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ASU building delivers ‘wow’ factor to Mesa

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer

The City of Mesa and Arizona State University’s $100 million Media and Immersive eXperience Center build ing in downtown Mesa is nearing the end of its first semester of hosting students in film, media arts and emerging technology after opening in August.

ASU said 700 students currently use the facilities at the MIX Center, and beginning this fall, college students could be seen stepping off light rail or crossing 1st Street

Mesa pays $8M to widow of ex-cop’s victim

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer

Mesa has agreed to pay $8 million to Daniel Shaver’s widow and two children to settle her claims against the city over his 2016 shooting death at an east Mesa hotel by former Mesa police officer Philip Brailsford.

Attorneys for Shaver’s widow Laney Sweet filed a notice of settlement Nov. 22 in the U.S. District Court of Arizona that

stated the parties had reached the settle ment following mediation held in July.

Sweet had been seeking damages of $75 million. The city settled wrongful death claims with Shaver’s parents in 2021 for $1.5 million.

In a case that gained national attention, an unarmed Shaver was shot five times with an AR-15 rifle as he crawled toward officers in a hotel hallway during his ar rest.

Brailsford opened fire after Shaver ap

peared to reach toward his waist. Lawyers for Sweet said Shaver was trying to pull up his loose-fitting gym shorts.

Shaver appeared confused by instruc tions during the arrest and said “please don’t shoot me” before Brailsford gunned him down.

Brailsford was charged with seconddegree murder by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and fired by the Mesa

PHX East Valley Partnership members were wowed this month by the state-of-the-art theater in the new Arizona State University Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center in downtown Mesa that is the home of the Sidney Poitier New American Film School and part of the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)

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lar took the opportunity to make a statement that veered into larger guiding principles “because I know this conversation is again and again.”

Duff pointed out that many upscale master planned communities in Mesa include mixes of townhomes, condos and mid-level homes among larger custom homes, and it works.

“With proper landscaping and sep aration and entrances and stuff like that, it does work in character,” Duff said, “and it allows housing options for you to live in your neighbor hood.”

“I know this neighborhood has big, beautiful homes, but if there was a

point that you needed to downsize or you couldn’t keep up with the large property, you wouldn’t be able to be in your neighborhood, or have your grandparents or your kids liv ing there.”

“So creating community with homes at all different aspects, I think is needed in our community,” Duff continued. “To have all custom homes in one corner and apartments over there is not how we lead our lives.”

“The density is only provid ing more options, and even in our master-planned communities, with great planning you can respect the surrounding properties,” Duff said.

Council member David Luna also threw down a gauntlet in explaining

his “yes” vote.

“If we don’t do something like this, then I don’t know what else we can do,” Luna said. “I know, obviously, there’s going to be more people liv ing there. There’s going to be obvi ously more traffic, but our streets can accommodate traffic. They can do all the things that this develop ment is going to do.”

Council voted to approve the proj ect 7-0.

After the vote, neighbors were frustrated with the outcome.

They didn’t feel like many of their critiques of the project had been ad dressed in the hearing, and one resi dent said “it seemed like (the coun cil) knew the answer coming in.”

between the new building and the Mesa Convention Center parking lot to reach the building.

Nancy Hormann, president of the Downtown Mesa Association, said local property owners are noticing students going to and from the building, but so far there hasn’t been a huge influx of cus tomers to local businesses.

Hormann is expecting more direct impacts as the volume of students us ing the MIX Center increases in coming semesters – one of the big homes and promises by city officials when they ap proved spending more than $60 million to get it built.

“We have seen a small increase in a younger clientele base that’s been coming into our facility here at 12 West Brewing,” Chuck Fowler, manager of Main Street’s 12 West Brewing told the Tribune.

“We believe that foot traffic business will continue to increase as the students get more settled into the neighborhood and as all the residential projects begin to fill up with tenants,” he added.

The ASU at Mesa City Center project does not include student housing, but there are currently about 900 residen tial units under construction downtown and 400 units have been completed in recent years.

“Our later night life has always seen slower growth; however with more food and beverage businesses staying open later and as the students begin to take notice, I’m confident we will become a bustling destination spot for them,” Fowler said.

One of the biggest gains for downtown so far, Hormann said, has been in chang ing perceptions of the neighborhood.

She said the MIX Center has added to the area’s “cool factor” and that her asso ciation has received an increasing number of inquiries from people and businesses interested in moving to downtown.

The city of Mesa spent $64 million on the building’s design and construction, and ASU put another $33 million into the interior and technology.

The university has a 99-year lease with the city for $100,000 per year, and ASU is responsible for all operating costs as well as other conditions.

The full payoff of the MIX Center has yet to be seen, but one thing is clear: the building shows well to visitors, and the millions put into its design and technol ogy have delivered a building with sev eral show-stopping features.

When MIX Director Jake Pinholster was showing the building this month to mem bers of the PHX East Valley Partnership, a coalition of regional leaders who advocate for the East Valley, someone let out an au dible “wow” as they entered the MIX Cen ter’s 261-seat Large Screening Theater.

As tour-goers walked through the the ater doors, down an aisle and then out into the open theater space, outside noise evaporated and speech became crisp as the walls absorbed sound, thanks to world-class insulation throughout the building, Pinholster said.

The theater’s height takes up two floors, and vertical light bars glowing on the walls emphasize the volume of the 5,000-square-foot theater.

The scale and polish of the theater was unexpected.

The entire building is packed with fea tures that are difficult for the untrained eye to see.

Pinholster pointed out small air vents in the floor of the theater for heating and cooling. HVAC is a critical part of the building, as filmmaking spaces need AC that is effective but silent.

Consequently, the architect’s paid a lot of attention to how air moves through the building, Pinholster said.

The large theater is not fully opera tional yet because the MIX Center is still waiting for digital projection equipment to arrive, slowed due to supply chain is

sues, he said.

When the theater is ready to screen films, Pinholster said ASU plans to host movie-showings on the weekends open to the public. Films will include classics, niche documentaries and student work.

But already the MIX Center is hosting public events. Next weekend, on Dec. 2 and 3, the MIX Center will host the Mesa International Film Center in two smaller theaters and classrooms in the building.

The MIX Center is well-suited to events as many elements of the building are customizable. Pinholster paused on the tour to show off a “pocket door” –basi cally an entire wall – in a classroom that can be opened to create a breezeway through the first floor of the buildings.

Pinholster envisions the building as a community asset, which is consistent with ASU’s philosophy of expanding “ac cess” to education, as well as the part nership between the city and ASU.

Anybody can take a class at the MIX Center, Pinholster said, and he said the facility was designed to not be its own school, but serve as a resource for people in a variety of disciplines and programs.

Community members not affiliated with ASU will be able to reserve the professional-quality production spaces when not in use by students.

The facilities include four soundstages with all the equipment of a professional studio, including make up rooms, light ing, cameras and “elephant doors” for moving large sets from on site work shops to the studio.

Pinholster said Mayor John Giles was scheduled to film his state of the city ad dress last week.

Walking onto one of the sound stages felt like being transported to a Holly wood set, as the black walls, robust in sulation and lighting signaled tour goers were entering a special space focused on making movie magic.

Pinholster boasts that the MIX Center has more resources in one building for creating films, virtual worlds and mixed reality arts than any other school.

“This is quite a place. It blows your mind,” EVP Vice President Mike Hutchin son said after the tour.

Before taking the tour, EVP heard an update from Mesa’s Downtown Develop ment Manager Jeff McVay on redevelop ment in the historic city center and how the MIX Center fits into the city’s vision to reinvigorate it.

The theory for bringing ASU to Mesa, McVay explained is that attractive entre preneurial hubs, or Innovation Districts, need an “anchor institution,” usually ei ther a university or a teaching hospital.

McVay said that ASU’s satellite campus in Phoenix helped ignite a revitalization in that city’s downton district, and they are looking for a similar transformation in downtown Mesa.

The ASU presence, which includes a collaboration on a business incubator in the old library next to the City Coun cil Chambers, came together after Mesa voters rejected a plan to tax themselves to put a larger ASU campus downtown in 2016.

Change did not come to downtown overnight when ASU’s scaled down pres ence launched this fall, but downtown business leaders think the MIX Center has helped awaken a sleeping giant.

The new ASU MIX Center in Mesa has a huge outdoor movie screen for showing students’ work to the public. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Super Bowl gets higher meaning at Mesa Cemetery

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer

Arizona’s Super Bowl Host Committee and scores of vol unteers gathered at the His toric Mesa Cemetery last weekend to plant trees as part of a state-wide tree-planting effort ahead of Super Bowl LVII in State Farm Stadium in Glendale Feb. 12.

The Host Committee recently held tree plantings in Flagstaff and was headed next to Tucson, but Mesa’s Super Bowl greening project stands out for being the only planting event this year in a cemetery.

Many volunteers said the location made the sustainability effort even more significant as families sought out planting spots as close as pos sible to the resting places of grand parents, spouses and other loved ones who have been laid to rest in

the cemetery during its 130-year history.

Amber Jackson had just planted a cypress tree with her four kids not far from the resting place of her hus band Tim Jackson, who died in June after a year-and-a-half battle with glioblastoma, the aggressive form of brain cancer that took the lives of Senators John McCain and Ted Ken nedy, as well as Phoenix Suns’ legend Paul Westphal.

“It helps me feel connected to him to keep it beautiful, and teach the kids to take care” of the cemetery, Amber Jackson said.

The tree-planting was supported by a $4,000 grant from the National Football League’s NFL Green pro gram, which the city put toward the installation of 65 young Italian cy press trees in the cemetery on Cen ter Street across from Hohokam Sta dium.

The league created NFL Green in 1993 to mitigate the environmental impacts of major NFL events on host cities, including the Super Bowl, Pro Bowl and NFL Draft.

Arizona Host Committee President and CEO Jay Perry told the volun teers that “we as a host committee want to make sure that we leave a lasting legacy in Arizona long after the game is played.”

City of Mesa officials said the trees purchased with the NFL grant are needed because hundreds of ma ture trees have been lost to monsoon storms in recent years.

Just this summer, 80 cypress trees toppled from storm gusts, adding to a total of about 400 lost in recent years to monsoons.

At 90 or more years old, the tall cy press trees are becoming more sus ceptible to wind damage.

“Trees have a life cycle, and they’re

starting to age out,” Mesa Parks Di rector Andrea Moore said of the cy press trees, which were originally planted in the early 1930s.

Moore said the cemetery is replac ing the downed cypress trees with the same species “to respect the plant palate that was set up years ago.”

Cypress trees are native to the Mediterranean and are drought tol erant once they are established.

There are several tree species in the cemetery, including olive trees over 100 years old in the earliest sec tions, but cypress trees play a major part in the surroundings, bringing a deep green to the space, and creating a connection between earth and sky.

During the NFL Green event, birds flittered among the column-like trees, taking advantage of the old

This year has been extremely difficult for so many families. We know experiencing a loss make this time of year very difficult. Each year we have our Annual Remembrance Service for families that we have served. During the pandemic we started “Lights of Love” which is a drive thru event for our families. We want to continue to keep everyone safe. We feel it is important to do something for our community to homor those that have passed away.

Our hope this year is to uplift the hearts of those that have experienced a loss of a loved one. We invite you to drive through our Lights of Love and experience the peace of the Christmas Season, as you reflect on your loved one remember those cherished memories you hold close to your heart.

As you drive through enjoy the music by Dicken’s Carolers, a live nativity scene, place a heart with your loved one’s name in our shadowbox and light a candle in their honor. We will have cookies and hot chocolate for everyone that attends.

trees’ height and dense evergreen fo liage.

Councilman Mark Freeman –whose parents, grandparents and great grandparents are buried in the cemetery – reflected on the signifi cance of the trees.

“I think our planners knew when they planted these trees that cypress and olive trees would live for years, and if you think about it, olive trees in Israel and other places, they’re over 2,000 years old, and I think the significance of that, and having trees here so you can find peace and solace

and shade when you come and visit the cemetery, it’s just so important,” Freeman said.

Corporate partners of Arizona’s Host Committee joined Perry, city of ficials and community volunteers in easing the trees out of their plastic containers and into pre-dug holes, where officials hope they will grow into giants over the decades like their predecessors.

“I want you to know today that the trees you plant, you can come back and see in 60, 70, 90 years from now, if you live that long – I won’t,” Free man said.

Thanks to the turnout, the actual

planting of trees along two of the cem etery’s internal roadways was done in about 30 minutes, in a part of the cemetery particularly hard hit by tree loss during recent monsoon storms.

“I just want to be able to do some thing to help people whether they’re living or not,” said Kristina Medina, who is studying biology at Arizona State University. She and her daugh ter had just finished creating a small berm of dirt around the base of a 4-foot cypress.

“I think it’s a wonderful thing,” Me dina added.

Joe and Alison Jensen helped plant a tree and also have relatives in the cemetery.

“I’ve been coming here since I was a kid,” Joe Jensen said. “This is a re ally great cemetery.”

The recent tree planting is part of a larger effort by the city to increase its number of trees, which help to combat the heat island effect and make streets safer and more enjoy able with shade.

In public surveys as part of the

city’s Climate Action Plan, tree plant ing ranked high for Mesa residents among climate change mitigation strategies.

In remarks for the planting, Mayor John Giles teased a “million tree proj ect” that the city is close to launch ing, but further details were not available.

Currently, Mesa offers water cus tomers who convert grass on their properties to drought-tolerant land scape a $500 rebate on their water bill, and the city offers an extra $50 for planting a drought-tolerant tree in the new landscaping, or $75 for two trees.

“We’re trying to add more trees into the parks system,” Moore added. She added that the city is also inter ested in creating “cool routes,” or places where shade covers the walk or bike ride between homes and parks.

Even if the parks are shady, people are hesitant to leave home is they face a hot journey across exposed pavement.

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Police Department after the killing. Brailsford was acquitted in 2017.

Mesa PD reinstated Shaver for 42 days in 2018, during which time he applied for and received Accidental Disability Retirement from the Public Safety Local Police Pension Board. In a statement following the $8 mil lion settlement, Sweet blasted the city and police department.

“While this settlement helps Daniel’s widow and children with the financial stability to move forward, it does not erase the cruelty of his killing, or the malicious campaign by the Mesa Po lice Department — orchestrated and implemented by their attorneys for over 6 years of needless, malevolent scorched-earth litigation,” the state ment said.

“This settlement does nothing to cure the blatant lack of accountability by all involved since the night of Dan iel’s death, which stands as an irre deemable blight on the criminal justice system,” it continued.

This settlement brings the total amount the city has paid out this year for claims of excessive force and wrongful death related to police inci dents to at least $13.4 million.

Shaver, who was 26 at the time of his death, worked as a pest control spe cialist and had traveled to Mesa from his home in Granbury, Texas, for a busi ness trip.

Shaver used a scoped pellet gun to re move birds from inside buildings and po

lice were called when wit nesses observed some one pointing what they believed to be a gun out of and near a hotel window.

Shaver and two people he invited into his hotel room had been drinking and socializing.

Sweet remembered her husband in the statement following the settlement.

“Daniel Shaver lived, and will be remembered, as a wonderful, compas sionate husband and father. His spirit endowed and embedded light and love to those around him throughout his much-too-short life.

“While on this earth he provided security, prosperity and stability to his wife and children. He brought a pragmatic, caring perspective to ev ery problem he approached, and had a good-willed nature and charm.

“His beloved widow and children miss him every hour of every day. They

will never forget Daniel’s loving lega cy, nor take for granted the cherished memories of the beautiful time they spent with him.

“No words can do justice to a life unjustly cut short, and no amount of money can undo the transgressions that cruelly removed Daniel from his family’s lives forever.”

Daniel Shaver was captured on a police camera kneeling and holding his hands in the air before a then-Mesa cop gunned him down with an assault rifle. (Tribune file photo)

Ex-cop Philip Brailsford was acquitted by a jury of murder charges in the 2016 slaying of Daniel Shaver. (Tribune file photo)

Noise code change questioned in council

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer

The Mesa City Council voted last week to set a Dec. 1 hearing date to consider proposed changes to the rules on excessive noise.

While the proposed changes will advance to a hearing, several council members voiced lingering questions in a study session, potentially setting the stage for a debate and maybe even some rare “no” votes.

The fact there were concerns at this stage was noteworthy because Coun cil was considering a second draft of the noise ordinance after members directed Mesa Police officials to work out some issues identified in an earlier session.

Among the concerns voiced in the first session was that the updated code relied heavily on subjective standards. Members worried that could be a hard ship for some Mesa businesses when noise complaints arise.

Assistant Chief Ed Wessing told Council the update would still provide more clarity to the community than ex ists now.

The current code “can be confus ing,” he said, and “has led to some chal lenges with actual enforcement, which could lead to prosecution issues.”

Wessing and police legal advisor Geoff Balon said subjective judgment is needed to match the complexity of real-world situations officers and neighbors face.

But the reliance on individual judg ment in the rules didn’t seem to sit entirely well with Councilwoman Julie Spilsbury.

“Can you help us understand what, since we don’t have a decibel level or a distance level in our (code), … how will we know what an officer finds rea sonable or unreasonable?” Spilsbury asked. “Depending on the mood that they’re in? Or how the neighbors are treating them? … There’s a lot of differ ent factors there.”

Wessing replied, “I can’t give you a very specific answer because every case is going to be unique. We rely on (officers) to use basically common sense in those factors.”

The proposed code is structured as a broad prohibition against nuisance noise according to a “reasonable per son,” but then spells out a list of specif ic “factors” responding officers should consider when determining whether a violation is occurring.

The updated ordinance would pro hibit “any loud, unnecessary, or unusu al sound or noise that disturbs, injures, or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace, or safety of a reasonable person.”

The language covers many bases, but the seven factors to be weighted in each case are more specific: volume and intensity of noise and background noise; proximity to homes; permitted land use; “recurrent, intermittent, or constant;” time of day; whether en hanced by electronic or mechanical;

control without unreasonable effort or expense to the creator.

“Could it be one factor (that leads to a violation), or does it have to be three factors, or what?” Spilsbury asked.

“There really isn’t a set number. It’s based on the situation,” Wessing said. “It could just be one factor that sticks out given a circumstance that makes it unreasonable. In some cases, it could be multiple factors that helps the offi cer make that determination that it is unreasonable.”

Balon only seemed to complicate the matter when he added that different factors would have different weights, and these weights would change from situation to situation.

One of the other major code changes also generated concerns. The current code exempts noise arising from “ac tivity permitted under zoning code.”

The updated ordinance would make this into a factor to consider rather

than exemption.

Spilsbury worried this change might mean a business like a wedding venue would have to change its operating hours if neighbors started complaining about noise at night.

Councilman Kevin Thompson added, “I’m not really comfortable changing the rules midstream. I think there has to be some way to grandfather those types of venues into that ordinance to allow them to continue to operate as they did prior under the old ordi nance.”

Smith pushed back, saying “They never had sort of a vested right to some sort of broad exemption.”

Mayor John Giles moved the council away from the topic, reminding council that there would be an opportunity to discuss the ordinance further Dec 1.

“If we get more community feedback or have additional questions, this is not our last bite at the apple,” Giles said.

‘ZenCity’ could bring unique structure to downtown

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer

If all goes according to plan, down town Mesa will be the state’s first site of an apartment complex created from Arizona-made two-bedroom and studio homes stacked and connected to gether like LEGOs to form two five-story midrise towers on Main Street.

ZenniHomes, founded by business man and former state lawmaker Bob Worsley in 2019, has signed a deal with an owner of a historic property on Main Street to create a 90-unit apartment complex on top of existing basement and ground level commercial spaces.

The modular homes would be sent to Mesa from ZenniHomes’ new factory in Page in Northern Arizona at the site of the former coal-fired Navajo Generat ing Station power plant, which closed in 2019.

ZenniHomes’ residential units are 320 square feet for the studios and 640 for the 2-bedroom and are built to the dimen sions of shipping containers to reduce the costs of construction and transport.

The company says the individual units are ideal for first-time homebuyers, re tirees, rentals and resort living.

But it is also a “developer solution for affordable housing” because the apart ments can be stacked together for up to five stories and 100 units.

In June, Mesa’s Board of Appeals ap proved several form-based code vari ances for the company’s “ZenCity” plan in Mesa that it said were needed to con struct the project on “an existing site with its unique and innovative construc tion techniques while maintaining the ground floor and basement commercial uses,” documents submitted to the city stated.

Recently, the property owner an nounced that a deal has been signed with ZenniHomes to install the units and estimated the project would be complet ed next year.

ZenniHomes advertises its product as good for the earth and the economy while promising to deliver “luxury, style and sophistication.”

The units, listed currently for $75,000 and $100,000, respectively, might also help housing-starved communities all over the country add workforce residen tial units at lower costs than convention al apartments.

A representative for ZenniHomes told the board of appeals that downtown Mesa is currently experiencing high demand for new residential units from “urban professionals,” students attend ing classes downtown and workers in downtown’s restaurants and boutiques.

By manufacturing the modular homes in Page, Worsley said in the release, Ze nniHomes would be “reshoring manu facturing from China to an opportunity

zone investment at the Navajo Generat ing Station.”

Before it closed, the Page coal plant employed over 500 workers, including many people from the nearby Navajo Nation, so the loss of jobs was an eco nomic blow to the region.

If ZenniHomes ramps up production, it could help replace some of the indus trial jobs lost after the closure.

The investments in Page and down town Mesa also has tax benefits for in vestors, as the two locations are within designated opportunity zones that allow investors to delay or eliminate federal capital gains taxes on income they put into opportunity zone projects.

For Mesa’s ZenCity stacked units con cept, ZenniHomes has partnered with opportunity zone investment company Caliber to bring the project to a property Caliber owns in downtown Mesa at 29 W. Main Street.

In 2017, Caliber began betting big on the revitalization of downtown Mesa, eventually purchasing 10 buildings to taling 160,000 square feet.

Brian Snider, senior vice president of real estate at Caliber, said the firm be lieved downtown Mesa “had the poten tial for pretty dynamic change.”

“I think it’s still emerging, but I think

This unique apartment complex proposed for Main Street in downtown Mesa would be composed of units built by a Page company and stacked atop each other. (City of Mesa)

A key element of downtown’s transfor mation will be enticing the influx of

dents and professionals in downtown to stay after work hours and explore the bur geoning craft brew and restaurant scene.

Other Caliber projects recently opened or announced will contribute to this nightlife.

Earlier this year, Caliber announced downtown leases with Level 1 Arcade Bar, a venue featuring fully restored arcade and pinball machines along with a full menu and bar, and Copper City Spirits, an Ari zona distillery that uses local ingredients.

Caliber announced last week that it has signed a lease with Sonoran Rows, a Craft Malthouse, which will be located at 18 W. Main. Set to open in the second half of 2023, Sonoran Rows will serve as a working malthouse along with a res taurant and bar operating in more than 15,000 square feet along with 3,000

square feet of patio space.

Malting is the process of soaking and germinating grains to release enzymes that enhance the grain for brewing and baking.

In a release, Caliber said the Sonoran Rows plans to malt 25 tons of Arizona grown barley and other grains in the tra ditional style of floor malting each week.

The malted grains can be used by local breweries, distilleries and restaurants.

Snider suspects Sonoran Rows will be working with other players in Mesa’s craft beer scene. Craft breweries “are a fairly tight network, and they see a lot of synergy being together and seeing that brewmaster atmosphere,” he said.

Caliber also is working with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community to build an entertainment-residential district on 10 acres of the Talking Stick

Resort between Mesa and Scottsdale off the Loop 101.

Caliber has found users for many of the historic buildings it purchased in 2017, but Snider said it hasn’t been easy getting them renovated.

“These have been challenging build ings. They’re old,” he said, but “we’re largely on top of that and moving for ward with getting these tenants in.”

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The apartment complex would replace this structure at 29 W Main St.

Mesa Temple again aglow in Christmas lights

After a five-year absence, the bril liant holiday light display has re turned to the Mesa Arizona Tem ple grounds.

The lights are on 5-10 p.m. nightly through Dec. 31 at the temple, Main Street and S. Lesueur in downtown Mesa.

The event – previously called one of the “must-see holiday lighting extrava ganzas in the United States” – has drawn over a million visitors annually from across Arizona and beyond.

The lights have been turned off the last five years for the extensive renova tion of the temple and its grounds that was completed last year.

“A team of nearly 100 dedicated com mittee members and hundreds of other volunteers from Mesa, Phoenix and Gil bert have made this event not only one of the largest known volunteer-driven

Christmas lighting displays in the country, but helped to bring back a beloved com munity tradition since 1979,” said Jennifer

Wheeler, a spokeswoman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“Our mission is to humbly and wor

thily create sacred Christmas displays, in music, and lights, which reflect the beauty and integrity of the temple, invit ing all people to feel Christ’s Spirit,” the committee’s mission statement says.

Included in this free event are hun dreds of thousands of lights, favorite Biblical displays, larger-than-life lighted wise men and their camels and a near life-size Italian Fontanini nativity figu rines and stable at the northwest corner of the temple with a newly designed star, twinkling with thousands of white lights.

Nightly concerts were not included in this eyar’s version of the display.

Across the street of the west side of the temple, at 455 E. Main St., the Mesa Temple Visitors’ Center hosts a display of more than 150 international nativities from across the world.

Admission to the nativity display at the Mesa Temple Visitors Center is free and open daily 5-10 p.m.

Who needs Mesa Council when you’re a Rhodes Scholar?

three students from a public university.

Nathaniel Ross won’t be sitting on Mesa City Council when new members are sworn next month.

But he might have the better deal as he heads next year as a prestigious Rhodes Scholar with a full-ride scholar ship to one of the world’s oldest univer sities.

Ross, an Arizona State University senior who unsuccessfully challenged Vice Mayor Jenn Duff in the August Pri mary Election, earned a coveted Rhodes Scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford in London.

He is one of only 32 American Rhodes recipients for 2023 and one of only

He also is the first ASU student awarded an American Rhodes Scholar ship in nearly 20 years.

The most recent ASU student to earn the scholarship was music education major Philip Mann in 2001. He is now on the faculty of the University of Mary land-Baltimore County.

“I am incredibly grateful to have been selected,” Ross said. “The finalists in my district were all so incredibly kind and impressive in their own right. Being selected among them was an absolute honor. I am beyond excited to be part of the Rhodes community and study at Oxford next year.”

Rhodes Scholarships provide all ex penses for two or three years of post

graduate study and were created in 1902 by the will of mining magnate Ce cil Rhodes and now supported by vari ous philanthropies and benefactors.

At Oxford, Ross will study compara tive social policy, after which he will attend law school and specialize in dis ability law.

His long-term objective is to shape disability policy as an attorney-advisor for a national disability advocacy orga nization, federal agency, or global nongovernmental organization.

“Arizona State University empowers elite scholars who want to have a mean ingful social impact,” said ASU Presi dent Michael M. Crow.

“Nathaniel Ross is a uniquely gifted thinker capable of simultaneously syn

thesizing ideas across diverse subjects and applying his knowledge to improve the lives of others. As such, Nathaniel embodies our highest aspirations as a national service university.”

He’s no slouch at ASU either.

A winner of a prestigious Flinn Schol arship, Ross, 21, is graduating next month from Barrett, The Honors Col lege with bachelor’s degrees in biology, history, political science, and applied quantitative science next month. In May, he will be awarded a master’s of science degree in biology and society.

A fourth generation Mesa resident, Ross acknowledges the role his time at ASU has played in his success.

Five years after they were shut off for an extensive renovation project, the Mesa Arizona Temple’s brilliant Christmas light display is back. (Courtesy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

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“I don’t believe there is a single Rhodes scholar that accomplished the feat without a community of support,” he said, “and I am no exception.”

He also is excited about the opportu nity the Rhodes Scholarship presents.

“As part of the Rhodes community, I know I can have an even greater impact on the issues I care about. The fraction of Rhodes scholars who are disabled, attend a state school, or are first-gen eration university students is rather small.

“After my selection, I hope to encour age other people from similar back grounds to apply for nationally com petitive scholarships.”

The application process for the Rhodes Scholarship is arduous, and competition is intense, university offi cials noted.

In his will, Cecil Rhodes stipulated several criteria for the selection of Scholars, most of which are still ap plied today.

“The first and most obvious crite

rion is ‘scholarly attainment,’” said

Kyle Mox, Associate Dean for National Scholarships and ASU representative for the Rhodes Scholarship. “To be competitive, an applicant must have posted near-perfect grades while com pleting an exceptionally challenging curriculum.”

Ross clearly fits the bill, given his multiple degrees and the fact he never had a grade lower than “A,” according to ASU.

“But, per Rhodes’s stipulations,

Rhodes Scholars are not “mere book worms” – they must also demonstrate devotion to enacting lasting social im pact and be committed to making a strong difference for good in the world, Mox said, explaining:

“We often refer to this quality as ‘fight ing the world’s fight.’ Rhodes Scholars must show extraordinary leadership potential.”

In 2021, Ross was selected as a Udall Scholar for his commitment to environ mental and disability activism, and in the spring of 2022, he was selected as national finalist for the Truman Schol arship in recognition of his devotion to public service.

A committed disability rights activist, Ross founded EosFighter Connection, a nationwide support network for youth who suffer from eosinophilic and other disorders. He also is politically active, having interned with progressive lob bying firm Creosote Partners.

Ross said the announcement of his selection came as a shock.

“I honestly was not sure if I heard my name correctly,” he said. “Even days

later, I don’t think I have even begun to process what this means for my future. All I could think about was the years of work that went into this moment.

“Although applications only opened up this summer, the process of becom ing a Rhodes Scholar often begins dur ing freshman year or even earlier.”

The Rhodes Trust pays all college and university fees, provides a stipend to cover expenses while in residence in Oxford as well as during vacations, and transportation to and from Eng land. The total value of the scholarship averages approximately $75,000 per year.

Now that the process is finished, Ross will begin planning for his journey to England and his studies at Oxford.

“I have never been to the UK, and now I will spend the next two to three years of my life studying at the top university in the world. For the first time in my life, moving to another country is a reality for me. I have realized that this home grown East Valley boy is going to have to buy his first real winter coat to sur vive the UK winters.”

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Chandler man authors books on dementia’s impact

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Dementia has touched Chandler res ident Larry Calkins so deeply that he recently published two books about the disease’s impact on him and his family.

“Memories and Forgetfulness” focuses on how the disease first claimed Calkins’ grandmother and then his father, Travis Calkins, and how their affliction affected him and his family.

He tells his story with “Letters to Sarah” and “Failing Memory,” the first about his grandmother’s affliction.

“Both books describe the difficult tasks of caring for a person who is forgetful and provide anecdotes or short stories about caregiving, love, loss and grief as loved ones navigate with the person with this debilitating disease,” he said.

He said he drafted the stories as “riv eting accounts of the interactions, told with humor, introspection and the se rious business of finding the right mix of caregiving” and says the books are “a must read for those who find themselves as family members or those caring for pa tients with dementia.”

“I initially wrote both books for myself as I processed my own grief,” Calkins said, “but I also wanted my family to remem ber the remarkable people who raised me and I wanted to explain the struggles they had coping with this formidable disease.

steals his ability to write further.”

In “Failing Memory,” Calkins explores the relationship he had with his father from the moment he told him about his disease to his passing in 2009.

“In the end he is placed on hospice and I write about the agonizing decisions my family and I made,” Calkins said.

A Chandler resident since 2017, Calkins said he worked an environmental field in Oregon.

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“So, I wrote for family members so they could understand how I remembered the senior members of our family. Yet, other folks in other families also struggle with the care of loved ones inflicted with de mentia. My hope is that they also read the books and find a degree of peace or solace from my experiences and that they are not alone in their feelings of grief.”

“Letters to Sarah” is his father’s mother and the letters his dad wrote to his dad’s sister helping her manage the disease.

“Later in the book, my father discusses his forgetfulness and how he is dealing with the onset of his disease,” Calkins said. “The letters end when the disease

“I have been told the books are touch ing and emotional and that the reader sometimes needed to keep tissues handy,” he said. “I believe the books provide a glimpse into the day to day impacts of dementia on family members, caregivers and the person receiving care.”

Calkins said his father was 73 when di agnosed with dementia and he was 46.

“I was not a full-time caregiver for my father, but during the mid stages of his dementia, I gave my mother a periodic re prieve for a few weeks at a time,” he said.

The books are not Calkins’ first foray into writing.

He also has published “To Endure,” which he said was “inspired by my grand parents’ struggle through the Great De pression.

The books are available on amazon.com or through Calkins. Write him at memo riesandforgetfulness@gmail.com

Cassandra

Chandler author Larry Calkins has authored two companion books about the impact of dementia’s on his loved ones. (Special to The Mesa Tribune)

EV eye institute marks 60 years

BY JOSH ORTEGA Tribune Staff Writer

One of Mesa’s oldest businesses this month celebrated its 60th an niversary.

Over six decades, the Swagel Wootton Eye Institute, which also has an office in Chandler, has evolved into a full-service ophthalmology provider that uses in novative technology to ensure patients’ safe and high-quality treatment.

It has introduced new technologies and procedures, including cataract surgery, photorefractive keratectomy (PRK), LASIK, and implantable collamer lenses (ICL).

The late Dr. James Wootton opened Eye Surgeons LTD, in 1962, and 10 years later, the late Dr. Lorin Swagel joined the practice.

“They were very well known in the community and very well liked,” said Joanne Nelson, who was the business’ director of nursing for more than 30 years and recently came out of retire ment to work as a consultant.

Nelson started at the practice’s first

surgery center near Extension Road and Southern Avenue.

Nelson said she transitioned from a hospital nurse to administration at Swa gel Wootton but that both Swagel and Wootton ensured a conducive environ ment for her family that helped her meet that challenge.

“They were willing to work with the staff and make sure that we worked hours where we could still have a family and enjoy our family,” Nelson said.

The practice has locations at 220 S. 63rd St. in Mesa, and 3940 South Alma School Road in Chandler.

“They never wanted to take shortcuts or anything like that to get to where they needed to be as far as the company,” Nel son said, adding that she recommended the practice to her own family members for their eye surgeries.

“This is a place where I would bring my family and trust them,” Nelson said. “And if I were having cataract surgery, I would come here because I would trust them.”

That trust and respect came back to the founders when they passed away,

drawing large crowds to their funerals. Swagel died in 2006 and Wootton in February.

Ramsey said the company’s 60th an niversary is a “significant” moment for both its employees and the community.

“From the time I started working at Swagel Wootton, I was treated like a member of the family,” Nelson said. “Whether it was Dr. Swagel, Dr. Wootton or now Dr. Ramsey, employees continue to feel supported.”

Medical Director Dr. Loan Ramsey joined the practice more than three years ago and recalled how she imme diately admired how “there’s something intimate about this practice.”

And she said the demand for cataract and refractive surgery has increased time since she joined the practice, keep ing her “super busy.”

“I think we’ve built a lot of relation ships with referring optometrists,” Ramsey said. “And we’ve gained a lot of trust so that they can send patients here for surgery.”

As an ophthalmologist for nearly 20 years, Ramsey said the technology en compassing the eye constantly changes,

from imaging to surgeries to implants, and that Swagel Wootton has continued to stay the cutting-edge.

“We’re always getting new technol ogy,” Ramsey said. “I’m lucky enough to be at a practice that embraces that and is able to provide that for the patient and obtain that technology here to use.”

Harry Jung knows firsthand just how good that technology has become.

Jung, 67, had cataract and lens place ment surgery seven weeks ago, and gave the practice a five-star rating on Google.

“Everything was perfect, from the way I was treated to the professionalism of the staff,” Jung said.

Jung has spent more than 40 years as an anesthesiologist in Texas and seen all types of surgeries.

Jung said he’s a “very happy patient right now” especially considering that he trained the anesthetist that worked on him for this surgery.

“There’s no better place than right here,” Jung said. “They’ve been doing it for 60 years, when you think about any business that lasts 60 years, they must be doing something right.”

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Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Swagel Wootton Eye Institute in Mesa earlier this month were, from left: Dr. Loan Ramsey, Dr. JoAnn Reed, Dr. Janice Pierce, Dr. Leah Janousek, Dr. Renée Hanson and Dr. Lance Stutz. (Special to the Tribune)

The late Dr. Lorin Swagel was a co-founder of Swagel Wootton Eye institute. (Special to the Tribune)

The late Dr. James C. Wootton co-founded the Swagel Wootton Eye Institute. (Special to the Tribune)

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Thanksgiving never needed any makeover

BY JD HAYWORTH Tribune Columnist

During the 1960s and ’70s, in “Anytown, USA” often on Thanksgiving afternoon, the ritual would be the same. After en joying excessive amounts of turkey and dressing, families would head for Main Street and the hometown pomp and pageantry of a local parade.

The city’s downtown merchants association, eager to get the Yule tide purchases started, would end the festivities in familiar fashion. A certain “Jolly Old Elf” would emerge, minus the meteorological mystery of Groundhog Day, to “officially” start something very important.

“And on the final float in this holi day parade, it’s none other than Santa Claus, signaling the start of the ‘Christmas Shopping Season!’”

That last page of the script, intoned by a public address announcer to the crowd onsite, or by a television broadcaster to the folks who stayed home to scarf down an extra piece of pumpkin pie, conveyed a none-toosubtle message: “Get downtown and get your Christmas shopping done!”

By the late 1980’s, America had gone to the mall, and in many of the “Anytowns,” the holiday parade had gone the way of the dodo bird. In its place, slick shopping displays would herald seasonal shopping changes.

Merchandizers would make the jar ring transition from jack-o-lanterns to St. Nick as quickly as the calendar

turned from October to November.

What about Thanksgiving?

While it isn’t just for turkey, this historic holiday seems to get the short shrift from a merchandising and marketing perspective.

Even so, there’s no need to place an emergency call to the newly-founded Boutique PR Firm, “Late November Crisis Communications.”

Though major cities may find themselves in crisis, they still some how manage to keep their massive Thanksgiving Day Parades marching. New York, Chicago and Detroit top the list.

Speaking of Detroit…we might not classify this as “fun and games,” but once again the struggling Lions will host an NFL contest. The most signif icant statistic is already in the books: this year marks the 72nd Thanksgiv ing that teams will take the field in Motown.

Motoring onward, Thanksgiving still tops the list for holiday travel in the USA, as the Department of Trans portation reports that venturing to a destination over 50 miles or more from home increases by 54 percent during Thanksgiving Weekend.

And it’s not just “over the river and through the woods.” It’s coast-tocoast and through the air, too. The Sunday after Thanksgiving earns the dubious distinction as the most crowded day to fly, hands down…er… wheels up.

So when all is said and done, Thanksgiving needs no marketing

makeover.

It’s not dependent on a parade, a score, or a store.

With apologies to Dr. Seuss for this holiday verse variation, Thanksgiv ing is something a whole lot more.

In the newly constituted United States, George Washington called for Americans to “unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplica tions to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations…” and “to render our nation al government a blessing to all the people…and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of tempo ral prosperity as He alone knows to be best.”

Washington’s Proclamation as signed Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789 as our nation’s first “official” Thanks giving Day, but much earlier obser vances had been celebrated in Colo nial America for well over a century.

Now, over two centuries since that first Presidential Proclamation, we gather together again.

Thanksgiving is not just a holiday… it’s a call to prayer for believers; a time for families and friends to gath er for fellowship; and a day of rec ognition and reflection undergirded with a spirit of gratitude.

May it always be celebrated and observed…in “Everytown, USA.”

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Reader wonders ‘where’s the beef’ in election column

Reading Foghorn Leghorn’s, er, J.D. Hayworth’s latest column, I thought of the old commercial line, “where’s the beef?”

J.D., in his usual bloviating fashion, eventually gets around to his purpose: something fishy happened with the governor’s race.

His candidate, the one he describes as a ”rising star,” lost in a close one. J.D.smells a rat. The tabulating ma chine problem, the fact the Hobbs didn’t recuse herself, add up to another rigged election.

Yet J.D. provides zero proof of either voter fraud or suppression. And he

doesn’t explain how while Lake was crushed in Maricopa County, Rep.Dave Schweikert won.

Why give him a victory if the vote was rigged? J.D. doesn’t say. Nor does he say why a Republican Recorder and a Republican Board of Supervisors conspired to elect a Democrat. Nor does he explain why the AG election is so close. Nor does he explain why other counties gave Hobbs a majority of the vote.

No, J.D. gives readers no beef. But J.D. does get one thing right: we know B.S. when we see it. And he has made a ca reer of slinging it.

-Mike McClellan

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Neuropathy Is Often Misdiagnosed

Muscle cramping, difficulty walk ing, burning, tingling, numbness, and pain in the legs or feet are symptoms of neuropathy people live with every day,” explains Dr. Kerry Zang, podi atric medical director of CIC Foot & Ankle. “The thing is PAD has very sim ilar symptoms. So similar that in many cases, people are told it’s neuropathy when it may not be.”

Medicine is often prescribed. “Pills aren’t a cure, they just suppress the symptoms,” says Zang. “If neuropathy

isn’t causing the symptoms, the real problem could get worse.”

It’s important to determine if PAD (pe ripheral artery disease) is causing the pain or making it worse. PAD is plaque in the arteries which causes poor circulation. “Blood brings oxygen and nutrients to your feet which they need to stay healthy,” explains Zang, “When your feet aren’t get ting an adequate supply, they start send ing signals.” Those signals include pain, burning, tingling, numbness, or cramping. The good news is PAD is treatable in

an office setting. Dr. Joel Rainwater, MD endovascular specialist explains, “We go into the bloodstream to find the blockage using imaging guidance. Then with small tools that can go into the smallest arteries, remove the blockage, and restore blood flow.”

Getting the proper diagnosis is the first step to getting better. “It’s all about find ing out what’s causing the problem,” says Zang. “When your feet burn, tingle, or feel numb, it’s your body telling you it needs help, and you should listen.”

If your neuropathy medication is not working, your symptoms may be an indication of another condition.

Stiff Joints Interfere with Everyday Living

One in 40 people over the age of 50 may find themselves limiting their activi ty because of a condition called hallux rigidus. It’s a degenerative disease of the big toe joint. As it progresses, the pain in the joint increases and motion decreases.

Don’t wait for your feet to yell at you. If your feet hurt, they are talking to you. Our doctors can help tell you what they are saying.

Does foot pain prevent you from doing your favorite activity?

Do you have burning or tingling in your legs or feet?

Do you have leg or foot cramps with activity or at rest?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, call our office today to see how our doctors can help.

“People don’t realize the impact their big toe has on their life. It plays a role in balance, shock absorption, and forward movement as you walk,” explains Dr. Daniel Schulman, of CiC Foot & Ankle. “When the joint is stiff, it’s not able to bend and rotate properly, and it changes how we walk without us even realizing it.” These changes can lead to back or knee pain as well as discomfort in other parts of the foot.

“It always concerns me to hear that someone is playing less golf or stay ing home because they’re in pain,” says Schulman. “There are ways to help.”

The goal is to protect your feet from the repetitive stress of everyday activities. “We have several treatment options to not only relieve foot pain but help im prove how your feet work. If we can help your feet function better, in many cases the need for surgery can be avoided or at the very least postponed,” says Schul man. “Patients are always happy to learn about ways to alleviate their symptoms.”

For golfers, a stiff big toe can make their game suffer.

Hale Theatre presenting ‘Christmas Carol’

The Hale Centre Theatre in downtown Gilbert will start its annual presentation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” on Fri day, Dec. 1.

“Since receiving the award for Best Christmas Production in Arizona, au diences have been lining up in Gilbert to see Scrooge and his ghostly visi tors,” a theater release said.

“It is their 20th season and it has be come a family tradition for audiences

and a must-see every holiday season, with each year bringing a little some thing different.”

Director David Hale Dietlein is pre senting two casts designated “Red” and “Green.”

The Red cast features seasoned ac tor Tim Dietlein as Ebenezer Scrooge and the Green cast is headed by lo cal actor Rob Stuart. Both actors are reprising their roles from previous years.

East Valley entertainers slate special holiday concert

An East Valley resident and her band will give a special concert Dec. 3 at the Musical Instrument Museum

Carmela Ramirez and her band, Car mela y Más, returns for the fourth time to the Phoenix theater for a familyfriendly show entitled “A Latin Holiday Extravaganza.”

This concert will be culturally rich with festive cheer, featuring the Valley’s most-recognized Latin artists.

Ramirez, an Ahwatukee resident and the group’s vocalist, fronts this awardwinning band that is known for salsa, merengue, cha cha, cumbia and clas sic Latin jazz. The nine-piece Carmela y Más delivers a kaleidoscope of Latin/ Afro-Cuban rhythms in electrifying per formances that have graced many stages across the Valley and internationally.

“It is very exciting to return to the Mu sical Instrument Museum,” Ramirez said. “The cast is excited to perform a wonder ful mix of Latin music and dance with a bit of holiday magic. Put some sizzle in

your holidays and come spend this eve ning with us! We’ll present our Latino heritage with music, dance and holiday traditions that will get you on your feet.”

Joining Carmela y Más will be Tempebased all-female Mariachi group Maria

chi Pasión, Fiesta Mexicana Dance Com pany, Brenda Del Rio Salsa Dance Co. and JoseCarlos Justiz.

Mariachi Pasión has performed its majestic music for thousands in the Val ley and beyond. Fiesta Mexicana Dance

Company, the Official Folkloric Dance Company of the City of Phoenix, per forms beautiful Ballet Folklorico that cel ebrates traditional folk dances of Mexico.

Ramirez, an award-winning vocalist, has a long history of moving audiences with a sultry and soulful voice that deliv ers heartfelt passion of lyrics and drives the band into exciting musical journeys.

For decades, she also has been among the most influential producers in the Valley.

“As a performing artist, I have fol lowed the path of many before me who have used performance platforms not only to entertain, but to communicate,” Ramirez said.

She lends her talents to various com munity-outreach projects, such as arts and culture, education, health, civics, so cial justice and special needs.

“If I can open doors of communication through music performance or produc tion, then I have used my talents well,” she said.

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The Hale Centre Theatre in Gilbert is rolling out its 20th annual presentation of “A Christmas Carol” starting Dec. 1. (Nick Woodward-Shaw/Special for GetOut)

Carmela Ramirez and her band, Carmela y Más, are headline the Latin Holiday Extravaganza at the Musical Instrument Museum Dec. 3. (Courtesy of Carmela Ramirez)

2 EV students have titles on new worship album

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Two East Valley residents have titles on the Grand Canyon Uni versity Worship Arts Program’s seventh album, “Canyon Worship 2022. All 11 new songs which were written and performed by GCU students and re corded in the its state-of-the-art record

ing studio.

Eric Johnson, GCU recording studio manager, called the album “an eclec tic blend of praise and introspection marked by thought-provoking ideas and passionate worship for our Creator.”

Colter Bonaroti of Gibert helped write and record the song “Sometimes” and “The Real Thing” along with three other

students.

Nicole Swartz of Mesa wrote a record ed the song “Dry Bones.”

Worship Arts Director Randall Downs said all the songs “speak to the goodness and faithfulness of God.”

The album is available for streaming on Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon Music.

Bonaroti, a Highland High School

CONCERT

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dreds of night clubs, concerts and fes tivals throughout the greater Phoenix area and internationally.

It was featured in concert at the Na tional Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the 100th anniver sary of the Himeji Castle in Japan and as headliner for the Puerto Peñasco Latin Jazz Festival.

The band has shared the stage with many major recording artists, including Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Arturo San doval, Nestor Torres and Claudio Roditi.

As a producer, Ramirez has created a multitude of concerts, community fes tivals, arts and education projects and mentored youth in the arts. Believing that community thrives in a healthy ar tistic environment, she uses her plat form to build bridges of communication.

Her community work has gained awards, such as Valle Del Sol “Profiles of Success,” City of Phoenix Excellence Awards, NAACP Education Excellence Award and Phoenix Elementary Schools “Star Mentor.”

Ramirez has been inducted into the Raul H. Castro Institute as an “Arizona Trailblazer” and nominated twice for the Gabe Zimmerman Award for Public Service.

If You Go...

A Latin Holiday Extravaganza

When: 8 p.m. Dec. 3

Where: Musical Instrument Museum Theater, 4725 E. Mayo Blvd., Phoenix

Cost: Reserved Seating: $28.50, $33.50, $38.50 at mim.org/concerts/ upcoming-concerts/ Info: carmelaramirez.com.

Colter Bonaroti

Nicole Swartz

STUDENTS

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alumnus and GCU senior, has played pi ano for 13 years, drumset for eight and has been singing and writing songs for four years.

“I got into music when I started learn ing piano at 8 years old and became fas cinated by playing piano by ear without realizing perfect pitch was something special until later in life,” he said.

He said he wrote his song for the al bum with his fellow students to show “the Christ-centered fellowship we had found with one another, as well as many other awesome people who have shown us that freedom comes through full sur render to Jesus.

“We aren’t meant to write our own story, but rather listen to the incredible roles God has in store for us to play in His story,” said Bonarote, who hopes to join a church worship team after grad uation.

Swartz, who was homeschooled un til college, is also a GCU senior and at tribtues her interest in music to her par ents, who she said “are both incredibly accomplished musicians.”

She started learning piano at age 5 and said she has “always enjoyed the community aspect of music because of its deep connection to family and being at home.”

“College is when I really started to write music and it has been an incred ible journey,” said Swartz, who also plays guitar.

She said her son is “a prayer in my life and my family’s life that God would do a new work and bring breakthrough.

“I knew the season of work I was in was part of a great harvest in the season I am in now,” she said. “God was faithful to me every step of my journey through college and I am beyond grateful for how he has provided for me and made me new.

“’Dry Bones’ in many ways is a plea to God, but it is also a declaration of God’s character,” she added. “When we pray we know God has already come through and will provide for us.”

A worship leader at One Life Church, Nicole also had a song on last year’s GCU Worship Program album titled “In the Waiting.”

Information: gcu.edu.

Fall In Love Withthe

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The Hale family tradition of present ing “A Christmas Carol” began with Ruth and Nathan Hale, who opened their first theater in Glendale, California.

In 1965 the Hales and the Dietle ins staged their first production of “A Christmas Carol,” and Hale operators say they established “a legacy that flourishes to this day.

Director and theater owner Da vid Dietlein has received numerous awards for his artistic achievements and has directed every production of “A Christmas Carol” since he opened the Gilbert theater in 2003.

The annual holiday classic is a mu sical version of Dickens’ tale of the Christmas ghosts, who visit the thor oughly unpleasant Ebenezer Scrooge to show him the error of his ways. The spirits transform Ebenezer’s life, serving to remind us that it is never too late to change for the better.

“It’s a message of hope and renewal

that holds a special place in our hearts every holiday season,” the release stated, promising a “stunning produc tion (that) is a visual and sensory de light, featuring local talent of singers, dancers and actors: with “soaring mu sic, special effects, stunning costumes and sets.”

The production runs at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Dec.1-26 with matinees on Satur days at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The Hale is located at 50 W. Page Ave. in Gilbert’s Heritage District, across the street from the Gilbert Wa ter Tower Park. Several restaurants and free parking are located nearby.

Tickets range from $42 to $60 for adults, $28 to $45 for youth. Group discounts for 10 or more tickets are available at $35 on showings through Dec. 14.

The shows sell out quickly, so pur chase your tickets by calling the box office at 480-497-1181 or by visit ing the theater’s website at HaleThe atreArizona.com.

HALE

At-risk kids show creativity in local photo exhibit

BY ALEX GALLAGHER GetOut Staff Writer

When guests mosey their way through Western Spirit: Scott sdale’s Museum of the West, they are often immersed in the world of the wild west.

However, one current exhibition has offered a more contemporary take on the once-wild west.

The “Kids in Focus: A New Lens on Life” exhibition features photos of lo cally grown plants, western sculptures, and kids frolicking in the street.

Though these photos evoke a new look at southwestern culture for guests, they were even more eye-opening for the atrisk children who took them. Most of the young artists come from abusive and ne glectful homes.

Kids in Focus is a Phoenix nonprofit dedicated to empowering at-risk youth to reach their potential using photogra

phy to ignite their imagination and build their sense of confidence.

It has been giving children a new lens to view the world through just over a decade

and though photography is a key compo nent of what it does, founder Karen Shell, who grew up in South Scottsdale, says the organization does much more than teach

kids about the art of photography.

“We all know the benefit of art therapy, but I think photography is like art thera py on steroids because not only are you learning to express yourself, but it’s so much more,” Shell said. “

For kids who have been through trau ma, their world is very myopic, so with photography, they’re learning to express themselves, be creative, and get out of that headspace and into the world.”

This was exactly the case for Shell de cades ago as the Saguaro High School alum na found solace in photography away from her abusive and challenging home life.

Decades later, she has found that her life has come full circle as she has no ticed photography breaks the kids out of dark mindsets and allows them to see the color and beauty in the world.

“I’m very personally familiar with the challenges they face,” Shell said. Kids in

Karen Shell, founder and executive director of Kids in Focus, said photography is “art therapy on ste roids” for the abused children who get help from her nonprofit. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)

focus grew out of 20 years of work I was already doing and what I saw when I be gan doing it was that kids were different. They went from dark and withdrawn to open, vibrant, calm, and happy.”

Though Shell had shown the work of the kids she aided over the past decadeplus in having their work shown in places like Civic Center Library, the Arizona Sci ence Center, and the Children’s Museum of Phoenix, the fact that her kid’s work is now on display at an esteemed museum has her ecstatic.

“It is an unbelievable self-confidence boost because these kids don’t have mu sic lessons, they don’t have sports teams and they never have opportunities to have a sense of accomplishment and feeling of pride,” Shell said.

“For them to know that something they created is moving around town and all these people see is that it’s an immeasur able boost to their self-confidence.”

The sentiment has been echoed by the museum.

“This is really what the museum is all

about,” said Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West chief curator Dr. Tricia Loscher. “The Museum is all about community relationships, storytelling, enriching lives, and empowerment.”

Not only does the exhibition drive home the goal of the museum, but Loscher also says it adds a contempo rary element to the space.

“Our museum looks at the past, pres

ent, and future and this is a glorious look at the now and the future.

She even said she hopes that this exhi bition will pave the way for these inven tive minds.

“I could see, maybe, someday some of these kids will come back and have solo or group shows here, they’ll be painting or some other art form creatively ex pressing themselves in ways that carry

on their lives,” Loscher said.

Because of that, both Loscher and Shell hope that guests who gawk at these pho tos take away a sense of humility and ac knowledgment.

“I’m hoping for when visitors see that remarkable programs like Kids in Focus are in our community and realize that these things are happening and that mu seums are an important place for this kind of dialogue to occur,” Loscher said. “You never know, this may drive more volunteers to Kids in Focus, more dona tions, and mentoring support.”

The photos will remain on display through Dec. 30.

If You Go...

Kids in Focus: A New Lens on Life

When: Through Dec. 30

Where: Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, 3830 N. Marshall Way

Cost: Admission is $20 for nonmembers

Info: scottsdalemuseumwest.org

Eye-catching images are part of the “Kids in Focus” display at Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)

With JAN D’ATRI

GetOut Contributor

Maple pecan pie is a dessert worthy of any holiday

This season I finally had a chance to scratch one off of my bucket list. I’ve always wanted to visit New England in the fall. I had always heard that the changing of the leaves is spectacular, and I wanted to be there during the peak week. (Me and everyone else on the planet, I discovered!)

My trip to Woodstock, Vermont was worth the trip, and while there, I wanted to immerse myself in the New England food scene. That brings me to maple syrup. I couldn’t get enough of it, whether it was on my breakfast pancakes, a delicious ham slathered in a Vermont maple glaze or those iconic maple leafshaped candies.

I came home with plenty of bottles of syrup which came in handy for this scrumptious holiday maple

Ingredients:

Dough for single-crust pie (9 inches)

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

• 2 tablespoons sugar

• 1 teaspoons salt

• 6 tablespoons butter, chilled and cut into small pieces

• 3 tablespoons Crisco shortening, cut into small pieces

• 3 tablespoons ice water

• 1 tablespoons white vinegar

Filling

• 3 large eggs, room temperature

• 1/2 cup sugar

• 1 cup maple syrup

• 3 tablespoons butter, melted

• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 2 cups pecan halves

• Whipped cream, optional

pecan pie. This time of the year, while pumpkin pie is the go-to, pecan pie is right up there in popularity, and this version is definitely holiday worthy.

It starts with a light and flakey crust, the perfect bed for a sweet, nutty and maple syrupy filling. So just in case searching for perfect holiday pies is on your bucket list, this one will not disappoint!

Directions:

Make the dough. In a food processor, blend to gether the flour, sugar and salt. Add butter and shortening and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal. Drizzle water and vinegar over mixture.

Process just until moist clumps form adding more water, a little at a time, if dough is too dry. Form into a ball, cover in plastic wrap and chill for one hour.

When dough has chilled, preheat oven to 375 degrees. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim crust to 1/2 in. beyond rim of plate; flute edge. Refrigerate while preparing filling.

In a bowl, whisk together the eggs and sugar until smooth. Add maple syrup, butter, vanilla, salt and pecans. Pour into crust.

Bake until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, 30-40 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 1 hour. If desired, top with whipped cream to serve. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

SEEKERS

Getting Started in Trades

Construction technology

Job opportunities in the trades are wide and varied. Many people become skilled at trades in high school, where they learn the basics of auto repair and woodworking. Some enter apprenticeships directly after graduating, while oth ers attend trade or technical schools for advanced training.

Either way, trades offer a rewarding, in-demand and profitable career for many interested in working with theirs hands and possess the aptitude to diag nose and repair complicated machinery in fields such as heating and air condi tioning, welding, masonry and more.

Here are some popular trades and the training required to being your career.

Electricians

High school graduates and those with a GED can enter training at a technical school for electricians. These diploma programs provide training in the funda mentals of an electrical trade and enables students to become profi cient in areas such as areas as electrical wiring and programmable logic controllers used in residential, commercial and industrial applica tions. After completing four semesters of training, new electricians enter the workforce through an apprenticeship as they work toward their license, which is required by many states.

Plumbers

Like electricians, plumbing technicians first attend at least two semesters of training at a technical school before beginning an appren ticeship and earning a license. Modern plumbers have the opportunity to work at a variety of job sites and install or repair new technologies, such as tankless water heaters, WiFi leak detectors and smart applianc es. This trade skill is extremely valuable and sees constant job demand.

This relatively new, rapidly expanding trade directly taps into the fast-paced digital world, creating and installing the systems homes and businesses have com to rely upon. Smart-enabled and security systems are examples of fields that form the digital footprint of many modern workplaces and homes. In highdemand, technologists in this field are trained for 2-3 years and obtain a certifi cate before working on-site and completing a paid apprenticeship.

Veterans in transition

Many people enter the armed forces to take advantage of military benefits, such as funding for a college education, while also performing their duties around the world after attending vocational training for a particular field. After completing their service, veterans with valuable trade skills can often enter the workforce directly or take advantage of veterans benefits that provide them fur ther training to adapt military occupations to a civilian career.

No matter what trade you pursue, the training you receive can almost guar antee a life-long position, many with substantial pay that sometimes reaches into six figures. And even if you never pursue a trade professionally, the skills you learn can be applied in your everyday life, as well as a fulfilling hobby.

Not everyone is cut out for college. In fact, many people forego a formal education to enter careers in the trades.

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Public Notices

CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking qualified Consultants for the following:

CONSULTANT ON CALL LIST FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SERVICES

The City of Mesa is seeking qualified Consultants to provide design services and/or construction administration ser vices on an on call basis in the following area/category: Electrical Engineering All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the require ments detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ)

From this solicitation, the Engineering Department will establish a list of on call consultants for Electrical Engineering This category is further defined below:

Electrical Engineering General Design projects might involve studies, new construction, upgrades, rehabilitat i o n , o r o t h e r m o d i f i c a t i o n s . T y p i c a l p r o j e c t s i n c l u d e , b u t a r e n o t l i m i t e d t o , l i g h t i n g , b u i l d i n g p o w e r s u p p l y , p e d e s t r i a n l i g h t i n g , i n s t r u m e n t a t i o n a n d c o n t r o l s , a n d g e n e r a l s i t e a n d f a c i l i t y e l e c t r i c a l i m p r o v e m e n t s

A Pre Submittal Conference will not be held

Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to as sure that contract decisions are made in public, and to protect the integrity of the selection process All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below.

RFQ Lists. This RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/architectural engin eering design opportunities.

The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation). Re sumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10 point. Please submit one (1) electronic copy in an unencrypted PDF format with a maximum file size limit of 20MB to Engineering RFQ@mesaaz.gov by 2:00 PM, Thursday December 15, 2022. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. In the subject line and on the submittal package, please display: Firm name and On Call Electrical Engineering Services.

The City is an eq ual opportunity employer.

Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor self service).

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BETH HUNING City Engineer

Public Notices

CITY OF MESA PUBLIC NOTICE

The Mesa City Council will hold a public hearing concerning the follow i n g o r d i n a n c e s a t t h e D e c e m b e r 8 , 2 0 2 2 , C i t y C o u n c i l m e e t i n g b e g i n n i n g a t 5 : 4 5 p m i n t h e M e s a C i t y C o u n c i l C h a m b e r s , 5 7 E a s t F i r s t S t r e e t .

1. An ordinance amending Mesa City Code Title 11 (Zoning Ordinance), Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 15, 24, 30, 31, 58, 69, 70, 86, and 87 pertain ing to Temporary Uses , Outdoor Display, Site Plans, and Special Events The amendments include, but are not limited to: repealing in its entirety S e c t i o n 1 1 3 1 2 0 ( O u t d o o r R e t a i l S a l e s ) a n d r e p l a c i n g i t w i t h a n e w Section 11 31 20 (Outdoor Display); repealing in its entirety Section 11 31 30 (Temporary Uses: Swap Meets And Farmer’s Markets) and repla cing it with a new Section 11 31 30 (Temporary Uses); repealing in its e ntirety Section 11 70 4 (Temporary Use Permit) and replacing it with a new Section 11 70 4 (Temporary Use Permit); modifying land use tables pertaining to Schools, Temporary Uses, Accessory Uses, Outdoor Dis play, Outdoor Storage, Portable Storage, Warehousing and Storage, Re c y c l i n g F a c i l i t i e s , a n d M a n u f a c t u r e d H o m e P a r k s a n d S u b d i v i s i o n s ; modifying the definition for Special Events; adding new defi nitions for Temporary Outdoor Entertainment, Temporary Outdoor Sales, Tempor ary Use Permit, and Outdoor Display; and making minor clerical correc tions (Citywide)

2 An ordinance amending Mesa City Code Title 11 (Zoning Ordinance), Chapters 6, 7, 8, 31, 58, and 86 pertaining to Outdoor Eating Areas. The amendments include but are not limited to: repealing in its entirety Sec tion 11 31 19 (Outdoor Ea ting Areas) and replacing it with a new Sec t i o n 1 1 3 1 1 9 ( O u t d o o r E a t i n g A r e a s ) ; m o d i f y i n g l a n d u s e t a b l e s p e r taining to Outdoor Eating Areas; and modifying the definition for Out door Eating Areas (Citywide)

3 ZON22 00431 “Millennium Superstition Springs” (District 2) Within the 5700 to 5900 blocks of East Baseline Road (north side), within the 1800 to 1900 blocks of South Sunview (west side), an d within the 5700 to 5900 blocks of East Inverness Avenue (south side) Located west of R e c k e r R o a d o n t h e n o r t h s i d e o f B a s e l i n e R o a d ( 1 0 ± a c r e s ) . R e z o n e from Planned Employment Park with Planned Area Development over lay and Council Use Permit (PEP PAD CUP) to Multiple Residence 5 with a Planned Area Development overlay (RM 5 PAD) and Site Plan Review This reques t will allow for a multiple residence development Charles Huellmantel, Huellmantel & Affiliates, applicant; VHS Acquisi tion Subsidiary Number 11, INC , owner

Dated at Mesa, Arizona, this 27th day of November 2022. Holly Moseley, City Clerk

Published: East Valley Tribune Nov 27, 2022/ 50524

e 4 7 0 0 t o 4 8 0 0 b l o c k s o f E a s t S o u t h e r n A v e n u e , a n d w i t h i n t h e 4 8 0 0 t o 4 9 0 0 b l o c k s o f E a s t H a m p t o n A v e n u e ( n o r t h s i d e ) L o c a t e d e a s t o f G r e e n f i e l d R o a d a n d s o u t h of Southern Avenue (9± acres) Rezone from Single Residence 43 (RS 43) and Single Residence 15 ( R S 1 5 ) t o M u l t i p l e R e s i d e n c e 4 w i t h a P l a n

Plan Review This request will allow for a multiple residence development Pew & Lake, ap plicant; Sunny Mesa INC, owner

Public Notices

CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

Signal Butte Park Phase II Project No CP0707

Please join us for a fun in person public meeting to learn about the Signal Butte Park Phase II The Sig n a l B u t t e P a r k P h a s e I I p r o j e c t w i l l b e l o c a t e d j u st north of the existing Signal Butte Park (north of th e d e s e r t w a s h ) I m p r o v e m e n t s w i l l i n c l u d e t h e a d d i t i o n o f a p a r k i n g l o t , r a m a d a s , r e s t r o o m , l i g h t i n g, t r a i l s y s t e m , B M X b i k e t r a i l s , a n d a p e d e s t r i a n b r i d g e o v e r t h e w a s h t o c o n n e c t S i g n a l B u t t e P a rk P h a s e I t o P h a s e I I A c o n c e p t u a l r e n d e r i n g o f t h e m a s t e r p l a n a n d p r o p o s e d a m e n i t i e s f r o m P h a s e I I w i l l b e a v a i l a b l e a t t h e p u b l i c m e e t i n g

T h i s i s a n o p e n h o u s e m e e t i n g w i l l b e h e l d a t F i r e Station 219 (near Signal Butte & Elliot) Project ex hibits will be on display and City of Mesa staff will be available if you have any questions This projec t is funded through the 2018 General Obligation Bond We hope to see you there!

Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 Time: 6:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Mesa Fire Station 219 3361 S. Signal Butte Mesa, AZ 85204

ial” ( D is tr ict 1 ) With in th e 4 3 0 0 b lo ck o f Eas t M cD o w ell Road (south side) and the 2500 to 2800 blocks of North Greenfield Road (west side) Located o n the south side of McDowell Road and the west side of Greenfield Road (17 72± acres) Rezone to remove conditions of approval of Zoning Case Number Z80 047 and to add new conditions of ap proval, Site Plan Review, and Special Use Permit This request will allow for an industrial devel opment Tim Thielke, DLR Group, applicant; Donald Ottosen TR, owner

4 ZO N 2 2 0 0 7 3 1 “G r een f ield I n d u s

If you have any questions or concerns regarding thi s project, please contact the City of Mesa Engineering Public Relations Department at (480) 644 3800

5 An ordinance adopting and repealing titles and schedules of terms and conditions for electri c utility services (Districts 1 and 4)

6 An ordinance adopting titles and schedules of terms/rates/fees/charges for electric utility ser vices, and also repealing certain existing titles and schedules (Districts 1 and 4)

7. An ordinance adopting titles and schedules of terms/rates/fees/charges for natural gas utilit y services. (Citywide)

8. An ordinance adopting titles and schedules of terms/rates/fees/charges for water utility services. (Citywide)

9. An ordinance adopting titles and schedules of terms/rates/fees/charges for wastewater utility services. (Citywide)

10. An ordinance adopting titles and schedules of terms/rates/fees/charges for solid waste utilit y services. (Citywide)

Dated at Mesa, Arizona, this 27th day of November 2022. Holly Moseley, City Clerk

Published: East Valley Tribune Nov 27, 2022/ 50523