The PRT Newsletter for the Week of May 3, 2023
Breaking News in Our Community
“We Are Artists” Opening Event a Gala Affair
Let’s Get Quizzical Draws a Large, Enthusiastic Crowd of Trivia Contestants
CHOP Celebrates Fair Housing Month
By Elvia Gallaher
When the Patagonia Town Council declared April as National Fair Housing Month, CHOP thought it a perfect opportunity to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the passage of the Fair Housing Act. We did so on the property affectionately named Gopher Field, located on 3rd Ave., between Rothrock and Pennsylvania Avenue gathering as a community. Community Homes of Patagonia (CHOP) invited everyone to celebrate Fair Housing Month with a commUNITY pot-luck picnic on Thursday, April 27, 2023. Patagonians who have been in the area for 30+ years and newly arrived residents joined the outdoor event. The evening included delicious food, good conversations, and outdoor games like cornhole, badminton, horseshoes, and oversized Jenga. Tod C. Bowden, CHOP Board President, welcomed the attendees and shared a few words. One of the main issues many people face in their desire to live in Patagonia is affordable housing. Community Homes of Patagonia (CHOP), your local grassroots nonprofit, is working on addressing affordable housing issues, by promoting awareness, and partnering with other nonprofits to help low-and-moderate income households. CHOP is raising awareness of and honoring the Act’s purpose of prohibiting discrimination in housing because of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, and family status. Together, let’s work on finding the resources, pooling our talents, and developing Gopher Field so that it can be the home of six affordable homes for low-and-moderate households. If you’re interested in helping, call (520) 394-9051 or email us at info@chopatagonia.org.
A Note From The Patagonia Museum
The Patagonia Community Cemetery Project is a collaboration between the Patagonia Museum and Doug Gann, a 3D Digital Archaeologist, to utilize a process of three dimensional (3D) digital modeling, digital photography, and oral histories to create an interactive resource of the Patagonia Cemetery and those interred there that can be shared via the Internet and the Patagonia Museum. The primary guiding principle for this effort can be summed up in the word “respect.” Respect for the persons interred, respect for the lives these people have led, and respect for the descendants alive today. This effort will not entail any financial liability to the Town of Patagonia and will include a drone survey by Doug Gann over the Patagonia Cemetery with markers embedded in the soil to create coordinates for accuracy and orientation. The Patagonia Museum will coordinate the oral history portion of the project. This effort has been made possible by generous support from Prestamos CDFI and the SCC Forgivable Loan Program. The Patagonia Museum is seeking volunteers to help with this project. If you are interested contact German at 520-343-5641 patagoniamuseumpresident@gmail.com
SCC Economic Development Survey
Santa Cruz County has kicked off the strategic planning process for its Three-Year Economic Development Strategy. As part of this exercise, we have prepared a survey in both English and Spanish to gather feedback about the business and community environment in Santa Cruz County. Here are the links for both surveys: * English: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NW7H6FR
* Spanish: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NWLWHYX The survey closes May 12, 2023.
Remember When???
The PRT has been hard at work placing online over 2,000 articles, photographs, artwork and poems from past years’ print editions of the PRT. Take a walk down memory lane with this 2019 article…
Mickey Ginsburg: AZ’s Oldest Pharmacist
By Pat McNamara
April 5, 2019
Musician, horseman, pharmacist and the oldest working pharmacy owner in Arizona, Myron (Mickey) Ginsburg, at 88, is still working at his drug store in Sonoita.
Request for Support: Patagonia/Sonoita Train Track Trail (TTT)
Proposed Trail Expansion From Casa Blanca Canyon to Sonoita. Connecting People and Community to Nature Through Trails. Click here to read more and learn how to give your support.
Upcoming Community Events
Starting in May, the PRT will be sharing a new format for upcoming community events here, in our Wednesday E-Newsletter. We will no longer be using our website Community Calendar for event sharing. Please continue to send your events with date, time, and pertinent information to prtasted@gmail.com
The annual KPUP Hawaiian Shirt Sale will start on Thursday, May 4th at 10a.m. and run daily from 10 – 4 until the luau on the 13th. 60 almost new, very high quality or really cool vintage shirts that will be on sale for $20 and the rest will be at $10. This is the number one source of income for KPUP and keeps us on the air year after year so we’re hoping you’ll come out and by a cool shirt to wear to this year’s luau!
Community Interest Items
The pool will open May 30
2023 Pool Schedule
May 30 – Aug. 2nd
Monday through Saturday 8:30 – 9:45 Lap Swim
10:00 – 11:30 Water Aerobics
11:30 – 1:00 Summer School Program (06/05-06/29)
Swim lessons (07/05- 07/28)
1:00 – 5:00 Open Swim
5:00 – 6:30 Open Swim/Lap Swim
DATE CHANGE!!
SHCC Adopt A Highway road clean up has been rescheduled for Monday May 8th. Meet at the Vine church at 8a.m.
Accompanist WANTED for the Santa Cruz Singers. Paid position. Must be able to sightread music and have advanced piano skills. Please call/text 617-645-4239 or email scfpaexec@gmail.com
Community Farmers’ Market Schedule Patagonia Farmers and Crafts Market -Thursdays 9am-12pm by Red Mountain Foods. Sonoita Farmers Market – Saturday Mornings 9am-12pm at the Sonoita Post Office parking lot (NW corner of Hwy 82/83) Sierra Vista Farmers Market – Thursday 10am-2pm at Veteran’s Memorial Park. Click here for more info. Nogales “Little” Mercado – Fridays 4-7pm 163 Morley Ave, Nogales. Click here for more info.
Gratitude Drum Circle
Meets at Patagonia Town Park by the gazebo Tuesdays 4-6pm, no experience necessary. Call 520-490-4991 for more info.
Community School Information
The Scholastic Book Fair at Elgin School will be open to the public during our Community Showcase on Friday, May 5 – 5:00-7:00 PM.
Patagonia High School is currently recruiting a High School Soccer Coach. Interested individuals can contact Nate Porter at the school for details.
E-Newsletter
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