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AHWATUKEE FOOTHILLS NEWS BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor

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f Ahwatukee Lakes residents think a judge can force the restoration of the golf course they once had, they should think again. So says The True Life Companies in its response to the proposal that two residents’ lawyer submitted last month to Superior Court Judge John R. Hannah Jr. “This court may not dictate in any perma-

nent injunction it enters what the golf course must look like, what it must consist of or what buildings and facilities it must have,” True Life attorney Chris R. Baniszewski said in a brief filed with the judge last week. In making the bombshell assertion, Baniszewski resorts to the same 1992 Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions that the lawyer for residents Linda Swain and Eileen Breslin successfully used in blocking the developer from putting homes on the defunct 101-acre course.

That portion of the CC&Rs states that it is the owner of the course – at this point True Life – who has discretion to “modify, alter, relocate, replace, expand, abandon, demolish, cease the use of or rebuild any of the improvements or facilities related to the use of the property for golf courses,” Baniszweski contends. Noting that the judge already has rejected

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Candy is dandy for teen’s journey to businessman BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor

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hocolate may play a special role in people’s lives today, but for Ahwatukee teen Morgan Higginbotham, it’s practically been his life for more than a year. Yes, the Desert Vista High School junior’s days also have been booked with honors classes, cross-country and track. But chocolate has been a near obsession as a creation and a business for Morgan, a graduate of the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 Young Entrepreneurs Academy class. Less than a month ago, that obsession blossomed into a full-fledged business when Morgan debuted his Cherry Nubbs chocolate treats as a vendor at the Ahwatukee Farmers Market. He is there every Sunday, although he will take the day off Feb. 18 and return Feb. 25. Like any inventor with a dream, his road to that vendor booth was not easy. It started sometime in 2016, he said. “I just happened to notice a lot of candy has pictures of red filling but never has any in it.” So, he started tinkering with a recipe for his own cherry-filled chocolate treats – even though “cooking is one of my least favorite

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Desert Vista High School junior Morgan Higginbotham relied on his determination and immediate family to produce a chocolate treat and an Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce program to help him learn how to get it to market.

things.” He spent hours working in the kitchen on a recipe, initially using his younger brother

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All that 10-year-old James Lang of Ahwatukee wants are friends, and an adaptive bike may help him reach that goal.

Ahwatukee boy needs help to make a dream come true BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor

ll that 10-year-old James Lang of Ahwatukee wants are friends. And if Ahwatukee residents help him out by March 7, he could be on his way to seeing his dream come true. James is an only child with developmental delays from a brain tumor he was diagnosed with when he was 9 months old. “Five years of treatment and a later autism diagnosis has left him with a limited ability to get what he deeply wants: friends and the social experiences he sees his peers enjoying,” said his mom, Pamela. An adaptive bike for special-needs children could put him on the road to his dream, she said. And Lang hopes he can get that bike through an online crowdfunding effort launched by a Michigan-based nonprofit that in six years has raised over $1 million and has provided more than 1,000 adaptive bikes for children and teens with special needs. “It is a daily dagger in my heart to hear this outgoing, thoughtful, funny 10-year-old ask me to call a friend to come over and play and there is no one to call,” she said. “I have tried everything I could think of, including begging on Facebook and even dragging in kids we don’t know from the playground. His bike will help him physically, emotionally and socially,” Lang added, explaining: “He is an outgoing and thoughtful child. This bike will lower the wall between isolation and active participation with the outside world.” Lang has partnered with a group called the Friendship Circle, which runs The Great Bike Giveaway. See

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“For a child with special needs, bike riding offers far more than a recreational experience,” the Friendship Circle says on its website, noting: “Bike riding provides a source of much-needed exercise, gives therapeutic value and contributes to an inclusive environment where a child with special needs can ride a bike like everyone else. “Due to balance and mobility challenges, many children and teens with special needs require the use of an adaptive bike. “Sadly, most families cannot afford the high costs of adaptive bikes, and their children remain on the sidelines watching their friends and family members ride by.” Lang discovered the campaign by accident while “scouring the internet looking for social opportunities for my son.” She said that while the campaign wasn’t something she had started looking for, she thought the reasoning behind it “was brilliant.” “Kids this age don’t have the awareness to know how to meet James at his level and James hasn’t yet learned the skills to communicate with them effectively, as he longs to do,” she said. She added that his neurological deficits

kids playing together in their yards. They pass by our window as they crisscross the street to each other’s houses.” The bike, she said, “is awesome because it has the look of a regular bike, allowing him to feel the joy of similarity.” Its three wheels provide balance – “a big issue with neurological problems” – as well as a belted, chair-style seat and special pedals. Together, that special equipment will give James security and confidence and “enor(Special to AFN) mous therapeutic value This adaptive bike is similar to the one that James Lang’s mom is hoping to improve his strength a crowdfunding campaign will help her get for her son. and agility.” “Putting together all the physiological “from several years of brain surgery” mean skills necessary to ride a bike is a tricky “he doesn’t have the motor skills to keep thing to learn for anyone, and doubly so if up with them in the things they want to you have special needs. This bike compendo.” sates for all of that,” Lang said. “So, he has become resigned to being Lang’s site, greatbikegiveaway.com/ alone, and the iPad is his best friend,” she JamesRishi?tab=MyPage, shows that she’s added. “He listens to the sounds of other

about $700 shy of achieving the $2,775 goal for James’ bike. Anything collected beyond that will go toward Friendship Circle’s campaign on behalf of other special-needs children who need adaptive bikes. Lang’s campaign was helped partly by a 15-year-old boy who has donated his birthday money after hearing about it. The campaign has a deadline of March 7. “People have to fundraise for so much these days, I worried it might get lost in the sea of solicitations, but I posted it anyway,” Lang said. A friend shared the post with a wide list of people who decided to pitch in. Lang said she looks forward to the day when James tells her, “I’m going to ride my bike outside, Mom. Bye!” “Believe me, he wants that, too,” she added. “There is a stereotype about kids with special needs that they are like happy idiots, and I think this enables neurotypical people to not lose sleep over excluding them. “But in reality, most of these kids are very much aware of what they are missing and it hurts them as much as it would hurt anyone, to be aware of the simple joys of life but be consistently unable to experience them.”

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Educators praise Norgaard’s English-learners bill BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor

tate Rep. Jill Norgaard is winning support and praise for her bill to remove the requirement for a fourhour block of daily structured English immersion for English Language Learners if they are enrolled in a dual-language program. The Ahwatukee Republican’s measure, HB 2281, last week passed the House Education Committee unanimously. English Language Learners are K-12 students who are not proficient in English, as scored by the Arizona English Language Learner Assessment. “Studies have shown that dual-language programs can be a more effective way to educate English Language Learners without having to pull students from their core classes for a required four-hour block of daily immersion,” said Norgaard, adding: “Affording schools the flexibility to determine how to best educate their English Language Learners will help prevent students from falling behind and will put the power back in the hands of the teachers and families.” Norgaard told AFN she got the idea to examine the requirement during a visit with Principal Jaime Soto of Kyrene del Norte in Tempe. “He brought up the English Language Learning schedule and the problems with scheduling around the four hour block,” she said. She also met with Ana Gomez del Castillo, principal of Lagos Dual Language Academy in Ahwatukee, and Kyrene Superintendent Jan Vesely to refine her

measure, gaining bipartisan support from both the House education and rules committees. “The dual-language schools were super-excited,” she said, adding that Tucson Democratic Rep. Macario Saldate “personally thanked me, as the dual language program is very prevalent in his district.” Asked about the impact of Norgaard’s measure if it becomes law, Vesely said removing the four-hour requirement “allows English learners to help native English speakers learn through a second language, while native English speakers help English learners acquire the curriculum through English.” She noted that research shows “the potential long-term educational and career benefits that multilingual students accrue” and that “research has demonstrated that students learn concepts best in a language they understand.” “It might seem counterintuitive to some, but native Spanish speakers actually have more success learning English when instructors continue to teach them Spanish as well,” Vesely said. Dual-language programs allow students to learn from each other, “improving student motivation to learn and further amplifying and accelerating student progress,” she said. “By giving English Language Learners access to grade appropriate, high-level academic content in their native language, they engage in critical thinking,” she added. “Dual-language programs are an extremely effective learning environment for English Language Learners who often outperform their peers who are in English-only classrooms.”

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Norgaard bill aims to ‘de-reg the egg’ on expiration dates BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

hat expiration date on the side of the dozen eggs you buy at the supermarket could soon have a bit less meaning, thanks to Ahwatukee state Rep. Jill Norgaard. More than three decades after requiring that eggs be sold within 24 days after being laid, state lawmakers are moving to loosen those restrictions to six weeks. Legislation offered by Norgaard would amend existing law to say the “sell by’’ date could be 45 days after an egg is “candled’’ and still be called AA eggs, the highest standard. That’s longer than the U.S. Department of Agriculture permits for eggs with the agency’s label. But eggs sold without that USDA label are governed by the laws of the state. And that’s what Norgaard wants to change. The impetus comes from the Arizona Retailers Association, which markets the eggs directly to consumers.

Lobbyist Michelle Ahlmer said they believe there’s no reason they should have to yank the eggs from store refrigerator shelves after 24 days and dump them. But even Ahlmer conceded that a 45day shelf life may be hard for consumers and lawmakers to swallow. So, she planned on Tuesday to offer to scale that back when HB 2464 goes to the House Commerce Committee. The question is, at what point eggs should not be sold to consumers? Ahlmer says most states already allow anywhere from 30 to 45 days after being packaged. And she said while they may not be quite as fresh, there’s nothing inherently wrong with them. But Glenn Hickman, owner of the egg ranch that bears his family name, said it’s not that simple. He said testing done by state agricultural officials when the dating law was enacted in 1984 showed that eggs met the AA standard of firmness of the yolk and the See

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alling the voter-approved measure morally wrong, a Republican-controlled Senate panel voted Feb. 12 to ask voters to reconsider the 2016 measure that is set to hike the minimum wage to $12 an hour by 2020. SCR 1016 would not entirely rescind what was approved by a 58-42 margin. And wages would not go back to the $8.05 an hour they were two years ago. But it would repeal future scheduled increases, freezing the minimum wage at the current $10.50 an hour. What it also would do – if voters really do have second thoughts – is eliminate another provision of the 2016 law says full-time employees are entitled to at least three days of paid sick leave. Monday’s 5-3 party-line vote by the Committee on Commerce and Public Safety sends the measure to the full Senate. If it is approved there and by the House, also controlled by Republicans, the question would go to voters in November. There is the question of whether voters really made a mistake. Ahwatukee Sen. Sean Bowie told colleagues that the margin of victory for the measure is actually larger than most of them won their own seats. Nor was he swayed by arguments that a minimum wage hike improperly takes money from one group and gives it to another. “We do that all the time,’’ Bowie, a Democrat, said, pointing to not only the tax cuts given to corporations but even the decision by the Ducey administration to slash the number of auditors whose job it is to ensure that these firms at least pay what they owe. Michelle Sims, a professor of economics at Arizona Western College, testified that research she is doing for her doctoral dissertation found a vast majority of rural businesses have had to increase their prices or cut employee hours as a result of the 2016 measure. Other rural business owners told lawmakers of their own problems and inability to simply pass on higher costs to customers. Olivia Long, a 2017 Payson High School graduate, said the local family-owned coffee shop where she worked part time while going to school had to increase prices when the minimum wage

got bumped to $10 an hour in January 2017. It resulted, she said, in customers turning to Starbucks. Tomas Robles, co-director of Living United for Change in Arizona, the organization that spearheaded the initiative, had his own take on those stories. “These are lies,’’ he argued. Robles cited figures that show unemployment in Arizona is at the lowest rate in a decade and that employment in the traditionally low-paying leisure and hospitality sector not only has risen since the measure was approved but has outpaced the national average. But Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, the sponsor of SCR 1016, said the issue goes beyond the effect on small businesses. “Your business is your private property,’’ she told colleagues. “No one has the right to tell a business what they have to pay to an individual,’’ Allen continued. That theme was echoed by Diana Links, who said she owns a catering firm. “My family took a risk, not the voters of Arizona,’’ she said. Link said her company, which provides lunches for charter schools, has been unable to make up the difference in the higher labor costs by raising its prices. “The minimum wage increase has been a disaster for my business,’’ she said. And Sen. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, said the entire concept of having voters set a higher minimum wage is questionable. “I believe I have a moral responsibility to be generous with my own money,’’ he said. “But I believe it’s completely immoral to be generous with other people’s money.’’ Supporters, however, saw the issue in terms of the broader good. David Wells, research director of the Grand Canyon Institute, acknowledged that taking wages from $8.05 an hour to $12 will result in the loss of about 13,000 jobs. But Wells said his study shows that about 800,000 Arizonans will see more in their paychecks. Sen. Bob Worsley, R-Mesa, went along with his GOP colleagues and voted to put the issue on the November ballot. But Worsley said he has no illusion that the outcome will be different, even with extensive rural opposition. “I suspect it will pass again,’’ he said, pointing out that the vast majority of voters live in the state’s urban areas.

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egg white through 24 days. By Day 25, he said, one or more out of a dozen did not. That same test, he said, was repeated three decades later and “the results were exactly the same.’’ Hickman conceded that while they may be less pleasing, they are not unhealthy. But he said consumers are not getting what they paid for. “Getting cheated out of a couple of ounces of gas is not unsafe or unhealthy either,’’ he said. “But it’s still not right.’’ Mark Killian, director of the state Department of Agriculture has purview over egg-laying operations, is staying out of the legislative fray. But he said the judgment of what is “fresh’’ is an interesting question. For example, he said, it’s not unusual for eggs to be kept available for sale in Europe for a month, even without refrigeration. But Killian said that’s based on the eggs not being washed before being packaged. “That’s because when the hen lays the egg she puts a coating on it,’’ he explained. “But once you wash the egg and wash that coating off, it has to be refrigerated.’’ Ahlmer said the legislation benefits consumers. “If there’s a carton of eggs or a gallon of milk or something that has an expiration date on it, and I’m shopping on Feb. 9 and it expires on Feb. 12, I’m likely to look for one that has a later expiration date,’’ she

said. “What happens is those that don’t get sold have to be disposed of because we can’t give them to food banks,’’ Ahlmer said. “So, we wind up throwing it out.’’ She estimated that retailers toss about $3 million worth of eggs a year. Ahlmer said, though, she did not know how that translates to the percentage of eggs offered for sale. Ahlmer said the change will “open up our market so we can get more eggs in here.’’ That goes to the question of how Arizona ended up with open dating on egg cartons in the first place. Prior to 1984, there was no Arizona law requiring there be codes on egg cartons that consumers could read to tell the freshness of the product. Pat Wright, then a representative from Glendale, noted that many grocers were buying their eggs from California ranchers. She figured that if eggs had to be sold within a certain number of days after being laid, that would increase the incentive to buy from a local rancher who could get them to market two or three days earlier. Wright made no secret of the reason she sponsored the measure. It was to benefit Hickman’s Egg Ranch, the state’s largest producer – and coincidentally located at the time in her legislative districts. Hickman’s has since decamped to more rural locations, with Arizona operations in Arlington, Tonopah and Maricopa.

Legendary civil rights defender Bill Straus is dead AFN News Staff

ill Straus, a dedicated activist as the Arizona regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, died Saturday, Feb. 10, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 69. Mr. Straus, who retired from the ADL in 2013, also had a popular radio show in the 1990s on KTAR, wrote a column for three years for Lovin’ Life and was a frequent contributor to other Times Media Group magazines and newspapers for many years. Times Media also publishes the Ahwatukee Foothills News. “Bill was one of the most decent people I’ve ever met,” said Steve Strickbine, Times Media Group president. “His love of the Valley, his compassion for others and his ability to make fast friends was

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testers because “after a while you get so used to the taste it was hard to tell the difference with different batches.” Then, he started the 30-week YEA program in September 2016 and really, so to speak, got cooking. Directed by Ahwatukee resident Pamela Manwaring, the YEA program teaches kids as young as 11 all the ins and outs of starting and running a business. The students gather once a week to learn everything from bookkeeping and marketing to sales and manufacturing from volunteering professionals. The students also spend hours outside class trying to apply those lessons to real life. They each come up with their own company, becoming CEOs of their firms with the help of mentors who give of their time and expertise to help them realize their goal. Manwaring said Morgan “is an outstanding example of what YEA can do to kick-start a young entrepreneur.” “We are so proud of his perseverance and determination,” she added. Morgan said it took about five months before finding the right combination of chocolate and filling. “It was pretty tedious,” he recalled. “Going into YEA was a huge help,” he added. “My mom helped me a lot. She provided the funds, drove me around to stores and helped me make some of the chocolate.” Then he had to figure out a way of making his Nubbs. “It was very complicated because I had to learn how to make molds,” he said. Then there was packaging to consider. “I had to innovate, so I just decided

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on foil,” he said, explaining he decided on two packaging approaches – a roll with seven Nubbs and a bag with 25. He also developed a sticker for the plain foil wrapping to personalize his product. Throughout his venture, he said, “I never stayed up late.” Instead, he reserved Friday through Sunday for his business, saving the other days of the week for homework and cross-country as he balanced his school life with his life as a CEO. He named his company Poccette – rhymes with “pocket” – and then registered his company as an LLC, filing for trademark protection for his concoction, developing both sweet and sour cherry fillings and eventually adding a dark chocolate variety to his already established milk chocolate product line. He priced the milk and dark chocolate Cherry Nubbs rolls at $5 apiece while a bag is $12 for milk chocolate and $14 for dark. Though he sold only 30 during his first two appearances at the farmers market, his candy drew some raves on social media, with one poster calling it “the best cherry-filled chocolate.” Now that he’s on his way to becoming a regular at the market, Morgan still has a lot to figure out. He figures it cost him and his mother about $1,600 to get this far – with nearly a third spent on the cost of registering his company and trademark and related legal requirements. “The legal stuff is really expensive,” he said. “Right now, my goal is not making money,” he said. “Maybe in the next couple months I’ll be making a decent profit.” For one thing, he needs to figure out

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Morgan packages 25 of his Cherry Nubbs in bags that sell for $12 for milk chocolate and $14 for dark. His seven-piece rolls sell for $5.

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Morgan Higginbotham, left, and his younger brother Hayden stand in front of his vendor booth at the Ahwatukee Farmers Market, where he sells the candy he spent months perfecting.

a way to increase the time-consuming process of making his Nubbs and then figure out how to get them to customers. “I’ve got to get production going,” he said, repeatedly stressing how his brother and mother have been such a big help, “I would not have got this far if it wasn’t for them.” Though he has a website, poccette. com, he isn’t selling his product online because “shipping is so expensive. I would need an ice pack.” Then there’s the future to consider since he plans to attend college, majoring

in business with a minor in some science that he is yet to determine. “If I go to college out of state, I don’t think I’ll be able to continue the business,” he said. “But if I go to school around here, I’ll just have to see if I have the time. I haven’t thought it through completely yet.” But then, as he said, “I never would have expected to get this far.” And it’s hard to imagine that somehow along the way, he’ll get farther still. To reach the chocolatier: morganhigginbotham@poccette.com

YEA seeks help from experts, donors This year, eight students from area middle and high schools comprise the Young Entrepreneurs Academy class of 2018. And while dozens of local professionals and business owners are lending their time and expertise to mentoring and teaching the youths, YEA director Pamela Manwaring said the program still needs help in the form of sponsorships and investor panel members. Throughout the 30-week YEA program, a host of professionals, like Realtor Christie Ellis, the Chamber foundation chair, are working with the students either by conducting classes on various aspects of running a business or on a more intensive basis as mentors. Manwaring has two other needs to fill. “We are seeking eight local businessmen and women to be sharks at our 2018 Investor Panel on Tuesday, April 10 at South Mountain Community College Main Campus,” she said.

The panelists donate funds to a collective pool that is distributed to student businesses for the first three to fourth months of start-up expenses. But the students have to earn that investment by making a pitch to the panel, whose members grill them to test their market-readiness. Each panelist is asked to donate $1,800, although Manwaring stressed “any amount is entertained and we do not turn away folks who have an interest in supporting the YEA Program.” Manwaring also needs sponsors willing to contribute between $250 and $5,000 in return for publicity and special events. “We need to raise $15,000 in sponsorships to support the program this year and to make it available next year,” she explained. Individuals and businesses interested in helping can contact Manwaring at YEA!Ahwatukee@gmail.com or 480753-7676.

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new pastor has arrived in Ahwatukee and his flock will get its first chance to hear him today, Ash Wednesday. The Rev. Fred Gerlach will start his new position at Family of Christ Lutheran Church, 3501 E. Chandler Blvd., with a series of mid-week Lenten sermons in a series titled “The Miracles of Lent” even though he won’t be officially installed until a 4 p.m. service Feb. 25. Gerlach replaces Intentional Interim Pastor David M. Burge, who will assume the same position at Pines Lutheran Church in Payson. Gerlach’s installation service will be led by the Rev. J. Derek Mathers, assistant to Bishop Jamison J. Hardy of the English District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and Mission Executive for the English District. Gerlach and his wife, Lenore, grew up 20 miles northwest of New York City and met while at Pace University in Westchester, New York. He graduated from Pace in 1979 with a degree in accounting and his wife graduated the next year with a degree in computer science. Gerlach then began a 20-year career on Wall Street, starting with the investment banking firm Solomon Brothers, and eventually with other institutions in

the financial services industry. His wife worked for the City of Yonkers and then Pepsi Bottling. Married in 1984, the couple has three daughters. Gerlach and his wife were raised Catholic and joined the Lutheran church in 1995 through adult confirmation. In 2001, he entered Concordia Seminary St. Louis and graduated in 2005. He served at Bethany Lutheran Church in Trenton, New Jersey of the English District for 13 years. “The congregation is a mission congregation of the English district because of its outreach to Liberian refugees who were relocated to America because of a violent civil war,” according to a release announcing his new post in Ahwatukee. “This ministry involved a great amount of human care and educating people in the Lutheran Christian faith,” it added, stating Gerlach also serves on the endowment board of the English district. The Gerlachs’ oldest daughter, Katrina, will be graduating from the College of New Jersey with a master’s in education this May and will be getting married the next month. Their daughter Veronica has a husband currently serving in the Air Force and stationed in South Korea. She is a biomedical engineer for the Abraxas Corporation in environmental research. Their youngest daughter, Emily, is a junior in high school.

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Stanton wins award for city programs helping small business AFN News Staff

hoenix Mayor Greg Stanton has received the U.S. Conference of Mayors and Partner America’s Small Business Advocate Award for championing policies that help local small business. “Small businesses are the backbone of our economy,” Stanton said in a release. “We know that the key to building a healthy and strong economy is supporting local businesses, lifting them up and helping them succeed. Phoenix is blessed with a community of innovative entrepreneurs across every industry.” Phillip Potter, chief executive officer of The Armory, said the mayor played a key role in helping him in 2016 to set up his incubator to provide high-potential military veterans with the training, mentoring, resources and access to capital they need to launch and grow new, high-value startups. “Mayor Stanton and the City of Phoenix Department of Community and Economic Development have been key to The Armory’s success,” Potter said, adding:

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of view, something all too rare in society today.” The son of the founder and owner of Valley retailer Leonard’s Luggage, Mr. Straus was a fierce civil rights defender and an outspoken critic of then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the SB 1070 immigration law. During his eight years hosting Straus’ Place on KTAR, his show often provoked debate, the station reported. A onetime Turf Paradise horse-racing announcer, the Phoenix native Mr. Straus also was an actor and joined the Theatre Artists Studio after retiring from the ADL. He also was a member of the Sun Angels Foundation, Boys and Girls Club, the 100 Club and Congregation Beth Israel. “He was a dear friend to so many of us and had a significant and untold impact on so many friends, professionals and community leaders across all spectra of ecumenical life, entertainment, criminal justice and civil rights professionals,” Rabbi Stephen Kahn of Congregation Beth Israel wrote to members on Sunday.

Mr. Straus also was a lifelong ASU football fan and had the same stadium seats since the 1950s. “Bill was an incredible speaker who passionately spoke up on behalf of marginalized and vulnerable communities and stood up against anti-Semitism,” ADL Arizona Regional Director Carlos Galindo-Elvira and ADL Arizona Regional Board Chair Greg Rosenthal said in a statement. “Bill personified ADL’s mission: to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment to all,” the statement continued. “His life was a blessing to many people in our Arizona community who were impacted through his untiring work. His legacy and his service will never be forgotten.” Other leaders also praised him. U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake wrote on Twitter that he will “miss his strong and thoughtful voice.” Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton posted on social media: “Bill Straus made our community better for everyone and his passing is a huge loss.” Mr. Straus is survived by his son, Charlie; daughter, Jenni Cohen; and three grandchildren. His funeral was scheduled for Feb. 13 at Congregation Beth Israel.

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True Life’s effort to change the CC&Rs, Baniszewski states he “cannot now grant modification to plaintiffs, particularly when the plaintiffs never asked for such a modification, nor do the 1992 Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions give plaintiffs the right to such a modification.” All that Hannah is legally entitled to do, he adds, “is simply to require TTLC and any future owner of the property to operate a golf course on the property so that it may be used for golfing and golfing practice.” True Life’s argument represents the latest twist in the long-running legal battle over the future of the 18-hole executive golf course that prior owner Wilson Gee closed in 2013. Gee, who said he was losing money on the course, sold the site to True Life in 2015 for $9 million, although the developer so far has paid him only $750,000. True Life in 2016 had proposed an “agrihood” for the site that would include about 270 single and duplex-style houses, a five-acre farm, a private school, cafe and various amenities. The developer waged an aggressive campaign with the Lakes’ approximately 5,400 homeowners to have the CC&Rs amended to pave the way for its plan. But the developer fell short of getting signatures of 51 percent of the homeowners to make the change. True Life’s proposal came after Hannah had ruled in the Swain-Breslin suit that the CC&Rs required the property could be used only as a golf course.

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This drone-powered photo by Tom Sanfilippo of Inside Out Aerial shows the Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course as it is today, stripped of any turf and its lakes nearly dried up.

Just before Hannah held a non-jury trial to determine the next step in the case, True Life submitted a new plan, saying it would build a “9-hole fun course” if the judge also allowed it to build the homes. True Life has said restoring an 18-hole executive golf course on the site would never be profitable – an argument that atto0rney Tim Barnes disputes. Now that Hannah rejected that move and declared the property must remain a

course, asked Hannah to not only order the restoration of the 18-hole executive golf course but also appoint a special master to oversee its construction within the next 18 months. He suggested Kip Wolfe, vice president of golf operations for Pro Turf International in Las Vegas, be appointed the special master. Wolfe’s ballpark estimate that it would cost between $5 million and $6 million is well under half the $14.1 million price tag that True Life’s consultant put on restoring the course. Wolfe, whose firm is a golf course construction and renovation company, said in a sworn affidavit that he “performed an extensive walk throughout the golf course to evaluate its then-current condition.” The Las Vegas resident, who has been in the golf industry since 1981, said he would serve as a special master at a cost of $180 an hour. But Baniszewski asserts, “There is no need for this court to appoint a special

master” and said that even if Hannah did, Wolfe has no authority to dictate how True Life should restore the site and that the judge has no right to make the developer pay for his services. “Given that a special master would not have the authority to tell TTLC how to restore the golf course,” he wrote, “imposing any expense on TTLC to pay a special master would be patently unfair. “In fact, not having a special master is likely to accelerate matters as it is likely that either party will not agree with the special master’s decisions, forcing the disputed issue before this court anyway,” Baniszewski adds. Barnes now has a chance to respond to Baniszewski’s brief and Hannah is expected to issue a final order next month. Once that happens, True Life has the option of appealing his ruling to a higher state court – possibly extending the legal battle for months if not longer. True Life also has suggested it could file for bankruptcy, creating still more delays.

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This photo, used by the Save the Lakes members in their fight against True Life’s Ahwatukee Farms campaign, shows what the golf course looked like before it was closed in 2013.

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Mormon-founded law firm now has marijuana specialty BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY AFN Staff Writer

ongtime Mesa law firm Udall Shumway has expanded its practice to include cannabis law, capitalizing on the growing medical marijuana market in Arizona. The move into the legal marijuana industry may be surprising to those who know the firm’s history. Its namesake founders – David Udall and Dale Shumway – are prominent members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which has not openly embraced cannabis as medicine. However, Justin Brandt, leading counsel for the firm’s new practice, said it was a non-issue. “We’re here to service clients; we’re not here to make moral judgments,” he said. In fact, the transition into cannabis law was a smooth one for the firm and Brandt, who has a background in business and corporate transactions. He initially provided some employment services for medical marijuana clients under that business law purview, and the cannabis law practice grew from there. “We have a very rich business law practice group, whether it be transactional practice or business litigation,” Brandt said. He added, “Cannabis – it’s just business, right? The only difference, and it’s a unique difference, is it’s in a highly, highly regulated industry.” That regulation reared its head soon after the firm announced the new practice when U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded three Justice Department memos issued during the Obama administration that essentially directed federal prosecutors not to interfere with the cannabis industries in states that had legalized marijuana for medical and/or

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“Cannabis – it’s just business, right?" said Justin Brandt, counsel for longtime Mesa law firm Udall Shumway.

recreational use. Sessions’ decision to roll back the three memos that direct prosecutors to use their discretion to pursue charges in cases involving marijuana – which is still illegal under federal law even as many states move to legalize the drug. The new memo “simply directs all U.S. Attorneys to use previously established prosecutorial principles that provide them all the necessary tools to disrupt criminal organizations, tackle the growing drug crisis and thwart violent crime across our country,” Sessions said. The announcement caused some concern in the medical and recreational cannabis industries. Brandt fielded calls from clients all day when the announcement was made last month. But it is too soon to tell how it will tangibly affect the industry. “It is more unknown than anything,” Brandt said.

Ultimately, he does not see medical marijuana businesses closing up shop because of the Justice Department’s priority change. “I don’t think you are going to see a massive shutdown,” he said. “A lot of these businesses have certain toleration for risks.” He noted that marijuana has been illegal at the federal level since the 1970s, and that has not changed. Even directives under the Obama administration only shifted prosecutorial priorities and did nothing to legalize the marijuana at the federal level. “These businesses have been comfortable operating with that amount of risk, and you are not going to see them shy away just because these policies are rescinded,” Brandt said. His advice to all clients in the industry following Sessions’ decision is simple: Stay in compliance. The practice will focus solely on the business side of the cannabis industry with a focus on business formation. It will provide advising on transactional deals, lease deals, purchase agreements and employment, among other services, said Brandt. “Right now, it seems we are really busy on the commercial real estate side for both retail fronts and the grow operations,” Brandt said. While the firm has offered some compliance advising in the past, it is likely going to take a step back from that as many medical marijuana operations are now bringing in a dedicated compliance officer on staff, which Brandt sees as a good thing. “A lot of these businesses are already operating with a target on their back, and once you are not in compliance with something, whether it’s security or seedto-sale tracking, (regulators) are going to hop on that,” he said.

It is not difficult to see why a firm like Udall Shumway would want to break into the cannabis industry. Quite simply, the industry is booming. A 2016 study from New Frontier Data and Arcview Market Research found that medical marijuana sales are expected to total $681 million by 2020. The business available to firms with a cannabis law practice will go up only if Arizona eventually legalizes recreational marijuana. Prop 205 would have done just that but failed by 3 percent in 2016. That New Frontier Study projected sales would roughly double by 2020 if voters had approved Prop 205. There are at least two initiatives that would legalize recreational marijuana in Arizona in some form that could appear on the ballot in 2018, though their chances of passing are slim, according to one poll. An OH Predictive Insights poll of Arizona voters from November 2017 found that only 35 percent of respondents supported legalizing marijuana for personal use versus 48 percent who opposed the measure. “Legalizing marijuana in Arizona is much less viable in a mid-term election, however there is a strong chance we will see them take another run at it in 2020,” chief pollster Michael Noble said in a press release. While it may be off the table in the immediate future, Brandt believes Arizona voters will eventually approve a measure legalizing recreational use. “Certainly, it is not unreasonable to think that (marijuana) could be legalized, not just in a medicinal program but in an adult use program, in the next few election cycles,” he said. – Reach Wayne Schutsky at 480-898-6533 or wschutsky@timespublications.com.

Limited texting ban may be in the cards for state motorists BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

rizona may finally be ready to join the 47 other states who find the practice of texting while driving so dangerous that they have made it illegal. But supporters of the ban, who have come up pretty much empty-handed for more than a decade, are having to agree to some limits to try to push the bill to the

finish line and get it signed into law. SB 1261 as approved last week by the Senate Committee on Transportation and Technology, would create a fine of no more than $99 for a first offense and $200 for repeat violations. Only when a person using the cell phone or similar device is involved in a mishap that causes death or serious injury would the offense rise to the level of a misdemeanor. But even then, the maximum penalty would be four months in county

jail and a $4,000 fine. Sen. Steve Farley, D-Tucson, who has made passage of some sort of restriction a multi-year effort, also had to agree to language that says citations can be issued only if the texting was witnessed by a police officer or “established by other evidence.’’ But motorists would not have to surrender a phone to an officer who wants to determine if a suspect was, in fact, texting. And the legislation spells out that a con-

viction for a driving-while-texting offense could not be used by the Motor Vehicle Division to take away someone’s license, nor be an excuse for an insurance company to raise a motorist’s premiums. The unanimous committee vote sends the measure to the full Senate. But the real challenge could be in the House where lawmakers repeatedly taken a harder stand against what some see as See

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State House proposes motor vehicle fee increase for road work BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

nable politically to hike the state gasoline tax to help pave and repair roads, a State House panel has voted to impose a new fee when people register their cars and trucks every year. HB 2166 would empower the head of the state Department of Transportation to impose a charge that would, when applied to all vehicles, raise enough money to fund the Highway Patrol. Rep. Noel Campbell, R-Prescott, who crafted the measure, figures it would come out somewhere between $17 and $19 a year. The 7-1 vote by the House Committee on Transportation and Technology sends the measure to the full House. Campbell has been beating the drum for years to find additional dollars to not only build new roads but fix existing ones. “Nobody enjoys raising taxes, of course not,’’ he said. “But you know the condition of the roads and bridges and infrastructure in this state.’’ The problem is rooted in the fact that the state’s 18-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax has not been raised since 1991, when the a gallon of fuel averaged $1.14. Complicating that is that while the number of vehicles on the roads has risen, they are more fuel efficient. So, gas tax revenues have not increased as fast as the miles driven. Hiking the tax has proven politically unacceptable, with Gov. Doug Ducey on

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“nanny state’’ regulations. That logic drew a slap of sorts from Sen Bob Worsley, R-Mesa, who chairs the Senate panel. “Sometimes it just seems like our political ideology gets in the way of common sense,’’ he said, saying that lawmakers, in discussing this issue “have had a hard time ... to see through a common-sense lens.’’ Worsley had a message for the parade of people who testified, some holding pictures of loved ones who were killed by distracted drivers: “I’m sorry it’s taken so long.’’ Farley has waged a multi-year battle to outlaw the practice statewide. In the interim, some cities and counties have en-

record in opposition to any adjustment. Robert Bulechek, an energy efficiency analyst from Tucson, said Campbell has the right goal. “We need to raise revenues for road maintenance,’’ he told lawmakers. “The deferred maintenance alone in Pima County runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars.’’ But Bulechek said Campbell was approaching the idea all wrong. He said any fees should be based on the use of the roads and the pollution produced -- the kind of thing reflected in a gasoline tax -- rather than a flat fee. Campbell’s measure also is written to phase out the special extra-low vehicle registration fee owed by those who have purchased alternative fuel vehicles, vehicle that use the same roads as those who power their cars and trucks with gasoline and diesel. “That’s not fair,’’ he said. That provision, however, drew concern from Matt Ligouri, lobbyist for Southwest Gas Corp. He said many companies have made large investments in purchasing vehicles that can be fueled using compressed natural gas. Ligouri said they were counting on the lower registration fees to offset both the higher cost of CNG-fueled vehicles as well as the capital costs of installing the equipment to fuel them up. Daniel Scarpinato, the governor’s press aide, said the governor for the moment has no position on Campbell’s new fee, saying his boss would have to study it. acted their own bans. But that leaves vast areas of the state with no regulation. Michael Infanzon who lobbies for American Brotherhood Aimed Toward Education, said he has been told that the Department of Public Safety, which patrols all numbered roads, does not issue citations to those who violate local no-texting bans. Infanzon also took a swat at the penalty provision. “A misdemeanor for killing somebody is not enough,’’ he said. Farley said the legislation does not preclude a motorist from also being charged with other offenses from the same accident, including reckless driving or even manslaughter. Texting using a hands-free device would remain legal.

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Battling rare disease, Ahwatukee man needs double lung transplant BY COTY DOLORES MIRANDA AFN Contributor

d Kriesel was 47 and a single dad when he was diagnosed with a rare lung disease known as genetic emphysema. Though he was never a smoker, the diagnosis of Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, or genetic COPD, was discovered after he began experiencing a shortness of breath that was quite noticeable in a man accustomed to regular, if strenuous, physical activities. Discovering the cause of his breathing difficulties took more than a year of visiting various doctors, receiving many misdiagnoses and being prescribed a plethora of medications and antibiotics. “By the time I was diagnosed with this rare genetic liver and lung disease, I had lost almost 50 percent of my lung capacity,” said Kriesel. “Once lung capacity is gone, it’s gone forever.” Today, at 56, Kriesel’s lung function is 24 percent, and even at that number, it’s still not low enough to meet the prescribed criteria for the double lung transplant. “They’d like it to be more like 20 percent, and they’re looking at summer, but if I continue to decline, they can list me at any time,” he said of the multiple doctors

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Less than 10 years ago, Ed Kriesel of Ahwatukee led an active life that included waterskiing, as the photo on his laptop shows. But now he is battling for his life, trying to raise $1 million for a double lung transplant after being diagnosed with a rare genetic disease.

and specialists who make up the transplant decision-making team. “It’s an international guideline, but it’s frustrating because I’m getting weaker, and my quality of life is taking a big hit. I’d like to be off disability and go back to work, and of course also be out hiking, bike riding and waterskiing and playing

golf and tennis like I used to.” The father of two adult children, Kriesel said the price of the double-lung transplant is “just under $1 million.” He doesn’t flinch when reciting the figure. He’s become accustomed to paying out huge amounts of money to maintain his life – including a once-a-week aug-

Ahwatukee man rocks on with new CD BY COTY DOLORES MIRANDA AFN Contributor

sh Black is both a band and a recording artist, but he’s a lot more than his name suggests. Ahwatukee musician John Wolanin trained in classical piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music, who holds a bachelor’s degree in English/history and earned a law degree – both from Ohio’s Case Western Reserve University. He uses Ash Black as his performing moniker and also gave that name to his band, presently comprising studio musicians for his recordings. Wolanin, a rhythm guitarist, prefers to use his music name when playing rock ’n’

roll. “My nom de plume is Johnny Black,” he said. “It works better in the music arena.” Of late, the 13-year Ahwatukee resident has set his goal on creating music – particularly hard rock. His newest CD, “Would You Want to Know Me If You Got to Know Me,” which has not yet been publicly distributed, has received airplay on New York City and Phoenix radio stations. “When they hear my CD, or when I play live, people won’t get screaming guitar, but it’s definitely hard rock,” smiled the curly brown-haired musician. “I’d say my original work is postmodern rock,” he said. “There’s a lot of elements of classic rock. Think of it as a hybrid of Led

Zeppelin with the Band of Skulls.” His single release from the album, “Day of Love,” is being play locally on KXEG-FM following his premiere See

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John Wolanin of Ahwatukee is a lawyer, but he prefers being a rock ’n’ roll musician whose stage name and band name is Ash Black.

mentation/replacement therapy IV drug, administered by an in-home nurse, that costs $150,000 annually. The goal of this plasma-based drug is to slow the damage to the lungs; it doesn’t reverse or heal existing damage. After Kriesel’s Information technology job was outsourced to India three years ago, his insurance was also gone. Now Medicare is his source of help. “The $1 million is the cost from the beginning of the transplant process to about the end of the first year. Insurance will, hopefully, cover a lot of it, but my co-pays and out-of-pocket maxes will still be a pretty good chunk,” he said. “I’ll have yearly costs for the many doctor visits and many medications that will probably be around $15,000 to $20,000 per year.” Kriesel said one of the areas that have to be resolved before the transplant team moves forward is how he’ll pay for it. “It shouldn’t be that way, but that’s reality. The transplant social worker is the one who gave us the info on the Help Hope Live Foundation, and strongly suggested we do a fundraiser to help.” To help Kriesel attain his hoped-for double lung transplant this summer and See

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costly post-surgery expenses, Ahwatukee friends Wendy and Rod Galster, and his 22-year-old daughter, Brianna “Bri” Kriesel, are organizing a March 3 fundraiser, Lungs for Life. The Saturday event at Ahwatukee’s Bleachers Sports Grill – where Bri Kriesel is a bartender and server, starts at 5:30 p.m. with Kriesel speaking at 6:15, followed by live and silent auctions. Auction donations are being sought. For the Galsters, knowing Kriesel was enough reason to help him. “What inspired us to help Ed is that Ed has never been about Ed,” she said. “It’s always been about him helping others. Even with his illness, he travelled the country helping educate doctors and others about this disease, and hoping to save other families by recognizing this early on.” She said that she and her husband are “blessed and appreciative of life” and when they saw their friend in need, they wanted to do what they could. “Ed has a very hard time asking for help; he’s always been the one helping others, so as he’s gotten closer to this upcoming transplant, we volunteered and he finally accepted our help,” the four-year Ahwatukee resident said, adding:

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“Ed is a caring, compassionate and likable guy who always has a positive outlook. He’s an amazing human being.” Kriesel recalls how, upon his diagnosis 10 years ago, doctors projected he had only five years to live. But the single dad had always been active and healthy – he was training for his first sprint triathlon, a short-distance race consisting of a 750-meter swim, 20K bike ride and 5K run. That dedication to staying physically fit, amazingly, continues. Kriesel hits his Life Time Fitness gym daily. “To me, exercising has saved my life. If I didn’t exercise like this now, or as I did before, I wouldn’t be here,” said Kriesel, who joined the original Life Time gym 21 years ago in Minnesota where he then resided. “I do a little bit of weight resistance and cardio every day. The stronger I am when I go into the transplant and recovery, the better chance I have,” said Kriesel. When speaking, Kriesel occasionally wheezes or clears his throat. Over the years, as his lung capacity has diminished, he has learned a few tricks to help him communicate without calling attention to his disease. “I’m pretty good at hiding it. People who have this are pretty good at compensating. We think ahead. For instance, I

find out ahead of time if there are stairs where I’m going. Stairs are hard for me.” Alpha-1 can be a tricky disease, he said. “I can go from breathing pretty well to gasping for air in a matter of hours,” said Kriesel, who recently ended up in the Chandler Regional Medical Center emergency room. “There are times when I get really bad and they give me an IV of a powerful steroid that opens me up.” He said there are always complications brought along with medications like Prednisone, a corticosteroid that affects his bone density. With his many medications needed to keep his airways open, his immune system is “severely compromised” he said. “I also have to be careful around large groups, sick people, and I avoid kids as much as possible,” he admitted. Although liver issues are often associated with this disease, Kriesel hasn’t had that added concern. “Right now, my liver is OK,” he said. “I just completed a four-year liver study at the University of Florida. They are tracing the impact on lung-affected Alpha-1 patients and liver disease. I do have what they call a ‘fatty liver’ that is typical with this disease. Eventually, the liver will develop cirrhosis, but with the liver, damage can take a long time. I do have to get it

checked yearly.” Despite the trials, Kriesel maintains a positive spirit. “It’s hard sometimes. I’m an active person, I always have been. And I try to stay positive because it’s what you do. You have a choice. I could be depressed, but I continue to do the best I can,” he said. “One of the reasons for wanting to do this story is to raise awareness about the very under-diagonosed disease, and about blood, plasma and organ donation to help save people’s lives. "It's estimated that there are 19 million who have Alpha-1 and don’t know it,” said Kriesel. Until the last year, he toured the country speaking about the disease, which currently has no cure, and the Alpha-1 Foundation who is working to change that. The Ed Kriesel fundraiser is 5:30-8 p.m. Saturday, March 3 at Bleachers Sports Grill, 15410 S. Mountain Parkway on the northwest corner of 40th Street and Chandler Boulevard, behind Walgreens. The organizers are hoping local businesses and individuals will contribute items for the auctions. They can contact Wendy Galster at 518495-2507 or Bri Kriesel 651-485-6740. Monetary donations to help Kriesel are also possible at HelpHopeLive.org/13761.

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interview and live play on a New York City station. “I was in New York City and was interviewed on the radio, and the song took off. It was a boost to see it so well received, and that was how the local DJ Daniel C. Kopf got involved,” he said. Daniel Lionheart – the DJ’s radio name – said, “Johnny Black has more knowledge of indie and underground alternative rock than anyone I know.” “And despite being aware of technical details like songwriting formulas, he knows when to artfully ignore the rules in favor of making great music,” said Kopf, owner of Emerald Sea Radio, adding: “Unlike some other alternative rockers who sidestep formulas and rules, Johnny Black delivers music that draws you in and makes you want to hear the music again and again. Ash Black is not pop. It is art that’s more memorable than pop.” Kopf also lauds Wolanin for supporting and promoting others in the local and interdependent music scene. “Most independent musicians seem to be oblivious to the importance of supporting each other, and promoting radio personalities that play their music,” said Kopf, co-host of KXEG’s “Cross Cultures

Underground.” “We don’t live in a world where multi-billion-dollar corporations put us on tour, spend millions publicizing our bands and bribe radio stations to play our music,” Kopf added. “Independent artists live in an authentic world of blood, sweat, tears and hard work. But we have each other. We can support and promote each other. John understands that, and he does that.” Ash Black is seriously pursuing his rock ’n’ roll career goals, but as many fledgling and experienced musicians know, day jobs are to be treasured until the hits start stacking up. “I make the bulk of my income from placement with music libraries and music supervisors for all sorts of media from ads, shows, radio bumpers and small-time movies. Streams and downloads comprise a small portion of it,” he said. He noted that though recent studies show that for the first time, R&B/hiphop is the dominant music genre, rock ’n’ rollcontinues to thrive due to a certain age niche. “Hip-hop/R&B simply reflects a youth demographic as it always has, however middle-aged adults will spend proportionally more per person. Kids rip and grip,” said the Cleveland-born Wolanin. “Nevertheless, there are more kids than

adults seeking music,” he added. Constantly evolving, Wolanin finds making music comes easy; getting the records to the public is more frustrating. “The exact release date is forthcoming on Alley’s Pad Records pending distribution finalization for iTumes, Amazon and approximately 100 other online and physical music sellers,” he explained. He also plans to tour upon release of the album. That step requires a tight and consistent band. “I’ve decided to have regular musicians join me, and am presently actively looking for personnel – a drummer, bass player and lead guitarist,” said The first-generation son of Polish immigrants, Wolanin grew up in a music-loving household. “Dad loved Gene Krupa, and my mom loved and started me on Chopin,” he said. Both encouraged his musical talents. “I really started on piano around age 5, but it took off from there,” he said. “At 8 years of age, I was given a scholarship to the Cleveland Institute of Music. I never took a guitar lesson in my life, but at age 12, my parents bought me a guitar that I named ‘Blondie.’ I still have it around,” he said wistfully. “You can rock anything if you know what you’re doing.” While at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Wolanin was immersed in music theo-

ry, performance, composition and production – all of which he uses in creating his rock songs. He said he was also heavily influenced by The Cult. Music and law also melded for a time as Wolanin represented other bands like Second Skin, an American gothic band formed in 1991, and rumored to be readying a 2018 tour. “I was doing music throughout all my education and career,” said the musician/ attorney. “In my own music, I retain artistic control.” Ask his age and he merely smiles. “I never give my age,” he said. “They say rock ’n’ roll is a young man’s game, but I don’t really believe it with guys like Keith Richards still running around.” Rock isn’t the only music genre Wolanin has been successful with. In 1999, he signed his first record deal for a full-length release in techno/electronica/trancee and dance music with his album “The Life of Phoenix. His nom de plume in that artistic period was “Transonic Johnny.” Indie Music Channel named the album No. 1 on the electronic artist chart in Oct./ Nov. 2011, and again in Nov/Dec 2015, On Jan. 22, his single debuted on local radio. More of his music can be heard on ReverbNation/AshBlack.

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Boy Scout Troop 78 slates semiannual yard sale

Members of Boy Scout Troop 78 in Ahwatukee are hoping local spring cleaners will think of them and bring any usable discards to their semiannual fundraising yard sale. The sale is 7-11 a.m. Feb. 25 on the southwest corner of the Safeway lot at Chandler Boulevard and 40th Street. Donations can be dropped off that day any time after 6 a.m. and the troop will give the donor a tax receipt. Troop mother Amy Perciballi said that because the troop has no storage facility, it’s “sort of like a drop to Goodwill but it benefits the Scouts.” The troop also will gladly accept cash donations. “This troop is thriving and we regularly have three to four boys make Eagle rank each year,” she added.

Desert Pointe Garden Club slates yard sale next week

Desert Pointe Garden Club will hold its annual yard sale 7-11:30 a.m. Feb. 23 and 24 at 3642 E. South Fork Drive, Ahwatukee. This is the club’s main fundraiser for the year and the proceeds support charitable activities that include maintaining the Blue Star Memorial at 48th Street and Warner Road, annual donations to Penny Pines and a reforestation effort in Arizona. The club also has worked this past year to landscape the back yard of a home for disabled adults in south Tempe that was overgrown and desolate. “Our work there continues and we hope to move on to a second, similar home in the fall and begin work there,” a spokeswoman said.

Esperanza Lutheran art show seeks submissions

Ahwatukee residents will have a chance to see a budding landmark and the work of local artists when Esperanza Lutheran Church holds its second art show at the celebrated Garden of Eatin’. Art show coordinator Julie Gerrish and Garden of Eatin’ President Jayne Peterson, a longtime Ahwatukee resident and member at Esperanza, are now looking for submissions for the show, to be held 2-4 p.m. Feb. 24, at the garden, located on the campus of Esperanza Lutheran, 2601 E. Thunderhill Place, Ahwatukee. Submissions can include virtually any medium – such as paint on canvas, crayon art, sculpture and photography – for the show, whose them is “Peace and Harmony.”

Artists must submit digital images of the work they want to enter, along with a description, no later than Feb. 21 to the submission link (survey format) on gardenofeatinaz.com in the “News and Events” page under “NEW! Art in the Garden.” Click the part that says, “Click here” to access the link. The submission link can also be accessed in the description of the garden’s Facebook page for the event titled “Art in the Garden.” The format for the show will be similar to last year. Visitors can wander through the garden and look and judge the artwork. There will be some free snack food provided by garden members.

Kiwanis Club seeks entries for 42nd annual Easter Parade

The 42nd annual Kiwanis Ahwatukee Easter Parade and Spring Fling is slated for March 31 and entries are now being sought. While forms have been mailed to 300 local businesses, groups and previous parade participants, the Kiwanis Club doesn’t want to overlook anyone, so it’s putting out a public call for businesses, youth groups, church organizations and even individuals to start planning for the largest Easter parade in the city of Phoenix. It is one of the largest annual community events in Ahwatukee Kiwanis Club President Mike Schmitt will again perform services as the Parade Boss for the 26th year. Beginning at 10 a.m., the parade forms at 48th Street and Warner Road and progresses north about one mile along 48th Street to Cheyenne Drive. Spectators are welcome to bring lawn chairs or spread blankets and enjoy the parade. After the parade, families and individuals can drop by the Spring Fling at Ahwatukee Community Center Park, 48th Street and Warner Road. The parade and the Spring Fling are organized by the 27-member Kiwanis Club of Ahwatukee with proceeds earmarked for community and Kiwanis charities. Local Key Clubs from Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe High Schools assist. For more parade information, call, 480-759-0007 or e-mail msch0007@aol.com. Spring Fling information can be obtained by calling 602-402-6267 or e-mailing andi@wttaz.com. Forms are available at ahwatukeekiwanis.org.

Children’s theater to hold variety show fundraiser

The Ahwatukee Children’s Theater will hold its annual talent show fundraiser 1-5 p.m. March 25 at the Because Event Center, 3419 E. University Drive,

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Taste of Kyrene to benefit school district's foundation

The annual and popular Taste of Kyrene will be 7-11 p.m. March 2 at the Arizona Grand Resort to benefit the Kyrene Foundation. A light dinner buffet will be provided by Arizona Grand catering and the group will introduce a special Fund–a-Need appeal. A silent auction and wine pull also are part of the evening’s festivities. More than 250 people attended the event last year, including parents, teachers and administrators, community members and leaders, and local business partners. The Kyrene Foundation sponsors a number of activities throughout the year, primarily to help needy district families. The night will include finding a winner in the opportunity drawing for a family adventure package for four to Anaheim or San Diego courtesy of Get Away Today. Opportunity Drawing tickets are on sale at kyrenefoundation.org/taste/event. For each $10 ticket, $5 is donated to a Kyrene school of the purchaser’s and the other half supports the nonprofit Kyrene Foundation.

Kids encouraged to enter state fair bookmark contest

Children in grades K-6 are encouraged to join the bookmark contest sponsored by Gov. Doug Ducey and the Arizona State Fair. Each winner will have his/her design reproduced and printed on bookmarks that are distributed to students touring the Arizona State Capitol. Winners also will get to meet Ducey. Designs will be used to promote the Arizona State Fair’s Read & Ride Program, which gives children ages 5-14 the opportunity to earn free ride passes through dedicated reading efforts. Each bookmark contest winner will also receive a VIP package to the State Fair that includes: four admission tickets, VIP parking passes, ride cards, and four reserved concert tickets. “Encouraging a love of reading early in life is critical to creating strong readers and successful life learners,” said Governor Ducey. “Through this

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Dream Dinners food-packing event at GCU seeks sponsors

Dream Dinners of Ahwatukee is seeking sponsors to support the purchase of food and other expenses in advance of a food-packing event at Grand Canyon University on March 25. Sponsors who contribute between $500 and $10,000 will get various levels of recognition at the packing event, which aims to feed thousands of needy families in the United States and abroad. The event is being organized by the Dream Dinners Foundation and another nonprofit called Friends & Family Community Connection, which together have organized similar events across the country that have supplied 16 million meals.Information: Penny Bowers at 602-810-2922 or penny.bowers@dreamdinners.com.

Ahwatukee high school seniors can get scholarship help

The Arizona Community Foundation is now accepting applications for college scholarships and has added new awards to support Arizona foster children and law enforcement families. ACF, which is largest private provider of scholarship funding in Arizona, provides access to more than 100 scholarship awards with a single online application. Completing one general application automatically matches applicants with every scholarship opportunity within the system for which they qualify. High school seniors, current college students and graduate-level students attending schools can apply. Application deadlines for scholarships vary, ranging from early spring to the end of May. Students are encouraged to apply early to maximize their opportunities for the scholarship awards. Some scholarships are given based on merit or financial need, while others are awarded to students in a particular geographic region or with specific demographic characteristics. Visit azfoundation.org/ scholarships.

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Explore hands-on creative ways to design, experiment, and invent while learning about Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) through tinkering. #stem DETAILS>> 2-4 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E Chandler Blvd. Ages 6-11. Free. No registration required.

Weight loss program set

Join The Body Firm in the annual six-week Partner Weight Loss Challenge with a $1,000 prize for the biggest losers. DETAILS>> An informational meeting is at 12:30 p.m. at 3636 E. Ray Road, Ste 2, Ahwatukee. The challenge begins Feb. 19. Information: 480-705-9801 or thebodyfirmaz.com.

SUNDAY, FEB. 18

Harvest, eat plants

Walk with Master Gardener Kelly Athena in an Ahwatukee neighborhood and wash and harvest plants she has permission to, then come back to the kitchen and make tea and tasty dishes. Plants, seeds, and snacks will be available at no cost to all students. If you need Master Gardener education credit, this class applies toward it. Available to people of all walking and wheelchair abilities. No pets please. DETAILS>> 3-5 p.m. Exact address in the Ahwatukee Foothills 85048 is given upon registration. Questions? Walks@kellyathena.com; Tickets at kellyathena.com/plant-walks One for $20, 2 for $30, or 3 for $40.

SUNDAY, FEB. 25

Tune into Aesop’s Fables!

All ages will enjoy a musical performance by the Mill Avenue Chamber Players inspired by Aesop’s classic tales at 2 p.m. Children’s crafts will follow at 3 p.m. DETAILS>> Ironwood Library, 4333 E Chandler Blvd. All ages. Free. No registration required.

MONDAY, FEB. 26

Friends and neighbors to meet

The next Ahwatukee Foothills Friends and Neighbors meeting will take place with Kathleen Winn of Project 25 discussing, “Reestablishing Boundaries: Ending Sexual Exploitation by 2025.” DETAILS>> Shalimar Country Club in Tempe. The payment deadline for the buffet luncheon is Feb. 19, 2018. Contact affanwomensgroup@gmail.com to find out how to become a member.

TUESDAY, FEB. 27

Creative Planning, Journaling

Do you have a New Year’s resolution to get organized but don’t know where to start? Bring your planner, bullet journal, or notebook and learn some tips on laying out your tasks and goals while exercising your creativity. Introductory bullet journal and all other supplies provided by the Friend of the Phoenix Public Library. DETAILS>>> 4-6 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.

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The third Tuesday of every month bring 5 double-spaced pages of writing to get feedback from your fellow writers. DETAILS>> 6-7:45 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.

Come learn about, and experience, the colorful spring Indian celebration of Holi! Crafting fun with a spring theme will happen 4-5 p.m. Snacks and the throwing of gulal-colored powder will occur 5-5:30 p.m. Bring family and friends, wear clothes you don’t mind getting permanently stained, and join us for this wild, messy celebration! DETAILS>> Ironwood Library, 4333 E Chandler Blvd. All ages. Free. No registration required.

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Food packing for Africa

Corpus Christi Catholic Church is sponsoring a food-packing event to help send 14,000 meals with CRS Helping Hands to Burkina Faso in West Africa. DETAILS>> 10 a.m.-noon, 3550 E. Knox Road, Ahwatukee. To donate/register: helpinghands.crs.org/ events/corpus-christi. Information: Mary Long at

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SUNDAYS

Learn gardening from pros

Chamber offers networking

Learn desert gardening by getting your hands dirty with the Ahwatukee Community Gardening Project. Share in the knowledge, the produce, and the smiles. All ages welcome Bring sun protection and water, tools optional. DETAILS>> 8-9:15 a.m. in the northwest corner of the park at 4700 E. Warner Road, Ahwatukee, behind the guitar player at the Ahwatukee Farmers Market, which is open 9a.m.-1 p.m. Information: acgarden.org or 480-759-5338.

The Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce networking and leads group is open to chamber members. DETAILS>>Noon, Native Grill and Wings, 5030 E. Ray Road, Ahwatukee. Gina Jenkins, 480-990-5444.

LD 18 Dems meet monthly

Legislative District 18 Democrats gather monthly, usually the second Monday, to share news, opportunities, food and laughter. Meetings include guest speakers, legislative updates, how-to sessions and Q&A. Volunteer or just enjoy an evening with like-minded folks. DETAILS>>For times and places: ld18democrats.org/ calendar.

Chess players, knitters clubs

Two new clubs meet in Ahwatukee every Sunday the chess club for players at all skill levels and Knitters Anonymous for all levels of knitters and people who crochet. DETAILS>> The Chess Club meets at 11 a.m. at Einstein’s at 48th Street and Ray Road. Knitters Anonymous meets at 2 p.m. at Pomegranate’s Café, 40th and Chandler Boulevard. For either club, call 480246-1912 for more information.

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Color to Calm: Coloring for Grown-ups!

Adult coloring promotes mindfulness, reduces stress, and improves cognitive motor skills. We’ll provide the markers, crayons, colored pencils, and coloring sheets; you just bring yourself and your friends! DETAILS>> Tuesdays 1:30-3:00 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.

Little Bytes

Kids can learn the foundations of coding and computer commands before they can write or spell! Fun activities, apps and games will teach the fundamentals of simple logic, sequencing and coding language. #stem DETAILS>> 2-3 p.m. Feb. 4, 11 and 18, Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 4-7. Free. No registration required.

Homework Help

Volunteer Eric will help with homework each Tuesday afternoon. DETAILS>>5:10-6:15 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E Chandler Blvd. Ages 5-18. Free. No registration required.

Coder Dojo

What do video games, robots and self-driving cars have in common? Code! You can become a coding master by learning Code.org, Kodable, Scratch, Tynker, HTML and more. Beginners welcome. DETAILS>> 3-4 p.m., Feb. 4, 11 and 18. Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 8-17. Free. No registration required.

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Methodist Church provides a support group that meets the first Tuesday of every month. The public is invited to the “Living Loss” sessions. No questions asked, and anonymity will be respected. DETAILS>> 7 p.m., first Tuesday of every month; 2156 E. Liberty Lane, Ahwatukee. Free. Information: 480-460-1025 and office@desertfoothills.org

Homework help

Volunteer Eric will help with homework. DETAILS>> 4-5:30 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 5-18. Free. No registration required.

Coloring for grown-ups

Adult coloring promotes mindfulness, reduces stress, and improves cognitive motor skills. We’ll provide the markers, crayons, colored pencils, and coloring sheets; you just bring yourself and your friends! DETAILS>>1:30-3 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.

Chair yoga featured

Inner Vision Yoga Studio offers chair yoga to help seniors and people recovering from injuries to stay fit. DETAILS>> 1:30-2:30 p.m., 4025 E. Chandler Blvd., Ahwatukee. $5 per class.:

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people at Ahwatukee Toastmasters meetings DETAILS>>6:45-8 a.m at the Dignity Health Commuity Room, 4545 E. Chandler Blvd., Ahwatukee.

Power Partners available

The Ahwatukee Chamber offers Power Partners every Tuesday except the second Tuesday of the month, when attendees are encouraged to attend the Wake Up Ahwatukee Morning Mixer. Unlike our Monday Power Group, this group will be non-category specific, meaning you can have more than one member in each business category. DETAILS>> 7:45-8:45 a.m. Early Baker, 15645 S. 40th St., Ahwatukee. Free Information:. Gina Jenkins, 480990-5444.

Ahwatukee Foothills Montessori holds an open house weekly. It includes a short talk about Montessori education, followed by a tour of its campus. DETAILS>> 4 p.m. Wednesdays, 3221 E. Chandler Blvd., Ahwatukee. Information: 480-759-3810

Grief support is free

Hospice of the Valley offers a free ongoing grief support group for adults and is open to any adult who has experienced a loss through death. No registration required. DETAILS>> 6-7 p.m. first and third Wednesdays, Pecos Community Center, 17010 S. 48th St. 602-6365390 or HOV.org.

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Celebrate recovery

Celebrate Recovery is a Biblical 12-step program that helps you find hope and healing from all of life’s hurts, habits, and hang-ups. Whether it’s addiction, loss, anger, or stress, you can find the freedom you’re looking for. DETAILS>> 6:20 PM, Mountain View Lutheran Church, 11002 South 48th Street, Ahwatukee. 480893-2579, mvlutheran.org.

Sit, Stay, Read!

Young readers & listeners can sign up for reading time with a registered therapy animal & human team. Read to Truffles on Wednesdays. DETAILS>> Wednesdays, 3:00-4:00 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 4-10. Free. No registration required.

Montessori holds open house

An informal, relaxed social organization of about 90 women living in the Ahwatukee Foothills/Club West area. A way to escape once a month to have fun and meet with other ladies in the area. Guest speaker or entertainment featured. DETAILS>> 7 p.m. second Wednesday of the month, Foothills Golf Club, 2201 E. Clubhouse Drive. Contact Shelley Miller, president, at 602-527-6789 or essentiallyshelley@gmail.com

Parents can ‘drop in’

Parents are invited to join a drop-in group to ask questions, share ideas or just listen to what’s going on with today’s teenagers. DETAILS>> 5:30-7 p.m. second Wednesday of each month. Maricopa Cooperative Extension, 4341 E. Broadway Road, Phoenix. Free. RSVP at 602-8278200, ext. 348, or rcarter@cals.arizona.edu. ‘Dems and Donuts’ set

Legislative District 18 Democrats gather for an informal chat. DETAILS>>Free and open to the public 7:30-9 a.m. the third Wednesday of the month at Denny’s, 7400 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler. RSVP: marie9@q.com or 480-592-0052.

THURSDAYS

Teen Thursdays

Ironwood Library provides the snacks and fun every Thursday; teens just bring themselves and a friend! First Thursdays: video games; second Thursdays: art-making; third Thursdays: Upcycling Makerspace. Fourth Thursdays: Library Volunteer Opportunities. DETAILS>> 4-5:30 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 12-18. Free. No registration required.

Kiwanis meets weekly

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Ahwatukee girl stars in weighty ‘The Sparrow’ BY COLLEEN SPARKS AFN Staff Writer

udiences will not see tightly choreographed jazz and tap numbers, hear upbeat music or see other things common in children and teen musicals when a play with area youths comes to a local theater. Ciara Bogan, 11, of Ahwatukee, and East Valley children will portray adult characters dealing with loss, forgiveness and other weighty topics in “The Sparrow” Feb. 23-25 and March 2-4 at Limelight Performing Arts, 511 W. Guadalupe Road, Gilbert. The play, with a cast of 18 youths, is about a girl, Emily Book, who is the only survivor of a school bus accident as a child. She leaves the tiny town where the tragedy occurred, but after many years away she must return in order to graduate high school. Emily is shy when she shows up, but a biology teacher helps her adjust, as does the head cheerleader, Jenny McGrath, who befriends her. When Jenny is in danger during a cheerleading stunt at a basketball game, Emily reveals her special powers by saving Jenny’s life. Emily becomes a hero to her classmates, but she still has a dark secret. While the play touches on some serious subjects, it also has humor and even some “campiness” to it, said director Jamie Bauer-Spano, a freelance artist in theater. “It’s about Emily trying to find her place in the world,” Bauer-Spano said. “It’s about the town trying to find peace with that tragedy. It’s about the town being able to go on with their lives. It’s about forgiving yourself and forgiving other people. Theater mirrors life.”

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low actors have been supportive. “They make it easier,” Ciara said. “They’ve been nice to me. They let me sit with them and talk to them. It’s helpful. I like, go home and read over my lines every other night.” She said she enjoyed playing the character Rizzo in “Grease Jr.” previously. Besides conveying feelings of loss, grief and forgiveness, the characters in “The Sparrow” also act out another serious matter – bullying. Ciara said one girl in the play cried after rehearsing a scene that stuck with her. “She got so into it,” she said. “She got so part of it, she felt as that character.” “It’s one that will have you on your toes,” she said. The play, which premiered in Chicago in 2007, has “a lot of surprises,” Bauer-Spano said. While it tackles some heavy matters, “there’s noth(Special to AFN) Jessica Montecalvo, left, and Ciara Bogan of Ahwatukee have ing in this play these kids have not seen on TV or in a roles in the Limelight Theater production of "The Sparrow." play or real life,” she added. Ciara, a fifth-grader at Kyrene del “I think we’re doing it in a tasteful Norte Dual Language Academy, plays a way,” Bauer-Spano said. young Emily Book and a boy, Charlie She said she and the other adults teachMcGuckin, whose sister had been killed ing the youths for the play also have givin the bus accident. en all the actors a “chance to talk openly” Ciara said she has been dancing since about the content of the script. she was “little” and performed in her first Bauer-Spano said all the actors, except play when she was about 3 or 4 years old. for the one playing lead Emily, play mulShe said she was nervous initially about tiple characters and have helped shape acting in the play because she is one of their actions. the youngest cast members, but the fel“It’s been a super-collaborative project time with a registered therapy animal & human team. First & Third Saturdays: Read with Raven and Cassie. Second Saturday: Read with JoJo. DETAILS>> Saturdays, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 4-10. Free. No registration required.

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from the get-go,” she said. “They have really contributed to how we are going to tell the story.” The young actors have also had to use their imagination in the play when it comes to the set. They use 12 cubes on the stage as different types of objects to reveal what is happening in the production. The children and teens do not sing but they move to music played in the background that matches the “mood of what’s happening” in the play, Bauer-Spano said. Choreographer Jordan Donovan-Schager, also director of 3DC, a dance company at Studio 3 Performing Arts Academy, said the actors only perform one dance in unison. However, they use improvisational movement to portray various emotions and actions, with guidance from her. “It’s certainly a challenge for me, which is really exciting,” Donovan-Schager said. “I give them more prompts and words and phrases. I pull out things I like. I love working with this age group. They’re awesome. They just jump right in.” Emma England, owner of Studio 3 Performing Arts Academy and artistic director and board president of Limelight Performing Arts, helped with choreography for “The Sparrow.” Monica Ramirez is the stage manager. Studio 3 Performing Arts Academy is a business that provides lessons in acting, singing, dance, musical theater and musical instruments at 511 W. Guadalupe Road in Gilbert. Limelight, a nonprofit youth theater, holds its shows rehearsals at Studio 3, but all youths are encouraged to audition and participate in Limelight productions. To buy tickets and learn more about “The Sparrow” and Limelight: limelight. ticketleap.com/sparrow.

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Festival of Lights Committee needs new blood; why not donate? BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor

hile many of us enjoy the Christmas lights along Chandler Boulevard, the Kick-Off Party that marks their annual return and the Wine and Beer Tasting Festival, you may not know about the Festival of Lights Committee’s charitable function. Each year, the festival designates two or three charities for grants it awards – the extra money it reaps from the amazing support that Ahwatukee shows when people turn out in droves for the Kick-Off Part and beer-wine fest. This is one of two areas where the committee needs your help. If you belong to or know of a charitable organization – regardless of whether it’s in Ahwatukee or not – you can encourage that group to apply for a grant from the committee.

But there’s one catch. The proposed recipients actually must partner with the committee in helping out with the Kick-Off Party and the Bear and Wine Tasting Festival. The degree of their support helps determine the size of the grant. Last year, the FOL committee awarded $3,000 each to the Ahwatukee YMCA Outreach Program for Ahwatukee Seniors Y OPAS) and the Starbright Foundation, and $2,000 to the Ahwatukee Kiwanis Club. The committee is now looking for its designated 2018 grant recipients. Applications, which are due by Feb. 28, can be found at FOLAZ.org. Final selections will be made March 23. I mentioned two areas where the committee needs your help. An even bigger area is the committee’s need for new blood to help keep the two fundraising events fresh and inviting. Ultimately, both the Kick-Off Party

and the beer-wine event help pay for the million lights that glow all through the Christmas holiday season on Chandler Boulevard between Desert Foothills Parkway and 24th Street. If you think about it for a minute, the FOL Committee is responsible for producing not one but three signature events for the community. Yes, the lights thrilled Ahwatukee residents and visitors alike all December long. But the Kick-Off Party also draws close to 5,000 people for a full day of fun. And I can’t even imagine not having a good time at the Wine and Beer Tasting at the Rawhide Western Town. As FOL Committee Chair Janyce Hazlett explained, the annual winebeer event – tentatively scheduled for April 14 – is often called “Ahwatukee’s funnest night out.” But Hazlett believes new people with new ideas can help make that and the kick-off party even better.

Hazlett and many of the other current committee members have been working hard for more than two decades on the Festival of Lights and the related parties. It’s not so much a matter of giving them a little break, but more a matter of keeping this hard-working, dedicated group’s legacy alive so that future generations can enjoy the fruits of their labor. The committee likely will be at 6:30 p.m. on alternating Tuesdays at Desert Foothills United Methodist Church, 2156 E. Liberty Lane, Ahwatukee. But because the committee hasn’t set the specific dates yet, you can get on board by emailing admin@folaz.org. Hazlett also says that it’s not all work helping out. Committee members comprise a friendly bunch who have just as much fun planning the events that bring so much fun to so many people. And that’s what you call a win-win proposition for any volunteer.

Sal DiCiccio outlines fiscal accountability plan for Phoenix BY SAL DICICCIO AFN GUEST WRITER

rive any street in Phoenix, pick any single street and that will tell you the story of what is happening throughout our city. Streets crumbling, waterlines breaking, lack of police coverage, homeless in all parts of our city, vehicles sitting in parking lots because there’s no money to pay for the repairs. These are all symptoms when a city loses fiscal accountability and responsibility and when leaders refuse to take basic measures to put us on the right track. This is not a Democrat or Republican issue, but one that impacts all of us. The last eight years have proved to be a fiscal nightmare for our citizens that we are just starting to see right now. Phoenix must address fiscal issues that

can and must be repaired. The two fiscal accountability issues below are why our streets are crumbling and lack police coverage. They are the cause of broken waterlines and the lack of basic services that pushes the homeless to all parts of our city. The first is that the city of Phoenix has a structural deficit. Phoenix is taking in more money than it has ever collected in history, but still faces deficits that must be solved every single year. We have record-high revenue levels and still we face fiscal problems that cut into available services. The solution here is for the City of Phoenix to adopt a true strategic plan: an outcome-based plan with specific details showing how each program gets paid, with projections into the next five years. The second issue is our out-of-control pension costs. Just last year, Phoenix politicians made the problem even worse. In just one single vote by deferring pension

payments, they added $2.3 billion in interest costs to the unfunded pension debt for just police and fire. That one vote not only created billions in more debt, but it added to the destabilization of police and fire pensions. We have no money to pay that debt and we have no plan to change that. Today, that unfunded pension debt totals a record $4.3 billion. I have presented a plan that will help fix our out-of-control pension costs. This plan was not presented to the politicians who created the problem and have shown no interest in solving it. It is being introduced as a ballot initiative that can be decided directly by you, the voters who will be affected by this looming debt. Here are the three pillars of that plan that you will be voting on: 1. It stops all politician pensions and retirement packages. If politicians want their pensions, they will have to pay for

them themselves. Hard-working taxpayers should not be digging deep into their pockets to pay for pensions for politicians. 2. Our plan requires that every single dollar above inflation and population growth goes to paying down the pension cost. This will not impact the hiring of more police and fire personnel. 3. Our plan requires complete transparency and true accounting of numbers. It stops all the phony baloney numbers that the public has been given in the past and requires city politicians to use factual data. This is not a Republican or Democrat issue. All you have to do is drive just one street in the City of Phoenix and you will see what is happening throughout our entire city. You pick the street. -City Councilman Sal DiCiccio is an Ahwatukee resident whose district includes Ahwatukee.

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Ahwatukee has a stake in commenting on flight paths BY CHAD BLOSTONE AND GALEN SCHLIEM AFN Guest Writers

s previously reported by AFN, the FAA is in the process of holding “workshops” and accepting “comment” during a period agreed upon by the city and the FAA. This comes after the city and the Historic District neighborhood groups won their lawsuit against the FAA and Next Generation, the satellite-guided flight paths implemented in September 2014. “We are thrilled that the court saw the errors the FAA made, and agrees that the process was faulty and needs to be done right,” said Steve Dreiseszun, a longtime homeowner in Phoenix’s F.Q. Story Historic District who helped lead the charge against the FAA decision. The workshops help affected communities understand how “Step 1” will change the current flight paths from those created for the Next Gen implementation. We attended the Laveen workshop. Given the opportunity to speak at length about Ahwatukee’s issues with the Western Regional Director of the FAA, directors at Sky Harbor, route designers and environmental engineers, we were trying to discover the most powerful ways that we might ensure continued involvement – let’s call it leverage – in the ongoing process of redesigning the flight paths affecting Ahwatukee residents. The most important agenda item going forward soon made itself clear: drive community involvement by encouraging comments. This step is essential to having influence as a community. The deadline for providing comment

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The FAA's proposed flight paths in Step A, illustrated here, means some Ahwatukee residents could start hearing planes flying over their homes every day.

to the FAA is Friday, Feb. 16. Comments can be made in one of three ways: Go to faa.gov/nextgen/nextgen_near_ you/community_involvement/phx/ community_comments/?lang=enCo Mail them to Federal Aviation Administration, Air Traffic Organization (ATO), Western Service Center, Attn: PHX Community Involvement, 1601 Lind Ave. SW, Renton, WA 98057; Or emailed to 9-ATO-WSA-PhoenixCommunityInvolvement@faa.gov. As you can see from the image on this page – which illustrates our most significant new flight path for the FAA’s “Step 1” – Ahwatukee residents will have a different experience depending on where you reside. If you live in the 85045 ZIP code – which includes the communities of Calibrea, Club West and the Foothills Reserve – you’ve lived almost directly under

one of the busiest flight paths. You have planes regularly flying over you throughout most of your afternoon and nights, for the last three-plus years. Your comments can be very simple and might include your desire to see the paths that take planes over your latitude move to the west, where most of the traffic passed by before the implementation of Next Gen. This might be because you are not happy that up to 25 flights per hour travel right over your neighborhood, creating a massive noise pollution problem and lowering your quality of life. If you live in greater Ahwatukee, your comments might include your objections to flights going over your homes due to early turnout. This occurs when air traffic control lets the planes turn east early and not follow the entire route. While it will be impossible to stop all planes from an early east-

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erly turn, it is certainly possible to limit the practice. Finally, you might throw in a nice thought for those of us living directly under the flight path and mention that all paths affecting Ahwatukee should be moved – and kept – to the west. So, why is the submission of comment so important? At some point, probably in April, the flight path will change to approximately what is shown in the image above in purple. It’s possible that the “Step 1” changes will be satisfactory. It’s also possible that the new path will still bring planes way too close to the west neighborhoods. Further, the FAA will have no incentive to limit early turns over greater Ahwatukee without a large contingent of the community providing comment. Comments also will be very important in “Step 2” outcomes. The FAA will take all of the comment it has received from all affected communities in Phoenix, and consider the complaints and suggestions for mitigation gathered from residents. “Step 2” tweaks – totally new flight paths – will most likely emerge in the next year and a half. It was made quite clear to us that having a high level of public comment is going to be crucial to how much information is shared with us during the process and how much attention is paid to our issues during the process. We are asking for your involvement – as neighbors and advocates of and for Ahwatukee. -Chad Blostone is chairman of the Ahwatukee Foothills Village Planning Committee. -Galen Schliem is president of the Foothills Reserve HOA board.

Memory of heroic slain firefighter will outlive any bullet BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist

he .40-caliber bullet was fired Sunday morning two weeks ago, at about 26 minutes after 2. Court documents locate the crime at the intersection of North Civic Plaza and East Stetson Drive in Old Town Scottsdale. Really, though, the murder of Captain Kyle Brayer is a crime with echoes all across this Valley, this state, this world of ours. Because if you can measure a human being by the sum total of the lives he or

she touches, then Kyle Brayer, who died two weeks short of turning 35 years old, lived more than any 10 of us. Son. Brother. Marine. Firefighter. Entrepreneur. Teacher. Traveler. Leader. Hero. Kyle Brayer was all of those things. This is what makes the loss of such a fine man so tragic, even as his life is so worth celebrating. This is what you think about when you think about the single round fired from Hezron Parks’ Smith & Wesson handgun Sunday one week ago. You think about Kyle Brayer and his dad, Art, the father he called “Pops.” You think about the credo Art spoke into

Kyle’s ear from childhood on – that in this life anything is possible, if only you are willing to pay the price. Art’s advice and example drove Kyle, say those who knew him. He was talented, sure, but he was also perfectly willing to outwork you, outhustle you, outlast you. And then offer you a gentlemanly hand up when you could no longer stand. You think about Kyle Brayer in the aftermath of September 11th, 18 years old, a teenager raised in a home where the American flag was the most venerated cloth imaginable. Kyle’s grandfather served in World War II with honors. Years later, Kyle would tell the ASU State Press

why he joined the Marines in 2002. “I had wanted to be a Marine since I was 10 years old,” was how Kyle explained his decision. You think of Kyle Brayer as a sergeant with the Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 16, fighting his way through Baghdad and Al Qa’Im city, building bombs and rockets, a consummate soldier who survived the carnage of the Iraq War, only to die on a Scottsdale roadway at the hands of a bloodthirsty fool with a handgun. The thought is enough to make you See

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weep or want to lock your hands around Hezron Parks’ throat. Except then you think of Kyle Brayer on a 911 call, a captain leading Ladder Company 276 toward a blaze, a paramedic tending to abrasions and wounds, heart attacks and hurts, a healer, a force for good in Fire Station 6 along East Ash Avenue and throughout Tempe. Thus inspired, you regain your better self. Thoughts of evil dwindle away and Kyle Brayer touches your life as he did so many others. You think of Kyle Brayer, world traveler, journeying through scores of countries. Kyle atop Kilimanjaro. Kyle plodding

through the snow to summit Mount Rainier. Kyle diving amid great white sharks off Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. At the Sochi Olympics in 2014. At the base of the Eiffel Tower. On the Isle of Skye. Hiking down to Havasupai Falls. Posed on a rock near Half Dome in Yosemite. You think of everyone he met, every friend he made, every life he made better, if only for a moment, a minute, an hour. You think of Kyle Brayer as the best of us, gone too soon, but never forgotten. Because you think of everyone he inspired and you know that that good part of him – the best part of Kyle Brayer – will outlive any gunshot, any bullet, and even time itself. – David Leibowitz has called the Valley home since 1995. Contact david@leibowitzsolo.com.

Phoenix has made strides in making city more sustainable BY GREG STANTON AFN Guest Writer

ne of the most important measures of success for our city is whether we leave things better than we

found them. For me, my two children are an enduring reminder that the decisions we make today will have a profound impact on our future – and future generations. It’s why, over the last six years, we’ve had a laser-like focus on making our city more sustainable – managing Phoenix’s fast-growing population more wisely and making sure our kids have clean air to breathe. Over the last year, we’ve set some ambitious long-term goals: to become a zero-waste city and completely carbon neutral by 2050. And earlier this month, the City Council unanimously set an important short-term goal: to reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2025 – just seven years away. Lofty goals can seem difficult to achieve, but the combination of new, common-sense policies have put us on track to cut pollution and cut costs. For example, you may have noticed that Phoenix has begun the process of replacing all 100,000 of its streetlights with more energy-efficient LED bulbs. This transformation will cut pollution emitted from these lights by more than half, and cut energy costs by $22 million. And around town, we will plant more than 1,500 trees this year, which will pro-

vide shade that will help cut energy use and improve our air quality. We’re becoming smarter about how we design the city. Through forward-thinking investments and public-private partnerships, we now produce 32 megawatts of solar energy through city-sponsored projects. Transportation 2050 is already more transit-oriented development and expanding transit options so more people can get around without using a car. In fact, late last year, the U.S. Green Building Council named Phoenix one of the first two cities in the nation to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Cities Platinum certification. “Phoenix is not only demonstrating its environmental leadership, but also highlighting its commitment to pursuing strategies that will improve the health and wellbeing of its residents,” the group’s president, Mahesh Ramanujam, said. Also last year, Phoenix earned C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Award for our efforts to divert 40 percent of waste from the landfill by 2020 and to reach zero-waste by 2050. It wasn’t too long ago that critics panned Phoenix as an unsustainable city – which was an unsustainable position for us to remain. But because of the track we’re on today, the nation is paying attention to how we’re growing smarter – through our commitment to clean air, clean energy and transit. There’s still work to do, but making smart, sustainable decisions is one of the many ways we’re leaving our community better than we found it. -Greg Stanton is the mayor of Phoenix.

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Businesses help each other through BNI Foothills chapter BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor

or 90 minutes every Wednesday morning, some three dozen local business owners gather at the Ahwatukee Event Center to talk shop. But it’s not just any talk that draws the men and women together. It’s measured, disciplined and inclusive – which may explain why 37 members of the BNI Foothills Referral Partners collectively generated over $1 million in closed deals among themselves last year, and another $169,000 last month alone. Not bad for a group that has been around for only two years. It is the largest of three BNI chapters in Ahwatukee and part of a global organization whose acronym stands for Business Network International – the largest franchised networking organization in the world, boasting 227,000 members in 8,211 local chapters across six continents. The whole idea behind BNI’s 32-yearold operation is to get businesses in the same community together to make business. They do this either among themselves or by referring fellow members to their own clients who need a particular service. They

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Business owners who belong to BNI Foothills Referral Partners gather every Wednesday morning and go around the room with succinct explanations about their business as well as deals they've closed through referrals from other members.

also mentor each other and exchange information that might benefit the entire group or a substantial part of it. The key to the referral part is that to belong, the business must be like none other in the group. In other words, there is only one Realtor – in BNI Foothills’ case, it’s Christie Ellis of Ahwatukee; one home inspection company – BNI Foothills vice president Liz O’Neall, who with her husband Tim own AZ Property Inspections, Inc., in

Ahwatukee; one printing, shipping and design service, Janine Moeller of Postnet on Chandler Boulevard near 46th Street. And so on. If a business seeks membership and there’s already a member who owns one like it, the group will refer the owner to another BNI chapter. The Foothills BNI chapter is still on the hunt for a variety of businesses and has scheduled an open house with a continental breakfast at 7:30 a.m. next Wednes-

day, Feb. 21, at the Event Center, 4700 E. Warner Road, part of the Ahwatukee Swim and Tennis Center complex. Membership isn’t automatic even if a business fills a hole in the organization. A committee of members vets each applicant to make sure they’re legit and comply with any state bonding or licensing requirements. The meeting’s atmosphere is friendly but businesslike, following a format that ensures everyone gets face time with the group and that also keeps track of deals members have closed as the result of referrals. It opens with a word of inspiration, then proceeds to a segment in which everyone in attendance gets a minute or two to explain something about their business and what would constitute a good referral for them. For example, Don Kaczmarek of TSC Air, handed out a sheet that discussed a survey showing Americans were working less and sleeping more. This means that home air filtration systems are becoming more important, he explained, adding, “So a good referral for me would be someone who is concerned See

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Ahwatukee interior designer lauded for customer service AFN News Staff

s a student at the University of Arizona, Ahwatukee interior designer Claudia Dabdoub had one goal: learn how to make people’s homes beautiful. “I didn’t want to be a doctor or lawyer or something like that because I didn’t want to deal with people’s lives,” she explained. “Instead, I wanted to make their lives better by making something beautiful.” It’s not just the treatments she gives homes and offices that have won her recognition. She also has been lauded for her treatment of her customers. Recently, the website houzz.com

honored her business, D’amore Interior Design Studio, with her fifth consecutive award for customer service. The website, which claims 40 million users a month for its home decorating ideas, hands out only three awards a year, the other two for design and photography. Houzz vice president Liza Hausman said Dabdoub and the other two winners “represent some of the most talented and customer-focused professionals in our industry.” Dabdoub said the recognition is helpful for her home-based business. “A lot of people who are remodeling go to this site,” she explained. An Ahwatukee resident for the last 14 of her 29 years in design and decorating,

Dabdoub has worked with residential and commercial clients across the state as well as in Mexico and California, providing floor-to-ceiling consultations on both new and existing homes and buildings. Much of her work has involved turning outdated kitchens and bathrooms into contemporary works of near art. She initially had set out on a different course – architecture – when she started her post-secondary education. But after two years, she realized that she just didn’t want to make shells of buildings. “I didn’t want to build buildings, and I decided I wanted to get into cabinetry, lighting. I realized it would be easier to market myself that way,” she said. “I have been living my dream in helping people

enhance their living spaces.” Dabdoub’s customer-friendly focus starts at the moment she’s hired. “I tell them I get paid up front because if I charged by the hour, it would be much more expensive,” she said. “I tell them, ‘I won’t leave until the job is done. My interest is to help you.’” Because she maintains relationships with key manufacturers and suppliers, Dabdoub tries to take the worry of ordering accessories like cabinetry or flooring off clients’ shoulders. It also enables her to travel outside Ahwatukee for jobs because “I can have the products delivered anywhere.” Information: 480-751-9938, damoreidsinc.com.

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about dust particles in the air in their home.” After each owner gives a two-minute or so presentation, the entire group shouts out that business’ slogan. “Mine is ‘At AZ Property Inspections… we see it all,” O’Neall noted. “I say the first part and the group finishes it together. It’s a repetitive way for us all to remember each other’s business and tag line each week.” Another high point of each session is a 10-minute presentation by one member that rotates weekly among the group. “The nice thing about this is that twice a year I get to present my business in more depth,” said Raphael Isaac, who provides video services through his company, South Mountain Films. Last week, O’Neall discussed her home inspection business, regaling the members with a video that not only showed what her inspectors do, but included some of the unusual home-improvement bloopers they’ve come across – such as a home with a roof that was made of ceramic floor tiles. The group also tracks the value of business deals each member has closed each week as a result of referrals through fellow members.

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“It builds in accountability,” said Isaac, who also stressed that this is not a group for casual participation. “The only time we don’t meet is if a holiday falls on a Wednesday,” he explained, noting that while attendance is not exactly mandatory, “you have to be here if you expect your membership to produce results.” Expectations of members like this is what sets BNI apart from other referral groups – even those run by organizations like chambers of commerce. Ellis, who is a member of the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce and has been long active in many of that organization’s activities and subgroups, said BNI’s success “comes from the structure of the meetings, the expectations that each member is educated to perform and its basis in the ‘Givers Gain’ mentality.” “Chambers actually make good partners and members in these groups but, unlike the chamber, your membership in this group is determined by performance. Each member is expected be in attendance or have a substitute. They are expected to pass business along to other members in the group. They are expected to invite people to come check the group out. They are expected to have one to one meetings every week and they are expected to execute on chapter education every

“No one says, ‘I only do this to help my business grow,’” she added. “Everyone gets so excited to refer among the membership.” Ellis could point to a recent deal she closed to illustrate BNI’s power. At a recent meeting, she mentioned a house she was going to list. “The property manager in the group (Drew Digrazia/Special to AFN) had an investor lookFoothills Referral Partners Chapter President Rafi Isaac, left, congrating and that investor ulates "notable networkers" Rima El Rabaa, Drew Digrazia and Mike ended up buying the Lewis. house,” she said. “The week.” painter in the group painted it. The floor That’s why every member is evaluated by guy cleaned the carpets and then Liz’s the BNI chapter’s membership committee company did the inspection. at the end of their membership year. “Lots of business passed in that partic“We coach and help anyone whose ular deal.” numbers are in need of help and those Business owners who plan to attend who don’t want the help aren’t renewed,” the visitors day activities next Wednesday Ellis said. “The group is very focused on should RSVP to: Liz O’Neall at 480-616how we can help the other person in the 3218 or Rafi Isaac at 480-482-1945. Visigroup build their business. We know that tors should bring 70 business cards. if we focus on our other group members Information about the group: bniarizoin turn our own business grows.” na.com.

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Delivery drones may soon be a constant presence in Ahwatukee cludes a mandate to follow all traffic and pedestrian control signals and devices. David Catania, spokesman for Estonia-based Starship Technologies, says that’s already happening in the San Francisco and Washington, D.C. areas as well as in several countries in Europe. In some cases, he said, customers lease the robots outright, keeping them around for errands as necessary. Catania said other customers call on them as necessary, much in the same way someone might call for an Uber. He told lawmakers that the devices won’t be a danger to pedestrians or impair movement on the sidewalk, even if there are several of them running around. First, he said, they’re no wider than a typical pedestrian. And he said they are programmed to avoid confrontations. “They have a bubble of awareness of about 15 meters using sonic sensors and cameras,’’ Catania explained while

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t doesn’t have the personality of WALL-E. Or even the communication skills of the small waste-collecting robot of Pixar film fame. But Ahwatukee and East Valley residents could soon find themselves sharing the sidewalks with armies of small six-wheeled automated robots delivering everything from lunch and groceries to the mail. State lawmakers took the first steps Wednesday to legalize the use of what are formally called “personal delivery devices.’’ HB 2422, given unanimous approval by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, would specifically grant them the right to operate on sidewalks and in crosswalks. It also would give them the same rights and duties as pedestrians with whom they will share that right of way. That in-

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demonstrating the robot outside the Capitol recently. “So, they’ll actually see the person before, in many cases, the person will see it, especially as many people are constantly on their cell phones.’’ And he said the shins of pedestrians are in no danger. “It will get within 18 inches and then it will stop,’’ Catania said. If it confronts something or someone that does not move, Catania said, it is programmed to try to find its way around. And if it finds itself surrounded by pedestrians, he said it slows from its top programmed speed of about four miles per hour to match the pace of everyone else. The legislation, however, allows the robots to go as fast as 10 miles an hour, about three times as fast as the average person normally walks. Catania said each device effectively “learns’’ the streets along its routes by being led around for the first time by a human. After that, he explained, it should be pretty much automatic. But Catania said there always is a human who can be “pinged’’ through

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On the latter, he said the system is set up so that the person expecting a delivery is texted when the robot arrives. Only then will the storage compartment unlock. As to stealing the device, Catania said that would not be easy. Aside from it weighing 80 pounds, he said there are “redundant GPS systems’’ to report its location. “So we’ll be able to find it,’’ he said. The legislation requires those who operate the devices to have at least $100,000 of liability insurance to cover injuries or damages. Catania said that in the company’s history it has had only one claim. Rep. David Cook, R-Globe, had a slightly different liability question. “As someone who’s got a 19-year-old and a 17-year-old that drive, and they run over this thing ... I want to know what it’s going to cost to replace it,’’ he said. Catania said the first models – about 150 are now deployed – cost something under $10,000 to manufacture. But he said once there is a demand for more he believes the price tag can get down to around the $1,000 range. The measure needs full House approval before going to the Senate.

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Is your website conversion helping your business grow? BY MADHU CHADHA AFN Guest Writer

hat does conversion-friendly actually mean when it comes to websites? Conversion-friendly means that the website is designed, developed and populated with content that encourages visitors to perform an action that is valuable to your business. While traffic is good for online success, all actions that your online visitors take are most important as they move them closer to becoming a customer. Lack of engaging content, unclear calls to action or complicated navigation are some of the reasons your website doesn’t convert as you would like it to. So here are some things to do in 2018 for a conversion-friendly website. Content is king. Determine your target audience. You must

know who they are, what they need and where they spend their time online. Research keywords that your target audience uses to find products and services you offer. Write keyword-rich content on your website pages. Navigation is critical. Make your website responsive, mobile friendly, user friendly and easy to navigate. Make it easy for people to contact you by providing your contact information, phone number and address prominently on the website home page. Sometimes people just want to pick up the phone, visit you in person or send an email to you as opposed to filling out a form and providing their credit card information on a website. Make it easy for these people to get hold of you. Keep things simple; do not confuse them with a million moving parts. Decide on one call to action. What exactly you want your visitor to do when they hit your website? Display this one call to action prominently on every page of your site.

Example of a call to action if you are a web design company: “Download the 10 biggest website design mistakes small businesses make.” Page speed. Make sure each page of the website loads as quickly as possible. Sites that are quick to load not only provide good user experience but they are also ranked higher by Google and other search engines. Your goal should be to ensure that every element of your website persuades visitors to take the actions that lead to the delivery of your objectives (conversion). Building your site with conversion architecture in mind will result in more visitors doing what you want them to do online – whether that is signing up for a free consultation, signing up for a newsletter or buying a new product. Happy converting!!! -Madhu Chadha owns WSI-Optimized Web Solutions and a member of the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce.

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aul reminds us that there is sufficient grace for the thorn. The day of hiking in the Superstitions was not going as planned. On a tight blind corner, on a set of switchbacks, our dog, Mollie, picked up a section of cholla cactus on her nose, a clump the size of a child’s fist. The cholla, of all desert plants, lives up to words by Edward Abbey, “It has been said, and truly, that everything in the desert either stings, stabs, stinks, or sticks. You will find the flora here as venomous, hooked, barbed, thorny, prickly, needled, saw-toothed, hairy, stickered, mean, bitter, sharp, wiry, and fierce as the animals. Something about the desert inclines all living things to harshness and

acerbity.” Kevin grabbed Mollie’s scruff, as he attempted to keep her from licking the barbed hitchhiker. A quick flick with an old comb removed most of the offender, but six or seven thorns remained. One by one, I pulled them out with a tweezers, leaving drops of blood. Surgery complete, Mollie squirmed and bolted, circling wide around all other cacti. She ignored an offer of a treat from me, the holder of the tweezers, and would accept solace only from Kevin, who as the holder of her head, should have been treated as an accessory to her pain, but Mollie, in her dog wisdom, did not see it that way. On the loop back to the car, I took a wicked tumble. My feet flew out from under me, so I had no time to catch myself. I landed in a pile of sharp-edged rocks, my breath leaving me in a whoosh.

Than fully, besides a small gash, I seemed none the worse for wear. My relief was short-lived. I could feel bruises forming as I took a steep descent and my left knee tweaked with each step. Mollie – usually the first to come back to check on me – pranced ahead, apparently still in a snit as she displayed no concern about my slower gait. After some experimentation, I realized if I positioned my knee so it faced forward, I felt no pain. This task proved difficult on the rough trail as I shifted much of my weight to my trekking poles. It was a slow finish to the car. Can I just go on record as saying something? I prefer cactus-thornextraction pain to flat-on-your-back, tweak-the-knee pain. A pair of tweezers or an old comb and the irritation was gone. The other was a reminder of injury with every step.

I also prefer prayers answered immediately to relieve me of my misery. Irritations are borne so much easier when they are pulled free with a twist and a yank, even if a spot of blood is left behind. Yet, Paul writes that there is grace even for thorns that remain. Sufficient grace for the daily living (2 Corinthians 12:89). The step-by-step journey in the midst of pain. The grace in the falling. “But grace can be the experience of a second wind,” Anne Lamott writes, “when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.” I pray you discover that second wind. Strength to hold on. Sufficient grace. -Lynne Hartke is the author of “Under a Desert Sky” and the wife of pastor and Chandler City Councilmember Kevin Hartke. She blogs at lynnehartke.com.

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High school and middle school students meet to worship and do life together. DETAILS>> 5 p.m. at Horizon Presbyterian Church, 1401 E. Liberty Lane. 480-460-1480 or email joel@ horizonchurch.com.

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Children can learn and experience Jewish life. Chabad Hebrew School focuses on Jewish heritage, culture and holidays. DETAILS>> 9:30 a.m. to noon, for children ages 5-13 at Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N. McClintock Drive, Chandler. 480-855-4333, info@ chabadcenter.com, or chabadcenter.com.

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Classes for those grieving over death or divorce. DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m., Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 739 W. Erie St., Chandler. 480-963-4127.

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The Terrific Tuesdays program is free and includes bagels and coffee and a different speaker or theme each week. Registration not needed. DETAILS>> 10-11 a.m., Barness Family East Valley Jewish Community Center, 908 N. Alma School Road, Chandler. evjcc.org or 480-897-0588.

WEDNESDAYS AWANA CLUBS MEET

Awana children’s clubs build lasting faith foundations for children, with games, bible stories, learning god’s word. DETAILS>> the clubs meet at bridgeway community church, 2420 e. Liberty lane, ahwatukee, starting sept. 6. 6-7:30 P.M. For kids 3 years old through sixth grade. Register at bridgewaycc.Org or 480-706-4130.

WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY OFFERED

Living Word Ahwatukee women’s Bible study and fellowship that offers “a short, low-key time of praise and worship in music and message.” It’s also an opportunity to meet other Christian women in Ahwatukee. DETAILS>> 10-11:30 a.m., Living Word Ahwatukee, 14647 W. 50th St., Suite 165, Ahwatukee. Free child care.

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Ugly Quilts has made more than 15,500 sleeping bags for the area homeless, and continues to do so at First United Methodist Church every Thursday. Quilters stitch donated fabric, comforters, sheets and

blankets into sleeping bags. Those are then distributed to the Salvation Army, churches and veterans’ organizations. DETAILS>> 8 a.m.-2 p.m., 15 E. 1st Ave., Mesa. Information: 480-969-5577.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY

Celebrate Recovery is a Biblical 12-step program that helps you find hope and healing from all of life’s hurts, habits and hang-ups. Whether it’s addiction, loss, anger, or stress, you can find the freedom you’re looking for today. DETAILS>> 6:20 p.m. Mountain View Lutheran Church. 11002 S. 48th St., Ahwatukee. 480-893-2579. www.mvlutheran.org.

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Don’t go through one of life’s most difficult times alone. DivorceCare is a friendly, caring group that will walk alongside you and provide support through divorce or separation. DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m. Mountain View Lutheran Church. 11002 S. 48th Street, Phoenix. 480-893-2579. www.mvlutheran.org.

KIDS CAN FIND SUPPORT

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op Fuel drag racer Leah Pritchett is dedicated to her sport – almost too much. “I feel like I’m probably one of the most competitive people that I’ve ever met, almost to a fault,” she said. “Obviously, that relates to the sport well.” Pritchett, who joined Don Schumacher Racing last year, will bring that spirit this month to the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Mello Yello Drag Racing Series’ NHRA Arizona Nationals at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park. The event, which will feature drivers in Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock, will be Feb. 23-25. “It’s a competition to make sure that I leave and have the quickest reaction time possible to get that car off the line,” she said. “That’s my job, that’s my competitiveness: to do whatever it takes to get that.” Pritchett has been drag racing since she was 8. With a vastly different childhood from most people’s, Pritchett worked her way up the ranks, winning junior dragster championships, earning sponsorships and eventually becoming the NHRA Top Fuel

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dragster she is for Don Schumacher Racing. “I guess one of my favorite parts about drag racing is that there’s just one winner at each event,” she explains. “That’s it. There is no second-place trophy, participation, jumba wumba – none of that. You are the baddest mofo at that particular event, and that’s why we lose with conviction and we win with conviction, because it’s so difficult

to do – to win a national event.” Among her extensive track record, the longtime car lover and racer is a two-time consecutive winner of the NHRA Arizona Nationals at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park. She earned her first career Top Fuel win in 2016, earning the title again last year. “Coming into this Phoenix race, just to be the two-time defending champion of it from

two different teams, two different racecars, multiple different partners, that’s a dream,” she said. Pritchett also set the first of her two 2017 records at last February’s Arizona Nationals with a 3.658-second pass at 329.34 mph. The second came when she reset that reSee

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Feathered friends amuse diners at The Perch Brewery BY DAVID M. BROWN GetOut Contributor

ou’ll find The Perch Brewery down a Chandler street that looks like an alley and sounds, with its with squawks, whaawks, squeaks and twitters, like an aviary. Approaching its fourth anniversary on Valentine’s Day, the pub-style venue at 232 S. Wall St. is a refuge for 100 rescue birds. It also serves 40 beers created by Nick Sofranac and two associate brewers, (including Red42, honoring the fallen Yarnell hot shots) and covers guests with a green canopy of mature trees in a desert tropical garden flanked by colorful, well-loved caged birds. Owned by Chandler residents Ken and

Rebecca Lavenue and Edward and Suzanne Sechrest, The Perch also reserves space for second-floor parties. It also schedules live music three nights a week on the rooftop bar, where hoofers of all ages are welcome and sports-minded patrons can watch TV. Its house-crafted food seems to make just about everyone happy. Directed by Chandler resident Chef Jason Bray, The Perch serves upscale pub food for lunch and dinner daily and a weekend early brunch on Saturday and Sunday beginning at 9 a.m. Bray’s diverse menu includes items such as See

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a low-calorie brick oven cauliflower and asparagus tips; the open-face brick oven tamale with green chile hash, fried egg, green chile sauce and guacamole; pig wings; pork shanks and a jalapeño marmalade; coastal-quality crab cakes packed with lump and claw meat in a cayenne and horseradish remoulade. Diners also will find hefty burgers, a brick oven four-cheese mac and house-made beer-crust pizza from the brick oven in the newly expanded galley-style kitchen. “We offer distinctive housemade food with a Southwest profile, food that works well with our beers or on its own,” said Bray, an Oklahoma native who landed at The Perch a year ago from Firebirds Wood Fired Grill in Chandler. Before that, he was at Roaring Fork in Scottsdale, where he learned from James Beard-award-winning Chef Robert McGrath. “Instead of comparing our food with other places, we want our guests to say, ‘You have to go to The Perch to get that,’” he explained. “Seniors and snowbirds really enjoy our beautiful garden, and others return every week for the rooftop nightlife,” Rebecca said. “People like to meet here for their first date and come back for their first anniversary. We had nine weddings here last year.” Six years ago, the Lavenues and Sechrests found the location unkempt, a nasty nest. “When I purchased the property, it had a bunch of aviaries,” Rebecca recalled. “I didn’t really know or understand birds, so I went to talk to AZ Exotic Bird Rescue and adopted a few birds. After that, I realized what wonderful personalities they have and I fell in love.” Suzanne took to it, too. “I loved all of the trees; it didn’t look like Arizona,” she said. Both she and Rebecca grew up outside Chicago, without cactuses and cactus wrens.

The site had two of Chandler’s oldest homes, parts of which the couples retained in today’s structures. The previous owner, who started the aviaries, had petitioned to rebrand the alley into what is now Wall Street. This was a disparate lot: residences, an apartment area, a business selling rubber stamps and a farmers market. “We opened a smoothie shop,” Suzanne explained. “We remodeled and worked very hard – and I don’t think we sold one smoothie in the first year.” So, they drank some of the inventory, regrouped, dug holes, pulled up and reset brick pavers, built the bar and the brewery and constructed their take on the upscale neighborhood pub. They contracted with some local fabricators to build the classy gabion pillars at the entrance and the rooftop floor. And, the couples turned the water on for the browning trees to green again. Today, the lush grounds include mulberry, bird-loving ficus trees and palms and brightly colored bougainvillea and purple-flowering orchid trees. Of course, they flew in the wrong direction at times. “We put some of the Amazon cockatoos in wood cages and came in one morning to find they had almost eaten their way out,” Rebecca said. “That was close.” But they persevered, acquiring most of their birds by donation, with just a few purchased. “We asked for a bird from AZ Exotic Bird Rescue and they brought us 10,” Sue said. “They simply have so many whose owners can no longer care for them.” “We took one bird because he’s a mixed breed, and the zoo didn’t want him. Our birds can’t be adopted out, so we’ve given them a good home. Most live a human life of almost See

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70 years, which is much better than their life expectancy in the wild. Some don’t like being house pets and prefer being in flock, so we accommodate that, too” she added. “Every bird has a story, but remember, it’s not only fine feathers that make a fine bird, and the woods would be awfully silent without the birds singing,” said Tyler Odekirk, who works with Curt Scarberry at Scottsdale-based AZ Exotic Bird Rescue, founded in Apache Junction in 2007. Queen Creek’s Matt Helm, who volunteers helping to care for the birds at The Perch, explained that many of the birds are threatened or endangered through habitat encroachment, predators and the illegal export trade in countries such as Brazil, Indonesia and others. “I just love the animals, and I bond well with them, well, most of them. They let you know.” Here are parrots, lovebirds and parakeets, conures, macaws and cockatoos (even a rare albino), all in full palette and full-throated song: squeals, chitters, gurgles, whistles, chatterings and chirps. Even common house sparrows enjoy The Perch, rummaging in and out through the cage bottoms to snatch what food they can and scurry out with their loot.

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activities, going out together, because I have always prized that bonding and friendship, and that’s what it takes to create a team.” But winning won’t come easily at the Arizona Nationals, which serves as the second event of a 24-race schedule this year. Although she hopes for the best come late February, competition will be stiff and stakes are high to get a third win and new elapsed time record at the track. “We’ve set our own expectations of being quicker than we were before, and because it was the quickest, it’s pretty high,” she said. “Expectation-wise, for a race win, I never underestimate anything. It would be a blessing, it would be a Godsend for us to be able to make it three in a row, but I don’t consider that an expectation, I consider that a goal.”

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esert Vista’s boys soccer team on Saturday ended a 12-year drought and secured the state 6A boys championship with a 3-0 win over Brophy Preparatory Academy. Both teams seemed a bit tense early, and the match looked like a track meet in the first couple minutes as the Thunder and Broncos launched long balls from their respective sides of the field. Neither team had much luck with possession early, turning the ball over frequently and not getting touches near the goal. For the last 20 minutes of the first half, the teams seemed to settle down, and Thunder coach Trent Elliott said he knew his team would play with more energy and spirit if they could manage to get a goal. “I think that they were probably a little nervous, as they should be, and that’s just what they needed. We needed somebody to attack and get that goal,” Elliott said. The first half ended 0-0, but both teams

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Desert Vista’s boys soccer team secured the 6A state title after beating Brophy 3-0 Saturday.

came out firing after the break. With 27:38 left in the game, Desert Vista secured a throw on Brophy’s side of the field. A long throw to the left post was tapped in by junior midfielder Parker Lischwe. “It was just putting anything on the ball, getting a deflection, anything to get it to go in,” Lischwe said. “Once it’s in,

you’ve got the state championship on your hands.” After a brief celebration, the Thunder played the rest of the game with visible swagger knowing they needed to not back off but keep attacking. “I think the big thing is that they got down on themselves,” Lischwe said. With 23:51 on the clock, Lischwe blast-

ed a free kick from outside the box, which junior forward Jayden Bourg calmly slotted into the back of the net with his head, causing an even louder celebration. The two setpiece goals in a span of less than four minutes proved to Elliott that his assessment of Desert Vista’s setpieces being a strength was correct. “I think if you line us up to anybody in the state, we’re going to be bigger than them,” he said. “So, any time we can get a chance to be down and get some of our bigger guys in the goal, that’s what we’re going to do, and today it worked out.” Brophy did not give up, pushing midfielders and attackers forward. But Desert Vista’s combination of excellent defense and goalkeeping kept the Broncos from any significant scoring chances. “My center backs had me the entire way. They just kept everything together, trying to keep me calm, because I get riled up in the back sometimes,” senior goalkeeper Logan Rabasca said. Elliott said a state championship was the players’ goal all season, and they accomSee

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t was a goal of both teams as the season started. They knew they had the talent and work ethic to get there, but they just needed to prove it during the season. And they have. On Saturday, both Mountain Pointe and Desert Vista high school boys basketball teams received top-five seeds in the 6A State Tournament and will look to make a run to the state championship over the next two weeks. Their journeys to this point have been somewhat different. No. 5 Mountain Pointe Pride will play No. 12 Skyline in the first round of the tournament. The Pride was somewhat a surprise this year, under first-year head coach Duane Eason, who came to Mountain Pointe

after one year at Phoenix College. After re-establishing a winning culture, Eason and the Pride took the 6A by storm through the first few weeks of the season. With an intense full-court press and a deep lineup that saw almost 10 players hit the hardwood every night, the Pride pressured their opponents into submission all season. Eason instilled a mentality that it didn’t matter if they had the best player on the court because they would have the best 10. And his players accepted that mentality as they climbed the ranks. Their only falter early in the season came in a one-point loss to No. 1 Brophy Prep, a team that had eight victories of five points or less. Most of those victories came over some of the top teams in the state like Pinnacle, Hamilton, and See

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(Kimberly Carrillo/AFN Photographer)

Ryan Pate’s exceptional play has helped the Pride land a top-five seed in the state playoffs.

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they might match up with the No. 5 Hamilton in the second round. Either way, Eason and his team have established something special on the hardwood at Mountain Pointe and with a slew of young talent it doesn’t seem like it will be stopping anytime soon.

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Perry. A one-point loss early in the season usually isn’t anything to worry about, but the Pride used that loss as motivation, snapping off 16 straight victories from Nov. 30 to Jan. 23, capturing the McClintock Holiday Shootout trophy as well. Their streak came to an end when Desert Vista’s Tyrek Chambers hit a stepback three-pointer at the buzzer to hand the Pride their second loss of the season. All season long, the Pride has been led by junior guard Khalid Price and senior guard Amarion Cash. The guards have been averaging 13.4 and 14.3 points, respectively, and Price has been commanding the offense, averaging almost five assists. While the exceptional play of the two guards has been crucial, Jalen Graham (11.4 points, 9.4 rebounds), Ryan Pate (9.2 points, 3.4 rebounds), and Deandre Henry (6.9 points, 6.9 rebounds) have all played crucial roles as well. Their regular-season run ended with a 68-59 loss to No. 10-seeded Gilbert, which dropped them to the No. 5 in the 6A tournament.

(Kimberly Carrillo/AFN Photographer)

The emergence of Desert Vista senior center Christian Anigwe has propelled the Thunder into a No. 3 seed in the state tournament.

The loss could come as a wakeup call for Mountain Pointe as they enter the postseason with a first-round matchup against Skyline, and it looks as though

Desert Vista Last season, the Thunder fell in the semi-finals to eventual state champion Basha by five points. Although Desert Vista lost a few key players, second-year head coach Gino Crump and the Thunder reloaded for a state championship run this season. They’ve been strong all season long but had a growing period early on as newcomers had to become integrated into the system and the players had to mesh as the season went on. It showed in their early-season overtime loss to Mountain Pointe, but they got their revenge in the second meeting of the season. Since that loss, the Thunder have won 14 of their last 15 games, losing only to Hamilton on the road on Jan. 19. They rolled through regional play to end the season and captured the 6A Central Region with a record of 9-1 compared to Mountain Pointe’s 8-2 record. Desert Vista’s signature moment may

have been that loss to Hamilton. In the next game, Chambers knocked down his buzzer-beater against Mountain Pointe and they haven’t lost since. They’ve been paced by Chambers in the backcourt, as the junior guard from New York has been averaging 17.3 points per game this season and scored 20-plus points in seven games this season. He’s been paired with senior guard Alijah Gammage, who’s averaging seven points a game and has provided an excellent defensive presence on the perimeter with two steals a game. The size of Desert Vista has been one of their strong suits. With four players taller than 6-foot-5, the Thunder tower over opposing teams and have often faced zone defenses throughout the season. At times, they have struggled shooting the ball, but the play of senior forward Wesley Harris and the emergence of senior center Christian Anigwe has propelled the Thunder into a No. 3 seed in the state tournament. Anigwe has been huge underneath the basket, averaging 10 points and six rebounds per game while Harris has averaged 17 points and 4.5 rebounds a game. Along with the excellent play, the Thunder have been an exciting team to watch with electrifying dunks, smooth passes, and great team play. No. 3 Desert Vista will get No. 14 Cesar Chavez, which boasted a record of 19-9 and finished the season undefeated in regional play to capture the 6A Metro crown. With a first-round victory on Tuesday, the Thunder could set up a second meeting with top prospect Timmy Allen and the No. 6 Red Mountain Lions, who face off against No. 11 Desert Mountain. It has been a long journey, but the journey to the state championship begins this week with the championship game on Feb. 28 at Arizona State’s Wells Fargo Arena. Will there be a team from Ahwatukee in the final? We’ll have to wait and find out.

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plished that goal in just his first season “Knowing them, I knew it was going to be something special.” Elliot said. “We had senior leaders, and everything we needed. We just needed to put the pieces together. They believed, and they believed the whole season long,” he said. A third goal, slotted in by senior forward Max Wennes with 3:16 left in the game, put an exclamation point on what already appeared a secure victory. Brophy came into the tournament as the top seed and, many believed, the favorite in the championship game. But, it

came as no surprise to the Thunder that they walked away with the trophy, especially for Lischwe. “It feels amazing. I’m not lying about this,” he said. “I dreamt this last night, and I never woke up from the dream.” The Thunder finished the season 19-4-2 and were undefeated at home after their 7-2 victory over No. 10 San Luis in the quarterfinals. While they accomplished a lot, the state champions will have to fill a lot of holes led by their talented senior class. Their leading goal-scorer and their talented center-midfielder will be moving on next year. Elliot will still return several talented under classmen, like Bourg, Lischwe and sophomore Brennan Kline.

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480-745-5230

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704.5422

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602-980-9922

Not a licensed contractor.

1174

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Roofing

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