Jenn Walker
January 22, 2015
Living, The Visitors View, Throw Back Thursdays
There is something very intriguing about San Carlos artist Carrie Curley. Perhaps it is the eloquent way she speaks, her voice soft yet strong. Perhaps it is her artistic mystique. Or perhaps it is because this modest artist is a rare find on the Apache reservation, being both female and …
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Jenn Walker
January 15, 2015
Education
Roberta Hunter-Patten is bracing herself to serve as the first Apache on the GUSD school board this January after winning last November’s election against Frankie DalMolin and Robert Howard for District 1. Total, Hunter-Patten has spent 30 years teaching students in kindergarten, elementary and junior high school. Until three or …
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Jenn Walker
August 15, 2014
Living
If you see Lori, the Czech German Shepard, in public, you might look twice. You might spot her in the supermarket, sitting patiently in an aisle with the end of her leash hanging loosely over the side of a shopping cart or on the floor next to her. Ken Matthews, …
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Jenn Walker
February 5, 2014
Education
Teacher returns to Globe… and brings a little bit of everything to the table A flock of adolescent girls fly across the stage as I enter the High Desert Middle School auditorium. If I know anything about ballet (I don’t, really) my guess is that they are practicing jetés, where …
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Jenn Walker
November 7, 2013
Living, The Visitors View
San Carlos’ fighter shows that boxing is about conquering yourself, not others By Jenn Walker If you step into the San Carlos Fitness Center in the evening, you might spot Amelia McIntosh delivering fast blows to punch mitts, moving quickly around trainer Eric Shin as she lets out short breaths …
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Jenn Walker
November 1, 2013
Culture, Health&Spirit
In remembrance of Father Gino, a dedicated carpenter and priest The first time I met Father Gino Piccoli, he was shuffling around barefoot inside the St. Charles Church* on the San Carlos Apache Reservation, a bandana wrapped around his forehead and tools on the floor. He had been working on …
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Jenn Walker
October 25, 2013
The Visitors View, Throw Back Thursdays
Squatch thought he could push people around. He hadn’t been taught manners. He would bite, and sometimes kick. Squatch is a year-old colt, by the way. “I was just throwing my hands up, he was wild,” says Peter Beesley. Beesley owns Hoofin’ It Feed & Tack in Globe. He also …
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Jenn Walker
October 19, 2013
Living, The Visitors View
More important than the dress is the woman wearing it, says local designer While most fashion designers are dreaming up ways to make jaws drop on the runway, or studying the next big trend, San Carlos designer Selina Curley has another motive. She is trying to keep her culture alive. …
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Linda Gross
September 6, 2013
History, Living
Reprint from : July 2010 Globe Miami Times Walk through the doors of Livingston’s Appliance in downtown Globe and you’ll find the walls lined with new washers and dryers in the front. In the back, you’ll discover a shop that can only be described as “managed chaos,” where a tall, …
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Jenn Walker
May 8, 2013
Living
How a former artist and Miami native wound up becoming Miami’s librarian Stereotype a librarian. What comes to mind? Glasses, perhaps. Someone who is soft spoken and introverted. What doesn’t typically come to mind is someone well-traveled, mischievous, artistic, outspoken, and yet charismatic. Librarian Delvan Hayward just happens to be …
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