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Local Recycling Service Recyclops Obtains B Corp Certification
PATAGONIA, ARIZONA – Zero Waste Week, which kicks off on September 4, 2023, marks an exciting new chapter for Recyclops, the local provider of curbside recycling. The company is celebrating a major accomplishment, as it announces its certification as a B Corporation. This marks an exciting milestone for the company, having launched in Patagonia, Arizona in February 2021. In addition to filling a critical need for this community, this B Corp certification signifies Recyclops’ deepened commitment to the community and society as a whole.
Library Event and Time Capsule to Celebrate 100 Years
The Nogales Santa Cruz County Library system, in collaboration with the Nogales Santa Cruz County Library Board of Trustees and the Friends of the Library (“Library Fans”), will host a county-wide celebration of the first 100 years of the public library system on Thursday, October 5, 2023. All members of the Santa Cruz County community are invited to participate in this once-in-a-100-years event.
A Drink for Our Pollinating Bats
It’s that season again – when the bats empty your hummingbird feeders at night. These are not our local insect eating bats but instead are pollinator bats that migrate back and forth between Mexico and the northern Sonoran Desert near Tucson. They are the primary pollinators for the Saguaro cacti and agaves.
South32’s Hermosa Project Pushes Forward
Things have been moving quickly the last two months for South32’s Hermosa Project. Of particular interest to residents of eastern Santa Cruz County are the federal government’s “Fast-41” decision to fast track the permitting process for the mining operation in the Patagonia Mountains, resistance to the idea of locating a manganese processing plant and operations center in Rio Rico, the revaluation of the project by parent company South32, and the potential for the company to sign a Good Neighbor Agreement.
Emergency Road Blocked by New Property Owner
Residents living along Blue Haven Rd. in Patagonia are facing an unexpected challenge this monsoon season. Their long-established emergency route across private properties, used when the wash on Pennsylvania Ave. is impassable due to flooding, has been blocked by a property owner. Nathan Hoeme, who recently bought 3.11 acres off...
PVFR Works to Move on From Internal Strife
Members of the Patagonia Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company (PVFR) elected officers for a one-year term at their June 4 general meeting. Ike Isakson was re-elected as chief, a position he has held since 2016. “This will be my last year as Chief,” Ike Isakson said. “I’ll still be here, just not as Chief. This department is my life.”
Glimpses Into Our Past: The Elgin Oil Well
“More than 500 residents of Santa Cruz County attended the official ‘spudding in’ of… the first well of the Nogales Oil and Gas Company, at Elgin, Sunday. By their presence, the large crowd… gave evidence of the fact that they have faith in the extended and favorable reports regarding the oil bearing possibilities of the company’s holdings…From daylight Sunday morning… the roads leading to Elgin were dotted with automobiles climbing over the mountain roads, resembling a trail of black ants…. More than 150 automobiles…were parked about the field…” [The Border Vidette, 7/8/1922]. The field was on Babacomari ranch lands, on the west side of the Elgin Canelo Road.
Bearanoia
Like all pursuits, there are risks associated with your endeavors. I served five years as an infantryman/paratrooper in The Canadian Airborne Regiment, a nonstop adrenaline rush. When I turned 25, I decided that I was no longer invincible and left the army, taking my P.T.S.D., physical damage from over 100 parachute jumps, and an immense sense of situational awareness with me. Since then, my days are spent pursuing more gentle activities, namely fly fishing and bird hunting. The adrenaline rush is toned down, but situational awareness is usually there.
A ‘Desert Rat’ Takes Charge at Research Ranch
As a young field biologist and educator not long out of university, Steve Prager started making annual visits to the Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch of the National Audubon Society (AWRR) in Elgin in 2011. Now, 12 years later, he’s the Research Ranch’s new boss. Having grown up next to...
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