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Self-driving cars coming to Scottsdale BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

utonomous cars are coming to Scottsdale. General Motors will roll out its Cruise brand of electric, self-driving vehicles as part of a ride-hailing service in the coming months, according to Mayor David Ortega.

“I’m told they are coming off the production line right now … this is not hypothetical,” Ortega said. Ortega did not say when the vehicles would hit Scottsdale’s streets and a spokesman from GM’s Cruise operation did not return multiple phone calls. General Motors has been mapping Scottsdale’s streets for the last four months in

preparation of this program, Ortega said. The vehicles should cut down on congestion in town, Ortega believes. “I can tell you I have made many wrong turns driving to appointments. This is going to make things easier for everybody,” he said. Ortega said he has asked about the safety

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High court to consider masks in November BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

he Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments about whether the ban on mask mandates at public schools was legally enacted – meaning Scottsdale Uni�ied School District can proceed with keeping its mask requirement in place throughout this month. In a brief order, the court set a hearing for Nov. 2 on the bid by Attorney General Mark Brnovich to overturn a Sept. 27 ruling by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper that the provision in a new state law blocking schools from making these decisions was approved in an unconstitutional manner. The move means that Brnovich won’t have to �irst make his case to the Court of Appeals that Cooper’s ruling, which could forever change how legislation is enacted, overstepped her authority. The case eventually would have wound up with the high court as whoever lost at the appellate level would have sought review. But the expedited brie�ing schedule and the Nov. 2 hearing is a setback for attorney Roopali Desai, who represents the education groups and their allies that �irst sued and got Cooper to rule in their favor. She had wanted more time to prepare her arguments for the justices, as whatever they rule will set new legal precedents and could change forever how legislation is adopted. A normal court schedule would give her 30 days to respond to the state’s arguments. Instead, the justices told Brnovich to �ile his arguments by Tuesday, giving Desai a week after that to respond. And others who want to weigh in have to submit their briefs by Oct. 15. The justices also made it clear they don’t want to be buried in legal arguments. They limited each side’s opening legal briefs to no more than 5,000 words, about a third of what attorneys normally are allowed to �ile. In some ways, the decision to expedite was expected. The court previously has spurned Brnovich’s arguments that, given the

nature of the dispute and the effect on legislation, it should immediately put Cooper’s ruling on hold. The Nov. 2 hearing date guarantees a decision by the high court by the time lawmakers reconvene in January. Hanging in the balance is the future of the practice of lawmakers to put various apparently unrelated changes in state law into a package of what they call “budget reconciliation bills.’’ Desai charged – and Cooper agreed – that the practice at the very least violates a constitutional requirement that the title of a measure re�lect what is in it so as to inform not just lawmakers but the public. The judge noted, for example, that a bill titled as dealing with budget reconciliation for K-12 education also included a restriction on how schools can teach about race and gender, authorized lawsuits against public employees for conduct related to public schools, as well as making it illegal for school boards to require students and staff to wear masks while on campus. “What do these measures have to do with the budget?’’ Cooper asked. The judge also voided all or part of three other measures for similar reasons. Assistant Attorney General Michael Catlett, arguing for Brnovich, contends that it is up to lawmakers to decide what is relevant to a bill. And he said that courts are powerless to tell a separate branch of government how to operate. Cooper, however, said she is not telling lawmakers what to approve but instead determining if they acted in ac-

cord with the Arizona Constitution. “Whether the legislature complied with the requirements of (the Constitution) and whether a provision is reasonably related to ‘budget reconciliation’ are questions properly before the court,’’ she wrote. The reconciliation bills have often been used for “logrolling,’’ putting unpopular changes in law into a single package that forces legislators who want another provision to have to support because of the take-it-or-leave-it nature. That is precisely what happened earlier this year after lawmakers refused to approve a bill that proponents said prohibits the teaching of “critical race theory.’’ For example, it would bar teaching that someone is inherently biased due to those their ethnicity, race or sex, or that an individual should feel discomfort, guilt or psychological stress because of any of the same factors. But it became part of the larger K-12 budget reconciliation bill, a measure that, aside from the ban on mask mandates, also included changes in state aid formula for schools that many legislators support. If the Supreme Court upholds Cooper’s ruling, that practice would have to come to a halt. It isn’t just the Republican lawmakers who control the House and Senate who want the high court to void the decision. Her ruling also drew �ire from Gov. Doug Ducey, who supported the changes like the ban on school mask mandates, who called Cooper a “rogue judge.’’

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Ballots go out for Scottsdale General Plan election BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

allots for the Nov. 2 all-mail election on Scottsdale’s General Plan 2035 are starting to hit voters’ mailboxes. The plan is the city’s state-mandated long-range planning document that broadly guides development and growth in the city. If approved, this will be the �irst General Plan adopted by voters in 20 years and would bring the city back into compliance with state law, which requires cities to post voter-approved changes every 10 years. Unlike the General Plan 2011, which was shot down by the voters, Mayor David Ortega said the General Plan 2035 is the result of open and honest discourse between City Council and the public. “Regarding the 2011 failure, it stumbled badly because it was unable to get a complete conversation, a full conversation, with all the stakeholders,” Ortega said. The General Plan 2011 was adopted by Council 5-2 but was rejected by voters 5248 percent. General Plan 2035 was approved unanimously by Council but Councilwoman Kathy Little�ield said she only voted for it in order to get it on the ballot. “I will not personally be voting for it, for several reasons,” Little�ield said. “The two main reasons are: The vision statement is weak and doesn’t re�lect what residents want Scottsdale to be in the future, and the matrix for land use changes actually weakens the protections on our land usage, encouraging over development. “I urge citizens to review the revised general plan very carefully and compare it to our current plan. The new plan has many pretty pictures, but don’t be fooled: it is not bene�icial to the long-term viability of our beautiful city.” Vice Mayor Betty Janik disagrees. “It’s a really, really good plan,” she said. “It does a great job protecting open space, a great job with sustainability and it does a great job with the environment.” The plan is similar to the 2001 General Plan with a few key additions: a new ele-

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Corporation Commission examining Scottsdale gas leak BY JENNA SAUTER Contributor

he Arizona Corporation Commission met with Southwest Gas representatives two weeks ago to resolve three recent gas-related incidents – including a gas leak that forced the evacuation of some Scottsdale homes – and discuss how to prevent more from happening. A plastic pipe that caused an explosion in Chandler, a gas leak that evacuated a Scottsdale neighborhood and tampered pipes on a Phoenix bridge all raise questions for safer protocols in central Arizona’s piping infrastructure, commission members said. “We cannot allow Arizonans to be afraid of the pipe beneath their feet,” Commissioner Sandra Kennedy said. “I see no greater calling as a commissioner than to protect Arizonans from incidents such as what occurred in Chandler on Aug. 26, 2021.” The Chandler explosion happened around 9:30 a.m. at Platinum Printing, a family-owned printing shop for almost

15 years, in a strip mall at Rural and Ray roads. The owners and brothers, Andrew, and Dillon Ryan were among the four critically injured with burns ranging from 16-30 percent of their bodies. All were treated at the Arizona Burn Center and are expected to make a full recovery. In Scottsdale, up to 20 homes in a neighborhood around Paradise Lane and McDowell Mountain Ranch were evacuated Sept. 9, for a reported underground gas leak. Over 200 �ire�ighters, Hazmat teams, and representatives of Southwest Gas arrived to investigate a suspected gas odor. Over 300 homes in the area lost power and gas. Those that were evacuated from their homes were bussed to a nearby community center. The Corporation Commission heard Southwest Gas representatives explain why the blast occurred. “A crack in the 1 inch- DriscoPipe or “m8000,” resulted in a gas leak that was caused by degradation over time due to elevated temperatures that we see here in Maricopa County,” said Luis Frisby, the

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pressed concerns over future gas leaks and emphasized the need to hold utilities accountable. “While Southwest Gas and other gas companies can come before you today or in the future and try to provide justi�ication for each leak, the fact of the matter remains that the commission needs to remember that anywhere there is gas, there is a possibility for leaks,” Brown said. “It is clear to us that the commission needs to hold Southwest Gas and other companies accountable for maintaining and operating their equipment and discourage investment in newer advancement in gas infrastructure,” said Brown. Southwest Gas promised a documented outline for more enhanced protocols to be established, to reexamine all potentially hazardous pipes owned by the company and collaborate with other gas companies and entities that may use m8000 pipes. There was no indication of any �ines anticipated, and the commission is considering another workshop with Southwest Gas and other gas companies to discuss further action.

utility’s vice president for Central Arizona. “There was an error in the construction records and the pipe was misidenti�ied as another pipe, m8100, which led to false measures to take place,” he said. The m8000 pipe was purchased by Southwest Gas between 1980 and 1999 and was speci�ically installed in the Platinum Printing’s building in 1999. According to Southwest Gas, the DriscoPipe, or “m8000,” was also the culprit in the Scottsdale leak. Southwest Gas President/CEO John Hester told commissioners that prompt actions are being taken to implement new protocols so that “situations that we’ve had in Chandler and Scottsdale never happen again.” “It will include extensive leak inspections, including mobile and walking leak patrols of pipe installations and similar types installed in 1999 to 2001,” Hester said. Diane Brown, executive director of the Arizona Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, was one of the three public callers in the meeting who ex-

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Scottsdale church pays $10.7M for permanent home BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

n just �ive and a half years the Illuminate Community Church has gone from Pastor Jason Fritz’s living room to its 31,000-square-foot rental “home” near E. Princess Drive and the 101 Highway in Scottsdale. But now the congregation is making the industrial building, built in 2000, a permanent home. The church agreed to buy it for $10.75 million from a New York City moving company, which had bought it in 2018 for $2.7 million – six years after it was �irst sold for $3.3 million, according to the real estate tracker vizzda.com. Illuminate Church stayed brie�ly in an old gymnastics warehouse but moved into its current location at 17800 N. Perimeter Drive about �ive years ago. It put $3.3 million down on the purchase. “Our people have been extremely generous,” Fritz said. The church boasts a congregation of a little over 1,000 people and to call it dynamic might be an understatement. “We have a saying: ‘Where God guides, he provides,’” Fritz said. The church partners with over 10 different groups to spread different ministries from the Sunnyslope neighborhood in North Central Phoenix to Cuba, Palestine and North Africa. The church partners its mobile soup kitchen with the Hope in the Slope nonpro�it to provide meals to the homeless in Sunnyslope. “It’s good food too,” Fritz said. “It’s like what you would get off a high-end food truck.” The idea is to treat people with respect

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of the vehicles, but also added he’s more worried about distracted drivers. “I am concerned of the inattention of people with their texting and on social media on clear days with good weather,” he said. And a self-driving ride-hail service is a better option to mass transit than light rail. “That is so two centuries ago,” Ortega said. Cruise is a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors. According to the company website, Cruise autonomous vehicles have logged over 2 million miles of San Francisco’s streets, according to the company website. The website says the vehicles use over 40 sensors with a 360 degree view it claims can see hundreds of feet ahead and can detect surrounding objects within centimeters. It also claims cars’ computer can react quicker than a human brain. The cars are built on the foundation of a Chevy Bolt, with 40 percent of its hardware unique to self-driving vehicles, according to the company’s website. Autonomous car company Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car Project, has been operating out of Chandler since April 2017 and early last year started a ride-hailing service that operates within a 50-mile radius. Scottsdale is not within that radius and Waymo has been circumspect about when it might include at least a portion of the city. Currently, its autonomous vehicles serve parts of Chandler, Mesa, Tempe and Gilbert. Waymo vehicles have endured accidents – usually caused by vehicles with human drivers – and even harassment since they hit the street.

It looks like it won't be too long before Scottsdale residents see autonomous vehicles like this Cruise tooling around.

Police have been called to at least 20 incidents involving Waymo vehicles, which use advanced sensors and cameras to navigate roadways, since January 2020. Some of those accidents have resulted from Waymo minivans unexpectedly slowing down and stopping in the middle of streets and intersections. Waymo vehicles have also been damaged in a number of hit-and-run accidents. Likewise, police have reported incidents of one person throwing an ice cream cone and another chucking eggs at Waymo vehicles. There have been multiple reports of people throwing rocks at the vehicles and

one man was arrested in 2018 for recklessly aiming his �irearm at a Waymo vehicle. One Chandler resident told police he felt like a Waymo vehicle was stalking his family at a nearby park because it kept hovering around them. The company later explained that it had been testing its vehicles in the neighborhood and that several were moving in and out of the area, according to police reports. CNBC reported last week that Cruise is targeting a �leet of at least 1 million selfdriving vehicles by 2030. During a GM investor event Wednesday, Cruise CEO Dan Ammann said, “We ex-

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This graphic, part of the study of heat and trees in Scottsdale, compares income in various neighborhoods with the amount of shade and subsequent average temps.

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this tight coupling of income and land surface temperatures,” said ASU Associate Professor David Hondula from the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning. “Perhaps it’s no surprise that places in Scottsdale, where the average household has lower income have higher land surface temperatures,” Hondula said. “It’s a pretty tight coupling for Scottsdale, similar to what we’ve seen in regional and national analysis.” He said the �indings have implications for future efforts to adapt to climate change. “I think this presents an important challenge for the sustainability process to continue,” he said. “Places that might be prioritized for cooling are also the places where residents may be least likely be able to afford or implement some of the important cooling strategies.” Trees cool down their surroundings and poorer neighborhoods simply have less vegetation. One of the biggest reasons for that is

the either real or perceived cost of water, Hondula said, explaining that older development designs also provide very little opportunity for tree planting and tend to contain more blacktop. “We do see this tension between new development and existing infrastructure,” Hondula said. “I think it’s a pretty safe bet that a lot of new development that’s happened, even development that’s occurred in the past �ive or 10 years, is cool.” Hondula noted some codes “require a certain amount of the landscape to be re�lective or have trees or other desired cooling properties.” “Existing infrastructure is a real thorn in our side when thinking about how we can become cooler and the places we focused on in this project, the growth areas, already have a lot of existing infrastructure,” he said. Mayor David Ortega noted that regulations requiring developers to plant and maintain trees have been on the books for 50 years. But how closely those regulations are en-

forced appears to be a different story. “We don’t have at this time an active enforcement group to go out and cite them,” Scottsdale Environmental Initiatives Manager Tim Conner said. “We do have code enforcement but they are doing other things than looking for trees in parking lots.” Councilwoman Solange Whitehead called for more enforcement of the rules. Of the 20 hottest areas in metropolitan Scottsdale, 19 were located in the southern half of the city – speci�ically, a 4.2-mile, largely residential area south of McDowell and west of Hayden roads. Tree density is approximately half in this area of the city’s greenest neighborhoods. In the meantime, the Indian Bend Wash appears to be the coolest part of town. It is about 2 degrees Fahrenheit to 3 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than surrounding neighborhoods. What is not known yet is if that cooling effect from the vegetation in the wash affects other areas when the wind blows. The city’s growth areas in general are

hotter than the rest of the city, according to the report. Scottsdale’s average summer temperature is 122.5 degree Fahrenheit, while the average temperature is 129 degrees Fahrenheit at the Airpark, 129.5 degrees Fahrenheit in Old Town and 131.4 degrees Fahrenheit in South Scottsdale. The report made three recommendations to mitigate heat in the city: • Increase tree canopy, particularly along frequently traveled pedestrian walkways as well as the south and west facades of buildings. • Reduce the land area of exposed dark asphalt, dark roofs and other hot surfaces. • Improve and increase pedestrian shade amenities through building-integrated and free-standing shade structures, particularly along frequently traveled walkways and in location that support public transportation. Information from the heat mitigation report will be included in the city’s sustainability report, which is expected to be �inished in late summer or early fall 2022.

It’s not an isolated incident. The DC Ranch Homeowners’ Association says the trees have become so invasive – breaking up sidewalks and pipes – that it wants to rip out some 670 trees and replace them with something else. It wants to, but it can’t. The City of Scottsdale won’t let them do it.

The Development Review Board recently voted unanimously to block the HOA’s plans. “The application was for maintenance and as one board member said, he did not feel removing 670 trees is maintenance,” said Scottsdale Councilwoman Solange Whitehead.

The HOA is appealing the decision before Council Nov. 9. Mike Norton, a risk mitigation specialist the HOA hired to help guide them through the situation, says the city is being unduly heavy-handed.

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Drought prospects grim, of�icials tell Senate BY ULYSSE BEX Cronkite News

ASHINGTON – State and federal of�icials told a Senate panel last week that there may be long-term solutions to the historic drought gripping the West – and the water shortages that come with it – but that the short-term outlook remains grim. The hearing comes against the backdrop of a 20-year-long drought that has left about 90 percent of the West affected. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., said tree-ring and soil evidence indicates that the region may be going through the worst drought in 1,200 years – certainly the worst in the 100 years or so that records have been kept. “Arizona is on the front lines of this megadrought,” said Kelly, who chaired the Senate Energy and Natural Resourc-

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ment focusing on education and callouts to preserve the city’s equestrian and western heritage, protect the Scottsdale Airport and proposals addressing climate change. “The education element is a huge plus,” Ortega said. Maybe most importantly to getting the plan approved by the voters, Janik said, the new plan protects the integrity of land parcels in the northern half of the city. “They’re being subdivided and sold off in one-acre parcels and (voters in Northern Scottsdale) don’t want that,” Janik said. The plan also keeps in place a stipu-

Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., said that 90 percent of the western U.S. is currently under some level of drought and that Arizona is “on the front lines of this megadrought.” The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommitee hearing on the drought and Western water resources comes as Colorado River reservoirs are at historic lows. (Kimberly Silverio-Bautista/Cronkite News)

lation that states a major general plan amendment is triggered when parcels of 10 acres or more in southern Scottsdale are rezoned but that criteria jumps to 15 acres in the city’s northern half. Unlike minor changes to the General Plan, major amendments are only heard once a year and require approval of a council supermajority. The General Plan does not completely dictate the look of growth in Scottsdale, though, Janik said. “At the end of the day city council gets to vote on the zoning change requests so we should be able to control it,” she said. Councilman Tom Durham likes the education piece of the plan as well as the way it handles tourism. 2019 & 2020 Best of Scottsdale winner for

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“We made a separate element of tourism, that is obviously very important to Scottsdale’s future and economy,” he said. The plan also strengthens development standards in a number of ways, ensuring incompatible developments do not abut each other and it also protects a diversity of housing in the city, from free-standing, single family homes to apartments. “We’re making it clear there is a place in Scottsdale for everybody to live,” Durham said. Councilwoman Linda Milhaven said the current plan is the product of an arduous public review process that took years to complete and involved a signi�icant review by a 13-member citizen task force made up of members of city boards and

es subcommittee hearing. When water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell fell to historic lows in August, it triggered a multistate water conservation plan that will take effect next year. Under that plan, Nevada will give up 21,000 acre-feet of water that it would otherwise pull from Lake Mead, Mexico will give up 80,000 acre-feet and Arizona will give up 512,000 acre-feet, or 18 percent of its total. Kelly, who called Lake Mead and Lake Powell “the poster children for Western drought,” said Arizona is “prepared for these initial cutbacks” after years of planning and conservation efforts. But he and others at the hearing worried about what will happen when the situation gets worse – which they all agreed it will.

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commissions. That task force met 13 times in 2020 to review and edit the plan in meetings that lasted as long as six hour. “Not only was there a lot of opportunity for folks to comment, council took those comments very, very seriously and made lots of changes based on those comments,” Milhaven said. In general, the plan is a solid vision for the city’s future, Ortega said. “Every kind of organization, every sort of business and even household plans with a �ive-year and a 10-year horizon,” he said. “It is citizen driven. The city council, the staff and the citizens put it together and brought it to us voters so that we can af�irm the Scottsdale we love.”

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“I don’t think the city has the authority to do what it’s doing right now,” Norton said. The city isn’t the only one that doesn’t want the trees ripped out either. Some of the residents in the upscale neighborhood on the northwest corner of Thompson Peak Parkway and Legacy Boulevard also don’t want the trees removed. “If you go and you talk to a family who is losing someone, a person or a pet, well losing a tree is sometimes almost as big of a deal to some people,” Norton admitted. Darren Shaw, the HOA’s prior executive director, understands where individual property owners are coming from. Sissoo trees are pretty and the treelined streets are an important part of the aesthetic of the neighborhood of multimillion-dollar homes. “If you lived out there you probably wouldn’t want them removed either,” Shaw said. The HOA doesn’t want to remove the trees all at once, despite what some property owners seem to believe, Shaw said. The project would be done in sections and would take years to complete, according to the HOA’s plan. “The association’s only objective is to correct the mistake (of planting the invasive trees). That’s all it wants to do. It’s not political,” Shaw said. The HOA has been actively studying the issue for the last three years, Shaw said, and waiting to do something about it is only going to make the problem worse. The roots of the tree can expand as much as 100 feet from the base and they don’t respect property lines. Things are going to get ugly once people’s trees start breaking up their neighbors’ property, Shaw said. “It’s going to pit neighbor against neighbor,” Shaw said. Shaw �igures the city design review

board has overstepped its jurisdiction by getting involved in an issue between and HOA and its residents. The design review board oversees the aesthetics of developments, but Norton said this particular development was built (and the trees were planted) almost two decades ago. Whitehead said she got involved when residents approached her. She said she tried to get both sides, the HOA (whose board is not elected by the homeowners) and the homeowners to wait 30 days before doing anything but the HOA wasn’t amenable to that. “This isn’t about winning or losing, it’s about helping both sides because the outcome is not guaranteed,” she said. The majority of homeowners in the neighborhood aren’t necessarily against removing and replacing trees that are causing damage, but they would like a survey of what trees are causing damage and leave the rest alone, according to neighborhood resident Tom LePorte. “You just can’t go in and rip out 600 trees because 10 of them or 20 of them are causing trouble,” LaPorte said. The HOA is simply trying to pass the cost of the maintenance, which LePorte �igures will be somewhere between $16,000 and $25,000 per home, on to the homeowners, he said. “This is really just about a transfer of the cost,” LaPorte said. Sure, people living in multi-million dollar homes can afford the cost, but the homeowners aren’t opposed to this on the grounds of the cost, LaPorte said. It goes back to the aesthetics and the fact the trees lower the temperature in the neighborhood, he said. “We’re not complaining about the money,” LaPorte said. And the guy with the root growing out of his toilet: that was a privately planted tree that wouldn’t even be included in the ones the HOA wants to remove, according to LaPorte.

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cottsdale mayor David Ortega and philanthropist Dody Pitre of The Pitre Family Foundation were among the 100-plus attendees at the grand opening of the St. Catherine of Bologna Performing Arts Center on the Notre Dame Prep campus in Scottsdale. Named after the patron saint of the arts, the center is the �irst new building on the Notre Dame campus since the school opened in 2002. The 20,000-square-foot building houses the Pitre Family Theater, classrooms for instrumental and vocal musical instruction and a state-of-art recording studio for video production classes and NDP Live!, the school’s media broadcasting club. “You have given us more than a building, you have given us the opportunity to create,” school senior Carlo Lanza told donors. Carlo spends many hours in the recording studio as a lead anchor for NDP

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Vigil held for missing Scottsdale man with autism BY HALEY TENORE Progress Contributor

iracle League of Arizona held a candlelit vigil Oct. 2 in honor of Najib “Jubi” Monsif, a 20-yearold Scottsdale man with autism who has been missing since Sept. 22. At the vigil, his parents and three siblings gave an emotional plea for his safe return home. The Miracle League of Arizona is a Scottsdale nonpro�it that offers baseball lessons to people with disabilities, according to their website and Monsif played for the league at the vigil site. According to Najib Monsif Sr., Jubi’s father, the last time he saw Jubi was the night of Sept. 22. Monsif Sr. said that he went to check on Jubi at 7 a.m. the next day and could not �ind him. His belongings, including his cell phone, were left at home. The family fears he may have been abducted. “To this person we say, please have

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lks Lodge 2148 in Scottsdale is normally open only to members during the week, but every Wednesday 7-9 p.m., the Oak Street club opens its doors for anyone who wants to dance. An 11-piece dance band called “The Havin’ Fun Band” draws a crowd of fans to the ballroom, which also offers room for guests to sit and enjoy a drink or a bite to eat. Many instead hit the dance �loor with their spouses to groove to the big band sound, much like they did when they were younger. “All of our dancers are in their 70’s, 80’s and 90’s and we’re starting to get up there in age,” said Tom Williams, who plays the trumpet in the Havin’ Fun Band and is also its co-leader. Belying their age, the dancers move effortlessly to the blaring of horns and pounding of drums – much to the band's delight. “I’m one of those rare musicians who loves to watch dancers,” said Williams. “We have some really excellent dancers here. It keeps them vital.” The scene reminds Williams of why he wanted to pick up the trumpet when he was a kid – and why he joined the band. “I started playing the trumpet in about fourth or �ifth grade and played all the way through college and in the Navy in a band,” he recalled. Williams took a long break from music for a bit, but he eventually couldn’t �ight the urge to return to music. “After I got out of the Navy, I stopped playing the trumpet for maybe 10 or 15 years,” After moving to Scottsdale in the 80s, Williams was informed of a community band and hasn’t been able to put his trumpet down since.

Tom Williams plays the trumpet and is coleader of The Havin’ Fun Band. (Pablo Robles)

“I moved out here in the early 80s and my brother told me about a community band,” he said. “I started playing again and have been playing ever since.” Most of the band members have retired from their day jobs and most are �irst to admit that money is not the motivator when it comes to playing these shows. “You’re not going to make a living in the big band business anymore, but we enjoy it,” Williams said. The reason they still do it is to feel young

“After I got out of the Navy, I stopped playing the trumpet for maybe 10 or 15 years. I moved out here in the early 80s and my brother told me about a community band. I started playing again and have been playing ever since.”

Bill Fee and Marietta Raymond are among the seniors who pack the Elks Lodge 2148 in Scottsdale every Wednesday night to groove to The Havin’ Fun Band. (Pablo Robles)

and – well, have fun. “The musicians here probably play as well as they did in their teens,” said Williams. As more and more clubs have begun to shy away from the pioneering sounds of big band and swing music, Williams enjoys the casual atmosphere of playing Elks Lodge every Wednesday and giving the fans a chance to hear the music they seldom get to hear. “It’s strictly a dance band and it’s very casual,” he said. “The shows are casual, and we play music that people can dance to that they can’t hear everywhere.” While that type of music is what gets the crowd moving, it is not the only style of music in the repertoire of The Havin Fun Band. “We play big band stuff from the 30’s and 40’s but we do some Rock N’ Roll tunes as

well,” Williams said. “We know about 350 or 400 songs that cover a lot of genres but they’re all dance genres.” Dancers will also scale through different styles of dance like the fox trot, cha cha, waltz, polka and line dancing. All these dances remind Williams of his early jobs in a big band. “I used to have six-hour jobs about 25 years ago and we would have couples who would dance that entire time,” he said. “There are people here who would do the same thing.” Even during these uncertain times, one thing has remained certain about the fans who dance at Elks Lodge to The Havin’ Fun Band every Wednesday night. “These people live for this,” Williams said. “They’ve told me they’d rather die dancing.”

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Spared the platter, orange lobster finds loving home BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

Optima Camelview Village is stunning complex built by Optima, which prides itself on being “a design-driven real estate development firm rooted in the modernist tradition.” (Johnathon De Young/Special to the Progress)

High-end Scottsdale penthouse can cost a buyer a bit of coin BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

or sale: Professionally decorated and furnished, 1,463-square-foot penthouse with amazing views within walking distance to Fashion Square and Old Town. Features: hardwood floors, ceiling-tofloor windows, gourmet kitchen with marble counter tops and quiet balcony. Cost: Not necessarily one red cent of hard currency. Instead of cold hard cash, it can set you back roughly 47 bitcoins, or about 683 ethereum. The ultra-luxurious unit is one of four condos for sale in the Optima Camelview Village by Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty with an option for paying in cryptocurrency. “The seller realizes bitcoin, ethereum

and digital assets, in general, are becoming a mainstream asset class,” said Johnathon De Young, a Realtor with Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty. “And it seems only appropriate for a substantial investment group to begin dipping its toes in what is likely some of the greatest financial innovation of our lifetime,” he added. Bitcoin and ethereum are two of the most prevalent forms of cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency can be thought of as digital dollars. It only exists virtually with no central issuing or regulating agency backing it. Its value is not based on anything other than its scarcity, which is protected solely by cryptography. Of course, you can pay with traditional money, if you insist on living in the dark ages, but that route will cost you

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t had been a normal day for the kitchen staff at Nobu, an upscale Japanese restaurant located in the Scottsdale Fashion Square. Three hours before opening one day late last month, the Nobu staff had just begun unloading a shipment of seafood. While sifting through a sea of brownish-red lobsters, the staff stumbled upon something they had never seen before: An orange lobster. The staff almost immediately took a step back from their regular operations to gawk at the crustacean’s rare color. Nobu Executive Chef Carl Murray moved the rare lobster into a container and stored it in the restau- Erika Shen, an animal care specialist at OdySea rant’s walk-in cooler until he could Aquarium is caring for a rare orange lobster found by kitchen staff at the Fashion Square figure out what to do. The next day, Murray called Ody- restaurant Nobu. (Courtesy of OdySea Aquarium) Sea. been out of water, Shen began the accli“I said ‘let’s call the aquarium’ out of curiosity and the aquarium was gracious mation process to get it ready for closer enough to come by and pick it up,” he said. observation. “We were initially blown away by the fact “We had heard stories about other restauthat it was bright orange, but we did fear rants saving a lobster so we figured we that it was out of water,” she said. would go ahead and see what we had. Only Shen panicked when she realized acafter the fact, we learned it was a pretty climation could take up to 90 minutes, special lobster.” so she did some research and discovered Upon hearing the news about Nobu’s these lobsters can be out of water for up to “catch,” Erika Shen, an OdySea animal care 48-hours. specialist, grabbed a cooler and bubbler Shen and other staff also discovered that and rushed to the restaurant. only about one in every 30 million Maine Staff swaddled it in a moist towel and lobsters are orange. Shen headed back to work. They also found out that the lobster could By the time she arrived, the news had reach a century in age, grow to over three spread around the aquarium and a crowd of employees congregated around her. Unsure of how long the creature had see LOBSTER page 27

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$2,048,200 for the penthouse model. No one really knows how many real estate transactions around the world have used cryptocurrency but it’s exceedingly rare, De Young said. Cryptocurrency offers a level of anonymity in transactions – something much valued by buyers of high-end real estate, who often purchase property through limited liability corporations for privacy reasons. Aside from privacy, such buyers also are looking for properties with contemporary decor that are move-in ready. “They don’t want to do a lot of work,” De Young said. The Hudye Group is selling the four homes, which range in price from about $1.6 million to just over $2 million each. “At Hudye Group, we realize that digital assets and cryptocurrencies are becoming more and more commonplace for investors and buyers around the world,” said Ben Hudye. “We want to help facilitate a transaction that is mutually beneficial to all parties involved so we are extremely pleased that we can offer some of the finest in luxury high-rise condominiums for sale, with the flexibility that bitcoin and ethereum provide,” he explained. “These are properties that are highly sought after and will attract a wide range of buyers locally, nationally, and

even internationally.” The four units have had his phone ringing, De Young said. “Inventory is very lean and there is a tremendous amount of demand right now for this type of product,” he said. “When you combine the quality and desirability of these particular condos, along with the walkability, shopping, dining, ease to the airports, it is very well possible we could see our first real estate transaction in Scottsdale using a digital asset.” But maybe more appropriately, the real interest in the properties is coming in from the internet. “They’re getting a tremendous number of clicks,” he said. There are nuances to a cryptocurrency transaction involving real estate, such as having a title company well versed in how to process the deal. Stewart Title, which has experience in Bitcoin transactions, will serve as the escrow company for the transactions at. To date there’s been one real estate transaction that involved cryptocurrency in Arizona, and Stewart Title handled that transaction. No matter how luxurious the condominiums are or how novel the currency used to purchase them is, keep in mind that they are adjacent Old Town which means parking is at a premium. It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that $2 million, whether in cryptocurrency or cash, only gets the buyer one parking space.

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feet in length and gain up to 40 pounds. Once the lobster was acclimated to the water, the staff did more observations and decided it is female. “We’ve been having a lot of fun getting to know this lobster and she’s very personable,” Shen said. The lobster is currently in her own holding system and the staff at OdySea is in the process of determining the schematics for a tank to display it. “Right now, we’re still in the process of determining the best environment for her,” said Shen. “The systems that we currently have are geographically different and the animals that we have are not ones that she would normally be found with.” Not only was this lobster spared from becoming a meal at Nobu, but Shen also believes that it has a better chance at living a long life in captivity as opposed to living in the ocean. “Her orange coloration is so vibrant that she would probably be at much more risk

to predators in her native environment,” she said. “Her normal friends are a brownish red color and their native environment is a rock substrate that they can burrow, hide and match the coloration.” Even though this lobster has a rare color, it has also given OdySea Aquarium a unique opportunity to educate guests about the varied species of lobsters that surround North America. The only lobsters it has on exhibit are from California. “We are pretty focused on being able to educate on the differences between the lobsters and the types there are on the different coasts,” Shen said. “So, she has really given us an awesome opportunity to do that.” As someone whose job is to serve crustaceans to diners, Murray admits it is a bit ironic that he helped save the creature rather than boil it. “It was a good heartwarming story for all of us, especially with all of the challenges restaurants have faced during the pandemic,” he said. “I think we all needed a feel-good story.”

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onstruction has begun on a $64-million luxury senior living community in Scottsdale. Cadence Living’s Acoya Shea community at Scottsdale Road and Shea Boulevard will offer 147 independent, assisted living and memory care units in 190,000-square-foot complex on 2.55 acres, according to a release. Cadence said amenities will include cluding multiple indoor and outdoor dining venues with farm-to-table meals, a private courtyard with a fireplace and swimming pool, movie theater, salon and barbershop, fitness studio, cocktail lounge, underground parking garage, outdoor pet area as well as a memory care garden, tele-medicine room and a dedicated massage and physical therapy room. The four-story community will include four wings that conjoin to a two-story great room with a large outdoor living area aimed at seniors seeking an active, healthy, and social lifestyle.

“Now more than ever, seniors are demanding an active, healthy, and creatively engaging lifestyle,” said Eric Gruber, principal with Cadence Living. Each residence will include a 24-hour emergency line. Acoya Shea is Cadence Living’s ninth community in Arizona, and the fourth community to be developed in partnership with Ryan Companies. The new luxury senior living community was designed and built by Ryan. Construction is expected to complete in mid2023. The project will create about 100 permanent jobs and construction will generate approximately $6 million in job wages, according to the release. “Senior living communities have evolved tremendously, and Cadence Living understands that,” said Daniel Raimer, director of real estate development for Ryan. Scottsdale-based Cadence was formed in 2016 and operates senior living communities across the country. Information: cadencesl.com.

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Opinion Letters Amnesty won’t heal Arizona, especially now

In January 2020, a young man returned to Arizona after traveling to Wuhan, China. Soon after, he fell slightly ill – becoming our nation’s �ifth of�icial case of Covid-19 and Arizona’s �irst. Over the ensuing 18 months, more than 18,500 Arizonans lost their lives to the pandemic. And hundreds of thousands have lost their livelihoods. Unemployment remains well above pre-pandemic levels. Unfortunately, many of our leaders in Washington seem intent on making the situation worse. They want to pass the largest amnesty for illegal immigrants in U.S. history. That’d increase competition for jobs – and spur even more illegal border crossings that

contribute to the spread of Covid-19. After all, roughly one in �ive illegal immigrants released from Border Patrol custody in late July and early August tested positive for the virus, according to a leaked White House document. An estimated 281,000 illegal immigrants live in our state, according to data from the Migration Policy Institute. Many already work under the table – but granting them full work authorization would allow them to compete for a wider range of jobs against citizens and legal immigrants. That’d make it even more dif�icult for over 225,000 unemployed Arizonans to �ind work. Meanwhile, overall wages would decline. Even before the pandemic hit, many Americans had already experienced stagnating wage growth. Research shows that an in�lux of immigrants lacking a high school diploma entering the workforce in recent decades resulted

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in native-born workers without high school diplomas seeing their earnings drop between $800 and $1,500 each year. Arizona’s stressed workers – many of whom voted for President Biden – are still reeling from the economic effects of the pandemic and need help. Consider the data. The number of employed Arizonans dropped from an all-time high of 3,409,624 in January 2020 to a low of 3,180,733 in June 2020 – a decrease of 228,891. We’ve since gradually clawed back those jobs. As of August 2021, there were 3,412,700 employed Arizonans. But with the Delta variant raging, the job market is unpredictable at best. Certain sectors have been hit harder than others. An estimated 80 percent of Arizona’s restaurant industry experienced layoffs last year. Families are hurting. The Tucson-based

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Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona saw a 121 percent increase in clientele last spring. In the Phoenix area, food banks also saw a surge in families seeking assistance. In just the �irst half of 2021, over 1 million illegal immigrants arrived. Dangling the promise of amnesty would entice millions more people to illegally cross the border, in the hopes that they too would gain work permits and eventually citizenship, either in this amnesty or the next one. That’d be a disaster for Arizona communities -- and many of these migrants themselves, who are preyed upon by vicious cartels along the way. Our politicians should be focused on helping Arizona’s legal workers and their families, not illegal immigrants. I hope Senators Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema will rally against this amnesty proposal and instead work to get Arizona’s citizens back on their feet. -Judith Lawrence

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Scottsdale family thrives in Alcatraz swim BY ZACH ALVIRA Progress Sports Editor

enton Smith’s high school graduation present wasn’t what most kids his age ask for. Smith wanted a trip with his family to San Francisco. But beyond that, he wanted to compete in The Alcatraz Sharkfest Swim, a race that tests both a participants’ strength and endurance swimming from the base of Alcatraz to the San Francisco shoreline. So, along with his father, Matt, and mother, Shalayne, Matt got his wish. The family competed in the event on Sept. 25 and thrived. But beyond their high placements, it was an opportunity for them to spend quality time together doing what they love and check off a bucket list item along the way. “I grew up at a time where Alcatraz was unescapable,” Matt said. “Growing up as a swimmer, I always thought it would be fun to do that. I found the race and found an opportunity to do it. My wife, who enjoys being a part of everything she can, she wanted to do it. It kind of started because, for me, it was a bucket list type of thing and they both wanted to join along.” Denton – who graduated last May from Saguaro High School, where he was an accomplished swimmer – placed �irst overall in the 1.5-mile swim. His dad, an avid swimmer himself who competed at Arcadia High before going on to compete at Iowa, placed �irst overall for his age group. Shalayne never swam growing up. Instead, she was an avid runner at Coronado High School in Scottsdale. But she felt like she could compete, especially alongside Matt and Denton. She placed sixth overall in her age group, admitting she was as surprised as Matt and Denton were that she crossed

From left: Matt Smith, Shalayne Smith and Denton Smith all competed in The Alcatraz Sharkfest Swim, a 1.5-mile race from the former prison to the San Fancisco shoreline. (Courtesy Matt Smith)

the �inish line when she did. “I really didn’t learn to swim until my 30s,” Shalayne said. “My goal was to join the boys and to make it. I was just excited to get up there and see how they did. That sort of motivated me.” Denton took a gap year and is currently verbally committed to the Univer-

sity of Minnesota as a 2022 recruit for swimming. Due to the pandemic, seniors at the college level were granted an extra year of eligibility, leaving few spots freshmen. So, he is spending this year training to compete at a high level when he arrives in Minnesota. But he won’t forget the Alcatraz run.

“It was a lot of fun,” Denton said. “There haven’t been a lot of times in my life where I’ve competed in races with my parents, especially not sanctioned ones to this extent, so it was de�initely a memory I’m going to keep going into college and the rest of their life.” The race had 650 male and female participants in a variety of age groups. Boats carried the swimmers out to Alcatraz Island, where they then jumped into the 63-degree water. Luckily, Matt said, the water was a bit calm on the day of the race. They treaded water for about 10 minutes before the start of the race occurred. From there, they were essentially on their own. Denton crossed the �inish line in 24 minutes, 35 seconds, a record time for the event. Matt �inished in 28 minutes, 30 seconds and Shalayne in 44 minutes. They embraced one another at the end of the event, proud of what they had all been able to accomplish. “It was very nice to start together,” Shalayne said. “I said to the boys, ‘Bye, good luck! I’ll see you soon.’” Matt said he said the same thing to his son, who he knew he wouldn’t be able to keep up with. “When I saw him, he was off to the left and it’s funny because I knew he was super focused on it,” Matt said. We were mid conversation with a couple of people around us and the horn blew. The conversation stopped and we instantly started going.” “Being able to spend the time not only in the race but beforehand, talking about the race, getting the time to hang out with them, it was awesome. “We were together the entire time up until the race started and then met up after it. It was beyond what I could’ve asked for and hoped for. Honestly, I don’t think it could’ve gone any better.”

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Garden contest adds more sizzle to home show BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

he Maricopa County Home & Garden Show will grandly return to WestWorld with the debut of its “Gardens of the World” competition. The competition, which begins Oct. 15, will pit landscape designers against each other as they create gardens inspired by landscapes from across the globe. In turn, event attendees will vote on these gardens and the winner will reap $10,000. Even though this is an exciting competition for landscape designers, it will offer more excitement to guests by offering a way to see the world without having to leave Scottsdale. “It’s perfect for right now because a lot of us haven’t been able to travel in the same way that we’re used to pre-pandemic,” said Home & Garden Show Manager Katie Jones. “We thought ‘how can we make people feel happy?’ and that was by showing people things that they don’t normally see in Arizona.”

The Maricopa County Home & Garden Show will be ack this year in WestWorld after its 2020 show was held at Cardinals Stadium in Glendale. (Special to the Progress)

As people have found comfort in returning to mass gatherings and there are more weapons to fight COVID-19, Jones is excited to give guests a unique way to travel the world within the confines of WestWorld. “We want to feel like we’re traveling and as we do that, we want to escape our day-to-day lives and see something really

Immersive Van Gogh show to host yoga classes BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

uests at Immersive Van Gogh in Old Town can now experience some additional peace with morning yoga classes, surrounded by the great artist’s works. They’ll be navigating their way through finding their balance and managing their breathing while surrounded by works

like “The Starry Night,” “Self Portrait” and “Sunflowers.” “I think it’s truly a unique yoga experience,” said Brittany Haag, the venue operations assistant manager for Lighthouse Artspace, which is hosting Immersive Van Gogh. “A lot of yogis have their practices and their flows and it’s a unique experience to

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pretty that we haven’t been able to experience in the last 18-months,” she said. In doing so, this competition will have to be large. The Maricopa County Home & Garden Show is the largest home show in the southwest and the “Gardens of the World” will be one of the largest attractions in the show’s history.

“‘Gardens of the World’ is going to be large,” said Jones. “It’s one of our biggest attractions that we’ve ever taken on.” Six gardens will fill 5,400 square feet of display space that guests can walk through and study each contest entry’s distinct theme. There will be a royal garden inspired by French chateaus and feature a lot of greenery and colorful flowers; an urban sanctuary complete with a concrete garden and skyscraper garden; a winter escape inspired by the landscapes of Norway; an Arabian night with orange hues and inspired by the Gobi Desert; and the all-American backyard. As attendees walk through the gardens, there will be signs with a code word and a phone number to text the word to. By texting the word to that number, which will count as a vote for the landscape. There is also an incentive for guests to vote as they will be able to claim a free luggage tag after voting. Even with the incentives like a gift and the potential for a licensed landscaping

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Charley Hernandez will be leading yoga classes at the Immersive Van Gogh exhibition in Old Town. (Pablo Robles)

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be so immersed.” The gallery offers a unique challenge for guests as the floors as well as the screens change in the exhibit and a soundtrack curated by composer Luca Longobardi plays in the background of the instructor’s instruction. “I think that art strongly complements yoga because yoga is about finding your focus and finding your breath,” said Charley Hernandez, a yoga instructor who will be teaching the session. “It’s a challenge to focus when everything around you are constantly changing.” Hernandez also teaches yoga for Mountainside Fitness, but when she was presented the opportunity to teach it at one of Scottsdale’s top attractions, it was an easy yes. “I’m really lucky to be teaching yoga for Mountainside Fitness and I got an email asking if I would be interested in teaching at Immersive Van Gogh,” she said. “I hadn’t been to the exhibit before teaching and when I realized that I would be able to go to it for free for eight weeks, it was a no-brainer.” Excited by the unique opportunity, Her-

The vibrant murals add a sense of peace to the already peace-inspiring yoga class. (Special to the Progress)

nandez had to find a way to create a routine that allowed audiences to gain a full experience of the gallery and a good stretch. “I’ll keep it in a progressive flow that way people get to experience the art,” she said. “I understood that it was going to be a 35-minute class and I was told the mu-

sic was provided but other than that I had to improvise in a way. The music did give me ques as well.” Another challenge for Hernandez was creating a workout for people of all skill levels. She does so by reminding people that it

is OK if they cannot do a certain maneuver and that there are other ways to get the same stretch. “I try to remind people that this is an all-levels class so that if they want to do something a bit fancier or if they want to step it back some, they’re more than welcome to,” Hernandez said. “I try to emphasize that yoga is all about your personal experience.” It was important early on for Immersive Van Gogh to create an experience that was not too challenging for yogis but was also fun for those who had done little or no yoga experience. “It was really important to us to make sure that this was accessible to all levels,” said Haag. “Yoga can be intimidating to some if it’s their first few rounds. We want everyone to feel welcome.” It also helps that the classes have a low capacity. “There are lower numbers and more one-on-one with the instructor for your yoga experience,” said Haag. It also helps that guest have a large room to create a good space among themselves.

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“It’s nice to have this giant space and I feel like every corner will give you a dissimilar experience of the show,” said Hernandez. There are lots of unique highlights throughout the 35-minute class and Hernandez made sure to add twists and turns to poses so that guests could catch a good look at the exhibit. “The coolest part is being able to get different perspectives through the art,” she said. “We will be in a pose, and I will add a twist so that people can see the shifts in the art and as the walls are shifting around you, you’ll feel your body making those tiny shifts.”

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contractor to win $10,000, Jones believes that having the opportunity to gawk at these unique landscapes will wow audiences. “We like to do features that the public likes to see,” she said. “We hope that this is a really exciting attraction and I think people are going to love it.” She is also excited to see how the new

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“We will be in a pose, and I will add a twist so that people can see the shifts in the art and as the walls are shifting around you, you’ll feel your body making those tiny shifts.” Admittedly, the movement of the walls and the floor add an element of challenge to the exercises. “I was talking to a few people who had taken the class and they said it was hard to balance because it feels like the floor is moving from underneath you,” Her-

competition complements the existing attractions at the Maricopa County Home & Garden Show. “I think that Gardens of the World will complement the feel of Westworld when people get in there,” Jones said. “It’s a huge compliment to the show and the overall ambiance of every other exhibitor there.” In addition to the contest, guests will have three days to attend fall workshops

nandez said with a laugh. “It adds an extra challenge as well as a different appeal and aspect.” Though there are elements of challenge, the experience challenges the conventional way of practicing yoga and gives guests a unique way to experience the works of Vincent Van Gogh. “I hope that people take away that every experience is a little different and it doesn’t have to look like a traditional yoga setting to practice,” said Hernandez. “Maybe stepping out of your comfort zone and trying something new is fun.” Haag also hopes to see guests start their mornings off with yoga at Immersive Van Gogh and then make a day out of the other things to do in Old Town.

where they can learn to do things like create floral arrangements, cook, and taste food items cooked in an air fryer or learn about researching household items before purchasing. Jones also is delighted to give guests more of what they have been asking for. “We try to ask our attendee base what they want to see more or less of at the show and the attendees always want to see more gardening and landscaping,”

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“I hope it’s one of those unique experiences that you tell your friends about or plan a day off with,” she said. “We hope that people will go to one of the restaurants in Old Town and have a meal afterward.”

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she said. She also wanted to remind guests that it does not matter what stage of the home buying process they are in; the doors are open to guests of all ages and expertise. “Our overall message is that home shows are for everyone,” she said. “Whether you are a first-time buyer, have lived in your home for 40-years, or have had 10 homes, we want people to grow up with our home shows.”

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Z’Tejas partners with cancer charity BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

outhwestern restaurant Z’Tejas is now selling two pink drinks and ribbons and will donate part of the proceeds from their sale to The Singletons — a nonpro�it dedicated to helping single parents with cancer “take the ‘scary’ out of cancer.” The restaurant will offer customers the choice of a watermelon strawberry margarita or a strawberry lemonade in addition to a pink ribbon for $10 and the Singletons will devote their share of the proceeds toward their new community center, which is expected to open next month. “Whenever there’s something that we can celebrate or if there’s something fun or festive that we can do, we �ind a way to do it,” said Z’Tejas COO Robby Nethercut. “October is known as ‘breast cancer awareness month’ so we asked, ‘what can we do that is fun and help someone in the community as well?’” The group takes its name from Michelle Singleton, who in 2005 succumbed to cancer. Originally, it was called Singleton Moms in tribute to the late mother of four, but then expanded its mission to include single dads also �ighting the dreaded disease. The restaurant hopes to raise $2,000 for the Singletons at its Scottsdale and Chandler locations. This will be especially helpful to The Singletons, as the group had to use some reserve money to fund the latter stages of �lipping a pre-school in Cave Creek into its new community center and hub for operations. “$2,000 towards the hub would be so bene�icial,” said Singletons founder Jody Boyd. “Because it was delayed, we did have to tap into some reserves that we were not expecting.” The hub, which is expected to open on Nov. 1, will have a kitchen where chefs

Z’Tejas COO Robby Nethercut shows off the one of the drinks his restaurant will be selling to help a nonproﬁt that aids single parents facing cancer. (Pablo Robles)

Madeline Stallworth poses with a strawberry watermelon margarita and a strawberry lemonade outside a Z’Tejas restaurant in Austin, TX. (Courtesy of Z’Tejas)

will prepare meals kits for the Singleton’s bene�iciaries, a living room for families to hang out and relax and will eventually have a community garden where families can learn how to grow their own produce and hydroponics. The center is something that had been an idea for over a decade for The Singletons. “The very �irst Singletons board of directors in 2009 determined during their strategic planning session that we wanted to have a community center and it would bene�it our families to have a place where they could go and it would be a home away from home,” Boyd said. “It’s all about taking a little bit of the scary out of cancer,” For Boyd, this fundraiser means more than just money. “By bringing awareness to the mission and by raising funds through their promotion, they’re helping �ill a huge void without us having the ability to do what we normally do,” she said. Boyd also underscored the importance this facility will have for these families.

“If you’re a single parent and you have a cancer diagnosis, the �irst thought can be that there’s no one else that’s going through this,” she said. “The idea that the community center is going to be creating a community and bonding them together is huge. When people �ind people that they can relate to, that relieves some worries and stress.” In addition to raising funds for a good cause, customers will also be incentivized by cheaper prices on the strawberry watermelon margarita. The margarita is usually $11 but throughout October, it will be $10 and include a ribbon that guests can wear. “We know people come here to have a good time and they love our margaritas,” said Nethercut. “With everything being pink we said, ‘let’s serve two pink drinks.’” To further promote the initiative, all employees at Z’Tejas will don pink ribbons onto their black polos and mention the initiative before taking customers’ orders.

Jody Boyd founded the Singletons. (Courtesy of the Singletons)

“We hope that customers will ask about the pink ribbon and if they don’t, we’re going to tell them about it and let them know about the promotion we’re running,” said Nethercut. “That way they will have the opportunity to give back.” When Z’Tejas was looking for a charity to partner with, it was of major importance that it chose a local nonpro�it. “The big thing for us is that we always want to try to �ind a local partner,” said Nethercut. “That way, when folks are giving their dollars, it will stay with their local community.” To be able to see the money going toward something that will provide relief to struggling families was a bonus for Nethercut and the staff at Z’Tejas. “You don’t have to go very far, and someone typically has an interaction with someone in their life where they’ve been touched by breast cancer anywhere on the spectrum,” said Nethercut. “For us, we still want to invite people to have fun and celebrate while supporting a local organization.” Information: Ztejas.com and thesingletonsaz.org

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