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Ceremony honors soldiers who died BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Wrier

nthem’s A Day of Remembrance Memorial Day ceremony will highlight the sacrifices of military men and women who died for our country with a service at 9 a.m. Monday, May 30, at the Anthem Veterans Memorial. To Gold Star families or other service members who lost someone on the field, Chuck Hale, Veterans of Foreign Wars post commander and one of the event organizers, said Memorial Day ensures loved ones are honored and remembered. “They’ll never be forgotten,” he said. “This is a way that we ensure that you never forget those that have given the ultimate sacrifice. It’s not just a day of barbecues, it’s a day of shedding tears, reflecting on memories and letting those family mem-

bers know that their loved ones will never be forgotten.” Ceremony highlights include a POW/MIA table remembrance ceremony, a reading of the poem “In Flanders Field” by Boy Scouts and music provided by the Musical Theater of Anthem Outreach Group. In addition, Voice of Democracy winner and Anthem resident, Mary Sannapu, will recite her essay, “America, where do we go from here?” A POW/MIA table has a place setting for one. The tradition of setting a separate table in honor of prisoners of war and missing comrades started near the end of the Vietnam War. The ceremony will close with the playing of “Taps” and ringing of the Memorial Bell honoring those killed in action, followed by a moment of silence.

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Keynote speaker retired Lt. Col. Tim Pasquarelli said he hopes everyone takes a moment to reflect on the sacrifices made and lives that were lost. (Anthem Community Council/Submitted)

Anthem Pets is asking for the public’s help

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nthem Pets is looking for more fosters and volunteers after it paused animal intake due to a lack of help. “At this time Anthem Pets does not have enough help to continue saving animals,” said Lori Moriarty, board member. “We are 100% foster based, which means we

can only intake a pet if there is a person willing to foster it.” Anthem Pets doesn’t have a physical building to house rescues, and can’t accept animals if there is nowhere for them to go. Although the board members foster animals, Moriarty said they’re tapped out and need community support. To attract more community help, Moriarty said the rescue center is implementing a new

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to help alleviate the pressure that the four or five people that have been doing it all feel,” she added. Anthem Pets started in 2005 as a grassroots effort to help animals in Anthem proper, but Moriarty said it has grown since then. She said it might be most well known for its lost and found service. If someone in Anthem loses a pet, she said they contact

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Anthem Pets first. The rescue center then releases an emergency alert on their Facebook and other social media pages. The public is alerted about found animals, too. Moriarty said many times they can help make those connections and reunite them. Of course, it also operates as a rescue, rehabilitation and adoption center. According to Moriarty, Anthem Pets took in, fostered and found forever homes for 574 animals

in 2021 — not including animals temporarily held for the lost and found program. And it isn’t just focused on a quick turnaround time. Anthem Pets doesn’t adopt out animals unless they are healthy and takes the time for them to get medical care. Taking this extra step is part of the reason the rescue center is in need of more help. “For every animal that comes in, there’s paperwork, it has to get vetted, we make the vet appointments, we have to transport the animals, keep track of everything — it’s quite a lot,” Moriarty said. “And all we need is some people who are willing to stick with it. That’s kind of the new mantra. We’re not going to crush you with responsibility, but let’s work together, find a piece that you enjoy, that isn’t too much for your schedule, and stay with us for a year or two. That’s what’s going to make the difference.” As far as other ways to help, Moriarty said they accept supplies and donations. Specifically, she said they could use kitten food, clumping kitty litter and bottle feeding tool kits. “The supplies that we need right now are geared toward kittens because it’s kitten season right now,” she said. “Back in COVID times, there was not a lot of trap and release happening where colonies were getting spayed and neutered. So, we are really in need.” Moriarty is fostering five kittens at her house, which she said is “pretty light” compared to the last season when she had nearly 45.

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The Day of Remembrance Memorial Day Ceremony is scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday, May 30, at the Anthem Veterans Memorial. (Anthem Community Council/Submitted)

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This yearly event is hosted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 12031, American Legion Post 128 and Daisy Mountain Veterans, with support from the Anthem Community Council. Hale said the veteran organizations took over for the ACC about five years ago because it was important for them to honor the difference in what Memorial Day and Veterans Day are meant to recognize. The ceremony’s keynote speaker will be retired Lt. Col. Tim Pasquarelli, an Anthem resident who served in the Army for 24 years. He began his service in 1965 as a private in the Florida Army National Guard. During his military career, he rose through the ranks from enlisted soldier to eventually retire as a lieutenant colonel. Pasquarelli served two tours in Viet-

nam — one with the 1st Air Cavalry Division as a combat engineer and infantry officer and the second with the 101st Airborne Division as a helicopter pilot. In addition to his foreign duty in Vietnam, Pasquarelli served in foreign assignments with the 193rd Infantry Brigade in the Panama Canal Zone and as a senior staff officer at a major NATO headquarters in Turkey. He finished his career with duty at the Pentagon and at the State Department as a representative for the joint chiefs of staff. “It was interesting, fascinating and just a learning experience and exposure to things,” he said about his time in the military. “When I was a kid, I was a country boy. I picked cotton, I chopped cotton, I pulled cotton, worked part-time at a dairy throwing hay and you don’t see much of the world at the end of a row

of cotton. Here, they sent me off to all these places to see all these exotic things. It was just interesting.” However, now 75 years old, Pasquarelli said his perspective has changed and Memorial Day is a complex and sometimes difficult day for him. He acknowledged that for some people, Memorial Day may just be a day off where they can have a picnic and lie around the house, but it is supposed to mean so much more. Pasquarelli said reflecting on the soldiers lost leads to thoughts about the value of life and whether the war was worth it. He said he finds himself looking for solutions that don’t involve killing and loss. He said it hits him especially hard thinking about soldiers who died on the battlefield who were under his care. It’s something he can’t dwell on every day, because he said it wouldn’t be healthy, but after holding a dying comrade in his arms on the battlefield, Memorial Day means something different to him. “My bottom-line message is, as hard as life is, as busy as it is, take a minute, an hour, a day if you can, and re-

flect on those people that we’ve lost,” Pasquarelli said. “Reflect on why we lost them. And let’s think about if there is a way, we can minimize losses.” The ceremony is expected to run approximately 45 minutes. Seating and parking are limited and are intended for veterans. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early and bring lawn chairs or blankets. For those who can’t attend the event but still want to contribute, members of the VFW, American Legion and Daisy Mountain Veterans will be distributing poppies from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29, at Fry’s, 39508 W. Daisy Mountain Drive. Hale said the red flowers are a Memorial Day tradition that dates back to WWI, and they do it as a way to both educate people and raise donations.

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Tobin said he thinks this is the first near-drowning Daisy Mountain Fire and Medical has responded to this year. However, he warned that with the weather heating up and the increased use of pools, he expects more calls. He said it is critical that kids are watched closely around the pool. “Children need constant supervision. Barriers like cool fences and self-closing or self-latching doors to those areas are really important for those rare opportunities that maybe a kid slips out of someone’s sight and tries to make access to the pool,” Tobin said. “Then the next biggest thing would be for everybody to learn CPR, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, in the event that something occurs and to call 911 and we’ll be there as quick as we can.”

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We can all appreciate a winner BY JUDY BLUHM Foothills Focus Columnist

h, Rich Strike, how we love thee! The underdog who stunned the racing world! The horse who barely had an opportunity to run in the Kentucky Derby and was only given a spot through default of another horse. The biggest longshot to win the derby in the modern era. The winning horse that was outmatched, dismissed, given an 80-1 shot to

win. There was nothing in his previous races that suggested he had a chance. Well, his original owners gave him up for a mere $30,000, not like the million-plus dollar colts that were “born to win.” And against all odds, the racing world was turned upside down. Throw your hats off, ladies! Spit out that mint julep. Something great just happened. Running from the outside post, in a field of 20, Rich Strike was behind when the opening quarter was run

by the leading horses at a blistering pace. The fastest opening quarter in the race’s history, set up a possibility for a late closer. Horses, like cars, simply can run out of gas. At the pace of 21.78 seconds in the first quarter mile, the horses leading the pack were at a supersonic speed that could not be sustained. Riding at the outside and the back of the field, Rich Strike’s jockey started methodically angling to the inside position along the rail. And history was made.

The racing world thought that the top prize might go to Zandon or Epicenter, elite horses deemed best by handicappers. Instead, it went to a chestnut colt named Rich Strike,

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hrough the mists of memory comes this observation from the now-retired Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson: “When one side deliberately distorts and misstates the arguments of the other, the intent is not to debate, but to destroy.” Samuelson’s mid-1990s assertion came to mind following the recent announcement that the Department of Homeland Security is establishing a “Disinformation Governing Board,” or DGB. Talk about a “pot-meet-kettle” moment! The imagination calls forth similar absurdities: picture Hugh Hefner in his heyday, taking vows of chastity. Or Bill Clinton announcing that he will forswear “senior statesman status” to devote the rest of his days to marriage counseling. Or Martha Stewart disclosing that she’s really a “hoarder” rather than the “doyenne of domesticity.” The difference, of course, is that the Secretary of Homeland Security remains adamant in ignoring the abundance of absurdity that accompanied his announcement. But the willful ignorance of Alejandro Mayorkas doesn’t dissuade wizened Washington observers from offering an accurate assessment of what’s really going on here. In a word, politics. How best to put tax dollars to work to discredit political opponents? Just claim that those opponents are disseminating disinformation…dangerous disinformation. And so, for the “public good,” not to mention its own political advantage, the left rises to say those on the right are wrong, and must face consequences – consequences far beyond losing elections. Obviously, this isn’t politics as usu-

al. It is a threat to our constitutional republic. Disagreement wasn’t always viewed as dangerous or deceitful. For most of our history, it was considered the principle that underpinned our political process. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who led the greatest fighting force ever assembled in defeating one of the most evil regimes the world has ever known, was eventually promoted by the American people from general of the army to commander-in-chief. Upon taking the oath of office as our 34th president in January 1953, the man who had just assumed the position widely regarded as the “most powerful on Earth” appealed to an even higher power. “May cooperation be permitted,” Ike prayed, “and be the mutual aim of those who, under the concepts of our Constitution, hold to differing political faiths.” Sixty-nine years later, it can no longer be taken as an article of faith that the left still accepts the most basic of our constitutional concepts. Barack Obama, who vowed to “fundamentally change America” in his 2008 presidential campaign, continues on that mission as an ex-presi-

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he man who raped and murdered Deana Bowdoin was put to death by the state of Arizona on May 11 at 10:30 a.m. This was 44 years, four months and four days after the homicide in question – or about 44 years too long by my reckoning. Even so, this column has little to do with Deana’s killer. This piece is about a 21-year-old girl subtracted from the world decades too soon, a young woman for whom there were no candlelight vigils this week, no protesters, no legal motions long enough to deforest the state. That’s the thing about the anti-death-penalty conversation: All the focus is on the wrong loss of life, the wrong final heartbeat. The only death I mourn here is

Deana’s. The ASU coed was mere hours from graduation on Jan. 7, 1978, courtesy of three stab wounds and strangulation with a belt. “When you think about it, you think how could this possibly have happened to this cute, good little girl?” Deana’s mother, Bobbie, told the local ABC TV station back almost 15 years ago. “How could somebody treat her like that? And it hurts. It hurts a lot.” Bobbie died in 2009 after a fight with cancer. Deana’s father, Dean, lived nine more years before he passed at age 86. Justice for Deana took more time than they had. One wonders what Deana would have given this world had she lived deep into adulthood, say as long as the man who snuffed out her life. He was allowed to live until age 66 and still managed never to contribute a single thing to mankind. If only Dea-

na had been given the time he was gifted with, the oxygen, the attention. She graduated with honors from Camelback High School. A debutante for the Phoenix Honors Cotillion, she went on to ASU where she was about to graduate with a degree in marketing management. Perhaps Deana would have become an attorney or a diplomat – she’d already taken the law school admissions exam and the Foreign Service test – or maybe she’d have returned to Europe, where she had and lived with her family, to pursue a career in international marketing. That we will never know compounds the tragedy of her murder. We do know how Deana’s sister feels. Leslie Bowdoin James has been eloquent about the long wait her family endured before a lethal needle finally slipped past the killer’s flesh.

As Leslie put it to reporters a few minutes after the execution: “Forty-three and 20: the number of hearings and the number of years I have

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dent. Appearing at an April symposium sponsored by his comrades at “The Atlantic” and the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics titled “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy,” Obama couldn’t resist indulging in some rhetorical misdirection of his own. Seeking to inoculate himself from what he was about to suggest, the former president asserted, “I am close to a First Amendment absolutist.” Then, the self-described “absolutist” absolutely declared war on free speech, calling to “put in place a combination of regulatory measures and industry norms that leave intact the opportunity for these platforms to make money, but say to them that, there, there, there’s certain practices that we are not, that we don’t think are good for our society and we’re gonna discourage.” What are those “certain practices” Obama doesn’t think “are good for our society?” Why, any efforts to oppose the leftist vision of a fundamentally trans-

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which was beyond reason, logical handicapping or lucid dreams. This horse hadn’t run a race in six months and came to the derby on a five-race losing streak. He was down on his luck, had few chances to seriously compete with the “champions” in the ring. Imagine about 150,000 people roaring at Churchill Downs and becoming eerily quiet momentarily as the longshot of the century goes tearing past the two lead horses. Whoa! Is this happening? From last to first? When Rich Strike blazed across the finish line, fans erupted, joyful cries (especially from those who placed a bet on Rich Strike), squeals and laughter ran through the hallowed stands of Churchill Downs. We probably know what it feels

formed America! Thus, the establishment of the “Disinformation Governing Board,” more accurately described in Orwellian fashion as a real-life “Ministry of Truth.” Perhaps seeking its own inoculation, the Washington Post featured an article from Glenn Kessler, its designated “fact checker,” calling out the assertion of DHS Secretary Mayorkas that the illegal aliens he allows in the United States are promptly deported. Kessler described that claim as “mostly false.” Thus far, that publication has remained silent on the establishment of the DGB. But if the Post truly believes that “Democracy dies in darkness,” there’s one direct action the newspaper could take immediately: Bring Robert J. Samuelson out of retirement. J.D. Hayworth represented Arizona in the U.S. House from 1995-2007. He authored and sponsored the Enforcement First Act, legislation that would have mandated enforcement of Federal Immigration Law in the 109th Congress.

like to be driving on I-17 with everyone going full speed, almost bumper to bumper, at 70 mph. It can be scary and requires focus! Now imagine sitting on a horse, in a thick pack of 20, going about 35 mph around that final turn of the derby, with dirt flying, traffic closing in, a crowd screaming, and then accelerating to weave in and out of tight spaces. Oh yeah, this is a bit different than my trail riding days on my old horse, Baxter. He did like to run (on occasion) but I think his pace was more like 5 minutes for a quarter mile, not 21 seconds. We don’t even have to like horse racing to appreciate a winner. This is the American story that we love: believe, give it your all, never give up and dreams can come true. Judy Bluhm is a writer and a local Realtor. Have a story or a comment? Email Judy at judy@judybluhm.com.

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attended since the indictment. Thirteen: The number of women that this inmate victimized. One and zero: The number of sisters I had up until, and after, Jan. 7, 1978.” Outside the state prison in Florence, those who oppose the death penalty bemoaned the unfairness of it all. They carried signs for the killer. Nowhere was the name Deana Bowdoin mentioned. We forget the dead all too soon, but let this 21-year-old girl be remembered far longer than the trash who ended her life. She had amber eyes and long dirty blonde hair,

plank-straight and parted down the middle. A poet, some of her writing made the local newspaper after her death, 44 long years ago. “Parents and friends (with good intention)/Beg ‘slow down!’ But I just can’t mention/Why summer’s magic has its hold on me/I am too enveloped; can’t be set free/So while I am both young and innocently aware/I will exist in summer and be safe in its care.” Not safe enough, as it turns out. Deana Bowdoin was lost to a killer and to time, but never, ever forgotten. David Leibowitz has called the Valley home since 1995. Contact david@ leibowitzsolo.com

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million acres in our state. Those are crisis numbers. This is a crisis situation. Fortunately, there is a solution — the ballot measure contained in Senate Concurrent Resolution 1049 (SCR 1049). SCR 1049 would put on the November ballot the Arizona Fire District Safety Act. Should voters approve it, this measure would create a temporary one-tenth-of-a-penny increase in the state’s sales tax. That sliver of a cent would generate about $150 million annually for the state’s fire districts. This increase in funding will take the pressure off fire fighters and paramedics, and help ensure that fire districts have the staffing, equipment, and training necessary to provide fire services along with emergency and medical services to citizens in need throughout the entire state of Arizona. To put it in perspective, say you go out for a $10 lunch. The Arizona Fire District Safety Act will cost you a penny. If you spend $100 on dinner for four at a fancy restaurant, it will cost you a dime.

SCR 1049 will give Arizona voters the opportunity to solve this crisis with a single vote. It will allow us to tangibly improve public safety with minimal impact to household budgets. And it will help fire districts — largely ignored by the federal government when it came to pandemic relief funding — a way to cope with the surging fuel costs, higher equipment costs, and higher insurance costs brought on by COVID-19 and inflation. In fact, this future ballot proposition may very well have a greater impact on saving people’s lives than anything else the Legislature has done during the entire 2022 legislative session. In this time of crisis, I hope that our Legislature acts the same way first responders do when they face an emergency. Rather than shy away, let’s move toward the crisis, doing everything in our power to help those in need. Sen. Paul Boyer, R-Glendale, represents District 20 in the Arizona Senate.

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Edkey CEO receives Titan 100 honors BY JORDAN ROGERS Foothills Focus Staff Writer

ark Plitzuweit, president and CEO of Edkey Inc., is a recipient of a 2022 Phoenix Titan 100 award. Edkey Inc. is a nonprofit organization with 16 schools around the Valley. The Titan 100 program recognizes Phoenix’s top 100 CEOs and C-level executives who have shown to demonstrate exceptional leadership, vision and passion as business leaders in their industry. Plitzuweit, a leader in education

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hroughout history, clarity has been a rarity. Joseph Pulitzer once said the following about writing to readers. “Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.” When I read Pulitzer’s quote, it’s as if Paul, the writer of the Book of Romans, had mentored Pulitzer about writing. Why do I think this? Because this is how

Paul wrote the Book of Romans for his Roman audience. They appreciated and admired the form in which Paul wrote it. It was a more Roman (Western) way of writing. The reason why people today have trouble reading the Book of Romans is we aren’t living in the Roman context and times. In his introduction to Romans in the Message Bible, author Eugene Peterson enlightens us about Paul’s letter to the Romans. I quote him below. It’s a perfect example of what Pulitzer says about writing to an audience. “The event that split history into ‘before and after’ and changed the world

took place about thirty years before Paul wrote this letter. The event – the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus – took place in a remote corner of the extensive Roman Empire: The Province of Judea in Palestine. Hardly, anyone noticed, certainly no one in busy and powerful Rome. “And when this letter arrived in Rome, hardly anyone read it, certainly no one of influence. There was so much to read in Rome – imperial decrees, exquisite poetry, finely crafted moral philosophy – all of which were world class. And yet, in no time, as such things go, this letter left all

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those other writings in the dust. Paul’s letter to the Romans has had a far larger impact on its readers than the volumes of all those Roman writers put together. “The quick rise of this letter to a peak of influence is extraordinary, written as it was by an obscure Roman citizen without connections. But when we read it for ourselves, we begin to realize that it is the letter itself that is truly extraordinary and that no obscurity in writer or readers could have kept it obscure for long. “The letter to the Romans is a piece of exuberant and passionate thinking. This is the glorious life of the mind enlisted in the service of God. Paul takes the well-witnessed and devoutly believed fact of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth and thinks through its implications. How does it happen that in the death and resurrection of Jesus, world history took a new direction, and at the same moment, the life of every man, woman, and child on the planet was eternally affected? What is God up to? What does it mean that Jesus ‘saves’? What’s behind all this, and where is it going? “These are questions that drive Paul’s thinking. Paul’s mind is supple and capacious. He takes logic and argument, poetry and imagination, Scripture and prayer, creation and history and experience, and weaves them into this letter that has become the premier document of Christian theology.” Excellent writing, huh? I hope Peterson’s short introduction motivates you to read the book of Romans. It’s as relevant now as it was then. If you are new to the Bible, read Romans in the Message version of the Bible. The Message Bible is a contemporary rendering of the Bible from the original languages, crafted

to present its tone, rhythm, events, and ideas in everyday speech. There are 16 chapters in Romans. Every chapter has a unique focus relevant then and relevant now. Today, let’s walk through the first eight chapters of the Roman road in short snippet form. Chapter 1 was written to the Gentiles (non-Jewish people), in this case, the Romans. Paul reveals what happens when Gentiles ignore God. It leads to a downward spiral in national and individual power and status. Romans was a prophetic alert to Rome not to become shipwrecked like other civilizations in past times who ignored God. Chapter 2 was written for the Jewish people. God reveals to the Jewish people that, just because they are religious, they are not better than other people. Paul says God is kind, but God is not soft. Religion can’t make you right with God. Christ does. Chapter 3 Paul summarizes that the Jews and the Gentiles are both in the same sinking boat because all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Chapter 4 declares that the way to escape sin’s wages and access God’s grace and eternal life is through faith in Jesus. At birth, everyone is given the power to believe; therefore, all people have access to God. Chapter 5 implores us to enter what God wants for us, that is, for us to be right with him. We don’t change ourselves; God changes us from the inside out by grace (unearned favor from God) through faith in Jesus. Chapter 6 elevates us from our worldly condition to our heavenly position in Jesus and self-sufficiency to God’s sufficiency. We are under new management. Chapter 7 declares that all believers will be torn between our old ways and

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our new God ways for a while. Christlikeness is a process. It will require perseverance. Chapter 8 answers the question of Christian living. The solution is living life on God’s terms, not ours. We don’t have to live life under a black, low-lying cloud. God is for us, not against us. How was that for a road trip? I hope you will invest time in reading the book of Romans. All God is saying is give me and my peace a chance.

Ed Delph is a noted author of 10 books, as well as a pastor, teacher, former business owner and speaker. Ed has traveled extensively, having been to more than 100 countries. He is president of NationStrategy, a nonpro�it organization involved in uplifting and transforming communities worldwide. For more information, see nationstrategy.com. Ed may be contacted at nationstrategy@cs.com.

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Jehovah’s Witnesses keep congregants active, safe BY JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES Foothills Focus Constributor

ddie Alvarado would rarely go more than a few days without knocking on a door or visiting a Bible student as part of his volunteer ministry. That abruptly changed in the spring of 2020 when Jehovah’s Witnesses suspended their in-person public ministry, meetings and large conventions. Two years later, Alvarado of Phoenix, said: “The ministry work during these times has kept us busier than I thought.” Multiple times a week he reaches out with a Bible-based message of hope to the Phoenix community. Alvarado participates in this work regularly, writing letters, calling people, sending text messages and using video conference. “I have (been in constant) contact for over a year (with) an older gentleman in his 70s, and we have Bibli-

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Eddie Alvarado and his wife enjoy Bible-based discussions with members of their Phoenix community. (Jehovah’s Witnesses/Submitted) cal conversations weekly,” he adds. With this historic change, the number of Jehovah’s Witnesses grew 3% in the United States in 2021 alone, matching the most significant increase for the organization over the past decade and the second-largest percentage increase since 1990. “Staying active in our ministry while remaining safe has had a powerful preserving effect on our congregants and communities,” said Robert Hendriks, U.S. spokesman for Jehovah’s Witnesses. “The wise decision not to prematurely resume in-person activities has united us and protected lives while comforting many people in great need. The results speak for themselves.” For congregants like Eddie Alvarado, the virtual pivot has meant trading his bookbag for a landline, laptop, tablet and smartphone and his walking shoes for slippers. His tools have changed, but his message is the same. He regularly shares scriptures with dozens of com-

munity members and offers free Bible courses via telephone and video conference. Last year, the international organization reported all-time peaks in the number of people participating in their volunteer preaching work, increased attendance in video conference meetings and more than 171,000 new believers bap-

tized. In the past two years, more than 400,000 have been baptized worldwide. Some whose ministry or attendance at religious services had slowed because of age and poor health said they feel reenergized with the convenience of virtual meetings and a home-based ministry. By sharing the Bible’s hope remotely, the fewer than 3,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses in Alaska can rapidly preach across the 586,000 square miles of their sparsely populated state. “We’re talking to more people in a day than we did in a month,” said Marlene Sadowski of Ketchikan. The official website of Jehovah’s Witnesses, translated into more than 1,000 languages, has also leveraged the organization’s outreach. After starting a free self-paced Bible course on jw.org in December 2019, Lisa Owen requested a free, interactive Bible study over video conference. She was one of nearly 20,000 baptized as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses last year in the United States in private settings, including backyard swimming pools, tubs and even rivers. “Jw.org gave me somewhere to learn, somewhere to land, and to start living the way God wants me to. It taught me so much,” said Owen of Moriarty, New Mexico. To start an online Bible study course, receive a visit or attend a virtual meeting locally, visit jw.org.

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Protein is king at Phat Turtle Barbecue BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor

ike and Kelly Sloan were at a crossroads when the pandemic forced the closure of their screen printing and sign graphics company, Phat Turtle Media. After soul searching, the couple recalled their hometown of Kansas City and opened Phat Turtle Barbecue in Cave Creek. Upon its first meal on July 4, 2020, the eatery was a success. Kelly said they expected to serve about 80 guests. Instead, the skeleton staff waited on 170 diners. Earlier this year, the Sloans expanded to Anthem. Mike said the openings of Phat Turtle Barbecue in Cave Creek and Anthem were pieces of good news during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of the timing, the Sloans did not receive pandemic money. “They talk about all the bad things in the restaurant industry,” he said. “They don’t talk about the ones that open.” The Phat Turtle Barbecue restaurants are the couple’s first eateries. Previously, Mike was a chemist in the printing industry, creating colors for commercial signage. Mike left the company and formed Phat Turtle Media with Kelly. “When we landed our first account, we got whacked on the pandemic,” he said. “I was flipping through Craigslist and I saw a barbecue restaurant for sale. My wife and I went down there and took a look at it.” The location didn’t quite work out. With the seed planted, they looked at oth-

Mike and Kelly Sloan founded Phat Turtle Barbecue in Cave Creek first, before moving into Anthem. (Cassandra Tomei/Submitted) er restaurants and venues, not knowing what they wanted was literally in their backyard. Behind their home sat a former breakfast joint that the Sloans eventually turned into Phat Turtle Barbecue. They took the next step in fall 2019 and started developing recipes and catering events to introduce the Valley to their food. “We bought a smoker and put it in the backyard and learned all about using it,” he said. The result is “authentic” barbecue,

something Mike said is missing in the Valley. Phat Turtle Barbecue shares Mike and Kelly’s penchant for the smooth sweet flavors of slow-smoked meats. “I think that’s what everybody’s looking for because there are a ton of Midwestern people out here,” he added. “There are a ton of Kansas City people out here. “They’ve been searching for authentic barbecue because they don’t want to have a jalapeno in their cornbread. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing. That’s just not what they’re raised on.” Guests can get started with a jumbo corn bread muffin, onion ring tower, cow candy (burnt ends, caramelized with savory hickory sauce), mac and cheese, brisket chili or a sampler. The latter features an

eighth-pound of burnt ends, and eighthpound of pulled pork, an eighth-pound of brisket, two baby back ribs, chopped chicken, a quarter pound of sausage link and finished in onion rings. The extensive menu continues with comfort plates of pulled pork, brisket, baby back ribs, chopped chicken, twomeat platter, smoked sausage and burnt ends. Brisket, burnt ends, pulled pork, chopped chicken, sausage and rack of ribs are available smoked, too. “Grazers,” as the couple call them, can dine on salads — house; brisket, pork or chopped chicken salad; or cobb. Sandwich, children and dessert menus are featured, too. “Any barbecue enthusiast knows there are different kinds of barbecue profiles across the country,” Kelly said. “Kansas City is known for the dry, sweet side of the barbecue profile. You just don’t seem to have that here. It’s all been Southwesternized. It’s not a bad thing. It’s just how they present their barbecue. For us, it’s all about the proteins. Whatever you want to do with it afterward is fine. You can put whatever sauce you want on it. “But we’re serving the meats dry. We prefer not putting sauces and stuff on them.” Just as impressive as the meals is the building’s interior. The Sloans overhauled the building themselves, thanks, in part, to the printing and graphics arm of Phat Turtle. They printed the tabletops at Phat Turtle, and found pieces to hang on the walls, which are covered with bright paint. The tables were repurposed from the community. “We’re just happy the community has embraced us,” she said. “This has been a great adventure.” Phat Turtle Barbecue

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Justin Collard embraces the term ‘role model’ BY BRENDAN MAU Foothills Focus Staff Writer

oulder Creek boys’ basketball team saw its Cinderella story come to an end earlier this year with a final record of 23-9. It’s just the beginning of what is to come for them under the culture established by head coach Justin Collard. As the overtime buzzer sounded on Feb. 25, the team left the court feeling a range of emotions after its historic season was cut short in the 6A state semifinals at Hamilton High School. Just two nights before, the No. 12 seeded Jaguars were running off the court celebrating after pulling off a huge win on the road against No. 4 Mountain Pointe, their second straight upset victory in the playoffs. Before this season, the Jaguars hadn’t made it past the first round of the playoffs in this conference, which contains the high schools with the largest enrollment numbers in the state, after joining it in the 20112012 season. Four years ago, Collard and his wife made “a no-brainer” decision to move to the Valley after his wife’s grandmother was suddenly diagnosed with cancer. He had to leave his varsity basketball coaching job at Cooper High School, a small school near his hometown of Paris, Texas, where he “had built a program and won games along the way and it had looked like it was going to start turning the corner.” However, he said that when they got the news “we literally started packing up that day.” “She was very special and unique,

Head Coach of the Boulder Creek boys’ basketball team Justin Collard boasts an undergraduate degree in kinesiology and a master’s degree in biology and education. Currently, he’s also a biology teacher at Boulder Creek. (Submitted photo) and she had a weird way of making your day better,” Collard said of his wife’s now-late grandmother. “No matter how bad your day was going, it was going to be okay. Her name was Lorraine, by the way. So, she was impactful, very impactful. So, it was like we’re moving there

to spend time with her, for her. But we were lucky that we got to spend time with her, that’s how it ended up working out. Life is weird. It’s a mysterious jerk.” Soon after making the decision to move to Phoenix, Collard applied to be the freshman basketball coach at

Boulder Creek after hearing good things about Deer Valley Unified School District from his wife’s family. He’d only spent a year as the freshman coach when the varsity coaching position opened up.

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“I learned so much from coaching those guys because you have to work the fundamentals, and you have to teach a lot more,” he said. “Because they’re freshmen, they don’t know as much, so the stuff that you might think about skipping over, you have to fortify that it’s very important to spend time doing all the little things. I was lucky to get to do that. It wasn’t like a problem, I enjoyed it.” Guard Espn Polanski said he admires Collard because he knew no one when he came to Anthem. “And, he still had a positive attitude and just wanted to coach and still found a way to coach and find some people that he loves and stuff,” Polanski said. “So, I think that’s crazy how he had just always kept a positive attitude, even when he knew nobody and had no path for life, and he just was still positive and found a way through it.” Coaching was Collard’s goal be-

cause “really good mentors and really good coaches.” He graduated from North Lamar High School in Paris in 2008. There, he played basketball and in his senior year he averaged 15.4 points per game, 5.5 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 2.5 steals. This was good enough to land him a basketball scholarship to MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas. There, he was coached by Rocky Lamar and his staff. Lamar has been coaching at MidAmerica Nazarene since 1986 and is the all-time leader in wins in NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) history. He was elected to the NAIA Hall of Fame in 2014. During Collard’s years there, Lamar had two assistant coaches who became head coaches. “It was the best complete staff,” Collard said. “But Rocky, just the way he talked to kids, the way that he communicated and his vision for the game, the way he sees the game, the way he thinks the person is more important

than the player. “And the way you can always go talk to him. And even though he pushes really hard, I would say that Rocky Lamar is a legend. His assistants were really good. At one point, I had three phenomenal coaches. I learned a lot.” Collard graduated with an undergraduate degree in kinesiology and returned to Texas to teach and coach varsity basketball at Cooper High School at age 23. While coaching, he earned his master’s degree in biology and education. Currently, he’s also a biology teacher at Boulder Creek. “To be a good teacher, you have to do a lot of planning and preparing and try to stay with all the other teachers who you work with and work together,” he said. “And then to be a good coach, you have to do the same thing. So, it just goes hand-inhand. They work together very well.” When it comes to coaching, Collard has his own strategy. “I’ve been taught by a lot of much

smarter and more experienced coaches,” he said. “I’m a pretty good listener. “I don’t act like I have all the solutions, but I’m interested in it. And there are a lot of different ways to do it. I’ve learned there’s no right way. We do it the best way that fits our kids. “In my opinion, this is my way. There are people who have been running programs and winning for years, doing it a certain one way. So, it’s just the way I do it.” Brayden Newton has been training with the team since last offseason and said Collard made a good impression on him. “He’s a great coach,” Newton said. “He definitely pushes us a lot, which is a good thing. He pushed us to our ceiling. So, I mean, it’s crazy how much he wants us to get better and how hard he wants us to work.” The Jaguars finished the 2020-21 season at 4-11 in a COVID-19-short-

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ened year, but Collard motivated them to a quick turnaround. Polanski said “we had our last game on a Friday, and we didn’t make the playoffs. And then on Saturday, we had practice and weights right off the bat. “And the day we walked in there, he said, ‘You guys can do it, you guys can go all the way. You guys can go as far as you push yourselves.’ So, from then he already had the confidence in us that we could go all the way and then once like we started going up the seedings and had a great, great season. He saw the matchups we had. And then too, he told us, ‘We could do it. We can go all the way,’ so he always had confidence in us no matter what.” Personally speaking At MidAmerica Nazarene, Collard met his wife, who attended Paradise Valley High School and was on the soccer team at MidAmerica.

Collard said that “as soon as I met her, I knew she was the one instantly.” This summer Collard and his wife are having their first child, a girl, and her middle name will be the name of her great grandmother. “Family is always most important,” Collard said, “even right now (before his daughter is here), so that never changes.” As a high school coach, Collard knows that through his experience, teaching the game of life to his team is crucial. “We do core values every day. We have core values for every day of the week,” he said. “It’s very important. Family is important. We talk about that — basketball will end for everybody; the ball will stop bouncing. But, building those relationships and having memories and teaching about what’s coming. That’s actually my job. If we win basketball games, that’s great. But, you will win if you have talent.” To this point, Polanski said Collard reminds them that “basketball is only temporary but being a father

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ith the end of the 2021-2022 school year approaching, children in Anthem are anticipating the summer that lies ahead. However, they are not the only ones. The Anthem Community Council is eager to provide children with high quality resources and facilities to stay active, discover passions, and form friendships through recreational sports. The sports on offer are as follows: • Pickleball: ages 10 to 14, Tuesday, May 17, to Friday, July 1, or Monday, July 4, to Friday, August 12 • Indoor Floor Hockey, ages 6 to 9, ages 10 to 14, Sunday, June 5, to Sunday, July 3 • Indoor Volleyball, U13, Tuesday, July 5, to Monday, Aug. 22 • Basketball, Coed U6, Coed U8, U10 girls, U10 boys, U13 girls, U13 boys, Monday, May 30, to Monday, July 11 Registration is now open for all sports, except for indoor floor hockey, which will open on Monday, May 30. To register, visit onlineatanthem.com. On the ACC website, the recreational leagues are described as noncompetitive. This is because the organization wants to put focus on learning and improving one’s skills and understanding over the numbers on the scoreboard. ACC Sports and Fitness Supervisor Bobby St. Pierre said he believes this is a great chance for kids to try something new without the hyper-competitive atmosphere that comes with playing for school or club teams. “Maybe they play baseball for little league, but want to try soccer this year,” St. Pierre said. “So that’s the perfect segue into that, where it’s not that stressful situation. The younger ages are definitely where you get your bang for your buck, if they’re trying to learn the sport or maybe even just progress a little bit. With the older age groups like 8U, 10U, and 13U, it becomes a little more competitive. But we still enforce through our staff, as well as the volunteer coaches and the parents,

The Anthem Community Council’s youth recreational leagues focus on individual improvement and discovery over what the scoreboards say. (Anthem Community Council/Submitted)

that the score at the end does not matter. It’s more about learning the sport or whatever program we’re offering. From there, build a skill set and some life skills from it. Make a couple friends along the way and have some fun.” The ACC relies heavily on volunteer help to keep the games up and running. Because of that, the organization makes a serious effort to find worthwhile volunteers and give them the tools to succeed. “In order to become a volunteer, you have to go through a background check first,” St. Pierre said. “That’s through Anthem. Then, our HR department runs it, and they use a third party for that to make sure everything’s safe and secure. After that, they come on. I would say, the last couple of years, we’ve kind of had the same coaches. But, we do sometimes do a preseason coaches meeting to go over practices, games, what we expect from coaches,

and coaching etiquette. Trying to not compete to win, but compete on the side of making everyone better, making sure everyone has fun.” The ACC also hands out practice packets at the beginning of each season to coaches who may need extra guidance on how to run a practice effectively. “They don’t necessarily have to use them,” St. Pierre said. “But, it’s more of a guideline on how to run practice, drills, skills, and fundamentals that we want to be taught. So, the games are competitive with the other teams and stuff along those lines.” Although the leagues are noncompetitive, the ACC still strives to create a relatively level playing field for all players that are involved. The organization uses a program called CivicRec to assemble the teams that will play one another. “Our software allows us to put prompts in there,” St. Pierre said. “We try to fulfill everybody’s special request.

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