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After 31 years, Math Teacher Leaves Sunnyside
to Pursue Passion for Sports Photography
By Casey Sapio
It’s rare for a student to leave a
classroom and say, “Hey, love you”
to the teacher on the way out.
But not in Paul Dye’s Sunnyside
High School classroom.
In fact, he stands at the door
when the bell rings and fist-bumps
every one of his math students on
the way out.
“I used to shake hands with
kids,” Dye says. “Now we fist
bump trying to keep those colds
down.”
A student reaches for the hand
sanitizer. “Hey! I told you not to
drink that,” Dye jokes. “It’s bad for
your eyesight!”
Dye began teaching because he
wanted to coach soccer, but this
blossomed into a 31-year career
teaching math at Sunnyside. After
instructing more than 5,000 kids,
he’s moving on to a new career in
photography.
“It’s going to be the most
depressing day when he leaves,”
says Denise Sanchez, the office
assistant for the math department.
“He always makes sure everyone
gets acknowledged.”
One of his students, Manuel
Armas, 18, describes Dye as
“hyperactive” and says he “uses
humor to get the students’ attention.”
Others know Dye as the
“banana man” because he used to
dress like the bright yellow fruit at
pep rallies to fire up the students.
Dye’s use of humor, he says, is
to make the students feel comfortable enough to take risks, which
will lead to more confident
teenagers.
A sign hanging in the classroom
reads, “You can stop the bus at any
time,” which reminds students that
they have control over much of
their lives.
“If students are in control, we
never get a Columbine,” Dye says,
referring to the shootings at a high
school in Colorado in 1999. “I try to
give them autonomy. The more they
have control and autonomy, the
more they accept responsibility.”
Accepting responsibility, for
Dye, means working together to
find a solution instead of placing
blame. And working together to
solve problems strengthens all
kinds of relationships.
To promote communication
with students, he has dollar bills, a
page of a calendar and coins taped
to the whiteboard to help students
visualize his cell phone number so
they can call him if they ever need
him.
Also hanging on the whiteboard is a sign that reads “Add
value to someone else’s life
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En El Centro Conmemorativo
McKale frente a una multitud de
casi 14,000, incluyendo al presidente de los Estados Unidos y a
una gran multitud de funcionarios,
Daniel Hernández negó su heroísmo por el papel que desempeño al
socorrer a Gabrielle Giffords al
haber sido baleada.
Daniel Hernández, estudiante
de 20 años de edad graduado de la
escuela secundaria Sunnyside, ha
sentido siempre un deseo innato
de ayudar a los demás. En una
ocasión consideró estudiar medicina, pero después descubrió que se
conectaba con las personas por
medio del servicio público. Esto
le quedó más claro cuando conoció a la representante de EE.UU.
Gabrielle Giffords.
“No fue hasta después que
comencé a interactuar con ella, que
decidí especializarme en el servicio público, dijo Daniel. “Cuando
llegue a la Universidad de Arizona
mi especialización era biología
pero pronto comprendí que debía
especializarme en el servicio
público.
Una combinación de experiencias llevó a Daniel Hernández a su
momento de heroísmo. Él trabajó
en la campaña de Hillary Clinton
en el 2007. Poco tiempo después
de admitir su derrota, a principios-
Daniel Hernandez, a la izquierda, un practicante que trabaja para la oficina de
Giffords, a quien se le acreditó haberle
salvado la vida y Emily Fritze, la presidenta del cuerpo estudiantil de UA, hablaron
durante “Together We thrive”.
de junio del 2008, Gabrielle
Giffords llevó a cabo un evento, al
cual él asistió.
“Fui a conocerla y quedé absolutamente sorprendido por el tipo
de persona que era” comentó
Daniel. Después solicitó una pasantía entre el 9 de junio y el 1 de
noviembre.
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Math teacher Paul Dye will retire at the end of the semester.
Daniel Hernández: Un héroe para recordar
Por Yael Schusterman
Traducido por Zandra Casilla
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Giffords como una persona amistosa e inteligente. “Una amante de
la política”. “Ella nunca discutía
una política sin primero explicarla,
por eso la apoyaba”, comentó
Daniel. Esta es una de las muchas
maneras con las cuales se conectaba con la comunidad. “Las personas involucradas en la política
tienen una reputación de ser frías y
distantes”, dijo Hernández, “pero
ella es lo opuesto”.
En el 2010 participó en la campaña de Steve Farley, representante
del distrito 28, lo cual le dio otra
oportunidad para trabajar con
Giffords al mismo tiempo que ella
buscaba ser postulada de nuevo.
Después de que Giffords ganara en
el 2010, Daniel solicitó hacer una
pasantía en su oficina de Tucson y
comenzó el 3 de enero, justo 5 días
antes del tiroteo.
Mark Kimble, quien trabaja en
la oficina del Congreso de
Giffords, dijo por medio de un
correo electrónico que él sobresalía dentro del grupo de los practicantes. “Daniel fue uno de los
cuatro de los trece practicantes que
decidieron formar con anticipación
el equipo de transición antes de
comenzar los semestres de otoño y
primavera,” dijo Mark. “Eso fue
prueba de su ética profesional”.
Lo anterior también significó
que Daniel no tuvo la oportunidad
de encontrarse con la congresista
hasta el sábado por la mañana.
Costco to Open on
South Side in April
El 8 de enero, justo después de
las 10 a.m., Daniel estaba ayudando en el evento “Congress on Your
Corner”, creado con el fin de que
los electores pudieran hablar directamente con Giffords. Él estaba
trabajando al final de la fila, frente
a una tienda de supermercado
Safeway localizada en 7100 N.
Oracle Road.
“Estaba al final de la fila controlando a las personas a 30 pies de
distancia cuando escuché los disparos”.
Daniel dijo que no vio a la persona que disparo, pero sí reaccionó
al escucharlo. Se apresuró hasta
donde estaba Giffords y la encontró en el suelo, con un visible disparo en la cabeza. Él buscó si tenía
otras heridas y la colocó en posición contra su pecho para que
pudiera respirar adecuadamente.
Después, hizo presión para ayudar
a detener el sangrado hasta que llegaron las ambulancias.
Seis personas murieron en la
balacera, incluyendo a John Roll,
el Juez federal del distrito de
EE.UU., Gabe Zimmerman, uno
de los asistentes de Giffords, y una
niña; otras 13 personas también
resultaron heridas en el tiroteo.
Daniel es estudiante de tercer
año de ciencias políticas en la UA
así como director de la Asociación
de estudiantes de Arizona y
comentó que siempre le ha gustado
participar como voluntario e
Small businesses and large families of South Tucson will find
themselves clocking fewer miles
on trips to Costco this spring when
construction on the wholesale
business is completed at South
Kino Parkway near Interstate 10.
Construction began at the
Tucson Marketplace shopping center in October for a new 14-acre
Costco that is scheduled to open on
April 14, according to Jim Sinegal,
the store’s CEO.
This will be Costco’s third location in Tucson. The other locations
are on East Grant Road near East
Tanque Verde Road and off of
North Thornydale Road near West
Orange Grove Road.
“We usually have to drive all
the way to Costco off of North
Thornydale Road, so this location
will definitely be more convenient,” said Abe Frisby, the manager
of Las Cazuelitas, a South Tucson
Mexican restaurant. “I think a lot
of restaurant owners, markets in
the area and families will benefit
from having it in this location.”
Frisby uses Costco mainly for
restaurant supplies like oil, napkins and to-go containers because
of its affordability.
Although many rejoice in
Costco’s low gas premiums, bulk
foods and wholesale prices, the
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Flu Vaccines
Still Available
Tineo Mural to be Sold at Auction
By Corinne O’Donoghue
By Karissa Nowakowski
The optimal time to get the flu shot
has come and gone this season.
However, it’s not too late. There
are still places in Tucson to
receive the vaccine, and doctors
recommend it.
Flu season in Arizona begins in
October and ends in March.
Typically, October and November
are the best months to get the
vaccine, but since Arizona is in
mid-season, the shot would still be
effective.
The flu vaccine is available at
any public health office, one of
them being the Walter C. Rogers
Clinic (South Office), 175 W.
Irvington Rd.
The South Office is vaccinating
only
children,
but
will
vaccinate adults with infants who
cannot receive the shot.
The vaccine at the South Office
is free for children under the age of
18. However, there is an administration fee of $15 if the child is
only receiving a flu shot.
“If the parents couldn’t pay, we
would never turn away the
children,” said Debbie Webber,
nurse manager for the Pima County
Health Department. They ask for a
donation but it is not required.
Nearby places to find flu shots:
R Any Walgreens with a Take Care
Clinic. $29.99 without insurance
R Any CVS Pharmacy with
a MinuteClinic. $29.95 without
insurance
R Select Safeway grocery stores
with a pharmacy. $28.00 without
insurance, and can only be administered to adults.
Pieces of “Nuestro Futuro/Nuestras Raices
Humanas” will be auctioned off to benefit the
Tucson Museum School for the Visual Arts.
The mural, which was painted by David
Tineo and Antonio Pazos, hung at the Tucson
Museum of Art, but was taken down in January.
Parts will be sold to raise money for the school.
The mural was commissioned by the
museum in 1992 for an exhibition, CARA
Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, said
Ann Seiferle-Valencia, the curator of Latin
American Art at the museum.
The original plan was that the mural
would be installed for the several months of the
exhibition and then removed. But it remained
for more than 18 years.
“Basically, once it was installed, there was a
positive response to it and people here in the
Latino community really liked the mural,”
Seiferle-Valencia said. “And it eventually
became part of what people associated with
the museum.”
Since the mural was to be temporary, the
painting was directly applied to plywood on the
frame. After so many years, it had begun to
deteriorate and became a public safety risk.
Seiferle-Valencia explained that the panels
were attached to the wall with metal staples and
some of the staples started rusting, causing the
panels to loosen. Museum officials worried that
a panel would fall and either damage the artwork or potentially injure someone.
“[It] is important for people to know… that
when we realized we needed to take the mural
down we worked with Tineo right away to
come up with a solution that he would be happy
with,” she said. “It was actually his idea to do
the auction.”
The mural will be taken to Galeria Mistica in
South Tucson to be cut and framed once Tineo
decides which pieces he would like to be sold at
the auction.
All proceeds from the auction will go to
the museum school, which is an alternative
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high school associated with Tucson Unified
School District.
“We are kind of different and we are not run
like a traditional classroom,” said Morgan
Wells, the manager of youth and family
programs at the school. “We let the students be
independent and we integrate a lot of art into
their academics.”
Because the school is affiliated with TUSD,
students receive a high school diploma when
they fulfill all the requirements.
Local artists, including Tineo, help teach the
students.
“Tineo’s art, I would say, has definitely had
a positive impact on the community. We have
a couple of Latin American students here who
really relate to him and have similar
backgrounds and understandings,” Wells said.
“He has definitely been an inspiration to
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Dust off those cowboy hats and
boots, Tucsonans, the rodeo is
coming back to town. Tucson’s
86th annual “La Fiesta de los
Vaqueros,” or celebration of the
cowboys, will take place at the
Tucson Rodeo Grounds from Feb.
19 to 27.
Gary Williams, the general
manager of the Tucson Rodeo
Committee, called it the world’s
largest outdoor rodeo, one that features a parade, several competitions and other events you might
be surprised to find at a rodeo.
The Coors Rodeo Dance is a
new event this year and will be
held every night following the
ProRodeo competition and feature
The Greg Spivey Band and The
Jack Bishop Band.
In addition to the Coors Rodeo
Dance, David Stoecklein will lead
a photography workshop sponsored by Canon. Stoecklein, who
has been photographing the
American West for more than 40
years, will mentor participants on
capturing images of cowboys and
cowgirls as they compete.
Also, the Rodeo Education and
Children (REACh) program will
once again be offered to children
for free. Penny Conway, a rodeo
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“David has always advocated that it is
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Meredith Hayes, the director of public relations
and marketing at the museum.
“That is why he was the one who came up
with the idea of why don’t we sell the sections
and then have the proceeds go to help run the
school and inspire the students.”
All of the money raised from the auction
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“The auction is definitely going to benefit
the school wherever we need it,” Wells said.
“Supplies, field trips, however we can enrich
the students more, that is where the money
will go.”
La Fiesta de los Vaqueros
Rides Back into Tucson
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Gavin Troy instructing his students at the Tucson Museum of Art’s Museum School for the Visual Arts.
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contestant and founder of REACh,
will educate students about the history of rodeo along will life lessons such as drug prevention.
Tickets to the rodeo or any of
these new events can be purchased
at 741-2233 or online at tucsonrodeo.com. Dates, times and locations of events are as follows:
Rodeo Competition featuring
Dodge Mutton Bustin’, Justin
Junior Rodeo and ProRodeo contestants. Competition will take
place at the Tucson Rodeo
Grounds, 4823 S. 6th Ave.
• Opening day: Feb. 19 from
12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tickets: $16$22
• Second performance: Feb. 20
from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tickets:
$16-$22
• Third performance: Feb. 24
from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tickets:
$17-$23
• Fourth performance: Feb. 25
from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tickets:
$17-$23
• Fifth performance: Feb. 26 from
12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tickets: $18$24
• Final performance: Feb. 27 from
12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tickets: $20$26
Tucson Rodeo Parade, a rodeo
favorite, is the world’s longest
non-motorized parade and features
more than 200 floats.
Float decorating: Feb. 23 at 4 p.m.
in the northwest area of Tucson
Rodeo Grounds parking lot.
Parade: Feb. 24 at 9 a.m. The
1.5-mile parade route starts at
Park Ave. and Ajo Way and proceeds south on Park to Irvington
Road. Tickets for grandstand seating at Irvington Road and South
6th Ave. are $6 for adults and $4
for kids under 13.
Coors Rodeo Dance, located in
the VIP section of Tucson Rodeo
Grounds.
The Greg Spivey Band Feb. 19,
20 and 24
The Jack Bishop Band Feb. 25, 26
and 27
Admission: $5 per person, rodeo
contestants free.
Canon Rodeo Photo Workshop:
Feb. 19 from 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
REACh Program: Feb. 21 and
22 from 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30
a.m. each day. School children
grades K-6.
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Teachers, TUSD Board Take Different Routes
to Challenge State’s New Ethnic Studies Law
By Karina Salazar
After declining to file a lawsuit or
to join one against the new ethnic
studies law, members of the
Tucson Unified School District
Governing Board say they plan to
challenge the law through the
appropriate process.
After the Mexican American
Studies program at TUSD was
declared to be in violation of the
law by former Superintendent of
Public Instruction Tom Horne, 11
of the program’s teachers asked the
board to either file a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the
new ethnic studies law or join their
suit at the Jan. 11 board meeting.
“We were really hopeful that
they would join in,” said Lorenzo
López, one of the teachers filing
the lawsuit. “I’m speaking for
myself when saying this but we
didn’t want to create any animosity within our own ranks. For all
intents and purposes, this law was
created for the district as well. We
believe that they are as much victims of it as we are.”
The board passed resolutions
stating that TUSD's ethnic studies
department will comply with the
law and that it plans to take action
through the appeal process that the
law allows for.
“It makes more sense as a first
step,” TUSD Board President
Mark Stegeman said. “To do the
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appeal process, the administrative
hearing process that is set up within the law, before trying to overturn it.”
The teachers believe that the
appeal process will be unsuccessful in keeping the program since
the same people who created the
law and have targeted the TUSD
program would regulate the hearing.
South Tucson City Council Approves
Resolution Supporting Ethnic Studies
By Elma Delic
The South Tucson City Council
voted unanimously to approve a
resolution to support ethnic studies
in the schools and reinforce the
importance of Mexican-American
studies for students.
After the Arizona Legislature
passed House Bill 2281, Gov. Jan
Brewer signed it in May. The bill
bans classes in Arizona schools
that are created for specific ethnic
groups, promote the overthrow of
the United States government, promote resentment toward a race or
class of people and advocate ethnic solidarity.
“They have spoken out when
other politicians have not,” said
Miguel Ortega, a resident who
spoke during the call to the audience during the Jan. 31 meeting.
The resolution states the impact
that ethnic studies have on students when they take the Arizona’s
Instrument to Measure Standards
test, or AIMS. The resolution
states that in AIMS writing, reading and math, ethnic studies students have shown improvement
by
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Rep. Raul Grijalva (D) talks to the crowd at a Raza Studies forum at El Pueblo Senior
Center on Feb. 5. Grijalva encouraged the TUSD to promote ethnic studies in classrooms.
rates of 66.6 percent, 93 percent
and 94 percent greater, respectively than non-ethnic studies students.
“We need to stop being a target,” said Tucson High School junior Juan Quevedo, who spoke during the call to the audience and
thanked the city council for passing the resolution.
Quevedo went on to say that he
thought the resolution would have
a “big impact” on the state law.
Furthermore, he believes that
teachers are afraid to teach certain
subjects because of possible legal
ramifications.
Mayor Jennifer Eckstrom said
the council wanted to show the
community and the young people
of South Tucson that “we support
what classes they want to take.”
“People need to be vocal…this
is what we support,” Eckstrom
said.
The resolution also declared an
“emergency to exist” because of
the “institutional challenges to
eliminate ethnic studies programs.”
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“It doesn’t matter how much
sense it makes, the deck is stacked
against us” López said.
Although board members had
previously discussed joining the
lawsuit, it was unexpected when
the teachers threatened to list the
board as defendants on their lawsuit, along with the Arizona superintendent of public instruction and
the Arizona State Board of
Education, if they did not join.
“It’s unfortunate because we as
a district are trying to ensure the
continuation of the program,”
board member Adelita Grijalva
said. “And the problem that we
have is that [the teachers] are now
plaintiffs in the law suit against us.
So how do we get information
from them to support our case
against the state when we’re tied
up in another suit?”
Board member Michael Hicks
said he believed that the teachers’
threat in listing the board as defendants in the lawsuit was the wrong
approach if they want their support
and created more hostility in the
already contentious environment.
“You don’t try to catch honeybees with vinegar,” Hicks said.
Despite disagreements in how
to secure the continuance of the
program, board members and
teachers alike agree that the political rhetoric surrounding the law
has been too strong.
“I think the rhetoric from the
state or certain state officials has
been very strong.” Stegeman said.
Three days after the law’s legislation House Bill 2281 came into
affect on Dec. 31, Horne declared
the program in violation of the law
as his last act as state superintendent of public instruction.
Both teachers and board members expressed significant concern
about the probable political rea-
soning behind the ruling of the
programs violation on Jan. 3.
“Now Horne, I thought his rhetoric and actions were a little strong
because I thought all along that the
law takes effect on Jan. 1st and you
can’t violate law before it comes
into effect,” Stegeman said. “So I
can’t understand the whole basis
for him issuing the ruling just
hours after the law came into
effect, when we’re not even in session. How could any teacher have
broken the law over Christmas
break? Looking from the outside it
certainly looked like a political
action what he did.”
Despite the political disagreements behind the law, board members and teachers continue to
pledge their support for the continuance of the program.
“We as a school district have
created this program, and the board
has stuck by it,” said María
Federico Brummer, another of the
11 teachers who filed the lawsuit.
“It’s imperative that we take action
as a Tucson community.”
Members of the TUSD
Governing Board said they plan to
continue to support their employees and complete the appeal
process as the next step in protecting the ethnic studies program.
“We both are trying to get to the
same finish line but we’re going to
get there two different ways,”
Grijalva said.
Consejo municipal aprueba estudios étnicos
Escrito por Elma Delic
Traducido por Ana Cecilia
Barragán
El consejo municipal del sur de
Tucson, South Tucson City
Council, votó unánimemente a
favor de una resolución por el
apoyo de los estudios étnicos en
las escuelas y reforzó la importancia de los estudios Mexico
–Americanos para los estudiantes.
La gobernadora Jan Brewer
firmó en mayo el Proyecto de Ley
2281 tras haber sido aprobada por
la legislación de Arizona. La propuesta prohíbe clases diseñadas
específicamente para ciertos grupos étnicos, que promuevan el
derrocamiento del gobierno de los
EE UU, el resentimiento hacía
cierta raza o clase social y que
abogue por la solidaridad de grupos étnicos.
“Ellos han hablado mientras
que otros políticos no”, expresó
Miguel Ortega, un residente presente durante la junta pública el
31 de enero.
La resolución muestra el
impacto que tienen los estudios
étnicos en los estudiantes al
momento de tomar los exámenes
estandarizados,
Arizona’s
Instrument to Measure Standards
o AIMS por sus siglas en ingles.
La resolución muestra una mejora
del 66.6 por ciento en los resultados del AIMS de escritura, lectura
y matemáticas, de aquellos estudiantes de estudios étnicos, que son
respectivamente un 93 y 94
por -ciento más alto que los estudiantes que no toman estos cursos.
“No podemos seguir siendo el
blanco”, dijo Juan Quevedo, estudiante de segundo de preparatoria
de la escuela Tucson High School,
que se expresó durante la junta
pública y que agradeció al consejo
municipal por haber aprobado la
resolución.
Quevedo también mencionó
que la resolución podría resultar
un “gran impacto” para las leyes
estatales. Además, el cree que los
maestros tienen miedo a enseñar
ciertas materias por miedo de
posibles ramificaciones legales.
La alcaldesa Jennifer Eckstrom
dijo que el consejo municipal
quería demostrarle a la comunidad
y a los jóvenes del sur de Tucson
“que apoyamos las materias que
ellos quieren estudiar”. “La gente
debe expresarse….eso es lo que
apoyamos”, dijo Eckstrom.
Se le declaró a esta resolución
en “emergencia por subsistir”
debido al “reto que presenta el sistema por eliminar los estudios
étnicos”.
UA Professor Explains Sacred Native Blessing
at ‘Together We Thrive’ Memorial at McKale
By Marissa Freireich
Clutching eagle feathers and a bandana, Carlos Gonzales took the
stage at the University of Arizona’s
McKale Memorial Center on Jan.
12 to share a sacred Native
American blessing. He delivered his
words in front of 13,000 people, but
the familiar blessing required little
preparation.
“It’s a prayer that not only do I
use it at formal blessings, but it’s a
prayer that I use on a daily basis for
my own well-being,” he said.
Gonzales, an associate professor
of clinical family and community
medicine at the UA, gave the blessing at the “Together We Thrive”
memorial that honored victims of
the Jan. 8 shooting that killed six
and wounded 13, including Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords.
UA President Robert Shelton’s
advisor for Native American Affairs
contacted Gonzales, who has
Mexican and Pascua Yaqui roots,
about opening the memorial.
Gonzales is a fifth generation
Tucsonan and a graduate of Pueblo
Magnet High School. He graduated
from the UA College of Medicine in
1981 and began teaching there in
2006.
The blessing Gonzales gave was
a sweat lodge prayer.For a sweat
lodge ceremony, heated rocks are
brought inside a dome-shaped structure and water is poured over them
to create steam. Participants inside
the lodge sing and pray in order to
cleanse themselves of negative
energy, Gonzales said. Many tribes
have variations of this ceremony.
Gonzales had to ask permission
from tribal elders to perform the
blessing.
“It’s a sacred prayer that not
everybody can say,” he said.
In the blessing, Gonzales hon-
ored the seven directions, which
relate to different traits: the east corresponds to guidance, the south to
family, the west to ancestors, the
north to strength, the sky to masculine energy and the earth to feminine
energy.
“You try to get all of these energies together in the center, which is
the seventh direction, for balance
and harmony,” he said. Everyone
possesses a piece of the creator
within their center, according to
Native American beliefs.
At the memorial, Gonzales
pointed to each direction using eagle
feathers that medicine men gave
him for completing certain tasks.
The red bandana was symbolic of
spiritual energy.
“You ask for that direction to
give you that energy so that you can,
in essence, use that quality to help
you to live a better life,” Gonzales
explained.
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The Community Celebrates Black History Month
By Marisa Bernal
“The history book didn’t tell you the whole
truth,” said Charles Kendrick, co-founder
of the Afro-American Heritage Museum in
Tucson. “It only told you part of it.”
Thirteen years ago, Kendrick and Shad
“Standman” Blair used their Social Security
and retirement checks to piece together their
museum one item at a time. Now, standing
amongst his hundreds of acquired black history items, Kendrick picks up each collectible with care and reminisces about black
cowboys, cotton picking, applications for
entrance into the Ku Klux Klan, and butter
churns.
“I have always been interested in history,” said Kendrick. “I knew that the
American history books, the high school
versions, have never been fair and adequate
to minorities. They have never told the
whole story, the full story or the real story.”
After more than 35 years of collecting
artifacts and numerous visits to yard sales
and auction sites, the museum was born.
“Some people call it junk, but it’s real
collector’s items if you know history,” said
Kendrick. “A lot of people just throw that
stuff away without realizing how important
those things are.”
Kendrick initially wanted to open a pharmacy in the building that is now Mr. K’s Barbeque
and Heritage Museum at 1830 S. Park Ave.
after graduating from the College of Pharmacy
at the University of Arizona in 1955.
But he couldn’t come up with the money
to start a business.
“I have owned the building since 1964,”
said Kendrick. “I didn’t know what to do
with it, so we opened the antique store.”
Kendrick retired full time in 2009
from Kino Community Hospital after
being employed as a staff pharmacist
and serving 18 years as the supervisor
of the outpatient pharmacy.
“I was the oldest employee there of 42
years,” said Kendrick.
The antique store quickly turned into
the now Afro-American Museum with the
barbeque restaurant following as a way to
gain revenue and support the museum.
With Black History Month in full
swing, there is no denial that Kendrick’s
museum is the place to go to immerse
yourself in black history.
“The artifacts in [the museum] are all
part of black history,” said Kendrick.
“They are black history.”
Everything collected in Kendrick’s
museum has been “in the black community, used by the black community or used
on the black community.”
“You ever heard of ‘jumping the
broom’?” asked Kendrick, pointing to a
small figurine of two people over a broom.
“Well, that’s how the blacks got married.
They wouldn’t let you into the courthouse
and they wouldn’t recognize your marriage
Photo by Marisa bernal
in the community, so after work someone
Charles Kendrick remembers how his grandfather used to cut his hair with dull hand clippers when he was a kid.
would bring out a broom and you would step
Kendrick would “holler and scream” for him to stop because it hurt so much.
over the broom and you are now considered
married. After the Civil War, my grandparents
went and made their marriage legal. African name. I go to the Baptist church; that African American Student Affairs is hosting
Nowadays after most black weddings, some- is not my mother’s religion. I try to speak a “Mr. K’s Barbeque and African-American
one brings out a broom and they step over it.” English; that is not my father’s tongue,” said History museum tour.”
Kendrick is familiar with hosting events
The small metal figurine is just one of Kendrick. “I lost three things because of
hundreds of items Kendrick has collected slavery: my name, my language and my reli- like the AASA museum tour and enjoys
being able to spread his knowledge with
with deep roots in African American history. gion. All blacks lost those.”
From slave property lists to the razor anyone who is willing to listen.
Kendrick, whose great-grandfather was a
“When I went by myself it looked like
slave, knows a lot about the effects of slav- strap his grandfather used on his behind, it is
clear Kendrick has a passion for collecting just a collection of antiques, but when
ery on living African Americans.
The last name “Kendrick” belonged to the and sharing the history of African Charles was there, he told the story of all the
items and it made them come to life,” said
Americans.
slave owners on his father’s side.
As part of Black History Month, UA’s Maria Moore, AASA program director.
“My last name is Kendrick; that’s not my
Powerful Hallucinogen Salvia Remains
Legal in Arizona Despite Controversy
By Cassandra Weinman
Photo
by
Marisa bernal
A metal figurine depicting the African-American tradition of “jumping the broom.”
African-American marriages were not recognized by the state, so they created their own
way of “marrying” by stepping over a broom.
What is Black History Month?
By Marisa Bernal
Black History Month dates back to
1925, when the historian Carter G.
Woodson founded the Association
for the Study of Negro Life and
History, and the organization
announced Negro History Week.
The event was first celebrated
during a week in February that
contained the birthdays of both
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick
Douglass,
according
to
africanamericanhistorymonth.gov.
In 1976, the overwhelming celebration of the week evolved into a
whole month of celebrating the
contributions of African Americans in history.
Now, Black History Month is celebrated and acknowledged by almost
everyone in the United States.
“[Black
History
Month]
encompasses, I think, the true history of what has happened in the
United States over the years as it
relates to African Americans,” said
Cressworth Lander, the president
of the Dunbar Coalition in Tucson.
“Some of the early things in our
history have not been reported or
have not been inclusive of what
was the contribution of AfricanAmerican people.”
The Dunbar Project of Tucson,
according to the website, is
“undertaking the task of renovating the school and converting it
into an African-American Museum
and Cultural Center.”
The Dunbar School was the
first and only segregated school in
Tucson. It was established in 1912
and completed in 1918 with a
name derived from the AfricanAmerican poet Paul Lawrence
Dunbar.
Lander believes the artifacts in
Kendrick’s museum would be a
great asset to his future AfricanAmerican Museum.
“We would hope that we would
have exhibits and other deals that
would be available on a year-round
basis rather than just the month of
February to depict the true history
of the great Southwest,” said
Lander.
As the video begins, the pretty face
of a young college student in a
well-decorated Tucson apartment
emerges clearly.
Rose, a 22-year-old University
of Arizona student who asked that
her last name not be used, points to
her face on the screen.
The camera temporarily zooms
in on the petite blonde as she
laughs and brings a bong to her
mouth, inhaling deeply. Within
moments, her eyes glaze over and
she begins to giggle.
“Literally, you take a hit and
within thirty seconds you feel the
effects,” she explained. “I looked
to my left and the bicycle sitting on
our patio was starting to melt and
smoke was coming off of it.”
She added that her “trip,”
although lasting only five minutes,
was more intense than she anticipated.
“I had to almost physically pull
myself through the tunnel and
come back and remember it was all
in my head, that it was just the
drug.”
These hallucinations are a
symptom of smoking the psychoactive plant salvia divinorum, a
drug that recently gained public
interest after a video of “Hannah
Montana” star Miley Cyrus smoking salvia hit the Internet.
The drug was recently back in
the media spotlight after claims
were made that the suspected gunman in the Jan. 8 Tucson shooting,
Jared Loughner, legally took the
powerful hallucinogenic regularly.
In Arizona and a dozen other
states, salvia is sold commercially
and can be lawfully purchased at
local smoke shops or online in
varying degrees of potency (e.g.
5x, 10x, 20x, 100x). In addition,
customers can choose between
salvia leaves and extracts, which
are respectively sold in ounces or
grams and come packaged in
everything from vials to sealed
plastic bags.
Because of the drug’s power
and the limited research available
on its effects, many states have
placed age restrictions on salvia or
banned it entirely.
In his 1993 study, “The Botany
of Salvia divinorum,” Aaron
Reisfield examines the origins and
chemistry of salvia and provides
insight into the life of the mysterious plant.
With over 500 species in the
salvia family, Salvia divinorum is
native to the Sierra Mazateca
region of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Reisfield says Mazatec shamans
used the leafy green plant, which
can be smoked, chewed or brewed
in a drink, for various remedies
and during religious ceremonies to
induce hallucinations.
People continue to use the plant
to this day for varying reasons. In
the scientific world, emerging
research suggests salvia may have
therapeutic benefits.
Matthew Johnson, a behavioral
pharmacology professor at Johns
Hopkins University School of
Medicine, is studying how salvia
could be used to understand the
inner-workings of the brain.
“Salvia and other [psychoactive] drugs like it can be important
for understanding human consciousness and how the brain creates it,” Johnson said. “There is a
renaissance of researchers evaluating the therapeutic potential of
those psychedelic drugs.”
Johnson said that salvia’s immediate and potent effect is being studied to determine the drug’s impact
and stimulus to certain receptors in
the brain so that one day it might be
used medicinally.
“It won’t likely be a drug of
addiction,” he said. “Most people
don’t even want to use it again so
that’s not a big danger. It seems to be
remarkably safe in terms of physiology, more safe than what is over the
counter at the pharmacy. But I don’t
want to say that this is a safe drug.”
The safety status of the drug is
a problem that worries Arizona
House of Representatives member
Eric Meyer, D-Paradise Valley.
Meyer, a physician, has tried to
pass several bills through the legislature that would restrict the sale of
the drug salvia and regulate it more
carefully.
“I think it’s under the radar and
there aren’t as many users,” Meyer
said. “Things like spice [synthetic
marijuana] come under a lot of
fire, and salvia has a smaller group
of users and a lot of people find it
unpleasant to use. Just like everything, you have to raise awareness
and that takes time.”
Meyer said that his bill would
prohibit the sale of salvia to anyone under the age of 21. Although
his proposal is relatively “benign,”
he said the bill’s passage is still
uncertain.
“It doesn’t make sense to have a
powerful hallucinogen so easily
available,” Meyer said.
Currently, neither the federal
nor state government has definitively ruled on the sale or use of
salvia. Many vendors who carry
the drug have maintained a low
profile now that it is being so heavily scrutinized. Fourth Avenue’s
Moon Smoke Shop would not
comment on the sale or popularity
of the drug, but it is available for
purchase there.
For now, people over the age of
18 are still experimenting with
salvia. Rose, however, said that she
has no interest in trying it again.
“I don’t regret my decision to do
it,” she said. “[But] I don’t think it
should be legal. You lose complete
concepts of reality.”
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Graffiti: Art Form or Crime?
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Virtual Fence Scrapped,
Towers Remain at Work
Photo by stePhen Varga
Graffiti—or is it art—found on a wall in South Tucson.
By Stephen Varga
Call it an art form or a mode of
vandalism, one thing is certain:
you can’t miss the presence of
graffiti in South Tucson.
It can be seen on street corners,
bus stops, trashcans, signs and
even local businesses—a trend that
troubles some residents.
The city provides a hotline to
report any vandalism and a graffiti
removal form that can be submitted online at http://cms3.tucsonaz.gov/graffiti/report.
“The best way to help the situation is to report it,” said Tucson
police officer Richard Silva.
When contacted, city officials
assist with removal of graffiti from
many publicly visible surfaces
including residences, businesses
and public thoroughfares within
city limits.
“Graffiti gets reported almost
daily,” Silva said.
Graffiti Protective Coatings,
Inc. has been contracted by the
City of Tucson to help remove
graffiti from city surfaces. GPC
not only works in Tucson but also
in California and Nevada, and has
processed more than 330,000
application orders to date.
There were more than 300 —
reported cases of vandalism in
Tucson in 2010, according to
SpotCrime, an agency dedicated to
publicly reporting crime statistics.
To some, however, the underground culture of “tagging” is an
expression of artistic intent that
often goes overlooked or unnoticed.
Those who appreciate the artistic aspect of tagging often take
pride in their work, even posting it
on websites like Flickr and
Facebook.
“Some graffiti actually is art,
but it has to be done right,” Silva
said, “Most of it is criminal damage done by people who want
attention and recognition but fear
getting caught.”
On Jan. 8, Ward 1 Tucson
Councilwoman Regina Romero
co-hosted an event with GPC to
spread awareness and information
about graffiti and encouraged
attendants to volunteer and participate in a citywide graffiti removal.
To report graffiti or volunteer in
the abatement efforts, call the City
of South Tucson Public Works
Department at 770-0032 or email
[email protected].
Nuevo Costco abrirá pronto
en Tucson Marketplace
Por Carolyn Gitomer
Traducido por Juan Marroquín
Los pequeños negocios y familias
grandes del sur de Tucson ya no
tendrán que viajar una larga distancia para ir a Costco esta primavera,
ya que la construcción de la tienda
de venta de mayoreo localizada al
sur de la avenida Kino cerca de la
interestatal 10 estará completamente terminada.
La construcción de un nuevo
Costco de 14 acres inició en el centro comercial Tucson Marketplace
en octubre y según Jim Sinegal,
director ejecutivo, la tienda está
programada para abrir sus puertas
el 14 de abril.
Esta será la tercera tienda de
Costco en Tucson. Las demás se
encuentran localizadas al este de la
calle Grant por la calle Tanque
Verde, saliendo de la calle
Thornydale cerca de la calle
Orange Grove oeste.
“Nosotros usualmente tenemos
que manejar hasta el Costco que
está en el Norte de la calle
Thornydale, así que esta ubicación
definitivamente será más conveniente”, dijo el señor Abe Frisby, el
gerente de Las Cazuelitas, un
restaurante mexicano al sur de
Tucson. “Yo creo que muchos de
los propietarios de restaurantes en
esta área y muchas familias se beneficiarán al tener cerca esta tienda”.
El señor Frisby frecuenta la
tienda Costco por sus precios
económicos y principalmente para
abastecer su restaurante con productos tales como: aceite, servilletas y contenedores para llevar.
Aunque muchos están contentos
con los bajos precios de gasolina,
alimentos al por mayor, y precios
de mayoreo que ofrece Costco,
estas tiendas compiten con las tiendas de Food City, las cuales tienen
una historia muy larga en el
abastecimiento de alimentos para
los residentes del sur de Tucson.
“No hay preocupaciones con la
tienda Costco porque es una tienda
de membresía y no todas las personas van a querer pagar la cuota”,
dijo el señor Richard Salaz, el
director de recursos humanos del
sur de la ciudad de Tucson.
Además, señaló que Tucson
Marketplace no se encuentra ubicado en el sur de Tucson pero está lo
suficientemente cerca para que las
personas puedan disfrutar de los
restaurantes locales. “En todo caso,
se ha previsto que atraerá más comercio a esta área”.
El Nuevo Costco proveerá trabajos de jornada completa y de
medio tiempo para entre 150 a 175
personas, dijo el señor Sinegal.
“La mayoría de los administradores de nuestras otras tiendas
serán promovidos y trasladados
hacia la tienda localizada en el sur
de Tucson”, agregó el señor
Sinegal.
Además de crear trabajos, la
tienda Costco también beneficiará
a la comunidad mediante el suministro de donaciones.
“Esperamos que el nuevo
Costco sea un partidario del banco
de alimientos de la comunidad y
desde ya estamos haciendo esa
conexión”, dijo el señor Jack
Parris, quien es el representante del
banco de alimentos de la comunidad.
Photo
by
stePhen Varga
Each electronic tower makes up a chain that monitors border activity in the Arizona desert.
By Lara Schnoll
Towering high into the dry, hot
desert of southwest Arizona, 80foot-tall radar towers stand guard
over the quiet town of Arivaca
with the intent to put a dent in the
number of illegal immigrants coming across the U.S.– Mexico border yearly.
In 2006, the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security commissioned
Aerospace heavyweight Boeing
Corp. to develop a system that
could detect illegal border crossers
with high-tech surveillance networks. The system included
ground sensors, video cameras,
communication towers and computer software.
In May 2009, Boeing’s Secure
Border Initiative (SBInet) teams
erected 13 tower sites in the
Border Patrol’s Tucson sector.
Reports from the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security
reveal that SBInet commissioned
$2 billion in contracts for the radar
towers. An estimated $1 billion has
been spent for the development
and installation of just 53 miles
along the Arizona–Mexico border,
with 323 miles remaining.
Arivaca is one of the few towns
that has been impacted by the federal government’s multi-billion
dollar investment to build a virtual
fence along the border in order to
deter illegal immigrants.
Arivaca has a population of just
over 900 residents, and is positioned roughly nine miles from the
U.S.–Mexico border. The isolated
town where everyone knows their
neighbor is more bustling than it
appears.
Kelly Olson, a resident of
Arivaca for the past 25 years, has
seen the changes that have
occurred in the town with the
implementation of the towers.
“Of course the town has seen a
change, said Olson. “People are
less willing to come to Arivaca
these days.”
Some residents say that
encountering illegal immigrants is
not out of the norm.
“They have broken into my
freezer and taken food, but that’s
it,” Olson said. “They take what
they need to survive.”
Ruth Walsworth, a frequent
visitor to Arivaca, occasionally
spends her time out on the 40
acres of land that her daughter
owns.
“I have come across immigrants
while out riding or hiking,”
Walsworth said. “One time I came
across a coyote holding a gun to a
group of immigrants. Where was
the Border Patrol?”
The installation of the towers
were intended to assist Border
Patrol in monitoring the border.
“The towers in my opinion are
ineffective and useless,” said
Olson.
Last year, Homeland Security
Secretary
Janet
Napolitano
launched an inquiry into the project because of the technical glitches that kept occurring, and the
long-term development of the project was reevaluated.
“
We appreciate what
Border Patrol is doing
and we respect them, but
they have overtaken our
town.
”
–Kelly Olson
Arivaca Resident
Based on statistics from Boeing
Corp., the radar sensors and cameras took too long to display suspicious “targets” on monitors at the
command center. The tower-based
radar networks were often triggered by rain or wind-blown dust
or sagebrush, displaying false positives.
Technical requirements were
lowered from accurately detecting
suspicious targets 90 percent of the
time to only 49 percent of the time,
which led to the investigation
made by Napolitano.
On Jan. 11, the Department of
Homeland Security ended the
SBInet virtual fence contract.
“SBInet cannot meet its original objective of providing a single,
integrated border security technology solution,” said Napolitano in a
press release.
A new border protection plan
is being implemented, which will
include commercially available
technologies such as mobile surveillance systems, unmanned aircrafts, thermal imaging devices
and tower-based remote video
surveillance systems.
The plan will use existing elements of SBInet, such as stationary
radar infrared and optical sensor
towers, according to a statement
made by the Department of
Homeland Security.
A common feeling among many
in the community is that there
might be greater success in preventing illegal border crossing if
Border Patrol controlled the border
more closely, instead of being
placed nine miles away from
Arivaca.
“Heavier patrolling along the
actual border might be more effective,” Olson said.
A Border Patrol agent who
wished to remain anonymous said
that it isn’t that the towers aren’t
doing their job, it’s that they still
have quirks to be worked out.
“The towers have a radar detection range of 20 to 30 miles,” said
the agent.“Therefore increasing
patrol in person isn’t that necessary.”
Statistics from the Department
of Homeland Security estimate
that manpower along the border
has doubled in size to about 18,000
agents, and more are to be expected. “There are slated to be 120 to
150 more agents brought into my
zone alone in the next year,” said
the agent.
But for the people of Arivaca,
the increase of Border Patrol
agents in the area might just be the
last straw.
“We appreciate what Border
Patrol is doing and we respect
them, but they have overtaken our
town,” said Olson. “They don’t
utilize our businesses, which is
another reason why people are
leaving.”
The towers staggered along the
53-mile
stretch
of
the
U.S.–Mexico border will be a symbol of the attempt to deter illegal
immigration on a new and innovative scale, but for the town of
Arivaca, only time will tell how
much longer it can survive.
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Math Teacher Moves on to Pursue
Passion
‘Sunnyside Teacher from page 1
Photo Casey saPio
Paul Dye answers students’ questions as they work through math problems together. He
will soone be photographing sports full time.
every single day.”
This reflects his larger philosophy: “The greatest gains to be
made in realizing society’s potential,” he says, “lies in enhancing
our own ability to see the genuine
good in others.”
To begin to find that good in his
students, Dye learns the names of
every student on the first day of
school and tells them they can
expect him to be enthusiastic, energetic, positive and human.
His personal approach with students and unconventional teaching
methods are purposeful. “I wear a
tie so I look traditional, so that I
can be anything but traditional,”
says Dye.
And now he is moving on to
another unconventional job.
In pursuing his other passion,
sports photography, he will shoot
sports full time at the University of
Arizona.
He got into photography
because he wanted to document the
achievements of his students outside of class. Currently, he has a
screen outside of his classroom
with pictures he takes of Sunnyside
athletes. Students crowd around it
between classes to see what’s new.
Athough his teaching career
ends in May, Dye will remain a
familiar face on the sidelines at
Sunnyside games as he will continue shooting photos of the athletes.
He started teaching to coach
soccer. Once again, sports have
ushered him into a new career.
Hernandez: Tucson’s Reluctant Hero
By Yael Schusterman
In front of a crowd of nearly
14,000 in McKale Memorial
Center, including the president of
the United States and a host of officials, Daniel Hernandez denied the
mantle of hero for his role in helping Gabrielle Giffords when she
was shot.
Daniel Hernandez, a 20-yearold graduate of Sunnyside High
School, has always had an innate
desire to help others. He once considered medicine, but later discovered that he connected with people through public service. This
became clearer when he met U.S.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
“It wasn’t ‘til after I started
interacting with her, I decided to
go into public service,” Hernandez
said. “When I came to
the University of Arizona I was
still a biology major, but quickly
went into public service.”
This combination of experiences led Hernandez to his moment
of heroism. Hernandez worked on
the Hillary Clinton campaign in
2007. Shortly after she ended up
conceding in early June 2008,
Giffords was holding an event,
which he attended.
“I went to meet her and was
absolutely amazed by the type of
person she was,” Hernandez said.
He then applied for an internship
between June 9 and Nov. 1.
He described Giffords as friendly and brilliant. “She’s a policywonk.”
She will never discuss a policy
without explaining it and why she
is behind it, he said. This is one of
the many ways she connects with
the community. People involved in
politics have a reputation for being
cold and detached, Hernandez said,
but she is the opposite.
In 2010 he campaigned for Rep.
Steve Farley in District 28, which
gave him another opportunity to
work with Giffords as she pursued
another term. After she won her
seat in 2010, Hernandez applied to
become her intern in her Tucson
office and started Jan. 3, just five
days before the shooting.
Mark Kimble, who works in
Giffords’ congressional office, said
in an e-mail that in Hernandez’s
class of interns he stood
out. “Daniel was one of four of the
13 interns who agreed to start early
making up a transition team
between the fall and spring semesters,” said Kimble. “That was evidence of his work ethic.”
This also meant that Hernandez
didn’t have a chance to meet the
congresswomen until Saturday
morning.
On January 8 just after 10 a.m.,
Hernandez was helping with the
“Congress on Your Corner” event,
“
I was at the end of
the line checking
people in 30 feet
away and I heard
gunshots.
”
-Daniel Hernandez,
UA student
created as an opportunity for constituents to talk to Giffords directly,
working the end of the line in front
of a Safeway grocery story on 7100
N. Oracle Road.
“I was at the end of line checking people in 30 feet away and I
heard gunshots.”
Hernandez said he did not see
the shooter, but he reacted.
Rushing to Giffords, he found
her on the ground, a visible gunshot
to the head. He checked for
other wounds and positioned her
against his chest so she could
breathe properly. Then he applied
pressure to help stop the bleeding
until ambulances arrived.
Six people were killed in the
rampage, including U.S. District
Judge
John
Roll,
Gabe
Zimmerman, one of Giffords’
aides, and a young girl; 13 others
were wounded in the shooting.
Hernandez, a political science
junior at the UA and director of the
Arizona Students Association, said
he has always enjoyed volunteering
and getting involved in school programs and clubs.
Cathy Monroe, who teaches the
nursing assistance program at
Sunnyside, said she remembers Daniel
well in class.
“He was a very internally motivated young man,” Monroe said.
“He knew what was important and
he went after what he needed to
study.”
She said when competing for
Health Occupations Students of
America (HOSA), a national career
and technical student organization,
he trained himself for some of the
areas that the competition would
require.
During the competition, he did
medical lab assisting, which
involves learning how to draw
blood, test urine and do finger
sticks for diabetes and other patient
care, Monroe said.
She said she believed he came
out first in the state because he
used his own resources and kept up
with the medical current events.
Nationally, he came in the top 20
with over 10,000 students competing. “He just learned on his own. He
was very poised, never wild in classroom and very serious,” Monroe said.
“He was wonderful, the type of student a teacher would like to have a
whole classroom full of.”
It was Hernandez’s nursing
assistance training that helped
Photo Carolyn gitoMer
The Costco on East Grant Road is ranked the 15th in gross sales worldwide. South side
restaurant managers are looking forward to the new one opening near Kino and I-10.
Costco to Open on South Side
Costco from page 1
store creates competition for Food
City, a grocery store that has a long
history of providing goods for
South Tucson residents.
“There are not concerns with
the Costco because it is membership driven and not everyone will
want to pay those fees,” said
Richard Salaz, human resources
director for the City of South
Tucson. He pointed out that the
Tucson Marketplace is not located
in South Tucson but is close
enough for people to enjoy the
local restaurants. “If anything, it is
predicted to bring in more business
overall to this area.”
The new Costco will provide
full-time and part-time jobs for
150 to 175 people, Sinegal said.
“Most of the management from
our other locations will be promoted and moved to the South Tucson
location,” he said.
Besides creating jobs, Costco
also benefits the community
through providing donations.
“During the last fiscal year
(2009-2010) they donated over
226,000 pounds of produce,
canned goods and bakery goods to
the food bank,” said Jack Parris, a
representative for the Community
Food Bank. “We hope that the new
Costco will be supporter of the
Community Food Bank and are
working on that relationship now.”
“As of now the two Costcos
located in Tucson are ranked two
of the highest in gross sales,” said
Joshua Davis, a Costco employee
of eight years at their East Grant
Road location.
From 2009, “data ranks this
specific location the 15th in gross
sales worldwide.”
Daniel no admite su heroísmo
Hernandez from page 1
involucrarse en los programas y
clubs de la universidad.
Cathy Monroe, maestra del programa de asistente de enfermería
en Sunnyside, dijo que recuerda
muy bien cuando Daniel asistía a
clases.
“Él era un joven automotivado”, dijo Monroe. “Él sabia lo que
era importante y luchó por sus
estudios”.
Cathy dijo que cuando él participó en Health Occupations students of America (HOSA, por sus
siglas en inglés), organización
estudiantil nacional que apoya las
carreras de la salud, él se capacitó
a si mismo en las áreas que la competición requería.
Durante su capacitación él completo un laboratorio de asistencia
médica que incluyó aprender a
extraer sangre, hacer exámenes de
orina, conducir la prueba para
diagnosticar la diabetes y otros
cuidados para pacientes, dijo
Monroe.
Cathy también dijo que le pareció que él ganó primer lugar en el
estado porque utilizó sus propios
recursos y se mantuvo al día de los
eventos médicos del momento. Él
estuvo entre los mejores 20 de más
de 10,000 estudiantes que partici-
paron nacionalmente.
“Él fue autodidácta. Siempre
estaba preparado y nunca fue un
estudiante desconcentrado ni muy
serio,” dijo Monroe. “Él era maravilloso, el tipo de estudiante que
una maestra sueña tener en toda el
aula.”
Fue su capacitación para el programa de asistencia de enfermería
que lo ayudó a salvar la vida de
Giffords. En el evento conmemorativo de la universidad, llevado a
cabo en McKale, Daniel afirmó
que él no era ningún héroe.
“La razón por la cual digo esto
es porque yo creo que los verdaderos héroes son aquellas personas que han dedicado sus vidas
al servicio público” dijo Daniel.
“Gabe Zimmerman, director de
alcance comunitario de Giffords,
dio su vida y las personas así merecen ser llamadas héroes.”
Daniel viajó a Washington D.C.
para escuchar el discurso de
Barack Obama sobre el Estado de
la Unión.
Siendo todavía un hombre
joven, puede ser que su experiencia demuestra sus puntos de vista,
pero él siente una pasión más
grande que nunca por servir a su
comunidad.
save Giffords’ life.
At the university memorial held at
McKale, Hernandez claimed that he
was no hero.
“The reason I said that was
because I believe the people who
are the real heroes are those who
have dedicated their lives to public
service,” Hernandez said.
“Gabe Zimmerman, Giffords’
community outreach director, gave
up his life and people like him
deserve to be called the heroes.”
Hernandez flew to Washington
D.C. to listen to Barack Obama’s
State of the Union address.
Still a young man, his experience
may color his views, but he is more
passionate than ever about serving
his community.
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Elvira Teacher to Receive Crystal Apple Award
By Tammy Stephens
Fifth-grade
teacher
Andy
Townsend is the reason Brian
Corrales Jr. is excited to go to class
every day.
“I never thought I’d say this, but I
love Mondays now,” said Corrales.
Corrales, 11, is one of
Townsend’s fifth-grade students at
Elvira Elementary School.
“[Townsend] has the ability to
make everything we learn about
into a fun thing,” he said.
Classmate Jackeline Walldez,
11, said she asked the principal if
she could be put into Townsend’s
class because she knew he was a
good teacher.
“His passion for teaching and
his love for children come across
so strongly,” said Elvira Principal
Tom Hubbard. Because of this,
Townsend will receive the 2011
Metropolitan Education Commission’s Crystal Apple Award in
May.
Being a teacher was never on
Townsend’s life agenda, but he said
it’s now his passion in life.
As a teen, his dreams focused
on sports.
“I honestly thought I was going
to be a professional athlete,” he
said. “It was the middle of high
school that I realized that this wasn’t going to happen.”
To continue to satisfy his love
for sports, he began volunteering
with youth baseball and basketball
programs.
“Working with the kids was a
blast,” Townsend said.
While he was at the University
of Arizona getting a degree in history, he continued volunteering
with kids. He thought about teaching, but never seriously considered
it.
With the urge to do something
different, Townsend moved to Las
Vegas and took a job in sales.
He continued to volunteer with
kids’ sports programs in Las Vegas
and one day realized that being
with kids was what made him
happy.
He knew he needed to change
directions.
“For me to go into my boss’s
office and tell him I was going to
quit … it was a scary thing,” he
said. “I’ve always been quite
thankful that I made that choice.”
He moved back to Tucson and
started volunteering a few days a
week at an elementary school. The
experience was just to make sure
that was what he wanted to do.
He got his substitute-teaching
certificate and taught at schools
around Tucson before he enrolled
at the University of Phoenix for a
master’s degree in elementary education, he said.
As soon as he finished his program, he started teaching a fifthgrade class at Elvira Elementary
School.
He’s now been there for six
years and Hubbard said Townsend’s work ethic is laudable.
“He beats the custodian here
every morning,” Hubbard said. “He
has that love and that passion for
teaching.”
Not surprisingly, Townsend also
manages Elvira’s after-school basketball, softball, soccer and cross
country programs. Sports help him
connect with the kids beyond the
classroom.
Photo
by
taMMy stePhens
Fifth-grade teacher Andy Townsend coaches the Elvira Eagles basketball team.
The basketball, softball and soccer teams are made up of fourthand fifth-graders and cross country
includes third-graders, Townsend
said.
He gets to know the fourthgraders before they get to fifth
grade, so they know his expectations.
Last year, Townsend was one of
five finalists for the Arizona
Educational Foundation’s Teacher
of the Year award, said June WebbVignery, director of the Metropolitan Education Commission.
The commission is a 34-member committee that advocates for
educational welfare in Pima
County. One of their goals is to
honor educators who go above and
beyond with their service to students.
Webb-Vignery said Townsend’s
nomination for the Crystal Apple
Award stems from the Teacher of
the Year nomination.
The Crystal Apple Award started 21 years ago and originally recognized K-12 educators. It later
expanded to include colleges and
universities, Webb-Vignery said.
Townsend said he plans on sharing the award with his classroom.
The students played a part in him
getting the award because it is
given based on what happens in the
classroom.
“How could a teacher be a good
teacher without good students? It’s
not possible,” he said.
“One of the most exciting parts
of the job is that you are never
going to have a day just like the
rest,” he said.
Both Walldez and Corrales said
they will come back to visit
Townsend.
“He’s just a really awesome
teacher,” said Corrales. “Mr.
Townsend will be a teacher I will
remember for the rest of my life.”
View other winners at:
http://cms3.tucsonaz.gov/metedu
Education Options Break Down Language Barriers
By Samantha Ferrell
Yaritza stands at the front of the
classroom, her hair held in pigtails
by two white scrunchies, bluesequined sneakers on her feet. She
tells her classmates what she would
order off the menu in her hands.
“Spaghetti and meatballs,” she
says proudly. “And fried bananas.”
Her teacher, Cecilia Chavarin,
asks the class how much Yaritza’s
order will cost and receives a chorus of correct responses: $10.
Chavarin’s Specialized English
Instruction (SEI) classes, although
beneficial, impact a small number
of students at Davis Bilingual
Magnet School. A majority of the
students at Davis are considered
English proficient by the state proficiency examination. Chavarin’s
classes emphasize reading, writing
and speaking in English, as well as
provide preparation for Arizona’s
Instrument to Measure Standards.
According to Chavarin, however,
her classes are “an aberration” at
Davis— every other class in the
school is taught in Spanish.
Down the hall in Julián
Barceló’s kindergarten class, students are split into groups around
the room. Three students sit with a
teaching aide repeating las sílabas,
while another group sits with thirdgraders reading Dr. Seuss’s Hop on
Pop in English. At a different table,
one child sticks his tongue between
his teeth as he tries to figure out
how to spell pepe. An additional
group of kids sit listening with
headphones, reading along or fighting over the volume control.
“It’s bilingualism for free,”
Chavarin says of the public
school’s Spanish immersion program. “We want our students to
become culturally proficient. All
backgrounds will not be tolerated,
but appreciated.”
Students learn to read, write and speak
both English and Spanish at Davis
Bilingual Magnet School.
Photos by saMantha Ferrell
Rita Duarte, a teaching assistant in Julian Barceló’s kindergarten class, works with students on the Spanish syllables.
Despite the seemingly overwhelming task of teaching another
language to children as young as
five, the teachers are positive.
“They immediately start absorbing the second language,” said
Barceló. “[We have] a lot of conversations, positive reinforcement,
and obviously, parental support of
this program.”
A student pushes his math
assignment under Barceló’s nose.
The teacher stops and asks the student if he is proud to speak Spanish
and the student shyly nods yes.
Davis Bilingual is unique in
Tucson because it provides the only
public Spanish immersion option in
the city. Tucson Unified School
District has watched the demand for
this program increase since it was
classified as a “magnet school” so
that any student, regardless of where
he or she lives, could apply to attend.
Administrators also answered the
demand in another way.
Grijalva, Hollinger, Mission
View, Roskruge and Van Buskirk
elementary schools all offer duallanguage programs, which permits
nearly an equal mix of both English
and Spanish speakers, allowing the
students to learn from each other.
“Students who are learning the
other group’s language have proficient peers as models to emulate,”
said Salvador Gabaldón, TUSD’s
language acquisition specialist.
Generally,
schools
have
English-only instruction in regular
classrooms and then a separate SEI
course for non-native speakers.
TUSD, in an effort to compete
for students has diversified its educational approaches, embracing traditional and new methods, allowing
parents to choose how they want
their child to be educated.
Ms. Bea Lineiro-Lopez, a counselor at Gallego Basic Elementary
in the Sunnyside Unified School
District, says that speaking Spanish
in the classroom is an offense that
could result in legal proceedings.
“Teachers now are having to be
more accountable,” Lineiro-Lopez
said. “They have to show growth,
have data, follow the curriculum.
There’s fear … [but] there’s a lot
being done to improve the system.”
In November 2000, Arizona
voters passed Proposition 203,
which limited the language of
instruction teachers can use in the
classroom.
“Young immigrant children can
easily acquire full fluency in a new
language, such as English, if they
are heavily exposed to that language in the classroom at an early
age,” reads the amendment. It goes
on to further state that “teachers
may use a minimal amount of the
child’s native language when necessary” but that no subject matter
will be taught in any language
other than English.
All students who are enrolled in
non-traditional language acquisition such as the dual-language program or the Spanish immersion
program must have a waiver on file
that allows teachers to freely speak
Spanish and English in the classroom.
But at Gallego, and in all of
SUSD, teachers are not allowed to
use Spanish in classroom until students reach high school. This effectively shuts the door on Spanish
education in elementary and middle schools in the district.
“Every time you shut the door
on a language, you are shutting the
door to an entire culture,” Barceló
said.
Students from different cultures
tend to remain more segregated in
classes that emphasize English, he
added. Some students will even
become ashamed of the fact that
they do not speak English.
“There is no shame here,”
Barceló said.
“We never really had bilingual
classes at all,” Lineiro-Lopez said
of Gallego. “The only kids who get
bilingual education are kids with
that on their IEP [Individualized
Education Plan] for special education.”
This not only affects Englishspeaking students who are denied
the opportunity to connect with
their fellow students, Tucson’s heritage and much of its population,
but also Spanish speakers who are
left without the peer models that
prove so helpful in the language
acquisition process.
Back in Barceló’s kindergarten
class, none of the kids are too concerned with such ideas. For now,
they’re just excited to learn.
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By Corinne O’Donoghue
Traducido por Ana Cecilia Barragán
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qué Pasa?
Through Feb. 20
‘A’ Mountain Shrine
Horse Racing
12 de febrero
Día en el zoológico
Rillito Park Racetrack offers quarter horse and thoroughbred racing.
The track is located at 4502 N.
First Ave., near the intersection of
River Road and First Avenue.
Clubhouse tickets are $8 and
grandstand tickets are $5. Children
under 12 years of age are free.
Gates open at 11 a.m., post time is
at 1 p.m. and racing is from 1 p.m.
to 5:30 p.m. For more information, call 293-5011 or visit
www.pimacountyattractions.com
La tercera cena anual del Día de los
enamorados (Valentine’s Day) en el
zoológico Reid Park incluye cena y
una charla con el encargado del
zoológico, Rusty Agte. El evento es
a las 5:30 de la tarde o a las 7 de la
tarde. La cena dura tres horas. El
costo por persona es de $50 dólares.
Para más información llame al 8814753 o visite www.tucsonzoo.org.
19 de febrero
Ballet folklórico
Through Feb. 13
Feb. 12
El Ballet folklórico Tapatío presenta el evento “Amor y Amistad”
en el Leo Rich Theatre en el centro de convenciones, Tucson
Convention Center. El evento
empieza a las 5 de la tarde. El
costo del boleto es de $8 dólares y
se puede comprar en la taquilla del
TCC o en cualquier establecimiento de Ticketmaster. Para más información sobre el grupo folklórico,
visite www.purotapatio.org. Para
la compra de boletos visite
www.ticketmaster.com
Woo at the Zoo
19 y 20 de febrero
Gem & Mineral Show
The annual Tucson Gem, Mineral
and Fossil Showcase offers opento-the-public shows catering to
buyers, sellers and treasure hunters
through Feb. 13. The show is
located at more than 40 different
locations around Tucson. Prices
and hours vary at each location.
For more information, visit
www.jewelryshowguide.com.
The 3rd annual Valentine’s Day
dinner at Reid Park Zoo includes
dinner and a discussion with zoo
keeper and educator, Rusty Agte.
The times are 5:30 p.m. or 7 p.m.
The dinner lasts three hours. Cost
is $50 per person. Call 881-4753
or visit www.tucsonzoo.org for
more information.
Festival de india
El decimoctavo festival Southwest
Indian Art Fair presenta a más de
200 artistas y exhibiciones. El
evento de este año presenta a R.
Carlos Nakai y el festival de
Native American film. El festival
se llevará a cabo en el museo de
Arizona State Museum en el campus de la Universidad de Arizona.
El evento será el sábado desde las
10 de la mañana hasta las 5 de la
tarde y el domingo desde las 10
hasta las 4 de la tarde.
Feb. 19
Ballet Folklorico
The Ballet Folklorico Tapatio presents “Amor y Amistad” at the Leo
Rich Theatre at the Tucson
Convention Center. The show starts
at 5 p.m. Tickets are $8 and can be
purchased at the TCC box office or
any Ticketmaster location. For more
information about the group, visit
www.purotapatio.org. For tickets,
visit www.ticketmaster.com.
Feb. 19 - 20
Indian Art Fair
The 18th annual Southwest Indian
Art Fair features more than 200
artists, performers and demonstrators. This year’s art show will feature R. Carlos Nakai and a Native
American film festival. The fair
will be held at the Arizona State
Museum on the University of
Arizona campus. Hours are
Photo
by
Frank brun
A plastic figurine of Jesus Christ, surrounded by veladoras, or religious candles with the Lady of
Guadalupe depicted on the glass, stands in the center of a grotto on ‘A’ Mountain. See video online
at www.elindenews.com/multimedia.
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Cost is $8 for adults and $3 for
children ages 12 to 16. The event
is free for children under age 11
and UA and Pima Community
College students with a student
ID. Two-day passes are $12. For
more information, visit www.statemuseum.arizona.edu.
Feb. 19 - 27
La Fiesta de los
Vaqueros
The 86th annual La Fiesta de los
Vaqueros, which includes the
Tucson Rodeo, will be at Tucson
Rodeo Grounds at 4823 S. 6th
Ave. The rodeo will feature more
than 650 contestants from the
United States and Canada. For
Black History Month Events
Feb. 17 & 24
7 to 9 p.m.
Feb. 19
6 to 10 p.m.
Feb. 25
5:30 p.m.
Open mic poetry
On A Roll Sushi Bar and
Restaurant, 63 E. Congress St.
Focus on African-American
poetry. Details at 622-7655.
Annual Black History Month Gala
At Loews Ventana Canyon
Resort and Spa. Speaker: Hill
Harper. Event is open to the
public. Details at 299-2020.
Black History Month Block Party
Hosted by UA’s African
American Student Affairs on UA
mall. For more information call
621-3419.
Feb. 19
1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Feb. 22
6:30 p.m.
Mr. K’s Barbeque & Museum Tour
First 20 students to RSVP eat
free. Hosted by African
American Student Affairs.
Details contact Maria Moore at
626-2660.
Sports Talk
Issues of Identity, Ownership,
and Empowerment in
Professional Sports. Held in
Room 108 at McKale Memorial
Center. Speakers will discuss
ways that race infiltrates the
world of sports. 621-3419.
Feb. 25 & 26
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26 at
3 and 7:30 p.m.
Legacies of Africa
A Black History Month celebration presented by Barbea
Williams Performing Co. at the
Dunbar Culture Center. Tickets
$10 or $12 at the door. 6287785.
more information, call 741-2233
or visit www.tucsonrodeo.com.
Hasta el 20 de febrero
Carreras de caballos
La temporada de Rillito Park
Racetrack ofrece carreras de caballos de cuarto de milla y de caballos de sangre pura. El hipódromo
está ubicado en el 4502 N. First
Ave., cerca del cruce de River
Road y First Avenue. Los boletos
de “clubhouse” cuestan $8 y los
boletos en las gradas cuestan $5
dólares. Niños menores de 12 años
entran gratis. Las puertas se abren
a las 11 de la mañana, las carreras
de caballos son de la 1 a las 5:30
de la tarde. Para más información,
llame al 293-5011 o visite
www.pimacountyattractions.com.
Hasta el 13 de febrero
Exhibición de piedras
preciosas y minerales
La exhibición anual del Tucson
Gem Show de minerales y fósiles
que atrae a vendedores, compradores y cazadores de tesoros
tendrá exhibiciones abiertas al
público en general hasta el día 13
de febrero. Las exhibiciones se
encuentran en más de 40 ubicaciones alrededor de Tucson. El
horario y los precios varían por
local. Para más información visite
www.jewelryshowguide.com.
El precio es de $8 por adulto y de
$3 dólares para menores de 12 a
16 años de edad. El evento es
gratis para los menores de 11 años
de edad y para los estudiantes de
la universidad de Arizona y del
Pima Community College con
identificación escolar. También
hay boletos de entrada de dos días
y el precio es de $12 dólares. Para
más información visite www.statemuseum.arizona.edu.
Del 19 al 27 de febrero
La Fiesta de los
Vaqueros
La fiesta anual número 86 de los
Vaqueros que es parte del Rodeo,
se llevará a cabo en el Tucson
Rodeo Grounds ubicado en 4823
S. 6th Ave. El rodeo presentará a
más de 650 concursantes de los
Estados Unidos y de Canadá. Para
más información llame al 7412233 o visite
www.tucsonrodeo.com
El 25 de febrero
La historia afroestadounidense
Se invita a los estudiantes y a la
comunidad de Tucson a venir y
aprender sobre la importancia del
Mes de la historia afroestadounidense en el campus de la
Universidad de Arizona a las 5 de
la tarde.
Todos están invitados a la celebración. En el evento habrá baile,
música y un convivio para la
comunidad.