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EV wedding venue closure strands couples. What a difference 10 years made in the East Valley. It began with Elevation Chandler, on the right, which became a symbol for the real estate crash that left deep scars on the region.. Now, as we turn the page on the the 2010s, The Offices at Viridian, left, stands on the very same spot as an example of the region’s economic recovery. (Tribune file photos)

COMMUNITY ........ 12 East Mesa author honored twice.

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The 2010s: The East Valley’s decade to remember BY GARY NELSON Tribune Contributor

f you want a metaphor for how the East Valley was doing as this decade began, here’s one for you: A gaunt, rusting multistory steel skeleton in Chandler. Elevation Chandler sat at the corner of South Price and Frye roads, the abandoned dream of a whiz-bang developer who had launched the hotel-condo project in 2006

only to run out of money – as did much of the world about that time. The ruin loomed over every shopper who visited the next-door mall, every driver who rolled past on Loop 101. It stood as a haunting reminder of the Great Recession until the decade was almost half-past, not coming down until 2014. If you want a metaphor for how the East Valley is doing as this decade ends, this same site will do.

Go there and you’ll see gleaming new of�ices, �ine apartments, places to eat and no sign the skeleton was ever there. Ten years will do that to a place. Start low, end high. Or vice versa. Along the way, the nearly �inished decade produced a kaleidoscope of events, in retrospect, roared past like water gushing through a busted Tempe Town Lake dam –

juveniles for months. Now all four family members are missing and have left their relatives confused as to where they may have gone. Some have speculated Vallow’s joined a mysterious cult, while others are hopeful no foul play has taken place. Three people connected to Vallow and Daybell have all died within the last few months. One was shot to death at a residence in Chandler. A death in Gilbert is still under investigation. Charles Vallow, the missing mother’s ex-husband, was killed during a domestic dispute on July 11 in the 5500 block of South

Four Peaks Place. According to Chandler Police, Vallow came to Chandler to pick up his son from Lori. Once he arrived, an argument ensued and Lori’s brother, Alexander Cox, intervened by shooting Vallow dead. Chandler Police determined in July, Cox acted in self-defense and chose not to arrest him. Cox died on Dec. 12 in Gilbert after police found him unresponsive at his home. His cause of death won’t be determined until an autopsy is completed, according to the Gilbert

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Chandler, Gilbert deaths tied to cult mystery

BY KEVIN REAGAN Tribune Staff Writer

FOOD ........................22 Where to take the kids next month.

COMMUNITY ............... 12 BUSINESS ...................... 14 OPINION ........................15 SPORTS ......................... 16 GETOUT..........................17 CLASSIFIED....................24

former East Valley woman has left behind a trail of bodies as authorities attempt to trace the whereabouts of her and her two children amid speculation about her connection to a doomsday cult. The FBI is on the lookout for 46-year-old Lori Vallow and her husband, Chad Daybell, after the couple abruptly �led their Idaho home last month. Local authorities had been checking on the welfare of Vallow’s two children since no one had seen or spoken to the

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Chandler wedding venue leaves couples in the lurch BY KEVIN REAGAN Tribune Staff Writer

Chandler wedding venue, whose parent company is accused of scamming investors, abruptly closed its doors and left brides scrambling to find a replacement for their receptions. Noah’s Event Venue, located off of Yeager Drive, warned clients their prescheduled weddings for 2020 won’t happen because the business is closing. “We have thoroughly enjoyed being a part of your community and hoped to stick around for longer,” the company wrote in an email. “However, our building is older and requires a lot of updates.” Melanie Stephenson of Gilbert had just sent out her wedding invitations to her March reception when she got the news from the company. “After much discussion with the owners of the venue, they have decided to sell the building and we are therefore unable to host your event,” the Noah’s email states. Stephenson said she was shocked and confused by the email and wanted an explanation. “I didn’t think it was real at first,” she recalled. She and her fiancé signed a deal back in March 2018 to host their wedding at Noah’s for about $10,000. They returned to the Chandler venue several times this year to look at different layouts and approve table linens. Not once during any of these visits did a Noah’s employee indicate the venue might be closing soon, Stephenson said. The bride-to-be feels cheated and knows she will have to delay her wedding until she can get her money back and find another venue. “It’s just a huge mess,” she said. Stephenson’s situation is not unique to Arizona. Other couples across the country have had to scramble to find new wedding venues after their local Noah’s site surprisingly shuttered. Locations in Kentucky, Virginia, Alabama and Michigan have all abruptly closed in the months since Noah’s, a national company based in Utah, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 2019. “I feel like the rug was just pulled out from underneath me,” one Virginia couple told a local news station in September. Noah’s once seemed like a successful event-planning business with 42 locations and plans to keep expanding. But court documents suggest the company was internally struggling to manage

all those properties. Noah’s Chief Executive Officer William Bowser allegedly told investors in May he was “robbing Peter to pay Paul” and shifting around investments for new venues to keep the company’s Noah’s Event Venue held itself out as an ideal place for a wedding reception, but its existing locations owners have gone belly up, leaving couples in the East Valley out of their deposits and afloat, court pa- without a place to celebrate their wedding. (Special to the Tribune) pers state. This style of money management is un- has not “defrauded anybody or engaged in der scrutiny in federal court after a group any criminal conduct.” of investors sued Noah’s and a group of Eric Mia of Laveen had no knowledge of other companies earlier this year. the company’s financial troubles before The plaintiffs accuse Rockwell Debt- he signed to have his wedding at its ChanFree Properties of deceiving them into dler location next year. investing $5 million in a Noah’s venue in He and his fiancée paid a $1,000-deposit Indiana - it was never built. last month and had no inkling Noah’s was “Though funds invested by plaintiffs already closing several locations in other were meant to be used for construction of states. a Noah’s building on the property, those “There should have been a warning,” funds were misappropriated, and all of Mia said. the defendants concealed the misapproNoah’s guaranteed Mia his deposit will priation or participated in it,” the plaintiffs be refunded and he’s already begun lookwrote in court records. ing for a new venue. The lawsuit describes a complicated Though the cancellation was devastatweb of companies and funds allegedly ing, he said the experience hasn’t comleaving investors in the dark on where pletely ruined his fiancée’s wedding-plantheir money was going. ning process. Funds given to Rockwell were supposed “It was definitely a big blow to our exto be transferred to Gabriel Management citement,” Mia added. “It didn’t completely Corporation, which is controlled by No- deflate the balloon – it just really took out ah’s CEO, and is used to build the new some air.” Indiana venue. But plaintiffs claim their Shortly after Melanie Stephenson startinvestments were redistributed to other ed talking to the media about her predicNoah locations. ament, she said Noah’s contacted her and U.S. District Court Judge Tena Campbell offered to move up her wedding to January. ruled in June this money flow between Stephenson declined because it would Rockwell, Gabriel, and Noah was not have been impossible to notify all her relchecked by any financial controls. atives in time. She’s focused on getting her Furthermore, the judge noted how sev- money back, which she foresees as a being eral of CEO William Bowser’s relatives a challenge. worked for his two companies and had Noah’s promised to refund Stephenson a financial stake in the investments ob- about $3,000 of the money she paid. Notained by Rockwell. ahs told her if she wants the remaining “(Bowser) benefited from the transfer $7,000, she gave the company, she will because the success of Gabriel and Noah have to file a claim in bankruptcy court. protected not only his financial interests After finding out so many Noah’s locabut the direct financial interests of multiple tions have already closed, Stephenson’s not members of his family,” the judge wrote. sure whether she’ll get her money back. Judge Campbell ordered Bowser to forfeit “It seems like all of them are closing $347,821 to the court because it already down,” Stephenson said. “It makes it seem appeared the plaintiffs could prove the de- like we aren’t going to get our refunds.” fendants unjustly enriched themselves. Noah’s did not respond to request for In court filings, Bowser’s counsel has comment. The company’s website states it disputed the allegations and claim Noah’s plans to open a new location in Ohio.

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about which, more later. To begin, think of an East Valley aflame with Tea Party passion and still screaming in pain over the Great Recession. An East Valley in which not one person owned an iPad. An East Valley without marijuana shops, self-driving cars and an army of fed-up teachers willing to turn the Arizona political establishment on its ear. Those first two stories – the Tea Party and the recession – were actually carryovers from the previous 10 years. Right-wing anguish over the economic policies of President Barack Obama had spawned the Tea Party movement in early 2009 and before long the East Valley had a plethora of Tea Party “patriot” groups. Ironically, as the movement flourished, one of its local heroes bit the dust. That would be Russell Pearce of Mesa, a legislative veteran who had carved out a national reputation as a foe of illegal immigration and who, in 2010, was the chief promoter of Senate Bill 1070, this strict anti-immigration measure became a law despite howls of protest from immigrant advocacy groups and civil libertarians. Pearce’s rhetoric and political proclivities, which at times led him to at least the fringes of the far-right, led to a rebellion among moderate Mesa Republicans who forced him into a bitterly fought 2011 recall election. Republican Jerry Lewis replaced Pearce in the Senate – the first time in U.S. history a sitting Senate president was forced from office on either the state or national level. Pearce tried to reclaim his seat in 2012, but Mesa Republican Bob Worsley won it instead, effectively ending Pearce’s electoral career. As for the Tea Party movement itself, its spirit survives in deep-red enclaves of the East Valley political landscape and in the President whom they helped elect in 2016. As the decade ends, most of the websites and Facebook pages for area Tea Party groups seemed to have gone dark. This early-decade political angst played out against the backdrop of the Great Recession, the first local signs of which had appeared as early as 2007 in the form of slowing real-estate sales and plummeting sales-tax revenues. Economists say nationally, the recession already ended by mid-2009. The East Valley didn’t get the memo. The decade dawned with some sections of the region resembling ghost

way corridor, including an ongoing $200 million expansion of Mercy-Gilbert Medical Center will cement the town’s role as a player in the East Valley’s burgeoning medical-services field. In addition, the first phase of a 272-acre regional park opened this past September at Queen Creek and As the 2010s began, Mesa lawmaker Russell Pearce, left, and Sheriff Joe Higley roads while Arpaio became lightning rods for the battle over immigration in Arizona. two months later, Des(Tribune file photo) ert Sky Park opened towns, with rows of empty houses, for- on Power Road south of Williams Field ests of “for sale” signs and code-enforce- Road. ment officers battling blight in hundreds of abandoned properties.  Other downtowns boom The climb out of this hole has been Other East Valley downtowns didn’t long and slow. do too badly themselves. From a peak of more than 10 percent Chandler pursued its aim to turn in 2010, unemployment in the East Val- downtown into an entertainment disley has gradually declined. But at rough- trict, symbolized by the opening of the ly 4.5 percent in 2019, unemployment Overstreet multi-use project at Chandler was still higher than the national aver- Boulevard and Arizona Avenue. But it age. also encouraged a live-work-play apThis statistic notwithstanding, the proach to downtown development with decade ends to the tune of a deafening the approval of new condo and apartchorus of hammers, backhoes, cement ment complexes. trucks and buzz saws as housing, apartChandler also built a new City Hall, an ment and commercial construction encouragement to a developer who is flourishes across the region. now building a complex on a long-empty Median values of existing real estate, lot across from it on Arizona Avenue. meanwhile, soared past peak pre-crash Mesa saw its first new downtown reslevels in what some analysts called a idential construction in 30 years, with “very hot” housing market all across the numerous other projects underway or East Valley. planned. But as hundreds of new apartment One of the largest is being undertaken units began going up, the affordability in conjunction with a dramatic interiof homes in the East Valley became an or and exterior renovation of the Mesa increasingly bigger issue – one undoubt- Arizona Temple, which is expected to edly to continue resonating in various reopen by next Christmas. Adjacent ways well into the new decade. to the temple site is an eight-building, What else, you ask? Here’s where the 100,000-square-foot residential/comkaleidoscope really begins to spin as we mercial complex being built by City revisit, in no particular order, a smatter- Creek Reserve, the development arm of ing of headlines from the past 10 years…. the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day  Gilbert grows up The Town of Gilbert – it’s still proudly a “town” despite a population greater than those of the biggest cities in several states – began to develop a bit of urban ’tude. This was especially notable in its downtown, which became a lively nightlife and dining hub. Meanwhile, development flourished along Gilbert’s Loop 202 San Tan Free-

Waymo’s driverless vans have become a fixture in the East Valley and have given Chandler its reputation as a technology giant in the region. (Tribune file photo)

Saints. Tempe added density and height with a plethora of office and residential projects

 Growing be degrees Concerned about a local shortage of higher-education venues, East Valley cities sought to expand their options. Gilbert created a downtown campus for Chicago’s Saint Xavier University, but the school pulled out after only one year. Missouri-based Park University now occupies the space. The University of Arizona College of Nursing also opened a four-year bachelor of science program in downtown Gilbert. Mesa’s most successful college recruit was Benedictine University, which now has a solid downtown footprint. Mesa also made a deal with Arizona State University to build a campus adjacent to the city office complex.

 Red-hot teachers Fed up after years of penny-pinching by the Legislature, East Valley teachers joined colleagues around the nation in a “Red for Ed” movement. A six-day teachers strike in the spring of 2018 ended after the Legislature approved giving them a 10 percent raise in the next school year and 5 percent raises in the following two school years. But public-school officials and advocates say Arizona still has a long way to go when it comes to restoring the massive cuts in K-12 and university funding the Legislature whacked in the wake of the Great Recession.  Cubs stay Mesa voters agreed in 2010 to spend $84 million for a new Chicago Cubs stadium on the site of the old Riverview Golf Course. Without it, the team threatened to move its spring training operations to Florida. The new stadium opened in 2014 and continues to set Cactus League attendance records – and perhaps not coincidentally, the Cubs won the World Series in 2016 for the first time since 1908. Meanwhile, the Oakland Athletics returned to Mesa and how host spring games at Hohokam Stadium.

 Speaking of baseball Gilbert and an outfit called Big League Dreams partnered in the mid-2000s to build a $40 million youth baseball complex near Power and Elliot roads. But Gilbert ended the deal in 2017 be-

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cause of concerns over safety and maintenance. The park reopened under town management in early 2019 as Cactus Yards. Meanwhile, Gilbert and Big League Dreams have settled their litigation against each other. Although each side claimed in court papers the other side owed them millions, they settled without exchanging a penny.  Two that got away In 2010 Mesa still hoped for some sort of partnership with Waveyard, this Scottsdale company promised to build a world-class water sports facility in the Riverview area. And plans were on the books for a huge Gaylord resort complex on the north end of what used to be the General Motors Desert Proving Ground. Waveyard died for lack of funding and the Gaylord sank under the waves of the recession. Ironically, the recently opened Great Wolf Lodge in Scottsdale/Talking Stick offers both – big resort-style lodging and an immense water park.

 One that didn’t get away State and local officials were giddy in early 2011 when First Solar of Tempe agreed to build a 1.3 million-square-foot solar panel manufacturing plant, also on the old GM property. But by the time the plant was built, the solar panel market had crashed, and it never went into operation. Eventually, Apple Inc. bought the building and, after investing $2 billion, now uses it as a data command center – the keystone in southeast Mesa’s burgeoning tech center. The city has identified the area as the Elliot Road Technology Corridor and has invested millions in infrastructure to lure data storage and other high-tech firms.

It announced in 2017 it would spend more than $7 billion to complete Fab 42, touted as the most advanced semiconductor factory in the world.

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When President Barack Obama dropped by in earThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will end the first year of the new ly 2012 to visit the decade with a significantly renovated Mesa Arizona Temple both inside and on its aforementioned Ingrounds. (Tribune file rendering) tel plant, he was met at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport by then Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer.  Driving the future Pictures of the Republican governor When, and if, self-driving cars take over America’s roads, Chandler will have shaking her finger in the president’s face flashed around the world; Brewer said played a key early role. Google chose the city as a testing she had taken umbrage at Obama’s reacground in early 2016, and now its spinoff tion to a book she had written. Meanwhile, Brewer termed out of ofcompany, Waymo, has made its vehicles fice and was succeeded by Gov. Doug Duubiquitous in the East Valley. The technology does not come without cey, who has made it his mission to keep cost: In early 2018 an Uber self-driving Arizona “open for business” by cutting car being tested in Tempe fatally struck regulations and beefing up its transpor49-year-old Elaine Herzberg. She is be- tation infrastructure. lieved to have been the first person in the world struck and killed by an auton-  Making tracks Mesa twice extended its Main Street omous car. So far, Waymo has maintained a ster- light-rail line, which now terminates at ling safety record. The few times its vans Gilbert Road. The city is thinking about have been in accidents have been when other expansions, possibly through the Fiesta District and Chandler is studying they’ve been hit by errant motorists. Meanwhile, with an eye on the fu- light rail in the long term as well. The developers of the Cooley Station ture of autonomous vehicles, Chandler became what is believed to be the first community in southeast Gilbert are so municipality in the country, if not the hopeful about an ongoing state-counworld, to adjust its zoning regulations ty study of existing commuter rail lines for developers whose office buildings they’ve included a transit station in their are designing to accommodate a signifi- own plans in case commuter service is cant percentage of workers who will use ever implemented along the Union Pacific Railroad line. ride-sharing driverless vehicles. Meanwhile, Tempe began construction Another new addition this decade has been the advent of electric scooters and of a three-mile downtown streetcar sysbicycles, which have forced East Valley municipalities to regulate them since users were abandoning them in heavy pedestrian areas – or on the front lawns of residential neighborhoods.

Chandler’s new City Hall added glitz to that city’s downtown. (Tribune file photo)

 Intel expands Intel Corp., which first announced in 1979 it would expand into Chandler, deepened its investment in the city over the past decade.

tem slated for completion in 2021.

 More freeways Only days before the decade ended, the final segment of the state’s Loop 202 system was completed as Arizona opened the 22-mile Congressman Ed Pastor Freeway linking the Chandler and West 59th Avenue interchanges of I-10 – the single largest highway project in state history was finished in three years after four years of legal fights aimed at stopping it. In 2014, the first mile of the new State Route 24 freeway opened in southeast Mesa; it eventually will reach into Pinal County and connect to a planned freeway from Apache Junction south to Eloy.  Still growing Every city in the East Valley saw robust population growth after the recession. Mesa, which is believed to have actually lost residents during the downturn, soared past the half-million mark. Altogether, the region’s population now exceeds 1.2 million.

 Death of a mall Fiesta Mall, a mecca for Valley shoppers since 1979, closed in 2018 with only a Dillard’s clearance center keeping the lights on until last summer, when it too folded its operation there. Just across Southern Avenue, the long-dormant Fiesta Village finally saw city approval of a redevelopment plan consisting mostly of apartments. But brick-and-mortar retail in the East Valley is hardly dying, as attested to by the continuing expansion of the areas around both San Tan Village in Gilbert and the Chandler Fashion Center.

 There goes the lake Town Lake, the crown jewel of downtown Tempe, became a vast mud puddle within minutes after one of its rubber dams burst on the evening of July 20, 2010. The four dams were supposed to have lasted up to 30 years after being installed in 1999, but Arizona’s merciless heat wrecked them in short order. They were replaced by a hydraulically operated steel dam, and in Downtown Gilbert has become a night life capital in the East Valley, a far November 2019 Tempe cry from the quaint farm town look it had when the decade began. (Tribune celebrated the lake’s file photo) 20th anniversary.

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Mesa schools sued over sex assaults by coach BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

n attorney representing one of three underaged girls who were victims of illicit sex acts committed by a former junior varsity girls basketball coach has filed suit against the coach, an assistant coach and Mesa Public Schools. Attorney Dan Raynak accuses the coaches and the school district of various types of wrongdoing in the federal suit stemming from illicit sex acts involving Kyler Ashley, 24, and two 17-year-old members of the team he then coached at Dobson High School. Ashley earlier this month pleaded guilty to charges resulting from his arrest in May after he attempted to make arrangements to have sex with a third girl, who was 16 and a teammate of the other two victims. Police found sexually explicit messages he sent the girl on Snapchat. Instead of having a rendezvous with the 16-yearold girl, Ashley met up with Mesa police detectives who arrested him and accused him of a series of sex crimes. Ashley admitted the sex acts when confronted by police. He entered into a plea

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Police Department. Cox died the day after authorities in Idaho opened an investigation into the death of Daybell’s former wife. On Dec. 11, the body of Tammy Daybell, 49, was exhumed for an autopsy. Investigators initially suspected Daybell died of natural causes on Oct. 19 at her home in Fremont County, Idaho. Within a couple weeks of Tammy’s death, authorities claimed her husband married Lori Vallow – sparking the suspicions of local investigators. The couple’s relatives started to become concerned around this time after they lost contact with Vallow’s two children – 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua Vallow. The juveniles were last seen in Idaho on Sept. 23. Investigators asked Vallow about her children on Nov. 26 and she indicated they were visiting relatives in Arizona. Authorities returned to Vallow’s home the following day for further questioning and the residence was already vacant. Police have not charged Daybell or Vallow with any crimes, nor have they publicly indicated they’re under investigation for having any involvement in the

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agreement on Dec. 6 and is scheduled to be sentenced in February on a series of lesser charges, including three counts of attempted sexual conduct with a minor and one count of luring a minor for sexual exploitation of a minor. Raynak accuses Ashley of violating his client’s constitutional rights and failing in his duty to protect her as a Mesa Public Schools employee. He also accuses an assistant girls’ basketball coach, Joshua Bribiescas, of failing

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deaths of their former spouses. Sean Bartholick, an attorney representing Daybell and Vallow, released a statement this week calling the couple “devoted” parents and denied they were guilty of wrongdoing. “We look forward to addressing the allegations once they have moved beyond speculation and rumor,” the attorney’s statement read. The statement has done little to qualm speculations the family’s disappearance may be tied to their association with a religious organization in Idaho. Relatives have gone on social media to allege the couple was involved in what they described as a doomsday cult. One

to report the sex acts to authorities after Ashely told him about them. In addition, Raynak accuses the school district of wrongdoing in hiring the coaches and failing to train them properly. The suit also seeks to hold all of the defendants accountable by seeking damages that would be determined at trial, barring an out of court settlement. “Defendants Ashley and Bribiescas were working for the School District and were acting under color of law and within the scope of their employment with the High School,’’ the suit says. “The school district had in effect, and was responsible for, the policies and procedures that govern the conduct of the School District employee Defendants as it relates to their actions,’’ the suit says, maintaining the school employees “owed her (the victim) a duty of care to keep her safe from physical and emotional harm while she was in the care of the school district and the high school,’’ Raynak wrote in the suit. Ashley’s plea agreement calls for a sentence of 3.5 to 5 years in prison on two charges of the attempted sexual conduct with a minor, with the prison sentences running consecutively. If Judge Sally Duncan follows the plea

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agreement, Ashley would receive 7-10 years in prison, in addition to lifetime probation and registration as a sex offender on the third attempted sexual conduct with a minor charge. The court documents describe a series of sex acts occurring when Ashley was either giving the girls rides home after practice or arranging to meet them for sex acts. The acts occurred in his car in parking lots or alleys near their homes in Mesa and Chandler. One location was in the parking lot of a Mesa church. Ashley was initially arrested on charges related to his attempts to lure the 16-yearold into engaging in sex with him, but during an interview with detectives, he admitted the sex acts involving her 17-year-old teammates. “Kyler admitted he was meeting the victim to have sex with her, knowing she was 16 years old. Kyler told me he knew it was illegal for him to have sex with a 16-yearold girl,’’ the court document said. “Kyler told me he knew the victim since eighth grade and she was a player on his high school JV basketball team,” a detective wrote. Raynak’s suit said in one instance, Ash-

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family member told a Utah television station this group was a radical offshoot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Vallow and Daybell spoke on several podcasts produced by Preparing a People, a religious sect that prepares followers for “the second coming of Jesus Christ.” In response to the couple’s disappearance, the religious group removed all its media content featuring Daybell and Vallow. “Our hearts go out to all Chad and Lori’s family and friends who are now affected by this ongoing confusing tragedy,” Preparing a People wrote on its website.

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“We pray for the truth of whatever happened to be quickly manifest and we pray for the safe return of Lori’s two beautiful children.” Colby Ryan, a sibling to the missing children, posted a video this week asking the public to focus its attention on his brother and sister. “This is really, really tough for us,” Ryan said. “Every week or two weeks has been something new that just sinks your heart into your stomach.” Anyone with information about the missing family is encouraged to contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST.

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Charter’s balloon club teaches character BY CECILIA CHAN Tribune Staff Writer

ogs, giraffes, monkeys and just about any animal imaginable have invaded a second-floor classroom at Archway Classical Academy Lincoln. Once a week, a handful of students at the K-5 charter campus gather for the Balloon Animal Club. The Great Hearts School sits on the border of Chandler and Gilbert. “I’m learning how to make new things every week,” said 10-year-old Nic Barrie of Gilbert, who was blowing up a red balloon with a hand pump. “I’ve made swans, hats, bunnies, tigers, ladybugs and turtles. I like ladybugs because you can wear it as a bracelet.” The club, however, is more than just learning how to make balloon sculptures and having fun, according to teacher Laura Hall, who introduced it to the school this semester. “Balloons can be fragile and fingerly and so they have to develop patience to work with it,” she said. Besides developing patience and perseverance, the students improve their fine motor skills by tying the balloons and twisting them into various shapes, according to Hall, a Mesa resident in her first-semester teaching at the school. The importance of teaching children fine motor skills helps with things such as writing with paper and pencil, which is heavily emphasized at the traditional school, Hall said. And, the club provides a balance for students in they can have fun and make friends, she added. “The Great Hearts’ academy schedule is a pretty rigorous academic load,” Hall noted. Hall wanted to form the fun club after she reviewed the school’s offerings, most were focused on academic or sports. She pitched the idea of making balloon animals because she already had acquired the skill while in high school.

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ley had sex with his client in an alley behind her home. In another case, Ashely inappropriately touched his client while parked in front of her home while his year-old son also was inside the car, police said.

Archway Classical Academy Lincoln teacher Laura Hall gathers her balloon club for a group photo above while, top right, Kate Clark shows off her balloon bracelet and Dyuthi Raman displays a doggie balloon. (Chris Mortenson/Tribune Staff Photographer)

“There was a member from my church who knew how to twist balloon animals and I asked him to teach me,” she recalled. “I spent $100 for a couple days of lessons and after I connected with restaurants,” Hall added. “They didn’t pay me and I didn’t pay them. I worked for tips and could as a high school student make $100 a night in tips.” She banked all her earnings, which along with scholarships helped cover room and board and books at Brigham Young University. “I avoided taking out loans in college,” she said. “It turned out to be a great investment.” When students join the club, they receive a tote bag containing a hand pump and a bag of balloons. The first club meeting is spent teaching students how to blow up and tie a knot in a balloon. “The first animal I teach them is a dog, which is a basic shape,” Hall said. “You can adjust the proportions and make a numBecause of failures by Ashley, Bribiescas and the district, Raynak said his client suffered “severe emotional, distress, shock, horror, fright and psychological trauma’’ resulting in injuries including “nausea, sleeplessness and headaches.’’ He demands compensatory damages, and in some cases punitive damages,

ber of animals.” From the basic dog, the students can advance to more elaborate creations such as a fish on a fishing pole, a dog with a leash and a monkey climbing a tree with bananas – anything their imaginations take them. Dyuthi Raman, 10, is already a pro who can twist a purple balloon into a dog in about two minutes. “I thought it would be fun to make things,” the Gilbert resident said for joining the club. And, she said she has learned tenacity. “If it pops, you still have to try and make it again,” she said of a balloon. “You can’t stop.” The 5th-grader liked twisting balloons into turtles because they were cute and found horses were the hardest to make. And 8-year-old Harry Zhong prefers making random shapes rather than animals with the balloons while 9-year-old Samantha Morris of Chandler liked to make swords and animals such as tigers, horses, cats and dogs. against those named in the suit. According to a statement released by Mesa Public Schools following Ashley’s arrest, Ashley was hired at Dobson in 2016. He passed a background check performed by the district before he was hired, and also had coached the girls’ basketball team at Summit Academy, a middle school

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Hall said the students enjoy the club so much they willingly practice balloon twisting at home such as Kate Clark, a 10-year-old Gilbert resident. “It’s really fun,” the 5th-grader said. “At home I want to keep doing it. I (even) ordered a balloon-animal kit from Amazon.” Kate said she is so good with making balloon animals for her younger sister Agnes, and she’ll be making them at Agnes’ birthday party when she turns 8 in July. Hall said there were just eight students in the club now but it looked promising there’ll be quite a bit more next semester. “It looks like a couple dozen for next semester,” she said. “It’s growing quite a bit. It advertises itself. The kids love to hand out their balloons to their friends and spread the love, so it kind of spread by word of mouth.” She said she hoped the club spread to other Great Hearts campuses. “There are some balloon artists that are incredible and specializes in little shapes,” she said. “I’m more of a basic-balloon artist but it’s enough for kids to have fun.”

in Mesa. “Mesa Public Schools’ first priority is the safety and security of our students,” the district said, describing Ashley as a “seasonal basketball coach’’ who performed no other jobs at MPS. He was immediately terminated after his arrest.

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Prolific Mesa author earns two awards BY JORDAN HOUSTON Tribune Staff Writer

esa author Dan Baldwin is being nationally recognized for two of his books – one harkening to the Old West and the other reflecting one of his other preoccupations – chasing ghosts. Baldwin, who has been writing for over 30 years, was recently awarded the American Book Fest Best Book Award for Fiction: Western for his novel Slot Canyon, as well as the New Mexico Book Co-Op Arizona Book Award for New Age for his Conversations with Spirits of the Southwest, with Dwight and Rhonda Hull. Slot Canyon is the third novel in his Canyon trilogy and relates the intertwined stories of three characters from 1865 to 1876 as they escape the aftermath of the Civil War. Conversations is a non-fiction detailing the paranormal researches of the authors in ghost towns, ghost ranches, homes and haunted sites throughout Arizona.

“I was more than elated,” said Baldwin. “I was really kind of almost numb because it just doesn’t happen.” “I’ve won multiple awards in the same year,” he continued. “But not in the same week.” The American Book Fest is an online publication providing coverage for books from mainstream and independent publishers and highlights talented authors through its annual book awards. The New Mexico Book Co-op is a nonprofit volunteer organization serving authors and publishing professionals as well as seeks to showcase local books and authors while promoting literacy, according to its website. A full-time writer, Baldwin has authored 15 novels and short story collections and is the ghostwriter of more than 50 published works. The longtime Mesa resident graduated from the Louisiana State University Manship School of Mass Communication in 1972 and first pursued a career in adver-

tising and newspaper writing. “I take the opposite approach from most writers,” said Baldwin. “I don’t do detailed character descriptions or let the character reveal himself or herself as I write the book.” “The process of writing actually brings out the character – his likes, dislikes, fears or phobias come out in a natural way.” “If you draw character descriptions up front, you put yourself into a box,” he continued. Baldwin said he doesn’t like to pigeonhole himself as a writer and takes pride in writing everything from fiction, to non-fiction to ghostwriting. Slott Canyon illustrates the stories of three unlikely characters as they journey from the Southeast to Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. It features Lieutenant Jefferson Haywood, late of the Confederate States of America, who wants nothing more than to return to

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Mesa author Dan Baldwin has varied interests in life and the books he writes. (Special to the Tribune)

East Mesa mom of 8 brings joy to foster girls TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF

s a mother of eight in a blended family and a full-time nursing student, Lauren Williams-Davis has a pretty busy life. But the East Mesa woman wasn’t too busy to think of kids who could use all the kind thoughts they can get. Williams-Davis, a Carrington College student, organized her schoolmates and put together a drive to give bicycles to girls at the Meraki Youth Home, a group foster care center in Mesa. Williams-Davis is no stranger to the foster home. She’s been working there when she’s not in school and started her own family by adopting three of her eight children eight years ago. She coordinated with the Carrington Student Council and a local nonprofit called the Johnjay & Rich #LoveUp Foundation for help in getting the bikes for the girls. As president of the student council, Williams-Davis said, “we were discussing what kinds of ways we could give back this season and I mentioned the girls

Carrington Ciollege students and staff who helped the Mesa foster home girls bikes include, from left, Lauren Williams-Davis, Lisa Cruzan, Angela Kisner, Diana Jimenez, JoLynn McBeath and Dr. Kimberly Wright. Not pictured: Kyle Johnson. (Special to the Tribune)

might not be getting much for Christmas and what did everyone think? “The whole group jumped in,” she said, adding, then “students, faculty, the other departments in the school quickly heard and got involved as well. It’s an amazing thing lots of people wanted to be a part of.” The group home had no sponsors of its

own to help its 10 residents, ages 12 to 17, so Williams-Davis also asked her college to help them by providing essential personal items. But because the girls all mentioned they would like to have a bike for Christmas and the nursing students could not afford to pay for all of them, Williams-Davis

turned to the #LoveUp Foundation at the suggestion of some Carrington staff. Johnjay Van Es and Rich Berra, whose morning program is carried by iHeartRadio, set up the foundation in 2017 to help kids in group foster care. Williams-Davis said she’s long had a soft spot in her heart for kids in the foster care system. “I work double shifts on the weekends when I’m not in school,” she said, adding it totals about 25 to 30 hours a week. “I have always had a passion for foster care and taught teens, so it seemed like the most logical place to carry my passion out while on school,” said Williams-Davis, a former educator who decided to go back to school to become a registered nurse. She will get her associates degree in nursing by next December and eventually earn a master’s degree in nursing since she already has a bachelor’s degree in education. She said she couldn’t do all she does at Carrington – including clinical rotations –

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Mesa libraries seek public input at open houses BY HALEY LORENZEN Tribune Contributor

he Mesa Public Library is ringing in the new year by inviting the public to learn about its new mission and vision while offering a behind the scenes look at the library. Each of the city’s three library branches will hold a “Dreaming Starts Here” open house on Saturday, Jan. 4. “Everyone is absolutely welcome. We would love to talk with them about the strategic plan and then give them a tour of the libraries. We’re going to try and take people a little bit behind the scenes and show them some of the stuff that happens they don’t get to see,” said Heather Wolf, library director. At each open house, Wolf said the public will be introduced to the new strategic plan for 2020, and attendees will be asked for their thoughts and ideas as well. “We’re going to have staff on hand to talk about the strategic plan and answer any questions. We’ll also have vision boards where we invite the public to share their vision of what the Mesa Public Library could look like and how we can better

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his farm in Texas. Col. Montgomery Shaw, a surgeon in the U. S. Army, is by his demons to seek a new life and preacher Joseph Pinelli seeks only to heal hurting souls. “Slot Canyon is a traditional western fiction and follows the travels of three different characters,” said the author. “My lead character is a Confederate soldier and my villain is a union doctor – the worst villain I’ve ever created. He’s a sicko.” “Along the way, they meet a preacher and it’s three different stories that are all headed toward Arizona and it follows their tracks,” he continued. “They all have different character arcs – the good guy

serve our community,” Wolf said. Wolf said the library’s vision going into the new year will focus on the words “curiosity, learning, connection, inspiration, creativity and dreaming.” Those words will be written on 4’X6’ vision boards on which individuals can add their ideas. “We have those words on the board, and then we’re hoping people will offer examples of how they would like to see us implement programs or services related to those concepts,” she said. The new library vision has been in development for quite some time, Wolf said, and came about through collaboration between 15 different focus groups with the library staff and board. “We really talked about all the things we do at the library and want to do in the future to serve our community. Then we boiled all it down into our vision and our mission, our values, and developed some priorities for the next year,” Wolf said. She added, “Our library board represented the public and focus groups, and they also completed some surveys for us as a result of that. “And I know some of them did talk with

doesn’t stay good all the way through.” Conversations with Spirits of the Southwest derives from Baldwin’s own personal experiences. For the book, he teamed up with the Hulls in conducting their own paranormal investigations, using non-confrontational methods of researching the spirit world and southwestern history. “My co-authors and I are basically history buffs,” said Baldwin. “And our thinking is, the best way to research the old west is to talk to the old people who actually lived there.” “We are paranormal investigators and we go to haunted places to try to make contact with the spirits,” he added. “That book outlines our adventures in going to

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their friends and neighbors and try to make sure they were representing not just their own views, but the people they knew.” Wolf also said the library is focusing on encouraging innovation in the new year and said one of the ways the library plans to encourage innovation is through the use of THINKspot. THINKspot is a “makerspace” where individuals can use technology and equipment, such as a 3D printer or embroidery machines, for no cost. “We have a THINKspot at Red Mountain and about a year and a half ago, we opened a THINKspot here at the main library. And then as part of the voter-approved bond package, there will be hopefully construction starting on a THINKspot for Dobson next year,” Wolf said. Another new program the library will be rolling out next year will be what Wolf called “The Best Loved Books Collection.” “We’re also trying to concentrate on the collection and really make sure we’re purchasing the materials the public wants. So, we did put forth a proposal and we got additional money this year to spend on children’s materials,” she explained.

When members of the public attend the open house on Jan. 4, Wolf said there will be a display in the children’s room at the library called “deathless books.” “We have a selection of classic and very popular titles. And we’ve made sure we have multiple copies of those titles because children don’t want to put something on hold and wait for it to come in,” she said. Although several new programs will be beginning next year, Wolf encouraged the public to attend to share their ideas with the library staff at the open house as well. “That will help us concentrate with staff resources and our dollars, what areas we’re going to focus on and really try to improve those areas to meet the needs of the community,” she said.

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Some of the girls at the home “are working towards reunification with their families and some are waiting for a foster or adoptive home to become available – which is hard when they are older,” Williams-Davis said. But all their worries and cares melted for at least a little while when Williams-Davis and her Carrington classmates showed up. “It was squeals and screaming and crying – lots and lots of crying,” Williams-Davis said. “Many of them told me they have never had a Christmas like this and it was overwhelming to say the least.”

particular sites and then transcriptions of the actual investigations.” Baldwin said the investigators only use handheld recorders during their visits, and stay away from “fancy equipment.” One method, in particular, is the pendulum douser, said the author. “Dousing goes back as far back as the Egyptians,” he explained. “It’s a weight on a string. If I ask a question and it swings to the right it would be a yes.” While Baldwin asks yes or no questions, his friend Rhonda, a psychic, will work on communication with the spirits in a more direct manner. “I can have extended conversations with them with yes or no answers,” said Baldand the foster home without the support of her husband, Lefty Davis. The couple’s children range in age from 4 to 21. “I have an amazing husband who holds the house together in my absence at school and my mom fills in when he is working,” said Williams-Davis, adding she does “lots of multi-tasking,” and hopes “my example of hard work in school will be contagious to them all.” Along with the bikes, the student council also showered the girls with $3,000 worth of gifts.

Open house schedule Main Library, 64 E. First Street, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Red Mountain Branch, 635 N. Power Road, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dobson Ranch Branch, 2425 S. Dobson Road, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

win. “Sometimes you get EVP [electronic voice phenomenon] recordings and we get clear voices that sometimes respond directly.” As far as next steps, Baldwin said he has his hands full. He is currently conducting paranormal research for a new book to serve as a “how-to” for conducting paranormal investigations using pendulum dousing. He is also writing a current-day novel called Sack of Fried Okra, which chronicles a road trip between two friends to Louisiana. Baldwin’s books are all available in ebook and paperback formats online and through all major distributors.

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Former Chandler teacher runs doggy boutique BY KEVIN REAGAN Tribune Staff Writer

arbara Barzee had a predicament when she’d take her greyhound dogs out for a walk in her Chandler neighborhood. She often didn’t have enough pockets to hold her keys, phone and whatever she may need to pick up after her pets. Barzee wished she had an accessory functioning like a purse but was stylish and discreet enough to hide her doggie’s droppings. She went home and sewed together a little backpack able to hold all the necessities for walking her dogs. “It just made walking my dogs so much easier cause I didn’t have to figure out where I was gonna put all of my stuff and have pockets full of stuff,” Barzee said. She knew other dog owners might like their own backpack and set out to satisfy this demand. A couple years later, Barzee’s business, Hound Street Boutique, has expanded to offer a variety of bandanas, collars, and dog-themed decorations. “It’s kind of taken off,” she said. Her products are not exclusive to dog lovers. She’s got some items cat owners may fancy as well, like a tea towel featuring a prickly pear cactus in the shape of a feline – Barzee playfully refers to it as a “Catcus.” The business is still a one-woman operation. wwBarzee makes all the products out of her home studio and sells them at street fairs or through her website. Her top-selling items are her knitted bandanas and embroidered towels that come with a variety of canine puns or slogans. She’s just started selling one that’s got “Feliz Naughty Dog” stitched across the front. She’s got a variety of key fobs, in the shape of nearly every dog breed; corgis, beagles, and bulldogs are all part of the

Barbara Barzee has turned an annoyance into a business after coming up with a way to store in aa convenient carrybag what she needs when she takes her dogs out. (Special to the Tribune)

selection. Sewing the items together is the easy part, Barzee said, it’s the preparation beforehand that eats up most of her time.

watching their eyes light up as they learned something new. But like several others in the teaching profession, Barzee got burned out by the long hours and low pay.

It just made walking my dogs “ so much easier cause I didn’t have to figure out where I was gonna put all of my stuff and have pockets full of stuff.

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After buying her materials, she spends hours washing, cutting, and ironing all the fabric. “It is all very labor-intensive,” Barzee added. The work was once just a hobby for the Chandler resident. Before starting her boutique, Barzee had been a Latin teacher for several years at Arete Preparatory Academy in Gilbert. She loved being amongst her pupils,

She had already been honing her crafting skills for years and thought maybe she could turn her hobby into a business. Over one summer break, she started selling dog-themed items online and at craft fairs. The response she got from buyers gave Barzee the confidence to not return to the classroom and devote herself full-time to sewing. She now has her products on display at Mesa’s Moon Dust Farms and tries to culti-

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vate new customers through her website. With the help of her husband, Mike, Barzee continues to market new ideas and gifts – they recently rolled out a catshaped ornament to hang off doorframes. But getting the word out is not as easy as posting some pictures on Facebook, she said, because all entrepreneurs have to compete for attention on the World Wide Web. It’s why craft fairs are still Barzee’s biggest source for sales. And she loves being out and among the people; hearing their dog stories and seeing them pick out new accessories for their pets. It’s important for owners to spoil their pets, Barzee said, because these animals give so much unconditional love and can brighten anyone’s day. “When they give us love, we want to give something back to them,” she said. Information: houndstreetboutique. com

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Better bone healthcare is in Congress’ hands BY DR. MICHAEL MARICIC AND DEDE OCHA Tribune Guest Writers

magine if you could save hundreds of lives and tens of millions of dollars each year in Arizona, prevent countless more health complications, and relieve a growing burden on our state? Our Congressional delegation can do all of that by addressing osteoporosis and our bone health crisis. Only Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and Reps. Ruben Gallego and Raul Grijalva have signed on to co-sponsor legislation that can deliver these positive results – the Increasing Access to Osteoporosis Testing for Medicare Beneficiaries Act (S.283/H.R.2693). It’s time for Congress to act is now. Half of all females age 50 and older are at risk of breaking a bone due to osteoporosis or low bone density. While osteoporosis is common, it is highly underdiagnosed and undertreated. Many people don’t know they have the disease until

they break a bone. Broken bone recovery for someone with osteoporosis can present many challenges, including repeated fractures, hospitalizations, long-term care needs, and even death. In fact, as many as one in four adults aged 50 and over dies within 12 months of a hip fracture, and one in four spends the rest of their days in a nursing home, which many patients fear more than death. We have firsthand experience with the devastating impact of osteoporosis. In fact, one of us recently spent a month caring for a parent who has broken her wrist, finger and femur and suffers from very poor posture and a loss of independence. Fortunately, there is hope. A brief, inexpensive test called dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry screening (DXA) is the gold standard for diagnostic testing. It can help doctors know if their patients are at risk for osteoporosis. The DXA test is recommended for all

women over 65 and those under 65 with risk factors, and for men at increased risk for osteoporosis. However, fewer Arizonans are accessing this test since the Medicare reimbursement rate has dropped an astounding 70 percent since 2006. It’s no longer economically feasible for many clinicians to maintain the equipment and administer these tests. This decline in testing has had tangible effects in Arizona. It is estimated 110,600 fewer women have received a DXA scan since 2008, shortly after the significant reimbursement cuts began. This has resulted in an estimated 1,393 additional hip fractures and 304 additional hip fracture-related deaths per year. It also has hit the state’s bottom line, as treating the additional hip fractures alone has cost Medicare $58 million, according to Braid-Forbes Health Research, LLC, which updated the data from 2018. With a focus on diagnostic testing, we can reverse these trends. A 2019 study in

a peer-reviewed journal found increasing DXA screening could have substantial benefits, preventing 3.7 million fractures and reducing total direct medical costs of osteoporosis by nearly $55 billion through 2040. We already know that one in two women, and up to one in four men, after age 50 experience an osteoporosis-related bone break. We also know that increased access to DXA scans can help Arizonans and other Americans know their risk for osteoporosis and related fractures before a bone break, so they can get needed treatment and care. But decreased reimbursement for testing is preventing wider access. We call on our elected leaders in Congress to support increased access to DXA diagnostic testing, and to sign on now to S.283 and H.R.2693. Lives are at stake. Dr. Michael Maricic is a clinical associate professor at the University of Arizona. Dede Socha is a physical therapist and peer educator for American Bone Health.

that provides bipartisan oversight to Maricopa County elections. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and the Recorder’s Office reached an agreement this fall about how to work together to ensure people can vote when and how they want. Riggs Road/Bridge over Queen Creek Wash. The Riggs Road extension is complete and includes new travel and turn lanes and traffic signals between Ellsworth Road and Meridian Road. Costs were split between MCDOT and Queen Creek. This widened and improved roadway now provides an additional route from I-10 to Combs Road in Pinal County and is an important east-west connection through the southeast valley in Maricopa County. In February 2020, construction will begin on a new bridge for Rittenhouse Road over the Queen Creek Wash.

Public safety training facility in Gilbert. In 2019, the Town of Gilbert started construction on a much-needed training facility for police and fire personnel. I believe a training space where first responders can simulate real-life emergency scenarios is overdue for a town that had some 200,000 service calls over a recent one-year span. Maricopa County helped facilitate this project by providing land within the Rittenhouse Basin for the driving track. Having it in the flood control basin should help reduce the noise. The Flood Control District of Maricopa County also agreed to let Gilbert use part of Rittenhouse Basin for the construction of Desert Sky Park. In both cases, the district is working with the Town to ensure continued flood protection. Smart Region Consortium. All of this partnering culminated a few weeks ago with the official launch of a Smart Region

Consortium. This is a public-private partnership that connects participating governments with technology-based innovations. The Consortium includes Maricopa County; 22 cities and towns; Arizona State University; Arizona Commerce Authority; Maricopa Association of Governments; Greater Phoenix Economic Council; and industry partners including Cox, Dell, Sprint, and SRP. I believe it is a great model for improving service at the municipal and county levels of government. I am hopeful 2020 will be a year of continued collaboration on behalf of our residents. Thank you for your support over the past year and I look forward to serving you as we enter this new decade. Jack Sellers is a member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors whose district covers the East Valley.

County helped the region in numerous ways BY JACK SELLERS Tribune Guest Writer

ooking back on 2019, I am struck by the myriad ways in which government, business, and community partners worked hand-in-hand to improve quality of life for residents in Maricopa County. In many communities, cities and towns don’t talk to one another; in others, public and private sectors openly clash. That has not been my experience in Maricopa County. We all seem to understand that our potential impact is greater when we collaborate. I wanted to highlight a few collaborations that mattered to me in 2019. I believe all of these will improve quality of life for residents. Elections. For the first time in more than half a century, we have a partnership

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EV players nominated for Ed Doherty Award BY ZACH ALVIRA Tribune Sports Editor

he 2019 high school football season in Arizona officially came to an end Dec. 21 as the winner of the 2019 Ed Doherty Award was announced. Awarded to the best football player in the state, the Ed Doherty Award draws comparison to the Heisman Trophy in college sports. It’s a symbol of outstanding achievement on the field for all of those nominated for the award. Several high-profile names from the East Valley have been awarded in the past, including Mountain View’s Todd Heap and John Beck, Desert Vista’s Bobby Wade and Zach Miller and Perry’s Brock Purdy in 2017. Tim and Teddy Ruben joined fellow Saguaro alum Kyle Caldwell in winning the award. Teddy was the first and only player to ever win the award twice. That is, until this year. Salpointe Catholic running back Bijan

Mesa, Chandler athletes nominated for Ed Doherty Award Brandon Buckner – Chandler DE Dalton Card – Casteel DL Dane Christensen – Casteel QB Dae Dae Hunter – Chandler RB Mikey Keene – Chandler QB Chubba Purdy – Perry QB Brenden Rice – Hamilton WR Tre Smith – Red Mountain DE

Robinson, a University of Texas signee who rushed for over 7,000 yards in his career, claimed the Ed Doherty Award for the second straight year at Saturday’s luncheon. “It’s a blessing to win it twice,” Robinson said. “Just being able to share this experience with my family, my coaches and God, it’s a great feeling.” Robinson was voted the winner over the likes of Saguaro star athlete and Arizona State signee Will Shaffer, Perry quarterback and Florida State signee Chubba Purdy, Higley star defensive end Jason Harris and Notre Dame Prep linebacker and Harvard signee Brock Locnikar. Tre Smith, a senior defensive end for Red Mountain, represented all Mesa schools with his nomination for the Ed Doherty Award. Smith wreaked havoc on opposing offensive lines this season, as he accounted for 18.5 sacks to lead the 6A conference.

He helped anchor a stout Red Mountain front-seven that made it to the 6A title game for the first time in 18 years. All that came just three years after an accident on the high jump resulted in five herniated disks in his back. Smith was told he would never be able to play football again, but he prevailed. “Just to come from basically nothing and not playing to being here today, it’s awesome,” Smith said. “Never in my lifetime did I imagine being here. But it’s all thanks to the (Red Mountain) program. They took me back and helped me get here.” Brandon Buckner, a junior defensive end for the Open Division state champion Chandler Wolves, was fifth in the state in sacks this season with 14.5. Buckner was instrumental to a dominant first-half performance for the Wolves against Saguaro in the Open Division title game. With Chandler already up 14 points early in the first quarter, Buckner caught a pass tipped by fellow junior defensive end Zion Magalei and walked into the end zone for a 5-yard touchdown. The score put Chandler up 21 points, a deficit Saguaro would eventually trim to 7 but was unable to complete the comeback. “There’s a lot of great talent from all over Arizona here in this room,” said Buckner, who was nominated along with Wolves senior quarterback Mikey Keene and running back Dae Dae Hunter. “It feels great to represent Chandler. Coach Garretson does

a great job over there. He’s a man of his word and we are a brotherhood.” Along with the three nominees from Chandler High School, Hamilton wideout Brenden Rice, a Colorado signee, was also nominated for the Ed Doherty Award along with Casteel defensive lineman Dalton Card and quarterback Dane Christensen. Each player in attendance walked across the stage at the Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch and received the recognition they deserved for outstanding performances throughout the season. Though 55 of the 56 nominees weren’t able to hoist the award at the end of the ceremony, all agreed it was the experience of being recognized as one of the best in the state they will always remember. “All of these guys could have won this award,” Robinson said. “They all had crazy stats this year. I just cherish this moment.”

Desert Ridge coach Jeremy Hathcock said part of his decision came from San Diego State wanting to pull Price’s offer due to lack of communication on his part. Price agreed Friday he could have had better communication with the San Diego State coaching staff. “It was hard to keep in touch with a lot of coaches,” Price said. “I would forget. I’m bad at keeping in touch with people but it all worked out.” Price, who transferred to Desert Ridge from South Dakota his sophomore year, had 104 solo tackles in his two seasons at the varsity level. He was one of the top sack leaders in the state this season with 15. As a junior, he had 12. He also forced 48 quarterback hurries in his two-year

varsity career and 26.5 tackles for loss. Rated as a three-star prospect in the 2020 class, Price held offers from Rice and San Diego State when the early signing period began. He previously held an offer from Iowa State but at some point, it was pulled by the Cyclones. Price had been communicating with UCLA coach Chip Kelly and the rest of the staff when he decommitted from San Diego State, as well as other Division I programs. But when the Bruins offered Price on Wednesday, he immediately committed. “It’s amazing,” Hathcock said. “It moved fast. When I talked to UCLA I don’t think they were going to send out a letter of intent right away but when he got going

I think they just wanted to lock him in right away. Price said he was relieved after he put pen to paper and locked in his college destination. He plans to study Kinesiology at UCLA to pursue a career as a physical therapist once his football career is over. While signing with the Bruins before visiting their campus, he has high expectations when he finally gets the chance in January. “It was stressful but I’m glad it’s over with now,” Price said. “I know it’s a nice campus. Hopefully, I can meet some of my teammates and know what I’m going to do for my dorm and stuff like that to get ready.”

Chandler junior defensive end Brandon Buckner earned his nomination after a strong campaign where he was one of the state’s top sack leaders despite missing four games due to injury. (Photo courtesy Mike Harvey)

Red Mountain senior defensive end Tre Smith led the 6A Conference in sacks this season and wreaked havoc on opposing offensive lines. (Photo courtesy Mike Harvey)

Desert Ridge DE Joquarri Price relieved after signing with UCLA BY ZACH ALVIRA Tribune Sports Editor

he long recruiting journey for Desert Ridge defensive end Joquarri Price officially came to end Friday as the senior signed his National Letter of Intent to UCLA. Price’s signing came on the last day of the early signing period, which started Wednesday. “I’m really excited,” Price said. “I didn’t think I would get to this moment. I’m just really excited and happy for the future.” Price had originally committed to San Diego State before the start of his senior season. But on Dec. 3, he decommitted from the Aztecs.

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ometimes a happy accident can turn into one of history’s sublime moments. It’s what happened on Dec. 4, 1956, when four artists just happened to drop in at different times at Sun Record Studios in Memphis. They started a spur-of-the-moment jam session, the only time the four of them would play together and history was made. The artists? Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash. A reporter came by to snap pictures and a recording was made. The next day’s newspaper sported the headline “Million Dollar Quartet,” though a recording of the session wouldn’t be released for another 25 years. In 2010, the musical of the same name opened on Broadway, dramatizing the meeting of these four greats and the mu-

Jerry Lee Lewis is one of four icons of the 1950s music scene recreated in “Million Dollar Quartet.” (Special to GetOut)

sic they played. The musical is now at the Phoenix The-

ater, 1825 N. Central Avenue through Feb. 16, for an encore run as part of its 100th

season. It originally opened in March 2018 and the theater had to extend its run because the show was so popular. “Million Dollar Quartet is really a tribute to these remarkable performers,” said Scott Weinstein, director. “I want audiences to feel the surprise and excitement Presley, Cash, Perkins and Lewis felt that extraordinary day. “They were discovering something unexpected right in the studio, and through this show, we get to discover the magic with them. When you get four big personalities in one room, they’re going to butt heads. But that’s exactly what makes this a great show—the drama is real and authentic, and you get to see that energy channeled into an incomparable record.” The jukebox musical features such wellknown songs as “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Long Tall Sally,” “Peace in the Valley,” “I Walk the Line,” “Great

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Family-friendly events abound in January

painting to go with various booths set up by local vendors, with food and other offerings for sale at the event. OdySea in the Desert, 9500 E. Via de Ventura, Scottsdale, 480-951-2100, odyseainthedesert.com, noon to 4 p.m., free.

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 ZooLights: Glow Wild To Jan. 19 The Phoenix Zoo’s iconic yearly holiday light show is on until Jan. 19, allowing families one (or more) opportunities to enjoy the city’s zoo, with the illumination of millions of lights giving an added dimension to the festivities. ZooLights: Glow Wild, 455 N. Galvin Pkwy., Phoenix, 602-286-3800, phoenixzoo.org, 5:30 to 10:30 p.m., $11.95-$17.95 members, $13.95-$19.95 general admission.

 Downtown Mesa Festival of the Arts

Jan. 4-18 The Downtown Mesa Festival of the Arts features the work of established and emerging artists, including those who create woodwork, metal crafts, food items, jewelry, art, photography, handmade soaps and gifts. On Macdonald, off of Main Street in Downtown Mesa, dtmesafest.com, 10 a.m.

If you didn’t have time during the holidays, you can still check out ZooLights at the Phoenix Zoo through Jan. 19. (Special to GetOut)

to 4 p.m., free admission.

 Family Fun Winterfest Jan. 4 OdySea Aquarium in the Desert is host-

ing the third annual Family Fun Winterfest in its Desert Courtyard, featuring real snow for the kids to play in. This free event features everything from bounce houses to rides, games, snowflake crafts and face

 Music and Butter�lies Jan. 12 Butterfly Wonderland is hosting a free music experience, featuring a performance by classical violinist Jonathan Levingston. Classical music boosts your attention to the minute details of the enclosure. Butterfly Wonderland, 9500 E. Via de Ventura, Scottsdale, 480-800-3000, butterflywonderland.com, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., free with admission.

 Youth Fine Arts Courses Jan. 18-March 7 Mesa Arts Center is hosting an eightweek youth arts course on Saturdays to teach artistic skills and knowledge through fun and challenging art classes in

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Balls of Fire,” “Down by the Riverside” and “Hound Dog.” Chris Lash, who plays Lewis, considers himself part of the “Million Dollar family” because he’s done the show so many times. His first turn was with the original Broadway show on Vegas and he then did it on cruise ships. When Weinstein, whom he’d worked with on the Broadway version, asked him to come to Phoenix to do the show, he couldn’t say yes fast enough. “He’s such a dream to work with,” said Lash. “I didn’t really know anything about Phoenix until I went there to do the show. It was my favorite director and my friend so it would be amazing. I thought, ‘I’m going to do this little show in the desert.’ Then I was doing my research and learned Phoenix is the sixth-largest city in the nation.” It was an eye-opening experience for him—both the city and the 100-year-old theater company he found himself working with. “I was really blown away by the professionalism and the quality of work they put out,” Lash said. “It is inspiring. It makes it really easy to do your job because they really take care of you.” All the actors play the instruments their characters do, so Lash performs in Jerry Lee Lewis’ flamboyant, over-the-top piano style, which is a long way from when he first taught himself to play piano. His mother had withheld lessons because she didn’t think he’d ever be able to do anything with piano. “At a young age, I always wanted to play piano, but my mom pushed me into dance,” Lash said. “So, I taught myself. In teaching myself, I did my own research, who are these piano players? Little Rich-

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a wide variety of art materials, including painting, drawings, paintmaking, mixed media and sculpture, ensuring a mentally stimulating session for all. Mesa Art Center, 1 E. Main St., Mesa. 480-644-6560, mesaartscenter.com, 8 to 9:30 a.m., $93.

 Dogs’ Day in the Garden Jan. 18 The Desert Botanical Garden’s annual event is a great chance for your family to meet other dog lovers, with the admission fees benefitting the Arizona Humane Society. There will be educational opportunities to learn about Arizona-based dog nonprofits and even dog-centric shopping opportunities, in the appropriately named

Elvis and three other major singers of the 1950s are “Million Dollar Quartet.” (Special to GetOut)

ard was a big influence and he influenced Jerry Lee Lewis, who is the Basie of rock piano playing.” His first memory of Lewis’ music was his mother working out to a Richard Simmons aerobics video, “Sweatin’ to the Oldies.” “I loved that video,” Lash said. “I loved all the music in it. That’s when I learned the oldies song, ‘Great Balls of Fire.’” As he got older, he learned who Lewis was and became fascinated with his overthe-top character and his “crazy piano playing.” He has a great time playing one of his idols now he is an adult. He said he

Barketplace. Desert Botanical Gardens, 1201 N. Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, 480-941-1225, dbg. org, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., $4 per dog.

Brownie Race Car Design Badge Workshop 

Jan. 25 The Arizona Science Center is inviting Arizonans in second and third grade to design and build their own race cars, giving children an up-close and personal lesson on how engineering design processes work. Members of the Girls Scouts of America get discounted entrance to the event, which runs from 10 a.m. to noon. Arizona Science Center, 600 E. Washington St., Phoenix, 602-716-2000, azscience. org, 10 a.m. to noon, $17 Brownie, Girl Scout, $5 chaperones.

loves tapping into Lewis’ style and character. “The character itself is very outrageous,” Lash said. “It’s really fun to just sort of be this wild child on stage. He was so young and was trying to assert himself into this industry. He’s so bold and that’s really fun to play eight times a week. I like to be very chill when I’m not performing. I’m pretty shy, so to play the opposite of myself is a challenge and it’s really fun.” He also appreciates almost every song he does is fast, upbeat and show-stopping. Shortly after finishing his contract with Norwegian Cruise Lines doing “The Million Dollar Quartet” in 2016, he happened across a flier in New York on Broadway announcing remembered in the Lewis would be performing at BB Kings three days later. He said he immediately knew he had to see the legend perform. “It was amazing. He’s in his 80s, but it was incredible,” Lash said. “It’s a very small club and we were packed in there like sardines. The whole room was buzzing. He came out in a wheelchair, but he was still singing and rocking out.” While most of the musical is focused on that single afternoon in December, it uses flashbacks to tell the stories of each artist’s life. They were all at the early stages of their career—Lewis was still unknown outside of Memphis—with only Elvis hav-

Elephant & Piggie’s “We are in a Play!” 

Jan. 26-March 1 The Herberger Theater is hosting a children’s series on its stage west, focused around Gerald the Elephant and Piggie. The play is an hour-long, and is intended for ages 3 and older. The run time on the play is one hour, with a post-show Q&A session following the performance. Herberger Theater, 222 E. Monroe St., Phoenix. 602-252-8497, herbergertheater.org. 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., $12-35.

Friendly Pines Camp Information Nights 

Jan. 28-29, Feb. 4 Friendly Pines Camp in Prescott is holding information nights about its sleep-away camp. Parents and children

ing achieved the superstar status all of them would later have. There is also a storyline in which Sam Phillips, the record producer and founder of Sun Studios, is trying to get Cash to sign an extension on his contract. Phillips is sometimes called “The Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll” because of how many greats he “discovered.” So, the musical flashes back to when Phillips met each of the performers and how he got them their start. However, what makes this musical popular is the music. They perform many of their characters’ greatest hits along with gospel and country songs they jammed to on that historic afternoon. “It really does feel like you’re there in the room with them,” Lash said. “What I find great about working with these actors and doing this show is everyone is such a great musician. In order to be a good band and tight, it’s all about listening to each other, so right off the bat, the acting is elevated too. We’re all present and listening to each other. It’s a very, very exciting thing to do every night.” Lash said “The Million Dollar Quartet” is one of the most fun nights you can have in theater. He also said the experience is amplified by the venue producing it. “You’re not just seeing a show there,” Lash said. “It’s such an experience to be at the theater and the staff is absolutely amazing from the lighting operator to the ushers to the staff in the bar. “They go out of their way to create an experience for every single person there. I just saw tickets are $32—that’s nothing for a Broadway-caliber performance and it really is. I’m very grateful to be a part of it. The company is just amazing and the theater is really awesome.” Information/tickets: phoenix theatre.com

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are invited to attend and learn about the experience. They’re open to all new and returning campers. The featured speakers will be camp directors Kevin Nissen and Megan May, who offer a fun, informative presentation and discuss the emotional and physical benefits children experience when they attend a camp like this. A raffle features a $500 discount on camp tuition. Homewood Suites by Hilton Tucson/St. Philip’s Plaza, 4250 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, 928-445-2128, friendlypines.com, 7 to 8:30 p.m., free; Courtyard Marriott Salt River, 5201 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale, 928445-2128, friendlypines.com, 7 to 8:30 p.m., free; Cambria Hotel Phoenix Chandler-Fashion Center, 3165 W. Frye Road, Chandler, 928-445-2128, friendlypines. com, 7 to 8:30 p.m., free.

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These desserts make for a great 2020 welcome

hether you’re looking for just one more item for your New Year’s Eve bash or looking for something to serve during New Year’s Day bowl games, Grown Up S’mores Marshmallow Pops makes for a tasty treat, I had to look no further than the back of a Honey Maid Graham Cracker Box. If you find the old-fashioned S’more’s to be a little messy to eat, you’re going to love the modern day “cake pop” version. I found the perfect size (3 inch) pretzels at Cost Plus World Market. (UTZ All-Natural Butter Sticks.) Then, if you have leftover graham crackers, try moist and flavorful Graham Cracker Cake. I found the recipe in the 1931 Searchlight Cookbook. It’s an 82-year-old dessert that I’m guessing few people have tried, even though Graham Crackers continue to be one of America’s favorite snacks.

Cake Pops

Ingredients: 12 pretzel sticks, about 3-4 inches long 12 large marshmallows 3 oz. dipping chocolate or chocolate coating 1/3 cup Graham Cracker Crumbs Directions: Prepare one small shallow bowl with melted choc

For this recipe, the graham cracker crumbs replace the flour, and the folded-in egg whites make this cake light and fluffy. You can serve it with whipped cream, but I’ve also shared my favorite glaze that’s perfect for desserts like the Graham Cracker Cake. I hope you’ll enjoy both treats. May they add S’more to your life in 2020!

olate and one with graham cracker crumbs. Insert 1 end of each pretzel stick into the marshmallow. Dip each marshmallow half way up in chocolate then roll in graham crumbs, turning to evenly to coat. Place on parchment-covered baking sheet. Refrigerate for 2-3 minutes or until chocolate coating is firm. Store in airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days.

Graham Cracker Cake

Directions: Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, beating thoroughly. Add graham cracker crumbs, baking powder, vanilla, milk and nuts, mixing well. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into well-greased 9 X 13 baking dish at 350 about 30 minutes or until toothpick comes up clean. Remove from oven and pour glaze over top.

Glaze Ingredients: 4 tablespoons butter ½ cup sugar ½ cup buttermilk or cream ¼ teaspoon of baking soda

Directions: In a medium pot, mix together all ingredients and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. When mixture froths and expands, pour immediately over warm cake. Sprinkle with nuts, if desired.

Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar 3 eggs, separated, whites stiffly beaten 2 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 cup milk or buttermilk 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 cup chopped walnuts 1 pound (1 box) graham crackers, crushed

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until Thursday, January 23, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. All sealed bids will be received at Mesa City Plaza Building, Engineering Department at 20 East Main Street, 5th Floor, Mesa, Arizona; except for bids delivered 30 minutes prior to opening which will be received at the information desk, 1st floor, Main Lobby of the Mesa City Plaza Building. Any bid received after the time specified will be returned without any consideration. This contract shall be for furnishing all labor, materials, transportation and services for the construction and/or installation of the following work: Connect just downstream of gas regulator station GRS96 on Cooper Road at Arizona Farms Road, install 24 LF of 4-inch coated steel gas main by means of open trenching. Transition to 4-inch PE gas pipe and install 5,127 LF of 4-inch polyethylene gas main by horizontal directional boring maintaining a minimum 48-inch cover. Replace by directional boring, or, intercept at the proposed gas main the existing gas services within these limits per the approved plans. Deflect the proposed gas main to align with the existing 4-inch polyethylene gas main and connect. City of Mesa will be responsible to provide all the natural gas materials. The contractor will be responsible to provide all asphalt cuts, trenching, directional boring, shading material, backfill, and paving replacement. The installation of the gas pipe by the contractor includes all appurtenances there to and should be reflected in the unit cost of the installation of the gas pipe, except for, installation of the gas valves and the gas pipe tie-in locations. All gas work must be performed by a contractor from the City of Mesa’s pre-approved gas contractors list (Attachment “C”). Contractor is responsible to provide all tools required to construct and complete this project. The Engineer’s Estimate range is $450,000.00 – $550,000.00 For all technical, contract, bid-related, or other questions, please contact Stephanie Gishey at Stephanie.Gishey@mesaaz.gov. Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified above. 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Please call 480-644-2251 prior to arriving to ensure that the documents are available for viewing. In order for the City to consider alternate products in the bidding process, please follow Arizona Revised Statutes §34.104c. If a pre-bid review of the site has been scheduled, details can be referenced in Project Specific Provision Section #3, titled “Pre-Bid Review of Site.” Work shall be completed within 90 consecutive calendar days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed. Bids must be submitted on the Proposal Form provided and be accompanied by the Bid Bond for not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid, payable to the City of Mesa, Arizona, or a certified or cashier's check. PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL SURETY BONDS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. The successful bidder will be required to execute the standard form of contract for construction within ten (10) days after formal award of contract. In addition, the successful bidder must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self-Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service). The successful bidder, simultaneously with the execution of the Contract, will be required to furnish a Payment Bond in the amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, a Performance Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and the most recent ACORD® Certificate of Liability Insurance form with additional insured endorsements. The right is hereby reserved to accept or reject any or all bids or parts thereto, to waive any informalities in any proposal and reject the bids of any persons who have been delinquent or unfaithful to any contract with the City of Mesa.

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Publication Dates: December 22 & 29, 2019

JOB ORDER CONTRACT PARK AND PLAYGROUND SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION SERVICES PROJECT NO. JOC-PPSI20

The City of Mesa is conducting public community meetings to gather public input for its 2020-2024 Consolidated Plan, its Annual Action Plan for Program Year 2020, and its Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice.

The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Contractor to provide Job Order Park and Playground Supply and Installation Services. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).

Background The City of Mesa is required to submit to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) a multi-year Consolidated Plan and an Annual Action Plan describing community needs and funding priorities. These planning documents are submitted as a prerequisite to receiving funds for the following programs: Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME), the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) Program, and the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Program.

The following is a summary of the project. The Park and Playground Supply and Installation services for minor and/or major improvement projects, maintenance, repairs, re-construction, and alteration services to City park, playground, or other similar facilities. A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on January 6, 2019, at 8:00 am, at the Mesa City Plaza Building, Engineering Department, 20 E. Main Street, Conference Room 170, Mesa, AZ 85201. At this meeting, City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to questions from the attendees. Attendance at the pre-submittal conference is not mandatory and all interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether or not they attend the conference. All interested firms are encouraged to attend the Pre-Submittal Conference since City staff will not be available for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope outside of this conference. In addition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the Pre-Submittal Conference. Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, assure that contract decisions are made in public and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below. RFQ Lists. The RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/construction-manager-at-risk-and-job-order-contractingopportunities. The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of ten (10) single-sided pages (maximum 8½” x 11”) with a minimum of 10 pt. font size, to address the SOQ evaluation criteria. Do not include a table of contents. Submittals should be plastic or metal spiralbound only, do not use binders of any kind. The following information is not included in the 10page limit and should be attached as appendices: bonding capacity letter, certificate of insurability, Workers’ Compensation Experience Modification Rating (EMR), and maximum two (2)-page resume for each key team member. Please provide six (6) hard copies and one (1) electronic copy (CD/DVD/USB) of the Statement of Qualifications by 2:00pm on January 22, 2020. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer. Delivered or hand-carried submittals must be delivered to the Engineering Department reception area on the fifth floor of Mesa City Plaza Building in a sealed package. On the submittal package, please display: Firm name, JOC Small Project Landscaping Construction Services, JOC-PPSI20. Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service). Questions. Questions pertaining to the Construction Manager at Risk selection process or contract issues should be directed to Stephanie Gishey of the Engineering Department at stephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov. BETH HUNING City Engineer ATTEST: DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk Published: East Valley Tribune, Dec. 22, 29, 2019 / 26847

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The Analysis of Impediments (AI) is a review of barriers that affect the rights of fair housing choice. It covers public and private policies, practices, and procedures affecting housing choice. The AI serves as the basis for fair housing planning, provides essential information to policy makers, administrative staff, housing providers, lenders, and fair housing advocates, and assists in building public support for fair housing efforts. The AI is also required by HUD as a condition of receipt of funds under the CDBG Program. Community Meetings Two community meetings will be held to present information pertaining to the Consolidated Plan, Action Plan, and Analysis of Impediments and to receive comments from the public regarding issues related to each of these documents. These meetings will be held as follows: Thursday, January 9, 2020 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Catholic Charities Care Campus 466 S. Bellview Mesa, AZ 85204 Monday, January 13, 2020 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Mesa Fire Department Station 220 32 S. 58th Street Mesa, AZ 85206 To Make Written Comments If you are not able to attend either one of these meetings, the City of Mesa welcomes written comments. Please send your comments regarding the Consolidated Plan, Annual Action Plan, or the Analysis of Impediments to ray.thimesch@mesaaz.gov. Alternatively, you may mail your comments directly to: City of Mesa Housing and Community Development Department MS 9870, PO Box 1466, Mesa, AZ 85211-1466 Other Information The City of Mesa endeavors to make all public meetings accessible to persons with disabilities. If you are a person with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in programs and services offered by the City of Mesa’s Housing and Community Development Department, please contact Andrea Alicoate at 480-6445034 or andrea.alicoate@mesaaz.gov. Hearing impaired individuals should call 711 (Arizona TDD Relay). To the extent possible, accommodations will be made within the time constraint of the request, and you may be required to provide information to support your reasonable request. Published: East Valley Tribune, Dec 22, 29, 2019 / 26882

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The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Contractor to provide Job Order Small Tenant Improvement Projects. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ). The following is a summary of the project. The Small Tenant Improvement projects, maintenance, repairs, re-construction, and alteration services to City facilities. A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on January 6, 2019, at 8:30 am, at the Mesa City Plaza Building, Engineering Department, 20 E. Main Street, Conference Room 170, Mesa, AZ 85201. At this meeting, City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to questions from the attendees. Attendance at the pre-submittal conference is not mandatory and all interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether or not they attend the conference. All interested firms are encouraged to attend the Pre-Submittal Conference since City staff will not be available for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope outside of this conference. In addition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the Pre-Submittal Conference. Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, assure that contract decisions are made in public and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below. RFQ Lists. The RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/constructionmanager-at-risk-and-job-order-contracting-opportunities. The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of ten (10) single-sided pages (maximum 8½” x 11”) with a minimum of 10 pt. font size, to address the SOQ evaluation criteria. Do not include a table of contents. Submittals should be plastic or metal spiral-bound only, do not use binders of any kind. The following information is not included in the 10-page limit and should be attached as appendices: bonding capacity letter, certificate of insurability, Workers’ Compensation Experience Modification Rating (EMR), and maximum two (2)-page resume for each key team member. Please provide six (6) hard copies and one (1) electronic copy (CD/DVD/USB) of the Statement of Qualifications by 2:00pm on January 22, 2020. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer. Delivered or hand-carried submittals must be delivered to the Engineering Department reception area on the fifth floor of Mesa City Plaza Building in a sealed package. On the submittal package, please display: Firm name, JOC Small Project Landscaping Construction Services, JOC-STI20. Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service). Questions. Questions pertaining to the Construction Manager at Risk selection process or contract issues should be directed to Stephanie Gishey of the Engineering Department at stephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov.

ATTEST: DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk Published: East Valley Tribune Dec. 22, 29, 2019 / 26846

BETH HUNING City Engineer

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until Monday, January 13, 2020, at 1:30p.m. All sealed bids will be received at Mesa City Plaza Building, Engineering Department at 20 East Main Street, 5th Floor, Mesa, Arizona; except for bids delivered 30 minutes prior to opening which will be received at the information desk, 1st floor, Main Lobby of the Mesa City Plaza Building. Any bid received after the time specified will be returned without any consideration. This contract shall be for furnishing all labor, materials, transportation and services for the construction and/or installation of the following work: Installation of 616 linear feet of new 36-inch Sanitary Sewer piping and 602 linear feet of new 36-inch Concrete Cylinder Pipe Force Main Reclaimed Water Line. The work also includes removal of existing sewer, reclaimed and stormwater lines, excavation, removal of contaminated soils, recompacting clean / reusable soils, and soil import. The Engineer’s Estimate range is $1.00 to $2.00 million. For all technical, contract, bid-related, or other questions, please contact Stephanie Gishey at Stephanie.Gishey@mesaaz.gov. A Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held on Monday December 30, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. in the Upper Level Council Chambers at 57 E. First Street, Mesa, Arizona. All project questions must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 3, 2020. See Section 11 of the Project Special Provisions for more information. Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This po licy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified above. Contractors desiring to submit proposals may purchase sets of the Bid Documents from ARC Document Solutions, LLC, at https://order.e-arc.com/arcEOC/PWELL_Main.asp?mem=29. Click on “Go” for the Public Planroom to access plans. NOTE: In order to be placed on the Plan Holders List and to receive notifications and updates regarding this bid (such as addenda) during the bidding period, an order must be placed. The cost of each Bid Set will be no more than $14.00 which is non-refundable. Partial bid package s are not sold. You can view documents on-line (at no cost), order Bid Sets, and access the Plan Holders List on the website at the address listed above. Please verify print lead time prior to arriving for pick-up. For a list of locations nearest you, go to www.e-arc.com. One set of the Contract Documents is also available for viewing at the City of Mesa’s Engineering Department at 20 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ. Please call 480-644-2251 prior to arriving to ensure that the documents are available for viewing. In order for the City to consider alternate products in the bidding process, please follow Arizona Revised Statutes §34.104c. If a pre-bid review of the site has been scheduled, details can be referenced in Project Specific Provision Section #3, titled “Pre-Bid Review of Site.” Work shall be completed within 163 consecutive calendar days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed. Bids must be submitted on the Proposal Form provided and be accompanied by the Bid Bond for not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid, payable to Union Mesa 1, LLC, or a certified or cashier's check. PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL SURETY BONDS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. The successful bidder will be required to execute the Union Mesa 1, LLC Contract and respective Addenda for construction within five (5) days after formal Notice of Contact Award. Failure by bidder to properly execute the Contract and provide the required certification as specified shall be considered a breach of Contract by bidder. Union Mesa 1, LLC shall be free to terminate the Contract or, at option, release the successful bidder. Payment and Performance Bonds will be required for this Work. The successful bidder, simultaneously with the execution of the Contract, shall be required to furnish a Payment Bond in the amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a Performance Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. Successful Bidder shall name Union Mesa 1, LLC as obligee on both the Payment and Performance Bonds and name the City of Mesa as an additional obligee on the Performance Bond using a Dual Obligee Rider form. An approved Dual Obligee Rider Form is included herein as Exhibit C in the Contract Documents. The right is hereby reserved to accept or reject any or all bids or parts thereto, to waive any informalities in any proposal and reject the bids of any persons who have been delinquent or unfaithful to any contract with the Union Mesa 1, LLC, Lincoln Property Company or City of Mesa. BETH HUNING City Engineer ATTEST: DeeAnn Mickelsen City Clerk Published: East Valley Tribune, Dec. 22, 29, 2019 / 26909

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Patricia Ann Jarvis, 78, passed away on December 20, 2019, in Orem, Utah. She was born November 17, 1941, in Provo, Utah to Guy and Bessie Pierce. She was married to Jesse Selvoy Jarvis in the St. George Utah Temple on November 27, 1963. Patricia grew up in Provo Canyon and earned her Nursing Degree at Ricks College and she enjoyed caring for people in her career as a nurse. She loved spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren. She endured many illnesses over an extended period of time, but you could usually find a smile on her face telling you she was “hanging in there”. She fought the good fight, faithful to the end. She will be greatly missed but her family and friends find comfort knowing she is released from her pain and is at peace. She is survived by her loving husband Jess Jarvis, her children Dwight Guy Jarvis, Michele Manners, Sonya Vause, 7 grandchildren, and her siblings Jennie Jones and Garry Pierce, along with many other family and friends. Funeral Services will be held Monday, January 6, 2020, with a Grave Dedication at 10:30 a.m. in the Springville, Utah Evergreen Cemetery, followed by a Celebration of Life at 12:00 p.m. at the Springville LDS Chapel located at 950 South 1700 East. We invite all to celebrate Patricia’s (Trish) life. Please share memories and condolences at www.serenityfhs.com

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