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More that 100 Rio Verde Foothills homeowners showed up for a special hearing by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Aug. 29 to express their opposition or support for a special water district. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)
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In a federal court in Virginia, 14 letters portray David Alcorn as a loving husband and father, a generous neighbor and friend and a forthright and honest businessman.“Youmight say ‘A Fellow Well Met,’” wrote a Scottsdale Realtor who was among the family members, business associates and even former Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson writing to Judge Raymond Jackson this summer about the legally blind, 78-yearold Scottsdale commercial real estate investment broker. Those letters stand in sharp contrast to what U.S. Attorney Jessica Aber told Jackson, portraying Alcorn as a serial swindler who conned elderly people and savvy investment firms alike out of tens of millions of dollars with the help of 11 co-conspirators in two complex nationwide schemes. But the letters – full of disbelief that Alcorn would ever hurt people to make millions of dollars – have one thing in common: AlcornCourthimself.papers show he didn’t think he was doing anything wrong either – even though many people warned him for years during a scheme to sell worthless broadband see WATER page 12 see ALCORN page 18
W here hundreds of Rio Verde Foothills households will find water after Dec. 31 remains unknown after the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors last week unanimously voted against what some homeowners called their best chance for a new source. The board on Aug. 31 voted against forming a domestic water improvement district (DWID) to supply water to the community once the City of Scottsdale shuts off the stand pipe servicing community as part of its drought management plan.Supervisor Thomas Galvin, who moved to deny the DWID, called on the city to leave the standpipe running until EPCOR, a private water provider, can create a stand pipe and secure a water source.
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Andrea Keck, 64, is a retired brand manager for Kraft Food and NutraSweet. She has lived in the school district nine years.She said she can bring a corporate skills set to the board along with 25 years of volunteer experience in the academic setting. She spent eight years volunteering with T.J. Pappas School for homeless children implementing vari ous programs and curriculum. She is also especially proud of her seven years on the board of Boys Hope Girls Hope of Arizona.Keckhas an MBA from the University of“IChicago.haveboth sides of this coin,” she said. “I’m a business person by training and I have run large scale business en terprises, but I also have 25 years in the educational sector in substantive ways.” She said academics is the focus of her campaign.“BeforeCOVID in our five high schools we only had 46% of students (testing) at grade level in English, math and science,” she said. “Before COVID, of the students that took the ACT exam, only 43% met the college readiness bench mark.”
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“Bring all these people out here and have no answers, especially when they know ahead of time that folks are not happy with this,” she said. “All they’re doing is making people angry. It’s crazy. It makes no sense to do this. They should have had pictures and they should have had answers.” Resident Ellen Speranzo wasn’t im pressed with the answers from Hall. “I’m a retired teacher; my daughter is a teacher,” she said. “I understand that teach ers, firefighters, and EMTs would benefit from reduced cost housing so I came think ing maybe there’s some good in this be cause we will be helping nurses and other professionals that we need in our commu nity.“When I asked what the rents would be, (Hall) said she didn’t know. When I asked what the salaries in the helping professions are, they couldn’t tell me. They don’t know how much nurses, doctors, teachers make. I said, they won’t be able to afford the cost of your units. And her quote was ‘We’re not doing affordable housing.’” Speranzo also took issue with the height of the “Webuildings.movedfrom Boston years ago to come out here,” she said. “You can see the sky here! If we keep building four stories, the next year it will be five stories, the year after it’s going to be six stories and we won’t see the sky anymore.
City Councilwoman Kathy Littlefield called the open house “one of the stupidest things I’ve seen a developer do.”
Current plans for Mercado Courtyard call for 273 apartments one- and two-bed room units. That comes to a density of 32 units per acre. It would include 544 parking spots in a garage that is wrapped by buildings. The three-story building closest to Shea would have its top floor stair-stepped back to make it look like a two story building.
Caliber would also install a traffic signal at the intersection across from the Hon orHealth Shea Hospital, at 92nd street and Cochise Drive. The Mercado Courtyard is the second iteration of the 92 Ironwood project. That project was slated to be voted on during the city council in February when the de veloper requested a second continuance. Council denied that request and began debating the merits of the project. The attorney for the project at the time then requested it be pulled from the agenda, meaning it would need to go before the city’s Development Review Board and Planning Commission before it could go to theThecouncil.Planning Commission voted 4-3 to recommend approval of a plan that origi nally consisted of 338 last September and the Design Review Board voted 6-0 to rec ommend approval earlier that month.
In total, Hall said she received 69 written comments in opposition, 54 in support and 14 general questions and comments. see MERCADO page 16
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The project would also have 109,700 square feet of open space – three times what is required by the city – on the 8.52acreThesite.project also includes renovating the existing 25,000-square foot retail building on the southern portion of the property The developer, Scottsdale-based Cali ber, is proposing a 10% discount on rent to nurses, firefighters, police, EMTs and teachers as well as anybody who works within a mile of the site.
“Unless you can come up and tell us that a standard rate for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom is around $2,500 now in Scottsdale and you’re reaching to come in at $1,000 or $1,200 – unless you’re ready to tell us that’s the rate you’re prepared to offer … we know what this is really about,” Kull“It’ssaid.about developers coming in, put ting in a project, making a lot of money and at the end of the day you move away and we’re stuck with what’s here.”
The new iteration of the project has not yet gone before the DRB, planning commis sion or city council.
Jennifer Hall, senior project manager at Rose Law Group, spoke to the rowdy crowd at an open house about the proposed Mercado Courtyards apartments. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)
More than 140 residents crammed the Fenlon Hospitality Center at St. Patrick Catholic Com munity to view the Mercado Courtyard apartment plans. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)
“And that’s the least of it,” she continued. “The water issue is an enormous pressure. We’re supposed to reduce water by 21% but putting multiple units in big buildings is just going to draw more water.” Not everybody at the meeting was against the project though.
Mercado project stirs resident anger, support
The building in the back would be four sto ries tall and would have a pool on top.
The highest building would be 46 feet. The city currently allows buildings up to 48 feet tall, plus an additional 10 feet for appurtenances on the site.
Resident Geoff Kull was upset that the new attorney on the project – Jennifer Hall of the Rose Law Group – and representa tives of Caliber could not say what rents for the apartments would be.
Araucous crowd of about 140 resi dents vented disdain for the pro posed Mercado Courtyard apart ment complex during a recent open house for the project. The crowd cheered and applauded each other’s comments against the project ear marked for the intersection of Shea Boule vard and 92nd Street and even broke into argument with those running the Aug. 25 event.“How much more information does the city council need to hear?” one gentleman who only identifed himself as Mike ex claimed to a loud round of applause. “We don’t want them!”
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“I have a strong passion and believe in just following my heart when I have a calling,” Duplessis said. “All through the news there’s been so much about our water and what’s going to happen to Arizona. Is Arizona going to become a ghost town?
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“I’ve gotten asked a lot of questions of why to continue growth, especially when we’re facing water challenges because of the drought and the low levels of water on Lake Mead and Lake Powell and the restrictions now on reducing the water delivery from the Colorado River from the Colorado River,” she continued.“Iwant to be at the table in finding a solution and getting out the message that Arizona actually uses less water now than in 1957 due to all the conservationDuplessismethods.”figures her willingness to listen, learn and collaborate, along with her knowledge of the technical side of things set her apart. “With that knowledge I am able to better understand the actual CAP system with the pumping required,” she said. “We pump that water over 3,000 feet in the air from Point A to Point B. There’s a lot of maintenance and cost associated with (running) that entire system.” Duplessis said this is a critically important time for Arizona as the 23-year drought wears on at the same time some people say it’s not a drought at all but the new normal because of global warming.Withwater levels on lakes Mead and Powell at historic low levels, Arizona cannot give up on agriculture, one of the main water users in the state, she said. “This recommendation of paying farmers to not farm is not sustainable,” Duplessis said. “We all need farming and we all rely on farming.” She is a big proponent of the N-Drip system, a watering system out of Israel that drops vitamin and mineral enriched water directly on to plants’ roots. “It prevents a lot of water from getting lost in flood irrigation whether it be through evaporation or not being ab-
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The issue has split the community of about 2,100 homes.
“I would hope that our haulers would find sources and not take it all from Scottsdale,” she said. “I know Carefree has availability. Phoenix still has avail ability for us. They just need to look for sources, spread it out a little bit more while we get our EPCOR solution in place.”Karen Nabbity, one of the leaders of the pro-district movement, said Wednesday’s vote was a “mistake.”
Water acquires Central Arizona Project (CAP) water, purifies and delivers it, but we also retrieve, sanitize and recycle waste water. Pure recycled water is then ‘banked’ in Scott sdale aquifers. Scottsdale purchases CAP water once, then can reuse it over and over in a closed loop,” he continued, adding:“Onthe other hand, Rio Verde relies on residential septic systems with out recapture, so the water loss to Rio Verde is multiplied. Scottsdale export ing water to Rio Verde makes no sense.”
The supervisors held an informal meeting Aug. 29 to hear public com ment on the issue. About 100 people attended that meeting until the supervisors convened for a 2 ½-hour executive session on the issue.“Ithink there is enough passion on both sides of the issue to be able to come to the best type of thing for this community,” Supervisor Clint Hickman said Wednesday. “I fully expect both sides to work hard towards fixing this water situa tion,” Hickman continued. “I ask the community, the good book says beating swords into plow shares and there has been some really horrendous things on social media and Facebook. It’s time to drop the swords.”
About 700 homeowners in the area pay to have a tanker fill up with water from a massive spigot owned by the see WATER
In a letter to the Arizona Corporation
“If you believe social media and look at that, it looks like it’s horrible, some of the worst you could imagine,” Malone said.He added, “It was just a lot of name calling, a lot of total misinformation about what these people are going to do, like the whole thing about they are going to condemn your property and cap your wells. We’ve known that’s just malarkey, right? People questioning other people’s motives and things like that.”Christy Jackman, a leader in the antiDWID faction said she trusts Galvin to come up with a stop-gap measure until EPCOR can get up and running.
The issue stems from the federal Bu reau of Land Management’s announce ment last year that it would begin water rationing on the Colorado River in Janu ary of this year. That prompted Scottsdale to launch stage one of its Drought Management Plan, which puts an end to the water hauling in the Rio Verde Foothills area starting January 2023.
“A non-contiguous DWID would not represent the entire community; liens would be placed on a number of prop erties, subjecting them to substantial obligations and liabilities; running and managing a water utility would be a massive undertaking, I have concerns about the long-term viability of the DWID and its board; “I’ve not been satisfied that questions regarding the costs (of establishing and running a DWID) have been fully an swered despite the good faith efforts of the petitioners of the DWID to answer those questions; a new governmental entity would be disruptive to the rural, independent lifestyle and spirit of the community.“Incontrast, a private water utility corporation can address these water needs and has greater support from the community. An entity in the business of providing water to a customer base is resilient, reliable and a relatively af fordable long-term, viable solution for the Rio Verde Foothills community.”
Among the Rio Verde Foothills homeowners who address the county supervisors Aug. 29 were, from left, Meredith DeAngelis, Louis Pingtella, Brent Schlenker, John Hornewer and Karen Nabbity. (David Minton/Progress Staff Writer)
Jeffry Crockett, an attorney for the residents supporting the DWID, said, “With this decision, there’s going to be incredible pressure on the City of Scott sdale not to close the stand pipe on Dec. 31 of this year while the parties look for a potential solution to the crisis.”
Malone said things have been rela tively civil when neighbors on different sides of the issue have met face to face, but the situation has gotten very nasty on social media platforms.
“Basically, what happened today was 559 property owners were denied the right under Title 48 to secure water –a long-term, legally obligated, outside source of water for their families, ani mals, ranches and lands,” she said. “This will always be looked at as one of the biggest mistakes made by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors – period. “On Jan. 1 we’ll have no water,” Nab bity said. “Right now, nobody else has a solution to provide water after Jan. 1.”
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CITY NEWS12 SCOTTSDALE PROGRESS | WWW.SCOTTSDALE.ORG | SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 with the community to provide access to their stand pipe until a brand-new stand pipe is operational,” said Galvin, whose district includes the Rio Verde FoothillsHowever,community.Scottsdale Mayor David Ortega said the city will not continue to provide water to the community after Dec.“On31.Aug. 23, 2022, the Council unani mously adopted the 2022 Integrated Water Resources Master Plan, which does not include providing city water resources to Rio Verde after December 2022. Rio Verde and Galvin have been aware for some time that Scottsdale will not change course,” Ortega said in a statement.“Scottsdale
Commission dated Aug. 26, EPCOR at torney and vice president of public pol icy Thomas Loquvam stated the compa ny would install a stand pipe to service the area but it would take two years to get the infrastructure and secure the water to service the community. Galvin listed several reasons for re jecting application for a water district:
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Ted Malone, an opponent of the DWID said, “I’m glad they ruled the way they did. The entire community needs a wa ter source, not just those who want to sign up (for the DWID) … Now as a com munity, we just need to come together and figure out how to take the next step and make sure everybody has water come Jan. 1.”
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Nabbity said Wednesday’s vote was “the board of supervisors tossing this hot potato over to the commissioners.”
The Arizona Corporation Commission waded into the situation in July at Galvin’sCommissionerinvitation.
Anna Tovar sent a letter to Rio Verde Foothills residents asking them if they would prefer creating a DWID or use a stand pipe that would allow water hauling to continue.
“I understand there are several PCSs (public service corporations) near the community that might be interested in providing stand pipe service to Rio Verde (Foothills). If the majority of the community would like to be served by a stand pipe, perhaps one of those PCSs will step forward to assist.”
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On the Salt River Project side, supplies are sufficient with a moderate shortage. SRP would pump more ground water and Scottsdale would pump more from its remediated groundwater as well.
Caliber CEO and co-founder Chris Loeffler said the idea for Mercado Courtyard evolved from something called “Operation Sleep Safely,” a program in 2020, when COVID-19 hit, that allowed healthcare workers to sleep for free at Caliber-owned hotels.“There’s nurses on a regular basis posting (on Facebook) that they can’t afford
“I disagree with you, but that doesn’t mean I’m not listening to you,” Milhaven said.“You never do,” Pejman replied.
In a more severe shortage SRP would be required to supplement all its surface water with groundwater, but there would be enough water to meet the city’s demands.
Duplessis is currently president of land development with the Scottsdalebased Empire Group.
Three of the four top vote getters in the city council race in the Aug. 2 election ran on limited growth platforms.
“I’ve seen firsthand what Shelby is capable of as a member of the leadership team at Empire Group of Companies,” Richard Felker, founding partner of Empire Group said. “She successfully navigates project challenges and collaborates with all parties involved to achieve workable solutions and positive results.“Asdevelopers, we have a vested interest in planning for the future of our community. I am confident that Shelby will serve the Central Arizona Water Conservation District and every Arizonan well in building a future of reliable water and infrastructure.” She is also endorsed by former mayor of Gilbert Jenn Daniels, Surprise Mayor Skip Hall, Buckeye City Councilwoman Michelle Hess, Glendale City Councilman Jaime Aldama, Glendale City Councilwoman Lauren Tolmachoff, Surprise City Councilman Jack Hastings, Peoria City Councilman Brad Shafer, Pinal County Supervisors (and CAWCD board member) Steve Miller, Glendale Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Robert Heidt and business people Jeff Gunderson, Marc A. Bonilla, M. Brennan Ray, Bret Rinehart, Clay Allsop, Melissa Holdaway, Kevin Rust and Angela Carmitchel.
Growth unsustainable after 2035, water chief says
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Scottsdale resident Jason Alexander supported the project.
“Do we not want our families to be able to settle here?” he asked. “Just because they’re not able to buy a house, they’re not entitled to live in the city they grew up in?”
BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer Under a severe shortage, Scottsdale’s water from the Central Arizona Project would only be able to sustain growth through 2035, according to a recent report to City Council.
Mayor David Ortega noted that the city has a “bank” of water in its aquifer, but Biesemeyer noted that in a severe drought situation, pumping water from the aquifer would be a “measure of last resort.”
The updated integrated water resources master plan calls for $578 million in capital improvement projects to the city’s water and waste water infrastructure through 2055. That includes: $240 million for water distribution, $88 for water treatment, $69 million for water supply, $136 million for wastewater collection and $45 million for wastewater treatment.
“The election told you how many people are against growth,” Pejman shouted.
“I think it’s a great project ... It’s got lots of open space. Folks are concerned about traffic. If they were to build what they’re allowed to build now, medical office space, it would have three times the traffic impact as the apartments would have. “In fact, I was told the other day, office would have to have 1,200 spaces and this project has a little over 400, so three times the parking would be required. Folks who are most concerned about the impact of traffic should embrace the fact it’s going to be a residential use because it’s going to have far less impact than the alternative office use.”
The project also has the endorsement of city Councilwoman Linda Milhaven.
“And other folks who say absolutely not because of water?” Milhaven continued. “Well, we can’t just pull up the drawbridge, so to speak, and shut down the city because we are challenged with water. All of these projects are using the latest in water conservation technologies and we need to insist that they do that.” In fact, Milhaven eventually took over moderating the meeting, which led to a spirited conversation between her and local gallery owner Bob Pejman.
to continue to work at Honor Health Shea anymore because they can get a job in Gilbert for the same amount of money and they don’t have to drive an hour in traffic every morning,” he explained, adding:. “Then a local developer walked into our office and said, ‘I have a piece of land that is stuck back here. This building has been bankrupt for 12 years. Would you buy this thing with me and turn it into something else?’”Hesaid the company has to charge the market rate for the apartments. “Land is expensive in Scottsdale. We don’t have much of a choice there,” Loeffler said. “We think, by getting the units smaller and getting the density we are looking for, we can deliver an apartment a nurse making in the mid-range, maybe not a first-year nurse, maybe an experienced nurse making $70,000 to $80,000 a year can afford to live in.” sorbed and just running off the land because of our hard clay surface,” Duplessis“Itsaid.really reduces that loss of water and at the same time is much more productive for the plant.” Duplessis has spent more than two decades working within the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.“Ireally enjoy what I do,” she said. “I love working with neighbors and the cities and towns to figure out what’s needed in their community and how to best manage that. “I work very closely with all the stakeholders collaborating on what a community should look like, what’s needed in a community and how to get it done so we fit within that community.”
“We have a trifecta of outcomes to this drought,” she said. “It’s a new normal, it’s part of climate change, it’s part of the heat increases that we’re experiencing. This is just the Whiteheadreality.”said she heard residents loud and clear when she was campaigning for her election. “Our residents want to restore a lower density, lower intensity growth and it looks like that will help us meet our water needs,” she said. We have a desire to have lower bills. We have had a lot of increases so the lower water usage will lower people’s water bills. “Then, with all these programs, we will do more with less. I think there’s a lot of possibilities with this to just be innovative and live more sustainably in our beautiful Sonoran desert.”
CITY NEWS16 SCOTTSDALE PROGRESS | WWW.SCOTTSDALE.ORG | SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 DUPLESSIS from page 8
“I think there are folks who philosophically say, ‘no apartments’ and I don’t think as a community we can say no apartments. I think to have a vibrant community we need a variety of housing options.”
“The assumption is growth would stop in 2035 and then we could handle our current citizens at that point forward,” said Scottsdale Water Resources Executive Director Brian Biesemeyer. That prompted various reactions from council members.
She took a straw poll and found if the units in the project were for sale rather than rent, it would be more palatable to area residents. She also found lower height and density would also go a long way toward garnering support.
“I just want to say I would like to see a component for all development to include the amount of water they intend to use or plan to use so that we can make sure everybody is doing the best job we can with conservation,” Councilwoman Betty Janik. Councilwoman Solange Whitehead saw a silver lining in the situation.
Under a moderate shortage, CAP supplies are sufficient if conservation assumptions can be met, Biesemeyer said.
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Daryl Bank, second from left on this book that is no longer sold, is serving 35 years for his role in the spectrum racket that landed former Scottsdale residents David Alcorn and Kent Maerki behind bars for more than a decade and a half. The others pictured in this book jacket were not part of the scheme. (Special to the Progress)
“We do it differently,” he said, by sell ing “dental franchises” that referred patients to dentists, who in turn would pay investors 16.5% of the patients’ fees.Not only did Maerki and his band of unlicensed security salespeople “do it differently.” They did it criminally as well.Barred since 1988 for selling phony Federal Communications Commission broadband spectrum licenses, Maerki lured unwitting investors by boasting that Dental Support Plus Franchise had a five-year track record of producing annual profits of up to 40% of the initial investment.Ofcourse, a federal grand jury found that Maerki’s company had no such re cord and simply “pitched DSPF to inves tors across the country using advertise ments that were materially false and misleading.”Amongthose advertisements were videos, one of which was titled “Money From Thin Air.” Maerki and some of the same coconspirators were also part of another complex scheme in which Alcorn played the pivotal role, court records show. As president of the David Alcorn Pro fessional Corporation, he became sole from front see
CITY NEWS18 SCOTTSDALE PROGRESS | WWW.SCOTTSDALE.ORG | SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 spectrum investments roughly between 2012-2015.“Simplyput, Alcorn is a criminal defen dant who allowed his greed and love of money and luxurious things to corrupt his decisions and his life,” Aber wrote, adding:“Alcorn did not care about the legiti mate concerns that his attorneys were raising. Alcorn did not care that he was raising money with someone who was banned from the securities industry. Alcorn did not care that he was lying to investors … or that they were trusting hard-earned retirement funds to him based on those lies.
Conman David Alcorn’s lavish mansion on N. 133rd Way, valued at $2.5 million, was seized by the IRS in 2019 and sold for $1.9 million. (Special to the Progress)
As he was led in cuffs to prison last week, Alcorn joined Maerki behind bars for what their lawyers called essentially lifeMaerkisentences.pleaded guilty to fraud-relat ed charges related to the activities of two companies he had founded – Dental Support Plus Franchise and Janus Spec trum LLC. In a 2012 promotional video on be half of a nationally renowned market ing expert, Maerki bragged about his own business acumen.
In June, the judge declared Alcorn alone pocketed $3.96 million and then approved the confiscation of the $1.43 million he and his wife would have made on the sale of their 5,841-square-foot home on North 133rd Way in Scottsdale.
The Alcorns never saw a dime from the sale: Valued at more than $2.5 mil lion, the mansion was seized by the IRS in 2019 and sold at auction.
“Alcorn did not care that the SEC was investigating him and his company for fraud and violations of securities laws. Alcorn did not care about any of these things because he was getting rich, and he did not want the money to stop rolling in. Alcorn’s conduct was selfish, callous, andThecruel.”judge on Aug. 30 sentenced Alcorn to 15 years and five months in prison. Alcorn’s scheme and another also put another 78-year-old Scottsdale con named Kent Maerki away for 16 years in 2021.Together, they and nine other defen dants also must pay more than $20.4 million in restitution to hundreds of vic tims across the country but mainly in the Southwest who invested individual sums ranging from $1,000 to over $4.9 million.
A jury in February found him guilty of 12 counts of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, wire fraud and unlaw ful monetary transactions after a threeweek trial.
The judge also approved the IRS’ sei zure of an $88,000 Land Rover that Al corn had bought for his wife from his illgotten gains in 2014.
The judge also directed federal agents to use “depositions, interrogatories, re quests for production of documents and the issuance of subpoenas to identify, lo cate or dispose of forfeitable property.” Complex schemes and canny cons
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Scottsdale real estate investment broker David Alcorn, 78, last week was ordered to spend more than 15 years behind for his jury conviction in a staggering scheme that bilked millions from investors. (LinkedIn)
Neither Aber nor federal probation of ficers nor the judge paid much attention to the letter writers’ pleas and protesta tions.“Alcorn has never – not one single time – expressed one shred of remorse for the conduct that he engaged in, nor has he shown any ounce of concern or empathy for his victims and the financial havoc he has caused,” Aber wrote in a pre-sen tenceDevastatingmemo. testimony from sharpeyed and relentless sleuths in the Inter nal Revenue Service, FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service and heartbreaking letters from small investors belied Al corn supporters' description with a por trait of brazen and staggering deceit.
Kent Maerki, 78, formerly of Scottsdale, is serving 16 years behind bars for his role in two investor swindles, one of which also involved David Alcorn. (YouTube)
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Referring to both Maerki and his wife, prosecutors noted, “The American Express bills reflect precisely what they spent these funds on: plastic surgery, luxury items such as expensive watches, purses, clothing, extravagant dinners, travel, and many other frivolous items.” Married six times, Maerki had a long history of regulatory actions taken against him and prosecutors said that “did nothing to deter him from engaging in these crimes.”
“Alcorn received a larger share of the proceeds – over $4,000,000 – for the leadership role that he played in this scheme,” she said.
“And then, when the bottom fell out, Maerki filed for bankruptcy and claimed to have nothing left… The complicated and sophisticated nature of these schemes and the duration of these crimes demonstrate that Maerki’s actions were not an aberration for him –they were a way of life.”
Loving man, deceitful businessman U.S. Attorney Aber’s description of Alcorn’s role contrasted sharply to the letters begging for leniency. Those letters called him “a reliable and credible liaison between buyers and sellers,” “honest and up front with everyone he has ever done business with,” and “a genuinely humble and sincere man, who desired to know God, be led by him, and trust his plan for his life.”
“This is an astonishing amount of money, particularly considering that Alcorn’s involvement in this criminal conduct was largely limited to the junk spectrum investments and he was not involved in Dental Support Plus or any of Daryl Bank’s other fraudulent investments.”
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CITY NEWS20 SCOTTSDALE PROGRESS | WWW.SCOTTSDALE.ORG | SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 owner in January 2014 of Janus Spectrum, in which he already had a 55% interest.Alcorn, Maerki and the others “sold fraudulent spectrum investments to investors and then continued to lull investors regarding the purported value of such investments,” the grand jury said. The conspirators had boasted the spectrum investments carried “very low risk, hardly any,” and that “it’s work-free, there is just nothing to do,” according to wiretap transcripts. “Alcorn fraudulently estimated annual returns ranging up to 3,373%, depending on the economic area, and an average annual return from all 25 areas of 298%,” the indictment said. And, like the dental franchise scheme, Alcorn and the others pocketed the millions that rolled in. The co-conspirators included a lawyer, Maerki’s wife, and a Virginia conman named Daryl Bank. Bank posed as a financial advisor on his own radio show that touted the dental and spectrum businesses as good investment opportunities.
“Both men orchestrated their own schemes, sent others to pitch clients on their fraudulent investments, and reaped the financial rewards of their frauds.” Aber said Alcorn “created a business with $55 and sustained that business by lying to investors so that he could continue his fraud and get rich quick. The only people who actually pulled money from thin air were the conspirators in this case, and Alcorn knew full well it was a scam.” At the time of Maerki’s sentencing, 81 victims filed statements with the court, detailing the financial hardship they incurred as a result of the schemes. Some were elderly victims who lost their life savings, others driven into near-poverty.
“The evidence presented at trial demonstrated that Alcorn was the leader and a primary organizer of this vast conspiracy that included a multitude of conspirators – far more than five – and victimized investors from the West Coast to the East Coast,” she wrote.
“The securities laws are aimed at preventing this exact type of crime, and yet, Maerki, Bank, Alcorn and the other conspirators claimed to operate in the purportedly 'unregulated' area of selfdirected IRA accounts,” prosecutors said. “This was simply not true, and it caused a massive amount of financial harm to hundreds of innocent victims across the country.” Alcorn’s lawyer argued that the government had distorted his client’s role in the spectrum scheme and stressed his client’sWhileage.there was little reference to Alcorn’s lifestyle, Aber said he deserved a long sentence, noting that sentencing guidelines were harsh for criminals who caused more than $9.5 million in losses from more than 25 victims.
Stating “Alcorn and Maerki built a criminal enterprise by lying to investors,” Aber wrote, “The nature of these schemes was not only extremely sophisticated, but also lasted for almost seven years and continued despite repeated regulatory warnings.”
Those letters were noted in the prosecution’s sentencing memo in Alcorn’s case. “The victims’ eloquent letters have detailed the pain, frustration, and financial devastation that his actions have inflicted upon them,” prosecutors said. “They used investor funds – hardearned retirement funds – to travel, to pay their family members and other employees, and to purchase an astonishing amount of luxury items,” they wrote.
“In the time I have known Dave, he has always been a caring father and grandfather, actively involved in community issues and always willing to help other people and charitable causes,” Johnson wrote.Others, like Alcorn's wife of more than 50 years, said he had turned down a plea bargain carrying a 3-5-year prison term “because he believed he had done no wrong.”ATumwater, Washington, businessman wrote the judge that Alcorn is “a fine man, caring, honorable and in these last few years increasingly humble.” A Tempe lawyer who said he represented Alcorn and his company for eight years considered him “someone who I could trust with telling me the truth and who seemed concerned for caring for the people he was working for or with.” Calling Alcorn “someone who truly cares about his family and they about him,” one woman told the judge that he “has never been someone who over-sold or tried to lure people into something.” Yet, an Arizona federal judge in 2019 already had declared in a different proceeding that both Alcorn and Maerki had been repeatedly warned by federal officials and their own lawyers that they were selling worthless broadband spectrumAberinvestments.likenedAlcorn to co-conspirator Bank, 51, whose 35-year prison sentence was the stiffest doled out in the case. “Alcorn received a similar level of fraudulent proceeds in this scheme as Bank did – millions of dollars,” she wrote. “They were both leaders and organizers of their respective crimes, encouraging others to engage in illegal conduct to benefit themselves,” she continued.
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in Texas. She was also a board member of the Plano Independent School District Council of PTAs. She served three years as a substitute teacher in Texas as well. She was on the leadership council of Playworks of Arizona and a mentor and girls’ circle facilitator for New Pathways forSchoolYouth.funding is a top issue for Gaudio, who vows to advocate for more state money. She also said offering a top-level education will help ensure enrollment increases in the face of the expansive new voucher program. Obtaining and retaining top-level staff is also her priority and says the board should show more empathy toward parents. Robb Vaules, 58, is a senior vice president for ONRAD, a telemedicine company. He graduated from NAU with a bachelor’s in advertising and journalism and did some grad work at the University of Texas in Advertising.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation said Arizona can expect to get approximately $5.3 billion over �ive years in federal highway formula funding for highways and bridges under that bill. Gutier hopes traf�ic fatalities continue to trend downward for the rest of the“We’reyear. great. We’re a really great state,” he said. “Arizona is doing the best they can in traf�ic enforcement.”
“I focus primarily on discussing how better we can run the Special Ed program in the district and how that can not only save money but also help children because right now my belief is we’d be better off as a district, we’d have lower legal liability exposure if our teachers better know how to treat special needs kids and what their rights are,” he said.
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“Be prepared. You may not have dealt with high-traffic situations. Your car may not have been on long road trips. Have a plan.”
But with Labor Day travel approaching, AAA expects more people on the road – and more challenges for drivers. “Be prepared,” said John Treanor, the AAA spokesperson for Western states. “You may not have dealt with high-traf�ic situations. Your car may not have been on long road trips. Have a plan.” Highway deaths nationally in the �irst quarter were the highest since 2002, according to the report. NHTSA Administrator Steven Cliff said that while those numbers are “moving in the wrong direction,” the recently passed Bipartisan Infrastructure Law should help change the direction.
– While the rest of the nation was posting a record increase in traf�ic fatalities in the �irst quarter of 2022, highway deaths in Arizona were falling by nearly a third, according to a recent report.Thereport from the National Highway Traf�ic Safety Administration said 190 people died on Arizona roads in the �irst quarter of this year, a 31.4% drop from the 277 who were killed in the �irst three months of 2021. That was the fourth-steepest percentage drop in the nation, trailing only the much-smaller states of Rhode Island, North Dakota and Montana. Nationwide, highway fatalities rose by 7% over the �irst quarter of 2021, from 8,935 to an estimated 9,560, as 29 states saw gains in the number of deaths.Thedecrease in Arizona followed several years of a steadily climbing highway death toll. “I welcome any good news regarding our traf�ic numbers,” said Alberto Gutier, executive director of the Arizona Governor’s Of�ice of Highway Safety. “I’m very surprised, but very happily surprised.”Expertssaid the increase in deaths nationally could be the result of having more people on the roads post-pandemic, combined with higher speeds and more distracted and reckless drivers.“The trend overall in the country is very concerning, and has been going on for awhile,” said Russ Rader, senior vice president of communications at the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety. “State by state numbers may jump around, but nationally the trend is unfortunately an increase and a rather sharp increase,” Rader said. Gutier agrees that speeding, reckless driving and impaired driving are among the factors that have driven up deaths in Arizona.
tors, it’s a deadly combination,” he said. But he thinks the return to normal traf�ic �lows might be the reason Arizona numbers have decreased so far: With more people on the road commuting to work and school, he said, drivers may be taking fewer chances.
Likewise, dining and entertainment revenues were up $6.3 million over forecasted revenue and hotel/motel revenue was up $4.4 million more than what was predicted.Andrews added that the increase in tax revenue is also due to price in�lation, but people are continuing to spend because of low unemployment, wage growth and having savings to spend. However, Andrews doesn’t expect those factors to hold steady so she does not expect double-digit growth in revenue to continue.Inthe meantime, the city’s expenses were down $12.3 million to $359.4 million. “In�lation was not a big factor for our expenditures in �iscal year 2022 because for a lot of our expenditures, the pricing has been established through the contracts,” Andrews said.
The �irst-quarter improvements have continued through 2022, according to the most recent numbers from Gutier’s of�ice. It reported 398 traf�ic fatalities – including car, pedestrian and bike deaths – through July, compared to 700 through the same period in 2021.
“The dining and entertainment and hotel/motel categories are mostly driven by our visitors and tourists and we had very strong tourism activity in �iscal year 2022 as well.” Revenue from retail came in at $54.4 million, roughly $13.6 above forecast.
He is a graduate of Arcadia High School, where his son attends the special needs program. Vaules has been in the district for the last 16 years and was a substitute teacher here between 2016 andHe2018.serves on the Arizona Center for Disability Law board of directors and was recently named a 2022 Save Our Schools candidate for his pro-public education stance. He has also served on the state boards of the March of Dimes in Arizona and Minnesota.
Funding is Vaules’ main issue. Part of that is paying teachers properly, he said. He also thinks the school district needs to do a better job marketing itself.
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In other business, the council heard a report from Scottsdale City Treasurer Sonia Andrews on the city’s �inancial situation for the current �iscal year. She said, “The General Fund remains very healthy. Overall the General Fund ended the year with a record … growth again, up 15% over last year and 21% overThebudget.”General Fund typically grows 3% to 6% per year.
This year’s “phenomenal” growth was largely due to a “post-pandemic spending spree and pent up demand,” Andrews said.Retail sales was the largest category of income. “Consumers from �iscal year 2022 have been buying everything from electronics to home furnishing and online sales also sky rocketed,” Andrews said.
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During her young daughter’s unsuc cessful cancer fight, Christie Funari formed the Scottsdale nonprofit, called the Arizona Cancer Foundation for Chil dren. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer) see CANCER page 27 see CORY page 27
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Even as she moved in 2020, Funari knew that this facility was just a stepping stone toward moving into a larger facility.
Founded in Fresno, California, Help ing One Woman supports “one woman at a time move forward on her journey through times of devastating trouble and loss.”Each Helping One Woman chapter hon ors a recipient each month whose name is drawn from nominations submitted by women in attendance and randomly se lected at the previous month’s dinner. Attendees purchase their own meal and provide a $10 or greater cash gift at each month’s dinner. This monetary gift the participants offer to each recipient sup plements their income. According to the website, “the overwhelming emotional and heartfelt support that we give our re cipients is the energy behind the Helping One Woman organization.” Kimberly was nominated by Zack Ren schler, the director of the United Goodyear
Firefighters Charities, and her name was chosen randomly by a previous honoree. The United Goodyear Firefighters L4005 is teaming with Helping One Woman for the“Itevent.isbeautiful,” Renschler said of the dinner. “A lot of the attention is on Cory, which I totally understand. He was diag nosed with ALS and watching what it’s doing to his body is hard. This is a good opportunity to highlight Kim. She’s the backbone of that family. “On another level, it just describes how good of a person and character she is. Cory gets a lot of the spotlight, as he should. Secretly, Kim’s a hero, too.” Also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a rare, fatal neurological disease that primarily
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“(It) is extremely isolating to have a child with cancer because you’re either stuck at home or you’re in the hospital because of their compromised immune system,” she said.“Since my daughter had to be isolated, my son had to be isolated and I had to be isolated,” she explained, adding that she yearned for “a space where I could walk through the doors, feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders and my kids would have been ecstatic there.” Two years after Ava’s passing in 2012, Funari decided it was time to create a space where families could forego their isolation and have a place to play, converse andSherelax.founded the Arizona Cancer Foun dation for Children.
Kimberly Nochta is a natural care giver. Taking care of others comes easily to the southern Scottsdale resident, who was dubbed an “old soul” as a Nochtachild. followed in her mother’s foot steps and became a nurse. Her instincts kicked in when her 37-year-old Goodyear firefighter husband, Cory, was diagnosed with ALS on Oct. 19, 2020, forcing him to medically retire late last year. She took on a second job all the while making time for their blended family and Cory’s doctor’s appointments.
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“I said we need to create a space where they can come and I named it Ava’s Tree House, obviously to work my daughter’s name in, and then ‘tree house’ because it appeals to all ages,” Funari said.
“We started small. I started in my house for the first two years where I was just do ing financial assistance for families and then it grew into the need for counseling and toys,” Funari said. “I would also no tice when they would come in here, they would want to stay all day because they were so isolated.”
Chrisie Funari knows firsthand how isolating it can feel caring for a child with cancer. Her daughter Ava was diagnosed with neuroblastoma when she was 18 months old and fought it for the next three and a half years. She passed away at age 5. During that time, Funari discovered how isolating the fight against childhood can cer can be.
“This was the middle stepping stone be cause I knew when we moved into here that I wanted to have a larger Ava’s tree house someday. This was just always our temporary home,” Funari said.
Kimberly and Cory Nochta were married in 2018, the same year he was hired by the Goodyear Fire Department. (Kimberly Nochta)
Helping One Woman Goodyear will honor Kimberly on Tuesday, Sept. 13, at The Wigwam’s Sachem Ballroom, 300 E. Wigwam Boulevard, Litchfield Park.
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Fast forward to 2016 and Funari did just that when she opened Ava’s Tree House, a 1,200-square-foot facility off of Hayden Road near Raintree Drive. She remained there until 2020 and then relocated to a larger space north of loop 101 at the corner of Raintree Drive and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard.
Cancer eyes larger family space
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Funari also receives nearly a quarter of her funding through the Arizona Charitable Tax Credit and Funari also plans to host her third annual Ava’s Tree House Gala in October.Despite all of her fundraising efforts, Funari considers herself fortunate to be in her position.
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Kabito Poke has teamed up with the Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children by donating $2 from every signature bowl sold to the foundation during the month of September, which is also National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
Funari’s Ava’s Tree House offers families with children fighting cancer a place to play and relax. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer) CANCER ���� page 24 affects the nerve cells responsible for controlling voluntary muscle movement. Voluntary muscles produce movements like chewing, walking and talking. Cory and Kimberly were born and raised in the North Phoenix area, graduating from Shadow Mountain High School in 2001 and 2000, respectively. Kimberly’s brother played Little League baseball with Cory but the two didn’t connect until they were older. They married in 2018, the same year Cory was hired by the Goodyear Fire Department.
“It’s been really good for both of us to have a partner who works in service and helping others,” said Kimberly, a labor and delivery nurse. “We have a blended family. I have two boys; my oldest son has autism. Cory’s kiddos are almost the same age. He has a son and daughter. It’s a busy life with chauffeuring them around to stuff and everything that goes with raising schoolaged kids.” Cory knew something was wrong in the spring 2020 when, after getting out of the shower in the station, his left toe wouldn’t extend forward from the weight of his sock. “I thought it was strange,” said Cory, who played football at Phoenix College under Ron Wolfley. “It happened again and again and then all of my toes started not working properly. That’s when I knew something was definitely wrong. From the many different tests I had, we ruled out everything. I made sure that they weren’t going to miss anything. Eventually, through an EMG test, I was diagnosed with ALS.” Electromyography measures muscle response or electrical activity in response to a nerve’s stimulation of the muscle. The test is used to help detect neuromuscular abnormalities. During the test, one or more small needles (also called electrodes) are inserted through the skin into the muscle. Inspired by their service careers, the couple advocated for a correct diagnosis for Cory. “I think it helps that we have a medical background,” Kimberly said. “Not everyone goes into appointments like that. Cory had a fairly quick diagnosis. Some people spend years and have multiple surgeries before they find out it’s ALS. It’s a tough diagnosis to get. It’s by exception.”Acureisn’t available for ALS, but Cory has stem cells infused monthly to slow the progression. It worked initially, but Kimberly said she’s not sure it’s making a difference now. The disease is fatal, but
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Now, Funari plans to move into an over 12,000-square-foot building off 70th street and Shea Boulevard at the beginning of Partially2023.toown the facility of her dreams but also to accommodate the growing number of families who rely on her services and to serve the growing needs of families as they try to navigate through a period of “Inflationinflation.hasbeen hard for our families and we are seeing an increased need for sure,” Funari said. “Having a child with cancer is financially devastating, to begin with, but now to have to pay more in gas just to get to the hospital or buy food, it’s so hard on them.” Funari is also feeling a bit of a pinch because of short supplies and rising costs as she prepares to move to the new space. That is why she is still seeking funding through a capital campaign so she can renovate her new space – where she plans to include a playground, cinema, sports court, dining room, music room and library at. “We are in a capital campaign since we do need to raise funding for the renovations of the building and those renovations won’t take place until we’ve raised the money,” Funari said. The capital campaign is not the only initiative that Funari is working on at the moment.
doctors give Nochta hope. “There are a couple medications that don’t have the best side effects but they can help extend time until you are on a ventilator, maybe a couple months,” she said.“That’s not anything Cory wants to do. We aren’t taking part in any of the medications. You have to weigh those pros and cons of medication. For Cory, it wasn’t anything he wanted to do at this point.” Cory said the support his family has received has been “amazing.” “They’ve been helping us from the time I was diagnosed to now trying to help raise money,” he said slowly. “The guys and gals I worked with are incredible.” Goodyear firefighter Michael Gugel, who lives in Peoria, went through the academy with Cory in 2018 and that’s when he met Kimberly. “She’s always been like the fun mom,” Gugel said with a laugh. “A lot of us were a little bit younger who were getting hired. We could call Cory ‘dad’ as a joke. She would come in and she’d always take care of us. She has a very sweet personality and is very giving of her time. She’s a labor and delivery nurse. She works there most of the time. “Then she picked up a second job as a mobile IV person. She’s the light behind the scenes. She’s taking care of Cory. She’s always positive. She never gets down— even when the times are hard. She’s never once complained. She’s never once felt sorry for herself. They always have the most positive outlook on everything. They have tons of support and love.” She rarely asks for help, either, Gugel said. The family is trying to save more than $150,000 to purchase a van to transport Cory when he needs a power chair. So far, the Arizona Cardinals and Desert Financial Credit Union donated a total of $25,000. Watch a documentary, here: https://bit.ly/NochtaDocumentary “It’s just a drop in the bucket of what they actually need,” Gugel said. “It’s been a challenge, but it’s been an honor for the two of us to come alongside them and really figure out how we can best help them at that time.”
Helping One Woman Goodyear When: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13 Where: The Wigwam, Sachem Ballroom, 300 E. Wigwam Blvd/, Litchfield Park Cost: $10 minimum cash gift for recipient; $23 optional dinner includes appetizer, main entrée and nonalcoholic beverage. The deadline for dinner is Friday, Sept. 9. Info: bit.ly/KimberlyNochta, howgoodyearaz@gmail.com
“I feel so grateful and honored that I can give back and provide to these families, services and programs that I never had,” she said. “The support of our community and our volunteers is unbelievable and to know that I did that in my daughter’s name, it’s bigger than I can even wrap my headInformation:around.” azcancerfoundation.org
The lineup of speakers includes: Mayor David Ortega, Trayham, Scottsdale Diversity Director Jackie Johnson, Scottsdale Economic Development Director Rob Millar, Art Hamilton Group founder Art Hamilton and Danny Seiden, president and CEO of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Other speakers include Cloves Campbell, co-publisher of the Arizona Informant; Eric Standifer, president and CEO of Blaylock Van; Ashlee Atkins, president of Greater Phoenix Urban League Young Professionals; Mark Stanton, president and CEO of the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce; and Keasha Beach, executive director of BASE Arizona. “We are very excited about how the event is coming together and the compelling speakers and content we will be bringing together on September 14,” Trayham said.“We are grateful to our sponsors – particularly Salt River Project, Blaylock Van, Country Financial and the ASU Of�ice of Economic Development – for making this event possible. We are looking forward to advancing the discussion of diversity in business and creating invaluable connections for corporations and entrepreneurs in our Joiningcommunity.”Hamilton and Johnson as cosponsors is Cameron Robb, senior development consultant at APS.
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There will be two program tracks. Track 1 is designed for public and private companies seeking to increase diversity outcomes.Track 2 incorporates business development programs to attract and grow the minority small business community. Workshop topics will include using disruption to advance business strategy, entrepreneurship 101, supplier diversity, inclusive decision-making, and recognizing and overcoming �inancial challenges. The program will include break-out sessions and training workshops covering various topics and industries with the aim of moving 100 or more companies forward and expanding fast-growing diverse small businesses across the Valley.
PROGRESS NEWS STAFF Starting a business takes more than a good idea and hard work. It takes knowledge on how to gain access to capital and an understanding of business principles to be successful. “It’s not what you don’t know that will hurt you, it’s what you don’t know you don’t know,” said Dr. Velma Trayham, CEO of Thinkzilla, a diversity, equity and inclusion (consultant agency. And often minorities do not have access to that information, Trayham said. It took Trayham six years of starting companies and failing before learning some key lessons but Thinkzilla now has of�ices in Houston, Atlanta, Miami and Scottsdale. Likewise, creating an environment of diversity and inclusion in a business takes more than knowing a few buzz words. That is what the 2022 United Diversity Business Summit is for. The program will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sept. 14 at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Center, 7380 E. Second St., Scottsdale. The theme for the free program is “Enhancing the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem through Diversity, Community and Innovation.”For more information or to UnitedDiversityBusinessSummit.com.register:
struggle of addiction,” Scottsdale Recovery Center said in a release. She holds a bachelor of business administration from Northern Arizona University.”
Scottsdale Recovery Clinic’s new leadership team includes, from left: Andrea Dermott, Jennifer Govan and Aymet Demara. (Special to the Progress)
Scottdale Recovery Center names 3 to new posts
Scottsdale Recovery Center, an inpatient and outpatient drug rehabilitation, addiction and medical detox facility, has appointed three people to new leadership roles to expand the organization’s therapeutic and development potential.Thenew positions and people who are holding them are Andrea Dermott, director of business development; Jennifer Govan,w clinical director, and Aymet Demara, associate clinical director. Dermott joined Scottsdale Recovery Center in January 2019 as a lab technician, then became an administrative assistant and and most recently was the operations manager. She had joined the clinic as a patient and has an “empathic connection to the
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Govan is a licensed independent substance abuse counselor with a master of arts in organizational management and a master of science in professional counseling.Demara is a licensed associate substance abuse therapist with experience at a children’s behavioral health clinic and a substance abuse treatment center,. Since 2009, Scottsdale Recovery Center has helped people deal with active alcohol, opioid, cocaine, and other addictions.
“So, we wanted to have an opportunity for the young people at our teen centers and people in the community to possibly perform that event and create some more community awareness for the Christmas pudding fundraiser,” he explained.
Applications are open for perform ers ages 12 to 25 to compete in Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Cen ter’s annual music and dance competition.
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BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer Horse season is set to kick off in Scottsdale Sept. 14, when the threeday Arabian National Breeders Fi nals return to WestWorld. A small sampling of the grand Arabian Horse show that comes to Scottsdale ev ery February, the event is one of the few shows in the world where fans can see weanlings – or infant horses – trot around alongside some of the finest horses from around the globe.
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father of shock rock at his famous annual concert.“We’ve been a charity for 26 years and the core fundraiser that our nonprofit does is called Christmas Pudding,” said Randy Spencer, a consultant for Alice Coo per’s Solid Rock Teen Center and head of community partnerships.
“We’ve also grown in our efforts to make the show elegant and beautiful; through that, we’ve attracted, you know, the topend horses to compete at this show,” O’Shea said. Not only does the show attract some of the shiniest equines from across the world, but its setup complements the competing horses’ coats and other features. “We set it up to look like a stage in that we have black curtains along the whole back of the arena. The horses compete in this beautiful venue where there’s a red carpet and lighting,” O’Shea said. Horses will compete in classes based on their age, from a month to 15 years. In the mornings, the horses show off how well they can ride in different disci plines.“So,the people ride the horses in differ ent disciplines like Hunter Pleasure, West ern Pleasure and English Pleasure – where they lift their legs really high when they trot,” O’Shea said. Following the elegant morning fanfare will be a show where horses will be judged once again, but this time on their beauty
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Applications are being accepted until Sept. 16 to compete for a chance to open for famed shock rocker Alice Cooper at his annual Christmas Pudding show. (Courtesy of Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Centers.)
O’Shea has seen the show grow in qual ity and prestige since its debut in 2011.
The winner or winners will receive up to $1,000 cash and the opportunity to open for Alice Cooper and many other celebrity musicians on December 3rd at the annual Christmas Pudding fundraiser concert. Applications are being accepted until Sept. 16. Not long after that musicians will compete in a series of four gigs spread across four venues and eight nights to determine who is fit to open for the god
“It’s a boutique show that we started and our vision was to host a high-end horse show that attracted the best Arabian horses from around the country to Scott sdale,” said Arabian Horse Association of Arizona Executive Director Taryl O’Shea. “We wanted it to be a boutique show because we wanted it to be intimate and people to have a good time.”
The Arabian Breeders Finals is set to return to WestWorld of Scotts dale beginning Wednesday, Sept. 14. (Steve Bagdasarian Photography)
In addition to providing a platform for local youth to show off their musical prowess, Spencer hopes to raise awareness for all of the things that Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Center has to offer. “People need a safe space and a positive space to play and we also want more people to know about our teen center is what we do every day,” he said. Because of this, Spencer added, this is more than just a music competition.
“We’re not looking for anyone that’s cute and we’re not looking for anyone that’s only hard rock just because it’s Alice Cooper,” Spencer said. “We’re looking for great entertainers, we’re looking for great musicianship and great positions. That could be in mariachi, it can be in hip hop or it can be in metal, we just want Althoughgreatness.”thereare no limits to the types of music and dance that performers can show off, Spencer admits that some common trends emerge among the performers each year.
As the horses trot through the sandy pastures inside of WestWorld, fans can indulge in activities around the stadium. Food and drinks and an array of locally made products and crafts will be available for purchase.
“When you have someone like Ed Sheeran is really big and popular, you get a lot of kids doing loops and things like that and then we also got a lot of kids kind of emulating the Billie Eilish type of style,” Spencer“Everysaid. year we have R&B, hip hop, EDM, metal and blues, so it’s it is a hybrid of everything, But if Bruno Mars is successful, you’ll see a lot of kids kind of doing the Bruno Mars kind of thing or if Coldplay is successful that year, etc. you see a lot of kids probably emulating that.”
The first show is set to take place at Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Teen Center in North Phoenix Sept. 27-29. From there, the sound travels to Paradise Valley Community College Oct. 14-15 and with Copper Blues Live at Desert Ridge Marketplace on Oct. 24-25 before concluding at the Mesa Arts Center on Nov. 15. It is at those shows where Spencer says the performers’ nerves usually kick in. “It’s pretty nerve-racking for a lot of these kids, but a lot of these kids are so brave when we see them,” Spencer said.
“We just wanted to create a safe atmosphere that young people who also don’t might get an opportunity to perform at Mesa Art Center at the beginning of your career, or perform at cool venues like Paradise Valley Community College is a beautiful theater and just give them a platform so they can have something positive to do and they can get to know 100 plus other young musicians.”
“We have a small selection, but a highend selection of artists, jewelers and clothing that our horse exhibitors buy things from and so we’ve kept it small and allowed handpicked vendors to come that fit the ambiance of the horse show to vend here,” O’Shea said.
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“There’s an opportunity to engage with kids year-round and all the kids that are part of the visa competition and they are engaged year-round,” he said. “We do workshops with them throughout the year and jam sessions with a lot of popular musicians, so it’s not only a competition, but it’s truly a community.
and conformation in comparison to the standard of the Arabian horse.
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O’Shea said her favorite part of the competition is glancing at the future of the Arabian horse scene when the starryeyed weanlings trot through the grounds and listening ton the conversations that emerge from the spectators during the show.“My favorite part personally, is seeing the babies compete,” she said. “It is just such a fun thing to see them in the showroom together. This show also has a lot of really good camaraderie and people take time to visit and get to know one another better.” Whether people come out to shop, sip or enjoy a unique show, O’Shea said there is one thing to be expected from the three days of competition and fanfare. “Expect a well-put-together horse show that has some of the best horses, a cool ambiance and then just some good camaraderie,” she said. “Expect an Arabian extravaganza with a lot of fun.”
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The Social Tap in Scottsdale is the Giants fan go-to headquarters for like-minded folks who enjoy a beer and good food while watching their team. (Special to the Progress) see BARS
Info: 4312 N. Brown Ave., Scottsdale, socialtapscottsdaleaz.com
Detroit Coney Grill pairs comfort food with a great environment with ample televisions and a full bar featuring some of Michigan’s beers. The bar runs a dai ly special that features two coney dogs, a side order of French fries and a foun tain drink for $13.85. On game days, Detroit Coney Grill has beer specials on its rotating Michigan-based beers.
RAMS Max’s Sports Bar Established in 1979, Max’s features more than 100 flat-screen televisions and a recently redeveloped smoking patio. For the Rams, the sports bar houses a massive room decked out in Rams gear and sits 80 people.
BY JORDAN ROGERS Progress Staff Writer T he 2022 professional football season is filled with eye-grabbing Tomheadlines.Bradyretired, then unretired this offseason and is back for another Super Bowl run with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This season could be the last one for the five-time Super Bowl champion and three-time MVP. Many stars were traded this offsea son and will certainly impact their new teams.Andfor the first time in recent mem ory, there isn’t a clear-cut Super Bowl favorite. A third of the league, give or take, has at least an outsider’s shot to win Super Bowl LVII that will be played at State Farm Stadium in Glendale. All of that to be said, numerous spots around the Valley are ready to host fans of America’s Game to watch the season play out. Depending on who you root for, pay these bars a visit on Sundays to root for your favorite team with likeminded fans.
Info: 8005 E. Roosevelt St., Scottsdale, pubrocklive.com GIANTS Social Tap Scottsdale Social Tap Scottsdale is the official home of the local Giants fan club, “Big Blue of Arizona.” When Big Blue of Ari zona is in to watch Giants games, Social Tap offers Jell-O shots whenever the team scores a touchdown. In addition, raffles take place throughout the game.
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An official watch site for the Packers, Clancy’s advertises a big screen from every angle inside the pub. The menu is geared to a more Midwestern vibe with cheese curds and a dish featuring wall eye on game days. The pub also runs giveaways at halftime.
Info: 4432 N. Miller Road, Scottsdale, clancyspubscottsdale.com
Football fans have plenty of options among area bars
CARDINALS Bambino’s Sports Grill Bambino’s offers a game day vibe for Cardinals fans with 13 60-inch flatscreen televisions. In addition to the interior seating, Bambino’s features a patio seating area with a roll-up garage door. Putting an emphasis on support ing local breweries, the beer menu fea tures craft beers on draft and in a can from Four Peaks Brewery and San Tan Brewery.Info:3860 W. Happy Valley Road, Glendale, bambinossportsgrill.com
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Casey Jones Grill Casey Jones Grill opened back in 1993 and has been loyal to the Green Bay Packers from the start. On game days, Casey Jones offers a “Green Bay Bur rito,” priced at $13.99. Info: 2848 E. Bell Road, Phoenix, caseyjonesgrill.com
Clancy’s Pub Pizza & Grill
LIONS Detroit Coney Grill
PATRIOTS Bevvy OldTown Bevvy welcomes Patriots fans to its pub-style hangout with an expansive drink menu and bar fare-style food. Info: 4420 N. Saddlebag Trail, Scotts dale, bevvyaz.com
CHIEFS Pub Rock Live Pub Rock Live, which typically wel comes live music, transforms into a massive fanbase for the Chiefs and their fans. Dubbed “Arrowhead West,” Pub Rock brings in food trucks on game day. It also offers discounted beer prices and a $6 “Kingdom Shot” whenever the Chiefs score a touchdown.
Info: 6953 N. Hayden Road, Scotts dale, detroitconeygrill.com
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Just gimme football No favorite team? No worries. Sports bars abound in the East Valley and here are just a couple where fans of football generally can find like-minded people to enjoy a game on any given day. Here are just a few: Lucky Lou’s American Grill With locations at 3245 West Ray Road, Chandler; 1929 N Power Road, Mesa; and 23706 South Power Road in Queen Creek, East Valley fans won’t have to drive too far for good drinks, good food and good games at Lucky Lou’s. luckylousaz.com
Zipps is another sports bar with multiple TVs and multiple locations to satisfy any football fan: 4710 E. Warner Road, Ahwatukee; 690 S. Mill Ave. and 1860 E. Warner Road in Tempe; 4060 S. Arizona Ave. in Chandler’s Ocotillo neighborhood; and 211 E. Warner Road, Gilbert. zippssportsgrills.com.
Zipps Sports Grill
SEAHAWKS Wicked Rain Wicked Rain opened its doors back on March 23, and ever since has been showing love toward its roots in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), and now Arizona. With 40 beers on tap and another 70-plus in bottles and cans, Wicked Rain offers beers from the PNW area, Arizona, Oregon and Idaho.This Seahawks – and Cardinals –hangout spot features nine televisions and a 100-plus-inch big screen for viewership pleasure. They also do “Blue/Red Fridays” where guests wearing either a Seahawks or Cardinals jersey can receive $1 off their draft beer. For game days, they offer $4 pub beer and $16 pitchers. Info: 1817 E. Baseline Road, Gilbert, wickedrain.com.
All Cold Beer and Cheeseburgers have with more than 30 high-definition flat screen TVs, booming sound systems and a mouth-watering menu. Locations include 5005 E. Chandler Blvd., Ahwatukee; 1980 W Germann Road, Chandler; 4604 S. Higley Road, Gilbert; and four Scottsdale locations at 18529 N. Scottsdale Road, 4222 N. Scottsdale Road, E. Shea Blvd. and 10767 N. 116th St.
Blue 32 Sports Grill Blu 21 Sports Girll also has multiple locations – at 4845 S. Arizona Ave, Chandler; 1524 E. Williams Field Road and 6348 South Higley Road, Gilbert; and 2028 N Gilbert Road, Mesa –and offers a e. blue32sportsgrill.com.
Info: 6895 E. Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek, haroldscorral.com
STEELERS Harold’s Cave Creek Corral Harold’s Cave Creek Corral is one of the most well-known Steelers bars in the Steeler Nation. Harold’s seats a whopping 600 potential Steelers fans inside, and another 200 in its outside seating.Harold’s is partnered up with UNIBET, allowing its guests to experience a Vegas-like betting experience where games can be bet on live, or upcoming sporting events and ingame betting can be bet on as well. A specific game-day food and drink menu is available as well.
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