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Miner News
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Tuesday, February 09
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DPS finds marijuana in abandoned car
Arizona Department of Public Safety last Friday discovered more than 150 pounds of marijuana in a vehicle on Highway 77 at milepost 91 near Oracle Junction.
According to DPS, the officer stopped the vehicle as it was headed north. The driver fled on foot and was not located.
A search of
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Oracle artists set April 17-18 for 18th annual studio tour; welcome center planned
Oracle artists and artisans have set the weekend of April 17 and 18, 2010, for the annual tour of artists’ home studios, galleries, and shared-location venues. New this year is a “welcome center” where visitors can pick up self-guiding maps and view displays and photos of
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Introducing Mammoth-San Manuel Community Schools
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Larry Ramirez is the Community Schools Director for the Mammoth-San Manuel School District.
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Although a concept of a community school has been around since the 1800’s, it was not until the late 1970s and early 1980s that community schools became integrated in public schools nationwide. It is believed that between 1932 and 1935 Frank Manley a Physical Education Teacher and Recreation Supervisor in the Flint, Michigan Public School System presented ideas on how schools could begin to solve various community problems. A local Philanthropist agreed to help and donated $6,000 to the Flint Public Schools for the purposes of a greater use of school facilities. This was the birth of
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Tortilleria Mi Pueblito in Mammoth supplies 600 dozen tortillas to hungry households daily
Maria T. Torres is living the American dream.
Her journey began in Bacerac, Sonora Mexico where she and her family are from. After attending college in Durango she moved to Agua Prieta, Sonora where she was a school teacher for 18 years teaching first through sixth grade. Some of her family had immigrated to the United States so she decided to follow them. She arrived in the United States in 1988.
After working for Motel 6 she hired on with Wal Mart in 1994 as a sales associate in Tucson. She is now an Assistant Manager at the Wal Mart Supercenter on Cortaro Road.
In 1997
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Mountain Vista kids help Haiti
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Helping Haiti
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The Oracle School District has launched a donation drive for the survivors of the Haitian earthquake.
In the last two weeks students from first through eighth grade have collected over 1,000 items for the Haitians. Helen Nack, School Counselor at Mountain Vista started the relief drive. She thought it would be a “good service project for the kids to think outside of themselves” and help others.
“The kids were excited about it and wanted to help,” she said.
The school made it a contest with all the different classes. The class that collected the most
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More Headlines
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San Manuel High School wins national recognition
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The History of Tiger, Arizona, Part V
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Local 4-H club offers something for everyone
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SaddleBrooke art festival raises money for Kids’ Closet
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Solar power proposed for Mammoth
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