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Fiesta Sahuarita 2014 Guide
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2 • Fiesta Sahuarita 2014
Fiesta 2014:
Water Park, Food,
Rides, Vendors &
Fireworks!!!
By KGVY Staff
J
ust when you thought it was safe
to go back into the water (park),
Fiesta Sahuarita 2014 explodes
with all new additions. Food trucks,
the climbing Rock Wall, and a fireworks finale, that signals continued
expansion of the “Best Small Town
Festival in Southern Arizona.”
Field 6 landscape. Some old, some
new, some a mystery to us. Some of
the new names popping up include
Totes and Trends, Glitter INKorporated, Southwest Bee Supply, Animal
Care Center of Green Valley brings a
dunking tank, Thirty One Gifts, and
bunches more! The full list is in the
middle of this Fiesta Sahuarita Guide.
What to do about parking? Each year
places change, sidewalks are added,
and new ideas are attempted. Look at
the map first! Determine if your favorite parking place exists this year.
Shuttles will be available at Rancho
Sahuarita Clubhouse, Fry’s Marketplace in the vacant area, Good Shepherd Church, and Great Expectations
Charter School on West Camino Antigua. Lower your stress when you
So what goes well with fireworks? take a shuttle! The shuttles are free!
Food of course! And in keeping with
tradition Fiesta Sahuarita 2014 is Also keep in mind that families with
wheeling in truckloads of foods in the young children may want to take a
form of food trucks! 11 trucks will midday break for naptime (for pargrace the field. Optimist Club, Tuc- ents and kids) remember to retain
son Kona Ice, Bings Bakeshop Bis- your wristbands for reentry later.
tro, Mrs. Piggy’s Tummy Yummies, Bring plenty of sunscreen and keep
Kool Twists, Eureka Old Fashioned the kids hydrated. It’s easy to over
Soda, Huatabampo Hot Dogs, Pick exert yourself when having so much
A Berry Yogurt, Roadrunner Coffee fun! If you’re going to use the water
Cart, Pin Up Pastries, and Quesadil- parks bring a change of clothes to relas & More will feed hungry crowds. lax in.
Each year the Fiesta Sahuarita Planning Committee is faced with the
challenge of besting themselves for
family friendly entertainment with
a new twist. What’s been missing?
A fireworks finale! KGVY AM/FM
and HudBay will be sponsoring an
All-American Hollywood finish to a
family outing.
Now that doesn’t mean there won’t
be food on the main field. Our favorite regulars will be firing up their
grills with your favorite munchies.
Las Vigas, Mama’s Hawaiian BBQ,
Cold Stone Creamery, Big Kettle, are
a few of the great selections. Be sure
to check your Fiesta Sahuarita map
for food locations.
The T-shirt giveaways are scheduled
twice for Fiesta. A total of 1000
T-shirts will be given away. Check
the information booth for the exact
times of the giveaways. The Official
2014 Fiesta Sahuarita T-shirt was designed by Walden Grove High School
student 15 year old Lia Hernandez.
Great job Lia! Hughes Federal Credit
Union supplied the $100 dollar prize.
The Fiesta hours this year are from
noon to 9 p.m. with the KGVY and
Talking about prizes…your kids
HudBay fireworks signaling the eve- will have the opportunity to win 4
nings close.
Disney On Ice tickets coming to Tucson this October, 4 Desert Sky movie
If crowds give you panic attacks, tickets, and dinner for 4 at AZ Famthere will be two ways to attend Fies- ily Restaurant. Check out the colorta Sahuarita from the comfort of your ing contest on the inside back page of
house. KGVY AM/FM 100.7 will this Fiesta Guide brought to you by
be broadcasting live for the entire Bill’s Home Service. They celebrate
event. Sponsors of this live broadcast their 50th Anniversary of servicing
are Acra Construction, Desert Dia- our communities with their family
mond Casino, Dwight’s Glass & Tint, owned business this year! Deadline
Legacy Smiles of S. AZ, Jim Click for entries is September 29th.
– Sahuarita/GV, Rubs Massage, and
Vista Eye Care. You can also fire up Admission to the 2014 Fiesta Water
your computer to watch the event Park, sponsored by our friends at
streamed live. Sprocket Communi- the Sahuarita Sun, is one U.S. dollar
cations is wiring the park so you can per person AND a non-perishable
get a first hand view of the action. food donation to support the Amado,
Fiesta 2014 will be a “Connected Green Valley, Sahuarita Community
Event” which will allow attendees to Food Bank. Peanut Butter is a staple
take SELFIES and email them to Fi- that is suggested. Advanced water
estaSahuarita.com. A reminder that park admission ticket sales have bephotographs and videos sent to the gun. If you wish to not fight the line
website become the property of the at the Fiesta you can pick up your
Town of Sahuarita and may be used tickets at Anamax Park Recreation
for marketing and other publications. Center ONLY. Children 3 and under
are free. Call 445-7850 for full de92 exhibitors are scheduled to dot the tails.
Fiesta Sahuarita 2014 • 3
By Jerry Schultz
History of Anamax Park
A
namax Park, site of Sahuarita’s 20th Anniversary Festival, exemplifies how good
things can happen when disparate
interests work together.
Long before there was a town,
there was Anamax, anchoring the
community’s southwestern corner,
sandwiched between what is now
La Canada Drive and Interstate 19,
north of Duval Mine Road.
As a park, Anamax wasn’t much,
with minimal playground equipment and a couple relatively flat,
rock strewn ball fields.
Anamax Mine, owner of the property, let residents keep livestock on
the grounds, with pigs, cows and
horses occupying modest pens and
corrals. A small roping corral was
built on the east side so weekend
cowboys could test their skills in
friendly competitions with neighbors.
Retired high school industrial arts
teacher Charles Oldham recalls the
Pima County-managed park was
“pretty basic.” An Enid, OK native,
Oldham arrived in Tucson in 1956.
He helped build a new Sahuarita
elementary school in 1958 while attending Catalina High School. After
working a couple years, he attended
Eastern Arizona Junior College, then
Northern Arizona University, where
he received his teaching degree.
He began teaching in Sahuarita in
1969 and was principal of the junior high school when school superintendent Ken Gose got the ball
rolling for development of Anamax
Park in the late 1970s. The mining
company was willing to cede the
property to the community with
the stipulation it be developed as a
park. The company worked with the
school district because it was the
only public agency in the community at the time.
Sahuarita Recreation Director Deborah Summers and retired teacher Charles Oldham stand in front of Anamax Park monument signage that was built with donated materials and labor, reflecting the communitywide effort to develop the park.
what it was willing to do and spend
and we went from there. We knew
everything would grow from that
point.”
And, grow it did as it evolved from
mini stockyards and weekend roping contests to a municipal gem,
with playgrounds and ever-expanding recreational opportunities.
An ill-fated campaign to incorporate
Green Valley in 1994 ultimately led
to Anamax Park becoming a municipal entity. The proposed incorporation included retail-rich property
north of Duval Mine Road occupied
by K-Mart and Walmart shopping
centers. Supported by the Green
Valley Community Coordinating
Council (GVCCC), the proposed
alignment was contrary to a 1986
agreement with the Sahuarita Area
Council (SAC) which stipulated Du“The mining company, school dis- val Mine Road would be the boundtrict and Pima County agreed Ana- ary between the two communities.
max would sell the park land to the
district for a dollar and the county One week after GVCCC filed an inwould lease the land from the district corporation petition with the counat no charge and manage the park,” ty on June 7, 1994, the SAC voted
Oldham said. “Anamax wanted the to begin an incorporation effort of
school district to own the property its own, immediately setting out to
so local residents would have some get 10 percent of the required siginput in the park’s development and natures from area residents to place
stipulated that the land would only the issue on a ballot. Petitions in
hand, SAC got more than the rebe used for a park.”
quired 10 percent in four days and
Superintendent Gose encouraged filed to incorporate on June 17.
Oldham’s participation in the pro- Placed on the Sept. 13, 1994, ballot
cess, which Oldham remembers as the issue was hotly contested and
being quite casual.
narrowly passed, with 271 voting to
incorporate and 258 opposed. Four“I don’t think it took more than two teen votes put Sahuarita on the road
or three meetings with the coun- to “town hood.”
ty,” he recalls. “The county told us
“After Sahuarita became a town the
county wanted to divest itself from
maintaining Anamax Park,” recalls
Oldham. “A deal was made for the
school district to give the park land
to the town, the county gave the
playground equipment and other
resources, and the town took over.”
ing up and removing rocks, recalls
Trosper, who served as league president.
“We lined up shoulder to shoulder
and carried buckets,” he said. “We
had make-shift dugouts, it was pretty primitive. After the land was given to the school district the parents
He recalls improvements were be- and league supporters made a numing made to the park from the time ber of minor improvements with the
he began teaching here, thanks to county’s blessings.”
adolescent kids running around in
cotton T-shirts and colorful caps – “We received donations from Sahuarita Mining & Ranching, a big
Little Leaguers.
supporter, and Dick Jensen donat“Little League was the motivating ed concrete. Many local businessforce behind the park development es helped out. My wife worked in
and has played a big role in the the snack bar for years. I helped
community since I’ve been here,” out with the building and mainteOldham said. “At one time almost nance of the fields and was a troueverybody of Little League age was ble shooter for electrical, water and
playing. It was an amazing family security issues.”
event. It was the only game in town
Volunteers were instrumental in infor a long time.”
stallation of the scoreboard, fences
The Copper Hills Little League and concrete dugouts. They also
started playing its games in the park moved the fences when fields had
in 1968 and parents supporting the to be set up for adult play, then releague were instrumental in making configured for youth games.
the playing fields playable.
Focused park improvement efforts
Tim Trosper, proprietor of Green picked up in the early 1980s, TrosValley Plumbing, was one of those per said. After lights were installed
parents. He moved to Tucson from for the athletic fields Anamax park
Indiana and began working in had one of the best lighted facilities
Green Valley in 1971. He moved to in Pima County.
Sahuarita in 1973 and now doesn’t
live far from the park he and other “As a matter of fact,” Trosper reLittle League supporters helped de- calls, “we had to tone down the
lighting for the Mt. Hopkins observelop.
vatory.”
Those early baseball games didn’t
start until players and parents Many of these improvements and
formed picket lines, walking back
and forth across the dirt field pickContinued on pg 6
Anamax continued from page 4
others were made before the town’s
1994 incorporation and assumption
of park management. “There were
probably 1,200 to 1,800 people living here when we started to make
those improvements,” Trosper said.
“It was a good park then and it’s a
great park now.”
Park activities began to accelerate
in 2004 as the town turned 10 in the
midst of a population boom. Recreation Director Deborah Summers
arrived from Florida that year with
a background in park and recreation
management and recreational therapy there and in New York.
reation center open from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays
and Rec Center classes on Saturdays. There are lighted basketball
and sand volleyball courts, a “skate
spot” for skateboard enthusiasts;
“Bark Park,” a one-acre exercise
area for large and small dogs, a
covered playground with climbing
bars, slides and kiddie rides, six ramadas, picnic tables, 17 barbecue
grills and two restroom facilities.
A half-mile pathway encircles the
park’s north side.
Most of the park activities are feebased to help cover administrative
costs, Summers said. A schedule
of all park programs is available
through the town website at www.
“The town has seen 20 years of
sahuarita.gov.
hyper growth,” Summers notes.
“Between 2004 and now we’ve The town proudly bills Fiesta Sagone from Anamax Park and Sa- huarita as the Best Small Town Feshuarita Lake to six parks. “We’ve tival in southern Arizona and this
also grown from 3 to 11, all lighted year promises to be special as the
sports fields.”
20th Anniversary of incorporation
is observed. There are going to be
“Anamax has five lighted sports
plenty of carnival-style games, a
fields, including two for soccer, two
water park, inflatable rides, arts and
for Little League baseball and one
crafts for sale, music and entertainfor youth softball and three parkment and plenty of food, as well as
ing lots. The park grew from 11
two giveaways of 500 T-shirts.
to 35 acres after a land swap with
the school district in 2004. We now Marking two decades since the
have 23 acres in use and programs hasty, grass-root effort to initiate
designed for one and all, from tod- incorporation, the 2014 Fiesta is
dlers to seniors.”
scheduled to wrap up with a fireworks show, Summers said.
Facilities include a 5,000 sq. ft. rec-
th
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Fiesta Sahuarita Mural
By Melissa Hinkle
Event & Volunteer Coordinator
Town of Sahuarita
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and special at Fiesta Sahuarita. This got the creative energies started with the town staff and thus came
the idea for the Fiesta Mural. This mural was created from past highlights at Fiesta Sahuarita. It is a
collage of pictures and activities that typically occur at Fiesta. The Mural includes two 8’x4’ boards that
will be at the event to be painted by
the community in paint by numbers
fashion. Once complete the boards
will be put together and preserved
by Plexiglas so it can be hung in the
breezeway at Town Hall for all to
enjoy. This mural is the perfect way
to promote community togetherness
while preserving the memories of
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JTED Assists Habitat for Humanity
By Jerry Schultz
tivity of many of his students.
R
“They seem to like the interior and
exterior framing,” he said. “They
get immediate satisfaction seeing
what they’ve built. Things slow
down when we get to the wiring and
plumbing.”
oger Condra has been
building houses for much
of his adult life and he’s
still at it, although it’s taking him
longer these days. It took him a
couple years to finish his last house
and two years for the one before
that, as well.
All the wiring and plumbing installation is done under the supervision
of licensed professionals. The exteNot surprising when you consider
rior stucco and roofing are installed
his construction crews often spend
by professionals after the houses
no more than a couple hours a day
are moved to their lots. The curworking.
rent 1,200-sq.-ft., three-bedroom,
Sahuarita High School students working on a Habitat for Humanity house for a
Condra teaches industrial arts at Sa- 1 ¾ -bath house is scheduled to family in South Tucson take a break. From left: Dalton Lafreniere, Porter DeFazio,
haurita High School and his crew is be moved from the high school to Gene Santa Cruz, Michael Gonzalez, instructor Roger Condra, Isaac Weech, Kristen
Rasmussen, Madeline Arbogast, Carter Ham, Jeremy Bessett, Damian Willer
made up of his teen-aged students South Tucson before the end of the
building houses for Habitat for Hu- year. Two previous houses built by
assistance and mortgage payments tion. He plans to continue his edumanity. Sahaurita is the only high students went to Amado.
may be no more than three percent cation in agricultural studies at eischool in Pima County working
ther Oklahoma State or Texas Tech
Condra said many of his students of the owners’ monthly income.
with Habitat to provide affordable
universities.
prove better on the job than peohousing for low-income families.
While his role in the process is to
ple he hired as a contractor. Some
get the house built, Condra ac- Madeline Arbogast has her sights
No other schools are currently in- students make a special effort to
knowledges Habitat’s contribution set on attending the Air Force
volved because of cutbacks in voca- get to the houses after they’ve been
is significant in obtaining all neces- Academy. She’s a straight-A stutional education funding, according moved to their permanent locations
sary permits, including as much as dent, a supply officer in the school’s
to Joseph Howell, Habitat’s interim and are there when the houses are
$15,000 to pour a foundation and R.O.T.C. cadet corps, and plays on
director of development. Vocational turned over to their owners. The
$5,000 in fees to move the house the junior varsity football team. She
studies are coordinated through the students were among guests infrom the school to its lot. Condra says she was inspired to get into the
vited to the opening of
obtains all the materials needed for construction program “because I’ve
the last house delivered
the construction, through gifts, do- always liked building things and it
to Amado, noted Connations and use of Habitat tax cred- gave me a chance to contribute to
dra who just began his
its.
the community.”
eighth year at the high
school after being re- Condra’s classes typically include She’s looking forward to a career
cruited there to develop a number of young women and his in the military and would like to
the shop facilities.
students have consistently won top attend any academy if she doesn’t
awards in state carpentry competi- make the Air Force. “I’ve always
Long before a house
tions. For the past six years, Sahua- wanted to fly,” she said.
is built, Habitat begins
rita students have collected
its search for potential
first, second or third awards
owners, noted Howell
in all categories, including
and Habitat Director of
three firsts in advanced carHomeowner Services
pentry.
Patty Yates. Potential
Sahuarita High School senior Carter Ham
owners are screened Among crew leaders for the
is in his fourth year in the Sahuarita High School
through a lengthy pro- house nearing completion are
construction program.
cess to determine their senior Carter Ham, 17, and
need, ability to make junior Madeline Arbogast, 16,
Pima County Joint Technical Edumortgage payments and willingness both enthusiastic about learncation District (JTED), he said.
to contribute to Habitat through ing building skills while creWhile Condra has 35 or more stu- “sweat equity,” Yates said.
ating living accommodations
dents in his classes, most of the
for low-income families.
“They have to be willing to take
work on the houses they are buildclasses and each adult must agree “We are looking forward
ing is done by juniors and seniors
to provide 200 hours working on to seeing this house go and
Madeline Arbogast, Sahuarita High School
who are able to arrange their schedHabitat projects,” she said. “Once put to good use,” Ham said. junior working on Habitat for Humanity house.
ules to accommodate the two-hour
they’re approved, it could take an- “Then we’ll
start on the
advanced work and construction
other nine months to a year before next one. I’ve always liked buildsessions.
She said she’s playing football bethey get their house,” added How- ing things and got interested in this
cause she loves the game. “I didn’t
The logistics of putting his crews ell.
class when I was in the eighth grade. realize I could play with the guys,
together pose some of Condra’s
It’s challenging when you’re doing but jumped at the opportunity when
The price for each house is deterbiggest challenges, he said. “Somethings for the first time. There’s a I found I could,” she said. “My mom
mined through a cost appraisal,
times it can be hard to keep kids in
steep learning curve and the work is was apprehensive at first, but supwhich is then discounted to make
the program because of their schedvery precise. You have to make sure ports me now. It’s an awesome atit more affordable. The amount
uling,” he said. “But when they’re
you’ve done it right.”
mosphere and a great opportunity.”
discounted is covered through dohere working they usually rise to
nations, gifts and grants to Habitat, Ham, who says he has helped his
whatever challenges are put on
She said the other players treat her
Yates said.
father
build
a
couple
barns
on
their
them. Most have all the ability to do
as an equal and give her no quarter.
the work and remain in the program The mortgage is financed through acreage, has a B-plus grade aver- She doesn’t mind the contact even
all four years of high school. We Habitat, notes Howell, who said cor- age and has been active raising pigs though she gives away weight to
have very few behavior problems.” porate and individual donors, local and cattle in 4-H programs. He has the boys.
been active in livestock judging and
government and federal grants help
Framing was Condra’s specialty
is a soccer defender playing in the “It’s not about weight,” she intones,
subsidize the transaction. These
when he was building houses in
American Youth Soccer Organiza- “it’s about technique.”
donations provide down-payment
the1980s and that is a favorite ac-
“Fiesta Sahuarita Mascot Chal-
Rancho Sahuarita
Clubhouse
Shuttle Parking
Fry’s Market Place
Vacant Area
Shuttle Parking
Rancho Sahuarita Blvd.
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Peace
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Parking
Staff &
Volunteer
Parking Only
(pass required)
Good Shepherd
Church
Shuttle Parking
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Staff & Vendor
Parking Only
(pass required)
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We are very excited to announce
the winner at this year’s 2014 Fiesta Sahuarita. Artists will review the
submission and then build the costume. Our Fiesta Sahuarita Mascot
will keep the town’s birthday top of
mind throughout the year. Community involvement in the Town
events is very important to us.
Helmet Peak/Sahuarita Rd.
Handicap Parking
Shuttle Stop
After the 2013 Fiesta Sahuarita the
Town staff determined we needed
something to trademark the event. With
some brainstorming, the
idea of having a Fiesta Sahuarita Mascot was born.
The new Mascot will not only represent Fiesta, but it will represent
the Town of Sahuarita as a whole!
To create our Mascot the Fiesta Sahuarita committee challenged area
residents to design our Mascot.
In early September the Fiesta Sahuarita committee
reviewed all the Mascot entries. After lots of discussion voting ensued and the
winning Mascot was chosen. This
Mascot will highlight Fiesta Sahuarita for years to come.
Exit 75
17501 S. Camino de las Quintas
T
he Town of Sahuarita has
been incorporated since 1994.
Sahuarita has been celebrating its birthday since 2004 with the
annual Fiesta Sahuarita. Fiesta Sahuarita has grown
to become the most
popular and well
established event in
Southern Arizona.
lenge – the Face of Fiesta” contest
laid out the rules and set off the designing. Submissions were allowed
to use any medium; hand-drawn,
digital, sculpture, photography and
mixed media. Along with each
submission, a short life story of the
Mascot and how its arrival to Sahuarita was required. These rules added
a face, and a life story for
our Mascot.
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La Cañada Drive
By Melissa Hinkle
Event & Volunteer Coordinator
Town of Sahuarita
FREE SHUTTLE
PARKING
La Cañada Drive
The Town of
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It’s New Face
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CORE Construction Helps Build Sahuarita
regional offices nine years ago to
reap the benefits of economy of
hen Sahuarita Unified scale, Knapp said. The Illinois naSchool District tapped tive moved to Arizona 45 years ago
CORE
Construction, and owned and operated his own
Inc., to work on a campus addi- commercial and general contracting
tion eight years ago, it kicked off a company in Tucson for more than
growth spurt that’s brought close to 30 years before joining CORE six
$50 million in improvements to dis- years ago.
trict properties.
CORE’s specialty is working with
Like Humphry Bogart said to municipalities and school districts.
Claude Rains at the end of the clas- Its first work locally was for the
sic film “Casablanca,” it was the school district’s addition at Amado’s Sopori School in 2006. After
start of a beautiful friendship.
that they got into a mixed bag of
From projects as small as installing projects including work on Sahuaa door to building two new schools, rita High School’s track and field,
the builder and the district have performing arts center, snack bar
gotten along famously, said Fred J. and restrooms, Knapp said.
Knapp, CORE’s vice president for
While the company has an extensive
Tucson operations.
portfolio of municipal work includThe company’s slogan, “Relation- ing police and fire stations, its nearships, Solutions, Values,” pretty ly three dozen Sahuarita projects
much describes the pairing.
have all been for public schools, in“Our relationship has been pretty cluding elementary school renovagood,” Knapp said, “they haven’t tions and construction of a middle
kicked us out yet. We haven’t had school gymnasium.
By Jerry Schultz
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Fred Knapp, CORE Inc. Vice President for Tucson operations, in front of Copper
View Elementary School
school, the east side’s $20-million always been stellar.”
Walden Grove High School. Knapp
estimates the value of all CORE’s Familiarity with local conditions
has been a plus for the builders.
work locally at $50 million.
Jim Betchell, he said, supervised
Since 2006, the company has con- construction of the new high school
tinually been working on school more than three years ago. Today,
district projects with crews rang- he’s supervising work on a snack
ing in sizes from a few to up to 200 bar at the school.
working on the new high school,
Knapp said, and some of the chal- While there’s seemingly not a lot
of new construction in the pipelenges have been daunting.
line, new projects may develop as
one issue with anyone in the com- The company has done extensive
munity – even when we did work work for both the University of Ar- “The biggest problem in Sahuari- new funds become available to the
on occupied campuses.”
izona and Arizona State University. ta,” he said, “is ground water. Ev- school district, Knapp said. CORE
erything is so close to the river it crews are still putting finishing
The company, with central head- Locally, its work has ranged in scale can be difficult to establish proper touches on the district’s newest
quarters in Phoenix and offices from $5,000 jobs to construction drainage. It can create issues, but school, Copper View Elementary.
in seven states, consolidated nine of the district’s second secondary working with the school staff has
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Ballot Measures 2014
By Dr. Manuel O. Valenzuela,
Sahuarita Unifed School District
Superintendent
F
or the past several years, the
Sahuarita Unified School
District #30 has operated
under two local voter approved levels of support.
The first of the measures, called
a Maintenance and Operations
(M&O) override, is targeted at specific organizational objectives, including:
K-12 fine arts programs - SUSD
schools offer general music, band,
orchestra, and chorus as part of
the regular curriculum.
K-12 physical education programs - All SUSD schools have a
fully certified professional educator in physical education. Physical education is part of the general
instructional program in support
of health and the total growth and
development of students.
Career & Technical Education
(CTE) - SUSD offers about a dozen modern programs in applied
fields including culinary arts, automotive technology, construction technology, precision manufacturing/ robotics, health professions, audiovisual/ multimedia,
business management, nursing,
photography, and fire sciences.
The District is currently working with Pima Joint Technological Education District (JTED),
Pima Community College, and
many of the region’s major business partners to build a new program in industrial technology,
which includes electrical power
transmission, diesel technology,
and heavy equipment operations.
These 21st Century programs support integrated authentic learning,
college readiness, and workforce
development.
NJROTC - This leadership development program teaches strong
leadership skills, physical education, academic success, community service, citizenship, character, and patriotism.
K-12 school guidance programs
- Every SUSD school has at least
one fully certified school guidance
counselor. These professionals
deliver a competency based guidance curriculum. This program
addresses important life skill areas such as drug abuse prevention, conflict resolution, communication, stress management, and
problem solving. Furthermore,
guidance counselors provide targeted support to students, college
and career advising, and crisis
response services to students, as
needed. This supports student
wellness and the total process of
delivering outstanding education.
Campus safety and supervision school safety monitors are at every school and provide additional
visibility, proximity, and student
service.
K-3 class size reduction - In support of individualized instruction
and advancing a sound academic
foundation for all students, the
override targets the goal of class
sizes at approximately twenty
students for kindergarten, and
enrollments in the mid twenties
for grades 1-3. Furthermore, the
District has chosen to offer full
day kindergarten programs for all
students.
The second assessment, formerly a capital outlay override, and
now called a District Additional Assistance (DAA) override,
supports needed capital investments that are directly tied to
instruction and critical school
functions. These include:
Textbooks - New academic standards require schools to regularly
identify updated, modern resources as tools to meet the learning
needs of students in preparation
for new State assessments and educational outcomes.
Instructional technology - Modern technology resources are integral to major initiatives such
as Beyond Textbooks, Galileo
individualized student assessments, digital literacy curricular
programs, online instruction initiatives, and general instruction
for 21st Century learning. This
includes intentional initiatives to
personalize instruction for every
student.
Classroom furniture - As a growing school community, SUSD is
continuing to prepare new and update classrooms that have safe, up
to date, and sufficient equipment,
such as desks, chairs, laboratory
equipment, musical equipment,
and athletic equipment.
Building renovations - These
DAA funds also support needed
building renovations such as mechanical units, new roofs, and carpeting. The proactive and intentional replacement and renewal
of these physical resources is also
critical for excellent service, student and staff safety, and efficient
use of financial resources.
School buses - The DAA funds
also pay for the methodical purchase of school buses, which
systematically supports quality
service and safety. School buses
in SUSD currently log
over 650,000 miles
annually. The
District is committed to operating transportation services in buses
that are
m e chanically
sound, safe,
well maintained and
up to date.
For the last
four years, and
going forward,
bus purchases are
being made for vehicles that are equipped with air
conditioning functions.
In the last several years, the District has lost the majority of its allocated State capital funding for such
purposes to State budgetary reductions. For example, for this fiscal
year, the Sahuarita School district
was allocated about $2,600,000 in
funding for capital expenditures.
However, the State reduced this
amount by about $1,600,000, leaving the District with only approximately $1,000,000 for the entire
scope of capital needs for the year.
The local investment of the override allows the district to continue meeting basic service needs in
regards to capital outlay.
Students, staff, programs and the
greater community have been recognized at the State and National
levels for educational and professional excellence, and achievement
in these areas. For example, the robotics and construction technology
programs have both had programs
and students win at Skills USA competitions at both State and National
levels. The NJROTC unit qualified
for the regional JROTC “Super
Bowl” competition in California,
and continues to be designated as a
Distinguished Unit. Our interscholastic programs are an important part
of
a
b a l anced
and
total educational
experience.
The
Sahuarita
HS football team
earned honors as
Division III, Section II Champion last
year. A recent Walden
Grove HS student athlete,
and now alumnus, Trey Cashion,
earned two State titles in swimming
last year, just two years after the
launch of our high school swimming programs.
The SUSD Governing
Board has called for
renewal of the 14%
Maintenance & Operations
(M&O)
override,
and
continuation of a
$1,000,000 annual
District Additional
Assistance
( D A A )
override.
This areas supported by this local
investment are identified in advancing the District’s new SUSD 2020
Directions Plan, approved by the
Governing Board. The SUSD 2020
Directions Plan includes bold and
intentional action steps including
high level programs, systematic instructional planning, individualized
instruction, and regional strategic
partnerships. These include National
Math and Science Initiative (NMSI),
Beyond Textbooks, 21st Century
Learning Centers, and Sahuarita
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By Jerry Schultz
O
nce upon a time, Western
movies were Hollywood
favorites.
Dozens
of
films made their way around the
country’s theaters, most
with similar plots and
outcomes. Bad guys
were treating town
folks badly until
good guys arrived to
settle the score.
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have an opportunity to sip some
sarsaparilla, regardless the color of
their hats, and if they don’t like it,
won’t have to pay for it.
She said she and her son, Nick,
24, were looking for a “small, fun
business” and discovered the soda
while researching on the internet.
The pair started the business 15
months ago and, with Michelle’s
husband, Loren, named their
enterprise “Eureka,” connoting the
culmination of their search.
That’s the promise of Michelle
Feldman, proprietor of Eureka
Old Fashioned Soda, who’s
bringing her covered
wagon filled with a
variety of cool drinks “We sell unique old fashioned
to the festival for the soda,” Feldman said. “It is low
first time.
She’ll be
coming
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Gold Canyon, 30
miles east of Phoenix
in the shadow of
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Superstition
Mountains.
pet, stuffed rattlesnake is put on
display.
Since they inaugurated their soda
business at a garlic festival the
Eureka wagon has made stops a
couple times a month throughout
Arizona at fairs, rodeos, carnivals
and fiestas like Sahuarita’s, where
it’s making its first visit. The
wooden wagon rides to events on a
trailer.
As the plots unfolded,
you could usually tell
the good guys from the bad
when the cowpokes sidled up to
the bar in the town’s saloon. The
bad guys, frequently wearing black
hats, ordered whiskey, often telling
the barkeep to leave the bottle on
the bar. It wasn’t unusual for them Feldman said her
to bang their glass on the bar when vendors will hang a
sign on their display
they finished a shot.
inviting visitors to
The white-hat-wearing good guys sample the brew. And,
drank sarsaparilla. When the if it does not prove
showdown came in the final reel, the to be their cup of tea,
sarsaparilla wranglers won the day. they don’t have to pay
While the big Hollywood western for it.
is rare these days, one can still belt
down a shot or two of sarsaparilla. “That’s our promise,”
Feldman said, “if our soda
Guests attending the annual Fiesta is not the best they’ve ever
Sahuarita, celebrating the town’s tasted, we won’t accept
Nick Feldman, co-owner, setting up Eureka Old Fashioned Soda stand.
20th anniversary this year, will their money.”
carbonation, the flavors are from
the 1800s, we use real cane sugar
and there’s no caffeine or fructose
in any of our sodas. Eureka is the
soda people are searching for.”
She said they purchased an old
covered wagon from the Amish in
Pennsylvania, who are among the
few making the wooden wheels
today. They outfitted their wagon
with six oak barrels through
which the soda is drafted. The
manufacturer supplies the soda
in sealed containers which are
connected to the barrels when the
Eureka Old Fashioned Soda wagon
opens for business. Customers
know soda is served when Eureka’s
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Soda flavors include
root
beer,
birch
beer, black cherry,
vanilla crème soda,
sarsaparilla and diet
root beer, sweetened
with Splenda rather
than cane sugar. All
the syrup is processed
in Pennsylvania.
Birch beer is made
from extracts of bark
from birch trees. It is
said to be sharper and
sweeter than root beer
in flavor, with a minty
aftertaste.
Black
cherry is described
as sweet and tart.
Sarsaparilla,
with
some birch influence,
and root beer are
related
in
flavor
through
sassafras
extracts. Vanilla crème, like all
the others, boasts all natural
ingredients. All owe their origins to
the efforts of colonial and pioneer
beer consumers, who, without
traditional raw materials, had to be
creative in their brewing practices.
Keepsake, old-fashioned metal cups
are part of the Eureka experience.
Feldman said beverages are
dispensed in 32-ounce tin cups for
$8. The same size steel cup is $10.
Refills are $4. An 18-ounce red,
solo cup is sold for $3.
And, if customers want to belly
up to the soda bar with their own
vessels, they’re welcome, notes
Feldman. “We’ll fill them up.”
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Sahuarita Elks Programs Going Well
tion with this service and social fraternity could have been better and
ahuarita Lodge 2851 of the current leaders are hoping an econBenevolent and Protective omy-induced lethargy will soon be
Order of Elks turns seven history, generating renewed interSept. 23, marking the day its mem- est in membership and in directing
bership reached 100, the minimum lodge activities.
required to start a new lodge. Local
The lodge has added about 10
leaders are hoping the anniversary
members a year since its founding,
will stir renewed interest in membut it also has lost some. And, while
bership and leadership.
dedication to its many service and
The membership minimum was charitable projects remains strong,
reached over the two years the getting members to participate can
founding members worked to meet be challenging, according to Exaltall the requirements of the Grand ed Ruler Margaret “Peg” Chaput.
Lodge, supreme authority for the
Chaput joined the lodge five years
national order started two years afago after serving as commander of
ter the Civil War ended by a handAmerican Legion Post 66. When
ful of free-spirited New York actors
an Elks officer described the lodge
and entertainers who wanted someefforts on behalf of blind Armed
place to party on Sundays.
Forces veterans and children she
Once known as “The Jolly Corks,” said she was sold on membership.
and coming within one vote of callFrom North Adams, Mass., in the
ing itself Buffaloes,” Elks have
Berkshires and the smallest town in
evolved into one of the nation’s
the state, Chaput was working for
leading charitable organizations
the Postal Service when she moved
over nearly 150 years, funding
her family west in 1993 because her
scholarships, support for medithree daughters, aged 5, 7, and 9,
cal services, ongoing campaigns
suffered from asthma and needed a
against drug use, youth athletics
drier climate. One daughter, with 50
and consistently championing patripercent of lung capacity, improved
otic ideals.
to 80 percent almost immediately,
The timing for Lodge 2851’s affilia- Chaput recalls.
By Jerry Schultz
S
Margaret “Peg” Chaput, Exalted Ruler Sahuarita Elks Lodge 2851, presenting
“Most Valuable Student” award to Sahuarita High School’s Jordan Chandler
After joining the lodge in 2009,
Chaput soon began her journey
through the officers’ chairs, beginning as chaplain, and now holds
the top office. Getting members interested in leadership posts has not
been easy, she acknowledged. Part
of the reluctance was due to ceremonial practices requiring a lot of
memorization, Chaput said.
it difficult for older members and
discouraged their participation as
officers,” Chaput said.
When those requirements were
changed at a Grand Lodge national convention, significantly reducing the amount of memorization
required, the opportunity for more
leadership participation presented
itself. “All that memorization made
And, attracting new members has
proven equally daunting. “I carry
applications in stamped, self-addressed envelopes everywhere I
go,” Chaput said. “Other members
are trying as well. We’re always on
But that hasn’t happened, she said.
In August there were three leadership positions open. “It’s hard to
recruit people,” she said. “I’ve been
putting notices in the lodge newsletter since April.”
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at the VA hospital in Tucson and
our Americanism and drug awareness programs are strong,” Chaput
said. “We’re working on grants and
events benefiting Tucson’s Steele
Children’s Research Center for atrisk premature babies.”
the lookout for new members. Once
people find out about our service
projects they often show some interest. But many organizations are
having problems with membership.
A lot of younger people are working
two jobs and just don’t have time.” Chaput feels lodge membership and
participation will get rolling with
Lodge service programs are going fresh participation by its members.
well, she said.
She feels “burnout” has slowed
things down.
“We’re doing well with our activities for the sight-impaired veterans “When you have the same people doing things
over and over,
you get burnout,”
she said. “New
ideas are needed to keep things
fresh. When it’s
the same people
all the time, it can
be a nightmare.”
Leo Pavlovich, founding Exalted Ruler,
Sahuarita Elks Lodge 2851
A major lodge
goal is to find a
permanent home.
A building drive
is under way and
a search committee is checking out possible
locations. This
has been part of
the lodge’s longrange plan since
plans for its
founding were
initially discussed.
es as exalted ruler, as well as state
vice president, district deputy grand
ER, and special representative for
the grand ER. His spouse, Shirley,
served as Sahuarita lodge’s secretary before stepping down this year.
Leo Pavlovich was a member of
the Green Valley Elks Lodge 2592
in 2005 when he took over as the
Southern District new lodge committee for Arizona Elks with two
projects in mind.
Getting a good corps of officers to
run a lodge is always a challenge,
“I wanted to restart the lodge in Pavlovich said. “That fell on me and
Bisbee and get a new lodge going the people at the state level pushed
in Sahuarita,” Pavlovich recalls. “I me into being the first ER because
went to the town council to alert I had the background and knowlit what we were doing and get its edge to do that,” he said. “The first
blessing. We worked through 2006 couple of years were no problem.
getting things started. In 2007 we Grand Lodge spells out how evonly had 86 members signed up and erything is to be done. Some of the
we had to convince Grand Lodge newer members refused to read the
we would have 100 by the time a book, thinking they knew all they
vote was taken. We made it in Sep- needed to know. That got to be a littember.”
tle bit of a drag.” He ultimately left
He said the Green Valley lodge was the lodge and has affiliated with Cadesignated as Sahuarita’s “mother sas Adobes Lodge 2663 in Tucson.
lodge,” but was not totally support- He and Chaput concur on the memive. “They accused them of grab- bership challenges of Elks lodges
bing their membership,” Pavlovich today.
said. “They had 2,400 members and
about 20 transferred to Sahuarita. “The only way any lodge is going to
Sahuarita’s initial membership was survive is bring in new and younger
made up of about half transfers from members,” Pavlovich said. “Today,
other lodges and half new members. the husband and wife have to work
Many of the transfers wanted to be to feed their family. There are lots
of activities for kids and there’s no
charter members of a new lodge.”
time for much of a social life. This
With years of experience in lodge is true for many organizations.”
management, Arizona Elks convinced Pavlovich to become 2851’s
first exalted ruler, he said. In all, he
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He said the region’s proximity to on behalf of our public sector that
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Gonzalez said the town’s economic said.
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review and identification of sub- depressed real estate market which
industry clusters exploring how the has driven prices down in older
Sahuarita’s economy may advance. homes.
He said there are no “big box”
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housing permits from the 2013 much down here, there’s a big
to 2014 fiscal years is seen as a gap between the average price in
reflection of Rancho Sahuarita’s lot existing homes and new,” she said.
inventory running low,” said town “Over time, as we crawl our way
Sarah Moore, Sahuarita Planning and Building Director
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New businesses opened and the border has positive implications, Moore. “They are now on line to housing values going up. And that
expansions over the past 12 months especially in the aerospace and bring more than 600 new plots,” will be a good thing. I keep hearing
2016 or 2017. I hope it’s sooner. I’d
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like to be pleasantly surprised.”
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