By Noah Auclair/Arizona Sonora News Payton Bellows sits near the University of Arizona main library, smiling and laughing as she talks about her hometown, thousands of miles away on the East Coast. A naturally outgoing person with dark hair, her biggest passion in life, and the reason she traveled so far from home, is gymnastics….
By Phillip Bramwell/Arizona Sonora News A broad-shouldered woman standing 5-feet tall, wearing a black shirt and blue yoga pants stands, locks her knees in a bent position, and brings both fists to her face. A hair bun keeps her blonde hair out of her eyes. She rapidly alternates her hands as she punches the air…
By Megan Erickson/Arizona Sonora News Those worn-out dishtowels you’d find at the bottom of any household pantry were anything but trash to artist Arturo Valenzuela. When he was 8 years old and still at home in Hermosillo, Mexico, Valenzuela sat beside his mother, stitching and patching fabrics to create the quinceañera dress that would be…
By Alberto Quiroz/Arizona Sonora News When they finish high school, some students go on to college while others enter the workforce. A select few, enlist into the Armed Services. Jose Alberto Ureña was one of those select few. “I scored high enough to join the Air Force, but they never got back to me,” Ureña…
By Katelyn McIntyre/Arizona Sonora News It’s 4 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon in early fall and Amna Alquaisi heads into Sinbad’s Restaurant on Tucson’s University Blvd. for her daily dinner shift. The 52-year-old business owner was up early that day, carefully prepping the food that her son and her husband, Mulsmani, would cook all day….
