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Gilbert school boundary changes rile parents BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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antos Porter said he moved his family to Gilbert’s Val Vista Lakes community specifically so his children could attend Highland High School. His son is a freshman at the high school and his two daughters, a seventh-grader and an eighth-grader at Highland Junior High, were expected to follow. “It’s the best place for my kids,” Porter said. “It’s the best school.” But under Gilbert Public Schools’ proposed boundary changes, Porter’s children would
end up going to Gilbert High School instead. And junior high students from that community would no longer attend Highland Junior High School but Greenfield Junior High. The proposal doesn’t sit well with Val Vista Lakes parents, who have submitted a petition protesting the change to the Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board. Val Vista Lakes parent Wendy Zamora said 550 people from her community signed the petition. “This is not an easy decision, it’s not one we take lightly,” said Reed Carr, who was voted board president by his peers in last week’s study session. “We realize we are disrupting lives.”
The board is scheduled to vote on the boundary changes at a public hearing Jan. 23 after taking public comments. If adopted, the changes would go into effect next school year. The school district is the larger of the two public school systems in Gilbert with over 30,000 students and 40 campuses. The district for the last eight to nine years has seen its student headcount drop due to factors such as aging neighborhoods, charter schools and open enrollment, according to Jason Martin, GPS elementary school executive director.
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isa described the abuse in her 15-year marriage as a slow drip that crept up on her. “It was very much a controlled situation that kind of slowly builds upon itself,” said the Gilbert resident, whose last name is not being used to protect her identity. “At the end, probably the last three to four years it was the most intense where I wasn’t able to really go anywhere. There were times he took my purse, keys, phone and computer and everything so I could not go to work that day.” There was also the time when he locked her out of the house in the middle of the night during an argument, the time he threw a computer across the room and broke the television and the time he chased her down the driveway and flung spouses victimized by domestic violence. Her group's work has won soda at her car windshield when she tried the admiration of the town prosecutor's office. to go to a hip-hop concert with girls from
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“We decided to nominate Winged Hope because of their ability to address victims’ unique needs,” said Dina Guilera, victim advocate for the office. “When we refer victims to Winged Hope, we know that they will be treated with dignity, respect and compassion.”
Helping thousands
Since its inception in 2013, Winged Hope has reached over 42,000 people across Arizona, including the number of direct victims as well as individuals reached with trainings and educational resources, according to Rebecca Hasulak, Winged Hope Board secretary. The group began offering direct victim services in June 2016 and since then helped 1,590 domestic violence victims and their families. The nonprofit serves the community in three ways: providing direct victim services, renovating and starting new family advocacy centers and presenting training statewide. The group and its board are volunteers with no paid staff and rely on donations. The group’s Hope Run, a 1-mile run/walk and 5K, coming up on April 6 at Freestone Park in Gilbert raises some money, but its main function is to bring awareness of programs available to the community. Law enforcement and other nonprofits that collaborate on attend the event. Winged Hope currently has 20 volunteers, says founder and CEO Jessica Nicely, a child abuse and domestic violence survivor who was a Miss Arizona USA contestant in 1979. Domestic violence reporting has steadily increased in Arizona over the last five years – a trend Nicely credits the growing awareness of the problem. “I started sharing my story 22 years ago when not many survivors were telling their story,” Nicely said. “I want people to make it normal that we talk about past trauma as part of the story and not have
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shame in it. Victims of violence always carry shame and I want people to understand they don’t have to hold onto it.” Winged Hope’s free training statewide has encouraged survivors to step forward. “When we do a training, 100 percent of the time we have a line of people ready to disclose their own trauma and abuse because they see someone talking about their past and history and it gives them strength and permission to tell their own story,” Nicely said. “That is what I really hope will start to change not only in Arizona but across the nation.”
Holistic approach
What sets Winged Hope apart from other nonprofits is its focus on the whole family. “We serve children who have witnessed domestic violence,” Nicely said. “Currently in the state of Arizona, a child who witnesses domestic violence is not considered a victim and doesn’t get victim services through the state.” Exposure to such violence is the single greatest predictor of juvenile delinquency and adult criminality, she said. Children are one of the largest groups Winged Hope provides out-sourced therapy for. “We heal the whole family,” said Nicely, a Gilbert resident. “We have a family where the second marriage involved domestic violence. We are providing therapy for the non-offending father of the first marriage and the grandparents in that situation so they could know what they need to look out for, how to heal the children because of the domestic violence they’ve witnessed.” “We look at what household these children go back to and get them the proper care and healing and the understanding of the impact of domestic violence on children.” Winged Hope also provides therapy to adult sexual-abuse survivors, no matter how long ago that abuse occurred. “The abuse may have happened 20 to 30 years ago, but they are ready for therapy now,” Nicely said. “We recog-
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Winged Hope CEO Jessica Nicely filming for the group's child sexual abuse prevention videos that are shown at churches around the nation. The group partnered with SafeHive on this.
nize that adult survivors who don’t heal are not always the best and effective parents they can be. They don’t have the eyes to see violence that comes into their home and predators count on that. “We want people to understand no matter how long ago the abuse happened, there is always a chance for healing.” Winged Hope’s new endeavors include forming a domestic violence support group sometime this year. Currently, Catholic Charities is the only one providing that service in the Southeast Valley, according to Nicely. Working in collaboration with Catholic Charities, the support group will include a victim advocate and a therapist, she said. Winged Hope also has partnered with the national nonprofit Camp Hope, which runs camps for children who have witnessed abuse or have been abused themselves.
“We’ve started the collaboration and will go through training for one year and then look at other camps around the nation and start our first in Arizona in 2020,” Nicely said. This will be a chance for children who have experienced this kind of trauma to get together since it is hard for them to relate to others who have not gone through domestic violence, according to Nicely. This program especially is close to Nicely’s heart, who experienced and witnessed abuse from her father, who later killed himself. “A lot of the programs we offer touched my life,” she said. “I love the idea of Camp Hope. As a child going through this, you pretend you are like everyone and everything is OK, but it’s not. The concept of Camp Hope is they can be around other children who
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know exactly what they are going through.” Nicely said she got help in high school by attending a support group for children of alcoholics. “I told the counselor what was happening at home and I was getting healing while still living with the abuse,” she said. “That really is part of why I am able to be as healthy as I am. “Also, the work I do is very healing,” she added. “It’s incredible the feeling and experience you get when you’re (working) with someone who is living this same kind of abuse and offering them hope.”
Staggering number of victims
On average, 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States or more than 12 million women and men over the course of a year, according to The National Domestic Violence Hotline. In the state, an estimated 1.3 million women are victimized by intimate partners each year with one in every four women experiencing domestic violence in her lifetime, the Arizona De-
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partment of Health Services reported, adding many such cases are never reported to the police. And, according to the state Attorney General’s Office, the rate of intimate partner homicides in Arizona is 45 percent higher than the national average. Lisa came in contact with Winged Hope in 2017 during the middle of her divorce. She came home one day from work to find her patio door shattered. She knew immediately her husband was responsible. The two had separated in 2016 after Lisa had him removed from the home with a restraining order. Lisa, who was working with Gilbert Police and Gilbert Prosecutor’s Office on her case, called about the incident. “They said, ‘don’t worry about the window, we will figure it out, we have an organization we are working with,’” Lisa recalled. Winged Hope stepped in and helped replace the window along with Gilbert Police’s Family Violence Unit that had a victims’ fund, Lisa said. “In March of that year, he did the same thing and threw a baseball-size rock through the picture window in the family room,” she said. “Again Winged Hope and the department stepped up and helped me replace that win-
dow.” Both rock-throwing incidents were caught on Lisa’s home-security cameras. Winged Hope also provided her advice, reassurances and connected her with a family attorney because of ongoing harassment from her ex-husband, who had sought full custody of the children. Another big help was the group’s volunteer victim advocates, one of whom accompanied Lisa to her court hearings. “The first six months of the criminal case, I was not in the right frame to be in a courtroom for that type of prosecution after he broke my windows,” she said. “They escort you to the courtroom, sit with you and block the line of sight between your abuser and you.” With her vision blocked, Lisa didn’t have to contend with her husband turning around and giving her a nasty look that once would have made her crumble. “They try to guild you though different things,” Lisa said of the advocates. “It was a whole new world, I had no knowledge of family law or what my rights were with my kids on top of getting divorced.” Although her divorce was granted in May 2017, life will never be normal for Lisa. Besides the security cameras, she has taken lessons on how to fire a gun, and she keeps a picture of her ex-husband at her workplace in case he walks through the door. “People know it’s not a good situation,” she said. As of Nov. 30, there have been 75 domestic violence-related
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Winged Hope board member Elan Morris work at the Maricopa Family Advocacy Center.
deaths in the state, according to the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence. And for 2017, the nonprofit tracked 90 known domestic violence deaths in Arizona. According to the coalition, Arizona consistently ranks among the states with the highest homicide rates of women murdered by men; between 2005 and 2015 there were 1,255 domestic violence-related deaths. Lisa said there are many reasons why someone might not leave an abusive situation. Having Winged Hope helped guide her through the scary transition period, she said.
“In the beginning for me, I felt like my situation was not that bad,” said Lisa, who was conditioned to believe her life was normal and that she deserved the abuse. “There were a lot of people in that situation and for me, other people have it worse than me. They have bruises. “Having someone to talk you through the confusing moments, talk you through your thought process even if that thought is people have it worse than me, they teach you you don’t deserve to walk on eggshells. You’re able to go to work and not be harassed and you deserve a safe and happy life.”
Some of Winged Hope’s accomplishments
Winged Hope volunteers helping remodel a building into a family advocacy center in Maricopa, which was due to open this January.
• Renovated three domestic violence shelters into warm, inviting homes for women and their children. • Reached over 8,080 families and children with its Child Abuse Prevention program • Presented its Anti-Bullying and Cyber Safety program to over 7,779 students, parents and teachers
• Reached 16,655 women around the state with its domestic violence program • Revamped interview rooms into welcoming spaces for victims at Arizona State University, Tempe Police Department and Glendale Family Advocacy Center • Instrumental in the opening of the Chandler Family Advocacy Center and fur-
nished the entire space • Shared its Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Program to 5,535 people in Arizona and nationwide
Source: Winged Hope Family Advocacy Foundation.
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athletes in 1991 and later expanded it to tice. In Alaska, the Juneau School District volunteer testing of all high school and has randomly tested its student-athletes middle-school students. The Centers for Disease Control and for a decade. During the season, Juneau ilbert’s two public school districts Prevention reports about 18 percent of randomly tests up to 15 percent of each don’t plan anytime soon to ranpublic high schools across the country sport’s athletes once a week. But Juneau’s domly drug-test their students as KTOO Public Media recently reported ofhave mandatory drug testing policies. other East Valley officials either are doing ficials there weren’t sure the program has Chandler spokesman Terry Locke said or thinking about doing. been effective despite the high cost, which the district tests about 240 students each Mesa Public Schools Governing Board can run up to $46,000 in some years. season and a little more than 700 for the recently discussed the pros and cons of A school district near Atlanta, Georgia, year. The testing kits cost the district randomly testing all students who particirecently voted to spend $20,000 a year about $36,000 a year. pate in events sanctioned by the Arizona testing up to 80 students each month. Paradise Valley’s district athletic direcInterscholastic Association – including That’s based on kits that cost $24 each. tor Corey Newland said student athletes athletics and even cheerleading. tested for seven weeks in the fall and The U.S. Supreme Court first ruled in are “That discussion is not on any fuspring and six weeks in the winter. “Each favor of the constitutionality of random ture agenda items,” said Michelle Reese, week at our high schools in PVUSD, we drug testing of high school athletes in spokeswoman for Higley Unified School test 10 to 15 athletes,” Newland said. 1995. Seven years later, the high court District. “The board will not be considerThe program sets the district back extended the testing to middle school stuing the issue anytime soon.” about $25,000 to $30,000 a year. dents who participate in extracurricular The same goes for Gilbert Public All high school students can be included activities. Schools, according to spokeswoman in the district’s random-drug testing proNot long after the second court decision Dawn Antestenis. gram with parental consent. in 2002, the President’s Office of National Nearly one in five school districts in the The Drug Control Policy tried to encourage district also provides vouchers for country, including the Chandler and the schools to test all students for drugs beparents of middle and high school stuParadise Valley Unified school districts, fore a pushback led by the American Civil dents to do drug testing at a lab or prohave some sort of random testing for stuLiberties vides home-drug testing kits. Union and the Drug Policy Allident-athletes. Do you suffer from? The testing cost appears to stop many ance threw ice on those hopes. Paradise Valley was the first district in Shoulder Pain districts from even considering the prac“(Random testing) is not something that Arizona to randomly drug test studentKnee Pain Neck Pain Elbow Pain Hip Pain Back Pain Wrist Pain Hand Pain "I can't believe how much different my hip feels! With one treatment I went from daily pain and I wasn't even Foot Pain able to ride my horse. Now, after treatment and rehab with Dr. Traum, I'm able to walk with no pain and I'm back on my horse enjoying the trails and desert sunsets. Thanks to 3D Integrated Medical I have my life back." Ankle Pain -Debbie S. BY JASON STONE GSN Staff Writer
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Lawmakers target tough approach on vaping BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services
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alling the current law fatally flawed and ineffective, a veteran lawmaker wants the state to impose far more restrictions on access to vaping products by teens. Legislation introduced by Rep. Heather Carter, R-Cave Creek, would for the first time ever regulate as tobacco both the devices used as well as the inserts that carry the liquids that deliver the nicotine. That, in turn, would subject everyone from manufacturers to retailers – and users – to the same laws that now make it illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone younger than 18. It also would give the go-ahead to the Attorney General’s Office, which now runs “sting’’ operations on retailers to see if they’re checking for ID on cigarette purchases, the power to do the same when someone is selling vaping devices and liquid refills. Carter’s proposal, SB 1009, is aimed solely at preventing teen use of vaping devices. But lawmakers also will consider a different attack on vaping that would affect adults. HB 2024, crafted by Sen. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, would add vaping to existing laws that prohibit smoking in public areas, including offices, bars, restaurants, stores, theaters and the common areas of hotels and apartments. Hundreds of kids in East Valley middle and high schools have been caught up in vaping. “There has been a noticeable increase of vaping occurring with our students this year, both on campus and off campus,” Gilbert Public Schools warned parents last year. “This is not exclusive to GPS; it is occurring on campuses everywhere in our area, state and nationwide.” At a forum sponsored by the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce last June, two area superintendents – Kevin Mendivil of Tempe Union and Jan Vesely of Kyrene – said vaping had become an enormous problem. While Mesa and Chandler, like all districts, forbid all forms of tobacco use, it is unclear if they have taken any special measures to curb vaping among their students. Vesely said principals alerted her last spring that vaping was a growing problem at middle schools and that they were
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velop future smokers,’’ she said. The heart of the problem, Carter said, is that 2013 law which created a definition of “vapor products’’ with the intent of making them off-limits. “The law was obsolete before it was passed,’’ she said, saying that’s why she opposed it at the time. She said that statute failed to account for changes in technology from what were originally e-cigarettes to high-tech vaping devices, even to the point that questions remain whether it’s OK to sell the devices to teens separate from the nicotine-infused inserts. What SB 1009 would do is expand existing laws that regulate tobacco sales to include all types of “electronic smoking devices’’ as well as “any component, part or accessory of the device, whether or not sold separately.’’ Carter said that not only covers retail sales but also should do away with the ability of people to order these devices online where age cannot be checked. A press conference last week to provide details of the legislation also included a self-proclaimed “mea culpa’’ from Will Humble, the former director of the Arizona Department of Health Services. “Years ago, when e-cigarettes were brand new, I really thought the product had a chance of actually being a public health benefit by giving active adult smokers a pathway off their tobacco addiction and transitioning to a tobaccofree life,’’ he said. “I could not have been more wrong.’’ Humble, now executive director of the Arizona Public Health Association, said
he believes the devices provide “no public health benefit that I can tell.’’ More to the point, he said, has been the unanticipated attractiveness of the devices to teens. “It’s a huge public health threat by addicting an entire generation of young people to nicotine products,’’ Humble said. And he said many of these devices have nicotine levels far higher than anyone would get from tobacco products themselves. “So these young minds are being hardwired right now to these nicotine products through electronic cigarettes,’’ he said. “It’s impairing their ability to learn at schools,’’ Humble continued. “It’s interrupting their classroom and it’s addicting our kids.’’ Humble said much of the blame can be laid at the feet of the U.S. Food and Drug Admnistration which he said has been slow in regulating these devices. Humble said as far as he is concerned, they should be classified by federal authorities as “nicotine delivery devices,’’ a move he said that even could require that they be sold by prescription only. The FDA, for its part, has been slow at addressing the issue. It took Commissioner Scott Gottlieb until last year to say he was reconsidering his agency’s views about the health benefits of e-cigarettes as a method of helping adults to quit after seeing data that showed a sharp spike in teen vaping. At this point the agency has announced an intent to ban the sale of flavored vaping liquids from convenience stores and gas stations, though that has yet to take effect.
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BOUNDARIES from page 1 “One of the things we look at is space utilization,” he said. Some campuses are overburdened with students while others have lost them. Shifting neighborhoods into different school zones would maximize the use of buildings and help ensure a quality education, Martin said. For example, Finley Farms Elementary used to have over 1,000 students, now it has under 700, Martin said. Under the proposal, the Live Northgate apartments and the new Morrison Ranch developments of Lakeview Trails Southwest and Lakeview Trails Southeast would move from Greenfield Elementary to Finley Farms. If the changes are approved and families find they are shifted to a new school boundary, they can still send their children to the old school under the state’s open enrollment policy – which allows students to attend any public school outside of their assigned area as long as there is room. But the rub is in the transportation. The district would continue busing students in the old boundaries but just for the 2019-20 academic year. After that,
parents who continue to send their children to the old school would have to find transportation. Because parents at the three neighborhood meetings in December expressed concern their children would be able to stay at their current school, the district’s open enrollment regulation would give students affected by the boundary change priority to remain at their previous schools – though district employees would have first choice where their own children are concerned – Martin said. Superintendent Shane McCord advised the board that staff is looking at a policy change with open enrollment. Currently, students who attend a school outside their district boundary must reapply each year to attend that school. Under the proposed change, students would have to fill out paperwork just once for the duration they are attending the school and then again when they go to junior high and later high school, he said. Carr said the district wants to honor school choice but doesn’t have the funds to provide transportation to students in the old school zones beyond a year. He asked staff to find ways to alleviate parents' concern over transportation. For instance, only juniors and seniors
are allowed to park on campus, but he wondered if the district could allow students reaching near the end of being a sophomore to do the same. Porter said if the changes go through, he would need to buy his son a car when he is able to drive so he can also take his sisters to the high school. Zamora said if the changes go through, her son, who is in eighth grade but wants to attend Highland High, would have a three-mile walk to walk to the school. Dawn Antestenis, marketing and communications director, briefed the board on the district’s outreach and feedback on the proposal. The district in November launched a webpage with the proposal, sent out email notifications to families and a postcard notification to 69,000 households living in the district’s boundary, she said. As of Jan. 6, the district has received 134 online comments from the community with 60 opposed to boundary changes, 55 in favor, seven neutral and the remainder were questions, according to Antestenis. Board member Jill Humpherys said the board is tasked with making a difficult decision. “We are here focused to do what is right
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For years we have depended on dentures and bridges to replace missing teeth. And for those of you that have dentures you understand how difficult it is to speak, eat, and even smile with dentures. Implants can fix this. On this page I hope to help make implants easier to understand and what we can do with them. In the past, for one or two missing teeth you would get a bridge, which involves the grinding away of good tooth structure. Implants can fix this. This illustration demonstrates the difference between a bridge and implant. A dental implant is a titanium screw that is placed in your mouth that holds a crown or a denture in place. This has changed the lives of many of our patients at Mesa Dental. We no longer have to rely on adhesives or suction to hold dentures. We no longer have to grind good teeth down to stubs to replace a tooth.
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The process involves minimal discomfort and downtime. Most patients have no discomfort during or after the procedure. There are three parts to the implant: the titanium implant screw that is placed, the abutment, which holds the crown onto the implant and then the crown. On the side there is another illustration that shows how closely the implant replicates our real teeth and the three parts of the implant. (Special to GSN).
Tribal Officer Clayton Townsend never had a chance a when texting driver lost control and slammed into him during a traffic stop on the Loop 101 last week.
could have been avoided if a driver simply would have put down their phone and concentrate on the complex mental task of operating a motor vehicle safely. Townsend, the father of a 10-monthold son, never had a chance, according to a state Department of Public Safety press release, reporting: “A witness told detectives that the driver of the black passenger car was looking down at his phone just before crossing over two traffic lanes and then striking the officer.’’ The DPS said that driver Jerry Sanstead, 40, of Scottsdale, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and endangerment. Before Sanstead was released on a $100,000 bail, the prosecutor told the court there were no skid marks leading to the officer’s vehicle. “We should make a definitive statement right now that this is phenomenally dangerous,’’ said former Sen. Steve Farley, who was rebuffed repeatedly when he sponsored a variety of distracted driving laws during his career in the legislature. “This is not an R vs. D thing,’’ said Farley, a Tucson Democrat who lost in the Democratic primary in his bid for governor and is now running for mayor. “This is a nonpartisan thing to keep the roads safe.’’ Farley and others concerned about distracted driving were sickened – but not surprised – by Townsend’s death, saying it’s almost inevitable that someone will get hurt with so many people distracted by their cell phones while behind the
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he tragic death of a police officer struck by a texting driver on the Loop 101 last week might finally convince the Arizona legislature to pass a statewide distracted driving law. Two legislators – Scottsdale Sen. John Kavanagh and Phoenix Sen. Kate Brophy McGee – are both sponsoring legislation that would make it illegal for motorists on all Arizona roads to send or receive text messages. McGee said the Jan. 8 death of Salt River Pima-Maricopa Tribal Officer Clayton Townsend near the McDowell Road exit may serve as the “tipping point’’ to get a hands-free law approved. The following day in Queen Creek, a Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy was struck and injured by a texting motorist. If Kavanagh and Brophy McGee convince the State Legislature to finally end its resistance to a hands-free law, Gov. Doug Ducey already said he’s prepared to sign it – ending a patchwork of laws already in existence in Tempe and 16 other cities and counties around the state. Various attempts to pass a distracted driving bill have failed for 12 consecutive years in the state Legislature, while individual cities and counties have passed regulations of their own. A Tempe police motorcycle unit supervisor, safety advocates and a Gilbert Town Council member said this pattern has left a crazy-quilt of laws that can’t help but confuse drivers as they travel from one city or county to another. Tempe is the only East Valley city with any ban. Phoenix has one, but Police Department spokesman Tommy Thompson said, “It is challenging to enforce due to the wording of the ordinance. It is only illegal to use your phone to specifically ‘send or receive a written message while the motor vehicle is in motion.’ All other distracting uses of a phone while driving are not covered by the ordinance. “Cases have been lost because the violator will come to court stating they were just checking for a missed call, using navigation, checking a Facebook posting,” he added, reporting that only 27 citations were issued in 2017. Beyond the patchwork of texting bans, victims like Townsend continue to suffer preventable deaths and injuries that
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TEXTING from page 11 wheel. They said that an officer’s death is bound to get more attention, but every day people with far lower profiles are injured in texting-related crashes. “I would ask them, how many more people have to die’’ before a state distracted driving law gets passed, Farley said. Brophy McGee said she is still finalizing details of her bill. But she said the time has come for state action. “You get to the point where you want the state to set policy,” she said. “There have been so many high-profile tragedies. People are fed up, they’re done.’’ Kavanagh, who will be sworn in as a representative for District 23 on Monday, Jan. 14, said he plans to reintroduce a bill he sponsored as a senator in 2017 and that never even got a hearing. Kavanagh said his bill received opposition from members of both parties. “Basically you had some libertarianminded Republicans who believed the existing laws against distracted driving already covered that kind of behavior,” he said. Kavanagh said that some Democrats also opposed the bill because they thought texting while driving is so common that a
ban could be used by police officers as a pretext to pull over minority drivers. Brendan Lyons, executive director of Look Save a Life in Tucson, said the patchwork of 17 municipal and county bans varies. Hands-free laws make it illegal to touch a cell phone while driving. Tempe has a hands-free ordinance with secondary enforcement only – meaning an officer must notice some other violation – such as weaving in a lane or making an illegal turn – before they can write a ticket under the ordinance. “It’s heart-wrenching because it could have been prevented,’’ Lyons said about Townsend’s death. “We had an opportunity the last time an officer was killed.’’ He was referring to the death of DPS Officer Tim Huffman, who was killed in 2013 when he was struck on a freeway near Yuma by the driver of an empty fuel tanker who was staring at pornography on Facebook. Townsend’s family subsequently testified for a distracted driving law, but the bill still failed. “Because of the state’s failure to act, this is why I encourage local jurisdictions to act,’’ Lyons said. Gilbert has sponsored driving safety campaigns in the past but does not have a specific town ordinance barring distracted driving.
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Jerry Sanstead, 40, was released on $100,000 bond after his first court appearance on involuntary manslaughter and other charges in the texting-while-driving crash that killed a tribal officer on the Loop 101 last week.
“We haven’t thought about it or talked about it,” Vice Mayor Eddie Cook said. He said the Gilbert police don’t have enough data linking texting or cell phone use to collisions that would justify requesting an ordinance. “Honestly from my perspective this should be done at the state level and not a city or town,” Gilbert Councilwoman Brigette Peterson said. “It’s very difficult for our residents in our state to know what they are supposed to be doing as they cross boundaries.” Mesa Mayor John Giles said the city is not considering a distracted driving law, “but that’s not to say that we are not very aware and very concerned about the problem.’’ Giles said a statewide law makes more sense than a hodge-podge of local laws and that he hopes the legislature reacts to Townsend’s death and addresses the problem. “This is an area where we would like a statewide law because of the confusion of a driver crossing jurisdictional boundaries,’’ Giles said. “We don’t want to confuse people. We want to help people obey the law.’’ Townsend’s death comes only two weeks before the annual Arizona defensive driving summit on Jan. 23 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Wesley Bolin Plaza, in front of the state Capitol. “I am in favor of any reasonable means to get people to focus on the task of driving,’’ said Jeremy Bethancourt, a safety engineer who is coordinating the summit. While texting behind the wheel is extraordinarily dangerous, it is not the only act with an electronic device that distracts the attention of drivers, said Tempe Sgt. Steve Carbajal, who has devoted most of his 21-year career to traffic enforcement. “I really feel that distracted driving is
the new impaired driving, if not worse,’’ Carbajal said. “You don’t have to be 21 to own a cell phone and be distracted.’’ He said a driver going 40 mph who takes his or her eyes off the road for five seconds covers about the length of a football field without looking at the road. Carbajal said Tempe police are always trying to educate people about the ordinance, especially the large number of visitors who live in other cities, but work in Tempe, attend Arizona State University, or come to Tempe for a special event. Tempe’s slogan is “don’t text and drive, it can wait,’’ he said. “If it’s that important, pull over.’’ Carbajal said it can be difficult for an officer to distinguish between the driving behavior of an impaired driver and a distracted driver, with the same symptoms present for both. “It’s socially OK to get in a car with someone who is texting and driving and not OK to get in a car with someone who is drinking and driving. It’s the same thing,’’ Carbajal said. He said motorcycle officers will notice 85 to 90 percent of drivers doing something with their cell phones while stopped at red lights. He said the most common excuse he hears from drivers is that they were doing something related to the music playing in their car, such as changing a song on their phone. All of these excuses are trifling when compared with the responsibility to operate a four-ton motor vehicle safely, not only for your own safety but for the safety of others, Carbajal said. “I guess the emotion that comes to mind is sadness,’’ he said, when asked how he reacted to Townsend’s death. “I’ve told so many people their loved ones have died in a crash.’’
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TAX from page 9 terests who question their cuts, as well as issues raised about whether cities should be able to take and bank water they do not need. Brenda Burman, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, has given all the affected states to come up with and ratify an acceptable plan by Jan. 31 or she will begin the process of having one imposed by the federal government. One complicating factor, though, has been the partial federal shutdown, meaning certain federal officials are unavailable to answer questions about what might or might not be acceptable. The other pressing issue doesn’t have a Jan. 31 deadline. But it is something lawmakers and the governor need to resolve soon so Arizonans can start preparing their state income taxes. In late 2017 President Trump signed a law to reduce federal income tax rates for individuals as well as a boost in the standard deduction. But it also eliminated or curtailed various itemized deductions and subtractions that lower the taxable income and, by extension, the amount owed. This is significant because Arizona is a “piggy-back’’ state, using the federally ad-
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justed gross income figure as the starting point for preparing state returns. Arizona’s deductions generally mirror what’s allowed under federal law to make tax preparation simple. Ducey wants Arizona to alter its tax code to “conform’’ to the federal changes. But disallowing those state deductions would increase what Arizonans owe the state this year by at least $170 million. That is proving unpopular with many lawmakers, led by J.D. Mesnard. The current House speaker and soon-to-be chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said there is little sentiment for the federal tax cut to become a windfall for Arizona. If legislators do not approve it, current Arizona deductions remain despite the change in federal law. Education is again expected to take center stage at the Capitol. Last year lawmakers approved Gov. Doug Ducey’s plan designed to boost average teacher pay by 20 percent by 2020 over 2016 levels. But that law did not provide additional dollars specifically for salary hikes for non-teaching staff. And questions – and a lawsuit – remain about whether the state is meeting its legal obligations to provide full funding not only for classroom activities but also the capital needs. Lawmakers did agree last year to renew
the current 0.6-cent sales tax for education beyond its current 2020 expiration date. But the approval by voters earlier this year of a ban on sales taxes on services on any new taxes opens the question of whether some things now taxed, like restaurant service, will be exempt, cutting into the revenues. Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, who chairs the Senate Education Committee, is looking at a new ballot measure that would not just clarify that issue but add another 0.4 cents, boosting funding for education by an additional $400 million a year. There also is some sentiment to revisit the plan to hike income taxes on the top 1 percent of wage earners. A plan to do that was knocked off last year’s ballot after the Arizona Supreme Court said the legally required description did not fully inform petition signers of the full effect of the change. There also is some pressure on lawmakers to revisit the statutes that allow forprofit entities to operate charter schools amid questions of whether there needs to be better financial and academic oversight for these operations that are technically public schools which get state aid. It also remains to be seen whether supporters of vouchers of state tax dollars to allow students to attend private and pa-
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streets with posted speeds less than 25 mph. Scottsdale recently adopted an ordinance regulating electric scooters, which include no parking the devices on public sidewalks and making it illegal for devices to remain at the same location on public property for more than 72 consecutive hours. Recognizing the influx of these scooters and other modes for travel such as selfdriving cars in town, officials recently released a poll asking the public to comment on the future of transportation in Gilbert. The online poll, which ended Sunday, asked for the public’s opinion on electric scooters, dockless ride-share bicycles, autonomous vehicles and charging stations
own Council is set to tackle how to handle electric scooters that have popped up all over Gilbert. Staff is expected to present options at the Jan. 22 study session. “I’m very much wanting a temporary ban of these scooters,” Vice Mayor Eddie Cook said. “I think other council members want to do the same thing.” Councilwoman Brigette Peterson said she hasn’t heard of the options yet to deal with the on-demand scooters. “A temporary ban intrigues me,” she said. “It will give us time to figure out how Gilbert specifically would handle these different kinds of mobility. It will be interesting to see what options are possible.” Some Mesa City Council members also have proposed an outright ban of scooters in their city. There’s a number of electric scooter companies flooding communities across the country (Kimberly Carrillo/GSN Staff Photopgrapher) with their dockless A proliferation of rental electric scooters abandoned by users throughout the town scooters, but Bird, and other neighboring communities is about to come under Town Council's scrutiny. out of California, is one that is currentfor electric vehicles. It also asked which ly known to operate in Gilbert. “There’s no doubt we are in favor of any of those modes of transportation they business coming to Gilbert and setting up would use. A group of residents was slated to proshop, but they’ve done things I don’t aptest Tempe City Council last Thursday bepreciate,” Cook said. For instance, the company – without cause its regulations had no teeth. “It’s not right to say that that Tempe is alerting the town – dumped its scooters in the public rights-of-way such as side- going to have regulations. The proposal walks, causing a nuisance, according to has no regulations regarding safety – no speed limits, no places they can’t go, no Cook. “We’ve heard of accidents involving insurance requirements. Nothing. It’s all residents,” he added. “One accident is one about money,” said Brian Gratton, a member of Save Our Sidewalks, a group of resitoo many. “What I’ve noticed because they’ve dents fed up with the scooters. done this, is it has taken up a lot of staff time and we have a lot of projects going on and it’s kind of a distraction,” he said. What: Gilbert Town Council study sesHe said the town is busy with working sion. No public comments are taken. on its three parks, public parking garage and the 202 interchange. When: 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 22 The only thing on the town’s books Where: Municipal Center, Council Chamdealing with electric scooters is a code bers 50 E. Civic Center Drive that allows for their operation on public
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Why a day for King? Because we never learn BY GARY NELSON GSN Contributor
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he is too young to remember when the Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and slaughtered four little girls. Too young to remember when the Klan – again, the Klan – murdered three civil rights workers and dumped their bodies into the guts of an earthen dam in Mississippi. Too young, even, to remember that night in Memphis when a bullet ended the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and set the nation on fire. But not too young to remember June 17, 2015, when a racist shot nine people to death in a Charleston, S.C., church. Nor to remember when the president had kind words for the white supremacists whose rally in Charlottesville, Va., led to the death of a counter-protester in 2017. Nor to remember the Sabbath massacre in a Pittsburgh synagogue only this past October. You don’t have to be old to remember when America’s simmering caldron of
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Keisha McKinnon, holding the award that the Anti-Defamation League received during a Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration, is organizing the East Valley parade this year that will be held in honor of the slain civil rights advocate.
racist and religious hatred has spat forth yet another sickening atrocity. All you have to do is read the headlines. And so, Keisha McKinnor, born in the very year of King’s assassination, decided
to pick up the banner of human dignity and fly it high over the once-segregated East Valley. The East Valley, segregated? Why, yes – that’s why the Mesa Martin Luther King Jr.
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Celebration Committee, of which McKinnor is president, operates out of a tiny old house in a part of town that used to be set aside only for blacks and Hispanics. The Alston House, where Mesa’s first black doctor lived and worked, is the wellspring of activity for an MLK committee that McKinnor is hoping to reorganize into a year-round presence in the community. McKinnor wasn’t born into this sort of activism. But then, in a way she was, growing up in a racially polarized Chicago where people of one color learned early in life that it wasn’t wise to cross into the other color’s part of town after dark. That – and the sometimes subtle personal reminders she received along life’s course that racism is not yet dead in America – eventually led her out of the business world and onto the front lines of the war against hatred. The Tempe resident migrated from a career in corporate philanthropy with PetSmart to the civil rights field in 2015. That’s when she began working for the Anti-Defamation League, for which she
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University and while most of them said they were familiar with King, few could describe his life and work. The matter takes on special urgency, McKinnor said, in today’s political environment. “The racial tensions in our country – I think it’s going backwards,” she said. “There are lots of people that have been emboldened to speak and act with hatred. That’s not acceptable. It should not be acceptable today.” One symptom of that: In early December the Arizona branch of the Anti-Defamation league reported an “alarming and disturbing” increase in swastikas found around the state. Typically, one is reported per month in Arizona; by Dec. 11 there already had been six. In addition to widely publicized episodes of one-on-one racism, civil libertarians have been alarmed by official efforts to roll back protections that were codified in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In December, for example, Betsy DeVos, the U.S. secretary of education, abolished guidelines that the Obama administration had issued to address the disproportionate punishment of non-white schoolchildren. In other areas, phony claims of voter
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fraud have been used in efforts to keep minority voters away from the polls. McKinnor believes there always has been a strong current of resistance to the civil rights victories that sprang from the movement in the 1950s and ’60s. That was partly reflected in opposition to the King holiday itself. Arizona voters rejected the holiday in 1990, only to change their minds two years later in the face of a national boycott and the loss of a previously sched-
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be observed in the East Valley on Jan. 21. But some events planned in conjunction with the holiday in the region will be held next weekend.
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Chandler’s annual Celebration of Unity includes these events: Klezmer Musical Fest, noon-5 p.m. today (Jan. 13), East Valley Jewish Community Center, 908 N. Alma School Road. Musical performances, food and lectures on Jewish life. Multicultural Festival, downtown, 2-9 p.m. Jan. 19. International Film Festival begins at 7 p.m. at the Chandler Public
uled Super Bowl. Mesa voters approved a paid King holiday for city workers in 1992, but the margin of victory was only 1,190 out of more than 74,500 ballots cast. To McKinnor, the fragility of American freedoms speaks to the need for constant vigilance. “With the climate our country is in, we need to continue to fight for our rights and not take anything for granted,” she said.
Library. Candlelight vigil, 4-6 p.m. Jan. 20, downtown stage.
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Gilbert Cares, an organization that refurbishes homes for low-income residents, will sponsor a “Characterbuilding project” in King’s memory Jan. 19-26. Volunteers will offer services such as exterior painting, landscaping, minor repairs and accessibility modifications for eligible homeowners. The organization is seeking help from professional tradesmen and in-kind donations of materials. Information: www.gilbertcares.org
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Gilbert group plans fix-up projects in MLK’s honor BY CECILLA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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Gilbert nonprofit is looking for helping hands and open wallets for its upcoming community project to fix up homes for those who can’t do it themselves. Gilbert Cares’ annual character-building project is in memory of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday Jan. 21 is a national holiday. “We’ve done a total of 126 homes for seniors, vets, disabled folks, at-risk single moms, basically anyone who needs it,” said Paul Heartquist, executive director of the all-volunteer group. “We paint the exteriors and do landscaping, but then if anything else is needed in the home we try to get professional help to do it. “We need folks who can do home repairs like plumbing. The big need right now is roofing repairs, what everyday-
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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., Gilbert Cares volunteers will be painting homes and doing other projects to help people who cannot accomplish those tasks themselves.
volunteers can’t do.” For the project, volunteers will work
on seven homes – two in Gilbert, two in Chandler, two in Mesa and one in Queen
Creek. Most of the homes will get a new exterior coat of paint and landscaping. “It literally will take one day, eight hours,” Heartquist said of the volunteer work. “They go in the morning to tape, paint and are done by dinner time.” The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Character Building Project will stretch out for a week, Jan. 19-26 to provide flexibility for volunteers. One home will require more extensive work. “We have a contractor going to a modular home, so they are going to first level it and then fix the windows and doors that don’t close properly because it’s not leveled,” Heartquist said. “That home will be painted and maybe some interior painting will be done on that home.” Gilbert Cares was founded in 1996 and incorporated as a nonprofit in 1999. The
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rtist Carol Henry’s fascination with the visuals of the seasons and the cycles in nature have formed the basis of her work. A part-owner of an art gallery in Carmel, California, and an artist who has held more than 200 exhibitions, Henry brings her colorful nature prints this month to an exhibit at Art Intersection in Gilbert. “I was raised in the country and was very influenced by nature,” she said. “I noticed the patterns and the details in nature all around me, growing up.” Henry has experimented with photo processes and created unique work throughout her life. She works sans camera or computer. “Spellbinding Light – the Art of Analog photography,” to run from Saturday, Jan. 19 to Saturday, March 2, features about 40 unique prints using a process used for the reproduction of film transparencies on a Swiss photopa-
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“Calla Still Life” on Cibachrome by Carol Henry. The Cibachrome is considered the most permanent color photo paper that lasts more than 200 years.
per called Cibachrome, and cyanotype, an older printing process that produces a cyan-blue print.
Henry takes the subjects into the darkroom and captures the photographs on light sensitive paper. The compositions
are projected onto Cibachrome with 17 layers of light sensitive azo dye and the paper exposure is processed. She developed her style of darkroom prints, called Florachromes and Shadowgraphs, during her BFA in photography from Northern Michigan University. “With a camera, you’re capturing reflected light. My process relies on transmitted light and what is transmitted through subjects,” she said. “The reason my pieces look so different is that I’m transmitting light through subjects directly onto the photo paper.” The Cibachrome is 200 years light permanent, archival, and increasingly rare, she said. That’s because the paper is no longer produced by Ilfochrome, the manufacturer. It was last available in the market in 2012 and Henry bought a two-year supply be-
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nonprofit not only helps those in need but provides community service opportunities for youth groups, service clubs, companies and churches. Gilbert Cares does not verify the income of those who ask for help. “We have been burned maybe twice in the last 24 years,” Heartquist said. “Most people have legitimate needs.” The nonprofit has been getting fewer calls from Gilbert residents over the years – which Heartquist attributed
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fore it ran out. After working with Cibachrome for 25 years, Henry switched to cyanotype, which she terms “more primitive.” Cyanotype was developed in the early 1800s and is one of the very first known lightsensitive property materials. “Because I like to do one-of-a-kind
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to the group having fixed most of the homes in town that needed help. The group has expanded its reach beyond the East Valley and into South Phoenix. Its largest project in South Phoenix was two years ago when 70 volunteers of mostly students and some counselors and teachers from Camp Verde High School worked on 16 homes, Heartquist said. “It was mostly painting and landscaping,” he noted. Gilbert Cares also hosts a Veteran
prints, I went to that medium, which allows me to stay with the same technique but ends in a very different result,” she said. She plans to work on cyanotype for now but is not above moving on to other processes. Recently, she has been creating digital canvases of the Cibachromes and painting on the surfaces with pigment instead of with light. “I enjoy pushing the boundaries of that particular medium. I’ve always experimented my whole life with photo process, so I doubt I will stop there,” she said. None of Henry’s prints are repro-
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Family Appreciation Project, one in May and one in November, where volunteers work on the homes of veterans and firstresponders. The group also will do urgent repairs for homeowners. The group’s work though can’t be done without support from the community, said Heartquist, who is frequently on the phone trying to get companies to volunteer their time and provide in-kind contributions. “Sometimes I have to say, ‘we can’t do it,’ more than I can say, ‘would you like your exterior painted?’” he said.
duced, which is unusual since photographers typically make multiples of their work. Henry is represented by many galleries in California that have sold her work to corporate collectors both here and abroad. More than 12 major hospitals in the country own large collections of her work, selected, she said, because of the healing qualities of her imagery. “Because all of my pieces are made from living subjects, their qualities aren’t what you’d normally see in landscape photography,” she said. ‘It’s captivating, and it holds people’s attention.” About three-quarters of her pieces at the Gilbert exhibition will be offered for
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GPS teacher hailed for work with English Learners BY DAWN ANTESTENIS GSN Guest Writer
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o you remember those middle school years when you were 12or 13- years-old? Now imagine yourself as that same adolescent experiencing the first day of school at a new school in Beijing, China. Your books are all in Mandarin, the voices around you are all speaking a string of sounds that you cannot understand, and you don’t know anyone. That is the reality for ELL (English Language Learner) students entering Mesquite Junior High – or Gilbert Public School campuses – for the first time from countries all over the world. To support these students, the district provides language acquisition services in accordance with Arizona law and through the expertise of our ELL Specialists who are trained to provide the focused support required to help nonEnglish speaking students succeed as learners as quickly as possible. The number of English Learner students continues to grow within the Gilbert Public School district, and the state has recognized a particularly outstand-
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3D adds a new dimension to ‘glo golf’ in Gilbert BY JIM WALSH GSN Staff Writer
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alking through the front door at the new Imagine 3D Mini Golf in Gilbert starts a unique, immersive experience that surrounds visitors with pirate ships, unicorns, a fire-breathing dragon and killer whales. Add the 3D glasses and the fantasy experience becomes complete as the realistic artwork seemingly pops off the walls, making the putt-putt golf seem secondary. Imagine 3D Mini Golf, which just opened at 785 W. Warner Road near Cooper Road, represents an entertainment trend that started on the East Coast and has slowly spread to Arizona. With blacklight mini-golf, everything glows in a relatively dark space – including your clothes if you come prepared and wear light colors. Two other amusements, in Chandler and Scottsdale, use the same concept.
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Armando Andrade joins 3D Mini Golf owners Che and Dane Jeffreys, pictured here with their daughter Ruby, at their new Gilbert business.
Owners Ruby and Che Jeffreys said they were inspired to start the business after they visited Glo Putt in Scottsdale. The Jeffreys say the quality of the artwork by artist Todd Lingbergh of Virginia and the 3D glasses distinguishes Imagine 3D MiniGolf from its competitors. “It took him 45 days to hand-paint everything you see in here,’’ Che Jeffreys said. “What amplifies it is the 3D glasses.’’ Rudy Jeffreys, his wife, said her goal in working with Lindbergh was to capture a child’s imagination with the artwork. The course starts with pirate ships and gradually builds upon a nautical fantasy theme that includes killer whales on the walls and swimming under a glowing walkway. Ruby said she and other family members became enamored with creating their own, unique, blacklight golf experience after visiting Glo Putt. It is a marked departure from her career SEE
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Alamo Drafthouse opening movie venue in Gilbert
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Alamo will feature “a diverse programming slate blending the best arthouse and independent releases with Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters,” the company said in a release. It also promises “family-friendly experiences, including family parties and the Alamo Kids Camp series, plus well-known and interactive specialty programming like Champagne Cinema and Movie Parties.” It also has a free rewards program giving members movie screenings, special menu tastings, surprise ticket offers, a birthday ticket and free food and beverage vouchers and more. Gilbert residents can already sign up at drafthouse.com/phoenix/victory. And while they’re at it, residents also can enter a raffle for a free year of movies. “We’re thrilled to be in the beginning (Special to GSN) stages of our third Alamo location in Plush seats are one of the features offered at Alamo Drafthouse theaters, which has selected Gilbert for its next foray the Phoenix area,” says Derek Dodd,
he dine-in movie theater trend has finally caught up to Gilbert. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Phoenix said it will be opening its third Valley operation late this year on Power Road at Williams Field Road, following up on the Chandler theater it opened in 2016 and the Tempe venue it opened last year. Alamo Drafthouse Gilbert will feature eight screens with only reserved seating in oversized recliners, laser and digital 4K projection, in-theater food and beverage service and a standalone lobby bar with over 30 local and regional craft beers. The project is being completed in association with LGE Design Build, the contractor behind Alamo Drafthouse Tempe. “LGE is thrilled to bring this great dine-in movie concept to Gilbert,” said David Sellers, CEO of LGE Design Build. “Alamo Drafthouse is a well-respected into the East Valley, joining companion venues in Chandler and Tempe. operator.”
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as a part-time aerospace engineer. Che quit his job as a medical sales representative to get Imagine 3D Golf built and then operate it. “It’s going to maximize your experience. It’s going to make the artwork stand out and create that wow effect,’’ Ruby said. “It’s capturing the imagination of a child. Every child’s imagination is beautiful.’’ She said she explained the concept to Lindbergh, who used his creativity to express it in a vibrant style. “He put our words onto the walls. He made our vision come to life,’’ Ruby Jeffreys said. Che said one advantage of blacklight mini-golf is that it can be enjoyed yearround, making it especially appealing during the hot Arizona summers. He believes the business will attract people of all ages, but it includes an area set aside for birthday parties and an arcade. He envisions children coming for field trips from school, or for birthday parties and other special events. The fee is $10 per round for ages 10 or more, and $7.50 per round for children 4 to 9 years old. The senior and military rate is $8.50. There is also a discount for playing a second round and a special rate for parties.
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Lindbergh said he has turned 3D minigolf into his specialty, completing courses in several different states, from New Jersey to Hawaii. “We’re the best in the country at 3D art. Nobody does it better than we do,’’ he said. He said he is proud of his Gilbert creations and said Ruby gave him plenty of artistic license in expressing her concept for Imagine 3D Mini-Golf. Lindbergh said he worked on the project with his son, Alex, who handles the construction work, and his brother, Eric. “She didn’t want one thing, she wanted the works,’’ Lindbergh said. “They gave me the artist freedom. They said, we’ve seen your work, dazzle us.’’ Information: imagine3dminigolf.com, 480-361-8005
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ormer Gilbert Vice Mayor Joan Krueger has joined NAI Horizon, a global commercial real estate brokerage firm. Krueger will focus on office, retail, light industrial and land in the Southeast Valley, a company spokesman said. “She brings experience working in local government after spending four years on the Gilbert Town Council including a year as vice mayor and six years with the Gilbert Planning Commission,” the spokesman added. Krueger left Bliss Realty and Investments, where she had been working for four years. She worked for 30 years in the tech sector of international business development.
“I am delighted that we are able to add Joan to our NAI team,” said NAI CEO Terry Martin-Denning. “Her unique and diverse background combined with her relationships in the East Valley make her a great fit.” A native of Wisconsin, Krueger has been a longtime resident of Gilbert and is a board member of Gilbert Sister Cities, former board member of Fresh Start Women’s Resource Center EV/Positive Paths and a member of Central Arizona CCIM Chapter. Established in 1992, NAI Horizon is a full-service commercial real estate company serving Arizona with offices located in Phoenix and Tucson and part of the NAI Global commercial real estate network of 400 offices worldwide. NAI Global provides a full range of
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operating partner for the Alamo Drafthouse Phoenix group. “We figure there’s no better way to celebrate a new theater than by giving our loyal fans the chance to spend the year with free movies on us.” Alamo’s announcement comes a month after another company, Flix Brewhouse, opened in downtown Chandler on a site that Alamo initially had an eye on. But problems with the site’s soil led to delays, causing Alamo to choose a location at Arizona Avenue and Chandler Heights Boulevard. Alamo boasts “an incomparable movie experience” by offering top-of-the-line equipment, luxurious seating and a menu that easily surpasses the offerings in many multiplexes. It’s been called “the best theater in America” by Entertainment Weekly and “the coolest movie theater in the world” by Wired. Flix Brewhouse and Alamo both combine dining and drinking with a first-run movie experience. Flix offers a range of local and regional craft beer, in addition to up to 12 of its own, brewed on-premises. Flix Brewhouse also serves non-moviegoers during regular theater business hours. Alamo doesn’t brew beer but strives to offer local craft brews within a full bar. Alamo has more than 20 theaters around the country.
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Nursing home pregnancy highlights little-known abuse BY DR. ERICA MCFADDEN AND DR. TASHA MENAKER GSN Guest Writers
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he world has turned its eyes to Arizona after a local headline caused an international public outcry – and for good reason: “State officials investigate after patient in nursing facility gives birth.” A Phoenix woman reportedly has been in a vegetative state for over a decade, unable to give consent to sex – but just before New Year’s Day, she moaned in pain and staff members realized she was in labor. How could this have happened? How did no one notice she was pregnant? At first glance, the extreme cruelty seems unprecedented. Sadly, each week we receive a roundup of stories from across the country of others with disabilities who have been molested, raped and even impregnated. Sexual abuse of people with cognitive disabilities indeed exists in Arizona. Consider these headlines: a juvenile assaulted by a Mesa caregiver, a Tucson man convicted of raping a 67-year old woman with a disability. In 2018, National Public Radio and the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that people with cognitive disabilities were seven times more likely to be victims of sexual assault as people without disabilities. A 2012 national study also showed that 30 percent of survey respondents with disabilities had been sexually
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abused. Similarly, a 2017 study conducted in Florida of teen survivors of sex trafficking found that 30 percent of those adolescents had cognitive disabilities. We know we have a problem, but we’ve only scratched the surface in Arizona. Locally, no such data is tracked. Despite these statistics, there has largely been silence around this issue for several reasons. Many people don’t consider those with cognitive disabilities as inherently sexual beings. Some individuals may not understand appropriate touch or conflate ‘boyfriend’ or ‘girlfriend’ with a staff member, family member or acquaintance. The person may also be more likely to believe a per-
petrator’s threats or expressions of love. Perpetrators also know it could be difficult to prove a victim’s report, making it easy to avoid prosecution. Currently, Arizona requires background checks among providers who work with vulnerable populations, but less than 1 percent of all abuse claims are ever substantiated by Adult Protective Services. A repeat offender may never be charged, and their paper trail of repeat allegations never fully investigated. Furthermore, trainings about defining, recognizing and reporting signs of sexual abuse are not required for statefunded residential providers. Neither are trainings routinely offered to youth and adults with disabilities or families
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and guardians. And unlike many states, Arizona does not allocate any state funding to sexual assault specific services or prevention efforts. Over the last several months, the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council has convened a workgroup of state agencies, researchers, advocacy organizations, and people with disabilities to advise on research measuring the impact of sexual abuse on Arizonans with disabilities, the state’s response, and best practices we can put in place. In addition, this group is working towards making recommendations on how to tighten regulations, strengthen existing state statutes, and provide statewide training. We have a lot of work to do to prevent sexual abuse of our most vulnerable. Only with greater awareness and resources can these heartbreaking incidents be stopped. The time to act is now. -Dr. Erica McFadden serves as the executive director for the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, which provides training, advocacy, research and support for full inclusion of people with developmental disabilities. -Dr. Tasha Menaker serves as the chief strategy officer of the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, which provides support and resources for sexual and domestic violence survivors and their loved ones, statewide training on appropriately responding to survivors, and public policy advocacy.
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Learning Euro style in Bosnia boosts Mesquite High center BY ERIC NEWMAN GSN Staff Writer
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arly each morning, more than 6,000 miles from his family in Gilbert, Mesquite High senior basketball player Edin Smjecanin walked the streets of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to Franjo Kluz, an elementary school with one of the few full-court basketball gyms nearby. He spent nearly four months in the former Yugoslavia capital city, training as long as five hours a day on the court. He took classes online to keep up. He returned in late October to begin preseason training with his Wildcats’ basketball team. It was obvious very quickly that Smjecanin had benefited from his time in Bosnia. The trip and coaching were arranged by his father, who’d grown up there and maintains connections. The 6-foot-7 Smjecanin was a role player and fringe starter on the 2017-18 Mesquite team that reached the 5A playoffs. He averaged four points and four rebounds.
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Edin Smjecanin, Mesquite High’s 6-foot-7 senior center, has improved after four months of training in Europe this year. He is averaging 15 points and 10 rebounds on a team with state-championship aspirations.
Now in his senior season, with Mesquite eyeing a state title, Smjecanin is averaging nearly 15 points and 10 rebounds.
“When I left for Bosnia, I didn’t know how to shoot, dribble, any of that,” Smjecanin said. “All I could do was post up, rebound and sort of pass. Now I feel
so much more confident shooting, tenfold a better player, because the playing style over there transforms guys.” Smjecanin regularly trained with Ibrahim Krehic, former coach of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team. Krehic mentored several Yugoslavian stars, such as current Bosnian NBA-players Jusuf Nurkic, Bojan Bogdanovic and Mirza Teletovic, who played with the Milwaukee Bucks last season. Smjecanin learned what he calls “position-less” basketball, in which centers often play on the perimeter as much as the guards, passing, shooting and handing the ball regularly. He said his time with Krehic taught him the “Euro-big” way of playing, differentiating him from the typical rebound-and-dunk big men who often oppose him in American high school games. Mesquite coach Carlos Artis said Smjecanin’s time in Europe not only helped him improve his skills but his confidence, as well.
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Gilbert athletes gravitating to BenU Mesa sports programs BY ZACH ALVIRA GSN Sports Editor
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hidden gem in downtown Mesa is becoming a destination for Gilbert high school athletes who might not be NCAA Division I candidates but who are eager to continue playing at the collegiate level close to home. Benedictine University Mesa, which was accepted into the NAIA four years ago and plays in the 12-member California Pacific Conference, is aggressively recruiting the East Valley – from Gilbert to Ahwatukee to Scottsdale – to build its programs. This academic year, it is home to 90 student-athletes from the region, including 35 from Gilbert-area schools, and they’re making their mark. For example, America Sanchez, a freshman from Highland High, was named NAIA Freshman of the Year in women’s soccer for the season recently ended. She also earned first-team All-Cal Pac honor, as did former Basha High player
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America Sanchez, a freshman from Highland High, was named NAIA Freshman of the Year in women’s soccer for the Benedictine University Mesa season recently ended. She also earned first-team AllCalifornia Pacific honor.
Tiana Pretzer. On the men’s side, goalkeeper Zach Taylor, a senior and former Highland Hawk, received Defensive Player of the Week honor three consecutive times. Former Basha High volleyball player Caitlan Sammons was a first-team All-
Cal Pac selection and Libero of the Year for the second straight season for the Redhawks. “When we started building this program we asked ourselves how we wanted to do it,” said Steven Schafer, BenU Mesa athletic director and men’s bas-
ketball coach. “We realized we wanted to build our program by recruiting our backyard, which is the East Valley. That was our goal from the beginning.” Schafer’s 17-year history in basketball coaching and college-athletics administration jump-started sports at BenU, 225 E. Main St., in Mesa. Wanting to compete and win right away in the NAIA, Schafer and all BenU coaches initially emphasized recruiting junior-college transfers. Now that its sports programs are established, BenU’s focus has shifted to targeting East Valley high school seniors for scholarship offers. BenU offers 13 intercollegiate sports but does not yet have on-campus facilities: men’s and women’s cross-country run at Mesa’s Freestone Park; men’s and women’s soccer play at Mesa Riverview Park; men’s and women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s basketball all play at Mesa Community College’s Heap Gym-
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nasium; men’s and women’s golf play at Las Sendas Golf Club; men’s baseball plays at Mesa Gene Autry Park; women’s softball plays at Mesa Fiesta Park, and women’s beach volleyball plays at the Mesquite High sand-volleyball court. “We continue to look for growth opportunities in athletics and that definitely pertains to athletic facilities,” Schafer said regarding plans to build their own. “We have been fortunate to date to have strong partnerships with Mesa Parks and Recreation, Mesa Community College, the Mesa South Stake Center and Seton Catholic High School.” The obvious missing sport is football.
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Given that two other Valley small colleges, Ottawa University and Arizona Christian, field football teams and that the Maricopa Community College District has eliminated the sport at all Valley jucos, the Redhawks see opportunity and are eyeing the sport. “Football has definitely been a sport that we continue to examine closely as we know there is more need for smallcollege opportunities in the sport in the state of Arizona with the elimination of football at the Maricopa Community Colleges,” Schafer said. He added that at present there are no plans to add football for the 2019 season. Among the multitude of BenU athletes from the East Valley, 26 play baseball – most of any sport – and 17 play basketball on the men’s or women’s team. In addition to intercollegiate sports, BenU offers a multitude of club sports that are directed by the athletic department. The university offers “Competitive Club Grants,” which act as athletic scholarships, for spirit squad, e-sports, bowling, badminton, ultimate Frisbee and a cappella choir. “Benedictine University Mesa continues to research and examine athletic programs that would fit our institution’s
mission and vision and bring added enrollment growth and revenue to the university,” Schafer said. “We are launching an extensive club sports program this fall, 2019, that we feel will help boost enrollment and enhance the on-campus student experience at BenU Mesa.” Not only are the Redhawks interested in East Valley high school and juniorcollege players, they’ve been successful taking East Valley transfers from fouryear schools. Athletes often initially go to another part of the country for college. According to BenU baseball coach Brian McCabe, many soon return home. He’s on the lookout for them. “Not every kid wants to stay home. They want to go out and see the bright lights,” McCabe said. “Having gone to school in the Midwest, I would see a handful of guys from Arizona come out there but the second the first snowfall came they went home. “A lot of our guys went to other schools and then transferred back.” McCabe is in his third year at BenU and his first as head baseball coach. For two years he was pitching coach and recruiter, helping build the young program. McCabe and his staff have reached out to 15 area high school seniors for the 2020 season, he said.
“There’s so much talent in Arizona,” McCabe said. “East Valley high school baseball is incredible. We know we can go five miles from BenU either way and we could find 25 guys that would fit our program.” Talent at East Valley high schools goes well beyond baseball and basketball. Tim Marchisotto, newly appointed BenU women’s soccer coach and associate head coach of the men’s team, makes recruiting East Valley athletes standard operating procedure. He credits the coaches at the high school and club levels for preparing athletes to compete in college, especially since most sports now practice year round. “There are a lot of coaches in the East Valley that are involved in club or even college programs,” Marchisotto said. “I think the high school programs are beneficiaries of that leadership. When we are recruiting players from the East Valley, they’re ready. “We want to be able to keep athletes in state. We don’t want them to go off to Colorado, California or other popular parts of the country. It’s important for them to realize they don’t have to go out to those other places. Instead, they can stay home.”
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ighland High football coach Brock Farrel has been nominated by the Arizona Cardinals for the 2018 Don Shula NFL High School Coach of the Year Award. The award recognizes 32 prep football coaches around the country for their character and integrity, as well as dedication to the community and players. Each NFL club is responsible for nominating a local coach. As a finalist, Farrel is invited to the 2019 NFL Pro Bowl in Orlando, Fla., where he and the other nominees will be recognized throughout the week-long event. “I am so thankful to the Cardinals and the Bidwill family for this great honor,” Farrel said in a text message on Wednesday. “I am really looking forward to spending some time with my wife in Florida and enjoying the Pro Bowl. I’m grateful to the NFL foundation for their generosity because I would not be able to do this trip without them.” One senior player from Highland, Noah Burdick, was chosen by Farrel to travel with him to the Pro Bowl. Burdick will compete in the Skills Showdown against other players chosen by their respective coaches. Of the 32 finalists, two will receive
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“Once you start believing in yourself like Edin has, you can have those big nights where you get a double-double or make a huge play,” Artis said. “It’s on me to show them how much I believe in them, and then guys like him can start to believe, too.” Four months in Europe also taught him just how lucky he is to be in the U.S., he said. The handful of players who called Franjo Kluz their practice gym often spent nearly as much time maintaining the court as they did playing basketball on it. The nets would break nearly every day so the guys had to pull out a ladder and tie on new ones. The rims would be a little slanted sometimes, so the tallest players would have to go jump up and try to straighten them with their hands. The balls would be lopsided or have holes so Smjecanin and his teammates would have to pump them up every day or buy new ones.
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Highland High football coach Brock Farrel has been nominated by the Arizona Cardinals for the 2018 Don Shula High School Coach of the Year Award.
$15,000 from the NFL Foundation, with $10,000 of that to be dedicated to the coach’s football program, according to a news release. In addition, the chosen two will attend Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, Ga., on Feb. 3 as guests of the NFL and will be recognized on the red carpet at the NFL Honors award show on Feb. 2.
“You really take for granted having a good hoop here. You have all the benefits here that a lot of those kids don’t have, so now there’s really no excuse to not work as hard as you can,” Smjecanin said. “I showed some of the guys on my team in Bosnia pictures of my high school gym and they couldn’t believe it because it’s bigger than some pro arenas they have over there.” Smjecanin’s parents had come to the U.S. from Bosnia. Edin was born in Chicago and is a U.S. citizen, the first in his family to be born in this country. Smjecanin’s love for the game originated from his father, Senad Smjecanin, who encouraged Edin to go to Bosnia for the fall. The pair had watched hours of European and NBA basketball together. They regularly played one-on-one, and Senad was Edin’s toughest opponent for years. “He finally started beating me two years ago,” Senad said. “The first time we ever played I think I let him win but since then I never did.”
Don Shula, Tony Dungy, Willie McGinest, Condoleeza Rice and others will select the winner of the Don Shula Award during the Pro Bowl on Jan. 27. Farrel led the Hawks to an 11-2 record and the school’s first big-school state semifinal playoff appearance since 2004. Highland was a two-point conversion away from knocking off eventual cham-
“He would shoot it in my face,” Edin added, chuckling. “Now, today, we’ll play sometimes but his back starts to hurt so I have to take it easy on him.” These days, Senad and the rest of the Smjecanin family are in the stands at Mesquite games. Senad attends every game and every scrimmage, iPhone in hand to record every second, every dribble of Edin’s time on the court for later analysis and to send to college coaches. After garnering little interest from colleges as a junior, Edin has played himself onto the radar of scouts. “He’s got coaches that have told him congratulations in the locker room and one invited us to a game. And now we think Edin’s going to get an offer somewhere,” Senad said. Through December, Edin had not yet received a formal offer letter but even the thought of playing at the next level makes him smile. Smjecanin will have to play a bigger role than he expected if Mesquite is to win the 4A state title. Senior teammate
pion Chandler in overtime to advance to the 6A state championship before losing to the Wolves. Farrel will enter his third season with the Hawks in the fall. Contact Zach Alvira at zalvira@ timespublications.com and follow him on Twitter @ZachAlvira. Kingdom Artis, the Wildcats’ leading scorer, suffered a leg injury in November and likely will not return until late in the season. The Wildcats lost some early-season games they believed were winnable but the experience that players lower on the depth chart are receiving will be valuable later. “We all knew with Kingdom going down that it’s going to be tough,” Carlos Artis said. “Edin and the other guys have all stepped up, though. We won’t have Kingdom back until the playoffs if we’re there. But if they all keep playing like this and then he gets back, we’re going to be twice as good.” It is uncertain where Smjecanin’s basketball journey will end. What is obvious is his growth as a player and as a person. “It makes me really emotional thinking about all the hard work, all the time I put in, and it’s all paying off right now,” Smjecanin said. “I really want to play at the next level and see where basketball takes me.”
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any Gilbert children are eager to take audiences on a journey of pure imagination as they perform the sweet, quirky tale of candy man Willy Wonka as he seeks a successor to his chocolate factory. Limelight Performing Arts, based in Gilbert, is hoping that audiences will eat up its production of “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka,” Jan. 16-20, at Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main St. in Mesa. Young actors who live in Gilbert, Chandler and Mesa are among the cast of 35 portraying colorful characters in the musical based on Dahl’s book, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” The scrumdiddlyumptious singing, dancing and acting confection is a blend of the original movie, “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” released in 1971, and the 2005 film, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” as well as Dahl’s book, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” The musical, book and movies are about eccentric Wonka, a candy manufacturer who places five golden tickets in candy bars he sells. Those who find them get a free tour of his factory and a lifetime supply of candy. Four of the children who win the tickets demonstrate bad behavior. The fifth, Charlie Bucket, is likeable and brings his friendly grandfather along on the tour. The factory is a magical, bizarre place with a chocolate river, an experimental chewing gum that tastes like a threecourse meal and a psychedelic boat ride. Oompa-Loompas, small people with orange skin and green hair, work in the factory and sing songs about the vices of four of the children, who suffer negative, strange consequences for their behavior. One of them, Violet Beauregarde, who constantly chews gum, chews the experimental version made at the factory despite Wonka’s urging her not to. She blows up into a blueberry. Another child, gluttonous Augustus Gloop, who despite Wonka’s wishes drinks chocolate from a waterfall, falls into a lake of melted chocolate and is sucked into a chocolate extraction pipe. Children and adults will enjoy feasting
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Jordan Gingell, 13, of Gilbert, an eighth-grader at Highland Junior High School, plays the role of Willy Wonka, the eccentric candy manufacturer, in Limelight Performing Arts’ production of “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.” Kaitlyn Woodward, 12, of Gilbert, is in the ensemble and an understudy for Charlie Bucket in Limelight Performing Arts’ performances of the musical, “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.” She is a seventh-grader at Gilbert Christian’s PK-8 Agritopia Campus. Hailey Laidig (center), 12, of Mesa, rehearses a scene in “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka,” a musical production of Limelight Performing Arts. On her left is Kaitlyn Woodward, 12, of Gilbert.
on the colorful, classic musical that many watched in the two movies, according to Limelight director Jamie Bauer-Spano. “I think it’s just really fun and imaginative,” Bauer-Spano said. “It’s a familiar story that everyone knows. It’s familyfriendly. It’s been really fun bringing in the kids’ imagination.” The Limelight musical will feature fun, sugar-coated touches, including actors portraying candy and chocolate. Actors will ride bicycles in one scene to simulate the act of flying. “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka” gives the budding actors room to improvise and have a blast, Bauer-Spano said. Kids play children and older youths play adult parents. Some actors play more than one role, including a character and part of the ensemble so they are always busy
wearing different hats in the show. Jordan Gingell, 13, of Gilbert, an eighth-grader at Highland Junior High in Mesa, is enjoying playing the title role as Wonka in the musical. “I’d say it’s just kind of a fun musical,” Gingell said. “You can basically do whatever. It kind of gives me room to take the character in a place I want.” Gingell, who has performed in several other musicals with Limelight and other theater companies, has seen the 1971 and 2005 versions of the movie. A sister act savoring the sweet experience of the musical is Meredith Woodward, 14, and Kaitlyn Woodward, 12, of Gilbert. Meredith, a freshman at Gilbert Christian High, plays Mrs. Teavee, the mother of Mike Teavee, while Kaitlyn, a seventh-grader at Gilbert Christian
Schools’ PK-8 Agritopia Campus, is in the ensemble and is the understudy for Charlie. Meredith also plays a chocolate bar in the musical and enjoys her variety of roles. “I like that there’s a bunch of different things that people can do,” she said. “This is my second food role,” adding that she played a banana in “Junie B. Jones Jr.” “I love being food because it’s weird,” Meredith said. She said when she first saw the Willy Wonka movie as a young child it scared her. “I still think it’s a weird, funny, interesting story,” Meredith said. “I love being onstage and making people in the audience happy.” Kaitlyn, like her older sister, is having fun in the musical. “There’s so many interesting characters, fat characters and mean characters,” Kaitlyn said. “I’ve seen the Johnny Depp (“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”) movie. It’s a little weird. I like the Oompa Loompas. I’m a squirrel. I get to be different things and I don’t get to stick to just one character. I like how everyone works as a team and we all cooperate to make amazing shows.”
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Pink Martini brings pop-jazz flavors of the world to Chandler BY ALAN SCULLEY GET OUT Contributing Writer
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s his group, Pink Martini, continues to tour behind its latest album, Jes dis oui!, Thomas Lauderdale is astonished that he still gets to make a living in the process. “We’ve been going for 23 years,” Lauderdale said, reflecting on his Pink Martini journey, which comes to the Chandler Center for the Arts on Friday, Jan. 18. “On paper it’s preposterous.” The group’s style traverses vintage and contemporary pop, jazz, classical and international. “I’m the oldest of four adopted children. My parents were White, but they adopted a multicultural family,” he said. “My father went back and forth between being a minister and being a plant nurseryman. “So I spent a lot of time both in the church and also growing up on a plant nursery in Indiana. After church services, I would go up to the piano and pound out the hymns that I had heard during the service. My parents sort of took it as a sign.” Lauderdale did not initially see music as a career option. After attending Harvard University, he moved to Portland and had an eye on a future in politics. “My goal was really to become mayor of Portland,” he said. In his preparations to run, Lauderdale attended fundraisers. He noticed that the musical groups left a lot to be desired. He saw that as an opportunity. So in 1994, Lauderdale formed Pink Martini, feeling a style built around a mix of retro pop, classical, jazz and world
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Some of the children in the musical are playing the parts of much older people – grandparents. Besides the young actors, a teenager is the assistant choreographer for the show, Allie Rederick, 16, a Gilbert High junior. Emma England of Gilbert, owner of Studio 3 Performing Arts and artistic director of Limelight Performing Arts, is the choreographer and designer. Studio 3, 511 W. Guadalupe Road in Gilbert, gives lessons in acting, singing, dance, musical theater and musical instruments.
music would provide a more beautiful and inclusive soundtrack to political fundraisers. Pink Martini’s music began to take, and Lauderdale’s political ambitions began to fade. “Pretty soon it became kind of clear it was maybe much more fabulous to play music and get applause every night and make people happy, as opposed to working under fluorescent lighting and meeting angry constituents every day,” he said. (Special to GET OUT) A year in, Lauderdale Pink Martini, which brings its pop-jazz style to Chandler on Jan. 18, has been together nearly 23 years. “It seems so implaucontacted a Harvard sible for a band playing this kind of music and traveling the world for 23 years,” said frontman/pianist Thomas Lauderdale. classmate, singer Chi- “But here we are. We’re very lucky.” na Forbes, and asked her to join the group. Lauderdale considers their Je dis oui! came together in the studio. The two soon found they shared a a particularly cheerful album that re“I’m happier than I’ve been in years. I songwriting chemistry, and in 1997, Pink flected the positive place he and the feel pretty comfortable in my life (right Martini released its debut album, Sym- band have reached in life and their musi- now),” Lauderdale said. pathique. “So that’s reflected in the music.” cal journey and how easily the material The album caught on internationally, and in France the group was nominated for best new artist and Sympathique was nominated for Song of the Year at 2000’s France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards.
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The Mesa City Council will hold a public hearing concerning the following ordinance at the January 28, 2019 City Council meeting beginning at 5:45 p.m. in the Mesa City Council Chambers, 57 East First Street. 1. ZON18-00246 (District 4) Within the 400 and 500 blocks of North Center Street (east side); and within the 400 and 500 blocks of North Pima, North Lewis, and North Sirrine (both sides); and within the 500 block of North Pasadena north of 526 North Pasadena (both sides) (32.8± acres). Located east of Center Street and north of University Drive. Rezone from RM-2, RM-2-HL, RM-4, DR-2, DR-2-HL, DR-3, DB-1, and LC to ID-2 and ID-2-HL. This request will establish a zoning designation that reflects the historic development pattern of the area. City of Mesa, applicant; multiple owners. 2. ZON18-00688 (District 6) Within the 2100 to 2400 block of South Signal Butte Road (east side). Located south of Baseline Road on the east side of Signal Butte Road (7.4 ± acres). Rezoning from RM-2-PAD to RM-2-PAD-PAD; and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for an attached single-residence subdivision. Tim Nielsen, Farnsworth Construction Company, applicant; Sunland Springs Golf Company, LLP, owner. 3. ZON18-00692 (District 4) Within the 1000 block of East University Drive (north side). Located west of Stapley Drive on the north side of University Drive (1± acres). Rezoning from OC to RM-4. This request will allow for residential development. Kempton Fuller, Arthereal Design, applicant; Wallin Holdings, LLC, owner. 4. ZON18-00693 (District 6) Within the 2800 and 2900 blocks of South Hawes Road (east side) and the 8400 block of East Guadalupe Road (south side). Located at the southeast corner of Guadalupe Road and Hawes Road (10± acres). Rezoning from RS-43 to RM-2PAD-AF; and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for a multi-residential development. Brennan Ray, Burch & Cracchiolo, applicant; Hawes Section Corner, LTD, Partnership, owner. 5. ZON18-00689 (District 6) Within the 3200 and 3300 blocks of South Power Road (east side). Located north of Elliot Road on the east side of Power Road (9± acres). Rezoning from LI-PAD to RM-2-PAD-AF; and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for a multi-residential development. Brennan Ray, Burch & Cracchiolo, applicant; Garage Town, USA, LLC, owner.
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To register for the Consumer Study and free trials of the Phonak Audéo™ Marvel, or to refer a friend or family member who you feel could benefit, call (888) 694-0655, email info@connecthearing.com, or register on our website at connecthearing.com/marvel-trials. For terms and conditions of this promotion please log on to marvel-trials/connecthearing.com Sources: 1. Sergei Kochkin PhD (2005) – “The Impact of Untreated Hearing Loss on Household Income.” 2. Lin et al (2011) - “Hearing Loss and Incident Dementia.” Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. 3. According to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. 4. Jansen, S., & Woodward, J. (2018). Love at first sound: the new Phonak precalculation. Phonak Insight, retrieved from www.phonakpro.com/evidence, accessed October 16th, 2018. 5. Rodrigues, T., & Liebe, S. (2018). AutoSense OS™ 3.0. The new & enhanced automatic operating system. Phonak Insight,
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