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evelopers and others in their trade are throwing money into the Gilbert Town Council race, backing the two incumbents who each amassed a sizable campaign war chest going into the Aug. 2 Primary, according to campaign finance statements filed July 15. Incumbents Scott September and Yung Koprowski and candidates Chuck Bongiovanni, Bobbi Buchli, Jim Torgeson, Bill Spence, Mario Chicas, Michael Clark and Bus
Obayomi are vying for the four open seats. September and Koprowski were both appointed in 2020. The election comes at a time when Gilbert still has about a decade left of growth and development and some candidates are taking a stance against building more high-density apartments in town. The fact that September and Koprowski have received so much support from the development community has already become campaign fodder for some candidates, who claim they’ve sold out. September, who sat on the town Planning
Commission before his appointment, led candidates with $39,306 raised and $3,486 spent from April 1 to June 30. To date, he’s raised $41,776 and spent $5,856. His second-quarter donors included $2,000 from Keith Blue of Kinzerini Management in Gilbert, a lessor of residential buildings; $200 from developer Jerry Davis, president of Kaplan Multifamily in Scottsdale; $500 from Mike Hoover, CEO of construction company Sundt Corp. in Scottsdale; $250 from Bruce Hart of developer
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Birthdays mark a miracle for Gilbert boy, 6
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fter Gilbert mom Breann Vogt gave birth to her first child, a healthy 7-pound boy, she had no reason to doubt her second pregnancy would be just as uneventful. But 23 weeks in, Vogt had an unexplained premature rupture of her amniotic sac, which protects the fetus. She was put on bed rest for five and a half weeks at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa. Doctors tried to prolong the pregnancy but nonetheless, Asher arrived at 29 weeks, weighing in at 2 pounds, 6 ounces on July 18, 2016. A normal gestation is 40 weeks. “He was tiny, less than 15 inches,” Vogt recalled. “His head was only larger than a tennis ball.” Because his lungs were undeveloped, Asher was hooked up to an oscillator machine to help him breathe. Asher spent the next eight months in Ban-
Asher Vogt celebrated his sixth birthday July 18 and he and his Gilbert family celebrate it with deep gratitude, given the fact he was born prematurely and spent nearly a year in the hospital. (Facebook)
ner Children’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and about three more months in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Vogt visited Asher every day during his nearly year-long stay except for the one time she was sick. “Everything that could go wrong for preemies, he had a bit of that,” Vogt said. “Vision problems, a little bit of a twisted bowel, he had clots (and) he had undeveloped lungs.” Asher also had a heart valve that wasn’t completely formed but luckily it developed, curtailing the need for surgery, according to Vogt, who lived in Chandler before moving to Gilbert in 2017. Two weeks after the birth, Vogt was able to hold her son. “I remembered one of the nurses there came and told me about another diagnosis,” Vogt said. “I was just sobbing and holding him for the first time and was overwhelmed.” But another NICU nurse shared with Vogt
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about her son, also born at 29 weeks old with a similar weight as Asher. “She came and talked me off the ledge,” she said; “an angel in the moment.” Vogt said she doesn’t remember lot of what happened in the NICU but that moment of having someone who knew what she was going through and helping her cope was a silver lining. What also helped was that Asher received gifts while in NICU over the holidays and for different things from parents whose children graduated out of the unit. “The parents would have little notes with pictures of their kiddos, where they are,” Vogt said. “I think it gives families hope when you’re in the midst of it. “It’s very scary and traumatic, emotional and stressful but when you see a light at the end of the tunnel and how other kiddos have overcome and how resilient they are just gave us hope. “It’s so powerful. It’s hard to see that when you get diagnosis after diagnosis and feel like you’re going two steps back.” On April 17, 2017 Asher finally came home. But Asher’s story doesn’t end there. Since he was treated at the hospital Asher and his family have given to date about 2,550 gifts to families with babies in the NICU and PICU, which included 1,000 books donated by Vogt’s employer Arizona Milk Producers. Vogt, who sits on the NICU Parent Advisory Board at the hospital’s Mesa campus, receives the donated toys and books
44 inches but he’s at 5th to 15th percentile for weight, according to his mom. He wears a feeding tube because his oral motor skills are delayed and he has a chronic lung condition. His lungs have scar tissue and aren’t at full capacity yet, Vogt said. Asher can run and play just like any other boy but if he has a cold, he needs to take albuterol to help with his breathing, she added. He also began his first day of school as a kindergartener at Robert Rice Elementary School on July 20. Asked how long the family plans Asher Vogt, 6, left, his brother Colton Vogt, 7, waited outside Banner hospital with their donated on doing the gift drive for the hosgifts. (Courtesy Banner Health) pital, Vogt said she was thinking about that herself. from people who see her social media “I hope Asher continues up to 18,” she “We tell him, we’re taking them to posts promoting the opportunity to pay the hospital where he was a baby,” Vogt said. “But as long as we are in Arizona it forward. said. “It’s special for him. It’s the hospi- and can do it.” The toys were delivered year on the tal where he was born so he’s Mr. Helper For those who want to follow along week of Asher’s birthday. The latest de- with it.” with Asher’s journey, go to facebook. livery of 200 gift items such as books, Asher’s height for his age is average at com/AshersNICUAdventure/photos stuffed animals, blankets, onesies and baby items were delivered to Banner last week on July 19. ADVERTISEMENT Asher celebrated his sixth birthday One man’s opinion with friends and family, which included Edition #29 a pool party and a trip to Topgolf. Family members include dad Jesse and 7-yearold Colton. Vogt said Asher is gaining comprehension where the gifts that arrive to the house are going to.
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held by Bally Sports Arizona. The three-year partnership begins this school year. As a result, the 5A, 6A and Open Division football championship games will be live on Arizona’s Family channels. It is the first time since 2015 football championship will be broadcasted on live television. In previous years, Fox Sports Arizona, which later became Bally Sports Arizona, recorded championship games and broadcasted them on a tape delay. Red Mountain football coach Kyle
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As Gilbert schools reopen, security is beefed up BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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dditional safety measures are in place for students returning to Gilbert Public School campuses this Tuesday as the Texas school massacre in May remain fresh in people’s minds. New this year for students in grades 7-12 is the requirement to wear student ID badges at all times. Each campus will provide badges to students in the first week of classes. According to GPS, students arriving on campus will have to enter through a secured door or gate and show their ID badge in order to enter. Those students who ride the bus will have to use the barcode on their ID badge to get on and off. Parents of bus riders can track their child’s bus in real time by downloading the “Here Comes the Bus” app. To learn more, go to gilbertschools. net/bus. Students who forget their badge will be issued a temporary sticker badge for $1 and the cost for a replacement badge is $5. The district also has installed a video intercom buzzer system on campuses without a secured entryway. Visitors will need to show an ID at the intercom in order to enter the school. The district also is continuing the installation of a standardized district-wide security camera at the junior high and elementary campuses. All high schools were already outfitted with the cameras before the start of new academic year. According to GPS, during an active emergency situation, the district will have the ability to share live-video feeds with both Gilbert and Mesa police. Parents for the most part are supportive of the heighten safety on campuses. “Grateful for increased security measures, IDs, locked doors and buzzers for parents to get in, added security guard at the jr high this year,” one woman wrote. “They’ve added painted lines on ground around exits/entrances where kids cannot congregate so teachers and security have clear view of doors. I’m on board with all this!” Some criticized GPS for not institut-
Early Childhood Special Education teacher Juliana Jackson adjusts the raindrops hanging from fluffy clouds in the calming area of her classroom a at Playa del Ray Elementary School. (David Minton/GSN Staff Photographer)
ing the ID badges sooner while one man questioned how it will help keep kids safe. “I think the policy is great but it’s not going to prevent a shooting,” he wrote. “So this idea that it’s an increase in security is just some BS cya to appear you’re doing something.” Higley Unified School District also stepped up its safety protocols for students, who return to campuses tomorrow, July 25. “In light of recent events this has become a conversation that we continue to have,” Higley Unified School District Superintendent Dawn Foley told the Governing Board at the July 20 meeting, where a safety update was presented. “The priority of our safety and security is not something Higley has not been deeply invested in.” The district has developed a reunification protocol, standardized two-way radio use and over the summer conducted a threat vulnerability assessment on campuses with local police and fire departments to see where improvements needed to be made, according to James Walker, Student Services director. He said the district has been doing some “quick fixes’ by placing security cameras on campuses where there’ve been incidents. If the $77.2-million bond passes, the
district is looking for a “very intentionally focused enterprise-level school safety security surveillance system,” Walker said. “The director of IT and myself, we’ve been meeting with various vendors and seeing what they have to offer and being really intentional about how we can plan to appropriately protect everybody’s privacy but at the same time utilize these tools to fortify our schools to be as safe as possible,” he said. He added that the district’s previous bond funded the modification of front offices at all the campuses into single-point entry, where visitors are checked in before being allowed via a buzzer system access into the rest of the school. He said staff is now assessing if there is anything more that can be done within reason and time to improve upon the single-entry process. Currently all the front offices of schools have a panic button that either locks the front door before someone enters or notify the authorities, or lock the front door and notify authority. The goal for the coming weeks is for all the panic buttons to do both functions, Walker said. He added that the district also has ensured that all first-responders will always have access to HUSD campuses with Knox boxes. The safe-like boxes contain a
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Vendura Residential in Paradise Valley; $350 from Chris Hundelt of Keystone Homes in Phoenix; $1,500 from Randall Downing of Coal Creek Consulting, which offers wireless development and site modification services in Phoenix and $500 from Walter Crutchfield, a partner with Vintage Partners, a commercial property developer in Phoenix. Other donors included James Miller, senior vice president with IPX 1031, an investment property exchange, gave $500; Brad Vogelsmeier, a vice president with developer Milhaus in Indianapolis, $500; Sean Milks, owner of Gravity Pad Towers in New Mexico, $500; Michael Kaplan with Kaplan Management real estate in Texas, $250 and Rex Richardson, a vice mayor on the Long Beach City Council, $250. September also got financial support from employees at his job at Crown Castle International – Daniel Schweizer gave $100 and Brian Thomas gave $250. A number of land-use attorneys also opened their wallets for September’s campaign. Attorney Leo Beus of Beus Gilbert McGroder gave $1,000; Pew & Lake lawyers William Pew gave $250; Sean Lake, $250, and Reese Anderson, $250; attorney Andrew Miller of Burch & Crachiollo, $250; Gammage & Burnham lawyers Lindsay Schube gave $200; Ashley Marsh, $150, and Manjula Vaz, $500. People who gave to both incumbents included Grant Kingdon, a vice president with Creation RE + PE, an investment and real estate group in Phoenix, who gave September and Koprowski each $1,500; Scott Whittington, principal with developer Avalon Investments gave each $1,000. Gary Free of RE Investment in Utah gave each incumbent $300; developer Andrew Call, vice president with Thompson Thrift, gave each incumbent $500, a real estate developer Jeffrey Kern, with developer Fore Green, gave each incumbent $150; Adelaida Severson of Bushtek, a Gilbert satellite communication company gave each $1,000; Jonathan Cornelius, vice president for Fore Property Co., a real-estate developer gave each $250; Clay Richardson, managing director with Wood Partners, a
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real estate construction and management company in Scottsdale, gave $200 to each and James Lindbloom of Willmeng, a Phoenix construction company gave each $300. Withey Morris attorneys Jason Morris gave $1,000 each to SeptemBus Obayomi Scott September Bill Spence Jim Torgeson ber and Koprowski; Adam Baugh gave each her mother-in-law, Chandler retiree Jane and less and $2,500 from Realtors of Ar$500 and William Allison gave each Moisant; $200 from Gilbert retiree Bar- izona PAC. $125. bara Farmer; $500 from attorney Garry She’s spent $6,871 in the second Chad Heywood, a partner with politi- Hays; $200 from Dave Bruggeman with quarter leaving her with $28,667 in the cal consulting group Camelback Strate- Lee Engineering in Gilbert; $200 from bank. Her expenditures included $2,262 gy, gave $200 to each incumbent. Gilbert architect Cassandra Updike and to Roundtable Strategies for campaign Gilbert retiree George Dottl gave $500 from Gilbert veterinarian Thomas signs; $2,500 to Petrina Lundy for web$1,200 to September and $1,000 to Ko- Lewis. site development and $1,410 to Graphic prowski. Her support also included $500 from Ideals for yard signs. September also raised a total of $150 Elizabeth Dine, a Gilbert Realtor; $200 Spence, who spent less than a year on in individual contributions from people from Chris Woolery, a civil engineer Council as an appointee in 2020, raised who gave $100 or less and he loaned his with Kimley Horn, a planning and de- $4,374, of which $4,000 was his own campaign $10,000. sign engineering firm; $400 from Car- money, bringing the total for his election Political Action Committees also gave oline Decesare of interior designer De- to $5,705. heavily to the incumbents with Gilbert cesare Design Group in Gilbert; $200 His donors included David Seigler, Fire Fighters giving each $6,500; Salt from Richard Norman owner of Gilbert executive director of New Horizons River Project Political Involvement Com- Mortgage; $500 from Eric Boivin, CEO of Disability Empowerment Center, $100; mittee giving each $800 and Cox AZ PAC All Traffic Data Services in Colorado and Intel data scientist Lauren Eccles, $149 giving each $500. $200 from Valerie Shaffer of Horizon and Gilbert retiree Tom Thrasher, $100. September spent $3,486 with mon- Strategies. Spence’s $4,227 in expenditures iney going to expenses, including $1,870 Shaffer was former Mayor Jenn Dan- cluded $3,126 to Print Smart for camto Roundtable Strategies for advertise- iels’ aide and followed Daniels when she paign signs; $74 to Gilbert photographer ment; $750 to BW Creative Agency for left in 2020 for Horizon Strategies, a lob- Elaine Kessler and $1,026 to Arizona design; $282 to online fundraising Ane- bying firm. Daniels’ firm has helped de- Grassroots Advocates for signatures. dot and $94 to Vistaprint for communi- velopers such as Mill Creek Residential, Bongiovanni, who’s not taking donacation materials. which wants to build a mix-used devel- tions, is self-funding his race , kicking in Koprowski, who is a transportation opment with 274 apartment units near $25,000 in the second quarter for a total engineer with her own firm, raised Higley and Ray roads. Daniels donated of $32,332. He’s spent $15,889, bringing $25,316 in the second quarter, for a to- $200 to Koprowski in the first quarter. the total spent so far on his campaign to tal $37,286. Koprowski also received a total Her donations included $400 from $1,460 in individual donations of $100 see COUNCIL page 6
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State education fund boost helps Higley budget igley Unified School District Governing Board last week adopted a revised $119 million maintenance and operation budget that is 1.87% higher than the one approved in June. The adjustment reflects the increase in funding for Fiscal Year 2023 from the state budget that was finally adopted days after the board passed the district’s spending plan on June 22. The state’s nearly $18 billion budget includes a hefty financial boost for public education such as $525 million in new money that raises the base-level of per-pupil funding to $4,775.27 statewide. Although Higley did not break down what that meant for each of its pupils, the Legislature’s move enabled the district to increase instructional spending from $64 million to nearly $67 million
for the current fiscal year. Spending in that category last year was jst over $61 million While the Legislature added $100 million for special education statewide, Higley’s newly adopted budget reflected the same $16 million appropriation for special education that it approved in June before the state budget’s adoption. Special education was budgeted by the district at $15 million for the previous year. Chief Financial Officer Tyler Moore, who made his presentation to the board in a pre-recorded message because he was at another engagement representing the HUSD, said the district is realizing “also several other additional funding increases not as large in scale” as the increases in per-pupil and so-called District Additional Assistance. DAA funds school districts’ purchases of everything from textbooks to software and furniture. Prior to the adoption of the state bud-
get, Higley approved a budget with $6.2 million in DAA funding. The revised budget shows the district will now be getting nearly $6.9 million. Moore also noted “Arizona approved the largest expansion toward privatizing education in the nation. “The Empowerment Scholarship Account, ESA as we like to call it, now provides $7,000 to K-12 families looking to pay for private school tuition. Higley and all public schools are only being funded at two-thirds of what the ESA voucher now provides.” Moore noted that the voucher expansion is being challenged and several education groups are looking to stop it at the ballot box. Opponents need to submit enough signatures by mid-September in order to stop the program from being implemented until voters decide the issue in the November 2024 General Election. More said the newly approved maintenance and operation budget takes
into consideration the K-12 budget bill and the additional increases will be added to the budget balance carryover, estimated at $22 million. The district’s capital budget also revised upward by 25.4% to $29 million and includes an estimated unallocated funding of $9.8 million, according to Moore. “Again, this amount is higher than what we’ve tried to limit this fund to,” Moore said. “But with the uncertainty of our November election, we are holding this money to address any immediate capital needs for our school facilities pending the bond not pass.” Higley is seeking approval of a bond measure in November that is smaller than one rejected by voters last year. Board President Amy Kaylor thanked Moore for pointing out the discrepancy in funding for students in public schools and students in the ESA program.
$23,059. His spending for the second quarter included $7,743 to Mesa Sign Shop for signs; $3,112 to Nina Construction Supply for rebar; $300 to Gilbert Chamber of Commerce for advertisement; $709 to Clipper Magazine for advertisement; $899 to The Arizona Beehive for advertisement and $1,391 to Times Media Group for advertisement. Buchli raised $17,100 during the second-quarter for a total of $18,600 so far. Her donations include $3,000 from
Jim Lamon, a Republican running for a U.S. Senate seat; and $500 from retired Scottsdale resident Margaret Clark. Her $16,514 in second-quarter expenditures included $2,775 to Mesa Sign Shop for signs; $1,159 to Times Media Group for advertisement; $6,518 for communication services from The Resolute Group, a Phoenix company that espouses free enterprise and conservative values and $1,594 to HD Strategic Group, a Queen Creek company that touts, “It’s time to take America back.”
She’s also spent $550 for unspecified professional services from Brittany Sweeney and $100 in event expense from America Pack, a group that Recruit and support Constitutional Conservative candidates. Chicas raised $12,064 in the second quarter for a total of $12,564. His donors included Mesa homemaker Mari Anderman, who gave $6,500; real estate agent Paul Bruccoleri gave $1,000; Gilbert Realtor Dana Kaupie gave $250 and Dr. Sol De Jesus of Pennsylvania gave $200. He also received a total of $964 from donors who each gave less than $100. Chicas reported that he spent $7,473 but did not itemize his expenditures as the law requires. Torgeson raised $4,442 in the second quarter with donations coming from Jason Barney, a commercial, industrial and residential land developer, who gave $500 and Dr. Anne Welsh, $100. Gilbert Councilman Laurin Hendrix, who’s running for a state House seat,
gave $2,500 to Chicas and $1,000 to Torgeson and former Gilbert Councilman Jared Taylor gave $150 each to Chicas, Buchli and Torgeson. Torgeson loaned his campaign, $3,790. His expenditure of $4,442 left him with $834. Expenses included $3,309 he paid Mesa Sign Shop, which he owns, for promotional materials; $916 to Dan Daniels for sign installation and $217 to Dr. Don’s in Glendale for promotional materials. Obayomi raised $4,100 and spent $3,000, which was not detailed as required by law. His big donor was WeSERV Association of Realtors PAC with $2,500. And other big chunk of money came from a self-loan of $1,500. Clark, who had to take time off from politicking due to a family emergency, did not respond if he intended to file his form. The next filing is the pre-primary election report, which is due July 23.
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key to a school’s front office. Also for this year are a HUSD Safety Web Page with safety information and upgraded visitor logs. Walker said visitors to a campus currently sign on a clip board but the district is looking to go digital and be able to track a visitor on campus. “Safety has been and continues to be top priority in our school district,” Walker said. “It has to be a safe environment in order for kids to learn.” Board member Michelle Anderson said she appreciated what is being done to improve safety but wanted to see more. “I’m an educator and of course as a parent from incidents that I’ve seen I don’t see lot of people walking through the front door,” Anderson said. “So I look forward to funding or innovative ways or strategies or anything to look at the other ways these people are coming on campus unnoticed. “You can lock a door and build a fence, people are going to get in. I don’t want to make any efforts already in place look like they’re minimal. They are definitely
important but we are not done and we need to do more.” She said more staffing is need and accountability for people “that are either not reporting or breaking laws to get on sites.” “I go to school and this is always discussed with teachers,” Anderson said. “We are always having conversation, we are always fearful and I shake right now thinking about it. Safety is going to continue to be something that we’re going to have to address no matter what we put in place.” She said safety is everyone’s job and if people see something, say something. Board member Kristina Reese added that students don’t have to be physically on campus to see a threat and if they see something of a concern on social media, to report it. “Posts on social media are not jokes,” she said. “Don’t take them as jokes.” Already in place at both school districts are safety drills, school resource officers, emergency plans as well as a code of conduct for students.
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Enders said live game telecasts will help further establish Arizona as a high school football power. Chandler head football coach Rick Garretson believes the live broadcast won’t, and shouldn’t, have much of an impact on the players’ overall mindsets for a game of that caliber and that it’s good for the growth of Arizona high school football. “I think for the notoriety of what’s going on, promoting the sport in Arizona, that’s a positive,” Chandler head football coach Rick Garretson said. “It gives everybody the ability to not have to pay but still watch the kids play and support them. I think it’s definitely a positive step for the promotion of AZ football,” he added Along with 5A, 6A and the Open Division football championships, Arizona’s Family will also broadcast all 5A, 6A and the new Open Division boys and girls basketball finals. The 5A and 6A baseball and softball championship games will also be live. As part of the partnership, weekly
stories on Arizona’s Family channel lineup and the ability to broadcast bracket release shows done for most sports throughout the school year. Since its inception in 2019, the Open Division football championship game has become one of the must-see events in Arizona high school sports. The first championship game between Saguaro and Chandler drew thousands to Sun Devil Stadium. In recent years, baseball and softball championship games have nearly filled Farrington Stadium at ASU and Tempe Diablo. Basketball championships, since moved to Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum, have also drawn large crowds and that is only expected to grow with the addition of the Open Division for girls and boys this year. But one constant complaint from Arizona high school sports fans has always been the lack of a working livestream. Now, that problem will likely be solved with the AIA’s new partnership with Arizona’s Family.
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ising inflation and sharp increases in rent are putting a dent in people’s wallets, prompting East Valley residents to turn to food pantries for help while donations to support food banks are on a downward trend. “Midwest Food Bank is seeing a 25% increase in the need for food within our communities due to the rising cost of rent, fuel, and food,” said Marilee Baptiste, executive director of the nationwide nonprofit food bank in Gilbert. “In addition, food donations are down nationwide, thus requiring Midwest Food Bank to find new sources of donated food or purchase food to continue meeting the increased need.” The Gilbert warehouse hands out food to 225 nonprofits in the Valley such as churches and food pantries. Midwest has 10 locations in the country. “The last three months have been the most noticeable,” Baptiste said. “The nonprofits we give food to say, ‘our numbers are going up, we are serving X number of people, we need more food to give out.’ “Been lot of people trying to keep up on the treadmill as it becomes faster and faster,” she added. Baptiste said the people coming for food include the homeless, the working poor and seniors on fixed income. “There’s not a lot of affordable housing,” she said, adding food bank help “keeps them going, helps eliminate some of the expenses they have and they can direct the income they do have to the housing.” Baptiste said Midwest budgeted $50 million worth of food for distribution this fiscal year and anticipated it would likely be $55 million. While the need increases, the food supply has been extremely erratic and not dependable, according to Baptiste. “We rely mostly on donated food from manufacturers and that has been down nationwide,” she said. “We are having to go out and find new sources or purchase food and that’s only possible with grants and donations.” She said Midwest encourages its nonprofit partners to have multiple avenues
Volunteers, from left, Wanda Taylor, Rhonda Coe and Terry Carstens load a pallet with an order at Midwest Food Bank in Gilbert. (David Minton/GSN Staff Photographer)
to get food such as also going to United Food Bank and St. Mary’s Food Bank. “So the lines are increasing, getting scary,” Baptiste said. “Our goal is to remain having that uninterrupted source of food for these nonprofits. We are committed to meet that need.” Mesa Salvation Army on 6th Street in Mesa saw first-hand the need, reporting about 1,000 walk-ins in April. Last month, that number was closer to 3,500 people, said David Sauer, social services director. “Being that we are part church, there are people who believe that we are looking at those end times,” Sauer said. “It’s insane, honestly.” At United Food Bank in Mesa, demand for emergency food bags from its 150 partner agencies went from 25,000 to 28,000 between June and July. “Three thousand bags is a significant increase month over month,” United Food Bank President and CEO Dave Richins
said. “When you look at that over a longer timeline, the trend is much worse.” Making matters worst is that donations are flat. United Food Bank’s three primary sources – food drives, 9-million pounds of food from local grocers, and grant money, are about what they were last year. While demand is up and donations are down, United Food Bank is also getting pinched at the gas pump, according to Richins. The nonprofit was spending about $7,000 a month on gas in June, which jumped to to $12,000 in July, he said. “It’s a perfect storm,” said Jerry Brown, spokesman for St. Mary’s Food Bank in Phoenix. “The price of food, gas, rent. Everything is going up. The need is overwhelming.” St. Mary’s serves 900 families Monday through Friday, or about 300,000 people statewide. “We are seeing a 60% increase in
demand over the same time last year,” Brown said. “We are 200% over our food budget for the year, and we will have to purchase more. At the same time that demand is going up, our donations are going down. We need food. Corporate donations from large retailers are a huge help.” St. Mary’s stores between 7 and 8 million pounds of food at its 120,000-squarefoot warehouse, about a third of which is refrigerated to hold frozen food as well as fresh produce that is trucked up to the Valley routinely from an area near Nogales. Brown said that for the immediate future, supply will sustain the demand. The question, he said is “not can we feed people tomorrow, but can we feed them next month?” “We have people who know where the food bank is because they used to donate,” he added. “Now, they’re coming because they need our services.”
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or Kendra Stanger, the desert is a surprising place with an impressive ecosystem. Stanger, coordinator of the Environmental Technology Center at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, helps students learn about Arizona through programs that bring environmental lessons to life. The center isn’t just a garden. It is a program developed by a collaboration of instructors from various departments and academic disciplines who worked with students from their classes, honors programs, clubs, and community groups to experiment with sustainability theories. Through their collective knowledge, this group transformed a dusty, twoacre plot of land into an outdoor garden-based classroom. The current ETC project teaches how to convert desert mesquite pods into food. Mesquite shrubs or small trees are common in the Southwest, and their bean-like pods can be a nutritious food source to humans and wildlife. Stanger described the process of converting the pods to flour, saying, “Don’t let your mesquite pods go to waste. “They may seem like a nuisance, but they are some of the most plentiful free food products around the valley. Mesquite is a high-protein food, highly nutritious, rich in iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, zinc, and lysine. It digests slowly, has a high fiber and protein content and is low on the glycemic index. In a few simple steps, you can turn those pesky pods into usable flour for many different recipes. “ Stanger’s guidance to using the pods:
gluten free products, use it as you normally would another gluten free flour such as almond or coconut. Keep in mind it is on the sweet side. “If you are wanting to use it to cook or bake with like regular flour, use 1/4 cup mesquite flour and 3/4 cup regular flour for 1 full cup. Mesquite flour has been used to make tortillas, sweet breads, pancakes, cookies, muffins and cakes because it is sweet, but it can also be added to soups, gravies and sauces, casseroles, vegetable and meat dishes, and pie crusts. Instructions, videos, and recipes for using the flour are available online. The AriKendra Stanger has a recipe for converting mesquite pods into flour as part of her work as coordinator zona-Sonora Desert Museum of the Environmental Technology Center at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. (Special to GSN) offers ideas at https://www. desertmuseum.org/center/ edu/docs/k-2_TIP_recipes. Harvest the pods. “They are available while harvesting. Toast or dry the pods. To get rid of pdf. And if you have any questions, from June-September, but it’s best if you get them right off the tree. Set up a tarp beetles and other undesirables that may comments, concerns, or ideas, Stanger underneath the tree, shake to dislodge, have gotten into the pods, the center welcomes emails to Kendra.Stanger@ and all pods that fall without pulling are toasts them in CGCC’s ceramics kiln at cgc.edu. Projects such as the mesquite pods 185 degrees F for about two hours. ready. Blend and sift. Blend the remainder harvest support the Chandler-Gilbert “The best way to find out if your mesquite tree has pods worth harvesting is in a food processor or mortar and pestle Community College vision for its stuto taste them! Here in the Valley there until you have a flour-like consistency. dents to be prepared to lead the comare several varieties, but the two most Sift with a mesh strainer to get all the munity into a promising and sustainable future. To find out more about common are Honey and Velvet mes- unblended seeds or husks out. “There are some facilities that will CGCC interdisciplinary Experiential quite. “Take a pod from the tree, chew it just mill your pods for you,” Stanger said. “It Learning, visit cgc.edu/academics/ a bit, if you like the flavor, harvest from took me about half an hour to turn one experiential-learning/environmenhttps://www. that tree. Due to cross pollination and 5-gallon bucket of already toasted pods tal-technology-center. hybridization, some won’t taste good. into 2 pounds of flour using a food pro- cgc.edu/degrees-certificates/sustainIf you taste the pod and it’s bitter, or cessor. So, if you’ve got much more than ability. “Sustainability is more than a buzzsucks the moisture from your mouth, that… it might be worth the trip.” word, it’s a way of life,” Stanger added, Stanger said mesquite flour is gluten move on... there are better trees.” “and a possible career.” Sort. Go through and get rid of twigs, free. “If you have experience baking with leaves and other debris accumulated
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he Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport $14.4 million to replace one of its three terminal buildings with a more functional five-gate facility. Gateway was one of 600 airports that applied for terminal modernization funds contained in the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal. The law allocates $1 billion per year for five years for terminal work specifically. Including all types of improvement projects, airports are slated to receive $25 billion from the law. Only 90 of the airports, or 15%, that applied for the competitive grants this year received funding; Gateway was the only award recipient in Arizona. The money will be used to build a terminal for Gates 1 through 5 that is roomier, more energy efficient and ac-
munications and government relations, said that one of the limitations of the existing building is crowding when multiple gates are in use. “During COVID, we kind of learned the hard way … (that) we really only had space to operate two gates at a time,” he said. The new terminal, he said, will be able to operate all Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport will use a $14.4 million federal grant to replace one of its three terminals. (Special five gates simultato GSN) neously. “When it’s all said and done, it’ll be cessible for individuals with access and growth in commercial traffic after Ala great experience for our passenmobility needs. legiant Air started serving the airport, The new building will replace a tem- currently housing Gates 1 through 4 of gers,” he said. porary structure first installed when the airport’s nine gates. the airport was undergoing rapid see TERMINAL page 11 Ryan Smith, Gateway director of com-
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The airport has been eyeing this upgrade for a long time and already had designs, but the funding was lacking. Airport officials saw an opportunity in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and while congressional negotiations were underway on the bill last year, Smith said the airport reached out to U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Sinema held a strong hand as a swing vote in a U.S. Senate with a razor-thin majority, and while Smith and O’Neill said the entire Arizona congressional delegation helped with the project, both men singled out Sinema for praise. U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton, whose district includes Mesa, sent a letter of support for the project to the U.S. Department of Transportation in March. Airport officials had been waiting anxiously to see if their $20 million application to support the $28 million terminal addition would succeed. Though Gateway didn’t get the full amount it requested, Smith said the airport is moving forward on the project immediately.
At its July 19 board of directors meeting, Smith said airport staff will request funds for a large, tent-like “sprung structure” to house gate operations while the new terminal is under construction. Smith said the construction timeline is 12 to 18 months for completion. The airport’s shops and restaurants will not be affected by the project. The upgrade may benefit the airport in its quest to grow its passenger traffic and add commercial carriers. “We’re going to go out and sell this (upgrade),” Smith said. “We’ve got capacity and brand new terminals. … It’s certainly a great tool in our chest as we go out and talk to airlines.” Smith said the terminal replacement project “represents the last major expansion construction project on the west side” of the airport. Gateway’s long-range planning, decades away, calls for a larger-scale terminal costing $500 million to $800 million would be situated on the east side of the airport, the opposite side of the
“The $7,000 per student that goes to be spent with none of the accountability and oversight that us as school districts must account for and the lower amount that we receive,” she said. Board member Tiffany Shultz agreed and emphasized, “We as Higley get twothirds the amount of the ESA vouchers.” What remained unchanged in the revised budget is that no additional COVID-relief grants are anticipated and that the district’s move to become self-insured will save over $500,000. Additionally, Moore pointed out that school districts in the new fiscal year still face potential cuts because the state Legislature in March approved lifting the Aggregate Expenditure Limit only for Fiscal Year 2022. State Superintendent of Public Education Kathy Hoffman wrote Gov. Doug Ducey and lawmakers calling for a special session to eliminate the spending cap, which voters approved in 1982 as a state constitutional amendment.
“Public school leaders need certainty they will be able to increase teacher pay, continue to support students and families, and pay staff for the entire school year,” said Hoffman. “They need assurances today to allow them to enact budgets and spend funds appropriately as they navigate the unprecedented situation brought on by our state’s ongoing and worsening teacher shortage and the tight labor market.” She praised them for increasing education funding, but said many of those dollars, including investments in special education, may be at risk. “Lawmakers should finish their job and provide spending authority to school districts for the money they appropriated last month,” said Hoffman. “It makes zero sense to pass a historic education budget one day only to turn around and make school officials fight to spend the money the next day.”
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building this year would revert to a new use, possibly general aviation, O’Neill told the board.
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Friends for Life, a registered nonprofit, nokill shelter in Gilbert, will be holding another Barking Bunco fundraiser 6-9 p.m. this Friday, July 29 at 952 W. Melody Ave. and dogs like Adorabellee hope people turn out for the event. Admission is $25 and attendance is limited to 100 people. Friends for Life is encouraging everyone to dress in their best Hawaiian garb and regalia to compete for the best-dressed prize. Adorabelle is about 2-1/2 years old and Friends hope someone comes forth to claim her for their new furry friend. The mixed bully breed pup is housetrained and enjoys other dogs and has lived with cats, knows basic commands, loves to play fetch and is super gentle. Email FFLdogs@azfriends.org for more information. Adorabelle’s adoption fee is $125. She is spayed, microchipped, vaccinated and licensed. Information: azfriends.org.
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Rotary mag features Gilbert, Sun Lakes Rotarians BY DR. HONORA NORTON GSN Contributor
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otary International’s Rotary Magazine, with over 1.2 worldwide subscribers, recently featured the Rotary Clubs of Gilbert and Sun Lakes as champions of a Navajo Water Project. In 2016, members of the Rotary Club of Gilbert attended a water conference in Phoenix and learned from a representative of DigDeep about its work in the Navajo Nation and how it was bringing water to the people living there. DigDeep delivers a 1,200-gallon cistern, which is then buried outside the home. Technicians plumb a sink, water heater, filter and drain line; where families don’t have electricity hookup, a solar panel is installed with battery array and electrical hookup to provide electricity to power the pump and lights. A tanker truck arrives and fills the cistern with clean water through an above ground valve and the homeowner receives training to operate, maintain and repair the system, as well as a number to call should problems incur. All this enfolds over 24 hours. The Gilbert Rotarians learned that each installation costs $4,500 and worked with Rotary International District 4185 in Mexico to co-sponsor a global grant to support the Navajo Water Project. With the assistance of Jim Bissonett, RI Arizona District 5495 Rotary Foundation Chair and RI R-Club Southwest, a global grant was initiated. Bissonett said the real story is the Navajo Nation is in our backyard. He recalled the eagerness of Gary Whiting of the Rotary Club of Sun Lakes, a past RI District Governor, offering to undertake a similar project.
Gilbert Rotary Club members help a wide range of needy people. In April members joined with their Mesa Rotary counterparts to pack hygiene kits for guests at Paz de Christo’s home for unsheltered men. (Gilbert Rotary) In May 2018, the Rotary Club of Gilbert and its international Partner in Mexico, the Rotary Club of San Andres Cholula, launched the first phase of Navajo Water Project. Backed by a $78,000 RI Global Grant, they provided home water systems for 18 families – the 64 individuals near Thoreau, New Mexico. The magazine said Curt ward, a member and past president of the
Rotary Club of Gilbert, was a relative newcomer to the Southwest. “I moved here from Iowa in 2014, and water poverty was a new thing to me,” he told the magazine, which said that even before the pandemic, Ward had begun reading about the water problems in the Navajo Nation and he was shocked to learn that while the average American uses 80 to 100 gallons of
water per day, the average Navajo uses only seven. “And in some cases,” Ward says, “it’s less than that.” In 2019, the Sun Lakes Rotary Club partnered with a sister club in Ontario, Canada, and completed the second phase. They provided home water systems to 33 families – that’s more than 100 individuals –with the support of a $144,000 global grant. The final tally for the third global grant for the Navajo Nation totaled $395,000; its international partner was the Rotary Club of Merida-Itzaes, Mexico and its host club was the Rotary Club of Four Peaks in Fountain Hills. Because of quarantine restrictions, DigDeep could no longer interact directly with residents of the Navajo Nation. During the first 18 months of the pandemic, DigDeep delivered more than a million gallons of water ad setup temporary water access tanks at almost 1,500 homes. The Rotary Magazine article goes into detail about the Navajo Water Project and life within the Navajo Nation. At a recent dinner meeting, Sun Lakes Rotarian John McKoy provided an overview of the Navajo Water Project and its significant impacts. McKoy, Whiting and Sun Lakes Rotarians Peter Meade and Stan Kaufman participated in the Sun Lakes portion of the Navajo Project’s RI Global Grant. McKoy and Meade presented the project at the 2018 RI International Conference in Toronto, which had over 25,000 attendees. Additionally, at the RCSL meeting, Mr. McKoy shared his childhood experiences as a member of the Oklahoma Chickasaw Nation and later in life his interactions with Sanders, Arizona, Navajo Nation schools.
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Julia “Judy” Faye Wick, 91, of Mesa, Arizona, passed away on July 14, 2022 in Tucson, Arizona. Judy was born on July 7, 1931 in Johnston City, Illinois to Vernie Clayton and Virginia Bundren. She graduated from high school in Dexter, Missouri in 1949. Judy graduated from William Woods College in Fulton, Missouri in 1951, a two-year women’s college at the time, and she was a member of the Alpha Iota International Honorary Business Sorority. Thereafter, Judy attended the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois and pledged Chi Omega Sorority. She married in 1952 and gave birth to Karen Pruett in 1954. After a divorce, Judy and Karen moved to Arizona in 1960. Judy worked at the Maricopa Inn in downtown Mesa in the accounting department and pursued finishing her college education at Arizona State University. Judy met Oliver H. Wick of Wick Insurance & Realty thereafter.
They married in 1962. Judy never lost sight of her goal to obtain her college degree. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Education in 1963 and earned a Master’s Degree in Speech Pathology in 1964 from A.S.U. She worked as a speech clinician in the Creighton School District in Phoenix, working with students at several different elementary schools. She continued to take classes in her field, and was always looking for more effective ways to help the children who came to her. In retirement, she pursued the game of golf, was an avid bridge player, and was a member of the Mesa Country Club, P.E.O., and the Scottsdale Garden Club. Judy was a loving caregiver to her mother, father, and to her husband, Oliver Wick, who predeceased her in 2005. Judy is survived by her daughter, Karen Pruett Norton, and stepdaughter, Patricia Wick, and grandchildren, Abby Norton Floyd, Molly Norton Garcia, Peter Norton, Jay Norton, Robert Goeller, and Elizabeth Ewald, as well as nineteen great grandchildren. Judy was a devoted daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, and friend. She loved her family and will be greatly missed. The family will have a private service to celebrate her life.
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Happy Cans finds a little known household niche BY PAUL MARYNIAK GSN Executive Editor
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ed Jennings provides one of those services you don’t necessarily think people want, but the Gilbert man says you’d be surprised. Jennings cleans garbage cans. And his business, Happy Cans, is thriving, according to the father of five. “I have found that people care more than you would think,” he said. “Those who are reluctant to try us – but then eventually do try us out – can’t believe what a difference it makes. In our hot summers trash cans really smell awful, which makes throwing out the garbage or taking the cans to the street for trash pick-up a very unpleasant experience, to say the least.” That’s where Happy Cans comes to the rescue.
Ted Jennings of Gilbert and his Happy Cans business deploy high-pressured hot water to clean garbage cans. (Special to GSN)
“After we have cleaned them and sprayed the deodorizer in them, people don’t have to worry about the odor.” Moreover, he noted, “Trash can cleaning also reduces pests such as flies, maggots, cockroaches, mice, and rats around the house. So, it’s part of total pest control management for a homeowner. Our cleaning process even kills bacteria and viruses.” Happy Cans arose from the disruptions that the pandemic created in its early months for Jennings’ normal job – selling medical devices for 14 of the 19 years the Southern California native has lived in Gilbert. He had been an Independent
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Cornhole business grows into new venue BY JOSH ORTEGA GSN Staff Writer
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t started as a backyard game and is becoming a full-blown business this fall in Gilbert for Todd Kisicki and his wife, Erin. The couple opened KB Kornhole Games seven years ago and since then their business has taken off around the Valley. Earlier this month, they hosted their largest tournament of the year, the Arizona State Cornhole Championships at Bell Bank Park. “It’s our largest event of the season,” he said. “It’s kind of our signature event.” The tournament offered 15 different events with something for all skill levels and ages from 8-years-old to 80, and had an estimated 410 players over the weekend.
Todd Kisicki owns KB Kornhole Games which operates one of the largest cornhole tournaments in the country, the Arizona State Cornhole Championships. (Courtesy of
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He said most of his monthly events have up to 300 players and this state-level event had drawn up to 400 in previous years. It looks like a far cry from their time at Lemonade Days in Founders Park in Queen Creek in 2016 when they first started putting on events. Kisicki eventually had to find larger venues every year since then to accommodate the number of people wanting to compete in their tournaments. For those who play in their tournaments, it’s more than just the skill of throwing bean bags into a hole on a wooden board. He said the competitors that have followed him over the past six years tell him they enjoy the bond they form and coming together as a community. “They feel like they’re part of some-
thing when they compete in these events,” he said. Kisicki also serves as the national director for the American Cornhole League and said the Valley represents one of their biggest markets in the country. “The surrounding areas have probably one of the biggest competitive bases in the country,” he said. He hosts approximately 30 events throughout the year including competitive tournaments and fundraisers, and corporate events. That’s a decline from pre-pandemic numbers of 80 events per year. He said finding the venue space to host these large events was one of the most difficult aspects for the business until now.
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This fall, that problem now has a solution. The Kisickis will have a location right here in the East Valley that will provide enough space for all their future events. The Hole 9 Yards will be located at 868 North Gilbert Road and will open this fall, he said. The 20,000-square-foot facility will of-
fer a variety of options including for private event bookings, leagues for all skill levels and open lane rentals. It will also have a full kitchen and bar with signature food and drink menus, as well as a retail shop as well with cornhole equipment and accessories. Like it says on their website: “You’ve never seen anything like it.”
sales rep selling customized surgical instrument trays to help protect expensive and delicate surgical instruments from being damaged during the sterilization process. When COVID first made the scene in March 2020, hospitals restricted access to visitors – including sales people who sold all but the most essential kinds of equipment. “Since my product was not of an urgent nature,” Jennings said, “I was not able to go into hospitals to work with my contacts in the Sterile Processing Department to customize instrument trays for the instrument sets they wanted protected. As a result, my sales pipeline decreased quickly over a few months.” Then the other longer last impact of the pandemic hit hospitals – and Jennings pocketbook. As hospitals lost more money from canceling elective surgeries, “they didn’t have the money in their budgets to invest in our products and therefore my sales opportunities diminished,” he said. Meanwhile, in May 2020, Jennings began encouraging one of his sons to clean trash cans in the neighborhood during the summer to make a little money. And while helping him get his little business off the ground, Jennings was trying to figure out a way to make some extra money since opportunities for pitching his medical devices to hospitals had become more limited. As the pandemic-restrictions dragged on, Jennings decided he could clean garbage cans, too. “I started cleaning trashcans separately from my son but with the small pressure washer I had bought for him to get him started. As I started talking to customers, I realized that this was a service that peo-
ple wanted but didn’t know how to get. “I started researching the trash can cleaning business and found that there were a few people providing this service in the U.S. but that it was in the growth phase,” he continued. “ So I found some inexpensive, used trash can cleaning equipment and with the help of my neighbor, modified it so that it would clean better. I have since upgraded to the most modern equipment available for trash can cleaning.” Jennings developed his business out of whole cloth; it is no franchise. “My son had the idea for our logo and most things I have done with the business have been through a little research and a lot of trial and error,” he explained. Jennings cleans cans “with very high pressure at a high temperature.” “The water pressure is set to 2700 PSI and at a temperature of 230 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hot enough to kill these microorganisms,” he said. “Then we spray a deodorizer and disinfectant in the trash can to complete the process. We collect all the nasty water in our catch basin and then at the end of the day, we dump it in a permitted dump station so no dirty water is left on the street or goes down the gutter.” Between word of mouth, social media and other marketing efforts, Jennings said, “My trash can cleaning business continues to grow every month” – so much so he’s not thinking about going back to medical devices. Jennings’ service casts a wide net, as he visits homes in Gilbert, Queen Creek, San Tan Valley, Chandler, Mesa, Tempe, and Ahwatukee. New customers also get $10 off their first cleaning to boot. For more information: HappyCansAZ. com
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Divine Movement track club competing at nationals BY ZACH ALVIRA GSN Sports Editor
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ames and Tonisha McSwain wanted to make an impact on the lives of the youth, teens and young adults eight years ago when they founded Divine Movement. Their mission was simple: help the individuals build goals and achieve them by providing the tools and mentorship needed for them to be successful in life. They quickly began helping a large group of individuals and saw them succeed. Two years ago, they extended their work into athletics. James, a former track star for Washington State University, aimed to provide an outlet for athletes to compete at a high level in the club track & field scene, which is rapidly growing in Arizona. Once again, their work paid off. Divine Movement Club Track, which
From left: Aiden Albertson, Braeden Elliott, Ty McSwain, coach James McSwain, James “Junior” McSwain and Liz Ghartey are all part of the Divine Movement track club that competed in Sacramento this week at the USA Track & Field National Junior Olympics. (Dave Minton/GSN Staff)
is based out of Queen Creek and Gilbert, sent five athletes varying in age to Sacramento, California this week to compete in the USA Track & Field National Junior Olympics. A monumental feat for a program still in its infant stages. “It’s an honor to be able to coach them,” said James, who also coaches track at Williams Field. “It takes a lot of hard work. Especially out here in this weather. I do ask a lot of them so they can continue to improve and be at this point. That’s why they are where they are.” To qualify for nationals, Divine Movement first had to make a splash at regionals in El Paso, Texas earlier this month. There, the team competed alongside other clubs from Arizona, including Ahwatukee-based AZ Speed, which is also a new club in just its first season competing.
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New slogan helping fuel Highland football’s rise to power BY ZACH ALVIRA GSN Sports Editor
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way up and down the hill. It’s a blunt saying, but it represents the culture that has been established within the Highland football program since the arrival of head coach Brock Farrel and his staff six seasons ago. “To see this, to be a part of this and to see it develop, I’m still on cloud nine with it,” Willis said. “This is all coach Brock. He allows us to do this. He doesn’t fight us on our opinions. He’s the leader. He’s the one that is keeping this afloat.” Willis wasn’t initially a part of Farrel’s staff when he was hired to take over the program. Dunbar recruited him four years ago, shortly after Highland’s rise to become a 6A power began. He immediately made an impact A group of Highland football players have gathered throughout the summer to put in extra work at Discovery Park running hills with linebackers coach Dominic Willis and defensive backs coach D’An- and helped turn Highland’s defense gelo Dunbar. To them, it’s their way of continuing to improve to defend their 6A title.
or several weeks Highland football players have gathered outside of summer workouts to get extra conditioning at nearby Discovery Park in Gilbert. The workouts, led by linebackers coach Dominic Willis and defensive backs coach D’Angelo Dunbar, are voluntary. But the two said they averaged at least 20 athletes per session. Even with the team’s California camp looming, over 20 athletes showed up on a Thursday morning at 7 a.m. to run a series of hills. Every athlete that has participated has grown stronger from the workouts. But there are still times where the large hill can be a humbling experience. “Die now, rest later,” Willis screamed as the players made their (Dave Minton/GSN Staff)
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into a group other teams feared. He also became a mentor and motivator through his brand, “Outwork the Known,” which is commonly displayed as the acronym “OWTK” with a hashtag. The meaning is simple: Outwork yourself and whatever situation you are in. It’s a mindset to better yourself, one that goes beyond sports. But it’s one Highland has embraced by putting it on coach’s shirts, player backpacks and shorts and on the 7 on 7 uniforms Highland wore throughout the summer. “‘Outwork the Known’ just hits different to me,” Willis said. “When you feel like you’re at your worst or your lowest, outwork that situation. Compete with yourself. Compete with the world. “It feels good to be out and I see somebody with the brand. I was on an airplane, and I had an ‘Outwork the Known’ hat on and someone said, ‘that’s Highland.’ It was cool to get acknowledged.” Before this staff’s arrival in 2017, Highland had only ever made the semifinals twice since 1993. The first trip came in 1994 under coach Mike Epperson. The
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second 10 years later under Preston Jones. Farrel and his staff led the Hawks to the semifinals in just their second season. Two years later in 2020, Highland made its first-ever championship appearance in the 6A Conference title game. The Hawks fell to Chaparral but returned in 2021 and avenged their loss to the Firebirds by beating them for the championship. For the first time ever, Highland is preparing to defend a championship. It’s unfamiliar territory for the players. But the coaches remain confident. “I love this group,” Dunbar said. “There are guys that look good in t-shirts and shorts. But we always wonder whether if they can do it in full pads and on Friday night. If they can, I think we are going to double back. We are going to make some noise.” Senior quarterback Joseph Walter is being handed the reigns of Highland’s high-powered offense this season. He takes over for three-year starter Gage Dayley.
Walter said it’s an opportunity he has been waiting for. He got a taste of what it’s like to lead the team last season when he nearly led Highland to an upset victory over Chandler in the regular season with Dayley sidelined due to an injury. He felt ready in the moment back then and has the same feeling now. But he doesn’t want to feel too comfortable. “I know my spot on the team is pretty solid,” Walter said. “But if I let myself get comfortable with where I’m at then I’m not going to improve and be at the level I should be when we face those good teams.” As has been the case during Highland’s rise to prowess, its defense is once again ready for a big year. The Hawks return a healthy amount of talent at each position on that side of the ball, including at safety with senior Zeke Nautu. He started on last year’s championship defense and has only grown as a leader this off-season. He is one Dunbar is excited about the most. Nautu, even with expectations for him high, doesn’t feel the pressure.
He’s embraced the leadership role and has made sure his teammates know another championship won’t be handed to them. They have to work for it. “It’s hard enough to win a championship but it’s harder to repeat,” Nautu said. “We aren’t going to get there just by riding off of what the seniors got us last year. We have to keep working.” Highland returned from its camp in California this past week. As always, it’s the team’s final get-away to bond and set goals for themselves for the upcoming season. Last year, Highland was left out of the Open Division tournament after losing its final three games to Hamilton, Chandler and Basha, the top three seeds. This year, they’re determined to make a splash in the big dance. Outworking the known is who Highland has become. It’s no longer a pushover program in the East Valley. “We’re going for the Open,” Dunbar said. “The 6A is good, but we’ve been there now the last two seasons. We want that Open.”
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James said Arizona as a whole dominated in El Paso, with several local athletes from around the state and Valley qualifying to move on to Sacramento. Liz Ghartey, the oldest of the group who competes in the 17 to 18-year-old group, qualified after placing first in discus and third in shot put. She also has a twin brother on the team but he was held out of regionals due to an injury. Throwing events are still relatively new for Ghartey. She began competing in sixth grade but took a two-year hiatus due to COVID. She then joined Divine Movement. A junior at Basis Mesa who will graduate from high school early to pursue a computer engineering degree, she hasn’t had many athletic opportunities. So, she’s thankful for the McSwains and Divine Movement for giving her an outlet to compete at a high level. “I really appreciate this club for giving me the athletic opportunity that I haven’t been able to have,” Ghartey said. “I think this is a big opportunity. I was really excited to train for it and compete. I like the fact that I can prove my strength. I think it
breaks a lot of stereotypes.” Along with Ghartey, Aiden Albertson took first in the high jump and fourth in long jump for the 9 to 10-year-old age group. Braeden Elliott, who is in the 11 to 12-year-old group, placed fifth in long jump. Both qualified for nationals. Ty McSwain, one of eight children the James and Tonisha have together, placed second in high jump, second in the 400-meter run and fourth in the long jump. He qualified for nationals in every event. Ty is preparing to enter his freshman year of high school where he will compete for Williams Field. It’s an opportunity he is excited for as he aims to beat some of his father’s personal best times from when he competed. “He knows that we can always do better,” Ty said of James. “He pushed us to go the extra mile in order to be better. I’m going to try to beat some of his records. It’ll take a lot of practice. We worked hard to get (to Nationals). I think it’s going to be fun.”
Junior, who is entering his junior year at Williams Field, placed fifth in the 100-meter dash in El Paso to qualify for Sacramento. James said Junior, as of right now, has the best opportunity to challenge his times from when he competed. Overall, Junior is looking forward to the opportunity to compete in the National Junior Olympics. It’s something he sees as unique. Many of his peers have expressed their excitement for him, too. Now, he just has to go out there and compete at a high level. “This is a big opportunity,” Junior said. “It gives me something to prove. My dad is a lot to live up to. He has a lot of records that I am looking to break. I want to go to the same college he did.” No matter what transpired during the near week-long event that wrapped up Sunday, James remains proud of what his athletes were able to accomplish in a short amount of time. He has seen growth in every one of them as the season has progressed and is thankful he has the opportunity to coach them and represent the East Valley at a
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high level. “I’m so excited, I’m so happy to be able to be out here this late in the season,” James said. “It’s been a long season. Honestly that is what is continuing to help me put a smile on my face. Just knowing they have another opportunity to compete and continue to improve. That’s what it is all about.” Following Nationals, Divine Movement will have a break before gearing up again for a new season. The club is seeking new athletes to join for next season or donations as a non-profit 501©3 organization. For more information, visit divinemove. org or email divinemoveorg@outlook. com.
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eringhee Modern Indian Cuisine has just opened its doors to reveal rich aromas, flavors and tastes near the Chandler Fashion Center. Consider an average dinner: The Dum Jackfruit Biryani comes in a pot sealed with a crust of dough, which is cut by the server to release a tantalizing whiff of spicy yellow basmati rice nestling underneath. The cover prevents the air from leaking, retains moisture and helps the rice to absorb the flavors of jackfruit and spices while steaming. The basmati and the jackfruit are layered and slow-cooked to perfection. The dish pairs deliciously with Old Delhi Butter Chicken and a raita – or yogurt – mixed with dabs of avocado and sprinkles of boondi (balled chickpea flour sweetened and fried). Feringhee (translates to “foreigner”) is the brainchild of Madhavi Reddy, who has created an elegant restaurant to showcase food from the diverse regions of India. The dishes are traditional but served with contemporary flair to elevate it from mere street food or offerings from sidewalk cafes. “In the US there’s not much appreciation for Indian cuisine – there are fine dining in other cuisines, but not Indian cuisine,” she said. “I went a little above and beyond.” Initial research in the Valley indicated a paucity of such establishments. “We thought we have to bring Phoenix up to that level. That was the interest for me to create one,” she said. “It wasn’t an easy journey for me; it was hard.” The pandemic took its toll on planning and executing her intricately developed business; the restaurant took more than three years to come to fruition. Reddy teamed with Sujan Sarkar, a creator of two modern Indian restaurant
Head Chef Karan Mittal is an internationally recognized chef with restaurants across the globe along and is the recipient of many internationally revered awards, including Food & Wine’s Rising Star of the year in 2018. (David Minton/Staff Photographer) brands, and Karan Mittal, a young chef hailing from Delhi and with international experience and culinary honors. Feringhee’s menu features sharing plates, such as Masala Ricotta Kulcha (fava bean and gooseberry pickle); small plates such as Tandoori Shrimp with Bengal kasundi (a dipping sauce with mustard seeds and dried mango), lime caviar and mint chutney; and large
plates such as Goan Swordfish and Kashmiri Lamb Shank. The well-stocked bar includes dozens of spirits, 65 types of wine and 20 varieties of beer, some of which are brewed locally and others as far away as India or Belgium. The cocktails are handcrafted using regional ingredients of India. Patrons are encouraged to savor, sip and linger.
Madhavi Reddy owns Feringhee Modern Indian Cuisine near Chandler Fashion Center. (David Minton/GetOut Staff Photographer)
“We start from sharing plates and enjoying the atmosphere. It’s not just ‘eat your dinner and go,’” Reddy said. With a lot of specialized ingredients that are locally sourced, Feringhee prefers its diners to make advanced reservations. Currently, it is only open for dinner, from Tuesdays to Sundays, and weekends have been busy. Reservations will help to avoid turning away walk-in customers, with the extra time useful to plan resources, and the overall experience would be better for guests, Reddy said. “We want people to have a journey of whatever the cuisine we have, that’s the goal,” she said. “It needs some experience, that means it needs planning.” Because of the restaurant’s desirable location near the Price Corridor and its many corporate offices, lunch may be introduced at a later date. There is also a plan to hold musical evenings. Reddy, a Chandler resident, has been in the United States for more than 20 years. Her first foray into the restaurant industry was with Pastries n Chaat, an Indian bakery and restaurant serving casual fare, once a chain concept with six outlets across the Valley, and now operating only in Tempe. Feringhee’s location was one of the Pastries n Chaat outlets. In 2020, Reddy also established a grocery store, Saffron, with branches in Scottsdale and Phoenix and Peoria to come. Married to a physician, Reddy has a “day job” as a business analyst in a prominent bank. She’s also raising two teenage daughters who are nearing college age. Where did she draw the inspiration to launch into the restaurant industry? “I grew up in a farming community, and my father was a landlord,” she said. This was in Telangana, located in the
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south-central stretch of India, in a city called Karimnagar. Bountiful harvests of produce, lavish servings of food, gatherings and festivals were the mainstays of her life, growing up. The family farm grew rice, corn and peanuts and nurtured fruit orchards. “It was all about food in our house: produce, food, welcoming people, it’s like a festival every time, people came over,” she recalled. Naturally, her passion was to study agriculture, so she obtained a bachelor of science in agriculture and a degree in business administration. Then, life happened, and she moved to Arizona in 2001 and married soon after. Her liking for produce lingered. “I always had the passion of bringing something to the Valley, doing something to the community,” she said. “I host social events at home, it was always there in me, to bring stuff to the community. What I miss back home, I want to bring to the community.” Creating Feringhee is perhaps the next best thing to returning to her roots.
Modern Indian Cuisine’s menu offers a variety of tasty dishes. (Special to GetOut) She chose to paint the walls in sky blue and a shade of soft mustard in the color of unpolished rice. An enormous mural of a bedecked face of an Indian woman holds a prominent spot in the décor. Chandeliers, glass mirrors and the at-
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Chandler is far from the coast, but there’s no harm in indulging in a fantasy with eyes closed. The dessert was inspired by far away Chennai, which is a south Indian coastal city famous for its swaying coconut palms. It is called Tender Coconut Panna Cotta; elaneer (tender coconut cream), berries, toasted flakes of almond and coconut and passion fruit sorbet. The melt-in-the-mouth concoction is served inside a polished coconut shell sitting on a rope of coconut fiber. “It’s based on a personal memory when I was in Chennai,” Mittal said. “Elaneer payasam is the soft malai (cream) of the tender coconut. They used to make a payasam with freshly pressed coconut milk with some condensed milk and with malai on top. That was super delicious. “We created that memory.”
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2 cups button white mushrooms, sliced in half 1large sweet potatoes, chopped into bite sized pieces 2 cups cherry tomatoes cut in half 2 red bell peppers, chopped into bite sized pieces Olive oil for drizzling over veggies 1 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper 1 tsp garlic powder Sauce: 1 cup aged sharp cheddar cheese, shredded 1 1/4 cup whole milk 1 tsp smoked paprika 1 tsp fresh oregano 1 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper 1/8 tsp white pepper Directions: 1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. 2. Heat 3 TBSP olive oil in a non-stick pan over medium-high heat. Add onions and shallots and sauté for 4-5 minutes or until softened and lightly golden. Add garlic, zucchini, broccoli and mushrooms and sweet potatoes, sautéing another 6 minutes or until veggies are softened. 3. Place all of the sautéed veggies, plus the cherry tomatoes and sliced red peppers in a large sheet pan
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