October 2014 Serving the Mountain Empire Communities of Canelo, Elgin, Patagonia and Sonoita Vol
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OCTOBER 2014 SERVING THE MOUNTAIN EMPIRE COMMUNITIES OF CANELO, ELGIN, PATAGONIA AND SONOITA VOL. 4, ISSUE 9 By Donna Reibslager hands out check-in pack- each year to represent ets, you get some idea of their nature products This year's Patagonia the job she does—and business. Fall Festival on October how well she does it. The event's atten- 10, 11, and 12 will bring Kazz has been involved dance has nearly dou- as many as 16,000 people in the Fall Festival since bled since she took to town. There will be 1994, when she and her over, and the festival, more than a hundred husband, Pete, began vol- which was originally two booths, 14 food vendors, unteering at the event, days, is now a three-day and three full days of en- which was then being run event. The third day tertainment. The popular by the Patagonia Area (Friday) was added in and highly reputed festi- Business Association response to requests by val features arts and (PABA). Kazz says that exhibitors and some in- crafts from all over the PABA's efforts to organize terior design firms, gal- southwest. For the last 15 and man the festival with leries, and other busi- years, the person who has volunteers and a two- ness owners, who said made this event happen is person staff was becom- they preferred to come Kazz Workizer. If you've ing more difficult each on a day when crowds ever been to the festival year, so Kazz offered to would be smaller. on opening day and seen take on the job for a per- Kazz is the owner/ a woman answering ques- centage of the margin. She operator of Kazzam tions from people clus- had a background in mar- Events, an event produc- tered around her while keting, and she and Pete tion and promotion en- she gives instructions to had a lot of experience terprise. Her largest someone on the phone, with nature festivals, hav- event is the Fall Festival, logs in vendors, locates ing organized and trav- which she organizes and their paperwork, and eled to as many as 21 (continued on page 2) Where Lucia County Hands Does The Nash’s Fair High If Water Legacy Days You Love Go? Pie PAGE 6 PAGE 7 PAGE 12 PAGE 16 $7,000. Without that expense, the Kazz Workizer...continued from Front Page festival would be putting that oversees with the help of three or Her “To Do” list is long. She ar- money in the bank, but music four volunteers and four paid staff ranges for the delivery of tables, seems to be an important part of members. Her preparations for chairs, and portable toilets; pre- the atmosphere. each year's festival begin a year in pares check-in packets; marks off Nevertheless, Kazz says she'd advance. At each festival , Kazz and identifies each booth space in be willing to continue working collects applications from vendors the park; and addresses a myriad with the exhibitors for the event if who commit to return and updates of questions and complaints. When others were able to take on the her database of exhibitors. During the festival begins, she must be general and financial manage- the year, she also does a mail out prepared to field questions and ment, logistics, publicity, and set to potential exhibitors and an ex- resolve problems throughout the up. Says Kazz, "my body and my tensive list of festival goers who event. budget just can't keep up with the have requested that they be sent a It's a tremendous undertaking, festival." “reminder” about the next festival, and Kazz says its biggest chal- She plans to return to her work and by July she sends letters again lenges have been finding volun- as a fiber and bead artist at the to check in with all the vendors. teers, covering expenses, and keep- farm she owns in Elgin and hopes A volunteer jury reviews all the ing up with the physical demands that someone else can step in and entries, and Kazz informs each ap- of her job. After setting up tents take over the 2015 festival. Al- plicant of their decision. As Sep- and the information and silent auc- though she admits that she would tember approaches, she sends out tion areas, she spends three days miss the contact with festival ven- press releases, arranges for pro- on her feet, walking from one end dors and visitors, she says, “I'm gram and ad design, and purchases of the park to the other to check in looking forward to getting back to ad space in local and out-of-town with exhibitors and customers and creating art instead of marketing publications. With the help of a few to deal with issues that arise. Seri- it.” Her departure will present a volunteers and a professional dis- ous knee problems are making this challenge, as new management tribution service, she passes out more and more difficult. considers how to ensure a healthy thousands of programs and hun- Despite the success of the festi- profit and inspire the participa- dreds of posters in Tucson's Metro val, costs have exceeded profits in tion of more volunteers, so that area, at the Art in the Park Festival recent years. The reason, says the Fall Festival can continue to in Sierra Vista, and in other Kazz, is the expense of three days thrive. neighboring towns. of music, which now runs over glass toward that end. Chuck Hammond of Sonoita, a former chemical engi- neer, wrote that he once ran a recycling program for Aramco, an Arabian-American oil company in Saudi Ara- bia. He referred to a British article about the demand for primary aggregate sources from the concrete industry and the incentive to develop alternative aggregate sources Readers Take Issue from waste materials. The article stated that “crushed re- cycled glass can be used as a complete fine aggregate re- With Sonoita Landfill's placement” and cited research as to the benefits of using finely ground glass powder at rates of greater than 20 per- Glass Recycling cent of mass in cement. He referred readers to http:// www.concrete.org.uk/fingertips_nuggets.asp? The PRT received two reader responses to last cmd=display&id=783 for more information. month’s front page article on the Sonoita landfill. Steve Raynis, also from Sonoita, sent us information Both were concerned with the landfill’s current re- about a glass recycling program in Santa Rosa, California. cycling of glass. The county secured a grant in conjunction with ARC, a In the article, county landfill manager Karl Moy- resident care facility for developmentally disabled adults. ers stated that recycling glass costs the county They created a program whereby glass is collected curb- money, because by the time a truck gets to Phoenix side, sorted by ARC residents, and run through a process- from Nogales, transportation costs are $400, and ing system that removes labels and tops and pulverizes the glass is worth only $200. He added that there the glass, producing a gravel and sand product. The had been talk about buying a crusher and keeping county plans to initially use the product at various govern- crushed glass on hand here in the county to use in ment and nonprofit sites and hopes eventually to market building roads, but that, according to engineers, and sell it. The product can be used for many purposes, glass is not an adequate substitute for any con- including parking lot gravel, decorative mulch, and septic struction material. In order to sell recycled glass system filtration material. Santa Rosa County estimates from the landfill to the closest source, in Phoenix, that the landfill saves 1,000 cubic yards of space each year the glass must be in an amount of 25 tons. Moyers as a result. Readers who would like to learn more about estimated that it might take a year to achieve that the program are referred to Santa Rosa Clean Community 2 amount; nevertheless, the landfill is accumulating System, Inc. at (850) 623-1930. This has been our PATAGONIA’S wettest September since 1964, when Patagonia received 8.13 inches of SUMMER rain*. Two hurricanes in the Gulf of California RAINFALL TOTAL sent several storms our way after July and Au- gust had already brought about 9 inches of rain to the region, which may make this year's monsoon season total a record high. Dave Teel reports that the town well has inches* risen two feet, eight inches since its low in * Based on an average of totals June, and he expects it from rainlog.org 7/1 through 9/29 will rise further as re- cent rains move through the alluvial soils. More good news on the water front is the Photo by Donna Reibslager town's recent receipt of Water traveled downhill on Fourth Avenue and pooled into runoff on two checks totaling Duquesne Avenue, flooding the street, during a rainfall on September 22. Omissions $360,000 from the fed- eral government to com- & Errors plete the upgrades to at work and expects the project to months, the monsoon season has put our water system. A bu- be completed by December. Patagonia's rainfall total back in the reaucratic mix-up at the The U.S. Drought Monitor shows black, and we head into fall with no U.S. Department of Agri- our part of Arizona as experiencing major wildfires. Our article on Steve Schmitt in the culture put the project "moderate drought," while almost *according to the Western Regional September issue was headed “ Tom on hold for almost a the entire state of California is in a Climate Center's precipitation tables Schmitt Is Taking Care of Busi- month, but Teel says the state of "extreme or exceptional for Patagonia since 1921.