Given the current limitations on gathering, the Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts hopes to help the community feel less isolated by partnering with KPUP to broadcast a new classical music program every Sunday evening at 5 p.m. for the foreseeable future. The series features performers who have played at the Benderly-Kendall Opera House […]
April 2020
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Distancing – a poem by Patra Kelly
If the Psyche has no known boundaries, then in times of crisis and duress, threat of deadly disease with the need of more s p a c e b e t w e e n— the Mind must move a w a y, sometimes outrun thoughts everywhere erupting, mutating and seizing facts fading and reshaping— […]
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The Power to Move Stones – a poem by Juanita Havill
The wash after the storm Soggy Runnels, ruts, and caves Where the bubbly brown Instant river ran The smell of mud and death A thousand corpses Washing to lower ground Butterflies, grasshoppers, wasps Bees, horse flies, spiders Stones rearranged in new patterns Like dead butterflies in the wind Stones large and stable landmarks Disappeared Beneath […]
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PRCF Adopts New Investing Strategy
Effective this April, the Patagonia Regional Community Fund (PRCF), which provides grants to charitable organizations in Patagonia, Sonoita, Elgin and Canelo and scholarships to local students, has adopted a socially responsible, or ESG, investing strategy professionally managed by the Arizona Community Foundation (ACF). Socially responsible, or ESG, investing takes into account various environmental, social, and […]
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Local Distiller Stepping Up to Fight the Virus
Gary Ellam changed his distillery operations in early March to respond to the increased need for hand sanitizer. File Photo by Pat McNamara Since early March, even before the government declared Covid19 a national emergency, Dr. Gary Ellam, PhD, of Elgin Distillery was already converting his operation into making hand sanitizer. As a member of the […]
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Update From ‘Voices From the Border’
In light of the recent border closings, Voices From the Border (and all other humanitarian aid organizations on the US side) have ceased operations in Mexico. This means that an already marginalized and desperate population is made that much more vulnerable in incomprehensible ways (kidnapping, extortion, murder, poverty and disease). Cases of asylum are currently […]
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Mine Study Delayed
The completion of the pre-feasibility study (PFS) for the Hermosa Project in the Patagonia Mountains is now projected to be completed by the end of the third quarter of 2020, according to the mining project’s communications director, Jenny Fiore. The study was originally scheduled to be released this spring. “It’s just a matter of taking time […]
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Rumors, Reality and Responsibility
Social Distancing, Artwork by Paula Wittner The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world as we know it, but even as it brings the world together against an invisible enemy it reveals the differences in how we experience it. “I heard that we are all in the same boat,” a facebook user posted recently. “but it’s […]
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The New Normal for Local Healthcare Workers
Nurse Jenny LaDage takes a self-portrait while at work with her phone enclosed in a plastic bag to avoid contamination. Photo by Jennie La Dage When Jennie La Dage, RN, of Patagonia, comes home from working a 12-hour shift at Northwest Hospital in Tucson she takes her clothes off in the garage and puts them in a […]
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Schools Rising to the Challenge Of Distance Learning
Schools in Arizona closed on March 23 and will remain closed for this school year, but the academic year goes on. It is uncharted territory for the students, parents and teachers at a time when parents may be trying to work from home or are out of work and wondering when they’ll work again. To […]