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EV leaders urge ‘no’ on voucher, no-tax propositions BY PAUL MARYNIAK GSN Executive Editor
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he East Valley’s most prominent organization of business, education and community leaders has parted ways with the governor and a state Realtors group on two ballot propositions. The nonpartisan East Valley Partnership board urged voters to cast their ballots against Prop 305, which would expand school vouchers, and against Prop 126, which the Arizona Association of Realtors has pushed to prevent state and local governments from enacting new taxes on services – such as real estate transactions. The board also urged a “No” vote on Prop
127, which would amend Arizona’s constitution and require utilities to get 50 percent of their energy from renewable sources, such as solar and wind, by 2030. The Partnership’s 5-member advocacy committee and 65-member board is a who’s who of representatives from some of the biggest businesses and educational institutions in Arizona, ranging from Wells Fargo and Cox Communications to Arizona Public Service and Salt River Project. It also counts virtually all East Valley municipalities, ASU and both community colleges among its members. While it never endorses candidates, it occasionally weighs in on propositions and other issues. The board said its recommendations on all
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three propositions followed “presentations from both sides of the issues and thoughtful consideration.” Its recommendations for votes against expanded vouchers flies in the face of Gov. oug ucey, who threw his support of the controversial measure and was reported saying recently, Prop 05 is fiscally responsible, improves accountability and transparency, prioritizes low-income students and families and does not raise taxes. When parents have options, kids win." That’s not the way opponents, including the Partnership, see it. Opponents call the expansion a direct at-
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he owner of a Gilbert wedding venue is throwing in the towel after his request to sell alcohol was shot down. Town Council voted 6-1 last week to overturn the Planning Commission’s approval of Elegant Barn’s bid to serve alcohol through a licensed third-party vendor during certain hours. “I’m going to close the business and turn it into an Airbnb,” said owner ennis Elliott. “They don’t want me to be a wedding venue.” That means, attorney Adam Buck said, that his clients will turn the venue into a “short-term vacation rental party house.” It will go from a controlled atmosphere to no alcohol restriction for a bed and breakfast, he said, citing a news article that listed problems that communities have had with these temporary vacation rentals such as public intoxication and loud music. “This is not what the Elliotts want to do,” Buck said. “They-
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GILBERT SUN NEWS AN EDITION OF THE SUNDAY EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE | OCTOBER 21, 2018
Goodbye Big League Dreams, hello Cactus Yards BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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ll traces of former operator ig eague reams are gone from the town of Gilbert. A year after Gilbert took back the sports facility with eight scaled-down replicas of major ball fields, Town Council has approved a new name for it – Cactus Yards. Fisher, a sports marketing firm in Phoenix, came up with the new name, logo designs and colors for the complex, which (Town of Gilbert) also includes a field house, bat- This rendering of the new logo for the old Big League Dreams won unanimous approval from the Town Council last ting cages and restaurant, at El- week as its creators said "Cactus" evokes the spring training season and "yards" is a baseball term. liot istrict Park near Elliott and Power roads. Carmona said town staff is still work- opened in January 2008. Council approved the name last week. ing on signs for the facility. They also abruptly shut down the park The town paid Fisher $20,000 for the “The renderings shown are just poten- in July 2017, citing the immediate need to work, according to Robert Carmona, tial options and the town will be work- fix what they said were significant safety town Parks and Recreation director. ing over the next few months to com- issues. The two sides are still in litigation. “This includes Fisher assisting with plete the plan,” he said. The complex is scheduled to re-open in the visual palette for the facilities as well He noted the park will still be named February with the town taking over the as the theming and signage throughout Elliot istrict Park and the sports com- operations. the facility,” Carmona said. “Fisher has plex within park will be called Cactus Under the town’s business plan, it will also worked on several sports market- Yards. cost Gilbert $2.3 million a year to opering projects such as the Phoenix Suns Officials last year cut ties with ig ate the park and will need $1.1 million in and the Arizona Rattlers as well as with eague reams, which operated the subsidy to cover the shortfall in revenue. government agencies such as APS.” town-owned sports facility since it
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want to run a wedding venue with restrictions. My last point is you can trust the Elliotts. They’ve had 250 events and one parking issue.” The ban uet facility near Greenfield Road and Houston Avenue features a 3,500-square-foot barn used for weddings and other celebrations and is located on 1.1 acres zoned for single-family homes. The Elliotts’ request to serve alcohol upset nearby homeowners who voiced their concerns of their children’s safety with inebriated drivers and increased traffic in the neighborhood. Elliott said he now will shut down once he has fulfilled his bookings. He uestioned why the Council would have opted to prevent him from serving alcohol in a controlled environment verses having a vocational rental where there are no stipulations about the use of alcohol. Buck said when the Elliotts retired, it was their dream to operate a wedding venue with their daughter. When the Mesa couple pursued the venture and
there was neighborhood opposition, they met with the residents and made concessions to alleviate their concerns, Buck said. The couple spent $100,000 for costs such as paving 250 feet of Houston Avenue, adding insulation to the barn to reduce noise and not having live music, he added. The couple initially agreed not to serve alcohol in order to get neighborhood support of their conditional use permit but that decision is now costing their business, according to Buck. “ or the past five years, it’s been a nonalcohol wedding reception venue, which is not commercially viable,” Buck said. Elegant Barn also is facing increasing competition from six new wedding venues in Mesa, Gilbert and Apache Junction that can serve alcohol, Buck said. “Lesson learned is nearly 60 percent of customers want to celebrate with alcohol,” he said. He presented figures showing 57 percent of potential customers of Elegant Barn in 2017 call the alcohol ban a deal breaker up from percent in 2016. Buck said the venue is losing events.
When Elegant arn opened in 201 , it booked 6 events; 7 events in 2015; 71 events in 2016 and 37 events for 2018, he said. n first two years, the venue didn’t generate income because the Elliotts were putting money into it and it wasn’t until 2016 that they saw a net income of 5,000, uck said. n 2017, the net income dropped to $27,000 and for 2018, the venue will see a $36,000 loss, he added. Buck said the Elliotts aggressively selfregulate their business. “Give them the opportunity to show you alcohol can be served responsibly at a wedding venue,” he asked Council. ayor enn aniels said she’s received hundreds of emails on the issue, and limited opponents and supporters of the Elegant Barn’s request to 10 minutes for each side to present their case. The Planning Commission hearing in August took over two hours as speakers lined up to talk about the proposal. Six people spoke against the serving of alcohol at the Council meeting, including
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Melea Wheeler, who said the Elliotts keep changing the terms on the use permit. “We can no longer trust the Elliotts,” Wheeler said, noting it was the couple who chose not to serve alcohol in order to get neighborhood support for their business. Sheri Schmeckpeper said the community is one where children play in the front yard and throwing alcohol in the mix will change the character of the neighborhood. Six people spoke in favor of the proposal, including Gilbert Chamber of Commerce CEO Kathy Tilque, who said Elegant Barn is a good business. She hoped some sort of compromise could be worked out. The Elliotts’ daughter, Christiana Hammond, who works at the venue, said events there are heavily policed to make sure there are no violations and that the facility should be viewed as an asset to the neighborhood. “We don’t want to disturb the community,” she said. “They treat us like careless, greedy jerks…and overlook our accomplishments.” Councilman Victor Petersen was the sole supporter of the Elliotts’ request. He said a conditional use permit is basically a use by right as long as all the con-
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ditions are met. “If we believe they meet the findings, we are obligated to approve,” he said. He said two of the findings were easily met: the proposed use conforms to the General Plan and the Zoning Code. The two other findings are harder to prove, he said. They are that the proposed use is detrimental to the health, safety or general welfare of people living or working in (Special to Gilbert Sun News) the vicinity and that it would not unreason- The Elegant Barn owners, frustrated by the Town Council's denial of a liquor permit, likely will close the wedding venue and turn it into a rental facility where no permission is needed to serve alcohol, its owners told officials. ably interfere with the use and enjoyment of nearby properties. Councilman Scott Anderson was con- peers the Commission’s vote was split, That said, he referenced a letter from - on the re uest to serve alcohol. a couple who lived right next door to the cerned him about the risk and liability. Just because the Elegant Barn has had If an incident were to occur because venue who had taken a neutral position. ouis and oris Ramirez stated they alcohol was served, not only would the no incidents in the past, doesn’t mean it have observed how the Elliotts operated venue owners and the licensed server be won’t have problems in the future with their business and applauded their ef- held liable but the town as well because the influence of alcohol, he said. aniels said that with so many stipulaforts in keeping the traffic and guests in lawyers always go after those with deep tions and conditions in the use permit, it control. They also said the venue has not pockets, he said. Councilman Jared Taylor reminded his makes it difficult to enforce. impacted them at all.
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GILBERT SUN NEWS AN EDITION OF THE SUNDAY EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE | OCTOBER 21, 2018
Town, school officials jointly ponder Gilbert’s future BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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ilbert is top-notch when it comes to its livability - low crime, good public schools and a strong local economy. But the town can’t rest on its laurels if it wants to continue that quality of life for residents down the road. “Future problems will happen in this community if we don’t get focused today,” said Gilbert Town Manager Patrick Banger at an annual joint meeting last week between Town Council and Higley Unified School istrict Governing oard. “The clock is ticking today.” Banger said once thriving municipalities, much like Gilbert is today, are on the decline and the town aims to break that cycle with its partners. According to the neighborhood lifecycle theory, all neighborhoods go through growth and decline. Sometimes what sends municipalities into decline is an external shock and “other times, it can be simple life cycle effects from civic aging, or just plain bad decisions,” according to Governing, a media platform for local and state government leaders. And once caught in this cycle, it seems to be very difficult to get out, Governing said. Today, Gilbert with a population of 250,000 is still spanking new in its amenities and infrastructure and when it reaches expected build-out in 2030, some 320,000 to 330,000 people will call the town home, Banger said. He said Gilbert needs to be smart and have a long-range plan because decisions made today will come back in 10, 20, 30 years and create problems. If the next generation of families doesn’t come to Gilbert and it happens at the same time the infrastructure needs financing, the tax base dwindles, municipal disinvestment occurs and soon people leave, creating a throwaway city, according to Banger. Banger highlighted what Gilbert was doing to avoid that with the recent landing of ma or employers - financial consulting firm eloitte bringing 2,500 obs and organ Stanley with 250 new jobs. It’s also building amenities such as Gilbert Regional Park and esert Sky Park. And because Gilbert’s low crime rate is one of two major draws for people moving here, officials are planning to build a public safety training facility. Town officials anticipate an 5 percent turnover in the next seven years in its police and fire forces and is running out of options
to partner with neighboring communities to use their facilities, according to Banger, who added a bond measure to fund the facility is on the Nov. 6 ballot. The second major draw for Gilbert is its schools. Higley officials showed off the district’s accomplishments, including having both its high schools rated an “A,’ and seven of its 11 elementary schools scoring an “A” in the state’s report card. “My board is pushing us to be innovated,” Superintendent Mike Thomason said. “We want to be the school district of choice.” Randy Mahlerwein, Higley assistant superintendent of secondary education, said one of the things the district is most proud of is despite the enrollment size of its high schools, they can offer the same opportunities as much-larger high schools with 3,500 students. He also pointed to the growth since 2005 for both high schools in AP test scores. Higley High saw a 1 percent increase while Williams Field High saw a 17 percent growth. Mahlerwein added the district outperforms the state average and the goal is to be inline with elite high schools in the country. um artens, HUS human resources executive director, touted the district’s policies and work environment that saw 5 percent of its certified staff such as teachers signed their contracts for this school year, the highest in the area. And, she said, the retention rate for both classified and certified employees is percent. She said a district committee of administrators, teachers and staff are putting together a survey to go out in the spring that will ask what the district does well and why do respondents stay or work in the district. The survey will go out to employees, parents and students, according to Martens. n the human resources field, the shift is going away from exit interviews and toward stay interviews, she said. Officials also discussed possible partnerships. Thomason said when the public safety facility is operational, the town can use the district’s nearby performing arts venue for cadet graduations, Councilman Jordan Ray suggested preliminary discussions with the district
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for the community to use the fields at its elementary schools. Those fields are not being used at night because they are not lit but Ray broached the idea of the town putting in the lights. He said both sides would save money by this endeavor. The superintendent was receptive to the
suggestion, saying the district at this time did not have bond money to install lights. The group also discussed the increase in teen suicides, noting a collaborative effort was underway to address the issue. Reese said she was glad to see both the district and town were on the same page regarding the future of Gilbert.
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EV leaders seeking answers to teen suicide crisis BY JIM WALSH GSN Staff Writer
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grassroots movement of East Valley mothers – saddened if not terrified by a growing cluster of teen suicides – has captured the attention of influential leaders united by their desire to prevent more heartbreaking deaths. While the movement has accomplished a growing amount of awareness, it is unclear where the community mobilization efforts will lead – and whether it will involve changes in state law, greater school emphasis on teens’ emotional health, or community organizations focusing more energy on the problem. A broad array of business, political and community leaders reacted strongly last week to an Oct. 1 report in the Gilbert Sun News that detailed how 31 East Valley teens 2 of them boys have taken their lives in the last 15 months. The movement is striking a common nerve, with no relation to political or personal gain, as the mothers search for answers and solutions. “It’s going from a point of being sad to being angry,’’ said Christina Nguyen of Gilbert, president of pro ectconnect .org, who has been working with education consultant Katey McPherson of Chandler on mobilizing the community. Nguyen said the status quo needs to change. “Obviously, it’s sad that we have to have this movement. It’s heartbreaking,’’ Nguyen said. “On the other hand, it’s very heartwarming that people are very receptive and are coming together.’’ working to prevent additional suicides. The Gilbert Sun News drew an almost immediate response from concerned officials during a oint meeting Oct. 15 of the Gilbert Town Council and the Higley Unified School istrict’s governing board. “We do not view it as a Higley Unified issue but as a community issue,” Superintendent Mike Thomason said. School districts in the Southeast Valley, some charter schools, Chandler-Gilbert Community College and Arizona State University are looking to consolidate their efforts because right now everyone is doing their own thing, he said. “We are happy to come together with everyone in the Southeast Valley and come up with resources to protect our children,” he said. Higley school board President Kristina Reese said the story about the cluster struck a chord in her district, which began this
school year with the suicide of a 13-year-old boy. “Our school year started with a suicide, a freshman the night before school started,” she said. “These are our kids. It’s hard when things like this happen. The community first looks at the schools and ask, “why is this happening,’ and ‘what are you teaching them?’” Gilbert Mayor enn aniels said the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Committee, comprised of high school students, will be discussing this issue in the future so that it will be a teen-led effort. (Pablo Robles/GSN Staff Photographer) “We are throwing a Christina Nguyen talks with parents who gathered last week at a Chandler pizzeria to discuss what they can do to address the lot of darts out there rash of teen suicides that have claimed young lives throughout the region, including Gilbert. and don’t know if we are reaching kids,” said Higley board member Amy Kaylor. “Get the Officials in Palo Alto convinced the federal regulate their social media and video game kids involved, what do they need from us as Centers for isease Control to study the use and encourage them to play outside a school district.” reasons behind the suicides and to make instead of hiding behind digital screens. aniels said that kids need to know the recommendations on how to curb them. “Kids are getting immune to the message,’’ community is behind them. Nguyen and other suicide prevention said Kerri Jones, who attended both At a separate meeting of parents in advocates are hoping to convince the C C to meetings. “ y 1 -year-old son is feeling Chandler that was moderated by Nguyen, do a similar study of the East Valley’s suicide suicide is a normal behavior.’’ Autumn Bourque, 18, an Arizona State cluster. Jones said she was concerned when she University student who became an antiNguyen said the efforts in Palo Alto and asked her son about teen suicide and he suicide advocate after a friend at Queen other places help to inspire the East Valley’s responded, “some kids just do this.’’ Creek High School took his life, said buy-in grassroots movement. Nguyen said schools need to focus more from teens is essential. “It gives you more hope in our mission to on promoting emotional health and well“We’re totally focused on what the parents move forward,’’ she said. “It starts with the being by perhaps adding chapters on suicide want,’’ she said. “They aren’t thinking about power of one and we all come together to to psychology classes or health classes, a what the kids want.’’ policy adopted in other states. address this. “These kids are our kids.’’ Bourque said she believes the suicide Nguyen also launched a new Facebook Nguyen moderated two wide-ranging cluster is fueled by a combination of discussions about possible ways to deter page, the Arizona Coalition for Suicide academic stress, stress at home and stress teen suicides during meetings at Chandler Prevention- East Valley, to further the stemming from such factors as dating and restaurants. grassroots organization’s goals and social media. Parents talked of their fears about teen to communicate with people seeking “It’s social media for sure. It desensitizes suicides, how they want to build a sense of information about the suicide cluster. your kids,’’ Bourque said, with kids making community in transient Arizona and how “I love it. I see it as a good thing. It takes nasty comments about each other that they they want to reach out to teenagers and everyone using their voice,’’ said Natalia might not make in person. Chimbo Andrade, community education convince them that they loved and valued. What’s happening in reaction to the East Parents grappled with many tough and outreach manager for Community Valley teen suicides follows a pattern that questions, many involving agonizing self- Bridges, a Mesa behavioral health agency. has emerged in other cities coping with appraisals of their parenting skills. The “It’s nice to see the stigma of a taboo subject suicide clusters. mother of a boy who completed suicide said going away.’’ Palo Alto, CA., an upscale city in the Silicon she suspected he was smoking marijuana Community Bridges, other behavioral Valley south of San Francisco, founded and wondered if he was self-medicating and health providers, McPherson and Chandler ProjectSafetyNet.com after six teens that she had missed a warning sign. completed suicide in 200 -10 and four They discussed how to communicate more took their lives in 201 -2015. better with their children, monitor and see SUICIDE page
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ICAN are forming a working group to discuss strategies on attacking the problem. “We are seeing a drastic increase in teen suicide in the East Valley,’’ Chimbo Andrade said. “We have also seen a dramatic increase in Arizona’’ as whole. She said one commonality in many teen suicides is drug use, which may be impairing the decision-making ability of teens with brains that are not fully developed. Experts stress that there is no easy answer for eliminating teen suicide, with each case having its own unique factors. McPherson also is planning to collaborate with the Mesa Chamber of Commerce’s Business and Education Committee in November on suicide prevention efforts as broadens her coalition to attack the epidemic. “In all my 23 years as a secondary school teacher, counselor, and administrator I never imagined this would be an issue I would face on such a large scale,’’ McPherson wrote the Chamber. “My sense of urgency is great but I understand the process of an actionable plan that has tangible outcomes attached takes some time. To have lost a boy almost every week since Sept. 1, 2018 in Higley, Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, QC is unprecedented,’’ McPherson continued. Her outreach efforts also include an alliance with the Chandler Police epartment through the award-winning Guardian Academy program, which holds classes to help parents, relatives and other caregivers with parenting issues. In response to the suicide epidemic, the academy is adding two free, threehour classes aimed at suicide prevention. McPherson will present a class at 6 p.m.
on Thursday, Oct. 25, at the esert reeze substation, 251 . esert reeze lvd. in west Chandler, on child resiliency and the teen brain. r. Paula cCall, an Ahwatukee Chandler child psychologist, will present a class on ec. 6 on non-suicidal self-in ury, suicide awareness and prevention. “If we can better develop their emotional resiliency, we hope to combat their desire to complete suicide,’’ said Officer Tina Balsewicz, who directs the academy.
alsewicz has conducted five academies in the past 2 ½ years, with two of them covering the need to recognize the warning signs of teen suicide, but she said she has added the additional classes in hopes of preventing additional deaths. Because of limited space, anyone interested in attending should pre-register by emailing tina.balsewicz@chandleraz.gov. She said the warning signs can include changes in the emotional demeanor of teens, their interactions with family members, whether they have become isolated or withdrawn, and whether they are lethargic or losing weight. McPherson and Nguyen are getting the attention of elected officials, letting them know that beyond awareness, there needs to be action to curb the problem. “Any life lost to a suicide is a tragedy,’’ Chandler Mayor-elect Kevin Hartke said. “It’s education and awareness. What we are able to do is to create coalitions.’’ He said he would like to see whether existing organizations that focus on youth, such as Chandler ICAN, the Chandler Boys and Girls Club, and the Chandler YMCA, can play an integral role in outreach to teens without creating a new organization to address the problem.
One obvious hot button issue is reviving the Mitch Warnock Act, a bill that died in the legislature earlier this year that would have required that teachers and other school employees receive two hours of training a year on recognizing the warning signs of suicide. espite the bill’s collapse, the Tempe Union High School istrict, which has felt the pain of losing a child several times over, completed the training without any sort of legislative mandate. With the assistance of East Valley behavioral health providers, including Teen Lifeline and Community Bridges, the district trained more than 800 employees in one day. Last week, the district’s governing board formalized a contract with Teen Lifeline to provide additional training for parents, teachers and students on behavioral issues, including teen suicide and bullying. Arizona House Speaker . . esnard, R-Chandler, who is running for state Senate, attended one of Nguyen’s meetings on Monday at a south Chandler restaurant. “I cannot think of a more important issue than children taking their own life,’’ Mesnard said. “When it comes to kids safety, I would think that should be a bi-partisan issue.’’ Echoing comments last week by Rep. Jeff Weninger, R-Chandler, Mesnard said he also would support a bill mandating teacher training on suicide warning signs. But Mesnard stopped short of predicting that such a bill would pass, saying that it ran into opposition last year from the Arizona School Boards Association, which opposes state-ordered mandates in general. “I think given the place we’re at, that’s a serious discussion we need to have,’’ he said. GSN Managing Editor Cecilia Chan contributed to this report.
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r. ancy essonnier, director of the C C’s ational Center for mmunization and Respiratory iseases, said in a conference call Tuesday that AFM is a fairly new disease and that there is still a lot to learn about it. They know it is not caused by the polio virus, even though its victims suffer poliolike symptoms, but that it has been linked to other viruses, including West Nile and enterovirus, and environmental factors. espite that, she said there are simple steps parents can take to protect their kids, including making sure children wash their hands, use bug spray and stay up to date on their vaccines. She also urged “parents to seek medical care right away if you or your child develop sudden weakness or loss of muscle tone in the arms or legs.” Recovery is mixed. Elliot said there’s no specific treatment for the disease, and that many patients recover spontaneously. The ones who don’t “have a long road ahead of them with physical therapy, rehab,” he said. uring the worse part of his disease, Talen was prescribed with steroids and started undergoing physical therapy seven times a week. “There’s absolutely no way he would have been able to recover without therapy,” Rochelle Spitzer said. Talen just turned 13 and is able to run and play soccer, although he still has some limitations like struggling to tie his shoes. Spitzer knows of another Arizona family with a child who’s been diagnosed, and believes the condition is a lot “more common than it seems.” Elliott said parents should alert, but the flu season is deadlier with 0,000 deaths from the flu last season in the U. S.
Town loses $3.8M in auction of 138 acres BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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ilbert lost $3.8 million from its auction of 138 acres it bought nine years ago for 1.5 million to build
parks. Town Council last week approved the winning bid from esert ista 100, an affiliate of landford Homes. The bid was for 1 .1 million for 0 acres of farmland at the southwest corner of Chandler Heights and Greenfield roads in south Gilbert, appraised for $21.2 million in March. esert ista also was the winning bidder in the August sell-off of the first parcel, a 5 -acre site at Germann and Greenfield roads for $18.5 million. The appraisal for
that acreage was 16. million. In all, the town recouped $37.6 million of the controversial 1. million it paid in 200 to diary farmer ernard inke for two pieces of his land. ayor enn aniels made it clear that no one sitting on the council dais now was in office in 200 when the town bought the land to build two parks. The Council at the time of the land deal was slammed for paying what many said was an over-inflated price for a market experiencing a downturn in 200 . The town bought the land for $300,000 an acre. The August auction saw the 58 acres sell for 1 ,000 an acre and in September the 80 acres went for $265,000 an acre. aniels said town officials in 2015
no longer needed the Zinke land for recreational use because an opportunity arose with Maricopa County to instead use 220 acres at Chandler Heights Basin near land Gilbert owns for $10. Although the town lost $3.8 million, aniels said she doesn’t know if the town would have ever recovered the full cost of buying the Zinke land. Councilman Jared Taylor noted the auctions occurred during a high time for real estate. The 200 deal also included the purchase of right-of-way access on Zinke’s land, which bumped the town’s cost to $50.1 million, according to town spokeswoman Jennifer Alvarez Harrison. The rights of way and about four acres at
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Germann and Greenfield were not offered through auction, she said. The town secured access for various road improvement projects, many since completed in southern Gilbert. Some of the finished pro ects include al ista rive from Germann to ueen Creek roads, completed in 2010; Riggs Road from al ista to rive to Recker Road, completed in 2013 and Chandler Heights Road from al ista rive to Greenfield Road, completed in 2013. Proceeds from the land sales will help fund the estimated $100 million cost of building the 272-acre Gilbert Regional Park near the southwest corner of Queen Creek and Higley roads.
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GILBERT SUN NEWS AN EDITION OF THE SUNDAY EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE | OCTOBER 21, 2018
Spanish flu devastated frontier-era Arizona
BY GARY NELSON GSN Contributor
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he worst disaster ever to strike the East alley did not come with flashes of lightning, roars of wind and rain or the rumble of a trembling earth. It came invisibly and silently, stalking the young and old, the righteous and the unrighteous, with a murderous efficiency rivaling that of war. It has been a century now since the horrific global pandemic known as the Spanish flu came calling here. ut the modern cities that sprang from the suffering little villages of that time still bear testimony to the horror. ostly you can find that evidence in the microfilmed pages of the region’s community newspapers of that era. But stroll a cemetery and you may find, for example, the grave of one Peter John Schaefer, a
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The upper left column on this November 1918 edition of the Chandler Arizonan notes the ravages of the flu, reporting "many dying."
for customers to visit their Pastime Pool Hall in Chandler, boasting “a fine line of fresh candies and cigars.” And if news of the gathering influenza calamity was creating a sense of unease in the public, it seems the newspapers all but bent over backwards to avoid fanning the flames of panic. Coverage of the outbreak was subdued and incomplete, even during the height of the calamity. The approach of The Chandler Arizonan was typical. An online archive of the paper is available at chandlerpedia.com, main-
tained by the Chandler Museum. Published weekly on Fridays, the paper usually ran only four pages, dominated that fall by wartime propaganda and appeals to buy Liberty Bonds for the war effort. t appears the paper’s first mention of the flu came on Oct. under a one-column headline on Page 6. The headline said, “ nfluenza is severe grippe.” The first sentence said, “The rapid spread of Spanish influenza and the possibility that it may hit Chandler has raised the question of just what the disease is.” The article went on to say the flu was an unusually virulent form of the respiratory disease known then as the grippe, that it usually affected 0 to 0 percent of the residents of a stricken community, and that outbreaks generally lasted four to six weeks. Bedrest and the use of handkerchiefs were advised. One week later, the region was under siege.
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Flu victims were crowded into any large space officials could find, such as this military installation at Fort Riley, Kansas.
farmer, father of three, who died of the flu in esa on ov. 25, 1 1 , a few days before he would have turned 37. Arizona was still barely more than a frontier outpost when the flu struck. Statehood had been conferred only six years before, and what now are the robust cities of the East Valley were mere dots on the map with a total population of less than 7,000. iles of desert and farm fields separated
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them. But such relative isolation spared no part of the earth in an outbreak whose global death toll is most conservatively estimated at 20 million. Some estimates run five times that number. The autumn of 1 1 would have been grim enough without the flu. The Great War had by then nearly finished its work of ending more than 15 million lives, among them several young men from Mesa. Still, judging from the newspapers of the day, folks hereabouts were trying hard to maintain a sense of normalcy. An election campaign was on, school was starting and the crops were coming in. Two gentlemen named Curry and Frye were advertising
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he horrific epidemic that tore through the East alley in 1 1 , killing dozens if not hundreds of people, seems to have its origins in the spring of that year. Historians report that a relatively mild form of the influenza appeared that spring among soldiers at Fort Riley, Kansas. Other Army bases also reported outbreaks that spring. It seems the Americans then carried the disease to Europe, first to the battlefields of rance. When the epidemic reached Spain, the Spanish press – not bound by military censorship because the country was neutral – gave it wide play. That led to the name “Spanish flu,” even though its origin was most likely American. This early form of the flu hit widespread parts of the world before it apparently mutated that autumn. The newer, more deadly strain exploded in several port cities around the world and hit the United States first in the oston area.
The mortality rate among those stricken appears to have been about 10 percent, often because of pneumonia that developed after the first infection. Annals of the disease are replete with tales of deep piles of bodies and coffins as cities around the world struggled to keep up with the catastrophe. New York City, for example, struggled to cope with 1 ,000 deaths. The pandemic rolled through Arizona in the fall of 1 1 , and a second wave came in early 1 1 . Numerically, the pandemic killed more people than any other disease outbreak in human history. Official death tolls range from 20 million to 0 million, but many countries did not have robust health systems – and even Arizona, with vast swaths of rural and reservation lands – seems not to have kept track of the toll. All told, historians think the final death toll may have been 100 million. And many who did survive the 1 1 disease suffered the rest of their lives from poor health as a result.
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A one-column front-page headline on Oct. 11 reported, “Public places closed tight by influenza.” Schools were shut, the movie theater closed and churches suspended services. Nearby Gilbert also had closed its school. “There are about a dozen cases in the vicinity of Chandler, but none in the town itself,” the paper said. Another week, and the situation was dire. Chandler, with fewer than 1,000 people, now reported 75 cases – an infection rate that would sicken more than 75,000 people in the present-day East Valley. “ our members of the Gardner rug Co. are down,” the paper said. “The Fosler and Payne families are also down. The flagraising scheduled for Sunday has been called off.” The Oct. 25 paper brought news of three deaths. “ rs. . endez, wife of oe endez, a naturalized citizen of the United States and a leader of the better Mexican element, was the first to die. ive small children survive. … There are about a dozen cases in Little Mexico and its citizens are in a panic.” On Nov. 8, in a story that still didn’t get the biggest front-page headline (that was reserved for the war-bond campaign), The Arizonan reported 17 Chandler deaths in
just that week alone. Among them were two young mothers with 13 children altogether. The Red Cross sent out an appeal for clean rags to be used in the town’s makeshift flu hospital set up in a schoolhouse. Two weeks later, the newspaper reported that the flu was abating among white people but was still ravaging Mexican and Indian communities. “A band of Pima Indians was reported Wednesday down with the flu,” the paper said. “They were found just east of town and appeared to have wandered off the reservation despite the orders of the superintendent at Sacaton.” The last paragraph of the story – a classic case of burying the lead – said this: “A pathetic incident comes from the Anderson ranch. In the large family of Rafeal Vasurto, seven children died, all within a few days. The mother and father both escaped.” The paper also reported that week that Chandler needed to clean up its piles of reeking trash – including some rotting animals – before the state board of health would lift the flu uarantine. The epidemic was easing by early e-
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Flu’s return bugging East Valley residents BY JASON STONE GSN Staff Writer
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he flu has arrived in the East Valley, but local experts say it’s too early to tell if it’s going to be another bad year like the last one. “Every year is completely different,” said Jeanene Fowler, spokesperson for the aricopa County Health epartment. “There’s so many variables that play into the flu season that it takes a crystal ball. Flu is always changing.” Maricopa County has already received its first reports of the season. The ust-completed flu season of 20172018 ended with a big spike in cases from the previous year. The county listed 1 ,576 cases between Oct. 1, 2017, and Sept. 2 , 2018, the most recent day of reporting. Reported cases aren’t broken down by city or region of the county. Last season’s total was up nearly 300 percent from the more than 6,600 cases during the 2016-17 flu season.
The five-year average is 7, 0 cases. The problem with all those numbers, Fowler said, is they’re likely not accurate. “The ma ority of flu cases are never reported,” Fowler said. “Most people don’t see a doctor, so it’s drastically under represented.” However, doctors and health experts can still learn about the flu season based on those who do report it. They can learn the top demographic groups to report cases are men and women 65 and older and women 1 to . It also allows them to pinpoint the worst strain of the season to better treat patients. Last year, the H3N2 strain was the big whopper. It remains to be seen what it will be this season. “Usually, we’re just dealing with a couple of strains,” said Jennifer Tinney, the program director for the Arizona Partnership for Immunization. “There’s a predominant A strain, a secondary A
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Rain cancellation of BARKtoberfest hurts local shelter BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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he record-breaking rains that pelted the Valley on Oct. 13 did more than ust flood roads; it forced a Gilbert animal rescue to cancel its largest single-day fundraiser of the year. Friends for Life Animal Rescue had anticipated a crowd of between 7,000 and 10,000 people to attend BARKtoberfest, which included over 65 vendors booths. That was until the remnants of Tropical Storm Sergio came through the state, bringing enough rain this month to make it the wettest October on record for Phoenix. “ t was our 20th annual and it’s the first time we were rained out,” said Barb Savoy, spokeswoman for the no-kill shelter. “We would love to say we rescheduled but it’s too difficult between the town’s schedule and the time to re-coordinate the vendors and sponsors and food trucks.
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“It would take an act of God to be able to re-coordinate and reschedule for a different day.” Friends for Life’s annual event at Gilbert Civic Center typically raises $25,000, the bulk of which is used to pay for medical care for stay cats and dogs. Savoy said that in the weeks leading up to its signature event, the shelter rescued more dogs than normal. Planning for the event began around March. The storm was so fierce that even the Arizona State Fair closed for the day. When Friends for Life announced it was canceling the event because of safety concerns, some people stopped by the shelter to buy raffle tickets and donate, raising $3,000, Savoy said. The shelter also adopted out 16 dogs and two cats that Saturday. But the shelter is still left with a $22,000 hole in its budget. “We will have to have other fundraisers and get creative to make up the deficit,”
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arktoberfest may have been a bust, but there are still dogs to be adopted at Friends for Life shelter. Take Hammy, for example. The Hammy 3-year-old Old English Sheepdog/ Terrier blend “is such a funny, goofy Wile E. character,” spokeswoman Jannelle Cosgriff said. “He would make a great hiking companion for an active family.” He is house trained and knows some basic commands. Then there’s Wile E – as in the cartoon character Wile E Coyote – who is believed to be a Shepherd blend possibly with some St. Bernard or Aussie mixed in. Like Hammy, he would do well with an active family and one that only wants him as a pet without any other dogs. Both dogs are neutered, up to date on vaccinations, microchipped, and licensed. The adoption fee for either canine is 1 5. nformation 0- 7- 2 6, dogs azfriends.org, www.azfriends. org, or visit the adoption center at 52 W. elody Ave. in Gilbert.
Savoy said. In its 25 years of doing rescue, Friends for Life has saved more than 10,000 homeless cats and dogs. The nonprofit shelter also will take in owner-surrendered pets but focuses on strays. What’s unique about the shelter is it lives up to its name. Each animal is microchipped with Friends for Life as the primary point of contact, so if an adopted pet ever ends up in a euthanasia facility, the shelter arranges to get the animal back. It has gone as far away as Alaska and Florida to bring back one of its adoptees. The nonprofit has steadily grown from a network of volunteer foster homes in 1 to three leased buildings in downtown Gilbert three years later and then to a new building in February on Melody Avenue near Baseline and Cooper roads. The group’s major fundraising event also has grown over the years. n1 the event was held in the front yard of the nonprofit’s original shelter
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cember, with the schoolhouse hospital now closed and getting ready for pupils. The fourthgrade teacher, Miss Mary Corbell, would not be returning to class, however. She, too, had been felled by the flu. There is no indication that the little newspaper kept a running tally of deaths in Chandler. It specifically mentioned as many as 0, but only in anecdotal fashion. The pattern was the same for other papers that covered the calamity in the region, including the Arizona Republican and the esa aily Tribune. Indeed, there appears to be no record of the
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strain, and usually a B strain.” Those protective flu shots many people get each season usually protect the patient from two A and two B strains to be on the safe side. Fowler said doctors can sometimes predict what strain will be bad based on the flu season in Australia during its cold season in July. It’s all part of helping patients fend off the aches and pains associated with the flu. “Last year was a really bad season,” Fowler said. “The vaccine had limited protection. That wasn’t as high as we would like to see.” espite the higher case load last year, the first confirmed case of flu came about two weeks later than normal. etween 201 and 2016, the first recorded case came on either Oct. or , but it wasn’t until Oct. 16 that the first case was recorded in 2017. North Carolina is already dealing with some
building with a handful of vendors, a few games and an alumni parade. The rescue shelter is now accepting donations for a yard sale fundraiser that will take place 7 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 17 at its adoption center, 52 W. elody Ave., Gilbert. onations can be dropped off at the center. Early-bird shopping will be 0- p.m., Friday, Nov. 16. A $5 per person donation is requested for those requesting access to early birds. or more information, call 0- 72 6.
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number of flu deaths in the region or in Arizona as a whole. Many people died at home, sometimes in remote rural areas, and were not kept track of. And, as might be gleaned from some of the articles quoted above, not all ethnic groups received the same consideration in the press. The specter of 1 1 still haunts the American and global public health communities. Flu season still comes and goes every year, some years more virulently than in others. But modern sanitation, communications and up-to-date vaccines all work our favor. To date, no sequel has yet rivaled that of the nightmarish autumn of 1 1 and, heaven willing, none ever will.
bad cases. Two people there died from the virus last week, pushing health officials there to alarm residents about getting their flu shots. Last week a 6-year-old girl in Florida also died from the flu. owler said the flu indirectly causes more deaths than is reported. “Sometimes it’ll be other issues that end up getting put on the death certificate, like pneumonia,” Fowler said. ignity Health has started its seasonal free flu clinics. Anybody over the age of 6 months can receive a vaccine. or dates and locations, call 0-72 - 777 for the children’s line or 0-72 -200 for the adult line. oth hotlines are open 2 hours. The esa ire and edical epartment is also offering free flu shots at the Superstition Springs Center on the second Wednesday of every month.
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tack on public education funding, saying it would divert already depleted funding of public schools in favor of private educational institutions. State funding of public school districts depends largely on their enrollment count. Supporters of the measure have been trying to deflect public attention from the proposition’s impact by avoiding and at times even criticizing the use of the term “vouchers.” The proposition would lift restrictions on the state’s ESA empowerment scholarships, which provide financial assistance to public school students with special needs, those in foster care, children of military personnel or who live on an Indian reservation or have a parent who is legally blind or deaf. About 3,500 students out of 1.1 million in public schools now get such aid. But last year, the State Legislature voted to remove those restrictions – prompting a grassroots movement called Save Our Schools to get enough signatures to force a public vote on the move and sparking concern even among some voucher proponents that the neediest students for whom the program was intended would be shut out by well-to-do families who could use public funds to send their kids
to private schools. Supporters of voucher expansion lost a bitter court fight to keep the measure of the ballot. The East Valley Partnership in a release said it’s “no” position on Prop 305 was an effort “to protect Arizona’s public education system.” Education has been a pillar of the partnership’s efforts, partly in the belief that an educated work force will make Arizona attractive to out-of-state employers who want to relocate and keep employers from leaving the state. “We believe that the current ESA voucher program should maintain its focus on students with special needs, in foster care and in military families while preserving public education funding to support an educated workforce and a robust economy,” said partnership President/CEO enny arney, who also is a aricopa County supervisor and Gilbert resident. While breaking with ucey on vouchers, the Partnership basically sides with him on Proposition 126 – which would prohibit state and local governments from enacting new taxes or increasing tax rates on services performed in Arizona. “We believe this initiative would reduce the ability of the state Legislature to manage the budget and prematurely remove sources of funding for critical state and
community services while creating an administrative burden for business owners,” Barney said. The no-tax measure is financed by Arizona Realtors and their national parent organization, which secured sufficient petition signatures to get on the ballot a proposed constitutional amendment forever precluding the Legislature from expanding the current sales tax base to services that are not already taxed. They have built a war chest – $6.1 million as of the last campaign finance report filed in the middle of August to get voters to approve. For the moment, the campaign operating under the umbrella of Citizens for Fair Tax Policy, is the only game in town on the ballot measure. There is no organized opposition. But the proposal has generated some resistance from an interesting and unlikely alliance, ranging from the Grand Canyon Institute which looks for ways to increase funding for public education, to Andrew Clark, the state director for Americans for Prosperity, a political action group funded by the conservative Koch brothers. Even ucey, who is campaigning for reelection on a pledge he will never raise taxes, does not think a constitutional ban on taxing services is a good idea. "He does not believe that tax policy
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Gilbert couple planning second annual ROCK-ing time a 50/50 raffle where the proceeds go directly to Open Arms and we have tons of Go Gilbert gear, which our Go Gilbert community is going to love, that we will give away for a donation.” The big treat of the evening will be the ‘80s cover band Rock Lobster, which performs iconic hits from that era such as Billy Idol’s “White Wedding”, Prince’s “1999” and Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” “They will have a big screen with ‘80s videos while they’re performing cover pieces,” Schaumberg said. Also featured is DJ Munition, alter ego of Tyler Sherman, dubbed ASU’s Official
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eople can step back into the ‘80s, when leg warmers and Members Only jackets ruled, and help a good cause as well. Mike and Ann Schude, who started the community Facebook group Go Gilbert, are throwing their second annual Go Gilbert ROCKS concert to celebrate the town. The Gilbert couple owns Schude Group Real Estate. “It came about because of our Facebook community,” said Amy Schaumberg, the lead organizer of the event who also works at the company. “We wanted to do something to get this group together and meet. We wanted to know them and they, us.” The Schudes, who both grew up in Gilbert, founded the Facebook group in 2017 as a way to network and for members to discuss new businesses, events and anything related to the town. Since its inception, the group has more than doubled in size to nearly 36,000 members. The group is open to all, but most members are from the East Valley. The couple’s first concert event attracted 1,000 people.
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Rock Lobster is a fan fave and will be playing at the wildly popular Go Gilbert ROCKS concert next month.
“Last year, people were lined up an hour before the doors opened,” Schaumberg said. “We had a line snaking down sidewalk.” For this year’s event, the couple is teaming up with Open Arms Care Center in downtown Gilbert. The nonprofit helps the working poor in Gilbert make it through the month by providing
Gilbert Realtors Ann (center) and Mike Schude celebrate their first Go Gilbert Rocks concert’s success with their office administrator, Amy Shaumberg.
donated food and clothing. “There’re a couple of different ways we are raising money for them,” Schaumberg said. “We have
Augusta Ranch students saying thank you 1,000 times BY CECILLA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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n her first year as principal of Augusta Ranch Elementary School, Terrie Barnes handed out a homework assignment to all 1,000 students. “We are asking every single student in school to write some kind of thankyou note,” Barnes said. “If they are in kindergarten or preschool, they can do a handprint.” The recipients of those thank-you notes are veterans and active-duty service members, and the assignment is due Nov. 2. Those notes will be presented to veterans and active-duty service members invited to a breakfast at the
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Augusta Ranch Elementary packed boxes of gifts for overseas troops as part of their “assignment” from Pricipal Terrie Barnes to say thank you to those who serve.
school on Nov. 9 – the last school day before Veterans Day on Nov. 11. “Our vision is when veterans come in that day, we will have tables all decorated with centerpieces and a 1,000 thank-you letters for them,” said Barnes, a long-time educator. “While they’re sitting at the table eating muffins and Starbucks coffee, they can read the four to five letters before them. “Reading cards that a first-grader or sixth-grader wrote thanking them for service – that is a pretty powerful thing,” she added. Attendees will be treated to singing from a school choir and the presentation of colors by a high school ROTC.
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Arizona State University professor Laurence Garvie’s backyard in Chandler is an excellent example of growing native plants that mostly take care of themselves.
The bird is the word on tour of EV backyards BY SRIANTHI PERERA GSN Contributor
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Midwestern mindset, “spray everything in sight” mentality and homeowner associations that require a portion of a property planted in grass have contributed to a dearth of native birds in East Valley backyards. The most that backyards seem to attract these days are grackles, pigeons and House Sparrows – birds that have adapted to urban areas, said Krys Hammers, president of Desert Rivers Audubon, a chapter of the National Audubon Society. Desert Rivers’ upcoming Tour de Bird on Saturday, Nov. 3 will demonstrate that homeowners don’t need to have grass to satisfy the need to see green, growing and blooming plants. The tour takes participants to 12 public and private sites in Chandler, Mesa and Scottsdale, which include the Veterans Oasis Park, the Pollinator Garden at Tumbleweed Park and the Hummingbird Habitat at Desert Breeze Park, all located in Chandler. Experts of gardening who can answer questions on topics ranging from the saguaro cactus to dragonflies will be available at the various locations. “With the right selection of native plants, you can have everything from ground cover to trees and plants that will bloom in a variety of colors all
year round,” Hammers said. “These plants will provide food, shelter and nesting sites for our native birds.” “Additionally,” she said, “we live in a desert and water is our most scarce resource. Planting native plants will reduce our water use in this time of drought and our water bills.” Among the stops is the Chandler backyard of Laurence Garvie, a research professor at the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University, who has changed a gravel xeriscape to verdant desert oasis in the course of 20 years. Garvie, who leads tours at the Desert Botanical Garden, is interested in nature, the interactions between humans and nature and how we’re changing the planet. “What can we do to better fit into it and care for the world that we live in is an important concept that relatively few people take much notice of,” he said. “It’s difficult to make most people care.” The global weather change, destruction of the desert, scarcity of water, “hasn’t actually affected anyone here,” he said. Garvie said that most people don’t care about their backyards and want the plants to be self-maintaining, or they get someone else to maintain it. His garden is not your usual backyard. The 9,000 square feet of space contains
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peration elco e o e salutes wounded naval officer men,” said Operation Welcome Home spokeswoman Aimee Rigler. While serving in Iraq in 2010, Katke was shot in the head by an enemy sniper, suffering critical damage to her memory, vision and the right half of her body and leaving her in a temporary coma. “Since then,
Holly has gone through years of medical rehabilitation, earned her bachelor’s degree in health sciences, and master’s degree in global health, coupled with an internship studying coral reefs and water quality in Florida,” Rigler said, adding: “She accomplished all of this while legally blind, with limited mobility and as a single mother raising her daughter.” Among her numerous awards and citations she received in the service were the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation and Achievement medals and the Purple Heart Medal for injury sustained in service. Operation Welcome Home events allow members of the Arizona community to demonstrate a heartfelt appreciation to veterans and their families.
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U.S. Navy veteran who was shot in the head and eventually recovered enough to earn two degrees was the recipient of Gilbert’s latest big-time thank you to military personnel. Operation Welcome Home AZ honored Chief Petty Officer Holly Katke last week as the community saluted her and her family for her service and sacrifice. “Holly served 14 years in the U.S. Navy. As a Combat Medic Corpsman, who was fluent in multiple languages, Holly was selected to participate in a special operations mission where she worked alongside special forces to help them engage with Iraqi women whose cultural beliefs prevented them from speaking with
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Navy Chief Petty Officer Holly Hartke, who was left blind during by an enemy attack in Iraq, was honored by Gilbert’s Welcome Home AZ last week.
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omen over 65 have a chance to compete for a new honor in Gilbert – Ms. Senior HomeWell. HomeWell Senior Care has started a competition for a pageant that it will host Nov. 8 and the winner will get some
prizes – including a chance to ride in the Gilbert days Parade on Nov. 17. Over $100 in gifts have been provided by local sponsors, and top 10 finals can select clothing of their choice on-loan from Chicos Dana Park, to wear for the pageant. The winner winner will ride in Gilbert Days Parade on November 17,
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simply just isn’t the case. So, why buy local v e r s u s o n lin e w h e n p r ic e s v a r y s o m u c h ? “ Th e r e a r e d o z e n s o f r e a s o n s , ” s t a t e s W a l l . “If Samsung sells a battery to it’s distributor’s w ith s u g g e s te d r e ta il o f fo r ty d o lla r s , h o w is it p o s s ib le to g e t o n e o n lin e fo r e ig h t d o lla r s ? Th e r e i s t h a t s a y i n g , “ i f i t s o u n d s t o o g o o d to b e tr u e , it is ” . U s u a lly , th e r e a r e o n e o f th r e e r e a s o n s y o u a r e g e ttin g a t b e lo w c o s t. F ir s t, it is v e r y o ld s to c k a n d s o m e o n e is u n lo a d in g it. K e e p in m in d b a tte r ie s a r e a perishable item. Second, they are claiming a s r e fu r b is h e d ( a n o th e r w a y o f s a y in g th e y a r e u s e d b a t t e r i e s ) . Th i r d , t h e y a r e c o u n t e r f e i t s . Th i s i s a RAMPANT p r o b l e m o n l i n e . In t o d a y ’ s t e c h n o l o g y b a s e d w o r l d , a n y o n e c a n b u y a p r in te r a n d s c a n n e r a n d m a k e c o u n t e r f e i t l a b e l s . Al s o , i t i s n o s e c r e t , t h a t China is notorious for flooding our market w ith c o u n te r fe it p r o d u c ts . W e h a v e a ll h e a r d the stories of batteries catching fire. Many of th e s e a r e s u b s ta n d a r d b a tte r ie s o r p r o te c tio n c ir c u its . U ltim a te ly , th e b e s t r e a s o n s fo r b u y in g lo c a l a r e ; k n o w in g w h o y o u a r e b u y in g fr o m , s u p p o r t o n th e p r o d u c t y o u a r e b u y in g , in s u r in g y o u a r e g e ttin g c o r r e c t p r o d u c t, fa c e to fa c e s e r v ic e , im m e d ia te r e s o lu tio n to y o u r n e e d s , a n d o f c o u r s e s u p p o r tin g y o u r lo c a l e c o n o m y a n d b u s i n e s s e s . Th i s i s t r u e o f ALL b a tte r ie s a n d n o t ju s t c e llp h o n e m o d e ls .
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some 150 species of perennial plants that attract and sustain native Southwestern insects in a wild and chemical-free environment. Among the flora are Graythorn, a shrub with grayish green leaves and thorn-tipped branches that attract nesting birds and for its fruit; Castela Emoryi or crucifixion thorn, a shrub that’s a haven for insects and provides flowers in mid-summer; the long-living and hardy Desert Ironwood and NightBlooming Cereus. Garvie said that at least 50 percent of the plants that are sold in nurseries and big box stores are inappropriate to the desert. He once tried to grow exotic plants, but they were hard to grow, he said. Oleanders, Bermuda grass, Carob trees and the like were never meant to thrive here but are an all-too-common sight. Pre-emergent, herbicides and pesticides have all but eliminated crickets and roaches that are part of the desert. Drip irrigation for native plants create havoc in its roots systems. Plastic in the soil also creates mayhem. “If you don’t spray, you allow things to get back to the equilibrium,” he said, adding that it’s important to educate
It’s not everybody’s cup of tea, but a few things can be changed in the average “developer yard” that was designed to sell houses. His advice is simple: Native plants have overcome the obstacles that nature has provided; the heat, drought and the occasional cold. “The plants that you see in our local environment are the (Photo courtesy of Desert Rivers Audubon.) ones that are already ready to Tour-goers will receive this gift from Wild Birds Unlimited in survive; they are the ones that Mesa. will give you the least amount of work,” he said. “They can be put in and essentially forgotten.” people to understand that nature can self-regulate. “People are trying to fight every aspect of it.” Hammers stopped watering to convert What: Desert Rivers Audubon presents a Bermuda grass lawn to a desert Tour de Bird landscape and said it was challenging When: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3 because the grass “wants to hold on,” but with her persistance it worked. Cost: Advanced tickets are $16 and tickets “There has been a lot of research cost $20 on event day. lately that shows that native insects Info: desertriversaudubon.org. Learn have evolved with native plants,” she about bird feeding from Dave and said. “Insects are the major diet of most MaryAnne at Wild Birds Unlimited, 2136 E. birds. Diversity of native plants provides Baseline Road, Ste 2, Mesa. Talks about a diversity of insects and therefore a diversity of birds.” attracting birds to your yard will be held at Garvie said his garden is a sanctuary 9 and 10 a.m. and 2 and 3 p.m. for creatures.
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DJ. Sherman has a weekly mix show on Current State Radio and performs at events such as the Waste Management Phoenix Open, Scottsdale clubs and large-scale concerts on the Arizona State University campus. People also can try their hand at free casino table games for a chance to win prizes. Attendees hankering for some “grindage” – ‘80s slang for food – can buy from gourmet food trucks Cousins Maine Lobster and Aioli Gourmet Burgers. Cousins Maine Lobster started off as a single food truck in Los Angeles in 2012, serving up lobster rolls. It ballooned to some 20 food trucks and restaurants nationwide after an appearance on the TV show Shark Tank, netting Maine natives Sabin Lomac and Jim Tselikis a $55,000 investment for their business. Not to be outdone, Chef Tommy D’Ambrosio of Aioli Gourmet Burgers in Phoenix is a recent winner of Food Network’s Chopped competition show. Adult beverages also can be purchased from one of three bars on location.
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While some may want to dance the night away at the rock concert, football fans will be able to view college games streamed on a 12-foot screen, according to Schaumberg. She expects 1,200 people at this year’s concert. Less than 24 hours after
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Winners of the school-wide poetry and essay contest also will read their entries. Students from Barnes’ Principal Academy – a leadership group of 5thand 6th-graders who apply to join – will decorate, serve and clean up at the event. Each month, the group of students do one community service project. October’s project was collecting items for troops deployed overseas through a program that paired the students with a platoon, Barnes said. “The kids were working with their parents, family and grandparents, collecting items for us to box to send over there,” Barnes said. The students collected over 1,500 items that filled 61 care packages, she said.
posting the event last week, 400 people registered to attend, Schaumberg said. The first 100 people that come through the door will get a swag bag with items, including a Go Gilbert branded backpack, a portable charger and a hydro flask, she said. The couple is able to hold the event for free to the public with the help of sponsors. This year there are 14,
“The kids got so excited,” she said. “We never in our wildest dream imagined we would get 61 boxes going to 21 Air Force men and women stationed somewhere.” Barnes’ Principal Academy has grown from 40 students to 70 who meet regularly for leadership training. Invites have been sent out via social media and newsletters, and info has been posted on the school marquee. Barnes said she anticipates a couple of hundred to show up for the breakfast
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Ohio transplants’ favorite ice cream followed them to Gilbert once I leave,” she said. “I’m emotional being in there.” So what’s the story behind Handel’s, Gilbert? Kovach left a good job as an electrical contractor for General Motors and moved from Youngstown in 2016. His wife, Stephanie, was already here, living in the house they own in Carefree, and employed. He had heard that Arizona could do with some good ice cream and knew that this brand would be a good fit. Established in 1945 by Youngstown resident Alice Handel, who used old-fashioned recipes with fresh fruit she picked from her own backyard, the ice cream has a devout following. Kovach grew up eating it. “We had Dairy Queen, Friendly’s and McDonalds; and then we had Handel’s. There was no skimping that went on. It was the go-to ice cream,” he said. With the Gilbert store, which is the 40th for Handel’s, Arizona joins California, Nevada and Oregon as the states out west that have locations. The brand is known for its treats made fresh daily at every site, using the best ingredients in abundance. “I’ve always wanted to do something significant, and I thought what’s more significant than bringing Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream to the state of Arizo(Srianthi Perera/GSN Contributor) na?” Kovach asked. Handel’s, Gilbert offers 48 flavors, Handel’s menu features pops, hand packed quarts and franchise owner Gary Kovach is and pints, banana split, four-scoop samplers, sundaes, happy tell patrons in a big way with
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oungstown, Ohio, transplants in Gilbert may – or may not – have heard the scoop. Their favorite ice cream, Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream, has followed them here. Dozens of former residents of the Rust Belt city, located halfway between Pittsburg and Cleveland, who stumbled upon the place have greeted local franchise owner Gary Kovach with cries of delight. There have been weekends when customers formed a line that snaked out the door into the parking lot. One family drove all the way from Cave Creek. And Handel’s, on the northeast corner of Val Vista and Guadalupe roads, hasn’t even held a grand opening or taken out a single page of advertising. The news has spread through word of mouth and sight. Among those who did a double take at the doorway of the trademark royal blue and white ice creamery recently is Sophia Fire, and her young daughter. Fire found out that her husband, Eddie, and Kovach hail from the same part of Youngstown. “I always tell my in-laws thank god because Handel’s isn’t in Arizona because I would be obese because this is the best ice cream in the whole world, and every time I go to Youngstown, I have to eat Handel’s every day because it’s a huge treat and I know I can’t get it
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Gilbert couple aim to help addicts find a better life
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t wasn’t just the abuse of substances they saw that led Jim and Michelle Sarina of Gilbert and their daughter Katherine to open Ahwatukee Health and Recovery, the community’s first addiction treatment center. It was also the abuses Katherine saw in the addiction treatment industry as well. As Katherine explained, her mother “saw the issues spurring from substance abuse while managing her two apartment complexes in Tempe from college students dangerously using alcohol and party drugs to chronic substance abuse of methamphetamines and heroin throughout multiple generations in families.” Katherine herself, meanwhile, said she “saw a lot of fraudulent behavior that
harmed patients driven by financial motives while working in California” and “wanted to create a transparent program that was completely focused on individualized patient care” and a “program that would actually give patients the tools necessary to gain and maintain sobriety and have a better life. “We do not want everyone to just be sober and miserable,” she explained. “We want to help them achieve their goals of sobriety and find happiness in their new life.” This is not the first business Jim and Michelle have started. A real estate agent for residential properties who manages two apartment complexes in Tempe and two medical offices in Mesa and Ahwatukee, Michelle
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Gilbert residents Jim and Michelle Sarina, flanking their daughter Katherine, got into the drug addiction treatment business out of concern for the abuses they saw not only with substances but in the treatment industruy itself.
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Franchise owner Gary Kovach, holding a dish of mint chocolate chip ice cream, is happy he chose to bring Handel’s to Gilbert.
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Handel’s menu features pops, hand packed quarts and pints, banana split, four-scoop samplers, sundaes, old fashioned milkshakes, smoothies, cones and waffle bowls as mainstays. n Gilbert, flavors are offered, and decreasing inventory is replenished daily on-site, which amounts to about 1 - 0 flavors. t only takes about 10 minutes to make a batch. Kovach’s favorite flavors are Key ime Pie and Blueberry Cobbler, while Gilbertonians have shown a marked preference for Graham Central Graham-flavored ice cream with a graham cracker ripple and chocolate covered crunchies); and Spouse ike a House malted vanilla ice cream with Reese’s Peanut Butter ripple and chocolate covered pretzels). The store doesn’t have seating apart from a bench, so customers purchase and eat outside, in the vehicle or take it home. Most Handel’s locations are freestanding buildings where customers walk up to a window. Kovach wears his blue Handel’s t-shirt when he’s out and about in the area. That’s when he realized that there were plenty of former Youngstown residents here. “There’s not a day that goes by that
people don’t thank us for opening here,” he said. “Somebody said recently ‘you guys have the best ice cream.’” Gilbert resident Sithari Edirisooriya recalls that when her family moved to northeast Ohio in 2002, it didn’t take long to hear about the ice cream. “The first thing our real estate agent told us we had to try was Handel’s ice cream. We have been eating Handel’s ice cream ever since,” she said, adding that her favorite flavors are cotton candy, cake batter and cheesecake. “As soon as I heard that Handel’s had a new location in Gilbert, I went that day to get ice cream,” she added. Once the business is running smoothly, Kovach plans to get involved in the community. He appreciates the hard-working employees he has secured. According to the season, he employs 20-25. His wife, who is a co-owner, helps when time permits. “I feel that I’m very lucky to be here in Gilbert,” Kovach said. While feeling overjoyed that Handel’s is nearby, Fire said some restraint should be in order, eating ice cream-wise. “Now that it’s here, I don’t have to feel the pressure of eating it every day. I’m so excited and I hope this place makes it, and everybody will find out that this is not ordinary ice cream,” she said.
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in 200 founded with im a company, SEAIT, that provides satellite engineering support to companies and is currently under contract with NASA to support next-generation weather satellites. Katherine, who holds a degree in psychology from the University of Southern California, has worked in behavioral health for the last four years and has supported hundreds of patients with substance use disorders in different levels of care, from detox to residential treatment to routine outpatient as a case manager, intake specialist and utilization review specialist. Originally, her parents had bought their building at 6515 S. 0th St. to set up a primary care medical practice, but they changed their mind and opened the addiction treatment center when they saw a genuine need in Ahwatukee. “Ahwatukee is one of the more affluent neighborhoods in the East Valley area, but addiction does not discriminate based on socioeconomic status or location,” said Katherine, who is the office’s practice manager and handles dayto-day affairs. “We found that there was not a treatment center in the area that provided medication-assisted treatment
and counseling at the same location and wanted to give that service to the community.” So Katherine spent part of the year writing the 600+ pages of policies and procedures to make the practice compliant with the Arizona Department of Health Services and Arizona law. They hired their medical doctor, Dr. Daniel Pacheco, who also has a master’s degree in counseling psychology, to oversee outpatient detox and medicationassisted treatment and got Samantha Higgins on board to oversee all clinical programs for both general and substance abuse counseling. In addition to its medical and clinical programs for substance addiction, Ahwatukee Health and Recovery also has opened a general counseling program for people dealing with grief/loss, depression, anxiety, trauma and interpersonal relationship issues. “We had many people reach out looking for a general counselor and we realized general counseling was a service needed in the area,” Katherine said. “People were asking to be admitted despite not having a substance use disorder, so we opened up a broader program to address the needs of the community.” While the center does not provide inpatient treatment, it can refer clients
to such facilities if needed. Before the best course of action can be determined, Katherine noted, a thorough assessment of the patient’s condition and their personal circumstances is conducted. “Generally, addiction disorders that are best served initially with inpatient treatment are alcohol dependence and benzodiazepine dependence,” said Pacheco. “These addictions can cause severe medical complications such as seizures if not treated with appropriate medications and close medical monitoring. All other addictions, such as opioid, methamphetamine, etc. can be safely treated as outpatient.” Added Katherine: “Outpatient therapy is more cost effective and normally has longer program time frames to address behavioral change.” Moreover, she said, intensive outpatient programs “are as effective as inpatient treatment for most individuals seeking care.” The center also has started a weekly prayer session 7- p.m. on Thursdays that is free and open to the public. The center also is creating a program geared towards active military and veterans. “Military and veteran life can be very different than civilian life; our counselor, Ms. Higgins, understands the nuances of
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military life, as she has been a military spouse for the past 10 years and her husband is still serving in the United States Air Force,” Katherine said. n addition, an intern, Audra oung ASAC, who will be joining the clinical team as a licensed associate substance abuse counselor in November, served in the Marine Corps for nearly 10 years as an air traffic controller. Katherine said the practice has other plans as well. “We want to be an assessed and trusted source of information in the community, we plan to host educational seminars on substance abuse and mental health,” she explained. “We want to engage and educate each community member even if they are not personally experiencing addiction themselves. nformation 0-272- 50, Ahwatukeehealthcare.org
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s Election Day approaches, I find myself wondering about how to improve our disgusting, disturbing politics. One thought We absolutely need a statute of limitations on stupid statements. have lots of expertise on the sub ect, so let me explain. Early last decade, hosted a talk radio show. ecause that ob involved speaking off the top of my head for three hours daily, uttered many, many stupid things. n the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, for example, unconditionally supported the “war on terror,” including the invasion of ra . did so based on the information available at the time, which included the ush Administration’s assurances that
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Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Seventeen years later, viewed with 2020 hindsight, my warhawk stance seems like grievously poor udgement. Our nation lost more than , 00 soldiers across 15 years in ra . Another 2,000 soldiers were wounded. f you replayed the audio of me speaking circa 2001 about why “we need to turn ra into a parking lot,” would be deeply embarrassed by my bloodlust and naivete. ’d have no choice but to admit that was wrong. “ was too sure of myself, too swept up in the emotions of /11,” ’d tell you today. “ ooking back, feel stupid to have said some of those things.” That would be the end of it because ’m not running for office. n that way, all of us get a pass on saying dumb things in public. Except for politicians.
That distinction came home to me while watching the Senate debate between emocrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican artha cSally. With time ticking down, cSally demanded of the moderators, “We have to talk about the military.” She seemed frantic in her insistence, which made sense later cSally was dying to attack Sinema over a snippet of a talk radio dating back to 200 . “When we were in harm’s way, she was protesting our troops in a pink tutu,” cSally explained before umping ahead to the big reveal “ ow C reported that in 200 , while she was on the radio, you said it was okay for Americans to oin the Taliban.” cSally’s coup de gr ce, repeated a couple times “ t’s treason.” Sinema gave a canned response about her “1 years of fighting for Arizona.” She spoke for 0 seconds all the time
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he Phoenix A Health Care System was the epicenter of an Obama-era scandal of corruption and mismanagement. The scandal happened at the expense of Arizona veterans, who, according to A employees, waited more than a month to schedule their first primary-care provider appointment. The problems persist. Some of my constituents continue to wait more than a month to obtain a doctor’s appointment even though they have urgent medical needs. magine the agony of waiting. ingers get pointed. People get fired. Congress passes laws. ut we face the same old challenges. We need real transformation. Congress and the Trump Administration are taking bold steps to hold negligent bureaucrats accountable and help our veterans achieve a more transparent health care system. However, despite some of Congress’s corrective actions, Arizona still faces the same bureaucratic challenges that plagued our A system throughout the previous administration. A recent report from the A indicates that the Phoenix A remains a high-risk center, while many other health care systems around the nation show improvement. To increase congressional oversight and help my constituents navigate the A bureaucracy, introduced the Phoenix A Congressional Oversight Act. This legislation helps the Arizona congressional delegation address some of the challenges that are impeding progress at the P AHCS. Specifically, the act creates a pilot program, which establishes a dedicated, full-time congressional relations team, allows embers of Congress to provide veterans services inside the P AHCS and re uires a report from the A Secretary on the findings of the pilot program, including whether the program should be expanded to other regions in the country. y staff and fre uently meet with frustrated constituents about the bureaucratic delays at the P AHCS. any veterans seek congressional interven-
tion from my office because of their struggles to schedule medical appointments in a timely manner and their inability to receive medical evaluations and treatment in a satisfactory way. This is simply unacceptable. We need the Phoenix A Congressional Oversight Act because we have seen little progress at the P AHCS. Whether it is delays in seeing a doctor or untimely medical procedures, grew weary of the persistent problems that lingered from the previous administration. y having a dedicated, full-time congressional relations team at the P AHCS, we can help our veterans get the care that they deserve, as swiftly as possible. y district staff sets up mobile office hours twice a month for constituent services at the Southeast A Health Care Clinic in my district. While my office has received positive feedback from veterans regarding our presence at the Southeast clinic, there is more to be done for Arizona’s veterans. y bill would permit staff members from the congressional delegation to set up office hours at any A Health Care System in Arizona, giving veterans a voice and holding the A bureaucracy accountable. The Phoenix A Congressional Oversight Act can help us expedite veterans’ casework, reduce bureaucratic mismanagement and enhance oversight and accountability at the P AHCS. This is a small, yet necessary, step in the right direction to help our veterans receive the care that they deserve.
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Williams Field QB Zack Shepherd taking humble road to success (Zach Alvira/GSN Staff)
BY ZACH ALVIRA GSN Sports Editor
Williams Field High’s Zack Shepherd not only is in his third season as the starting quarterback of one of the top Class 5A football programs in Arizona, he has earned the respect and admiration of those around him as a considerate leader who puts others first.
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s a freshman, Zack Shepherd and his Williams Field High football teammates visited Chaparral Elementary in Gilbert. A woman approached and asked if he would push her grandson around the track in his wheelchair during a fun run. Shepherd gladly obliged, not realizing the friendship that would grow with the boy, Zach Zuerlein. “ ittle ach,” Shepherd said with a smile. “Since his name is Zach we made an instant connection. We got to talking and his favorite quarterback is Peyton Manning and that’s my favorite quarterback, so we just hit it off.” Zach Zuerlein was born with spina bifida, in which an infant’s spine does not develop properly, resulting in damage to the spinal cord and surrounding nerves. “He recently had another surgery and he is at home doing well,” Shepherd
said. “I’m just trying to be a good friend to him. It’s not because of the attention. We just became really good friends and I want to be there for him.” Shepherd’s desire to remain friends with the young boy sums up his character, according to Williams Field coach Stave Campbell. “When you take a kid like him, who has great character, and put him in a position of natural leadership, he can be as humble as he is because people believe in him,” Campbell said. “That’s a huge impact on the program because that is your rock. That’s your starting point of the season.” Shepherd was thrown into the mix as a sophomore, earning reps in spring
ball with the first team before Campbell named him the starter. It was an easy decision. Shepherd quickly proved his ability to lead. “You could see his competitiveness from the very first time he stepped onto the field,” Campbell said. “He would ust find ways to make a play. He puts himself in a position where he makes a play but he does it with preparation and knowledge of the game.” Campbell’s trust paid off. Shepherd threw for 2,749 yards and 25 touchdowns in 2016, leading Williams Field to a 14-0 record and a win over West Valley power Centennial in the 5A statechampionship game as a sophomore. “I always try to put others before myself whether it’s in football or life,” Shepherd said. “As a quarterback, especially, I wouldn’t have success without my offensive line, receivers or running backs. Hopefully that goes a long way in the end.”
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Stunned football foes walking away Mesquite-smoked Below: Mesquite High sophomore quarterback Ty Thompson, who had several fumbles and interceptions in the team’s 0-3 start, has bounced back with 18 touchdown passes to just five interceptions as the Wildcats won five in a row.
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hree weeks into the season, the Mesquite High football team easily could have let go and filed away 2018 as a lost year. The Class 4 Wildcats were 0-3, having lost back-to-back close games to 5A Gilbert High and Campo Verde, and falling just short at Mingus, despite having the ball late in each game. On a long bus ride home from Cottonwood after a three-point loss to Mingus, in which the Wildcats suffered three costly turnovers, the group realized it was now or never. “We weren’t worried, but we knew we had to basically win every game from then out. Nobody was really putting their heads down. We knew we still could do it, but we just had to make sure we won a lot in a row,” senior fullback-linebacker Holden Owen said. A few Mesquite classmates began hurling insults that the team would lose
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Above: After Mesquite High lost its first three football games, “we weren’t worried, but we knew we had to basically win every game from then out,” senior fullback-linebacker Holden Owen said. A five-game streak positioned the Wildcats to earn a playoff berth entering their final two games.
to its own JV squad. Enough was enough. The Wildcats delivered five straight wins and positioned themselves to earn a playoff berth going into their final two games. They went for six in a row Oct. 19 against Marcos de Niza (1-7). “ definitely had faith. ooking at our schedule, we knew we could win the next six games, and hopefully we’ll compete with Saguaro after that,” Owen said. “But I think everybody kind of knew it was possible to make a run.” Coach Chad DeGrenier said the atmosphere became playoff-like after three games. A single loss in the middle of the year could eliminate the Wildcats from playoff contention. During the streak, the team learned to control of the ball with its offense, create more turnovers with its defense, and the Wildcats have not allowed more than 15 points. They won each of the five games by double-digit margins.
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Monster games in Class 5A to influence playoff seedin GSN STAFF REPORT
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he final week of the regular season is here, and three huge Class 5A games involving Gilbert-area teams will determine playoff seeding, which will be revealed on Saturday, Oct. 27. Williams Field, the state champion two years ago, has been No. 2 most of the season but must pass one final test against visiting Higley, a top-6 team most of the way, that is fighting to get into the top and home-field advantage through the first two rounds of the playoffs. Casteel, a top 5 team most of the year, has a final challenge with visiting Campo Verde, which hopes to crack the top 8 of the bracket and an opening-round home game. And Gilbert needs a win against another team battling to get into the post-season field, aricopa. The Tigers are on the bubble and a victory likely would punch their ticket into
the field. Here is the complete East Valley schedule (kickoffs 7 p.m. unless noted). Higley at Williams Field Campo Verde at Casteel Gilbert at Maricopa Desert Ridge at Highland Saguaro at Mesquite A A Gilbert at Coronado AZ College Prep at Gilbert Christian Chandler at Hamilton Perry at Basha Seton Catholic at Poston Butte Fountain Hills at Valley Christian Dobson at Mountain View Mesa at Skyline Red Mountain at Westwood Queen Creek at Desert Vista Corona del Sol at Mountain Pointe Cactus Shadows at McClintock Arcadia at Marcos de Niza Tempe at Shadow Mountain Tempe Prep at Chandler Prep
1A Playoffs Opening Round No. 11 Duncan at No. 6 Arete Prep (6 p.m.)
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Queen Creek’s Osborne Teacher of Year erry Osborne, a physical education instructor at egacy Traditional School in Queen Creek, has been named the 2018 Teacher of the Year by the Arizona Health and Physical Education Association. “There are many deserving candidates for this award, but none more deserving than Mr. Jerry Osborne,” Adam cCoy, Principal of egacy Traditional School- ueen Creek said. “Mr. Osborne is more than a teacher to his students; he is their friend, he is their advocate, and he is their inspiration to overcome all challenges and achieve
greatness.” The Teacher of the Year award is presented annually to winners for their service and contributions to their students, school and profession. Osborne will receive his award at the Arizona Health and Physical Education’s Honor and Recognition Night for 2018 Teachers of the Year on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the Children’s Museum of Phoenix.
Campo Verde High grad Johns honored St. George, Utah, Dixie State freshman forward Whitley Johns was named Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week for her play in the Trailblazers’ recent home conference sweep.
Johns, who attended Campo Verde High, tallied three goals, including two game-winning scores, and collected two assists in DSU’s home victories of Adams State and Fort ewis. She scored one goal and assisted on two others in the Trailblazers’ 4-0 win over Adams State then found the back of the net twice in SU’s -0 win vs. C.
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When he gained recognition as the uarterback who led the fledgling Williams Field program to the championship, Shepherd deflected the attention. “I would say I was a big part but not the biggest,” Shepherd said. “With the help from my teammates that year, I was able to make an impact. It was a great feeling because I thought of all of the alumni. We wouldn’t have had that success if it weren’t for that first senior class setting the precedent.” Shepherd was voted a captain. He knew he would have to become a vocal leader while continuing to lead by example on and off the field. Going into his unior year, his fieldgeneral mentality took form. He led Williams Field to 8-3, passing for 1,857 yards and 15 touchdowns. This season, Williams Field won seven of its first eight games and was o. 2 in AIA Class 5A playoff seeding entering the final two games. His 1,2 0 yards through the air and eight touchdowns have complemented a potent Black Hawks rushing attack, ranking them among the best offenses in the state. The 6-foot-2, 185-pound Shepherd has
received just one Division I offer, from Brown University. “I’m not 6-foot-5, I’m not 200 pounds and I don’t run a 4.4 (40-yard dash),” Shepherd said. “But I’ve always been a field general and that’s how want to be looked at. I don’t really focus on recruiting that much. “I know if I take care of things in the classroom I can still have an opportunity to go to college.” Shepherd’s 4.2 GPA has other Ivy eague schools interested. ast summer, Shepherd interned for U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake in Washington D.C., often speaking with constituents of the senator and opening his eyes to the world of politics. Shepherd admittedly didn’t have an interest in politics prior to the internship, and even now still remains certain he will pursue an MBA in international business. But it was the experience that meant the most to him. His school, the football program and surrounding community also are valuable to him, he said. “Williams Field has had a huge impact on my life,” Shepherd said. “There is a real community feeling that has helped me realize how much others can impact my life. “I’ve always loved that.”
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“Coach has set the goal at two turnovers a game as a defense or we have to run extra at practice, and we already don’t like to run,” Owen said. “So, we make sure we get all the turnovers we need, and that has been big for us.” eGrenier added, “Since those first three games, we’re definitely in the plus there. Our offense gets more possessions and they’ve been clicking much more than before so it has us in a pretty good spot.” Sophomore quarterback Ty Thompson, who had several fumbles and interceptions in the early games, has bounced back. Through eight games, he had 1 touchdown passes to ust five interceptions. “Zero-and-three didn’t look right for us,” Thompson said. “We just had to take care of some mistakes and we knew we could win a bunch in a row.” DeGrenier expected a lot early from Thompson, but he suffered through growing pains as a first-time starter against two teams a division higher. Now with more practice reps and soaring confidence, Thompson has earned the trust of the coaching staff and
teammates. “He has definitely made a big difference for us. Even as just a sophomore he leads the offense, and he makes so many good throws. It helps everybody else make plays, too,” said senior linebacker Trevor Coates. Mesquite still needs a win to guarantee a winning record. Going into the final two games, the Wildcats were No. 17 in the AIA Class 4 playoff rankings. The top 16 make it. The regular-season-ending game is against Saguaro on Oct. 26. The Sabercats have not lost a section game since 2012 and have won five straight state championships. However, close contests against Gilbert, boasting quarterback Will Plummer, who has received multiple college scholarship offers, and Campo erde, where att azier is among the top 5A rushers, has es uite confident that it can compete with any team in the state. “There might be guys on the other side that have all these college offers but everybody’s the same out on the field playing the game we love,” Coates said. “That gives us a lot of hope and I think we’ve got a shot.”
Dr. Vu’s corner 5 Ways to Protect Your Braces, Aligners During Halloween Orthodontic-friendly recommendations by Dr. Samantha Vu of Sonoran Smile Orthodontics For most children, October means one thing: Halloween candy. For orthodontists, it’s a month for embracing a beautiful, healthy smile in honor of National Orthodontic Health Month.
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After all, we all know that Halloween treats tend to play tricks on patients. That’s why Dr. Samantha Vu of Sonoran Smile Orthodontics offers patients and the entire community five timely tips to protect braces, aligners and other orthodontic “appliances” while protecting teeth from decay.
1. Avoid sticky situations with your braces and aligners. Stay away from hard, sticky, crunchy or chewy candy and snacks. These include caramel, gummies, licorice, taffy, bubblegum (even the sugarless kind) and jelly beans. 2. Say “boo” to hard treats - including hard-shelled peanut candies, nuts or nut-filled candies, taco chips and popcorn. And whether in orthodontic treatment or not, Dr. Vu cautions that no one should ever chew ice. 3. Brush up! Sweets can cause cavities, which means brushing and flossing are more important than ever during the Halloween season. Orthodontic patients should be especially vigilant about brushing and flossing after consuming sugary or starchy foods. 4. Spooktacular news: Not all Halloween candy is off-limits. Good alternatives include soft chocolates, peanut butter cups or other melt-in-yourmouth varieties. 5. Make a commitment to oral health. Deciding to avoid hard and chewy sweets before the Halloween season increases your rate of success – and reduces the likelihood that you’ll break braces. “It’s okay for orthodontic patients to enjoy some treats at Halloween,” says Dr. Vu says “We want everyone to have fun on Halloween. At the same time, we encourage patients to enjoy acceptable treats in moderation, and take that extra couple of minutes to brush and floss. When orthodontic treatment is complete, and patients see their healthy and beautiful new smiles in the mirror, they will know all of their efforts were worthwhile.”
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and 1 p.m. These are rare opportunities to sample a true World War II aviation experience inside a fighter trainer and torpedo bomber with a highly specialized and personal tour. This requires an
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Early-morning dawn-patrol flights in this open-cockpit Stearman are under way at the Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum, 2017 N. Greenfield Road at the northeastern corner of McKellips in Mesa.
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This B-25 Maid in the Shade vintage aircraft is among those restored and available for flights at the Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum in Mesa.
additional charge, payable at the museum entrance. Early-morning dawn-patrol flights in an open-cockpit Stearman or SNJ T6-Texan are under way, as are desert-scenery tours and night-light flights in a C- 7 Warbird. These, too, require an additional charge. Other highlights in the fall season include:
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Desert-scenery tours and night-light flights are available in a C-47 Warbird at the Arizona Commemorative Air Force Museum in Mesa.
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he Southwest Shakespeare Company’s silver-anniversary season debuts with a classic that was not written by the Bard of Avon along with one of his most-popular plays of the past 450 years. The landmark season begins Oct. 26 at the Mesa Arts Center’s Piper Auditorium with a world-premiere production of “Frankenstein.” Southwest Shakespeare
Company will produce in repertory the Mary Shelley classic and “Pericles, Prince of Tyre” through Nov. 10. “Frankenstein,” adapted to the stage by SSC artistic director Quinn Mattfeld, was written by Shelley, then 19, in 1818. She tells the story of the famous scientist who tried to conquer death. “On the 200th anniversary of the publishing of Shelley’s gothic masterpiece, our culture is still wrestling with the moral and philosophical issues she raised
in Frankenstein, the consequences of technology from artificial intelligence to the creation and destruction of life in a laboratory,” Mattfeld said. “There is, perhaps, no story that is more relevant to 2018 than that of Victor Frankenstein and his monster.” “Frankenstein” will be directed by veteran SSC associate artistic director Patrick Walsh, the 210th play that he has directed in his career. Recently, Walsh directed “Romeo and uliet” and “Sense
and Sensibility” for SSC. “Pericles, Prince of Tyre” by William Shakespeare is a first for SSC and a rare opportunity for Arizona audiences to see this bucket-list piece. “Pericles” is a romantic-tragicomedic romp through ancient Greece in Odyssey-style. Bad guys, good guys, gods, goddesses and, just when it couldn’t get worse, pirates all advance
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Nov. 3 – ModelZona, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., free with museum admission purchase. Partner: International Plastic Modelers Society. ov. 11 Royal Air orce Cadet Memorial, 10:45 a.m. at City of Mesa Cemetery, no admission charge. Nov. 16 – Aviation Fascination, 5-7:30 p.m., no admission charge. Partner: Mesa Chamber of Commerce. Nov. 17 – Gathering of Legends, 1-4 p.m., free with museum admission purchase.
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the story to its fantastical conclusion. Mattfeld directs this production. Both plays will be presented at the Arts Center, 1 E Main St. in Mesa, using SSC’s innovative new Jacobean facade set piece. The Southwest Shakespeare Company has announced special 25th anniversary season pricing with $25 generaladmission tickets and $13 educator and student tickets to those 24 and younger for all shows. Premium seating is $35. One hour before the show, enjoy refreshments and live “Green Show” entertainment on the plaza outside the Arts Center lobby, adjacent to the Piper Theater. It runs approximately 20 minutes and leads into the director/playwright orientation. The director orientation with SSC artistic leadership is about 10 minutes immediately following the Green Show. For those interested in additional review of the plays, SSC offers in-depth and entertaining debriefing. Stop-ActionShakespeare, “Pericles,” is Thursday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 in the Piper Auditorium at MAC for $10. The Flachmann Seminar is Saturday, Nov. 3, at 9 a.m. at the Mildred Fitch Family Life Center of 1st United Methodist Church of Mesa, one block south of the MAC on the corner of Second and Center. Admission charge of $60 includes lunch and a matinee ticket. The directors and one playwright will be available for questions. Talkbacks are Thursday and Saturday evenings (except for the Saturday, Nov. 3, matinee) and Final Friday. Other shows by the company this season presented at the Mesa Arts Center: “As You Like It,” Feb. 22-March 9: One of Shakespeare’s most-famous comedies. “The Taming of the Shrew,” Feb. 22-March 9: Shakespeare’s hilarious and challenging comedy about two opposites who attract. Southwest Shakespeare Company
Dec. 1 – Santa Fly-in, 11 a.m., free with museum admission purchase. The Arizona Commemorative Air orce useum curates events to fulfill its mission of education, preservation and remembrance of the men, women and machines that played a role in the history of aviation in U.S. combat. The events, along with personal docentled tours, hundreds of informative exhibits, war artifacts, full-size and scaled aircraft, and living-history rides in World War II airplanes provide thousands of visitors with a visceral experience unlike
any other museum in the Valley. The 501 c non-profit organization is run almost entirely by volunteers. All admission revenue goes toward educating, remembering, preserving and restoring military aviation history. Car show entrants may register their vehicles at www.southweststreetrods. com. Complete calendar of events: azcaf. org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ Calendar-of-Events-final. pg. More information: azcaf.org.
was founded in 1994 by educators who wanted to create a modern-day people’s theater. Inspired by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, audience members from all walks of life are encouraged to take an active role through contact with the artists. SSC’s mission is to entertain, educate and inspire the public and educational community by exploring the intricacies of language through the vibrant and passionate performance of works of live theater. Tickets: info@swshakespeare.org or 480-435-6868. More information: swshakespeare.org.
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Above, Left: In “Frankenstein,” The Creature is portrayed by Joshua Murphy. The worldpremiere production opens the company’s silver-anniversary season on Oct. 26. Above, Right: Melissa Toomey plays Marina in the Southwest Shakespeare Company’s production of “Pericles, Prince of Tyre,” Oct. 26-Nov. 10, at the Mesa Arts Center.
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We Also Buy, Sell & Trade Used Appliances Working or Not
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480-969-0788
75 W. Baseline Rd. Ste. A-8, Gilbert, AZ 85233
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Drywall
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Electrical Services
Garage/Doors
HONESTY • INTEGRITY • QUALITY
GARAGE DOORS
- Ahw Resident Since 1987 -
• Panel Changes and Repairs • Installation of Ceiling Fans • Switches/Outlets • Home Remodel
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REASONABLE HANDYMAN
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Not a licensed contractor
CELEBRATING 30 YEARS IN BUSINESS!
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“When there are days that you can’t depend on them, you can depend on us!” LLC
ROC# 317949
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Call Lance White
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Tree Trimming
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ALL Pro S E R V I C E
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ROC# 256752
NOPAL LANDSCAPE
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T R E E
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Landscape Maintenance
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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
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Plumbing
Public Notices
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www.affinityplumbingaz.com
Your Ahwatukee Plumber & East Valley Neighbor Anything Plumbing Same Day Service Water Heaters
24/7
Inside & Out Leaks
Bonded
Toilets
Insured
Faucets
Estimates Availabler
Disposals
Any Service
ACCREDITED BUSINESS ®
Not a licensed contractor
Pool Service / Repair
Juan Hernandez
Pavers • Concrete • Water Features • Sprinkler Repair
Rebar showing, Pool Light out?
I CAN HELP!
25 Years Experience • Dependable & Reliable
Call Juan at
480-720-3840 Not a licensed contractor.
Tree Services
CITY OF MESA PUBLIC NOTICE
Tree Trimming, Pruning & Removal Yard Clean-Up & Trash Removal
The Mesa City Council will hold a public hearing concerning the following ordinances at the November 5, 2018 City Council meeting beginning at 5:45 p.m. in the Mesa City Council Chambers, 57 East First Street. 1. An ordinance amending Mesa City Code, Title 11, Mesa Zoning Ordinance, Chapters 66, 67, 69, 71, 74 and 77. The amendment includes minor technical revisions and deletion of redundancies. The amendment also includes more substantive clarifications and modifications to: (1) authority and duties of Zoning Administrator, Planning Hearing Officer, Design Review Board, and Board of Adjustment; (2) application requirements and process; (3) public notice requirements; (4) expirations and extensions of permits, approvals, and variances; and, (5) appeals process. (Citywide) 2. ZON18-00446 (District 4)Within the 600 block of West Pepper Place (south and north sides) and 0 block of North Date (west side north of Pepper Place). Located north of Main Street and west of Country Club Drive (3.5± acres). Rezoning from RM-2 to RM-3-PAD; and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for the development of an attached single-residence subdivision. Perlman Architects of AZ, applicant; Nuevos Vistas on Main, LLC, owner. 3. ZON18-00510 (District 6)Within the 1700 and 1800 blocks of South Crismon Road (west side). Located west of Crismon Road north of Baseline Road (8.5± acres). Rezoning to amend existing conditions of approval; Site Plan Modification; and a Special Use Permit for assisted living. This request will allow for the development of a continuum care facility. Overland Development, applicant; West of 3rd, LLC, owner. DATED at Mesa, Arizona, this 21st day of October 2018. DEE ANN MICKELSEN, City Clerk Published East Valley Tribune 10/21/18 15921
Tiles, shingles, flat, repairs & new work Free Estimates • Ahwatukee Resident
David’s Clean-Up & Tree Service
480-706-1453
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Over 30 yrs. Experience
Licensed/Bonded/Insured • ROC #236099
PHILLIPS ROOFING LLC Member of ABM
Licensed • Bonded • Insured ROC 223367
Valleywide
CR 42 DUAL
623-873-1626 All employees verified Free estimates on all roofs 36 Years experience in AZ Licensed contractor since 2006
480-245-7132 NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR
Window Cleaning
APPEARANCE Professional service since 1995
Window Cleaning $100 - One Story $140 - Two Story
Includes in & out up to 30 Panes Sun Screens Cleaned $3 each Attention to detail and tidy in your home.
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Bonded & Insured
LLC
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