BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor Asitting Gilbert councilman who lost the primary election is facing an accu sation that he tried to pilfer campaign signs urging voters to reject him. Councilman Scott September, who was ap pointed to his seat in 2020, said he could not comment because of an active police investi gation into the allegation. September finished seventh of nine can didates, according to Maricopa County Elec tions’ final unofficial results. While incumbent Yung Koprowski and can didates Chuck Bongiovanni and Jim Torgeson won their bids outright, a runoff is enstore in the Nov. 8 General Election between onetime councilman member Bill Spence and Realtor Bobbi Buchli. Mayor Brigette Peterson said the vote will be canvassed this week in a special meet ing to certify the results, either Tuesday or Wednesday.
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BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor G ilbert council members returned last week from their month-long summer hiatus to a room full of angry resi dents who hauled them over the coals for nearly two hours, mostly about commuter rail. Over 150 people filled an auditorium of the Gilbert Public Safety Training Facility for the Aug. 9 council meeting and 49 want ed to Manyspeak.of the people who opposed com muter rail used the term interchangeably with light rail, which is different as the lat ter makes more stops more frequently. Richard Young said that before he came 2022GilbertSunNews.comValley
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The Gilbert Sun News filed a public records request Aug. 5 for the police report on the incident involving September and was told last week that the request was still being pro cessed.Gilbert resident Andrew Adams said he called police Aug. 2, the morning of the Pri mary Election, after witnessing September going to a polling location at the Southeast Regional Library and “stealing signs that op pose him, Yung Koprowski and Bill Spence.”
Because they were admonished to cease clapping after each speaker, they raised their hands when ever a speaker gave reasons why commuter rail was bad for Gilbert. (YouTube)
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“I was putting signs in a legal spot and turned around and the next thing I knew, Sep tember pulled his truck up to where the signs were and he was pulling them out of the werethoughsignsweretoldground.outthreeAdamsground,”said.“HepulledsignsoftheHemethereillegaleventheyprop erly labeled. To my knowledge they were not illegal.”According to state statute, a sign must con Controversy surrounds councilman’s alleged sign stealing
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Ina Rose Jenkins, clad in a short-sleeve shirt and red plaid pajama pants, was be lieved to have walked away from the Sil ver Creek Inn Memory Care Community at 2:02 p.m. Aug. 8, according to Gilbert Police, which issued a Silver Alert. Less than an hour after her reported disappearance, Jenkins was found dead in a dry canal near 1800 S. Sunview in Mesa, police there said. “We received the call at 2:51p.m.” Mesa Police spokesman Richard Encinas said. “The body was reported by an employee of a water company who was working in thatEncinasarea.” referred Jenkins’ cause of death to the Maricopa County Medical Examiner, which had not completed its investigation.“ADHSwill investigate this incident,” said Tom Herrmann, a spokesman for the Arizona Department of Health Services. “We’ll post the results of that investiga tion to AZCareCheck.com when it is com plete.”How Jenkins was able to leave un detected has not yet been determined, according to Chase Salyers, director of marketing and operational support for parent company Koelsche Senior Com munities in Olympia, Washington. “At this time the investigation is ongo ing,” Salyers said. “We are doing every thing we can to ID the cause, both the incident as well as cause of death. We are working with police and the coroner. “But at this point we are waiting for more information. We hope to have a bet ter understanding of what took place.”
Salyers said Jenkins moved into the Mesa facility in August 2021. She had a form of dementia, he said, adding that he was prohibited by federal privacy laws from disclosing if Jenkins had other ill nesses. Salyers said this was the first time that a resident has walked away from a Koelsche facility. The family-owned and operated company was founded in 1958 and has locations in eight states and memory care facilities in Chandler, Scott sdale and Surprise. ADHS records showed that Silver Creek was investigated five times in 2020 but the department found either no deficien cies or could not substantiate allegations. However, in 2021 the department is sued a $1,000 civil penalty to Silver Creek after a manager failed to ensure service plans were established and documented for two residents. And in 2022, the department issued a civil penalty of $250 after a manager failed to ensure a written service plan was updated for three residents, accord ing to records. Silver Creek has a capacity for 67 res idents and provides specialized memory care for those experiencing Alzheimer’s, dementia and memory loss. Additionally, it has 24-7 on-site licensed nursing. Besides licensed caregivers perform ing hourly checks on residents, safety features at the facility include motion sensors to alert staff of movement and window sensors, according to the com panyThewebsite.facility also boasts amenities, including enclosed courtyards, living rooms with fireplaces, a beauty salon and trained culinary staff that cooks three nu tritious home-style meals daily, served in a restaurant-style dining room. According to Alzheimers.net, a semi-private room costs $6,500 a month and a studio, $7,800.
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The state health department is in vestigating a memory-care facility near Baseline and Recker roads af ter an 88-year-old woman last week wan dered away and was later found dead.
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Silver Creek generally has good re views with many giving it five out of five stars.That Jenkins was able to leave unno ticed from a secured facility prompted a number of people on social media to question how that was possible. “How did she just walk out?” one wom an asked. “They had a door that an em ployee had to ‘buzz’ people out of to exit building. Everyone, visitors, vendors, etc.” Said another woman, “I’m astonished the facility would just lose a patient like this… this is very sad and tragic.”
Ina Jenkins, 88, was found dead less than an hour after she was reported missing from a Gilbert care home. (Special to GSN)
In actuality, in May it tabled a vote on staff’s request to spend $288,760 to further study two proposed transit station locations at the Cooley Station community and at the Heritage District. The centers would serve as a hub for commuter rail and other modes of transportation such as bus, bicycle and rideshare.Councilis expected to revisit the mat ter at the Aug. 23 study session, where the public is not allowed to speak. The misinformation being spread in the community about commuter rail by what Mayor Brigette Peterson called a small group prompted her in July to is sue a statement clarifying the issue. According to Peterson, there are no plans to extend light rail to Gilbert and Amtrak’s proposal last year to bring commuter rail service that connects Phoenix and Tucson is “entirely a feder al decision and outside of the authority and scope of the Gilbert Town Council.”
Many of the residents who attended the meeting were under the impression the council was scheduled to vote on commuter rail.
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“Well, the products of woke-policy positions – crime, filth, disease, home lessness all of that.”
“In fact, it’s a potential disaster. I can only use a metaphor: Imagine you’re building a pipeline for bringing toxic waste to be dumped into the middle of Gilbert. That’s very narrowly what you are doing if you approve light rail. What kind of toxic waste?
Morgan Stradling said she and her three children stayed by a place in Cal ifornia near a commuter rail that went from San Diego to Los Angeles. “It was scary,” she said. “I would never vacation there again. It’s just not safe. It’s not something that we need for our community.”Shesaidcommuter rail and light rail are the same because “lipstick on a pig is still a Michaelpig.”Clark, a council candidate who came in last in the primary, noted that commuter rail doesn’t generate revenue and needs government bail outs.Mykell Crandall said there’s no bene fit to the town for passenger rail, which he called a taxpayer-funded sink hole and pointed to buses, which he said no one“Howrides.come we can’t vote on it?” he asked. “Why is it that a small number of people get to decide on something that’s going to have a long-lasting im pact on our town? “How can we make it so that we as a town get a vote on these really, real ly large decision instead of just a small number of people that a lot of times I feel don’t vote or make decisions that represents the majority of the people?” Crandall asked. Trish King said a commuter line would bring in transients, crime, noise and pollution and wanted it to be placed on the November ballot. She added that over 90% of people in town use a vehicle to get around and a commuter rail won’t change that.
The affected residents’ backyards abut the Western Canal corridor from Lind say Road to 700 feet west of Burk Street. West
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4 GILBERT SUN NEWS | AUGUST 14, 2022NEWS to the meeting, he wondered why com muter rail grabbed the council’s atten tion.“Surely there are numbers, there were proposals, perhaps grants, some thing that made it interesting,” Young said. “Possibly some woke fairy dust was sprinkled on it, something to make it attractive but blow that way and it’s not an attractive idea at all.
He told council members they are mistaken if they think passenger rail will be used by average commuters be cause they are afraid. He cited news articles where light rail was blamed for bringing crime and homelessness into an area. “This is what you want to bring to Gil bert because that is what it has brought to other communities in this valley,” Young continued. “It’s potentially dan gerous, it’s unhealthy and once you put that pipeline in and turn the valve on, you can never shut it off again.”
A few other residents spoke about the town’s planned land acquisitions. Debbie Coon said she has been in lim bo for about 20 months while the Town decides how much land it would take from 24 homeowners in order access manholes and pipes in need of repair.
Opposition to any sort of passenger rail in Gilbert began before the council’s break, stirred up by two community meetings hosted by Vice Mayor Aimee Yentes.Yentes is vice president of Arizona Free Enterprise Club, a lobby group that reportedly backed efforts to kill light-rail expansion into South Phoenix.
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Adams said he and other electioneers told September that he couldn’t take the signs and he “eventually gave us back the“Wesigns.”took the signs out of his hands and said, ‘you can’t steal our signs,’” Ad ams said. “We were on the phone with Gilbert Police when this was going on and Scott knew we were on the phone with police and chose to leave before po lice showed up.” It’s considered a class 2 misdemeanor for anyone to knowingly remove, alter, deface or cover any political sign of any candidate for public office. Gilbert resident Brandon Ryff has asked Police Chief Mike Soelberg to refer the criminal investigation to an outside agency. Ryff had a beef with the mayor over the density of an apartment project. Ryff claimed that September’s role as a councilman is a conflict of interest for the department and that September also was endorsed by the Gilbert Police Lead ership Association, which contributed $4,000 to his campaign.
Andrew Adams, in both a video and speaking to Gilbert Town Council, accused Cuncilman Scott September of stealing opponents’ campaign signs. (Special to GSN) see
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Soelberg said the department prides itself in conducting “complete, fair, and impartial investigations.”
“As one of the largest individual cam paign donors in Gilbert for this primary election, I have a right to know what is going on here,” Ryff said in an email to Soelberg. “Very possibley signs removed by Scott September were paid for by me.”
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“The investigation involving Coun cilmember September was handled in the same manner we conduct all our investigations,” the chief told Ryff in an email.Soelberg also said his department has not and does not endorse any political candidates or ballot issues but that em ployees who have formed associations can do “Theseso.employee associations/groups are independent of the Gilbert Police De partment and do not speak on behalf of the Gilbert Police Department,” Soelberg said.Apolice spokeswoman last week did not respond to a question about when the investigation is expected to con clude.
tain the name and telephone number or website of the candidate or campaign committee contact person. September “didn’t agree with what (the signs) said and said he was going to take them,” said Adams, who also posted a video of himself recounting the inci dent.Adams noted that he was putting up the signs not in his capacity as chairman of the LD 14 Republican Committee but as a private citizen.
“The very same conditions that (Os borne) is fearful of with this can already exist with the present zoning today,” he said. “We don’t have any external impact. There is no parking on the side between us and her house, there is no drive aisle between us and her house, there are no refuse containers between us and her house.”Hesaid the storage facility would cre ate significantly less traffic than what could be generated with the site’s cur rent commercial zoning.
“I have a swimming pool,” said Os borne, whose home in San Tan Ranch is directly behind the project. “I have a 14-year-old daughter. I’m concerned for a two-story building being behind my property having access visually to a child being able to swim and enjoy her back yard.“I’m concerned as a citizen with the fact that a storage unit, which is a tran sient business 110%, you are allowing access to people who do not live in this community. … It is directly across the street from a school and within the com munity of San Tan Ranch there is an ele mentary school.” She asked if the storage facility will check on renters who may be on the sex offender registry. “I have an issue with will creepy peo ple potentially have access at being able to have a storage facility…being able to loiter or potentially hang out in their storage unit, because I doubt there is a limit of time while children are walking back and forth to school,” Osborne said, adding there are four storage facilities within a few blocks of the area. “Don’t Phoenix my Gilbert,” she said. “And this is a major concern for pedo philes, for transients, for drug addicts. This is Gilbert.”
“We like to deal in statistics and data and it tells us right now in Gilbert we are a single-family community about 88%, almost 90% of our units in Gil bert are single-family units,” Council man Scott Anderson said. “About 11% of the residential stock are apartments or multi-family units.” Anderson said that percentage is low compared with surrounding communi ties, which have upwards of 30 to 40% or more of their housing stock comprising multifamily.“WhenIhear we are overgrown with apartments, please keep that in mind,” Anderson added, adding “we are trying to encourage some density in certain ar eas and that can look very imposing.”
He said he also heard residents say that “people wanting to live in apartments, let them live in Tempe, go let them live in Phoenix or Mesa.” “Are you kidding me?” Anderson said. “How many of us have lived in an apart ment? …This is not acceptable to tell peo ple that they have to live in a different community because you have a percep tion that we have too many units here. Where are the people going to live that are going to be our workforce and the new businesses that come to Gilbert? “They can’t afford put down even a down payment on a home in Gilbert.
Complex, storage facility OK’d over protests
Mayor Brigette Peterson said Gilbert must make apart ments available for town and school employees. (YouTube) Councilman Scott Anderson noted only 11% of Gilbert’s housing stock comprise apartments. (YouTube) Councilman-elect Jim Torgenson ripped Council’s approval of a complex that will include 300 apartments. (YouTube) see
She also voiced concern that the facil ity won’t be fenced, which would allow transients to climb over her backyard wall.“I can’t even address the comments regarding about sex offenders or tran sients because I deal in facts and reality and that simply doesn’t align with what we are proposing to do today,” said landuse attorney Adam Baugh, representing theBaughproject.noted there would be no exteri or windows at the facility so loss of back yard privacy is not an issue. The internal storage facility would be secured with cameras that are main tained and monitored. Baugh said under the existing zoning, a commercial building can be built with loading zones, trash enclosures and rear parking behind that commercial center.
Council also approved 7-0 a minor General Plan amendment and rezone for The Gilmore, a 40-acre project at Val Vista Drive and Germann Road that will have retail, a supermarket, restaurants, office, entertainment and about 300 apartments.“Iwantyou to take a look at what the people that live here have been saying,” said Councilman-elect Jim Torgeson, “and how they feel – that basically they are getting just waterboarded with apartments.”Hesaidresidents will bear the brunt of high-density housing and that while property rights can’t be denied, he ques tioned granting rights or rezoning for somebody in this manner.
Atwo-story storage facility and a mixed-used development that includes approximately 300 apartment units are coming to Gilbert despite public opposition. Town Council on Aug. 9 granted a re zone on 2.92 acres for Town Storage, a 75,000-square-foot, two-story storage facility at the southwest corner of Recker and Pecos Michelleroads.Osborne repeated the same concerns she raised in the July 13 meet ing of the Planning Commission, which voted to recommend council approval.
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Baugh also agreed to install an orna mental rod-iron fence around the prop erty to prevent access to neighbors’ walls.
GILBERT SUN NEWS | AUGUST 14, 2022 7NEWS COUNCIL from page 4 Coon said she has four horses she uses for therapy for her special-needs daughter and others. “It’s my life to sing and ride horses, so you will be taking half away if you tear down my barn,” Coon said.
“I’m terrified and I’m scared,” Coon said. “It’s been so stressful. On all the options that were sent to us homeown ers, in all of them my barn is moved. You can’t move my barn. You have to tear it down. I don’t know what I’m go ing to Ellendo.”West talked about another planned acquisition that’s affecting mostly residents like her in a county island.The Town wants to widen Ocotillo Road from Greenfield to Val Vista roads, which will impact 46 properties.
Ryff also has filed an ethics violation complaint against September, saying that the councilman “cannot be trusted to do the people’s business.” Town Clerk Chaveli Herrera said the complaint will be forwarded to the council and town attorney. The town attorney will either prepare a recom mendation to the council or request an independent investigation.
The issue of September and the signs came up again at the Aug. 9 council meeting during public comments. Mario Chicas, who landed in sixth place in the primary, also called the Gil bert Police investigation a conflict of in terest and pointed to the large donation September received from the Gilbert Po liceAdams,Association.asmall-business owner, went one step further. “I’m respectfully asking for the res ignation of Scott September effective immediately as this is not acceptable conduct from an elected official,” said Adams, who received applause from the audience for his comment.
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She added now the Town can’t find the permit she pulled 27 years ago to build her block barn and that’ll likely mean she won’t get any compensation for it when it’s removed.
West said she began planting trees in her backyard over 21 years ago and she has a chicken shed and other sheds in the yard that would be affected if the Town expands the two-lane roadway to five, with a sidewalk, bike lane and horse trail. She acknowledged that the Town was trying to come up with a de sign that is less intrusive on the prop erty owners. “I have no words to say other than my life is ending,” said West, who was in a wheelchair and hooked up to oxy gen. “I’ve got a year or less, they say. I’m fighting cancer since 2011. “I want my home and my garden and my trees to be my legacy for my hus band and my son. I want somehow for your guys to figure out how to build a road that accomplishes what needs to be accomplished. I’ve seen one horse in 23 years go down that road. I’ve never seen anybody walking down that road on either side trying to walk from one place to another. This is not a part of town where people get out and ride their bicycle on sidewalks. This is a ru ral acreage property.”
Sheryl Soto, a social worker at Burk Elementary, told the group, “Thank you, we appreciate all of your support and hard work! Burk is lucky to have Gilbert Kiwanis Club.”
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The Gilbert Kiwanis Backpack Team included, from left, Nola Gear, Debbie Nussbaum, Irene Miles, Bill Nussbaum and President Doug Gear. (Courtesy Gilbert Kiwanis)
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Where do they live? … They want to live in Gilbert and enjoy the same quality of life that each one of us enjoy.” Mayor Brigette Peterson pointed out that of the town’s 11% of multifamily units, some are townhomes and some are single-family that have to be desig nated multifamily. “It was mentioned that we don’t need to rezone in certain locations and we don’t,” Peterson said. “That’s actually very true and very accurate. But com mercial is Petersondying.”saidnational businesses are closing their doors and the back acreage of The Gilmore project lacks the access and visibility needed for commercial to survive.“Iunderstand that people are taken aback by some of the larger buildings they are seeing in Gilbert but I agree with my fellow council member. We have to have a place for our police officers to live. We have to have a place for our staff in Gilbert to live. We have to have a place for our teachers to live.”
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GSN NEWS STAFF T he Gilbert Kiwanis Club made scores of Gilbert Public Schools students happy to begin a new year after giving them new backpacks loaded with supplies The club’s backpack program began about 15 years ago “and is still going strong today,” Kiwanis spokeswoman Nola Gear said. “Over the years we have donated thousands of backpacks stuffed with school supplies to GPS Title 1 schools.” Title 1 schools serve primarily households that are at or below the federal poverty guidelines. Gear said the program “got off to a bumpy start” this year because materi als arrived late, victimized by the same supply line disruptions that have im pact many businesses. While that forced the group to delay its “stuffing party,” the backpacks even tually got loaded with the help of mem bers Irene Miles, Debra and William Nussbaum, Doug and Nola Gear, Adri ana Anderson, Brian Riley and Dana Epperson from Dollar Days. The backpacks, filled with five large items as well as a baggie containing eight small items, were then loaded into vehicles for delivery to 14 GPS schools. “School needs to start in December,” Gear joked, noting the team worked for hours in a garage with eight large fans providing their only defense against the blistering summer heat. “During our deliveries to 14 schools, we received a lot of smiles and “thank you so much,” Gear added.”
With school starting, the club also is beginning several programs, such as a Student of the Month with bikes or tablets awarded to outstanding per formers, the Holiday Families program and its Clothing Bin program arranged in cooperation with Big Brothers Big Sisters.Theclub welcomes new members and meets the first and third Tuesdays at 10 a.m. at the Biscuit House, 1235 N. Gilbert Road, orInformation:Gilbert.gilbertkiwanisclub.orggilbertkiwanisclub@gmail.com.
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“Right now. the rents in Gilbert apart ments I couldn’t afford with the mayor’s salary ($43,631). I couldn’t afford to live in an apartment in Gilbert with the may or’s salary. We have to keep that in mind and that’s not why we put more multi family“Becausein. no matter how much we put in Gilbert it’s really not going to lower those costs because it’s Gilbert and it’s an extremely desirable community to live in.”
Last May, three teen suicides over the span of about two weeks shook the Chandler Unified School Dis trict. A little more than two weeks into this school year, another CUSD student has taken her own life. A junior in the online school died during the first weekend of August. She was a former Perry High School student. “Kids are dying and they have been for years,” said Sofia Borczon, a sopho more at Basha High School. “Last time we were here we told you what we wanted. Today I’m going to tell you what weMoreneed.”than a dozen people, most of them students, spoke before the Aug. 10 CUSD Governing Board, calling on district officials to do more on mental health.Theboard held a study session on the topic earlier in the day, outlining all the steps the district has taken over the past five years to improve the mental health of Somestudents.ofthose students said it’s not enough.“We’ve asked for you guys to listen to us and work with us so this won’t happen again,” said Riana Alexander, a Chandler High senior and co-founder of Arizona Students for Mental Health. “We’ve proposed many reasonable solu tions and offered as much insight as we possibly could. All of these were disre garded.“Wecontinue to reach out to you and got little response throughout the sum mer, if we got any. I’m here under the same circumstances as another young student took her life this weekend. How many students have to die before you make a change and do the job that we elected you to do?”
On Aug. 11, Chandler Unified asked area businesses and nonprofits to bid on providing mental health services to students.Vargas said the district is looking for partners who meet a number of criteria: The expectation that they could see a patient within 48 hours of first contact; their treatments are evidence-based; there are no barriers to service, includ ing language; and that they have loca tions throughout the district. The district earlier this year commit ted to spending over $5 million to im prove mental health services on top of the services they have already beefed up over the past five years. That includes employing 92 counselors and 21 social workers.Someof the other steps include: Putting Teen Life’s suicide hotline number on the back of student ID cards; Mental health awareness student clubs.All9th graders get a Teen Lifeline pre sentation.Prevention lessons in kindergarten through sixth grade. Partnering with Arizona State Univer its mental healthMENTAL
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She called on the district to hold a stu dent town hall meeting before Sept. 15 to address suicides and mental health issues.That is one of the points of contention between the district’s approach and what the students want. Brenda Vargas, CUSD director of counseling and social services, said the evidence shows put ting a spotlight on teen suicides only increases the risk more students will think about doing it. The students say that talking about it removes the stigma and can encourage struggling peers to seek help. “We will meet them … and just go from there,” Vargas said. “I think as we move forward …, what they’re saying is now, they’re saying ‘please listen now, whether it’s Sept. 15, or a different date,’ it’s saying ‘please make this a priority to listen to us.’”
“I think it’s important to remember that struggling with depression and struggling with suicide isn’t like ... crying all the time and wanting to end your life. It’s like ongoing constantly,” she contin ued. “When I was struggling, I was still going out every day and talking to friends and smiling and laughing. “But I was still struggling, there’s a ton of physical symptoms that come along with it. Like I was always sick all the time. And I think it’s something I would not wish on anybody.”
“We weren’t the closest of friends,” said Jayden Riecken, a sophomore at Basha High School, adding that they attended the same middle school and “he sat at my lunch table for a while and we had some classesJaydentogether.”believes some good has come from their appearance before the CUSD Governing Board. “After the meeting, we had emails back and forth between some of the board members and stuff,” he said. “Not all of them were productive. Some of them were just, ‘hey, thanks for coming out and speaking,’ but I feel like we were raising awareness.”Afourthmember of the group is Lucy Wegener, an eighth grader at Santan Ju nior High. She said teachers and school staff need to be more training. “Which would help like teachers be able to recognize more signs, and even students, and maybe they would get more comfortable with it,” she said.
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The teens said one way to help improve students’ mental health is for adults to engage kids in serious conversations about mental health and suicide – which they say aren’t happening now. “When it’s talked about now, peo ple, honestly, they joke about it because they’ve just never heard (about) it like until middle school. A lot of kids my age have not been educated about it at all,” Elle“Andsaid.I know it’s really hard topic to swallow, but you can’t just like leave them without that knowledge and then sud denly in the seventh grade throw it all in their face,” she said. Riana “Whenagreed.Istarted to talk to people about it and open up about it, it just makes ev erything so much easier,” Riana said. “And I think that’s where the district needs to start as well. Because I know it’s hard for people to talk about it, and I know it’s a difficult subject, and people don’t want to talk about it. But the reason that people don’t ask for help is because no one talks aboutAnotherit.” member of their group said he knew the Perry High student who died last May. The other two suicides last May involved Hamilton and Chandler high school students.
Riana is co-founder of Arizona Stu dents for Mental Health, which officially became a nonprofit on Aug. 4. The group formed at the end of the last school year after three Chandler Unified students died by suicide and membes attended a governing board meeting to demand more help for struggling students. They settled on wearing purple tiedyed shirts to give their group a visible identity.“Itwas like a cheap way for all of us to be in unison.” explained Elle Mramor, the group’s other co-founder and an eighth grader at Santan Junior High.
Chandler Unified students who are organizing efforts to push for more mental health ser vices for teens include, from left, Riana Alexander, Elle Mramor, Lucy Wagener and Jayden Ricken. (David Minton/Staff Photographer) sity to offer a mental health toolkit for high school students. Trained more than 800 staff members on Youth Mental Health First Aid and over 700 support staff in safeTALK, a suicide prevention course. Hiring Natasha Davis as a suicide pre vention coordinator, a new position. Vargas said those are just some high lights and there are many more steps they’ve taken. One thing the district does not do, however, is send district representatives to vigils held for suicide victims. Board member Lindsay Love questioned that, saying it may help other students who attend.Davis said they prefer to ask their community partners, such as Teen Life line, to attend. A couple speakers criticized the dis trict’s presentation because there was no mention of LGBTQ students, who studies indicate are much more likely to face harassment and consider suicide. “In today’s society, we know that our students are struggling,” said Dr. Craig Gilbert, the associate superintendent for pre-K-12 educational services. “They have stresses that are coming from inside school, outside during so cial media, you name it, the pressures that are coming in. You throw COVID in … it exacerbated what was already there.“Iwant our students to know that we see you, we hear you, we have been tak ing all of this information in to look to see what we can do,” he said. “One thing that’s really important to understand, and this is not an excuse, is that we’re a big ship. In order for us to move forward on the things that we’re doing with the number of students, over 43,000-plus, … in a community over 80 square miles, we want to make sure that we’re looking at what we’re doing and it’s something that we can sustain.”
“So the students around them feel more supported when it comes to suicide and know that you’re not as alone as you think you Chandlerare.”educator and mental health advocate Katey McPherson said the effort can’t be left to the school district alone and has been urging city officials to take a more proactive role in addressing teens’ mental health. “We have lost dozens of students to these feelings in addition to those who have also overdosed on substances,” she told city administration and council
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Riana Alexander knows what strug gling with mental health is like. “I’ve struggled with anxiety my entire life,” the Chandler High senior said. “But in 2021, I was diagnosed with de pression, and it just kept getting worse. I was missing school a lot. I was not eating, I was withdrawing from friends, I was just not myself. It got to the point where I did withdraw from school. I can go on and on about how hard it was.
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The strip mall at Greenfield and Warner roads in Gilbert was sold earlier this month for $12.65 million. (vizzda.com)
members in a recent email. In just a few months the teens’ group has attracted considerable news cover age and filed the necessary paperwork to be recognized as a nonprofit. The teens would love to see their group expand to other parts of the Valley and state. But they say they’re not satisfied with CUSD’s response and want to see more results by the end of the year. “I think we’ve gotten ourselves out there, but we haven’t made a huge im pact,” Elle said. “We’ve gotten people on our side, but now we just need to take the people we got and like, tell them what we need, like what we want. “There’s not that much time we can waste because it’s happening, it’s gonna be ongoing. Just because there’s a new year doesn’t mean it’s going to stop.”
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Challenging times are an oppor tunity for a new set of leaders to emerge. The COVID-19 pandemic challenged all Americans in ways they had not experienced in more than 100 years.Italso gave Charles Zhang, a Gilbert resident who graduated this year form Hamilton High School, as well as Ham ilton senior Kristopher Luo, a chance to step forward with solutions. Bank of America selected five student leaders from across the Valley and had them work paid internships with the company this summer. Hamilton grad uate Charles Zhang and current senior Kristopher Luo were two of those chosen.“Oneof the things that we look at is in their applications if they’re being timely, right,” Trisha Constas, Bank of America’s community relations manager. “So being able to be nimble, understanding what the need is, and then reacting quickly.”
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AHigley High School graphics stu dent has been elected an officer in a national career and technical organization.LiliValencia will represent 380,000 members nationwide as the 2022-2023 SkillsUSA national secondary secretary. Lili is one of five SkillsUSA national secondary officers chosen by student delegates at the group’s leadership con ference recently. “Lili will represent SkillsUSA, Higley High School, and the Higley Unified School District on the national level during the 2022-23 school year as she travels across the country meeting with SkillsUSA student members, business and industry partners, and other stake holders as well as facilitating conference and advocating for the SkillsUSA organi zation,” the group said in its announce ment.She also was selected Joint Executive Council chair, which enables Lili to work with the SkillsUSA board to shape the organization’s future. SkillsUSA is a national Career and Technical Student Organization and “a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce.” The group said Lili “is part of the legacy of leadership being developed by the Higley High School graphic design program.“Overthe past three years,” it con tinued, “Higley Graphic Design has had 11 regional officers representing 3,000 SkillsUSA members, three state officers representing 13,000 SkillsUSA Arizona members, and now a national officer representing 380,000 members. The leadership training, travel experiences, and opportunities to meet with stake holders will serve Lili in all her future endeavors.”Lili Valenci
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Both Charles and Kristopher did just that during the pan demic.Charles says he lives near a hospice center and saw that a lot of older resi dents were dying alone, unable to see their friends or family because of the pandemic. Just as sad, some of the hospice patients had no one to visit them.The Gilbert res ident started his own nonprofit, the Wishing Crane Project.We fold these origami paper cranes for hospice patients,” Charles said. He came up with the idea after they told him he couldn’t volunteer at the hospice any more. “And I had a really deep connec tion with the hospice patients, so I still wanted to help them. Over the past few years, I’ve folded like a couple of thou sand and we’ve been able to impact hun dreds of hospice patients and be able to bring and instill hope and optimism into their lives during like these challenging times.”Kristopher read news reports about the lack of personal protective equip ment during the early days of the pan demic. It was the doctors, nurses and hospital staff that were putting their lives at risk and he wanted to help. “A lot of these frontline workers are pretty much reusing their masks, which is really dangerous because reusing those masks can … cause these nurses and doctors to get COVID,” the Chandler resident said. “So I first created a handmade UV [ultra-violet light] sanitizer. Then I
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Charles Zhang of Gilbert (left) and Kristopher Luo were two of the five student leaders Bank of America chose for its paid summer internship program. Both either attended, or are still attending, Hamilton High School. (Bank of America) STAFF
GILBERT SUN NEWS | AUGUST 14, 2022 15COMMUNITY wrapped it around with reflective UV, or reflective like car shading material, to keep it keep the UV inside and not hurt others. And basically, that took off.” Kristopher raised more than $10,000 to make his product and used that to donate PPE to local hospitals.
I actually really liked the experience, because most of the time, I was able to work with small groups of kids, teaching them tennis,” Charles said. Charles will attend the University of Arizona this fall. He plans to study neu roscience, with the goal of eventually becoming a Kristopherdoctor.hasnot made up his mind about where he will go to school after he graduates from Hamilton. He does know what he wants to pursue for a career. “Definitely,” he said. “Engineering, I’ve just always been interested in it, so I plan to just stay in robotics.” So what does it take to be a leader? “There are three pretty important qualities of leader,” Charles said. “The first one is you have to take initiative. … And the second one is you want to always listen to your team. … And the third one I feel like is really important is persistence.”Ithinkjust being a leader requires you to make decisions and know when to take risks and when to not take risks,” Kristopher said. “And really, just not be afraid to fail.””
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These were not the only times they’ve shown leadership. Kristopher is the vice president of the Alliance of Youth Leaders in the United States Phoenix branch. He also teaches robotics to younger students. In addition to volun teering at the hospice before the pan demic started, Charles has been involved in numerous clubs. Bank of America partnered with a local nonprofit, the Boys and Girls Club of Arizona on the student leadership program. As part of their internship, both Charles and Kristopher worked at a Boys and Girls club. “I had an awesome time,” Kristopher said. “And it was really interesting to see how the for profit sector worked with the nonprofit sector. And you know, Bank of America is one of those few companies that really focuses on giving back to the community. So I really just tried emulating that mission.”
AGilbert family has opened the first Arizona franchise of a cafe that specializes in açaí bowls. Northern California-based Vitality Bowls, at 2438 S. Recker Road in the Verde at Cooley Station shopping center, is joining the 129 locations open nation wide or in development nationwide and an additional five locations are planned for Arizona in the coming months. The new franchise is owned by Gary Legumina. His sons, Casey, Jake and Luke Legumina, as well as their mother, Julie Delaney, are also partners in the venture.
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The cafés play boast superfood menu items with “extraordinary ingredients packed with antioxidants and high nu tritionalAmongvalues.”them are the Dragon Bowl with pitaya, mango juice, coconut milk, bananas, pineapple and raspberries and their signature Vitality Bowl with organ ic açaí, bananas strawberries and organ ic flax seed. In addition to açaí bowls and smooth ies, the brand also serves salads, grain bowls, wraps and toasts with nutritional ingredients and a wide range of super foodOptionstoppings.include hummus, avocado, super greens, grains, roasted potato, radish, pickled red onion, lemon tahini vinaigrette, vegan garlic aioli and super seed crunch in a tomato basil tortilla. All açaí bowls and smoothies are pre pared without any ingredient fillers like ice, frozen yogurt, or artificial preserva tives.“This is a major milestone for our brand as we finally make our entrance into Arizona and introduce our better superfood concept to the people of Gil bert,” said Tara Gilad, co-founder of Vi talityRoyBowls.andTara Gilad founded Vitality Bowls in 2011 in San Ramon, California, as a result of discovering their daugh ter’s severe food allergies and wanting to find safe, healthy food options. Infor mation: vitalitybowls.com.
is expensive. A recent nationwide study found almost 28% of households experienced barriers to proper veter inary care for their pets, with finances being cited as the most common reason. Dr. Kelly Patriquin, DVM, and Doug Patriquin wanted to help local residents have better access to affordable surgical care for their furry friends – cats, dogs and rabbits specifically. So in 2016, they opened Dr. Kelly’s Mo bile Vet, a veterinary practice on wheels that routinely sets up shop in Mesa, Gil bert and Queen Creek. “We were looking to open a veterinary service where we can help more pets,” said Doug Patriquin, CEO of the prac tice. “We found by specializing in surgi cal care we can help pets that might not receive care due to financial constraints. “Often, due to the cost, pets will go without proper dental care, spay and neutering or getting some of the grow ing lumps and bumps removed. The cost of veterinary care, like most things, is rising and services can be prohibitively expensive for some clients.” “Unfortunately, if these services that fall under surgical care are left untreat ed, the issue often gets worse and more expensive down the line,” he continued. Noting owners “often make large fi nancial sacrifices or take on debt to care for their family pet,” he said that by spe cializing in certain services, like routine surgery, “we can find efficiencies and pass that savings to our clients.”
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Dr. Kelly’s Mobile Vet specializes in low-cost surgical care including spay/ neuter, dental cleaning and extractions, mass removals, and more. Patriquin explained that the practice has six clinics: one free standing build ing and five custom-built mobile hos pitals that provide surgical procedures right on board. He said that each day a mobile unit partners with a local business where Dr. Kelly Patriquin, DVM, and Doug Patriquin own a mobile veterinarian practice. (Courtesy Dr. Kelly’s Mobile Vet) GSN NEWS STAFF
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Fatherhood Initiative’s mission is sim ple: They want to promote fatherhood. Shepherd said the organization is planning speaking engagements at local high schools that will help younger gen erations understand the impact fathers make on children, a spouse and loved ones. They will also encourage respon sible fatherhood for young men and pro vide resources and helpful information to currentOverall,fathers.they aim to create a more fa ther-present society, something that Shepherd believes will make an impact based on his research. He found that 71 percent of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. Sixty-three percent of youth suicides also stem from homes without a father pres ent. Currently, there are more than 17 million children growing up without a fa ther in the U.S. Shepherd also found that 40 percent of all births take place out of wedlock.“There are statistics I want to change,” Shepherd said. “One of our slogans is, ‘Ev eryone deserves a dad,’ and I think that is so true. As I go to speak with groups, my goal is to spread the good that comes withShepherd’sfatherhood.”team with Fatherhood Ini tiative is small for now. He is currently in the process of applying for 501-c3 status, which takes time. He still works and attends SUU, where he is studying business and political science. This fall, he will be an intern in Washington D.C. for Utah Sen. Mitt Rom ney.Fatherhood Initiative stays in the fore front of his mind. He wants to make fa therhood cool, a lifestyle and a goal for those in his generation.
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The support Shepherd had and still has from Steve has been impactful. That’s why he created Fatherhood Initiative to raise awareness and promote how im portant fatherhood is. Shepherd’s journey to starting his non-profit began in Italy when he served a church mission. He spent much of that time on lockdown due to the pandemic. It was there he had the opportunity to meet with Jimmer Fredette, a former standout basketball player at BYU. Fredette shared his non-profit, which then motivated Shepherd to start creat ing his own. When he returned from his mission, he began his football career at Southern Utah University. He played a year before deciding this season to hang up his cleats. Though, he still attends SUU.
Fatherhood Initiative officially got off the ground last year while he was sitting in a classroom. His professor mentioned non-profit organizations and Shepherd decided it was time to take the plunge. He did research, started a website and offi cially announced Fatherhood Initiative on his Instagram.
Shepherd is determined to get Father hood Initiative to succeed. It’s the same level of determination he had on the football field. Just like he did at Williams Field, he wants to make an impact. “Every day when I go to work on this organization, I know there are a lot of things I need to get done. But little by lit tle, step by step, I’ll get to where I want it to be. That’s exactly how it was in foot ball.”To learn more about Fatherhood Initia tive and its mission, visit fatherhoodini tiative.org.
The support he received was unimag inable.“Itblew me away how much support I got from it,” Shepherd said. “It gave me that motivation to keep going. My dad has been way on board, my mom has been way on board because she knows the im pact my dad made on all of us growing up. My parents both are super stoked and I’m excited to see where it goes.”
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Zack Shepherd recognized from an early age how important his father, Steve, was to him and his four sib lings.He was Shepherd’s support system for difficult situations. He was his biggest fan when he played football growing up in Mesa and when he got to high school at Williams Field. He was there every step of the way when Shepherd led the Black Hawks to an undefeated record and state title in 2016. As important as it was to have Steve there for him growing up, Shepherd knew how important it was to his father to be there for his kids. That was some thing Steve didn’t have, as his father was an alcoholic and abusive. He vowed to never go down that path, and he stayed true to his word. “I get one extreme from the other. My dad was a great father, but his wasn’t so much,” Shepherd said. “He’s told me sto ries my whole life. One year, when he was a kid, all he got for Christmas was a beer and an orange. So, every year in our stocking we get an IBC root beer in our stocking along with an orange. “It’s a reminder we need to be grateful for what we have. It’s a constant remind er what we truly have in my father and my parents because there’s tons of peo ple who don’t have what I have.”
The youngest of five, Zack Shepherd recalls stories his father told him about his abusive dad. His father vowed to never be that way toward his children, and he kept that promise. (Courtesy Zack Shepherd) Mesa native and former Williams Field quar terback Zack Shepherd recognized how important having his father, Steve, in his life was growing up. He also saw how hesitant his generation was to be a father. So, he cre ated Fatherhood Initiative to spread aware ness and promote responsible fatherhood. (Courtesy Zack Shepherd)
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NOTICE TO WILLIAM DODD The State of Tennessee, Department of Children’s Services, has filed a petition against you seek i ng to terminate forever your parental rights to Kassian Nicholas Junior. It appears that ordinary process of law can not be served upon you because your whereabouts are un k nown. You are hereby ordered to serve upon Marlen e Simpson, attorney for the Tennessee Department of Chil dren Services, 1979 St. John Avenue, Suite F, Dyersburg , TN 38024, an Answer to the Petition for Termination of Par e ntal Rights filed by the Tennessee, Department o f Children’s Services, within thirty (30) days of the last day of publication against you pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. §36-1 117(n) and Rule 55 of the Tenn. R. of Civ. P. for the relief demanded in the Petition. You may view and obtain a cop y of the Petition and any other subsequently filed legal docu ments at the Dyer County Juvenile Court Clerk’s Office i n Dyersburg, Tennessee. You are also ordered to appear o n September 16, 2022 at 9:00 am at the Dyer County Juvenile Court in order to contest the petition filed against you, and failure to appear or otherwise file an answer with the clerk of this Court before that date will result in a finding being entered against you by default. Entered this 25 th day of Ju ly, 2022. Jason Hudson Respectfully submitted, ______Mar l ene Simpson, BPR # 025691 Attorney for DCS 1979 St John Ave., Ste. F Dyersburg, TN 38024 731-286-8304 OF SERVICE a true and act copy of the foregoing pleading has on the 20th day of July, 2022 to the following: Mark Butler, Esq. PO Box 846 Dyersburg, TN 38025 _____ cc: Lorett a O’Neil, DCS Representative Published: East Valley Tribune, July 31, Aug 7, 14, 21, 2022 48162
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Public Notices IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF DYER COUNTY, TENN ESSEE IN THE MATTER OF: KASSIAN NICHOLA S JUNIOR, DOB: 08/14/2020 NO. 7746 A CHILD UNDE R 18 YEARS OF AGE ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLIC ATION It appearing to the Court from the allegations of th e Petition for Termination of Parental Rights, Motion for Ser vice by Publication and the Affidavit of Diligent Search that the whereabouts of William Dodd are unknown and cannot b e ascertained by diligent search; therefore, the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon William Dodd. It is, therefore, ORDERED that William Dodd be served by pub lication of the following notice for four consecutive weeks in The Mesa Tribune, a newspaper published in Maricopa C ounty, Arizona. It is further ORDERED that if Willia m Dodd does not enter an appearance or otherwise Answer the Petition, further personal service or service by further pub lication shall be dispensed with and service of any future no tices, motions, orders, or other legal documents in this mat ter may be made upon William Dodd by filing same with the Juvenile Court Clerk of Dyer County, Tennessee.
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