globe miami times spring 2013
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Featuring the San Carlos Wellness Center, Pinal Little League, Farmers Market, Apache Gold Casino news, Globe Unified School District features, Community Calendar,TRANSCRIPT
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TOUR THE OLD DOMINIONWhat was one of Globe-Miami's most prolifi c mines is
now a self-guided mine tour and walking park
Spiritual, Physical, Emotional and Social Wellness
By Jenn Walker
In Apache tradition, there are four components
to health – spiritual, physical, emotional and
social wellness.
“They say that when something breaks down,
there are other pieces that also break with you, so you
always address every area. If you're drinking, there's
got to be some sort of mental thing that's happening,
spirituality is broken down. In order for someone to
be totally well, you have to make sure every aspect of
their life is well also, or gets well.”
By Jenn Walker
uring its reign, the Old Dominion mine, which sits in the
hills overlooking Highway 60 and Globe, was the major
employer of this area.
Though it still pumps water to the Pinto Valley mine about six
miles away, things look a lot different at the Old Dominion these
days. An area that fl ourished from the 1880s to 1930s with miners,
a hospital and residents is now peacefully quiet, with nothing
more than the remains of old mining machinery and equipment
to remind visitors of the past.
Since its opening in 2011, this site now serves as the only
self-guided mine tour in Arizona, says the park’s committee
chairwoman Thea Wilshire, and one of few in the country. The
Queen Mine in Bisbee hosts a walking tour, but it's not self-guided.
There might be another one in Kentucky, she says.
You don't typically fi nd the words “self-guided tour” and
“mines” in the same sentence, she explains. Mine operators
are big on safety, and the last thing they want is people walking
around unsupervised.Dominion, Continued on page 37
Little League, Continued on page 38
By Linda Gross
The fi re in March tore
through the club house
destroying everything,
leaving only the charred
remains of what was to be
the makings of a new Spring
Season for the Pinal Little
League. Rows of new bats,
gloves, cleats and catchers
masks stored in the club
house awaiting the start of the
season were all destroyed in
the blaze.
At fi rst it was deemed an electrical failure in one of the juncture boxes,
but then a chance arrest of a Payson man on unrelated charges revealed
a different story. He bragged about breaking into the bunker and using
marker paint to write graffi ti on the wall and a heat torch which ignited
the nylon bat bags. When the fi re got out of control he and his friend
crawled out the top and sat off to the side watching it burn.
After The FirePinal Little League begins its 2013 season
It's Spring time and that means baseball! Try-outs for Pinal Little League were in March.
2 Spring 2013
By Kim Stone
Plants, like people, gain notoriety
because of specifi c qualities that we
can’t ignore. Attractive, dangerous,
irritating, or seductive, certain plants
can alter your life for better or for worse.
The globemallow, also known as sore-
eye mallow (mal de ojos in Spanish), can
do both at the same time.
Everyone seems to know this plant,
even when desert plant knowledge
doesn’t go much past saguaros and
prickly pears. It is multiple stemmed,
perennial, and ubiquitous along
roadsides, dependably shooting up
dozens of three to four-foot stalks of
fl owers in wet springs and dry. On most
plants, the fl owers are unmistakably
bright orange, some say apricot-orange.
In one isolated locale in a three to four
mile stretch from Florence Junction
towards Tucson, a globemallow variety
called rosacea morphs into breathy
pastel colors, all wispy and light, from
white to mauve, peach, pink, lavender,
and occasionally deep wine reds.
Before the late '70s and early 8'0s,
a plant like globemallow would have
been considered a weed in the home or
commercial landscape, either snubbed
or destroyed, depending on the level
of intolerance. This was the pre-
renaissance period in Arizona and the
Southwest when more water-gobbling
plants from China and elsewhere were
just about all that were available. When
new appreciation for the beauty and
sensible utility of native plants began
to take hold – and retooled nurseries
made these plants widely available –
Sphaeralcea ambigua, the globemallow,
was reborn and available in a one gallon
pot for $4.95.
But this isn’t just a rags-to-riches
story. After all, plants can go in and out
of fashion as quickly as nehru jackets,
leisure suits, and pet rocks, particularly
when they carry with them some excess
baggage. Basic botany pays no heed to
the whims of trends, and there is a very
good reason that Pima Indian children
have been taught from an early age
not to touch the leaves or stems of this
plant. It’s not surprising, then, that one
of the most sinister common names
for Sphaeralcea ambigua is translated
the same from three or more different
languages as: sore-eye mallow.
The leaves and stems of the plant are
covered with what fi rst appears to be a
harmless white pubescence, like peach
fuzz. But magnify this fi ne hairiness
with a hand lens and it is exposed for
what it really is: thousands of evenly
spaced, star-like (stellate) hairs that are
reminiscent of the radiating tentacles
of a brain neuron. Rub a leaf between
your thumb and forefi nger, and you’ll
feel the fi ne grit of a few thousand of
these hairs. Touch the corner of your eye
with one of those fi ngers, and you will
become a statistic.
Some say that the “globe” in
globemallow was named after Globe,
Arizona, but botanical descriptions
also refer to the fl ower as being orb-
like (spherical). In reality, it’s a half orb,
more like a stemless margarita glass
with the pigment color of the middle
third of a tequila sunrise. Other fl ower
colors than orange are commercially
available; it’s best to choose a plant
that’s already fl owering with the color
that you want, because the seeds of the
more exotic, pastel colors don’t come
true to type. A desirable trademarked
selection that is grown vegetatively is
called Louis Hamilton and it has reliable
watermelon red fl owers.
There is hardly a more durable and
tough—yet easy—plant to grow, and
it quickly establishes itself, without
much supplemental irrigation.
Desert tortoises regard all parts of the
plant as one of their favorite foods, but
the chance of having your plant eaten
by one of them is about the same slim
odds of ever seeing a desert tortoise in
the wild.
The globemallow’s striking beauty
and prolifi c fl owering far outweigh its
dermatological pitfalls. Luckily, like
electricity, it doesn’t have to be touched
to be enjoyed.
Globemallow: A Sight for Sore Eyes
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Globemallow Florence highway. An unbroken line of colorful globemallows stretches as far as the eye can see along Highway 79 south of Florence Junction.
Globemallows three different colors. A blend of three different colors of globemallow at Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
Closeup lavender fl ower of globemallow.
Spring 2013 3By Jenn Walker
Before Globe-Miami had a farmers
market, it had a small core of dedicated
growers, people in the community who
have learned how to work with the
unique climate and soil of this area to
grow fresh food.
Forget the books when it comes to
gardening here. The School of Hard
Knocks taught local grower Pat Romero
everything she knows.
“Any books about desert or high desert
gardening don't apply to Globe-Miami,
so don't bother reading them,” Pat says
abruptly. “There is different soil, different
climate, different everything here.”
Pat and her husband Manuel began
gardening together in the '50s and '60s
when they lived in Gilbert. After they
relocated here, they began selling what
they grew, before the farmers market
existed. It started with some leftover
tomatoes at their yard sale 15 years ago.
Someone asked, “Why don't you sell
these every year?”
So they did. Now they own and
operate a small business out of their
home, the Sunrise and Sunset Chile &
Herb Garden, where they grow and sell
peppers, eggplants, tomatoes and herbs.
The Romeros, and most of the
market's growers, share one thing in
common – this is something they have
been doing most of their lives.
Lucky for us, three years ago these
growers banded together to share the
fruits of their labor with the community,
and with the help of the University of
Arizona extension offi ce, we now have
the Globe-Miami Farmers Market.
In mid-February, long before the
farmer's market begins, 13 of them are
already holding an evening meeting
over coffee to discuss the market season.
Amongst those present are the Romeros,
as well as former market president Cayci
Vuksanovich and current president Jerry
Ullum. They vote. The market is set to
start June 8 and fi nish by October 5.
Vuksanovich remembers having a
summer garden, growing up in Yuma,
which has a huge farming community.
Her gardening career began
unexpectedly, however, when she came
home to Globe from college. While she
had been away, her father opened up
a feed store and garden center on her
family's property at Matlock Gas. The
fi rst thing she noticed walking into her
father's business is that the hired hand
was incompetent, for lack of a better
word, and she fi red him on the spot.
Realizing she had just fi red her father's
only employee, Vuksanovich had no
choice but to take his place running
the business.
She eventually opened and ran her
own nursery in the same space, which
she operated until 1997. It was an
exhausting business, she remembers.
“Every day my seven-year-old
daughter had a hose in hand,” she says.
Around 1983, Vuksanovich
completed the Master Gardener's
program, when few people in the area
were involved. In the late '80s she began
hosting her own gardening program,
“Bee in the Garden”, on Kiko News. To
this day she is still a host. When I met
with her she had just fi nished discussing
how to handle a bag worm.
Fortunately, gardening has gone
mainstream in the last 15 years, she
points out, as people are becoming more
aware of how easy gardening is.
“I don't believe people have
black thumbs,” Vuksanovich insists.
“It's a matter of paying attention to
your plants.”
Like her counterparts, a farmers
market in Globe-Miami had been on
her mind for years. Garden-fresh food is
more important now more than ever, she
says. Produce in stores just don't cut it.
“Stores grow tomatoes so they can
be shipped, they don’t grow them so
The Art of GrowingIt's Not About Your Thumbs
The Globe-Miami farmers market enters its third year, thanks to the people behind it
Farmer's Market, Continued on page 5
Local grower Jerry Ullum explains how to build a hoop house during this year's spring gardening workshop.
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There is nothing quite as satisfying as spring when it
rolls into town with it’s just-right temperatures and
longer days. Whether you spend your evenings at the
Little League fi elds or early mornings planting your garden or
hiking the new Old Dominion Park, it’s hard not to smile at the
sheer pleasure of being out and about this time of year.
No spring issue would be complete without talking about
gardening and nature’s abundant
display of colors. Writer Kim Stone,
with Boyce Thompson Arboretum
has taken on the lowly Globe
Mallow which has experienced a
Renaissance of sorts when it comes
to popularity and we think you’ll
enjoy the poetry of his piece. (pg 2)
Our story about the art of growing
prepares the way for the launch of
our Globe-Miami Farmers’ Market
this June by featuring several of
the key growers in the area who are
helping to spearhead the market this
year and it gives you the skinny on
how to grown your own backyard garden. (pg 3) The market is
scheduled to open this year on June 1st and run through the fi rst
weekend in October.
Our feature on the Pinal Little League was prompted by
the out pouring of support from both strangers as well as the
community after the club house was devastated by an arson fi re
in March. The League was just weeks away from launching a
new season when the fi re destroyed all their equipment. What
came next is the story we thought you’d want to know. (pg 1)
We have several features on health care this spring including
my day at the hospital shadowing several department heads
and staff at Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center and Jenn
Walkers’ piece on the Wellness Center out at San Carlos. These
facilities are providing invaluable services to their respective
communities while not only meeting the challenges of rural
healthcare - but thriving. (pg 1 & pg 34)
Lastly, we want to let you know we have planted our own
seeds of growth this spring and are in the process of re-designing
a new comprehensive website
which will allow us to bring
all of our content under one-
roof and provide responsive
design (mobile friendly) to
everything we feature. The new
website is scheduled to launch
on May 15th and we hope you
will log on and let us know what
you think.
As part of our website re-
development and in celebration
of seven years in business, we
will be giving away a brand
new BBQ grill just in time for
summer fun! The raffl e will be featured on our front page of the
new website and all you have to do to register is fi ll out the form.
Go to: www.globemiamitimes.com. The drawing will take place
on June 26th - just in time for the 4th of July Bar-B-Que with
family and friends!
Cheers,
“Spring is nature’s way of saying, Let’s party!”– Robin Williams
Bringing Globe-Miami to You
Spring 2013 5
they will taste good,” she explains. “So
those tomatoes you see at the grocery
store have been scientifi cally altered
by the seeds and the chemicals they
use to grow them with to be good
shipping tomatoes.”
Thus, once the market began, she
was in it for the long run. The fi rst year
the market was held, she sold pears,
apples, pomegranates, tomatoes and
peppers. For the last two years she has
been the market president.
Since the farmers market rotates
positions every two years, this year
Vuksanovich passed the baton on
to Jerry Ullum, the new farmers
market president.
“I was roped into it,” he says
cheerfully. On a very sincere note, he
adds, “I'll do whatever it takes to keep
the farmers market going.”
Like Vuksanovich, there has rarely
been a time where Ullum wasn't
gardening. He grew up on a farm in
Wichita, Kansas, where his family raised
all of their own food, and his mother
canned everything from beans to
pickles. He eventually migrated west in
search of work, and wound up in Tempe
and eventually Young. He still lives in
Young, where he owns a 100-acre ranch,
the McGowen Circle Ranch.
He has two acres dedicated to
growing produce for the farmers market.
Much of what he grows, including
caulifl ower, broccoli, summer squash,
cabbage, carrots, beets and lettuces,
grows beneath his handmade hoop
houses, extending the length of his
growing season.
Once a week, he commutes from
Young to Globe, selling his homegrown
produce to several local restaurants, in
addition to the farmers market during
the growing season.
He has been selling at the market
every year. You better be passionate if
you're going to sell, he says, because
you'll never get rich from it.
Usually a vendor makes just enough
to keep their operation running. Which
is fi ne, because the reward is in what this
market brings to the community, he says
– naturally-grown, quality produce.
Ullum avoids pesticides, herbicides
and chemical fertilizers at all costs. He
makes his own compost, and wood
chips to use for mulch. He uses all-
natural soap for a pesticide, and takes
the time to pick off potato bugs and
squash beetles from his plants. Perhaps
the most labor-intensive task is keeping
weeds under control.
Right now he is growing fruit,
including raspberries and blueberries.
This year he should have strawberries
to sell, as well as asparagus.
Growing is a year-long affair. Even
as I spoke with the Romeros over coffee,
they warned that their time was limited.
They still had to get home and plant.
“Everyday we're planting,” they said.
Like Ullum, the Romeros makes
their own compost. By the fi rst week
of January, they are planting their
tomatoes, peppers, and herbs, mostly
from seed.
For them, variety is key. In any given
year they might grow 50 to 60 varieties of
tomato. They will carry six to eight chili
varieties, like the Biker Billy and Mucho
Nacho, ranging from mild to spicy.
For several months, their seeds
remain in seed containers beneath 40-
watt fl uorescent shop lights. Once the
plants sprout, they are transplanted into
gallon containers. Usually the Romeros
end up with 2,000 to 3,000 plants,
sometimes more.
“I get carried away,” Pat confesses.
What's important is that they grow
plants that do well here and can tolerate
the heat and drought conditions, she
says. After that, it's smooth sailing.
“Once you learn the rules, you can
break them,” she says with a grin.
Farmer's Market, Continued from page 3
Pat Romero demonstrates how to start plants from seed. She and her husband Manuel Romero run their small growing business Sunrise and Sunset Chile & Herb Garden out of their home in Globe.
Ullum pictured with Sarah Renkert, a former AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer who was heavily involved with the Globe-Miami farmers market through the Aizona University Extension Offi ce.
6 Spring 2013
THE ABC’S OF ANTIQUING
by Darin Lowery
In the late '80s and
early '90s, before eBay
changed the world of
acquisition forever, we
shopped for vintage items
the old-fashioned way: we
went to an antiques shop.
Sometimes we’d fi nd what
we wanted and sometimes
not; oftentimes, we’d
fi nd the unexpected – 1930s sun
lamps on wheeled bases that looked
like futuristic torchieres (totally Flash
Gordon) – and during other outings,
a parade of the mundane – stacks and
stacks of mismatched, hideous avocado
dinnerware. ‘A day at the shops’ meant
a treasure hunt, an adventure in
antiquity; even when the big antiques
Mega Malls surfaced (‘750 dealers
under one big honking roof ’) it was
still a case of not knowing you needed
something until you fell under its spell
and just had to have it.
We continue the ABC’s of Antiquing,
having covered G through L previously.
is for Mission, otherwise
known as the Arts and Crafts
movement. Characterized
by boxy quarter-sawn oak furniture and
matte green glazed pottery, it was the
abhorrence of mass produced decor
which begat a celebration of the simple,
spare aesthetic. The movement began
in the mid-1800s and continued until
the early part of the twentieth century,
presenting a new format for both
living and thinking. Names to look for
in furniture are Stickley, Imperial and
Lakeside, along with Globe-Wernicke
(think stacking ‘barrister’ bookcases);
with regards to pottery, some of the best
are Fulper, Muncie, and Newcomb.
is for Nippon or Nihon,
otherwise known as
‘Japan’. Nippon pottery
was produced for export during 1891-
1921, targeted largely to American
sensibilities: it’s been the rage off
and on for years, be it the Imari style
(elaborate floral designs), the Moriage
process (applied ‘beads’ of porcelain)
or Satsuma pottery (a crackled creamy
beige glaze). You’ll find geometric,
landscape and religious motifs
throughout; many designs have a heavy
Victorian lushness to them, while
others are clear and straightforward
depictions of the everyday. Know your
marks (many fine guides can be found
online) to avoid purchasing fakes.
is for Old. The word ‘old’,
when used in a sentence
such as, ‘Oh, this old thing?’
is fine: but when it’s used on a price
tag, as in, ‘old vase’ – well, it doesn’t tell
me much as a customer. Is it Shawnee,
Roseville or Haeger? In the same vein,
if a dealer hasn’t a clue what an item is
and describes it with a question mark
(‘old metal tool?’) the same applies.
Dealers, please know your merchandise
– there’s a wealth of information out
there which is not only infinite, but free.
Your customers will appreciate it and
respect your professionalism.
is for Postcard. Vintage
postcards are fun— there’s
no other way to describe
them. You’ll find early black and white
‘photographer on the street’ cards (a
person’s picture was taken and then
a postcard was sold to him for a few
pennies), Curt Teich ‘linen’ cards, in
those creamy muted colors touting
America’s scenic byways, or the fabulous
but harsh ‘colortone’ postcards on
glossy, heavily coated stock. All styles
look great on a refrigerator or simply
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ABC's, Continued on page 7
Spring 2013 7
tossed on a console, and the best thing
is that when you find one which was
never used, you can fill it out and mail it
for the cost of a stamp. Call it a creative
take on ‘snail mail’.
is for Question. There is
much to be learned from
a knowledgeable antiques
salesperson – so ask. There
are folks out there in the shops and
malls who have a passion of one sort or
the other, be it for humpback steamer
trunks, vintage bamboo fishing rods,
or antique European bisque dolls.
It’s fascinating to converse with one
of these enthusiastic devotees, and
you’ll exit a much more informed
person. For example, when I discuss
sun-purpled glass with my customers,
they’re amazed to hear that the mineral
manganese, which was used to clarify
molten glass a hundred years ago, has
slowly turned the glass a lovely shade of
lavender over time.
is for Respect. I know a
woman who’s an antiques
dealer – a lovely person,
but she has the habit of
dumping all sorts of pretty things
(Murano bowls, sterling bonbonnieres,
the occasional Fenton punchbowl) into
cardboard boxes and then tossing the
lot into the back of her pickup. The irony
is that items which have withstood the
test of time won’t make it to May Day of
this year. Respecting your things means
taking care of them. ‘Shabby chic’ is a
cute concept, but let’s face it: the stuff’s
been beat to hell and then painted
back from the dead. By no means am
I suggesting you demand twelve yards
of bubble wrap for the hubcap you just
purchased (the landfills are filling up,
thank you) but common sense and a
bit of care will keep your
cherished items safe and
secure. If you have an
old porcelain sink as I
do, then you know how
easy it is to slam a wine
glass or three against the
side while rinsing. Take your
time while packing, cleaning,
or displaying those items you
deem irreplaceable.
In Part One of this series we looked at
the trend of downsizing and in Part Two
ABC's, Continued from page 6
we touched on the horrors of hoarding.
The term ‘collecting’ has a different
meaning to everyone, depending on
which side of the therapist’s couch
you’re on. A lot of us know someone
like ‘Veronica’ who has 498 ceramic
frogs scattered on every available
surface of her studio apartment. She
is a collector; no matter that when
she’s fi nally fi nished dusting
the last of her treasures,
she has to start all over
again at the beginning.
If she was a hoarder,
she would also have
7,000 plastic grocery
bags strewn about
the place. Filled. See?
There’s a difference.
Visitors may roll their
eyes when they spy the
fi fteen vintage bowling
balls in my living
room – fi fteen vibrant,
luscious colors, mind you
– but there’s no way they’d
confuse me with someone who
has bureau drawers fi lled with fast
food salt and pepper packets. To my
knowledge, no one has stooped – or
snooped – that far yet.
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I've never tried acupuncture or chiropractic
treatment for my ailments. Prior to writing this article,
my only experiences with either were observing my
mom while she lay on a table with a fi eld of needles
planted in her lower back, or while a doctor popped her
spine into place as I sat in a chair and watched.
So one of my fi rst questions to Dr. Julie Grahe was
what does acupuncture feel like? Since we were sitting
in one of the treatment rooms at Desert Oasis Wellness
in downtown Globe, she showed me. I rolled up my
sleeve, and she she pricked my elbow with a hair-thin
needle. I wiggled it back and forth. Painless. Had she
stuck me in the webbing between my forefi nger and
thumb, I would have felt something more, she said.
According to Grahe, acupuncture can help the body heal point-specifi c pains
anywhere in the body, like shoulder and knee pain, as well as digestive problems,
addiction and depression. Acupuncture is an ancient practice based on the theory
that channels run throughout your body, from your eyes to your toes. By stimulating
different acupuncture points in the body using these metal, hair-thin needles,
acupuncture will balance electromagnetic energy and relieve blood stagnation.
Grahe specializes in both acupuncture and chiropractic care, and has been
working in the offi ce on Broad St. as a certifi ed chiropractic and acupuncture
practitioner since 2005. Depending on a client's condition, Grahe might treat him or
her with acupuncture, chiropractic, or both.
Chiropractic is focused on adjusting the spine when it's out of alignment, she
explains. She grabs a rubber spine model on the shelf behind me to demonstrate,
bending it to the side. Even slight misalignment can signifi cantly affect the body,
she explains, specifi cally the nervous system. The nervous system controls both the
endocrine and immune systems; whenever these systems are jeopardized it prevents
the body's ability to heal.
So far, she has successfully treated anything from neck, jaw and sinus pain to
arthritis, tendonitis, sporting injuries, earaches and work-related bodily stress. She
helped a client go from 40 to four cigarettes in a matter of months, prevented a client
from having tubes surgically put in her ears, and treated a client so that he no longer
had to use glasses.
There are instances, however, where a client's condition is beyond her realm
of care, usually when their condition requires urgent treatment. Sometimes you
need a doctor, she says. To help a person regain optimal health, it may require a
combination of both traditional and alternative medicine, she says.
But if she can help prevent or postpone a surgery, she considers it a success.
Health Care, Continued on page 9
AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH Alternative Health Care in Globe-Miami
By Jenn Walker
When we are in pain, we instinctively want to stop it as quickly as
possible. Modern medicine has helped make this possible. If back pain is the
problem, we pop a couple pills, from Advil to Vicodin, and carry on with our
day the best we can.
Yet people all over the world have been treating their pain effectively long
before modern medicine came along. Now, many of these these treatment
methods are making a comeback under the umbrella of “alternative medicine”.
Even here in Globe-Miami, there are practitioners in town who treat clients
using these methods, several of which have been around for centuries.
We spoke with a few of these practitioners, and they gave us the skinny on
what services they offer, and why you might consider being their client next
time you have a health problem.
Desert Oasis Wellness Center – Dr. Julie Grahe-Keel, DC, FIAMA
Dr. Julie Grahe-Keel treats her clients using both acupuncture and chiropractic care at Desert Oasis Wellness Center.
Spring 2013 9
Touch the Sky Massage – Mary O'Donnell, LMT
“Pain is a great teacher,” Mary O'Donnell says. “It's something we don't need to medicate or numb, but we need to embrace it and use it as a catalyst for change.”
This might sound unusual coming from a licensed massage therapist. Pain is almost always the symptom clients ask O'Donnell to treat – in the shoulders, back, hips and feet.
Make no mistake, she is highly successful in relieving her clients' ailments. Yet she maintains that pain is extremely useful in helping to understand one's body, signaling manifestation of life imbalances. Knowing how to read it can be extremely helpful in understanding what's going on internally.
O'Donnell is also a certifi ed yoga instructor; she became certifi ed shortly after receiving her massage license and starting her clinic, Touch the Sky, in 2001. And, she has a heavy background in science. Prior to
becoming a massage therapist, she was a biomedical engineering student.
Often she knows what is ailing a client simply by looking at them.
“Even just watching them breathe, you can get a really strong clue of what's going on with their body.”
She can also fi nd what is going on in someone's body by observing range of motion in the joints.
Once she is able to pinpoint the problem, she can apply the appropriate massage techniques to treat them, sometimes focusing on a bodily system, like the lymphatic, circulatory or musculoskeletal systems.
By alleviating physical tension in the body, she often simultaneously treats other symptoms in her clients as well.
As she went through training in Swedish and lymphatic massage, she realized the profound effects that the lymphatic system has on the body's emotional state. By physically helping clients release lymph drainage, she is able to lift the emotional and mental states of her clients as well, she says.
“People holding incredible tension in their bodies, I say bodies because it's not just physical, it's emotional, spiritual, and mental, and these bodies overlap one another and one can affect the other,” she explains.
While learning massage, she explored other ways to regulate emotional and mental states, through yoga and 'pranayama', or breathing techniques, which she has shared with her clients. She watched a client heal a shattered clavicle through yoga.
She also offers electromagnetic fi eld therapy, using
several devices that work with the body through subtle vibrations, increasing the voltage, or electric charge in the body.
“Every cell in our body acts as a battery, and it goes anywhere from 70 to 90 millivolts,” she says. “That's optimum health, that's where we want to be at.”
But these days that is not where we're at. Modern day living – i.e. degraded foods, sedentary lifestyles, being surrounded by computers and TVs – introduces noxious vibrations into the body, O'Donnell explains, decreasing the voltage within the human body to 50 to 70 millivolts or lower.
“I've seen in my own practice clients come back from what doctors said was a sad case,” says O'Donnell. “Shoulders that didn't have any range of motion and very little cartilage have regrown cartilage and detained full range of motion when the only option was surgery.”
A client with longstanding sciatic problems found a nerve had been repaired after this treatment.
“The most signifi cant result of massage, yoga and vibrational healing is a reduction of stress. That's the cortizol that's running rampant in most peoples' bodies right now because of the times and the pressures that we are living in,” she says. “And stress is a killer.”
If she doesn't hear from a client, that's a sign that her treatment is working.
“They show progress when they don't call,” she laughs. “And that's my ultimate goal, is to help them to not depend on anything or anyone.”
Health Care, Continued on page 10
Health Care, Continued from page 8
If you want to avoid surgery or medicine, consider some of these these alternative options
Mary O'Donnell is both a licensed massage therapist and yoga instructor at her studio Touch the Sky in downtown Globe.
10 Spring 2013
If you had spoken to Chad Campbell
several years ago, he would have told
you he was about ready to throw in the
towel and quit family practice.
“I was ready to fl ip burgers and be
done with medicine, I was just burnt
out,” he recalls.
After ten-plus years practicing as
a physician's assistant in Globe, he
remembers thinking, “there has got to
be more to medicine.”
Then, after winning a scholarship,
he enrolled in the Andrew Wilde
Fellowship of Integrative Medicine in
Tucson, and his outlook on medicine
changed in a very dramatic way.
“It completely changed the way I
wanted to do practice,” he remembers.
Specifi cally, it spawned his desire
to use integrative medicine – which
considers the mind, spirit and body –
in addition to conventional medicine,
to treat his patients. After graduating
from the fellowship three years ago, he
started HOPE Clinic, where he offers
integrative or conventional medicine,
or both, to his patients.
His patients run the gamut of health
problems. He often sees people who are
suffering from diabetes, hypertension,
metabolic syndrome, emotional
disorders and obesity.
In conventional medicine, if you
have diabetes, you are prescribed a
medication. If you have high blood
pressure, you are prescribed another.
While Campbell can prescribe these
medications, he also offers his patients
other options.
“How do you want to approach
this,” he asks them. “Do you want to
look at herbs, supplements, mind,
body? Or would you like to go for the
medication?”
The way he sees it, being able to
offer options to his patients gives
him freedom.
“I'm there helping the patient in
their journey, I'm not dictating their
journey for them,” he explains.
An alternative route to medication
might look something like this. After
looking at the patient's lab work,
Campbell will learn about his or her
sleep patterns and stress levels, their
relaxation techniques, and their eating
habits. Based on the assessment,
Campbell and the patient form a
plan together to treat the patient
without medication.
For a diabetic patient, this might
involve exercise, foods with a low
Glycemic Index, planned meals and an
adjusted sleep schedule. He has been
able to get diabetics off insulin this way.
Another patient had a testosterone
level that had fallen to 120. Campbell
assessed and treated the patient's
sleeping habits, and his testosterone
rose to above 700 within two months.
Without a doubt, the most common
lifestyle change Campbell prescribes to
his patients is dietary, he says.
A simple food sensitivity, for
instance, will cause infl ammatory
reactions in the body (stress has a
similar bodily effect).
“Foods create reactions in our body
that our bodies don't like. So a lot of
times, if that is what is the problem, you
can remove it. It works. Let thy food heal
thy body,” he says.
In kids, food sensitivities often come
out through behavior. Campbell has
been able to get ADHD kids completely
off their medications by fi nding out
what foods they are sensitive to and
eliminating those foods from their diet.
For one patient, it was dairy. Kids who
were getting kicked out of school are
now getting straight As by making small
changes to what they eat.
Talking to him now, you would think
Campbell is a different person.
“I love it, I would never change
what I do ever, now,” he says. “I think
that if people could see how much
their lifestyles affect the health of their
bodies they would be more willing to
change it.”
Health Care, Continued from page 9
HOPE Clinic – Chad Campbell, PA
Chad Campbell opened HOPE Clinic three years
ago, where he now offers both integrative and
conventional medicine.
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Here in Globe-Miami
you will probably fi nd
more people who know
the name Dylan Earven
than Relay for Life, which
happens every June at
Harbison Field. That’s
because when it comes to
fi ghting cancer, Dylan was
a superstar around here.
His life touched many here
in the community and
continues to inspire those
who knew him. Dylan, who
was diagnosed in 2006 at
age three with a brain mass
underwent two surgeries
and signifi cant chemo and
radiation treatments in
fi ghting a disease which
would eventually take his life four years
later in 2010. His parents, Don and
Angela, have chosen to start the Dylan
Earven Foundation to help provide
fi nancial support to the children
and families in this community
fi ghting childhood cancer and other
life threatening diseases. They will
launch their fi rst fundraising event
this Spring and now have a website
www.dylanearvenfoundation.org. To
fi nd out more about how you can make
a difference for families, please log on
to their website.
A Chance to Make a Difference
12 Spring 2013
By Jenn Walker
Perhaps this writer says it best:
“While most people over 25
are immigrants in the online
world, kids are natural-born
citizens. They’re digital natives,”
observes Kevin D. Henricks in the
introduction of his book "Kids
Creating Stuff Online."
No kidding.
Little ones as young as four and
fi ve are becoming fl uent in Internet-
speak. Adolescents know more about
coding and wikis than many of us
adults can wrap our heads around. The
Internet is their turf. The Pew Internet
& American Life Project reports that
95 percent of people ages 12 to 17 go
online, and 73 percent of teens use
social networking sites.
Kids and teens are doing some
pretty impressive things online, too. In
fact, in many cases they are one-upping
the adults. In addition to building apps,
creating websites and coding, they are
blogging (keeping online journals)
and getting noticed. Worldwide.
A 9-year-old girl in Scotland
gained international attention
after she began writing reviews
of her school lunches on her blog
NeverSeconds. Now kids from
around the world share photos and
reviews of their school lunches. By
age 13, Tavi Gavinson was sitting
next to Jimmy Fallon, being interviewed
about her fashion blog RookieMag.com,
which she started
just two years
earlier.
It has never been
easier to be young
and get discovered.
This has some
speculating. “Could
blogging be the key to
raising a generation of
great writers?” one online
writer asks.
Accordingly, teachers
are catching on to the
potential of blogging
in the classroom. They
are now incorporating
blogs into their lessons,
and some of those blogs
are getting noticed, too. Third grade
bloggers in Minnesota have fan readers
as far as Nottingham, England, a proud
teacher reported to TwinCities.com.
Recognition is a powerful motivator.
Suddenly writing doesn't seem so
mundane when it's for someone other
than a teacher, and for something more
than a grade. What kid wouldn't be
excited by the thought of having their
work 'published'?
Audience is also a great motivator.
“Students realize how high the bar
of public domain writing is,” observes
one teacher. “This can be initially
intimidating, but that removes all
apathy or sense of the humdrum.”
We shouldn't be surprised. Like any
adult, kids are just as likely to produce
higher quality work when there is a
possibility of having an audience,
especially if their work is subject to
comment. Teachers fi nd that students
pay more attention to their spelling,
punctuation and grammar, as well as
presenting their ideas concretely, when
they blog. And the more attention they
get, the more stuff they want to produce.
Of course, there are other advantages
to blogging. Because blogs are formatted
to show content in chronological order,
it's an effective way for teachers and
students alike to track a students' work
and see progress. A students' blog can
become the equivalent of an online
portfolio. Students who aren't keen on
speaking up in the classroom have an
alternative outlet to express themselves.
Teachers are getting creative, too.
While some teachers are using blogs to
post standard announcements and
create online forums for their students,
others are asking their students to blog
as their favorite literary hero, or create
blog posts of their vocabulary words
using pictures.
Blogs can be used for more than just
words. Blogs can be used for presenting
commentary, ideas, observations and
personal emotions, but they can also be
used to post photos, images, videos and
sound clips.
There are a wealth of blogging sites
to choose from. Here at Globe-Miami
Times, we use WordPress.
There is a reason blogging is getting popular in schools
Blog, Continued on page 13
Spring 2013 13
In fact, we attended a WordPress
conference in February, where we
listened in on all the ways people are
using WordPress both in education
and the adult world. We even invited
three students from Globe to attend
WordCamp for Kids – they all created
their own WordPress blogs.
A few blogging options worth
noting include kidblog.org, created
by an elementary teacher, edublogs.
org and ThinkQuest.org. These are
primarily directed toward students and
teachers. Kidslearntoblog.com is a good
resource for anything related to kids
and blogging, including how to create
a blog.
Depending on how web savvy you
are, some blogging sites are easier to use
than others, some are free and several
require some form of administrator
review prior to publishing. WordPress.
com is free, relatively easy to use, and
allows for a controlled environment so
the content can be reviewed by a parent
or teacher before publishing.
Not surprisingly, a frequent question
in the conversation of youth blogging is
safety. Because blogs generally include
administrative settings, however,
it is easy for a teacher or parent to
moderate content, activity, and who
can comment. Some blogging sites will
ask for a password prior to publishing.
Blogs can also be made private in order
to limit who can see them. Other simple
precautions, like setting up fi lters and
adjusting privacy features, can make
blogging an overall safe experience.
Judging from today's numbers,
today's youth will continue to remain
plugged in whether we like it or not.
So why not encourage them to use
the Internet and social media to their
advantage, in ways that capture their
passions and interests?
Kids are proving on a daily basis
that there are no limits to what they are
capable of creating.
As Scott Bradner, a former trustee
of the Internet Society wisely stated,
“The Internet means you don't have to
convince anyone else that something is
a good idea before trying it.”
Okay, in this case maybe you have a
parent or teacher to convince.
Anyway, whether you are an
educator, parent, or student reading
this article, here are some ideas to get
you thinking. Try creating a blog on
family history and paralleling it with
historical events. Each week, review a
textbook and rate it on a scale of one to
ten. Create a photo blog of science labs,
and explain the science behind what is
happening in each photo.
Could blogging be the key to raising
a generation of great writers? Of course.
The important question is, will it be?
As a teacher, student or parent, that
depends on you.
Blog, Continued from page 12
14 Spring 2013
Calendar of EventsHealth Fair 2013
When: April 13; 9:00am-1:00pmWhere: Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center5880 So Hospital Dr., Globe Cost: Free Admission
5K Run begins at 8:00am.
Fair begins at 9:00am. This will be the 4th year of the Health Fair and it gets bigger
every year. Free Health Screenings, Health and Wellness Booths, Craft Fair, Auto
Show, Children’s Activities, Salsa Contest and a “Get Fit” run. This is great for the
whole family!
Baxter Black Comes to Globe!
When: April 13; 6:00pm-9:00 pmWhere: Gila County FairgroundsCost: $50 @ 6pm with reception $30 @ 7pm for show only
The Arizona State Cowbelles will be bringing
Baxter Black, America’s premier Cowboy poet and
philosopher, to Globe! Baxter, who lives now in Benson,
says, “He has a narrow following, but it’s deep!” He has
sold over a million books and audios and has a weekly
column, a weekly radio program and weekly television program. All profi ts to benefi t
the Arizona State Cowbelles Education and Beef Promotion and Youth Scholarship
Programs. You can purchase tickets from Linda Vensel 520-394-2023.
Historic Globe Spring Photography Workshop
When: April 19, 20 & 21Where: Chrysocolla Inn246 East Oak St., GlobeCost: $135/ per person
The fi rst annual Photography
Workshop fi rst proposed by the
Fountain Hills Photography club
and sponsored by Globe Miami
Times, the event will be hosted at Chrysocolla Inn, a historic, fully-restored B&B
just one block from the historic district and will offer photographers rare access to a
working ranch, and the interiors of several historic buildings unique to Globe.
To register please check out the event on Eventbrite: Historic Globe Spring
Photography Workshop.
d B&B
Ghost Hunters of Arizona present at Miami Library
When: April 20; 4:00pmWhere: Miami Memorial Library292 S. Adonis Ave., Miami
The Ghost Hunters of Arizona were in town seven years ago to document
ghostly happenings at the old Memorial Library. They will presenting their
fi ndings, adding to documents with work they will be doing on this visit and
encouraging the public to share any photos or stories they may have.
Cinco de Mayo Celebrations
Apache Gold Casino hosts Los Vecinos y Companeros &
Kumbia Kings
When: May 4; Noon-5pm; Concert at 7pm Where: Apache Gold Casino & ResortCost: Free Admission
The Apache Gold Casino and Resort in
conjunction with Los Vecinos y Companeros,
proudly present the event that will feature the La Reina de Las Flores Scholarship
pageant. Special guest entertainment includes Del Alma Folklorico Dancers,
Encantadoras, Ballet Folklorico as well as the fi nale performance of Kumbia Kings.
The Latin Grammy-winning Mexican
cumbia group created by A.B. Quinanilla, the
brother of the late “Queen of Tejano”, Selena.
Their music includes styles of cumbia, hip hop
and R&B. Tickets are $40 for Premier Kumbia
Section and $25 General Admission. Tickets on
sale now in the gift shop and www.ticketweb.
com. Doors open at 6pm; Concert at 7pm.
Cinco de Mayo Celebration in Downtown Globe
When: May 4; 10:00 am-10:00 pmWhere: Old Dominion Parking LotCost: Free Admission
This downtown event, sponsored by Holy Angels Catholic Church will be held
in the Old Dominion Parking lot in downtown Globe. The event co-chair, Linda
Oddonetto says they are ‘re-booting’ the local tradition of a small hometown
celebration in Globe. This year’s event will include local entertainment and musical
groups, kids corner, a talent show and a beer and margarita garden.
4th of July CelebrationsCelebrating Independence Day
Globe-Miami
When: July 4th at Dark-thirtyWhere: Tailings Dam across from WalMart
Come watch the best fi reworks around as FMI once
again hosts a fantastic fi rework show from the top of
the tailings dam. Show begins at dark-thirty. Tune into
local radio GILA101.9 for the latest scoop and musical
accompaniment to the fi reworks.
Celebrating Independence Day at Apache Gold Casino
When: July 6th; All dayWhere: Apache Gold Casino and Resort
The Casino has a host of events planned for the 6th
(so they don’t confl ict with other 4th of July festivities)
which will take you through the entire day and into the
evening. They will be producing their own Fireworks
Spectacular event for the public. Live music, games
with a water park theme, booths and food. The event is
Free to the public. Great Family fun!
Arizona Little League State Championship Tournament
When: Mid-July (Date TBA)Where: Pinal Little League FieldsNext to WalMart
This year's District 11 State Championship
Tournament will take place in Globe-Miami at the Pinal
Little League fi elds. Hosting 14 teams from around the
state and bringing families and friends to the area, this
promises to be an economic boom to the area and
provide some great Summertime entertainment.
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Copper Dust Stampede Rodeo
When: May 9-11Where: Gila County Fairgrounds
The Gila County Rodeo Committee presents the 2013
rodeo with rodeo performances on Friday and Saturday,
and a parade on Saturday morning. For more details please
see their website at www.copperduststampede.com.
Mothers Day Tea & Performance
When: May 11; 1:00 pm & 7:00 pmWhere: Cobre Valley Center for the ArtsCommunity Players will present a Musical Revue along
with a Mother's Day Tea for the 1:00pm performance.
The evening performance will be at 7:00 pm. Tickets
are $20 and can be purchased at the Center. 425-0884.
Relay for Life
When: June 7-8; Begins at 6pmWhere: Harbison Field in Globe
The local chapter of Relay for
Life has been going for 12 years
and last year raised over $57,000
for Cancer Research. Kicking
off with the Survivors and Caregivers Walk at 6:00 pm,
it is followed by the lighting of the luminarias which
are then placed around the track and offer testament
to just how many lives here have been touched by
cancer. You may get a luminaria from Bank of America for
a donation of your choosing and decorate it for the event.
BofA will match all donations 100%. Just see Chastity
Williams. For more information on this event please visit
our website: globemiamitimes.com.
Apache Independence Day
When: June 18thWhere: Downtown San Carlos
Celebrating Apache Independence
Day; volleyball tournament, horseshoes,
frybread contest, pageant and more.
See our facebook page for more info:
facebook.com/sancarlosapachetribe.
Summerfest in Downtown Globe
When: June 29; 5:00-8:00pmWhere: Broad & Oak St. – in the street!
Summerfest is back this year with booths,
water fun, games for the whole family,
entertainment and food. Plus, this year they
are doing a cardboard car contest, yes...take
a refrigerator box, some duct tape and lots
of creativity and see what you can come up
with that resembles something on wheels. At
8:00 pm there will be an outdoor movie
under the stars. Check out Globe Mainstreet
Program on facebook for updates.
Solstice Weekend Evening Latern-Lit Historic Cemetery Tour
When: June 22; 6:30-9:30 pmWhere: 1910 Sheriff’s Office 149 E Oak St., GlobeCost: $15
Shuttles will take tour guests to the
old cemetery established in 1878, where
they will fi nd a host of local performers
who will recount a particular part of
history of individuals buried here from the
famous to the infamous. Due to the subject
matter, this tour is not recommended
for children under the age of ten.
Tickets available at Cobre Valley Center for
the Arts : 928-425-0884.
16 Spring 2013
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Munoz with is daughter Kelly Newell, who helped produce the documentary. The fi lm covered the history from the Spanish Conquistadors to the End of the Golden Age.
Stan Gibson received this year's Citizen of the Year Award. Shown here with wife Janet. Gibson has served the community for over sixty years, including several terms as Mayor of Globe.He currently serves on the board of the Chamber and is active in Rotary.
Citizen of the Year AwardFebruary 10 – Hosted by Globe-Miami Chamber of
Commerce held at Dream Manor Inn
Nominees: (Front L-R) Lerry Alderman, Greg Gotto, Molly Cornwell, Rev. Dr. Rula Colvin, Neal Jensen, (Back L-R) Stan Gibson, Donna Anderson
Globe Historic Home & Building Tour
March 9th & 10thDespite a late winter storm, this years' home tour hosted nearly
500 visitors and had over 100 volunteers helping to make it successful.
"So Dear to the Miners"
The Methodist Church and it's merry band of short order cooks were on hand to serve up a pancake breakfast that morning.
The Globe Miami Centennial Band put on an old-style band concert at Globe High during the March historic home tour. A few of the Sax players: Nolan Frost, Kelly Hetzler, Paul Buck and Bailey DeBurns and Linda Gustfson
Shown are members of the Mercer Family who have played in a city band for over 75 years. Rick Sevedra (son-in-law), Sharon Navarro (daughter) & Johnny Mercer, who is the oldest member at age 90. Saturday, Director Nolan Frost (son-in law), Kathleen Mercer (daughter) and Keith English, a cousin's husband.
Showing of local documentary,
Samuel B. Munoz shown here with Dr. Christine Marin who assisted in the research for the documentary.
March 23rd at Bullion Plaza &
Cultural Museum
Spring 2013 17The Society Page
Easter Parade 2013March 30th, Historic Downtown Globe
The Old West Hitch Up Was a Big Success!
March 23rd & 34thNationally recognized, Sisters on the Fly, whose mission they say is to
"Offer empowerment and sisterhood through exceptional outdoor
adventure!" The group came to Globe this Spring thanks to the invite by
fellow Sister, Leora Hunsaker who joined the group years ago – she's #52
of over 3,500 members! – and her brother Kip Culver, director of the Globe
Main Street program. The event helped to raise $1,500 for Main Street
and make converts out of many of the Sisters who say they will return!
Several of the Sisters helped to 'model' over 30 western-themed aprons designed by Holly Brantley and her business, Home Hero Capes. The aprons are available at The White Porch.
Kip presenting Leora with her mug of fame which he had signed by all the Sisters.
John Michael Benson and Leora Hunsaker pose in front of her trailer.
Sister #1 Maurrie Sussman (center) is fl anked by her Arizona Sisters during the Old West Hitch Up in Globe.
18 Spring 2013
By Frank Renzy
Most of my ideas for helpful gambling advice come
to me while I'm in the casino. That's when I see the same
mistakes committed over and over again. Sometimes
it seems that every next player is a clone of the last.
There's no doubt in my mind that impulsiveness,
eccentricity and cluelessness dominate the behavior
of the majority of gamblers. Are those the three virtues
that made you a big success in real life? Well, they won't
make you a success in the casino, either!
Sure, most blackjack players know something
about the correct basic strategy of play, but a little bit
of knowledge is a dangerous thing. As I've mentioned
before, there's a lot more to winning than just looking
over a chart. For that reason, I've put together a list of
10 blackjack tips that I feel about 95% of the players in
the casino can make good use of. Here they are:
In a typical game of blackjack there are
eighteen different soft hands (those
containing an ace) that should be doubled
down on, but none of those are against a
dealer's deuce. Many players double down
with hands like ace/4 or ace/5 against a 2 up. This is
a no-no.
When you have 16, it would only be a tiny
mistake to stand against a dealer's 10. In
fact, you actually should stand with most
of your three or four card 16s against a 10.
But it's a mistake to stand with any kind
of 16 when the dealer has a 7 showing. That's because
you'll be so much more likely to win the hand against a
7 with something like 18 if you avoid busting.
The only thing you're likely to accomplish
by taking "even money" on your blackjack
is reducing your win slightly or increasing
your loss slightly for that session. And it
will positively have just that very effect
over your lifetime. Maximize the earnings of all your
blackjacks combined by declining "even money". After
all the smoke settles, that will add to your long-term
bottom line.
Who was the genius that fi rst came up with
the notion of "doubling down for less"?
Since you only double down when you're
more likely to win the hand than not, why
would you not want to put the maximum
amount up? One of the main reasons you play blackjack
over the other games in the fi rst place is because it
offers spots where you are actually the favorite. Never
shortchange yourself in these situations -- you need to
buy back all the leveraging power you can.
Playing two hands against the dealer will
merely bring exactly the same combined
results as two different players betting one
hand each and using identical strategies.
Playing two hands at a time may be fun,
but it has no basic inherent edge.
Insurance is essentially a bad bet by its very
nature, but insuring a good hand like 10/10
is actually a dumber move than insuring a
bad hand such as 4/2! That's because, to
gain any benefi t from taking insurance, the
dealer must have a 10 in the hole, and your "20" just
took two of those 10s out of play.
If you believe those "No Mid-Shoe Entry"
signs actually protect you from having
your cards "screwed up" by new players
coming to the table when you're "running
good", then you probably don't stand
a snowball's chance in hell at this game anyway.
Fact is, those signs serve just two purposes: 1) they
stop card counters from "back-counting", then
jumping in when the shoe is "heavy" with 10s and aces,
and 2) they cater to, and pacify, high-rolling suckers
with valueless pampering. Don't get hung up on
irrelevant nonsense.
Betting more just because you're winning
at the time buys you absolutely no added
chance to being a winning player overall.
As unlikely as it may feel at the time, you're
just as likely to lose the next hand whether
you're ahead or behind.
No seat at the table, be it fi rst base or third,
has a better chance to be dealt good cards.
But if you're keeping track of what's been
played, you'll get to see more cards from
third base before you have to play your
hand out. Of course, you'll need to know the proper
thing to do with your extra information.
Betting progressions based on the
previous outcome offer virtually no
increased chance to win the next hand,
and are therefore useless as a strategy tool.
You'll simply end up winning the same
percentage of your one-unit bets as your three-unit
bets and your fi ve-unit bets, etc. That's because where
your probability to win the next hand is concerned
(which is not dependent upon the last outcome) you've
actually sized your bets randomly. The only way to size
your wagers according to your chances of winning
the next hand is to keep track of the cards. Other than
that, you'll do just as well to bet the same amount on
every hand.
This article, by Frank Renzy, is reprinted here with
permission from Frank Scoblete and the Frank Scoblete
Network. Frank Scoblete is a recognized authority on
casino games and his recent book, “Best Blackjack” is
now available on Amazon.com. He also writes the “Ask
Frank” column for Casino City Times.
Ten Blackjack Tips Most Players Need to Learn
See Apache Gold Casino , Continued on page 19
Spring 2013 19
APACHE GOLD CASINO & RESORTSpring 2013Welcome To
GMT: New manufacturers are
bringing a new experience to the
gaming fl oor at Apache Gold this
spring. The latest upgrade to the
gaming fl oor will include new
vendors as well as products, including
those by Multimedia Games, Speilo
and industry leader Bally. So, tell us
what's behind these new games?
Linda Michels: After attending
a trade show earlier this year and
seeing these new products, we
knew we wanted them on our fl oor.
Especially when we saw MultiMedia’s
TournEvent system which links banks
of its games for instant slot contests.
The company touts the fact that
they are dedicated to doing things
differently in the gaming industry,
and they are leading the way with this
new product.
...In the past we have largely
worked with the three major vendors
who serve our market, but we are
fi nding a lot of value in bringing in
these other companies who can offer
our customers something different.
GMT: We’ve heard about the company
who hails from the hip college town
of Austin Texas instead of Nevada
like every other gaming company!
MultiMedia Games certain seems
to have hit upon a winner with their
TournEvent product.
Linda Michels: We think so. We
recently swapped out all of our slot
machines up front where we hold
our slots tournaments with the
new MultiMedia product. The new
tournament machines offer players a
whole new interactive experience. It
gets a little wild because now instead
of just hitting a button, they have to
touch the screen and interact with
the action on the screen to score
additional bonus points.
GMT: What else is new?
Linda Michels: We added the
game ‘Plants vs Zombies’ by Speilo.
They are an Italian company who is
well known internationally but hadn’t
been on our radar until recently.
GMT: So what happens in Plants vs
Zombies? I have to ask!
Linda Michels: Basically the
plants are defending themselves
against Zombies using Peashooters,
Snow Peats and Wall-nuts. And the
Zombies are attacking plants with
exploding jack-in-the-boxes.
GMT: I would play just to see the
imagery of that!
Linda Michels: Exactly! That’s one
of the reasons we select the games we
do. They’ve got to rank high in the
Fun Factor and First Impressions.
GMT: Wow! How do designers think
up these things?
Linda Michels:We really liked
the Speilo group and got to meet
the designer of Plants vs Zombies -
who personally gave our GM a few
pointers on how to play!
GMT: Maybe he’ll give us lessons?
Linda Michels: Don’t bet on it!
We’re also excited about adding new
Bally games including Pawn Stars
and Michael Jackson. With Pawn
Stars players can select the character
from the TV Show to play the game
and there is even a chumlee bonus.
GMT: I assume Pawn Star junkies
will know what this is!
Linda Michels: You are correct!
GMT: OK, let’s talk about what’s
happening behind the scenes.
Linda Michels: Sure. One of
the biggest improvements which
customers will notice is the fact we
signifi cantly upgraded our servers
to handle the increased demand
these new machines require. The
new gaming technology of these
machines is amazing and our existing
servers would simply lock down;
sometimes creating delays in payouts
while we had to manually check into
the problem. Now, with the upgraded
servers coming on line, everything
should go smoothly and we hope to
avoid any future problems like this
for our guests.
GMT: Anything else you want to add?
Linda Michels: We were really
happy with our car give away which
just wrapped up on March 2. Car
Drawing promotions are always well
participated in with over 117,000
entries. And the night of the drawing
we had a record crowd here all day
long. A winner was called every hour
and at 9 pm all ten winners then got
to pick a bag. The winner was Arthur
M. from Winkleman who chose the
F-150 truck and 2nd place was John
G. from Florence who won $1000.
GMT: We were there Saturday night,
and you did have a packed house
for the event! So what is your next
big thing?
Linda Michels: Aww; Kumbia
Kings on Saturday May 4th in the
pavilion, I can hardly wait!!
What's new on the gaming fl oor?Apache Stronghold
Golf Course On The Rebound
Arizona's top public golf course hit rock bottom last year. Now, things are starting to look up.
Jenn Walker
I've never been much of a golfer,
though I grew up riding in golf carts
with my dad as a kid. Truly, I was more
interested in driving the cart than
hitting the balls. So I wasn't sure how to
feel about writing a story on the Apache
Stronghold Golf Course at Apache
Gold Casino.
Nonetheless, I show up on a Friday
afternoon to speak to the casino's newly-
hired golf director, Stephen Ravenkamp.
Bad timing. He's out spraying the greens
with fertilizer when I arrive. So I step into
the lounge to take in the atmosphere,
and spot one of two customers in the
room, sitting at the bar chatting up the
bartender. He is working on a Miller Lite
and popcorn. He looks like a golfer.
I take a seat next to him and introduce
myself. It turns out I've chosen the right
guy to talk to – Gonzalo Reynoso Jr., the
owner of local Mexican food restaurant
Chalo's. He can't understand why I am
writing this article if I don't play golf,
and suggests I pick it up, soon.
“Golf is one sport you can play for
the rest of your life,” he says.
Reynoso was born and raised in
Globe-Miami, and for the last 18 years
of his life, he has been an avid golfer. He
plays the Stronghold course three times
a week, and is probably an honorary
member (he can't remember for sure,
but he knows he gets charged for nothing
short of the beers). Regardless, he's been
playing this course since it fi rst opened.
“It's the best layout I've ever seen,”
he says. “If you miss the fairway, you're
in the hills, in the rocks. It makes for a
great course, very challenging.”
Golf Course, Continued on page 20
20 Spring 2013
He has played courses all over
Phoenix, Florida, in Hawaii and Kauai.
Still, this layout tops his list. Once you
are out there you are surrounded by
desert wildlife, he says – i.e. deer, gila
monsters, rabbits and rattlesnakes.
The Stronghold is an 18-hole, par-
72 high desert golf course with a USGA
rating of 74.6. The course opened in
1999. It was designed by Tom Doak,
one of the top course designers in the
country. In 2002, in addition to making
Golf Magazine’s top 100 list, Golfweek
supposedly ranked it the number one
public course in Arizona and number
56 of America's Best Modern Courses.
Reynoso remembers those days
well. “It used to be like what you see on
T.V.,” he says.
Unfortunately, there was a litany
of problems with the course, which
culminated in 2009, when it closed
for approximately seven months
to give the greens and fairways a
chance to recover. When the course
reopened that September it was still in
poor condition.
At that time the greens were terrible,
Reynoso bluntly informs me.
The course remained that way
for the next several years, until last
summer. By that point, the greens
and fairways hardly had grass and the
sand traps were contaminated and
weed-ridden.
Thus, in conjunction with the
casino's 'facelift', which began around
the same time, Golf Maintenance
Solutions was hired to restore the
course in August.
Since then, the course is already
showing improvements.
“[The greens] are getting way
better,” Reynoso notes, though the
course still is “not quite the way it used
to be.”
That will take time, says Ravenkamp.
Ravenkamp was brought on board
as the course's new golf director in
February, and it is his responsibility
to work with the maintenance crew to
restore the course to what it was.
I meet with Ravenkamp on a
Monday morning in his offi ce. While
Apache Stronghold is relatively
new territory for him, golf course
maintenance is not. He has a long
career working on golf courses,
beginning in 1994. His title at Apache
Gold Stronghold is all-inclusive: he is
responsible for the entire course.
He is working alongside a
maintenance crew of 12 to 18 to get
the course back to what it used to
be. Signifi cant progress has already
been made – 90 percent of the greens
are revitalized.
There is still much work to be
done, however.
“It doesn't take long for a golf
course to go down hill,” he says.
The team has 50 sand traps over
three acres to rebuild, three and a
half tees to rebuild, and 80 acres of
fairway to recover. Not only is this a lot
of ground to cover, but as I soon learn
from Ravenkamp, golf maintenance in
itself is both a science and an art.
For example, on your typical
lawn, grass is usually kept at one
and a half inches to two inches. On
your golf course greens, on the other
hand, grass is kept at one-eight of an
inch. And, here in the desert, it's
being grown on sand. Not to mention
the fact that depending where you
are on the course, the grass grows
differently. Each hole has a different
microclimate of its own. Ravenkamp
has to ‘spoon-feed’ the grass small
doses of liquid fertilizer on a
frequent basis.
You would think the guy ought
to be overwhelmed, yet he doesn't
appear that way in the least. He exudes
patience, and confi dence that he will
have the course restored. He also loves
what he does.
He makes this clear as we drive a
cart around the course to admire the
spectacular morning views.
“Where else are you going to fi nd a
better offi ce?” he asks.
This is how he spends many of his
work hours, driving around the 'offi ce'
monitoring projects. And what makes
this 'offi ce' particularly unique is the
way it was designed.
When Doak built the course, he
intentionally worked with what he
had, Ravenkamp explains. The beauty
of Apache Stronghold is that there is
no surrounding development, so Doak
supposedly had 900 acres of land at his
disposal to work with (whereas courses
in the valley usually have about
200). Thus, the holes don't run close
together, and Doak designed them in
such a way that they fi t the landscape,
disturbing the natural surroundings as
little as possible.
“It's not a cookie-cutter course like
what you see in the valley,” Ravenkamp
says. “It's one of the most beautiful
layouts I've ever been associated with.”
In the valley, where it is fl at, courses
require up to hundreds of thousands
of yards of dirt to be hauled in order
to create contours and mounding. In
contrast, Apache Stronghold required
less than 35,000 cubic yards of dirt to
be moved for construction.
The course's cart paths are not
paved. Ravenkamp intends to keep it
that way. In addition to restoring the
course, his objective is to maintain the
sustainable design that Doak created.
In fact, his plan is to turn the course
into an Audobon Sanctuary Course.
As the course conditions continue
to improve, he also expects to attract
more out-of-towners. Currently,
locals, people from the East Valley
and Tucson come to play the course.
The golf club already hosts locally-
sponsored tours, but he hopes to bring
a nationwide tour to the course in the
next fi ve to six years.
Ultimately he is working to make
the course a destination near and far.
It's easy to get people to come try the
course, he explains.
“The challenge is to get them to
come back,” he says.
As the course continues to be
restored, this shouldn't be hard to do.
Golf Course, Continued from page 19
The Apache Stronghold Golf Course was designed by Tom Doak, one of the top course designers in the country. It is known for its unique design, which involved little alteration of the natural landscape.
Irrigator George Longstreet works on the course irrigation system.
Apache Stronghold's new golf director Stephen Ravenkamp was hired in February. He is working with a maintenance crew to restore the course to its former condition.
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Out And About
Presentation of the Royalty. One of the skills the women must have is the ability to speak in public, so here, each of them took the microphone and told a little about herself and welcomed the crowd to the Pow Wow.
BIGWINNERS!
Apache GoldPow WowMarch 15-17, 2013
Victor M. was a big winner on March 13th when he hit the jackpot for $181,000 while playing area wide progressive wheel of fortune slots! He says he had put in $20 and played about 15 minutes when he the hit the jackpot! Congratulations Victor M! This was one of the largest payouts at the Casino.
Winning the car give away on March 2nd was Arthur M. from Winkleman who chose the F-150 truck. 2nd Place winner was john G. from Florence who won $1,000. Congratulations to both Arthur and John! The promotion generated over 117,000 entries and there was a record crowd on hand March 2nd as the winners were drawn!
Dale Gilbert, Black Jack Supervisor at the Casino, took a break from the fl oor to welcome his Comanche family who had traveled from Oklahoma to attend this years' Pow Wow at Apache Gold.
Helping to cover the entrance for Friday nights Grand Entry were (L-R) Gary Murrey, General Manager and Alise James, Assistant manager of Security.
Relay for Life
The Casino helped kick off the annual local Relay for Life event which is held each year at Harbison Field on June 7th and 8th by hosting the organizational meeting. Shown here at the podium with Gary Murrey is Gail Lennox, local Chair of the event and Katie Harlan, Community Liaison between the national and local chapters.
22 Spring 2013
Spring 2013 23Story by Darin Lowery
Art and Photo by Jim Lindstrom
While making arrangements
over the phone to meet Lily
Machado at Bernard’s Coffee
Station for this interview, she
asks if it’s alright to bring her two
children along. Remembering
her kids as quiet and well-
mannered, it was easy to agree to
this small request. It’s a chilly day
in February when they arrive;
Lilly shrugs off her coat, wearing
a bright turquoise blouse
underneath. After helping the kids with
their jackets she points them to a corner,
where they leaf through magazines.
We know Lilly from the El Ranchito
café on Broad Street. Jimmy and I eat
there once or twice a week; they do a
brisk business, and we do our best to
let others know how much we like it.
It’s a clean, well-lit place, the service
is excellent, and no one minds
when we get silly. While we
enjoy seeing all of the staff,
it’s Lilly who initially
captivated us with her
friendliness and sincerity
while serving our
enchiladas and fl autas.
When asked about her
job, Lilly lights up in her
special way and says, “I love
this place— I like to do my
job well, and the owners are such
nice people!”
She’s been at the café for six years; her
husband Alex works there too, as a cook.
They have been married since 2000.
Their kids Jacqueline, eleven, and Angel,
nine, are bright, engaging children who
enjoy reading and spending time with
the family Chihuahua, ‘Gizmo’, and
Siamese cat, ‘Oreo’. Her son pipes up
by declaring, “Gizmo’s crazy. He eats cat
food and he never barks!”
Lilly and I share an appreciation
of recycling through reusing and re-
donating items, thereby saving money
and landfi ll space. In fact, the fi rst
time I met her kids was at a local thrift
shop. Then, she and I chatted awhile as
her children sat on an 80’s fl oral sofa,
reading. There was a stack of books
between them which Lilly retrieved and
brought to the register as she called
over her shoulder, ‘They just
love to read. Everything!’
The Church is a
large part of Lilly’s life,
and helping others is
something the family
does together. “I’m
proud to be part of
this community,” she
says. “I feel safe, and
it’s a good place to raise
children. When we go to the
Valley (she serves as a teacher
in the Seventh Day Adventist Church in
Apache Junction) I see people running so
fast, and then I come home and it’s nice
and quiet. [Our] town has everything –
not like the big city with all the choices,
but we have everything here.”
As a child of immigrant parents,
her new world was challenging. “I felt
lost and lonely, the same as a lot of
[people]. Mexico is a different way of
life— a different language. I didn’t speak
English and it was
diffi cult for me. My
sisters Blanca [and
especially] Lorraine
helped me to grow
and become more
outgoing. She told
me I was smart and
strong, and could do
whatever [I set my
mind to].”
Her uncle was a
pastor who pushed her to help others,
and Lilly found she enjoyed it. “We
collect blankets to send to orphans in
Mexico, and it feels so good to make
something nice for them. People forget
how it is. I tell my kids how lucky they
are— they have parents and a house.
It’s a blessing.”
Her children are members of the
youth ministry organization Pathfi nders.
Activities are both indoor and outside,
and the kids earn patches and sashes
for such virtues as kindness, respect
and trustworthiness. They assist folks
at Thanksgiving and also give away
Christmas baskets. School means a lot
to Jacqueline and Angel— she adores
history and is starting to enjoy books with
chapters; his passion is social studies,
and he loves to draw. The family goes
camping and exploring, and they enjoy
the winter snow in the Pinal Mountains.
“I don’t spend too much time focusing on
how other people raise their kids because
I’m busy raising my own. I’m very proud
of my kids.”
“God’s plan is better than mine,”
Lilly confi des, “you have to balance your
needs with others, but I would like to
have my own little Mexican restaurant
someday, with more opportunities
to help others in our community,
especially Seniors. I want to take care of
my Mom as she took care of me. You give
away part of yourself and get back more
than you gave. Sometimes people say
I spend too much time helping others,
but that’s okay. It’s not always about
what people think of me, it’s what I think
about myself. My Mom says, ‘the lizard
can see the other lizard’s tail, but not his
own’. It’s not magic— you do your best
with passion or be quiet. I have a busy
life and I’m happy to have it!”
El Ranchito Mexican Restaurant,
at Broad and Yuma Streets, is open
from11am-8:30pm weekdays; Friday &
Saturday until 9pm, and closes Sundays
at 4pm.
24 Spring 2013
Tanner Yeager was the winner of our Holiday Lights photography contest held on Facebook and announced at the end of December. He received the most votes from our FB Fans for his “Levitating Lady” and picked up a $100 cash reward! Tanner is 20 years old, from Globe and has been working with his photography since high school.
He now shoots professionally and has mainly covered motorcross events. You can see more of his work at www.tanneryeager.com
Spring 2013 25
Globe Unifi ed School District Welcomes YouHome of the Tigers
It's not everyday someone has
the heart to greet you with a smile
after mediating a standoff between
fi ve young girls in their offi ce.
But Lori Rodriguez is not your
everyday someone.
Long before Rodriguez became
assistant principal at High Desert
Middle School in 2010, she was a
teacher. Take a look at her six-page
resume, and you will fi nd that for
23 years, she taught every subject to
grades four through six, from science
to music.
“I taught for so long that I've
really never forgotten what it was
like to be a teacher,” she says.
As a teacher, she had a tendency
to 'close her door'. When she was
in the classroom with her thirty
students, those kids were hers, and
she made every effort to help them
problem solve.
“I felt as soon as I sent a student
out of my room I gave up my power,
I gave up my opportunity to build a
relationship with that kid. I just gave
it to somebody else,” she says. “So I
really made every effort to keep every
student in, working with the parents,
pulling them out in the hallway
and talking to them, and working
through problems and problem
solving, because I knew that made
our relationship stronger.”
High Desert doesn't have a
counselor on staff, so from time to
time Rodriguez fi nds herself sitting
in what would be the counselor's
chair. Minutes before I walked into
her offi ce, she was doing just that. To
this day, each time a student comes
through her door with a problem
(and sometimes there is a line out
the door) she often takes the same
approach she used as a teacher.
It must catch some kids by
surprise when she asks them, “What
do you think should happen?”
“I try to ask those questions
because I know how they learn from
those things,” she says.
Nine times out of ten, they
are harder on themselves than
she would be.
When she is not counseling
students, she could just as easily
be out to recess duty or lunch duty,
talking to parents, writing teacher
evaluations, visiting classes to see
what's going on or how she can help,
or working with the folks over at the
San Carlos Apache Reservation. Bus
duty is always an adventure.
The way she sees it, her role is to
be present wherever she is needed,
so there is no telling what her day is
going to look like.
“With a small staff, we all pitch in
and do what we have to do,” she says.
“I really feel we're a team in this. If
it's not bloody, and I'm needed in
the nurse's offi ce I'll be there.”
“If it's bloody I'll walk away,”
she adds with a laugh.
Rodriguez hadn't exactly
envisioned becoming an assistant
principal. But after 23 years of
teaching, including ten in Globe, and
no plans for retirement, she began to
consider leadership options.
“I kept seeing needs,” she says.
“Staff retention, issues that the
rural communities had. And I
kept thinking, somebody should
be able to address this, and it
wasn't happening.”
Sure enough, she was bumped
up to assistant principal after a
brief stint as coordinator of special
projects for the district.
High Desert has what is
considered an extremely small
staff, with 24 teachers and about
477 students. Teachers have it a
little harder here in Globe-Miami,
Rodriguez says. In comparison to
areas like Washington Elementary
School District in Phoenix, where
she started out, there is not a
strong mentoring program for new
teachers. Here, she has observed
that professional development is
provided as it can be afforded. It's hit
or miss. Her goal is to change that.
“I think we're going to start
looking at that, to help support
the teachers as they're learning,”
she say. “Because it's tough, it's a
tough profession.”
As assistant principal, teacher
support is critical. Sometimes this
simply means saying thank you or
noticing a teacher's success.
“I think that while I'm important
to kind of help umbrella, that [the
teachers] are the groundwork.
They're the ones that are doing the
day-to-day stuff, they're the ones that
are making an impact and building a
relationship with the kids,” she says.
“And I'm there to support that.”
Refl ecting on her own past
experiences in the classroom gives
her insight on how to do so.
“The state department says you
only need to have been a teacher
three or four years before you're an
administrator,” she says. “I don't
think that's necessarily long enough
to really remember and know what
goes on.”
She is also stressing collaboration
between teachers. As it is, teachers
tend to isolate themselves with their
students, she says. Their jobs could
be far easier if they collaborated on
lesson plans or how to deal with
particular students, she says.
High Desert teachers are
particularly hard-pressed for time
not only because they have a
small staff, but because they have
long hours. Their school day lasts
from 8 in the morning until after
4 in the afternoon. This makes
collaboration even more diffi cult.
Nonetheless, Rodriguez says
collaboration between teachers is
a must, particularly since schools
will adopt Common Core standards
beginning next year.
“It's going to be a paradigm
shift for all of us,” she says. “The
Arizona standards, I think did
in some sense education a real
disservice, because as I always
say, they had us teaching about
a mile wide and about a half an
inch deep.”
An Interview withLori Rodriguez
An Interview withLori Rodriguez
High Desert's assistant principal refl ects on her role in the school and her history in the classroom
By Jenn Walker
Rodriquez, Continued on page 26
26 Spring 2013
In other words, there was less
emphasis on understanding, and a lot
of emphasis on teaching to the test.
Nonetheless, she sees a lot of
potential on the horizon for the district,
particularly with jerry Jennex as the
new superintendent. The district has a
goal to pull together a comprehensive
curriculum for K through 12 education.
“I think Mr. Jennex is a huge
improvement, both in his leadership
style and his leadership direction,” she
says. “I think that's a real positive for
Globe. I see us going in a really upward,
positive direction, and I'm excited
about being a part of that.”
In fact, that is why she is still here. “I
could retire now, I'm 53,” she says.
“As a dear friend of mine says, 'Now
you're working because you want to, not
because you have to,’” she adds. “And I
do want to, and that's a nice feeling.”
Preparing forCommon Core
A few tips from a former Globe educator
Next year, Common Core Standards
will be implemented in schools
statewide. This is not only going to
change how students learn, but how
teachers teach, says High Desert
assistant principal Lori Rodriguez.
We asked the former educator how
she would prepare her students if she
were back in the classroom. Here is
what she had to say about how students,
teachers and parents can prepare for
this transition:
“I think if I was in the classroom
with Common Core looming I would
begin really utilizing cooperative
learning and have students really begin
“talking” about their answers in math.
Common Core is going to require that
students justify their answers – “Does
it Make Sense?” “How can you explain
your answer?” Having students begin
this process might help them be more
comfortable as we transition in.
Common Core math standards
are going to require more concrete
models in math. As a classroom teacher
I would continue to use hands-on
manipulatives in class, and again
integrate more math “talk”.
My advice to teachers would be to
begin looking at the Common Core,
search the web and begin getting my feet
wet. This is a total paradigm shift and
there will be a learning curve for both
the students and the teachers. Don’t be
afraid to try something! Collaborate and
share with each other.. dive in!
The reading portion of Common
Core is going to have a heavy emphasis
on non-fi ction, so I think if I were in the
classroom now I would be introducing
my students to more non-fi ction,
through reading aloud and/or reading
stories – integrating science and social
studies into the reading curriculum.
As for parents, my advice would
be to support their child. This will be
a totally different evaluation process,
getting away from the bubble sheets,
one right answer response. Don’t be
afraid of failure in the beginning as
students become accustomed to the
new demands.
The Common Core is designed
to encourage higher-level thinking.
Students will need to rely on their
independent, higher-level thinking
skills, not just memorizing facts
and regurgitating them from rote
memory. This will help to make the
learning meaningful and encourage
lifelong learners but it will truly
be a transition for everyone in the
educational process: administrators,
teachers, students and parents.”
Rodriquez, Continued from page 25
Assistant principal Lori Rodriguez makes her rounds during lunch time at High Desert middle school.
2013 Skills USA Competition
March 29th, 2013Showcasing students’ vocational skills to industry professionals,
the GUSD team competed with over 2000 high school students from around state. The Competition is organized and judged by experts from the industry. This year GUSD had students competing in automotive, photography, and construction.
Construction teacher, Jeremiah Dowd and the students who competed in State this year include: L-R Mr. Dowd, Jordyn Chidester, Zack Angulo, Jerid Dickison and Tyler Benton. They worked in groups of two and made picnic tables that were later donated to those in need. Tyler Benton and Jerid Dickison placed second in the competition.
School CalendarTalent Show at High Desert
When: May 21 at 7pmWhere: High Desert Middle School AuditoriumWhat: A fundraiser for the American Cancer Society and the local Relay for Life event taking place on June 7th and 8th. Suggested donation is $5 at the door. Come discover the talent of the HDMS students as they ‘Put on the Ritz.’
AIMS Testing
When: June 4thWhere: Copper Rim, High Desert, Globe HighWhat: This is a Standards Based Assessment which measures stu-
dent proficiency in writing, reading, mathematics and science and is required by state and federal law. Graduation Ceremonies on June 4th
• Globe High School • High Desert Middle School
Representing the photography class
was: L-R Ben Sanchez, Symphony Gustina,
Deeshiaha Jurhs and Kaylyn Johnson.*
More Photos, Continued on page 28
The team at Skills USA this year in automotive included: Tyler Trimble, Eric Conway, MollieMae Griffi n, Clint Brown, Zack Angulo, CTE Director Mike O'Neal, and Dominic Mullen.
Spring 2013 27
This is a series on scholarships which have been established for students at Globe Unifi ed School District, beginning with the oldest known scholarship.
Imagine leaving home to travel
thousands of miles to a strange
country where you don’t speak the
language and have no family. Where
people are quick to label you a threat
simply because of where you came
from. What would it take to do more
than just survive in that world - but to
become successful?
Many here may remember George
Dea as the proprietor of the Star
Buffet for nearly 40 years, but what
they may not know is that George
himself came here from China when
he was just 12 years old to join his
father and work in the Sang Tai Cafe
on North Broad Street. His father, Dea
Gin Foo was a businessperson and
citizen of Globe for over sixty years
beginning in the early 1900’s; a time
when many Chinese were excluded
from citizenship through the Chinese
Exclusion Act of 1882 – 1943.
How is it then, that a young
Chinese man who came to Globe
in the late 1800’s rose to become a
respected businessman in Globe?
The story of Dea Gin Foo is a story
worth knowing.
Dea Gin Foo came from a small
village in the Guandong province
of China along the South China
Sea coast, also known as Canton.
Although many Chinese settled in
San Francisco, several of Dea’s fellow
villagers had found fertile ground
in the booming mining towns of
Globe-Miami, and he followed them
here. He found work serving food
to miners living in tents on the hills
surrounding Globe, and within ten
years succeeded in establishing his
own restaurant on Broad Street.
Living at a time when Chinese
were considered a threat and blocked
at every turn by restrictive laws fueled
by racist fears and social and political
ignorance, Dea Gin Foo quietly
established a foothold in Globe. He
built a reputation as a good business
man, and community leader despite
the extreme prejudice of his time.
Dea Gin Foo was perhaps best
known for his contract with the
county to feed the prisoners, and it
was noted that the total number of
meals he had furnished prisoners
would be well over a half million
meals. Not everyone was pleased.
An anecdotal story often told is of
a conversation which purportedly
took place between he and a
prisoner who complained about the
food served one day, to which Dea
said if the man didn’t like the soup
today, then perhaps he would like it
more tomorrow.
He was also responsible for
bringing many of his fellow villagers
to the area, including his daughter,
who came over in 1938 and married
a Lee. The Lee family established the
Chong Wo Company (liquor store) in
the '40s, becoming an important part
of Globe’s early Chinese families.
THE DEA GIN FOO SCHOLARSHIP
George Dea shown here with daughter Joyce Cunningham (and husband Stan) and son, Thomas Dea in 2008.
Both the Dea and the Lee children attended Globe
schools, but it would be George Dea who would
remain in Globe for his lifetime.
He bought his father’s property and opened up the
Star Buffet, known for its “...McGintys and good, clean
atmosphere, where even children could go and get a
soda while their parents sat at the bar.”
It would also be George Dea who would keep the
Dea name in front of the community well into this
century, through his Star Buffet and efforts to preserve
and protect the Chinese cemetery, which Dea Gin Foo
had established in the '60s.
When George Dea passed away in 2010, his family
asked that donations be made to the Dea Gin Foo
Scholarship, c/o Globe Unifi ed School District.
Dea Gin Foo's legacy refl ects the determination
to succeed in a strange land and a belief in education
which so many immigrants brought to this country.
He rose above his many hardships and carved out
a living for himself and his family. And left a legacy
in the community he chose to call home for over
seven decades.
Standing in front of his Sang Tai Cafe, Dea Gin Foo is shown here with his little red wagon fi lled with meals for prisoners. Photo courtesy of the Lee Family.
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change
the world."– Nelson Mandela
By Linda Gross
28 Spring 2013
Congratulations! The Native American Students at Copper Rim Elementary, High Desert Middle School and Globe High School were recognized by the Globe J.O.M. Parent Committee for their outstanding academic achievement for the First Semester 2012-2013 school year. The Globe J.O.M. Parent Committee is very interested in seeing the Native American students succeed academically in the Globe Unifi ed School District. We are proud of you and encourage you to continue your efforts throughout the end of second semester.
Out & AboutGlobe Cheerleaders taking a break from the stress of practice. L-R Christiana Hurtdado, Breanna Boutwell, Angela DeLara, Karissa Gillium, Emmy Shumway
Journalism teacher Tracy Miller (left) took students Shilah Navarro and Jake Valinski to Washington D.C. in January to watch the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Students in construction learn how to frame houses.2nd hour Photography class taking a break from an assignment, shown here visiting with Joe Bracamonte and his fi re dog at the Globe Fire Station.
Students at Globe High were recognized for their academic achievement and leadership skills.
Photography student Ben Sanchez captured violin player Emily Allinson as part of a class assignment to refl ect the personality of their subject.
Ethan Morgan is a member of the FCCLA club and is preparing a spaghetti dinner for the alumni.
High School students reinact famous movies. Photography student, Kirt Stevens catches them in the act!
*Until a recent purchase of 15 DSLR cameras to replace those stolen earlier, the photography students were forced to get creative with ipods and cellphones to produce work.
Out & About
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Spring 2013 29
Several years ago, I worked for a
small company that held an inspiration
board-making night. A bunch of the
company's members got together
over wine and hors d'oeuvres, and we
were each asked to make our own
inspiration board refl ecting our
business goals as well as our personal
aspirations. Our materials weren't
high-end. We had poster board, glue
sticks, scissors and magazines to
work with.
While sipping wine and cutting up
magazines might sound like loads more
fun to some, the beauty of an image-
sharing website like Pinterest is that
nowadays all you need is a computer
with an internet connection to make
an inspiration board. Think of getting
a Pinterest account as equivalent
to having one or multiple online
inspiration boards with unlimited
space. Yes, you can create not just one
but as many as you like. And where
do you get your images, you ask?
Anywhere you'd like off the Internet.
Or you can upload your own.
We know what you're thinking – this
could be addicting. It is. But it is also
extremely useful, especially if you are a
visual person.
And before you get ready to poo-poo
this as a useless tool for people with
too much time on their hands, read on
a little further. What makes Pinterest
most valuable is the ability to share a
board with as few or as many people
as you like. In the same vein that a
small business wants its employees
to make inspiration boards on pieces
of poster board, businesses are using
Pinterest to collaborate with their
employees, to learn what interests their
clients and visually communicate ideas
with them, and attract more attention
to their products.
You can create a board devoted to
architecture, photography, food, or
more specifi c things like zoot suits, old
keys or pudding.
If you're an artist or photographer,
it's great for inspiration. It's a handy
tool if you're planning a design or an
event. And if you're providing content,
it's a great way to get noticed.
So, what are you waiting for?
You can fi nd GlobeMiamiTimes
on Pinterest.
Why we love Pinterest, and why you should, too
By Jenn Walker
30 Spring 2013
These are the words of Mary Casoose.
She is native to the San Carlos Apache
Nation, and she is also the prevention
manager at the San Carlos Apache Tribe
Wellness Center. For Apaches, this is the
way it has always been, she says.
This same guiding principle is
also applied at the Wellness Center,
an internationally-recognized mental
health and substance abuse clinic
located on the reservation, where each
patient’s health is considered on all
four levels.
The center is tribally-run, as opposed
to being federally-run by Indian Health
Services. Before there was the Wellness
Center, there was the behavioral health
department and the substance abuse
department, two separate entities run
by IHS, employing one half-time and
one full-time position to serve the
needs of the entire reservation.
In 1996, the tribe elected to '638', or
self-govern, its behavioral health and
substance abuse programs, transferring
oversight of the programs from the IHS
directly to the tribe.
Casoose remembers those days
well; she was hired into the behavioral
health department as a case manager
that same year. The employee base
slowly grew within the departments, but
even by the early 2000s the programs
were run out of a trailer.
In 2003, behavioral health and
substance abuse were brought under
one roof, along with the teen substance
abuse department, to create what is now
the Wellness Center. It was considered
a pioneer program at the time, one of
the fi rst to take an integrated approach
on a reservation. Since then the center
has gained nationwide attention for its
success, becoming a model for tribes
across the nation.
The center now occupies two
buildings with a current staff of
86 employees, including what
are considered some of the best
psychologists in the nation. Eighty fi ve
percent of its employees are members
of the tribe, and both postdoctoral
residents are Native American (there
are only approximately 237 Native
American psychologists in the U.S. and
Canada).
In 2007 the Wellness Center was
one of fi rst tribally-run programs to
get international accreditation. A year
later it received a Behavioral Health
Program of the Year award through the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration.
The design of the center itself
refl ects Apache tradition and
encourages tribal members to feel at
home. There are skylights throughout
the building. The colors in the rooms
stand for the different directions. The
fi rst thing you will notice when you
enter the Wellness Center is the
Wickiup room, which is round.
“The Wickiup was where
people lived, that's your
house. And the roundness is
the continuation of life, the
circle,” Casoose explains.
Group meetings are also
conducted in circles. This
goes back to the tradition of
a talking circle, where people
relay ideas and emotions in a
clockwise manner.
All tribal members have access
to this facility. Anyone can walk in and
be treated, free of charge, regardless of
income or age.
And they do. As of 2011, almost
half the tribe (45 percent) was using
at least one of the Wellness Center's
services. The center has developed
a trusting relationship with many
in the tribe because of its emphasis
on confi dentiality.
The tribe has seen some trying
times, and this program developed
out a need. Drug and alcohol abuse,
as well as suicides, have been high on
the reservation. A lot of this has to do
with high poverty and unemployment
rates, as well as historical trauma,
Casoose says.
Keep in mind, the Apaches were
not considered U.S. citizens until the
1940s, and could not self-govern until
the 1950s.
“We never really got out of it,”
she says. “Our spirituality, our way,
our culture was pushed back and
we were told that's something that's
not acceptable, it's wrong, even
our language.”
“I think it just carried over, and
pretty soon the adults in our lives were
all depressed about how their lives
were, and the teachings were gone,” she
continues. “And now that's what we're
looking at bringing back, is teaching in
the right way.”
Since the Wellness Center came into
being, suicide rates have dropped. The
center created a suicide prevention
task force in 2008, a cooperative team
involving the tribe, the county, the
state, IHS and the Bureau of Indian
Affairs. The task force was exceedingly
successful, and it is now recognized as
the best in the nation.
As the center continues to grow,
the number one priority has been to
expand services offered to the tribe,
including educational programs,
counseling, telepsychiatry, psycho-
social rehabilitation and group therapy.
When you are sitting and beading
moccasins, you are accessing different
parts of the brain. Stranding beads
together is a meditative process, it
allows the mind to wander other
places at the same time. When you are
joined by others doing the same thing,
it becomes an ideal setting for
discussion, whether it's about
concerns, fears or experiences.
Wellness, Continued from page 1
Wellness, Continued on page 31
San Carlos' tribally-run mental health clinic is becoming one of the top in the nation
Mary Casoose has been working at the Wellness Center for 16 years, where she is currently both a prevention manager and community organizer.
Spring 2013 31
It makes sense, then, that the
Wellness Center offers more than
30 therapy groups centered around
these kinds of activities. The tribe has
found that group therapy is overall
more effective in addressing issues like
substance abuse, anger management
and healthy relationships. Other groups
include an 18-week domestic violence
group, a sweat lodge group and a
drumming group.
Studies in California are showing
that drumming has a calming effect
on moods. Since October, postdoctoral
resident William Shunkamolah runs
a small drumming group once a
week at the clinic using his personal
family drum. Coming from a Native
background mixed with Osage, Kiowa,
Navajo and Tohono O'odham, this is
something he grew up with.
“[Drumming] provides a lot of
structure for people, and examples of
how to live life,” Shunkamolah explains.
“I try to make it make sense to the
people that I'm working with, so it kind
of adds a Native dimension to it that
a lot of other forms of therapy don't
really do.”
Shunkamolah guides the drum beats
with song, some of which are more than
100 years old. He will sing inter-tribal
and social songs, in addition to songs
he was taught as a kid. Many of them
refl ect lessons about relationships,
responsibility and humility.
“I have people come in and they're
really tired from work, and maybe they're
not in the greatest mood,” he says. “But
by the end of the session they've focused
on the drumbeat, and I do see changes
in their mood, they seem a little more
relaxed, a little more open.”
Despite the fact that the songs
and the drum are not Apache, the
drumming group creates some level
of comfort and familiarity, patients
tell Shunkamolah, and they are more
trusting of him.
Since the Wellness Center brings in
court-ordered patients, this is especially
signifi cant to how they view the center.
“It's not just some institutional
place they have to come to that doesn't
represent them,” Shunkamolah
explains.
Clinical director Dr. Thea Wilshire
attributes the center's success to its
need-based approach. For instance,
the center identifi ed which groups were
most at risk, and developed clinical
intervention based on those numbers.
Suicide rates were high among
children in unsupervised homes, so
the center created a seven-week free
summer camp for kids. Treatment
money could be used for these programs
because they were preventative. The
center created the Young Warriors
program, a before and after school
program, as well as Extreme Warriors,
a weekend program where licensed
recreation technicians take kids as far
as California and Colorado to ski, surf,
rock climb and hike.
“These kids went to camp and
didn't have anything,” says Wilshire.
“We gave them a sleeping bag, a
Camelbak, warm clothes, meals
and transportation.”
As a result of these programs,
behavioral incidents in schools
decreased.
Another focus at the center is
providing new social structures to tribal
members who are now sober, whose
lifestyles no longer revolve around
alcohol or substance abuse.
“We understand that a lot of
our clients get the jitterbug to go
drinking, that urge starts to come
alive,” says Louie Lorenzo, the Bylas
prevention coordinator.
In response, Lorenzo is developing
a new program where families can
spend two weekends a month at Point
of Pines, complete with meals, wellness
and health education, activities like
fi shing, canoeing, talking circles and
AA meetings.
Casoose is a well-known face
throughout San Carlos. Like Lorenzo, she
is constantly organizing preventative
activities, like mens' and womens'
retreats up in the mountains that
incorporate activities like hiking and tai
chi with presentations on relationships,
jobs and education. All of these tie back
to addressing and supporting different
parts of the participants' life, whether
it's spiritual, physical, social or mental.
“I fi ght like crazy for the fi nances
to cover this, and I'll write it up and
I'll justify why we do this,” she says. “It
really does lift them up when they see
there are different things they can do
for themselves.”
Funding of IHS has been chronically
low. In 2005, it was the least funded
health care program of any in the
federal budget, at $2130 per capita.
After 1996, however, the Wellness
Center gained other sources of federal
funding through Medicaid and grants.
Activities like the retreats have
helped people turn sober.
Casoose also organizes community
events, many of which draw up to 1500
people. One of her biggest success
stories is the fall festival, which has
been going strong for the last six years.
“We started doing that at the
beginning, it was because we realized
that a lot of the people that we deal
with, the kids that we deal with, have
been through so much crisis in their
lives,” she explains.
Initially, parents were dropping their
kids off. But within the last two years,
that is changing. Dad's are sobering up
to take their kids to events.
“We know it's had an impact,
because the fathers are there,” she says.
Wellness, Continued from page 30
Over the years the staff of the Wellness Center has increased to 86 employees, 85 percent of whom are tribal members. Staff courtesy photo.
Cover photo: Drumming group therapy sessions are held at the Wellness Center once a week, led by postdoctoral resident William Shunkamolah.
32 Spring 2013
Our Tribute to Cinco de MayoBy Jenn Walker
Just to clear up any confusion,
Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican
Independence Day. That
takes place September 16. It
does, however, mark the day
Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza
defeated French troops in Puebla,
Mexico, sent over by Napoleon
III. Though Mexico was still
conquered by the French, the
memory of that unexpected
victory still lives on.
Sometime in the '50s and '60s,
Cinco de Mayo became a big deal
in the U.S. According to numerous
professors who are well-versed on
the topic, this spawned both from
Mexicano activists upholding
the day as a symbol of cultural
pride, as well as an attempt to
bridge relations between Anglo
Americans and the Hispanic
community at large. Now we have
Cinco de Mayo, which has turned
into a bigger party here in the U.S.
than in most places down south.
As a tribute to this noteworthy
day, we put together a time line
that provides a very small glimpse
into the Mexicano and Hispanic
experience here in Globe-Miami
(both good and bad), marking
several signifi cant events and
people who have been a part of it.
We relied on several books to make
this time line possible, namely:
“Around Miami” by Santos C
Vega, Ph.D. with Marlene Tiede
and Delvan Hayward, “Always a
Struggle: Mexican Americans in
Miami, Arizona, 1909 to 1951”
by Christine Marin, Ph.D. Also, a
personal thanks to Armida Bittner
and Dr. Marin for pointing us in
the right direction.
May 5, 1862General Zaragoza's forces defeat
the French at the Battle of Puebla in
Puebla, Mexico. A century later, we
celebrate the day as Cinco de Mayo.
1910The Mexican Revolution pushes
Mexicanos into the U.S. For the next
ten years, more than 890,000 legal
Mexican immigrants come to the
U.S. to escape the violence. Many
are hired to work construction and
maintenance on the railroads. By
1911 at least 60 percent of Arizona's
smelter workers are Mexicanos.
An infl ux of Mexicanos head to
Globe-Miami.
Globe-Miami1919The YMCA opens the “Mexican Y”
for Hispanics to use for sports and
recreation. They aren't allowed to
use the town's YMCA building, and
can only swim in the YMCA pool one
day a week. The Y remains segregated
until 1947.
1923Bullion Plaza School is constructed. At
that time, the school is an elementary
school strictly for Hispanic and Native
American students in the area.
September 1931The fi rst wave of Mexican repatriation.
Throughout the '30s, Mexicanos say
goodbye to family and friends sent
away at Miami's Southern Pacifi c
Railroad Depot. Approximately 390
Mexicanos leave Miami by January
15, 1932, according to the Arizona
Silver Belt. It is estimated that 18,520
Mexicans – more than 16 percent of
the Arizona's population in 1930 –
were repatriated.
1940sThe Lyric Theater catches fi re. Since
the '30s, the theater screened Mexican
fi lms in Spanish and is a popular
destination for the local Spanish-
speaking community.
1940-51The Miami High School Vandals
basketball team win the state
championship in 1940, 1950 and
1951, bringing together the Mexicano
and Anglo-American communities.
1945Between 250,000 and 500,000
Hispanics serve in World War II.
Mexicano soldiers from Globe-Miami
take part in the fi ght, including (but
not limited to): Manuel and Fernando
Trujillo, who receive the Bronze Star
and Purple Heart, respectively, Juan P.
Gomez, who earns three Bronze Stars,
and Jose C. Campos, Jr., who earns
three Bronze Stars and the Air Medal
with three oak leaf clusters.
1950s Bullion Plaza is desegregated.
1971Miami native
Romana Bañuelos
is named United
States Treasurer
under President
Richard M. Nixon;
the fi rst Hispanic
woman to serve
in that position. Bañuelos had been
repatriated to Mexico with her family
when she was eight. She did not
return to the U.S. until 1944.
January 1941Local Mexicanos form the League of United Latin American
Citizens, Council 111, to push for job and pay equality in the
mines, working in solidarity with the International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local 586. Since the early 1900s,
nonwhites had been making at least $1.25 less than whites.
A few names, dates and faces that refl ect ourMexicano and Hispanic community
Congressman Ed Pastor attended a Bullion Plaza Fundraiser in 2008. Seen here with Shirley and Ed Dawson.
1972The year Miami native
and activist Alfredo
Gutierrez is fi rst
elected into the State
Senate. He remains
in offi ce until 1986, serving as both a
majority and minority leader. He later
declared candidacy in the 2002 election
for governor.
1977M i a m i - b o r n
Esteban E. Torres
is appointed
United States
Ambassador to
UNESCO, Paris,
France, from 1977 to 1979. From 1979 to
1981 he serves as a special assistant to
President Jimmy Carter. He is elected into
U.S. Congress in 1982, and serves from
1983 to 1999. His father was deported to
Mexico when he was an infant, despite
being a U.S. citizen.
Today – 2013There are more than 30 Hispanics in today's 113th U.S.
Congress, including three in the Senate and between 28 to 33
in the House of Representatives.
2009Alicia-Monique Blanco, of
Miami, wins Miss Arizona
beauty pageant, and is
second runner up in 2009
Miss USA pageant.
Spring 2013 33
1991Congressman Ed Pastor, from Miami,
is elected to Congress to fi ll Mo Udall's
seat in the second congressional
district. He has been re-elected six
times. His district was renumbered as
the 7th after the 2010 census.
34 Spring 2013
By Linda Gross
Most of us who call Globe-Miami
home would agree that you don’t have
have to live in a big city, or have a big
house or even have a big bank account
to live a good life. We value our small,
rural life and the size of our community
and most wouldn’t trade places with
‘the Valley” if you asked us. That is until
it comes to healthcare. That’s when
we have it in our head that bigger just
might be better.
It’s a myth that our local hospital
deals with every day even though, as
you will see, it has become one of the
most state-of-the-art rural hospitals
you’ll fi nd anywhere.
So I took a day to go behind the
scenes and share some insights which
might change the way you look at the
healthcare you can get right here at
home. I spoke with nursing, got a tour of
the lab, observed a surgery, visited with
the CEO and ended my day in ER. And
while this is far from a complete look
at the Center, it does show a hospital
which is growing and looking towards
the future.
My day begins with Rose Ann Garcia,
who now serves as Chief Nursing Offi cer
at the Center.
She came from one of those large,
COBRE VALLEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERSmall town, progressive rural hospital provides state-of-the-art care
well-respected hospitals, where she
spent a decade as Director of Patient
Services at Tucson Medical Center. She
speaks from experience when she says
it is a complete myth to believe that
this Center is not equal to what larger
facilities offer. People she tours at the
hospital are amazed at what they fi nd
here she tells me.
“Our equipment is truly state-of-
the-art,” Garcia says. “Our staff is very
good and we pay very competitive rates
- similar to the Valley - to attract good
people. And I tell my nurses they will
have more opportunities to grow here
than in a larger hospital where they
will likely be pigeon-holed into one
department.”
Garcia planned to retire when she
left Tucson when she ran into one of
her former nurses who talked her into
considering Globe and Cobre Valley.
She may have thought it would be a step
towards retirement. Everyone thinks
that when “downsizing” to a small
community right? Instead she is putting
in long days again as Chief Nursing
Offi cer and is actively involved in long
range planning for the hospital.
“We are a fairly fl at organization, so
we are given the ability to make decisions
and move on them,” she says. One
program she has helped to spearhead is
the Center’s Nurse Residency program.
This is a sizable commitment by the
hospital, but with a big payoff according
to Garcia. She credits CEO, Neal Jensen
and CFO, Jim Childers for funding the
program, estimated to cost a quarter
of a million dollars, and for embracing
its role in developing a solid core of
nursing skills within the hospital. The
15-month program which will provide
extensive hands on training in multiple
departments, is in stark contrast to
the more traditional four to six weeks
training with a preceptor common in
most hospitals. Yet, the basics leave
many new hires feeling overwhelmed
and under qualifi ed for the demands of
the job and the national dropout rate
for new nurses is high.
Compounding problems
for new nurses is a saturated
market of new grads where
we are turning out twice as
many graduates from nursing
schools than we did ten
years ago.
The job opportunities are
fewer because older nurses are
not retiring as expected thanks
to the fi nancial meltdown of
2008. Most hospitals will not
hire nurses with less than two
years experience, requiring new grads
to seek on the job training at nursing
homes or other healthcare facilities
before fi nding a career path with a
hospital.
Trish Wurl, who was working the
fl oor the morning I was there, came
to Globe as a registry nurse for a short
term contract and later accepted a
permanent position with CVRMC this
year. She spent nearly ten years working
in Behavioral Health, and after being
laid off twice in one year decided to
put her money into nursing school at
Mesa Community College. She got her
experience working for a corrections
facility, but said she had applied
everywhere in the state before fi nding
that job. She is one of the lucky ones and
her investment in nursing is beginning
to pay off.
CVRMC, Continued on page 35
RoseAnn Garcia, Chief Nursing Offi cer, came from Tucson Medical Center where she oversaw Patient Services. She thought about retiring when she left TMC but decided to accept the offer to come to Globe where she says, she knows she is making a difference.
Marcelino Olivarez is one of the 'originals', having begun with the hospital when it was the old M & I and he has seen the hospital grow from a mining hospital to a regional healthcare center. He oversees the Biochem lab.
Spring 2013 35
Even before I meet up
with Traci Stewart, the Lab
Director for the center, I’m
aware of the importance lab
work plays in the patient
experience. We’ve all been
there when we are told
that nothing is being done
until the lab work comes
back right?
“You know,” Stewart
deadpans,”some people
might say that without the lab...docs
are only guessing.” She checks to see if I
write that down. I did. She smiles.
She shows me around the lab, which
includes the blood bank, a chemistry
lab, microbiology, coagulation and
urinalysis. It’s pretty geeky stuff, but
important. I get it. We fi nd ourselves
over in Alison Riddle’s section where
most blood work is done. She runs forty
to sixty tests per day and points out
the newest piece of equipment which
can process coagulation tests in three
minutes instead of the fi fteen minutes
it used to take. At a cost of $50,000 I
ask about the return on investment.
Stewart points out that quicker results
mean less waiting. I am reminded that
having state-of-the-art equipment is
not just a phrase, it’s about a patient
waiting for blood work.
Stewart, who is a 24-year veteran
of running labs for the military, retired
last year from the Air Force and took
the position here to head up our lab.
She likes the warmer climate and
small town atmosphere and she loves
the job. The center’s lab has been CAP
accredited since 2011, which puts it
in an exclusive group that numbers
just 7,000 worldwide. The process to
get accredited is voluntary, but if one
chooses to submit to the process it
means you are inviting a rigorous litmus
test to your operation. If you pass, it’s
only right that you get to boast about it.
When I visit the Imaging
Department, they are in the middle of
installing a new piece of equipment,
which is the defi nition of high tech.
The capabilities of the new Digital
Mammography machine has been
described by one writer, this way:
“The standard mammogram is like
looking for a bird by standing on the
edge of the forest looking in. Digital
Mammography is like walking into that
forest ten steps at a time and looking
around you at each location.” The new
machine shows more detail, uses less
radiation and allows the radiologist to
manipulate the images which is not
possible on fi lm. All serve to make
mammograms more patient and
staff friendly besides providing
better diagnostics.
I asked Jensen, why replace
a piece of equipment if the
old one is still working? While
there are many considerations
which go into an investment
like this, he explains it is partly
about viability. To be successful and
remain viable to the people it serves,
both patient and staff, a hospital can’t
afford to simply work with good-enough
when it comes to delivering health care
services. State-of-the-art has become
the new standard driving expectations
of those seeking care as well as those
delivering that care. It is these state-
of-the-art investments which are
providing better diagnostic tools, lower
levels of radiation and better patient
experiences in terms of comfort, speed,
and effi ciency throughout the hospital.
In the Imaging department alone, the
hospital has invested over four million
dollars since 2008.
Over in surgery, my hosts were kind
enough to heed my request for a simple
surgery to observe, ie; one with little
blood or drama. Suiting up with the
surgery crew I felt ready for a moon
walk. And walking into the surgery
bay made me think of NASA. A tad
intimidating. Luckily I was scheduled
with Dr.Jody Daggett, who has practiced
here for over thirty years, and his
patient, a charming Mrs. Smyth whose
pluck and pleasantness lying in the
hospital bed reminded me of my own
mother who also had to put up with the
inconveniences of fragile bones as she
got older.
As a surgeon, Dr. Daggett has an
uncanny knack with all of his patients,
and if he ever operates on you once,
you’ll want to bring your mother,
son, daughter or cousin to him in the
future. He has operated on almost
every member of the Smyth family at
one time or other, and it’s not unusual
to fi nd three generations in one family
who have been mended by the guy.
I realize this is rare in bigger hospitals
where people move through the system
and don’t return. But here that’s the way
it is more often than not.
The surgery to remove some pins
in her ankle goes smoothly. Daggett
talks to me about the new C-arm
X-ray machine he uses which is one of
those new purchases which use much
less radiation. Surgeons and their
staff can perform on average three to
fi ve surgeries a day here, so the
radiation levels from these machines
add up quickly.
CVRMC, Continued from page 34
CVRMC, Continued on page 36
Gina Wiley with the Imaging Department, shown here with the department's new CAT scan.
Jessica Morgan, Allison Riddle and Traci Stewart show me the ropes in LAB.
Assisting with the surgery is
Stuart Shellenberger, Certifi ed Nurse
Anesthetist who has known Mrs. Smyth
since he was a boy. Due to the nature of
this surgery, only a local anesthesia is
used to to numb the leg and the patient
is awake through the whole procedure.
Stuart sits at her head monitoring
the progress and swaps family stories
with Mrs. Smyth thereby keeping her
mind off the surgery. Soon, Daggett is
wrapping up and they are wheeling her
out of the room. She smiles up at the
nurse and asks if they are really done.
“Why that was so easy,” she says. “I don’t
know why I was ever worried about it.”
My sentiments exactly.
My next stop is to the hospital’s
Pharmacy. I realize I’ve never been here
before. Like many hospital pharmacies
this one primarily exists to serve the staff
and patients at the hospital, fulfi lling
over 1500 prescriptions a month. Here
at the Center they also maintain a Retail
Pharmacy, which has traditionally
served the needs of retired mine families
whose healthcare coverage carried over
when the mines turned the hospital
over to the community decades ago, It
is now expanding to reach all the people
in need of pharmaceuticals in their
service region.
In the pharmacy I get the sense that
it is not so much about technology as it
is effi ciency, although when Jake Albin,
the new director, took over in December
of 2009, the fi rst thing he did was install
a new automated system of tracking,
dispensing and charging for patient
meds. But something else he did to
improve his department, which is also
paying off in a big way, was more low
tech. He used common sense instead of
a computer.
He developed a formulary. This is a
list of drugs which a pharmacy agrees
to carry. It helps to streamline inventory
and reduce redundancies by drawing
upon research to determine and rate
comparable drugs. Take for instance
medication for acid refl ux. There are fi ve
medications which
are often prescribed
for this condition
and the Pharmacy
was stocking all fi ve.
With a formulary, you
identify the one which
makes the most sense
to stock, and most
times that is a generic
if one is available.
Generics are saving
both patients and
pharmacies big
money. Recently a
well-known brand
name drug went generic - going from
thirteen dollars per pill to three cents
per pill. “We will save nearly $80,000 a
year on that one drug alone,” says Albin.
Of course our biggest savings will come
from the 340B program,” Jake says.
The little known program to which
he refers has been around since 1992,
but wasn’t available to hospitals like
ours until the Affordable Care Act went
into effect in 2010, that’s when the
federal government included hospitals
which are the sole provider and safety
net to those who would otherwise not
have access to health care. The program
makes it possible for the hospital to save
nearly twenty fi ve to thirty percent on
all drug purchases which will translate
into an eight hundred million dollars
savings this year along.
It is late in the afternoon when I
fi nally head over to the ER. Usually
things are beginning to get busy about
now, but it is a rare afternoon of quiet.
The acting Director Linda Hart visits
with me in the hallway. She is a veteran
of ERs and hospital administration and
has been brought in on a temporary
assignment while the hospital searches
for someone to fi ll the position
permanently.
“I’ve been around so long that I
remember when they used to call this
the accident room,” she says. We talk
about the challenges of today’s ER. In
1986 Congress passed the Emergency
Treatment and Labor Act which gives
individuals the right to emergency care
regardless of their ability to pay. An
emergency is defi ned as something that,
in the absence of immediate medical
attention, could result in serious
impairment or threat to life. While the
purpose of the law was to create a safety
net, it also served to create sort of a
dumping ground.
Emergency Rooms across the
country have become an amalgamation
of the family physician, emergency
response team and social service
agency all rolled into one. The ER
docs here rotate on 12 hours shifts and
within one rotation might be asked to
treat everything from trauma cases to
mental cases and the common cold
to cardiac arrest. Each case must be
assessed and ‘stabilized.’ In larger
urban areas, the waiting rooms overfl ow
with cases each day and the nationally
the average wait is between four and fi ve
hours. Here, the center handles about
15,000 cases a year and the average wait
is about two hours.
It is now after fi ve and time for me
to head home from my ten hour day
‘behind the scenes’.
I think of the seven blind men
trying to describe an elephant and
know that any description will fall
short of the whole animal. But what I
take away is a sense that our hospital is
big in the ways that matter in providing
good healthcare; state-of-the-art
equipment, progressive management
and a solid vision for navigating
the future. Yet small in the ways
that matter to community; sharing
history, family ties and a sense of
connection. Collectively they blend
together to make Cobre Valley Regional
Medical Center one of our most
important social and economic hubs,
and one we can depend on to be here
in the future.
CVRMC, Continued from page 35
Calling it a Day after my ten hours of
shadowing various departments to
learn what makes our hospital tick.
Linda Hart, acting director in ER. The day I came back to take this picture she said she was two short in the ER and was juggling to see how she could make everything work. Just another day.
36 Spring 2013
Spring 2013 37
The park is now used by both joggers and walkers, as well as visitors who like to explore the history of the old mine.
Vestiges of the Old Dominion which once dominated the Copper market nationally and made many wealthy in the Globe region. It closed in 1931.
Nonetheless, after 30 years of talking
about it, with the help of lawyers,
donations, volunteers and community
support, Globe-Miami now has its
walking park and mine tour. Around the
time this paper hits the stands, the park
should have several new trails cleared.
The committee is also working to pull
in historic mining artifacts to create
a ‘bone yard’. Soon they hope to label
some of the existing structures and put
up old site maps to explain what was
once there, like the hospital, railroad,
and machine shops.
The park is wide open, with six trails,
both hilly and fl at, and more to come.
Open from dawn to dusk, people bring
their bikes and dogs, go for runs, have
picnics and of course, walk.
The park also answers the many
questions people have about mining.
The signs help visitors understand
mining innovations, and answer
questions like, “What was the slime
tank for?”
For the sake of historical signifi cance,
every effort was made to keep the site
intact, though not everything could
remain. BHP had to clear old wood and
nails before any trails were built, grade
back black slag to prevent visitors from
slipping, and fence off dangerous areas,
Wilshire remembers.
If it seems a little barren for being
a park, keep in mind you are touring a
reclaimed mining site, she adds.
Old tailings and noxious chemicals
were covered with dirt and rocks for
the area to be safe. This cover can't be
broken, which is why there are no trees.
But the era was preserved in the
design. The picnic ramadas are made
of recycled, corrugated metal. Instead
of knocking them down, Freeport
McMoRan took apart the old buildings
so parts could be reused. Barrels were
turned into trashcans. The Gila County
Historical Society provided old photos
that were digitally scanned onto signs
to help tell the story of the mine.
The committee named the trails
after the original mine claim names.
That's how you end up walking the
Globe Ledge, Mule Shoe, Silver Nugget
or Interloper.
And, don't forget, this was former
governor George W. P. Hunt's old haunts.
He started out at the Old Dominion
Store as a shop clerk and worked his
way up from there.
In so many ways, the Old Dominion
set the stage for Globe-Miami's future.
Take the tour and see for yourself!
Dominion, Continued from page 1
Signage at the park tell the story.
38 Spring 2013
Wes Sukosky has been the League
president for the last fi ve years and
when he got the call on Friday night,
he says he fi rst thought it was the
concession stand. The stand which
generates about $10,000 for the
league each year would have been bad
enough, but when he arrived and saw
it was the club house with all the newly
donated and hard earned collection of
equipment he said it was devastating.
So he did what most of us do. He put
his loss on Facebook. Really, he says
he just wanted to share the news. He
didn’t have a plan. But what came next
was astonishing.
Friends, family and parents of kids
shared the news on their Facebook
pages and several contacted Channel
5 KPHO in the Valley to see if they
would come down and cover the story.
“I got this call from them and they
said they wanted to do a story that
day.” Sukosky pauses and continues,
“...and I had to think about it a
minute. I mean, it was my eighteenth
wedding anniversary and my wife and
I had plans. But I told her I thought
it would really help, and - you know
– we’ve been married 18 years – so she
understands.”
That ‘short’ interview turned into
almost six hours because of traffi c
delays on Hwy 60, but Wes still got to
celebrate his anniversary - albeit a bit
later than planned, and the story ran on
Channel 5 that night.
Almost immediately, there was a
call from the Arizona Diamondbacks
who heard about the fi re and wanted
to donate fi ve thousand dollars. That
was followed shortly afterwards by
Freeport McMoRan who also donated
fi ve thousand and BHP who donated
six thousand. Little League teams in
the Valley have also offered support in
the way of equipment and donations.
Walmart has stepped up with a thousand
dollars worth of bats and the offer to
provide enough forest green and beige
paint to repaint the buildings on the
fi eld. Local contractors and businesses
including Rodriguez Roofi ng, Pinal
Lumber and Ace Hardware have all
stepped up to help with supplies and
labor and volunteers show up to ask
what needs to be done.
The phones have barely stopped
ringing.
The outpouring by those outside
the community might be attributed
more to the spirit of the game. They
may not know our kids, but they know
what Little League is for all kids. What
it is for the game of baseball. The
outpouring in the community comes
because everyone here either has a
kid in the league, has played on those
fi elds themselves, or knows a family,
a kid or a friend who plays there. They
are supporting a community institution
which has been around since the '40s
when the Globe-Miami Browns used
to play on the fi eld and it was known
as O’Brien fi eld.
Sukosky stands in the dirt parking
lot talking about his own history on
this fi eld.
“I used to play here when there
were goat heads (stickers) everywhere.”
Pointing to the beautiful green fi elds
before us, he goes on to say, “There was
no grass and no trees when I played
and the tailings (which rise above the
ball fi elds across the highway) were
blue. When the wind would blow we’d
get that sulphur smell in the air and
they’d have to cancel the games.” He
smiles at the memory.
These days he likes taking his family
to the ASU and Diamondbacks games
in the Valley, but his real passion seems
to be watching the next generation of
hometown kids grow up on these fi elds.
His own sons have all played here. One
is still in the league.
Sukosky has been on the League
Board since 2001 and says they have
steadily been improving the grounds
for the last ten years with the help of a
substantial investment from BHP who
in 2004 committed $20K a year for fi ve
years which helped rebuild the fi elds
from the ground up, put in an irrigation
system, install a new fence around the
main park closest to highway, build the
new concession stand and install a new
scoreboard. Additional investments
each year by Freeport McMoRan and
the county have been critical in the
improvements Wes and his Board
members have been able to make to the
fi elds and the park as a whole.
He had plans to replace the fence on
the back fi eld which is over fi fty years
old with this years’ funds; but then the
fi re happened and he had to revise his
priorities. Rebuilding the clubhouse
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Board member, Darryl Dalley, and League President Wes Sukosky both grew up playing on these fi elds and put in over 20 hours a week to ensure things run smoothly. When I met with them, Darryl had just gotten back from the Valley where a man had donated a brand new freezer.
All that is left of the new equipment are charred remains
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Scarred remains of the club house fi re.
and replacing all the lost equipment will
have to come fi rst. Yet he is hopeful.
In a game known for miraculous
plays and where beating the odds and
scoring the impossible are all part of the
culture that has kept us enthralled with
baseball since it began in 1845, the Pinal
Little League might just have its own
miracle in the works this spring arising
straight out of the ashes.
They might just get a new club
house...and a fence.
*Donations were still pouring in
when we went to press. Please check in
with us on our website for a full list of
donations which have come in to the
League since the fi re, and see the work
that these donations and hundreds of
volunteer hours have accomplished.
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NOTE: In an effort to establish the historical signifi cance of the Pinal Little League fi elds, we are working with the League in gathering information and photos having to do with the Globe-Miami Browns and O’Brien Field. We would like to develop a professional display of early baseball history for the League, so if you have any materials to contribute please contact
me here at GlobeMiami Times – [email protected], or Wes Sukosky, League president #928-812-0957. Thanks, Linda
