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WHILE MARICOPA HAS A PROSPEROUS certain as it asks the voters to renew a VINCENT MANFREDI
future, its proud history has a few black budget override that allowed it to hire
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Community volunteer Jim Irving was photographed by Victor Moreno at Butterfield Elementary School.
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At their camp, the men laugh and mock as It will never be known for certain to what One can only imagine the horrors you both
the two of you sit sobbing. They offer you food tribe the men who killed your family belonged. suffer. This village is in the mountains and it
but you are unable to eat; your grief and fear are is winter. Your clothes have fallen apart, and
A portrait of Olive Oatman by too great. The next day you begin a four-day OLIVE OATMAN you have no protection from the cold. You
Benjamin F. Powelson, circa 1863, march across the desert. Life in the village of your enemies is a nightmare weave some coverings out of plants, which do
who with her little sister Mary Ann for you and Mary Ann. Later, referring to little to keep you warm. Mary Ann becomes
was enslaved by a native tribe that MARY ANN OATMAN that time, Royal B. Stratton, who will write a malnourished and weak. You both pray
murdered the rest of their family. You are 7 years old. Your world has just been controversial book about your experiences, will constantly to be rescued from this hell you
The markings on Olive’s face hint turned upside down. You have seen things no pen, “Much of that dreadful period is unwritten are enduring. It takes great strength to merely
at the next chapter of their ordeal. one should ever have to witness, much less and will remain unwritten forever.” survive from one day to the next. What must be
someone your age. your anguish when you see an article of clothing
Now you are being forced to walk barefoot that was taken from the body of one of your
on the rocky desert floor, expected to keep up loved ones being worn by one of your captors?
with the fast-walking men. You fall frequently Do you dare hope for rescue? You wonder if
and are beaten with a whip until you get up. anyone even knows about the massacre. And if
When you lag behind, you get the whip. Olive they do, how could they possibly know where
helps you as much as she can, but she too is to look for you? Everything seems bleak and
struggling. You tell her you want to be allowed hopeless.
to die. Finally, you fall to the ground, unable to But you force yourself to remain alive, for
walk another step. One of the men picks you the sake of your little sister.
up and slings you over his shoulder like a sack
of flour and carries you the rest of the way. In (To be continued in the November edition of
this manner, walking and being carried by InMaricopa magazine.)
one of the men who slaughtered your family, Once accessible by an off-roading trail, the site
you travel about 90 miles to the village of your of the Oatman family massacre just west of Gila C.M. Curtis, American Western author and
captors, where you and Olive are subjected to Bend is now on private land. A memorial grave- historian, is the best-selling author of 11 books,
Yubert Fang
cold, hunger, overwork, ridicule and beatings, stone was placed by the Arizona Society of including eight westerns. His books can be found
and treated as slaves. Daughters of the American Revolution in 1954. on Amazon.com and atcmcurtisauthor.com.
had split from the main company, they stopped
in Maricopa Wells, which was populated
primarily by Pima and Maricopa natives. There
The natives go a short distance away and
have a brief discussion, after which, with
deafening war cries, they attack your family
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RAVELING THE WESTERN UNITED The couple used to breed and show Wheaton Vie and Bill Day relax at home with Remington
States in a motor home for Terriers, but found they were having health (left) and Ouzo, their Coton de Tulear
extended periods of time requires
you enjoy your companions.
Vie and Bill Day do.
issues. Vie and another breeder decided to work
with a different breed and began researching
smaller hypoallergenic dogs. They landed on
companions. Not pictured is Aspen, who is on
the East Coast show circuit with a handler. get a price on
The Rancho El Dorado couple obviously
enjoy each other’s company – they have been
married for 42 years — but they also love their
Coton de Tulears.
“The breed was not recognized by the
American Kennel Club at that time,” Vie said.
that owners discuss it in human terms and Coton
owners describe them as ‘witty’ companions ‘at
your home
Coton de Tulear dogs, which they breed and “So, we went to rarity shows looking at breeds times boisterous but never demanding.’”
show all over the country. and started seeing a lot of Cotons. We chose to Their abundant white coat is described as
The Days, Maricopa residents since 2003, work with them because of their personalities.” soft as cotton (or, as the French say, “coton”).
have been breeding and showing the breed for And what personalities they have. The Coton Once they decided on the breed, Bill and
17 years and taken things to a very high level. de Tulear (COE-Tohn DU Tu-lee-YAHR), also Vie attended a show in Seattle, where they met a
The couple visits dog shows as far away as known as the “Royal Dog of Madagascar,” is breeder they liked and trusted. In 2004, Vie and
Austin, Texas each year, putting thousands of described by the AKC as a small, immensely another breeder bought dogs to breed. ®
miles on an RV customized to accommodate charming dog whose “primary job is to provide This was nothing new to the Days. Their first
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their 10-pound pets — males Remington and amusement, comfort and companionship. The business together — in the ‘70s and ‘80s — was
Ouzo, and their female Aspen. bond between Cotons and their people is so tight a pet store where they groomed and boarded for
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Vie said. “Bill and I looked at each other and are a companion dog, they really have to be the breed nationally, and in 2013, their female,
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home a more comfortable and safer place to live.
They are both extremely competitive, she them, so we put together our own group that rank, the greater the fees they can command Other benefits include:
said, and had enjoyed showing dogs in the past. we trust.” for their bred puppies.
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It is competitive and a challenge to produce Cotons thrive in small places and make pup — it’s not always fun and games at the • Longer life and better efficiency of heating and cooling systems.
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Vie said when her dogs produce a litter of apartments. Or in the Days’ case, an RV. “If you’ve seen the movie ‘Best in Show,’
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particular about who can buy their puppies. to accommodate the dogs on their trips. He movie, and we’ll put it on in the RV at a show sufferers the most. Allergens and other particles that are
In fact, they have a waiting list of more than a installed a custom four-plex of crates for the and match the characters from the movie to found in the ducts are distributed through the air and can
year and prospective owners have to complete dogs specifically designed to fit in the RV. The the people at the show. It can be hilarious.”
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cause increased irritation in people with asthma or allergies.
a rigorous screening process to get one. crates can be configured to be attached — And while the Days undoubtedly love their
One competitive advantage for the Days’ “like an apartment building,” Bill said — or dogs, theirs is not a lifelong pairing. They re-
Cotons is they keep their kennel, which they used individually. Each crate has a rubber mat home the dogs at 5-6 years of age, because they
call Daydreaming Cotons, small. Cotons are on top so it can be used as a grooming table. do not want to breed the females after age 6.
very social dogs and need to form a bond with “We took the kitchen table out of the motor “We usually re-home them with an older Remove allergens, germs, & dust sitting in your air ducts!
their people, so the couple only has three or home and anchored the crates to the wall for couple,” Vie said. “They get a health-tested,
four dogs at a time, while other breeders may safety,” said Bill, who is the business manager trained, champion-quality dog for about
have dozens of dogs. at Maricopa Wellness Center, which he $2,000 that is great with people and kids or
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would only work with a small group of five that does the same thing, so we can take them years, they get a nice long life with them. CLEANING CLEANING
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We would have them find a family for us and
give them what they need most,” Lingren said.
“But the families we were blessing were making
a lot of bad choices to put themselves in need,
and eventually I didn’t feel that good about it.”
Then she saw a video about BCE and
started making some calls. The founder of the
organization, Don Liimatainen, was in her
office “about 20 minutes later,” Lingren said.
The connection feels more personal to
Lingren with BCE than other charities with
which she has been involved. She said when
a donation is made to an organization like
United Way, Salvation Army or the Red Cross,
the donor typically writes a check and never
gets to see where their money goes. With BCE,
the volunteers present donations directly to
the family, making it much more personal and BJ Lingren and fellow BCE volunteers at a 2019 wrapping party in
gratifying. Cromwell, Minn. “We helped a single mother with three school-age
According to Liimatainen, Lingren sets a children overcome some major life obstacles,” Lingren said.
wonderful example of what BCE is all about.
“She’s one of the great people we have
involved,” Liimatainen said. “She’s one of
these people who’s a doer — she’s a doer and Liimatainen said the personal nature of
a donor. She puts money where her mouth the gifts helps set BCE apart.
BJ Lingren, with husband is. She’s not afraid to roll up her sleeves and “Everything carried through that family’s
Scott and “crazy doodle” do whatever it takes to give these families an door is custom to them,” he said. “Every gift
Fletcher, is looking to have amazing Christmas. Whatever family gets Best Christmas Ever is about item is like a good friend picked it out for
a major impact on her new blessed (in Maricopa), it’s going to be life- them. It’s like if you had a friend and they
more than just Christmas
community of Maricopa. changing for them.” happened to fall ill during the holidays, and
BCE’s efforts are driven by volunteer Day. It’s a life-changing event, they’re good people, you might say to yourself,
“captains” responsible for soliciting donations what we do for these families. ‘I wish I could do something for them.’ This is
and reviewing applications. Their careful like that but times 10.”
New snowbird looks to gift worthy
Their whole life trajectory is
research of applicants includes vetting on To ensure donors’ generosity has a lasting
social media, talking to nominators and different after this.” impact on the family, the recipients are asked
running background checks. DON LIIMATAINEN to do two things — and are further rewarded
families with Best Christmas Ever
When a family is selected, their captain when they do. First, they are encouraged to
notifies the nominator that their family has complete the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace
been selected. But the family is not told; the University program, which teaches people
gifts are always a surprise. But she needs nominations to determine which how to manage their money. If a family
BY JAY TAYLOR families to help in this inaugural year. completes the nine-week, online class it earns
WANTED: SPECIAL FAMILIES “If we don’t have families nominated, all $1,000 toward any bill they have to pay.
M
ONSOON SEASON HAS ENDED a large city. They looked at places between ‘DOER AND A DONOR’ Now, Lingren is looking for worthy Maricopa the donations in the world won’t help,” she The second item is an eight-week health
and fall has begun, putting many in Tucson and Phoenix and chose Maricopa. The Best Christmas Ever, founded in 2010, families in need of a special Christmas. said. course teaching diet, nutrition, exercise and
the holiday mood. “We definitely wanted to be close to golf,” serves families who have fallen on tough times There are just three rules for nominating a Once a nominated family is selected to other healthy-living habits. Upon completion,
BJ Lingren is in the Christmas she said. through no fault of their own. The charity family, she said: receive a Best Christmas Ever, volunteers work the family receives a $1,000 gift card to the
spirit all year long and wants others to join her Lingren owns eLogger, a software partners with local leaders and businesses to • Families cannot nominate themselves. directly with the nominator to develop an grocery store of their choice to implement that
— for a good cause. company that sells logbook software to the bless families with a gift package tailored to • Families must have fallen on hard times individualized gift list for each person in the new knowledge.
The new Rancho El Dorado resident is utility industry. Her position allows her to their unique situations. The organization also through no fault of their own. home based on the family’s needs, a list that “Best Christmas Ever is about more than
bringing the nonprofit Best Christmas Ever work remotely, which gives the Lingrens the provides continuing support to families beyond • There must be minor children in the can be extensive. just Christmas Day,” Liimatainen said. “It’s
to the city from Minnesota for the first time opportunity to live here during the winters. the special Christmastime. home. “The rule of thumb for BCE is to deliver a life-changing event, what we do for these
this year. But being away from Minnesota meant she’d Lingren became familiar with BCE in “We are looking for people who have been 10 gifts per family member,” Lingren said. families. Their whole life trajectory is different
“We recently bought a house in Maricopa, be away at Christmas. Minnesota out of a desire to help families who living a normal life, doing great on their own “People can donate anything from a pair of after this.”
and I couldn’t imagine a Christmas without As the chair of the board of directors of Best were victims of circumstance, and not bad and a tragedy comes and just derails them,” socks to a TV. We’ve even delivered brand new Nominations of deserving families can
Best Christmas Ever,” Lingren said. Christmas Ever in her hometown of Cromwell, decision-making. Before her involvement with Lingren said, citing cancer, car accidents, cars — it all just depends on what the family’s be made at BCEMovement.com until Nov.
Lingren and her husband Scott were Minnesota, she wasn’t willing to sacrifice the the charity, her own family would help another housefires and deaths in the family as needs are. But we never give funds directly 1. Nominators are asked not to inform the
looking to become snowbirds — their sons AJ joy she gets from her volunteer work just to family for the holidays. situations faced by previous award recipients. to a family. The funds go toward things like family they nominate.
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and Cody are out of the house and married winter in the sunny Sonoran Desert. “We would try to bless a family every In the early going, Maricopans have shown mortgage payments, or medical bills, utilities,
— and they wanted to be in Arizona, but not So, she brought the program with her. Christmas, working with the Salvation Army. their characteristic generosity, Lingren said. things like that.” BCEMovement.com
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But in exchange for that new source
Pinal farmers bear brunt
of water, some Arizona farming centers,
including Pinal, accepted low priority among
the Colorado River Basin states when it came
of water shortage
to potential cutbacks. The basin is divided
into two segments — the Upper Basin (Utah,
Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico) and the
Lower Basin (Arizona, California, Nevada and
BY JAY TAYLOR Mexico).
With significantly less water delivered by
W
hen the well is dry, we know the CAP next year, local farmers could be forced to
worth of water. –Benjamin Franklin fallow many of their fields.
Udall said at least one farmer has told him
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation de- he might have to cut his active acreage by 50%.
clared in August the first-ever emergency water Bryan Hartman, whose family has farmed
shortage in the Colorado River Basin — with in Stanfield since the 1930s, grows alfalfa, corn,
mandatory consumption cuts beginning in 2022 cotton, sorghum and oats. He said he will likely
— and farmers in Arizona will take the first hit. have to fallow 25-30% of his 2,000 acres.
It looks particularly bad for farmers in “There will be some of us that survive and
Pinal County. some of us who won’t,” he said. Irrigation pivots, like the one being used here on an alfalfa field on Bryan Hartman’s farm, could
The decades-long, climate change-fueled soon become a more common sight as more area farmers become more reliant on groundwater,
drought in the West has led water levels in key THE HARD LESSON he said. A pivot uses a lower flow of water than flood irrigation.
reservoirs to record lows. At 35% full, Lake Local farmers have only two sources of water:
Mead is at its lowest level since 1936, when the surface water (from CAP) and groundwater, “The CAP was great; it supplemented us, it “Basically every drop in the river is being
Hoover Dam was completed, and the lake filled. which is pumped from the aquifer beneath the brought up the water table, it was a godsend,” utilized. And so everyone wants a piece of this
Mead is part of a system that provides water to ground. he added. “And now we’re going back.” river and there’s nothing left over,” Brad Udall,
about 40 million people. Hartman’s farm, like most in the area, The crisis point for CAP customers in a climate scientist at Colorado State University,
Certain states will see reductions in how used to get most of its water from CAP, but Arizona was reached over the past two springs. told KUNC-TV in an interview. “The hard
much water they get from the river, with Arizona over the years that has dropped to about a 50- April-July runoff in the Upper Basin was just lesson we’re learning about climate change is
set to lose nearly 20% of its supply next year. 50 split. With the emergency declaration, that 26% of average this year, despite near-average that it’s not a gradual, slow descent to a new
With about 70% of the river supply going to is about to change dramatically. snowfall, and in April-July 2020, runoff was state of affairs.”
agriculture, it’s likely farmers will eventually see Hartman, who is president of the just 52% of average. This triggered the shortage Hartman isn’t too optimistic about ever
big reductions across millions of acres of land. Maricopa-Stanfield Irrigation and Drainage declaration and demonstrated the severity of seeing CAP water allocations again.
In 2023, it’s likely Colorado River water District, uses about 4 feet of water per acre for the effects of 20-plus years of drought. “There’s always the hope,” he said. “If the
will dry up completely for county farmers, a total of 8,000 acre-feet per year. An acre-foot About 95% of the land in nine Western Upper Basin states get a huge year, yes, we
according to a June briefing by Central Arizona is 325,851 gallons, enough to meet the water states is in some level of drought, with 64% in could see something. Two or three years ago
Project, known as CAP. needs of three residential homes for a year. Put extreme drought or worse. It continues a 22- this happened; Lake Mead was dropping and
“Agriculture in central Arizona takes the another way, Hartman’s farm uses as much year megadrought that some experts believe the Bureau of Reclamation told us to get ready
first hit on these cutbacks,” said Chris Udall, water annually as 24,000 homes. may be the region’s worst dry spell in 1,200 for a Tier 1 shortage and we had a miracle year
executive director of the Agribusiness & Water At about $60 per acre-foot for CAP water years. The beginning of that drought, 1999, of snowstorms and got our allocations.”
Council of Arizona, who described a difficult and about $45 per acre-foot for groundwater, was the last time Lake Mead was at capacity.
future ahead for farmers in the state. Hartman spends about $420,000 a year to GOOD TO GROW
“It’s not a pretty picture, but it’s been irrigate his crops. As dire the situation for farmers in the Maricopa
understood and planned for over many years,” With the emergency declaration, area, the situation is far more secure for residents,
he said. “We’ll see reductions in water delivery Arizona’s allotment of surface water in 2022 city planners, developers and industry.
There’s room for Maricopa
to agriculture, and it’s a big chunk. It’s not a will be reduced by 512,000 acre-feet, about Global Water provides municipal and
good number for them and a lot of growers are a fifth of the state’s total CAP entitlement. and that area to keep industrial water from groundwater in the
going to have to be cutting back.” Farmers in the MSIDD will get 30,000 acre- growing, and what’s Maricopa Stanfield sub-basin of the Pinal
Many farmers — including some in and feet of mitigation water from the Drought Active Management Area.
happening on the Colorado
around Maricopa — rely on water from the Contingency Plan, water that comes from In fact, the aquifer — a body of porous rock
CAP to irrigate their crops. municipalities, to help offset the loss. River isn’t going to impact the or sediment saturated with groundwater —
CAP is a series of canals built over 20 “That means a lot more fallowed land,” availability of water for that under Pinal County is “absolutely enormous,”
years beginning in 1973 to deliver water from Hartman said. “It’s about the same percentage according to Jake Lenderking, Global
growth …. Agricultural users
the Colorado River to metropolitan Phoenix of fallowed acres as the percentage of water Water’s vice president of water resources and
and Tucson. The federal government paid for we’ll lose. But it will be different for individual are different story because legislative affairs.
most of the $4 billion project to moves 456 farms. Some have good well systems that can they are lower-priority users.” “The state does groundwater modeling for
billion gallons of water annually. Central and supplement the CAP water and some farms the assured water supply program,” he said. “In
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TOM BUSCHATSKE, DIRECTOR OF THE ARIZONA
southern Arizona suddenly had a seemingly Bryan Hartman, whose family has farmed in Stanfield since the 1930s, grows alfalfa, corn, cotton, do not. It was this way before CAP and, the greater Maricopa-Stanfield sub-basin, we
endless supply of water. sorghum and oats. He said he will likely have to fallow 25-30% of his 2,000 acres. unfortunately, now we’re going back. DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES have an almost limitless supply.”
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of Arizona Water Resources Research Center, to City Manager Rick Horst. Its allocation of irrigate their fields.
indicated abundant groundwater, with much of 23,000 acre-feet per year is more than three CAP water costs more, but Hartman said
it stored in the aquifer for thousands of years. times actual usage of about 7,000 acre-feet. it is far easier to move around the district than
As more ranches and farms in Maricopa are That means ample water for those who pumped water, which has to be moved through
sold and converted to residential developments, live here and the hordes who will someday. a pipeline or a lateral canal. And then there is
that already-promising situation for non- As many as 8,000 acres will be developed over the issue of getting to the groundwater.
farmers gets even better. the coming decade, bringing perhaps 30,000 “Not all farms have as much groundwater, or
“We’ve been retiring agricultural land, homes and more than 75,000 additional good access to it,” Hartman said. “The water table
which is a big water user, and putting in houses, residents. could be 500 feet below the surface at one farm
which use far less water than farms do, which Tom Buschatske, director of the Arizona and 60 feet down at another. If it’s 500 feet down, WE
will stretch the supply even further,” he said. Department of Water Resources, confirmed with the pumping costs, it would be cheaper to
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projected to drop by 100-200 feet over the next by the drought, at least not yet. But now Pinal County agriculture may
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in a good part of the aquifer. The state only availability of water for that growth,” he said. water, the 30,000 acre-feet, but in ‘23 we’ll
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