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VailServing southeast Tucson,Voice Corona de Tucson and Vail [email protected] • (520) 490-0962 • An Epiphany Communications, Inc. Publication The Diversity of the Holidays by Ambur Wilkerson you’re in Arizona, and kinda don’t get snow here, it’s just based off of where One of the beautiful parts about you come from, where you grew up, the holiday season is how diverse and where your homeland is at. And celebrating it can be. As someone that’s what you just base it off - when of African-American and Mexican the snow falls over there.” descent, I take great pride in my culture and how I express it during Angelica Hill, a University of Arizona the holidays. The taste of my mom’s junior majoring in public health, works menudo and the sound of my dad as a front desk assistant for the playing Boys II Men’s “Let It Snow” university’s African American Student comes to mind. My traditions are Aff airs. Hill, who proudly identifi es as what make my holidays so special African-American, shared how much to me and I know that’s the case for the fellowship of women plays a big other people too. I had the pleasure part in her holiday celebrations. “My of speaking with a diverse group of immediate family, we go over to my the University of Arizona community aunt’s house, and my aunt, and my about how they spend their holidays. mom, and I, all the women, we will just help make Thanksgiving dinner,” Tianna Tso, a front desk assistant Hill said. at the University of Arizona’s Native American Student Aff airs, is currently As the holiday season goes by, family a fourth-year student majoring in remains the focus, as well as the public health. Tso is a member of the true meaning of the holidays. “For Navajo tribe based in New Mexico, Christmas, we just give each other - there’s certain ways that you can The games begin after the fi rst which she credits for being very presents and talk about what the make the string into a diff erent object snowfall hits. Since Southern family-oriented. In Navajo culture, meaning of Christmas is and then we and each of those objects that you’re Arizona isn’t well-known for snow, the fi rst day of fall is considered the spend time with family members,” making, it pertains to a creation story the question to be asked is what beginning of the new year. Also, the Hill said. Hill’s family all seem to have or a diff erent type of story and then signifi es the beginning of the games? fi rst sign of snow falling marks the their own separate ways of ringing in usually our elders tell us about that “I go by where my homeland is,” Tso beginning for string games. “String story too as well,” Tso explained. shared. “So, since it’s in New Mexico, games are, they just have, like a yarn "The Diversity of the Holidays" “We only play it during the winter.” basically where I grew up, even if and you make it into a circle, and continued on page 2 y y Your Ad Could Be Here! Advertise with The Vail Voice Call (520) 490-0962 [email protected] y y to try again the Phoenix legislative "The Diversity of the Holidays" evening. It represents the 12 days route, proposing the Regional continued from page 1 that Mary and Joseph were looking Transportation Authority (RTA)-in- for somewhere to stay for her to be charge plan. However, we don’t the new year, but only after midnight able to give birth,“ Soria said. “You know, nor will we know immediately, strikes. “On New Year’s, we celebrate sing songs, and in more traditional what the makeup or philosophy of when it hits midnight, and then after neighborhoods, you go around The latest from Pima County District 4 the new legislature will look like. More we kinda all do our own thing,” Hill knocking on different doors and then Supervisor Steve Christy importantly, we won’t know for some explained. No matter what, family is those people reject you and that’s like time the degree to which legislator’s the priority for Hill. representing what happened to Mary receptivity to helping solve Pima and Joseph.” The usual anticipated post-election County’s road repair problems will be. collective sigh-of-relief that all of us The end of the posadas results give and hear seems to have been a Experience dictates that the in finding a place, much like bit prolonged, or delayed somewhat, legislature will be reticent and lacking Mary and Joseph did. The in this election in both will and desire to help Pima celebration ends with food, cycle. With County with our local road problems. a pinata, and singing. Soria so many Even though an “RTA-in-Charge” mentions it’s harder to hold significant plan died during the last session by posadas in America and races and lacking only one vote, it still died. hasn’t had one in a while. “It’s issues that Another such loss could prove so something that I have very fond were not damaging that it could jeopardize memories of, and now I’m just resolved fully future local infrastructure issues looking forward to having family or completely for Pima County. Let’s slow this visit and spending time with my decided on approach way down and proceed on loved ones,” Soria shared. election night, the path only after great reflection, voters could only hold their breaths analysis, debate - and after it’s Every culture has their own beautiful, diverse way of for yet another day, or in some deemed winnable in all of its facets. University of Arizona alumna, Andra celebrating the holidays, but one cases days, for grateful closure. The Soria, works as a coordinator for the Another potential direction for road thing remains constant: family. results of one measure on the ballot school’s Chicano/Hispanic Student repair may lie with the Pima County required no breath holding, as voters’ Affairs & Resource Center. Soria is Board of Supervisors, of all places. response to it was loud and clear, originally from Mexico City and she Ambur Wilkerson received her B.A. in The supervisors have debated and it certainly was no cliffhanger. moved to Arizona when she was 13. English from significant road repair plans for over That would be Proposition 463 – the She majored in political science and California a year now, with no road repair plan countywide bond proposal for road French before graduating from the State generated. Perhaps the results of repair that was voted down, resulting university in 2014. She went on to University, San Proposition 463 could open the in its significant defeat. Questions get her masters in higher education Bernardino possibilities and some minds that and thoughts that seem to be on in 2016. and is now everyone’s mind are: What does Highway User Revenue Funds pursuing the defeat of Proposition 463 mean; (HURF) and Vehicle License Taxes When the topic of the holidays an M.A. in where do we go from here; and what (VLT) that come into Pima County came up, Soria reminisced on doing journalism at do we do now to get our roads fixed? should be re-evaluated. Perhaps posadas when she lived in Mexico the University now, with the budget process just City. “Posadas are like a party, sort of of Arizona. I am glad that I supported putting around the county’s corner, the gathering. They start 12 days before this proposition on the ballot and board’s majority would be open Christmas, and there’s one every hhhhhhhhhhhhh for providing the opportunity for this to finding a way to allocate HURF decision to be made by the voters. and VLT so that more of the funds And the voters have spoken indeed. go to actually fixing our roads and Construction Zone and Highways & Byways not to overhead and administrative There is much to learn from the expenses. However, this approach, defeat of Proposition. 463. I think which has never been successful will return next month the bottom line lesson stated by and has gained zero traction from the voters is clear: Even as angry, the board’s majority in the past, must frustrated, and exhausted the voters be pursued thoughtfully, and with The are with the failed and intolerable reason and caution as well. Will the Vail Voice Phone: (520) 490-0962 Fax: (520) 398-7742 condition of our roads, their “road board’s majority remain entrenched fatigue” was not enough to overcome and unmovable to the idea of better Publisher: Lucretia Free the mistrust and lack of confidence utilizing HURF/VLT monies for road [email protected] they have in Pima County’s ability to repair? Or will they be more receptive Editor: Mike Lavelle Art & Layout: Rick Keen properly facilitate and undertake a and willing to seriously negotiate now comprehensive regional road-repair [email protected] [email protected] that Propopsition 463 and all other (520) 222-6617 (520) 305-2019 plan. This is another way of saying attempts at road repair plans have that the voters did not think or feel failed? Marketing: Karen Gates Advertising: Audrey Moeller that bond monies generated would [email protected] [email protected] actually end up going to fixing our At the board of supervisors level is (520) 490-0962 (202) 230-4688 roads. where this conversation should be, Photographer: Bel Colson and at this point in time is when it [email protected] From this point on, any pathway needs to start. Such a conversation that reveals itself for road repair The Vail Voice is published monthly. The Deadline is the 10th of the month for the following would truly be a road less traveled. month’s issue. Subscription rate: $40 per year. should be treaded upon slowly and The content in the Vail Voice does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the owner. No with caution. Two such courses additional research or fact finding has been conducted to verify the information contained may be potential options. One is hhhhhhhhhhhhh herein.

2 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 badly needed second Vail Inclusive Proposition 468 Win Preschool will be constructed at Didn’t Come Easy the new high school, and a new pathway will be added at Andrada by Anne Gibson High School. In addition, there are numerous long over due repair In most cases with a November projects. election, the results are available that evening. This is not what happened The cost of the bond package to with the Vail School District’s $61.3 homeowners is estimated to be million Proposition 468 in the general $6.20 per month for each $100,000 election on November 6th, 2018. of home value in the Vail area. With every proposition there are winners On Thursday, November 8th, two and losers. There was no landslide days after the midterm election, the with Proposition 468. The results Pima County Elections Department were close. In the United States of reported 11,006 or 52% votes cast in American, where we are fortunate to opposition to the Vail School District’s live in a democracy, everyone gets to Proposition 468. The report included have an opinion and to vote. with only 10,609 or 48% voting in favor suggesting the sealing of the fate of the proposition. The hearts of Whittley “Anne” Gibson is a third generation supporters of the proposition were (Left to Right) Vail School District Superintendent Calvin Baker thanks Citizens heavy with disbelief. Tucsonan and of Vail for Education (COVE) volunteers Travis Newton and Jean Peglow for alumni of the their volunteer hours of work in support on Proposition 468. But wait, by Saturday, November University of 10th, some 2,000 additional ballots Arizona. She were counted, and the no votes votes were leading by 483 votes to 12,717 no votes or 49.07% for a has been shrunk to only 45 votes. Still a loss, with an estimated number of 1,000 win. The reporting was marked Final an active but a mere glimmer of hope was to 1,500 provision ballots verified Vote. community but not yet counted. Finally, on member in the felt. By Monday, November 12th Plans for the first phase of Vail Saturday, November 17th at 9:02 AM, greater Vail with another group of ballots were School District’s Mica Mountain High eleven days after the election, the area since the late 1970s. counted and the yes votes overtook School will continue as planned, an the no votes by 195 votes. As of Pima County Elections Department reported 13,200 yes votes or 50.93% additional K-8 school increasing 250 Sunday, November 15th, the yes student capacity will be built, a very hhhhhhhhhhhhh

at the University of Arizona as an He believed that Behind the Vail: International Scholar, obtaining a retirement was Community Profiles degree in Agricultural Chemistry. He merely a rhetorical would go on to obtain two terminal period in one’s life. by Cody Hedges degrees, a full professorship at Demonstrating the remarkable age of 29, and the principle, he It is often the possession of manifold eventually, become the President of remained active in talents which make a figure like the University of Arizona from 1982 university matters Johann Goethe so fascinating. After to 1991. Koffler was also a founding after his tenure his first literary success, he became member of Academy Village, a as President, a civil administrator; shortly after thriving retirement community located and produced an writing Faust, he wrote a psycho- in Vail. extensive body of scientific treatise artwork on color theory; he into his reformed the state, 90’s. nurtured friendships “He was with gifted individuals, such sketched and painted a hard on a prolific scale, and worker,” instinct for color coordination and wrote many plays and said Kathleen Kennedy, structural rendition. Conceived like poems. He was, as a close friend and art a scientist, executed like an artist, it is said of some, a manager, “and his art some pieces resemble the body of an Renaissance Man. just spilled out of the organic cell, the particle trajectory of And so it is said of frame; there’s such an atomic collision, even an ancient the late Henry Koffler. vitality in it, even though primordial sludge. it was composed by an Born on September Either as an administrator, scientist, 17th, 1922, Koffler older man. It still has such incredible life and community planner, or artist, Henry immigrated to the Koffler will always be remembered as United States from brilliancy.” Using a Pro Sketchbook program a great citizen of southern Arizona. Vienna at age 17, Koffler’s art is available for viewing being morally put on his tablet, Koffler created dozens of or purchase at www.henrykofflerart. off by the rising com. tide of European abstract pieces, which Fascism. He enrolled exhibit a sophisticated hhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com December 2018 3 an opportunity, for a “rest and From recuperation” trip. The best he could How to Help a Local Family in Need This Holiday get was a working trip to Cam Rahn Season the Bay with a stop at Tuy Hoa Air Base. by Kimberly Crossland, Owner of Savvy Copywriters Editor Tom writes, “We enjoyed a quiet Christmas telling stories and eating If you’re active on Facebook and follow the Vail School District, you might have Mike Lavelle fine meals in the NCO Club. It was a seen a picture posted recently of a few men standing next to a wheelchair big change from the frequent rocket ramp. This wheelchair ramp was built after a family reached out to the Vail and mortar attacks we endured at School District asking for help. A child, who attends a school in the Vail School Da Nang. A lot of Christmas mail had District, is wheelchair bound and needed an easier way to access the home Christmas Memories arrived during my trip to Cam Rahn every day. As soon as the family called the school, the school took action and Traditions Bay, and the best part of the holiday reaching out to a network of people and organizations who have expressed season was opening them when I interest in helping when needs like this arise. In this case, it was Vail Christian The Vail Voice welcomes Ambur returned to Da Nang.” Church that responded to the call. Wilkerson to our cadre of volunteer writers. Ambur is a graduate student Interestingly, today Tom assists his On a Sunday morning, prior to working on spouse Ev, with a support group the service, Pastor Ben Pitney a degree in that sends cards and packages to let those in attendance know journalism at deployed troops, and Christmas about the need and asked the University time is a special time as well. If you for volunteers. The response of Arizona. would like to find out more about this from that one announcement In this issue, program and how to support it, go to was overwhelming. After she writes page 11 for more information. coordinating the volunteers about the and determining what was Finally, no matter where the holidays diversity of the required to build the ramp, find you, whether or not you celebrate holidays. In members from Vail Christian them, and how you celebrate them, our American Church bought the materials if you do, The Vail Voice wishes our mosaic, the Christmas time and scheduled a Saturday readers a memorable holiday season. celebrations contain some common workday. By sunset, the child Feliz Navidad, God Jul, Merry elements as well as different ones. had a new ramp and easier Christmas, or Batlh BIlopjaj (Klingon) For example, some families open access to the home. we hope the season is full of joy for presents Christmas morning, and you and yours. This story is just one of many of how the organizations across the greater Vail some Christmas Eve, while others area help families in need. We’re now deep into the time of year when some will blend traditions by opening one families’ constraints are more pronounced. The magic of the holidays becomes Christmas Eve and the rest Christmas lost when there are no presents under the Christmas tree on Christmas morning. Accordingly, our diverse morning, and the holiday meals look more like thinly dressed tables than feasts Christmas traditions also grow that lead to memories made. It’s also this time of year when many of us who to incorporate elements of other are fortunate long for ways to embrace those around us who are struggling. If cultures. It would not be uncommon, you’re one of the families who want to give back to a neighbor in need, there over the holidays, to enjoy menudo, hhhhhhhhhhhhh are a few ways you can follow the example of organizations like Vail Christian lesfe, and collard greens. Church and adopt a family this holiday season. I am reminded, for many of us, The Vail School District offers one of those ways through their Angel Tree even some of the Christmas Day program. Your family, a group of friends, or organization can adopt a family celebrations we remember will and buy Christmas presents for the children whose parents might not be in be different. When I was in the From All of Us at a position to stuff stockings this year. If you’d like to adopt an angel, please military, I celebrated Christmas Day contact Heather Stough at the Vail School District by email (stoughh@ somewhere in the austere desert vailschooldistrict.org) for more information. of Saudia Arabia, at 6,000 feet in The the snow-capped mountains of the You can also drop food off at the ReSources Food Bank located between the Sequoia National Park in California, tracks. Or, host a food drive at your organization. Visit www.resourcesvail.org/ overseas in Okinawa, and in few Vail donate-food for more information. unremembered locations somewhere on the West Pacific. Many of them The Vail Depot Thrift Store is open throughout the holiday season. Here you are not remembered, except I do Voice won’t have to battle mall crowds or pay hefty shipping prices. Better yet, with know that the cooks (and supply every purchase you make a portion of the proceeds will go back to the Vail system) are to be commended Food Bank to support people in the greater Vail area. for doing their best to make the To You and Yours Many other faith-based organizations around the best meal possible under the community are also pulling together to put food and circumstances – and generally, the presents in the hands of families who need a little extra meal was very welcomed and done help bringing joy and magic to their homes this holiday. well. Will you help a neighbor in need? I asked one local veteran, Tom Campbell, Chief Master Sergeant, Kimberly Crossland is a mom, a Vail resident, and the USAF (Ret), if he had a Christmas founder/owner of the Vail-based marketing agency, experience he remembered. Tom Savvy Copywriters, LLC. told me, that while stationed at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam, he could not afford, and did not have hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 4 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 Support Group Sends Care Packages to Troops

In 2011, a group of women living in Del Webb, Ranch del Lago, has been sending cards and care packages to deployed troops. To date, they sent over 121,000 cards and 1,722 care packages, mostly in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait. Most of the cards are for the troops to mail back home, but each care package includes some birthday cards and promotion congratulations for the troops themselves. Several times each year the group also makes cards for veterans at TMC's Hospice Center and have sent hundreds of cards to the Tucson VA Hospital. For this holiday season, the group just mailed 25 Christmas boxes with hundreds of cards for the troops to open Christmas day and hundreds for them to mail to loved ones. Some packages also included small Christmas ornaments or stockings and each included 2 or 3 Christmas and New Year posters they can hang as decorations. The packages include toiletries, snacks, coffee and condiments, small board games, baseballs, yo-yos, Frisbees, some paperback books, history books that are requested, and magazines. Some bases do not have a chow hall open for dinner. The troops at those locations request protein bars, jerky, tuna pouches, nuts, and dried fruit to have in their lockers. Many air crews and soldiers need these snacks when they are out on missions, too. Many locations have slow deliveries of items to the base store. Often entire shelves are empty. When a shipment arrives, the items quickly sell out because so many troops have been waiting for them. The group has received two thank you notes this week from leaders who say they have quite a number of troops in their unit who have no contact with anyone at home. These packages are particularly important to them and raise their morale tremendously. Letters from adults and children, children's drawings, and such are gratefully received by troops. Each box costs $17.40 to mail. If you would like to contribute or assist with this project, call Ev Campbell at 289-9100.

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6 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 Red Mandell by Burt Graeff GOT NEIGHBORS? Sheldon (Red) Mandell is 88 years old going on 58 years old. The guy is a human dynamo. Mandell, a native Chicagoan, is the majority owner of the del Lago Golf Club. Fifteen years ago, in 2003, there was no del Lago Golf Club, and no Rancho del Lago community. “There was nothing, but sand, cactus, Enjoy your dirt, snakes, absolutely nothing on the property where all this sits,’’ Mandell said. “I got me a horse and rode around to see what was here.” neighbors but What was there was 1,600 acres for sale. “The asking price was $6 million,’’ Mandell said. “I off ered $5 millon and they not through accepted.” Today, the del Lago Golf Club is the centerpiece of the Rancho del Lago their windows community. Mandell was the least likely of candidates to okay construction of a golf course and the Conveniently accompanying pro shop/restaurant/bar. “I’ve never played golf,’’ he said during a recent Remote sit-down interview. “But I thought a golf course on this site was a good idea. “I had a feeling we could do something here. Maybe 3 Acre I was too dumb and didn’t know it.” Mandell said his group spent $25 million to get the Homesites course and clubhouse/restaurant going. The golf industry has been lagging all over the country, including the Tucson area. “The golf course business is a diff erent business,’’ Mandell said. “You can’t make money no matter what you do. “The problem in this area of the country is the hot summer months. When it’s 105 degrees, you can have $20 greens fees and still have trouble getting 520.546.HAWK RedHawkJ6.com golfers to come out. Despite this, I have never thought of shutting the place down.” There were many who thought the course might be shut down in late summer 2017. Del Lago was in need of a serious face lift. It was run-down. It was losing outings, memberships. “We had to do something,’’ Mandell said. There was speculation Mandell ear-marked $300,000 to get the course back up to par. “I wish it was $300,000,” Mandell said. “It was more like $1.5-$2 million.” A key hire during this period of the facelift was Golf Superintendant Reuben Proper. “Reuben has done an outstanding job,’’ Mandell said. “The course now looks great.” Mandell’s resume includes much more than being the majority owner of the del Lago Golf Club. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Chicago-based National Wrecking Company, which has demolished more than 120,000 structures in 36 states since it was incorporated in 1954. Mandell’s ties to Tucson originated in 1983. “Our company (National Wrecking) had board meetings in various cities,’’ Mandell said. “One of them turned out to be Tucson. I got out here and someone suggested we go horseback riding. “I said, “’I’m from Chicago. I have never been on a horse.’” Mandell eventually caved in, saddling up. “I rode for more than three days,’’ he said. “I rode with a group known as the Cowboys of the Desert.” Among the riders he got to know: Roy Rogers. Mandell continues to aggressively invest in the Tucson area, particularly Vail. His Chicago-based RMG Vail II LLC recently purchased 400 acres at I-10 and US 83 for $475,000 at auction. Up to 600 homes are planned on the parcel, which is also partially-zoned commercial. “There are no plans for a golf course,’’ Mandell said, smiling. Burt Graeff is a retired sports writer from Cleveland, Ohio. He and his wife, June, along with their Jack Russell Terrier, Skip, have lived in Vail for more than eight years.

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com December 2018 7 In Shakespeare’s play, Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March, 44 B.C. The play mentions Skyward... neither the games, nor that they were played in celebration of the new emperor, Augustus Caesar. A bright comet was visible in the with David H. Levy northern sky during those games. It was widely interpreted as Julius Caesar’s soul on its way to the Fascination with stars. At the time, comets were omens. Calpurnia was well aware An image of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comets that her husband’s death could impacts imprinted on a German stamp. More than two thousand years literature. What I knew nothing ago, getting loose change was about was their role in the origin about as easy as it is today. Hand a of life on Earth. I was far too shopkeeper a silver dollar in today’s young to consider the possibility world, and you can expect four that when comets collided with quarters in change. What isn’t the the Earth, their debris included same as today is the design of the the CHON particles – Carbon, coin one might want to get change Hydrogen, Oxygen, and for. Hand the same shopkeeper a Nitrogen—the alphabet of life. Roman coin from the fi rst century, Thirty-four years later, one of the especially one with a bright comet comets I helped discover taught engraved on its head, and one of me that lesson as it careened two things might happen. Either into Jupiter in one of the biggest events in the history of science. This comet didn’t get onto a Roman coin, or even a modern An early NASA image of Comet one, but it did fi nd its way onto Shoemaker-Levy 9. a German stamp. Not too bad for a tiny comet that wandered through the solar system for eons, be preceded or followed by a bright gradually got attracted into an orbit comet. And decades later, Seneca, in about Jupiter, and then, in a series his anxiety to avoid execution by the of explosions, reconstructed our suspicious Emperor Nero, insisted understanding of how life could begin that the bright comet of A.D. 61 was on a world. Jay’s a favorable omen to Nero. (It didn’t work; Nero had Seneca put to death.) David and Wendee Levy run the Landscaping To engrave a comet on a coin may Jarnac seem strange, but in fact, most Observatory. people never get to see a bright You can meet 445-2507 The Caesar comet coin. Thanks to comet, an apparition in the night David at Removal of: Also: the monthly Jeff Struve for his magnifi cent image with a head and fl owing tail, in their Weeds Planting entire lives. I have. My nights under Star Night at of the coin with Caesar's comet Packrat Nests Tree Trimming engraved upon it. the stars have been brightened by the Corona the light of more than two hundred Foothills Cactus comets. Only a few of these comets Middle School. you’d get thrown out of the store, or were visible without the aid of a - Yard Maintenance - the shopkeeper would treat you to telescope, and most were only barely hhhhhhhhhhhhh Vail Resident Not a licensed Contractor dinner and then bequeath his children seen as specks of slowly moving to you. After all, if the shopkeeper haze. But even these were magical. read Shakespeare, he would know Comets have appeared in literature that the coin was celebrating Julius 3D MAMMOGRAPHY IS NOW RINCON IMAGING all over the world, in almost all CENTER PROVIDES Caesar’s Great Comet, the comet AVAILABLE AT OUR RINCON LOCATION! that appeared in the northern sky languages, because writers since NEW! 3D Mammography CT • Ultrasound • X-ray during the games held shortly after time began have seen comets and the assassination of Juius Caesar have become fascinated by them. on the Ides of March, March 15, 44 Writers like Geoff rey Chaucer, like HOURS Alfred, Lord Tennyson, like James BC. In Shakepeare’s tragedy Julius Monday - Friday, 8AM - 5PM Caesar, Calpurnia even predicts the Joyce, and like me. I caught the murder, and the comet: comet bug when I was twelve years old. Our teacher in the sixth ADDRESS When beggars die, there are no grade, Mr. Powter, wanted us to 10350 E. Drexel Road | Tucson, AZ 85747 comets seen; give speeches. The topic I chose was comets. I was interested in CONTACT The heavens themselves blaze forth their appearances in the sky, their (520) 733-7226 the death of princes. appearances in history, in art, and in www.radltd.com

8 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 Improving Education in Vail by Stacy Winstryg The Vail Parent Network is beyond thrilled with the passing of Prop 468, the bond for the Vail School District. We thank the registered voters who voted yes. According to Mr. Baker, superintendent for the district, the planning work for the new high school has been occurring for about a year. Architects will now shift into fi nal design and construction documents and actual construction From left to right: Stacy Winstryg, Linda Feltheim, should begin early this MaRico Tippett, Catherine Byars, Andrea Black coming summer. We look forward to seeing the progress as construction begins. We are also grateful that the majority of Arizona voters decided to vote no on Prop 305. With an overwhelming 65% no vote, voucher expansion was shot down. The Vail Parent Network feels strongly that this was the best thing for public education in the state of Arizona. With an already underfunded public education system, we simply cannot aff ord to funnel more money to other programs. We want to wish you all a Merry Christmas. We look forward to the new year and working with our legislators in Legislative District 14 and Legislative District 10 on ways to improve education in Arizona.

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thevailvoice.com December 2018 9 News From In CDT Corona De Tucson (ESFI), you should also never use encampment and will be held at the Arizona 85652-0750. Please make it The Proper Use of multiple extension cords with a Emmanuel Pines Camp, Prescott payable to American Legion-ALLECA. Space Heaters single outlet, or chain them together, AZ. The program is offered to youths If you are sending your donation in because of the risk of electrical between the ages of 11 and 19. The cash, please attach a note with your by Charlotte Herdliska, Corona de overload. cadets are fed three meals a day and name, so ALLECA can thank you and Tucson Fire Marshal are provided quarters and uniforms. send you a letter for tax purposes. Space heaters use an incredible You do not need to be a member of For more information visit and the The weather is getting colder, and amount of energy to produce their the American Legion to participate as 2019 application, visit: http://www. people are pulling out their space warming heat — between 10,000 a cadet. orgsites.com/az/legionalleca/ heaters. The Corona de Tucson Fire and 40,000 BTU per hour, noted the Department Fire Marshal wants to Department of Energy. Basically, hhhhhhhhhhhhh remind you that you should NEVER these machines get crazy hot, and plug a space heater into a power 25,000 house fires and 300 deaths strip. These units are not designed to per year are associated with them, Passion 4 Paws: Saving handle the high current flow needed according to U.S. Product Safety for a space heater and can overheat Commission estimates. Additionally, Dogs and Cats in or even catch fire due to the added 6,000 emergency room visits result Southern Arizona energy flow. from contact burns when adults and children accidentally touch a by Debra A. Perry These images show what happens space heater. “Another big mistake when a surge protector or power strip is putting something too close to Mrs. Andrea Mozolik, a 10-year is misused. The point comes down to a heating source,” says Corona Corona de Tucson resident, proper use. Even the best equipment de Tucson Fire Marshal Charlotte established “Passion 4 Paws” in July, can fail if not used correctly. No one Herdliska. “Keep anything that 2018 to help rescue dogs and cats manufacture is at fault, yet it’s all can burn 3 feet away from space from imminent euthanasia. about the end users ability to use the heaters, fireplaces, wood stoves, and What brought Andrea to this point p r o d u c t s a f e l y. radiators.” Remember that skin burns in her life to create Passion 4 Paws? too. Make sure that people and pets According to Andrea, she and her stay 3 feet away. This camp is not meant to correct husband traveled to Kanab, Utah, in disciplinary problems, but is one early 2016, to visit the Best Friends Corona de Tucson Fire Marshal: developed for kids interested in law Animal Sanctuary, a 4,000-acre Charlotte Herdliska (520) 762-9370 enforcement or the military. Physical animal preserve in a scenic canyon. [email protected] training is rigorous, so cadets While there, she experienced a attending the academy must be in hhhhhhhhhhhhh “life-changing” event that resulted good shape and able to run 1.5 miles in her adopting a female Labrador within 15 minutes, and complete Retriever-mix dog, Jewels. Ironically, 35 pushups and sit-ups (depending Jewels had recently been rescued Matthew Griffis upon age group) upon entering the from certain death from the Pinal program. The cadets experience Selected as ALLECA County Animal Care and Control many aspects of law enforcement, Center in Casa Grande and brought Director including, but not limited to; first- all the way up to Utah to the Best aid, air rescue, introduction to police American Legion’s Matthew Griffis Friends Animal Sanctuary. K-9s, defensive tactics, SWAT, has been selected as the new collision investigation, Citizenship director of Arizona’s American Legion The second event that reinforced and Americanism, building searches, Law Enforcement Career Academy the need to establish Passion 4 active shooter, what not to do when (ALLECA). Paws was that someone literally driving, how to prevent bullying, “dumped” an adult dog in the wash ALLECA is a partnered youth etc. The encampment is under the near Andrea’s house. Knowing program between the Department direct leadership of the Department Andrea’s love of animals, a neighbor of Arizona American Legion and the of Arizona American Legion and the alerted her of the dumped dog and Arizona Department of Public Safety Department of Public Safety with she hiked into the wash and brought Also, please be aware that extension (AZ DPS) that began back in 1981 most of the instruction being provided the dog food. She was able to coax cords aren't designed to handle the and has now reached its 38th year. by certified Arizona or Federal law the dog to her home and she began current flow produced by a space ALLECA is a program geared toward enforcement officers. the process of finding it a fur-ever those individual teenagers who have home. She knew that she had a niche heater. Plugging a portable heater A registered non-profit, ALLECA shown an interest in some phase of for caring for animals, especially into an extension cord can lead to welcomes donations to help sponsor law enforcement or military. overheating and fire. Extension cord young people to attend. You can send misuse is a major cause of fires in "Passion 4 Paws: Saving Dogs Sponsored by The American Legion a donation (check or money order) and Cats in Southern Arizona" the USA. According to the Electrical to ALLECA, P.O. Box 750, Cortaro, Safety Foundation International the program consists of an eight-day continued on next page 10 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 "Passion 4 Paws: Saving Dogs Passion 4 Paws’ mission is to support several hours to ordering materials and Cats in Southern Arizona" the lives of the neediest dogs in and writing grants to pay for the continued from previous page Southern Arizona. You can help project. by providing a monetary donation, considering she has been around pets fostering an animal, or adopting an her entire life. Her earliest memories animal. Passion 4 Paws is a tax- are of growing up with both a dog and exempt 501c3 organization and can a cat, of which she has had one or take your monetary donation through both in her home her entire life. She PayPal at paypal.me/Andrea Mozolik also realized that there’s a real need in or by check to Passion 4 Paws at the community to aid these helpless 9358 E. Indigo Mtn Way, Corona animals in fi nding a family home. de Tucson, AZ 85641. Andrea is also always looking for new animal A sad fact exists: Over 1.5 million foster parents or to help families fi nd animals per year (670,000 dogs new homes for the and 860,000 cats) are euthanized at-risk pets. If you according to ASPCA (www.The are interested, please American Society for the Prevention contact Passion 4 of Cruelty to Animals). One of the Paws at 520-307-9481. keys to saving shelter animal lives is through fostering. At Passion 4 Paws, hhhhhhhhhhhhh Andrea is basically an “adoption coordinator” for primarily dogs, but also cats. She’s partnered with area Sycamore Elementary shelters to help fi nd foster parents for animals, as well as fi nding the School's Day of Caring perfect forever homes for at-risk pets destined for euthanasia. Andrea by Kerri Flores and Brad Adams herself has a personal pack of 3 dogs Each year United Way coordinates that were all on the euthanasia list. a Day of Caring in October and She currently has two long-time foster brings in thousands of volunteers families but is always looking for more around the country to support local foster families. organizations. This year, Sycamore Basically, a foster family takes in a pet Elementary, in the Vail School District, Because of the volunteers organized while waiting for a fur-ever family with participated by involving community for Day of Caring, we had members all supplies provided by Passion 4 members to help with the fi rst from the National Bank of Arizona, Paws. This includes food, supplies, phase of an inclusive garden that Boys Scouts of America Troop 770, crates, veterinary medical, and so will promote science, technology, and afterschool club members and on. Foster families are required to fi ll engineering, art, and math (STEAM). parents participate in phase 1, a out an application and have a home Sycamore’s art teacher, Ms. Roby, very physical part of the process. members of their community and has check before being certifi ed as a and SUMS (Students Understanding They worked together and were a a lasting, positive impact on society. foster home. Foster families can host Math and Science) teacher, Mrs. tremendous help clearing gravel Community service/volunteerism animals for as short as a month to as in preparation of making the area enables students to acquire life skills long as 4 months in order to fi nd the wheelchair accessible, building and knowledge, as well as provide a ideal forever home. In the last year planters, and laying block. service to those who need it. alone, Passion 4 Paws has fostered 11 at-risk dogs and 10 of them found Sycamore values community If you are interested in volunteering at their new families. interaction and the support that we Sycamore, please contact Kerri Flores have received through this project at (520) 879-2515 or sierrafl oresk@ Passion 4 Paws also recently has been invaluable. Engaging in vailschooldistrict.org. partnered with VCA Animal Hospital community service provides students of Sahuarita to provide free with opportunities to become active hhhhhhhhhhhhh microchipping to pets at the Vista Feed Fall Festival. Over 20 pets were microchipped that day which helps keep pets as safe as possible! Debra Larochelle, Nancy Velasco, a long-time friend of Andrea’s was at the Vista Feed store ABR, SRES, SFR REALTOR® that day and says, “I have followed Associate Broker Andrea’s journey to save so many animals and her development of “Life Is All About Relationships” establishing an organization to save the most neglected animals, many (520) 270-7283 of whom she has since rescued and placed in her wide network of foster Tankersley, came together to design www.findluxuryhome.com families prior to fi nally being placed in the interactive garden in which a fully vetted forever home. Andrea’s students will be able to work in a work is from the heart with a keen eye greenhouse, play on the alphabet on doing what needs to be done for a pad, and decipher fractions. Our successful outcome for all.” Parent Teacher Association dedicated thevailvoice.com December 2018 11 Curiosity Never Retires

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Local Family Opens Viva Coff ee House Specialty craft coff ee comes to Tucson’s east side. VAIL NEVER HAD IT Coff ee is fuel for our lives, and we love to love it. Andrea Walker remembers trips to a local coff ee shop in the 90’s with her mother. Years later, when she and her husband SO GOOD. Kelly moved their family to Rita Ranch, followed by parents Cheryl and Richard Dunker, the love of coff ee came with them. “We moved from Oregon last summer and found ourselves driving 20+ minutes to get good local coff ee,” says Andrea, Viva co-owner. “We got the notion we could bring locally crafted coff ee to our community in a sit- down environment.” "We chose Presta Coff ee Roasters of Tucson to supply our beans,” said Andrea. “When I tasted their coff ee, I knew they were what we needed." Viva sources local products like fresh pastries made by Mad Batter Bakery and Curly Wolf Kombucha. Viva has come out of the gate with a fi ve-star reception from the community. “Viva is such a great addition to our small community,” said Shawnie Ruble Peterson. “I’m so happy Viva opened in Rita Ranch! Always a great cup of coff ee with friendly service. They use a local roaster and local pastries. They even have kids storytime several times a week. I’m so glad Viva is nearby!” “A lot of people aren’t yet aware of Viva,” Andrea noted. “Those who are have been delighted by the quality, ambiance and friendly staff . They’re surprised to discover that our drinks are priced ‘on a par with the star.’ We’re delighted to be part of the community and look forward to serving it for years to come.” Visit Viva Coff ee House at 9136 East Valencia, corner of Nexus, Facebook/ Instagram @VivaCoff eeHouse 9136 E. Valencia, Suite 160, Rita Ranch hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com December 2018 13 Advent and Christmas Come to Life at Desert Skies! by Candace Lansberry When the stores decorate for Christmas before the pumpkins come down, it's easy to lose the awe and wonder of the Advent/Christmas Season because the season just lasts too long. This December, why not experience the anticipation of Advent, the time of waiting before the celebration of the birth of the Christ Child? On December 2nd at 4:00 PM, Messy Church kicks off Advent with a Las Posadas celebration in the Vail Innovation Center. Story, crafts, story, singing, story, dinner and a pinata ... fun and worship for all ages in an intergenerational worship service designed to share love for God and to play together. Then, through the rest of the month, we will be looking at the advent and birth of Christ through the lens of the hymn Silent Night, honoring its 200th year as the cornerstone of Christmas celebrations everywhere. And then, a Future Pumpers Christmas Eve “Eve Service” ... yes, you read that right. At 4:00 PM on December 23rd, we will hold a Candlelight and Carols Family Service, hoping it will be an option for many who may already have Christmas Eve plans with family and friends. 520-225-0025 southwestsepticservice.com hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh • Septic Pumping • Septic Inspection and Certifications for Tis the Season for Comedy at Roadrunner! Real Estate Transfers • Alternative Septic Specialist by Larry Fuller • Septic System Maintenance and Repairs This month, the Roadrunner Theatre Company (RTC) presents Inspecting “WE WANT YOUR STINKING BUSINESS” Carol, written by Daniel J. Sullivan. Think A Christmas Carol meets The Inspector General meets Noises Off in this hilarious holiday hit! A man who asks to audition at a small theater is mistaken for an informer for the National Accepting New Patients Endowment for the Arts. Everyone caters to the bewildered wannabe actor, and he is given a role in the current production, A Christmas Carol. Everything Call for an Appointment today goes wrong and hilarity is piled upon hilarity. Directed by Robert Ulsrud, Monday 7:30 am to 5:00 pm Inspecting Carol plays until December 23rd! Get your tickets fast before they are gone! Perfect for the holiday season! And so are tickets to all our upcoming Tuesday 8:00 am to 6:00 pm shows in 2019! Call 207-2491 for more information and visit our website at Wednesday 7:00 am to Noon roadrunnertheatrecompany.org. Roadrunner Theatre, 8892 E. Tanque Verde Thursday 7:30 am to 5:00 pm Road. Friday 7:30 am to 3:00 pm Also, for the holidays, if you shop on Amazon, go to smile.amazon.com to sign Patriot Internal Medicine into your account and when you make a purchase, Amazon will donate to RTC. Health and Wellness

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14 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 Tucson Women’s March 2019 Set for January 20th 2019 by Kathleen Kennedy GET MORE Please mark your calendars for the Tucson Women’s March 2019, to be held on Sunday, January 20th, 2019 from 10 AM – 2 PM at Jácome Plaza (corner of Stone & Pennington in front of Joel D. Valdez library). Throughout history, women have been assembling and changing society, from the French Resistance to the American Revolution to the Suff ragettes, who secured the right to vote through their resistance eff orts. We are proud to continue this honorable tradition with the Tucson Women’s March. In January 2017, the world saw its fi rst offi cial “women’s marches.” All over the world, an estimated 3 million women, men, and children participated in marches in the U.S. - the biggest march in the history of the United States - and over 300,000 people in other countries had their own marches. Tucson’s 2017 Women’s March was attended by over 15,000 people. People Room to Breathe gathered together in the cold and rain to listen to speeches and music, then march and chant together. It was an incredible Just 30 minutes to TIA experience. I know because I was there. A group of volunteer women has been working since early 2018 on the 2019 Tucson Women’s March: from infrastructure (insurance, permits, route, etc.), to publicity, to speakers and entertainment (more on the lineup 520.546.HAWK RedHawkJ6.com next month); to recruiting hundreds of volunteers and working to raise funds to cover expenses. We welcome everyone who comes in peace at this non-partisan event. There will be speeches by community leaders, local and national musicians, poetry, and dance, tabling by organizations, and food trucks. The route is accessible Legacy Church and kid-friendly. of Vail, Arizona ASSEMBLIES OF GOD We are working to ensure that this celebrates the diversity of Tucson’s cultures, Legacy Church is a Start-up Assembly of God Church ethnicities, genders, and religions is represented. All speeches will be in both Services at the Christ Lutheran Vail Church English and Spanish, and the march will be led by a coalition of indigenous people. March apparel (t-shirts, hoodies, and hats) is available in both 14600 E. Colossal Cave Road, Vail languages on our website at www.tucsonwomensmarch.com. Sundays @ 10:00 AM with Pastor Stacy Brankel Please donate or sponsor us; buy a t-shirt, hoodie, or hat; volunteer, and march with us. Together we rise! Learn more at www.tucsonwomensmarch.com. Legacy Church where we: Preach, Teach & Sing the word of the Lord hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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16 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 Pickleball Fun Tournament Thanks “Living well, with assistance” by Robert Salter, President of the Del Web Rancho Del Lago Pickleball Club Academy Villas 7700 S. Vivaldi Court, Tucson, AZ 85747 (520) 647-7500 Friendly Competent Staff · A Safe Place to Enjoy Life Extensive Amenities · Small Intimate Setting · RN on Staff Beautiful Mountain Views · Respite Care Visit our website: academyvillas.org Inquiries welcome No-obligation tours available

On October 27th, a pickleball fun tournament was held at Del Webb, Rancho Del Lago. Pickleball is a fast growing paddle sport that combines some of the The Steak Out similar aspects of badminton, tennis, and table tennis. This event was, in part, Restaurant & Saloon a success due to the generous nature of wonderful local Vail area businesses: 3243 State Highway 83, Sonoita, Arizona 85637 ACE Hardware (Houghton Road), ARBY’S, Arizona Pizza Company, Auto Zone, Baggins Gourmet Sandwiches, Bavilon Salon, Big ‘O’ Tires, Dairy Queen (Rita), 520-455-5205 Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, Hotrods Old Vail, Jersey Mike’s Subs Hours - Monday thru Thursday 5pm-9pm, Friday 5 pm to 10 pm, (Houghton Road), Mongomery’s Grill & Saloon, Pizza Hut (Houghton Road), Saturday 11am to 10 pm and Sunday 11 am to 9 pm One Nail Salon, Rancho Del Lago Golf Course, Rancho Rustico Restaurant, Live Country Music Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday Subway (Houghton Road), Vail Nail & Spa, Casino del Sol and Truly Nolan. In addition to the tournament, participants held a food drive, and were able to BUY ONE MEAL GET THE SECOND ONE 1/2 OFF donate 171 pounds of food items to the Vail Food Bank. The pickleball club WITH COUPON - MUST HAND TO SERVER and tournament participants thanks the contributors for their support. For more SONOITA INN 520-455-5935 www.sonoitainn.com information on pickleball visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickleball $175 Wine Package includes a room, bottle of wine at check in and a meal voucher at The Steak Out for $25 There are 15 Wineries and Breweries in Sonoita and Elgin, minutes from the Inn. hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thevailvoice.com December 2018 17 Vail Voice Places to Go, Things to Do, People to See December 1, 2018 - January 31, 2019 Community For details and/or more information on any event listed here, please use Calendar the provided contact information or visit the listed event website.

to 8:00 PM Sunday - 8th Tucson 6:30 PM - Tucson Women's March 9:00 AM - Lunch from 11:00 AM to Ongoing & Multi-Day Fringe Theatre Festival. 8 venues, 25 2019 meeting - Join us for updates 1:00 PM @ Voyager Activity Office Events shows, 60 performances. - Studio and action items for the Jan. 20 - 8701 S Kolb Road, Tuson - ONE, 197 E. Toole Ave, Tucson - march! @ YWCA Southern Arizona, [email protected] Every Monday www.tucsonfringe.org, tucsonfringe@ 525 N. Bonita Avenue, Tucson gmail.com - Cost: $10-$95 – www.tucsonwomensmarch.com – 3:30 PM - Lecture by Evan MacLean, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM — Take Off FREE assistant professor, U of A School of Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Chapter hhhhhhhhhhh Anthropology, “The Thinking Dog,” @ 0577 Vail - Want to lose weight? Wednesday, December 5 Arizona Senior Academy, 13715 E. Come to our weight loss support Langtry Lane, Tucson – www. group! @ Firehouse #1 Conference Daily Events 3:30 PM - Lecture by Brack Brown, arizonasenioracademy.org – FREE, Room, 99 E. Tallahassee Drive, Academy Village resident and docent donations welcomed. Corona de Tucson - www.tops.org - Saturday, December 1 at the Tucson Museum of Art, “The First meeting Free! Afterwards, $32 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM - Produce on Art of Creatures,” @ Arizona Senior Thursday, December 13 annual membership, $2 weekly dues Academy, 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Wheels Without Waste (POWWOW) @ 2:30 PM - Lecture by Michael St. Rita in the Desert Church - 13260 Tucson – www.arizonasenioracademy. Friday, November 23 thru org – FREE, donations welcomed. Brescia, U of A professor of history E. Colossal Cave Road, Vail - Come and curator of ethnohistory in the December 24 early as we do run out of items - Thursday, December 6 Arizona State Museum, “Making Cost: 70 pounds of produce for (Historical) Sense of Mexico Part 3,” Boy Scout Troop 770 3rd Annual $12.00 Christmas Tree & Wreath Sale. Black 2:30 PM - Lecture by Michael @ Arizona Senior Academy, 13715 E. Friday Specials on Trees and Wreaths 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM - Community Brescia, U of A professor of history Langtry Lane, Tucson – www. @ American Legion Post 109 - 15921 Event - Coffee Crafts and More - and curator of ethnohistory in the arizonasenioracademy.org – FREE, S. Houghton Road, Vail - 762-5652 Over 60 local Vendors @ Civano Arizona State Museum, “Making donations welcomed. Coffee House, 5278 S. Civano Blvd., (Historical) Sense of Mexico Part 2,” Fridays, Saturdays, Tucson @ Arizona Senior Academy, 13715 E. Saturday, December 15 Langtry Lane, Tucson – www. Sundays December 7 - 23 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM - Sign-Making Sunday, December 2 arizonasenioracademy.org – FREE, donations welcomed. Party for Tucson Women's March 7:30 PM Fridays/Saturdays, 2:00 PM 2019 - Make signs, have FUN at a Sundays - Constellations by Nick 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM - First Sunday of the Month Antique Fair™ - The oldest Saturday, December 8 sign-making party for Jan. 20 Payne - Man meets woman, a women's march! Please bring some dreamlike story of love and quantum running fair. Please come and join us. @ Old Vail Middle School - 13299 E. 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM - Andrada supplies. @ YWCA Southern Arizona, physics. @ The Community Polytechnic High School craft fair 525 N. Bonita Avenue, Tucson Playhouse, 1881 N. Oracle, Tucson - Colossal Cave Rd, Vail - www. Antiquefair.club - 520-243-0386 raising money for Andrada Multi- – www.tucsonwomensmarch.com For information: (520) 468-6111 - Cultural Club @ Andrada Polytechnic – FREE somethingsomethingtheatre.com Tuesday, December 4 High Schoo - 12960 S. Houghton Rd. - Cost: $25 Call (520) 879-3331 - 72x30 table Tuesday, December 18 11:30 AM - Harp recital by Christine $15, smaller tables $10. Friday, January 11 thru Vivona @ Arizona Senior Academy, 11:30 AM - Concert by soprano Sunday, January 13 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Tucson – 2:00 PM - "How Do We Strengthen Diana Peralta and baritone Octavio www.arizonasenioracademy.org – Live, Local Entertainment Community Morena to preview the 2019 Tucson 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM Friday; 12:00 FREE, donations welcomed. in Tucson?" - Discussion about Desert Song Festival’s theme of PM to 11:30 PM Saturday; 12:00 PM improving entertainment industry in music of Latin America @ Arizona Tucson (LLI)- Host James Pack @ Senior Academy, 13715 E. Langtry Joel Valdez Library - www.vaudvil. Lane, Tucson – www. com - FREE arizonasenioracademy.org – FREE, Your Local Service donations welcomed. Electrician Tuesday, December 11 6:30 PM - Tucson Women's March • Residential and Commercial 2019 meeting - Join us for updates Service Work 11:30 AM - The Tucsonics Western • Ceiling Fans, Fixtures, Dimmers Swing Band returns with swinging and action items for the Jan. 20 • Remodels, Additions cowboy spirit by some of Tucson’s march! @ Murphy-Wilmot Library, 530 • Hot Tub Circuits and Hookup finest musicians @ Arizona Senior N. Wilmot, Tucson – www. LICENSED BONDED INSURED • LED Lighting Retrofits Academy, 13715 E. Langtry Lane, tucsonwomensmarch.com – FREE ROC 244510 CR11 • Tesla and EV Chargers Tucson – www.arizonasenioracademy. • Security Lighting org – FREE, donations welcomed. Wednesday, December 19 Specializing in the “Small Jobs” • Home Inspection Repairs Wednesday, December 12 3:30 PM - Lecture by Nickolas Waser, 520.330.6778 professor of biology emeritus, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM - Market Daze/ University of California at Riverside, Steve Pakus [email protected] Member Greater Vail Area Farmers Market. Food, jewelry, crafts, "Polygamy and divorce in plant- Owner/Operator - Veteran Owned Chamber of Commerce artwork, honey and more - Donuts at pollinator relationships, or the 18 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 Vail Voice Places to Go, Things to Do, December 1, 2018 - January 31, 2019 Community People to See To include your not for profit event, send details to: [email protected] Calendar Deadline for events to be included is the 20th of the prior month. ocotillo's story," @ Arizona Senior Natural Resources and the Academy, 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Langtry Lane, Tucson – www. Academy, 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Environment, “Herps and Perps: The Tucson – www.arizonasenioracademy. arizonasenioracademy.org – FREE, Tucson – www.arizonasenioracademy. Blackmarket Trade in Arizona org – FREE, donations welcomed. donations welcomed. org – FREE, donations welcomed. Reptiles,” @ Arizona Senior Academy, 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Tucson Sunday, January 20 Wednesday, January 30 Thursday, December 20 – www.arizonasenioracademy.org – FREE, donations welcomed. 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM - Tucson 3:30 PM - Lecture by Maria Debozy, 2:30 PM - Lecture by Michael Brescia, Women's March 2019 - The Academy Village resident and U of A professor of history and Thursday, January 10 nonviolent event featuring amazing professor emeritus, University of Utah curator of ethnohistory in the Arizona speakers (all in English and Spanish), Department of World Languages and State Museum, “Making (Historical) 3:30 PM - Lecture by Kendall musicians, poets, dancers, kid- Culture, “German Single-leaf Prints as Sense of Mexico Part 4,” @ Arizona Kroesen, Tucson Mission Garden friendly, food trucks. @ Jácome Plaza Multi-media Objects; Poems, Images Senior Academy, 13715 E. Langtry community outreach coordinator, (Stone & Pennington), Tucson – www. and Performance Potential, 1529- Lane, Tucson – www. “Mission Garden and the Birth of tucsonwomensmarch.com 1530,” @ Arizona Senior Academy, arizonasenioracademy.org – FREE, Tucson,” @ Arizona Senior Academy, 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Tucson donations welcomed. 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Tucson Tuesday, January 22 – www.arizonasenioracademy.org – – www.arizonasenioracademy.org – FREE, donations welcomed. Saturday, December 22 FREE, donations welcomed. 11:30 AM - Concert by pianist Paula Fan and Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Thursday, January 31 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM - Produce on Saturday, January 12 Williams @ Arizona Senior Academy, Wheels Without Waste (POWWOW) 13715 E. Langtry Lane, Tucson – 3:00 PM - Video on “The Middle East: Distribution @ McCulloch-Wagner 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM - Sign-Making www.arizonasenioracademy.org – Regional Discorder,” from the Foreign American Legion Post 109, 15921 S. 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CANDLES DREIDEL HANUKKAH STOCKINGS CAROLERS FAMILY LATKES TINSEL CHIMNEY FESTIVAL LIGHTS TREE Place a Number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row CHRISTMAS GIFTS MENORAH WRAPPINGS across, each column down and each 9-box square contains all of COOKIES GIVING ORNAMENTS YULELOG the numbers from one to nine. thevailvoice.com December 2018 25 “You aren’t taking his council now. It advisor you also made him your With your help our November 3rd irritates you.” successor, until you have a child.” fundraiser, the Vail Championship Focus on Golf Tournament, netted more money “Would you be my chief advisor?” “What?” than ever before and we welcomed Fiction many new players to the competition. “The council wouldn’t like it. I’m not “You are the last Tawndry. There is The weather could not have been a member.” no one after you. Our law appoints Stories from Our Local Authors the chief advisor second in command more beautiful, and the Del Lago Golf “Then you will be.” Thomas jumped if the King dies without an heir. I Course venue was in tremendous up to fi nd Melville. would question why you don’t know condition for this annual event. that, but I know your tutor.” Holding the First Responder trophies Long Live the King – “Sire, what do you know about your for the coming year are: Ryan Ake, Part 2 of 3 tutor?” Melville asked when informed “And you don’t like him. Now let me Stan Eckert, Gary Maynard, and Chris of Thomas’ plan. out of here.” Rebeck. The Open Cup winners are: by LeAnn McRae Diego Guerrero, Max Kruegar, Dylan “I have known him longer than I have hhhh Mattson and Sam Salisbury, and the Thomas sat in a cushioned chair, his known anyone else here, including High School Cup went to: Daniel advisors and guards between him you. Out of respect for my uncle, Long Live the King – Part 3 will Henely, Kyle Irwin, Koshi Obokuro and the miners. you may remain on the council. appear in the January edition of and Marcus Olona. Congratulations But Professor Carter will be chief The Vail Voice to our winners and thanks to all the “The king calls for an increased advisor.” LeAnn McRae is the mother of six sponsors and volunteers who made production of topaz,” Melville the tournament possible. announced. Thomas felt a tug on his arm, children and has lived in Vail for three disturbing his dream. years. She enjoys running, reading, And fi nally, don’t forget to spice up A gasp fi lled the hall. Crandall, miner and playing “Your highness.” your Christmas shopping routine with spokesman, bowed before the king, games with a visit to the Vail Depot Thrift Store “Please, sire, the mines are already “What? Melville, what are you doing family and to fi nd that unique gift at a bargain overworked and are becoming here?” friends. Over price! Located “between the tracks,” dangerous. We can’t produce topaz the years, the inventory is surprisingly varied, any faster.” “Shhh. Come with me. The palace is her love of changes daily and all proceeds go on fi re.” reading has Thomas squinted at the men before to support the charitable work of expanded to ReSources. Happy Holidays and him. He was their king. They could “Fire!” Thomas jumped up, sniffi ng an enthusiasm not manipulate him. best wishes for 2019 to all our clients, the air. “I don’t smell fi re.” for writing. donors, volunteers and supporters! “Double the rate.” Thomas whispered You can fi nd more of her stories at “You will. Please hurry or you will leannmcrae.com. hhhhhhhhhhhhh to Melville. suff er the same fate as your uncle. But this time Carter is using the hhhhhhhhhhhhh “But, sire, did you hear their protestors to do his dirty work.” concern?” “I don’t see any trouble. I’m going “Yes. They can hire more workers. back to bed.” ReSources’ Givers, Double the production rate.” “Please, come with me and you’ll Golfers and Shoppers Melville frowned but relayed the see. Your life is in danger.” message. by Susan Summers Thomas shrugged and followed A minor approached Thomas. Helping feed hungry Vail families Melville down a back hallway, out “Please, your highness.” with emergency food supplies, a side door to a tool shed near supplementing the weekend diets Before he could continue, a guard the seldom-used side entrance of of some of our local students clubbed him, knocking him to the the property. Thomas hesitated, through the “back pack” program, fl oor. Other men stepped back. wondering how he and Melville could and sending meals to home-bound Thomas looked into their faces, fi t in the cramped space cluttered seniors are the essential work of reading their emotion - fear. Energy with broken shovels and brooms. ReSources Vail Food Bank. Our ran through Thomas’ veins. He was success in these endeavors depends Melville whispered. “There is an king. A man to be feared, heeded, on your donations, so as the new uprising tonight. The plan is to burn obeyed. He made the rules. He set year approaches, we hope one of you in your bed.” the policies. And he controlled the your resolutions will be to support army. “Who? Whose plan?” ReSources through the Arizona State Charitable Tax Credit. This hhhh “The protestors believe it is their plan, is a dollar-for-dollar state tax credit and will execute it. But Carter is which allows a donation of up to “If Melville annoys you, fi re him. You behind it.” $400 for those fi ling individually are King.” Professor Carter said as and up to $800 for those fi ling as Thomas reclined in an easy chair, Thomas turned. “If this is about married couples. Why not keep complaining about his chief advisor’s making Professor Carter chief your charitable dollars working in instruction. advisor, I’m going back to bed.” the local community while reducing “You’re right. I could fi re him. But “Wait. Listen. For once in your life, your tax burden to the state! For I’ll need a replacement.” He mused. listen.” Melville angled his body, more information, please visit: www. “I don’t know who to trust for wise blocking the door. resourcesvail.org council.” “When you appointed Carter chief This fall has been a busy season for Greater Vail Community Resources. 26 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 “She’s gone to her sister’s,” is a else in me now.” family, or most us wouldn’t have any! My Space southern expression for single That’s true for blood or church family. women who get pregnant. Best to let If you are the gay child: are you able Agreement is not necessary - only This space is this young woman go “take care of to run to your sibling, cousin, aunt, love is necessary. Love is more than provided for you to this thing that happened” in the care uncle, grandparent, when mom and/ the glue; love is the entire structure. or dad are the unsafe ones? If they share a personal journey and of someone who loves - her better have shut the door in your face, don’t If your family member needs to “go what you have learned. than to remain under the scornful eye of those who’ve never stepped out of keep banging your head against it. to her sister’s,” I hope you’ll be the line in their lives (just ask them). Look around at those who do love place they can go. Be there with you and choose them. open arms. Welcome, acceptance, Email to [email protected]. I could write a book about the compassion, grace, hospitality - All submissions are subject to unchristian cruelty of those who If you are not the gay child, are you a these are what God asks of us. editor discretion. stand in judgment - actually, I’m safe place for your sister, your family working on one! But today, I’m talking member, to come when they need They are the essence of love itself. about “the love and The Essence of Love sister” - the safety? Some are reluctant hhhhhhhhhhhhh by Susan Cottrell relatives who are always to offer their Do you have family issues that there for you. home, afraid seem to hurt a little more during the The ones to “step in holidays? Yep, me too. Why is it that who love you the middle,” the love and acceptance of family when the rest of a battle seems so conditional? It sure wasn’t of the world that is not conditional for Mary’s family. Mary cast you theirs. But and Joseph were scandalized when out. “She’s this is not just Mary turned up single and pregnant. gone to a difference “The Holy Spirit did it!” Yeah, right. her sister’s,” when her husband of two valid How many people will believe that? is threatening her, or abusing her, viewpoints. This is a battle between Those villagers heaped scorn and and she needs a safe place for inclusion and exclusion. It is between rejection on Mary … because if herself or her kids. “She’s gone to love and apathy. It is between there’s one thing religious people her sister’s,” when she’s married protecting and harming. know how to do, it’s heap scorn and someone from another race, religion, You may not agree with your sister, rejection … how could she stand it? or socioeconomic status. “She’s gone cousin, nephew. God knows, (“The Bible’s clear that you’re in sin - I to her sister’s,” when she needs a agreement is not necessary to be didn’t say it, God said it!” Can’t you place where the detractors can’t get hear it?) her. Everyone needs a place. “Who needs this?” she must have My friend from our mom’s group said, said. “I know! I’ll get outta here - I’ll “My sister and I don’t talk about my go to my family. She’ll be happy to gay son. She just can’t take it, and if see me, of course! She’s family!” we talk about it, we’ll fight. So we talk Elizabeth certainly was glad to see about everything else.” At least they Mary. What a relief it must have been are still talking. to escape the scorn of every know-it- all in town. Secluded away together, Another mom said, “My sister and I they could enjoy their pregnancies to don’t talk. She hates that I support the full. After all, pregnancy is a joyful my lesbian daughter, and that stands time! How quickly busybodies will right in the way of our relationship. snatch away the joy of pregnancy, if I’d love to just put that aside and just the pregnancy didn’t happen in the talk about everything else in these “correct” way. So much for, “children lives we’ve shared for 45 years, but are a blessing from God.” she can’t. She just can’t see anything

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thevailvoice.com December 2018 27 doors, electrical, project old stood up straight, took a deep Vail management and more breath and closed her eyes, her small as this important historic fingers coaxed the lovely strains of Preservation rehabilitation project Silent Night and other Christmas Society moves forward. Watch carols from the strings of her violin for for monthly updates. Connecting Community Through the railroad workers, homesteaders Local History Since 2006 and ranchers who joined her in song. A Little Girl’s Gift – 1935 Listen closely this Christmas Eve and Christmas Between the perhaps you’ll hear a little girls’ gift Tracks of music and the joyous songs sung Historic Preservation’s It was Christmas by early Vail Villagers carried on the Impact in Vail Eve 1935, a cool, breezes between the tracks in historic crisp evening in Vail. by J.J. Lamb Vail. Conversations, SHPO Deputy Director Chris Cody shares remarks friendships, shared J.J. Lamb is Executive Director of "Most significant and successful at the grand opening of the 1915 Section Foreman beliefs, specially the Vail Preservation Society & Vail historical/educational restoration House. Vail Preservation Society. prepared dishes and Connects Main Street program, a project in Arizona." Those were the music filled the air 2011 Arizona powerful words from Chris Cody, the around the Shrine Culturekeeper, Arizona State Historic Preservation next 100 years as a student hub at of Saint Rita in the Desert. Long and U of A Office Deputy Director speaking Esmond Station K8 for the Section tables made from wooden planks graduate. Her about the 1915 Section Foreman’s Gang Museum Club, garden club laid on sawhorses and covered with family has House at Esmond Station K-8. The and art gallery. Historic preservation tablecloths held a holiday bounty. lived in Vail Vail Preservation Society is so proud is serving present and future needs This Christmas was especially joyful since 1971. of the 350 Cienega High School at Esmond Station K8. So many for the small congregation. It was their She currently Construction Tech students who took a leap of faith to make this first Christmas in the new church. A leads the have worked on the rehabilitation of unique learning experience possible! gift from Mrs. Beach to Vail, in honor rehabilitation the 1915 Section Foreman House Thank you to the Vail Unified School of her deceased first husband Dr. work on the over the past four and a half years! District Board, Vail Preservation Jokichi Takamine. The Shrine was 1915 Section Foreman House at And, we are thankful for the support, Society Board and everyone who has dedicated on March 31, 1935. Esmond Station K8 and the 1908 Old both through partnerships, grants, supported the rehabilitation of the Vail Store & P.O. donations and sharing of skills and 1915 Section Foreman House. Postmistress Dovie Woolsey, who technical support, that has made this had been the pianist when the The 1908 adobe Vail Store & Post project possible. congregation met at the Vail School, hhhhhhhhhhhhh Office, Vail’s oldest building, is did not get to be a part of this first the next student Christmas, she had passed away preservation project and earlier in the year, but her family is already in the works! would. Mary Jane Warner, Dovie’s The drainage issues oldest daughter had taken over as related to the Colossal postmistress. On this first Christmas Cave Road project that in the new church Mary Jane’s have slowed down the youngest sister would be a special start of the project are part of the celebration. being resolved. The architectural drawings Jacquilene had been playing her are complete and we violin for about a year and already can’t wait to begin. The shown great promise. She would go first step will involve on to play in orchestras for her entire additional work related life. This night was her first public to drainage and grading. performance. The little seven-year- Grand opening celebration of the 1915 Section Students Foreman House at Esmond Station K8. Vail have already Preservation Society. been involved If you missed the October 29th grand in meeting opening, watch for the next open with the Arizona Historic house so you can get a close up look Preservation Officer at the students’ work. The windows and architect, as well are especially amazing, historic as project architect Phil preservationist Simon Herbert worked Swaim, and engineer John alongside students to train them in Grenier. We have set a this specialized trade skill. Mike Pena high standard with the of Lucas Electric has invested many 1915 Section Foreman hours training students in wiring. And, House rehab that includes Cienega High School Construction experiential student Tech teacher Michael Keck and learning that we will continue with this project. assistant Wade Cross's investment in Jacqueline Davis in her Christmas sweater at the the project has been key. Students will gain hands on experience working Shrine of Santa Rita in 1935. Davis Collection, Vail The 1915 house is ready for its with adobe, windows, Preservation Society

28 The Vail Voice To place an ad call: 520-490-0962 hence the holiday moniker for this renderings of Santa and his elves. “These are the shadows of things Holiday Hiking settlement. Fate, though, plagued that have been,” screams Scrooge in Ebenezer Scrooge sees the error by Rob Samuelsen miners with bankruptcies and an attempt to deny his part in history. storekeepers with closures ultimately of his ways. Christmas Camp is Little did I consider how Charles The Ghost of Christmas Past is alive leading to the demise of Christmas. abandoned by explorers, Christmas Dicken’s epic story A Christmas and well in Arizona. Taking Ebenezer Today, Freeport McMoran controls is abandoned by miners, and Santa Carol could correspond to long lost Scrooge on a quick tour of Arizona’s the area and only phantasmal cousins Claus is abandoned by real estate ambitions in Arizona’s past. May we past, the ghost guides Scrooge to of the Ghost of Christmas Past reside developers. The five “C’s” of the reject the spirit of Ebenezer, embrace the December 25th, 1847 dry camp in the crevasses and ruins of what state are marred by the three devils the yearnings of hope, and rejoice in of the Mormon Battalion. This now remains. of southwestern society. While citrus, the glory of the season! Christmas Camp provided a brief respite after an 18-mile day heading Rob Samuelsen's adventures are northwest from Picacho Peak motivated by his lifelong wanderlust towards the Gila River. While today, and interest in natural science. His it’s protected and memorialized trips are by the Sonora Desert National supported Monument west of Maricopa, in 1847 by his long- it was a God-forsaken place between suffering and the mileposts of agony and despair. understanding The battalion had run out of water, wife, four feeding on food rations, and they children, were still miles away from the life- and seven giving sustenance of the Gila. Were it grandchildren. not for friendly encounters with Indian To fund his guides, the Scrooge could have escapades, wreaked havoc on this motley band Finally, the Ghost takes Scrooge cattle, and climate bring hope and he works as a business executive of dispirited warriors. 14 miles northwest of Kingman, optimism, explorers, miners, and having served as CEO, COO, and Arizona to Santa Claus. Santa Claus developers leave behind heartache CFO of various entities. He's served Acres, established in 1937, captured and ruin. The Ghost of Christmas on a number of community boards visions of grandeur from wannabe Past reveals the dark history of and operates a small business (www. real estate developers. Based on Arizona as Scrooge’s role plays out backcountryexpressions.com) which the hopes of capitalizing on Santa’s before his eyes. The elves are gone, sells some of his photographs. fame, this section of parched desert Santa’s workshop is empty, and could not overcome its desolation. Santa is without a sleigh. hhhhhhhhhhhhh Even the well-travelled State Route 83 could not bring success to this hamlet and all that remains today are several vandalized buildings, a vacant wishing well, and the "Old 1225," a derailed, pink children's train tagged with graffiti that mar the hand-painted The next guided visit takes Scrooge to Christmas, Arizona, a townsite so named for its staking on Christmas Day in 1902. Established to support copper mines in the Dripping Springs Mountains northeast of Winkelman, it took an act of Congress to gerrymander the Apache Reservation around the deposits so the white man could exploit its riches. News of this action arrived on Christmas Eve,

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John has lived in southern Arizona the past 30 years and Vail for 14 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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*Located at Houghton Town Center. Learn more and sign up to receive eNews at HughesFCU.org/Vail Insured by NCUA **Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to produce Best-In-State Banks and Credit Unions rankings. More than 25,000 customers in the U.S. were surveyed for their opinions on current and former banking relationships. Banks and credit unions were rated on five subdimensions (trust, terms and conditions, branch services, digital services and financial advice). thevailvoice.com December 2018 35 Tucson’s Finest