November 2011

Nutty time coming for pecan growers, consumers

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While millions of people are getting ready to enjoy pecan pies for Thanksgiving, Sahuarita farmer Richard Walden and his crews at Farmers Investment Co. are getting ready for the upcoming holiday by preparing for their annual pecan harvest.

Walden, 69, is the president of the company his father Keith started in 1937 in California, which became Farmers Investment Co. FICO, which includes the Green Valley Pecan Co. and Santa Cruz Valley Organic Farms, is now the largest pecan grower/processor and the largest certified organic grower/processor of pecans in the world.

Tombstone’s tinkle trail ends at ‘sandbox’

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[caption id="attachment_85" align="alignleft" width="864"]Horses from Old Tombstone Tours stand on top of their designated sandbox to urinate. The horses are taken to the spot to relieve themselves twice daily. (Photo by Robert Alcaraz/ASNS)[/caption]Like tourists, horses are common on Tombstone’s streets.

And most of them – horses and tourists – are properly potty trained.

Tom Clark, an employee of Old Tombstone Tours, a stagecoach business that carries tourists and educates them about the town’s history, said his company has taught its horses how to urinate in only one place, and it wasn’t a difficult process.

“They know when to go,” said Clark, who has worked for the tour firm nearly a decade. “We take them down to the sandbox twice every day, usually around noon and 3 in the afternoon.”

From Battlegrounds to Studios: Dealing with PTSD

All Storiesasnsadmin11/09/20110

Miguel Folch, 39, is a paramedic, firefighter and fashion photographer in Tucson, Ariz. Folch is also a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces – the U.S. Air Force Pararescue operatives, otherwise known as the “Pararescue Jumpers.” He also suffers from combat post-traumatic stress disorder.

Folch is not alone. Approximately 23 percent of the nation’s more than 25 million vetarans suffer and live with PTSD.

Folch talks about the aspects of his life that has helped shape who he is today.

[caption id="attachment_83" align="alignleft" width="900"]Miguel Folch, a veteran pararescue jumper, sits in front of strobe spotlights at a photo studio in the Lost Barrio in Tucson as he waits for a model to change her wardrobe. Folch has decided to pursue his passion for photography to escape the stresses associated with being a Tucson firefighter. (Photo by Josh Morgan/ASNS)[/caption]Miguel Folch, 40, is a paramedic, firefighter and fashion photographer from Tucson. He’s a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command operatives, also known as the “pararescue jumpers.”

And he suffers from combat post-traumatic stress disorder.

Folch is not alone. Approximately 23 percent of the nation’s more than 25 million veterans suffer and live with PTSD.