Author: Rocky Point Times

Have you ever had the exhilarating experience of attending an event wherein shortly after arriving you got this awe-inspired feeling that you were a part of something that was going to be bigger than you could possibly have imagined?

Good hearted patience, unwavering determination, focused persistence, equally good hearted friends (and at least one well- connected relative), this is a formula for achieving the grandest of dreams. And after eight arduous years of pioneering pathways and never, ever giving up, this small group of powerfully unrelenting ladies recently cut the ribbon to the threshold of their most cherished dream: the first building of the San Peregrino Cancer Hospice Center for Providing Spiritual Assistance to Persons with Cancer.

If you use the Lukeville postal facility at all, you may have heard the rumor that it is at risk of closing in the very near future. Well, brace yourself for the fact that this is a fact. However, we hasten to say that there may be some action we can take to alleviate what would be, at best, a traumatic occurrence that would cause a chain of unwelcome and confusing events as thousands of residents and businesses in Rocky Point scramble for PO Boxes from Ajo to probably Gila Bend, not counting the additional time and toil on our vehicles and psyche while adapting to the major shakeup in our lives and cost of living.

Now that we’re three supermoons into the three in a row scheduled for this year, the third just happened on September 9th, it’s appropriate to talk about the effect our moon has on tides around the planet and how that works.