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ucson is no longer the ghost town it once was from Memorial to Labor Day. But some companies change their business approach to match the slower pace of the summer dog days, while others welcome it.

Marion Hook has owned Adobe Rose Inn Bed and Break-fast with her husband, Jim Hook, for nine years. She’s won several national business awards, and the inn was named

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Located just two blocks from the University of Arizona in the Sam Hughes neighborhood, the inn attracts cam-pus visitors throughout the school year. While that traffi c slows down come late May, it doesn’t disappear. Hook keeps a close eye on university activities and targets spe-cifi c groups.

In the summer, she said, “We emphasize the parent-stu-dent programs. Kids come for orientation, law camps and sports camps. We push “staycations” more, especially now with the cost of gas. We market to locals and to Phoenix,

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suggesting they get out of the city.”Hook’s most important hot-weather tactic is advertising

the inn’s popular outdoor feature. “I push the fact that we have a pool and we’re the only B&B close to UA that has a pool.”

July is historically the slowest time of year at Adobe Rose, so the Hooks shut down for a couple weeks to travel. “We also use the time to spruce up and paint so we’re not interrupting guests,” Marion Hook said.

Established in 1979, Gadabout SalonSpas is one of Tuc-son’s forerunners in the salon and day spa industry. Jana Westerbeke, co-president with her husband, Frank Wester-beke, took over from her mother, Pamela McNair-Wingate, in 2005. An internationally recognized stylist since 1980, Westerbeke has a local reputation as a philanthropist. She was a Tucson Woman of Infl uence winner in 2008 and a Southern Arizona Athena Award fi nalist in 2010.

Westerbeke views summer as an opportunity for change, concentrating on services that are popular during the warmer months. “We focus on body treatments that get the skin ready—body tanning and exfoliating.” Waxing, “sun-kissed” hair colors and refresh treatments are other services that do well. “Pedicures are fantastic to get rid of winter heels,” she said.

While in times past Gadabout’s business would fl uctuate from season to season, Westerbeke said customer traffi c no longer slows down in summer like it once did. “Years ago, we should have opened a salon in San Diego, where everyone from Tucson goes,” she quipped. Instead, she began emphasizing staycations. “People come for a day at the spa. In summer they have more time to stay longer.”

Businesses in the downtown area, particularly restau-rants that depend on arts patrons, see a defi nite slowdown in summer. Therefore, it’s important to have a strategy in place, said Betsy Rollings, owner of the 40-year-old Cush-ing Street Bar & Restaurant. The 1860 building that houses her business has been in the Rollings family since 1971, with the restaurant opening the following year. The historic venue provides plenty of charm and ambience for custom-ers, but that alone can’t overcome summer challenges.

“When trying to decide two years ago how to go forward in summer, the employees and I came to a consensus—we’d stay open the entire summer, but only on Thursday,

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“When trying to decide two years ago how to go forward in summer, the em-ployees and I came to a consensus—we’d stay open the entire summer, but only on Thursday, Friday and Saturdays, and I have music all these nights.” -Betsy Rollings, Owner of the 40-year-old Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant.

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Jeff Lewis & Friends, the house band for the past six years, has been successful in drawing jazz fans on Sat-urdays. Rollings is experimenting with musicians on the other two nights, hoping to have more jazz on Fridays and Latin on Thursdays. When popular Latin musician Rafael Moreno recently performed, the restaurant was very busy.

Rollings also ramps up happy hour during the summer. “We have differ-ent specialty drinks and more food. And we’re hoping to add a Sunday brunch.”

During the summer slowdown, Roll-ings said she has more time to refl ect on her business plans. “We do re-search, checking out what other res-taurants are doing. I think more about the bigger picture of improving the restaurant.”

As an entrepreneur who has ex-panded her resale clothing business from one store near the University of Arizona in 1974 to 44 locations in 14 states, Buffalo Exchange co-owner Kerstin Block has a feel for customers’ shopping trends. And her strategy for summer is to stay the course.

“We don’t differentiate much except letting people know what we’re doing. We have used clothes so the products don’t change except for what’s appro-priate to each season,” Block said.

In May her stores buy a lot of cloth-ing from college students preparing to take off for home. June business slows down, she noted, but July and August pick up with back-to-school shop-ping. Since it’s especially important to be well supplied at that time of year, Block back-stocks inventory.

She and her partner, daughter Re-becca Block, fi nd that employees prefer taking vacations during sum-mer months, so staff scheduling is af-fected. While the Arizona stores don’t adjust their hours, in some states with daylight saving time, the stores stay open an hour later in the summer.

Block believes the key to having a successful business—no matter what time of year—is to know and shop for your clientele, and to provide some-thing for which there is a need. “If there’s not, it’s hard to make it,” she stresse d.

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Lea Márquez Peterson, president and chief executive offi cer of the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, is well versed on data con-cerning both Hispanic-owned and women-owned businesses in the Tucson area. She notes that the 2010 census shows Hispanics make up 42 percent of Tucson’s population.

“We make a point that every business in the city should include this demographic,” Peterson said. This may encompass approaches such as having bilingual staff and brochures. In addition, she said, Latina-owned enterprises are the fastest-growing commercial sector, which is important for business-to-business industries to understand.

Block, Rollings, Hook and Westerbeke all include a focus on the Hispanic community and/or the Mexican tourism market. “We cer-tainly pursue the Hispanic community and we have a lot of customers who come across the border. We have an outlet store in Nogales, Ariz.,” Block noted.

Rollings attracts the Hispanic crowd through her choice of live mu-sic, personal contacts and advertising. “We have a lot of Mexican-American clientele. I have friends from Mexico who have infl uence, and sometimes I advertise in Sonora. So many people have come to Cushing over the years. It’s a very diverse group.”

The Arizona Commerce Authority, in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration, recently launched its State Trade and Export Promotion, or STEP, program, offering grants to help companies at-tract foreign dollars. “The U.S. government is interested in more U.S. businesses exporting out of the country,” Peterson explained. “Busi-nesses can apply for grant funds to pay for things such as exporting trade shows, training or marketing material.”

Hook is taking advantage of this opportunity for a side business she and her husband run, selling buttermilk scone mix. This year they’re adding information in Spanish to the website and getting support through the STEP initiative to promote their product in Spanish-speaking countries.

Westerbeke acknowledges the signifi cance of foreign consumers and is always looking for ways to extend her reach into this market. “We just became members of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce,” she said. “My mother and I love Mexico and spend as much time there as possible. We value the business we get from Mexico tre-mendously. They spend millions of dollars here each year and people don’t realize the value.”

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hen you meet Dr. Lorraine Mack-staller, it’s hard not to be inspired. The petite, vivacious blonde brims with energy. “I want to be able to play with my grandchildren”, she says. “I want them to see grandma as healthy and active, not someone who needs help getting out of a chair.” Wait a minute—Grandma? Mack-staller looks like she might get carded for buying wine at Trader Joe’s. “I’m 66,” she tells me, “and no face lifts. I don’t believe in them.”

So how does Mackstaller maintain such a healthy, youthful self? An associate professor at the UA Col-lege of Medicine and an endowed lecturer at UA’s Sarver Heart Center, Mackstaller is a passionate advo-cate for women’s health. She practices what she preaches.

“Lifestyle choice” is the phrase she uses to describe her recommended path to good health. “No diets!” she says emphatically. “A diet always has chocolate cake at the end.”

Raised on an Alaskan homestead, she recalls her own mo-ment of reckoning. “I’ve been a big girl,” she confi des. “I’ve been 40 pounds heavier. And I asked myself how I wanted to look, how I wanted to live.” So she made some lifestyle changes.

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Her mother, a child of the Depres-sion, watched in horror as her daugh-ter threw food away. “Why would you throw that in the garbage?” she de-manded. Mackstaller replied, “I’m full. If I eat this, I’m using my body as a trash can.”

Eating carefully is Mackstaller’s strongest dietary recommendation. Nutritionally dense food is the top priority: high-quality protein; dark, bright, nutrient-dense vegetables; and “good” fats (fi sh, nuts). Avoid simple carbohydrates—they increase infl ammation in the body and can lead to both diabetes and obesity. “If it’s white, don’t eat it,” she advises.

The ideal dining plate, she explains, should be smaller than a modern, su-persized dinner plate and should be half-full of colorful greens, with one-fourth protein and one-fourth com-plex carbohydrates.

What about dining out? Restaurant portions are notoriously huge, and loaded with salt, butter and simple carbs. Mackstaller tends toward half-portions or appetizers, and has no problem asking for substitutions. For example, she describes a favorite restaurant meal of chicken meatballs served over spinach.

But, she advises, “Allow yourself to eat something you really want, guilt-free. “ Guilt leads to an unhealthy cy-cle, she explains. “You fi gure that you already blew it, so why bother?”

Exercise is obviously essential to heart health. Mackstaller recommends the simplest kind—walking. Thirty minutes most days a week is her sug-gested minimum. Newbies might start out strolling, while fi t folks can speed walk, run or take cardio classes. Exer-cise also reduces stress, a risk factor for cardiac disease. For women, espe-cially, she says, sitting for long periods

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predisposes us to both cancer and heart disease. “Get moving,” she ad-vises. If you sit in a chair throughout the day, walk for a few minutes every hour.

One of Mackstaller’s goals is to dis-pel misconceptions about heart dis-ease. More women die of heart disease than of breast cancer. And 38 percent of women will not survive a cardiac inci-dent versus 23 percent of men.

The classic symptoms that we asso-ciate with cardiac incidents are those experienced by men—crushing chest pain, for example. However women

present less specifi c symptoms: fa-tigue, generalized pressure, nausea and just feeling strange. Women en-tering the ER with these symptoms are far less likely to be offered an aspirin (fi rst-line medication for a possible heart attack) than are men experienc-ing chest pain.

EKGs don’t show cardiac events in women as clearly as they do in men, either, and even in the heart catheter lab, obstructions look different. “This is because women lay down choles-terol differently,” Mackstaller explains. An intravascular ultrasound will show the distribution of cholesterol and can identify the degree to which an ar-tery’s fl ow is restricted.

It doesn’t help that women tend to put everybody else fi rst—“including the cat,” Mackstaller says with a chuckle. We take care of our kids, spouses, jobs and community before ourselves. But it’s Mackstaller’s job to get women to pay attention to them-selves and their bodies. “You may not matter to yourself,” she says, “but you matter to me.”

We take care of our kids, spouses, jobs and community before ourselves. But it’s Mackstaller’s job to get women to pay attention to themselves and their bodies. “You may not matter to your-self,” she says, “but you matter to me.”

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A Tucson woman’s style is all her own. It’s a look that identifi es her even before she’s introduced. But what does it look like? How does it work?Three accomplished women and a young entrepreneur

reveal how looking different can look great, no matter what challenges arrive with each new day.

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Celebrating its 20th anniversary this summer, Henninger’s Remedy Intelligent Staffi ng has grown around her business savvy, her constant net-working and her memorable personal style. “I never buy trends,” she says. She loves bright colors, and collects accents like fl owers and scarves, but her wardrobe choices are timeless. “Everything stays with me,” she says, “and everything goes with pearls.”

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Carlotta Flores

The matriarch of an empire she built from the 90-year-old family restaurant El Charro Café, Flores is on the go all day, often in kitchens. For the air circulation and range-of-motion she needs, she shops for loose, open ele-ments in fabrics that breathe. Several hats and shoes are nearby at all times, but what’s the one element she won’t leave home without? “I can leave my cell phone. I can leave my money. But I have to go back for my earrings,” she

saPeggy Johnson

Johnson’s style has withstood the red carpet at the Sundance Film Fes-tival. As executive director of the Loft Cinema, she’s currently leading a $2.5 million drive to expand and improve the Loft’s facilities. Simplicity and comfort are the first and last words in her wardrobe, but she often doesn’t know if something works until she sees it in her closet. “I take stuff back all the time,” she says.

Faitha Bailey

Bailey’s new art, interiors and styl-ing consulting business, Blownapart Aesthetics, is freeing up her own style. “I have 31 black dresses,” she says, adding that they come from her past career in art galleries. Now, she says, she never leaves the house without a touch of whimsy. “I like the challenge of getting things that are really inex-pensive and making them look amaz-ing … or amusing.” Daughter Selkie Slutes sports an ethnic style.


he sour economy is hitting collectibles hard, playing a part in transforming gold and silver treasures into a bubbling mass of melted metal. Which means that hanging on to your silver and gold heir-looms may be more important than ever, according to Dwight and Christy Schan-nep, certified appraisers and longtime owners of American Antique Mall on East Grant Road.

“They are literally put in a pot and melted together,” Christy Schannep says of the irreplaceable pieces. Diamonds and other gems that happen to be part of the piece are not taken into account. In fact, they are often deducted from the overall weight.

The price of silver has soared as high as $30 per ounce, up from $8 per ounce in recent years. Gold prices have been fluctuating around $1,700 per ounce, up from longstanding prices in the range of $800 per ounce.

Coins and sterling flatware are also part of the mix. People have been melting old silver dollars and valuable silverware into oblivion.

Jewelry pieces hardest hit include Victorian-era, handcrafted treasures that have a lot of intricate details and filigreed designs. They are often so delicate that their weight is minimal, bringing in mere pennies as scrap metal when they may be worth hundreds of dollars as pieces of jewelry.

Intricate details are also a feature on silver jewelry from Taxco, Mexico’s silver capital. A $3,000 Taxco bracelet may net about $100 when sold as scrap, Dwight Schannep notes. His advice is to hold on to your silver and gold pieces, or at least get them appraised before sending them off to the great melting pot.

He also advises holding on to turquoise jewelry, another hot collectible. The most valuable pieces contain turquoise culled from mines in Arizona or Nevada—not imported from China.

Top pieces on the list include those made during the 1930s, when entrepreneur Fred Harvey worked with American Indians to produce jewelry for the tourist trade. Hang on tight to the Harvey pieces. They have a lot of history behind them—and they look pretty snazzy on your wrist, to boot.

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If you’re hunting for a unique and elegant gift that has “Tucson” written all over it, a store tucked away in the Lost Barrio may be of help.

Whether you want something that’s at least remotely practical—like fun furniture—or something more frivolous, like one-of-a-kind jewelry that can be worn everywhere from the office to a celebrity gala, you’ll find choices galore at artsy and über-local M.A.S.T.

For instance, a silver-chained necklace with a pendant of silver “leaves” encasing an opalescent ebony fruit ($320) was handmade by Sofie Andersen Gelb, a Denmark-born jeweler/artist and wife of globetrotting Tucson musician Howe Gelb.

Gelb co-owns the store with

fellow Tucsonans Tasha Bundy and Mellow Dawn Lund, whose work is also featured here. Their trademarks are exceptional delicacy, intriguing ideas and taste, not only in their designs, but in store displays and inventory choices. Except for a selection of vintage items, nearly all of M.A.S.T’s merchandise is handmade by local artists and artisans.

The furniture includes a “coffee burlap fainting couch,” which is an armless antique loveseat upholstered with an ancient coffee-bean sack ($1,200). It comes with carved wooden legs and a comfy-looking area where you presumably lay your head when fainting.

Hand-forged iron bottle openers that no bottle top

could defy ($40) and forged, twisted iron hooks ($20-$60) are crafted by local blacksmith Zach Lihatsh. The hooks are great for hanging on your wall and holding whatever you want, from towels to wrinkled chinos.

Pony lamps ($225) are made from real merry-go-round ponies that are lighted from within. They’re not true lamps, emitting only about as much light as a handful of night lights, but each is original, and the choices are tough. Should you pick the galloping Rocardo or his fanciful, fetlocks-to-the-belly brother Chauncy?

M.A.S.T. is still a secret to many Tucsonans, but a visit may have you wanting to tell the world.

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Silver, Gold and Turquoise – Got Any?

Taxco silver bracelets can be worth thousands as pieces of jewelry but may net only $100 or so when sold for scrap.

Many delicate silver rings with handcrafted designs that can never be replaced have been sold for scrap.

Fred Harvey turquoise jewelry is usually sizzling in the Southwest market.

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n urban hippie. That’s what my mother calls me. In a loving way, of course.” The alleged hippie in question is Kristen Culliney, chief oper-ating offi cer of the Sahuaro Girl Scout Council, third-gen-eration Tucsonan, wife of a fi refi ghter and mother of a girl and a boy, ages 4 and 6. Her mom’s reference is to Culliney’s increas-ing commitment to green living.

“I majored in agricultural and re-source economics at the UA,” Cul-liney says, “so clearly I’ve always had an interest in the wise use of resources. But it’s since having my kids and working with the Girl Scouts that I’ve begun to really ex-

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duce our day-to-day impact on the planet. When you’re responsible for children, I think it’s natural to want the best for them and for the world they’ll inherit.”

For Culliney, it started with throw-ing out the chemically scented baby shampoo that was giving her young son rashes, but it’s progressed to the point that the family keeps a fl ock of chickens in its midtown backyard, composts the manure—as well as kitchen scraps—and uses the compost to enrich a low-water-use organic garden. Culliney bikes to work whenever she can and fam-ily members run many errands on their bikes.

“We’re not perfect. I’m still a con-sumer—I need my lip gloss and I’m never giving up air conditioning,” she says. “But water harvesting? Shading a western exposure? Buy-ing local whenever possible? That I can do, and it helps.

“Reducing your impact on the planet is just not hard if you take it a step at a time, and inform your-self. Use the Internet, ask questions wherever you shop.

“And the side benefi ts are amaz-ing,” she says. “We have such great times gardening and biking around.

My kids eagerly eat their vegetables and, honestly, what could be more entertaining than sitting out back watching half the kids in the neigh-borhood running around, chasing the chickens?”

Culliney’s top tips for a greener Tucson summer:

—Check out water harvesting systems, which can be as simple as a closed barrel for collecting rain-water from the roof. (Tax credits may be available.)

—Look into the many local re-sources that are available for re-ducing electricity use in the peak months. TEP, for instance, gives customers noninvasive trees to plant near houses. “Shade is huge,” Culliney says.

—For the garden, choose seeds from Native Seeds/SEARCH and transplants from local sources like Aravaipa Heirlooms. Southwest-adapted strains stand up to summer heat better and use less water.

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plore ways to live cleaner and re-duce our day-to-day impact on the planet. When you’re responsible for children, I think it’s natural to want the best for them and for the world

For Culliney, it started with throw-ing out the chemically scented baby

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