June 13, 2012 • Vol. 10, No.25
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Caepe School highlights contrasting styles MARC BUCKHOUT MANAGING EDITOR
Photo courtesy of Judy Hendricks
Anthem Art Gallery is featuring the works of Judy Hendricks and Cathy Shyers. The gallery located at the Caepe School, at 39905 N. Gavilan Peak Parkway, is having a reception at 7 p.m., Saturday.
The Anthem Art Gallery at the Caepe School will celebrate their latest display with a 7 p.m. opening reception on Saturday. The current display features a pair of area painters in Judy Hendricks from Anthem and Cathy Shyers from New River. The two have been taking lessons from gallery curator Dawn Kirchner, but each woman has a style all her own. Hendricks, who is a realist painter, began painting back during her time living in the
Midwest, both in Wisconsin and then Illinois. Since moving to Anthem she has continued with her art. In addition to painting with acrylics, Hendricks also incorporates a new technique, one she calls fine-line burning. After using wood as a canvas for a time she has and turned to water color paper. “You have to have a lot of patience to do it well,” she said. “You have to go very slow and be very precise to avoid burn
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Carefree sets $6.45 million budget for fiscal year 2012- 2013 MARC BUCKHOUT MANAGING EDITOR
The Carefree Town Council will look to adopt the 2012 – 2013 fiscal budget at their July 10 meeting. At the June 5 council meeting the council voted unanimously to set $6.450,871 million as the maximum amount they can spend during the upcoming year. Highlighting the budget is $1.4 million for a street improvement project, just under $300,000 for a new street sweeper and $80,000 for town marketing as well as an additional $40,000 for town employee raises. After seeing sales tax revenue increase by 10 percent from 2011-2012 the town is
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projecting growth of 3 percent for 2012-2013. The town also announced that it will head into the new fiscal year with a new marketing approach. After having the Carefree Business Association, led by the trio of Holly Bergman, Jo Gemmil and Kim Prince lead the marketing efforts for the last two years, Carefree has turned those responsibilities over to Owens Harkey and Associates. Bergman announced that she is looking to spend more of her time with the Foothills Animal Rescue, but offered encouragement to the effort going forward. “I think the Carefree Business Association got the puck to
the blue line and that the town followed by taking a slap shot. I hope the next group gets a hat trick,” Bergman said. Matt Owens tipped his cap, offering a game plan for how Owens Harkey and Associates plan to help bring more people to visit Carefree. “We want to build our campaign focusing on two groups, both of which are female centered as 85 percent of purchase decisions are made by females,” he said. “The first group is the 30s and 40s aged woman from the North Valley, a socialite with free time and money to spend. The second,
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Councilman Glenn Miller, left, and Mayor David Schwann listen to Matt Owens of Owens Harkey and Associates describe how he envisions the using the $80,000 budget to market Carefree.
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800 turn out at Black Mountain for Venus viewing
Anthem Community Center sponsors Health and Wellness Fair
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