El Independiente

              Angel Ranch offers quality
care for senior citizens
By Carol Gachiengo
Margarita Duarte loves to read and tell stories. She
particularly enjoys ghost stories and stories about the
Depression.
The 83-year-old South Tucson woman is confined to
her bed at Angel Ranch Adult Care Home with back
problems, but she has a natural vivacity, a sense of
humor and a smile that makes her a pleasure to be
around.
Duarte is happy at Angel Ranch, but she has faced the
challenges that many aging people often face in finding
adequate care and assistance.
Before coming to Angel Ranch, Duarte was unhappy
in another home.
"They put interest only in money," she said. "The
meals were not satisfying and I lost a lot of weight."
Those who complained were treated coldly, Duarte
said, and so she preferred to be silent. She relied on
snacks brought by family members, which she shared
with her friends at the home.
After Duarte hurt her back, her family began to search
for another home. How they found Angel Ranch was a
bit of a mystery.
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El Independiente
Cuido de calidad para personas
mayores en Angel Ranch
Por Carof Gachiengo
Traducido por Lorena McElroy
A Margarita Duarte le encanta
leer y contar cuentos. Le gustan
sobre todo los cuentos de fantas-mas
y cuentos acerca de la época
de la Depresión Económica.
Esta señora de 83 años, resi-dente
de South Tucson, está limita-da
a quedarse en su cama en el
Angel Ranch Care Home debido a
sus problemas de la espalda.
Es una persona animada, que
posee un sentido de humor vivaz y
una sonrisa radiante, por lo que es
un placer estar en su compañía.
Duarte se siente contenta en
Angel Ranch, pero ha tenido que
afrentar muchos de los desafios
que las personas mayores pueden
enfrentar cuando buscan asistencia
By Rachael Myer
After a University ofArizona gay student
was stabbed last February, community mem-bers
took to the street to protest the brutal
attack.
Although hate crimes occur relatively
infrequently in Tucson and none have been
reported in South Tucson, law enforcement
officials want to help educate the public
about these types of crimes.
Ted Forgach, a South Tucson Police
Department reserve officer, had an important
message for the i 5 people who attended a
y cuidado adecuados.
Antes de venir a vivir en Angel
Ranch, Duarte estuvo muy infeliz en
otra residencia.
"Solo les interesaba el dinero,"
dijo. "Las comidas no satisfacían, y
perdí peso."
A los que se quejaban les trataban
fríamente, y por eso ella prefería no
decir nada. Se apoyaba en las
comiditas que sus familiares le
traían y que ella compartía con sus
amigos de la residencia.
Cuando Duarte se lastimó la
espalda, su familia empezó a buscar
otra residencia. Es un poco miste-riosa
la manera en que encontraron
kngel Ranch.
"Años atrás, yo traía a mis hijos a
jugar por este barrio," dijo, "pero
hacía 20 años que no veníamos por
aqul.
"I used to bring my children to this area to play, a long
time ago," she said, "but we hadn't been this way for 20
years."
Duarte said she saw the home in her mind and sent
her family to find it.
Speaking ofthe home brings a smile to her face.
"It's more of a family place," she said. "I like the
Hispanic ways of living. I'm not lost here. T would be
lost in other places," she said.
Toni Cuen, who owns and runs Angel Ranch, ensures
a homely atmosphere by allowing visitors 24 hours a
day.
"Ours is a very busy house," Cuen said. "My children
and grandchildren also come to talk to the residents."
Visitors from St. John's Catholic Church and San
Xavier Mission also come to visit, sing songs and talk
to the residents.
Cuen was inspired to start her own assisted living
home because of problems finding an adequate home
for her father, Joe Yubeta.
"Dad was a U.S. Marshall and tougher than nails,"
Cuen said. "He got a brain tumor 13 years ago."
The home where she lived did not
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hate crimes awareness class Oct. 20: Victims
of hate crimes should always report the mci-dents
and get help.
Law enforcement officials cannot prevent
hate crimes from spreading to the rest of the
community if victims do not report the mci-dents,
Forgach said.
The class, held at the South Tucson city
council chambers, 1601 S. Sixth Ave., was
part of the YWCA's "Week Without
Violence."
The Sam Lena-South Tucson Branch
Library also participated in the week with an
"Eliminate the Hate" display.
Foto por Carol Gachiengo
Margarita Duarte
Duarte dijo que un día le vino una
imagen de esta residencia a la
mente, y le mandó a su familia que
fueran a buscarla.
Sout1 Tucson's English/Spanish Newspaper
Cuando Duarte habla de esta
residencia tiene una sonrisa.
"Es un lugar para familias,"
dijo. "Me gusta la manera Hispana
de vivir que tienen aquí. Aquí no
me siento perdida. Me sentiría
perdida en otro lugar," dijo.
Toni Cuen, la dueña y gerente
de Angel Ranch, asegura que los
residentes tengan un sentido de
estar en casa porque permite visi-tantes
las 24 horas.
"Nuestra casa está siempre
muy ocupada," dijo Cuen. "Mis
hijos y nietos -también vienen y
conversan con los residentes."
Miembros de las parroquias de
la Misión de San Xavier y de la
Hate crimes awareness promoted in South Tucson
Ramona F. Grijalva, branch manager, cre-ated
the display, which includes books,
videos and posters on the Klu Klux Klan,
militia groups and extremist groups.
"If it happened in your neighborhood, you
need to get behind the person it happened to
and support them," Forgach said.
Hate crimes can affect an entire commu-nity
and the community can become unrav-eled,
Forgach said.
"The effect of a hate crime is a rippling
effect," he said. ,
Forgach and Floyd W. Wilkes, a Pima
County Sheriff's Department crime analyst,
said that their agencies classifï hate crimes
by motivation of ethnicity, sexuality, religion
or disability. Domestic violence is some-times
thought ofto be a hate crime but police
do not classify it as such because the motiva-tion
does not fall into any of the categories
above, Wilkes said.
Actually, hate crimes occur infrequently
in Tucson and none have been reported in
South Tucson, Forgach said.
Thirty hate crimes occurred in Tucson in
1998, according to data collected by law
enforcement officials. The data did not
see HATE CRIMES, page 4
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Iglesia de San Juan también
vienen, para visitar, para cantar, y
para hablar con los residentes.
Cuen sintió la inspiración de
fundar su propria residencia de
asistencia y cuidado cuando tuvo
dificultades en encontrar cuidado
adecuado para su padre, Joe
Yubeta.
"Papá fue un U.S. Marshall y
fue más fuerte que un toro," dijo
Cuen. "Hace I 3 años, le salió un
tumor en el cerebro."
La residencia donde vivía su
papá no podía atender a sus necesi-dades.
"Tiene ocho hijos, y todos
queríamos visitarle."
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