Life in a Small Town

The Circle K store down on Hwy. 60 was robbed at gun point last week. It was at midnight and done by two local residents of the town. The idea of this is leaving the brunt of this town's residents cold!

During the past three years, the town has beefed up its little police force and enacted a co-operation with the Pinal County's Sheriff office when they needed help. But we haven't had any armed robberies during that time.

Fortunately for the town, our police arrested the two men in their twenties who 'did the deed'. Their names were posted in the paper for everybody and their brother to see. According to some of the older residents, that's a First too. Normally, when somebody did something wrong, especially if it was a Somebody of Note who was related to other Notable Somebodies, the name(s) of the accused would never make the paper. So it appears we're headed in the right direction, but...

On the other hand, an armed robbery was committed in our town last week! Us townspeople had better do something to help stop this if we don't want to see things change drastically for the worse. We have let our Crime Free Superior meetings lapse while we pursued other interests: the elections, the Trash Committee, recycling, the Christmas program for all the children, toy runs for underpriveledged families. There's a whole host of THINGS the lot of us are working on to make this town a better place for ALL the citizens. But... an armed robbery was committed here last week and it looks to me like we should and could be doing something better to assure it's not going to happen again.