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The owner of the nowshuttered Sears depart ment store at Superstition Springs Center mall in east Mesa is proposing to knock the build ing down for 254 garden-style apartment units spread across seven three-story buildings.

On July 3, eight people overdosed. Three were DOA, and four were transported to med ical facilities. On July 4, six people overdosed. Four DOA and two transported.

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Cheap blue pills of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that’s become a drug of choice on the illicit market, are flooding Mesa’s streets and people of all ages and genders are dying at an alarming rate from the power ful narcotic. West Mesa is a hot spot for drug overdoses across all of Arizona, recording more over doses in the last six months than any other Primary Care Area of the state as defined by the Arizona Department of Health Services. Cheap forms of other classes of drugs, like methamphetamines, are also widely available and contributing to the carnage; according to the department. About half of all non-fatal overdose incidents in the state involve two or moreOpiatedrugs.medications or related drugs domi nate the list of overdose causes, but 28% in volveThismeth.iswhat the overdose epidemic looked like for Mesa Fire and Medical Department medics over this year’s Independence Day weekend:

On July 2, it responded to six overdoses. Three people were dead on arrival and three were rushed to the hospital as medics admin istered the opioid neutralizer naloxone or epi nephrine aka adrenaline.

Seritage Growth Properties, which formed in 2015 to man age real estate acquired from Sears Holdings, has submitted preliminary paperwork with Mesa’s Planning Department for the redevelopment plan.

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The unit breakdown has not been finalized but “is antici pated to include a mix of studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom units,” Seritage wrote the city. Sears closed its Superstition Springs location in late 2018 as part of a nationwide result of the historic department store chain’s filing for bankruptcy. Inventory liquidation began at the Superstition Springs lo cation soon after, and the store has been vacant since.

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4540 E Baseline Rd., Suite 119 Mesa Az 85206 see MALL page 4 100 years, had seen declining sales amid challenges from online shopping and changes to consumer buying habits, in cluding declining foot traffic at malls. Its building is attached to the rest of the indoor mall, which still has anchor stores JCPenny, Macy’s and Dillards.

Neighboring property owners will have the opportunity to weigh in on the project as it makes its way through the city’s re view process.

Seritage has also included plans for a retail zone across from the complex on the west side of Superstition Spring Mall Circle.

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A plan to build a seven-building complex with 254 apartments in the site that used to house a Sears store at Superstition Springs Center has yet to go through Me sa’s review process. (City of Mesa)

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According to site plans submitted to the city, the apartment complex would be de tached from the main mall building, but there would be a mall entrance facing the residentialSuperstitioncomplex.Springs management did respond to a request for comment.

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In its project narrative, Seritage sug gested the residential complex would har monize with the rest of the mall, writing it “has been designed to maintain necessary mall circulation adjacent to the mall in addition to preservation of the ring road (Superstition Springs Mall Circle).”

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In an interview with the Tribune last year, Mesa’s Economic Development Manager Bill Jabjiniak said, “The days of the old mall have come and gone, but that’s just Bill’s opinion.”

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It’s an open question whether the trans formation of the old Sears into multifam ily housing will garner the Councilman Kevin Thompson’s support. Thompson, who did not return a request for com ment, represents the district where the mall is located. In the past he has been a strong advo cate for protecting commercial zones and employment centers from residential en croachment. But proponents of the plan may argue that residential complex could add vital ity to the Thompsonmall.expressed particular inter est in protecting the Superstition Spring Center from decline in a July study session, when the council heard plans for the city to purchase a hotel near the former Sears and convert it into a homeless shelter. He came out strongly against the plan saying that the city shouldn’t do anything that might negatively impact the mall, causing it to go the way of Mesa’s Fiesta Mall, which shuttered in 2017 and has re mained vacant since.

Mesa’s rate of overdoses began to climb each month, reaching a new high plateau by November 2019, when the city started seeing monthly overdose numbers rough ly four times what they were the previous two years. This year, Mesa Fire and Medical has been responding to between 150 to 200 opioid overdose calls a month. Roughly a third of these overdoses were fatal, totaling between 50 and 80 overdose deaths each month, according to city data.

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Five years ago, state leaders hoped to turn the tide of opioid drug abuse with increased surveillance and new initia tives, but the problem has only wors ened since then. At 811 deaths from opioid overdoses in 2021, Mesa’s annual total of overdoses is more than 12 times higher than it was when Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey declared a statewide health emergency from opioids in 2017. For the first two years after that announcement, opioid overdoses in Mesa stayed relatively flat. But something started to change in the summer of 2019.

Lt. Tony Landato, operations lieutenant for Mesa PD’s Superstition Patrol District, said last spring that local police are seeing see DRUGS page 6

The current owners are reportedly working on redevelopment plans, but nothing has been announced publicly. 

Valley Mall – are being reimagined as mixed-use developments featuring a com bination of residential, dining, entertain ment and Seritage’sretail.decision to go with a mostly multifamily residential plan to redevelop the Superstition Springs Sears may not be surprising given current market condi tions. Last year, Jabjiniak said “residential is white hot, so is industrial.” But recent increases in interest rates to fight inflation are impacting the hous ing market and may affect redevelopment projects like the Sears proposal.

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Mesa is still in the grips of the wave of overdoses that began in 2019. The COVID pandemic has been cited as a factor exacerbating the drug abuse and overdose problems, but Mesa’s cur rent high plateau of deaths began well before COVID. If not the pandemic, then what is driving the eruption of overdose deaths? Many are blaming the rise of fentanyl and related synthetic opioids. In a blog post late last year, ADHS As sistant Director Sheila Sjolander cited the increasing dominance of fentanyl. Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.

DRUGS from page 1

“Law enforcement continues to report a dramatic increase in the amount of fen tanyl in Arizona. Just one of these coun terfeit pills can contain a lethal dose,” Sjolander wrote. “Today, fentanyl is the most commonly identified substance in verified opioid overdoses. More than half of all verified opioid overdoses this year have involved fentanyl,” she continued.

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The Conpass DV body scanner will allow officers to see into human bodies and in crease the chances of finding contraband of all kinds, such as blades and caches of pills or other drugs, concealed in body cavities or under clothes. While the new device will weed out prohibited items of all kinds, officials told Council the body was primarily aimed at detecting drugs in order to reduce the numbers of overdoses inside the facility. Christina Vangorden, the detention administrator for Mesa PD, told council members she wants the device to “be able to find more drugs on people, especially fentanyl. That’s a huge increase that we’re finding on people when they’re coming through. I’m hoping to reduce the amount of people that are overdosing inside the holding facility.” “Council knows we’ve had some recent cases where that’s been a tragedy,” City Manager Chris Brady added.

“We were seeing heroin in 2000, and stuff like that, and now, there’s a lot that goes on with (prescription) pills, and fen tanyl is kind of one of the newer kids on the block,” he said.

A Mesa Fire Medical Department re sponded to an emergency call, and the man’s condition quickly deteriorated as he lost consciousness with no pulse. He was rushed to Banner Desert Medical Center, where he died despite “lifesaving measures” from paramedics and doctors.

The father alleged the death was the result of injuries sustained during ar rest, but according to the CIRB report, the county medical examiner “found the man ner of death to be an accident due to meth amphetamine toxicity.” Besides the toll that illegal drugs are taking on users, Landato also pointed out that drug addiction can drive petty crimes.

Recent statistics on overdoses in Mesa’s holding facility were not available before press time, but a notice of claim against the city filed in January provides a view of one such tragedy.

“Unfortunately, an individual will de velop a drug habit, and then, as you know, we’ve seen in all walks of life, that can de teriorate their lives, maybe to the point that they’re not able to hold a job or that type of thing. And yet, they still have this desire to use drugs,” Landato said. “Quite typically, they are out commit ting property crimes, generally speaking – somewhere they can make a quick turn around for a buck,” Landato said. Mesa is purchasing the body scanner using American Rescue Plan Act funds. There’s some hope that Mesa will also get significant funds from national settle ments with opioid makers for their role in fomenting opioid addiction. In August 2021, Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced his office has condi tionally signed on to a proposed $26 bil lion national settlement with the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors and Johnson & Johnson. Arizona as a whole could receive up to $549 million from the settlement and the money would be used for opioid treat ment, prevention, and education. 

StateOverdose: This heat map from the Arizona Department of Health Services visually displays the location and count of con firmed opioid overdose incidents over the past six months by Pri mary Care Area. Red indicates higher numbers of overdose inci dents. The highest area in the state is West Mesa. (ADHS) This chart shows the steady increase in drug overdose deaths in Maricopa County. (ADHS)

DRUGS from page 4

On Aug. 29, City Council approved the purchase of a $188,000 X-ray full body scanner for the police department’s hold ing unit to detect contraband on detainees before entering the facility.

Critical In cident Re view Board report stated.

fentanyl saturating the illegal drug market.

“Right now, it is really shocking the amount of fentanyl that is making its way in,” Landato said. The drugs that predominate on the ille gal market tend to shift with market forc es, he explained, like price and availability.

The grim reality of drug abuse in Ari zona is spilling into many different areas of life in Mesa.

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OverdoseHeatMap: This heat map created by the City of Mesa visually displays the location and count of confirmed opioid overdose incidents handled by the Mesa Fire and Medical De partment by census tract. Red indicates higher numbers of overdose incidents. (City of Mesa)

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Organizers of the Interfaith 9/11 Memorial Blood Drive include, from left, Shahzad Amjad, president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Phoenix, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Chandler West Stake President Dan Shkapich, East Valley JCC CEO Rabbi Michael Beyo and Imam Ahmad Salman of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Phoenix. (David Minton/Srizonan Staff Photographer)

tor for the Chandler West Stake and the faith groups behind the blood drive have worked together for similar events but this year is one the few times all three of their schedules have aligned. “Whenever possible, we get all three groups together,” Finlinson said.

“It doesn’t matter what faith group or if they are people of faith if they’re willing to give up their blood to help save that per son in a time of need,” Finlinson said. Imam Ahmad Salman, who recently moved here from Puerto Rico, said the drive offers a great opportunity to show these faiths have more in common than different.

Salman was born in Pakistan but at tended high school in Canada and said he remembers watching the terror attacks unfold on TV.

Salman said that although the events of 9/11 were committed in the name of Is lam, the true teachings of the religion and the Quran emphasize that if someone kills a person to cause disorder in the land, it’s as if he’s killed all of humanity.

In working with American Red Cross, the community has helped donate about 120,000 pints of blood across the country.

Finlinson said she was a teacher in Mesa in 2001 and remembers, like many oth ers, waking up that Tuesday morning and watching the events unfold live on TV.

“If I would have been there just a week later or the terrorist who would have de cided to do this a week earlier, I might not be here,” Beyo said. Beyo became a U.S. citizen about four years ago but said back then, it didn’t mat ter what nationality you identified with, especially considering that people from all walks of life died that day.

Beyo said he lived in Israel in September 2001 and remembers receiving a call from his father about the initial reports of a small plane crashing into the Twin Towers.

Rabbi Michael Beyo, CEO of the East Val ley Jewish Community Center, has lived in Arizona since 2015 and has been a rabbi for nearly 30 years.

Eventually, like many that day, he watched the second plane hit the second tower on TV and it personally shook him to his core, considering he stood inside the towers exactly one week before that day.

Chandler West Stake President Dan Shkapich has led the stake for nearly three years and said it’s a thrill to continue this partnership with the other two faith see INTERFAITH

8 NEWS THE MESA TRIBUNE | SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 BY JOSH ORTEGA Tribune Staff Writer Bloodshed united the nation as it mourned the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and Pennsylvania and on the Pentagon. On Sept. 9, leaders of the Interfaith 9/11 Memorial Blood Drive hope to united peo ple again. The blood drive will bring together the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Phoe nix, the East Valley Jewish Community Center, and the Chandler West Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It will run noon-6 p.m. Sept. 9 at 1950 West Galveston Street in Chandler. Those interested in donating must make an ap pointment at redcrossblood.org and use sponsor code: 9/11memorial. Since 2015, the interfaith group has held the drive as a unifying tool for the commu nity despite doctrinal differences. “We’re all trying to help humanity in some way,” Robin Finlinson said. “And sav ing lives literally by donating blood is a great way to do that.”

While attending a former roommate’s wedding in Washington, D.C., in December 2001, Finlinson said she drove up to New York City and witnessed the destruction at site of the World Trade Center firsthand. Finlinson held back tears as she recalled experiencing such “a sacred place” that held so much death and destruction and said she couldn’t bear herself to even take a photo.

“I think that everybody felt that this is an attack against democracy, against peace, against peace-loving people,” Beyo said.

Beyo said he has a “strong belief” that most Americans want to keep the unity and hold values that won’t allow extrem ist of any kind to tear us apart, and events like this remain a positive sign that we can work together despite our differences.

Salman said although there’s a sign of hope all these years later, we still see “im patience and violence” that we must erad icate, and events such as this blood drive promulgate his community’s motto “love for all, hatred for none.”

After 9/11, Salman said the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was the first Muslim community ever to launch a Muslims For Life campaign.

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“We welcome this opportunity to work together for a great cause, to raise aware ness, and at the same time save lives, re gardless of color and creed,” Salman said.

“I think that the message is a tool to be able to look past our differences, and to fo cus on what unites us,” Beyo said.

In Arizona and across the country, Just Serve is inviting non-profits, government, individuals, families, co-workers, congre gations, schools and businesses to volun teer for these projects. Local projects can be found at Finlinson,justserve.org/az911day.theblooddrivecoordina

After retiring in 2005, Finlinson said she has dedicated her life to being a mom to her two teenagers, volunteering full-time and some writing and photography on the side. Finlinson said she knows people of Mus lim faith who seek to actively help people and these blood drives help drive their reputation in a positive light.

“I just love seeing that act of kindness amplified when people get together, be cause more people are helped when we do things together,” Finlinson said.

The drive is among a number of activi ties organized under the umbrella of two groups, JustService and 9/11 Day, to en courage a day of service during the week leading up to Sept. 11 to honor those who were killed, injured or responded to the 9/11“Thisattacks.dayof service is also intended to invite people to unify and rekindle the extraordinary spirit of togetherness and compassion that arose in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 tragedy,” said Jen nifer Wheeler a spokeswoman for the LDS Church.

The same passage, he said, also states that if someone saves a life, it’s as if he’s saved all of humanity.

Beyo said this partnership with the LDS church, as well as other nonprofit and faithbased organizations, has taken place long before he arrived in Arizona and its part of the interfaith work they do regularly.

Along with remembering the attacks of 9/11, Finlinson said this project is one of her favorite traditions because it brings together people of different faiths and helps those in need. It also comes at a time when there is a nationwide blood supply shortage.

“I wasn’t offended by those who did, but I felt like I just couldn’t because I knew what happened,” Finlinson said.

“We need to have these events to culti vate the understanding that, although we may seem divided, we have a lot more in common,” Salman said.

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The 21st annual Tempe Healing Field tribute will be held Sept. 9-11 for what Chairman Nick Bastian said is an effort to not only memorialize victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks but capture the unity that immediately followed.

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Like millions of Americans on that Tues day morning, Bastian watched United Airlines Flight 175 crash into the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Bastian said that moment still lives with him to this day and why he wants to re mind people what happened, not just on that day, but in the days following, espe cially for those not born at the time – like his three teenage sons.

“If you have a loved one that was lost that day, we can actually show you where that person’s flag is,” Bastian said.

Past events have shown flags fill the crescent-shaped grass field at the heart of the Tempe Beach Park. That area primar ily commemorates the victims inside the Twin Towers. Smaller areas around the large field commemorates victims inside the Pen tagon and inside the airliner that was crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.

The event costs approximately $30,000 annually to put up and store the threefoot-by-five-foot US flags, Bastian said.

“Some of the emotion that I’ve seen and felt, you really can’t describe it,” Bastian said. “We just want to make sure that people don’t ever forget what hap pened that day.”

The Tempe Healing Field at Tempe Beach Park is a sobering reminder of the thousands of lives lost in the Sept. 11, 20001, terror attacks. (Special to the Tribune) see

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“It really just felt like our country came together as Americans,” Bastian said. “And that’s something that I’ll certainly never forget and I hope other people don’t.”

For the past 20 years, Bastian said peo ple from all over the world have attended the Healing Fields memorial.

A memorial that captures the hor ror that America witnessed 21 years ago will return to Tempe Beach Park this week.

Healing Fields in Tempe honor the 9/11 deaths

The Tempe Exchange Club will plant one flag for each person that was killed that day – nearly 3,000, according to the National September 11 Memorial and Mu seum in New York City.

Bastian said he’s served as the chair for the Healing Fields Committee for the past three years and it’s the largest event the Tempe Exchange Club puts on.

In 2001, Bastian was living in Mesa and working as a residential Realtor when he woke up to a surreal moment on TV.

In years past, the impressive feat be gins with hundreds of volunteers showing up at 6 a.m. the first day of the event and within an hour-and-a-half, a sea of green grass becomes a sea of flags.

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The couple planned to have a larger cer emony after Cliff had returned from the Marine Corps.

Bickford was born on Aug. 31, 1918, in the small town of Opheim, Montana, where her father owned 400 acres of farmland. Due to the market crash of 1929, the family moved to Spokane, Washington, to live with relatives.

For the past four years at Broadway Mesa Village, Bickford said she’s enjoyed daily exercise and activities with the other residents. But Bickford’s most favorite activity she’s helped revitalize may be God’s fate.

After a few years, Bastian joined The Tempe Exchange Club. He’s served as the event chairman for the past three years. This year’s event located at 80 W. Rio Salado Parkway in Tempe will begin on Friday, Sept. 9, at 6 a.m. with “Stand Up Flags” setup and volunteers are greatly welcomed.

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While going to college in Spokane for two years, she met a young transfer student.Afterlocking eyes with him during a game of badminton, the young man would take Vivian out to the soda fountain across the street. “I just absolutely fell in love right then and there,” Bickford said. Cliff and Vivian spent the next six months together until they eloped in 1940 inBickfordIdaho. said that unlike the State of Washington, Idaho doesn’t require a three-day waiting period before using a marriage license.

Vivian lived in town while Cliff deployed to the Pacific The ater in World War II. “He was over seas for three solid years,” Bickford said. “I never saw him for three years.” After the war, the couple moved to Sacramento, had two sons, and built and operated a ski shop for 40 years. Bickford said they traveled to ski locales across the country including frequent trips to the slopes around Lake Tahoe.

After her husband’s death, Bickford lived with her son and his wife in Hawaii for 10 years before relocating to Arizona.

The Healing Field Tribute will include a candlelight vigil at 7 p.m. Sunday. The public is welcome to join in reading the names towards the end of the ceremony. The event officially ends with a “Stand Down the Field” on Monday, Sept. 12, at 6 a.m., when volunteers are again needed to help in taking down the flags. For more information, call Nick Bastian at 602-803-6425 or visit TempeHealing Field.org.

“It was kind of a perfect marriage,” Bick ford said.

Bickford remained married to Cliff for the “most perfect 71 years in the world.”

BY JOSH ORTEGA Tribune Staff Writer Vivian Bickford has known the se cret to a long life since she was in third grade. As she turned 104 last Wednesday, Aug. 31, Bickford said she gives all the credit to believing in God and Jesus Christ. “I thank God for giving me all of His time,” Bickford said. “Because I’ve had God and Jesus with me all my life since I was in third grade, guiding and protecting me.”

On Saturday, Sept. 10, the event contin ues with the Tunnel to Towers Founda tion 5k Run/Walk at the Tempe Beach Park at 8 Visitorsa.m.arewelcome to visit throughout the day and on Saturday, the event will end the day with a Freedom Concert from 6:30-9 p.m.

Two months later, she decided to fol low her husband to San Diego and after a church ceremony and honeymoon there,

“Every place I’ve been has always had some good and bad,” Bickford said. “And I seem to find the good stuff and remem ber it.”

Mesa Mayor John Giles visited with Vivian Bickford on her 104th birthday Aug. 31. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer) It might look like clockwork repeated year-after-year, but Bastian said the orga nization puts a lot of work into the mas sive“Thereundertaking.really is a lot of moving parts and we put a lot of hours into it,” BastianFifteensaid.years ago, Bastian said he started out as a volunteer putting up flags and eventually returned the next couple years.

Mesa Mayor John Giles joined Bickford on Wednesday with some of her friends at Broadway Mesa Village assisted living facility to celebrate the momen tousGilesoccasion.saidhe enjoyed listening to the centenarian regale him with stories of her life, tips for longevity and experiences as part of the greatest generation. “She’s a very active person, a person of faith, a person who’s very outgoing and friendly,” Giles said. “I was delighted to be here and be inspired by her and I hope to be more like her.”

“I know He sent me here for a reason,” Bickford said. The centenarian may be right, consid ering she’s helped grow the Bible study group among the residents.

In 2018, Bickford said the group only had two people and now it has more than a dozen. Bickford said her secret to a long life is a simple one but one she said you must do honestly and wholeheartedly: “If you just believed that Christ died for your sins and God will know it if you really mean it.” “You can’t do it your way,” Bickford said. “Just turn it over to God.” Teresa Hadley, life enrichment director at Broadway Mesa Village, said that in her time at the facility, Bickford has always put others before herself. Hadley said the facility offers trivia games such as Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, and hands out “Crazy Cash” that residents can exchange for goods, snacks and drinks. Although she’s competitive, Hadley said Bickford won’t hesitate to share her prize winnings with other residents. Even for the birthday celebration, Had ley said Bickford passed out small sponge cakes with a label of the Lord’s Prayer printed on them. “It’s all about somebody else to her,” Hadley said. “She really wanted it about everybody else, not her. “ 

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Among all the locations she’s visit ed around the world including visiting Europe, though without her skis, Bickford said she doesn’t have one favorite vacation.

What: Mesa Public Library Make Cards for First Responders project 5-7 p.m. Sept. 6 at the library, 64 E. 1st St., Mesa. Cards made at home can be dropped off through Sept. 7 at the first floor service desk. Interested in deliv ering cards? Email a note with your interest and submit your cross streets. Information: Janice Dell 480-6444638, Janice.Dell@MesaAZ.gov.

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What: LDS Mesa Alma Stake clothing drive at St. Matthew United Methodist Church, 2540 W. Baseline Road, Mesa, to fill a 20-foot Deseret Industries Con tainer 7-11 a.m. Sept. 10. Drive-thru donation drop off of gently-used cloth ing to support Paz de Cristo, Native American Fathers & Families Associa tion, and others in need. Information: Chandra Hansen, 480329-7350, chandra.hansen@gmail. com; Marni Fuhriman, 480-580-4807, marni411@gmail.com. 

“Since that time, it’s just been heart warming, inspiring and uplifting to see how, not just America, but how the world responds to terrorists,” Shkapich said. Through the years, America has changed but Shkapich said when we endure chal lenges in our personal lives, and the coun try as a whole, hard times and difficult moments unite us. “We have to come together to be able to heal, and to persevere and ultimately to get stronger going forward,” Shkapi ch said. “So in an interesting way, these kinds of events really make us stronger, and unite us more than ever before.” Along with donating blood when so much of it was lost on 9/11, Shkapich said he enjoys coming together with oth er faiths to continue this tradition. “When we have a common goal of loving one another, serving one another, help ing one another. It unites us even though we may have different beliefs in religion,” Shkapich said. 

What: Gilbert Public Schools beauti fications of grounds 7 a.m.-noon Sept. 10 at the following schools: Sonoma Ranch Elementary, 601 N. Key Biscayne Drive; Gilbert High, 1101 E. Elliot Road; Burk Elementary, 545 N. Burk St.; Pat terson Elementary, 1211 E. Guadalupe Road; Mesquite Elementary, 1000 E. Mesquite St., Gilbert, AZ. Information: Lori Schuermann (480) 497-9343, lori.schuermann@gil bertschools.net.

What: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Boulder Creek Stake Sept. 10 with flag ceremony at 8 a.m., followed by a food drive, craft kits as sembly and two bounce houses for kids through 9:30 a.m. at Mariposa Park, 2345 South Hawes Road, Mesa. Information: Pat Nelson 559-2802148 bcjustserve@gmail.com. What: House of Refuge grounds beautification 8-11a.m. Sept. 10 at 6858 E. Ursula Ave., Mesa. Information: Corrine Parsons 480698-8673 or corrine@houseofrefuge.org.

TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF Here are some of the opportuni ties to participate in a service project this week in honor of those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Most of the events are on Sept. 10, the National 9/11 Day of Service.

Information: Drop donations off at the Chamber office, 22246 S. Ellsworth Road or the Town Municipal Services and Rec Annex or call the Chamber of Commerce at (480) 888-1709.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Shkapich said he re members exercising in the fitness center of the hotel his family stayed at in Little ton, Colorado, because their home had to go undergo some work.

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What: Help the Resurrection Street Ministry clean up the lot behind its S.T.U.F.F. store at 1135 E. Main St. Mesa, which helps food banks. The ministry wants to put up individual huts for un sheltered people and to serve food to twice a day. Event is Sept. 10, 6-11 a.m.

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What: Vitalant Arizona Blood Drive 8 a.m.-noon at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Building, 1720 S. Ironwood Drive, Apache Junction. Call 877-258-4825 to make an appoint ment and mention Peralta Trail Stake or visit donors.vitalant.org and use code: P1X66. Information: Betty Thomas 772249-6610, bluewatern2@yahoo.com. What: United Food Bank food bag assembly 9-11 a.m. Sept. 12, 358 E. Ja velina Drive, Mesa. Closed-toed shoes required. Information: Andrea Fisher (480) 398-4470, Email: akfisher@united foodbank.org. What: Usery Mountain Trail Mainte nance 7-11 a.m. Sept. 8 at 3939 N. Us ery Road, Mesa. Bring your own gloves, proper clothing for outdoor work, closed-toed hiking shoes and water/ snacks. Information: Jared Angstead, 602506-9541 or Bill Klewer, 602-5069512, bill.klewer@maricopa.gov. What: Canyon State Academy varsity football team assistance. It means a lot to the athletes when volunteers spon sor the team by bringing snacks/treats/ drinks for 40 for after the game. Game days Sept. 9, 15, 23 and 30 and Oct. 21 at Canyon State Academy: 20275 S. Rit tenhouse Road, Queen Creek. Information: Susan Manning, 480987-9700 or susan.manning@rop.com. What: Mesa Fire and Medical Depart ment Fall Prevention Grab Bars Instal lation Day. 8:30 a.m.-noon Sept. 22 at N. Center St, Information:Mesa’Brent Strickland, 480644-3388, brenton.strickland@me saaz.gov. What: LDS Chandler South Stake Women of Light Interfaith Service Event 9 a.m.-noon, Sun Valley Commu nity Church’s Gilbert campus, 5545 S. Lindsay Road, Gilbert. Women 18 and older from all faiths can join Sun Valley Community Church in Gilbert and the Chandler South Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Information: Lori Neff, 480-3323258, justserve.css@gmail.com.

Information: Valerie Young-Grimm 405- 386-7799, valerieg1@gmail.com.

Shkapich said watching the news that morning and recognized the “very somber” time that our worlds had changed.

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What: Queen Creek Chamber of Commerce description food drive through Sept. 12. Most needed items include cereals, oatmeal, peanut butter, soups, chili, stews, beans, canned fruits and vegetables, canned or dried milk, canned tuna or chicken, canned tomato products, rice and pasta. You can make a tax-deductible cash contribution us ing the QR code.

“It’s a great blessing for us to come to gether in different faiths to have a com bined focus to help one another,” Shkapi ch said.

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Corning’s expansion also will help fur ther the Biden administration’s Internet for All initiative to invest $45 billion to provide affordable, reliable, high-speed internet for everyone in the United States by the end of the decade.

Corning expected the Gilbert facility to begin operations in 2024, in time to sup port network buildouts funded through the federal government’s $42.43 billion Broad band Equity, Access, and Deployment Pro gram or BEAD, according to Bailey.

“Corning is doing our part to make sure everyone – regardless of where they live –has access to reliable, high-speed connec tions enabled by optical fiber.” Chris Camacho, president and CEO of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, applauded the company’s news.

“The optical cable created at Corning’s Gilbert manufacturing facility will enable the next generation of entrepreneurs, pro vide stability, connectivity and jobs to the region and improve the lives of our grow ing population,” Camacho said.

With Mesa considered one of the largest and faster growing cities in the country, the company said it sees an opportunity to deliver better access to education, jobs, healthcare and more through the power of fiber connectivity.

The new facility is the company’s lat est in a series of investments in fiber and cable manufacturing totaling over $500 million since 2020.

“We believe access to broadband means access to opportunity – from education to healthcare to quality of life,” said Corning Chairman and CEO Officer Wendell Weeks in a released statement.

AT&T anticipated its expanded service into Mesa will become available to local residents in 2023.

A cable-manufacturing facility that will be built in Gilbert will build on Arizona’s recent efforts to expand broadband access through higher-speed internet connections in Mesa as well as in underserved communities. Corning Inc. officials announced Aug. 30 that the plant will bring 250 jobs to the town and will be the its western-most U.S. manufacturing site for optical cable.

The carrier made its announcement in the joint event held last week with Corn ing at Mesa Community College. Corning has a long-term partnership with the car rier, the nation’s the nation’s largest fiber internetCorningprovider.willoccupy a 317,000-squarefoot building at Park Lucero East, the town’s newest industrial park, near Gil bert and Germann roads, just south of the 202 Santan Freeway.

The industrial park is located in the Central Business District, which is home to nearly 17,000 employees and is set to become Gilbert’s largest employment area by number of employees, according to the town.

AT&T expects to offer speeds of up to 5-Gigs of fiber-based broadband to more than 100,000 homes in and around the Mesa area. “In an increasingly virtual world, access to high-speed internet is a key to success for individuals, families and business owners,” Mesa Mayor John Giles said. “We welcome AT&T to Mesa as their team de livers fiber connectivity, ultimately creat ing better access to education, jobs and healthcare for our great city.” To build and deploy these networks, the industry will need another 850,000 work ers through 2025 so Corning and AT&T have created a program to train fiber optic technicians. Mesa area residents can be the first to know when AT&T Fiber is available in their area by visiting: att.com/NotifyMe 

Gilbert fiber optic plant will target Mesa users

“For Corning, it means we’ll be wellpositioned to serve our customers in the western U.S. and Canada amid record de mand in the industry,” said company Ga brielle Bailey in an email. “This location is an example of Corn ing’s practice of strategically locating our cable manufacturing facilities close to our customers to facilitate efficient supply for their immediate needs.” She pointed to AT&T’s plans to expand fiber internet to the Mesa market.

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“We decided to host this event with Spencer’s dad because Spencer was a big car enthusiast,” said Eric Ballester, the event organizer and Shields & Stripes treasurer. Calzadilla, 28, took his life in March be cause of the debilitating effects of posttraumatic stress. “We hope this event increases aware ness about the effects of PTSD and helps our first-line defenders and their loved ones understand they don’t have to go it alone, there’s help and hope,” Ballester said.Ballester, of Gilbert, retired from the Air Force in March 2020 after 20 years of service, ending his career at the Joint Special Operations Command, 724th Special Tactics Group as a combat con troller.After graduating high school, he en listed in the military like all the men in his“Eric’sfamily.decision to become a special warfare commando was motivated by his Gilbert resident Eric Ballester and the rest of the team at the nonprofit Shields & Stripes are holding a family-friendly free car show in Gilbert Saturday. (Special to the Tribune)

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Alice Cooper competition seeks hopefuls

The event will take place at the Gilbert Civic Center, 50 Civic Center Drive, from 4-8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10. It is hosted by Shields & Stripes, a non profit with a mission to help first line de fenders heal and live meaningful lives in service to their communities.

“While the mission is serious, the goal is to have fun,” the group said in a release. Attendees will have a chance to enjoy a car show, which also features eye-catch ing motorcycles, trucks and bikes. There will also be food trucks, ice cream, cook ies, raffles, a DJ and more.

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Tribune Staff Writer A pplications are open for perform ers ages 12 to 25 to compete in Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Center’s annual music and dance com petition.Thewinner or winners will receive up to $1,000 cash and the opportunity to open for Alice Cooper and many other celebrity musicians on December 3rd at the annual Christmas Pudding fundrais erApplicationsconcert. are being accepted until Sept. 16. Not long after that musicians will compete in a series of four gigs spread across four venues and eight nights to determine who is fit to open for the godfather of shock rock at his famous annual concert.

Gilbert car show honors fallen local veteran

First-line defenders and their loved ones will also have a chance to receive free health and wellness resources and con nect with Shields & Stripes and other com munity organizations eager to help them.

“We’ve been a charity for 26 years and the core fundraiser that our nonprofit does is called Christmas Pudding,” said Randy Spencer, a consultant for Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Center and head of community partnerships. “So, we wanted to have an opportu nity for the young people at our teen centers and people in the community to possibly perform that event and create some more community awareness for the Christmas pudding fundraiser,” he explained. Applications are being accepted until Sept. 16 to compete for a chance to open for famed shock rocker Alice Cooper at his an nual Christmas Pudding show. (Courtesy of Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Centers) see COOPER page 18

The Spencer Calzadilla Car Show & Wellness Expo – a free, familyfriendly event to help Arizona’s ac tive duty and veteran military and front line responders grappling with PTSD and honoring the memory of Gilbert veteran Spencer Calzadilla – will be held in Gil bert next weekend.

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passion for having the largest impact on the battlefield,” according to the biogra phy on the nonprofit’s website.

Proceeds from the event will fund Shields & Stripes A Hero’s Journey pro gram, which provides customized men tal, physical, cognitive and nutritional services to help first-line defenders heal and be their best selves.

“We do workshops with them through out the year and jam sessions with a lot of popular musicians, so it’s not only a competition, but it’s truly a community.

“We just wanted to create a safe atmo sphere that young people who also don’t might get an opportunity to perform at Mesa Art Center at the beginning of your career, or perform at cool venues like Paradise Valley Community College is a beautiful theater and just give them a platform so they can have something positive to do and they can get to know 100 plus other young musicians.”

In addition to providing a platform for local youth to show off their musical prowess, Spencer hopes to raise aware ness for all of the things that Alice Coo per’s Solid Rock Teen Center has to offer.

“There’s an opportunity to engage with kids year-round and all the kids that are part of the visa competition and they are engaged year-round,” he said.

“It’s pretty nerve-racking for a lot of these kids, but a lot of these kids are so brave when we see them,” Spencer said.

Other than age, Spencer says there are no limits to the number of performers who can apply. Past acts have come from as far as North Carolina.

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“His exceptional ability to adapt and overcome and his drive to improve con stantly propelled him past his peers re sulting in his selection as the 2016 Com bat Controller of the Year. His 10 combat deployments were in Iraq, Syria, Afghan istan, and East Africa. During his military career, he earned certifications as a combat controller, Ranger, freefall jumpmaster, Marine combatant diver, static-line jumpmaster, joint terminal attack controller – instruc tor, air traffic controller and air assault. He earned three 3 Bronze Stars, and Air Force Combat Action Medal, and Army and Air Force commendations. He said he realized that after serving on 10 combat deployments, he had to prioritize his physical and mental health and helped form Shields & Stripes. “I have an extended family that’s guid ing me along this pathway to healing and understanding,” said Ballester. “My wife Sandra and I are paying it forward to reach out to other veterans like Spencer, before it’s too late, to make sure they’re getting the care and support we have benefited from so greatly.”

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Although there are no limits to the types of music and dance that perform ers can show off, Spencer admits that some common trends emerge among the performers each year. “When you have someone like Ed Sheeran is really big and popular, you get a lot of kids doing loops and things like that and then we also got a lot of kids kind of emulating the Billie Eilish type of style,” Spencer said. “Every year we have R&B, hip hop, EDM, metal and blues, so it’s it is a hy brid of everything, But if Bruno Mars is successful, you’ll see a lot of kids kind of doing the Bruno Mars kind of thing or if Coldplay is successful that year, etc. you see a lot of kids probably emulating that.”

Information: Alicecoopersolidrock. com

“People need a safe space and a posi tive space to play and we also want more people to know about our teen center is what we do every day,” he said. Because of this, Spencer added, this is more than just a music competition.

“We’re not looking for anyone that’s cute and we’re not looking for anyone that’s only hard rock just because it’s Al ice Cooper,” Spencer said. “We’re looking for great entertainers, we’re looking for great musicianship and great positions. That could be in ma riachi, it can be in hip hop or it can be in metal, we just want greatness.”

Car show entries, vendor registration and sponsorship details can be found at tinyurl.com/SpencerCalzadilla. 

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The first show is set to take place at Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Center in North Phoenix Sept. 27-29. From there, the sound travels to Paradise Valley Community College Oct. 14-15 and with Copper Blues Live at Desert Ridge Mar ketplace on Oct. 24-25 before concluding at the Mesa Arts Center on Nov. 15. It is at those shows where Spencer says the performers’ nerves usually kick in.

Mesa woman’s side hustle goes to dogs

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Cheri Morton plays with her dog Chunky in her backyard, which she rents to lo cal dog owners looking for a safe spot to bring their dogs to play. (David Minton/ Tribune Staff Photographer) see SNIFFSPOT

As costs continue to rise across the country on everyday goods like gaso line and groceries, Papenhausen be lieves that customers will be elated by this one-day-only discount.

Zia Records plays on with 2nd annual sale see ZIA RECORDS page 21

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A Mesa woman has turned her back yard into a kind of Airbnb for dogs. Cheri Morton signed up to offer her backyard through an online marketplace called Sniffspot.com to local dog owners on a by-the-hour basis for use as a dog park. Morton said this provides a consistent place to bring somebody’s fur baby. “The dogs are able to release the energy because a dog that doesn’t release energy is going to become very destructive.” Since the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 23 million Americans have adopted a pet, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. But with the recent housing market so costly and some people choosing to move into apartments, dog owners still need a place to take their pets to play, In 2018, David Adams founded the com pany from his Seattle home and it has grown to more than 8,000 hosts across 2,000 cities across the U.S. In the Valley, there already are more than 50 locations. Many Sniffspots have popped up around the country with everything from water features and shade to swimming pools. This “inflation buster” side hustle fits perfectly with Morton’s backyard and al lows peo ple to get their dogs out ershomeownmanyallowedhashour$9-15betweeningbookaverageditions.heatextremedespiteexercisingandconTherunsperandalsotoearn up $3,000 per month. Homeowners don’t even need to be home to accept guests. According to Sniffspot, hosts report more than 12,000 bookings a month across the country. Morton said she averages six to seven visitors per week. Starting at $15 per hour, she offers ame nities like chairs, shade, table, electric out let, pooper scooper for picking up your dog, and her swimming pool. For an additional $20, Morton offers training for any behavior or suggestions as a certified dog trainer. “I don’t mind that because I want to keep as many dogs in the homes that they’re in,” Morton said. She also offers snacks, such as rib bones for $5 and femur bones for $2 from her local pork shop that the dog can chew on and take home with them, as well as ice cold water bottles for $1. There are a few rules that Morton ask peo ple to follow, such as 12 hours advanced no tice before visits, a minimum visit of 30 min utes, and a maximum of four dogs allowed. She prefers to meet my guests on their first visits.

Back by popular demand, Zia Re cords has brought back its Zia DayZ sales for a second consec utive

Fromyear.Friday, Sept. 9, through Sept. 11, Zia’s eight stores in the Valley, Las Ve gas and Tucson will host deals ranging from 20% off of almost everything instore and online, goodie bag giveaways, triple Zia Rewards Points, limited edition Zia merchandise and exclusive vinyl“There’sreleases.aholiday for everything, it seems,” said Zia Records spokes woman Mary Papenhausen. “We wanted to celebrate our staff and our amazing customers. So, it was the day to stop and recognize them and say, thank you for everything they have done and for supporting us over the last 42 years.”

“Things are very expensive, so to be able to offer a give back to our customers and kind of give them a break for a day and having people save money is important to us,” Pa penhausenCustomerssaid.will have an opportu nity to score some sweet Zia swag as Zia opened up a bracket on its social media platforms for customers to vote on their favorite shirts. After seven rounds of voting, fans decided on a tee from 2005 that fea tures a design of a devil draped in a black cloak with an old-school logo printed below that will be re-printed and sold at all locations. Customers who purchase the tee will get more than they bargained for as Zia will give customers a free Zia super pack, which includes a tote bag, Mary Papenhausen of Zia Records with a rack of exclusives as she prepares for Zia DayZ next weekend. (David Minton/ Tribune Staff Photographer)

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Sniffspot also has community safety rules: including dogs must be leashed when entering and exiting the spot, and

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No matter which day customers choose to visit, Papenhausen is most excited to see smiles on customers’ faces and rel ishes another opportunity to give back to Zia’s loyal customers.

“Because I’m a dog trainer, I understand that not every dog is going to get along with every dog,” Morton said. “And you can’t force that.” For this reason, she said Sniffspot puts a 30-minute gap between visitors and spac es to ensure owners don’t overlap times.

“I just really love how good it makes people feel and I just love the feeling that everybody’s excited,” she said. “To be able to be a business for 42 years and celebrate the people who made it happen, it’s always fun to be around people and get engaged.

temporary tattoos and a sticker sheet that features sticker versions of the shirts that were nominated in the contest.

After the shelves are depleted by offer ing 20% off store-wide on Friday and of fering unique giveaways on Saturday, Zia is rounding out the weekend by offering customers triple points on all purchases and trade-ins which can eventually be re deemed for half off on items. In addition to offering deals on mer chandise all weekend long, Zia Records will also accept direct donations for the Arizona Humane Society and Papenhau sen teased that fans could also have the opportunity to get their hands on a new exclusive vinyl as early as Saturday. She also teased that two exclusive vi nyl records will be announced for preorders that week.

Zia Records is open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at 1302 S. Gilbert Road, Mesa. and 3201 S. Mill Avenue, Tempe Infor mation: Ziarecords.com. from page 20 Brady Wald Principal brady.wald@leonagroup.com

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Even with a reactive dog, it gives them the comfort of knowing that there’s no other dogs there,” Morton said. “Their dogs are able to relax and have some fun.”

In addition to the re-printed t-shirt, the first 100 customers to purchase at each Zia Records location will receive a Zia Goodie Bag which could include a $50 gift card among other prizes.

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Setting aside the routine “assault by euphemism” on the English language, describing the law-breaking border crossers by the legal term “immigrants,” it’s fair to question NPR’s insistence on framing this through the dubious prem ise that using the word “invasion” will somehow inspire violence against ille gals.What of the violence committed by il legals against law-abiding Americans?

Border ‘invasion’ is hardly small potatoes

TheMesaTribune.com how hard it is, learn to let it go

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist O ne of my dear friends, a men tor throughout my adult life, shocked me a few days ago with a confession. He is in his seventies now, among the wisest humans I know, an oracle of smart advice people pay vast sums to hear. The subject of one of his books arose – a self-help title that is on my bookshelf in a place of honor – and his face grew sullen. “I wish I had never written it,” he told us. “I wish I had never told that story.” The story concerns his being shot in Vietnam. He was 19 years old, 9,000 miles from home with his guts exposed, courtesy of three enemy bullets. Once, that tale was a pillar of his story telling arsenal, a testament to his ability to survive whatever life threw at him. Now, almost 60 years later, he had a dif ferent perspective: He was no longer that person, and had not been for decades, almost since the moment he was shot. Rather than set down that story for the world to chew over, he wished instead he had made peace with the moment and moved on, as he has made peace with every tribulation ever since, including a stroke that has made walking difficult. His message to us was simple, but su premely wise – which is why I am pass ing it along to you. “We need to let go of what’s bothering us and move on,” I wrote in my notebook. “Will you let challenges steal all the joy from you? Or will you let go, get over it and move on?”

Chances are good, dear reader, that you and I will never cross paths in the world. You know me only from my columns, which I assure you is a distorted view of who I am. On this page, I offer some opinions, a few tales, but not much at all about the kind of man I am. Which, frankly, suits me fine. Because the truth is, I have shamed myself many times in my life, because I have failed to do right in moments that were difficult. These failures are things I have carried with me no less tangibly than my wallet and car keys – and they’re much harder toAnlose.example: Not a day goes by that I don’t think about my father, who died in March last year in a strange hospice bed. I was 2,000 miles away when he passed, not there to hold his hand, not there to tell him one more time that I loved him. His mind was gone by then, and his body, too, addled by dementia, wracked with Parkinson’s disease. Did I do enough for him? Did he under stand in those final moments how much I cared, how proud I was to be his son? These questions still gnaw at me 18 months later, weighing down like heavy stones. This is the way I have come to de fine myself – as a bad son, selfish, broken in some profound way. My friend’s life was shaped by his great grandma, who in the days before her death exhorted him to get over her loss immediately and not one moment later. How long will you mourn me, she de manded? Three weeks, he suggested –because what do you say to such a ques tion? She scoffed. “Life is for the living,” his great grand ma insisted. “Life is for the living.” Somewhere out there, one of you is carrying the Sisyphean weight of shame. Take it from someone who knows: Let it go, move on. We are never who we were once forev er. Stories define us until they no longer do. Life is for the living, so live.

It wasn’t exactly “small potatoes.” That was just part of it.

Small potatoes, diseased potatoes –and in some areas, no potatoes – all com bined in “The Great Irish Potato Famine” which was the scourge of the Emerald Isle from the mid-to-late 1840’s.

Also known as the “Great Hunger,” close to a million Irishmen died, and over a million fled the country. In fact, in the ten years from 1845-55, more than two million people left Ireland. Many of them emigrated to the United States…includ ing the ancestors of the current occupant of the White House.

One area where Joe and the rest of the Biden Bunch remain resolute can be found on our southern border…at least what’s left of it.

There’s only one word for it. That’sInvasion.what National Public Radio— you read that right—NPR —discovered in a recent poll.

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Much to its collective editorial and administrative chagrin, the leftist radio “service” financed in part with the tax dollars of “non-listeners like you,” found that a clear majority—54 per cent of Americans—believe the border crisis is, in fact, an invasion. True to its “open borders ideology,” NPR sought to minimize the impact of the findings,and disparage the use of the term, claiming that “immigrant advo cates say the word has a long history in white nationalist circles.” Then, for good measure, NPR allowed those same so-called “immigrant advo cates” to demonize the legitimate con cerns of American citizens, warning “that such extreme rhetoric could provoke more violence against immigrants.”

Undoubtedly, Joe Biden has the gift of blarney; he also has the curse of advanc ing age and retreating cognition. What ever his intellectual challenges, a halfcentury on Washington’s political stage has endowed him with a reflexive muscle memory.Thatcomes in handy when he slings rhetorical mud—and worse— at his op ponents, but also in his single-minded quest for greater power.

BY JD HAYWORTH Tribune Columnist

The erasure of our national boundary, the erosion of our national sovereignty, and the eventual extinction of our nation itself appear within the grasp of this ad ministration.Ironically,one sign of Ol’ Joe’s perverse “progress” invokes the image of his an cestral home. The Federation for Ameri can Immigration Reform (FAIR) points out that during the first 18 months of Biden’s time in the White House, over 4.9 million illegal aliens have entered our country. That’s equivalent to the current population of Ireland!

Is that underreported, or worse, rou tinely omitted from NPR’s coverage?

What cannot be omitted from the re sults of the NPR/Ipsos poll, conducted in late July with a sample of 1,116 adults, is the fact that 40 percent of self-identified Democrats—a sizable minority—agree with the 76 percent of Republican re

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The Sun Devils are coming off their best season in the program’s five-year history. They posted an 11-8 overall record and 7-3 mark in conference play, and reached the Pac-12 championship game for the firstASUtime.isthe only one of the four Division I colleges in the state that has a lacrosse program. Last year’s roster did not feature a single player from Arizona, and only one player has represented the state in the program’s first five years.

Lacrosse still awaits high school sanction

“We’re going to expand,” she said. “We’re going to expand the community. I think that’s the biggest thing as we look at ASU and ASU lacrosse and Sun Devils lacrosse.

New Arizona State lacrosse coach Taryn VanThof is determined to help build the sport at all levels and increase exposure. (University of Florida Athletics) Have an sportsinterestingstory? Contact Zach Alvira zalvira@timespublications.comat and follow him on Twitter @ZachAlvira.

VanThof, left, is well aware last year’s ASU roster had no players from Arizona, and that only one player has represented the state in the program’s first five years. (University of Florida Athletics)

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“We want it to be not just here on the West Coast. It’s going to be a national brand ex tending over and throughout.”

Taryn VanThof was in troduced as the new lacrosse coach at Arizona State on July 6, she pledged to build the sport – which traditionally is played on the East Coast –and the Sun Devils’ brand throughout the state, region and country. The native of upstate New York was a standout midfielder at Loyola University in Maryland. Both states are hotbeds for lacrosse, and VanThof aims to push ASU to reach the same level of prominence.

The AIA categorizes lacrosse as a club sport, and therefore doesn’t sponsor a state championship in the sport.

Meanwhile, at the high school level, lacrosse is not a sport that’s sanctioned by the Arizona Interscholastic Associa tion, which oversees high school sports in the state.

A few years ago, the AIA began the pro cess of adding lacrosse as an official high school sport, but the momentum stalled.

In addition to her coaching responsibili ties, VanThof also aims to expand youth lacrosse in the Grand Canyon State.

“We don’t want to have a whole bunch of baseball players or a whole bunch of softball players also play lacrosse. That’s going to cut into their time in the spring.” According to Maxpreps, 24 Arizona schools have girls lacrosse teams and 55 have boys teams. Because these teams are clubs, anyone can join – even if they don’t go to that school. However, if lacrosse becomes an AIA-sanctioned sport, players would have to attend the school to play on its team. Student athletes at schools that don’t of fer lacrosse won’t have the option to play it for another school. The AIA currently sponsors 14 sports in the fall, winter and spring seasons. Across the country, lacrosse generally is played in spring. The AIA has seven sports in the spring and just three in the winter. “We can’t foresee it at this point wheth er it will or won’t become an AIA sport,” Polansky said. “We’re always for increas ing opportunities for student athletes. If lacrosse ends up being one of them, then we’re going to embrace it.” 

“Right now, we just have to continue as is, and that is we recognize that it’s a club sport being played and that it doesn’t have any affiliation with the AIA,” said Seth Po lansky, the association’s director of sports information.TheAIArequires numerous steps for a sport to become sanctioned, Polansky said. First, a group must present a propos al to the AIA executive board expressing interest in adding it. The executive board will then watch a season to see how the sport operates and meet with the proposers about logis tics. The AIA then polls superintendents and athletic directors across the state to gaugeShouldinterest.thesport receive enough inter est from these parties, the AIA will review another season to get a better idea of how the sport would run under the direction of theTheAIA.schools then would need to get la crosse approved in their budgets, and the AIA would need to determine during which season it would be played. “It will come down to not just availabili ty of when it can be played,” Polansky said, “but also who are the athletes? Who are the lacrosse players? What other sports are they also playing?

“It’s going to start on campus for us with camps and clinics and being able to show our face to promote us but (also) to bring people to us,” VanThof said. “It’s going to create a community. It’s going to build an empire, and I think it’s exciting.”

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The Time Out Sports Bar & Grill at 1762 S. Greenfield Road in Mesa has multiple TVs for foot ball fans. (Facebook)

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“A lot of the songs I wrote were with the buddies back in the day when we were all just starting and it was when this band was at its purest form,” DeVore said. “(The album) is full of life, full of curiosity and full of excitement and all of these songs hit hard in that memory bank.” They recall the shenanigans that he and his pals indulged in back in their late teens/early 20s along with the heartache he experienced in his youth. “It has a very special place in our hearts because of how organic the music was at that time,” he said. “Some of the crap I talk ed about was a girlfriend hurt my feelings or I was getting drunk with my buddies in the“It’spark.honest childhood, teenage heart break and also the genuinely good times of being a youth, ditching school, smok ing cigarettes and being a bunch of young Authority Zero: Mesa Punk rockers Authority Zero will play their debut album “A Passage In Time” cover to cover in celebration of its 20th anniversary on Friday, Sept. 9 at the Nile The ater. (Courtesy of Ryan Clyde) see

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The 2022 professional football sea son is filled with eye-grabbing head retired, then unretired this offseason and is back for another Super Bowl run with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This season could be the last one for the five-time Super Bowl champion and three-time MVP. Many stars were traded this offseason and will certainly impact their new teams. And for the first time in recent memory, there isn’t a clear-cut Super Bowl favorite. A third of the league, give or take, has at least an outsider’s shot to win Super Bowl LVII that will be played at State Farm Sta dium in Glendale. All of that to be said, numerous spots around the Valley are ready to host fans of America’s Game to watch the season play out. Depending on who you root for, pay these bars a visit on Sundays to root for your favorite team with like-minded fans.

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A uthority Zero frontman Jason De Vore finds it hard to believe that 20 years ago, his band was roam ing Downtown Mesa, envying headlining acts at the Nile Theater. That time inspired Authority Zero’s fulllength debut album, “A Passage in Time” –which creatively meshed punk music with elements of reggae and surf punk. It only made sense to celebrate the em erald anniversary of “A Passage in Time” with a one-off show at the Nile Theater on Friday, Sept. 9. “It’s going to be cool to see a lot of old faces in the audience who we haven’t seen in a long time and a lot of new faces,” he said. “It’s going to be a big celebration.” “A Passage in Time” will also be spe cial for DeVore as he often changes the line “I’m 21 today, how many more? How should I know?” to reflect his actual age. Sept. 9 is his birthday. “Every time I sing that line, it makes me automatically think of how long the road we’ve been on has been and what a crazy, cool one it has been on top of that,” DeVoreAlthoughsaid.the past 20 years have flown by and DeVore admits that the anniver sary snuck up on him, he sees this show as a tribute to the legacy of one of Arizona’s pioneering punk acts. “It has been quite a victory for us to be around as long as we have,” he said. “This show is kind of a tribute to that and the legacy of it all.” That legacy shares DeVore’s penchant for angsty lyrics and fun stories.

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Harold’s Cave Creek Corral is one of the most well-known Steelers bars in the Steeler Nation. Harold’s seats a whopping 600 potential Steelers fans inside, and an other 200 in its outside seating.

All Cold Beers and Cheeseburgers have with more than 30 high-definition flat screen TVs, booming sound systems and a mouth-watering menu. Locations include 5005 E. Chandler Blvd., Ahwatukee; 1980 W Germann Road, Chandler; 4604 S. Hig ley Road, Gilbert; and four Scottsdale loca tions at 18529 N. Scottsdale Road, 4222 N. Scottsdale Road, E. Shea Blvd. and 10767 N. 116th St.

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Established in 1979, Max’s features more than 100 flat-screen televisions and a recently redeveloped smoking patio. For the Rams, the sports bar houses a massive room decked out in Rams gear and sits 80 people.

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An official watch site for the Packers, Clancy’s advertises a big screen from ev ery angle inside the pub. The menu is geared to a more Midwestern vibe with cheese curds and a dish featuring walleye on game days. The pub also runs give aways at halftime. Info: 4432 N. Miller Road, Scottsdale, clancyspubscottsdale.com

No favorite team? No worries. Sports bars abound in the East Valley and here are just a couple where fans of football generally can find like-minded people to enjoy a game on any given day. Here are just a few: Lucky Lou’s American Grill

“The Nile Theater is where our stomp ing grounds originated. It’s right there in the heart of (Downtown) Mesa where we all grew up and formed,” DeVore said. “The Nile Theater was cool in that (it) had five bands for $5 that would play the under ground stage and we’d always go down there to support bands and we were a part of that whole camaraderie. From there, we started growing more.”

Pub Rock Live, which typically welcomes live music, transforms into a massive fan base for the Chiefs and their fans. Dubbed “Arrowhead West,” Pub Rock brings in food trucks on game day. It also offers dis counted beer prices and a $6 “Kingdom Shot” whenever the Chiefs score a touch down.

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DeVore recalls eventually being called to the Nile Theater’s main stage to open for acts like Less Than Jake and The Vandals.

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Harold’s is partnered up with UNIBET, allowing its guests to experience a Ve gas-like betting experience where games can be bet on live, or upcoming sporting events and in-game betting can be bet on as well. A specific game-day food and drink menu is available as well.

Blue 32 Sports Grill Blue 32 Sports Grill also has multiple lo cations – at 4845 S. Arizona Ave, Chandler; 1524 E. Williams Field Road and 6348 South Higley Road, Gilbert; and 2028 N Gilbert Road, Mesa –and offers a e. blue 32sportsgrill.com. Zipps Sports Grill Zipps is another sports bar with mul tiple TVs and multiple locations to satisfy any football fan: 4710 E. Warner Road, Ahwatukee; 690 S. Mill Ave. and 1860 E. Warner Road in Tempe; 4060 S. Arizona Ave. in Chandler’s Ocotillo neighborhood; and 211 E. Warner Road, Gilbert. zippss portsgrills.com.

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With locations at 3245 West Ray Road, Chandler; 1929 N Power Road, Mesa; and 23706 South Power Road in Queen Creek, East Valley fans won’t have to drive too far for good drinks, good food and good games at Lucky Lou’s. luckylousaz.com

“The show is a fun way for us to pay homage to our hometown, the roots of where we grew up and the roots of where a lot of those songs were written,” he said. Because of this, DeVore expects the show to feel nostalgic not only for himself but for fans. Some of the songs that DeVore is excited to revisit are the titular track off of “A Passage In Time” and a ditty about the town the band got its start in. “I’m excited to play ‘Mesa Town,’ be cause it’s a hometown song about all the debauchery we used to get into and it ex plains where our band was founded,” De Vore said. “’A Passage in Time,’ is the one that I have carried with me throughout the years because of the electricity it holds to kick off events, as old as it is.”

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Ingredients: • 2 cups milk • 2 chicken bouillon cubes (or 1 teaspoon bouil lon paste) 3 tablespoons butter 1 medium sweet yellow onion, chopped fine • 3 eggs • dash fresh grated nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon sugar • 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon pepper 4-5

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Looking back, I feel so guilty. It was the late 60’s. I was in my teens – the years my Mom referred to as “my little hippy daughter’s crazy time.” For some reason I became obsessed with making home made bread and culturing my own yogurt for the family. I made a loaf of fresh bread every single day and drove my family absolutely nuts in the process. I was convinced that if some one shut a door too forcefully or raised their voice too loudly while the bread was still in the oven, it could cause the bread to fall. That poorForfamily.onehour every single day, they had to tip-toe around and whisper until my loaf came out safe and sound. For some reason, they put up with it, and I don’t think the bread was even that good. That was just bread. Can you imagine what a mess I would have been had I obsessed over soufflé instead? Ah, soufflé. Whether savory or sweet, it’s one of those things that people tend to fret over. Will it puff up? Will it fall? Where did I go wrong? So when I came across a very old soufflé recipe in a school fundraising cookbook, I almost passed on it. But that would have been a huge mistake. This recipe for broccoli soufflé is about as delicious and fool-proof as it gets, and is now one of my very favorite veggieInterestingly,dishes. the recipe calls for heating the milk and adding chicken bouillon to it, which I had never heard of before. It added so much flavor to the dish that I wish I would have known about that technique yearsSomebodyago! knew what they were doing with this broccoli soufflé and I’ll bet they didn’t even drive their family crazy in the process.

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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

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A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on September 8, 2022 at 10:00 am electronically via Microsoft Teams. Parties interested in attending should request an invita tion from Tracy Gumeringer at tracy.gumering er@mesaaz.gov. At this meeting, City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to questions from the attend ees. 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 encouraged to attend the Pre-Submit tal Conference since City staff will not be avail able for meetings or to respond to individual inquiries regarding the project scope outside of this conference. In addition, there will not be meeting minutes, or any other information pub lished from the Pre-Submittal Conference.

NORTH HIGLEY LIFT STATION 56th Street & Thomas Road PROJECT NO. CP0617LS06

The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Con sultant to provide design services for the North Higley Lift Station Project. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Quali fications (SOQ) in accordance with the require ments detailed in the Request for Qualifications is a summary of the project. The required tasks will be reviewed with the se lected Design Consultant and defined to meet the needs of the project as part of the contract Thisscoping.project will include a Design Concept Re port and Final Design for a sewer lift station, located off Higley Road north of Thomas, and approximately 7800’ of 8” force main connect ing the lift station to an existing sewer manhole in the McDowell/Higley intersection. This plan is a departure from the Wastewater Master Plan. According to the 2018 Wastewa ter Master Plan Update, the service area for the future Higley Lift Station was planned to discharge to a future sewer line in 56th Street and Thomas Road that would outfall to the ex isting 12-inch sewer in Longbow Parkway. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) installed a dry sewer in a casing under the Loop 202 freeway for this purpose in 2006. However, recent investigations into the as-built condition of the dry sewer line revealed the line to be too deep to tie into the existing manhole at the inter section of 56th Street and Longbow Parkway as planned. Additionally, the recent development of previously vacant parcels along the existing 12-inch Longbow Parkway sewer is denser than anticipated in the 2018 Wastewater Master Plan Update, resulting in higher flows. Due to these factors, it is no longer feasible to follow the rec ommendations laid out in the 2018 Wastewater Master Plan Update. The new concept includes enlarging the North Higley Lift Station service area and changing the discharge location. Based on the City’s cur rent flow projections, the North Higley Lift Sta tion should be built with an initial capacity of 600 gallons per minute and sized for a planned buildout capacity of 1,000 gallons per minute.

CITY MESA, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR(RFQ)QUALIFICATIONS

1. Amending Section 10-4-6 of the Mesa City Code to modify the existing speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph on 1st Street between Mesa Drive and Country Club Drive, as recommended by the Transportation Advisory Board. (District 4)

The Mesa City Council will hold a public hearing concerning the following ordinance at the September 12, 2022, City Council meeting beginning at 5:45 p.m. in the Mesa City Council Chambers, 57 East First Street.

Land acquisition is required for the lift station site. In support of that effort, the project will include the preparation of legal descriptions and exhibits representing the property to be ac Therequired.are a number of site and general design requirements that typically apply to lift stations and force mains. See the Lift Station and Force Main Checklist posted with this RFQ. City may include other miscellaneous improvements at the Site, as needed.

Adam Baugh, Withey Morris PLC, applicant; GATEWAY DEVELOPMENT LLC, owner. Dated at Mesa, Arizona, this 3rd day of September Holly2022.Moseley, City Clerk

The City would like to have these facilities de signed and constructed as soon as possible, and no later than June 1, 2025, in anticipation of growth in the area.

Contact with City Employees. All firms inter ested in this project (including the firm’s em ployees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, un der 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 se lection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below. RFQ Lists. This RFQ is available on the City’s website at ing/architectural-engineering-design-opportuhttp://mesaaz.gov/business/engineer nities.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Con sultant for the following:

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The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes but including an organiza tion chart with key personnel and their affilia Resumestion). for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Mini mum font size shall be 10pt. Please provide one (1) electronic copy of the Statement of Qualifi cations by September 22, 2022 at 2:00 pm to the email address Engineering-RFQ@mesaaz.gov. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer.

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Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) Sys tem neeringbetantQuestions.vendor-self-service).(http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/QuestionspertainingtotheConsulselectionprocessorcontractissuesshoulddirectedtoTracyGumeringeroftheEngiDepartmentattracy.gumeringer@me saaz.gov.

The station must include a back-up generator or secondary feed as required by Arizona Admin istrative Code, and provisions for odor control must also be provided. An 8-inch PVC force main is expected to be adequate to convey flow from the lift station site down Higley Road to discharge in an existing manhole (MH14430) in the McDowell/Higley intersection. There is an existing casing crossing under the Loop 202 at Higley Road. The project will include the eval uation of the existing ductile iron pipe inside the casing to see if it is suitable for use.

Delivered or hand-carried submittals must be delivered to the Engineering Department recep tion area on the fifth floor of Mesa City Plaza Building in a sealed package. On the submit tal package, please display: Firm name, project number, and/or project title.

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2. ZON22-00340 (District 2) Within the 7000 block of East Main Street (south side), within the 100 block of South 70th Street (east side). Located east of Power Road on the south side of Main Street (4+ acres). Rezone from Limited Commercial (LC) and Single Residence-6 (RS-6) to Multiple Residence 2 with a Planned Area Development Overlay (RM-2-PAD) and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for a multiple residence development.

Benjamin Graff, Quarles & Brady, LLP, applicant; POWER & MAIN DECVOL, LLC, owner.

3. ZON22-00350 (District 5) Within the 10700 block of East Hampton Avenue (south side) and within the 1400 to 1600 block of South Signal Butte Road (west side). Located north of the US 60 Superstition Freeway on the west side of Signal Butte Road (15± acres). Site Plan Modification. This request will allow for a mixed-use development. Andrew Call, Thompson Thrift, applicant; Signal Butte Hampton Mesa AZ, LLC and Signal Butte BFC, LLC owner. 4. ZON22-00481 (District 6) Within the 8400 to 8500 blocks of East Pecos Road (south side), and the 7200 block of South Hawes Road (east side). Located south of Pecos Road and east of Hawes Road (9+ acres). Rezone from Agriculture (AG) to Light Industrial (LI) and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for an industrial development.

The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Contractor to provide Job Order General Building Construction Services. 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 Th(RFQ).efollowing is a summary of the project. This Job Order Contract is for a broad range of preconstruction and construction services for maintenance, repair, minor and major construction work on real property and facilities in the City. The work is required in support of the City of Mesa’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) and other City department requests. This will be an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) type contract and will include a wide variety of individual construction tasks.

A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on September 22, 2022 at 9:00 am through Microsoft Teams. Parties interested in attending should request an invitation from Tracy Gumeringer at tracy.gumeringer@mesaaz.gov. 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 intereste d firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether or not they attend the conference. All interested firms are encouraged 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 addition, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from t he Pre-Submittal Conference. Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, 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 below. RFQ Lists. The RFQ is available on the City’s website at https://www.mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/construction-manager-at-riskand-job-order-contracting-opportunitiesTheStatementofQualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding PPVF’s and resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation). Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10pt. Please provide one (1) electronic copy of the Statement of Qualifications in an unencrypted PDF format to Engineering-RFQ@mesaaz.gov by October 6, 2022 at 2 pm. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer.

JOB ORDER CONTRACT PROJECT NO. JOC-G23

REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

GENERAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified firm or team to act as the Job Order Contractor for the following:

Renewal of the contract will be based on the successful performance by the JOC Contractor and the needs of the City. During the contract period, the City will identify construction tasks required to complete each specific job and will issue individual Job Orders to the Contractor to complete those jobs. The Contractor shall be required to furnish all materials, equipment and personnel necessary to manage and accomplish the Job Orders. The Contractor shall be required to maintain a management staff in order to receive Requests for Proposal (RFP), prepare and negotiate proposals, receive signed Job Orders (JO) and Notices-to-Proceed (NTP), receive and initiate contract correspondence and provide other construction services to accomplish individual Job Orders. Job Orders will vary in size, with many anticipated to be of small to medium size. Some Job Orders may require incidental design services. The schedule for the work will start afteraward and will be ongoing over the life of the contract.

Firms who wis h to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purQuestions.chasing/vendor-self-service).Questionspertaining to the Job Order selection process or contract issues should be directed to Tracy Gumeringer of the Engineering Department at tracy.gumeringer@mesaaz.gov.

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The initial term of the JOC contract will be for three (3) years and may be renewed up to two (2) additional one-year terms. The maximum construction contract value for an individu al job order issued under this contract will be $4,000,000, or the maximum permissible limit authorized by the City at the time the job or der is executed. Pricing shall be negotiated fee. Utility improvement project anticipated to be completed under this JOC contract are based on, but not limited to the current 5-year Capi tal Improvement Program. Information on the Capital Improvement Program may be viewed at Capital Improvement Programs | City of Mesa Renewal(mesaaz.gov).ofthecontract will be based on the successful performance by the JOC Contractor and the needs of the City. During the contract period, the City will identify construction tasks required to complete each specific job and will issue individual Job Orders to the Contractor to complete those jobs. The Contractor shall be re quired to furnish all materials, equipment and personnel necessary to manage and accomplish the Job Orders. The Contractor shall be required to maintain a management staff in order to re ceive Requests for Proposal (RFP), prepare and negotiate proposals, receive signed Job Orders (JO) and Notices-to-Proceed (NTP), receive and initiate contract correspondence and pro vide other construction services to accomplish individual Job Orders. Job Orders will vary in size, with many anticipated to be of small to medium size. Some Job Orders may require in cidental design services. The schedule for the work will start after award and will be ongoing over the life of the contract.

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Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing fiel d 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 below. RFQ Lists. This RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/architectural- engineering-design-opportunities.

The following is a summary of the project. The required tasks will be reviewed with the selected Design Consultant and defined to meet the needs of the project as part of the contract scoping.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified firm or team to act as the Job Order Contractor for the TRANSPORTATIONfollowing:CONSTRUCTIONJOBORDERCONTRACTPROJECTNO.JOC-T23

The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding PPVF’s and resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation). Resumes for each team mem ber shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10pt. Please provide one (1) electronic copy of the Statement of Qualifications in an unencrypted PDF format to Engineering-RFQ@mesaaz.gov by October 6, 2022 at 2 pm. The City eserves the right to accept or reject any and all State ments of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer.

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

Questions. Questions pertaining to the Consultant selection process or contract issues should be directed to Tracy Gumeringer of the Engineering Department at tracy.gumeringer@mesaaz.gov.BETH

The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation). Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10pt. Please provide one (1) electronic copy of the Statement of Qualifications by no later than 2 pm on October 13, 2022, to the email address Engineering-RFQ@mesaaz.gov. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer.

Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System

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A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on September 21, 2022 at 8:00 am through Mic rosoft Teams. Parties interested in attending should request an invitation from Donna Horn at donna.horn@mesaaz.gov. At this meeting,

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This project will include the design of approximately 7,200 feet of 10” gravity sewer to be constructed within the Thomas Road right-of-way between Recker Road and Higley Road, then north along Higley Road to a proposed North Higley Lift Station. The North Higley lift station design is not a part of this project and will be solicited separately. The City Water Resources Department completed a preliminary evaluation of the sewer service area, collection, and lift station requirements. Please refer to the memorandum posted along with the request for qualifications.

The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Con tractor to provide Job Order Transportation Construction Services. All ualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifi cations (SOQ) in accordance with the require ments detailed in the Request for Qualifications is a summary of the project. This Job Order Contract is for a broad range pre-construction and construction services for transportation projects or site improvements for other real property and facilities in the City. The work is required in support of the City of Me sa’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) and other City department requests. The contract will be an indefinite delivery, indefinite quanti ty (IDIQ) type contract and will include a wide variety of individual construction tasks.

The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant to provide design services for the Thomas Road Sewer Project. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invi ted to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).

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City staff will discuss the scope of work and general contract issues and respond to ques tions 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 encouraged 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-Sub mittal ContactConference.withCity Employees. All firms inter ested in this project (including the firm’s em ployees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, un der 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, assure that contract decisions are made in public and to protect the integrity of the se lection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below. RFQ Lists. The RFQ is available on the City’s website at er-at-risk-and-job-order-contracting-opportunibusiness/engineering/construction-managhttps://www.mesaaz.gov/

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The City would like to have these facilities constructed as soon as possible, and no later than March 31, 2025, in anticipation of growth in the area. City may include other miscellaneous improvements, as Aneeded.Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on September 20, 2022, at 8 am electronically via Microsoft Teams. Parties interested in attending should request an invitation from Donna Horn at donna.horn@mesaaz.gov. 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 c onference. All interested firms are encouraged 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 addition, there will not be meeting minutes, or any other information published from the Pre-Submittal Conference.

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