December 15, 1999 Volume 6, Issue 2 Small Town Life On the Big Screen A Sense of Purpose When Life Changes the Game Healing Power for Kids Adjusting the Color Balance

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Small Town Life: The lives of Douglas residents revolve around one another and depend on the town of Aqua Prieta The lives of Douglas residents revolve around one another and depend on the bordering town of Agua Prieta. The once booming Arizona community is now portrayed in a bad light because national news reports its bad side to the outside world. The townspeople believe there is more to their community than the trafficking of drugs and crossing of illegal immigrants.

On the Big Screen: People who watch movies make Dan Harkins happy Dan Harkins holds his own against national movie giants, dominates Valley movie business.When Valley residents go to a movie, chances are they're visiting Dan Harkins.With 16 theaters Valleywide, and 161 screens, Harkins has held his own against national movie giants. His easy-going style and charismatic personality has won him fans throughout Arizona. And despite the difficulties of maintaining a local theater empire, he's managed to not only compete with national corporations, but fulfill his dream of bringing films to his hometown. And now, with plans of opening theaters in California, Colorado and New Mexico, Harkins has proven he truly does have movies flowing through his veins, something he learned at an early age.

A Sense of Purpose: Southern Colorado refuge is a lifetime home to wolves Wolves and humans find sanctuary in a remote, southern Colorado mountain wilderness. At dusk, the howling begins. One plaintive cry rises and falls, another answers, and a mesmerizing natural symphony of dissonance crests as the 45 four-legged inhabitants of Mission:Wolf make their presence known. The handful of humans living primitively at this wolf sanctuary in cabins and tipis have come to love the sound. They know their neighbors are communicating with each other.

When Life Changes the Game: Being a student-athlete and a parent is a challenge At an increasing rate, student-athletes are facing a difficult challenge off the field --PARENTHOOD.Justine Spann runs an out pattern from the kitchen to the living room, where she clutches her mom's legs like her father, Creig, would a football. No sooner is Mom ready to pick her up than 19-month-old Justine is ready to race back to the kitchen. Mom can only smile, although she remembers when her life as a mother wasn't always a laughing matter. Mom is Terri Cox, a onetime standout volleyball player for ASU. Dad is Creig Spann, a former wide receiver for the Sun Devils.

Healing Power for Kids: Canine therapists do their thing with children Aurora Yerby stroked her son's arm as Michael Lewis and Hobbes entered the tiny room littered with Star Wars posters and memorabilia."Look at the doggie, honey," Yerby said to 11-year-old Josh Hinkley. "Now, this is the special dog we had heard about. Isn't he the one who sings or barks to Star Wars?" Lewis nodded as Hobbes stood on his hind legs, resting his front paws on Josh's hospital bed. Hobbes does this work a lot. The border collie is one of six caning volunteers in the dog therapy program at Phoenix Children's Hospital, 1111 E. McDowell Road. Dog therapy is a service of the hospital's Child Life Department, whose specialists assist children and their families in adapting to hospitalization.

Adjusting the Color Balance: When it comes to people of color, TV needs tuning The face of television is forever changing, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People thinks the color needs some fine tuning. At the NAACP's 90th national convention in July in New York, President Kweisi Mfume attacked the four major networks -- ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX -- for the creation of 26 new shows that debuted this fall, none of which featured any person of color in a lead or starring role.

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