National Award for Dewey and Hudson

November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

National Award for Dewey and Hudson

The United States Attorney’s Office, District of Arizona, LECC Award plaque was presented to the Globe City Council, Globe P.D. Officer Brian Hudson and K-9 Dewey on November 3, 2008 by Dr. Timothy Trent, Superintendent Globe Unified School District. Attending participants and honorees were Chief David Mullin and Sgt. Lee Kinnard representing the Globe PoliceDepartment and Jennifer Kinnard, GUSD Director of Teaching and Learning.The KOGS Project was recognized for its outstanding achievement for developing a multi-agency group or task force that exemplifies the cooperative goals of LECC to establish community partnerships designed to address public safety.  The innovative strategies of  the KOGS Project was the successful product of cooperative efforts of the public, schools, and law enforcement to address a growing concern in our area of school safety which made this project an easy choice for the award.   The Globe School District, City of Globe, and Gila County Attorney’s Office cooperatively designed the KOGS {K-9 Officer at Globe Schools} Program and provided the funding ($40,000) and means for Globe Police Department to have a canine unit in the Globe schools to combat juvenile crime and drugs through the campaign of “I think drugs stink too.” Through this program, K-9 Dewey, a yellow Labrador retriever, was purchased and trained with his partner, Officer Brain Hudson.  The KOGS program’s goal is to reduce incidents on campus by 95%, reduce Gang Related Activity by 80%, reduce isolated acts of vandalism towards students and staff by 80%, and provide drug, gang violence, bullying, hazing, and other awareness education programs to students over the next 5 years.  The program also educating students, parents and teachers through presentations and classroom demonstrations showing Dewey’s skills of detection at work. The KOGS team, Officer Hudson and Dewey, came on duty during November 2007 producing amazing results with GPD data shows a dramatic decline in school related calls. 12 months of KOGS presence within the schools has reduced the number of student campus arrests from 22 to zero. Officer Hudson stated, “We have a great relationship of trust between me, Dewey and the students.  The kids love Dewey and value being a positive part of being drug free, they got the message from Dewey - Drugs Stink.”

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Proposed $2.6 Billion ASARCO Purchase Dead

October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Proposed $2.6 Billion ASARCO Purchase Dead

by Ted Lake  teddlake@yahoo.com


MIAMI MINE ON HOLD.  Freeport  McMoRan Copper and Gold has decided to delay its $100 million project to re-open its Miami open pit mine which had been closed some years ago.  Also put on hold were planned expansions for the company’s Sahuarita Mine southwest of Tucson and its copper mine in Bagdad, Arizona. Officials say the decisions were made because of a sharp drop in copper prices and lower profits (Copper was at $1.65 a pound last Friday–Freeport’s quarterly earnings were $523 million, a drop of $257 million from last year). Reopening the Miami mine called for 252 more jobs. One published report said by Freeport placing projects on hold resulted in various construction contracts being canceled amounting to some $370 million.  A number contractors of the local area. of were affected
 Freeport  says its third quarter earnings “reflected strong operating performance during a period of weakening commodity prices and economic uncertainty.” Stockholders were told the costs for producing copper varied at its seven North American mines, ranging from 73 cents a pound for copper to as high as $2.12. ASARCO.    A drop in copper prices and the current economic crisis are the reasons being given in this major development now before ASARCO’s Federal bankruptcy case in Corpus Christi, Texas. India’s based Sterlite Industries has decided to cancel its proposed $2.6 billion dollar agreement to purchase the copper mining assets of ASARCO. The decision was made after Sterlite attorneys had sought last week to negotiate without success a deal to reduce the purchase price of ASARCO by hundreds of millions of dollars.  Locally in the
agreement were the company’s Hayden Smelter and Concentrator along with the Ray Complex where 1300 persons are employed.   By not performing the terms of the contract, Sterilite is being required to pay a $50 million breakup fee.  Still before the federal judge is Grupo Mexico’s $2.7 billion plan to take back the copper company it controlled prior to the August, 2005 bankruptcy.  Grupo’s plan was not being supported by any of the creditors in the Chapter 11 proceedings.
QUADRA MINING.  The Canadian owner of the Carlota Mining Company west of the Town of Miami will be releasing its third quarter financial results on November 4th. Paul Blythe, President and CEO of Quadra, says “the strong negative sentiment to copper and commodities generally resulted in a month end (September 30) copper price of $2.91, a drop of a dollar compared to the price at the start of the quarter.”  Blythe went on to state, “The market implications will have a significant downward effect on our earnings for the quarter.”  The financial report will be out at 8 a.m. PDT.
Progress continues at the new open pit Carlota Mine.  Blythe says application of leaching solutions has started with the objective of producing copper cathode prior to the end of the year.  He said pit operations are functioning at near full capacity while the processing plant and supporting infrastructure is awaiting solutions from the Run-of-Mine leach pad.
At its Robinson Mine near Ely, Nevada, 38.6 million pounds of copper and 30,629 ounces of gold were produced during the third quarter. The Robinson Mine is a former copper mining operation shut down by BHP in the late 1990 and was later purchased by Quadra.

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Family Remember Aaron Tierno

October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Family Remember Aaron Tierno

Brothers Aaron & Ralph Tierno bring sea shells to their mother during a recent trip to Mexico to see their parents. Aaron had just returned from a tour in Iraq. His parents, who live on a sail boat on the Sea of Cortez, were incredibly relieved to have him there. His mother’s eyes teared up as she explained how Aaron had gone down the beach cleaning up trash before brining her the seashells his and his brother Ralph had collected. His family described him as a strong loving man, extremely motivated to help others. Aaron had gone to school after returning from Iraq to obtain his realtors license. He was dedicating his career to helping returning veterans purchase homes.30 year old Aaron Anthony Tierno was found dead on the San Carlos Indian Reservation. It was reported that it appeared he had been the victim of a robbery. Two suspect have been arrested in connection with the crime. Aaron’s family would like to thank Detectives Terry Blevins an Virgil Dodd from the Gila County Sheriff’s Office for their relentless dedication to the case. Aaron’s step-father, Greg Delezynski, said that both detectives were thorough and compassionate.The case has been turned over the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs.) The family and the community eagerly wait for information regarding the investigation and prosecution of those responsible.Let us know what you think at Coppercountrynews.com

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Oil-Soaked Dirt is Removed After Truck Fire North of Superior on US 60

October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Oil-Soaked Dirt is Removed After Truck Fire North of Superior on US 60

Soil contaminated by a burning tanker is removed by ADOT and Environmental Response, Inc., just east of Superior. Repaving is being completed but restriping and other work is needed. Travelers will experience brief delays, flagmen and one-lane traffic, but work should be completed by Oct. 15.

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Near Globe: 500 NewHomes Planned

October 2, 2008 | 1 Comment

A major new residential community is going to be developed on one square mile of land 640 acres located on both sides of State Route 77  some  9 miles South of Globe.  Right now, those involved in this huge project are busy obtaining and reviewing aerial photos plus working on the preliminary lot layouts for this site. Lots of planning work remains to be done. Too, there have been meetings with local residents and community leaders here discussing the proposed project. Multi million dollar financing has already been arranged, so this is not going to be a problem. By early next year, it is anticipated that this new 500 single family home development of new modular homes will be taking off.
Behind the area’s newest residential community is developer Sam Wheeler of Scottsdale who has been involved in a number of successful real estate  projects here in our state as well as  Oregon. Wheeler will be dividing his time with his other ongoing developments such as the  River Bend Estates at Ehrenberg along the Colorado River.  This a a combination of 350 town homes/ detatched single family residences which includes a 10 acre commerical area.  Too, he is in the planning phases for his new proposed 160 acre home development on the golf course at Queen Valley east of Gold Canyon.
Wheeler says he will be implementing an “off the grid” & “green”  rural community south of Globe combined with manufactured housing to provide a very time effective solution for affordable housing.  He expects to be able to have a land/home/package starting around $140,000 for a 3 bedroom 2 bath home and this package can work all the way up to a 5 bedroom, 3 bath house that will still “be south of $200,000.”   These single family modular homes will range from 1,100 to 3,000 square feet in size and manufactured at the Palm Harbor factory in Tempe before being brought South of Globe for the final stages of completion. He believes it may be possible to purchase some of these homes under a lease option agreement which will be less than a family would be paying for monthly rent in an apartment.
This will be a “green community”  without a monthly electric bill,  he remarks. Each house will have its own solar power  with electric batteries for backup, along with a very reliable standby propane generator if necessary. There will be a central gas distribution system to the houses along with the probable establishment of  water and sanitary districts.
Some of the other amenities will  include lots of common areas, riding trails, kid’s playgrounds, parks and fiber technology that will have television, telephone, Internet and alarms available to each residence.
Wheeler has owned  the 640 acres site for the past four yearsand hopes to eventually develop some 2,500 acres located nearby.  In the long term  this additional acreage will be  phase two of a “Master Planned  Community Development.”  Under consideration are  custom home sites, new town homes, mixed use commercial such as restaurants, retail shopping, a gasoline station, medical center, resort(s), etc.
 His goal is to bring a very attractive residential, all “green community” to Southern Gila County that will be affordable for new mining employees and their families now living outside the area, plus a community that will be an incentive for retirees.  Sam Wheeler wants  comments on his proposed development plans.  You can reach him at:gilacountydevelopment@yahoo.com

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