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FDA warning comes late amid EV vaping epidemic BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer
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moking in the boy’s room has morphed into vaping in the boys and girls’ room as the national e-cigarette vaping epidemic engulfs East Valley schools — possibly making teenagers a new generation hooked on nicotine. Two East Valley school districts began fighting back before the U.S Food and Drug Administration last week declared teen vaping a national epidemic and took aim at e-cigarette manufacturers, threatening them with additional regulation and forcing them to come up with plans to stop minors from buying e-cigarettes. Acting on the results of an undercover sting
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Vaping rigs are common in Gilbert schools.
operation, the FDA also issued 1,300 civil fines and a warning letter to retailers that illegally sold the e-cigarettes to minors.
But the FDA warning comes well after hundreds of kids even in East Valley middle schools have been caught up in vaping. “There has been a noticeable increase of vaping occurring with our students this year, both on campus and off campus,” Gilbert Public Schools warned parents in March. “This is not exclusive to GPS; it is occurring on campuses everywhere in our area, state and nationwide.” At a forum sponsored by the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce in June, two area superintendents See
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EV moms plan state’s first ‘club’ for foster kids SPORTS ...................... 21 Handicapped golfers plan tourney in Mesa.
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hree Gilbert women’s life-long commitment to helping foster children has put them on a mission to convert an old east Mesa church into Arizona’s first community center. The lives of Anika Robinson, Susan Woodruff and Angela Teachout have revolved around children for years. In all, they have 26 children — some biological, some foster and others adopted kids. Their commitment goes well beyond the walls of their homes. After experiencing the challenges of raising abused and neglected children, they worked together in 2016 to get passage of a state law — dubbed Jacob’s Law in honor of one of Woodruff’s foster children — that now requires Arizona to provide foster children
behavioral health services and other assistance at a much faster rate than in the past. Now, Robinson, Woodruff and Teachout are undertaking another major challenge. They are converting the church on University Drive near 80th Street — which once was a Masonic temple — into Jacob’s Mission Community Center. It will be a sort of boys and girls club for foster children. “This will be a first in the state. There isn’t anything like this at all,’’ Robinson said. “When teenagers don’t have someone along the way to help them, it’s hard.’’ See
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Gilbert foster moms, from left, Angela Teachout, Susan Woodruff and on page 8 Anika Robinson are converting a huge Masonic Tempe in east Mesa into the state’s clubhouse for foster children.
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Part of Mesa’s hated colonnade to come tumbling down BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer
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esa’s much-maligned downtown colonnade — a lumbering shade structure installed by the city in the 1980s in front of most Main Street businesses — will be torn down this fall to encourage redevelopment. The Mesa City Council approved an $852,000 contract last week with Rytan, LLC., the lowest bidder to undertake the extensive project, which will rip down the colonnade from 10 downtown buildings. Jeff McVay, the city’s manager of downtown transformation, said the project is needed to create more visibility for downtown storefronts, helping businesses attract more customers and helping landlords attract more businesses, particularly restaurants. Although the project is not cheap, Mesa hopes it will attract a significant number of new businesses and new jobs while injecting more vitality into the area, McVay said. He said the project is a perfect fit with Mesa’s creation of a new downtown campus for Arizona State University in a building planned near ASU. “Visually, it will have a great impact,’’ McVay said. “This will help landlords land new restaurants.’’ In comparison to some other downtown projects — including the $63 million ASU building and the multimillion-dollar Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints redevelopment project near the Mesa Arizona Temple — “this is a small project with a big impact,’’ McVay said. Anyone who spends time downtown for work or pleasure is likely to notice the project sooner rather than later. McVay said the contractor is likely to start ripping down the colonnade in either October or November, with the process taking about three months to complete. Mesa will not shun shade completely, however. A more “architecturally integrated’’ shade feature will replace the colonnade, McVay said. He said the project has been in the planning stages for three years but has been stymied by a lack of funds. The project will be financed largely by $721,240 in federal Community Development Block Grants and by a $130,996 grant from the
(Special to the Tribune)
Some of the colonnade like this one in front of the Pomeroy Building along Main Street in Mesa will be torned down soon in the hope of attracting more businesses, especially restaurants, downtown.
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Because the colonnade was a non-conforming use that was not originally part of the buildings, it also blocked efforts to designate the buildings as historic places, McVay said. McVay said that façade improvements in other cities have demonstrated that private property owners invest $4 for every $1 invested by a municipality. He said it is hoped that private property owners will follow the same path in Mesa
are available. The project’s intent is to capitalize on downtown’s unique assets, which have been obscured and minimized in the past, he said. “Downtown Mesa is authentic. Our building stock is authentic. You can’t replace authentic,’’ Robbins said. A power point presentation by McVay’s department illustrates how façade improvements served as a catalyst for downtown renovations in Escondido, CA; Dayton, OH; and Knoxville, TN. Escondido invested $1 million in façade
“ Downtown Mesa is authentic. Our building stock is authentic. You can’t replace authentic ”
- Jeff Robbins
after the city takes down some of the colonnade and repairs the façades on buildings between Country Club Drive and Center streets. The ripple effect is important because the present project is only considered Phase One, because there are more than 50 properties in the area. Jeff Robbins, a management assistant who works closely with McVay on downtown projects, said the city will consider a second phase if necessary — and if funds
improvements in return for $10.5 million in private investment; Dayton invested $390,000 in return for $3 million in private façade investment; and Knoxville invested $1.2 million in return for $13.48 million in private façade investment. “Small-business owners and jobs are the primary drivers of the Façade Program. It is the ultimate objective of the program to increase business activity and reduce commercial vacancy rates in order to create jobs,’’ the power point presentation said.
“New jobs in this primarily retail, office and restaurant driven area would provide opportunities for employment of low to moderate income residents in downtown Mesa, which currently has an average household income of $28,002 according to the US Census,’’ citing 2016 estimates. Greg Marek, chairman of Mesa’s Historic Preservation Board and a former historic preservation officer, said plans for removing the colonnade were reviewed by the board. “The colonnade prevents any of these buildings from being designated historic. The intent is to return the buildings to their original façade, where feasible,’’ he wrote in a text message. Vic Linoff, president of the Mesa Historic Preservation Foundation, said the foundation has been asking for the colonnade’s removal for more than a decade and that he appreciates the city following through with the project. He said the project corrects a 30-year-old mistake. While the colonnade provided shade, it also was touted as a way to present a unified look when the city installed the covering, Linoff said. But the standardization introduced by the colonnade also blocked the rich array of architectural detail that makes the buildings unique, making it impossible to fully appreciate their architectural character, Linoff said. After the city completes the project, “we know we can create a historic district. We will probably work to create the only commercial historic district in the Valley,’’ Linoff said. He said that outgoing legislator Bob Worsley is interested in restoring the buildings he owns in the area to their original appearance and adding neon signs and other traditional touches that would set Mesa’s downtown apart from others. “If it all comes to fruition, this will be one of the most attractive business districts in the Valley,’’ Linoff said. Robbins acknowledged that the colonnade gave the downtown a “vanilla’’ flavor, the opposite of what people want in today’s world. “We know the potential hidden below the surface of all that stucco. It’s going to be just beautiful,’’ Robbins said. “That diversity of design, that’s what makes an attractive pedestrian environment.’’
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— Kevin Mendivil of Tempe Union and Jan Vesely of Kyrene — both said vaping had become an enormous problem. While Mesa and Chandler, like all districts, forbid all forms of tobacco use, it is unclear if they have taken any special measures to curb vaping among their students. But Kyrene and Tempe Union are trying to fight the dangerous trend. Kyrene is leading the state by becoming the first district in Arizona to test a new kind of monitor. Kyrene officials are installing the monitors in the bathrooms of Aprende Middle School in Chandler that detect vaping fumes and alert school officials via an email or text. Vesely said principals alerted her last spring that vaping was a growing problem at middle schools and that they were spending an inordinate amount of time patrolling bathrooms to crack down on vapers. She said vaping students were intimidating the non-vaping students, threatening them with violence if they reported their activity. The problem stems partly from the addictive quality of vaping and partly from the way these e-cigarettes are made. Students as young as 10 are attracted by the sleek Juul e-cigarettes, which look like flash drives. Experts say the devices also entice children with fruity flavors and that most teens don’t even realize that the e-cigarettes contain nicotine, a highly addictive, insidious drug that makes it hard for many smokers to quit. Calling it “the most commonly used form of tobacco by youth in the U.S.,” the Centers for Disease Control reported last year that “there is already enough evidence to justify efforts to prevent e-cigarette use by young people. ‘Wet lung’ on rise “We know that the vapor from e-cigarettes is harmful because it contains harmful ingredients, including nicotine. Nicotine exposure during adolescence can cause addiction and can harm the developing brain,” the CDC said, estimating that the e-cigarette industry does $2.5 billion in business annually. Teens also risk developing “wet lung” after vaping for only three weeks. The condition can lead to respiratory failure and the need to be placed on a breathing machine. Vesely said members of student councils at middle schools pleaded with her for help when she held her regular monthly meeting with them in May.
(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)
Marcos de Niza High students, from left, Brach Drew, Tyler Marquez and Hailey White discuss their video on vaping.
“Every single middle school, every single middle school representative, said ‘You need to do something about vaping,’’ Vesely recalled, adding that they identified vaping as the thing they like least about school. “It was something I was concerned about, but I didn’t know it was going down to our middle schools,’’ she said. Vesely said Kyrene negotiated a pilot program with Suter Technologies, a New York company that makes the Fly Sense 2 vape detection and bullying alert system. Kyrene plans to install the monitors in seventh and eighth grade bathrooms at Aprende, at a cost of about $900 each. Vesely said that school administrators in other districts are closely watching the
school year. The offenders included 11 freshman, 21 sophomores, 28 juniors and five seniors — 51 boys and 14 girls. But Liewer and students participating in the video project readily acknowledge that the e-cigarette epidemic is far more pervasive than the statistics suggest. Popular across the board Students Tyler Marquez and Matt Bergevin estimated that as many as seven out of 10 students at their school are vapers. Bergevin said a group of vapers sit in the “stoners’’ section at high school football games, passing e-cigarettes to each other and taking hits. Bergevin said he has friends who
It’s not going to stop vaping, “ but we hope it will deter vaping. Kyrene experiment to see if the monitors might improve their defense against vaping. “It’s not going to stop vaping but, we hope it will deter vaping,” Vesely said. The Tempe Union High School District also is working to curb the epidemic through an educational video campaign by Marcos De Niza High School’s student council. The plan is to post the videos on social media platforms with the goal of convincing students who have never vaped to avoid it — and to warn those who vape that they will face a sliding scale of suspensions if they are caught doing it on campus, said Jennifer Liewer, a district spokeswoman. She said 65 incidents of vaping have been reported on Tempe Union campuses in the first five weeks of the current
’’ - Jan Vesely
acknowledge vaping is bad for their health, but they are unwilling to quit, seemingly unaware not only of nicotine’s dangers but also the long-term danger to their lungs posed by the chemical aerosol they are inhaling. While conventional cigarettes have become socially unacceptable, e-cigarettes are the opposite, he said. Vaping is popular in all segments of the student body, including students who get good grades and play sports. “We complain about not having gas money, and then we drop $50 on a vape. It makes no sense,’’ Bergevin said. “Those same people say, I’ll never smoke a (conventional) cigarette. That’s gross, that’s foul.’’ Marquez said students greatly underestimate nicotine addiction and don’t com-
prehend that an e-cigarette is similar to a conventional cigarette, with both of them serving as nicotine delivery devices. “It’s not good to put anything in your lungs except oxygen,’’ he said. “Addiction runs very strongly in my family. It extremely scares me. That’s why I am so strongly against it.’’ Hailey White, a volleyball player, said she is under a lot of stress to get good grades, but she realizes that there are better ways to cope with stress than relying on nicotine or other drugs. “I think it’s a complete excuse,’’ White said. “I am an athlete. I am taking honors classes. I don’t want to be sold to nicotine.’’ Arizona’s smoking rate has dropped to 15 percent after enactment of a torrent of tax increases, smoking restrictions and public health campaigns designed to deter the habit over the course of several decades. But experts on addiction, such as Stephanie Siete, a spokeswoman for the Community Bridges behavioral health agency, and University of Arizona professor Judith Gordon, worry that all these advances are being undermined by the increasingly popularity of e-cigarettes. Siete said national surveys have found that only 4 percent of teens smoke conventional cigarettes while 36 percent have tried vaping. $2.5 billion industry targets kids “This is blowing up all over the country, vaping and oils,’’ Siete said. “It’s a universal thing that a lot of kids don’t think it’s dangerous, that us adults are lying.’’ Siete, in a workshop attended by more than 50 parents and their children at Aprende, said that 66 percent of teens think vape juices contain flavorings and only 19 percent realize that the majority of them contain nicotine. Although Juul has repeatedly said they are targeting adult smokers, trying to convince them to vape instead, Siete and other critics disagree, citing the flavors. “They are 100 percent targeting children,’’ Siete said. Gordon, a psychologist, said young people are a difficult group to sway because they often think they are invincible. “It’s a cool, hip product. They have definitely taken a page out of the advertising from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s’’ from the cigarette industry, Gordon said. “Nicotine is nicotine, no matter how it is delivered.’’ She said studies have found that once teens become addicted to nicotine, they are more likely to start smoking tobacco cigarettes to satisfy their cravings. Gordon is using a grant to update an See
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The relentless trio created a new nonprofit, ASA Now — which stands for Advocacy, Support and Assistance — to raise money for Jacob’s Mission and also to provide outreach services to the families of foster children at donated facilities in the East Valley. Despite adamant opposition from neighbors, they worked with Phoenix zoning attorney Adam Baugh to convince the Mesa Board of Adjustment to grant a special use permit that allows the building to be used as a community center. ASA Now also has secured a $1 million loan from an anonymous philanthropist that enabled them to purchase the three-acre property, which includes the 8,222-square-foot temple. Robinson, ASA Now’s president, declined to identify their benefactor except to say, “It’s someone who has a heart for foster care and foster children.’’ The moms now face the daunting task of renovating the former church, which originally opened in 1992 as a Masonic Temple and then became the Church of God of Prophecy, which catered to a Hispanic congregation. The plain-looking block church is painted white and has a simple white cross outside. It sits on a secluded lot and is not readily visible from the busy road. A classroom building is planned on an empty lot behind the church building, along with a basketball court, a splash pad and other recreational facilities. Although ASA Now has raised about $100,000, the cost of bringing the building up to code will be much higher. ASA Now is seeking donations and hoping that donors with skills in the building trades will come to its assistance. Robinson said the goal is to create a place where foster children feel at home — which would contribute to their sense of stability at a time in their life when their world is in turmoil. Volunteers familiar with the problems often associated with foster children would provide tutoring, mentoring and instruction in recreational activities ranging from music to basketball. Support groups for both foster children and foster parents also would be available, along with supervised daycare that allows parents to have some time for themselves once in a while. “One way or another, we are responsible,’’ Robinson said. “That’s why it’s a community center. It’s going to take the entire community to help these children.’’ Because of their special needs, the chil-
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This massive former Masonic Temple in Mesa may soon become a gathering place for foster children if three Mesa moms can raise enough money.
dren often “don’t fit in’’ and often are behind in school because they have been moved from one foster family to another, she said. ASA Now plans to rely on the network of people they have met as foster parents to work with the children. For example, a music teacher who also is a foster parent plans to volunteer her time. Woodruff said the children haven’t lived with the same family long enough to participate in the activities that other children do — things like youth sports leagues, dance lessons, piano lessons and all the other learning experiences that help children develop. “We want to wrap our arms around the entire family,’’ Robinson said. She envisions the new community center as a place that will nurture the children, where they are understood, where they can go even if they end up with another family. “We put our son on a basketball team. They kept on saying, what’s wrong with him, why isn’t he paying attention,’’ Robinson said. Without intervention, foster children have a history of a grim future, often ending up in prison or abusing their own children in a never-ending cycle of violence, she said. “We are focusing on prevention,’’ Robinson said. She said it takes someone with experience dealing with foster children to understand them and reach these kids. Robinson said it’s important to understand that foster children, like all of us, didn’t get to pick their parents. Many foster children were born to mothers who used alcohol or drugs during their preg-
nancies. Through no fault of their own, the children have been left with deficits that they need to overcome, through fetal alcohol syndrome, ADHD and other issues. Some of these parents are still using drugs or in prison, leaving them incapable of being effective parents. Other nonprofit agencies in the East Valley that are dedicated to helping foster children are excited about Jacob’s Mission. “I think having a place for these kids to go, be safe and learn about resources is very important,’’ said Katie Pompay, executive director of Helen’s Hope Chest in central Mesa, which collects donated clothing, toys and books for foster children. “I am very excited to see Jacob’s Mission coming to light,’’ she said. “The more systems for foster children, the better.’’ Although the Arizona Department of Child Safety has been reducing the number of foster children by placing more of them with relatives, there are still plenty who need help, Pompay said. She said Mesa has always had a large number of foster children, although no specific figures were available from DCS. Darren DaRonco, a DCS spokesman, said there were 14,558 foster children in Arizona as of June, compared with about 18,900 in March 2016. DaRonco declined comment on the new community center for foster children but appeared to support its mission. “While we have been successful in lowering the number of children in foster care, there is still a need for people willing to offer a loving home to a child in care and for the community to support children in foster care any way that they can,’’ DaRonco said.
Kim Vehon, CEO of Foster Arizona, said Jacob’s Mission will provide an opportunity for foster children to learn that they are not alone, that there are other children trying to overcome the disadvantages of a dysfunctional upbringing, and that the children likely will mentor each other. “I think the community center will be a really good thing for the foster community,’’ Vehon said. “We’ve got people who understand trauma. We’re here to help raise them up.’’ First, ASA Now needs to raise the building up to the standards set by the Board of Adjustment. Robinson focused more on the building’s potential than its shortcomings during a tour. “It’s the perfect set-up for it,’’ Robinson said. For instance, the sanctuary has a sound system that was used for services. It can be used by the community center for music lessons or performances. It could be used as a makeshift theater for movie nights. Other rooms in the church can be used for counseling sessions, or for ASA Now’s office. But the church was built to bare-bones standards. Light fixtures are exposed and not located behind drywall. The floors need replacement. The kitchen has some working appliances but needs a major update. “We need to bring it up to standard before we can bring children in here,’’ Robinson said. Despite the long list of necessary improvements, Robinson, Woodruff and Teachout don’t seem worried in the slightest about accomplishing their goals. At every stage of their campaign to help foster children, good-hearted people have come forward to help, they say. They are hopeful that the same thing will happen again. Anyone willing to help in some manner or to donate is asked to go to asanow.org. “I always believe, with the right people in place, anything is possible,’’ Teachout said.
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Ahwatukee in particular, such great places for families? Gilbert (9th) and Chandler (10th) got high ranks for their affordability. Gilbert also scored well in health and safety (13th) and socio-economics (13th). Had it not tumbled in family fun (64th) and education and child care (63rd), the town once known as “The Hay Capital of the World” likely would
have been in the top 5 and possibly even challenged Overland Park, Kansas, for the No. 1 spot. Chandler’s 93rd in education and child care likely cost it a spot in or near the national top 10. WalletHub compared cities across 46 key metrics. WalletHub also compared the 50 states across 42 key indicators of family-friend-
liness. Raising a healthy, stable family sometimes requires moving for career transitions, better schools, financial challenges or perhaps a general desire to change settings. Wants and needs, however, don’t always align in a particular state, which might offer, for instance, a low income-tax rate yet subpar education system. Consequently, a family might make unnecessary sacrifices, the kinds easily avoided by knowing which states offer the best combination of qualities that matter most to parents and their kids. In order to determine which cities are most conducive to family life, WalletHub included the 150 most-populated U.S. cities, plus at least two of the most-populated cities in each state. It assessed five key categories: family fun, health and safety, education and child care, and affordability and socioeconomics. Factors included things like number of playgrounds, air and water quality, access to healthy foods and a number of other data sets from more than two dozen agencies.
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Appropriate flavors play an important role in helping adult smokers switch,’’ the statement says. “By working together, we believe we can help adult smokers while preventing access to minors, and we will continue to engage with the FDA to fulfill our mission.’’ Juul and four other e-cigarette companies have 60 days to submit a plan to the FDA for reversing the trend of teens buying and using their products. The FDA in March announced longterm plans for forcing cigarette companies to reduce nicotine to non-addictive levels, with an overall goal of switching smokers
to e-cigarettes. But Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the FDA commissioner, said Wednesday that those plans must be adjusted to protect teens from becoming a generation of nicotine addicts through e-cigarettes. “I believe certain flavors are one of the principal drivers of the youth appeal of these products,’’ Gottlieb said in an FDA press release. “While we remain committed to advancing policies that promote the potential of e-cigarettes to help adult smokers move away from combustible cigarettes, that work can’t come at the expense of our kids.’’
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f you’re looking for a great place to raise your family, you’re already there if you live in the Southeast Valley, at least in the opinion of WalletHub, which creates lists on just about everything. Of the 182 communities across the country that WalletHub evaluated, Gilbert cracked the national top 10 as the 10th-best place to raise a family and Chandler, at No. 19, cracked the national top 20. Mesa was 77th and Tempe 81st. Although Phoenix was 106th, the Ahwatukee community, essentially a city unto itself in the Southeast Valley despite being part of Phoenix, has similar amenities to Gilbert and Chandler, and a case could be made for it, too, being among the national top 20. Overall, though, Arizona was ranked 40th among states for raising a family. Things are not so bad here. Disagree? It could be worse. You could live in Newark. Or Detroit. Or Miami or Cleveland. They’re the bottom four on the list. What makes the Southeast Valley overall, and Gilbert, Chandler and perhaps
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If the family is into butterflies and diverse wildlife habitat, Chandler’s 113-acre Veterans Oasis Park has them as well as the Environmental Education Center, urban fishing lake and wetlands. Amenities like this make the city among the best places to raise a family.
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Mesa’s ‘Human Calculator’ wants kids to join a counting bee BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Executive Editor
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cott Flansburg is strictly by the numbers. But then, what would you expect when the Mesa man makes his living and has attained an international reputation as The Human Calculator? He holds a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for his speed at mental calculation, teaches and extols the beauty of math and is a media personality who is much courted by meeting and convention planners for his entertaining — yet astonishing — numerical agility. A best-selling author, he’s also the host of a show carrying his nickname on The History Channel International. Now, Flansburg has embarked on a new mission. He’s sowing the seeds for the math equivalent of the age-old spelling bee. Naturally, it’s called the Counting Bee,
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Scott Flansburg of Mesa is known as The Human Calculator for his remarkable ability to compute mathematical formulas quickly. Now he wants to start an international counting bee, starting first with a statewide competition this year in Mesa.
what he envisions as an annual fast-paced competition to find the fastest human counters in every age group, from 5 and even younger to 18.
“I’m on a mission to reach every kid on planet earth,” he said. And he aims to make Mesa the birthplace of it all. “To launch this new con-
test and have the first one here is very sentimental to me,” said Flansburg, who moved to Mesa in 1988 after a tour of duty in the Air Force. He has enlisted the support of Mesa Public Schools, the Arizona Association of Teachers of Math, the Arizona Technology Council and its foundation, the Mesa Chamber of Commerce and Mesa Community College to hold a statewide counting bee Nov. 8 at MCC. Next year, he plans a national counting bee and by 2020, an international competition to identify the world’s best “mathletes.” Schools have until Oct. 4 to sign up, and so far, he said, the reaction has been enthusiastic. Partly that’s because a counting bee would teach kids the value of knowing how to handle numbers in their head instead of turning to a calculator or a computer. Besides, he said, math has a beauty and See
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n the most recent study by the Environmental Protection Agency, 548 million tons of construction and demolition debris are generated in the U.S. each year. Demolition and construction projects produce immense tonnage of debris that includes wood, metal, stone and concrete. Stardust, a Southeast Valley nonprofit headquartered at 1720 W. Broadway Road in Mesa, is taking action by partnering with several Valley companies to divert these materials from the landfill to repurpose and resell. Stardust, the only building-material reuse nonprofit in metro Phoenix, has created “Starve the Landfill,” focused on sustainability in the construction industry. Starve the Landfill stresses the importance of deconstruction and donating building materials to be reused and repurposed. The goal is to create a strong community of eco-friendly contractors and suppliers that want to reduce their material waste. “One of the amazing benefits is that local companies will be acknowledged for
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Stardust, a Southeast Valley nonprofit headquartered at 1720 W. Broadway Road in Mesa, is partnering with several Valley companies to divert used building materials at construction sites from the landfill to repurpose and resell.
their partnership and commitment to sustainability and the reuse of building materials,” said Karen Jayne, CEO of Stardust. Four Valley companies have partnered with Stardust thus far in its Starve the Landfill program, including Stradlings Cabinetry, G.M. Hunt Builders, Iron
Doors Arizona and Scottsdale Custom Building Materials. Stardust currently diverts 5 million pounds of reclaimed building materials a year from the landfill. With this program, it will exceed that. Companies looking to join this green
movement must complete a pledge stating that they will redirect reusable building materials by utilizing Stardust’s free deconstruction and donation pick-up services. In return, Stardust provides professional donation services to the companies and its clients. “This program is important because of the potential it has to create a change in our community,” said Jason Carlyle, resource development manager of Stardust. See
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a power that kids today need to be successful adults. “There’s two parts about mental math: it’s beautiful art, but secondly, it wires your brain for logic. No other language in the world allows for the opportunity to create order. This counting bee aims to help kids transcend this fear of numbers that has become rampant. It’s become almost socially acceptable to be bad at numbers, and that’s not good,” he said. “The computer today is almost like a crutch,” he added. “When you have a calculator, it’s hard to inspire them.” The way the bee will work is this way: A successive series of numbers will define each round of the competition: first round, 3; second round, 4 and so forth. Then, each contestant will be given a randomly selected number of one or more digits and will have 15 seconds to count as high as he or she can by the number of the round. For example, a contestant assigned the number 123 in round three would have to start counting at 123 by 5 — 128, 133, etc. Those contestants who botch the count when their 15 seconds is up will be eliminated, and the survivors would proceed to the next round until one boy or girl is left standing in each age category. Flansburg is assembling prizes for the winners but is hesitant to say what they are. Besides, prizes aren’t the point — inspiration is. “I hope to inspire schools to have more mental math athletics,” he explained. When it comes to math athletics, Flansburg, 55, is in a rarified circle of champions.
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“We want contractors and suppliers to think twice before throwing away reusable building materials and help minimize the waste created. Every piece helps provide homeowners with a low-cost alternative for home remodel and repair.” Stardust is constantly growing and striving to do more for the community and the environment. Its free deconstruction services and reuse centers offer customers affordable used building supplies, which keep them out of the landfill. Stardust, founded in 1997, is a nonprof-
A math teacher for 30 years, he solves equations at superhuman speed and competes every four years in an international competition that he started, called Memoriad. It showcases feats of memory, mental calculation and speed reading. 162 people from 27 countries will compete in Las Vegas this week. He’s been in the Guiness Book of World Records for more than 20 years, having landed there initially by correctly adding a randomly selected two-digit number — 38 — to itself 36 times in 15 seconds. He said he benefits from an oversize Brodmann area 44, a portion of the brain located next to the left temple that doctors believe is associated with ability to understand and use numbers. Flansburg’s is nearly five times larger than that of the average person. “Cube roots are easy,” he said when asked about his mental capacity. “But I focus on the mental math that most people should be able to do in everyday life.” Flansburg discovered his talent, which scientists estimate belongs to less than a dozen people worldwide, in fourth grade when he was 9 and outperformed his algebra teacher. But unlike most geniuses of his caliber, Flansburg doesn’t boast an Ivy League Ph.D. He dropped out of high school at age 18 to join the Air Force, after which he got into his lifelong passion: teaching kids to love math. And that’s the whole purpose behind his new campaign. “I hope this begins a numeracy campaign and gives parents a chance to get back into the equation,” he said. “Numbers are the most powerful language in the universe and the most feared, and I want to take the fear out of them.” it that operates two home-improvement reuse centers, which sell gently-used, salvaged and surplus building materials at affordable prices. Stardust encourages reuse and repurposing in the community through innovation, education and partnerships. In its 20-plus years, it has diverted nearly 80 million pounds of usable building materials from the landfill, served more than 1 million customers, and through its Gifts In Kind program has provided nearly $21 million in household items to hundreds of non-profit organizations. For more information, visit stardustbuilding.org or call 480-668-0566.
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collaborate, that means that we are doing some good work that is both f you happened to pass near a downimportant and visible.” town Phoenix coffee house on an eveProject Humanities’ ning back in April of this year, you may fall 2018 events kick have heard the voices of an impassioned off with a world café discussion about the future of technology titled “Conversations and society. on Gender and VioAnother night, if you happened to be lence: What’s Missing?” walking by a particular church, also in It will explore the realidowntown Phoenix, you may have seen ties and complexities of a stream of people leave the building, all gender-based violence, seemingly enlightened and still chattering considering different away with others about the discussion they perspectives through had just participated in about how we raise File photo table discussions and boys in our society. Neal Lester, Foundation Professor of English at ASU, also founded knowledgeable facilitaOn a Saturday early morning, if you and directs Project Humanities on the university campus. tors. happened to be near the 12th Avenue Other events this fall include “The Bell His organization has created opportusidewalk between Jefferson and Madison Streets, you may have seen several tables, nities for provocative, relevant, balanced, that Tolls: A Conversation on Death and a trailer hitched to a truck, two long lines and quality discussions and events that Dying” and “Dispelling the Myths: Living of people, and other individuals folding reach across disciplines, communities and with Trauma and PTSD.” The format of Project Humanities proclothing, then guiding, one by one, the generations to engage in “talking, listening grams is as varied as its diverse audiences, lines of people through the clothes, shoes, and connecting.” Lester, foundation professor of English Lester said. blankets, toiletries and bags — all for free. For instance, the upcoming “Dispelling This is the work of ASU Project Human- at ASU, said, “To witness the excitement ities, an award-winning university initia- of this initiative from others is so gratify- the Myths: Drag Queens and Drag Kings” tive that, for the past eight years founded ing. When we have our enthusiasts, vol- showcases local drag performers. In “Vital Voices: Social Justice Pearls unteers and supporters coming to us to by East Valley professor Neal A. Lester. Tribune News Staff
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Frank Schmuck is a strong supporter of public education. He supported all increases in funding for education and all teacher pay raises. As our next State Senator, he will fight to increase education funding, and to ensure our teachers receive nationally competitive salaries that reflect the great work they do teaching our children.
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Sean Bowie ran for the State Senate promising to restore education funding, but Sean Bowie has NOT kept that promise. Bowie did not introduce a single piece of legislation to increase education funding or increase teacher pay. In fact, Bowie voted against raising teacher pay in 2017, and opposed a $300 million increase in education funding. SB 1522 and HB 2537
Frank Schmuck is committed to improving Arizona’s roads and infrastructure. In the State Senate, he will push common sense legislation that increases transportation funding without raising gas taxes.
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Frank Schmuck is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, a military veteran and an airline pilot with strong ties to our community. He’s been an active volunteer who has raised thousands of dollars to assist students in our community with their education costs. As our State Senator, Frank will always put the interests of his constituents and his district first.
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As a State Senator Bowie voted to appropriate $1 billion to his previous employer. After the session Bowie was awarded a prestigious new job with the same employer that enabled him to skirt laws governing conflicts of interest for elected officials. HB 2547
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earching for a job online can be frustrating and time-consuming, but a new Chandler company is promising to make it easier for candidates to put their best foot forward and land an ideal position. VCandidates.com, which will officially launch Oct. 15, aims to make it simpler for candidates to connect with vetted recruiters in a confidential setting where they can find a company where their skills and personality will be a good match, according to LT Ladino Bryson, CEO, chief marketing officer and founder. “Our site is specifically a subscriptionbased site for candidates and recruiters only,” Ladino Bryson said. “The candidates go on, they create their profile; it’s very extensive with reference checks, background checks, personality tests, videos. They’re looking for not a job, but a career and lifestyle.” “Vcounselors” will help candidates put their profiles together, she said. “Our goal is to build up candidates,” Ladino Bryson said. “They call me the employment therapist. My job is to make it as easy as possible. It really puts the control of the hiring process in the candidates’ hands.” A basic membership for job candidates is $50 one time to sign up and $15 a month, while a premium membership will be $175 to sign up and $15 a month. Premium members will have a background check performed on them that will be presented to the potential employer. Recruiters will pay $299 a month to subscribe to vCandidates.com, which Ladino Bryson said is much less than other job-finding sites that charge recruiters at least twice that amount for subscriptions. A pre-sale will allow the first 500 recruiters who sign-up for a subscription to vCandidates.com to pay $250 per month and be locked into that rate if they register by the end of this month. Ladino Bryson said she has a database of more than 20,000 job candidates from across the country as of Aug. 21.
tion and the recruiters. We b i n a r s will include free viewings and paid viewing events aimed at developing confident candidates who show appropriate behaviors during the hiring process. The website will also house information on free online (Special to the Tribune) VCandidates.com CEO, chief marketing officer and founder LT Ladino Bryson appeared on p r o g r a m s Money Radio in August. that accredited learning Candidates with basic and premium centers provide. The learning center will memberships take personality tests and also have blogs, articles and messages from answer “culture-fit” questionnaires to hiring professionals, as well as trainers indetermine if they are “like-minded” and cluding question-and-answer events with would “fit into company culture” at a par- Ladino Bryson. The company also has the “vCan Manticular business, Ladino Bryson said. Job seekers can also submit up to four ager,” an employment relationship manresumes to reveal their diverse abilities ager that acts as a communication manand experiences in case they are open to ager between recruiters and candidates. It automatically tracks the screening, applying for different types of positions. The site is tailored to people who want search, communication and presentation to earn at least $19 an hour or at least process and is also the name of the company’s mobile app. $40,000 a year. The “vCan Manager” allows for sending The Internet is full of job scams, including people offering what are fake jobs or messages and providing notifications, ofadvertising fake companies and asking for fers automatic interaction with the interpersonal information including Social Se- view calendar and automatically updates curity numbers or payments to try to steal the interview pipeline and presentation method, as well as delivers real-time proidentities, profiles and money. Vcandidates.com carefully screens those cess notifications. Candidates will receive “clear comseeking positions to ensure the recruiters munication as to where they are in the are legitimate, Ladino Bryson said. “They’re going to get a confidential interview process,” according to vCanplatform, the confidence of knowing the didates.com. Recruiters can create and pre-load reperson looking at their information has been vetted, too, and is a viable recruiter,” sponse emails to be sent to job seekers as recruiters update their interest in the she said. Vcandidates.com also offers what it calls candidate without having to remember to vUniversity, an online learning and infor- send the emails manually. Candidates will be able to apply for mation center for anyone seeking a posi-
scholarships through vCandidates.com to help pay for classes to help them earn certifications, starting six months after the company launches. Those certifications can help them get job offers. Longtime recruiter Melanie Crouch is going to use vCandidates.com. A recruiter for 19 years, she is a friend of Ladino Bryson and said vCandidates. com is “phenomenal and brilliant for the recruiting industry.” Crouch owns a recruiting company Triple P and lives in Sierra Vista but plans to base her business out of Chandler. “It’s not a job board,” Crouch said. “It’s beyond comparable to any Indeed(.com) or Monster.com. She has brought these recruiters and these candidates together where they can actually relate together, communicate together in one area. It’s something this industry has been needing for many, many years.” She said vCandidates.com will save recruiters time, and “the one thing that’s the most important is time management and organization.” “With this tool, you’re able to communicate with your client and the recruiter and the candidate and get that set up in a timely manner,” Crouch said, adding: “It’s really nice, and the portal is so userfriendly for anybody to use. It’s really, really grand for the candidates. Candidates are the key to the recruiting industry.” She added the website also will give “passive candidates” — those who have a job but are searching for another position — more privacy. Crouch also praised Ladino Bryson, who has been recruiting job candidates since 2012. Ladino Bryson said she has placed more than 600 job candidates. “LT is a very well-organized individual with a special heart,” Crouch said. “She really has love for this industry and cares enough about it to create something like this to share with the people. It’s gonna explode. She’s gonna do really well.” Ladino Bryson is happy to run her business in Chandler. “I think it’s a thriving city,” she said. “It’s got a lot of great companies there. I have love for Chandler.” Information: vcandidates.com.
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Political correctness giving free speech a battering today BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist
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sed to be, there were tons of things you didn’t discuss in polite company, like religion and politics. You never asked people how much money they earned, and you never asked a woman how much she weighed. Now? Folks talk, tweet and twaddle on about every last thing: bad dates and stale sex lives, divorce dirt, MAGA this, treason that, sexism, racism and every other -ism. Given all the chatter, you’d think we’d be used to disagreeing with each other. Yet there’s never been a worse time in American history to express objectionable things aloud, as alleged comedian Norm MacDonald found out this week when he mouthed off about the #MeToo movement and expressed sympathy for his pals, current pariahs Roseanne Barr and Louis C.K..
MacDonald on #MeToo: “I’m happy the … movement has slowed down a little bit. It used to be, ‘One hundred women can’t be lying.’ And then it became, ‘One woman can’t lie.’ And that became, ‘I believe all women.’ And then you’re like, ‘What?’” MacDonald on Barr, who lost her TV sitcom reboot over racist tweets, and C.K., whose career went DOA after accusations of sexual harassment: “There are very few people that have gone through what they have, losing everything in a day. Of course, people will go, ‘What about the victims?’ But you know what? The victims didn’t have to go through that.” While I think MacDonald has a point about #MeToo, I’d rank his callousness dismissing victims of racism and sexual assault as perhaps a seven on a scale of one to a Klan meeting. MacDonald didn’t appear malicious in his interview with the Hollywood Reporter. More like an ignorant doofus bab-
bling off the top of his head. Even so, he got axed from a Tonight Show appearance hours later. As for his new Netflix talk show, I imagine it’ll be cancelled soon, if not before it premieres, then after three episodes no one bothers to watch. All of which brings me to a few questions maybe you can help answer: How much honesty can we actually tolerate these days? And at what point does your First Amendment right to free speech bump up against society’s new favorite sport: Punishing people who say or write stupid things? This is a subject close to my heart for a couple reasons: I say a lot of stupid stuff. And some of it appears in print in this newspaper and online. As a professional expresser of dumb things, I find myself fretting more lately than at any time in the last 20 years about whom might get offended and how they might react. For example, I wrote last month that I
disagree with people who think the cops are “getting away with murder.” That occasioned quite a few nasty email responses, including one reader who wished that a black police officer would someday soon “whip my (expletive) for my ignorance.” When I was a kid, my mother used to caution me, “It’s one thing to be an idiot. But it’s another thing to open your mouth and prove it to everybody.” That was back in the '70s, when I was 10 and mouthing off usually got you a timeout or a detention. Now, stupidity goes viral in an instant, ending careers and potentially bringing down the self-righteous wrath of the masses. Those doing the punishing seem to believe they are rooting out evil, purging society of offenders who think wrong, speak wrong, write wrong. Me, I disagree with that approach. So long as you’re simply saying stupid things, I don’t much mind. Heck, I prefer it. I like to know who the idiots are.
No matter how you vote, always vote for the children BY O. ROBIN SWEET EVT Guest Writer
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n November, Arizona voters will decide whether expanding the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program makes sense. It was originally started to help the parents of disabled children, foster children, or active military. It evolved, with little controversy, to include adopted children, children attending D/F rated schools and those in Native American communities. About 5,000 children are now using the scholarships to attend private schools or be home-schooled, if they don’t feel the public-school system is right for their special, unique needs. This past year, a majority of the Arizona State Legislature decided that there should effectively be no restrictions on the use of these funds, allowing anyone, regardless of circumstance, to use them. Public school advocates believed this to be a bridge too far and decided to refer the expansion to a
public vote in the fall. I write not to encourage you one way or another on the expansion. That is your vote. I wish to shine a light on the original intent of the program. I run Gateway Academy in Phoenix. It is private and one
Scholarship Accounts, parents can send their children to our school free of charge, if they feel existing public-school options are not the best or most effective. We use unconventional means from equine therapy to forming rock bands to motivate and educate our amazing stu-
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is merely a diagnosis, and it does not define who you are. ” of only five schools in the country that educates a “pure population” of children in grades K-12 with Asperger’s Syndrome. They come to us because they may have been bullied or left behind or really never felt a hug from a classroom. In many ways, we specialize in changing lives, these very, very special lives. We remind them Asperger’s is merely a diagnosis, and it does not define who you are, just as it was for Bill Gates, Ralph Nader, Al Gore and many others. Thanks to Arizona’s Empowerment
dents into productive, wonderful members of our community. We are pleased to report that in the past several years, 100 percent of our graduates have gone onto college, emancipating their dreams and fulfilling those of incredible parents. There was a young man that came to us after being bullied at his other school. He’s now a sophomore in high school, building 3D printers for the school. Then there’s a student who couldn’t read or write when he came to us as a fourth-
grader. He’s now a senior who often leads our morning meetings with the student body, instructing in manners and performing as a musician. And how about a young African-American woman who could barely speak during our initial interview? She has now come out of her shell to become a composer and musician. Whether Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for more, or all, is now a call for Arizona voters to make. No matter how the vote goes, it will not impact the state’s existing program for disabled children, or ours with Asperger’s Syndrome. For the most precious and precarious in our state, Empowerment Scholarship Accounts have already made an incredible difference. Public schools do a great job too, but for some, our expertise and focus is a better option. And that’s something we believe is worth celebrating, whether you vote yes, or no, on Nov. 6. -O. Robin Sweet is executive director/CEO of Gateway Academy
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Adaptive equipment brings disabled golfers to the fore BY ERIC NEWMAN Tribune Staff Writer
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atching a drive sail straight down the fairway or sinking a 20-foot putt might only be dreams to many who enjoy golf but who do not have the ability to walk. They watch others live those satisfactions. That might only reinforce that they are different or somehow inadequate. Tim Surry says it doesn’t have to be that way. He’s living proof. He cannot walk, but thanks to equipment now available to him and others like him at Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, he can play the game he loves. “You get to see everybody eye-to-eye at the same level, and give them a high-five after a good shot or something. There’s just something about being out there and everybody’s equal regardless of disability or whatever’s going on,” Surry said. Longbow is among the first public-access courses in the area to purchase and offer SoloRider adaptive golf equipment. Surry said the ability to play one of his favorite sports has improved his selfesteem. He’s seen similar outcomes with others to whom he’s introduced the equipment. It will be on display and in use during the third annual Ability360 Charity Golf Tournament on Sept. 21 at Longbow, 5601 E. Longbow Parkway in Mesa. An Ability360 Sports & Fitness Center member, many with a disability, will play in each foursome. Last year, 144 golfers filled the sold-out, best-ball field and raised nearly $40,000 to benefit the center. Ability360, 5031 E. Washington St. in Phoenix, is among the nation’s first fullyadaptive sports and fitness centers. Surry, who has participated in the tournament since its inception, and is the adaptive-golf coordinator at Ability360, has used the SoloRider golf cart for about four years. “You actually sit down in the machine. Your knees are buckled in and you’ve got a belt around your waist and straps around your chest. It actually stands you upright, where you can approach the ball looking down on top of it as you would as normal as possible,” Surry said. He has seen users’ demeanor and self-
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Tim Surry, adaptive-golf coordinator at Ability360 Sports & Fitness Center, sinks a putt from the SoloRider adaptive golf cart. Surry, who cannot walk, will be among those playing in the Ability360 Charity Golf Tournament on Sept. 21 at Longbow Golf Club in Mesa.
confidence lift after a solid drive or sinking a long putt – or even playing from the rough. The satisfaction is in simply being able to play. “Maybe they’ll have that smile the rest of the day, or the rest of the week,” he said, “or just to the next hole if it goes bad afterward.” SoloRider, manufactured in Plano, Texas, is designed to improve accessibility and enjoyment of golf for seniors and mobility-impaired players while growing the game and creating value for golf courses. The SoloRider features a patented stand-up seat with swivel capability. It meets or exceeds all applicable ANSI safety standards. Optional accessories include a canopy, turbine wheel covers, tow bar and towing hitch, mirrors, street lighting kit, sand bottle kit and dual bag holders. It has ergonomically designed controls, automotive suspension, strong hill-climbing ability and a top speed of 13 mph, about the same as a standard golf cart. While standard carts may not be driven on or near greens, the SoloRider has allcourse access and does not damage turf on tee boxes and greens. Plenty of sports exist specifically for those with disabilities, but Ability360 vice president and general manager Gus LaZear said golf is unique among mainstream sports in being inclusive. “If you don’t have a disability, but
you’ve got a friend with something like a spinal injury, you can call him up and get a stand-up and play, and you can go out on the course playing the same game together,” LaZear said. Sports like wheelchair rugby or wheelchair tennis, while being great for those who need mobility assistance, are exclusive to people who do not need that assistance. Adaptive equipment allows golfers with and without a mobility disability to play together.
Different from most charity golf tournaments, the Ability360 Charity Golf Tournament format allows those without disabilities to speak directly to those with one and share an experience on the course, LaZear said. “A lot of times when you play in a golf tournament, you play the tournament, maybe have lunch and an auction, and you leave,” LaZear said, “but this is a way for people really to learn deeply about the program and all the stuff we offer.” Beyond the fundraising that goes toward equipment purchases and provides activities for those with disabilities, Surry said the tournament is a good way for participants to get to know the good that Ability360 is accomplishing. “For others to see somebody like me, who’s had a traumatic injury or other ailments, come out and play the same game with them on the same course, you can see that they’re beginning to understand more and know what Ability360 is doing for people,” Surry said. The $200 tournament entry fee includes greens fee, golf cart, range balls, tee gifts and a post-tournament reception, including a helicopter ball-drop for first-, second- and third-place prizes. Register at 360golftournament.org or by contacting Meghan Fable, director of development, at meghanf@ ability360.org.
Week 6 East Valley prep football schedule Most teams have crossed the midpoint of the high school football season. Now, the playoff push begins. Here are the East Valley teams in action this week (kickoffs at 7 p.m. unless noted).
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Casteel at Williams Field Moon Valley at Marcos de Niza Seton Catholic at Mesquite Cortez at Tempe ALA – Queen Creek at ALA – Gilbert Tanque Verde at AZ College Prep ALA – Ironwood at Gilbert Christian Northwest Christian at Valley Christian Miami at Chandler Prep Scottsdale Christian at Tempe Prep NFL Yet at Arete Prep
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Queen Creek celebrates history at Founders’ Day Festival BY LAURA LATZKO GET OUT Contributor
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ueen Creek was incorporated in 1989, but it has a much deeper history. Native American communities, homesteaders and immigrants made their home in the Southeast Valley area that is now Queen Creek, and the town provided ideal conditions for farming and ranching. Queen Creek’s annual Founders’ Day Festival will celebrate this history on Saturday, Sept. 22, with activities like relay races, 4-H and FFA areas, eating contests, a children’s zone for kids 5 and younger, lawn games, pig races, a cornhole tournament, food and retail vendors and a sustainability zone. The Founders’ Day Festival started in 2014 as part of the town’s 25th anniversary. Queen Creek’s recreation coordinator of special events, Erica Perez, said the event gives a glimpse into what makes the town different. “When council decided we were going to make this an annual event, we really started to focus in on how we could bring Queen
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Kids love animals, and there will be plenty in the 4-H Zone at the Queen Creek’s annual Founders’ Day Festival on Saturday, Sept. 22.
Creek to the event, focusing on our equestrian heritage and our agricultural heritage,” Perez said. The festival has grown into a communitywide celebration involving residents, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, the Fire
Depar tment, businesses and FFA and 4-H clubs. Public information officer Constance Wilson said the gathering fosters community pride. “That’s definitely one of the main goals of the event, to really have people get excited about the community that they live
in,” Wilson said. At the center of the festival is the Battle of the Badges, a relay-style competition with traditional games, such as potato-sack races, progressive dress, giant adult tricycle, tug-of-war, three-legged races and javelin
toss. As part of the contest, community members become representatives of the Fire Department or the Maricopa County S h e r i f f ’s Office and earn points for their teams as (Special to the Tribune) they com- A jousting area for kids will be plete relays. among the attractions at the The points Queen Creek’s annual Founders’ are marked Day Festival will celebrate this history on Saturday, Sept. 22. on punch cards, which they can redeem for raffle tickets. For the See
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Annie Moses Band pays homage to the past BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI GETOUT Editor
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nnie Wolaver Dupre knows she has something special. With the Annie Moses Band, Dupre and her family recall the life of her impoverished sharecropping great-grandmother, after whom she named the band. “We’re telling stories about generations past,” Dupre said. “We’re telling the story of Annie Moses, the namesake of our group. She lived a very difficult life during the Great Depression. “She worked tremendously hard and invested her meager means into the talent of future generations. She never had the opportunity to see the fruits of that. Her life was a difficult one with very little hope, but every generation builds upon her tenacity.” Dupre is a violinist and vocalist who was born with a love of singing. Her mother inspired her to begin violin lessons the week before her 5th birthday. At 13, she debuted as a soloist with a professional orchestra, and at 15, she was
accepted as a scholarship student to the pre-college division of the Juilliard School, where she was a featured chamber musician and concert mistress of the Juilliard Pre-college Orchestra. In 2001, Annie was accepted as a scholarship student to the collegiate division of the Juilliard School. However, her love of making music with her family led her to start the Annie Moses Band. She brings their show to the Tempe Center for the Arts on Saturday, Sept. 22. “It’s going to be a combination of music from a couple of different projects,” she said. “We have a project, ‘American Rhapsody,’ and one called ‘The Art of the Love Song,’ a PBS special. We’re going to perform music from both of those albums. “We (offer) a kaleidoscope of American folk music and original songs that tell the story of music. It’s a very high-energy show. I think people love the color of it.” Annie Moses Band shares its music beyond the walls of concert halls. The Annie Moses Foundation was launched in 2010 by band members to support the artistic aspira-
tions of young people and their families. “We really love not only the music we make, but we love that we’re musically impacting the next generation of young creators,” Dupre said. They recently finished building the Conservatory of Annie Moses, which offers a young artists mentor and development program. “Getting that building finished and launched has been a big task for us,” she said. “We really love not only the music we make, but we love that what we know our music is impacting young creators. Our investment is going to live on in those creators.”
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Annie Moses Band recently finished building the Conservatory of Annie Moses, named after singer Annie Wolaver Dupre’s greatgrandmother.
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11; Fleetwood Mask, a Mick Fleetwoodendorsed salute to Fleetwood Mac, Jan. 12; Tribute to Neil Diamond, performed by Jack Wright, Jan. 18; Ricky Nelson Remembered, performed by Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, Jan. 19; Hotel California, A Salute to the Eagles, Jan. 28; and Masters of Soul, The Music of Motown, on March 7. Information on shows and tickets at the Higley Center, 4132 E. Pecos Road in Gilbert, are available at higleycenter.org and 480279-7194.
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f you are into culture, particularly exquisite concerts, theatrical performances or dance shows, it is your time of year. The curtain is raising at performing arts venues across the Southeast Valley for the 2018-19 season. Among them is Lakeshore Music at Tempe Center for the Arts, which presents internationally acclaimed jazz pianist Renee Rosnes at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22. Its Year 11 for Lakeshore at TCA, and Lakeshore founder, president and executive producer Woody Wilson has booked several elite jazz acts for the series, which runs monthly through May. “We’ve lined up some of the finest musicians in the world along with the best of our regional artists, such as Nicole Pesce, Dom Moio, Mike Kocour and Jerry Donato,” Wilson said. “There’s something for every jazz aficionado this year. “The TCA is one of the most beautiful boutique performing-arts centers in the nation and our Lakeside Room overlooks Tempe Town Lake. Truly, it’s an intimate concert venue and there’s not a bad seat in the house.” Canadian-born Rosnes, an acclaimed jazz pianist and composer, has released 15 albums, five of them receiving JUNO awards, the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy. “This will be a world-class season kickoff,” Wilson said. “We’ve presented Renee once before, several years ago, and she was just spectacular.” Information on the Lakeshore Music Jazz Concert Series is available at lakeshoremusic.org, 602-679-0590, or the TCA ticket office, 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway in Tempe. Mesa Arts Center Meanwhile, the performing arts season kicks into gear Wednesday, Sept. 19, at Mesa Arts Center with the Australian Pink Floyd Show at 7:30 p.m. The MAC has a full schedule. Its Dance Series debuts Sunday, Sept. 23, with Luma: Art in Darkness. Jazz at Lincoln
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raffle, vendors donated prizes, such as gift baskets and gift cards. The competition will end with relays between members of the fire department and sheriff’s office. The battle allows for greater engagement between residents and first responders. “We wanted to create an experience where volunteers from our fire department
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Renee Rosnes and her quartet open the Lakeshore Music Jazz Concert Series on Sept. 22 at Tempe Center for the Arts. The internationally acclaimed Canadian has won five JUNO awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammy. Activity is resuming at concert halls across the East Valley.
Center with Wynton Marsalis gets its Jazz Series swinging Oct. 4. On Nov. 3, Symphony of the Southwest’s Honoring American Composers initiates the Classical Series season. Recently, two big names were added to the 2018-19 lineup. David Archuletta of “American Idol” fame, brings his Winter in the Air Tour to the MAC on Dec. 6. On Feb. 15, the center presents An Evening with Paula Poundstone. Information on shows and tickets at MAC, One East Main St. in Mesa, are available at mesaartscenter.com and 480-644-6500.
Among the annual highlights at Chandler is Ballet Etudes’ performance of “The Nutcracker,” an East Valley tradition. There are eight performances, Nov. 2325 and Nov. 30-Dec. 2 in Ballet Etudes’ 31st annual production. It’s the perfect way to celebrate the holiday season with the entire family. For information on all shows and tickets at the venue, 250 N Arizona Ave. in Chandler, go to chandlercenter.org or call 480-782-2680.
Chandler Center for the Arts In Chandler, where the season is underway, Macy Gray performs tonight at 7 p.m. Gray, a gifted songwriter and singer, is a Grammy-winning R&B and soul artist known for her distinctive raspy style. From her 1999 debut album, “On How Life Is” came her classic single, “I Try,” which made the single and the album global hits.
Higley Center for the Performing Arts The Higley Center for the Performing Arts, which serves Gilbert, has several tribute shows that highlight its 2018-19 lineup, as well as four performances of “The Nutcracker,” Dec. 14-16, by Southwest Youth Ballet with the Chandler Symphony. Among the tribute shows are MacDougal Street West, A Peter Paul and Mary Experience, Nov. 29; Nashville Legacy, Music of Floyd Cramer and Chet Atkins, on Jan.
staff, our MCSO officers could be out there with the community,” Perez said. Leading up to it, the fire department and sheriff’s office made videos to garner support for their teams. “It’s all in healthy fun. It’s not in a competitive nature. It’s really about getting the community involved and the community excited to come out and cheer for them,” Wilson said. Those who attend can try lawn games, such as horseshoes, giant jenga, Connect 4 and cornhole.
There will be family-friendly activities, including inflatables, a climbing wall, obstacle courses, a jousting arena and a train ride. In the 4-H Zone, families can interact with chickens, goats and rabbits. There is an obstacle course with roping and barrel activities and dog-agility demonstrations. Queen Creek Olive Mill and Schnepf Farms are providing hands-on activities. During eating contests, guests will try to outdo each other as they scarf down watermelon, pancakes, cupcakes or pie.
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HANDYMAN 37 years experience. Drywall, framing, plumbing, painting, electrical, roofing and more. Stan, 602-434-6057
SPRINKLER GRADING, REMOVAL
CALL JOHN 480-797-2985 FREE ESTIMATE 16 YEARS EXP, REF INSURED
REASONABLE HANDYMAN
Licensed • Bonded • Insured Technician
- Free Estimates -
480-276-6600 *Not a Licensed Contractor
GARAGE DOOR SERVICE
25 years exp. Call Now (480) 720-3840
★ One-Time Cleanups ★ Tree Trimming
TREE
25 Years exp (480) 720-3840
Not a licensed contractor
Landscape Maintenance
Handyman
Painting • Flooring • Electrical • Plumbing Drywall • Carpentry • Decks • Tile • More!
ce 1999
2010, 2011 2012, 2013, 2014
NOPAL LANDSCAPE • • • • • •
Affordable, Quality Work Sin
“No Job Too Small Man!”
Mariano 480-275-5596
“When there are days that you can’t depend on them, you can depend on us!”
Insured/Bonded Free Estimates
LLC
Services
ROC# 317949
Garbage Disposals Door Installs & Repairs Toilets / Sinks Kitchen & Bath Faucets Most Drywall Repairs
Bathroom Remodeling All Estimates are Free • Call: 520.508.1420 www.husbands2go.com
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We Are State Licensed and Reliable!
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QUALITY PAINT #1 IN SERVICE
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We’ll Beat Any Price! ROC #301084
HOME IMPROVEMENTS:
Tree Trimming Removals Weed Control Winter Grass • Clean Ups Irrigation Repairs Timer Repairs & More...
Ahwatukee Resident/ References/ Insured/ Not a Licensed Contractor
Handyman
480-287-7907 Painting
Weekly • Bi Weekly • Monthly Low Rates
Call Bruce at 602.670.7038
Dunn Edwards Quality Paint Small Stucco/Drywall Repairs
Int / Ext Home Painting 4-Less!
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Marks the Spot for ALL Your Handyman Needs!
Interior/Exterior Painting 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE
★ Irrigation Repairs
TRIMMING
Nights/Weekends Bonded/Insured 480-251-8610
HOME IMPROVEMENT & PAINTING
PHIL’S PRO PAINTING
★ Tree Removal
Juan Hernandez
Broken Springs Replaced
www.irsaz.com
★ Monthly Yard Service
Not a licensed contractor
East Valley/ Ahwatukee
480.721.4146
FULL SERVICE LANDSCAPING
Home Improvement
Not a licensed contractor
Call Lance White ROC# 256752
Juan Hernandez Drip/Install/Repair
Jose Dominguez Painting & Drywall SEE OUR AD IN DRYWALL! Quick Response to your Call! 15 Years Exp 480-266-4589
Specializing in Controllers, Valves, Sprinklers, Landscape Lighting, P.V.C. & Poly Drip Systems
SPRINKLER
Garage/Doors
Painting
Irrigation Repair Services Inc.
• Painting • Plumbing • Carpentry • Drywall • Roofing • Block
Landscape Maintenance
Not A Licensed Contractor
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Landscape Maintenance
Handyman
HANDY TANDY One Call does it all. We warranty our work. Good at what we do! Not a licensed contractor. Bonded/Ins. 911 calls! 26yrs exp (602)999-1164
CONCRETE & MASONRY
• Interior/Exterior Painting • Drywall • Wood Repair & Replacement • Stucco • Masonry • Power Washing
FREE ESTIMATES!
Interior/Exterior Painting RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL
• Free Estimates • Light Repairs, Drywall • Senior discounts References Available Not a licensed contractor
Call Jason:
602-487-1252 Licensed, Bonded & Insured • ROC #307395
JRWHomeImprovement@gmail.com
Medical Services/Equipment
L L C
Prepare for Monsoon Season! LANDSCAPING, TREES & MAINTENANCE
Tree Trimming • Tree Removal Stump Grinding Storm Damage • Bushes/Shrubs Yard Clean-up Commercial and Residential PMB 435 • 2733 N. Power Rd. • Suite 102 • Mesa dennis@allprotrees.com
480-354-5802
Arizona Mobility Scooters 9420 W. Bell Rd., #103 Sun City, AZ 85351
Mobility Scooter Center 3929 E. Main St., #33 Mesa, AZ 85205
480-250-3378
480-621-8170
www.arizonamobilityscooters.com
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Plumbing
Tree Services
Roofing
Tree Trimming, Pruning & Removal Yard Clean-Up & Trash Removal Tiles, shingles, flat, repairs & new work Free Estimates • Ahwatukee Resident
David’s Clean-Up & Tree Service
480-706-1453
Free Estimates - Affordable Rates All Work Guaranteed
Licensed/Bonded/Insured • ROC #236099
NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR
PHILLIPS ROOFING LLC
Window Cleaning
Over 30 yrs. Experience
Affinity Plumbing LLC 480-487-5541 affinityplumber@gmail.com
www.affinityplumbingaz.com
Your Ahwatukee Plumber & East Valley Neighbor Anything Plumbing Same Day Service Water Heaters
24/7
Inside & Out Leaks
Bonded
Toilets
Insured
Faucets
Estimates Availabler
Disposals
$35 off
Any Service
480-245-7132
Member of ABM
Licensed • Bonded • Insured ROC 223367
Valleywide
CR 42 DUAL
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Public Notices NOTICE TO MANUEL VAZQUEZ, JR. Notice is hereby given that the First Amended Petition for Termination and Adoption of Stepchildren was filed on August 7, 2018 in Cause No. 18-6572-362 pending in the 362nd Judicial District Court of Denton County, Texas. All persons having objections against this Petition which is currently pending are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. c/o: Loreal Vasquez and William Frederick Warner By and Through their Attorney of Record Kelly K. E. Robb 9320 Dallas Parkway, Suite 190 Frisco, TX 75033 Telephone: (940) 566-6649 Facsimile: (940) 566-5745 E-mail: kelly@cokerlegal.com DATED the day 12 of September, 2018.
623-873-1626 All employees verified Free estimates on all roofs 36 Years experience in AZ Licensed contractor since 2006 Meetings/Events
ACCREDITED BUSINESS
Kelly K. E. Robb Attorney for Loreal Vasquez and William Frederick Warner State Bar No.: 24040869 9320 Dallas Parkway, Suite 190 Frisco, TX 75033 Telephone: (940) 566-6649 Facsimile: (940) 566-5745 E-mail: kelly@cokerlegal.com PUBLISHED: East Valley Tribune/Gilbert Sun News Sept. 16, 2018 / 15355
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Not a licensed contractor
Pool Service / Repair
phillipsroofing.org phillipsroofing@msn.com
Meetings/Events?
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Submit to ecota@timespublications.com
Juan Hernandez
Roofing
Pavers • Concrete • Water Features • Sprinkler Repair
POOL REPAIR Pebble cracking, Plaster peeling,
The Most Detailed Roofer in the State
Rebar showing, Pool Light out?
TK
I CAN HELP!
25 Years Experience • Dependable & Reliable
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480-720-3840 Not a licensed contractor.
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R.O.C. #156979 K-42 • Licensed, Bonded and Insured
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Meetings/Events
Crops of Luv
"My dream is that one day we will be able to give every "wish" child a scrapbook to remind them that dreams do come true." Jody, co-founder, Ahwatukee based non-profit
Come Join us: Help make embellishments, organize or assist with events, scrapbook, donate your time, money or space. Teens who need to fill Community Service hours for High School are welcome! Come be apart of something Awesome!
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