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Volume • Number August ,
The Voice of Marana, Oro Valley and Northwest Tucson
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Leman gets $175K grant for SRO
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This Week
BY DAVE PERRY
Tucson Local Media Contributor
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timetable for any occupancy of the pergola-like structures, according to Lindsay Kerr, Town of Oro Valley public information officer. One thing is certain. The Oro Valley Farmers Market goes on, asserts Nick Szumowski, executive director of Heirloom Farmers Markets. “We’ll be there every Saturday, 8 to noon,
eman Academy of Excellence Oro Valley has received a three-year, $175,000 annual commitment from the Arizona Department of Education to pay expenses for a permanently assigned school resource officer from the Oro Valley Police Department. This is the first assigned SRO at an Oro Valley charter school, according to OVPD spokesman Darren Wright. For years, Oro Valley officers have served as SROs on Amphitheater public school campuses in the community, with the town picking up most of the cost. Oro Valley charter and faith-based schools without an SRO have an assigned, nonresident liaison officer assisting with school safety, Wright said. The competitively awarded state grant, through the Department of Education’s School Safety Program, is expected to cover “the salary and employee-related expenses for a school resource officer” at Leman, according to a town staff report. Oro Valley plans to send an itemized invoice to Leman monthly. School resumes at the K-8 charter school, located west of La Cañada and north of
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HoofsnHorns Sanctuary vies for donations in Goat Games
FEATURE ...................10 OV man earns his degree from U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
LIVEN UP ................... 14 Incubus is back on the road and in Tucson on Aug. 23 HOT PICKS......................................3 HEALTH.........................................16 BUSINESS......................................18 PUZZLE/HOROSCOPES...............19 WORSHIP/CLASSIFIEDS.............20
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Yellow and black caution tape keeps people away from the heavily damaged farmers market ramada at Oro Valley’s historic Steam Pump Ranch. This northernmost of three ramadas was destroyed; the southern ramada was damaged by a vehicle as well, rendering the entire structure unsafe for occupancy. The Oro Valley Farmers Market has found alternative space on the Oracle Road ranch. (Dave Perry/Contributor)
Structures lost, but market goes on BY DAVE PERRY
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Tucson Local Media Contributor
ro Valley police don’t know who slammed a white pickup truck into the ramada that shelters the weekly farmers market at historic Steam Pump Ranch late July 20. It’s too early to estimate the property damage, a course of repair or replacement, or a
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