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EV group offers $18M cash to save Chinese center BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

n informal group calling itself the East Valley Cultural Coalition has come up with an $18 million cash offer in private money to buy the Chinese Cultural Center in Phoenix – the focus of a long-standing controversy involving a Scottsdale company. For the past year the center’s fate has been tied up in court after 668 North LLC – a private equity firm that’s part of multinational Truth North Cos. – purchased 95 percent of the site in June 2017 for $10.5 million with the intention of removing the rare Chinese artifacts and converting the site into its company headquarters and a technology campus.

Protests led by the Chinese-American community and multiple lawsuits have ensued. But now members of the East Valley Cultural Coalition are offering True North the $18 million to end the litigation and rescue the center. “It’s an 80 percent profit margin for what he’s paid for it a year ago,” said Felicia Vandermolen, founder/CEO of Nitro Live Ice Creamery in Gilbert and group chairwoman. “If he sells, all the lawsuits go away without prejudice.” Greeting visitors to the complex on 44th Street is a pair of pi xiu granite statues – mythical creatures of good luck and fortune made of hand-carved stone shipped to Phoenix from the same quarry that was used to build the Forbidden City in Beijing during the Ming dynasty.

For more than two decades, the center’s imperial-style roof tiles, prayer garden and woodwork crafted by master Chinese artisans stood as a representation of the country’s 5,000-year cultural history. But that could soon come to an end if the East Valley coalition can’t make a deal. The proposal was sent to David Tedesco, True North company founder. He has until Dec. 30 to accept the offer. Company spokesman Jason Rose said last Thursday he has not seen the offer. “We appreciate and respect the thoughts and good intentions of everybody in the community,” Rose said. “But this is something

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The show goes on for blind theater director BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

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(Kimberly Carrillo/GSN Staff Photographer)

Tracie Jones, left, can give directions to actresses like Katie Wright and actors at Gilbert's Tuscany Theater even though she is blind, relying on sounds to figure out where thespians are on stage and what they are doing.

eated mid-row inside Gilbert’s Tuscany Theatre, artistic director Tracie Jones shouts out directions to her cast of young actors, relying mostly on touch and sounds to guide them. Jones, 38, of Mesa, is legally blind, able to see only shadows. She relies on her other heightened senses – touch and hearing, and her memory has sharpened to where she can retrace her steps in new surroundings effortlessly. But the show must go on and Jones’ blindness hasn’t stopped her. It is week seven of rehearsals for the Actor’s Youth Theatre, which

is staging the Broadway musical “Annie” – the popular musical about the adventures of a little red-haired orphan, her dog, Sandy, and her wealthy benefactor, Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks – the next two weekends. “Here we go Annie, you are coming down the stairs,” Jones calls out. “Take a minute, look up at the other side, look back at your room and think about all the stuff you’ve done in the house. Walk over to the red chair.” Jones wasn’t always handicapped. “I started having really bad headaches last New Year’s,” she said. “I had pneumonia so I

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BY CECILIA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

developer wants to build 165 single-family homes on 40 acres of former farm land at the southeast corner of Greenfield and Germann roads. Lennar Arizona’s proposal to build the gated development called Bellamy didn’t sit too well with nearby resident Mike Janfrancisco, who said allowing so many homes was indiscriminate land use. “This used to be a nice, rural community,” he said. “Our community has gone downhill. Developers are buying up the area and degrading our quality of life.” Janfrancisco said traffic is already crowded on the local roads and that the proposed development will cause safety hazards. He added the project doesn’t fit in with the area of custom homes and horse properties. The acreage was rezoned from agricultural in 2007 to allow for 16 acres of community commercial and 24 acres of low-density residential.

Despite its location on a prominent intersection that would typically attract commuters looking to make a quick stop on the way home from work, the site has sat undeveloped, planner Josh Rogers said at last week’s Planning Commission meeting. The panel was asked to consider the requests for a rezoning and a minor General Plan amendment. Among the challenges the developer has had attracting commercial development is that Greenfield-Germann intersection doesn’t allow room for a center median, which means access to the site can only be made while driving east on Germann Road. Additionally, there are not enough homes in that area to support retail on the corner and there are already an abundance of existing stores close by – including Santan Village Marketplace and several grocery stores, according to a staff report. Rogers said that within a 3-mile radius of the site, there are over 61 acres of

community commercial land that has not been developed. Real estate attorney Brennan Ray, who represents the developer, addressed the traffic issue. Under the current zoning, there would be an estimated 5,600 daily car trips and under the proposed rezone, the daily trips would drop down to 1,558. “There is a 4,000-count reduction between what can be built today to what we are proposing,” Ray said. “We are actually reducing the amount of traffic.” He said the proposed project is a quality development and pointed to the details and quality features while noting Lennar is a reputable builder – as evident by its development Layton Lakes in Gilbert. The proposed development plan includes a mix of two different lot sizes with the small lots concentrated towards the arterial corner and the larger lots used to buffer the surrounding larger-lot homes. Commissioners unanimously voted to recommend to the Town Council approval of the developer’s requests.

Momentum growing in EV to stem teen suicides BY JIM WALSH GSN Staff Writer

group of social workers, counselors and teachers are moving to form an East Valley suicide prevention coalition in response to the growing number of teen suicides in the region. Ted Huntington, community programs manager for the Chandler Coalition on Youth Substance Abuse, said the coalition hopes to develop an action plan at its next meeting, scheduled for Jan. 10. “If nothing else comes out of this, there is a collaborative effort to remove the silos in our different agencies,’’ he said. “They are working to come together as a community and they are willing to take some action.” And they now have help from the state, which has filled the position of suicide prevention coordinator that the State Legislature created earlier this year. Kelli Donley Williams, the new suicide prevention coordinator, told the group that she is looking forward to working with grassroots organizations and is planning a series of community meetings across the state. “Suicide touches me both personally and professionally,’’ Donley-Williams said. “I feel like our state plan is more

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Gilbert Mayor Jenn Daniels, left, and educator Katey McPherson are teaming uo to address teen suicides in Gilbert and the region.

academic than it is practical.’’ She added that she suspects there are more suicides that are not turning up in state reports, noting that it can take months for medical examiners to complete toxicology reports and that distinguishing a one-car fatal car wreck from a suicide can be difficult. “Our data is not up to date,’’ DonleyWilliams said. “It’s very difficult for me to know what is going on in this community or in this school.’’ Donley-Williams pledged to assist in the East Valley efforts and said she is planning a series of community meetings around the state that would contribute toward re-writing the state’s suicide prevention plan.

Gilbert Mayor Jenn Daniels also is playing a pivotal role on another front, making teen suicide prevention a topic for her Advancing Gilbert’s educational leadership team, a panel of officials from public, charter and private schools, as well as colleges and universities and the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce. Daniels also partnered with Katey McPherson, an East Valley education consultant and former Gilbert school administrator who has been mobilizing the

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thought I was sick.” The severe headaches continued for two weeks until she went to her eye doctor, who sent her to the emergency room. Within days she went completely blind in her left eye, and the right eye followed soon afterward. She was diagnosed with pseudotumor cerebri, a condition where the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord builds up pressure inside the skull and damages the optic nerves. A lumbar puncture was done and a shunt was placed in Jones’ brain to drain the fluid to her stomach. She hopes one day to be able to remove the device. “At first I was really super scared,” she said upon returning to the Gilbert theater, where she has worked with the young thespians the last four years. Jones has 30 years of music and performance experience that include working as an accompanist and musical director for various theaters, schools and organizations in the Valley. “My biggest fear was not teaching,” she said, recalling she cried after a neurosurgeon questioned her ability to direct theater production as a blind person. “These kids are my life.” Although her vision improved a tad, she can no longer drive or read things such as a script, which means preparation takes her much longer. Someone must read the script for her or she uses her cell phone to highlight a

If she needs to see something on stage, she would point her camera phone and zoom in to the scene. She has to place the phone within inches of her eyes to see. Her hearing also plays a big part in helping her direct the young actors. “I can hear what they are doing,” she (Kimberly Carrillo/GSN Staff Photographer) explained. “I can tell if Tracey Jones high-fives Kendall Morgan, a cast member in "Annie," their faces are happy which Tuscany Theater will be presenting the next two weekends. because I hear the passage that is then read out loud. emotion in their voices. I’m always listenAn accomplished pianist, Jones also ing. My ears are always on.” can’t read sheet music and learns new During a recent rehearsal, simply by pieces by ear. She also is an accomplished using her hearing she could tell the actor singer and songwriter. pushing “Franklin Roosevelt” in a wheelInitially, Jones relied on colleagues and chair to scoot him back because he was friends to act as co-directors. She would taking up too much of center stage and call out a stage direction and then turn to blocking Daddy Warbucks. the co-director to ask if it was done. “The frame was off,” she said. “The perToday, she is in total control. son behind was covered.”

Cast Orphans Annie Williams (Annie), Audra South, Lindsay French, Saniya Sapakie, Camryn Taylor, Katie Mullen, Marguerite Durma, Zoe Bauerle, Lyla Merrill, Katie Stone, Tatum Meeker, Elise Johns, Ashlynn Taylor, Madison Brassow, Nadia Gilbert, Garrett Lindsey, Bonnie Wanstreet, Noah Delgado, Carter Neef, Laine Bombard, Max Meeker, Jakob Garcia, Eric O’Dell, Katie Wright, Katrina Sapakie, Justine Wattay, Sarah Brassow, Remington Rathbun, Ellie Nordquist, Kendall Morgan, Ryan Hooks, Devorah “DJ” Coon, Emma Benham, Isabella Bombard and Adele Johns. Crew Elise Stofffer. Music co-director; Bailey Gorman, stage manager; Pamela Oborn, costume design. Others: Cynthia and Darren Benham, Tanja Baurele, Marie South, Miranda Bellows, Camryn Swanson, Tamara Benham, Mikayla Deely, Buffie Meeker, Hailey Boiarsky and Melissa and Bill Brassow.

She said she also learned to trust her innate sense where she can tell if an actor was doing something correctly or not. But her biggest help is her assistant Bailey Gorman, whom she first met and mentored when he was a 12-year-old acting student. He took over driving her around after her mom had assumed the duty. Jones is due to take over as CEO of the company and is showing Gorman the ropes and teaching him how to be a stage manager. “He is my left arm,” she said of the 20-year-old. “I can’t do it without him and he can’t do it without me.” Jones said she was told that many people with pseudotumor cerebri become shut-ins because they are always in the dark. “I think positive and just keeping swimming,” she said. Noah Delgado, 19, who plays Warbucks in the musical and has been with the Actor’s Youth Theatre for four and a half years, said Jones’ blindness has not affected her ability to teach.

“It’s a very subtle difference,” said the Gilbert teen, who is studying journalism at Arizona State University. “She’s still able to play the piano like nobody’s business. She’s an amazing director and she’s able to do things that I’m amazed at given her vision.”

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Rich Vandermolen, coowner and president of Nitro Live as well as Felicia Vandermolen’s husband. “We are trying to help make a difference.” He said with tension such as trade issues with China going on, the group wanted to save the center to bring about more cultural awareness. “The Phoenix Cultural Center is a gift to us from China,” Felicia Vandermolen added. (Special to GSN) (Special to GSN) She said China has ties Workers are tearing out the elaborate network of tiles that comprises the center's Built in he 1990s, the Chinese Cultural Center has been a popular site for Gilbert's Sister City visitors from China. roof, which was damaged by recent rains. with Gilbert, Scottsdale, Mesa, Tempe and Phoenix, building cultural, CULTURAL from page 1 “To date no one has been able to provide the tile roof removed to fix leaks from educational and business relationships a credible offer,” he said. “And so, that time a torrential downpour on Oct. 13. An through the Sister Cities program. Gilbert’s we’ve heard before and it turned out not to has come and gone.” injunction was filed to stop the work but sister city in China is Leshan, which the be the case. The property is not for sale. According to the East Valley group’s was lifted by a judge in December. Rose Vandermolens have visited. “The owner has tried to work with proposal, $8.9 million is in an account at said repairs are continuing on the roof . Representatives from the Chinese sister numerous parties over more than a year First American Title Co. and the balance is Felicia Vandermolen said the coalition cities to the Valley are brought to the and was willing at one point in time held in two banks in cash and certificates includes a number of prominent people Cultural Center for visits, according to consider credible offers, but none were of deposit. The funds can be wired such as former Diamondbacks player Junior Felicia Vandermolen. The center also has presented,” he added. “Any offers to buy it served as field trips for school children immediately into escrow upon execution Spivey and that they come from Gilbert, are just over a year too late.” and Chinese cultural events. Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Fountain Hills, Rose said the owner last year laid out of the purchase agreement, she said. She likened True North’s proposal Felicia Vandermolen said the group is Anthem, Chandler and Santan. The group’s criteria for offers to be evaluated seriously, active members number 20. such as putting down earnest money and willing to buy the center as is. see CULTURAL page 6 showing proof of funds. The owner had 14,000 square feet of “We are not doing it for notoriety,” said

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to remove all the Chinese cultural and religious elements to that of knocking down the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints’ Mesa Arizona Temple. The owner last year offered a number of solutions – such as giving $100,000 toward relocating the Chinese Cultural Center elsewhere, preserving and relocating some of the sculptures and signs, and preserving the garden and making it available to the public during business hours. Rose said the proposals take two parties willing to engage in preservation talks and that has not happened. None of the options, though, are viable as far as Elizabeth Mann is concerned because the artisans and the materials are for the most part gone. Mann and her company BNU Corp. developed the Cultural Center, a 26-acre commercial-condominium complex, from 1990-96. It also includes a medical center and town homes. Her money partner was COFCO, a Chinese-holding company, she said. She later sold her interest and COFCO took over ownership and management of the property in 2008, which eventually ended up in True North’s hands, according to Mann. The center, which opened in 1997, was a

project of the Phoenix Public Art program and Mann wanted it as authentic as possible. “As a developer, I built it as a gift to the city because I am grateful,” said Mann, who emigrated from China. “I came here with $10 in my pocket.” Mann hired Ye Juhua, the chief Chinese architect, who helped create a Mingdynasty courtyard at the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York. She also hired craftsmen, whose ancestors built the Forbidden City, to install the Center’s tile roof and build the prayer garden, featuring replicas from five Chinese cities. Mann traveled to China a number of times to go over plans and inspect the quality of materials to be used at the Center. She and a Phoenix city official later went to China to secure special visas to bring back 30 master craftsmen from four different trades. Every craftsman had to be vegetarian, pray and go through a ritual every day, according to Mann. Work for them began at 4 a.m. due to the hot Phoenix sun. The artisans painstakingly drilled holes and hand-tied the tiles with wire onto the roof of the Center’s buildings. The tiles were made out of a special purple clay, the same used for China’s renowned purple clay tea pots. More than 4 million clay tiles were made

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Among the people trying to save the Chinese Cultural Center are Gilbert business owners Felicia and Rich Vandermolen, left, and Elizabeth Mann, whose company built the center in the early 1990s.

in China in factories that no longer exist, but only 1 million were hand-picked and glazed with melted-down turquoise, giving it a rich yellow color, and shipped to Phoenix. Yellow is a symbol of royalty and no buildings outside those of the Forbidden City – the imperial palace for 24 emperors – were allowed to have yellow-tiled roofs. The craftsmen also assembled all the hand-carved wood pieces in the garden, using a thousand-year-old technique to interlock them without one single nail. “Everything was handmade,” said Mann, who made it clear she is not a member of the East Valley Cultural Coalition, just a retired grandmother. The center contains replicas of the ceremonial arch to the Confucius

Temple in Nanjing, West Lake in Hangzhou and the Surging Waves Pavilion, the oldest existing classical garden in SuZhou. The original is protected as a world heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and can no longer be replicated, according to Mann. Nothing at the center can be replaced, as the techniques and materials are long gone. For example, the mountain where the granite came from is now off-limits by the Chinese government, and the craftsmen have either died or retired along with their skills because their children no longer practice the trade, Mann said. “Everything there has a story,” she said. “This is public art.”

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EV all but shut out of new school bus program

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

ore than four dozen Arizona school districts are getting new school buses at no cost to taxpayers, but the East Valley has been just about shut out. The tab for the 152 new buses is coming from the state’s $59 million share of a nationwide settlement with Volkswagen over the sale of its so-called “clean-diesel’’ vehicles. Gov. Doug Ducey had ultimate authority on how to divide the cash, within certain court-approved guidelines. Tempe Elementary School District is the only public school system in the East Valley to benefit from the windfall. It’s getting nine buses. Although Mesa Public Schools had to ask voters to approve a $300 million bond issue partly to buy new buses, it and the rest of the school districts in the region

won’t be getting any – at least for now. More districts may benefit in the future. The governor’s office said it is still reviewing the applications from another 63 districts to see if they qualify. What’s getting the state all this cash is a decision by Volkswagen in 2016 to settle a lawsuit about the marketing of vehicles under the VW, Audi and Porsche labels as having lower pollution. It turned out that really wasn’t the case. Instead, VW engineers had installed a “defeat device,’’ programmed to go into a low-emission mode during testing but then spew out pollutants at much higher – and illegal – levels when actually on the road to improve performance. VW eventually pleaded guilty to three felonies, including defrauding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The company agreed to $4.3 billion in penalties and another $4.9 billion to address pollution from the supposedly low-emission diesel vehicles.

Arizona’s $57 million share was not unrestricted. Instead, it had to be spent on projects to reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen, the very pollutants the VW vehicles were spitting out above permissible levels. That’s where the plan for new school buses comes in. State officials figure that for each aging school bus replaced, those with at least 100,000 miles, emissions of nitrogen oxides will be reduced by nearly 1.4 tons over that vehicle’s anticipated 12-year life. Dawn Wallace, the governor’s education adviser, said 80 percent of the money awarded is going to school districts in areas which already are in danger of violating clean-air standards. The decision of how to spend the money is not without controversy. Last year Chispa Arizona, an arm of the League of Conservation Voters, submitted petitions with more than 16,000 names

to Ducey requesting that he use the money to replace the aging diesel buses with zero-emission vehicles. They argued that is the only way to ensure that school children are not exposed to dirty air and cancer-causing pollutants from tailpipe emissions. But Ducey’s office opted not to replace the diesel buses with electric vehicles. Aides to the governor said the decision starts with the fact that fewer than 50 electric school buses could be purchased for the same price as more than 150 conventionally fueled vehicles. And, by extension, they said that replacing that many diesel-powered buses with new ones results in about 36 percent less overall pollution than buying fewer zero-emission buses. The settlement requires that vehicles being replaced be made inoperable through a hole in the engine block and a cut in the frame.

Californians, Coloradans account for most new state residents BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

ondering where all your new neighbors are coming from? There’s a good chance they’re from California. New figures from the Census Bureau show nearly 262,000 people moved into Arizona from other states last year. And almost 60,000 of them were residents of the selfproclaimed Golden State. But that’s only a piece of the picture about the state’s growth rate. That same report finds that more than 45,000 people who were in Arizona in 2017 were living abroad a year earlier. The Census Bureau provides no breakdown of which countries are providing the lion’s share of new residents. But 2015 figures from the American Immigration Council shows 56 percent of immigrants came from Mexico, with 4.2 percent from Canada, 4.1 percent from India, 2.9 percent from the Philippines and 2.7 percent from Vietnam. The Census Bureau report finds that, generally speaking, Arizonans old and new have more itchy feet than others. For example, it says that just 82.4 percent of the state’s population in 2017 was

living in the same house as they did a year earlier. By contrast, the national figure is 85.7 percent. Conversely, nearly 3.8 percent of 2017 Arizona residents were living in another state a year earlier, versus 2.3 percent for the nation as a whole. What might be surprising is that all that migration is not coming from people fleeing the colder northern climes. After California, Washington is the next largest contributor of new Arizonans, with more than 14,000 deciding they prefer to live here. That’s followed by Illinois where the winter weather can charitably be described as often brutal. But after that, the list of most popular places for Arizonans to be from extends to places with less hostile weather like Colorado, Texas and Oregon. All that migration is not strictly one way. For example, the Census Bureau finds that almost 27,000 people who lived in Arizona in 2016 found their way to California in 2017. And more Arizonans decided to become residents of the Lone Star state than those who opted to move here. There even were more than 4,100 Arizona residents who packed up and moved to Illinois, the weather be damned.

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community to fight teen suicide. “I really want to understand what the schools are already doing and where are the gaps,’’ Daniels said. “Every youth matters, every child matters. I feel very strongly that youth are the key to the solution.’’ Daniels said she agrees with McPherson’s philosophy that children need to develop coping skills and emotional resiliency, learning from small setbacks, even in grades K through 6 so that they can deal with greater challenges in junior high school and high school. “There is a lack of human connection in our society,’’ Daniels said, with too many people fixated on cell phones and other electronic devices. “We need to make some changes.’’ McPherson said that promoting emotional wellness in young children is just as important as the suicide prevention efforts. She said children are struggling with anxiety as early as third and fourth grade. “By the time a kid is 12-14 years old, undoing their patterns of behavior is a little harder,’’ she said, making early intervention critical. “I think it’s definitely moving in the right direction,’’ she said about the suicide prevention efforts. “We need to put an equal amount of time and resources

into the wellness component.’’ The hiring of Williams, the new suicide prevention coordinator, coincides with the release of the annual Child Fatality Review report by the state Department of Health Services. The report documented an increase in teen suicides in Arizona from 38 in 2016 to 50 in 2017. Nikki Kontz, clinical director of Teen Lifeline, said half of the suicides documented by the report occurred in Maricopa County. “Every number is a life lost,’’ she said. “We can’t say, ‘it’s predominantly males, so we don’t have to worry about females.’ This data should not be used as predictability.’’ Kontz and other experts say research shows girls are more likely to attempt suicide, sometimes as a cry for help, while boys are more likely to complete it. McPherson has tracked reports of 31 suspected suicides in 18 months in the East Valley, which would include parts of 2017 and 2018. Kontz said she suspects McPherson’s numbers might be somewhat inflated, but added, “we know that historically suicide is under-reported. We know in some communities, there is a stigma attached to it.’’ Natalia Chimbo-Andrade, education and outreach coordinator for Community Bridges, said the results of a Youth Risk Survey also are troubling, with 12 per-

cent of youths surveyed in Arizona saying they had attempted suicide, compared with 7.4 percent nationally. She said 19.2 percent of Arizona youth reported seriously considering a suicide attempt and 14.6 percent said they had planned a suicide attempt. McPherson said she has had contact with most of the parents whose children have committed suicide. She said she agrees with Kontz and others in the suicide prevention field that much progress has been made. But she cautioned that teens are still taking their own lives at an alarming rate – often over-reacting to stressful events in their lives, such as breaking up with a boyfriend or girlfriend or getting a bad grade on a test. McPherson said the pattern of teen suicides that she has noticed involves mostly white boys in grades 7 through 12 from middle and upper-middle-class backgrounds who have access to a weapon or other lethal instrument and the courage to use it because they are in emotional pain they find unbearable. “Some of these children have never experienced a failure or any sort of mistake. When they make a mistake, they don’t know how to cope,’’ McPherson said. “The under-developed brain can’t see a way out.’’

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Father figures help out at Power Ranch Elementary BY QUINTIN BINGHAM GSN Guest Writer

he only thing better than visiting dad at work is bringing dad to school – at least in the eyes of an elementary-aged student. At Power Ranch Elementary in the Higley Unified School District, fathers, stepdads, grandfathers, uncles and other father figures are signing up as members of Watch D.O.G.S. to become role models at the school. Watch D.O.G.S., or “Dads of Great Students,” is a nationwide program created in Arkansas in 1998. Since then, thousands of chapters have been established across the country. Power Ranch’s started up two years ago in 2016. The program aims to add a positive male presence to schools to increase security, reduce bullying and set a good example for youth. Stefan Reid, Watch D.O.G.S. coordinator at Power Ranch, said studies have shown that a positive male role model in a student’s life promotes success. “A lot of kids don’t really have a dad in the household, so for those kids who don’t have a father figure in their household, the Watch D.O.G.S. really serve as that father

figure here on campus. Even if it’s not that dad’s child, they want to be involved and see kids succeed,” Reid said. Reid said volunteer Watch D.O.G.S. often help with security detail. They patrol hallways, the playground, courtyard and parking lot. This offers the school an additional set of eyes to watch out for children during recess or catch suspicious activity happening on or around campus. Members sign up to visit at least one day a year, but the program tries to be flexible for all schedules. Reid said he sets up half-day schedules for volunteers that can only arrange an afternoon off from other responsibilities. “We want it to work for the dad’s schedule, so if they have a set day off and it’s the only day they can come during the week, great! We’re happy to have you that day,” Reid said. “We try and get them as closely matching their child’s schedule as possible, but also we want them seeing the rest of the campus, too, and help(ing) in some of the other teachers' classes, too.” Bryan Boutain, father of a sixth-grader, said he enjoyed his first day on campus as a volunteer with Watch D.O.G.S., but said that he most enjoys being able to see his

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Gilbert couple go all out for Christmas BY CECILLA CHAN GSN Managing Editor

very inch of Cindy and Bill Hunter’s 2,700-square-foot house in Gilbert shouts Christmas. This year, the couple started unpacking their 85 tubs of ornaments, lights and other Christmas decorations during the third weekend of September. Most of the tubs are stored on shelves from floor to ceiling in their onecar garage. “We are a Christmas house,” said Cindy Hunter, 59. “We love (Facebook) Christmas.” Cindy Hunter said husband Bill knew she was a Christmas fan before they got married. By Thanksgiving week, the house was fully decked out with six Christmas trees, 80,000 lights, (Kimberly Carrillo/GSN Staff Photographer) with buys on the internet, especially close to 400 Santas and nearly Every inch of the Hunters’ home is festooned with Christmas decorations both inside and out. from estate sales. 3,000 snowmen. “Estate sales have more of the the time to come through our home are “We keep on trying to add as much as Since 2010, the Hunters have Christmasy, older versions of Christmas,” possible,” said Hunter, whose goal this opened up their home for the public well-minded people.” Hunter said. “One thing I do is I still put Every room, including the laundry, is year is to attract 2,000 visitors. Previous to come in and enjoy some of their icicles on my trees.” festooned with Yuletide knickknacks. The years drew in 1,200 visitors. Christmas cheer. Her 9-foot-tall tree has 10,000 silver “We are thinking about Christmas all “Lot of people think we are crazy,” rooms have their own theme – there’s an Cindy Hunter said. “‘Why open your angel room and an elf room and even a year long, so we are constantly on the home, aren’t you afraid?’ We try not to room where children can touch and play look out for Christmas stuff,” Hunter said. see CHRISTMAS page 15 She adds to her already hefty stockpile think of that. We think people who take with all things Christmas.

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Gilbert resident is one of three artists whose work was selected to be featured at Cityscape in downtown Phoenix during the holidays. The elaborate piece of art by Sam Fresquez will be suspended above stairs leading to the second floor of Cityscape until Jan. 6 as a festive welcome to visitors to Cityscape’s ice rink and lighted cooper Christmas tree. Called “El Nuevo Coloso,” the installation consists of 4’ x 8’ mirrored plexiglass and Styrofoam sheets cut into three-dimensional calligraphy. Each piece is a translation into Spanish of the inscription found at the base of the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses longing

to breathe free.” The translations were done by her father, brother and grandmother; though similar, they are still unique to each person. The pieces are installed on metal uprights about 10-15’ above the stairs leading to the second floor at Cityscape. “They seem to soar,” said her grandmother, Mary Ellen Fresquez, a downtown Gilbert business owner and a member of the Redevelopment Commission. Fresquez is a fourth-year art student at Arizona State University and already well known in the local art scene.

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This year she was the artist-in-residence at Xico, Inc., whose mission is to create awareness and greater appreciation of the cultural and spiritual heritages of Latino and Indigenous peoples. During her tenure there, Fresquez curated an allwoman art exhibit and taught community classes. She also participated in the Bentley Gallery Art d’Core Gala-2018, which pairs emerging artists with established artists. She will be a part of that show again in 2019. Her art was selected for the Arizona Biennial exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art, the oldest running state-wide juried exhibition featuring exclusively Ari-

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n the aftermath of her Gilbert veterinarian husband’s suicide, Chandler helicopter flight instructor Missy Palrang felt alone even when surrounded by friends. Her grief therapist, Jill McMahon, would come to her house and tell those friends during those early dark days, “You guys need to be Missy’s bubble wrap while she heals.” Three-and-a-half years later, Palrang has written a book she hopes will help other survivors of suicide victims – and their “bubble wrap.” “I would hope that the bubble wraps in these people’s lives could read this book and understand the experience and know how to better assist the survivor so that they could heal,” Palrang said. “I learned later that a lot of people didn’t have friends to help. They were doing it on their own. It was really hard for me and I had so much support.” The book, titled “Frantic Unleashed: Navigating Life After Suicide – A Survivor’s Journal,” is the first of her three-

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tinsel strands dripping from its branches. There are rare repeats in her collection. There are only two to three ceramic pieces that she will have a double of, she said. “Lot of the time, I can see a snowman and know if we have it or not,” she said. She estimated her energy bill increases by $150 extra a month with all the lights and Christmas inflatables. She has no idea how much money she has spent over the years amassing her Christmas collection. She first started decorating her house

to the hilt and inviting the public back in Indiana in 2002. Her husband, she said, has embraced her appetite for the Christmas season. “When me and my husband got together, he knew I loved Christmas and I was never able to do the things that I wanted to do,” she said. “My mom was a single parent and she made all my Christmases awesome, but there were many years that I didn’t have those awesome Christmases. But being with my husband now, he made it all worthwhile for me. He has a love for it as much as I do.” A surprise the Hunters are keeping

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The detectives wanted to know if we kept a gun. I checked the closet where it should have been. It was gone. The magazine had been unloaded. I guess he figured he only needed one bullet.” “He was my everything, my other half. We were one of those couples who did everything together. Maybe he just wasn’t as happy with our life as I was. Maybe this was the only way he had the courage to escape it. Why didn’t he just ask for a divorce if that was the case? Why didn’t he reach out to me? To anyone. Or maybe he did, and I didn’t recognize it.” To the beginning of each chapter, Palrang added things that she wishes people had told her at the time. McMahon, who owns Scottsdale-based Spring Returns Counseling, offers her perspective at each chapter’s end, drawing from 16 years of working with people who lose a loved one to suicide to share the common reactions, feelings and behaviors as they go through the healing process. “Most people don’t know how to approach suicide,” McMahon said. “The question of ‘why’ will never be answered, and that sticks with the loved ones and

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the family members forever.” Most often, there’s shame and guilt. “If somebody dies of heart attack or cancer, there isn’t this feeling of ‘I could’ve done something differently,’” McMahon said. “There’s shame and guilt with this traumatic loss that’s not associated with any other loss.” And then there’s stigma and misunderstanding. “People want to create a story in their head about what has happened. They make all these assumptions. He must’ve been an alcoholic, she must have had an affair. More times than not, there’s no story behind it,” she said. Scott McComb, 49, was a successful veterinarian and had sold his veterinary clinic in Gilbert a year before his death and was still working there. Palrang and McComb met when they were both studying at Oregon State University. Shortly after graduation from her master’s degree in counseling, Palrang began working as a parole officer in Oregon. They later moved to Arizona, where Palrang learned helicopter piloting and began a new career. Now, she works as the chief flight instructor at a helicopter pilot school based in the Chandler Municipal Airport. Three days after the death, Palrang be-

gan to write her feelings. She had never journaled before. “Early on in our therapeutic relationship, she would have so much energy and angst and sadness that she didn’t know where to put it. I would only see her once a week. In between those times she would feel like she was going to explode,” McMahon said. “She needed somewhere to leave all of her angst. She would write in the journal every day and she would give it to me. I was reading the journal every single week.” Journaling in the middle of the night was therapeutic. Subsequently, when she wanted to turn it into a book, it also became a project, a goal to finish and something other than the day-to-day dealing with the loss. “What we’re going to do in between now and whenever it takes, makes a big difference how we come out on the end,” Palrang said. “You’d see how I struggled a lot and I’m extremely angry throughout the book.” Three days after the suicide, she wrote: “Mostly right now I’m angry. Angry he, without my consent, turned my life into something I don’t recognize or want. I liked my life, it was good, it was our life. Happy, purposeful, full of future. Now it’s just empty. I don’t know if I feel more loss

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Gilbert photographer grows her business and activism BY SRIANTHI PERERA GSN Contributor

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apturing your present, creating your future,” is Gilbert photographer Elaine Kessler’s photo

motto. It also fits her own life. Kessler’s present is jam-packed with various professional and volunteer activities, while her future holds as many promises. The two parallel threads that govern her professional life – photography and activism through the arts – have both grown exponentially during the last few months. “I believe in seizing the moment. That’s why I want to make the most of it,” she said. Kessler just completed a master’s degree in creative enterprise and cultural leadership at Arizona State University, partly to reinforce the argument that the arts support the economy and elevate the quality of life. Her community engagement project, titled “Created Equal Trigger Exhibits,” aims to generate conversations on difficult topics. She took a bite into leadership when she became one of this year’s 36 Flynn-Brown

dio in the northeast part of the town in a twostory building with an indoor courtyard with a water feature, wraparound balconies and lake views. In between, she’s also a wife to bank forecasting analyst William Johns and mom to Adela, 13, and (Isabella Justiniani/Special to GSN) Elise, 10. Elaine Kessler with daughters Adela and Elise during the opening of her new pho- “I love having tography studio in Gilbert. a studio,” said Kessler, who Fellows after attending an academy housed started her business eight years ago and used to operate from her home. under Arizona Center for Civic Leadership. Now, she can use the courtyard for inUntil it folded, Kessler chaired the town’s volunteer Human Relations Commission, door-outdoor portraits of individuals and which seeks to engage and empower Gil- groups alike. She also uses a whole office there for meetings and various photo sesbert residents. Recently, she opened a photography stu- sions, including fitness, senior and boudoir.

Kessler, who is known in Gilbert’s business and civic circles, has developed quite a following with her portraits and headshots. “She does beautiful work,” said Alice Woodard, an entrepreneur who used her services for head shots and family photos in Sedona and plans to employ her for more. “Just the way she poses you, she makes you feel very comfortable and makes you look better than you do look.” Kessler’s artistic eye plays a lot into her captures. Self-taught for the most part, she began photography when a friend who saw baby Adele’s photos wanted to pay her to shoot photos of her own children. “When I’m photographing people, I have an inherent belief that everyone is beautiful,” she said. “I think it depends on how you see them.” Photography is Kessler’s bread and butter. But her arts activism looks to the future. The trigger exhibits are to be trademarked and turned into a for-profit organization. She plans to take them to municipalities across Arizona and beyond. Since graduation, she has already done See

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he way Gary Colby sees it, every kid should have a bike. Yes, he owns Colby Cruisers in Gilbert and sells bicycles for a living, but it’s more personal than that. Which is why he’s been collecting donations to buy 100 bicycles for Valley children who are being raised by their grandparents. “I feel that a bike is a staple in every child’s life and that everyone always remembers their first bike more so then any other gift or toy,” Colby said in explaining his motive behind his Bikes for Kids drive. Colby has partnered with Duet, a nonprofit organization that provides support for grandparents who are raising their children’s kids. “Over the years we have given bikes to kids and I have seen the joy, emotion and excitement from the child as well as others around them and it’s amazing,” Colby said. “I felt that now was a great time to ramp it

up and do more, so I created Bikes for Kids. I heard about Duet and wanted to partner with them to provide bikes for kids who might not otherwise be able to have them.” His inaugural fundraiser, called Bikes For Kids (www.bicyclesforkids.org), runs through Saturday, Dec. 15, and he’s hoping organizations and individuals help him meet his goal. For every bike he sells, he’s donating a portion to his campaign. People also can donate directly at kidsforbikes.org. Duet has four main service areas, one of which is providing resources for grandparents raising grandchildren and other kinship caregivers. “We truly hope the community can come together and support Colby Cruisers in their efforts to collect bikes for the grandchildren we work with who are being raised by their grandparents,” said Jennifer Franzmeier Fitzwater, kinship care services coordinator for Duet. “It would really mean a lot to each of these children to receive a bike for the

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Gary Colby, owner of Colby’s Cruisers in Gilbert, hopes his campaign raises enough money to supply 100 kids being raised by their grandparents with new bicycles for Christmas.

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four events for the Valley of the Sun United Way’s Project Connect on the topic of poverty; American Family Insurance on Hispanic Heritage Day, “Dream Fearlessly;” and the Local Initiative Support Corporation on “Stand up for Place.” The exhibits bring together artists, design thinking, maker stations that create answers in art and facilitators to generate conversation. They may be used by municipalities, often to hash out issues if it involves

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transition, tension or trauma. “The opportunity to take the temperature of a topic for a community is built into the nature of a trigger exhibit,” Kessler wrote in her thesis. “The data can be used in a number of ways including to inform and shape policy; to generate support for or defend a strategy; to garner attention to a cause.” The next Created Equal Trigger Exhibit, “Love Without Limits,” is themed around immigration and will be held Feb. 21 at The Falls Center in Gilbert. Fifty artists, including performance, music, dance, installation

and painting, will ponder the theme using their own medium. “The idea is that people are people no matter where they are. They don’t have borders, it’s made up,” she said. “You can have a conversation about stuff with art: your experiences, what you see, your interpretation. It’s broad, positive and art-based.” Another project in the works is called “Swing,” a collaboration with Scottsdale painter Joan Collins. In it, Kessler creates a photograph, and Collins creates a response to the photo-

make a lot of good friends. It’s hard work, but once you figure everything out, it’s a lot of fun. They’ll have career opportunities as soon as they get out of school. “We have the flexibility to work around school. Plus, if they work down here during high school and they go to Flagstaff for college, they can transfer up there.” This fall, 166 people were hired for Arizona’s 76 stores. “All you need is a great work ethic,” Stanage said. “As far as how to change a tire, how to balance tires and fix tires, we (teach) that all in-house. You don’t need prior knowledge. If you have a can-do attitude, we’ll take it from there.”

The Valley’s East Valley training academy is at Country Club Drive and Baseline Road in Mesa. Classes are two weeks long. “Kids . . . who are hired are referring their friends,” Stanage said. “We have a great referral program. There’s no better person who can tell you about a job than a friend.” To apply, visit: careers.discounttire. com.

graph in a painting and they go back and forth. The work will be on display at a spring show where they will create the final items onsite and also provide an opportunity for people to participate. She said she tries to “infuse some of the exhibits” with her view of the way things should be in the world, explaining: “This is where I think more of my personality gets to show up.” Elaine Kessler’s studio is at 3651 E. Baseline Road, Gilbert. Information: elainekesslerphotography.com

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iscount Tire is encouraging Gilbert high school students to start their working careers at its stores while they’re still in school. Tom Stanage, the Scottsdale-based company’s training manager, said that after kids attend its academies they can take advantage of flexible schedules and college reimbursement. Discount Tire sent announcements to area high schools. “High school students can learn on the job,” said Stanage, who has worked for Discount Tire for nearly 30 years. “You

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ome ideas get better the more you consider them. A perfect example: The East Valley NAACP’s Dec. 5th call for a boycott of the City of Prescott over a years-long string of racist remarks and vile musings spewed by the area’s state House representative, David Stringer. I’ve written about Stringer, a 70-something coot who clearly despises anyone a shade darker than himself, several times before. The representative made headlines again last week when a recording surfaced of a conversation he had with several Arizona State University students. Among the gems contained in this go-round: Stringer’s denunciation of recent immigrants to America on the grounds that they simply aren’t white

enough for his taste. As he said, “That’s not the case with African-Americans and other racial groups because they don’t melt in. They don’t blend in. They always look different.” Just so we’re clear, I personally appreciate people who don’t resemble Stringer. A wave of immigrants in horrible toupees should have been made illegal by our Founding Fathers back in 1776. Stringer’s tonsorial poor judgement aside, his prejudicial views have never been a secret, not during his first campaign in 2016, nor during his re-election primary and general election campaigns this year. Even so, Stringer easily coasted to victory in 2018. In the August primary, Stringer earned 25,476 votes, beating his conservative Republican challenger, Jodi Rooney, by more than 10,000 votes. Rooney certainly was qualified to join the state House, having served on the Prescott Valley

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shopping, travel, and lodging in hotels in Prescott, AZ effective immediately.” My first thought was, gosh, why punish the whole city for the actions of one man – especially after the Prescott City Council called for Stringer to step down. Then I thought about it some more. If David Stringer didn’t have 67,000 voters on his side, he wouldn’t be in the State Legislature. These are Prescott residents and business people who in Rooney had an equally conservative alternative to Stringer but voted for him knowing full well they would be sending a racist to the Copper Dome. Prescott is a beautiful little city, one I’ve visited many times. That stops now. Why, you ask? Oh, I can think of 67,000 good reasons why none of us should spend a thin dime in Prescott so long as Rep. David Stringer serves in the Arizona Legislature.

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Perry fell short but established itself among 6A’s elite BY JOEL VISS GSN Contributing Writer

First CHAN – Brooks 1 run (Peterman kick), 9:52. CHAN – Brooks 1 run (Peterman kick), 5:41.

t started with a quarterback battle in the scorching heat Second of July and quickly took an CHAN – Conover 14 run (Peterman unexpected turn when an injukick), 10:37. ry put one of its most explosive PERRY – Young 17 run (Cross kick), 6:24. playmakers, D’Shayne James, on the sideline for the season. CHAN – Brooks 4 run (kick failed), 3:04. Yet there was Perry High at Third Sun Devil Stadium, back in the PERRY – Burns 33 run (McCarthy kick), 6A state-championship football 11:27. game, after the sixth-seeded CHAN – Brooks 58 run (Boyd kick), 11:17. Pumas matured and grew during the season. It knocked off No. 3 CHAN – FG, Boyd 29, 9:09. Desert Vista and No. 2 Pinnacle PERRY – Dickie 4 pass from Purdy in the playoffs to earn a return (McCarthy kick), 7:41. match for the crown against CHAN – Liebrock 7 pass from Conover its nemesis, cross-town rival (Boyd kick), 5:12. Chandler. CHAN – Brooks 2 run (Boyd kick), 3:25. Perry overcame a lot of adversity during the season, but on Dec. 1 Fourth it once again could not overcome CHAN – Brooks 1 run (Boyd kick), 11:21. Chandler, which smothered the (Pablo Robles/GSN Staff) CHAN – Brown-Taylor 21 run (Boyd Pumas, 65-28. Perry High running back Jalen Young uses blocks by Justin Clatterbuck (left) and Joshua Amerine to break free in their 6A football kick), 7:05. “It’s a team effort,” said senior state-championship loss to Chandler at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe. PERRY – Purdy 9 run (McCarthy kick), wide receiver Colby Dickie. 2:53. “One player goes down, it’s not the expected to have an impact in 2019. score to be flipped, but you can’t control end of the world. We’re going to be there that. They have a lot to be proud of and “Our center, (Hezekiah) Lockhart, he’s with him, we’re going to help him recover, show our gratitude and appreciation to Team statistics back,” Jones said. “We’ve got another but we still have football to play. Perry Chandler everyone that supported us.” “We came together as a team, even after offensive lineman back. We’ve got a couple First downs 24 29 Jones often has spoken of building a losing a couple of players, and we just of tight ends coming back. We’ve got two program, and the back-to-back successful Rush-yards 35-255 50-454 worked our butts off all season long to get good linebackers. We’ve got corners. We’re seasons, even though the Pumas dropped Comp-Att-Int 20-33-3 13-18-0 back to where we needed to be and that really excited about our future.” It wasn’t an easy journey. As the sixth the title game in each, indicate that they Pass yard 161 198 was here.” have done it. In addition to back-to-back After losing to Chandler (13-1) in last seed, Perry went into games as the lower championship-game appearances the Total yards 416 652 season’s title game, 49-42, the Pumas seed in three of its four playoff games. Yet Pumas were in the semifinals in 2016. Fumbles-lost 1-1 0-0 (11-3) were an unlikely candidate to the Pumas went into the title game with Perry has cemented itself among the the chance to complete a sweep of the top make it back. It lost Arizona’s 2017 high Penalties 6-40 8-69 premium football programs in the state. school football player of the year, Brock three seeds in 6A. “(The sophomore and juniors) just need “I know those sophomores and juniors Purdy, who’s now building new fans as to keep working on it,” Dickie said. “We’ll Individual statistics that were playing, they’re going to want it quarterback at Iowa State. go back to school next week and they’ll It helps when his replacement is of the again,” Dickie said. “I know they’re going already be in the weight room. We just Rushing to work their butts off to get back here Perry – Purdy 20-138, Young 10-59, Burns 5-58. same blood. work year-round and every day just get in Chandler –.Brooks 33-334, Brown-Taylor 9-100, Purdy’s young brother, Chubba Purdy, next season.” Jones was especially proud of the senior the weight room. We’ll go out there and Conover 5-23. Conover 13-18-0, 198, team 3-(-3). a junior, emerged as the quarterback. improve speed, everything. Chubba passed for 3,425 yards and 36 class. “So as long as they keep working, they Passing “(I told them to) hold their heads up,” he touchdowns and added another 1,152 – Purdy 19-31-3, 162 yards; Dickie 1-2-0, (-1). definitely have the potential to get back Perry Chandler – Conover 13-18-0, 198. rushing yards in his first year as the said. “You did a great job. Had a great run. (to the championship).” starter. He will be among the state’s top Had a great season. This senior class has Receiving done a lot. Since they were sophomores quarterbacks next season. Perry – Dickie 6-50, Boyd 6-45, Schmitz 4-46, Chandler 65, Perry 28 Along with Purdy coming back, Perry they’ve done a great, great job. Nothing to Young 2-7, Patterson 1-14, Burns 1-(-1). Chandler Perry 0 7 14 7 -- 28 coach Preston Jones looks forward to be ashamed of. –.Liebrock 6-105, Puffer 2-33, Brooks 2-16, De la Torre 2-10, Mceuen 1-34. several other returning players who are “Of course, we want to win. We want the Chandler 14 13 24 14 -- 65

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Daniel Hersh (right), in character as Daddy Pig in “Peppa Pig’s Surprise!”, loves the role because even though his character comes across as a lovable bumbling idiot, he also is “always just trying to be the best parent that he can be.” The show is Dec. 11 at Mesa Arts Center.

he beloved animated British TV show “Peppa Pig” is stepping out of the television and onto the Mesa Arts Center stage for “Peppa Pig’s Surprise!” on Tuesday, Dec. 11. Peppa is a lovable, cheeky little piggy who lives with her little brother, George, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig. Peppa enjoys playing games, dressing up, days out and jumping in mud puddles. “The show brings their favorite characters to life,” said Daniel Hersh, who plays Daddy Pig. “It’s insane to see these packed houses full of kids. Every kid is so excited to see their favorite character onstage. It’s become a real thing for them.” As an actor, Hersh loves seeing the kids sing along and participate in call-and-response action with the audience, he said. Ticket holders will see sea creatures that

go to the beach. “Creatures swim across the stage and it really looks like they’re floating,” he said. “It just looks so cool.” The surprise in the show is twofold. Peppa goes on an adventure (we won’t spoil it here) and a TV character makes a surprise appearance at the end of the

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ons of Serendip singer Micah Christian feels a connection with the audience when the band performs. That keeps the quartet energized and positive about its future. “Every night we have great experiences with the audience,” Christian said. “Instead of just performing songs, we connect with people. Whenever we have those moments, we know we succeeded in what we hoped to do.” Christian – along with cellist Kendall Ramseur, harpist Mason Morton and pianist Cordaro Rodriguez – will perform at the Chandler Center for the Arts on Friday, Dec. 14. Finalists on “America’s Got Talent” Season 9, Sons of Serendip was called “the most musically talented act on the show” by the judges for its heart-warming arrangements of classic tunes. The four men came together in 2014 as graduate students at Boston Univer-

sity. The gig at the Chandler Center for the Arts will be a holiday performance with songs like “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” “The First Noel” and “This Christmas” and others from their album “Christmas: Beyond the Lights.” Last year’s concert sold out. “We’re going to be doing a number of classic Christmas songs, but done in a creative way so people feel like they’re hearing the song for the first time,” Christian said. “That’s the goal whenever we work on arrangements.” Sometimes those arrangements can be challenging, Christian said. Choosing which songs to translate to its style is a task. The goal is to find music with good lyrics and melodies, with room for Sons of Serendip to experiment. “We’ve done a number of Stevie Wonder songs in the past,” said Christian, who was studying theology when the group came calling. “He’s a musical genius and his songs are the hardest to switch. “With Christmas songs, those are a lot of fun. I think it’s always a challenge just

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IF YOU GO What: ‘Peppa Pig Live!’ Where: Mesa Arts Center Ikeda Theater, 1 E. Main St., Mesa. When: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11. Cost: $45, VIP packages available. Info: mesaartscenter.com, 480-644-6500. kids.” “I think that’s so brilliant because it shows that he’s never trying to show off. He’s always just trying to be the best parent that he can be,” Hersh said. If there’s anything to be learned here, it’s about happiness. “Peppa has a great time, and she teaches the audience that you can find joy and happiness anywhere,” he said.

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Ahwatukee Resident/ References/ Insured/ Not aBruce Licensed at Contractor Call 602.670.7038

5 Carpeted Rooms + 150 Sq. Ft. of Tile

Services

Bathroom Remodeling

We Also Buy, Sell & Trade Used Appliances Working or Not

Holiday Special

One Call Can Fix It All!

Handyman

Nights/Weekends Bonded/Insured 480-251-8610

Appliance Repair Now

Opener & Door Lubrication with Repair

CASH OUT!

Concrete & Masonry

FREE

www.lifetimegaragedoorsaz.com

East Valley/ Ahwatukee

Appliance Repairs

• Same Day Service • On-Site Repairs • Servicing All Major Brands • Quality Guaranteed

10%

480-626-4497

GARAGE DOOR SERVICE

Not a licensed contractor

If It’s Broken, We Can Fix It!

Handyman

Unbeatable Customer Service & Lowest Prices Guaranteed!

Discount for Seniors &Veterans

Garage/Doors

ROC156315, ROC285317

www.ampmhomeservices.com

www.GilbertSunNews.com

Insured *Not a Licensed Contractor

Medical Services/Equipment

Block Fence * Gates

602-789-6929 Roc #057163 Lowest Prices * 30 Yrs Exp Serving Entire Valley

YOU’LL LIKE US - THE BEST!

Arizona Mobility Scooters 9420 W. Bell Rd., #103 Sun City, AZ 85351

Mobility Scooter Center 3929 E. Main St., #33 Mesa, AZ 85205

480-250-3378

480-621-8170

www.arizonamobilityscooters.com

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Landscape Design/Installation Penny Pavers Free Estimates

Landscape Maintenance

Painting

Remodeling

Pool Service / Repair

Your Ad can go ONLINE ANY Day! Call to place your ad online!! Classifieds 480-898-6465

Juan Hernandez

SPRINKLER

DISCOUNT PAVER SPECIALISTS

Drip/Install/Repair

(480) 343-0562

25 years exp. Call Now (480) 720-3840

30 Years Exp - Refs Avail Not a licensed contractor

Not a licensed contractor

Juan Hernandez

TREE

Sell Your Stuff! Call Classifieds Today!

480.898.6465

CLASS@TIMESPUBLICATIONS.COM

TRIMMING 25 Years exp (480) 720-3840

Landscape Maintenance

HOME IMPROVEMENT & PAINTING Interior/Exterior Painting 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE Dunn Edwards Quality Paint Small Stucco/Drywall Repairs

We Are State Licensed and Reliable!

Free Estimates • Senior Discounts

480-338-4011

ROC#309706

Interior/Exterior Painting RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL

Juan Hernandez

• Free Estimates • Light Repairs, Drywall

Irrigation Repair Services Inc. Licensed • Bonded • Insured Technician

Pavers • Concrete • Water Features • Sprinkler Repair

POOL REPAIR

• Senior discounts

Pebble cracking, Plaster peeling, Rebar showing, Pool Light out?

References Available Not a licensed contractor

Specializing in Controllers, Valves, Sprinklers, Landscape Lighting, P.V.C. & Poly Drip Systems

Call Jason:

Call Lance White

HIC PRO PAINTING

480.721.4146 www.irsaz.com

ROC# 256752 Insured/Bonded Free Estimates

ALL Pro

T R E E

Plumbing

S E R V I C E

L L C

Prepare for Monsoon Season! LANDSCAPING, TREES & MAINTENANCE

Tree Trimming • Tree Removal Stump Grinding Storm Damage • Bushes/Shrubs Yard Clean-up Commercial and Residential PMB 435 • 2733 N. Power Rd. • Suite 102 • Mesa dennis@allprotrees.com

480-354-5802

Early Holiday Deadlines: Dec 24th Edition: Classifieds Wed., Dec. 20th 1pm Obits/Legals Tues., Dec. 19th 10am

Classifieds 480-898-6465 class@timespublications.com

I CAN HELP!

25 Years Experience • Dependable & Reliable

Roofing

PHILLIPS ROOFING LLC Member of ABM

Call Juan at

Licensed • Bonded • Insured

480-720-3840

ROC 223367

Valleywide

CR 42 DUAL

623-873-1626

Not a licensed contractor.

Int / Ext Home Painting 4-Less!

All employees verified Free estimates on all roofs 36 Years experience in AZ Licensed contractor since 2006

QUALITY PAINT #1 IN SERVICE

480-454-3959 FREE ESTIMATES

We’ll Beat Any Price! ROC #301084

East Valley PAINTERS

JOBS - JOBS - JOBS Our New Job Board is OPEN! jobs.eastvalleytribune.com

phillipsroofing.org phillipsroofing@msn.com

Voted #1 Paint Interior & Exterior • Drywall Repair Light Carpentry • Power Washing • Textures Matched Popcorn Removal • Pool Deck Coatings Garage Floor Coatings • Color Consulting

Roofing The Most Detailed Roofer in the State

10% OFF

We Beat Competitors Prices & Quality

Tim KLINE Roofing, LLC

Free Estimates! Home of the 10-Year Warranty!

Roofs Done Right...The FIRST Time!

480-688-4770

15-Year Workmanship Warranty on All Complete Roof Systems

www.eastvalleypainters.com Family Owned & Operated Bonded/Insured • ROC#153131

Now Accepting all major credit cards

www.timklineroofing.com

480-357-2463

FREE Estim a and written te proposal

R.O.C. #156979 K-42 • Licensed, Bonded and Insured

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Window Cleaning

Roofing

Professional service since 1995

Window Cleaning $100 - One Story $140 - Two Story

Tiles, shingles, flat, repairs & new work Free Estimates • Ahwatukee Resident Over 30 yrs. Experience

Licensed/Bonded/Insured • ROC #236099

Sun Screens Cleaned $3 each Attention to detail and tidy in your home.

(480) 584-1643

Bonded & Insured

LLC

480-706-1453

Includes in & out up to 30 Panes

COUNTS

APPEARANCE

Sunday Puzzle

WORD SEARCH: Changing Seasons

Find the words: Seasons Heater Shopping

Chilly Layers Skiing Deals Spiced Drinks

Fall Leaves First Snow

Place Your Advertisement Here. Call 480-898-6465 to Advertise in the Service Directory.

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y a d i l o H r u Yo ! s r e t r a u q Head STANDING

MIDWESTERN MEAT SHOP

AGED TO PERFECT ION

Ham Central-

Spiral Sliced, Pit Ham, Honey Cured Ham, Mini Hams, Whole Hams, John Morell Ham EZ Cut

Order today! Call 480-924-5855

• Tenderloin Roast, Filet Mignon Steaks • Pork Crown Roast, Pork Roast, Iowa Chops • Lefse, Lutifisk, Potato Sausage • East Coast Oysters, Herring • Fresh Turkey, Fresh Turkey Breast Call 480-924-5855 today to order your holiday meat!

MIDWESTERN BAKERY Pie Central-

Pecan, Pumpkin, Apple, Cherry, Strawberry Rhubarb, Peach, Coconut, Chocolate, Banana, Lemon Meringue

• Dinner Rolls, Parkerhouse Rolls • Fruit Stollen • Christmas Braided Bread Call 480-924-5855 today to order your holiday goodies!

Call your order in 480-924-5855 MESA • 4308 E. Main St www.midwesternmeats.com Meat Dept 480-924-5855 • Hours: Mon-Sat 8am-6pm • Sun Closed Restaurant 480-924-4884 • Hours: Mon-Sat 11am-7pm • Sun 8am-1pm Bakery

480-924-2105 • Hours: Mon-Sat 6am-5pm • Sun Closed

RIB ROAST • Corn Fed • Aged Minimum 21 Days • Seasoned for no Charge • Bone in or Boneless

Stay Out of the Kitchen!

Prime Rib Dinner

139.99 (feeds 6)

Turkey Dinner

119.99 (feeds 8-10) Ham Dinner $119.99 $

Presliced meat cooked to perfection. Easy reheat!! Sides include your choice of: • Mash Potatoes with Gravy • Sweet Potatoes with Raisins • Green Bean Almondine • Glazed Carrots • Also included: Pumpkin Pie, 1 dz Dinner Rolls, Au Jus for reheat.