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Yuma native and Yuma High Criminal, Dr. Kristina Diaz has returned to Yuma as a family medicine doctor. She has joined the practice of Dr. Ricky Ochoa with Yuma Valley Family Medicine at 2270 S. Ridgeview Drive, Suite 303 in the ProMed Office Complex.

Diaz completed her family medicine residency in June at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., specializing in women and children and weight loss. She will be taking her boards in December.

For an appointment with Dr. Diaz, call 782-1903.

For those of you with furry friends, Sophia’s Dog House, which is located at 860 E. 24th St. for the last 30 years, has happily been passed down from mother to daughter.

The new owners are Tanya Gill and Daryl Dick, who have changed the name to Sophia’s Too. Not to worry though, the shop has the same staff and groomers are still available for your pet’s needs.

In addition to the regular hours of 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays, the shop will now be open every other Saturday. Also coming soon will be products and accessories for your pets, along with gift cards for purchase.

Call 726-0289 for more information or to make an appointment. Walk- ins are welcome.

Dana Lovorn, NP, has joined Dr. Mark Awar at Young Hearts of Yuma, 2051 W 25th St., Suite A. Lovorn previously was the nurse practitioner at Dr. Gogte office.

To schedule an appointment, call 317-1119.

Jeff Marriott, owner and developer of Yuma Indoor Marketplace, reported that he has most of the 110 spaces rented in the old Mervyn’s building, 475 W. 32nd St. Vendors include jewelry, health supplements, crafts, clothing and a wide range of other goods.

However, he is saving a few spaces and would like to have local business provide services such as flu shots and health advice, maybe once a week a different attorney giving legal advice and a weekly local veterinarian pet clinic. He’s also looking for a produce vendor and a butcher/fresh meat market.

Dates also remain open for free space for fund-raising by local nonprofits and charities.

Marriott can be reached at 345-4665 or Fax 345-4662.

Permits have been issued for a major facelift to the interior of the Walmart Supercenter on Pacific Avenue, reported Alan Kircher, city of Yuma deputy building official. The renovation, with a valuation of more than $1 million, will include new flooring and wall finishing throughout the store, upgrades to the pharmacy and improvements to the restrooms and many of the departments.

In other city of Yuma building activity, Kircher reported:

• Work has begun on an expansion to True Leaf Farms produce cooler at 2955 S. Avenue 2-1/2E. The 23,000-square-foot addition includes docks and cold storage areas.

• Permits have been issued for a solar photovo

ltaic project at Fisher Chrysler and Fisher Collision Center, expected to generate about 325,000 kilowatt-hours of solar electricity annually.

• Work is moving ahead on the old Betko hanger, which Million Air is renovating into the Yuma Pilot Center. Million Air is the new fixed-based operator and fuel provider at Yuma International Airport.

• Improvements are underway to 251 S. Main St. where Fred and Mary Earle are planning to open Yuma Main Squeeze, a custom winery. The space, formerly a floral shop, will be remodeled into a 1930s theme featuring celebrities who came to Yuma to be married.

A franchise, the winery will import “must” (grape juice) from all over the world and mix, ferment, bottle and age the wines onsite. The Earles are planning a grand opening in October.

Amanda Johnson has become a consultant for Thirty-One Gifts.

From signature purses and totes to children’s items and home accents, a shopper can find gifts for every personality and situation with affordable prices and the ease of shopping during a home party or online.

To make a purchase, host a party or learn more about becoming a consultant, Johnson can be reached at 581-7300 or ThirtyOnebyAmanda@gmail.com or visit her website at www.MyThirtyOne.com/AmandaJ31.

If you missed Comings and Goings last Sunday, that’s because I was on vacation in Montana and enjoying a family reunion. And, yes, there were bears but they were more interested in the cherries than in humans.

Report Comings and Goings to jlobeck@yumasun.com or call Joyce Lobeck at 539-6853.

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NEW ORLEANS, La. – Two of the 13 men aboard the offshore platform that caught fire Thursday morning are from Gueydan.

One is 28-year-old Joseph Breaux of Gueydan, one of the workers on the Vermilion Block 380 oil platform. The other is Dewey “Lou-Lou” Dupuis from Gueydan. Both were being taken to Terrebonne General Hospital for evaluation.

An offshore petroleum platform exploded and burned Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico off Lousiana, west of the site of BP’s massive spill, but no leaks were reported.

The Coast Guard said no one was killed in the explosion, which was spotted by a commercial helicopter flying over the site Thursday morning.

All 13 people aboard the rig were found floating in the water in survival gear called “gumby suits”, sticking close together, Coast Guard spokesman Chief Petty Officer John Edwards said.

“These guys had the presence of mind, used their training to get into those gumby suits before they entered the water. It speaks volumes to safety training and the importance of it because beyond getting off the rig there’s all the hazards of the water such as hypothermia and things of that nature,” Edwards said.

The platform was in about 340 feet of water, considered shallow water and far less than the roughly 5,000 feet where BP’s well spewed oil and gas for three months after an April rig explosion.

The crew were rescued from the water by an offshore service vessel, the Crystal Clear, and taken to a nearby platform, said Coast Guard Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau.

All were being flown to a hospital in Houma to be checked over. Ben-Iesau said one person was injured, but the platform’s owner, Houston-based Mariner Energy, Inc., said there were no injuries.

“Mariner has notified and is working with regulatory authorities in response to this incident. The cause is not known, and an investigation will be undertaken,” the company said in a statement.

“In an initial flyover, no hydrocarbon spill was reported,” Mariner said. It said the platform was located on Vermilion Block 380, approximately 100 miles off the Louisiana coast.

The platform is a fixed petroleum platform that was in production at the time of the fire, according to a homeland security operational update obtained by The Associated Press.

The update said the platform was producing about 58,800 gallons of oil and 900,000 cubic feet of gas per day. The platform can store 4,200 gallons of oil.

Seven Coast Guard helicopters, two airplanes and three cutters were dispatched to the scene from New Orleans, Houston and Mobile, Ala., Ben-Iesau said. She said authorities do not know whether oil was leaking from the site.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama was in a national security meeting and did not know whether Obama had been informed of the explosion.

“We obviously have response assets ready for deployment should we receive reports of pollution in the water,” Gibbs said.

Mariner Energy focuses on oil and gas exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico. In April, Apache Corp., another independent petroleum company, announced plans to buy Mariner in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $3.9 billion, including the assumption of about $1.2 billion of Mariner’s debt. That deal is pending.

Apache spokesman Bob Dye said the platform is in shallow water. Responding to any oil spill in shallow water would be much easier than in deep water, where crews depend on remote-operated vehicles access equipment on the sea floor. Mariner said in initial flyover for no hydrocarbon spill.

A company report said the well was drilled in the third quarter of 2008 in 340 feet of water.

The platform is about 200 miles west of BP’s blown-out well. On Friday, BP was expected to begin the process of removing the cap and failed blowout preventer, another step toward completion of a relief well that would put a finals eal on the well. The BP-leased rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 people and setting off a three-month leak that totaled 206 million gallons of oil .

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Artists are inspired by all different sources. Sometimes it’s an unconscious process and, other times, they are keenly aware of what triggers their creativity.

For Westport artist and author Judith Orseck Katz, it was a trip to Lithuania that compelled her to produce the stark black and white ink drawings currently on display at the Nylen Gallery as part of duel artist exhibit, called “Two Forests.”

“I didn’t want to go, I fought going, and I wasn’t supposed to go,” Katz said, emphatically, standing in front of a large eight-foot-by-nine-foot, enlarged image, comprised of six individual images, that she drew following a tour of the Lithuanian forest outside of Vilnius where more than 100,000 people were murdered by the Nazis between 1941 and 1944. Before leaving the United States, Katz learned that this region was once the center of Jewish life and, in fact, was called the “Jerusalem of the North.” Today there are few Jews who live there. “These are the ones who are too poor to move,” Katz added.

Katz’s extensive knowledge of this area comes from a background in studying Judaic history. However, despite her scholastic understanding, she admits to “not looking too closely” at the horrific atrocities against Jews that occurred in the World War II era.

With great ambivalence, Katz set out on her journey to Lithuania and returned with overwhelming emotions that she channeled into her art work. “On the plane coming home, all I could think about was black,” Katz noted. “It had to be black.”

Black was, indeed, a part of her work. However, Katz also juxtaposed images of white alongside of the darkness in a series of abstract images that several people have said resemble a Rorschach ink blot test.

“Each person who comes into the gallery says that the images look like something different,” said Wendy Nylen, owner of the Nylen Gallery.

A native of Westport, Nylen received a bachelor’s degree in art history at Harvard University. She is also an artist. “When I first saw them, I thought were beautiful images that had a lot of emotion to it. As abstract pieces, they are very strong.”

Katz’s show at the Nylen Gallery also includes ceramic sculptures she created 15 years ago. Although they were made before her trip to Lithuania, the stark sense of decay that they evoke uncannily fit perfectly with the Panerai images, and Nylen thought they, too, should be part of the exhibit.

“There is an implication of decay and ruined burnt quality that implies injury and also rebirth and recovery,” Nylen explained.

Overall, visitors to the gallery have mixed reaction.

“Someone came in and said that they loved it but that the images gave them the shivers,” Katz said.

This is, however, exactly the response she is looking for. She wants people to not forget the inhumane actions of the Nazis and the thousands of people who perished during the Holocaust. Accompanying the exhibit are a few words written by Katz that beautifully describe her feelings. She writes, “We cannot change what happened. We can raise our voices and let it be known. Take a piece of the memory and tell the story.”

As an artist better known for her haiku-like watercolor paintings and pen-and-ink sketches of nature’s bounty — including cascading waterfalls, flowing streams and exquisite beach scenes, such as Westport’s own Old Mill Beach area — Katz could not use color in her work for almost a year after her return from Lithuania.

“I was so overcome when I visited the forest that I couldn’t wait to leave Lithuania,” she admitted. “On a little piece of paper that I still have, I wrote `How could I put anything on paper that’s not solidly black?’”

However, when she began this project, Katz chose to do her work not in a more traditional art studio setting but rather at one of her favorite local sites, Old Mill Beach. “I wanted to be somewhere I loved,” she said.

Also featured at the Nylen Gallery is another exhibit which demonstrates the reaction of artist Ernie Grevers, also of Westport, to forests. Inspired by Connecticut’s woods and hills, Grevers creates stylized, two-dimensional images that take on a three-dimensional aspect without being a sculpture, explained Nylen.

“She paints trees in a very literal and also a very abstract way,” Nylen continued. “Using a molding paste, she seems to build her tree so that it looks like it comes right off of the canvas.”

The exhibit “Two Forests” will be on display until Sept. 25 at the Nylen Gallery, located at Picture This, at 606 Post Road E., Westport. For more information, call 203-227-6861 or e-mail nylengallery@gmail.com

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