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Volume 30 • Number 5 February 1, 2023
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Dream inspires Dirk Dieters’ first book
INSIDE
This Week
BY HOPE PETERS
Tucson Local Media
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NEWS .......................... 6 Beer and a dog
LIVEN UP ...................10 Satisfying Stones' fans Charlie Proper receives her MUSD teacher of the year award from superintendent Dr. Dan Streeter. (MUSD/Submitted)
HEALTH ..................... 17 Placebos may enhance treatment NEWS .............................................. 6 LIVEN UP ..................................... 10 SPORTS ........................................ 14 HEALTH........................................ 17 PUZZLE/HOROSCOPES ............. 19 WORSHIP/CLASSIFIEDS ........... 20 MLS #22301470
Proper honored as MUSD teacher of the year BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Tucson Local Media Staff
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oadrunner Elementary School physical education teacher Charlie Proper never expected to be named Marana Unified School District’s teacher of the
year. She’s humbled and modest about it. “They called a staff meeting and they were reading a letter about the winner,” Proper said. “About three-quarters of the way through it, I
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ucson nonprofit leader Dirk Dieters awoke in the middle of the night last January, recalling a dream. “It was about a kid who was fixing a BMW and found a ring in it,” Dieters said. “People had to figure out who it belonged to.” The founder and executive director of the nonprofit management consulting firm Fremont Group put pen to paper. It led to his first novel, the newly released “The Ring,” which is the start to the Martin Dougherty mystery/thriller series. The follow-up book, “Suspicion,” is set to hit stores in the spring. “It was really kind of fun” Dieters said. “The only reason I did it was because it was flat-out fun to do.” “The Ring” tells the story of a family responding to tragedy and caught in the center of the deadly affairs of others. On moving day, Dougherty’s wife is unexpectedly killed, sending the family into turmoil. Dougherty and his three children — Kristi, Kim and Ken — must deal with a new city and life, which becomes complicated. The characters and the store are fictional, but it does draw from Dieters’ move from Colorado to Tucson.
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