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Default threatens owners’ hold on Bell Bank Park

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer

The organization that built the $280 million, 320-acre youth and amateur sports complex known as Bell Bank Park in southeast Mesa is in default of its loan that covered the project.

A formal notice issued Oct. 18 by bond trustee OMB Bank to investors states that Legacy has missed monthly payments on in terest and principal, failed to submit audits

and financial statements, and has unpaid construction company liens on the property.

Over the summer, at least 10 subcontrac tors that worked on the project filed liens totaling millions of dollars against the prop erty owner for non-payment for services, according to the Maricopa County Record er’s Office.

Legacy Cares doesn’t own the land, but leases it from Pacific Proving LLC, a joint venture between William Levine and Artu ro Moreno, owner of the Los Angeles Angels

Two marquee airport users make progress

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer

Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport grabbed headlines this past year when two major aerospace companies – busi ness jet maker Gulfstream and space tourism company Virgin Galactic – announced plans to set up operations there.

Despite current economic uncertainty surrounding infla tion and interest rates, airport staff reported last week that those projects are moving ahead rapidly.

In a sign that Gulfstream is finding success recruiting work ers in a tight labor market and attracting jet maintenance businesses to Mesa, Gulfstream announced Oct. 17 that it has leased a second hangar at Gateway for its regional mainte

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Levine and Moreno were partners in the billboard company Outdoor Systems, which they sold to Infinity Broadcasting for $8.7 billion in 1999. Pacific Proving purchased 1,800 acres of the General Motors testing facility, which has provided land for Mesa’s tremendous expansion in the southeast.

Liens make the 320-acre property diffi cult to sell or mortgage, and one of the terms

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Bryan Day of Mesa got his radio-controlled car set up prior to the third annual Kinwald Klassic RC competition that Hobby Action RC Raceway in Chandler held Oct. 15 to benefit the Arizona Chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Founda tion. The event is named in memory of Brian Kinwald of Tempe, a multiple world champion in radio-controlled racing who died in 2019 at age 45 from complications of Crohn’s disease. “He contributed to the sport of RC racing and inspired many with his skill and determination in spite of his illness,” a spokeswoman said, adding that hundreds of competitors registered for races. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)

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City officials target domestic violence

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer

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top officials urged resi dents to begin talking more openly about domestic violence.

During an emotional Domestic Vio lence Awareness Night even at Pioneer Park on Oct. 19, they butressed City Council’s declaration earlier in the week of October as Domestic Violence Aware ness Month in Mesa.

Officials hope the declaration and eve ning event will bring domestic violence into the light of more every-day conver sations so victims feel less alone and know help is available.

Leader after leader at the event de scribed domestic violence as one of the most corrosive problems the commu nity faces, noting that the damage in households spreads.

Mesa Police Chief Ken Cost said that one recent year, a third of Mesa’s homi cides were domestic-violence related.

The mayor, survivors, victim support specialists and law enforcement officials took to a temporary stage facing rows of chairs surrounded by two dozen tables set up with information from various support organizations.

City Magistrate Judge John Tatz said from the perspective of the municipal court, which hears misdemeanor cases, domestic violence is the most serious crime the city adjudicates. He said the city has an important role in breaking the cycle of violence in a household –hopefully stopping offenders at the mis demeanor level.

This year’s event was special because the city launched a Domestic Violence Court this summer. Tatz told attendees that accountability for domestic vio lence offenders and support for victims was at the top of his to-do list when he became presiding city magistrate two years ago.

Part of the reason was he witnessed as a child a short-term stepfather abuse his

mother.

“I witnessed firsthand the cycle of do mestic violence,” Tatz said. “I heard the apologies. I saw it get a little worse next time. I watched him go into rehab for al cohol, come back out, apologize. Gets a little worse again. She was lucky she was able to escape that and get out of it.”

Tatz and City Prosecutor Paul Hawkins said they have been pleased with that effort so far, reporting they have seen greater compliance with court orders for counseling and other rehabilitation efforts.

The court is still developing, with Tatz noting that the court will be hiring a dedicated probation officer.

Hawkins told attendees that the city’s victim services resources were available to “anyone who needs help and comes to us” – not just cases involving a charged offense.

Also speaking was Shelly Ward, vic tim services administrator for the Mesa Family Advocacy Center, an agency affili ated with the Mesa Police Department that provides coordinated, traumainformed response to victims of sexual and domestic violence.

She said that children exposed to do mestic violence are at higher risk of mental illness and substance abuse.

Noting that “abusive behavior takes roos early,” she urged Mesa residents to advocate for including education in healthy relationships in schools.

She said that an abusive household spreads out to the whole community, affecting children, family, friends and neighbors.

Speakers at the event noted that do mestic violence is often “suffered in si lence,” as survivor and nonprofit found er Jessica Nicely said during the keynote speech.

Nicely recounted her own experience growing up witnessing her father beat her stepmother and other family mem

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The company is leasing the two han gars while it constructs its own $100 million facility on the airport’s east side.

Gulfstream’s future 225,000-squarefoot facility is expected to begin opera tions sometime next year, but Vice Presi dent Joe Rivera told the airport board in May that the company likes “to establish a beachhead to start to hire staff” ahead of the opening of new operations.

Gulfstream’s plans to provide mainte nance and service to customers of the jet maker’s high-end, multi-million-dollar aircraft at Gateway.

In the recent press release, it said it has hired and trained more than 80 em ployees, and the company anticipates growing its Mesa workforce to more than 200 when the larger facility is complete.

The company has consistently praised its partnerships with Arizona State Uni versity and Gilbert-Chandler Community College.

“A lot of credit goes to the ChandlerGilbert Community College” for the com

pany’s decision to locate in Mesa, Rivera said.

“Today, we have a flight safety course going on. They’re teaching specifically our G650 (model jet) course to local students, our local employees, a lot of kids in school. … That’s a win-win for all of us.”

Gateway Airport spokesman Ryan Smith said the Gulfstream expansion wasn’t expected, but the airport is ex cited to see it.

“It’s proof that Gulfstream is not only exceeding expectations from what they originally thought, but they are finding that they’re able to find success here.”

“It was such a big announcement to have them come here,” Smith added. “We continue to talk to other aerospace and related companies that are looking to locate here because Gulfstream is here. Having them here truly is a magnet for all sorts of aerospace companies.”

Gateway airport also made headlines in July when Virgin Galactic, a space tour ism company headed by British billion aire entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, announced plans to lease three hangars

at the airport to assemble “spaceships.”

Virgin plans to use the hangars at Gate way Executive Park near Sossaman and Ray Roads for final assembly of its sixperson, rocket-powered ships that carry paying passengers to the edge of space after detaching from a large “mother ship.”

When Virgin announced the Mesa deal, the hangars were still under con struction, and Smith said the company is working furiously to complete them.

But there has been one speed bump.

Airport Director J. Brian O’Neill said the steel framing of hangar two needed to be taken down and re-erected at sig nificant cost for the company because it needed to be taller to accommodate the twin-engine mothership.

Virgin Galactic will use to that to ferry the finished spaceships to the company’s New Mexico spaceport.

Despite the setback, work is moving forward.

“Now they’re pouring the floor for hangar three, which is about 130,000 square feet, and that’s where they’re going to construct those six spaceships every year,” O’Neill said. “They’re going to attach them to the mothership, and they’re going to fly them to New Mexico for their horizontal launch.”

O’Neill paused after saying “mother ship” for the second time in his presen tation.

“I tell people in my neighborhood about the ‘mothership,’ and it seems like we don’t have as many visitors at the house as we used to,” O’Neill joked.

“I laugh … but those are the words that they use, so we’re going to have to get used to it as they continue to play a big ger role here at the airport,” he said.

Virgin Galactic has said its goal is to have the Mesa facility fully operational by late 2023.

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“These are multigenerational compa nies,” Smith said. “They go through the ups and the downs of economic cycles. While they face economic pressures just like ev eryone else does, they’re here for the long haul. Those are the companies you want to have located at your airport.”

Council approves land sale for SE Mesa railway

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer

MesaCity Council last week approved the sale of 5 acres of city-owned land for $1.78 million to Union Pacific Railroad to make way for a planned 6-mile spur railway through the Pecos Road manufacturing corridor.

The Pecos Industrial Rail Access and Train Extension (PIRATE) project would run east from an existing railway along Rittenhouse Road out to the CMC Steel plant on Meridian Road.

CMC Steel, which recycles scrap metal into new steel products like rebar, is Union Pacific’s “anchor customer,” but the idea is for other industrial operations along Pecos Road to eventually access the rail.

The city owns 35 acres in a critical area for PIRATE to proceed, close to where the spur would join with the existing rail line.

The strip of land approved for sale will bi sect Mesa’s 35 acres at the corner of Pecos and Sossaman, which the city has owned for

80 years.

While highly strategic today, staff told council members they could find no records regarding why the city purchased the proper ty in 1942 and how much was paid for it. They guessed the sale would net a healthy profit.

Council had no objections to selling the land for the railway.

Mayor John Giles cited the potential eco nomic benefits of railway, which a Union Pa cific project description claims will support “high-skilled manufacturing jobs while reduc ing greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution by taking over 29,000 truckloads off U.S. highways and local roadways each year.”

“We talk about (PIRATE) behind the scenes a lot, but I’m anxious for the public to learn about this more. … I think we need to help people understand how important this is to the industrial users out there.”

The parcel was purchased long ago for unknown reasons, but more recently it has been eyed by city officials as a possible loca tion for a regional recycling facility — badly needed to grow Mesa’s recycling capacity af

ter the pandemic and a fire at Republic’s Salt River recycling center in 2019.

City staff assured council that the railway would not prevent the city from constructing a recycling and transfer station on the site.

“We made sure there was enough left us” for a facility, Brady said.

Mesa and Gilbert officials have been talking for months about sharing costs to construct a waste sorting facility used by both munici palities. A feasibility study conducted by Mesa found that constructing its own materials re covery facility would be cost prohibitive.

Brady broke news at a study session before the vote on the sale that Gilbert and Mesa have come to an agreement to move forward.

“We’ve actually just made an agreement with the Town of Gilbert that we’re going to both work on preliminary drawings to go to 15% of what this could be in the future, because there’s a strong possibility that they would join with us,” Brady said.

“Because it’s on the southeast part of Mesa, it works for us, but it also works well for them.”

According to a staff report, Union Pacific

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City staff are currently planning to put the recycling facility on the north side of the property, and City Engineer Beth Huning said another department was interested in the southern half.

Huning said the railroad company wants to complete property acquisition before the end of the year, and it has already submitted design plans to the city for review.

Giles reflected in study session that in 1942, the parcel was “in the middle no where,” but he appreciated the purchase, whatever the reason.

“Governmental use is important," Giles said. "I know this is a very strategic property, and thank you to the city council 80 years ago for buying that,” he said.

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Mesa teen wins $10,000 Carl’s Jr. Scholarship

BY JOSH ORTEGA Tribune Staff Writer

Morethan 1,200 students from across the country applied, and one Mesa teen earned her ticket to continue her education with a $10,000 Carl’s Jr. Schol arship.

Autumn Fairbanks, 19, now attends Ari zona State University in the hopes of one day becoming a special education teacher.

Thanks to the Carl N. and Margaret Karch er Founder’s Scholarship from Carl’s Jr., some of the burden of paying for college will get taken off Fairbank’s plate.

“This money is definitely going to help me to get through my college experience,” Fair banks said.

Fairbanks credits her mom Kristie with helping her find the Carl’s Jr. Scholarship –the largest dollar amount she’s received so far – along with some of the other awards.

The Skyline High School grad said she cur rently plans to graduate with her bachelors and become a special education teacher

“somewhere in Arizona.”

“The school system that I was raised in just did so much for me,” Fairbanks said. “And I feel like I kind of have a responsibility to give back to it.”

One of educators who inspired was her 11th grade pre-calculus teacher Jesse Ruiz.

Fairbanks said Ruiz inspired to become a teacher and help kids find their own passion in learning.

“Math was not always my favorite subject in school,” Fairbanks said. “But he was able to help me a lot to actually be passionate about it.”

Though still a freshman, Fairbanks said her college “has been a very positive experience so far” and enjoys the independence of living on campus – which isn’t far from her home.

“The vibe of living on my own and being part of the ASU community is super great,” Fairbanks said.

Although a full class schedule and home work carries its own stress, Fairbanks said this scholarship has reduced a lot of worry for her.

The reality of being one of nine students to win this scholarship still hasn’t dawned

on her, but Fairbanks said she’s just happy to have her hard work has reaped some benefits.

“It’s kind of crazy to think about honestly,” Fairbanks said. “I am glad to know that a lot of the work I’ve put in is starting to pay off through being able to get scholarships.”

Fairbanks said she recommends any stu dent just apply for as many scholarship as possible because they’ll be surprised which ones they qualify and which ones they get.

“You never know if you don’t try,” Fairbanks said. “You never know how much you can earn unless you start putting in that effort.”

According to ASU, first-year resident tuition and fees cost more than $12,000 per year.

But along with other financial aid, workstudy and on-campus employment, the aver age student pays $2,200 per year.

Fairbanks said her family, especially her mom, was happy for her.

“She’s just been very instrumental in my entire academic experience and entire aca demic journey,” Fairbanks said. “So her hard work has been also been paying off through me getting these scholarships.”

Fairbanks said she comes from a family of Sun Dev ils with her mom graduating with a journalism de gree and her two brothers majoring in kinesiology. One became a physi cian’s assistant and the other is studying physical therapy.

Mesa-native Autumn Fairbanks, 19, was one of nine students in the country to win a $10,000 Carl N. and Margaret Karcher Founder’s Scholarship. (Special to the Tribune)

Though she’s a long way from graduating in 2026, Fairbanks said the reduced stress she’s achieved through her Carl’s Jr. win gave her the will power to do well on a re cent presentation.

Although the presentation covered a “very confusing” topic, Fairbanks said it went well and gave her the confidence boost she need ed to continue her college journey.

“The fact that the presentation actually went pretty well I was just like ‘wow, I can do this college thing,” Fairbanks said. “I can make it here.”

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Project aims to fix Grand Canyon vital potable water pipeline

BY PALOMA GARCIA Cronkite News

Onthe North Rim of the Grand Can yon, water from Roaring Springs cas cades down Bright Angel shale to the canyon floor below. This continuous spring provides drinking water to millions of visi tors who come to the South Rim each year, pumped through a 6-inch aluminum pipe that’s buried beneath the North Kaibab Trail.

Built from 1965 through ’70, the TransCanyon Waterline is falling apart, and it has been for years.

This month, construction begins to re place parts of the failing line and build two water treatment plants. The project’s com pletion date is 2027, and planners expect minimal disruption to water supply or dis tribution.

The waterline is considered the backbone of Grand Canyon National Park’s water sys tem. On average, it carries 190 million gal

lons of drinking water to more than 5 mil lion visitors and 2,500 residents in the Cross Canyon Corridor and the South Rim area. But from the beginning, it has been plagued by repeated failures.

The long-planned project comes on the heels of several weeks of conservation measures after a break in early September; those measures were lifted Sept. 27.

“Each break disrupts water delivery un til repairs are completed,” Joëlle Baird with Grand Canyon National Park’s public affairs office said in an email. Those repairs can cost about $25,000 each, and water disrup tions can last days or weeks.

“Many of these leak repairs require im plementing strict park wide water conser vation measures to avoid depleting stored water reserves and shutting the park to visi tation,” Baird said.

The latest break triggered water conser

Honoring the fallen

The Desert Wells Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution conduct a day of service recently at Mountain View Cemetery, cleaning 215 headstones of veterans and replac ing veteran ID labels on each headstone. Some veterans from World War I, and many from WWII, including some survivors of Pearl Harbor. “Labeling the veterans’ headstones makes it easy to leave a flag on Memorial Day and Veterans Day and to place a fresh wreath in Decem ber during the Wreaths Across America commemoration, chapter historian Midge Garrison said. (Special to the Tribune)

Senior facility found deficient after death probe

BY CECILIA CHAN Tribune Staff Writer

The state health department found deficiencies during its in spection of a Mesa memory care facility within Gilbert Police’s jurisdic tion where an elderly female resident wandered away and was later found dead.

Maricopa County Medical Examiner ruled 88-year-old Ina Jenkins’ Aug. 8 death an accident and listed the cause as environmental heat exposure. Be sides dementia, Jenkins also suffered from hypertensive cardiovascular dis ease, and hypothyroidism, according to the medical examiner.

Parent company Koelsche Senior Communities in Olympia, Washington, did not respond to a request for com ment.

After Jenkins’ death, Arizona De partment of Health Services, which licenses these facilities, conducted an

investigation in September and faulted Silver Creek Inn Memory Care Commu nity near Baseline and Recker roads, for not adhering to state protocols.

According to the state, Silver Creek did not have policies and procedures in place that ensure the safety of a resident who may wander and that the facility’s manager should not accept or retain a resident if the individual requires continuous behavioral health services.

The facility also failed to have in place controls or alerts notifying em ployees if a resident leaves the facility unsupervised.

Health Services spokesman Tom Herrmann, citing a state statute, said the department was unable to disclose how Jenkins left the facility undetected.

He said in an email that Silver Creek’s inspection “has been referred to the en forcement team for review.”

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bers and threaten them with firearms.

She recounted how damaging it was to be in a household where she went to sleep to shouting each night, and how important the “caring, thoughtful adults” outside the home were to her.

Her personal experiences led her to found Winged Hope, a local nonprofit that provides services to victims of fam ily violence, renovates and starts new Family Advocacy Centers and provides training around the state.

Even though an estimated one in four women and one in seven men have expe rienced domestic violence – Ward said “most victims are not reporting their abuse.”

But she and others hoped events like the Domestic Violence Awareness Night

im.”

Jenkins was clad in a short-sleeve shirt and red plaid pajama pants and at the time it was believed she walked away at 2 p.m., according to Gilbert Po lice, which issued a Silver Alert.

The facility is near Baseline and Recker roads and has a Mesa address but is in Gilbert’s jurisdiction.

Less than an hour after her reported disappearance, Jenkins was found dead in a dry canal in Mesa, police there said.

Jenkins had moved into the Mesa fa cility in August 2021.

This isn’t the first time for violations at a Koelsch facility.

Reportedly, a memory care facil ity in Arlington, Texas was fined for nearly $2,000 for not keeping records of deaths, injuries and illnesses during the pandemic.

A company spokesman at the time explained it was a “clerical oversight” and that the delayed information to a federal agency led to the citations.

would encourage residents to talk about domestic violence and familiarize them selves with the resources available to people suffering from it.

Even if someone is not directly affect ed by domestic violence, Ward said, “I promise you there is going to be some one you encounter in your life, someone you love, that’s going to need that infor mation.”

She closed by reminding the audience of the number for the National Domes tic Violence Hotline, 1-800-799-SAFE (7233).

“If you’re a victim in silence, please know you don’t deserve to be in a re lationship that causes you to feel fear, intimidation or alone,” she added. “You deserve relationships that are free from abuse, intimidation, and fear. We are here. We see you.”

vation measures, including reduced hours at laundromats; visitors had to camp without water hookups; concessionaires switched to disposable dishes and cutlery, and low flow water practices were put in place.

The 6-inch waterline, which has operated for more than 50 years, has outlived its pro jected life span by about 20 years.

Renowned Grand Canyon painter Bruce Aiken knows this well. For 33 years, he and his family lived 5½ miles below the North Rim at Roaring Springs. As an employee of the National Park Service at the time, he made sure the pumphouse worked, and in his spare time, Aieken captured the won der and grandeur of the Grand Canyon on his canvas.

“As soon as they (NPS) opened it, it hadn’t been operating for more than a cou ple months and a flood came down Bright Angel Canyon and ripped it all out,” Aiken recalled. “It had to be rebuilt again and fi nally reopened in 1970, and right away it started to break.”

The waterline runs from the pumphouse at Roaring Springs to Phantom Ranch,

where it crosses the Colorado River beneath the suspended Silver Bridge.

“Then on up to Indian Garden, all via a siphon, it was one big gravity-float siphon line, and we were delivering … maybe 400 gallons a minute 350 gallons a minute to In dian Gardens,” Aiken said.

Aiken remembers how frequently the alu minum pipe would fail.

“I want to remind you how expensive it is to make repairs on that because the tools have to be brought in by helicopter … in a sling load, including a giant welder,” Aiken said, adding that digging up the pipe creates a “huge trench in the middle of the trail.”

The upgrade will relocate the water intake from Roaring Springs to Phantom Ranch and replace 3 miles of pipe from Phantom Ranch to Indian Garden. Other improvements in clude upgrading the electrical line between the ranch and the garden, and a water treat ment plant at the South Rim and a smaller plant at Phantom Ranch will be built.

All repairs will keep the pipeline’s func tion, engineering and overall design to maintain the pipeline’s historic nature and the significant role it plays in the Grand Canyon.

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Wanda Vermeer a volunteer for BannerHealth for three years, and the healthcare group are hoping to see more like-minded volunteers at Banner Desert Medical Center and Banner Chil dren’s at Desert. “We have numerous volunteer opportunities for students, retirees and oth ers who have time to give back,” said Carley Ofsthun, senior manager of volunteer services at the two Mesa hospitals. Applicants go through an interview process to determine availability, interests and skills. Ofsthun said the application process to volunteer is just like applying for a job, so applicants should be prepared for it to take about four to six weeks, including a full background check and occupational health screening. Those interested can call 480-412-3258. Volunteers can work as little as four hours per week, with a minimum six-months or 100-hour time commitment required. (Special to the Tribune)

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State’s jobless rate ticks up even as jobs stay unfilled

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

The state’s jobless rate ticked up again last month – the third time in four months –even as the national rate dropped.

But Doug Walls, the labor market analyst for the Arizona Office of Economic Oppor tunity, said he’s not seeing anything causing him great concern.

He noted the 3.7% seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, while up two-tenths of a percent from August, is still below the state’s pre-pandemic average.

Some of that is job creation in Arizona, up by 102,500 as reported by private sector employers since last year. But what’s grow ing even faster is the number of people in the labor force, both employed and not.

A household survey last month showed total employment approaching 3.5 million –up by 3,242 from August.

But the labor force increased by 11,717. So more people available to work, whether by reentering the labor market or moving

to Arizona, translates to a higher unemploy ment figure.

And Walls said a separate report shows there are close to two open jobs for every unemployed person.

“So I think the labor market is still tight,’’ he said.

“There are employers that are looking for employees,’’ Walls continued. “They still are not able to find them.’’

That search for workers, in turn, is having ripple effects.

Average hourly wages in Arizona hit $30.57 in September. That’s up 7.8% from the same time a year earlier.

By contrast, wages on the national level are up 4.9% year over year, though the av erage of $32.40 is still higher than the state.

Still, costs at the state level are eating up pay increases at an even faster rate.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the September consumer price index for Mari copa and Pinal counties -- the only are in Ari zona they measure -- was up 13% from the same time a year earlier. That is being driven

not just by the price of gasoline, with energy prices up 19.2%, but the cost of housing, es pecially for renters where costs are up 21.4%.

National inflation was up just 8.2%.

One area of the economy that may bear watching in the coming months is the con struction industry.

Sharply higher mortgage rates appear to be finally driving housing prices down in Arizona.

The median listing price of a home in the state dropped last month to $477,500, down close to $12,000 from the prior month.

And while that’s still 6.2% higher than the same time a year earlier, it appears to be a trend, with the data from Realtor.com show ing a continuing decline from earlier this year when the average his $520,950.

At the same time, the number of homes on the market increased to 23,791 in Sep tember. That’s up 2.3% from August and 128.5% from last year.

The median number of days properties are on the market increased to 48 days last month from 40 days the month before.

And housing starts, as measured by the number of new building permits, decreased 2.8% in August, the most recent figures available.

Walls said that’s all being affected by the decisions by the Federal Reserve Board to raise interest rates.

“With interest rates increasing, that does impact the monthly mortgage rate that a buyer would have to pay,’’ he said. “So indi viduals that might have been able to afford a house when interest rates are low, they might either be thinking twice about that.’’

And Walls said buyers, seeing some trends in prices, might be holding off on making a purchase.

But all that could reduce the number of people needed in construction.

“We haven’t seen it yet,’’ Walls said. “But we have to wait and see where construction employment goes from here.’’

One other area of the economy also could be affected. Fewer home buyers and fewer people seeking mortgages could translate to fewer loan officers.

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Evictions, judgments continue to rise in the county

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Rentin the Valley isn’t the only thing that’s seeing a steady increase. The number of eviction cases in Maricopa County justice Courts also has been rising.

“Eviction filings continue to rise,” Marico pa County Justice Courts spokesman Scott Davis reported last week.

September marked the third consecutive month “where filings are higher than they have been since October 2008,” he said.

In October 2008, justice courts in Marico pa County took in 6,975 eviction cases. Last month, 6,685 eviction cases were filed.

But the big difference between then and now is the size of judgments filed against tenants who are evicted.

“So far in 2022 the average judgment against tenants just rose to $3,337.50. In 2008 it was $1,750.58,” Davis said. “As I usu ally point out, not only was the population different then, but so was the economy.”

But the difference in the size of judgments is not just a. matter of a difference between 14 years.

“In 2019, the first full year before the pandemic, the average judgment was $1,976.81,” Davis said.

“Judges who hear eviction cases say a small portion of the increase is due to land lords catching up from the pandemic on past amounts due, but mostly it relates to the higher lease amounts that tenants pay.”

Rents have risen dramatically across the country and tenants in the Valley are among the hardest hit.

After the pandemic-related ban on evictions, court cases against tenants, generally related to nonpayment of rent have. been steadily increas ing in Maricopa County, especially over the last three months. ( Maricopa County Justice Courts)

Rents in the Phoenix are more than 45% higher than they were last year, and in creased on average by more than $700 in the past year, according to some reports.

Other reports say that between 2016 and 2021, average rent in the Valley soared by 80%.

That partly explains not only why many existing multifamily complexes across the region have been sold for twice what the seller paid for them within a matter of two to four years, but it also explains a signifi cant increase in the number of building per mits that have been issued in the past year for new apartment projects.

Last week, Mayor Kate Gallego noted at the end of the City Council meeting that on Oct. 12 alone, Council approved zoning changes for projects with a total 2,187 new apartments.

A third trend in eviction cases involves a relatively new state law that requires justice

Gilbert deli joins Bell Bank Park in autism project

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building activities hosted by the Legacy Cares team.

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restaurant has teamed up with Legacy Cares Inc., the nonprofit that owns Bell Bank Park in Mesa, and two other entities to create a program called Not Your Typical Workforce, a workplace devel opment program to address the employment gap for young adults with autism and other developmental disabilities.

“The program, which will launch this win ter, provides a safe, friendly, exciting, and challenging environment for these individu als to succeed in a typical workforce environ ment,” Legacy said of its partnership with Not Your Typical Deli in downtown Gilbert, the Autism Academy and Lexington Services.

Young adults involved in the program will be scheduled over the course of 10 weeks to serve in various capacities at Bell Bank Park.

They will learn basic communication and life skills with staff, procedures and respon sibilities for positions in the ticketing, opera tions, guest services, and food and beverage departments, as well as participate in team-

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courts to seal the details of an eviction case under certain circumstances.

David said that as of Oct. 6, sealed cases stood at 248 after the law went into effect only two weeks earlier.

“That is unprecedented and due directly to HB2485,” he said.

The new law requires that an eviction case be sealed when any of the following conditions are met:

A filed case is dismissed before the judge rules, as when, for example, a tenant pays the rent or the landlord’s paperwork is found to be deficient;

A tenant wins a favorable ruling;

After a judgment, the parties file a written agreement to set aside and seal the case.

Advocates who pushed for the law said un sealed cases that ended well for tenants can still come back to unfairly haunt them. They can hurt their future prospects for finding a new home and even harm their job prospects in an extensive background check.

There is no statute of limitations in the law, so even very old cases can be sealed if they meet the criteria set out in the law.

When Not Your Typical Deli owners Chef W and Chuck Depalma learned how much people with developmental disabilities struggled in the workforce, they felt some thing should be done.

So, they focused much of their hiring on developmentally disabled teens graduating from high school and struggling to enter the workforce.

In 2016, they opened Not Your Typical Deli in Gilbert Town Square and now that they’ve moved to downtown Gilbert, they still serve up the same family-friendly fare and have kept their mission alive in a scaleddown version of their old digs.

“Douglas Moss, president of Legacy Cares. said, “We plan to shatter the stigma of Ameri cans with autism through leading by example and showing companies what Americans with autism and developmental disabilities are capa ble of achieving in the workforce and beyond.”

“I’ve worked with Not Your Typical Deli for over three years. As a young adult with

autism, I was hesitant about working with the public. I am very grateful to Chuck, Pam, Chef W, Vanessa and the entire team at NYTD for giving me the opportunity to work with them,” said Scott Bertoldo, trainer for Not Your Typical Workforce.

“Over the course of working there, they have taught me many job skills which help me in the workforce and carry over to my ev eryday life. Having recently been promoted to trainer at NYTD, I am looking forward to helping others with developmental disabili ties learn valuable work and life skills.”

Autism Academy for Education and Devel opment is a K-12+ program for students on the autism spectrum.

It provides individualized education for students and have been increasing its workbased learning program over the past sev eral years.

Autism Academy Founder Laura New comb said, “Roughly 60-80 percent of adults with Autism in Arizona are unemployed, and it has long been Autism Academy’s mission to change that number. Our partnership with

Legacy Cares is a very exciting step towards decreasing the unemployment rate in adults with Autism and building a more inclusive work environment for everyone.

“In the past, our school has attempted to partner with different companies to offer our students internships at different stores and restaurants and this is an incredible opportu nity to expand on a mission that we share with Legacy Cares,” she added. “We are thrilled to be partners on this project that gives our stu dents exposure to different jobs and give them an opportunity to leave high school with con fidence, feeling ready to enter the workforce.”

Lexington provides academic programs and therapies for all students with autism spectrum disorders, offering in-center and in-home services for children and adults.

“By offering employment opportunities at Bell Bank Park, the NYTW program will be come the national example for how strategic community collaboration, innovative think ing, and understanding of individuals with ASD can lead to successful employees in any industry,” Lexington said in a release.

of Legacy’s lease with Pacific Proving is that no liens be allowed on the property for more than 20 days – a time frame that has long passed.

Executives for Legacy Cares told the Tribune on Sept. 14 there was no danger of the facility defaulting on its loans, say ing, “We’re right on track in the fall and winter heading into a position where we don’t anticipate having any shortfalls whatsoever.”

On Oct. 4, though, the trustee in formed Legacy that conditions exist for a “default,” including the failure to make its monthly loan payments. After manag ers for the sports complex failed to re solve the conditions, the trustee issued the notification and called a meeting of bondholders for Oct. 25.

Stephen Griffin, a whistleblower in Rhode Island who is a former executive and investor in a failed youth sports com pany in Boston, has been predicting trou ble for Bell Bank Park since September.

Griffin, an accountant for major firms before becoming an investor, doesn’t think the Mesa project is capable of gen erating the revenue needed to cover its current obligations.

He said the revenue potential and economic benefits of destination sports facilities like Bell Bank Park have been over-hyped to communities across the country.

That’s also been true in the East Val ley, where Mesa and Queen Creek offi cials have been especially enthusiastic about the park and its future potential as a magnet for visitors to their munici palities. Although some Gilbert officials were concerned about the park’s impact on the town’s Cactus Park sports venue, they too took a broader favorable view of its tourist potential.

Griffin pointed out that a similar sports complex in Indiana, the 400-acre Grand Park, was recently appraised for just $85 million.

Griffin said in his experience the youth sports market is “a mom and pop indus try” that’s “impossible to do at scale.”

“The destination youth sports com plex concept is a bubble,” he said.

He said when he heard about the proj ect and looked into it, he was surprised

Bell Bank Park was financed with mu nicipal bonds, and he thought the 7.5% interest rates offered were “really high for bonds.”

It all seemed too good to be true.

Having read the loan documents “five times,” Griffin believes there are omissions and distortions in Legacy Cares’ sales pitch “meant to excite bondholders.”

Griffin said he is providing information to the Securities and Exchange Commis sion about Legacy Cares. He shared an email exchange with the Tribune show ing communication with Rebecca Olsen, deputy chief of the SEC’s Public Finance Abuse Unit.

A spokesman for the SEC said the agency “does not comment on the exis tence or nonexistence of a possible in vestigation.”

Griffin said the notice of default and bondholder meeting could likely be the start of “a very complicated, messy, liti gious situation for the next 12 months.”

He said that a possible next step in the default process is bondholders could hire an outside consultant to manage the facility.

If the principals of Legacy Cares and Legacy Sports, the for-profit group that manages the facility, resisted giving up control, it could unleash a “hornets’ nest of lawyers and litigation.”

Legacy Cares did not respond to a re quest for comment before press time, but the organization may be seeking a way out by refunding the bonds, or find ing new investors who will put up the capital to cover the current bonds and loan to Legacy under new terms.

On Oct. 5, Legacy notified bondhold ers of a potential “refunding and defea sance of all or a portion of the Bonds by defeasance, redemption, open market purchase and/or exchange.”

Griffin said it might be difficult to find new investors, saying that in addition to possible concerns about revenue poten tial of the project, the investors would be on the hook for paying the interest through at least 2027, increasing the cost of taking over the debt.

There are also millions in contractors’ liens on the property that have to be tak en care of before proceeding.

Most of the contractors that filed liens with the county this summer are based in Phoenix or other Valley cities, and most of the lien amounts are in the high six figures, several over $1 million.

For example, Kearney Electric in Phoenix filed a lien for $1 million on July 21 and Siteworks Landscape Devel opment filed a lien for $826,000 on the same day.

As its troubles have mounted, Legacy Cares has also gotten pushback from

athletes and their families.

Under pressure from its bondholders to maximize revenue, the facility has started collecting parking fees Friday through Sunday. It also enforces prohi bitions on outside food and beverages, except water.

Some visitors to Bell Bank Park have complained in online reviews about hav ing to pay for parking and admission to see their children play in addition to tournament fees, as well as paying for food and beverage in the venue.

One sentiment is that visitors are be ing “nickeled and dimed” and not getting a return on value for the fees.

Bell Bank Park has a two-star rating out of five on review website Yelp. The rating is 3.4 on Google, but several re cent viewers have savaged the facility for the fees.

“They charge $5 per vehicle per day to park in their dirt lot,” one poster wrote.

“This place is at the ends of the earth in Mesa, why is there a charge to park?”

Whatever the outcome of Legacy Cares’ default and upcoming bondhold ers’ meeting, a statement Griffin posted in early September to kick off his whis tleblowing campaign is resonating today.

“Whoever said municipal bonds are boring has never been to Mesa, Arizona. Stay tuned – this story is incredible,” he wrote.

Hopes were high among investors and some East Valley officials when ground was broken for Bell Bank Park, now the focus of a widening financial and legal mess. (Tribune file photo)

2 MCC adjunct faculty members named ‘outstanding’

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Mesa Community College Cul tural Science Department professor Rod Golden and Education Studies Department in structor Dawn McGraw Wilkinson have been named Outstanding Ad junct Faculty Award recipients for 2022.

“I am honored to be recognized by my colleagues for the work I’m doing at MCC,” said Golden, who has taught at the college for nearly 17 years. “As an educator, I have three philoso phies: First, students must exercise

their intelligence. Second, if you as an educator are motivated to teach, your students will be motivated to learn. Third, if you love education, it will love you back.”

Golden, whose research is primar ily in deviant behavior, gender stud ies, human sexuality and racial and ethnic relations; teaches sociology, race and ethnic relations, gender studies, sports in society and Afri can-American studies at MCC.

For the past four years, he has led a series of student groups dealing with topics such as anxiety, depression, stalking, cyberstalking and rape cul

ture.

“I want to give individuals who have been through these situations an open platform where they can share their experiences,” said Gold en, who teaches at both MCC cam puses.

He is the coordinator of G.E.D. programs with emphasis on adults obtaining their high school diploma and a community liaison administer ing mental health services for former prisoners.

Wilkinson, who teaches and coor dinates the early childhood educa tion program, said, “Receiving an

honor due to the work that I do with the students and my colleagues vali dates my passion and commitment to the program.”

An MCC adjunct faculty member for 11 years, she was selected partly for her work “providing learning op portunities to her early childhood colleagues enhancing their ability to embrace and effectively use technol ogy during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the college said.

As a peer coach for all adjunct fac ulty in the program, Wilkinson led

Mesa swim instructor named teacher of the year

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The United States Swim School Association has named Bran don Whitehead of Mesa Edu cator of the Year among the 12,000 swimming instructors and 400 schools it represents.

The award “recognizes an excep tional educator in the learn-to-swim industry who has a high standard of excellence with what they do (and) highlights teachers who make signif icant contributions to their students and create a student-centered learn ing environment,” the association said in a release..

Whitehead has more than 30 years of experience at SWIMkids USA, a 51-year-old family-owned business in Mesa at Guadalupe Road just east of the Loop 101 Price Road Freeway.

“Brandon spends countless hours going above and beyond with his students and our staff by mentoring other instructors and helping stu

dents who are struggling or have special abilities and may need extra time and attention,” said SWIMkids USA President and owner Lana Whitehead.

“He has a special gift for be ing very patient with students and believes they contribute more to him than he does to them. His perseverance and true love for what he does means thousands of children have become safer around wa ter because of his dedication.”

Brandon said the award came as a surprise and cred ited his coworkers with his success.

“It feels so great after so many hours in the pool put ting time and effort into help ing students be independent in the water,” he said of the award.

“I learned from so many great instructors who are the very best at what they do,

starting with my mom Lana who was my first teacher and the person who taught me every thing about excellence in this business.”

The association said White head was nominated by the fam ily of one of his students and “he was selected for the award due to his outstanding service and for demonstrating that he has made a difference in the lives of children.”

“Brandon is a highly-sought after instructor and we are so proud that he received this recognition from his industry peers,” said SWIMkids USA’s General Manager Shaunna Ris inger. “He is completely motivat ed by working to help children be safer around the water and helping students set goals and guiding them to success is some thing we see him do multiple times a day.”

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Natural history museum slates Mesa pub crawl Friday

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The Arizona Museum of Natural History Foundation is hosting its annual pub crawl fundraiser, Beer N’ Bones, in two sessions on Fri day, Oct. 28.

The event, which begins at the Arizona Museum of Natural History at 53 N. Mac donald, and includes a pub crawl within walking distance of its downtown Mesa

partners is an adults-only festival of lo cal craft beers, cider, wine, soft drinks and small bites.

Guests will be entertained by a vari ety of activities such as beerology panel talks, live animal stations, interactive STEM activities and opportunities to talk with science experts – and exclu sive discounts on food and beverages offered by partners to Beer N’ Bones participants.

The sessions, 6-8 p.m. and 8-10 p.m., are $40 each and include access to sci ence programming, downtown Mesa discounts, and four food/drink tickets to use onsite at eight food-and-beverage options.

This year’s onsite partners include Simple Soda, Beer Research Institute, Bone Haus Brewing, Cider Corps, Desert Monk, Flying Basset and Roses by the Stairs. Small bites are to be provided by

Main Street Sweets and the Queen Bee food truck.

The museum is a “must-see” for dino saur lovers, the main attraction is Dino saur Mountain, with animatronic dino saurs, a 3-story indoor waterfall and a flash flood that happens every 30 min utes. If dinosaurs are not your interest, pan for gold, learn about volcanoes or discover Arizona’s connections to civili zations like the Maya.

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technology coaching sessions for students to assist them with courserelated technology needs. She also Wilkinson works full-time at Central Arizona College directing the First Things First Professional REWARD$ grant program, a financial incentive for early childhood educators.

Over the past 25 years, Wilkinson has advocated for early childhood education. Her roles include being a preschool teacher, director, grant re viewer, Early Childhood Professional Development System specialist and the executive director of the Arizo na Association for the Education of Young Children.

Wilkinson also led the Maricopa County Community College District’s early childhood education programs through the national accreditation process for the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

“The recognition of our adjunct

faculty is so important,” said Tim Kaufman, MCC Business Department faculty in fashion design and mer chandising, and a 2021 adjunct facul ty awards winner who organized the awards selection process this year.

Honorable mentions include Patri cia Avila, Reading Department; Jim Bley, Stacey Nordhues and Jennifer Robinson, Communication, Theatre & Film Arts; Bryce Bickham and Cam eron Terrill, Music; Mike Brown, Life Science; Andrea Carl and Natasha Murdock, English; Chris Glover, Busi ness; Sheba Jones and Jamie Tate, Allied Health; David Levy, Computer Information Services; Jennifer Moy er, Robert Ratliff and Henry Staggs, Applied Sciences & Technology; Dar lene Pierce, Nursing; Amber Robins, Exercise Science; , Brandon Rodarte, Administration of Justice Studies; Jeremy Schmidt and Harmony Tur ley, Art; Anisia Whiting, Mathematics & Computer Science; and Matthew Wintz, Cultural Science.

MCC 2022 Outstanding Adjunct Faculty winners Dawn Wilkinson and Rod Golden show off their awards. (Special to the Tribune)

Avid customers become owners of Las Sendas coffee shop

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Executive Editor

During visits from their native Michigan to their second home in Mesa, Barb and Tim Beau bine became big fans of Hava Java Coffee Shop on Power and McDowell roads.

They liked the ambience – and, of course, the coffee – at the 2-year-old Las Sendas sister of the 30-year-old Hava Java in Phoenix’s Biltmore dis trict that lays claim to being the sec ond oldest coffee shop in Arizona, behind Macy’s in Flagstaff.

But when the Beaubines read a Mesa Tribune story about Hava Java about nine months ago, their hearts were stirred by an idea that made them think of Hava Java as more than a place for a morning visit or a hang out on Friday nights when live music entertains patrons.

They had the notion they might want to own it.

Tim, a life-long worker in the tooland-die industry, and Barb, a Realtor with a degree in retail management and marketing, approached owner Justin Shafer and asked him if he wanted to sell.

The couple had been scaling down their motorcycle shop and repair business in Michigan and were think ing they might want to stop treating Mesa as a second home and simply resettle here.

To their surprise, Tim recalled, Shafer was receptive. He said Shafer in some ways lamented opening the Mesa spinoff two years ago – just be fore the pandemic hit – and lamented the distance he had to drive between the two spots and how he wanted to spend more time with his kids.

The Beaubines were intrigued –but pulled back.

“I said I’ve got way too much on my plate right now,” Tim recalled tell ing Shafer, reluctantly walking away from what he called “a great offer.”

That reluctance didn’t last long.

A few days later, they deplaned back in Michigan, Tim said, and “we stopped at one of our local restau rants, had a glass of wine and I looked at my wife and said, ‘Well, either the universe is messing with us or this is good opportunity.’”

They got on the phone to Shafer, started looking at the numbers, be gan negotiations in earnest and, one month ago, the Hava Java Coffee House in Las Sendas became theirs.

The Beaubines are not changing the name. They are keeping “a wonder ful staff” they feel blessed with. And while they might tweak the menu

down the road, they’re taking it slow.

“We didn’t want to come in with guns blazing and make a bunch of changes,” Tim said. “It would really be the kiss of death for us to come in here and just start making changes.”

Besides, they had little choice but to take things slow with their new business because they were busy making Mesa their permanent home.

“We literally moved from Michigan about a week before we took posses sion of the shop,” Tim said. “We had a full-blown house there. We have a full-blown house here. So what do you do with all that furniture? …We ended up putting a lot in storage here but it was quite a chore getting down here – and it was a whirlwind.

“Our friends thought we were crazy because it was kind of sudden…But,

you know, this is our retirement.”

Obviously, the Beaubines aren’t do ing much retiring.

“We’re on-site managers. We’re getting to know our customers. We don’t know all the ins and outs of the coffee business yet, so we’re still in training,” Tim said, explaining that Barb is licensed both in Michigan and Arizona, so she’ll still be working in real estate.

On the other hand, he added, he and his wife of 42 years met with the staff and “we introduced ourselves, got their ideas about what’s working, what’s not working.”

“We told them ‘we’re gonna be here every day with you guys’ and they’re very excited,” he said, adding that he

Tim and Barb Beaubine a month ago took ownership of the Hava Java Coffee Shop in Las Sendas. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)

and his wife will involve the entire staff in taste-testing new menu items before they put anything new before patrons.

And they’re determined to keep alive the thing about the business that led them to be come owners in the first place. “Our coffee shop has a very organic feel to it,” Tim said.

“You can grab a coffee to go. Or if you want to sit at your computer and do a little work, you can do that too.

“We’ve got a group of older guys that come in every morning and sit around the table …That’s one of the things that we liked about it and I don’t want to lose that. We certainly don’t want to lose the atmosphere.”

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Candidate’s hopes shrivel when caught red-handed

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist

Finally we have a definitive test about the ignorance of voters and the notion that when it comes to public relations, any story that builds more name recognition is a win, That test is named Randy Kaufman and he’s a candidate for the Maricopa County Community College District atlarge seat.

His race appears on the front of your seemingly endless November ballot, in the middle column.

Kaufman’s opponent in the battle to help oversee the district’s 10 colleges and $763 million annual budget is Kelli Butler, a state legislator seeking to switch roles and potentially the lucki est candidate in the history of Arizona

elections.

Caution: The rest of this column is not safe for work, dirtier than “50 Shades of Gray” and full of awful puns. You have been warned.

On Tuesday news broke – courtesy of Hank Stephenson, a reporter for the Arizona Agenda website – that on Oct. 4, candidate Kaufman had been arrest ed in the parking lot of Rio Salado Col lege in Surprise.

Per the police report, Kaufman was in the midst of watching porn and plea suring himself in his Ford F-150 pickup truck when a police officer approached and, uh, caught him red-handed.

“Seriously?” the cop asked.

“I’m sorry,” Kaufman replied. Then, in the understatement of 2022 so far, he added: “I (expletive) up. I’m really stressed.”

Henceforth, I believe this will be known as both an interesting election strategy and a disgusting erection strat egy by serious journalists everywhere. Not only was Kaufman fully visible in a busy parking lot, he also was within sight of a childcare center where little kids were outside playing.

Officer: “What brings you down here?”

Kaufman: “I live in Buckeye, but I came out here to buy rebar nearby. I was stressed and just pulled into the lot.”

I myself have purchased rebar, com monly used to put up election signs. While I have not personally found buying hardware items super stress ful, each of us tolerates Home Depot to varying degrees.

Also, like MCCCD says in its mission statement, I also “value and embrace an

innovative and risk-taking approach” in the dogged pursuit of excellence.

To his credit, Kaufman requested to “say something off the record,” before name-dropping Jim Hill, president of the Maricopa County Colleges Police Officers Association, which endorsed Kaufman before his citation for pub lic sexual indecency, a possible felony given his close proximity to the preschool.

By day’s end, Kaufman, running for the non-partisan seat as a MAGA con servative complete with flag-draped headshots, had been spurned by the Arizona Republican Party.

Hours later, he released a statement suspending his campaign because “a personal legal matter has recently

Border policies spell ‘election erasure’ for Dems

BY JD HAYWORTH Tribune Columnist

Efforts to erase our southern bor der are accelerating as Election Day approaches.

The timing is absurdly dangerous— first and foremost for the security of all American citizens— but also for the political prospects of the Democratic Party.

While the Left will likely pay a po litical price for this deliberate effort to shred our sovereignty and national security, the sheer brazenness of these latest actions should culminate with even larger Democrat losses in the midterms.

The latest initiative from the Biden Bunch is best described as “Americans Last.”

Alejandro Mayorkas, who has sur

passed ex-Arizona Gov. Janet Napoli tano in the “Hall of Shame” as the worst Homeland Security Secretary of all time, has reportedly issued an “All Bu reaucrats Bulletin,” requesting volun teers from every government agency to deploy to the border in support of the ongoing illegal invasion.

These “volunteers”—who would be paid for their efforts and reimbursed for travel expenses with our tax dol lars during their 60 days of “service”— would essentially become personal as sistants to illegal aliens.

You read that right.

Their “volunteer duties” would in clude meal preparation, basic house keeping, and running errands for the “newcomers.”

So much for securing the border.

Actually, all of this began in April as an underreported—and therefore lit

tle-noticed initiative—that at the time was focused exclusively on employees of Homeland Security.

What makes it news now, and even more of an election issue, is the effort to expand this peculiar type of “volun teerism” into every agency of the fed eral government.

It is bad enough that DHS workers are volunteering to destabilize the homeland security they supposedly provide.

Now we could very well see person nel from the Departments of Defense and Justice take a two-month sabbati cal from their jobs to undercut both national security and existing immigra tion law.

You can’t make this up.

But some back it up.

Predictably, many in Washington— whether holding a government post or

a reporting job—have rationalized the policy outlined above as—wait for it— rational.

Among the DC-based press corps, there seems to be an indulgent attitude of trusting the current crowd in charge.

That “trust-the-bureaucrats” outlook was on full display during CNN’s Oct. 16 telecast of “State of the Union.”

The aptly-named Dana Bash hosted back-to-back interviews with Arizona’s Republican and Democrat nominees for Governor.

When discussing border issues with GOP candidate Kari Lake, the CNN re porter cited a DHS statistic claiming that less than one percent of migrants encountered at the border have a crim inal record.

The Republican nominee politely

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took issue, then pointed out: “We have a million ‘gotaways’—these are people who are intentionally entering our country—mainly through the Tucson Sector—and we don’t know what their background is. There’s a reason to try to get in unnoticed. It’s because they have a criminal background.”

Viewers could not help but notice the on-camera reaction of Dana Bash, which conveyed both frustration and irritation, amplified by her effort to counter the candidate’s assertion: “Let me just tell you that this stat—that this stat that I just cited comes from the De partment of Homeland Security!” Duly noted, Dana.

there seems to be a profound disinter est on the part of many in the so-called “mainstream media” concerning the “factually challenged” assertions made by DHS personnel.

How many reports appeared on CNN or the “alphabet networks” spelling out the details of late-night flights of ille gals from the border to various loca tions around the country?

No matter. If the media won’t hold government officials accountable, vot ers will.

Of course, it should also be noted that

Where was the coverage concerning Secretary Mayorkas and the knowingly false statements he made about the al leged “whipping” of illegals by Border Patrol agents on horseback?

Prepare for the “electoral erasure” of several Democrat incumbents on Nov. 8. arisen.”

Yep, those things sometimes arise out of nowhere, am I right?

It should be noted that Kaufman waited to address the incident until af ter early ballots had been mailed, thus allowing people to vote for him with no knowledge of his arrest.

I’ll also note that back in May, he posted on Facebook that he was run ning to keep “our children protected (from) the progressive left.”

I’m assuming he meant the woke bri gade and not his left hand, but I guess

only Kaufman knows for sure.

This race now stands as a perfect litmus test of voter education and PR value. Until last week, perhaps a hand ful of voters had ever heard of Randy Kaufman, a former prison guard turned political wannabe.

He had a couple of political endorse ments and zero name ID. Now? His campaign has been featured every where from the New York Post to the London tabloids. Being caught with your pants down can still make a can didate famous, even in 2022.

Now we’ll know for sure: Will people actually cast a vote for him?

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Red Mtn’s Carter Crispin using friendships for success

BY JULIAN CASCIANO Tribune Contributing Writer

Arecord-breaking junior season coupled with high hopes for a future in football is what drives Red Mountain quarterback Carter Crispin.

Crispin is the leader of a Red Moun tain football team that currently sits amongst the best teams in all of Arizona. Last season, the junior was strong as the Mountain Lions quarter back, breaking Red Mountain records for completion percentage and yards thrown.

Now Crispin looks to keep this suc cess going and lead his team back to

postseason play.

“It was really our offense last year. We really had a lot of chemistry … we had a really good O-line, and of course all the athletes,” said Crispin.

The Mountain Lions, led by Crispin, made a run to the 6A semifinals a sea son ago. At the time, they were one of the most underrated programs in the state despite their constant success in the state’s highest conference.

They were competitive in losses to Open Division semifinalist Liberty and 6A contender Williams Field a year ago before falling to eventual 6A champion Highland in the postseason.

Chemistry was on display last year and played a major role in the team’s success, and it has carried over to this season.

Crispin has become a cerebral part of the team chemistry. Tanner DeMas sa said his leadership is a big reason for the team being as close as it is.

DeMassa and Crispin are close friends on and off the field. They’ve been playing together since fourth grade and have built a chemistry over time that is founded on hard work and dedication. This connection perme ates throughout the locker room.

“We don’t even have to talk to each other, we’re just close,” said DeMassa, referencing the whole team. “Espe cially Carter and Lenox, they don’t even have to talk to each other, they already know what’s going to happen.”

DeMassa referenced Lenox Lawson, the senior running back who is com mitted to play at Central Michigan next season. DeMassa also described Crispin’s relationship with USC com mit Ja’Kobi Lane, saying that the duo plays at such a high level due to their constant hard work.

Crispin values his teammates just as much as he values the game. Crispin said that as an eighth grader, he and

many of his teammates knew they would attend Red Mountain for high school, and he wanted to keep work ing and keep getting better with his friends.

One of those friends is right tackle Jefferson Giles. Giles mentioned that since the whole team has been play ing together for such a long time that they can play off each other, and that Crispin is a facilitator of good energy.

“Everyone responds well to him. He can boost our energy really quick,” said Giles.

As a junior starting on varsity last year, Crispin knew that building con fidence was key to compete with Ari zona’s top 6A competition.

“We started playing some bigger schools, and it was tough, we lost to Liberty … it was about bouncing back. We knew we could produce on offense; we knew we had the ability to do what we needed to do,” said Crispin.

As far as playing at the next level, Crispin says things are starting to get serious now that he’s in his final year of high school. Crispin, uncommitted, says he would be grateful for any op portunity, but is focusing on this sea son before anything else.

Once again, the Mountain Lions have a chance to contend for a champion ship. An early season slip up against O’Connor and loss to Chandler, one of the top teams in the country, has the Mountain Lions virtually on the bub ble for the coveted Open Division.

In the first rankings of the year for big schools from the AIA, Red Mountain was No. 14 overall in the 6A Conference. However, with seven 6A schools currently slated to move to the Open Division bracket, the Mountain Lions are currently in po sition to host a home playoff game should they maintain their position or move up. They know it won’t be an

easy task, but they feel they can still win a title.

Along with the title, Crispin has his sights on several different all-time Red Mountain records, including the all-time touchdown passing record, as well as the all-time total passing yards record.

The records themselves are well within reach for the senior. He’s confi dent those will come in due time. But he remains focused on the one goal he has had since he enrolled at Red Mountain: Win a championship.

“We want that ring,” Crispin said. “I know we can do it.”

Red Mountain quarterback Carter Crispin is eyeing records before he leaves the program. But most importantly, he aims to win a ring with his teammates. (Josh DaFoe/Tribune Contriutor)

Crispin has been key to Red Mountain’s success the last two seasons. His leadership shines on and off the field and his friendships with team mates leads to chemistry in games. (Josh DaFoe/ Tribune Contributor)

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NOTICE OF COURT HEARING Case No 21CH010281 1 Petitioner (Employer) a Name: CITY OF SAN JOSE Law yer for Petitioner Name: YUE HAN CHOW State Bar No : 268266 Firm Name: OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY, CITY OF SAN JOSE b Address: 200 EAST SANTA CLARA STREET, 16TH FLOOR City: SAN JOSE State: CA Zip: 95113 Telephone: (408) 535 1900 Fax: (408) 998 3131 E Mail Address: cao main@san joseca gov 2 Employee in Need of Protec tion Full Name: AMBER ZENK 3 Respondent (Person From Whom Protection Is Sought) Full Name: WILLIAM GARB ETT 4 Notice of Hearing A court hearing is scheduled on the request for restraining orders against the respondent Hearing Date 11/30/2021 Time: 9:00AM Dept : 4 5 Temporary Restraining Orders a Temporary Restraining Orders for personal con duct and stay away orders as requested in Form WV 100, Request for Workplace Violence Restraining Orders, are: (1) All GRANTED until the court hearing 6 Service of Documents by the Petitioner At least five days before the hearing, someone age 18 or older not you or anyone to be protected must personally give (serve) a court file stamped copy of this Form WV 109, Notice of Court Hearing, to the respondent along with a copy of all the forms indicated below: a WV 100, Petition for Workplace Violence Restraining Orders (filestamped) b WV 110, Temporary Restraining Order (file stamped) IF GRAN TED c WV 120, Response to Petition for Workplace Violence Restraining Orders (blank form) d WV 120 INFO, How Can I Respond to a Petition for Workplace Violence Restraining Orders? e WV 250, Proof of Service of Response by Mail (bl ank form) Date: 09/20/2021 /S ERIK S JOHNSON To the Petitioner The court cannot make the restraining orders after the court hearing unless the respondent has been personally given (served) a copy of your request and any temporary orders To show that the respondent has been served, the person who served the forms must fill out a proof of service form Form WV 200, Proof of Personal Service, may be used For information about service, read Form WV 200 NFO, What Is "Proof of Person al Service"? If you are unable to serve the respondent in time, you may ask for more time to serve the documents Use Form WV 115, Request to Continue Court Hearing and to Reissue Temporary Restraining Order To the Respondent If you want to respond to the request for orders in writing, file Form WV 120, Respo nse to Request for Workplace Violence Restraining Orders, and have someone age 18 or older not you or anyone to be protect mail it to the petitioner The person who mailed the form must fill out a proof of service form FormWV 250, Proof of Service of Response by Mail, may be used File the completed form with the court before the hearing and bring a copy with you to the court hearing Whether or not you re spond in writing, go to the hearing if you want the judge to hear from you before making an order You may tell the judge why you agree or disagree with the orders requested You may bring witnesses or other evidence At the hearing, the judge may make restraining orders against you that could last up to three years and may order you to sell or turn in any firearms that you own or possess Request for Accommodations Assistive listening systems, computer assisted real time captioning, or sign lan g u ag e in ter p r eter s er v ices ar e av ailab le if y o u as k at leas t f iv e d ay s b ef o r e th e h ear in g Co

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1. ZON22 00677 (District 1) Within the 3900 block of East Oasis Circle (south side) and with in the 2800 to 2900 blocks of North Norwalk (west side) Located north of McDowell Road and west of Greenfield Road (0 34± acres) Site Plan Modification and amending a condition of ap proval on zoning case no Z05 002 This request will allow for an industrial development Greg Hitchens, applicant; ViewPoint Resort, LLC, owner

2 ZON21 00080 (District 5) Within the 3600 to 3800 blocks of North Higley Road (east side) and the 5200 to 5500 blocks of East Thomas Road (south s ide). Located east of Higley Road on the south side of Thomas Road (11± acres) Rezone from Single Residence 90 (RS 90) to Light Industrial with a Planned Area Development Overlay and Council Use Permit (LI PAD CUP), and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for a boat and recreational vehicle storage facil ity Russell Skuse, Horrocks Engineers, applicant; R&S Development Group LLC, owner

3 ZON22 00669 (District 5) Within the 1200 to 1300 blocks of North Power Road (east side) Located north of Brown Road on the east side of Power Road (8± acres) Rezone from Single R e s i d e n c e 3 5 ( R S 3 5 ) t o P u b l i c a n d S e m i P u b l i c D i s t r i c t w i t h a P l a n n e d A r e a D e v e l o p m e n t o v er lay ( P S P A D ) an d S ite P lan Rev iew Th is r eq u es t w ill allo w f o r a P u b lic S af ety F acility M ich aela Ch elin i, City o f M es a, ap p lican t; City o f M es a, o w n er .

4. ZON21 00995 (District 6) Within the 8900 block of East Pecos Road (south side), within the 7200 block of South 89th Place (west side), and within the 8900 block of East Waltham Aven u e ( n o r t h s i d e ) L o c a t e d w e s t o f E l l s w o r t h R o a d o n t h e s o u t h s i d e o f P e c o s R o a d ( 2 ± a c r e s ) Rezone from Light Industrial with a Planned Area Development Overlay (LI PAD) to Light In d u s t r i a l w i t h a P l a n n e d A r e a D e v e l o p m e n t O v e r l a y a n d B o n u s I n t e n s i t y Z o n e O v e r l a y ( L I P A D B I Z ) , a n d S i t e P l a n R e v i e w . T h i s r e q u e s t w i l l a l l o w f o r a n i n d u s t r i a l d e v e l o p m e n t . I a n M u l i c h , P i n n a c l e D e s i g n , I n c , a p p l i c a n t ; O L Y M P U S D E V E L O P M E N T & a m p ; I N V E S T M E N T S L L C , o w n e r

5 Z O N 2 2 0 0 6 8 2 ( D i s t r i c t 6 ) W i t h i n t h e 3 7 0 0 t o 3 9 0 0 b l o c k s o f S o u t h S o s s a m a n

Located south of Elliot Road on the east side of Sos

Road (20± acres). Rezone from Light Industrial (LI) to Light Industrial with a Planned Area Development overlay and Council Use Permit (LI PAD CUP), and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for the expansion of an existing mini storage facility with boat and recreational vehicle storage Timothy Quigley, applicant; Redpoint Contracting, LLC and Happy Wife Storage, LLC, owner

6 ZON22 00924 (District 6) Within the 3700 to 3900 blocks of South Hawes Road (west side) and within the 7800 block of East Elliot Road (south side). Located east of Sossaman Road and north of Warner Road (26± acres) Rezone from Small Lot Single Residence 4 0 with a Planned Area Development overlay (RSL 4 0 PAD) to Small Lot Single Residence 4 0 with a Planned Area Development overlay (RSL 4 0 PAD PAD) This request will allow for the development of a single residence subdivision Keith Nitcher, Kimley Horn and Associates, Inc , applicant; Robo Land, LLC, owner.

7. ANX22 01047 (District 5) De annexing public right of way to Maricopa County, consisting of +0 7 acres located within the 200 block of North Signal Butte Road, within the 10800 block of East Mercury Drive, and within the 10800 block of East Boston Street, subject to approval by t h e M a r i c o p a C o u n t y B o a r d o f S u p e r v i s o r s T h e d e a n n e x a t i o n o f p u b l i c r i g h t o f w

lowed pursuant to A R S § 9 471 03 In 2018, 6+ acres of land were annexed into the City, in cluding the land that is the subject of this proposed de annexation ordinance. Since 2018, Mari copa County has determined that it needs an additional 25 feet of right of way in the area, s pe cifically for Signal Butte Road, Mercury Drive, and Boston Street This de annexation is to ac commodate Maricopa County’s right of way requirements Dated at Mesa, Arizona, this 23rd day of October 2022 Holly Moseley, City Clerk

Holly Moseley, City Clerk Published: East Valley Tribune, Oct 23, 2022 /

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