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Sunday, September 2, 2018
3 incumbents, youngest candidate likely Council winners BY PAUL MARYNIAK GSN Executive Editor
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ilbert voters appear to have returned three incumbents to the Town Council for another four years – sending the youngest of the seven candidates to join them. With ballots still being counted by the County Recorder’s Office late last week, an official announcement on the apparent winners is not expected before Tuesday. But it appeared that Vice Mayor Brigette Peterson, Council members Eddie Cook and Jordan Ray and newcomer Aimee Rigler would be the likely winners – with no need for a runoff in November. Even by Wednesday afternoon, the trend lines in results were such that Town Clerk Lisa
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Maxwell said, “Based on the preliminary results I have that were lasted update around 2:00 am there is no need for a run-off. Right now, five candidates have over the minimum number of votes needed to be elected at the primary. If that stays true after all the votes are counted
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then the top four candidates will win the four seats.” Meanwhile, with 100 percent of all votes counted by the Arizona Secretary of State, the fall
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Hunger still a problem for EV kids and adults BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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few years ago, Derrick Bunting worked a minimum-wage job and at one point two jobs, to keep a roof overhead and food on the table for himself and his three growing children. Often, the 41-year-old Gilbert resident fell short on the food. “By the time the bills were paid, we didn’t have any money for food,” the single-dad said. “I went like three to four months with it really bad. When I say bad, I mean no food in the refrigerator, no food in my cabinets.” His mother would help out when she could, but often Bunting would go hungry so his kids
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People flock to the Javelina Volunteer Annex that United Food Bank opens on Fridays at Javelina Avenue and Mesa Drive in Mesa. People who cannot afford fresh vegetables and fruit at supermarkets find it offers them a chance to get nutritious food they otherwise can't afford.
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could eat. “It affected their grades, their sleeping habits,” he said. “My kids couldn’t hardly go to bed, and focus when their tummies were growling.” Arizona ranked 12th worse in the country for food insecurity and sixth worse nationally for child-food insecurity, according to United Food Bank, which serves the East Valley and much of eastern Arizona. The Mesa nonprofit reported nearly 225,000 people, with more than 84,000 children are food insecure in its service area. Widespread food insecurity explains why Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization, and food banks have designated September as Hunger Action Month – a time when Americas are urged to help take action on the national hunger crisis. Food insecurity as defined by the federal government is the lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life. Food insecurity is dropping in Arizona, although it is still higher than the country as a whole, according to a recent annual report from Feeding America, a nationwide nonprofit network of 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs. The overall food insecurity rate in the
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United States in 2016 was 12.9 percent with an estimated 1 in 8 Americans short of food, equating to 42 million Americans, including 13 million children, according to Feeding America. And, though food insecurity rates have fallen, the need among people who remain food insecure continues to rise, the group said. In the latest available data for 2016, Arizona saw a 14.9 percent food insecurity rate – down from 15.8 percent in 2015 and 17.1 percent in 2014, according to the Map the Meal Gap study, which breaks
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Top: Rene Morles, right, finishes up his day at United Food Bank's Javelina Volunteer Annex.
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Janae Clark, a 13-year-old volunteer at the food bank helps a patron.
the numbers down by county and by congressional districts. Congressional District 5, which includes Gilbert, Queen Creek, parts of Chandler and
east Mesa, also saw a drop to 13.3 percent in 2016 from 13.4 percent in 2015 and 14.8 percent in 2014. United Food Bank CEO Dave Richins attributed the drop to an improving economy, more job prospects and to food banks. “We are making progress on this issue,” Richins said, adding that United Food Bank has helped make a striking impact through its programs and outreach in helping Arizonans out of poverty throughout its
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Gilbert students rally in the fight against hunger BY COTY DOLORES MIRANDA GSN Contributor
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ood drives are a major weapon in the war against hunger in the East Valley, and among the greatest contributors are area schools. From elementary levels to high schools, students in the region have risen to the call for help in reducing food insecurity. “Nearly 30 percent of our neighbors are struggling with hunger,” said Tyson Nansel, United Food Bank spokeswoman said. Added Melissa Forrester, United Food Bank’s community engagement manager: “Food insecurity is when you don’t know where your next meal is coming from. It’s children in school who are hoping they’ll get something to eat when they go home.” Both women have witnessed the ongoing generosity of East Valley communities, especially area schools, and remain optimistic that the new school year see of kind souls with open hands helping to fight hunger. For many, it has become an annual race to win the coveted “Tin Can Trophy’ for their school in United Food Bank’s Kids in Need competition.
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Desert Ridge Junior High has earned numerous "Tin Can Trophies" from United Food Bank for the volume of food students have collected. Last year, they collected 30 tons of food.
This competition runs through March, and can be joined at any time. It can run only a week, a month or be tied to just one event of gathering canned foods. In the junior high/middle school division, one school is a regular winner through student and staff efforts that have the office area entry massed with barrels overflowing with food items. “Desert Ridge Junior High School is absolutely phenomenal,” said Forrester.
Desert Ridge, a Gilbert Public Schools facility located in Mesa, serves only seventh and eighth graders. But its front office credenza sports more than 20 Tin Can Trophies amassed from its annual efforts since students became seriously involved in the fight against hunger during the 2001-2002 school year. It shares the space with a green ceramic Rattler, the school mascot, while nearby hangs a wooden plaque containing the
school’s annual can food drive tallies. “I am extremely proud of our students, staff, and families for their continued efforts to support the East Valley United Food Bank,” said Principal Jean Woods, who was named Administrator of the Year in 2017 by the Arizona Association of School Psychologists. “The first food drive in 2001 netted 3,500 pounds of food,” Woods said. “This year we had our biggest collection ever with 60,314 pounds of food. That is 30 tons of food – which required one semitruck and two large delivery trucks to haul everything away.” The average student population at Desert Ridge is 1,200, and Woods said no one “dreamed our students could, year after year, break their own record while helping so many”. “Everyone contributes to this most worthy cause,” she said. “The generosity of our families is beyond compare. Everyone knows this is what DRJHS does and all of our families support us beyond our wildest expectations.” Woods, who has been at Desert Ridge since it opened in 2001, encourages other schools to get involved in putting together
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Town Council ballot had one well-known name missing
BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY GSN Managing Editor
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hen Gilbert voters went to the polls for the Aug. 28 primary, a familiar name was not on the ballot. Councilman Victor Petersen chose not to run for re-election. He was the only incumbent not running for reelection as Vice Mayor Brigette Peterson and Councilmen Eddie Cook and Jordan Ray all appeared on the ballot. The 2011 council election, which saw Petersen elected for the first time alongside then newcomers Ray and Cook, was widely viewed as shifting the council to the right as the new council members were seen as more conservative than the incumbents they replaced. During his tenure, Petersen lived up to the billing as he regularly voted against public-spending measures and economic development incentives that he saw as unfair to other Gilbert businesses. He would even regularly pull otherwise mundane motions off the council’s regular consent agenda to avoid voting for policies that conflicted with his ideology. He pointed to the town’s current financial standing – Gilbert has AAA credit ratings from two of the major agencies – as proof that the council’s approach in recent years is working. Still, he acknowledged there is room for improvement and often clashed with other members of the council over what he
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races have been set in the two legislative districts that encompass Gilbert. In LD 12, incumbent Republican Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, who is jumping over to the Senate from the House, defeated Jimmy Lindblom, capturing 55.5 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results, Farnsworth will now take on Democrat Elizabeth Brown, a onetime teacher who has worked in constituent services for two Arizona governors and as an assistant to former Rep. Barb McGuire. Brown had no primary opposition. In the LD 12 Republican House primary, incumbent Travis Grantham and outgoing Sen. Warren Petersen – now running for the House – defeated Nick Myers and Blake Sacha. Petersen and Grantham captured 33 percent and 30 percent of the vote, respectively, to Sacha’s 21 percent and Myer’s 16 percent, according to unofficial results.
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Victor Petersen opted not to seek reelection to Gilbert Town Council, citing the demands of his business. Throughout his tenure, he usually opposed public spending measures
viewed as excessive spending by the town. “I think we’ve improved in a lot of ways,” he said. “I wish I could say it’s a slam dunk, but I hesitate because of the issue of, and it’s a very specific metric, but I think it’s an important one and it is the ongoing expenditures per citizen metric.” Petersen became known on the council for diving deep into fiscal issues and preparing his “bread chart” prior to budget debates that looked at the town’s projected expenditures and revenues over time.
They’ll face Democrats Lynsey Robinson and Joe Bisaccia, who garnered 45 percent and 37 percent, respectively, and left D. J. Rothans an also-ran. In LD17, former Councilwoman Nora Ellen and incumbent Rep. Jeff Weninger, another former Chandler Council member, secured the Republican nominations for State House, leaving Julie Willoughby out in the cold. Ellen is seeking a seat vacated by her termed-out son, J.D. Mesnard, who had no Republican primary opposition in the LD17 Senate race. The House Speaker will face off against Steve Weichert to fill the vacancy created by retiring Sen. Steve Yarbrough. Ellen and Weninger will be vying for two seats with Democrat Jennifer Pawlik. In the Town Council races, incomplete and unofficial returns showed Peterson the top vote getter with 18 percent, followed by Cook with 17 percent, Ray with 16 percent and Rigler with 15 percent.
“I would be the first to say that Victor is a great researcher and has a desire to understand issues from the inside out,” Mayor Jenn Daniels said. “He has been relentless about digging in and trying to understand one issue or another.” Petersen typically argued, using his bread chart as back up, against the town’s budgets on the ground’s that Gilbert was relying on rosy revenue and growth projections to justify increasingly large expenditures that could put it in a risky position in the event of a recession. Though the current Gilbert Town Council is relatively fiscally conservative overall, many council votes on spending resulted in a 5-2 split, with Petersen and Councilman Jared Taylor in the minority. Most recently, Petersen and Taylor were the only dissenting votes when the council voted to put a bond funding proposal in front of voters for Gilbert’s planned public safety training facility. At a Town Council meeting, Petersen argued the proposed $84.6-million price tag for the facility was excessive. He maintained that the town could reduce the bond amount from $65 million to $47 million by, in part, utilizing existing classroom space owned by the town rather than building new space. Unsurprisingly, Petersen cited another contentious vote when asked what accomplishment he is most proud of from his time on the Council. “One of my greatest satisfactions has been in protecting the right to bear arms,”
Rigler edged out Barbara Guy, who placed fifth with 13 percent as well as James Candland, 12 percent, and Jason Cvancara, 9 percent, according to unofficial and incomplete results. For a while Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, it looked as if Guy and Rigler might be heading toward a horse race, but by mid-day Wednesday, Guy effectively conceded that she would need 30 percent of the remaining uncounted ballots to close the gap. Nevertheless, she called it “a good run.” Although they each ran individual campaigns, the three incumbents sounded similar themes – fiscal responsibility, economic development and growing Gilbert’s legacy as a family-focused community. Peterson also stressed her efforts to attend a wide range of community functions to stay in touch with residents. Rigler – who at 29 is among youngest residents to sit on Gilbert Town Council
he said, citing a 6-1 council vote in 2014 that amended a local ordinance to give some citizens the ability to carry firearms in town-owned public buildings. Petersen introduced the amendment, which allowed people with an Arizona concealed-carry permit to bring firearms into public buildings instead of storing them in a gun locker, arguing that the previous rules made public facilities vulnerable to mass shooters. “I know politically a lot of people disagree with this, but I think the practice of having what I call honor system gun-free zones is a terrible, terrible policy” Petersen said. “Most of the massacres, if not all of the massacres I can think of in our country, have occurred in what I call those honor system gun free zones.” The amendment did not apply to certain public buildings like police departments that are already well guarded, he said. Though the amendment passed on a 6-1 vote, even those who voted in favor of the measure expressed trepidation at the time due to public safety issues and safety concerns from town staff. “In making sure we are meeting the needs of the citizens and keeping their rights, there are rights of the town employees, and some said they’d be fearful and they would be fearful and it would cause a tremendous amount of stress for them if someone walked in with a weapon,” thenMayor John Lewis said. While he did put his name on some
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– stressed her youth, saying she would “bring fresh enthusiasm to Town governance, a thoughtful understanding of public policy, and the experience ‘in the trenches’ of helping taxpayers navigate bureaucracy.” Director of communications and public policy for the Arizona Free Enterprise Club, Rigler created a stir last month when she complained that she was being victimized by dirty political tricks that had a sexist tinge to them. Gilbert voters also overwhelmingly approved – by a 3-1 margin – a referendum question authorizing the sale is a 36.66acre parcel of land located south of Loop 202, north of Germann Road, east of Gilbert Road and west of Lindsay Road. Gilbert bought the land for $14.5 million in 2008 with the intention of building a public safety training facility on site. Town Council in March formally declared the 36.66 acres as surplus property.
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Dems in Arizona gaining more registered voters than GOP BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services
It may not be the signs of a “blue wave,” but a new report from the Secretary of State’s Office suggests that Arizona Democrats appear to be more energized this year than Republicans. And that may translate to victories in races that in any other year they could not win. The latest figures show that for every person who registered with the GOP since March, the Democrats registered more than three. That doesn’t endanger the lead that Republicans have in Arizona. They still make up nearly 35 percent of registered voters, versus less than 31 percent for Democrats. And independents – those not affiliated with any of the four recognized parties – still make up about a third, though their share of the total is dropping. The surge in Democrat registration in Arizona comes as recent national elections have shown that races in what should be safe Republican districts have proven closer than expected, as some party faithful stay home amid the controversy over President Trump. That doesn’t mean they’ll vote for a Democrat. But if they sit out the race in November, it negates the party’s voter registration edge. Arizona already has a real-live example of this. In April, Republican Debbie Lesko managed to defeat Democrat Hiral Tipirneni in a special election to fill the congressional seat in northwest Maricopa County that became vacant after the resignation of fellow Republican Steve Montenegro. But Lesko, a state senator who represented the area for years, managed to pick up just 52.1 percent of the votes cast. That is significant since the Republicans far outnumber Democrats in the district by a margin of close to two-to-one. And that’s a district that went for Trump two years earlier by more than 20 points. The push to register Democrats is no more pronounced than in the 2nd congressional district, running from midtown Tucson to the state border south and east. There, Democrats boosted their numbers between March and now by 2,887. And Republicans? Just 11.
Ayshia Connors, spokeswoman for the state Republican Party, said that disparity is not surprising. “They have a lot of catching up to do,’’ she said of the Democrats. In fact, though, they’ve more than caught up in CD 2 and now have a 3,500 registration edge. But Connors said the party is not worried, what with still having 150,000 more registered adherents statewide than the Democrats. “We have a very strong ground game,’’ she said. “Our momentum is strong, our team is strong,’’ Connors continued. “So, we’re very confident we’re going to have success in November. But not everyone in the GOP reads the new data the same way. “I think the latest partisan registration numbers are yet the most recent tangible evidence that the energy of the 2018 election is on the center-left of the political spectrum,’’ said Republican consultant Stan Barnes. Barnes said he has never seen such energy among that group in his 30 years as a Republican. That’s a really significant concession, given that Barnes, a former state lawmaker, was around when Democrat Janet Napolitano got elected governor in 2002 despite the fact that the GOP had 125,000 more registered voters in the state. “If the environment is better today, and the Democrats won the governorship when it was less good, what does that mean for Republicans in the 2018 general election?’’ Barnes said. “That’s got Republicans awake at night.’’ Barnes said he still thinks his party can hold its own with “quality candidates.’’ And he said the GOP has built-in advantages, including a large number of incumbents and the fact that the money tends to flow in their direction. “But Democrats have been so beat down, so long, for what seems like forever in the minority position politically that any blue sky, any oxygen excites them,’’ he said. And that, said Barnes, could become a selffulfilling prophecy. “That confidence has led to better candidates and more candidates and more money than anybody running has seen Democrats have before,’’ Barnes said. “And that must translate to victories that would
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controversial measures like the gun amendment, Petersen’s legacy may be more defined by what he voted against – namely budgets, capital improvement plans and other forms of government spending. However, he pointed out that he voted for one budget during his time on council. Still, Petersen’s decision not to seek another term had more to do with practical concerns than politics. “A big pressure that’s increased recently is with the economy picking up our business has picked up quite a bit, and the demands at the office have increased a lot,” said Petersen, who runs his family’s home building business, VIP Homes. “So that’s a big reason why my time is more pinched than it’s been in the past,” he said. Petersen said he is still able to perform most Council responsibilities, but his professional obligations have cut into his ability to perform what he refers to as the “show horse” part of the job – activities like ribbon cuttings and speaking at community events. He is not writing off public service completely, though.
“I actually would like to go to law school if I can find the time and the means to do so,” Petersen said. “I have a lot of passion for municipal law and actually someday I think with my personality type that I could make a really good judge. I’m not saying I have any political aspirations at this point to run for Justice of the Peace or anything like that, but I think I would be a good judge.” Despite his frequent differences with others on the council, Petersen said he is proud that, for the most part, he and other councilpersons remained civil in their discourse. “I would say one of the greatest satisfactions of my time in office is that I think, and I didn’t do this alone, that we’ve kept it very civil dialogue going on the council,” he said. “If you look at any corporation or organization that’s successful, what you want is passionate but civil discourse. That’s how you get your best decisions.” Mayor Jenn Daniels echoed that sentiment. “I think it has been good for us to have that healthy debate on the dais and multiple viewpoints presented,” she said. “Overall, (Petersen) is a very good man, and I have appreciated his leadership.”
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not have been there before save for that optimism.’’ Chuck Couglin, who does consulting for Republicans, said he expects that energized Democrat base will increase voter participation. And that, he said, should translate into at least one, if not more, victories in statewide races, offices now currently occupied entirely by Republicans. One place the Republicans do not have the benefit of incumbency is CD 2, won in 2014 by Martha McSally, who took the seat away from Democrat Ron Barber. That year, Republicans had a voter registration edge of about 3,500. Now, the tables are turned, with the Democrats up by that same margin and McSally in the hunt for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Jeff Flake. Coughlin said he doubts the Republicans will be able to hang on to that congressional seat. The other open seat is in CD 9, which encompasses parts of Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa. Republicans had thought it was a swing district when it was first created for the
2012 election, with GOP registration at the time outnumbering Democrats by more than 10,000. Despite that, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema parlayed her time as a state legislator into a seat in Congress. Sinema now hopes to become the Democrat nominee for Flake’s seat. That has Republicans thinking that perhaps this is the year they can win CD 9. Coughlin disagrees. And the numbers are not in the GOP’s favor, with the 10,000 registration edge the party had in 2012 having evaporated into a 13,000 registration deficit. In CD 1, the picture is a bit different. Democrat Tom O’Halleran is hoping to hang onto the seat he won two years ago after incumbent Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick made an ill-fated run to oust U.S. Sen. John McCain. Steve Smith, Wendy Rogers and Tiffany Shedd are all vying to be the GOP nominee. The number of Republican voters in the sprawling district that stretches from the state’s northern border to its eastern edge and down into suburban Tucson is virtually the same now as it was two years ago. But while Democrats still outnumber Republicans in the district, their margin has shrunk by about 7,000 from 2016.
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It’s time to vote for the Best of the Best
We’ve given you the Best of Mesa, the Best of Gilbert and the Best of Chandler. Now, you can decide the best of them all! Go to eastvalleytribune.com beginning today to vote for the Best of the Best in the East Valley. Contestants are the top three winners in each category from each of our three Best Of publications. Voting continues through the end of September and results will be published next month. Same voting rules apply. Vote now, vote often for The Best of the Best.
Ballet Etudes ‘Nutcracker’ auditions Saturday
Dancers ages 7-18 may audition Saturday for Ballet Etudes’ annual presentation of “The Nutcracker” its studio, 2401 E. Baseline Road in Gilbert. Dancers need not be a company member nor must they be enrolled at BE School of Dance to audition for Ballet Etudes’ 32nd anniversary presentation. With a cast of more than 100, it is among the Valley’s longest-running productions. “The Nutcracker” will be performed over four weekends at Chandler Center for the Arts and Mesa Arts Center. Ballet Etudes’ annual production is seen by 8,000 patrons every year. Audition registration fee is $15. For girls, registration is noon-12:45 p.m., followed 1-3 p.m. by technique audition. For boys, registration is 2:30-3 p.m., followed 3-3:30 p.m. by technique audition. Advanced audition, for which pointe work is required for females, has registration 3-3:30 p.m. and technique audition 3:30-6:30 p.m. For more information, call 480-558-2080 or email info@balletetudes.net.
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Rosh Hashanah services set at Pollack Chabad Center Rabbi Mendy Deitsch of Chabad of the East Valley has announced that traditional Rosh Hashanah services will be Sept. 9-11 at the Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N. McClintock Drive in Chandler, ushering in the Jewish new year. New this year: simultaneous teen service, children’s program in three age groups, infant room and cantorial soloist from Montreal, Canada. Services are free but reservations are required at Chabad of the East Valley, 480-855-4333 or chabadcenter.com.
Audubon Society seeking unique landscapes to showcase on tour
The Desert Rivers Audubon Society, the East Valley’s chapter, is looking for backyards and business landscapes that feature plants and trees native to the Sonora Desert. Qualifying landscapes may be chosen for the annual Tour de Bird, a showcase of bird- and wildlife-friendly habitats, scheduled for Nov. 3. Tour de Bird, in its seventh year, is a self-guided ramble featuring 10 homes, parks and businesses in the East Valley that are landscaped in harmony with the desert. Proceeds from the Tour de Bird support the free Family Birdwalks in Gilbert and Chandler hosted by Desert Rivers Audubon members one Saturday a month October through March. Loaner binoculars and field guides are provided to participants. Tour de Bird tickets are available in advance for $15, online at desertriversaudubon. org, at Wild Birds Unlimited at 21236 East Baseline Road. Information/nominations: Krys.Hammers@gmail.com or 480 227-8332.
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State high court nixes education tax ballot measure BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services
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rizonans will not get a chance to decide whether to hike taxes on the rich to generate more money for education or to decide if so-called “dark money” should be banned from political campaigns. The Arizona Supreme Court shot down the tax referendum, stating that petition signers were not informed that the measure would do more than increase the tax rate on those earning more than $250,000 a year. It also would eliminate the indexing of income tax brackets to account for inflation. Chief Justice Scott Bales, writing for the court, said a majority concluded that omission “creates a significant danger of confusion or unfairness.’’ The ruling is a significant setback for the education community, and not just because it means there will not be a dedicated revenue stream for public education. There were hopes that having this measure on the ballot, coupled with Proposition 305 which is a referendum already on the ballot over expansion of vouchers, would bring out voters who also would support candidates willing to put more money into public schools. Mesa Public Schools high school teacher Josh Buckley, co-chair of the Invest in Ed campaign and president of the Mesa Education Association, said, “We are a little shocked by the judgment. The Supreme Court has often sided with the people of Arizona and allowed them to have a say.’’ “Even though the initiative is off the ballot, the needs of our students are not off the ballot,’’ Buckley said. “I think education will be front and center in this election. Parents, no matter who they are, they want the best education for
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their children.’’ The ruling is a victory for the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry which led and financed the legal fight to block a public vote. Organization president Glenn Hamer argued that hiking income taxes on the wealthiest Arizonans “would just create a drag on the state’s overall economy.’’ And he said that if the state targets the rich, many would just choose to move elsewhere. That question is now academic. There is no dispute that the main provision of the measure would have imposed an 8 percent state income tax on earnings of more than $250,000 for individuals and $500,000 for couples. That compares with the current 4.54 percent rate. And there would be a 9 percent tax rate on anything over $500,000 for individuals and $1 million for married couples filing jointly. Proponents estimated that the additional revenues would generate about $690 million a year for public education. In crafting the language for those new tax brackets, the initiative spelled out the rates for all of the brackets. That’s where
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– at the behest of the Chamber of Commerce – to override prior court rulings which said that people proposing their own laws need only “substantial compliance’’ and that minor technical errors should not keep an issue off the ballot. In a ruling earlier this month on this initiative, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge James Smith concluded legislators acted illegally in changing the standard. The justices also rejected an initiative that would have asked voters overturn existing laws that allow groups established under the Internal Revenue Code as “social welfare organizations’’ to spend money to influence state and local races without disclosing the source of their donors. Instead, any individual that put in at least $2,500 would have to be named. That leaves in place not only the state law shielding donors who give to organizations seeking to affect state and legislative elections. Chief Justice Scott Bales, in writing the order keeping the measure off the ballot, said there were an insufficient number of legitimate signatures to qualify the measure for the ballot.
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the problem arose. In doing so, it reset the cut points between brackets to where they were in 2014. That before the Republicancontrolled Legislature voted to index the brackets each year, a move designed to ensure that those whose income went up no faster than inflation did not end up in higher tax brackets. Attorney Jim Barton argued, unsuccessfully, that the wording of the initiative would leave indexing in place. That paved the way for the Supreme Court to take a closer look at how the initiative was described to the approximately 270,000 people who signed the petitions to put the issue on the ballot. And Bales pointed out that the change in indexing was never mentioned in the legally required 100-word description that must accompany each petition. “The description is inadequate under the statute,’’ the chief justice wrote. In tossing the measure from the ballot the justices sidestepped the thorny legal question of the validity of a 2017 law which says that initiative petitions must be in “strict compliance’’ with all election laws. That was designed by GOP lawmakers
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Mesquite High expanding ‘mindfulness’program to parents BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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esquite High School is tackling substance abuse by teaching students how to handle stress. The campus is the first in Gilbert Public School District to offer a Mindfulness and Life Skills Program, now in its second year. “Studies show a correlation between stress and addiction,” said Anna Luna, Mesquite prevention coach. “We teach students better concentration and focus (and) develop strong coping mechanisms. When they are stronger they are less likely to engage in alcohol and drugs.” Luna said 80 percent of people who engage in substance abuse for the first time do so because of emotional reasons. Starting Tuesday, Sept. 11, the school will offer mindfulness training and parent connection classes on topics such as communicating with teens, suicide prevention, substance abuse and vaping. The classes will be from 2:35 to 3 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at the high school. “Our hope with this program is that they will take the skills they learn from us and bring them home to their families,” Luna said. “Parent Mindfulness will be available to any adult in the county to receive mindfulness training.”
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Students last Tuesday tried out the Mindfulness Room at Mesquite High School. Since it opened last year, the room has become a popular retreat from the pressures of the day.
Junior Sofia Wernik, 16, said the program helped her last school year, by teaching her to think about her actions,
take deep breaths and calm down. She takes honor classes and participates in competitive dancing, which means lot
GPS students who were tested was 52 percent, the same as in 2017. In math, fewer students passed at 53 percent, compared with 55 percent the prior year. “Gilbert Public Schools is very proud of our students and staff,” said Brandie Harris, district director of assessment and accountability in a released statement. “While this system is a good measurement of our academic progress, it does not measure and value culture and climate and the countless hours our dedicated staff invest in the education of our students. We are proud of all of our accomplishments.” Harris said the district uses the test scores as a temperature check on students’ progression in their mastery of grade-level or content-area standards. “This is one part of a balanced system of assessment the district utilizes to inform teachers, as well students and their families, about student learning,” she said. Harris added the test results are intended to help schools and districts improve
student performances, let parents have a better understanding how their student is doing and help identify students who may need help. Gilbert school board is expected to discuss the AzMERIT results at a future meeting. Higley School District did not respond to questions about the results despite repeated requests from the Gilbert Sun News. All public school students in grades 3 to high school take the assessment test, which replaced AIMS as the state’s standardized test in 2015. The state education department uses AzMERIT scores to determine 90 percent of a school’s A-F letter grade, which gives parents an idea of how well a school is preparing students. Passing it is not a requirement for graduation. Overall, the statewide annual checkup of student performance ticked up a couple of notches from the prior year, according to AzMERIT. Charter school students
of stress. “I used to be angry and take it out on people,” she said. “Now I am calm and look for other outlets.” She said she likely will be coming to the Mindfulness Room as the school year progresses to “detoxify my stress.” The school’s mental health and wellbeing program was made possible by a $100,000 a year, three-year competitive grant awarded by the Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith and Family. Gilbert High School also received a grant. Luna said the high school sought the grant based on a 2016 Arizona Youth Survey results, which showed there was a higher level of prescription drug use among10th and 12th graders. A total of 31 high schools across six counties received the funding through the High School Health and Wellness Program, which enables schools to engage in proactive measures to combat drug and alcohol abuse and increase student wellbeing. Mesquite used its money to hire Luna and buy materials for the program. The school converted a second-floor computer room into a Mindfulness Room, painted in a calming, teal color and outfit-
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Higley students fare better than GPS in AzMERIT scores BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor
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early half of the students in Gilbert’s two public school systems aren’t adept at reading, writing and math, according to the latest AzMERIT test scores. While Higley Unified School District saw more students passing English Language Arts and math in 2018, Gilbert Public School District saw no improvement in students tested in English and fewer students passing math from the prior year, according to data from the Arizona Department of Education. The final scores include fall 2017 and spring 2018 performance results. In Higley, 60 percent of its 8,512 students who took the English arts test passed – an increase from the 58 percent in 2017. And in math, 62 percent of the 8,206 students tested passed, up from 60 percent in 2017. The percentage of passing for 24,097
also are tested. Still, just 41 percent of Arizona students tested in Arizona passed English language arts and 41 percent passed math. Diane Douglas, state public education superintendent, released a statement that said students improved in 26 of the 30 grade-level and test categories but noted AzMERIT still had a long way to go to become the most effective tool in measuring student performance in the state. How well students tested also is reported as one of four performance levels – Level 1, or minimally proficient; Level 2, or partially proficient; Level 3 for proficient and Level 4 for highly proficient. Students who scored at Level 1 or Level 2 are likely to need help to be ready for the next grade or course, according to the AzMERIT reporting guide. For English, 28 percent of Gilbert district’s students were minimally proficient, 19 percent partially proficient, 36
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percent proficient and 17 percent highly proficient. In math, 25 percent of the students were minimally proficient, 22 percent partially proficient, 33 percent proficient and 20 percent highly proficient. In English arts, 21 percent of Higley district students were minimally proficient; 19 percent partially proficient; 39 percent were proficient; and 20 percent, highly proficient. Higley’s districtwide math scores showed 18 percent of its students perform at a minimally proficient level, 20 percent at partial proficiency, 34 percent at a proficient level and 28 percent at a highly proficient level. Based largely off the test scores, all Higley district schools earned either an “A” or “B,” according to finalized 2017 letter grades released in April by Arizona State Board of Education. The board intends to release the 2018 grades this fall. GPS campuses also earned and “A” or “B” with four schools earning a “C” – Gilbert Junior High, Houston Elementary, Harris Elementary and Desert Ridge Junior High School. An “A” grade is considered excellent, “B” is highly performing and “C” is considered
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performing, according to the state Education Department. Statewide, 20 percent of K-8 schools and 19 percent of high schools earned A’s, according to the latest letter grades. SchoolDigger.com calculated the latest AzMERIT results and ranked schools in the state based on their scores. Gilbert Classical Academy High School, an honors campus in GPS, was No. 1 among 412 Arizona high schools ranked, up from second place in 2017, according to the online company. Students at that high school passed AzMERIT with flying colors with 93 percent of 242 students tested passing English and 86 percent of 171 students tested passing in math. Both Higley high schools and three other GPS high schools made the top 100 list for AzMERIT scores, according to SchoolDigger.com: Higley High was No. 43, Campo Verde was 48th; Williams Field No. 74, Gilbert Global Academy High No. 86 and Highland No. 88. Among middle schools, Gilbert Classical Academy was No. 37 and Sossaman Middle School was No. 84. Neely Traditional Academy ranked No. 23 among elementary schools and Greenfield Elementary was No. 81, followed by Cortina Elementary at No. 82.
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ted with comfy chairs that were either donated or commandeered from the teachers’ lounge. A 20-minute program is offered several times daily and includes a five-minute educational video, curriculum work and 10 minutes of guided mediation, where students focus on their breathing and become in tune with their bodies and their surroundings. Each day features a new lesson for a total of 20 lessons. By learning how to relax the next time students encounter a stressful situation at school or home, they are better able to deal with it, according to school psychologist Frances Cruz. “Many of the students experience a change in one session,” she said. “But they need to keep going for practice.” Life-skills training includes teaching students how to improve family communication, develop healthy relationships, take healthy risks and understand media influences. Social media plays a big role in teen suicide, according to Amy Leiferman, a social worker intern from Arizona State University doing her field work at the high school. “This area has higher suicides than Phoenix,” she said. “It’s more affluent here
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and people try to compete with each other. Even parents try to outdo each other and everything is documented on social media.” The sociocultural pressure of academic achievement to material possession posted for all to see make students feel worse about themselves, Leiferman said. Students can participate in the program during their lunch hour or after school and ninth-graders are required to take it as part of their physical education class. The room is filled to capacity for each session, Leiferman said. More boys than girls are participating in the program, she said. The program also is helping students with their studies and their relationships, she added. Cruz said mindfulness meditation is used by the military and first-responders to combat stress and now it is in the schools. She added that 25 school districts have come to the campus to view the program with the intention of replicating it. “We gauge program success by measuring the numbers of students who have exposure to the prevention material and also the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Assessment and pre/post survey
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19,000-square-mile service area covering five counties. Food insecurity in those five counties ranges from a low of 13.9 percent of the population in Pinal County to 25.5 percent in Apache County. Maricopa County’s was 14.3 percent, according to the study. United Food Bank provides food in two ways: via free, emergency food boxes, and through the Help Yourself Program, a co-op program where people on fixed or limited income buy food boxes containing 15 to 20 pounds of different meats and produce for $20. People also can pick from a variety of free items like breads, pastries, dairy and deli products. “The Help Yourself Program is more of a complete grocery-store experience than an emergency food box, which are shelf-stable foods like dry pasta, peanut butter and canned foods,” Richins said. In fiscal year 2015-16, the food bank distributed 26,047,312 pounds of food
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a United Food Bank Drive, even if it begins humbly as a one-day event. “Our food drive is proof that when a school community comes together, it is possible to do the unimaginable. We’ve earned 13 Overall Winner and Most Pounds per Students awards. “But it’s not the trophies that motivate us,” she added. “It’s knowing that we are making a difference for families right here in our own community. “We know that if every school just committed to half of what we do every year, the students and families in Arizona could make a giant leap toward stamping out hunger in our state.” Williams Field High School in the Higley School District also takes gathering food for the less fortunate seriously. Students name November “Stuff the Bus Month” for United Food Bank and are often winners in the competition. Mary Buscema, a school career center specialist, said she’s proud of her students. “Williams Field High School is preparing to Stuff the Bus for the eight year in a row. This is a school-wide project of love. Each year we come up with creative ways to reach out to our community for donations,” she said, adding: “Our students are aware of how many families go to bed hungry and they want to make a difference. When the bus is packed, a group of students are driven to the United Food Bank to unload the bus and receive a tour of the facilities. They leave with a better knowledge of how the food is distributed to
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totaling 21,706,093 meals to hungry people. Bunting said because of the Help Yourself Program, his kids are eating better – fresh fruits and vegetables and meat instead of the canned and processed foods like Top Ramen, beans and fish sticks. Every Friday, Bunting buys his groceries at the food bank’s Javelina Volunteer Annex near Javelina Avenue and Mesa Drive. “I have fresh produce,” Bunting said. “All my kids are earning straight “As” because they are eating produce, they are eating what comes from the ground and not canned and processed food because your budget requires you to do it.” He said the program helps his budget and he is able to make a car payment with ease now. Although he is earning more money as a salesman at a Chandler car dealership, he still uses the program because his family has grown to include a fiancee who has three children. A fair number of people who show up Fridays for United Food Bank’s program are
those in need.” Buscema bragged, “We were thrilled when, on Dec. 19th, 2013, we were mentioned on the White House Blog regarding our success with this project.” The school instituted the Stuff the Bus concept when Buscema was having lunch with transportation Supervisor Josh Crosby. “We were discussing the lack of community service projects and this was a slap-my-forehead moment,” laughed Buscema. “I truly love being a part of this campus.” Another successful food drive is held at Gilbert’s Carol Rae Ranch Elementary School, spearheaded by student council advisor and music teacher Carolyn Wilson. “It is really important to me that our kids have the experience of helping others, and it correlates with our Character Counts program in the district,” said Wilson, who has taught music in Gilbert for 18 years, and opened Carol Rae Ranch Elementary in 2000. Each year she and council members set a school-wide goal on the number of cans to collect, and establish classroom goals. The drive continues for up to nine school days. “I always talk with my students about what the Food Bank does, and how important it is for us to help others,” she said. “You never know what life may bring in your future, and I’m a big believer in the Golden Rule - treating others the way you want them to be treated,” Wilson added. Wilson said she learned from experience how life can throw individuals and families a curve ball. “I’ve had a time in my life when I needed
the working poor, Richins said. Feeding America cited recent government data that found 58 percent of people at the risk of going hungry live in households that earn more than the federal poverty level such as single mom Jennifer Bottali who worked full time and was on a tight budget. “I found myself skipping meals to stretch the dollars,” said the Gilbert mom of a daughter. “This went on for years, just making it work. It was like playing a shell game, robbing from one thing to pay another.” She had earned too much to qualify for emergency food assistance and soon learned about the Help Yourself Program. But it took her some time to set aside her pride and walk through the door to ask for help. The former New Yorker and her husband once earned a six-figure income until illness and divorce left her struggling. The day Bottali went to the program, she left with more groceries than she’d had at one time in ages. “I was so emotional,” she said. “I hadn’t
seen that much food at one time in so long.” Bottali went to Help Yourself for a short time, and then returned off and on, whenever she needed that extra budget help. United Food Bank also helps seniors, people with disabilities and single people, Richins said. “Both seniors and disabled folks because they can’t just get a job to make more money, we see these folks on a regular basis,” he said. “Families and individuals a lot less so. Our stats tell us three visits.” Richins is hopeful the numbers will continue to drop but some of that will rely on the economy, he noted. “If the economy tanks again we are dealing with people out of work,” he said. “There’s a correlation between the unemployment rate and food-insecurity rate.” Despite Arizona’s nearly 1 percent drop in the food-insecurity rate in 2016 from the prior year, Richins isn’t claiming victory. “We have lot of work left to do,” he said. But “we have a system in place to continue to chip away at this.”
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Desert Ridge Junior High School students keep a chart of the annual amount of food their drives yeild for United Food Bank and consistently have won awards for their work.
help and it was very difficult for me to ask for it. I feel its our responsibility to help take care of others who need our help. I want my students to learn the importance of building each other up, and that there is strength in numbers when you’re helping others.” According to Forrester, there are 300 or more schools within the United Food Bank service area that incorporates all of Pinal and Gila Counties and portions of Apache, Navajo and eastern Maricopa. With 120 schools participating in food drives, she is hopeful other schools will become involved. The annual competition is divided into elementary, middle school or junior high and high school categories. To level the playing field, awards are based on collected pounds per student, with the school population determined on the 100th day of school. “There are so many ways in which the schools can help host food drives,” she
said. “Some specify a month for a drive like Thanksgiving or Christmas, others prefer to wait until February for a Month of Love drive. “It can even be a one-time drive. Westwood High School hosts theirs at their preseason scrimmage games, requesting a can of food as admission,” said Forrester. When asked how, after 10 years with United Food Bank, she maintains optimism, Forrester didn’t hesitate before replying: “I feel blessed when I see our community choose to step up and help. I always share that no one is forced to donate; it’s not a mandatory thing. “People choose (emphasizing the verb) to help those around us and I get a real feeling of greatness in our community when I see people donating their time and/or treasures. I get the privilege to watch people do good things for each-other for a living. Doesn’t get better that that.”
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for our Life Skills Training,” Cruz said. “The pre and post survey measure how students view drug use before and after implementation of the life skills program. For the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Assessment it measures the receptive state of mind.” Mindful awareness is scientifically supported to reduce stress, improve attention, boost the immune system, reduce emotional reactivity, and promote a general sense of health and well-being, according to the Mindful Awareness Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. Last school year, 832 of the 1,700 students at Mesquite High School visited the room 1,500 times, Luna said. The first three weeks of this school year saw between 200 and 300 students, she added. Kingdom Artis, 17, who is on the Mesquite varsity basketball team, visited the Mindfulness Room four times in his junior year. “It’s helped me focus on goals I need to achieve,” he said. “It’s helped me prepare for my senior year.” He said he’s staying on track, careful not to be caught up in seniorits, a tendency for students in their last year to slack off. “It has helped me get my life together and prepare me for the next stage in life – college,” he said.
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Rockin’ dads jam for charity as Gilbert singer copes with loss BY COLLEEN SPARKS GSN Staff Writer
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hile some fathers like to bond with other men over rounds of golf or by coaching their children’s sports teams, one group of dads prefers rocking out in a Chandler man cave and playing gigs at local bars and charitable events. Besides the joy they experience banging on drums, strumming guitars and singing their hearts out, the members of STEREO REX say their jam sessions and songwriting also have helped lead singer Rex Van Dine, 52, of Gilbert, grieve and cope with the loss of his daughter, Tawni. She died at age 23 in 2013, leaving behind a son, Jaxon Tryon, now 7, who is being raised by Rex and his wife, Kerry, in their Gilbert home.
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Rex Van Dine and his STEREO REX band rehearse in a Chandler man cave and sing in area venues. As lead singer, he has two reasons for being in the band: He loves singing, but he also finds it helps him cope with the loss of his 23-year-old daughter Tawni.
The band has a three-song CD dealing with Van Dine’s loss. One song, “Sunday Road,” is about Van Dine’s frustration in trying to help his daughter, who had struggled with drug use. “One I’ll Never Know” is about Van Dine’s realization that his daughter was no longer his little girl. The third, “One Last Time,” is about Rex and Jaxon saying “goodbye” to Tawni. The support and camaraderie of his fellow STEREO REX band members – drummer Paul Burch, guitarist Bryan Linder on guitar and bassist Brian Hoch – have helped him cope. Van Dine wrote the songs with Burch and former collaborators Dran Drago and JD Arthur. Casey Weaver produced the CD. “If it wasn’t for these guys, I would have lost my mind,” Van Dine said. A sign of Van Dine and his family
moving forward and the strength his bandmates provide is evident in a video for STEREO REX’s song, “Home” on their CD “Crunch, Crash, Boom.” In the video, Van Dine interacts with Jaxon in the desert. The song is written from the perspective of Tawni singing to her son from above. The lyrics include words about her always being with him and comforting him if he is sad. Burch produced the video. “I can’t imagine losing a child,” said Burch, the father of two. “We wanted to be there for him. It’s all Rex pouring his heart out.” STEREO REX is performing at the Battle of the Bands at 10 p.m. on Sept. 7 at The Patio at The Forum, 2301 S. Stearman Drive in Chandler. The band will also perform an acoustic, family-
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Mass prayer gathering for women to focus on kids and schools BY COTY DOLORES MIRANDA Contributor
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he “Unshaken Arizona” conference organized by Moms in Prayer International hopes to have a mass prayer for children, grandchildren and the schools they attend around the world. Kay West and Michelle Keso have been involved with the organization for many years and are on the expansive planning team that has put together this two-day event. West is among the speakers and Keso is event coordinator and master of ceremonies. Among the many speakers is actress/director Karen Abercrombie, who starred as Miss Clara in the 2015 film “War Room” among other films and television productions. The two-day conference will run 7-9 p.m. Sept. 7 and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 8 at the First Baptist Church of Tempe, 4525 S. McClintock Drive. A $40 fee includes materials and lunch Saturday. Keso, an adjunct professor at Grand Canyon University, her alma mater, said space remains available.
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Kay West, who spent seven years in Swaziland helping villagers, is a speaker at the event planned by Moms in Prayer International.
“Moms in Prayer is an interdenominational organization. We love Jesus and that is what is matters,” said Keso. “Our dream to have a diverse audience of age, ethnicity and denominations.” Keso, an Ahwatukee resident since 1990, said the planning team of 14
committees has worked on the event for 18 months. “It takes a long time,” she said. “I will never walk into a big event again without realizing how much work is involved.” Kay Cassidy West is MIPI’s interna-
tional leadership director for Southern Africa, encompassing Angola, Botswana, The Union of the Comoros, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. After selling their Ahwatukee home and all possessions, she and her husband of 31 years, John West, spent nearly seven years as missionaries in Swaziland, and then South Africa, before returning to Ahwatukee in January 2017. She is co-founder of Swaziserve, Inc. and serves as current president. She also is the author of “Refiner’s Fire,” a 2016 about her experience in Swaziland – which recently has been renamed by the king of Swaziland as the Kingdom of eSwatini. West is at work on a second book about her experiences in South Africa. She said her 16-year involvement with Moms in Prayer has had a profound influence on her. “Moms in Prayer International has been lifechanging for me. I hope many women will walk away equipped and encour-
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friendly show from 6 to 9 p.m. on Sept. 22 at Nicantoni’s Pizza, 323 S. Gilbert Road in Gilbert. The band plays charitable events, eager to support anything that helps children and brings awareness to drug abuse. Every November, STEREO REX plays at American Legion Post 90 in Black Canyon City as part of the Annual Marines Toys for Tots Rides Maricopa. The band will take the stage at a Cutrano AZ Troop Run Inc. event that raises money for fallen soldiers’ children to attend college at Lucie’s Sage & Sand in Glendale in November. Rex, Burch, Linder and Hoch wrote all the songs together for “Crunch, Crash, Boom.” The CD is named after the band members’ alter egos. “Crash” is Burch’s nickname because he plays drums, “Crunch” is Linder’s as his guitar sounds like it is crunching and Hoch is called “Boom” because he plays bass. The band practices together in a studio off Burch’s house in Chandler. Like many local rock bands, the members have day jobs, other than Rex, who is retired. Burch juggles his career in software
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The rock band STEREO REX practices in the man cave/studio at drummer Paul Burch’s home. The other members are Bryan Linder on guitar, Rex Van Dine lead singer and guitarist, RIGHT, and Brian Hoch, bass player.
and hardware sales at Insight with raising his son, Jaden, 11, and daughter, Ally, 9, with his wife, Paula Burch. Guitarist Linder, 43, of Mesa, works at an AJ’s Fine Foods store in Scottsdale. Bass player Hoch, 57, a fire protection contractor, lives in Peoria but often makes the drive to Chandler and other parts of the East Valley for the band’s
practices and gigs. Like Rex, Hoch is a rockin’ granddad. He has two adult children with his wife, Terri, and two adult stepchildren and he is also a grandfather to his stepdaughter’s two children. “I think people get a kick out of that,” Rex said of the band members’ roles as fathers and grandfathers. “You’re nev-
er too old” to rock, he added. Burch said most of the dads they know are “envious” of the foursome for playing in a rock band. “They see the value,” he said. “They see how awesome it is.” STEREO REX plays about two shows a month and Burch described their style as “desert brand rock” because it is “dry, but hot. It’s got soul.” He said he has also heard the group’s style compared to a blend of Gin Blossoms and Buckcherry. STEREO REX’s CD has hard rock and ballads that are “so different from each other,” Burch added. The band also likes to play their own version of other groups’ songs, including Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” and a bluesy take on Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy.” “Some dads, they’re into going to watch the big game,” Burch said. “They’ll go tailgating. We just do (music) just for the love of it. There’s something forever’s gonna be there. It’s more meaningful. It matters.” The four members of STEREO REX are experienced musicians. Burch and Rex grew up in New Mexico, though they did not meet each other until they were both living in the Valley.
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Burch, who has lived in Chandler for eight years, started playing drums at age 13 and played in marching band in high school in New Mexico. He also spent a short time studying film at Scottsdale Community College after moving to the Valley. Rex moved around often as a child and graduated from Chandler High School in 1982. “I love to sing,” he said. “I play a little guitar.” His two brothers sang and played guitar and Rex sang in choir in school growing up, saying his eighth-grade choir teacher influenced and encouraged him. Hoch has played in several other rock bands and taught himself how to play bass about 18 years ago. He grew up in California and moved to Arizona, going to high school in Tucson, before joining the Navy and being stationed in California, Hawaii and Washington states. Hoch moved to the Valley more than 10 years ago and answered a humorous Craigslist ad Burch and Rex posted seeking a bass player for STEREO REX. “We have a fun little thing going here,” he said. “We’re all dads; a couple
of us are grandpas. We have day jobs. A lot of this revolves around family. My grandkids just love our music. Anytime we put on one of the videos, they just dance around. It’s very family-friendly.” Hoch said he was not the only bass player who vied for a spot in STEREO REX. While playing with the band at a gig, the other band members decided they wanted him to join the group. “We had a lot of fun,” Hoch said. “At the end of the set, Rex actually proposed to me, got down on his knee, asked if I’d be their bass player.” Linder has been playing the guitar since he was about 13 and his father was a drummer. This is the first band he has been in. “Just the chemistry is good,” Linder said. “We all get along. It is a nice outlet.” STEREO REX has been together since 2014. “He is a sensational songwriter,” Burch said of Rex. “Rex is really good about just telling a story. He’s that good.” Laura Lyon, of Phoenix, is a big STEREO REX fan and her best friend’s aunt is bass player Hoch’s wife, Terri. “All four of them are just extremely talented,” Lyon said. “Everything they do just blows me away. I love their cov-
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ers so much now. I would rather hear the STEREO REX version.” One cover song she loves hearing STEREO REX play is Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.” Lyon has also heard STEREO REX’s version of Micahel Jackson’s “Bad” and A Flock of Seagulls’ “I Ran.” “This is how diverse they are,” she said. “Rex is the most amazing person you will ever meet. He will give you the shirt off his back. I think he’s really the glue to the band. He’s very diplomatic.” A legal secretary, Lyon said she is a “rocker at heart.” “What I love about them is they’re fun,” she said. “Their lead guitarist, he can shred. He is so amazing. They get people dancing. They invite people to sing with them.” Lyon praised STEREO REX for writing and performing songs about Rex losing Tawni. “I think it’s a wonderful tribute and it’s healthy for Rex,” she said. Burch said when he first heard Rex playing a melody that later was used in one of the songs about Tawni on his guitar at a mutual friend’s party he knew something special was there. “I heard him strumming and singing and said, ‘We really should try to put something together,’” Burch said.
While the band members enjoy playing for the fun of it and are not expecting to become famous, they have had some encounters with fame. STEREO REX was chosen to play with Eddie Money at a charity event in Scottsdale for the last two years. “All of the coolest things seem to be happening,” Burch said. Hoch and the other band members were also thrilled to play Money’s songs while the legendary rocker sang. “He is a riot,” Hoch said. “He is so funny. He grew up in New York. My wife’s from Brooklyn so they hit it off really well when they met.” Hoch said he would love for STEREO REX to perform as an opening band for nationally known bands when they hit the stage at festivals in Arizona. Rex would like the band to play a show to help a Christian rehabilitation center that treats people trying to overcome addictions. To learn more about STEREO REX, visit its Facebook page at facebook.com/ stereorex. More details about the band and their videos are also on the group’s website at stereorex.com. “Crunch, Crash, Boom” can be purchased on amazon.com. Their music can also be found on iTunes and YouTube.
He also works with three other local pastors to run Hearts of Hope Ministries to get vitally needed supplies to Venezuela. Two weeks ago, the church and Hearts of Hope appealed to volunteers to pick up a backpack from them, take it home and return it filled with school supplies. About 370 of 500 backpacks were picked up and returned, and will now be shipped off to Venezuela. The absence of food in Venezuela is beyond crisis proportions. “This has been increasing over the last several years,” the organization states on its website. “The crisis has left hundreds of families begging for food in the streets without hope.” Saying the country confronts “a modern-day Holocaust,” Hearts of Hope runs three feeding centers in the country, mostly at churches. Pirela said the churches’ work with Hearts of Hope also gets around the government’s determination to wipe out any acknowledgement of God. At the feeding centers – where 90 percent of the people who show are children under 10, according to Hearts
of Hope – the volunteers have a chance to meet some of the citizens’ physical needs and address some spiritual ones as well. “The people see us doing things and don’t know why we are. They ask us, ‘Why are you doing this?’ We can then tell them about God and Jesus. In schools, they don’t hear about God or Christianity. We talk to them about loving God, but first we have to love them and help them,” Pirela explained. To help: heartsofhopeministries.org. Information: info@heartsofhopeministries.org.
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enezuela has plummeted to the bottom of the world economy and its communist government has made it almost impossible for churches to come to its people’s aid. But a small congregation in Mesa and a related nonprofit are doing what they can to help Venezuelans who “are suffering from lack of food and malnutrition, while the health situation has reached unbearable levels,” according to a recent United Nations report. The 500-member congregation of Calvary Chapel Mesa, 925 S. Gilbert Road, and a local nonprofit called Hearts of Hope Ministries raise money to help people in the beleaguered country. Recently, they worked out an arrangement with Feed My Starving Children to get even more food to the country’s starving poor. Helping Venezuelans is not an easy task, especially if the helpers have a religious connection, said Calvary Chapel Pastor Pablo Pirela. “The communist government has thrown out all the missionaries,” said
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Jacqueline Bauste and son Ton Narvaez wait for people to pick up backpacks.
Pirela, a Venezuelan native whose father was a pastor there. While people there are still allowed to worship and their churches can help with their physical needs, foreign churches are basically shut out of providing any direct assistance, let alone spiritual aid. So, Pirela used his late father’s and his own connections to develop a network of more than a dozen churches to work around that blockade.
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aged to powerfully pray for their children and grandchildren, and their schools, as well as to pray for our sisters worldwide,” said West. West, who also serves as the organization’s global prison ministry liaison, is active with her Ahwatukee church, Bridgeway Community Church. Other speakers scattered throughout the event – along with videos and musical entertainment – include Moms in Prayer President Sally Burke and Fern Nichols, who founded the group in 1984 after being concerned when her two oldest children entered middle school. “Moms in Prayer is an hour of hope,” she said of the prayer groups that meet locally in members’ homes. “Moms are discovering that being a part of the Moms in Prayer community is turning their fears to faith.” Co-sponsoring Unshaken Arizona are Operation Christmas Child and Compassion International. Both will join 12 other ministry partners and vendors offering information and products to attendees. “Whatever season of life you’re in, there’s a group for you,” said Keso, de-
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scribing MIPI’s various prayer groups encompassing college-age parents, grandparents and for moms with children in elementary, middle school and high school. “As to what Moms in Prayer has meant to me personally, it has forever
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impacted how I prayed for my children and others. And the sisterhood is wonderful – that first group I had in my home when my children were young all are coming to Unshaken,” Keso added. First MIPI Arizona state coordinator Rhonda VanderPloeg, of East Mesa, has been a part of the organization since 1995, when, as a young mother in Holland, Michigan, she joined a prayer group. When she, her husband and five children moved to Mesa in 2003, she looked to connect with a local group, and discovered there were none. She started one, serving as a group leader before advancing to area coordinator and then first state coordinator, an office she held for seven years. “That burning passion for schools and teachers to be bathed in prayer never left my gut,” said VanderPloeg, who still hosts two prayer groups in her home. “Every single school needs to be prayed for like this. Our teachers spend about seven hours a day pouring into our kids. They deserve to have us support them in prayer. And our children and grandchildren never stop needing our prayers.” Chandler resident Minnie Salcido said
Moms in Prayer has been a part of her life for 23 years. “I’ve been hosting a Moms in Prayer group in Arizona for over 15 years,” said Salcido, who currently hosts a grandchildren prayer group in her home, and is volunteering at the event . “I’ve learned to pray for my children and the children of my Moms in Prayer prayer partners.” She encourages area mothers to attend. “It will be a life-changing event where they’ll be inspired to pray for their children, their schools and their teachers,” she said. “Instead of being worrying mothers, they’ll become praying moms.” VanderPloeg expressed excitement this extensive event is being held locally. Many of us have traveled great distances to attend similar events in other states; now we have it right here,” she said. Unshaken Arizona is one of three MIPI is hosting through this summer and fall. The other two are in Minnesota and North Carolina. Keso said they have preregistrations from women throughout Arizona, Oregon, California, Minnesota and North Carolina, and registration remains open. Information: monsinprayer.org. 10 YEARS FAMILY OWNED AND OPERATED
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ilbert Public Schools will be holding a ribbon cutting Tuesday to celebrate the completion of Highland High School’s new learning space in the school’s library. Three years in the making, The Commons “is laid out more like a college campus than a school library, offering multi-use spaces, including comfortable lounge seating, laptop charging stations, printer access, desks, as well as a more informal ‘cafe’ area and a brand new career center,” district spokeswoman Dawn Antestenis said. The Commons will be open to all students starting Sept. 10, and the space can be reserved by peer and teacher tutor groups. All teachers have been invited to bring their students to The Commons “to fully experience all it has to offer, and to explore how they can fully utilize the space individually, and as a class,” Astentenis said. “This is the realization of a threeyear vision, and we are extremely proud of the work carried out by our staff, students, and community part-
ners. This incredible new space will benefit Highland High students for many years to come,” said Highland High Principal Melinda Murphy, Antestenis said the space “had to change dramatically to reach the goals of creating a 21st-century learning space, and increasing student access to career and college readiness tools.
Commons so she can meet with students before and after school and during lunch periods. Francia Ward, the school’s career coordinator, will join Dwyer to connect students with the resources they need. “There are different paths for everyone, and it is our focus to expose students to the variety of resources
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So, creating an environment similar to that of a college was an important part of the process. “We want to encourage students to start thinking in the mindset of what college learning will be like,” said Barbara Dwyer, college and career liaison at Highland. Dwyer’s role, new to Highland High, is a key element of the library transformation. She will be located in The
that are available and help guide them through their college and career decisions,” Dwyer said. On the third Thursday of each month, Highland will open The Commons for evening presentations related to college and career readiness. Planned topics will cover the college application process, collegiate athletics, vocational opportunities and scholarships, the FAFSA applications and
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community college versus universities. Key to the design was creating a space that will be able to evolve and grow with changes in teaching and learning for years to come. Balancing the space with access to new technology, and learning spaces, while retaining a core library collection was very important. Rather than decreasing student access to library books, Highland High looked to refine their existing collection, and are in the process of partnering with Southeast Regional Library, offering students access to a wider book catalog and electronic resources. The Commons will host a grand opening 3-5 p.m. Tuesday with the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce officiating over a ribbon cutting at 3:30 p.m. The public is invited.
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ilbert residents looking for a pet might want to consider the four dogs and four cats looking for homes at two rescue shelters. Three of the dogs and three cats are now at Friends for Life Animal Shelter in Gilbert. People can inquire about the cats by emailing FFLcats@azfriends.org and the dogs at FFLdogs@ azfriends.org. The phone number is the same for either, 480-497-8296 and the website is azfriends.org. Spokeswoman Jannelle Cosgriff said Laney “might be tiny but she has tons of love to share.” “Laney walks well on a leash and is house trained and doggy door trained. She knows basic commands of sit, stay, and lay down. Laney is kennel trained and does well left alone in the house,” she added. Laney is spayed, up to date on all shots, micro chipped, licensed and heart worm negative. Her adoption fee is $195. Stash is a male, domestic shorthaired cat about 3 years old. “He is a
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three-story, 62,431-square-foot medical office building is coming to a vacant 5.9-acre site at the southwest corner of Mercy Road and Rome Street in Gilbert Mercy Medical Commons II is in a location dominated by medical uses and across the street from Dignity Healthcare Mercy Gilbert Medical Campus, the main driver for development in the area, according to town officials. “We’re scheduled to break ground in September and The CORE Institute will move in Nov.1, 2019,” said Philip Wurth, executive vice president of Colliers International, which is representing the property owner. “We have additional space in the building that we are looking to lease to other medical uses.” The CORE Institute, an orthopedic clinic, will be the anchor tenant. It will
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relocate from its current location inside the Mercy Medical Office Building, east of Mercy Gilbert Hospital. CORE Institute has nine Valley locations, including in Mesa, seven physical
therapy locations, two spine centers and a specialty hospital. The new building will complete Phase II of the master plan originally approved in 2008 that includes the Ironwood
Cancer Research Center property to the south and west of the site, according to Gilbert planner Keith Newman. Ironwood Cancer Center opened nearly a decade ago. Gilbert Planning Commission approved the project’s site plan on Aug. 1. The primary access to the medical office building will be along Rome Street with a shared entrance with Ironwood Cancer Center. Two other access points include a shared entrance off Mercy Road and the south end of the southern parking lot with Val Vista Skilled Nursing Facility, according to a staff report. The building will have 438 parking spaces, of which 82 will be covered, with patient drop-off and pickup areas on the west side of the building. The 55-foot-tall building will have a modern look using materials such as stucco, aluminum, tube steel and large
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ike Casten of Gilbert and Rebecca and Paul Tolaini of Ahwatukee have a couple things in common: They both own pet-related businesses and they both love the clientele their businesses cater to. So, after Casten told the Tolainis about the toy drive to benefit Maricopa County Animal Care and Control shelter dogs, it’s not surprising they jumped in. Casten owns Poodini Pet Waste Removal, a company that he resurrected in January 2017 to provide weekly or biweekly pet waste removal. This includes cleaning up the waste, hauling it away, and treating the yard with a sanitizing/ deodorizing treatment. The Tolainis own Pet Planet Ahwatukee in Mountainside Plaza, which sells a wide range of pet food along with toys and other supplies for furry family members. Pet Planet promised to match item for item and it didn’t take long for the two
in order to help out the shelters where we adopted our dogs. “But word began to spread and several local businesses wanted to help out,” he added. “I seized the opportunity and turned it into a fullblown toy drive for the dogs.” Most of the donations come from “everyday people who love animals and want to help,” he said. “Some donate old Photos by Kimberly Carrillo/Staff Photographer blankets and things they Mike Casten, left, of Poodini Pet Waste Removal in Gilbert, and Paul Tolaini of Pet Planet in Ahwatukee have teamed up to collect already have around the toys, food and other items for Maricopa County Animal Care and house while others purControl shelter dogs. chase brand new items to donate,” he said. businesses to raise two truckloads of doBecause Pet Planet has been a customnations for the shelter. er of his and they have cross-promoted “I started the drive in June of this year,” over the last 18 months, Casten figured Casten said. “Initially, I was simply trying Paul Tolaini might be interested in the to collect donations from my customers drive.
He was right. “When I told him about the toy drive, he was excited to help out and really stepped up by offering to match donations,” Casteen said. Both businesses are collecting muchneeded items, including toys, blankets, leashes, food and treats. “These items aid the staff and volunteers in properly caring for the dogs in their facilities, thus giving them a better chance to be adopted,” Casten explained. Currently, both the east and west adoption centers are overcrowded and in need of supplies. The Poodini Pals Toy Drive is an ongoing fundraiser in which donated items are collected, sorted, and then delivered to the shelters. Casten said he is heartened by the response both he and the Tolainis have been getting to the drive and is hoping more people open their hearts, wallets or storage areas to help out. To make a donation: email toydrive@ poodini.com.
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These tips will help home sellers have a safe open house BY CARI GILILLAND GSN Contributor
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ccording to the National Association of Realtors, only 2 percent of homes are sold during an open house. Even with this low percentage, an open house is a common marketing activity for many Realtors and something that home sellers have come to expect as part of the process. It is important for home sellers to remember that an open house is basically
inviting anyone and everyone, qualified or not, to come into your home, look in your cabinets and hang out at your house for a bit. While I don’t necessarily think that sellers should be overly paranoid about this, I do think it is smart to take a few simple precautions to protect themselves. Work with a reputable Realtor. Insist your Realtor has a partner with them at all open houses. With only one agent there, it is very easy for a guest at an open house to distract the agent. This opens up a great opportunity for a partner in crime to swoop in and find the
valuables. Insist your Realtor use a sign-in sheet. It’s not a bad idea to ask for ID before allowing people to enter to verify they are who they say they are. Consider security cameras for an extra layer of protection. Lock up guns, medicine, jewelry and smaller valuables that might be easy for someone to put in their purse or pocket. Put away or hide any personal papers, documents, IDs, passports, bills or anything with personal information. Hide or lock away small electronics, laptops, iPpads and small devices. Have passcodes or screen locks on all
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of Val Vista Drive and Mercy Road and will connect to the existing hospital. The facility will contain space that will be licensed by two institutions, Dignity Health and Phoenix Children’s Hospital. The project includes a 379,295-squarefoot acute care building containing 12 antepartum beds, 24 labor, delivery and recovery rooms, four C-section rooms, 46 postpartum beds, eight newborn
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For now, John McCain was America’s Last Hero BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ GSN Columnist
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e died as he lived, on terms entirely his own – malignant cancer attacking his brain but never touching his spirit, his courage, his heart. When death came for John McCain at age 81, near suppertime on August’s last Saturday, we lost more than a few hundred words can describe. That’s because the senior senator from Arizona, the Naval aviator, the survivor of the Hanoi Hilton, the patriot, the twicefailed presidential candidate, the public servant who possessed a sharp tongue and a legendary temper, was America’s Last Hero. At least for now. At least until this nation navigates what feels like history’s smallest, most petty era and we once again mint a John McCain. If those words read like they were written by someone who has quit on America, rest assured that is not the case. On this subject I agree with McCain, as he explained in his farewell letter to us. “Do not despair of our present difficulties
but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here,” he wrote. “Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.” He might as well have been talking about himself. John McCain absolutely never surrendered. Nor did he ever hide from history. To be fair, America’s Last Hero was not perfect, nor did he pretend as much. Thirty years ago, McCain was branded one of the “Keating Five” tied to Charlie Keating of Lincoln Savings and Loan infamy. Cleared of wrongdoing, McCain became a reformer, working tirelessly to pass McCain-Feingold, a bipartisan fix to political campaign finances. Vintage McCain, owning his poor judgment, transcending it. The same goes for his 1983 vote against an Arizona state holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. “We can be slow … to give greatness its due, a mistake I myself made long ago when
I voted against a federal holiday in memory of Dr. King,” McCain said during his 2008 presidential run. “I was wrong.” Pardon me while I try to remember the last time an American elected leader uttered those three words – “I was wrong” – and convinced us he or she meant it. McCain’s authenticity was a testament to the way he comported himself: with his gaze fixed on larger things, qualities like honor, duty, sacrifice. In 1996, back when I worked as a columnist for this newspaper full-time, I spent 18 hours trailing McCain while he worked the hallways and meeting rooms at the Repub-
restrictions on the use of these funds, allowing anyone, regardless of circumstance, to use them. Public school advocates believed this to be a bridge too far and decided to refer the expansion to a public vote in the fall. I write not to encourage you one way or another on the expansion. That is your vote. I wish to shine a light on the original intent of the program. I run Gateway Academy in Phoenix. It is private and one of only five schools in the country that educates a “pure population” of children in grades K-12 with Asperger’s syndrome. They come to us, because they may have been bullied or left behind, or really never felt a hug from a classroom. In many ways we specialize in changing lives, these very, very special lives. We remind them Asperger’s is merely a diagnosis and it does not define who you are, just as it was for Bill Gates, Ralph Nader and others.
Thanks to Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts parents can send their children to our school free of charge, We use unconventional means from equine therapy to forming rock bands to motivate and educate our amazing students into productive members of our community. In the past several years, 100 percent of our graduates have gone onto college, emancipating their dreams and fulfilling those of incredible parents. There was a young man who came to us after being bullied at his other school. He’s now a sophomore in high school, building 3D printers for the school. Then there’s a student, who couldn’t read or write when he came to us, as a fourth grader. He’s now a senior who often leads our morning meetings with the student body, instructing in manners and performing as a musician.
lican National Convention in San Diego. What stood out to me? Not how he knew the name and backstory of 90 percent of the city. It was the fact that McCain couldn’t raise his arms high enough to comb his own hair – thanks to the two broken arms and the broken shoulder he suffered in Vietnam. He would call you “boy” and be charming doing so. He would call you far worse when he flashed his temper, then commiserate with you about the failures of the Diamondbacks bullpen. He would run for President against Barack Obama, lose, and end up remembered for defending his opponent’s character: “He’s a decent family man, citizen, that just I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what the campaign’s all about.” He was the last of his kind, our last hero, while inspiring us to believe that wouldn’t be the case. John McCain believed in this country’s ability to produce more like him, the next American hero, and the one after that. Asked how we should remember him, McCain was fast to offer four simple words. “He served his country.” God, did you ever, sir. Did you ever.
No matter how you vote, always vote for the children BY O. ROBIN SWEET AFN Guest Writer
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n November, Arizona voters will decide whether expanding the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program makes sense. It originally was started to help the parents of disabled children, foster children or active military. It evolved, with little controversy, to include adopted children, children attending D/F rated schools and those in Native American communities. About 5,000 children are now using the scholarships to attend private schools or be homeschooled if they don’t feel public school is right for their special needs. This past year, a majority of the Legislature decided there should effectively be no
And how about a young African-American woman who could barely speak during our interview? She has now come out of her shell to become a composer and musician. Whether Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for more, or all, is now a call for Arizona voters to make. No matter how the vote goes, it will not impact the state’s existing program for disabled children, and ours with Asperger’s syndrome. For the most precious and precarious in our state, Empowerment Scholarship Accounts have already made an incredible difference. Public schools do a great job too, but, for some, our expertise and focus is a better option. And that’s something we believe is worth celebrating, whether you vote yes, or no, on Nov. 6.
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aid family leave is yet another example of a “bipartisan” initiative that in reality is just Republicans caving
in to the Left. The Gang of Eight united in an effort to promote amnesty a.k.a. “comprehensive reform“ for illegal immigrants. The vaunted Kennedy – McCain campaign finance reform promoted the Democrat goal of limiting political speech so aggressively it was struck down as unconstitutional. Bipartisan votes always are there to trim the debt limit, never reduce it. Instead of seizing a chance to work together, the Left pitches a fit over welfare reforms. They demagogue the mildest proposals to shore up Social Security or Medicare. Bipartisanship invariably contributes to ever-expanding Big Government. The ratchet effect works in only one direction. So, it’s discouraging to see Sen. Marco Rubio apparently think he can steal an issue from the Democrats…by joining them. His idea whose time has come is to allow parents to collect paid leave after having
or adopting a child and fund it by deferring Social Security benefits later. Slick, huh? Senator Rubio claims his program doesn’t expand government or create a new entitlement. But come on. Workers who presently don’t have a government backed right to paid leave would be forever entitled to a new benefit. Social Security funds would be devoted to a benefit not related to old age insurance. If it quacks like a duck…it’s a government benefit all right. There’s also a question of necessity. Rubio and the Left claim that just one in 10 workers receive paid family leave. But that counts only those in a formal, dedicated program. An American Action Forum analysis showed that two-thirds of all employees have accumulated other types of leaves or paid time off and must receive full pay for family leave. Rubio claims his optional plan wouldn’t crowd out privately sponsored leave. But businesses will likely jump at the chance to offload this responsibility. When they do, convenience and flexibility will be lost it since entitlements invariably come with rules and eligibility requirements.
In the days before the federal government got in the business of enforcing madeup workers “rights,” I managed a business, a 60-physician emergency medicine practice. Like all small businesses, I dealt with issues of leave and vacations. Basically, we worked it out. Nobody expected to be paid when not generating income, but we covered all shifts, traded favors and watched out for each other. We shared responsibility and flexibility until that fateful day when a new hire announced she planned to claim her recently created mandatory maternity leave. Everything changed, and not for the better. But these niggling workplace matters are dwarfed by the big picture, which isn’t pretty. Our nation’s financial future is already clouded by unsustainable debt and the unwillingness of the political class to address the problem. Social Security and other major entitlements that drive our debt are going to run out of money in a few years. The projections bounce around a little but it’s a matter of when, not if. Worse, most Americans have no significant retirement savings and will be dependent on Social Security, not as a supplement
or a security blanket, but for their income in retirement. We already have enough stuff from government. We don’t need politicians to dream up more things to give us that we can’t pay for. We don’t need more temptations to raid our own retirement accounts to pay for present wants. We need the opposite: to carefully consider the most painless ways to reduce the cost of entitlements. Incrementally increasing the retirement age in Social Security and Medicare, to reflect lengthening life spans, makes sense. Piling more obligations into an already under- funded program doesn’t. Senator Rubio may not get the political bump he is expecting from his proposal. The National Partnership for Women and Families is all over it. They call his plan “reckless, irresponsible and ill-conceived” for forcing new parents to sacrifice their retirement for the “right” to parental leave. They sort of have a point. Republicans have long since shown that they don’t have the guts to reform entitlements. Would it be asking too much to at least not make matters worse? Thomas Patterson is a former East Valley legislator.
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etting players into lines, yelling commands and warming up with stretches before a Gilbert High football practice, it was clear that junior quarterback Will Plummer had a high level of admiration and respect from his Tigers teammates. Will is the younger brother of Jack Plummer, the starting quarterback on the last three Tigers teams and now a freshman at Purdue. Will said he has learned to deal with all of the comparisons. “All the players, they don’t really say anything about it, but they kind of look at me like I’ve got some shoes to fill,” Will said. “The teachers at school ask me who’s better. I try to stay away from that question because I don’t want to knock him or myself.” As a sophomore in 2017, Will played tight end for Gilbert, regularly catching passes from his brother. He said he spent a lot of time trying to emulate Jack’s preparation, before games and as plays developed on the field. “He wouldn’t pick who he was going to throw to right away before the play started. He would let the play develop and survey the field and pick from there. And I kind of observed that and took it into account, because that’s important as a quarterback,” he said. Coach Derek Zellner said the brothers were always close and worked well together on the field, but both could have a mean streak, too. Zellner remembers two seasons prior when, as a freshman, Will ran the wrong route on a pass play, and an argument between him and Jack nearly turned into a
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Gilbert quarterback Will Plummer watched his older brother, Jack, lead the Tigers’ offense the past three years. Now it’s Will’s turn. Gilbert opened with two wins as Will threw seven touchdown passes.
full fist fight. Coaches had to pull the two apart for fear of one breaking a hand on the other’s helmet. “They were arguing just like you’d expect any brothers to,” Zellner said, laughing. “It’s probably the same type of arguments that would go on at home over the PlayStation remote.” Zellner said the biggest similarity between the brothers is their stoicism and ability to steer the offense. However, they have notably different styles of play. “You can see that they’ve both got the same genetics: unshakeable with good
leadership,” Zellner said. “Jack wasn’t as vocal as Will is. Will’s much more fiery, and we call him ‘Mini-Tebow’ because he’s a leader and likes to run the ball. We’re actually trying to get him to do it a little less and conserve his body a little bit more. But, you can tell they’ve both been able to do a good job with this team in their own way.” Will had a different path to the starting quarterback job. As a former pass catcher, he knows the type of work his receivers and tight ends put in to produce on the field. His already-established camaraderie with the group has translated into early
schools. YurView will air several of the games nationally in 18 states where Cox offers YurView. Games begin at 7 p.m. for live coverage and then are replayed immediately following the game, and again on Saturday and the following Tuesday at 10 p.m. YurView Arizona will broadcast on channels 4 and 1004 on Cox Cable in
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success. His understanding of the game had to take the next leap, needing to read defenses and call coverages for the offensive line. His familiarity with his receivers makes his connection with them deeper. “I can feel for all of them. I know what it’s like to not get the ball when you think you’re open. I’ll tell them I’ll get back to them, and I’m really tight with all the receivers and tight ends because I was in their shoes,” he said. Senior wide receiver Connor McKernan said he was good friends with both Plummers growing up. He said that they have the same mentality and leadership ability. “I hung out with both of them a lot, and I’ve seen a lot of similarities between them as guys. They both are really competitive, and a lot of the guys on the team definitely look up to them,” he said. Plummer has produced big numbers for the Tigers to start his own journey, with seven passing touchdowns and just one interception on a team that began the season 2-0. Gilbert moved down to 5A this season due to AIA section reconfigurations, and is part of a stacked 5A San Tan with several teams appearing to have a chance at making the playoffs and perhaps a state championship. Regardless, Plummer wants to produce on the field. He has hopes for Gilbert improving its 4-6 record last season and making the playoffs for the first time in years. “That’s been coach Zellner’s goal since he got here, get to the postseason, and last year we just missed it because of automatic bids for section winners,” Plummer said. “I think we’ve got a team that has a chance again, and I want to do what I can to get us there.”
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Oct. 12: Liberty at Pinnacle. Oct. 19: Perry at Hamilton. Oct. 26: Sunrise Mountain at Centennial. Nov. 2: Playoffs Round 1, teams to be announced. Nov. 9: Playoffs Round 2, teams to be announced. For more information about YurView Arizona, please visit yurview.com.
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Love for sneakers has given birth to a fan community BY NATE FAIN Cronkite News
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Carrillo’s house is covered in sneakers. Some pairs are scattered across the floor, permissible to be kicked out of the way by his girlfriend. Others have been worn once or twice and are stored in his man cave in individual, transparent display drawers. In this special room, Carrillo, a DJ known as “Chilly,” can open the top of his coffee table like a treasure chest. Inside are his most prized possessions, about a dozen versions of his all-time favorite sneaker, the Air Jordan XI. Chilly is a sneakerhead, a collector willing to spend thousands of dollars to accumulate and sell troves of the trendiest, newest and rarest athletic shoes. With an assemblage hovering around 250 pairs, he’s allotted a permanent place in his heart to what he wears on his feet. Along with the shoes, his two-story Tempe home is a shrine of sports memorabilia and “Star Wars” knickknacks. Even something he takes as seriously as sneaker collecting is done with childlike exuberance. “Every time a shoe drops and I’m able
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J Carrillo, who goes by the alias “Chilly,” has worn his Nike Air Yeezy 2 “Golden Child” shoes only once. He said he’ll wear them again, on his wedding day.
to get it, I feel like a kid a Disneyland,” said Chilly, who once spent $1,400 for a pair of Air Jordans 1s. “It makes my day. I love to smell the shoes and touch them and look at them.” He is part of a community, one that is growing in Chandler and across the Valley,
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and is navigating a rapidly changing marketplace and retail industry in search of the most unique and artistically inspired shoes in the world. And he is not alone in his love for sneakers. The U.S. athletic footwear industry generated $19.6 billion in sales in 2017, ac-
cording to a report from global information company The NDP Group. “It’s a community, but like every community there are good and bad parts,” Chilly said. “Some people are just in it for the money. Others are in it because they genuinely love sneakers.” Over the years, Chilly has learned how to navigate the sneakerhead community, skirting the sharks and finding what he calls “bounty hunters,” who admire his kindred spirit and help him find the best pairs. One of them is Ryan Gizinski, the owner of Guest List, a sneaker and apparel store in Tempe. Gizinski started working at a Footlocker when he was 16. Not long after, he became obsessed with sneakers. Now 30, he has owned Guest List for six years. He organized the Heated Sole Summit at Arizona Mills, which took place in July. Over 150 vendors set up shop at the swap meet, buying, selling and trading coveted new releases, including the Travis Scott-inspired Air Jordan 4 “Cactus Jack” and the Nike Off-White Presto. Multiple Heated Sole Summits take place each year across the Valley. While the retail
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marketplace is rapidly moving to online platforms, and local sneaker consignment stores like Pound For Pound are closing, sneakerheads are trying to establish sneaker culture and street wear in Phoenix. “In 2018, retail is tough, but the market in Arizona is strong,” Gizinski said. “There are five major businesses here that travel to every big sneaker event in the country.” Last year, Sneaker Con, a globetrotting shoe show, made its first stop in Phoenix. Along with living in Phoenix, Chilly has a condo in Los Angeles, one of America’s most fashion-forward cities, and he is a multi-time host of Sneaker Con. He sees differences and similarities between the two places. “Naturally, Phoenix is a little bit behind, but the proximity to Los Angeles helps,” he said. “I think it’s stronger here than in like Kansas or Alabama. I know there are a lot of places in Arizona that are trying emulate Los Angeles.” But for those who have already embraced the culture, collecting sneakers can come with consequences. Some collections, like Gizinski’s, consist of more than 1,000 pairs of shoes. Even when paying the modest retail price of $120, which collectors only pay for the rar-
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est shoes if they win online lotteries, the hobby (or habit) can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Gregory Robison has long been aware of the financial vortex that often snags sneakerheads. So when he started college at ASU, he sold his entire collection of approximately 500 shoes. Now that he’s 35, has a wife and child, and works a steady job for the City of Phoenix, he’s back in the game. “During college, I fought it off,” Robison said. “I was focused on school. I told myself, ‘Get a good job, make a lot of money and you can always go back and buy all the pairs you sold.’ ” He made it through college, but he’s still a prisoner to the rush that comes with owning a new design that no one else has. “One thing a lot of sneakerheads in the community won’t tell you is that sneakers are a real addiction. I know for a fact: I’m addicted to sneakers,” Robison said. “It’s not just a hobby. Most sneakerheads will tell you, ‘Oh, I can stop anytime.’ We might be able to stop for a period of time, but we can’t fight it, and it’ll come right back.” Some collectors covet the status and attention they receive for owning something rare much more than innovative designs or splashy colors. “People might not admit this, but sneakerheads want the shoes that no one else
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has. It makes them feel a certain way,” Robison said. Anyone suffering from this sneaker addiction Robison alludes to would have found their strength tested at Heated Sole. During the event, the large, usually vacant space in the mall, filled with vibrant colorways and retro athletic apparel, looks like a candy store. However, the treats there cost more than a couple of quarters — try anywhere from $150-$1,500. There was money to be spent, but also money to be made. And anyone there — even non-vendors — could sling some sneakers for cash. Young entrepreneurs have figured out a pretty simple system. Buy a limited-release pair at retail value, and sell it for five or six times the price. Kyle Warner is one of those savvy salesmen. Only a teenager — unlike the Generation Xers who were introduced to sneakers by Michael Jordan in the 1980s and dominate the community — he set up a line of about six pairs of sneakers on the floor at the summit. He loves sneakers, and has pumped a lot of money into his “high-end” collection. But he said he’s made a lot of that money back. “I make so much money on shoes,” Warner said. “The most I’ve ever made (on one pair) is $1,100 above retail.”
Reselling shoes has made the hobby more sustainable and affordable for some sneakerheads, but older members of the community worry that resellers aren’t in the game because they love basketball shoes, but because they want to turn a profit. But as retailers struggle across the country, and with fewer consignment stores to mitigate fair pricing, the marketplace has shifted to websites like Facebook, Ebay and StockX, where bidding wars are encouraged. “The majority of people I sell to don’t live in Arizona,” Warner said. The marketplace has changed, but so has the market. Sneakerheads still seek the status that comes with having a unique collection. But now the athletic practicality of a shoe matters much less than it used to, and the artistic value of a shoe is of higher priority. “The sneakers used to be associated with the athletes. Now, it’s all about the fashion,” Robison said. “They wear the shoes, but they don’t watch football or basketball. In the ‘80s and ‘90s that would be blasphemy.” Many of the major athletic apparel brands, such as Nike and Under Armour, have seen a dip in basketball shoe sales and have focused more energy on running and casual footwear. Several product advisory boards see this as the new normal.
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he work of two artists born in Mexico is being celebrated at the Gallery at Chandler Center for the Arts in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month. “Ida y Vuelta: There and Back,” an exhibition featuring prints from Diana Calderon and photographs and paintings created by Oliverio Balcells, will be on display through Oct. 6 at the gallery, 250 N. Arizona Ave. A public reception for the artists will take place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 8, also at the gallery. National Hispanic Heritage Month, from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, brings awareness of the contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the United States and celebrates their culture and heritage. Balcells, 47, of Tempe, was born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico, and he said his paintings and photos at the Chandler exhibit use “contrasting bold colors and things like nature and a little bit of history, ancient cultures, symbols.” “It’s a mix, integration of the images and the colors, the mix of the many cultures that we have in Mexico,” he said. “I’m from Guadalajara, Jalisco, so I used to paint a lot of agaves. “It’s the state that produces tequila. I go every other year with my family when I have a chance. I always carry a camera. I love taking photographs of the trips and bring it back and share.” Balcells moved to the United States in
2000, first to Mesa and then to Tempe. He is heavily involved with arts in the City of Tempe. Balcells was previously chosen by the City of Tempe’s Public Art Program to paint and design a utility box on Mill Avenue. That image was then converted into a library card for the Tempe Public Library. Balcells also created a garden mural with Free Arts of Arizona and he was a chosen artist for the IN FLUX – Cycle 6 with the City of Tempe, painting a mural on Apache Boulevard. He also teaches children including with Chandler’s Vision Gallery’s VISION KIDZ Programs, Free Arts of Arizona and Childsplay. “I like teaching,” Balcells said. “I like it because one of the reasons I create art is to inspire people. I do it because I like to inspire students, young kids through art. There’s no mistakes in art. “You just want to be involved in the moment when you are creating. The kids are the perfect example of that because they just jump and do it.” He received a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from Universidad del Valle de Atemajac in Guadalajara. Balcells said he takes workshops and classes to keep current with technology. He is happy his work will be featured with Calderon’s at the Chandler exhibit. “It’s an honor for me to have the invitation,” Balcells said. “I think she’s (Diana) a great artist. We complement each other.”
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“Nuestra Tradicion Teuchitlan” is an oil painting by artist Oliverio Balcells.
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This piece was created by printmaker and performance artist Diana Calderon. (Daniel Swadener) (Diana Calderon)
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Artist Oliverio Balcells has created photos and paintings that are on display at an exhibition on display at the Gallery at Chandler Center for the Arts.
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acy Gray is nervous. She’s set to release her 10th studio album, “Ruby,” on Sept. 21 and the wait is killing her. “I think people are going to love it once they get hold of it,” Gray says softly. “It’s just nerve-racking to put something out into the world.” Ruby has already spawned the single “Sugar Daddy,” one of 12 songs that will also be available on red vinyl. Platinum singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor cowrote the song. “She’s singing backup,” Gray says. “She wrote about half the song and she’s playing the piano. She was so cute. She’s so open and wanted to be a part of it. “It was refreshing. We didn’t have paperwork and stuff. We were in the same studio and she just stopped in. She said, “I have an idea’ and we did it that night. It’s nice to be open and just not care. We just wanted to make a good song.” On the forthcoming album, Gray also worked with guitarist Gary Clark Jr. on the song “Buddha” and producers Johan Carlsson (Ariana Grande, Maroon
That’s when I threw it at him. I said, ‘Let’s do something together.’ He came through. Sometimes those things never happen.” Gray rose to fame thanks to the 1999 hit “I Try” from her multiaward-winning platinum debut. She has since sold more than 25 million record worldwide, and earned Grammy, Billboard, MTV and Brit awards. The recording of “Ruby” was one of her more difficult projects. Gray didn’t have a label and was “out in the world looking for people to work with.” “I was trying to figure out what we needed to do for the album and figure myself out,” she says. “It was a big phase I went through, making this album. I’m glad I did. It’s paying off. It definitely my best record. I was blessed with awesome producers who understood me and where I needed to go as an artist. “My voice has gotten a lot better from me doing shows every night. I’m a lot (Special to GSN) Macy Gray will perform later this month at Chandler Center for the Arts. She will be performing more seasoned, and there’s a lot more honesty and truth in it than before.” some of her past hits as well as songs from her forthcoming album. Macy Gray, Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Avenue, Chandler, 5), Tommy Brown (Jennifer Lopez, Fifth “I hope we can do something together 480.782.2680, chandlercenter.org, 7 Harmony) and Tommy Parker (Janet again,” Gray says about Clark. “I ran into p.m. Sunday, Sept. 23, $35-$58. Jackson, Kelly Rowland). him at Afropunk (Fest in Brooklyn).
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in Blossoms singer Robin Wilson is late for his phone interview. He immediately apologizes and offers an explanation. Who can blame him? “I’m at the wonderful Kimpton Amara in Sedona, eating eggs and chorizo for breakfast,” said Wilson, who was born in Detroit but grew up in the Tempe music scene. He lives in New York. Wilson, who owns a boat at Saguaro Lake, is in the Grand Canyon State vacationing before hitting the road again in support of Gin Blossoms’ new album “Mixed Reality.” The tour includes a Sept. 8 show with Big Head Todd and the Monsters at The Van Buren in Phoenix. “I’m pretty psyched to see it,” Wilson said of the venue that opened in August 2017. “It definitely must have been a labor of love. “We haven’t done a show like this in
produced by Don Dixon (The Smithereens, R.E.M.) and features the single “Break.” “It’s an awesome record,” Wilson said. “As a guy who’s been making records for 30 years, I feel this is the best album I’ve (Special to GSN) ever been a Gin Blossoms will be performing old hits and cuts from their new album when part of. It has they appear at The Van Buren Sept. 8. good songs Phoenix in a long time. We have usually, and a cool cover (of the album). It’s a for the last several years, played festi- solid piece of work. It’s nice to be able to vals. It’s nice to do a hard-ticket date in a stand behind something like this.” real music venue.” The rest of the Gin Blossoms – vocalReleased in June via Cleopatra Re- ist/guitarist Jesse Valenzuela, guitarist cords, the 15-song “Mixed Reality” was Scott Johnson and bassist Bill Leen – are
just as excited. “Our partnership is strong,” Wilson says. “Everybody is into supporting the new record. Our career is rebuilt and everything we’re doing right now is a few notches above the things we were doing a few years ago. We’re mercenaries, basically. We’re getting better jobs and better gigs.” In 2017, the Gin Blossoms celebrated the 25th anniversary of its 1992 multiplatinum album “New Miserable Experience,” which spawned four Top 40 hits, including “Hey Jealousy” and “Found Out About You.” They received a Grammy nomination for best performance by a duo or group for its song “As Long As It Matters.” The band has continued to release albums and perform close to 150 shows a year. The band has sold more than 10 million records collectively, and were inducted in 2017 into the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame.
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Sassy’s in Mesa bakes it on Discovery Family BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI GET OUT Editor
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aking is everything to Melody Larsen. As a child in Nevada, she helped her mother, the town’s goto for cakes, with her creations. “I had the frosting bag and I would do my thing,” she said. Those skills are paying off at her and her husband’s East Mesa shop, Sassy’s Café & Bakery, and on TV. The couple will be featured on the Sept. 8 episode of Discover Family’s new baking competition series “Bake It Like Buddy,” starring “Cake Boss” Buddy Valastro. In the episode titled “Amusement Park Cakes,” they battle against two sisters from Kansas City to create an amusement park-style cake in just four hours. Buddy and two others judge both creations and vote for a winner. The Larsens’ cake tells the family’s story. “It was our story with our three boys,” he said. “We showcased that on the cake. For example, we put a tennis shoe on it with a roll of toilet paper. Our youngest son turned out to be the daredevil. He
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Sassy’s Café and Bakery founders Geoffrey and Melody Larsen will appear on Discovery Family’s “Bake It Like Buddy” in September.
was frustrated when he was too short to go on rides. So, we stuffed his shoes with toilet paper when we were in the parking lot.” Sassy’s started simply as a cinnamon
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Calderon, 36, of central Phoenix, was born in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico, and raised in El Paso, Texas. She earned a bachelor’s degree of fine arts from Arizona State University and has taken master’s of fine arts level classes in printmaking at the University of Dallas. Like Balcells, Calderon also likes to give back to the community and help children. She has taught at Mesa Arts Center and now teaches art at a south Phoenix charter high school and works as an elective curriculum coordinator for the same charter school system. Calderon recently finished an art residency in Guadalajara. She said her printmaking is “mostly pattern and texture and I get inspired by my Mexican heritage and the pattern and texture that I see in the streets by traveling.” “It’s been always very easy for me to create anything that was taught to me,” Calderon said. “I was always on to the next challenge.”
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“We’re entertaining and we have chops, but it really comes down to the songs,” Wilson said. “The reason we’re still here is that we have good songs. When young musicians ask me for advice, what’s the best thing to do to further my career, I always say, ‘Write good songs.’ It always comes down to that.”
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It’s a true family affair with sons Ryan, Wade and Jace chipping in as part of the 11-person staff. “The No. 1 thing people talk about is the cinnamon roll French toast,” he said. “We take the cinnamon roll, butterfly it and put it on the grill. “When we started making that dish, we made cinnamon rolls to bake into French coasts. At one point, I was out of the French toast cinnamon rolls. I grabbed a few retail cinnamon rolls. I never frosted the other ones.” Geoffrey tried to scrape off the frosting. He did the best he could and put it on the grill. The frosting turned into a syrup. “Now we don’t make cinnamon rolls just for the French toast,” he said. “We
She said the prints she has created for the Chandler Center for the Arts exhibit are a combination of cloth, paper, thread and printmaking. “I love going to Mexico every chance I get,” Calderon said. “We love our culture. We love culture and its conversations that Oliverio and I have had. We would love to take people to Mexico to experience all these wonderful, amazing things that Mexico offers. It’s just so rich in a lot of ways.” She is also co-coordinating an exhibition called “Migrant Stories: Art Benefit for Kino Border Initiative” on Sept. 20 at The Sagrado, 6437 South Central Ave. in Phoenix. The group show’s aim is to depict migrant stories in a dignified manner, with the goal of raising money for continued care of deported migrants and refugees. “I love the community and I love helping people,” Calderon said. “I love using art as a tool.” The Gallery at the Chandler Center for the Arts is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and from noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. Information: chandlercenter.org.
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n the HBO series “Game of Thrones,” the music not only helps to drive the plot but tells the characters’ stories. Behind the scenes, composer Ramin Djawadi creates the soundtrack to add drama and evoke emotion during pivotal scenes in the show. Arizona audiences can experience the show’s music live Sept. 12 as part of the Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience. During the musical showcase, Djawadi acts as conductor, leading the choir and orchestra. Based on the books of George R.R. Martin, “Game of Thrones” recently finished its seventh season. The TV show follows families as they fight for titles and control of lands on the fictitious continents of Westeros and Essos. The live experience combines music and video footage from the seven seasons of the show, along with special effects such as pyrotechnics. Djawadi wanted to transport audiences to another world, where dragons, white walkers and long winters exist.
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It took Djawadi and his team three years to develop the live show. He said narrowing down the music was the biggest challenge. “When I chose the pieces I wanted to perform, I had way too much music. So, I had to pick the right pieces, to do the right storytelling,” Djawadi said. The concert highlights music from pivotal scenes in the show, such as the Red Wedding and the explosion of the Great Sept of Baelor, as well as themes used for different characters and houses. The concert also showcases other instruments from the TV show, including
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with the “Game of Thrones” creators to develop music for the show. Djawadi said the music is almost like another character in the show. “It becomes a very powerful tool of storytelling and in leading the audiences in whatever direction you want to lead. With emotional music, you can enhance a certain scene, or on a chase scene, you can make it more dramatic,” Djawadi said. Although he has done one-time concerts, being in front of an audience for a concert series has been a new experience for Djawadi. “I think the biggest thing for me is actually just to have that connection to the audience right there and then, when we perform the music, and really see their reaction,” Djawadi said.
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