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60 CENTS VOLUME 015 ISSUE 27Friday, February 21, 2020

A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SERVING TOMBSTONE AND THE REST OF COCHISE COUNTY WITH HONEST AND ACCURATE REPORTING

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Office of AZ Senator Kyrsten Sinema

The staff of Arizona senior

Senator Kyrsten Sinema will host Mobile Office Hours at Schieffelin Hall on Wednes-day, February 26, 2020 from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Sinema Staff Mobile Office Hours Location: Schieffelin Hall, 402 E. Fremont St. Tombstone, AZ 85638.

Sinema’s Arizona office

operates with a full team of experienced caseworkers trained to help Arizonans on issues relating to federal agencies that include the De-partment of Veterans Affairs, Social Security, Medicare, small business concerns, stu-dent loans, military benefits, IRS and tax issues, and pass-port and visa inquiries. Sine-ma’s Arizona caseworkers can be reached at 602-598-7327.

ABOUT KYRSTEN:

Kyrsten knows firsthand the challenges everyday Arizo-nans face. Born in Tucson, Kyrsten went through some tough times growing up. Her family struggled to make ends meet, and for a while they were even homeless. But they got by thanks to fam-ily, church, and hard work. Kyrsten’s childhood experi-ence showed her the power of hard work and the impor-tance of helping others.

Education was Kyrsten’s ticket to a better life. With the help of student loans, academic scholarships, and financial aid, she went to BYU and then ASU, where she now teaches as a proud Sun Devil.

After graduating, she worked with students and families in Arizona who faced some of the same chal-lenges she did. Kyrsten’s commitment to service led

her to the Arizona Legisla-ture, where she passed a law to help veterans get in–state tuition at all Arizona public universities, cracked down on sex trafficking, and advocated for children’s health care and education.

Now as Arizona’s senior Senator, Kyrsten works ev-ery day to deliver for Ari-zona families – helping vet-erans get the benefits they’ve earned, creating good–paying

jobs for Arizonans, and keep-ing Americans safe at home and abroad.

Kyrsten feels a duty to serve and give back to the commu-nities and country that gave her so much. She got her shot at the American dream, and she’ll keep working to make sure all Arizonans get theirs too.

For more information about Kyrsten visit her website at www.sinema.senate.gov/.

Sinema Staff to Host Mobile Office Hours in Tombstone

Cochise County Gov. Property owners in Cochise

County will soon receive their Free Dump Day certifi-cate, allowing them to choose when to get rid of unwanted trash.

The certificates will enable people to dispose of one load of trash, up to half a ton, on the day of their choosing over the next 12 months.

When changes to the pop-ular, long-running program were originally introduced in 2018, the certificates allowed residents to dump up to one ton (2,000 pounds). Before those changes were made, the County designated one day annually at each solid waste station where citizens could dump their trash at no cost.

This year, the County has reduced the amount allowed

to half a ton (1,000 pounds) to ensure the program remains financially viable. Amounts exceeding half a ton will be subject to the $64 per ton tip-ping fee.

Only residential property owners who live in Cochise County will receive a certifi-cate, and they must be current on their property taxes.

Certificates are due to be mailed this month and are

valid for one year from the postmarked date. They can be transferred to a property owner’s tenants, or to a neigh-bor, but cannot be redeemed by businesses. Only non-commercial vehicle, truck or trailer loads will be accepted, and the County reserves the right to reject any certificates that may appear to be dupli-cated or altered.

Residents are required to show their certificates when they dump their trash, and they can be used only once.

Damaged or lost certificates will not be replaced, and cer-tificates issued in 2018 are no longer valid.

For more information, in-cluding a list of refuse transfer station locations and hours, call (520) 803-3770 or visit https://www.cochise.az.gov/public-works/solid-waste

Cochise County provides regional leadership and ef-fective, high-quality services with personal and profes-sional integrity. Located in the southeast corner of Ari-

zona, Cochise County has natural beauty, world famous history, and a fascinating cul-ture. Covering 6,219 square miles, and with a population of approximately 130,000 people, the County provides vital services to the unincor-porated areas of the region. It is home to a diverse range of incorporated cities, including Sierra Vista, Bisbee, Benson, Douglas, Tombstone, Will-cox, and Huachuca City. Visit www.cochise.az.gov for more information.

Changes to Cochise County’s Free Dump Days

Kathleen A. KoesterA Memorial Service for

Kathy will be held Febru-ary 23, 2020, at 10:00am at the Sacred Heart Church, 594 E Safford St. Tomb-

stone, AZ. A luncheon will be held at the Tombstone American Legion, 205 E Allen St. after the ser-vices. Auxiliary Members are asked to bring a dish to pass.

By Samantha NicholasThe Tombstone News

Even though election time is fast approaching, no candi-dates have been officially put on a ballot yet.

According to the City of Tombstone, for the Mayor’s seat, the following are the ones who took out packets as of press time, our current Mayor Dustin L. Escapule,

Stephen R. McNeely, Sherry Rudd and Patrick O’Meara. Each petitioner for Mayor must turn in no less than 21 valid signatures and no more than 59.

For Ward 1, Current Coun-cilwoman Anna Salcido and local man Colin Regan took out petition packets. Ward 1 requires no less than 5 signa-tures and no more than 10. For Ward 2 current Coun-

cilman Bill R. Barlow and David E. Legas have taken out petition packets. Ward 2 requires no less than 6 signatures and no more than 11. Current Ward 3 Councilman Brian T. Davis is the only one who took out a petition for Ward 3. Ward 3 requires no less than 5 signatures and no more than 10. For Ward 4, James L. Newbauer is the

only one who took out a petition. Ward 4 requires no less than 13 signatures and no more than 27.

Petitions cannot be turned back into Tombstone City Hall until March 9, 2020. Petitions must be turned in no later than April 6, 2020 at 5:00pm. There are no valid candidates for the primary election until all the petitions have been

returned back to City Hall and verified. This will not take place until after April 6th.

The Primary Election will be held on Tuesday, August 4, 2020. The General Elec-tion will be held on Tues-day, November 3, 2020. Tombstone Citizens will be voting on the Home Rule Option in the No-vember 3 election.

The last day to request, an early ballot for the Pri-mary Election is July 24th. The last day to request, an early ballot for the General Election is October 23rd. For more information visit www.my.arizona.vote.

The Tombstone News will update our readers when candidates are of-ficially announced for the 2020 Election.

No Official Candidates in Tombstone Election Until After April 6th

Arizona Community Foundation of Cochise

The Arizona Community Foundation of Cochise in-vites representatives of local nonprofits, public schools, government agencies, and tribal entities to attend one of seven grant application work-shops. The grant workshops will equip organizations with helpful knowledge in prepar-ing for the annual competi-tive grant cycle.

Attendance is mandatory for any organization wishing to apply for a grant in 2020. Register for a workshop by visiting azfoundation.org/SoutheastAZGrants.

The same information will be presented at each grant workshop, so organizations

are encouraged to attend the one that works best with their schedule. Topics to be dis-cussed include an overview of the ACF online grants center; grant guidelines, and elements of an effective ap-plication.

The grant cycle for ACF of Cochise will open on Monday, April 6 with final applications due no later than Monday, May 4. For more information on the workshops or grant cycle, contact Regional Phil-anthropic Coordinator Colin Shannon at 520.505.3678 or [email protected].

The Arizona Community Foundation of Cochise was established in 1998 as a per-manent philanthropic en-dowment for the enduring benefit of the Cochise-area

community. This family of charitable funds is guided by a local Board of Advisors and benefits from cost-efficient, centralized professional ser-vices provided by the Arizona Community Foundation.

Established in 1978, the Arizona Community Foun-dation is a statewide family of charitable funds supported by thousands of Arizonans. With five regional offices serving communities across Arizona, ACF is among the top 25 community founda-tions in the nation with more than $960 million in trust and endowment assets, and is certified under the National Standards for U.S. Com-munity Foundations. Since inception, ACF and its affili-ates have awarded more than $783 million in grants, schol-arships, and loans to nonprof-it organizations, schools, and government agencies. More information is available at az-foundation.org.

Arizona Attorney General's Office

Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Joann Vega pleaded guilty Tues-day morning to two counts of theft, class two felonies, for her role in reporting false student enrollment at the Bradley Academy of Excellence a.k.a. Discovery Creemos Academy. The false reporting resulted in a loss of approximately $2.5 million in taxpayer funds mostly provided by the Arizona Department of Education. The U.S. De-partment of Education, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture also overfunded

the school as a result of the fraud.

Daniel Hughes, the Chair-man and Director of the Bradley Academy, Harold Cadiz, the Principal, and Joann Vega, the Vice Princi-pal, were all concerned with falling enrollment numbers due to student attrition. To keep the doors open, the three agreed to provide false student profiles to the State to replace students who left the school to maintain funding levels. The investigation discovered that during the 2016-2017 academic year, Bradley Acad-emy reported approximately 191 fake students to the Ari-zona Department of Educa-tion. During the 2017-2018

academic year, the number of fake students reported in-creased to approximately 453. The Bradley Academy closed abruptly in January of 2018, ahead of a random audit from the Arizona Department of Education. After being pro-vided fraudulent student data, Vega entered the information into the Arizona Department of Education’s Synergy pro-gram for enrolled students.

Under the plea agree-ment, Vega may be sentenced to seven years of supervised probation or between 2 and 8.75 years in prison, followed by a period of supervised probation up to seven years. Vega is the third and final individual to plead guilty for her role in this fraud. A sen-tencing hearing for Vega is scheduled for April 24, 2020 at 9:30 AM.

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Cochise County Sheriffs Dept.

Our deepest condolences to the family of Officer Kelly-wood of the White Mountain Apache Police Department who was killed in the line of duty, and to his brothers and sisters in blue our profound sadness at your loss in un-speakable.

Officer Kellywood was killed in the line of duty on Monday while responding to a report of gunshots fired south of Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona at the Hon-Dah Resort Casino. Kellywood struggled with the suspect before getting shot. The sus-pect was later shot and killed by a second officer on scene.

Officer Kellywood joined the department nine months ago after graduating from the police academy. Born in McNary, Arizona, Officer Kellywood was a member of

the White Mountain Apache Tribe. Kellywood was only 26 years old. He leaves behind a wife and two small children.

“Arizona mourns the death of Officer David Kellywood of the White Mountain Apache Police Department,” said Governor Doug Ducey. “This heartbreaking loss is another reminder of the danger our law enforcement officers face every day to keep others safe. Our prayers are with Officer Kellywood’s wife, children and loved ones as well as the White Mountain Apache Tribe.”

Sheriff Dannels added, “This is such a needless loss of life for our young shining stars who put their dedication for keeping the peace above all else. We will be ever more vigilant in keeping our own Deputies safe and our com-munities secure.”

God Speed Officer Kelly-wood...

White Mountain Apache Police Officer Killed in Line of Duty

ACF of Cochise to Host Grant Application Workshops For Local Nonprofits

Former Vice Principal of Closed Arizona Charter School Pleads Guilty to Theft

2Other News Th e Tombstone News Friday, February 21, 2020

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Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Harold Cadiz pleaded guilty Friday morning to two counts of theft, class two felonies, for his role in reporting false stu-dent enrollment at the Brad-ley Academy of Excellence a.k.a Discovery Creemos Academy. Th e false reporting resulted in an approximately $2.2 million loss to the Ari-zona Department of Educa-tion, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. De-partment of Agriculture.

Th e Bradley Academy was failing fi nancially due to low

enrollment numbers. To avoid reduced payments from the State, the Bradley Acad-emy of Excellence “enrolled” fake students. Th e investiga-tion discovered that during the 2016-2017 academic year, Bradley Academy reported approximately 191 fake stu-dents to the Arizona Depart-ment of Education. During the 2017-2018 academic year, the number of fake students reported rose to approximate-ly 453. Th e Bradley Academy closed abruptly in January of 2018, ahead of a random audit from the Arizona De-

partment of Education. In preparation for that audit, Cadiz created hundreds of fraudulent documents to sup-port fake students includ-ing photoshopped parents’ driver licenses, student birth certifi cates, and student shot records.

Under the plea agreement, Cadiz faces between 3 and 12.5 years in prison, followed by a period of supervised pro-bation up to seven years. A sentencing hearing is sched-uled for March 27, 2020 at 9:30 AM.

Cadiz is the second indi-

vidual to plead guilty for his role in this fraud. In Novem-ber of 2018, Daniel Hughes, the Chairman and Direc-tor of the Bradley Academy, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and theft. A sentencing date for Hughes has not been scheduled yet.

In January 2019, Harold Cadiz and Joann Vega were indicted for their alleged roles in the approximately $2.2 million fraud.

Th e case against the other defendant, Joann Vega, is on-going.

All defendants are pre-sumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Assis-tant Attorney General Mary Harriss is prosecuting this case.

Employee of Former Goodyear Charter School Pleads Guilty to Theft

U.S. Border Patrol agents working near Tucson’s west-ern city limits arrested fi ve il-legal aliens and a U.S. citizen Th ursday morning.

During an immigration stop around 8 a.m., Tucson Sector agents discovered four Guatemalans, and one Mexi-can national, hiding in a Nis-san Altima.

Border agents discovered illegal aliens hidden inside of a vehicle stopped west of Tucson on Th ursday.

All fi ve men were illegally present in the United States. Four were packed into the vehicle’s trunk while the fi fth lying on the fl oor of the vehi-cle’s back seat.

Th e dangerous tactic of smuggling humans in a trunk is an ongoing trend. It dem-onstrates the lack of value smuggling organizations place on the lives of illegal aliens.

Agents seized the vehicle and arrested the driver, a

U.S. citizen who is being held in custody on federal human smuggling charges. Th e fi ve illegal aliens will be processed for immigration violations.

U.S. Border Patrol offi cials warn that placing humans in a vehicle’s trunk or bed can be extremely dangerous. Th e risks, including carbon mon-oxide poisoning and serious injury or death in the event of a vehicle collision, increase when people are hidden in compartments to avoid de-tection by law enforcement offi cials.

For more details regarding this news release, contact the Tucson Sector Public Aff airs

Offi ce at [email protected] or by phone at 520-748-3210. Tucson Sector is also LiveU capable. Contact us to schedule an interview.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unifi ed border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation’s borders at and between of-fi cial ports of entry. CBP is charged with securing the borders of the Unit-ed States while enforcing hundreds of laws and fa-cilitating lawful trade and travel.

BP Stops Human Smuggling on Tucson’s Far West Side

Th e Arizona Department of Gaming (ADG) an-nounced today $29,111,078 in tribal gaming contributions to the Arizona Benefi ts Fund for the State’s second quarter of fi scal year (FY) 2020. Th is amount represents an 8.3 per-cent increase when compared to same quarter of FY2019.

“Th e gaming partner-ship between the State of Arizona and Arizona’s tribes has yielded 11 consecutive quarterly increases in tribal gaming contributions to the State,” said Ted Vogt, Di-rector, Arizona Department of Gaming. “As this strong upward trend continues, so does the State’s ability to con-tinue to serve the needs of our growing communities.”

Tribal gaming contribu-tions to the Arizona Ben-efi ts Fund for the second quarter of State FY2020 follow: Instructional Im-provement Fund/Education: $14,508,961, Trauma and Emergency Services Fund: $7,254,481, Arizona Depart-ment of Gaming operating costs: $2,619,997, Arizona Wildlife Conservation Fund:

$2,072,709, Tourism Fund: $2,072,709, Problem Gam-bling Education, Treatment and Prevention: $582,221, FY2020 Q2 Total: Tribal Gaming Contributions to the Arizona Benefi ts Fund: $29,111,078.

Per the Arizona Tribal-State Gaming Compact, Tribes with casinos contribute 1 to 8 percent of their Class III gross gaming revenue to the state, cities, towns and counties. Currently, there are 24 Class III casinos in Ari-zona, which ADG regulates with Arizona tribes.

About ADG: Established by the Arizona State Legisla-ture in 1995, ADG is the state regulatory agency for tribal gaming, racing and pari-mutuel/simulcast wa-gering, and unarmed combat sports. ADG also provides and supports education, prevention and treatment programs for people and families aff ected by problem gambling through its Divi-sion of Problem Gambling and 24-hour confi dential helpline, 1-800-NEXT-STEP.

ADG Reports $29.1 Million Tribal Gaming Contributions to the State for the Second

Quarter of Fiscal Year 2020

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On February, 14, 2020, Harold Cadiz, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft and will be sentenced on March 27, 2020. Cadiz created hundreds of fraudulent documents to support fake students includ-ing photoshopped parents’ driver licenses, student birth certifi cates, and student shot records. Cadiz faces between 3 and 12.5 years in prison, followed by a period of super-vised probation up to seven years.

In November of 2018, Dan-

iel Hughes pleaded guilty to conspiracy and theft. Hughes pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy, a class 2 felony, and faces between 3 and 12.5 years in prison. A sentencing date for Hughes has not been scheduled yet.

Th e defendants will be or-dered to pay in restitution $2.2 million to the State of Arizona, $91,000 to U.S. Department of Education, and $230,000 to U.S. De-partment of Agriculture. Assistant Attorney General Mary Harriss is prosecuting this case.

The Washington Monu-ment is an obelisk on the Na-tional Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army (1775–1784), in the American Revolutionary War and the first President of the United States (1789–1797). Located almost due east of the Re-flecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial, the monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, is both the world’s tallest predominant-ly stone structure and the world’s tallest obelisk, stand-ing 554 feet 7 11 ⁄32 inches tall according to the U.S. Na-tional Geodetic Survey.

Construction of the monu-ment began in 1848 and was halted for a period of 23 years, from 1854 to 1877 due to a lack of funds, a struggle for control over the Washington National Monument Society, and the American Civil War. Although the stone struc-ture was completed in 1884, internal ironwork, the knoll, and installation of memorial stones were not completed until 1888. A difference in shading of the marble, vis-ible approximately 150 feet or 27% up, shows where con-struction was halted and later resumed with marble from a different source. The original design was by Robert Mills of South Carolina, but he did

not include his proposed col-onnade due to a lack of funds, proceeding only with a bare obelisk. The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848; the first stone was laid atop the un-finished stump on August 7, 1880; the capstone was set on December 6, 1884; the com-pleted monument was dedi-cated on February 21, 1885; and officially opened October 9, 1888.

The interior is occupied by iron stairs that spiral up the walls, with an elevator in the center, each supported by four iron columns, which do not support the stone struc-ture. The stairs contain fifty sections, most on the north and south walls, with many long landings stretching be-tween them along the east and west walls. These land-ings allowed many inscribed memorial stones of various materials and sizes to be eas-ily viewed while the stairs were accessible (until 1976), plus one memorial stone be-tween stairs that is difficult to view. The pyramidion has eight observation windows, two per side, and eight red aircraft warning lights, two per side. Two aluminum lightning rods connected via the elevator support columns to ground water protect the monument. At the northeast corner of the foundation, 21 feet below ground, is the marble cornerstone, includ-ing a zinc case filled with memorabilia. Fifty American flags f ly on a large circle of poles centered on the monu-ment. In 2001, a temporary screening facility was added to the entrance to prevent a terrorist attack. An earth-quake in 2011 slightly dam-aged the monument, and it was closed until 2014. It was closed again for elevator system repairs, security up-grades, and mitigation of soil contamination from August 2016 to September 2019.

ALSO ON FEBRUARY 21ST:

1595-The Jesuit poet Rob-ert Southwell is hanged for “treason,” being a Catholic.

1631-Michael Romanov, son of the Patriarch of Mos-

cow, is elected Russian Tsar.1775-As troubles with

Great Britain increase, colo-nists in Massachusetts vote to buy military equipment for 15,000 men.

1797-Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to the British.

1828-The first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is printed, both in English and in the newly invented Cherokee al-phabet.

1849-In the Second Sikh War, Sir Hugh Gough’s well placed guns win a victory over a Sikh force twice the size of his at Gujerat on the Chenab River, assuring Brit-ish control of the Punjab for years to come.

1862-The Texas Rangers win a Confederate victory in the Battle of Val Verde, New Mexico.

1878-The world’s first tele-phone book is issued by the New Haven Connecticut Telephone Company con-taining the names of its 50 subscribers.

1905-The Mukden cam-paign of the Russo-Japanese War, begins.

1916-The Battle of Verdun begins with an unprecedent-ed German artillery barrage of the French lines.

1940-The Germans begin construction of a concentra-tion camp at Auschwitz.

1944-Hideki Tojo becomes chief of staff of the Japanese army.

1949-Nicaragua and Costa Rica sign a friendship treaty ending hostilities over their borders.

1951-The U. S. Eighth Army launches Operation Killer, a counterattack to push Chinese forces north of the Han River in Korea.

1956-A grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama in-dicts 115 in a Negro bus boy-cott.

1960-Havana places all Cuban industry under direct control of the government.

1965-El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcom X) is as-sassinated in front of 400 people.

1972-Richard Nixon ar-rives in Beijing, China, be-coming the first U.S. presi-dent to visit a country not diplomatically recognized by the U.S.

1974-A report claims that the use of defoliants by the U.S. has scarred Vietnam for a century.

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The Tombstone News Friday, February 21, 2020

Today in History: February 21stFebruary 21, 1885-The Washington Monument is

dedicated in Washington, D.C.By Ben T. TraywickWorld Renowned Author

Continued from last weekThe stud had with him a

harem of mares that he had stolen from nearby ranches. All of them were fairly tame, and did not try too hard to escape. Since the stallion re-fused, to leave his mares, Nate was able to rope him with a minimum of difficulty.

He took the stallion into Luning to find a message from his family in Oakland requesting that he return at once. It was 1913 and the quickest way to get there was by horseback. About daybreak the following morning Nate saddled the wild horse he had captured, climbed aboard and set out for Wellington. At dusk that evening he had cov-ered a total of six miles, but he was still on the big horse. After that first day man and horse understood each other better and made good time.

In Placerville (Hangtown) Nate stabled his horse and took a room in the Ohio House. Within two hours the bedbugs ran him out. He slept the remainder of the night in the stable with his horse.

Reaching Sacramento, Nate decided to take a riv-erboat to San Francisco. He booked passage for himself and the stallion on the Delta Queen. The horse was lifted onto the boat deck with boom and cable. Wild until a few days past, such an experience terrified the horse. When his flailing hoofs touched the deck he kicked up such a rumpus that all the deck-hands jumped overboard.

The cobblestone streets of San Francisco were also a great mystery to the horse as he slid and slipped over them. Nate and the horse rode the ferry over to Oakland, and he swears that the stallion never spooked at anything or ever bucked again.

While he was in Oakland, Nate was captivated by the fire engines of the city and the wild-eyed horses that gal-loped thru the streets pulling them. He applied for and was given a job as hoseman, assigned to one of the horse drawn steamers.

Nate likes to recollect that the fireman had the horses trained and the harnesses rigged so that at the sound of an alarm they went into action and were rolling thru the streets in the unbelievable time of 26 seconds.

His first year with the fire department Nate made a $100 a month; the second, $110; and the third year he was promoted to engineer at a salary of $115 & month. Once a month the pay wagon arrived, with two paymasters, escorted by three policemen, to pay the fireman in gold coin.

Disaster struck Nate Hig-gins, In 1941, in the form of a heart attack. Retired on dis-ability, the doctor told him not to walk, lift, or do any-thing that required effort. For six, long, slow weeks Nate did just that on his ranch in the foothills. Then he could en-dure inactivity no longer. In the corral, he had a fine three year old colt that had never been broken. For a start Nate broke that horse and has been going strong since.

Ranching occupied his time for a number of years. In 1960 he decided that a bet-ter beef steer was needed and a year later he found what he wanted. Traveling to Colo-rado he purchased a bull and three cows, all Beefmasters, from cowman, Tom Lassiter. On his return trip, with the cattle, Nate named the bull, Jim Bridger, after the famous mountain man.

The Beefmaster is a three way cross of Hereford-Bra-hama and Shorthorn, and the result of thirty-five years of careful and selective cross-breeding. These fine beef cat-tle, brought from Colorado by Kate Higgins, were the first Beefmasters in El Do-rado County.

Misfortune again came to Nate in 1963; he contacted pneumonia. Though he recov-ered he never fully regained his strength, and now his arthritis plagued him more than ever before. As a result he was unable to take care of his cattle so they had to go. Of his entire herd he retained only three baby calves.

These three calves Nate raised like they were human babies. He maintains that they are just like real babies and must be taught and talk-ed to just like children. And that’s just the way Nate raised them.

As the calves grew older Nate broke them to halter, to lead, to stand, taught them to pull a sled, a cart, to step over objects and to pick their way thru an obstacle course. At the age of three he started to ride them.

Today these steers and their master are truly unbelievable. One of the animals is a full-blooded Beefmaster, the oth-er two are half-breeds.

To be continued next week

A Man on a Steer

Farm SaleBy George LenningtonGuest Writer

It was a sale of house and barn contents, not the farm itself. The owner is a city man, who tried to do dairy farming but found out there was more to it than he had thought. He had a big furni-ture store in the city. He had read about big money in dairy farming and was going to show us country people how to do it. But even with a col-lege graduate and hired help (didn’t want to get his hands dirty or get up early) it did not go. He sold the livestock first, now the rest of the stuff.

It was a good summer day. The dairy business had been good that past year, so he had lots of people at the sale. Ev-erything sold for good prices, the house furniture was all good, going for high prices. Having the furniture store in the city and using the farm-house himself he had slipped in more than usual at the farm sale.

While living in the farm house, the owner had hired someone to do a remodeling job inside. The trash from this work was stored in a shed. It was a collection of molding and splintered boards, most with varnish on it and nails in it. The auctioneer had tried to sell it, but no takers. When he asked for bids, father bid 2 dollars. It was sold to father who paid for it at the cashier and got a receipt for it. The

next day, father called Carl Lanee, who had a big flat bed dump truck. Father and us four boys went in our car, fol-lowing Carl at the farm, Carl backed up to the shed and we started to load. An older man came out of the house, told us he was the care taker. The owner had left word for us to not move the lumber. He wanted more money. Fa-ther looked at him, told him we paid for this trash and had the receipt. Well the caretaker said he had been told what to tell us then he left. We went on loading the truck. Carl took the lumber back to our farm and dumped it near the buzz saw. We kids got busy pulling nails and putting them in an old pail. Stacking the lumber near the saw, there were very few good pieces in the load.

Well, a week went by, fa-ther received a certified let-ter to settle with a lawyer for three hundred dollars by the end of next week for this lumber or he would be taken into court. Our next-door neighbor, a good friend, was excited about this letter and told father to let him handle it. Father and the neighbor who was a lawyer, went to the office of the lawyer who had sent this letter. He showed the lawyer the letter and told him, if you are doing this on a percentage base you are going to lose money. If you are being paid money to take this case, take it and get what you are getting paid, but you will still lose. When he asked father’s lawyer why he was so sure, he

said “I am a lawyer; I was at the sale in question so I will be a witness for him. He had bid on the lumber; the cashier had taken the money and gave him a receipt. The own-er had made no objections at that time.” That was the last we had heard about it.

Time went by. Two big moving vans went by Fathers farm to this city farmer’s farm. He had advertised a big furniture sale for the follow-ing week at the farm. It was another nice fall day. He had a lot of beautiful furniture in the house and on the lawn. Very few people came. When it came time to start the sale, someone told the auctioneer what had happened the last time. The auctioneer said he had not heard of that. He immediately started the sale. When he got only a low bid, he sold. The same for the next two pieces of furniture. The owner came running up yell-ing “STOP THE SALE!” The auctioneer told him he would stop when he got the money he had agreed upon for him to do the sale. The owner was mighty red in the face but paid. All the people left. Another day went by and one big moving van went by going back out. I don’t know what he had done with the rest but I wonder if the owner still things us country people are stupid.

George Lennington lives in Tombstone, Arizona, and is 93 years young. He spends his time walking around town in his straw hat with posies, and going to the library where he

Editorial: Neglect of Arizona Schools’ Capital Needs

Violates Constitution

By Daniel Adelman, Josh Bendor, and Mary O’Grady

School districts all over Ar-izona are challenged today by aging schools and inadequate funds to repair or replace them. Th is is a major problem for our educators and for the children they teach—and it is a violation of the Arizona Constitution, which requires the State to maintain a “gen-eral and uniform” system of public schools.

We’ve faced this prob-lem before. In the 1990’s, a school district’s ability to have decent buildings, text-books, and computers de-pended almost entirely on whether it could pass bonds and overrides. Kids in dis-tricts with little property wealth or with voters who wouldn’t pass bonds were left behind. After years of litigation, the Arizona Su-preme Court held that this system violated the Arizona Constitution.

As a result, the Legis-lature eventually enacted legislation called Students FIRST to fix this problem. Students FIRST provided money to fix the disrepair that had built up over the years, take care of buildings going forward, build new schools in growing districts, and buy “soft capital” items like textbooks, computers, and buses.

Unfortunately, the State

has broken the promise of Students FIRST. It elimi-nated a “Building Renewal” program designed to give schools funds to take care of their buildings, and replaced it with a bureaucratic grant program with paltry funding that is only available after a building system (like a roof or air conditioning unit) has failed. The State also ignored its statutory duty to inspect schools; slashed funding for textbooks, computers, and buses; stopped updating its facilities, security, and tech-nology standards (used to de-termine funding); and made the program for new school construction a shadow of its former self, providing too little funding and delaying what funding there was un-til after districts were already overcapacity for years.

By 2017, schools had been devastated by these years of neglect. Once again, districts had to ask their voters to ap-prove bonds so they could do basic things like replace aging air conditioners and buses, fi x faulty roofs, and make schools safe for our children and their teachers. In districts that could not pass bonds, kids rode aging buses to schools that had di-lapidated classrooms, outdat-ed textbooks and technology, and no ability to adopt even basic security features.

Th at was why, in 2017, our clients – four school districts, three education organiza-tions, and a taxpayer – sued the State. Over the last two years, we’ve taken almost 50 depositions and collected a mountain of evidence. Th e picture has been remarkably

consistent. Even many of the State’s witnesses admit that the State provides inadequate funding to keep school fa-cilities from falling below basic standards.

Th e State has responded by addressing a few of the problems. The mas-sive cuts to the fund-ing source for textbooks, computers, and buses (so-called “District Additional Assistance”) are finally being restored. That is progress. However, it does not make up for the huge cumulative impact of the previous cuts or the fact that District Additional As-sistance has not been adjusted for infl ation in over 20 years.

Nor does it make up for these facts:

•Th e new school construc-tion program provides only half of what it costs to build a new school;

•Th e State’s facilities, se-curity, and technology stan-

dards haven’t been meaning-fully updated since 1998;

•Funding to repair facilities is inadequate and unavailable until after a responsible dis-trict would have already fi xed the problem.

Until the Governor and the Legislature solve these prob-lems, local taxpayers will be stuck footing the bill for ba-sic needs, our kids in districts without bonds will be left behind, and the State will continue to violate its Con-stitutional responsibility to provide a uniform system of public education.

Daniel Adelman is the ex-ecutive director of the Ari-zona Center for Law in the Public Interest. Josh Bendor and Mary O’Grady are part-ners in the Phoenix law fi rm of Osborn Maledon P.A. All three are counsel for the plaintiff s in the capital fund-ing lawsuit, Glendale El-ementary School District v. State of Arizona.

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“I liked him better when he was worse.” That was my reaction to the second trailer for “Sonic the Hedgehog” last November. The film had been pulled from a Novem-ber release after horrible re-actions to its first trailer the previous April. There was no shortage of complaints about the first trailer, but most cen-tered around the design of the title character, and the uncanny valley effect attrib-uted to his “realistic” eyes, teeth, and limbs. The film was pulled so the character could be given a complete re-design. The version I saw in the trailer last November, as well as in the feature this past weekend, makes Sonic’s fea-tures more exaggerated and cartoon-like, which is what people want in a cartoon. It’s a good decision that makes the film’s appearance much more palatable. And to me,

it completely ruins the appeal of the film.

That first trailer gave me some of the heartiest laughs I had in all of 2019, cinematic or otherwise. To be clear, those laughs had absolutely nothing to do with the trail-er’s jokes or anything that was supposed to be funny. No, I was taking joy in the monumental badness of the film, including the character design, yes, but also Jim Car-rey coming off as miserable for having to give a throw-back performance, the inap-propriate choice of “Gang-sta’s Paradise” as a theme song, and of course the utter lameness of every single gag. Correcting the design and removing the song are unde-niably relative improvements, but it still leaves the film with an unfunny script and a lousy Carrey performance. This is a bad movie that couldn’t even retain its special flavor of bad.

Sonic the Hedgehog is best known as the speedy hero of a video game that I could never play because I could never figure out how to get the character to curl up into a ball and roll. The film sees Sonic

(voiced by Ben Schwartz, the sole animated character in an otherwise live-action movie) exiled from his home planet to Earth, which he likes, even though he has to live in secret. If he’s caught, he can only escape by fleeing to a mushroom planet that he hates (perhaps a dig at the rival “Super Mario” fran-chise?). One night while con-templating his loneliness, he causes a disaster that attracts the attention of the U.S. gov-ernment, who employ the evil Dr. Robotnik (Carrey) to track him down. Sonic is about to use his magic rings to escape to the mushroom planet, but local police officer Tom (James Marsden) causes him to unwittingly trans-port the rings to San Fran-cisco. Tom and Sonic have to travel from Washington to San Francisco to retrieve the rings, all while evading Robotnik, who’s evil in a pretty non-specific way. Se-riously, I have no idea if his goal is to kill or capture Sonic, or what he’d do with him if he captured him. We just know he’s the bad guy because he’s doing leftover Riddler schtick from 1995.

This movie is such a bland drag. The road trip aspect is completely forced as the movie has to keep coming up with reasons why Sonic can’t just run to San Francisco, from tranquilizers to inju-ries to not knowing the way (just look at a map as quickly as you do everything else!). The action is rarely engaging because Sonic is naturally so much more powerful than Robotnik. The verbal humor usually lands with a thud, save for one notable line from Robotnik about being an or-phan, and the visual humor is largely ripped off from the Quicksilver sequences from the “X-Men” movies. And yet, the animation is pretty good, Schwartz gives life to the character, and there’s an adorable sequence with a tur-tle that I rather liked. I can’t give “Sonic the Hedgehog” the trashing I was prepared to give it last April, just an unmemorable, unenjoyable, unsatisfying trashing. “Sonic the Hedgehog” is rated PG for action, some violence, rude humor and brief mild language. Its running time is 99 minutes. Contact Bob Garver at [email protected].

Weekly Movie Review:

“Sonic the Hedgehog” GRADE: C-

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5. Which English King was crowned on Christmas day?

6. It was illegal from 1300 to 1500 for Englishmen to have 3

what’s a day?

7. In 1977 Hamida Djandoubi was the last person to be what in France?

8. Whose last words were, “Clito I owe a rooster to Asclepius”?

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2020, February 28, 2020, March 6, 2020.

Legal Notices/News The Tombstone News Friday, February 21, 2020

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LEGAL NOTICES

Federal Bureau of Investigations

It was 20 years ago on Feb-ruary 14th that Asha De-gree, a shy 9-year-old North Carolina girl, went missing in the middle of the night. The spirited fourth-grader’s disappearance in 2000 shook her rural community of Shel-by and remains an enduring mystery, even as police, the FBI, and her family continue to actively search for clues.

“After 20 years, I still be-lieve my daughter is alive,” said Iquilla Degree, who, with her husband Harold, still harbors hope that Asha (pronounced Ay-shuh) might find her way home. “I do not believe she is dead. And I know someone knows some-thing. I’m not crazy enough to think that a 9-year-old can disappear into thin air without somebody knowing something.”

The case remains an open investigation, with a local de-tective reviewing leads—old and new—and FBI inves-tigators from the Charlotte Field Office consolidating and combing through case files for unexplored patterns or clues. Like Asha’s mother, investigators believe someone in area may hold the key that could unlock the case.

“We strongly believe that there is someone out there that may have a piece of in-formation that will help her,” said Cleveland County Sher-iff’s Office Detective Tim Adams, who came out of re-tirement in 2014 to lead the department’s probe. In 2015, the sheriff’s office teamed up with the FBI and the North Carolina State Bureau of In-vestigation in a top-to-bot-tom re-examination of the case, which has since gener-ated more than 350 leads, in-cluding 45 in the past year.

“The fact that it was a small child that left on Valentine’s Day really caught everybody’s heart in this community,” Det. Adams said. “She’s been called Shelby’s Sweetheart, because she’s a child that’s one of our own that has gone missing, and we want to find out what happened to her.”

What is known from the earliest hours of the investiga-tion is that Asha disappeared from her bedroom sometime between about 2:30 a.m. on February 14, 2000, when Harold checked on Asha and her older brother, and 6:30 a.m., when Iquilla went in to wake the kids for school. There was no sign of forced entry and no promising scent trail for search dogs to follow. That afternoon, investigators received at least two separate reports from individuals who said they saw a young female walking along Highway 18, in the opposite direction of the Degrees’ home, around 4 a.m. One person said they went back to check on the girl but she had left the road-way and disappeared into the woods.

“That was the last time anyone had a sighting of Asha that had actually been con-firmed,” Det. Adams said.

On August 3, 2001, some 30 miles north of the last sighting, construction work-ers digging an access road for a new home in neighboring Burke County found a book bag that belonged to Asha. Inside was a concert T-shirt featuring boy band New Kids On The Block and a children’s book, McElligot’s Pool, by Dr. Seuss. Neither belonged to Asha, though the book was from the library at Asha’s school, Fallston Elementary. Investigators released images of the shirt and book in 2018, hoping to jog the memories of people who may have help-ful information.

The 2015 re-investigation also turned up another pos-sible lead: Asha may have been seen getting into a dark green 1970s-model Lincoln Continental Mark IV or Ford Thunderbird with rust around the wheel wells. The FBI publicly announced the potential lead in 2016 and released images of the ve-hicle models.

“We encourage anybody out there that if they have any information—no matter how small or minor it may seem—it might be extremely crucial to further us getting one step closer to Asha,” said FBI Special Agent Michael Gregory, who is leading the case now for the Bureau. “We will continue to pursue all avenues to find out what circumstances led to her disappearance, and we will continue to pursue this case at all costs.”

Working with the Na-tional Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the FBI has released multiple age-progressed photos of Asha, including a new version this month showing what Asha may look like now as a 29-year-old. The FBI is offer-ing a $25,000 reward on top of $20,000 set aside by the Cleveland County Sheriff’s Office and the community. Three years ago, the FBI de-ployed its Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team, which spent more than a week on location and gen-erated still more leads and interview prospects.

“Although Asha left her

house 20 years ago, we treat it as if it happened yester-day,” said Jeanine Merritt, an FBI intelligence analyst who has worked the case since 2014, bringing reams of 20-year-old paperwork from disparate offices and investigations into a single searchable database. “We’re constantly accepting new leads. We’re constantly sift-ing through new data.”

There are few clues about why Asha left her house on Valentine’s Day, which is also her parents’ wedding anniversary. If she was upset about her poor performance at a basketball game the Sat-urday before her disappear-ance (she fouled out and her team lost by one point), it seemed to have dissipated by the next morning, when the family went together to church and Sunday school. Still, it was a crushing loss for Asha, her mom said, leading Iquilla, Harold, and investigators to wonder if it may have spurred the com-petitive, intelligent 9-year-old to hatch some unknown plan.

“Apparently, she packed her bag prior to leaving, but the contents—from what we can tell—looked like some-thing a child would pack rather than her parents pre-paring her for an overnight stay,” Det. Adams said.

For Asha’s family, prayers and hope have sustained them for the last 20 years, but they need answers. Iquilla appealed directly to anyone who may have been involved in her daughter’s fate to come forward and unburden themselves.

“That’s my prayer every night, that God will get into their heart and let them come forward, because it’s got to be a weight on them,” she said.

Iquilla was seated beside Harold, clutching a photo album full of pictures of Asha.

“We’re hoping and we’re praying that she’s had a half-way decent life even though we didn’t get to raise her,” she said. “She was 9 years old, and she’ll be 30 this year. So we’ve missed every-thing. But I don’t care. If she walked in the door right now, I wouldn’t care what I missed. All I want to do is see her.”

Clues Sought in Case of 9-Year-Old Who Disappeared 20 Years Ago

Asha Degree was 9 years old when she disappeared on February 14, 2000. An age-progressed photo

shows what she might look today.

The Tombstone News Friday, February 21, 20208

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2020 EVENTS:Tombstone Quilt Show:

February 1 through Febru-ary 28, 2020 Tombstone Art Gallery - OPEN DAILY 9:30 am – 4:30 pm Free Admis-sion http://tombstoneart-gallery.com. (520) 457-2380.

Annual Vigilante Days: February 15, 2020-February 16, 2020. There will be plenty of street entertainment from 10:00AM to 4:00PM daily.

Annual Wild West Days: Salute to the Troops, March 14, 2020-March 15, 2020. Sponsored by the Wild West Detachment Marine Corps League and the Merchants of the City of Tombstone! For more information or a Parade Application call (520) 266-5266 or [email protected].

Annual Rose Tree Parade and Festival: April 11th through the 12th. The 2020 event celebrates the 135th blooming of the World’s Largest Rose Tree. It promises to be a fun-filled weekend for the whole fam-ily. The public is invited to participate in all of the ac-tivities. For more informa-tion contact the Rose Tree Museum at (520) 457-3326.

Annual Wyatt Earp Days: May 23, 2020, May 25, 2020. See the “Old Wild West” come alive with a weekend honoring Tombstone’s most notable and legendary law-man Wyatt Earp. This event is sponsored by the Tombstone Lions Club and it will feature three full days of continuous “Action Packed” street entertain-ment starting at 10:00 A.M. For additional information contact W.F. “Bronco Bill” Pakinkis at (520)266-5266 or Pat Kelly at (520) 457-8012.

Tombstone 4th of July: July 4, 2020, Fireworks at dusk at Medigovitch Ball Field. More activities to be announced.

The Annual DOC Holli-DAYS: August 7, 2020-Au-gust 9, 2020. Visit www.theannualdochollidays.com for more information. More info to be announced.

Annual Showdown in Tombstone: September 5, 2020-September 6, 2020. There will be street enter-tainment from 10:00AM to 4:00PM daily, at Allen St and 4th St. If you would like to participate this event, please give us a call at (520) 457 3434 for more info.

Wyatt Earp Vendetta Ride: Oct 11th-16th. Join us as we ride Wyatt’s Trail of Retribution Our five-day historic Tombstone, Arizo-na horseback ride and tour will focus on Wyatt Earp’s Vendetta Ride of March/April 1882.

Annual Helldorado Days: October 16, 2020-October 18, 2020. Helldorado Days is a festival that began in Tombstone in 1929 and is held every year in October. Check out the most rip-roar-ing celebration in Tomb-stone during Helldorado Days! Helldorado is held ev-ery third weekend in Octo-ber and consists of gunfight re-enactment shows, street entertainment, fashion shows and more. In addition, come and watch the Annual Helldorado Parade on Sun-day at 11am.

ENTERTAINMENTAmerican Legion: Thurs-

day night is Karaoke with Mike Reeves 5:00p.m.-8:30 p.m. Café Legionnaires is now open!

Big Nose Kate’s: Live en-tertainment daily! Monday-Thursday starting at 12noon is Raleigh Jay, Friday-Sun-day starting at 12noon is Mick.Karaoke with Dave Thursdays starting at 7pm.Bands on Friday and Satur-

day nights starting at 7 pm. Crystal Palace: Karaoke

Tuesdays starting at 7p.m. Fri. and Sat., live music starting at 7:30p.m.

Johnny Ringo’s Bar: Open 7 days a week, Tuesdays and Wednesdays open from 2pm-10pm. Delivering piz-zas Friday Saturday and Sunday from 6pm-11pm.

GUNFIGHTS & SHOWSThe Gunfight Palace: We

give you a magnificent history lesson and reenact actual shootings & kill-ings that took place here back in the wild days as well as their back stories. Let us take you back in time, starting with the Apache Indians, the Mexi-can-American War, the Army’s influence, the sil-ver mining and of course...the gunfights! Live Histori-cal Reenactments Daily: 11:00, 12:30, 2:30. 524 Allen Street. 520.508.5736.

SASS-Cowboy Action Shooting Matches: First Sunday and Second and third Saturday of the month: Cowboy Mounted Shooting Practice, first Saturday and third Sunday. For more in-formation call 457-3559. tombstonelivery@msn. com.

Helldorado Town Shows: 11:45, 1:15 and 3 p.m. seven days a week; $7 adults, $5 children 6-12; Fourth and Toughnut.

OK Corral: Shows everyday at 12pm, 2pm and 3:30pm. Tickets available at the OK Corral.

Tombstone Vigilantes: entertain the second, fourth and fifth Sundays of each month starting just before 12:00 noon on alternate locations of Allen Street and perform skits every 15 minutes from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. 457-3434.

Tombstone Vigilettes: Fashion show every sec-ond, fourth & fifth Sun-day of the month; free; Allen Street.

HISTORIC TOURS & MUSEUMS

Birdcage Theatre: In 1881 the Bird Cage was the most famous honky-tonk in America. The New York Times referred to it as the wildest, wickedest night spot be-tween Basin Street and the Barbary Coast op-erating 24 hours a day through the 1880’s of-fering gambling, drink-ing, risqué entertainment and the best well known ladies of the night. This created an unspeakable reputation for this opera house saloon. 140 bullet holes from 16 shootings adorn its walls, ceilings and floors, giving mute evidence that represents much of Tombstone’s no-torious past. Preserved to-day in its original state, this unique site remains a time tunnel of a bygone era. Be prepared to step back into time. An unforgettable memory of the Old Wild West. Open daily 9a.m.-6p.m. with night time ghost tours!

Old Tombstone Tours: Fully narrated tours by

stagecoach or covered wag-on; daily 9 am til 5 pm on Allen Street across from Crystal Palace.

Tombstone Gunfighter and Ghost Tour: See Tomb-stone’s 10 most haunted des-tinations! Tours leave night-ly at 6pm. Tickets available at Big Nose Kate’s Saloon. 417 E. Allen Street. For Res-ervations call (520) 255-0474.Tombstone-Ghost.com.

Western Heritage Muse-um: 6th & Fremont Streets. More on Tombstone and Wyatt Earp than anyone in country. $5.00 adults, 10-5 Mon-Sat, Sun 1-5.

Into The West Jeep Tours: Monday-Sunday. Please call (520) 559-2151.

Boothill Graveyard: Self guided tour; 8:00am-6:30pm daily; Highway 80 just north of town.

Tombstone Rose Tree Mu-seum: Home to the world’s largest rose tree and Tomb-stone memorabilia! Admis-sion is $5 for adults; children under 14 are free when ac-companied by an adult. The museum is open daily from 11 a.m. to 5p.m. Located on 4th and Toughnut. www.tombstonerosetree.com.

Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park: 7 days a week 9a.m.-5p.m. Admis-sion $7 for adults, $2 7-13 and 6 and under are free. Active and retired military 50% off. with ID. Third and Toughnut.

Tombstones Historama: Actor Vincent Price tells the story of Tombstone. Open daily, 9:30-4:30.

OK Corral: Famous his-torical site where Wyatt Earp & Doc Holliday fought the Clantons & McLaurys on Oct. 26, 1881. Doc Holliday room open daily. Allen Street between Third and Fourth Streets.

Tombstone Epitaph: The Old West’s most famous pa-per published in Tombstone since May, 1880. Free mu-seum, open daily from 9:30-5:00pm.

Good Enough Under-ground Mine Tour: Mon- Sun 10:00a.m.-4:00p.m. Call for reservations & group tour information. (520) 457-3333.

Tombstone Walking Tours with Dr. Jay: Amazing tales of the gunfighters, miners, soiled doves & more! Res-ervations required, (520) 457-9876.

ARTTombstone Association of

the Arts: All artwork is origi-nal and created by Cochise County residents from Tombstone, Sierra Vista, Hereford, St. David & more. Call 457-2380 for info. 4th & Allen Streets.

MEETINGSCity Council: meets at 7

p.m. on second Tuesday of each month at Schieffelin Hall. 457-2202.

Tombstone Forward As-sociation: Meets on the first Tuesday of each month at the Tombstone Senior Cen-ter, 6:00pm.

Improved Order of Red Men Chokonen Tribe: Meets the last Thursday of every month at 5:30pm at Bren-das Chuckwagon 339 S. 4th St, Tombstone AZ. Novem-

ber meeting on Nov 17th @ 5:30pm.

Tombstone Repertory: meets the third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the basement at Schieffelin Hall.

Tombstone Small Ani-mal Shelter: Meets the 2nd Thursday of every month at 2pm at the Meeting Room at the Casa Loma Apts at 204 W. Allen Street.

Tombstone A.A. Meetings: Wednesday Nights 6:00pm, Friday Nights at 7:00pm, both open discussion. Cor-ner of Allen and 2nd Sts. Tombstone Community Congregational Church Fel-lowship room.

American Legion Aux-iliary: meets at 6:30 p.m. on the first Wed of each month.

Tombstone Vigilettes: Meet at 7pm on the first of each month at Vigilante Hall on Allen St. welcom-ing new members!

Cochise County Corral of the Westerners: Meets at 7:00pm the first Thurs-days of every month at Schieffelin Hall. Enjoy learn-ing about western history, cowboy poetry, short his-tory and more. Call (520) 378-1833 for more info or email [email protected].

King Solomon Lodge, #5, F&AM: Meets FIRST MON-DAY in each month, up-stairs in Schieffelin Hall at 7pm, except on Holidays, then the next Monday. All visiting brothers in good standing are welcome and invited to attend. Kenn Barrett, WM-Al Camacho, Sec.

Wild West Detachment Marine Corps League: Ev-ery 2nd Sunday at 1:00pm at the American Legion Post 24.

CHURCHESBethel Chapel Assembly

of God: Bethel Chapel As-sembly of God Church: 10 North 1st Street, PO Box 127 Tombstone, AZ 85638. 520-366-6540. Service Times: Sunday Bible Study 9:30 am, Sunday Worship 10:45 am, Wednesday Prayer and Scripture 6:00 pm.

Tombstone Congrega-tional Church: Come wor-ship and fellowship with us at God’s weekly fam-ily reunion! Adult Sunday School at 9:30 AM. Wor-ship and Children’s Pro-gram at 10:30 AM. Cof-fee hour following. Allen and 2nd - 1 block from Tombstone Historic Dis-trict.

First Baptist Church: Sun School, 9:30am-10:30am. Sun morning service 10:45am. Sun eve-ning service 6:00pm. Wed Bible study & prayer 6:00pm. Thurs women’s Bible study 6:00pm-8:00pm. Sixth and Fre-mont Streets. (520) 457-8303.

St. Paul’s Episcopal: Worship service 10:30 a.m.; Third and Safford Streets; 432-5402.

Sacred Heart Mass: Wednesday evening, 5pm, Sunday morning, 10am. Holy Days will be posted.

Tombstone Cowboy Church: Services on Sun-day at 9:00am. Wed 6pm dinner, Bible study 7pm, Friday night Youth Night, 7pm. 9th and Fremont.

2020 TOMBSTONE EVENTS, MEETINGS, THINGS TO DO & MORE

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