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cut by a third the state’s annual spending on its highway system. As annual revenue has shrunk from $1.6 billion to about $1 billion, ADOT is focusing its dollars on preserving the state’s highway network and cutting back on projects that upgrade or extend it. “We’re trying to deal with an ever-increasing demand on the system of growing state, but the revenue stream for it has not kept up with those demands,” Roehrich told the business and community leaders who are part of EVP.
But that won’t impact two of the biggest projects looming on the horizon for Gilbert motorists over the next five years. One is work on the SanTan Loop 202 Freeway. That includes widening the freeway to two lanes in each direction between the Loop 101 Price Freeway and Gilbert Road; one lane in each direction between Val Vista Drive and Gilbert Road; and completing the Lindsay Road-freeway interchange. The other is the three-year, $600 million
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Town sued over park’s playground equipment BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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ilbert is currently looking into a legal demand for $150,000 after a child was apparently injured on playground equipment at Desert Sky Park. The claim was filed in November by attorney Richard Gulbrandsen, who did not answer repeated calls for comment. The claimant is Benjamin Dario Garcia, on behalf of his son, who was not named because he is a minor. “The Town is currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the allegations contained in the notice of claim,” said spokeswoman Jennifer Harrison in an email. “Aside from this claim, the Town has not received any other notice of claim.” Gilbert debuted phase 1 of the 115acre sports park on Power Road between Williams Field and Pecos roads in November 2019. Amenities include four multi-use fields, a fitness course, a lake and a playground. The boy was injured on May 15, 2020 during park hours, while “properly using the Fitcore Extreme Jump Hang,” according to the claim. This particular playground equipment has a launch ramp for children to jump from in order to grab a cargo net and than traverse the underside of the net to reach the other side without touching the ground, according to the manufacturer Landscape Structures. The equipment is designed for ages 13 and older. The boy “fell to the ground and fractured his arm, dislocated his wrist and suffered additional serious injuries,” the claim stated. And for that, the attorney faulted the
This piece of playground equipment, called Fitcore Extreme Jump Hang, at Desert Sky Park is at the center of a father’s claim against Gilbert for $150,000 on behalf of his son, whom he claims was injured on it. (Pablo Robles/GSN Staff Photographer) Town, claiming it “negligently, carelessly, and recklessly installed, maintained, and supervised the Fitcore Extreme Jump Hang equipment and the surface underneath.” The stated negligence includes, but is not limited to, failure to provide proper instruction for use, failure to provide proper lighting, and failure to provide sufficient amount of wood mulch/chips on the ground to prevent the injury, the attorney added. Gulbrandsen included a summary of the medical bills received at the time of the filing – $276 for Southwest Diagnostic Imaging and $7,849.30 for Banner Gateway Medical Center. He anticipated bills from Emergency Physicians Southwest, Banner Children’s Specialists, Phoenix Children’s Hospital and Walgreens.
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If the Town denies the claim, the family can then choose to sue. Harrison did not respond by deadline to questions asking when the Town will conclude its investigation into the claim and if any safety measures have been implemented with the equipment in question due to the claim’s allegations. Each year in the country emergency departments treat over 200,000 children ages 14 and younger for playground-related injuries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC added that overall, more research needed to be done to better understand what specific activities are putting kids at risk of injury and what changes in playground equipment and surfaces might help prevent injuries.
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Santan Village Parkway and Knox Road. “We’re right at the door step of the entertainment district,” said Ben Cooper of developer SAP Holdings. “We see this as a very positive thing for Gilbert. We think it will be a fun little thing to do within Gilbert with your family.” The project has been in the works since 2017, when Council approved a lease agreement with SAP Holdings to bring its project on town-owned land. SAP Holdings will build the venue in two phases. The first phase will include the track, an 18-hole miniature golf course, a 1,000-square-foot splash pad, a small event lawn and a concession stand. It will share parking with AZ Ice and the sports fields at the 92-acre Crossroads Park. Phase 2 hasn’t been determined but other approved uses under the 2017 lease include an outdoor maze, bungee trampoline, airbag jump, batting cages, carousel and indoor arcade. Under the 30-year lease, the Mesa company will pay Gilbert fair-market value rent for the land and a percentage of gross sales revenue, which will average approximately $92,000 a year, according to the agreement. The lease has two separate additional 10-year terms. No town funds are to be used in the development of Santan Adventure Park with the exception of about $750 a year to maintain the existing asphalt parking of 627-shared spaces. Upon termination or expiration of the lease, all improvements on the townowned property will belong to Gilbert. Cooper, a 38-year Gilbert resident, spent some time addressing the noise concern, noting the project was adjacent to a busy six-lane arterial that sees 20,000 vehicle trips a day. One home is at least 215 feet away and the next, 275 feet away, he added. He said at most there will be 10 to 11 go-karts circling the course while the others are being loaded with drivers. The facility will have a total of 21 gas-powered go-carts. Cooper said he advocated for the use of electric motors but during research discovered they were unproven for use in the harsh outdoor desert environment of Arizona.
This rendering shows what Santan Adventure Park developers envision as far as its look is concerned. (Town of Gilbert) Santan Park’s go-karts have Honda motors, which use the latest emission technology. “Honda prides itself to make it as quiet and clean as possible,” said Cooper, who added the motors are used in generators and in other settings. He said a highly regarded consultant measured the noise from the go-karts and “found no violation of the Gilbert noise ordinance is going to happen.” “If there was no sound out there and there was just our karts running, they’d measure at 46 dBA in somebody’s backyard,” he said. “However, what is going on out there right now is 53-62 is what was measured. So, we’re quieter than what is going on out there even at the quietest moment at 10 p.m. on a Saturday night. “This is a very conservative study and, in fact, they modeled it with our karts going full throttle around the track at all times, not that they will.” Cooper said the predicted noise levels indoors with the windows and doors closed is 23-26 dBA, which he likened to a “library,” eliciting laughter from the disbelieving audience. Ironically, the park’s first phase is scheduled to be completed around the same time that Urban Air Adventures will open its flagship facility in Santan Village that will include a two-story indoor, electric go-kart track.
Nearly 80 residents from the Cottonwoods Crossing and Greenfield Lakes neighborhoods attended the meeting. The town’s ordinance limits daytime noise indoors to 55dBA and nighttime noise indoors at 45dBA. Cooper said the 4 acres has sat vacant for some time and regardless of what was built there, there will be noise. He acknowledged the audience’s opposition to the project but said there was “overwhelming support outside the room tonight” for it. Before letting audience members speak, Chairman Carl Bloomfield noted 21 comment cards received with all but one opposed to Santan Adventure Park. Senior Planner Stephanie Bubenheim said since the posting of the agenda, staff received 50 emails – four in support and the rest concerned with the project’s impact to the dog park, traffic, exhaust from the gas motors and parking. “I don’t know where you all live but I am assuming it’s not Cottonwood Crossing or Greenfield Lakes,” said Sandra Avery, was one of about 24 people who spoke. “People call us NIMBYs, which stands for not in my backyard. But we don’t want it in anybody’s backyard.” She questioned the validity of the noise study and was doubtful that the sound of traffic from the nearby arterial
would muffle the go-kart noise as stated in the report. She said she called two outdoor gokart operations in the state and was told by one operator that the noise at his track consistently measured in the low 80 dBA at 100 feet. Avery said she contacted MD Acoustics, which did the Santan Park study, and asked how it arrived at 40-50 dBA at 100 feet and was told it was supplied by the developer and was “based on three possible engines that might or might not be used for the go-karts.” Cooper later said he passed along that information from the manufacturer. She also criticized the Town for not doing more in notifying residents of the project and said neighbors in the last week started a petition against Santan Park on Change.org and already got over 546 signatures. She ended by asking for a show of hands from any commissioner willing to trade their homes with that of families living near the project site. “I don’t see any hands, thank you very much,” Avery said. John Enright was one of two who spoke in support of the project. “I really love where I live and the fact this is coming in,” said Enright, who is a neighbor of Avery’s. He said half the people at the meeting are there because of a small group claiming “the world’s coming to an end” with the project. He said the project would add to the Crossroads Park’s amenities and will blend in. Kelley Stramiello said if the go-karts go in across the street from her house, the noise from it will keep her kids up. She asked if the noise level for the screeching go-kart tires or the screams of people having fun were accounted for. The lease agreement allows Santan Adventure Park to operate 8 a.m.-11 p.m., Sundays through Thursdays and from 9 a.m. to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Stramiello said in 2013 when she moved to her home, there was a weekend carnival on the same lot and the
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overhaul of the I-10 from the Broadway Curve to Ray Road – what Roehrich call “the most heavily traveled corridor in the state.” The latter project, set to get underway this summer as commuter traffic steadily returns to pre-pandemic levels involves several major undertakings. They include widening I-10 to six lanes in each direction between the Santan Freeway and Baseline Road and eight lanes in each direction between Baseline Road and the I-17 split; demolishing and replacing the Broadway Road bridge over I-10 and SR 143 between I-10 and Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport; and a major reconfiguration of the I-10/US 60 interchange. Roehrich said traffic management on I-10 is a major component of the project While ADOT plans to spend $2.3 billion on “with a lot of detouring for a highway projects in Maricopa County over period of time” – especially as the next five years, it is spending $2,8 billion traffic to and from Sky Harbor on projects in 13 counties outside Maricopa and Pima. The projects above are the major will be detoured. In looking at ADOT’s devel- ones. (Phoenix East Valley partnership) oping five-year capital plan, Phoenix and Sunset Point to Roehrich said, “Our strategy has been really focused on strategic In- reduce northbound congesvestments where we can afford it but re- tion at the beginning of weekends and southbound traffic ally focus on preservation.” Those preservation efforts include $1 jams on Sunday evenings; varbillion over the next five years “to up- ious smaller projects on I-40, grade about 581 lane miles of pavement eight bridges of I-15 that are from fair and poor condition to good within Arizona’s boundaries condition.” Bridges also are included in and on widening some remaining four-lane portions of that spending. ADOT anticipates spending $2.8 bil- I-93. “But in the future, you’re golion of its $5 billion five-year budget on projects in the 13 counties outside Mar- ing to see a lot fewer of those outside (Maricopa and Pima icopa and Pima counties, Roehrich said. Another $2.3 billion will be spent in counties) unless our revenue Maricopa County; $311 million in Pima situation changes,” Roehrich County and $131 million for improve- said, adding that ADOT officials were concerned about ments at various airports in the state. The major projects covered by the $2.8 having the funds for the I-10 billion spending include widening the widening until the governor I-10 between Phoenix and Casa Grande put pandemic relief money toby adding another lane in each direction; ward the project. For now, Maricopa and Pima building a “flex lane” on I-17 between
The I-10/Broadway Curve project beginning this summer will last three years, cost $600 million and create numerous challenges for Ahwatukee motorists. (ADOT)
counties have largely been spared the brunt of ADOT’S shrinking revenue stream because they also have a sales tax that can be used to help implement ADOT’s highway projects. Maricopa County’s half-cent sales tax was approved in 2005 when voters overwhelming voted in favor of Prop 400. Prop 400 expires in 2024 and county and municipal leaders already are preparing to put its successor, often called Prop 500, on the ballot next year to be assured of funding for the next two decades. Right now, Roehrich said, the final 21 projects funded through Prop 400 and the $2.3 billion in five-year ADOT budget have been scheduled. Besides the I-10/Broadway Curve project, East Valley improvements also include: • Access improvements from the I-10 to the area around Wild Horse Pass; • Widening the Loop 101 Pima Freeway between Princess Drive and Shea Boulevard; • Construction of the first five miles the new SR 24 in southeast Mesa. But as the Phoenix Metro area continues to expand deep into Pinal County, one of the biggest dream projects to improve overall ground transportation is construction of a north-south freeway that would run along the eastern region of Pinal into the far East Valley. While an environmental study is underway, funding for land acquisition and construction of that route could be years away because of ADOT’s shrinking revenue stream, Roehrich said. That mirrors a prospect ADOT faces when it comes to
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Higley mulls bond issue, cites school leases BY CASEY FLANAGAN GSN Staff Writer
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igley Unified School District administration has recommended a bond issue to allow the funding of multi-year projects and major purchases – including the purchase of one of the two middle schools the district now leases. Acting Chief Financial Officer Jeff Gadd said the proposed $95 million bond would be a “supplement” and “an add-on to the short-term needs” covered by the district’s regular capital budget. Higley’s bond issue could go to voters in November at the same time as a possible town bond question. Both the town and Higley Unified must decide by June on whether to go through with a November election. Gadd said that if a bond was approved
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addressing any kind of highway expansion outside Maricopa and Pima counties. “If you look at this five-year program, when you look at that new fifth year that’s coming in the 2026, there are no expansion projects in greater Arizona,” he said. “All it is is preservation and modernization projects, trying to preserve what we have and strategic improvements in certain corridors of what we have on existing infrastructure.” Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jack Sellers, a former member of the State Transportation Board – which approves funding for major highway projects in Arizona – said that right now, “we’re not even paying for maintenance today of the system we have. “And with the growth we have in this state,” he continued, “we really need to be planning for improved infrastructure going forward and we have to have the money to maintain that.” Some participants in the East Valley partnership briefing said both the governor and the Legislature have shied away from addressing the problem Roehrich
in November, the money would be available starting in the 2022-23 fiscal year and last about five years. He said the bond’s timeframe is flexible, and “could go a bit longer but that’s the expenditure plan.” “About a third of the total of what’s projected” in the bond would go towards “a possible outright purchase of one of the two schools that we have under lease agreement,” Gadd said. Those are Cooley and Sossaman middle schools. To pay off either school’s lease obligation and make an outright purchase would cost about $32 million, Gadd said. There would be a “significant offset to that” in taxpayer savings, he added, because “If one middle school is purchased, the district would save an estimated $21.7 million in interest savings through discontinuing one of the two leases.” According to Gadd, the proposed pur-
Most of ADOT’s spending over the next five years is targeted at preserving the state’s existing highway system through repaving, bridge repairing and other maintenance projects. Far less is spent on upgrading roads and even less on expansion. (Phoenix East Valley
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described this way: “We’re providing the system that the public willing to pay for and they’re not happy with that. We’re going to need them to decide if they want to invest more to get the system they want because we can’t provide it with current revenue.” Roehrich delivered his briefing be-
chase plan would transfer the next five years’ lease payments for both schools, $22 million, from the capital budget to the bond. He said the outright purchase would cost an additional $10 million, resulting in the $32 million total cost toward the bond. “If the purchase did not occur for whatever reason,” Gadd said, the $10 million “would be reassigned to other capital needs. We would retain the other $22 million in order to continue the current lease payment schedule.” HUSD Board President Kristina Reese pointed out that the district “significantly overpaid” for the two school leases, compared to the cost of purchasing the schools outright in 2013 when the decision to lease was made. Gadd estimated that each school would have cost “around $20 to 25 million,” to
purchase in 2013. “If you took out the current lease schedule all the way to 2052,” when the lease is currently scheduled to end, “and you included principle and interest, those schools are costing you three times what you would have paid on an outright purchase.” He estimated the total lease cost at “$60-$70 million.” HUSD Board Member Amy Kaylor said, “We can try to make it better for the future” and buying one of the schools now “is a savings, even though it’s hard to look at it that way.” “It’s going to take a while for the district to get bonding capacity in which to try to deal with the second school,” Gadd said. He said the district could “push ahead,
fore President Biden unveiled $2 trillion spending plan to improve a variety of aspects of the nation’s infrastructure. Of that $2.3 trillion, about $115 billion is designated for bridges and roads and $20 billion for unspecified “road safety” improvements. But Roehrich said regardless of how much Arizona might get if the plan manages to win Congressional approval, the devil is in the details. “I think one of the things we’ll need to understand is when the funds come what are the conditions tied to it,” he said, explaining that stimulus money for years often comes with conditions that go beyond normal annual federal highway funding. As for an increase in Arizona’s 18-centa-gallon gas tax, which provides $750 million annually, prospects for any increase by the current Legislature appear uncertain. Prescott Rep. Noel Campbell was trying to get his colleagues early last year to double that tax, saying the $750 million it generated in annual revenue fell far short of Arizona’s highway needs.
But before that bill could make much headway, the legislative session was brought to an abrupt end as the pandemic spread in Arizona. The pandemic did a lot more damage to ADOT than halt that effort. With businesses shutdown and more people working at home, less gas was being bought and revenue from the gas tax plummeted, forcing ADOT and the Transportation Board last year to scramble on its original five-year plan and delay or cancel projects that had been on the drawing board. Roehrich didn’t sound too optimistic when how prepared ADOT is to meet the needs that will be created by rapid job expansion and explosive housing growth well beyond the current boundaries of the Phoenix Metro region. “I’d say we’re half way to addressing that and that we’re lucky to be at that,” he said, “but there’s still a lot we’re going to need to do and the state still is going to grow. I mean, we’re continuing to see the economy come back and I think the economy is going to move a lot faster than the state can on infrastructure.”
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Fulton Homes’ letter sign of times for homebuyers BY PAUL MARYNIAK GSN Executive Editor
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s if anxious homebuyers in the East Valley don’t have enough to worry about, that troublesome barge in the Suez Canal piled on their mounting woes – as did the brutal winter storms in Texas two months ago. Fulton Homes last week cited the stuck Suez Canal barge, the storms and the pandemic in a letter to customers who had put down a deposit for a new-build, offering them a refund because supply chain disruptions made it impossible to say when their new home would be completed. It said window production has been cut in half by its supplier because of the pandemic, plywood for its walls is in short supply, cabinet orders are three to five months behind and that now it has no roof sheathing for 1,200 homes under construction. “Unfortunately, in the current highly volatile environment, there is no way to
accurately project when homes will be completed,” its letter to customers said. “There may be a one-month delay or a 6+ month delay on home closings; Timelines change daily.” The letter by Fulton Homes Construction Vice President Jeff Nadreau said that as a result and only for this week, Fulton was breaking its policy of nonrefundable deposits. Nadreau acknowledged there may be customers “who are uncomfortable with the uncertainty of the delivery of their home or who simply cannot wait” and said Fulton Homes believes a full refund was the fair thing to offer. Normally, deposits are not refundable under any circumstances, he noted, because the company would lose a bundle after paying a $20,000 building permit and ordering materials that the customer specifically wanted, Nadreau said. He also assured those who decide to “live with the uncertainty brought about by these supply issues” that “we will not cut corners or forego the legendary Ful-
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ton Quality our customers expect.” Last month a barge got stuck in the Suez Canal for a week, tying up ships loaded with billions of goods and impacting supply lines for an array of industries. But that was only the latest in a series of problems that has forced most homebuilders into longer completion times and to include escalation clauses in contracts as a hedge against rising prices of materials. Other homebuilders contacted by the Gilbert Sun News about Fulton’s letter did not respond to requests for comment. But Mike Orr of the Cromford Report, which closely tracks the Valley housing market, said it’s likely Fulton is not alone – and indicated homebuyers will pay the price in several ways. “I have not heard anything so specific, but it would not surprise me if many of the things quoted affect other builders,” he said, adding: “Home price will be forced upwards, as there is very little re-sale inventory.
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Supply chain interruptions and overall shortages have added fuel to the surge in Valley home prices, which have risen 20 percent in a year. Last week Cromford reported, “The active listing count was painfully small last month and this month it is no better. We would need to add about 24,000 active listings to get back to a normal level. Many of the younger agents working in Phoenix have never experienced a normal level of supply.” The National Association of Homebuilders and the National Association of Realtors last fall said a lumber shortage is accelerating the cost of new home construction while there also is a rising demand for larger houses – partly as the result of stay-at-home orders and workfrom-home time in the past year. “While the market remains solid, median home prices are increasing due to higher building material costs, most notably softwood lumber, and a shift to
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Gilbert woman creates ‘got shot’ shirt BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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hen COVID-19 reached Arizona, Erica Bianco Ellis sheltered in place. “I stayed in almost a year,” the Gilbert resident said. “I’ve got an elderly mother and we really hunkered down for a year.” By early February, Bianco Ellis got the COVID-19 vaccine and the chance to get back her life before the global pandemic. “After I got my shot, I was so excited – just super excited,” she said. So excited so that she decided to let everyone know. She put “GOT THE SHOT” with a heart and globe on T-shirts, masks, hats, hoodies, totes and car stickers and is selling them on her online store. The heart represents nurses and the globe symbolizes that the virus is a world-wide problem, according to Bianco Ellis. “I’m trying to do my part to spread comfort and confidence in the shot, and hopefully help us return to some semblance of normalcy,” she said. Bianco Ellis said she didn’t hesitate taking the vaccine after she did extensive research on it. She added that the messengerRNA technology used for the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines is known and that vaccines are not new. But she recognized some people are on the fence, nervous about the vaccine. The U.S. Food and Drug Administra-
at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, including about 63 million people who have been fully vaccinated by Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Arizona, 19 percent of the state’s population is fully vaccinated and 32 percent has received at least one shot, the CDC reported. Over half a million Americans, including more than 17,000 Arizonians have died from the virus, according to state data. Bianco Ellis also is doGilbert resident Erica Bianco designed these t-shirts for peo- nating 20 percent of her profits to the Arizona ple who have been vaccinated against COVID-19. (Courtesy of Erica Bianco) Nurses Association’s RNConnect program, which tion in December issued emergency use helps the mental health of the nurses authorizations for Pfizer and Moderna, treating COVID patients. which makes a product available to the So far, she’s sold $3,000 worth of merpublic based on the best available ev- chandise and has donated $150 to the idence, without waiting for all the ev- program for nurses, whom she called idence that would be needed for FDA “true heroes.” approval or clearance. “I hoping it’s closer to $1,000 when I As of last week, about 108.3 million am done,” Bianco Ellis said of the donapeople in the country have received tion.
Encouraging people to get vaccinated has become a mission for Bianco Ellis who’s had two relatives in their late 70s die from the virus. She said her dad’s cousin and his wife died within a month of each other in Las Vegas. They were both doctors and had no underlying conditions other than age, she added. Bianco Ellis also has helped a few strangers get vaccinated and is hoping to get an aunt, who is still recovering from a liver transplant, her shot when she is able to. She believes the message is reaching people as they see those who got the vaccine “happy and out and about with their shirts on and having drinks out with their friends with the shot and masks.” Her reluctant dad finally ended up getting the vaccine and also an uncle, who now wants one of her T-shirts. Bianco Ellis said her best sellers are the T-shirts followed by hats. And, she just doesn’t peddle her wares on the internet, she also uses them. “I have several and I wear it every time I go out,” she said. “My hope is that the more people that are seen wearing this message, the more people will be ready to get their shot.”
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larger homes,” said Robert Dietz, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders. The homebuilders group reported that in the first six months of the pandemic, “lumber prices soared more than 170 percent.” “This unprecedented lumber price spike added nearly $16,000 to the price of a typical new single-family home,” it said.
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The association recommended that its members include an escalation clause in contracts “that indicates if lumber prices increase by a certain percentage, the customer would be required to pay the extra costs.” It also said the sharp increases in lumber costs “threaten the affordability of new homes and the housing sector, which is leading the nation’s economic recovery.”
The association blamed the lumber cost increase on inadequate domestic production. “Many mills reduced production due to stay-at-home orders and social distancing measures enacted by state and local governments at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic,” it said. “Mill operators projected that housing would be adversely affected by the crisis and anticipated a large drop in demand,”
it continued. “But housing weathered the storm much better than was predicted and demand for lumber has accelerated.” In December, it called on the Trump Administration to pressure domestic lumber producers “to ramp up production to ease growing shortages and making it a priority to work with Canada on a new softwood lumber agreement.” That request went nowhere.
Gilbert general named AZ Guard head BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services
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Gilbert woman has been named the new adjutant general of the Arizona National Guard. Gov. Doug Ducey last week named Kerry Muehlenbeck as the first woman to lead the 8,300-member Guard. Currently a professor at Mesa Community College, Muehlenbeck is a lawyer and former Deputy Pima County Attorney. Her appointment also makes her director of the state Department of Emergency and Military Affairs. Muehlenbeck came to Arizona in 1993 to serve as assistant staff judge advocate at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson. After separating from the active military four years later, she joined the Arizona Air National Guard where she also served as both a wing-level and headquarters staff judge advocate. She became the state’s deputy adjutant general in 2018. Muehlenbeck described her service as a “traditional, drill-status Guardsman,’’ meaning she also had full-time outside employment, including the stint with the Pima County Attorney. She will apparently have to give up her MCC position, but indicated it’s worth it to hit a milestone in Arizona’s history. “The historical importance of being the first female adjutant general in Arizona is not lost on me,’’ she said. “But I do hope that what I’ve done and who I am is more important than simply my sex,’’ Muehlenbeck continued. “I nev-
Gov. Doug Ducey looks on as Arizona National Guard Adjutant Gen. Kerry Muehlenbeck addresses reporters after he named her to the post. (Howard Fischer/Capitol Media Services er considered myself a female member of the military. I was always just another member of the military.’’ She replaces Maj. Gen. Michael McGuire, a Mesa resident who is retiring after 37 years in the military. McGuire, a Republican, is weighing a possible run for U.S. Senate in 2022 where he would try to unseat Democrat Mark Kelly. According to Arizona State University, Muehlenbeck also was a longtime faculty associate for the ASU School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and previously the ASU School of Justice Studies. An ASU news release said she was first woman to serve as a general in the Arizona Army and Air National Guard. “For me, this is another opportunity to do something new, broaden my scope,
and contribute,” she said when appointed to that post. “It’s another opportunity to either succeed or fail. I prefer success, but you can’t be afraid to fail, especially if you learn from it. You’ve got to go out and try. That’s what my parents always taught me.” Muehlenbeck also served as a Deputy Judge Advocate General for the United States Air Force and as a prosecutor in her hometown of Saginaw, Michigan. She taught two criminal law courses at ASU and developed and taught a contemporary base issues course for the Air National Guard taken by thousands of commanders, crew chiefs and first sergeants over the years. “If I succeed or fail, it’s not because I am a woman, it’s because I did or didn’t
do a good job,” Muehlenbeck said, according to the ASU release. “I am not a pioneer. There were certainly pioneers within the generations of women who came before me, and those are the shoulders I’ve been standing on throughout my career. They fought battles that I didn’t have to fight.” Her appointment was announced as Gov. Doug Ducey said on March 8 that he is prepared to send the Arizona National Guard to the border – even if it means at state expense. “We’re going to use every tool, authority and resource that we have,’’ the governor said. “To be successful on the southern border, we need to work in partnership with the federal government,’’ Ducey continued. “But Arizona’s going to act regardless.’’ The governor said that, as far as he is concerned the border was “largely stable not that long ago.’’ Since then, he said, there have been 180,000 people apprehended and nearly 18,000 children in the care of the federal government. “And the federal government is not very good at being a parent,’’ the governor said. Ducey said the state already is doing what it can. “We’re working with ranchers and border sheriffs and leaders at the county level,’’ he said, saying he is hoping for more from the White House on what will be the next steps from Washington. “But the National Guard will be part of this solution,’’ Ducey said. “And we will have action taken.’’
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Narducci named new CUSD superintendent BY KEVIN REAGAN GSN Staff Writer
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ssistant Superintendent Frank Narducci has been promoted to replace Camille Casteel as the Chandler Unified School District’s next superintendent. The district’s Governing Board voted unanimously on April 7 to appoint Narducci, a 25-year veteran of CUSD, as superintendent for the 2021-2022 school year while the board begins its search for Casteel’s long-term successor. Narducci will be the first new superintendent CUSD has had since Casteel got the job in 1996. “I’m honored to continue to serve our students, families, staff and administration during this transitional time,” Narducci said. Though Narducci doesn’t officially assume his new job until July, the interim superintendent said he’ll be spending the next few weeks solidifying the district’s
Assistant Superintendent Frank Narducci addressed the Chandler Unified Governing Board last week after it named him to succeed retiring Superintendent Camille Casteel. (Special to GSN) plans for how schools will operate during the upcoming school year. “What we’re going to prioritize first is making sure we have comfort and safety when our kids are returning,” he said.
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accommodate a wide cross-section of demands. “We’ve got to have that delicate balance and blend so that all students are successful when they come back in July,” Narducci said. The last year has generated a great amount of anger and resentment from parents who haven’t always liked how CUSD has made decisions during the pandemic. The school board and administrators have routinely been bombarded with emails from upset parents who fretted over how and when CUSD chose to reopen its schools. Some felt schools should have never closed while others hoped they would have stayed closed longer. Narducci said he is not too worried about that lack of consensus. As long as the district stays focused on students, he said, then parents should be able to respect the district’s decisions. “I think if (parents) develop the sense of trust that we’re going to do what’s best for children, we’ll be okay,” he added. Narducci has received several certif-
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the allocation of more than 1,000 teaching positions. Throughout the pandemic, Narducci has regularly appeared before the school board to explain how Chandler’s elementary schools were reacting and adapting to the health crisis. When the district decided to start allowing students to come back to school, Narducci helped devise a plan that staggered out which grade levels would be permitted to return first. During his 25-year tenure with the district, Narducci has seen Chandler change dramatically with an ongoing influx of new students that have allowed CUSD to open several new schools. But the district has had to simultaneously contend with a growing presence of charter schools who have allured many local students who would have traditionally gone to CUSD. Narducci indicated he intends to keep CUSD competitive and will work diligently to maintain the district’s enrollment levels. “I think CUSD should be the choice for
every Chandler resident,” he said, “we’ll work toward that goal.” Outside of education, Narducci has served on the boards of various organizations including First Things First, the YMCA, Downtown Chandler Community Partnership, Chandler Education Foundation and Chandler Center for the Arts Advisory Board. Over the last decade, Narducci’s witnessed nearly a dozen CUSD schools earn “A+” ratings from the state Department of Education and several elementary teachers receive honorable titles such as “Teacher of the Year.” Narducci credited outgoing Superintendent Casteel with setting a direction that has resulted in many of the district’s successes. “It’s an honor to work with Camille Casteel who I feel exemplifies everything that’s right about public education and has done so for 50 years,” Narducci said. Board President Barbara Mozdzen said she’s excited to see Narducci ascend to his new leadership role and believes he will be the right candidate to guide CUSD out of the pandemic.
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maybe even get an agreement, where the second school at a future date would have a buyout amount and we could negotiate that potentially.” The bond would also fund the district’s technology plans over the next five years, Gadd said. He said the plan is split between two parts. Part one focuses on “maintaining the internet structure, buying printers, teacher laptops, projectors, servers, those things that need to be replaced or added to over time,” he said. That will cost an average $1.8 million annually over five years. Part two of the technology plan “is a straight refreshment, replacement of student-use computers, maintaining the one:one ratio,” of students to devices, Gadd said. He said the plan ensures “the students have the technology that you generally would expect them to have,” and would average at $3 million per year. Gadd said another $27 million would go towards the district’s major projects over the next five years, which he said is
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“enrollment-driven.” The major projects budget includes about $20 million for expansion of existing buildings for growth if needed, almost $3 million for the addition of specialty building spaces as needed, $860,000 for building upgrades, renovations and remodeling, and $2.7 million for contingencies, Gadd said. Another $11 million of the proposed bond would go towards major maintenance, Gadd said. He said this allotment “very adequately addresses school appearance and school maintenance, and all of those things the taxpayers would have expected us to have done automatically.” Gadd said $3.5 million would go towards transportation replacements and maintenance. “We have a lot of student use of some of those vans, especially at high school, so it’s important that we keep these vehicles in some sort of shape, and that means we need to have a replacement schedule,” he explained. The bond also provides $2.5 million for
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noise from it was disruptive for her then 2-year-old daughter. “When it came at night to put her down for sleep, the sound of that carnival was coming into her room,” she recalled. “She is a good sleeper, she can sleep through most anything,” Stramiello continued. “She could not sleep with that carnival. My problem is going to be the carnival across the street constantly keeping my kids up at night. “We moved to Gilbert because we were looking for a more peaceful place to live and this is not going to be it.”
Suzanne Ward said they’ve proposed to the developer less noisy offerings such as indoor batting cages but were shooed away. “This is going to affect my quality of life,” she said. Speakers suggested moving the project to another location away from residential and some said they would have no problem if it was an indoors track. People also questioned if the project provided enough parking as the current lot gets filled. Staff said there were 1,000 parking spaces at Crossroads and that
for phase 2 Santan would need to provide 28 parking spaces. Andrew Wrobel said the town has two well-known dog parks and that people take their larger, more aggressive dogs to Cosmo while others like him with smaller or timid dogs go to Crossroads and worried that they will get more scared with the sounds from the go-kart engines. Some commissioners acknowledged residents’ concerns and said if the project were to create an inordinate amount of noise, they can file a complaint with
code enforcement. If there were a number of violations, that would null the lease, Commissioner Noah Mundt said, adding “there is recourse.” Those who voted for the site plan were Bloomfield, Vice Chairman Jan Simon, Mundt and Commissioners William Fay and Brian Andersen. Commissioners Tyler Jones and Anthony Bianchi voted no. Residents said they intend to file an appeal of the vote with the Town Council. They have 11 days from the date of the vote to do so.
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this exception and parents will no longer be able to be paid to provide care for their children,” the release said. Lauryn Van Rooy of Mesa and Brandi Coon of Surprise are both mothers of children with disabilities. They decided this temporary policy should be “extended permanently because of the benefits we’ve personally seen,” Coon said. The two mothers started a Change.org petition to permanently extend this pandemic-era policy. Since the mothers released the petition, it has surpassed 2,700 signatures. “Overall, we’ve had really good support,” Coon said. “I think the struggle comes in with educating those who are unfamiliar with what we as families with children who have disabilities experience on a daily basis.” Coon said one of the most prominent issues facing parents of children with disabilities is the high turnover rate among out-of-family providers. “We have a high turnover of providers very often, where we will be interviewing people that the agency sends, we’ll do some in-home training, and within a few months – if they last that long – then we’re on to the next person,” Coon said. Coon said providers are needed when “the parents can’t physically lift their child or they can’t physically care for them, or single parents who can’t just do that care 24/7 without being run down.” “Our hypothesis is that through this program, there hopefully will be more
providers available to help the cases and be really specific where that need is,” Coon said. Van Rooy said the policy cuts down on consistency issues resulting from the high turnover rate for direct care workers. According to Van Rooy, after an out-of-family provider is trained and certified, “it’s then the family’s responsibility to train the provider on what is needed for that specific case.” “The biggest thing with having parents be able to be providers is that they don’t require that additional training,” Van Rooy said. The consistency made possible through the parent provider policy has resulted in a “huge amount of progress,” for Van Rooy’s son, she said, “because it’s something where he knows an X amount of time a day, whatever time of day we’ve picked, he’s gonna be working on these goals with Mom.” According to Van Rooy, “Many mothers, in particular, have to resign from their careers in order to care for their disabled children. The paid parent provider program has created a unique opportunity for employment and greater financial stability.” Coon said the policy is especially important for single parents looking to provide the best care for their child with disabilities. Coon stressed, and Van Rooy agreed, “we’re not advocating for ‘only parents are the only capable provider of our chil-
dren.’” “Both Lauryn and I need breaks,” Coon said, “and all of the other parents in our situation need breaks and we want those qualified providers to help in the way that we choose.” “But the reality of the situation is a lot of us are fulfilling those hours regardless of if we’re able to bill them or not. And we want to be able to choose at any given point in our child’s life, what their best care in that moment is, whether that is us, or whether that’s a different person,” Coon said. Coon said she completed multiple classes and passed a background check in order to be accepted into the program, and must thoroughly report daily activities to a qualified vendor agency, just like an out-of-family provider would. Once the COVID-19 pandemic’s national emergency status is lifted, “we would be given a 60-day transition period where the agencies would be then required to find providers to fill the hours that parents are currently fulfilling,” Van Rooy said. Coon said ending the policy could put families back into a “financial crisis mode,” as they deal with familiar problems like “inconsistent providers, high turnover, and things of that nature, which makes having outside employment very difficult to maintain long term.” People interested in supporting Coon’s and Van Rooy’s cause can sign their Change.org petition at bit.ly/3rmlkjV.
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wo Valley mothers have started a push to permanently extend a pandemic-era rule that lets Arizona parents become paid direct care workers for their own children with disabilities. The Arizona Department of Economic Security Division of Developmental Disabilities put the temporary policy in place April 8, 2020, a release on their website said. The policy allows parents or guardians of children with disabilities to “temporarily be hired by a qualified vendor agency,” where these families would usually find out-of-family providers, “to be a direct care worker (DCW) for their child,” the release said. The release said parents must complete all the same training and certification necessary to become a regular direct care worker. The same accountability standards apply, and parents are paid accordingly, the release said. At the end of the COVID-19 national emergency, which President Joe Biden extended in February, “DDD will rescind
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Gilbert girl a telethon star for Children’s Hospital BY STACI HAUK GSN Contributor
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Gilbert second grader will be in the spotlight this Wednesday as Phoenix Children’s Hospital holds its ninth annual telethon to benefit patients’ families. Viera Vigness, 8, has been dubbed “Valiant Viera” for the courage she showed in her fight with cancer that she conquered with the help of Phoenix Childrens Hospital staff. The telethon will be hosted virtually by ABC15 6 a.m. to 10:35 p.m. Wednesday, April 14. Donors can call the phone bank at 602-933-4567 the day of the telethon or visit TelethonforPCH.org to donate. The event raised more than $769,000 for Phoenix Children’s patient families in 2019; it was canceled due to the pandemic last year. Corporate sponsors will be providing matching gifts throughout the day. They include Desert Financial Credit Union, Accident Law Group and Scripps Howard Foundation.
Viera Vigness and her valiant fight with cancer at age 7 will be spotlighted in the Phoenix Children’s telethon this Wednesday. (Special to GSN)
Viera, who attends Sonoma Ranch Elementary School, is an avid softball player who loves the outdoors. However, it wasn’t always this way as her parents, Nathan and Brooke Vigness, can attest to about the diagnosis that changed their lives. “Prior to Viera’s diagnosis, we had
noticed some changes occurring that we were concerned with,” Brooke said. Along with a lack of appetite and slowing of growth, Viera showed signs of deteriorating vision. There were blood tests and urine analyses, along with specialist visits, but it wasn’t until she saw an ophthalmologist
at Phoenix Children’s that her parents got some answers. The ophthalmologist noticed that Viera’s optic nerve was being compressed and suggested that an MRI to determine why. That test uncovered “a large tumor in her brain” that a biopsy showed was malignant. Armed with the news that no parent wants to hear, the Vigness family relied on the advice of Viera’s pediatrician, who is part of the PCH network. The suggestion was to go to PCH, where they were told that the survival rate was high. With cautious optimism, the Vignesses had treatment begin, assured by the staff at PCH that this avenue would be hard on the cancer but easy on Viera. “It was all pretty scary but the people there were always so nice and always came in at the scariest times,” Viera said. “My favorite things there were Ms. Grace with musical therapy and the pet therapy.
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Kids with disabilities learn dance from Ballet Arizona BY PAULA SORIA GSN Contributor
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hildren and teens with Down syndrome are learning the discipline of ballet through a unique program sponsored by Arizona Ballet. Since 2014, Arizona Ballet’s Adaptive Dance for Down Syndrome Program has been headed by instructor Kay Price. In collaboration with a physical therapist, Price first created an outline on how the classes were going to be adapted and carried out and within months had the program up and running. “These children don’t come with any agendas. They are so full of joy and they are so honest, they are so pure,” said Price.
“To watch the enthusiasm and then to watch the growth when they Gilbert teen achieve something new is what I Samantha enjoy the most.” Derivan has The program consists of three been with Arizona Ballet’s sessions over the year and three Adaptive levels: foundation one, foundation Dance program two and adaptive classical. Each almost since its level offers different dynamics that inception. will change as the student pro(Special to GSN) gresses. Foundation one consists of a pre-ballet instruction where a bit music. This level also includes learning a of traditional ballet in the bars is taught. little bit about human anatomy and how it Creative movement is also an important connects with the discipline of ballet. element of this level. Parents as well as Ballet Arizona School To reinforce it, games are played during students help with this phase of the proclass accompanying them with Disney gram.
For foundation two, parental assistance is not required but one student assistant is assigned for every three Down syndrome participants, who are introduced to more advanced steps, positions and poses. Once the students acquire a sense of self-control, maturity and can focus without an assistant next to them, they can progress into the adaptive classical level, which launched in 2018. This level is structured the same way as traditional ballet classes held at the studio. The adaptive classical level currently has five students who have participated in two of the company’s productions. Samantha Derivan, 17, of Gilbert, has
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been one of the outstanding students who joined the program when it first launched. Her growth and development as a dancer have now brought her to be part of the adaptive classical level. In the past, Samantha had the opportunity of auditioning for the Nutcracker where she ended up getting a main character role and doing five performances of the production. Despite a vision impediment, Samantha was able to perform on stage by learning where the girl in front and behind her was. She was also capable of dancing wearing a huge angel gown and wings the following year. “She would not have been able to do it if Ms. Kay and the staff behind the scenes hadn’t been so sweet with her,” said Therese Derivan, Samantha’s mother. “They took extra time talking to her about putting her costume on because this is not normal clothes, they have a different feeling on your body and they are heavy, just strange for somebody with a dis-
ability,” Therese said. Since day one at the studio, Samantha fell in love with ballet and continues to look forward to her lessons. Her mother said that she knows ballet makes her daughter happy because every Saturday morning, Samantha gets ready by herself with excitement. She gets dressed in her uniform, puts her hair up in a bun, grabs her Gatorade bottle, practices the routine or steps that Price taught her the Arizona Ballet’s Adaptive Dance for Down syndrome Program gradually takes students through three levels of instruction. (Special class prior – and waits for her remote to GSN) class to start.
I also liked being able to go to the play room. There were so many nice people there who helped me feel better.” During chemotherapy, Viera had multiple visitors each day from volunteers and there were others who would come by to help put a smile on her face. She hosted many dance parties and concerts in her room and there was always an audience of doctors, nurses and other staff members there to support Valiant Viera. “We are so grateful for the great staff at PCH that would bring joy to her day and in return, ours during such a hard time in our lives,” her mother said. Currently, Viera continues to get MRIs every three months to make sure that she stays cancer-free. As of the last MRI there was no tumor noticeable. While she will have chronic issues because of her cancer – which destroyed her pituitary gland and permanently damaged her vision – she and her family are grateful to PCH. “They took time to talk with us and explain everything that was going on,” her mother said, adding that doctors were “great at explaining things in a way that we can understand.”
Viera said she’s feeling better. “When I was in the hospital I was really, really tired and a lot of times my stomach didn’t feel good. I’m so happy that I don’t have a port anymore and I don’t miss having to get it accessed,” she said. The Vigness family is involved in the Telethon to support others who may have to go through the same process and fear. They noted that while Viera was undergoing treatment, kind, simple gestures like a stuffed animal from a volunteer were the true blessings. “If you have the means and choose to donate to PCH, know that you may be putting a smile on a child’s face too,” Brooke said. “Viera’s journey is one of true bravery and inspiration,” said Steve Schnall, senior vice president and chief development officer of Phoenix Children’s Hospital Foundation. “It’s stories like hers that remind us how important it is to give. Fundraisers such as the upcoming Telethon with our partners at ABC15 are crucial to helping our families and patients that need it most.” Follow Viera’s journey at Viera’s Instagram: @ValiantViera
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“I am grateful that Ballet Arizona saw this need, saw the value in these kids and are including them in the ballet world,” said Therese. The Adaptive Dance for Down Syndrome is part of Arizona Ballet’s community engagement programming. The studio not only offers adaptive instruction to the Down syndrome community but to students with other disabilities, such as autism, and other physical challenges like Parkinson’s. Ballet Arizona continues to look forward to building inclusivity inside their company just as they have done until today and offer more programs for students with different needs. “As far as what the program looks moving forward, we’re always trying to expand what we can do and expand the people that we serve,” said Alexandra Papazian, manager of community engagement at Ballet Arizona. “We really want them to feel that they are part of Ballet Arizona and not just a separate program.”
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essage to people who have missed being able to walk around outside amid a crowd, drink beer and listen to some music: Mother Nature’s Farm in Gilbert’s got you covered. The farm, 1663 E. Baseline Road, is hosting the Good Vibes Jamboree from 2-10 p.m. Saturday, April 17. Taking advantage of Gov. Doug Ducey’s recent lifting of restrictions on gatherings, Mother Nature’s Farm also is making masks optional. “We are excited to launch this event and celebrate Arizonians’ love of outdoor events,” said Event Manager Mandy Martin. “We encourage families to come together, experience some fantastic live music, eat from our delicious lineup of food trucks, feed the farm animals and enjoy a game of cornhole
or horseshoes.” Live music performances will kick off at 2:30 p.m. with the country band Chad Freeman and the Redline, which was formed in 2009 and has drawn raves for its performances at venues ranging from weddings to concerts here and around the world. Another rocking country favorite, The Matt Farris Country band, will follow. Activities will include animal feeding, Jenga, horseshoes, cornhole, Connect 4, Checkers, a maze and a dirt slide. The family-owned farm is a popular destination for school field trips, pumpkin patch lovers in the fall and kids’ parties. Tickets are available for $15 presale and will be $20 at the gate. Children under a year are free and tickets for children ages 1-12 are $5. To purchase tickets: goodvibesjamboree.com.
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ream Vacations in Gilbert has navigated last year’s challenges and helped travelers do the
same. Gilbert resident Karen Coleman-Ostrov, who has owned the travel agency’s franchise here since September 2011, said the past year has been “quite a challenge.” “Our business has been severely impacted by COVID-19,” she said. The United States travel economy lost a cumulative $492 billion from March 2020 to the end of the year, the US Travel Association said. That’s an “unprecedented 42 percent annual decline” in travel spending compared to 2019, USTA said. Coleman-Ostrov said she’s thankful
Gilbert travel agent Karen Coleman-Ostrov felt the pandemic’s economic impact but learned how to help clients navigate its social impact. (Pablo Robles/GSN Staff Photographer)
“for all the programs out there that have kind of helped us to survive this, but there’s a lot of travel agencies that have not made it and it’s just really sad.” Dream Vacations Gilbert has spent the past year following travel bans and restrictions put in place at almost every tourist destination to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, Coleman-Ostrov said. “It’s part of my job as a Dream Vacations travel advisor to keep up on the different rules, the regulations and what people need to do to be able to travel,” she added. Chon Pugh, a pastor in Houston, Texas, who said she has traveled through Dream Vacations Gilbert since she lived in Mesa years ago. She said she had to deal with pandemic restrictions in real-
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ildflower Beauty Bar owner Kendra Harris says “failure has never been an option for me” and that includes global pandemics that bring down businesses. While the pandemic throttled many small businesses last year, Harris said she confronted its impact head-on to make sure her two locations in Gilbert and Queen Creek survived along with her employees. Harris was only 17 when she started the aesthetics beauty bar – which offers skincare services such as facials, waxing and retail products She has a staff of 16 between her two locations, and is planning to add more in the future when she opens a third salon. When the pandemic forced a temporary halt to in-person appointments last
year, she said she needed to get creative to support not only herself but the other people on her team. “At that point, there was no room for me to fail, especially when you have so many people depending on you,” she recalled. Harris got creative and turned to social media. She creates personalized skincare kits and sells online retail to her evergrowing internet following to keep the business running. “We had to get super creative and use what tools were available to us,” Harris said, “so I would start selling facial kits and other product packages on our Instagram and other social media platforms and that was our main source of income for the five weeks we could not have any in person clients.” What was originally meant as a means
to keep Wildflower’s doors open quickly turned into a sales bonanza. Harris saw her profits soar 279 percent year over year. Employee Natasha Taylor said Harris “helped us navigate ways we could care for ourselves during the state-wide shut down and she created unique and safe ways to keep revenue rolling through our doors.” Taylor said that fostered a sense of community among Wildflower staffers. “Despite all of the drastic changes that the pandemic brought,” Taylor said, “I really feel that as a team, it united us more than ever and Kendra was the glue that held us all together.” A supportive atmosphere doesn’t generate profits by itself, but as team member Ariel Ortega said, it definitely made coming to work in a pandemic a lot easier.
“She has made things feel very comfortable for everyone in the studio as far as having cleaning services come in frequently, implementing social distancing immediately, providing top of the line cleaning products,” Ortega said. “And most importantly checking in with our mental health,” she added. “I feel very grateful to have felt more at ease throughout this all thanks to her.” Business is so good that Harris and her team are currently gearing up for the opening of their new location in Chandler near Arizona Avenue and Ocotillo Road this summer. “It honestly amazes me that I was not only to survive a pandemic but also be able to sign on a new location and expand Wildflower,” Harris said. “I could not have done this without the help of my team and the clients that rallied around us.”
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orthrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a contract by the Missile Defense Agency for the Next Generation Inceptor (NGI) Program and some of the project work will be done in Chandler. The contract calls for the rapid development and flight test of an interceptor designed to defend the nation against the most complex long-ranged threats. Specifically, it is charged with developing a new guided missile system that can protect the U.S. before the end of the decade from advanced North Korean intercontinental ballistic missiles. Northrop Grumman in a release said it has teamed with Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a business of Raytheon Technologies, “to bring together the vast experience of the two companies.” MDA also issued a related contract for the NGI program to Lockheed Martin and Army Technology mag-
Northrup Grumman’s relatively new Chandler site is playing a role in the corporation’s missle contract. (Special to GSN)
azine reported last month the combined value of the contracts was more than $3 billion, though initial program funding through June of 2022 totaled a little more than half that. In awarding the contracts to the two defense technology giants, MDA turned
its back on Boeing, which was in competition for the lucrative job. Northrup Grumman noted that it and Raytheon have extensive experience in missile defense, along with the latest in Agile processes, artificial intelligence and model-based systems engineering
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“to offer an affordable, low-risk solution.” The NGI program is an element of the MDA’s ground-based Midcourse Defense System – the primary U.S. missile defense system used to defend the country from long-range ballistic missile attacks. Northrop Grumman and Raytheon currently provide interceptor booster, kill vehicle, ground systems, fire control and engagement coordination for that GMD system. Although the program team will be stationed in Northrup Grumman’s Huntsville, Alabama, campus, the corporation said in a release that some of the major work will be done on its 633,000-square-foot build-to-suit campus along the Price Corridor. Northrop Grumman two years ago moved into the 47-acre campus, one of Chandler’s largest commercial projects. Northrop Grumman is one of
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time during a trip to Paris at the start of the pandemic. Pugh said she booked the vacation through Coleman-Ostrov and that as pandemic conditions quickly worsened, “it was like every place we go they were closing it after us.” When Pugh was notified her flight home through Philadelphia was cancelled just a day before departure, she said she went to bed thinking “Karen’s got to take care of this.” Sure enough, “I woke up early in the morning and got to the airport right as Karen was sending me a thing saying ‘you’re going through JFK,’” Pugh recalled. Pugh said even before this scare, she thought “I want to make sure I have a travel agent because things happen, like pandemics.” Coleman-Ostrov said some destinations, like some Caribbean islands, Mexico, and Hawaii, are still accepting tourists, so “I’ve been doing a lot of vacations for people in those areas who want to get away.”
Still, there are “rules that you have to follow to be able to travel to those destinations,” Coleman-Ostrov said, including a “negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of arriving,” in Hawaii’s case. One Dream Vacations customer who recently went to Hawaii is Karen Camblin, a residential mortgage loan officer from Ahwatukee. Camblin said she took the trip in February for her 25th wedding anniversary and her experience with Dream Vacations was “top notch, from beginning to end.” Camblin said even though she gave short notice for the trip, Coleman-Ostrov “gave us three or four options, what was included in those options, and then all the COVID restrictive guidelines.” Camblin said Coleman-Ostrov sent her a link to an official website for the State of Hawaii, where she logged her trip and was referred to a preferred COVID-19 testing site. “You knew everything you had to have, and we got to the airport and had
zero issues,” Camblin said. “If we would not have had that guidance, we would have been listening to rumors and friends and other people who think they know, and it would have been disastrous. It would have ruined our vacation,” Camblin said. Coleman-Ostrov said that to understand pandemic restrictions, she went through the process to become a Travel Safety Verified travel advisor through World Travel Holdings, Dream Vacations’ parent company. To become Travel Safety Verified, Coleman-Ostrov said she had to take an extensive course that covered safety protocols of resorts, airlines, and other entities one might encounter when traveling. Coleman-Ostrov said she was also trained on “the different types of COVID-19 tests that are out there, and why some destinations require one kind of test and others another kind of test,” as well as “whether insurance will cover things or not, or what they need to do to make sure they stay safe.”
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According to Coleman-Ostrov, this training allows people to “have a good, fun vacation, and enjoy themselves without any hassles by knowing, this is exactly what you need to do.” She added that the training has been important to help people who “want to travel but want to make sure that they’re going to be safe.” Travel booking has picked up considerably in the past month, Coleman-Ostrov said. She said she suspects “if people are getting vaccinated, I think it’s creating a little bit of confidence in people where they’re more comfortable with traveling now.” “My phone hasn’t stopped ringing in the last month, which is really good because it has been really quiet,” Coleman-Ostrov said. Coleman-Ostrov said she expects travel to return to pre-pandemic operations by next year, but said it may look a bit different as the world eases out of the pandemic.
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“At least in the short term, maybe for the next year or two, or maybe three, I think a lot of places, a lot of destinations will require people to be vaccinated to be able to travel.” According to Coleman-Ostrov, some cruises have started to sail outside the United States, “and they are requiring
passengers 18 and older to be vaccinated.” With the challenges the past year brought as an exception, Coleman-Ostrov said her business has “been really, really good,” since she opened about 10 years ago. Coleman-Ostrov said she has two
employees, one part time and one full time, and some independent contractors. Her employees “treat the business like their own,” and “we all have the same outcome that we want for our clients that they have a fantastic vacation with no hassles,” she said. Coleman-Ostrov said the business lets
her “fulfill my love of helping people with my love of travel.” “I love what I do,” she added. “I’m passionate about what I do, so I’m really happy.” Information: 480-646-4969; kcolemanostrov@dreamvacations. com
Chandler’s top 10 largest employers with approximately 2,500 employees. The award-winning campus is equipped with state-of the-art technology, a city spokeswoman said. “Our campus enables the agile design and manufacturing processes we are using for NGI,” said Rich Straka, vice president Northrop Grumman launch vehicles. “We also focused on employee engagement and collaboration with the design, including common areas, a restaurant-style café, gym and other unique features that help us find and retain our world-class workforce.”
He also said “supporting the Missile Defense Agency in protecting our homeland is something we’ve been doing in Arizona for nearly 20 years on the Ground Based Interceptor program.” “We are proud to continue serving our nation as we build the Next Generation Interceptor, bringing many new jobs, as well as career growth opportunities for our current employees and ensuring Arizona remains a vital contributor to our nation’s defense.” Scott Lehr, vice president and general manager of launch and missile defense for Northrop Grumman said, “There is
a critical timeline for fielding this capability and our team brings together the industry’s top missile defense talent, agile design and manufacturing practices, and state-of-the-art operational factories to support the MDA and our nation’s defense against these evolving threats.” Added Bryan Rosselli, vice president of Strategic Missile Defense at Raytheon Missiles & Defense: “We are bringing together next-generation technologies—digital engineering and game-changing discrimination—for an extremely advanced capability.” “This team is building on unmatched
experience, accounting for all 47 prior U.S. exo-atmospheric intercepts. With that knowledge, we are also embracing innovative ways to accelerate operational deployment while reducing risk.” The contract, including flight test options, has a period of performance through 2029. Northrop Grumman employs more than 97,000 employees worldwide. Chandler Mayor Kevin Hartke said the city looks forward “to continuing our relationship with Northrop Grumman as their highly skilled workforce here in Chandler continues to defend the United States of America.”
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Mesquite beach volleyball ready to defend title 2 years later BY ZACH ALVIRA GSN Sports Editor
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esquite High School’s beach volleyball program, fresh off its first state title in program history in 2019, was eager to defend its trophy last spring in pursuit of back-to-back championships. Then, COVID hit. The virus forced the cancellation of the 2020 spring season. The cancellation forced Mesquite, among other teams, to conduct virtual workouts in an effort to keep the spirits high in hopes of competing the next year. Overall, it was not how the Wildcats pictured a year that was supposed to be their quest at holding up another championship trophy. “Our seniors suffered so much last year,” Flys said. “Mesquite beach is my paradise, it’s my little bit of sunshine. We didn’t have any sunshine last year. I brought them out here for their last practice and told them to just play and have fun. “In the back of my mind I knew it would be the last time they played together.” With the virus already forcing the closure of schools last year, Flys knew it was only a matter of time before sports were shut down, too. That day first came March 16 when the AIA suspended spring sports but hesitated to announce a full cancellation. But on March 30, the cancellation became official. The news was not taken lightly by anyone in the program and was especially hard for seniors like Daniyah Jehangir, who is now an assistant coach with the program. Jehangir was one-half of Mesquite’s No. 2 pair in 2019. Against Fountain Hills in the Division II state championship, it was Jehangir’s pairing that clinched the title for the Wildcats. It was a special moment that she still cherishes to this day. Especially after losing her senior season. “It felt never-ending, it felt amazing,” Jehangir said. “Having my team score that
Mesquite has started the season strong, winning five games by shutout and appears to be on the path to yet again compete for the Division II state championship in May. (Courtesy Mesquite
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gram. And while winning a title as a player will always hold the most value, she hopes to have the same success as a coach this season. “I want to make a difference,” Jehangir said. “I tell the girls all the time Mesquite beach volleyball head coach Carlos Flys said his team has not to take this entered the 2021 season with confidence despite losing out on the for granted and to opportunity to defend their 2019 state title last season due to COVID. cherish these mo(Pablo Robles/GSN Staff) ments. It’s super point, it was the best feeling ever. When the important to me that they’re even in the season was canceled, I was super disap- sand. As a coach, I would love to see them win the second title. I’m so proud of how pointed. It was just a sad feeling overall.” Her love for the Mesquite program is what they’ve grown.” There are some key differences that set this drew her to become an assistant coach this year’s team apart from the 2019 squad. Along season. While she helps out at the varsity with the overall height difference as this year’s level, she is the head coach of the junior varsity, which has started 5-0 so far this season. team has more size, there’s also an extra level Mesquite’s varsity team currently stands of motivation after seeing how easy it was last at 6-1, with its only loss coming against Sal- year for a season to be taken away. But according to senior captain Annika pointe Catholic in a 3-2 match in which the Wildcats were forced to forfeit a game due Wallace, who has been part of the program since she was a freshman, the main differto injury. Jehangir cherishes the opportunity to ence this season is the program’s confidence help lead a group of girls she became close in knowing they can make yet another run with during her time playing for the pro- and hunger to do it again.
“One of the biggest things with the 2019 team was the devotion,” Wallace said. “I think we are getting back to that point. We’re confident, we know we can get back to that point.” Wallace was key for the Wildcats during the COVID shutdown. She helped orchestrate virtual workouts for her team and while unable to do so in person, began teaching the younger girls entering the program what the standard was for Mesquite beach volleyball. To her, setting up the virtual sessions wasn’t something she was required to do as a captain. It was something she genuinely thought would help ease the stress and frustration that came with the canceled season. “For me, I was having a rough time and I just wanted to make sure my teammates were doing OK,” Wallace said. “The biggest thing I’ve always been taught is to lead by example and I thought if I were to do it then they would follow my lead. That way we would all get through it together even if we couldn’t be in person.” So far this season, Mesquite is following a similar path it did to the championship in 2019. The Wildcats opened with a tough opponent before going on to play competition they’re expected to beat. That has led to a five-match win streak, all in the form of shutouts. Later in the season, however, Mesquite will face the likes of Arcadia, a contender this year in Division I, and Valley Christian, which is currently undefeated. Flys refers to those games as tune ups before the postseason tournament begins. He knows if his team wants to have a chance at winning the title again, it will take continuous growth every match and get through teams of that caliber for added momentum in the playoffs. “This is a team with a lot of confidence,” Flys said. “They know we should be in the mix for state. Pressure is a privilege. They’ve earned it. I think they see it that way and they seem to like it.”
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Our dear mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, Anne Skinner Freiss, 103, peacefully passed away on her birthday, Friday, March 26, 2021, at her home in South Jordan, Utah, surrounded by her loving children. She was born in 1918 in Spanish Fork, Utah, the only daughter of Joseph Frederick and Clara Ann Moore Skinner. She attended school in Spanish Fork where her special interests were in music and business. Her senior year she was the editor of the annual yearbook and upon graduation she was presented an efficiency medal, a great surprise and high honor. Following high school graduation, she worked and attended college in Logan, Utah. There she met her future husband, Howard Gordon Freiss. They married in June 1939 at her parent’s home in Spanish Fork and were sealed in the Logan Temple in 1944. They purchased a business in Tremonton, Utah where they lived. The family moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho, then Phoenix and Mesa, Arizona which was home until 2010. Anne and Howard were married for 34 years before his passing in 1973. In 2010 she moved to South Jordan, Utah. She worked for the Hatch Clinic in Idaho Falls, and later the Casa Blanca Medical Group in Mesa, Arizona. She retired at age 83, but still transcribed for some of the doctors. Anne was a lifelong and faithful member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Her first calling was when she was 10 years old, organist in the Primary. She was a ward organist or pianist in one or more organizations of the church since then. She served in ward and stake callings in the Primary, Mutual Improvement Association, and Relief Society. She also served in the Mesa and Oquirrh Mountain Temples. She strived to live the commandments and magnify her callings and to teach
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Betty Marie (Youderian) Rothweiler (91), passed peacefully March 27, 2021. She was born in Winnett MT to Bernie & Maude Youderian. She is survived by her 7 children - Gary (Pam) Mitchell, Connie (Anne) Murray, Steven Mitchell, Barbara Quilling, Larry (Bonnie) Mitchell, JoLynn Haggard, Bill (Cheryl) Olson, 18 grandchildren and many great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband Hugh Rothweiler, her parents, two brothers & a sister. Memorial to be held later this summer.
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Public Notices NOTICE TO ESTABLISH A BRANCH Notice is hereby given that Banterra Bank, 3201 Banterra Drive, Marion, Illinois 62959, filed an application with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on April 5, 2021 for permission to establish a branch facility, operating as Banterra Bank, at 1600 W Broadway, Suite 145, Tempe, AZ 85282. Any person wishing to comment on this application may file his or her comments in writing with the Regional Director (DOS) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation at its Regional Office (300 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 1700, Chicago, Illinois 60606) not later than 15 days after the date of this publication. The period may be extended by the Regional Director for good cause. The non-confidential portions of the application are on file in the Regional Office and are available for public inspection during regular business hours. Photocopies of the non-confidential portion of the application file will be made available upon request. Published: East Valley Tribune, April 11, 2021 / 37583
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NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE WESTGATE GV AT PAINTED MOUNTAIN 12044.0025-0028;0030-0035 The following legally described trust property will be sold pursuant to the power of sale at public auction to the highest bidder in the Lobby of Suite 700, 8585 E Hartford Dr, Scottsdale, Maricopa County, AZ 85255, at 1:00 p.m. on THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2021 - NOTICE! IF YOU BELIEVE THERE IS A DEFENSE TO THE TRUSTEE SALE OR IF YOU HAVE AN OBJECTION TO THE TRUSTEE SALE YOU MUST FILE AN ACTION AND OBTAIN A COURT ORDER PURSUANT TO RULE 65, ARIZONA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, STOPPING THE SALE NO LATER THAN 5:00 PM MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME OF THE LAST BUSINESS DAY BEFORE THE SCHEDULED DATE OF THE SALE, OR YOU MAY HAVE WAIVED ANY DEFENSE OR OBJECTION TO THE SALE. UNLESS YOU OBTAIN A COURT ORDER, THE SALE WILL BE FINAL AND WILL OCCUR. - under that certain Deed of Trust, in which a breach has occurred for failure to pay monthly installments due under said Deed of Trust. Said Deed of Trust was recorded on (See Exhibit “A”), in Instrument No. (See Exhibit “A”) in the Office of the County Recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona: Interval No. (See Exhibit “A”), Painted Mountain Golf Villas, a (See Exhibit “A”) Interval Interest, nd consisting of: th (i) an undivided [52 for Annual/104 for Biennial] fee interest in Unit No. (See Exhibit “A”), PAINTED MOUNTAIN GOLF VILLAS CONDOMINIUM, according to the Declaration of Condominium recorded in instrument no. 97-9704664, and plat recorded in Book 451 of Maps, Page 11, records of Maricopa County, Arizona, by which an Owner is entitled to occupy a Unit for one (1) Interval on an annual or biennial (whichever is indicated above) and recurring basis, the exact Interval to be established every year (or, for biennial, every other year) by reservation, all as defined and governed by the Declaration of Dedication, Interval Ownership Plan, and Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Easements for Painted Mountain Golf Villas, dated September 18, 1997, and recorded October 8, 1997, in instrument no. 97-0704665, records of Maricopa County, Arizona, as amended by First Amendment to Declaration of Dedication, Interval Ownership Plan, and Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Easements for Painted Mountain Golf Villas, recorded January 15, 1998 in instrument no. 980031469, records of Maricopa County, Arizona (collectively, the “Declaration”);
and (ii) the non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Area, and to use and enjoy the Common Furnishings contained in such Unit, during such Owner’s Use Period, as provided in the Declaration. For convenience in inventory control, conveyancing, and titling, an Interval Interest is granted in a specific Unit; however, this interest does NOT carry with it the right to use that specific Unit. Tax parcel number: 20-1008093 Purported property address: 6302 East McKellips Road Mesa, Arizona 85215 Original trustor(s): (See Exhibit “A”) Original principal balance: (See Exhibit “A”) Balance as shown on the Notice of Delinquency: (See Exhibit “A”) Substitute Trustee: SHARON A. URIAS 8585 E Hartford Dr, Ste 700, Scottsdale, AZ 85255 (480) 306-5458 Beneficiary: WESTGATE GV AT PAINTED MOUNTAIN, LLC 6302 East McKellips Road Mesa, AZ 85215 This is a non-judicial foreclosure proceeding to permit WESTGATE GV AT PAINTED MOUNTAIN LLC to pursue its in rem remedies under Arizona law. Dated th this 10 day of February, 2021. Sharon A. Urias, Substitute Trustee MANNER OF TRUSTEE QUALIFICATION: Member, State Bar of Arizona NAME OF TRUSTEE’S REGULATOR: State Bar of Arizona EXHIBIT “A” - NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE 12044.0025 (THOMAS) ACCOUNT NO./GRANTOR(S), UNIDIVIDED INTEREST, BLDG/ UNIT NO., INTERVAL NO./ASSIGNED YEAR, RECORDING DATE OF DOT, ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL BALANCE, BOOK/INST. NO. FOR DEED OF TRUST, BALANCE AS SHOWN ON NOTICE OF DELINQUENCY; Jonathan P Thomas, Deidre M Floyd 6185 Shetland St Sumter, SC 29154, 1/104 Biennial, 9-237M, 24 EVEN, 11/02/2016, $5,813.91, 2016-0807315, $3,480.62; Ray Sinanan, Riza Sinanan 372 Rossland Road West Oshawa, ON L1J3G5 CANADA, 1/104 Biennial, 8-134M, 30 EVEN, 06/30/2016, $6,426.00, 2016-0457920, $3,656.52; Carol D Outlaw 2006 Liberty Ave Hopewell, VA 23860, 1/104 Biennial, 10-139, 23 EVEN, 11/15/2016, $4,625.80, 2016-840373, $2,216.40; Rose C Abadilla 1014 Mao Ln Honolulu, HI 96817, 1/104 Biennial, 6-122M, 33 EVEN, 12/22/2015, $6,414.99, 2015-0900245, $6,859.64; Roy S Robinson, Rebecca J Robinson 115 West Northside Dr Lake Wales, FL 33853, 1/104 Biennial, 8-134P, 34 ODD, 05/01/2017, $4,803.61, 2017-0313877, $2,305.76; Danisha Robinson, Kenneth Robinson 2729 Caribou Court Morrow, GA 30260, 1/104 Biennial, 8-132M, 35 ODD, 03/22/2016, $5,400.00, 2016-
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Public Notices 0182292, $3,812.21; Montina S Newkirk P.O. Box 56 Willard, NC 28478, 1/104 Biennial, 6-123P, 44 ODD, 08/25/2016, $5,214.96, 2016-0611056, $2,291.10; April L Smith, Rodrick J Smith 2581 Ringgold Rd Somerset, KY 42503, 1/104 Biennial, 6-124M, 45 EVEN, 03/22/2016, $5,813.91, 2016-0182296, $4,616.86; Regina A Metcalf, Leon Sims 147 South Gosnell Blytheville, AR 72315, 1/104 Biennial, 9-135, 8 ODD, 02/22/2017, $8,139.47, 2017-0127279, $3.689.69; Hairo Perez 9625 Mount Pisgah Rd Silver Spring, MD 20903, 1/104 Biennial, 6-123M, 30 ODD, 01/26/2017, $6,426.00, 2017-0059993, $3,134.16; Valerie D Wilson 7635 Brentwood Rd Philadelphia, PA 19151, 1/104 Biennial, 8-132M, 33 EVEN, 01/05/2017, $3,559.56, 20170007478, $1,619.82; Charlie W Sellers, Lois E Sellers 108 Lake Dr Trinity, NC 27370, 1/104 Biennial, 7-130, 21 EVEN, 10/08/2015, $7,427.25, 2015-0724419, $5,719.74; Steve D Broadnax, April M Broadnax 515 Piney Fork Church Rd Eden, NC 27288, 1/104 Biennial, 6-121, 28 ODD, 03/22/2016, $8,081.33, 20160182232, $4,475.00; Gordon L Thompson Jr, Paula F Thompson 161 Anglin Valley Ln Stoneville, NC 27048, 1/104 Biennial, 6-224M, 33 ODD, 11/15/2016, $5,813.91, 2016-0840390, $3,394.00; Carolyn Jones, Christopher L Ford 219 East Hughes Circle Florence, SC 29506, 1/104 Biennial, 9-138P, 31 ODD, 08/25/2016, $4,500.00, 2016-0610686, $3,211.17; EXHIBIT “A” - NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE 12044.0026 (MUHAMMED) ACCOUNT NO./GRANTOR(S), UNIDIVIDED INTEREST, BLDG/ UNIT NO., INTERVAL NO./ASSIGNED YEAR, RECORDING DATE OF DOT, ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL BALANCE, BOOK/INST. NO. FOR DEED OF TRUST, BALANCE AS SHOWN ON NOTICE OF DELINQUENCY; Sayyid Muhammed, Fatou Jallow Muhammed 1617 Horner Rd Woodbridge, VA 22191, 1/104 Biennial, 8-233M, 20 ODD, 10/20/2015, $6,103.41, 2015-0752433, $4,600.50; Raymundo Sanchez, Joyce A Sanchez PO Box 822 Harrisonburg, VA 22803, 1/104 Biennial, 8-132M, 2 EVEN, 06/29/2016, $5,813.91, 2016-0454924, $3,777.12; Carlos D Mc Arthur, April K Mc Arthur 141 NE 15th Street Oklahoma City, OK 73104, 1/104 Biennial, 7-228, 16 EVEN, 10/08/2015, $6,760.14, 2015-0724351, $3,120.88; Charles O Mc Daniel III, Quiana D Mc Daniel 728 Meandering Drive Cedar Hill, TX 75104, 1/104 Biennial, 9-138P, 39 EVEN, 10/08/2015, $4,410.64, 20150724270, $3,348.76; Sophia A Green Cmr 427 Box 3610 Apo, AE 09630, 1/104
Biennial, 10-139, 30 EVEN, 05/20/2010, $11,618.28, 2010-0427680, $19,359.81; Steven B Mitchell, Teffany Mitchell 1173 Thompson Hill Rd Awendaw, SC 29429, 1/104 Biennial, 9-138M, 6 EVEN, 03/22/2016, $7,120.65, 2016-0182293, $5,413.80; Geffrey M Mendoza, Arceli G Mendoza 12014 Harness Ct Jacksonville, FL 32246, 1/104 Biennial, 9-138M, 46 ODD, 10/08/2015, $5,289.11, 20150724409, $1,780.64; Latrena S Ratliff 16163 Princeton Detroit, MI 48221, 1/104 Biennial, 6-121, 21 EVEN, 12/22/2015, $6,024.29, 2015-0900260, $4,222.00; Jemmayen T Macaraeg, Clifford S Cruz 8006 Matilija Ave Panorama City, CA 91402, 1/104 Biennial, 6-125, 39 EVEN, 07/23/2015, $4,840.95, 2015-0528981, $4,294.46; Thomas M Woods, Tiffany R Woods 910863 S Donna Jean Ln Wellston, OK 74881, 1/104 Biennial, 7-130, 41 EVEN, 10/08/2015, $7,346.70, 20150724350, $4,097.30; Rubin A Lloyd, Raina I Lloyd 7700 West Airport Blvd., Apt 508 Houston, TX 77071, 1/104 Biennial, 9-138P, 33 EVEN, 10/13/2015, $4,464.43, 2015-0733645, $3,188.10; Ronald Laleau, Jhoane E Laleau 107 Coffee St Palm Bay, FL 32909, 1/104 Biennial, 8-234, 38 ODD, 10/08/2015, $5,000.00, 20150724407, $1,753.95; Cleo D Shelton 2 B Nascar Lane Magnolia, DE 19962, 1/104 Biennial, 6-126, 28 EVEN, 03/22/2016, $7,725.87, 2016-0182238, $5,123.28; Wovoka V Jack, Nynesha L Jack 15011 Lance Circle Houston, TX 77053, 1/104 Biennial, 6-222P, 43 ODD, 10/20/2015, $4,860.00, 2015-0752421, $2,252.36; Van A Ellis 3690 S Tower Ave Chandler, AZ 85286, 1/104 Biennial, 6-125, 42 EVEN, 01/21/2015, $7,422.79, 2015-0039310, $5,529.50; EXHIBIT “A” - NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE 12044.0027 (JONES) ACCOUNT NO./GRANTOR(S), UNIDIVIDED INTEREST, BLDG/ UNIT NO., INTERVAL NO./ASSIGNED YEAR, RECORDING DATE OF DOT, ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL BALANCE, BOOK/INST. NO. FOR DEED OF TRUST, BALANCE AS SHOWN ON NOTICE OF DELINQUENCY; Chamika V Jones 413 37th Pl SE Apt 202 Washington, DC 20019, 1/104 Biennial, 8-232, 20 ODD, 02/23/2017, $4,625.80, 2017-129526, $2,408.56; Victoria Hamrick, John S Walls 1001 South Leadville Apt 302 Boise, ID 83706, 1/104 Biennial, 9-138M, 6 ODD, 06/30/2016, $5,400.00, 2016-0457913, $2,934.48; Loretta K Warfield 6605 Alter St Baltimore, MD 21207, 1/104 Biennial, 9-135, 32 EVEN, 12/04/2015, $6,223.62, 2015-0859971, $3,455.92; Joseph R Peace, Cheryl S Peace 3126 Henry Wilson
Road Oxford, NC 27565, 1/104 Biennial, 9-138P, 22 ODD, 11/15/2016, $4,500.00, 2016-0840376, $2,542.50; Quantas S Calbert, Victoria Y Calbert 739 Boxwood Dr Pensacola, FL 32503, 1/104 Biennial, 9-238, 30 EVEN, 10/15/2015, $7,089.65, 2015-0740586, $3,446.50; Kenneth E Alfaro, Fatima R Alfaro 40027 N Hidden Bunker Court Antoch, IL 60002, 1/104 Biennial, 8-233M, 34 EVEN, 12/19/2016, $5,400.00, 2016-0932181, $2,686.11; Kandace L Collins, Ronald S Lamar 209 Scammel St Marietta, OH 45750, 1/104 Biennial, 9-138M, 34 EVEN, 06/30/2016, $5,813.91, 2016-0457898, $2,269.33; Cotina S Hemphill, Lydell E Hill 2344 Ridgerock Lane Apt 202 Rock Hill, SC 29732, 1/104 Biennial, 6-126, 42 ODD, 12/22/2015, $7,560.00, 2015-0900255, $4,395.56; Lois M Lambert PO Box 1953 The Dalles, OR 97058, 1/104 Biennial, 6-225, 20 ODD, 10/08/2015, $6,760.14, 2015-0724334, $2,923.44; La Ronda R White 27692 Devonshire St Southfield, MI 48076, 1/104 Biennial, 6-223, 13 EVEN, 12/22/2015, $9,792.81, 2015-0900262, $5,939.78; Lenaka R Givens, Antonio M Givens 421 Felder St Bishopville, SC 29010, 1/104 Biennial, 8-233M, 18 ODD, 02/22/2017, $5,813.91, 2017-0127277, $2,715.80; Brian Perry, Sr, Kristal Perry 2128 Dembrigh Lane Charlotte, NC 28262, 1/104 Biennial, 6-222M, 10 EVEN, 12/04/2015, $5,813.91, 2015-0859969, $3,989.60; Gerona Neubia, Philip Neubia 3005 Kathleen Way Williamsburg, VA 23188, 1/104 Biennial, 9-237M, 42 EVEN, 11/03/2016, $5,813.91, 20160811876, $2,644.80; EXHIBIT “A” - NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE 12044.0028 (TENHET) ACCOUNT NO./GRANTOR(S), UNIDIVIDED INTEREST, BLDG/ UNIT NO., INTERVAL NO./ASSIGNED YEAR, RECORDING DATE OF DOT, ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL BALANCE, BOOK/INST. NO. FOR DEED OF TRUST, BALANCE AS SHOWN ON NOTICE OF DELINQUENCY; Valerie M Tenhet, Michael S Tenhet 587 County Road 2215 Decatur, TX 76234, 1/104 Biennial, 6-224P, 36 ODD, 12/03/2014, $6,195.00, 2014-0795291, $1,848.65; Luz E Sanchez 17547 Amantha Ave Carson, CA 90746, 1/104 Biennial, 6-222P, 27 ODD, 11/03/2016, $4,372.26, 2015-0810943, $1,253.30; Miranda L Browne, Trevor E Browne 335 Roberts Rd Athens, GA 30606, 1/104 Biennial, 6-126, 10 EVEN, 10/08/2015, $7,600.00, 2015-0724297, $2,393.89; Amanda L Crosby, Roger L Crosby PO Box 884 Steinhatchee, FL 32359, 1/104 Biennial, 6-223, 43 EVEN, 02/18/2016, $10,043.63, 2016-0101461, $3,206.36; Gloria D
Lowe, John Lowe 7359 Van Grayson Loop Fayetteville, NC 28314, 1/104 Biennial, 6-124M, 34 ODD, 04/09/2015, $5,400.00, 2015-0241237, $1,790.04; Anthony D Coghill, A’Dan N Coghill 1721 Hudgins Farm Circle Fredericksburg, VA 22408, 1/104 Biennial, 9-138P, 5 ODD, 02/29/2016, $4,806.00, 2016-0124816, $1,300.15; Mike Visockis, Angela Visockis 1051 S Dobson #174 Mesa, AZ 85202, 1 Annual, 6-123P, 35 WHOLE, 04/08/2009, $6,399.43, 2009-0310183, $2,692.29; Johnnie C Evans, Felicia W Evans 1117 Raven Perch Drive Wendell, NC 27591, 1/104 Biennial, 8-233P, 21 ODD, 02/25/2016, $5,400.00, 2016-0118243, $1,592.92; Joshua A Williams, Twanna R Williams 2358 Saintsville Rd Greenville, NC 27834, 1/104 Biennial, 6-224M, 32 EVEN, 10/08/2015, $6,895.34, 20150724341, $1,775.02; Gregory J Evans, Jr, Tawny Evans 24673 Watson Ranch Rd Montgomery, TX 77356, 1 Annual, 6-225, 33 WHOLE, 02/25/2016, $15,451.74, 2016-0118270, $3,887.20; EXHIBIT “A” - NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE 12044.0030 (TODD) ACCOUNT NO./GRANTOR(S), UNIDIVIDED INTEREST, BLDG/ UNIT NO., INTERVAL NO./ASSIGNED YEAR, RECORDING DATE OF DOT, ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL BALANCE, BOOK/INST. NO. FOR DEED OF TRUST, BALANCE AS SHOWN ON NOTICE OF DELINQUENCY; Billy J Todd, Michelle J Todd 1235 Derby Dr Cohutta, GA 30710, 1/104 Biennial, 9-237M, 10 EVEN, 07/31/2017, $5,813.91, 2017-556575, $3,258.96; Charlayne James, Otis James 511 E. Sanger St Apt 3 Philadelphia, PA 19120, 1/104 Biennial, 8-134M, 31 EVEN, 06/30/2016, $5,400.00, 2016-457907, $3,044.84; Ricky L Winchester, Kathy A Winchester 3937 Parkhaven Drive Corinth, TX 76210, 1/104 Biennial, 8-134M, 32 EVEN, 11/15/2016, $3,303.98, 2016-840375, $2,504.24; La Micha D Williams, Kevin Williams 5442 Pelleur St Lynwood, CA 90262, 1/104 Biennial, 7-227, 46 ODD, 12/19/2016, $6,347.02, 2016-932190, $3,242.08; Thekla Tjazuko, Richard Adriaans 4010 Meadowview Dr Suitland, MD 20746, 1/104 Biennial, 8-233M, 40 EVEN, 11/03/2016, $5,794.40, 2016811855, $2,392.80; Ina M Walsh, Steven S Walsh 90 Miss Ellie Circle Belton, MO 64012, 1/104 Biennial, 6-123M, 15 EVEN, 04/05/2010, $5,400.00, 2010282761, $14,177.45; Matthew W Bishop, Katherine L Cox 336 Princeton Dr Trenton, OH 45067, 1/104 Biennial, 6-222M, 23 EVEN, 07/11/2017, $5,813.91, 2017502448, $3,098.17; Jerrick D Whitfield, Janet A Hand 4529 Dalmahoy Court#202
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Public Notices Fort Myers, FL 33916, 1/104 Biennial, 7-128, 11 EVEN, 10/08/2015, $4,840.95, 2015-724335, $1,659.25; Willie B White Jr 2026 Timber Oaks Ln Apt O Charlotte, NC 28212, 1/104 Biennial, 8-134M, 24 EVEN, 10/15/2015, $5,400.00, 2015-741603, $3,171.50; Elizabeth Williams, John W Williams 10100 W 136th Pl Apt 1706 Overload Park, KS 66221, 1/104 Biennial, 6-226, 49 EVEN, 01/05/2017, $6,005.67, 2017-007477, $3,065.51; Tchernavia S Howard PO Box 124 2175 Hosea Lane Autaugaville, AL 36003, 1/104 Biennial, 6-123M, 20 ODD, 10/08/2015, $5,365.19, 2015-724289, $2,110.86; Thurmond Johnson 352 Cleveland St Gary, IN 46406, 1/104 Biennial, 6-222M, 14 ODD, 06/29/2016, $5,400.00, 2016-454828, $3,120.24; Angela D Owens, Charles Owens 109 Stone Glen Road Pikeville, NC 27863, 1/104 Biennial, 6-224M, 32 ODD, 11/03/2016, $6,480.00, 2016810936, $3,655.025; Terry D Crumel, Trina C Crumel PO Box 1004 Fort Mill, SC 29716, 1/104 Biennial, 8-233M, 39 EVEN, 12/19/2016, $5,813.91, 2016932189, $2,604.06; Tamarcus D Cox, Antoinette R Jones 7767 La Riviera Dr. #76 Sacramento, CA 95826, 1/104 Biennial, 7-130, 19 EVEN, 10/08/2015, $7,089.65, 2015-724263, $2,547.54; Keshia M Belton 8100 Bayfield Road Apt 11D Columbia, SC 29223, 1/104 Biennial, 6-224P, 47 ODD, 02/08/2017, $4,860.00, 2017-095623, $2,312.60; Darryl D Brown, Felicia A Brown 418 Benning Rd Jackson, MS 39206, 1/104 Biennial, 5-117, 15 EVEN, 08/25/2016, $8,081.33, 2016610657, $4,194.20; EXHIBIT “A” - NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE 12044.0031 (KELLY) ACCOUNT NO./GRANTOR(S), UNIDIVIDED INTEREST, BLDG/ UNIT NO., INTERVAL NO./ASSIGNED YEAR, RECORDING DATE OF DOT, ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL BALANCE, BOOK/INST. NO. FOR DEED OF TRUST, BALANCE AS SHOWN ON NOTICE OF DELINQUENCY; KAREN R KELLY, DEBRA N LETT 20885 S Birchwood Loop Rd # 1 Chugiak, AK 99567, 1/104 Biennial, 10-139, 52 ODD, 12/21/2011, $10,128.07, 2011-1049322, $13,704.48; PAULINE B SHOCKNESS, WILLIAM E SHOCKNESS, ANISA J SHOCKNESS 2301 Dryburgh Ct Orlando, FL 32828, 1/104 Biennial, 9-135, 26 EVEN, 10/20/2015, $9,197.80, 20150752432, $10,635.85; RICHARD PUNTENEY, PAMELA L PUNTENEY 12237 Gail Ave Omaha, NE 68137, 1/104, Biennial, 6-223, 48 EVEN, 08/06/2003, $8,279.10, 20031071236, $4,875.85; ALFRED D OSLEY, LA TONYA M BURKS 388 Saginaw Ave
Calumet City, IL 60409, 1/104 Biennial, 6-222M, 8 EVEN, 12/05/2011, $5,040.00, 2011-1001014, $8,571.60; TERRY J BRADLEY, LINNETTE M BRADLEY 3850 N. Park Ave Philadelphia, PA 19140, 1/104 Biennial, 6-123P, 14 ODD, 06/28/2016, $4,500.00, 20160449960, $3,780.23; PAIGE CARRIE HARDER 1701 Pearlie Dr Apt 16D Wichita Falls, TX 76306, 1/52 Annual, 9-138P, 1 WHOLE, 03/28/2002, $6,291.00, 2002-0319301, $2,811.79; CYNTHIA M ALLARD PO Box 213 Sonoita, AZ 85637, 1/52 Annual, 6-124P, 24 WHOLE, 06/07/2002, $6,291.00, 2002-0587697, $745.05; KERI A DRAGE, BRET DRAGE 4477 W 8790 S West Jordan, UT 84088, 1/104 Biennial, 8-233M, 52 EVEN, 05/14/2013, $5,591.58, 20130437699, $8,847.70; TIMOTHY M BREEDLOVE, ANDREA M BREEDLOVE 120 Pepperwood Drive Bolingbrook, IL 60440, 1/104 Biennial, 6-123M, 3 ODD, 10/22/2010, $6,562.17, 2010-0924482, $2,735.12; EXHIBIT “A” - NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE 12044.0032 (SANCHEZ) ACCOUNT NO./GRANTOR(S), UNIDIVIDED INTEREST, BLDG/ UNIT NO., INTERVAL NO./ASSIGNED YEAR, RECORDING DATE OF DOT, ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL BALANCE, BOOK/INST. NO. FOR DEED OF TRUST, BALANCE AS SHOWN ON NOTICE OF DELINQUENCY; DANIEL I SANCHEZ, FRANCES B SANCHEZ 310 Catawba Ave Rock Hill, SC 29730, 1/104 Biennial, 6-222P, 28 ODD, 06/29/2016, $4,844.92, 20160454856, $3,346.89; CHARLES D RILEY, JR, CHERESE S JENKINS 8958 S Phillips Ave Chicago, IL 60617, 1/104 Biennial, 6-124M, 22 ODD, 12/22/2015, $7,725.87, 20150900261, $4,383.29; JOSEPH R MC LENDON, STACI L MC LENDON 5559 Old Dominion Road Columbus, GA 31909, 1/104 Biennial, 6-122M, 4 ODD, 12/27/2016, $3,303.98, 20160950218, $1,764.16; KELLY L RAQUE, GUSTAVO A CASTILLO 7512 Sunset Lane Crestwood, KY 40014, 1/104 Biennial, 9-237M, 37 ODD, 07/11/2017, $5,400.00, 20170502440, $2,774.72; JOEL C MARTIN, CRYSTAL R MARTIN 357 3rd St. Worthington, KY 41183, 1/104 Biennial, 8-233P, 33 ODD, 02/23/2017, $4,733.37, 20170129527, $3,078.80; EXHIBIT “A” - NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE 12044.0033 (BIRDSONG) ACCOUNT NO./GRANTOR(S), UNIDIVIDED INTEREST, BLDG/ UNIT NO., INTERVAL NO./ASSIGNED
YEAR, RECORDING DATE OF DOT, ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL BALANCE, BOOK/INST. NO. FOR DEED OF TRUST, BALANCE AS SHOWN ON NOTICE OF DELINQUENCY; ERIC B BIRDSONG 31 Magnolia Ave Mableton, GA 30126, 1/104 Biennial, 7-128, 23 EVEN, 10/08/2015, $4,840.95, 20150724325, $2,274.20; GOGI D WEST, TYRONE D WEST SR. 3381 Circle Drive Saginaw, MI 48601, 1/104 Biennial, 8-134M, 37 EVEN, 08/25/2016, $5,813.91, 20160610661, $4,048.70; DARRYL K HUMPHREY JR, ANGELA I HUMPHREY 1411 Stevens Ct Rosenberg, TX 77471, 1/104 Biennial, 7-128, 6 EVEN, 01/12/2017, $5,809.14, 20170025209, $3,433.08; ANTHONY T FREEMAN, INEZ R FREEMAN 100 Trusty Street PO Box 924 Saint Michaels, MD 21663, 1/104 Biennial, 6-221, 14 EVEN, 07/09/2015, $9,657.34, 20150492392, $4,232.25; VALERIE K DILLON, BRANDON L DILLON 4514 Greenfield Dr Cookeville, TN 38501, 1/104 Biennial, 9-237P, 24 EVEN, 02/10/2016, $5,214.96, 20160085633, $2,702.50; JAMIE T PEARSON, MARANDA F CARPENTER PEARSON 356 Dunmeyer Hill Rd Summerville, SC 29485, 1/52 Annual, 9-235, 8 WHOLE, 02/21/2017, $5,658.53, 20170122879, $3,632.92; AMANDA H COYLE 210 Hermey Ave Pensacola, FL 32507, 1/104 Biennial, 6-224M, 27 EVEN, 02/10/2016, $6,895.34, 20160085636, $2,597.67; RALPH A PEARSON, SR, COMFORT T PEARSON 344 Azalea Dr Winston-Salem, NC 27105, 1/104 Biennial, 6-222M, 1 EVEN, 06/29/2016, $6,426.00, 20160454820, $3,632.92; DAVID M ROGERS, CRYSTAL G ROGERS 3903 Archdale Rd Archdale, NC 27263, 1/104 Biennial, 6-123M, 40 EVEN, 07/31/2017, $5,813.91, 20170556572, $3,123.17; CYNTHIA M POWELL, PERRY L POWELL PO Box 427 Dublin, NC 28332, 1/104 Biennial, 6-222M, 12 EVEN, 07/27/2017, $5,813.91, 20170549322, $3,577.80; ANTHONY C SPIKES, LORI A SPIKES 14506 Lakeshore Blvd Cleveland, OH 44110, 1/104 Biennial, 6-224M, 29 EVEN, 03/26/2016, $5,813.91, 20160182242, $3,666.33; SHEILA KELLY 3782 St James Court Ellenwood, GA 30294, 1/104 Biennial, 9-237P, 33 EVEN, 01/25/2017, $4,896.73, 20170057545, $2,029.82; EXHIBIT “A” - NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE 12044.0034 (YBARRA) ACCOUNT NO./GRANTOR(S), UNIDIVIDED INTEREST, BLDG/ UNIT NO., INTERVAL NO./ASSIGNED YEAR, RECORDING DATE OF DOT, ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL BALANCE, BOOK/INST. NO. FOR DEED OF
TRUST, BALANCE AS SHOWN ON NOTICE OF DELINQUENCY; SAMUEL R YBARRA, JULIE A YBARRA 3601 5th St Bay City, TX 77414, 1/104 Biennial, 9-135, 11 ODD, 10/08/2015, $9,574.32, 20150724410, $4,020.80; CHRISTINE BROCKMAN, LEVI TANNIS 1092 Bergen Ave Brooklyn, NY 11234, 1/104 Biennial, 9-137, 24 ODD, 02/21/2017, $8,139.47, 20170122870, $2,881.12; PEDRO HERNANDEZ, ESTELA S GONZALEZ 625 32nd St West Palm Beach, FL 33407, 1/104 Biennial, 8-133, 40 ODD, 10/09/2018, $4,625.80, 20180757378, $1,955.00; DAVID A ROCHOWIAK, KRISTA L ROCHOWIAK 8686 Carson Hwy Tipton, MI 49287, 1/104 Biennial, 6-222M, 5 ODD, 01/21/2015, $6,120.00, 20150039162, $3,290.42; MARK W PETTIE, LATOYA S PETTIE 412 Price Street Eden, NC 27288, 1/104 Biennial, 6-121, 4 ODD, 02/22/2017, $9,000.00, 20170127270, $4,029.20; TINA M WALKINGTON 1775 Goodemoot Rd Portland, MI 48875, 1/104 Biennial, 8-231, 19 ODD, 03/22/2016, $9,657.34, 20160182246, $3,124.09; ELIJAH S GENTRY, SHANNON M GENTRY 6544 Birch Hollow Dr Memphis, TN 38115, 1/104 Biennial, 8-133, 45 ODD, 07/19/2018, $5,378.83, 2018-0548055, $2,560.73; EXHIBIT “A” - NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE 12044.0035 (WILLIAMS) ACCOUNT NO./GRANTOR(S), UNIDIVIDED INTEREST, BLDG/ UNIT NO., INTERVAL NO./ASSIGNED YEAR, RECORDING DATE OF DOT, ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL BALANCE, BOOK/INST. NO. FOR DEED OF TRUST, BALANCE AS SHOWN ON NOTICE OF DELINQUENCY; REGINALD A WILLIAMS, NICOLE M WILLIAMS 27911 Skyhaven Lane Fulshear, TX 77441, 1/52 Annual, 7-227, 14 WHOLE, 11/15/2016, $8,000.70, 20160840409, $2,511.65; JOSUE A VASQUEZ, YADIRA B VASQUEZ 11719 Green Coral Dr Houston, TX 77044, 1/52 Annual, 6-226, 40 WHOLE, 07/11/2017, $13,734.00, 20170502176, $7,626.42; ANNETTE GONZALEZ, DAVID GONZALEZ 276 Summer St Passaic, NJ 07055, 1/52 Annual, 9-236, 48 WHOLE, 10/09/2018, $7,433.96, 20180757379, $2,768.72;
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