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The Pinal County Sheriff’s Report is taken from the daily logs, based on the information provided by deputies. All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.July 10 Criminal damage was reported in the 2000 block of West Calle Encanto, Oracle. A vehicle was spray painted.July 13 A runaway juvenile was reported in the 36000 block of South Mount Lemmon Road, Oracle.July 14 An unattended death was

reported in the 400 block of North Circle Place, Oracle.July 16 Burglary was reported in the 2000 block of West El Paseo, Oracle. Attempted theft of two motorcycles was reported in the 1000 block of West Paseo Redondo, Oracle.July 17 A PCSO deputy was asked to deliver an emergency message to a person in the 1700 block of East Las Piedras Lane, Oracle. Family members had tried to contact her, but her phone line was out due to storm damage. The deputy allowed the woman to

use his cell phone to contact her family and then helped her contact CenturyLink to get the phone line fi xed.July 18 Criminal damage was reported in the 2000 block of West El Paseo, Oracle.July 19 Theft of a television was reported in the 1500 block of North Calle Zamora, Oracle.July 20 Albert James Carpenter IV, 55, Oracle, was arrested in the Oracle area and was charged with disorderly conduct. He was transported and booked into the Pinal County Jail in Florence. Marissa Danielle Lechuga, 29, Oracle, was arrested at the Oracle Substation and was charged with fraudulent schemes and artifi ces, traffi cking in stolen property and theft. She was transported and booked into the Pinal County Jail. Donkeys were reported in the road in front of Dollar

General in Oracle.July 25 Theft of an iPad was reported in the area of North Triangle L Ranch Road, Oracle. The incident occurred July 20.July 27 Theft was reported in the area of Calle Zamora and Calle Encanto, Oracle.July 31 Burglary was reported at the Mountain Vista School, Oracle. A fi re was reported in the area of West Camino Seco and North Calle Futura, Oracle. A go-cart caught on fi re, singing the hair of the child who was driving it. No injuries were reported and Oracle Fire Department extinguished the fi re.Aug. 1 Fraud was reported in the 4000 block of East Shetland Drive, San Tan Valley. A person reported that he responded to an advertisement on Craig’s List

to have his vehicle wrapped with an advertisement for Oracle Land and Homes in Oracle. He received a check for $1,900. He was told to cash the check, keep $300 and send the rest to an address in Colorado. The man got suspicious and called Oracle Land and Homes. He was told the checks were stolen and was asked to report the incident to PCSO. Information was turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Aug. 2 Victor Gutierrez, 26, Tucson, was arrested in the 1700 block of West Oracle Ranch Road, Oracle, on a warrant for interfering with judicial proceedings. He was transported and booked into the Pinal County Jail in Florence. An accident with injuries was reported in the 2100 block of West American Avenue, Oracle. A juvenile male, 13, received burn abrasions to his knee and foot and injured his ankle in a quad accident.

Aug. 3 Andres Cervantes Rangel, 20, Oracle, was arrested in the 4200 block of North Rockliffe Boulevard, Oracle, on a warrant for failure to appear. He was transported and booked into the Pinal County Jail. Damage to a public utility was reported in the 1600 block of North Calle Futura, Oracle. A vehicle struck a gas meter and damaged it. Oracle Fire responded and shut off the gas until Southwest Gas Company could respond and repair the meter.Aug. 5 An accident without injuries was reported in the area of South Mount Lemmon Road and East Campo Bonito Road, Oracle. A driver swerved to avoid a deer and overcorrected, sending the vehicle off the road. The driver left on foot to fi nd cell phone service and returned later. The driver said he wasn’t injured and didn’t think to call 911. He was cited and a tow truck was called.

Beverly J. Dubs, 86, a homemaker, passed away on August 5, 2012. Mrs. Dubs moved to San Manuel from Conde, South Dakota, in 1956, where her husband, Ferd, worked for Magma Copper. They moved to Oracle in 1973. Beverly adopted all of her cousins’ children; and most called her Grandma, and Ferd, Papa. Ferd preceded her in death in 1978. She is survived by nieces, T awny (Joe) Arthur and Paula (Steve) Danekas; nephew, Danny (Melinda) Craig; cousins Dub and Barb Ragels of Oracle, and many more cousins. Beverly was a member of the Oracle Union Church. Her hobbies included painting, knitting, and

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many more. Services will be held in South Dakota; and inurnent will follow at the Military Cemetery in Watertown, South Dakota.

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hearing at 9 a.m. will include on their agenda this special use permit proposal. This hearing is scheduled to be held in the Pinal County complex ( Building F) in Florence. This commission, composed of nine county residents, is appointed by the Pinal County Board of Supervisors. Each supervisor appoints three commission members from his/her district.. These commissioners - county

residents all - are charged with conducting these hearings to allow all parties concerned to express their views on a proposal, such as this one submitted by Verizon Wireless. The members of the commission are responsible, after reviewing all the facts, and hearing input from the public, with voting to recommend to the Board of Supervisors a course of action. This could include approval,

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ORACLE, AZ (August, 2012) – The American Red Cross blood supply has reached emergency levels with 50,000 fewer donations than expected in July. This shortfall leaves the Red Cross with half the readily available blood products on hand now than this time last year. The Red Cross is calling on all eligible blood donors – now more than ever – to roll up a sleeve and give as soon as possible. All blood types are needed, but especially O positive, O negative, B negative

American Red Cross issues emergency call for blood donors; Oracle Community Blood Drive set for Aug. 17

and A negative in order to meet patient demand this summer. Come out to the Oracle Library 700 E. Kingston Street on Friday, August 17, between 9:30

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rainfall does is inestimable. What a fortifying change it makes- existing leaves glow, wildflowers are sprouting everywhere, an obvious difference from an extended soak with a garden sprinkler.

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What I have recently learned about root systems has come through our dressage arena project. Excavating eight feet down,

over 50 truckloads of soil, has revealed systems of roots which fondle the surface through dark topsoil, like an octopus undulating gracefully and elaborately just over the hard-packed DG. The roots themselves are works of art. They amaze me with the variation of curves and curls that expresses the joy and rigor of life, and again I think of watery metaphors, fish courtship, swirling plankton, warming and

cooling currents. All the growth is supported in a mere 18 inches of this loam, and it’s hard to imagine the trees ability to endure long periods of heat, wind and lack of water. Profound awe is the mother of science. I want to know more! What can native plants teach us about how to thrive with fortifying rain being so seasonal? Surely this is a subject worthy of a thesis, or a book, which a certain someone I know can and ought to write. . Staring at the stratified layers, one sees roots stretching out well beyond the drip line of all plants, not just the Mesquite trees. As I remove the husks of Amsinkia Intermedia, my gravel rake tangles in roots as long as a laundry line. These belong to Prickly pears, Cholla and Barrels. I re-plant the later two types.

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By Skylar Khan The following question was posed by a doctor at a California clinic.Question: Can empathy be learned, or is it a quality one is born with? Answer: Empathy is the ability to relate to someone’s mental, emotional or physical struggle in a caring, non-judgmental fashion. It comes from one’s heart and therefore it cannot be learned. Handwriting analysis can reveal a person’s ability for empathy toward others. The writing of an empathetic individual would show a rightward slant. The pen pressure would be medium, and there would be an absence of hostility traits such as resentment, aggression, defiance, stubbornness and temper. Heavy pen pressure presumes the presence of prejudice by the individual, whereas a medium pen pressure allows for less emotionality when dealing with another person. Since slant and pen pressure of a handwriting are basic qualities inherent to the individual, a person is therefore predisposed to empathy, a quality deemed to stem from the heart rather than the head.

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Empathy would be further enhanced by garland connectors at the baseline (Angularity at the baseline would point to a critical individual which in itself would again be counter indicative to genuine sympathy or empathy). Empathy cannot be ‘learned’ for example by leftward slant writers because one of their primary concerns is about self-protection. A writer whose horizontal strokes and downstrokes look like knife blades would also not be considered empathetic as such writing is associated with verbal and/or physical aggression. It cannot be ‘learned’ by a person whose writing abounds with additional hostility traits, such as temper, irritation, resentment, etc. Writers who show a lack of empathy would do well to choose a career in technical, diagnostic or research fields, or they might consider medical specialties that do not require much direct contact with patients.

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Oracle Schools welcome students back for new school yearBy John Hernandez On Aug. 6, 2012, the Oracle School District 2 hosted Meet Your Teacher Evening for the kindergarten students and their parents at Oracle Ridge School. The soon to be students toured the

school and visited their classroom while meeting their teacher. Later in the evening, Mt. Vista School was the scene of Back to School Night. Students and their families toured the school and met the teachers, administra-tors and staff.

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By John Hernandez Sierra Oaks School in Oracle started classes on July 30 with 35 students and three new teachers. The school is still looking for two more kindergarten students so they can start up a kindergarten class. The three new teachers are Sally Kelly, Kendall Wetzel and Kay Edwards. Sally Kelly is not new to Oracle or to teaching. She has lived in Oracle over 30 years and retired from the Mammoth – San Manuel School District. “This is the first time ever I am teaching in the com-munity where I live. I am very excited about that. I can walk to work,” she said. She taught most of the time in Mammoth but also taught at San Manuel. She is a graduate of the Uni-versity of Arizona where she received her B.A in Education. Besides teach-ing at Sierra Oaks, she also teaches GED classes at the Aravaipa Campus of Central Arizona College.

She likes the outdoors, hiking, and is an avid reader. Sally will be teach-ing fifth and sixth grade. Kendall Wetzel She attended Elon University in North Carolina where she received her B.A. in Elementary Education. While in South America she taught school for two years and met her fiancé Daniel Mendez. Mendez works for BHP and his transfer to Arizona brought Wetzel out west. They have been in Arizo-na for two months. Wetzel started looking for work and got the job with Sierra Oaks. “I like it here, it is nice,” she said. “I love be-ing around kids.” Wetzel likes to read all different types of books, working out and traveling. She will be teaching first and second graders. Kay Edwards’ family moved to Marana, Arizo-na in 1952. She graduated from Marana High School in 1956. “Marana public schools were segregated then” she said. “Later I

Sierra Oaks says hello to new school year

Kay Edwards Kendall Wetzelrealized what it meant to live through that time in history.” Edwards attended the University of Arizona where she received her master’s degree in Educa-tion Edwards believes that the teachers today need to

be more creative. “Peer pressure is much greater today,” she said. “The kids have more distrac-tions.” Edwards has been teach-ing for more than fifty years, and has no plans on stopping any time soon. “I think public education has

made this country great,” she said.” Edwards will be teach-ing grades three and four.

“This is my first time with young ones,” she said, “I am going to end my career with a high note.”

Oracle State Park Center for Environmental Education re-opens to the public on Saturday, Sept. 1, and will offer an array of programs, lectures, workshops, and special events on Saturdays through the end of November.

School environmental education programs are being scheduled by reservation on weekdays during those months. The park was also open on Saturdays this spring after being closed for more than two years as a result of state budget cuts.

Bird walks, plant walks, guided hikes, and tours of the historic Kannally ranch house will resume.

Oracle State Park reopens on Saturday-only schedule starting September 1

Workshops on basket making with native grass, papermaking with local plants, and nature-journal making will be scheduled as well. A full

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The Prickly Pear, said to be brought in by the gut of cattle, is originally native to Argentina. To machete these after a rain is true enlightenment: water squirts out. Rain and roots. Infl uence

and adaptation. Feast and famine. That’s the part I fi nd astonishing about desert plants, that they seem to do both extremes of this climate so well, they are bi-lingual. I’m mystifi ed because I can’t see the rain response beyond the superfi cial appearance of a plant’s complexion!

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By Dr. Michael Miles By defi nition, hyperbaric oxygen means oxygen that is presented in an environment that has a greater than normal (hyper) barometric pressure. Barometric pressure at sea level is designated as “one atmosphere.” All other calculations are based on this reference. As one rises in elevation, pressure normally drops. As one dives into the sea, pressure increases dramatically. Hyperbaric chambers artifi cially build pressures

within them that can be used therapeutically for many conditions. The most common condition that hyperbaric chambers are used for is “the bends.” This condition occurs when a deep-sea diver rises to the surface too quickly. Pressure increases dramatically as a diver goes deeper into the ocean. This pressure drives gases into body tissues. If the diver rises to the surface too quickly, the gas bubbles expand and create problems (decompression sickness). The hyperbaric chamber

is used to reestablish the pressurized condition and compress the bubbles to relieve the problems. Once this is done, the pressure can be gradually released to allow the body time to comfortably adjust to the pressure change. Although the history of hyperbaric oxygen goes back to the sixteenth century, hyperbaric chambers have found many more benefi cial uses in recent years. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) uses the pressure generated in the chambers to drive

pure oxygen into tissues. Many medical conditions are benefi ted with this process. For example, HBOT is commonly used to provide much needed oxygen to the damaged tissue of burn victims. This speeds the healing process dramatically. HBOT works by expanding the oxygen carrying properties of blood. Normally oxygen is carried by hemoglobin inside the red blood cells. There is a natural limit to the amount of oxygen that can be transported in this manner based on the amount of red blood cells. HBOT drives extra oxygen into plasma cells (white blood cells), thus increasing the amount of oxygen being delivered

to the trillions of cells in the body. This hyper-oxygenation can be very benefi cial to cells that are struggling to regain normal use. Such conditions that may receive benefi t include compromised brain cells in stroke victims, carbon monoxide and cyanide poisoning, radiation therapy damage, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, Lyme disease, diabetic ulcers, and autism. There are several types of hyperbaric chambers available. Institutions such as hospitals often have larger, metal chambers that reach pressures exceeding three atmospheres. Commercial home-use chambers are often infl atable with pressures regulated by government guidelines to

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caught her attention, then the mice and rats. She seemed happy chasing these little critters around, catching them and leaving them by the back door as if they were a prize she was sharing with me. I’d pick them up and take them to the burning barrel to be disposed of at the appropriate time. As Spirit began to age, the prizes seemed to be getting bigger and she went past the smaller stage into larger animals. Rabbits began to appear at the back door. Recently it finally happened, the instincts that had been lying dormant within her genetic makeup for so long were awakened and she began to herd, but it was not a cow, it was my donkey. I tried to let Spirit know more people are killed by donkeys then horses each year, they are fast to kick and accurate in their aim. None of these talks worked with Spirit at all and she looked ablaze with energy whenever she got the chance to come up behind my donkey and rouse it into any type of movement. I pray every time she does this that she doesn’t get injured by this fast moving four-legged legend. As to herding cows, she just watches them as they pass by her location. I’ll not make any more wishes as to reawakening Spirit’s instincts. I’m concerned what she might decide to herd next or what I might find outside my back door. After all she’s getting older and she doesn’t seem to remember she’s supposed to herd cows, not donkeys. And so it goes at the Ranch…

that each night in her dog dish. I had become resigned to the fact that she had been raised around show dogs and had somehow forgotten what she had originally been breed to do, herd cows. I wished from time to time she’d find the instincts that was the rightful heir to this breed, but I became used to my ex-show dog’s habits or lack thereof. As the years passed, things started changing; at first it was a lizard that

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lineup of activities, most of them free with park admission, is being posted and updated regularly on the park website: www.azstateparks.com, as well as the Friends of Oracle State Park website: www.friendsOSP.org Park hours are 8AM to 5PM and the gate fee is $7 per vehicle. Main entrance is off Mt. Lemmon Rd. in Oracle, and the Arizona Trail and equestrian-

access entrance is off W. American Ave. in Oracle. The park has many spots with shaded picnic tables.

A don’t miss event is set for October 13 when the mesquite bean hammermill returns to grind people’s beans into sweet, healthy baking flour. More about the hammermill at www.desertharvesters.org

This desert harvest event will include the sale of mesquite flour baked goodies, other desert foods, children’s activities, related talks, a

plant sale, and live music. The non-profit Friends group is subsidizing the hammermill rental cost and special live band performance as part of its continuing support of the park’s environmental education mission.

The park’s signature field trip opportunities for school groups and scout troops will be offered on weekdays by reservation. The Oracle Adventure Program is for grades 1-3 and uses the five senses to explore easy trails. The

Oracle Odyssey offers grades 4-6 an opportunity to learn about habitat and the interrelationship between plants, animals, and people.

Contact Jennifer Rinio, Park Ranger, at jrinio@azstateparks.gov for information about the

programs, to schedule a field trip, and to learn more about volunteering and training to be a school program guide.

Oracle State Park is a 4,000-acre wildlife refuge featuring the historic Kannally ranch house, which is listed on

the National Register of Historic Places. From the ranch house patio and on many of the 15 miles of hiking trails, visitors can enjoy sweeping views of the Santa Catalina foothills, San Pedro River Valley, and Galiuro Mountain Range.

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