In July the members of Power Elite Dance Academy’s Competitive Company traveled to Henderson, Nevada, to attend the 41st annual Power of Dance tour with Tremaine Dance Conventions. This leading national dance education circuit boasts a professional faculty led by Joe Tremaine and his staff, bringing best-in-the-industry classes to dancers …
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Let It Rain
It’s been a dry summer, but this week where I live, we’re finally getting some rain. Some people have complained because they want to be outdoors, but I love the rain. After living fifteen years in Arizona, I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of rain. Around the time it …
Read More »When the Ground Shifts Under Your Feet
Railroad tracks are great places to camp, I’ve heard. They’re flat and usually level, you have open sky above, and when you hit the sack, you can nestle cozily between the sleepers. It’s just, sometimes you’ll start to feel a vibration under you. Or you get a kind of presentiment, …
Read More »Science Discovers the Secret to Happiness
Yesterday I finally did the laundry after procrastinating for a long time, so this morning I woke up to clean clothes to choose from, and I can’t tell you how happy that made me. Simple pleasures. We’re all always chasing after happiness, but I’ve noticed that as I get older, …
Read More »The Return of Our Forests
When the Telegraph and Mescal fires blazed across the hills, searing the earth and sending much of the vegetation up in smoke, it probably looked like the end of the world – or at least the end for the forest. The reality is less apocalyptic – and the fires could …
Read More »Trail Running in Globe
Reid Burrows, 27, an ultramarathoner from New Brunswick, Canada, has run all over the U.S., and for two weeks in March 2022, he ran around Globe. “Globe is a hidden gem for the trail community,” he says. “It’s a hidden gem in Arizona.”Reid came to Arizona to train for the …
Read More »1000 Books Before Kindergarten
Read one book a night to a newborn, infant or toddler. Within 3 years, that’s over 1000 books! That’s the simple idea behind the 1000 books before Kindergarten program -– a little at a time adds up to a lot. “Reading opens up so much knowledge and curiosity and excitement …
Read More »Nurses on the Front Line
Tired of Covid-19? Imagine being a nurse on the front lines of a two-year infectious pandemic. “We have had sicker people in this hospital than this hospital has ever seen before,” says Rhonda Mason, Chief Nursing Officer at Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center (CVRMC) in Globe.“We have stretched people further …
Read More »Mohave Cannabis Club Coming to Globe in 2022
Anyone looking to purchase legal marijuana in the Globe-Miami area without the necessity of a long drive to the Valley or Payson will have to wait a few months, but the wait will be worth it when the Mohave Cannabis Club opens its doors in July 2022. The shop will …
Read More »Dancing through the Chaos
November is National Gratitude Month – which makes sense, given it’s Thanksgiving month. Stretching out a focus on gratitude for the full month could only be a good thing. November’s also Native American Heritage Month, Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and National Diabetes Month. But there’s more – it’s also officially …
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