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Heritage District businessman fights town over garage BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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David-and-Goliath fight is playing out in Gilbert’s Historic District between a businessman and the town. For 13 years Marc Barlow has run his commercial real estate business out of a building he bought on Gilbert Road and Hearne Way when it had sat vacant after a veterinary clinic closed shop. He also owns an adjacent vacant parcel east of his office building. “There was nothing down here,” said Barlow, who had served on the town’s Redevelopment Commission for 11 years. “It was me, Joe’s BBQ, Oregano’s and Liberty Market. Across the street was a trailer park.” Barlow was among the business owners
(Kimberly Carrillo/GSN Staff Photographer)
Marc Barlow says the garage the town is building in the Heritage District will hurt his nearby business.
who invest early in the town’s Historic District, designated a redevelopment area in 1989. Substantial growth has been occurring
every year in the district since 2007. Barlow said he sunk a considerable sum of money on improvements to the 24,000-square-foot building, including $30,000 for a monument sign. He also added five additional parking spots to the existing seven in order to get a loan and meet the town’s zoning requirement. Nearly 30 years later after Gilbert adopted its first redevelopment plan guiding revitalization in the Historic District, it is now a destination hot spot of trendy bars and restaurants. Downtown’s success, however, is coming at a cost for Barlow. Gilbert in August authorized eminent do-
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Once again, Williams Field students aid the hungry BY COTY DOLORES MIRANDA GSN Contributor
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aring for their community – even folks they’ve never met – is the fall focus of students of Gilbert’s Williams Field High School. Of course, a little classroom competition never hurts. This month marks the eighth annual Williams Field Stuff the Bus Food Drive that last year totaled 13,000 pounds of nonperishable food items donated to the United Food Bank in Mesa. This year, the students collected more than 12,100 pounds of food items, piled them into extra-large boxes and placed them aboard a full-size Higley Unified School District bus that rumbled off to the United Food Bank’s main facility in west Mesa last Monday – followed by two other buses filled with stu-
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dents of this year’s Stuff the Bus first-hour class competition. For the first time this year, four officers of the National Honor Society – which sponsors the school-wide event – also came along The honor society officers said the drive was important to the school – as well as themselves. Though all four officers spoke movingly about their compassion for those families and individuals who find themselves in dire circumstances anytime, but especially during the holidays, it was NHS secretary Ruth Nyagaka’s story that proved poignant even to her fellow officers. “I feel I’m paying it forward by participating in Stuff the Bus because I know how it Downtown was for my family,” she said. “IChandler feel honored 141 Boston Street I was able to receiveWest food from United Food
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main proceedings on Barlow’s property, which the town needed for a five-deck parking garage under construction since February. Lack of off-street parking is endemic in the district. And on-street parking is scant because the town once allowed buildings to be built up to the property line. The garage will help address further parking demands as the town anticipates significant infill development over the next several years in the district, local officials have said. In 2016 town leaders decided to build the Heritage District Parking Garage II, three blocks from a multi-level garage completed in 2014. The town’s redevelopment plan discourages and limits new surface parking in the district. The garage is being built on 1.2 acres of town-owned property at the east end of Hearne Way. Gilbert over the years had spent millions buying up much of the land in the downtown corridor to jumpstart redevelopment. The town wants to take 755 square feet from the northeast corner of Barlow’s 12,000-square-foot vacant parcel to build a roundabout at the garage entrance to accommodate emergency vehicles. The roundabout will be at the junction of Hearne and the proposed BriComp Drive, a new street that will come north off of Vaughn Avenue to Hearne on the west side of the garage, according to court documents. Barlow says that if the town builds the roundabout, it would eliminate access to his vacant property, leaving it landlocked and hampering his development of a mixuse project on the land that is now on hold. The town also wants to rebuild Hearne Way with a 20-foot sidewalk and a dropoff lane, taking 273 feet in the process and effectively eliminating five parking spaces – about half of the parking for Barlow’s building that houses three other tenants. It also would eliminate access to his building, forcing him to share access from Gilbert Road with a neighboring business. Barlow said when he added the five parking spaces, officials agreed to let him put the new lots partly on town property. “The town gave me rights to use it for parking,” he said. “I repaved and striped it. I need all the spaces over here.” He fears his tenants would leave with the loss of parking spaces for their customers. The town argues the five parking spots are almost entirely on public right-of-way and that there was no easement granted for Barlow to use it for parking. Although Gilbert maintains the emi-
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The Heritage District garage now under construction stands within a stone's through of Philip Barlow's business and would cost him parking spaces he said he needs. He is suing the town and fighting its effort to invoke eminent domain to seize some of his property.
nent domain proceeding is for public good, Barlow sees it differently and has counter-sued the town. He and his attorney argue the $19.2 million garage and the roadway improvements to Hearne are all to benefit a private developer – Common Bond Development, which purchased town-owned land in the northeast corner of Hearne Way and Gilbert Road. The Phoenix developer is currently building a structure there to house Fox Restaurant Concepts’ The Yard and Culinary Dropout restaurants. “We are not saying the town can’t build,” said eminent domain attorney Dale Zeitlin. “A government can build a garage and make it available to everyone for free or charge a parking fee. That part we are not challenging.” What they are challenging is that the town is giving exclusivity to the developer and his tenant. Zeitlin points to the town’s March 2018 parking license agreement with Common Bond. The 10-year agreement includes exclusive use of 100 of the 600 valet parking spaces for the developer’s tenant, 11 a.m.11 p.m. seven days a week. Ninety-two spaces will be on the ground level and eight on the top level of the garage. Each deck will have 120 to 124 parking spaces. Although the town says the public will be able to park in those spots outside of that time frame, Zeitlin calls that assertion absurd. “This whole area is restaurants and there’s no reason to park in the garage before 11 a.m. and no need to park in the garage after 11 p.m., so I think it’s a bit disingenuous on the part of the town,” he said. The parking garage and public improvements to Hearne Way are expected to be completed by next March, according to the town. Barlow’s suit claims the town is violat-
ing the gift clause of the Arizona Constitution to the tune of $3.8 million, which Gilbert disputed. The clause prohibits government entities from gifting private entities with public funds or any public work. Zeitlin argues Common Bond should help pay for the publicly funded garage. He came up with the $3.8 million figure by dividing the number of spots reserved for Common Bond with the cost of building the garage. Although Common Bond under the agreement will pay the town $33,554 a year for the use of the parking spaces, those payments only cover the garage’s maintenance and operation and not the construction cost, according to Zeitlin. “The developer is getting 100 exclusive spaces and not spending a nickel into the cost of capital, let alone that doesn’t include the value of the underlying land,” which would put the garage project closer to $25 million, he said. Gilbert countered it does not currently charge for parking, and all of the townowned property in the Heritage District used for parking, including the existing garage, is available at no cost to businesses and patrons. Zeitlin claimed the 8-foot drop-off lane will serve as valet parking services entirely for Common Bond’s tenant, which Gilbert again disputed. “The valet drive is clearly for The Yard,” he said. “It will be privately run, but Gilbert claims anybody can use the valet. That’s interesting except for the fact is you would not use the valet if you are not going to The Yard. “They’re taking a public street for a private valet, and so we believe the entire project is basically converting public road to predominately private use and we don’t think that is constitutional,” Zeitlin added. And because the building is allowed to build up to the property line, the 20-foot sidewalk is being built to accommodate
patrons to that site, he said. “So, the town is saying this is a promenade, a public promenade,” he said. “OK, we hear that, but the reality of this is when The Yard opens its doors and Culinary Dropout opens its doors, people have to congregate in the street so the town is building a sidewalk. “Our point is Hearne was a public street,” Zeitlin said. “And we believe you are really fundamentally converting a public street for private use for The Yard.” According to the town, Hearne Way was designed as a one-way local collector with a 12-foot thru lane and an 8-foot pick-up and drop-off lane to promote walkability, provide for a pedestrianfriendly environment in the Heritage District, and provide for a dedicated location for drop-off and pick-up for the public and ride-sharing services. Given the location of the new parking garage and BriComp Boulevard, the oneway design with a dedicated public dropoff and pick-up lane is the most suitable configuration for Hearne Way, according to Gilbert. Both attorney Charles Ayers, who represents Gilbert in the suit, and Town Attorney Christopher Payne declined to comment on the lawsuits. If the court were to rule against the parking license agreement, it won’t stop the construction of the garage or Hearne Way, the town states in the lawsuit. If the court nullifies the agreement, it would remove the 100 reserved parking spaces for Common Bond, according to the town. And the town would simply reconfigure Hearne by widening it by 2 feet and provide two, 11-foot-wide, one-way eastbound lanes, the suit said. An evidentiary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 12-13 to determine if the garage is a private or public use, according to Zeitlin.
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Bank.” The second year NHS member recounted how in 2013 her family was hit with the unforeseen – her mother’s hospitalization and a house fire. “My mother was sick and then hospitalized with Valley Fever, and this happened around December, 2013. While she was in the hospital, our house almost burned down, so it was difficult to have both adversities at the same time and find food for the holidays,” she recalled. “So, I know personally what it’s like to have United Food Bank help families. And I know there’s an extraordinary amount of people who struggle every day to find food, and people in my own school who may go home hungry. I feel I’m helping by providing food to share with them.” Honor society president Andrei Regorgo added, “The opportunity for us to help those less fortunate and disenfranchised in our community really motivates me. I know in our school we have kids who qualify for free or reduced lunches, so we try to appreciate that we’re helping them and others like them.” The senior said he became aware of Stuff the Bus when he was a National Junior Honor Society member at Cooley Middle School. “My older brother and sister were both in National Honor Society and I tried my best to contribute,” Regorgo recalled, adding that he has been active in the drive since a freshman. Gabrielle Ciadella, this year’s society vice-president, believes everyone in the school benefits from the drive, which also included activities like Halloween’s Trickor-Treat for Cans and the highly-successful Bashas Food Drive held Nov. 3. “It’s a great community service project, and a way for Williams Field to reach out to the community,” said Ciadella, a senior. Though she has been a part of the Stuff the Food Bus for four years, this year she decided to do some further research. “I read the United Food Bank website and I’m more aware of the situation and the needs of hungry children and families,” she said. “We know United Food Bank relies on our contributions.” Ciadella said she encourages everyone to review the website – UnitedFoodBank. org – to learn more about the local need. She noted that Arizona ranks 12th in the nation for food insecurity, sixth in the country for children who are food insecure and that one out of every five state residents goes to bed hungry. “You know it’s out there, but you don’t think it’s that extreme,” she said.
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Williams Field High School students and National Honor Society officers unpacked thousands of pounds of food items last Monday at United Food Bank in Mesa.
Senior Ashley Hostetler, society treasurer, said her research on hunger among Arizona children compelled her to work even harder this year to gather foods, even organizing the school’s 78 NHS members to join her in door-todoor weekly solicitations for canned foods and non-perishables. “I think every year when Stuff the Bus comes around, we’re faced with statistics that show how many children are starving,” she said. “Well, we’re not content with those statistics, and we’re trying to change that.” The Williams Field High School Stuff the Bus Food Drive began eight years ago with a lunch chat between Career Center Specialist Mary Buscema and Josh Crosby, Higley Unified School District director of transportation. “Stuff the Bus was born when we came up with the idea eight years ago,” recalled Buscema, adding: “I was concerned with low community service projects available to students, and Josh and I started brainstorming. It’s turned out to be a great annual event with all Williams Field students getting involved.” Crosby said the continually growing success of the Williams Field High School endeavor required an increase in the size of the delivery bus from a smaller vehicle used in the beginning. “The bus we’re using this year is a fullsize, 36-foot-long, 72-passenger Blue Bird Bus. The bus has a gross vehicle weight rating of 30,000 pounds, and Pioneer Sand and Gravel allows us to weigh the bus on their truck scale to ensure the bus is safe to drive prior to heading to the food bank,” said Crosby. Crosby has been Higley’s transporta-
tion director since 2002, two years after he started at the district. The annual fall event has been extremely popular with all students since that time. The school hosts an annual donation drive competition and this year, two first period classrooms tied for top honors. The 72 first-hour class members taught by Heidi Zellner and Rebecca Rodriquez were honored with the opportunity to ride another bus to United Food Bank, where they helped unload the donations. And it was a sizeable amount this year, well surpassing the 20,000-pound goal. Monetary donations helped raise the total as, according to Buscema, each dollar collected counted as five pounds. In addition, an unnamed private contributor who preferred to stay anonymous offered to match funds up to $4,000. In all the drive collected $4,000 in cash that, with the food items, was enough to serve more than 31,000 meals to needy families. Buscema said she was once again very proud of Williams Field students, and hopeful their caring and largesse will be replicated by the community. “We hope that maybe Williams Field students’ efforts will inspire other people to think about donating to the United Food Bank this year,” she said. United Food Bank is a nonprofit organization providing hunger relief in the East Valley and eastern Arizona, a 19,500-square-mile service area. It collects, stores and distributes food and other donations to more than 220 partner agencies. Last year, United Food Bank distributed nearly 24 million pounds of food.
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State ponders ways to curb vaping among young people BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services
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larmed by the sharp increase of youth “vaping,’’ state health officials are preparing a campaign they hope will scare teens from starting or, if it’s too late for that, get them to quit. But what will work on them is still up for debate. Wayne Tormala, chief of the agency’s Bureau of Tobacco and Chronic Disease, said two weeks ago there has been a steady decline in teen smoking. The most recent data says 7 percent of those younger than 18 have had a cigarette in the past 30 days. But electronic cigarettes and similar devices have been used by close to 89,000 in the same age group, more than 16 percent. Hundreds of kids in districts across the East Valley have been caught 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 in March. “This is not exclusive to
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Vaping materials are routinely confiscated daily in East Valley school districts as they try to curb the alarming trend among teens.
GPS; it is occurring on campuses everywhere in our area, state and nationwide.” At a forum sponsored by the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce in
June, two area superintendents – Kevin Mendivil of Tempe Union and Jan Vesely of Kyrene – both said vaping had become an enormous problem.
While Mesa and Chandler, like all districts, forbid all forms of tobacco use, there is no indication they have taken any special measures to curb vaping among their students. But Kyrene and Tempe Union are trying to fight the dangerous trend. Kyrene is leading the state by becoming the first district in Arizona to test a new kind of monitor. District officials are installing the monitors in the bathrooms of Chandler’s Kyrene Aprende Middle School that detect vaping fumes and alert school officials via an email or text. Arizona’s move comes as the federal Food and Drug Administration announced new restrictions this month on the sale of flavored tobacco and vaping products. Under the new rules, they could be sold only in stores that allow only those of legal smoking age in the door or only from areas where minors are barred entirely. FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb called the increase in teen use “astonishing.’’ “These increases must stop,’’ he said in
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a prepared statement. “The bottom line is this: I will not allow a generation of children to become addicted to nicotine through e-cigarettes.’’ Most immediate affected will be convenience stores and gas stations, meaning those who want flavored products will have to go to shops that specialize in tobacco and vaping products. But it could take some time for retailers to comply. In the meantime, Arizona already has a name for its own new ad campaign: Facts Over Flavor. That’s based on the idea that the companies that are manufacturing these items have infused them with tastes that health officials say are not designed to help adults quit tobacco but instead entice new users. “When one of your most prolific sales of vape products goes to flavors called Fruity Pebbles,’’ that’s hardly marketing to people my age,’’ said Tormala, who is 71. But the problem that remains, he said, is finding a message that works. It starts with recognizing that the main thing that influences teens is what other teens are saying and doing, said Tormala. “Who do kids listen to, who are their trusted messengers?’’ he asked. “They’re each other,’’ Tormala said. “And when you get youth talking to each other about issues, you tend to get a better response.’’ Most significant, he said, is having teens involved in the planning that’s taking place. “If I’ve learned anything in the past decade or so of marketing around these products, it’s just that usually what I think is a good idea isn’t a good idea because I’m not the target audience,’’’ Tormala explained. Still, he believes that at least part of the focus has to be on convincing teens
that the whole idea of flavored vaping is aimed at getting them to try it – and get hooked. And Tormala said he believes some facts will help drive that home. “When we confiscate products from youth and send it over to the state lab here, 97 percent of the products contain high concentrations of nicotine,’’ he said. While purchase of tobacco and similar products is legal statewide at 18, two Arizona communities, Douglas and Cottonwood, have raised the age to buy and use these to 21. About a dozen other cities and towns, including Tucson, are weighing similar ordinances. The state health department has taken no official position on the issue, deferring to the Legislature which would have to make the call. But Tormala said he personally supports it. “If you can make something illegal, you’re going to have less use,’’ he said. One complicating factor is that e-cigarettes and other vaping devices are being promoted to adults as a method of quitting cigarettes. “Whether it’s smoking or vape use, the biggest influence is the behavior of the parents,’’ Tormala said. “So when parents smoke, we know there’s a higher risk of kids smoking,’’ he explained. “When parents vape, there’s a higher risk of kids vaping.’’ What that means, he said, is convincing parents that if they’re going to use one of these cigarette alternatives they should do it “away from your kids.’’ In its restrictions on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, the FDA did not apply the same rules to products flavored with mint or menthol. Part of the issue there is that mint and menthol regular cigarettes remain on the market, at least for the time being. And if people can’t get their e-cigarettes in those flavors, they could decide to purchase regular cigarettes instead.
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wo Chandler women – one a native Mesan and the other a seven-year transplant from the San Francisco Bay Area – this month accomplished what had been the unthinkable even a year ago. They added a strong streak of blue to the East Valley. One cracked a solidly Republican legislative district and the other completed the flip of another one into the Democrats’ column. For both Jennifer Pawlik and Jennifer Jermaine, the reality of their election victories has only begun to take hold. Pawlik’s win in Legislative District 17 – which covers a good bit of Chandler and a piece of Gilbert – and that of Jermaine in LD 18 – which covers Ahwatukee and parts of Tempe, Mesa and the rest of Chandler – pose significant consequences for Gov. Doug Ducey and the next two sessions of the state Legislature. Their victories leave House Republicans a narrow two-vote majority – which newly elected House Speaker Rusty Bowers of Mesa already has admitted “makes leadership more sensitive to each member’s needs and wants.’’ “And those we’ll just have to work through,” he added. Both Pawlik and Jermaine are coming to the Legislature with a determination to more adequately fund public education as a top priority – the same motivation which prompted their respective runs in the first place. Pawlik, a former longtime teacher, and Jermaine, a management consultant for nonprofit organizations, both campaigned on the assertion that quality public education was vital to the state’s long-term economic security. With only a smattering of votes still left to count as of mid-week, Pawlik was the top vote-getter in the three-way race for two LD 17 House seats. She not only bested Republican Nora Ellen, a former Chandler City Council member, but out-polled longtime legislator and former Chandler Councilman Jeff Weninger by 354 votes. Jermaine toppled two-term Ahwatukee Republican Jill Norgaard. With victories by incumbent Tempe Rep. Mitzi Epstein and Ahwatukee incumbent Sen. Sean Bowie, Jermaine’s win turned LD 18 blue despite a slim Republican registration lead in that district. In LD 17, Republicans hold a commanding registered lead of 10,000 over Demo-
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crats. Both districts, however, also hold a significant number of independents, with over 40,000 in each. Pawlik admitted that the gravity of winning a seat was overwhelming during her first trip to the state Capitol two weeks ago as a House member-elect. “I’ve visited the Capitol so many times before,” Pawlik said. “To go through those swinging doors knowing I was (a Houseelect member) was so surreal.” She not only is the first Democrat to win in the area in decades – maybe ever – but also is the first woman to be elected in LD 17. Pawlik’s election upset in a district that has always been Republican-dominated has been a long time coming for area Democrats. Since the last redistricting in 2012, the area that covers parts of Chandler, Gilbert and Sun Lakes has gone to Republicans every two years. In recent decades before that, most of the same area was in District 21, which Republicans controlled election after election. Notable House members from the area who have served over the years are current Senate President Steven B. Yarbrough and outgoing Chandler Mayor Jay Tibshraeny. The retiring Yarbrough will be replaced by former House Speaker J.D. Mesnard, an Ocotillo resident and Ellen’s son who beat Democrat Steve Weichert. Politics were never something Pawlik
dreamed of getting into while growing up. Pawlik was raised in Mesa as Jennifer Banning, the oldest of three girls. All of her schooling from kindergarten through graduate school was in Arizona. She graduated near the top of her class at Dobson High in 1990 before moving to Flagstaff for her undergraduate and graduate studies. She earned two degrees from Northern Arizona University – a bachelor’s in elementary education in 1996 and an education master’s in curriculum and instruction in 2010. “All I’ve ever wanted to be was a school teacher,” she said. For the last 17 years, including the last nine in Chandler, she taught elementary school students across the Valley, including her most recent stint as a sixth-grade language arts teacher at CTA Liberty. She didn’t get the idea to run for office, however, until a chance encounter in 2014 on a trip to the Capitol for an Arizona Education Association event. She was already unhappy about school funding and low teacher pay, years before the “Red for Ed” movement swept the state. “My colleagues were leaving teaching because they couldn’t afford to do it,” Pawlik said. With some encouragement from family, friends and colleagues, Pawlik decided to run for the Legislature. However, there was only one problem.
I thought, ‘I know how to teach, but I don’t know how to run for office,’” she said. In 2015, Pawlik completed a six-month program that trains Democratic women how to hold public office, called Emerge Arizona. A year later, she received more seasoning with the Leading for Change program. She became more politically involved with the Democratic Party as her interest in fighting for students increased. She has served as secretary of the Legislative District 17 Democrats, a precinct committeeman in the Germann precinct and a state committee member. In her first run for the House in 2016, Pawlik said the fact she didn’t get any pushback from her opponents helped her do better than expected. “We were absolutely dismissed,” she said. “They didn’t see us as a threat.” That changed this time around with Pawlik – the target of some negative mailers and ads for the first time. “Initially, I was shocked,” she said about the early numbers. “After that, I tried not to be distracted.” Ultimately, Pawlik said the overall “Red for Ed” education momentum, the controversial tuition voucher proposition and other factors helped lead to her breakthrough victory. Pawlik joked that her husband of 23 years, Jason, and their 21-year-old twin daughters, Kalie and Katie, are “thrilled” to have the election over. After all, they haven’t had much personal time together over the last three years, especially with Kalie attending the University of Arizona and Katie attending Arizona State University at its downtown campus. But it’s also led to a grueling schedule, which resulted in 12-hour days as the campaign got into the final weeks. Pawlik estimates some weekends she only had about six hours of free time between campaigning and teaching a pair of education classes for Northern Arizona University’s College of Education program on Chandler Gilbert Community College campus. Besides winning, Jermaine had one other primary goal each day on the campaign trail. “Home for bedtime, making sure I was there to put my daughter to sleep,” said Jermaine, 38, the Chandler management consultant to nonprofits and mother of a 2 ½-year-old daughter who last week captured second place in the four-way
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he Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving – a half-century-old East Valley landmark – has skidded into federal bankruptcy court with $3.5 million in debts. The school petitioned the judge in the case two weeks ago for permission to hire an expert in restructuring distressed companies to rescue it from a sea of red ink – which it blamed partly on the loss of a lucrative military training contract, sporadic payments from two struggling auto manufacturers and the loss of a line of popular racing cars. Located at Wild Horse Pass near Chandler, the school has been both a fun mecca for nearly 500,000 students who range from go-kart and amateur racing enthusiasts to teens just beginning to learn how to drive to military and law enforcement personnel. The school employs 31 fulltime and two part-time people. “Both national and international students attend the Bondurant School on a regular basis and learn competition driving, police pursuit driving, evasive driving, and stunt driving, among other types of high-performance driving and racing,” the school said in bankruptcy filings, noting it also taught “recreational high-performance driving to individuals and corporate groups.” Robert L. Bondurant, a world champion racer, founded the school in 1968 in Orange County, California, after a near-death accident at Watkins Glen, New York, when a steering arm on his McLaren MARK II CanAm snapped at 150 mph. Before relocating to the East Valley in
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Racing legend Bob Bondurant and his wife Patricia run the driving school, which has fallen on rough times as the result of the loss of a lucrative government training contract and other factors.
1990, his students included the late actors and racing enthusiasts Jim Garner and Paul Newman – drawn partly by Bondurant’s own successful racing career. He was named in 1959 Corvette Driver of the Year. In 1964, he and friend Dan Gurney won the GT Class at Le Mans in France and a year later won seven of his 10 races in Shelby Cobras and Daytonas to deliver to Ford and Shelby American the World Manufacturer’s Championship for Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the international governing body of motorsport. He and Gurney comprise the only American team to win that title. Billing itself as the “largest purpose-built driving school in the world,” the school sports two training tracks – a 15-turn, 1.6mile road course and a nine- turn, 1.2-mile road course – as well as an eight-acre asphalt skills pad. The school’s bankruptcy petition claims an inventory “primarily consists of Dodge Challengers, Chargers, Fiat 124, Fiat 500 and Open-Wheel Formula Mazda race cars,” and its list of assets shows 18 Formula Mazdas – mostly dating back to the 1990s and early 2000s – a 1965 Shelby Cobra and a half-dozen go-karts. In its Chapter 11 filing, the school lists $2.69 million in secured debts and
$766,000 in unsecured debts against $619,000 in assets. Among those asserts are $263,000 in shop equipment, $375,000 in cash, $87,000 in receivables and $137,000 in parts. There was no estimate on the value of The school leases the track and fixtures, which are valued at $2.7 million, according to the filings. The school on Oct. 3 announced on its website that it had filed for bankruptcy protection, vowing to “continue operating and serving our students and corporate groups as usual while we develop new business relationships to ensure the vitality of the company in the future. “For over 50 years, Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving has been a fixture in Arizona and renowned nationally and internationally in the world of racing, thanks to our loyal students, dedicated employees and the Gila River Indian Community,” it continued, adding that its Chapter 11 filing would give it “sufficient time to reorganize and position the company for sustained success.” “Our plan is to emerge from this process as a stronger company and continue to
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drive this company into the next 50 years,” it added. Over the years, the school’s reputation has attracted sponsorships and partnerships from some of the biggest names in the automotive industry, including Fiat, Dodge SRT, Goodyear, Shell and Pennzoil. In detailing the four factors that forced the bankruptcy action, Bondurant’s wife Patricia signed an affidavit stating that the “first and primary” reason was the school’s inability to pay its September rent. “The Bondurant School was concerned that its landlord, Sun Valley Marina Development Corporation, a tribal corporation chartered by the Gila River Indian Community, potentially could have exercised its lease rights and locked the Bondurant School out, which would have disrupted its ongoing operations,” attorneys told the court. However, they added that since the filing, Bondurant has been in discussions with Sun Valley and the Gila Community and that they are “supportive of the Bondurant.” Bondurant also lost “a substantial contract with the U.S. Government to train military personnel how to drive quickly and safely in emergency situations,” bankruptcy filings state, causing “a decrease of substantial and once-consistent revenue.” While the school doesn’t put a value on that contract other financial records filed with the court show that Bondurant’s annual revenue of $6.9 million in each of the last two years appears like to drop this year. It reported that revenue for the first nine months of 2018 amount to $4.72 million. More detailed records filed with the
court showed that between the second week of October and the first week of November, the school reported total revenue ranging between $72,000 and $108,000. But when its weekly expenses were included, it was running a weekly deficit ranging between $5,958 and $52,845. Adding to the school’s financial woes were Dodge and Fiat as well, according to court papers, “As car manufacturers have struggled over the recent years, regular payments from the Bondurant School’s two primary sponsors, Dodge and Fiat, became inconsistent and disrupted Bondurant School’s ability to remain current with its own vendors,” lawyers told the court. To make matters worse Dodge took back all its Vipers “for safety and regulatory reasons,” costing Bondurant a “subset of the customer base” that liked driving its “halo” racing car. The school is negotiating with Fiat Chrysler of America for a new “halo” car – a reference to the titanium structure above the cockpit that protects drivers from flying debris. Bondurant also told the court it is in secret negotiations with a potential investor who was being “frustrated” by unnamed issues. The school said it needed bankruptcy protection “to court additional suitors/ investors and to operate without interruption while the investor works out certain issues currently frustrating the transaction.” Despite all this, Bondurant also told the court it will “continue to build upon its current and new business relationships in an effort to continue educating its students on how to safely drive high performance vehicles.”
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race for two State House seats in Legislative District 18. A transplant from the Bay Area who moved to Arizona with her husband Michael in 2011, Jermaine said she got interested in running for office last year after a coalition of activists launched their successful petition drive to put the Legislature’s expanded voucher program on the ballot. “When we were moving, we looked carefully at school districts because we wanted our daughter to have a good education,” she said. “I could see what was happening to public education and I wanted to do something about it.” As she knocked on an estimated 10,000 doors during the campaign, Jermaine discovered that her concerns reflected those of most of the people she met. “I’d say 85 percent were concerned about education,” she said. Jermaine said from the start, she worked with Epstein and incumbent LD 18 Sen. Bowie. “We worked closely as a team all the way,” she said. Jermaine brings to her new job extensive experience in nonprofit and advocacy efforts. A former chamber of commerce mem-
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Jennifer Pawlik and her husband of 23 years, Jason, have 21-year-old twin daughters, Kalie and Katie. The Mesa native and Chandler resident cracked once-red Legislative Distrct 17, which includes a piece of Gilbert.
bership director, she touted her “wide breadth of knowledge about how government, nonprofits and industry interact on local, national and international levels” and her understanding of “how all the sectors are inter-connected and depen-
dent on each other.” With a bachelor’s degree in international business with a focus on trade policy and a master’s in public administration, she has been most vocal about the need for a moratorium on any more cuts in
corporate taxes “until we figure how to restore the funding to our public education system, universities and community colleges.” That restoration, she has said, “is a longterm investment in our future workforce and economic growth.” She also said she found her main support in her husband, who “was on board from the start because he saw how frustrated I was with” the Legislature’s attitude toward public education. On leave from her job since Aug. 1, she hasn’t decided yet when – or even if – she’ll resume or whether she’ll devote all her time, at least initially, to her new role as a legislator. “It’s been a financial sacrifice for our family,” Jermaine admitted, adding that she’s excited about the upcoming session, for which she’ll start preparing by participating in a boot camp for new legislators that will be held next month. And she also has her first legislative goal in mind. “I want to work on special education funding so that the funding follows the student whereever the student goes,” she said. As for Pawlik, “People ask me now, ‘Am I going to run for Congress next?’ No. No. No. The whole goal is to fund our schools. This isn’t about me.”
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Last weekend’s Gilbert Days Parade marked its 40th anniversary with an extravanganza of floats, pets and people. 1) The Just Serve organization provided an oompa loompa while 2) the Can Dance Studio students performed; and 3) Watson’s Flowers rolled out a gorgeous float. 4) The Williams Field High School Band provided some of the musical entertainment, as did 5) Highley High’s Marching Knights and 6) The Gilbert Fire Department’s drum corps. Even 7) the Chandler Youth Fiddlers got imnto the act as did 8) Nayeli Bared Mexican dancer from Gilbert Rocks.
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rizona Needy Newborns, with chapters in Ahwatukee and Mesa, brought the holiday season in early as members and community guests joined together for the annual Christmas Stocking Stuffer last weekend. They prepared more than scores of holiday stockings for distribution to various hospitals, clinics and homeless shelters throughout Maricopa County and the state. Each stocking was lovingly prepared by the volunteers, who selected the contents from the tables of washcloths, soaps, blankets, nightgowns, hats and booties, bibs and toys, flannel positioning tools and other items that will be delivered by Dec. 15. The event was both fun and successful for the volunteers of Arizona Needy Newborns, a year-round operation whose constant care many hospitals and agencies depend on to help newborns and premature infants – and prepare bereavement burial kits for the little ones who don’t make it. Arizona Needy Newborns was organized approximately 20 years ago as a chapter of the national organization, Newborns in Need. In 2017, in order to help enable their work to be more Arizona-centric, the chapter dissolved and was reborn as Arizona Needy Newborns. The group comprises mainly women, many of whom have been a part of the organization for up to 20 years. They are a dedicated lot, putting their hands to the task of knitting, sewing or collecting items that can be assembled in Newborn Care Kits. In October alone, more than 2,136 items were placed in kits and delivered to Maricopa Medical Center, Maricopa Compassionate Care, Summit Healthcare in Show Low, Chandler Dignity Healthcare, Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, Chandler Pregnancy Care Center, Choices Pregnancy Center, Mount Vista Medical Center and North Carolina flood victims. Even in the heat of summer, the organization collected and dispersed 3,809 items included in the deliveries. Arizona Needy Newborns President Marilyn Freeman is one of the longesttenured members. A member for more than 12 years, she has held the helm
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for the past nine years after serving as vice-president and holding several other offices previously. “I feel a child is a gift,” she said. “I saw a need, and I believe we have so much, and I think we can share our blessings with others.” Freeman, who has struggled with multiple sclerosis for 32 years, is extraordinarily active despite her dependency now on a walker. She often hosts mid-month gatherings at her home where other organizations like Boy Scout troops come to help assemble or donate items. One local Boy Scout, Ethan Nicholas, recently donated 384 diapers and 40 quilts as part of his Eagle Scout project. After the stuffing event, Freeman’s living room was arrayed with the various stockings and other items that were being organized, counted and
labeled for the mid-December deliveries. “I usually have everything done by the 15th of December, and then I decorate for Christmas after the deliveries are made,” she laughed, remarking she had out-of-town visitors expected. “That’s my motivation.” She said vice president Marlene Omerza and member Carol Coleson of Florence come to help her every Friday. “I mostly sit there and direct, and they act as my legs,” she said. “We couldn’t do this without everybody’s help.” Omerza has been with ANN for 12 years and is a major quilt provider, often sewing 10 a month. “We’re committed to helping babies,” said Doris Dorwart of Ahwatukee, who leads her local chapter, and is ANN secretary. “It’s all volunteer and all out-of-
pocket.” Dorwart has been active in Arizona Needy Newborns – and before that Newborns in Need – for 12 years. “We collect and give away nearly 3,000 items each month, placing them in 150 Newborn kits delivered to 25 hospitals and homeless shelters. All are for preemies or newborns,” she said. “Our monthly meetings are also fun events with a great group of women.” Kathy Gemma of Ahwatukee joined the organization eight years ago and agrees the meetings are a joyful time. “We have so many different women who come to our group, and everybody has their specialty,” she said. “Mine is making positioning snakes for premature babies.” Premature infants especially require careful positioning, and her positioning snakes are 47 inches of flannel, sewn so that the tail tucks into the elasticized neck to make an “o” shape. “They position the preemies inside the hole,” she said. Other positioning aids are smaller to place on the side of the infant. Both are filled with poly pellets and securely sewn. Some members fashion burial outfits for boys and girls. “Thankfully, we have fewer and fewer of these every year, but they’re still special for the parents to receive,” she said. “The ladies who make these use material from wedding dresses. I donated mine.” She and her husband John, both retired, are passionate community volunteers. Besides ANN tasks, she also heads her church’s prayer shawls program, while he is active with Habitat for Humanity and Court Appointed Special Advocates of Arizona. Even as the festive holiday stockings with their red caps and booties and red-ribboned diaper packages are heading out the door, there are always needs. Donations of items and money to purchase those needed are always appreciated, said Freeman. Items in the newborn kits and other infant baskets are purchased by the members or received as donations. Always needed are infant washcloths made of cotton yarn and bars of Ivory soap – one of each go into each newborn kit. Quilts are always in demand; the most common size requested is 36
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by 45 inches, though a recent request from Mercy Gilbert Medical Center asked for 48 by 52 inches. “But we’ll be happy with all sizes,” said Dorwart. ANN treasurer Barbara Johnson of Mesa said size-1 disposable diapers are always requested by hospitals, as are small afghans and tote bags. Tiny white booties for “Memory Boxes” – presented to grieving parents of lost babies – are running low, as are nightgowns and sleepers. In the summer, “onesies” are included in newborn kits, but when winter arrives, nightgowns or full sleepers are packed instead. Hospitals are known to phone ANN for special needs like a certain size quilt to cover incubators, or small booties – approximately one to 1 1/2 inches from toe to heel. At the monthly meetings in Ahwatukee and Mesa, women work together on various projects destined for the newborn kits. Their knitting, crocheting and sewing is done at home and brought to the monthly meetings, where members show and discuss how they were made or where materials or special items
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he East Valley’s hot jobs economy is allowing developers in Mesa’s Gateway Airport area to build them as fast as they can fill them. Low vacancy rates across the Valley – coupled with streamlined government approvals – are changing the landscape in the airport area. It’s truly proving the old adage if you build it, they will come – and apparently businesses want to be near the growing
airport that’s sitting in an untapped desert area on the southeast edge of the city. “There’s a lot of demand right now,” said Mesa Economic Development Director Bill Jabjiniak. “We’re excited to see that with today’s low vacancy rate in industrial industries.” The latest addition to the fold is The Landing at PMG, a six-building industrial subdivision, just south of Loop 202 at the southeast corner of Ray and Sossaman roads. Marwest Enterprises is developing the 281,000-square-foot Class A industrial
product that will include six buildings that range in size from 11,945 to 112,748 square feet with 20- to 30-foot ceiling heights. It’s just north of the airport. At the time of the PMG’s announcement, Mesa Mayor John Giles praised the area as “an active zone with easy freeway and airport access and one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in Arizona.” There was more news last week as the city and developer VIVO Partners unveiled plans to begin building next year Gallery Park, a mammoth office-residential-retail complex near Power Road and the Loop
202 Freeway. It will include approximately 400,000 square feet of Class A office space, two hotels and 420 luxury apartment units and condos situated above restaurant/ retail space and a movie theater, or other entertainment uses. “At full build-out, it is expected to be home to more than 3,000 employees and residents,” VIVO said in a release. There’s no doubt the growth is speeding up after a sluggish start. The city forked See
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developer has announced plans for a 40-acre community in Southeast Mesa that it says could generate thousands of new jobs – and residents – once it’s completed. VIVO Partners said its Gallery Park, located southeast of the Loop 202 Freeway and Power Road, will offer people an opportunity to “dine, shop, work and reside at this morningto-night destination while strolling through ever-evolving art installations. Gallery Park will include approximately 400,000 square feet of Class A office, two hotels, 420 luxury apartment units and condos situated above restaurant/retail space and a movie theater, or other entertainment VIVO Partners uses. At full build-out, it is expected to This rendering of the proposed Gallery Park in southeast Mesa may rival San Tan Village in amenities, be home to more than 3,000 employees but it also will include office space and luxury condos and apartments amid a sprawling 40-acre area. and residents. At buildout it will spread across a million square feet, the developer said. “I have friends, family and two The developer promises business partners who all live in the a unique mixed-use Southeast Valley and are tired of driving development that will 30 to 60 minutes to find culinary-inspired showcase “an eclectic artplaces to eat next to great, energetic walk experience” that gathering spaces.” said Jose Pombo, includes “wall murals, exterior development partner at VIVO. “Gallery Park will be a first-of-its-kind fixed and interactive art social destination that weaves art within installations, and revolving art a curated mix of tenants to create a displays featuring emerging genuinely cool vibe that Southeast Valley local artists creating their new pieces live on site.” residents have been craving.”
Office buildings will be required – and the hotels encouraged – to display art within their lobbies while restaurants “will also be strongly encouraged” to display art that’s compatible with their brands, the developer said. Mesa Mayor Giles hailed the project, noting “Southeast Mesa is still growing fast and bringing an entire 40-acre community with jobs, homes, entertainment and art that focuses on placemaking is a great fit.” City officials said Gallery Park is within a five-mile radius of more than 223,000 consumers with a household income of more than $101,000 and within a 10-mile radius of more than 920,000 people. “This is a major addition to the Gateway Area and will not only bring office space and luxury housing, but also entertainment, restaurants and shopping options to the region for all to enjoy,” District 6 Councilmember Kevin Thompson said. He said the development “continues the upward trend of District 6 being a destination location, which is great for our citizens and regional partners.” To encourage the public to keep abreast of the project’s development, VIVO is offering a $200 package of meals, movie tickets and gift cards if they enter a raffle at gallerypark. com.
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over millions to extend Ray Road, north of the Airport, a decade ago as part of the Mesa Gateway Strategic Development Plan. But the recession put the brakes on development all across the nation. That’s not the story now. “We did that at the bottom of the recession is paying off now,” Jabjiniak said. “We finally have pent up demand.” The addition of PMG – which stands for Phoenix Mesa Gateway – is the latest example that existing infrastructure and move-in ready buildings are what’s helping attract growing businesses who are looking for quicker and cheaper moveins. Jabjiniak said available infrastructure and the speed of getting through the entitlement process are now paramount in a competitive job market. PMG’s addition will be felt by nearby neighbors soon. Construction already began in late September and work is expected to finish in the first part of 2019. It won’t be long before motorists on the Loop 202 will be able to see the new project. When it’s done, it will have freeway access from the Power and Hawes exits. The designation of a so-called
“opportunity zone” is helping speed things up. The federal government is in charge in picking the development areas that will be designated. The designation helps investors streamline the process for pushing their developments through, which helps them defer and possibly reduce their capital gains taxes. Developer David Martens of Marwest said the project was designed to quickly provide the city with the needed space to attract high-quality tenants. “As a long-term owner in Mesa, we have witnessed the pro-growth/pro-job mentality of the city and look forward to capitalizing on that momentum,” Martens said in a statement. The airport development, coupled with Mesa’s Elliot Road Technology Corridor, is changing the look of all sides of the airport. The Elliot Road zone, which stretches Elliot between Signal Butte and Hawes roads, has already caught a big fish in Apple for its global operations command center. Jabjiniak said Apple’s presence has been the best advertising possible to other companies that space is available and access is easy. “It’s starting to tell the story across the country and across the world,” Jabjiniak said. “I say the world because when Apple sneezes in Mesa, the world knows about it.”
Niagara Bottling was another large company who recently moved into the area, which was officially designated in 2014. Business travelers now have four hotels within a 15-minute drive from the airport, including a Courtyard by Marriott right by it. The four-story, 99-room hotel at 6907 E. Ray Road is also close to Big League Dreams Park and the Polytechnic Campus of Arizona State University. “It’s allowing us to compete at a very high level,” Jabjiniak said. “The city invested in a lot of infrastructure when we built that roadway on the north side of the airport.” The area is most suited for advanced manufacturing and industry tech. The airport’s unique SkyBridge program is also helping drive development near the airport. SkyBridge is the nation’s first carbo hub to house Mexico and U.S. customs. It has brought more than 10,000 jobs to the area. “It’s bringing interest in additional investment in the southwest corner of the airport,” Jabjiniak said. “We’re really seeing a lot of interest and activity all around there. Two private hangars next to the airport are part of that growth. Aviation Performance Solutions LLC and Wetta Ventures LLC have leased land owned by the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport
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Authority to bring the first private hangars to the area in a decade. The length of the lease deals are between 25 and 30 years. Mesa is hoping to keep the good times rolling by developing what could best be described as a spin-off from its 2008 Gateway strategic plan. City officials are now calling for public input for the Southeast Mesa Land Use and Transportation Plan. Mesa is designing the stand-alone document to guide the area’s future transportation needs to meet demand. The city held its first public meeting on the plan recently at the Eastmark Visitor and Community Center. Another meeting will be held in early 2019 but won’t be announced until December. A final report is expected to be finished by next May or June.
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After all is said and done, I was wrong about Riggs BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ GSN Columnist
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t was one of those stupid social media fights that remind you afterward of two boys scrapping on a schoolyard for the entertainment of a few grade-schoolers. The whole thing encompassed maybe an hour, a few snarky sentences. It would have been unremarkable, except the guy I was brawling with happened to be Frank Riggs, the Republican who on Election Day lost the race for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Thus, we made the news on Veterans Day, beneath headlines referencing Riggs’ Twitter “meltdown.” It could have been worse: At least Riggs, 68, didn’t challenge me to a fistfight. I probably would’ve driven over, pronto. There’s something about being
called a “gutless punk” and having a politician attack you for “physical and moral cowardice” that brings out the worst in a guy. Of course, to be completely honest, I didn’t need to tweet my opinion about Riggs’ multiple campaign failures, labeling him another “narcissistic partisan who mistake(s) self-serving campaigns for public service. That’s why you lose when you run – voters sense your selfimportance and need to self-aggrandize. And thank goodness they do.” Rereading that, I’m disappointed in my behavior. I’ve watched Frank Riggs run and lose and run and lose these past four years. Still, that shouldn’t have provoked me to have fun at his expense. It’s exactly what I despise about social media – the name-calling and vitriol – yet still I typed furiously without a second thought about the thing we all miss on-
line: There’s a human being on the other end of the Internet, someone who represents more than a keyboard and a few cheap insults. I was reminded of that the next day when an email arrived from a man named Mitch Mulanix. Three decades ago, he managed Riggs’ successful campaign for a California congressional seat. He later worked in his legislative offices. Although Mullanix told me he hasn’t spoken to Riggs for probably 10 years, “I spent nearly every day with him for many years so I know his background, and more importantly what drives him.” The Riggs described in Mulanix’s email, “didn’t come from money. He was a regular guy who worked his ass off to get where he is. He is extremely idealistic. He has a clear mindset about right and wrong and he feels a moral obligation to personally get involved and make things right.”
In other words, someone motivated not by self-service, but by public service. Or, as Mullanix explained it, “I suspect what set Frank off was your allegation that he runs for office based on his own self-aggrandizing motives.” He went on: “For most politicians you would be right. … But I can tell you with certainty that Frank isn’t that type of politician.” The moral to the story? Maybe I was wrong about Frank Riggs. Maybe what I interpreted as ego or a bad impersonation of Clint Eastwood feels to Riggs like leadership. Maybe we both owe each other a sincere apology. Maybe social media arguments become no one. Here’s what I know for certain, postfight: Frank Riggs got in the ring. He put himself out there – and took another whipping. He served his country. For that he has my respect. And the deepest apology I can put to paper.
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It’s Highland! Oh, no, wait: It’s Chandler again and Perry wants revenge BY ZACH ALVIRA GSN Sports Editor
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his just in: It’s Chandler, not Highland, in the 6A high school football state-championship game Saturday at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe. This is of particular interest to Perry, because the Pumas are the opposition. Perry knocked off second-ranked Pinnacle, 45-14, in one 6A semifinal last Friday, avenging a 59-33 loss to the Pioneers in the season-opener in August. When the Pumas began celebrating their victory, they were under the impression they were playing Perry coach Preston Jones’ former team, Highland, for the championship. Instead, the other 6A semifinal went into overtime, where Chandler prevailed over Highland with a successful twopoint conversion. So now the storyline becomes the rematch. Chandler beat Perry in the 6A championship game last season, and then beat the Pumas again during this regular season. “It feels great,” Perry quarterback Chubba Purdy said of the Chandler rematch. “Last year we lost by seven.
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Left: Receiver Colby Dickie stiff-arms his way to additional yardage after a catch in Perry’s 6A semifinal rout of Pinnacle. The Pumas advance to the 6A championship game, a rematch with rival Chandler, at 4:30 p.m. Dec. 1 at Arizona State’s Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe. Right: Perry receiver Conner Boyd, making a spectacular catch in a 6A semifinal victory over second-seeded Pinnacle, will be a key player for the Pumas in their 6A championship-game rematch against Chandler. The Pumas fell to the Wolves in last year’s title game and then lost a regular-season game to the Wolves this year.
We’ve been thinking about this the entire year. It’s great to be able to go back again.” The memory of that loss to Chandler has haunted the Perry players. They wanted a chance at redemption against their school-district rival. And now they’ve got it. This time, the Pumas believe that they are poised to hoist the gold ball and put an end to Chandler’s two-year reign at the top.
“I’m just so happy for these kids,” Jones said. “So many people wrote us off last year as the Brock Purdy show. Brock is an unbelievable kid and an unbelievable athlete. He did a lot for us but we have a really special team. “I feel like we have a really good program and an unbelievable school.” On Sept. 28, Chandler cruised to a 4534 victory over the Pumas.
Over the past two months, Perry has improved. The Pumas’ defense held Basha to 21 points in a first-round playoff victory a week after a 54-41 shootout between the two that Perry won. Perry posted another dominating performance in its upset of third-seeded
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Chandler trusts it offense in 6A title game but it will need its defense, too BY ZACH ALVIRA GSN Sports Editor
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he trust that the Chandler High coaching staff has in its offense never was more evident than in the 6A football semifinal. Coach Shaun Aguayo went for two points in overtime and got the successful conversion that put the Wolves in the 6A state-championship game again. Now, the Wolves must have the same belief in their defense as they prepare for a title-game rematch with high-scoring Perry. Chandler beat the Pumas for the state championship a year ago, their second straight crown. They go for the trifecta at 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 1 at Arizona State’s Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe. While Chandler won both the 6A championship game as well as a September regular-season game with
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Left: Chandler quarterback Jacob Conover, preparing to pass in a 6A semifinal game against Highland, fired a successful two-point conversion pass in overtime to put the Wolves in the 6A state-championship game for the third straight year. They meet district-rival Perry at 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 1 at Arizona State’s Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe. It’s a rematch of the 2017 title game, won by the Wolves. Right: Chandler running back DeCarlos Brooks, making a cut for more yardage against Highland in the semifinal, rushed for 246 yards when the Wolves beat Perry, 45-34, in Week 6 in September. His rushing complements Conover’s passing and keeps defenses guessing.
Perry, Pumas quarterback Chubba Purdy is playing much better now. In his past two games, he led sixth-seeded Perry to
decisive upsets of third-seeded Desert Vista and second-seeded Pinnacle. So after conquering No. 3 and No. 2,
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Desert Vista, 49-20, in the second round Its most impressive showing came in the rout of second-seeded Pinnacle. “We are just so proud of these boys because there are a lot of nonbelievers outside of our room,” Jones said. “Our defense takes a lot of heat but they are really good. They’ve played lights out these last three or four weeks. “The scoreboard may not always show it but they really are.” While its defense has turned the corner at the right time, Perry’s offense continues
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No. 1. To avert that, it might come down to a defensive stop by the Wolves this time. “We are going to have to stop Chubba Purdy. He’s doing a heck of a job now,” Aguano said. “We just have to go to the drawing board, watch film and make sure we come out and play mistake-free football.” Chandler escaped with a 36-35 overtime victory over fifth-seeded Highland in the semifinal. It took the gutsy two-point call by Aguano: Wolves senior quarterback Jacob Conover rolled right and found tight end Brayden Liebrock wide open in the end zone for the victory. Aguano said that he was going to win or lose with the ball in the hands of Conover and Liebrock, his two senior captains. Conover got the ball away as Highland linebacker Robert Kingsford was bearing down on him. It was a clutch throw and catch by
BenU Mesa’s Sammons earn All-Cal Pac volleyball honor
Benedictine University Mesa women’s volleyball junior libero Caitlan Sammons, from Basha High, was named a first-team All-Cal Pac selection. Sammons also was named Cal Pac Libero of the Year, the second year in a row she has received the honor and third year in a row the award has gone to a Redhawk libero. Sammons made 660 digs, breaking her own school record by more than 130 digs. She averaged 5.95 digs per set, 11th in the NAIA.
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to evolve. Led by Purdy’s 3,236 passing yards and 35 touchdowns, Perry averages more than 48 points a game. It’s not just the Chubba Purdy show. Receiver Colby Dickie and running back Jalen Young are prime-time players, too. Dickie, a 5-foot-9, 185-pound senior, and a three-year starter, has 72 catches for 1,034 yards and 16 touchdowns. “Colby has to be one of the best receivers in the state,” Jones said. “I know he is not big enough or fast enough for these college programs but he is an unbelievable high school football player. Every Saturday you see players like Colby on the field that weren’t recruited
but are making plays. “Hopefully he is able to do the same.” Like Dickie, Young has been a workhorse. The senior has rushed for 1,253 yards and nine touchdowns. Perry has taken out the No. 3 and No. 2 seeds in the playoffs. They all are seeking redemption against Chandler to add No. 1 to their conquests. “To get back there again feels really good,” Young said. “We are going to practice hard but we are going to do the same thing we have always been doing, and that’s playing Perry ball.” Tribune contributing writer Joel Viss contributed to this report.
players who are accustomed to playing with targets on their backs. “It’s that trust we built,” Conover said. “We know that if we trust in what (Aguano) says, it will be OK. And he instills in us that if we do the right things all the time, good things are going to happen. We prepare every Thursday with what plays we will run to win the game. “We have the mentality that we are going to win every single time. We are a tough team that can handle adversity.” Conover and Liebrock have been a menace to opposing secondaries all season. They have connected 59 times for 680 yards and 10 touchdowns. “We just played with our hearts,” Liebrock said. “Coach Aguano is like a father figure to me. Everything he says I trust him. I just go out there and play my hardest.” Chandler has weapons all over the field, notably running back DeCarlos Brooks. Brooks has rushed for 1,893 yards and 28 touchdowns. He also caught 23 passes for 350 yards and three more scores.
The senior back had a fumble early in the semifinal, which resulted in points for Highland. He bounced back with a staggering 214 yards and three touchdowns against the physical Hawks defense. Brooks rushed for 246 yards when the Wolves beat the Pumas, 45-34, at Perry in Week 6 while Liebrock had 104 receiving yards and a touchdown. Yet it might be Chandler’s defense that controls its fate, a unit anchored by linebacker Zach Bowers, who made 69 tackles. Perry players say they’ve been waiting for another chance against Chandler. That the Wolves struggled to escape Highland lends credence to Perry’s belief that perhaps it has a chance this time. “It’s a blessing for us to get out of that game,” Aguano said of the semifinal. “It’s hard to stay at the top. “We’ve been working diligently the past couple of years so hopefully it will pay off again for us.”
solid performances in net all season. Taylor, a senior, in 11 games made 52 saves and collected two shutouts. Twice he broke or tied the saves record with 11 in a game and he was named Cal Pac Defensive Player of the Week three times.
Tiana Pretzer, a Basha High product, was tabbed as honorable mention All-Cal Pac Pretzer. She broke her own school record for saves in a season with 61 this year. She allowed just 1.52 goals against per game and was named Cal Pac Defensive Player of the Week once during the season.
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BenU Mesa women’s soccer has East Valley natives honored
Highland High product America Sanchez was selected first-team All-Cal Pac as well as conference Freshman of the Year, the first honor of its kind in Benedictine University Mesa’s women’s soccer program history. Sanchez made an immediate impact for the Redhawks with her eight goals. Her five assists broke the program record for assists in a season and her 21 points ranks second in school history.
Gilbert-area players in BenU women’s basketball plans
The low post duo of Gilbert’s Stephanie Orji (senior/Campo Verde High) and Juwanna Milton (senior / Queen Creek High) return to the Benedictine women’s basketball team after averaging more than 10 points and eight rebounds. BenU Mesa must replace 48 points and 22 rebounds a game with Emily Moore, Kaelin Shaffer and Erica Vasquez having graduated.
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t began in 1968 when a small group known as the Mill Avenue Merchants Association created a sidewalk-sale event. A half century later, it has grown into a world-class, award-winning staple in the arts scene, drawing nearly a quartermillion visitors every fall to downtown Tempe. The Fall Tempe Festival of the Arts celebrates its golden anniversary Nov. 30 through Dec. 2, with some special changes to mark the historic milestone. The festival takes place rain or shine 10 a.m. through 5:30 p.m. daily. “The admirable history of the Tempe Festival of the Arts has to do just as much with the city’s respect for the artist community as it does the world-class artists and attendees from all walks of life themselves,” said Kate Borders, executive director of the Downtown Tempe Authority. “Nearly a quarter of a million people from around the globe make Tempe their destination each fall for art buying, collecting and incomparable holiday gift shopping, and that commitment to the art world sets our festival apart and puts Arizona on the map.” Originally organized by Mill Avenue Merchants Association executive director Frank Maguire, it was known as Hayden’s Ferry Art Festival in Old Town Tempe. This year, the award-winning and nationally-acclaimed 3-day festival anticipates as many as 375 booths lining Mill Avenue and surrounding streets, presenting unique and handmade artwork that offers visitors a fantastic urban art experience. Visitors encounter an array of art in the open-air market from more than 350 juried vendors in ceramics, digital art, drawing, fiber, glass, jewelry, leather, metalwork, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, upcycled and creative reuse and wood. The open-air festival boasts a vibrant, carnival-like atmosphere with artists’ booths and tents punctuated by strolling street performers, musicians and foodand-drink vendors.
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Looking for an unusual gift? It’s likely somewhere at the Tempe Fall Festival of the Arts golden anniversary celebration in downtown Tempe. The festival takes place rain or shine 10 a.m. through 5:30 p.m. daily, Nov. 30-Dec. 2.
New for this year are amped and revamped favorites and new programs: -- Expanded food and drink offerings. -- Beer and wine gardens stocked with locally-produced and purveyed beer, wine and distilled spirits. -- A new Young Collectors program, encouraging children’s passion for the arts. -- Holiday gift shopping with one-of-akind, handmade art, jewelry and home goods. -Tempe’s fashion incubator
F.A.B.R.I.C. hosting a runway fashion show, featuring Arizona talent. Two performance stages, Centerpoint Stage and Hayden Station Stage (formerly Amphitheatre Stage), showcase a range of musical talent, including awardwinning Tempe musician Walt Richardson, Valley performers Hyperbella, Sugahbeat and The Hourglass Cats, as well as urban acts lAZ School of Hip Hop Phx, Hi Dreams, Stoneypie and a HOT 97.5 Stage Take Over. The Unplugged Lounge offers shaded
seating with acoustic recording artists Korbe Canida, Chad Gregory, Whitney Jones and El Klezmer. Dozens of performers roam the street, including dance troupes, a unicyclist, balloon art, break dancing with PWR Dance Team and a Bluegrass Camp with Jam Pak. The public is invited to join Valley artist Kylan Maney to create a commemorative art piece for the festival’s 50th anniversary. Tempe Festival of the Arts serves up numerous options for drinking, snacking or taking home handmade goodies. There are two beer and wine gardens featuring Valley-brewed beers as well as selections from Arizona-based wineries and distilleries. While the festival has appeal for all ages, families are particularly drawn to its free admission and lively atmosphere. Kids Block is a hands-on interactive for young artists and a youth exhibition featuring 300-plus student works from around the Valley on display and for sale. Also featured is an array of K-12 art in the Young Artist Exhibition and Competition. New this year is the Young Collectors program, where a child can begin an art collecting journey by purchasing a piece handcrafted by professional artists for $5. Another family favorite is ChalkA-Lot Street, with a curated section where professional chalk muralists compete for awards and festival goers experiment with street chalk. While general parking and ADAaccessible parking are available at select garages, street meters and paid lots around Tempe, the most convenient ways in and out of the festival are by bike, foot or public transportation, including Valley Metro light rail, which has nearby stops at Third Street and Mill Avenue and at Tempe Transportation Center at Veterans Way and College Avenue. More information about the 50th Fall Tempe Festival of the Arts is available on the newly relaunched and reloaded festival website, tempefestivalofthearts. com.
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Apple maple-glazed pork chops a plateful of comfort
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Ingredients: 4 center cut pork chops, at least 1-inch thick (boneless or bone-in) 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper 2 teaspoons chili powder 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon onion powder 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar ½ cup chicken broth ½ cup pure maple syrup 2 teaspoons coarse ground mustard 1 tablespoon of cornstarch or flour dissolved in 2 tablespoons of warm water 2 crisp apples, peeled and sliced thin 1 tablespoon butter 3 tablespoons olive oil Parsley for garnish Directions: Pat pork chops dry with paper towels. In a bowl, mix together the salt, pepper, chili powder, garlic powder and onion powder. Press seasoning evenly
over both sides of the pork chops. Set aside. In a saucepan, add the apple cider vinegar, chicken broth, maple syrup, mustard and dissolved cornstarch, whisking to combine. Bring to a boil and add apples, stirring to combine. Continue cooking on a low boiling until mixture thickens, stirring often, about 5 minutes. (For thicker glaze, mix one more tablespoon of cornstarch or flour with warm water. Add to apple mixture while on a low boil.) When apples have softened and glaze has thickened, add butter, stir well and then turn off heat. Cover pan to keep warm. In a large skillet, on medium high, heat the olive oil until oil glistens. Place the pork chops in the pan without crowding (this allows pork chops to sear all the way around.) Cook until browned, about 2-3 minutes on each side. Reduce the heat to mediumlow and cook until pork chops are done or reach internal temperature of 160. Do not overcook. Transfer pork chops to a serving platter and spoon apple maple glaze over top. Garnish with parsley.
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Nursery workers, 13 temporary full-time positions. Duties: Work in nursery facilities or at customer location planting, cultivating, harvesting, and transplanting trees, shrubs, or plants. No EXP REQ. No EDU REQ. Days & Hours: 40 hours/week (6am-2:30pm or 9am5:30pm); multiple shifts; Mon-Fri , may include wknd/hol.. Dates of employment: 02/01/19-11/30/19. Wage: $11.73/h, OT $17.60/h if necessary. Raises, bonuses, or incentives dependent on job performance. OJT provided. Assurances: Transportation (including meals and, to the extent necessary, lodging) to the place of employment will be provided, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if the worker completes half the employment period. Return transportation will be provided if the worker completes the employment period or is dismissed early by the employer. Employer will provide workers at no charge all tools, equipment and supplies required to perform the job. Job location: Phoenix, AZ - Maricopa and Pinal counties. Applicants may send or contact the AZDES Office, 4635 S Central Ave, Phoenix AZ, 85040. 602-7710630 Please reference AZDES Job Order #: 3262787. Employer: Dream With Colors, Inc. 3635 E Southern Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85040. Contact: Monica Vega, fax (602) 266-6092.
Lead technical direction of all development projects; identify and recommend new technologies to drive efficiencies for the company. 4 years experience in job offered or as Senior Molding Manager/Molding Process Engineer. Must have 4 years of experience (can be gained concurrently with the above experience) in overseeing thermoplastic injection molding process and scientific molding process development. Must have working knowledge of: (1) plastic technology with emphasis on injection molding, (2) SPC, (3), DOE, and GD&T; (4) plastic mold and part design. 50% domestic and 45% international travel requiredDrug test, Background check required.Employer: Medplast Engineered Products, Inc. Job location: Tempe, AZ. Qualified applicants should email resume to Kerry.olah@viantmedical.com. Landscape laborers, 35 temporary full-time positions. Duties: Laborers will be needed for turf care pruning, fertilization, irrigations systems maintenance and repair, general clean up procedures and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units. Work in the outdoors, physical work. 3 months landscape EXP REQ. No EDU REQ. Days & Hours: 40 hours/week (7:00am-3:30pm); day shift; Mon-Fri. Dates of employment: 02/01/1911/30/19. Wage: $13.23/h, OT $19.85/h if necessary. Raises, bonuses, or incentives dependent on job performance. N/A Assurances: Transportation (including meals and, to the extent necessary, lodging) to the place of employment will be provided, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if the worker completes half the employment period. Return transportation will be provided if the worker completes the employment period or is dismissed early by the employer. Employer will provide workers at no charge all tools, equipment and supplies required to perform the job. Job location: Phoenix, AZ - Maricopa and Pinal counties. Employer will provide daily transportation to and from the worksite. Applicants may send or contact the AZDES Office, 4635 S Central Ave, Phoenix AZ, 85040. 602-7710630 Please reference AZDES Job Order #: 3263021. Employer: Agave Environmental Contracting, Inc. 1634 N 19th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85009. Contact: Eric Mahler, fax (602) 254-1438.
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Nursery workers, 3 temporary full-time positions. Duties: Work in nursery facilities or at customer location planting, cultivating, harvesting, and transplanting trees, shrubs, or plants. No EXP REQ. No EDU REQ. Days & Hours: 40 hours/week (6:00am2:30pm); day shift; Mon-Fri, may include wknd/hol.. Dates of employment: 02/01/19-11/30/19. Wage: $11.73/h, OT $17.60/hif necessary. Raises, bonuses, or incentives dependent on job performance. Assurances: Transportation (including meals and, to the extent necessary, lodging) to the place of employment will be provided, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if the worker completes half the employment period. Return transportation will be provided if the worker completes the employment period or is dismissed early by the employer. Employer will provide workers at no charge all tools, equipment and supplies required to perform the job. Job location: Phoenix, AZ Maricopa County. Employer will provide daily transportation to and from the worksite. Applicants may send or contact the AZDES Office, 4635 S Central Ave, Phoenix AZ, 85040. 602-771-0630 Please reference AZDES Job Order #: 3269921. Employer: Ana P Perez, LLC 7202 S 7th Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85041. Contact: Ana Perez, fax (602) 276-4300.
Employment General Landscape laborers, 40 temporary full-time positions. Duties: Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units. 3 months landscape EXP REQ. No EDU REQ. Days & Hours: 40 hours/week (6:00am-2:30pm); day shift; Mon-Fri. Dates of employment: 02/01/1911/30/19. Wage: $13.23/h, OT $19.85/h if necessary. Raises, bonuses, or incentives dependent on job performance. OJT provided. Assurances: Transportation (including meals and, to the extent necessary, lodging) to the place of employment will be provided, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if the worker completes half the employment period. Return transportation will be provided if the worker completes the employment period or is dismissed early by the employer. Employer will provide workers at no charge all tools, equipment and supplies required to perform the job. Job location: Phoenix, AZ - Maricopa and Pinal counties. Employer will provide daily transportation to and from the worksite. Applicants may send or contact the AZDES Office, 4635 S Central Ave, Phoenix AZ, 85040. 602-7710630 Please reference AZDES Job Order #: 3262774. Employer: Greenway Property Maintenance, Inc. 2740 E. Rose Garden Lane. Phoenix, AZ 85050. Contact: Amy Mahan, fax (602) 468-8693. Evolution Exterior Concepts, 120 W San Angelo St, Gilbert, AZ 85233 seeks 15 “temporary full-time” Landscape Laborers to work&reside in Phx Metroplex area to lay sod, mow, trim trees, fertilize, install sprinkler systms, bend lift&hold up 50Lb 3mo exp, wk in ext weather, on job train avail, no edu reqd, travel in PHX Metroplex area M-F 6am-2pm @$13.23/hr OT if needed @$19.85 from 1/2310/15/19. US&H2B workers offered same wages& working conditions to include paid post-hired drug test. Sgle wrkwk computes wages. Weekly pmt. H2B Wrkr to be paid U.S. Consulate, border, lodging fees on 1st workwk on a company check “Transportation (including meals & to the extent necessary lodging) to place of employment or its cost to workers reimbursed, if the worker completes half the employment period. Return transportation provided if the worker completes employment period or is dismissed early by employer. Tools &eqpmt provided at no charge to worker” Apply in person at nearest SWA, call 602.542.2484 or fax res 602.256.1366 Attn Kam Weaver or call emplr 602.320.3394 Attn Don Hebbing JP: 3268536
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Employment General Amusement and Recreation Attendants. 36 temp, f/t positions 1/15/19-11/15/19. Midway West Amusements, Inc, Sun City, AZ. Duties: perform variety of attending duties at amusement or recreation facility. May schedule use of recreation facilities, maintain and provide equipment to participants of sporting events or recreational pursuits, or operate amusement concessions and rides. Able to lift 50 lbs. Postemployment drug testing may occur based upon reasonable suspicion of drug use. Mon and Tues 9:00am-5:00pm, Thurs and Fri 5:00pm-10:00pm, Sat and Sun 3:00pm-10:00pm, 40 hrs/wk. Wage is a range of $11.00/hr to $14.31/hr depending on the location, OT may be available at $16.50/hr to $21.47/hr, OT hrs vary. No edu or exp req’d. Optional housing provided at no cost to the worker. Emplyr prov transp to/from worksites in the following counties: Maricopa (AZ), Yavapai (AZ), Mohave (AZ), La Paz (AZ), Salt Lake (UT), Davis (UT), Weber (UT), Duchesne (UT), and Utah (UT). OTJT prov. Transp (incl meals and, to the extent necessary, lodging) to place of emplymnt will be prov, or its cost to workers reimbursed, if worker completes half the emplymnt period. Return transp will be prov if worker completes the emplymnt period or is dismissed early by emplyr. Emplyr will prov w/o charge all tools, supplies, and equipt reqd to perform job & guarantees to offer work hrs equal to at least 3⁄4 of the workdays in each 12 wk period of total employment period. Apply at nearest State Workforce agency at 735 N. Gilbert Rd, Ste 134, Gilbert, Maricopa County, AZ 85234 PH: 602-3729700 or at the office nearest you, or email resumes to mjmidwaywest@gmail.com. JOB ORDER #3252638
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Discount for Seniors &Veterans
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Marks the Spot for ALL Your Handyman Needs! House Painting, Drywall, Marks the Spot for ALL•Your Handyman Needs! Painting Flooring • Electrical Reliable,Painting Dependable, Honest! • Flooring • Electrical Plumbing • Drywall • Carpentry
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HONESTY • INTEGRITY • QUALITY Ahwatukee Resident/ References/ Insured/ Not a Licensed Contractor
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Landscape Design/Installation
480-354-5802 Painting
• Sprinkler/Drip System Installation & Repair • Landscape Design & Installation • BBQ’s, Curbing, Sod/Artificial Turf • FREE Estimates on Installations
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ALL RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL ELECTRICAL Call Jim Endres 480.282.7932 Over 28 Years Experience • ROC #246019 Bonded/Insured
Irrigation Repair Services Inc.
East Valley PAINTERS Voted #1 Paint Interior & Exterior • Drywall Repair Light Carpentry • Power Washing • Textures Matched Popcorn Removal • Pool Deck Coatings Garage Floor Coatings • Color Consulting
10% OFF
Licensed • Bonded • Insured Technician
We Beat Competitors Prices & Quality
Specializing in Controllers, Valves, Sprinklers, Landscape Lighting, P.V.C. & Poly Drip Systems
Free Estimates! Home of the 10-Year Warranty!
Call Lance White
480.721.4146
www.GilbertSunNews.com
Tree Trimming • Tree Removal Stump Grinding Storm Damage • Bushes/Shrubs Yard Clean-up Commercial and Residential PMB 435 • 2733 N. Power Rd. • Suite 102 • Mesa dennis@allprotrees.com
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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS IN BUSINESS!
Painting • Flooring • Electrical • Plumbing
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English • 602.781.0600 Not a licensed contractor.
Opener & Door Lubrication with Repair
Marks the Spot for ALL Your Handyman Painting • Flooring • Electrical • Tile More! Needs! DrywallDecks • Carpentry • •Decks • Tile • More! Plumbing • Drywall • Carpentry Painting • Flooring • Electrical Decks • Tile • More! “No Job Too
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josedominguez0224@gmail.com
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Trim Trees All Types Gravel - Pavers Sprinkler Systems
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Marks the Spot for ALL Marks the Spot for ALL Your Handyman Needs! Your Handyman Needs! Painting • Flooring • Electrical
480.266.4589
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www.husbands2go.com
480-626-4497 www.lifetimegaragedoorsaz.com
JOSE DOMINGUEZ DRYWALL & PAINTING
25 years exp. Call Now (480) 720-3840
All Estimates are Free • Call: 520.508.1420
Unbeatable Customer Service & Lowest Prices Guaranteed!
25 years experience - Licensed & Bonded
Not a licensed contractor
Bathroom Remodeling
GARAGE DOORS
High Quality - Affordable Prices!
SPRINKLER
ROC# 317949
Garage/Doors
Cleaning Special
Juan Hernandez
Drip/Install/Repair
YOU’LL LIKE US - THE BEST!
Cleaning Services
Juan Hernandez
Garbage Disposals Door Installs & Repairs Toilets / Sinks Kitchen & Bath Faucets Most Drywall Repairs
Fencing/Gates
GRADING,
Landscape Maintenance
30 Years Exp - Refs Avail Not a licensed contractor
BLOCK, STUCCO SPRINKLER
Garage/Doors
Landscape Design/Installation
www.irsaz.com
ROC# 256752
480-688-4770
www.eastvalleypainters.com Family Owned & Operated Bonded/Insured • ROC#153131
Now Accepting all major credit cards
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Pool Service / Repair
Plumbing
Window Cleaning
Professional service since 1995
Window Cleaning $100 - One Story $140 - Two Story
Not a licensed contractor
Includes in & out up to 30 Panes Sun Screens Cleaned $3 each
HIC PRO PAINTING
Attention to detail and tidy in your home.
QUALITY PAINT #1 IN SERVICE
(480) 584-1643
Affinity Plumbing LLC 480-487-5541
480-454-3959
affinityplumber@gmail.com
FREE ESTIMATES
www.affinityplumbingaz.com
ROC #301084
Your Ahwatukee Plumber & East Valley Neighbor
We’ll Beat Any Price!
Anything Plumbing Same Day Service
Interior/Exterior Painting RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL • Free Estimates • Light Repairs, Drywall • Senior discounts
Water Heaters
24/7
Inside & Out Leaks
Bonded
Toilets
Insured
Faucets
Estimates Availabler
$35 off
Call Jason:
Any Service
Not a licensed contractor
Roofing
Kitchen Kitchen & & Bath Bath Kitchen & Bath Repair & Resurfacing Repair & Resurfacing Kitchen & Bath
●Tubs ●Sinks ●Chips Repair ●Sinks & Resurfacing ●Tubs ●Chips ●Showers ●Countertops ●Cracks ●Tubs ●Sinks ●Chips ●Showers ●Countertops ●Cracks Repair & Resurfacing Making Your Home Beautiful Since 2002 ●Showers ●Countertops ●Cracks ●Tubs ●Sinks ●Chips Making Your Home Beautiful Since 2002
PHILLIPS ROOFING LLC Member of ABM
Licensed • Bonded • Insured
480-900-8440 480-900-8440 480-900-8440 choiceresurfacing.com info@choiceresurfacing.com
Making Your Home Beautiful Since 2002 ●Showers ●Countertops ●Cracks ROC# 318249
ROC 223367
ROC# 318249 Making Your Home Beautiful Since 2002 choiceresurfacing.com info@choiceresurfacing.com
choiceresurfacing.com choiceresurfacing.com
ROC# 318249 info@choiceresurfacing.com
info@choiceresurfacing.com
CR 42 DUAL
All employees verified Free estimates on all roofs 36 Years experience in AZ Licensed contractor since 2006
ACCREDITED BUSINESS ®
Not a licensed contractor
Valleywide
623-873-1626
480-900-8440 CHOICE RESURFACING CHOICE RESURFACING CHOICE CHOICE RESURFACING RESURFACING ROC# 318249
Disposals
References Available
Remodeling
Bonded & Insured
LLC
Int / Ext Home Painting 4-Less!
COUNTS
APPEARANCE
Jose Dominguez Painting & Drywall SEE OUR AD IN DRYWALL! Quick Response to your Call! 15 Years Exp 480-266-4589
Roofing
Pool Service / Repair
Juan Hernandez
Pavers • Concrete • Water Features • Sprinkler Repair
HOME IMPROVEMENT & PAINTING
POOL REPAIR
Pebble cracking, Plaster peeling, Rebar showing, Pool Light out?
Tiles, shingles, flat, repairs & new work Free Estimates • Ahwatukee Resident
25 Years Experience • Dependable & Reliable
480-706-1453
Interior/Exterior Painting 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE
I CAN HELP!
Dunn Edwards Quality Paint Small Stucco/Drywall Repairs
We Are State Licensed and Reliable!
Free Estimates • Senior Discounts
480-338-4011
ROC#309706
Call Juan at
Over 30 yrs. Experience
Licensed/Bonded/Insured • ROC #236099
480-720-3840 Not a licensed contractor.
Medical Services/Equipment
phillipsroofing.org phillipsroofing@msn.com
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Tim KLINE Roofing, LLC Arizona Mobility Scooters 9420 W. Bell Rd., #103 Sun City, AZ 85351
Mobility Scooter Center 3929 E. Main St., #33 Mesa, AZ 85205
480-250-3378
480-621-8170
www.arizonamobilityscooters.com
Roofs Done Right...The FIRST Time! 15-Year Workmanship Warranty on All Complete Roof Systems
www.timklineroofing.com
480-357-2463
FREE Estim a and written te proposal
R.O.C. #156979 K-42 • Licensed, Bonded and Insured
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The Sounds and Voices of the Holidays?
This Year, You Can Enjoy Them All! At Fynes Audiology, we advocate family time as our #1 priority. That is why we want to help our family and friends enjoy their holiday season with a memorable experience. Hearing loss can make family moments difficult to enjoy - a loud atmosphere may make it hard to stay engaged in conversations causing confusion and frustration. We are happy to say that there is finally a hearing device that lets you hear what you want to hear, even in the most complex listening environment.
You Are Cordially invited... ... to have your hearing screened by Dr. Cassandra Fynes, Au.D., CCC-A, Doctor of Audiology or Roger Knighton, M.N.S, CCC-A. This service is offered in the privacy of our office using state-of-the-art electronic testing equipment.
Ask us about the new hearing aid Phonak Marvel
During the following week, this screening and consultation will be...
Absolutely Free of Charge!
When: December 3rd – 7th Where: Fynes Audiology, LLC SW Corner of Dobson & Baseline 2058 S. Dobson Rd, Ste 9, Mesa, AZ 85202
BEST AUDIOLOGIST There’s no reason to “suffer in silence” this holiday season. NOTHING compares to the lifestyle change from hearing clearly again!
Phone:
(480) 374-1884
Cost:
$7500 Free of Charge!