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he amenities race in the apartment industry has been intensifying in the country over the past decade with 86% of new builds classified as luxury dwellings, a recent study said. And Chandler is among the cities leading the pack. Arizona in particular showed a tendency

toward luxury living since 2012 with Chandler as well as Gilbert and Scottsdale seeing almost exclusively high-end apartments going up within their boundaries, according to a study by StorageCafe. In the study’s top 20 list of High-End Apartment Living, Gilbert, Chandler and Scottsdale landed the No. 1, 2 and 4 spots, respectively, in the country, according to StorageCafe. StorageCafe is a storage space search

website that is part of Yardi Matrix, which develops and supports industry-leading investment and property management software for real estate companies. For the past decade, all 4,000 apartment units that opened in Gilbert were categorized as luxury while Chandler boasted a rate of 99% – or 6,800 premium units – and Scottsdale had 98.5% or 8,600 deluxe units

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Chandler discouraging Chandler WWII veteran panhandler support prepares to turn 100 BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Staff Writer

city official says Chandler residents are very willing to help when it comes to the growing homeless population, but that it might be doing more harm than good. Now, the City of Chandler is starting a campaign to discourage citizens from giving money to panhandlers. Riann Balch, city community resources manager, told City Council at its June 23 meeting that giving money to the homeless people on street corners is not really going to help them and could make things worse. “Panhandling in Chandler, specifically, is extremely lucrative,” Balch said. “We’re a very generous community. Unfortunately, panhandling, while the intent is very good, the outcome is very bad.” “The longer you live on the street, the faster you die,” she said. “So the average age for somebody that lives on the street

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e is part of a rapidly diminishing breed of men, a member of the Greatest Generation, though when you ask him what thought comes to mind when he looks back on his days as a telegraph operator in the European theater during World War II. Floyd Casey without hesitation says: “The weather.” “The weather was so damn cold,” recalled Floyd, who becomes a centenarian on July 20 and already is the oldest resident at the Sunrise of Chandler assist-

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School board contenders still not set for November BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Staff Writer

Kyrene Governing Board

ith two governing board seats up for grabs in the Nov. 8 General election for each of the three school districts serving northern Chandler, statements of interest in running have been filed by eight people in Chandler Unified, three in Kyrene and seven in Tempe Union. But how many will actually be on the Nov. 8 ballot won’t be known until later this week. There are no school board primary elections and the deadline for filing petitions for the Nov. 8 ballot is tomorrow, July 11. As of last week, only one candidate had filed petitions in Tempe Union, none in Kyrene and three in Chandler Unified. The only candidate who so far filed in Tempe Union is Margaret Pratt, who is currently winding up her first term on the Kyrene board. Here’s a rundown on where the three districts’ races stand.

At least one new face is guaranteed on the five-member Kyrene Governing Board come January because Pratt, an Ahwatukee mother of four, is opting to run for the Tempe Union board instead this year. Those who have field statements of interest include Tempe attorney and board President Kevin Walsh, seeking his second term, and educators Kristi Ohman and Triné Nelson. None have filed their petitions, according to the Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools. Nelson, who narrowly lost a bid for a Kyrene board seat two years ago, is an Ahwatukee mother of two who has been involved in education for more than 15 years. She is the curriculum design manager at ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Business. Ohman is a veteran teacher, including for Kyrene, who is basing her campaign on “education fundamentals and accountability for all,” according to her website.

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Both incumbents up for election – board President Brian Garcia and An-

dres Barraza – have filed statements of interest. Four other people also have filed statements of interest. They include Victoria Ehmann, a Tempe Preparatory Academy and Arizona State University grad who has stated she wants to “take the skills she learned studying quality engineering in college to provide a new perspective for Tempe Union Schools. Also in the hunt is Amanda Steele, a community activist and parental advocate for students with disabilities and public schools who is a speech therapist and president and co-founder of EPIC Disability Advocacy. Also filing statements of interest are Ismael Osuna, a Marcos de Niza High School parent from the Town of Guadalupe who is also a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and Stephan Kingsley, a longtime educator who works for Tempe Union who has been described as someone who “consults and collaborates on diversity and inclusion initiatives with business, education, and community leaders as well as researchers at the na-

tional and international level.”

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Only one incumbent, Lara Bruner, is running for reelection. The other, Lindsay Love, has said she would not seek another term. Eight candidates expressed an official interest in running. However, two have said they would not be submitting signatures because they did not want to split votes with like-minded candidates. The candidates who said they plan to submit signatures to qualify are Bruner, Charlotte Golla, Crystal Markowsky, Kurt Rohrs, and Patti Serrano. The candidates who said they would not be submitting signatures are Michael Flores and Matt Young. Marilou Estes did not respond to two messages asking about her campaign. However, the county superintendent’s office lists Estes as a filed candidate along with Golla and Rohrs. “There are only so many votes in the district to go around, and I did not

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Early voting begins in 2 heated LD12 contests BY PAUL MARYNIAK Arizonan Executive Editor

arly voting is scheduled to begin tomorrow, July 6, for a primary election that may hold a bit more suspense for Republicans but has something for registered voters in both parties in the legislative district that includes Ahwatukee and northern Chandler. Along with top-of-the-ticket races for nominations for governor, U.S. Senate and all major state offices, LD12 features a battle between two Ahwatukee residents for the Republican nomination for the state Senate seat and a spirited fiveway Democratic contests involving three Ahwatukee residents and two Chandler residents for the two House seat nominations. Those district races in the Aug. 2 Primary Election come against a backdrop of GOP efforts to crack all-blue LD12 come the Nov. 8 General Election. As in the past six years of Democratic dominance of what used to be LD18 before last year’s decennial redistricting, voters not registered with either major party likely will make the difference in November. Current data from the Maricopa County Recorder’s Office shows that in LD12, registered Democrats total 51,536 while Republicans total 45,540. But there also are 51,860 people registered as Independents or with a party other than Democrat, Republican or Libertarian. Libertarians comprise a mere 1,322 voters in LD12, according to the County recorder. It’s too late for anyone who wanted to register to vote in the Aug. 2 Primary. The deadline was yesterday, July 5. But anyone who wants to sign up for a mail-in ballot – which has so far survived the Arizona Republican Committee’s attempt to abolish it – can still do so. They have until July 22 to request a mail in ballot. Independents can vote in the Primary if they request a Democratic or Republican ballot. Go to recorder.maricopa.gov/ elections. Here’s how the Primary Election races in LD 12 shape up.

Uncontested races

There is no contest in the Republican

House or Democratic Senate primary races in LD 12 next month, although new faces are a certainty no matter what the outcome in November. That’s because state Sen. Sean Bowie and state Rep. Jennifer Jermaine both decided against seeking re-election. Democratic State Rep. Mitzi Epstein, a Tempe businesswoman who has served three terms in the House, is now hoping to succeed Bowie in the Senate. The two Republicans who are eyeing the LD House seats are Terry Roe, who is termed out of Chandler City Council after serving eight years, and Chandler CPA Jim Chaston. Those three candidates already have been mapping their fall campaigns. Epstein champions “great schools, quality jobs and fiscal responsibility” on her website, but also said she supports “adequate funding” and a “secure retirement” for public safety professionals as well as “a balance between conservation and growth” to conserve water in Arizona. Chaston owns his own CPA firm and says he has worked with a number of public agencies and tribal governments. “I’m running to take conservative values and sound financial principles to safeguard your hard-earned tax dollars,” he says on his website. A former police officer for 20 years who has been active in the Salvation Army Chandler Corps and is the former chair of the Phoenix Silent Witness Program Board, Roe says he “has made economic growth and development a top priority” and “plans to build upon Arizona’s success as a business-friendly state that attracts job creators and new businesses.”

LD 12 Republican Senate race

The all-Ahwatukee race for the Republican Senate race is between Realtor Suzanne Sharer and businessman David Richardson. Sharer, a member of the Ahwatukee Foothills Village Planning Committee who unsuccessfully challenged Bowie in 2020, has touted her deep Republican and Arizona roots as a former vice president of Ahwatukee Republican Women. She describes herself as a staunch conservative whose top issues are school

choice, “reasonable teacher salaries, support law enforcement and first responders, crack down on human trafficking, fight against illegal immigration and oppose new taxes.” Richardson, who had moved to Ahwatukee from Chandler prior to the onset of the campaign, says he completed incubator programs through ASU and the Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation and was a Global Innovation Fellow who traveled to China in 2017 as part of a U.S. State Department collaboration to strengthen the two countries’ economic relationship. A winner of multiple Small Business Innovation Research grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Cancer Institute, Richardson received the AZBio Fast Lane Award in 2018 and was part of a team that developed “high-throughput COVID tests and sold 500,000 tests,” according to his website. He said he is “focused on issues that impact our state and district: Educational and economic opportunity, a sustainable water supply, compassion and unity in public discourse, and individual liberty.”

LD 12 Democratic House race

Three Ahwatukee residents – retired City of Phoenix employee Patty Contreras, scientist Stacey Travers and attorney and election law expert Paul Weich – are duking it out with Chandler businessman A.J. Kurdoglu and onetime Chandler City Councilman Sam Huang. All five hopefuls were the only LD12 candidates to show up for the single debate sponsored several months ago by the Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission. During that debate, Huang was the only candidate who did not clearly define his support for abortion rights. Contreras, who spent 31 years with the Parks and Recreation and Human Services departments providing programs, activities, and resources for youth, teens, adults, and seniors says on her website, “I want to continue to serve the public as an elected official to help make policy that will benefit our constituents and all Arizonans.” She champions better funding

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want to pull votes from other similarlyvisioned candidates and allow parents rights individuals (with fewer candidates) a better chance of being elected,” Flores wrote in an email. Bruner was the only member of the board to vote against approving Frank Narducci as the CUSD’s new superintendent, saying she did not like the process the district followed in hiring him. She said it should have been more open and involved the community more. She said she is concerned about providing students with all types of oppor-

tunities, including academic, artistic, athletic and social and emotional growth of the whole child. She said that’s how schools can provide well-rounded adults in the future. Golla, the mother of four CUSD students, says expanding Problem Based Learning (PBL) will be the major issue of her campaign. “I will work tirelessly to ensure all students are provided an education that teaches them to think, teaches healthy habits of mind, and prepares them to enter the world,” she wrote in an email. She worked as a regional sales manager for Benefits Concept until 2014 and

left after the birth of her third child. Markowsky says she was the first member of her family to attend college and eventually earned a master’s degree from Arizona State University. The mother of two CUSD students is an internal audit leader for a financial technology company. She said her major campaign issue will be ensuring that all students are able to learn in a safe and equitable environment. Rohrs is a financial advisor and has been active in Chandler schools, serving on the district’s budget committee and working as a substitute teacher. He is a regular speaker at the board’s meetings.

He wrote in his email that his top issue will be making academic fundamentals the primary focus of CUSD’s curriculum and said that reading and math achievement must improve for all students. Serrano, a Hamilton High graduate, has worked in education research after earning a bachelor of science degree from Arizona State University. She worked at ASU on education and child health. Serrano says that she will listen to the key stakeholders, starting with students, to develop well-rounded graduates. She said she wants to work on addressing all their needs, from academics and social to mental health.

The governor is particularly excited about the idea of the state being involved in construction of a plant to desalinate water, likely from the Sea of Cortez, providing fresh water that can be used for not only domestic use but also for the agriculture industry which consumes 70% of what Arizona now uses. “We are in the second decade of the

worst drought in recorded history,’’ Ducey said. “We continue to experience shortages on the Colorado River. And the forecasts are not getting better.’’ Federal officials recently told a Congressional panel that Lake Mead’s level has dropped faster than expected and warned that Arizona and the six other Basin States as well as tribal nations that

rely heavily on the Colorado River will have to enact tougher water-use measures in 60 days – or they will. What the new law does is enable Arizona to come up with a new source of water from outside the state. And what that particularly means, he said is “the

Ducey signs expansive water legislation BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

ov. Doug Ducey signed legislation Wednesday to provide $1.2 billion to fund grandiose projects to find new water for Arizona and smaller ones to conserve what the state already has.

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protect Arizona’s water resources. Huang quit Chandler City Council before his term ended so he could seek the Republican primary nomination for Congress in 2020. He says his priorities are “affordable medical services, relevant education, improved infrastructure, and welfare policy reform” and that he has “an open mind, global perspective, and extensive knowledge and experience on different cultures and thoughts.” Kurdoglu raised over $1 million in his unsuccessful 2020 effort to unseat Chandler state Sen. J.D. Mesnard in the General Election. Mesnard also raised over $1 million in what was one of the most expensive legislative campaigns in Arizona. A native of Turkey who is an engineer with an MBA and the owner of the Homemart furniture and interior design store, Kurdoglu said he is running “so our small businesses, the backbone of our communities, are supported by our state government so they can create good quality jobs,” and “to help find solutions that will strengthen our communities and make your lives a little better every day.” Travers, an Army veteran who served as a Russian intelligence interceptor, wants to protect children’s rights to “access education, making their own family planning

and healthcare decisions, the environment they will inherit, and whether they will have a voice in their democracy.” A graduate of the University of Arizona who also studied at Oxford University in London, she lists her key issues as “protecting our community,” voter rights, women’s rights, education, healthcare and being “more aggressive in water management resources, investing in clean, renewable energy; creating jobs and a sustainable environment. Weich has focused on business and creditors’ rights but also has gained prominence with his two blogs, Arizona’s Law and Arizona’s Politics, that he founded and cofounded in 2019 and 2010, respectively. “I decided to run not despite the current political climate but because of it,” he said. “We need more people with a passion for facts and for fixing the system, rather than fewer.” He said he is dedicated to “ensuring Arizona has a strong public education and supporting our teachers.” He also has been the victim of a vandal who has been defacing and removing his signs in Ahwatukee and elsewhere. Travers also has had some of her signs removed, though it is unclear whether the same culprit is responsible. 

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Gilbert especially is becoming a hub for premier living, Gatea said. “All these new apartment buildings come with resort-style pools and spas, manicured gardens and playgrounds, as well as more practical features like outside storage,” she said. Other high-end amenities include common lounge areas with gaming stations, outdoor seating areas with gas grills and fire pits, bicycle storage spaces and bicycle repair shops, according to Gatea. “Volleyball courts are also widespread in Gilbert – about 53% of the premier apartments built here over the past decade provide tenants with the opportunity to practice volleyball,” Gatea said. And “pet-related conveniences are becoming increasingly popular in Gilbert’s newest complexes, with pet washing and grooming rooms or bark parks providing pampering options for the residents’ four-legged friends.” Although Mesa didn’t make top ranking for luxury apartment living, it had the highest percent among cities analyzed for volleyball courts at 80%, the study said.

Examples of apartments with its bellsand-whistle offerings in the East Valley include the 360-unit Aiya opening in Gilbert adjacent to Loop 202 later this fall with a community kitchen and espresso bar, craft beer on tap, 24-hour fitness studio with protein shake machine, lounge with ping pong and more. And, the recently opened Zaterra in Chandler features community amenities, including a dog park and pet spa, electric vehicle charging stations, social clubroom with lounge seating, clubroom kitchen and dining area with a Starbucks coffee bar, two resort-style pools and a 24-hour fitness center with on-demand classes and outdoor yoga lawn. And the now-opened SeventyOne15 McDowell in Scottsdale touts amenities such as a two-story clubroom boasting an upscale kitchen with complementary coffee bar, upstairs billiard games, and lounge seating, resort-style swimming pool with an adjoining spa, a two-story fitness center and a rooftop deck with fire pits. In addition to the lifestyle-centered amenities, the apartments in Gilbert provide more elbow room, having an average size of over 1,000 square feet,

about 250 square feet larger than those in the non-luxury category, Gatea said. Luxury apartments in Chandler and Scottsdale, averaged 970 and 983 square feet, respectively – about 200 square feet bigger than their non-luxury counterparts, she added. What’s driving developers to build these apartments with resort-style amenities is that people are remaining renters longer than before so their expectations of what their homes must offer have changed, the study said. “The current amenities strategies are totally changing the apartment feel,” said Doug Ressler, business intelligence manager for Yardi Matrix. “Renters want the feel of living in a house and not just another apartment, with more room to live, work and play. Renters want to feel like you’re more in a home.” The trend of renters increasingly looking to places offering high-end living was amplified by the pandemic. In an effort to respond to the growing need for more housing and inclusive environments, most cities have supported the construction of new apartments, the study added. In general, apartment construction in

the country is on an upward trend, with 2021 being the peak year of new apartment supply – 417,000 new units entered the market last year, up 12% yearover-year, according to Gatea. And 46% of the luxury apartments in the country’s top 100 biggest cities were built during the past decade, she said. An expert sees the apartment building trend in the near future focusing on indoor air quality and broadband/5G networks as a selling feature. Buildings with larger units that provide more space for spreading out, plus a home office, and don’t make us feel so confined if we have to enter lockdown periods will be in higher demand for a time,” said Robert Aydukovic, who teaches at Michigan State University. “Buildings in close proximity to outdoor space for distancing and recreation will outperform. “Also, developers should pay attention to the preferences of Gen Z as the Millennials are aging out of the apartment lifestyle and looking for their first or second homes,” Aydukovic said. “Gen Z is trending to be highly mobile, very tech savvy and values experiences over material items.”

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ing in the same location for 30 days at a time. So, the city plans to rotate them to other off-ramps in the city. There are three sets of locations for the 14 signs. Balch said their rotation plan is designed to maximize that. Balch said the city is also planning to put up about 50 of its own signs on city streets around town, asking residents to give to ChangeUp instead of panhandlers. Those would likely start to be posted around town at the end of next month. Three Phoenix City Council members are having similar signs posted on light poles in their districts. Councilman Sal DiCiccio started that program and has had signs posted at various intersections in Ahwatukee. But it’s anybody’s guess how much of an impact those signs might have because there is no way to monitor that. The ChangeUp program collects money for the nonprofit For Our City Chandler. All the money donated to ChangeUp then goes to the city’s eight navigators, who are tasked with working directly with the homeless population in the city, helping them get whatever resources they need. “Navigators then can use it for things

that a government grant … wouldn’t necessarily support,” Balch said. “For instance, if we need to put somebody in rehab right off that corner, we’ll pay the first week while we are working with them to get their insurance in place.” She said the money could also go to paying for a taxi ride so they can get to a medical appointment, or helping them get cleaned up for a job interview. The navigators have a lot of discretion to give money however they think will help that person best. However, Balch said she personally reviews and approves every request so there is some control on how the money is spent. Balch said so far Chandler residents have given about $20,000 since the ChangeUp program began in 2018. She said more help is needed, because the number of homeless in Chandler is increasing significantly. “We know that homelessness across our area, across our state, and certainly across our country is growing,” Balch said. “And a lot of that is tied back to the housing for all incomes, and affordable housing.” She said they are seeing more people who simply can’t afford to live in the city

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ed living community. “You couldn’t think every time you went out the door in the wintertime and summertime was so hot you couldn’t breathe.” But Floyd survived not just the weather but every bullet and shell the Germans could fling against his units in major WWII clashes like the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of Central Europe, and the Battle of Rhineland – all designated by the War Department in 1945 as Bronze Service Star campaigns. The youngest of three children who got his formal education in a one-room schoolhouse in the Finger Lakes Region of New York, Floyd was a 20-year-old sales clerk for the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. who had recently married his high school sweetheart at the time he enlisted in the Army in October 1941. He eventually became a Radio Operator 740, eventually winning promotion to Tech Sergeant 4th Class after becoming proficient in both American and Morse Code as well as telegraph and typewriter skills. Those skills were not completely new to him: he had acquired a foundation in them as a Boy Scout in his small Finger Lakes Region hometown of Addison,

It’s not surprising that Floyd Casey is the oldest resident at the Sunrise at Chandler assisted living community: not many people generally live a century. But Floyd also is a member of the steadily fading Greatest Generation, and you can read his story on page 1`8. (David Minton/Arizonan Staff Photographer) New York. Floyd's stint with the Army was not without hardship and danger. After getting conditioned for cold weather in training camps in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, he was shipped to the European Theater – “it took 14 days

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Cities could get more short-term rental oversight BY MARK MORAN Arizonan Staff Writer

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Homeowners in the upscale northeastern Mesa community of Las Sendas voted recently to require owners who rent out their homes to have a minimum require stay of 30 days to discourage “party houses” from popping up as a result of short-term rentals like Airbnb. (Special to the Arizonan)

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ome south and central Chandler residents have a new transportation option starting soon. Chandler Flex is a van service that offers many of the features of an Uber or Lyft, without the higher cost. The city received a two-year grant to run the micro-transit program and is hoping to secure more funding to continue, and expand the program in the future. The service is scheduled for a soft launch on July 12 and a kickoff event on July 14. There is no bus service available for most of that area. Jason Crampton, the city’s senior transportation planner, gave a presentation of the program to the Chandler Unified School District Governing Board on June 22. “This is a brand-new concept for public transportation that we’re excited to share,” Crampton said. “It could be a huge benefit to students at CUSD, particularly high school and junior high students. We actually got funded to operate the service for two years through A for Arizona [a nonprofit education organization], because they saw such potential in assisting students getting to and from school.” The service area is mostly in and around the Price Road Employment Corridor. It goes from Chandler Boulevard in the north, to Chandler Heights Road in the south. It includes most of the area from Old Price Road to Hamilton from west to east. An extended area that goes further north and east is just for students. Chandler Flex is being run by a private company, Via. It will operate similar to an Uber or Lyft. A resident calls for a ride on their phone app. It will keep the resident updated on where exactly the van is, and when it will arrive. It should take about 15 minutes to be picked up. The plan is that it should not take more than 30 minutes. To speed up the service, residents

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handler’s City Council is approving an intergovernmental agreement to make the city’s police officers available to work security at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. The deal with the Arizona Department of Public Safety is a renewal of a previous agreement and not something new. Police officials have said in the past that they needed more officers because they did not have enough to adequately cover vacations and time off so officers could get the training they need. Chandler Police pulled many of its community policing officers off those duties to have them patrol because of the shortage. Department spokesman Sgt. Jason McClimans said the deal to provide security for the Glendale arena will not impact safety in Chandler. “Any and all Chandler PD employees who sign up to work at State Farm Stadium in Glendale do so under an offduty employment status,” he wrote in an email. “All officers need to have their off-duty employment status approved by the administration. Off-duty employment does not affect staffing.” Chandler Police announced on their Twitter feed on June 25 that four more officers had graduated from its police academy.

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revelers who party late into the night, disrupting families and year-round residents’ peace and quiet, as well as their normal routines. Philip Minardi, a spokesman for Expedia Group, hailed the legislation, calling it “a targeted, sensible package of protections and reforms to Arizona’s vacation-rental industry.” He said the measure puts “Arizona at the forefront of innovative policy solutions for this important industry that supports over 75,000 jobs statewide” and said it creates “new mechanisms to ensure neighborhood safety while fostering an environment that will allow vacation rental hosts and their guests to con-

Chandler Police Officer Kevin Quinn addresses the audience during an event sponsored by his department and Chandler Fire June 25 that addressed active shooter response. (David Minton/Staff Photographer) The city recently announced it would pay a $5,000 bonus to police officers from other locations willing to make a lateral move to Chandler. It also announced it would pay another $5,000 toward the moving costs for officers moving from somewhere outside the Valley

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tinue their important contributions to a vibrant tourism economy in Arizona.” The Legislature in 2016 took away municipalities’ authority to impose regulations on short-term rentals but in recent years has given them some leeway to control rowdy party houses. The northeast Mesa community of Las Sendas recently voted to amend its Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions, or CC&Rs, to restrict rentals to no fewer than 31 days. The measure passed with the support of 75% of Las Sendas residents after a six-month campaign that the HOA board publicly supported. Of the 3,090 total votes cast, 2,604 votes were in favor of the amendment and 486 were opposed. SB 1168 really has no bearing on author-

ity to regulate short-term rentals, according to Las Sendas attorney Curtis Ekmark. “The state doesn’t have anything to do with communities,” he said. “They left intact an association’s ability to ban STRs. But it allows the City of Mesa to fine people who violate noise and other ordinances.” The measure also shifts fines and penalties away from online rental platforms such as Airbnb and VRBO and places them on the property owner or management company that is renting out the house. It also makes various other technical and legal changes to the terms of STR agreements in Arizona. In an earlier interview with the Tribune, Shannon Preston who, with her husband Colin owns a home in Las Sendas but lives in Oregon, said that an out-

right ban on STRs is not in line with what they thought they bought into when they purchased their Mesa home. “The CC&Rs are a contract that we entered into when we purchased our property with the homeowner’s association. “For them to just take a one-sided majority vote and remove our property rights doesn’t seem like that’s fair,” Preston said. “They are using our dues to take our property rights away from us.” The Prestons advocated for an approach that stops short of banning short term rentals outright, such as a higher fee structure, which Senate Bill 1168 addresses, or a “three strikes and you’re out” policy for people who receive mul-

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tiple complaints about their renters. “There has to be some ways around just changing everyone’s rights,” Preston said. The new state law may give people who live near disruptive party houses in Las Sendas an avenue for their frequent complaints. Given that the new law empowers the City of Mesa to enforce noise ordinances, disgruntled neighbors will be able to call the police with their complaints. As it stands now, annoyed neighbors say they themselves fear being the target of legal action for “harassing” short-term homeowners’ “guests.” Newer communities write short term rental bans directly into their CC&Rs as a matter of course, but older, more established communities that are often sought by weekend partiers have remained wide open and largely unregulated. This issue is not likely to go away any time soon for Las Sendas or any other community that votes to ban the shortterm rentals. A quick internet search reveals page after page of suggestions on how to get around such regulations, for instance. Beyond that, Valley real estate attorney Ben Gottlieb says a decision in March by the Arizona Supreme Court, Kalway v. Calabria, could have a significant impact across the entire state, and on a community’s ability to change its CC&Rs. In a nutshell, the case states that in order to amend them, a community’s original CC&Rs must make mention of the possibility that the rules could, potentially, be altered in the future. “You have short term renters who will come in and seek declaratory relief,” said Gottleib. “And say ‘wait a minute, under the Kalway case this amendment is invalid and I want to protect my investment here and I had no notice that this would happen.’ So, I think this is going to have interesting ramifications. The Kalway case really makes it clear that everything hinges on what is in the original CC&Rs.” State Rep. John Kavanaugh, R-Scottsdale, who has been involved in shortterm rental legislation since they became an issue, said it will be difficult to get around the HOAs approved ban. “The HOA’s will have no problem enforcing that,” he said. “First of all, the neighbors will know when different peo-

ple start showing up every weekend.” Kavanaugh, a pro-business Republican understands both sides of the issue, but falls clearly on the side of people opposed to short term rentals. “On one side there is the right of people to own their property and do what they want,” he said. “On the other side is the right of people to rely on zoning laws that were in effect when they bought their land. “No one purchased their homes thinking that there would be horizontal hotels popping up next to them. The fact that people made the biggest investment of their lives and then had that open up next to them is a real shame. It destroys their life and their property value, he said.” As far as the Kalway v. Calabria case? “That’s gonna play out in the courts.” Kavanaugh said. But even Ekmark, the Las Sendas attorney, acknowledges that the community’s CC&R amendment is far from a slam dunk. “Every association considering banning short term rentals should be aware of Kalway,” he said. The bill awaits Gov. Doug Ducey’s signature, at which point it would become law Sept. 24.

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UArizona move creates Community Center opportunity BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Staff Writer

he University of Arizona has been operating a “Near You” campus in Chandler for a decade. It’s mostly out of view of the public, hidden away on the second floor of the city’s Community Center. If you’re not visiting the center, or going in and out of the city’s main public library, you might not know it’s there. And that’s one of the reasons that campus is moving to a more visible location in downtown Chandler. “The Community Center has been so welcoming to us,” said Kimberly Haynes, UArizona’s regional manager for Maricopa County. “However, it’s not a place where the community could easily identify us. Now, they will be able to walk up to us, there should be no trouble in finding us.” That’s only one of the reasons. The Chandler campus is also growing and has outgrown the limited space available at the Community Center, Haynes said. In recent years, UArizona has added programs for financial degrees, information technology, professional MBA, master of legal studies, cybersecurity education, and a partnership with Chandler Unified School District and ChandlerGilbert Community College. UArizona plans to leave the Community Center by the end of next month and move into The Johnathan office building downtown. Chandler City Council agreed to approve an intergovernmental agreement with the Board of Regents that provides UArizona $1 million to help with the move.

Joe Petrella, city recreation manager, shows off the areas of the Chandler Community Center recently vacated by the University of Arizona. (David Minton/Arizonan Staff Photographer) The money will pay for tenant improvement costs, relocation and reimbursement for rent expenditures inside The Johnathan. The city gets discounted tuition for its employees and an assurance UArizona will participate in its Innovation Fair and host six public events a year. UArizona is expected to use 10,000 square feet of the space inside The Johnathan. Micah Miranda, the city’s economic development director, said the school paid $2,410 per month. Over the course of a decade that works out to about $290,000. With UArizona moving out it creates an opportunity for the Community Cen-

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ter, 125 E. Commonwealth Ave., to create more programs for residents. City Recreation Manager Joe Petrella said staff looked back to how they used the space before UArizona moved in to help figure out how to move forward. “So upstairs, we did a lot of rentals for community groups,” Petrella said. “We actually used to have our parks and rec board meetings up there. The administrative offices were up there too, before they built City Hall. So we’re just going to take a look at the space and reprogram it. So we were told to blow it out, just figure out how much we can put into these spaces, and offer some more programs to the community.” The Community Center already offers a variety of programs, including housing a couple of indoor pickleball courts and table tennis tournaments. They also rent space to the community for private gatherings, including quinceañeras, a coming of age party for girls on their 15th birthday in Mexican culture. They also offer karate lessons, ceramics classes with two kilns, and have a dance studio. There’s also a daycare program, which Petrella is careful not to call a preschool. “We’re not licensed,” he said. Still, they do try to educate the children in their

care and it’s an option for many families struggling to find affordable daycare. Petrella said they are limited in some of what they can do because of the age of the building. Some areas are not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). For example, the Community Center has a stage to put on shows, but that stage does not have a ramp making it accessible to all. John Sefton, the city’s community services director, says the City has other facilities that are ADA compliant, such as the stages at Tumbleweed Recreation Center or the Center for the Arts. So spending the money at the Community Center is not a priority now. He said the city spends more than $300,000 a year making its older buildings ADA compliant. Tony Baumann, the City’s recreation coordinator II, said they do get requests for new programs and will be looking at those as they look to expand. “More karate classes that we’re not offering,” he said. “We offer kind of the basics. But more variety, so to speak. And then our arts and crafts and tumbling classes, we have a high demand for those classes that we can only offer, let’s say one or two of them.”

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lived there until 2017, when he moved to Ahwatukee to live with his middle child, Larry Casey, and his wife Dianne. But after three years or so, Floyd decided he wanted the camaraderie and companionship of people his own age and so he moved to Sunrise at Chandler. His son Larry is planning a special celebration for Floyd’s birthday and is rounding up fellow veterans for a motorcycle parade past Sunrise at Chandler on his birthday. Sunrise at Chandler also has arranged a visit from the Quilt of Honor Foundation, which will present

him with one of the handmade quilts its members make for any veteran who has been touched by war. Later that day, Larry plans to treat the residents and staff at Sunrise to a barbecue on the premises. Floyd seems to take turning a century old in stride. A football and track-and-field star in high school, he still exercises most days, using 5-pound weights to do arm curls. But he misses fishing and golf – he was pretty good at both, he said. He attributes his longevity to “all the

vitamins and minerals I took” when he and his wife were distributors for a health supplements company. He still keeps up on current events and marvels at all the changes and advances in so many facets of society that he has seen. Maybe that’s why when asked what the biggest difference he sees between today and years gone by, he seemed a little startled at the mind-boggling nature of the question and then simply replied, “Everything is different.”

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with Mexico. And there are other options, Bowers said, like finding a way to get the floodwaters in Kansas to places where water is needed, like Arizona. That, however, then leaves the question of how much more Arizonans may have to pay for water. Tom Buschatzke, director of the state Department of Water Resources, has put the cost of desalinated water in the neighborhood of $2,500 an acre foot, about 326,000 gallons. That’s the amount of water that, depending on the community, can serve about three

homes for a year. And any new costs would come on top of what’s charged now for delivery. The governor, however, said he doesn’t believe Arizona water users will be in for sticker shock. “We’re going to be the big boy of the lower basin states,’’ he told KTAR on Wednesday. “Right now we’re the little brother,’’ Ducey said, with Arizona having the lowest priority to take water out of the Colorado River. “We’re going to have water to sell to other states to supplement

and bring our costs down.’’ All that, however, is years off. So the legislation also includes more shortterm answers -- and $200 million specifically set aside for them. And many of them involve doing more with less. “We have funding to address best management practices in our counties and our cities,’’ said Rep. Gail Griffin, RHereford. That includes everything from recharging rainwater and use of more efficient plumbing fixtures to changing

in Elmira. New York, until 1959 before they moved to Horseheads, New York, to work at a Westinghouse plant, where he was one of the first men in the country to work on cathode ray tubes used in cameras for outer-space travel, specifically the moon landing. His five children have given him 18 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren, and one great, great grandchild. Floyd moved to Florida after his wife passed away from cancer in 1985 and

largest desalination project in history, anywhere around the globe.’’ What that also will be is expensive – more than the money in the legislation. But House Speaker Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa, said the state won’t be picking up the entire tab. “There are already groups, businesses that want to partner with the state,’’ he said, calling what’s in the legislation “leveraging money’’ to make the state “a partner in larger operations,’’ including

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t seems like such a no-brainer, you have to wonder why someone didn’t think of the idea sooner: A cool place for dogs to play when the sun is hot and their coats won’t come off sounds perfect. Spencer Mak and his wife opened the state’s first indoor dog park, Mak Pack Dog Training & Boarding, in Tempe in 2020 as the pandemic was beginning. They just recently opened up a second location in Chandler. “I think a lot of people have thought of it, but the execution of it is incredibly difficult,” said Brittany Myer, who manages the Chandler location. “When it comes to thinking about safety, cleanliness, making sure it’s a good environment for the dogs with toys and things we need to run and jump on, as well as making sure the owners are safe in that space. “There’s been … about 18 months’ worth of thoughts and processing that had to go into it. It definitely took a while, but we got here eventually.” Myer said many of the people visiting the Tempe location were driving from Chandler, so that’s how they settled on where to open their second location. It’s in a large building that was a gym at the corner of Gilbert and Queen Creek roads. “Spencer put a lot of work into Tempe,” Myer said. “He was, at one point the only person running it, so he was doing train-

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landscape practices to convert to more drought-resistant plants and replacing grass with artificial turf. “I did that about eight years ago and it still looks great,’’ she said. “It’s green, the dogs love it,’’ Griffin said. “And I haven’t used any water on it.’’ And there’s potable water reuse -something that eventually could lead to what has been dubbed “toilet-to-tap,’’ where effluent is treated to the point that it can go immediately back into the

Left: Ally Smith of Mak Pack watches over the small dog yard as a group of pups run and play. Mak Pack, Arizona’s ﬁrst indoor dog park opened in Chandler recently and features small and large dog indoor play yards, grooming and training. Right: A dozen friendly pups ﬂood into the entry to say hi as Laura Braidi tries to get her Schnauzer Indigo into the small dog yard at Mak Pack.

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ing, … he was sleeping there overnight with the boarding dogs, and then there with the daycare dogs. So it was a one man show for a little while.” Mak Pack offers a variety of services, including use of the indoor dog park, group training sessions and private lessons. There’s also overnight boarding available. Myer said the dogs are never left alone, that someone is there overnight with them. Before showing up with your dog, you need to register in advance. And on the first trip to Mak Pack, the dog’s owner needs to bring along proof of vaccination before their pup can mingle with other dogs.

“The dogs that are boarding will also go into daycare during the day, we pride ourselves in being all inclusive. So a lot of places will charge extra for them to have play time during the day. We don’t. It’s automatically part of that as long as they’re comfortable with their dogs playing with others.” Myer said the Chandler location is off to a great start. “Our weekends are really busy with the dog park,” she said. “Obviously people are off work they’re able to come in and it’s been fun watching everyone from Chandler come in and say, ‘Oh my gosh, we’re right around the corner. I’ve been needing somewhere to bring my

dog.’ We get a ton more daycare here.” Mak Pack also has a private room available to rent for doggie birthday parties. They’ve also played host to some group fun. “We had a bunch of doodles come in for a little doodle romp, unplanned by us,” Myer said. “Last weekend, we had a Boston Terrier romp. We had a ton of Boston terriers come in.”

drinking water supply. “It’s not just one project,’’ she said. “It’s all of the above.’’ But it was only the Democrats who spoke at Wednesday’s press conference where Ducey signed the legislation who mentioned the controversial issue of why Arizona is hotter and dryer. “Our state is confronted with the reality of climate change,’’ said Senate Minority Leader Rebecca Rios, D-Phoenix. That, she said, comes in combination with the fact that the Colorado River has been “over-allocated,’’ with the agreement on the amount of water each state

was entitled to take set half a century ago. Only thing is, the actual flow of the river now is far below when those agreements were set. And that already has forced mandatory cutbacks, with future reductions possible to keep Lake Mead from become a “dead pool’’ with no water flowing over the Hoover Dam. That rapid decline was noted by the governor who pointed out that he was signing the new legislation in the same location as he signed the 2019 “drought contingency plan.’’ That move provided cash to help farm-

ers who would be getting less water from the river to instead construct new wells and water delivery systems. It also paid money to tribes, who have higher priority claims to the river, to reduce their own use to keep more water in the river. The plan was supposed to take care of water shortages through 2026, complete with some hopes that the drought would abate. But that hasn’t happened. And Ducey said that the state’s financial surplus provided the opportunity to act now to shore up those supplies.

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points,” he said. The plan is to ask students to help provide artwork for the barriers in front of their schools. The bike lanes travel in front of San Marcos, Frye and Bologna elementary schools, Willis Junior High and Chief Hill Learning Academy. “The hope is we can work with some of the schools there, and give the students in schools an opportunity to put their fingerprints and feel a little more ownership in this new project,” Crampton said. The final design has not been decided yet. In some places itistcould be a space for eway Ex ing Fre plants. In front of the three elementary s ne La V 2 HO ose Lanes neral Purp schools, it could be+6+AaGe short nes fence decouxiliary La rated with the artwork by the ne 1 HOV Lainspired nes Purpose La +4 General Lanes students at that school. +Auxiliary s: ributor Road llector-Distcompleted Crampton said they have New Co Rd to Baseline 40th St & EB 48th St 3 14 SR e Rd to Baselinstarting the study phase andWBare work 143 & US 60 Lanes on SR improvements) w Ne on design. Construction would start in t to I-10 ec nn co (to idges spring ian Br the winter of 2023 andNewend the Pedestrin n il Connectio n Circle Tra of 2024. Improved Su He said they are looking at a variety of different design types. “The building blocks of a protected bike lane include horizontal separation, a little buffer space between the bike and a vehicle and then a vertical element which would add that physical protection and make sure cars don’t drift over there,” Crampton said.

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he 2022-23 school year at the East Valley Institute of Technology will include expanded programs at the Power Campus, renovations at the Main Campus and reorganization as EVIT prepares to grow its adult programs, offer associate degrees and create more opportunities for youth in foster care. In the spring, state lawmakers approved legislation that will allow Career Technical Education Districts (CTEDs) like EVIT to offer associate degrees. Gov. Doug Ducey also signed a new state budget that includes $10 million for EVIT to construct a residence hall for foster youth on its Main Campus. “EVIT’s foundation is rooted in seeking ways to support students and communities that at times have been overlooked, underserved and under-supported,” said Superintendent Dr. Chad Wilson. For instance, he said, “Arizona has a quali�ied labor shortage and poor education attainment levels. With CTEDs being able to offer associate degrees, adults will have another option for obtaining the training and education they need to be successful.” Arizona also has a growing number of youth who are facing signi�icant challenges as they transition out of foster care. EVIT offers a program that allows foster youth to enroll in EVIT career training while they work toward obtaining their GED. The residence hall that will be constructed will provide additional services and support. “EVIT now has the opportunity to truly change their lives by giving them the

Left: EVIT’s medical assistant program is one of about a dozen health-care career programs offered by the East Valley Institute of Technology. (EVIT) Right: Welding is one of three new programs that the East Valley Institute of Technology has added to its Power Campus this year. Other new programs at Power include criminal justice and aesthetics. (EVIT) structure and support they need to transition into a better future,” Wilson said. EVIT will be laying the groundwork for associate degree and foster care initiatives this year by seeking approval from its accrediting body, the Council on Occupational Education, to offer associate degrees, reorganizing and hiring staff, and renovating the Main Campus. Upon approval by COE, EVIT plans to offer its �irst associate degree in registered nursing in 2023-24. EVIT has also entered into a partnership with Heritage Academy to allow the charter school to open a high school on the Main Campus that will give preferential placement to foster youth. The charter high school will open in 2023-24.

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Meanwhile this school year, EVIT has expanded programs at the Power Campus, 6625 S. Power Road, to better meet the needs of the growing population in the southeast Valley. Facilities have been expanded for the veterinary, aviation and engineering programs and renovated and upgraded for cosmetology and health care programs. The Power Campus also has three new programs this year – criminal justice, aesthetics and welding – that are also offered at the Main Campus. “The expansion of these programs will allow students in the southeast Valley to attend EVIT closer to home,” Wilson said. At the Main Campus, 1601 W. Main St.,

Mesa, EVIT offers over 40 career training programs for high school students and a dozen post-secondary programs for adults. EVIT also provides programs at a branch campus at Apache Junction High School. Over 5,000 high school students and adults are currently enrolled at the three campuses for the 2022-23 school year. High school students attend tuitionfree; adults pay tuition with �inancial aid available in some programs for those who qualify. Enrollment is still being accepted for 2022-23. Start the process at evit.com/enroll. For more information, visit evit.com. CeCe Todd is the public information of�icer for the East Valley Institute of Technology.

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Chandler filmmaker debuts new movie BY KEN SAIN Staff Writer

ust like many others, Chandler filmmaker Mitesh Patel is ready to move on from COVID-19. He made three films during the pandemic that were all related in some way to the coronavirus. Now, he’s ready to have some fun. Patel debuted his newest film to a packed house June 29 at the LOOK Dinein Cinemas in Chandler. “Instant Karma” tells the story of a young couple learning about both the good, and bad sides of karma. He’s also close to releasing his next film, “Woman in the Maze,” which is about getting lost inside a cursed house. That’s quite a change from his three previous films, the documentary “COVID-19 vs. Arizona: Our Stories;” and feature films “Anti Corona Virus” and “House of Quarantine.” “We did it because I think it was a big

Chandler filmmaker Mitesh Patel greeted guests at the premiere of his new film “Instant Karma” at LOOK Dine-in Cinema in Chandler last month. (David Minton/Arizonan Staff Photographer) topic ... and people were scared, so that’s

why I created “Anti Corona Virus,” just to

pocket expenses. To accomplish its mission, the foundation relies on donations through ArmerFoundation.org and by selling household goods, clothing and shoes at their charity thrift store at 9830 S. 51st St., Ahwatukee. Their major fundraiser, its third annual gala, will be held 5-10 p.m. Aug. 6 at the Ashley Castle, 1300 Price Road, Chandler. All fundraising by the nonprofit is done to ease parents’ financial burden so as they care for their children with chronic or life-altering diseases. Taylor Pallan said he and his wife – the former 2004 Desert Vista High School alumna Kate Rook – are “shattered and oftentimes overwhelmed by the journey ahead.” They have two other children, Ellie, 7, and Jack, 5. They not only can use the donations made to their family through The Armer

Foundation for Kids but also look for help from a higher power. “We would appreciate prayers for Brooks’ treatment and that God would continue to provide our family with His strength,” Taylor posted on the Armer Foundation’s website. Kate, who was a special education elementary school teacher in California and Chandler before transitioning to a stay-athome mom two years ago, said the nearly 4-month-old journey has been “a steep learning curve.” But like her husband, she is thankful for the Phoenix Children’s Hospital – their “home away from home.” She also feels blessed to have the availability of the Phoenix Children’s East Valley Specialty Care Center on E. Southern Avenue in Mesa. It is here that Brooks can receive chemo infusion and spinal taps while receiving

keep people away from all this stuff going on,” said Patel, who is the president and director of Chandler’s International Film Festival. “But then, you know, we realized that it’s not going to be forever ... we needed to go to the different direction.” Patel calls “Instant Karma” a fantasy film and was pleased with the reaction he received from its debut. The film will be available to rent and stream on multiple platforms, including Amazon Prime and Apple’s iTunes store. Patel is the producer, writer and director of the film. That’s a role that he prefers. “The reason I do it, is because I want to make sure everything is good,” he said. “When I’m depending on somebody, then it’s kind of like I’m not sure that I’m going to get what I want. So I make sure … they’re doing the right job.” Patel says he likes the freedom he gets as an independent filmmaker. He can

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East Valley foundation aids another ‘Armer Kid’ BY COTY DOLORES MIRANDA Arizonan Contributor

rooks Pallan is only 3 1/2 and already the Chandler toddler has undergone multiple chemotherapy treatments. The third child of Taylor and Kate Pallan faces treatment for Brooks’ B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia that could take three years or more. Ahwatukee-based Armer Foundation for Kids has stepped in to help the Pallans, who began this tumultuous journey on March 12. Brooks is the newest “Armer Kid” for whom the foundation is raising funds. The Armer Foundation’s mission is to be there when health insurance is not enough to help, assisting families with copays, premiums, deductibles, and out-of-

physical therapy at the PCU outpatient location at Mercy Gilbert hospital. “It’s a much easier drive for us than driving 40 to 50 minutes into Phoenix,” said Kate, a south Chandler resident who grew up in Ahwatukee. Brooks’ parents agree the chemo treatments especially take their toll on their toddler. “Some of the drugs cause him to lose his gross motor skills and suffer through nerve pain,” said Taylor. “Brooks’ treatment will be about three years with numerous hospital stays and clinic visits.” Seeing the changes the disease and his treatments have wreaked on their youngest son have been heart-wrenching. “Before Brooks’ diagnosis, he was super active, yet at one point he couldn’t walk across the house; he had to be carried. He

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break the rules whenever he wants and doesn’t have to answer to some big studio. That does make it harder to get his films before the public. “We are not under pressure with some big studio, we just do what we love to do,” he said. “We’re not spending too much money, so we’re playing a safe game here, and we are still able to show what we want to show. That’s the beauty we have as an independent filmmaker, we can show anything we want, we don’t have restrictions. So I love that.” With “Instant Karma” now available to stream, Patel can focus on his next film,

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has access to a walker should he choose to use it,” Kate said. “Even with the chemo, he’s pretty amazing. Brooks’ siblings also earn the adjective from their parents. “Our other two kiddos have been amaz-

“Woman in the Maze.” He said the setting in Jerome, Arizona was perfect to build the suspense he wanted in this film. Patel said he’s hoping to debut it on Halloween, and release it in early 2023. “I’m gonna wait a little bit longer,” Patel said. “It's definitely the next level of filmmaking for me.” Patel said he delayed the release dates for both of his new films because he wanted to get the right deals in place for the distribution of the movies. “I kept it for a while because I was looking for better distribution deal on this,” Patel said. “I pitched it to so many companies and finally I found the best one for this one.”

ing during this time. Although their lives changed in a blink of an eye, they seem to be doing well and learning true empathy by watching their little brother tackle this mountain,” said Taylor, a project manager for a general contractor. As with other families who are blindsided by unexpected hospitalizations or chil-

Guests took red carpet photos at the premiere of Mitesh Patel’s new film, “Instant Karma.” (David Minton/Arizonan Staff Photographer)

dren suddenly diagnosed with diseases, The Armer Foundation has been there to help in any way possible. “It’s more than just helping us with bills, though that’s been so wonderful especially in the first months when there were a lot of expensive tests and procedures. Jennifer is always contacting us asking what

they can do for us. So it’s that emotional support, too,” said Kate, referring to Jennifer, who founded the foundation with her husband Matt, and runs Armer Air with him as well. For more information on Brooks and other Armer Kids and how to help, visit armerfoundation.org.

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riceMyAC.com, a technology-driven HVAC company has named a Chandler woman one of its “Making the World a Cooler Place” awards program honoring “ordinary citizens who humbly and quietly make impact through community service, volunteering and philanthropy.” Machel Considine, a longtime Rotary Club member, won the award, which PriceMyAC CEO said is “meant to be meaningful and demonstrate our company’s culture and ongoing dedication to community support, as well as a deep and personal pride in recognizing citizens who make an impact through their efforts. “There is more to running a company than making a profit. We care deeply

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about our community and the people who make it great,” he said. Custom designed by artist Debra Lee Murrow, founder COLORME Art Spa, the award reflects values that Considine values, the company said. “Social justice and education are at the core of my being,” said Considine. In its first year, “Making the World a Cooler Place” award program will recognize two citizens for their contributions and community service. In 2023, the program will grow to honor four citizens and present the awards on a quarterly basis. Eventually, the company plans to honor a recipient each month. PriceMyAC.com boasts that it is the only AC company in Arizona with a 100% transparent pricing on new system installations.

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Tex Earnhardt’s old ranch eyed for high-end homes BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Staff Writer

he last major piece of land in Chandler available for a large single-family residential subdivision is a historic property. And that ain’t no bull. “This is the last of the 40 acres – everything else is like peanuts,” said David de la Torre, the city’s planning manager. “Everything else is just smaller infill stuff. So this is kind of the end of an era for Chandler.” The property he is talking about is the former ranch of the late car dealer Tex Earnhardt on the northeast corner of McQueen and Hunt Highway. The city is currently reviewing an application to turn the property into a 100-home subdivision called Earnhardt Ranch.

Left: This map shows how houses would be built on the former ranch of the late Tex Earnhardt. (City of Chandler) Center: The city wants to annex two parcels of county-owned land for the development on the old Earnhardt ranch. (City of Chandler) Right: The late Tex Earnhardt was one of the Valley’s most successful car dealers and often used longhorns in his commercials. Two of the animals still live on his Chandler ranch. (File photo) As one of the first steps in that process, the City Council held a public hearing on June 23 to consider annexing the county land into the city. Lauren Schumann, the city’s senior

planner, said builder Blandford Homes wants to incorporate some of the history into the project. Naming it Earnhardt Ranch is just one step. She said they are also considering

some kind of marker for the green space they hope to build in the middle of the subdivision: Something along the lines

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Chandler girl was a �inalist in Basha donut contest BY KEN SAIN Staff Writer

manda Myers can start working on her summer essay, ‘What I did this summer’ now. The short version: She became a finalist in the 7th annual Bashas’ Donut Flavor Craze Contest. The 12-year-old south Chandler resident wanted to enter the contest and was dreaming up what flavor might give her an edge. She happened to be wearing a tie-dye shirt and used that for inspiration. Her tie-dye donut became one of five finalists in the contest’s youth category. “I like tie-dye so I decided it should be a long john and we put some sprinkles on top to make it pop,” Amanda said. Bashas’ describes it as a long donut with orange, red, green and purple icing in a tie-dye pattern with rainbow and confetti sprinkles on top. The Carlson Elementary School grad-

uate said she tried to enter the contest before, but wasn’t able to at the time because she was not old enough. She said her first idea was a chocolate Oreo long john. Amanda did not win the contest, however. The winning entry in the youth division went to a Phoenix boy who designed a cotton candy donut. It is a white-raised donut with blue and white icing and broken bits of frosted animal cookies on top with rainbow sprinkles. Amanda said the process for entering required her to describe her donut in 100 words or less. Then, someone at Bashas’ would make it. When she saw her donut, she was a little disappointed. “I would have liked [if they mixed in the different colors] when it was in the liquid point,” Amanda said. “So not solid, I would have put different colors in and

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Chandler resident Amanda Myers, 12, was a ﬁnalist for the Bashas’ donut contest, and came up with the idea for a tie-dye donut. (David Minton/Arizonan Staff Photographer)

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Bug & Weed Mart thrives with family connections BY ALEX GALLAGHER Arizonan Staff Writer

ike most things, it started with a need, Owner Jim LaBrie likes to tell people about how he founded Bug & Weed Mart over 40 years ago. LaBrie had been teaching at Alhambra High School and felt bugged by critters that snuck into his home. However, since he was on a teacher’s salary, he couldn’t afford an exterminator. So he decided to do the best he could by going to hardware stores and purchasing the best bug juice he could find. Unfortunately, the sprays didn’t do the trick. So, he kept searching until he stumbled into a small shop in Mesa that had what he needed. LaBrie was able to purchase the same chemicals used by professional exterminators and his creepy-crawly visitors took a hike. He became so impressed by the concept that he kept a close eye on it and eventually purchased the business he

Bug & Weed Mart owner Jim LaBrie stands next to his son Joe. Their business has been around for over 40 years. (Special to the Arizonan)

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once patronized, giving birth to Bug & Weed Mart. Before Jim knew it, the business began to swarm its way from its humble beginnings in Mesa to four more locations in the valley: Gilbert, Scottsdale, Tempe and Phoenix. “We started as one store in Mesa and our customers who drove from other areas told my dad ‘hey, we’d love to be able to come to see you’ or ‘is there a chance you could open (another) store’ and the business finally justified enough growth,” said Jim’s son Joe, who joined the business in 2010 and currently operates the Scottsdale location in addition to acting as the companies director of operations. One by one, the stores kept opening and the timing became perfect for Jim to turn the business over to his daughter Cara and son Joe. Although he admits he did put his kids through the wringer in the years leading

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There’s an election on Tuesday, Aug. 2, and Chandler voters will cast a ballot for Prop 470, asking voters to continue the Local Alternative Expenditure Limitation, also known as Home Rule. The Home Rule Option allows a city to make its own decisions about how to spend its tax revenues. If it doesn’t pass, the City would have to cut more than $216 million from its budget impacting public safety, street maintenance, recreation programs and planned capital improvement projects. Remember, Prop 470 is NOT a tax increase. El martes 2 de agosto se llevará a cabo una elección, y los electores de Chandler emitirán su voto con respecto a la Proposición 470, la cual les pide a los electores que continúe la Alternativa Local al Límite de Gastos, también conocida como la Opción de la Regla de Autogobierno. La Opción de la Regla de Autogobierno permite a una ciudad tomar sus propias decisiones con respecto a cómo gasta sus ingresos fiscales. Si no es aprobada, la Ciudad tendría que recortar más de $216 millones de dólares de su presupuesto, impactando a la seguridad pública, el mantenimiento de calles, programas de recreación y proyectos planificados de mejoramiento capital. Recuerde que la Proposición 470 NO es un aumento a los impuestos.

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of a statue of a bull, for example. Two longhorns still live at the ranch. Earnhardt opened his first dealership in the early 1950s and often rode his longhorns while filming TV commercials and saying his well-known catchphrase. Tex Earnhardt died on April 19, 2020. He was 89. “So the subject site does fall within our southeast Chandler area plan,” Schumann said. “This plan was established to promote the historic, rural agrarian lifestyle of South Chandler. So in order to align with those goals, they’re coming in at, I believe we have 2.68 units per acre.” According to what he said he’s seen of the plans, de la Torre said it is clear that the developer will be building high-end

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then poured it over and not just used separate colors.” In the fall Amanda will start classes at a middle school. Which one remains unknown. She and her parents have narrowed it down to either Gilbert Christian or Santan. “I’m kind of nervous for because I

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homes on the site. City officials have said there is a lack of all types of housing, including luxury homes for those who can afford it. City officials say that when people who can afford very expensive homes can’t find them, they buy less expensive ones and the process continues all the way down to the least expensive, making it harder for new families and young people to get into the housing market. So, city officials argue, part of addressing the city’s affordable housing shortage is to build homes for all income levels. Many of the projects the planning department has been dealing with lately are for multifamily housing. That reflects the reality that there are not a lot of large spaces left for single-family homes. But, de la Torre said there is room for

don’t know a lot of people that are going to Gilbert Christian,” Amanda said. “But I’m excited at the same time.” So the choice comes down to starting anew or sticking with her friends from Carlson. She said she hasn’t told any of her friends that she is a finalist in the contest. “I didn’t brag about it,” Amanda said. Amanda learned she was a finalist when someone from Bashas’ called her

smaller subdivisions and single-family homes will continue to be built. “We do have other lots that both Lauren and I have worked on that are smaller infill properties, but they do build single-family homes on,” de la Torre said. “It’s maybe not the same type of caliber as this, but it’s a smaller infill singlefamily detached subdivision. So that is still possible. But this is the last of the big ones.” Earnhardt Ranch would have only single-level homes on its eastern border to give their neighbors on the other side of the fence some privacy. The entrance would be off McQueen Road and a park area would be built in the middle of the property for recreation opportunities for residents. These are very early plans that the

mom, Rita. “My mom got a call, and she looked at me shocked when she got the call. And I could hear what the person was saying on the other line.” Rita said she had put the call on speaker phone so Amanda could hear. “I heard the news and I got so excited,” Amanda said. The winning donuts in the adult and

city planning staff is currently reviewing. Staff can, and usually does, suggest changes. Then, there is usually a neighborhood meeting and more changes could be suggested and adopted. Then it goes before the Planning and Zoning Commission for its recommendation, and then City Council for approval. Both bodies can ask for additional changes. Another builder is eyeing a large undeveloped lot at the southwest corner of Arizona Avenue and Pecos Road, across the street from the Walmart shopping center. Schumann said the city just received an application for that property. But staff hasn’t looked in depth at it yet. Originally, it was zoned for a large development, say a hotel and retail. The application wants to rezone it for multifamily housing, offices and some retail. youth category are for sale at Bashas’ stores around the Valley. Amanda said she’s eager to enter again next year. And if she wins, she says living across the street from a Bashas’ store would mean she could walk over and buy her winning flavor. But has she started thinking about her flavor for next year? “No, but I probably should,” she said.

2 Chandler complexes change hands in big deals ARIZONAN NEWS STAFF

wo Chandler complexes changed hands last month at prices well above what the sellers paid for them only a few years ago, continuing a trend that has dominated the East Valley multifamily sector for the past year. Investment company JP Morgan bought the 240-unit San Palmas complex on N. Mission Park Boulevard, near the Loop 101 Price Road Freeway and Ray Road, for $104.3 million, according to the Valley real estate tracker vizzda. com – more than twice the $43.2 million paid by Continental Realty Group of Colorado in 2018. Built in 1998 on just under 14 acres, the complex comprises 30 two-story buildings with 90 one-bedroom units, 118 two-bedroom apartments and 32 with three bedrooms, according to vizzda.

of Golden, Colorado, for $43 million, vizzda reported. That was almost twice the $27 million the seller paid for it just last year. The complex of 24 buildings on 16 acres started under construction in 2006 and gradually was finished in 2015. The sale equaled just under $395,000 per unit, vizzda said. Founded in 2019, Kodiak says it has changed its focus from building sing-residential communities to acquiring multifamily properties in Colorado, Nebraska and Arizona. Records show it has sold three The San Palmas apartment complex near Ray Road and the Price Freeway in Chandler recently sold small properties in the Valley for $104.3 million. (Special to the Arizonan) in the past year and bought a smaller one. Also in June, the 180-unit Santa Ridge Creek roads was sold by Samir Holdings Condominiums at Gilbert and Queen of Phoenix to Kodiak Real Estate Group

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year-over-year to $63 billion, according to research by CBRE. That appears to be supporting CBRE’s earlier prediction that “the multifamily sector is set for a record-breaking 2022 amid solid fundamentals and heightened investor interest.” “With tremendous liquidity and a

growing range of debt options available, multifamily pricing will be as strong as ever,” it said. Numerous analysts over the past six months have said that rising rents have made the multifamily sector a more attractive option for investors, particularly because many people are finding them-

selves priced out of the market for buying a house. In February, Forbes said, despite all of the uncertainty of the pandemic, the multifamily real estate sector is still thriving and still a great place to deploy capital if you are looking for stable returns and a hedge against inflation.

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proud to say we’ve worked diligently to maintain stock on all of our items even though it’s been a little bit of a hop, skip and a jump to where I will have to stuff products in my trunk and lug them from one store to another some days.” Joe believes that the tide is beginning to settle in terms of having items on backorder. “It looks like things are finally starting to mellow a bit and I’m very happy to say we have not been out of stock for anything our customers have needed,” Joe said. This has come at the most opportune time -- Joe has just begun stacking his shelves in preparation of the re-emergence of scorpions and mosquito season. “Scorpions have kind of been the long-

standing given here,” Joe said. “However, in the last couple of years, we’ve seen a lot more mosquito activity and the West Nile virus is here which is a pretty real issue.” Those are not the only critters that Joe has seen jump into the fold in recent years either. “We’ve also seen a roof rat infestation that used to be focused on just a couple of neighborhoods, and many more places now than it used to be,” he said. However, Joe feels confident in his products and authentic approach to customer service but

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The Chandler acquisition was its largest yet in Arizona, according to vizzda data. Multifamily investment in the first three months of this year hit an all-time high, accounting for the strongest first quarter on record and increasing 56%

up to their transition. “Terrible, I had to fire them four times,” Jim said with a laugh after being asked what it was like to work with his children. “But it worked out pretty well because it is a business relationship and they’ve learned enough over the years about how to do things and they’re quite mature.” However, Joe and Cara have proven their worth by managing their way through shortages of certain products and dealing with rising costs. “There were some spikes that were crazy recently. And that was followed by the unavailability,” Joe said. “I’m very

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CNBC article by Samantha Subin and Fred Imbert on June 13 was titled “S&P 500 tumbles nearly 4% to new low for the year, closes in bear market territory.” The S&P 500 Index was down 21% from its January 2021 record. The DowJones Index was down 17% off its record high and the NASDAQ Composite dropped by more than 33%. When the stock market indices drop by 10%, it’s considered a “correction” and when it drops at least 20%, it’s considered a “bear market.” In the following two weeks, the stock market had a small recovery, but on June 30, a story in yahoo.finance.com by Emily McCormick said “Stock market news live updates: Stocks fall, S&P 500 heads for worst first half in 52 years.” This leaves investors in a dilemma: Do I ride the stock market all the way down and have to wait years for the stock market to recover; OR do I cut my losses and sell much of my stock market holdings right now? Let’s clarify this discussion with a live example. A reader of my newspaper column called me and stated that she had $550,000 total financial assets and virtually all was in the stock market. It dropped to $450,000 and she decided to pull it out entirely from the stock market and it’s sitting in a money market fund. She asked whether this was the right decision. I asked her, “How much steady income do you need in retirement to cover all your living expenses, fun money and hopefully bucket list dream money?” She said $90,000 a year would be fantastic. The average dividend yield in the S&P 500 Index companies since Jan. 1, 2000, has only been 2.02% and the average interest rate on a US 10-year or 30-year Treasury bond was around 3%. Here are more details about this single lady: She normally earns $150,000 selling houses and is age 62. She has three major decisions: keep her total $450,000 out of

or in the stock market; work longer; and when to take her Social Security retirement benefits. Scenario 1: Retire at age 64 but take Social Security at age 62, like most do, and put her $450,000 back into the stock market. Her Social Security income will be $1,600 a month and she has no old-fashioned pension. Assume that she can save $25,000 in the next 2 years and this will be her emergency fund that is deposited in a bank. If her $450,000 of financial assets earns 2%, this generates $9,000 of annual dividend income. Her total income is now $28,200 and is nowhere close to her current $90,000 of annual spending. Scenario 2: She retires at 70 and starts major savings and income tax reduction. She’s able to save $50,000 per year over the next 8 years; averages an 8% return; and this adds $574,378 to her retirement fund. If this can continue to earn 8%, this is $45,950 of income at age 70. By waiting until age 70 to take Social Security (SS), and counting major cost-of-living increases due to current high inflation, assume that her SS will be $3,500 a month or $42,000 a year. Now her total retirement income is $87,950. If $350,000 of her current $450,000 assets were deposited today in a private pension, by age 70 it would generate $35,000/year. Now her total annual retirement income would be $122,950 and she can afford her bucket list dreams. Conclusion: More important than gambling in the stock market is protecting principal from stock market crashes; waiting until age 70 to take SS; saving lots of income tax; and substantially increasing your annual savings. To schedule a free consultation on taxes or retirement planning, contact Dr. Harold Wong at (480) 706-0177 or harold_wong@hotmail.com. His websites are drharoldwong.com or www.solarbusinessinvestments.com. Dr. Wong earned his Ph.D. in economics at University of California/Berkeley and has appeared on over 400 TV/radio programs. 

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amilton High School graduate Gavin Turley was among the talent at the 2022 Major League Baseball Draft Combine hoping to boost his stock in the draft. The four-day event at Petco Park provided draft-eligible players with an opportunity to participate in pro-style workouts, as well as interview and interact with MLB general managers and scouting directors. High school players also had the option to compete in a series of scrimmages against one another, though Turley opted not to participate. “Me, my family and the rest of my team feel like scouts have seen what they needed to see,” Turley said. “What I’m really excited about and looking to get out of the combine is just shaking hands and getting to know some of the higher-ups with each team.” An Oregon State commit and the No. 106 ranked prospect in this year’s draft class by MLB Prospect Rankings, Turley’s huge raw power and hard-hitting offensive capabilities are similar to those of top prospects in the class, scouts believe, but his inconsistent play and swing-andmiss tendencies at the plate are something that will soon need to be refined. Turley finished his senior season at Hamilton as an All-Conference First Team selection with a .317 batting average, plus 15 home runs, 31 RBIs and 37 runs scored. His offensive onslaught helped lead the Huskies to a 29-4 record, Arizona 6A state championship and No. 7 national ranking, according to Baseball America. Turley’s 15 home runs broke the previous 6A single-season record of 12, which was set by former Huskies players and current Sun Devils outfielder Mike Brueser. Along with his offensive skill set, scouts say that Turley’s near-elite speed could help make him an enticing asset in the outfield, according to MLB Prospect Rankings. They recognize Turley’s raw instincts in terms of reads and routes but would like to see him with more reps

Above: Hamilton’s Gavin Turley steps to the plate for the Huskies during USA Baseball’s 2022 National High School Invitational in Cary, North Carolina. (Photo courtesy USA Baseball) Left: Turley leads off for the Huskies during an early season matchup at Hamilton High School. (Photo by Matthew Legere/Cronkite News)

under his belt, which was a major point of emphasis for Turley and Hamilton coach Mike Woods heading into this season. “I know that he’ll be known for his power, bat and speed, but the thing that I’m probably going to remember the most is all of those catches that he made in our semifinal game against Chaparral,” Woods said. “He made three or four incredible plays up against the wall in left field and we definitely don’t win that game without him.” Knowing that scouts would be keeping a close eye on his defensive capabilities, Turley says that he spent this entire past offseason taking anywhere

between 100 and 200 fly balls off the pitching machine each day. “Coming off of last year, I did a little bit of self-evaluation and knew that my defense could 100 percent get better,” Turley said. “I know it sounds simple – and there wasn’t much else to it – but it all adds up pretty quick and doing that made a huge impact on my ability to play defense more consistently.” Turley now has the chance to join former teammate Brock Selvidge as the latest Huskies players to be selected in the MLB Draft, which is scheduled to begin Sunday, July 17 and run through July 19. The draft will take place in Los Angeles. Last year, Selvidge became the first Hamilton player drafted out of high

school since Cody Bellinger was drafted in the fourth round by the Los Angeles Dodgers. He has since become a mainstay in the lineup and agreed to a oneyear, $17 million contract this season. Selvidge increased his draft stock when he competed in last year’s inaugural Draft Combine and impressed scouts with a mid-90s fastball, striking out five of the 10 batters he faced. Selvidge was later selected by the New York Yankees in the third round of the 2021 MLB Draft. “It’s pretty crazy to think that I’m even in this position,” Turley said. “Going to one of the top baseball schools in the country but also having that opportunity to get drafted along the way? I mean, it’s a win-win situation that I’m truly blessed to be in and I’ll be happy no matter what the outcome.”

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he Chandler Center for the Arts will premiere “North,” a new musical by writer and composer Ashli St. Armant, in November. Set to a powerful score filled with jazz and historically Black music genres rooted in New Orleans, “North” tells the story of Lawrence and his mother, Minnie, as they escape the Deep South and travel north through the Underground Railroad, to seek freedom. “North The Musical” has been cocommissioned by four performing arts centers from across the U.S.: the Lied Center of Lawrence, Kansas, Chandler Center for the Arts in Chandler Arizona,

“North” gives a powerful rendition to the story of the Underground Railroad that many southern Blacks used to escape slavery. (Special to GetOut)

the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa, California, and Playhouse Square in Cleveland, Ohio. Set in the 1850s, it is based on actual accounts of slave escapes through the Underground Railroad network, as well as St. Armant’s personal family history of overcoming slavery in Louisiana. “In this beautifully crafted musical, ‘North’ brings forth the full experience of freedom-seekers: optimism, bravery, playfulness, wonder, suspense, and mystery,” the arts center said in a release. On Oct 25, it will premiere in Lawrence, Kansas, an important historical location of the Underground Railroad

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handler Center for the Arts has planned an electric series of free summer concerts Friday nights in July and August. All concerts are held at 7:30 p.m. and feature local artists. No ticket is required, but RSVP is requested with all seating done on a first come, first served basis. Attendees are invited to cool off with a soda, wine, beer, or the evening’s signature drink. Explore The Gallery at the Chandler Center for the Arts after-hours to see the latest exhibit and take advantage of exclusive flash ticket sale offers for upcoming performances. Information: chandlercenter.org/ Summer2022 Here’s the lineup: Brea Burns & The Boleros, July 15

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Chandler Museum offers exhibits, programs Bowl Chandler through unique black and white photographs. It examines what home looked like and makes connections between 1930s Chandler and Chandler today. It includes themes of housing, migration, agriculture, technology, self-sufficiency, and empathy.

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Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler (Through Aug. 13, 2023) In the late 1930s Chandler had an influx of Dust Bowl migrants who fled their homes in search of a better life. Government photographers Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee documented

“In the Fields of the North (En los campos del norte)” is an exhibit of David Bacon’s 50 contemporary photographs chronicling the lives of contemporary migrant farm workers. (Special to GetOut)

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In the Fields of the North (En los campos del norte) June 14- August 28, 2022 The exhibition of more than 50 contemporary photographs chronicles the lives of contemporary migrant farm workers. Photojournalist David Bacon’s evocative, powerful photographs, alongside moving oral narratives from migrant farm workers, give viewers a reality check on the food they eat and the lives of the people who harvest it. The exhibition is fully translated into both English and Spanish. In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte features the work

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in the 1800s and one featured prominently in the story. The production then moves to Chandler, where it will premiere at Chandler Center for the Arts. Audiences attending the 2022 premiere performances will be the first to see it prior to its 2023-24 tour, which is setting its sights on Broadway. Chandler performances of “North The Musical” are Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 5 at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave. Tickets are on sale at chandlercenter. org or 480-782-2680. Tickets are $42 and $32 with $15 tickets for youth. The musical is intended for intergenerational audiences (ages 10 and up). Surrounding the public performances, Chandler Center for the Arts will hold discussions and events related to the creation of the new musical. The production will also be part of Chandler Center for the Arts educational programs with study guides, educator workshops, classroom visits and a student performance for area schools. “North is a testament to the ingenious, enduring, and multifaceted lives

of Black folks throughout our nation’s history,” said St. Armant. “In our own family lineage, I learned that there were people who survived the unimaginable in the most creative ways, and they deserve to have their stories told. I want my children to know that their ancestors were more than just a line item on a bill of sale.” St. Armant created the original score to reflect the musical legacy of her roots in New Orleans. “You can’t tell the story of the people of New Orleans without our music. This music is the glue that has held us together throughout the centuries.” To complement the story, the musical genres are equal parts jazz, musical theatre, and St. Armant’s own signature style. For inspiration she drew from an array of musical heroes, including Nat King Cole, Mahalia Jackson, Fela Kuti and Stephen Sondheim. Songs include “Never,” “Git On Board,”“Oh What These Trees Have Seen,” “On The Run,” “Head Straight, Shoulders Back” and more. The commissioning the musical is part of Chandler Center for the Arts’ efforts to give voice to new works and

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of David Bacon and is produced in partnership with the California Rural Legal Assistance, the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations, and History San Jose; and is traveled by Exhibit Envoy. Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942-1964 June 14- Aug. 28, 2022 This poster exhibition explores the little-known story of the Bracero Program, the largest guest worker program in U.S. history. Between 1942 and 1964, millions of Mexican men came to the U.S. on short-term labor contracts. Six bilingual posters not only tell a story of exploitation but also one of opportunity. Bittersweet Harvest was organized by the National Museum of American History in partnership with SITES, and received support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.

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Enjoy a night of classic country with a twist of rockabilly as front woman and songwriter Brea Burns’ wellcrafted songs tell tales of cheating, heartache, honky tonks and everything in between. Put on your cowboy boots and vintage 50s wear, tease up your hair and join us for a swinging evening, minus the sawdust on the floor.

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PROGRAMS Our Stories 10:30 a.m.-noon July 30 How Arizonans survived before air conditioning Writer and historian Christine Reid draws from the multi-cultural influences of the people who built Arizona. Discover how creative adaptations in lifestyle, architecture, building materials, town planning, and even humor contributed to survival in intense desert temperatures. This program is made possible by Arizona Humanities. History Bites noon-12:30 p.m. July 5 Architectural Chandler Series: Lescher & Mahoney Did you know that the firm responsible for some of the Valley’s most enduring architecture also designed a Chandler home nestled amid 350 acres of cotton and alfalfa? Built in 1938 for a wealthy winter visitor from Detroit, the McCullough-Price House is now part of Chandler Museum. It combines Art Deco and Pueblo

Gabriel Bey & Friends, July 22 Playing trumpet since 1960, Gabriel Bey has performed jazz all over the world. Join him and his band for an evening of smooth rhythms and laid-back grooves with music from Miles Davis, Kenny Garett, Roy Hargrove and even Prince.

Revival elements in ways that are both elegant and functional--traits that typify a body of work that spans everything from apartments to airport terminals. Join Chandler Museum Administrator Jody Crago to find out more about the iconic Arizona buildings conceived by Phoenix architects Lescher & Mahoney. After the program, step into the McCullough-Price House, located on the Chandler Museum campus.

Play Day Noon-2:30 p.m. July 30 Join Beat the Heat Saturday to enjoy activities to help you stay cool including getting wet with some classic water toys. Bring the family and toy with classic games and toys. Brush up on the classics or explore something new. Each month features a different set of games and toys. Outdoor games and activities will be available in the courtyard weather permitting.

C-Town Suitcase Club 10:30-11:15 a.m. July 6 and 20 Come and explore what career paths have roots in Chandler.

Pack your bags and travel back in time where everyday objects look completely different. These 45-minute programs are led by our friendly educators who compare everyday items, then and now. With new themes each month, program participants will begin together with a central topic and then break off into family groups to engage in several activity stations. Geared toward ages 3-5.

Art Tots 10:30-11:15 a.m. July 13 and 27 The museum is opening our kitchen cabinets and whipping up foodstuffs to create art with bananas, painting, stamping, and gluing through a variety of pantry items. The 45-minute program led by museum educators that is an age-appropriate introduction to different art styles and concepts. With new themes each month, program participants will begin together with a central topic and then break off into family groups to engage in several art-centered activity stations. For ages 3-5.

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Cisco & the Racecars, Aug. 5 Clap and tap your toes to the bluegrass, folk and Americana of Cisco & the Racecars. Known for their

Smokestack Lightning, Aug. 12 This powerhouse band from the Gila River community delivers both the gut-wrenching pull of the blues and the restless beat of rock ‘n’ roll. With heart thumping tempos setting the

and uplifting piece of musical theatre. Chandler Center for the Arts believes that new work which reflects the stories of people of color are vitally important to people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds,” said General Manager Michelle Mac Lennan. “This piece, in particular speaks to

the history of Black Americans during slavery, but also helps us relate to the characters as individuals with their own dreams, doubts and unique personalities.” A jazz vocalist, composer, musician and musical theater playwright, St. Armant is known for her award-winning

work in education and entertainment including her band, Jazzy Ash and Leaping Lizards, and her Audible mystery series, Viva Durant, which includes the New York Times bestselling story, “Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons.” “North” is her debut theatrical production.

Guitarras Latinas, Aug. 19 Guitarras Latinas will take you on a musical journey through Latin America with beautiful flamenco guitar, spicy castanets, romantic vocals and dynamic percussion. No need for a passport for this cultural tour. Information: chandlercenter.org

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to the Arizona Self-Service Storage Act, Arizona Statutes 33-1704, Section H, Enforcement of Lien. The Undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding on or after July 22,2022 at 9:00am using an online auction at www.storagetreasures.com, said property has been stored and located at US60 Self Storage, 1661 S Alma School Rd, Ste 105, Mesa, AZ 85210. Property to be sold as follows: Misc. household goods, personal items, furniture, clothing, toys and/or business fixtures and items belonging to the following: Tenant Name Unit # Kessenich, Robert 322 Benitez, Giovanni 806 Larry, Mark 614 Carusone, Giovanni 206 Granados, Monica 523 Stewart, Nicole 209 Vigil, Carissa 536 Sale subject to cancellation in the event of settlement between owner and obligated party. Items sold “as is”, CASH ONLY, and Buyer must pay a security deposit and broom sweep/clean the unit. Go to www.storagetreasures.com to bid on unit(s). Published: East Valley Tribune, July 10, 17, 2022 / 47447

No Time for Romance Movies! These romance movies lie somewhere between time and destiny... Given the year, an actor and a plot clue, can you guess the title? ACTOR/ACTRESS

YEAR

MOVIE TITLE

Hugh Jackman

2001

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Rachael McAdams

2009

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Malcolm McDowell

1979

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Christopher Reeve

1980

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Leslie Odom Jr.

2021

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You know, bringing back your great, great grandpappy to fall in love with your ex isn’t as simple as it sounds. Sad tale about a librarian with a paranormal genetic disorder, and no, I’m not making that up. H.G. Wells chases down Jack the Ripper to the 1970s and they didn’t even stop in Lake Havasu to look at their old bridge! Make sure your clothes are out of date and leave your present day objects at home before traveling back in time. Your girlfriend’s ex wants her back, so he’s going to go back in time and erase your memories.

Two of a kind, similar plot line movies... Neither snow, nor rain, nor time, shall keep my letters from going to another year...

Jennifer Jason Leigh Keanu Reeves CB

1998 2006

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Answers Top to Bottom: Kate & Leopold, Time Traveler’s Wife,Somewhere in Time, Needle in a Timestack. Two of kind movies: The Love Letter, The Lake House

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