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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 PLORE ARIZONA THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC E2 k- alh. THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC t. Verde event celebrates desert jewel VERDE Continued from El environment in Arizona," acting park manager Max Castillo said. "The Verde River runs year-round." The Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Salt River Project and other organizations will have exhibits at the event. More than 40 exhibits are planned.

Activities include sand-castle building, pottery making, canoe rides and hikes. On Sept. 25, the park-admission fee of $7 per vehicle will be waived. Visitors will be allowed to fish without a license during the event. "We'll have some catfish stocked in our lagoons, and there will be some fishing poles and bait available," Castillo said.

There also will be food, Civil War re-enactments and live entertainment. The Arizona Vintage Tag a Longs, a club whose members are devoted to antique travel trailers, will camp in the park that weekend. The Verde River Citizens Alliance will take people on canoe and kayak rides down the Verde River at 8 and 10 a.m. Sept. 26.

The rides last about an hour and a half, and registration is required. Contact Marsha Foust at 928-634-8738. Details: 928-634-5283, azstate parks.com. tiki 3 I fj- -'v KOOL-TV anchorman Bill Close (right) embraces police negotiator Bruce Wise moments after the five-hour hostage drama ended with the gunman's surrender in 1982. Anchor kept cool with hostage taker AZ JOURNAL Continued from El manded that the station air a long statement he had written.

Someone called police, who set up a negotiation team. Close talked Gwin into calming down, convincing him that the station was working out the logistics of getting him on the air. In a 2005 interview with Channel 8 (KAET), Close said he persuaded Gwin to let him read the statement "Why don't you let me read this? I have a better voice than you have," Close said. At about 9:30 p.m., the station decided to air Gwin's statement. The plan was to air it closed-circuit and play it on a monitor that Gwin could see.

But, possibly anticipating trickery, Gwin had brouuht a portable television to ensure that his broadcast hit the air. Gwin let Villa eo just before the broadcast be RON DUNGANTHE ARIZONA REPUBLIC You won't need a license to drop a line at Dead Horse Ranch State Park lagoons during this month's Verde River Days. an. He trained his gun on Close, pointing right at Reach the reporter at 602-444-4847 or ron.dunganarizonarepublic.com. i Aiafci.

r- i i r. v. Root-a-toot-toot: The bean scene in "Blazing Saddles." For the soundtrack, you'll have to rent the movie. Channel 10 broke into its programming as iose read the statement. It was a disjointed, rambling affair that tied together country music, Islam, nuclear bombs and future cities that would be populated only by men.

An audio archive of the broadcast is on the KJZZ-FM (91.5) website, kjzz.org (search for "hostage In it, Close gave a tight read, in his signature anchorman voice. "Johnny Cash, you will have 72 hours to tell the queen to evacuate London," went one passage. A little more than halfway through the statement, Close tried to cue in viewers to what was going on. "We need to point out that Mr. Gwin came into our studios and convinced me that this is something we should read on the air," he said.

Turning to Gwin, he asked, "Is that correct?" "Yes," Gwin replied. At the end of the statement, Close thanked viewers for watching this special live broadcast and signed off using the time-honored phrase, "Now we return you to our regular programming." Gwin put down his gun. Close took it and moved it to his right. To make sure Gwin didn't make a move to retrieve his weapon, Close shook Gwin's hands as police entered. Close stood up and told officers, "No guns.

Put the guns away. I've got the gun." Close, who is retired, did not return a call seeking comment. Gwin pleaded no contest to aggravated assault and kidnapping. He was sentenced to seven years probation and committed to Arizona State Hospital. He was released after six months, then arrested twice more over the next two years.

In June 1986, he was sentenced to 44 years in prison for repeated violations of his probation. He was released from prison in January 2006. His whereabouts are unknown. Reach the reporter at richard.ruelas arizonarepubIic.com or 602-444-8473. i WARNER BROS.

PICTURES Beans propelled cowboys on range JSl Beans are easy to transport. You can carry a lot of beans in a little space. Beans are fairly easy to prepare. They aren't exactly bananas Foster. ARIZONA 101 CLAY THOMPSON Today's question: In books and movies, cowboys on cattle drives often are shown sitting around the chuck wagon, eating meals of beans.

Couldn't they have more to eat than beans? I'll answer this on one condition: You may not call or write to remind me of the famous bean scene in the movie "Blazing Saddles." OK? First of all, "chuck" was popular 19th-century slang for food. Hence, chuck wagon. Second, I doubt that beans were all those drovers ever ate. The you. They have a lot of protein and a lot of antioxidants and a lot of zip-zam and so forth.

So why not beans? I was going to include a recipe for cowboy beans, but I found so many that I couldn't tell which ones were genuine cowboy chuck. You can Google "cowboy beans recipes" and decide for yourselves. And then sit around the campfire, eating beans and letting nature take its course. Got an Arizona question? Reach Thompson at clay lie or 602-444-8612. I i I 1 i'Tij '1 1 Fr i cook would have whipped up a bunch of biscuits, perhaps in a Dutch oven.

And there would have been beefsteaks. After all, these cowboys were herding a bunch of walking steaks. As for beans, why not? Beans are easy to transport. You can carry a lot of beans in a little space. Beans are fairly easy prepare.

They aren't exactly bananas Foster. Have you ever had bananas Foster? Neither have I. But it sounds complicated. You can whip up a bunch of beans without a whole lot of effort. And beans are good for a iiimut tun.

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