The new control tower at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, left, will soon take over local air traffic control and ground movement operations from a control tower that is over 40 years old and served the much smaller footprint of Williams Air Force Base. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)
“Every time I drive by the project, my kids point it out, ‘there’s Daddy’s tower,’” Minor said. “It’s a source of pride for me and a land mark for the community that it’s cool to have been a part Gateway’sof.”new traffic control tower is now Mesa’s second-tallest building, after the 224foot Mesa Financial Plaza at the corner of New Gateway Airport tower to be dedicated
1 FREE ($1 OUTSIDE THE EAST VALLEY) | TheMesaTribune.comAn edition of the East Valley Tribune BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer A s Mesa’s tourism economy slowly climbs back to pre-pandemic levels, economic development officials think the city needs more and higher-end lodging in order to fully reap the economic benefits of visitors to the city. According to market data presented by Visit Mesa to the Economic Development Advisory Board earlier this month, the volume of visi tors to Mesa isn’t quite back to 2019 levels –but other metrics have grown. Occupancy is higher now than before the pandemic – 69.1% for 2022 compared to 68.6% in Average2019.daily rate is way up this year –likely due in part to inflation – at $109.32 per night, compared to $87.45 in 2019. But while demand and rates for overnight accommodations in Mesa are up, the supply and variety of offerings has not increased. In June of this year, Mesa’s supply of hotel rooms was 1.7% lower than the previous year. The inventory of rooms is stagnant, and what’s available is dominated by limited-ser vice hotels offering travelers a comfortable bed and bathroom for the night but few other amenities.MesaEconomic Development Director Bill Jabjiniak said there are many hotel projects currently in the pipeline, but most of these are for more of the same – limited service hotels. Sunday, August 21, 2022 Bring the Outdoors In with our Moving Glass Wall Systems 4454 E. Thomas Rd. Phoenix • 602-508-0800 • liwindow.com Mon-Thurs 8:30-5pm • Fri 8:30-4pm • Sat 9-2pm • ROC#179513 Up to$1500 OFFCall for details! COMMUNITY .............................. 17 BUSINESS ................................... 21 OPINION ..................................... 25 SPORTS ...................................... 29 GET OUT ...................................... 32 CLASSIFIED ............................... 39 ZONE 2 INSIDE see TOWER page 6 When entertainedMesa / P. 17 see HOTEL page 3 Get a room – and that’s about it inartMACMesapreviews/P.32 NEWS 10 Water feud among states stymies Mesa, other cities. SPORTS ...................... 29 Skyline coach changing football culture. BUSINESS ...................... 21 Father-son modernize Mesa market the oldfashioned way BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer Members of Arizona’s congressional delegation and dignitaries from the region will dedicate PhoenixMesa Gateway Airport’s new 199-foot air traffic tower. It’s a major milestone for the East Valley and the airport, but for the children of Queen Creek’s Geoffrey Minor, who managed the project for builder DPR, it will likely remain “Daddy’s tower.”
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As Assistant Economic Development Di rector Jaye O’Donnell said in an interview, “We need a hotel with a spa” in Mesa.
Garcia estimated that 35% of families traveling to Bell Bank Park for sports tour naments and other events are in the mar ket for full-service hotels, and right now they are booking in Chandler, Tempe and even downtown Phoenix instead of Mesa.
“I know I travel with my kids a lot for soccer, and my wife doesn’t always want to stay in a select-service hotel,” he said. “She likes to stay in a full-service and have the amenities that come along with it. “
Economic development leaders want to coax developers to bring more hotel op tions including higher-end, full-service hotels, which include amenities like res taurants, business centers, meeting spac es and spas.
Mesa is the birthplace of a brandnew facility that sheds new light on this pressing problem of peripheral neuropathy and chronic pain. The company is trailblazing the medical industry by replacing outdated drugs and symptomatic reprieves with an advanced machine that targets the root of the problem at hand. Effective neuropathy treatment relies on the following three factors: 1. Finding the underlying cause 2. Determining the extent of the nerve damage (above 95% nerve loss is rarely treatable)
Garcia said change is especially need ed as attractions like the Bell Bank Park sports complex get into full swing and Mesa’s industrial sector grows. Business executives traveling with ex pensive accounts are one major market for higher-end lodging. “A lot of executives in the c-suite (ex ecutives like CEOs, CFOs, etc), they want a full-service hotel, and if Mesa doesn’t have it, they do wander to our neighbor ing communities.," Jabjiniak said.” But it’s not just executives that want greater amenities when they travel.
Jabjiniak said the city is focused on growing hotel inventory overall and in creasing the share of full-service hotels, but he can’t force developers to put in certain hotels. However, he’s talking with developers about the need for diversity in the hotel market, and making the case that Mesa now has a strong market for higher-end accommodations.
Jabjiniak said the latest travel figures from Visit Mesa are improving the busi ness case for building high-end, full-ser vice hotels in Mesa, as well as the addition of new attractions bringing in a range of travelers to the city. “You need a layering of leisure travel, sports tourism, business travelers to really make those (high-end) projects pencil out, and I think we’re there,” Jabjiniak said.
The state-of-the-art facility – offering video production and digital technology “will have a tremendous economic impact in downtown,” the city said in release. It expects annual direct revenue to be $7.45 million and indirect economic activ ity totaling $9.18 million yearly.
4 NEWS THE MESA TRIBUNE | AUGUST 21, 2022 TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF It’s been more than two years in the making, but Arizona State University’s new media center is ready to welcome students to downtown Mesa. With a $100 million investment by Mesa and ASU, the university’s Me dia and Immersive eXperience Center (MIX) at 50 N. Centennial Way is open.
Downtown Mesa has seen major growth in recent years with significant housing projects, commercial development and new businesses: The city said 397 housing units have been added since 2020 – more than the 254 created in the entire previous decade. Four multifamily complexes are under construction totaling 867 marketrate units and $201 million in capital investment and seven housing develop ments are currently in planning totaling 1,868Threeunits.major commercial projects with a combined total of 31,000 square feet are under construction and two more with a combined total of 48,600 square feet are being planned and 21 new businesses have set up shop since 2020 with eight more under lease or“Thedevelopment.excitement is palpable in down town Mesa,” said Nancy Hormann, presi dent & executive director for the Down see ASU page 6
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“The opening of the new ASU MIX Center to students this week is an excit ing milestone in the evolution of Mesa’s downtown innovation district,” said May or John Giles. “This next phase of the partnership be tween the City of Mesa and Arizona State University is further expanding education al opportunities and adding to a uniquely skilled workforce in our city. “ He called MIX “a game-changer for downtown Mesa” with programs “that will develop technology to impact nu merous industries, like gaming, film and design, along with applications that will serve healthcare, aviation and advanced manufacturing.”
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Southern Avenue and Alma School Road. At the dedication, which is not open to the public, officials will announce the traf fic control tower’s name, chosen to honor an Arizonan who worked hard to make the $30 million tower a reality.
The new tower will double the number of air traffic controllers who can occupy the control cab at the top, from four cur rently to eight, and includes two floors of space below the cab for training, breaks andAirmeetings.TrafficManager Doug Mack called the new tower “absolutely amazing.”
Downtown has been dubbed Mesa’s in novation district, what it calls “the historic core and where ideas are born to take us into the Studentsfuture.”attending the MIX Center will be making films, designing new virtual worlds and video games and creating other immersive media experiences of all kinds. It will house The Sidney Poitier New American Film School. “Arizona State University is thorough and strategic in assessing needs and es tablishing presences in the communities it serves,” said ASU President Michael M. Crow. “Universities are their own, comprehen sive economic engines, and with all that historic Mesa has to offer, we are proud to work with the City to open and help Mesa City Center and the surrounding area to flourish,” Crow added. The MIX Center is part of the ASU at Mesa City Center complex, a collaboration between the City of Mesa and ASU. While students expand their knowl edge and create new applications for film and digital technologies in the areas of healthcare, aviation, and public safe ty, The Studios at 59 E. First St. will be what the city called “the public’s front door to innovation.”
One of the interesting features of the tower is the cab and offices on top of the shaft are made from just two pieces of pre fabricated steel, weighing 206,000 pounds and 110,00 pounds, respectively. The climax of the entire build may have been when a crane hoisted up those massive pieces and placed them on top of the shaft in two separate picks in Au
Minor said he will be out-of-town working on another project during the dedication, but other representatives for DPR will be at the event.
Ryan Smith, communications and government relations director for Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Air port, shows off the view from the new control tower. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer) town Mesa Association. “Since it was first announced that ASU was opening, the chatter over the impact has been con stant between the business owners and developers.“Overthe last few years, the growth here has been incredible. Having a strong student base in the heart of down town further solidifies that we have the means and stability to continue to be a major player when businesses are look ing where to open up in the Metro Phoe nix area.”
The newly completed tower, which will go into service Aug. 26, is seen as a key step in the airport’s ambition to become a world-class hub of travel and commerce.
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The existing tower has been in service over 50 years, and is one of the busiest contract traffic control towers in the U.S. Contract towers are air traffic control towers staffed by employees of private companies rather than by Federal Avia tion Administration employees. Roughly half of the nation’s towers are contract. Airport spokesman Ryan Smith said the facility’s current and future demands had exhausted the capabilities of the old tower.
“ASU and the City of Mesa will collabo rate to foster business partnership and provide educational and professional training in entrepreneurship, digital lit eracy, future technology and small busi ness,” the city said. The Plaza at Mesa City Center will cre ate a major public civic space. It includes an interactive water feature, an iconic shade canopy over an area for the Merry Main Street ice rink and other events and a large lawn space to view movies and vid eos on an exterior high-resolution screen on the adjacent MIX Center.
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The new tower also occupies a better position at the airport, Smith said, giving controllers enhanced visibility for manag ing aircraft all across the facility. The better visibility is important, he said, because PMGA currently handles such a wide array of air traffic: F-16 fight er jets, large commercial planes, small propeller planes, Apache helicopters and more.InJuly, space tourism company Virgin Galactic selected PMGA as the site of a fi nal assembly location for its spaceships. So, the “and more” above may eventu ally include large Virgin Galactic “mother ships” carrying spaceships on their under bellies between Mesa and the company’s New Mexico spaceport
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The new tower took just under two years to build. Minor said the project has a lot of “unique features,” requiring “coordination like none other than I’ve ever participated in in my career.”
gust“Just2021.the physical act of picking that up” was challenging, Minor said, as well as making sure the two massive steel pieces were perfectly level and lined up with the connection points. “The rigging had to be perfect,” Minor said.Another key feature of the tower is be lowWhileground.the usable square footage of the tower is relatively small, the structure is “built like a high rise,” Smith said. “It will withstand 100 mph wind, earthquakes – it will stand the test of time.” To resist lateral forces on the tower from wind and seismic activity, Minor said the tower is built on a 6-foot slab of reinforced concrete on top of 37 caissons – holes drilled 80 feet deep into the ground and filled with reinforced concrete. Smith said airport leaders are “really proud” of the new tower. “We had to move mountains to get it ap proved – had to change laws,” Smith said. Smith explained that the FAA used to have a $2 million cap on grants for con tract airport control towers. Following a major effort by Arizona’s congressional delegation, a 2018 bill elim inated the restriction on funding for con tract towers, clearing the way for PMGA to build the high-tech tower with federal support.“Previous mayors and congressional delegations had to work hard to convince government” to change the law, Smith said.
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According to wildlife specialists, the best way to keep all of that from happen ing is to turn a high-pressure hose on the bobcats before they get comfortable and think that your backyard is a great place to start a family. “It’s a delicate balance between under standing that bobcats are here in amongst us but not encouraging them to stay in our backyards,” Burnett said. “Not feeding them. Not putting water out specifically for them so that they will stay in our backyards. When bobcats are too close, incidents happen. They can be come aggressive towards people.”
He also uses motion detector lights and sprinklers to deter them from becoming full time backyards residents. Coonrod says the number of bobcat in teractions likely will increase as the popu lation expands at the urban fringes and drier weather patterns persist. Both he and Burnett say they are not an inherent danger in a backyard; the prob lems arise when people do things that they shouldn’t. So, wildlife officials say to have the best possible outcome of coexisting with wild life is to enjoy it, but at arm’s length. And don’t roll out the welcome mat.
“I have seen bobcat calls go up,” said Robert Coonrod, a permitted wildlife specialist who started a business called Arizona Wildlife Relocation Services spe cifically designed to remove bobcats and other wildlife from residential areas. Coonrod is the person Phil Cameron called for help when the injured bobcat stuck around in his backyard. “I try to educate people as to why they are there, and what they can do to allevi ate that problem because if I trap the ani mal, all I am doing is taking that animal out and putting up a vacancy sign for the next one to move in, whereas if we get the animal to move on its own, it relocates,” Coonrod explained. Coonrod also uses scent deterrent, in cluding scat from predators, to keep bob cats at a distance.
This bobcat was spotted in one Ahwatukee resident’s backyard. (Facebook)
Enter little dogs and cats that may be minding their own business in the back yard and may come between the mother bobcat and her kittens. “Bobcats are all cute and fine until the mom hisses at a grandchild,” Burnett said. “Instinct is automatically going to take over. No one wants to have their dog eaten.”
This bobcat cub scampered across an Ahwatukee driveway. (Facebook)
What to do if you encounter a bobcat in your yard: • Do not approach them • Haze with a water hose. Encourage them to move
“Urban bobcats are definitely here to stay,” Burnett said. “If we set up a KFC next door, they’re not leaving.”
“I use mountain lion poop in certain yards because that’s an apex predator,” he said. Bobcats will steer clear when they think there is another predator.”
“Anecdotally, it’s more than just a slight uptick,” said Amy Burnett, a spokeswom an in the department’s east Mesa office. Ahwatukee homeowners may not be surprised by Burnett’s observation: in re cent months, numerous photos have been posted on social media by residents who found bobcats perching on walls, scam pering across driveways and even taking a nap in their bushes. While the state doesn’t have official numbers on bobcat encounters in resi dential areas, drier conditions have driven more of them in search of readily available water and shelter, she said. “We have inadvertently created nurseries in our backyards for bobcats,” Burnett said. “The living is so easy, really. The resources are so rich in our urban areas. The bobcats are living the high life and urban bobcats are thriving in our urban interface.” “What’s happening in these urban areas is that we now have generations of bobcats living in amongst us that are used to get ting water and food from our backyards. That in and of itself is not the problem. It’s when we are okay with it and we are not scaring them away when we see them.”
Bobcats aiming to make a backyard a home
8 NEWS THE MESA TRIBUNE | AUGUST 21, 2022 BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer Chasing wild bobcats may not seem like a good idea but the Arizona Fish and Game Department calls it the best way to keep them from starting families in your backyard and adding to the growing population of bobcats putting down roots in residential areas.
• If the animal is injured or you per ceive a direct threat, contact Arizona Wildlife Relocation Services: Southwest wildlife: (480) https://www.southwestwildlife.org/471-9109
• Keep pets inside
As the Valley has sprawled in every direc tion, the number of wildlife encounters has increased. It used to be that state officials would get calls from residents living on the fringes who hadn’t seen bobcats before. As people started to get used to seeing bobcats on the outskirts, Game and Fish started hearing more from people living in more urban areas. “Then, as people get used to bobcats liv ing in and among their communities we get fewer calls from those areas and bob cats seem to be living all in our metro ar eas now, even urban areas, so we don’t see the phone calls on the fringes any more but we are getting them in the interior,” saidPhilBurnett.Cameron, who lives in North Scott sdale, has had his share of backyard bob cats, including an injured one that took up residence in his yard for several days and had to be rescued. “This is the first time I’ve ever had to call someone to help us out with an animal in the yard,” he said. “We’re careful. Like anything else, if we see it, we stay away from it. Like anything with Mother Nature, we respect it and give it a wide berth.”
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“Municipal water providers face op erational challenges with their treatment plants and delivery systems without knowing how significant a cutback will be required from their Colorado River water supply,” the AMWUA stated. “These challenges include determining how to move their other water supplies –groundwater and Salt and Verde River wa ter – to ensure the reliability of their sys tems. These adjustments require time for planning, stretching their existing work force, and a significant amount of money from already set budgets for 2023.”
There was hope that the states, faced with the increasingly realistic threat of dead pool conditions on the Colorado and loss of hydropower production, would come together and deliver a deal. But those hopes were dashed early last week as states started to point fingers when the deadline passed.
“We’re going into a very active period of time for wells,” Hassert said. “The last de cade or so was really a lot of attention on plant expansion and transmission mains, and the wells largely did not have a lot of investment.“Butnowwe’re going into a point where we have to catch up with that investment.” This is the type of work Arizona cities need to perform in order to adjust to big Colorado River cuts. No Deal There was recent precedent for Western states working together successfully to saveNevada,water.California and Arizona collabo rated in 2020 when they created the 500+ Plan to voluntarily leave 500,000 acre-feet in additional water in Lake Mead in 2021 to protect water levels. In that deal, California, which has more senior water rights than Arizona, agreed to give nearly as much water as Arizona. That was a pleasant surprise for Glen dale’s Water Resources Manager Drew Swieczkowski, who called California’s ro bust participation in the 500+ Plan “un usual” because California typically fights “tooth and nail for their water,” Swiecz kowski said. But Swieczkowski’s comment appears to have been prophetic of the current impasse, as the vastness of the new cuts required evidently overcame any earlier fellow-feeling among states. As AMWUA put it, the states failed to “overcome provincial self-interests and develop a holistic approach for protecting the river for all users,” Arizona and Nevada both issued letters this week blasting other states for their unwillingness to adequately sacrifice for the greater good.
The latest U.S. Bureau of Reclamation report paints a grim forecast for water levels in the two lakes that serve Arizona and six other states. (Bureau of Reclamation)
The Aug. 15 deadline coincided with the release of the latest 24-month study, which projects reservoir levels for the coming two years. As was widely expected, the new projec tions put Arizona, California and Nevada see
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10 NEWS THE MESA TRIBUNE | AUGUST 21, 2022 BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer In the West, whiskey is for drinking; wa ter is for Arizonafighting.residents felt the reality of that maxim on Aug. 15 as several West ern states announced that two months of closed door negotiations to cut an emer gency 12% to 25% from next year’s Colo rado River withdrawals had yielded bup kus.The Bureau of Reclamation in June demanded the deep cuts to bolster the amount of water in Lakes Powell and Mead, which have been dropping faster than predicted in recent years amid longterm drought and warming climate. About a third of Arizona’s annual water supplies come from those reservoirs.
District 6 Council member Kevin Thompson, who represents Mesa on AM WUA’s board of directors, did not respond to a request for comment in the wake of last week’s water news. Mesa officials put on a brave face after the news of the states’ failure, saying the city would remain in Stage One of its wa ter shortage plan for now. The city also noted its success in con serving water, saying that the Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities De partment had cut its water use by 14% since the city enacted its water shortage plan in May. City officials also encouraged residents to consider ways to conserve water. Mesa’s top water official assured residents that the city’s water infrastruc ture could adjust to cuts in Colorado Riv er water next year – whatever they end up being.
“We’ve strengthened the reliability of our diverse water portfolio, analyzed in frastructure needs to ensure water can be moved where needed, optimized opera tional efficiencies and planned and invest ed in new infrastructure to access more water,” Mesa’s Water Resources Director Chris Hassert said. Mesa has groundwater rights and plen ty of water banked in underground aqui fers – the equivalent of the city’s entire consumption for five years – but rapidly moving groundwater to replace Colorado River supplies is not a cake walk for water managers.Inbudget discussions in April, Has sert said that Mesa needed to expand its groundwater pumping capacity by drill ing four new wells in southeast Mesa and re-drilling six aging wells in central Mesa – over 50 years old – that are “just beyond their useful life.”
Arizona’s delegation of negotiators said in a statement that “Arizona and Nevada put forward an aggressive proposal that would achieve 2 (million acre-feet) of reductions among the Lower Basin and Mexico in 2023 and beyond. That propos al was rejected.” The high-level fighting between states means that Mesa may be waiting several more months to find out exactly how much of its Colorado River water alloca tion is going to be tied up in conservation next year to shore up the reservoirs. Mesa’s water portfolio currently con sists of about 55% Colorado River water, so hits to that part of its supply are sig nificant.Arelease from the Arizona Municipal Water Users’ Association, of which Mesa is a member, highlighted the challenge for cities heading into what could be months of arguing and potentially litigation over how much each state must give up. The immediate problem for Arizona cities is not water supply, the group said, but the “unpredictability” of how much Colorado River water will be available next year and beyond, making planning difficult.
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Arizona’s negotiators were Arizona De partment of Water Resources Director Tom Buschatzke and Central Arizona Proj ect General Manager Ted Cooke “It is unacceptable for Arizona to con tinue to carry a disproportionate burden of reductions for the benefit of others who have not contributed,” the men wrote in a statement after the deadline. They said Arizona is committed to a plan that protects the reservoir system “through equitable contributions from all waterArizonausers.”Senator Mark Kelly also chimed in last week via a letter to Interior Secre tary Deb Haaland, complaining that “Ari zona has already reduced its consump tion of Colorado River water at a pace and scale not seen in other states.”
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WATER from page 10 in a deeper tier of the 2019 Drought Con tingency Plan, Tier 2a from Tier 1. That was actually a bit of good news, though, as water managers thought the projected lake levels could be low enough to put the states in Tier 3 of their droughtCaliforniaplan.doesn’t have to make any cuts under the drought contingency plan until Tier 3. But the cuts under the plan pale in com parison to the extra cuts the Bureau of Rec lamation is saying are needed to protect power generation and water flows in the reservoirs, which in its latest calculations are estimated to be between 600,000 AF (acre feet) to 4.2 million AF, depending on Lake Powell’s inflow. Many stakeholders worried the federal government might drop the hammer if the talks this summer failed, immediate ly issuing its own plan for cuts among the states in the absence of a voluntary deal.
esa is seeking an artist or a team of artists to help visualize its booming economic development.
City marketing arm seeking public art work
The office would meet the selected three artists or artist teams and communicate to them the nature of the department’s work and what it seeks to portray in the sign. At this point, they will be asked to de velop a concept according to their inter pretation.Afterthe concepts are submitted, the project awardee will be selected. Recently, Mesa posted an RFQ to select a muralist to portray the flavor of the Asian Business District and received 31 entries.
Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton issued some stern remarks to this effect in a June congressional hearing, warning, “It is in our authorities to act unilaterally to protect the system and we will protect theButsystem.”inarelease following the missed deadline, the Interior Department took a softer approach, promising “continued engagement with impacted states and Tribes” going forward. In pledging to focus on “consensus support,” and “system conservation and voluntary agreements” without a specific timeline, the feds have backed off being the stern teacher in the unruly classroom.Somemunicipalities may have pre ferred the feds stepping in at this point with a stronger hand, as entrenched positions among the states may lead to continued uncertainty surrounding future cuts, making water planning more difficult forU.S.cities.Rep. Greg Stanton, whose district includes west Mesa, chided the Depart ment of the Interior about its soft-touch approach at this point in a letter last week.
O’Donnell doesn’t expect quite that many submissions for this project because it’s not limited to painting or designing, and will involve fabrication. “It’s going to require a higher level of en gineering or design,” she said. For details on the call for artists on the monument sign project, visit selectmesa.com/about.
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When the applications have been re ceived, the panel will evaluate and identify the top three artists or artist teams. The evaluation criteria give 40 percent for the quality of art samples; 25 percent for experience; 25 for demonstrated abil ity to complete projects on time and on budget; and 10 percent for professional references related to public art and/or monument sign installations.
“The Department’’s failure to act as well as its failure to require all basin users to share the sacrifice to solve this crisis has created a significant state of uncertainty that pushes this delicate system closer to collapse,” Stanton wrote.
The city’s Office of Economic Develop ment, which is moving in December to a new location at 120 N. Center St., wants to install an exterior public art/monument sign at the site. The office is considered the marketing arm of the city. To that end, Mesa has posted a request for qualifications for interested artists to submit their qualifications for the project by Sept. 6. The installation must be concluded by spring or early summer next year. The budget for the project ranges between $30,000-$50,000, according to the city. While Mesa artists are strongly encour aged to apply, applications are open to those who live and work in Arizona. What should the monument look like? “We don’t have a set vision of what ex actly we want,” said Jaye O’Donnell, assis tant economic development director. “We want the artist to interpret what creative, dynamic, bold and vibrancy means to them in a sign for economic development for one of the largest cities in the country.” The sign should be lighting capable, at tached to the building facade or installed to stand alone. Its size will depend on its location at the site. The materials used must be able to withstand environmental conditions of the area, and stable enough to withstand wind and other weather elements. The design should also consider the aes thetics of the horizontal building and its landscape.Overall,the sign should serve as a bea con to residents, visitors and business de cision makers alike. “The Office of Economic Development is excited about the project, because to us, this is more than a sign and the building is more than just a place where we do busi ness,” O’Donnell said. “This is oftentimes the first place that companies come and site selectors come to meet with us and to see the city,” she added.“So,this is an important piece and not just signage but really art that will com municate the importance of economic development and the vibrancy of the city ofThroughMesa.”
the year, various sites in Mesa, including the downtown, have been se lected to construct and house high caliber businesses.Earlierthis month, real estate develop ment firm Clayco broke ground for a flexindustrial development in Mesa’s Pecos Advanced Manufacturing Zone. In March, Fujifilm announced an ex pansion of its Mesa facility to supply the semiconductor industry; in July, Virgin Galactic signed up to build a spaceship manufacturing facility near the PhoenixMesa Gateway Airport; last November, Gulfstream announced a new aircraft ser vice center, also near the airport. New and gleaming buildings offer the impetus to attract even more. This is the flavor and excitement that the economic development office seeks to capture with its signature monument. At the outset, the RFQ does not require artists to submit a concept or a render ing. The selection panel is looking for in novation and high-quality work done in the“Ratherpast. than saying this is what I would do on the site, it’s ‘what have you done’ and ‘what is the quality of the work?’” that matters, O’Donnell said, adding “We do want professional artists who have expe rience in this arena.”
The City of Mesa Office of Economic Development is looking to install a public art/monu ment sign in the exterior of its new premises. (City of Mesa.)
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Though not as large as previously an nounced, XNRGY touted its economic impact on the city, predicting 800 fulltime jobs on site with an average wage of $65,000 per “Operationsyear.will help serve the needs of the region’s growing economic partners who specialize in the industries of semiconductors, mission critical systems, data centers, life sciences, health care and elec tric vehicle batteries.”
In the project narrative submitted to Mesa by project architect Gensler, the company says it expects to occupy the first building in August of 2023 and the second inXNRGY2024. found a good location for its line of work, ensconced in the Elliot Road Tech Corridor, where Meta’s mega data center campus is underway to the west and numerous other data centers and high-tech businesses are in business or setting up shop. The parcel for the proposed manufac turing buildings are part of the Mixed-Use Community District of the Mesa Gateway Strategic Development Plan. “This district is envisioned to be the area that solidifies the goal to balance land uses and provide sustainability through the creation of a live/work/play commu nity,” the project review comments state.
14 NEWS THE MESA TRIBUNE | AUGUST 21, 2022 BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer Mesa has potentially landed a big economic fish – a $145 million manufacturing facility for pro ducing high-tech HVAC systems owned by Montreal-based XNRGY Climate Systems. The 500,000-square foot project is planned for the southwest corner of Elliot and Signal Butte Roads, south of the Apple dataXNRGYcenter.produces specialized climate control products for data centers, health care labs and producers of semi-conduc tors and batteries, among other industries. Cooling is critical to data centers and many advanced industries have exacting requirements for maintaining tempera tures of materials during the manufactur ingXNRGY’sprocess.submittal of preliminary plans to Mesa’s Planning Department last month was a victory for the city’s advanced manu facturing sector, as XNRGY was reportedly looking at multiple cities to plant its facility. The project is early in the entitlement process, and still needs to go before the Design Review Board, Planning and Zon ing Board and City Council. A press release in January stated only that the company was planning a move to the East Valley, and there were reports that the company was deciding between Chandler and Mesa. XNRGY selected Mesa, but the plans sub mitted to the city are half the size of the project announced in January. Still, the project, split into two 250,000 square foot buildings, is sizeable at full build out.
XNRGY also bills the project in its ap plication documents as a benefit to the region’s sustainability goals. The company says its “cutting-edge” HVAC products are more energy and waterefficient than competing systems, and its plant will have many eco-friendly features. The sustainability of data centers and semi-conductor plants has been a touchy subject in Arizona amid a 23-year drought that is drawing down water levels in the Colorado River reservoir system. Water is several orders of magnitude more efficient at conducting heat away from hot servers compared to air, so many data centers consume large amounts of water in their operations. Meta’s data centers are planning to use a water-cooled system in its Mesa plant, though the company says its system will use 40% less water than comparable op erations.Withthe volume of water that data cen ters require, some, including Mesa’s Vice Mayor Jenn Duff, have questioned wheth er data centers are an industry that Mesa should cultivate. In a the January release announcing its move to Arizona, XNRGY positioned itself
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The project narrative also notes that “sustainability is a key component to this design, which is currently targeting LEED platinum certification. “Use of natural materials, local sourc ing, low-water use and photovoltaics are examples of active strategies planned to reinforce XNRGY’s commitment to the planet as a responsible steward of the en vironment,” it says. XNRGY from page 14 BY JOSH ORTEGA Tribune Staff Writer In the heat of summer, one East Valley business hopes to bottle up donations for senior citizens. In March 2019, John and Ganeen Harst ick, and Trevor Keeling, purchased Always Best Care of Scottsdale and expanded the senior care business into Mesa and Apache Junction. Now, they’re looking for help in provid ing bottled water to needy seniors – but with an online twist. “Seniors in our community are strug gling right now with the effects of inflation and low-quality tap water in many areas,” Ganeen Harstick said. “Add in the oppres sive heat, and they are very vulnerable to becomingThroughdehydrated.”Sept.1,thecompany is hosting a bottled water drive online and then de liver those donated cases of water directly to the Superstition Community Food Bank. The donated cases of water will be for use at the food bank’s four hydration sta tions located throughout East Mesa. Harstick said this is the first time they’ve tried something like this and decided in light of the pandemic, they wanted to pro vide a no-contact method of donation. “We were trying something new so that people had the opportunity to give without having to go to the store,” Harstick said. Harstick said the idea also simplifies the donation process. “A lot of people don’t have time to go out to purchase cases, take it to a drop off station,” Harstick said. “And then those people have to take it and deliver it to the community of support.” Starting at $14.99, you can purchase two 24-count cases of Nestle Pure Life Pu rified bottled water on the YouGiveGoods. com website. They also have an option to donate four cases of water for $29.99 and 12 cases of water for $89.99, according to the website. Harstick said every purchase comes with a digital receipt for your tax-deduct ibleHarstickdonation.said she and her partners wanted to help a more localized charity but would eventually love to expand this effort across the Valley.
Clean Laundry was launched in 2014 in Waterloo, Iowa, by a father-and-son duo that wanted to create “a space where the customer experience was most impor tant,” the company said in a release. “Clean, comfortable, and highly effi cient machines were lacking in the area laundromats,” said co- founder, Ethan Akin, on how the concept was developed. “We wanted to give customers an alter native option that made doing laundry enjoyable.”Thestore comes with a kiosk applica tion and mobile-pay contactless option that allows customers to control and op erate their laundry from a mobile device without coins. The store is equipped with free highspeed Wi-Fi, water softeners, large screen HDTVs and state-of-the-art security sur
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15NEWSTHE MESA TRIBUNE | AUGUST 21, 2022 as a solution to issue of water and hyper scale data centers. “XNRGY is developing solutions that will not use millions of gallons of water per day,” the company wrote. “These sys tems are integrating very high-efficiency refrigerant systems coupled with propri etary machines moving the air. Immersion cooling is the next step. XNRGY wants to be part of the solution to cool hyperscale data centers without millions of gallons of water a day.”
“It’s a smaller food bank that may not have the availability to some of the other donations that are out there for some of the larger food banks,” Harstick said. Superstition Food Bank Executive Direc tor Erik Arriola said this time of inflation and economic downturn has created a greater need for goods and donations. “Our numbers are going up daily,” Ar riolaWhilesaid.he only started as the executive director just three months ago, Arriola said he’s already experienced the tremen dous need that exist in the area. He said on his first day the food bank broke a record by filling 295 request and has only watched that increase. Arriola said the food bank serves a wide range of demographics that come from as far west as Phoenix and as far east as Su perior.“People that were barely making it be fore aren’t making it now,” Arriola said. According to the website, the current tally sits at 18 donations out of the 100 set as the goal, but Harstick said they would love to get about 1,000 donations this year. “Our whole goal is just to be a part of the community, be in the community and to support wherever we can,” Harstick said. For more information or to drive2022yougivegoods.com/abc-mesa-waterdonate:
veillance.Onefranchise owner said, “This store is totally different from what everyone thinks of when they think laundromats. We are changing the narrative and offer ing a super clean enjoyable experience.”
TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF Mesa residents have a chance to do their wash for free at a new coin less laundromat opening tomor row, Aug. 22. Through next Sunday, Clean Laundry opening at 1130 S. Country Club Road, is inviting folks to try out for free their stateof-the-art touchscreen stainless steel ex press machines that wash and dry clothes in less than an hour. Unlimited free wash and dry will be available from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. each day and on-site attendants will show people how to use the machines.
Once the free-trial period ends, Regu lar operating hours will be 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Another Clean Laundry loca tion in Mesa is under construction on E. Brown Road and is scheduled to open later in the year. opening in Mesa with free try-out
Best Care co-owners John and Ganeen Harstick and Trevor Keeling are hosting a virtual water drive to help at-risk seniors who need to stay hydrated. (Special to the Tribune)
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Museum recounts Mesa as entertainment hub
It may be hard to believe to know that Mesa was once a mecca for entertain ment, the only Valley city besides Phoe nix that offered regular appearances by groups and performers of all kinds.
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And there are artifacts from the Mezo na, a multi-purpose facility that housed dances, theatrical productions, funerals, operas, fairs, movies. According to saltriverstories.org, the Mezona hosted Mesa’s first Edison moving picture machine in 1909 and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints held dances as well as classes and welfare proj ects there.
But a new exhibit that goes on public display starting Saturday, Aug. 27, at the Mesa Historical Museum likely will quell anyTheskepticism.exhibit,titled “Early Entertainment in Mesa, offers a collection of theater, movie and television photos and objects that give people a look at “how various forms of entertainment have captivated and transformed local audiences for over a century,” explained museum Executive Director Susan Ricci. “We’re highlighting all the earliest en tertainment venues in the early 1900s,” she said, adding the exhibit includes relics from long-gone places like the Zenos Coop Manufacturing and Mercantile Compa ny, which, until it was destroyed in a fire in the 1920s, used to host dances.
Renowned Mesa horticultural expert has floral design class
Mesa resident Dr. Dirk van Leenen has a bargain for anyone who wants to learn the art of floral design. An internationally accredited horticultural and floral design expert, he’s starting a 10-week instructional program Oct. 12 at the Las Sendas Clubhouse, 7900 E. Eagle Crest Drive, and each day’s lesson will end with students tak ing home a floral design. Van Leenen is only one of 12 Dutch master designers in the world and gave floral design les sons in 20 countries over 45 years as a representative of the United Nations.Anative of The Netherlands, he has spent his life working with flowers and has several degrees in horticulture and floral design. He also studied English at the University of Leiden in Holland and worked a number of years in Holland as an English teacher and has published four books. Three books comprise a trilogy of novels that detail how the Dutch Resistance helped Jewish families during World War II to escape Nazi concentration camps. The novels, including “Resistance on a Bicycle,” came from stories that van Leenen heard from his parents, who were part of that Resistance, as well as his own memories as a child grow ing up in those dark days, “They risked their lives to hide BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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Then there are pieces of memorabilia from the old Nile Theater, Mesa’s first air-conditioned building, which once had been the place to catch the latest on the silverAndscreen.therewas a dance theater started by a local rancher who didn’t think there was enough entertainment for young people. “It was very important to them,” Ricci explained. “We have quotes from people that they just would not miss a Friday night dance. It was just so important to the social life of everybody in the area.”
LEFT: Mesa Historical Museum Exhibition Designer Tony Peters adds artifacts to a new exhibit about the history of entertainment in the city. The exhibit opens Saturday, Aug. 27. RIGHT: One item in the exhibit includes plaster facade decorations, a piece of original carpet and a page from a movie guide from the former Nile Theater in downtown Mesa (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer) Mesa resident Dr. Dirk van Leenen is offering a 10-week course on floral design. (Special to the Tribune)
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Van Leenen, who studied horticulture at a university in Holland, said, “Even though these classes are for amateurs and hobbyists, the knowledge they gain will supersede that of many professional flower designers. … This is truly handsonHislearning.”classes have won plaudits from former students – and not just for the creations they learn to make. “This is so relaxing “ said Jean Perrin. “It’s like therapy.”
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Information: ideamuseum.org. One of the pieces in the i.d.e.a. Museum’s “Wing It” exhibit is this piece by artist Amanda Atkins, who developed a “Crow Speak” series in 2018 while battling endometriosis. “The work references symbols and feeling about the disease,” she said. (Facebook)
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many Jewish families from the Nazis and then shepherd them away to safety,” ac cording to a review of “The Last Train to the Concentration Camp." But war will be a far cry away from van Leenen’s classes. He has scheduled the two-hour class es, held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 p.m., so that the students will have an arrangement to take home every week – even for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Tuition is $495 but some might con sider that a steal since van Leenen pro vides all the materials – including the flowers, containers and tools.
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The classes are limited to 20 people. To find out more and sign up: 480512-9757 i.d.e.a. Museum is opening a gravity-defying exhibition, “Wing It! Things That Fly,” this week in the Whitman Exhibition Gallery that offers kids a chance to explore different perspec tives of flight and winged creatures. With a focus on STEAM, imagination and movement – there is something for kids of all ages, museum officials said. “As we develop new exhibitions at the i.d.e.a. Museum, we always seek to create innovative and interactive experiences for our community,” said museum Director Jarrad“’WingBittner.Itshowcases artists from around the world demonstrating varying forms of visual art on the theme of things that fly and paired with unique hands-on STEAM learning experiences that explore scien tific elements of flight.”
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“I basically break even,” van Leenen said, noting each arrangement a student takes home is valued at $50. He said a typical class involves about 20 minutes of theory – for example, that colors “have weight” and impact any ar rangement – followed by actual work on arrangements and concluding with cri tiques that he offers on every student’s work for the class’ benefit. Indeed the theory behind floral ar rangements is extensive, he said, and Dutch masters studied it for years.
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Children and families can test aerody namic forces with a wind tunnel, examine the makings of feathers under a MicroEye, create and tell a story of their own winged creature.Families will be visually taken by the interactive mural created by local artists Roy Wasson Valle and Koryn Woodward Wasson of Fireweather Studio. “It is a large interactive mural about be ing small, but part of the whole,” Bittner said. “It’s large scale in order to experi ence the elements in a size we are not ac customed to.” The mural incorporates touch, sound, smell and play. To help make the arts more accessible for all, i.d.e.a. Museum has three pairs of EnChroma Glasses to support guests with colori.d.e.a.blindness.Museum guests can borrow the EnChroma Glasses to enhance their mu seum experience. The glasses will allow most patrons with either Duetan or Protan color blind ness to see an expanded range of colors more clearly and distinctly. EnChroma’s color blind glasses are engineered utilizing a light filtering technique to give those with color blindness the ability to see a more of the broad spectrum of colors. Guests also can inter act with art created by local and national art ists, introducing chil dren to the world of art while promoting their self-discovery and selfexpression.Localartists include: Frank Gonzales of Mesa, who approaches his art with the weaving of sci ence and imagination, blurring the lines of re ality and idea; Amanda Adkins, whose story telling has been fea tured on NPR Morning Edition and has taught a community muralmaking course at Ari zona State University; and Aja Rolland, who said she takes “great pleasure in restoring broken, worn down, and abandoned canvases and making them into some thing that brings joy to others and is appealing to any color enthusiast.”
Also memorialized is the late countrywestern singer Waylon Jennings, who is buried in Mesa Cemetery; Jim Adkins, lead guitarist from the band Jimmy Eat World; and band leader and singer Buck Owens, who used to play his guitar and sing on the sidewalks of downtown Mesa before he set out to make fame and fortune in Cali fornia in the 1940s. The development of the exhibit was led by museum Operations Manager Shan non Maki. It will be open to the public through next June at the museum, 2345 N. Horne, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Admission ranges from $4 for those 5 to 17 years old to $7 for adults ($5 for seniors). Informa tion: mesahistoricalmuseum.com. from page
The Chandler Drum Circle is marking its 10th anniversary this year, but not a lot of people have probably noticed. For a drum circle, they’ve been prettyNowquiet.asthey are coming out of the pan demic, that might be changing.
LEFT: The Chandler Drum Circle is marking its 10th anniversary this year, though various occurrences stopped it from conven ing for seven years. Now it has found a home in the Chandler Library. RIGHT: Bart Salzman leads a drum circle rehearsal at the Downtown Library in Chandler. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)
The building started as a dance hall when it opened on Valentine’s Day 1908, Ricci said. During a private reception this Saturday before the 10 a.m. opening of the exhibits, guests will hear from Dilworth Brinton, the last general manager of the Mezona who was preceded in that job by his father and before that, his grandfather. This exhibit will run through June, 2022 and is part of the Mesa Historical Museum’s annual rotation of special ex hibits that highlight significant aspects of Mesa’s history.
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The drums began thumping again in January and attendance has been grow ing. Anyone can join and no musical talent or experience is needed. They have a lim ited number of drums available for anyone who wanders in. One person was attracted to the sounds and is now a regular part of the group is Niti Garg of Chandler. She said she was in the library and heard the drums, and felt compelled to see what was happening. “I come to the library with my kids all the time,” Garg said. “And one time I heard something going on. I was very shy, like what’s going on and they’re like, come, come. They’re very welcoming. I’m not a musician, I don’t play anything. And my kids enjoy it. So that is my number one thing.”
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“Last Sunday (Aug. 2) it was amazing,” said Bart Salzman, one of the co-founders of the group. “I’d say oh, we had 38 people here, that’s a record.” Salzman said he got the idea to start a Chandler drum circle after attending a First Friday event in Phoenix. He, Julia Norton of Sun Lakes and Lori Wollery of Chandler formed a drum circle that made its debut in 2012. Those first few events were held downtown during the farmer’s market. However, it wasn’t long before vendors trying to sell their food complained they couldn’t hear their customers because of theSo,drumming.theChandler Drum Circle moved to the SoZo Coffeehouse patio. However, dur ing the summer it started to get hot and there was not enough room for a drum circle inside. So the drums stopped beating for nearly seven years. Then came a surprising re quest: The Chandler Library was interest ed in hosting the drum circle. “I said, ‘My drum circle at the library? You've got to be kidding?’ So I responded to her, and I said, ‘Well, if you give us a room for free, yeah, I’d love to do it.’ We get an air-conditioned room once a month. She put us down and we started in 2018. “Then the pandemic hit.”
The exhibit also pays homage to four entertainers who called Mesa home at one point or another, including its latest celeb rity actor Tony Kotsur, this year’s winner of the Oscar for best supporting actor for his performance in “CODA.”
The true origin was discovered as the museum staff combed through a book about the Mezona that had been written by Mesa resident Nancy Dana Norton. “She interviewed all these people that grew up going to the Mezona and as I was looking through the book, I saw a picture of the disco ball and I thought it looked just like the one in our auditorium, and sure enough, it was.”
A drum circle at the library kind of de stroys the stereotype of a librarian shush ing everyone to be quiet. “We do story times here in the morn ing, and I will tell you right now, when you hear what 30, 40 kids jumping up and down and you know, it’s not a quiet place,” said Librarian David Mackay. Mackay says when the drum circle is going, you can feel it throughout the building. “I remember the first time that we had this, you know, back before the pandemic, I remember being like, what is going on? You could feel it. Like it was all over.”
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A facilitator leads the circle. Salzman said he feels very fortunate to get a profes sional, Frank Thompson, to volunteer to lead“WhatChandler’s.isamazing about him, is he doesn’t say anything, but you know when it’s time to stop,” Cassie Bentley said. “And every body stops. And he chang es the rhythm, he didn’t say anything. He just changed his rhythm in the beat and you just fol lowWolleralong.” y, one of ingsheexplainsco-founders,thewhyenjoysbepartofthe circle.“It’s amazing how we become cohesive,” she said. “When everybody comes in, and it’s like, ‘Well I don’t play drums, I can’t do this!’ And then it kind of becomes a heartbeat. For a non-professional bunch of amateurs, it’s an amazing thing to be part of.”
Most of the items were already in the museum – including a crystal “disco ball” that had been hanging in the museum’s now-closed auditorium actually harkened well to an era long before the BeeGees and Donna Summer. “It’s been hanging there for years and most of us didn’t know why that was hang ing there,” Ricci said. “We just thought it was from a disco event, but it was actually from the Mezona.”
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Established by Ray and Pauline Mathe son in 1966, Superstition Ranch Market has become synonymous with a little stretch of the gravel shoulder along the south side of Main Street just east of Greenfield Road. Its bright and artfully done hand painted signs on sheets of plywood and the white clapboard exterior of the place, shout out the daily produce sales, beckoning pass ersby to stop, park in the dirt lot, and take a gander at the fresh apples, strawberries and grapes on display. This is part farmers market, part old fashioned grocery store. “It’s kind of a hodge podge because of how they added on but we kept it kind of unique,” T.J. McCuin said. “When Pauline was ready to sell it she wanted us to keep it the same. That was kind of our selling point. We had the same vision.”
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The latest tool to solve your rat prob lem has arrived, but it’s not what you expect. Instead of eliminating rodents using poison or traps, a Phoenix company has developed a more humane method: “Rat birthSenesTech,control.”Inc.
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tion Agency-registered contraceptive for both male and female rats. “It’s so good for the environment and just being a kind human,” said Kim Mea gher, the founder of Wildhorse Ranch Rescue in Gilbert and an early customer of Contra Pest. “There are a lot of us who don’t want to harm critters, so it’s a really nice way to take care of your rodent population,” sheAnimalsaid. lovers, like Meagher, aren’t in terested in killing any. So, when Meagher’s rescue of 27 years developed a roof rat is sue, she searched for non-lethal ways to eradicate the infestation. That’s when she found ContraPest.
McCuin is intent on continuing Supersti tion Ranch Market’s success in pretty much Mesa market ‘modernizes’ by staying old-fashioned
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BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer Now 85, Terry McCuin was retired, living his best life at a lake house in Montana, pretty much minding his ownButbusiness.whenhis 62-year old son T.J. called him with a business proposition, Terry was back in the fold. And it really didn’t take much armtwisting.“Webrought dad in and dusted him off and put him back in the chair and put him back to work,” chuckled T.J. McCuin. “This wasn’t his dream. This was mine. His dream wasn’t to go back to work at 78.” It might not have been Terry McCuin’s dream, but it was his fault. Terry had heard a rumor that the iconic Superstition Ranch Farmers Market in northeast Mesa might be for sale. He had worked there, managed the place, really, in the 1990’s. He called T.J. and “suggested that maybe you oughta give Pauline a call,” he said. “Maybe I shouldn’t have told him.”
“It took care of our population in a very humane way very quickly,” she said. Rats weren’t the only animals Meagher was concerned about. She had seen a notice posted by Liberty Wildlife, of Phoenix, about how rodenti cide poisoning not only kills rats, but also the eagles, hawks, owls, livestock and oth er wildlife or pets that eat them. She was thrilled to have found a solution that doesn’t harm any animals and actu ally“Youworks.can poison or kill as many as you want all day long, but they’re still going to have babies,” Meagher said. “You’re not ContraPest, a new fertility control technology for managing animal pest populations, fits into a box with a hole for the critters to get into. (Special to the Tribune)
Terry McCuin and his son T.J. McCuin run the Superstition Ranch Market in Mesa. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)
The sweet, fatty liquid formula has prov en successful in reducing rat populations, in turn preventing the serious property damage, dangerous food contamination and disease spread caused by rodents. To learn more or to order ContraPest or the Elevate Bait System with Contra Pest, call 1-866-886-RATS or visit con trapeststore.com.
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“I think the thing that keeps it going is the relationships,” he said. “You have the same relationships that we had in the 90’s now, and that’s kind of the fun part. A lot of the buyers we had back then know me now and we have kept all those relationships.
It’s not just consumers who are pleased with ContraPest, the rats love it too. “They fight over it,” said Meagher, who set up a rat camera to make sure that the rats were actually drinking ContraPest, and sure enough, they were.”
T.J. McCuin’s other specialty has been his ability to foster and maintain close con tacts with suppliers, growers, truckers and all the people in between over the years.
“To me, that’s when you know you’ve been successful when you get that feed back from the next generation to the next generation. That’s the whole goal. To me, that’s success.”
Those changes are directly reflected on the store shelves.
THE MESA TRIBUNE | AUGUST 21, 202222 BUSINESS the same way, and not changing the model that has led to that success: buying what suppliers still need to get rid of after the “big guys” have bought their truckloads. “When Del Monte has a truckload of ba nanas come in and they’ve sold to Costco and they’ve got six pallets left and the next bin is coming in, they’ll call us up and say ‘we’ve got six bins of bananas,’” he said. “We are there to clean up what’s left. That’s kind of our niche.”
Those coolers are inconspicuously out of sight behind the market where the fruit sorting machine is.
Information: superstitionranchmarket.com. 480-832-3421 from going to get them all. They’re going to re produce faster than you can exterminate all of them.”
“It’s old school,” Kailas said. “Nothing terribly fancy. Although they have upgrad ed it the last couple of years – shelves and different products, things that they never used to have before.” Weather patterns have shifted and growing seasons have tightened. All of that has a domino effect on the rest of the supply“Foodchain.isgetting short,” Terry said. “It’s probably mostly weather. There is a big gap when you can’t get it. The weather is so bad. A crop will be ready now and then three months later the next crop is ready. Climate change is part of it.”
T.J. said growers have had to be nimbler with crop management and feel pressure to become more profitable. Less water in California means more growers are going to Mexico, for example. “A lot of the growers don’t grow near what they used to in the ‘90s,” he said. “You got a ton less strawberries today than you did (then). And there are corporate factors, too.
“The produce is always good and the prices are always probably better than the grocery stores,” said Michael Kailas, who has been coming here for 35 years.
“For me, success is when somebody walks in and they’ve got a little kid with them and they say ‘when I was a little girl, my mom brought me here and we used to get taffy,’” said T.J. McCuin. ‘Or, I shopped here when I was a little girl and I love it.’
Conventional methods of reducing rat populations simply can’t overcome their rate of reproduction. If left unchecked, rodents will do what they do best – reproduce rapidly. Two sexually active rats can be respon sible for the birth of up to 15,000 de scendants in just one year, according to SenesTech CEO Ken Siegel. If the breeding isn’t stopped, then you can’t get a handle on the “Onepopulation.sideofthe equation is the birth rate, but the other is the death rate,” Siegel said. “Rats become mature in a very short period of time and then they can have a lit ter of pups basically every six weeks. “The pups become mature and they have pups. You see a geometric explosion in the population. If you’re simply relying on death, you can’t kill them fast enough or sustainably enough to offset how fast they reproduce. That’s why birth control is so ContraPestimportant.”works because of its two active ingredients. The first ingredient reduces the number of eggs female rats produce, while the second impairs sperm development in male rats. Although ContraPest targets the repro ductive capabilities of rats, it is not a ster ilant. For the product to be effective, rats must regularly consume it. Though Siegel hasn’t seen an effect in other animals, he knows that if a non-tar geted animal were to consume ContraPest then its effects would be temporary. With ContraPest not posing a danger to other animals or people, it’s no wonder why it is being used by many zoos, animal sanctuaries, farms, businesses and homes around the SenesTechcountry.wasfounded in 2004 to serve women’s health. It wasn’t until research ers developed a model for inducing meno pause in mice, which later became known as “mouseopause,” that they began look ing at birth control technology. Development of ContraPest took several years, but in 2016 SenesTech finally won approval from the EPA to market Contra Pest for use against rats. Now, the company has gone a step fur ther to eliminate roof rats in elevated spaces by designing the Elevate Bait Sys tem with ContraPest, which was approved by the EPA in March. “Elevate is a unique way to deal with a problem that no one has been able to tackle before,” Siegel said. “It enables for the first-time pest control to be easily de ployed above ground. Up until this point, there was really no way to deploy poison or ContraPest above ground. “So now there’s this groundbreaking dispensing system that you can put where the roof rats are most likely to be.” Roof rats spend about 90% of their life four feet or more off the ground, according to Maricopa County Vector Control. They can be found on power lines, fenc es, attics, garages, patios and more. So, SenesTech wanted to develop a better way to deploy ContraPest for roof rats.
The Elevate Bait System uses the same contraceptive but with a different dispens ing system that’s specifically designed for roof rats in elevated indoor spaces.
“It’s important with all of the buyers that we have had over the years to main tain that trust and maintain that relation ship so that we can continue to compete with the big guys.” Those are the people he depends on to do the carefully choreographed dance of getting fresh produce from the fields to the store, keeping it displayed all day, then storing it overnight to keep it ready to sell. “We probably have about 120,000 square feet of coolers,” McCuin said. “We keep the tomatoes a little warmer. They don’t like to be under 40 degrees.”
The suspended bait station is easily ac cessible by roof rats, but out of the way of people, pets, livestock and food stor age areas. It is more than 90% effective in elimi nating rat populations, according to SenesTech. This is especially important for Arizonans considering that Phoenix is ranked as one of the worst areas in the U.S. for roof rats.
“The Doles and Del Montes have moved in and taken over the smaller farmers and those accountants come in,” he said, explaining that they tally the amount of product sold the prior year, plant just that amount or less, and drive up prices. Somehow, though, in its funky, little side-of-the-road hybrid grocery store and farmer’s market, Superstition Ranch Mar ket has managed to continue to do what it does best – keep the aisles full of shop pers, and the produce fresh and attractive.
Neither grocery stores nor most farm ers markets have one of these: a long beltdriven rack that allows McCuin to accept, sort and sell locally grown fruit the same day that it’s Superstitionpicked.Ranch Market has a lot of loyal customers who swear by the place and won’t go anywhere else.
If it runs out before I fill it up, they’ll chew the container like, ‘Where is it?’ If one is drinking and taking too long, anoth er one will bump him out of the way like, ‘Hey, it’s my turn.’ They absolutely love it.”
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Rats drink about 10% of their body weight in water every day, according to SenesTech. So, ContraPest was formulated to satisfy their thirst.
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The late Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia often spoke of the Senate as if he had con fused both time and place. That was not due to diminished cognitive skills, though his Senate service spanned more than a half century and concluded with his death in 2010. Instead, it was due to his inflated sense of status about both the institution and his own reputation there. Byrd would employ his photographic memory and excessive sense of selfworth to recount episodes of political an tiquity from the Roman Senate, creating word pictures recalling a group clad in to gas, philosophizing and filibustering. That “Byrd’s Eye” view was a combination of “Ben-Hur,” “Gladiator,” and (surprisingly or not) “Animal House.” A Cinematic Senate? Better check the spelling…it’s really a “Sinematic Senate” these days, courtesy of Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema.Shecame into the chamber with her own sense of fashion and attitude, wear ing thigh-high boots like Jane Fonda’s “Barbarella,” employing a persona akin to Sigourney Weaver in “Alien,” and most recently, enacting a controversial highfinance provision that would warm the cold, calculating heart of Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street.” Kyrsten named a price for supporting Joe Biden’s inaccurately named “Inflation Reduction Act,” insisting on lower taxes— not for everyday Americans, but for the rich and “Sinemafamous.tookWall Street money while killing tax on investors,” read the headline from the Aug. 13 article written by the AP’s Brian ProspectiveSlodysko.opponents read it as a real opportunity—including possible oppo nents from within Sinema’s own party.
Instead, I try to hit golf balls on all the days of the week that end in the letter “y.”
BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist L et me begin by say ing that this is not a column about golf, though it begins with a story involving golf. Or, to be specific, a thought about golf. I was catching up with a buddy from high school, lamenting the state of mankind: politics, the workplace, gender relations, sports. Our friendship spans four decades, so we had a lot of complaining to do. We also share a golf addiction, so natu rally the game was a topic. Non-golfers are far more sane than actu al golfers having not subjected themselves to torturous years of chasing a dimpled white ball over hills, through deserts, into lakes and bushes, behind trees, and occa sionally into holes in the ground. They often ask golfers, “What the hell do you see in the game?” It looks miserable.” I’ve never had the perfect answer, un til that talk. I haven’t experienced many epiphanies, but this was one. Golf is lovable for the exactly the same reason so many of us detest everything else, from MAGA loons vs. progressive scolds, the latest episode of “Love Island,” Hollywood preaching, Inflation Reduction Acts that won’t reduce inflation, election controversies, Supreme Court controver sies, and even the PGA Tour vs. LIV Golf controversy.Playinggolf involves zero bull – un like virtually everything else in the 21stYoucentury.swing, you hit the ball, you count a stroke. Tally the strokes, that’s your score. The ball goes in the hole or not.
While the Washington Press Corps is ex cessively accommodating to Democrats, most political reporters are somewhat befuddled by Arizona’s senior senator and the mega dollars stuffed into her po litical war chest by hedge fund managers and their ultra-wealthy associates.
Over time, I seem to have shifted away from doing things that will likely deliver more such nonsense: Scrolling social me dia, watching or reading the news, going to Fourth of July barbecue picnics, striking up a conversation in line at Basha’s.
Of course, what Washington might col lectively regard as Kyrsten’s “LBJ Mo ment” isn’t a good look for her at all in Arizona.What’s good for Wall Street is not nec essarily good for Main Street or for your street…and it is absolutely objectionable on most streets in Flagstaff, Tempe and Tucson.Butit isn’t just the indoctrinated-asopposed-to-educated from our state sup ported universities who take umbrage; concern is also found among those from the “school of hard-knocks,” who have invested their own sweat equity in “boot strap” businesses and “mom-and-pop” en terprises, only to see a Sinema-sponsored see HAYWORTH page 27
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BY JD HAYWORTH Tribune WColumnisthoever said that “presidential politics is two thirds theater” and that the White House is a grand stage should have taken a closer look at the other end of Pennsyl vaniaThere,Avenue.onCapitol Hill, sits an institution called the “world’s greatest deliberative body” by some and the “world’s most ex clusive club” by others. You know it best by its proper name: The United States Senate. Among the 100 who serve are more than a handful who readily embrace the spectacle, pomp and prestige that comes with the title of “Senator.”
‘Sinematic’ moment for Arizona’s senior senator
Why golf is better than everything else
End of Whichdebate.iswhy after hours spent drenched in controversy, consuming, managing or writing about the news, it feels liberating to stand on a 108-degree golf course fac ing a 103-yard shot from the fairway to the flag. You swipe at the ball with a wedge. It comes to rest – somewhere. That’s oneUnlike,stroke.say, casting your election ballot – which may be a vote or may not, depend ing on which political party you’re in and whether your preferred candidate wins theOrelection.wishing a barista “good morning,” which risks using the wrong pronoun and creating a controversy where you only meant to be kind. Or deciding whether or not to pay an exorbitant sum to see Bruce Springsteen, because being ripped off by the voice of the working man would still get you in to hear “Born To Run” live – a bucket list item – but also subject you to a lengthy political rant, which you would absolute ly file under B. Not for Bruce or for Boss. But under B for “more bull.”
There’s a truth to the game that no lon ger seems to exist in so much of what we callLikelife.I said, this isn’t a story about golf. It’s a story about missing the days before all the bull, back when the news, actu ally real, was the only form of “reality TV.”
Back when the phrase “hey guys,” wasn’t grounds for a complaint to human re sources.
The sand shot rises out of the bunker and nestles beside the hole – or you skull it over a condo. Your putt spins around the hole and falls out. You tap in and add two strokes to your score.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Mesa Mayor grateful for congressman’s support In recent months, we’ve had plenty to celebrate in Mesa. Our growing economy has added thousands of new jobs and secured billions of dollars in new capital investment. Our downtown is thriving, and we continue to attract innovative businesses committed to Mesa’s future. As with any success story, it takes sup port and collaboration from every level, the confidence of residents, the strength of businesses, and partnerships with the community.Duringthis period of forward progress, I’ve been grateful to have consistent al lies at the federal level. Congressman Greg Stanton has been a tireless advocate for our city, helping to secure vital invest ments for our growing community. As a former big-city mayor, Stan ton knows that local leaders are best equipped to deliver programs and re sources to our residents. Throughout the pandemic, he kept his local experience top of mind, always pushing for cities to receive assistance needed to deliver an effective response to the health crisis. Federal aid during the pandemic helped bolster city services in Mesa, ensuring our ability to provide critical emergency response. Mesa received more than $90 million in funding through the CARES Act and an additional $105.5 million through the American Rescue Plan. These funds increased our capacity to shift gears and stand up support pro grams to deliver immediate relief for residents and businesses. Working closely with many community and faith-based organizations, we distrib uted more than 4 million meals to families in need, aided more than 800 small busi nesses with grants and technical assistance, and provided more than 8,000 households with rent and utility assistance. Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, one of the largest economic drivers of our city, is on track for its best-ever year of pas senger traffic. Stanton played an important role in securing $10 million in federal funds for the construction of a new air traffic control tower that will increase the air port’s overall capacity and potential for futureStantongrowth.also worked to support Mesa’s façade improvement initiative, an invest ment in our downtown and its small business community. He helped pass the Bipartisan Infra structure Law which will be a gamechanger for Mesa and Arizona. Those direct investments will benefit our local economy for years to come. In a time when partisanship is the reg ular headline, it may be surprising to see a Republican mayor thanking a Demo cratic representative. But we don’t build our future by work ing at odds with each other. That’s why it’s nice when this Republican mayor calls our Democratic representative in Congress, I always get one response: “How can I help?” As a city and a region, we’re making great strides; in growing our workforce and great job opportunities, supporting a strong economy, and providing es sential services to residents and busi nesses. We’re achieving milestones to gether. Neighborhood leaders and the business community, government and nonprofit organizations, mayors and federal officials, and, yes, Republicans and Democrats. -Mayor John Giles If Jarrad Bittner looks like he’s having fun, The new director Mesa’s innovative i.d.e.a. Museum forward children Read about him (Srianthi Perera/Tribune Contributor)
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27THE MESA TRIBUNE | AUGUST 21, 2022 provision eliminate a proposed “carried interest” tax increase on well-heeled and passive private equity investors. So the high-finance crowd will enjoy a $35 billion exemption that won’t exempt other corporations – or several small businesses.TheAParticle invites Arizonans of ev ery political stripe to connect the dots” “Sinema has long aligned herself with the interests of private equity, hedge funds and venture capital, helping her net at least $1.5 million in campaign con tributions since she was elected to the House a decade ago. But the $983,000 she has collected since last summer more than doubled what the industry donated to her during all of her preceding years in Congress combined.” Sinema is comfortable collecting all that cash, because she considers it a “wise investment” that will help her stay in the Senate. Besides, the Democrat Leader ship there won’t desert her in the event of an intraparty challenge back home. Talk is cheap…mounting a successful challenge to an incumbent Senator isn’t. Right now there’s a lot of chatter sur rounding Rep. Ruben Gallego but when push comes to shove, will Gallego give up a safe seat in the House for a high-risk SenateSinemaNope.run?will face a strong Republican challenge in 2024, but over the next two years, she will try to embody the predict able title of yet another Hollywood pro duction: “The Sure Thing.” HAYWORTH from page 25 Carpet • Tile • Grout • Upholstery • Air Duct Cleaning • Commercial & Residential Cleaning We only have one care. It’s Your Satisfaction. ANY 3 ROOMS Up to 600 sq. ft. total $9900 Prices Include: Truck Mounted Units • Pretreat Vacuum • Optical Brightener • General Soil Removal Also Available: Carpet Stretching • Carpet Repair BUSY LIFE? Call Today! Clean Today! ANY 5 ROOMS Up to 975 sq. ft. total $149.00Reg. $13900 $189.99Reg.WestMentionValleyViewforanExclusiveOffer! VALLEYWIDE SERVICE • 623-218-7044 PNPOneCareCleaning.com • pnponecarecleaningtoday@protonmail.com And back when someone could write “these truths are self-evident,” and inspire a revolution, not a food fight on three dif ferent TV networks with two political slants.And now, friends, back to the bull. LEIBOWITZ from page 25 Share Your Thoughts: Send your letters on local issues pmaryniak@TimesLocalMedia.comto: mpsaz.org | @mpsaz Join the Mesa Public Schools family! Perks include: • Competitive pay • Excellent health, dental and vision benefits for full-time employees • Arizona State Retirement System matched contributions • Flexible hours • Holidays off childrenMakeapositivedifferenceinthelivesofinyourcommunity. Apply today at mpsaz.org/careers or call 480-472-7200
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The Arizona Interscholastic Asso ciation Executive Board on Mon day approved an extra state track division and a true state championship format.Theproposal was announced Aug. 12 during the first annual AIA media day held at the association’s offices in Phoe nix. Executive Director David Hines also had updates on other sports, including football, basketball and girls flag football. “We will run a true state championship with a trophy and a banner,” Hines said. “We are going to have a California-style state meet where the elite of the elite get to go against each other.” State track will now have a fifth divi sion. Currently, there are four divisions, with the fourth designated for schools in the 1A, 2A and 3A conferences. Division V will be for 1A and 2A schools and leave Division IV for 3A teams. The other divisions — I, II and III — would remain unchanged, servicing 6A through 4ATheschools.proposal also included a new for mat for the state championship meet, which typically kicks off in the second week of May. The meet will now begin a week ear lier and crown division state champions. Divisions IV and V would compete at one location over the course of two days. Divisions II and III would compete the same day at a separate site, and Division I on its own elsewhere. From there, the top 18 athletes and teams for all events in all divisions will be merged and move on to compete in preliminaries of the overall state cham pionship meet. The top nine from each event would move on to the second day of the state meet. There, state championships for in dividuals and teams will be crowned. “We have done a lot of data on that,” Hines said. “At one point we would’ve had a 1A kid win the state championship, it was a girl that ran the 100. We had multiple kids at 2A and 3A that would be state champions and then of course four, five and six. It will be fun to watch.”
BY ZACH ALVIRA Tribune Sports Editor
AIA introduces big school sports changes
The Arizona Interscholastic Association on Friday announced a new proposal for state track that would crown a true state champion, much like in the Open Division for football and bas ketball, which will take place for the first time this year. (Dave Minton/Tribune Staff)
Schiermyer was hired by Skyline Athlet ic Director Phil Wail in January to replace former coach George Hawthorne, who led the Coyotes for three seasons but went 5-23 during that span. Wail surveyed players in the program and asked what they wanted in a head coach. In January, Wail said they wanted someone that would push them to suc ceed and hold players accountable. Schiermyer fit the mold. Accountability has been one of the main focuses for this year’s Skyline team as they prepare for the season. Alex Sargent, a 6-foot-2, 280-pound defensive lineman for the Coyotes, said he’s seen a noticeable difference in the discipline among players right away. In year’s past, he said players wouldn’t take things seriously on or off the field. That’s now changed. “We are working as hard as we can, on and off the field,” Sargent said. “It’s not just on the field, we have to do our school work, so we are able to play Friday night. It’s very important.” There was a point in time when Schier myer thought they would struggle to get 100 players out for practice across all lev els. So far, they have 130. His goal now is to keep the players in the program. His way of doing that is to match their energy level on a daily basis. It’s his
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Adam Schiermyer changing culture of Skyline football
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New Skyline coach Adam Schiermyer, with the help of juniors Alex Sargent, “middle,” and Jordan Blake, is out to change the narrative of the Skyline football program by establishing a culture that centers around hard work on and off the field. (Dave Minton/Tribune Staff)
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A dam Schiermyer knew taking over a Skyline program that has strug gled as of late would be a chal lenge. But it’s one that he embraced. Building up a program is something he had become used to in his three years as offensive coordinator at Eastmark. With his help, the Firebirds became a playoff team in just their second varsity season. Rebuilding the Skyline program won’t be easy by any means. But Schiermyer benefits from a group of players that are hungry to win and eager to change the stigma of the program. “In my eyes, they’re really responding to coaching and our expectations,” Schier myer said. “They want to be pushed. The cupboards weren’t bare when we got here. I think we’ve done a good job getting kids to come back out for football.”
Junior running back Jordan Blake believes they’ve made good prog ress so far. “We don’t want to be seen as a losing team anymore,” Blake said. “We want to get back to what we were when Paffumi was here. We want to be a winning team. We want to get some banners in the gym.” Skyline moved down to the 5A Confer ence this season from 6A after the latest AIA reclassification that takes place for football programs every two years. Schiermyer and his players expect the move to help the Coyotes compete in non-region games. He also has faith in his players to remain competitive against region opponents. Though, he admits the 5A Northeast Valley is still a gauntlet with Desert Mountain and Notre Dame Prep, two teams that could make a push for the Open Division, leading the way. He knows for his team to be successful it will require support from everyone on cam pus. He’s already received that from admin istrators and fellow teachers. He’s received it from the team booster club, too. But he hopes to provide free food and a fun game day atmosphere for students to get them to pack Coyote Stadium for home games. That’s something that has crossed his mind several times already, running out onto the field with his players in front of their peers. It’s a moment he is excited for. “I’m getting goosebumps right now just thinking about it,” Schiermyer said. “I just want to go out there and compete. Most coaches are in it for the competition be cause they were a competitor once. Then we hang them up and still have that juice. “Coaching is one of the ways we get it back.” Schiermyer was hired in January to take over the Skyline program. He previously was the offensive coordinator at Eastmark where he turned the Firebirds into a playoff program in short order. Now he’s hoping to lead Skyline to success. (Dave Minton/Tribune Staff)
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Hines said a vote in May by the 4A Con ference committee to continue includ ing the conference in the Open Division finished in a tie. But to offset that, new multipliers were introduced. All 6A teams will receive a multiplier of 10 after the regular season. Teams in the 5A Conference will have a multiplier of nine and 4A teams a multiplier of eight. Hines said this will even the playing field, to a certain degree. In retrospect, it will reward teams that play a tougher schedule in the higher conferences. And while it doesn’t fully eliminate 4A teams from contention, it makes their path to the Open harder. “Our process of reclassification has made a huge difference in the parity of high school football,” Hines said. “Even with the multiplier, if they’re good enough, a 4A team can still make the Open.”
The AIA will host an Open Division basketball tournament for boys and girls to conclude the winter sports sea son this year. It will feature the top eight teams from the 6A-4A conferences and the next best rated eight teams from thoseThoseconferences.32willbe put into a bracket, with the first round taking place before other conference tournaments. The sec ond round of the Open tournament will coincide with conference play-in games, which feature an additional 16 teams. Those who are eliminated from the Open Division will be placed back into the conference playoffs with teams that win play-in games. Those teams from the Open will main tain their original ranking before being taken to the Open tournament. The eight who remain in the Open will then play for a true state championship, much like the football format. Conference champi ons will still be crowned for 1A-6A. From the start of basketball playoffs through the first few days of March, the AIA will host 275 tournament games. All championship games will take place at Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.
way of showing them that their success is important to Schiermyerhim.admits he is hard on players in practice. He pushes them to their limit at times, but they have all come to realize it’s for their own good. It also helps when Schiermyer is right there doing the work with them. “If I’m going to ask them to run on and off the field, I’m going to do it with them,” Schiermyer said. “If I’m going to ask them to hustle their butts off, I’m going to hustle. I don’t want to be the guy that just stands there and directs. I want to be a part of it.” Skyline’s last taste of success came when Angelo Paffumi was at the helm. In 2015, Paffumi coached the Coyotes to a 12-1 record, which included a trip to the Division II – equivalent to the 5A Confer ence – semifinals. A year later, Skyline went 9-2 before a 6-5 campaign in 2017 and 5-5 in 2018. During that time, Schiermyer was an assistant coach under Preston Jones at Perry. He helped lead the Pumas to the championship in 2017 and 2018 with Brock and Chubba Purdy at quarterback, respectively.Schiermyer learned how to be a suc cessful coach during his time at Perry and Eastmark. He knows what it takes to run a program the right way and how to lead it to success. It starts with the work ethic from players and them buying into the philosophies ofNow,coaches.with the season begin ning shortly, it’s about putting it all together.
“It’s a humongous job but we’ve worked with the coaches and our schools, and we think we are going to have, basically, 30 days of state basketball,” Hines said. Hines said the AIA will also introduce 335-second shot clocks for 3A-6A con ferences this season. The 1A and 2A vot ed against them. During the regular season, shot clocks will be used if schools have technology in place. If they don’t, games will be played without them. In the playoffs, however, shot clocks are mandatory for all games. If a host school does not have the technology, the games will be moved to a different venue. “All state games, 3A through 6A, will use a shot clock,” Hines said. Girls flag football Girls flag football has grown exponen tially in the last few years. The Chandler district crowned its first-ever champion after district-play between the six high schools last spring. With Chandler leading the way, other districts have now started recruiting student-athletes for programs at their high schools. Mountain Pointe, all Mesa schools and others have jumped on board this year. With that, the AIA has identified girls flag football as an emerging sport. If it continues to grow, it could officially be come a sanctioned sport under the asso ciation as soon as next year. “We are going to have a committee together and start talking about that,” Hines said. “We are hoping to tie that to state football. The culminating event for that would be tied to our state football.”
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New for Open Division football
The Open Division for football was in troduced in 2019 to bring together the 6A-4A conferences and to crown a true state football champion. At the time, Saguaro was dominating at the 4A level. The Sabercats were moved up to the 5A level two years ago and again to 6A with the most recent update to the football classifications. That change also brought up teams like Cactus and Ameri can Leadership Academy - Queen Creek, two 4A schools that made the Open Divi sion last season.
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“Over the last couple of years, with what we’ve gone through, there was no way we were going to be able to write a love song on this record,” Told said. “The reality is that we .. were frustrated, we were scared, our mental health wasn’t the best and this is what came out from us. We had to get (this) off our chest.” Despite the dark nomenclature of the record, Told feels the record has been mutually cathartic for fans and himself. “When ‘Misery Made Me’ came out, the sentiment from our fans was, ‘We need ed you to say this,’” Told said. “With our fanbase, we help each other out. I give to them, and they give back to me. “The fact that the words and music that I’ve written has helped them through a dark time, in turn, helps me through a dark time because I know that what I’m doing makes a difference.”
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Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum will celebrate the opening of five new exhibitions with a free reception.Thereception, 6-9 p.m. Sept. 9 will in clude a Ron English pop-up store, mu sical entertainment by DJ Pickster and a cashHeadliningbar. MCA Museum’s fall season is cultural provocateur Ron English, who became notorious for his illegal billboards in the 1980s and was later known for his visual satires of mainstream icons. His works also appeared in films like Morgan Spurlock’s documentary “Super SizeOtherMe.” highlights included a collective exhibition of 150 sketchbooks by emerg ing and established artists from across the globe in the Moleskine Project, the street art of local creatives Such and Champ Styles, as well as the childlike wonder of Giorgiko’s dreamscapes and Reen Ba reera’s toy-inspired sculptures. As part of Mesa Arts Center, Mesa Con temporary Arts Museum says it “show cases the best in Contemporary Art by emerging, nationally and internationally recognized artists and provides support and advancement to artists through solo, Ron English became well known in the 1980s for his illegal billboards and later for his visual satires of mainstream icons. (Courtesy of MAC) fall with reception
Because of this, Told is anxious to kick off the cross-country trek Thursday, Aug. 25, at the Marquee Theatre and stand amid the roar of an audience singing his lyrics in unison once more. “I’m looking forward to an actionpacked hour or so of just the jams old and new, like ‘My Heroine,’ ‘Smile in Your Sleep’ and ‘The Afterglow,’” he said. “Hearing the fans sing is one of the great est feelings in the world and having that taken away from us for the last couple of years made me forget just how loud they sing and the way that made me feel every single time it happens. “Whether they’re singing a cappella during the chorus of ‘My Heroine’ or whether they’re singing along to a brandnew song that we’re playing live for the first time, it’s going to be great.”
Although he’s fond of most of the songs, one special one may sneak into Silverstein’s setlist during its jaunt with the Australian post-hardcore outfit The Amity“‘TheAffliction.Altar/Mary’ is a great example of storytelling and taking the listener through all the hardships that people have had — particularly millennials who have been beaten down economically and unable to make ends meet,” Told said.“That’s one track that we want to try to pull off live. It’s not going to be easy by any means with the energy of the first half and the synthesizers in the second half but we’re welcoming that cism,storysteinAlthoughchallenge.”SilveraimstotellawithitslyriToldalsosaid that the band marries stories with catchy choruses.“Wewant to be a hardcore band that has catchy singalong parts and over the years I think we’ve gotten better and bet ter at writing melodies that stick in your head and lyrics that people want to sing along to,” Told said. “It’s cool that we’ve become a sing along band because, sure, people can mosh to our songs, but it’s also great that they can sing along to them too.”
When the Burlington, Ontario, metalcore outfit Silverstein sits down to write an album, its members try to take listeners on a jour ney through their lives. Silverstein’s latest record “Misery Made Me” offers a glimpse into the last two years, which vocalist Shane Told ad mits has been miserable at times.
Canadian metalcore outfit Silverstein is angry Canadian metalcore band Silverstein intends to jam a set full of screaming and storytelling into the Marquee Theatre when the band jaunts into town on August 25. (Courtesy of Wyatt Clough)
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If You Go... Who: Silverstein and The Amity Affliction w/Holding Absence and Unity TX Where: Marquee Theatre 730 N. Mill Ave. Tempe When: 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25 Cost: Tickets start at $29.50 Info: silversteinmusic.com
Peter Hook grateful to have been living his dream
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This year has been bittersweet for Hook, whose longtime friend, Happy Mondays bassist Paul Ryder, died unexpectedly at age“It’s58. immensely sad, considering we worked so closely together,” Hook said. “They’re the archetypical rock ‘n’ roll band that hit everything hard – the bottle, the drugs, the road and music. It’s almost a cliché. But so many of them are disap pearing.”Heand his wife after planning a 25th anniversary party and are inviting “every person who’s still with us who came to our wedding 25 years ago.”
Who: Peter Hook & the Light Where: Van Buren, 401 W. Van Buren St., Phoenix When: 7:30 p.m. Aug. 29 Cost: Tickets Start At $32.50 Info: Thevanburenphx.com
The Moleskine Project is a collective exhibition of customized sketchbooks by hundreds of emerging and established artists from across the globe. The exhibition spans various artistic styles and mediums, delving into how art ist’s sketch and develop creative ideas. The exhibition, which made its initial de but at Spoke Art San Francisco in 2011, is a continuation of that project where art ists are provided with a blank Moleskine book and invited to create an original work of art within its pages.
hen Peter Hook introduced his band, Peter Hook & The Light, to 300 fans at Factory Manchester in England 11 years ago, he was unsure of theThefuture.66-year-old musician hoped his method of celebrating the legacies of Joy Division and New Order – two bands he co-founded – would catch on.
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“It won’t be like it was 25 years ago,” he said. “Hardly anybody ate. We were in my mate’s restaurant and, of the 75 people at the wedding, my mate told me only three of them have eaten. ‘What the hell do I do with 72 ribeyes?’ he said. It was a great do, and my wife is a wonderful woman whom I’m very lucky to have.” His goal with Peter Hook & the Light is to have the ability to play every New Order and Joy Division song live before he goes to the “guitar shop in the sky.” Next up is 2001’s “Get Ready,” for which New Order primarily departed from its more electronic style and focused on more guitar-oriented music. “I’m achieving my ‘boast’ or my dream bit by bit,” he said. “It’s just a treat to dig out these wonder ful songs and watch the looks on people’s faces. I play seven New Order songs and change the set to Joy Division, play six or eight songs. I’m indulging myself and it’s wonderful to have that freedom to not have to look at those long faces and get on with it. “It was such a rock ‘n’ roll dream. I’m so glad I got to live that rock ‘n’ roll dream that we decided on when we watched the Sex Pis tols and we’re still getting away with it.”
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“I’m the happiest pensioner on God’s earth. It’s still a delight. My wife summed it up very well: ‘Whenever you come home, you have the biggest smile on your face. That never happened in New Order. I didn’t see it for a long, long time.’” He said he’s not blaming former band mates vocalist/guitarist Bernard Sumner, drummer Stephen Morris or keyboardist Gillian Gilbert—with whom he now has acrimonious relationships. Curtis died by suicide and Sumner, Morris and Hook founded New Order with the later addi tion of “TheyGilbert.always said it was me,” he recalls. “I suppose, in a funny way, you don’t get a lot of changes in life to make the wrong right“Thereagain.is massive appreciation for Ian’s work and Joy Division’s work,” he said. “I’m with the people I want to be with the most – the people who love Joy Division’s music. For me, I am in exactly the right place. I absolutely adore what we’ve cre ated and I’m very, very proud of it.”
Children of Divorce - Reen Barrera Sept.9-Jan. 15 Inspired by his “toy deprived” child hood, Filipino artist Reen Barrera repur poses found materials into mixed media figurative sculptures and paintings.
The facial expressions, symbols and pat terns in the artist’s ohlala characters are drawn from the idiom “it’s written all over your face” and represent the power indi viduals have in designing their own fate. Barrera’s work provides a provocative conversation on the challenges of socio economic circumstances and classism. Or ganized by Thinkspace Projects.
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Musician Peter Hook will be bringing his elec tric sound to the Van Buren on Aug. 29. (Spe cial to GetOut) group and juried exhibitions. MCA Museum’s added that its free ad mission and “strong engagement pro grams provide visitors with free school and public tours, a robust docent program and free artist talks.” Here’s a list of upcoming exhibits: The Moleskine Project Sept. 9-Dec. 4
“I was wondering if it was the first and last time I would ever get to play ‘Un known Pleasures,’” he said about Joy Divi sion’s 1979 debut album. “Now, here I am taking it all around the world.”TheNorth American leg of Peter Hook & The Light’s “Joy Division: A Celebration” comes to the Van Buren Aug. 29. The five-week tour features performanc es of Joy Division’s seminal two albums “Unknown Pleasures” and “Closer” in full with additional Joy Division rarities and an opening set of New Order material. The tour follows the debut U.K. dates for “Joy Division: A Celebration,” which commemo rate the 40th anniversary of Joy Division and Ian Curtis’ continuing influence. “I’m getting to play in many wonderful places – places I’ve played before and had a fantastic time,” Hook said via telephone from Mallorca.
It is Curated by Harman Projects of New York City. Living in DelusionvilleRon English Sept.9-Jan. 22 Known as the Godfather of Street Art, Ron English has emerged as one of the most influential and controversial artists of our time. Taking direct inspiration from the legendary Andy Warhol, English merg es American iconography with art history to create social and political statements about contemporary American society. From Ronald McDonald to Mickey Mouse, no cultural icon is sacred. Living in Delusionville, which is also the title of the latest documentary on the artist, features 37 paintings and sculptures by English from the last decade. Dark Matter - Giorgiko Sept.9-Jan. 29 Giorgiko (pronounced jee-OR-jee-koh) is a collaborative experiment by husbandand-wife California artist team Darren and Trisha ConceivedInouye.in2012, the Giorgiko uni verse is home to lost boys and wayfaring girls and explores the stories of their wan derings and dreams of being found again. Through minimal, expressive charac ter illustrations, Giorgiko’s classically designed large-scale paintings playfully capture urban and classical youth in city and nature scenes as part of their journeys through the world. Organized by Thinkspace Projects of Los Angeles.
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• 1 tsp pepper • 2 TBSP sugar • 9 TBSP extra-virgin olive oil • 1 TBSP Dijon mustard • 1 teaspoon lime zest
• 6 TBSP fresh lime juice
Directions: 1. In a large bowl, combine the black beans, corn, red bell peppers, garlic, shallots, salt, pepper, sugar, olive oil, Dijon, lime zest, lime juice and ½ cup cilan tro. Stir well to combine and refrigerate. 2 When ready to serve, add the chopped avocado and gently mix to combine. Garnish with remaining cilantro. Serves 8.
GetOut Contributor Veggie medley captures the look and taste of the Southwest Picnics, parties, salads and sides. If you’re looking for a new dish that fits in all of those categories, this Chilled Southwestern Veggie Medley is theThisanswer!tasty,colorful plate of veggies is loaded with South west flavors and lots of crunch.
Ingredients: • 2 (15-ounce) cans of black beans, rinsed and drained
• 1/2 cup fresh cilantro, plus more for garnish, chopped • 2 avocados, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, minced • 2 TBSP shallots, minced • 2 tsp salt
• 3 ears of corn, cooked and kernels removed from the cob • 2 red bell peppers, charred and diced
It’s perfect for a make-ahead dish, it transports beautifully and couldn’t be easier to make. What makes the flavor? Fresh ears of corn that are grilled in a skillet or on the bbq, then sliced into niblets of charred goodness. Charring the red peppers before dicing them also adds a great taste. Also, I’ve always cooked with shallots, but these days I’m realizing how much they bring to a dish. (They may be one of the most misunderstood vegetables out there – do they replace onions? Garlic? Can they be used with onions and garlic?)
While some folks replace onions with shallots, a shallot has its own flavor profile, and can add so much to a dish! (Try slicing them very thin and frying them to a deep golden brown, then sprinkle them over a salad or potato dish. Wow! Over the top goodness!)
The flavors of the Southwest permeate this salad with the addition of black beans, jicama, avocados and cilantro. The dressing is lively, with the perfect combination of lime juice and zest, Dijon Mustard and a little sweetness to cut the tang. Over all, it’s a great main meal salad for the vegetar ian, a tasty side for your grilled burger lover or just spooned into little tortilla cups for a terrific appetizer!
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• 1 large jicama, peeled and diced
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Tortilla cups are simple. Just cut 2-3 inch circles out of flour tortillas, tuck them into a greased cupcake tin and bake for about 15 minutes. Done! I love recipes that give you all the flavor and nutri tion you need and are pretty darn effortless to create! Here’s to another hat tip to our wonderful flavors of the Southwest!
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Notice of Hearing SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA IN MARICOPA COUNTY - NOTICE OF INITIAL HEARING ON PETI TION FOR TERMINATION OF PARENT-CHILD RELA TIONSHIP. Case JS518885. In the Matter of Opie Baker , Name of Minor Child. Notice is hereby given that the Peti tioner Kathleen Robles has filed a Petition for Termination of Parent-Child Relationship with the Juvenile Department o f the Superior Court in Maricopa County regarding th e a bove-named child or children and: Christopher Baker , name of parent or parents whose rights are to be determined, as well as any other known parties' names. An initial hear ing has been set to consider the petition: Date: October 27, 2022. Time: 9:15am. Before Commissioner Bodow At the Maricopa County Superior Court (Juvenile Department) loc ated at: [X] Southeast Facility, 1810 S. Lewis St., Mesa, A Z 85210. Published: East Valley Tribune, Aug. 21, 28, Sept 4, 11, 2022 / 48548
Public Notices Superstition Energy Storage, LLC invites you to learn about and provide input on, the proposed Superstition 230-kilovolt (kV) Generation Intertie (gen-tie) power line project (Project).
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Superstition Energy Storage, LLC, a private utility company, is planning to build an approximately 440-foot-long power line on privately owned land in Gilbert, Arizona. The new power line would run from a privately owned parcel directly into the existing Corbell Substation and will not cross any other nearby privately owned land. The power line would connect the separate Superstition Energy Storage Project to the existing regional electrical grid, via the immediately adjacent existing Corbell TheSubstation.Arizona Corporation Commission (Commission) and Arizona Power Plant and Transmission Line Siting Committee (Committee) are the permitting authorities for the Project. In September 2022, Superstition Energy Storage, LLC plans to apply for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility (CEC) through the Committee and Commission to allow for construction and operation of the SuperstitionProject.
Energy Storage, LLC is currently soliciting public and stakeholder input on the Project and is interested in hearing your comments. Questions and comments can be submitted via the forums listed below: Mail: Superstition Gen-Tie Project c/o SWCA Environmental Consultants 20 E Thomas Road, Suite No. 1700 Phoenix, AZ 85012 Telephone: (480) 581-5413 Email: SuperstitionCEC@swca.com Virtual Open House: A virtual open house will also be held to provide information about the Project and facilitate comment submittal: www.suTheperstitionopenhouse.com.formalProjectcomment period will take place from July 29 to September 1, 2022, but additional opportunities to comment will extend past this period. Additional Project information can also be found online at https://www.superstitionenergystorage.com. We look forward to receiving your comments and answering your questions. Published: East Valley Tribune/Gilbert Sun News/Chandler Arizonan, Aug. 21, 2022 / 48532 Public Notices IN THE JUVENILE COURT OF DYER COUNTY, TENNESSEE IN THE MATTER OF: KASSIAN NICHOLAS JUNIOR, DOB: 08/14/2020 NO. 7746 A CHILD UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION It appearing to the Court from the allegations of the Petition for Termination of Parental Rights, Motion for Service by Publication and the Affidavit of Diligent Search that the whereabouts of William Dodd are unknown and cannot be ascertained by diligent search; therefore, the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon William Dodd. It is, therefore, ORDERED that William Dodd be served by publication of the following notice for four consecutive weeks in The Mesa Tribune, a newspaper published in Maricopa County, Arizona. It is further ORDERED that if William Dodd does not enter an appearance or otherwise Answer the Petition, further personal service or service by further publication shall be dispensed with and service of any future notices, motions, orders, or other legal documents in this matter may be made upon William Dodd by filing same with the Juvenile Court Clerk of Dyer County, Tennessee. NOTICE TO WILLIAM DODD The State of Tennessee, Department of Children’s Services, has filed a petition against you seeking to terminate forever your parental rights to Kassian Nicholas Junior. It appears that ordinary process of law cannot be served upon you because your whereabouts are unknown. You are hereby ordered to serve upon Marlene Simpson, attorney for the Tennessee Department of Children Services, 1979 St. John Avenue, Suite F, Dyersburg, TN 38024, an Answer to the Petition for Termination of Parental Rights filed by the Tennessee, Department of Children’s Services, within thirty (30) days of the last day of publication against you pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. §36-1117(n) and Rule 55 of the Tenn. R. of Civ. P. for the relief demanded in the Petition. You may view and obtain a copy of the Petition and any other subsequently filed legal documents at the Dyer County Juvenile Court Clerk’s Offic e in Dyersburg, Tennessee. You are also ordered to appear on September 16, 2022 at 9:00 am at the Dyer County Juvenile Court in order to contest the petition filed against you, and failure to appear or otherwise file an answer with the clerk of this Court before that date will result in a finding being entered against you by default. Entered this 25 th day of July, 2022. Jason Hudson Respectfully submitted, ______Mar lene Simpson, BPR # 025691 Attorney for DCS 1979 St. John Ave., Ste. F Dyersburg, TN 38024 731-286-8304 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that a true and exact copy of the foregoing pleading has been served via email on the 20th day of July, 2022 to the following: Mark Butler, Esq. PO Box 846 Dyersburg, TN 38025 _____ cc: Loretta O’Neil, DCS Representative Published: East Valley Tribune, July 31, Aug 7, 14, 21, 2022 /
REQUEST48162 FOR QUALIFICATIONS ARCHITECTURAL & ENGINEERING DESIGN SERVICES: East Valley Men’s Center Bridge Housing Units, 2345 N Country Club Dr, Mesa, AZ 85201. A New Leaf, Inc. is accepting written statements of qualifications to provide architecture and engineering services to plan and design bridge housing units and other improvements at the site. This project will receive federal funding from the City of Mesa and other municipalities through the American Rescue Plan Act and other federal programs. Federal labor standards, Davis-Bacon prevailing wages, and Equal Employment Opportunity regulations of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 for Employment and Contracting Opportunities will apply to the project. Small, minority and/ or women owned businesses are encouraged to submit proposals. Sealed Statements of Qualifications will be received until 1:00PM Arizona Time, on Thursday, September 15, 2022 at A New Leaf, 868 E University Drive, Mesa, Arizona 85203. The Request for Qualifications may be obtained electronically. Contact Keon Montgomery, Director of Real Estate at: kmontgomery@turnanewleaf.org, Tel 480-462-3967. A New Leaf, Inc., reserves the right to reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. An optional PreSubmittal Conference will be held virtually at 10:00 AM Wednesday, September 7, 2022, at which time the client will be available to answer questions. Please contact Keon Montgomery to receive the meeting link. Unless provided in writing, verbal authorizations or acknowledgments by anyone present will not be binding. Published: East Valley Tribune, Aug. 21, 2 8, 2022 / 48590
8. ANX22-00161 (District 5) Annexing property located south of Brown Road on the west side of Crismon Road (8± acres). Initiated by the applicant, Pew & Lake, PLC, for the owner, KMC Holdings LLC.
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5. ZON22-00293 (District 6) Within the 10100 to 10600 blocks of East Williams Field Road (south side) and within the 6100 to 6400 blocks of South 222nd Street (west side) (1.5+ acres). Located east of Crismon Road, on the south side of Williams Field Road, and on the north side of the East 24 Gateway Freeway alignment. Major Modification to Development Unit Plan 2 of Avalon Crossing Planned Community District. This request will allow for a single residence development. Susan Demmitt, Gammage and Burnham, PLC, applicant; Pacific Proving LLC, owner.
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2. ZON22-00388 (District 5) Within the 2100 block of North Power Road (east side). Located north of McKellips Road o n the east side of Power Road (2.6± acres). Rezone from Residential 35 (RS-35) to Limited Commercial (LC). This request will allow for a dog training and boarding facility. Benjamin Tate, Withey Morris, applicant; Arizona Agribusiness and Equine Center Inc., owner.
1. ZON22-00260 (District 5) Within the 9100 block of East University Drive (south side) and the 300 block of North Ellsworth Road (west side). Located south of University Drive and west of Ellsworth Road (4± acres). Rezone from Multiple Residence 4 (RM-4) to Limited Commercial (LC) and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for the development of a restaurant with drive-thru. Benjamin Tate, Withey Morris, PLC, applicant; Valencia Heights LLC, owner.
3. ZON21-00792 (District 6) Within the 7300 to 7600 blocks of South Hawes Road (east side), the 8400 block of East Germann Road (north side) and the 7300 to 7500 blocks of South 85th Place (west side). Located north of Germann Road and east of Hawes Road (34± acres). Rezone from Light Industrial with a Bonus Intensity Zone overlay (LI-BIZ) and Office Commercial with a Bonus Intensity Zone overlay (OC-BIZ) to Light Industrial with a Planned Area Development overlay (LI-PAD) and Office Commercial with a Planned Area Development over lay (OC-PAD) and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for an industrial development. Dennis Newcombe, Gammage & Burnham P.L.C., applicant; HAWES OZ FUND LLC, 4.owner.ZON22-00023 (District 6) Within the 10100 to 10600 blocks of East Williams Field Road (south side) and within the 6100 to 6400 blocks of South 222nd Street (west side) (1.5+ acres). Located east of Crismon Road, south of Williams Field Road, and on the north side of the East 24 Gateway Freeway alignment. Major modification to the Avalon Crossing Planned Community District Community Plan; Rezone from Agriculture(AG)to Planned Community (PC). This request will allow for a single residence development. CVL Consultants, applicant; Pacific Proving LLC, owner.
9. ZON22-00162 (District 5) Within the 9900 to 10000 blocks of East Brown Road (south side) and within the 1000 to 1200 blocks of North Crismon Road (west side). Located south of Brown Road and on the west side of Crismon Road (±8 acres). Rezone from Agricultural (AG) to Single Residence 15 with a Planned Area Development overlay (RS-15-PAD) and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for a single residence development. Jon Gillespie, Pew and Lake, applicant; Brighton Homes, owner. Dated at Mesa, Arizona, this 21st day of August 2022. Holly Moseley, City Clerk Published in the East Valley Tribune Aug. 21, 2022 / 48572
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6. ANX22-00266 (District 6) Annexing property located north of Pecos Road on the east side of South Ellsworth Road (89.8± acres). Initiated by the applicant, Gammage & Burnham, for the owner, Pacific Proving LLC.7.ZON22-00268 (District 6) Within the 9200 to 9600 blocks of East Pecos Road (north side) and the 6400 to 6800 blocks of South Ellsworth Road (east side). Located north of Pecos Road and east of Ellsworth Road (87± acres). Rezone from Agricultural (AG) to Light Industrial with a Planned Area Development overlay (LI-PAD) and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for an industrial development. Gammage and Burnham, PLC, applicant; Pacific Proving LLC, owner.
gov.EngineeringissuestionQuestions.business/purchasing/vendor-self-service).dorMesaFirmsisanypm.neering-RFQ@mesaaz.govtronicsizetachedmaximumsumeschartPPVF’stoone-pageTheder-contracting-opportunities.ing/construction-manager-at-risk-and-job-orhttp://mesaaz.gov/business/engineerStatementofQualificationsshallincludeacoverletter,plusamaximumof10pagesaddresstheSOQevaluationcriteria(excludingandresumesbutincludinganorganizationwithkeypersonnelandtheiraffiliation).ReforeachteammembershallbelimitedtoalengthoftwopagesandshouldbeatasanappendixtotheSOQ.Minimumfontshallbe10pt.Pleaseprovideone(1)eleccopyinanunencryptedPDFformattoEngibySeptember15by2TheCityreservestherighttoacceptorrejectandallStatementsofQualifications.TheCityanequalopportunityemployer.whowishtodobusinesswiththeCityofmustberegisteredintheCityofMesaVenSelfService(VSS)System(http://mesaaz.gov/QuestionspertainingtotheConstrucManageratRiskselectionprocessorcontractshouldbedirectedtoDonnaHornoftheDepartmentatdonna.horn@mesaaz. BETH HUNING City Engineer HollyATTEST:Moseley City Clerk Published: East Valley Tribune, Aug 14, 21, 2022 / 48432 Public Notices CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA QUEEN CREEK ROAD HIGH PRESSURE GAS LINE EXTENSION – PHASE B2 CRISMON ROAD TO SIGNAL BUTTE ROAD CITY OF MESA PROJECT NUMBER ADVERTISEMENTCP0520PHB2FOR BIDS NOTICE
• Pump station improvements at the NWWRP • Construction of a new Intermediate Pump Sta tion (IPS) including a storage reservoir and boost er pump facility near the intersection of Val Vista Drive and Thomas Road • Pump station improvements at the SEWRP • Piping improvements for the SEWRP East Mar icopa Floodway discharge (EMF) south of E. Baseline Road • Piping and pump station improvements at the •GWRPPiping improvements at the reuse water discharge location near Val Vista Drive and Hunt Highway • Other associated improvements as required.
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TheABLE.successful bidder will be required to execute the standard form of contract for construction within ten (10) days after formal award of con tract. In addition, the successful bidder must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self-Service (VSS) System right is reserved City Mesa.BETH
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on “Go” for the Public Planroom to access plans.
One set of the Contract Documents is also avail able for viewing at the City of Mesa’s Engineer ing Department at 20 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ. Please call 480-644-2251 prior to arriving to en sure that the documents are available for viewing.
In order for the City to consider alternate products in the bidding process, please follow Arizona Re vised Statutes §34.104c. If a pre-bid review of the site has been scheduled, details can be referenced in Project Specific Provision Section #3, titled “Pre-Bid Review of Site.” Work shall be completed within 180 consecutive calendar days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed. Bids must be submitted on the Proposal Form pro vided and be accompanied by the Bid Bond for not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid, payable to the City of Mesa, Arizona, or a certified or cashier's check. OR INDI VIDUAL SURETY BONDS ARE NOT ACCEPT
NOTE: In order to be placed on the Plan Holders List and to receive notifications and updates re garding this bid (such as addenda) during the bid ding period, an order must be placed. The cost of each Bid Set will be no more than $15.00, which is non-refundable. Partial bid packages are not sold. You can view documents on-line (at no cost), order Bid Sets, and access the Plan Holders List on the website at the address listed above. Please verify print lead time prior to arriving for pick-up. For a list of locations nearest you, go to www.e-arc.com.
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CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING
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A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on Sep tember 1 at 9 am athrough Microsoft Teams. If you would like to participate, please send an email to Donna Horn at donna.horn@mesaaz.govto re ceive the invitation. At this meeting, City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to questions from the attendees. Attendance at the pre-submittal conference is not mandatory and all interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether or not they attend the conference. All interested firms are en couraged to attend the Pre-Submittal Conference since City staff will not be available for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope outside of this conference. In ad dition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the Pre-Submit tal ContactConference.withCity Employees. All firms interest ed in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of dis qualification, 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 pol icy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure 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 rep resentative identified below.
RFQ Lists. The RFQ is available on the City’s website at IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until Thursday, September 8, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. All sealed bids will be electronically at EngineeringBids@mesaaz.gov Bids must be submitted as an unencrypted PDF attachment with a maximum size limit of 20MB. Any bid received after the time specified will be consideration. This contract shall be for furnishing all labor, materials, transportation and services for the con struction and/or installation of the following work: Install 5,804 LF of 12-inch coated steel gas pipe by trenching and 518 LF of 12-inch coated steel gas pipe by horizontal directional boring. The City of Mesa shall supply all gas materials shown on the quantities list on the approved plans specified by “Gas System Quantities to be Furnished by the City of Mesa”. The Contractor shall supply all non-gas-related materials such as asphalt, sand and trench backfill. All welds on steel piping shall be 100% non-destructively tested per the City of Mesa Operations, Maintenance, Emergency Re sponse and Construction Practices manual and the specifications. The gas main being connected to on the west end of the project is currently on air. The gas main being connected to on the east end of the project can be valved off using an existing 12-inch valve east of the tie in. The Engineer’s Estimate range is $4,000,000 to For$4,300,000.alltechnical, contract, bid-related, or oth er questions, please contact Stephanie Gishey at stephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov. Contact with City Employees. All firms interest ed in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of dis qualification, 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 pol icy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to assure 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 rep resentative identified above.
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to accept or reject any or all bids or parts thereto, to waive any informalities in any proposal and reject the bids of any persons who have been delinquent or unfaithful to any contract with the
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Contractors desiring to submit proposals may purchase sets of the Bid Documents from ARC Document Solutions, LLC, at com/arcEOC/PWELL_Main.asp?mem=29.https://order.e-arc.Click
The City of Mesa is proposing various improve ments related to plant work associated with the Central Mesa Reuse Pipeline. This work includes the construction of upgrades, replacements, or new equipment associated with delivery of reclaimed water from the Northwest Water Reclamation Plant (NWWRP), the Southeast Water Reclama tion Plant (SEWRP), and the Greenfield Water Reclamation Plant (GWRP) to the Gila River In dian Community (GRIC). These improvements may include:
CENTRAL MESA REUSE PIPELINE – PLANT IMPROVEMENTS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified firm or team to act as the Construction Manager at Risk for the following:
The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Con struction Manager at Risk (CMAR) to provide Pre-Construction Services assistance and complete Construction Services as the CMAR for the Cen tral Mesa Reuse Pipeline – Plant Improvements Project. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)
The estimated construction cost is between $18 and $20 million including utility improvements, utility relocations and other ancillary costs. The City anticipates this project to consist of mul tiple GMP’s with the first construction to com mence in the winter of 2023. The City has entered into a professional services contract with Black and Veatch Corporation to de sign these improvements. The CMAR shall work closely with and be an integral part of this project team during the design and construction phases of the project.
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CITY OF MESA MESA, ARIZONA ITS VIDEO DETECTION UPGRADES FEDERAL AID NO. MES-0(238)D ADOT TRACS No. T0301 01D/01C MAG TIP No. MES22-060D, MES22060R, MES22-060C
CITY OF MESA PROJECT NO. CP0981 DAVIS BACON WAGES APPLY ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received until Thursday, Septem ber 1, 2022, at 1:00pm. All sealed bids will be received electronically at EngineeringBids@ mesaaz.gov . Bids must be submitted as an unencrypted PDF attachment with a maxi mum size limit of 20MB. Any bid received after the time specified will be returned with out any consideration. This contract shall be for furnishing all labor, materials, transportation and services for the construction and/or installation of the fol lowing work: Replace end-of-life Econolite Solo-Pro video detection cameras with new Econolite Vision video detection cameras on existing traffic signal poles at 52 locations citywide. The project will utilize existing conduit and pull boxes for the installation of the new video detection cameras. None of the proposed installations are anticipated to re quire any ground disturbance. All work is to be done within the City’s public right of way or easements that have been acquired by the City in advance of the construction activities. The Engineer’s Estimate range is $1,877,710For$2,294,980.alltechnical, contract, bid-related, or oth er questions, please contact Stephanie Gishey at stephanie.gishey@mesaaz.gov. Contact with City Employees. All firms in terested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobby ists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will re frain, 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 assure 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 above.
Planroom to access plans. NOTE: In order to be placed on the Plan Holders List and to receive notifications and updates regarding this bid (such as addenda) during the bidding period, an order must be placed. The cost of each Bid Set will be no more than $27.00, which is non-refundable. Partial bid packag es are not sold. You can view documents online (at no cost), order Bid Sets, and access the Plan Holders List on the website at the address listed above. Please verify print lead time prior to arriving for pick- up. For a list of locations nearest you, go to www.e-arc. Onecom. set of the Contract Documents is also available for viewing at the City of Mesa’s Engineering Department at 20 East Main Street, Mesa, AZ. Please call 480-644-2251 prior to arriving to ensure that the documents are available for viewing. In order for the City to consider alternate products in the bidding process, please fol low Arizona Revised Statutes §34.104c. If a pre-bid review of the site has been scheduled, details can be referenced in Project Specific Provision Section #3, titled “Pre- Bid Review of WorkSite.”shall be completed within 365 consec utive calendar days, beginning with the day following the starting date specified in the Notice to Proceed. Bids must be submitted on the Proposal Form provided and be accompanied by the Bid Bond for not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid, payable to the City of Mesa, Arizona, or a certified or cashier’s check.
BETH HUNING City Engineer
Contractors desiring to submit proposals may purchase sets of the Bid Documents from ARC Document Solutions, LLC, at asp?mem=29.order.e-arc.com/arcEOC/PWELL_Main.https://Clickon“Go”forthePublic
46 THE SUNDAY EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE | AUGUST 21, 2022 It SecondsTakesOnly to Drown. Always watch your child around water. Public Notices mance of Previous Contracts (See Proposal Documents and Forms) 4. Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Goal Assurance with DBE Goal of 1.43% (Form 3102C – See Proposal Documents and TheForms)successful bidder will be required to execute the standard form of contract for construction within ten (10) days after for mal award of contract. In addition, the suc cessful bidder must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self-Service (VSS) ulations,(Public49,252,VITheCityquenttheanyjectThetionalicatePrice,oneadredmentContract,simultaneouslyvendor-self-service).(http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/SystemThesuccessfulbidder,withtheexecutionofthewillberequiredtofurnishaPayBondintheamountequaltoonehunpercent(100%)oftheContractPrice,PerformanceBondinanamountequaltohundredpercent(100%)oftheContractandthemostrecentACORD®CertifofLiabilityInsuranceformwithaddiinsuredendorsements.rightisherebyreservedtoacceptorreanyorallbidsorpartsthereto,towaiveinformalitiesinanyproposalandrejectbidsofanypersonswhohavebeendelinorunfaithfultoanycontractwiththeofMesa.CityofMesa,inaccordancewithTitleoftheCivilRightsActof1964,78Stat.42U.S.C.2000dto2000d-4andTitletheCivilRightsRestorationActof1987Law100.259).CodeofFederalRegDepartmentofTransportation,Sub title A, Office the Secretary, Part 21, Nondis crimination in Federally-assisted programs of the Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contact entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, or national origin in consider ation for an award.
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PERSONAL OR INDIVIDUAL SURETY BONDS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE. The following forms are to be submitted with the Bid Proposal for Federal- Aid Projects. 1. Surety (Bid) Bond 2. Non-Collusion Bidding Certification (See Proposal Documents and Forms) 3. Certificate With Regard to the Perfor
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