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Stories by Samantha Chow
Posted May 10, 2022, 7:10 am
Samantha Chow & Monserrat Apud de la Fuente/Cronkite News
Animal-assisted therapy is a growing form of therapy that can help people of all ages both mentally and physically by relying on the bond between animals and humans, and can help a variety of conditions, from Alzheimer’s to PTSD to learning disorders.... Read more»
Posted Apr 1, 2022, 6:35 am
Samantha Chow
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Arizonans won’t have much luck finding many wildflowers this year, and some experts fear the future will have fewer Mexican and California poppies – as well as lupine, chicory, fiddlenecks and a host of other wildflowers – as the Southwest continues to heat up and dry out.... Read more»
Posted Mar 30, 2022, 6:06 am
Samantha Chow
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Vietnam veterans were honored Tuesday - National Vietnam War Veterans Day - by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona with a private wreath-laying ceremony.... Read more»
Posted Mar 10, 2022, 5:00 am
Samantha Chow
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Over the past 30 years, about 200 “Holocaust survivors, liberators and righteous gentiles” have sat in the chair of Werner Salinger - himself a survivor of Nazi atrocities - to have their faces preserved as a “life mask" in his art studio east of Old Town Scottsdale.... Read more»
Posted Mar 1, 2022, 6:45 am
Samantha Chow
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Hundreds of demonstrators marched from the Ukrainian American Cultural Center to Colter Park in central Phoenix on Sunday in support of Ukraine after Russia launched a full-scale invasion last week.... Read more»
Posted Jan 28, 2022, 10:48 am
Samantha Chow
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Thursday marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day – 77 years since Allied forces liberated the emaciated survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland, but for the Arizona Jewish Historical Society, every day is a day to remember the Holocaust.... Read more»