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Politics, construction will fuel 2020 BY GARY NELSON Tribune Contributor

hey say hindsight is 20/20. Foresight, not so much. But if there’s one safe bet, it’s 2020 will be a year for the history books. The East Valley will not sit meekly on the sidelines as the nation debates the fate of its obstreperous president by way either of impeachment or the ballot box or both. The region – tinged blue on the west and blazing a solid red on the east – will be every bit as embroiled as Washington, D.C., in the epic debate over America’s future. The East Valley’s tens of thousands of voters could play a deciding role in a pivotal U.S. Sen-

ate race and they will decide as well whether or not the two congressional seats representing the region remain split between the major parties. Legislative seats, school board and city council slots and three mayoral gavels also are in play. Apart from that, the region’s physical shape will continue to evolve, thanks to numerous major construction projects. First, a look at the political landscape.

President

With incumbent Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee, early campaign action will be on the Democratic side as voters in Arizona’s March 17 presidential primary help

winnow down what was originally a slate of 20plus would-be nominees. The state Republican Party canceled its primary to thwart any possible challengers to Trump.

U.S. Senate

Ordinarily, Arizona would not elect a senator in 2020, but this is a special election to fill out the term of Republican U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who died in Aug. 2018. Republican Martha McSally, R-Ariz., who was appointed to the seat by Gov. Doug Ducey, stands against several GOP primary opponents. Among the Democrats, former astronaut

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2020 Census brings secure temp jobs to EV BY NICOLE D’ALONZO Tribune Staff Writer

cross the East Valley and the rest of Maricopa County, 2020 Census recruiters are gearing up to fill more than 30,000 well-paying federal jobs in data processing, call-centers and out in the field. For “census junkies” – or people who want federal government job experience on their resume – East Valley census field offices, at full employment capacity, will hire about 1,300 field workers and managers by March, said Ryan Winkle, East Valley and South Phoenix area census office manager. “The census is one of the only constitutionally mandated jobs with the exception of the military,” said Winkle. “The census affects all federal funding that comes to the state and there are two really big outcomes that touches every person.” The U.S. Constitution mandates the census be taken every 10 years to count all people living in the country. Answers to 2020 Census questions will influence policy-making and planning for the next decade. The data impacts the number of U.S. House of Representatives seats in each state and affects legislatures’ redistricting. It also dictates how

Eric Torgerson is senior site manager for the Pearl Interactive call center in Tempe, a key place where East Valley residents can ﬁnd well-paying jobs working on the upcoming Census. (Pablo Robles/Tribune Staff Photographer)

billions of dollars in federal funds will be spent by state and local governments. According to iCount 2020, for each person counted in Mesa, the state receives $3,195 yearly

for 10 years for vital services including schools, emergency services, hospitals and roads.

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Holiday season DUI busts show troubling trends BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

esponsible drivers are following all the steps recommended by Mesa police to avoid collisions and arrests, but irresponsible drivers appear more impaired than ever by a potent mix of alcohol and drugs. Statistics released by the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety show drivers arrested statewide in the annual holiday season crackdown have an average blood alcohol content of more than .149 percent. That blood-alcohol level is just short of the .15 percent limit defining a violation for extreme driving under the influence. An extreme DUI carries a mandatory 30 days in jail, which can be suspended if an ignition interlock is installed in a vehicle for a year. The minimum fine is $2,500, plus other court costs. This average BAC level exceeded .15 in 2015, but had dipped to .142 in 2017 and .148 percent in 2018. It rose to .149 percent through Dec. 27, the latest available statistics show. “It’s been going on for some time now,’’ said Alberto Gutier, director of the state Highway Safety Office. “We are very concerned about that average. I think it’s very dangerous.’’ An equally troubling trend has emerged in recent years with some drivers. They’re compounding their impairment – posing an even greater risk to public safety – by combining alcohol with street drugs. Police estimate 30-40 percent of DUI arrests involve a combination of alcohol and drugs, they argue is an exponential impact on impairment, Gutier said. Gutier said Mesa police remain a leader in Arizona DUI enforcement, making more arrests a year ago than Phoenix police, thanks in large to a number of traffic officers who are trained as drug recognition experts. In some cases, police are arresting drivers with a BAC of .30 percent or more in the East Valley. Or they are seeing instances like the one in west Mesa earlier this year, when a driver passed out after smoking two Fentanyl pills, crossed into on-rushing traffic on the wrong side of the road and eventually plowed into a house. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid often laced with heroin. It was implicated as a major contributing factor in drug overdoses. Sgt. Matt Harris, a Mesa police traf-

Among the officers at the East Valley DUI Task Force Command Center Dec. 29, were Mesa Police Officer George Chwe, left, and Mesa Sgt. Matt Harris. They helped process DUI suspects brought there from various East Valley jurisdictions. (Jim Walsh/Tribune Staff)

fic unit supervisor, said it was fortunate no one other than the driver – who sustained two broken legs – was injured in the Fentanyl-related collision. “We have a lot where they are right at the legal limit (for alcohol, .08 percent), and then they do drugs on top of that,’’ Harris said. “These people we are coming in contact with are more impaired because of poly-drug use.’’ It could be a potent mix of alcohol and just about any street drug, including marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin or cocaine, he said. “They are smashed and they can’t do the field sobriety test,’’ Harris said. “We will see signs and symptoms something else is on-board.’’ During one recent Saturday night during the crackdown, which stretches annually between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, a squad of 12 Mesa motor officers made more than 20 DUI arrests, he said. The East Valley Task Force covers an area east of Central Avenue and includes Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe and Scottsdale. Police stage at different locations in different cities on rotating nights. Harris and Officer George Chwe, a drug recognition expert, were staged with other motorcycle cops on Dec. 29 at Sloan Park, the Cactus League baseball stadium at Rio Salado Parkway and Dobson Road. “The only limitation (on making DUI ar-

rests) is having enough trained people to look for them,’’ Harris said. “We will find them all night long.’’ A year ago, the East Valley Task Force made 1,249 DUI arrests, Harris said, and he expects a similar amount for the 201920 campaign. Chwe said about 60-70 percent of Mesa police DUI arrests involve impairment by drugs, while agencies in other parts of the state report a predominance of alcohol arrests. “It’s because there are not enough officers to recognize it,’’ Chwe said, adding the problem “has evolved, especially with medical marijuana’’ and could grow if recreational marijuana use eventually is allowed in Arizona. In 2020, Chwe is scheduled to take on a new role, working with Gutier’s office to expand drug recognition training throughout the state. During the last couple of years, Mesa police responded to the new trends not only with drug recognition officers, but with a new tool – called a Dragen device, it analyzes saliva samples to identify suspected drug-use of seven different categories of drugs. Chwe demonstrated the device with a real-life example as he and other officers investigated whether a DUI suspect was under the influence of drugs. The suspect provided both a conven-

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handler’s Insys Therapeutics, manufacturer of a potent painkiller, appears to be winding down operations after enduring years of lawsuits and criminal trials. The company filed for bankruptcy last summer after it agreed to pay the government $225 million to settle allegations of bribery and racketeering. Court filings in the bankruptcy case indicate the company began selling off its assets and scaling down its business in Arizona. “As a result of the sales transactions, the debtors no longer possess an operating business and they are in the process of winding down their estates in order to distribute their remaining assets for the benefit of creditors,” the company wrote in a Dec. 24 court filing. John Kapoor, the company’s founder, and six other former executives were found guilty last year in a federal court in Massachusetts of bribing doctors into prescribing his company’s product. Kapoor faces up to 15 years in federal prison, and sentences ranging from five to 11 years are being sought against the other executives for their conviction on bribery and drug-related charges. Federal prosecutors are also seeking restitution from Kapoor totaling $306 million – including $137 million in restitution to Medicare and the rest to private insurers. “The bribes were intended to incentivize prescriptions from “high-volume” prescribers,” the government charged in filings in the criminal case, adding: “The defendants paid millions of dollars to doctors in exchange for prescribing greater quantities and dosages of one of the most potent opioids available for sale in the United States. …Their crime involved the conscious and reckless risk of death or serious injury.” Prosecutors also stated in a presentence memo, “The impact of the conspiracy on the lives and health of patients was monumental; it is not speculative or hypothetical.” Sentencing was delayed, as Kapoor was

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tional blood sample and also a saliva sample, which was placed inside the machine. About 10 minutes later, the Dragen confirmed what police suspected, the suspect was under the influence of methamphetamine. Although the procedure is too new to be admissible in court, the results act as a

As Insys Therapeutics prepares to close up shop in Chandler, founder Dr. John Kapoor faces sentencing early this year in a federal court in Boston. Prosecutors are seeking a 15-year prison term and $306 million in restitution. (Special to the Tribune)

given until Jan. 3, to file a response to the government’s restitution demands. More than 280 pages from 72 letters supporting Kapoor and asking for leniency also have been submitted to the court by professionals, cancer survivors and charities he supported. The defense’s own presentence memo portrayed Kapoor as someone who “achieved the American dream” and invested $80 million of his own money into Insys without ever realizing a profit while two of his co-defendants cashed out their stock options and walked away with $45 million. Kapoor’s lawyers said their client had been victimized by some of the co-defendants because he gave them free rein in running Insys’ affairs. “From the moment he first made his fortune, Dr. Kapoor has given back to charity – more than $128 million in giving and countless hours of personal time and involvement – in pursuit of causes that mirror his own life’s path,” they said. Because 90 percent of the company’s revenue came from selling opioids, Insys did not expect to survive the public backlash and massive litigation it has experienced in recent years. “These factors have caused a substantial cash drain on the company to the point where, despite the Debtors’ best efforts, they risk running out of cash in 2019,” said former Insys CEO Andrew Long in court documents filed last year. Public records show the company’s also

confirmation police are reading the other signs of impairment properly and can be used by the Mesa Prosecutor’s Office to file appropriate charges, Chwe said. Chwe said one potential explanation for the higher BAC level recorded in DUI arrests is drivers who are not heavy drinkers are still capable of making a good decision by calling Uber or Lyft. He said the drivers arrested on extreme

agreed to vacate its Chandler headquarters, located at 410 South Benson Lane, by the end of 2019. “The debtors are required to vacate their Chandler, Arizona headquarters by Dec. 31, 2019,” the company wrote in bankruptcy filings, “any personal property of the debtors remaining at the location shall be deemed abandoned.” Insys did not respond to inquiries re-

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The defendants paid millions of dollars to doctors in exchange for prescribing greater quantities and dosages of one of the most potent opioids available for sale in the United States. …Their crime involved the conscious and reckless risk of death or serious injury. – Case prosecutors

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garding the company’s future in Arizona. Back in August, the company notified Chandler officials it was planning a mass layoff of nearly 100 employees by the end of 2019. “Insys Therapeutics, Inc. will be winding down and closing its facilities over the next few months,” the company wrote in its letter to the city. Adding, “The closure or layoff is expected to be permanent and

DUI charges are different from those who record borderline alcohol level – those such cases are in decline. “You get to the point where there is no decision-making’’ with such high BAC levels, Chwe said. “It’s not the first time they’re getting impaired. It’s the first time they are getting caught.’’ Harris cited the case of a petite woman arrested by one of his officers as an exam-

expected to take place on Oct. 8, 2019.” When Insys first came to Arizona in the late 2000s, it was praised for being able to rapidly expand its operations during the dark days of the recession. The company adopted an aggressive approach to sales that resulted in a 400 percent stock surge during the first year of its drug launch. “The key is finding the right people and keeping the entrepreneurial spirit. That will be the most important thing for our success,” former Insys CEO Michael Babich told the Arizona Republic in 2012. Babich, who resigned in 2015, and his wife have both pleaded guilty to conspiring with other Insys executives to bribing doctors into prescribing the company’s painkillers. The scheme came to light after a whistleblower in Florida exposed how Insys would offer kickbacks to doctors in exchange for their prescriptions. Maria Guzman alleges she lost her sales job at Insys in 2013, after she complained about the company’s tactics. In her whistleblower complaint, Guzman claimed Insys executives took doctors to strip clubs, bought expensive dinners and offered lucrative business deals. Some of these excursions allegedly took place at a Scottsdale strip club. Guzman further alleged Insys would strategically hire young, attractive women as sales representatives in order to persuade male doctors to write more prescriptions. When a sales job opened up, Guzman claimed, her boss told her to look for applicants who were already “banging a doctor.” Other whistleblowers accused Insys of tricking insurance companies into covering prescriptions for its painkiller by pretending to be employees of a doctor’s offices. The Insys employees would allegedly lie about a patient’s medical history to make them appear sicker and in need of stronger painkillers. In response to the whistleblowers, Insys publicly stated the company’s “completely transformed” by replacing most of its sales force.

ple of heavy alcohol use impairing judgment, as well as driving. The suspect recorded a .22 blood alcohol reading, nearly three times the legal limit. She told officers she had been drinking at home and went out to get something to eat, rather than having a meal delivered. “It’s terrifying these people are on the road with us,’’ Harris said.

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Dogs bringing stress relief to Mesa students BY JORDAN HOUSTON Tribune Staff Writer

hristopher Willett’s East Valley Academy students wake up a little more excited than most to go to school – thanks to their new furry classmate. Walter the therapy dog, an American Staffordshire Terrier with taupe-brown fur and hazel eyes, visits the students three days a week and accompanies them throughout their lessons. He sits on their laps, snuggles up next to them and wanders around the dogproofed classroom. The pooch has become a beacon of friendship and compassion during times of distress, explained junior Aimee Munoz. “Walter is great – he honestly brightens up my day,” she said. “I feel like when he’s in class, I have a friend. He’s really comforting.” The four-legged friend is part of Mesa Public Schools’ larger effort to help students develop critical social-emotional learning skills necessary for success in and out of the classroom. The district this year launched a new pilot program, the Pawsitive Peers Foundation, to help teach resiliency, empathy and human-animal bonds through therapy dogs. “As a district, and in the East Valley, we are dealing with the highest rates of suicides in the state,” said Tot Wallace, community education and outreach director. “So, we thought, ‘what are we not tapping into and why would we leave any stone unturned?” “What research tells us about effective programs is one of the lead programs is using therapy dogs,” she continued. “The body produces oxytocin [a hormone that plays a role in social bonding] specific to interactions with dogs.” The pilot follows the Mutt-i-grees Curriculum, developed by Yale University and the North Shore Animal League America in 2010. The curriculum centers on social-emotional learning and uses the “natural affinity” between kids and pets to teach empathy, self-confidence, teamwork and ethical decision-making, according to the program’s website. Research shows reading, talking or even thinking about pets calms students down and helps them focus. Calmer classrooms mean more learning, more retention and less bullying. “These kids are in crisis,” said Wallace. “It’s not just always about a school shoot-

Walter enjoys being the center of attention at East Valley Academy in Mesa, where his job is to hang around for students to decompress from stressful moments. (Pablo Robles/Tribune Staff Photographer)

ing. Those are big events but crisis is occurring every day in their lives.” “We don’t really know what they are experiencing,” she continued. “But the dog senses it.” The five Mesa schools participating in the pilot include East Valley Academy, Johnson Elementary, Kino Junior High, Mountain View High and Rhodes Junior High. Parents were given prior notice and the opportunity to opt-out, but so far none have, Wallace said. In those schools, teachers volunteered to adopt their own rescue dogs and undergo rigorous obedience and therapy training – which they paid for out of their own pockets. All teachers and pets must be certified by Pet Partners, a national organization dedicated to improving human health and well-being through the human-animal bond, in order to participate. The district has also partnered with the Arizona Humane Society, Arizona Animal Welfare League and Maricopa County Animal Care and Control to identify compatible shelter dogs to add to the program. East Valley Academy Principal Justine Pilar said she did not hesitate to sign her school up. She strongly believes in the healing power of dogs, she added. “The most beneficial thing I’ve seen are

the kids who are just really struggling but don’t feel like they want to talk about it,” she said. “But then they ask to spend time with the dog.” “It’s like this magical little connection that helps them work through whatever emotional thing they’re going through,” she continued. While the Academy has a total of three dogs, Walter is a fan-favorite. Willett adopted Walter from the Pinal County Animal Shelter last spring and underwent 16 weeks of obedience and therapy training. “I’m always thinking about ways we can have a positive impact on our students because they’re struggling with all sorts of things,” Willett explained. Because Walter was fresh out of the shelter, the pair had a bit of a rocky start. “The first training was horrible; he fought me and refused to listen,” said Willett. “He’s super strong so we were wrestling for a whole hour.” Starting with obedience training, the owner taught Walter how to sit, stay and “walk nicely,” before moving on to therapy training. In therapy, Willett worked to better understand Walter’s comfort zones. “In therapy training, both you and your dog have to learn to work together,” said Willett. “You have to learn what it is the dog can handle – some dogs don’t like

crowds of people.” Luckily, Walter loves crowds, said his owner, and thrives off of attention. Now, the two have an unbreakable bond. “We went on walks all the time and I also talked to him a lot,” said Willett. “It was really about building that bond together because now he’s my dog and sits on my lap on the couch.” Students and staff alike have been swooning over the pooch since he first joined the classroom in November, the teacher added. “Walter is very calm and gentle,” he said. “I think for the kids, it’s so hard to be in a bad mood when you’re petting a dog.” Adding, “All his attention is on you and all he wants is for you to be his best friend and pet him.” During class time, Walter roams around freely with his leash still attached. He also goes on scheduled visits with Willett to other classrooms and takes walks across campus. “I love him,” said Freshman Landon Diaz. “I’m more excited about school and it helps me get up in the morning to come to school to see him and pet him.” At Mountain View, more than 40 positive student experiences have been documented, according to district data. The instances include students saying they feel more eager to go to school and feel less depressed or anxious in the presence of the dogs. Schools have also witnessed an overall increase in attendance, Wallace explained. “The dogs have been used to deescalate situations where kids are fighting coming off the playground and end up interacting with the dog and apologizing to one another,” she said. “With individual students, we can track a number of behavior incidences have gone done,” Wallace continued. “And of course, better attendance impacts academic performance.” As far as next steps, the district is already working to expand the program to about five to eight schools next semester. The next batch will begin the process at the beginning of the year and incorporate the dogs during the 2020-21 school year. Currently, the district has 12 Pet Partners-certified dogs working within the five schools. Curriculum has also been donated by Yale and North Shore. “I’m just really grateful MPS is open to leaving no stone unturned for the health of our students and for their wellbeing,” said Wallace.

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Mark Kelly is regarded as the front-runner and, according to some early polls, could defeat McSally in November. His lead in recent polls, however, shrunk. The winner will serve out a term ending in Jan. 2023.

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U.S. House

The East Valley spreads across two congressional districts. Solidly Republican District 5 includes Gilbert, East Mesa, parts of south and east Chandler and Queen Creek. Republican Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., a vocal supporter of Trump, is seeking re-election against Democrat Joan Greene, who lost to Biggs in 2018. The 9th District encompasses Ahwatukee, Tempe, West Mesa, northwest Chandler, parts of Scottsdale and Phoenix. Former Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, a Democrat, won the seat in 2018. Chandler City Councilman Sam Huang is among the Republican candidates.

Legislature

Every seat in the 30-member Arizona Senate and 60-member House is on the ballot for a Legislature traditionally dominated by Republicans. The East Valley is represented by legislators from six districts – 12, 16, 17, 18, 25 and 26. Two looming questions early on is whether or not District 18 – covering Ahwatukee, parts of Chandler, Mesa and Tempe – will remain solid blue and whether or not Democrats will keep the once-red District 17 – covering Chandler and a parts of Gilbert – partly blue. Democratic Rep. Jennifer Pawlek, D-17, of Chandler will seek a second term in D-17 while it’s unclear if longtime Republican lawmakers Sen. J.D. Mesnard, D-17, and Rep. Jeff Weninger, D-17, will face either a primary or general election challenge.

• The widening of the Loop 101 Price Road Freeway in Chandler is expected to be completed this year. (Arizona Department of Transportation)

Three seats are up for election in Mesa, Chandler Unified and Kyrene school districts. Mesa board members Kiana Sears and Steven Peterson, as well as President Elaine Miner, must seek reelection, though their intention is not yet known. Chandler Unified Governing Board seats held by President Barba Mozden and members David Evans and Karen McGee will be up for election and it likely won’t be known until later this year if the three incumbents will seek new terms. In Kyrene, board President Michael Myrick and members John King and Michelle Fahy are all facing a decision on whether to run again. One factor in the Kyrene and Chandler districts’ races will involve the conservative so-called Purple Parents group, which has been exceptionally vocal in its criticism of the Chandler Unified and Kyrene school districts’ equity programs. Equity programs were initiated to re-

duce wide disparities among various student racial groups in both academic performance and disciplinary actions. But the Purple Parents asserted the program teaches radical left doctrines. They also have complained about sex-education courses. In Mesa Public Schools, the issue will be former Superintendent Ember Conley, who was forced to resign over her award of unauthorized bonuses and raises to certain staff members. The level of the Mesa board’s oversight could become a campaign issue. Likewise, the oft-overlooked election for the East Valley Institute of Technology Governing Board could be particularly contentious in light of the board’s dismissal of longtime Superintendent Sally Downie.

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East Valley cities have prepared for months for the April 1 U.S. census,

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Mesa will choose a mayor and council members from west-side districts 1, 2 and 3. Chandler will elect three council members, including at least one new one to replace congressional candidate Huang. Gilbert also will choose a mayor and two council members, with at least one new face assured since incumbent Jared Taylor is not seeking another term.

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Pro-Trump rallies like this one in Gilbert last year likely will become more frequent in the East Valley as the presidential race heats up. (Tribune ﬁle photo)

which will determine how much federal money comes to our cities. Census data also will play a role in redrawing congressional, legislative and, in the case of Mesa, city council district boundaries. The 2020 election will be the last to use the current district maps. The widening of Loop 101 from south of Ray Road to the U.S. 60 is scheduled to be completed by summer. Construction of the next five miles of State Route 24 eastward from Ellsworth Road is expected to begin in the fall. The roadway is now known as the Gateway Freeway. Downtown Tempe will continue to be torn up for construction of a threemile streetcar system expected to open in the spring of 2021. Major expansions of the East Valley’s health-care system: Banner Ocotillo Medical Center, a brand-new hospital, opens in the fall at Alma School Road and Loop 202, and the Dignity Health Mercy Gilbert Medical Center this week will open a $200 million wing devoted to children’s and women’s health. Chandler Regional Medical Center also is expanding, with a 96bed addition to open in early 2021. Construction is to begin in February for a controversial campus of Arizona State University right next to Mesa’s city hall. The project will include a parklike city plaza - it’s been in the works for years. This coming summer Gilbert will open a new phase of its massive Regional Park at Queen Creek and Higley roads. The centerpieces are a 7-acre lake and a performance pavilion/amphitheater. The City Creek Reserve redevelopment project on the east end of Mesa’s downtown should be done by the end of the year, timed to coincide with the multi-million-dollar renovations of the interior and grounds at the Mesa Arizona Tempe. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also is opening a new Family Resource Center, a popular resource for genealogists.

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Maricopa County will be the hub for one of two National Decennial Processing Centers. The center will process paper census forms for the western half of the country. In Tempe, Pearl Interactive call-center is one of 10 call-centers in the U.S. taking calls in English from telephone and internet referrals, assisting census takers across the country. Beginning on National Census Day, April 1, for the first time in U.S. history, 2020 census takers will be able to answer questions via phone or internet if they choose not to participate with the traditional mail-in paper questionnaire. The 2020 Census is supporting 14 different languages. That’s especially important in the East Valley, where a growing number of non-English speaking residents from either Latino, Asian and/or Asian-Pacific countries have made their home. Census applicants who speak foreign languages, including Native American languages, are a high priority for these communities.

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To be eligible for a 2020 Census job, you must: Be at least 18 Have a valid Social Security number Be a U.S. citizen Military veterans, disabled veterans, military spouses and Native Americans will receive preferential hiring priority. Have a valid email address Complete an application and answer assessment questions. (Some assessment questions are available in Spanish. However, an English proficiency test may also be required) Pass a federal Census-performed criminal background check and a review of criminal records, including fingerprinting. If the applicant currently holds a Arizona Department of Public Safety card, this does not qualify for federal employment.

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Apply online at USAJobs.gov and search keyword “NPC” location “Phoenix” for complete listing of po-

Maricopa County’s multicultural diversity can create additional work when finding such specialized Census workers, said Jeffrey Robbins, 2020 Census Administrator for the City of Mesa. Despite language barriers, there is also an education deficit in various communities as well. Both Robbins and Winkle said for the past two years, it has been vital to the success of the 2020 Census count to strategize and develop multi-platform media campaigns involving community partnerships with local census task force committees to touch every population of the community. Winkle, who also works with the Asian Chamber of Commerce, said recruiting events have been planned for people who speak Asian languages and eligible candidates will be signed up on the spot for field jobs. NPC and the call-center will keep track of homes tagged as “not counted” by June 2020. In the Phoenix area, NPC is hiring upwards of 600 clerks to manage paper census forms for the western half of the United States.

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sitions, or visit the Census Bureau’s Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn pages. Applicants may also contact the Federal Relay Service at 1-800877-8339 for TTY/ASCII. Applicants will receive a confirmation email for an interview, background check and fingerprinting. Once hired, processing data center workers will participate in a twoto four-week paid training session through March. Work schedules are flexible during the week and weekends. These jobs are longer-term positions running through the Fall of 2020 Part-time employees receive medical benefits. Full-time employees will receive medical, dental and vision benefits. Full-time and part-time positions are available on multiple shifts operating between 6 a.m. and midnight, Monday through Friday. These positions offer federal employee benefits including medical benefits, paid annual leave, paid

These positions will last through December 2020, when a final count is due to the federal Census Bureau. “We are one of only two census processing centers in the country. It’s kind of a big deal Arizona was chosen,” said Cynthia Duncan, recruiter for Decennial Operations Branch – West. The other center is in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Duncan anticipates about 30 million paper forms will be processed between the two sites. In Arizona, officials are expecting to process about 16 million census paper forms. The Pearl Interactive call-center in Tempe will be hiring 746 federal call-center representatives, and has already hired about 200 employees set for training, said Eric Torgerson, senior site manager. The call-center is responsible for servicing all of the U.S. by assisting census takers in completing questionnaires. The most overwhelming response for employment, Torgerson said, has come from the in-house Pearl Interactive weekly job fairs. He said people who walk-in or RSVP could be hired and processed in less than

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sick leave and paid holidays. Any hours after 10 pm. Receive a 10 percent shift differential paying $18.00 versus $16.50. The NPC Phoenix is conveniently located on Valley Metro bus route 43, accessible from I-10 two miles north, I-17 three miles east and the new Loop 2020 South Mountain Freeway three miles west.

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Apply in person as a walk-in or online to expedite the on-site process during a weekly on-site job fair through January. Hosted 10 am to 5 pm., job fair dates can be found on the company website at pinsourcing.com/jobs. By RSVPing online application will expedite your onsite interview process. Applicants must bring valid Identification to enter secured building. They offer six-day paid training. Employment will run to the end of June or early July 2020. Job positions pay $17.10/hour for

two hours, including federal background checks and fingerprinting. Most applying online can RSVP and set an interview time for expeditious processing. “Our niche in Arizona has been veterans who want to get back into the workforce,” he said. “We are also having success with our over 55 communities in Mesa.” Pearl has been working with local senior centers and organizations to recruit people who just want to get out of the house and work part-time shifts. “The only negative thing about this work is it ends,” he said, adding Pearl Interactive is trying to figure out a way these newly trained data and call-center employees can continue employment once the census work is completed. “We will have thousands of people out of work” when the Census ends, he said. Currently, Pearl Interactive is looking to partner with companies, such as American Express and Discover Card, that might be ramping up employment opportunities at the time the census work comes to an end so the transition to a new job opportunity is seamless.

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part-time and $21 for full-time. An additional 10 percent is paid for certain hours. Shifts are Monday through Sunday, 5 am. to 11 pm. Medical benefits are available to all employees.

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Apply at Usajobs.gov Several types of field positions are available including Supervisors, field managers, operations clerks and enumerators, people going door-to-door. The pay range for all positions is between $16.50 and $20 hourly, depending on the location and type of work. In the East Valley area pay begins at $19.50 an hour. Extra benefits include car mileage and 6-day paid training. Field operations are from 8:30 am. To 4:30 pm. Field workers who speak foreign languages will have priority in addition to veterans and their families.

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Birth rates steadily declining in Arizona, study finds BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

rizona women just aren’t having as many babies as they used to. George Hammond, the director of the Economic and Business Research Center at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management, said Arizona births rose from 37,591 in 1970 to a high of 102,687 in 2007. But since then there been a sharp decline, with the number pegged at less than 81,000 last year. But Hammond’s analysis of the data also discovered that while birth rates among non-Hispanic women dropped 14 percent in the decade following 2007, the decline among Hispanics was three times greater. All this comes as Arizona is close to the point where the only way the state will continue to grow is if people keep moving here: The net difference between births and deaths currently is only about 20,000 a year in a state of more than 7.1 million. Hammond warns that dependence on in-migration is risky and could change sharply, as it did during the recession when virtually no one moved into Arizona. That, in turn, would mean that lower birth rates – especially the drop among Hispanic women – would have a ripple effect, including fewer students in public

schools, community colleges and state universities. That also has implications for retailers, who Hammond said won’t find quite the demand for youth-oriented products. Hammond isn’t the only one who has been looking at the Hispanic birth rate. Economist Tom Rex of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University said the decline in Arizona has been “more significant’’ than the rest of the nation. And the picture is even more complex than that. “The Hispanic birth rate in Arizona prior to the last recession was unusually high,’’ Rex said, noting that Hispanic women in Arizona were giving birth at a higher rate than even women in Mexico. Rex said he expects Hispanic birth

rates in Arizona and the rest of the nation to continue to fall, though he said the non-Hispanic birth rates – about 38 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age in 2017 – are unlikely to change. All that leaves the question of why the sharp change in Hispanic birth rates. Hammond blames much of it on the “economic shock’’ of the Great Recession. “A lot of Hispanics left the state,’’ he said. Hammond said there was a sharp drop in things like construction employment which had employed a lot of Hispanic – and, in fact, many undocumented – workers. Moreover, he said, “SB 1070 made Hispanics feel less welcome here.” “There are suggestions that a lot of those Hispanics moved to Texas and to other states to pursue jobs in mining, oth-

1989 and now just 63rd on the list. When it comes to rankings, spelling matters. The health department tracks the names based on what parents put on the birth certificate. That means Sophia (fourth in popularity) and Sofia (No. 18) are logged as separate entries. But if you combine the number of newborn girls named one or the other, it would top the list, jumping ahead of Olivia. For newborn boys, the changes over the decades are nowhere near as revolutionary. Yes, Michael, the top name for boys in 1989 and even a decade before that, has been replaced by Liam. But there are still enough parents choosing that name for their newborns now to keep it on the Top 20 list. Other names with biblical roots, whether as saints, angels, kings or other figures from the Good Book always remain relatively popular – like Joseph,

James and, to a lesser extent, Matthew and Christopher. More recently other biblical names have moved up in the rankings, such as Daniel, Elijah and Noah. Yet some other names have managed to muscle their way up the list. Notable among that is Liam, which has been at or near the top now for a decade. Logan also is a relative newcomer to the Top 20 list. There are some marked differences between the most popular names in Arizona and those in the rest of the country. Write that off to demographics. Nationally, Muhammed has cracked the Top 10 in most popular names for boys. But it is nowhere on Arizona’s Top 100 list. Among girls, Aaliyah hit No. 10 nationally, a name with both Arabic and Hebrew roots. In Arizona, it did no better than No. 50. Conversely, there were 281 sets of parents in Arizona who chose the name Ma-

er sectors that were growing more rapidly,’’ Hammond said. “Birth rates and educational attainment are inversely related,’’ Rex said. Put simply, those with less education tend to have more children. That, in turn, fits into what Hammond said is the current lower birth rate among Hispanics now than in the years before the recession, when many Hispanics here were new arrivals from Mexico. “They’re kind of the second-generation and they’re fully assimilated,’’ he said of the current Hispanic population, meaning they’re seeing the world in a way similar to the non-Hispanic population among whom the birth rate is also declining.

Birth rates in Arizona

Here are birth rates for selected years in Arizona, based on babies per 1,000 women of childbearing age. Year Hispanic birth rate

1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2017

85.2 79.3 79.7 79.1 54.2 45.5

Non-Hispanic birth rate

54.0 44.3 43.5 42.7 41.2 38.1

Source: Economic Business Research Center, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona

Newborn girls’ names radically shifted in 2019 BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

here have all the Jennifer’s gone? Or, for that matter, the Jessica’s, the Melissa’s and the Sarah’s? They’ve been replaced in Arizona by little girls bearing such names as Olivia, Emma and Isabella. Those were the most popular names for girls born this year, according to the state Department of Health Services. That means all those women born 20 and 30 years ago – when those other names were topping the charts – are now making decidedly different choices for their own daughters. So, hello, Sophia, Mia and Luna. And, goodbye, Michelle, Heather and Christina. How radical has been the change? Of the Top 10 names for girls three decades ago, only one is even among the Top 100 for 2019. That’s Sarah – No. 7 in

teo for newborn boys, enough to move it up one notch from last year to No. 6 this year. Two years ago, it was No. 15 in the state. But it remains far from the Top 20 nationally, with the most recent data putting it at No. 37.

Top 10 newborns’ names in 2019 in Arizona BOYS GIRLS 1) Liam Olivia 2) Noah Emma 3) Sebastian Isabella 4) Oliver Sophia 5) Elijah Mia 6) Mateo Luna 7) Benjamin Camila 8) Michael Ava 9) Alexander Charlotte 10) Julian Amelia Source: Arizona Department of Health Services

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ANNOUNCING THE SRP ELECTIONS ON APRIL 7 • ANUNCIO DE LAS ELECCIONES DE SRP EL 7 DE ABRIL On Tuesday, April 7, 2020 (“Election Day”), owners of qualified land or individuals who have been appointed by the trustee(s) to vote qualified land held in a qualifying trust will have an opportunity to vote for members of the governing bodies of the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (the “District”) and the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association (the “Association”), collectively “SRP.”

SALT RIVER PROJECT AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT AND POWER DISTRICT ELECTION Your District vote gives you an opportunity to elect the officials who make decisions that have an impact on the quality and cost of electricity.

An identification is “valid” unless it can be determined on its face that it has expired.

On April 6, 2009, the District Board of Directors elected to institute the alternative election process described at A.R.S. §48-2384.01. As a result, ballots may only be obtained by mail or at the SRP Voting Center.

List 2: Sufficient ID without a photograph that bears the name and address (two required) • Utility bill of the voter that is dated within 90 days of the date of the election. A utility bill may be for electric, gas, water, solid waste, sewer, telephone, cellular phone or cable television. • Bank or credit union statement that is dated within 90 days of the date of the election • Valid Arizona vehicle registration • Indian census card • Property tax statement • Valid Tribal enrollment card or other form of Tribal ID • Arizona vehicle insurance card • Recorder’s certificate • Valid United States federal, state or local government-issued ID • Voter registration card • Any mailing to the elector labeled as “Official Election Material”

Requests for early voting ballots will be accepted beginning Jan. 5, 2020. Prior to that date, applications to be placed on the Permanent Early Voter List can be submitted and be in effect for the April 7 election. To request an early voting ballot, visit the SRP website at srpnet. com/earlyballot or call (602) 236-3048 Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. In addition, an early voting ballot may be requested in person from the Corporate Secretary’s Office located at the SRP Administration Building, 1500 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 85281, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Early voting ballots will be mailed beginning March 11. The last day to request an early voting ballot by mail is March 27 at 5 p.m. Early voting ballots may be returned by mail in the self-addressed stamped envelope provided or in person at the SRP Voting Center located at the SRP Administration Building, 1500 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 85281, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 11 through April 6, and 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day, April 7. On Election Day only, early voting ballots may also be returned to either of the following two off-site ballot drop-off locations which will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. (no voting, just early voting ballot drop-off): the SRP West Valley Service Center, 221 N. 79th Ave., Tolleson, AZ, 85353, and the SRP Southside Water Service Center, 3160 S. Alma School Road, Mesa, AZ, 85210. Early voting ballots must be received no later than 7 p.m. on Election Day.

An identification is “valid” unless it can be determined on its face that it has expired. All items from List 2 may be presented to the poll workers in electronic format, including on a smartphone or tablet. List 3: Mix and match from lists 1 and 2 (two required) • Any valid photo ID from List 1 in which the address does not reasonably match the election register accompanied by a non-photo ID from List 2 in which the address does reasonably match the election register • U.S. passport and one item from List 2 • U.S. military ID and one valid item from List 2

You may also vote in person at the SRP Voting Center located at the SRP Administration Building, 1500 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 85281, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 11 through April 6, and 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day, April 7.

There will be a logic and accuracy test of the electronic vote processing and tallying equipment to be used in the election. The test will be open to eligible electors and will take place at the SRP Administration Building, 1500 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 85281, at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31.

In determining eligibility to vote, ownership of qualified land is determined as of Dec. 29, 2019. Lands held in certain trusts may be voted if an individual elector is appointed by the trustee(s) of the trust in accordance with trust voting requirements that can be viewed by visiting the SRP website at srpnet.com/elections or by calling the SRP Election Information Line at (602) 236-3048.

For additional information regarding the 2020 election or how to be added to the permanent early voting list for future elections, visit the SRP website at srpnet.com/elections.

Electors must also be qualified, registered Arizona voters as of March 9, 2020. Electors may cast one vote for each at-large position, seats 11 and 13, on the Board of Directors. Votes for all other positions are cast on an acreage basis.

List 1: Sufficient photo ID, including name and address (one required) • Valid Arizona driver license • Valid Arizona non-operating identification license • Tribal enrollment card or other form of Tribal ID • Valid United States federal, state or local government-issued ID

14TH ST. 15TH ST. 16TH ST.

4TH AVE.

7TH ST.

3RD ST. 5TH ST.

CENTRAL AVE.

12TH ST.

GARFIELD ST.

WASHINGTON ST. 22ND ST.

15TH AVE.

INDIAN SCHOOL RD.

RIV

Cuando llegue a votar al Centro de Votación el día de las elecciones, debe anunciar su nombre y lugar de residencia al funcionario electoral y presentar una forma de identificación de la Lista 1 o dos formas diferentes de identificación de la Lista 2 o la Lista 3. Lista 1: Identificación con foto, que incluya nombre y dirección (una es requerida) • Licencia de conducir válida de Arizona

WASHINGTON ST.

PIMA ST.

Habrá una prueba de lógica y precisión del procesamiento electrónico de votos y el equipo de conteo que se utilizará en la elección. La prueba estará abierta a los electores elegibles y se llevará a cabo en el Edificio Administrativo SRP, 1500 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 85281, a las 4 p.m. el martes 31 de marzo.

• Identificación válida emitida por el gobierno federal, estatal o local de los Estados Unidos

Este aviso se publica por orden de la Junta Directiva y de conformidad con A.R.S. §48-2384.01.

Una identificación es “válida” a menos que se determine que ha sido expirada.

LÍMITES DE VOTACIÓN

Early voting ballots may be returned by mail in the self-addressed stamped envelope provided or in person at the SRP Voting Center located at the SRP Administration Building, 1500 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 85281, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 11 through April 6, and 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day, April 7. On Election Day only, early voting ballots may also be returned to either of the following two off-site ballot drop-off locations which will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. (no voting, just early voting ballot drop-off): the SRP West Valley Service

GRANITE REEF RD.

ROOSEVELT ST. PAPAGO DR. VAN BUREN ST. SUSAN LN. WEBER DR.

GILBERT DR.

El 6 de abril de 2009, la Junta de Gobernadores de la Asociación, eligió instituir el proceso de elección alternativa descrito en el Artículo X, Sección 20 de los Estatutos de la Asociación. Como resultado, las boletas solo se pueden obtener por correo o en el Centro de votación SRP. Las solicitudes de boletas de votación anticipada se aceptarán a partir del 5 de enero de 2020. Antes de esa fecha, las solicitudes que se colocarán en la Lista Permanente de Votantes Tempranos pueden presentarse y estar en vigor para las elecciones del 7 de abril.

ELECCIONES DE SALT RIVER PROJECT AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT Y POWER DISTRICT

Para solicitar una boleta de votación anticipada, visite el sitio web de SRP en misrp.com/boletatemprana o llame al (602) 2363048 de lunes a viernes, de 8:30 a.m. a 5 p.m. Además, se puede solicitar una boleta de votación anticipada en persona en la Oficina del Secretario Corporativo ubicada en el Edificio Administrativo SRP, 1500 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 85281, de lunes a viernes, de 8:30 a.m. a 5 p.m. Las boletas de votación anticipada se enviarán por correo a partir del 11 de marzo. El último día para solicitar una boleta de votación anticipada es el 27 de marzo a las 5 p.m.

El 6 de abril de 2009, la Junta Directiva del Distrito eligió instituir el proceso de elección alternativa descrito en A.R.S. §48-2384.01. Como resultado, las boletas solo se pueden obtener por correo o en un Centro de votación SRP.

Las boletas de votación anticipada pueden devolverse por correo en el sobre sellado con su dirección que se proporciona o en persona en el Centro de Votación de SRP ubicado en el Edificio de Administración de SRP, 1500 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 85281, de lunes a viernes, 8: 30 a.m. a 5 p.m., del 11 de marzo al 6 de abril, y de 6 a.m. a 7 p.m. el día de las elecciones, el 7 de abril. Solo el día de las elecciones, las

Phoenix/Scottsdale

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El martes 7 de abril de 2020 (“Día de las elecciones”), los propietarios de tierras calificadas o individuos que hayan sido designados por el administrador fiduciario para votar en tierras de un fideicomiso calificado tendrán la oportunidad de votar por los miembros del gobierno organismos de Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association (la “Asociación”), y el Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (el “Distrito”), colectivamente “SRP”.

Las solicitudes de boletas de votación anticipada se aceptarán a partir del 5 de enero de 2020. Antes de esta fecha, las solicitudes que se colocarán en la Lista Permanente de Votantes Tempranos pueden presentarse y entrar en vigencia para las elecciones del 7 de abril.

Una identificación es “válida” a menos que pueda determinarse que ha expirado. A cualquier elector que no proporcione identificación suficiente no se le emitirá una boleta electoral regular, pero recibirá una boleta provisional y tendrá tres (3) días hábiles después de la elección (antes de las 5 pm del viernes 10 de abril) para proporcionar una identificación suficiente al SRP Secretario Corporativo, 1500 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 85281, para que se cuente su boleta provisional.

Para obtener información adicional sobre las elecciones de 2020 o cómo agregarse a la lista permanente de votación anticipada para futuras elecciones, visite el sitio web de SRP en misrp.com/elecciones.

El voto de su asociación le brinda la oportunidad de elegir a los funcionarios que toman decisiones que tienen impacto en la calidad y el costo del agua

APACHE BLVD.

El voto de su distrito le brinda la oportunidad de elegir a los funcionarios que toman decisiones que tendrá un impacto en la calidad y el costo de la electricidad.

• Pasaporte estadounidense y un artículo de la Lista 2

« UBICACIÓN DEL CENTRO DE VOTACIÓN SRP: SRP Administration Building, 1500 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 85281 del 11 de marzo al 6 de abril, de lunes a viernes, de 8:30 a.m. a 5 p.m. Día de las elecciones, 7 de abril, de 6 a.m. a 7 p.m. • SOLO UBICACIONES DE DEVOLUCIÓN DE BOLETA DE SRP (sin votación, solo entrega de boleta): SRP West Valley Service Center, 221 N. 79th Ave., Tolleson, AZ, 85353, y SRP Southside Water Service Center, 3160 S. Alma School Road, Mesa, AZ, 85210 Abierto solo el día de las elecciones, 7 de abril, 6 am– 7 pm.

Center, 221 N. 79th Ave., Tolleson, AZ, 85353, and the SRP Southside Water Service Center, 3160 S. Alma School Road, Mesa, AZ, 85210. Early voting ballots must be received no later than 7 p.m. on Election Day. You may also vote in person at the SRP Voting Center located at the SRP Administration Building, 1500 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 85281, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 11 through April 6, and 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Election Day, April 7. Positions up for election are one position on the Board of Governors in each of voting districts 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 and three positions on the Council in each of voting districts 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9. All Association positions have four-year terms. The map above shows the voting boundaries of the Association. In determining eligibility to vote, ownership of qualified land is determined as of Dec. 29, 2019. Lands held in certain trusts may be voted if an individual voter is appointed by the trustee(s) of the trust in accordance with trust voting requirements that can be viewed by visiting the SRP website at srpnet.com/elections or by calling the SRP Election Information Line at (602) 236-3048. Voters must also be at least 18 years of age. Votes for all positions are cast on an acreage basis. For additional information regarding the 2020 election or how to be added to the Permanent Early Voting List for future elections, visit the SRP website at srpnet.com/elections. This notice is published by order of the Board of Governors and in accordance with the Association By-Laws.

ELECCIÓN DE ASOCIACIONES PARA USUARIOS DE AGUA DEL VALLE DE SALT RIVER

Phoenix

CURRY RD.

CURRY RD. ROOSEVELT ST.

GR CA AN NA D L

MILLER RD.

CANAL CROS

54TH ST.

ROOSEVELT ST.

SCUT

78TH ST. HAYDEN RD.

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VAN BUREN ST.

Lista 3: Puede escoger una opción entre las listas 1 y 2 (se requieren dos)

• Tarjeta de inscripción tribal u otra forma de identificación tribal

• Licencia válida de identificación no operativa de Arizona

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Una identificación es “válida” a menos que pueda determinarse que ha expirado. Todos los artículos de la Lista 2 pueden presentarse a los trabajadores electorales en formato electrónico, incluso en un teléfono inteligente o tableta.

LINCOLN ST.

16TH ST.

12TH ST.

7TH ST. 7TH AVE.

WATKINS ST.

2ND ST.

62ND ST.

56TH ST. FLOWER ST.

GILA RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION

• Cualquier envío al elector etiquetado como “Material Electoral Oficial”

BUCKEYE RD.

PIMA ST. DURANGO ST.

11TH AVE.

AZ OLD .CANAL BURG / LAT. ESS

VAN BUREN ST.

20TH ST.

BLACK CANYON FREEWAY

GOLDWATER BLVD.

NSOL CANAIDATE D L

OCOTILLO RD.

COLLEGE AVE.

HUNT HWY.

GERMANN RD.

GILA RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION

PRICE RD.

Due to small scale, boundaries shown are approximate.

QUEEN CREEK RD.

MC DOWELL RD. PAPAGO FWY.

SHERMAN ST.

74TH ST.

ARIZONA AVE.

PRICE FWY.

HIGHL INE CA N AL

H UT

RESERVATION

OAK ST.

HARRISON ST.

HAROLD ST.

TIO VA ER

INDIAN

VIRGINIA AVE.

FILMORE ST.

OSBORN RD.

24TH ST.

ALLEY SOUTH OF CULVER ROOSEVELT ST.

RURAL RD.

S RE

RIVER

• Tarjeta de registro de votante

• Identificación militar de EE. UU. Y un artículo válido de la Lista 2

To request an early voting ballot, visit the SRP website at srpnet. com/earlyballot or call (602) 236-3048 Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. In addition, an early voting ballot may be requested in person from the Corporate Secretary’s Office located at the SRP Administration Building, 1500 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 85281, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Early voting ballots will be mailed beginning March 11. The last day to request an early voting ballot by mail is March 27 at 5 p.m.

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Retiring E. Mesa cardiologist patient-focused BY DR. BHAGYASHREE BARLINGAY Tribune Guest Writer

Editor’s note: Dr. Bhagyashree Barlingay of Tricity Cardiology in East Mesa wrote this appreciation of his colleague, Dr. Edward Perlstein, who is retiring.

reat men who do great work in science are happy men, their happiness derived primarily from their

work. Dr. Edward Perlstein belongs in this category. Over the last two decades I have known him, whenever I had asked him “Are you working today?” he would smile and say, “People like us don’t work or do a job but are having fun.” Working hard was the mantra given to him by his father, a pharmacist in Philadelphia who never took a vacation. This virtue helped him spend hours together pouring over books, taking a detailed history, listening to the heart sounds at the patient’s bedside at New Jersey College of

Medicine from 1965 to 1969. He was trained not to order a test to make a diagnosis but to confirm the diagnosis; he was trained to reach a diagnosis before leaving the patient’s bedside; he was trained to think analytically. During his Internship, residency and fellowship at Temple University in Philadelphia, he was part of history, performing the first coronary angiogram. It is still done the way he performed it in the early 70s. Though he was well trained in academic medicine and cardiology, Dr. Perlstein took the path of clinical cardiology after paying his dues as an assistant clinical professor at Temple. He literally won the hearts of the people when he joined Tricity Cardiology consultants in 1982 with Dr. Mark Stern. The group attracted scholars and grew in leaps and bounds. Currently, Tricity Cardiology has a roster of 300,000 patients and 220 employees. The Tricity empire grew with this young cardiologist whose foundation was built on strong, straightforward convictions –

Dr. Edward Perlstein of Tricity Cardiology in East Mesa has seen over 35,000 patients in his 45-year career. (Special to the Tribune)

never tell a lie, work hard, live by example. We do not learn solely from textbooks but learn from our patients, nurses, colleagues and especially from our senior

colleagues like Dr. Perlstein. They have accumulated treasures of experience and knowledge. They are the ones who can guide us in our own quest of sanity and stability in the face of mounting demands of the trade. Medicine has become more mechanized, and when I asked Dr. Perlstein what he thought of these changes, he said: “Mechanization has changed cardiology care dramatically. It made my 50 years of career go by in seconds. I have used the first ECHO machine at Temple University, though I still use my golden stethoscope to listen to the heart sounds. “I was part of the team doing one of the first procedures at Temple University such as the cardiac angiogram, thrombolytic therapy, open-heart surgery, etc. But the best part of training was growing up with highly intelligent people such as Dr. Harvey Proctor, who taught authentic bedside cardiac examination. I was very fortunate to have Dr. Sol Sherry as my

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Mesa sailor reenlists at USS Arizona Memorial BY RICK BURKE Tribune Guest Writer

avy Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Kurz, a native of Mesa, reenlisted for six years at the USS Arizona Memorial in downtown Phoenix recently in honor of the men and women who perished in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Kurz, a 2001 graduate of Red Mountain High School and a 2013 Ottawa University graduate with a degree in business administration, is a master-at-arms serving with Naval Security Forces Guam. As a Navy master-at-arms, Kurz is responsible for providing qualified Naval physical security and force protection in support of Naval Base Guam’s mission involving waterfront operations, ordnance security, and logistical support to the 5th and 7th fleets in Guam and Marianas Area of Responsibility. “What I enjoy most is making a direct impact on my peers and junior sailors,” Kurz said. “The diversity allows me to accomplish my career goals while helping others

Mesa native Christopher Kurz, a Navy Petty Officer 1st Class, takes the oath as he reenlists fox six more years with the Navy. (Special to the Tribune)

flourish and succeed in their career goals. “Their success is my success and there is no better feeling than seeing hard work

and determination exemplify the navy core values of honor, courage, and commitment,” Kurz added.

Kurz said he joined the Navy to fight his country, especially in a time of need. “Being fourth-generation military and the son of a sailor who served in Vietnam, the Navy allowed me the opportunity to fulfill my destiny following the 9/11 attacks which took place soon after I graduated high school,” Kurz said. “After watching the “shock and awe” on the news of the invasion of Iraq in late March 2003 and not being one who was college material at the time, I went to try my luck with the other branches. I found out the requirements for master-at-arms changed, so within 40 days of talking to the recruiter again, I was officially enlisted and took my oath.” Though there are many ways for sailors to earn distinction in their command, community and career, Kurz is most proud of the accomplishments he has accumulated in his 15-year Naval career. He has mentored junior sailors who have been named Junior Sailor of the Year

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Mesa nurse restores children’s smiles around world BY HALEY LORENZEN Tribune Contributor

Mesa nurse recently returned from her 50th medical mission with Operation Smile, an international medical nonprofit, where her countless hours of volunteer work helped bring the gift of smiles to children around the world. Sally Herman’s most recent mission took her to Hanoi, Vietnam, where she and her team performed reconstructive surgeries for over 70 children born with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities. “It’s just humanness. It’s just humanity. It’s just beautiful to see with all the stuff going on in our world today, this is a touch of humanity at its best,” Herman said of her work with Operation Smile. The Illinois native began her career as a nurse 34 years ago, specializing in emergency trauma and working in the PICU. “I’ve always been a pediatric nurse, so I’ve always heard of Operation Smile and I always wanted to give back my time eventually, but I didn’t know how,” Herman said. After moving to Arizona 20 years ago, she was laid-off for six months, and in that time, she decided to volunteer with Operation Smile. “Once I went, I was hooked,” she said. Herman began her career with the nonprofit in 2000, when she traveled to Kenya and worked in the recovery room. Operation Smile was founded in 1982, as a way to provide free, safe surgeries for both children and adults born with cleft palates, cleft lips, burns, and other deformities. The international charity is composed of medical volunteers from around the world, who work in teams to perform the surgeries, assist in recovery, and train medical workers in each country they visit. “We could have volunteers from many different countries on the same team volunteering, and then we all work together. We come as a team, we all work togeth-

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and BlueJacket of the Quarter and has earned three warfare insignias. Kurz also completed five deploymentsincluding serving alongside a Naval Special Warfare Development Group and earning a Combat Action Ribbon and Presidential Unit Citation and was nominated for Sailor of the Year for 2019. He has participated in funeral honors

Mesa Nurse Sally Herman, left, looks over some patient records with a a trainee, Doreenlove Serwaam during one of her missions abroad. (Special to the Tribune)

er, we screen probably 200 to 300 kids in over two days,” Herman said. These teams typically perform surgeries for five days straight, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., Herman said. An average cleft lip surgery will only take around 45 minutes, Herman said, which enables volunteers to perform such a large number of surgeries every day. “What we normally do is we go to the same place in the same country, over and over and over, until that country is sufficient enough to do their own surgeries because we teach as we go,” she said. “Our goal is to not be needed in these countries anymore. In Ghana, I trained people there constantly. Now they don’t need my services, they’re a completely self-sufficient country to do these surgeries,” she explained. Since going on her first mission, Herman has traveled to numerous countries, making her way from a recovery room aid to clinical coordinator. As clinical coordinator, she assists with screenings, scheduling, hospital set up

for over 500 veteran services and has earned his bachelor’s degree with honors and been accepted in graduate school. “I learned adaptability, superior decision making, being resourceful, flexibility and persistence, self-discipline, confidence, determination, extreme discipline and the power of intense focus,” Kurz said. “Additionally, the ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of those under your command, always be willing to

and other responsibilities. On her first mission, she traveled to Nairobi, where she worked in an incredibly impoverished area, where she said children who have cleft palates or cleft lips “are thrown away from society.” “We were literally taking them out of the dump and brought them into our surgical area and did the surgeries and they’re able now to function as normal kids,” she said. Herman said many of the children born with these facial deformities are not understood by their communities or even their parents. “They’re afraid of them and they think they’re evil spirits or they’ll do bad to their villages or their parents throw them away. They don’t know about this,” she said. Not only does Operation Smile provide these surgeries for children with facial deformities, but it also undertakes surgeries for adults with cleft palates and lips. Those patients have lived their entire lives without the ability to receive surlisten, invest in relationships for the long term, stay calm under pressure and act decisively even with limited information. Teamwork makes the dream work.” As a member of one of the U.S. Navy’s most relied-upon assets, Kurz is part of a legacy that will last a lifetime, providing the Navy the nation’s needs. “I’m providing safety and security to not only to the American people but those who need it the most around the world,”

gery. When Herman traveled to Jordan with Operation Smile, she said one story of an 80-year-woman who came in to receive surgery on her cleft lip stuck with her. “She always wore her veil over her face. She had found out we’re doing free surgeries, and she came in, and she never had surgery before,” Herman said. “We were already cleaned up for the day and we asked our surgeons, “Do you mind just doing one more?” “We hopped her on the table. Fixed her lip, and she got off the table and started jumping around and took off her veil, she gave us her veil and said she doesn’t need it, she was going to go home to show her husband, she was so proud. She said, ‘I won’t wear that veil ever again.’” After each trip, Herman said the hardest part is returning home. “The hardest part is actually trying to get back to the American way of life when you come back. Working in the medical field in America is so different than working for free overseas, there’s no hierarchy, there’s no power trips,” Herman said. For any medical professionals interested in volunteering with Operation Smile, Herman highly recommends it. “Especially new nurses getting out,” she said. “I would encourage it because it renews your whole nursing ethic, why you became a nurse. You’re making a difference in somebody’s life and you see it immediately. Her work with Operation Smile inspired Herman to found her own nonprofit, Zoe4Kids, which assists children in South Africa with free meals. Herman also said she plans to go on as many more medical missions as she can and will be traveling to Mongolia in January with another volunteer program. “The greatest part is just getting to know so many different people. I stopped traveling as just a tourist to go anywhere because after you get into the country, and you’re involved with people’s lives, you don’t really want to do the tourist thing. This is so rewarding,” she said. Kurz said. “I’m getting the opportunity to serve alongside fellow Americans who volunteered in all branches of the military and I’m helping to make the world a better place, by participating in contingency operations that helped neutralize threats that could have potentially caused greater destruction and the loss of life to fellow American and allied troops.” Rick Burke is with the Navy Office of Community Outreach.

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mentor, a fatherly figure to me whom I revere deeply. “One has to know the place of machines in patient care. The machines will never replace a clinician. We are teaching our medical students directly or indirectly to depend on the data collected by these machines. “Essentially, they are being trained to treat population; not an individual. Nowadays, computers rule our lives. We spend more time with EMR than with our patients.” I asked how he maintains the patient-doctor relationship. “It’s a contract, a contract that ‘I will take care of you as your doctor as long as possible.’ “That’s why I am having trouble retiring. I have about 35,000 patients to say goodbye to – not easy. “I have never fired a patient from my practice however difficult he or she might

have been. My philosophy is to take care of the patient with the best interest of the patient at heart and the patients can perceive that sincerity and will stick with you and try to comply.” What are the common jokes he uses in his day-to-day practice? “Many doctors are isolated from their patients. I tell them about my personal life. We talk about my funny socks… my socks are a point of ongoing discussion with my chronic patients and breaking the ice with the new patients. Humor is the best glue to keep your patients with you. “I know some of my patients on a personal level. They have become friends with me and my family. I have given my cell phone number to patients. Not a single patient misused it ever. A doctor has to cherish this bond with his/her patients. I never enter the room with a serious face. I always have a friendly countenance.” In other words, laughter truly is the best medicine, although he stressed he gives straightforward advice on medical

problems. “I never impose my will upon them but use my sense of humor to convey the message assertively,” he explained. That led to the topic of physician burnout and asked if he had ever had a grey period in his professional career. “I loved what I did,” he replied. “I worked very hard but the intensity never bothered me. Most likely, because I could diffuse my tension during exercise. My mountain biking was my salvation.” He also had another diversion – a love of architecture. “I had a contractor’s license and built homes. And I continued my clinical work. I never stopped. “I think the new generation is facing multiple challenges: Seeing more patients in a shorter period of time, having financial burdens, the dangling sword of lawsuits, handcuffed because they cannot change the price structure. “Law limits the usual business model. Though I am an independent practitioner, I feel I am working for the government.”

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hat might be the East Valley’s most prominent landmark – the “<Phoenix” air marker on Usery Mountain in Mesa – started the new year with a much-needed sprucing up, thanks to a Gilbert Boy Scout and his troop. Lucas Witcher, a 14-year-old member of Gilbert Boy Scout Troop 681 and student at American Leadership Academy, decided to base his Eagle Scout project around repainting letters. With each letter a 100 feet high and 12 feet wide, the marker is considered the largest of its kind in the world. It was completed in 1956 by the late Charles Merritt, who was then the leader of Air Explorer 13 Post leader and had started the project five years earlier. Merritt, a pilot and one of Arizona’s first recreational parachutists, thought transient pilots needed a marker to tell them when they were near Phoenix. Considered one of the largest projects in East Valley scouting history, the marker was created with the help of scouts who were transported on weekends on buses provided by the old Williams Air Force Base. They used a white cement coating to paint the letters and the arrow that pointed to Phoenix’s location. ”During its 5 ½ years of construction, 41 members of Post 13 contributed to its making,” said Harold Fox, a consultant to the troop that performed last week’s re-

together by Doug Wright, a consultant for Troop 681 who had heard of the preservationists’ hopes a prospective Eagle Badge candidate might want to refurbish the marker for his projGilbert Eagle Scout Andy Witcher stands in front of the volunteers he got to help him ect. restore the Phoenix air marker on Usery Mountain in Mesa on New Year’s Day. (Diane and Eagle canDouglas Wright/Special for the Tribune) didates must organize a project benefiting the comfurbishing. The entire length of the marker is near- munity and involves a number of volunly as long as the Empire State Building is teers so they can demonstrate their leadhigh and can be read from an altitude of ership skills. Lucas’ parents, Natalie and Andy 50,000 feet and spotted from Interstate Witcher are family friends of Wright, 10 south of Phoenix. Lucas rounded up 38 volunteers last who said the marker project likely will week to give new life to his predecessors’ be the last for Troop 681 because it has achievement. Among those who showed been associated with the Church of Jesus up was Dennis Stark, one of the scouts on Christ of Latter-day Saints. The church is terminating its longtime the original construction crew. “I have never had so many pleasant relationship with the Boy Scouts bepeople working on a project like this one, cause of its decision to admit members all 38 people,” Fox said. “Everyone was who are gay. Fox said the committee is hoping brimming with excitement and doing a fantastic job on cleaning up all of the to find other Boy Scouts who actually obstructive weeds and brush – very dif- helped Merritt create the marker. They ficult work on that steep mountainside.” can find contact information at phoenixThe committee and Lucas were brought airmarker.org.

Dr. Perlstein also is an ace at smoking-cessation discussions. “I tell them they are going to make me richer,” he joked, adding, “I have personal experience of quitting smoking. I know the pain of it. What patients need is not only a nicotine patch but something to substitute for cigarettes. So, I tell them to pick up a toothpick instead of a cigarette to mitigate the desire, the craving. And I have the conversation at every visit.” It’s the same where obesity. “One patient hated me for discussing his weight at every visit,” he recalled. “He came back to me several years later and thanked me because he had lost more than a hundred pounds by then. One has to go beyond the prejudices and work with people. Compassion comes from within. It cannot be taught.” As he ponders the 35,000 patients he has treated in his 45 years of practice, he said, “How we deliver our care is art. My patient’s wellbeing is my canvas. My patient’s well-being is the final artwork and my reward.”

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Rancho de Tia Rosa makes grand return BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Tribune Staff Writer

ory Lucas likes to say he just fell into the restaurant business. Perhaps he’s making a bigger impact than he thinks. Lucas, who also owns the Gilbert location, revived Rancho de Tia Rosa after his family purchased it in bankruptcy court and recently reopened the restaurant on McKellips Road. “We purchased it from the bankruptcy court about four years ago,” he said. “It was gone. It wasn’t here. We had friends in the community tell us, ‘Hey, don’t let this go away.’ “So, my family, we went to the court proceedings. The courts closed it and I thought, ‘This is an Arizona icon. This can’t happen.’” Banners marking its return to the Mesa location were hung near McKellips Road until it opened with much fanfare. Since it opened a few months ago, the 8,000-square-foot hacienda-style eatery

Cory Lucas recently reopened Rancho de Tia Rosa on East McKellips Road, Northeast Mesa. He also owns the location on North Higley Road in Gilbert. (Chris Mortenson/Tribune Staff Photographer)

has attracted diners with its healthful take on Mexican grub. It mixes elements of Baja-Coastal-style cuisines. Lucas said it’s hard to pinpoint a signature dish at the restaurant.

“We’re Baja Coastal,” he said. “It’s sweet with �lavors of papaya, mango and pineapple.” The “tried and true” is the chicken enchilada with green sauce ($3.99), which

Lucas describes as “not hot and spicy but sweet coastal.” The grilled salmon steak ($18.99) is another favorite, but the

retail sales, close to 49,000 waiters and waitresses, 12,500 counter attendants and 17,500 fast-food cooks. The wage �igures include tips. That’s crucial as the 2016 law allows employers to pay tipped workers up to $3 an hour less than the minimum – but only as long as what they ultimately get with those tips hits the mandates. And it won’t be those now making less than $12 who will be affected. Any move that makes $12 the new minimum rung on the salary ladder is likely to force employers to increase the wages of more experienced workers who now are getting just $12 or slightly more. Tomas Robles of Living United for Change in Arizona, the group that put the issue on the ballot that scrapped the minimum of $8.05 an hour in 2016 said the higher wages helped get Arizonans closer to a “living wage.’ Noting rapidly rising rents, Robles said all that was accomplished without wreck-

ing the economy as had been predicted by initiative foes. “The industries that folks said would die off because of this minimum wage have not only been �ine but actually have increased in income, employment, demand,’’ he said. Since 2017, the average number of people employed by all private companies increased by 5.7 percent. And employment in bars and restaurants, which include fast-food establishments, pretty much kept-pace at 5.6 percent. Garrick Taylor, spokesman for the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which opposed the 2016 measure -- and then unsuccessfully sued to have it voided -- does not dispute that the predictions of wholesale reductions in employment levels in certain industries have not materialized. But he said there’s a reason for that. Taylor said he still believes that it is the people who are seeking jobs who will

“bear the brunt of a policy that makes hiring more expensive.’’ But Taylor has more immediate concerns. One is an initiative drive being �inanced by the California-based Service Employees International Union which, if approved in November, would mandate that everyone working at a hospital get an immediate 5 percent pay hike. Then there would be successive 5-percent pay increases for the following three years. That would apply at all levels, including medical staff, nurses, social workers, orderlies and even custodians. And with that $12 minimum beginning in January, that would put the base salary for hospital workers after the fourth year at $14.59. Taylor said his organization will try to convince voters to reject the proposal. Separately, Taylor objects to the fact that the 2016 law actually allows local communities to create their own mini-

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Thousands see wage raise across Arizona BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

housands of Arizonans were in line for a wage bump Jan. 1, as the last phase in a 2016 voter-approved increase in the minimum wage kicked in. It will take the bottom from $11 an hour to $12, adding an extra $2,080 for those working a full-time job. Exactly how many Arizonans are affected is unclear. Among the largest group likely to see bigger paychecks are those who are in the personal care and service occupations. The state �igured there were more than 112,000 people at that time with a median wage of $11.61 an hour. That means half were making above that and half were making less. Another nearly 48,000 personal care aides are in that wage category. And there are other categories where the median wage last year was below $12 an hour, including more than 92,000 in

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shrimp tacos—or the shrimp and salmon tacos ($4.49)—are popular. “We also have our award-winning chile relleno,” said Lucas about the dish that sells for $16.99. “It’s not your normal relleno. It’s not deep-fried. It is �illed with delicious pork picadillo and has a beautiful presentation.” For meat and potato lovers, there’s the ribeye steak ($26.99). “It’s aged 28 days and we hand-cut it right before grilling it to perfection,” Lucas said. “It’s our most expensive dish, so people initially think we’re just trying to sell them something expensive until they take their �irst bite. It’s USDA prime and amazing. “We’re a Mexican food restaurant, but we also have wonderful chipotle mashed potatoes that are very good.”

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The interior design and architecture will induce the feeling of beautiful cities in South-Central Guanajuato, Mexico, such as San Miguel de Allende and Cuernavaca. Bright colors and natural light �ill the dining room. “There literally are no other restaurants that come anywhere near this amazing look and ambiance,” Lucas said. “We have all this detail. All the hand-made Mexican tiles and the custom chairs and tables. We hand-carved the chairs to celebrate the ones that were here when Tia Rosa originally opened here years ago. “We speci�ically designed and decorated to bring back the original Tia Rosa everyone has come to know and love. You don’t see properties built like this. It has so much detail. You walk around here for hours admiring it.” The patio doors offer a sneak peek into a plot formerly a garden which Lucas is considering resurrecting. Greenhouses pepper the backyard. The massive parking lot, he said, would be perfect for a future farmers market. “The community support is amazing,” he said. “People are so excited we’re back. I see this as continuing to be the Arizona icon it has always been. The future is bright.”

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mum wages. Flagstaff votes did that in a move that will put the �loor in that city at $13 an hour this coming year, increasing automatically to $15.50 by 2022. Robles pointed out that the 2016 law also requires employers to provide at least three paid leave days each year. “We get phone calls all the time of people utilizing their paid sick days and being able to utilize those days for emergencies or other situations,’’ he said. A study performed earlier this year by the Grand Canyon Institute concluded that since the wage law took effect in

2017 that there has been a 19 percent increase in food-service hourly pay. The report did conclude, however, there was “some evidence’’ that the average hours worked by those in that sector of the economy “may have declined by about one hour per week.’’ Robles said that even with new minimum set at $12 an hour, it still does not provide a “living wage,’’ particularly for people in metro areas where housing prices, particularly rental rates, are increasing sharply. For the Phoenix metro area, the web site Rent Jungle puts average monthly rent at $1,215. That is 18 percent higher than it was at the end of 2016.

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Even after 21 years, her disappearance haunts us BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist

he face of the 11-year-old Mesa girl never ages, even as we grow older

with time. She vanished on Jan. 2, 1999. Even now, 21 years after the fact, the coming of another January brings thoughts of the little girl named Mikelle, who loved her red teddy bear and playing princess, who kept her bedroom neat as a pin, who one moment was riding her little sister’s bicycle and the next was never heard from again. For us, it remains a mystery. But for Mikelle Biggs’ younger sister Kimber, now 30, Mikelle’s disappearance remains her life’s defining moment, a loss that has shaped everything else ever since. A mother herself now, to a little boy named Tayven, Kimber has become a

“helicopter mom,” always hovering, always in view. “Playgrounds, I stand next to the equipment, instead of under the ramadas,” Kimber explains. “I also listen to my gut. … Even if it’s just my anxiety getting me worked up, I will always listen to what every nerve in my body tells me. I learned at nine years old that if your gut says something is wrong, then it is.” That chilly afternoon in 1999 reads like a scene out of Stephen King. Kimber had gotten a new bike that Christmas and Mikelle wanted to ride it. They played outside the family home near the intersection of El Moro and Toltec streets. As their curfew neared, Kimber felt cold and went inside. “I remember looking both ways to cross the road,” she said, “and seeing her blonde hair blowing behind her as she rode and the feeling of peace.” Kimber was gone for maybe 90 seconds, two minutes tops.

“I came back outside and saw my bike laying in the road. I remember being confused and not being sure what I was looking at,” she recalled. “As I walked closer, a dark feeling came over me and a gut instinct told me something was wrong. I got mad and yelled into the emptiness that she would be in trouble. I ignored that gut instinct and took my bike home. ... I felt like I was floating home. At the time I assumed it was because I was cold, (but) now I know it was most likely shock and fear. “The image of my bike on its side with the tire still spinning, and the blue haze of that January evening blurring things a bit, that’s the most vivid (thing I remember).” What stands out to me are the days that followed: The massive Mesa police investigation, the twisted innuendos that accompanied this whodunit, and the somber, pained dignity of Mikelle’s parents, Darien and Tracy, who have since divorced. For

them, I have always wanted this tale to have a happy ending, or at least some ending at all. Instead, Mikelle’s story reminds us that some stories never end. Some moments leave their mark on us forever, sometimes for bad, but also – if we allow it – for good. Said Kimber: “Sometimes now I think ‘what if,’ and imagine us raising kids together and having girls nights listening to the music of our childhood. One of her favorite songs was Don’t Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin, still a favorite of mine. “But so much has happened over the years. My parents divorced and I got an amazing new little sister from my dad remarrying. She reminds me so much of Mikelle sometimes. I often think if that never happened would I still have my son? My sister? It’s definitely a bittersweet thing to think about.” But think about it we do, every new year without fail, every Jan. 2 without end.

scientist, invented a vaccine for Polio. Prior to the vaccine, approximately 3,000 Americans died of Polio and 21,000 were left with varying degrees of paralysis each year. Polio was incredibly frightening for American families, but science eradicated that fear. Yellow Fever nearly kept the United States from building the Panama Canal. Workers died, as if in war. Walter Reed was made aware that a doctor in Cuba had discovered that mosquitoes were the cause of Yellow Fever. Many could not believe that mosquitoes were the cause of such devastation, but orders were given and an all-out war was waged on mosquitoes in Panama. The building of the Panama Canal actually stopped to focus on the extermination of Aedes Aegypti, the Yellow Fever carrier. The death rates declined precipitously and the canal was completed because we believed in science. More recently, do you remember the hole in the ozone layer that threatened our atmosphere that keeps us safe from ultraviolet rays? In 1987, the countries of the earth banned the chemicals and processes that

were destroying the ozone layer. The earth has been healing itself ever since. I don’t know what ozone is, or ultraviolet rays, or which chemicals were destroying the atmosphere. I remember freon, which is no longer being used. I trusted our scientists to research and find remedies. They saved us from a catastrophe. I am a history teacher so I could go on with these examples for pages. What concerns me is that the United States appears to have turned its back on science. There were scientists that said you could not split an atom, and scientists that said, mosquitoes could not possibly be the cause of yellow fever and that human activity could not be destroying the ozone layer. But when the evidence became a consensus among scientists, we sprang into action and made life-saving changes. We the people did not override the scientists and say, “There is no way to split an atom, quit wasting money on it” or “It can’t be mosquitoes that are killing our workers by the 100’s in Panama, they are so small.”

We expected the professionals who know more about these things than we do to figure it out and fix it. The scientists KNOW that global warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. We had agreements in the Paris Climate Accord to address these concerns and save the earth. Why would we believe a nonscientist who claims to know that “global warming is not caused by humans?” Not sure exactly when or why the United States began to embrace anti-intellectualism, but to continue being the power we have been, we need to trust our scientists and professionals. They know more about this than you and I. It does not seem farfetched that if a mosquito could have stopped the building of the Panama Canal, which it nearly did, then humans with vastly superior impact can be destroying the atmosphere that keeps us alive. Let’s go back to the good old days when we believed our scientists.

Science saves and Americans must remember that BY BARRY SMITH Tribune Guest Writer

cience has saved this country many times. When Germany was using the seemingly unstoppable weapon of the submarine to sink our supply ships during World War II, it was American scientists that were able to miniaturize radar and put it in airplanes and use that radar to hunt submarines. The Germans believed this was impossible but it turned the tide of the war in the Atlantic. American scientists were in a race against German scientists to figure out how to split the atom because they knew it would release huge amounts of energy. Our military sabotaged their atomic efforts while our scientific community continued the herculean effort of figuring out how to unleash the power of the atom. The United States won that scientific race which made it possible to end World War II without invading Japan. After the war, Jonas Salk, an American

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EV players returned home for Cheez-It Bowl BY ZACH ALVIRA Tribune Sports Editor

he 2019 Cheez-It Bowl at Chase Field in Phoenix not only provided players from Washington State and Air Force a unique venue, but it also allowed some to play in front of their hometown crowd. “It’s cool to see how far you’ve come just from high school and stuff like that,” said Colin Marquez, who graduated from Red Mountain and is now an offensive lineman for Air Force. “I’m a senior so this is my last ride. It’s pretty fun to think my final game will be where it all started,” he added. Williams Field High School alum Tre Bugg said, “I know a lot of us had to get a lot of tickets for this game because everyone wants to come watch us.” A junior defensive back for Air Force, Bugg played a vital role in the success of Air Force’s defense this season. He’s accounted for 17 total tackles from his start-

Washington State redshirt freshman offensive lineman Hunter Mayginnes represented Hamilton this year in the 2019 Cheez-It Bowl. Mayginnes will soon be joined by his brother, Dylan, who signed with Washington State in December. (Photo courtesy Washington State)

ing defensive back position and has three interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown, this season. In high school, he helped lead the Black Hawks to an undefeated season and 5A ti-

tle in 2016 as a senior. His younger brother, Mason, just finished his senior year at quarterback for the Black Hawks and also won a 5A title. He was recently offered by Air Force.

“Me being the oldest, I really just tried to set a good example for my brothers,” Bugg said. “Mason earned his shot his senior year and broke a bunch of quarterback records at Williams Field. He might have outshined me during the season, but I think my performance was better in the state game.” The pipeline from Arizona to Air Force doesn’t end with Marquez and Bugg. Sophomore defensive back Corvan Taylor played high school football at Gilbert High School. Freshman linebacker Clayton Randall played his high school ball at Saguaro, while fellow freshmen quarterback Keegan Freid and tight end Kyle Patterson played at Sunrise Mountain and Perry, respectively. Sophomore wideout for Air Force DeAndre Hughes graduated from Tempe. Several other local athletes from last year’s class will also be part of the Air

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region-wide flag football league based on creating unique and memorable experiences for kids is preparing for its inaugural season in Gilbert beginning in January. Next Level Sports was created by Patrick Walsh and Lance Smith in 2011 after a disappointing experience with a California league with Walsh’s son, who was in kindergarten at the time. “It was an idea born out of pain,” Walsh said. “I had a kindergartner I put in a local flag league I didn’t like how it was being run. So I thought, what if I just do this myself? I took some flags from the PE locker and just ran around the field at Serra High School with some of his friends.” Walsh, who is the head football coach at Serra in San Mateo, California, invited Smith, his son and more of their friends out to play one weekend. Within a matter of weeks, hundreds of kids showed up to play. “Everyone came for free,” Walsh said. “The first weekend we had 20 kids there,

Next Level Sports is expanding its flag football leagues to Arizona starting in late January, with all games being played at Higley High School in Gilbert. (Photo courtesy Next Level Sports)

the next there was 40. Then all of a sudden there were 100 kids.” Walsh quickly realized he needed help supervising all of the kids who showed up to play. But instead of adult volunteers for each team, he recruited some of his play-

ers from Serra to coach. Soon after, the concept of Next Level was born. “I had the Serra kids come out and help run the drills and have some fun,” Walsh said. “That’s where the magic came to-

gether, and the idea was born to have students be the head coach of these flag football teams. The mentorship piece and giving back to the community is so rich kids are lining up to do it. “They love it. They teach them about competing, the game of football and just having fun, it’s awesome.” Now, Walsh and Smith are bringing Next Level to Arizona. Games will be played at Higley High School in Gilbert, where a new turf field was installed last year. For Walsh, having a nice venue is one of the most important aspects of Next Level. He wants to create a memorable experience for all kids in his league. One way to do that, he believes, is to play in venues that expand well-beyond a park in a neighborhood. This idea stemmed from his own youth days playing at Los Cerros Little League’s baseball field, which to this day remains with him. “I see the mountains and I see the dugout and it all means so much,” Walsh said.

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mom was super happy and my dad. I’ll have some of my old teammates there, it’s Force program next season after spend- just super exciting.” ing the year with the academy’s prep footCruz led the Colts to a 3A state title in ball program. the programs’ second season playing at While Air Force boasts its fair share of the varsity level. The team was entirelocal talent, Washington State has also ly made up of juniors, sophomores and become a destination for players from the freshmen when they went on a dominatGrand Canyon State. ing run. “I was super excited because I was goThe next season, Cruz led the Colts to the ing to be away for Christmas if we went 5A Conference quarterfinals before falling somewhere else,” said Washington State to Higley. He passed for a staggering 3,598 freshman quarterback Gunner Cruz, a yards his senior year and threw 30 touchCasteel High grad. “When we found out downs with only five interceptions. we were playing at the Cheez-It Bowl my Cruz earned a scholarship to Washington State after his junior season and committed in May 2018. He enrolled in the spring of 2019, joining former Central High defensive end and fellow freshman Cosmas Kwete and former Hamilton High and redshirt freshman offensive lineman Hunter Mayginnes to represent Arizona. “Coach (Jeff) Phelps does a great job recruiting Arizona,” Colin Marquez, a graduate of Red Mountain and senior offensive lineman for Air Cruz said. “There’s Force, is one of several local players representing Arizona in the Cheez-It Bowl in so much talent in ArPhoenix. (Pablo Robles/Tribune Staff) izona. Even kids who

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“So, we had that same vision of wanting kids to remember playing in great venues. Why can’t we do that?” There will be four divisions based on grade level this season at Higley High School – Kindergarten and first, second to third, fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh – with four teams in each division. Each team will be limited to 10 players, both boys and girls. The season will run from Jan. 18 to March 7, which includes a playoff tournament. Games will be fiveon-five on a 40-yard field. Each team will be coached by local high school players, who receive compensation for their time. There will also be adult volunteers mentoring each coach. Registration for the league is set at $185, which Walsh admits is on the steeper end. However, all money goes toward renting the facility, paying the coaches as well as

a unique uniform customized for every player. A week after registering, players will receive custom socks, shorts and Nike jersey with their name on it. Teams will practice on Saturdays, an hour before games begin. While not traditional, Walsh says this method allows players who may not have adequate transportation during the week to still participate. “It’s kind of like organizing at the sandlot and getting people from the community together to enjoy youth sports again,” Walsh said. “Parents only have to allocate two hours of their time on the weekend, which many have said is more convenient than practicing during the week.” Higley is the latest on a long list of topnotch venues Next Level has secured for its flag football league. Shortly after it was created at Serra, Walsh and Smith expanded to De La Salle High School in Concord, California. Next

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Washington State freshman quarterback Gunner Cruz, who graduated from Casteel High School, expected several of his former teammates and family to be in attendance for the Cheez-It Bowl. (Photo courtesy Washington State)

weren’t in the newspapers as much are getting recruited to big programs and especially here to Washington State.” Both Kwete and Mayginnes were threestar recruits out of Arizona in their respective classes, as both dominated 6A competition. Mayginnes will soon be joined in Pullman by his younger brother, Dylan, who just wrapped up his senior season at Hamilton and signed with Washington State on Dec. 18. He said he kept a close eye on how the Huskies did this year to turn the program back in the right direction after a 3-7 finish in 2018.

Level now hosts games at 26 different high schools all over the state of California. It’s even expanded to high schools in Oregon, Nevada and Colorado before Arizona. But even with the expansion, the two still aimed to create even more unique experiences for the youth in his league. He managed to partner with the University of California-Berkeley, as one of the sites for his league. Teams are coached by college students and games are played inside California Memorial Stadium, the home of the Cal football team. Walsh and Smith didn’t stop there. They also managed to secure Cal Poly’s football stadium for the league. In Colorado, the University of Colorado’s stadium in Boulder is now also being used. Additionally, Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas, Texas, the home of Southern Methodist University’s football team, is preparing for its first season hosting Next Level.

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“It will just be a great experience to have him up here and show him the ropes a little bit,” Mayginnes said. “It’s a shock to be a top recruit in Arizona and then come up and be among other top recruits from across the country.” The chance to return home to play on a national stage is a special experience for him and all of the players representing Arizona on a daily basis at their respective schools. “I was happy to make it to a bowl,” Mayginnes said. “It’s a cool experience to play back in Arizona in front of my dad, stepmom, some of my friends and maybe old coaches.”

“We want kids to have a unique gameday experience,” Walsh said. “Part of that has to do with the venue. Think about being a kid playing in a college stadium playing flag football. That’s something they’ll always remember.” Walsh said plans are in the works to expand the league to more sites in Arizona, though nothing is set in stone. For now, they aim to have a successful first season at Higley and create lasting memories for all kids involved in the inaugural season. “Whether it’s one kid or now, approaching 11,000, the purpose of this league is to make a child happy and give them a unique experience playing youth sports,” Walsh said. “That’ll never die as long as we are around here. “It’s that type of thing that makes this whole thing rewarding and something I never saw when I opened up the field for my son and his friends to run around back in 2011.” More Info: nextlevelsports.com.

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ll those area couples who got engaged for Christmas are in luck. If they want to get started planning their wedding, the Arizona Bridal Show happens to be making its semiannual appearance next weekend. The show, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 11-12 at the Phoenix Convention Center South Building, will feature just about anyone and anything a couple will need for their nuptials. Started in 1992, the show has grown into the largest of its kind in the country, said Will Hagerty, president of Bridal Fashion Debut. There’s a reason, said Kim Horn, an Ahwatukee resident and one of only 75 certified master wedding planners in the world. “They will be able to create their signature weddings with more than 350 of the Valley’s top wedding experts all in one

The Arizona Bridal Show, coming next weekend to the Phoenix Convention Center, attracts thousands of future brides who want to check out the new fashions in gowns and connect with vendors. (Special to the Tribune)

place,” said Horn. To earn her title, Horn had to win the approval of a panel of three wedding masters, which comes only after education,

professional development, industry experience, philanthropy and a written presentation on how she would plan one of the most difficult weddings anyone could

encounter. She will be at the show, as well as wedding venue representatives, food and beverage suppliers, jewelers, florists and even DJs and some live classical musical groups. And women will get a chance to check out new fashions in bridal and bridesmaid gowns. “Hottest wedding fashion trends for 2020 will be highlighted in runway shows presented by American Furniture Warehouse,” Hall said. Adding: “Wedding gown trends for 2020 include high slits, capes, see-through and sheer fabrics, exposed boning and swag sleeves,” In addition, women can save a bundle on what is one of the most expensive events in a couple’s life by buying gowns at the show at big discounts, Horn said. The “valley’s premier bridal boutiques” will be “displaying hundreds of designer

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s a student at a performing arts high school, Dan’yelle Williamson was told she’d never make it as an artist. It was too hard to make a living that way. “I finally said screw all those people,” said Williamson, whose other choice was to run cross country. “I love a challenge and I’ve always loved a challenge. It just added fuel to my fire. My family wanted me to take whatever route would make me the happiest.” So, she went to the prestigious Boston Conservatory and really started focusing on singing, dancing and theater. It was a career choice that served her well as she has performed in a long line of musicals. Now, she’s coming to ASU Gammage Tuesday, Jan. 7, to Sunday, Jan. 12, as part of “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical.” She’ll play “Diva Donna,” one of three portrayals of Summer in the musical: “Duckling Donna,” the singer in her preteens as she starts out her career in Bos-

ton; “Disco Donna,” the singer in her late teens and 20s as she experiences her initial success; and “Diva Donna” who is in her 50s and at the top of her career. In the industry for 14 years, Williamson was turned on to Broadway when she was “Brooklyn” on the Great White Way. “There were so many other shows out there that were popular, but I wanted to see this nuanced, unconventional piece,” Williamson said. “I fell in love with New York. The energy was pulling me, and I knew I had to be here, I have to figure out a way to be here.” Many years later, she stepped onto Broadway’s stage as a performer in the original cast of “Memphis.” “It was so thrilling and a very full-circle moment,” Williamson said. “To finally make it to Broadway, that is one of the achievements as an actor in your career.” “I still have connections with those cast members and we’re still very close.” While she knew of Summer’s music, Williamson said she didn’t know much about the disco queen’s life until she became a part of the show.

Dan’yelle Williamson plays 1970s disco legend Donna Summer in a big musical about her life that begins Tuesday at ASU Gammage. (Special to the Tribune)

She worked with a New York City entertainment company that sourced artists for weddings and wedding receptions and guests would often request Summer’s songs like “Last Dance” or “Bad Girls.” “I was fascinated to learn she spent a

significant amount of time in Europe. She struggled with separating her personal and performance lives. She had to balance a lot as a mother and to fight for her mu-

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Actor has found his Neverland in touring show BY BRIDGETTE REDMAN GetOut Contributor

Kirk Lawrence plays dual roles of Captain Hook and showmaster Charles Frohman in “Finding Neverland” at the Orpheum Theater this week. (Special to the Tribune)

rom Lost Boy to Captain Hook, Kirk Lawrence has found his Neverland and he’s thrilled to be bringing it to others. He plays the dual role of Charles Frohman and Captain Hook when “Finding Neverland” comes to The Orpheum Theatre via The American Theatre Guild Jan. 10-12. While he’s played many complex roles he’s loved throughout the years, he said this one is a dream come true. Lawrence is no stranger to “Neverland” or classic lands of magic and wonder, having just finished a tour of “Wizard of Oz” last year. His first theatrical experience came when he was 11. His mother took him to the Genesius Theater in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he was cast as a Lost Boy in their production of “Peter Pan.” “I lived there for the rest of my youth, thank goodness,” said Lawrence. “Genesius Theatre pretty much saved my life. Now to come full circle to Captain Hook is kind of delicious. It’s far more than that little kid could have ever dreamed about. I’m blessed at what I do.” “Finding Neverland” tells the story of J.M. Barrie, the creator of “Peter Pan,” and how he became inspired to create the now-famous tale. It is a musical that lives at the midpoint between fantasy and biography. It is a story of creation, of inspiration and of finding oneself in a place of wonder and imagination. Everywhere Barrie goes he sees things that become a part of his eventual masterpiece. “Toward the end of the show, there

is a pseudo-production of ‘Peter Pan,’” said Lawrence. “So, you get to see all these little pieces he’s pulled from everywhere and coalesced into this magical experience. I think if you love Peter Pan, you have to love this show. You watch it come to life and be created in front of you.” He warned while people of all ages enjoy this show, it isn’t a children’s show. There are some adult themes in it. The 2015 musical is based on the 2004 film of the same name featuring Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet with Dustin Hoffman playing the role Lawrence now inhabits. Lawrence has researched the life of Frohman, who is based on an American producer and theatre manager whose most famous accomplishments were discovering great talents, including Ethel Barry- more, and producing Barrie’s “Peter Pan.” Lawrence said the Frohman he plays in “Finding Neverland” is different from the actual man as the character is shown through the filter of Barrie and the musicals need for an antagonist. “Charles Frohman, Barrie’s partner, producer, cheerleader, is, especially in the first act, antithetical to what all the research into Charles Frohman tells me is,” said Lawrence. “He was an incredibly plucky guy, very much the optimist. In ‘Finding Neverland’ he has to be filtered through Bar-

rie’s eyes, so Frohman becomes this driving, sort of very forceful, demanding creature the actual Frohman would have never been.” He said by the second act, Frohman gets to live a little more in his happy self. Lawrence points out Frohman was the really the first theatrical magnet king of the early 20th century and late 19th century. He controlled the theatrical empire. “He was just a very driven, but always positive guy,” said Lawrence. “He was very good at finding talent and helping talent blossom. In a lot of ways, it’s what he does with Barrie in this show, as far as getting him to make Peter Pan something truly wonderful.” It is Frohman in the musical who tells Barrie his play needs an antagonist, giving birth to Captain Hook. Before joining the “Neverland” tour mid-way through 2019, Lawrence had been traveling for a year and a half with the same producing company doing “Wizard of Oz.” However, the need for a hip replacement made it necessary to leave the tour after 296 performances of never missing a show. Toward the end of his tenure in Oz, he decided to look up “Finding Neverland.” “I quietly found a bootleg and watched it and was just blown away,” said Lawrence. “I immediately fell in love with it and then found out our company Apex was taking over the tour. Oz was not left because of Neverland, but I’m glad I left it so I could find Neverland.” He said the dual part of Frohman/Captain Hook is quickly becoming his favorite. “Getting to do it every night, I’m still finding nuances, that’s what keeps it fun,” said Lawrence.

“The music is incredibly memorable, compelling and fun,” said Lawrence. “The two gentlemen who wrote it were very big Beatles fans, so there are some Easter Eggs there. You can feel that influence. It’s fun to sing.” The show travels with about 30 people on a bus and Lawrence said they are together 24/7, whether on the bus, in the hotel or in the dressing room. He loves the people he performs with and it is a treat to spend time with them. “Whenever I get cranky about the schedule, I remind myself I get to do this magical thing,” said Lawrence. “I get to ride around the country with lovely people doing this amazing show, doing what I love to do and someone pays me to do it. What could be better than that? It’s lovely to be doing something your heart is just totally enmeshed in.”

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ave Kindig vividly remembers his first visit to Barrett-Jackson. The host of Velocity’s “Bitchin’ Rides,” Kindig was impressed by the caliber of the available vehicles, and the showmanship of the auctioneers. “I went with a couple friends to experience it,” Kindig said. “We were there with multiple millions of dollars of vehicles being sold. “I remember it was the year Barrett-Jackson sold the Ron Pratte GM Futurliner.” Kindig has since sold a bevy of vehicles through Barrett-Jackson, including a

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1968 Camaro, 1967 Mustang, 1966 Nova and a 1937 Chevy. “We did quite well with all of them,” he said. “It was a great experience with Barrett-Jackson. I don’t sell at any auto auction, unless it’s Barrett-Jackson.” This year’s Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction is set for Saturday, Jan. 11, to Sunday, Jan. 19. Thousands of automobiles, both old and new, will be displayed at WestWorld of Scottsdale. Several celebrity vehicles will also be up for auction, including Travis Barker’s 1941 Cadillac Series 62 Deluxe Convertible, and former Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway’s 1992 Dodge Viper. Kindig is no different. He’s selling a 1972 Chevrolet Blazer Custom SUV at no reserve. The green and white colors represent an ultraclear contrast from the inside out. Painted in PPG forest green all over-GM sheet metal and trim with a vanilla top, Kindig said it looks great on its lowered stance thanks to AccuAir suspension. Under the hood sits a GM Performance LS3 6.2-liter V8 engine, detailed to look part of the era, and backed by a 4L65E four-speed automatic transmission.

Velocity’s “Bitchin Rides” host Dave Kindig has some sweet machines of his own that he will be selling at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction that begins next Saturday at WestWorld in Scottsdale. (Special to the Tribune)

The interior is done in beer foam leather to factory style. The interior features a full, custom stereo. Kindig’s other vehicle on the block is a 1967 Volkswagen Type II double-cab custom pickup “double deluxe.” Kindig calls it

Among the vehicles on the auction block next weekend will be, clockwise from upper left: a 1958 Cushman Truckster with an 8 horsepower, one-cylinder engine; a 1958 Studebaker Lark with 33,000 original miles; a loaded 2004 Mercedes Benz with 109,643 original miles and a 1929 Ford Model A Custom Coupe with a chopper all-steel body on a custom-built frame and 2-speed automatic transmission. (Special to GetOut)

a “fresh concept” of a VW deluxe bus and a double cab mixed in to the “Double Deluxe” and features custom touches. The vehicle is rolling on 17-inch chromed Porsche Fuchs wheels and sitting on new air-ride suspension, with a Type 1 four-speed manual transaxle and powered by a 1915cc 4-cylinder engine topped with a 40 mm carb and a Bergmann Porsche-styled fan shroud. A fourth door was added to the Double Deluxe, as well as the 1958 taillights and rear-quarter air vents. The interior is fully customized by SewFine Interiors in vintage red with velour carpet, while the exterior had many hours of finish, bodywork and then sprayed in modern classics manic red and magic marshmallow. Kindig said it isn’t upsetting to turn the vehicles over to Barrett-Jackson or clients after he’s rehauled them. “I love the camaraderie I have with my clients,” Kindig said. “Every car I’ve done, I’ve been allowed to hang on for a minute. I can take care of logistics, compete, drive it a little bit and put on some miles on it. Make sure it’s valet proof, and then give them back to the clients so they don’t have problems.” Kindig and his team work on about 16 to 20 cars at a time. He is even amazed by his team’s work. “I was watching ‘Beyond Bitchin’’ the other day, where they revisit the most Bitchin’ rides we had done,” said Kindig. “It’s cool to see some of those cars and seeing the builds.” Kindig has sold more than a dozen ve-

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sic. She was being taken advantage of as a woman and as a woman of color.” Williamson said Summer also had interesting relationships, including an unpleasant experience with her church pastor when she was young, followed by unhealthy relationships with men prior to her marriage. Summer – then known as LaDonna Adrian Gaines – dropped out of high school just shy of graduating to head to New York and audition for musicals. She landed a role in “Hair” as Sheila in Munich, Germany, and her parents reluctantly gave her permission to go. She started her career there, became fluent in German and performed in many musicals. Williamson feels a lot of people don’t know Summer’s story because disco isn’t popular right now. Williamson portrays the Summer in her 50s, even though she is only 35. However, she said her life experiences have pre-

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pared her to capture that period of the diva’s life. “I am a mature young lady,” Williamson said. “I’ve lived a lot of life in 35 years. I have had some hard times and I’ve gone through some of the challenges she faced—not being recognized and wanting to be seen for roles I wouldn’t be seen for or considered for in this theater business. I think I just have a natural maturity about me that comes across.” Williamson enjoys not only Summer’s contributions to music and musical history, but the Summer’s personal story. “I enjoy portraying the love she emits,” Williamson said. “She was a very loving, nurturing woman. Outside of her being this megastar and really coming into legendary status, she was a mother and I really identify with that. I’m not a mother yet, but I have nurturing qualities. I love to tap into that every night and the love she used to share with so many.” Information: asugammage.com.

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wedding gowns on sale, with up to 80 percent off bride and bridesmaid gowns, veils, and accessories,” she said. And one couple will have a chance to win the “ultimate wedding giveaway” by getting an information card upon admission and having it stamped by the vendors listed on it. The cards are collected as they leave and one will be drawn to win more than $7,000 worth of wedding services - including a wedding planner for a month. Kaira’s Bridal also will have a separate gown giveaway. The show only comes around twice a year – the other is in June. “In Arizona, most weddings are in March, April and October because of weather. June has the most weddings for other states.” Horn recommends brides and their entourage consider getting there early — not only because the event draws thousands of people preparing to walk down the aisle but also because so many wedding experts will be there. Admission is $12 per person at the door, but $10 by going online to ArizonaBridalShow.com, where other information about the show can be found.

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Air Conditioning/Heating

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Meetings & Events

Appliance Repairs

Genealogy Workshop Set

Appliance Repair Now

602-402-2213

The Pinal County Genealogists will hold their 17th annual workshop on Saturday, January 25, 2020 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1555 N. Colorado St., Casa Grande, AZ. Check-in begins at 8:00 a.m. and the first session starts at 9:00 a.m. The registration fee is $20 for those who are registered by January 11. This fee includes lunch and admission to the day’s workshop. The fee is $25 after January 11 and lunch is not guaranteed. Workshop information and the registration form is available at www.pinalctyazgen.com. Door prizes will be drawn with the two grand prizes being a subscription to Ancestry.com and a DNA kit. The 20 sessions include basic information for beginners and also classes for advanced researchers. A donation of non-perishable food will be accepted. For more information, call Wendy at 480-818-3451.

480-405-7588

If It’s Broken, We Can Fix It! • Same Day Service • On-Site Repairs • Servicing All Major Brands • Quality Guaranteed

We Also Buy, Sell & Trade Used Appliances Working or Not

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Business/ Professional Services

Cleaning Services

Contractors

RED MOUNTAIN MAIDS

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Home Improvement

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602-315-5470

4960 S. Gilbert Rd. Suite #1 Unit #260 John McMillan-Owner Chandler, AZ 85249 sirjohn53@gmail.com

HOME REMODELING REPAIRS & CUSTOM INTERIOR PAINTING Move a wall; turn a door into a window. From small jobs and repairs to room additions, I do it all. Precision interior painting, carpentry, drywall, tile, windows, doors, skylights, electrical, fans, plumbing and more. All trades done by hands-on General Contractor. Friendly, artistic, intelligent, honest and affordable. 40 years’ experience. Call Ron Wolfgang Office 480-820-8515 • Cell 602-628-9653 Wolfgang Construction Inc. Licensed & Bonded ROC 124934

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Handyman

ACTION CONTRACTING INC.

LLC

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WE DO IT ALL!

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Home Improvement

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Irrigation

Landscape Maintenance

Irrigation Repair Services Inc.

• Sprinkler/Drip Repairs • New Installs Poly/PVC • Same Day Service

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Plumbing

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Landscape Maintenance

We will give you totally new landscaping or revamp your current landscaping!

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*$69 drain good Monday thru Friday during normal business hours and not combined with any other offers.

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Plumbing

Window Cleaning

Pool Service / Repair

AE &Sons Pool Plaster Company

All Complete Pool Renovations

Watch for Garage Sales in Classifieds! You will find them easy with their yellow background. Garage Sale Fri & Sat 7a-11am Household, clothes, kitchen items, furniture, electronics, mason jars, kid items, DVDs, MORE 555 W. Lane Dr Mesa

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Remodeling

DIRTY WINDOWS? Call Fish Window Cleaning @ 480-962-4688 and you will have the cleanest windows and screens on the block. Below is the list of services we offer: Windows-Interior & Exterior ScreensSunscreens/Regular Tracks, Ceiling Fans, Light Fixtures Power Washing Your driveways, sidewalks & patios Follow us on InstaGram @FISH_WCEASTVALLEYAZ

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Juan Hernandez Pavers • Concrete • Water Features • Sprinkler Repair

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• All Remodeling • Additions • Kitchen • Bath • Patio Covers • Garage • Sheds • Windows • Doors

• Pointing • Drywall • Roofing Repairs • Painting • All Plumbing • All Electrical • Concrete • Block • Stucco

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PHILLIPS ROOFING LLC Member of ABM

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CR 42 DUAL

623-873-1626

Free Estimates with Pride & Prompt Service!

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FALL SPECIAL! $500 OFF COMPLETE REMODEL! 25 Years Experience • Dependable & Reliable

Not a licensed contractor.

POOL SERVICE & REPAIR ACID WASH SPECIALIST  PUMPS  MOTORS  WEEKLY SERVICE  FILTER CLEANING  DRAINING  GREEN POOL CLEANUP  INSPECTIONS  OWNER OPERATED 

CALL OR TEXT CLAY FOR FREE ESTIMATES

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SAME DAY SERVICE 30 Years Experience References Available Licensed Bonded Insured ROC 286561

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Window Cleaning $100 - One Story $140 - Two Story

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Includes in & out up to 30 Panes

Over 30 yrs. Experience

Sun Screens Cleaned $3 each

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Roofing

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ROC 223367

Public Notices SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA IN MARICOPA COUNTY (TRIBUNAL SUPERIOR DE ARIZONA EN TEL CONDADO DE MARICOPA) Case No. FC2019-095671 Angelica Villalpando Ceja, Petitioner. Francisco Ruan Venegas, Respondent. FAMILY DEPARTMENT/ SENSITIVE DATA COVERSHEET WITH CHILDREN (DEPARTMENTO DE FAMILIA / HOJA DE INFORMCION CONFIDENCIAL CON HILOS) (Confidential Record) / ((Registro Confidencial) Name Angelica Villlpando Ceja, Female, Date of Birth 06-05-73. Francisco Ruan Venegas, Male 01-17-69 Motion to Extend Dismissal Date (Pedimento para Extender la Fecha de Rechazo) I, Angelica Villlpando Ceja, request an extension of the dismissal date because I have not been able to serve the other party or service is not complete. (No he podido notificar a la otra parte o la notification no esta completa.) Published: East Valley Tribune, Dec. 15, 22, 29, 2019, Jan. 5, 2020 / 26697