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light of Mesa’s recent economic success es, Mesa’s mayor and city manager think the city can be choosier in the future about which projects get the welcome mat from the city.City

In order to hit even its scaled-down revenue targets and make next year’s loan repayments due to its institutional investors, Legacy Cares is counting on a dramatic increase in income once cooler weather arrives.

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The complex failed to generate profits in its opening months, and in August, Legacy Cares, the nonprofit owner of the park, slashed its

revenue forecast for the year by more than half.

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Summer business was especially disap pointing, prompting Bell Bank Park to modify its business model to be more of a seasonal operation than the year-round venue origi nally pitched to investors.

Mesa may getchoosier on future projects Andrew Kuzyk of Mesa, holding his dog Champ the Chihuahua, who was born without front legs, suffers from a terminal brain tumor. The cost of treatment is forcing him and his wife, Pa mela Andersen, to sell off almost all their possessions. You can read his story on page 8. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer) Sunday, September 18, 2022 EVT plans foster dorm/ P. 7 THEMESATRIBUNE.COM IT’S TIME TO VOTE SPORTS .................. 33 Mountain View athlete hits prime time. see FUTURE page 4

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After opening in February to much fan fare, revenue for the destination 320-acre sports complex’s first six months of operation fell short of projections.

During an Aug. 30 disclosure call with in vestors, representatives for the park’s credi tors asked Legacy Cares leadership pointed questions about the park’s ability to start generating greater revenue.

Chad Miller, CEO of Legacy Sports – the en tity that manages the park for the nonprofit

leaders were addressing local business leaders at the Economic Development Advi sory Board meeting on earlier this month.

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City of Mesa collected a record $301 million in sales taxes in fiscal year 2022, which ended June 30, exceeding the previous year’s $253 mil lion take by 18%.

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Ritschel attributed the record year to a number of factors, some positive and some negative.

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Assistant Director of the Office of Bud get and Management Brian Ritschel cel ebrated the news, noting that sales tax revenue funds the day-to-day operations of city government, including its projects, services, vehicles and employee salaries and benefits.

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Ritschel said FY2022 saw a 55% rise in sales taxes generated by construction.

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The mayor said in the next General Plan update, the city should try to “articulate that and put it on paper … and see how people feel about it.”

Mary Kopaskie-Brown, currently the acting deputy director and city planner for Riverside, California will oversee longrange planning while Development Ser vices Director Nana Appiah will focus on more immediate projects.

“I think we do need to put an emphasis on raising the bar and saying that, ‘thank you, we appreciate everyone’s interest in coming to Mesa, but we can afford now to be a little more selective in the things that we embrace, and the things that we that we bring our resources of government to,’” Giles said.

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Brady said he sees technology and “the collision of the academic and the technol ogy (and) the private sector,” as the sweet spot for Mesa in the future.

The city manager was in lock step with the mayor’s views.

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“In Mesa, it seems to be our time,” Giles

The city has invested millions to try set ting up an innovation district in down town Mesa, spearheaded by its $90 million investment in the Media and Immersive Experience building, which the city is leas ing to ASU to house the Mesa campus of its film

Prices for consumers are up for all kinds

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It was a timely moment for the remarks as the city prepares to begin its next Gen eral Plan update, a document that guides future zoning and development.

Onesaid.way in which Mesa’s development landscape is changing, Giles said, is that the city has fewer mega-parcels of unde veloped land available – plots hundreds of acres in size.

“I think we’re in a position now where we can say, ‘we want you to come, but your wages have to be better than average,” Brady continued. “If you want something from the city, you’re going to have to show that you’re hiring from Mesa, Arizona.”

a priority for the mayor is collaboration between the city and schools, from K-12 through the univer sityGileslevel.isalso high on the idea of “innova tion districts,” and partnerships with uni versities is a key component of this idea.

tech and manufacturing zones flourish.

“Mesa is, you know, a very large city sur rounded by some affluent, smaller cities and in comparison, our higher education attainment was not where we want it to be,” Giles said. “We want to be more of a college town. We want to produce more people going into post high school educa

Mayor John Giles agreed, saying that Mesa was becoming more of a household name across the country – and world.

Tax Credit by the federal government in 2021 has also helped sales tax collection.

“I think in the past maybe we’ve kind of gone after big quantities and big boxes, and I don’t think we need to do that,” Brady said, adding:

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The city manager is currently assem bling staff and consultants to assist in the process. In August, the city announced the hiring of a new planning director to play a leading role in long-term planning.

“Technology related to electric vehicles and batteries, and as the mayor said, the semiconductors, we see those as the future of Mesa, because they’re already starting to show up in certain ways, and I think we can keep playing to that,” Brady said. 

“These achievements are just mag nificently wonderful and beyond any thing I thought we would ever see here,” said board President Rich Adams, CEO of Southwest Business Credit Services. “When I talk with people in other parts of the country, business connections and oth ers through networking, Mesa is becoming known for what we’re doing here.”

Ritschel said June and July saw the high est inflationary increases in 40 years, While higher prices increase the amount of tax collected, inflation also increases costs for city operations.

“I think that gave us some name recog nition, but frankly, sometimes the ratio of jobs to footage is probably not what we want, and they can become big demands on some of our scarce resources.”

“Some of our project costs have gone up 50%, 60%, 70% of the estimates,” Ritschel said.  from page 3

Giles is also excited about expansion of ASU’s Polytechnic Campus next to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. ASU an nounced the launch of an Advanced Man ufacturing Science and Technology Center at the campus this year, and Giles said this will support workforce development.

The less positive reason for the sales tax boom is inflation.

Another focus of the mayor’s vision for the city’s next phase is workforce devel opment. He said many businesses in Mesa have told him how critical access to tal ent is for them and Giles wants to see the city’s education rates grow.

“We feel that the federal stimulus has also helped because that gave residents disposable income,” he said.

Giles and City Manager Chris Brady both expressed a desire to raise expectations for future developments and become more selective about which projects get the city’sBradysupport.toldthe board that prospective developers should bring more to the table for that support, including higher wages, more jobs per acre and a demonstrated commitment to the community, including local hiring.

Now that so many companies are in terested in Mesa, the city can be a little pickier, Giles said.

Theschool.building welcomed its first ASU film students last month.

of goods, which leads to more sales tax but hits consumers in the pocketbook.

The city exceeded all of its economic de velopment goals for fiscal year 2022, and in some cases smashed them, attracting $2.8 billion in capital investment against a goal of $500 million.

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Some other ideas Wilson said they will look at including utilizing the cur rent training and facility space to create amenities such as a grass field or bas ketball courts for extracurricular activi ties.“What we’re wanting to be mindful of is that we’re funded by our taxpayers,” WilsonWhilesaid.the state allocation will fund construction, EVIT will have to pay for the residency’s operation.

State officials reported that in the 2021-22 fiscal year, 841 teens aged out of the state foster care system.

EVIT Superintendent Dr. Chad Wilson said this is just the first step in changing the lives of foster youth by giving them not only a place to live but also a place where they can learn a trade and earn certification by the time they age out of the“It’ssystem.our belief that by having those individuals in a safe living space… we begin leaning into being able to truly change their life,” he said in an in terview.Wilson said the school is still working on construction plans, but the residence would hold 64 beds and possibly eight shared-living areas similar to most modern university dormitories.

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EVIT currently works with some fos ter care organizations, including Fos ter360 and Hope & A Future, but the school hasn’t begun to seek out partner ships for the residence hall yet.

In addition to enrolling in EVIT’s adult career training programs, the students

Wilson said some foster students are not in high school equivalency pro grams but rather attend a traditional East Valley high school while also at tendingWilsonEVIT.touted the work of the EVIT Governing Board in looking for innova tive pathways to support the commu nity.Also, Wilson thanked the work of state Reps. Steve Kaiser, Michelle Udall, and Rusty Bowers in helping to allocate the“Thatfunds.anchor has allowed us to lean into space that is good for students, is good for our communities and is good for the state,” Wilson said. 

EVIT plans residence hall for foster youth

EVIT’s program will help provide fos ter youth with more stability, consisten cy and opportunities as they transition into adulthood, Wilson said.

ductive,” he said.

In 2021, EVIT started a foster care program that allows youth who are getting ready to transition out of foster care to take an EVIT program while they finish their GED.

While participating in career and technical education programs on EVIT’s campus, resident foster youth would rely on the Paul Revere Academy, an offshoot of Heritage Academy, for tradi tional high school classes on the same campus. The charter high will give pref erential placement to foster youth.

hanks to a $10 million item in the current state budget, the East Val ley Institute of Technology hopes to open a residence hall for foster teens on its downtown Mesa campus by the 2023-24 school year.

Wilson, EVIT superintendent for the past four years, said his inspiration for the residency hall came from visiting a similar facility in Orange, California.

“It’s our belief that at EVIT, we change lives,” Wilson said. “That we change lives by loving our students and serving our communities.”

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Wilson said this will enable students to acquire high school diploma, a trade certification and/or dual-enrollment credits for community college.

“This is a space that we want these individuals to be able to live in and to grow and thrive in – and exit from with a better footing underneath them to go out into our communities and be pro

will receive social, emotional and men tal health support services and learn life skills such as financial planning and nutrition.

This isn’t Andrew’s first bout with a ma jor health threat.

After a chance meeting on MySpace in 2006, the couple celebrated 15 years of marriage on Sept. 3.

Andersen’s father, a pastor, married them in a ceremony at the Grand Canyon.

“She keeps me going, and the good Lord keeps me going,” Kuzyk said. “It can’t be an accident that I’m still here, there’s no way it’s just coincidence.”

Andersen said the couple survives on disability but even that’s not enough to af ford the $1,350 rental home.

Although Medicare covers 20% of the medical expenses, Andersen said they still have to pay approximately $600 per month.

Kuzyk’s condition was first discov ered after the car he and Andersen were in was hit by a vehicle in July 2021 in Yavapai County.

“Most of the time, I can figure out what he’s trying to say,” Andersen said. “But once in a while he gets frustrated.”

While experts give most victims less than two years after diagnosis, some peo ple have survived for more than 10 years.

After several months of talking online, the couple dated for almost year before they officially tied the knot in 2007.

In his current condition, Kuzyk has memory difficulties like recalling names

Kuzyk said he spent his life working in retail management before his past medi cal condition became too much and put him on disability.

That treatment costs approximately $21,000 a month.

was a yard sale for love, not money. Andrew Kuzyk, 60, and Pamela Ander sen of Mesa have spent the past four weekends selling most of their worldly possessions.Andersen said it’s “overwhelming” but it’s their last hope to pay for Kuzyk’s brain cancer treatment.

“It was love at first sight,” Kuzyk said.

“I can’t do anymore,” Andersen said.

And they have rescued five chihuahuas, including a nearly year-old one named Champ that is missing his front paws.

“We love the outdoors,” Kuzyk said.

That was in July.

“They’ve given him six months to a year if that thing doesn’t work,” Andersen said.

Mesa pair sells all to pay cancer bills

Kuzyk wears special pads on his head with 36 probes that emit tumor-treating fields (TTF) directly to the affected area.

“I’m just Andersenexhausted.”saidshe’s only raised about $600 from the yard sale.

Andersen spent 15 years as an insur ance agent for State Farm before an acci dent five years ago forced her on disability as well.

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The couple started a GoFundMe in Octo ber 2021 that’s raised more than $5,800 to date.

mately 20 different medications every day.

“I just don’t want to lose my best friend,” Andersen said, holding back tears. “We’re hoping that this works.”

The Michigan natives moved to Arizona in 2007 and bounced back and forth be tween here and Georgia.

BY JOSH ORTEGA Tribune Staff Writer

The couple said they’ve received of fers to buy a large majority of what they don’t sell but even that’s for pennies on the“You’redollar.not going to get much at that point in time but hey, anything’s better than nothing,” Kuzyk said.

To date, Andersen said they’ve accrued more than $4,000 in medical debt from the past year alone.

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Three months ago, Andersen said he started a treatment called OPTune, which uses a device that delivers low-intensity electrical fields to stop cancer spread.

Kuzyk endures this treatment roundthe-clock, and must use a battery pack when he leaves the house.

Currently, Kuzyk said he takes approxi

He has survived a bone tumor in his knee, kidney cancer that left him with one kidney and renal cell carcinoma.

Kuzyk’s also had double bypass heart surgery that put two stents in and sur vived stage four melanoma – a form of skin cancer – that left him with two “cra ters” on his back.

Through all his medical conditions, Kuzyk said Pamela’s love and his Christian faith keep him alive.

“Both of us grew up going to the rivers and theAfterlakes.”getting married, Kuzyk said he didn’t make his wife change her name – for what he thought was an obvious reason.

The couple has a son from Andersen’s previous marriage who lives in Georgia.

The front lawn and driveway of the Mesa home of Andrew Kuzyk and Pamela Andersen is loaded with the couple's personal possessions that they are selling off. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Uponcondition.receiving another MRI in Mesa, Kuzky said doctors found a tumor glio blastoma—a rare, aggressive form of brain cancer.

of certain items, but Andersen said she’s still able to understand him.

Several notable figures have succumbed to his type of cancer, including the late Ari zona Sen. John McCain and Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy.

Kuzyk experienced head pain and an ambulance transported him to the hospi tal, where doctors told him to contact his provider back home about a “pretty seri ous”

“I thought it was funny to be married to Pamela Andersen,” Kuzyk said.

With Kuzyk’s condition, Andersen said she’s had to do most of yard sale set-up and operation and despite help from her neighbors, she said it’s become too much.

Last Nov. 1, Kuzyk had surgery on the left side of his brain to remove most of the malignant tumor but still required chemo therapy and radiation.

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Now, the couple said they plan to move next month to Georgia and have been looking for a used motorhome while Kuzyk receives his cancer treatment.

While they’ve tried to find a “reasonably priced” motorhome, Kuzyk said they’ve run into some bad characters offering “mechanically unsound” vehicles.

“Love and support of everybody,” An dersen said. “The community has just beenWhileoverwhelming.”acoupleofpeople offered to buy up everything a few weeks ago, Andersen said if somebody doesn’t buy up every thing, they might only have a few more yard“Wesales.got somebody that might come in and take it all, otherwise, I can’t,” Anders en said. “We’ve got so much more to do.” 

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“There’s unfortunately a lot of folks here who will sell you an item that’s not right,” Kuzyk said. “And they know it’s not right, but they’ll try.”

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Through all their struggles, Andersen said the community has helped them with all their prayers and donations thus far.

What makes that important is that laws approved by voters in 2006 and again in 2016 require annual inflation adjust ments based on the August annual figures.

Rounded to the nearest nickel, as re quired by statute, that translates out to $1.05 an hour on top of the current $12.80 figure.

The Tucson ordinance, though, is de signed so that workers get the benefit of whatever calculation is more generous. So if any time the state figure is higher – as it will be in January –that becomes the floor.

hour minimum wage that has been federal law now since 2009.

That is borne out by a report from the state Office of Economic Opportunity.

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And you can credit – or blame – inflation. New figures reported Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that costs as measure by the Consumer Price Index for urban consumers, have risen 8.3% be tween August 2021 and last month.

That started at $13 on April 1, going to $13.50 in 2023 and $14.25 in 2024 be fore hitting the target. After that, as with the state minimum, adjustments would be made based on inflation.

“Our ‘back of the house’ is making more money than ever before due to labor shortages and a whole host of reasons,’’ he said. “We’re well above the minimum wage in the back of the house.’’

Inflation turbocharging minimum wage hike in 2023

The latest state minimum wage hike comes after Tucsonans voted last year to

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A formal announcement, however, won’t come until Thursday. That’s when the state Industrial Commission, which has purview over the annual adjustment, has its regular meeting.

Workers

at the bottom of the Ari zona wage scale are going to be legally entitled to a pay hike of $42 a week beginning in January.

That’s because staff-starved businesses are finding they can no longer offer the bare minimum allowed by law to attract and retain employees. And that specifi cally includes the restaurant and fast food industry which fought hard – and unsuc cessfully – to convince voters not to adopt a state minimum wage.

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Even with the big increase and the new $13.85 wage floor, the automatic boost be ing precipitated by the Sept. 13 BLM data may have little practical effect on what many companies pay their Arizona workers.

Had those businesses been successful, Arizona would have the same $7.25 an

But Steve Chucri, president of the Ari zona Restaurant Association, told Capitol Media Services neither the federal wage nor even the new state minimum wage is particularly relevant right now when members of his association are hiring.

For 2021, the most recent data avail able, fast food cooks already were earning an average $13.58 an hour. The figure for cooks at more traditional restaurants was $15.93. And dishwashers were being paid an average of $14.08 an hour.

Who the state-mandated increase could help, Chucri said, are those in the front of theThehouse.voter-approved laws do allow their

Steve Chucri, president of the Arizona Res taurant Association, said restaurant em ployees who work “front of the house” will especially benefit from the big bump in Ari zona’s minimum wage in January. (Special to the Trubune)

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One option for Kavanagh could be changing the distance to allow people with cameras to get closer.

“HB 2319 prohibits only video record ing and does not address audio record ings or photographs taken from the same distance or device,’’ the judge pointed out. “Nor does it address persons who may be

“There’s just as much, if not more dis cretion on ‘stop, question and frisk,’ ‘’ he said. That allows a police officer to stop and question a person when the officer has reasonable suspicion someone com mitted, is committing, or is committing a crime. It also allows an officer who be lieves someone has a weapon to pat down anTheindividual.legality of that process was upheld in 1968 by the U.S. Supreme Court.

“The Senate will not be pursuing an ap peal,’’ Senate President Karen Fann said Wednesday.AndHouse Speaker Rusty Bowers said he sees no reason to intercede. “There is a general feeling that the idea needs refin ing,’’ he said. “And I don’t think I am going to push any defense from the House point ofSoview.’’that leaves only Kavanagh, who craft ed the measure and approached various organizations that represent police offi cers, believing they would have an interest in having the law take effect.

Attorney General Mark Brnovich, named as a defendant in the lawsuit, did not show up at a hearing last week.

Kavanagh said that’s easy enough to fix.

Kavanagh, a former police officer, said he doubts that the judge will conclude the law gives too much discretion to police on when and how to enforce it.

“They looked to see if they could get some other groups,’’ he said, like those involved in legal matters. “But nobody wasAbsentbuying.’’any effort to defend the law, that clears the way for Tuchi to permanently enjoin enforcement, killing the law.

Two years ago, with inflation at just 1.3%, that gave workers at the bottom an extra 15 cents an hour.

It remains unclear, however, how much discretion Kavanagh will have to find something that passes legal muster.

mum with automatic increases up to $12 as of 2020.

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Rep. John Kavanagh told Capitol Media Services Wednesday he has been unable to find any organization willing to go to federal court to defend his legislation that would make it a crime to videotape police activity within eight feet and has been di rected to stop. Violators are subject to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine.

“And in the back of the house, we’re also seeing the introduction of robotic arms that are working in certain parts of the kitchen, whether it’s turning over fries or flipping burgers, whatever the case might be,’’ he said.

Scottsdale lawmaker finds no one to defend his law

There has been a sharp drop recently, in cluding a 10.6% reduction just last month. But even with that,

There also has been a 33.0% increase in the cost of piped gas, versus a 15.8% hike in electricity.

Shelter prices, including rent and what the BLS calls the owners’ equivalent rent of residences, are up 6.2% nationally.

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Tuchi, in issuing the preliminary injunc

He said restrictions on First Amend ment rights can exist only if they “serve a compelling state interest, and only if they are “narrowly drawn to achieve that end.’’ And he said HB 2319 is neither.

over year. But the cost of eating out has risen by just 8.0%.

Plus there were inflation adjustments.

And that is largely driven by a 17.1% year-over-year increase in housing costs, a reflection of sharply higher home prices and rents.

He originally had proposed a 15-foot buffer. “But I went to eight feet because the U.S. Supreme Court said, with respect to First Amendment rights, keeping abor tion protesters at eight feet from clinic entrances was constitutional,’’ Kavanagh said. “So I thought that same distance would easily apply here.’’

But distance isn’t the only concern raised by Tuchi.

“Arizonaenforcement.already has other laws on its books to prevent interference with police officers,’’ the judge wrote. “The court fails to see how the presence of a person re cording a video near an officer interferes with the officer’s activities.’’

wages to be set $3 an hour below the state minimum. But that is conditional on proof that their tips are making up the difference.

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using their mobile phones for other pur poses, such as texting.’’

He said, though, collapsing the ban to a lesser distance makes no sense.

Scottsdale Republican Rep. John Kavanagh pushed for passage of the bill limiting the distance video-takers must keep from police incidents but no one will defend it in court.

The challenge to HB 2319 was filed by a coalition of media organizations as well as the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona. 

“It’s not necessarily job elimination,’’

BLS reports that gasoline prices are up 25.6% over a year earlier.

What’s$12.80.driving this year’s inflation fig ure, not surprisingly, is the cost of fuel.

Someexplained.fast-food and even casual dining spots direct customers to kiosks to place their orders and pay.

tion last week, said he believes that indi viduals have a First Amendment right to record police activity. And he dismissed Kavanagh’s claim, made during legislative debate, that HB 2319 is necessary to pre vent interference with or distractions of law

That, however, may not resolve the legal issues that Tuchi has with the concept of keeping people away from police activity.

“From two feet, you can’t even capture the whole scene,’’ Kavanagh said.

Where the higher wage may hurt, said Chucri, is down the road, after inflation has cooled and after there is better align ment between the number of open jobs and the number of people who want one.

What that leaves as an option for Kavanagh is recrafting the measure when legislators convene in January. But he said the form that new version will take will depend on Tuchi’s final order – and what the judge says he finds legally unaccept able in HB 2319.

What that shows, Tuchi said, is that “the law’s purpose is not to prevent interfer ence with law enforcement, but to prevent recording.’’

Only thing is, the state minimum wage law is a one-way ratchet: It can only go up. And even if there were deflation, there is no provision for it to ever go down.

A decade later, voters decided to turbo charge the raises, imposing a $10 mini

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“What are you going have, a shot of the person’s shoulder?’’ he continued. “What good is that?’’

“If it’s only singling out people videotap ing, then I could expand it,’’ he said of the scope of the law, barring anyone from be ing in that 8-foot bubble.

Arizona voters mandated in 2006 that the state have its own minimum wage not tied to the federal figure. That set the bot tom of the pay scale here at $6.75 an hour, $1.60 higher than what federal law man dated at the time.

By last year, inflation hit 5.3%, adding another 65 cents to reach the cur rent

And grocery prices are up 13.5% year

“No takers,’’ Kavanagh said.

What restaurants are preparing to do is limit labor costs.

The measure made it a crime to record police activity within 8 feet.

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Under other circumstances, he said, that could allow employers to offer less.

BLS also released separate data Tues day for the Phoenix metro area -- Mari copa and Pinal counties -- that showed some marked differences with the na tionalMostfigures.notably, annual inflation is up 13.0% compared with 8.3% nationally.

The other big hike has been the price of cars and trucks, up 10.1% for new ve hicles and 7.8% for used.

The restrictions on videotaping po lice are not going to take effect, at least not this year.

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So, U.S. District Court Judge John Tuchi issued a preliminary injunction to bar the law from taking effect on Sept. 24 as scheduled. And he set a Friday deadline to see if legislative leaders are willing to take up the fight that Brnovich would not.

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The Arizona Department of Water Re sources estimates than one acre foot of water can serve at least two and possible three households in the state for a year.

The CAP canal forms part of Queen Creek’s border, so once the water arrives, it will be diverted to a storage facility that the town has been building in antici pation of this water deal going through.

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No matter how the water is used, Gard ner said, the goal will to be to offset any underground aquifer use at all.

what we would consider the storage fa cility and water treatment plant for us.”

“Thedeal.town is not seeking a sustain able water supply,” said state Rep. Regina Cobb, R- La Paz County, in a letter of op position to sale, which she and others sent to the governor. “The town is seek ing aggressive economic development.”

“Instead of our water going south to Ci bola, it will take a left hand turn at Lake Havasu and it will go into the CAP canal,” said Paul Gardner, director of public utili ties for the town. “As it crosses the Salt River in Mesa, it heads south and east to Queen Creek.”

Here’s how the water will get here: of Arizona and Nevada, is a reservoir that stores Colorado River water, held back by the iconic Hoover Dam.

town, dam operators send the water to the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal system at Lake Havasu, Arizona.

Once in Queen Creek’s retention ba sins, the water from Cibola will eventu ally comingle with the underground sup ply, effectively increasing the size of the 100-year aquifer.

The attorney representing GSC Farm, Grady Gammage Jr disagrees.

That would satisfy the water needs of at least 4,066 homes a year and possibly as many as about 6,000.

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Think of it as a series of giant retention basins.“The water will percolate down into the ground and that’s how we will store it,” Garner said. “The water district will use it and not pump groundwater.”

He pointed to the Egyptians, who took water out of the Nile and dug a storage basin lower than the river at which point the water would be purified as it per colated through the sand. Queen Creek wants to do the same thing with the Ci bola

And Town Council this Wednesday, Sept. 21, will hold a hearing on the deal before taking a final vote on it.

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Others think buying river water from other places and routing it to booming and thirsty areas like Queen Creek is short-sighted.“It’sgoingto be a huge transfer of wealth if they succeed,” Mohave County Supervi sor Travis Lingenfelter said during the public hearing stage of the sale. “It’s a horrible precedent to set and it opens the floodgates to similar water deals.”

Queen Creek says it sits on a 100-year groundwater supply and did not react to federal drought actions in mid-August Most Arizona municipalities didn’t ei ther, although some have one into the first stage of a water management plan that calls for more education on conser vation and urging consumers to reduce water usage by 5%. However, there are no mandatory restrictions on water use in those municipalities.

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“What will happen is this 2,000-acre feet of water will be stored and it will go down into the aquifer and it will be stored for either future pumping or for current pumping,” Gardner said.

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“If we pull out 2,000-acre feet, 2,000acre feet of the Cibola water will go back into the aquifer,” he said.

Creek is dotting i’s and crossing t’s in a $21-million deal to purchase Colorado River water from GSC Farm in Cibola that will yield 2,033 acre-feet of water annually for the town through the Central Arizona Proj ect canal system.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation this month cleared the way for Queen Creek’s purchase, which has been under con sideration since 2019 and it already has been approved by the Arizona officials.

This map shows part of the route that water from Cibola will take to reach Queen Creek. (Special to the Tribune)

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Gardner said this philosophy is ancient.

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“Arizona has always moved water to

Queen Creek expects their water to start arriving early next year. 

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Things really haven’t changed all that much. It’s just that now, water diver sion is a highly legalized, complicated, high stakes and pricey endeavor, and the population relying on the water is astro nomically larger.

“I don’t think this proposal opens any floodgates or creates some massive prec edent for other transfers to take place,” said Gammage, Jr., an attorney represent ing

This Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal system runs through at Lake Havasu, which op posed the deal because the Colorado River is its primary water source. (Special to the Tribune)

That’s because prior to statehood and thus any real regulation, water rights were largely decided simply by where you put down roots.

By selling its water to Queen Creek, GSC Farm, which has said it wants to stop irrigating most of its farmland and will keep enough water rights to develop 400 acres.

“ThereGSC. is plenty of water on the river for both urban growth and continued ag ricultural use. This is not in any way go ing to cause some catastrophic result in water on the river,” he said.

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where the people are. They’ve never moved people to where the water is,” Gard ner said. “Where people want to locate that’s where they’ve always moved water.

Historically, it was common practice for farmers and other residents to take matters into their own hands when it came to water. The closer that your land was to the mouth of the river that you lived near, the luckier you were and the more “water rights” you had.

“It’s not like this land is going to sit there and have dust blowing in the wind,” Gardner said. “This is going to be some thing where it’s developed for a better use. It’s like a sportsman’s ranch.”

“That’s why you have Salt River Proj ect. That’s why you have Lake Mead and Lake Powell. We haven’t moved people to the rivers. We’ve actually moved the riv ers to where people want to live.”

Queen Creek will get its water from the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, which will not be affected by the deal.

Once the paperwork is done and the water starts flowing down from Lake Havasu, about 4 ½ million gallons, or 13 ½ acre feet, of water will be diverted into the Queen Creek retention basins every day, forever, as long as the Colorado River continues to supply it.

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“We are going to continue to stay ag gressive and we’re going to continue to do our best to take what we call this finite water supply that we have and stretch

it out from 100 years to 200 to 300 to 400 hundred to basically sustainable to where it’s forever water,” Gardner said.

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What’s astonishing is that as recently as this past June the year-over-year aver age sale price of a house in the Valley was $66,000.

It also saw a decline in the number of “coming soon” listings, prompting it to note, “It is no longer a matter of great ex citement that your home is shortly to be listed for sale.”

“They continued to buy homes in large numbers during the second quarter and have ended up with far too many homes in their possession during the third quarter.

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“Any new sellers need to be realistic: 30% of listings fail to sell these days. At the end of March, the percentage was less than 8%. Listing agents now need to focus on marketing instead of worrying about how to handle the deluge of offers in the first few days.”

“WeOpendoor.dohaveexcessive inventory of emp ty homes in the hands of iBuyers,” it said.

“The gap has dropped dramatically in less than three months,” the Cromford Re port noted.

and pre-foreclosures crowding the market at the time,” it said, but added:

Crazy times have hit the Valley ‘s resi dential market these days, judging by some of the latest data posted by The Cromford Report, the leading analyst of the Phoenix Metro housing market.

“It will be a more important sign if the short-term average stays below the longterm average for an extended time,” it said, adding:“Aweek or 3 is nothing to worry about, but several months means a long-term down-trend has started. This happened between September 2007 and October 2009. It would not be good to relive those years and at this stage it looks unlikely that we will.”

It said that such a steep drop has oc curred during other “periods of weak buyer confidence” for a few weeks in the early stages of the pandemic in 2020 and in 2014 and 2015.

term average is lower than the long term average,” the Cromford report said, not ing that the highest gap wasn’t all that long ago.

“It is never a good sign when the short-

The Cromford Report didn’t reflect any panic about the narrow different between the latest short-term and long-term aver age sale price.

“A negative $840 number is not terrible but far from good,” it said. “The highest we have ever measured was a positive $79,365 in May 2021, which we can look back on as following a peak in buyer opti mism. The worst we have seen was nega tive $62,429 in March 2009.”

All in all, the Cromford Report has been slightly more optimistic in its assessment of how sellers are faring in the Valley mar ket than it had been at the beginning of September.Earlierthis month, it said the average price per square foot for homes sold in creased over August.

While that increase was only from $285 per square foot to $289, the Cromford Re port said, “This is not consistent with the idea that the market is crashing.”

“Mind you, in 2010 the reading was a dismal 58.1%, thanks to all the short sales

One aspect of the market the Cromford Report singled out last week was the num ber of houses owned by iBuyer companies like

Valley home sales still on roller coaster

It reported last week that the average sale price of $549,861 for a house between Aug. 10 and Sept. 9 was $840 less than the average closed home price of $550,701 recorded between Sept. 10,2021 and this past Sept. 9.

On the other hand, the report said sale prices had dropped below final list prices, prompting it to warn this “confirms that sellers’ negotiation power is far weaker than it has been in many years.”

It also noted the four-week trend last month showed square-foot prices for list ings under contract had steadily fallen.

The Cromford Report also noted that the trend in successful sales rates declined to 70.4% in August – “the lowest we have seen for late August since the year 2010.”

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A local sports club owner who wished to remain anonymous said the region needs a venue like Bell Bank Park.

“The vision of what they wanted to build is amazing; it’s the execution of the op eration where they failed,” he said, adding

Students are bused by the district to the facility to practice their particular sport because Legacy Sports offered over 15 dif ferent athletic competitive environments for students to be trained in everything from speed and agility and baseball, bas ketball, softball, cheer and gymnastics.

There were stands only on one side of the stadium, and the venue needed more bathrooms and better food and beverages, which he felt were overpriced.

But Bell Bank Park’s backers are exud ing confidence about the coming season, saying they have numerous contracts signed and events planned.

He said it felt like there wasn’t enough staff managing the fields and he was no tified close to the start of the season of scheduling conflicts that required him to change plans.

Visit Mesa, the city’s official destination marketing partners, made Bell Bank Park a centerpiece of a presentation on the city’s

tourism and hospitality industry in August.

A mammoth building at Bell Bank Park houses a concessions area that links basketball and volleyball courts. (Tribune File Photo)

Queen Creek officials earlier this year launched the town’s first tourism web site and it also touts its proximity to the venue while also discussing the use of Bell Bank Park’s LED screens to advertise its attractions.

Adding pressure to the venture, Legacy Cares doesn’t own the land the park is built on – it has a 40-year lease with own er Pacific Proving LLC and must pay $3.4 million in rent annually.

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In Gilbert, both town and school officials looked at the park as useful, Gilbert Public Schools in June inked a partnership agreement with Legacy Sports to use the venue for its Perfor mance Academy, a flexible learning pro gram for student athletes in grades 4-8.

“We were dealing with material delays and some facilities at the park not being able to open up 100% for the first six to seven months,” Miller said. “We unfortu nately had to deal with that, and the great thing about it is we now are heading into our busy season, which is September all the way through May.”

Asked if there was any chance of de faulting on the bonds next year, Legacy Chairman Doug Moss said “no.”

Fans and doubters

Sitting amid concrete warehouses and data centers, Bell Bank Park is a welcome project for many in the region.

Legacy Cares raised money by selling $280 million in municipal bonds through the Arizona Industrial Development Authority. Municipal bonds are usually issued by cities and towns, but Arizona law allows organizations to sell tax-in centivized municipal bonds to investors through AZIDA.

Legacy Cares – told the Tribune that Bell Bank Park is well-positioned to hit its tar gets for the coming months and meet all its financial obligations.

“We’re right on track in the fall and win ter heading into a position where we don’t anticipate having any shortfalls whatsoev er in regards to those payments next year,” he

Legacy Cares shared data with the Tri bune from foot traffic data service Placer. ai showing 2.9 million visits to the Bell Bank Park this year from 816,000 visitors.

It took major companies like Google and Facebook years to become profit able, but due to the nature of its financ ing, the 320-acre Bell Bank Park doesn’t have a lot of time to start generating healthy profits.

He was excited to sign a contract a year in advance to hold his season at the park instead of renting fields at local high schools as he had done in previous.

Lots of people are enjoying and rooting for Bell Bank Park.

Instead of a locker room, “they gave us chain link fence with tarps on it,” he said.

But he said when it came time to start the season, promised amenities like a locker room and media staging area were underwhelming or non-existent.

Legacy Cares is slated to repay its bonds over 30 years according to a fixed sched ule. Next year, Legacy Cares must repay in vestors a total of $24 million. The annual payments then ramp up to $32 million the following year.

In February, Bell Bank Park in Mesa opened with high hopes on the part of owners and us ers alike, though they both have encountered some disappointments in the months that followed. (Tribune File Photo)

Little time for the bottom line

Miller said Bell Bank Park is seeing in creases in registration for leagues and events, and venue manager Oak View Group is investing in the construction of a concert venue that is expected to begin hosting concerts in November.

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On a recent weekday morning, pickle ball players chatted outside a building after a match and young basketballers streamed into a building.

Under the terms of a development agree ment with Legacy Cares revised in October 2021, the City of Mesa has invested a total of $1.4 million to accelerate road work on the Ellsworth and Williams Field Road in tersection and the State Route 24 freeway.

Town of Gilbert officials viewed Bell Bank as an addition that would draw in more baseball players to the Valley, which would benefit its sports venue, Cactus Yards.

But some people are disappointed in the park’s execution so far.

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AZIDA says the practice provides financ ing for projects in the public interest, like low-income housing, at no risk to the state – the bond seller is entirely on the hook for the loan repayments.

“Everythingsaid. is trending and tracking as we suspected it would the second part of this year, so, no, we’re very confident in the revenue anticipation and the partner ships that we have.”

Located next to some of the fastest growing communities in the country, resi dents of Queen Creek and southeast Mesa are starved for entertainment and cultural amenities closer to home.

A spokesman for AZIDA said that only two projects out of the 128 it funded have defaulted.AWallStreet Journal article published earlier this month featured Bell Bank Park as an example of the risks posed to inves tors by high-yield municipal bonds issued by “conduit issuers” like AZIDA. It said these types of bonds surged in popularity in the last five years, but more recently “bond prices are plummeting, construction and labor costs are soaring and risky deals are faltering.”

“This is a horribly divided country,” Giles said. “But the majority of people are yearning for a reconciliation.”

Mesa mayor, counterparts renew vow to fight extremism

thing from humanities funding to polic ing to civic projects.

“In moments of loss and tragedy, we come together to both create and turn to art, poetry, music, literature, for solace and healing,” said Lowe, a member of the Navajo Nation.

House event that art can reach people in ways public policy never can, especially after an attack.

“We need to take different tactics to combat disinformation, hatred and the othering of groups of people, whole sale spreading of false conspiracy against the government,” Carroll Rivas said. “They’re not necessarily things that l end themselves well to a narrow crimi nal justice system.”

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On the anniversary of that shoot ing Sept. 15, Mesa Mayor John Giles joined local officials, Cabinet secretar ies and community leaders at the White House to call for a renewal of efforts to combat violent extremism and rising hate“Mesa,crimes.Arizona, is a very compassion ate city,” Giles said during a bipartisan panel with four other mayors. “But I’m a little ashamed to tell you that we are the city that had the first hate crime follow ing 9/11, a wonderful Sikh gentleman … was shot and killed by someone because he was wearing a turban.”

That was echoed Thursday by Shelly Lowe, chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, who said at the White

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Last year family and friends gathered in a memorial to honor Mesa business owner Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh who was murdered by a hate-filled man days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (Tribune file photo)

The day included the release of an open letter signed by more than 150 mayors – including Giles, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and Tucson Mayor Regina Romero – renewing a 2017 initiative to combat extremism and hate crimes with educational programs and resources for law enforcement.

“Unfortunately Arizona really does tend to represent the whole spectrum of various types of hard-right extremist groups,” she said.

Carroll Rivas said the administration’s plan to fund the arts and humanities was a particularly good way to reach the pub lic and heal divisions in communities.

Carroll Rivas said that Arizona stands out as one of the top states for extremist activity. The SPLC reported that Arizona had 22 active hate groups in 2021, which included neo-Nazi, white nationalist, an tisemitic and other groups.

She announced that she would be working with the National Endowment for the Arts to “build resilience and pre vent radicalization and extremism be fore it takes hold” by supporting librar ies, theaters and museums as well as providing funding to schools.

His comments came during the Biden administration’s day-long United We Stand summit, where the White House highlighted a series of initiatives it has launched to battle hate, through every

But Giles said he is optimistic that ini tiatives at the local level can bring com munities back together.

But before the administration’s initia tives can begin to take effect, experts warned that things will get worse before they get Morganbetter.Moon, investigative researcher for the Anti-Defamation League, said that hate groups have been growing over the last few years, using anger over events like COVID-19 and the re cent FBI raid on former President Don ald Trump’s hotel Mar-a-Lago to recruit newMoonmembers.said those headlines have “radicalized individuals to take matters into their own hands,” pointing to an armed protest outside an FBI office in Phoenix and another attack on an FBI office in Cincinnati where the gunman was killed.

Rivas, interim deputy director of research at the Southern Pov erty Law Center, said the Biden adminis tration’s focus on prevention and not just law enforcement was a sign that the ad ministration has been listening.

ASHINGTON – It was 21 years ago that a gunman killed Bal bir Singh Sodhi in Mesa, mak ing him the first victim of a hate crime in the wake of 9/11.

But Giles said the city has learned valu able lessons since Sodhi was killed while planting flowers outside his gas station, and that it hopes to prevent such a trag edy from happening again.

There were 283 reported hate crimes in Arizona in 2020, the most recent year for which Justice Department data is available. That was 66 more than in 2019 and the most in the state since 2001. Over 71% of the hate crimes in Arizona in 2020 were racially motivated.

that he plans to hold next year’s season elsewhere.Onlinereviewers have raved about the park but also have complained about traffic backups while entering and exiting the park and the high cost of food

and beverages.

“These homes are empty and racking up expenses,” it continued, adding their in ventory “has to be driven lower.”

Legacy Cares executives say they are ironing out Bell Bank Park’s opening year issues.

sports analogy to describe Bell Bank Park as it heads into what he believes is its prime season.

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Miller said, and “we were able to learn from some of the things at the start of the year, even when some of our ven ues were not yet being able to operate 100% capacity. We learned a lot when it came to customer service and the cus tomer experience.” 

It noted that Opendoor is slashing prices to reduce that inventory, but that’s result ed in impacting the overall market – and the pocketbooks of sales agents.

In the face of big financial demands, Bell Bank Park needs to win back these cus tomers and add even more to the ranks.

In the August investor call, Moss used a

In the National Football League, he said, “the teams that seem to make the best second half adjustments are usually the teams that win.”

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“It’s just mind blowing to hear that and it just humbles you,” Welch said.

ogan Brooks, 6, and his 9-year-old brother Brian were headed out on Brian’s bicycle to play some Satur day morning football at an elementary school by their house in Coos Bay, Or egon, with the younger sibling riding on theNobodyhandlebars.really knows what happened next that day in January of 1987.

“The darkness that you have going on in your mind as a teenager, it doesn’t last.”

Two months later in July 2017, Linkin Park lead singer and Valley

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alive. My brother in the end came out al most completely unscathed.”

The connection between music and mental health goes much deep er than that in Welch’s own life.

“I was laying in a pool of blood. The nurse told him that I was dead, actually gone and we don’t need to focus on him, we need to focus on this one here that’s

BY MARK MORAN Tribune Staff Writer

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And there were plenty of them.

die before you start being real?” Welch said. “It’s really cool to see the mainstream backing mental health and just really trying to make a difference.”

Rescued and stabilized in Coos Bay, he was eventually taken by air ambulance to Portland, where he required months of hospitalization, reconstructive surgeries and rehabilitation.

erful and it influences so many dif ferent people,” Welch said. “It’s a strong, strong gift that we have for theSinceworld.”1993, Welch said fans have shared with him how much Korn’s music has personally impacted their ownDuringlives.the pandemic, Welch said he participated in a virtual meetand-greet via Zoom and people thanked him and shared how much the band’s music saved their life.

“It’s just all about helping people see that there’s hope,” Welch said.

Over the last five years, Welch said the suicides of various celebrities have pushed mental health issues to the“Howforefront.many people have to

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Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch will speak at Skyline High School in Mesa on September 20. (Ralph Arvesen) see KORN page

As the owner of the Queen Creek Running Company, Logan Brooks and his business part ner can spend one-on-one time with customers to ensure they get the best footwear possible for their running style. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer)

“I almost felt like I had a superpower instilled in me that day,” he said. “From that day forward, I have never really been afraid of anything. I think that was built through something that occurred in those moments afterwards. I’ve never stepped down from a challenge.”

Running, his QC business brought him meaning

“I just feel like music is so pow

Korn guitarist to discuss mental health at Skyline

“There was a stop sign. Somehow, we went out into the street and I got hit and pretty much took the brunt of it. Frac tured my skull,” Logan Brooks recalled. “I was told I was millimeters from being brain dead.”

BY JOSH ORTEGA Tribune Staff Writer

Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch will partner with Al ice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Centers to inspire East Valley young people with a free night of music and a conversation about suicide prevention on Sept. 20 at Skyline High School in Mesa.

In May 2017, Soundgarden front man Chris Cornell was found uncon scious after a performance in De troit,Cornell’sMichigan.death was ruled a sui cide by hanging. He was 52.

Fast forward a decade or so from the accident, and just having graduated from high school, Brooks followed his brothers

He was left for dead by a nurse who happened on the scene as the boys’ dad rushed to the scene.

Logan was unconscious and teetering on the edge of life, his face and body badly disfigured.

Welch said that will start them down the path of meeting the right people in their personal journey.

When: 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tues., Sept. 20. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. Cost: FREE

Welch said he encourages young peo ple to reach out to their peers and coun selors for help and most importantly “do not“Thisisolate.”istemporary, what you’re going through, it does get better,” Welch said. “I’ve went through my own really dark days and dark seasons.”

“You hear about it a lot more often now, and it’s very, very important that we dis cuss it,” Welch said. “The stigma’s got to go, we've just got to be real.”

After several years, Welch marked his first performance with Korn in May 2012 and has since reunited with the band.

“It was the best experience ever, even the bad things were,” Welch said. “I’m re ally excited to be back to do an event and just hang out for a few days.”

Who: Brian “Head” WelchScream4Me presented by Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Centers Where: Skyline High School, 845 S. Crismon Road, Mesa.

Now, Welch said he leans on a good sup port system including medical, spiritual and social pillars.

For young adults struggling to start or find their path, Welch said to start with asking “God, if you’re real, show me.”

Spencer said this event will kick off a campaign called “Scream 4 Me,” part of a mental health awareness campaign.

native Chester Bennington was discov ered dead at his home in California. Ben nington’s death was also ruled a suicide by hanging. He was 41.

“I’ve developed my own unique rela tionship with Christ,” Welch said.

Welch, D2L has worked with other personalities including musician Lac ey Sturm and skateboarder Brian Sumner.

Worldwide nonprofit D2L helps youth and adults reach out to people “who are living in darkness,” in the hopes of peo ple in crisis to find help with a licensed counselor.Alongwith

“If a kid is struggling with depression or potential suicidal thoughts, we hope that they’ll say ‘scream’ or ‘scream for me’ to a friend or a counselor,” Spencer said.

With help from Death2Life.com, teens will be able to find help from a licensed counselor.

Around that same time, Welch said he moved to Arizona and had “spiritu ally amazing revelations” and “grew into a whole new person.”

“All you can do is just shine your light and be loving.”

While he doesn’t know what the future holds for the future of events like this, Welch said he loves the work Alice Coo per, his wife Sheryl Goddard, and the en tire team at the Solid Rock Teen Centers has

In July 2005, Welch left Korn to discover his faith as a Christian and develop his own one-on-one “out-of-the-box” rela tionship with God.

Along with other celebrities, including TV personality Anthony Bourdain’s sui cide in 2018, Welch said these occurrenc es represent a trend that’s become far too common in modern society.

“Nobody should be in your life that’s dragging you down,” Welch said. “It’s just time wasting, and it’s going to suck the positivity out of you.”

Along with distributing t-shirts and stickers to various local high schools, the campaign looks to spread awareness for teens experiencing anxiety, depression, addiction or thoughts of suicide, and to know that help is out there for them.

“They’vedone. done so much for the youth and where they’re at in Phoenix,” Welch said. “I’m just honored to be a part of it.”

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Welch also said people should surround themselves with positive people.

Randy Spencer is the head of develop ment and partnerships for the Alice Coo per’s Solid Rock Teen Centers.

While faith is a major component of his own life, he said, “You can’t make people believe how you believe or, more impor tantly, you can’t make people have your moral values.

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to Arizona, a little bit directionless, look ing for work and something to help shape his“Itfuture.waseither go to school in small town Oregon or take a chance,’ he said.

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ning went from nobody knew what run ning in America was to this guy changing the idea of what running even meant to ourInspired,country.”Brooks took up road racing, continues running competitively to this day, and wanted to help others do the same.But there was more frustration. More setback. Ready to open a running shop in Prescott, the tim ing, finances and his personal situ ation sunk those plans and Brooks found himself living in Queen Creek, mak ing a go at having a family.

Armed with that knowledge, it’s off to a Aetrexandmachinemulti-coloredwithlightsscreens…thefootscanner.“Itgivesuscleardimensionsofyourfoot.Everythingfromthelengthof

“This is exactly where I was supposed to be; This is exactly the sport I was sup posed to find. This is the meditation I was supposed to find,” he said. “I took up trail running when I was about 29 years old and I’ve never looked back. It just became my absolute passion.”

series of questions to help narrow down what it is that the runner is looking for in a pair of shoes.

What are you running for? What’s your weekly mileage target is your goal, and what’s your injury history and basic knowledge of run ning and how your body reacts to it?

your foot to the width of your foot to the height of your instep to the girth of your arch,” he said.

“I bought a new pair of Sauconys for an upcoming event that I have. I have two more months of training,” said Alexis Ear hart. “I needed a good pair of shoes and I needed someone who knew what they were talking about and would analyze my gait and my foot and give me the appropri ateInrecommendations.”agoodweek,Brooks sells about 150 pairs of Becauseshoes.his business is small, he takes his time and focuses on each customer as they come through the door. The business is growing though and, Brooks says, will need more space soon.

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After some market research, he trans ferred his plans south from Prescott and opened Queen Creek Running Company in 2018, a specialty shop devoted to all thingsTuckedrunning.inconspicuously between a doughnut shop and a tanning salon, Brooks aims to help customers who have taken their running to the next level and want to be competitive, focusing on indi vidual“Amazonservice.and all these other institutions and softwares have ruined that handshake between people where they can come in and get physical attention and technical knowledge,” Brooks said.

And it gives us a map of the pressure under your foot so it shows us where you have a tendency to lean and how you pres surize or depressurize your foot. We can literally zoom in and show them a 3-D im age of their foot.”

“Looking back, as I’ve gotten a little older, I wonder ‘what the hell was I think ing and how did I make it through that?’ But I think it’s just part of who I am. From what I remember I never looked back,” heBrookssaid. spent the next decade searching for purpose and dealing with challenges. A severe bout of insomnia cost him a mar riage and he began to search for some thing to make him feel like his life, miracu lously spared, had some meaning.

And there is a lot of technical knowl edge wedged into this strip mall store at the corner of Chandler Heights and Pow er Rd. Brooks and his business partner Karl Neimeister greet customers with a

I almost felt like I had a superpower instilled in me that day, from that day forward, I have never really been afraid of anything.

Ironically, Prefontaine died in an auto accident while he was running for the University of Oregon, training for the 1976 Olympics, years before Logan Brooks was born.

“In the running work, he was a god,” Brooks said. “He was the guy who made running cool. He died in a car accident and there were some parallels there. Run

Brooks sends that image electronically to a specialist who can create a shoe in

Brooks wants Queen Creek Running Co. to be an integral part of the business community.“Weeventually would like to put on a couple of races here in this area. There is no point in being successful and making money without giving back,” he said. 

sert, or orthotic, for the customer within a few Usingdays.the Aetrex image, Brooks helps the customer select a shoe that is best for their foot. Then he puts them on the tread mill over against the wall to test the shoe and see if it really is the best one for the customer’s foot.

Even years after Prefontaine’s death, Brooks stumbled on his inspiration. He took up running on a whim, traversing trails in Arizona.

He happened to have grown up in the same town as distance running legend and Olympian Steve Prefontaine.

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Breaking ground for Boeing’s new factory are, from left, Kathleen Jollivette, vice-president of the corporation’s attack-helicopters program; Mesa Mayor John Giles; Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space and Security; and Steve Nordlund, vice-president and gen eral manager of Boeing Phantom Works. (Courtesy Boeing)

dent Ted Colbert said the latest ideas from Boeing’s brains will “become real” at the Mesa facility, taking their first steps from digital designs to physical machines.

Also, the factory is designed to adapt to future needs the company has based on technology, contracts and orders.

The idea of the camps is to give peo ple without prior experience the basic skills needed for an entry level job with Boeing as a wire harness or compos ite technician.

Colbert said the factory is “about tak ing advantage of the next generation of technology,” and it will leverage tools like virtual reality, artificial intelligence and additive manufacturing aka 3D printing to produce specialty parts made from ad

The company couldn’t give details on what exactly the facility will make be cause much of it is classified for national security reasons.

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vanced materials.

The Tribune asked Mayor John Giles what he thought of the facility after emerg ing from a tour with other city officials.

Boeing’s new factory will require a security clearance to enter the grounds. (Special to the Tribune)

“It’s incredible to be on the cusp of new technology and see what’s coming next,”

erospace and defense giant Boe ing is expanding its footprint in Mesa with a new 155,000-squarefoot, $150 million factory at McDowell and Greenfield Roads to build parts for future combat aircraft.

“I could tell you but I might have to kill you,” Giles joked before adding, “Clearly, a lot of amazing things are going to hap pen here.”

A spokeswoman for Boeing said at the event that the company’s Apache factory will be an important “feeder pool” for workers at the Phantom Works facility.

Current Boeing quality engineer Jamey Dunn, who has worked at Boeing’s Mesa site for 27 years, will work at the new fa cility, and he’s excited about it.

Boeing’s Phantom Works opening high-tech facility here

Company executives and city officials cut the ribbon Sept. 12 on the Advanced Composite Fabrication Center, which will be a classified facility operated by Phan tom Works, the division of Boeing that develops prototype aircraft based on the latest science.

The high-tech factory will add about 150 jobs to Boeing’s more than 4,600-per son workforce in Mesa.

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Its “classified” status means people en tering the facility will require a security clearance.Boeingspokeswoman Michelle Whal ey said the factory is the first in a se ries of new high-tech factories planned throughout the country and “will place Mesa at the heart of Boeing’s future pro duction strategy.”

The company is Mesa’s third-largest employer and currently assembles the Apache and Little Bird attack helicopters in the Mesa’scity.attack-helicopter industry is going strong, as U.S. ally Poland request ed in early September the purchase of 96 Apaches to replace its current helicopter fleet. Whaley said the new order would add to “an already healthy backlog” of production.UnlikeMesa’s Apache fabrication cen ter, the new Phantom Works facility to the west won’t be assembling finished air craft; instead it will produce components like aircraft skins and subassemblies that will go elsewhere for final assembly.

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Tribune Staff Writer

Boeing Defense, Space & Security Presi

On the tour of the soon-to-be classified space, Boeing employees showed off a two-story, two-armed machine that can make precision cuts with either a 60,000 psi water jet or a laser.

Dunn said.

A good way to get a foot in the door in the Apache operation, the company said, is to participate in one of the two-week “boot camps” Maricopa Community Col leges offers in partnership with Boeing.

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So while no secret prototype aircraft will be buzzing around the skies of Mesa, the Phantom Works facility will play a role in creating the next generation of warplanes.

The Phantom Works facility builds on Boeing’s 40-year history in the city.

Boeing’s sneak peek for local officials and media was a rare opportunity to see the inside of the Phantom Works work shop before it permanently closes to the public when it goes into operation this fall.In remarks before the ribbon-cutting, Giles thanked Boeing not just for its eco nomic impact on the town but also the “human capital” the company brings, el evating the city with “community-orient edHugepeople.”U.S. flags hung on the walls of the cavernous interior lined with cables and copper pipes and peppered with com puters, cranes and other equipment.

Bryan said company officials wanted to move out of two buildings they were using for their corporate headquarters in Tempe into one building.

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“We were going to have very dense of fice cubes. However, we made a decision that we’re going to go back and we’re go ing to actually do six feet of separation because you never know when another pandemic will hit.”

The new Chandler headquarters has most of the features that tech employees have come to expect, including its own

can collaborate with one another. Bryan said Insight has earned a reputa tion for being a great company to work for.

“We’re going to maybe open up the fa cility to some Chandler-type functions,” Bryan said. “We just want to, everything’s not quite perfect yet.”

Brothers Eric and Tim Crown started In sight in their Tempe garage in 1988. Eric had written a business plan for an assign ment at Arizona State University’s busi ness school. He received a C-. Not deterred, he decided to go ahead with that business and in the first eight years he earned $1 billion. Insight has changed its business model a few times from those early days.

They chose Chandler for a variety rea sons, including ease for their workers to get here and because many of the tech companies they work with have offices in Chandler.Shealso said Chandler has the educat ed workforce her company needs to fill itsThejobs.building the company moved into was originally designed to be three stories.

But that will have to wait until they fin ish upgrading the building.

“I’m going to tell you another secret,” Bryan said. “I wanted all my teammates in the office before the pandemic hit. Insight had a flexible work policy that says what ever your managers determine is what you can exercise in terms of flexibility in working in the office or working remotely.

And then the pandemic happened in 2020 and changed everything, including the plans for Insight’s new world head quarters off Gilbert Road, between Ger mann and Queen Creek in Chandler. The company completed its move from Tempe this

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“We are on a journey to become a lead ing solutions integrator, not systems in tegrator, but solutions integrator,” Bryan said. “When we talk about being a leading solutions integrator that is marrying the product base, that we have hardware and software products, across the spectrum of all hardware and all software, with servic es that we wrap around to actually create solutions for our clients.”

“One of the things that we’re really proud of is the fact that at Insight, we have won a series of awards for the culture that we have here,” Bryan said. “We’re best places to work in almost every country in which we exist. It’s really a tribute to the culture that we’ve created here at Insight, through the values that we have, our pur pose statement and the fact that we live those values every day.”

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“And I told my teammates that this man ager chooses to have you in the office prepandemic.”

stead of keeping them apart.

Most of Insight’s customers are Fortune 500 companies. The company operates in 20 countries around the world and employs about 12,000 people globally. In Arizona, they employ 1,600. The Chandler office is home base for 1,100 of those employees.

cafeteria, coffee bar, fitness center, private rooms for new moms to breast feed their children and a health clinic. Each work area has a common space where workers

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Insight changed that, making it a twostory building because it wanted to bring as many people together as it could in

“Wesummer.bought the building in 2019, we struck a deal to sell our existing buildings in Tempe and live there for a year, but be fore we were going to move COVID inter vened and kind of throw everything into the air,” Bryan said.

The main lobby atrium of Insight’s new headquarters in Chandler offers visitors a sparkling introduction to the company. (David Minton/Staff Photographer)

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Bryan said the company wants to be come part of Chandler. Officials plan on hosting community events, suggesting the Chamber of Commerce might be inter ested in hosting something in its 300-seat Crown Room.

lynis Bryan, the chief financial of ficer for tech giant Insight, was not a fan of working from home before the pandemic.

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Lebron James, the most powerful player on the planet, seconded Paul’s dis gust, tweeting “our league definitely got thisJameswrong.”went on: “I said it before and I’m gonna say it again, there is no place in this league for that kind of behavior. I love this league and I deeply respect our leader ship. But this isn’t right. There is no place for misogyny, sexism, and racism in any work place.”

This leaves every Suns fan with a choice to make, a decision I find most curious at a moment when every aspect of life, from dining at Chick-fil-A to grab bing java at Starbucks, has become a time for choosing.

Ol’ Chuck seldom disappoints power ful Democrats, and sure enough, after the obligatory mention of the 9/11 an niversary, Todd teed up the administra tion’s theme:

The revisions at hand are truly revo lutionary, especially the manipulation of our legal system to criminalize political differences. Yet they are greeted with a collective yawn and deliberate disinter est from a politicized press corps. Instead, the Fourth Estate seems intent

Right on cue, she responded that “there’s an oath we always take, which is to defend and uphold our Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.”

To her credit, Kamala suppressed her customarily reflexive cackle, but that was probably due to prearranged “mes sage management” rather than mere co incidence.

The Commander-in-Chief said as much 10 days earlier in Philadelphia, snarling

Note that the NBC moderator employed no modifier when introducing a dubious assertion as settled fact. Nope, for Chuck Todd and the “news organization” where

While Harris at least mentioned the Constitution, she and her senior part ner in the executive branch seem intent on pursuing the illogical and dangerous notion that they can best preserve our founding document by destroying it.

Me, I long ago made the decision not to put another thin dime in Sarver’s pocket, walking away from season tickets rather than supporting the man’s reign of error.

For 18 years of such tyranny, the league banned Sarver from running

fter a dependentNBA’sinvestigation,year-longtheallegedlyininvestigation

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Still, it was hard not to pull for this it eration of the Suns squad, led – ironically, given the accusations of racism – by two incredibly talented African American ex ecutives, head coach Monty Williams and general manager James Jones.

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“We are now as a nation fighting a threat from within. Is the threat equal or greater than we faced on 9/11?”

For two years running, this team has played beautiful basketball. They are unselfish, united, collaborative, and a group that holds one another account able. In other words, the team on the floor has been everything their owner is not off it.

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Suburban housewife Lisa Gallagher is no “MAGA mastermind.” She is simply an American citizen who supported the 2020 Trump Campaign with posts on so cial media, a banner in her yard, and, pre sumably, her vote on Election Day.

I certainly respect your right to choose otherwise. I even understand it to a de gree. Bleeding orange and purple is tough to get over, and quitting Sarver also means quitting solid human beings like Williams and Devin Booker.

Within a day, players and pundits weighed in, with virtual unanimity that Sarver deserved far worse, like the forced sale of the team levied against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in 2014.

into the conduct of Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver was condensed to a tidy 43 pages. It’s a breezy read I can further synopsize into two sentences.

he is gainfully employed, controversial partisan talking points are presented as the truth and nothing but.

On Sept. 2, three armed FBI agents ar rived at her front door. Gallagher later recounted her experience for Fox News: “I was crying, my knees were shaking. And even though I knew I’d done noth

on playing up a phantom fifth column in an effort to aid the Biden Administra tion’s ominous objectives.

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that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Repub licans represent an extremism at threat ens the very foundations of our Republic.”

the Suns for one year and fined him $10 million, the maximum allowable under NBA bylaws.

Yeah, me neither. 

As a close observer of Suns hoops for the past quarter century, I was long ago pushed to dislike the team by Sarver’s sour demeanor, horrific roster moves, and sideline narcissism.

to give the Suns your passion, your sweat and blood, your cash? Or do you hop off the Suns bandwagon and refuse to enable and enrich its ownership?

he “Children of 9/11”—infants who literally entered this world on Sept. 11, 2001—reached the age of “legal majority” this year. As they turned 21 on the most disturbing date in American history, those young adults and the rest of us were reminded to take note of the threatening changes underway to pro foundly alter our political process and way of life.

How else to explain the outrageous content and conduct from former Demo crat political operative Chuck Todd and Vice President Kamala Harris on the Sept. 11 telecast of NBC’s “Meet the Press”?

Make no mistake: Joe Biden wasn’t spouting a boilerplate political script; he was priming the rhetorical pump for the actions that followed.

It’s hard to blame an employee for the conduct of a business owner. It also makes you wonder how long players like Paul and Booker will want to toil in Sarver’s employ, and whether they will remain “all in” to pursue the Suns’ elu sive first championship

Sarver, per the investigators, is not a racist or a hater of women. He’s merely a tyrant – a terrible boss and a miserable human.Among Sarver’s faults: He “said the Nword at least five times in repeating or purporting to repeat what a Black per sonThensaid.”there’s “unequal treatment of fe male employees,” indulging in “sex-related statements and conduct” and committing “harsh treatment of employees that on oc casion constituted bullying.”

All of us have worked for a tyrant at some point. Ask yourself, did you really give it everything you had when push came to shove?

Sarver’s conduct leaves us, team with a question

“I was and am horrified and disappoint ed by what I read,” tweeted Suns star Chris Paul. “This conduct especially towards women is unacceptable and must never be repeated. … I am of the view that the sanc tions fell short in truly addressing what we can all agree was atrocious behavior.”

Don’t be deceived. This isn’t about wrongdoing. It’s about “wrong thinking…” and ultimately, about “wrong voting…” at least in the eyes of the Biden Bunch.

track things like key-strokes and the min utes your child spends on specific apps, too. They can even shut the phone down if needed. Do a little research and deter mine what works best for your family. Keep lines of communication open. Monitoring your child’s social media is not just about what they posted online, but who is contacting them and what they are saying to – and about - your kid. Your child, their friends and even strangers are going to post questionable things online. In these circumstances, don’t brush it under the rug. Have your child tell you what they thought about the post. Ask what they would do differ ently. Talk about the worst things they have seen online.

But even if she had been on the Capitol grounds that day, she was well within her constitutional rights. The First Amendment affirms our basic right to freedom of speech and assembly. Yet the fear felt by this everyday American prompted her to show the agents her phone and her personal calendar to “prove” she was nowhere near Washington.

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Of course, all of this was preceded in August by the unprecedented raid on the home of the 45th President.

arents across the country struggle with whether or not they should monitor their child’s social media accounts.Questions

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I often hear from parents are things like: “Is it fair to read through my child’s private accounts?” “Should I say something about what they post?” “How often do I need to check my child’s social media?”

When you friend your child, it gives you a brief look into the lives they live while they are away from you.

Monitoring your child’s social media use is a daunting task at first, but the peace of mind you will gain is worth the effort. Being an involved parent is not an easy task so give yourself grace and trust your gut.

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Six days later, 35 FBI raids were con ducted, aimed at senior MAGA officials.

Lending credence to Lisa’s instinctive assessment was the false accusation that prompted the arrival of federal law en forcement officers.

Even though “Freedom from Fear” has disappeared, we can all sleep like babies. We can wake up every two hours and cry.

It doesn’t have to be a nightly check, unless your child has done things on the internet that are dangerous, but make a habit of checking where they have been

Whileaccounts.Iunderstand there are some privacy issues, for me the positives greatly outweigh the negatives. Our children are easily influenced. I worry about predators, online games

Five days after that, the feds sur rounded successful “My Pillow” entre preneur and outspoken Trump defender Mike Lindell in the takeout lane of a fast food restaurant, taking away his phone.

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The agents told Lisa the FBI had re ceived an anonymous tip that she was at The Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. She wasn’t.

Monitor your child’s history. Take time to look at your child’s web browser and each of their social media accounts.

There are a lot of free apps that can

As a counselor who specializes in teen mental health issues like anxiety and depression, I encourage parents to keep tabs on their child’s phone and social media

Friend your kids. One of the biggest things to do when your child creates a new social media account is to “friend” them. You won’t be able to see any pri vate messages, but you will be able to see what they are posting and what their friends are sending to them.

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ing wrong, after Joe Biden’s speech the night before, I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is political.’”

The rest of us, including the “Children of 9/11,” can take a cue from today’s infants.

trying to get them to upgrade and unintentionally spend money and also pornography websites doing every thing they can to bait children into seeing things their brains aren’t ready toHereprocess.are four practical things you can do to better monitor your child’s so cial media:

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Apparently, he’s not the only one who feels that way: When the Washington Commanders host the Jacksonville Jaguars to open their season Sunday, Hodges will be on the Commanders’ sidelines, one of five tight ends on the team’sGrowingroster.up in Mesa, Hodges never imagined he would be playing profes sional football. He did not even start play ing the game until his freshman year at Mountain View High School.

But once he started, he knew he want ed to keep playing at whatever level he could. He said he knew from that very first hit.

“He basically had to take, like, five class es in half the year to go for a D1 (Division I) scholarship and he did it,” Fell said.

“I understood the situation,” Hodges said this week. “I understood that I would have to go prove myself, but I knew I could play in this league.”

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“I wanted to stay close to my family. I really liked the program and I still do,” Hodges said. “I had a lot of friends going there. It just seemed like the right idea.”

But Mike Fell, the former head coach at Mountain View High School, knew there was something special about Hodges and it wasn’t just his size.

In his freshman season, Hodges accu mulated 41 yards and a touchdown in nine games. Over the next three years, he totaled 186 yards and another TD in 20 games. But he was allowed a fifth season because of COVID-19, and he took advan tage of it, amassing 374 yards and two more touchdowns in 12 appearances.

Although he was not drafted, on May 1 he was able to sign a three-year, $2.5 million contract with the Commanders, $125,000 of which is guaranteed, accord ing to spotrac.com, which tracks players contracts.“Iwasso excited,” Hodges said. “It was just a dream come true.”

600 yards and four touchdowns as an Arizona State receiver were not enough to get Curtis Hodges’ name called on NFL draft day. So Hodges did what he always does –he got to work.

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“I went to the practice field, and I just hit somebody,” he said. “He fell and the coach got happy and ran up to me and I got a Hodgespancake.”said he’s always liked the physicality and the opportunity to knock other guys around. With his size, that comes as no surprise: Hodges is 6-foot-8 and weighs 240 pounds, according to his player profile with the Commanders.

Hodges still had to prove himself in the preseason and push his way through four rounds of training camp cuts to land his spot on the 53-man roster for the start of

for 1,446 yards and 15 touchdowns. He also proved himself to be a fierce runblocking tight end, as he helped the To ros go to the postseason in all three of his varsity years.

“The reason I knew Curtis was going to

make it is his grades were poor when I got there, and I was telling him, you have to go the juco (junior college) route,” said Fell, who now coaches at McClintock High School. “And he said, ‘No, I can take two online classes and get them up.’

Despite not being drafted, former Sun Devil Curtis Hodges made the 53-man roster with the Washington Commanders, where he will be one of five tight ends for the team this year. (Photo courtesy Washington Commanders)

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That got him into ASU, which was at tractive to Hodges because it let him stay close to home and develop under thennew coach Herm Edwards, a former NFL coach and player.

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Hodges was electric at Mountain View. Over the course of his three seasons at the varsity level, he caught 114 passes

In five seasons at ASU, Hodges “became a better blocker,” said Randy Pagano, head strength coach at Mountain View. “He got more body weight on him.”

He also transitioned from wide receiv er to tight end, the position he said feels more natural because he has always liked hitting and blocking.

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the“Itseason.wasa special moment for sure,” he said of making the final cut. “I remember my mom calling me and she got all emo tional, but you gotta turn around and get back to work the next day.”

Despite brief appearances in pre season, Hodges is currently on the Com manders’ injured reserve list nursing a thigh injury, and his status for Sunday’s game is unclear. But he said he has been running and is feeling good, and his fo cus now is on getting healthy and stay ingDoingavailable.what he always does, in other words. Fell is not surprised.

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“He’s just got to stay focused on what he’s got ahead,” Fell said. “He’s going to get an opportunity, he just has to take advantage of it. 

“He’s great. It was great working with him,” she said. “It was very in spiring. He pushed me way out of my comfort zone. He has a very different

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Suzanne Vega is best known for her songs “Tom’s Diner” and “Luka.” (George Holz/Contributor)

eturning to the Musical In strument Museum Oct. 1-2, Suzanne Vega was moved by previous visits.

The film features music by singersongwriter Duncan Sheik, who won Tony Awards for “Spring Awakening.”

were excited to give their 1994 debut album, “Rubberneck,” a proper celebration for its silver an niversary in 2020. Then came the great interrupter: the COVID-19 pandemic. They tried again in late 2021, but, alas, had to postpone again. Third time’s a charm and drummer Mark Reznicek said it’s better late than never.

The film debuted at SXSW in March. For the trailer, visit https://vimeo. com/680131952.“Itstartedwith an acting exercise that I was given in college a long, long time ago,” she said with a laugh.

memory,” he said.

Reznicek also said that most “Rubber neck” songs are easy.

“I had seen a picture of Carson Mc Cullers back then and I knew one or two of her stories. I remember we sort of look alike.”

“It has been a long time coming and it’s almost surreal that it’s happening this time,” he Althoughsaid.Reznicek has played drums to those 11 songs – including Toadies’ trade mark song, “Possum Kingdom” – for 28 years, he hasn’t grown wary of them yet.

Despite the tough physicality of the songs, they trigger fond memories of the mid-’90s.“There have been times when I’ve ei ther played one song or another and my mind will flash back to when we were re cording the album or on that initial tour,” he said.

new things. We love it. It’s been great to get back on the road again.”

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“He uses a fair amount of electron ics,” she said. “It ranges from very acoustic to some of the produced songs. We do the remix version of ‘Tom’s Diner’ and ‘Luka.’ We do a lot of songs people know and a couple of

Vega recently sent to cinemas her one-woman stage show about the life of 20th century American writer Car son McCullers in the Michael Tullydirected “Lover, Beloved.”

She thought McCullers would be an ideal character to play. When her col lege professor asked the class to come in dressed as a notable figure, Vega ap peared as McCullers.

Toadies bring ‘Rubberneck’ to the Valley

“I’ve played those songs enough times to where I don’t have to concentrate on what I’m doing and have them down to muscle

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as if I was on a television show,” she said. “We had to really inhabit them. I really got way into her. I ended up do ing my senior thesis on her, her work and her life and how they comingled.

“I had to be ready to field questions

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“It’s a beautiful place,” Vega said. “I remember all the beautiful instru ments and what they look like. I be gan my Instagram account there — however long ago it was.”

However, he admits some tracks are a bit of a drag to keep up with.

“There are a couple (of songs) that I al ways get a little freaked out about it just because I’m almost 30 years older now than I was when I recorded them, like ‘Mister Love’ and ‘Velvet’ since those are both faster, harder songs than most of the other ones on the album,” Reznicek said.

“I get asked sometimes if (playing) the songs off that album ever get old and it doesn’t because those might be the songs that some people are most excited for each night,” he said.

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The pandemic has forced the Toadies to twice postpone a proper 25th anniversary celebration of their 1994 debut album. “Rubberneck.” (Special to the Tribune)

“I remember how they go. It’s just a mat ter of my body physically holding up to the punishment of playing those songs.”

Vega’s shows are dubbed “An Inti mate Evening of Songs and Stories.” They will feature her on acoustic gui tar and her musical director, Gerry Leonard, on guitar.

BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

“It’s been a lifelong challenge to put her life and work on a stage in a onewoman show. It’s something I’ve gone back to time and time again. The film is the end of that journey with Carson. I’m way older than she was when she died. I thought it’s time to put this down. It’s been such a pleasure and real interest ing exercise for me. I’ve loved it.”

Suzanne Vega recalls inspirational MIM show

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The “Lover, Beloved” project was on Ve ga’s bucket list, of which there are plenty of other tasks.

“It’s the whole process of acting to make

I fooled around with painting, but I can’t do everything.” 

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“I feel like we get lumped in with grunge music a lot, and that’s fair, given that was popular when we came out,” he said. “Most of the songs were written before grunge was a thing and wasn’t an influ ence on what we were trying to do. If you wanted to point out our three main influ ences, it would be like if you put Pixies, ZZ Top and Talking Heads in a blender. It

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my life trying to fulfill all of those goals.

Vega hopes to move more on stage and be more present when she sings. Acting helped with that goal.

“We all came up in the same scene,” Reznicek said. “He was around a little be fore us and we looked up to him a lot early in our Thoughcareer.”thetour will serve as somewhat of a reunion, it will also give Reznicek and Co. a chance to jam each track off “Rub berneck” in order from “Mexican Hair less” to “I Burn” and all the hits that fall in between.

“I still have more work to do before my time is up,” she said. “I feel like I have more to say, more to do. There were certain goals set for myself as a teenager and I’ve spent

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“You could almost name any song on Rubberneck and people tend to freak out but, obviously, ‘Possum Kingdom’ and ‘Ty ler’ are crowd favorites,” Reznicek said. “People also really like when we do ‘I Burn’ because, a lot of times, we bring out extra drummers to augment the sound on that one.”

kind of just to let people know that we’re still around and we’re still putting out music.”

“Rubberneck” has been called one of the biggest albums in the decade filled with emerging rock subgenres, including grun ge. Reznicek does not consider the Fort Worth act a grunge band.

“It’s pretty eclectic and each song has its own little world,” he said. “But it all

She hopes to write a book as well, to fol low up to 1999’s “The Passionate Eye: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega.”

In addition to “Rubberneck,” Toadies plan to treat fans to new tracks off an up coming EP as well as unreleased material.

What: Toadies and Reverend Horton Heat

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“I had a lot of interests as a child. I used to draw. I used to sculpt. I made busts out of clay. I studied dance for 10 years. I’ve done all kinds of other training — martial arts, the swim team for a while. It was a chal lenge for me as a kid to express the feelings and ideas of the moment as well as express myself emotionally and personally.”

sense of melody than I do. I thought we were a good team. I thought we worked together well. Musically it’s thrilling to sing the work.”

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the emotion alive in the moment on the stage,” Vega said. “It’s surprisingly drain ing. The film is an hour and 15 minutes. The one-woman show is an hour and 45 minutes. It’s me up there holding on to the audience as someone else. I couldn’t ad lib or change the order of things. I had to commit myself to the moment.”

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would come out sounding something like thePixiesToadies.”weren’t the only band who im pacted the young Toadies. Fellow Texans The Reverend Horton Heat are joining them on tour.

Because of this, Reznicek expects the crowd to be rowdy.

“I’d like to write something a little more narrative,” she said. “I’d love to draw again.

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Public Notices

Funding for the above-mentioned federal programs (CDBG, ESG, and HOME) are provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and used for housing and community development activities that primarily beneﬁt lowand moderate-income persons and assist in the prevention or elimination of slum or blighting inﬂuences.

This City of Mesa is issuing this Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023-24. The following anticipated amounts will be available:

Note: The HOME Housing Production application program is open year-round, and provides funding for For-Proﬁt, Non-Profit, and Community Housing Development Organizations.

Monday, October 3, 2022

DateAVAILABILITYFUNDINGofPublication:September18,2022

ESG: HumanHOME:$360,345$1,837,215Services:$558,000

CDBG: $6,193,901

Funding for the Human Services programs comes from the City’s general fund and the A Better Community (ABC) program consisting of donations from the public made through utility bill payments. These funds support programs and services that directly impact community safety services and encourage self-sufﬁciency so that residents can fully realize economic and social opTheportunities.annual application process, will open on Monday, October 3, 2022, and close on Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. The annual funding application process schedule for FY2023/24 is available at the following website: https://www.mesaaz.

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Location: 57 E. First Street (Upper-Level City Council Chambers)

*The following items will be covered: Funding sources, eligibility requirements, City Council priorities and ZoomGrants application software.

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and Ellsworth Road on the east.

The SOQs must include the following:

RFQ Lists. This RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/busi

The City may include other miscellaneous improvements at the Site, as needed.

Please join us for a short presentation followed by a question and comment session.

Bring your pets indoors during summer heat.

Public Notices

A Pre-Submittal Conference will be held on September 29, 2022, at 9 am through Microsoft Teams. If you wish to attend this meeting, you can request an invitation from Donna Horn (donna.horn@mesaaz. gov). At this meeting, City staff will dis cuss the scope of work and general con tract issues and respond to questions from the attendees. Attendance at the pre-sub mittal conference is not mandatory and all interested firms may submit a Statement of Qualifications whether or not they at tend the conference. All interested firms are encouraged to attend the Pre-Submit tal 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 addi tion, there will not be meeting minutes or any other information published from the Pre-Submittal Conference.

1. Non-Collusion Bidding Certification

The proposed improvements are as fol lows:

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

Southeast Mesa Library Project No. CP0428

Tues, Se pt. 27, 2022 6:00pm - 7:00pm

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PROJECT NO. CP0982

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City Clerk

The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant to provide design services for the Elliot Road – Eastern Maricopa Flood way (EMF) to Ellsworth Road Project. All qualified firms that are interested in pro viding these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements de tailed in the Request for Qualifications

I f y o u h a v e a n y q u e s t i o n s r e g a r d i n g t h i s p r o j e c t , please contact the City of Mesa Engineering Pub l i c R e l a t i o n s D e p a r t m e n t a t Engineering Info@MesaAZ gov or call us at (480) 644 3800

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City Engineer

The City will utilize federal funds for the design of this project.

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Register Online at: mesaaz.gov/engineering

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In 2019, the City of Mesa completed the Southeast Mesa Land Use and Transporta tion Plan (SELTP) which identified Elliot Road as an urban minor arterial (federal classification) that is to be improved to become a six-lane arterial. The segment of Elliot Road that lies within the project limits is currently a two-lane roadway (one lane in each direction) between Eastern Maricopa Floodway (EMF) and the State Route (SR) 202 Freeway, and a five-lane roadway eastbound(threelanes, two westbound lanes) from the SR 202 Freeway to Ellsworth Road. This project will include design for the ultimate six-lane roadway configura tion including a median, curb, gutter, side walk, streetlights, and a striped bike lane. The development of this roadway will add roadway capacity and connectivity in the rapidly developing area of southeast Mesa. The project limits are the EMF on the west

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T h e S o u t h e a s t M e s a L i b r a r y w i l l b e l o c a t e d a t 5036 S Eastmark Parkway, Mesa AZ, 85211 This f u l l s e r v i c e l i b r a r y w i l l h a v e s i m i l a r a m e n i t i e s t o t h e M a i n , R e d M o u n t a i n , a n d D o b s o n R a n c h l i b r a r i e s T h e l i b r a r y w i l l p r o v i d e s e r v i c e s t o r e s i d ents of all ages with an emphasis on a modern lib r a r y f e e l a n d t h e u s e o f t e c h n o l o g y t o s t r e a m l i n e services. This project is funded by the 2018 Bond Election for Arts and Culture Design is underway and construction is anticipated to begin in the Sum mer of 2023

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2. Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Goal Assurance with DBE Goal of 5.33% (Form 3212PS)

3. Certification of Good Faith Efforts (Form 3203PS)

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P l e a s e r e g i s t e r t o a t t e n d o u r s e c o n d l i v e o n l i n e public meeting to hear all about the newest library coming to Mesa!

The(RFQ).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.

Federal ID No. MES-0(239)D

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Conditions, and General Conditions Appendices (http://mesaaz.gov/busi Aness/engineering/engineering-contracts).Pre-SubmittalConferencewillbeheld on October 4, 2022 at 10 am through Microsoft Teams. Anyone wishing to attend the pre-submittal conference 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 in terested 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 the Pre-Submittal Conference.

RFQ Lists. This RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz. gov/business/engineering/architectural- engineering-design-opportuni ties.

Location: Eagles Community Center 848 E Broadway Rd. Mesa, AZ 85204

I f y o u h a v e a n y q u e s t i o n s o r c o n c e r n s r e g a r d i n g this project, please contact Curt Albright, Michele A r r o l l a d o , D o r y K a l i c h o r J u a n i t a G o n z a l e s w i t h the City of Mesa Engineering Public Relations De partment at (480) 644 3800

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Mesa is seeking a qualified consulting firm or team to provide cost estimating services for the following project:

process or contract issues should be directed to Donna Horn of the Engineering De partment at donna.horn@mesaaz.gov.

Published: East Valley Tribune, Sept. 18, 25, 2022 / 49148

Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (includ ing the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, to 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.

Reed Park Improvements Project No. LF0570CAP

The City of Mesa is seeking a qualified Consultant to provide cost es timating services for the Signal Butte Water Treatment Plant (SBWTP) Phase II Project. All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifica tions (RFQ).

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From this solicitation, the City will select a consultant or contractor to provide Cost Engineering Services for the Signal Butte Water Treatment Plant Expansion, Phase II project, currently in design.

CITY OF MESA, ARIZONA ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)

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BETH HUNING City Engineer

The cost engineering firm/team shall be knowledgeable in construction practices and procedures, civil, architectural, mechanical, and electrical disciplines. The firm/team shall have the ability to prepare detailed con struction cost estimates, taking into consideration quantity surveys, labor productivity, price of materials, schedule, phasing, manufacturing challenges, supply chain constraints, local industry trends, scheduling impacts, and construction methodologies. The firm/team shall be famil iar with State and Local regulations related to design and construction, including Arizona Revised Statute Title 34 and Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) Uniform Standard Specifications for Public Works Construction. In addition, the qualified firm/team shall be familiar with the City of Mesa’s Standard Details and Specifications gov/business/engineering/mesa-standard-details-specifications),(http://mesaaz.General

This is an open house meeting held at Eagles Com munity Center Project exhibits will be on display and City of Mesa staff will be available if you have any questions We hope to see you there!

SIGNAL BUTTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT PHASE II

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 person nel 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 27, 2022, by 2 pm. 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 and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System Questions.(http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service).QuestionspertainingtotheConsultantselection

ATTEST: Holly Moseley City Clerk

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

PROJECT NO. CP0372

The City of Mesa seeks to expand the existing SBWTP at the northeast corner of Signal Butte and Elliot Roads. The plant receives Colorado Riv er water supplied by the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal and treats the water to drinking water standards. The plant’s current treatment ca pacity is 24 Million Gallons per Day (MGD), with this project expanding the plant to its ultimate capacity of treating 48 MGD. The project consists of the following scope items: expansion of the raw water pressure and flow control facility; expansion of the raw water ozone contactor, intermediate ozone contactor, and pH adjustment; expansion of the ballasted floccula tion facilities; expansion of the deep-bed biological filtration, including backwash and air-scour facilities; expansion of the residuals facilities, in cluding recovered water basin and pumps, recovered water treatment, and mechanical dewatering; expansion of the chemical bulk storage, chemical feed systems, ozone generation, and sodium hypochlorite generation sys tems; expansion of the electrical distribution system, including improve ments to the existing improvements to the electrical building and standby power generation; and the addition of a second 8-million-gallon reservoir.

Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 Time: 6:00pm to 7:00pm

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46 THE SUNDAY EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE | SEPTEMBER 18, 2022 Roofing aOver 30 Years of Experience aFamily Operated by 3 Generations of Roofers! Premier Tile, Shingle & Foam Roofer! 480-446-7663 Spencer4HIREROOFING Valley Wide Service FREE Estimates • Credit Cards OK www.spencer4hireroofing.com ROC#244850 | Insured | Bonded Roofing PhillipsRoofing@cox.netPhillipsRoofing.org ROOFINGPHILLIPSLLC Family Owned and Operated 43 Years Experience in Arizona COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL Licensed 2006 ROC InsuredBonded223367 623-873-1626 Free Estimates Monday through Saturday Serving All Types of Roofing: • Tiles & Shingles • Installation • Repair • Re-Roofing FREE ESTIMATES sunlandroofingllc@gmail.com 602-471-2346 Clean, Prompt, Friendly and Professional Service Not a contractorlicensed Roofing MonsoonRoofingInc.com Licensed – Bonded – Insured – ROC187561 10% Discount for Ahwatukee Residents 100% NO Leak Guarantee Re-Roof & Roofing Repairs Tile, Shingles & Flat Roof 480-699-2754 • info@monsoonroofinginc.com Notice of Hearing NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 3rd day of May, 2 0 2 2 , a n o r d e r w a s g r a n t e d b y t h e S u p e r i o r C o u r t o f A r i z o n a i n M a r i c o p a C o u n t y , b e a r i n g c a s e n u m b e r C V 2 0 2 2 0 9 1 8 6 7 0 0 0 , s e e k i n g t o c h a n g e t h e n a m e o f m i n or child from Sutton Marie Kimball to Sutton Marie Trembly T h e C o u r t h a s f i x e d F r i d a y , O c t o b e r 7 , 2 0 2 2 a t 2 : 5 0 p m , via Microsoft Teams meeting (Dial In: +1 917 781 4590, ac c e s s c o d e : 6 7 4 9 9 1 1 0 4 ) a s t h e d a t e f o r h e a r i n g o f t h e P e t i tion All persons interested in the proposed change of name may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the pray e r o f t h e P e t i t i o n e r s h o u l d n o t b e g r a n t e d P u b l i s h e d : E a s t V a l l e y T r i b u n e , S e p t 1 1 , 1 8 , 2 5 , O c t 2 , 2 0 2 2 / 4 9 0 7 1

b u s i n e s s f i x t u r e s a n d i t e m s b e l o n g i n g t o t h e f o l l o w i n g : Tenant Name Unit # Chris Guadnola 646 Mathew Powlowsky 649 Heber Lozano 302 Dantreel Pate 140 S a l e s u b j e c t t o c a n c e l l a t i o n i n t h e e v e n t o f s e t t l e m e n t b e t w e e n o w n e r a n d o b l i g a t e d p a r t y I t e m s sold “as is”, CASH ONLY, and Buyer must pay a security deposit and broom sweep/clean the unit Go to www storagetreasures com to bid on unit(s) Published: East Valley Tribune, Sept 11, 18, 2022 / 48779

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MARICOPA Case No.: PB2022-003842

N O T I C E I S H E R E B Y G I V E N t h a t t h e u n d e r s i g n e d i n t e n d s t o s e l l t h e p e r s o n a l p r o p e r t y d e s c r i b e d b e l o w t o e n f o r c e a l i e n i m p o s e d o n s a i d property pursuant to the Arizona Self Service Stor age Act, Arizona Statutes 33 1704, Section H, En f o r c e m e n t o f L i e n T h e U n d e r s i g n e d w i l l s e l l a t p u b l i c s a l e b y c o m p e t i t i v e b i d d i n g o n o r a f t e r September 23, 2022 at 9:00am using an online auc t i o n a t w w w . s t o r a g e t r e a s u r e s . c o m , s a i d p r o p e r t y has been stored and located at US60 Self Storage, 1 6 6 1 S A l m a S c h o o l R d , S t e 1 0 5 , M e s a , A Z 85210 Property to be sold as follows: Misc house h o l d g o o d s , p e r s o n a l i t e m s , f u r n i t u r e , c l o t h i n g , t o y s a n d / o r

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF INFORMAL APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND INFORMAL PROBATE OF WILL In the Matter of the Estate of: GARY ALAN MATYAS, An Adult, Deceased.1. Allison Diane Schafer was appointed Personal Representative of this Estate on August 8, 2022. 2. All persons having claims against the Estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the ﬁrst publication of this Notice or the claims will be forever barred. 3. Claims must be presented by delivering or mailing a written statement of the claim to the Personal Rep-resentative, c/o Dawn M. Trott-Keller, Indigo Law PLLC, 23219 151st Pl SE, Monroe, WA 98272. 4. A copy of the Notice of Appointment is at-tached to the copies of this document mailed to all known cred-itors. DATED this 13th day of September 2022. __________ Dawn M. Trott-Keller, #037505 Attorney for Petitioner. Pub-lished: East Valley Tribune/Gilbert Sun News Sept 18, 25, Oct 2, 2022 / 49159

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