Superior News

An organization known as the Superior Recall Committee 2009 has filed four applications for recall petitions aimed at the mayor and three members of Superior Town Council.

Superior Public Library Director Josie Campos announced recently that the new library automation system, Polaris, is up and running! She is encouraging members of the public to come to the library for a personal account password so they can take advantage of convenient new features the system offers.

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Resolution Copper has been awarded two prestigious awards in recognition of an outstanding safety performance at its Superior operation.

Boyce Thompson Arboretum's Fall Plant Sale is October 10 - 25, 2009 and will include lectures, tours, special guests and plants! Boyce Thompson Arboretum is the perfect place to stock up on drought-tolerant plants and October is the best month of the year to plant them.

Historic buildings are an important part any downtown area. But as CBS 5 investigative reporter Morgan Loew discovered, when those buildings aren't taken care of it can have disastrous results.

During research for their book on the Copper Basin, Arizona authors Daryl Mallett and Lyn Scott were shown the grave site of a Civil War era soldier named Jacob Youtcy buried on a hillside in Kelvin, Arizona.

The Superior Fire Department was the first at the scene on the evening of Sept. 22 when a fire destroyed an unoccupied residential building at Top of the World.

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Eight other fatalities have occurred at these Arizona mining sites in the past five years: a 2005: Matthewsville Excavating sand-and-gravel mine in Thatcher; Arizona Tufflite's White Vulcan Mine, east of Flagstaff.

Juried art competition and exhibits, creative food and live musical entertainment will be among attractions at the fourth annual AJ Art Festival & Taste of the Superstitions Nov.

Joe E. Gonzales was 8 years old when he received his first lesson in the value of hard work.

His mother told him to build a shoeshine box and make use of it. She wanted him to learn "you have to work for what you want," he recalled in 2002 when he was honored by the University of Arizona Hispanic Alumni Club.

As a young man, he earned little more than $3 a day doing backbreaking work as a pick-and-shovel man for Magma Copper, but he saved enough to pay his college tuition.

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His paternal grandfather had a concession with a freight company in Tucson, hauling silver ore in 20-mule-team wagons between Pinal City and Florence. The usual trail along Queen Creek washed out with each heavy rain, so Gonzales' grandfather carved out a safer, shorter route, which later was named Gonzales Pass and incorporated into the U.S. Highway 60-70 route.

After graduating from Superior High School, Joe Gonzales worked for a mine, earning $3.10 a day, saving enough money to enroll at Arizona State College in Tempe.

Growing up in Superior, Gonzales remembered his mother feeding the unemployed drifters who passed through town looking for work, and his father, who ran a small grocery store, giving away food to those in need. It was this concern for the well-being of others that they instilled in their children.

The Mountain Vista Junior High Football team picked up its first win of the season with a 12-0 shut out over the Superior Panthers on Sept.

Katherine Watson is a rar e resident of Green Valley.

Born during the Depression in the now-extinct mining town of Ray, she is a native Arizonan. During her early years, she lived in other mining towns: Hayden, Ajo and Superior. She rode her horse to school in Phoenix, graduated from the University of Arizona and for 30 years taught in the state.

Now she shares her memories, experiences and discoveries of the 48th state with members of the Green Valley affiliate of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Arizona.

On Sept. 30 and Oct. 7, she will lead a two-session series on Arizona mining camps and ghost towns entitled “Tales Spun of Copper, Silver and Gold.”

Some of Watson’s fondest childhood memories are the six years she and her parents, Beth and Al Pruetz, lived in the rear of her father’s neighborhood market in Superior. She recalls her childhood lullaby was the scraping of the butcher block.

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Having flown that day at half mast, the fire department's older flag is removed from the flagpole in a solemn ceremony and replaced by a new flag donated by the Woodmen of the World Lodge.

On February 9, 1959, the nation was mourning the recent loss of Ritchie Valens, one of the first major Hispanic musicians to reach major crossover success in the United States, and a 2001 Rock 'N Roll Hall Of Fame inductee. However, in the small town of Superior, Az., Richard and Linda Ochoa were celebrating the birth of their first child, Richard. Years later, as the jefitos continued to instill family values to all four siblings, the Ochoas' moved to Mesa. Those values included, without exception, to love, respect, and support the familia, and to use passion to take on life's challenges and opportunities. For the last four decades, that passion has belonged to lowriding, and it has run steadily through the veins of this 2009 Lowrider Hall of Fame honoree.

A series of weak Pacific low-pressure systems are forecast to move into the region today through Sunday for an increased chance of showers and thunderstorms, CBS 5 Valley Pinpoint meteorologists said.

Saundra McGarry saw the thick, black smoke billowing upwards as she drove into Superior, Ariz.

Have you ever had prickly-pear jam? Spend Labor Day at Boyce Arboretum State Park learning how to juice a prickly pear.