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Vail Pulls Together to Find Beauty by John Carruth Delivering high-quality public time of need. child in the community 18 years or Superintendent, Vail Unified School education is our primary mission. younger. District Working in partnership with our Our community is home to many community, we execute that mission families who work as health care We all hope that announced layoffs Our community has a strong history well. The Vail School District is widely providers, first responders, military, and furloughs are temporary, and of pulling together, especially in recognized as one of the best school or other fields deemed "essential" we can safely return to a sense of times of need. Just last month our districts in Arizona. We can all take during the Governor's stay at home normalcy sometime soon. In the local Arby's pride in this order. meantime, hosted a achievement. the meals fundraiser A few program is to support a Today, of these providing high school providing families critical student in high quality have no one support his fight education else to care to families against remains our for their who just cancer. core purpose children weeks ago, Thousands even as while they didn't need showed up. schools are work. Our that level Thousands closed to community of support. of dollars students. services There has were raised. In a very and Vail been a steady It was hard short period inclusive increase in to make it of time, preschool the number through the principals child-care of daily long line to order with dry eyes. Vail and teachers have pivoted to provide programs meals served, and now nearly 2,500 truly lives up to the motto of the Vail quality educational opportunities to are offering services to about sixty children are served meals daily. School District, "Where education is a students in their respective homes. children across four different sites community effort.” It’s not just empty There are numerous examples of so these parents can provide critical As one volunteer so aptly put it, words We live it. I see it daily. creative lessons and projects taking services to keep our community "Being able to meet the need for both place at kitchen tables, backyards, running. food and a safe means of connection I'm quite certain that those in our and sidewalks across our community. in our community is the rainbow in community who crafted our motto Groups of community volunteers the storm for all of us during this in the late 1980's couldn't have Yet over the past month, I have been from ReSources Food Bank, local time." imagined that this motto would be moved by the power of our motto as churches, and neighborhood groups used to serve as a guiding light it extends beyond the classroom and have been working alongside bus The Vail community certainly finds the during a pandemic, but it certainly is. into our community to support young drivers, teachers, and others to beauty in pulling together. organize and deliver meals to any people and families during a critical hhhhhhhhhhhhh

See inside for Restaurants and Churches Guides - Pages 20 to 22 Finally, the region's own HOAs and of Tucson while strongly advocating neighborhoods are filled with loving for Ward 4. As a long term planner, I and kind folks, renowned for always want to ensure we are prepared when lending a hand, eagerly providing a Ward it is time to get "back to business laugh or shared tear, a heartfelt talk, as usual", therefore I am hosting a and a shoulder to cry or lean on. Update three part Virtual Summer Town Hall The latest from Pima County District 4 The latest from Tucson Ward 4 Series. We still have core services to Supervisor Steve Christy That is what community is all about. Councilwoman Nikki4 Lee deliver and we want to hear from you, That is what our Vail and Corona de especially this month regarding roads I don't have to remind or point out to Tucson area is all about. Hello friends. I can't believe we are and transportation. you in any great detail what all of you already in May of 2020. This year already know. These are frightening, Please know also, as your Supervisor, has been like nothing any of us troubling, and difficult times for all my office is working on your behalf, could have anticipated, and I hope of us in the and together with Pima County you are all Southeast Administration, ready to be of service doing as Region and to all Southeast Region residents. well as is Pima County. We will continue to provide guidance possible Terribly and protection throughout this ordeal during this unpleasant, and beyond. My Southeast Region time. This unfortunate, Office, run by Lucretia Free in the month and in many Vail Chamber Connection, is there poses many cases, as well, on the spot and at the curb unanswered devastating level. For up to date information and questions, occurrences help, visit pima.gov/covid19 just like have been unfolding on many All of us have been through the months before. For those different levels, on many different tough times, both personal and fortunate to have remained healthy fronts at breakneck speed. What is professional, and as a society. We during this global pandemic, will perhaps the most unsettling factor we will weather these tough times, too we remain healthy? What will our have to deal with is the nauseating – together. None of us are alone – summer look like, and will we be feeling of great uncertainty that hangs ever. That's what makes us Vail and able to travel at all? What will over us like a dark cloud. Corona de Tucson. And, oh yes, I the 2020-2021 school year look love being your Supervisor. like when our kids are supposed As a former long-time business to head back? Will our local owner, I do have experience with businesses survive this economic uncertainty. Uncertainty in business crisis? Will we survive this can lead to insolvency in business. economic crisis? So if you're a business owner, an employee or a consumer in the I am in this with you, and those Our first Ward 4 Virtual Town Hall Southeast Region, it's imperative that questions play through my mind just Summer session will be with the we all keep our heads and wits about like yours. While none of us have all Department of Transportation and us, along with a sense of balance and of the answers just yet, my team and Mobility on May 27th, from 5:30- perspective. We must remember the I in the Ward 4 office stand ready 6:30PM. Directions on how to foundational positive attributes that to support our constituents and log into the virtual town halls are our Vail/Corona de Tucson area is businesses during this time. It is my posted on the City of Tucson Ward historically famous for. job as a City Councilwoman to create 4 webpage at www.tucsonaz.gov/ hhhhhhhhhhhhh policies that support the entire City ward-4. First, our region has always been and will always be a caring, loving and all- Thank you for your role in ensuring embracing community. The our community stays strong. I Phone: (520) 490-0962 Fax: (520) 398-7742 encourage you to keep supporting Second, from our established Vail Voice our local Tucson businesses. 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2 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 I was present when the 22-foot allowed to remain open. And finally, From Letters Saguaro was transplanted on even in our own state of Arizona, the my property. It took four hours to Grand Canyon was closed due to the to the complete the job and was done with the pandemic. Think about that for a Editor Editor great care. moment. The Grand Canyon. Closed. Buyer beware? Not in this case. Hold leaders accountable for their Jared Free Our Readers Sound Off decisions. Get rid of the ones that Burt Graeff performed poorly. Re-elect the ones Once again, we are very pleased Dear Editor, Vail that performed exceptional. They to present a variety of articles work for us. that approach the COVID-19 from This is in response to Mark hhhhhhhh different perspectives. From the McLoughlin’s letter to the editor in J. Rodriguez impact on the April Vail VoicWe, a letter in which the fashion he said, “Buyer Beware!” regarding Dear Editor, hhhhhhhhhhhhh industry to a story I wrote on transplanting a 22- inspirational foot, three-armed Saguaro cactus on Well, it didn’t take long at all for the chalk art, my property in Vail. COVID-19 pandemic to become a Where Are these pieces political, partisan issue. Blame and explore the accusations are now flying from all They Now? forces around sides. It will only get worse as we this global approach the November election later If you have a promotion or other event from a this year. accomplishment, send a photo and description to: [email protected] humanist perspective. We elect our politicians to uphold the Special welcome to Brad Anderson Constitution. We elect them to benefit as a regular contributor in his role as the greater good - to make tough Parents, Dr. Dawn and Mr. Joe President of the Greater Vail Chamber decisions and improve our lives. Our Walker, are proud to announce the of Commerce. We look forward to leaders have made plenty of major graduation of their son, William Joe his insights on the business and decisions since the pandemic started. Walker, III from the United States economy of our region. McLoughlin said his award-winning They must be held accountable for Air Force Academy – Class of 2020 (unidentified) landscape designer, a any poor decisions. They should – “Target in Sight.” Will is also a With the beginning of summer comes member of the Board of Directors of also reap benefits of continued class of 2016 Cienega High School my favorite greeting card holiday — the Tucson Botanical Gardens, was representation for good decisions. graduate. Mother’s Day. Although I’m a few adamant about relocating a large thousand miles away from my mom, Saguaro, that they inevitably die very How did our state, county, and city I’m excited to celebrate her and slowly. leaders do? Did they overstep and everything she’s done for our family unnecessarily infringe upon our yet again this year. Let us know how Luis Chavez, an owner of Southwest rights? Or were they acting in the your family celebrated this year! Cactus LLC – the company that best interests of everyone for the transplanted my Saguaro – begs to greater good? Between cabin fever and that special differ. “There are a lot of companies flavor of quarantine paranoia, it can out there who do shoddy work,’’ We have already seen the story of be hard to keep grounded. Luckily for he said. “We go to great lengths to a governor that outlawed operating me, I have a new Fiona Apple album transplant these Saguaros properly. a motorboat on a lake, but yet and Fire Emblem Three Houses to canoeing was ok. We read the many keep me sane. We’d love to hear “We have lost a few, but it was due to stories of churches being outlawed what music, movies, video games, overwatering by the client.” yet liquor stores and gun stores were or other things are helping you get through this quarantine.

Due to COVID-19, the April 18,2020 Submit comments or your Commissioning and Graduation letter to the Editor at: ceremonies will be closed to [email protected] the public. On this date, Will will commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Air Force and will graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering. 2LT Walker will then begin pilot training, at a Base, and date, yet to be determined.

hhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com May 2020 3 Highways and The Rock Stars of Vail by Stacy Winstryg Byways by Tom Howard If you are like me, quarantine has felt surreal. I don’t think any of us could have Building Better Roads for imagined we would experience times like these. I am hoping that by the time Our Community this article goes to print, we will be returning back to a somewhat normal life. The Vail Parent Network has always known that Vail teachers are our local rock stars. No one works harder or dedicates more of themselves to our Vail Rd, Colossal Cave/I-10 Project children. While we’ve been confined to our homes, so have our children. It Crews have switched traffic to the newly completed bridge sections over has been physically, emotionally, and socially hard. But when Governor Ducey I-10 at SR 83. Work will continue until this next section is completed. Once announced the closure of our schools, our rock stars got to work. With some the SR 83 Bridge is completed crews will move to the Colossal Cave Bridge. innovative quick thinking on the part of the Vail School District, an online Reminder that the closures on the SR 83 bridge is restricted to one lane and is learning system was quickly put in place for our students. controlled with temporary traffic signals. Please obey all traffic control devices and signage during this phase of construction.

Valencia Extension to Old Spanish Trail Work continues on this project. Soil stabilization is underway. Culverts are being installed where needed along the new roadway.

From left to right: Stacy Winstryg, Linda Feltheim, MaRico Tippett, Catherine Byars, Andrea Black

As a parent, I have been touched by the outpouring of support and concern for our children from the staff. I have received countless emails, my high school children have been assigned a contact person to stay connected with, and I have listened in on weekly Zoom meetings. These are just a few of the ways our school is stepping up during this unprecedented time. I have also seen our teachers make themselves available to our children at all hours to make sure they are staying engaged socially and academically. It has been inspiring to watch. My love and gratitude for this group of people has been magnified even more. So, to all our rock stars in Vail… thank you! You are to be commended for your efforts. Teachers really do make the world go around. Photos Courtesy of KE&G and Psomas. Construction information can be found on the project website. hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Website: http://www2.psomas.com/ValenciaExtConstruction/

Houghton Traffic Interchange over I-10 This project has been advertised to bid on May 22, 2020. We will have future updates as they become available

Houghton/Valencia to Mary Ann Cleveland This project has been advertised for bid by the City of Tucson. Due to the city- wide shutdown, this project has been postponed. As soon as we get updates, we will pass them along. hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

4 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 school year. Vail teachers will Students Receive Free continue to offer educational study Meals through virtual means such as Zoom as they were doing prior to Arizona by Anne Gibson Governor Ducey’s closing Arizona schools. It is hoped the Governor’s School buildings may be closed to action will slow incidents of the students in the Vail School District, COVID-19 virus. Current List of Job Postings as of May 2020 but the district began serving free sack lunches to any child 18 years The program is an effort on the part For Current Job Information at Chiricahua Community Health Clinics, of age and under on Tuesday, March of the District Log on to www.cchci.org. and click on join us 31st. to assure no child is going Seven hungry when Operation & Environmental Information Technology schools in the the school hot Vail School Services Department lunch program No Openings No Openings District set up is not in assembly lines operation. Medical Support Staff : Leadership to make fresh No Openings No Openings sandwiches The program and to is funded by Pharmacy Support Staff : Behavioral Health fill 2,100 USBA through No Openings Clinical Psychologist – Douglas, white paper the Arizona Bisbee, Sierra Vista, Benson Administrative Support Staff : icensed Clinical Social Worker bags with Department No Openings sandwiches, of Education. – Bisbee, Sierra Vista, Douglas apples, and District funds Dental Support Staff : Registered Dietitian (Pediatrics other nutritious are used as No Openings – Douglas kid friendly needed. Revenue Cycle Staff : Auxiliary Positions foods. Each No Openings No Openings bag contains The planning food for lunch committee and breakfast members for the next the program, morning. under the leadership The of Heather distribution Stough, of the bags Helpers at Desert Willow Elementary School District occurred at prepare lunches for children to pick up or to Community the seven go on school buses to their bus stop to get Liaison participating their lunches. Desert Willow is one of seven Director, schools and schools making sandwiches and packing were Peggy at school bags. Benston- bus stops Runyon, Jerry including stops Brown, Sonia at additional schools. The seven Carrillo, Michelle Quiroz, Della Ruiz, participating schools are Corona Stefanie Stark, Mark Tate, and Rena Foothills Middle School, Desert Wittwer. Willow Elementary School, Esmond Station K-8, Mesquite Elementary School, Ocotillo Ridge Elementary School, Old Vail Middle School, Whittley “Anne” Gibson is a third and Rincon Vista Middle School. generation Tucsonan and alumni of Vail school buses were loaded with the University bags and drivers drove their regular of Arizona. routes, stopping at each bus stop for She has been ten minutes to deliver their precious an active cargo to children waiting at the stop. community Children should be present to receive member in the a bag. greater Vail area since the The program will be offering free late 1970s. lunches five days a week from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. for eight weeks, which is the end of the traditional hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com May 2020 5 Greater Vail Area Chamber of Commerce It's Official! GVACC has a New Influencing Vail's Future President & CEO to enhance growth opportunities and advance economic development in the Greater Vail Area. Welcome Brad Anderson! 13105 E Colossal Cave Rd | Vail, AZ 85641 | 520.261.8245 Brad looks forward to being the Upcoming Events President/CEO of the Vail May Zoom "Breakfast" Meeting Chamber. He sees the Thursday, May 14th at 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. opportunities and challenges the Karen Novak Cesare is a Board community has ahead of it as it Member of Central Arizona continues to grow at a dramatic Project. She has also owned and rate. As an advocate for business operated Novak Environmental, growth, he sees the Chamber Inc. since 1998. playing a key role in influencing Vail’s future to enhance growth opportunities and advance economic development in the www.greatervailchamber.com Greater Vail Area.

6 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 camps might be closed. To stay sane, These are the strategies have helped and emotional needs. Doing this Working From Home it’s helpful to adopt a few strategies me. sets up a visual expectation for your During a Pandemic for your household. family. They’ll know when you’re Before anything can feel fluid, you working and why you’re unavailable, Summer How do I know? I’ve walked this must clarify your priorities. We spend and you’ll know when you can walk of balancing work and kids an extraordinary amount of time on give yourself permission to turn off by Kimberly Crossland, Owner of The long before the pandemic hit. In things that aren’t important. When the phone, close the laptop and Focus-Driven Biz doing so, I had some days where I you lose the comfort and flexibility of disconnect from the virtual office. wanted to pop the cork on a bottle an office with minimal interruptions, There’s a secondary type of fever, of wine at 9 a.m. and hide in my you’re forced to maximize every Sometimes you’ll need to show up at outside of the viral one we have all closet, and other days when things minute of your day. As pockets of work and at home simultaneously. To heard about, that’s hitting homes in were smooth sailing. In doing so, I time open up, you’re better prepared the extent you can, tether your time force — cabin fever. While kids are learned the reality of juggling family to chip away at your to-do list, top to together. Have a project that requires grounded at home, parents have and professional lives under one bottom. focus? Tether it with naps or quiet adopted the new role of teacher roof — you’re going to drop a few time. Have small tasks that you can overnight. For working parents, there mentally flow in and out of throughout are immense pressures to juggle the day? Tether those with your kids' obligations at work and priorities on homework or while they play outside. the home front. As we come to terms with what this And yet, there’s a bittersweet nature pandemic summer will look like, to these times. The bitter part is clear it’s important that we abandon the enough — we want our freedom urge to muddle our way through the to let the kids explore while we day-to-day. Adopting new strategies keep earning a healthy paycheck to for how to achieve balance in your support their adventures, as well as home can have a profound impact our own. The sweet part often gets on your family’s overall happiness, buried though. Perhaps it’s time to and may tip the scales towards more reframe the challenges of working sweetness than bitterness during from home as one that’s allowing us these unsettling times. to reconnect with the people we love and set an example of what work Want more strategies? The free, looks like today. detailed guide for how to stay present and productive while Whether you’re battling a partial working from home is available at furlough, attempting to find a new job TheFocusDrivenBiz.com/Guide after being laid off, which is a job in itself, or are hustling now more than ever because of increased demand, your kids are watching. They’re Kimberly learning. And they’re absorbing what Crossland is split attention looks like. balls now and then and that’s okay. a mom, a Vail Striving for perfection on both fronts Getting a realistic timeline of what resident, and As we navigate what the remainder of is a dangerous endeavor. Adopting your days look like is equally the owner of 2020 will look like, it’s safe to assume strategies that can keep you present important. You can’t understand how The Focus- we’ll continue on a trajectory of social as a parent (because family always to prioritize your time if you don’t Driven Biz. distancing to some extent. That comes first) and productive in your know what that time will look like. means the work-from-home orders work can save everyones' sanity. Outline your work routine alongside may remain for some time. Summer your children’s school obligations hhhhhhhhhhhhh Carole’s Grooming Also breeds puppies at times (520) 599-9017 Carole Moraga Owner, Groomer and Breeder [email protected] thevailvoice.com May 2020 7 1844, it could be as bright as Jupiter, or maybe even David and Wendee Levy live in Vail. Skyward... as bright as Venus, being Together they easily visible without any run both the telescope or binoculars. Or Jarnac Ob- it could fizzle. There have servatory. with David H. Levy been several comets that You can meet were supposed to become David at the bright, like Kohoutek in monthly Star 1973, Austin in 1990, and Night at the The Great Comet of ISON in 2012, but either Corona Foot- 1844, and the Great they failed to live up to hills Middle expectations, or they School. Comet of 2020? simply broke apart and hhhhhhhhhhhhh Just a week before Christmas vanished. 1844, a sea captain named Wilmot Comets do their own thing, discovered a bright comet without as if they have minds of using a telescope. The comet was their own. I am fond of easily bright enough to be seen with saying that comets are the unaided eye, and remained so like cats. They both have throughout January, and could be tails, and they both do followed with a telescope through Halley's comet, January 6, 1886, taken by Steve Larson and David Levy using the Kuipeer precisely what they want. the end of March. The comet was Soon we shall see what as bright as Halley’s comet was telescope at Mount Bigrlow, to the northeast of Tucson. You can see considerable detail near the mood Comet ATLAS is during its appearance in 1835. At the in as it prepares to round time there was some speculation as nucleus of the comet, including a "tailward jet" of dust going into the comet's tail. the Sun next month. With to whether this comet might have some luck, it will remind us been on a similar orbit to that of the of the Great Comets of the Great Comet of 1556, but George rapidly brightened. On March 15 I nineteenth century that scrawled their Bond, after having investigated that looked at the irregular cigar-shaped filmy signatures across the sky. possibility, ruled it out by concluding galaxy Messier 82. Just beneath it the orbits were not similar enough. in the field of view was Messier 81, a large galaxy that is gravitationally What cannot be ruled out is that the interacting with M82. By themselves, comet of 1844 these two might have galaxies are been a large lovely. But when fragment of a I moved the much larger, and telescope just earlier, comet. a little lower, On December the comet 28, 2019, last appeared. It was year, the Asteroid easy to see but Terrestrial- I was not aware impact Last Alert at the time that System project this was the discovered a comet that was very faint comet. brightening so The comet was quickly. magnitude 19.6 at the time of its If all goes well, discovery, too the comet faint even for will pass by large amateur the Earth on telescopes. May 23, and ATLAS used a then pass 0.5-meter (20- perihelion—its inch) diameter closest point to telescope near the Sun, about the top of Mauna a week later. Loa in Hawaii. Comet Okazaki-Levy-Rudenko, late If it rivals its summer 1989, photographed by earlier cousin, Early in 2020, the Steve Larson and David Levy. the Comet of ATLAS comet 8 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 Hello Vail! greater Vail area. We work hard to create an by Brad Anderson environment where the community is As I take the reins as President informed. When appropriate, we host and CEO of our Vail Chamber of town hall events to provide a format Commerce, I want to say hello! where the community can attend and It’s great to be a part of the Vail gather information about important community. issues affecting the area. I’ve been part of the Chamber and We support local organizations the Vail business community for more including the Vail Preservation than 10 years. During this time, I Society, IMPACT of Southern Arizona, have developed a real passion for Vail School District Foundation, Angel this community. We are unique. We Tree, the Arizona Trail, Coyote Creek have one of the best school districts Ride and Fiesta, and others. in the state. We are home to families, Each year, the Vail Chamber grants individuals, teachers, students, scholarship to local seniors in the scientists, members of the armed Vail School District. In total, we have forces, retirees, service and business awarded over $23,000 in scholarships professionals, and a host of others. to students in the greater Vail We have growing retail and business community since 2013. sectors. We have a real sense of community. As you know during this pandemic, businesses are having a tough time. Ahead of us are many challenges and There isn’t a person or business opportunities. We are already dealing in our country who hasn’t been with road and transportation issues, impacted, some more than others. zoning and annexation concerns, We all hope things return to normal student needs and teacher scarcity. quickly. But for many, normal will There are numerous other issues we never be the same. are facing. These will only expand as our community grows. The Vail Chamber of Commerce is doing everything possible to assist How does the Vail Chamber fit in? our business community. Last week, The Vail Chamber’s tagline is the Chamber hosted a Zoom meeting influencing Vail’s future. with Senator Martha McSally. We are meeting with other businesses and It is our belief now, more than organizations to share information ever, we need an active, influential and find ways to return to work – organization. One that understands responsibly. the heart of our community. One that will fight for our identity and influence Our chamber is here for the long haul. our future. We do not take our tagline We will work with our businesses and lightly. We have expanded upon it residents to enhance our community. to create our mission statement: I look forward to being a part of it all. “Influencing Vail's future to enhance growth opportunities and advance economic development in the Greater Brad Anderson grew up on a family Vail Area.” We bring in and meet farm in northern Colorado and from with stake holders and influencers Colorado State University. He joined from around Arizona to share current the Greater Vail conditions and direction of our area Chamber community, county, state and nation. of Commerce We are a strong voice in the greater when he Vail area, helping foster a healthy moved to community to enhance our economy, southern schools and our rich history. Arizona as an Edward Jones Our chamber was founded on a Financial simple idea: The community needed Advisor in Vail. an organization beyond a networking club to be the eyes, ears and voice of the economic development in the hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com May 2020 9 News From In CDT Corona De Tucson • Increased thirst soap, hand sanitizer, bed chucks, and Springtime Safety A Community Steps protein drinks. One of Corona Cares’ • Dry mouth and chapped or by Fire Marshal Charlotte Herdliska Up to Help Our Older neighbors donated a $50 gift card cracked lips to purchase groceries. Argenziano’s Population donated half a case of toilet paper Bees • Tired, sleepy, low energy, as well. We have had people search fatigue, loss of strength by Ellie Abraham, coordinator, Corona In an emergency call 911. For their pantry for eggs, rice, bread, Cares bee removal consult your local • Decreased urine output potatoes, bleach, and dish soap directory, or better yet go to: Corona Cares provides services to when it could not be found in the Southernazbeekeepers.org for a • Urine is low in volume and the seniors of the Corona de Tucson grocery stores. qualified professional bee removal more yellowish or darker than community. These services include This experience is a first for all of service. Your local Fire Marshall will normal transportation, friendly visits, friendly us. Initially we were afraid many of be happy to answer your questions phone calls, caregiver relief, and • Hot and or dry skin our population would not have the and or direct you to an appropriate errands that encompass grocery essential information source. You may also shopping for • Muscle cramps, weakness items that go to our web site at: coronafire.org, our recipients, were needed click on Fire Prevention, then click on • Dizziness picking up in their day to Community Risk Reduction for the prescriptions, day lives. But full article on bees. Help Us Help You and delivering because of the products community Snakes Do not hesitate to call 911 if you have donated by members who a medical emergency, need a public members What to do if you find a snake in your stepped up assist, have a snake or your smoke of the yard, property, car, or home? Call to give aid to detector is on the fritz. Do be truthful community. 911. with the 911 operator. When you our seniors, call 911 the operator will ask you a When we have been Stay away from the snake. Do not series of questions, please be truthful COVID-19 able to provide bother the snake. Do not poke or with all questions. These questions struck CdT, everyone all throw anything at the Snake. Call will not delay our response. You will essential the things they 911 and tell the dispatcher that you be asked if the patient or anyone in necessities needed. have a snake, let them know where the home has a cough, please be could not be the snake is/was located. If you can On behalf of truthful. If someone has a cough we found in the safely observe the Snake, please the Corona need to know so we can protect you, grocery stores. do so and tell the arriving crew the Cares your family, the patient and our first People were location it was last seen. You may volunteers responders, including their families. stripping the also go to our web site at: coronafire. and their Surgical masks are proving effective store shelves org, click on Fire Prevention, and then recipients, we in curtailing the spread of COVID-19 of many day click on Community Risk Reduction give heartfelt from a person with a cough. We are to day items. for the full article on snakes. thanks to all asking you to please advise the 911 Toilet paper, who have operator if there is anyone in the paper towels, provided Dehydration. household who has a cough, so that Kleenex, rice, Jack & MJ Carlson receive their groceries assistance we, your first responders can get a potatoes, Dehydration is very serious and can from Corona Cares volunteer Darsey Didier. to our valued mask to that person before entering eggs, and lead to injury or even death. It is community your home. Being truthful with the flour became summertime in our area and it is very members. As 911 operator WILL NOT slow our precious dry. The fastest way to tell if you are we deliver response. Our district residents are commodities that were difficult getting dehydrated is to track the products, we are met with smiles, important to us and we are here to to come by. An appeal from frequency and color of your urine tears of gratitude, amazement, and serve. Public Covid-19 Hotline 1-844- Corona Cares went out to the CdT output. If it is a dark, tea-like color thanks. We pass on that thanks to 542-8201. community for assistance in obtaining you need to drink more water. all of you. We are so grateful for your these items for our recipients. generosity and kindness that helps Other signs that you may be sustain our community. dehydrated include: The response was overwhelming. We received more than we asked • Headaches for. In addition to the items listed in hhhhhhhhhhhhh the appeal, we received masks, hand hhhhhhhhhhhhh 10 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 only for very specific reasons. Folks ones. The stories of Notes from Italy with dogs can walk them, but only people who had to by Suzanne Saluti within 200 meters of their homes. die alone without the There is no such thing as going for a comfort of family are Although some regional lockdowns stroll in the town center or even the always horrifying to began weeks earlier in northern Italy, nearby countryside whether one is hear, but perhaps April 19th marked the 40th day of social distancing or not. One parent even more so in national lockdown here in Italy. The can take children outside for one a country whose origin of the word quarantine comes hour a day, but again, only within cultural identity is from the 14th century Venetian word the 200-meter perimeter of their largely tied to family. quarantena, a term for the forty days residence. In the early days of the Many households are all ships were required to be isolated lockdown, vans circulated through multi-generational, before passengers and crew could go towns with loudspeakers reminding and reverence for ashore during the Black Plague. people to stay inside. Until a few one’s grandparents restrictions were lifted last week, is hard-wired in the Although we’ve probably all read there was no take-out food service Italian psyche. But it historical accounts of quarantines, allowed from restaurants. I should turns out that when until very recently, the idea of living note, though, that take-out food it comes to family through something like this seemed isn’t popular outside of larger cities and health, Italians, The same square, taken by my daughter on a recent pretty far-fetched. From our lovely in Italy. Since becoming an adult, I who are notorious errand run downtown. but lonely post here in the Italian have never been more excited about hypochondriacs, can countryside, we continue to monitor getting a pizza-to-go than I was this be quite disciplined will go until May 15. We expect a the news of how other countries are week. in making sacrifices for the greater new announcement from the Prime managing through the pandemic, as good. However, if the lockdown is Minister in the next week detailing they attempt to balance public health Anyone leaving the house for extended indefinitely, I am not sure the very carefully staged return to and economic concerns in the face shopping, work, or medical how long this compliance can be something resembling normal life- of a virus about which we know very treatment must carry a signed auto- reasonably maintained. although we all know it will be far little. We often talk to our family and authorization form stating their reason from the normal we once knew for friends based in the San Francisco for being outside. The form includes Thankfully, the number of reported quite a long time-and that fills our Bay Area and have been surprised by your residence address, identity card cases is slowly declining, and hearts with both hope and sadness. the differences between the relative number and destination. A friend although deaths and new infections gentleness of the shelter in place told us that she was stopped by the still jump around a bit, likely due Suzanne was born and raised in practices they are following and what police as she crossed town to go to increased testing. ICU bed Northern California, but has been is expected of us here in Italy. to the butcher on her bike, and our occupancy continues to decline, living on and off in Central Italy for daughter’s car was flagged down on which many people feel is a good 30 years. She a main thoroughfare indicator that real progress is has now found in a random check being made against the virus. her forever last week. They Although I was already a believer, home in the questioned her for this experience has shown me Marche region 5 minutes, wanting the tangible benefits of a swift, with her Italian to know where her coordinated national response and husband, six uncle lived and why nationally run health care system chickens, she was delivering to which all residents have equal three cats, and vegetables to him. access. 95 olive trees. She told them that he normally helps us Since I last wrote, our lockdown has been extended to May 3. In maintain our garden hhhhhhhhhhhhh and as he is over 70, the harder hit, northern areas, it we felt it was best he didn’t leave the house. 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This metric, also A virus with a low R0 gradually One physician, Amy Chai, who is Why is Wearing a Mask referred to as the basic reproduction disappears because it is not also trained as an epidemiologist, and Social Distancing number, is an indication of how successful in finding new hosts. This, points out it is not the sick that contagious an infectious disease is. however, does not mean that the are infecting other people, “most Recommended? The 1918 pandemic is known to have virus isn’t deadly. On the contrary, the community spread of the virus killed 17 to 50 million people, and had transmissibility of Ebola is relatively is from asymptomatic people,” by Mike Lavelle an R0 value approximated between low precisely due to the fact that it which are people that do not Preface: I will freely admit I am not 1.4 and 2.8. While the estimates is frequently lethal to its host. To be know they are infected. Given her a medical researcher nor have any of COVID-19’s R0 value vary, it training, experience, and training in epidemiology; in fact, math is believed to have at minimum a education, I figure what was never my strong suit. However, comparable value, and possibly up she says carries more with lots of free time on my hands to roughly double the upper bound of weight than some random and a curious mind, I have tried the 1918 pandemic at 5.7 (Sance et. person on Facebook. to understand the science behind al, 2020). (https://www.quora.com/ the Covid-19 pandemic. I have profile/Amy-Chai-3). The higher the R value is above 1, noticed that there are lots of things 0 the more quickly the overall rate of Flattening the curve means referenced but not often explained, infection increases. For example, an to reduce the transmission as well as things not explained individual infected by a disease with of the virus so medical or well-known. I offer this only as an R of 3 will infect, on average, 3 workers do not become (hopefully) helpful information that 0 others (sum=4), who will each infect over-tasked with trying to might be useful. This has nothing to an average of 3 additional others save too many lives at one do with political affiliation or the lack (sum=13), and so on as the number Graphic from https://triplebyte.com/blog/ time. One way to help our of political affiliation. It does have a of infected exponentially grows. If the modeling-infectious-diseases community to achieve this lot to do with my doing what I can R value can be limited to 1 or less, is to wear a mask. As the to help in this time of crisis, if only to 0 the spread of infection throughout virus moves through the population, help explain some concepts and to successful as a virus, the goal is to a population can be considered any action that slows or stops it encourage the wearing of masks and not necessarily to kill your host, but controlled, if it is higher, there will reproduction, such as wearing a the practicing of social distancing. to maximize self-replication. The be more infections, as shown in the mask or limiting your distance to Any mistakes are entirely mine. common cold (actually an assortment graph: others, can reduce COVID-19’s R . of several viruses), with an R0 0 One important factor that leads to a between 2 and 3, pandemic is run-away contagion. is an example of a successful virus. Its COVID-19 is unique for a few lesser lethality is in reasons: part what makes it 1. It is a “novel” virus, meaning new highly infectious. to the human population, humans It lives alongside do not (yet) have herd immunity us, as 10 people (meaning that enough people are carrying the cold will immune - whether naturally or by spread it to 20-30 vaccination - to prevent the spread). people on average. With greater herd immunity, a virus 3. Many people is less likely to make its way to a who are infected receptive host. by COVID-19 are Graphic from https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ asymptomatic the-math-behind-social-distancing/ 2. It has an R0 (pronounced Graphic from https://www.nature.com/articles/ "R-naught) value larger than the carriers, meaning s41421-020-0148-0 they don’t feel sick, but are capable of transmitting the These practices will help get things virus to others. They are showing no back to the way they were before Future Pumpers symptoms and are likely unaware the outbreak. 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12 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 "Why is Wearing a Mask and Social a significantly higher Distancing Recommended?" fatality rate. It literally is continued from previous page more dangerous in every category. A good example of the difference For those who desire an between two approaches is how end to self-quarantine the H1N1 virus in 1918 affected two and want businesses to cites: St. Louis and Philadelphia. open, you can help by Even with warnings that a flu was following the advice of spreading, the city of Philadelphia experts – wear a mask threw a parade that drew 200,000 and practice social people on September the 28th. distancing. Graphic from https://en.wikipedia.org/ Earlier, on September 19th, 1918, For anybody interested the flu arrived at the Philadelphia wiki/File:165-WW-269B-25-police-l_ and who want real solid restored.jpg Navy Yard. Within days, 600 sailors medical information had caught the disease, and shortly on Covid-19, google thereafter over 4,500 people in the and visit medcram. Policemen in Seattle wearing Philadelphia area died from the virus. com - a medical training masks made by the Red Cross (and practicing social distancing), during After detecting its first cases of the and information site. Another good source the influenza epidemic - December flu in the community, St. Louis quickly 1918. closed buildings such as schools, of information is churches, courtrooms and libraries. Coronavirus, Explained on Netflix. Graphic from https://www.vox.com/science-and- Mike Lavelle is retired and formerly Some of the health/2020/3/18/21184992/coronavirus-covid-19- worked part-time as the editor at The information flu-comparison-chart Vail Voice. He lived in the Del Webb in this community in Vail but now resides in article Sierra Vista. came from the-results-couldnt-have-been-more- the sites cited in the opposite/ graphics and the locations cited below. https://qz.com/1816060/a-chart-of- Also, for an interesting the-1918-spanish-flu-shows-why- look on how people social-distancing-works/ responded in a very https://www.businessinsider. similar way during the com/history-of-how-st-louis-vs- 1918 pandemic visit: philadelphia-treated-1918-flu- https://www. pandemic-2020-4 Graphic from https://qz.com/1816060/a-chart-of- theatlantic.com/family/ https://www.vox.com/future- the-1918-spanish-flu-shows-why-social-distancing- archive/2020/03/ perfect/2020/3/31/21199874/ works/ coronavirus-loneliness- coronavirus-spanish-flu-social- and-mistrust-1918- distancing flu-pandemic- Gatherings of more than 20 people quarantine/609163/ were banned. The deaths in St. Louis hhhhhhhhhhhhh were much lower than in Philadelphia. https://www.healthline.com/health- Please refer to graphic and observe news/what-we-know-about-the-long- the difference. Note the peak of the term-effects-of-covid-19 dotted line starting in December, representing when the town briefly https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/ relaxed social distancing guidelines rounds/how-scientists-quantify- before reinstituting them. When intensity-of-an-outbreak-like- medical professionals assert the covid-19 importance to flattening the curve, https://www.vox.com/science- this is what they mean. and-health/2020/4/2/21197617/ Here is a graph to compare the flu coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19- with COVID-19, to show why it is far death-rate-transmission-risk-factors- more dangerous than the flu. You can lockdowns-social-distancing see COVID-19 infects more people, https://www.clickorlando.com/ has a longer incubation time, has a features/2020/03/18/2-cities- much higher hospitalization rate, and handled-this-health-crisis-different- thevailvoice.com May 2020 13 are older or are immunocompromised around 2 million. Sharks, by contrast, Living with COVID 19 in should be cautious, but not killed 10. Judees Quick Health necessarily worried. Vail We all long for a calm sea. Even and Beauty Tips by Khevin Barnes Regardless of the actual science at though the occasional storm work, that the predator circling in the surprises us on our journey, my wish To give hair more shine, use cold Survival. It seems we are sometimes waters of our lives can potentially for all of us in Vail is to remain forever water for final rinse. This rids hair forced into it with an intensity greater strike any of us. The panic buying steady on our course with survival, of excess residue from shampoo/ than gravity. Our will to live and our and hoarding is proof that we all feel unswerving in our expedition through conditioner, wakes up the scalp and reluctance to die seem like opposing susceptible. Covid-19, and always available to revives hair follicles for extra sheen. drives, but many of us with an the possibility of smooth sailing once If you have trouble eating enough existing life-threating illness, like me, Pandemics are that way. It appears again. vegetables, drink a glass of original are familiar with those days when the to have an objective to carry out, but V8 juice. V8 has 2 full servings of division between those forces gets a viruses do not have a concious. The veggies. If drinking a full glass is little murkey. origins of viruses in the evolutionary Khevin Barnes lives in Vail with his tough to swallow, start with just one history of life are unclear. Some may wife Gaga and two barn cats. He half glass. You’ll still get one serving A pandemic, such as this one we have evolved from plasmids (pieces works as a health journalist, writing of veggies, which better than none. are experiencing, is obscured from of DNA that can move between for CURE Use the original V8. Enjoy! view. In fact, we only have numbers cells), while others may have evolved magazine and by which to follow its path. And it’s from bacteria. Their only purpose spends much Judee is a Vail resident and in 2019 this invisibility that has frightened so is to replicate, and they do that of his free time wrote a book many people around the world. We by invading our own healthy cells. practicing called Just have a murderer in our neighborhood, Viruses are the sharks in the water social Because. Her riding on peoples’ of our physical distancing, hobbies are hands and faces, and bodies. Their job is to playing his interior design, waiting to bite like a expand, proliferate, banjo and country music shark. Nevertheless, and multiply. trying to figure and wine on most days, at out how to get tasting. least when we are We go to great those elastic straps on his face mask sequestered in the lengths to find them to stop pinching his ears. safety of our homes, and fish them out. it can feel like a But sometimes hhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhh sunny and safe walk the quick ones slip on the beach — with through the net. a mask on. Given that some of us are already hosting I still see a lot of a life-threatening folks resisting disease, the last thing wearing a mask in public places. we need or expect is for yet another But sooner or later we have to disease or disorder to cloud the go out to buy groceries ,and the waters of recovery. invisible threat becomes real once again. Not everyone I meet takes It’s a common myth that sharks this threat seriously, but many are must constantly swim to stay alive. taking measures to avoid becoming I worked for a year performing hosts for this tiny, deadly, and science shows in Legoland’s Sea unwanted intruder. Speaking of tiny, Life Aquarium, so I know this to a single Corona virus is about 120 be untrue. Maybe this applies to nanometers. You won’t see any of COVID-19 as well. When it’s on the them lingering in the sink after using move we take notice, but it can settle hand cleaner. A nanometer is a unit into hiding for a long time. And of length equal to one billionth of a like the shark, it has the capacity to meter. reawaken with a voracious appetite. This uncertainty keeps us vigilant, How many people do you know with one eye on the horizon. personally who have this virus? There will be exceptions of course, The World Health Organization but I don’t know a single person reports that around 80% of people infected in Vail. I find myself taking will experience a relatively mild solace in this while remaining vigilant. form of the Corona virus, which will not require specialist treatment in The statistics are confusing, but it is a hospital. And to put everything in unlikely that anyone reading this will perspective, last year mosquitoes contract the virus and die from it. As killed 850,000 people on our planet, I mentioned earlier, those of us who but the annual average remains

14 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 population. in doing anything. Even getting up I am not terribly worried about A Covid-19 Story to use the bathroom initiates internal surviving this thing. The course So, I’m staying home, riding it out, by Mike Holmes mental debate about how badly I of my life has rendered me pretty and checking my symptoms. If I really need to go. fatalistic. Everybody’s going to die I came down with what I thought reach a trigger point, I will call for an of something, so I don’t lie in fear or was a gut-flu last Thursday, the ambulance. What does that mean? So far, my higher intellect has won excessive worry. I watch my pulse 26th of March. Because of strict I am watching my temperature those debates. ox and symptoms, and if I see them protocols at work, I stayed home, and looking for Gastric distress trending south, I’ll call 911, drag but felt much better by Monday. I respiratory distress. has also been in myself outside with my wallet and returned back to work on Tuesday, This seems to be play. I force myself toilet kit, and wait for the ambulance was screened for temperature when the biggest danger to eat at least a so that EMS won’t have to expose I arrived. This has been our SOP for with corona virus. can of Amy’s Soup themselves to my contaminated several weeks now, and I only had a My best tool is for some healthy home. 99 degree temperature — well within an app called vegetables and I parameters. However, I soon began Oximeter that In the meantime, I’m as comfortable have two bags of feeling generally unwell, and about costs $4.95. I use as I can reasonably be, given the clementine oranges four hours into the day I broke into a it almost hourly to significant physical impact of this for snacking sweat. I took my temperature again check the oxygen disease. as needed. But and it had risen to 99.4. I noticed I level in my blood. I generally, I’m not hungry. And I have more than enough toilet had started coughing. It wasn’t a lot, have been advised to call Emergency paper. but rose my internal alarms. I went Medical Services if my O2 drops I am also alone. And that poses a below 92%. So far I am ranging home immediately and passed out. very strange dilemma for some so Mike is I sweated through the night with between 99% and 97%, usually in extremely extroverted, yet ill with no the higher range, so... so far so good. a former fever dreams and called Teladoc energy. When people call, as much resident of Vail in the morning. My diagnosis is But that does not mean I feel well. I as I appreciate it, I often just don’t and recently presumptive based on symptoms, do not. I go through fever cycles with have the energy to participate in a moved to the but since I am in the DC area where sweats and very strange dreams. conversation. Since this thing seems DC area. we are approaching 4,000 confirmed I sleep for a dozen hours straight, to go through cycles throughout the cases, testing is impractical. It takes which except for the dreams, day, it really just depends upon how too long, and there simply aren’t are largely not interrupted. I am I feel at the moment how long that enough tests for our major metro constantly fatigued with little interest conversation will last. hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com May 2020 15 help prevent the virus from Coronavirus Price spreading. An American Duty Gouging is Up by Ace Ventura, American Legion Post 109 • Advertise Honestly—Do not from the Better Business Bureau fuel fears. More than anything, Just before Election Day in 2018, an American soldier in Afghanistan posted you need to act as a calming on Facebook. 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16 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 Freedom Isn't Free ReSources Vail Food by Kelly Strong Bank Serves Record

I watched the flag pass by one Number of Clients day, It fluttered in the breeze; During Outbreak A young Marine saluted it, And then he stood at ease. by Susan Summers

I looked at him in uniform, While many small food banks and So young, so tall, so proud; food pantries in Pima County were With hair cut square and eyes alert, forced to close because of the He’d stand out in any crowd COVID-19 outbreak in recent weeks, ReSources Vail Food Bank remained I thought . . . how many men like open and served nearly double the him Had fallen through the years? number clients seen at this time How many died on foreign soil? last year. Acquiring food for clients How many mothers’ tears? during grocery store scarcities and distributing it quickly and safely has How many pilots’ planes shot presented enormous challenges for this 501(C)3. An added hardship is down How many died at sea that the food bank cannot accept H o w m a n y f o x h o l e s w e r e s o l d i e r s ’ food donations from the public graves at this time for safety reasons. No, Freedom is not Free. However, it continues to operate with substantial support from the I heard the sound of Taps one Southern Arizona Community Food night, When everything was still; Bank. Under the leadership of I listened to the bugler play, general manager, Stefanie Stark, an And felt a sudden chill; astounding 30,000 pounds of food went out the doors during the month I wondered just how many times of March serving 335 families—an That Taps had meant "Amen" increase of approximately 45% charities to support in the wake of the When a flag had draped a coffin over recent months. This includes COVID-19 pandemic, please keep Of a brother or a friend; food distribution to home-bound individuals and to needy area school Greater Vail Community Resources on your short list. The closure of I thought of all the children, children through ReSources “back Vail Depot Thrift Store Of the mothers and the wives, pack” program. All of this was accomplished has resulted in the loss Of fathers, sons and husbands. of at least two-thirds With interrupted lives. with fewer donations from local grocery stores of revenue to this grassroots nonprofit while I thought about a graveyard and a diminished, but dedicated, volunteer staff. the community need At the bottom of the sea, has risen dramatically. Of unmarked graves in Arlington. Keeping the food bank Monetary donations No. Freedom is not Free! humming in the face of are needed urgently. increased demand and Send donations to stringent safety protocols “ReSources”, P.O. Box has required some 367, Vail, AZ, 85641, or innovation. To solve the visit the web site: www. immediate problem, the resourcesvail.org/give- staff instituted a parking back/ To the many lot “drive through” model allowing individuals who have already donated clients to check in at one station generously, Resources extends its and have groceries delivered to the deep gratitude. vehicle’s trunk space at another station. After each client’s departure, As we all look forward to happier staging tables have been sanitized days, ReSources sends best wishes for good health and renewed ©Copyright 1981 by Kelly Strong and fresh gloves donned for the next client. This method has worked well prosperity. Don’t forget to check ReSources Facebook page for news Used with the author’s permission. and assures volunteers and clients that their safety is the first priority. on the Vail Depot Thrift Store’s re- opening. 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18 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 We also had to come up with a name. RitaRitos Opens in Rita We wanted our food truck’s name Ranch to feel healthy, delicious, and local, while incorporating a description by Elizabeth Warburton-Smith & for our unique product. After some Gregory Smith brainstorming with friends and family, we realized that our wraps didn’t fit During difficult times, new businesses into any neat category, so it was a and opportunities can rise out of the tough challenge. ashes. This was definitely the case for us. Gregory Smith, my husband, ‘Healthy’ can seem ‘not so delicious’ has been the executive chef of the so this task was a real challenge. We Marriott University Park Hotel for eventually landed on RitaRito for our the last 21 years. But the COVID-19 locally made wrap and RitaRitos for pandemic prompted Marriott to the business. Our motto is healthy completely shut down all of its food wrapped in delicious! and beverage operations world- wide, so Greg has been furloughed Next we incorporated, applied for until further notice. We came face trademarks and our transaction to face with some scary realities business privilege license. We also but regrouped and figured out our reached out to all of our friends that options. We knew we needed to work as chefs or restaurant owners come up with something to keep us to find a professional, permitted financially afloat until things balance commissary we could work out of. out again, but no one is hiring chefs. Next, we had to find a food truck to help us reach people. After being disappointed with the results of our search, we started looking for food trailers instead. We soon connected with one of the owners of Viva Coffee House, who happened to be trailing his Viva food trailer. I immediately asked him Our small menu features local, where he found it and lots desert foods. We have a great recipe of other questions about for mesquite flour chocolate chip the trailer. After finding out cookies that we are offering as well. what we were doing, he and his business partner Our wraps are delicious, with crunchy offered to lend it to us veggies, grilled chicken, and super until we find our own. We flavorful aiolis. Our current offerings feel very fortunate to have include the Veggie-Rito, a vegetarian teamed up with another options that is paired with a fresh local restaurant that is lemon and garlic aioli sauce, the doing such great things Smokey BBQ Rito with grilled for our community. chicken and a tangy smooth smokey Our doctor happened to ask us if aioli, and our Salsa-Rito, with grilled we had ever thought about opening As the founder of the chicken and a mild fresh salsa aioli. up a food truck. Truth be told, we Rita Ranch Community had considered it from time to time, Garden, my vision for We are open for business Fridays, but for the last 35 years, Greg has the future is to help Saturdays, and Sundays from 11-2 worked long hours. These days, we transform the way we eat in front of the Rita Ranch Community have some extra time on our hands. food. We want food from Garden at 7471 South Houghton Knowing that I am the founder of the an organic farm to our Road. plate in as little time as Rita Ranch Community Garden and You can contact us via email at have a passion for healthy, organic possible. Food is the most nutritious when consumed [email protected], or at foods, Dr. Azam suggested we create ChefRitaRitos on FaceBook or a healthy burrito type wrap. We liked within 10 minutes of harvesting, and we are Instagram. If we don’t get back to the idea immediately and started you right away through social media, crafting recipes and exploring lots very fortunate to have access to fresh, delicious please be patient. We are still learning of healthy ingredient combinations that part of the business! to find the perfect pairings for a few organic produce. We options to reflect seasonal changes different wrap options. will be incorporating local, organic so we can stay focused on local veggies into our RitaRitos whenever ingredients packed full of immune possible. We will also revise our menu boosting nutrition. hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com May 2020 19 Restaurant Guide for Take Out & Delivery Did we miss your restaurant? Please email us at [email protected] with edits or additions.

Quik Mart Tay’s Coffee Brew House Bruegger’s Bagels Vail 13142 E. Colossal Cave Road 16461 S Houghton Road 8140 S. Houghton Road (520) 762-1009 (520) 762-3439 (520) 664-1600 Arizona Pizza Company No Changes To Service Takeout Only Pickup & Local Delivery Available 24 Hours 6:00 AM to 11:00 AM, Mon-Thurs 5:30 AM to 3:00 PM 13190 E. Colossal Cave Road 6:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Fri (520) 762-5500 Rincon Valley Farmers 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Sat Burger King Takeout & Delivery Market 7:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Sun 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Daily 9175 S. Rita Road 12500 E. Old Spanish Trail Tay’s BBQ (866) 394-2493 Bowld (520) 882-2157 Drive Through & Carryout Only Food Vendors Will Be Open 16461 S Houghton Road 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM 13160 E. Colossal Cave Road 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Sat. (520) 400-1836 Delivery via Doordash & UberEats (520) 762-1176 Takeout & Curbside Takeout & Some Delivery Possible Alcohol, Beer, and Carl’s Jr. 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Daily Spirits Available for Takeout upon Request 8120 S. Houghton Road Charron Vineyards During Emergency Proclamation (520) 663-1020 Corona de 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM, Fri-Sat D r i v e T h r o u g h & L o b b y O p e n 18585 S. Sonoita Highway 6:00 AM to 12:00 AM (520) 762-8585 Tucson Delivery Via Doordash & UberEats Tasting Room Closed Call Ahead For Pick Up & Denny’s Shipping Argenziano's 9220 S. Houghton Road 16251 S. Houghton Road Southeast (520) 849-7017 Fito’s Mexican Food (520) 762-5999 Online & Takeout Orders Takeout & Delivery Tucson 13303 E. Colossal Cave Road 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM Alcohol, Beer, and (520) 762-8888 Delivery via UberEats & Doordash Drive Through Only Spirits Available for Arby’s 7:00 AM to 11:00 PM, Daily Takeout upon Request Domino’s Pizza During Emergency Proclamation 10115 E. Old Vail Road Marco’s Pizza 11:00 AM to 9PM, Tues-Sat (520) 393-3978 8045 S. Rita Road Drive Through Open (520) 325-5050 13370 E. Mary Ann Cleveland Way Charquitas 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM Delivery & Takeout (520) 822-8322 To Go Orders 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Takeout & Delivery 16335 S Houghton Road 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM 11:00 AM to 12:00 AM, Daily (520) 729-5388 Dunkin Donuts Contact Free Delivery Available Takeout Only Baggin’s Gourmet 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Daily Sandwiches 10200 E. Old Vail Road Montgomery’s Grill & (520) 207-4760 Road Runner Deli Market Saloon 10235 E. Old Vail Road Drive Through Only (520) 585-4585 5:00 AM to 7:00 PM 16121 S Houghton Road 13190 E. Colossal Cave Road Open 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Daily Order on App, Pickup in Store (520) 762-5452 (520) 762-5500 Delivery via Grubhub & Doordash Takeout Only Takeout & Delivery 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Mon-Fri 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Daily 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM Sat-Sun

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Dutch Bros Coffee Luckie’s Thai Asian Papa Loco’s Tacos & Subway — Valencia Road Burgers 10105 E. Old Vail Road 8110 S. Houghton Road, #186 9040 E. Valencia Road, Suite 136 (541) 955-4700 (520) 664-1011 8201 S. Rita Road (520) 663-3757 Business as Usual Takeout Only (520) 663-3333 Takeout Only 5:00 AM to 11:00 PM 11:00 AM to 9:30 PM Takeout Only 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM Delivery via Doordash & UberEats El Coronado Restaurant McDonald’s Delivery via Uber & Doordash Subway — S. Houghton 7385 S. HoughtonRoad, #127 Normal Hours, All Locations Papa Murphy’s Pizza Road (520) 574-7776 Carryout, Curbside, & Drive Takeout Through Delivery via Doordash 9160 S. Houghton Road 8140 S. Houghton Delivery via Postmates (520) 663-5755 Road, Suite 100 Mr. Toro’s Carniceria Takeout & Drive Up (520) 574-0547 Happy Wok 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM Takeout Only 7545 S. Houghton Road Delivery via Doordash 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM (520) 849-6573 9040 E. Valencia Road Delivery via Doordash & UberEats (520) 663-3888 Takeout Only Pizza Hut Takeout Only 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM Taco Bell 11:00 AM to 8:30 PM 8140 S. Houghton Delivery via Doordash & Native Grill & Wings Road, Suite 189 10265 E. Old Vail Road Postmates (520) 663-5656 (520) 574-2023 10275 E. Old Vail Road Takeout & Delivery Pickup & Drivethrough (520) 574-2294 Jerry Bobs 10:30 AM to 11:00 PM 9:00 AM to 1:00 AM Takeout Only Delivery via UberEats, Grubhub, 1030 AM to 10:00 PM 2680 E. Valencia Road Rancho Rustico Postmastes, and Doordash (520) 807-5717 Delivery via Grubhub, Postmates, Takeout Only Doordash, & UberEats 10275 E. Old Vail Road Viva Coffeehouse 6:00 AM to 1:00 PM (520) 574-2294 Delivery via Doordash Our Sweet Lil’ Cakery Takeout & Delivery 9136 E. Valencia Road, #160 $5 Charge for Delivery (520) 574-7505 10501 E. Seven Generations Way, Jersey Mike’s Subs On Orders Below $30 Pickup & Curbisde Only #131 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM 9172 S. Houghton Road, (520) 288-1969 S u i t e 1 5 0 ( 5 2 0 ) 8 6 7 - 8 9 1 7 Always Carryout Serial Grillers Wings On Fire Takeout Only Delivery Only For Wedding Cakes 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM 7585 S Houghton Road 9040 E. Valencia Road, Suite 100 Devliery via Grubhub (520) 574-7878 (520) 274-7292 Papa John’s Pizza Takeout & Local Delivery Pickup Only Little Caesar’s Pizza 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM 8270 S. Houghton Road, #110 Delivery via Postmates, UberEats 9136 E. Valencia Road, #140 (520) 664-1144 (520) 574-0575 Delivery Only Sa-Ing Thai Cuisine Takeout Only 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM, Weekdays 10:30 AM to 11:00 PM 10:00 AM to 12:00 AM, Weekends 9136 E. Valencia Road Doordash delivery via Little (520) 663-5955 Caesar’s App Only Takeout & Delivery 11:00 AM to 9:00 PM

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Authentic Life Church Desert Skies United Oasis Victory Baptist Church

(520) 333-5788 Methodist Church (520) 207-6635 (520) 240-9874 Sundays @ 10:30 AM (520) 812-0521 Sundays @ 10:30 AM Sundays @ 10:00 AM & 5:00 PM Livestream link: Sundays @ 10:00 AM Livestream link: Wednesdays @ 7:00 PM http://authenticlifeaz.com/ Livestream link: https://www.oasisaz.online.church Livestream link: https://youtu.be/6NT4xExus5c https://www.facebook.com/ Bethel Baptist Church Pantano Christian Church VBCVail/

(520) 722-0818 Grace Fellowship Church 520) 298-5395 Sundays @ 10:45 AM (520) 345-1242 Sundays @ 9:00 AM Livestream link: Sundays @ 10:30 AM Livestream link: http://bethelaz.org/live-stream/ Livestream link: https://pantano.church/ https://m.facebook.com/

Calvary Chapel Tucson gracefellowshipaz/ Sahuaro Baptist Church (520) 573-9933 (520) 886-4796 Sundays @ 10:20 AM Grace Lutheran Church, Sundays @ 11:00 AM Wednesdays @ 6:00 PM Vail Livestream link: Saturdays @ 6:00 PM Sundays @ 10:00 AM https://www.facebook. Livestream link: Livestream link: com/526497300758639/ https://youtu.be/XQoFQ2YTS0I https://GraceLutheranSAZ.org videos/689932555084344/ Christ Lutheran Vail Hope City Church Vail Christian Church (520) 468-7075 See services on Facebook @ (520) 722-1220 Sundays @ 9:00 AM hopecitychurchtucson Sundays @ 9:30 AM Livestream link: Palm Sunday @ 8:00 AM https://www.facebook. Livestream link: com/Christ-Lutheran-Vail- https://www.vailchristian.com/ Church-35547698075/

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22 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 The Palo Verde Tree by Rob Hallberg By the time you read this, there will be thousands of bright yellow Palo Verde trees flowering throughout the metroplex. Most Tucsonans welcome the beautiful blooming of the Arizona state tree as a bellwether of Spring, while some of us dread the pollen that comes with it.

Palo Verde is synonymous with bright yellow, flowering trees known for their Gifts unique green bark. The green coloring is from chlorophyll, created by the Palo Verde through photosynthesis. Not surprisingly, Palo Verde means “green A poem by Barbara Russek stick” in Spanish. I step outside to my front patio, in need of an oasis of calm, courtesy of There are two types of Palo Verde. The Blue Palo Verde is usually spotted near Nature, in my new topsy-turvy reality of COVID-19. Nature came through for water sources, has a blue-green trunk and can reach a height of 30 feet. The me. Foothills Palo Verde is mostly found on rocky slopes and has a yellow-green trunk. It can live for over 100 years and grows about 20 feet high. Buds in the tiny rose garden are about to burst forth. Visible bits of peach, pink and yellow hint at a future kaleidoscope of color. The seeds and flowers are edible, although I have not tried either. Pick the pods while still green and eat them as you would peas or edamame. I have The intoxicating scent of dainty white blossoms from the orange tree fills the been told they are sweet. The flowers can be sprinkled on salads. air. And the generic green plant bought a few months back at the dollar store hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh surprised and delighted me with velvety purple flowers. My goldfish have emerged from their winter hiding place at the bottom of the pond and are swimming contentedly about in their little fish universe. The cycle of life continues and brings comfort amid all this uncertainty. Spring graced us with an abundance of gifts this year. I pray for two more gifts before year’s end: a prevention and a cure. Barbara Russek, a former French teacher, has been a freelance writer for the past 13 years. She still loves all things French. Russek welcomes comments at [email protected]

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24 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 a “tidal wave of responsibility” or many do not have to expend right Back on March 7, the final event In Your a “tsunami of emotion” crashing now—which is even more reasons in the Four Golf Course Challenge down upon us. In addition, bodies why we owe great appreciation and was held. Featuring. Members Dreams of water and waves can also serve gratitude to these individuals who are from the Del Lago Men’s Golf Club as a symbol for our subconscious working on the front lines during this and the men’s clubs at Starr Pass, world, an ever-changing, swirling, pandemic. San Ignacio, and the Country Club with Claire Schild and uncharted place where many of Green Valley all took part. The emotions and truths go to hide and Please submit your dreams for finals were played at the neutral takes courage to explore. analysis to: site of Sewailo Golf Course with 12 Dear Claire, members of each club representing As it turns out, the person who [email protected] their courses. Lately, I have had this recurring submitted this dream is a nurse, dream that starts out very calm and the wave which turned into the Of special interest is recurring and beautiful, but then becomes tsunami was, indeed a symbol for dreams; otherwise, a most recent and very disturbing and chaotic. I am the overwhelming responsibilities remembered dream will work. Ms. at the beach, standing by the and emotions which she has been Schild may need to establish contact shoreline. The waves are coming experiencing as of late due to the with you for additional information. in very peacefully. I can hear the current pandemic. The fact that she However, your name, email contact soothing whoosh of the waves felt that there was nowhere she could and shared information will stay as they roll in and the splashing run to escape, and that in every anonymous and private. Feel free to sounds that my feet make as I dream there is a tsunami crashing use an alias. down on her is a reflection of the walk through the water. Suddenly, hhhhhhhhhhhhh I hear loud crashing sounds. I look crushing amount of responsibility up and see this huge tidal wave which she has been experiencing in roaring towards me. As it moves her current, waking world. Updates From the Del closer, it becomes bigger and Pictured left to right, Bob Sanchez, It would not be surprising whatsoever bigger until it looks like a tsunami. John Bluemenshine, and Ton Agtual to hear that many health care Lago Men’s Golf Club Then, it becomes so loud that it is practicing social distancing in the workers, first responders, and deafening. Finally, it looks like this by Stuart Katz tournament. caregivers are currently having huge wall of water, ready to hit dreams of this nature. It is an The Del Lago Men’s Golf Club me, but there is no place where I extremely overwhelming and difficult crowned their champions the can run to escape it. Then, I wake Each of the courses hosted one time for them, and they must often weekend of March 28 and 29 at up with my heart pounding. The of the first four events starting in feel like they are facing a tsunami the Del Lago Golf Course. The recurring part in my dreams is that December. Del Lago had won 3 of when they face the challenges of this participants were placed into three I am always standing in the ocean the first four events but needed to pandemic. If these individuals are flights with John Blumenshine and thinking that everything is fine. pull out a victory at Sewailo to claim too busy during their waking hours to winning the A flight, Ron Agtual Then, I look up and a tsunami wave the overall championship based on process and deal with how they are winning the B flight, and Bob is coming to crash down on me. the points available for each of the feeling, the suppressed emotions and Sanchez garnering the title in the C events. Each of the events used the 9 unresolved issues from troubling and flight. lowest net scores of the 12 members Waves and the ocean are extremely difficult situations in their conscious common and powerful dream The championships were held over with DLMGC totaling 688 to win the world can often spill over into their event by six strokes over Starr Pass. symbols because they are composed dream world. It is the subconscious two days with the members following of water, the ultimate mind’s way of forcing the directives about social distancing. The members of the finals team from symbol for life. Water them to confront, The course provided each of the Del Lago included Rick Schnurr, symbolizes life not work through, and players with a cart to ride alone, Domingo Laborin. Bill McCall, Stuart only because it is the come to terms with and instead of shaking hands at the Katz, Tim Tyler, Brandon Tibbets, source of all life, but difficult issues and conclusion of the round, players Bob Snodgrass, Mark Murnan, John also because it sustains feelings in order to bumped elbows or clinked putters. Blumenshine, Hugo Keyner, Bob life. In addition, like keep them as mentally Miller and Chas Giufurta. life, water is fluid and This year was Blumenshine’s second and emotionally time wining the Gross Championship ever-changing. As a The Men’s Club routinely plays resilient and angst- in the A flight. He bested Domingo result, water, waves, every weekend on Sunday at Del free as possible. The Laborin by one shot. Time Tyler was and the ocean not only Lago – sometimes elsewhere – and fact that these dream the Low Net champ in the A flight. symbolize the change anyone interested may contact themes are recurring Ron Agtual came from 9 shots back and fluidity of life, but Stuart Katz or John Blumenshine illustrates the brain’s to defeat Trey Koger for the B flight can also represent our for more information. You can find method of prodding title, while Koger was the Low Net emotions, which can the club at https://www.azgolf.org/ the dreamer who has champion in the B flight. be calm and serene suppressed emotions join-the-arizona-golf-association/ or turbulent and out or unresolved issues Bob Sanchez, another repeat winner, join/?cid=1712. You can contact of control. 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Visit our website: academyvillas.org The important point here is that any place may offer a range of different hhhhhhhhhhhhh Inquiries welcome No-obligation tours available thevailvoice.com May 2020 29 the Convention at the Time. J.J. Lamb is President & CEO of Va i l Vail Preservation Society. A U of Preservation Fire from an unknown origin A graduate, her family has lived in Society destroyed the big store of Otto Vail since W.H. Schley late yesterday 1971. She nnecting mmunity Trug afternoon at Vails station. Mr. was named ca istry Since 200 Schley at the time was in Tucson an Arizona it am attending the Democratic county Culturekeeper convention as a delegate from in 2011 and Vails. The flames which consumed an Arizona Vail’s General Store his building were not discovered Friend of the Clerk Narrowly until considerable headway had Humanities in been made. Everything possible 2020. Escapes Fire to extinguish the blaze was done, but it was without avail and the hhhhhhhhhhhhh Orange flames rose high into the store with all of the goods placed starlit sky, crackling and hissing, as there was destroyed. The Schley they consumed the dry planks of store was one of the largest of Placemaking Through the board and batten building that the country stores in this section housed Otto Schley & Co. General as [V]ails is a trading point for the Story - With Old Store and Post Office. The Southern Helvetia camp. Pacific Railroad (SPRR) water tank Vail Middle School car was the only source of water. Vail An effort was made today to reach Students had no well in 1908. The SPRR Night Vails by telephone but this was Operator at the Vail Depot, only 150’ impossible as the fire temporarily Our stories, local history, lore and Otto Schley, Vail's 3rd Postmaster, away, pulled the long canvas hose put the telephone wires to that special places help us connect leans over the fence at his home. attached to the water tank car toward place out of business. It is reported to each other, find our way in a Monthan Collection, Vail Preservation the burning building. The hose would here that Mr. Schley carried some changing world, understand the Society. not reach. insurance on his property but the places we live and the people whose amount could not be learned. lives and intentions shaped it. With Clerk Andrew Duffy, asleep inside Otto and his wife Evie called their the support of Arizona Humanities, the store, narrowly escaped with his Tucson Citizen, Friday, May 22, new home, surrounded by a white The Vail Voice, and building on the life. Fleeing the fire, he grabbed the 1908 picket fence, Casa Blanca. They 2018 documentary Voices of Vail, the ledger book and managed to save had encountered adversity beyond Vail Preservation Society works with Otto had insurance on the contents the new, special order, 200-pound their control. Fire had completely OVMS students who research and of his store. By his estimation there National cash register. Otto Schey & destroyed their business. They write stories and create illustrations. had been between $10,000 and Co. had been proudly cast in bronze persevered, and didn’t give up. These middle school students are $12,000 in merchandise inside on the register’s name plate. Mr. Duffy Otto and Evie raised their family placemakers: storytellers and artists when it burned. An optimist, Schley had no idea how he had managed in Vail. They helped found the Vail who share stories of our past that can declared the very next day that he to save the heavy register. A few School District, and made their store inform our future. moments later he could not pick up would rebuild, and “this time it would available as the Precinct voting be of brick.” Only $6,000 of the loss more than a few pounds. location. Otto served as Constable, hhhhhhh was covered by his insurance policy. Postmaster, and “Mayor” of Vail. A message was quickly telegraphed On May 27, 1908, Otto said he would Their home became the Vail School to Otto Schley who was in Tucson. “…begin operations following the District “Teacherage”, a home for High Hopes and Hard He was attending the Pima County settlement of insurance matters.” Vail teachers and staff for many Democratic Convection who was Rising from the ashes, the store was years. The beautiful 1907 National Work meeting to select delegates for the open for business by August 1908. Cash Register is currently in the Vail by Aurora Ramos, Old Vail Middle Territorial Legislature. Otto raced The new store was constructed Preservation Society Collections. The School 8th Grade back, He made it in only an hour. This of adobe bricks, stone rubble, humble adobe between the railroad was half the normal time. Smoldering repurposed railroad shipping crates tracks in Vail is Otto and Evie’s “new” Otto Schley came to Arizona with ashes greeted him where his thriving marked Vail A.T. (Arizona Territory), store. It is the last physical reminder high hopes and a sparkle in his eye. business had stood. The terrible and lumber salvaged from the original of the strength of Vail’s early settlers. In 1889 in Germany, there was a news was reported in the Tucson store. Nothing was wasted. Probably, Their actions laid the foundation mass immigration. Over 200,000 Citizen newspaper. the only store-bought items were the for the Vail values that define our Germans came to America, and Otto windows, doors, nails and hinges. community today. was a part of it. Otto and his wife Evie decided to VAILS VISITED BY BIG FIRE build themselves a new home as Find information about the He didn't come to Vail, Arizona well. The November 11th Arizona rehabilitation of the 1908 Old Territory first. He went to New Jersey. Store of Otto W.H. Schley Is Daily Star newspaper reported that Vail Store & Post Office at Vail He got his start in business and Destroyed by Flames they had hired a well-known local Preservation Society’s Facebook mining. He was an entrepreneur, contractor who was “putting up a fine page. looking for partners and raising ORIGIN IS UNKNOWN family residence for Otto Schley at J..J. Lamb, Vail Preservation Society Mr. Schley Was in Tucson Attending Vail.” "Placemaking Through Story..." continued on next page 30 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 "Placemaking Through Story..." was reported to help. Dovie continued from previous page in the Tucson and Mary Jane’s Citizen, “She younger brothers venture capital. He must have does everything and sister lived decided to see the mining ventures out here for us”. in the Vail Store for himself and came to Arizona It was also true & Post Office. Territory. that, “Mary Jane A place to live was a strong came with the willed, strong job. After her minded individual, mother died, and very quick Mary Jane moved tempered”, into the Vail Store remembered &Post Office to her brother, Ed take care of her Woolsey. Even three siblings. with a quick Evie Rae Schley, wife of Otto temper, it seemed The people Schley, and one of Vail's she cared about of Vail now Postmistresses. Watercolor everyone in Vail. needed a new by Ms. McMorrow's OVMS She really loved postmistress. Advanced Art students. the children, “I Mrs. Beach was a love the kids and friend of Dovie’s, the ranchers. she decided He met and married a woman named They’re just about to help. Mrs. Otto Schley, German immigrant Evie Rae. She was a widow. In 1905 the greatest Beach wanted and builder of the 1908 Old Vail he took over the Vail Store, and people in the Mary Jane to Post Office. Watercolor by Ms. became the Vail Postmaster. Otto become the Vail world as far as I’m Mary Jane Warner, Vail Post Mistress. McMorrow's OVMS Advanced served on the Vail School Board, Postmistress. concerned”, Mary Photo taken in the early 1960s. Davis Art students. he helped with voting, and was She wrote to Jane said in an Collection, Vail Preservation Society. a Justice of the Peace. Everyone interview printed Congresswoman Otto had a very optimistic personality, called him “The Mayor of Vail”. Otto in the Arizona Isabelle he saw a lot of potential in the flat Schley was not successful in all of Daily Star. Mary Greenway for desert land around Vail. He didn't his investments, mining claims and Jane served on the Vail School Board help, “May I beg your favorable action waste any time when he moved ideas. But, he was optimistic and and helped with school parties and on the appointment of Mary Jane here, he got right to work. He was never gave up. programs. She would always let the Warner, Democrat, as Postmistress very busy selling supplies to miners children help out with getting the mail of Vail Arizona. Mrs. Warner has in mining camps in the Santa Rita hhhhhhh bags from the trains. Sometimes they been assistant Postmistress during Mountains from his wagon. He also would get to pick a candy bar for her widowed mother’s long and fatal had many mining claims himself. She Served Vail for 37 helping. illness. Mrs. Woolsey[‘s] death has Otto looked for ways to invest into left destitute, three young children. businesses and mining. Copper, Years! She loved animals, especially dogs. Mrs. Warner wishes to keep the home silver, and even bat guano. Bat guano During the 1930s, Prince, a dog given for these children holding them all by Gabby Albarran, 8th Grade, Old was used as a great fertilizer and soil to Mary Jane by the Figueroa family, together for 4 years”. In 1934 Mary Vail Middle School conditioner. He put a lot of the profit and Ring, an injured ranch dog, lived Jane was officially appointed the at the Vail Store & Post Office. There Vail Postmaster. She served Vail for from his mining and businesses into Mary Jane Warner was a very his new ideas. was always at least one dog living thirty-seven years. interesting woman to be around. there. Sometimes there were cats Some people would describe her too! She was an overall wonderful hhhhhhhhhhhhh as caring, bold, fun, demanding, person. and strong willed. This is a fitting description for this past Vail Even though Mary Jane was a Postmistress. The Vail Store & Post wonderful pick for Postmistress. It Office was the only Post Office for was hard times that brought her to miles around. It was also a market. Vail. And, there was competition for Mary Jane kept an assortment of the job. It was the Great Depression canned goods, candy and soda pop. during the 1930s she moved to Vail. It was the only building to have a And, there was a man living in Tucson phone in Vail for a long time. who really wanted the job.

1908 Vail Store & Post Office, Mary Jane’s sense of humor, and Mary Jane’s mother, Dovie, was the watercolor by Ava Chesebrough, Ms. caring, made it even more enjoyable Postmistress. Mary Jane came to McMorrow's Advanced Art class. to come and visit the Post Office. Vail because of her mother's illness. When people talked about Mary Jane Dovie died on April 21, 1934, about they always said something like what six months after Mary Jane arrived thevailvoice.com May 2020 31 breath and rapid breathing, as the According to psychologists, exposure Pain Management: In one study, The Science of Getting airway between the nose and the to nature helps us shrug off societal surgery patients who were exposed Outdoors lungs constricts. Psychological pressures, allowing us to remember to high-intensity sunlight reported stressors can exacerbate breathing and value more important things less stress and marginally less pain, by Kimberly N. problems for people. like relationships, and therefore sharing, and took less pain Wellness. It is a comprehensive, yet Cardiovascular: Chronic stress, or community. medication. A elusive term for many of us. Let’s face a constant stress experienced over Focusing on what is different study it. Life can get rough and throw us a prolonged period of time, can around you allows was conducted around like a rag doll. Let’s discuss contribute to long-term problems your brain to see that observed why it’s so important to step outside for heart and blood vessels. The what is, instead of patients who were when this happens. As the days get consistent and ongoing increase in the “what ifs” that recovering in the longer, residents in our community heart rate, and the elevated levels often make anxiety hospital, recovered can often go outdoors to enjoy the of stress hormones and of blood and depression faster in a room nicer weather. It’s wonderful seeing pressure, can take a toll on the body. worse. A study with a window people out enjoying themselves, but This long-term ongoing stress can by the University looking out at it can make some of us feel deflated increase the risk for hypertension, of Chicago found Photo Credit: Kimberly N. trees, reported less about what we are NOT doing for heart attack or stroke. that people in pain, and were out ourselves. For some, neighborhoods with green spaces of the hospital quicker. 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Have trouble sleeping? surrounded by axis, which is the Try downloading an app to produce nature and we can primary driver of the Spending regular time in green nature sounds to get better rest. all use a healthy endocrine stress spaces or outdoors in nature has Suffer from a headache? Feeling run dose of what some response. This been shown to be positive for down? Feeling pain? Try a dose of call green nature ultimately results in our physical health as well. The “green nature therapy.” It’s FREE. therapy. an increase in the There are many activities that can be Photo Credit: Kimberly N.; University of Minnesota reports production of steroid achieved outdoors. Find one, even if Unfortunately, Del Lago Golf Course that time spent outside impacts our hormones called endocrine, immune and nervous it means taking one step at a time. our brains, every glucocorticoids, day, absorb negative energy from system. When you are spending which include cortisol, often referred time in nature (or even just looking at References: a plethora of sources. With an to as the “stress hormone”. onslaught of daily stress, our minds nature scenes) your blood pressure Jo, Crystal, A Place for Mom, Senior and bodies accumulate harmful The reproductive system, lowers and the tension in your Living Blog, The Surprising Way toxins that affect our physical and gastrointestinal system, and nervous muscles is released. Other benefits Getting Outdoors Improves Your Brain mental health. According to the system are also affected by acute include: Health, 2018. American Psychological Association, or chronic stress. So, how can we Healthier sleep: Better sleep is central here are a few ways stress can affect manage the onslaught of stress that American Psychological Association, to good brain health. Stepping out Stress Effects on the Body, 2019. our individual bodies: we continue to experience in our daily of your door (or even sitting by a lives? Step one: get outdoors. Musculoskeletal system: With an window) can help to regulate your circadian rhythms and improve your onset of stress, the muscles tense up The Mental Benefits of Getting Kimberly N. has a B.S. in Geology all at once. When muscles are taut ability to fall and stay asleep. and a Master’s in GIS. She has lived Outdoors in AZ, HI, CA and Shanghai, China. and tense for long periods of time, Improved eyesight: Natural settings this may trigger other reactions of Our brains need a break. We spend Her hobbies also are beneficial for your eyesight. include the body and even promote stress- most of our day filtering, processing Your eye muscles need exercise. related disorders, like migraine or and responding to stimulation. 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32 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 How do we establish what represents I’m Dreaming what? You can explore by writing, Heat and Hiking Safety using a pendulum, meditating, or by Pima County Sheriff's Department by Hollie Warnick muscle testing. Temperatures over 100 degrees are not even here yet and several people have Do you remember your dreams each Crucial questions to ask are: already been taken to the hospital for heat related illness, to include several morning when you awaken from hikers suffering from exhaustion and dehydration. The need to take every sleep? How do you feel and what • Does the dream image precaution is becoming more imperative. Hiking or other outdoor activities emotions come to the surface? Some represent the actual real-life should be limited to early morning hours and be completed no later than 10 may wake up afraid that they’re back thing or symbolize something AM each day. in high school, in a sweat over a within my own mind (internal or threat, or excited by the embrace of external)? The Search and Rescue Unit would like you to take the following precautions another. Even still, some may awaken while before hiking: feeling that they truly experienced • Is the dream image an aspect the dream. Others practice lucid of yourself or is it other than • Know your limits. dreaming. The images that pass you (needs to be released)? through our mind during our sleep • Hike with someone familiar with the trail. cycle can illuminate what is currently • Is the dream descriptive going on in our own worlds. (current circumstance) or • Let friends or family predictive (future foretold)? know where you’re going and when you It’s also important to expect to return. note that some dreams occur as an actual • Take plenty of water, Spiritual/energetic approximately one happening while you liter per hour. sleep. These are not to be interpreted, but taken • Wear proper clothing as an experience of your and shoes. own. • Have a fully charged cell phone. If you seek understanding • Take a first aid kit- surrounding your epipens, band aids, dreams, contact Hollie antibiotic ointment, today! Behavioral etc. Kinesiology can be used to inquire, seek, and get • Keep a safe distance If you dissect the parts of your complete with your dreams. from wildlife. dream- the dream ego, setting, characters, and events, you can • Check the weather discover a whole world in your Hollie Warnick is a behavioral before going hiking unconscious. These inner-workings kinesiologist utilizing natural solutions as temperatures can are the foundation on which your like energy medicine, essential oils, rise quickly. conscious runs. This insight into and applied kinesiology to help others Before you start a hike or the deep can be your key to gain clarity, outdoor activity, plan ahead, be safe and have fun. Also, remember to ACT: understanding why you do what you peace, and do. power in their lives. With Avoid leaving children or animals in the car, even for a minute Dreams are a theatrical play with a Bachelor Create reminders that a child is in the car various acts, scenes, and characters of Science that symbolize your experience in in Human Take action if you see a child or animal left alone in a hot vehicle. Call 9-1-1. waking life. If we determine what Biology and each piece represents, we have alternative a story that can shed light on our therapy current circumstance. When you certifications, segment the dream into the separate Hollie scenes that unfold, you can ascertain shares ways to transform daily the content and context of the life and breakthrough to life’s conversation your mind is having. true purpose. Contact (520) 800- When you clarify the who’s and 4383 iamuniversalhealing@gmail. what’s of the dream, you can also com or healing-guidance.org. clarify their meaning and importance for you. hhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com May 2020 33 For more than ten years data has Where Does Fashion been showing that the fashion Go From Here? industry is unsustainable and unfair to many of its contributors. by Jaadi Fonseca Companies like Adidas, Nike, Patagonia and Stella McCartney have For as long as I can remember, been responding to the unsustainable fashion has always intrigued me nature of fashion by investing in new for its capability to reinvent itself. materials, technology, circularity, and Nowadays, fashion seems to be social/environmental strategies. The taking an innovative approach that large majority of companies are still expands beyond seasonal trends. relying on surface-level solutions like I began writing this piece as a greenwashing that treat sustainability response to an event that I attended like just another trend. But how will at the beginning of 2020 called they react when they fall behind Fashion Innovation. During this event on their production schedules, and educators, entrepreneurs, journalists, consumers pay less attention to designers, and activists discussed unnecessary purchases? the future of the fashion industry. The honest conversation around topics such as innovation and sustainability created space for both speakers and the audience to debunk consumption myths surrounding sustainable choices. In the midst of writing this piece, the global production and consumption system was profoundly disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis. Therefore, I decided to merge both topics in an attempt to understand how the current scenario might shape our consumption habits, while taking a stab at imagining positive Well, some companies such as LVMH outcomes from the imminent changes and Kering are responding to the that we and the industry are facing. COVID-19 crisis by repurposing their Several thought leaders in the fashion factories to help produce essential industry, like Imran Amed, Tim items such as masks, gowns and Blanks, and Li Edelkoort, are now hand sanitizer. Others, such as PVH, rethinking the role of fashion. They Inditex and H&M are making public are questioning the necessity of what commitments to pay for their order is being produced, the pace of its to support their workers. But those production and how the "quarantine who are most dependent on the of consumption", as Li Edelkoort puts jobs the industry creates will be the it, could change this industry. With ones that are most harmed with the the disruption of the global supply consequences of the current crisis. chain, we should soon experience a However, some still choose to rely big change in the seasonal newness on superficial marketing strategies to of nonessential industries, such raise the awareness of consumers, as fashion. This setback has the without taking concrete actions. potential to frighten participants in Just like what we have been the rapid cycle of consumption. But experiencing with COVID-19, it can also propel us to reassess the value of what we make and how we make it. "Where Does Fashion Go From Here?" continued on next page

34 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 "Where Does Fashion Go From & CEO of WeDesign. impact the most. I believe Here?" continued from previous org, a speaker at that this spirit of growing page Fashion Innovation, reciprocity will continue to articulated interesting unearth genuine voices. We thoughts on our can use this time to push for awareness and information are current and future better solutions and greater crucial to creating widespread shopping models. vocalization of the existing behavioral change. From people Collins argued that issues. In the end, we can volunteering to help the most we are entangled decide what the future will vulnerable, to consumers supporting in a vicious circle be and do our best to work their local businesses, we can now of consumption. towards it. see that the community of conscious As companies consumers is growing. And those have relied on a It seems that the current consumers are negatively responding system of planned scenario can create a to fluffed up marketing campaigns, obsolescence, and better sentiment of a global while looking for factual information designers have been community, a shift from to decide which companies they will trained to create awareness to action, a trust. As more vigilant consumers we disposable goods. reevaluation of priorities can facilitate how we transition to So, what should we and necessities and alternative consumption habits. do to avoid reaching seriousness when it comes to transparency backed by We are faced with some big exhaustion? The data. To me, the clearest questions. How will we prompt saying “less is more” way forward is to promote innovation to thrive? How will is not a convincing innovations that address real we coax the global economy to strategy, so Collins issues. These ideas can thrive move forward, while addressing advised us to think if we invest in supporting the sustainability and social issues? in a new way. To unheard voices of the fashion The consumption of fashion items not simply reduce system, shift our mindset was growing exponentially before production, but and adapt to alternative and this crisis. But it seems that many produce smarter, more sustainable ways of factors could now influence us to as not create enough to create a positive impact production and consumption. set new standards of consumption. unnecessary products. on those most dependent on the jobs From the growing mass of conscious the industry creates? Although these And in fact, there has been a surge This is a small part of the thoughts I consumers influencing the market, to are unprecedented times, people in thrifting, repurposing and recycling have been having, and I would love the current fragile production system, are banding together to showcase across various industries, but this for this to spark the curiosity of some we can set new values, innovative the best of humanity. It seems surge is still far from becoming of you, to think about how we can production methods and better that people are becoming aware the norm. Can the current times create positive responses in these consumption and production habits. of the fact that, to change these accelerate the jump from awareness uneasy times. If you are willing to unsustainable systems that seem support the fashion workers, you can For instance, Simon Collins, Founder to action? And if so, will it be inclusive bigger than us, we need everyone’s go to the Fashion Revolution website discipline and support. to learn how to join the movement. Interestingly, there was a conversation around Jaadi is a multidisciplinary the same idea at Fashion designer with a background in Innovation with Tanya Taylor, fashion, psychology and creative the CEO of Anne Taylor CEO entrepreneurship. She works to find and Tyler McCall, editor- creative, sustainable, and human- in-chief of Fashionista. centered com. One of the key points solutions for made was that, to create the production innovations that solve and issues, we need to open the consumption conversation to everyone, systems. Jaadi especially those who are is currently normally left aside. Hopefully, working as a this sentiment of inclusivity Designer at will continue to grow, and hive – a social we will continue to learn influence how unexpected voices company helping foundations, can participate in positive companies and individuals to change. Furthermore, we maximize their impact. should be able to support the voices and livelihood of those that COVID-19 will hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com May 2020 35 stock market had collapsed. In one Social Distancing week, the world had changed. Anasazi Style As I was cleaning up and putting by Rob Samuelsen away my gear, I got a note from my Human Resources Director asking Exploring the hidden treasures of the me for the exact location of my Grand Staircase National Monument/ vacation, under threat of quarantine. Vermillion Cliffs National Monument When you’re off grid, you’re not at a is granted only to those willing to go “location” such as an address you off road and off grid. With no access can look up on Mapquest. Instead, to internet, phones, or newspapers, I was at the confluence of a latitude, it’s a place for escape, solace, longitude, and altitude in the middle and reflection. It’s also a place of of nowhere. Explaining my “middle of isolation, now commonly known as nowhere” platitude to my colleague self-quarantine and social distancing. required an aptitude for exactitude to Those who once were ostracized spurn her threats to self-quarantine as hermits, are now called socially again. Where would I go? – to the responsible geniuses. Such was it middle of nowhere! was for me a few weeks ago.

In the stomping grounds of the a robust immune system to combat When I left civilization to explore Rob Ancestral Puebloans (or Anasazi), these new maladies. Whatever virus our northern plateaus and canyons, Samuelsen is there are ruins and petroglyphs of an Anasazi clan might have had, it did COVID-19 was in the news but the an executive lonely sojourners wandering through not spread because of the isolation. world was mostly normal. The virus and adventurer the remote canyons of the desert Only when European explorers, was in China and just spreading to supported southwest. Excavations reveal trappers, missionaries, and pioneers Italy. A week later when I remerged, by his long- a common cause of death to be started to arrive did disease spread. restaurants were closed, gas stations suffering but abscessed tooth decay probably Researchers believe European out of toilet paper, traffic was light, supportive exacerbated by sandstone grit in their diseases wiped out an incredible airlines were empty, seventeen million wife!. flour. The beans and grains were 80-90% of the native population of Americans were out of work, and the ground in sandstone mortars causing the Americas. Only the All-American hhhhhhhhhhhhh abrasives to be mixed with the grains. syphilis disease appears to have As they chewed, the sand would traveled eastward back to Europe. erode their teeth causing decay, abscessed infection, and painful Imagine an Anasazi father leaving the 25 + death. Later European settlers cliff dwelling to hunt, only to come Years brought the plague, pox, influenza, back a few weeks later to find the measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, entire clan sick or dead from some and whooping cough. While Europe unknown disease simply because had already suffered through many the family traded goods with a roving pandemics spread by the vast trade infected merchant. In a short period UNIQUE CONSTRUCTION routes, the native Americans had not of time, this man’s life completely suffered contagion and did not have changed. Complete Remodeling Design · Permits · Construction New Custom Cabinetry & Tops Complete Bathroom Remodeling Framing · Concrete · Additions · Garages Block Walls / Home Repairs No job too small / New Homes ROC #s 094200 & 162944 631-4874 or 647-3113 VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT: www.uniquedevelopment.info

36 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 • Everyone will meet at the — Star Girl (2020), streaming on Conducting a Home meeting place. Disney+ Fire Drill • Make sure your house or At the — To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Fiona de Young, Community building number can be seen (2018), streaming on Netflix Relations Manager from the street. Movies As we continue to unite together to • Talk about your plan with mitigate the spread of Coronavirus, everyone in your home. community risk reduction has taken on greater meaning than ever • Learn the emergency Binging in the time of before. The last few weeks have phone number for your fire been challenging, there is no doubt department. COVID-19 about that. The silver lining is seeing • Practice your home fire escape by Jared Free communities around the world come drill! together to combat the spread. Here A few things have been keeping at the Rincon Valley Fire District, we Source: National Fire Protection me sane this quarantine. I just are monitoring the changes on a daily Association got a Nintendo Switch, which has basis and updating our procedures succeeded in drawing most of my accordingly. Using these tools will help all attention for the last ten days. I individuals in the home manage exercise Monday through Friday to With millions of people under increased risk. keep my endorphins flowing and Foreign Horror shelter-in-place orders in Arizona, my stress levels low. And I watch a Though the virus has extended its and the dry season upon us, one lot, lot, lot of movies. The plethora — Suspiria (1977), streaming on crown-like tentacles into all our lives of the major concerns is fire safety. of options available to stream, rent, Kanopy -- and caused an unprecedented Virtual meetings, social isolation, and buy can be overwhelming and chain reaction in the process -- we — Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), streaming and homeschooling have required uninspiring in equal measure, so are stronger through our community on Netflix many adjustments and changes in I’ve taken to creating little movie spirit and shared efforts to protect infrastructure. How we manage this collections to watch and discuss each other. Check-out these and — Kuroneko (1968), streaming on ongoing social isolation is key to our with friends. I highly recommend it. other resources available on our Criterion Channel physical and emotional wellbeing. It gives you something to talk about Web site or call us at 520-647-3760 and makes being at home all day feel — The Wailing (2020), streaming on Typically, our firefighters would be to discuss any fire safety concerns. a little less tedious. Here are a couple Prime Video available to help you with home Stay safe and stay healthy, we will get examples that I’ve done. I encourage safety inspections such as checking through this together. smoke alarms. For now, you can run everyone to use these as inspiration these checklists using the tools on to create their own film (or book, or our Web site at www.rinconvalleyfd. music) circles. org/fire-prevention. In the absence Jared Free is of fire drills at school and work, we an actor and Women That Love Women writer based recommend running through the (Throughout Time) Home Fire Escape Plan with the in the San Francisco Bay entire family: — Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Area. Fiona de Young recently joined the streaming on Hulu • Draw a map of your home. Rincon Valley Fire District as its new Community Relations Manager. In this — Loving Annabelle (2006), streaming • Show all doors and windows. role, she is responsible for managing on Netflix the District's • Visit each room. hhhhhhhhhhhhh community — Carol (2015), available for rent/ • Find two ways out. engagement purchase and media • All windows and doors should relations. Creature Features open easily. Before joining the District, — The Thing (1982), streaming on • You should be able to use them Fiona worked Starz to get outside. as an aide to — Venom (2018), streaming on Starz • Make sure your home has U.S. Senator Martha smoke alarms. — Alien (1979), streaming on HBO McSally. She holds a Master's Degree • Push the test button to make in Information Studies from the sure each alarm is working. University of Texas at Austin. Fiona High School Slumber Party loves hiking in the beautiful mountains • Pick a meeting place outside. It of Southern Arizona. — The Myth of the American Slumber should be in front of your home. Party (2011), streaming on Hulu hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com May 2020 37 layer of wood chip mulch on top of kill them at the cellular level with a is going on in society today with the Healthy Weed Control your soil. The wood chip mulch does slow kill. Be patient and wait a couple Corona pandemic. by Elizabeth Warburton-Smith several amazing things; smothering of days to see if the weed has died any weed seeds touching the surface off. On my day off from work as a R.N. at Weeds will always be a part of any of the soil underneath, keeping your a local hospital, I set off to Walmart, garden, so let’s talk about how to soil dust free in the summer and mud The final method of preventing weeds my go-to local shopping destination, deal with them in a healthy, non- free during rains, creating the perfect without using soil killing chemicals to get some supplies. I was lucky chemical way. environment for living organisms is to pull them up from the roots by enough to find one of the last buckets that build soil like beneficial bacteria, hand before they have a chance to of chalk in the children’s toy section, First of all, let's define what a weed fungi, mychorrizae, and earthworms, put off seeds and regenerate. The and a roll of is. A weed is simply a plant that and decomposing into dark, rich soil. ideal is after a nice rain. Use a weed blue masking someone decided shouldn't be fork to ensure you get the entire tape. Wirh growing in a particular spot. A rose If you use this method, it's very plant, root and all. the slightly bush with the most beautiful and important to keep this layer of wood worn rollroll fragrant blooms could be called a chip mulch on top of the surface of Elizabeth Warburton-Smith is the of packing weed by that definition. your soil. If you dig it into existing executive director of the Community tape from my soil, it will bring up weed seeds and Gardens of Tucson and a 2nd garage, a bit As far as ideal or not ideal locations, expose them to sunlight, which in generation Tucsonan who has been of ingenuity, have you ever noticed weeds pop up turn makes them to digging in our a kneeler, overnight in freshly germinate. Wood chip desert soils and a chair, I tilled soil? Mother mulch decomposes for over 45 laid the tape Nature doesn't like and will bind nitrogen years. She is out to make bare soil because in the first phase of a former chef a sidewalk it erodes away in decomposition. You who loves design. The the wind and rain, don’t want it to pull to prepare early April taking all of the living, My own chalk away from plant roots, the foods artwork. weather was generative topsoil and so keep it above your she harvests absolutely leaving heavier, less plants until it turns not only perfect in the morning for such an fertile, rocky or sandy entirely into soil. from her own garden but from the activity. I proudly showed my friend soil behind. Plants that sprout under bounty of the desert as well. Email who said the design looks like a the harshest of conditions evolved in You could also try the “no-till” [email protected] if you rooster on one end and a snake on order to cover the earth and preserve growing method. In this method the would like to join her in Tucson’s the other. My son believed me when the topsoil. This in turn preserves soil stays covered, and you don’t turn newest community garden, the Rita I told him I paid $50 to a local girl native grasses, plants, bushes, vines, it over. This prevents the weed seeds Ranch Community Garden located at to design artwork on the adjacent and trees, creating overall healthy from being exposed to bare soil, so 7471 S. Houghton Road. sidewalk. Little did they know. and complex ecosystems suited to there are less weeds to deal with. individual climates. hhhhhhhhhhhhh With this display, Another method is to plant cover I’m hoping to Weeds are almost always plants that crops in between more fragile non- spread joy among easily sprout on their own without native plants. Cover crops include Chalk Drawing my neighbors in any help from humans. They will grow clover, buckwheat, and legumes. by Debra A. Devine these uncertain wherever the conditions are right. Legumes can "fix" or collect nitrogen times. Many of Typically they only need bare soil, from the air, and through a complex I was motivated to make a chalk the houses feature sunshine, and a little bit of moisture. process, release it below ground into drawing after observing and teddy bears in the Wouldn't it be great if the plants we the soil. Not only will these cover photographing this beautiful chalk windows, with the planted purposefully grew so easily? crops dominate the surface and help drawing in my neighborhood recently. hopes of delighting We have been conditioned to try and prevent less desirable plants from It looked like stained glass windows, children of all ages. The teddy bear put nature in a neat little box. But it growing, they also feed the soil. and mentioned the scripture Joshua The teddy bear made from takes a lot of effort and commitment Cover crops can create as much as 1:9. I wasn’t familiar with the adorning my house my mother’s to make that happen when we 100 lbs of pure, organic nitrogen per scripture, so I went home to discover holds special clothes. choose non-native plants that usually acre. Joshua 1:9 is “Do not be afraid.” The significance. do not grow with the same hardiness Gifted to me by hospice volunteers, The weed dragon is another method sentiment feels apropos with what that a native plant will. my mother’s clothes were used to of prevent weeds. The weed dragon fashion this bear. Hopefully in Wing But I get that we all want to grow is simply a propane torch that aims View, we’re making the mark. familiar summer veggies on purpose. the flame aimed at weeds. Be sure Here are some great ways to prevent to have someone follow you with a I learned firsthand after moving to your carefully chosen, non-native garden hose for safety reasons. The Vail in 2005 that our community is plants from becoming overrun idea is not to burn the weed to crispy friendly, spirited and truly rocks! I with more aggressive native plants ash but to heat up the plants’ cells am very proud to say that even after that populate your garden all by to boiling — at which point it will 15 years of living Vail, the outgoing themselves. no longer be viable. You don’t want of love and support never ceases to to just toast them to bits. Mother amaze me. The very best method of weed Nature, in her wisdom, uses fire to The chalk drawing that inspired control is applying a thick, 4-6 inch regenerate many plants. Be sure to me to draw. hhhhhhhhhhhhh 38 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 March 2020 Climate Report Staying Financially Smart During Trying Times by John Simpson from Hughes Federal Credit Union March 2020 was extremely wet for Arizona, except for Eastern and Southern Hughes remains committed to your financial future. Even as things shift, we're Tucson and much of Vail. The brunt of one major storm passed just to our East here to help you make wise choices with your finances and investments. and the brunt of several storms stayed to our West. March wetness has helped the wildflower show throughout the state. The Tucson airport recorded 0.70” of Your Money is Safe rain, which is just shy of its 30-year average of 0.73.” At my home in Central Del Lago, I Hughes and other financial institutes are here to safeguard your money and recorded 0.70” as well, which is somewhat investments. Your money is secure with a bank or credit union, because greater than my 9-year average of 0.48.” government-backed entities such as the FDIC and NCUA insure your deposits The big story is how wet it was in all other and protect your funds. All savings accounts at Hughes are insured by the parts of Arizona. The table below shows NCUA up to $250,000, and IRAs are separately insured for $250,000. the official reporting stations in Arizona with their March 2020 rainfall compared to Stay Calm and Watch for Opportunity average. As you can see, the Tucson airport As with any significant world-wide event, COVID-19 has left its mark on the was right about average, but all other economy. While it stations were 2 to 8 times above average. is understandable to want to withdraw Reporting Station Average March Rainfall March 2020 Rainfall money from (Inches) (Inches) investment and Tucson Airport 0.73 0.70 (96%) retirement accounts, doing so could be Douglas 0.50 1.92 (384%) devastating to your portfolio and long-term Phoenix Airport 0.99 1.94 (196%) wealth. This is not the Yuma 0.33 2.70 (818%) first or the last time the stock market will Flagstaff 2.12 4.27 (201%) fluctuate, and there Winslow 0.54 1.31 (243%) may be some great opportunities to invest Prescott 1.07 3.27 (306%) as the market changes. Kingman 0.76 1.99 (262%) Be Aware of Scams Yuma received an incredible 2.70” of rain compared to an average of only Scams related to COVID-19 are on the rise. Be cautious when answering 0.33.” Yuma only receives 3.36” of rain for an entire year and they have phone calls from numbers that you do not recognize as there are reports of exceeded that already by March 2020. The southern part of Tucson and much robocalls and text message scams offering virus testing kits and fake cures. of Vail was not in the path of several major storms Scammers are also trying to get a hold of your stimulus check. Beware of as explained earlier. For example, northwest Tucson calls, text messages and emails that promise a speedy delivery by paying a averaged about 1.5” and Mescal just to our East had “processing fee.” up to 2” of rain for March. The southern part of Sierra Vista had between 3 and 4” of rain, which is well above If you are experiencing hardship as a result of COVID-19, please give us a call average. On the temperature side, March was just 0.4 at 520-794-8341. degrees above average at the Tucson airport, which is the 32nd warmest March since records began in the hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 1880s. So far 2020 is the 28th warmest on record by the end of March. So, like last year, we are so far not in the top 10 hottest years like we saw in much of the last decade (see my February 2020 article). For next month, I will discuss April, which is typically one of our driest months.

John has lived in southern Arizona the past 31 years and Vail for 15 of those years. John has a bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric Science from the University of Missouri and a master’s degree in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Arizona. He loves exploring the outdoors with his family and photographing weather and the beauty of southern Arizona.

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