Did you know that there is a monthly Food Coop delivery in Portal? Most items are natural, organic or specialty and include refrigerated, frozen, bulk, grocery, supplements & personal care (no produce). Delivery is usually the first Tuesday of each month. To learn more, please call Debbie Anbinder 558-0980.
Announcing new name for our web site: portalrodeo.com
We have a new name for our web site. It is simple, and further links our two communities.
By now, most of you have our web site bookmarked as a “favorite” for easy access. You do NOT have to change anything. Your bookmarked URL still works.
But suppose you accidentally delete the web address, or you want to tell a friend how to locate our site, or you are traveling and want to keep in touch on a friend's computer. Just type in the easy-to-remember word above and you will be whisked away to our web site. Upper case, lower case - it will not matter. Just remember that "portalrodeo" is one word and follow it with the ubiquitous .com
A reminder: If you manually type just portalrodeo.com into your web browser, your computer automatically adds the http://www, because it knows it is a web site address. Thus, if you forget the address, or accidentally delete the bookmark, all you have to remember to type is portalrodeo.com. In fact, all you really need to type is portalrodeo
Your computer will add both the htt://prefix AND the .com
But if you want to e-mail it to a friend or just click on the name, you have to e-mail the entire address as
Enjoy
Howard
Your local Cochise County Refuse Transfer Station is eager to assist you with your recycling effort -- FREE!
You don’t need to sort the recyclable types – simply package them separately from your normal household trash or yard debris. Remove caps or lids from #1 or #2 plastic containers. There is no charge for the recyclable materials you bring to the Refuse Transfer Station.
For Portal, the Transfer Station is the regular trash pickup site at the corner of Portal and Foothills Roads. Trash is collected on Wednesday and Saturday, 8:00 - 11:00 am.
WE NOW ACCEPT:
Paper Products:
Corrugated Cardboard - Magazines, Catalogs
Newspaper - Office Paper
Shredded Paper
E-Waste:
Cell Phones - Computer Components
Entertainment Equipment
Plastics:
#1 Clear - #2 Clear (remove caps)
Other:
Batteries - Motor Oil & Filters
Household Paints
Tires (Up to 5)
Aluminum Cans - Tin Cans
Please continue to bring aluminum cans to the Post Office. The money raised by recycling cans goes to Portal Rescue!
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A Message from Penny Johnston: Portal Rescue Classroom Needs Cleaning Volunteers
Volunteers are needed to clean the Portal Rescue Classroom. Depending on the month, this would involve one or two cleanings. Sew What uses this facility for all of its forums. It is a community facility th
at needs community support. You can volunteer as an individual or get together with a partner. If you are unable to clean, but are willing to support the effort through a cash donation, contact Penny. She will arrange for Sheila to clean the classroom for $15.00 per hour. This is tax deductible. A few months have already been covered. See the list below for those months that are still available. Sign up at the post office or email Penny at pennyj20@yahoo.com or phone her at 558-2277.
SeptemberPenny Johnston
OctoberOrchid Davis & Maya Decker
NovemberMary Willy & Barbara Miller
December
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Route 66 legend Bob Waldmire reaches end of road
By DAVE BAKKE (dave.bakke@sj-r.com)
THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER
Posted Dec 16, 2009 @ 10:46 PM
Last update Dec 17, 2009 @ 05:39 AM
Local artist and Route 66 legend Bob Waldmire died peacefully as the sun rose over Springfield on Wednesday morning.
For most of the past few months, Waldmire had been living near Rochester in the converted school bus he used as a home while in central Illinois.
In an interview with The State Journal-Register in October, he said he realized about a decade ago that he had abdominal cancer. But having lived most of his life as a vegan who marched to his own drummer, he refused any invasive procedures that might have prolonged his life, because it would be at the expense of his life philosophy.
He spent much of this fall in the school bus, lying on a couch and talking with friends. Many of them were his fellow Route 66 devotees who came from their homes hundreds of miles away to say goodbye.
Waldmire was thoroughly enjoying the attention and the chance to see so many friends.
“It means as much for me to see them as for them to see me,” he said.
One farewell letter to Waldmire came from a man in Japan whom he had met somewhere along the highway.
“I was talking to Bob (Tuesday),” said Stu Kainste, manager of Food Fantasies in Springfield. “He called me because he wanted to do a feast on Thursday.
“He said. ‘I want this, and I want that.’ Vegan pizza. Non-vegan pizza. I said, you know, whatever you want. Then he told me at the end, he said this feast is just going to be a dry run. On the day that I die, and I hope I know this ahead of time, I want to do a real feast.”
He apparently envisioned friends and family coming together on that day to celebrate and to reminisce.
The Waldmires are a longtime Springfield family known most notably for creating the Cozy Dog restaurant. It was founded by Waldmire’s father, Ed, who is credited with creating the first hot dog on a stick — known everywhere outside of the Cozy Dog as a corn dog. Waldmire created his own, meatless, version of the cozy dog.
He grew up in Springfield near Route 66 and spent much of his adult life traveling the highway between Illinois and his home in Arizona. There, in the Chiricahua Mountains, he lived “off the grid,” meaning his home had no electricity or running water. There were water tanks, solar heat and a windmill for generating his own electricity.
Waldmire requested that his body be cremated and his ashes spread on Route 66 and in the mountains around his home.
“I got to grow up on 66,” he said. “When I was 5, we moved to a house on South Sixth Street. At that time, Sixth Street was Old City 66. I not only got to grow up on 66, but in the Cozy Dog, which was so much fun.”
Much of his art, including murals he painted on buildings, related to Route 66. But he also had other inspiration, including wildlife, historic Springfield buildings and even the organs of the body.
“Greetings from your liver,” reads one of Waldmire’s post cards in that series.
His brother, Buz Waldmire, said much of the family was with Bob Waldmire Tuesday night. They were making plans for friends and family to come together for a party on Thursday evening.
“He was lucid and alert until about 11:30, when he took his medication to go to sleep,” Buz says. “He never woke up, but he passed peacefully and happily.”
Within hours, word of Waldmire’s death spread down the highway he loved.
Michael Wallis, best-selling Route 66 author and consultant on the Pixar movie “Cars,” had already heard the news at his home in Oklahoma by the time Buz called to tell him.
“He said, ‘Well, the Route 66 road just reverberated so I guess it knows, too,’ said Buz.
Toward the end, Waldmire allowed himself a piece of meat and an occasional egg — though he said he was happy that the egg came from a friend’s stock of “happy chickens” that would never be slaughtered.
“It gives me great comfort and solace to the very end,” Bob said a few weeks ago, “like it has most of my life, to be able to talk, not only to my fellow beings … but I’m a part of the whole. I’m a free thinker as my mom and dad both were. I call myself The Naturalist of Route 66.”
Bob Waldmire was 64 and died the way he lived — on his own terms.
