The Voice of Marana since 2007
Volume 29• Number 42 October 12, 2022
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INSIDE Library Renovations
Martha Cooper Library patrons should prepare for Nov. 20 remodeling closure, opening again in spring of 2024
PJ Quinn died at age 29 of osteosarcoma. (Light Up Lives Charity Foundation/Submitted)
Parents honor Soldiers Opera those who give Wounded soldiers lives and stories are focus of new Arizona Students take flight at Marana airport selflessly Opera production | Page 8
Flight instructor Erwin Castillo with one of the single-engine planes students at IFLY Flight School at Marana Regional Airport may learn on. He said anyone can learn to fly. (Photo by Noelle Taro-Gomez)
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ast week, Trevor Dahlstrom left Marana and headed to lunch with friends. He got back later that afternoon. It doesn’t seem like an unusual thing to do. “I love to travel,” he said. “Just yesterday I flew to San Diego for the day; it’s really cool to have that freedom to travel around the country.” The next day he went to Prescott and planned to be home in time for supper. As a flight instructor, it’s all in a day’s work for Dahlstrom, but that’s one of the advantages of piloting a plane. There used to be only one way to become a pi-
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lot: through the military. Today there’s another jetway to the cockpit, and it’s right up the road at Marana Regional Airport. At IFLY Flight School just about anyone can train to become a pilot. In about the same time it takes to get an associate’s degree and for about the same cost, you, too, can take to the skies. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Taking off begins in the classroom, where future pilots spend time studying for the student pilot certificate test. As with a learner’s permit, you must have a flight instructor with you, and you are prohibited from having passengers. Next step: private pilot license, which allows
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efore cancer claimed the life of PJ Quinn on July 5, 2020, first responders were frequent visitors to the family’s home. The 29-year-old’s parents, Michael and Bonnie Quinn of Oro Valley, are forever grateful — and wanted to show it. The Quinns are bringing back the Rockin’ 4 Heroes fundraiser from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, at James D. Kriegh Park in Oro Valley. The “4” represents the groups
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