Operation Welcome Home touted that a scaled-down version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. and an educa tion and resource center when it unveiled the plans in 2015.
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“We could ride our horses into Jim’s Dairy Bar and hitch up out back and get ice cream,” said Reid, who lives on a piece of unincorporated county island near Knox Road and Val Vista Drive in Gilbert.
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But that project proved to be a pie in the sky when the nonprofit in 2019 announced it couldn’t raise the $3 million needed to build the park and shuttered its operation, prompting Town Council to sever its contract with the group and take back the land it had been leasing for $1 a year.
BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor L iane Reid remembered growing up in Gilbert when there was just one streetlight in the entire town.
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Over time, she’s seen urban growth chew away at the town’s agricultural roots and now a newly proposed annexation of land for the development of rental housing is looming. “I really feel that it’s going to have a strong impact on my quality of life as well as my family’s,” Reid said at the Aug. 23 Council meeting. “Everything in the city life is “Iencroaching.movedthere so that I could have my farm animals and you know my distance between my neighbors. Now, without any choice of mine, I’m getting an overwhelm ing amount of neighbors piled on top of me if this goes through.” New Village Homes is proposing to build Highland Park, a gated community of 72 townhomes and 66 cottages for rent on 16.2 acres near the southeast corner of Val Vista Drive and Warner Road. In order to build the project, the devel oper wants to annex approximately 5.88 acres that is near the northeast corner of Val Vista and Knox and under Maricopa County jurisdiction into the Town of Gil bert. The remaining property is in Gilbert.
Truck load after truck load of dirt – about 22,856 cubic yards –were hauled and dumped nearly five years ago on a 7-acre site near Gilbert Civic Center that was to be the home for a proposed veterans memorial park.
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Asecond shooting in four months at Sandbar Mexican Grill in Gil bert has spurred residents to call for its closure and town officials into seeing what can be done. The first shooting occurred May 8 and the most recent on Aug. 28 after alterca tions. Police said the two male victims from those incidents survived their in juries.“This is concerning since it is a second incident,” Councilman Scott Anderson said. “We had a meeting with Sandbar managers a couple of years ago for noise complaints. Actions were taken to ad dress excessive noise. “We will be looking to our police for suggestions,” Anderson said. “It may be time for another session with the man agers.”Councilman Laurin Hendrix said the town’s hands are tied because it lacks the “authority to intervene in the private affairs of a privately owned business” unless it is breaking the law or violating a code. That said, Hendrix added, “Howev er, the town does have the resources to advise businesses and educate them on how to better deal with these types of challenges.”Councilwoman Yung Koprowski said incidents that put the public’s safety at risk are always a concern for her and that she hoped “solutions will be imple mented by stakeholders to reduce these incidents.”ThePolice Department is actively investigating the incident,” Koprows ki said. “Regarding past problems and future plans, the Police Department is compiling data and assessing the scope of the problems so we can identify solu tions.”“The Police Department will also be meeting with Sandbar management next week to discuss concerns and get their input on how they are going to address them,” she Koprowskisaid.added that the town also will be reaching out to the Arizona De see SANDBAR
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The Sandbar Mexican Grill in SanTan Village was the scene of a second early-morning shooting Aug. 28. (David Minton/GSN Staff Photographer)
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The shooting in May occurred around 1 a.m., also on a Sunday. According to police, an altercation involving patrons inside the Sandbar spilled out to the business parking lot. During the altercation, a man was shot twice and taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The latest incident occurred at about 2:20 a.m. Sunday. Witnesses told police that a large altercation broke out, lead ing to multiple shots fired in the restau rant parking lot by suspects in a vehicle who then fled the scene.
The Arizonan asked the five candi dates what they hope voters will know about them after the forums. Here are their responses: Lara Bruner: “As an educator for 31 years, I hope they know, whether they agree with me on every issue or not, that my life has been dedicated to kids and, everything that I do I take very se riously. And I try to consider every as pect of every decision that we make and hear from everyone.”
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The shooter reportedly got into the front passenger seat of a red Dodge Challenger, which sped from the scene, according to police. Witnesses identified the alleged shooter as a Black man in his late 20s to early 30s with short, dreadlock-type hair, wearing what appeared to be a short-sleeve matching men’s romper set, Police said. In the meantime, hundreds of resi dents on social media were commenting on the shootings with many clamoring to shutter Sandbar and criticizing the establishment for not controlling its pa trons.“Close that place, it’s not even good,” one person wrote, adding, “Sandbar Gil bert take responsibility for your clien tele.” A woman agreed, writing “This place seems to be a magnet for trouble and too close to home. It’s a stain on our commu see SANDBAR page 10 see FORUM page10
BY KEN SAIN GSN Staff Writer The Chandler Unified School District is the third largest in Arizona and can boast about many successes.
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Officers were unable to find any shooting victims but a short time later, were notified by a local hospital that a 27-year-old man with non-life-threaten ing injuries had been admitted for treat ment.
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Charlotte Golla: “The one thing I hope they take away is that I care. I care about your kids, and I care about our district. I’m a mom to four kids in our district. I’ve given countless volunteer hours to the district trying to contin ue those volunteer hours. Now that my youngest is in kindergarten, I had the choice to go back into the workforce, or to give service and I thought, I think we need a mom of kids in school, you know, and I have the time to serve. …It’s time
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In the coming weeks the five candi dates for two seats on the governing board are scheduled to participate in forums, allowing voters in that part of Gilbert served by CUSD to find out who they are and what issues are important to them.
Marilou Estes: “I care deeply about public education, the teaching profes sion, and the importance of the right of all parents to be a participant in the de sign of a quality public education. I am committed to the steadfast belief that all children have the right to a quality public education. That said, I want vot ers to know that I believe partisanship to be a polarizing element in the design of a quality public education and as a board member my decisions will not be unduly guided by the loudest voices.”
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First up is Sept. 6, when the Chandler Education Association and the Valley Interfaith Project are hosting an online forum. Then the Chandler Chamber of Commerce is hosting an in-person fo rum on Sept. 13 at the CUSD office on Frye“We’veRoad.always partnered with Val ley Interfaith Project,” said Katie Nash, president of the Chandler Education Association. “So we get that reputation, ‘we’re the big bad union,’ but we’re partnering with a nonpartisan group so that it levels the playing field for every one.” The five candidates are incumbent Lara Bruner and challengers Marilou Estes, Charlotte Golla, Kurt Rohrs, and Patti Serrano. Current Board Member Lindsay Love decided not to seek re election.
SANDBAR from page 3 partment of Liquor Licenses and Control to see how the agency can help with the assessment of Sandbar. Police spokeswoman Brenda Carras co said the department reviewed recent calls for service at the business, and at its meeting with the Sandbar management team will “discuss community concerns related to safety and identify solutions that will promote a safe and welcoming environment.”Sandbarowner Evening Entertain ment Group issued a statement say ing, “We’re aware of the situation that happened at SanTan Pavilions parking lot. Our restaurant closed without inci dent as usual that night, and was closed at the time of the parking lot altercation.” Mayor Brigette Peterson, Vice May or Aimee Yentes and Council members Kathy Tilque and Scott September did not respond to questions for this story. The suspects in both shootings were still on the loose as of last week.
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What: Vitalant Arizona Blood Drive 8 a.m.-noon at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Building, 1720 S. Iron wood Drive, Apache Junction. Call 877258-4825 to make an appointment and mention Peralta Trail Stake or visit do nors.vitalant.org and use code: P1X66.
Event runs 6-11 a.m. Sept. 10.
Information: Valerie Young-Grimm 405- 386-7799, valerieg1@gmail.com.
What: Mesa Public Library Make Cards for First Responders project 5-7 p.m. Sept. 6 at the library, 64 E. 1st St., Mesa. Cards made at home can be dropped off through Sept. 7 at the first floor service desk. Interested in delivering cards? Email a note with your interest and sub mit your cross streets. Information: Janice Dell 480-6444638, Janice.Dell@MesaAZ.gov.
ere are some of the opportuni ties to participate in a service project this week to honor those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror at tacks. Most of the events are on Sept. 10, the National 9/11 Day of Service.
“This day of service is also intended to invite people to unify and rekindle the extraordinary spirit of togetherness and compassion that arose in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy,” said Jen nfier Wheeler a spokeswoman for the LDS Church. In Arizona and across the country, JustServe is inviting non-profits, gov ernment, individuals, families, co-work ers, congregations, schools and busi nesses to volunteer for these projects. Local projects can be found at justserve. org/az911day.
The drive is among a number of ac tivities organized under the umbrella of two groups, JustService and 9/11 Day, to encourage a day of service during the week leading up to Sept. 11 to honor those who were killed or injured in, or responded to, the attacks.
What: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Boulder Creek Stake Sept. 10 with flag ceremony at 8 a.m., followed by a food drive, craft kits as sembly and two bounce houses for kids through 9:30 a.m. at Mariposa Park, 2345 South Hawes Road, Mesa. Information: Pat Nelson 559-2802148 bcjustserve@gmail.com. What: House of Refuge grounds beauti fication 8-11a.m. Sept. 10 at 6858 E. Ur sula Ave., Information:Mesa. Corrine Parsons 480698-8673 or corrine@houseofrefuge. org. What: Gilbert Public Schools beautifi cations of grounds 7 a.m.-noon Sept. 10 at the following schools: Sonoma Ranch Elementary, 601 N. Key Biscayne Drive; Gilbert High, 1101 E. Elliot Road; Burk Elementary, 545 N. Burk St,; Patterson Elementary, 1211 E. Guadalupe Road; Mesquite Elementary, 1000 E. Mesquite St., Gilbert. Information: Lori Schuermann (480) 497-9343, lori.schuermann@gilbert schools.net.
Organizers of the Interfaith 9/11Memorial Blood Drive include, from left, Shahzad Amjad, president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Phoenix, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Chandler West Stake President Dan Shkapich, East Valley JCC CEO Rabbi Michael Beyo and Imam Ahmad Salman of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Phoenix. (David Minton/Srizonan Staff Photographer)
Interfaith effort honors 9/11 victims
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Information: Drop donations off at the Chamber office, 22246 S. Ellsworth Road or the Town Municipal Services and Rec Annex. Information: see the Chamber’s Facebook page.
How EV residents can honor 9/11 victims see HONOR page 10 see INTERFAITH page 17
What: Queen Creek Chamber of Com merce description food drive through Sept. 12. Most needed items include cereals, oatmeal, peanut butter, soups, chili, stews, beans, canned fruits and vegetables, canned or dried milk, canned tuna or chicken, canned tomato products, rice and pasta. You can make a tax-deductible cash contribution using the QR code.
What: Help the Resurrection Street Min istry clean up the lot behind its S.T.U.F.F. store at 1135 E. Main St. Mesa, which helps food banks. The ministry wants to put up individual huts for unsheltered people and to serve food to twice a day.
BY JOSH ORTEGA GSN Staff Writer B loodshed united the nation as it mourned the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and Pennsylvania and on the Pentagon. On Sept. 9, leaders of the Interfaith 9/11 Memorial Blood Drive hope to unite people again. The blood drive will bring together the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Phoenix, the East Valley Jewish Com munity Center, and the Chandler West Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It will run noon-6 p.m. Sept. 9 at 1950 West Galveston St., Chandler. Those in terested in donating must make an ap pointment at redcrossblood.org and use sponsor code: 9/11memorial. Since 2015, the interfaith group has held the drive as a unifying tool for the community despite doctrinal differenc es.“We’re all trying to help humanity in some way,” said Robin Finlinson of the church‘s Chandler West Stake. “And sav ing lives literally by donating blood is a great way to do that.”
Information: Betty Thomas 772-2496610, bluewatern2@yahoo.com.
What: United Food Bank food bag as sembly 9-11 a.m. Sept. 12, 358 E. Java lina Drive, Mesa. Closed-toed shoes re
Past events have shown flags fill the crescent-shaped grass field at the heart of the Tempe Beach Park. That area pri marily commemorates the victims inside the Twin SmallerTowers.areas around the large field commemorates victims inside the Pen tagon and inside the airliner that was crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.
“Some of the emotion that I’ve seen and felt, you really can’t describe it,” Bastian said. “We just want to make sure that people don’t ever forget what hap pened that day.”
Bastian said it’s the largest event the Tempe Exchange Club puts on.
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The Tempe Exchange Club will plant one flag for each person killed that day – nearly 3,000, according to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City.
In 2001, Bastian was living in Mesa and working as a residential Realtor when he woke up to a surreal moment on TV.
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The 21st annual Tempe Healing Field tribute will be held Sept. 9-11 for what event Chairman Nick Bastian said is an effort to not only memorialize victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks but cap ture the unity that immediately followed.
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“It really just felt like our country came together as Americans,” Bastian said. “And that’s something that I’ll certain ly never forget and I hope other people don’t.”For the past 20 years, Bastian said people from all over the world have at tended the Healing Fields memorial.
Amemorial that captures the hor ror that America witnessed 21 years ago will return to Tempe Beach Park this week.
“If you have a loved one that was lost that day, we can actually show you where that person’s flag is,” Bastian said.
Like millions of Americans on that Tuesday morning, Bastian watched United Airlines Flight 175 crash into the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Bastian said that moment still lives with him to this day and why he wants to remind people what happened, not just on that day, but in the days following, es pecially for those not born at the time –like his three teenage sons.
Healing Fields in Tempe honor the 9/11 dead
The Tempe Healing Field at Tempe Beach Park is a sobering reminder of the thousands of lives lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. (Special to GSN) see
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The one-story cottages would have a mix of two- and three-bedroom resi dences, each with a one-car garage and driveway space for two additional vehi cles. They would range in size between 900 square feet and 1,300 square feet and each would have private open space surrounded by a block wall.
8 GILBERT SUN NEWS | SEPTEMBER 4, 2022NEWS ANNEX from page 1 lecting signatures Aug. 31 from the property owners, town planner Noah Schumerth said last week. There are two owners on the prop erty proposed for annexation – Tri-Pac Holdings, LLC and John Duke Rottwei ler.
She said the traffic on Val Vista Drive is already congested and a nightmare to drive and that people from the pro posed rentals would be coming into her neighborhood for the trails and “because we have the donkeys and the chickens and the pigs and the goats and the sheep and they’ll bring them in like we’re the little personal zoo to them.”
“A handful of people have no idea that this is going on there,” he said, adding that the developer held a virtual neigh borhood meeting on Zoom. “We’re all over 70,” Goetz continued. “We don’t have Zoom. I have a rotary phone in my desk. That’s not the way to have a public meeting. This has to be put off until people are involved. We don’t need this. Leave the neighbor hood like it Councilmanwas.”Scott September asked a number of questions, including if there were public notices as part of the an nexationSchumerthprocess.said there are three 4’x8’ signs on the property notifying resi dents and people passing by the land of the hearing before council. Additionally, the developer held two neighborhood meetings so far, the most recent a couple of months ago and that development plans were shared with the residents, Schumerth said in re sponse to Councilman Scott Anderson’s questions.“Therewere a lot of comments about effects on residents particularly to the south who came out to the neighbor hood meeting,” Schumerth said. “So the preliminary designs have started to take into account measures to mitigate the impacts on those neighbors to the south, particularly drainage and then noise and site impacts.” Schumerth added that a design re view case is active with the town, hav ing gone to the Planning Commission for a study session discussion Aug. 3.
The developer is proposing to build the community in a single phase with the townhomes on the northern half of the site and the cottages on the south.
The two-story townhomes would have two bedrooms each with two-car garages. The residences would be ap proximately 1,300 square feet in size. Each townhome, designed in a farm house style, would include a private open space with a low block wall.
“It’s going to be piled full of rentals and I just honestly think Gilbert is just after the money grab for whatever tax revenue they can get out of these rent als,” Reid said. “It’s about the mon ey and I’m just disgusted to see how Gilbert’s gone with all the apartment complexes and the whole change of the town.” She asked Council to consider the project’s impact on the existing resi dentsFellownearby.county-island resident Joe Goetz also spoke against the proposed annexation. He said he and others live on 1-acre lots. “We have horses, we have cows, we have chickens, we have a little piece of heaven out there,” he said. “And now the builders gone on there and bought these properties up there and instead of one house per acre it’s put 138 units here and it’s not right.” Goetz also claimed that the devel oper only wants to annex into Gilbert because the county won’t allow for a rezone and that there has been a lack of notification about the project to the affected nearby residents.
“Both owners within the annexed area must provide their signatures on the petition for it to be valid,” Schumerth said.
The developer will have a year to col lect the signatures but the town antici pates that to occur much sooner. Once the signatures are submitted, the de veloper can craft a proposed ordinance formally requesting the annexation to council“Iimagine that will be the October Town Council hearing date, where that ordinance is presented,” Schumerth said. “Unfortunately, until I hear back from the applicant about the petition being complete, I do not have any for mal dates in Schumerthplace.”added that this site will be required to file a rezoning and a Gener al Plan amendment application. “Both will have significant public input opportunities and will be debat ed by both Planning Commission and Town Council at various times,” he said, adding that the rezoning and general plan amendment cases are expected to come forward toward the end of the year.“There is not a specific schedule yet because we have sent back all of the cases for revisions already due to con cerns about traffic, site design, land scaping, etc,” Schumerth said. “We are still requiring significant revisions of documents and nothing can come for ward before an annexation.” Annexations do not affect any devel opment on the property; only the taxes they pay, the services they are eligible to receive, and the laws, codes, stan dards they must be in compliance with, according to Schumerth.
New Village Homes is proposing to build Highland Park, a gated community of 72 townho mes and 66 cottages for rent on 16.2 acres near the southeast corner of Val Vista Drive and Warner Road. (GSN file photo)
That may be so but for Reid, it would be a big impact on her as she argued her case before Council last month.
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IF YOU GO Candidate Forums CEA/Valley Interfaith Project When: 6:30 p.m., Sept. 6 Where: Zoom online meeting Register: chandlerea.org Chamber of Commerce When: 4 p.m., Sept. 13 Where: CUSD District headquarters, 1525 W. Frye Road Register: chandlerchamber.com FORUM from page 4 nities,” while another commented, “that place has become dangerous, draws too many“Thatriff-raffs.”place needs to go,” another woman wrote, “It brings nothing but drama and trouble to the area.” The big question for one woman was why is Sandbar even open past 2 a.m. when the rest of the shopping center is closed by 11 p.m. “If Sandbar wants to be open until 2 a.m. they can take that garbage down to downtown Gilbert with the rest of the party scene,” she said.
Kurt Rohrs: “First of all, this is a good district and I want to take it to great. I mean, I think all our pieces are here. We can do more, we can do a lot. And particularly for students that are struggling. But there are so many inno vations in education right now. I mean, we could really take this into a District that is recognized as a leader on the na tional level.”
Surrounding businesses should pe tition SanTan Pavilions not to renew Sandbar’s lease, one person suggested while another urged that its liquor li cense be suspended.
Patti Serrano: “I hope not just vot ers, but all CUSD residents, learn that I am here to represent all of us to the best of my ability, and that I will contin ue to listen and learn in order to bring the best representation we can for all of us: our students, educators, staff and community at large. I truly believe in moving our district forward together in collective while prioritizing and up lifting our student’s voices first. As an invested CUSD mom, CUSD alum and CUSD-rooted community member, this is very personal to me.
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A man said it’s not surprising what happened.“Abarthat blasts their music and bass seven nights per week, add alcohol and drugs, you have a dangerous formu la where eventually would lead to two shootings like this, not shocking,” he said. “I knew something was going to eventually lead to this.” And another man said Sandbar wasn’t to blame for the incidents but that “it appears that it does hold some account ability for breeding a culture that obvi ously doesn’t take violence or drink tam peringSandbar,seriously.”which also has locations in Chandler and north Phoenix, debuted in 2019 at the SanTan Pavilion near East Williams Field Road and South Santan Village Parkway. The outdoor shopping center is located in the Spectrum neigh borhood.Within a month of the sports bar’s opening, however, surrounding resi dents began to barrage Gilbert Police with noise complaints. At the time, Evening Entertainment Group stated it had disconnected the subwoofers and turned down the high speakers and the town was said to be working with the owners to address the residents’ concerns. quired.
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An estimated 2,000 truckloads of dirt have remained untouched at the site of the failed veterans memorial park in downtown Gilbert for nearly five years. (David Minton/GSN Staff Photographer)
A ground-breaking ceremony kicked off the project in spring 2016 at the site and was attended by over 500 people, including town officials, dignitaries and veterans.Thestate Legislature even passed a resolution recognizing Operation Wel come Home for the veterans’ park, which was to debut on Veterans Day 2017.
Gilbert and Operation Welcome Home partnered on the project with the town spending $1.6 million for off-site im provements such as parking lot and bus bay.Since then, the piles of dirt have re mained surrounded by a chain-link fence with blue tarp. For Deron Ash, it has become blight in his Settler’s Point South neighborhood. “Our neighborhood is tired of this longstanding eyesore,” said Ash, who passes by the site several times a day. “It’s also next to the Civic Center. It’s not like it’s in the middle of nowhere. It’s right in the center of our community. “It just doesn’t look good for the neighbor hood. They really need to do something with it.” Town officials originally considered removing the excess dirt and convert ing the site back to its original desert landscaping at an estimated cost of $100,000.Butstaff later said that price will be much higher after a surveyor found a lot more dirt on the site than was thought. Instead of 4,000 cubic yards, it was roughly five and a half times that amount. The general contractor for the defunct project said at the time it equaled about 2,000 truckloads of fill dirt. Gilbert considered offering the dirt to developers and contemplated – but never went through with – using the site as a temporary location to house its employees in portables during the ex tensive, ongoing renovation of the Town Hall building. The 7-acre site is now planned for a family advocacy center that will provide services such as forensic interviews and medical exams for adult and children crime
Thevictims.policechief in a fall retreat 2021 told council that the original estimate for the planned 26,266-square-foot building had increased to about $24 million from $16.4 million on account of having to truck off the dirt at a cost of $700,000.Townspokeswoman
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The Advocacy Center project is sched uled to begin design in fiscal year 2023 and construction in fiscal year 2025, ac cording to Harrison.
Jennifer Harri son last week said the budget for the project was still at $24 million but that the cost for removing the dirt hasn’t been determined yet. “Some of the dirt will need to be hauled off the site,” Harrison said; “and the estimate cost will not be determined until the design is better defined for the project site.”
Under her leadership, the park took root and fundraising began with money coming from noted donors such as the Walmart Foundation, Sons of the Ameri can Legion and Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution.
Affairs.Ayear later, the organization’s ac countant provided a bank statement to the Town showing $415,548 in cash and $679,747 in written commitments for in-kind donations, totaling $1.1 million as proof it met Gilbert’s threshold to get a permit and begin construction.
The Gilbert Sun News has only been able to track a $284,487 check writ ten to general contractor MT Build ers, $66,123 for a building permit and $17,820 for a performance bond. After the organization folded, Vice Mayor Aimee Yentes, who was the vice president for the nonprofit and is Ri gler’s daughter, blamed broken promis es of in-kind donations and the overall difficulty in competing with similar or ganizations chasing the same dollars. She and her husband, Justin Yentes, who sat on the nonprofit’s board, de clined to name the in-kind donors who backed out but all the donors that GSN contacted said they fulfilled their prom ises or were waiting to be called to pro vide the Eventuallyservices.all work stopped on the site in February 2018 after the gener al contractor said Operation Welcome Home failed to provide more funding for the project. Development never advanced beyond the rough grading of the site, which was done pro bono. In December 2020, Operation Wel come Home closed its books after hand ing back nearly $100,000 to donors. from page 1
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Rigler in 2016 attested the organi zation had $1.2 million in cash and $600,000 in in-kind donations when she applied and received a $100,000 grant from Arizona Department of Veterans
The Operation Welcome Home pro gram was formed in 2010 as a way to honor returning veterans with ceremo nies and other activities by then-Council members Les Presmyk and Jenn Daniels, who later became mayor. In 2014, Lisa Rigler, who created the now-defunct Gilbert Small Business Al liance partnered with town on the pro gram and eventually took it to nonprofit status and became its president.
Building the advocacy center will close a sordid chapter that remains murky as to how much money was actually raised and spent by Operation Welcome Home for the park.
Rigler has never responded to GSN’s multiple requests to comment and the accountant at the time also remained tight-lipped.Presmykeventually quit the organi zation’s board for lack of transparency after he said he had asked Rigler and the accountant several times to see the books that were never produced and there also were no regular treasurer re port.
Corning Inc. officials announced Aug. 30 that the plant will bring 250 jobs to Town and will be the industry’s west ern-most U.S. manufacturing site for op tical cable.
The new facility is the company’s lat est in a series of investments in fiber and cable manufacturing totaling over $500 million since 2020.
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“Gilbert is thrilled with Corning’s choice to expand in our central business district,” Mayor Brigette Peterson said in the news release. “Corning is a global leader in innovation and their commu nity investment highlights the continued appeal and growth in Gilbert’s diverse manufacturing industry. We look forward to seeing Corning transform the way the world connects, from Gilbert, Arizona.”
AT&T anticipated its expanded service into Mesa will become available to local residents in 2023. With Mesa considered one of the larg est and faster growing cities in the coun try, the company said it sees an opportu nity to deliver better access to education, jobs, healthcare and more through the power of fiber connectivity.
Corning’s expansion also will help fur ther the Biden-Harris administration’s Internet for All initiative to invest $45 bil lion to provide affordable, reliable, highspeed internet for everyone in the United States by the end of the decade.
Corning expected the Gilbert facil ity to begin operations in 2024, in time to support network buildouts funded through the federal government’s $42.43 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program or BEAD, accord ing to Bailey.
“For Corning, it means we’ll be well-po sitioned to serve our customers in the western U.S. and Canada amid record demand in the industry,” said company Gabrielle Bailey in an email. “This loca tion is an example of Corning’s practice of strategically locating our cable manu facturing facilities close to our customers to facilitate efficient supply for their im mediate needs.” She pointed to AT&T’s plans to expand fiber internet to the Mesa market. The carrier made its announcement in the joint event held last week with Corning at Mesa Community College. Corning has a long-term partnership with the carrier, the nation’s the nation’s largest fiber in ternet provider that is expanding its fiber service.Bailey said the 250 new jobs “will span a broad range of advanced, hightech manufacturing and engineering roles.”Corning will occupy a 317,000-squarefoot building at Park Lucero East, the newest industrial park in the employ ment area, near Gilbert and Germann roads, just south of the 202 Santan Free way.The industrial park is located in the Central Business District, which is home to nearly 17,000 employees and is set to become Gilbert’s largest employment area by number of employees, according to the town.
“We believe access to broadband means access to opportunity – from ed ucation to healthcare to quality of life,” said Corning Chairman and CEO Wendell Weeks in a released statement. “Corning is doing our part to make sure everyone – regardless of where they live – has ac cess to reliable, high-speed connections enabled by optical fiber.” Chris Camacho, president and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, applauded the company’s news. “The optical cable created at Corning’s Gilbert manufacturing facility will enable the next generation of entrepreneurs, provide stability, connectivity and jobs to the region and improve the lives of our growing population,” Camacho said.
Acable-manufacturing facility that’ll build on Arizona’s recent ef forts to expand broadband access through high-speed internet connections especially in underserved communities and further close the digital divide is set ting up shop in Gilbert.
AT&T expects to offer speeds of up to 5-Gigs of fiber-based broadband to more than 100,000 homes in and around the MesaToarea.build and deploy these networks, the industry will need another 850,000 workers through 2025 so Corning and AT&T have created a program to train fi ber optic technicians.
The Fiber Optic Training Program fo cuses on equipping thousands of techni cians with the skills critical to designing, installing, and maintaining a growing fi ber network. The initial class is current ly underway in North Carolina, and the program aims to train 50,000 American workers over the next five years.
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The decrease in Arizona followed sev eral years of a steadily climbing highway death toll. “I welcome any good news regarding our traffic numbers,” said Alberto Gutier, executive director of the Arizona Gover nor’s Office of Highway Safety. “I’m very surprised, but very happily surprised.” Experts said the increase in deaths nationally could be the result of having more people on the roads post-pandem ic, combined with higher speeds and more distracted and reckless drivers.
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“When you combine all of these fac tors, it’s a deadly combination,” he said. But he thinks the return to normal traffic flows might be the reason Arizo na numbers have decreased so far: With more people on the road commuting to work and school, he said, drivers may be taking fewer chances.
“The trend overall in the country is very concerning, and has been going on for awhile,” said Russ Rader, senior vice president of communications at the In surance Institute of Highway Safety. “State by state numbers may jump around, but nationally the trend is un fortunately an increase and a rather sharp increase,” Rader said. Gutier agrees that speeding, reckless driving and impaired driving are among the factors that have driven up deaths in Arizona.
The first-quarter improvements have continued through 2022, according to the most recent numbers from Gutier’s office. It reported 398 traffic fatalities – including car, pedestrian and bike deaths – through July, compared to 700 through the same period in 2021. But with Labor Day travel approach ing, AAA expects more people on the road – and more challenges for drivers. “Be prepared,” said John Treanor, the AAA spokesperson for Western states. “You may not have dealt with high-traffic situations. Your car may not have been on long road trips. Have a plan.” Highway deaths nationally in the first quarter were the highest since 2002, ac cording to the report. NHTSA Adminis trator Steven Cliff said that while those numbers are “moving in the wrong di rection,” the recently passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Law should help change the direction. The U.S. Department of Transporta tion said Arizona can expect to get ap proximately $5.3 billion over five years in federal highway formula funding for highways and bridges under that bill. Gutier hopes traffic fatalities continue to trend downward for the rest of the year.“We’re great. We’re a really great state,” he said. “Arizona is doing the best they can in traffic enforcement.” facebook.com/getoutaz
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The report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said 190 people died on Arizona roads in the first quarter of this year, a 31.4% drop from the 277 who were killed in the first three months of 2021. That was the fourth-steepest percent age drop in the nation, trailing only the much-smaller states of Rhode Island, North Dakota and Montana. Nationwide, highway fatalities rose by 7% over the first quarter of 2021, from 8,935 to an estimated 9,560, as 29 states saw gains in the number of deaths.
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“We need to have these events to cul tivate the understanding that, although we may seem divided, we have a lot more in common,” Salman said.
Finlinson, the blood drive coordina tor for the Chandler West Stake. and the faith groups behind the blood drive have worked together for similar events but this year is one the few times all three of their schedules have aligned.
Finlinson said she was a teacher in Mesa in 2001 and remembers, like many others, waking up that Tuesday morning and watching the events unfold live on TV.
Salman said although there’s sign of hope all these years later, we still see “impatience and violence” that we must eradicate, and events such as this blood drive promulgate his community’s mot to “love for all, hatred for none.”
Imam Ahmad Salman, who recently moved here from Puerto Rico, said the drive offers a great opportunity to show these faiths have more in common than different.
“I wasn’t offended by those who did, but I felt like I just couldn’t because I knew what happened,” Finlinson said. After retiring in 2005, Finlinson said she has dedicated her life to being a mom to her two teenagers, volunteering full-time and some writing and photog raphy on the side.
Finlinson said she knows people of Muslim faith who seek to actively help people and these blood drives help drive their reputation in a positive light.
“I just love seeing that act of kindness amplified when people get together, be cause more people are helped when we do things together,” Finlinson said.
“It doesn’t matter what faith group or if they are people of faith if they’re will ing to give up their blood to help save that person in a time of need,” Finlinson said.
“We welcome this opportunity to work together for a great cause, to raise awareness, and at the same time save lives, regardless of color and creed,” Sal manSalmansaid. was born in Pakistan but at tended high school in Canada and said he remembers watching the terror at tacks unfold on TV. After 9/11, Salman said the Ahmadi yya Muslim Community was the first Muslim community ever to launch a Muslims For Life campaign.
Rabbi Michael Beyo, CEO of the East Valley Jewish Community Center, has lived in Arizona since 2015 and has been a rabbi for nearly 30 years. Beyo said this partnership with the LDS church, as well as other nonprofit and faith-based organizations, has taken place long before he arrived in Arizona
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While attending a former roommate’s wedding in Washington, D.C., in Decem ber 2001, Finlinson said she drove up to New York City and witnessed the de struction at site of the World Trade Cen terFinlinsonfirsthand.held back tears as she re called experiencing such “a sacred place” that held so much death and de struction and said she couldn’t bear her self to even take a photo.
In working with American Red Cross, the community has helped donate about 120,000 pints of blood across the coun try.Salman said that although the events of 9/11 were committed in the name of Islam, the true teachings of the religion and the Quran emphasize that if some one kills a person to cause disorder in the land, it’s as if he’s killed all of hu manity.Thesame passage, he said, also states that if someone saves a life, it’s as if he’s saved all of humanity.
“Whenever possible, we get all three groups together,” Finlinson said. Along with remembering the attacks of 9/11, Finlinson said this project is one of her favorite traditions because it brings together people of different faiths and helps those in need. It also comes at a time when there is a nationwide blood supply shortage.
The event officially ends with a “Stand Down the Field” on Monday, Sept. 12, at 6 a.m., when volunteers are again needed to help take down the flags. For more information, call Nick Bas tian at 602-803-6425 or visit Tempe HealingField.org.
On Saturday, Sept. 10, the event con tinues with the Tunnel to Towers Foun dation 5k Run/Walk at the Tempe Beach Park at 8 Visitorsa.m.are welcome to visit through out the day and on Saturday, the event will end the day with a Freedom Concert from 6:30-9 p.m. The Healing Field Tribute will include a candlelight vigil at 7 p.m. Sunday. The public is welcome to join in reading the names towards the end of the ceremony.
18 GILBERT SUN NEWS | SEPTEMBER 4, 2022NEWS and its part of the interfaith work they do regularly.Beyosaid he lived in Israel in Septem ber 2001 and remembers receiving a call from his father about the initial reports of a small plane crashing into the Twin Towers.Eventually, like many that day, he watched the second plane hit the second tower on TV and it personally shook him to his core, considering he stood inside the towers exactly one week before that day.“If I would have been there just a week later or the terrorist who would have de cided to do this a week earlier, I’m might not be here,” Beyo said. Beyo became a U.S. citizen about four years ago but said back then, it didn’t matter what nationality you identified with, especially considering that people from all walks of life died that day. “I think that everybody felt that this is an attack against democracy, against peace, against peace-loving people,” Beyo said.Beyo said he has a “strong belief” that most Americans want to keep the unity and hold values that won’t allow extrem ist of any kind to tear us apart, and events like this remain a positive sign that we can work together despite our differenc es.“I think that the message is a tool to be able to look past our differences, and to focus on what unites us,” Beyo said.
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“When we have a common goal of lov ing one another, serving one another, helping one another. It unites us even though we may have different beliefs in religion,” Shkapich said.
$30,000 annually to put up and store the 3’x5’ flags, Bastian said.
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Chandler West Stake President Dan Sh kapich has led the stake for nearly three years and said it’s a thrill to continue this partnership with the other two faith groups.“It’sa great blessing for us to come to gether in different faiths to have a com bined focus to help one another,” Shka pichShkapichsaid. said watching the news that morning and recognized the “very som ber” time that our worlds had changed.
“Since that time, it’s just been heart warming, inspiring and uplifting to see how, not just America, but how the world responds to terrorists,” Shkapich said. Through the years, America has changed but Shkapich said when we en dure challenges in our personal lives, and the country as a whole, hard times and difficult moments unite us.
“We have to come together to be able to heal, and to persevere and ultimately to get stronger going forward,” Shkapich said. “So in an interesting way, these kinds of events really make us stronger, and unite us more than ever before.”
In years past, the impressive feat be gins with hundreds of volunteers show ing up at 6 a.m. the first day of the event and within an hour-and-a-half, a sea of green grass becomes a sea of flags.
It might look like clockwork repeat ed year-after-year, but Bastian said the organization puts a lot of work into the massive“Thereundertaking.reallyisalot of moving parts and we put a lot of hours into it,” Bastian said.This year’s event located at 80 W. Rio Salado Parkway in Tempe will begin on Friday, Sept. 9, at 6 a.m. with “Stand Up Flags” setup and volunteers are greatly welcomed.
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The Spencer Calzadilla Car Show & Wellness Expo – a free, fami ly-friendly event to help Arizo na’s active duty and veteran military and frontline responders grappling with PTSD and honoring the memory of Gil bert veteran Spencer Calzadilla – will be held in Gilbert next weekend. The event will take place at the Gilbert Civic Center, 50 Civic Center Drive, from 4-8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10. It is hosted by Shields & Stripes, a non profit with a mission to help first line defenders heal and live meaningful lives in service to their communities. “While the mission is serious, the goal is to have fun,” the group said in a release. Attendees will have a chance to enjoy a car show, which also features eyecatching motorcycles, trucks and bikes. There will also be food trucks, ice cream, cookies, raffles, a DJ and more. First-line defenders and their loved ones will also have a chance to receive free health and wellness resources and connect with Shields & Stripes and other community organizations eager to help them.“We decided to host this event with Spencer’s dad because Spencer was a big car enthusiast,” said Eric Ballester, the event organizer and Shields & Stripes treasurer.Calzadilla, 28, took his life in March because of the debilitating effects of post-traumatic stress.
Gilbert resident Eric Ballester and the rest of the team at the nonprofit Shields & Stripes are holding a family-friendly free car show in Gilbert Saturday. (Special to GSN)
Pastor Tim Maddix and his wife Brenae of Gilbert are celebrating his ordination last week as he moves his job description from “coach” to “pastor.” (Special to GSN)
Gilbert coach changes job description to pastor
has traded in his title of “coach” for “pastor.” Maddix, 45, of Gilbert, has already been recognized Valley wide for eight years as a man of sterling character, but his ordination adds distinction to his legacy of ministering to young athletes. He is scheduled to give his first sermon today, Sept. 4, at Bethel Chandler, 1325 S. Arizona Ave. Information about the church is at bethelchandler.com. Maddix, a former BASIS-Mesa athletic director and current chaplain at Basha High School, has served local high school and colleges as a “sports minister” with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes since role, the former collegiate bas ketball player says he strives to provide a clear vision and practical pathways for them to pursue college, meaningful careers, and healthy families. At the college level, his goal has been to guide teams and individual players through their wrestle with the “bigger questions” they ask at this “Coachesstage.are inher ently working in a pastoral capacity,” Maddix said, noting they must con stantly consider the health of the whole student in mind, body, and soul. By this, he means helping them process emotional challenges, discussing mat ters of mental health and supporting their personal development.AsanFCA sports min ister, Maddix has provided sound advice to both coaches and students for situa tions both on and off the field. The impact has had a ripple effect, said Chris McDonald, the head varsity football coach at Basha High School. From what he’s seen among his players who participate in the encouraging weekly huddles with “Coach Maddix,” McDonald reported, “They’re being edu cated on all fronts: in the classroom, on the field, and now, in character and in spirit.”For some students, McDonald con tinued, the life lessons that Maddix shares aren’t something they typically hear at home. And, he said, when school athletes are walking uprightly, engaged in their families and invested in their futures, the entire study body takes notice.
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He said he realized that after serving on 10 combat deployments, he had to pri oritize his physical and mental health and helped form Shields & Stripes.
During his military career, he earned certifications as a combat controller, Ranger, freefall jumpmaster, Marine com batant diver, static-line jumpmaster, joint terminal attack controller – instructor, air traffic controller and air assault. He earned three 3 Bronze Stars, and Air Force Combat Action Medal, and Army and Air Force commendations.
oon after the birth of her first son, Chandler mom Jennie Bever found herself struggling in the day-to-day. She suffered from mastitis, a painful infection of the breast tissue, her employer expected her to work while she took six weeks of short-term disability and she became sleep-deprived. “My body changed, my focus changed, all my relationships changed overnight after having a baby, and there really was no system set up to support me beyond my partner and my mom,” said Bever.
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For most parents, the fourth trimester lasts much longer than three months, Bever said, and at 4th Trimester Arizona, the focus is on the parent’s mental, emo tional and physical health in the first five years after a baby is born.
Jennie Bever runs 4th Trimester AZ, a non profit that helps mothers cope after birthing a baby. (Courtesy of Jennie Bever)
OBGYN is focused on physical healing, Bever said. “However, there are many more prob lems new mothers face, including post partum mood and anxiety disorders, that are not adequately addressed in the post partum“Moreperiod.than 50 percent of maternal deaths happen after a baby is born,” she added.Created on the theme that “it takes a village to raise a child,” 4th Trimester Ari zona offers monthly villages, or meetings, specialized for each area of the Valley and in Tucson. The East Valley Village meets from 10-11:30 a.m. the third Thursday of the month on Zoom and Facebook Live; the topic for September is “Postpartum Hacks: Infant Feeding Challenges.” The Central Village meets 10-11:30 a.m. in person on the second Wednesday of the month at the i.d.e.a. Museum, 150 W. Pepper Place, Mesa. The organization also offers annual conferences. A free online 4th Trimester Ecosystem Summit for those who sup port parents is planned for Sept. 27-28. Conferences are attended by 200 to 400 people each year, and the villages serve about 60 new parents each month, while hundreds watch the videos that are posted on social media. Seamans attended a fourth trimester conference that provided her with a life line.“The conference completely changed the way I feel about motherhood. Of course, it didn’t fix all of my new-mom struggles, but it helped me to realize that I wasn’t the only one who found the fourth-trimester stage extremely diffi cult,” she said. “Not only did I learn what the fourth trimester even was, but I also learned that there were resources out there to help during this time,” she added. She vowed to do better with her next baby, and she did. “I found myself a little angry and pas sionate about the way Americans view the fourth trimester period. When I found myself pregnant with my second baby, I referenced the resources and connected with the community that I was intro duced to at the 4th Trimester confer ence,” she said. Her goal was to utilize any and all resources to help ease the weight of the fourth trimester so she could heal, rest, bond and focus on her baby.
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“I connected with the lactation special ists who again noticed that my second baby had a tongue tie as well. I hired a postpartum doula, had postpartum cra nial sacral therapy for myself and my CAR SHOW from page 19 see MOMS page 23 “We hope this event increases aware ness about the effects of PTSD and helps our first-line defenders and their loved ones understand they don’t have to go it alone, there’s help and hope,” Ballester said.Ballester, of Gilbert, retired from the Air Force in March 2020 after 20 years of service, ending his career at the Joint Spe cial Operations Command, 724th Special Tactics Group as a combat controller. After graduating high school, he enlisted in the military like all the men in his family.
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“As a new mom, I was surprised at how little support and guidance I received from my doctors and at the hospital after having a baby,” she said. “I had an emer gency c-section, so not only was I recov ering from the most intense and invasive surgery of my life, but I was also trying to figure out breastfeeding and how to take care of a Traditionally,baby.”
“I have an extended family that’s guiding me along this pathway to healing and understanding,” said Ballester. “My wife Sandra and I are paying it forward to reach out to other veterans like Spencer, before it’s too late, to make sure they’re getting the care and support we have benefited from so greatly.”
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So did Gilbert mom Jillian Seamans, who felt like she was sent off home from the hospital with nothing but some paperwork, Vicodin and a baby.
Now the mother of three sons, ages 16, 10 and 7, she runs 4th Trimester Ari zona, a nonprofit organization created to bring awareness to this phase of life, to create community for new mothers and to change the culture of new parenthood.
“During this time, infants require 24/7 care, including feeding every few hours, and near constant holding,” Bever said. “This first three months is also the time that the new parent is healing from preg nancy and birth, learning how to be a 24/7 caregiver, how to feed baby, and dealing with the financial and relation ship implications of now being a parent.”
The fourth trimester comprises the first three months after a baby is born.
Bever found first hand that very little is focused on postpartum care for new mothers.
Bever holds a doctorate in biology from the University of California at San Diego and is also a lactation specialist. She owns the Arizona Breastfeeding Center in Tempe, which she established in 2010.
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Maddix said he wouldn’t be where he is today if it weren’t for the coaches who saw him as more than just another player when he was young. He played after-school sports in Illinois before going into a “children’s home” (similar to a group foster home). He lived there from age 11 to 18, when he “aged out” with no adoption.
MADDIX from page 19 baby, a postpartum massage, and nour ished myself with the foods and drinks that I learned help a postpartum body,” sheBeversaid. runs The Arizona Breastfeeding Center, a clinical lactation practice of International Board Certified Lactation Consultants that serve families for infant feeding support as well as train future lactation consultants. “The families I work with at the Ari zona Breastfeeding Center were and con tinue to be my inspiration and motivation as we work towards changing the culture of parenting so no one has to do it alone,” Bever said.
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4th Trimester Arizona operates with five staffers and a host of volunteers, especially during events. It’s funded by grants, sponsorships and individual donations. A tech-support person and a full-time coordinator are on its wish-list. “We have experienced a lot of growth in the past two years, and our biggest chal lenge is having the funding and resources to meet the needs of parents and those who support them,” Bever said. Details: 4thtrimesteraz.org from page 21
“It greatly affected me,” he said, adding that the effects of his parent’s choices took an emotional toll that could have devastated him or set him on a path of anger or Fortunately,depression.hesaid, “I had some impactful coaches who were mentors to me – father figures –who helped get me on track.” Steadied beyond the field and court, Maddix found that his high GPA and record of sporting achievements opened up “a world of academic opportuni ties.” He went on to play basketball at Manchester University in Indiana, com peting against Brad Stevens of the Boston Celtics.Offthe court, Maddix began volun teering at his local church in a prison out reach ministry. During his first visit to the detention center, he saw childhood friends behind bars.Coming face-to-face with his past gave him perspective and a sense of compas sion for those who didn’t have or use the positive resources that were available to him, such as school sports. It was also around this time, Maddix realized that the emotional peace and wellness he had found could be re-in vested in others, “to prevent the outcome of his former friends.” Maddix earned a bachelor’s degree, then received his physical therapy license from a reputable school in Chandler. The move to Gilbert that resulted brought him closer to what he believes he had felt “called to” for several years: full-time ministry.Now,beyond his coaching and sports medicine work, Maddix will be doing what he does best from a pulpit: sharing wisdom and life-enriching principles that have the potential to change the culture of every gym, court, classroom, office, and home.
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Zia Rewards Points, limited edition Zia merchandise and exclusive vinyl releas es.“There’s a holiday for everything, it seems,” said Zia Records spokeswoman Mary Papenhausen. “We wanted to cel ebrate our staff and our amazing cus tomers. So, it was the day to stop and recognize them and say, thank you for everything they have done and for sup porting us over the last 42 years.” As costs continue to rise across the country on everyday goods like gasoline and groceries, Papenhausen believes that customers will be elated by this one-day-only discount. “Things are very expensive, so to be able to give a give back to our custom ers and kind of give them a break for a day and having people save money is im portant to us,” Papenhausen said. Customers will have an opportu nity to score some sweet Zia swag as Zia opened up a bracket on its so cial media platforms for custom ers to vote on their favorite shirts. After seven rounds of voting, fans de cided on a tee from 2005 that features a design of a devil draped in a black cloak with an old-school logo printed below that will be re-printed and sold at all lo cations.Customers who purchase the tee will get more than they bargained for as
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The Banh Mi Dog was inspired by Peelen’s love of street food. It’s made with sliced Schreiner’s Bockwurst me dallions (mild veal-pork sausage), fresh house-pickled carrot, daikon, cucumber, serrano pepper and cilantro layered on a toasted French roll with mayo and herb liver paté spread.
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Tim Peelen, co-owner of Joe’s Farm Grill, came up with the idea based on his upbringing in the Midwest. There, the “dog days of summer” gen erally end on Labor Day, “but not in Gil bert, Arizona,” he said. Here, the dog days of summer and warm weather continue and “hot dogs are warm-weather fare,” heThenoted.specials, made with local Schrein er’s sausages and all-beef dogs, have run almost every September for roughly a de cade, Peelen said.
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Joe Johnston, co-owner of Joe’s Farm Grill, shows off the Carolina Blue Dog and Sonoran Dog, two of the Hot Dog Days of Summer specials that are on the regular menu as well. (Courtesy of Joe’s Farm Grill)
Fromyear.Friday, Sept. 9, through Sept. 11, Zia’s eight stores in the Valley, Las Vegas and Tucson will host deals ranging from 20% off of almost everything in-store and online, goodie bag giveaways, triple
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tradition, the Hot Dog Days of Summer have re turned through the end of Sep tember at Joe’s Farm Grill in Gilbert, featuring nine wiener-based gourmet sandwiches showcasing flavors inspired from around the globe, from Hawaii to Vietnam and Mexico to Michigan.
Peelen said he devised the Loco Moco Dog after two trips to Hawaii in the past year. It riffs on the classic Hawaiian com fort food using an open-face buttered grilled bun, sticky rice, burger patty, split grilled hot dog and homemade brown gravy, topped with a fried sunny-side up egg.“We make a scratch brown gravy with beef bones and marrow and make our own stock,” Peelen explained. “We go all out to make it authentic and make it re ally delicious. No corners cut on ingredi ents.”The Reuben Dog has hand-sliced corned beef brisket, melted Swiss and fresh sauerkraut piled on a grilled split hot dog with house-made Russian dress ing on a caraway-seed bun.
“You can’t really tell where the hot dog stops and the corned beef starts,” Peelen
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“This is what I do: I dream about food,” Peelen said. “And I dream about comfort food. And I am always trying different combinations and iterations.”
This year’s menu includes seven dogs not on the regular menu, including three all-new creations: the Banh Mi Dog, Loco Moco Dog and Reuben Dog. All dogs are $13 or $19 for two, which includes a side, and you can mix and match.
“That’s the one I’m really, really curi ous about this year to see how people re ceive that,” Peelen said. “It’s a lot of fun; it’s delicious; it’s a little lighter than the others.”Ituses a chicken liver paté recipe from a restaurant where he worked in college.
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Peelen has done exhaustive research to honor the food traditions that inspired the dogs. For the Cheddar Coney Dog, for example, he went to several Detroit co ney dog restaurants to sample the goods and develop his own chili.
People look forward to the Hot Dog Days of Summer every year, Peelen said. “It’s a difficult thing to put together op erationally to do all of these at the same time,” Peelen explained. “And just doing them for a month, there’s so many new ingredients; things we normally don’t have in house: making the gravy and pickling all the vegetables and bringing in the corned beef to slice.” However, the staff enjoys the challenge. “They know it’s great fun for custom ers,” Peelen said, adding, “It’s really the only time we pull out all the stops and really go for it. It’s a lot of fun for every one.”
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The Sonoran Dog, a jalapeño-stuffed bacon-wrapped fried hot dog with home made pinto beans, cotija cheese and pico de gallo topped with a yellow mustard and sour cream-mayo drizzle
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sen teased that fans could also have the opportunity to get their hands on a new exclusive vinyl as early as Saturday. She also teased that two exclusive vinyl records will be announced for pre-orders that week. No matter which day customers choose to visit, Papenhausen is most ex cited to see smiles on customers’ faces and relishes another opportunity to give back to Zia’s loyal customers. “I just really love how good it makes people feel and I just love the feeling that everybody’s excited,” she said. “To be able to be a business for 42 years and celebrate the people who made it hap pen, it’s always fun to be around people and get engaged.
In addition to the re-printed t-shirt, the first 100 customers to purchase at each Zia Records location will receive a Zia Goodie Bag which could include a $50 gift card among other prizes. After the shelves are depleted by offer ing 20% off store-wide on Friday and of fering unique giveaways on Saturday, Zia is rounding out the weekend by offering customers triple points on all purchases and trade-ins which can eventually be redeemed for half off on items. In addition to offering deals on mer chandise all weekend long, Zia Records will also accept direct donations for the Arizona Humane Society and Papenhau
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“The [recipe] I settled on, I love it,” Peeled said. “There’s no beans or any thing it it. A few secret ingredients.”
The Big Fat Greek Dog, a smoked Greek-seasoned pork sausage topped with tzatziki sauce and Greek fries piled with garlic sauce, feta, tomaotes, kalama ta olives and fresh herbs
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All the special dogs are piled so high that they’re meant to be eaten with a knife and fork, Peelen noted – “although it’s fun to see guys pick them up and try to eat them with their hands,” he added.
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Now 85, Terry McCuin was retired, living his best life at a lake house in Montana, pretty much minding his own business. But when his 62-year old son T.J. called him with a business proposition, Terry was back in the fold.
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And it really didn’t take much arm-twisting.“Webrought dad in and dusted him off and put him back in the chair and put him back to work,” chuckled T.J. McCuin. “This wasn’t his dream. This was mine. His dream wasn’t to go back to work at 78.”It might not have been Terry McCuin’s dream, but it was his fault. Terry had heard a rumor that the iconic Supersti tion Ranch Farmers Market in northeast Mesa might be for sale. He had worked there, managed the place, really, in the 1990’s. He called T.J. and “suggested that may be you oughta give Pauline a call,” he said. “Maybe I shouldn’t have told him.”
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“It’s kind of a hodge podge because of how they added on but we kept it kind of unique,” T.J. McCuin said. “When Pauline was ready to sell it she wanted us to keep it the same. That was kind of our selling point. We had the same vision.”
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Terry McCuin and his son T.J. McCuin run the Superstition Ranch Market in Mesa. (David Minton/GSN Staff Photographer)
McCuin is intent on continuing Super stition Ranch Market’s success in pretty much the same way, and not changing the model that has led to that success: buying what suppliers still need to get rid of after the “big guys” have bought their truckloads.
Established by Ray and Pauline Mathe son in 1966, Superstition Ranch Market has become synonymous with a little stretch of the gravel shoulder along the south side of Main Street just east of Greenfield Road. Its bright and artfully done hand paint ed signs on sheets of plywood and the white clapboard exterior of the place, shout out the daily produce sales, beck oning passersby to stop, park in the dirt lot, and take a gander at the fresh apples, strawberries and grapes on display. This is part farmers market, part old fashioned grocery store.
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“When Del Monte has a truckload of bananas come in and they’ve sold to Costco and they’ve got six pallets left and the next bin is coming in, they’ll call us up and say ‘we’ve got six bins of bananas,’” he“Wesaid.are there to clean up what’s left. That’s kind of our niche.” T.J. McCuin’s other specialty has been his ability to foster and maintain close contacts with suppliers, growers, truck ers and all the people in between over the“Iyears.think the thing that keeps it going is the relationships,” he said. “You have the same relationships that we had in the 90’s now, and that’s kind of the fun part. A lot of the buyers we had back then know me now and we have kept all those relationships.“It’simportant with all of the buyers that we have had over the years to main tain that trust and maintain that relation ship so that we can continue to compete with the big guys.” Those are the people he depends on to do the carefully choreographed dance of getting fresh produce from the fields to the store, keeping it displayed all day, then storing it overnight to keep it ready to “Wesell. probably have about 120,000 square feet of coolers,” McCuin said. “We keep the tomatoes a little warmer. They don’t like to be under 40 degrees.” Those coolers are inconspicuously out of sight behind the market where the fruit sorting machine is. Neither grocery stores nor most farm ers markets have one of these: a long belt-driven rack that allows McCuin to accept, sort and sell locally grown fruit the same day that it’s picked.
“A lot of the growers don’t grow near what they used to in the ‘90s,” he said. “You got a ton less strawberries today than you did (then). And there are corporate factors, too.
“The Doles and Del Montes have moved in and taken over the smaller farmers and those accountants come in,” he said, explaining that they tally the amount of product sold the prior year, plant just that amount or less, and drive up prices. Somehow, though, in its funky, little side-of-the-road hybrid grocery store and farmer’s market, Superstition Ranch Market has managed to continue to do what it does best – keep the aisles full of shoppers, and the produce fresh and attractive.“Forme, success is when somebody walks in and they’ve got a little kid with them and they say ‘when I was a little girl, my mom brought me here and we used to get taffy,’” said T.J. McCuin. ‘Or, I shopped here when I was a little girl and I love it.’
Superstition Ranch Market has a lot of loyal customers who swear by the place and won’t go anywhere else.
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“The produce is always good and the prices are always probably better than the grocery stores,” said Michael Kailas, who has been coming here for 35 years.
“It’s old school,” Kailas said. “Noth ing terribly fancy. Although they have upgraded it the last couple of years –shelves and different products, things that they never used to have before.” Weather patterns have shifted and growing seasons have tightened. All of that has a domino effect on the rest of the supply“Foodchain.isgetting short,” Terry said. “It’s probably mostly weather. There is a big gap when you can’t get it. The weather is so bad. A crop will be ready now and then three months later the next crop is ready. Climate change is part of it.” Those changes are directly reflected on the store shelves. T.J. said growers have had to be nimbler with crop management and feel pressure to become more profitable. Less water in California means more growers are go ing to Mexico, for example.
Highland preparing for test against Utah power
Lone Peak enters the matchup against Highland having already played four games. It opened the season with a loss to Timpview (Utah) before beating Ale many (California). The Knights recently took on and beat one of the top teams from Nevada in Liberty and had a bye week to prepare for the Hawks.
The Knights are led up front by offen sive lineman Joe Brown, a Utah commit and one of the top in his position in Utah. They also return their leading receiver from last year in Cole Christiansen but have a new quarterback and running back leading the way this season.
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“I didn’t want to risk not having 10 games,” Farrel said. “We tried again for the third time, and we got it. One of the bonuses of going to Vegas last year was our seniors this year got to experience it. So it won’t be really new to them.” That brings Highland to this season, where it is trying to break into the Open Division for the first time and hoping a national opponent will help accomplish thatMoregoal.than that, though, it offers a unique experience for the Highland football program. This is just its sec ond opponent from outside of Arizona in program history. The first came last December in Las Vegas when the Hawks faced Florida’s Chaminade-Madonna in the Geico State Champions Bowl Series on ESPN.
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And key starters on that team, espe cially on defense, return. They want to put Highland on the map early on this season, and it will come in Utah.
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It’s a game Farrel said they tried to set up in 2020 before the pandemic brought those plans to a halt. Last year he had Lone Peak on his team’s schedule but didn’t want to take the risk of Gilbert Public Schools not yet approving out-ofstate travel.
Playing in a different state, a lot of kids haven’t done that before.”
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It was the first taste of what competi tion looks like outside of Arizona. It was also the nation’s first look at a Highland team that has quickly become one of 6A’s fiercest competitors.
Highland is in a similar position with Joseph Walter taking over the offense af ter three seasons of Gage Dayley. Walter wanted his shot at leading the Hawks, and he plans to make the most of the op portunity.“I’vebeen waiting,” Walter said. “Wait ing since I was a freshman basically, to show them what I’ve got. I think with Lone Peak, we need to sharpen up. It’s going to be a lot of fun. My favorite part of the season is traveling with the team.” Lucky for him, he has one of the best offensive line units in the state protect ing him, led by AJ Dutchover and Caleb
“It’s a super cool experience to have the opportunity to go up and travel to Utah,” Cauthen said. “We knew this was an opportunity of a lifetime to go travel.
So, he had to cancel.
The rise of the Highland High School football program has been historic under head coach Brock Farrel.Before his arrival, the Hawks were a mid-level program, finishing around .500 on a yearly basis and making the postseason sparingly. It took time for Highland to grab its footing under Far rel. But when it did, it elevated to a new level coming off of back-to-back trips to the 6A Conference state champi onship. The Hawks lost to Chaparral in 2020 but bounced back last season and beat the Firebirds for the title. But to this day, they want more. They don’t neces sarily feel too much pressure to repeat as champions. They want to compete for the Open Division title instead. And according to Farrel, it will take a more difficult schedule to get there. Which is exactly what he set out to do this“It’sseason.what the great programs do. They play other great teams from around the country,” Farrel said. “If we say we want to play in the Open, you can’t play no body then get bounced in the first round, that would be embarrassing. I want to prepare these kids for the goal we set which is to play for the big boy title.” Highland, now in the second week of the season after opening against nearby rival Desert Ridge on Friday, will travel by plane to Highland, Utah to face Lone Peak, a perennial power just south of Salt Lake City, on Friday.
Highland senior linebacker Chance Cauthen leads a defense that returns enough talent to make a run at the Open Division this season, which would allow the program to take that next step as a state power. (Dave Minton/GSN Staff)
Highland coach Brock Farrel has tried for the past two seasons to schedule his team against Utah power Lone Peak. The pan demic forced cancellations in both years. Now, however, it’s one of many difficult games on the Hawks’ slate this season. (Dave Minton/GSN Staff)
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Applications are open for perform ers ages 12 to 25 to compete in Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Center’s annual music and dance compe tition.The winner or winners will receive up to $1,000 cash and the opportunity to open for Alice Cooper and many other celebrity musicians on December 3rd at the annual Christmas Pudding fundraiser concert.Applications are being accepted until Sept. 16. Not long after that musicians will compete in a series of four gigs spread across four venues and eight nights to determine who is fit to open for the godfather of shock rock at his famous annual concert.
The first show is set to take place at Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Center in North Phoenix Sept. 27-29. From there, the sound travels to Paradise Valley Com munity College Oct. 14-15 and with Cop per Blues Live at Desert Ridge Market place on Oct. 24-25 before concluding at the Mesa Arts Center on Nov. 15.
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32 GILBERT SUN NEWS | SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 GilbertSunNews.com | @GilbertSunNews /GilbertSunNews GET OUT BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI GSN Staff Editor Duran Duran has had plenty of “pinch-me” moments in the last 44 years. But drummer Roger Taylor said performing at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in June was near the top. “It was a huge event for us,” Taylor said. “To be chosen for an event that is put on by the royal family is a pinch-yourself moment.“We’re this little band that was created in this little club in Birmingham in a back room all those years ago. Fast forward and we’re playing for the royal family. It’s an incredible honor. Also, we have an emotional attachment because (Prin cess) Diana was a big fan of the band. So, it felt natural for us to be there.” Fans who saw the concert in person or on U.S. television saw a sneak peek of Duran Duran’s tour, which comes to the Footprint Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 7. The title of Duran Duran’s new est album, “Future Past,” tells the whole story.For its 15th collection, Duran Duran hearkened back to the Roger Tay lor-bassist John Tay lor heavy rhythm section. Producer Erol Alkan instigated that, he said. “The new album was about reclaim ing our old sound a little bit more,” Tay lor“We’vesaid. been down quite a few different avenues over the years. We’ve gone down the electronic avenue. We’ve gone down the avenue where we programmed a lot more. This is definitely more about organicAlkanplaying.”isafan of Duran Duran’s early 12-inch records where John and Roger laid down grooves organically. “He’s a great DJ and he wanted to cap ture that groove that John and I have,” Taylor said of Alkan. The decision is a rarity in Duran Du ran’s record-making world that is more spontaneous than planned. “We literally just go into the room, and we let the universe take us down which ever path it wants to take us,” Taylor said. “I think it’s because, when we started, we had so many different influences. We were listening to Kraftwerk, New York disco, the New York Dolls, Sex Pistols and Chic. We were very lucky to be forming at a time when there was a lot of great, dif ferent forms of music. “I think that worked its way into the DNA of the band. So, when we sit down and write, we can really go down any of those paths.” Legendary Duran Duran performs Wednesday at the Footprint Center in downtown Phoenix. (Special to GetOut)
Although there are no limits to the types of music and dance that performers can show off, Spencer admits that some common trends emerge among the per formers each year. “When you have someone like Ed Sheeran is really big and popular, you get a lot of kids doing loops and things like that and then we also got a lot of kids kind of emulating the Billie Eilish type of style,” Spencer said. “Every year we have R&B, hip hop, EDM, metal and blues, so it’s it is a hy brid of everything, But if Bruno Mars is successful, you’ll see a lot of kids kind of doing the Bruno Mars kind of thing or if Coldplay is successful that year, etc. you see a lot of kids probably emulating that.”
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Other than age, Spencer says there are no limits to the number of performers who can apply. Past acts have come from as far as North Carolina.
“We’re not looking for anyone that’s cute and we’re not looking for anyone that’s only hard rock just because it’s Al ice Cooper,” Spencer said. “We’re looking for great entertainers, we’re looking for great musicianship and great positions. That could be in mari achi, it can be in hip hop or it can be in metal, we just want greatness.”
“We’ve been a charity for 26 years and the core fundraiser that our nonprofit does is called Christmas Pudding,” said Randy Spencer, a consultant for Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Center and head of community partnerships. “So, we wanted to have an opportunity for the young people at our teen centers and people in the community to possibly perform that event and create some more community awareness for the Christmas pudding fundraiser,” he explained.
It is at those shows where Spencer says the performers’ nerves usually kick in. “It’s pretty nerve-racking for a lot of these kids, but a lot of these kids are so brave when we see them,” Spencer said.
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As the horses trot through the sandy pastures inside of WestWorld, fans can indulge in activities around the stadium.
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Food and drinks and an array of locally made products and crafts will be avail able for purchase.
Arabian breeders show set at WestWorld
A small sampling of the grand Arabi an Horse show that comes to Scottsdale every February, the event is one of the few shows in the world where fans can see weanlings – or infant horses – trot around alongside some of the finest hors es from around the globe.
“We have a small selection, but a highend selection of artists, jewelers and clothing that our horse exhibitors buy things from and so we’ve kept it small and allowed handpicked vendors to come that fit the ambiance of the horse show to vend here,” O’Shea said. O’Shea said her favorite part of the competition is glancing at the future of the Arabian horse scene when the starry-eyed weanlings trot through the grounds and listening ton the conversa tions that emerge from the spectators during the show. “My favorite part personally, is seeing the babies compete,” she said. “It is just such a fun thing to see them in the showroom together. This show also has a lot of really good camaraderie and people take time to visit and get to know one another better.” Whether people come out to shop, sip or enjoy a unique show, O’Shea said there is one thing to be expected from the three days of competition and fanfare. “Expect a well-put-together horse show that has some of the best horses, a cool ambiance and then just some good camaraderie,” she said. “Expect an Arabi an extravaganza with a lot of fun.”
“We set it up to look like a stage in that we have black curtains along the whole back of the arena. The horses compete in this beautiful venue where there’s a red carpet and lighting,” O’Shea said. Horses will compete in classes based on their age, from a month to 15 years.
Following the elegant morning fan fare will be a show where horses will be judged once again, but this time on their beauty and conformation in comparison to the standard of the Arabian horse.
“We’ve also grown in our efforts to make the show elegant and beautiful; through that, we’ve attracted, you know, the top-end horses to compete at this show,” O’Shea said. Not only does the show attract some of the shiniest equines from across the world, but its setup complements the competing horses’ coats and other features.
IF YOU GO What: Arabian National Breeders Finals When: Various times Sept. 14-17. Where: Equidome, WestWorld of Scottsdale, 16601 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale Cost: Free admission Info: scottsdaleshow.com (Steve Bagdasarian Photography)
GSN Staff Writer Horse season is set to kick off in Scottsdale Sept. 14, when the three-day Arabian National Breeders Finals return to WestWorld.
“It’s a boutique show that we started and our vision was to host a high-end horse show that attracted the best Ara bian horses from around the country to Scottsdale,” said Arabian Horse Associa tion of Arizona Executive Director Taryl O’Shea.“Wewanted it to be a boutique show because we wanted it to be intimate and people to have a good time.”
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In the mornings, the horses show off how well they can ride in different disci plines.“So, the people ride the horses in dif ferent disciplines like Hunter Pleasure, Western Pleasure and English Pleasure –where they lift their legs really high when they trot,” O’Shea said.
O’Shea has seen the show grow in qual ity and prestige since its debut in 2011.
Looking back, I feel so guilty. It was the late 60’s. I was in my teens –the years my Mom referred to as “my little hippy daughter’s crazy time.”For some reason I became ob sessed with making homemade bread and culturing my own yogurt for the family. I made a loaf of fresh bread every single day and drove my family absolutely nuts in the process.
I was convinced that if someone shut a door too forcefully or raised their voice too loudly while the bread was still in the oven, it could cause the bread to fall. That poor family. For one hour every single day, they had to tiptoe around and whisper until my loaf came out safe and sound. For some reason, they put up with it, and I don’t think the bread was even that good.That was just bread. Can you imagine what a mess I would have been had I obsessed over soufflé instead? Ah, soufflé. Whether savory or sweet, it’s one of those things that people tend to fret over. Will it puff up? Will it fall? Where did I go wrong?
The album also reminds the Westwood High School alumnus of the early days of the Mesa punk scene and the venue where he and his band once dreamed of playing the big stage. “The Nile Theater is where our stomp ing grounds originated. It’s right there in the heart of (Downtown) Mesa where we all grew up and formed,” DeVore said. “The Nile Theater was cool in that (it) had five bands for $5 that would play the underground stage and we’d always go down there to support bands and we were a part of that whole camaraderie. From there, we started growing more.” DeVore recalls eventually being called to the Nile Theater’s main stage to open for acts like Less Than Jake and The Van dals.“The show is a fun way for us to pay homage to our hometown, the roots of where we grew up and the roots of where a lot of those songs were written,” he said.
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“It’s honest childhood, teenage heart break and also the genuinely good times of being a youth, ditching school, smok ing cigarettes and being a bunch of young punks enjoying friendships.”
Because of this, DeVore expects the show to feel nostalgic not only for him self but for fans. Some of the songs that DeVore is excited to revisit are the titular track off of “A Passage In Time” and a dit ty about the town the band got its start in.
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“It has a very special place in our hearts because of how organic the music was at that time,” he said. “Some of the crap I talked about was a girlfriend hurt my feelings or I was getting drunk with my buddies in the park.
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Interestingly, the recipe calls for heating the milk and adding chicken bouillon to it, which I had never heard of before. It added so much flavor to the dish that I wish I would have known about that technique years ago! Somebody knew what they were doing with this broccoli soufflé and I’ll bet they didn’t even drive their family crazy in the process.
Authority Zero frontman Jason De Vore finds it hard to believe that 20 years ago, his band was roam ing Downtown Mesa, envying headlining acts at the Nile Theater. That time inspired Authority Zero’s full-length debut album, “A Passage in Time” – which creatively meshed punk music with elements of reggae and surf punk.Itonly made sense to celebrate the em erald anniversary of “A Passage in Time” with a one-off show at the Nile Theater on Friday, Sept. 9. “It’s going to be cool to see a lot of old faces in the audience who we haven’t seen in a long time and a lot of new fac es,” he said. “It’s going to be a big celebra tion.”“APassage in Time” will also be spe cial for DeVore as he often changes the line “I’m 21 today, how many more? How should I know?” to reflect his actual age. Sept. 9 is his birthday. “Every time I sing that line, it makes me automatically think of how long the road we’ve been on has been and what a crazy, cool one it has been on top of that,” De Vore said. Although the past 20 years have flown by and DeVore admits that the anniversa ry snuck up on him, he sees this show as a tribute to the legacy of one of Arizona’s pioneering punk acts. “It has been quite a victory for us to be around as long as we have,” he said. “This show is kind of a tribute to that and the legacy of it all.” That legacy shares DeVore’s penchant for angsty lyrics and fun stories. “A lot of the songs I wrote were with the buddies back in the day when we were all just starting and it was when this band was at its purest form,” DeVore said. “(The album) is full of life, full of curios ity and full of excitement and all of these songs hit hard in that memory bank.” They recall the shenanigans that he and his pals indulged in back in their late teens/early 20s along with the heartache he experienced in his youth.
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“There’s an opportunity to engage with kids year-round and all the kids that are part of the visa competition and they are engaged year-round,” he said. “We do workshops with them through out the year and jam sessions with a lot of popular musicians, so it’s not only a com petition, but it’s truly a community.
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Duran Duran has never been absolute ly success driven, either, Taylor adds. The mainstay quartet — Taylor, singer Simon LeBon, bassist John Taylor and keyboard ist Nick Rhodes — doesn’t feel the need to remake “Rio” to return to Top 40 radio, either.“We’ve always done what we’ve felt like doing,” Taylor said. “If it’s commercial ly successful, amazing. But that’s never been the driving factor behind us.” “Future Past” was recorded and writ ten during the lockdown and, with “very little else going on in our world, we couldn’t travel, we couldn’t even go out for dinner together.” The energy was fo cused on making the record. “It was a tough time, but I think it really helped us deliver a great record,” Taylor adds.After the tour ends Nov. 5, Duran Duran will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Information:Fame. footprintcenter.com. for local youth to show off their musical prowess, Spencer hopes to raise aware ness for all of the things that Alice Coo per’s Solid Rock Teen Center has to offer. “People need a safe space and a posi tive space to play and we also want more people to know about our teen center is what we do every day,” he said. Because of this, Spencer added, this is more than just a music competition.
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