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The Official Day Of
The Cowboy Guide
 Events set for Friday, Saturday & Sunday
in Apache Junction, Gold Canyon and
Superior
The Pinal County National
Day of the Cowboy (NDOC),
the largest and only regional
celebration of its kind, will be
held Friday, July 24, through
Sunday, July 26.
The NDOC was created in
2005 by a proclamation of
the U.S. Senate “in honor of
the American Cowboy and
their many contributions to
the national culture and way
of life.”
The first governor to endorse
NDOC in a state proclamation
was then-Arizona Gov.
Janet Napolitano, who has
since been followed by the
governors of several other
states ranging from Hawaii to
Louisiana.
The NDOC is a cooperative
effort between Apache Junction,
Gold Canyon and Superior.
Apache Junction’s events
will be held on Saturday, July 25, at
Goldfield Ghost Town.
Your copy of the official
National Day of the Cowboy
guide is inserted in this edition
of the Apache Junction/
Gold Canyon News.
Cowboy up and enjoy.
EVIT Teacher Wins
Award
 AJ
man and former firefighter teaches fire
science
By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
The News
An Apache Junction man,
who teaches fire science at
East Valley Institute of Technology
(EVIT), will be honored
with the “Outstanding
Teaching in Community Service
Award” on Wednesday,
July 22 in Tucson.
Terry Baugher is receiving
the award from the Association
for Career and Technical
Education of Arizona’s 2009
Career and Technical Education.
Baugher won the award
for his work with EVIT students
and the Arizona Children’s
Burn Camp. He will
receive a plaque during an
awards breakfast at the Westin
La Paloma Resort.
“The major reason he won
was because of the burn
camp,” said Doris Wojtulewicz,
vice president and
awards chairwoman of the
Association for Career and
Technical Education of Arizona.
“One of the things we take
into consideration when we’re
selecting a winner is how effective they
were at involving
both their colleagues and
their students. He’s done a really
good job at doing that. He
teaches fire science and he’s
brought in a whole bunch of
other guys from fire science
to help him.”
Baugher, who has been a
teacher for 14 years, previously
worked as a firefighter and
fire marshal for the Apache
Junction Fire District, he
said. He left the district due
to injury, Baugher added.
After he began working for
EVIT, he helped the state
write the fire curriculum for
all career and technical education
fire science programs,
he said.
See
A-1
and see Fire
Science,
A-8
2 Year Old Missing
 Mother heard daughter scream before
disappearance
By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
The News
Police are seeking the public’s
help in trying to find a
2 1/2-year-old girl who went
missing at 11:30 p.m. Friday,
July 17, from a mobile home
park at 102 S. Ironwood
Drive.
Jenifer Murillo Perez was
playing outside the laundry
room in which her mother,
Minorva Morillo, was located.
Then her mother heard
her daughter scream, according
to Capt. Tom Kelly of the
Apache Junction Police Department.
She ran outside and asked
the other children where Jenifer
was and they said did not
know.
“Officers with the assistance
of Pinal County Sheriff’s
deputies searched the mobile
home park, canvassing from
door to door,” Kelly said.
“Additionally, Arizona Department
of Corrections was
contacted to assist in the
search with their K9 Unit
(blood hounds). Jenifer has
not been located. There is no
immediate information available
indicating any problems
with anyone that may have wanted to take
the child.”
The missing child is described
as Hispanic, approximately
30 pounds or less,
approximately 30 inches
tall, brown eyes and brown
hair. The child was last seen
wearing a blue dress, pink
sandals and in diapers.
The FBI had been called
in by Saturday morning and
the AJPD is seeking the assistance
of anyone who may
have any pertinent information
regarding this missing
child. Please call the AJPD
Division of Criminal Investigation
at (480) 982-8260.
AJHS Volleyball Cools
Off
 By Chuck Baker
The News
After beginning the Phoenix
College Summer Volleyball
League with three
wins on July 7, the Lady
Prospectors ran into some
tough competition this past
Tuesday, losing two of
their three matches.
Apache Junction opened
with a match against perennial
4A-1 powerhouse
Glendale Cactus and put
up a great effort but fell
by the scores of 25-20 and
25-22. Cactus was the 2006
4A-1 State Champs, lost in
the 2007 semifinals despite
being the tournament’s top
seed, and lost in the State
finals a year ago.
In the second game against
cactus, the teams were tied
21-21 in a see-saw battle
before Cactus pulled it out
in the closing seconds.
Katie Karbo led the charge
for Apache Junction with
her 11 assists, four service
points, three blocks and
three digs. Kylie Bocskay
added five kills and four
blocks, Jessica Iniguez
contributed five service
points, two kills and two
blocks, Diana Woodruff
came up with eight digs,
Monica Geer had a pair of
kills, Sierra Aulik had four
service points, two blocks
and a kill, and Allysa
Aranda added three service
points.
Next up for the AJHS girls
was a match with Mesa
Westwood, a number eleven
seed in last year’s 5A-I
State Tournament. Apache
Junction had the lead late
in all three games before
falling 25-23, 26-28, 15-12
(tie-breaker).
See
B-1
and see V-Ball,
B-6
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