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February 2019 Vol. 6, No. 2Greenlee Clarion

Inside this issue:

Women’s Career ExpoGrowing Greenlee IIINew Morenci corralsNew jail commanderNew county website

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The Greenlee ClarionPublished monthly by

Greenlee County Economic Development253 Fifth Street | Clifton, Arizona 85533

(928) 865-2072 ext. 202Ákos Kovach, Editor

Gary Dillard, Graphics EditorDee Porter, Reporter

economicdevelopment@co.greenlee.az.uswww.growinggreenlee.org

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By Ákos KovachIt was unlike any other day. The clouds parted

wide, the sun shined but there was something new, a sense of fresh anticipation.

Early on Saturday morning, not much stirs on the streets of Clifton besides miner shift change until it was a 17-year-old girl who showed up early. She never had a job outside her home and wanted to find employment. Fortunately for her, six employers were on hand.

As big as this one life was positively affected, there were others. Like the statement of a young law enforcement professional who expressed she had always harbored a secret wish to start a business, and after hearing Sue Malone, our keynote speaker, she realized her dream could become a reality.

Elsewhere in this months’ issue (starting on page

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By Ákos KovachIn our continuing effort to bring worthwhile

events, learning opportunities, motivational speak-ers with a real message as well hard facts to help build resumes, get help with business plans and net-work with the best possible professionals we bring you a year’s worth of opportunity in several up-coming events.

As Benjamin Franklin famously wrote: “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Among our goals this year we in-tend to provide opportunities for lots of people to get involved. Our theme, learn, grow , change, re-peat – is more than a slogan, it is a proven process that can help change lives and strengthen our com-munity.

As we learn more about ourselves and our com-munity we engender the reality of growth. Growth on any level and in any setting brings about change. As long as we do not sit still or stand still we can make good things happen. “I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” Margaret Mead and to that end follow us on FaceBook and our additional social media platforms. 2019 is “Our Year” – the Year of Growing Greenlee, the Year everyone will take notice and take action.

Learn, grow, change, repeat

Please turn to page 7

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By Dee PorterOn Saturday January 26

Greenlee County Economic De-velopment held Greenlee Coun-ty’s first Women’s Career Expo. For a first time event attendance was strong with over 80 adults participating. Everyone from the exhibitors, the speakers and all attendees were entertained and informed by several dynamic speakers.

Greenlee County Supervisor David Gomez started off the fes-tivities with opening remarks. Sue Malone, the owner of Strate-gies for Small Business, travelled from California to motivate and encourage us… “you CAN start your own business”!

Sue offers financial resourc-es to help those ready to start a business.

Terry Dolan and Connie Di-erks of Arizona Business and Professional Women came from Wickenburg and spoke of how changes over the years have made it possible for women to fulfill their career dreams and be successful.

They also offered advice on resume building and interview techniques. Throughout the day we also heard from local speakers, including Charmaine Chidester from the Small Busi-ness Development Center. Char-

‘You can start your own business’Women are told at Career Expo

Supervisor David Gomez welcomed more than 80 women to the first Women’s Career Expo Jan. 26.

On the coverSue Malone, the owner of

Strategies for Small Business, travelled from California to motivate and encourage at-tendees with: “you CAN start your own business!”

Numerous businesses and agencies showed many of the local oppor-tunities for employment and careers.

maine spoke about the resources SBDC offers and how they can help you with business plans and tools to get your business started.

Charmaine also spoke about the Dreambuilder program and

how this program helps estab-lish a foundation for starting a business or growing your cur-rent business. Arizona@Work was represented by Bobbie Reed. Bobbie discussed the Arizona@

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Work list of programs and how they help job seek-ers find jobs without a financial obligation. Arizo-na@Work also helps employers find much needed employees.

Crystal Noland, owner of Noland Tough Fence, gave a powerful presentation about how she was able to overcome a rough beginning and go onto being a successful business owner.

Crystal said that the biggest mistake people make is ‘not making a move at all’. Crystal said that ‘you cannot let fear of failure stop you from moving for-ward toward your dream’.

The audience also heard from Laura Dorrell and Rosalinda Guerrero of Gila Health Resources. Both ladies spoke about careers in Health Care. Laura also spoke about her role in the Clifton Town Coun-cil and how important it is to be involved in your community.

Next the audience was treated to a fun and fes-tive fashion show presented by Brittani Wallace with her LuLaRoe clothing line. Brittani and sever-al volunteer models entertained and fascinated with their quick changes and fun fashion statements. A special note of thanks to Mrs. Jo Lunt who provided lovely piano music as a mood background during a networking break. A delicious lunch was catered by Blue Door Sanctuary.

We had seventeen vendor booths with everything ranging from delicious baked goods from The Sweet Corner in Duncan to the Greenlee County Sheriff’s Department recruiting for new employees. We had personnel from Basha’s, Dollar General, U.S. Cen-sus Bureau, Southwest Irrigation and Freeport on site to talk to prospective employees.

Crystal Noland, owner of Noland Tough Fence, gave a powerful presentation about how she was able to overcome a rough beginning and go onto being a successful business owner.

Brittni Greenwell from Arizona Department of Economic Security was on hand to talk about be-coming a certified DES Childcare Provider as qual-ity childcare is always needed in our area. Good Oil Days was on hand to sell DoTerra oils and ac-cessories, Origami Owl jewelry had an information booth, and B Nail Envy showcased fashion nail covers. Our own Greenlee County Health Depart-ment was on hand with giveaways and information about the programs they offer.

Overall It was a successful, informative, and fun event. We appreciate everyone who attended and participated. The feedback has been very positive. We are already planning on how we can make the next Expo even better!

The audience also heard from Laura Dorrell (R) and Rosalinda Guerrero of Gila Health Resources.

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Virginia L. Staab, Consul Gen-eral for the U.S. Consulate in No-gales, Sonora, has confirmed as keynote speaker at the upcoming Growing Greenlee Summit 2019 on March 22.

Staab is a career diplomat with the U.S. State Department since 2003. She began her current post-ing in August 2017.

Prior to this assignment, she was the Director of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affair Section in Guatemala.

She led the collaboration be-tween the Government of the United States and the Govern-ment of Guatemala, community organizations and non-govern-mental organizations to improve the capacities of democratic in-stitutions, anti-drug programs, anti-gang programs and youth support, as well as support for the justice sector reform.

Before joining the Foreign Ser-vice, she had a long career in the private sector as Marketing Direc-

Consul General keynote speaker

tor for an international, corporate law firm based in San Francisco. Prior diplomatic assignments in-clude Bogotá, London, Lisbon and Washington, D.C. She was born in San Francisco, is married and has two children.

The purpose of inviting the Consul General to Greenlee County is to bring together stake-

holders from border communities and others to highlight facts, op-portunities and to share in a net-working opportunity to encour-age ongoing trade and business relations.

Other aspects of Growing Greenlee Summit III will be working with the various stake-holders involved in residential and commercial construction to create a local organization for working on that vital part of Greenlee County’s development.

There also will be a room set aside for the ministers of the community to meet, with an eye toward creating a Ministerial Al-liance for the region.

Details of the Summit, includ-ing the agenda, will be published in the March edition of Growing Greenlee, but be sure to set aside March 22 for the various activi-ties of the day.

Follow the Growing Greenlee Facebook page for updates on the event.

How many of these people can you tag/identify? Go to our Facebook page and tag them.

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A bit about ASAPIf you want to learn a bit more

about ASAP, the Area Sector Analysis Process that we have discussed in recent months, go on over to our YouTube page.

The notes also will link you to the complete PowerPoint Presen-tation on the Growing Greenlee website.

This presentation covers Mod-ule 3, which takes in socioeco-nomic factors.

Alzheimer’s support group

An Alzheimer’s Support Group meets the second Thursday of the month at 2:30 p.m. at the senior center, 430 N. High Street, Dun-can.

Support groups provide a fo-rum to share feelings, concerns, information and as a way of sup-porting and encouraging each other.

For information or questions, call 520.322.6601.

Cheap produceThe Greenlee County Wellness

Coalition presents Produce on Wheels With-Out Waste Program food distribution at east side of the new warehouse of the Moren-ci Ace Hardware.

It will be held March 2 from 10 a.m. to noon.

For a $12 donation, a family can get about 70 pounds of fruits and vegetables. This is a rescue program, where familites can get nutritious foods at low cost. At the same time, it helps curb food waste.

Registration is needed to get enough families signed up to make the program possible. Call Jody at 814.389.2129 or Vanessa at 602.669.8874.

Duncan Head Start

A Duncan Head Start parent meeting will be held Feb. 6 at noon.

Presenter is Lawrence (Edd ) Schommer, statewide resource and community engagement co-ordinator.

The topic will be special ed-ucation and what resources are available.

This is open to the community.

2019 12 Step meetings

The Greenlee County Well-ness Coalition said that Wellness Group 12 Step meetings in 2019 will be held Monday-Thursday, from 5:30-6:30 p.m.

They will be upstairs in the employees meeting room at Ba-sha’s, 172 Plaza Drive, Morenci.

Domestic violence help

Mt. Graham Safe House is of-fering “mobile advocacy” to help stop domestic violence.

“If you can’t come to us,” the group says, “we’ll come to you.” An advocate can meet an individ-ual in a safe place where that per-son will feel comfortable.

Anyone who needs someone to talk to, transportation to court or to pick up court paperwork, or safety planning, should contact the organization, Monday-Friday until 4 p.m.

The number is 928.348.9140.

For further information, call 863.521.3199.

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Employees of Freeport-Mc-MoRan who live in the Morenci/Clifton areas are excited that the newly built corrals are ready to be utilized.

Those who have horses have been anxiously awaiting the new facilities. There are about 60 spaces available with shade, stor-age, water, and electricity.

Tumbleweed Feed is now open and located conveniently to the corrals.

This should make it conve-nient for those who have animals in the corrals. It will also benefit anyone else who may be in need of feed or tack.

More pens comingThe next phase of the project

will be the addition of smaller animal pens, for pigs, sheep, etc. The smaller pens will give local children an opportunity to raise 4-H animals. This should prove to be an exciting time of growth for the 4-H program.

Amber Sumner, Program Co-ordinator for 4-H, with the Uni-versity of Arizona Cooperative Extension, said they are excited that Freeport-McMoRan made it possible for the 4H program to grow in the Morenci/Clifton area.

Great for 4-H4-H participation has been lim-

ited due to restrictions on animals in Freeport Housing. Amber said that she and those involved in the 4-H program are very grateful to FMI for creating the pens.

They look forward to increased opportunities and greater partici-pation in the program. https://ex-tension.arizona.edu/4h/greenlee

60 new corrals at Morenci

3), please read the recap penned by Dee Porter. It tells a compel-ling saga of who was there and how well they all interacted.

One of the biggest “takeaways” was the feedback and sugges-tions for the next Women’s Expo. Ideas such as “give the audience more about how to juggle job and home;” have a self-defense class; a meal-prep demonstration suit-able for last-minute meals on the go; and lots more about women’s empowerment.

We are listening - listening and taking action on these and other suggestions for the next Women’s Expo, coming this Fall. We hope to see the 81 adults and

their 7 children come back, enjoy more, learn and bring someone with them.

The Women’s Expo was a kaleidoscope of dreams, wish-es and plans that came togeth-er thanks to many good people - the vendors who were treated like guests, those there to sell but found themselves caught up in the momentum and emotion of it all.

The meal was prepared and ca-tered by Blue Door Sanctuary - those chicken croissants got a lot of high fives. The Sweet Corner Cinnamon Rolls, Mexican hol-iday cookies and banana breads were a-maz-ing!

We look forward to the next Women’s Expo, coming this Fall.

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Click here for more information or to register.

Seth Hudman and Eric Arrington of Red Hammer LLC discussed the new Greenlee County website, which is being designed, at the Feb. 5 meeting of the Board of Supervisors, The new website is scheduled to go live by the end of February. The goals of the new website design involve enhanced security, ac-cessibility, ease of navigation, and simplicity relat-ed to updating and maintaining the page. Once the new website is live it will be easier to keep informa-tion current and relevant. We will also be changing our domain name from co.greenlee.az.us to green-lee.az.gov once the improvements are completed.

New jail commanderSheriff Tim Sumner introduced the new Jail

Commander, Tyler Attaway, to the Board of Super-visors at its Feb. 5 meeting.

Commander Attaway was previously an Admin-istrative Lieutenant in the Graham County Adult Detention Facility. He began as a control room op-erator in 2008 and worked his way up the ranks. He was instrumental in the design process and all that went into the two year process of the new facil-ity opening. Both of his parents are fromGreenlee County.

He told the Board his goals would be to revamp-ing the policy and procedures, which he hopes to

complete within six months. He will use a committee of Sheriff’s Office personnel to assist with the process. Other goals are listed as facility improvements, bringing the jail up to National Jail Standards, improv-ing the public image, and working to improve staff morale.

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Upcoming activities

2/6 and every other Wednesday, 10-4, Clifton Farmer’s Market, Clifton Train Depot.

2/8 7-8:30 Riders on the Orphan Train, Duncan.

2/12 and 3/12 11:30-1, Greenlee Tourism Council, Greenlee Golf Course, York Valley.

2/14 2-4 p.m., Clifton Town Council, Clifton Town Hall.

2/14 5-7 p.m., Duncan Town Council, Duncan Town Hall.

2/16 1-4 p.m., Jam Session, A Frame Church in Morenci - everyone welcome.

2/19 and 3/8 8-11 a.m., Greenlee Board of Supervisors, Clifton Annex, BOS Conference Room.

2/23 5-8 p.m., Greenlee Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner, 550 North Coronado Blvd.

3/22 10-2 Growing Greenlee Summit III, The Community Center, 550 N. Coronado Blvd.

For more calendar items, click here.

See Morenci School District calendar at its website.

Freeport McMoRan Inc. added significantly to its copper reserves last year, with most of that coming at its North American mines, the company report Jan. 24.

Preliminary estimated consolidated recoverable proven and probable reserves at Dec. 31, 2018, to-taled 119.6 billion pounds of copper, 30.8 million ounces of gold and 3.78 billion pounds of molyb-denum, which includes net additions of 23.7 billion pounds of copper, primarily in North America and South America, and 13.0 billion pounds of copper and 10.1 million ounces of gold related to PT-FI’s acquisition of the Joint Venture interest, the compa-ny said.

FCX adds significant copper reservesFCX said its North America copper reserves at

year-end had increased 49% year-over-year, from 33.5 billion pounds to 49.9 billion pounds, taking in to account 1.4 billion pounds of production during the year.

The increase was principally at Bagdad, Moren-ci, Sierrita and Lone Star, FCX reported.

The company also noted that in addition to the preliminary estimated consolidated recoverable proven and probable reserves, FCX’s preliminary estimated mineralized material at Dec. 31, 2018, which was assessed using $3.00 per pound for cop-per, totaled 134 billion pounds of incremental con-tained copper.

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JanuaryDuncan – Birding Event (Willcox Wings is Jan

17-20, 2019)Jan 22 after BOS and Jan 23 at Mixer in Duncan

- ASAP Community County Wide Event Jan 26 Women’s Career Expo, BPW/SBDC/

EAC/Az@Work

FebruaryFeb 23 Chamber Annual Dinner

March Growing Greenlee Summit 2019 / Volunteer rec-

ognition and awardsContractor/Developer/Investor MeetingOpportunity Zone/NMTC Organizational meeting of ministerial alllianceAARP Drivers SchoolSpring planting/Migratory Birds Bird Count /

Clifton Soccer Field areaQuarterly Award for best seasonal decorations –

indoor or outdoorHannagan Meadow GetawayBike race up Coronado Trail

AprilApril 6 & 7 Javelina Chase April 11-13, 2019 - Morenci Lions Club High

School Baseball TournamentApril 27 Safehouse Golf Tournament in conjunc-

tion with the Greenlee County Club and Morenci Schools

Hospitality/Tourism event – Hot Air Balloon Festival - Music festival

Marathon up Coronado or up 78Senior Expo Earth Day - Wild Adventure Tours of Greenlee

County – Gila Box

MayAmenities, Arts, Culture – Cinco de Mayo Splash Pad OpensPolly Rosenbaum DinnerClifton Hill ClimbPoker Run – Bike Show Cross border event with Graham, Cochise, Grant

& Hidalgo County, Lordsburg, Silver City

JuneVacation in GreenleeSenior Citizen Services event, audiologist, home

health, hospiceIce Cream festivalQuarterly Award for best seasonal decorations –

indoor or outdoorShark Tank

JulyIndependence Day parades – Clifton & DuncanFocus on Restaurants/food vendors/caterersMystery TheatreGun show AugustAuto/motorcycle show – poker runGreenlee Salsa FestivalCulinary Classy eventSeptemberGreenlee County 100th Annual Fair Cattle Association, 4H, Meat processors, goat

roping, Quarterly Award for best seasonal decorations –

indoor or outdoor

October Fire Safety home check up Fall Festival at FairgroundsHistory – Art – Culture Clifton Haunted HouseHalloween carnivalRailroad Weekend – Chili Cook-off/Dutch oven

cook off

NovemberColors of CopperMHS/CHS Vendor FairCowbellesVeteran services

DecemberBreakfast with Santa Holiday concertChristmas parades – Clifton & DuncanFood basket, gift packing eventQuarterly Award for best seasonal decorations –

indoor or outdoor

Calendar of events for 2019(current and proposed)