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Operations similar in spirit and function can also be found at local stores such as New Frontiers. New Frontiers buys herbs and sprouts from Camp Verde, navel oranges from Phoenix and Tuxedo Chili Salsa from Prescott. Priya Drews, New Fron-tiers acting store manager, said each department manager does the purchasing, and each depart-ment tries to buy as many items from Arizona as possible.

“Sometimes these items cost more because they are not bought in bulk,” Drews explained. “Our customers are really well educated. � ey are aware of the environmental and economic impacts their food purchasing may have.”

Drews said she supports CSAs because the food has less distance to travel; therefore, less pol-lution is produced in the delivery process. Accord-ing to a 2005 report by the Flagsta� CSA, food in the conventional system travels an estimated 1,129 to 2,146 miles to its destination, while food in CSAs travel 200 miles at most.

� erefore, the report concludes, “CSAs re-duce waste, pollution, and cost to the consumer by diminishing the need for packaging and transpor-tation over long distances.”

Drews described the mission of the New Frontiers sta� .

“We are dedicated to healthy choices,” Drew said. “It feels good to o� er our customers the things we eat and use.”

Although opportunities to buy local items may seem abundant, several local food stores do not take part in CSA. Sales clerk Rick Tomlinson of the highway 89 Safeway said everything the store receives comes from warehouses in Phoenix and nothing is bought locally.

“CSA is not for everyone. Sometimes people don’t know much about certain vegetables and get discouraged from investing in CSA,” Meronuck added. “Although, farming is an American value and there aren’t many people who don’t stand be-hind that.”

For information about the Flagsta� CSA, contact Andrea Meronuck at (928) 380-4309.

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Currently, probation is only denied to o� enders with more than three convictions and those who refuse treatment.

“Time in jail is o� en the only thing that o� ers meth addicts a se-cure, drug-free environment and an opportunity to re� ect on their situation,” said Maricopa County Attorney Andrew � omas in an online statement. “We must give prosecutors and judges the tools necessary to deter meth use and ensure meaningful opportunities for treatment.”

However, many treatment professionals claim prison is not an e� ective way to keep metham-phetamine abusers clean because most prisons lack the professional treatment available in outpatient programs.

“� ere are practically no treatment programs in prison,” said Caroline Issacs, director for the Arizona Friends Committee of Tucson, a group that campaigned unsuccessfully against the propo-sition. “Some of the programs are just sitting in front of a computer and answering questions.”

� e new law will reverse a 1996 law, the Drug Medicaliza-tion and Control Act, which pro-vided mandatory probation and outpatient treatment. Arizona Su-preme Court documents showed passing DMPCA saved taxpayers $12 million by diverting people from prison and sentencing them to treatment and probation.

Arizona taxpayers spent $688 for every person on pro-bation in 2004 while spending $19,505 to keep a prisoner in jail for one year.

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ci� c in how to deal with � rst and second-time non-violent users. People were arrested, booked, and put on mandatory probation and treatment. While on probation, o� enders were required to have a job, attend counseling and adhere to probation guidelines. � ose convicted of selling or producing the drug would still be subject to prison terms.

Connie Leto, spokesperson for the Citizens Against Substance Abuse, said she believes prisons in Arizona are already crowded with methamphetamine abusers arrested for a variety of crime, mainly property crimes and iden-tity the� .

“If we didn’t have the prob-lem we have with meth use that we have now, property crime rates would be a lot lower,” Leto said. “People have to get their � x somehow.”

Flagsta� Police Sgt. Tom Boughner said he believes be-tween 80 and 90 percent of prop-erty the� and burglaries can be directly linked to methamphet-amine abuse and addicts will of-ten resort to petty crime to sup-port their addiction.

Whether methamphet-amine users are sentenced to prison or probation, the recovery statistics remain grim. Craig Da-vis, former methamphetamine abuser who now works as a drug counselor for Northern Arizona Substance Abuse Services, said only 20 percent of methamphet-amine abusers put into treatment stay clean.

“When someone uses a drug in Flagsta� , we’ve all partici-pated,” Davis said. “I had support from the community.”

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Despite a successful se-mester-long e� ort by ASNAU and other campus organizations to increase young voter registra-tion, turnout to the polls was lackluster for the seven precincts at NAU.

� e 26th precinct, which includes Allen, Gillenwater, Mc-Donald, Sechrist and Wilson halls, had the weakest turnout with 36 percent of registered voters showing up to the polls, according to Coconino County

elections records. � e 6th precinct, which in-

cludes Fountaine Apartments and Mountain View Hall, showed the highest turnout with 52 percent of registered voters turning out to vote.

ASNAU sent out student-wide e-mails before the election with directions to polling locations and which precincts residence halls were in.

ASNAU also rented vans to drive students to o� -campus poll-ing locations. However, the vans spent most of the day in parking lots. Eric Norgard, ASNAU presi-

dent, said the vans were worth the $190 investment even if only a few students rode to the polls.

Andrew Meeusen, vice chair-person for the College Republi-cans, said he believes his organiza-tion’s e� ort to drive students to the polls helped to re-elect republican Senator Jon Kyl.

� e majority of Flagsta� residents, however, voted Demo-crat with 54 percent casting their vote for Jim Pederson, who lost the election.

Countywide, 58.7 percent of voters made it to the polls for this election, compared to 73 percent

for the 2004 presidential election. � e highest turnout for this elec-tion was precinct 8, where 76 per-cent of registered voters made it to the polls, according to Coconino County election records.

Lianne Selzer, Coconino County polling inspector, said there were only a few minor hang-ups at her polling location in the Recreation Center. Students whose voter ID cards didn’t match their driver’s licenses had to � ll out a provisional ballot which was then hand counted.

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