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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Cave Creek Museum set to open for season BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor

NEWS ................. 8 Big Earl’s Greasy Eats awarded landmark plaque

BUSINESS ......... 14 Rare Earth Gallery is Cave Creek’s ‘wonder of the world’

FEATURES ........ 18 Patrick O’Brien lights up clients’ lives

OPINION ......................9 BUSINESS ................. 14 FEATURES ................ 16 CLASSIFIEDS ............ 22 Zone

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he Cave Creek Museum will open for the 2021-2022 season on Oct. 1. The new season will feature exhibits, newly acquired collections and educational special events. The artifact collection Meal of Rock showcasing the Cave Creek area’s prehistoric history debuts in the Archeology Wing. Novel projections in the museum’s History Wing bring the town’s history to life. In addition, the museum will debut the area’s Desert Defender, who brought environmental activism to the foothills area. Programming includes an evening with the ghost hunters of Cave Creek; literary

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The Cave Creek Museum will reopen for the 2021-2022 season on Oct. 1, featuring new collections including the Meal of Rock artifact collection and the Desert Defender. (Photo courtesy of the Cave Creek Museum)

Horses at risk of slaughter offer healing at sanctuary BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer

ocal author Alexis Ferri experienced a rough awakening at 17 when volunteering at the Tierra Madre Horse Sanctuary in Cave Creek for community service hours: The abused and abandoned horses that ended up at the sanctuary were

the lucky ones. Many horses in that situation end up being sold for slaughter. Horse slaughter has been illegal in the United States for several years, but that doesn’t stop the inhumane act. It was dispersed to Canada and Mexico, where it is still very prevalent. “I learned, 12 years ago (when volunteering), that horses with nowhere else to go

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were rounded up by people called ‘kill buyers,’ who buy them from unsuspecting people or people who just want to get rid of their horses and don’t care, and ship them over the borders,” Ferri said. “So, that was my awakening to the fact that it is very real, and it’s a very rampant problem here in the U.S.”

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