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Gene Taylor, a 15-year member of Mountain Park Community Church and scores of other congregants moved the cross from their old home on Pecos Road and 24th Street to their new church at 48th and Frye Road. Taylor had a dream that the cross should be moved by the people to the new location, instead of having it delivered by a trailer. The Sunday morning move followed an all-night prayer vigil at the cross’ old location. For a photo essay on the move, see pages 16-17.
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Big water bills fuel meter mystery in Ahwatukee BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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“An engineer said that with a million gallons, the water in the park would be 23 feet deep,” said Steve Manolis, the HOA board’s vice president who lives less than 30 yards from one of the pocket parks. With the diameter of the pipe that waters the park, Manolis added, the engineer estimated “it would take 22 gallons a minute for 24 hours a day for 30 days” for that much water to be used. Water Services suggested someone might be stealing the water, but Manolis countered that 100 18-wheeler tanker trucks would have had to park on a small side street to carry away a million gallons. Manolis and his wife, Susan, were among the HOA representatives who went to City Hall expecting a meeting with ranking Water Services officials to discuss the meter reading. They got another surprise. “We wound up meeting at the downtown
payment center, not in private, but in front of other consumers,” Susan Manolis said. “The courtesy, or lack of, was uncomfortable as it was not in a private office; rather, we had to gather around chairs in the lobby of the payment center.” And when they suggested to a supervisor that the city might want to show more concern about the loss of so much of a “limited resource commodity,” Manolis said, “she stated that it wasn’t the city’s concern and gave us no direction as to what to do, other than pay the bill.” Since she posted the HOA’s experience on Facebook, other customers have come forward. The HOA for an office building on Chandler Boulevard near East Marketplace was billed for around $12,000 for July use totaling 2 million gallons of water. See
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13-year-old boy and an adult woman were injured last week when they were struck by hit-run drivers while riding bicycles in separate hit-run accidents in Ahwatukee. The more serious accident involved Clayton “CJ” Biehl, who was hospitalized after he was struck by a car around 7:30 p.m. Sept. 10 at the intersection of Ray Road and Mountain Parkway while in the crosswalk on his bike. Phoenix police said the motorist ran a red light, hit the boy and took off. Friends and family who posted Clayton’s photo in his hospital bed on GoFundMe.com said the driver “left him for dead in the middle of a busy road.” “Thanks to the kindness of strangers who pulled over to help, this 13-year-old boy is alive,” they said on GoFundMe. com. “He sustained serious injuries and faces long recovery.” Police are looking for a silver 2007 to 2017 Nissan Sentra with extensive damage to the windshield, front end and side mirror. The driver is believed to be the same motorist who was spotted going up on the sidewalk and striking some shrubs near a Circle K on 32nd Street and Chandler Boulevard a short time after the boy was struck. “The front bumper has damage across
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victims of Hurricane Irma. It’s an unconventional life that many people might not enjoy, but it has helped Bower learn how to deal with people under stress and given her a glimpse of her life’s calling. “I’ve always loved service. I wanted to do something where I was giving back and serving the community,’’ Bower said. Bower said her first week in Houston was spent at the George Brown Convention Center, where 8,000 desperate people were staying in a makeshift shelter. Some were homeless people who had lost their few belongings, while others
the entire bumper, hanging down as he jumped the curb and went down the landscaping,” police said, adding: “The windshield has severe damage; stock alloy wheels; no tint on the windows; cloth interior.” Sarah Biehl, the boy’s mother, told a local TV news station: “He remembers people hovering over him. He remembers seeing the car, because he asked if it was white or silver.” A reward is being offered for information leading to the driver’s arrest and anyone with information is asked to contact Phoenix Police. In a television interview, the boy’s grandmother said the Altadena Middle School student was lucky to not have been more seriously injured. “It is a miracle that he didn’t have anything broken or fractured,” said Sharon Biehl. “We’re very thankful he was conscious enough to let them know he was a type 1 diabetic because that was a major concern, as well.” Friends have so far collected $1,700 of a $5,000 goal on GoFundMe.com. “We need to come together as a community and help get this individual of the streets and brought to justice. Please help us reach our goal. No amount is too small,” friends said on the site. The boy was reported to be recuperating at home. A small group of local bakers will be hold a bake sale and cake auction to
help Clayton’s family pay medical bills 5-8 p.m. Sept 30 at Zzeeks Pizza on Warner Road at 48th Street. Meanwhile, an Ahwatukee woman reported on Facebook that her daughter suffered bruises when a hit-and-run driver struck her on a bike as she was going to work around 3:45 a.m. Sept. 13 on Mountain Parkway Ranch Circle. Anne-Marie Hawk said a black four-
door sedan “took her out on her bicycle. “Now as her mother...I find you repulsive,” she wrote to the unknown driver on Facebook. “I could throttle your neck with my bare hands and wouldn’t have one ounce of guilt! Where is your humanity? Why didn’t you stop?!? I hope the police find you!” The woman did not require hospitalization.
had been evacuated during the storm and had no idea whether their home had been destroyed. “It was my personal mission to get them as much assistance as possible,’’ Bower said. “I felt very honored to sit across from them. I would say yesterday was my most eye-opening day.’’ Bower’s next challenge was walking door-to-door through a waterlogged Houston neighborhood where she saw anywhere from five feet of flooding in homes to about 14 feet of flooding, with the flood waters leaving behind a water mark above the doors. She said people’s belongings, such cherished personal mementos as family photographs, were strewn in piles of debris in the front yards. But instead of feeling sorry for
themselves, residents seemed upbeat, apparently realizing that at least they were alive, Bower said. “It was really beautiful. They would say, ‘Other people had it worse,’’ she said. “They were unbelievably positive and in high spirits. They were happy to see us.’’ Bower said she has been moved by the generosity of people in the wake of the storm. She saw people bringing clothes, food and water to others they did not know. The FEMA Corps team members are surveying the damage, signing victims up for disaster assistance and answering questions, such as how long it might take for a FEMA inspector to arrive. Although Bower still does not know
exactly what she wants to do the rest of her life, she knows that it must include helping others. “I definitely think I have learned a lot. I have seen a great transformation in myself,’’ Bower said. “I definitely think the skills I have learned will help me in whatever I do in the future.’’ “I am definitely a people person,’’ she said. “I need to work with people and touch their lives in some way.’’ Neil Bower of Ahwatukee said he is very proud of his daughter and that the government service job has helped her mature into adulthood. “I don’t think she has changed, but she has grown,’’ Neil Bower said. “She’s doing what she wanted to do. My wife Jeanne and I are very proud of her. She is helping other people.’’
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Chandler man faces charges and further investigation as the result of his arrest Aug. 29 for allegedly downloading images and videos of sexually exploited juveniles as young as 5 and 8 years old. Patrick McFarlin, 47, of the 1900 block of E. Tyson Place, was arrested at a Wells Fargo Bank branch where he worked as a mortgage underwriter. At the time of his arrest, McFarlin was allegedly trying perform a factory reset of his cell phone, apparently to get rid of additional pornographic images of youngsters stored on the device. Besides his arrest on 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, McFarlin also faces prosecution in California for allegedly molesting three children. Chandler Police also said they believe there are more victims and urged anyone who knows about them to call 480-782-4108. Although police did not give
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ert Vista High School for eight years before she became assistant superintendent three years ago. Prior to Desert Vista, she was principal of Tempe High School. The mother of four children, she started at Tempe as a teacher 32 years ago. The vote came after four people addressed the board, with three supporting Mendivil, including a former board member. Despite the divided vote, all five board members praised both candidates’ qualifications. “I didn’t know how I was going to vote,” said board member Brandon Schmoll. “They were both excellent candidates and we are lucky to have them in our district.” McClenahan called Battle “an excellent representative of our district” and cited her long history with Tempe Union as one of the primary reasons she preferred her. “The skills were tipped ever so slightly in that direction,” she said. But board member Sandra Lowe took the exact opposite tack in announcing her support for Mendivil, stating that his experience in three different school and 11 years in district administrative positions gave him the edge. She also called Mendivil “a strong consensus builder” and said he would assemble a strong team to lead the district. Board member Michelle Lowe echoed that sentiment, saying Mendivil “has a little more experience” and noted he is “the go-to person for our principals.” Hodge sided with McClenahan on the experience issue. “Everything she does she bases on the kids, all of them,” Hodge said. “She’s had every position in this district. When you put that much passion into Tempe See
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Ahwatukee Chamber hosts LD 18 delegation at public roundtable AFN News Staff
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hwatukee residents can bring their questions about education funding, taxes or any other state issue and grill their three delegates to the state Legislature next week. The Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce Public Policy Committee has scheduled a roundtable for the three people who represent Legislative District 18 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, at the Ahwatukee Event Center, 4700 E. Warner Road It will feature Republican state Rep. Jill Norgaard and Democratic state Sen. Sean Bowie, both Ahwatukee residents, and Democratic state Rep. Mitzi Epstein, who lives in Tempe. “Living in Ahwatukee, we are fortunate enough to be represented by three very accessible state legislators who welcome the opportunity to interact with their constituency,” said committee chairman Nick Knight. “While they may not all sit on the same side of the aisle, they
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Homeowners and even apartment dwellers also have spoken out. One woman complained her building manager told her to “check for leaks” after she was billed $85 for water use in her one-bedroom, one-bath apartment. “Outrageous for one 5-10-minute shower a day and two loads of laundry every two weeks,” she wrote. “Something is up for sure.” Fred Meisner, president and owner of Precision Resources Technology, wonders how precise his reading was for August. Meisner, who lives alone, said his August bill was nearly $100 above his highest bill in the last eight months, reflecting the use of 36,000 gallons of water. Theories about the usage spikes have abounded. Some wonder if the South Mountain Freeway construction is the culprit, though there has been no evidence that’s the case. Others wondered if the meters in question are broken, although Susan Manolis said that is not an issue either. One man wondered if someone has hacked the city’s remote-meter-reading system – a theory no one has addressed. Water Services spokeswoman Stephanie Bracken said her department “takes customers’ water consumption concerns very seriously and works with every customer that reaches out to us for assistance with a high bill.” In the Foothills Gateway case, she noted, the city “sent a technician to the property to verify that the meter equipment was functioning properly, and offered to test the meter for accuracy.” No problem was found, she said. “When customers are confronted with an unexpectedly high bill, it is usually be-
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Union, that gives me encouragement she is going to take this district bin the right direction.” The vote culminated about more than a month of scrutiny of both candidates after the board in June decided it would first look at internal candidates to succeed Baca. The board had approached the five district administrators with state superintendent certificates, but only Battle and Mendivil applied. Besides interviewing Mendivil and Battle behind closed doors on Sept. 13, the board also had them write two essays and
cause of a leak,” she said, adding: “Sometimes customers are surprised by the amount of water that can flow through a meter when a leak is present, and sometimes these leaks run underground or directly to a storm drain and are not seen.” She maintained that Foothills Gateway’s management company found faulty sprinklers that were repaired. “Since those repairs took place, the association’s usage has gone back down to normal levels,” she added. But Susan Manolis countered, “Even if two sprinklers were broken, there would be a geyser of water to disburse a million gallons.” She also noted there was “no standing water in our park in July.” Bracken said, ”Leaks in landscaping irrigation can be common and are not always seen on the ground surface.” She added: “While we understand a high bill can be disconcerting, and are always willing to work with the customer on payment options, it is important that customers understand that part of stewarding this precious resource is making sure that customers pay for all water that goes through the meter. “This ensures customers have a financial incentive to fix leaks and conserve water in the desert. Phoenix Water Services must bill all customers objectively, fairly, and consistently for the water that runs through the meter, or else other customers end up picking up the cost.” As for Susan Manolis’ complaint about the supervisor’s treatment, Bracken said, “It is always our intent to offer empathy and to focus on problem-solving when working with customers on high bills.” Foothills Gateway isn’t giving up its fight and is working with city Councilman Sal DiCiccio to arrange a meeting between the HOA board and top Water Services officials in the near future. used former solicitor for Tempe Union to interview 18 Tempe Union staffers and community leaders about them. Neither the essays, the questions nor the interview summaries were made public. McLenahan also addressed the fact that the board did not conduct a town hall to get community input on Baca’s successor. “I’ve heard from a lot of people. We all got phone calls. We all talked to people at the grocery store. We all got emails,” she said. “We have heard you and appreciate your feedback.” Baca gave no reason for his decision to resign, except to say in a letter that it was time for him to leave. He has been the district superintendent for six years.
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adopting the formula next Monday. “I agree with almost everything I’ve heard,” said Carter, the Yavapai County superintendent of schools. “I think we have moved to a point in time where even though my personal view is it might be advantageous to move in a different direction, I don’t believe we have the luxury of doing that this year.” A study session is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 22, but it is unclear if any significant changes to the formula will be made. Appearing with Kyrene Superintendent Jan Vesely at the Sept. 6 meeting, Susie Ostmeyer, the district’s chief information and accountability officer, detailed the problems created by the “misleading” formula, telling the board: “What is difficult to summarize eloquently is the unintended consequence of creating a model that is so complex that students, teachers and communities cannot use it to shape their understanding of results.” At issue is the formula that makes schools’ letter grades dependent on more than just a standardized test and adds various categories to measure students’ proficiency and performance growth. Those categories are weighted and include measures such as a school’s overall poverty level and even how long a student has been at a particular school. The formula also measures a student’s proficiency against other students rather than base it on their individual performance. In the long run, Vesely said, the practical impact is that high-performing schools
will be penalized and students’ strengths and weaknesses will be obscured. “Students, teachers and parents get no actionable information about areas of strength and weakness so that they can address those and develop learning plans to get kids on track,” she told the board, adding: “There are too many levels of complication that, frankly, do not make the model better, fairer or more precise; they simple distort reality.” Of particular concern to Vesely and several education board members is a measure of students’ “growth to target.” “The growth points are four to five levels of distortion away from clearly communicating students’ academic gains and whether they are on track or not,” she said. Becky Hill, vice president of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, tended to agree. “I wish we could be clearer with them as to how this all works and what it is they need to do to improve the achievement of students,” she said. Board member Calvin Baker, superintendent of the Vail School District near Tucson, complained, “No one was able to say here what are the specific buttons we have to push to get a better grade. It bothers me.” “We’re sort of stuck at a crossroads,” Baker said, noting the decision on adopting letter grades was “made long ago, and now we’re seeing difficulties with that.” Carter said rural administrators have begged for a grading system “that is easy to understand and easy to explain and will See
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accurately measure where we are and that we as a team can sit down and make determinations on how we can be better. “With this system, I don’t think we’re going to achieve that,” he conceded. Despite those misgivings, Carter kept the board on track for a formal adoption vote, suggesting the governor and State Legislature are pressuring him to get the grading system in place for the current school year. Baker said it was a mistake postpone refinements and let schools grapple with “a magic formula that does all the calculations we don’t understand.” “The problem with going forward with a model that we aren’t truly comfortable is to have the mindset we can change that model next year...means the whole fruit basket gets upset again.” He complained that if the board finds it necessary to revamp the grade formula next year, schools’ grades could shift dramatically, further confusing educators and parents alike. “It’s a mess,” Baker said. “It would be better to make the right decision now even if it causes us some pain now.” Board member Jared Taylor, a member of Gilbert Town Council, noted any grading system has flaws, and said, “I’m willing to meet more often to try and come up with a system that is going to be flawed but more useful.” Taylor complained that “we have systemic issues,” but said: “This is as good as we can get, given the way the table is set… I’m OK moving forward, but we need to deal with the bigger issues to get out of this cul de sac we’re in right now.”
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Ducey raps AG’s lawsuit over state universities’ tuition BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services
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years – are keeping the cost of instruction within what the constitution requires. Ducey did more than disagree with Brnovich’s conclusion that the tuition is unconstitutionally too high. He also took a slap at the attorney general for seeking to resolve the issue by filing suit without first talking the to the regents. “I’m not a big fan of lawsuits,’’ the gov-
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That case is on appeal to the Arizona Supreme Court. Ducey said the regents are doing the best they can – and acting legally – within the context of the state dollars available. “We inherited a $1 billion deficit when we came into office,’’ the governor said. “The state’s financial house was not in order,’’ he continued. “We made some very difficult decisions in those first several years.’’ That included a $99 million reduction in state funding for universities in Ducey’s first term in office, the largest single oneyear cut in the schools’ history. Now, Ducey said, the state is no longer running a deficit “and we’re able to invest again.’’ That investment, though, has been nowhere near what was taken. For example, last year’s budget provided an additional $32 million. But there was less there than meets the eye, with just $8 million to restore general funding that was cut. And of the balance $19 million was one-time funding that went away this current school year, replaced with $15 million in one-time dollars.
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Hundreds join pilgrimage for Mountain Park cross ALL PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHERRIE BUZBY
As they head toward an open house on Oct. 1 to show off their new church at 48th Street and Frye Road in Ahwatukee, Mountain Park Community Church members had one important task left – moving the huge cross that had been at the church’s old site on Pecos Road and 24th Street. Overnight Saturday, Sept. 16, congregants gathered for a prayer vigil and then more than 1,000 showed up Sunday morning for the move. Starting with the photo on the right and going clockwise, here are some scenes from the weekend move: Praying together after the cross has been lowered are, from left, Curtis McFarland, Tim Berry, Jim Cooper, Gene Taylor and Josh Schifferer; Alvin Reese is in the foreground of the men lifting the cross onto a trailer bed; Elena Porter and 6-year-old Elianna Kelso pray during the vigil; Chad Palmer adjusts makes some adjustments before the cross is lowered; Senior Pastor Alan Fuller delivers words of encouragement to the supporters who will be moving the cross; and workers carefully lower the cross from the base near the old church site. On the facing page, Fuller delivers a brief sermon to those paying vigil; an unidentified woman protects the flame on her candle from the wnd. Bill Hipple lights some votive lights; and a crowd gathers for prayer. SEE P. 31 FOR A RELATED STORY
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Liberal Gun Club members like shooting down stereotypes BY RALPH ZUBIATE Tribune Managing Editor
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and conservative gun owners. “It’s a tricky thing to navigate,” he said. “I try not to participate in political conversations. It’s a strange confluence, to be sure, but this intersection of the Venn diagram is where many members of the LGC exist.” Cox works for a company that stages live events. In his off time – “I’m lucky if I get to go shooting every six weeks” – he’s an advocate of firearms. “Many liberals don’t understand guns – they’re scary,” he said. “I understand that. But we’re not going to put the cat back in the bag. At this point, there are more firearms in the U.S. than people. So, we need to work to make it better instead of wishing it would go away.” Cox was a liberal before he was a gun owner.
“I met a guy, and went to a shooting range with him. I never had before,” he said. “It was an eye-opener. Everybody was just having fun. That changed my mind about firearms.” Cox now is a hunter and shooter, but doesn’t belong to the NRA. He’s less worried about the politics of guns, as a self-described social liberal and fiscal conservative. “Both sides – liberals and gun owners – have a reputation for being single-issue voters. I’m not like that,” he said. “I care about social issues, too, like health care and gay rights.” Like Smith, he also sees gun ownership as a civil rights issue. “Why not see firearms ownership as a means to hold on to civil rights?” he asks. The Liberal Gun Club has a gun-safety
curriculum, with classes on issues such as conceal-carry laws. “The more people who are educated about firearms, the better,” Cox said. Smith says she is seeing more liberals open up to firearms. “Friends who have never before been interested want to go to the range to be taught,” she said. “They don’t want to see a civil liberty taken away. Now that we’re talking about restricting a civil right, what’s the next one they’re going to take?” Smith said Democrats’ obsession with restricting gun rights is misguided. “The problem isn’t the guns; the problem is the violence,” she said. “California and Texas are the states most similar in size. California has some of the strictest gun laws, and Texas is loosest. But California has a higher murder rate.” She thinks elections are being lost over gun-control stances. “I’ve told Democrats, if you would drop this issue, you would win. You are losing people over the Second Amendment issue. “Having said that, I think our mission is education on both the Second Amendment and gun safety and gun ownership, on being a responsible gun owner. If you’re going to do this, you need to know how. I don’t think anybody should carry without training. You have to know the basics,” Smith said. “That’s really the goal of our group, but also to have fun.” Information: theliberalgunclub.com. – Contact Ralph Zubiate at 480-898-6825 or rzubiate@timespublications.com.
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uzy Goodrick and Melissa Tinajero love weddings – so much so they’re going to give one away to a lucky couple next month. The two Mesa businesswomen will pay the entire cost of a lucky couple’s wedding – provided they don’t mind getting married in a Phoenix warehouse district on one of three dates they’ve set aside for the occasion. “There’s something special about the union of two people in love. But what’s even more special is giving away an entire wedding, free of charge. The lucky winners will receive wedding
photography, dresses, suits, cake, catering, decor and everything in between,” said Goodrick, a wedding photographer. Tinajero, owner of Moulleux Events, and Goodrick said that even though the contest, titled “Phx Get Hitched,” might get them some favorable publicity, they’re doing this for love. “I have the privilege of meeting amazing couples and capturing their love stories, but I wanted something more, something deeper,” said Goodrick. “We’re doing this give-away to serve our Phoenix community with an amazing wedding.” “We believe in leaving a legacy that’s
far more important than our businesses, the number of Instagram followers, or fame,” she added. The winners can pick next May 6, May 13 or June 3 for the wedding, and the reception will be held at Events on Jackson, 245 E. Jackson St. The contest has two stages before a couple can start planning a walk down the aisle. First, by the end of this month, they can either enter or be nominated on phxgethitched.com, where Goodrick and Tinajero will narrow the field down to five couples. Each of those five couples will then create a 2-minute video for a public vote on Facebook.
Voting begins on the PHX Get Hitched Facebook page on Oct. 9 and the winners will be announced on Oct. 17 on Facebook and Instagram. Goodrick said the submissions this month will be carefully read by them and then reviewed by a third party not involved with Phx Gets Hitched. “We’re looking for a couple enamored with love and marriage and who whole heartedly trust a team of vendors to carry out their vision for an urban industrial wedding,” she said. Goodrick admitted their venture is expensive but said “all vendors are generously donating their time and talents for the winning couple.”
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ou’ve heard of salmon swimming upstream, buffaloes stampeding, and monarch butterflies migrating south for the winter. But have you ever seen the Great Annual Caterpillar Crawl that turns South Mountain into an undulating yellow mass of downhill movement? Every year after a heavy monsoon rain in August or September, millions of white-lined Sphinx moth caterpillars cascade down the mountain. They create more than a mile-wide ribbon of bright yellow. The migration starts out at the peaks of South Mountain, moves south to Chandler Boulevard or Pecos Road, where the caterpillars move east before turning south toward the Gila River Indian Community. This is no slow pub crawl. The larvae make no stops, except for trampling spid-
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Lexi's dog, Lola, seems disinterested as one of the yellow caterpillars crawls by.
erling and spurge plants as they gorge on their leaves for energy. The caterpillars look disconcerting, even creepy, to people who are not familiar with them. They sport posterior horns, looking an awful lot like stingers. But these animals
pose no threat to people or pets. They do not sting, bite, spray toxins or do any other harm. Many Ahwatukee hikers, bicyclists, and residents in the Club West and Reserve neighborhoods witnessed the phenomenon Aug. 24-26. “The mountain literally looks like it’s moving,” said Kristin Conway. Diana St. Michel said, “There were tons on Bursera and Pyramid Trails.” Janet Revis saw the migration at 27th Drive and Amberwood in the Foothills Reserve. Clayton Copley saw them on a bike ride, reporting that they were completely filling up the new Chandler Extension from curb to curb. Beth Gadzik saw the migration this See
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Lexi Funicanes, 7, of Ahwatukee, saved some of the yellow caterpillars that had fallen into the family pool during their trek across Ahwatukee.
Probation group honors Ahwatukee woman’s accomplishments AFN News Staff
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athy Waters of Ahwatukee believes she and her team transform wayward lives. That’s one reason why Waters, director of Arizona Adult Probation Services, received the prestigious George Keiser Award for Exceptional Leadership from the National Association of Probation Executives. With more than 33 years of criminal justice experience, she has been probation services director for the Arizona Supreme Court and Administrative Office of the Courts since 2001 and has been “a leader and mentor for probation executives across the nation through peer collaborations, speaking engagements and training programs,” a court spokeswoman said. Her award recognized a number of achievements, including her implementation of “evidence-based practices” for adult offenders in all 15 counties in the state.
She also acquired and managed the technical assistance of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation Pretrial Assessment for five pilot sites in the state, which eventually led to the remaining counties. Along with implementing evidencebased pretrial statewide, she chaired a committee that developed a safety program for adult and juvenile probation officers and rolled out the Adult Probation Enterprise Tracking System to all of Arizona’s 15 counties. The award is named for a former Iowa corrections official and former chief of the Prisons and Community Corrections Divisions at the National Institute of Corrections in Washington, D.C., who wrote Waters, saying: “I know you don’t want to hear just how significant your contributions have been over the years, or about the number of lives you have touched. But you have come a long way from that Oklahoma County where I first met you. “While concepts like evidence-based practices can be designed and promoted
by organizations like the National Institute of Corrections, it requires practitioners like yourself to implement and refine their application if they are to become industry standard.” Waters served as an instructor in criminal justice at Northeastern State University from 1983 until 1988. Currently, she serves as a consultant to the National Institute of Corrections and an auditor with the American Correctional Association. She is a past president of the American Probation and Parole Association and a recipient of the APPA Walter Dunbar Award for service and contributions to the organization and field. An active member of the American Correctional Association since 1988, she also is a charter member of the Association of Women Executives in Corrections and was honored by the state Supreme Court for implementing evidence-based pretrial services in Arizona. The Arizona Supreme Court recognized
her professional contributions with the 2016 Administration of Justice Award. An Ahwatukee resident for 15 years, Waters and her husband, Paul O’Connell, have raised five children. The Oklahoma native and Northeastern State University grad said she got into criminal justice because “I loved the government and the law and wanted to go to law school.” Waters said her biggest challenge involves changing perceptions as well as offenders. “Educating the public and policy makers on the importance of community corrections as opposed to incarceration remains a challenge,” she said. “Community Corrections is the best option for long-term change and public safety. “My career is personally and professionally rewarding because we can show the success we have had with the use of evidence-based practices in Arizona,” she added. “We know that we changing people’s lives for the better.”
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year and last. Last year, the stampede was reported at 40th Street and Pecos Road. Hal Elliot saw thousands at Pecos Park. One Ahwatukee resident decided to help the caterpillars on their trek. “I saved the caterpillars from our pool. I took them out and put them where they were safe,” said Lexi Funicanes, a 7-yearold resident of Club West who attends second grade at Kyrene de los Cerritos Elementary School. She couldn’t bear to see them struggling in the pool and just had to help. Her year-old pit bull mix, Lola, looked on. The dog was curious about the caterpillars, sniffing them but not eating them. Lexi, who moved here two years ago from Chicago, finds the desert interesting. Thousands of caterpillars lost their lives in their determination to reach their destination. By Aug. 27, all that was left was a carpet of yellow splotches freckling Chandler Boulevard from 27th Avenue to 18th Drive – a full 1.2 miles. Over 1,000 species of insects are eaten by the rich and the poor in 65 countries, and the Sphinx moth caterpillar, known
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to the Valley in the 1500s, they found the local indigenous peoples wearing necklaces of caterpillars around their necks as they worked, providing them a quick bite of protein. The migrating larvae are looking for soft ground to dig holes (Larry Lamsa/Special to AFN) where they The yellow caterpillars eventually turn into white-lined Sphinx moths, often will pupate. called "hummingbird moths," whic dart from flower to flower like a hummingThey later bird, using a long proboscis instead of a beak. emerge from their chrysalisas makkum to the O’odham who lived in es as adult moths, commonly known as this area, were considered a delicacy. “hummingbird moths.” With a 21/2-inch After their head and guts were re- to 31/2-inch wing span, they hover and moved, the caterpillars were placed on flit from flower to flower like humminghot stones to dry. birds. They provide more protein and less sat“I like to see the hummingbird moths urated fat than a hamburger. on my lantana in the evening. We get When the first Spanish explorers came many at a time. I think they are fascinat-
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help. Diana Kogan of Home Fur Good Animal Rescue and Placement have two bonded brothers, Maverick and Moe, available for adoption. “Maverick and Moe were barely six months old when they first arrived. They interact and enjoy the company of all the other cats. When humans are in their presence they do not run to a hiding spot, they watch and observe. They are about to turn 2 years old this fall and they have advanced as far as possible in a shelter environment,” Kogan said. “Maverick and Moe are in need of a foster or permanent home where they can continue to improve,” she added. “They will thrive on a daily routine they can count on, feeding and interacting with them on a consistent basis will form an unbreakable bond.” Information: 602-971-1334. Meanwhile, Friends for Life also has a homeless dog and a cat.
Karma, a 2-yearold Torti, is “very social and outgoing,” said spokeswoman Janelle Cosgriff. Rescued from a hot parking lot, she “is good with other cats and will be an amazing companion for a loving human.” Sadie, a 6-yearold hound blend weighing about 70 pounds, also is at Arizona Friends. Cosgriff said he had been adopted but a change in the owners’ family (Special to AFN) forced her return Clockwise from top left:Sadie, Mavto the shelter. erick, Moe, Karma, Dunkin, Blue and “She’s a big sweet Donovan. girl,” Cosgriff said. “Sadie does well with other dogs and she is house- and licensed. Information: FFLdogs@ azfriends.org for Sadie fflcats@azfriends. trained,” Cosgriff said. All Arizona Friends animals are org for Karma or 480-497-8296. Jenny Bernot at Arizona Rescue also is spayed, vaccinated, microchipped,
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usic Maker Workshops in Ahwatukee will offer a range of camps during fall break. Music Maker, 3233 E. Chandler Road, is marking its 10th year of fall-break programming. Information/registration for all workshops can be made by calling 480-7061224 or at mmwaz.com Morning Music Academy: Kids can design their own camp by selecting three classes from the choices of drums, guitar, piano, voice, violin, or arts and crafts. Classes, formed according to age and ability levels, are small to provide individualized attention for each student. Milano’s Music is a sponsor and will provide every child wanting to learn violin with an instrument to borrow for camp classes. Sessions are 9 a.m. to noon Monday thru Thursday. The camp runs Oct. 9-12 and is for kids 5 to 12 years old with any ability. Cost is $160. Afternoon Art Camp: Creative kids can have fun with drawing, painting and clay. It is taught by professional artist
er and drummer Devin Brown. The award-winning marching drum band gives students a chance to learn a mix of street and military beats on snare drums. Students learn marching, drumming techniques, and (Facebook) stick control. They Music Maker Workshops' students range from young and old alike and perform at local fesinclude both aspiring musicians and those who want to improve. tivals and parades. The drum corps is open to kids 7 to 16 Elaine Johnson, who has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and a master’s in educa- of all ability levels and meets at Pecos Park 8:45-10 a.m. Saturdays. Kids can stop by tion. On the last day of camp, students will for a trial session and drums are provided. Cost is $80 per month. host an art show for friends and family. Rock Band Program provides an opIt is scheduled so that Morning Music Academy participants can stay at the stu- portunity for musicians to jam with others. dio all day, though they must bring their Music Maker Workshops originally conceived this program in early 2007 when own lunch. Offered Oct. 9-12 for kids 5 to 14 years organizers decided to gather students after of age, it runs 12:30-2:30 p.m. and costs individual lessons to learn together. This is the first rock band program in $160. Desert Sound Drum Corps is direct- Ahwatukee. Students are auditioned, put ed by industry specialist Bucket Bak- into a rock band that has similar ability
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Mix, is a “snuggler extraordinaire, happy to accept your affection in numerous ways,” Bernot said. Besides settling in people’s laps for a nap, he “adores kids,” plays well with other dogs and enjoys the outdoors and rides in the car. “He loves nothing more than plopping down in a water puddle to cool down” and “Duncan likes lounging in dog beds, playing with squeaky toys, and munching on treats,” Bernot added. Blue, a year-old cat, has only one eye as the result of an injury when he was on the street.
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“Blue is a very active kitty with a resilient spirit,” Bernot said, adding that he “is an inquisitive little boy who loves to play with toys of all shapes and sizes” and who likes interacting with people. “Blue likes playing in water. Getting his toes wet is just the beginning; he’ll actually roll around in the water and then focus intently on trying to bite the stream of water as it flows out of the faucet,” she said. “Turn off the water and you can see his confusion as he head-butts the faucet, wondering what happened to his toy.” Anyone interested in Blue or Dunkin should go to azrescue.org for an application.
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ookie Monster is about to have some competition. Two Ahwatukee authors have teamed up to produce a children’s book that could become the first in a series built around a character called Cookiesaurus Rex. Amy Fellner Dominy and Nate Evans are co-authors of a picture book titled “Cookiesaurus Rex.” The book is right in Evans’ wheelhouse. A onetime Hallmark Cards artist, the middle-school art teacher became a New York Times bestselling author/illustrator of more than 40 children’s books, including “Ponyella” with Laura Numeroff. The book is a departure of sorts for Dominy, who has written 10 novels and sold five, some earning praise from other authors for her engaging stories about teenagers. Evans and Dominy will appear at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, at Changing Hands Bookstore, on the southwest corner of McClintock Drive and Guadalupe Road, Tempe, to discuss their book, which publishes five days later. They’re urging parents to bring their kids, since there will be cookie decorating supplied by Storybook Kitchen, storytelling and other fun activities. Geared toward children aged 3 to 7, the book recounts what happens after the title character declares himself King of All Cookies as soon as he comes out of the oven. He should be frosted before all of the standard-shape cookies, in a nice bright green, but rebels when he sees the other cookies are getting sprinkles, or shiny stars
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or gumdrops, prompting a back-and-forth with the hand that’s doing the decorating. The idea for “Cookiesaurus Rex” came from a dream Evans had about a rampaging dinosaur cookie wreaking havoc on a little Lego village. “That was the fragment of the idea that started us brainstorming,” said Dominy, who met Evans at a dinner hosted by a librarian, Mary Wong. “We started chatting about a collaboration and five years later, here we are,” Dominy added. “This is our first book together.” “It’s a laugh-out-loud story that parents will have fun reading over and over again to their kids,” she said. “It’s also a great way to spark a cookie-decorating session
of their own.” She said she liked Evans’ idea because it “was so unique. We knew there wasn’t anything like it: a battle between a cookie and the hands who decorate it. “Besides, who doesn’t love cookies?” she added. Dominy said writing the book was “definitely different than writing a 60,000word novel.” “The fun thing about writing a picture book is that it’s so short you have more freedom to try different directions and play around with an idea. But just because it’s short, doesn’t mean it’s easy to write. We spent six months writing 330 words,” she explained. Once the manuscript sold to Dis-
ney-Hyperion, it’s the job of the editor to match the story with just the right illustrator. “In this case, we were so lucky to be paired with the award-winning illustrator, AG Ford,” Dominy said. “His illustrations dance off the page and bring so much life to our words.” A writer since she was 13 years old – four years after becoming an alternate in the Arizona hula-hoop championship – Dominy isn’t giving up on her longer novels. But she’s also planning another book with Evans. “We’ve already cooked up the second book. It’s titled ‘Cookiesaurus Christmas’ and it comes out December 2018.”
AROUND AHWATUKEE
Kyrene schedules voter registration at district office
Kyrene School District is marking National Voter Registration Day next week. Working with the county recorder, it will host voter registration 3-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26 at the district offices on the northwest corner of LKyrene and Warner roads. Tempe.
ABM slates wildlife workshop for its residents
The Ahwatukee Board of Management is holding a residents-only workshop called “Living with Wildlife” at 6 p.m. Oct. 11 at the Ahwatukee Events Center, 4700 E. Warner Road. Because space is limited, attendees must register and the event is open only to ABM members. Amy Burnett, education program manager for Arizona Game & Fish, will discuss ways to prevent
wildlife, such as javalinas and coyotes, from disturbing someone’s property as well as how to deal with a problem that a wild animal or other critter might cause. To RSVP: crobertson@ahwatukeehoa.com or 480893-3502 ext. 0.
Festival of Lights group seeks sponsors, volunteers
The Festival of Lights Committee is seeking volunteers and sponsors for its 22nd annual KickOff Party, held the Saturday after Thanksgiving in Ahwatukee. The party helps pay for the million white lights that decorate Chandler Boulevard from Thanksgiving through Christmas. Volunteers can show up for meetings at 6:30 p.m. at Desert Foothills United Methodist Church, 2156 E. Liberty Lane, Ahwatukee. Meeting dates are Sept. 26,
Oct. 10, Oct. 24 and Nov. 7. The group also is seeking a wide array of sponsors at all price levels. Information: folaz.org and request a sponsorship packet.
Desert Pointe Garden Club inviting new members
Prospective members are invited to the 9 a.m. Oct. 2 meeting of the Desert Pointe Garden Club, at the Ahwatukee Recreation Center, 5001 E. Cheyenne Drive. The program that day will be about herb gardening. The club meets on the first Monday of each month, September through May. It is not necessary to belong to the Recreation Center to join the club. In addition to the meetings, members also sponsor a butterfly garden, renovate the yards of certain group homes for the disabled, maintain the Blue Star Memorial on Warner Road and participate in many other outreach
projects. Information: 480-759-4407 or dpgc.org.
Eat barrel cactus fruits, enjoy a riparian walk
AFN contributor Kelly Athena will prepare and roast barrel cactus fruits and seeds for interested people 3:30-5:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24 at her home. Following that, she will take guests to an urban riparian site for a plant walk that will be wheelchair accessible. “We’ll harvest barrel cactus fruits, and check out the other wild food and medicinal plants such as mesquite, paloverde, ironwood, brittlebush, creosote, ragweed, and anything else we discover – like turpentine bush, desert lavender, desert tobacco, dried pineapple chamomile, and the pesky invasive fountain grass,” Athena said. See
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Guests will get her specific address, in the vicinity of Chandler Boulevard and 24th Street, after they register. Reservations can be made at kellyathena. com/plant-walks or email her at info@kellyathena. com for those paying at the door. Deadline for sign up is today, Sept. 20.
Operation Shoebox ramps up for Ahwatukee residents
The South Mountain team of Operation Shoebox, which helps brighten the Christmas holidays for millions of poverty-stricken around the world, is rampiong up for the holidays. The team, which includes Ahwatukee, is holding a meeting 6-7:30 p.m. Sept. 28 at Mountain View Lutheran Church, 11002 S. 48th St. Volunteer Gil Moreno will discuss his experience delivering shoeboxes to kids in Rwanda. Volunteers filled gift-wrapped shoeboxes with little gifts and necessities, such as toiletries, for distribution to children in impoverished areas. The South Mountain team has a goal of filling 15,500 boxes and is encouraging churches and other groups to begin collecting items now and ordering supplies from samaritanspurse.org. Information/RSVP: Facebook: OccPhoenix/ Southeast Valley, bottsearle@gmail.com or 480 2133190.
Desert Vista High students selling 9/11 bowls
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are selling bowls memorializing victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks with proceeds going to the World Trade Center Health Hospital. Ceramics teacher Mark Honacker said the club made 400 bowls, one for each of the uniformed lives lost. “These bowls will be scored, while wet, with a small segment of Ground Zero concrete, and then emblazoned, when glazed, with a profile of the fallen towers,” he said. The bowls are $30 each. Information: jamiezack01@gmail.com, 480-6787227; claire.kretschmar@gmail.com, 480-695-2074; or kdaly1996@gmail.com, 480-307-2401.
Ahwatukee GOP Women to hear state chairman speak
Jonathan Lines, chairman of the state Republican Party, is the guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the Ahwatukee Republican Women. The meeting is at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, at Mouintain View Lutheran Church, 11002 S. 48th St., Ahwatukee.
Y OPAS book sale organizers looking for donations
The Ahwatukee Foothills Family YMCA Outreach Program for Ahwatukee Seniors (Y OPAS) is in need of book donations for its 10th annual fundraising book sale Nov. 4 at the YMCA, 1030 E. Liberty Lane. Books can be dropped off at the YMCA or the following Ahwatukee locations: Pecos Senior Center, 48th Street and Pecos Road; Odelay Bagel Company, Equestrian Trail and Warner/Elliot Loop; Cups N’ Crepes, 42nd Street and Chandler Boulevard; Ahwatukee Board of Management Swim/Tennis Center, 48th Street and Warner Road; Mountain View Lutheran Church at 48th Street and Cheyenne Drive;
Webster Chiropractic, 16515 S. 40th St. Ste 103; and Desert Foothills United Methodist Church, 2156 E. Liberty Lane. Books may be dropped off beginning Monday, Sept 4. Information: Jill at 602-212-6088.
Businesses sought for ABM cornhole competition
The Ahwatukee Swim and Tennis Center and Ahwatukee Board of Management are seeking local businesses to participate in its first cornhole competition 2-6 p.m. Oct. 14 at Ahwatukee Park, 4700 E. Warner Road. Two-member teams pat an entry fee of $100 to compete for free four-hour use of the Ahwatukee Events Center. Trophies also will be awarded. Businesses also can sponsor a cornhole lane for $400 and get a set of custom-made cornhole boards with their logo to take home. The lane sponsorship also provides competition entry for one two-member team, two drink tickets, bean bags and a score tower. Proceeds will benefit the Kiwanis Club of Ahwatukee’s Christmas drive for foster children and the Young Entrepreneurs Academy run by the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber Foundation. Information: lrobinson@ahwatukeehoa.com
Knights of Columbus set 26th annual golf tournament
The Foothills Golf Club, 2201 E. Clubhouse Drive, Ahwatukee, is the site of the 26th annual Joe Hasulak Memorial Golf Tournament hosted by The Knights of Columbus Corpus Christi Council 10062. Scheduled for Sept. 30, with a 7:30 a.m. shotgun
start, the tournament costs $85 per player, which includes green fees, golf cart, prizes, beverage ticket, and award luncheon. Players must register by today, Sept. 20. Sponsorships are available from $100 to $1,000. Information/registration: Bill Drummey at 480460-2721 or bdrummey35@gmail.com.
LiveStrong program returning to Ahwatukee YMCA
The Ahwatukee Foothills Family YMCA will be running another LiveStrong Program beginning today, Sept. 20. The free small-group fitness program is open to adult cancer survivors and tries to ease them back into fitness and improve their quality of life. Each 12week session is composed of classes that meet for 75 minutes twice a week. A free Y membership is included for the duration of the session. Class size is limited to six participants per session. Information: Debbie Mitchell at 602-212-6081
Local prof’s homeless outreach downtown is Sept. 23
Project Humanities’ year-round outreach led by an Ahwatukee professor to help the homeless in downtown Phoenix will be held 6:45-8:15 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 23. Volunteers are welcome to meet on South 12th Avenue between West Jefferson and West Madison streets to help homeless people pick out clothing, shoes and toiletries. Residents can donate bottled water at AZ Spine & Disc, 4530 E. Ray Road, Ahwatukee during normal business hours. Other items can be donated at Project Humanities’ Tempe headquarters. Information on donating and volunteering: 480-727-7030.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Border security discussed
ASU Professor J.T. Davis will deliver this FRANK Talk, a face-to-face conversation with the goal of inspiring people to practice the skills of citizenship, on border issues and balancing government protection and civil liberties. DETAILS>> 6-7:30 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Tukee Talks slated
Officers from the Phoenix Police Department’s South Mountain Precinct will meet with Ahwatukee residents at Tukee Talks, a quarterly session that enables people to ask questions about crime trends in the community and other public safety matters. DETAILS>> 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Ahwatukee Event Center, 4700 E. Warner Road, Ahwatukee. Free. Refreshments provided.
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Kyrene holds blood drive
In honor of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and to help students in Kyrene School District who are suffering from cancer, a blood drive will be held at two elementary schools and the district offices. DETAILS>> 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sierra Elementary, 1122 E. Liberty Lane, and Monte Vista Elementary, 15221 S. Ray Road, both Ahwatukee. 2-6 p.m. at Kyrene District Offices, northwest corner of Kyrene and Warner roads, Tempe. Walk-ins are welcome, but donots are urged to make an appointment at BloodHero.com. Sponsor codes depend on where you are giving blood: district office, KSD; Monte Vista, KMVES; and Sierra sponsor, KyreneSierra,
gardeners from the Ahwatukee Community Garden will be available to answer all your gardening questions! DETAILS>> 12:30-1:30pm, Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Free, no registration required.
25th Anniversary Family Festival
This final celebration with activities for everyone includes: a farm animal petting zoo, pumpkin volcanos, dry ice “boo bubbles,” folded book art, football & hoop tosses, reading to a therapy dog, trying your luck at winning free Friends of the Library used books. Bring your Ironwood Library anniversary punch card to get and decorate a library book bag. DETAILS>> 0 a.m.-1 p.m, Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. For all ages, Free, no registration required.
Teen council meeting
The Ironwood Library Teen Council plans teen events at the library. Join us to earn community service hours, make friends, have fun. DETAILS>> 2-3 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 12-18. Free. No registration required.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17
Fused-glass jewelry making
Jewelry artist Beth Maggio will teach participants to design and create their own pendant during the class session. After Beth takes the pendants home for kiln firing, participants can pick up their pieces in the library the following week. Supported by the Friends of Phoenix Public Library Ironwood Chapter. DETAILS>> 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Adults only. Free. Registration is required via the calendar at phxlib.org.
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Be astounded by mind reading and other feats of magic as renowned magician Richard Steele takes the stage. DETAILS>> 6-7 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 5-12. Free. Tickets are available in the library 30 minutes before program start time.
Learn desert gardening by getting your hands dirty with the Ahwatukee Community Gardening Project. Share in the knowledge, the produce, and the smiles. All ages welcome Bring sun protection and water, tools optional. DETAILS>> 7-9 a.m. in the northwest corner of the park at 4700 E. Warner Road, Ahwatukee. Information : acgarden.org or 480-759-5338.
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Examine what makes games work and fun to play, and then design and make your own board or card game! Attendees must agree to the requirements of this ASU research partnership to participate. Details are in the calendar at phxlib.org. DETAILS>> 4-6 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 8-12. Free. No registration required.
Science of fear for kids
Explore the biology of fear, types of fear, the value of fear, and strategies to overcome or manage your fears safely. There will also be “Fear Boxes” and a ghost story! DETAILS>> 5-6 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 5-12. Free. No registration required.
Staying in the Valley for fall break? Stop by Ironwood Library for some seasonal activities! DETAILS>> Thursday October 12, 2:00-3:30 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E Chandler Blvd. Ages 5-12. Free. No registration required.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4 Book discussion club
Read the book and join each month’s lively discussion the first Wednesday of the month. October’s read: “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt. November’s read: “The Namesake” by Jhumpa Lahiri. DETAILS>> 7-7:45 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10
Kids can learn the foundations of coding and computer commands before they can write or spell. Fun activities, apps and games will teach the fundamentals of simple logic, sequencing and coding language. #stem DETAILS>> Sundays 2-3 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 4-7. Free. No registration required.
Coder Dojo
What do video games, robots and self-driving cars have in common? Code! You can become a coding master by learning Code.org, Kodable, Scratch, Tynker, HTML and more. Beginners welcome. #stem DETAILS>> Sundays 3-4 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E Chandler Blvd. Ages 8-17. Free. No registration required.
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Teens can explore the biology of fear, types of fear, manipulation using fear and strategies to overcome or manage your fears, whether it’s fear of spiders, driving or test-taking. DETAILS>> 4-5:30 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 12-18. Free. No registration required.
Accompanied by a favorite adult, little ones enjoy songs, music, rhymes, books, interactive stories, simple sign language words, activities to promote movement, and playtime. #pplstorytime #babytimewithsign DETAILS>> Mondays 10:30-11 a.m., Ironwood Library, 4333
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New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay shares the lessons she’s learned on her way to creating six successful mystery and romance series. DETAILS>> 6-7:45 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.
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Real Estate Guide Millennial home buyers shy away from Ahwatukee prices BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY AFN Staff Writer
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illennials as a whole may have put off home buying longer than those who came before them, but market trends show that the largest generation in history is beginning to warm to the idea of home ownership and that the East Valley is a prime destination for young buyers. The distribution of millennial buyers is not equal across the East Valley, though. While Chandler and Gilbert are attracting millennials, Ahwatukee is not a primary market to those buyers because of a higher barrier to entry. That is not to say the community has a
tepid housing market, though. “We are seeing a hot market in Ahwatukee (for homes up to about $700,000),” said Realty Executives’ Patrick Lewis, who is also first vice president of the Arizona Association of Realtors. Those higher home prices have predominantly appealed to secondtime and move-up buyers, and the lack of affordable homes in the $150,000 to $200,000 range makes Ahwatukee unappealing to millennial and first-time buyers, analysts say. Buyers in Ahwatukee also are facing increased competition as the supply of See
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Two homes sell just under seven figures
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Two Ahwatukee homes in recent weeks were sold at prices just below the seven-figure mark. Above, this four-bedroom, 4,000-square foot home in the 16600 block of S. Mountain Trail sold for $915,000 and is located on he 16th hole of he Clb West Golf Course. To the right, this six-bedroom, 5,100-square-foot home in the 11600 block of S. Tusayan Court sold for $970,000. It features a slew of upgrades that range from a completely redone kitchen to a family room with a new Cantera fireplace. Sales of homes priced above $1 million have been virtually nonexistent in Ahwatukee for more than six months, though seven-figure homes have been selling elsewhere in the Valley.
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homes on the market in the 85044 zip code is down from last year. Despite that decrease, sales numbers are actually up – proving buyers in the market are highly motivated, Lewis said. The one market that is seeing a glut of inventory in Ahwatukee is luxury homes. While the market has improved in the past few months, there is still a lot of inventory sitting because there are fewer buyers interested in homes above $750,000, Lewis said. Unlike Ahwatukee, Chandler and Gilbert are uniquely poised to take advantage of the entrance of millennials into the home buying market, said Realtor Mindy Jones Nevarez, one of the agents behind ChandlervsGilbert.com. That website provides comparison information for people considering a move to either of the two communities. Older millennials – people ages 27
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to 36 – made up 28 percent of home buyers in the country in 2016. That ties them with Gen Xers for the largest representative share of total home buyers last year, according to the National Association of Realtors Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends Report 2017. Add younger millennials, who made up 6 percent of buyers, and the demographic group as a whole represented the largest demographic of home buyers in 2016, according to the report. The ChandlervsGilbert website is a collaborative project by Nevarez’s Amy Jones Real Estate Group and Merrill Jencks’ Big Helper Real Estate Group and is geared toward younger home buyers in particular as they are more apt to look online for information. East Valley millennials, who have gravitated toward rentals in recent years and helped spur an apartment boom throughout the Valley, are now interested in home buying due in large
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In 2015, the average income of people ages 25-29 was $27,100, well below the average of $30,300 in 2000, according to Harvard University’s State of the Nation’s Housing Report 2017. This has led millennials to put off home buying in favor of living with their parents longer or opting for renting. However, as millennials age, they should form households at rates similar to previous generations, according to the report. In Chandler, the average age of all residents is 34.9 years old and the median overall income of the population is $75,633, according to the city. Those incomes also work as an incentive to buy. “In addition to soaring rental prices, there are the tax benefits,” Jencks said, noting that millennials “are getting wellpaying jobs and paying more in taxes than ever before.” The types of homes millennials are buying run the gamut. While many younger buyers are interested in older homes with character, there is a limited supply of them in Chandler and Gilbert, Jencks said. Both Jencks and Nevarez have seen younger buyers gravitate toward new builds and updated homes over fixer uppers. “The whole idea of sweat equity is not of interest to them,” said Jencks. “They would prefer to pay top dollar for a home that is move-in ready.” They are also willing to purchase smaller homes with higher end amenities over larger dated properties. – Reach Wayne Schutsky at 480-898-6533 or wschutsky@timespublications.com.
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Kitchen remodels can be less expensive by following these tips BY STACIE LYKINS AFN Guest Writer
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f you are thinking about remodeling, the kitchen is a good place to start. You can get the most money back from a kitchen remodel. Normally, unless there are issues with quality and if you do not overspend, the payback at time of sale is about 88 percent of the money spent. So if you have a limited budget, it is the best room in the home to spend your money. Kitchen remodels can be expensive because of the labor, material and appliance costs. Even a minor kitchen renovation can average around $18,000. However, there are a few things you can do to lower your costs. Labor charges are incurred when you hire out remodeling work. Unless you know how to navigate your way around the legalities, I would suggest hiring a general contractor to manage the renovation. General contractors will apply for permits, hire and manage subcontractors and ensure the project gets completed to your satisfaction. They also perform all types of jobs, like cleaning up, painting, installing cabinets, hooking up appliances and molding work. Most people should hire a general contractor to ensure everything is done properly. The majority of the cost, 75 percent, will be associated with materials, so any savings you try and recoup in this area will go a long way to keeping your renovation budget down. Of the major material items, your kitchen cabinets will cost the most – about a third of your material budget. After cabinets, countertops and appliances come in second and third in terms of price. Here are options for each.
Cabinets
The priciest part of a kitchen remodel always has to do with materials, and in particular, cabinets. Cabinets have a lot of built-in costs you may not have considered: trim at the top and bottom, base support, hardware and, of course, what the cabinet material. Anytime you go with a solid wood cabinet, you’ll be looking at a great increase in cost. Cabinets also have to be configured in the correct way, incorporating applianc-
es, faucets and other features. The more custom you go on configuration, the higher you’ll see that 30 percent number jump considerably. To save money on cabinets, consider painting or refinishing your existing cabinets. If you hate how your current cabinets look, you can buy replacement doors online and swap out your old ones. There are also ready-to-assemble options available online or at suppliers like Ikea, which will get you new cabinets at discount prices because you need to put them together yourself. These ready-to-assemble options are also most often a blend of particle board and solid wood, which is another reason they are more affordable.
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For inexpensive countertop choices, the lowest cost option is usually laminate. However, I would caution using laminate. Most buyers today are looking for granite, even in a $200,000 home. Some product lines mimic the look of high-priced stone counters. If you are handy, consider concrete countertops. Concrete is a solid surface option that is very DIY friendly and can be made for only a few hundred dollars’ worth of material. It a neat option.
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Appliances
Be savvy about when you shop for appliances, and get the same looks you love for a lot less. For appliances, consider making your purchases during major sales events like on Black Friday. Make sure you check out scratch-anddent stores that carry appliances. Often times, the damage on those items is minimal and can be fixed with replacement parts. -To learn about this or any other real-estate topic, call Ahwatukee resident and Associate Broker Stacey Lykins, West USA, 602-616-9971 or at S.Lykins@LykinsProperties.com or visit LykinsProperties.com.
42 Bed42.5 Bath41,405 sq. ft. 4Updated two story 4Townhome w/2 car attached garage 4Private yard
44 Bed44 Bath44,197 sq. ft. 4Pool 4Office 4Single level4Preserve lot 4Gated community
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Ahwatukee homes sold 85044 $170,000 $192,000 $209,000 $210,000 $214,900 $222,000 $280,000 $280,000 $285,000 $345,000 $373,000 $970,000
13032 S. 45th ST. 13024 S. 47th ST. 11034 S. PEWAUKEE ST. 4223 E. HANO ST. 4779 E. NAVAJO ST. 13647 S. 42nd PLACE 4206 E. BIGHORN AVE. 4346 E. SUNRISE DRIVE 15413 S. 45th PLACE 4514 E. GOLD POPPY WAY 4019 E. DESERT FLOWER LANE 11628 S. TUSAYAN COURT
85045 $254,000 $322,000 $331,500 $346,500
1555 W. LACEWOOD PLACE 16815 S. 14th LANE 16420 S. 16th LANE 15628 S. 5th DRIVE
85048 $140,000 $209,000 $226,000 $230,000
16013 S. DESERT FOOTHILLS PKWY. 16620 S. 48th ST. 16620 S. 48th ST. 1024 E. FRYE ROAD
$255,000 $260,000 $270,000 $286,000 $290,000 $299,900 $310,000 $310,000 $312,000 $320,000 $330,000 $337,500 $354,000 $359,900 $361,500 $375,000 $395,000 $415,000 $440,000 $457,000 $457,000 $649,900 $700,000 $915,000
BY BONNY HOLLAND AFN Guest Writer
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he best season to sell your home starts in the spring and lasts through the
summer. The housing markets operate the exact opposite of other markets. Usually, more inventory means lower prices, but when it comes to selling a home, the prices are highest when there are more homes listed for sale. During peak season, you are more likely to have a better valuation for your home. Appraisers calculate your home value by comparable properties to yours, so if there are more homes sold and listed for higher prices during the spring, then they will find your home at a higher value than in winter or fall. On top of that, the weather is at its best during the spring, which leads to more potential buyers out looking for homes to buy. Additionally, parents want to make moves prior to the new school year begin-
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ning and many snowbirds start looking around in early spring to secure homes for the coming winter. According to Arizona Regional MLS, the best time to sell in our Valley is typically between March and July. If you’ve made the decision to sell in spring 2018, this is a perfect time to get started. We consulted with Ahwatukee resident Sandy Salazar owner of Agave Home Stagers. Sandy has staged hundreds of homes for sale. Here are some of Sandy’s best tips for getting your home ready to sell: Be prepared; you’re going to make a big mess before it all comes back together. It’s a fact, you are moving. Now is the time to decide what will be going with you. Begin with the end in mind. When you are ready to list your house, you will want it to be super-clean, light and bright, open and spacious… yet homey and inviting. Start in the closets, garage and storage areas. These areas most likely store the items you haven’t seen in a while. Take this opportunity to decide what to throw away, give away, sell or keep. Separate
into piles. Get rid of the throwaways and giveaways. Plan your next garage sale or post items on Craigslist that you are ready to part with but have value. Put back the items you are going to keep. You could box up if you don’t need them or back-fill and organize these storage areas neatly, leaving empty space available for last-minute storage. This will make your move so much easier. Attend to repairs and minor improvements or they will come back to haunt you. Home inspectors will find those pesky repairs that you’ve been putting off, so much better to take care of them so they are a non-issue. Buyers want updates, so if you’ve been thinking of doing some minor updating, now is the time. Do them now so that you get to enjoy them, too. Things like original builder standard light fixtures, worn-out door hardware, faucets that won’t clean up, worn-out appliances and more should be done before you ever list your home. Freshen and update your style, everything you spend on these items you get
to keep. New towels, bedding, rugs and pillows will give your home an updated and fresh appeal, yet you will take it all with you. Don’t forget the outside. “Curb appeal” is the first impression and will set the tone for how a buyer perceives your home. Attend to out-of-control landscape while you have time for things to grow back and fill in. Trees should be thinned out, dead leaves and branches removed, fresh plants and flowers added. Look for wood rot and areas that need painted and get it done ahead of time. Consult a real estate and staging professional as soon as possible to create a road map to help you prioritize what needs to be done prior to listing. Doing this early will help guide to the right choices and make the whole process more manageable. In the end, higher sales price and quicker sale are what you can expect to achieve. Best wishes for a wonderful fall! -Bonny Holland is with Keller Williams, Sonoran Living in Ahwatukee Foothills. Reach her at 602369-1085, www.leadingluxuryexperts.com or on Facebook and Twitter.
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$474,900
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16642 S. 29th ST. 4027 E. WOODLAND DRIVE 2902 E. SALTSAGE DRIVE 4214 E. MUIRWOOD DRIVE 2359 E. DESERT TRUMPET ROAD 16803. S 2nd PLACE 16006 S. 39th ST. 16203 S. 24th PLACE 2718 E WINDMERE DRIVE 16044 S. 24th PLACE 16402 S. 32nd PLACE 1429 E. GLENHAVEN DRIVE 16801 S. 28th PLACE 16634 S. 38th WAY 1255 E. BROOKWOOD COURT 3443 E. GLENHAVEN DRIVE 3157 E. VERBENA DRIVE 2758 E. WINDMERE DRIVE 2540 E. CATHEDRAL ROCK DRIVE 14660 S. 25th PLACE 741 E. MOUNTAIN SAGE DRIVE 16646 S. MOUNTAIN STONE TRAIL 15051 S. 6th PLACE 16625 S. MOUNTAIN STONE TRAIL
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16015 S 18th Drive
14613 S 1st Street
14630 S Presario Trail
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2,532sqft, 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom. Stunning upgraded 5 bedroom home on quiet interior lot.
5,164sqft, 5 bedroom, 4.5 bathroom. Incredible hillside custom estate nestled om the pristine South Mountain gated community of Summerhill.
5,500sqft, 5 bedroom, 5.5 bathroom. Magnificent highly energy efficient custom estate all on one level in the luxurious mountainside gated community of Summerhill.
$350,000 $869,000 $1,399,000 $1,449,000 B onny@LeadingLuxur yExper ts.com • w w w.LeadingLuxur yE xper ts.com • 602.369.1085
16211 S 18th Place
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3,302sqft, 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom. Incredible 5 bedroom home on waterfront golf course lot right off of Hole #1 of The Foothills Golf Course!
$749,900
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SPOTLIGHT home
Harbor Island
Enjoy the serenity of waterfront living in Ahwatukee from this gorgeous home with abundant amenities. Grand entry with vaulted ceilings, artistic custom oak staircase and designer columns. Spacious eat-in kitchen features refinished white cabinetry with custom rubbed bronze hardware, island and SubZero refrigerator. Open floor plan with inviting fireplace in living room, large formal dining room and wet bar in family room. Upgrades include 17” tile flooring, Plantation shutters, ceiling fans, built-in cabinetry in loft and remodeled secondary baths. Upstairs master suite boasts French doors to view balcony, updated bathroom plus large walk-in closet. Large secondary bedrooms. 2015 exterior paint. 2014 roof /balcony. HVAC compressors in 2014 and 2017. Resort-style backyard with fenced pool with waterfall, BBQ, lush landscaping including fruit trees, custom dock fence and boat that conveys.
Listed for $574,500
Mike Mendoza kw® SONORAN LIVING 480.706.7234 KELLER WILLIAMS® REALTY www.MendozaTeam.com 421 E Windmere Drive Lot 41 in Eagle Ridge
Amazing Opportunity to build your Dream Home in coveted Eagle Ridge in the Foothills. Eagles Ridge sits majestically high above in the Foothills with it’s sweeping panoramic city & mountain views! This parcel offers over 33,000sqft, large flat building envelope and is already beautifully landscaped. Minutes away from premium neighborhood amenities; schools, restaurants, shopping. This serene setting is sure to inspire an improved quality of life. Excellent Kyrene Schools. Great Ahwatukee location!
One of the most amazing view lots in all of arizona! Stunning preserve & city light views! This custom estate has everything you could possibly want • over 10,000 sqft of the finest finishes • 3/4 acre preserve lot • 6 bedrooms, 8 bath, plus executive office, plus theater room, plus exercise room, plus loft, plus guest house • grand foyer • formal living & dining room • gourmet kitchen includes: s/s appliances, quartz countertops, double ovens, 2 dishwashers, cooktop, subzeros, etc • large family room • master suite w/sitting room • master bath w/steam shower, jacuzzi tub, and his/her closets • guest house • resort backyard w/pebbletec divingpool, waterfalls, slide, volcano, firepit, fp, spa, sport court, grassy play areas, & outdoor kitchen • 4-car a/c garage • most desired location in the ahwatukee custom estates! A true masterpiece!!!
Listed for $579,900
Listed for $2,299,000
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Ahwatukee’s #1 Team for Over 28 Years Mike Mendoza
480-706-7234
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Exceptional Santa Barbara-style estate in exclusive gated community. 5 br, 7 ba with 9,668 sq. ft. Gourmet kitchen boasts granite countertops, Viking appliances, double refrigerators, 6-burner gas range, island with prep sink and spacious pantry. Exquisite custom appointments throughout including rich alder woods, discerning stone accents and beautiful stone flooring. The finest in extended outdoor living with inviting patios, lush landscaping, built-in BBQ, fire pit, negative edge pool and spa on oversized lot with breathtaking lake and golf views.
Listed for $2,950,000
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s a home seller, you wait for this moment: At long last, you’ve found a nearly perfect buyer. You’ve accepted the offer, which means you’re in wedded bliss and off the market, so to speak, right? Not so fast, warns realtor.com, the National Association of Realtors’ website. Just as a romantic relationship can go sour, it warns, so can a real estate transaction. “No matter how perfectly matched your buyers are to your property, issues can arise that are out of your control, and sometimes the buyers’ too,” it said. “That’s why it’s in your best interest to let your real estate agent play the field and allow your home to be shown, even if you’ve accepted an offer.” Experts say much can happen even after an offer has been accepted. “Until all contingencies on a contract are removed, anything can happen,” explained Jane Peters, a Los Angeles broker. “Each side has to meet certain contractual obligations, and if one side doesn’t, then the other side can initiate a cancellation of the contract.” Such contractual obligations can include both sides not agreeing on a request for repairs after an inspection, said Peters. Other times, the buyer believes there’s too much to deal with and decides not to go forward. It’s also possible that your buyer can’t get the loan approved. And if your home doesn’t appraise at the contracted price and you decide not to
lower it or grant the buyer concessions, then the buyer can walk, too. If your offer is wrapped up in the buyers’ ability to successfully offload their own home, there’s also a chance the sale could take months – maybe even years. If that’s the case, “then you may wish to continue showing your house in hopes of getting buyers who can close in a more timely manner,” said Realtor Christy Murdock Edgar. To cover all of your bases, consider including a “kick-out clause” in your contract. This states that although you’re currently under contract, you’re allowed to kick out the buyer for a better offer that comes along during the contract period, Edgar said, adding: “As with any other element of the process, this can be negotiated.” But even if you are pleased with your current offer, you might still want to let your agent continue showing your home. “In a seller’s market, with multiple offers on many properties, there should be no shortage of backup offers waiting in the wings,” Peter said. “Should” is the operative word there. Nothing is guaranteed, so it’s probably in your best interest to keep cleaning your home and agreeing to those weekend open houses, even if it means sending your golden retriever to day care and hauling the kids to hang out at your in-laws’ house for the entire afternoon. “Until all contingencies have been removed during escrow, continuing to show the property is advisable,” said Peters.
Summerhill
Ahwatukee Custom Estates
Exquisite Tuscan living with stunning mountain views. 6 br, 6 ba with 6,444 sq. ft. Abundant custom features including gourmet kitchen, open floor plan, basement theatre room, elegant library, soaring coffered ceilings, art niches and three fireplaces. Resort-style backyard boasts entertaining areas, pool and spa with dual water features, built-in BBQ, fireplace and lush landscaping.
Superb South Mountain views from front circular drive with portico. Custom single level with desirable split floor plan on ½ acre lot. 5 br 4.5 ba with 4,763 sq. ft. Gourmet kitchen features newer cabinetry, granite countertops, Sub Zero refrigerator and breakfast bar. Dramatic entry with 2011 custom iron door. Travertine flooring and Plantation shutters. 2015 updates to spacious play pool and decking. Two Trane A/C units in 2007.
Listed for $1,395,000
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Listed for $865,000
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Hidden Canyon
Mountain Park Ranch
Awesome South Mountain views from desirable single level split plan. 4 br, 3 ba with 2,945 sq. ft. Updated kitchen features granite countertops with stone backsplash, island, breakfast bar, stainless steel appliances and 42" maple cabinetry with pullouts. Resort-style backyard with covered patio, flagstone, Pebble Tec pool with waterfall, spa, fireplace, fire pit and lush tropical landscaping.
Beautiful hillside lot. 5 br plus loft, 3.5 ba with 3,887 sq. ft. Dramatic entrance with upgraded lighting. Spacious family room with fireplace that opens to a large kitchen with an island. Downstairs master suite features a sitting room and new tile in the bathroom. 2013 remodeled Pebble Tec pool and tile with privacy and view of gorgeous hillside preserve.
Listed for $687,500
Listed for $499,000
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Cabrillo Canyon
Harbor Island
Gorgeous remodel on oversized corner lot. 5 br, 3 ba with 3,225 sq. ft. Stone and marble flooring plus Plantation shutters throughout. Updated kitchen features granite countertops and refinished cabinetry. Custom curved staircase. All bathrooms have been updated. Spacious backyard boasts lush landscaping, fenced pool with spa and large covered patio with resurfaced balcony deck.
Enjoy the serenity of waterfront living in Ahwatukee from this gorgeous home. 5 br, 3 ba with 3,650 sq. ft. Spacious eat-in kitchen features refinished white cabinetry with custom rubbed bronze hardware, island and Sub-Zero refrigerator. Upstairs master suite boasts French doors to view balcony, updated bathroom plus large walk-in closet. Resort-style backyard with pool, BBQ, lush landscaping, custom dock fence and boat that conveys.
Listed for $509,500
Listed for $574,500
www.MendozaTeam.com Each Office is Independently Owned & Operated
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Moon Valley
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Stunning Hillside Estate with Amazing Mountain, Golf Course, & City Light Views ON OVER 10 ACRES 6 BEDROOM, 5.5 BATH, AND COMPLETELY REMODELEDFORMAL LIVING & DINING ROOM, LARGE FAMILY ROOM, KITCHEN INCLUDES: SLAB GRANITE COUNTERS, S/S APPLANCES, CHERRYWOOD CABINETS, & PENDANT LIGHTING, LARGE SPACIOUS BEDROOMS 2 MASTER SUITES, HARDWOOD FLOORING, REMODELED BATHS, BACKYARD FEATURES, LARGE POOL & ENDLESS VIEWS!
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CALENDAR
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E. Chandler Blvd. Ages birth to crawling. Free. Tickets are limited and available in the library 30 minutes before program start time.
Chamber offers networking
The Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce networking and leads group is open to chamber members. DETAILS>> Noon, Native Grill and Wings, 5030 E. Ray Road, Ahwatukee. Devida Lewis, 480-753-7676.
LD 18 Dems meet monthly
Discover ways to increase flexibility and muscle strength through yoga. Experience relaxation in a fun and welcoming environment. New to yoga? Beginners very welcome! DETAILS>> 10:30-11:30 a.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Adults only. Free. No registration required.
Writing critique group
The third Tuesday of every month bring five doublespaced pages of writing to get feedback from your fellow writers. DETAILS>> 6-7:45 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.
Legislative District 18 Democrats gather monthly, usually the second Monday, to share news, opportunities, food and laughter. Meetings include guest speakers, legislative updates, how-to sessions and Q&A. Volunteer or just enjoy an evening with like-minded folks. DETAILS>> For times and places: ld18democrats.org/ calendar.
Chair yoga featured
TUESDAYS
Improve your speaking skills and meet interesting people at Ahwatukee Toastmasters meetings DETAILS>> 6:45-8 a.m at the Dignity Health Community Room, 4545 E. Chandler Blvd., Ahwatukee.
Homework help
Volunteer Eric will help with homework each Tuesday afternoon. DETAILS>> 4-5:30 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 5-18. Free. No registration required.
Coloring for grown-ups
Adult coloring promotes mindfulness, reduces stress, and improves cognitive motor skills. We’ll provide the markers, crayons, colored pencils, and coloring sheets; you just bring yourself and your friends! DETAILS>> 2-3 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.
Inner Vision Yoga Studio offers chair yoga to help seniors and people recovering from injuries to stay fit. DETAILS>> 1:30-2:30 p.m., 4025 E. Chandler Blvd., Ahwatukee. $5 per class. Information:
Toastmasters sharpen skills
Power Partners available
The Ahwatukee Chamber launched a new Power Partner Group last month. The exception is the second Tuesday of the month, when attendees are encouraged to attend the Wake Up Ahwatukee Morning Mixer. Unlike our Monday Power Group, this group will be non-category specific, meaning you can have more than one member in each business category. DETAILS>> 7:45-8:45 a.m. Early Baker, 15645 S. 40th St., Ahwatukee. Free Information:. Gina Jenkins, 480-9905444.
WEDNESDAYS TinkerTime
Explore hands-on creative ways to design, experiment, and invent while learning about Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) through tinkering DETAILS>> 4-6 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 5-12. Free. No registration required.
Sit, Stay, Read!
Young readers and listeners can sign up for reading time with a registered therapy animal and human team. Read to Truffles every Wednesday. DETAILS>> 3-4 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 5-10. Free. No registration required.
Watercolor classes available
Watercolor classes that teach both bold and beautiful as well as soft and subtle approaches to the art are available twice a week for beginners and intermediate students who are at least 15 years old. Step-by-step instruction and personal help are provided. DETAILS>> 2:30-5 Wednesdays and 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturdays at Hobby Lobby, 46th Street and Ray Road, Ahwatukee. Cost: $25 per class, $80 for four classes. Registration required: jlokits@yahoo.com or 480-471-8505.
Montessori holds open house
Ahwatukee Foothills Montessori holds an open house weekly. It includes a short talk about Montessori education, followed by a tour of its campus. DETAILS>> 4 p.m. Wednesdays, 3221 E. Chandler Blvd., Ahwatukee. Information: 480-759-3810
Grief support is free
Hospice of the Valley offers a free ongoing grief support group for adults and is open to any adult who has experienced a loss through death. No registration required.
COMMUNITY 29 DETAILS>> 6-7 p.m. first and third Wednesdays, Pecos Community Center, 17010 S. 48th St. 602-636-5390 or HOV.org. Foothills Women meet
An informal, relaxed social organization of about 90 women living in the Ahwatukee Foothills/Club West area. A way to escape once a month to have fun and meet with other ladies in the area. Guest speaker or entertainment featured. DETAILS>> 7 p.m. second Wednesday of the month, Foothills Golf Club, 2201 E. Clubhouse Drive. Contact Shelley Miller, president, at 602-527-6789 or essentiallyshelley@gmail.com
Parents can ‘drop in’
Parents are invited to join a drop-in group to ask questions, share ideas or just listen to what’s going on with today’s teenagers. DETAILS>> 5:30-7 p.m. second Wednesday of each month. Maricopa Cooperative Extension, 4341 E. Broadway Road, Phoenix. Free. RSVP at 602-827-8200, ext. 348, or rcarter@cals.arizona.edu.
‘Dems and Donuts’ set
Legislative District 18 Democrats gather for an informal chat. DETAILS>> Free and open to the public 7:30-9 a.m. the third Wednesday of the month at Denny’s, 7400 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler. RSVP: marie9@q.com or 480592-0052.
LD 18 Dems meet in Tempe
The Legislative District 18 Democrats meet the second Monday of the month. DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m. social time, 7-8:30 p.m. meeting time. Because the location may be different from month to month, see ld18democrats.org. Information: ld18demsinfo@gmail.com. Free and open to the public.
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TU superintendent selection was tough on everyone, including citizens BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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have met Dr. Anna Battle only once and it wasn’t under ideal circumstances – unless you consider meeting someone on the field after the Tukee Bowl, surrounded by a frenzy of noisy celebration, a good place to meet anyone. But as I watched the Tempe Union High School District governing board on Thursday night announcing its selection for its next superintendent, I felt a pang of sympathy for her. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve never met the administrator she lost out to. But when I say I felt bad for Battle, that doesn’t mean I disagree with the board’s choice of her colleague, Dr. Kevin Mendivil. Everything said about him last week, his credentials and his experience all speak highly of him and the board’s choice. In truth, the board faced a nearly impossible choice. It was interesting to see how the 3-2 decision in Mendivil’s selection came down partly to how board members differed on what experience was important for the job even as they praised both candidates’ job records. On the one hand, Sandy Lowe and Michelle Helm felt Mendivil had the edge because he had worked in two other school districts at a district level and that his cumulative experience at a district lev-
el totaled 11 years as opposed to Battle’s three. But Berdetta Hodge and board President Anne McClenahan felt Battle’s 32 years with Tempe Union showed her commitment to the district and augured well for her leadership and devotion as a superintendent of the same district. Indeed, Hodge stressed Battle’s climb up the career ladder of public education, from a teacher to a high school principal for 12 years – eight of them at Desert Vista High. Battle clearly feels she hasn’t stopped climbing. Earlier this year, she was one of three finalists for the job of executive director of the Arizona Interscholastic Association, the organization that governs high school sports in the state – an area where Battle has developed considerable expertise and influence. Now, she is one of four finalists for the superintendent’s post in Gilbert Public Schools, a far different kind of school system than the one she’s worked in for so long because it includes elementary schools. Gilbert also differs a lot from the three municipalities within Tempe Union’s boundaries. It’s just as affluent as Chandler, Ahwatukee and Tempe but probably a lot more conservative overall. That conservativism has frequently played out in GPS’ politics, creating some of the Valley’s nastiest school board races over the last 10 years as a result of conflict-
ing ideologies. That district also is struggling far more with declining student enrollment, largely because of the high number of charter schools that have siphoned hundreds of students from GPS’ pupil population. Battle and the other three GPS candidates were to appear at a public forum Tuesday, Sept. 19, as the board continues its selection process. The way that process is being run by the Arizona School Boards Association, which the GPS board invited in, is interesting. The cards that audience members will write their questions on are color-coded so the moderators can make sure they’ve asked questions from students, staff, parents and the general public. That leads me to say something about the way Tempe Union went about finding a replacement for Superintendent Kenneth Baca, who is leaving at the end of this school year. The board had a lot to say about why it was eschewing any public forum on the two candidates. Several members noted they hear from the public all the time, including at the grocery store. If you were one of the interested citizens who just happened to recognize and then approach one of the five members at the local Fry’s, I congratulate you. I’m sure you had all your questions answered and any hopes for Baca’s successor duly noted as you contemplated the firm-
ness of a cantaloupe or waited for the deli worker to slice you up a pound of lunch meat. I’m not questioning the board’s choice nor any of the other elaborate hoops and ladders it set up for Battle and Mendivil. What I am questioning is why it put so much of the process behind closed doors. We won’t see the questions the board asked the two candidates, let alone the answers. We won’t see the report that a lawyer put together on his interviews with 18 Tempe Union staffers and others about the candidates. Indeed, we don’t even know whom he interviewed. Nor will we see the essays Battle and Mendivil wrote to two “writing prompts” the board came up with. And, of course, we won’t see the prompts themselves. Personally, the number of closed doors in this process was more than a little disconcerting. I am not impugning either the board members’ integrity or their ability to make a decision – especially one as tough as this one was. But I do think the curtain around the selection process didn’t let in nearly enough sunshine that citizens deserved. In the end, that curtain made a selection process that already was tough on the two candidates just as tough on those who were outside looking in. Nevertheless, I hope the public can congratulate Mendivil and wish him the best in his new job – and hope Battle grabs the brass ring she has earned.
'Moving the cross here is a transformational signal of light' BY STAN MURASKY AFN Guest Writer
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ast Saturday evening, 100 members of Mountain Park Community Church gathered at their cross atop a hill near 24th Street and Pecos Road. They prayed, sang hymns and awaited an exciting new beginning. Many folks spoke of what this cross had meant to them over the years. There were stories of celebration, joy, and sometimes, stories of sorrow. And there would be some untold stories that only this old wooden cross and
surrounding rocks would ever know. The following day, the Mountain Park cross would make its 3.7-mile, 90-minute journey to a new location at the intersection of 48th Street and Frye Road, Ahwatukee. On Sunday morning, an estimated 1,000 Mountain Park Church members, family, guests and neighbors gathered to join in the moving of the church’s cross to their new location. The uniqueness of this move is that it would not be transported on a truck bed as some had suggested. It would be carried on a hand-made trailer and pulled by church
members and staff to its new destination. Escorted by Phoenix police, the route included Liberty Lane through the community of Lakewood, down Frye Road and onto 48th street. “It was an idea that came to me in a dream,” said Gene Taylor, a prayer leader at the church. Some said it sounded next to impossible when Gene first presented his idea. Once the cross was trailed and ready to roll, senior pastor Allan Fuller offered a prayer for safety, and with a huge smile he said “its time to go.”
Upon safe arrival at the new church he said, “Christianity has changed, the Church has changed, Christian leaders have changed, but this cross still means something.” Rita Puckett, another Mountain Park member said, “Moving the cross here is a transformational signal of light.” The grand opening for members and guests will be at 9 a.m. Oct. 1. Information: mountainpark.org Stan Murasky is a Mountain Park Community Church member.
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#NeverForget that we were at our best as a nation after 9/11 BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ AFN Columnist
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he two words appeared everywhere last week in the days surrounding Sept. 11, the phrase offered like a magical incantation meant to conjure a sense of reverence in the writer or speaker, reader or listener. Never forget. Or #NeverForget, depending on the medium. I saw those words so often last week that the sentiment began to feel like a brand tagline, Madison Avenue wordplay meant to pitch a product rather than express anything sincere or profound. You know the slogans I’m talking about. You see them and hear them all the time. There’s Nike’s classic “Just do it.” Apple’s “Think different.” McDonald’s “I’m lovin’ it.” And now America’s “Never forget.” This brings me to a question, the point of this comparison: Sixteen years after 9/11 and the worst terrorist attack ever perpetrated on U.S. soil, what exactly is
it that we are ceaselessly urged never to forget? Monday morning, shortly before the moments of silence offered as tribute to the nearly 3,000 victims of 9/11, I listened to talk show commentators and callers recall precisely where they were when the jet planes struck the Twin Towers and how they felt at the sight of those magnificent buildings toppled at the hands of evildoers. On social me-
finally I put my finger on it – the thing I wish we would all never forget, the quality that would lift those two words out of the realm of marketing and place them back where they belong, as an exhortation not to mere thought, one more social media post, but to action. You know what we should never forget? What it meant to be an American in the aftermath of 9/11. We were at our best as a nation in those
“ The spirit seized us so quickly, it happened even as the terrorists attacked us. ” dia, friends posted images of the World Trade Center emblazoned with the Stars and Stripes, and offered tributes to loved ones and acquaintances lost in the tragedy. Elsewhere, I read screeds against kowtowing to terrorists, foreign policy prescriptions for the Middle East and political rants about the dangers of radical Islam. There was a lot of jabber, a lot of never forgetting. Still, something felt like it was missing. It took a few days, but
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Roll we did in the months after 9/11. The partisan walls that divide us – walls that today feel higher than ever – also came down with the planes and towers. We helped the wounded and the families of the fallen. We donated billions. We gave our blood, toil and prayers. We showed reverence through action, not through hashtags and memes. We exhibited compassion and grace. We were that best version of ourselves possible, the self we could be, should be, when crisis demands it. That commitment to country before self was bound to vanish, I guess. New spectacles gripped us. Elections came and went. Leaders disappointed us. Kardashians fascinated us. Life went on. Maybe now, 16 years later, a slogan is the best we can do. Maybe a hashtag is better than nothing. Or maybe we would do well to never forget not only what we lost on 9/11, but who we were in that moment and what we, 325 million Americans, were able to do united as one. – David Leibowitz has called the Valley home since 1995. Contact david@leibowitzsolo. com.
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decades-old New MexicanMexican restaurant has set its sights on Ahwatukee for expansion. And now that he has secured its liquor license, Frank & Lupe’s owner Teddy Bernal is ready to open the throttle on his restaurant with dinner, happy hour and even catering from its base in the strip mall on the south side of Chandler Boulevard between 49th and 48th streets. Bernal, a third-generation restaurateur whose family traces its roots to New Mexico and partly to Mexico, runs the third duplication of the restaurant that his parents, Frank and Lupe Bernal, started 42 years ago and still run today in Socorro, New Mexico. For the last 22 years, he and his brother have been running the child of that restaurant in Old Town Scottsdale. Over the summer, Teddy Bernal decided with his parents and brother that it was time for Frank and Lupe’s to extend its footprint. He landed in a spot that had been vacant since a Brazilian rodizio folded 18 months ago. “A customer owns the building and had been trying to get me out to take a look at it and finally did a few months ago,” Bernal said. “It’s a nice, open space and it has the bar. “A lot of people jumped the gun and went to Gilbert, but I heard a lot of people here talking about how Ahwatukee needed more smaller restaurants, less corporate.” “People are craving something original without having to go over the bridge to Chandler,” he added. “It’s a good location. It’s a really nice neighborhood,” he said. “There are a lot of people who work around here, so it looks like a good happy hour location.” Though he is still adding a few more personal touches to the large open space, he’s almost done with decorating – except for the patio he hopes to open
before the end of the year in the parking area in front of the restaurant. Inside an expansive space made more intimate with blow-ups of old family photographs from New Mexico, where his father was born and raised, and Mexico, where his mother was born, Bernal has positioned a century-old buckboard he found in Cave Creek. “I’m trying to make this as homey as possible,” he said. “I have a few more artifacts I want to bring from home.” Besides serving as a testament to Bernal’s skill in getting it through the front door, the wagon recalls the days when farmers hauled chile peppers and agave. It also recalls the days long ago when Bernal’s grandfather ran a diner near a Greyhound bus station in Socorro – until the rise of the airline industry basically ran the bus stop out of business. “It took a couple months to set up the way we wanted,” Bernal said. “What was nice was that everything was intact and we just had to add our flavor to it.” Once he opens for dinner within the next week or two, Frank & Lupe’s will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday. He takes Sunday off, though his older brother keeps the Scottsdale restaurant running seven days a week. “I’m more relaxed than him,” Bernal quipped. “He likes that Old Town hustle and bustle.” Bernal is also offering the same specialized service that he and his brother have been providing customers at the Scottsdale restaurant – made-toorder dishes if it’s not too busy, mainly Monday through Wednesday. “If a customer wants, say, lots of shrimp and says, ‘Make it spicy and put it on top of rice and lots of vegetables,’ we’ll do it,” he said.
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Teddy Bernal is ready to open Frank & Lupe’s Mexican-New Mexican restaurant, the third bearing the name of his parents' 42-year-old establishment in New Mexico. Many of the dishes are original creations of the owners.
The menu in Ahwatukee is identical to the one in Scottsdale. “They’re all my mom’s recipes,” said Bernal, who has worked all his life for his parents, starting with a tortilla factory in New Mexico and gradually working into management positions after attending the Scottsdale Culinary Institute. He said he didn’t think he needed culinary school because of the education he had from his parents, but he opted for that instead of a four-year college. It also turned out to be a fortuitous choice, since it was while he was a student that he became aware of the building where the Scottsdale restaurant has been located since it opened. “It used to be a French restaurant and the owner was selling it, so I called my parents and told them about it,” he said. Though he is involved in running the
restaurants, Bernal doesn’t stay away from his roots – namely, the kitchen. “I’ve always wanted to be in the kitchen somewhere,” he said. Consequently, he not only invents his own dishes – such as one with a specially made white poblano sauce – but rolls up his sleeves and joins the chef when the restaurant gets busy. As for the catering service, “if anyone wants to do it, we’ll do it now,” he said. “We do a lot of private parties, do a lot of parties in homes,” he said. If he has any regrets, it’s a slight matter of timing. “This is just the perfect time to open, but I wish I had been a little bit sooner just because of the liquor license.” But now that he’s got it, Bernal is ready. He hopes Ahwatukee is too.
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n idea that came to him as an Arizona State junior turned Tom Hatten into a successful entrepreneur. His company, Mountainside Fitness, is celebrating its 25th anniversary and opened a 14th location this summer at the Marina Heights development on Tempe Town Lake. “It’s taken decades (to build the brand),” Hatten said. “Now when we put the Mountainside ‘M’ up, everyone knows. Which is kind of cool.” Even while Hatten was pursuing a degree in education in the early 1990s, he had an interest in fitness. One day, he decided to take the business route and secure a loan to open up his first health club. Hatten’s parents offered to co-sign on a $15,000 loan to help start up the business. During Hatten’s time in high school, he and his friends would hang out in Ahwatukee near a shopping center called Mountainside Plaza. It was the inspiration for the Mountainside Fitness name.
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Mountainside Fitness’ newest location offers a view of Tempe Town Lake while working out.
In March 1991, the 4,800-square-foot location debuted. Step aerobics were popular at the first club but Hatten couldn’t afford to purchase the equipment. His dad, a shop teacher at McClintock High School, allowed him to raid his classroom and the two built 4-inch, 6-inch and 8-inch steps. They painted them teal, which would rub off on the new hardwood floors. Making equipment wasn’t Hatten’s
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Mountainside Fitness’ newest center is located right off of Tempe Town Lake. It’s the company’s 14th location.
only challenge. He was one of the first gym owners to offer complimentary towel service, which meant Hatten would take towels home to wash and then return the next day. “This company was built by the people,” Hatten said. “We are so ingrained into this community. It’s our home.” The business has a family feel. The company’s director of marketing, Brittany Mahoney, said members and employ-
ees from that first Ahwatukee location 25 years ago have children attending and working at the gyms now. Plans for two more locations are in the works, Hatten said, but didn’t specify where. “Not only are they bringing more jobs, it’s great to see a locally owned company and community supporter continuing to expand,” Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell said.
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Wages increased more here than elsewhere in nation BY KARA CARLSON Cronkite News
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ages in the Phoenix metro area increased more than anywhere else in the United States in the past year, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. From July 2016 to July 2017, hourly wages grew 7.6 percent, according to a release from the city of Phoenix using the latest labor numbers. The average hourly wage in Phoenix grew nearly $2 in the past year, from $24.87 to $26.75. Phoenix-area workers earned slightly more than the national average wage of $26.36. However, the Phoenix metro area’s population makes it the 12thlargest market, and the area falls below the average hourly wage of its Top 15 market peers, which is $28.94. Phoenix ranked 23rd overall in wages. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton said
that advanced industries have driven the wage increases. “We’ve been laser focused on building a more innovation-driven economy that works for everyone, and we’re seeing great results,” Stanton said in a statement released Thursday. Eric Toll, a spokesman for Phoenix’s community and economic development department, said Phoenix has tried to attract jobs in fields such as health care, technology, precision manufacturing and financial services. From August 2016 to August 2017, employers added about 34,900 jobs in the Phoenix metro area, Toll said. City officials categorize more than 20,000 of those as jobs in “advanced” fields. Toll said in 2007, most of the Phoenix area jobs were in fields such as retail or construction, which relied on consumers. That left businesses especially vulnerable
in a recession. But he said the market has changed, and the city now considers more jobs “high value” – jobs that pay more than $50,000, the average monthly household income in Maricopa County. Jennifer Mellor, vice president of economic development at the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, said the wage increase could have long-term benefits. “The increase in our average salary is a strong indicator that high-wage type people are coming to the region or people are working their way up in the region, which is only going to continue to incentivize companies to decide to either stay here or relocate here,” Mellor said. “Having a more diverse economy that’s more reliant on more types of positions is going to benefit us long
term,” Mellor said. Mellor said that in the event of a recession, this diversity would put Phoenix’s economy in a “much better place to stabilize” because it won’t rely on one specific industry or growth. Entry level positions also saw a wage increase last year when Arizona passed Proposition 206, raising minimum wage from $8.05 to $10. Toll said higher minimum wage may play a role in the overall wage increase, but he credited the increase in higherlevel jobs as a larger reason because these higher jobs have higher averages of pay. Mellor said the overall wage increase and influx of higher-skilled workers benefits all skill levels. “For every highly skilled job, it creates two or three entry level type positions, and those are vitally important to our economy as well,” Mellor said.
East Valley cities line up to win new Amazon headquarters BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Tribune Staff Writer
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mazon started a national bidding war earlier this month when it announced it is in search of a location for its second U.S. headquarters. The announcement has drawn interest from several East Valley cities that are jumping at the chance to bring the online retail giant – and tens of thousands of jobs – to the area. Amazon already has a presence in Arizona with a distribution center in the West Valley and a corporate office in Tempe, though the size of both of those facilities pales in comparison to the forthcoming new headquarters, also known as HQ2. The company plans to spend roughly $5 billion constructing HQ2, which could eventually bring up to 50,000 high-paying jobs, according to an Amazon press release. The facility is expected to be comparable to Amazon’s current Seattle headquarters, which that features 33 buildings totaling over 8 million square feet. Based on the company’s request for proposal – which seeks a business-friendly metropolitan area with more than 1 million people – the East Valley appears to fit the bill for HQ2. Several local leaders agree. “We received the RFP (on the morn-
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ing of Sept. 7),” Mesa Economic Development Director Bill Jabjiniak said via email. “As usual, we will do a full evaluation of the opportunity. It is still early, but we do expect to submit several sites.” An obvious potential site for HQ2 in Mesa would be the city’s still-developing Elliot Road Technology corridor, which already is home to an Apple command center. The corridor has the utility infrastructure in place to support a massive
high-tech facility and is in close proximity to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. Mesa won’t be alone in its attempts to woo Amazon to the East Valley, though. Like Mesa, Chandler will attempt to use its existing technology industry to attract Amazon. Its Price Corridor already is home to Intel and its 11,000 jobs and features a robust infrastructure grid. With Intel, Orbital ATK and PayPal already in the city, Chandler has strong cre-
dentials as Amazon is looking for “urban or suburban locations with the potential to attract and retain strong technical talent,” according to the press release. “Absolutely, we will put together a package for Amazon,” Chandler Economic Development Director Micah Miranda said. The city was aware of the opportunity prior to the RFP going out and is currently in the process of going through its due diligence and “scouring” every potential site across the city, Miranda said. “I think the thing that really sets Chandler apart is it is pro-business, fiscally responsible and has great schools and great transportation,” Miranda said. Tempe, the only East Valley city that already has an Amazon facility, will look to leverage that existing relationship with the company to bring the project to the city. “Tempe will work with Greater Phoenix Economic Council to offer a site in our city to be considered, alongside any others from our region,” Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell said in an email. “We would be glad to see the region considered for this campus.” Mitchell also pointed out that the entire region will benefit if Amazon chooses an HQ2 site in any city in the Phoenix metropolitan area. – Reach Wayne Schutsky at 480-898-6533 or wschutsky@timespublications.com.
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One of parents’ jobs: Teaching their children to sacrifice BY LYNNE HARTKE AFN Guest Writer
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ow many children do you have?” the young mother asks me before a class I am teaching. “Four.” “So, you are an expert.” I laugh. “Most of my parenting years with young children are a blur.” A blur of sleep-shortened nights and peanut butter kisses and ice cream cones dripping out the bottom and wondering if my kitchen floor would ever be clean more than three minutes and endless piles of laundry and scrambling to fix one more meal and reruns of Barney and
Sesame Street and stepping on Barbie shoes or Legos in the middle of the night and waking up from a dead sleep when I heard a child gag and beating every Olympic record of racing into a bedroom in hopes of catching puke before it hit the floor – but rarely being successful. I notice a desperate look in the woman’s eyes. “What are you wondering?” I ask. She goes into a story of an active toddler who needs to be kept busy and to get out of the house and a year-old baby who still needs morning naps and how do you juggle it all as a mother and how do you see to the needs of both children and, really, how do you cope? I smile because I have been there. Sometimes I am still there – wanting to
do it all and thinking there is a formula for everything and if I just do everything right, then...then...my child (my career, my body, my marriage, my friendships) will be, well, perfect. This belief drives us as mothers, as fathers, as women, as men, as friends, as co-workers. This belief that if we give and give and do and do, then those around us will be happy. “Family is about sacrifice,” I say to the mother, and her eyes glaze over as she grimaces and wonders how can she possibly sacrifice more, but I rush to correct her misconception. “One of our jobs as parents is to teach our children to sacrifice,” I say. “Love is patient. Love is kind,” I quote from 1 Corinthians 13:4. “The patient
side of love requires sacrifice.” A 2-year-old brother is not too young to begin to learn that his sister needs a nap. There will be days he gets special attention, but there will be days that his sister needs extra time. One of the lessons that helped me when we were juggling a calendar with four children was that sometimes the family sacrifices for the sake of the individual, but sometimes the individual sacrifices for the sake of the family. Life is about the sacrifice of patient love and isn’t this the lesson we need to first learn in families? -Lynne Hartke is an author and wife of Vice Mayor and pastor Kevin Hartke. Reacher her at Lynnehartke@gmail.com.
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or a team that finished third in the 6A Conference in 2016 and fell short in the state title game, Mountain Pointe High School looks to be doing everything it can to avenge last season’s disappointments. A week after upsetting then-No.1 Chandler on the road, top-ranked Mountain Pointe kept its foot on the gas pedal Friday, cruising to a 35-3 victory over No. 22 Mesa Mountain View. “We were dominant on both offense and defense tonight,” Mountain Pointe coach Norris Vaughan said. “Our quarterback made plays and our backs ran really hard behind our line for most of the game.” Mountain Pointe (3-1) wasn’t perfect on either side of the ball. It racked up over a dozen penalties throughout the game, which allowed Mountain View (2-2) a time of posses-
Kenny Churchwell and Lacarea Pleasant-Johnson kept the Toros out of the end zone numerous times despite the long list of penalties. “[They] certainly made their fair share of plays,” Vaughan said. “We were so dominant on defense, but it was the penalties that allowed them to stay on the field and keep their drives going.” For the second straight week, Mountain Pointe got the of(Cheryl Haselhorst/AFN Contributor) Mountain Pointe’s Jakim McKinney evades a Mountain View tackler on fensive push up front his way into the end zone for the Pride’s first touchdown. that it is accustomed to seeing, which cresion that seemed like an eternity. Fortu- ated a plethora of holes for the backfield. nately for the Pride, secondary play from After a drive early on led to a touch-
down run by Jakim McKinney, a hole opened up once again to start the second quarter and Gary Bragg scampered for a 23-yard touchdown to give the Pride a 14-3 lead. A critical mistake to go for it on fourth down deep in their own territory came back to bite the Toros right before halftime. Mountain Pointe took over possession at the Toros’ 23-yard-line and a few plays later, McKinney ran it in from nine yards out for his second touchdown of the game. “We’ve all been working really hard at practice,” McKinney said. “Sometimes the guys up front make mistakes but they get right back up and they got a lot better tonight.” A few minutes before the half, Mountain View had its best opportunity to get back in the game but another crucial mistake proved costly. See
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Desert Vista High overcomes mistakes – and Brophy BY RYAN CLARKE AFN Contributor
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esert Vista High School head coach Dan Hinds has been focused on cleaning up mistakes for the first four weeks of his team’s season. Friday night at Phoenix College, the Thunder regressed in some of those areas, but they were able to grind out a 17-14 win over Brophy High. Hinds had a feeling the game would be close and physical, and it was. Despite its 1-4 record, Brophy has been competitive in its last four games. “It was a grind,” Hinds said. “They made it a grind and we made it a grind, too, with some mistakes we made. We’ve just got to continue to try and fix those things.” Desert Vista got the scoring started with under two minutes left in the second quarter, hitting a field goal to make it 3-0. Brophy finally broke the touchdown
drought just 33 seconds later as Donovan Arthur hauled in a screen pass and scampered 52 yards for the score. Through one quarter of an ugly affair, the Broncos led 7-3. Early in the second quarter was when Desert Vista finally found its offensive rhythm. Quarterback Derek Kline and company chewed up yards on screens and dumpoffs, making big plays and drawing penalties until they reached the red zone. Kline capped a quality drive with a strike to tight end James Stagg from 3 yards out, putting the Thunder on top 10-7 with 9:58 left in the second quarter. At the half, Desert Vista led 10-7 as tension started to build and things got chippy. Personal fouls were assessed for a scrum near midfield after the halftime whistle and both teams remained hardnosed for the remainder of the game. An interception by Clay Sokol in the middle of the third sparked the Thunder
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Desert Vista High School quarterback Derek Kline gets ready to sail the ball downfield.
offense once again. Kline took the field and soon after found his favorite target, Jake White, streaking up the sideline for a 32-yard touchdown. Both touchdown drives were a microcosm of Desert Vista’s potential, but over-
all the game was sloppy and riddled with mistakes for the Thunder – particularly on offense. Kline said this type of regression shouldn’t happen going forward. “We kind of went back to those bad See
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Pride, Thunder tuning up this weekend for the Tukee Bowl the game will be decided by not just execution but by the team’s commitment to discipline on both sides of the ball. A lack of discipline plagued the Thunder in the first game of the season against Perry and showed again as it battled the Broncos on Friday. Kline highlighted the mistakes after the game on Friday and admitted that it was something that needs to be addressed before their matchup with Dobson. Desert Vista is on a roll, and in order to keep its win streak alive, the defense will have to contain the strong running game that the Mustangs bring to the table. It starts with junior running back Issic Gomez. In its three victories this season, the 5-foot-5, 150-pound running back has been a key to the Mustang offense, running for 281 yards and four touchdowns. Aiding him is senior tailback Jared Haggard, who has added 21 carries for 109 yards in those three victories as well. When the running game has worked for the Mustangs, the passing game has opened. Junior quarterback Nicolas Saro has been the main benefactor, throwing
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ith the Ahwatukee Bowl just a week away, both Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe high schools seem to be hitting their stride. Since losing their first game of the season, the Thunder have won three straight games, including a nail-biting win over Brophy this past Friday. Desert Vista quarterback Derek Kline, who hasn’t thrown an interception since the team’s match with Perry, has started to show the Phoenix area why he is one of the top quarterbacks in the state. In four games, the 6-foot-5 gunslinger has thrown for 849 yards and nine touchdowns while running for a team-leading 150 yards. Desert Vista’s strengths lie in its versatility to take advantage of whatever the defense throws at it. Whether attacked on the ground or through the air, the Thunder can handle both. The team can stop the run and – with an entire secondary returning from last year – stymie a pass attack as well. In its upcoming matchup at home with the Dobson High Mustangs (3-1),
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for 326 yards and two touchdowns. His favorite target has been freshman wide receiver Xavier Jimenez, who has seven catches for 120 yards and a touchdown. Defensively, the Mustangs have caused four fumbles in their three victories and held their opponents to a combined 29 points. They have also scored 85 points against those opponents as well. Their lone loss against Gilbert High when Division I commit Jack Plummer threw for 133 yards and four touchdowns. Also, 10 different Tigers ran for a combined total of 213 yards. This game will come down to the Thunder staying disciplined on both sides of the ball and not allowing the Mustangs to establish a run game early in the ballgame. The two teams kick off at Desert Vista high school at 7 p.m. on Friday. Mountain Pointe vs. Pinnacle Mountain Pointe has won two games in a row against potential class 6A state playoff teams and its matchup this week will be no different, as it hosts Oklahoma commit Spencer Rattler and the Pinnacle Pioneers. The Pride have dominated this year
when they have established their running game. With Pinnacle struggling to stop the run game this season, look for head coach Norris Vaughan to do it once again this Friday night. The Chandler backfield duo of Drake Anderson and DeCarlos Brooks combined 216 yards on the ground against Pinnacle. Although they didn’t get into the end zone, establishing the run game allowed quarterback Billy Bolger to dump the ball into the flats, finding Anderson for four touchdowns. Centennial’s Zidane Thomas also thrashed the Pinnacle defense, carrying the ball 28 times for 334 yards and two touchdowns last week. Establishing a running game will be a key component for the Pride to capture its fourth win of the season and build momentum into the Ahwatukee Bowl. But, this is something the team has been able to do all season. Through four games, the Pride have rushed for 1,088 yards, which has opened options all over the field for quarterback Nick Wallerstedt. The real challenge will be stopping
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On a screen pass out left, quarterback Brandon Nuñez hit Jacobby Dinwiddie in the flat and the offensive line carved out an open path to the end zone as Dinwiddie took it to the house for what seemed like a must-have touchdown. Unfortunately, a holding penalty negated the touchdown pass and Mountain Pointe went into the half with a 21-3 lead. From there the rout continued. On the opening play of the second half, a hole practically the size of Arizona opened and quarterback Nick Wallerstedt took the keeper all the way for a 77-yard touchdown run. “We knew what to expect tonight, and I felt like our guys came out and played really hard on both sides,” Vaughan said. “We just need to cut down on penalties.” Mistakes aside, the Pride forced two turnovers on defense and appeared from the start more overpowering and athletic than the Toros. To go along with four touchdowns on the ground, Wallerstedt connected with Pleasant-Johnson late in the fourth on a touchdown pass. He finished with a TD reception and an interception, which resulted in a
habits this week,” Kline said. “For next week against Dobson, we’ve just got to clean up that stuff.” Brophy would rally in the fourth quarter as John-Anthony Gonzalez took a 44-yard pass to pay dirt and brought the Broncos within three. After Desert Vista turned it over on downs, Brophy had one final drive to tie or take the lead. Multiple avoidable penalties by the Thunder and big plays by the Broncos resulted in a red zone trip in the game’s waning moments. A sack and penalty pushed Brophy back, so its final chance in the game rested on the foot of kicker
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Mountain Pointe’s Gary Bragg slips out of a tackle on his way to score the Pride’s second touchdown.
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Jackson Garcia. His attempt to tie the game was well short. Desert Vista picked up the first down it needed, ran out the clock and ran away with a narrow victory to move to 3-1. Hinds said facing a team like Brophy will be valuable down the road. This game showcased the mistakes that can no longer happen for the Thunder, while also giving them an opportunity to face a team that likes to bring the pressure. “These guys had a really nice blitz package, so we’re going to spend some time in the blitz pickup period this week,” Hinds said. “They had a good scheme, so we’ll just keep repping those things and getting better at it.”
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Rattler. In five games, the 6-foot-2, 185 pound gunslinger has been on a tear. He’s completed 91 passes for 1,066 yards and 10 touchdowns. He also has added 140 yards and three touchdowns on the ground. Although he has been exceptional, the young prospect has thrown an interception in every game but one. This is where the Pride could take advantage of one of the top quarterbacks in the state, as Mountain Pointe’s secondary has quickly risen to become one of the best in Arizona. The defense has picked off seven passes and have combined to deflect 34 more. The combination of Salgado, Kenny Churchwell, Marshawn Gibson, and others have only allowed more than 200 passing yards once this season. That came last Friday when Brandon Nunez threw for 201 yards, but he never found the end zone through the air. The two teams will kick off at Mountain Pointe for the first time this season at 7 p.m. on Friday. -Contact Sports Editor Greg Macafee at gmacafee@timespublications.com or by phone at 585-610-2344. Follow Greg on Twitter @greg_macafee
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ward. Sometimes you’re asked to hit a narrow fairway, or over a water hazard. Naturally, it is easy to get intimidated by your surroundings, but there’s one particular shot I see golfers get anxious over: hitting out of a fairway bunker. Golfers tend to over think the situation, but it really is a shot that shouldn’t cause you too much trouble as long as you keep it simple and follow these simple steps: If there’s one thought to concentrate on when playing a full shot from a fairway bunker, it’s to hit the ball before the sand. This is the key to success at long shots from sand. If the club head makes contact with the sand first, you lose a great deal of distance on the shot. Before setting foot in the bunker, look at the distance between you and the green and judge which club you need.
Then, providing there’s enough loft to clear the lip in front of you, take one longer club. The small adjustments you need to make in your swing means that the ball doesn’t travel quite as far as a shot from grass. Always remember that if the lip in front of you is so high that you can’t use a club long enough to reach the green, resist the temptation to try anything adventurous. It usually ends in disaster. Just accept that you can’t attack the pin this time – make sure of your escape and go for the green with your next shot. In these situations, a cagey approach keeps you out of trouble. Work your feet into the sand just
enough to give yourself a firm footing. Put a little more than half your weight on your front foot. This promotes a steeper swing arc which helps you strike the ball cleanly. Grip slightly further down the club as an extra precaution against taking too much sand. Play the ball further back in your stance than for a shot from grass. This helps ensure the clubhead is on a downward path into impact. Make a three-quarter backswing for maximum control – the choice of one more club removes any doubt about distance. Make sure that your head remains very still on the downswing. Dipping down is likely to cause a heavy shot. If you come up off the ball – even just slightly – you’re in real danger of hitting it thin. Keep your hands ahead of the club head at impact and resist looking up to see where the ball is going. You should be only concerned with how close you just hit it to the flag. -Alex Fisher of Ahwatukee, a PGA-certified golf Instructor and founder of the Ahwatukee Golf Academy, gives golf lessons at the Foothills Golf Club. Reach him 602-3639800.
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ix two seasoned restaurateurs with escargot and other classic French food, then add a dose of family-oriented charm and you have a winning recipe for a Chandler restaurant toasting its one-year anniversary. Cuisine & Wine Bistro on South Alma School Road is busy with diners eager to try the flavorful escargot, veal chop, cuisses de grenouille or frog legs – as well as quiche, chocolate soufflé and other French specialties prepared by head chef and co-owner Fabrice Buschtetz. Customers also like to sip the 125 different types of wine, many of which are French. Fabrice, a France native and longtime chef, owns the restaurant with his wife, Ireland native Mairead Buschtetz. Mairead and Fabrice owned and managed several restaurants together in France before moving to Gilbert. “People are lucky enough to eat food prepared by a chef who’s been doing it for 30 years,” Mairead said. “He puts a lot of love into his food. He’s very passionate about it. It’s in their blood; his grandmother and mother had restaurants. “I love good food,” Mairead added. “It’s cheaper than buying a ticket to Paris.” The couple’s romance blossomed when they met in Paris when Fabrice was 18 and Mairead was 19. On their first date, budding chef Fabrice cooked an omelet for Mairead, who worked in a hotel that housed the restaurant where Fabrice was employed. Their love ripened like a fine wine and later they went to work in a restaurant Fabrice’s mother had bought for him near Chantilly, France. Fabrice’s mother ran the front of the house in the restaurant and she trained Mairead as a waitress, while Fabrice worked as chef de cuisine. After successfully owning and managing several restaurants together in France, Mairead and Fabrice decided to fulfill Fabrice’s longtime dream to live in the United States. After visiting the United States many times, the pair finally moved to Gilbert with their children in 2013. They opened their first Cuisine & Wine Bistro on Warner Road east of McQueen Road in Gilbert in March 2015 before opening the Chandler location in August 2016. Business is a family affair, as the couple’s
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Longtime restaurateurs Mairead and Fabrice Buschtetz are celebrating the one-year anniversary of their Chandler restaurant, Cuisine & Wine Bistro.
son, Killian, 23, of Chandler, works front of house at the couple’s Chandler restaurant. Front-of-house responsibilities include looking after the servers, as well as greeting and serving customers and opening and closing the restaurant. Killian is also training to be a sommelier. Fabrice and Mairead’s daughter, Laura, 22, works front of house at the Gilbert eatery and their son, Steven, 25, of Chandler, runs the kitchen at the Gilbert Cuisine & Wine Bistro. While the Gilbert business is “more of a wine bistro,” where diners can drink wine as they listen to live music Friday and Saturday nights, the Chandler restaurant is “more of a dining experience,” Mairead said. Customers are supportive in the Chandler and Gilbert restaurants, though the Chandler one draws residents who like to call it a night a bit earlier, she said. The Chandler restaurant is open 3 to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday while the Gilbert establishment’s hours are 3 to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 3 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Mairead said people from as far as Tucson drive to the Chandler Cuisine & Wine Bistro
for the Escargots facon Fabrice, which are spicy, tender snails cooked in garlic butter with a tomato base served with croutons. The Tomahawk – a dry-aged, long-bone ribeye steak – is also a crowd favorite, as is a French fish soup or Soupe de Poissons. One of the chef’s recommended entrees is a 14-ounce, grilled Angus ribeye beurre Maître d’Hôtel served with cubed potatoes and a green salad. Another is the Espadon Grillé, Sauce Beurre Blanc, grilled swordfish with a beurre blanc sauce served with sautéed zucchinis. The owners say French natives like to dine at their restaurant and often request Fabrice make certain dishes for them. He is happy to accommodate them. The chef, who attended a culinary school northeast of Paris, said theirs is the only French restaurant in Chandler. Fabrice and Mairead like dining at another French restaurant in the Valley, Christopher’s Restaurant and Crush Lounge in Phoenix. Everything on the menu at Cuisine & Wine Bistro is homemade. “I really like to cook stew,” Fabrice said. “A lot of dishes have wine in the sauce,” he said, adding he’s “always loved cooking.”
Mairead is happy to help Fabrice in the kitchen and quick to sing his praises. “There’s nothing that he’s frightened of,” she said. “He has trained many young chefs, who have owned their own restaurants. He gives them the magic of it.” Mairead said the first year has been a success, with business growing. Initially the Chandler restaurant offered brunch on Sundays but the owners discovered diners were more interested in their famous dinners. Loyal Gilbert customers came to the dining business’ grand opening in Chandler and word quickly spread about the new location. “From the people who live here, they’ve been very supportive,” Mairead said. “We have some very, very good regular customers who come every week in the summer. We’re really looking forward to the winter coming up.” Friday and Saturday nights tend to attract about 75 customers, while about 35 diners usually visit the Chandler spot Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, she said. Mairead and Fabrice wanted to expand from their Gilbert restaurant eventually but had not planned to do it as quickly as they did. However, the property manager for the shopping center on Alma School Road near Chandler Heights Road asked them if they would consider opening their restaurant there, where a previous eatery has closed. “The area needed a restaurant like ours, family run,” with serious cuisine, Mairead said. “We like working with our family. It’s very good demographics (in Chandler). I think they love the fact that we work as a family. The people from Chandler are great people to help you. “You really depend on word of mouth.” She believes people also like to support an independently owned restaurant run by a creative family and to find French food in Chandler without having to drive to elsewhere in the Valley. The family’s personalities balance each other out. Mairead said she’s a talkative Irishwoman, while Fabrice is shy but smiles often as he is happy living in this country. He also loves country music and classic cars and often rides a motorcycle with Mairead as his passenger. While some people might think the dishes will be “expensive” with a “very small quanSee
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oger Clyne and P.H. Naffah of the Peacemakers walk into the all-white room in Phoenix’s Parkwood Studios, prepared for a cover shoot. Clyne adjusts his trademark floppy hat in a nearby mirror, while Naffah twirls his drumsticks between his fingers. “Let’s do this,” Clyne said. That statement represents go-get-‘em attitude of Clyne and his Peacemakers. If it wasn’t for that, Clyne wouldn’t have been able to maintain his 20-some-odd-year career playing music to the masses. His latest missive is “Native Heart,” a 10-track project produced by Grammy win-
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ner/Los Lobos musician Steve Berlin and mixed by Michael Brauer at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. Word got around even before the album was released on June 30, creating a buzz. “I saw people out there wearing preorder T-shirts,” Clyne said. “We saw some in Atlanta. There were people singing (the first single) ‘Flowerin’’ and ‘Every Kind of Lucky.’ Fans were getting familiar with it before it hits the shelves, so to speak.” Although the records fare well, live shows are the Peacemakers’ bread and butter, Clyne explained. “I think it just goes back to no matter how the record gets disseminated – i.e., radio, internet, record store shelves or if somebody burned it on a mixtape – our band is a live band,” he said, adding: “We connect to people person to person. We stay touring, even though it’s energy intensive. The Peacemakers’ voice becomes their voice. We speak with one heart – one ‘native heart,’ so to speak, to go back to that.” The Peacemakers will perform during the 10th annual SanTan Brewing Oktoberfest on Saturday, Sept. 30, in Chandler. “This is our fourth time playing,” Clyne
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said. “We opened for Matisyahu one year, and Reel Big Fish another. I think they’re playing with us this time. “They offered us the chance to headline, but I want to do my work and go and enjoy the beer.” S e r i o u s l y, though, Arizona is where Clyne’s heart is. “Any show in Arizona is great,” he said. “First, I love Arizona. Two, I love the Peacemakers and three, I love rock ‘n’ roll. It all comes to a confluence.” That belief creates a bond between the Peacemakers and their fans. “The line between band and fan is really (Kimberly Carrillo/AFN Photographer) blurred and we’re just a Drummer P.H. Naffah, left, and Roger Clyne will perform with the rest See
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tity of food,” they are pleasantly surprised to find ample portions at reasonable prices, Mairead said. Appetizers range in price from $6 to $9, starters cost from $11 to $14 and the chef’s recommended entrees are priced from $18 to $30. During happy hour from 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, customers can buy wine for $2 off per glass and order appetizers for $6, as well as beers and well drinks for $5. For the rest of September, in honor of the Chandler restaurant’s one-year anniversary, happy hour will be extended. On Wednesdays this month, anyone who comes in and says “Happy Anniversary” can take advantage of happy hour prices from the time the restaurant opens until it closes at night. Fabrice and Mairead often adapt to meet customers’ desires. They are planning to expand and develop their selection of quiches at both restaurants. They plan to propose them in the restaurants, then offer them “to go,” then possibly sell them wholesale. For now, the couple is happy to enjoy this latest adventure. Their journey to Arizona occurred after a survey online revealed Arizona was one of the best areas in the United States in which to live.
After driving through the Phoenix area from Las Vegas, Mairead and Fabrice fell in love with the warm weather and mountains and their children were “all on board” with moving here, Mairead said. It’s a long way from Mitchelstown, a small town in County Cork, Ireland, where Mairead was born and raised. She wanted to explore the world and expand her horizons so she moved to Paris at age 18. “I always knew there was so much more that existed,” in the world, Mairead said. “You have to go and get out of your comfort zone. You have to learn other languages.” She went to school in Paris and Ireland to become a bilingual secretary, speaking French and English, then began working in the hotel industry before meeting Fabrice and entering the culinary world. “He made me an omelet with Swiss cheese; it was the best thing I’d ever tasted,” Mairead said. “We were made for each other.” Though the pair works long hours, Mairead said nothing quenches their thirst like working in the restaurant business. “It’s very much like a mosquito that bites you and (you) keep scratching,” she said. “You can’t do this if you’re not passionate about it. You do it because you love it.” Cuisine Wine & Bistro in Chandler is located at 4991 S. Alma School Road and the restaurant in Gilbert is at 1422 Warner Road. Information: cuisineandwinebistro.com.
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community of friends,” Clyne said. “I hang out with our fans because we’re all Peacemakers. We’re lucky that our music resonates with so many.” Clyne took a chance with the writing of “Native Heart” deciding to improvise instead of sitting down and creating a “statement of intent.” “For example, (2004’s) ‘Americano’ was largely an exploration into the price of the course of empire for a nation and an individual human heart,” he said. “For ‘Native Heart,’ I was approaching my 10th studio record, which is a hallmark for any artist, 20 years-plus in the business. I wanted the music to flow more spontaneously and explore what I would say without a statement of intent. ‘Native Heart’ is what came about. It’s a summation. It’s a compilation of free expression without following a path.” Clyne admits to being a perfectionist, something that’s clear when he describes his music. “I create a lot of things, a lot of music and I don’t use most of it,” he said. “At the same time, I never throw anything away. I work on my music quickly and spontaneously. I scrutinize my songs. I don’t want to put too much glaze on the songs, though.” Clyne, who penned the D-backs postgame song “D-backs Swing,” has something
to say about the passion he still carries for his job. “I’m so lucky to be able to do what I do, with whom I do it, and for whom I do it,” he said. “It’s a blessing every time I get to go on stage, or start writing a song. I can share them if I wish. It’s an honor.” Sometimes he doesn’t care to share his tracks; other songs he’ll suck up and release. “I might feel that I’m exposing too much of myself,” he said. “I understand that people come to cope with life and celebrate life and that’s an honor. It’s not an obligation but a privilege that I have a bunch of people asking me how I’m doing all the time. I get to share it in song.” Clyne hasn’t started writing new material yet, as he’s reveling in the newness of “Native Heart.” “It’s pretty atypical that I write immediately after a release,” he said. “That’s typically what I do. I’ll sing these songs as often and as loud and passionately as I can. Then I’ll walk back to my guitar, start strumming and see what’s next.”
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TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) is a weight loss organization that is over 60 years old. We meet at Ahwatukee Rec Center on Cheyenne between S. 48th St. and S. 51st St. on Wed. eve's from 67:30 p.m. For more information: Terri at 480-893-6742.
Beta Sigma Phi, a woman's cultural and social organization, is looking to reconnect with non-active members in the East Valley. New members are also welcome. Beta Sigma Phi is a non-college sorority, which offers "sisterhood" and "friendship" to women of all ages. You can never underestimate the importance of other women in your life. Contact: Gail Sacco at gailsacco@q.com
Aegis Hospice Grief/Loss Support Group We meet 6 pm on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. Legacy Funeral Home: 1722 N. Banning St. Mesa, Refreshments provided. Contact: Rick Wesley 480-219-4790 rick@ aegishospice.com
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In-Ahwatukee Toastmasters Club meets from 6:45-8am every Tuesday at Dignity Health Urgent Care Ahwatukee - Community Room (1st floor), 4545 E. Chandler Blvd., Phoenix, AZ 85048. Guests welcome anytime! http://4873.toast mastersclubs.org/
Overeaters Anonymous Tuesday's at 10:30 AM Esperanza Lutheran Church Ray & Thunderhill Crops of Luv
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Dining For Women (DFW) diningforwomen.org inspires, educates and engages people to invest in programs that make a meaningful difference for women and girls living in extreme poverty. DFW helps women find dignity and strength, develop skills and opportunities, value and support their children's education. We have a local chapter in Ahwatukee which meets the 3rd Thursday every month from 6:30 p.m.-8:30p.m. If you'd like to know more on how you can transform lives and reduce poverty contact Mary Hake at marysullivanhake @gmail.com
Ahwatukee Foothills Friends and Neighbors (AFFAN) is a women's organization, dedicated to cultivating friendships, and goodwill. AFFAN promotes social, charitable and educational events all year long. AFFAN holds monthly luncheon meetings with varied speakers. We offer over 40 monthly activities including Book Clubs, Canasta, Bunco, Euchre, and Bridge. Other monthly activities are Dining Out, Stitch and Chat, Explore Arizona, and Garden Club. Significant others/ spouses can attend some events. For more info contact Teresa Akrish Phone: 480-518-5788, teresaakrish@gmail.com Check our website at affanwomensclub.com
Bosom Buddies, Ahwatukee/Chandler nonprofit, breast cancer, support group, meets 10am-12 Noon on the 2nd Saturday of the month. Meetings are held every month at Desert Cove, located at 1750 W Frye Rd., Chandler 85224. This is just north (across the street) from the Chandler Regional Hospital. For more info, call Benji Tucker at 602-739-8822. AHWATUKEE FOOTHILLS SENIOR ASSOCIATION (AFSA) Attention: Seniors 55+ --- become a member of AFSA. Mark your calendars for the first Thursdayof every month and enjoy meeting new friends, have a delicious lunch, and be entertained. This all takes place at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel located at 51st St. and Elliot Rd. in Phoenix. Doors open at 11am and lunch is at Noon. Cost is $15. For further information and details, please call Sue McCann at (480) 469-9388.
PARENTS OF ADDICTED LOVED ONES Are you affected by someone who is dealing with an addiction? If so, know that you are not alone and that the PAL (Parents of Addicted Loved Ones) group can help. The group is available to provide education and support to anyone 18 years or older who is dealing with a friend or family member with an addiction. See our local meeting list at palgroup.org
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