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After 50 years, A New Leaf continues to serve BY TOM SCANLON Tribune Contributor
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t was 1971. In football, the Cardinals season was off to a promising start – in St. Louis. The team wouldn’t move to Arizona for another 16 years. In baseball, Jason Giambi and Hall of Famers Pedro Martinez and Ivan Rodriguez were born, but the Arizona Diamondbacks wouldn’t be for another 17 years. Other than being a Cactus League hub for a few months, Mesa – like most of the East Valley – was best known for its miles and miles of orange groves and dairy farms, with smells ranging from sweet to offensive, depending on the neighborhood. But, with more people drifting out of the City of Phoenix, U.S. Census figures announced in
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1971 that Mesa’s population had nearly doubled over the previous decade. Though its modest 66,049 population was a long way from the explosive post-2000 growth that would make it home to over a half-million, Mesa was growing from a farm town to a small city. And with urban growth came urban problems: people struggling to pay rent, victims of domestic violence, drug abuse, broken families. Enter an agency that took its name from second chances: A New Leaf.
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A New Leaf is celebrating a half century of providing social services. Mike Hughes has been CEO of the Mesa nonprofit for more than 40 of its 50 years. (David Minton/Tribune photographer)
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100-foot building will have around 750 humans per shift on the ground floor. “The remaining second, third, fourth and fifth floors, known as the Robotic Storage Platforms, will house a large automated storage retrieval system with shelf-like storage units (pods) that are moved by low-profile robots.” While robot sorters will take up most of the space, the first floor will have “warehouse employees picking orders and stowing product.” The robots and humans will work nonstop. “The proposed facility will operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and typically
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consist of both day and night shifts,” according to the presentation. Amazon has a similar facility with humans and robots rubbing shoulders and gears in the West Valley. If Project Thunderbird turns out to be an Amazon development, that means the world’s largest company is quickly enlarging its Mesa footprint. Amazon opened its first Mesa distribution center near Falcon Field near the end of 2019. Six months ago, the Tribune reported on “Project Javelina.”
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Mesa mayor accepts raise, talks about his job BY TOM SCANLON Tribune Contributor
was extremely thankful to be doing “the best job I’ve ever had.” esa Mayor John Giles remains the Tribune: About how many hours per second-highest paid mayor in week do you work? the state, taking home far more Giles: In this role, you are always mayor. than the mayor of Tucson, which is slight- While in the office, at events, in meetly larger than Mesa. ings, at dinner or at my grandkid’s soccer Giles and the rest of City Council voted games. While our office hours are Monday Nov. 15 to give themselves a raise. through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., But Giles said it’s not our elected officials do about the money. He what is needed when it said he is grateful for is needed no matter the the opportunity to lead time of day or day of the his hometown into conweek. tinued economic boom Tribune: If you weren’t times. in politics/public serHe was elected mayvice, what would you be or in 2014, receiving a doing? whopping 73 percent of Giles: I am an attorney the vote. and have a law office in In 2020, he was redowntown Mesa. I’m elected with nearly also an adjunct profestwice as many votes but sor in the ASU School of with the city’s popula- Mayor John Giles, after receiving Law. tion growing, his margin a raise and voting “yes” on every Tribune: When are you dropped to 66 percent – agenda item in 2021, answered available to meet with questions from the Tribune still comfortably ahead citizens who have conabout his salary and his job. of challenger Verl Farn- (Tribune file photo) cerns about any issues, sworth. and how would they arGiles has an extended “swan song” as range a meeting? his second term extends until Jan. 1, 2025. Giles: Mesa residents are encouraged to But what is he doing to deserve his hefty reach out via phone or email to my ofsalary of just under $75,000 while council fice to schedule a meeting. Most issues members will earn $41,782? are initially addressed at a staff level and After returning from a trip to Washing- are frequently resolved. If that is the case, ton D.C., where he said – phoning into a I receive an update from staff. I value the Mesa City Council meeting – he was lob- perspectives of our residents and I enjoy bying to make sure Mesa got its share of hearing from them. President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infra- Tribune: A review of minutes from 2021 structure bill, Giles answered the Tri- shows that you did not vote ‘no’ on any bune’s questions about his job and his agenda items. How would you answer raise. someone who says “Giles is just a ‘yes man’ As Thanksgiving approached, he said he who approves anything Brady wants”?
Giles: When something comes before Council for a vote at a meeting, that is not the first time the issue is being discussed. Many items on our agendas have spent months, if not years, getting to the point of a council vote. Staff and constituent meetings, board and committee meetings, community feedback, staff presentations and recommendations, council feedback, research and discussions all inform decisions made at council meetings. Tribune: What are some of the things you did so far in 2021 that you are most proud of – and feel help justify your pay? Giles: I did not seek out this role for the salary and wouldn’t want to tie Mesa’s momentum to the compensation of staff, council or mayor. I’m proud of how the City of Mesa responded to COVID-19, of how we are experiencing economic growth, of our education partnerships and our investment in public safety. But those accomplishments belong to all of us – our staff, our residents and others who work for the advancement of our city. We all have a role to play in service to our community. Tribune: There’s an old phrase heard from time to time: “I love my job so much, I would do it for free!” ...Does that apply to you? Giles: I love working in service of my hometown and it is extremely rewarding to achieve big goals working in partnership with staff, residents, stakeholders and other elected officials. I’ve said on many occasions that being mayor is the best job I’ve ever had and I encourage everyone that has an inkling to get involved in public service. While this role and the role of councilmember are very rewarding, it also comes with great responsibility and should be compensated.
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summer of 2022. “People thought we were nuts to have a project with restaurants and hotels started during the pandemic. But we had a ‘Field of Dreams’ attitude: If we build it, they will come,” he told the Tribune. He also doesn’t have to worry about competition – at least for the foreseeable future.
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t its Dec. 1 meeting, Mesa City Council will be asked to approve projects that will continue to reshape the landscape of southeast Mesa: Cannon Beach, the Hub at 202 and Project Cork. The Cannon Beach wave-pool development on Power and Warner roads just north of the Loop 202 is asking for modifications to its previously submitted plans,
promising “a large recreational amenity that will draw people from a large radius.” In addition to its anchor attraction, a “surf lagoon,” Cannon Beach will have “a substantial commercial component including shopping areas” in multiple buildings. Cole Cannon, the Gilbert resident behind the project, previously told the Tribune people will be able to cool off here by the
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Historical Museum hosting big arts and crafts fair BY TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF
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eople who want to get a jump on their Christmas shopping – and find one-of-a-kind gifts that will be treasured for years – might want to circle this Saturday on their calendar. From 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 4, the Mesa Historical Mesa Historical Museum, 2345 N. Horne, is hosting a massive Arts & Crafts Fair that could keep visitors there for hours as they traipse through aisles featuring 60 vendors, sample books offered at a mini-book fair, grab something to eat – and get a free pass to wander through the museum itself. Guests also will be helping out a city landmark. “This is a bit ambitious of us to make it this big but it’s the only way I can raise funds during this time,” said museum Executive Director Susan Ricci. “Our popular Historic Home Tour had to be cancelled once again and that is our largest fundraiser.” Ricci said the house tour fell victim to the pandemic for the second consecutive
year. “Due to COVID, it was uncomfortable for home owners to have so many people walking through their houses so we had to cancel,” she said. “We hope we can move forward after this year.” In the meantime, Ricci said, “This time we more than doubled the number of vendors we had in the spring.” Among them will be pottery by Pima artist Ron Carlos, a woven metal cactus by Sharie Harwood Monsam and a handcarved wooden bowl by Marc Thompson. Vendors will be selling leather work, bead work, jewelry, ornaments, candles, soaps and lotions, ceramics, flutes, upcycled art, Native American pottery, essential oils and sculptures. As for touring the museum, guests can see a special exhibit celebrating the many different cultures that contributed to the settlement of Mesa, including some of the extraordinary individuals who broke racial barriers to become civic leaders in our community.
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There’s also an exhaustive exhibit featuring artist Karen Kuykendall’s paintings, jewelry and papier-mache, which have been exhibited at both the Phoenix Art Museum and the Tucson Art Museum. She was a published author and teacher who created a fantasy world of Cat-People which inspired a lot of her artwork including dolls, Plenty of unique gifts will be available for purchase this sculptures and paintings. coming Saturday at the Mesa Historical Museum’s Arts & With over 1,000 pieces Crafts Fair. (Special to the Tribune) now a part of the Mesa Historical Museum’s permanent collec- along with photos and collections from tion, this exhibit is dedicated to her art. the last one hundred years of baseball in Play Ball: The Arizona Spring Train- Mesa. This exhibit focuses on the history ing Experience features the history of of the current Spring Training Teams of Spring Training, the birth of the Cactus Mesa, the Chicago Cubs and the Oakland League and Cactus League Hall of Fame, A’s.
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Gilbert had been working with a private contractor that offered to build a wave pool on land adjacent to the Gilbert Regional Park. But the previous developer backed out of a deal with the town after the it pushed back the deadline a third time. Now, a new developer for a fourth deadline extension on the project, which is now not slated for completion before April 2024. Not far from Mesa’s first “beach,” two developers will ask City Council to approve annexations near Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. One project calls for Mesa to annex 101 acres near Sossaman and Warner roads. A linked zoning request from agricultural to light industrial “will allow for an industrial development.” The Hub at 202, as the project is called, will have 11 buildings hosting “warehousing, industrial and office uses.” A few miles southeast, another developer wants the city to annex 70 acres near Pecos and Signal Butte roads. Similarly, this project’s zoning request out of agricultural to light industrial “will allow for industrial development.” Project Cork, as it is called, “will bring employment to this rapidly developing
The Cannon Beach development is asking Mesa City Council approval of modifications to its plans for a “surf lagoon” surrounded by shopping and dining. (City of Mesa) area,” the developer promises. The developer describes one large building with a 127-dock truck court. In its description, developer Ryan Companies sounds like it has a company lined up to take over the space, once it is built: “The extensive experience the end user has in operating this type of facility allows them to fully understand the transportation needs of its employees and visitors.”
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Though a company spokesman refused to confirm or deny it is planning another Amazon facility in Mesa, “Amazon Hub” appears on the plan twice, below a sketch of “package pickup and return” and “customer service” entrances. Project Javelina is on Eastmark’s northern boundary on 47 acres at the southwest corner of Elliot Road and Everton Terrace. The plan describes a one-story building of just over 180,000 square feet, similar in size to the Falcon Field Amazon facility at 3115 N. Higley Road. Similarly, Amazon first built smaller distribution centers in the West Valley, before launching a massive robotics facility that had the code name Project Sol. In Eastmark, Project Javelina “is being designed for package delivery service, with two anticipated shifts working days and evenings and a possible third shift added at peak season,” according to a plan submitted to the city. On May 4, DLR Group submitted plans for Project Javelina to the city’s Planning
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Mike Hughes – who has come to be the face of the social services provider that now employs hundreds and provides assistance to thousands – wasn’t there for A New Leaf’s first day in 1971. “Oh, no! I was just a year out of high school,” the Long Island native said with a laugh, a touch of a New York accent still audible after all these years. By the early 1970s he went west to study education at ASU. “My first couple years after graduation, I was a school teacher at Mesa Public Schools in special population, working with troubled kids,” Hughes said. He loved the work and the city, settling here to raise a family. Then, in 1978, A New Leaf’s board of directors made Hughes an offer he couldn’t refuse. It wasn’t just, “Come work for us.” It was, “Come and be our leader.” He took the challenge. And he stuck. For more than four decades of its 50year run, A New Leaf’s chief executive officer has been Mike Hughes. This is a rarity in any field, let alone social services, where low-level workers and high-end managers alike hopscotch from agency to agency. When A New Leaf came calling, the of-
Mesa Public Schools named Hughes Elementary School after the New Leaf leader in 2018, recognizing his 20 years of service on the district’s Governing Board. (YouTube) fer certainly got Hughes’ attention. “I thought it was an extension of what I was doing with kids working at Mesa Schools, helping troubled teen-aged kids. A New Leaf had treatment facilities,” Hughes recalled. “I was offered a great opportunity. But I struggled on it. I loved my job at Mesa Public Schools.” The clincher was what A New Leaf’s board of directors promised: You can
help us get bigger and better. They were good to the promise, Hughes said. “I’ve loved the career,” he said. “I love the board of directors. They’ve always allowed the agency to grow. We’ve been able to grow over the years to where we are today.” Indeed, A New Leaf has mirrored Mesa’s explosive growth over a half-century. After 50 years, A New Leaf is nearly a
But Sean Lake, posting earlier this year, had a vastly differing opinion on A New Leaf: “This organization is a local, people first organization. Thank you for all of the staff that put people first, needs first and then go figure out how to find money to help others.” On Yelp, “Mom D,” in a post last November, praised A New Leaf staff member for “the exceptional level of service, kindness, thoughtfulness and consideration …she pulled out all the stops, went over and beyond, patient, caring….” Starcia H., of Maricopa, felt lost in the shuffle: “Communication sucks, very upset with my daughter’s caseworker (5th or 6th). They change so frequently and you won’t know until they call you a month after you already made an appointment with another case manager.”
And Dawn E., of Mesa, complained, “I reached out to A New Leaf during this time of crisis. They’re supposed to be a nonprofit organization, that’s there to help the public, those in need. They won’t return a call or email. They’re not there for anyone. It’s sad really, they claim to help people but that’s not true at all.” But Tanner S. described A New Leaf in his 5-star review as “An incredible nonprofit working in a variety of areas. I absolutely love the work they do to help families find stability and get ahead.” Facebook shows both good and bad reviews. “A New Leaf is full of compassionate staff that help people in crisis,” Bruce Woods posted. And, Kara Fankhauser McLaughlin noted, “They have ALL the resources – shelters, behavioral health, financial empowerment, workforce, domestic violence
$50 million operation. The agency’s operating budget is now around $45 million, with 500 employees. “We’ve grown remarkably over all these years,” Hughes said. And it’s not just a Mesa/East Valley thing, anymore. “We have programs throughout metropolitan Phoenix,” Hughes said from his Mesa office. Indeed, A New Leaf sponsors the likes of Glendale’s Faith House, a shelter for domestic violence victims, Riverboat, a sprawling facility in Surprise, where bingo nights raise funds for the nonprofit’s operations. Even so, A New Leaf’s history and soul are intertwined with Mesa, where it operates homeless and domestic violence shelters. A New Leaf often works closely with the city, with programs such as assistance for language- and/or computerchallenged populations, who need help applying for rent and utility assistance funds offered by the city. As Mesa Vice Mayor Jenn Duff put it, “For 50 years, A New Leaf has been a beacon of hope in our community for so many individuals and families to overcome challenges, and in many cases, crises in their lives. It has evolved over the
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A New Leaf has drawn good and bad reviews BY TOM SCANLON Tribune Contributor
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hough many have praised A New Leaf for helping thousands in its 50 years, there are some who say the nonprofit agency is not doing a good job. Online postings – many anonymous – vary from gushing thanks to severe critiques. In a recent Google review, “Ned” called A New Leaf “the absolute worst service possible. I am now homeless and received no help. It’s been over eight months and the number they give me to call just goes to a full mailbox. They clearly don’t want to help.” The same went for Mark Union, who wrote: “A New Leaf has not been helpful. I’ve applied for rental assistance and nothing helpful has come out of it. I’ve applied three times, they’re unorganized and it’s funny they call them an organization.”
services, support services for residents, families, and community. All delivered by caring staff of employees, volunteers and community partners.” In her review, “E.W.” could not disagree more with the positive words after relating how she fled her abuser, only to feel rejected by one of A New Leaf’s domestic violence shelters: “I fled on foot with only the clothes on my back. No money. No phone. I walked nearly 14 miles to Autumn House, looking for shelter and protection… I arrived to the property late at night. I tried knocking on door. I knew they had staff in the office 24/7, so I kept knocking off and on for maybe 5 minutes. “I thought that maybe staff could not hear me. Next thing I know, Mesa PD pulls up and arrests me for trespassing. ... This is not the only reason I dislike A New Leaf, this was just the icing on the cake.”
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he booming community of Eastmark should see reduced times for emergency fire and health calls now that it has its first fire station, a $6 million state-of-the-art facility. Mesa Fire Station 221 made its debut with a public tour of the firehouse at 9320 E. Point Twenty-Two Blvd., just west of Signal Butte Road. “As southeast Mesa keeps gaining population, emergency call volumes will continue to increase. The addition of Station 221 will help address those needs and reduce response times in Eastmark and surrounding communities, especially for medical runs,” said Mesa Fire Chief Mary Cameli. Funding for the $5.9 million Station 221 comes from a voter-approved 2018 public safety bond. The Eastmark developer agreed to transfer the land to the city as part of the original development agreement.
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years with so many programs to offer help and hope to those who need it.” “Since 1971, A New Leaf has provided assistance to those most in need in our community, helping families, children, and adults overcome the challenges they face,” the nonprofit states on its website. “These challenges are often unexpected, and can be devastating. Whether it be the loss of a job, a medical crisis, domestic violence, homelessness, or another heartbreaking crisis, A New Leaf is here to help households recover and thrive.” In the last year, according to its website, A New Leaf provided shelter to 2,247 people. In addition to shelters, A New Leaf provides “comprehensive services to support individuals and families experiencing homelessness become self-reliant and find safe, stable housing.” Another 7,776 people received “health and wellness” help from A New Leaf, including treatment for addictions and mental health problems. The COVID-19 pandemic created a
The rapidly expanding community of Eastmark in southeast Mesa now has its own firehouse, which was dedicated recently during a ribbon-cutting ceremony. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer) Mayor John Giles said the new station “will help meet our needs as the city of Mesa continues to grow. I want to thank the voters who approved a ballot measure to make Fire Station 221 a reality.” The new fire station includes four apparatus bays, eight dormitories, two offices,
surge of people desperate for help; to keep its own staff working, A New Leaf received $4.7 million in Paycheck Protection Plan federal assistance. The leader of 500 or so receiving A New Leaf paychecks remains Mike Hughes, who has no plans to slow down. “I’m the longest-standing employee – I’m still ticking!” he said with a big laugh. “It’s a great challenge,” he continued, with a shift in tone. “I’m very fortunate. You know people who say they hate what they do? I love my job. “I always wanted to work helping people.” Even so, it’s a tough job: Trying to use limited resources to help a seemingly endless number of people needing food, treatment and shelter. Hughes said he leaves his work at the office, with a positive focus when he walks in his home. “I know this sounds silly, but I have always been able to do my job and work hard and at the end of day feel good about what I have accomplished rather than feeling bad about what I haven’t. I think that’s been my mantra,” Hughes said.
a kitchen, dining room, conditioning room and a community room. It will also be home to what the city calls “the nation’s first-of-its-kind all-electric pumper truck.” Councilman Kevin Thompson noted, “Fire Station 221 has been a much needed
He still lives in Mesa. “It’s a great city, great community,” he said. “My kids were all raised here and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.” Asked about A New Leaf’s plans for 2022, the agency’s leader replied, “Right now we’re really concentrating on how we can become not necessarily bigger, but better. We’re anchoring down on the services we provide.” Chief among the services is helping people find and maintain stable housing; “It’s such a need,” Hughes said. Again, he shifts to the positive, the good A New Leaf has done in 50 years. “It’s a great agency,” Hughes said. “We help a lot of people. “We helped more than 30,000 people last year.” Duff, who represents the downtown area, most urban of Mesa’s neighborhoods, added a comment on A New Leaf that echoes on Thanksgiving week: “All of us in Mesa should be thankful they are in our community.” A New Leaf is at 868 East University Drive, Mesa. Information: call 480-9694024 or turnanewleaf.org.
addition in southeast Mesa where development has skyrocketed over the past few years. “As southwest Mesa continues to grow, the new station, and the professionals that call it home, will play an even more vital role in keeping the community safe,” he added.
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Humane Society breaks ground for Papago Park campus BY SKYLER AUSTIN Tribune Contributor
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he Arizona Humane Society has broken ground for a new Papago Park campus. The new 72,000-square-foot facility will replace the 64-year-old Sunnyslope location. Humane Society spokeswoman Kelsey Dickerson said the two-story building will allow the organization to expand life-saving services to a growing population of abandoned animals, serving as both a medical center and a shelter. “The new campus will feature the Watts Family Medical Complex, a stateof-the-art facility offering medical and behavioral interventions and treatment and care at a level not yet seen in the United States,” said Dickerson. In addition to the new medical facility, AHS will include animal assistance, foster, and education programs as well as an adoption center. The Humane Society is a nonprofit that relies solely on private donations to keep those programs running. The new campus is named after Rob and Melani Walton, whose foundation contributed $5 million to the project and made this campus a reality, according to
Dickerson. Mindy Burnett, a Dickerson said the Huspokeswoman for UArimane Society received zona’s College of Veterian additional $3 million nary Medicine, said the from the Nina Pulliam university currently partCharitable Trust and $3 ners with 200 clinics for million from the Lazin its clinical year. Animal Foundation. “Partnering with the HuThe Walton Papago mane Society will provide Park campus will double our current and future as a teaching hospital in students with experience hopes of solving a veteriin shelter medicine and narian shortage. help broaden their hands“In addition to babyon clinical skills,” she said. boomer veterinarians reJulie Funk, dean of that tiring, a big factor for the veterinary school, said shortage has to do with the demand for veterinary the fact that vet schools services stems from an inare not keeping up with crease in pet ownership the demand of populain both total numbers and tion growth and a lack of households. The Arizona Humane Society’s new Papago Park campus, slated to open in state funding,” Dickerson early 2023, will be both a medical center and a shelter. (Special to the Tribune) “There is also a change explained. in the relationship beThe Humane Society Clinicals are required for both UArizotween people and their will partner with veterinarian programs na and Midwestern veterinary students. pets, with more people considering their at the University of Arizona and Mid- With a new facility will come new oppor- pet’s family members, and the owners western University. tunities for training in the field. are also willing to invest in veterinary “I’m ecstatic that the Humane Society “There are many animals that need to healthcare,” said Funk. is creating their teaching facility!” said be spayed or neutered, and for students Dickerson said the Humane Society Jeremey Bessett, a veterinarian student that gives us plenty of experiences as expects the new campus to be open by at the University of Arizona. surgeons,” said Bessett. early 2023.
Enrollment underway at EVIT for kids, adults BY CECE TODD Tribune Guest Writer
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he East Valley Institute of Technology is currently enrolling adults for Spring 2022 post-secondary programs and high school students for the 2022-23 school year. High school students can start the enrollment process by going to: evit.com/ enroll. Adults can fill out an application at: weareevit.formstack.com/forms/ adult_app. To request more information about high school or adult programs, fill out a request form at evit.com/requestinfo. EVIT offers 12 post-secondary programs for adults at the Main Campus, 1601 W. Main St., Mesa: aesthetics, collision repair, cosmetology, George Brazil plumbing service & repair technician, emergency medical technician, heating ventilation air-conditioning and refrig-
eration (HVACR), massage therapy, nursing assistant, practical nurse, sterile processing technician, surgical technology and welding. Tuition varies by program. Veterans Administration benefits are accepted and financial aid is available in some programs for those who qualify. EVIT advisors at 480-461-4013 can assist. EVIT offers 40 career training programs for public, charter, private and home-schooled high school students who reside in the following school districts: Apache Junction, Cave Creek, Chandler, Fountain Hills, Gilbert, Higley, J.O. Combs, Mesa, Queen Creek, Scottsdale and Tempe. Students attend their high school for a half-day and EVIT for a half-day. East Valley school districts provide free transportation for their students to attend EVIT.
High school programs are tuition-free; program fees vary by program. For a complete list of high school programs, go to: bit. ly/3lTnhVz. EVIT is offering a new high school program – electrical and power transmission installation – in which students learn how to install indoor and outdoor residential, commercial and industrial electrical systems The East Valley Institute of Technology offers emergency medical technician training. (Courtesy of EVIT) and associated power transmission lines. For more informa- credit through dual enrollment or contion on this specialized career in the con- current enrollment at area colleges and struction industry: bit.ly/3n5016v. post-secondary schools. To learn more, Many of EVIT’s high school programs visit: bit.ly/2XsxvD0. also offer opportunities to earn college see EVIT page 14
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hile the holidays are a time for joy, they also bring sorrow for people who have lost loved ones– particularly since the last holiday season. Mountain View Funeral Home and Cemetery at 7900 E. Main St., Mesa, is hosting a special event that gives people a chance to both celebrate this time of year and remember those deceased loved ones. Between 4-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, Mountain View’s “Lights of Love” event offers people a chance to drive through the cemetery grounds, see a dazzling light show and a live Nativity scene and listen to the Dickens’ Carolers – and place a paper heart with a deceased loved one’s name on it and have a candle burn all night in their honor. “Our hope this year is to uplift the hearts of those who have experienced the loss of a loved one,” Mountain View’s website states. People are asked to RSVP
Lights and candles commemorating lost loved ones are a big part of the Lights of Love and remembrance event at Mountain View Funeral Home and Cemetery in Mesa this Friday. (Special to the Tribune)
to Mountain View spokeswoman Hilary Samples at 480-832-2850 by Wednesday, Dec. 1, just to ensure that enough cookies and hot chocolate are ordered, though failure to do that won’t bar anyone from the event.
While Mountain View has held a night of remembrance during the holidays for decades, the Lights of Love has only been in place for a couple of years. And it has drawn hundreds of people, said Samples, who expects even more this
Skating rink to open in downtown Mesa BY TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF
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t’s a long way from the frozen ponds of Minneapolis, Wisconsin and other places going into their winter freezes, but Mesa will have outdoor ice skating – for a limited time only. The Winter Wonderland Ice Rink opened Friday and will be in operation until Jan. 2. The rink will be open from 5-10 p.m. Monday-Friday and noon-10 p.m. on weekends. The rink is fairly small and a limited number of people will be allowed to skate at a time. Organizers recommend online check in, though some walk ups will be allowed. Admission is $10 (which includes skate rental) for a one-hour skating session. Winter Winter Wonderland Ice Rink is located on the east side of Mesa City Plaza at 20 E. Main St. The rink is just one of many special events and attractions that are part of the city’s Merry Main Street holiday celebration. This coming weekend, for example, people can find Jack Frost’s Food Truck
Forest, where they can find something to eat and drink and then grab a ride on the Main Street Express Trackless Express. While rides are free, Mesa Polar Express is supporting United Food Bank by requesting a canned food donation per rider. Because it is public transportation, federal guidelines require all riders to wear a mask. Visit themesapolarexpress.com for The final touches on setting up Mesa’s annual ice skating rink were underway last week. (Special to the Tribune) details. The Mesa Arts Center display hosted by the Mesa Arizona Temalso is presenting multiple performanc- ple, which will be formally rededicated es next weekend of “The Best Christmas on Dec. 12 after an exhaustive interior Pageant Ever,” a comedy based on the and exterior renovation. best-selling book about a couple strugBut that display is expected to return gling to put on a church Christmas pag- next year, along with the popular Easter eant while having to deal with a brood of Pageant. mischievous children. For more information on Mesa’s celeOne thing missing again from Mesa’s bration, visit merrymainst.com/icerink. holiday celebration is the massive light
year because of relaxed COVID-related concerns. “People want to go out and enjoy themselves,” Samples said, adding that while people will be asked to remain in their vehicles as they enjoy the lights, get cookies and hot chocolate and give an attendant a paper heart for a candle to be lit in the loved one’s name. However, people will be allowed to park outside the cemetery and walk the grounds. Samples said live animals for the Nativity scene are being provided by Carter’s Farm. “We’ll have a camel, some sheep and some other animals,” she said, adding that this will further enrich a memorable evening. Overall, Samples said, the evening aims to provide solace to those who feel the loss of a loved one especially hard this time of year. She said oftentimes, “this is the only service they have” to commemorate their loved one and that she hopes it will bring comfort to them.
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EVIT offers a High School Equivalency (HSE) Prep class to prepare students who want to take the Arizona state GED exam. Applicants must be at least 16 and not enrolled in school, and must be available to attend in-person classes at the EVIT Main Campus. For more information or to register, call 480-461-4013. To register, students will need a driver’s license or stateissued ID with their photo and date of birth. In addition, EVIT started a new Foster Youth Career Program that assists students who are credit-deficient in obtaining their GED or HSED while pursuing a certification in an EVIT career training program. Students work on their online GED prep classes in a lab at the EVIT Main Campus, where an in-person instructor can assist them. Cost of the career training courses is included in the $100 program fee, and financial assistance is available. For more information, contact program coordinator Jaron Neal at jneal@evit.com. CeCe Todd is the public information officer for the East Valley Institute of Technology.
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hen Andras Pongratz celebrated Thanksgiving at the Chandler home of his son, Joe Pongratz, with 33 family members, he had many things to be thankful for. “I’m thankful for my family, first and foremost,” said Pongratz, 82, of Ahwatukee. “I am thankful to be in America and I am thankful for my freedom and being able to go back to Hungary.” Pongratz recently returned from Budapest, where he spoke to thousands of people marking the 65th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Pongratz was one of seven siblings who helped lead the ‘56 revolt against the Russian Communists as anti-sentiment against the oppressive government boiled over on Oct. 23,1956. The massive protests escalated into nearly two weeks of fierce fighting in the streets of Budapest and some of Hungary’s larger cities. Even children threw Molotov cocktails down the turrets of Russian tanks, burning Red Army soldiers trapped inside. Pongratz was 17 when he recruited a welder to cut Joseph Stalin’s statue – a symbol of hatred – in Corvin Square, toppling it with a resounding thud. The ‘56 Hungarian Revolution caused a crack in Communism’s foundation, inspiring other Iron Curtain countries to throw off its yoke some 25 years later. At the time, young adults presented 16 demands at the Parliament Building and radio station. Above all, they demanded freedom. Communist police on the roof of the Parliament building started firing shots into the crowd on Oct. 23, killing some of the protesters. The fight was on. The Hungarian slogan “Ruszkik haza!” – “Russians go home!” – grew louder than ever. In his most recent visit to Hungary, Pongratz spoke to 500 grammar school
students in Dumafoldvar, and it fell.” outside Budapest, where his Pongratz’s older brother, niece, Klari Cseke, is a schoolEdmund, re-assembled the teacher and had arranged for cannon on Corvin Square so it his speech in the school’s auagain would fire. ditorium. “My brother sent another Pongratz also spoke to about teenager to the apartment 1,000 people on Corvin Square building across the street,” in Budapest, where Edmund Pongratz said. “He went up to Pongratz, one of his older the second floor and gave us a brothers, had established signal by waving a white handheadquarters for the Freedom kerchief when a Russian tank Fighters at the height of the was coming down Ferenc Bourevolution. levard and came within about “It was a fantastic experi5 meters of the square. When ence,” Pongratz said. “The the tank got close enough, we students gave a wonderful all pulled the firing line on the presentation in the auditoricannon and shot the tank. We um. They sang national songs took out about 12 tanks withabout the country and free- Ahwatukee resident Andras Pongratz and his entire family fought out damaging the building bedom. They had me walk out in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 and is grateful for the free- hind it.” doms he enjoys in America. He is show the “Vitézi Rend” award onto the stage in the dark, and Gergely Pongratz led the he received from the Hungarian Parliament in 2004 for his role when they turned the lights on in the 1956 revolution. (David Minton/Tribune Staff Photographer) fighting, something which Anand I saw how the kids were dras said he was “in it” with his looking at me in amazement, it was just commemoration ceremonies of the up- brothers “all the way through.” an emotional experience. I was crying, I rising. Prior to 1990, he was not allowed Pongratz’s only sister, Maria, delivered was amazed. to enter Hungary because of his and his messages to those who were involved in “The kids listened to me speak and family’s role in the revolution. the fighting. asked me questions.,” Pongratz added. In addition to Andras, all of his siblings None of the Pongratzes were killed “The younger generation is beginning to – Edmund, Ernest, Christopher, Gergely, during the revolution. understand and appreciate what we did Balint and Maria – all participated in the By Oct., 29, 1956, the Freedom Fightand why we did it back in 1956.” Hungarian Revolution. ers had won and Premier Imre Nagy In Hungary, the Freedom Fighters are In 2004, Pongratz was knighted in announced that the country had its treated like World War II veterans are Hungary and received the Vitez Knight new government in place. The Russians honored in the United States. They are Award for his role in the uprising. pulled out of the country. considered part of Hungary’s Greatest Pongratz said it took a crowd more Hungary was ecstatic. Some 8,000 poGeneration. than two hours to pull down the Stalin litical prisoners were released. The year following the Revolution, statue. Hungary appealed to the United NaTime Magazine named the Hungarian “We tried for two hours, and it wouldn’t tions for neutrality following the uprisFreedom Fighter its Man of the Year. budge,” Pongratz said. “It was so heavy. ing but received no support. “There’s not many of the Freedom We tried to pull it down with cables, Andy Bogdanyi, a retired tailor who Fighters around anymore, but the few but the cables snapped. Knowing a little lives in Ohio and escaped Hungary in who were there on Corvin Square for the bit about cutting metal with a welding the wake of the revolution, said, “We 65th anniversary felt appreciated,” Pon- torch, I said that we needed some kind had asked for freedom of religion. We gratz said. “Sixty-five years is such a long of metal cutter. A young man who was a had asked for freedom of the press. We time ago.” student at a nearby welding school said asked for individual freedom and for the Except for pandemic-shut 2020, Pon- he had his welder at the school. He ran Russians to leave, but that was all just a gratz has returned to Hungary every and got it, and after he brought it back, dream.” year since 1990 to participate in the I used it to cut off the leg of the statue see FREEDOM page 18
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country with two of their “We just could not live under friends. Communism anymore,” said. Indeed, Hungary’s victory was shortAfter a three-day trek “The worst thing about Comlived. on foot, Andras and his munism is the lack of individual When the world stood by and watched, group made it to the Ausfreedom, and how the governthe Russians realized no other countries trian border. ment uses its people to make were going to intervene on Hungary’s “It took us three days money.” behalf. and three nights to reach He recalled one time in the During the early morning hours of the border,” Pongratz said. early 1950s, when the secret Nov. 4, Russia’s military thundered back “We didn’t want to take police came to his family’s into Budapest, fortified with more tanks, any chances on the roads, home at 3 a.m. and took away weapons and soldiers. so we took the fields.” his brother, Ernest. “They surrounded strategic points Of those who left Hun“We didn’t know where he around Budapest and retaliated with ev- gary, 5,000 were permitwas for six months,” Pongratz erything they had,” Pongratz said. “They ted to emigrate to the said. “Then, we found out he Pongratz said it took the Hungarian Freedom Fighters more than two started shooting everything.” United States. They had to was in jail. They charged him hours to cut down a statue of the Russian tyrant Joseph Stalin. On Nov. 10, the Russians had quashed be sponsored by relatives (Courtesy of Andras Pongratz) with “attempting to leave the the uprising. or friends, and mostly country.” Attempting to leave The ‘56 revolution claimed the lives were processed through Camp Kilmer, Andras later lived in Boston, where he the country? There was no truth to that. of 2,500 Hungarians and 722 Red Army New Jersey. owned a dry cleaner and laundro-mat, We were far from the border.” soldiers. The refugees were on their own as the and worked at a wholesale car business. Pongratz also said that the CommuHungarian Premier Imre Nagy was government did not shoulder any of the After the Blizzard of 1978 in Boston, nists gave their family a plot of land to apprehended and was assassinated in expense for their emigration to the Unit- Pongratz and his family moved to Arizo- farm so they could grow corn and pro1958 by the Communists for treason. ed States. na for warmer weather. He and his wife, duce eggs from poultry. In its aftermath, 200,000 Hungarians After coming to the U.S., Andras first Carolyn, have five children – Andrew, “My father, Dr. Simon Pongratz, was left the country, often traveling for days settled in Pennsylvania close to where Therese, Edmund, Joseph and Stephen – sick and bedridden,” Pongratz said. “He on foot to make it across to whatever his mother, Anna, lived, but later lived in and 20 grandchildren. couldn’t do the work the government country would take them. New York City, where he worked mowing Pongratz said he never regretted leav- wanted him to do, so a judge came to his Andras and his brother, Balint, left the the lawn of a cemetery. ing his homeland. bedside to charge him. But, they realized he was sick and couldn’t do the work, so they didn’t charge him with anything. My father died in his country under those circumstances in 1956.” After arriving in the U.S. early on, With our new ownership comes a new name. By referencing Skyline Park, our new name pays homage to our local members of the Pongratz family spoke to Mesa community and the beauty that surrounds us. Rest assured that while our name has changed, our people and schools, universities and organizations passionate approach remain the same. With over 30 years of experience and a portfolio of 34 locations in 6 different about the evils of Communism. states, MBK has utilized its unmatched experience to develop innovative programming that focuses on high-quality Gergely Pongratz later moved back to Budapest and founded the 1956 Hunservice, enrichment, and a culture of genuine care. Experience the MBK difference today. garian Revolution Museum. He died of a heart attack on the grounds of the museum in 2005, a year before the 50th anniversary of the ‘56 Revolution. Pongratz fears for the future of this country, citing forces that are “putting the United States in shambles and pushing us closer to socialism – globalism, anyway,” Pongratz said. “The mess our country is in right now is beyond words. I won’t even watch the news on television anymore. People in Hungary and abroad feel sorry for the United States because of what is happening here.” But he also he is grateful to live in America. “I’m proud to live in the United States,” Pongratz said. “I am thankful to be in a 1248 S. Crismon Rd., Mesa, AZ 85209 • (480) 448-5465 • SkyVista@mbk.com place where I and my family can be free.” ASSISTED LIVING • MEMORY CARE
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rom enjoying extraordinary meals to catching the sunrise from a hot air balloon, this selection of gift card packages showcases the best deals the Valley has to offer.
Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company was created to celebrate hand-crafted, artisanal beers that are inspired by the beautiful and diverse state. The deal: Buy $50 worth of gift cards and receive a card a $5 card; buy $100 in gift cards and get a $20 bonus card. Purchases must be made in person. 721 N. Arizona Ave., Gilbert, 480-4972739; 201 E. Roosevelt St., Phoenix, 480-462-1836, azwbeer.com Bourbon & Bones The Bourbon & Bones menu features hand-selected wet-aged and dry-aged cuts of prime beef, wagyu beef, elegant options for fresh seafood and an extensive list of bourbons and whiskies. Bourbon & Bones is staffed with expert mixologists who deliver a robust cocktail program and, of course, certified sommeliers who oversee a significant wine list, including Coravin pours by the glass. The deal: Purchase $100 in gift cards, receive $25 bonus card; buy $250, get $75. 4200 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 480-629-4922; 2150 E. Williams Field Road, Gilbert, 480-597-9459, bourbonandbonesaz.com Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers: Can’t go wrong with gifts of beers and burgers. Cold Beers & Cheeseburgers’ 12 locations are dubbed the “ideal neighborhood burger joint.” The deal: Buy two $25 gift cards, get $20 bonus gift card through Dec. 31. Multiple Valley locations, coldbeers.com
Crust Simply Italian Michael Merendino grew up a first-generation Italian in the heart of Long Island. He brought his family pizzeria concept to Arizona. The deal: Get a $25 gift certificate with the purchase of $100 gift cards, and buy a $50 gift card, receive a $10 certificate. The deal is only valid Dec. 20 to Dec. 24. 10 N. San Marcos Place, Chandler; 8300 N. Hayden Road, Scottsdale, crustrestaurants.com Daily Dose Kitchen & Bar Daily Dose is all about creativity. The entrées are created with the freshest ingredients, but don’t leave out the booze. Specialty cocktails like the spicy watermelon margarita and bacon bloody mary are on the menu, too, as well as craft beers. The deal: Purchase $25 gift card and get a $5 bonus; buy $100 get $20. Good through Christmas. 4020 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 101, Scottsdale, 480-994-3673; 1928 E. Highland Ave., Phoenix, 602-2740334; 96 S. Rockford Drive, Tempe, 480590-6937, dailydosegrill.com Eegee’s Eegee’s has been a hit in the Valley since it migrated from Tucson. The fastfood and frozen treats restaurants have something special for guests. The deal: Buy $50, get a $10 bonus card 3535 E. Baseline Road, Gilbert, eegees.com Famous 48 Famous 48 just unveiled décor that honors Arizona with a palette of colors borrowed from adobe pink sunsets and pale brown dusty road. The deal: Purchase two $25 gift cards and get a $20 bonus card. 8989 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 608, Scottsdale, 480-361-4933, famous48.com
Flower Child Flower Child welcomes vegan, paleo, gluten-free or just hungry guests with healthy options in Gilbert, Arcadia, Desert Ridge, Uptown Plaza and Scottsdale. The deal: Buy $50, get a $10 bonus card iamflowerchild.com Fox Restaurant Concepts The perfect gift for the foodies in your life, this offer is good for quality time, exceptional experiences, and tasty food and beverages at any Fox Restaurant Concepts location, including The Henry, Blanco, Olive & Ivy and The Arrogant Butcher. (Does not include Flower Child.) Gift cards are available for purchase at participating restaurant locations or online. The deal: buy $100, get a $20 bonus card foxrcgiftcards.com Ling & Louie’s Asian Bar and Grill Ling’s Wok Shop Serving modern Asian cuisine with American flair, the chefs at Ling & Louie’s use traditional Asian cooking techniques to create bold, craveable flavors that appeal to all tastes. As for Ling’s Wok Shop, it serves healthy and convenient food that boasts crisp veggies and tender meats. The deal: Purchase $50 in gift cards get a $5 holiday certificate. Those who buy $100 in gift cards will receive a $15 holiday certificate. Ling’s Wok Shop, 20511 N. Hayden Road, Suite 100, Scottsdale, lingswok. shop; Ling & Louie’s Asian Bar and Grill, 9397 E. Shea Blvd., Scottsdale, lingandlouies.com Los Sombreros Los Sombreros is an iconic spot to enjoy flavorful bites and refreshing cocktails. With locations in South Scottsdale, Uptown Phoenix and Mesa, Los Sombreros has earned its reputation as the Valley’s ultimate locally owned Mexican food eatery. The deal: Buy $50 get $10; buy $100 get $25 through Dec. 31.
2534 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 480-994-1799; 1976 W. Southern Ave., Mesa, 480-534-6742, lossombreros.com Macayo’s Macayo’s strives to use fresh ingredients in its family recipes. Guests can share the taste with their families and themselves. The deal: Through December 24, gift card purchasers will receive a $10 bonus gift card for every $50 in Macayo’s gift card purchases. Bonus card is valid Saturday, Jan. 1, to Monday, Feb. 28. Multiple Valley locations, macayo.com Rainbow Ryders The deal: Give the gift of a Rainbow Ryders’ sunrise hot air balloon ride gift certificate special for the holidays. While prices fluctuate and can soar as high as $225 per person for a 45- to 60-minute, group hot air balloon ride, Rainbow Ryders is offering a fixed rate of $169 per person for a shared basket flight. Blackout dates apply. 715 E. Covey Lane, Suite 100, Phoenix, rainbowryders.com Someburros The menu’s dishes tell the Vasquez family’s story and that of their first restaurant, Poncho’s. The tradition carries on to Someburros using their time-tested recipes for authentic Sonoran-style Mexican Food. The fast-casual restaurants are offering two gift card promotions for the holidays. The deals: The “burro bundle,” includes a $25 restaurant gift card redeemable at all Someburros locations and a reusable tumbler for $35. For the second promotion, all guests who buy a $25 gift card will receive a $5 kick back card.
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EV tutoring chief dedicated to kids’ development BY TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF
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here’s a reason that Kimberly Selchan gravitated to the Tutor Doctor franchise, serving the East Valley, after working in the corporate sector for many years. “I came from a corporate environment where I had mentors and was a mentor to others,” she explained. “I consider our service to be mentorship, far more than just subject tutoring or homework support. The mission statement I use for my region is: Helping today’s youth become tomorrow’s successful adults.” Selchan not only is good at her job – she’s been good for Tutor Doctor, which gave her their Marketing Innovation Award for finding new ways to grow her business year-over-year. The company explained, “In the past year, Kimberly has leveraged social media, virtual networking platforms and local small business partnerships in organic ways to grow her business, and she has committed to sharing the strategies used with fellow Tutor Doctor franchisees to help facilitate similar results.” She achieved a 30-percent increase in the number of organic referral and lead sources year over year by developing with other local small and large businesses in the community whose focus is on children and family.
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101 E. Baseline Road, Tempe, 480-839-8226; 7501 E. Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd., Scottsdale, 480-4438226. Other locations at someburros. com Taphouse Kitchen Taphouse Kitchen is getting into the generous spirit of the giving season with a holiday gift card bonus offer. Through December 31, holiday shoppers can get more bang for their buck when they purchase a gift card in restaurant or online. The deal: For each $100 gift card purchase, guests will receive an additional $25 gift card. 3131 E. Shea Blvd., Phoenix, 602482-2800; 6137 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 480-656-0012, taphousekitchen.com
For example, she joined the board of a larger foster services agency and is now the preferred partner of its career-development program to helps teens graduate high school and obtain their GED or associates degree. She also developed relationships that helped her service gained preferred-sponsor status at two elementary schools and a recommendation as a tutoring service at three high schools. Selchan also formed a parent and educators group on Facebook and leveraged other social media sites to respond to local families seeking tutoring services without paid ads. Tutor Doctor is a one-on-one private tutoring service but Selchan said her staff goes beyond helping clients master a subject. “Our tutors incorporate studying and planning techniques, accountability and self-advocacy which will all help their students become successful adults,” she said. So, her tutors work with students to “identify their interests and develop their strengths to become successful in a variety of settings.” “Creating individualized programs for students in my community and witnessing their goal achievement is one of the most rewarding parts of the business,” said Selchan. “If I’m able to increase the
number of tutors, stuKimberly Selchan dents and families who owns the local Tutor grow and develop from Doctor franchise and our personalized acaprefers to mentor studets to reach their demic mentorship and full potential and not support, I’m going to do just pass a course. it, and that means look(Special to the Tribune) ing to new innovations, tools and partnerships for inspiration.” And the pandemic did not disrupt her commitment to delivering oneon-one mentoring in person. “A big misconception of the pandemic is that tutoring shifted to virtual, but it did not,” Selchan said. “We have less than 15% of our students receiv- as test preparation,. Career planning, ing online tutoring. The demand is very homeschooling and even professional high for in-home, face-to-face relation- development such as public speaking. ships.” “I like to focus our services on middle Selchan, who holds a degree in mi- school to early college,” she added. crobiology and is an Ohio transplant, Her region includes Ahwatukee and had been a senior vice president in the the entire East Valley and people who financial services industry before she want to sign as mentors need at least made the jump to Tutor Doctor. some college with a 3.0 average and She has about 70 tutors – and is al- some mentoring experience. ways on the lookout for qualified adPotential clients or tutors can reach ditions – who provide support on any her at tutordoctor.com/chandler-gilPre-K to undergraduate course as well bert or call 480-530-8029.
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ing new clients and plans on well as a “lifetime accuracy “working hard for the hardest guarantee.” working.” She also said taxpayers Nacahazel is holding a should consult a pro to undergrand opening 5-7 p.m. Fristand the biggest changes for day, Dec. 3, at her new busithe 2022 tax season and what ness and she isn’t being quiet they need to know about how about it. their life changes impact their She will have the Mesa High tax filing – things like employSchool Varsity Cheerleadment changes, unemployment ers on hand to celebrate her benefits, marriage/divorce, achievement and said she will having or adopting children, be serving “the best hot dogs buying or selling homes, retirLYN NACHAZEL ever.” ing, and most commonly overNachazel said Jackson Hewitt is “an in- looked credits and deductions. novator in the tax industry” that offers If you can’t stop by for a dog and watch one “simple, low-cost solutions” to managing of the city’s best performing set of cheerclients’ taxes and refunds. It also stands leaders, Nachazel can be reached at 480behind a “maximum refund guarantee” as 612-2578 or Jhoifc13498@gmail.com.
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ot to be a party pooper, but let’s face it. After the holiday lights are stashed away and the holidays themselves become but a distant memory, a new challenge will be looming as the new year begins: preparing your tax returns. And that’s where a new Mesa business may be welcome to some taxpayers as Lyn Nachazel opens a year-round Jackson Hewitt franchise located at 2051 S. Dobson Road. “It’s been my dream to own a franchise for many years,” said Nachazel, who spent over 13 years serving tax clients and is AFSP- certified and a certified acceptance agent. She said she looks forward to meet-
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Forlorn phone calls that will never be answered BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist
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ll his life, 75 years, my father was careful with his money, so he would be appalled by the waste. He never liked to spend a dollar, not when he could save a buck. My dad passed away in March, though, which means the decision isn’t his to make anymore. So the phone stays on, even though there’s no one left to answer it. The line rings four times before it passes over to voicemail. The message is a perfect metaphor for my father: Short, economical, nothing needless. He must have recorded the greeting a decade ago, when he and my mother finally decided to get rid of the ancient answering machine they’d had since time immemorial. The phone company must have sent them a coupon.
It’s just two sentences. “Hi, this is Harvey,” he says. “Go ahead and leave a message.” So I do. Even though I’m well aware that no one will ever get back to me. Sometimes I tell my dad about my day: What’s going on at work, which clients have which problems, how I’m hitting the golf ball, how I’m doing on my diet. Other times I tell him which moments sparked memories of him and my mom. Usually it’s a song on the radio. My parents loved music from the ‘60s and ‘70s: Crosby, Stills and Nash, the Beatles, John Denver. When I called last week, it was brought on by a song: “Black Water” by the Doobie Brothers. It was a hit in the spring 1975, about the time I turned 10. I know this because that was the spring break my parents packed my brother and I into their Volkswagen Beetle and drove us from New York to Florida to go to Disneyworld.
That was back when no one booed at the Hall of Presidents and before they cut out the sexist portions of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. We spent days packed into the VW, 2,000 miles in each direction, a family of four cramped and too crabby to play license plate bingo. The Doobies played on an endless loop as the FM stations faded in and out. But it was all worth it for the E-ticket rides: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the Haunted Mansion, the Jungle Cruise. My father was 30 then, a paint factory worker with a wife and two kids in elementary school. Whatever childhood dreams he’d had for himself – All-Star basketball player for the Knicks, law school, airline pilot – were never going to come true. I imagine he knew it. He owned an old Super 8 movie camera and he shot lots of footage of his sons and his wife, but not much of himself. My father was always
present, though, never the focal point, always right off-screen, circling around us at the edges. Sometimes when I call his phone number now, I wonder aloud about how that made him feel, why my father’s life so rarely seemed to be about him, at least to the people it was about. He doesn’t answer, of course. My father always was a man of few words. He spent them the way he spent his paychecks: Like there was never quite enough to go around. My voicemails to dad’s old number always end with me telling him “I love you.” It was the way we always ended our phone calls back when he was alive. It was a sentence he said with conviction, like it mattered to him, and I never doubted it. Maybe that’s why I still call, even now, even with no one there to answer. To hear his voice. Always there, always nearby. Even from heaven. ■
Downtown Dallas.” The boy sat transfixed, pondering the news he had just heard. Perhaps it was the process of wrapping his 5-year-old brain around the disturbing development. Whatever the reason, it would take three additional bulletins and the introduction of a strange new word to the kindergartener’s vocabulary before he sought out his grandmother. “Nanny, President Kennedy’s been assuh-ass-sass...shot!” His grandmother fixed a steely gaze on her eldest grandchild. Gone was the indulgent smile that heretofore softened her features; it had been replaced by a cold stare that unnerved the 5-year-old to a greater extent than the news he had heard in the network bulletins. “John David, you shouldn’t make up stories like that…what a horrible thing to say!”
“I’m not making it up, Nanny…the news is on TV…come watch with me!” Before joining her grandson in front of the television, his grandmother sought out someone she regarded as a more credible source. She called his grandfather, who confirmed the news, saying he had heard about it on the radio playing in his store. When she joined her grandson to watch the coverage, Nanny wondered aloud: “Well, I guess that means Johnson is now the president.” The 5-year-old was clueless about the Constitution. Who is Johnson…and why is he now president? Nanny explained that there is a vice president who becomes president if the chief executive dies in office. Because that had just happened, a man named Lyndon Baines Johnson was now President of the United States. We know the world changed that day.
For the kindergartener, the impromptu civics lesson from his grandmother sparked an interest in government that grew to parallel his interest in broadcasting. Nanny would not live to see her grandson elected to Congress; she was called to her Heavenly home less than fives years later, at age 63…the current age of her firstborn grandchild. And that grandchild, the author of this column, acknowledges that he is now 17 years older than John F. Kennedy was when he was taken from us on that November day in Dallas. A day that a 5-year-old would never forget. ■
A day in 1963 that a 5-year-old will never forget BY JD HAYWORTH Tribune Columnist
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t has come and gone again, that day remembered from so long ago. And with each passing year, the date stirs memories of what was and what might have been. It was a warm day for Nov. 22, 1963. The 5-year-old yearned for snow. The boy had been brought by his mother to the home of his maternal grandparents following his half day of kindergarten at the Jack & Jill Nursery. The boy sat down directly in front of his grandparents’ black-and-white TV set to watch the early afternoon fare on the newest channel available. Midway through a program, a bulletin from ABC News interrupted the show: “Here is a special bulletin from Dallas, Texas: three shots were fired at President Kennedy’s motorcade today in
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LETTERS New organization taking on school boards group For the past few weeks, we have heard the cries throughout the country of the National School Boards Association (NSBA) rallying the Executive and Judicial branches of Government to characterize parents “speaking out” about their children’s education as “domestic terrorists.” While NSBA was quick to apologize, the damage was done and the intent clear on the message this sent throughout the nation. For too long, school board members in Arizona have not had a choice. While each board is all but required to join a school board association, they have been forced to rely on the monopoly of one organization Arizona School Boards Association (ASBA) for policy guidance and training. They do so with hefty memberships, upwards of $10,000 per year, paid by the school districts with your tax dollars! That association then trains your school board members on topics like Critical Race Theory. It is time for that to change. The Arizona Coalition of School Board Members is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to helping school board members put students first. Other associations have forgotten who is important: our kids. In education, students should always be at the forefront of training and policy considerations, not unions and special interest groups. What
works for one student may not work for another, which is why The Coalition will always support school choice. The Coalition also recognizes the importance of parents in their child’s education. Kids belong to their parents, not the board, school, or state. Parental rights have been eroding – slowly at first and now it seems right before our eyes. As of this writing, 26 state school boards associations have now distanced themselves from the NSBA. Ten of those states have discontinued membership, participation and dues because of NSBA’s actions. While one district in Arizona has cut ties with the national organization, none have yet to do so with ASBA. How is this acceptable? If you feel compelled to contact ASBA and demand answers please do! The Coalition doesn’t just provide training and services to board members. We offer membership to parents, concerned citizens, and school employees. Even if you haven’t had a student in the K12 system for many years, that’s OK. Join us. The Coalition welcomes all charter, public, private and homeschool advocates. The Arizona Coalition of School Board Members understands that education policy requires an unwavering, laser focus on #StudentsFirst. Support our mission and get involved today. azcoalition. org -Nancy Cottle (AZ Coalition board member)
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ody Walker and Tyrese Gibson were catching up at Red Lobster when the conversation turned to Cody’s late brother, Paul, of “The Fast and the Furious” franchise. “First, I was so offended that he had never been to Red Lobster,” Gibson said with a laugh. “Cody said, ‘I don’t know what to order, dude. What are the hits here?’” After a little ribbing, Cody told Gibson about he and Chris Lee’s plan to host festivals surrounding all-things cars called FuelFest. Gibson said count me in. After a pandemic-dictated halt to the 2020 event, FuelFest is coming to Wild Horse Pass Motorsports in Chandler on Dec. 4. They want it to succeed so much that Gibson said he feels vulnerable. “I’ve only said this to a chosen few,” Gibson said. “Cody and I are very vulnerable when it comes to this whole thing about FuelFest. We were talking about Paul and to have this idea and to put this idea out there, we don’t want it to fail. We want this to be successful. We want people to know about this. “We want to get the word out so people can show up. We want them to hit the road and come out to a really legendary day that you won’t forget.” Now in its third year nationwide, FuelFest blends the enthusiast’s passion for the automotive world with celebrities, live music, food, drinks and art. The show features more than 600 top custom, exotic, rare and exclusive cars and trucks. There are car and drift exhibitions, and drag racing. FuelFest will feature a live-action drift course that runs the entire length of the venue. Spectators can catch race cars drifting all day at FuelFest. The event will showcase precision driving skills in the FuelFest Drift Pit. A portion of the events proceeds ben-
Cody Walker is flattered that Tyrese Gibson is joining him in FuelFest. (Special to GetOut) efit Reach Out WorldWide, the nonprofit founded by Paul and continued by Cody, who is 15 years younger than his brother. The organization was founded in 2010 by the late actor/producer after a massive earthquake devastated Haiti and Walker was inspired to organize a relief team that responded to the disaster. ROWW’s mission is to fill the gap between the availability of skilled resources in post-disaster situations. ROWW completed four deployments in 2020 and continues to operate where needed. To date, FuelFest has raised more than $100,000 for the charity, Cody said. “It’s a massive car festival, as we say,” said Cody, who recently moved to the Valley. “But it’s not just a car show. People are going to experience the whole shebang—drag racing, American muscle cars, exotic cars, European cars, crazy off-road vehicles. There’s something for everyone at the show. “They can see the sights, smell the fuel, the burning rubber and just have a good time. The weather is going to be amazing, especially in December in the Valley.” Arizona is important to Gibson as well
as the singer-songwriter recorded the album “Black Rose” in a vacation rental in Paradise Valley. While he was here, he met one of his idols, Muhammad Ali, after receiving the “craziest text in the world.” “My life changed forever in Arizona,” said Gibson, whose album hit No. 1. “I definitely have a different level of appreciation.” Cody was flattered when Tyrese agreed to be part of FuelFest. “Obviously, Tyrese and my brother go way back — all the way back to ‘2 Fast 2 Furious,’” he said. “We’ve all had a passion for cars and our careers are surrounded by cars. I’m heavily influenced by my brother and the whole car culture. It’s what I live and breathe every day. “I knew Tyrese and I could put on something really special and unique for car fans and ‘The Fast and the Furious’ fans to come and experience with us together. It’s such a home run in so many ways to be able to do what you love and give back at the same time.” Gibson echoed Cody’s sentiment. “My thing has always been taking the culture and the energy and the fanbase
of ‘The Fast and the Furious,’ which has had this worldwide cult following for 20 years, and turning it into an event. “Paul Walker — everyone loves him. I miss him every day. He’s my brother, but Cody’s real brother. I want to take all of this energy and allow the fans to experience something that feels like ‘The Fast and the Furious’ without it being a movie premiere. Cody came up with this idea and it was a no brainer to be involved. Your background doesn’t matter — your religious or sexual preference. Cars and car culture is a universal language.” Gibson explains the festive is “escapism” at its finest. After all, everyone wants to be in or own a nice car with “nice smelling leather,” and brightly colored with cool rims. “We all know guys will go broke and literally have no gas money, but they will be more committed to rims and tires and souping up their engines,” Gibson said with a laugh. “They want to compete and win and beat everyone in their neighborhoods. Every man has a hotrod covered up in their garage. They may be married for 40 years and have 10 grandkids. But they take the car cover off and start that engine and they’re rejuvenated.”
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he Mesa International Film Festival is returning to screens Thursday, Dec. 2, to Sunday, Dec. 5, and the team behind the short documentary “Waimea” is hoping to elevate moods. “I’m hoping, at the very least, we can bring some levity to things and put a smile on your face,” said Steve Herold, the “Waimea” writer, director and producer. “I feel like a lot of times you get some heavier subject matters at short-film festivals.” The 10-minute, black-and-white film “Waimea” is among the hundreds of movies that will be shown at the Mesa Convention Center and in venues throughout Downtown Mesa. The event will host films from around the world for three days of movies, art, music food and fun for the whole family. This year, the organizers are offering free admission for all films to police officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, members of the military, doctors and nurses. IDs are required. Film festivals have become a viable alternative to finding a distributor for independent films that do not expect to be picked up by theaters. The film festival circuit can lead to screenings in museums, special events and larger festivals along with paid speaking engagements for the filmmakers. Set to be shown at the Mesa Convention Center’s Golden Barrel Block from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, “Waimea” is a comedy about a couple’s rocky marriage. The film has screened at a number of festivals, most recently at the Valley Film Festival in Los Angeles. Herold was inspired to create “Waimea”
“Waimea,” one of the many movies that will be shown at the Mesa Film Festival, is a short black-and-white comedy about a rocky marriage. (Courtesy of Steve Herold)
after attending film festivals. He said he thought there was a lot of “misdirection,” primarily in the drama genre. “It made me think it would be interesting to try to do that with a comedy,” Herold said. “Try to misdirect the audience and make them think they’re going to see something really horrible happen and then, boom, take them instantly in a different direction.” Herold and the Joint Partners’ team shot this film before COVID-19 hit, but that doesn’t mean “Waimea” wasn’t affected. It was being shown just as the pandemic quarantine hit, and it was moved to virtual screenings. “I give them (film festivals) credit for soldiering on and trying to make that work,” Herold said. “As you can imagine, especially with a comedy, you want to see that with an audience. So, it was a little disappointing that we weren’t able to see
that with an audience.” But now that events like these are returning to in-person, the “Waimea” has been shown to a live audience. “Obviously you’re there not only to see your work but to see others’ work as well,” said James Palmer, “Waimea” coproducer, co-writer and composer. “But the whole idea is you really want to see how people react and that’s a thrill.” Palmer and Herold hope that the audience will enjoy their light-hearted film. “There’s a certain pride that you put into your work, and it’s not always met with the same opinion,” Palmer said. “But you still want it to be in that environment.” Palmer added the Mesa International Film Festival is a great way for him to gauge the audience’s reaction and opinions on the film.
“When you’re surrounded by artists, there’s that buzz of creativity and it’s very infectious,” Palmer said. The fifth-largest metropolitan area in the country, Phoenix, he said, is not as well known for its arts scene as other cities of the same size. “Things like this festival, different venues and places need to get behind the artistic community as much as they can — whether it be film, fine, art, dance, or whatever it is.”
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR PINAL COUNTY Case No: DO2021-01436 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION TO ESTABLISH PATERNITY, LEGAL DECISION-MAKING, PARENTING TIME AND CHILD SUPPORT (Honorable Patrick Gard) n Re the Matter of: CORY SCHINDEHETTE, Petitioner, and MELISSA VARGAS, Respondent. TO: MELISSA VARGAS, Respondent/Mother in the above referenced matter. A Petition to Establish Paternity, Legal Decision-Making, Parenting Time,and Child Support and a Motion for Temporary Orders Re: Legal Decision-Making, Parenting Time and Child Support has been filed by Petitioner, CORY SCHINDEHETTE; NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: The Court has set a telephonic hearing on the Petition to Establish Paternity, Legal Decision-Making, Parenting Time, and Child Support on the 14th day of December, 2021 at 10:00 o’clock a.m., at the Pinal County Superior Court, located at 971 Jason Lopez Circle, Building A, Florence, Arizona 85132, before the Honorable Honorable Patrick K. Gard. The Honorable Patrick K. Gard’s division can be reached at (520) 866-5405 and HYPERLINK "mailto:nbrokaw@courts.az.gov" nbrokaw@courts.az.gov. The hearing shall be set for 15 minutes, and the Court will not hear or take evidence at this hearing. FAILURE TO APPEAR TELEPHONICALLY AT THE HEARING MAY RESULT IN THE COURT ISSUING A CIVIL ARREST WARRANT, OR WHERE APPLICABLE, A CHILD SUPPORT ARREST WARRANT, FOR YOUR ARREST. IF YOU ARE ARRESTED, YOU MAY BE HELD IN JAIL FOR NO MORE THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE A HEARING IS HELD. Counsel and/or parties shall provide the Court’s Judicial Assistance, Natalie (520-866-5405 & HYPERLINK "mailto:nbrokaw@courts.az.gov" nbrokaw@courts.az.gov) with a telephone number, not less than two and not more than five judicial days prior to the hearing; the Court shall initiate the call as near the scheduled time as the Court’s calendar permits. Requests for reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities must be made to the office of the Judge or Commissioner scheduled to hear this case five days before your scheduled court date. If you are receiving this Notice by publication, you may obtain a copy of the Petition by submitting a written request to: Renee King, 7702 E. Doubletree ranch road, Suite 300, Scottsdale, Arizona 85258. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 27th day of October, 2021. GUYMON LAW /s/ Renee King Renee L. (Cook) King, Esq. Attorney for Petitioner. Published: East Valley Tribune, Nov 14, 21, 28, Dec 5, 2021 / 42723
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CITY OF MESA PUBLIC NOTICE The Mesa City Council will hold a public hearing concerning the following ordinances at the December 8, 2021 City Council meeting beginning at 5:45 p.m. in the Mesa City Council Chambers, 57 East First Street. 1. ZON21-00566 (District 5) Within the 6400 block of East McDowell Road (north side) and within the 2800 block of North Ramada (west side). Located west of Power Road on the north side of McDowell Road (4.1± acres). Rezone from Office Commercial (OC) to Single Residence 9 with a Planned Area Development Overlay (RS-9-PAD). This request will allow for the development of a single residence subdivision. Grant Taylor, applicant; DeMichele Family, LLC, owner. 2. ZON21-00892 (District 6) Within the 4400 to 4700 blocks of South Power Road (east side) and within the 6800 to 7000 blocks of East Warner Road (south side). Located at the southeast corner of Power Road and Warner Road (40± acres). Modification of the Planned Area Development Overlay (PAD) and Site Plan Modification. This request will allow for commercial development. Sean Lake, Pew & Lake, PLC, applicant; Power 40, LLC, owner. 3. ZON21-00540 (District 6) Within the 10500 to 10800 blocks of East Elliot Road (north side) and within the 3500 block of South Signal Butte Road (west side). Located on the northwest corner of Signal Butte Road and Elliot Road (25.7± acres). Rezone from Agriculture (AG) to Light Industrial (LI) with a Planned Area Development (PAD) Overlay, Site Plan Review, and Special Use Permit. This request will allow for a commercial and industrial development. Adam Baugh, Withey Morris, PLC, applicant; Whane of Mesa, LP, owner. 4. ANX21-00799 (District 6) Annexing property located within the 4200 to 4400 blocks of South Sossaman Road (west side). Located west of Sossaman Road and north of the Warner Road alignment (101.1± acres). Initiated by the applicant, Sean Lake on behalf of Pew & Lake PLC, The Dale C. Morrison Trust, owner. 5. ZON21-00798 (District 6) Within the 4200 to 4400 blocks of South Sossaman Road (west side). Located west of Sossaman Road and north of the Warner Road alignment (101.1± acres). Rezone from Agriculture (AG) to Light Industrial with a Planned Area Development overlay (LI-PAD) and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for an industrial development. Sean Lake on behalf of Pew & Lake PLC, applicant; The Dale C. Morrison Trust, owner. 6. Amending Title 5 of the Mesa City Code (Business Regulations), Chapter 4 entitled “Mobile Food Vendors” to exempt mobile food vendors who are operating at special events from licensing requirements on a limited basis, and to modify requirements for the location of mobile food vendor operations, including distance requirements and related exemptions for operation in or near areas zoned for residential use. (Citywide) DATED at Mesa, Arizona, this 28th day of November 2021. DEE ANN MICKELSEN, City Clerk Published in the East Valley Tribune Nov 28, 2021 / 43038
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Public Notices in instrument no. 97-0704665, records of Maricopa County, Arizona, as amended (collectively, the “Declaration”); and (ii) the non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Area, and to use and enjoy the Common Furnishings contained in such Unit, during such Owner’s Use Period, as provided in the Declaration. For convenience in inventory control, conveyancing, and titling, an Interval Interest is granted in a specific Unit; however, this interest does NOT carry with it the right to use that specific Unit. Property address: 6302 E. McKellips Road, Mesa, AZ, 85215. Tax parcel number: 201008093. Name and address of owner(s): (See Exhibit “A”) Delinquent Assessments: (See Exhibit “A”). Trustee: Sharon A. Urias, 8585 East Hartford Drive, Suite 700, Scottsdale, AZ, 85255, Phone no. (480) 306-5458. Manner of trustee qualification: Member, State Bar of Arizona Name of trustee’s regulator: State Bar of Arizona. This is a non-judicial foreclosure proceeding to permit Painted Mountain Golf Villas Vacation Ownership Association, An Arizona Nonprofit Corporation, to pursue its in rem remedies under Arizona law. EXHIBIT “A” – NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Owner(s) Address Undiv Int ICN Unit Assigned Yr Yrs Due Delinquent Assessments WILLIAM G RILEY JR. & JEAN M RILEY 2001 Crappie Cv Bellevue, NE 68123, 1/52, 20A, 122M, Annual, 2019-2021, $1,165.57; ARTHUR FLUDD JR & PAULA E FLUDD 13017 148th St Jamaica, NY 11436, 1/104, 49E, 132M, Biennial, 2019-2021, $885.91; TIMESHARE TRADE INS, LLC 10923 State Highway 176 Walnut Shade, MO 65771, 1/52 & 1/52, 33A & 2A, 121 & 237P, Annual & Annual, 2018-2020, $4,454.02; GREGORY A MOSER & STEPHANIE A MOSER 9341 W Via Montoya Dr Peoria, AZ 85383, 1/52, 40A, 127, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; GREGORY A MOSER & STEPHANIE A MOSER 9341 W Via Montoya Dr Peoria, AZ 85383, 1/52, 41A, 127, Annual, 20192021, $3,351.88; TIMESHARE TRADE INS 10923 State Highway 176 Ste E Walnut Shade, MO 65771, 1/104, 7E, 123M, Biennial, 2019-2021, $885.91; FLOYD H COX & H. AGNES COX 720 N 56th St Lincoln, NE 68504, 1/52, 48A, 125, Annual, 20192021, $3,351.88; HARRY E CONWAY & CAROL D CONWAY 1513 N Westgate St Wichita, KS 67212, 1/52, 49A, 235, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; JOHN E. MICHAEL & ALAYNE MICHAEL AKA Alayne Michael Todd 25231 Spindlewood Laguna Niguel, CA 92677, 1/52, 11A, 136, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; GERALD W NIMERICK & MICHELE A NIMERICK, Co-Trustees of the Gerald and Michele Nimerick Management Trust dated October 19, 2004 1600 Texas St Apt 421 Fort Worth, TX 76102, 1/52 & 1/52, 32A & 33A, 226 & 226, Annual & Annual, 2019-2021, $6,628.19; DELORES A HAUER 402 N True St Griffith, IN 46319, 1/52, 34A, 235, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PAINTED MOUNTAIN GOLF VILLAS VACATION OWNERSHIP ASSOCIATION 32997.0040 (COMMERCE SYSTEMS, LLC) The following legally described property will be sold pursuant to the power of sale under that certain Notice of Delinquency of Assessments recorded
under Instrument Number 20210916757, records of Maricopa County, Arizona. The owner(s) (see Exhibit “A”) have breached and defaulted under the Declaration of Dedication, Interval Ownership Plan, and Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Easements and Bylaws of the Association by failing to pay the amounts as specified herein. NOTICE! IF YOU BELIEVE THERE IS A DEFENSE TO THE TRUSTEE SALE OR IF YOU HAVE AN OBJECTION TO THE TRUSTEE SALE YOU MUST FILE AN ACTION AND OBTAIN A COURT ORDER PURSUANT TO RULE 65, ARIZONA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, STOPPING THE SALE NO LATER THAN 5:00 PM MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME OF THE LAST BUSINESS DAY BEFORE THE SCHEDULED DATE OF THE SALE, OR YOU MAY HAVE WAIVED ANY DEFENSES OR OBJECTIONS TO THE SALE. UNLESS YOU OBTAIN A COURT ORDER, THE SALE WILL BE FINAL AND WILL OCCUR at public auction to the highest bidder in Suite 700, at 8585 East Hartford Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85255, in Maricopa County, Arizona, at 1 p.m. on Friday, January 28, 2022: Painted Mountain Golf Villas Interval Interest consisting of: (i) an undivided (SEE EXHIBIT “A”) for Annual, (SEE EXHIBIT “A”) for Biennial Even Years, (SEE EXHIBIT “A”) for Biennial Odd Years fee interest in Unit No(s)/ Interval No(s)/Assigned Year (SEE EXHIBIT “A”)/(SEE EXHIBIT “A”)/(SEE EXHIBIT “A”) PAINTED MOUNTAIN GOLF VILLAS CONDOMINIUM, according to the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions, and Easements for Painted Mountain Golf Villas Condominium recorded in instrument no. 97-0704664, and plat recorded in Book 451 of Maps, Page 11, records of Maricopa County, Arizona, by which an Owner is entitled to occupy a Unit for one (1) Interval on an annual or biennial (whichever is indicated above) and recurring basis, the exact Interval to be established every year (or, for biennial, every other year) by reservation, all as defined and governed by the Declaration of Dedication, Interval Ownership Plan, and Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Easements for Painted Mountain Golf Villas, dated September 18, 1997, and recorded October 8, 1997, in instrument no. 97-0704665, records of Maricopa County, Arizona, as amended (collectively, the “Declaration”); and (ii) the non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Area, and to use and enjoy the Common Furnishings contained in such Unit, during such Owner’s Use Period, as provided in the Declaration. For convenience in inventory control, conveyancing, and titling, an Interval Interest is granted in a specific Unit; however, this interest does NOT carry with it the right to use that specific Unit. Property address: 6302 E. McKellips Road, Mesa, AZ, 85215. Tax parcel number: 201008093. Name and address of owner(s): (See Exhibit “A”) Delinquent Assessments: (See Exhibit “A”). Trustee: Sharon A. Urias, 8585 East Hartford Drive, Suite 700, Scottsdale, AZ, 85255, Phone no. (480) 306-5458. Manner of trustee qualification: Member, State Bar of Arizona Name of trustee’s regulator: State Bar of Arizona. This is a non-judicial foreclosure proceeding to permit Painted Mountain Golf Villas Vacation Ownership Association, An Arizona Nonprofit Corporation, to pursue its in rem remedies under Arizona law. EXHIBIT “A” – NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Owner(s) Address Undiv Int ICN Unit Assigned Yr
Yrs Due Delinquent Assessments TOTAL COMMERCE SYSTEMS, LLC AN ARIZONA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 989 S Main St Ste A435 Cottonwood, AZ 86326, 1/52, 11A, 231, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; PHYLLIS DENISE JEFFERSON 8 Mcchurch Ct Apt E Randallstown, MD 21133, 1/52, 37A, 226, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; TOTAL COMMERCE SYSTEMS, LLC AN ARIZONA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 989 S Main St Ste A435 Cottonwood, AZ 86326, 1/52, 41A, 129, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; JASON C TRAFTON & BRENDA TRAFTON 15827 Pine Cone Ln Tomball, TX 77377, 1/104, 46E, 122M, Biennial, 2019-2021, $885.91; JAB PROPERTIES INVESTMENT, LLC A TENNESSEE LIMITED LIABLITY COMPANY 4544 3rd Ave S Saint Petersburg, FL 33711, 1/52, 12A, 229, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; KASSI HARRIS 3000 Green Mountain Dr Ste 420 Branson, MO 65616, 1/52, 16A, 124M, Annual, 2019-2021, $2,620.95; KIPP JOHANNSEN PO Box 7293 Seminole, FL 33775, 1/52, 13A, 224M, Annual, 2019-2021, $2,620.95; TOTAL COMMERCE SYSTEMS, LLC AN ARIZONA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 989 S Main St Ate A435 Cottonwood, AZ 86326, 1/52, 20A, 228, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; MARINA BAY AND MIDLER SERVICES, LLC, A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY 28 Shannon Circle Mascotte, FL 34753, 1/52, 29A, 125, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; ALEXANDRU COLEV PO Box 692468 Orlando, FL 32869, 1/52, 6A, 230, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; JACE ELLIS BINGHAM 6 Anne St Canton, NC 28716, 1/52, 18A, 117, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; JERRY WAYNE THOMPSON 124 Mill Creek Cir Lot 7 Jesup, GA 31545, 1/52, 8A, 133, Annual, 20192021, $3,351.88; NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PAINTED MOUNTAIN GOLF VILLAS 32997.0041 (GROUPWISE) The following legally described property will be sold pursuant to the power of sale under that certain Notice of Delinquency of Assessments recorded under Instrument Number 20210916758, records of Maricopa County, Arizona. The owner(s) (see Exhibit “A”) have breached and defaulted under the Declaration of Dedication, Interval Ownership Plan, and Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Easements and Bylaws of the Association by failing to pay the amounts as specified herein. NOTICE! IF YOU BELIEVE THERE IS A DEFENSE TO THE TRUSTEE SALE OR IF YOU HAVE AN OBJECTION TO THE TRUSTEE SALE YOU MUST FILE AN ACTION AND OBTAIN A COURT ORDER PURSUANT TO RULE 65, ARIZONA RULES OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, STOPPING THE SALE NO LATER THAN 5:00 PM MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME OF THE LAST BUSINESS DAY BEFORE THE SCHEDULED DATE OF THE SALE, OR YOU MAY HAVE WAIVED ANY DEFENSES OR OBJECTIONS TO THE SALE. UNLESS YOU OBTAIN A COURT ORDER, THE SALE WILL BE FINAL AND WILL OCCUR at public auction to the highest bidder in Suite 700, at 8585 East Hartford Drive, Scottsdale, AZ 85255, in Maricopa County, Arizona, at 1 p.m. on Friday, January 28, 2022: Painted Mountain Golf
Villas Interval Interest consisting of: (i) an undivided (SEE EXHIBIT “A”) for Annual, (SEE EXHIBIT “A”) for Biennial Even Years, (SEE EXHIBIT “A”) for Biennial Odd Years fee interest in Unit No(s)/ Interval No(s)/Assigned Year (SEE EXHIBIT “A”)/(SEE EXHIBIT “A”)/(SEE EXHIBIT “A”) PAINTED MOUNTAIN GOLF VILLAS CONDOMINIUM, according to the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions, and Easements for Painted Mountain Golf Villas Condominium recorded in instrument no. 97-0704664, and plat recorded in Book 451 of Maps, Page 11, records of Maricopa County, Arizona, by which an Owner is entitled to occupy a Unit for one (1) Interval on an annual or biennial (whichever is indicated above) and recurring basis, the exact Interval to be established every year (or, for biennial, every other year) by reservation, all as defined and governed by the Declaration of Dedication, Interval Ownership Plan, and Covenants, Conditions, Restrictions and Easements for Painted Mountain Golf Villas, dated September 18, 1997, and recorded October 8, 1997, in instrument no. 97-0704665, records of Maricopa County, Arizona, as amended (collectively, the “Declaration”); and (ii) the non-exclusive right to use and enjoy the Common Area, and to use and enjoy the Common Furnishings contained in such Unit, during such Owner’s Use Period, as provided in the Declaration. For convenience in inventory control, conveyancing, and titling, an Interval Interest is granted in a specific Unit; however, this interest does NOT carry with it the right to use that specific Unit. Property address: 6302 E. McKellips Road, Mesa, AZ, 85215. Tax parcel number: 201008093. Name and address of owner(s): (See Exhibit “A”) Delinquent Assessments: (See Exhibit “A”). Trustee: Sharon A. Urias, 8585 East Hartford Drive, Suite 700, Scottsdale, AZ, 85255, Phone no. (480) 306-5458. Manner of trustee qualification: Member, State Bar of Arizona Name of trustee’s regulator: State Bar of Arizona. This is a non-judicial foreclosure proceeding to permit Painted Mountain Golf Villas Vacation Ownership Association, An Arizona Nonprofit Corporation, to pursue its in rem remedies under Arizona law. EXHIBIT “A” – NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Owner(s) Address Undiv Int ICN Unit Assigned Yr Yrs Due Delinquent Assessments JOHN W MCMULLEN 2811 Citrus Lake Dr Unit J101 Naples, FL 34109, 1/104, 45O, 137, Biennial, 2019-2021, $2,035.36; LIZDENNI LIBEL GIL SANTO Casa #195 Los Limones Nagua, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 1/52, 33A, 229, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; JAMES ANDERSON & CAROL ANDERSON 207 N 9th Ave P.O. Box 26 Winneconne, WI 54986, 1/52, 40A, 236, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; DAVID SKINNER, LLC A NEVADA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY C/O Holiday Equity 3605 Airport Way S Seattle, WA 98134, 1/52, 34A, 232, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; MICHAEL C MAXWELL 401 N Brookhurst St Ste 116 Anaheim, CA 92801, 1/52, 17A, 122M, Annual, 2019-2021, $2,620.95; WENDY JOSEFINA GIL SANTOS Edeficio Luz Maria 1 Apt # 7 Calle Duverge #124, Capacito San Francisco De Macoris, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 1/52, 33A, 127, Annual, 2019-2021, $3,351.88; Published: East Valley Tribune Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5, 2021 / 42205
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