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ife was heading in the right direction for the Ryan brothers until an explosion Aug. 26 knocked it onto a new, rockier course. “This was their livelihood, they worked 24/7 to get this thing going, and it was actually a very pro�itable year,” said Paul Ryan, their father. “Now it’s gone.” Chandler Police say an unintentional natural gas leak ignited by an “independent ignition source” caused a massive blast that ripped the roof off of a portion of Chandler Sunset Plaza at Ray and Rural roads. Four
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people were injured, all are expected to survive. Brothers Andrew and Dillon Ryan ran Platinum Printing together. A longtime friend, Parker Milldebrandt, was an employee. The fourth person injured was 58-year-old Glenn Jordan, who worked at All-American Eyeglass Repair shop a few suites down from the printers. All four suffered major burns. “The boys had a pretty good following from through the years they’ve had the business,” Paul Ryan said. “You knew the two boys, once you met them, you’d fall in
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tudents in Jim McNamara’s Fire Science classes at the East Valley Institute of Technology main campus in Mesa learn, according to the program website, “basic �ire science fundamentals and technical rescue.” McNamara was part of one of the largest, most complex, technical rescue efforts in American history: the 9/11 attacks response. On Sept. 11, 2001, McNamara was at his Long Island home, getting ready for a doctor’s appointment.
“You better turn on the news,” his wife told him. Like millions of others, McNamara watched live footage of the World Trade Center as smoke poured out of the North Tower – and then saw a plane �ly into the South Tower. At the time, McNamara was the Nassau County �ire marshal, a teacher at Nassau County Fire Service Academy and volunteer �ire�ighter. “After the attacks, my technical rescue team was activated,” he said. Within hours, his boots were on the smoldering grounds of the World Trade Center, where two giant towers collapsed, killing
2,606 people. (Another 125 were killed at the Pentagon and 265 passengers of four planes that crashed died.) Of the World Trade Center deaths, 343 were �ire�ighters who responded to the scene. Some were McNamara’s friends. “Almost all Nassau County was volunteer �ire�ighters, so a lot of them were New York City �ire�ighters. And police of�icers also were volunteers. I also taught at the �ire academy, so I knew other instructors who were New York City �ire�ighters or cops,” McNamara said.
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Chandler to test mobile voting app this fall after bond election BY KEN SAIN Staff Writer
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handler is planning to be one of the pioneers in mobile voting with a pilot program scheduled to run in November. City Council was expected to approve a contract with Boston-based Voatz at its meeting Thursday. That vote came after the deadline for this edition. Voters would be able to cast their ballots on their phone or tablet. The votes would be protected by blockchain technology, the same type of system Bitcoin uses. Vice Mayor Mark Stewart says it would be very secure. “What it comes down to, is the juice worth the squeeze?” Stewart said. “Is the quantum computing power that you would need to get into one voter record — just one voter record, not all — would that be worth it?” To test mobile voting the city plans to stage an election after November’s bond election is completed. It would not
Chandler City Council plans to approve a pilot program to test mobile voting using the Voatz app this November. (Special to The Chandler Arizonan)
count, and would just be to see how the system works. Voters would be asked the same questions on the ballot in the Nov. 2 bond election, plus some additional ones the city seeks answers to. The city plans to market the pilot program, including to teens under 18. Because of privacy laws, no one under 13 would be allowed to participate. The city will keep separate tallies for those 18 and older and those who are too young to have their votes officially counted. Stewart has been the driving force behind Chandler's lead in moving toward mobile voting. “I’ve always been kind of a technology nut or an early adopter,” he said. “We’ve been voting like this for so long, it’s kind of archaic in a way.” Stewart said blockchain voting can fix many of the issues that have been in the national news about election security. “I tell the story … Vice Mayor Stewart walked into my office one day and he said, ‘what do you think of blockchain voting?’” said City Clerk Dana DeLong, whose office runs city elections. “I said,
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‘I don’t.’” She says she does now. DeLong said she does not need any additional funds to run the pilot program; she could do it with money already approved for her department. The contract with Voatz to do the election will cost $30,000 and then an additional $2 for every person who votes. Council members expressed concern about the $2 per vote and asked DeLong to put a cap on that during Monday’s work session. They considered a limit of about 10,000 to 15,000 votes. DeLong said she has a total $50,000 in her budget for the election. Voatz’s system has been used in three states, West Virginia, Colorado and Utah. It was used in actual elections, primarily to count military votes from overseas. “I see this as the future,” said Josh Daniels, Utah County Clerk and Auditor. His office runs the elections in that county. “We can save a lot of money, just in purchasing hardware. The hardware in
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etween 7:45 and 8:15 Tuesday morning, only four people were waiting for a bus on the northbound side of Arizona Avenue and Chandler Boulevard. While that may appear to hardly represent the demand needed during weekday rush hours to support either a light rail line or dedicated lanes for bus rapid transit, Valley Metro is looking ahead and trying to anticipate future needs. It recently released a report discussing the possibility of some sort of rapid transit option along Arizona Avenue. “It’s a long-range study, we’re looking out 20 to 30 years,” said Jason Crampton, the senior transportation planner for the city. The study did not make many recommendations. The few it did are: • Arizona Avenue is the preferred location of a rapid transit line. • If light rail is in the future for Arizona Avenue, Valley Metro would likely have the service stop at Pecos Avenue. • If a rapid bus line is the preferred path, then that service would end at the Park and Ride station next to Tumbleweed Park on Germann Road. • If Chandler is serious about pursing a mass transit project of some kind in the future, then it needs to develop high-pedestrian centers that would be ideal locations for future transit stops. “Without federal funding assistance, it’s very, very challenging to build" a highcapacity transit system, Crampton said. Deron Lozano, who was the project manager for the Arizona Avenue study at Valley Metro, agreed. “Federal funds, it’s very competitive,” Lozano said. “They look at how their investment will effect local communities.” So, this is not a which comes first, chicken or egg scenario. Lozano said to get the kind of federal dollars needed to build a rail line or dedicated rapid bus line, the city will need to develop high-pedestrian areas that would rely on that system. He said the reason there’s a rail line outside Chase Field in downtown Phoenix is because they know they will have 30,000 people who need to get in and out of that area.
A Valley Metro report released this summer looked at the possibility of adding either light rail or dedicated rapid bus lanes to Arizona Avenue in Chandler. (Valley Metro)
So, to have the best chance to get the federal dollars needed to build a rapid transit system, the city must first supply the demand for it. Crampton said that decision will be up to Council and its vision for Arizona Avenue. Crampton said one of the difficulties in doing this study is trying to understand where personal transportation is headed. A future of autonomous vehicles is coming. Will people give up their cars and subscribe to services where a car picks you up, drops you off and then goes on to the next customer? How will that impact mass transit? Will that lead to more cars on the road as all these driverless vehicles are navigating the streets to get to their next client? “If you have that level of people moving, you need to move them quickly,” Lozano said. “There will always be some type of demand.” Valley Metro Manager of Capital Planning Omar Peters said there are some things you can count on in the future. “There’s uncertainty, but there’s some assumptions we can make,” he said. “(Mass transit) is still the best way to move a lot of people.” To adjust for where the transportation industry could be heading, Crampton said they used four different scenarios to plot out the needs and demands along Arizona Avenue. The first is to assume nothing changes. They called this the baseline. The next scenario assumes most people will own their own autonomous ve-
hicle in the future. The study predicts there would be a four percent decline in ridership if this is the case. Then they looked at a mix of personal and shared autonomous vehicles, including the use of some micro transit by driverless cars. In that case, they predict a 14 percent increase in mass transit ridership. The final scenario looked at personal and shared autonomous vehicles with a high-capacity transit system on Arizona Avenue, plus additional bus service. It predicts a 35 percent increase in ridership. If they build it, however, is there room for a system on Arizona Avenue that doesn’t impact traffic for everyone else? Crampton said yes, they’ve got the space to add dedicated rail or bus lines on Arizona Avenue. “Where there are three lanes going in one direction, that would go down to two,” he said. However, he said that he does not think there will ever be less than two lanes in one direction, saying there are things they can do to make it work on the areas of the road that only have two lanes now. The final report is out and the study is complete. It offered a blueprint for the city if it wants to pursue a major mass transit project in the coming decades. According to the experts, the city now must create hubs where there are high pedestrian traffic with its economic development plans. Without that, getting the federal dollars needed to build a rail line or dedicated bus lanes would be challenging.
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Need a job? Kyrene schools have lots of them BY PAUL MARYNIAK Arizonan Executive Editor
With their 4-year-old daughter Abery joining in, Andrew Dunkleberger hugged his wife Megan Dunkleberger, a teacher at Kyrene del Cielo in Chandler, after she was surprised last week with a $2,000 check from Staples. In addition, the school received another $3,000 in gift cards to support other classrooms as part of Staples’ nationwide #ThankATeacher contest. Megan Dunkelberger is one of 20 educators from around the country to receive this award. Parent Erin O’Grady nominated her, telling Staples, “Mrs. Dunkelberger is an amazing teacher who went above and beyond throughout this pandemic school year. She worked to teach her kindergarten class how to use Zoom, with an immense amount of patience and kindness, while also preparing adorable take-home notebooks and art supplies for class projects.”
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yrene School District is grappling with the same shortage of job applicants that many businesses are facing. Shortages are impacting the district in almost every conceivable way as it struggles with scores of vacancies at almost every job level – certified substitutes, instructional assistants, bus drivers, crossing guards, lunchroom aides and front office support. “These positions are critical to helping our students and our schools succeed,” Superintendent Laura Toenjes told the Kyrene Governing Board last week in what she termed a call to the community at large. Many of the available jobs are ideal for retirees, high school and college students seeking part-time gigs and even people who might be looking for some benefits, Toenjes said. “What I want the public to hear is that
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empe Union and Kyrene officials are calling bluff on Gov. Doug Ducey’s threat to withhold a total $8 million if they do not withdraw their mask mandates. But Kyrene Superintendent Laura Toenjes also said the district will take a different position after Sept. 29, when the state budget bill that includes a ban on mask mandates would take effect, according to a ruling by a Maricopa County Superior Court judge. Unless other ongoing lawsuits prevail, Toenjes said Kyrene will obey the law and lift its mask mandate. Asked if Tempe Union would do the same, district spokeswoman Megan Sterling told The Arizonan last week there was “nothing definitive on masks as of yet.” “We will continue to evaluate as we draw closer to the Sept. 29 date,” she said. Toenjes said, “For those families that have chosen to stay in-person, I believe it’s our responsibility to do everything we can as far as mitigation to keep kids in school. And I know our school leaders feel the same way after talking with them. “But I also feel very strongly that we do not break a law,” she continued. “There’s other ways if you don’t agree with the law to go about it. I have consulted with not just our district attorney, but others and he has
also consulted with others. We are confident that the law as of today could change.” Toenjes was indirectly referring to other challenges to the state Legislature’s bans on mask and vaccine mandates that were among a number of measures that GOP lawmakers shoved into the budget bill in the session’s waning hours. Another lawsuit has called that effort unconstitutional and claims they were not given proper hearings and bypassed other required legislative processes needed to make law in Arizona. For almost the rest of this month, however, eyes will be on Ducey’s threat to withhold $5.2 million from Kyrene and $2.8 million from Tempe Union in Education Plus Up Grant money. Ducey had given districts with mandates until Aug. 27 to drop them or risk losing their Education Plus Up grants. His office made no announcements after his deadline passed. Ducey is using $163 million of $350 million in federal pandemic relief funds for grants to ensure that school districts that did not receive other supplemental funds received up to $1,800 per pupil to make up for a loss of revenue caused by disruptions that impacted other revenue. Those funds became an issue in the wake of Maricopa County Judge Randall Warner’s Aug. 16 ruling that the state law banning mask mandates by schools or
other governmental entities does not take effect until Sept. 29. Within hours of that ruling, Kyrene and Tempe Union administration reimposed mask mandates. Superintendents in both districts have been given authority by their boards months ago to enact any measures they saw fit to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Other districts in Arizona have followed suit, though those that neighbor Tempe Union and Kyrene have either declined formally to make masks mandatory or simply have ignored the opportunity that Warner’s decision gave them. Tempe Union and Kyrene took the action, citing the surge in COVID-19 cases that has left both districts at the highest level of virus transmission. However, data released by the county last week showed that while both district’s transmission levels remain at highs not seen in several months, they appear not to have gotten any worse. Cases per 100,000 were at 305 for the second consecutive week and positive new test results were at just over 10 percent. Kyrene’s dashboard showed the number of active cases among students fell from 100 to 75 while Tempe Union’s count of active cases fell to 42 of which 40 were students. Those numbers for Kyrene, Toenjes said, show that the mask requirement is work-
ing and keeping COVID-19 at bay. Despite Ducey’s contention that the mask mandate ban began July 1 – the retroactive date GOP lawmakers pushed through in the budget bill – Judge Randall Warner ruled, “Under Arizona law, new laws are effective 90 days after the legislative session ends, which is Sept. 29 this year.” Warner acknowledged that there is an exception for emergency measures. But he said this does not qualify. “They require a two-thirds vote and this statute was not approved by a two-thirds majority,’’ Warner wrote. Moreover, the Biden administration has told Ducey that his efforts to use federal pandemic relief funds as a cudgel violated the law. U.S. Education Department officials suggested that if a parent files a complaint about his withholding of funds as punishment for a mask mandate. The department on Monday launched an investigation into five states' bans, but Arizona is not among them. Toenjes said she, the district’s counsel and other districts’ lawyers have reviewed the terms of the grant and believes that a mask mandate does not violate any of them. ‘I feel very confident we are in compliance with the law,” she said, noting the grant requirement makes no mention of masks but does require recipients to have been offering in-person instruction as of Aug. 27. ■
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“If you have experience in multiple areas, what Talent Management can do is work with you. If you want more hours and benefits are important, even though the job of say, lunch duty, might only be 10 hours a week, we can piece together other positions … to be able to get people to 30 hours, which means your then benefit-eligible.” The vacancies are doing far more than creating havoc for already stretched teachers, administrators and other district employees who are struggling to cover the responsibilities left untended by the empty positions. They also impact many of the district’s 13,000-plus students in one way or the other. For example, Toenjes told The Arizonan in a subsequent interview last week that more than 700 kids are on waiting lists for after-school programs – programs that not only give children constructive enrichment activities while their parents are working but also bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue. “That to me is alarming because that time is almost as critical as during the day,” she said. “What are they doing in those hours outside of school time, especially when parents aren’t available to be home with them? That worries me.” She stressed that the Kyrene Foundation has been able to step in and help find other programs that the kids can be part of – though that doesn’t help the cashstrapped district, which relies heavily on its after-school program enrollment. The vacancies have created a concern at a time when Kyrene should be celebrating the fact that so many children have returned to in-classroom instruction – which Toenjes said has been her top priority. “I think it’s hopeful that many families wanted to come back,” she said. “It’s just very unfortunate we don’t have the staff.” Among the vacancies that have been the most problematic are substitute teaching positions. With the ranks of substitute teachers already thinned by concerns spawned by the pandemic, school districts are fiercely competing for those who are left. Many districts, including Kyrene, raised their pay to more than $100 a day in an effort to attract qualified personnel.
Still, Toenjes said, “If I was to quantify this, I would say on average we're seeing about 10 to 15 unfilled classrooms a day across the district. Mondays and Fridays are always worse. Those tend to be higher absence days for staff and that’s unfilled teaching positions.” Pre-pandemic, covering those teacherless classrooms was easier. But now, particularly in elementary schools, the task is much harder because of the need to maintain social distancing among students. “We’re trying to keep the mixing of children down as much as we possibly can,” Toenjes explained. “So what that looks like now is you’ve got assistant principals teaching, you’ve got principals teaching. We also have deployed district staff. “We have a plan right now in place where everybody that’s certified from a coordinator level is assigned to sites to go out and help on Mondays and Fridays. Then we also have a second layer if that’s not enough support. Then it really goes down to directors, possibly executive directors – myself – anybody who is certified could potentially end up in a classroom.” Bus drivers have not been as critically needed in Kyrene as they have been in many other nearby districts, Toenjes said, because fewer students’ parents are opting for buses. Crossing guard positions, however, are critically needed as are classroom and lunchtime aides of every description. Many of those vacancies also eat into the little time teachers already have for planning – or even a quick break. Toenjes sees no easy answer to the job vacancy problem – particularly because Kyrene isn’t just competing with other districts but with places like Target, Starbucks and other retailers that pay a higher hourly wage. “It’s a supply-and-demand thing and right now, the supply’s not there,” Toenjes said. “But it’s also a financial thing.” “When private enterprise is able to raise those rates for hourly employees…that’s more challenging for us to do. So, we’re trying to get out the word that you get to work with children. I mean, the work you do in a school district is so meaningful…. We have a lot to offer, but that base pay is getting very competitive.” For people looking to explore Kyrene’s job opportunities, go to Talent Management page, kyrene.org/Page/905.
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ineTime, a diverse collection of regional and international short films presented over a five-episode season is being aired on the Chandler Channel – Cox Cable Channel 11 and Orbital Cable Channel 20 for Sun Lakes. Air times are 8 p.m. daily and the films also can be streamed live at chandleraz. gov/video, and will continue throughout the month until the next debut. The films are: “In Full Bloom” This surrealist short film about over-
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the average voters’ pocket has robust security built into it.” Daniels said their use of the Voatz system was successful and widely accepted by voters. Under Utah state law, only military personnel serving overseas and people with disabilities could use it, so they only had about 1,000 votes cast that way in the 2020 election. “Voter turnout was much higher among overseas voters,” he said. One factor that might limit how far Chandler can go with mobile voting is
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As he and 15 others on his team drove in a truck across the East River to Manhattan, they could see the huge columns of smoke. After seeing the first tower collapse on TV, McNamara instantly understood this was a mass-casualty situation. And that it would be personal. “I knew I would know people there,” he said. His sense that faces he knew would be among the deaths came true. “From my battalion, we lost five firefighters. From the (fire) academy, we lost three instructors,” he said. Once his team arrived at the site, even as the sounds of responder distress units filled the smoky, dusty air, McNamara directed his mind away to what he was trained to do – away from “do I know the guy with that chirper?” As he recalled during a class break, “You kind of compartmentalize things. That
coming the loss of a partner has already debuted. After her husband’s death, Cecile becomes an agoraphobic hoarder, gardening indoors without the help of direct sunlight. She orders worms to grow a rare flower. Though they help the flower grow, the development comes at a heavy price. “A Home For Curiosities” This debuts Oct. 1. A young boy discovers a house full of forgotten imaginary friends. “KOPS: Kids on Patrol” and “Blue Birds” – Debut Nov. 1. “KOPS” is about a neighborhood’s kid police force that
the county, state and federal governments might not be ready for it. Stewart said he reached out to the county to see if they were interested in partnering in the pilot program. He said they showed some interest, but were not ready to jump in just yet. Another limiting factor is voting laws need to catch up to the new technology. Councilmember Terry Roe worried someone could stage a pizza party and get 100 of their closest friends together and then ask them all to vote on their phones. He was assured some existing state laws would cover such a scenario, but
goes on patrol to stop one stinky crime. “Blue Birds” is about how two young men spend the day with one another at the park. “Queen Marlene’s Toy Museum and Friends: Traffic Safety Toys” – Debuts Dec. 1. This was produced by The Toy Museum of New York as a pilot episode for a new series called “Queen Marlene’s Toy Museum and Friends.” In this episode, Rainbow Sparkles learns the meaning of different traffic signs. “The Crow and the Pitcher” and “The Chair” – Debut Jan. 1. “Crow is an animated story about a thirsty crow and
that there was definitely issues that should be addressed by the legislature before mobile voting is fully embraced. Councilmember Christine Ellis expressed concern that broadband access was not equal across the entire city. She worried this would set up a system making easier for some people to vote, but difficult for others who don’t enjoy the same access to the Internet. “We just gave the school district … $250,000 when we had to take all the students online, because they didn’t have the capacity.” Ellis said. She said people on the central side of
You kind of go down a roll call.” Jim McNamara remembers the friends he lost every day – especially every Sept. 11. The smiling faces he forces himself to focus on will be sharp in his mind this Saturday, the 20th anniversary of 9/11. As 14 years in Mesa have not put a dent in his New York accent, so his memories will never fade. “What you try and do when you talk about (9/11) The late Mike Ritter, a cartoonist for the East Valley Tri- is think of your friends bebune, published this somber piece the day after the ter- fore the incident. The good rorist attacks. (Arizonan file) times you had with those people or working alongside was pretty much the thing the night of the of them. That’s what I try to re11th....When you’d run into friends, you’d member,” McNamara said. immediately give them a giant bear hug. “The day itself, those images you’ll “Then you’d say, ‘Did you hear about never get out of your head. The smells Tommy?’ Or George. Or ‘Brian’s missing.’ will never get out of you.”
her ingenuity. “The Chair” is about how a woman encounters a chair with strange properties. It was created old-school style using only pen and paper and is made up of 2,700 individual drawings. CineTime is a partnership of Chandler’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Division, the city Communications and Public Affairs Department and the Chandler International Film Festival. Those who are interested in watching additional short features with an international flair can look forward to the annual Chandler International Film Festival scheduled for Jan. 17-23.
town west of Arizona Avenue have had their cell phones dropped because of the coverage. Stewart said pursuing a pilot program for mobile voting is perfect for Chandler. “I knew this could be an opportunity for Chandler to be, as a community of innovation, to sort of lead the way in proving our concept, get a couple of tests, to get people to trust it so that when they go into the voter’s booth, or they use their phone to vote, they can trust it’s being counted. “They’ll have a receipt they can audit and they can look back and say, ‘My vote counted.’”
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To honor his fallen comrades, McNamara will speak at the city of Mesa’s 20th Anniversary Commemoration, at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Mesa Amphitheatre (263 N. Center Street). Mesa Fire Chief Mary Cameli and Assistant Police Chief Lee Rankin will be part of the salute. Jim McNamara will honor not just those who died on that historic day in 2001, but those responders who passed away since. According to a Sept. 11, 2020, report by New York City TV station ABC Channel 6, “Twenty-seven former New York City firefighters have died of 9/11-related illnesses in the past year, bringing the total number of firefighters killed after the World Trade Center attacks to 227.” Asked about his own health, McNamara gives a short sigh. “I’m in pretty good shape,” McNamara
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love with them.” GoFundMe pages have been set up for all four men to help them in their recovery, which Paul Ryan said will take a while. “There have been so many people sending on their prayers, and texts, emails, phone calls,” Paul Ryan said. “We’ve been on our phones constantly. The donations have been so generous.” At the mid-point of this week nearly $200,000 had been donated to the three GoFundMe drives for the four men. Their father said his sons started their business in 2007 and had been at that location for four to five years. He helped them get it started. Paul Ryan said he knew there was a need for more printing businesses in Chandler because of his own work as a landscape architect. The 39-year-old Andrew Ryan is married to Christy and they are parents of two children, 12-year-old Luke and 8-year-old Bridget. The 29-year-old Dillon Ryan is married to Casi and they also have two children, four-year-old Carson and three-month-old Layla. Milldebrandt is 29 and he and his wife Sierra were expecting delivery of their first child. It was due days after the explosion happened. Jordan is 58 and married to Cindy and they have three daughters. Messages left for the Milldebrandt and Jordan families were not immediately returned. The GoFundMe page for Milldebrandt said he sustained burns on 27 percent of his body and was placed in a medically induced coma shortly after he arrived at the hospital. The organizer for his fund drive, JeAnnette Miller, said Milldebrandt is “the hardest working, nicest, most loyal brother, friend, son, and husband I know” and that “he has been so excited about the arrival of his first child since he and Sierra found out they were expecting. “It is heartbreaking he will not be able to be by Sierra’s side through her delivery. Sierra and baby girl M are strong and surrounded by family at this time.
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Above: The blast obliterated several businesses in a strip mall at Ray and Rural roads. (Courtesy ABC 15) Right: Parker Milldebrandt, a longtime friend of the Ryans and a Platinum Printing employee, was severely burned days before his wife was giving birth to their first child. (GoFundMe.com) Far Right: Glenn Jordan worked at All-American Eyeglass Repair shop a few suites down from the printers. (GoFundMe.com) Nonetheless, it is such an unimaginable time for everyone,” she added, noting he had had one successful surgery and was scheduled to undergo a second. Dave Hawkins, the GoFundMe organizer for Jordan said he has a wife and daughter. “Glenn has deep roots in Kingman where we met in the 80’s and broadcast Bulldog sports together, though he relocated in the valley long ago where he has prospered with business and family endeavors,” Hawkins wrote. “He now faces the toughest battle of his life and he can benefit from our collective good will….. From Kingman to Chandler and beyond, we say be strong my brother.” Chandler Police say they have wrapped up their investigation into the explosion.
ATF Special Agent in Charge Gabriel Pinon said in a release the cause was accidental, not criminal. They have returned the building back to the property management company. Paul Ryan said his conversations with his sons so far have been more about the short-term than what they will do in the future.
“The boys have just mentioned that they want to focus on getting well, and get back to their families,” he said. “They don’t want to think beyond that. If they started (the printing business) back up, it would have to be created from scratch.” He paused, possibly reflecting on where their lives were before the blast. “It’s a game changer.”
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Quake relief concerns Chandler councilwoman BY KEN SAIN Staff Writer
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handler Councilwoman Christine Ellis has a message for the people of her native Haiti: Not this time. In 2010, a devastating earthquake rocked the island and killed tens of thousands. Exactly how many is disputed, but it’s estimated between 85,000 to 300,000. The world rallied, donating billions of dollars to help with relief efforts. However, in a country with a reputation for corrupt officials, many residents said they never saw any of that money or the food and supplies that were donated. “This time, we have positioned ourselves to make sure that doesn’t happen,” Ellis said. On Aug. 14 another earthquake struck the island. So far, it has claimed about 2,200 lives and tens of thousands more are homeless. Ellis is a member of the National Haitian American Elected Officials Network. They sent a delegation to Haiti on Monday to meet with elected officials to ensure all the cash and supplies donated get to the people who need them. “In 2010, I was in the middle of the thing, fighting, raising a lot of medical supplies for Haiti, but a lot of people did not get it,” Ellis recalled. “All the money that was promised to Haiti, a majority of
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Councilwoman Christine Ellis it did not go there.” Ellis originally planned on going on the trip, but could not because of a scheduling conflict. Still, she talked to members of the delegation who made the trip and said her concerns have been addressed. “The primary goal is to make sure the elected officials in Haiti are responsible and accountable for whatever they receive,” she said. She said it’s not just Haitian officials they worry about. They also want to gaged 260 volunteers and has raised over $93,000 in donations for various causes. It has four primary goals: creating meaningful partnerships, activating our community, supporting and empowering our youth and fostering the entrepreneurial spirit. Meanwhile, the Chandler firm AvAir has partnered with State Forty Eight to create custom shirts with $1 from every collaboration t-shirt donated back to support the State Forty Eight Foundation. “Similar to a mural in AvAir’s headquarters, the shirt design represents Arizona’s beautiful sky and serves as a reminder to always reach higher,” a company spokesman said. “We’re thrilled to select State Forty
make sure nonprofits in the U.S. are getting the money to Haiti that they promised, pointing out concerns they have with the Clinton Foundation and the International Red Cross. Now that she believes help will get to the people of Haiti who need it, she is focusing on getting donations of medical supplies to send to the island, just like she did in 2010. “I’m putting the team back together,” Ellis said. Alix Desulme serves on the city council for North Miami in Florida and is chairman of NHAEON. He said the group is taking a lead in making sure this time there is transparency and accountability for whatever is donated to help people in Haiti. “We’re planning to give more details on our transparency portal,” Desulme said. He said any person or group that donates, should be able to track their donation so they will see where that money or supplies went. He said they are partnering with other Haitian-American groups and plan to act as an auditor. He said that will help ensure 2021 is not like 2010. “We know people took the stuff,” he said of 2010 relief efforts. Ellis left Haiti in 1982 and has lived in Chandler since 1987. The former nurse made history when she was elected to Chandler City Council last year as its Eight for this collaboration as they’ve made a name for themselves as not only talented designers, but a group dedicated to improving our community,” said AvAir Director of Business Development Zach Hall. “Giving back is extremely important to AvAir, so it made sense to work with a business who has the same values.” Spangenberg added, “Zach has been a longtime supporter of our company and is an asset to our State Forty Eight Foundation board of directors. We’re thrilled AvAir chose us as their T-shirt partner and are really happy with the unique design we co-created with them.” For more information about AvAir, visit AvAir.aero.
first Black woman member. She said the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit this month was in the southeast part of Haiti, where she is from. Ellis said it mostly spared her old neighborhood. “My family, and the village that I’m from was not as much as affected, but all the other ones in between were extremely (impacted).” Ellis said one reason there was not as many deaths this time as 2010 is because the region hit is primarily agricultural. However, she said that will cause food shortage problems later on as that region tries to rebuild. The people of Haiti have had to overcome a lot recently. A few days after the earthquake struck Tropical Storm Grace came, knocking down many of the makeshift shelters people had built after losing their homes. Earthquakes and storms seem to find the island often. One thing that was new was the nation’s president was assassinated in July. “I (know) families that are right now in the streets … it’s not easy,” Ellis said. Desulme said he usually tries to keep religion out of his political work, but when asked to describe all that Haitians have been through recently, he said: “My grandma used to say, ‘God don’t give you something you can’t handle.’” He paused. “I don’t know.”
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f you have cancer, Children’s Cancer Network will always be there for you.” Fifth grader Jackson Dupps said this and much more last Saturday when he and a dozen other pediatric cancer survivors and their families came together at the CCN’s offices in Chandler. The occasion for the get-together? A photo shoot of the cancer fighters and their siblings with a brand-new 2021 Toyota Highlander XLE, a donation from Valley Toyota Dealers to benefit Arizona families fighting a nightmare disease. CCN is raffling off the Highlander this month in hopes of raising $150,000 – money that will be used to serve local families. The raffle coincides with Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September. “Words can’t express our gratitude to Valley Toyota Dealers and excitement about the opportunity to raffle a beau-
Jace Hyduchak, left, and Jackson Dupps, both 10, stand next to the car that will be given away in a raffle to benefit cancer survivors. (Pablo Robles/Arizonan Staff Photographer) tiful new Highlander,” said Patti Luttrell, executive director of CCN. “We also are so grateful to Jeff Noble
Photo for donating beautiful photography and giving our kids a chance to step into the spotlight.”
Jackson and his big brother, Ethan, smiled for the camera alongside cancer survivors and their siblings from across the Valley. Also in attendance were Jace Hyduchak and his little brother, Brig. Jackson and Jace are best friends and classmates – and Jace, too, is a cancer-survivor. “These boys have fought so hard and have come so far,” said Jackson and Ethan’s mom, Kelli Dupps. “Experiencing childhood cancer is something that changes you forever. These kids are our biggest teachers. They are a constant reminder of what is truly important and of what matters the most.” The raffle provides Arizonans a simple opportunity to make a difference for families facing a devastating diagnosis. Tickets are priced at $20 for one or $50 for three and are available for purchase at cnwinacar2021.givesmart.com. CCN will sell a maximum of 8,000 tickets, and the winning ticket will be drawn Sept. 30.
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Proceeds from the raffle will be used to cover basic needs for Arizona families fighting pediatric cancer – things like gas and grocery gift cards. The American Childhood Cancer Organization notes that 60 percent of families in the United States battling cancer reported spending as much as $10,000 annually on non-medical expenses, including parking, meals away from home and childcare, during their child’s treatment. “CCN picks up where insurance leaves off,” Luttrell said. “Beyond the medical
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costs, there are so many expenses that people can’t possibly anticipate. A huge portion of the money we raise is used to help families with basic living expenses – such as gas, groceries and even beds.” Indeed, the nonprofit earmarks more than $150,000 each year to help families cover these costs. But CCN’s impact goes well beyond financial support. “CCN is an organization the supports the entire family unit. They work hard to create programs and activities that provide a little something for everyone,” added Kelli. The nonprofit serves as a primary point of contact for families facing cancer – at
the hospital when they receive the diagnosis, throughout their cancer journey and into long-term survivorship. The organization provides hospital admission kits to help new families navigate the road ahead, adopt-a-family programs for the holidays and back-to-school season, mental health services for families, programs to help siblings cope with cancer, college scholarships, funding for childhood cancer research, advocacy, and a multitude of other services and resources. “I have been told there is nothing worse in life than losing a child,” said George Hyduchak. “Thankfully, our son Jace is a
survivor, but I can tell you firsthand that families fighting childhood cancer face the prospect of that fear every single day. It’s the support of family, friends and community that help get us through it all.” “Partners like Valley Toyota Dealers make such a difference for families facing that fear,” said Luttrell. “During Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and beyond, our goal is to rally the larger community around the cause and ensure no one has to face cancer alone.” To learn more, visit childrenscancernetwork.org or facebook.com/childrenscancernetwork, or call -480-398-1564.
neighborhood leaders to identify more than 180 projects in need of completion in the neighborhoods of Armstrong, Galveston and the Historic Silk Stocking District near downtown Chandler. Volunteers are needed to assist with yard care/spreading rock, painting home exteriors, fence repair, alley clean up and more. To reserve a spot either as an individual volunteer or a group from 7 a.m. to noon, visit forourcitychandler.org/
for-our-city-day. After the morning of service, volunteers will be treated to lunch and a community celebration at a nearby park until 1 p.m. For community members who are not able to volunteer, another way to help is to donate to the cause. All donations are 100% tax-deductible. To donate, visit forourcitychandler. org/for-our-city-day and click “Donate.” In addition to volunteers, event sponsors are needed to help fund this en-
deavor. Sponsorship opportunities are available starting at $500, up to $10,000. To learn more about the benefits, visit forourcitychandler.org/for-our-city-day and click on “Sponsor.” In-kind donations also are welcome, such as new paint, landscaping and home improvement tools, building materials, landscaping rock or food for volunteers. Information: Priscilla Quintana at priscilla. quintana@chandleraz.gov or 480-782-4348.
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he City of Chandler is seeking volunteers and sponsors to make a Difference Oct. 23, which is For Our City Day. Every year, the city hosts this local community building opportunity that brings together hundreds of volunteers and residents to celebrate National Make a Difference Day. City staff has worked closely with
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ne of the East Valley’s longest running traditions memorializing the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks will again unfold this week at Tempe Beach Park. The Healing Field – a somber display of 2,996 American flags honoring each of the victims who died 20 years ago – is an annual remembrance sponsored by the Exchange Club of Tempe and the Valley of the Sun Exchange Foundation. Each flag bears a yellow ribbon and a small biography about the victim it commemorates. The Healing Field is an all-volunteer endeavor. Volunteers are welcome to show up at the park at 6 a.m. Friday, Sept. 10, to help set up the 8-foot flags on rebar and attach a bio card. At 6:30 p.m. Friday, a Freedom Concert will feature the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Arizona Band and the Manhattan Dolls of Tucson. Starting at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, the Healing Field Tribute will be held in
Volunteers erect one American flag for each of the 2,996 Americans who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. (Arizonan file photo) which the names of each victim will be read. That will be followed at 7 p.m. with a candlelight vigil with speakers. On Sunday, Sept. 12, the Tunnel to Towers 5K Run/Walk will be held at the beach starting at 7:30 a.m. Register at dogood.t2t.org/event/2021-tunnel-to-towers-5k-run-and-walk-tempe-az/e337587 Volunteers also are needed at 8 a.m. Monday, Sept. 13, for the Stand Down,
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force behind this incredible memorial. Their attention to detail is truly remarkable,” it continues. “The first responders’ flag poles are respectfully placed along the perimeter, continuing to ‘protect and serve’ even in death. Gary Eugene Bird, the only resident of Arizona who perished on Sept. 11, has a small Arizona flag at the base of his flag pole. “Additionally, the stuffed bears you see at the base of flag poles identify the children who died that day, and combat boots recognize veterans who have perished. Each pair of boots were donated by a military veteran.” Each year organizers also make the Healing Field a Teaching Field, noting there are many who were not born until after that dark day. “The old tattered schoolbooks that most kids have don’t even contain this important part of our history. We’ve heard many kids ask why on Sept. 11 their school didn’t so much as mention it. That is unacceptable. Bring your children to the Healing Fields. There is an information booth and posters that detail the timeline of events that day.”
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Weninger throws hat into GOP state treasurer race ARIZONAN NEWS STAFF
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“As the only job creator running for Arizona State Treasurer, I know what it means to balance a state budget, manage business finances, and sign both sides of a paycheck,” he added. A Kansas native who moved to Arizona more than 20 years ago, Weninger was first elected to the Legislature in 2015 after serving eight years on Chandler City Council.
He touted his legislation that made it easier to start a business, shepherding in the State House an update to the state’s gaming compact with Native American tribes and “fighting to keep government small and out of the way of entrepreneurs.” “I am committed to bringing that same innovation and transparency to the Treasurer’s office,” Weninger said. His announcement could add some excitement to the primary in LD 17, where Republicans last year tried to stop Democratic Rep. Jennifer Pawlik from winning her second term. Weninger’s announcement already changed the equation in the Republican primary for treasurer after his House colleague, Rep. Regina Cobb of Kingman, suspended her race for treasurer and threw her support to his candidacy. “I could not be happier to see Jeff enter the race for treasurer as I pursue a new and different opportunity to serve Arizona,” Cobb said.
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Left: Jim McNamara, a Fire Science instructor at EVIT, is shown in a photo a few days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. “The truck behind me was providing the power for the command post,” he said. (Special to the Tribune) Right: Fire Science students at EVIT learn from someone who worked on one of America’s greatest disasters: Jim McNamara, part of the technical response team at the World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001. (Pablo Robles/Staff photographer)
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said. “I had to get rid of my thyroid, I take a pill for that. And I’ve got some kidney issues. “But knock wood, I’m better than a lot of my friends.” As he points out: “More guys died since 9/11 than on 9/11.” Indeed, the World Trade Center Health Program says 3,496 deaths are attributed to a variety of illnesses related to the Sept. 11 attacks. Some of those who died lived in the area of the attacks. Others responded to the damage, breathing in toxic fumes in lower Manhattan and the other two 9/11 plane crash sites, in rural Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon. Twenty years ago, McNamara had extensive training and experience in technical rescue, which has six disciplines: rope rescue, confined space rescue, vehicle/ machinery rescue, structural collapse rescue, trench rescue and water rescue. According to McNamara’s EVIT biography, he responded to the Avianca plane crash in 1990 and TWA flight 800 explosion and wreck in 1996. On Sept. 11, 2001, McNamara’s team quickly shifted from “rescue” to “recovery” mode. “Our heavy rescue (truck) had a big generator on it. We set up a command post on basketball courts or tennis courts
on the northwest section of the center. We were all over the site,” McNamara said. “My technical rescue team was trained on rope rescue, high angle rescue, building collapse, heavy machinery… “There were very few people rescued after that first day. The rescues were made predominantly before the towers came down.”
Namara, wife Gail and sons Jimmy and Joey left New York for Arizona. Being literally on an island outside Manhattan was part of the reason for leaving: “We always thought, could this happen again?” But coming here was mostly for practical reasons.
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His team was instructed to leave plane parts in place and focus on personal items. Many of those who died left hardly a trace, pulverized into dust by the weight of the towers collapsing. “It was important to get closure by bringing something home to (families),” McNamara said. “One cop was identified by the serial number on his gun.”
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“The No. 1 reason why we left was the cost of living in New York. It’s so much cheaper to live in Mesa than New York. I tease my friends back there that I pay in taxes in a year what they pay in a month,” he said with a laugh. McNamara, 56, was a civilian fire inspector with the Mesa Fire Department for three years, then a safety officer and coordinator with Community Bridges and inspector with the state Office of Licensing until 2017, when he started teaching at EVIT. No longer an active firefighter, McNa-
mara enjoys teaching the next generation of responders. “A lot of kids have graduated (from EVIT) and gone on to become firefighters, EMT’s, wildland firefighters,” he said. Asked why his students say they want to become firefighters, McNamara chuckled. “The profession chooses you,” he said. “It’s in your blood-- wanting to help people.” His father was a firefighter, as well as several uncles and cousins. “It’s kind of a family business.” This Friday at the campus, he will give a presentation on 9/11. After the Saturday ceremony at the Mesa Amphitheatre, he plans to jump in his car and drive to Las Vegas, where he typically remembers 9/11 with firefighter friends who retired to Nevada. Though he wishes he could forget much of Sept. 11, the next day is a cherished memory. On the morning of Sept. 12, 2001, after working at the World Trade Center for nearly 24 hours, McNamara made his way back to Long Island. “Coming home on the 12th, you were tired, your eyes were all burnt, itchy, scratchy, red bloodshot. I remember pulling into my neighborhood and seeing American flags on every house. “Nobody wants to relive the 11th, but the 12th was a special day.”
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EV author seeks teens for book on loss ARIZONAN NEWS STAFF
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ime may heal some wounds but Michelle Shreeve knows their pain never fully goes away. Shreeve still remembers her mother’s death in December 1993 when she was 9. The Gilbert author has channeled her lingering loss into helping children whose lives have been torn apart by the loss of a parent or other beloved adult. Several years ago, she published “Parental Death: The Ultimate Teen Guide.” It is based on her interviews with 90 people ranging in age from pre-teen to the mid-80s and is part of the “It Happened to Me Ultimate Teen Guide” series published by Rowman & Littlefield and available at Barnes & Noble bookstores and hardback and digital forms on a variety of book-sale websites.
Michelle Shreeve is hoping to connect with people who lost a parent before they turned 20 and are still trying to navigate through the loss. (Arizonan file photo)
Now, Shreeve has embarked on a follow-up to that project. She is working on a book tentatively titled “Coping with Parental Death: Insights and Tips for Teenagers,” which will be a part of publishers Rowman & Littlefield “Empowering You” series. The series is aimed at helping young adults deal with important issues that they or their friends might be facing, such as coming out, having a loved one with dementia, cyberbullying, depression, grief, volunteering and other topics. Each book features stories from teenagers themselves to provide personal perspectives to the issue. For her second book, she’s looking to connect with anyone who lost a parent before the age of 20 and is comfortable with sharing their experience of paren-
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Hamilton alumna earns prestigious fellowship ARIZONAN NEWS STAFF
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amilton High alumna Allison Chen wants to promote American values and she figures the best way to do that is in foreign service. Recently, her ambition got a major boost from the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University, which awarded Chen a 2021 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship following a highly competitive nationwide selection process. Funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Howard University, the fellowship “supports extraordinary individuals who want to pursue a career in the foreign service of the U.S. Department of State,” according to a release from the center. A 2017 Hamilton graduate, Chen also will be supported in getting a master’s degree.
Allison Chen, a Hamilton High grad, just graduated with a dual major degree from Yale University and has been selected for a Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship. (Special to SanTan Sun News)
This summer, she interned at the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress as part of her fellowship and next summer she will intern at a U.SZ. embassy abroad, although exactly where has yet to be determined. Chen, 22, has work on a double major in economics and political science at Yale University, which is where her ambition to serve this country blossomed. “I realized that I could best serve the U.S. as a diplomat, by representing the U.S. using words, presence, negotiation, and cultural adaptability,” she said. “My skills and experiences, including fluency in four languages and longtime engagement in international affairs, have shown me that I can best serve the U.S. in this capacity.” Chen has also interned at the United Nations, focusing on sustainable development issues, and at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing supporting women’s econom-
ic empowerment. As the previous co-president of Yale Building Bridges, she helped create a standardized sex education curriculum for rural Chinese high school students, which has been taught by American and Chinese student-teachers to nearly 1,000 students in rural Shandong and Hunan. Last summer, she interned at Love146, an anti-child-trafficking non-profit, conducting research for preventative antisex-trafficking education in Africa. She served as managing editor of The Yale Politic, an undergraduate political journal established in 1947, and worked as a Paul Block Journalism Fellow. She is fluent in four languages (English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese) and was a 2017 U.S. Presidential Scholar. She will attend Columbia University as an incom-
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ceived over 60 emails in 24 hours, so she advises that respondents be patient and will get back to them in the order their initial email is received. Her goal is to “offer support, healthy coping mechanisms, advice from other teens who have experienced parental death and from adults looking back to when they lost one or both of their parents during their teen years.” “It will offer resources, organizations, support groups and more to help teens not feel alone who are facing a parental death situation,” Shreeve explained. “It will also list movies, books, and notable figures in society who grew up without one or both of their parents but still gave something positive back to the world.”
Shreeve said her own mother’s death still pains her, especially on holidays and particularly on Mother’s Day. For a while, she said, “I would also watch comforting motherless daughter or mother-daughter movies to help make it through the day, not to mention talk to her and cry.” A 2003 graduate of Mountain Pointe High School, Shreeve holds two undergraduate degrees in psychology and two master’s degrees in English and creative writing. Between 2008-16, she wrote the Ask Mikey advice column for the Ahwatukee Foothills News, a sister paper of the Arizonan, and has been a freelance writer since 2008, frequently writing about the topic of parental death. “I want to make sure kids, teens,
young adults and grieving families know that they’re not alone in this, and that there are many others who have gone through parental death or are currently going through it like they are,” she said. “When I was young and going through my own personal loss, I used to get scared and worried about my future,” Shreeve explained. “I would often think my life was in trouble because I didn’t have two parents to support me like most of my peers did." To order her first book: rowman.com/ISBN/9781442270879/ Parental-Death-The-Ultimate-TeenGuide.
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as a diplomat and engage cross-culturally, representing the U.S. and promoting diplomatic engagement and economic development abroad – especially regarding issues of gender and broader social inequality. I could not have done this without the support of my family,
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tal loss to help young people not feel alone in such an emotionally trying situation. Anyone interested can reach out to Michelle directly at writtenbymikey@ gmail.com. “Even if children lost their parent at 8 or 10 years ago, example, they can still share how it felt during their teen years,” she said. “Same with adults who might be 70 years old now.” “I would like to share their story to help other teens navigate this difficult situation,” she said. There is an option for anonymity in the book. The last time Shreeve did this she re-
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aking Latin may sound like a nightmare, but for several East Valley students, the chance to learn more about the Latin and Greek language, literature and culture is a dream come true. Eleven delegates from six schools represented Arizona and demonstrated their knowledge of ancient Greeks and Romans at the 2021 National Junior Classical League (NJCL) convention, which has been virtual for the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “I love attending nationals because of the opportunity to meet like-minded people along with learning new things about the ancient world,” said VV Hays, a Gilbert Classical Academy graduate who has attended the convention every year since she was 12. The area students – Adrian and Mia Palumbo, Andrew Wei, Max Robison, Amanda Murphy, Rachel Martinez, Katherine Lam, Lorenzo Levy, Connie Kang, William Friedman and Hays – joined approximately 1,000 NJCL convention participants from around the nation to com-
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pete in academic and creative contests. The Arizona delegates are students at BASIS Chandler, BASIS Tucson North, Gilbert Classical Academy, Seton Catholic Preparatory, Tempe Preparatory Academy and Trivium Preparatory Academy. They were led by Chandler resident
Sarah Palumbo, a Latin instructor and the Arizona Junior Classical League (AZJCL) State Chair. “Students take Latin because they are curious about the origin of things that have been influenced by the ancient Romans,” Palumbo said.
“They want to know what the spells in Harry Potter mean… why Latin is the foundation of the Romance languages,” she said. “Of course, there are students who want the advantage that Latin provides
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fter long battle with COPD, a Chandler man is breathing easier with new valves thanks to an innovative, minimally invasive procedure performed at St. Joseph’s Norton Thoracic Institute Bruce Erenberg, 69, recently underwent the procedure to get new valves for emphysema at Norton Thoracic Institute, part of Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. “I can’t run a marathon, but I couldn’t run a marathon when I was healthy,” said Erenberg, who retired to the Valley after a career in the jewelry industry in Chicago. “It’s just kind of being normal – going to the mall and not gasping for air.” Erenberg was diagnosed about 10 years ago with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Unable to breathe freely, he would tire quickly on shopping trips with his wife,
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Nancy. Even unloading groceries became a daunting task. In May, Bruce underwent an endobronchial valve procedure at the Norton Thoracic Institute. The treatment, which had previously been offered on a trial basis, reduces lung volume by using tiny one-way valves, which are placed noninvasively into the selected airway, blocking airflow to the most diseased region of the lung. The device allows healthy regions of the lungs to function more efficiently, enabling better breathing. The procedure has been common in Europe for years but was not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration until 2018. “For patients with severe emphysema, this minimally invasive procedure reduces shortness of breath and significantly improves exercise capacity and quality of life,” said Dr. Ali Saeed, medical director of interventional pulmonology at Norton
Thoracic Institute. “I’m delighted that Bruce has had a positive outcome and has resumed normal activities.” For many valve recipients, improvement is gradual and can take several months. Erenberg said he and his wife noted the difference almost immediately after he was discharged from the hospital. “Before, I could listen to him breathe,” says Nancy Erenberg. “Now, I don’t hear that labored breathing. Mentally, it’s like night and day. He’s much more upbeat.” Erenberg is gradually increasing his time on a treadmill and can exercise for 30 or 40 minutes at a time. And he can breeze through trips to the mall and grocery store without having to stop and catch his breath. “For so many years, it was like, I want to see morning, but it took me two hours to get myself together because it was so hard to catch my breath,” he says. “Now I look forward to every day.”
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when it comes to studying the sciences, law and grammar, too. But, students are fascinated with the lives of the ancient Romans whether it be the myth, history, or language.” Formed in 1936, the NJCL is an organization of students sponsored by the American Classical League. Composed of local and state chapters throughout the country, it is the largest classical organization in the world. Its mission is to encourage an interest in and an appreciation of the language, literature and culture of ancient Rome and Greece. “Part of what made the convention remarkable was the variety of activities offered,” said Lam, who has four years of Latin under her belt. “For the competitively minded, there were academic testing sessions and team competitions such as certamen, a quiz-bowl-like game. “However, if one simply wanted to relax or learn something new, there were also educational colloquia and group activities.” Students tested their knowledge of the classics in exams, certamen (a quiz bowl
type competition) and more. Arizona students earned top honors in tests, certamen and graphic arts. Students also voted in national officers and performed community service projects for “Rocks For Faye.” Overall, the Arizona team was first in both roll call and spirit for small states, Summa Cum Laude for their scrapbook, sixth for their website and ninth in Toga Talk. Despite the miles, students were having fun interacting with one another in breakout rooms until 2 a.m., Palumbo said. “This was my third year going and it’s amazing to meet new people and see old friends,” said Friedman, a Gilbert Classical Academy student in his fourth year of Latin. “The competition is great and it’s such an interesting, fun experience.” While Latin is known as a “dead” language, students from around the world are keeping it alive, Palumbo said, noting it has opened doors for countless students by improving test scores, critical thinking and more. “Latin students have higher verbal SAT scores than all other foreign language students,” Palumbo said. “Secondly, Lat-
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in provides a solid foundation for the acquisition of other languages. “About 80 percent of Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese words are from Latin… Students also learn about the English language structure since a person’s reading, writing and speaking of his or her own language is improved by studying Latin. “One’s vocabulary is enriched, grammar is sharpened and a sense of organization is instilled. Finally, students have an advantage in science classes. About 90 percent of scientific terminology derives from Latin and Greek.” It isn’t just teachers who rave about the cognitive benefits Latin has to offer. “Others should take Latin because of the intellectual skills it gives you,” said Murphy, a Trivium Preparatory Academy graduate who has taken five years of Latin and two years of Greek. “My Latin class and I agreed that studying such a language improved our attention to detail, our problem-solving skills, and our deductive reasoning. “Aside from that, Latin really spurs on your curiosity and gives you a raw, beautiful insight into the nature of man, an-
cient or modern.” Despite most of the Arizona delegates having been forced to take Latin in elementary school or junior high, every one of those students said they voluntarily continued it in high school because they enjoyed it so much. Adrian Palumbo, who was first introduced to Latin in elementary school and plans to pursue the classics in college explained, “I saw the language and its roots in western society, in our language, laws, literature and arts, and thought that I could better appreciate and improve today’s society by better understanding our classical roots. This appreciation for the classics evolved beyond just Latin; I started learning more and more about classical history, art and Greek language and culture,” he said. For some, continuing Latin wasn’t about the language itself, but rather the community surrounding it. “I was never someone who fell in love with Latin right away or was super into mythology as a kid,” Hays said. “I fell in love with the community. Now, I appreciate the history and classic texts more than ever.”
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Boyhood memories inspired Chandler eatery owners BY MALLORY GLEICH Contributor
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hen you think of the words “double” and “dutch,” what comes to mind? Do they conjure up an image of summer time, playing outside and jumping rope with friends from the neighborhood until the street lights came on? If so, Jason Key and Tom Montgomery had the right idea with the name of their latest concept, Double Dutch Kitchen + Cocktails, an American-style neighborhood gastropub that opened last month near Dobson and Germann roads in Chandler. Montgomery and Key grew up in the bar and restaurant business – and were friends back when their parents were running things. “Jason, me and my brother Steven have been friends for almost 20 years. My parents, who are from Ireland, owned Irish pubs and restaurants in the Bronx. Jason worked in restaurants like Gramercy Tavern in New York before we all moved
Double Dutch Kitchen + Cocktails not only offers a friendly environment but some dynamite cocktails and food menu to enjoy it by. (Special to the Arizonan) out to Arizona,” Montgomery said. The Double Dutch is the second restaurant that the trio has opened together. They opened The Kettle Black in down-
town Phoenix in 2016. Montgomery and his brother also own Tim Finnegan’s Irish Pub, a staple in Glendale that opened more than 15 years ago.
“We decided to open a spot in Chandler
Teams, tribes ready for your sports bets BY JILL R. DORSON Sports Handle
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ith companies like Caesars, FanDuel, and Penn National Gaming building out sportsbooks at professional sports venues across the Valley, fantasy sports betting already has come to Arizona with betting on games arriving Sept. 9. Only a last-minute effort by the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe stood in the way of sports betting going live that day. A hearing on a request for an emergency injunction to halt sports betting is set for Labor Day. (See page 31) Assuming the judge does not grant the request, Arizona is poised to become the biggest state in the West to launch live sports betting since the Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Ama-
Stretching over 7,400 square feet, including an outdoor terrace, the FanDuel Sportsbook at Footprint Center will be fans’ one-stop-shop to enjoy Suns games and other sporting events around the world while placing wagers on the action. The sportsbook will feature five betting windows, and one VIP window, 40 HD televisions, a 35-foot video wall, an MVP Room and 26 self-service betting kiosks. The FanDuel Sportsbook will be open daily for patrons to place wagers on a wide variety of events throughout the year. (Courtesy of FanDuel)
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teur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) in May 2018. The Arizona Department of Gaming is targeting the first day of the NFL season to launch the first operators. Many of the biggest, most well-known sports betting operators will be offering odds and taking bets. The Arizona launch will be the fourth in the U.S. this year – unless either Wyoming or South Dakota, both which are also moving toward offering live sports betting, get there first. In January, operators went live online in both Michigan and Virginia, and two North Carolina tribal casinos began taking bets in March. As legal sports betting has spread from Nevada to more than 30 other U.S. juris-
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dictions in the last three years, the western states have been a little behind the curve. And where sports betting is available, it’s not widely available. Lawmakers in Washington State legalized sports betting in March 2020 at brick-and-mortar locations only. The state regulator expects the first bets to be taken before the end of 2021. Live wagering west of the Mississippi is up and running in six states. In-person wagering is currently available at a handful of tribal sportsbooks in Oregon and New Mexico as well as at lottery-run kiosks throughout Montana, and in-person at handful of Arkansas venues. Consumers can wager on professional sports online/mobile in Oregon via the state’s lottery platform. One potential roadblock to the Sept. 9 start of sports betting in Arizona is a suit filed by the Yavapai-Prescott Tribe to halt it. (See story on page 31).
Big population excites operators With a population of just over 7 million, it doesn’t hurt that the state is home to a professional sports team from each of the four major leagues, hosts NASCAR events, is a PGA Tour stop and has a passionate college football fan base. In all, eight sports organizations have received licenses. So too have 10 Arizona tribes after beating out six other tribes that had been competing for licenses. “We are very excited about the future in Arizona. During the NBA playoffs, the
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because we really love the people and the neighborhoods in this part of the Valley,” Montgomery said. “We thought Chandler could use a fun, new restaurant.” Key and Montgomery explained that the inspiration for The Double Dutch came from their time growing up in the New York City area and Bay Area of California. “We were always outside playing with friends and family members, enjoying games in the street and going home to eat when the street lights came on,” they said. “We wanted a fun, upbeat neighborhood American restaurant that can become a gathering spot for friends and families alike.”
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world learned that the state has one of the most passionate fan bases in the country,” Matt Prevost, chief revenue officer at BetMGM said. BetMGM has formed a partnership with the Arizona Cardinals. It also had partnered with the Gila River Indian Community, which was not listed by the state as a winning applicant to run a mobile sports betting off-reservation. However, Arizona Gaming Department spokesman Maxwell Hartgraves said all tribes can offer sports betting at their casinos. The amended Tribal-State gaming compacts that were signed by Gov. Doug Ducey and Arizona Tribes earlier this year included the ability for tribes to offer a variety of new casino games such as craps and roulette as well as sports betting, Hartgraves said. “With that comes a lot of expectations and we look forward to delivering an above-and-beyond sports betting experience with unique mobile and retail activations throughout the state,” Prevost said. Arizona’s new law allows for a maximum 20 “event wagering operator” licenses, divided evenly among tribal casinos and professional sports teams/ franchises. Those with a license will be able to operate at least one retail sportsbook and up to two digital platforms. There are an additional 10 retail-only licenses available for the state’s horse racetracks and OTBs. Consumers will be able to wager on professional, college, and Olympic sports. The new law is broad enough that operators may ultimately be able to offer bet-
ting on things like the Academy Awards, Heisman Trophy, and other events that are not specifically tied to sports.
The duo enlisted the help of Chef Nicholas Salazar of California to come up with their menu items. Salazar worked at Nobu in Orange County, the Ritz seafood restaurant in Newport Beach and Poquito’s in Seattle before heading to the dry heat of Arizona. Montgomery said that inspiration for menu items for the American-style pub came from the people, cultures and cuisines of the United States. “Things like our elote street corn and seafood ceviche come from chef’s Latin background, the fish and chips and a pint of Guinness are a nod to our Irish heritage, the Reuben sandwich is reminiscent of New York delis, and the braised beef short rib dish reminds of us
of Sunday dinners at grandma’s house,” Montgomery said. The menu boasts various seafood dishes, sandwiches, pasta and chicken dishes – but the side dishes and desserts are also a thing of beauty. They include: a couscous salad, sweet and spicy brussel sprouts, corn succotash, a banana bread pudding and, of course, New York-style cheesecake. “Our street corn, wild mushroom arancini and braised beef short ribs are probably our most popular dishes right now,” Montgomery said. Double Dutch also offers a happy hour on Monday through Friday from 4-7 p.m. Specials include five-dollar craft beer and IPA drafts, $4 wines and $7 select
Major operators have partners While Arizona will ultimately offer consumers myriad choices in who to bet with, the design of the law means that some tribal casinos won’t be able to offer sports betting. The ADG approved daily fantasy operators to go live Aug. 28. Those that are licensed must also have received approval for internal controls and house rules from the ADG. They include DraftKings, FanDuel, FFPC, Yahoo, Fantasy Sports Shark and Underdog Sports. In addition, approved event wagering operators already can offer consumers the chance to create and fund accounts. Approved operators can also begin marketing to consumers. Licenses sports teams and their partners include: Arizona Cardinals (BetMGM), Arizona Diamondbacks (William Hill), Phoenix Suns (FanDuel), Arizona Coyotes, Phoenix Mercury (Ballys), TPC Scottsdale (DraftKings), Phoenix Speedway (Penn National) and Arizona Rattlers (Rush Street Interactive). Operators have plans for brick-andmortar sportsbooks at professional venues – and some are also entitled to open a second location within a set distance of the stadium. FanDuel has already released renderings of a modern, state-of-the-art facility in the works at the Footprint Center while Caesars has plans to begin offering in-person wagering via kiosks at Chase
Field as soon as possible. For the most part, operators plan to launch their mobile platforms on Sept. 9 with brick-and-mortar locations to follow. Tribes that have received licenses include Fort Mojave Indian Tribe (SuperBook Sports), Quechan Tribe (Unibet Arizona), Tonto Apache Tribe (Churchill Downs), Tohono O’odham Nation, Hualapai Tribe (Golden Nugget), Ak-Chin Indian Community (Fubo), San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe (Digital Gaming), San Carlos Apache Tribe (Wynn) and Ft. McDowell Yavapai Nation (BetFred). Arizona is among the first U.S. jurisdictions in which sportsbooks will exist at professional sports venues. Washington D.C.’s Capital One Arena became the first pro venue in the country to accept wagers when it began doing so in the summer of 2020. And as of now, only Washington, D.C., Illinois, Maryland, and Arizona allow for sportsbooks in arenas. There are currently two open in Washington, since the BetMGM began accepting bets at Nationals Field earlier this year. Jill R. Dorson is the managing editor at sportshandle.com, a national sports betting website that focuses on sports betting legislation and regulation. Dorson is a longtime newspaper sportswriter who covered everything from high school sports to Super Bowl XXXVII, but her specialty now is how sports betting is getting legalized and how it operates in different states across the U.S. ■
appetizers, as well as specials on their craft cocktails, which Montgomery said is a far cry from the drinks he used to whip up at the Irish pubs. “Our mixology program is out of this world. We’re making stuff I’ve never seen before,” he said. The team at Double Dutch is also working on a brunch menu that they hope to unveil when patio season comes around. “What started as our families drawing hopscotch squares in the backyard for our kids has manifested into an indoor/outdoor high-end playground called Double Dutch,” Montgomery said. “We are new to the Chandler area and we hope to be a part of this community for years to come.” Information: thedoubledutchaz.com.
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Bridging the gap between retirement dreams & reality BY DR. HAROLD WONG Guest Writer
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recent 2021 Logica Research survey, sponsored by Schwab Retirement Services, found that 401(k) participants across America now believe they must save $1.9 million for retirement – up from $1.7 million in the 2019 survey. Not only has that goal increased, but so has investors’ confidence in reaching their goals. More than half (53 percent) said they are likely to achieve their retirement goals, up 16 percent from a year ago when the coronavirus pandemic created massive economic turmoil and uncertainty. The pandemic has changed the way they approach their finances, with: 48 percent planning to save more; 36 percent planning to increase their 401(k) contribution rate; 35 percent planning to invest more outside of their 401(k) plan, and 34 percent planning to pay off debt. These are all lofty goals, but what’s the reality?
A recent study by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, found that in 2019, median 401(k) balances saved across several age groups was: $51,000 for those ages 35-44; $90,000 for ages 45-54; and $120,000 for ages 55-64. In order to save $1.9 million by age 65 and assuming a person had saved the median 401(k) balances, here’s how much one would have to save monthly until age 65: $900 for the 35-year-old; $2,475 for the 45-year-old; and $9,000 for the 55-year-old. There’s obviously a HUGE gap between what folks think they need to save for retirement vs. actual savings. So, why don’t most people save what they want for retirement? • Lack of understanding the substantial amount that must be saved for decades. Most people have not calculated a detailed retirement plan and don’t know what the required savings numbers are. My experience is that until folks reach age 50, most aren’t very serious about retirement. Remember the old Yippie leader Gerry Rubin saying from the 1960’s: “Don’t trust anyone over 30”? When you
are young, your late 50s and 60s seem far away. • Insufficient income: The 2020 national median family income was $78,500, according to an April 1, 2020 notice from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. If this is your family income, can either you or both you and your spouse learn a new skill or start a side business to earn an extra $30-50,000/ year? If one can save this extra income, most will be reach their retirement goals. • Losing money in one’s Investments: According to moneychimp.com, the compound average growth rate in the S&P 500 Index of stocks has been 4.57 percent in the 21-year period from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2020. One could add the average 2.02 percent dividend rate, but then would also need to subtract the inflation rate and all Wall Street fees. The reason this rate is so much lower than what the public believes is because the stock market had two previous major crashes. In both the 2000-2002 Dot-Com crash and the 2008-early-2009 financial panic, the stock market dropped by about
half. Even though the stock market has been in an unprecedented 12-year bull market, two huge stock market crashes can kill a retirement plan. • Not saving enough: In order to save substantially for decades, one must have unusual self-discipline. One must be able to ignore millions of ads, whether it is on TV, radio, publications, or the internet. There is a giant advertising industry enticing you to spend all your money. Conclusion: For most, there’s a huge gap between the desired vs. actual size of their retirement fund. Free live seminars and lunch: 10:45 a.m. Sept. 18 and Oct. 9 at The Old Spaghetti Factory, 3155 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler. Topic is “Double Your Social Security & Other Retirement Income and Pay Less Tax!” To RSVP or schedule a free consultation, contact Dr. Harold Wong at 480-706-0177 or harold_wong@hotmail.com. His website is drharoldwong.com. Dr. Harold Wong earned his Ph.D. in economics at University of California/ Berkeley and has appeared on over 400 TV/radio programs. ■
right not only to accept similar sports bets at their gaming facilities but got to expand the number and types they can offer in their casinos. But he said that still doesn’t get around the 2002 measure, which he said is subject to the Voter Protection Act. “HB 2772 not only fails to further the purpose of Proposition 202 .., it is directly repugnant to and inconsistent with the intent of Proposition 202,’’ Ochoa said. He also claims the law is unconstitutional discrimination against Native American tribes. He said the gaming rules are more favorable to the sports franchises than they are to the tribes. There was no comment from Gov. Doug Ducey, the defendant in the lawsuit who negotiated what he called the “modernized gaming compacts’’ with the tribes that went along with the deal. But the lawsuit drew an angry reaction from Sen. T.J. Shope, R-Coolidge, who sponsored one of the versions of the law. He pointed out that the lawsuit was filed
not when the measure was signed by Ducey on April 15 but now, after applications have been accepted to operate the new sports gaming operations and with actual wagering supposed to start on Sept. 9. That first legal test will on Labor Day as Maricopa County Superior Court Judge James Smith considers Ochoa’s request to put an immediate halt to any new gaming until the legal issues are resolved. In 2002, a coalition of tribes crafted an initiative to give them the exclusive right to operate casino-style games in exchange for giving the state a share of the profits. By definition, that limited such gaming to reservations. The plan approved by the Legislature earlier this year allows not only wagering at sports facilities like the Cardinals stadium on all professional and college games, but also the ability for the private gaming companies with whom the teams have to associate to offer online wagering. The deal is set up so the state gets a share of gaming revenues, a figure that could exceed $100 million a year.
In exchange, the state agreed to ink new gaming deals with tribes, giving them similar rights to wager on sports. But they also get to install more of the slot machines and poker tables they now have as well as the ability to offer things like craps, roulette and baccarat. Ochoa, on behalf of the YavapaiPrescott Tribe, says the deal is illegal, not only because of the 2002 initiative but because it also is unfair. It starts with the fact that there are only 20 sports gaming licenses being award. Half, he noted, go to existing sports franchises. And given there are more licenses than franchises, that means every franchise that wants one gets one. But with at least 21 tribes in the state, Ochoa said, that gives any one of them less than a 50 percent chance of landing one of the lucrative franchises. And there is no chance of the YavapaiPrescott Tribe getting one as the deal says only those tribes that agreed to the new gaming compacts get a shot at it. . ■
Tribe sues to halt sports betting in its tracks
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ne of the state’s Native American tribes is suing to bring a halt to offreservation wagering on sports just weeks before it is scheduled to begin. The lawsuit, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court by the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe, contends that state lawmakers have no right to permit sports franchises to start taking wagers on professional and collegiate games. Attorney Luis Ochoa said that’s because Arizonans went to the polls in 2002 and voted to confine certain kinds of gaming to reservations. Ochoa noted that another measure on the ballot that same year to permit offreservation gaming was defeated, with 80 percent of the votes cast against it. Ochoa does not dispute that other tribes state have signed agreements with the state to permit such off-reservation gaming. In exchange, these tribes got the
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Arizona’s most thankless job: school board member BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Columnist
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ost of us like to believe we’re decent people. We give a few bucks to charity, we volunteer, maybe even help a friend move. But be real: There’s being a decent human and then there’s going above and beyond. Like by serving on your local school board. If there’s a volunteer role existent in Arizona today that I cannot wrap my head around, it’s that one. And the past year of headlines – full of protests, threats and extreme surliness – have only deepened my confusion. Our state has about 240 school boards and 1,200 board members. Each of them deserves a medal. Or our prayers. Because anyone who does that job for $0 a year deserves something in return. School board members begin their ca-
reers by running for election. You speak at public forums, knock on doors, stand in front of Safeway, anywhere you can meet a few voters, most of whom pay attention for 14 seconds before pushing past you like you’re a human turnstile. Then, say you win. That earns you the privilege of going to 25 or 30 weeknight meetings annually, many of which last for hours and involve a “call to the public.” If you’ve never been to a school board or municipal council meeting, lucky you. I’ve attended many, and trust me: Most members of the public who answer this call do so because no sane human being has ever listened to them for three minutes straight without dialing 911. It’s like open mike at an insane asylum, minus the lithium. And that was before COVID, before antimask protests, and before machinations over Critical Race Theory. Nowadays, your average school board meeting frequently resembles Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. Minus the gun�ire – so far. Down south near Tucson, the April 27
meeting of the Vail governing board required sheriff’s deputies before the meeting even started. About 150 anti-maskers – some armed – stormed the meeting, pushing past school district employees, screaming and berating board members and refusing to wear masks, per Pima County’s mandate. “There was a handful of people – I don’t know exactly how many – who either don’t have kids in the school district, don’t live in the school district, don’t live in the county, who came with the express purpose of whipping up that group,” Supt. John Carruth told the Arizona Education News Service. Talk about needing more hobbies. The Litch�ield Elementary School District has degenerated into chaos over the passage of an “equity statement” last December. Since then, the Arizona Attorney General’s Of�ice has been involved and protests have become a regular feature of board meetings. Last week, Dr. Tara Armstead, the school board’s only Black member, resigned and scorched the 12,000-student district on
her way out the door. “I will not say thank you for the time that I served here,” said Armstead, “or express any gratitude or appreciation because, for the �ive months I have been here, I have been treated like I’m not an expert in the �ield and have no idea what I’m talking about.” The Scottsdale Uni�ied School District Governing Board has been equally protest-laden and chaotic. Last week, Board President Jann-Michael Greenburg lost his temper with a mom who falsely accused a district employee of distributing a Neo Nazi comic book. Greenburg stage whispered “Jesus (expletive) Christ” into a hot microphone. He later publicly apologized. “I’m very sorry about that,” Greenburg explained. “I have to admit it was done out of frustration in the moment.” The wonder is that more school board members don’t drop f-bombs. Or outright quit. Because there’s surely no more thankless job in this state. ■
oritize Arizonans’ needs above the White House’s demands by rejecting amnesty. Congressional leaders are hoping to use the upcoming budget reconciliation bill to offer work permits and citizenship to nearly all illegal immigrants currently in this country, allowing them to compete against Americans for jobs. The bill would also presumably enable those folks to sponsor their relatives living abroad for additional green cards, rewarding people who broke our laws and cut the line in front of legal immigrants. The prospect of amnesty – and all the rewards that come with it – is already enticing people to rush the border. The number of family members crossing the border illegally soared by 168 percent the �irst month after President Biden assumed of�ice, according to the Pew Research Center. And the numbers have climbed every month since then. July
saw roughly 212,000 illegal crossings, the most in over two decades. No one denies the humanity of people seeking a better life in the United States. But our pandemic-ravaged economy can’t afford porous borders. As of midAugust, Arizona was recording well over 2,000 new Covid-19 cases each day – the highest totals since February. The spike in cases and hospitalizations threatens not just Arizonans’ lives, but also their livelihoods. One index that measures consumer con�idence plummeted to a decade-low in early August, a worrying sign that people are frightened to travel and shop. That inevitably means fewer sales for restaurants and small businesses and more layoffs. Sympathy doesn’t pay taxes or put food on the table for struggling Arizona families. Our overall state unemployment rate in June, the latest month for which data is
available, was 6.8 percent, two full percentage points higher than it was pre-pandemic. Almost 245,000 Arizonans were still unemployed – an increase of 73,000 over January 2020, before Covid-19 ravaged our nation. If Congress rams through amnesty on a party-line vote, it’ll attract additional waves of job-seeking migrants – and result in lower wages, fewer job opportunities, and more coronavirus transmissions for too many Arizonans. As Senator Sinema recently said, “the only way to stop the spread of the coronavirus and save Arizona jobs is through bipartisan cooperation.” Arizona’s border towns and cities are buckling under the strain of this border surge. Arizonans can only hope that Senators Sinema and Kelly recognize that amnesty would further in�lame the crisis. Lisa Askey owns a marketing company based in Chandler.
Mass amnesty is lousy politics, bad economics BY LISA ASKEY Arizonan Guest Writer
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en. Mark Kelly recently chastised President Biden for failing to address the ongoing border crisis. Waves of migrants keep arriving in our state. That’s “a major problem that shouldn’t fall on the shoulders of Arizona communities,” our junior senator told reporters. “We’ve got to address this and it can’t be on Arizona taxpayers and Arizona towns that are really struggling right now. It’s a federal government problem.” He’s right, of course. But the solution proposed by President Biden and many Democrats in Congress – a mass amnesty for up to 10 million undocumented immigrants – would make the problem even worse. It’s up to Sen. Kelly and his colleague Kyrsten Sinema, another moderate with a reputation for bucking her party, to pri-
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Chandler booster clubs hope for ‘normal’ season BY DREW SCHOTT Arizonan Contributor
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he roles of football booster clubs are numerous – and COVID-19 has made many of them more challenging. Boosters help buy equipment and uniforms, provide transportation and food for camps and seven-on-seven tournaments and plan banquets, senior nights and homecoming events. They also facilitate the game day experience, with roles including the coordination of banners and signs and running the concession stand. Last season, everything was different. And with the 2021 football season in high gear, boosters are hoping to avoid a repeat. “There were reduced numbers,” said Tressa Hanger, president of the Chandler High School boosters. “We had to make sure that parents bought tickets on the app. It was more restricted when we went to away games. We could only have, like, two tickets per player.” At Hamilton High, the booster club could only let in fans with a previously purchased ticket. Basha’s Gridiron Club got players’ families on lists to enter the stadium in light of capacity restrictions. The pandemic forced Chandler High club to raise money in a different way, Fewer
Left: Tressa Hanger, the president of the Chandler football booster club, said the program took a hit in revenue last season due to COVID-19, funds that are used to provide meals for all levels of the program. (Courtesy Corey Cross Photography) Right: Sam Gerardi, the President of the Hamilton High School Gridirion Booster Club, said money the club typically makes from concession sales is split with the band. However, reduced fan attendance in 2020 made it difficult for both clubs to see any impactful revenue. (Courtesy Sam Gerardi) for the varsity, junior varsity and freshman teams. “Whatever we bring in goes right out,” Hanger said. “Everything that we raise goes out and is spent that year. There’s all kinds of stuff to cover.” The booster club at Chandler has
I’d love to see the sponsors getting their money’s “worth from us and I’d like to see the team giving everybody their show that they deserve. ”
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concessions were sold because fewer fans could attend games. Ditto apparel. The Chandler High boosters decided on a discount card fundraiser that enabled parents to sell cards for places like Dairy Queen and local car washes as a way to help benefit the Wolves. The initiatives included funding pregame meals
helped with matters ranging from food for its players to helping the development of the team room and the weight room. Across the Valley, a key source of funding for initiatives are the concession stands at games. Last year, clubs had to account for the lack of revenue from this source.
The normal concessions of water, ice cream, pretzels, candies were limited due to the fluctuating and reduced number of fans at each game. At Hamilton, concession revenue is sent to the band, which suffered financially last year, according to Sam Gerardi, the president of the Hamilton High Gridiron Booster Club. Chandler, which splits the concession revenue with the band, also saw reduced sales. “We did it on a much smaller scale,” Wheaton said. “We plan to be up and running, normal, this year, assuming we don’t get any cutbacks.” The pandemic also created difficulties for businesses that team up with booster clubs as sponsors. Many suffered their own economic setbacks as a result of shutdowns and some could not provide the level of support they had in the past. While the Gridiron Booster Club could not hold its normal in-person gatherings, the community was able to be con-
nected digitally through live streams. Now, booster clubs are hoping to run at full operation. Not all food will be pre-packaged; apparel will be sold; the student section will be flowing with school spirit. Friday night high school football, they hope, will be back to normal. For Hamilton, which made the Open Division Championship, hopes are high for a great season. Adding to success on the gridiron, Gerardi hopes, is a normal gameday that allows the club to operate at its full function. “I’d love to see the sponsors getting their money’s worth from us and I’d like to see the team giving everybody their show that they deserve,” he said. “We have high expectations for them getting to state, so all in all, as a booster goes, we’re really looking for as close to normal as possible with as many fans having the opportunity to watch a really high-end game.”
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Chandler artist conveys immigrant experience BY SRIANTHI PERERA Arizonan Contributor
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hen Shachi Kale first came to Arizona in 2001, she felt like the fairytale character Rapunzel trapped in an ivory tower. The artist didn’t know a soul in Chandler, except her husband, who went to work. The career she had left behind in Mumbai, India, as an advertising and design executive seemed to fade. Kale started doing what she did best – creating art. She also followed a few classes and met a few movers and shakers in the local arts and education arena. “I had to create a new life for myself altogether from scratch,” she recalled. This new life included producing a series of paintings where she drew modernized imagery from fairy tales and depicted herself as its characters. They are now on display in a show entitled “Between Two Worlds: Storytelling and Artwork by Shachi Kale” running through September at The Gallery at Chandler Center for the Arts, curated by Vision Gallery. Kale is also preparing for another show in November, sharing a gallery space at Mesa Community College with abstract fine arts painter, Swapna Das. In “Between Two Worlds,” Rapunzel lets out her long hair from a tall adobe building amid colorful desert plants, Alice in Wonderland falls down a citylandscaped rabbit hole, a post-marriage Cinderella looks downcast with a vacuum cleaner, Gretel snacks on supermarket junk food, unknowingly preparing to be fed to the witch, and so on. The experience is similar to most new immigrants, although many may not express it as cleverly as Kale did. Chandler exhibits curator, Jillian Nakornthap said the work was selected because “it was incredibly relatable to many transplants that call Chandler home.” “Whether you’re from Minneapolis or
Left: Chandler artist Shachi Kale loves experimenting and building on her unique style. Right: Chandler artist Shachi Kale created a series of paintings where she drew modernized imagery from fairy tales and symbolized herself as its characters. (Courtesy of Shachi Kale)
Mumbai, the culture and climate here is like nothing else, so having an exhibition that discussed the ups and downs of the transition was a no-brainer,” she said. “Further, many people on the spousal visa, could relate and it may even help for them to know that what they are experiencing is not isolated. They can find others that can help them through this journey, much like Shachi did,” she added. Now with two sons and a thriving career as a freelance graphic designer, artist and book illustrator, Kale has found contentment anew. The last painting in the show shows her outfitted to soar with the wings of a Phoenix: “the only way out of a fairytale is to step out of the tower, make it through the woods, face the dragon, get reduced to cinders and then build herself up all the way again, like a Phoenix,” she wrote. In 2019, Kale exhibited these works in Scottsdale. “It is very therapeutic and it’s my pas-
sion; the story had been percolating in me for so many years but I think it was only in hindsight that I was able to express it,” she said. “It took me 18 years to see the story from a distance.” In her show, several of the works are portraits of individuals who helped her in her journey. “My favorite part of the exhibit is the tribute to the people who made it possible—you know, my fairy godmothers,” she said. “I finally got an opportunity to say thank you in this way to the people who really made big changes in my life.” Kale’s style harkens to Indian and Persian miniature folk and tribal art; flat and lacking in perspective but enhanced by bold color and details and most often expressing a story. “I gravitate towards expressing myself somewhat in that storyboard kind of format with patterns, details and borders,” she said. One of her current favorite subjects is animals from the Southwest desert. Her
whimsical, stylized works show birds, tortoises, butterflies, rattlesnakes, javelinas and other creatures in their natural environment. Before she learned about them, her first concept of the desert, however, was that it’s “super dull.” “Back in India, we have different foliage and animal life, so it’s been interesting to explore locally what we see here and play with it and enjoy the color palettes,” she said. “Over the last few years, I found that I’m really beginning to appreciate the Southwest desert landscape a whole lot more,” she added. “When you live here and start loving the place, you notice how rich and vibrant it is and there’s such a variety of shapes and colors and patterns, it really draws me in.” The Gallery at CCA is curated by Vision Gallery as part of the Cultural Development Division of the City of Chandler. Along with Vision Gallery, it is the only space of its kind in the Chandler area to feature a variety of media from local and regional artists, inspiring the community to discover art in a myriad of forms. Both galleries are non-profit art galleries managed by the Chandler Cultural Foundation. While buoyed by the opportunity to promote her work in Chandler, Kale is looking forward to her new show in Mesa later in the year which will be themed on self-conversations. “All these constant ruminations and conversations and moods that have gone on, especially in the last few years in lockdown, and the isolation” calls for explorational art, she said. The mixed media work will tend to be more abstract than this body of work. Between Two Worlds: Storytelling and Artwork by Shachi Kale is on show through Sept. 25 at The Gallery at CCA, 250 N. Arizona Ave. Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday, admission is free. Details: chandlercenter.org/gallery-cca and shachikale.com.
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wo Chandler artists’ works have been accepted in a new gallery in Cave Creek. Both ceramic artist Sandra Ashbaugh and fiber artist Laurie Fagen have their work in The Finer Arts Gallery, 6137 E. Cave Creek Road. Fagen, a former journalist who is also an author of several mystery novels, also is on Facebook with a talk with fellow writer Jessica Williams about their connection with Hawaii. “My mother, Piilani, was born and raised on Maui, and I have been visiting the islands for decades,” Fagen said. “Jessica was born and raised on Oahu, so it’s one of many things we have in common. In the islands, ‘talk story’ means to shoot the breeze.” The pair discuss how they write, what they write about, and about their shared interest in inspiring others – especially women – to pursue their dreams and interests. They met through a communications organization for women, both have a son, and have been each other’s sounding boards and cheerleaders for years.
Williams has written a hardcover cookbook called “Turkey Savvy,” a selfhelp guide for making a turkey dinner from scratch. “As an Asian-American growing up in Hawaii, we always had things like rice or sushi or other local dishes,” Williams explains. “But when I married this midwestern guy from Michigan, I had to learn how to cook everything. Then when my son said, ‘Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday,’ I realized it’s not just about the food, but also the sense of ‘ohana, which means family in Hawaiian.” The two writers will also team up for a book talk on Kauai in December, where Fagen owns property. In addition, Fagen, of Fox Crossing, will be guest speaker for Scottsdale Society of Women Writers at 6 p.m. Nov. 17 via an online video chat. Fagen will release “Bleeder,” book #3 in her “Behind the Mic Mysteries” this fall. Fagen and her late husband Geoff Hancock published the SanTan Sun News for 13 years until his death in 2013. The artist-owned gallery exhibits the work of 36 fine artists in mediums in-
cluding jewelry, glass, fiber sculpture, ceramics, bronze, gourds, textile, photographers, metal sculpture, wood live edge, graphite, acrylic, pastel and oil. “We are thrilled to be able to represent some of Arizona’s most accomplished contemporary artists in our gallery,” said Linda Lindus, an acrylic painter and one of the gallery managers. “The art transcends the rustic past with today’s contemporary fine art, yet still pays tribute to its history by including art with a Western flair.” People can meet the Chandler artists and others at the grand opening from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 18. Light refreshments will be served and the event is free and open to the public. The gallery will close at 4 p.m. that day for a private party. Regular hours will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday and by appointment. Featured artists in September include live edge burl woodworker Rick Griggs; graphite artist Jack Schilder; and jewelry artist Marlene Sabatina. The Finer Arts Gallery is on the picturesque road winding through Cave
Creek and Carefree, in the rustic building known as the Cave Creek Station. It’s still shaded by a grand, 150-year-old Tamarisk tree, fondly-remembered by residents as the “Treehouse,” Fagen said. Other artists who have been accepted into the gallery include: Kathy Nelson, Merrily Kulmer, Joanne Gallery, Julie Gilbert, Sarah Curley, Patrick O Grady, Jan Stiles, Beverly Carlson-Bradshaw, Linda Paul-Sontag, Linda Lindus, Jack Schilder, Dennis Despois, Robin Ray, Bill Goren, Paulette Galop, Karen Friend, Joanie Wolter, Pat Isaacson, Carol Tenwald, Shannon Taggert, Marlene Sabatina, Casey Cheuvront, Jan Griggs, Dick Mueller, Nancy Breiman, Cynthia Eral, Kirby Plessas, Karen Chatfield; Also, Sandra Hamilton, Robert Elenbaas, Anne Von Pentz, Karen Johnson, Rick Griggs and Beth Benowich. For gallery details: TheFinerArtsGallery.com or 480-488-2923. For additional information and how to purchase Fagen’s book and other published works: ReadLaurieFagen.com. For Williams’ cookbook, visit: SavvyFriendsPress.com.
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On August 14th, 2021 in Mesa, AZ after a recurring battle with cancer, Jane passed away peacefully with her children at her side. Hers was a life well lived and she will be profoundly missed by all who knew and loved her. Jane was born to Amos and Lelah Harvey during the Great Depression on June 19th, 1933 in the infirmary at the correctional facility in Chillicothe, OH where her father was employed as a guard. She grew up in Wilmington, IL and would become the valedictorian of her senior class in 1951. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy in 1956. She was a proud “Sooner” and remained connected with the OU Alumni Association for the past 65 years. She was a licensed practicing pharmacist in the United States and Canada. This required her to attend the University of Alberta and pass the Canadian Board of Pharmacy equivalency exam. She proudly accomplished this as a 45 year old student and a single mother of four children. Our mom loved to smile and laugh and had an energy level that belied her years. She was a dedicated and supportive mother who was always our biggest fan. She continued to marvel us with her willingness to try new things. She had a passion for travel in and around her beloved USA and abroad. She was an adventure seeker who did not hesitate to strike out on her own and form new friendships wherever she went. She visited numerous countries around the world and had a ball whether it be riding elephants and camels, holding giant pythons, surfing Peruvian sand dunes, climbing pyramids, zip-lining rain forests or feeding great white sharks. Her popular Christmas photo cards always highlighted her favorite adventure.
Jane had a healthy and active lifestyle in sunny Arizona. She was a regular in the ladies golf group and an energetic member of the Red Mountain Hiking Club. She especially enjoyed her Jazzercise classes and the company of her dear “Jazz” friends. It was those wonderful local friendships and her life long friends in Canada and the United States that buoyed her in mind and spirit through the decades and especially during her health issues over the last few years. Jane is survived by her three children, Doug, Keith and Kim and many grand children, great grand children, cousins, nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her parents Lelah and Amos, her brother Calvin and her son Stan. Our family expresses gratitude to the Oncology team at MD Anderson and Banner Gateway as well as to the entire staff at Hospice of the Valley Friendship Village. Their heartfelt care and compassion for our mother during the final days of her journey meant so much to us all. Our mom had a deep and enduring love of family, friends and country. She was a strong and independent woman with an indomitable spirit who also possessed an optimistic and enthusiastic outlook to living her best life. This is how we will remember her and by the words of her chosen poem: Afterglow I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, Of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve, to dry before the sun Of happy memories that I leave when life is done.
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4/25/1936 – 8/2/21 Bea McGregor, age 85, of Mesa, Arizona, passed away peacefully in the home of her Daughter, Donna Lanberg. She was born on April 25th, 1936 to Wilton & Josie Dornan of Checotah, Oklahoma. She was one of six children; brother Lee and sisters Lucille, Bonnie, Annie, and Lillian. She was preceded in death by two husbands, Albert Junior Carter & Bruce Spencer McGregor Sr. She also had a wonderful life partner in Charles Pendergast. Bea & Albert had four children, Donna, Kenneth, Michael, and Susan. She and Bruce Sr had one child, Bruce Spencer McGregor Jr. She is survived by too many to name, nieces, nephews, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Bea was a very special person. She worked in nursing and as a caregiver for most of her adult life. It was a highlight in her career in 1982, when she became an LPN. She worked at Mesa Lutheran Hospital for 11 years. She enjoyed quilting, sewing, knitting and cross stitching as hobbies. She was a very positive person. She will be dearly missed by those who were lucky to know her. Rest in peace, Mom. We love you.
Patricia Bell Patricia Bell died peacefully at her home in Mesa on Sunday night surrounded by her children and grandchild. She is survived by her three children Michael, David, and Brandy, grandchild Isaak, sister Marcia, two nieces Sarah and Mallory, and nephew Ezra. A private service is being held for the family.
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Dane M Whaley, 38, of Mesa, AZ, passed away on August 20, 2021. He was the son of Wayne and Janice Evans Whaley of Gilbert, AZ. Dane is preceded in death by his grandparents Cummins and Anna Evans and John and Irene Whaley. In addition to his parents, Dane is survived by his devoted brother, Sean Whaley of Salt Lake City, UT, godparents Vetra Evans and Ross and Angela Burton, numerous aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, and coworkers at Boeing. He seldom shied away from a challenge and sometimes ended up in over his head. As a youth, Dane’s passions were rollerblading, the beach, video games, music, art, skiing, pizza, Disney, and being with his cousins and buddies. In adulthood, Dane became a sports car enthusiast and enjoyed an occasional poker game with family and friends. Dane attended Caesar Rodney High School (DE) and Drexel University (PA). He was employed as an analyst for The Boeing Company. A memorial service honoring Dane Whaley will be held at a later date. Memorial donations may be made to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America at wish.org/donate.
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Pavers • Concrete • Water Features • Sprinkler Repair
PPebbleOcracking, O L Plaster R Epeeling, P ARebar IR
ROC# 256752 NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR
• BASE BOARDS • DRYWALL • ELECTRICAL • PAINTING • PLUMBING • BATHROOMS • WOOD FLOORING • FRAMING WALLS • FREE ESTIMATES • GRANITE FABRICATION & INSTALLATION • CARPET INSTALLATION • LANDSCAPING
Painting
Landscape/Maintenance
Insured/Bonded Free Estimates
ALL Pro
T R E E
David Hernandez (602) 802 3600
daveshomerepair@yahoo.com • Se Habla Español
General Contracting, Inc.
S E R V I C E
L L C
Prepare for Monsoon Season! LANDSCAPING, TREES & MAINTENANCE
One Call, We Do It All! 602-339-4766
Tree Trimming • Tree Removal Stump Grinding Storm Damage • Bushes/Shrubs Yard Clean-up Commercial and Residential
Owner Does All Work, All Honey-Do Lists
PMB 435 • 2733 N. Power Rd. • Suite 102 • Mesa dennis@allprotrees.com
Licensed • Bonded • Insured • ROC118198
All Remodeling, Additions, Kitchen, Bath, Patio Covers, Garage, Sheds, Windows, Doors, Drywall & Roofing Repairs, Painting, All Plumbing, Electrical, Concrete, Block, Stucco, Stack Stone, All Flooring, Wood, Tile, Carpet, Welding, Gates, Fences, All Repairs.
480-354-5802
Free Estimates with Pride & Prompt Service!
Your Ad can go ONLINE ANY Day! Call to place your ad online!! Classifieds 480-898-6465
Irrigation
Painting
Voted #1 Paint Interior & Exterior • Drywall Repair Light Carpentry • Power Washing • Textures Matched Popcorn Removal • Pool Deck Coatings Garage Floor Coatings • Color Consulting
10% OFF
We Beat Competitors Prices & Quality Free Estimates! Home of the 10-Year Warranty!
480-688-4770
www.eastvalleypainters.com Family Owned & Operated Bonded/Insured • ROC#153131
Now Accepting all major credit cards
Plumbing
PLUMBERS CHARGE TOO MUCH! FREE Service Calls + FREE Estimates Water Heaters Installed - $999 Unclog Drains - $49
10% OFF
• Sprinkler/Drip Repairs • New Installs Poly/PVC • Same Day Service
NTY
HOME IMPROVEMENT & PAINTING Interior/Exterior Painting 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE
5-YEAR WARRA
Dunn Edwards Quality Paint Small Stucco/Drywall Repairs
azirrigation.com
Free Estimates • Senior Discounts
480.654.5600 Cutting Edge LLC • ROC 281671
We Are State Licensed and Reliable!
480-338-4011
ROC#309706
All Water Purification Systems Voted #1 Plumber 3 Years In A Row OVER 1,000 5-STAR REVIEWS
Bonded/Insured • ROC #223709
480-405-7099
showing, Pool Light out? I CAN HELP!
FALL SPECIAL! $500 OFF COMPLETE REMODEL! 25 Years Experience • Dependable & Reliable
Call Juan at
480-720-3840 Not a licensed contractor.
Roofing
PHILLIPS
ROOFING LLC COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL
Family Owned and Operated 43 Years Experience in Arizona
623-873-1626 Free Estimates Monday through Saturday Licensed 2006 ROC 223367 Bonded Insured
PhillipsRoofing.org PhillipsRoofing@cox.net
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Roofing
Roofing
Serving All Types Clean, Prompt, Friendly and Professional Service of Roofing: • • • •
FREE ESTIMATES
Tiles & Shingles sunlandroofingllc@gmail.com Installation Repair Re-Roofing
Tiles, shingles, flat, repairs & new work Free Estimates • Ahwatukee Resident Over 30 yrs. Experience
602-471-2346
It Only Takes Seconds to Drown.
480-706-1453
Always watch your child around water.
Licensed/Bonded/Insured • ROC #236099
Window Cleaning
Professional service since 1995
Window Cleaning $120 - One Story $160 - Two Story
Includes in & out up to 30 Panes
MonsoonRoofingInc.com
Sun Screens Cleaned $3 each
Licensed – Bonded – Insured – ROC187561
Attention to detail and tidy in your home.
(480) 584-1643
Bonded & Insured
LLC
Add a Background Color to Your Ad! Classifieds 480-898-6465
SCRAMBLER: “F” Foods
Roofing
aOver 30 Years of Experience
aFamily Operated by 3 Generations of Roofers! Premier Tile, Shingle & Foam Roofer!
Spencer 4 HIRE ROOFING Valley Wide Service
480-446-7663 FREE Estimates • Credit Cards OK www.spencer4hireroofing.com ROC#244850 | Insured | Bonded
Unscramble the letters to find food that starts with “F”. CLUES 1. Licorice flavor herb 2. Dr. Hannibal Lecter loves these... 3. Usually consumed as a dried fruit, it’s leaves frequently adorn paintings and statues.
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4. A form of milled wheat used to make porridge, puddings and cereals.
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5. Named for a German city, they are hot-dog shaped sausages.
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6. Tex-Mex favorite you put jstfaia together yourself from thin strips of grilled meat, green and red peppers, onions and served with warm tortillas, sour cream and guacamole. CB
1. fennel, 2. fava beans, 3. figs, 4. farina, 5. frankfurter, 6. fajitas
10% Discount for Ahwatukee Residents 100% NO Leak Guarantee Re-Roof & Roofing Repairs Tile, Shingles & Flat Roof
APPEARANCE
COUNTS
480-699-2754 • info@monsoonroofinginc.com
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palmabrisa.com
NOW SELLING
A new gated resort community is now selling in the Ahwatukee Foothills with a dramatically different style. It feels exclusive, but also lively and exciting — and it's called Palma Brisa. • Modern resort-style gated community with stately palms
• Diverse architecture: Modern Bungalow, Urban Farmhouse, Italian Cottage, Andalusian, Modern Craftsman, French Country, and Spanish Mission • Four amenity areas connected by expansive lawns
• Homes from 1,700 sq. ft. to 4,000 sq. ft. from the low $600’s
ERIC WILLIAMS
480-641-1800
TERRY LENTS
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