May
12, 1999
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Sadness and Grief: Bereavement camp teaches how to cope: Sara
Yakub's world shattered when her father drowned on a fishing trip last year.The
11-year-old sixth-grader said she screamed for hours, "It's not true! My dad
has not died! My dad has not died!" Her father was a friend -- her "buddy,"
who understood her small secrets, who pushed her swing in the backyard of their
house, who walked her to Foothills Elementary School in Phoenix.
Farm
Aid: Farmers look to tourism to save their land
Mark Schnepf's employees barely notice the tourist train weaving
through the fields of vegetables or the ladder-climbing goats scrambling within
their pens. They're too busy pulling weeds and washing the moist chunks of earth
from the organic produce that will be sold at the Country Store at the north
end of the property. People notice them, of course. They're part of the attractions
that pull 100,000 visitors a year to Schnepf's 600-acre farm in Queen Creek,
in the farthest reaches of the southeast Valley.
Healing
through harmony
"Ohmmm..."Tanner West pressed the lowest note on the keyboard. The
usually quiet 6-year-old mimicked the deep tone, attempting a brief duet before
grinning widely.On the keyboard were happy face stickers attached to different
keys that his mentor, 23-year-old Ryoko Yokoyama, wanted Tanner to press.Tanner
eyed the keys warily before deciding to press all the happy face ones
simultaneously rather than the single one Yokoyama instructed him to push. They
both laughed as his small arms tried to cover the range of the keyboard, making
a discordant series of tones.
16mm:
Student filmmakers Adam
Moss used to think it would take him years to make a name for himself in the
film industry. The 22-year-old broadcasting major figured he had to start as
a production assistant, work his way up through the ranks and maybe direct one
day.Then two years ago, Moss heard "the formula": Make a short film. Show it
in festivals. Attract the attention of industry bigwigs. Then get fists-full
of feature scripts and money."I was blown away," Moss said. "I had no clue."The
formula had worked for filmmakers such as Dean Parisot and Mark Christopher.
Each won acclaim and awards for their short films, The Appointments of Dennis
Jennings and Alkali, Iowa, and went on to make Home Fries
and 54 -- their respective feature film debuts.
Electric
slide: deregulation The
corporate offices of Salt River Project were decorated with balloons and banners
on Dec. 31. "We Did It!" was inscribed on colorful posters to mark the historic
event that would take place the next day.Jan. 1 was to be the first day of electricity
competition in Arizona. It was to be the day SRP embraced current customers
and began going after new ones. A day to recognize the work done by SRP employees
and its governing board in preparation for competition.Instead, the lights of
competition failed to go on in Arizona, and the day brought confusion, frustration
and more delays. It also may have brought extra charges of about $5 per month
for SRP customers before competition even begins.
Magnificent
7: Olympian gets used to college life Amanda Borden twirled her blonde
hair and smiled. She does that when she reminisces about the 1996 Olympics,
when she was captain of the gold-medal winning women's gymnastic team.Of course,
when people remember that team, Borden isn't in the first picture. There's Kerri
Strug weeping as her coach, Bela Karolyi, carries her to the awards ceremony.
And Shannon Miller on the balance beam, the only American to win back-to-back
world all-around titles. And the youngest member, Dominique Moceanu, performing
a country-western floor routine.