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tudents asked for help and Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board delivered by passing a resolution asking the State Legislature for more money to hire additional counselors, psychologists and social workers. Over the past few months, Gilbert high school students joined their counterparts across the East Valley in appearing before

school boards and asking them to consider the resolution in light of a rash of teen suicides here and the rash of fatal school shootings across the country in recent years. “If a child comes to school and their emotional needs aren’t met, they are not going to learn,” board member and retired educator Sheila Uggetti said at last week’s meeting. “I don’t care what anybody says, it’s not going to happen,” Uggetti continued. “We need to make sure we give every child the opportunity to be in a safe learning environment. We can’t control what goes on at home, but we can hopefully help them when they get to school.” Half of all U.S. children will experience

some sort of mental or emotional disorder at some point in their life with suicide the second leading cause of death for those 15-24, according to the resolution. Recognizing that mental health is a major component of school safety, the district is calling on state lawmakers and the governor for additional funding to lower the ratio of students to school counselors to 250:1, social workers to 400:1 and school psychologists to 500-700:1. Superintendent Shane McCord said the district would love to have the ratios noted in the

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xactly how many vehicles are in the fleet is anybody’s guess. The number of jobs it brings to the East Valley is kept hush-hush. And where service is going next and when that will happen is still a closely guarded secret. But nobody can dispute the potential impact Waymo self-driving cars could one day have for Chandler, the East Valley and even Arizona as a whole. If you’ve seen one of those vans moving around the East Valley roads, you’re seeing drivers working out the kinks and passengers giving their feedback on how to make the rides better in the future. That select group of testers is rating the performance of the vans through the Early Rider Program, and others have advanced to the new Waymo One program in

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Gilbert High seniors Carson Towt (holding trophy) and Doc Self lead the celebration after the Tigers came back from a 12-point, third-quarter deficit to nip Millennium, 38-37, for the 5A boys basketball state championship, to the delight of a large Gilbert crowd at Arizona State University’s Wells Fargo Arena. It was the fourth state title for Gilbert and its first since 2003. Details in Sports. (Pablo Robles/GSN Staff)

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the East Valley are either meeting or exceeding the bill’s requirements. The bill is largely based upon the Tempe Union High School District as ith only a Gilbert and a Mesa a template. Tempe Union, which has senator voting against it, a seen at least three students take their teen suicide prevention bill lives in the past four years, trained was overwhelmingly passed by the state more than 800 employees. Senate last week. While the bill creates a minimum The bill, which moves to the House standard for suicide prevention this week, requires that all school perthroughout the state, Bowie said he sonnel dealing with students in grades also hopes school districts will exceed 6-12 receive training every three years those standards and develop more exon how to recognize the early warning pertise on the issue. signs of teen suicide. “You ask parents and teachers about Unbeknownst to the Senate, a Mesa it, and most common comment is, ‘It’s mother underscored the need for that about time,’’’ Bowie said. training a day earlier, Feb. 26, as she Gilbert State Rep. Eddie Farnsworth cast one of the two "no" votes as the Senate passed the suicide prevention training bill Similar bipartisan support is expecttold the Mesa Public Schools Governing and sent it to the House. (Special to GSN) ed in the House as Rep. Jeff Weninger, Board about her 14-year-old son’s suiR-Chandler and Rep. Mitzi Epstein, Dcide in August 2017. Tempe, are among the co-sponsors. Jennifer Stewart told the board that “Our young people are taking their she and her husband were concerned lives, when they are just starting their that their son Braxton had been a lives,’’ Mesnard said. “I can’t think of “kind, happy and gifted young man anything more tragic than when a child with a bright future” and that shortly does this.’’ after beginning his freshman year at A senior at Mesa’s Westwood High Red Mountain High School, “his grades School told the Mesa school board last began to drop, and he quit turning in week, “At my school or just about any his assignments several times.” school you go to, you hear kids in the “I eventually reached out to his hallways saying like, I can’t wait to die, teachers for help and advice,” she said. can’t wait to kill myself, things like that “The response I received from his as jokes and it has gotten to the point teachers, ‘this is the typical response where people can no longer tell if these of a gifted 14-year-old boy during pukids are joking.” berty and it’s nothing to worry about.’ Stewart lamented the absence of A few weeks later, he ended his life.” training when addressing the Mesa Christina Nguyen, of Project Connect board. 4 and a suicide prevention advocate, She said during her late son’s freshtold the board that there have been 38 Mesa mom Jennifer Stewart spoke to the Mesa Public Schools man orientation, “there was a lot of teen suicides in the East Valley since Governing Board the day before the prevention training bill was passed, talking about her 14-year-old son's suicide in 2017. talk about schedules, dress codes, July 2017. (Special to GSN) which I didn’t see enforced at all, and “We have lost who you would dea multitude of forms to fill out in tripscribe as the typical American teenager, who has everything going for them parts of Mesa, Tempe and Chandler. “We licate regarding home addresses and bus on the outside,’’ Nguyen said. “Our youth are halfway there. We still need to get it schedules, but not one mention of mental health, not one pamphlet or talk about are in crisis.’’ through the House.’’ Said student Sophia Hammon: “A lot Democrat Bowie and Chandler Repub- suicide warning signs, the pressure of of kids are struggling and don’t know lican Sen. J.D. Mesnard spoke in favor transitioning to high school and college where else to turn and unfortunately the bill. The only no votes were cast by prep or how to handle bullying.” “Two days after Braxton died, suicide many choose alternate routes by harming Republicans Eddie Farnsworth of Gilbert helpline stickers went on the back of all themselves or taking it out on others.” and David Farnsworth of Mesa. Sen. Sean Bowie, who sponsored the Eddie Farnsworth said he supports the the student ID badges. It’s a little too late prevention bill, was buoyed by its pas- suicide prevention training but was op- if you ask me,” she added. “I don’t need a sage. posed to an indemnity provision. Bowie tutorial on researching my child’s grades “The more this happens, the more peo- said he is working with Farnsworth to ad- if my child is dead.’’ ple are engaged on this issue,’’ said Bowie, dress his concerns. whose district includes Ahwatukee and Bowie said that most school districts in BY JIM WALSH GSN Staff Writer

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Gilbert, other EV students plea for help BY PAUL MARYNIAK GSN Executive Editor

ilbert and other East Valley high school students are pleading for help. From Scottsdale to Gilbert and Mesa to Ahwatukee, students in the past three months have appeared before governing boards to plead for more social workers and counselors to protect their classmates – not only from a teen who may be a walking time bomb but also from themselves. “Make this issue treated as the epidemic it is,” implored Gilbert High senior Evan Wood at a recent Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board meeting. In response to those concerns, the GPS school board last week endorsed a resolution calling on the State Legislature to allocate more money for social workers and counselors. Tempe Union High School District and Mesa Public Schools have adopted resolutions supporting the need for giving students mental and emotional health services, but their governing boards made no specific demands on legislators and said such services are a “shared responsibility” among all levels of government. Whether the legislature will respond to the students’ pleas is unclear. It failed to even give a hearing to bills in the House and Senate calling for more counselors even though students converged on the State Capitol last month to explain their plight in person. In the meantime, anxiety is high among high school students in particular as they not only deal with their own personal issues but try to help classmates who turn to them for help. “I’ve had around 10 or 15 students in

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resolution, given its counselors to student ratio was 425 to 1. “Of course with any ratio, whether it’s a psychologist, a social worker or counselor or a classroom teacher for that matter, everything revolves around budgetary capacity,” he said. Board President Reed Carr said probably one of the loudest complaints he’s heard from parents was the difficulty in getting to see a counselor, unrelated to mental health issues. He acknowledged budget constraints a few years ago caused a reduction in counselors for the district.

Jacob Harb, a Mesa Public Schools senior, is executive director of the Arizona chapter of March for Our Lives. (Special to GSN)

the past four months that have come up to me and said, ‘I am either extremely depressed and I hurt myself physically’ or ‘I’m having suicidal thoughts,’” Desert Vista High School student body President H. Margret Braun told the Tempe Union school board in December. “What should I do?” she continued. “I have no background as to how to deal with things like that.” The students are members of the Arizona chapter of March for Our Lives – the national student-driven organization started by survivors of the Valentine’s Day 2018 high school massacre in Parkland, Florida, that took the lives of 15 high school students and two adults and wounded 17 others. In virtually every presentation before the boards of Tempe Union, Chandler Unified, Scottsdale Unified, GPS and Mesa Public Schools, the students said they

“On a personal nature having some experience dealing with people who have struggled with mental health, there is nothing more heart-wrenching as a family member than to watch a child, a parent, a friend or an associate who is struggling with mental health, who you wonder whether you will see them again,” Carr said. He added oftentimes when there is a resolution or a statement like this, there is politics involved but that now was the time to put that aside and recognize the reality. He said the State Legislature was also dealing with the issue of teen suicide and was considering a bill that would require

Among the students who address the Gilbert Public Schools Board in December about the need for more counselors and social workers were Trey Sequeira and Erin Canducci-Ruiz. The unidentified student on the left did not speak. (Special to

knew classmates who talked of taking their life – or feared troubled ones who might take theirs. “School shooters are really a fear and suicide is a really big concern,” said Jordan Harb, a senior at Mountain View High School in Mesa and executive director of the statewide March for Our Lives chapter. “A threat is not necessarily outside; the threat can be sitting beside someone in class.” At a time when the ratio of counselors to students in many schools is anywhere from 1 to 500 and up, the resolution asks for enough money to support one counselor for every 250 students, one social worker for every 400 students and one psychologist for every 500 to 700 students. At the Tempe Union meeting, Armando

suicide prevention training every three years for all school personnel for grades 6-12. The state Senate approved that bill last Wednesday and the measure now goes to the House. “I don’t know of a teacher who wouldn’t intervene on a mental health issue. However, I know that teachers are not necessarily the most adequately trained to meet the psychological and mental needs of students,” Carr said, adding: “So, having people who can truly focus and have that training is a meaningful element that in spite of whatever other politics may exist is a reason why I support this.” He said teen suicide was a growing epi-

Montero, another Desert Vista student, presented a petition signed by 1,000 students from three Tempe Union schools in three days that asked the board to call on the governor and State Legislature to hire more counselors and social workers. The plea for more counselors comes at a time when incidents of suicide and suicide attempts are rising at an alarming rate in Arizona and throughout the country. Then, too, there is the ever-present fear of a school shooting that has been fueled by a rash of such incidents across the country in recent years. Trey recounted how Highland last school year was put under lockdown because of a bomb threat and how students “all sat under their desks in the dark.”

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demic that was being discussed in almost every single state in the country at this point. The board voted 5-0 to pass the resolution with Board Member Jill Humpherys recommending the district shared it with their area representatives. “I would move that we would not only accept the resolution these students put before us but forward that to our legislators on their behalf,” she said, adding: “And maybe in a letter from us that as a board we support this resolution and encourage them to increase funding so we can afford to hire those school social workers, counselors and psychologists.”

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Once it was determined there was no bomb, he said, many students were still upset and that “there were no resources for those who were traumatized by the whole thing. Some students who appeared before the governing boards spoke from their own experience as they talked of how fractured home life exacerbates the pressures of social media and academics. “I’m one of few that can actually say I’m actually not diagnosed with mental illness, but I’d be far from telling the truth if I were to say that it hasn’t affected me greatly,” Corona del Sol High junior Tara Posely told the Tempe Union board. “Many of my friends have mental illnesses and many of my friends have attempted suicide,” she continued, recounting one friend who “came to school with a Band Aid on her head and she said that she had tripped and fell, but she later revealed that she tried to overdose and woke up with a mark on her head.” Tara was accompanied by a classmate who “said that he probably wouldn’t be sitting across the table from you today if the safety wasn’t on on his dad’s gun.” Appearing before the Mesa Public Schools Board in January, Cienna Collicott said she also has had classmates come

to her for help dealing with their mental health issues. “I can’t be all my friends’ counselor, including working through my own struggles through high school,” Cienna said, adding some are harming themselves physically in their deepening anxiety and depression. “Because I wasn’t there earlier that day to tell them, ‘Hey, don’t do that,’ they’re cutting their skin deeper and deeper and deeper to get to the pain that they desire,” Cienna said. At the January meeting of the Chandler Unified board, 2018 Basha High grad Katelyn Kennedy told of a classmate who exhibited increasingly menacing behavior throughout the whole time she was in high school, starting in freshman and sophomore year. “A lot of what he talked about was wanting to kill teachers, wanting to run away from home,” Katelyn said. “He even talked about beheading teachers.” She said she was told by administrators they would talk to him. “In my junior year, he took a plastic bag and put it around a student’s head in class,” she continued. Again, administrators said they would talk to him, she said. Then, in senior year, the same student brought a gun to school. Fortunately, he was disarmed before any tragedy oc-

curred. At the same meeting, Abby Chandler, a student at Perry High – where at least one student in the last 18 months has taken his life – told the board: “The school shows a video once a year on how we shouldn’t kill ourselves. That doesn’t tell us we have people who care. What it tells us is to make sure we know how to hide it.” The students also talked of how counselors at their schools are overwhelmed by myriad duties – many connected with academic matters and not emotional health. Scottsdale freshman Maya Zuckerburg told the Scottsdale Unified board about a friend who needed to talk about repeated sexual harassment by a classmate: “She was terrified to go to her parents and the only person she was comfortable talking to was a counselor. Unfortunately, that was unavailable to her for two months. We made appointments and we went into the office every day during his supposedly business hours. He didn’t meet with her – not because he didn’t want to help, but because he was too busy with administrative duties.” Stating most counselors “are academic police” because of those duties, Jordan told the Mesa board, “School counselors are people who you can talk to about

what you’re feeling. They’re people who walk you through the struggles of growing up.” Added junior Jackson Solomon: “It is not a teacher’s job to take care of these mental health issues.” Marget, the Desert Vista student, told the Tempe Union board “For the majority of students, they don’t know who their counselor is or they don’t feel comfortable going into their counselor’s room because they’ve never had that one-on-one contact. And I’ve never had that one-onone contact with my counselor until my senior year because I’m applying to colleges.” The number of counselors employed by local school districts varies, though most said they could use more but can’t afford it. In proclaiming School Counseling Week last month, Gov. Doug Ducey acknowledged that “counselors play an invaluable role in our schools” and that more are needed in Arizona schools. “They further the educational, personal and social growth of our students – helping them navigate academic and life experiences,” Ducey said, noting that his budget provides $12 million for 112 new counselors or social workers in Arizona

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Students at Campo Verde High School learned how to stop bleeding in the event of a shooting. Banner Health brought emergency room experts to the school as part of the national movement called Stop the Bleed. The idea is to equip students and school personnel with minimal life-saving techniques that they can use before paramedics can get to victims. In the photo on the left, freshman Josephine Olson, 15, practices on a mannequin arm while at right, RN Melissa Luxton, trauma safety coordinator for Banner Health, shows the correct way to bandage an arm, using freshman Bella Serrago as her model. (Special to GSN)

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Chandler couple sits in on new technology BY JASON STONE GSN Contributor

haron Hutt will never forget the look on the face of one of her neighbors when a Waymo self-driving van showed up in front of their Chandler home one afternoon. Hutt and her husband, Roger, had ordered the autonomous van to transport them to lunch at Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, an American restaurant on Chandler Boulevard. But as the couple pressed the button to open the sliding door of the Chrysler Pacifica, she saw the neighbor watching them board the minivan. “As we were going down the street, he looked at us like we were getting into a rocket ship,” Sharon laughed. The lasers and sensors on top and all around the car certainly make it look like nothing else on the road. In the two months since the company launched its Waymo One program in Chandler, Mesa, Gilbert, Ahwatukee and Tempe, many of those vans can now be seen carting around passengers like the Hutts. The retired couple was picked among 20,000 people who applied in April 2017 to test out some of the 500 vans the company used to start its Early Rider Program to give feedback about the service. Now that they’ve graduated to the Waymo One program, the Hutts can use the Waymo app to hail their ride similar to the way they would call for a traditional ride-sharing service such as Uber or Lyft. “But this is better,” Roger said, noting that with the other traditional ride-share companies, “you never know what might show up at your curb” or wonder “Has the car been maintained? Are the drivers trained?” The app shows the Hutts where the possible destinations are, gives them a price

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hundreds of its minivans across Chandler, Mesa, Tempe, Gilbert and Ahwatukee. Waymo One is essentially a “traditional” ride-sharing service with a driverless van picking you up. The only catch right now is that a human is sitting in the driver seat to take over in case anything goes wrong. Waymo’s development originally began in 2009 as the Google Self-Driving Car Project. When Google created its Alpha-

Sharon and Roger Hutt of Chandler use their Waymo app to call for a ride in one of the company’s autonomous vehicles and call its service more reliable than other ride-sharing services. (Jason Stone/Contributor)

estimate for the trip and tells them how long it will take for a van to arrive for the pickup. Sharon said they’ve never waited more than four minutes for a ride. Once it shows up, a rider presses a button to open the sliding door and takes one of three seats in the back two rows of the minivan. A fourth seat way in the back has a car seat attached to it for parents with young ones. The Hutts give a courteous greeting to their safety driver, but they’re sure not to strike up a conversation with him. Even though the car is driving itself, Waymo’s drivers are still required to pay attention to the road and the car at all times. In fact, the radios are turned off for now on all Waymo One vans, which is just fine with Roger. “It’s so nice to get in a vehicle that didn’t have music playing,” he said.

bet company in 2015, it rebranded the self-driving program as Waymo a year later to stand for “a new way forward in mobility.” As part of the rebranding, the company set up shop in Chandler to launch its Early Riders Program last year. “Before we decided on Phoenix, we had done testing in a number of different cities,” said Dan Chu, Waymo’s head of products. “But a really rapidly growing city like Phoenix really had what we were looking for.” Much of the work Waymo does is still

can really see the company’s proprietary technology at work. Waymo’s system is a mix of sensor, radar and cameras all around the vehicle. Its LiDAR, or light detection and ranging system, on top of the van is a laser that sends out millions of signals a second to take in its surroundings 200 yards around the vehicle. Smaller sensors pick up the smaller stuff right around the car, such as a ball rolling in front of it or a dog running into the road. “It’s a solid car and I like that it has a low center of gravity,” Roger said. “I hate it in Arizona that there are so many rollovers.” In fact, both Hutts said they feel the selfdriving car is actually safer on the roads, but they know it will take a big effort for it to gain popularity quickly. “It’s going to take word of mouth to help spread it,” Roger said “We tell people. There will be a tipping point where it just grows and grows and has more mass acceptance.” The Hutts plan to make more trips as the program unveils more features it needs feedback on.

Once everybody is buckled in, they have multiple ways to start the trip. They can push a “start” button near the roof by the passenger seats, or they can activate it directly from the phone app. It can also be triggered by a touch screen option on a small monitor on the back of each front seat. These TV screens include a map of the planned trip with some enhanced 3D features. The map is Waymo’s own creation, presenting the basic street layout and the surrounding traffic that the autonomous technology detects. The Hutts like the Chrysler Pacificas that Waymo uses for its ride-sharing It’s where passengers service. (Jason Stone/Contributor)

in secret – like many tech companies. It doesn’t give much clue on what it costs to retrofit thousands of Chrysler Pacifica minivans that are testing across the country at various cities. Nor does it reveal any specific future plans or even what kind of impact it brings to the job market. Chu can’t even guess at a reasonable expectation of when vehicles will begin making all trips without a safety driver in the seat. All they care about right now is receiving the honest feedback from the passengers who are testing out the vehicles.

“It might hurt when we first read it,” Chu said. “But we want that feedback. We really want to hear what riders are learning and what they’re experiencing. Because we really feel like that’s the most important thing about our program is the endto-end feel. Until you have a rider who is experiencing it end-to-end, you can’t find out what subtleties you have to fill.” The company overall is committed to Chandler. That evidence came last year when it expanded its 39,000-square-foot warehouse to 70,000 square feet.

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n internationally known East Valley racing school apparently will get a month’s reprieve from losing its facilities to its landlord. Valley motorsport legend Bob Bondurant and his wife reached an agreement with an economic development arm of the Gila River Indian Community to extend to April 1 a deadline for paying $245,402 in back rent, according to papers filed in federal bankruptcy court on Feb. 27. The judge must still sign off on the agreement, but she initially had approved a request by Sun Valley Development Corp. to allow it to take over the track if the back rent wasn’t paid by March 1. “The additional 30 days will enable the debtor to continue its operations, meet its obligations to its students and partners, and achieve an outcome that will be more advantageous for creditors than turnover of the leased premises, and Sun Valley will not be prejudiced by the additional time,” the Bondurants’ lawyers said in a court filing. If the takeover had occurred March 1,

according to the judge’s initial order, the school would have also lost nearly 80 high-performance cars with a total value of more than $9 million. The Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving back rent owed to Sun Valley Marina Development Corp. is part of a massive $3.3 million in debt that has driven the operation into federal bankruptcy court since last summer, court records show. Sun Valley Marina Development Corp. owns the former Firebird Raceway next to the school and has been working for several years to upgrade the 500-acre venue, now called Wild Horse Motorsports Park, located on the reservation just off Interstate 10 south of Chandler Boulevard. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brenda K. Martin said that if the Bondurants didn’t make that rent payment by next Friday, their “lease shall be deemed rejected, and the debtor shall surrender the premises.” In addition, she ruled that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles can repossess a fleet of Vipers, Challengers, Durangos and Chargers with racing, executive, law enforcement support and other packages. “Sun Valley and the debtor will cooper-

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ate with FCA in facilitating the immediate return of the FCA vehicles pursuant to an orderly process to be developed by and between Sun Valley and FCA and shall work together in returning or disposing of the other FCA items,” Martin wrote in her Feb. 15 order. But still more vehicles leased by the school may be in jeopardy. At the same time Sun Valley and Bondurant filed papers telling the judge of their agreement on delay in paying the back rent, Bancorp Bank filed a separate request with the judge for permission to repossess 23 Mazda Formula Race Cars, eight go-karts and a 2018 Shelby Cobra Coup. It said it financed lease of those vehicles and was owed $32,000 for delinquent payments for January and February. “Some or all of the vehicles and equipment remain in use on a daily basis, which is causing the vehicles and equipment to decline in value; and as a result of the decline in value, Bancorp’s interest in the vehicles and equipment is not being adequately protected,” Bancorp said. The judge has not yet ruled on that request either.

Bancorp notes that the only potential lifeline for the school, which Bondurant moved to the Valley from California in 1990, is a special “debtor in possession” loan of $674,000, court records show. Some creditors are opposing Bondurant’s request for court permission to obtain the loan because that unidentified lender would have a higher priority than other creditors if the school is forced to close and sell any remaining assets to satisfy what debts it can. Timothy Shaffer, the Scottsdale bankruptcy expert who is the school’s courtappointed chief restructuring officer, told the court in a Feb. 8 petition that the Bondurants have “been engaged in discussions and negotiations with numerous parties and groups” about that special loan, although he declined to give specifics because of confidentiality agreements. But while the petition states “the interest by many of these parties in ensuring the debtor’s continued operation has been significant,” it goes on to admit “however, despite our diligent efforts, the debtor has been unable to obtain DIP financing” under terms that some of the creditors said they would accept.

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Gilbert lawmaker vows to gut timeshare bill

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Gilbert lawmaker has vowed to gut a bill approved by the House Committee on Regulatory Affairs that would give people who sign timeshare deals 14 days to have second thoughts. That’s twice as long as now required. HB 2639 also would allow buyers to opt out within 14 days of actually using their timeshare and be entitled to a 90 percent refund. Potentially most significant, those who would buy a timeshare in the future and have had it for at least a decade could simply walk away without being on the legal hook for annual maintenance fees that could continue for the rest of their lives – and beyond. Despite the 7-0 vote, it remains unclear if the provisions will ever become law. Rep. Travis Grantham, R-Gilbert, who chairs the panel, said he will seek to strip out many of the provisions when it now goes to the full House, instead reducing it to additional requirements for what in-

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formation needs to be given to buyers. The star witness for the proposal by Rep. Shawnna Bolick, R-Phoenix, was Gloria Johnson who told lawmakers about her experience buying a timeshare in 1980. Now, she said, the option of having a week at a resort makes little sense. Yet she is stuck making annual maintenance payments of more than $1,000. Johnson said she was told she can leave the timeshare to her children. “My children don’t want them, my children can’t afford to pay the maintenance fee,’’ she said. “There is no way out of this,’’ Johnson said. “You own this for life and you own it beyond your life.’’ Johnson said she realizes that nothing the legislature adopts now can alter the contract she signed nearly four decades ago. But she told lawmakers they should protect others going forward. Amanda Rusing, who lobbies for the Attorney General’s Office, said her agency crafted the measure to deal with specific complaints by timeshare buyers and own-

ers. She said it starts with providing more than just seven days for buyers to consider what they’ve done. “People aren’t even home from their vacations and sobered up by the time they’re completely locked in to these contracts,’’ Rusing said. “What we wanted to do is give people a more meaningful opportunity to think about that contract that they signed.’’ She also said it’s important for people to be able to get out of a contract once they’ve actually had the opportunity to use the unit that they’ve bought for one week a year. “They thought they were buying the opportunity to use a beach-front villa,’’ she explained. “And what they end up with is a condo where, if you hang your head out the window on a sunny day, you can kind of see the ocean.’’ Rusing said people are so desperate that they advertise their timeshare for as little as a penny, only to find no one who wants to assume the future liability. Monday’s vote came over the objections of Don Isaacson who lobbies for the

American Resort Development Association. “This bill goes too far,’’ he said, saying no state allows someone to simply give back a unit after 10 years and walk away. Isaacson said there’s a good reason for that, as when someone stops paying an assessment, then the financial burden falls on everyone else. “You are buying real estate, you are buying it as an adult,’’ he said. “And unless there is fraud, you are bound to that particular purchase.’’ Grantham agreed. “It’s very difficult to legislate good decision making,’’ he said, whether buying a car or a timeshare. Isaacson said some new timeshares run by resorts do have such options in their contracts. “But I think it would be a mistake to mandate that,’’ he said. Isaacson argued that too much is being made of the issue. He said the 250 complaints a year to the Attorney General’s Office pale in comparison to the 600,000 timeshare units owned in Arizona.

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Ducey puts anti-vaxxers in Legislature on defensive BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

he sponsor of three bills aimed at altering state vaccination laws said Thursday that her proposals are “misunderstood” while an east Mesa lawmaker linked vaccine mandates to Communism. Rep. Nancy Barto, R-Phoenix, told Capitol Media Services nothing in any of the measures is designed to convince parents to opt out of state requirements to inoculate children as a condition of sending them to child care or public school. Instead, she said, it simply provides information that parents need to make those decisions. Also Thursday, Rep. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, said she fears efforts by the government to force parents to administer vaccines. Townsend, who has a daughter whose epilepsy she links to childhood immunizations, said she has the ultimate right to refuse to vaccinate the girl’s younger brother. “The idea that we force someone to give up their liberty for the sake of the collective is not based on American values but rather Communist,’’ she wrote on her Facebook page. Both legislators’ comments come a day after Gov. Doug Ducey said he would veto

any measure that he believes will result in fewer children getting immunized against a host of diseases. The governor never addressed the specifics of the three measures that await a House floor vote. But Ducey, with his comments, aligned himself with medical professionals who testified last month that much of what Barto is pushing – and what cleared the House Committee on Health and Human Services – would deter parents from vaccinating their children. And that, they warned, would endanger overall public health. Medical experts in the U.S. and around the world have expressed growing alarm about the increase in measles cases. If left untreated, the virus that causes measles can lead to life-threatening complications such as hepatitis, meningitis, nerve damage or brain swelling. Suggesting a connection between vaccinations and “terrible outcomes’’ for some children who have been inoculated, Barto said parents who do not believe vaccines are safe should be “spared’’ from the requirements. “And they shouldn’t be treated like second-class citizens for using their constitutionally protected right to not be forced to undergo vaccinations,’’ she said. “We’re headed in that direction.’’

Townsend did not back down when questioned about the comments by Capitol Media Services. “My son’s body is sovereign,’’ she said. “The line for me is the government does not have authority to inject him with something and put him at risk,’’ Townsend said. “That’s my line.’’ And she dismissed the question of whether by not vaccinating her son against communicable diseases she puts at risk other children who cannot be immunized for medical reasons. “Who’s more important, my son’s health or the potential (of) contracting measles which may or may not be fatal?’’ Townsend asked. “We are sovereign and ought to be able to make that decision.’’ Barto is not alone in proposing new laws about the rights of parents regarding inoculations and hoping that the governor signs them. Sen. Paul Boyer, R-Phoenix, is pushing similar measures in the Senate. And he defended them as common sense. One of those requires that parents be given a list of all the ingredients in each vaccine, along with the warning label that the Food and Drug Administration requires manufacturers to provide to doctors. Boyer said there’s no reason all that should not be available to parents. Potentially more concerning to some is

Barto’s proposal to not only expand the right of parents to claim a religious exemption but to eliminate the requirement that they first sign a form, prepared by the state Department of Health Services. That form acknowledges that they understand the implications of spurning each vaccination as well as the physical effects that getting the disease can have, up to and including paralysis and death. That same form requires parents to also acknowledge that if there is an outbreak of the disease, their children can be denied entry to school or child care. Instead, they could simply write on any sheet of paper that they are not having their children vaccinated. The third measure goes to the question of what parents need to be told. It requires doctors to inform them that there is a test to determine, on a pre-vaccination basis, whether their child already has immunity to the specific disease. Several doctors who testified on that measure last month said the test is not only expensive but also unreliable. Townsend said she fears the state using its power to coerce parents into getting their children inoculated. “When we start having the mindset that, ‘Well you could be harmed, but we’re going to put you at risk for the greater good,’ you lose your individual rights,’’ she said.

state supervision. And she reminded foes that if they kill this legislation there will be no regulation at all. That, however, is not the concern of those who voted against the legislation. They want a more comprehensive oversight scheme. More to the point, they want those who are making money by renting out their own vehicles to pay what they see as their fair share of taxes. “The voters of Arizona chose that they wanted to get revenue for everything that we have going on in this state from the tourists,’’ said Rep. Mitzi Epstein, DTempe. “And the way they wanted to do this was by this fee on rental cars,’’ she continued. “If we take away the fee on some of the rental cars, then who’s going to help pay for our tourism?’’ Rep. Jay Lawrence, R-Fountain Hills, said he believes that companies like Turo, which operate online platforms to connect car owners with those who want to

rent them, are really car rental companies. And that, he said, means they should pay the same taxes and fees as other companies in that business. The debate is over the latest bit of technology that allows people to use online platforms to find alternatives to what have been traditional sources. That includes Airbnb, which connects travelers with those who want to rent out their homes or room and Uber and Lyft that let vehicle owners offer rides for a fee. Grantham’s bill would impose some basic requirements dealing with keeping records, insurance and ensuring that there are no safety recalls. He also agreed to let cities and towns levy their own sales taxes on the transactions. But the Gilbert Republican’s legislation does not permit state sales taxes to be charged. And it exempts both the company that links up owners and renters, as well as the owners themselves, from charging the fees levied on car rentals in Maricopa and Pima counties.

That is a key difference between this measure and SB 1305 sponsored by Sen. David Livingston, R-Peoria, which awaits action by the state Senate. During debate Thursday, Grantham told colleagues that there’s no reason to impose the same restrictions on individuals renting out their cars as the state does on traditional car-rental firms. He said individual owners do pay taxes, ranging from having to declare any income they make from renting out their cars to having to pay sales taxes when they buy their cars, a levy not imposed on businesses that buy vehicles for rental. And Grantham said this provides an opportunity for people to make some money when they don’t need their vehicles. “We should reward entrepreneurship, not punish it,’’ he said. That was also the assessment of Rep. Cesar Chavez, D-Phoenix. “This is a great opportunity for those individuals who are just seeking to make ends meet by adding extra income,’’ he said.

Grantham bill will let people rent out their vehicles

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

Gilbert lawmaker has cleared a hurdle in getting state approval of a measure that will Arizonanss rent out their own cars and trucks to others with minimal regulations and no requirement to pay the same taxes as firms like Hertz, Avis and Enterprise. The preliminary approval last week of state Rep. Travis Grantham’s HB 2559 by the House came over the objections of several lawmakers from both parties who questioned why the state should allow these “peer-to-peer’’ car rentals to escape the costs faced by their competitors. That covers not just state sales taxes but special levies in the state’s two largest counties where rental car fees pay for sports facilities and tourism promotion. But Rep. Joanne Osborne, R-Goodyear, pointed out to foes that people are using online platforms like Turo right now to rent out their vehicles, with absolutely no

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Gilbert begins crafting water conservation measures BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

ilbert is crafting an ordinance to address potential future large-water users. The water allocation policy would help ensure a dependable water supply for existing customers and manage the town’s remaining water supplies, according to staff. “The trend in Gilbert is to build up supply that exceeds demand,” said Eric Braun, water resources manager. “But there is lot of uncertainly there. Doesn’t the future of Gilbert look like the past? Probably not.” The town can have a situation in the future where demand outstrips the water supply, said Braun at last week’s Town Council Financial Retreat. Gilbert’s current water policy is first-

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come, first-serve, which is an incentive for developers to come into town and build first, Braun said. The ordinance would focus on nonresidential users, who have big water demands. Landscape uses such as parks would be excluded from this. In Gilbert, single-family homes represent 95,000 accounts and use 67 percent of the town’s water supply compared with the 5,000 non-residential accounts that use nearly 30 percent of the water. Braun said some projects have come into the Valley that use 500 million gallons of water a day, which would impact Gilbert’s water supply. Staff proposed when a non-residential development such as commercial, industrial or a public facility wants to come to Gilbert and the water demand for it goes beyond 100,000 gallons of water per day, it would trigger a review of the project, Braun said. An existing development that might have multiple phases and add a meter also would trigger a review. If a builder exceeds the water limit, it would need to negotiate with the town for additional water that Gilbert has avail-

able, or it must bring its own water and deed it to the town, according to Braun. Vice Mayor Eddie Cook suggested the town enact conservation measures first before resorting to this approach. For instance, there are two planned communities in town that mandate homeowners have grass lawns and the town should prevent requirements like that, he said. Braun said there has been an ordinance since 2001 that prevents HOAs from putting that requirement in their CC&Rs, but a few beat the town before the ordinance was adopted and were grandfathered in. Town Manager Patrick Banger said if the state’s drought continues, the town will address the issue with those HOAs through water-rate settings. Braun said there would be an annual audit process over three years to see if users exceed their base limit so there is no low-balling up front with anticipated water use. Mayor Jenn Daniels asked if a non-residential builder were to overestimate its water use, can the cost be recouped. Banger said if the developer overestimated its water need, it can always sell its extra supply.

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schools this year and promises enough funding for another 112 next year to reduce average caseloads by 17 percent. But Kyrene school Superintendent Jan Vesely told her school board that while she welcomed the governor’s effort, “you can see this as a drop in the bucket.” At an annual salary of $54,571 – without benefits – for each of those 112 counselors, she said, the governor’s proposal “would realistically only fund approximately 80-some positions throughout the state of Arizona. “Currently, there are 2,042 public schools in Arizona. So theoretically this would provide one additional counselor for about five percent of the public schools in Arizona,” Vesely added. Chandler state Rep. Jennifer Pawlik and Ahwatukee state Sen. Sean Bowie, whose districts cover portions of most of the East Valley school districts, have sponsored identical bills in the legislature requiring all public and charter schools to hire one counselor for every 500 students. But the bills died for lack of a hearing in either chamber. “The individual bills themselves are not advancing, mainly because of the price tag,” Bowie said. “We are, however, actively trying to get more funding for counselors in the overall budget." Arizona came up short on mental health provisions for children and teens in a broad study released this year on how states are meeting the goals set in 2013 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Called the “Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model,” the CDC set guidelines to address a broad spectrum of physical, emotional and mental health needs of kids. “States with the least comprehensive coverage of counseling, psychological, and social services topics include Arizona, Ohio, and South Dakota. These states also tend toward less comprehensive policies, generally,” said the study, performed by the University of Illinois at Chicago, the National Child Trends, ENT Associates and the National Association of State Boards of Education. Such deficiencies are wearing on many East Valley students. As Emily McDougal, the Basha senior who knew the student who brought the gun to school, told the Chandler board: “It’s mentally draining. It makes it harder to focus in school and feel secure. I want to be able to walk into my classroom and focus on what I’m going to learn that day rather than be sidetracked by what’s mentally plaguing me.”

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Gilbert man’s firm helps Ethiopians BY CECILLA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

ew countries are in worse shape than Ethiopia when it comes to clean water and sanitation. Nearly 61 million Ethiopians lack access to safe drinking water and 65 million lack access to improved sanitation – resulting in 27 million practicing open defecation, according to Water.org. Gilbert resident John Hagensen is doing what he can to change that. Since 2018, the 35-year-old’s finance company, Keystone Wealth Partner, has donated over $60,000 to fund three water projects in Ethiopia. Hagensen’s goal is to donate $1 million over the next 10 years. The money comes from a $500 onboarding fee Keystone charges new clients, who are aware of the donation. The entire fee is donated to Charity: water, which invests and tracks the money it raises into experienced organizations to build sustainable, communityowned water projects around the world. “I think lot of time in America, espe-

said Hagensen, who has offices in Scottsdale and Chandler. Discussions on how to reduce taxes, seek a better return on investments or how to quickly pay down a $750,000 house mortgage become the norm, he said. “In Keystone, we instill an appreciation in what we have,” Hagensen said. “Our mission is to help our clients live richly, not to invest so they die Gilbert resident John Hagensen and his wife have four adopted children, two of them rich.” from Africa. (Special to GSN) So far, 800 people in Ethiopia have benefited cially in our industry we become desensitized with how truly blessed we are,” from the projects. The donations went

toward digging a new community well, protecting a community spring and supplying water and a sanitation system for a school of 400 children. Hagensen’s commitment to help came after he and his wife, Brittany, traveled to Ethiopia four times to adopt their two oldest sons, Bek and Sha, who are from a rural countryside village of Mehal Meda. The first trip was in 2012, when the couple was ready to begin a family and saw a humanitarian crisis that beckoned them. “There were 5 million orphans per capita in Ethiopia alone, the largest in the world,” he said. “We knew we wanted to be involved in some capacity.” The couple also had close friends who adopted children from Ethiopia, which helped the two see that it was doable. Adoption was always in the couple’s plan, who discussed it during their first date, Hagensen said. “When I was 17 I went to Romania to help work in an orphanage. That is what spawned my desire to adopt,” said Ha-

Proceeds from ticket sales will go to East Valley Children’s Theatre as part of some of the students’ Basha Gives Back, a requirement where students must do something to help the community before they graduate. Kylie Burge, 17, of Gilbert, a Basha High junior, plays the female lead, Gilbert teen Kylie Burge has a lead role in Basha High School’s rwnsition of the musical Sandy, in “Grease” “Grease.” (Kimberly Carrillo/ GSNStaff Photographer) and wanted to give back to East production at 7 p.m. on March 7 and 8 at Valley Children’s Theatre, as she has perthe school, 5990 S. Val Vista Drive. formed in more than 25 shows with the

theatre, a nonprofit organization. She enjoys playing Sandy, a wholesome, sweet Australian transfer student, who gets reunited with her summer love, Danny, a tough, cool leader of a greaser gang, when she moves to Rydell High School in the musical. They both are surprised to see each other at the school, but their romance is complicated by social pressures from their peers. Sandy and Danny undergo personal transformations as the cast sings upbeat, catchy numbers with lots of dancing, campy lines, a high school dance and drive-in movie visit. Kylie said Sandy is very different from what she’s really like. She loves to perform, sing loudly and help produce the musical with her friends. “It’s all just friends working together to put on something beautiful,” Kylie said.

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Gilbert teens in Basha show channel the ‘50s BY COLLEEN SPARKS GSN Staff Writer

everal Gilbert teens are channeling the 1950s playing key roles in Basha High School’s production of the the musical “Grease.” At a recent rehearsal, girls dressed in shiny “Pink Ladies” jackets and flouncy skirts as boys in jeans played tough guys singing about summer and love. They sang and acted out the good-girl, innocent lines and contrasting crass, bad-boy lyrics to the iconic song, “Summer Nights” but later posed for cast photos posted on Instagram. The social media outreach shows the contrast between the lifestyle and culture of today’s teens and their poodleskirt and leather-jacket-wearing counterparts in the 1950s. The Basha High cast of 26 will perform “Grease the Musical” in a student-led

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gensen, who attended Seattle Christian School in Washington state. “We both felt strongly about that.” Faith plays an integral part in Hagensen’s life and business. The couple attends Mission Community Church in Gilbert. Initially, the Hagensens were poised to adopt an infant but while waiting for a match, they came in contact with Bek, who was 10 at the time living at an orphanage and was available immediately for adoption. “We saw him on the waiting children list and my wife, Brittany, felt compelled to pursue that adoption,” Hagensen said.

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“They always tell me, ‘Kylie, you need to be more shy’ (as Sandy). It’s really hard for me to be shy because I’m not shy at all. Sometimes I just wish I was Sandy.” She enjoys working as the choreographer for the musical, Winter Ashley, 14, a sophomore who plays Charlene “Cha Cha” DiGregorio in the musical, helped Burge with some of the choreography. Basha High junior Camryn Watt, 17, is the main tech person and “everything

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Bek was home with the Hagensens for six months before he opened up about Sha, who was his friend from the same village. “He told us Sha needed a family, too,” Hagensen said. Bek and Sha, who are now 17 and 14, respectively, arrived to this country without speaking English. “They had zero English skills,” Hagensen said. “It was pretty crazy. We had to teach them how to turn the light switches on. It was a giant game of charade at our home every night.” But through school, tutors, the language-learning software Rosetta Stone and being around people who spoke English, the two boys became quick

girl,” turning on the lights and the sound system, as well as moving sets and doing any other behind-the-scenes work needed. Kylie said it’s easy to see the differences between teens in the 1950s, as portrayed in “Grease,” and teens of today. “I think it’s almost eye-opening because then you start to realize how much we teenagers have changed in both the good ways and not so good ways,” she said. “I think today it’s almost everything is ten times more explicit. They still had

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Brigette said. Brigette and her friends and other parents raised money so students could buy the rights to do the show. She said Kylie has been acting since she was 6 years old, but this is her first time on “the business side managing” a cast. Kylie said she has modeled her management style after Karen Rolston, pro-

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Mesa woman lovingly documents Lehi’s history BY HALEY LORENZEN GSN Contributor

lice Boyle has been documenting and organizing the history of Lehi for over 50 years and has recently donated 110 albums to her church’s historical department. Now, the Mesa woman says it’s time for her to put down the camera and pass on the torch to someone new. In her house on Lehi Road, a treelined street lacking sidewalks and street lights, Boyle looks at a wall covered in old photographs. In this room, she keeps her boxes of albums filled with pictures and stories of her community, whose residents are fiercely proud of their neighborhood, she said. “It’s kind of silly, but there was always a thing about Lehi over Mesa,” she said. The small Mesa community’s history dates back to 1877, when pioneers who were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made it their home. Boyle started her documentation when she was a local historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and from there it began to grow into something more. It became her passion, she said. She photographed receptions, funerals and church events, as well as the annual Lehi Days Rodeo, where each year she has displayed these albums for the community. She was never paid and donated her photos to the members of the families whose events she photographed. She said she always made sure to copy her photos, to keep one for her archives. “The fact that I took pictures at the different shindigs, I got more acquainted with families and people,” she said. She moved into her home in 1998 with her husband, Pat, after relocating from a different house down the street, which was torn down because of the construction of the Santan Red Mountain Freeway. It was one of the many changes Boyle said she has seen over the years in Lehi after she moved to Mesa at age 18. “When we first moved here, some people said, ‘You’re moving to Lehi? They have a lot of mosquitos.’ They really had a lot of funny ideas,” she said. At one point in the 1970s, the 81-year-

old said, she knew almost everyone in the community, but it seems as though half of them have left. Through these continually changing years, Boyle has continued to document the landscape of Lehi. Boyle said she has a hard time remembering the exact dates of when she took on the role of documenting Lehi’s history, which she attributed to her age. She said she began photographing Lehi once her children were “somewhat grown.” Along the way, people began giving her photographs they had found over the years, with some dating back to 1897. Boyle added these to her growing collection, which she keeps in a dedicated room in her house, which is filled with boxes of albums along the walls. Boyle said she organized these albums mostly by herself, although she did receive help from others with scanning the pictures. DeeAnn Royer, who has lived down the street from Boyle for 20 years, helped with the scanning. Upon seeing these albums, Royer said, “It consolidated our history. It was fabulous.” Royer said she hopes that someone else will continue on Boyle’s role but said she knows that it is a lot of work. A majority of Boyle’s albums are captioned, and handwritten names can be found below each picture. In 2013, Jared Rogers, who is the current historian for their local branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, contacted the church’s headquarters in Utah about the work Boyle had done. The albums were then taken to Salt Lake City, where they are kept among other donated records. Her work “has kept the pioneer spirit in Lehi very upfront, and people are proud of that,” as residents are very proud of their community’s humble beginnings, said Rogers. Everybody in this world can see these photos, Rogers added, because the albums and documents have been archived online. Boyle said she plans on retiring from this role soon, as it has become too much for her to take on, because of her age and the amount of dedication the documenting requires.

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hile many piano stores in the U.S. are struggling to find their customer base, business is booming at Gilbert’s family-owned My First Piano. My First Piano, located in Gilbert Town Square, recently won Yamaha’s Southwest Dealer of the Year award for its excellent sales numbers and creative ways it employs to lure new people to the ivories. The business is owned by Gilbert resident Josh Wallace, whose family has been in the piano industry for four generations. “We were very surprised when we found out we won the Yamaha Southwest Piano Dealer of the Year. It’s a prestigious award from a premier company, and we were up against piano stores in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and California that are two and three times our size,” Wallace said. Wallace credits his store’s innovative business model – one he says is unparalleled in the piano industry – for the success. That model has the store letting families to “test drive” a piano before making a decision on whether to buy it. “What makes us different is that we don’t pressure anyone into buying a piano up front,” Wallace said. “You simply pick out the piano you

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The store’s numbers reflect the success of this rare business model, he said, with 2,200 sales and 3,500 leases in 10 years. Wallace said he wants to help families who otherwise would not be able to afford a piano, citing the store’s payment options as well as its policy of letting potential customers to learn how an individual piano functions with no commitment. Both things, he said, create a lasting bond of trust with customers. “Yamaha is a company that values new ideas, innovation, and dealerships who align with their goals of making more music makers and we check all of those boxes,” Wallace said. “Despite being a small dealership in a small market like Gilbert, we won this award because our store is completely unique in the piano industry and we offer something that appeals to families and first-time buyers in the East Valley,” he added. My First Piano is also trying to draw new interest in the instrument through the Piano Revival Project, a unique way to collaborate with local artists and intertwine two different forms of art. Wallace hires artists and asks them to turn average-looking pianos into works of art. Some of the pianos are colorfully

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Gilbert man’s ‘tweener homes’ help house-hunters de-stress

BY PAUL MARYNIAK GSN Executive Editor

orma and Andy Ramirez were full of dread at a time when they should have been brimming with excitement. They had made a decision to sell their Chandler home and find a new one, but they were dreading the constant interruption by Realtors and prospective buyers and the need to keep the house immaculate and clutter-free. A hotel seemed out of the question, especially given that their teenaged daughters Mia and Liana had been accustomed to a room – and bathroom – of their own.

ly, those in between short- and long-term stays, no good options existed. I wanted to provide a comfortable home for ‘tweeners’ and connect them with people who own homes and do not use for personal use the whole year, thus creating a winwin situation.” The Chandler-based business serves the entire East Valley, Scottsdale and Ahwatukee. Though his company is fairly new, the Realtor has been thinking about the situation it addresses ever since he and his family moved to Arizona in 2008 to escape the bitter cold of Chicago. “Six years after we moved here, we en-

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tered into a contract to build a home in Chandler and a few months after that, listed our home for sale. Within a few weeks of listing, we received an acceptable offer with a close date that would leave us with a three-to-four-month wait time until our new home would be ready. We wanted to move our belongings into storage and find a comfortable furnished home to move into. “This is when I experienced firsthand the difficulty in finding one,” he continued. “There were plenty of short-term vacation rental sites, but the cost to rent for months at a time was exorbitant. We also saw numerous properties, mostly unfurnished, that were offered for rent with a minimum one-year lease. However, the in-between time. I thought ‘It shouldn’t be this hard.’” Over time, Calvi found out his experience was hardly unique. “The good majority of agents and brokers I talk to have had or know people who have been in a jam when it comes to monthly, furnished rental homes,” he said. “I want to be a resource for these agents and brokers so they can concentrate on what they do so well: provide excellent service, dedication and communication to their clients to help them sell their home for top dollar and find their new, permanent dream home.”

Then one day, the 10-year Realtor had a client who was in the same situation he was when he moved here. “I was able to find a family who wanted to sell their home but were concerned they would sell before they had found their new dream home to move into. I knew a person who only used his Arizona home a few months in the winter season and was pleased to rent out and make money on the home while helping out this nice family. We subsequently listed and sold their home and were able to then find them their new dream home, which they are living in today.” As easy as his service is, it wasn’t all that easy to set it up, Calvi said. “I spent the better part of a year researching companies that offer shortterm and long-term rentals,” he recalled. “I then started working with a web design company to include best practices from both. I learned I needed to obtain my broker’s license, so I enrolled in classes and obtained an Arizona real estate broker’s license. I set up a corporation and a brokerage firm (Tweener Homes) with the Arizona Department of Real Estate.” After researching web design and marketing/branding companies across the country, Calvi picked Chandler-based Concept 2 Completion, owned by Chandler Councilman Mark Stewart and Russ

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Wall. “They have been a valuable asset and will be taking on bigger roles for the business,” he said. Though he admits, “I greatly underestimated the time, the obstacles to overcome and the money required to get this going,” Calvi is happy now. The response thus far has made it all worthwhile. I look forward to helping people during what can be one

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he mammoth Rivulon complex in Gilbert keeps growing with new tenants. Nationwide Realty Investors last week announced six new office tenants at the 250-acre master-planned, mixed-use development at the Loop 202 Santan Freeway and Gilbert Road. The Cincinnati Insurance Company has leased approximately 15,000 square feet on the second floor of the 161 E. Rivulon Blvd office building and plans to move in this spring. The Western & Southern Life Insurance Company is now occupying a 3,400-square-foot space on the first floor of the 161 building, where Old Republic

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painted and while others are creatively carved. The project is responsible for the transformation of 400 pianos, all of which are unique pieces that you aren’t found anywhere else. One piano, for example, was painted

Title Holding Company recently moved into 3,500 square feet. Ensign Financial Partners, a local financial planning firm, has moved into 3,400 square feet in the adjacent 111 E. Rivulon Blvd building. Both two-story, 60,000-square-foot buildings were completed earlier this year. The new tenants join anchor Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Financing LLC, as well as Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation, Security Title Agency, and Miller Financial Group. The newest occupant in the 275 E. Rivulon Blvd office building next to the Isagenix world headquarters is Elevation Marketing. The national, full service branding firm occupies a 7,200-square-foot suite. Nationwide Realty Investors President

yellow and features a painting of dandelions flying away in the wind. Wallace allows potential customers to request a particular design so that they end up with not only a piano, but a new art installation for your home as well. Yamaha isn’t the only one to recognize the success and innovation of My First

COO Brian J. Ellis said he’s “pleased to welcome this newest group of high-caliber businesses and their employees.” Deloitte’s new 102,000-square-foot U.S. Delivery Center is in The Commons at Rivulon. “Rivulon has established itself as a premier destination in the region as we work to attract and retain world-class businesses with high-quality career opportunities in our community,” said Gilbert Mayor Jenn Daniels. “We look forward to welcoming these new businesses and more as they come to Gilbert to grow.” Development continues at The Commons with two more two-story, 100,000-square-foot buildings with large, open floor plates now under construction. The buildings are targetting “technol-

Piano. At the East Valley School of Music is one of the Valley’s most established music schools, owner Mike Kaminski said he always sends his students to My First Piano. “We have over 500 students at our school,” said Kaminski, “and we send them all to My First Piano because they

ogy, creative and collaborative tenants seeking open and flexible space in an integrated campus environment” for its 400,000 square feet of office space. Rivulon’s retail tenants also are diversifying, and now include Wildflower Bread, Sauce Pizza & Wine, Jersey Mike’s Subs, Yogi’s Grill Teriyaki & Roll, Grabbagreen, and an Isagenix retail store. In addition, Audi Gilbert recently opened at Rivulon along Gilbert Road, neighboring a Volvo dealership and Gilbert’s first MercedesBenz dealership. When complete, the $750 million business district will include 3 million square feet of office space and 100,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, and hospitality uses, a spokeswoman said. are authentic, the quality of their instruments are great, and our families love the no pressure environment.” Travis Mitchell, national sales director of the Keyboard Division of Yamaha Corporation of America, said that Wallace “truly exemplifies the modern Yamaha dealer.”

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ilbert Leadership Class XXVII will be working to raise money, collect donations and complete the work needed to enhance the outdoor space at HD SOUTH – Home of the Gilbert Historical Museum. The class will work to provide a paved seating area for educational presentations, an engaging wall art mural that highlights the history of Gilbert and aesthetic and safety adjustments to landscaping to provide a fun and safe experience for all visitors. Originally opened as Gilbert Elementary School in 1913, HD SOUTH is the oldest building still standing in Gilbert and is the only one on the National Register of Historic Places. Over the next several years, the museum made great strides to become one of Arizona’s premier community history museums. In 2010, the society began searching for a new direction that would sustain them over time. Realizing the lack of arts and culture in Gilbert, the board of directors expanded the mission of the organization in 2016 to include more than just

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history. While the society will always preserve and showcase the history of Gilbert, the decision was made to begin the transformation into an arts and culture center. Founded in 1991, Gilbert Leadership brings together individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to develop their leadership potential and to expose participants to the issues impacting Gilbert. Gilbert Leadership was developed by the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce to promote civic leadership and broaden the skills of current and future town leaders. The program provides knowledge to effect change and broaden citizen involvement with the town government and community programs and critical needs. The culminating experience for every Gilbert Leadership class is the planning, organizing, coordination and completion of a service project within the boundaries of Gilbert. This project must provide a lasting and impactful enhancement to Gilbert and serve someone or some other organization that could not perform the selected service or project themselves.

Individuals and organizations alike can donate funds and/or materials to complete this lasting and impactful project. Every little bit helps and the members of Gilbert Leadership Class of XXVII are committed to providing a point of pride for Gilbert. Donations for this project will be made directly to HD South online at hdsouth.org/donate/onetime-donation (please make sure to select “Gilbert Leadership Project” when you are donating). Checks can be made out to HD South (501c3) and can be dropped off at the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce, attention of Sarah Watts. For in-kind donations please reach out to Jenna Kahl, jenna.a.kahl gmail. Some items and services that have already been identified include: Concrete and pavers; Landscaping and tree stump removal; Paint and paint supplies; Food and water for the volunteers on the day of service. If you or your organization have any questions, please contact Jenna Kahl at jenna.a.kahl@ gmail.com.

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March 6 Chamber Connections- Midday Presented by Mountain America Credit Union 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Pomo Pizzeria Gilbert 366 N. Gilbert Road, Suite 106 Gilbert Enjoy lunch and conversation with local professionals! This informal gathering is a fun way to share conversation with other professionals while learning more about businesses and services within our community. Come prepared to meet new friends and build lasting relationships. No agenda; no script - just good food, great company, and friendly conversation. Admission: $15 per person; pay at door.

March 19 Chamber Accelerator Presented by Printwerx 10:30-11:30 a.m. Gilbert Chamber of Commerce 119 N. Gilbert Road, Suite 101

Gilbert At this comprehensive membership orientation, you will learn how to maximize the benefits of your Chamber investment. You can expect to gain an insider’s view of our programs and services, ask questions of our staff, and develop your action plan for Chamber engagement and success. Admission: Free event for current and prospective members of the Chamber.

March 22 Good Government Buzz Session with Legislative District 17 Presented by SRP 7:30-9 a.m. Gilbert Chamber of Commerce 119 N. Gilbert Road., Suite 101 Gilbert An event of SRP’s Good Government series, this buzz session will bring members of the business community together with Arizona’s Legislative District 17 for a mid-session update on bills and budget talks at the Capitol.

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from her grandmother. Lovingly referred to as “an artist practically from birth”, she learned valuable techniques which would serve her well later in her journey as a couture fashion designer. About her business: Svetik’s Bridal & Fashion Boutique is a brand-new brick and mortar Bridal & Fashion Boutique in north west Gilbert, offering wedding dresses and gowns from the highest quality European fabrics and laces and fashioned by American Designer, Svetik Sambell. Svetik was selected to showcase her new bridal and high fashion collection in the Phoenix Fashion Week Runway this past October, which during the finale had received a standing ovation.

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March 27 Young Professional’s Social 4-6 p.m. Sauce Pizza & Wine 75 E. Rivulon Blvd., Suite 112 Gilbert Developing future leaders and providing professional development opportunities is a priority of the Gilbert Chamber, this program will be designed and developed by local young professionals to ensure we are meeting their needs and setting the stage for maximum success. Admission: $10 advance online registration, $15 at the door. $20 non-member. Price includes admission, light appetizers. Drink purchase is separate. *Open to young professionals (21-37) only.

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Please help stop Big Pharma from killing me BY ANNE MCAULEY LOPEZ GSN Guest Writer

have a condition called chronic myeloid leukemia, and there is a miracle pill called Gleevec that controls my cancer, but there is no cure. I take the generic version, which you would think costs much less, but the reality is that the retail price for the generic of my dose is $10,000+ per month versus $13,500+ per month for the brand name. I think we can agree that even a standard 20 percent patient cost for specialty medications like this one is still a lot of money. While our insurance caps our out-of-pocket at $500 for my prescription, that is still a lot of money, and I need this medication for the rest of my life. Without it, I will die. Since the Gleevec patent expiration in 2015, the retail price has only risen on both the brand name and generic ver-

sions. Media outlets have written about the anomaly of Gleevec pricing, as it doesn’t follow what was once considered the standard, which is that the generic was significantly cheaper and just as effective. Big Pharma has no answer when asked why this drug in particular is priced so high, even as a generic. I have no choice but to either pay, find funding or stop taking the medication and risk death. I have no advocate at my oncologist’s office to fight with Big Pharma on my behalf. While I could go to a big hospital system where they have patient advocates, and I did that last year, I received sub-par care and a huge bill. Not only is there no one helping me at the doctor’s office, I have no one at the health insurance company helping me. In fact, when I called the insurance company in tears asking for an oncology patient advocate, I was met with a long

pause and the unfortunate news that they don’t have that kind of patient care. There are no skip days or cheat days when you have cancer. You only fight. And fight I will. There is no one advocating for patients like me who require medications for the rest of our lives. There is no one asking for Big Pharma to be called to the carpet on behalf of cancer patients who are gouged by the system, forced to send bills to collections because there just isn’t enough money to go around, who aren’t sick enough to file for disability but are too sick to work full-time, who suffer an array of side effects each day and whose medications cost pennies to manufacture but who are forced to pay thousands of dollars over their lifetime. No one asks to liquidate their retirement to cover the costs of cancer. No one asks their parents to liquidate their retirement to cover the cost of cancer.

Yet, here I am in exactly this situation because Big Pharma is getting paid and no one is helping the people who need it most. My vision for 2019 is to live all 365 days of the year, but I can’t do that if the cost of my life-saving medication keeps increasing. I want to tell my story to Congress. I want to facilitate changing the system before I die. And I’d like that death to be far into the future, but I just don’t know how that is going to happen. Please call and write your local politicians to ask them to look at how Big Pharma is gouging cancer patients and so many others who require life-saving medication. I truly believe that our stories and efforts can create change and save lives.

should be a priority for the state. Eight in 10 say it’s important to grow Arizona’s own energy resources, versus importing fossil fuels like natural gas and oil. The wide-ranging poll, which was directed by the Arizona PIRG Education Fund and conducted by Washington, D.C.-based WPA Intelligence, a conservative pollster, tested likely voter opinions on topics including renewable energy, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, the Navajo Generating Station and climate change. Additional key findings include: Renewable energy. Eight in 10 (82 percent) think it is very or somewhat important for Arizona to promote the growth of its own clean energy sources, such as wind and solar power, versus importing fossil fuels like natural gas and oil. Energy efficiency. Nearly seven in 10 (68 percent) likely voters in Arizona

agree that regulations applied to utility providers, such as Arizona Public Service, Tucson Electric Power, UNS Energy Corporation, or Salt River Project should be increased to ensure they are offering energy efficiency to all their customers. Electric vehicles. A majority (57 percent) support an investment from our utility providers for electric vehicle charging infrastructure to be developed in underserved communities, such as highway corridors or rural areas, or in areas where the private sector is unlikely to serve or invest. Navajo Generating Station. More than eight in 10 (83 percent) think it is “very” or “somewhat” important the owners of the Navajo Generating Station provide financial assistance and support such as job training to communities impacted by the closing of the plant. Climate change. A majority of Arizonans (64 percent) agree that if the feder-

al government fails to address the issue of climate change, the state or local government has a responsibility to address the problem. While the above offers a glimpse into the study’s findings, the survey results including political party breakdown can be found at www.arizonapirgedfund. org. The bottom line is this: From encouraging development, to increased jobs and ultimately reducing costs in utility bills, Arizonans across the political spectrum are supportive of solutions that will result in a greater use of energy efficiency and renewable energy resources.

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Arizona poll shows support for clean-energy initiatives BY DIANE E. BROWN GSN Guest Writer

rizonans overwhelmingly embrace the idea of growing the state’s energy efficiency and renewable energy resources and believe clean energy is important to Arizona jobs and the economy, according to a new statewide poll. Arizonans support for cleaner energy comes at a time when new energy technologies – such as solar, electric vehicles and energy efficiency devices – are rapidly being developed, which is driving down costs and making it more affordable for Arizonans to take advantage of the benefits. According to the statewide survey, nearly 90 percent of likely Arizona voters believe the growth and use of renewable energy, such as solar and wind,

Diane E. Brown is the executive director of the Arizona PIRG Education Fund. The Arizona PIRG Education Fund conducts research and education on issues in the public interest.

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Gilbert boys cap magical year with rally for state title BY ZACH ALVIRA GSN Sports Editor

hen the Gilbert High boys basketball team gets into a jam, coach Jay Caserio knows he can rely on his senior leaders to bail them out. Yet when top-seeded Gilbert trailed sixth-seeded Millennium by 12 points midway through the third quarter of the 5A boys state-championship game, even Caserio wondered if they were in too deep this time. He called on the veterans once again, and again they delivered -- just barely. When the final horn sounded and Gilbert had eked out a 38-37 comeback win, the wild celebration was on. Nearly everyone in Gilbert, it seemed, was on hand. They arrived early to watch the Gilbert girls play in their championship in the preceding game. “I wasn’t feeling good,” Caserio acknowledged. “I mean, I thought we could come back but I wasn’t feeling good about it. We’ve been a couple of points down here and there but nothing like that.” Doc Self and Carson Towt, senior capAn enthusiastic crowd from Gilbert was at Aritains, who’ve played together since zona State’s Wells FarGreenfield Junior High, put the Tigers on go Arena to watch the their backs. Tigers’ girls and boys play for their respecDespite Self driving 40 minutes each tive state championway to school from his home in Gold Canships in back-to-back yon, he never thought about transferring. games. The girls fell short, but the boys ralIt was all about building the program. lied for the title. (Zach “It was all worth it before. This is just Alvira/GSN Staff) icing on the cake,” Self said. “We did it for each other, for all of those hard days in the weight room, for all of those times we would be throwing up on the track durDoc Self, who drives 40 minutes from his Gold Canyon Carson Towt, a senior co-captain for Gilbert, dives for a loose ball in the 5A stateing preseason conditioning. home to the Gilbert High campus, made two three-point championship game. His 13 rebounds aided a comeback from 12 points down for the baskets in the fourth quarter to ignite a rally that lifted “We’ve been through it all together and crown. (Pablo Robles/GSN Staff) the Tigers to the 5A state title. (Pablo Robles/GSN Staff) there isn’t a tighter brotherhood.” Towt added 13 rebounds. “We’ve been trying to get to this all season,” Towt said. 3-pointers to bring Gilbert within one as the crowd bounded and quietly led us all year long. He’s a stud.” “These are my brothers. I wouldn’t want to do this with erupted. Ehmann, in his first season with Gilbert after transanybody else.” With momentum on its side, Gilbert locked down on ferring from Ohio last summer, kept his team in the Their close friendship had spread as the team grew defense, didn’t allow open shots and outrebounded game with a team-leading eight first-half points. together. That chemistry defined the Tigers. Millennium. He scored five more in the second half and completed Gilbert trimmed the deficit to seven points entering Gilbert’s Paul Maldonado tied the game with a free a double-double by grabbing 13 rebounds, 10 of them the fourth quarter, raising hope that just maybe it could throw, which set up senior Jake Ehmann for the go- offensive, to give Gilbert second chances. pull off the comeback. ahead bucket with just under 4 minutes left. “It was our last game. We had to lay it all on the line That’s when Self took over. “Jake has been our most important player all year Self, who had scored two points, made back-to-back long,” Caserio said. “He’s quietly scored, quietly resee BOYS HOOPS page 36

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Gilbert’s Cavinder twins leave legacy despite 5A title-game loss

Hanna Cavinder led Gilbert with 13 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists. “Every practice, every drill, we were determined,” Hanna Cavinder said. ilbert High girls basketball “We never came into the game thinkcoach Kyle Pedersen wanted his ing we were going to lose. It was a three senior starters to get the great battle. Shout out to Millennium. recognition they deserved. They came in and played better.” So when trailing top-seeded MillenThe era of the Cavinder twins ends nium by16 points with 53 seconds to at Gilbert. Both have been on the vargo in the 5A girls state-championship sity since they were freshmen, leadgame, Pedersen called timeout. ing GHS in scoring each season. “The amount of sacrifice they gave The Cavinders arguably were to this program through the years is among the best backcourt duos the amazing,” Pedersen said of the sestate has seen. Their energy fed teamniors. “I wish they could have gone mates as they lifted Gilbert to three out on a high note but you could see straight semifinal appearances, and during the game they gave everything this season beyond. they had. Haley’s 11 points in the title game “They mean the world to this probrought her to 2,271 for her career. gram.” She averaged 7.1 rebounds, 5.8 assists Pedersen hugged each of his startand 2.8 steals over 119 games. ers, beginning with twin captains Hanna ended her career with 2,179 Hanna and Haley Cavinder. Then came Gilbert’s Brynn Wade (left) and her Tiger teammates were at a size disadvantage in their 5A basketball state-championship points and averaged 4.9 assists, 4.9 senior forward Brynn Wade, followed game loss to Millennium at Arizona State University. (Pablo Robles/GSN Staff) rebounds and 2.4 steals. by junior guards Alayna BenavidesIt was difficult for the Fresno State Johnson and Leah Millman. and how they got along. There were was reflect on its special season. commits to reflect on it all in the moAs the final buzzer sounded and Mil“It’s been such a fun season. The chem- never down days. They did everything lennium began celebrating its 66-40 vic- istry with this team is great,” Pedersen you asked them to do. That’s what I’ll retory, all second-seeded Gilbert could do said. “I’ll definitely remember these girls member most.” see GIRLS HOOPS page 34

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lishing dominance. “We thought the first and third ments after losing their final quarter would be really big,” game. One thing is certain: Haley Haley Cavinder said. “We dug and Hanna cherished their time ourselves a hole and had to keep representing Gilbert High. fighting back. That’s what we “I wouldn’t change anything for didn’t want.” the world,” Haley said. “This is by It wasn’t all inside. Millennium far my favorite team I have ever made outside shots. MHS was 13 played on. I know we will be sisof 19 in the second half, includters forever.” ing 6 of 7 from 3-point range. Gilbert had trouble matching Four of Millennium’s five startup with a bigger opponent. ers scored in double figures. The Tigers were outreboundMillennium outscored Giled 11-2 in the first quarter, and bert 19-6 in the third quarter, quickly trailed, 16-3. Alaina and then added 22 points in the Diggs, a 6-foot-1 senior center for fourth to secure the victory. Millennium, dominated the first “We knew they might come half with a team-leading 6 reout and hit some shots, but we bounds. She finished with 8 and wanted to stay true to who we scored 11 points. are and come out and play,” PedMillennium was aggressive out ersen said. “If they hit them, they of the gate against Gilbert’s zone were going to win. If they missed defense, finding open lanes to them, then we had a chance. drive for layups or kick the ball It’s no camping trip as Gilbert High’s Haley Cavinder attempts to emerge from a tent of Millennium defenders in the 5A girls basketball “Hats off to them in the secout to open shooters on the pe- state-championship game. (Pablo Robles/GSN Staff) ond half. I don’t remember them rimeter. missing.” An adjustment by Gilbert in the Have an interesting story? Conback in the game. Gilbert outscored Millennium 17-9 in second quarter to station Wade near the tact Zach Alvira at zalvira@timespubli“We had to force them to take those the second quarter and cut the deficit to basket took away Millennium’s inside quick, deep shots,” Pedersen said. “They 5 by the half. cations.com and follow him on Twitter opportunities and opened the door for started missing some and we were able Then, just as it had in the first quarter, @ZachAlvira. GHS to use its speed in transition to get to run more.” Millennium came out intent on estab10 YEARS FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED LICENSED, BONDED INSURED ROC242432

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Gilbert Christian’s Keener celebrates landmark coaching milestone BY ERIC NEWMAN GSN Staff Writer

urt Keener is no stranger to career achievements on the basketball court, however one celebration in the season just ended was extra special for the Gilbert Christian High boys basketball coach. He crossed the 800 career wins milestone. “When you’ve coached as long as I have, you have a ceremony for 500, 600 wins, so something every five or six years if you’re doing pretty well,” Keener said. “Usually it’s just a ball signing or something small, but my wife and my assistant, Jim Pappas, got together to make this one real special.” Following his 800th, several people from his past, including his college roommate, former players, coaching peers and others, collaborated on a video tribute. It was projected on a large screen in the gym. “I absolutely got emotional,” Keener said. “Some of them I hadn’t heard from or seen in years, and just to hear them express the impact I had on their lives

Gilbert Christian basketball coach Kurt Keener (center), who surpassed 800 career wins in the season just ended, hasn’t slowed down despite more than 40 years coaching. (Eric Newman/GSN Staff)

was amazing.” Gilbert Christian went 21-7. Seeded sixth in its first season in the 3A state playoffs, the Knights were upset in the second round by No. 11 Northwest

Christian. While disappointing, it did not ruin another stellar season. Keener coached 35 seasons at Detroit Country Day School in Michigan, leading the team to nine state titles before

moving to Arizona in 2013. He spent one year with Desert Mountain in Scottsdale before moving to Gilbert Christian, where he coached the Knights to their first championship in his first season. After more than 40 years of coaching, Keener still has plenty of energy and passion, the Gilbert Christian players say. Junior Trey Donaldson, Gilbert Christian’s top scorer, often looks to Keener for advice on his game. With hundreds of former players for comparison, there usually is a lesson for current players to learn from the past. “He tells me I play a lot like this guy from the Detroit Pistons he coached, just a few inches bigger than me. He’s coached so many guys that he can kind of always have somebody to relate our games to,” Donaldson said. In his fifth season with Gilbert Christian, Keener faced a unique challenge. His oldest players had not been as accustomed to his coaching style as those in the past.

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With this group, it’s been a lot more coaching and I feel like our staff can have a bigger impact on their development, so that’s been pretty cool,” Keener said. This season’s quick development came despite the school’s bump in conferences. The skill level of opponents initially came as a shock to some of the players. “There aren’t as many teams that you can kind of blow through, more competitive games every time, even before the playoffs,” Donaldson said. Have an interesting story? Contact Eric Newman at enewman@timespublications.com and follow him on Twitter @ enewmanwrites.

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It is the program’s first championship since 2003 and fourth overall. Usually the one who gets rowdy celebrating a big win, Caserio got a taste of his own medicine when his players ambushed him with a water-bottle shower after the trophy presentation. “I put on about 15 pounds this winter so I was worried it would show through my white shirt, but it felt really good,” Caserio said of the dousing. “This was the most together, on-the-same-page team that I have had in my 12 years. “That’s what we needed for us to be good.”

Keener appreciates the chance to mentor kids from the time they are freshman so that three years later they are extensions of his philosophy on the court. This season, none of his three seniors are four-year Gilbert Christian players. Some had not played in recent years or transferred into the program. Coupled with the move up from 2A, he took more of a hands-on approach. “I was blessed to coach guys like (retired NBA players) Shane Battier or Chris Webber where you could just roll the ball out and they could score 30. and give it our all,” Ehmann said. Clutch free throws from Gilbert sophomore guard Scott Tampa proved to be the difference as the Tigers closed it out. Caserio credited their unified effort. “They don’t give a trophy to the team with the best player or best shooter,” Caserio said. “They give it to the best team. I felt like we were the best team. “It was a huge team effort for us all year long.” This is Caserio’s first championship since taking the Gilbert job in 2007-08.

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The bird is the word in Chandler next weekend BY COLLEEN SPARKS GET OUT Staff

he iconic Chandler Chamber Ostrich Festival next weekend started as a modest downtown gathering to pay tribute to the odd birds. This year, it is expected to draw 100,000 people, who likely are just as fascinated with an array of entertaining diversions as they are with the quirky feathered creatures. The 31st annual Chandler Chamber Ostrich Festival will bring its namesake mascot, along with the world’s largest bounce house, BMX Pros Trick Team shows, pig and dog races, Victoria Circus motorcycle and high-wire acts and numerous carnival rides March 8-10 to Tumbleweed Park, 745 E. Germann Road. The live bands are a big draw and this year the lineup includes Flo Rida, a rapper, singer and multi-platinum artist; the legendary Motown/R&B/funk group The Commodores; and multi-platinumselling pop artist Andy Grammer, known for his singles “Keep Your Head Up” and “Fine by Me.” One mainstay that will be missing will be ostrich races. The elderly farmer who supplied the birds can’t make the trip. There will still be 10 ostriches near the petting zoo behind a fence for people to view as videos show fun facts about the birds. In place of the ostrich races, the Chamber is erecting a 10,000-square-foot Big Bounce America bounce house. It is the Guinness World Record holder for largest bounce house and features obstacle courses, climbing frames, giant slides, basketball hoops, ball pits and other interactive fun for adults and children. A deejay will play music in the bounce house at night. The ostrich races have not been the “primary focus” of the festival over the last decade, Chandler Chamber of Commerce president/CEO Terri Kimble said. “We have truly transformed this festival into a true community festival,” Kimble said. “We have over 100 hours of musical entertainment throughout the festival and the festival has really

changed over the past several years and it evolved. “Each year we try to bring in something new, something different. We’re really going for an educational component and really kind of beefing that up, including that technology component.” Also new is Victoria Circus, a thrill show in which motorcyclists ride in circles in the “Globe of Death.” Performers also engage in high-wire acts and stunts on the ground. Another new attraction is Big Bee the Transforming Lee Bolster at Earnhardt Chevrolet in Chandler has a long history with the ostrich festival and parade in the community. Robot car, a techno- (Kimberly Carrillo/Staff Photographer) logical marvel that transforms into a saurs” and dig for fake dinosaur bones. as they vie for supremacy on the track. 15-foot robot with a soundtrack and Visitors may root for their favorite Radical reptiles, pony rides and a petlight display. canine in the FIDO 500 Mini Dog Races, ting zoo with exotic and domestic aniAnother newcomer is BMX Pros Trick where dogs will race in a sprint to the mals offer educational entertainment. Show, in which riders and skateboarders finish line, vying for gold, silver and Guests may select from a variety of engage in stunts on a street ramp and bronze. food as vendors serve up big turkey legs, halfpipe. Not to be outdone, pigs have their time New activities are available in the to shine, wearing numbered racing attire see OSTRICH page 28 Imaginology STEM tent, where science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) projects are offered. p.m. March 9. “Those are all interactive for all ages,” Andy Grammer, 8 p.m. March 10. Kimble said. Tickets for the ostrich festival cost $8 One returning attraction is Professor to $50 for VIP access. Senior citizens and For information on times of pig and Smart’s Science Show – designed to enchildren receive discounts. dog races, Victoria Circus shows and gage children and others in the audience The festival runs 2 p.m.-midnight other attractions: ostrichfestival.com. in juggling, comedic performances and March 8; 10 a.m.-midnight March 9 and 10 other activities. a.m.-11 p.m. March 10. Food vendors include Flaco’s Al Another circus show returning is ManInformation: ostrichfestival.com. Pastor with street tacos, Frozen Penguin go and Dango, an unusual theatrical perMain-stage live entertainment Ice Cream, Ginger Monkey Tavern, formance including partner acrobatics, includes: Indonesian Satay, Thai Thai BBQ, Piggly’s aerial arts, juggling, stilt walking, physiFlo Rida, a rapper, singer and multiBBQ, PHD & Me Pretzel Truck, El Jefe cal comedy, mime movements, chair platinum artist, 8:30 p.m. March 8. Tacos, Meltdown Gourmet, B2Burgers & stacking and other tricks. The Commodores, with members Brews, Assyrian Aid Society with Greek/ The interactive Pangaea Land of the Walter “Clyde” Orange, James Dean “JD” Mediterranean fare, Arizona Ostrich with Dinosaurs will be back, giving kids and Nicholas and William “WAK” King, 8:30 adults a chance to see “roaming dinoostrich burgers and tacos.

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Anne Frank’s stepsister to discuss the Holocaust BY LAURA LATZKO GET OUT Contributor

In 2019, it’s extremely “disturbing to me the

uring the Holocaust, millions of Jewish people, gypsies, disabled individuals, gay people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, prisoners of war and others died at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators. Those who survived were forever marked by their experiences. For Holocaust survivor, activist, author, speaker and humanitarian Eva Schloss, telling her story hasn’t become easier over the years, but she is driven by a need to educate others. Schloss, Anne Frank’s stepsister, will give a talk on Wednesday, March 13, at the Chandler Center for the Arts. She will be speaking in cities across the country during a six-week visit to the United States. The event is presented by Chabad of the East Valley. Rabbi Mendy Deitsch of the Chabad of the East Valley hopes that Schloss’ talk will leave a lasting impression. “In 2019, it’s extremely disturbing to me the language, the dialogue that goes on. I’m really hoping that she could help

language, the dialogue that goes on. I’m really hoping that she could help educate, inspire and open up the minds and hearts of people, to live more peacefully and be more tolerant.

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– Rabbi Mendy Deitsch Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss is the stepsister of Anne Frank, whose heartbreaking diary of Nazis terror has been one of the most famous firsthand looks at Hitler’s efforts to exterminate Jewish people. Schloss, who has written three books about her experiences under the Nazis regime, will be speaking March 13 at the Chandler Center for the Arts. (Special to GSN)

educate, inspire and open up the minds and hearts of people, to live more peacefully and be more tolerant,” Deitsch said.

Schloss lives in London, where she moved in the 1950s to study photography. It was there that she met her late

husband Zvi Schloss, a Jewish refugee from Germany. Together, they raised three daughters, who gave them five grandchildren. Schloss was born in Vienna, Austria, and her family moved to Belgium and then Holland following Hilter’s annexa-

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tion of Austria in 1938. It was in Holland that she met and befriended Anne Frank, who she played with from ages 11 to 13. Schloss spent a year in the AuschwitzBirkenau concentration camp after her family was captured. Her brother, Heinz, and father, Erich, were killed at the camp, and only she and her mother survived. After the war, her mother, Fritzi, befriended and later married Anne Frank’s father Otto Frank, who discovered and published his daughter’s “The Diary of a Young Girl.” Schloss has written three books about her experiences and was the subject of James Still’s play “And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank.” Schloss finds it important to share her story because so many people around the world are taught very little or nothing about the Holocaust. “Unfortunately, we haven’t learned,” Schloss said. “At the time, when I came back from Auschwitz, people said, ‘We’ve learned our lesson now. Never again will such terrible things happen in the world. From now on, we’ll all be living in harmony together. There won’t be any more wars, no more executions.’ “But if you look around, there’s been

many wars, and there are still persecutions, still prejudices. This is why we really have to educate, especially of course the new generation, the young people, about how dangerous it is. “It was unbelievable because Germans were one of the best-educated people in Europe, and suddenly, they changed from intellectual, cultured people living in peace suddenly to hating people who lived amongst them who were German or Austrian citizens, to eliminating them

in a horrible way, to gassing them,” she said, adding: “It was just something that was so incomprehensible that people said, ‘That can’t be true.’ That is why I have to tell them that yes, it did happen, and it can happen again.” Schloss had to grow up very quickly once she was captured and taken to a concentration camp at age 15. While in hiding, she maintained a semblance of her innocence.

“I was actually very sporty,” she said. “I didn’t want to learn at the time, so I missed a lot of school. So, I was behind. Only in the camp, of course, I grew up rapidly. I had to be an adult. And coming back and having lost my family, this was really very, very difficult.” The period after the war was challenging for Schloss. “I was more depressed, more miserable after the war, when I realized I had lost my father, my brother and many, many family members,” she said. “I realized that I could never ever get back to the way that it used to be, and this was really very, very difficult for me to accept. I was more depressed after the war than in the camp because in the camp, I had to use all of my strength to stay alive. “But afterward, I lost my will to fight. But of course, later I got my own family, and this was for me very helpful, to get married, have children and try to live an ordinary life. You get only one chance on this Earth, only one life, and you try to make the most of it.” Schloss sees similarities in today’s world to Europe during the 1930s and 1940s. “People wanted to leave Austria, Ger-

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tacos, burgers and innovative desserts. “There’s something for everybody out there from local restaurants and local businesses to traditional carnival food to deep-fried Twinkies,” Kimble said. “They always have fun food.” Nearly 500 volunteers are helping to make the ostrich festival possible. “What makes this festival unique is because of the community participation and involvement,” Kimble said. “This year we have various nonprofit groups that will be out there pouring beverages and earning money. For every nonprofit (that) comes out to help we will give a check back to that nonprofit for their time and helping.” Indeed, she added, “One of the things why this festival has evolved so much is because of the input from the local community. We really listen to what the community has to say. This community has so much talent from the music to the STEM tent. That’s where you’ve seen where it’s really grown and evolved.”

The first ostrich festival was held

downtown, with the ostrich races held where the downtown library and next-

door police department are located now, recalled Lori Daniels, a former state legislator.

It drew about 25,000 to 30,000 peo-

ple.

“We had empty lots down there then,”

Joan said. “It was more like a carnival

event, a lot of rides. It was successful. There was a lot of work to be done to bring them the Ferris wheel into our

area, into our downtown. I know we

closed some of the streets. It is part of

our history, if you can imagine ostriches running around in our downtown area.”

The ostrich festival parade, usu-

ally held on the Saturday of the festival weekend, will not be held this year be-

cause of extensive construction going on downtown right now, Kimble said.

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many and Czechoslovakia, which was occupied by the Nazis,” she said. “People tried to get into safe countries, like America, like Canada, like Australia, countries that could have taken in people. But people didn’t want to. This is what we have now, the same problem. “From the Middle East, from Syria, from Sudan, many countries in Africa, people are persecuted. People are killed. People are starving, and they want to leave with their families. And again the world said, ‘No, we don’t want you.’” Schloss hopes to inspire audience members, especially younger ones, to want to bring change in the world. “If they see injustices being done, if things are going wrong somewhere, they have to have the courage to get involved and speak up, so that things get changed,” Schloss said. For 40 years, Schloss didn’t speak about her experiences during the Holocaust. She first got up in front of an audience when an exhibition on Anne Frank and

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What: A Historic Evening with Anne Frank’s Stepsister Eva Schloss. When: 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 13. Where: Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler. Tickets: $180 VIP tickets, $36 premium seating, $18-$25 general seating, $10 for students. Information: 480-855-4333, chabadcenter.com/event.

Rolo Pretzel Turtles

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These 2 recipes will provide quick and easy ‘something somethings’

hat could be more fun than making a scrumptious treat in just a few minutes with just 3 ingredients? This week I’m sharing a recipe that is perfect for an after-school snack, a bridge party, and a cookie platter or just when you want a little something something. I put this recipe in my second cookbook, “Rescued Recipes” because it’s just fun and delicious. It’s from one of our readers, Arizonan Carol Weiss. These incredible Rolo Pretzel Turtles use only three ingredients, take about five minutes and couldn’t be more simple or delicious. Since we’re on the yummy subject of chocolate, I’m including my Fudge Wonder Pudding Cake in case you missed it when we ran it last year. It’s another simple, sensational dessert that makes its own topping miraculously in the oven. I’ve included the link for both videos at jandatri. com.

Ingredients: Small pretzel rings Rolo candies (caramel-filled chocolate) Pecan halves Dipping chocolate, optional Directions: Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Lay pretzels on a greased baking sheet. Place a Rolo on top of pretzel. Bake for just a minute or two until the Rolo is shiny and soft but not melted. Remove from oven and immediately squish a pecan half gently down on Rolo so that it flattens the Rolo but doesn’t seep through the bottom. Cool to harden. If desired, drizzle a little dipping chocolate over top. Jan’s Notes: In addition to the pecan halves, I’ve enjoyed Carol’s Rolo Pretzels with walnut halves and Brazil nuts with a drizzle of chocolate coating over top!

Fudge Wonder Pudding 1 cup flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ¼ teaspoon salt ¾ cup sugar 2 tablespoons cocoa ½ cup milk

the Holocaust visited London in 1986. “I was invited to come there as part of the audience. At the end, the organizer said, ‘And now Eva wants to say something to you.’ I can assure you I wasn’t ready for anything like that. It was a horrible, horrible moment. I was put in front of 200, 300 people, and then suddenly everything that I had suppressed came flooding out I realized speaking about it can help to get over it,” Schloss said.

2 tablespoons butter, melted 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed ¼ cup cocoa 1 ¾ cups hot water Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift the first 5 ingredients into a bowl. Stir in milk, melted butter and vanilla. Pour into an 8 or 9-inch round or square pan. Mix together brown sugar and cocoa and sprinkle evenly over the top. Add hot water over top, completely covering the brown sugar and cocoa. Carefully place pan in oven. Bake for 45 minutes. During baking, the cake will bubble and rise to the top of the pan and a wonderful chocolate sauce will settle to the bottom. Remove from oven. Cool it slightly, about 10 minutes, and invert onto a deep serving platter. Let set up, about 15 minutes or so and then serve with ice cream or whipped cream. Serve while the pudding is still warm. Yield 6-8 servings.

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Kay Wright Greene, 89, of Mesa died Friday, January 18, 2019. She was born to the late Earnest and Dorothy Wright, October 23, 1929 in Erie, PA. She was preceded in death by her husband Vern, three sisters Gladean Bull of AZ, Reatha Sumner of FL, Virginia Michael of PA, and one brother Glade Wright of PA. She worked at General Electric (GE) while attending beauty college. After finishing college, she owned and operated Peter Pan Beauty Salon in Erie and then went on to own and operate Greene's Beauty Salon in Millcreek. She worked 40 years as a hairdresser and enjoyed traveling, artwork, playing cards, and spending time with family and friends. Kay is survived by her three children all living in Arizona: Dan, Lorie, and David (his wife Julie and daughter Katie) Greene. In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to the American Cancer Society (PO Box 22478, Oklahoma City, OK 73123 or call 1-800-227-2345) in memory of Kay Greene.

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Phyllis Jean Fisher, was born on Tuesday, October 18, 1938 and peacefully passed away on Thursday, February 21, 2019. Phyllis worked as a caregiver across the valley for over 30 years. She was always positive throughout her struggle with Parkinson's and was able to put a smile on anyone's face no matter how they were feeling. Phyllis loved God, life, her family and friends. She had six children: son, Randel Millsaps (Felicia), daughters, Deborah Millsaps, Melanie Asmussen, Gayla Gollihar, Ginger Millsaps and Samantha Millsaps (deceased), many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. She will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her. The family will gather for a celebration of life in Phyllis' honor at West Resthaven Funeral Home, 6450 West Northern Ave., Glendale, AZ 85301 on Sunday, March 3, 2019 at 2:00 P.M.

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