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City preparing $500M bond package ask BY PAUL MARYNIAK Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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he city of Phoenix has begun creating a $500 million bond package it will put before voters in November 2023 to fund a variety of construction and renovation projects that have yet to be identified. The package is the city’s first general obligation bond package since 2006, when voters approved an $878.5 million bond program that brought to $4.6 billion the total amount of such bond issues voters have approved over the last 65 years. Since 2016, City Manager Jeffrey Barton told city council at a hearing last month,
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City officials prepared this chart to show how its proposed $500 million bond package would not affect the secondary property tax rate, which provides the revenue to pay off bonds. (City of Phoenix/Submitted)
City appears confident as water alarm shakes the West BY PAUL MARYANIAK Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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isclosures last month that Lake Mead’s water level is plummeting more quickly than expected and putting even more strain on the Colorado River jolted some Western cities, but Phoenix wasn’t among them. And that could be because of what city Water Services Department officials told city
council during a recent hearing. Those officials expressed confidence that the measures they’ve taken so far and their future conservation plans have left Phoenix in a safer position than many of its neighbors, including some other Arizona cities, for at least the next few years. Water Services Director Troy Hayes told the Council Committee on Cultural and Community Investment June 1 that Phoenix is nowhere
near considering outdoor water use curbs that already are in effect in Los Angeles and other California cities and are being contemplated in other states, including Nevada. Moreover, Hayes said, because the Colorado River supplies only 40% of Phoenix’s water, development likely can continue the way they are today.
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“Our population and the demand for city services — like public safety library, parks and streets, to name a few — have greatly intensified. “As a best practice, a well-oiled and well-positioned city should have a recurring bond program every five to seven years,” Barton said. “It’s been long a dream of mine since my days in budget and research to restore the city back to a place where we had that reoccurring bond programs every five to seven years. And I’m excited to be here today to present to you with a plan that gets us just there.” Barton said the city is positioned to have a recurring bond program in that five-to-seven-year time frame “that can fit within the existing footprint of the existing tax rate.” City Chief Financial Officer Kathleen Gitkin said that based on a variety of scenarios she and her team examined, the bond package would have no impact on the secondary property tax rate — the primary funding mechanism for repaying the bonds. She produced an actual 2021 property tax bill with a limited property value of $119,000 — which she said
“represents an average home value for the city of Phoenix.” That bill showed that the city’s property levy totaled $252.62 — including a primary tax of $155.59 and a secondary tax of $97.03. While the total amount of property taxes owned came to $1,431.84, “the city of Phoenix portion of that bill only makes up 14%,” Gitkin noted, because the total also includes levies by school districts, the county and other taxing authorities. “It’s important to note that a lot of people will call us and say, ‘Why did my property tax bill go up?’” Gitkin said. “And oftentimes it’s not because of the city of Phoenix portion of that bill. It could be other taxing jurisdictions. It could also be that their limited property value has increased.” Gitkin said that because Phoenix has a high bond rating, the city would spend a peak annual repayment of $155 million for the new bond package. That’s higher than the $54 million annual debt service the city forecasts on outstanding bond debt starting in 2028, she said, adding the city can afford it without raising taxes. But she also warned, “We also want
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This is another way the city presented its conclusion as to why the property tax rate would not increase if votes in November 2023 approved their $500 million bond request. (City of Phoenix/Submitted)
to be really careful” about any new facilities that are built as a result of the new bond. “Our intent in building a new GO bond program is that it is affordable and that it limits the impact to our property taxpayers,” she said. “That means no increase to our current total property tax rate … or our current secondary property tax rate.” The basic bond proposal was created with the help of a citizen Fiscal Capacity Committee as well as an executive committee of administration officials. It won the approval from all council members except Sal DiCiccio and Jim Waring. DiCiccio gave no explanation for his vote, and Waring said that he did not want to vote because the specific projects have not been itemized. “For me the most important thing is what’s actually in it,” he said, acknowledging the administration’s assurances that it had estimated the city’s future tax base growth conservatively. “We’re voting to do it, but we don’t know what’s actually in it,” Waring said. Barton replied, “I ask for a little bit of trust and faith in me. At the end of the day, I go back to my roots: I’m an auditor, and I’m going to hold people accountable and hold us accountable. “And throughout this process, we will be engaging with the executive committee and the individual subcommittees so that they fully understand why we’re sizing this the way that we’re sizing it,” Baton said. Waring also warned, “I’m certainly not suggesting we don’t have needs, but if we spend less on public safety and a lot more on some other stuff, that may also catch my eye.” And he signaled what is likely to be one of the major issues confronting council before the bond package is finally approved: whose district gets what. “When you really look at it,” Waring said, his district residents “don’t always get as much of the capital stuff as other parts of the city, whether it’s
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tennis courts, that kind of stuff. Or we have newer police stations, so they’re not going to get fixed but you know, other places are. I would also like equity to encompass that as well.” Other councilmembers also voiced the need for their constituents to have a voice in determining what projects get funded, complaining they were short-changed in previous bond packages and in annual city spending plans. Stating he wished the bond package could be even bigger, Councilmember Carlos Garcia said “it’s going to be very important to have input and access to the committee” that will now be drafting the list of specific projects that would be financed by the bond. The bonds would be sold in 2024 and 2026, and the project list will be devised by a committee that will comprise subcommittees on arts and culture, economic development and education, environment and sustainability, housing, human services and
The city administration and a citizens committee made these conclusions after studying the city’s future growth and the impact of a $500 million bond issue. (City of Phoenix/Submitted) homelessness, neighborhoods and city services, parks and recreation, public safety, and streets and storm drainage.
These committees will be taking citizen input at hearings between August and November. The dates of those hearings will
be posted on phoenix.gov beginning sometime this summer. In addition, the city is preparing its own list of Phoenix’s capital needs that will be a starting point for those committees’ work. Council likely will vote on a final package in January, but then spend several months crafting messages for what likely will be an intense media campaign to win voter approval in November 2023. “There is an important job to be done over a fairly short period of time,” city Budget and Research Director Amber Williamson said. “The idea of the engagement in all different vehicles and languages to bring residents in, I think, is going to be really critical to the process as well. “I think it’s a difficult task, but I think it’s based on the hard work of the committee, going through the finances and making a recommendation so that we are able to say without raising taxes. This is an opportunity to really elevate other services and other opportunities.”
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“I think at some point in time, we want to come back and talk with you about sustainable growth and what that looks like,” Hayes told the committee. “Because our water portfolio is diverse and we have more resources than we utilize today, we can still grow. It’s just doing it the right way.” And Deputy City Manager Karen Peters said, “We have a diverse and robust water portfolio. It’s diverse in the sense that we have multiple sources of water. We don’t have all of our eggs in one basket. It’s robust in the sense that we’ve always maintained a volume of water available to us that actually exceeds what we need in any given year just in case we have a situation that we’re about to have. “We also have a very strong commitment to investing in infrastructure. Because with water being such a precious resource, you can’t afford to not invest in infrastructure and then wastewater. And so, we have a very robust investment in infrastructure that’s proactive, trying to get ahead of things.” Big cities that rely on Colorado River water — particularly those in southern Nevada that have virtually no other source — were stunned by testimony June 14 by Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton, who said Lake Mead water levels are falling far faster
Phoenix officials told a city council subcommittee last month that while the city’s population has increased, water consumption has decreased. (City of Phoenix/Submitted) than expected even earlier this year. She told the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Committee that the federal government in 60 days is poised to impose water use restrictions because shortages and demand on the Colorado River Basin will require reductions of 2 million to 4 million acre-feet in 2023 to preserve “critical levels” at Lake Mead and Lake Powell. Her agency reported that as of June 16, Lake Mead water levels had dropped 6 feet in a month. Its 24-month outlook that week said it is forecasting the “most probable” lake level will be 1,014.86 feet by September 2023, about 9 feet lower than
Phoenix administration officials who discussed the city’s water supply before a council committee earlier this month included, from left, the new city water conservation manager Dr. Max Wilson; Cynthia Campbell, water resources management advisor; Water Services Department Manager Troy Hayes; and Deputy City Manager Karen L. Peters. (YouTube)
projections made in May. “We are 150 feet from 25 million Americans losing access to the Colorado River, and the rate of decline is accelerating,” John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, told the committee. Climate change and hotter average temperatures throughout most of the nation are confronting the Bureau of Reclamation with concerns over many cities’ water supplies, but those that depend on the Colorado River face the greatest danger, Touton indicated. In June, for example, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported that Lake Mead is approaching a “dead pool level” so quickly that it could become “useless” in the nottoo-distant future. Touton called on Western states and tribal nations to take “significant and additional conservation actions (that) are required to protect the Colorado River system infrastructure and the long-term stability of the system.” In an effort to force households to cut water usage by 30%, some California cities over the past month imposed tough lawn-watering restrictions backed by enforcement crews that can levy fines. Phoenix administration started June by declaring a Phase 1 Water Alert, setting the stage for an intensive citizen education campaign by the city to broaden awareness of the Valley’s shrinking water supply and step up everyday voluntary conservation practices. It echoed similar actions by Mesa and
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Scottsdale, which also declared they would launch the same kinds of public education programs Phoenix is setting in motion. Phoenix is not mandating any specific measures by city Water Services Department customers. Rather, as Peters told council, it aims to conduct “an intensive public education and information program to assist all customers in understanding the need for voluntary water conservation. Hayes told council that even under higher alerts in Phoenix — “which will be declared probably later this year” — there is no immediate concern for taking the kind of drastic measures other cities are. “We are still storing water for drought,” he said. “We are still putting water resources underground to plan for the future. And so, what I would say is as we go into further stages, or more extreme stages, that those would happen once those resources are challenged. As you look at our drought management plan, essentially, the stage two as it’s been defined is when an insufficient supply situation actually occurs.” But he said that by 2024, the city may invoke the third phase of the 2021 Water Management Plan, titled “Planning for Drought.” Under that phase is a strategy called “demand curtailment” where “programs can be structured to minimize customer impacts and avoid measures that impose severe impacts on a customer’s quality of life and/or the local economy. “Curtailment programs typically supplement rather than replace efforts to accelerate efficiency improvements,” the plan states. “If demand curtailment becomes necessary, the city will employ a triage approach to balance water demand with available supplies; first targeting water use that provides the least value to customers and the community at‐large. It is an inherently hierarchical approach, protecting societal and economic needs by initially targeting relatively innocuous uses such as leakage and waste followed by discretionary uses as deemed necessary.” Since early 2019, Phoenix has developed 13 water conservation initiatives and hired a conservation manager, project
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manager and three water resource specialists. It developed phases for improving conservation efforts that include educational materials in both English and Spanish, building a group of volunteer “water wranglers” who assist in outreach, and developing a pilot project to connect water usage budgets and landscaping contracts for city properties. Its second phase is “focused on programs that directly help customers reduce their water waste,” according to written testimony given council earlier this month. That includes “identifying more than 20 million gallons of potential water inefficiency through Homeowner Association Efficiency Checkups; partnerships with two non-profit organizations to fund com-
mercial cooling tower retrofits through a business-financed revolving loan program; joining with Arizona State University’s Sustainable Cities Program to create off-the-shelf xeriscape conversion plans for residential customers.” The third phase will focus on building on water conservation programs with longer-term benefits,” the administration told council. That includes work in future fiscal years — not the one that began July 1 — such as “development of a toilet rebate program available to customers regardless of income level, expansion of the water conservation education festivals, review of state educational standards and recommending possible revisions, creation of educational programming for the planned Tres Rios Visitor’s Center, and coordination with Planning and Development in regular
Photos of Lake Mead are documenting its precipitous fall to a level where it may be incapable of supplying any water. (YouTube)
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building code updates.” Some councilmembers, particularly committee Chair Betty Guardado, were skeptical about the administration’s assurances. “We are the fifth-largest city in the country, and I think the city of Phoenix is not going to be able to deal with this on their own,” Guardado said. Administration officials who appeared before the committee also were asked how quickly the city would address build-
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ing code updates to improve water conservation. Hayes said, “We are currently on the 2018 building codes, and there have been 2021 International Building Codes promoted. Those have not been adopted, and we will be beginning those conversations with Planning and Development in just the next couple of weeks.” Peters added, “We’re talking about building code changes and the horizon that we’ve identified as probably 2025.”
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Compassion needed in a post-Roe world BY JUDY BLUHM Foothills Focus Columnist
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oe vs. Wade. Three little words. Millions of opinions, celebrations, protests, anguish and jubilation. We have entered a new era, like it or not. Maybe our views on the ruling, pro or con, don’t matter as much as our actions, especially in the days ahead. Political lines have been drawn. Chaos will ensue. The lawsuits are coming, but so are the babies. And more than ever, we will need to find ways to support women and children. A society’s greatness is judged
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by the way it wraps its arms around and lifts the poor, weak, injured and vulnerable. The Roe vs. Wade decision will mean that there will be women and girls having babies they don’t want. There will be problems to solve. It can cost thousands to have a baby. Some states did not expand Medicare to the working poor, so there will be questions as to who will be responsible to foot the bill. If a minor has a baby, is she able to place the infant up for adoption without parental consent? Although the incidence of rape and incest resulting in pregnancy is statistically low,
how will these girls and women be supported? Counseling, child care and financial assistance are only the beginning. Our country has a costly legal system when it comes to adoption. According to the organization American Adoptions, the average cost to adopt a baby is $70,000. Of the 400,000 children currently in the foster care system, 115,000 are waiting to be adopted, since they can never be returned to their families. While these seem like daunting numbers and enormous challenges, we are America. We can do this. We have money and resources. We need to allocate
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he was a 12th grader on the afternoon she got the news she was pregnant, in the humid summer days of 1964. The girl was 17, with a beehive hairdo piled to the sky and dreams of going to nursing school. She told her boyfriend the news after he got off work at the bicycle shop. The first of many conversations ensued. Abortion was still six years from becoming legal in New York, where the girl and the 18-year-old boy lived. Roe v. Wade was still nine years away from the United States Supreme Court. Still, there were ways. But they were illegal and dangerous and they cost an outrageous sum of money. In the end, the girl and the boy talked themselves into a decision. They drove one mid-August morning to a small town named Elkton on the Maryland border. They brought with them two witnesses, themselves barely adults. The elopement complete, they returned to Queens, married. I was born six months later. My mother told me the story of her choice not to illustrate a political point, I believe, but to underscore that I was a choice, a defining one, a decision that changed the course of her life and my father’s. She eventually became a nurse, but it wasn’t for another 25 years. My father worked three jobs to put himself through night school to earn a college degree. That one choice led to a million sacrifices, disadvantages that could have been avoided with a single decision, to remove the tiny clump of cells that were only a few weeks along and — in my view — not yet human, a life in potential only. I remember asking my mother, “Why not get an abortion?” Her response: “I just couldn’t. I thought about it so much. But I loved your father, and I wanted to have his baby. So that was it.” My mother, as liberal as they come, didn’t live to see the Friday in June when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I know the news would have been a gut
punch for her — a woman who herself had a choice and believed deeply that every woman should have the same freedom to choose. I can imagine her phone call and where the conversation would have taken us: to topics like personal freedom, the right of a woman and a man to decide their own destinies. We would have discussed sacrifice, because it was a theme my mother drilled into me until the day she died. We choose what we become, and every choice we make negates countless other choices. So choose thoughtfully and with love in your heart, because that is the way your parents chose to have you, son. They were fortunate to have such a choice, because not everyone does. And now, after Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, that choice is gone for many women in many states. My mother, who chose one path for herself, never once spoke ill of the 17-year-old girls who chose a ride that didn’t lead to a courthouse in Maryland. “I could have had an abortion,” my mother told me. “That wasn’t my choice. But I understand it, because my life was never the same.” To say I’m glad my mother chose as she did will sound macabre, because without that choice there would be no column, no life, no me. So, let me say this instead: Imagine if we each lived with consciousness that we are a choice, a set of sacrifices. Then we might not so easily trample the freedoms of others. And America might not be in the sad state in which we find it today.
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Sports Illustrated story abandons balanced reporting BY J.D. HAYWORTH Foothills Focus Columnist
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egular readers of this column will recall the lament expressed earlier in this space about ESPN’s descent into leftist political dogma. As previously noted, ESPN now stands for “Expect Sports Politicized Nonstop.” But that media outlet is no outlier. Another well-known brand name in sports journalism has also proven itself ready and willing to choke you with “woke.” Sports Illustrated, which during the glory days of the magazine age was accustomed to a yearly outcry following publication of its “Annual Swimsuit Edition,” recently opted to clothe opponents of public prayer in robes of righteousness. Writer Greg Bishop and his SI Editors will never be accused of subtlety, as Bishop’s cover story carried the title, “When Faith and Football Teamed Up
Against American Democracy.” The sub-headline spelled out Bishop’s dubious assertion with greater clarity, stating, “The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide the case of a football coach at a public high school who was told he wasn’t allowed to pray on the field in front of players. The expected result is a win for the coach — and the further erosion of the separation between church and state.” Got that? While a balanced assessment might compare the legal fight to a metaphorical “line of scrimmage” where different views of the First Amendment are in conflict, Bishop and Sports Illustrated choose to embrace and advocate a doctrine that does not appear anywhere in our Constitution. The story chronicles the saga of Joe Kennedy, an assistant football coach at Bremerton High School in the state of Washington, who ended up taking the school district to court. It contrasts Ken-
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nedy’s assertion of his First Amendment rights with the opposition of Rachel Laser, the president/CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Laser, who also served as the lead lawyer for the Bremerton School District in this matter, is portrayed sympathetically, “because this case, and others like it, have transported her to an alternate universe of disinformation and propaganda — and, in that world, even democracy is in danger,” writes Bishop. But in the real world, democracy is not endangered. Instead, legitimate dissent from leftist orthodoxy is imperiled. The strategy is fiendishly clever: employ the pressure of popular culture and amplify it through the press to ridicule, diminish and ultimately disregard constitutional principles. Greg Bishop’s narrative seeks to employ one portion of the First Amendment, freedom of the press, against another: freedom of religion. And undergirding it all is (surprise, surprise) a rather unflattering assessment of Christian conservatives. Bishop writes that the base of that group “was reinvigorated over the past seven years, anyway. That owes mostly to Donald Trump’s presidency, his proposed Muslim ban and anti-immigration stances, his border wall and inciting rhetoric, and his appointments of religious conservatives to the judiciary’s most pow-
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we embark on a different path. Before the legalization of abortion, teenage girls often went to the “girls’ homes” and had their babies quietly, signing off all rights after their baby was born, and then going back to school and their life. Many girls were not allowed to attend high school while pregnant, and there was no home schooling. Major stigma was attached to having a baby out of wedlock. It was socially disastrous. Times have changed. I know a little about adoption. My biological mother was 15 years old and gave birth to me in one of those “girls’ homes.”
erful positions.” It is that last assertion in Bishop’s “bill of indictment” that prompts the Shakespearean exclamation, “There’s the rub!” How dare President Trump follow the Constitution and appoint prospective Supreme Court justices whose nominations were then duly approved by the United States Senate? And how dare that new conservative Supreme Court majority vote to reverse legal precedents that were not based on the enumerated powers within that same Constitution? Greg Bishop’s writing is protected by the aforementioned First Amendment; so is freedom of religion. Please note: That’s freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. And again, it’s worth noting that the phrase “separation of church and state” does not appear anywhere in the Constitution. To employ the shopworn saying from sports, “You can look it up.” At seven days old a nurse drove me 200 miles to my adoptive parents. My records were sealed. I am glad I had the chance at life. But I also know that it is not easy for a girl to have a baby. Not then. Not now. States must be willing to help women raise or place a child in adoptive care. This is the mission ahead of us. It’s our moon landing. A defining moment for our society, while Americans remain passionately divided. In a post-Roe world, we’ll need real solutions, not rhetoric. Agreement is not required; compassion is. Judy Bluhm is a writer and a local realtor. Have a comment or a story? Email Judy at judy@judybluhm.com.
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Anthem Golf & Country Club releases schedule BY FOOTHILLS FOCUS STAFF
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ue to the limited availability, Anthem Golf & Country Club is asking members to not register for back-to-back classes so everyone has a chance to register. No-shows are charged $10. Classes are held at Persimmon or Ironwood, 2708 W. Anthem Club Drive or 41551 N. Anthem Hills Drive, respectively. For more information, call 623-742-6200 for Persimmon Clubhouse or 623-465-3020 for Ironwood Clubhouse. Wednesday, July 6 Ironwood: Cycle, 5:30 a.m. Ironwood: Strength, 6:30 a.m. Persimmon: Mixology, 7 a.m. Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Fun & Fit, 8:15 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Ironwood: Cardio/Core Strength, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Slow Flow, 9:30 a.m. Ironwood: Functional Training, 10:30 a.m. Persimmon: Gentle Yoga, 4:15 p.m. Ironwood: Cardio Kickboxing, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 7 Ironwood: Total Body, 5:30 a.m. Persimmon: Mat Pilates, 8 a.m. Ironwood: Muscle Mix, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Zumba, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Boxology, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Stretch, 10:45 a.m. PWR! Moves (fee based), 1:15 p.m. Ironwood: Tabata, 5:30 p.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 5:30 p.m. Persimmon: Candlelight Yin, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, July 8 Ironwood: Cycle, 5:30 a.m. Persimmon: Kickology Strong, 7 a.m. Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Bootcamp, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Fun & Fit, 8:15 a.m. Ironwood: Cardio/Core Strength, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Vinyasa Flow, 9:30 a.m.
Ironwood: Functional Strength/Balance, 9:45 a.m.
Saturday, July 9 Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Bootcamp, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Chair Yoga, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Zumba, 9 a.m. Trivia Night, 6 p.m.
Monday, July 11 Ironwood: Cycle 5:30 a.m. Ironwood: Strength, 6:30 a.m. Persimmon: Kickology Strong, 7 a.m. Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Ironwood: Cardio/Core Strength, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Vinyasa Flow 9:30 a.m. Ironwood: Functional Training, 10:30 a.m. Persimmon: Gentle Yoga, 4:15 p.m. Persimmon: Zumba, 5:30 p.m. Ironwood: Cardio Kickboxing, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 12 Ironwood: Total Body, 5:30 a.m. Persimmon: Mat Pilates, 8 a.m. Ironwood: HITT, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Zumba, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Barre Fusion, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Stretch, 10:45 a.m. PWR! Moves (fee based), 1:15 Sunset Sampling with August Hope Family & Empress Gin & Tonic, 5 p.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 5:30 p.m. Persimmon: Candlelight Yin, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 13 Ironwood: Cycle, 5:30 a.m. Ironwood: Strength, 6:30 a.m. Persimmon: Mixology, 7 a.m. Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Fun & Fit, 8:15 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Ironwood: Cardio/Core Strength, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Slow Flow, 9:30 a.m. Ironwood: Functional Training, 10:30 a.m. Persimmon: Gentle Yoga, 4:15 p.m. Ironwood: Cardio Kickboxing, 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 14 Ironwood: Total Body, 5:30 a.m. Persimmon: Mat Pilates, 8 a.m. Ironwood: Muscle Mix, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Zumba, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Boxology, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Stretch, 10:45 a.m. PWR! Moves (fee based), 1:15 p.m. Ironwood: Tabata, 5:30 p.m. Persimmon: Candlelight Yin, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, July 15 Ironwood: Cycle, 5:30 a.m. Persimmon: Kickology Strong, 7 a.m. Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Bootcamp, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Fun & Fit, 8:15 a.m. Ironwood: Cardio/Core Strength, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Vinyasa Flow, 9:30 a.m. Ironwood: Functional Strength/Balance, 9:45 a.m. Saturday, July 16 Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Bootcamp, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Chair Yoga, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Zumba, 9 a.m.
Monday, July 18 Ironwood: Cycle 5:30 a.m. Ironwood: Strength, 6:30 a.m. Persimmon: Kickology Strong, 7 a.m. Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Ironwood: Cardio/Core Strength, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Vinyasa Flow 9:30 a.m. Ironwood: Functional Training, 10:30 a.m. Persimmon: Gentle Yoga, 4:15 p.m. Ironwood: Cardio Kickboxing, 5:30 p.m. Persimmon: Zumba, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, July 19 Ironwood: Total Body, 5:30 a.m. Persimmon: Mat Pilates, 8 a.m. Ironwood: HITT, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Zumba, 9 a.m.
Ironwood: Barre Fusion, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Stretch, 10:45 a.m. PWR! Moves (fee based), 1:15 AnthemLife 101 Orientation, 4 p.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 5:30 p.m. Persimmon: Candlelight Yin, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 20 Ironwood: Cycle, 5:30 a.m. Ironwood: Strength, 6:30 a.m. Persimmon: Mixology, 7 a.m. Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Fun & Fit, 8:15 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Ironwood: Cardio/Core Strength, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Slow Flow, 9:30 a.m. Ironwood: Functional Training, 10:30 a.m. Persimmon: Gentle Yoga, 4:15 p.m. Ironwood: Cardio Kickboxing, 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 21 Ironwood: Total Body, 5:30 a.m. Persimmon: Mat Pilates, 8 a.m. Ironwood: Muscle Mix, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Zumba, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Boxology, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Stretch, 10:45 a.m. PWR! Moves (fee based), 1:15 p.m. Ironwood: Tabata, 5:30 p.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 5:30 p.m. Persimmon: Candlelight Yin, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, July 22 Ironwood: Cycle, 5:30 a.m. Persimmon: Kickology Strong, 7 a.m. Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Bootcamp, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Fun & Fit, 8:15 a.m. Ironwood: Cardio/Core Strength, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Vinyasa Flow, 9:30 a.m. Ironwood: Functional Strength/Balance, 9:45 a.m. Saturday, July 23 Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Bootcamp, 8 a.m.
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Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Chair Yoga, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Zumba, 9 a.m.
Monday, July 25 Ironwood: Cycle 5:30 a.m. Ironwood: Strength, 6:30 a.m. Persimmon: Kickology Strong, 7 a.m. Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Ironwood: Cardio/Core Strength, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Vinyasa Flow 9:30 a.m. Ironwood: Functional Training, 10:30 a.m. Persimmon: Gentle Yoga, 4:15 p.m. Persimmon: Zumba, 5:30 p.m. Ironwood: Cardio Kickboxing, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 26 Ironwood: Total Body, 5:30 a.m. Persimmon: Mat Pilates, 8 a.m. Ironwood: HITT, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Zumba, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Barre Fusion, 9 a.m. AnthemLife 101 Orientation, 10 a.m. Ironwood: Stretch, 10:45 a.m. PWR! Moves (fee based), 1:15 Persimmon: Water Fitness, 5:30 p.m. Ironwood: Muscle Mix, 5:30 p.m. Persimmon: Candlelight Yin, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 27 Ironwood: Cycle, 5:30 a.m. Ironwood: Strength, 6:30 a.m. Persimmon: Mixology, 7 a.m. Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Fun & Fit, 8:15 a.m.
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Anthem Activities Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Ironwood: Cardio/Core Strength, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Slow Flow, 9:30 a.m. Ironwood: Functional Training, 10:30 a.m. Persimmon: Gentle Yoga, 4:15 p.m. Miner Wine Dinner, 5:30 p.m. Ironwood: Cardio Kickboxing, 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 28 Ironwood: Total Body, 5:30 a.m. Persimmon: Mat Pilates, 8 a.m. Ironwood: Muscle Mix, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Zumba, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Boxology, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Stretch, 10:45 a.m. PWR! Moves (fee based), 1:15 p.m. Ironwood: Tabata, 5:30 p.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 5:30 p.m. Persimmon: Candlelight Yin, 6:30 p.m.
Friday, July 29 Ironwood: Cycle, 5:30 a.m. Persimmon: Kickology Strong, 7 a.m. Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Bootcamp, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Fun & Fit, 8:15 a.m. Ironwood: Cardio/Core Strength, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Vinyasa Flow, 9:30 a.m. Ironwood: Functional Strength/Balance, 9:45 a.m.
Saturday, July 30 Ironwood: Cycle, 7:30 a.m. Persimmon: Bootcamp, 8 a.m. Persimmon: Water Fitness, 8:30 a.m. Persimmon: Chair Yoga, 9 a.m. Ironwood: Zumba, 9 a.m.
Anthem Community Council sets activities BY FOOTHILLS FOCUS STAFF
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rograms and activities are available at the Community Center and Civic Building for all ages. Learn more and register online at onlineatanthem.com. Visit the Residents tab, then click on Activity Registration. Most programs and classes are available to nonresidents for an additional fee. With questions, contact the Community Center at 623-879-3011.
Dolphins swim team Many levels to choose from Email Paul Root at proot@anthemcouncil. com for more information or to try out. Anthem Swim University lessons For all ages Summer Sessions through July Community Center Adult Master Swim 5 to 6 a.m. Monday to Thursday $35; Community Center
Senior activities (50 years and older) Golden Go-Getters: 1 to 4 p.m. Mondays Mexican Train Game: 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Fridays Free; Civic Building ongoing Parents’ Night Out 6:30 to 10 p.m. July 15 and Aug. 19 $20; Community Center
Tennis (youth and adult) Cardio Tennis is offered every Saturday morning; $10 drop-in fee (18 and older) Prices, times and dates vary; Community Center AZ Heat Diving For ages 6 and up 4 to 6 p.m., Summer sessions in July $125; Community Center
Youth recreational sports Volleyball, pickleball, indoor floor hockey, soccer and basketball For ages 5 to 13 Summer and fall sessions $80; Community Center
Wednesdays or Thursdays starting in August Creative Combo Dance: 4:45 to 5:30 p.m. (2 1/2 to 4 years old) Kinder Combo Dance: 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. (5 to 7 years old) Junior Combo: 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. (6 to 9 years old) Cheer 101: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. (6 to 12 years old) Cheer 201: 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. (8 to 12 years old) Anthem Tots Sports For ages 3 to 6 years old 9:15 to 11 a.m. Saturdays in August $80; Community Center
White Horses Child and Caregiver Music For ages 4 and under 9 to 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays from Aug. 10 to Nov. 16 $220; Civic Building
Adult Softball Recreational League For ages 17 and older Sept. 10 through Nov. 12 $455 Team, $50 Free Agent; Community Center Phoenix Rising North Valley Soccer Skills Camp For ages 5 to 14 September 5, $40
The indoor fitness floor, basketball gym and rock wall are open. Fitness classes are held throughout the week, including yoga, kickboxing, core, shallow and deep water (in the pool). Personal training is available; contact the Community Center for details.
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Burger restaurant has a ‘Tru’ passion for quality food BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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tuart Gee had worked on the executive side of the restaurant business his entire career, so when he and his wife, Fawn, decided to buy their own restaurant, he gave it his all. The Gees bought Tru Burger in Anthem in 2017 and have since transformed it from a casual burger/hot dog and milkshake joint to a booming bar and grill. The idea was always for it to be a “better-for-you” burger restaurant, but, while they kept the original Tru Burger name, Gee said he expanded the menu to include sandwiches, salads, entrees, appetizers and a full bar. “We beefed up our inventory of our bourbons, Scotches and whiskeys, beefed up our craft beer selection, and then really upgraded the whole menu — from the buns the burgers go on to the burger meat itself to the fries to the recipes,” Gee said. He also created turkey, salmon and ahi tuna patties to add to the menu, as well as an Impossible burger and veggie burger. These patties can be substituted for any of the menu items. Not only that, but he added nine different salad options to the menu as well. And, according to Gee, all of this is handmade fresh in-house. “We needed more options to make sure that we’re appealing to all ages and all different types of folks,” he said. “I mean, there are people that don’t eat meat, and we didn’t want that to be a veto vote to come into our restaurant. So we needed some delicious items that they could have that were freshly prepared with as much care and service as we do with the burgers. And I think that’s been a big part of our success.” Tru Burger is now serving three en-
Besides its famous Angus beef burgers, Tru Burger offers salads, sandwiches, entrees, appetizers and a full bar. (Tru Burger/Submitted) trees, too — an 8-ounce Gold Canyon Angus beef top sirloin steak, a Paillard-style grilled chicken or a fresh grilled salmon, each served with skinny fries and oven-roasted vegetables. Some of the most popular menu items are the jalapeño burger ($13.45), with pepper jack cheese, crispy jalapeño, lettuce, tomato and sweet jalapeño aioli on a brioche bun, and the whiskey BBQ burger ($12.45), which has cheddar, applewood bacon, onion rings and homemade whiskey BBQ on a wheat bun. Gee didn’t just focus on the food, though. He also added a lot to the bar.
After all, what better way to top off a burger and fries than with a cold beer? Gee said the restaurant stocks a variety of craft beers, including a few local to Arizona. As a full bar, it can mix up most cocktails as well. Its signature drink is a Smoky Old-Fashioned. Bulleit bourbon, along with what Gee called their “secret ingredient,” is aged for two weeks in barrel to create a barrel-aged Old-Fashioned that is completely unique to the restaurant. With all those changes, Gee didn’t lose sight of the restaurant’s roots. Tru Burger patties are 8 ounces of 100% an-
tibiotic and hormone-free Black Angus beef. He said other fast-casual burger restaurants usually use an 80/20 blend of meat and fat that is not natural, often with added hormones, which he said can change the internal body and how it works. “Then, just from a flavor standpoint, you can get a juicy, fatty burger like that, but it’s going to taste just a little bland,” Gee said. “When you get a Black Angus burger, the meat is a little bit more coarsely ground, so it’s a little
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bit more like steak and it’s got a richer, deeper flavor in the meat than you normally get in another burger. So, not only does it taste 10 times better, but it’s actually better for you.” Even despite the food, Tru Burger is known for having an excellent, friendly staff. Gee said it is a sit-down, full-service restaurant. He said the restaurant doesn’t really have a typical crowd; they see everything from families and business colleagues to burger aficionados. In the five years the Gees have owned Tru Burger in Anthem, he said sales have grown an average of 20% each year. All of this ties into Tru Burger’s mission to inspire the local community with its “Tru” passion for a custom, fresh, high-quality experience while ensuring dedicated support to our local economy. Tru Burger
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One of the most popular menu items is the jalapeño burger ($13.45), with pepper jack cheese, crispy jalapeño, lettuce, tomato and sweet jalapeño aioli on a brioche bun. (Tru Burger/Submitted)
Another popular menu item is the whiskey BBQ burger ($12.45), which has cheddar, applewood bacon, onion rings and homemade whiskey BBQ on a wheat bun. (Tru Burger/Submitted)
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Dr. Kevin Gasser changes lives one smile at a time BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Foothills Focus Executive Editor
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tal career. He’s spent 27 years in Arizona practicing dentistry and has since become a leader in providing the patented “allon-four,” a full arch of teeth on just four implants. “Dental implants give patients who never thought they’d be able to eat, speak and smile in comfort again with a brand-new set of beautiful, nonremovable and functional implanted teeth,” he said. “Prior to the innovation of sophisticated technology, it would commonly take patients up to 18 months to get new teeth. This was because multiple dental implant procedures, complex bone grafting and soft tissue manage-
Dr. Kevin Gasser has spent 27 years in Arizona practicing dentistry and boasts an impressive resumé, having graduated from West Virginia University as well as a variety of other schools and clinics. (Gasser Dental/Submitted)
ment techniques were required for a patient to get a full set of new teeth. Now, with the latest medication protocol, superior parts and modern techniques, most patients can get a new smile in one day.” Gasser and his team are committed to creating life transformations for their patients by utilizing patient-specific dental implant solutions and by delivering the “best combination of quality, experience, comfort, care and price.” Just as important is listening to patients. “In my practice, there are no handoffs to other doctors or other facilities,” he said. “I personally take care of all our patients from ini-
tial diagnosis to end-of-treatment follow-up care. At Gasser Dental, we focus on an accelerated treatment plan that is time efficient yet respects science and nature.” While he’s proud of his sophisticated technology, Gasser stresses the importance of preventative care. But he and his staff do not judge patients for their dental conditions. “We cater to those who are afraid of dental treatment,” he added. “The time, costs and technology have never been better for smile restorations. When investigating dental implants, remember that experience, quality and protocol matters. “Because we are passionate about what we do at Gasser Dental, we are currently offering each new patient a free, no-obligation exam and free iCat scan to all who want to investigate new
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Who is the person in your neighborhood? CHURCH COMMUNITY CONNECTION
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rom time to time, most of us feel left out. We feel like misfits. Others seem so confident, so sure of themselves, “insiders” who know the ropes, old hands in a club from which we are excluded. So, what do the “outsiders” do? They form exclusive clubs, too. The clubs range from informal to formal, generally based upon a theme. The members think, “Here is at least one place where I can belong, and those other people are out.” Identity or worth is achieved by excluding all but “us.” The price that we pay for these exclusive clubs is a reduction of reality, a shrinkage of life. Why? Our thing becomes everything, at least to us. In his introduction of the Gospel of Luke, author Eugene Peterson talks about this tendency in politics, cultures, nationalities, social clubs, economics and religion. “But religion has a long history of doing just that, of reducing the huge mysteries of God to the respectability of club rules, of shrinking the vast human community to a membership.” Luke is the Gospel written for “outsiders.” Luke was a vigorous champion of the “outsider.” Why? He was an outsider himself, the only Gentile in an all-Jewish cast of the writers in the New Testament. He shows how Jesus included what the religious establishment would consider outsiders of the day: women, common laborers, the racially different Samaritans, the poor and even the rich. Dr. Peterson writes, “As Luke tells the story, all of us who have found ourselves on the outside looking in on life with no hope of gaining entrance (and who of us hasn’t felt it?) now find the doors wide open, found and welcomed by God in Jesus.” No parable in the Bible is more clarion about this idea than the par-
able of the Good Samaritan. Jesus wanted his audience to connect emotionally to the parable’s characters. Jesus wanted his audience to think, “Who am I in this story?” The Good Samaritan parable starts with a dialogue about eternal life with Jesus and a young religious scholar. Jesus quotes the Old Testament. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and love your neighbor as yourself.” The young scholar asked, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus responded with a parable. A man was walking on the dangerous road from Jerusalem to Jericho. Robbers beat him and robbed him. As he lay by the side of the road, stripped naked and dying, a Jewish priest came on the road, saw the man, walked around him, and continued his journey. Then another religious hotshot, a Levite, also came along and ignored the man. Then a Samaritan man came along, saw the robbed man, and felt compassion for him. So the Samaritan gave him first aid, bandaging and disinfecting his wounds. Next, he lifted the victim on his donkey, led him to an inn, and paid for his entire stay at the inn until he recovered. Jesus asked the young religious scholar, “Which of these three men was the victim’s neighbor?” “The Sa-
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all the “cool” people on social media taking a selfie of themselves as they give 20 dollars to a poor person on the street corner. That’s not altruism. That’s self-aggrandizement. The Good Samaritan didn’t want any credit for his act of kindness. Generosity doesn’t either. Like that old song says, “Take a look at yourself, and you will look at others differently.” The more significant point of this story is this. Humanity is the robbed man by the side of the road. Naked, stripped and half-dead, we all need a Good Samaritan to save us. In many cases, religion steps around us. But, unfortunately, in many cases, so does politics, business, media and education. Who is the Good Samaritan in this story? Jesus said, “I will pay humanity’s bill in full,” and He did. That’s mighty neighborly. Maybe there is a person in our neighborhood saying, “Won’t you be my neighbor?”
maritan,” replied the scholar. Jesus said, “Go and do the same.” The audience didn’t expect that curve ball. The young scholar and the stunned audience received an “aha” that day. Remember, Samaritans were the bad guys to the Jewish people. They were the worst of the worst. Yet this Samaritan did what the religious establishment was created to do: love their neighbor as themselves. What the Samaritan did was equivalent to a Ku Klux Klan member rescuing, bandaging and paying for an African American’s recovery or vice versa. What the Samaritan did was equal to a radical Muslim rescuing an Israeli citizen or vice versa. Notice I said vice versa. Altruism works both ways. Our opinions are formed by the Bible, not our current, unstable, fickle culture or affinity group. We are like an eye, a little white and a little black so we can see. Selfishness costs nothing, but compassion is costly. The Samaritan paid the whole bill. The Samaritan gave his time, energy, finances and emotions. You see, anyone can be like a religious scholar. We can have the correct answers and then not do a thing about it. Someone once wrote, “To love the whole world is no chore; my only problem is my neighbor next door.” Who are you and I in this parable? I hope the good Samaritan. And please don’t try to signal virtue when meeting a need for someone. I get tired of
Ed Delph is a noted author of 10 books, as well as a pastor, teacher, former business owner and speaker. He has traveled extensively, having been to more than 100 countries. He is president of NationStrategy, a nonprofit organization involved in uplifting and transforming communities worldwide. For more information, see nationstrategy.com. He may be contacted at nationstrategy@cs.com.
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