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Cheer: A man’s gift
Charlie Baugh was born in Bisbee and helped flowers bloom in that city.
He died in 2006, but he left a gift that will bloom for the handicapped in Cochise County.
On Thursday, his estate gave $240,000 to the Cochise County Association for the Handicapped. This money will be used to start an expansion project at the organization’s facility on Naco Highway in Bisbee.
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Baugh was born in 1915 and faced a handicap in his life — he had cerebral palsy. But according to the stories our reporter was told, he didn’t let that stop him. He worked as a gardener at Bisbee High School, growing flowers on the school grounds and making it a beautiful environment for the students.
Now Baugh, even after his death, is making something beautiful occur. He’s helping an organization that since 1962 has provided vocational and residential facilities for disabled children. He’s allowing it to work to expand and better help those that it serves now and in the future.
Jeer: Internet disconnect
You dirty rat!
No, we’re not talking about James Cagney. We’re talking about the rats blamed for gnawing through a fiber optics cable 22 miles outside of Benson. The break shut down Internet service and disrupted some cellular phone service in Cochise County for about six hours on Wednesday.
The service problem is one that has happened for short periods at times for a variety of reasons. We’ve never been told until this week that rats had been to blame for an outage.
But that’s just what we’re told. And this gets us thinking: If a rat could do that, what or who else could?
Companies such as Qwest, which owns the line, and AT&T, which was impacted by the cable problem, have back-up systems. Those systems take time to re-route. Thankfully, customers don’t experience those types of problems very often, and Wednesday’s outage, while annoying, was fixed and back up and running in the same day.
We see this as an example of how simple technology can be taken offline and how all of us rely on the technology we have to communicate at work and home.
Cheer: Soldiers’ service
A hundred soldiers from the 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion left this week to join their fellow soldiers overseas, likely in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And with the soldiers leaving, family members who are left behind will wonder, wait and worry about their loved ones in harm’s way overseas. Unfortunately, it’s become an all-too-common part of life in Sierra Vista.
Today, we say thank you to the troops who are now in Kuwait and waiting for further assignment. We thank them for their service and sacrifice.
And from the community, we say thank you to the loved ones of these soldiers for supporting them as they serve our nation.
And we hope their work overseas helps bring all of the American troops in the war zones back home as soon as possible.
