to paid employees. The board of directors of the Tubac Community Center Foundation is looking for a volunteer to replace Armijo at the weekly lunch program. For details, call (520) 398-1800.

Willie Armijo is stepping down from the senior lunch program after more than 16 years at the Tubac Community Center.

NEW VOLUNTEER ASSISTANCE PLANNED Sherry Mullens and Claire McJunkin, along with the board of the Tubac Community Center Foundation, recently completed a survey of the greater Tubac area in order to assess interest in developing a Neighbors Helping Neighbors volunteer program. Continued on page 6...

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SOUR DOUGH $30 WITH RANDY WADE Thu, 5/4/2017 - 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm This class is a demonstration of all the steps for starting, feeding and baking with sour dough yeast. This ancient technique produces a light crusty slightly sour loaf, and can be used for biscuits, dumplings, pancakes and amazing waffles. We will provide you with your own sour dough starter in an ideal reusable glass container. We will bake a loaf of bread, mix bread dough, make batter, cook waffles and enjoy the results.

PAELLA $70 WITH MYRNA YORK

Sat, 5/6/2017 - 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm Nourishing, vibrant, and served without pretension, paella has held a place of honor and practicality in Spanish homes for centuries. Myrna will show you how to make two versions of seafood paella. The traditional warm yellow saffron rice recipe starts with arborio rice cooked in a rich homemade broth while Paella Negra uses squid ink to tint the rice black. Both versions will be made with a variety of fresh seafood, and paired with Spanish Rioja wine. Myrna will also show you how to grill seasonal vegetable as the perfect accompaniment for this meal.

LET'S GET PICKLED $60 WITH JERI HOYLE Wed. 5/10/2017 - Fri. 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Using the bounty of early summer we will create delicious pickled vegetables. In this hands-on technique class we will use the quick pickling method so popular with famous chefs and restaurateurs as well as the "old-school" hot bath technique. We will pickle everything from asparagus to zucchini , cherry tomatoes, onions, carrots, peppers and yes, a few cucumbers as well. Each student will take home a jar of handmade Hot Italian Giandeniera. At the end of class will enjoy our pickled delights at our own creative Bloody Mary Bar!

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Fri. 5/12/2017 - 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm Everyone loves a good fish taco! We will start with the perfect fish for grilling, beautiful Mahi Mahi from the waters of South America. We will make a rub with a delicious blend of Latin spices and serve it with warm tortillas and just the right toppings. Besides learning some helpful tips for selecting, seasoning and grilling fish we will make an avocado crema, Mango Black Bean Salsa/Salad and Baja Style Rice. Our taco party will also include homemade chips and salsa, ice cold beer and coconut lime sorbet.

HUNGARIAN GOULASH $55 WITH MARION HOOK Tue. 5/16/2017 - 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Marion Hook had a hit class last month with her paprika chicken. It was so popular that the students demanded a class for Hungarian Goulash! Hungarian beef goulash is a lightly spicy stew with complex flavors that balance the key ingredient: Hungarian Paprika. If you have never had Hungarian Goulash, this is sure to become your favorite way to stew beef. Marion will also teach us how to make the the perfect side dishes - traditional bacon and paprika potatoes and a Hungarian cabbage slaw. Heat from paprika makes this menu a great choice for summer or winter meals. For dessert we will make stuffed pears. Wine will accompany the meal.

THE MEZZA TABLE $60 WITH MONICA DIBLE Fri. 5/19/2017 - 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Skewers and more, explore the Mezza table. Monica will show you how to grill marinated chicken skewers with eastern spices such as fresh toasted and ground cumin. You will learn make fresh pita bread, and tzatziki, a traditional yogurt based condiment that provides a perfect finish to the skewer/pita combination. In addition, we will make a Grilled Israeli Salad; a combination of grilled leeks, Italian parsley, Roma tomatoes, Persian cucumbers, garlic, roasted garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, mint, and garbanzo beans. This salad has big flavor and is easy to prepare. Dessert will be Layali Lubnan a Lebanese Pudding, made with farina, rose and orange syrup and a sweetened cream layer garnished with coconut and pistachios. There will also be a garnish of sweet cheese stuffed dates and wine!

MOROCCAN TAGINE $55 WITH ERICA SWADLEY Wed. 5/24/2017 - 11:00 am - 1:30 pm Erica is back, offering new recipes for you to enjoy in your beautiful tagine or make in a broad skillet. The earthy, simple yet complex array of Moroccan ingredients will surprise and delight the palate. The main "course" will teach you how to prepare a Marrakesh Tagine of potatoes, sweet potato, onion, spices, red and green pepper, eggplant, artichoke hearts, green beans, tomatoes, raisins, and apricots. We will also prepare an appetizer of Grilled Olives followed by Chilled Almond and Garlic Soup. For dessert we will make Roasted Figs with Honey and Sweet Cheese. In typical Cooking A-Z fashion, we will sit and enjoy this exotic fare with a glass of wine.

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Fri. 5/26/2017 - 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm Deep Dish and Thin Crust This is a Pizza skills class for all levels of cooks. We will work with dough, make sauce, and cook pizza in an outdoor pizza oven. You will also learn how to make Deep Dish Pizza in a regular home oven. Students will have the opportunity to make a pizza with toppings of their choice. Recipes for an excellent and easy pizza dough as well as two sauce types will be provided to each student. We will also have a fresh chopped salad made in class to round out the meal. Wine will be served.

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Members of the regional Tubac area were invited to participate in the survey through flyers at the Tubac, Amado and Tumacácori post offices and other community sites, as well as announcements and emails to Santa Cruz Valley Citizens Council members, various neighborhood associations and distribution of surveys by hand in several communities. More than 90 online and paper surveys were completed and of those, 100% supported the idea of a Neighbors Helping Neighbors program, McJunkin said. The survey also showed that many would be interested in volunteering and most knew of someone who could benefit or would benefit themselves from volunteer services. The survey identified a variety of services that people thought would be useful to the community such as transportation to medical appointments or shopping, meal or grocery delivery, relief in the care of someone at home, and friendly visits or phone calls on a regular basis. The next step is to explore the best way to implement such a program. Existing programs in nearby areas will be consulted about what has worked for them. Issues such as liability insurance for volunteers, recruitment, training

and background checks for volunteers and how to make services accessible to all members of the community need to be addressed. Services offered will depend entirely on recruitment of volunteers and what services they feel comfortable providing. For services not appropriate for volunteers like home health aide, home maintenance or cleaning, there is a list of businesses that can provide such services for a fee on the Tubac Health Care Foundation’s website: www. tubachealthcarefoundation.org. Sherry and Claire plan to hold a committee meeting in June to begin the planning process. If you wish to participate on the committee, or have further ideas about the program, please email either Sherry at sherry.mullens@gmail.com or Claire at crinoid1@msn.com

RRHS GRADUATION IS MAY 25 Close to 300 seniors are expected to graduate from Rio Rico High School. The ceremony is planned for Thursday, May 25, at 7 p.m. at the school’s football stadium. The valedictorian is Jonah McCoy and the salutatorian is Areli Diaz. Assistant Superintendent of the school district Stephen Schadler will be the guest speaker, a spokeswoman said. Continued on page 6...

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TUMACÁCORI LAND REZONED A 1.19-acre parcel at 1978 E. Frontage Road in Tumacácori was rezoned by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors at their April 5 meeting. A storage building is currently on the property.

RRHS A TOP SCHOOL IN STATE The Arizona Education Foundation announced in April that Rio Rico High School is one of 39 exemplary Arizona schools receiving its A+ School of Ecellence™ designation for the 2016-17 academic year. With this award, Rio Rico High School now becomes the fourth of five Santa Cruz Valley Unified School District No. 35 schools holding this title, joining San Cayetano Elementary, Coatimundi Middle, and Calabasas Schools. “The application and evaluation process for this program is comprehensive and rigorous. We applaud these schools for going above and beyond the norm to meet their students’ needs and for achieving overall success despite the many challenges that face the education community statewide,” said AEF Director Bobbie O’Boyle. Applicant schools are evaluated in the areas of student focus and support, school culture, active teaching and learning, curriculum, leadership, community and parent involvement and assessment data.

It’s owned by applicant Bruce Bennet DeLong of Williams, Ariz., and he, along with his representative Harry Lang of Tubac, requested a change from B-1 to B-2 commercial zoning. What will happen to the land isn’t clear yet. Lang wrote in an email to a neighbor of the property that, “My plan is to improve the property and construct small commercial buildings so that future tenants will be able to lease from me to run their business.” B-1 zoning allows small businesses such as art galleries and professional offices. B-2 zoning allows everything included in B-1 zoning, plus more businesses such as medical marijuana cultivation, medical marijuana dispensary, gas station, hotel, church, restaurant, and others. The B-2 zoning was approved with two conditions, that the applicant give the county a signed acceptance of conditions and a waiver of claims form arising from ARS 12-1134, and that is the applicant’s responsibility to obtain any additional permits, or meet any additional conditions, that may be applicable to the proposed use due to other federal, state, or local laws or regulations.

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LOU MAESTAS 2/10/39 - 4/20/17

“This God given talent is a gift from Him, what I do with it, is my gift to Him.” ~Lou Maestas

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GV HOSPITAL FILES FOR CHAPTER 11 To help restructure debt, the Green Valley Hospital, which opened two years ago, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 31, an area newspaper reported. The hospital, located about 15 miles north of Tubac, has about 300 employees with 49 beds and an emergency department. The Arizona Daily Star reported that the hospital’s CEO John Matuska said the filing represents a restructuring of debt and will not affect day to day hospital operations. The newspaper article also noted that hospital officials said a hospital assessment imposed when the state expanded its Medicaid program in 2014 has been a financial burden. Tubac-area residents can also use other hospitals such as those in Tucson, 45 to 60 miles north, and a Nogales hospital, about 25 miles south.

SCHADLER BREAKS STATE RECORD Rio Rico High School senior Allie Schadler took down former Phoenix Desert Vista star Dani Jones’ two-year-old state record in the 3,200-meter run on April 8. Even so, she finished third place at the Arcadia (Calif.) Track Invitational in a time of 10 minutes, 05.70 seconds, as reported by the Arizona Republic newspaper. Schadler, who lives in Tubac with her family, won the Arizona girls’ cross country championship for the fourth consecutive year in November with a time of 17:03.

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Announcing Our New Location Koorey Creations has relocated to Tucson in the La Toscana Plaza at Ina & Oracle. Our Tubac store closed April 30th. Thank you to

our wonderful customers and friends, who have supported us throughout the years. We hope to see you all in Tucson!

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Tubac Creative P rof ile

L y m a n B l a c k w e ll By Carol St. John

rom the first sight of this man my curiosity was tweaked. He was crossing I -19 at an early morning hour heading, on foot, from his home on the west side of town to a destination in the village. Crossing the highway on foot was a no-no twenty years ago, but most probably would be a felony in today’s paranoia.

unknown is almost religious and his beliefs more profound than I can state in this small article. He doesn’t need magic or myth to enjoy the world about him. Rather, he remains endlessly fascinated and filled with interpretations of its meaning and mysteries. He firmly believes that the power of consciousness will ultimately heal us all.

The crosser, Lyman Blackwell, turned out to be a man like no other I had ever met.

In the year 2015, many years after his invention of the smoke alarm, Lyman was awarded the Philip J. Dinenno Prize for his outstanding contribution to Enhancing Fire and Life Safety through Technical Innovation. But what most people don’t know, is that beyond this, he contributed to the scientific community in many other ways. He has been on at least fourteen cutting edge patents in the last century.

He was on his daily jaunt to the Trailer Tether Court, where he spent his days experimenting with the power of magnets to heal and reduce pain. I learned this one autumn day when I joined a conversation in the Tether’s backyard, where some of the locals were sitting in an assortment of lame chairs, around a tired picnic table. I believe he was espousing the theory that everything was nothing and therefore nothing was everything. Virginia Hall was there, a dedicated Buddhist, and he and she got into the principles of Buddhism, comparing them to the language of quantum physics. Where was I, I thought. Surely not in a non-descript trailer court in a dusty little place in the sticks of Arizona! The discussion that morning ultimately led to the formation of a local study group to compare the two esoteric disciplines further. I joined this group for a while and at one of the meetings learned the significance of E=MC2 when Lyman illuminated its meaning, both visually and in layman language. But it was not the known that fueled his days. Lyman Blackwell was born to invent; to assemble information and reassemble it to create something new and useful. At 93 years of age he is still wrestling with science’s unanswered questions. His dedication to unlocking the

Like many young men who were called to participate in war, his valor was tested in WWII when he was part of the 8th Air Force Group flying B-17s. He flew 33 missions in 1945 right up to and including the Good War’s final hour. As First Engineer, specializing in electricity and aerodynamics in Amarillo, Texas, he became an instructor in the field. When his military life ended, his love of learning persisted as he continued to solve scientific questions and revel in the examined life. Although he was a bit of a party boy who never stopped dancing, he also never stopped asking and teaching and appreciating unconventional thoughts. Blackwell’s perception of the universe is that it is a self-perpetuating machine and that all life has consciousness and energy. This indestructible energy may feed the mysterious black energy or the dark matter that comprises the bulk of the universe. He suspects there is no such thing as death and sees the end of life, as we know it, as simply an absorption of encapsulated energy into a greater field. His latest efforts are about creating a machine that will provide clean, safe, cheap renewable energy. He’s not trying to compete with what the

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Everything about Lyman is infused with the extraordinary and at the same time his thoughts deserve attention as they are rooted in knowledge and stand firmly on tested ground. Fame was never his intention. He just wanted to explore the banquet of unknowns spread at his table. He is a creative man who never separated truth into religious or political realms, and who remains enthusiastically present for the challenges that are taking us all toward a more enlightened reality. It is clear he will stay on task as long as he is able. Indeed, he would have been first in line at the March for Science on April 22nd had his legs allowed him to do so. Thank you, Lyman Blackwell, for your relentless search for truth.

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CALL 911; DON’T DRIVE TO FIRE STATION I

t may be human nature to rush to a fire station when a person feels symptoms of a medical emergency, but it’s strongly recommended to call 911 and remain in place for an ambulance and crew to respond.

By Kathleen Vandervoet

Officials at the Tubac Fire District, which includes Tubac, Tumacácori, the south half of Amado, and the north half of Rio Rico, spoke about that at a recent fire board meeting. Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician Chuck Mills offered more details during an interview. “A lot of people think they can get faster service by driving to the fire station, and sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t, because we’re not there.

“We generally get a fair amount of people that just like to go to the station, but we might be out on a call, not in the station,” he said.

way. Most of the time, that’s not the case.”

Reasons the crew may not be in the station include being out on an emergency call, at a vehicle accident, fighting a fire, doing training, or assisting other fire districts through mutual aid agreements.

The dispatcher is aware of that and will send a crew from one of the other fire stations to respond to the 911 call. Mills said people shouldn’t worry about calling 911. “If you’re calling us there’s some concern for us to respond. We respond regardless of what the cause is. It might be something minor, it might be something major, but you don’t know until we get there to at least do an assessment.”

In addition, the crews will respond to residences when a homeowner discovers a rattlesnake or other snake in the house. Mills asked people to call 911 rather than the station’s business line because if they don’t, the responders still have to contact the dispatcher before they leave.

Emergency medical responders, from left, Hesley Guerrero, Esai Tapia and Cameron To help compensate for that, each of the four McAllister, encourage people who may have a serious problem to call 911, and not to drive fire stations has an emergency phone on the themselves or be driven to a fire station, because the crew could be away on a call. outside which rings directly to the dispatcher (Photo by Kathleen Vandervoet) at the Santa Cruz County Sheriff ’s Office. Stations 3 and 4, the newest ones, have an People can come to their local fire stations intercom box to be used, and at Stations 1 and 2, it’s a red phone. for free blood pressure checks. “If we’re not here, and it’s not an emergency, come back

Mills said that patients don’t always know what’s wrong with them and that might be why they drive to a fire station. “I think some of it has to do with they are expecting a standard of care that they don’t need to see a doctor; that it might be something they think we can take care of, like throw a band aid on and send them merrily on their

again later on. If it’s an emergency, call 911 and have somebody dispatched,” he said. �

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Tourism to TUMACÁCORI creates $3 Million in Economic Benefits

Report shows visitor spending supports 39 jobs in local economy

A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 43,830 visitors to Tumacácori National Historical Park in 2016 spent $2,562,600 in communities near the park. That spending supported 39 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $3,096,000.

“Tumacácori welcomes visitors from across the country and around the world,” said Superintendent Bob Love. “We are enthusiastic about sharing the stories of this place and the experiences it provides. We also feature the park as a way to introduce our visitors to this part of the country and all that it offers. National park tourism is a significant driver in the national economy, returning more than $10 for every $1 invested in the National Park Service, and it’s a big factor in our local economy as well. We appreciate the partnership and support of our neighbors and are glad to be able to give back by helping to sustain local communities.”

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According to the 2016 report, most park visitor spending was for lodging (31.2 percent) followed by food and beverages (27.2 percent), gas and oil (11.7 percent), admissions and fees (10.2 percent) souvenirs and other expenses (9.7 percent), local transportation (7.4 percent), and camping fees (2.5 percent).

Report authors this year produced an interactive tool. Users can explore current year visitor spending, jobs, labor income, value added, and output effects by sector for national, state, and local economies. Users can also view year-by-year trend data. The interactive tool and report are available at the NPS Social Science Program webpage: go.nps.gov/vse. The report includes information for visitor spending at individual parks and by state.

To learn more about national parks in Arizona and how the National Park Service works with Arizona communities to help preserve local history, conserve the environment, and provide outdoor recreation, go to www.nps.gov/ARIZONA.

Festival Kino Returns to Tumacácori Tumacácori National Historical Park will join the state of Sonora, Mexico in celebrating the life and missions of Father Eusebio Francisco Kino as part of the Mexican state’s annual Festival Kino. In its sixth year in Arizona, the Kino Festival has been an annual event in Sonora since 1967. Beginning in Magdalena on the first anniversary of the discovery of Father Kino’s remains, the event has grown to include all of northern Sonora, and now includes three historic sites in southern Arizona: Mission San José de Tumacácori, the Tubac Presidio, and Mission San Xavier del Bac.

As part of this cultural festival, Tumacácori will host a solo program of classical guitar inside the historic mission church on Wednesday, May 17 at 11:00 a.m. Guitarist Ignacio Mondaca García studied at the Universidad de Sonora and at the University of Arizona. He has performed as first guitar of the group “Staccato” and has won several musical awards, most recently the Leonard and David Schaffer Annual Memorial Guitar Competition organized by the School of Music at the University of Arizona. This will be his fourth year as an invited musician for Festival Kino in Sonora, and his second at Tumacácori. The annual Festival Kino takes place this year throughout northern Sonora from May 17 through May 21. For more information on events in Sonora, visit the Sonoran Institute of Culture website at isc.gob.mx/festivalkino.php.

Admission to the park is $5.00 per adult, free for federal pass holders and children under age 16. There is no additional charge for the concert. For more information, call Tumacácori National Historical Park at 520-377-5060, or visit the park’s website, at nps.gov/tuma.

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“The missions at Tumacácori have served the people of the upper Santa Cruz River Valley for over 300 years, and we are proud of the continuing role the park plays in preserving our shared heritage,” added Love. The peer-reviewed visitor spending analysis was conducted by economists Catherine Cullinane Thomas of the U.S. Geological Survey and Lynne Koontz of the National Park Service. The report shows $18.4 billion in direct spending by 331 million park visitors in communities within 60 miles of a national park. This spending supported 318,000 jobs nationally; 271,544 of those jobs are found in these gateway communities. The cumulative benefit to the U.S. economy was $34.9 billion.

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Birding in Tubac By John O'Neill

y the time he was 40, former part-time Tubac resident George “Pete” Winter had led a full and adventurous life. The St. Louis resident was a decorated Navy pilot of a B-24 on 77 combat missions in the Pacific theater during World War II, had four sons with his wife Gloria, was a founder and CEO of a successful building materials company, and was an avid hunter. Then on a hike with Boy Scouts he saw some wood warblers and a rufous-sided towhee. It was a life-changing day. The firearms went to the basement and out came the old Navy binoculars. He was so smitten with birds that during the next fifty-plus years, before he died in March this year, he went on 178 land and water birding excursions to 180 countries. He tracked down more than 7,700 of the Earth’s 9,800 species, which, at one time, was the most species seen by any living human since birds evolved from dinosaurs back in the mists of time. And birds brought Pete and Gloria to our village where, on a birding trip in 1983, they bought a vacation house behind the green on Otero hole number three at the Tubac Golf Resort. “To Gloria and me this valley is the most beautiful and peaceful place we have ever visited,” wrote Pete, “Every direction is a majestic sight,” – quite an endorsement from somebody who has been to 180 countries. In his book, Dawn Chorus: The Adventures of a Birdwatcher, Pete wrote, “I love to hike with my binoculars, out across the Santa Cruz River each morning [in spring] in search of what new bird may have made its way northward from Mexico that day.”

His trips took enormous tenacity and fearlessness, sleeping in jungles, flying in rickety airplanes, visiting areas with political unrest (he was briefly in custody more than once). Tropical diseases were always a danger, as were flies in Africa that cause sleeping sickness and blindness. The lists of snakes he encountered – krait and cobra in Asia, brown tiger in Australia, cobra and black mamba in Africa and fer de lance, busmaster and anaconda in the Americas - make our rattlers seem benign as puppies.

(Above) George "Pete" Winter was an accomplished birder and seasonal Tubac resident. Winter passed away March 14, 2017. You can read his obituary online at: www.kutisfuneralhomes.com/5765 Image courtesy Kutis Funeral Homes

To feed his passion for sighting and studying birds, Pete, sometimes with Gloria who accompanied him on about a third of his expeditions, trekked through almost every mountain range, glacier, swamp, island, grassland, atoll, jungle, ocean, desert, bay and rain forest on our avian-rich planet. Some bittersweet birding trips were to peaceful areas in the Pacific where shipmates crashed aircraft into turbulent seas during the war and were never found.

Winter’s life list always trailed that of another St. Louis resident, the legendary birder Phoebe Snetsinger, who saw 8,400 species, the most ever by a human at the time, before dying when her birding van overturned on a trip to Madagascar in 1999. Tubac residents Carol and Jim Swigget, who knew the Winters, said Pete, who then became the living birder with the greatest life list, was queasy about claiming the top spot because Snetsinger, a friend of his, was far ahead in birds seen when she died and he would never have caught her. In 1995, on his 2,600 acre ranch in Missouri, Winter and his brother-in-law began an Eastern bluebird restoration project. This glorious bird, which Thoreau wrote “carries the sky on his back,” was declining in number. They surveyed the property for suitable sites for bluebird boxes. The first year was a disaster with only 135 surviving chicks because of losses to black snakes and raccoons. They learned to wrap posts with slick aluminum to prevent predators and to rub Ivory soap in nest box lids to ward off wasps. A population boom followed with 2,147 fledglings from 210 boxes in 2002 (bluebirds raise one brood after another if conditions are right. Juveniles from the first fledglings aid in food gathering for later young). In the Tubac area there is a small, permanent population of Eastern bluebirds, as well as Western bluebirds. Whenever I see an Eastern bluebird I’ll think of Pete and wish I had lived here when he did to share some time and birds with a man who lived such a rich life. *** Late in March a white wagtail put in an appearance at the Ajo, Ariz., sewage lagoons. This is an American Birding Association Code 5 bird, the rarest of the rare, (code 6 is for extinct birds) recorded five or fewer times in

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the U.S. and Canada or fewer than three records in the past 30 years. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of birders got to see the European/Asian rarity. I’ve had millions of bird sightings, including hundreds every day at my feeders and in the fields, skies and forests around Tubac and obviously don’t remember many individually. By 2008 I had seen a fair number of white wagtails in Europe and Africa, but one sighting is etched in my memory. That year my wife Gretchen and I were on a tour of Carthage, Tunisia, the old Roman City, when our driver announced we would get to visit the American cemetery from World War II, a place we didn’t know existed. We stopped at a military graveyard that resembled Arlington Cemetery in many ways, with neat rows of headstones, but one major difference. In addition to the young, Arlington has the graves of many old soldiers, sailors and marines who faded away and were taken there for burial. In Tunisia there were no graves of the old. The 2,841 interred there were mostly young men who died violently in a faraway place. There was a palpable sadness in our small group at their fate. I had binoculars and as I scanned the cemetery there were white wagtails flying among the gravestones. It’s hard to explain, but those birds flitting from tombstone to tombstone, obviously unaware of the heartaches that the deaths caused families who lost loved ones, made the whole scene more poignant. *** Last month I reported that early in March a male elegant trogon was seen near the benches on the Anza Trail in Tubac and in a back yard, most unusual sightings for this part of the river. On March 29 Tim Helentjaris saw another trogon, probably a female, at the same site, a different bird than the one seen earlier. Could these glorious birds be using the Santa Cruz River corridor every year to reach their usual nesting territories, like Madera Canyon east of Green Valley? *** There are more Gambel’s quail around the Sanctuary neighborhood and Tubac Golf Resort than in the past couple of years. Maybe they’re making a comeback. �

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Panthera Pauses - Jumpin’ Jaguars!

By Vincent Pinto

hances are if you’re interested in Nature and reside in southern Arizona that you’ve caught wind of recent Jaguar sightings in the state. For many who hear such news no doubt it will astound and mesmerize them. After all, this spectacular feline isn’t normally found here - or so they thought. This sort of collective amnesia is part of the perils inherent in being a species which relies so much on learned information, as opposed to innate knowledge. All too often yesterday’s key information and scientific facts seem to blow away like so much chaff on the wind. It seems, however, that several furtive felines are bent on reminding us that their species indeed belongs and has an inherent right to reside in the Grand Canyon State.

The Genus Panthera

We’ll start with a little taxonomy, as this will help us to sort out various wild cats, including where Jaguars stand in relation to their brethren. The 36 wild species of felids collectively stalking our planet are separated into “large cats” and “small cats”. While size indeed helps to determine this designation, genetic research is the foundation for such categorizing. The only species truly considered large cats are all contained within the genus Panthera, which includes (from largest to smallest by average weight for each species): Tiger, African Lion, Jaguar, Leopard, and Snow Leopard. The Clouded Leopard may be a link between small and large cats and looks like a shrunken leopard at about 80 pounds. Despite their considerable size, both our Cougar and the Cheetah, which are related to each other, are classed as small cats. One characteristic that separates small

cats from Panthera cats is that diminutive felines purr and cannot roar, while for large cats the reverse is true.

Physical Description

While the Jaguar seems at first glance to be a New World version of the Old World Leopard, and the two certainly are related, many differences exist between them. The spots or rosettes on a Jaguar normally contain one or more dots within them. Those of the Leopard almost always lack such an embellishment. Since gender, latitude, elevation, and diet all create a wide range in overall size and weight in these two lookalikes, the best way to tell a Jaguar from a Leopard is by bodily proportions. Generally, Jaguars are stocky with a proportionately larger head than Leopards. Aside from captive specimens or escaped ones, this is a moot point since the nearest wild Jaguar and Leopard are still continents and oceans apart. Jaguars are strictly New World in distribution, while Leopards are entirely Old World. One last word here. The term “panther” while playing off of the genus of large cats, is unnecessarily confusing and should be avoided. So too with “black panther” as a variety of wild felids can express a melanistic gene that renders their fur very dark. Melanistic Jaguars have never been documented from the U.S. In terms of size borderland male Jaguars seem to weigh about 130 - 170 pounds, while females tip the scales at 100 110 pounds. Both of these weights are mere estimates, given most data comes from slaughtered and eviscerated Jaguar carcasses. South American male Jaguars can approach weights of 300 pounds given their superior diet!

extreme southeast Arizona in our Sky Islands, through Mexico, Central America, and well into South America. While this sounds like a vast range and certainly is, within this span there are very few secure breeding populations of Jaguars. Interestingly, a now extinct and larger Jaguar species roamed most of North America during the Pleistocene era. Since 1900 until present Jaguars have been killed (mostly) or seen (rarely) from the southeast corner of the state, through the Mogollon Rim, White Mountains, and even as far north as the Grand Canyon! Since all of these records had a carcass and/or photos, there can be no doubt as to the identity of these cats or the veracity of the reports. A map of the distribution of the approximately 67 Jaguars documented in our state from 1900 until present includes the vast majority in the Sky islands, especially the Patagonia Mountains, the Santa Ritas, Huachucas, Catalinas, Chiricahuas, and Baboquivaris.

Habitat

Distribution

Part of the problem in humans forgetting about Jaguars in Arizona is that a number of current range maps exclude where they were recently extant. This is a shame since such omissions understandably confuse most people wanting to know where Jaguars live. Thus, many range maps omit California, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, and even Arizona. All of these states had Jaguars well into the 1900’s - not exactly back in the Pleistocene! Similarly, the extreme southern part of the Jaguar’s recent historic range has contracted and now does not include Uruguay. Today, Jaguars roam from

Given the enormous latitudinal range of Jaguars it makes sense that they inhabit an impressive array of plant communities within that area. While our classic view of Jaguars is in the “jungle” or rainforest, they are very adaptable when left to their own devices. They also inhabit dry tropical forests, marshes, and savannah in the tropics. Here in the Sky islands that have been documented in grasslands, desert scrub, Madrean Evergreen Woodland, Pine Forest, and even Spruce-Fir

Tu b a c Vi l l a g e r M ay 2 0 1 7 Forest at high elevations. It seems that if Jaguars are furnished with abundant prey, and secluded places to breed where they are free from human persecution, that they indeed thrive.

Diet

A wide range naturally equates into a broad diet, given the variance in potential prey across the Americas. The aforementioned huge head of Jaguars has evolved in part to accommodate an equally formidable bite force. This allows them to break through the armor of Armadillos, Caimans, and Turtles among others. Such prey is nearly nonexistent in Arizona, though I certainly wonder if a Jaguar here has ever supped upon a hapless Desert Tortoise. I would suspect yes. Normal fare for our Jaguars, however, includes Cervids,Whitetail Deer, Mule Deer, and likely Elk - along with Collared Peccaries. These sizable species provide such key calories that the Jaguar likely would never have been in Arizona without them. No doubt smaller prey is taken as well to fill dietary gaps. Such species may include Jackrabbits, Cottontails, White-nosed Coatis, Coyotes, and likely anything that a Jaguar can lay its paws on! Notably, Cougars often cover their kills to mark and safeguard them, while Jaguars rarely do so.

Competitors

The one species that immediately leaps to mind when it comes to direct completion with Jaguars is the Cougar. These two cats coexist across much of the Americas, and seem to have come to a bit of an evolutionary truce, so to speak. Jaguars are predominantly nocturnal, while Cougars have a decidedly crepuscular (i.e. dusk and dawn) activity pattern. Of course both species can adapt their activities to local climate, prey activity patterns, and human persecution levels. I once read, for instance, that Cougars may once have been much more diurnal until human hunting pressure altered their behavior. In

the recent past other carnivorous competitors included Mexican Wolves and Mexican Grizzly Bears in Arizona.

Arizona’s Jaguars

Currently we appear to have at least two lone Jaguars roaming the Sky Islands. The well-known el jefe, or the boss, which was documented in the Santa Rita and Whetstone Mountains from 2011 - 2015, apparently has moved on from these ranges at least for now and is officially MIA. It was photographed and even videotaped via remote camera traps set out by conservation organizations with the resulting disclosure of the images generating much controversy. Since Jaguars, especially males, can travel long distances in a short time he may have moved on, though we’ll hopefully await further news of this impressive and iconic cat. On the first of December, 2016 a second male, distinguished from el jefe by his distinct pattern of spots, was reported in the Huachuca Mountains. He was again recorded in January, 2017. If el jefe is still around, then these two cats may be rather close, geographically speaking. Since female Jaguars are notoriously difficult to photograph even from camera traps, perhaps a mate is out their for one of these bachelors! This exact possibility surfaced recently when a latent report from November 16, 2016 delivered news of a lone Jaguar in the Dos Cabeza Mountains, just north of the famed Chiricahua Mountains. The images captured of this cat did not reveal its gender, so there is hope that a female Jaguar has indeed migrated up from the nearby breeding population in Mexico. We await further news of these and perhaps other tigres in our Sky Islands. Perhaps its just a matter of time until a young Jaguar is recorded from our border region, finally reestablishing a breeding population here!

Conservation & the Future

So where does all of this leave us in terms of the current and likely future status of the Jaguar in Arizona? Since 1998 Jaguars have been classed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) due to their extreme scarcity in the U.S. Despite this fact politics and greed (what’s new?) have played huge roles in determining the actions of resource agencies in regards to Jaguars. Currently, the Jaguar still lacks designation of “critical habitat” by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, despite this being mandated under the ESA. On a similar sour note our own Arizona Game and Fish has even recommended against such a designation in what seems to be a classic case of a western state balking at federal government intervention. Add in existing border barriers, proposed new ones, irate ranchers (not all, some are sympathetic), over-grazing which reduces prey availability, would-be mines (think the disaster of the proposed Rosemont Mine), and would-be poachers and you begin to fathom the daunting gauntlet that this spectacular species has to navigate in order to reestablish itself in Arizona. There is hope, however, as a consortium of conservation organizations have worked tirelessly to preserve remaining Jaguar habitat. This includes, especially, working in partnership with like-minded people and groups in Mexico who safeguard the northern-most Jaguar breeding populations in Sonora. Without these sources there simply would be no chance of any Jaguars coming back into our local haunts. Some ranchers in Sonora are now paid for photographs of Jaguars taken

on their land, making these cats more valuable alive than dead. The next steps, if we are serious about giving this cat a chance to reestablish breeding populations here, are: 1. Keep border barriers to a minimum. 2. Establish Jaguar preserves within and near all of our Sky Island ranges and valleys. 3. Preserve wildlife travel corridors between Mexico and the U.S. 4. Establish a huge penalty for anyone caught harassing or killing a Jaguar. 5. Educate the public about the inherent values of having Jaguars in our midst. Without these steps, surely this forgotten feline will pounce no more. Naturalist, Wildlife Biologist, Ethnobotanist & Conservationist Vincent Pinto and his wife, Claudia, run RAVENS-WAY WILD JOURNEYS - their Nature Adventure & Conservation organization devoted to protecting the unique Biodiversity of the Sky Islands Region. RWWJ offers a wide variety of custom Bird Guiding, Nature Tours, & Educational Programs in the Sky Islands including the Chiricahua Mountains. At Raven’s Nest Nature Sanctuary, they offer a luxury Safari Eco-Lodge on their 42-acre Nature Preserve by Patagonia Lake. The Safari Tented Camp caters to birders, Nature-lovers, hikers, and anyone who enjoys the peace and solitude of the great outdoors. Visit: www.ravensnatureschool.org Jaguar images, courtesy of Arizona Game & Fish Other images courtesty of Ravens-Way Journeys. �

Art Matters

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with Myrna York

Jose Trujillo

through May 21 at the Tubac Center of the Arts "I like using color to create a space, not perspective space, but breathing space for the eye to rest, a moment of silence."

~Jose Trujillo

El artista jalisciense, José Trujillo, considerado un moderno Monet, ha presentado sus impresionantes obras en Chelsea, Nueva York, Los Ángeles, California, Carolina del Sur, Tokio, Japón, y varias ciudades de Canadá. Las obras de Trujillo comprenden paisajes, fauna, entre otros. “Desert Dreams” celebra el colorido de la región desértica de Sonora – Arizona. -Excerpt taken from the website of the Consulado General de Mexico en Nogales

orn in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and currently living in Tucson, Arizona, the gifted and talented post-impressionist painter, Jose Trujillo is exhibiting at the Tubac Center for the Arts. The exhibition is the result of a collaborative effort between the two countries, the United States and Mexico. The Consulado de Mexico has been collaborating with TCA to bring artists, musicians, and dancers for the past two years as a cross cultural exchange and for building strong relationships between neighbors. In turn, TCA's exhibitions manager Michael Fenlason is

working with Guadalupe Serrano of Museo de Arte Nogales on an exhibition across the border on the theme of "building bridges". This is part of a larger strategy of rebranding the I-19 corridor into an arts district as well as one for scenic beauty. The exhibition is beautiful. What a phenomenon that splashes of paint can create reality and how delightful to see images emerge without defining edges. I refuse to follow convention so I came to see the show to investigate its beauty and to raise questions that make me want to get into the artist's head. The artist is what interests me more than the work but in looking at the work, I see the artist and through the compositions I see the genius. What a pleasure to discover El Artista Jaliscience is beyond the romantic notion of Impressionist painter. The first thing that jumped at me is Trujillo's splash of color that appear to be incongruent to an area of the canvas. One painting after another, I see a pattern, a common gesture, a signature uniqueness, a voice of its own. What is its purpose? Why did the artist create this dynamism and how did he think of it? For example, in The Wisdom of Patience, the turquoise

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splotch on the cactus, the red in the sky between the saguaro's trunk and arm, the violet in the corner put my wandering eyes to a halt. Whoa! Stop! In this loose painting interlude of a desert sonata, voila, a fermata. When asked about his intention, Trujillo responded with the simplest explanation, "I like using color to create a space, not perspective space, but breathing space for the eye to rest, a moment of silence." Carefully placed, it does not scream, "Hey, look at me, I have a brand!" While exploring his color harmony I noted that it is not an accent nor an accident but something similar to the abrupt silencing of reverberating Spanish guitar strings as in the rhythm of the breath like a sigh. Trujillo is very fluent in articulating his art compositions and ideas. Having been a self-taught artist, his training comes from examining the masters from the Baroque period, the Romantics, the Impressionists and the Post Impressionists. He also shared how Dali's silhouettes influenced his early works but we would be hard-pressed to find any copying or mimicking of the masters in this exhibition. Van Gogh maybe, as the heavy impasto is applied with deliberate marks, singing with confidence. His childhood memories of Mexico and its Baroque churches lined with stained glass windows and the glass works of Guadalajara served as inspirations for the layering of the color spectrum. A masterly voice comes from well researched material and self-exploration as he combines them with the essence of minimalism and adopting the mantra, "simplicity is my religion". Like a zen monk, he speaks eloquently of the importance

of silence in his practice and in his work. Through fresh eyes he was able to crack the creative code of being fully present while painting and also by starting at 4:30 AM everyday in front of a canvas. His attention and commitment to being fully aware, moment by moment, has produced 5000 paintings in five years. The youngest of ten children, Trujillo moved to Tucson at age nine. His family was in the carpentry business and he learned to make large canvases with strong and sturdy stretcher bars as a teen-ager. He was given a space in the backyard to pursue his artistic dreams and spent most of his free time painting like the masters he saw in museums and in print, no TV, and no pop-culture. Having been around the generation ahead of him, he was more interested in the stories his father had shared than his peer's teen idols. His grandfather was a bounty hunter so he was fascinated by the Mexican bandido legends and the Mexican revolution that his father told, creating an idealized world of his own. Trujillo and his wife, Lizette, and son, Monet live in South Tucson where they operate an on-line sales of his works. Lizette handles the business portion of the on-line gallery but is very touched by the responses they receive from their patrons. Buyers write how they have been transformed by looking at Trujillo's' paintings and how much joy the paintings have added to their lives. Desert Dreams, Jose Trujillo's one man show is on view through May 21 at the Tubac Center of the Arts. Online: www.josetrujilloart.com

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Images: (Left) The Lowe House was a home for the Lowe family from 1868 to 1955. www.lowehouseproject.com. (Facing page) images of Lowe House programs courtesy of Nancy Valentine.

patio. Studio space for working and exhibition space are also provided in the residence. The Lowe House is on Calle Iglesia, across the street to the north from the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. Valentine said a room in the house dates back to Tubac’s Spanish Colonial Era from 1752 to 1821 and it appears on a 1767 map of Tubac. From 1868 to 1905, it was home to Wilhelm Henry Lowe and his wife, Espirdiona. Three sons of the couple attended school in Tubac at the 1885 Schoolhouse now located in the Presidio Park.

HISTORIC HOME OFFERS ART WORKSHOPS By Kathleen Vandervoet

rtist in residency programs have been popular in other parts of the United States for a century, but in Tubac that opportunity has only been available the past two years.

Venture two or three blocks east from the entrance to Tubac, and you’ll come upon buildings that have been standing for 150 years or more. One of Tubac’s oldest structures has had a recent rebirth and been the locale for dozens of arts and crafts workshops, with more in the planning stages. Nancy Valentine heads the Lowe House Project, located in Old Town Tubac where her artist parents, Hans and Marion Valentine, owned the residence for many years. Valentine, herself a writer, said the project, which invites artists to be in residence for a period of time, includes workshops on decorative papers and handmade artists’ books, poetry workshops, holiday gift workshops, memoir writing, silk fusion paper making, and Chinese sewing box book making, among others. In January, songwriter Sharman Nittoli, during her two-week residency, developed an original musical play about Territorial Tubac with Tubac’s Montessori de Santa Cruz students which was then performed for the community by the children. Other activities have been based on authors and photographers giving talks to audiences about their books and their work.

Nancy Valentine manages the Lowe House in Old Town Tubac where artists in residence stay to develop their work. Photo by Kathleen Vandervoet

Artists can stay at the Lowe House because it includes three small bedrooms along with a kitchen and other living areas, all gathered around a spacious

In 1905, William Lowe Jr. married Anna Burruel, whose family were long-time Tubac residents, and it was their home until 1955 when William Morrow, an early developer of the artist’s village of Tubac, bought it. During the 1950s, extensive renovations were done to accommodate the Morrow family and a resort was planned. Starting in 1965, Hans and Marion Valentine lived and worked there for many years as Southwest Impressions studio and gallery. “Their presence here at that time was an inspiring interaction and a creative community dynamic; it was an inspiring time for me as a young person coming up. That certainly has stuck with me forever,” Valentine said. As her parents aged and their health worsened, the Lowe House was rented to others. After her parents died, Valentine purchased the property from relatives in 2000. The idea to create an artist in residence project grew steadily and she said she received key support creating the non-profit organization from Gerhard (Gary) Anderson, surgeon, winemaker, musician and artist. He passed away in Tucson in November of 2014 and the program began operating in early 2015. Artists must apply for the residency. The board of directors reviews the applications before decisions are made and artists generally stay for two weeks. “We encourage them to develop a body of work that brings to light, through some creative expression, our cultural heritage of Tubac and the region. They are also asked to have a community component that’s free of charge.” Some of the workshops are called “playshops” because they allow people without art experience to spend time creatively. “One of the things I enjoy so much is to offer opportunities for people to enjoy” their projects “through their own creative expression and the individual voices they manifest in their work,” Valentine said.

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Participants can come for one or more days based on a sliding scale starting at $60 for one day and $200 for all five days. Fees include all materials. Student overnight accommodations in the Lowe House are additional and range from $45 a night but are negotiable depending on length of stay. A LiveWrite playshop with Bill Stephenson is planned May 11-13 and is titled “Golf… and why men love it.” They’ll play golf and discuss M. Scott Peck’s book, “Golf and the Spirit.” For reservations, contact Stephenson through www.livewritewords.com. In July, an artist in residence who is a photographer and astronomer, is coming to work on a project incorporating navigation via stars and the issue of immigration at the border. More details are being developed, she said.

Slowing down now after a busy winter season, there are two events in May, a papermaking playshop camp with Susan Corl May 15-19. They’ll create handmade paper using recycled materials, plants and an array of other supplies.

Valentine, author of “300 Years of Tubac Time,” is a member of the board of the Tubac Historical Society, and has helped organize its activities such as the Old Town Tubac Historic Adobe Tour held in November 2016 which was jointly sponsored by the historical society and the Lowe House Project. Another tour is planned Nov. 11, 2017, with eight buildings, some repeats from last year and some new ones.

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For the summer and fall, Valentine is accepting new artists. She said: “Artists and craft persons in all disciplines interested in residencies, conducting workshop and playshop programs and for exhibition opportunities can contact Nancy directly at tubacval@msn.com for more information.” The website address is www.lowehouseproject.com. �

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THE BATTLE AGAINST POLIO CONTINUES By Byron Thompson, Tubac Rotary President Polio. If you grew up in the late 40s and early 50s you probably remember the fear that word brought to millions of mothers who were so frightened by this deadly disease that many refused to let their children play outdoors for fear they would contract the crippling virus. During those years polio crippled more than 35,000 people each year. Did you know we are still battling Polio? Thanks to effective vaccines the US has been polio free since 1979. But even though most of the world is polio free, polio remains endemic in three countries –Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. It is still a disease we have not eliminated and the battle continues. Surprised? Most people are. While we have the fewest number of cases in the fewest number of places in the world polio is still out there, paralyzing and potentially fatal to millions of unimmunized children in the world. Rotary is helping to battle the disease as a partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) formed in 1988. This public/private partnership includes the World Health Organization, the US Centers for Disease Control, UNICEF, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and governments of the world. Since 1985 Rotary has contributed nearly $1.2 billion, matched two-to-one by the Gates Foundation. We’re fighting to end polio one donation at a time.

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Tubac business owner Dennis Kizerian, Tubac Trailer Tether, has donated to the Rotary battle against polio for many years. “I wasn’t in the military and I never knew anyone who actually died of war, but I did have three friends who died from polio,” said Dennis. “It’s a disease that should be gone now but it’s not.”

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Lou Maestas was born in Seligman, AZ and is survived by his 9 children: Theresa, Debbie, Diane, Donna, Joshua, Trina, Summer, Tasha, Anjole; his Sister Gloria and her husband Roger; 38 Grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren; many Nieces and Nephews.

Dennis remembers as a child always hearing about polio, especially in the summer when the virus was more active. “We’d hear people talk about it but never really understood it. It was just there,” he said. “Now we don’t even think about polio because it’s not around. Unfortunately, that could change if it’s not gotten rid of.”

An accomplished and admired artist, Maestas began work in advertising in 1958; becoming editor of a newspaper and owner of Lou Maestas Advertising Agency in Las Vegas, Nevada; he taught at Clarke County Community College, Las Vegas, Nevada from 1975-1982; founded the Art Masters Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1986-1997; and most recently founded the Tubac Academy of Art in June 2016. Maestas's artwork is represented locally at Rogoway Gallery in Tubac, AZ.

Rotary member Mary Donnelly also had a childhood friend die from polio. “The neighborhood kids would all get together and go down the block to Paul’s house and play for him to watch us,” Mary told me. “Paul would laugh and had a ball. Then one day we were all told not to come anymore as Paul was sick. He died shortly after. Polio became very real.” The statistics offer hopeful news. Polio eradication continues in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Afghanistan cases dropped from 13 in 2015 to 8 in 2016. In Pakistan there were only 15 cases reported in 2016 compared to 38 the year before. Unfortunately, Nigeria slipped back onto the list of countries where polio is endemic last year when cases appeared in some of their northern states under rule of militants. Prior to that outbreak Nigeria was polio free for two years. What happened in Nigeria points out the biggest challenge with eliminating polio. Polio spreads easily and many countries have had poor early detection programs and poor immunization programs. Rotary volunteers and contributors are working directly with the GPEI to make sure early outbreaks are caught and children are immunized each year. After the outbreak in Nigeria thousands of children were immunized and programs were set up with the help of Rotary throughout the rural areas in Nigeria to watch for symptoms.

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The success was immediate in Nigeria but the GPEI reminds us that we are a global community of world travelers now and as long as there is still one polio victim and millions of children who are not immunized living in remote areas of the world, there is the potential for another worldwide outbreak. Rotary is committed to “End Polio Now” because the message from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is clear: “We must support the final push to end polio now while the goal has never been closer, or face the potential consequences of a new polio pandemic that could disable millions of children within a decade.”

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2 0 1 7 Ta s t e of Tub ac Photos by Paul a Beemer

(Top, left) Tubac Rotary Club's largest fundraiser event, the Taste of Tubac took place on on April 2. As always, the event was sold out a week in advance. Volunteers and Rotary members - Wendy Buitenhuis, Judy Rogers, and Martha Eckhart offer the traditional wine glass and dinner plates to guests. (Top, right) Greeting guests are Mary Donnelly, Carole Bejarano, and AZ State Senator for District 2, Andrea Dalessandro. (Middle, left) La Roca Restaurant, an old-timer from Nogales, Mexico offers refreshing tamarindo margaritas as well as tasty dishes that are very popular among the crowd. This year, they placed second in the People's Choice Award.

(Middle) Roxy Cirerol, Lupita Ayala, Claudia Maytorena, and Kassandra Valle from La Bocanita Restaurant, serving delicious seafood and chips. (Middle, right) Preparing Seared Jumbo Scallops is Chef and Manager of the Grill at Quail Creek, Adolfo "Aris" Cabrera. For the third year in a row this establishment wins the number one People's Choice Award. The mouth-watering entrĂŠe served by this restaurant consisted of jumbo scallops, forbidden rice, coconut curry sauce, and apple-jicama slaw.

(Bottom, left) The annual Taste attracted over 24 food and beverage vendors and over 500 guests and volunteers. The event raised approximately $24,000 which will be distributed throughout the year among various community programs, organizations and scholarships. (Bottom, right) Guests enjoying the fantastic music of the Wildfire Band. Paula Beemer is a freelance photographer in Tubac. Her website is www.beemerstudios.com

Tu b a c Vi l l a g e r M ay 2 0 1 7 THURSDAYS: Tubac Quantum Consciousness Group at 9am-11am (392-2747); Senior Standing Yoga at 11am; Senior Lunch 12noon; TRX (Beginning) at 5pm; Narcotics Anonymous meets at 6PM at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Rd. Call 520-398-1800.

Ongoing WEEKDAYS: Branch of the Nogales-Santa Cruz County public library open at the Tubac Community Center from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. There are two free computers for public use and Wi-Fi. Phone 398-9814. MONDAYS THROUGH SATURDAYS: Yoga at Tubac Healing Arts Center. 8:30am. 6 Camino Otero. www. tubachealingarts.com. 520-275-2689. MONDAYS: Alcoholics Anonymous, 7pm at the Tubac Community Center. 50 Bridge Rd. 3rd Monday of every month, 9am - Santa Cruz Valley Citizens Council meets at the Tubac Community Center. 50 Bridge Rd. TUESDAYS: Alcoholics Anonymous, 12pm (noon); Narcotics Anonymous meets at 6PM at the Tubac Community Center. 50 Bridge Rd. Yoga at Tubac Healing Arts Center. 5:30pm. 6 Camino Otero. www. tubachealingarts.com. 520-275-2689. WEDNESDAYS: TRX (Advanced) 9am; Alcoholics Anonymous, 7pm at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Rd. Call 520-398-1800. Tubac Historical Society - Access to Brownell Research Center & Library, Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Rd. 10am-2pm, and by appointment. www.ths-tubac.org. 520-398-2020. Awanas - 6:30-8, at The Church at Tubac. 2204 West Frontage Road. Info: 398-2325. www. churchattubac.com.

Tubac Historical Society - Access to Brownell Research Center & Library, Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Rd. 10am-2pm, and by appointment. www.ths-tubac.org. 520-398-2020. Yoga at Tubac Healing Arts Center. 5:30pm. 6 Camino Otero. www. tubachealingarts.com. 520-275-2689. FRIDAYS: Tubac Rotary Club meets at 8am at the Tubac Golf Resort & Spa. Children’s Story Hour at 11 am; Argentine Tango, Fridays at noon; Alcoholics Anonymous, 7pm. At the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Rd. Call 520-398-1800. Live Music at Stables Ranch Grille at the Tubac Golf Resort and Spa. For more information call 520-398-2678. SATURDAYS: Live Music at Stables Ranch Grille at the Tubac Golf Resort and Spa. For more information 520-398-2678. 3rd Saturday of every month, 9am-12noon - Tubac Community Garden Work Party at the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Rd. All ages welcome! No need to register, just show up. We will have lunch provided by Tubac Market for a $3-$5 donation. Make sure you bring a hat, sunblock, gloves, and a water bottle. See you on Saturday!!!! Contact our Garden Manager, Pamela if you have questions, 425-785-8600. SUNDAYS: The Church at Tubac - Bible Study at 10 am. Worship Service at 11 am. 2204 West Frontage Road. Info: 398-2325. www.churchattubac.com. The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Green Valley/Amado holds services at 10 am at the Amado Territory Ranch off Interstate 19 Exit 48. Please submit Ongoing events monthly, or indicate relevant issues which you would like your event to run. * * * * * NOW - ONGOING SPECIAL EXHIBIT - TUBAC’S PIONEER FAMILIES AND THE CATASTROPHE OF BACA FLOAT NO. 3. This ground breaking exhibit tells the story of how local homesteaders lost their lands to real estate speculators and political actions beyond their control. ONGOING EXHIBIT: UNIQUE 1800’S AMBULANCE. This exhibit at the Tubac Presidio is a rare original 1800’s period carriage called an ambulance. It has been restored and modified to replicate the ambulance that Phocion R. Way, an engraver from Cincinnati, Ohio, rode on from Mesilla on the Rio Grande River to Tucson in June of 1858. Many other figures in Tubac’s Territorial history arrived here on this type of vehicle because of its comfort and speed. Our ambulance was restored over thirteen months by Hanson Wheel and Wagon in Letcher, South Dakota and is the only known vehicle of its type on display anywhere in the world. Included with park admission, $5 adult, $2 youth 7-13, children free. Tubac Presidio State Historic Park, 1 Burruel St. (520) 398–2252.

NOW AT THE TUBAC CENTER OF THE ARTS - THE HI-ART EXHIBIT is on display through May 14th. Two solo exhibits, “DESERT DREAMS,” BY JOSE TRUJILLO and “BEST OF SHOW,” BY CAROLYN WAYLAND are on display through May 21st. 9 Plaza Road. NOW ENROLLING FOR THE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM & FREE KINDERGARTEN TO 6TH GRADE AT THE MONTESSORI DE SANTA CRUZ. Tubac’s public Charter School. 520-398-0536. * * * * * MAY 4, 2PM-3PM - COOKING A-Z - SOUR DOUGH WITH RANDY WADE. $30. This class is a demonstration of all the steps for starting, feeding and baking with sour dough yeast. This ancient technique produces a light crusty slightly sour loaf, and can be used for biscuits, dumplings, pancakes and amazing waffles. We will provide you with your own sour dough starter in an ideal reusable glass container. We will bake a loaf of bread, mix bread dough, make batter, cook waffles and enjoy the results. Tumacookery. www. cookinga-z.com. 520-398-9497. MAY 5, 10AM-11:30AM - QIGONG WITH DR. ADOLF BROWN at the Tubac Healing Arts Center, 6 Camino Otero. 520-275-2689 www. tubachealingartscom. MAY 5 THROUGH 7 - THE JAVELINA CHASE CELEBRATES ITS FOURTH YEAR WITH MULTIPLE EVENTS IN THE SCENIC GILA RIVER VALLEY AROUND DUNCAN, ARIZONA. As in prior years, “The Chase” will feature road races, “gran fondo” fun rides, a closed-course, timed “criterium,” a bike rodeo for kids 3 to 13, and a 5K walk/run for all ages. The Javelina Chase Omnium kicks off at the Duncan High School cafeteria from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 5, with a pasta dinner prepared by the Duncan Little League. All are welcome, for a charge of $7 a plate. On Saturday, May 6, all the racers depart from the Greenlee County Fairgrounds. The Cinco de Mayo Fiesta at Centennial Park, on Highway 70, will begin at 3 p.m. Local families and visitors are all welcome. On Sunday morning, May 7, the “Criterium” brings competitive riders onto a closed course on Old Virden Road, Virden Road, and a short stretch of Highway 75. Spectators are encouraged to come sit in bleachers on Old Virden Road to cheer for the riders as they pass. Cyclists and 5K participants may register at www.SWSportsREG.com. Further information on all events is available at www.javelinachase.com. MAY 5, 5PM-11PM – BOYS & GIRLS CLUB’S 22ND ANNUAL FIESTAS DE MAYO DINNER/AUCTION. Join us for an enchanting evening of good food and good friends. $250 per person at the Tubac Golf Resort. Call (520) 2873733 for tickets or information. MAY 5, 7:30PM - LIVE MUSIC - NATHAN AND JESSIE. Ages 18 & up = $12 advance / $17 day of show (reduced rates for youth) Gypsy jazz trio whose original songs are an eclectic mix of jazz, folk and blues with a taste of pop . Sea of Glass Center for the Arts, 330 E. 7th Street, Tucson, AZ. For info & directions – theseaofglass.org or (520) 398-2542. MAY 5 - COX COMMUNICATIONS MOVIES IN THE PARK - WALL-E. Join us at the Reid Park Demeester Outdoor Performance Center for summer’s celebration of family and film. Free Admission. Tucson. www.saaca.org/moviespark.html. MAY 6, 9AM-3PM - THE CREE PROJECT, OPIOID AWARENESS EVENT. Partners for this event include Sonoran Prevention Works (who will be distributing Naloxone Kits and giving onsite Prevention training), Addiction Haven, Young People In Recovery, the Tucson Police Department Counter Narcotics Alliance, COPE, the Haven, Tucson, CODAC: Living Out Loud Wellness Center, and Arizona Strong. The event will include individuals and organizations from Maricopa, Pima, and Santa Cruz counties, AZ. Tucson Mayor Rothschild will also join us to speak in support of this important outreach event, as will many others who have been impacted by the substance use disorder and those who are actively working to make changes in policy, or who are in recovery... or all of the above. Find more information on the Cree Project Website at www.thecreeproject.com. Where: The Armory Park, Tucson, (221 S 6th Ave).

Tu b a c Vi l l a g e r M ay 2 0 1 7 MAY 6, 12NOON-11PM - LET’S CELEBRATE FIESTAS DE MAYO 2017. Music, dancing, Mexican food stands and so much more! Crowning of the Queen of “Fiesta de Mayo”. Morley Ave, Downtown Nogales. MAY 6 - AUDUBON BIRDING FIELD TRIP - BIRDING WITH A PURPOSE: EXPERIENCE THE SAN PEDRO RIVER with Keith Kamper and Catie Armstrong. See more information and upcoming FREE birding field trips at tucsonaudubon.org/fieldtrips. MAY 6, 4PM-6:30PM - COOKING A-Z - PAELLA WITH MYRNA YORK. $70. Nourishing, vibrant, and served without pretension, paella has held a place of honor and practicality in Spanish homes for centuries. Myrna will show you how to make two versions of seafood paella. The traditional warm yellow saffron rice recipe starts with arborio rice cooked in a rich homemade broth while Paella Negra uses squid ink to tint the rice black. Both versions will be made with a variety of fresh seafood, and paired with Spanish Rioja wine. Myrna will also show you how to grill seasonal vegetable as the perfect accompaniment for this meal. Tumacookery. www.cookinga-z.com. 520398-9497. MAY 7 THROUGH JUNE 4 - ELEGANT TROGON SURVEYS MAY – JUNE 2017. There is an abundance of evidence, both anecdotal and scientific, that the ecological influence of tropical Mexico has grown over the last century in Southeastern Arizona. Mammals such as Javalina and White-nosed Coati have both extended their range out the tropics into southern Arizona as part of this larger ecological system expansion. Elegant Trogons are also part of this story with their United States range expanding over the last century which can be tracked with mainly anecdotal evidence and isolated incidents of collecting. To further our understanding of how many Elegant Trogons there are in the US organized surveys have been ongoing in the Chiricahuas and Huachucas led by Rick Taylor for many years and beginning in 2013 Jennie MacFarland and Tucson Audubon assisted Rick and helped expand the surveys to three more ranges. The new areas we surveyed the last four years are the Atascosa Highlands, Santa Rita Mountains and Patagonia Mountains. Atascosa Mountains Survey – Sunday May 7th. Patagonia Mountains Survey – Saturday May 27th. Santa Rita Mountains Survey – Sunday May 28th. Huachuca Mountains Survey – Saturday June 3rd. Chiricahua Mountains Survey – Sunday June 4th. To sign up for any or all of these surveys please please email Jennie at jmacfarland@tucsonaudubon.org. MAY 8 - SHOESTRING PLAYERS ANNUAL MAY MEETING & TACO FEST! Vote in the board member elections, enjoy scenes from our upcoming season, and eat tacos!. Please RSVP so we know how much food to order. 520399-1750. MAY 9, 10AM-11AM - MUSEUM TOUR: SPANISH TUBAC – A CURATOR’S LOOK AT THE PRESIDIO THAT TRANSFORMED THE SANTA CRUZ VALLEY. Join us for a guided tour where you’ll explore Spanish Tubac and take a closer look at several museum artifacts and discuss their impact on history. Allow 1 hour for the tour. $10 fee includes all day admission to tour the Presidio Park. Tour limited to 12; reservations requested, 520-398-2252 or info@TubacPresidio.org. MAY 9, 5:30PM - OWLYMPIANS BIG AFTERNOON WITH JENNIE MACFARLAND OF TUCSON AUDUBON. Join us for a fun half-day owl prowl Birdathon on Mt. Lemmon! Group size limited to 8 people. tucsonaudubon.org/birdathon. MAY 9, 6PM-7:30PM - SPECIAL MARANA LIVING WITH NATURE PROGRAM BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE TUCSON AUDUBON SOCIETY. The Town of Marana is moving forward with riparian restoration plans for the El Rio Preserve (AKA Coachline Gravel Pit). This area currently holds water intermittently and is dominated by invasive species – but it is a haven for birds. 223 species have been sighted at this location, including some rarities. Future plans for improvements to the El Rio Preserve include ponds, an arroyo feature, removal of some invasive plants, and planting/seeding natives. Come and learn more about how this restoration will affect the birds in this area. Janine Spencer is currently an Environmental Projects Manager for the Town of Marana. Pima Community College – NW Campus – Room #G105. 7600 N Shannon Rd. www.tucsonaudubon.org. MAY 10 - AUDUBON BIRDING FIELD TRIP - KITT PEAK WITH JOHN HIGGINS. See more information and upcoming FREE birding field trips at tucsonaudubon.org/fieldtrips. MAY 10, 11AM-12NOON - HEALTHY HABITS FOR A HEALTHIER YOU. The Alzheimer’s Association Desert Southwest Chapter is offering this workshop which covers four areas of lifestyle habits that are associated with healthy aging: Cognitive activity, Physical health and exercise, Diet and nutrition, Social engagement. At the Tubac Community Center, 50 Bridge Road. For more information, call the Alzheimer’s Association® at (800) 2723900 or email mhartford@alz.org. MAY 10, 1:30PM-4PM - COOKING A-Z - LET’S GET PICKLED WITH JERI HOYLE. $60. Using the bounty of early summer we will create delicious pickled vegetables. In this hands-on technique class we will use the quick pickling method so popular with famous chefs and restaurateurs as well as the “old-school” hot bath technique. We will pickle everything from asparagus to zucchini , cherry tomatoes, onions, carrots, peppers and yes, a few cucumbers as well. Each student will take home a jar of handmade Hot Italian Giandeniera. At the end of class will enjoy our pickled delights at our own creative Bloody Mary Bar! Tumacookery. www.cookinga-z.com. 520398-9497. MAY 11 - BORDER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE CROSS BORDER TOURS - Please join us for our cross border tours and see for yourself what Nogales is like beyond the wall with an overview of the region, historically and contextually. 520-398-3229. MAY 11, 12, 13, 8:30AM-5PM - GOLF… AND WHY MEN LOVE IT—LIVEWRITE “PLAYSHOP” WITH BILL STEPHENSON. Find and give voice to the mysterious x factor that keeps us coming back–often braving rain, wind, and cold, not to mention anger, frustration, and disappointment with golf. Play on local courses in the morning, talk in the afternoon, and dinner at a local Mexican restaurant. This workshop (really more of a playshop) revolves around M. Scott Peck’s book Golf and the Spirit.. A Lowe House Project Playshop in Old Town Tubac. Accommodations available.For more information and reservations contact Bill at livewritewords.com, wmcstephenson@gmail.com, or 828-557-2527. MAY 12, 9AM-12NOON - LIVING HISTORY: WOODWORKING. For generations, humans have used and shaped wood for practical and creative projects. See how it was done before power tools by watching and listening to a knowledgeable volunteer using hand tools to form and split wood to make staves for a bucket, and then try it yourself. Included with park admission: $5 adult, $2 youth 7-13, children free. 520-398-2252 or info@ TubacPresidio.org. MAY 12, 10AM-11:30AM - QIGONG WITH DR. ADOLF BROWN at the Tubac Healing Arts Center, 6 Camino Otero. 520-275-2689 www.tubachealingartscom. MAY 12 OR 27 - BORDER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE - KITCHENS OF NOGALES TOUR. Have you ever wondered what exactly is Sonoran food and how it differs from Mexican cuisine in general? This gastronomic tour of modern Nogales will clarify the regional characteristics of our culinary vibrant southern neighbor in situ while providing a local historical background. This tour takes you off the beaten path deeper into Nogales to the gastronomic zone of local Nogalenses centered around the street known as Calle Hermosillo. 520-398-3229.

CINCO DE MAYO we will feature $2.00 Tacos Mexican Beer Specials & $3.50 house Margaritas Mother’s Day Buffet for $22.99 featuring Eggs, Omelets cooked to order, hand carved baked ham, chili rubbed brisket of beef, salad station lots of side dishes and Ice cream sundae bar! Glass of Prosecco for Mom included! Regular features continue – Walleye on Wednesday, Atlantic Cod on Friday and Slow roasted Prime Rib on Saturday Fresh Maine Lobster is Back on Friday, May 26th call to reserve.

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MAY 12, 4PM-6:30PM - COOKING A-Z - BLACKENED MAHI MAHI TACOS WITH JERI HOYLE. $65. Everyone loves a good fish taco! We will start with the perfect fish for grilling, beautiful Mahi Mahi from the waters of South America. We will make a rub with a delicious blend of Latin spices and serve it with warm tortillas and just the right toppings. Besides learning some helpful tips for selecting, seasoning and grilling fish we will make an avocado crema, Mango Black Bean Salsa/ Salad and Baja Style Rice. Our taco party will also include homemade chips and salsa, ice cold beer and coconut lime sorbet. Tumacookery. www.cookinga-z.com. 520-398-9497. MAY 13 - AUDUBON BIRDING FIELD TRIP - HUMMINGBIRD SAFARI WITH KAREN KREBBS. See more information and upcoming FREE birding field trips at tucsonaudubon.org/fieldtrips. MAY 14 - MOTHER’S DAY BUFFET AT THE COW PALACE RESTAURANT & BAR. Call 520-398-8000 to reserve. I-19 Exit 48, Amado. MAY 14, 6AM-10:30AM & 11AM-3PM- MOTHER’S DAY BREAKFAST & BRUNCH AT THE TUBAC GOLF RESORT & SPA. $45 per person. For reservations call 520.398.2678. MAY 15-19, 9AM-4PM - PAPERMAKING PLAYSHOP CAMP WITH SUSAN CORL. Come join Folk Artist Susan Corl for this fun playshop all about handmade paper making from recycled materials, plants and an array of other supplies. All materials provided. Choose one or more days. A Lowe House Project playshop in Old Town Tubac. Overnight accommodations available in Historic Lowe House. Overnight accommodations available. (lowehouseproject.com) For more information, fees and pre-registration (required) contact Susan a susancorl@hotmail.com or call 520-394-2926. MAY 16, 3PM-6PM - COOKING A-Z - HUNGARIAN GOULASH WITH MARION HOOK. $55. Marion Hook had a hit class last month with her paprika chicken. It was so popular that the students demanded a class for Hungarian Goulash! Hungarian beef goulash is a lightly spicy stew with complex flavors that balance the key ingredient: Hungarian Paprika. If you have never had Hungarian Goulash, this is sure to become your favorite way to stew beef. Marion will also teach us how to make the the perfect side dishes - traditional bacon and paprika potatoes and a Hungarian cabbage slaw. Heat from paprika makes this menu a great choice for summer or winter meals. For dessert we will make stuffed pears. Wine will accompany the meal. Tumacookery. www.cookinga-z.com. 520-398-9497. MAY 16, 6:30PM - A HISTORY TALK ON “THE MANY LIVES OF CALABAZAS 1741-1861” WITH GUEST HISTORY SPEAKER AND AUTHOR, TOM PREZELSKI at the next general membership meeting of the Rio Rico Historical Society, Rio Rico Community Center, 391 Avenida Coatimundi. For more information about the Rio Rico Historical Society and upcoming events, please visit our website: www.RioRicoHistoricalSociety.org/events.html. MAY 17, 11AM - FESTIVAL KINO RETURNS TO TUMACÁCORI. Tumacácori National Historical Park will join the state of Sonora, Mexico in celebrating the life and missions of Father Eusebio Francisco Kino as part of the Mexican state’s annual Festival Kino. In its sixth year in Arizona, the Kino Festival has been an annual event in Sonora since 1967. Beginning in Magdalena on the first anniversary of the discovery of Father Kino’s remains, the event has grown to include all of northern Sonora, and now includes three historic sites in southern Arizona: Mission San José de

Tumacácori, the Tubac Presidio, and Mission San Xavier del Bac. As part of this cultural festival, Tumacácori will host a solo program of classical guitar inside the historic mission church on Wednesday, May 17 at 11:00 a.m. The annual Festival Kino takes place this year throughout northern Sonora from May 17 through May 21. For more information on events in Sonora, visit the Sonoran Institute of Culture website at isc.gob.mx/festivalkino.php. Admission to the park is $5.00 per adult, free for federal pass holders and children under age 16. There is no additional charge for the concert. For more information, call Tumacácori National Historical Park at 520-377-5060, or visit the park’s website, at nps.gov/tuma. MAY 18 - BORDER COMMUNITY ALLIANCE - MAGDALENA THEN AND NOW TOUR. Located just 60 miles south of Nogales, Magdalena has been designated a “Magical Pueblo” because of its historic and colonial charm. This tour includes both a look back to the past and a glance at the contemporary challenges of a small Mexican city. 520-398-3229. MAY 19, 10AM-11:30AM - QIGONG WITH DR. ADOLF BROWN at the Tubac Healing Arts Center, 6 Camino Otero. 520-275-2689 www.tubachealingartscom. MAY 19, 12NOON-4PM – BOYS & GIRLS CLUB’S 38TH ANNUAL PRODUCE CARNE ASADA. Everyone’s invited to the county’s largest community barbeque! $25 per person at the Rio Rico Golf Club 1123 Pendelton Dr. Rio Rico. Call (520) 287-3733 for tickets or information. MAY 19, 3PM-6PM - COOKING A-Z - THE MEZZA TABLE WITH MONICA DIBLE. $60. Skewers and more, explore the Mezza table. Monica will show you how to grill marinated chicken skewers with eastern spices such as fresh toasted and ground cumin. You will learn make fresh pita bread, and tzatziki, a traditional yogurt based condiment that provides a perfect finish to the skewer/pita combination. In addition, we will make a Grilled Israeli Salad; a combination of grilled leeks, Italian parsley, Roma tomatoes, Persian cucumbers, garlic, roasted garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, mint, and garbanzo beans. This salad has big flavor and is easy to prepare. Dessert will be Layali Lubnan a Lebanese Pudding, made with farina, rose and orange syrup and a sweetened cream layer garnished with coconut and pistachios. There will also be a garnish of sweet cheese stuffed dates and wine! Tumacookery. www.cookinga-z.com. 520-398-9497. MAY 19 THROUGH 28 - TUCSON CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER PRESENTS ‘JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH’ AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA’S CROWDER HALL. Tickets are just $15 and are available at cyttucson.org. Show times are the following: Friday, May 19th – 7:00pm; Friday, May 26th – 7:00pm; Saturday, May 20th – 2:00pm; Saturday, May 27th – 2:00pm; Saturday, May 20th – 7:00pm; Saturday, May 27th – 7:00pm; Sunday, May 21st – 2pm; Sunday, May 28th – 2:00pm. For more information on Christian Youth Theater and James and the Giant Peach contact Cade Walton (520) 471-5244. MAY 20 & 21 - BALLET TUCSON PRESENTS - LES SYLPHIDES AND THE CHILDREN’S PERFORMANCE OF SNOW WHITE. Saturday, May 20 – 7:00 pm & Sunday, May 21 – 2:00 pm. At the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre, Tucson. Tickets General $25 (festival seating). Call Ballet Tucson at 520.903.1445. MAY 20, 7:30PM - FILM - SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY. $10.00. Award-winning documentary. Held in the evening the same day as the annual March Against Monsanto, Tucson food activists are all called to action to also attend this film screening and talk hosted by Avalon Organic Gardens & EcoVillage. The Sea Of Glass—Center For The Arts in Tucson. For info & directions – http://theseaofglass.org or (520) 398-2542. MAY 24, 11AM-1:30PM - COOKING A-Z - MOROCCAN TAGINE WITH ERICA SWADLEY. $55. Erica is back, offering new recipes for you to enjoy in your beautiful tagine or make in a broad skillet. The earthy, simple yet complex array of Moroccan ingredients will surprise and delight the palate. The main “course” will teach you how to prepare a Marrakesh Tagine of potatoes, sweet potato, onion, spices, red and green pepper, eggplant, artichoke hearts, green beans, tomatoes, raisins, and apricots. We will also prepare an appetizer of Grilled Olives followed by Chilled Almond and Garlic Soup. For dessert we will make Roasted Figs with Honey and Sweet Cheese. In typical Cooking A-Z fashion, we will sit and enjoy this exotic fare with a glass of wine. Tumacookery. www.cookinga-z.com. 520-398-9497. MAY 26 - MAINE LOBSTER AT THE COW PALACE RESTAURANT AND BAR. Call 520-398-8000 to reserve. I-19 Exit 48, Amado. MAY 26, 4PM-6:30PM - COOKING A-Z - PIZZA TWO WAYS WITH RANDY WADE. $45. Deep Dish and Thin Crust. This is a Pizza skills class for all levels of cooks. We will work with dough, make sauce, and cook pizza in an outdoor pizza oven. You will also learn how to make Deep Dish Pizza in a regular home oven. Students will have the opportunity to make a pizza with toppings of their choice. Recipes for an excellent and easy pizza dough as well as two sauce types will be provided to each student. We will also have a fresh chopped salad made in class to round out the meal. Wine will be served. Tumacookery. www.cookinga-z.com. 520-398-9497. MAY 26, 5PM-7PM - WINE & CHEESE OPENING AT HUGH CABOT STUDIO MUSEUM. 5 Camino Encanto in Tubac Valley Vistas. With new Cabot Museum aquisitions from the David Seacat collection. 520.470.9432. JUNE 2 - COX COMMUNICATIONS MOVIES IN THE PARK - MOANA. Join us at the Reid Park Demeester Outdoor Performance Center for summer’s celebration of family and film. Free Admission. Tucson. www.saaca.org/moviespark.html. JUNE 9-29 - 9:30AM-3:30PM, TUES, WED & THURS - SUMMERS ARTS FOR YOUTH AT THE TCA. To sponsor a student or to register for classes call 520-398-2371. JUNE 17, 6PM -THE TUCSON 23 MEXICAN FOOD FEST. SAACA invite you to celebrate Father’s Day and the Best 23 Miles of Mexican Food in American and the Tucson 23 Mexican Food Fest. Tickets will sell out, so purchase today! Tickets $49 each include samplings from over 40 local Mexican restaurants,chefs,breweriesanddistilleries.10%offticketswithcodeMEMBER. JWMarriottStarrPassResort&Spa.www.saaca.org/tucson23.html.

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OPEN ALL SUMMER! AUTHENTIC MEXICAN ART

TUBAC COMMUNITY CENTER SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY 2017

SENIOR LUNCH … EVERY THURSDAY AT 12:00 NOON

SENIOR STANDING YOGA … EVERY THURSDAY AT 11:00 CHILDREN’S STORY HOUR … EVERY FRIDAY AT 11:00 TUBAC GARDEN WORK PARTY … THIRD SAT. OF MONTH AA – MON WED FRI, 7-8 PM OPEN MEETING NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS … TUE. THUR 6:00 PM VINYASA/FLOW YOGA … CLASS 5:00 PM BRING MAT TRX ADVANCED … WEDNESDAY 9:00 AM TRX BEGINNING … THURSDAY 5:00 PM ARGENTINE TANGO … FRIDAY 12:00 NOON TUBAC QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS … THUR. 9:00 AM S.C. VALLEY CITIZENS COUNCIL … 3RD MONDAY 9:00 AM PICKLEBALL … SCHEDULE VARIES, CONTACT 398-2850 TUBAC HISTORICAL SOCIETY … OPEN TO THE PUBLIC EVERY THURSDAY 9 AM TO 1 PM JUNE 17, 7:30PM - MUSIC - JAZZ WITH ROBIN BESSIER & LEXI WEEGE. Ages 18 & up = $13 advance / $18 day of show (reduced rates for youth). Female jazz vocalists - Brazilian, Latin, Swing, Blues, Ballads, Bop, R&B, Roaring Twenties and more. Sea of Glass Center for the Arts, 330 E. 7th Street, Tucson, AZ. For info & directions – http://theseaofglass.org or (520) 3982542. JULY 7 - COX COMMUNICATIONS MOVIES IN THE PARK - SECRET LIVES OF PETS. Join us at the Reid Park Demeester Outdoor Performance Center for summer’s celebration of family and film. Free Admission. Tucson. www.saaca.org/moviespark.html. JULY 22 - WORK WITH YOGI AND PHYSICAL THERAPIST JAIMIE PERKUNAS. “Connect to Your Core” 11am-1:30pm and “So What About Your Psoas” 2:30pm-5pm. At the Tubac Healing Arts Center, 6 Camino Otero. 520-275-2689. tubachealingarts.com AUGUST 4 - COX COMMUNICATIONS MOVIES IN THE PARK - ZOOTOPIA. Join us at the Reid Park Demeester Outdoor Performance Center for summer’s celebration of family and film. Free Admission. Tucson. www.saaca.org/moviespark.html. SEPTEMBER 1 - COX COMMUNICATIONS MOVIES IN THE PARK - FINDING DORY. Join us at the Reid Park Demeester Outdoor Performance Center for summer’s celebration of family and film. Free Admission. Tucson. www.saaca.org/moviespark.html. OCTOBER 14, 5PM-7PM - YOU ARE INVITED TO WINE & DINE FOR OUR FELINES. Join Paws Patrol for food, wine, music, and silent auction. To donate an auction item call 520-207-4024. Proceeds benefit community feral/stray cats. At the Karin Newby Gallery, Tubac.

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MONTESSORI KIDS OUT AND ABOUT EXPLORING

Montessori Students Enjoy Springtime Field Trip to Tumacacori Historical National Park By Madeline Alcorta

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MONTESSORI MOMENT

ur Montessori kids are taking advantage of this beautiful springtime weather and heading out and about into the great outdoors. It’s the season of field trips at Montessori de Santa Cruz, and each classroom has been on an exciting and educational adventure.

In February, the Upper Elementary classroom (grades 4-6) participated in a field trip to Biosphere 2 and the Arizona Renaissance Festival School Day.

In March, the Primary classroom (preschool - kindergarten) and the Lower Elementary classroom (grades 1-3) took their annual field trip to Madera Canyon. Once everyone had gathered in the canyon, the students and parent volunteers split up into small groups and rotated amongst a half dozen stations where they learned about concepts of nature. During spring testing for the upper grades, Lower Elementary students went on a field trip to Tumacacori National Historical Park. They participated in a free educational program called “My Life at Tuma,” which teaches the children about what life was like 300 years ago living in the mission community. The “My Life at Tuma” educational program at Tumacacori National Historical Park allows the children of today an opportunity to experience a little about how life was for children who lived there hundred of years ago. Through guided reenactments, our Montessori de Santa Cruz kids tried grinding corn, harvesting the orchard, and playing educational games at the mission.

The students dressed-up in traditional clothing costumes, and were given the name of an actual resident that lived at the mission ages ago. With the information provided along with their new historical name, they can use the internet to look up a picture of the actual record showing that person once lived near the Tumacacori Mission. This great educational-based program is Directed by Melanie Rawlins at Tumacacori National Historical Park, who is also a wonderful informational tour guide there. Participation in this free field trip was suggested by Linn Baker, the volunteer Organic Garden Director at MdSC, who used to be a long-time volunteer at Tumacacori National Park. Montessori de Santa Cruz would like to send out a big THANK YOU to Melanie Rawlins at

Tumacacori National Historical Park, as well as Linn Baker, an MdSC volunteer, for helping to make this excellent education experience happen. Also sending out a big THANK YOU from Montessori de Santa Cruz to all the parent and community volunteers that help support our Little School with a Big Heart - we appreciate you!

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Montessori de Santa Cruz is a non-profit 501c3 free public charter school and tuition-based preschool serving the Santa Cruz Valley area. For 16 years MdSC has served our children with continuous and generous community support from fundraisers, events, donations, and grant awards. For more information on how to enroll your child, participate in events or opportunities, to give or volunteer, please contact the office at 520-398-0536 or mdsc3@montessoridesantacruz.org. Photos by Madeline Alcorta: (Top) Montessori de Santa Cruz Lower Elementary students shine bright in the spring sunshine near the mission at Tumacacori National Historical Park, along with their Organic Garden Director Linn Baker. (Bottom, left) Park Ranger Melanie teaches our Montessori students about life at the Tumacacori Mission in the olden days.

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THE A R T OF HEALTH

SUPER FOOD OF THE MONTH: CHOCOLATE

Buy dark chocolate that is at least 70% cocoa. It contains iron, magnesium, potassium, zinc and selenium. I buy organic, fair traded chocolate that is verified non-GMO and have at least one piece daily. Chocolate does have caffeine but a small amount compared to coffee.

By Jennifer Bek, R.N., CHHC

THE NON-FAT MOVEMENT: A THING OF THE PAST

Remember how we tried to avoid fat at all cost? The “no fat” movement all started with Ancel Keys, a physiologist who did a study in the 50’s that appeared to show serum cholesterol was strongly related to coronary heart disease. Based on Keys study, representatives of the American Heart Association announced that a diet including butter, lard, eggs, and beef would lead to coronary heart disease. After Keys study was published in the 80’s, the American government started recommending that people adopt a low-fat diet in order to avoid heart disease. Food companies immediately picked up on this new dietary news and introduced the “non-fat movement” by removing fat from processed foods. Unfortunately, fat gives food flavor, so to make up for the lost flavor, they started adding sugar to the no-fat or low-fat foods. It was the beginning of years of what we might call the “snack-well” era where we all started consuming copious amounts of hidden sugar. We know now that Keys’ study was flawed and that we need healthy fats in our diet. In his book, The Brain Warrior’s Way, Dr. Daniel Amen explains that about 60% of the solid weight of our brains is fat and that good fats are essential to our health. He offers a list of “optimal fats” to include:

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Avocado

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Cocoa butter

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Coconut

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Fish (such as wild salmon, king crab, sole and tuna)

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Seafood (clams, mussels, oysters and scallops)

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Meats (grass-fed beef, lamb and organic poultry)

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Nuts

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Olives

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Seeds

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Healthy oils (Olive, Coconut, Avocado, Sesame and Walnut)

HEALTHY HABIT OF THE MONTH: EAT REAL FOOD

In addition to reading labels to avoid bad fats and added sugar, learn to avoid added chemicals and preservatives. Avoid food that comes in bags or boxes with long lists of ingredients. Most “real food” doesn’t need an ingredient list. RECIPES

The first recipe is from Tubac resident, Brent Pichler. This healthy dessert not only looks beautiful but is also delicious. Pears are the perfect end to a healthy dinner. The other recipe is from another local resident, Rori Wailes. Rori gave me a plate of her chocolate “bark” and I’m hooked! What a delicious way to eat your daily chocolate. Rori has all kinds of wonderful things to add to the chocolate and some hints on where to buy them. Makes this super food even healthier. BAKED PEARS: A HEALTHY DESSERT

INGREDIENTS •

3 whole Bosc pears

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1/4 cup golden raisins

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1/3 cup whole almonds 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom

1/2 teaspoon fresh grated ginger

2 tablespoons coconut oil (separated) pinch of salt

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 425 and line a baking sheet with parchment.

2. Cut the pears in half and scoop out the core using a melon baller or a teaspoon. Also cut a thin slice off the rounded side of the pear so that it sits evenly on the pan when the filling is added. 3. Brush the cut sides of the pears with ½ teaspoon coconut oil each.

4. Set the pears cut side down on the lined baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes.

5. While the pears are baking, grind the almonds in a food processor into the texture of coarse cornmeal. Add the raisins, cardamom, ginger, salt and 1 tablespoon of coconut oil and pulse until well mixed. 6. When the pears have baked for 30 minutes remove them from the oven, flip each one over on the baking sheet and evenly divide the almond mixture into the pear cavities. 7. Bake for 15 to 20 more minutes, until the filling is golden brown.

(Optional: Add two pitted chopped dates to the filling if you want it sweeter.)

CHOCOLATE BARK

Chocolate – 70% or greater (organic, fair traded) 1. Melt in microwave or in double boiler 2. Pour melted chocolate on a plate

What Amen calls “suboptimal or harmful fats” are:

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Industrial-raised animal fat and dairy

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Processed meats

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Trans fats (shortening and margarine)

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Safflower, corn and soy oils

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Canola oil

Unfortunately, even when fat is put back in processed foods and baked goods it is often a trans fat, which increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes and inflammation. Be sure to read labels and avoid anything that includes added sugar or trans fats or says “non-fat” or “low-fat” on the label. This is one way to increase your health through shopping!

3. Sprinkle with desired toppings in combination of your choice: • • • •

Raspberries, flaked coconut, pumpkin seeds, chopped nuts

Ancho Chili powder, orange peel powder Dried orange peel, walnuts, coconut flakes Sea salt

4. Freeze 20 minutes – then break apart into pieces 5. Store in refrigerator

Rori buys her chocolate from Tony’s Chocolony. Check it out and read all about this socially conscious company. (tonyschocolony.com)

Rori also recommends Whole Spice Company in Napa, CA. for toppings. I have two of their special orange spices and can’t wait to try them. (wholespice.com)

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TCA STRONG IN YOUTH ARTS EDUCATION T

op-quality, intellectually stimulating art shows rotate each year through the galleries of the Tubac Center of the Arts. Adult artists aren’t the only folks connected to the center. Children and teenagers get a taste of what it means to be an artist, learning skills and ways to express their creativity, through the center’s longestablished youth programs. Since the early 1980s, children’s summer art classes have offered fun experiences that expand imaginations for those ages 5-14. This year’s

By Kathleen Vandervoet

program runs June 6-29, three days a week, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and registration is under way. The annual art exhibition for high school students titled Hi-Art was held April 14-30 with more than 135 pieces, and resulted in a scholarship, cash prizes along with the opportunity for teenagers and their families to enjoy viewing their art in a professional display. Hi-Art started about 15 years ago featuring paintings, drawings, photography and pottery by students in art classes at Rio Rico and Nogales high schools. It’s expanded and now there are five high schools with the addition of Sahuarita, Walden Grove and Patagonia. The $2,000 scholarship and five cash awards totaling $800 are funded by Tubac galleries Rogoway Turquoise Tortoise Gallery and Tubac Territory. Other sponsors are Art Works (National Endowment for the Arts) and Arizona Commission on the Arts. Winners this year were listed by Ruth Romano, the center’s education manager. Analaura Villegas, a Rio Rico High School senior, won the $2,000 scholarship for her watercolor titled “Blossom.” Other awards: best of show, $300, went to Mariana Gerardo, a Nogales High School senior; juror’s award, $200, Nikola Tallova, Walden Grove High School senior; award of excellence, $150, Alexa Ronquillo, Nogales High School senior; award of merit, $100, Jordan Frink, Sahuarita High School senior; honorable mention award, $50, Aileen Zavala, Nogales High School senior. Future artists Art Center Director Karin Topping, with the center for 13 years, said youth activities hold a key position. “Part of the mission of the art center is education. These are the future artists and community leaders. We feel that it’s important to encourage both the high school program and the summer arts because those programs will develop those future artists who participate as adults and the future community supporters for the center,” Topping said.

Images courtesy of the Tubac Center of the Arts: (Top and middle) TCA Summer Arts invites kids, ages 5-14 to experience and create art. This year’s program runs June 6-29, three days a week, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and registration is under way. (Bottom) TCA SCHOLARSHIP AWARD winner, Analaura Villegas from Rio Rico High School with her Watercolor, “Blossom” 22” x 30”.

In addition to the five teachers for the June summer art classes, there are six paid teenage assistants and teen volunteers and the young children respond well. Romano said it’s marvelous experience for the teenagers too, and that several of them return after their first year. Summer art classes, which draw 90 to 100 participants, include sections on drawing, painting, drama, dance and mixed media. This year, lunch is provided at no extra charge, Romano said, through Sodexo Food Service which prepares public school lunches. Tuition ranges from $60 for one week to $200 for four weeks. There are some full and partial needbased scholarships which can be applied for. Meanwhile, adult education isn’t slighted. The Tubac Center of the Arts holds frequent art workshops for adults of various art proficiency levels during the fall, winter and spring. There are free interactive lectures, “Art Speaks,” about famous artists and historic crafts. For more information, visit the web site at www. tubacarts.org or call the center at (520) 398-2371.

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With Kathy Edds

ur core is not just a muscle group. We work at it so we can to be strong enough to do tough yoga poses. But while we are working hard to hold a Phalankāsana (plank) or Chaturanga Dandāsana (low plank or four limbed staff pose), what are we thinking? I’ve been told our core is the connection to both upper and lower body. I think of it as our center, our power chakra (Manipūra Chakra) and our heart chakra (Anāhata Chakra). Chakra is often translated as “wheel.” These wheels are energy centers in our body and another of yoga’s subtle body references that also connect us to our upper and lower body. Generally, there are seven or eight chakras referenced and these places of energy follow our spine from its base to the crown of the head. The Chakras function as valves that either let energy in or out. It is believed that they regulate all functions of body, mind and spirit. I am simply concentrating on the center two for the moment. The Manipūra Chakra is the “naval wheel” and centered between the navel and abdomen. It is in the area of our solar plexus and is considered to be the convergence – the place where the horizon meets the sky or a place of exchange. This particular center is related most

to action and power. The Anāhata Chakra is in the center of our chest – often called the “heart” chakra or the “wheel of unstruck sound.” What is unstruck sound? The inner noise that is not outer. It is the bridge between consciousness and the body – the place of transmission and passion. It relates to self-acceptance, permission and prohibition, the place where we want to find kindness for ourselves and then for others. In yoga the Chakras become opened and uniform in their energetic distributions, which allows us to begin to understand and sense their influence in our practice. Physically we use the deep muscles in our abdomen (rectus abdominus) to activate and hone our core strength, while mentally and energetically we think of connecting the limbs and upper and lower body into a convergence –the Manipūra Chakra. We can use this muscle strength and mental connection to expand our consciousness outward. The muscles stay engaged (connected), but breath and energy expand to the very edges of our form, pushing into our skin to create a lightness that can sustain the muscular effort. I find it amazing that when I engage and then use

breath with my muscles, my body becomes light. It is the effort of yogis, dancers and acrobats, and it gives them ways to sustain the difficult poses. We use our deep muscles to maintain and hold our physical form in asana and our subtle body energies to realize that we can. Tapping into the resources that can help us focus gives us reason to move into poses that ask a lot from us. The intensity lessens and the load lightens. Chaturanga Dandāsana is thought of and taught as a core building pose. However, the entire pose is stabilized by the major and minor pectoralis muscles – which are in the area of the heart chakra – our true bridge from muscle to mental, the place of transmission. Obviously without desire to do this asana – it won’t happen. If we want it enough we can tap into the fullness of our heart and possibly achieve the pose. Kathy Edds, Yoga Instructor (ERYT500), Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coach, www.kathedds.com Kathy teaches yoga at The Tubac Healing Arts Center in Tubac. www.tubachealingarts.com

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Dreamless: THE SILENT EPIDEMIC OF DREAM LOSS by Rubin Naiman, PhD

If you can’t get what you love You learn to love the things you’ve got If you can’t be what you want You learn to be the things you’re not If you can’t get what you need You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming

- Passenger

ver the past two decades we’ve witnessed an explosion of media attention focused on understanding and managing sleep loss. This has been accompanied by substantial increases in numbers of sleep specialists, clinics, research projects, and medications. Even though most sleep loss also involves diminished REM sleep and dreaming, there has been a shroud of silence over dream loss. We are at least as dream deprived as we are sleep deprived. Sleep specialists obscure dream deprivation by viewing REM sleep as just another kind of sleep. This muddying of the dream waters is further exacerbated by diminishing interest in dreaming on the part of health professionals including physicians and especially psychotherapists. Consequently, dream loss is an unrecognized public health hazard that silently wreaks havoc with our lives. Many health concerns associated with sleep loss including depression, compromised immunity, learning difficulties, memory loss and dementia, are directly linked to dream loss. Dream loss is caused by a range of substances, medications, sleep disorders, and lifestyle factors. The excessive reliance on alcohol, tobacco, nicotine, caffeine and cannabis can damage our REM sleep and dreams. Tobacco, nicotine, caffeine and cannabis suppress the production of melatonin, which is critical to both healthy sleep and dreams. And consuming too much alcohol in the evening severely disrupts REM sleep, often resulting in anxious awakenings from dreams. Many commonly used prescription as well as over-thecounter medications suppress or interfere with dreaming in a multitude of ways. These include antidepressants, sleeping pills, mood stabilizers, allergy drugs, blood pressure medications, and stimulants. The fact that REM suppression is not typically listed among the typical side effects of these medications reflects medical

science’s insensitivity to the epidemic of dream loss and is one of the reasons this epidemic remains silent. Our most common sleep disorders – obstructive sleep apnea, insufficient sleep syndrome and, especially, insomnia – are all associated with significant dream loss. Because most REM sleep occurs in the latter part of the night, sleep maintenance insomnia, or difficulty sleeping through the night, causes extensive dream deprivation. Some people acknowledge intentionally resisting sleep to avoid bad dreams. More often, subconscious reactions to the surfacing of challenging dream emotions can trigger unwanted awakenings. And, like the situation with REM suppressive medications, the dream loss associated with sleep disorders is rarely acknowledged by health professionals. Several lifestyle factors are also known to directly or indirectly disrupt our dream lives. These include excessive exposure to artificial light at night (LAN), routine alarm clock awakenings, and a dismissive attitude about the value and meaning of dreams. Artificial LAN may be the most ubiquitous force disrupting REM sleep. Excessive LAN inhibits the production of melatonin but also encourages ongoing activity and productivity into the night. The International Dark Sky Association, an interdisciplinary professional group based in Tucson has been attempting to heighten public awareness about the many dangers of nighttime light pollution. In addition to sleep and dream loss, strong evidence suggests that LAN is linked to increased cancer rates. A National Sleep Foundation poll found that more than half of American adults reported they “needed” an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Nearly 70 percent of young adults aged 18 to 29 felt this way. Routinely waking up with an alarm clock shears off the end of our dreams. This is like finding that the last few pages of an interesting short story you are reading have been torn away. When we dream, we believe we are awake. The only other time we believe we are awake is…. well, when we are awake. Dreaming challenges our fundamental take on reality. As a result, there is a growing tendency to

deny and dismiss the value of dreaming. Even among psychotherapists. Probably in response to the pressures of managed care and pseudo-scientific arguments that dreams are meaningless, psychotherapists have also become less interested in exploring dreams as an avenue of healing. Although we don’t have precise numbers reflecting the extent of dream deprivation, we can extrapolate from data about substance and medication use as well as the prevalence of sleep disorders and the impact of lifestyle factors. In all probability, tens of millions of Americans experience a significant degrees of dream loss on a nightly basis. The personal and health ramifications of this silent epidemic are pernicious. As are the sociocultural implications. Transpersonal psychological perspectives suggest that dreaming is an expression of both personal psychology as well as our deeper, shared social consciousness. Widespread REM/dream loss also impacts our collective consciousness and culture. Montague Ullman addressed this concern in his essay, The Significance of Dreams in a Dream Deprived Society, in which concluded, “Dreams reveal the state of connectedness of the individual to his or her past, to others, and to the supports and constraints of the social order.” In my next article, I’ll address ways to restore healthy dreaming. Rubin Naiman, PhD is a psychologist, sleep and dream specialist, and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. Rubin lives in Tubac where he offers sleep health consultations as well as healing sleep retreats. His website is www.DrNaiman. com and email address is rrnaiman@gmail.com.

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Since the whole world Cannot buy A single spring day, Of what avail To seek yellow gold? ~ Hsi Pei Lan

s I sit looking out my back door, I’m watching a flurry of activity. Nests are being built, fighting over territory, the hummingbirds are everywhere. The oriole family has returned. What stunning birds. They come to the hummingbird feeders in the early morning and evening to feed. They also peck at the oranges that are put out daily. Really, all the birds love the oranges. So happy to see that the grosbeaks are back. We have a wonderful nest of ravens at the very tip top of the Pine tree. I see them flying over with sticks and twigs to build their home. Oh, my, they are a raucous bunch! I always speak to them and I do believe they are squawking back sometimes. We also have hundreds of holes in the ground all around the house. I study these holes, from 1/2” to 2 to 2 1/2” diameter. I read from my Desert Hole book to try and identify what critter lives in there. Everything from ground squirrels (goodbye to my lettuce!) to spiders, scorpions, toads, grasshopper and pocket mice. If a hole is left vacant, the opportunistic snake, lizard, and other desert creatures find a home. Bumblebees use mouse holes for their colonies. These holes are pretty amazing. Perfectly round, some with vegetation over them, some open, some with gauzy fibers over them. Sweet Lady always wants to check but I keep her from that, I’m just not sure what’s there. In the labyrinth there are many tarantula holes. If you walk up to the hole and they are emerging, it’s like watching an accordion fold in to itself. They are so big and their hole is so small. I leave all these holes alone for many reasons. Nature at work. Can you just imagine what goes on underneath our feet? We can see all the glory above ground, but underground is a thriving busy world. Some critters are just waking up, I’ve rescued 7 frogs so far this year from the pool, other critters will go into summer estivation until

the rains begin. Of course, our resident gopher is with us, the whole family is having a field day in the yard. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve tried everything to rid the yard of these pesky destructive annoying rodents. That was years ago and I just don’t have the same ferocity to extinguish a life. So, I watch the mounds grow and flowers disappear and hope they are having a good meal. Karma again. The flowers and trees are a sight to see this year. The Palo Verde, our state tree, is a brilliant yellow right now. Our state flower, the Saguaro blossom will appear soon and be pollinated by the wonderful bats from Mexico. The Cactus Wren, our state bird is loud and noisy and darling. Color is everywhere. Red, yellow, purple, white, pink. All we have to do is open our eyes. My Queen Ann’s Lace is charming this year, such a delicate flower. The fried-egg flower, it belongs to the poppy family, is flourishing along the interstate down by Nogales and also by the fire station in Tubac.. Have you ever looked into one of these flowers? They look just like a fried egg, pretty

cool. The swath of green made by the Mesquite bosque in our own sweet valley is lush and just awesome. I would like to say a few words about a consummate volunteer in Tubac. Willie Armijo. Willie has been a teacher, an EMT, a firefighter. He has been single-handedly taking care of the senior lunch program in Tubac for the past 16 years. He transports people to doctor appointments and treats everyone with the utmost respect. He takes care of the swallows and their nests every year. He has a schedule posted at the community center on the arrivals and departures of these sweet birds, Las Golondrinas. Willie is a kind, caring, unselfish, gentle man. I am so proud to know him and to have worked with him. He is the best kind of person--he makes you want to be your best too. Thank you Willie! We are rushing towards 14 hours of daylight a day.....it’s already light very early, best time of the day! A great early spring into summer recipe is Strawberry Pie. Strawberries are everywhere now and not very expensive. This is a quick and easy dessert that your family and friends will love. One pie shell, pre-baked at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes, till golden brown In a saucepan put together the following: 1 c sugar 3 T cornstarch stir in 1 c water 3 T strawberry jello Cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Pour over 3-4 c sliced strawberries, mix well, pour into prepared pie shell. Refrigerate til set. Serve with whipped cream. Enjoy!

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