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Best of the Class: 2020 Andrada Polytechnic High School Cienega High School Empire High School Valedictorian Salutatorian Valedictorian Salutatorian Valedictorian Salutatorian

Sam Rogers Natalie Torres Victoria Yusupova Olivia Graves Diana RoDee Nikita Rafikov

Pantano High School Vail Academy High School Vail Innovation Center Valedictorian Salutatorian Valedictorian Salutatorian Valedictorian

Congratulations to all graduates of the Class of 2020!

Trevor Lusk Alyssa Molina Crystal Benjamin Diamond Benjamin Sarah Bowling

See details about your Valedictorians and Salutatorians by Kimberly Crossland starting on page 5. See essays from your Valedictorians starting on page 19. majority Board members, after citywide and 127 of those were from enduring significant backlash, Ward 4. You may have seen Tucson tried to assuage and mitigate their Police Officers or Community Service draconian regulations by “amending Ward Officers wearing face coverings while and removing” several of their 15 out on patrol. You may have also had regulations by proclamation. Update interactions with officers or CSOs The latest from Pima County District 4 The latest from Tucson Ward 4 virtually, over the phone, or in an Councilwoman Nikki Lee Supervisor Steve Christy In the middle of Supervisors Valadez, 4 outside setting rather than inside your Bronson, and Villegas’ too-little, house or business. You may have By now, I am sure most of you are too-late stumbling, a group of Hello friends. I want to send a huge even utilized our recently updated on- aware that my life’s background is State Legislators requested that congratulations to all of our gradu- line reporting system that allows you one of retail business – not of politics. the Arizona Attorney General open ates, and a special shout out to our to report certain types of crimes and an investigation and determine if Vail School District 2020 seniors! get a report number any time of the I was a first Pima County’s proclamation and Whether day or night. These and other steps time candidate regulations were in “conflict” with celebrating have been taken to help minimize at 61-years- the state constitution, and were a promotion the amount of face to face contact old. Through “in addition to” the Governor’s or gradu- officers have with one another in numerous Executive Orders, thus exceeding ation from order to limit the spread of the virus. decades as already existent state guidelines for preschool, As more has been learned about how a business restaurants to re-open full service. kindergarten, the virus is passed, Tucson Police owner and elementary adjusted their protocols to allow for a operator, Now, faced with the very real school, middle gradual easing of restrictions. A great I have possibility of being cut off from state school, high example of this is our motor officers witnessed the shared revenue (such as HURF school, trade returning to their primary goal of traf- negative and deleterious effects that and vehicle license tax fees), the school, community college, or uni- fic education and enforcement. They liberal policies have wreaked first Board’s majority, through our County versity, I'm incredibly proud of each were temporarily used to support our hand upon businesses, especially Attorney, are now arguing that the of our students who worked hard to patrol personnel in the event illness small businesses. That is why I regulatory proclamations they have finish strong, under very challenging prevented large numbers of our of- have been and am now – and will codified are not in “conflict” with circumstances. To the parents and ficers from coming to work. Keep an always continue to be – a champion or “in addition to” the Governor’s caregivers who supported our gradu- eye out for more traffic engagement and advocate for the business Executive Orders, and that they are in ates, I acknowledge you. As a mother in and around your neighborhoods community. Business is what I know fact consistent and compatible with of three, I know how hard it has been and businesses as our motor officers best, and what I believe in the most. Arizona statute. to keep all of the plates spinning return to their bikes. Until recently in Pima County, we had If that’s the case, then why generate while also making sure our children's never before seen or experienced the any codified Pima County regulations educational milestones are accom- Tucson Fire serves south east Tucson full measure of incompetent leftist and proclamations at all, and in the plished, and I salute you. While there from 2 stations. Station 19 (9700 E and “progressive” leadership on full first place? is still uncer- Esmond Loop) display as we have witnessed by tainty around has recently the actions of the ham-fisted and By their recent votes, Supervisors our upcoming undergone anti-business majority of the Board Valadez, Bronson, and Villegas have school year, I'm some interior of Supervisors, led by Supervisors effectively stated that businesses, confident that improvements Valadez, Bronson, and Villegas. And, particularly restaurants, cannot our community to enhance our never before has an industry been be trusted to the right thing. They will continue to firefighters' and singled out and treated as maliciously have further created uncertainty for pull together paramedics' as have been our local restaurants businesses. And another truism that and we will health, safety, and bars. After weeks of suffering I have learned from my decades keep looking and wellness. and financial devastation, Governor in business is that uncertainty in out for each Tucson Fire, Ducey finally lifted his restrictions on business creates insolvency in other. We each in partnership restaurant operations, particularly business. have our roles with the Univer- in the commu- sity of Arizona, dine-in service. As a former business owner, I also Tucson Fire's new piece of nity, and I have response equipment. has conducted The very first things that hit these know that every responsible and been focusing studies which tortured businesses directly from the sensitive business owner fully on keeping our showed our Board of Supervisors majority were a recognizes that their most treasured core services running safely for our personnel have been exposed to series of burdensome and needless and important commercial assets city staff and community members. cancer causing carcinogens at fire regulations, enforced by the threat of are a healthy, professional, and scenes and even at our fire stations. fines if they did not comply. well-trained staff and a healthy, The COVID-19 pandemic has re- We are taking measures to mitigate enthusiastic, and loyal customer quired the Tucson Police Department these risks using the data collected Does this say that Pima County is base. Any committed business owner and Tucson Fire Department to adapt in the exposure studies, through new open for business? will do anything and everything to new ways of serving our community station designs and existing station in a manner that keeps the public, of- Realizing that they overreached ficers, and firefighters healthy. As of in their effort to make an end- "District 4 Update" May 15, Tucson Fire has responded "Ward 4 Update" run around Gov. Ducey, the three continued on page 36 to a total of 1,264 COVID related calls continued on page 36 2 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 and Syliva Rivera, saw the community From stand up for themselves in the face of blatant police oppression en the masse for the first time. I’d like to share a quote from Ms. Rivera as Editor we think about the political choices e e ene n e Jared Free facing us today. When asked whether she fought against police brutality, WEIGHTLOSS | WELLNESS | MEDSPA racism, her right to be gay, or other We’re now halfway through the year. reasons, Rivera answered simply. It’s still difficult to adjust to the new “We were fighting for our lives.” In the u normal of reality with COVID-19. years following the Stonewall Riots, 202 Plans are on hold, travel is locked parades commemorating the event down, and spread across the country, eventually e ue e ee nu the media has becoming what we now call Gay put us into a Pride. While Tucson’s parade and • Botox and Facial Fillers tailspin with festival are still a few months off, this • Science based customized medical weight loss plans inflammatory month holds special significance for • Testosterone and Bio-identical Hormone Therapy for language. our community. Women and Men Nevertheless, our community It’s impossible to know the future. • Prescription and Natural appetite suppressants persists! We cannot predict the path that the • HCG diet plan virus will take, but we can make a • Fat Burner and B12 injections There is so commitment to stand together in • Intermittent Fasting protocol much to celebrate. The school year love, support, and our shared truth. has officially come to a close, and The Vail community is resilient, although the immediate future of powerful, and I have the utmost faith what our graduating class’s college in us. u e experience will look like is unclear, reading through their thoughts and e n e e n reflections has left me feeling inspired 0 un ue 02 un and invigorated.

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We have published the below • To speak to the owner. The letter addressed to Mayor Regina owner should be available to Romero at the request and with the handle customer concerns. permission of Diana Bentley and the team at Blue Rose Legacy. • If caregivers will be reassigned or will someone different show Dear Mayor Romero, up each time.

I appreciate your continued efforts • Optional levels of contact, to encourage folks to stay home. such as no-contact intake and Progress! The Esmond Station Library is on track Common sense tells us that Covid-19 paperwork, no contact errands, for an opening later this year. will be with us for the foreseeable reduced contact housekeeping future and we should make every (cleaning areas while the effort to protect ourselves and others customer is in a different room), against preventable transmission. • Help with for TeleHealth While our elderly population shelters appointments. in place, I worry about the impact of quarantine on their well-being. My team and I worry about people Without regular interactions from who are trying to tough it out on their caregivers or nearby friends or family, own, believing they can wait this out. common risk factors go unchecked. We have a long road ahead of us. Hospital staff and physicians are commenting as well that they worry We are a local, family owned and Mod Pizza plans to open this year. Eegees continues to be one about people who are not seeking operated organization. We are deeply of the most popular spots to necessary care. concerned for our community. Any be in Rita Ranch! help on this matter is appreciated. In-home care is essential for a large portion of our elderly community, Thank you, but they are understandably afraid of having strangers in their home. Diana Bentley, Community They worry about getting Covid19 Liaison,Blue Rose Legacy from a caregiver, but the fact is that caregivers are just as worried hhhhhhhh about getting it on the job and are doing everything they can to prevent transmission. Safety is top priority Dear Editor, for everyone on the front lines of this Surf Thru Car Wash plans to open pandemic. I was going for a lovely evening 3rd quarter of this year. Tropical Smoothie Café walk to enjoy a cool summer which Today I am asking if perhaps you was the top of the list as something could influence some entity to enjoyable to do. To my surprise, I'm issue supportive guidance to the walking through Purple Heart Park community on safe practices. Could and someone's dog's poop is on you help us empower the public the walkway. My walk was spoiled to take charge of their health and by the visual and putrid smell of wellness at home? Our industry dog poop on the path dog owners is struggling, and our community neglected to scoop. Let's make our is at risk. We need help building walks enjoyable for everyone and confidence in home-based care. please, scoop the poop! The Encantada Rita Ranch apartments at 9300 E Valencia Road My suggestion is to advise people Enid Moore Cranshaw are scheduled to open in the fall. who need it to get help so they Rita Ranch can stay safe at home, and to ask questions about: "Construction Zone" continued on page 33 hhhhhhhhhhhhh 4 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 Best of the Class: 2020 GPA of 5.6. by Kimberly Crossland ● Natalie Torres, Andrada High School’s salutatorian, ran When I was asked to write this varsity cross country and article, I was looking forward to track and earned her National learning more about a few members Medical Assisting Certification Current List of Job Postings as of June 2020 of the 2020 graduating class. The all while recovering from a responses I received from the traumatic saw injury that For Current Job Information at Chiricahua Community Health Clinics, Log on to www.cchci.org. and click on “join us” valedictorians and salutatorians happened in the beginning of at each school didn’t just give me her junior year. a glimpse into the world of high Operation & Environmental Leadership: ● Crystal Benjamin, valedictorian schoolers today — these graduates Services: No Openins at Vail Academy & High School, left me inspired. No Openins won first place in public Behavioral Health: Looking back at their tenure in high speaking at a Future Business Medical Support Staff : linical Psycholoist – oulas, school, each graduate can walk the Leaders of America conference No Openins Bisbee, ierra Vista, Benson virtual stage holding their head high in her sophomore year and Pharmacy Support Staff : icensed linical ocial Worker – because of the accomplishments placed 16th in the country that No Openins Bisbee, ierra Vista, oulas, achieved. Some accomplishments summer. Benson were personal. Administrative Support Staff : ● Nikita Rafikov, salutatorian at No Openins eistered ietitian Pediatrics – Empire High School, is most oulas ● Trevor Lusk, valedictorian at Dental Support Staff : proud of the political advocacy Pantano High School, said No Openins Behavioral Health ounselor – she did with her friends, attending high school helped ierra Vista, Bisbee him overcome his anxiety. including organizing a walkout Revenue Cycle Staff : against gun violence with No Openins Auxiliary Positions: ● Alyssa Molina, the salutatorian No Openins over 80 kids from Empire and Information Technology at Pantano High School, was registering 150 kids across two Department: most proud of being able to schools to be able to vote in No Openins change the stigma around her the November election. school as being an alternative school. ● Diana RoDee, Empire High School valedictorian, said her to be a psychologist, thrives on ● Olivia Graves, salutatorian at greatest achievement was helping others inside the class or with Cienega High School, said working towards her Capstone personal issues. RoDee enjoys the happiness was her greatest Diploma while surrounding pursuit interests that span a variety accomplishment, which came herself with a supportive and of disciplines from social work to from participating in a variety inspiring community of peers. of activities from dance and hard sciences. Crystal Benjamin is choir, to community service and And still others kickstarted their also multi-passionate, participating academics. career path with their greatest in activities that span athletics to accomplishments. the arts. Diamond Benjamin also ● Sarah Bowling, valedictorian at has a passion for various interests, Vail Innovation Center, offered ● Diamond Benjamin, salutatorian including basketball, paleontology, a new perspective, stating a at Vail Academy and High and astronomy. Molina is part of keen sense of self-awareness School had her award-winning a military family, so has traveled by learning what makes her script, Operation Tatum, extensively from a very young age. happy and what doesn’t was produced into a film, while she Graves also loves to travel and was her greatest accomplishment. also worked athletically to help able to go on two school-sponsored her team remain undefeated in EF Tour trips. Rafikov loves doing Other students cited academics, basketball. anything that inspires creativity, such athletics, and advocacy as their Diamond and Crystal Benjamin as the mock trial she participated in greatest achievements. ● Sam Rogers, Andrada High during high school that taught her School’s valedictorian, how to adjust strategically on the fly. ● Victoria Yusupova, Cienega Many students work hard throughout kickstarted his career while high school, but each of these Torres is highly musical, playing in High School valedictorian, working alongside school and the Acacia Concert Band, Esmond was able to grow as a person students have embraced their unique Raytheon engineers to create sides outside of the classroom Station Concert Band, Vail Youth because of how much she an optical engineering program Symphony, and Pima Jazz Band, experienced while juggling too. Yusupova is a child of refugee — a program that is getting immigrants and learned to speak and plans to continue playing for the the role of cheer captain that funded and will allow him to University of Arizona. Rogers’ artistic brought her squad to the state Russian before she learned English build and execute education while assimilating into American talents come in the form of inventions championships, leadership and research opportunities at positions in 5 clubs, a part-time culture. Bowling is also multilingual Andrada, University of Arizona, "Best of the Class: 2020" job, and a cumulative weighted having taken Spanish, French, and and Pima Community College. Italian classes. Lusk, who aspires continued on page 12 thevailvoice.com June 2020 5 Greater Vail Area Chamber of Commerce New Member Renewing Members! 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6 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 businesses! 1. Open a separate bank account MaRico is Founder & CEO of Reopening – What to to deposit funds into. This will Community Wealth Builders and a Expect Many have asked about the economy allow you to keep very clear community advocate. He serves on and what we can expect. Short documentation proving where the Board by MaRico Tippett answer, no one knows. The projection the funds were spent. for the Vail is that we will see a recovery SchoolDistrict As of this writing, all 50 states have beginning in first quarter of 2021. 2. Only spend the funds on Foundation, started to reopen from the stay at But this is what we have seen thus allowable expenses. For the Greater Vail home order caused by the COVID-19 far. The Congressional Budget Office PPP this includes payroll, rent Community pandemic. With this, one word projects gross domestic product or mortgage payments and Resources, comes to mind — patience. As a will drop 38% in the second quarter utilities. If you received the Red Cross community, as we start to unravel of 2020. As we are seeing lots of EIDL or disaster loans, spend andYMCA. the effects of our businesses being home building in our area, new home this on all non-PPP working shut down for two months, 36 construction starts fell 30.2% on a capital expenditures million workers national level in hhhhhhhhhhhhh filing for April. Steven 3. Keep great records! This will unemployment, Hensley, a ensure that you can prove and the research analyst where and how the funds were uncertainty and with Belfiore Real spent and give you a greater confusion of the Estate Consulting, chance of having the loan being funding from projects Tucson forgiven. the government and surrounding All in all, we will get through this. As stimulus, let’s areas will likely a nation we have overcome much. all keep an see an 80% drop We have had to improvise and adapt. open mind have in home sales Our way to doing business is likely to patience and in the second change in the short term and possibly kindness as we quarter, 50% for the long term. As a community, work through in third quarter, we have always come together for the kinks. I am and 25% in the the good of all. Let us continue to certain things fourth quarter. As help and support one another. We will be rough at for recovery, it got this! first, there are is still uncertain numerous rules how deep the and regulations that business owners effects of the shutdown will be. We must follow. Many employers are still know there are many businesses that confused about their responsibilities have closed their doors due to the in providing a safe workplace pandemic that will not reopen. environment. Many are even unsure if workers will come back to work. Finally, as to the Stimulus and the There are shortages in the supply Paycheck Protection Program. There chain. So, there will be challenges has been lots of frustration from to say the least. Let us keep in borrowers in the business community mind everyone is trying their best. with frequent changing of the rules Everyone is doing their best and for this program. This has left many let us have patience. Let us show unsure of how to spend the funding. love, kindness, and respect. And This is what I have seen as best let us continue to support our local practices for those that have received funding from the PPP:

thevailvoice.com June 2020 7 honestly feel that if I had not inherited referenced meteors and comets as his love of Shakespeare in particular, well. At that very moment I decided David and Wendee Levy live in Vail. Skyward... he might have taken me out of his that for my master’s thesis I would Together they will. And I believe he was pleased write about poets who have loved the run both the when I took up English Literature at night sky. The poet I concentrated Jarnac Ob- Acadia University in the 1970s. But on, at Queen’s University, was Gerard servatory. with David H. Levy I recall back then, reading about Manley Hopkins. You can meet Shakespeare’s references to eclipses David at the in King Lear, and hardly giving them a Decades later, I finally received my monthly Star second thought. Ph. D. from the Hebrew University, Night at the The Magic Lyrids for a dissertation on Shakespeare’s Corona Foot- Plenty of telescopes grace my many references to the night sky. hills Middle observatory, but I still enjoy watching Among the hundreds of allusions I School. shooting stars, or meteors, more found, here is one from Richard II that than anything else. This year, after looks on meteors and a lunar eclipse: hhhhhhhhhhhhh a break of several months, the Earth ’Tis thought the king is passed through the Lyrid meteor dead; we will not stay. stream on the night of April 21. The The bay-trees in our meteor shower takes place when c o u n t r y a r e a l l w i t h e r ’ d the Earth encounters dust from And meteors fright the Comet Thatcher, a comet that last fi x e d s t a r s o f h e a v e n ; appeared in 1861. I captured five 10 The pale-faced moon looks meteors with my camera, of which bloody on the earth. . . (2.4.1337- one accompanies this article. As I 1340) relaxed outdoors during this time, the memories began to flood back. The Lyrid meteor shower brings me back to the hazy dawn of my life, and My first experience with the Lyrids This is the brightest Lyrid I saw my passion for astronomy. May a was on April 22, 1963. I was a and recorded on the night of shooting star brighten your nights as patient at the Jewish National Home April 21, 2020. well. for Asthmatic Children in Denver at the time. I wrote it up this way in my diary: “I had a regular day today, until The next Lyrid shower I was part of tonight. I went out and saw a fireball took place on April 23, 1976. I was (a very bright meteor.) Then a big, engaged at the time to my present fat, hunk of cloud came over. I saw wife, with whom I was married no more meteors.” barely two years. The next night was I was part of a also cloudy, and team organized I saw no further by the Montreal meteors despite Centre of the Royal being outside for Astronomical several hours. “I Society of Canada. officially considered The Friday evening this year’s meteor sky was clear, and shower the most we saw several disappointing meteors. As I failure I have ever enjoyed the night, had.” Not for my mind roamed a long, however — I little. I wondered have been blessed about how many with many far more other amateur spectacular failures astronomers might since then. have enjoyed this particular meteor My love of the night shower in earlier sky goes back times. I also thought many years, to of writers who around 1960, but as might have written A number of years ago I recorded I grew older I also about the sky. I this Eta Aquarid meteor while developed a strong was aware that observing Lyrids. This particular interest in literature Shakespeare wrote meteor is a large particle of dust that stems directly about eclipses in from Halley's comet. from my Dad. I King Lear, and had

8 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 providing financial literacy to the Friends Open Account community, while also promoting by Anne Gibson Hughes’ products and services. She conducts financial seminars for Thursday May 7th, was another hot business and community partners day in May, but Pam Kelty, Treasurer to assist members in their mission of the Friends of the Southeast to make a positive difference in their Library, wasn’t concerned about the financial lives. weather. She was at long last on the way to the Vail Branch of Hughes In her role, she provides support Federal Credit Union to open up an through community outreach to account for the Friends. non-profits like the Friends of the Southeast Library and schools. “We are pleased and thrilled to have She also partners with neighboring been approved to participate in the businesses to provide Credit Union Hughes FCU program, which will give membership as an employee benefit our nonprofit Friends some additional and support local businesses with support through their membership free advertising in our Local Business program,” said Pam. “This will allow Partner Program. us to provide more programming funds for our community library, which will benefit the entire Pima County southeast community.” “In the spring of 1999, Hughes FCU initiated a joint venture with the Friends of the Pima County Library. Through this affiliation, Local Businesses Step Up To Hughes was able to Support Vail Students offer credit Union membership to by Stacy Winstryg more people in the community The Vail School District Foundation would like to Cherie Hogencamp, Member Services Manager of the thank our sponsors this school year. With their and supports the Vail Branch of Hughes Federal Credit Union (left), and Friends groups help, we were able to award $17,562 in grants Pam Kelty, Treasurer of the Friends of the Southeast to our Vail Schools! Here is a list of our amazing in fundraising for Library (right) open an account for the Friends. local libraries, said sponsors. Please consider supporting them to Hughes Marketing say thank you. Manager Daniela Gomez. The Southeast Library is currently under construction at 10931 E. Mary Arby’s – Old Vail Safeway “Over the last twenty years, Hughes Ann Cleveland Way. has worked with friends’ groups from Dutch Bros Guaranteed Rate Oro Valley, Green Valley, and Kirk- Bear Canyon Libraries. As a result of Hughes Federal Credit Union Hudbay our collective efforts, the community’s Whittley “Anne” Gibson is a third libraries have invested funds into new generation Tucsonan and alumni of Mr. Toro United Community Health Center infrastructure, scholarship programs, the University reading programs and more,” Gomez of Arizona. Lloyd Construction El Coronado She has been continued. “We are excited for the Denny’s Tay’s BBQ opportunity to connect with the an active Friends of the Southeast Library and community Walmart Long Realty – Jen Anderson Team the communities it serves.” member in the greater Vail Collaborating with Gomez is Irlanda area since the If you or your business are interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact Cuevas-Leyva, the Business late 1970s. us at [email protected]. With your partnership, we will continue to Development Representative at do great things for our students and our schools. Hughes FCU. She serves as a key resource for the department by hhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com June 2020 9 News From In CDT Corona De Tucson can buy here in Arizona are fairly primarily seniors to enable them to services to 18 recipients. Over the Firework Safety tame all except that they give off fire. remain in their home confidently and past ten years, 54 recipients no by Chief Simon Davis Fire and the desert don’t mix. I would safely. longer require services, 29 of them suggest that you evaluate the risks have passed away. There are 25 past It’s the time of year that we send involved before purchasing fireworks. Corona Cares is a nonprofit volunteers, four of them have passed out a friendly reminder on what you Is it worth potentially starting what organization. It is governed by a away. can and can’t do when it comes to could be a very destructive brush fire board of directors. A fireworks out here in Corona. that could endanger not only your coordinator conducts the property but your neighbors as well? day-to-day operations. Before I get into some of the safety Pima Council on Aging is issues, let’s touch on the legalities of If that doesn’t dissuade you, then a consultant. There is a fireworks in Arizona. at least follow some common sense memo of understanding rules. Only light off fireworks in a with RTA for transportation What is legal to use? vegetation free area, have water services. Corona Cares is Permissible fireworks include ground readily available, and keep the a member of the Neighbors spinners, sparkling wheel devices, unused fireworks in a container that Care Alliance, a group and cylindrical, square, cone, and won’t let sparks in. Keep children in of nonprofit programs in California rocket-shaped fountains. sight at all times and put your pets Pima County who provide Novelties, such as smoke devices, away so they don’t run off. similar services in specific communities. sparklers, party poppers, and snap As always, any questions please do caps, are permitted year-round. not hesitate to get hold of me, and Our first year of operation stay safe out there this summer. was an adventure of trial and error. We tried Fire Chief Simon Davis has served several different services Standing (left to right): Lisa Larivee, board for over thirty years and became the in an effort to determine member; Donna Gossage, volunteer; Barbara Corona de Tucson Fire Chief in July what was the best way to Geschwinder, board president; Ed Buster, of 2015. Chief serve the CdT community. board member; Andrea Mozolik, board Davis resides Current services include vice president. Seated (left to right): Ann in Green Valley transportation, friendly with his wife deCourcy, board member; Joan Meyers, board phone calls, friendly visits, treasurer; Kris Wyrobeck, board member. of 34 years, and caregiver relief. During Shirlei and the COVID-19 pandemic, two very small we have suspended all one-on-one Mileage statistics for the past ten dogs, where services. Currently we are limited What is illegal? he enjoys years are 429 miles in 2010, 2869 to friendly phone calls and grocery miles in 2011, 4897 miles in 2012, Skyrockets, bottle rockets, taking part in shopping. triathlons. 10,921 miles in 2013, 12,724 miles in firecrackers, Roman candles, and 2014, 12,713 miles in 2015, 11,017 aerials are not permitted under We hosted a grief group, driver refresher course, and end-of-life miles in 2016, 5,861 miles in 2017, the law because of their ability to hhhhhhhhhhhhh 4,670 miles in 2018, and 7,221 detonate in the air and spread sparks. seminar. In a partnership with the Post 109 Auxiliary, we operated miles in 2019. Most of our drivers the Market on the Move, and later accumulate approximately 1,000 You are allowed to legally purchase Corona Cares Tenth transportation miles each year. fireworks from May 20th to July 6th, POWWOW. We also provided a and December 10th to January 3rd. Anniversary spring and fall safety check. During As we continue to serve the the holiday season, we partnered Furthermore fireworks bought in by Ellie Abraham community, the Corona Cares Mexico and New Mexico are illegal with Newtowners and Passion 4 program will continue to evolve here. Civil penalties range from $150 2020 is a memorable year for all of us Paws to collect products for the Vail to better serve the needs of the to $1,000, depending on the violation in many ways. For Corona Cares, it School District Youth on Their Own. recipients. We look forward to if you do not follow the above is our tenth anniversary. In taking a We refer our recipients to the CdT continuing to assist those of our provisions. look back at our accomplishments, Fire Department for smoke detector community who need us. And thank we have provided many programs assessment, batteries, replacement you to all of you who have supported Let’s look at the safety issues. that have made a difference in our as well as CO detectors. us. Stay safe and healthy. Corona de Tucson community. The In all reality, the legal fireworks you At this time, 17 volunteers provide purpose was to provide services to hhhhhhhhhhhhh

10 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 Trico Offers Financial emergency. The list of non-profits and charitable Assistance for organizations that Trico has assisted Members During with $10,000 grants includes United Way of Tucson, Interfaith Community COVID-19 Crisis Services, the Community Food Bank Trico Electric Cooperative is of Southern Arizona and Marana committed to helping our Members Health Care. Trico also has pledged and the communities we serve as an additional $200,000 to Wildfire, we face the health and economic an Arizona non-profit group that challenges presented by the works through local agencies to aid COVID-19 emergency. low-income families and individuals. Trico is currently accepting grant In partnership with the Trico applications from non-profit and Foundation and the Trico Electric charitable organizations that serve Charitable Trust, Trico has adopted a Trico communities with food and COVID-19 Assistance Program that other basic needs. will provide bill credits and payment hhhhhhhhhhhhh extensions to qualifying Members who are negatively affected by this pandemic. Flag Day: An American “As a non-profit, member-owned Duty utility, putting our Members first is a guiding principle that has never by Ace Tounsel been more important than it is now,” said Vincent Nitido, Trico’s CEO and “The flag of the United States shall be General Manager. “We will continue of thirteen stripes of alternate red and to support our membership and the white, with a union of thirteen stars of communities we serve throughout white in a blue field, representing the this crisis.” new constellation.” This was the resolution adopted by Qualifying Members, including York. On June 14th, 1889, Professor observed. Both President Wilson, the Continental Congress on June individuals and small businesses, George Bolch, had his school hold in 1916, and President Coolidge, in 14th, 1777. The resolution was made can apply for bill assistance through patriotic ceremonies to observe 1927, issued proclamations asking following the report of a special a quick screening process that can the anniversary of the Flag Day for June 14 to be observed as the committee which had been assigned be found on Trico’s website at www. resolution. This initiative attracted National Flag Day. But it wasn’t to suggest the flag’s design. trico.coop/help-from-trico. attention from the State Department until August 3, 1949, that Congress of Education, which arranged to have approved the national observance, In addition, Trico is providing It took some time for the country to observe the adoption of the flag, the day observed in all public schools and President Harry Truman signed it funding for non-profit and thereafter. into law. charitable organizations that help however. Although there are many claims to the first official observance local communities in need. The Soon the state legislature passed So, this month neighbors, let your of Flag Day, all but one took place cooperative will continue to provide a law making it the responsibility of flag fly high. Or feel free to offer our more than an entire century after the financial assistance to qualified the state superintendent of public flag a salute as you drive by American flag’s adoption in 1777. The most Members, non-profits and charitable schools to ensure that schools hold Legion Post 109. recognized claim comes from New organizations for the duration of this observances for Lincoln’s Birthday, Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, and Flag Day. In 1897, the Ventura “Ace” Tounsel Jr. is an Air governor of New York ordered the Force Veteran that currently serves displaying of the flag over all public as the 2d Vice Commander of buildings in the state, an observance Post 109. He is married with three considered by some to be the first daughters and official recognition of the anniversary a grandson. of the adoption of the flag outside of He continues schools. to serve our nation Flag Day is a nationwide observance as a civilian today. Bernard J. Cigrand, a school employee on teacher in Waubeka, Wisconsin, Davis-Monthon reportedly spent years trying to AFB. get Congress to declare June 14 as a national holiday. Although his attempts failed, the day was widely hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com June 2020 11 "Best of the Class: 2020" agreed. Honors College at Arizona continued from page 5 State University to study Vail Innovation Center’s graduate, Justice Studies and Journalism Bowling, said, “Transferring to VDLP with a minor in Dance. and he has sold his 3D models of a was the best decision of my life. It Gary the Snail iPhone case and an takes a lot of discipline, but being ● Rafikov plans to attend the invention called the Chanclarang. able to work at my own pace was University of Arizona and study Each student is proud of their worth it.” architecture. education and the school they Each of these students have big Be sure to check out their essays attended. aspirations as they navigate the next (starting on page 19) to be inspired Lusk and Molina want the community chapter of their lives. Here’s what’s by the future of the students coming to know how caring the staff and on the horizon for these graduates: from the Vail community. teachers are at Pantano High School. ● Yusupova plans to attend “Everyone treats each other with Arizona State University and Kimberly respect and we truly do care about study psychology. Crossland is each other,” said Molina. “If I could a mom, a Vail do high school over again, I would ● Rogers plans to attend the resident, and make the same decisions that led me University of Arizona Honors the founder/ to Pantano,” Lusk said. College and major in optical or owner of The electrical engineering before Focus-Driven Rafikov and RoDee felt at home at getting a Master’s degree to Biz. Empire High School during their work for Raytheon or DARPA career. Rafikov wants the community as a researcher. hhhhhhhhhhhhh to know, “Empire opened the world up for me to explore and thanks to ● Bowling plans to attend the the great teachers, friends and even University of Arizona to become administration, I have learned so a psychologist working with Community Rallies much.” RoDee agreed, commenting, teenagers and young adults. “All the staff members are there for us Behind ReSources Vail to help us grow.” ● Lusk also plans to attend Food Bank the University of Arizona and Yusupova and Graves are full of become a psychologist. by Susan Summers respect for Cienega High School. associated lack of revenue added “I want my community to know ● RoDee plans to attend the To say the least, the months of to the sense of urgency. As Stefanie one major thing,” Yusupova said, Barrett Honors College at ASU April and May were frenzied for put it, “it was wild, and we had to “Cienega cares. They really do.” and study sustainability and staff members and volunteers at make a few things up as we went Graves agrees, saying, “Cienega is a physics. Resources Vail Food Bank, but along, but the people of Vail have school filled to the brim with teachers immensely gratifying on many levels. ● Molina plans to go to beauty been amazing.” For example, many and faculty who absolutely love what General Manager Stefanie Stark food bank volunteers at high risk they do and love who they do it with. school and get her certification and Vail Depot Thrift Store manager in cosmetology. for COVID-19 were forced to step They have all been so inspiring to Tabitha Johnson showed their true back from their duties, so the muster me!” ● Diamond Benjamin plans colors in devising new ways to call went out and was answered cheerfully by a Both of the Benjamin sisters, to attend Grand Canyon different set of volunteers. Diamond and Crystal, agreed that University’s Honors College to Equally amazing were the Vail Academy & High School is major in film with an emphasis number of anonymous an excellent place to learn. “Vail on screenwriting and a minor in angels driving through Academy and High School is a Business. the food bank parking tight-knit community,” Crystal ● Crystal Benjamin will also lot, rolling down their Benjamin said about her alma mater. attend the Grand Canyon windows and handing “It was a place that I was free to be University Honors College and cash donations to staff myself, and I am grateful for that,” study business communication members. To them and all commented Diamond. with a minor in worship arts. the donors—businesses, foundations, and Andrada is equally respected by its ● Torres plans to attend the graduates. “Andrada Polytechnic was individuals—the ReSources University of Arizona and major board of directors says an amazing school that has a loving in physiology and medical and accepting community, as well as thank you from the bottom sciences, with a minor in of our hearts. many unique opportunities in career music before attending Johns and technical training,” said Rogers. Hopkins Medical School and “The teachers and staff are very good becoming a flight surgeon for serve food bank clients and finding people who are willing to listen and "Communityt Rallies Behind the United States Air Force. alternate sources for groceries. provide opportunities for students to ReSources Vail Food Bank" The closure of the thrift store and grow and achieve their goals,” Torres ● Graves plans to attend Barrett continued on page 37

12 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 The rules were for the most part farther apart, and our son will still be eat in one of the small, packed-to- Notes from Italy clear, and despite some occasional able to bring his family to visit at the rafters family-run restaurants that are by Suzanne Saluti ambiguity in their interpretation, end of August.” ubiquitous in Italy. Italian summer were followed by the vast majority used to mean beautiful beaches with As the strictest quarantine measures of Italians. This was somewhat I’m not exactly sure when I stopped rows and rows of neatly arranged in Italy begin to gradually lift after surprising to me, because despite setting any kind of deadlines or umbrellas crowded next to each 65 days of restrictive lockdown, it their propensity for inventing expecting things to change. I just other, families and friends bouncing feels somewhat disconcerting that impenetrable levels of bureaucracy, know that at some point, I stopped from one umbrella to the other. The so much is happening all at once. Italians are generally not well-known trying to picture what life after idea of a permanently subdued and On May 4th, Italians got a taste of for their adherence to rules. quarantine would be like because it socially distant Italy is unfathomable. freedom, when we could walk farther was impossible to imagine what the than 200 meters from home or leave The example Italians have set of implications for Italian society would As we enter phase three, instead of the house for a reason other than nearly universal cooperation with the be. feeling a sense of joy and relief at essential work, grocery shopping, quarantine rules has been humbling. resuming some semblance of my One thing that is resoundingly clear is or medical care. We can now get It has been an pre-virus life, my mood seems to be that these past takeout food from local restaurants inspiration to dropping. I am realizing how difficult few months and leave the immediate city limits be a part of a the after phase will be. There are so have changed (but not the region) to visit relatives society that many shades of gray, and gray is the all of us. (but not friends) that live nearby. pulls together opposite of the colorful Italian life I’ve Everyone has Many memes were created over the to do what is enjoyed before. been impacted confusing details of the new decree, necessary to in some way. But I have to believe that we will which outlined the rules for May 4th protect others. There has adapt, because that’s what humans to May 18th, known to Italians as Thankfully, been so much do, and we will find joy and life in this phase two. People debated about Italy has loss — of interim period, because we must. the definition of congiunti, which can been free of innocence, of This gives me renewed hope and I mean anything from a blood relative the protests spontaneity, feel extremely fortunate to be here, to a stable relation, thereby leaving that “My civil and of simply among the Italians who, despite a a lot of room for interpretation. It’s liberties are gathering. long history of plagues, invasions and permittable to visit a third cousin more important Many have chaotic governing, are still some of outside of your region of residence, than your lost their jobs the most joyful and life-embracing but a fiancée of five years. Some health” type or source of people in the world. individual sporting activities such as of protests income. Most fishing, horseback riding, hiking, and seen in some of us haven’t Suzanne was born and raised in cycling are now allowed. But masks places in the seen parents, Northern California, but has been are mandatory when in any kind of US. In a recent children, grandchildren, or lovers in living on and off in Central Italy for close proximity to others, such as in New York Times opinion piece, Italian months. Some, tragically, have lost 30 years. She stores or on the public transit. Larger author Beppe Severgnini recently family members, friends, colleagues. has now found gatherings or parties are still strictly noted: her forever prohibited. “Now that we are beginning to relax Now, when I watch TV shows and home in the see the characters at bars or playing Marche region If there isn’t a spike in new cases the lockdown — cautiously, anxiously games in an arcade I think, “They with her Italian and hospitalizations after May 18th, — perhaps we can say it: Italy coped. are much too close to each other.” husband, six clothing stores, restaurants and The national health system sustained “How many people have touched chickens, hairdressers will be allowed to open the impact, although 153 doctors and that air hockey puck with their germy three cats, and with very strict social distancing over 50 nurses lost their lives, and hands?” “I hope they washed their 95 olive trees. guidelines around hygiene, staggered thousands were infected. Sixty million hands before eating that sandwich.” seating, and appointments. By people stayed at home and, by and It is hard to imagine going out to hhhhhhhhhhhhh June 4th, we may be able to travel large, followed the rules. That was between regions without an official a surprise, given our reputation for reason like those required during being undisciplined.” quarantine. In American terms, None of us knows what the future going to a different region can really looks like. We just know that it be compared to crossing state will be in some as-yet-to-be-defined lines. Later in the summer, borders ways much different than what any of between neighboring European us might have thought when this all Union countries should be lifted. started. In early March, I remember Tourism from outside the EU may be thinking, “Okay, we will have a couple considered later this Fall. Or maybe of weeks of quarantine, but I’ll still be not. No one is sure. able to host the family for Easter and This odd mix of new rules, increased be able to go to Seville at the end of freedom and uncertainty about what April.” After the first month I thought, comes next weighs on me. The “Surely we’ll be having aperitivo in lockdown was so black-and-white. the piazza soon even if we have to sit thevailvoice.com June 2020 13 any revisions or changes during the Numerous contractors will be Highways and bidding process. Estimated start bidding on this project including local dates will be late July 2020. companies such as: Byways by Tom Howard This project is estimated to cost Borderland Construction, Inc $39,000.000. The completion time Building Better Roads for KE & G Construction, Inc. Our Community will be 450 calendar days. This new bridge will be the first of its kind in Pima County. The Diverging Diamond Sundt Construction, Inc. interchange will change the traffic Houghton / Valencia to flaggers. Drivers should continue to anticipate delays. flows for our community dramatically. Valencia Road Extension to Mary Ann Cleveland Way There will be a lot of traffic restrictions During the deck replacement project during this project. Nightly closures to Old Spanish Trail This project has been advertised set bridge girders and pour concrete. at Colossal Cave and Wentworth Work continues on this project. for bid by the City of Tucson for ADOT has added a provision that will roads, motorists on eastbound I-10 Construction of the Pantano Wash 5/27/2020. The project was delayed not allow closures during the 2021 will encounter nightly lane restrictions Bridge is underway. This two-lane due to the shutdown of city services. Pima County Fair. Traffic will always near the work zone between 7:30 bridge will be 370 feet long, with This project will widen Houghton Rd be maintained during this project. p.m. and 6:30 a.m. Eastbound traffic three spans of just over 120 feet from Mary Ann Cleveland to Valencia will be directed to use the exit ramp Rd. Utility work is underway along each. The current schedule calls and re-enter I-10 using the entrance for completion of the bridge in Houghton Rd to prepare for the ramp. widening project. Further details will September. follow as we get closer to bid time. Final paving and guardrail work will be completed at both bridges after the Colossal Cave/Wentworth Road Colossal Cave/Wentworth bridge reopens. Road Bridge Over I-10 For more information, go to azdot. Colossal Cave/Wentworth Road over gov/vailbridges. Interstate 10 to close May 27. With state highways essential to I-10/State Route 83 bridge to fully delivering goods and services, ADOT, reopen to traffic by June 1. its employees and its contractor partners are dedicated to delivering Colossal Cave/Wentworth Road over transportation improvement projects Interstate 10 near Vail will close to all during the current public health traffic for about two months starting situation. To learn more, please visit the night of Wednesday, May 27. azdot.gov/covid-19-resource-center. The Arizona Department of Photo Courtesy of KE&G and Schedules are subject to change Psomas. Transportation is adjusting the based on weather and other original phasing plan for the bridge unforeseen factors. For more Construction information can be deck project over eastbound I-10 in information, please call the ADOT found on the project website. order to complete the work ahead of Bilingual Project Information Line at schedule. 855.712.8530 or go to azdot.gov/ Website: http://www2.psomas.com/ ValenciaExtConstruction/ The bridge was scheduled to be contact and select Projects from resurfaced one half at a time, which the drop-down menu. For real-time highway conditions statewide, visit would have taken about five months. hhhhhhhhhhhhh However, due to reduced traffic ADOT's Traveler Information Site at volumes, ADOT is working with the www.az511.gov, follow ADOT on contractor to expedite this project by Twitter (@ArizonaDOT) or call 511, Future Pumpers completing the work all at once. except while driving. The bridge is scheduled to remain closed until the end of July. All Major Bridge Project ramps will remain open, but traffic Coming to Houghton Road will be unable to cross I-10. Vehicles needing to cross I-10 should use The long-awaited replacement of the 520-225-0025 Houghton Bridge is finally here. southwestsepticservice.com Houghton Road or State Route 83. • Septic Pumping The SR 83 bridge over I-10 will fully The AZ Department of Transportation • Septic Inspection and Certifications for Real open on June 1. Between May 27 has released the Houghton & I-10 Estate Transfers and June 1, crews will maintain Bridge project for bid. The scheduled • Alternative Septic Specialist access across the bridge at all hours bid date is set for 5/22/2020. This • Septic System Maintenance and Repairs using the temporary traffic signal or is subject to change depending on “WE WANT YOUR STINKING BUSINESS”

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Thoroughly cleaning and thevailvoice.com June 2020 15 them in bondage and away from The event has Juneteenth Festival the U.S. Army. Even after General grown so much, in Tucson, 50 Years of Lee surrendered, Confederate that in 2019 an Texans dreamed of sustaining the event was held Celebrating! rebel cause there. June 2, 1865, at the Tucson after the state’s rebel governor had Community by Larry Starks already fled to Mexico, Confederate Center. The The Tucson Juneteenth Festival (as Lieutenant General Edmund Kirby festival consists the name indicates) is a celebration Smith agreed to surrender the state. of a daylong normally in the mid-month of June. For more than two weeks, chaos celebration However, with COVID-19 regulations reigned as people looted the state with local talent and our duty to staying safe and treasury, and no one was certain who playing music healthy in Pima County, we have was in charge. for all ages, postponed the celebration to take to a promissory note of freedom. The a basketball Many African- Americans fled, some place in the fall of 2020. real work on the ground of ending tournament, poetry, songs, arts across the river to Mexico, which slavery and defending the rudiments and crafts for children, information Juneteenth is held every year to was a less-remembered pathway to of liberty was done by the freed booths, and retail sales of African honor and observe the official freedom in the decades before the people in collaboration with and American artifacts, jewelry, emancipation of slavery in the United Civil War. Others launched strikes backed by the force of the United pictures, voter registration, dance States on June 19, 1865 or refused to work. But in a state States Army. performances, and of course plenty where whites outnumbered slaves of food. BBQ ribs and chicken, fried President Lincoln’s Emancipation more than two-to-one, planters and With their freedom in hand, Texas catfish, hamburgers, hot dogs, and Proclamation had already been in slaves mac-n-cheese, to name a few. The effect since 1863, it wasn’t until were at an festival is fun for families of all ethnic two years later that Texas finally impasse. backgrounds. Bring the family and announced the abolition of slavery in Do they have fun. This year’s celebration will the state. leave the be announced in the coming weeks land that and will be in the fall, returning to the On June 19, 1865, two and a they have half years after the Emancipation roots of being outside in the park. “In known and addition to honoring the sacrifices Proclamation, General Granger rode work for into Galveston, Texas with over made to establish the end of slavery a master more than 150 years ago, Juneteenth 1,800 troops and read the Third that has General Order, which read, “The will highlight the ongoing fights to kept them end all kinds of discrimination.” people of Texas are informed that enslaved in accordance with a Proclamation for years, If you would like more information, from the Executive of the United or do they would like to volunteer or be a States, all slaves are free. This leave and part of the festival contact: Valerie involves an absolute and equality of celebrate Stanley, Board President at Valerie. rights and rights of property between ranchers did everything in their power their freedom on their own? Texas [email protected] or find us former masters and slaves, and to sustain slavery wherever they freedpeople kept alive the memory on FaceBook at Tucson Juneteenth the connection heretofore existing could. of emancipation and Reconstruction Festival and Twitter @tusjuneteeth. between them becomes that between in ceremonies that were eventually employer and free laborer.” Ending slavery was not simply a called Juneteenth, first in 1866, the matter of issuing pronouncements. It year after the proclamation, and Larry Starks is a Native Tucsonan, During the Civil War, white planters was about forcing rebels to obey the volunteering with the Juneteenth forcibly moved tens of thousands growing dramatically after an 1867 law. The Emancipation Proclamation parade in Austin, Texas. committee since 2015, after the of slaves to Texas, hoping to keep and the 13th Amendment amounted passing of his Brother Burney Starks. The festival in Tucson began in Mr. Starks the 1970’s by residents that had holds a BS relocated to Tucson from the South. in Criminal According to Valerie Stanley Board Justice, President, “African-American families MBA/PA. Mr. from Texas and Louisiana who moved Starks is the to Tucson and into the A Mountain Transition area formed the first official Tucson Coordinator Juneteenth Festival Committee with CAPE and the first Juneteenth Festival school, as well Celebration in 1970.” as Adjunct Professor with In 2016, Arizona became the 45th Pima CC. He can be reached at larry. state, along with the District of [email protected]. Columbia, to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday. hhhhhhhhhhhhh

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However, it would not be an Because of the pandemic, I was able school careers began with one of senior parade, senior ditch day, accurate representation of these past to relieve some stress from working the most embittered presidential senior prom, senior sunrise, honors few months. I ask you to think of your my usual closing shifts from 5pm- elections in recent memory, and night, our last assembly, and final moments of your senior year. 1am during school weeks. I was came to a close with a global graduation are just some of the Think of your graduation, all your also able to take a breather from my pandemic that upended many of irreplaceable moments my class will family and friends crowding around extensive course load and internship the traditions held dear by seniors never get the chance to experience. you, hugging you, telling you how through Raytheon. I am also now in the Vail area. We are inspired by Visiting colleges, saying goodbye proud they are of you. Today, there is able to say, “Yes, I was a part of the strength with which the class has to our teachers and our campus — no crowding and there is no hugging. class that survived a possible World pulled together and persevered. these are not things we can get back. There are only Zoom calls, masks and War III, pandemic, and a toilet paper Our schools are endlessly trying ‘6 feet apart’ guidelines. We respect Given the nontraditional close shortage.” No one else gets to say to make up for this, and while we and understand these regulations. to their high school careers, we that! During the pandemic, I have appreciate it, there is no yard sign We want to flatten the curve. We have asked the valedictorians also been able to catch up on new TV or drive-through ceremony that can want to see the end of this pandemic. of each school to share their shows and movies. replace these precious, unforgettable But we also want to graduate the reflections and thoughts on the way our parents, teachers, bosses, Finally, I have been able to work on moments. unprecedented circumstances of coworkers and friends new engineering projects, such as their graduation. It is an emotional, were able to. We want learning code and creating new 3D confusing, and to say goodbye to models. The class of 2020 is unique - Editor terrifying time in high school. We want and always has been. I had recently the world right now. closure. hhhhhhhh emailed one of my teachers and she There is a virus killing told me that this was very 2020 of us millions of people. The Unfortunately, this is Andrada High School because we were always a strange economy is crashing. simply not possible class. My class will graduate right now. All we have is the future, and all Valedictorian Sam In the end, I choose not to look at only to face all of this the possibilities it has this as a tragedy, but rather another head on while we are Rogers in store for us. We strange ending to a chapter in my barely entering the graduated in the midst life. I am excited to start my new world as adults. We of a pandemic, we Covid-19 has had a major impact on journey at the University of Arizona will now have to chart did our part, and we my senior year as well as everyone Honors College and plan to major in a new and unforeseen will continue to as we worldwide. When I first heard of the Optical Engineering. I would like to course into adulthood, move forward. This virus, I never really expected it to congratulate my fellow seniors on and it will by no means experience has altered impact America, because terrible their accomplishments and offer one be easy. We have our last memories of things such as pandemics and wars piece of advice to aid them through imagined our lives high school, but it will never really take place in the states. this trying time. after high school a thousand times, and also be the driving “Marry for money, learn to love” - the days that always seemed so far force that pushes us to work that Samuel Rogers away are now our unquestionable much harder in the next stage of our reality. On top of the usual anxieties, lives. hhhhhhhh the universe has thrown in another obstacle: a pandemic. hhhhhhhh Cienega High School The loss and pain that COVID-19 has Empire High School Valedictorian Victoria brought is beyond comprehension, but what lies on the other side of this Valedictorian Diana Yusupova tragedy? We’ve seen the extremes of humanity. We have seen hate, RoDee ignorance and fear, but we have Graduating in the midst of a also seen great acts of courage pandemic. It’s clear that senior year for the and compassion. My senior class class of 2020 is vastly different from We waited twelve years for this, not will ultimately learn and grow far anything we expected. Most of us knowing that ‘this’ would be social more from this pandemic than we saw the last quarter of senior year as distancing and quarantine. My senior can possibly imagine right now. It a traditional, celebratory culmination class had so much left to give, but will teach us to press on in the face of all the work we’ve put in the past our last three months of high school of fear and confusion. It will teach 13 years, the kind we always hear our were lost to something entirely out of us that despite unconventional However, it came and ripped away our hands, and it is heartbreaking. celebrations and goodbyes, we my senior year. It took away prom, should be proud and excited to take "In Their Own Words" senior ditch day, senior pranks, and There is no list of emotions I could on new responsibilities and goals. continued on page 20 thevailvoice.com June 2020 19 "In Their Own Words" The last day of classes was perhaps put in these last 13 years, even if it years with something that will be continued from page 19 a bit less iconic. It was a Thursday ends with rushing back in the car remembered as a dark time in history. and I have no idea what I did that after the allotted two minutes have But I have hope that things will get parents and older siblings reminisce day if I’m honest. But the meaning passed. better, and that life will only improve about. It would be hallmarked by of it, of saying goodbye to your from here. friends and your teachers, of closing The end to this senior year has been prom, the last day of classes, family different. All the parts that define it, hhhhhhhh coming to visit to celebrate, and of off that chapter of our lives - that moment of meaning will still come, the hallmarks of this time of our lives, course, graduation. For the class of are taking form in a different order, 2020, not all of this is the case. But because this unpredicted time apart has renewed our commitment to in a different way. But eschewing the Vail Academy & High perhaps unexpectedly for some, traditional does not in any way dull much of it was. Although I cannot meet up and connect with the people School Valedictorian who have shaped our high school the happiness and beauty of this time speak for each member of this in our lives and those moments that Crystal Benjamin graduating class, I can confidently lives whenever it becomes socially responsible to do so. And that time define it. Instead, it has reaffirmed say that if we just throw out the word that as we make our way into the “traditional” from that description, will come. Unpredictable. The hardest part next phase of life, we may do it about this COVID-19 pandemic is this senior year has reached all those Graduation is one of those rare entirely differently, even completely expectations in a wholly unique and that it was unpredictable. Of course, times when family and loved ones out of order, but that does not by any we knew little bits of information all come together to one place to means dull its brilliance, beauty, and regarding the virus, but overall, it celebrate and share a major defining meaning. was something out of our control. experience together. My siblings were hhhhhhhh I could not have predicted that going to make the trip to come visit Wednesday, March 4th was going and my grandparents were going to be my last track meet. I could not to fly in from their home in Eastern Pantano High School have predicted that Friday, March 6th Canada. Evidently, cross-border was going to be my last time seeing travel was not an option and inter- Valedictorian Trevor my friends at school. I could not have state travel was limited. However, I Lusk predicted that Sunday, March 8th have been blessed with the time to was going to be our last time having reconnect with my brother and sister- our regular church service. It was all in-law who are quarantining with us My High School senior year didn't go unpredictable! until their home city stabilizes, and according to plan. we have had the most time together we have ever had in the past decade. The last day of school I had on They have been here for prom, for campus was when we were leaving graduation, and we have celebrated for spring beautifully original way. all of those defining experiences break. I expected For prom, my wonderful family together as a family. to be back decorated the backyard with twinkle I have not yet had the pleasure at school in lights, stringing them from one side of experiencing drive-through two weeks of the house to the other. They graduation, but wearing the cap to finish off lit candles and played music and and gown, being in the presence of my year. arranged beautiful bouquets of loved ones and the teachers who Because fresh flowers, and they even made have guided us, and walking across of this I a take-out order from In-N-Out look the stage and picking up that well- didn't get as classy as any prom night dinner earned diploma will all undoubtedly to properly out could. They made that night culminate in a special moment that say absolutely amazing. celebrates all the work that has been goodbye to my friends, and the Pantano staff members that I had grown attached to. Carole’s Grooming Because of this pandemic now Also breeds puppies at times I won't get the classic senior experience. I didn't get to present my Senior Exit Project or go to the senior I could tell you that I always was breakfast. My graduation has become the most optimistic person as this (520) 599-9017 a drive thru, and I can only invite as situation gained seriousness, but I many people as fit in my car. would be lying. During spring break, I Carole Moraga went through a period of denial. I told Owner, Groomer and Breeder Ever since I started attending myself, “It’s okay, those cases are in Pantano, high school has been some other countries” “It’s fine, that case is [email protected] of the best times of my life. But now I am finishing off these amazing "In Their Own Words" continued on next page 20 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 " In Their Own Words" and students in general, it has had its continued from previous page positive impacts. Learning to create a schedule for my day is a skill that in another state” “It’s not as bad as I can take into college and into my people say, it’ll be over soon”. I was future life as a whole. I’ve gotten not aware that with every thought, the to work on different hobbies like coronavirus would be escalating and writing music and drawing, which I was soon in my state and then my had limited time to do when I was in town. school. In addition, this pandemic has brought people together. There was Once school started getting pushed a page made on Instagram to unite back, I began to fear the end of our all of the seniors across our state and track season, not having our senior that allowed me to meet amazing ditch day, senior prom, senior trip people that are going through the and other things that we planned to same thing! My family and I also grew do during this last quarter. I feared very close and have created many that everything we worked so hard memories together. COVID-19 has for would be stripped right from our taught me to overlook the negatives hands. And that fear soon turned and focus on the positives and now I into anger. I can honestly say that am the greatest version of myself! I was very upset. Being our class president, I knew how much time and hhhhhhhh energy was put into fundraising for our senior trip, and being in StucCo, I Vail Innovation Center knew how excited we were about our prom. Everything just seemed to be Valedictorian Sarah crumbling before my eyes. Bowling Before long, schoolwork was starting to be assigned and adjustments Experiencing the COVID-19 crisis as had to be made. Let’s just say a senior in high school has been both that there is a reason why I am surreal and stressful. I was far from not homeschooled! It was a huge thinking of it as a real issue until the coworkers, and employers to find out together to schedule, adjust, and change from having a specific time state-wide quarantine was issued and where you must be in a certain exactly what was going to happen in rearrange routines in order to find everyone had to stay indoors. The the workplace and at school. I was the perfect equilibrium that allowed class working on a specific thing remaining months of senior year took to having to wake up and do it all initially disappointed with my Pima everyone to coincide harmoniously. a drastic turn from what everyone class converting online because I was on your own and at whatever time. was originally expecting, but luckily, I I finished my high school classes near I have always been on top of work uncertain if the teacher had expertise was somewhat prepared. in that type of the beginning of March and have and never procrastinated. In fact, Two weeks before been focusing on college and leisure I never wanted to have homework teaching, but ever quarantine was broadcast since converting activities since then. With the amount at home, so I would try to finish it across the country, my of free time on my hands now, I have during school, so having to shift from the class has family decided to take flowed smoothly started a vegetable garden, called having little to no homework to 100% the virus seriously and my friends and family as often as of my assignments being done at and I am still able make some new house to learn. I think to, read countless books, home seemed impossible. Of course, rules. For one, my sisters learned new skills, and more. For me I was wrong. Self-motivation soon and I could only leave the I attempted to personally, the hardest part of staying began to kick in and I began to get house for school. Unlike continue online home has been keeping in contact back on track with my work, which my siblings, I am already like everything was with everyone I hold close. Right now, wasn’t easy at first. As work began an online learner through normal while my it feels like just another skill to learn. to increase, so did my exhaustion. the VDLP and I only leave siblings and friends Without the constant love, support, I soon realized that without track twice a week to attend an had to become and vibe checks from my friends and practice, I was not getting in daily in-person class at Pima accustomed to family, quarantine would be twice as exercise and that needed to change. Community College. a new style of hard as I find it is now. My twin, Diamond, and I soon learning. The came up with a routine to wake up, During spring break, I biggest change For now, I am excited to attend workout, shower, eat breakfast, then was almost finished with was the household the University of Arizona in the fall. work on our assignments until 1pm. my online classes when environment. With Whether it be through online, hybrid, This allowed us to formulate our the official quarantine my parents both or in-person classes, a new chapter own schedule, just as we would for announcement was at home as well as of my life is officially beginning. It is school. delivered. No one saw it coming. Our my two sisters, trying to find a quiet uncertain what the future holds, but I house was filled with pandemonium look forward to whatever is coming. Though this state of quarantine has time to learn and study became a as everyone made contact with challenge. Everyone had to come taken a lot from me and other seniors school counselors, advisors, hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com June 2020 21 calls that a blessing, particularly in his eyes. A Different Kind of the era of the coronavirus. “He would still get up on the roof, do Father’s Day “In March they brought us two giant plumbing, whatever. He died when he by Patrick Whitehurst boxes of food items, in case we got was 79-years-old,” Cruz said. “I use quarantined,” Canady said. “They to call him Superman.” Father's Day might look a little really watch over us. We’re not different in 2020 than past years, but getting together physically, because Cruz's own children lived with him dads will still get a chance to shine. my son has an essential job and his until their early 30s, he said, and only daughter also works, but we check recently moved out to raise families Social distancing, due the on each other. I drop off things and of their own. coronavirus pandemic, has been they drop off things without physical “It's a cultural thing for us, but I really the norm in the small residential contact.” community of Civano, as it has miss them. We're following the CDC throughout Pima County and across Rather than Sunday dinners together, guidelines. The kids do pop over the world, but that hasn’t stopped she said, they now get on Zoom to sometimes on the weekends. We residents from walking the planned play Trivial Pursuit. Canady also takes have a very strong connection,” Cruz community’s sidewalks and trails part in “text trees” with other moms, said. “With COVID-19 there's going each evening. Nor has it stopped both older and younger, where to be a separation. I don't know if them from checking on one another, they send messages to check on everyone's going to come, but if they whether on the phone, from their everyone’s welfare. do we do have areas in the back porches, or from the community's where we did a lot of construction Facebook pages. Ron has kept busy during the Ruben Cruz, accompanied by his and people can be separated.” quarantine with various projects, grandson Jonathan Cruz, holds a Residents Patricia and Ron Canady, a which includes renovations to both picture of his father, Bennie Cruz. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey retired couple in their 70s, moved to patios at their home. announced on Tuesday, May 12, the Civano in 2001. They've been married Cruz. A second-generation Tucson lifting of the state's stay-at-home 57 years. This year, the pandemic has When it comes to seeing each other native, Cruz remembers how the order, which has been in effect moved their Father's Day celebration again in person, Patricia Canady said neighborhood would gather at his since Tuesday, March 31. Those online. they're playing it by ear and listening childhood home on taco nights. official restrictions on non-essential to the experts businesses eased Friday, May 15. in order to “I still talk to some of them. Forty-five stay healthy. years later, the one thing they always Journalist Patrick Whitehurst is the mention is my dad's tacos,” Cruz author of the books, “Williams,” “We're being said. “Grand cautious,” Canyon’s she said. The trick to amazing tacos, he added, Tusayan “While we is to slow cook the seasoned meat Village,” “The don’t believe on a gas range. When he moved to Pacific Grove things should Civano, he converted his electric Museum open up yet, range to gas for that purpose. of Natural we’re very History,” cognizant Like his father before him, who “Haunted of people served during the Korean conflict, Monterey needing Cruz himself served in the United County,” and money.” States Marine Corps in the mid-to- the forthcoming book, “Murder & late 1970s. Mayhem in Tucson, Arizona.” The couple frequent the Cruz said his father never got old in hhhhhhhhhhhhh local nursery, adhering to social Pictured from left to right is Ron, Sydney, Kelly, Mack, Brian distancing and Patricia Canady during a pre-coronavirus family dinner. guidelines while there, “We usually celebrate together at one and order of our houses and this year it will all takeout from nearby restaurants to be on Zoom,” Canady said. “None of support local business. us in our family believe in the lifting of Civano resident Ruben Cruz also restrictions. We have a lot of doctor plans to take precautions this friends and nurse friends, and they're Father's Day, though he will make all saying we opened up too soon.” his famous tacos for dinner, as Canady’s children, all grown, live in he does every year, with a recipe the Civano community as well. She passed down from his father, Bennie

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In February 2006, COVID-19, and the way we once Vail Christian opened its doors, but gathered will inevitably look different. they were the doors of a school. No matter what the future brings, Our relationship and development churches genuinely love and want since then have been far more than to serve their community. Vail needs a rental contract. It’s truly been an our churches to return strong and understanding that we need each help our community come back to other to thrive. full health. Vail Christian Church will reopen this month. We are ready to This is a pivotal time for the church help however and our community. There is no we can. doubt that reopening the church doors will be harder than it was to Ben Pitney shut them. As coronavirus-related is the Lead social-distancing rules are eased Pastor at and churches come back into their Vail Christian buildings, we will do so knowing Church. many things will be different — some for the worse, and some for the better. There are a lot of implications hhhhhhhhhhhhh Mexico. Saguaros typically grow in O’Odham culture for thousands of to the COVID-19 shutdowns that areas under 3,000 feet elevation, as years. They harvest the fruit using simply will take time to bear out. they cannot survive the cold climate long poles and the syrup makes a of higher elevations. sweet jam, ceremonial wine or other The conversation surrounding this Arizona’s Pride: The delicacies. According to Tohono crisis has been rapidly shifting so Saguaros can live for over 100 O’Odham lore, the Saguaro was pastors and leaders have been Saguaro Cactus years, sport several arms and grow once human, and they are honored in working hard preparing to bring by Rob Hallberg to heights exceeding 40 feet. The ceremony today. confidence and security to the largest Saguaro on record was people they care for. There are over Next to the 10-gallon hat, there is no approximately 200 years old and 46 hhhhhhhhhhhhh 300,000 churches in the United more widely recognized symbol of feet tall! They are very slow growing, States. They assemble and organize the Southwest than the giant Saguaro and it often takes 60 years before a more volunteers than any other cactus. The bloom of the Saguaro is Saguaro develops arms. "Wild About Your Weight establishment on the planet and the Arizona state flower and it is even Loss, Wellness and Beauty" provide vital services that impact found on our license plates. The Saguaro is not an endangered continued from page 3 every community. species, but they are highly regulated in Arizona. Removing or using hyaluronic acid to restore Churches have really played a key defacing a Saguaro is a felony lost volume. role in Vail as well. 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Moving to a much smaller space means relinquishing memories hhhhhhhhhhhhh Inquiries welcome No-obligation tours available thevailvoice.com June 2020 29 day before.” Clyne did not open the Police Chief go to each church the Va i l schools. He issued an order that following Sunday to make sure the Placemaking Through Preservation merchants could not hold any special new ordinance was being obeyed. Story - With Old Society sales in an effort to keep people The mayor was quoted as saying, from gathering, and strengthen the “It won’t hurt a policeman to go to Vail Middle School nnecting mmunity Trug quarantine. church once.” It was also decided ca istry Since 200 that ministers would not be required Students it am Two days later, on November 16th, to wear a mask while preaching, and Our stories, local history, lore, and the Arizona State Board of Health neither would church choirs while special places help us connect finally agreed on some ‘Flu Rules’, singing. On December 17th eight to each other, find our way in a Quarantine ― and released a plan called “Eight defendants were fined $10 each for changing world, understand the Churches, Schools, Points Enumerated By Which Towns not wearing a mask. places we live and the people whose May Reopen Churches, Schools, lives and intentions shaped it. Movie Houses and Pool Etc., Rules To Put in Effect By By January 3rd, 1919 people were Local People.” There were still too weary of the restrictions. Especially With the support of Arizona Halls Ordered Closed! many cases in Tucson to re-open. teachers and students who were now Humanities, The Vail Voice, and by J.J. Lamb By November 21st only four cases expected to work through holidays, building on the 2018 documentary had been reported in the previous and very likely, their summer vacation Voices of Vail, the Vail Preservation On October 9th 1918, the Arizona 24 hours, and no deaths. Tucson too. In the January 7th Tucson Society works with OVMS students Daily Star printed that “Some of those residents were getting hopeful. Citizen an editorialist wrote that the who research and write stories and silly people that spread the very mental strain, the constant create illustrations. These middle harmful lies greatly exaggerated the worry, difficulty of trying school students are placemakers; influenza deaths in the army camps to keep up with studies storytellers and artists who share [in Kansas].” Many in the Old Pueblo and teaching with no time stories of our past that can inform our believed that Tucson would escape to relax could have long- future. the influenza that was spreading term health consequences rapidly around the world and reached for both students and hhhhhhh into other parts of Pima County. It teachers. That “It would be seemed to be affecting every aspect far better to curtail some of the studies, going to the of life somewhere else. Even new Red Cross volunteers at the University. Monthan A School for Vail extreme, if necessary of motion picture releases worldwide Collection, Vail Preservation Society. had been stopped. adding half a year to the by Cassidy Nelson and Malachi Lyford child’s last year of school.” The very next day, October 10th, But, it was too soon. New cases The Vail Unified School District is The Arizona Daily Star reported continued to keep schools, churches, In 24 Jan 1919, Roskruge and currently known as one of the best that 27 Railroad men working at the and pool halls closed. The State Drachman schools had to be closed districts in Arizona. It hasn’t always SPRR Division Point in Tucson had Superintendent of Schools decided for nearly two weeks when six been like this, it became what we fallen ill. Physicians were quickly that even though teachers were not in teachers became Ill with influenza. know it as today over time. In 1976, brought together by the Mayor to the classroom, they should continue At the High School students met the Vail School was almost closed discuss the situation. Following their to receive their full pay because they for half-day sessions. Pupils were due to a lack of students. There recommendations, Tucson’s mayor had no control over the epidemic. expected to study their lessons at weren’t very many people living in established a strict quarantine. home in the afternoons. By June the area. The railroad section had Churches, schools, movie houses, On December 12th the Tucson of 1919 fewer and fewer cases of closed, and many of the ranchers and pool halls were ordered closed. City Council passed an ordinance, influenza are mentioned in the local were moving out or not hiring as Parents were warned that children effective immediately requiring the news. In Tucson, and around the many local cowboys. Ranching was could not be allowed to play outside wearing of masks at stores, theaters, world, people were ready to put more difficult from not having enough or the quarantine would not be and businesses. Police would not memories of the pandemic and WWI water. There was less work. effective. The virus had reached make arrests until Saturday to give behind them. The Vail brothers, Walter and Edward, Tucson. On October 17th Pima everyone time to purchase or make arrived to this area in the 1870s. County schools, including Vail, were a mask. Teachers and children at J.J. Lamb is President & CEO of They came to Arizona looking to closed to help stop the influenza. school were exempt because of the Vail Preservation Society. A U of procedures put in place to reopen start ranches. Walter purchased the A graduate, her family has lived in Empire Ranch near Sonoita, and By November 14th the Tucson City schools a few weeks earlier. School Vail since Health Office received a telegram was now in session six days a week. Edward started the Vail Ranch on 1971. She the eastern foothills of the Santa from the State communicating that Children attended school every was named schools meeting strict sanitation other day. This made it possible for Rita Mountains. They had a silver an Arizona mine, the Total Wreck, in the Empire requirements in areas where cases every child seated at their desk to Culturekeeper were consistently decreasing could have “three feet of breathing space” Mountains. The profits from mining in 2011 and helped extend the Empire Ranch reopen. But, “City Health Officer as only half of a class was in the an Arizona Clyne does not consider that the classroom at one time. Dr. Clyne also from near Sonoita all the way to the Friend of the Rincon Mountains. epidemic is on the wane here. The said that “children didn’t appear to be Humanities in number of new cases of influenza as susceptible to the influenza.” 2020. reported yesterday was eight and "Placemaking Through Story..." that same number was reported the Tucson’s mayor suggested that the hhhhhhhhhhhhh continued on next page 30 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 "Placemaking Through Story..." In 1980, IBM There were a Jane Warner the postmistress with continued from previous page announced it was lot of families placing the special postal mail bag on opening a huge working for one of the poles adjacent to the east In 1880, the railroad was being built plant in southeast the railroad, or and westbound tracks. The students across Arizona. Walter Vail made an Tucson, kicking living on farms did not get paid for their work in agreement with the Southern Pacific off huge growth in or ranches, with money. Mary Jane would let them Railroad so that the tracks could go southeast Tucson cattle, horses, pick out some candy in the Vail Store. across some of his land. The place and Vail. This and donkeys. The The main way people communicated where the SPRR needed a siding event changed Vail School had a with each other in Vail back then was track so that trains could pass was Vail permanently, teacherage close at the Old Vail Post Office, by visiting named after him. In 1893, Vail’s and without it, to the school. and passing on stories with Mary Siding was listed on a map for the we might not An early Vail Jane. first time. It was originally called Vail’s even know Vail postmaster, Otto Frances Schmidt grew up at Colossal Siding, then Vail’s Station, Vails, and as it is now. By Schley, was the Cave and attended the Vail School. finally, Vail. 1990, student person who built enrollment in Ms. McMorrow's Advanced Art Class, the house in 1908. In 1903, people living around Vail the Vail School Pencil Drawing. By 1931 when asked the Pima County Board of District had Esta and Lottie Supervisors for a school for their reached about Trotter moved to children, and the Vail School District 1,000 students. Later, the IBM area Vail, the little white house near the was formed. The first Vail School was transformed into the top-ranked school was a place for teachers to was built across the street from University of Arizona Tech Park. This live. where Old Vail Middle School (OVMS) also caused big growth in Vail and all is today. In 1927, a new school was around. The Vail School District was started built where Old Vail Middle School is. in 1903. In the 1930s, when Esta and Sometime in 1931 the Trotter sisters, Today the Vail Unified School District Lottie were teaching, there were only Esta and Lottie, came to Vail and is currently home to 21 schools (with around 30-35 students enrolled. The started to teach at the Vail School. one more under construction), 12,500 Vail School was where Old Vail Middle They were the main teaching staff for students, and 1,900 employees. School is located. The attendance about 35 years. They retired in 1963. Without all the events that have was not always the best because of happened, VUSD wouldn’t be how it responsibilities at home. Esta and is today. Lottie did not assign homework. They knew that students had chores and Max Allen and Norman Wagner We chose this topic because we helped their families on their ranches ride Sam the donkey. Allen found it very interesting to learn how and farms after school. Collection, Vail Preservation the school came to be how it is now. Society All of the history and events that Lottie taught grades one through four, happened to get the VUSD started and Esta taught grades five through The sisters helped plan programs and and how it built up to how it is now. eight. The students loved Esta and celebrations at the Vail School. The Lottie Trotter. The sisters were strict annual Christmas parties were really hhhhhhh about discipline and wouldn’t let special. The Christmas party would students do whatever they wanted be in the evening. Friends, parents, Trotter Sisters Found a in class; but students knew the and families would gather around for sisters cared about them. The Trotter the celebration. The school would Job and a Community sisters were an essential part of Vail’s be decorated with large trees, small education and Vail in general. They trees, wreaths, and candles. Many “Family” in Vail got paid about $70 a month. At the in the Vail community came to the Ignacia and Louisa Leon by Kayla Richey and Lesly Ramos time this was not too low of a wage programs, even if they didn’t have pose on the railroad Signal for a teacher. children in the school. arm at Vail Depot c1925. They The Trotter sisters, Esta and Lottie, We enjoyed hearing about how the attended the Vail School. Ms. were born in South Carolina. Esta, The Trotter sisters helped students at kids would entertain themselves McMorrow's Advanced Art born in 1904, was the older sister by the Vail School thrive and rise to the by playing with Sam the Donkey Class, Pencil Drawing. around two years. When they moved top. Many former students felt that to Vail, it was a very small place. at recess. The owner of Sam was they were prepared to continue their Maxie Allen, who we were able to The Vail School had running water There wasn't much development education in Tucson at Tucson High around Vail yet. Everyone knew interview. Students paid .50 cents to School. Esta and Lottie would be before most people in Vail. There get to ride, jump, and play on Sam, was a water line connected to the each other and there weren't many amazed at how much the Vail School buildings. There was one school pretending to be the Lone Ranger. We has grown from the two-classroom Southern Pacific Railroad water car learned that some kids got to school parked on a siding track. Later the with two classrooms. Esta and Lottie school they taught in! When the Trotter found a home and a job at The by walking or riding their donkey or Trotter Sisters started teaching at line was connected to the SPRR horse. There weren’t any televisions cistern. Sometime in 1955 the Vail School. They lived in Vail during Vail they not only found a job but a the school year and went home to in Vail back then, so kids would play community family. Vail School was connected to an more outside. At lunch time or after electrical grid. South Carolina during the summer. school, students would help Mary hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com June 2020 31 your garden, grow more color. • Bees in antioxidants and flavonoids. It Remember, without bees, we could Science of Bees love blue and love cluster plants like has many uses in relation to our cease to exist ourselves. They are by K. Nespa lavender and rosemary. • Bees don't general health and its antibacterial THAT important! always want to sting you because properties make it good for our As the days get longer and the they can die. • There are over 20,000 skin. Nutritionally, 1 tablespoon Did You Know? Melittology (from temperatures rise, you may notice different species of bees, found on of honey (21 grams) contains 64 Greek melitta, "bee"; and Ancient swarms of bees and other insects every continent except Antarctica. • calories and 17 grams of sugar, Greek -λογία -logia) is a branch of passing through your area as they Honey has been shown to have many including fructose, glucose, maltose entomology concerning the scientific look for new homes this season. As health benefits both when eaten and and sucrose. Antioxidants found in study of bees. And Apiology (from you swat them into oblivion, please when applied to the skin. • The darker honey have been linked to reduced Latin apis, "bee"; and Ancient Greek remember to leave the bees to the the honey, the better. • The bee is risk of heart attacks, strokes and -λογία, -logia) is the scientific study professionals. Bees are crucial for the only social insect to be partially some types of cancer. However, of honey bees. Honey bees are often our ecosystems around the planet. domesticated by humans. • Bees can studies also show that honey can chosen as a study group to answer Even though they can be annoying, get tired and fall asleep in flowers. raise blood sugar levels. It cannot questions on the evolution of social they really do have a much more be considered healthy for people systems. valuable purpose on our planet and Bees are known to be great with diabetes, only “less bad” than References: it’s important to save the bees. 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Please be aware resident since eggs become females and unfertilized with beeswax. of your surroundings and do not 2005. eggs become males, with the help of antagonize bees, who are hard at pheromones. • To get more bees in Raw or unpasteurized honey is rich work, pollinating our food sources. hhhhhhhhhhhhh 32 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 Writing While Social Distancing by Chris Patterson With COVID-19, many people have used this as an opportunity to do things they haven’t had time for – work on the house, car, fitness – and write that story rolling around in their brain. Amidst all the trauma and uncertainty of a pandemic, hopefully we can see a silver lining this creates. Even with a somewhat return to normal, we still have more time on our hands than we used to. So how do we go about writing that story while social distancing? Use this as an opportunity to establish a schedule and pattern – this goes with all the other things you want to do as well. Don’t start that story and then wait until the next pandemic to complete it. While you can, give yourself a schedule. Whether its waking up early, staying up thirty minutes late, or blocking out an hour during lunch, start creating that habit of writing. Remember, it only takes seven consistent days to create a habit. You may have more time right now, and so devote more time, but create that habit that you can continue when things do return to normal. The problem with no time to write isn’t that we don’t have time, it's that it doesn’t fit within our normal day-to-day process. This is the time to include it in the day-to-day stuff. Rather than writing being secondary to the TV show, binging on Instagram, or checking emails, those now come after your writing gets done. How? My suggestion is set aside two, 30-minute sessions a day. No matter what’s going on, spend that time writing – outlining, planning, whatever. Pick one day a week you won’t write. Mines normally Sunday. Treat it like a part time job. That way, when normal returns, writing is a part of that normal. Christopher Patterson has become an Amazon Best Seller of Fantasy, Christian, and Historical Fiction. He lives with his family in Arizona and teaches in the "Onward and Upward" Air Force as a Second Lieutenant. Vail School District. You can learn more by visiting his continued from page 15 He was selected for assignment to website: https://www.christopher-patterson.com Edwards Air Force Base, Air Force hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Test Center – “The Center of the 2nd Lieutenant Aerospace Testing Universe”, Califor- "Construction Zone" continued on page 33 Edward Ian Buster nia where he will begin training as a Developmental Engineer Officer. Ed- Edward & Maria Buster of Corona de ward will be responsible for planning, Tucson are elated to organizing, manag- announce the grading, and implement- uation and commis- ing vital processes sioning of their son, to ensure capability Edward Ian Buster. In over the life cycle of May, Edward gradu- Air Force systems. ated from the Univer- sity of Arizona with a Edward is also a Vail Bachelor of Science School District class F45 Fitness at 10185 E. Old Vail Rd in Las Plazas Old Vail in Mechanical Engi- of 2015 Andrada plans to open in August of this year. neering, and minor in Polytechnic High Military Science and School graduate. Leadership. “I appreciate the To acknowledge Ed- many sacrifices of ward’s achievements my friends, educa- as the top com- tors and family in missioning cadet, assisting me through he was recognized my college career, as the Air Force Reserve Officer and I eagerly look forward to my next Civano Animal Hospital and Emergency Center located at Training Corps, Detachment 020, challenging adventure!” 10425 E. Drexel Rd plans a summer opening. ‘Distinguished Graduate’. Edward hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh commissioned into the United States hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com June 2020 33 VanTassel said that even the carts’ Safety First at the keys are disinfected following each Rolling Hills Golf round. Rolling Hills has 36 golf carts. “We have an additional 10 if needed,’’ Course VanTassel said. “We also have many walkers who play here.” Rolling Hills by Burt Graeff averages about 100 rounds a day. Golfers normally do not tolerate Not everyone agrees with Ducey topped tee shots, shanked 7-iron keeping golf courses open. On sites shots, or shots smacked into the such as Nextdoor Digest, there have woods. They are much more tolerant been numerous posters arguing that during these days of coronavirus. golf courses are not an essential Why? Because, thanks to Arizona business and, as such, should not be Governor Doug Ducey, they are able open. At one area golf course, there to play golf. They are able to get out have been reports that some people to enjoy the sunshine and interact living in homes along the course have with others… at a safe distance. yelled at the golfers. VanTassel said he has not heard of any complaining. “People who play here are grateful that we are open,’’ he said. “They are enjoying themselves. They are having fun during a period of stress.” On a recent visit to Rolling Hills, the parking lot was packed. The restaurant – the Niblick Bar & Grill – was closed, but people were enjoying take-out orders on the outdoor patio. The restaurant was re-opened in mid-May. “At twenty percent capacity," VanTassel said. With many businesses shut down, or operating under heavy restrictions, Burt Graeff is a retired sportswriter the 36 golf courses in the greater from Tucson area remain open. Included Cleveland, among those is Rolling Hills Golf Ohio. He and Course, located on the city’s east his wife, June, side. Rolling Hills will not be confused along with with Pebble Beach, or Augusta their Jack National. Rolling Hills is a sporty Russell Terrier, 4146-yard, par 63 track that has nine Skip, have par four holes, nine par three holes lived in Vail for and no par fives. more than nine years. It opened in 1962. The course designer is William F. Bell, a noted hhhhhhhhhhhhh architect from California who also designed two other Tucson courses – the Forty Niner Country Club and the Tucson Country Club. Bell’s most famous design is Torrey Pines, in La Jolla, Cal. Making a golf course safe during COVID-19 is not easy. “We want our golfers safe, and we want them to enjoy the experience as well,’’ said Rolling Hills assistant pro Jeremy VanTassel. “We allow one person per cart, unless it is a married or related couple. We disinfect each cart after every round.”

34 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 As chaos ensued years, evolving imagine. Stonewall: The Source inside the bar, a into what is of Gay Pride crowd gathered commonly Imagine a world without the outside, watching known as Pride. contributions of countless LGBT by Jessa Brighton and chanting in Now, queer artists and activists. Imagine a protest of the communities lifetime of violence at the hands of Imagine living in a world where you police actions. across the those whose jobs are to serve and must knock on a door and speak In the earliest world celebrate protect. Imagine living in a room through a peephole to enter the only hours of the riot, their identities, under lock and key, with a peephole bar where you are allowed to dance. the actions of life, and love in the door serving as your only The walls are painted black, the the protesters throughout the window to the outside world. toilets are overflowing, and its liquor were peaceful month of June license is nonexistent. It’s owned by Now imagine someone opens the - some gay in honor of the the mafia, who pay the police to stay door. men and drag sacrifices made off their backs. Nevertheless, there queens formed a that night. Jessa Brighton is a writer and activist are monthly police raids wherein you kickline facing a could be arrested, beaten, and raped police blockade. Later in her based out of NYC. She graduated if you are not wearing clothing that Someone in the life, DeLarverie with honors the law has determined appropriate crowd began said of that first from New York for your gender. singing “We Shall night, “It was a University rebellion, it was with a BFA This was reality for patrons of the Overcome.” an uprising, it in drama. Stonewall Inn, a bar located in the There was as was a civil rights She likes 90s Greenwich Village neighborhood of much a sense of disobedience – it television, New York City. The bar still stands joy as there was of anger among the wasn't no damn riot.” The Stonewall modern art today, although its ownership and crowd. For the first time, they were rebellion is largely credited as being history, and customer base have changed since fighting back. For the first time, they the event that sparked the fight analyzing 1969. Prior to the rebellion that began outnumbered their oppressors. for LGBT rights in the U.S. It is children’s in June of that year, the majority Police tactics to get the growing impossible to know what the world media. Find of the patrons at the Stonewall crowd under control became even would look like had the Stonewall her on Twitter at @JessaBrighton. Inn were poor gay men, butch more violent. One butch lesbian, uprising not happened, but we can hhhhhhhhhhhhh lesbians, transgender women, and later credited as Stormé DeLarverie, drag queens. Many of them were was hit over the head with a baton homeless or otherwise marginalized after complaining that her handcuffs by society for being poor, black, or were too tight. As she fought four Latino. At a time when gay bars and police officers, she looked toward the clubs closed frequently due to police bystanders outside the Stonewall Inn raids, the Stonewall Inn was the and shouted, “Why don’t you guys do safest place for many of these people something?” to go. The police - now outnumbered by It was past midnight on Saturday, 500 or 600 - began to flee as the June 28, 1969 when a group of crowd threw coins, bottles, and police officers opened the doors of bricks from a nearby construction the Stonewall Inn and shouted over site. The Stonewall Inn itself was in the heads of 200 people, “Police! ruins - burned and blackened, its We’re taking the place!” The police windows broken. Several protesters began to assault the crowd, using were hospitalized for their injuries, the pretense of frisking procedures to and four officers were injured. As grope the lesbians in the club, while the crowd began to clear out around shoving and kicking customers who 4am, a thrum of electricity stayed in did not immediately fall in line. This the air. violence was illegal, but not unusual. There had been another police raid at The riots continued the following Stonewall only three nights prior, and night, with hundreds of protesters a sense of unrest moved among the gathered around the defiantly still- crowd as the officers began to block open Stonewall Inn. People across the windows and doors so that no America learned of the uprising and one could escape. Fed up with their began to form groups, coalitions, constant mistreatment, the Stonewall and organizational meetings. On patrons began to resist. This was the the first anniversary of the uprising beginning of the Stonewall rebellion there were marches in New York, Los - more commonly known as the Angeles, and San Francisco. Those Stonewall riots. marches have continued for fifty thevailvoice.com June 2020 35 and I could see them all the way "District 4 Update" in the Tucson Fire fleet, is an off-road A Quick Shot Up Pistol from Sahuarita to Marana, plus continued from page 2 vehicle that is specially-equipped Hill many private shows of prohibited with a patient stretcher and an atten- and illegal pyrotechnics. The only dant seat for an EMT or paramedic. by Rob Samuelsen preserve, protect, and defend those problem was distance. Even with two assets. The city's south east side includes binoculars, all I could see were tiny many bike and hiking trails that have Near the gradual summit of Pistol little colored specks of light with no limited access, and no access by Hill road in Vail, there is a shoulder It is not up to the Board of sound and certainly no fanfare. It traditional ambulances or fire trucks. pull off and overgrown jeep road on Supervisors, or any level of was truly the most underwhelming This new vehicle matches Tucson the east side of the road. If you park government, to make customers “feel patriotic celebration I've ever seen Fire's capabilities to the response on the shoulder, you can follow the safe”. Businesses themselves, along to commemorate the founding of our environment by allowing for rapid jeep road to a trail that takes you with the marketplace, will do that – as great nation. they should. access, treatment, and transport of 540 feet up to the top of Pistol Hill. injured people who are not within It should be noted that because this I've also climbed the peak for I will continue to vote and fight close access to a roadway, parking is state land, a permit is technically dawning solace, watching the first against Pima County’s prohibitive lot, or trail head. required, although it begs for civil glimpse of the solar sphere break and destructive set of regulations disobedience. the pre-dawn codified via proclamation, and I look To learn more about the Tucson The trail is horizon. forward to the Attorney General’s Police Department and Tucson Fire rocky and With all the determination. Department, I invite you to partici- steep, but a chaos of the pate in my Ward 4 Virtual Town Hall strong hiker modern world, hhhhhhhhhhhhh on Wednesday, June 24 from 5:30- with good a sunrise 6:30pm, where Tucson Police Chief shoes can reminds me "Ward 4 Update" Chris Magnus and Tucson Fire Chief reach the that each day continued from page 2 Chuck Ryan will give an update on summit in starts anew their departments and allow the about 15 with purity and remodels like Station 19. Tucson Fire community to get their questions minutes. On innocence. Station 17 (5270 S Houghton Rd) also answered. A link to access the virtual top of the At first, I serves Tucson's south east region, town hall is on the Ward 4 website at 4,101-foot was huddled and a new piece of response equip- www.tucsonaz.gov/ward4. hilltop, there from the ment has been added to the station. are crumbling morning cold, A Polaris Ranger 1000, called "UTV2" hhhhhhhhhhhhh concrete but as the footers from a long-forgotten radio sun pierced the peak, I gradually tower. There’s a spectacular view of stretched out to warm the soul. The Colossal Cave park to the east and cold and dark are replaced with the greater Vail area to the west. You 25 + warmth and light. In the cool silence, Years will likely only share it with a light the penetrating warmth of the silent breeze and random lady bugs. sun is as rewarding as your first kiss, first child, or first grandchild. Some years ago, I had the brilliant It closes the gap between mortality idea of watching the various and immortality. 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36 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 or suction. Using "extractors" Fiona de Young recently joined the lectures and available concerts are Snake Safety in does not remove a significant Rincon Valley Fire District as its new posted on the ASA web site: www. Warmer Weather amount of venom and the Community arizonasenioracademy.org. You can process can increase tissue Relations click on “Event Schedule” to see by Fiona de Young damage. Manager. In descriptions of upcoming lectures this role, she plus instructions to e-mail the ASA As of this writing this, the Rincon • Don't administer alcohol or is responsible Office and request links to access a Valley Fire District responded to 32 medication. for managing specific lecture. The schedule page snake calls in one week. the District's has a link to the Video Concerts page • Don't try to catch the snake, it community where descriptions and instructions That’s not unusual for this time of may bite again. year, when our reptilian neighbors engagement for accessing these on YouTube are venture out to greet the warmer • Do keep bite below heart level and media found. temperatures. Arizona is home to if possible. relations. Before joining the District, Fiona ASA on-line lectures are scheduled a huge variety of snakes, some during June on topics that include venomous and some not. Of the • Do immobilize the affected area worked as an aide to U.S. Senator and limit activity. Martha McSally. She holds a Master's World History and Globalization, 17 rattlesnake species in our state, Hinduism and Its Foundations, and known for their eponymous rattle Degree in Information Studies from • Do remove tight clothing, shoes the University of Texas at Austin. How DNA Tests Can Add Leaves and cat-like eyes, all are venomous. or jewelry from the bitten limb. to Old Family Tree. ASA concerts Knowing how to spot, react, and Fiona loves hiking in the beautiful mountains of Southern Arizona. posted on YouTube include vocalists respond to snakes is an important • Do wash with soap and water. singing early Jazz & Blues from the part of staying safe: hhhhhhhhhhhhh • Do go to the nearest medical 1920s-1940s, and a pair of singer/ facility immediately. songwriter/guitarists performing Prevent Snake Bites Americana and Irish tunes. Source: Arizona Poison and Drug Senior Academy • Leave wild animals alone. Information Center Residents at Academy Village/Altura 50 to 70% of reptile Lectures & Concerts and program planners at the ASA are bites managed by the Available On-line looking forward to having the lectures Arizona Poison and Drug and concerts scheduled on location Information Center were by H. Deon Holt sometime in the future and inviting provoked by the person neighbors in the region to attend in Many residents of the Vail and who was bitten--that is, person with the help of the Vail Voice. southeast Tucson areas have someone was trying to attended lectures and concerts at the hhhhhhhhhhhhh kill, capture, or harass the Arizona Senior Academy after seeing animal. calendar listings in the Vail Voice "Community Rallies Behind • Keep your eyes open: before ReSources Vail Food Bank" watch where you put your these continued from page 12 hands and feet, snakes events were may be small. Try to keep shut down your hands and feet out because A special thanks goes to Arby’s on of crevices in rocks, wood of the Old Vail Road for giving 50% of their piles and deep grass. coronavirus Sunday revenue to Resources Vail pandemic. Food Bank, as well as for the raffle • Always carry a flashlight RVFD personnel responding to a snake call Located at they conducted. As of this writing, and wear shoes or boots in Vail, AZ. Academy Arby’s has donated $12,000 to when walking after dark. Village/ feeding their neighbors! Generous When RVFD responds, we relocate Altura donors also include: Hudbay; Peter • Dead snakes can bite and off Old and Debbie Backus’s Vail Foundation; inject venom. and release the animal per the Tucson Herpetological Society Spanish the Laird Norton Family Foundation; Jeanne Missey Osgood; the Rincon • Install outdoor lighting for guidelines. Check-out these and Trail north Optimist Club; Randolph Neese; yards, porches and sidewalks. other resources available on our Web of Vail, the site at rinconvalleyfd.org, or call us at ASA is a and Brian Pecsek. Individuals who 520-647-3760 to discuss any safety non-profit organization with close contributed smaller amounts are too Bite Safety concerns. ties to the University of Arizona that numerous to mention here, but they sponsors weekly events open to the should know that the cumulative • Call 911 and remain as calm as public. effect of their generosity has kept possible. Resources Vail Food Bank open The ASA has now arranged for during rough times. There have been • Don't wait to see if you get residents and non-residents to many tears of gratitude shed by food symptoms. experience its lectures and concerts bank clients in recent weeks, but from home. The lectures are • Don't ice the bite. they are meant for our community of accessed live on the Internet via givers. Thank you all! • Don't use constricting bands Zoom and concert recordings via YouTube. Descriptions of upcoming hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com June 2020 37 trees have a very deep tap root so 7. Remove the lid and cook work being done with the ‘Grab n Moringa Trees Great be sure and accommodate for that. another 2-4 minutes, stirring Go’ program to feed families in need for Health and Nutrition The tree will be the size of a shrub constantly this time in the Vail School District the focus after the first frost of winter kills off changed to how to show appreciation by Elizabeth Warburton-Smith the leaves, but the trunk and roots 8. Add grated coconut and for the bus drivers and Aramark food will survive and burst with new continue to cook on low heat service employees instrumental in the Moringa Oleifera (also called Tree growth around April. They are drought and stirring constantly for operation of the program.” of Life, Miracle Tree, and Drumstick tolerant so no need to water them another couple of minutes. Tree) has been cultivated for too much. We sell seeds and baby 9. Serve with rice. countless centuries in India, Africa, Moringa trees to help raise money for the Philippines, and other parts of the Rita Ranch Community Garden. the world for its highly nutritious Email us if you are interested in Happy Growing! and medicinal qualities. It is gaining growing one of these great trees for popularity here in North America yourself. Alisha Nichols recently did https://www.webmd.com/vitamins- as more and more of us choose an informative video interview on and-supplements/health-benefits- healthy eating and as we become our Rita Gardens YouTube channel moringa more familiar with the benefits of of myself and her father Al Nichols, plant medicine. Moringa leaves are a one of Civano’s founders, on his complete plant protein containing all knowledge of Moringa trees. Elizabeth Warburton-Smith is the nine essential amino acids, as well founder of the Rita Ranch Community as 92 nutrients and 46 antioxidants. Harvest the leaves fresh and put into Garden inspiring others to grow Moringa contains twice the protein smoothies and salads or dry them organic food. and four times the calcium of milk. It and make a powder to use through Elizabeth and also has seven times the Vitamin C the winter when the tree is bare. One her husband in oranges, four times more Vitamin traditional way of eating Moringa is Gregory A than using the leaves in a curry. Here is a recently Vail Serves Vail members gathered to carrots, wonderful recipe to try: opened fill bags with homemade cookies to three times RitaRitos, a thank Vail School District bus drivers more Sri Lankan Moringa Curry food business and Aramark food servers for their potassium selling healthy services to the Grab n Go program. than 2-3 cups fresh moringa leaves, and delicious Pictured (left to right) Steve Langford, bananas, stripped from the stems & rinsed wraps Sister Noelle O’Shea, and VSV Chair and three highlighting organic and local Cole Thies. times more 1-2 t. salt ingredients. Direct emails to iron than 1 t. turmeric powder [email protected]. “We gathered ideas, and decided spinach. that we, as a group, could bake and hhhhhhhhhhhhh 1 T. cooking oil bag cookies with a special note of According appreciation to be given to these to WebMD, ¼ t. mustard seeds tireless workers. On Wednesday, early Vail Serves Vail Thanks 1 cup chopped onion wearing masks and observing proper studies for social distancing, we met with our utilizing Workers 1 or 2 fresh green chilis cookies and prepared the gift bags. Moringa as Members of Vail Serves Vail gathered It was a great experience for all of a medicine ½ t. dried red chilis in the Rocking K courtyard of Heather us, especially seeing pictures of look and Jon Stough bright and shiny those who received our small act of promising with findings showing 3 T. grated coconut on Wednesday, May 6th at 7 am to appreciation,” said Thies. that Moringa leaf extract may lower prepare 100 goodie bags each filled 1. Coarsely chop the moringa inflammation, blood sugar and with home baked cookies and a Stough told us that bus drivers and leaves improve insulin regulation in the message of thanks for their service. Aramark food servers have become blood. Modern scientists also report 2. Add salt and turmeric to the student favorites, “because these are seeing a slow-down of cancer growth “Vail Serves Vail is a subcommittee chopped leaves, mix together the staff people they connect with which is very exciting. of the Vail Religious Leaders that and set aside five days a week every week during meets monthly. On Monday, May 4, these unsettled times. The Grab n Go Of course, if you have any specific 3. Heat the oil and add the we had a Zoom meeting to continue program began March 30 with 1,400 questions related to your own mustard seed a discussion on what we can do in white bags of lunch and breakfast for personal health, medications, or the current restricted environment to children 18 and under. Today the six- nutritional needs, check with your 4. Add the chopped onion, green help families in the Vail community,” week program delivers 2,800 bags doctor about your particular situation. chili and dried red chilis said Cole Thies, VSV Subcommittee to children waiting at bus stops and Chair. “On the agenda was scheduled Moringa is easy to grow here in seven participating schools.” Stough 5. Sauté until the onions are a discussion on how to use Facebook the Sonoran Desert. Simply soak finished, explaining that the program translucent and soft to learn of needs. After hearing the seeds for 24 hours and then will be completed May 22nd at the a report from Vail School District plant either in sandy, loamy soil (not 6. Lower heat, add chopped end of the school year. Community and Connections Director hardpacked caliche) or in a deep pot moringa leaves, stir well and Heather Stough on the important with organic potting soil. Moringa cover for 2-4 minutes hhhhhhhhhhhhh

38 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 April 2020 Climate Report 40 Years in Business by John Simpson Your Bath, Kitchen & Floor Experts! 25% off Nations Cabinetry this month! April 2020 was hotter and drier than normal for most of southeast Arizona. The Tucson airport recorded 0.07” of rain and their 30-year average is 0.31.” I Kitchen Remodels • Granite Counter Tops • Bathroom recorded 0.25” of rain and my 9-year average is 0.26.” This rain fell on one day, Remodels • Flooring: Wood, Tile & Carpet April 11th, with the rest of the month being dry. April is typically a dry month Design & Build New Additions • Painting • Dunn Edwards and is my second driest month behind May. Vail was a “hot” spot for rain in Arizona Floor Kitchen & Bath southern Arizona with 0.2 to 0.5” being recorded in the central part of Vail along 150 S Camino Seco #120, Tucson Wentworth and Colossal Cave roads. Rainlog.org recorded drier 0.1” amounts on either side in Rita Ranch and Mescal. 520-885-7374 On the temperature side, the first two- thirds of the month was quite pleasant, then a late April heat wave hit resulting in the last eight days of the month

being the hottest in Tucson history. Some noteworthy statistics include the airports first 90+ degree day on April 23rd, which is about three weeks later than average. The heat continued and just six days later, the airport recorded its first 100+ degree day on the 29th, which is about three weeks early. In Licensed • Bonded • Insured addition, the 100+ high on April 29th FREE ESTIMATES was the 5th earliest 100+ degree high in Tucson airport history. The airport [email protected] ROC#127738 went from October 17th 2019 to April 23rd 2020 between the last and first 90+ degree high, a span of 188 days, which is the longest stretch since 1997-1998. I was definitely not ready for the intense warm up we saw this past April. I will Hughes Announces 2020 High School Senior discuss the May climate report for next month’s article, which is typically the driest month in southern Arizona. Scholarship Recipients from Hughes Federal Credit Union John has lived in southern Arizona the past 31 years and Hughes Federal Credit Union today announced the names of five high Vail for 15 of those years. John has a bachelor’s degree school seniors who will each receive a $2000 scholarship in support of their in Atmospheric Science from the University of Missouri continuing education from the credit union’s Annual Scholarship Program. and a master’s degree in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Arizona. He loves exploring the outdoors “We’re excited to help students ease the financial burden associated with with his family and photographing weather and the higher education,” Hughes Marketing Manager Dani Gomez said. “For the last beauty of southern Arizona. 15 years, it has been our honor to make a positive difference in the lives of deserving young students.” hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Students were required to submit an essay or video answering the question, “How do you plan to manage your money during college and how can Hughes help?” The winners were selected by panel of twelve judges that scored the students’ submissions, scholastic excellence, extracurricular commitments, and community service. The scholarship program was open to all high school seniors who were members of the credit union. Since 2005, Hughes has granted $90,000 in scholarships to deserving high school graduates entering college or trade school. hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com June 2020 39