BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer
recession could be in store for the �irst half of next year, according to Tourism Economics President Adam Saks.
The economist troubadour spoke – and sang – to almost 300 people at the Experience Scottsdale annual meeting on Oct. 20.
In addition to just presenting facts in
a lecture, he also sang songs about Scottsdale’s tourism economy to the tunes of popular songs like “Where the Streets Have No Name” by U2 and “On the Road Again,” by Willie Nelson.
He said the history of the tourism industry over the last couple years has been “an epic.”
“What an odyssey over the last two and a half year?!” Saks said. “You have experienced what truly, I think — we can hope —
will go down in history as the most colossal downturn our industry has ever faced and the most dramatic recovery we’ve ever experienced as well.”
That recovery won’t last forever though.
“After growing again, what we’re doing right now, we think by the time we get to early 2023 the economy growth trajectory is going to come to a halt,” Saks said. “We’re
hard for the Scottsdale Public Art team to believe that 10 years have passed since the �irst Canal Convergence was held.
What had initially begun as a conversation in 2008 between the City of Scottsdale and the Salt River Project blossomed into an opportunity when SRP offered to waive its events permit fee at the Scottsdale Waterfront and the City offered to create a festival at the canal where the utility could educate the public about its history, water management, conservation and more.
From there, city of�icials and Scottsdale Public Art – a nonpro�it that contracts with the city – discussed creating an arts-focused
BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer
Themammoth Optima McDowell Mountain Village mixed-use development near the intersection of Scottsdale Road and the Loop 101 cleared its first hurdle last week.
The Scottsdale Planning Commission approved the proposed mixed-use project by a 6-1 vote on Oct. 26. Planning Commissioner Christian Serena cast the lone vote against it.
The project includes three nine-story buildings and three 10-story buildings that would house 420 condominiums, 970 apartments and 36,000 square feet of commercial space.
Units will range in size from 675 square feet for a studio to 2,221 square feet for a three-bedroom unit.
Each building will feature a running track, Olympic sized pools, locker rooms, outdoor fireplaces and barbecues on the roof as well a setback guard rail that allows for 60 percent more view from the top of the building.
For the commercial space, the developer envisions a high-end restaurant, café, coffee/juice bar, office suites, bicycle shop, dry cleaners, boutique spa/wellness center, preschool or elementary school, elementary school, financial institutions
The plan calls for 75% of the 21.88-acre site to be open space with 55% open to the public. The site would include a fountain and amphitheater as well as underground parking and trash receptacles.
The developer also purchased 10 years’ worth of water rights from the Harquahala aquifer and intends to transfer that to the city.
The developer also did an analysis with the city Water Department by sharing its water bills from the Optima Kierland apartments and Optima Sonoran Village apartments.
It showed that Optima’s condos and apartments use half of what a typical multi-family unit uses and a quarter of what an average single family home consumes, said Optima President David Hovey Jr.
The project also includes a 210,000-gallon rainwater collection tank.
“I live and work in South Scottsdale,” commission vice Chair Joe Young told
Hovey. “My office is down near Old Town. I drive by (two of Optima’s other apartment projects) daily and I have to say they are some of the most attractive projects in Old Town. I’m really happy with you there.
“I think it was probably a little scary when they first came through without knowing what or who you were about, but to see this kind of investment being made in Scottsdale, I think is commendable. What it’s going to do for the community I think is going to be great.
“Plus, the location,” he continued. “You’re not impacting any single-family residential, (which) is a bonus. So many times we see that issue come through here with multi-family projects, particularly with density and height. And being on the freeway corridor I think that’s going to alleviate (traffic) quite well.”
Christian felt it was simply too tall. He noted there are roughly 800 acres of empty land around the project, and this project will set a precedent for other development.
“I have no doubt they are going to use you as a template,” he said.
In other business, the commission voted 7-0 to approve the Chaparral Commons mixed use project near the intersection of Scottsdale Road and Gold Dust Avenue.
Project is proposed to have 11,370 square feet of commercial. It was also planned to house 225 apartments but the developer agreed during the meeting to lop off the fourth floor of the project and it was not immediately clear how many
units that would affect.
A mostly dead strip mall currently sits on the 4.64-acre site.
As part of the project, the developer has agreed to create a learning garden at nearby Chaparral High School, fund it for an unspecified number of years and pay for teaching materials.
The project offers one free month of rent to anyone with a child in Chaparral High School and 10% of the units will be reserved for city workforce housing for eight years. That controls rent costs without any tax breaks.
The project will also eliminate 1.36 acres of asphalt and add 142 trees, including 54, 48-inch box trees and will include 32% open space.
Additionally, the proposed project will include a plumbing system that will capture 100% of the development’s gray water and use it for landscape irrigation.
“That reduces the demand for city water for this project by 1 million gallons a year,” said John Berry, an attorney representing the developer.
The three-story complex comes with three requests for amended standards. The first amendment would allow the building to be setback more than the minimum.
The second amendment request would reduce the slope of the third-story stepback along the western property line. The final request is for patio/balcony areas in the setback along the western edge.
northern Scottsdale will become a
City Council on Oct. 25 voted 7-0 to accept the site plans for the park and begin construction without any of the stipulations requested by residents of the Las Piedras neighborhood.
Council considered some stipulations, such as not allowing the basketball court to be used for pickleball, to be unnecessary because the court will not be striped for pickleball. Others, like “the city shall not form a public-private partnership, or otherwise accept private money to pay for amenities in Ashler Hills Park” were determined illegal by City Attorney Sherry Scott.
“It’s really not about site planning or the municipal use master site plan you’re taking action on tonight,” Scott said. “I don’t think that would be appropriate legally.”
Several council members expressed relief that the park is moving forward.
“I’m very happy we’re nearing the building process for eight pickleball courts, which are very much needed and were promised in the bond,” Councilwoman Betty Janik said.
Scottsdale City Engineer Alison Tymkiw ran down all of the changes made to the site plan due to public comment, stating, “The public has really influenced our design of this through this process.”
As a result of neighborhood meetings, the city added five shade structures at the sports courts, adult exercise equipment and pet drinking fountains. It also moved
the entry to the park, incorporated a lefthand turn lane at the entry of the park, removed a traffic circle and updated the traffic study.
The city also commissioned a noise study, lowered lighting heights at the sports courts from 24 feet to 20 feet and from 16 feet to 12 feet on pedestrian pathways, added trees at the sports courts to block visibility and noise, changed the color of the pickleball courts to reduce reflectivity and blend into the desert and revised the city’s light and traffic studies.
The park has been in the works for 20 years and was originally part of the 2000 city bond.
At that time, the site included a library and an arts facility but that was shelved due to funding problems and cost escalations.
It was then placed on the $319 million bond package in 2019.
“Compared to the bond 2000 project, this has significantly less traffic, noise and lighting impacts,” City Engineer Allison Tymkiw said.
The park – at the intersection of Ashler Hills Drive and N. 74th Way – will cost an estimated $6.1 million and have standard hours, from sunrise to 10:30 p.m.
Of the 15 acres reserved for the park, only 3.36 acres are tentatively earmarked for development and the rest is set at this point to be either undisturbed or re-vegetated.
The developed area will include eight pickleball courts, a basketball court and two small open turf areas, each roughly the size of a basketball court. It will also include a shaded playground and restrooms
as well as 70 parking spaces.
The Parks and Recreation commission recommended approval of the site plan in June by a 3-1 vote. The Development Review Board recommended approval 4-1 in July. The Planning Commission heard the case in August and recommended a continuance on a 4-3 vote due to concerns with traffic, noise, and sport court lighting.
The city responded to those concerns and the commission voted to recommend approval in September 6-0 with an added stipulation that required the city come before it again in the future if there are any proposals to change the active space or parking entrance into the site.
Members of the Las Piedras community had opposed the park because of noise, traffic and light.
The city study said any increase in noise would be “not perceptible” to “barely perceptible” (there would be an increase in noise of one decibel) and no mitigation was needed. The city did add vegetation around the sport courts to further block noise and light.
To address traffic concerns the city relocated the entrance and oversized the parking lot to discourage parking on the street.
And to address the light, the city also lowered the light poles, increased vegetation and changed the colors of the courts.
Because the project consists of more than an acre, the plan will go back to the Design Review Board for final approval on the aesthetics of the park on Nov. 17.
Construction is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2023 and is expected to take approximately 18 months to complete.
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Third quarter campaign finance were due Oct. 15. The pre-general election finance reports were due Oct. 29.
Scottsdale City Clerk Ben Lane sent Stratton a “failure to file” letter on Oct. 20, reminding him the report needed to be filed.
Lane said Stratton indicated at that point that he intended to file a report but did not state when or why he had not yet filed one.
Stratton did not respond to the Progress’ calls or emails.
State law calls for a fine of $10 for every day the report is not filed for the first 15 days after the deadline and $25 per day after that.
If the total fine reaches $1,000, Lane would not be able to accept any nomination petitions for Stratton, though the City Attorney’s office would have to clear the
way for that first.
Meanwhile Pamela Carter, who is in the run-off election Nov. 8 against Barry Graham for the final council seat, explained some of the odder entries on her recent campaign expense report.
She listed spending $3,276 to a “ZelleTate Tate” for signs. That money went to a Fountain Hills company call Sign Art.
Zelle is an Internet company that allows people to send money back and forth. Carter used Zelle to pay Sign Art, which identifies itself as “Zelle – Tate Tate” on the service.
Carter also reported spending $1,145 with “Zelle – Bolic Fire Bird Installations” for sign installation.
Carter also used Zelle to pay Phoenixbased Fire Bird Installations to put up campaign signs. “Zelle – Bolic Fire Bird Installations” is the company’s identifier on Zelle.
Finally, she reported spending $251 with “Adedot” for fees. The report was supposed to say “Anedot” but there is a typo. That company enables candidates to collect donations online and takes a percentage as fees.
Apkar Armenian Apostolic Church will hold its annual ArmeniaFest next weekend in Scottsdale.
The event celebrates Armenian culture and will feature live music, a DJ, dancers, vendors, a kids zone, and a variety of authentic Armenian cuisine, including kebab, sarma, boureg, lahmejune, hummus, taboulleh, gata, baklava, and choreg as well as Armenian cognac, beer, wine and coffee.
“The Armenian diaspora stretches across the globe, a diverse population as a result of migration after many Armenians fled their ancestral homeland during and after the Armenian Genocide beginning in 1915,” the church said in a release.
“The thousands of Armenian-Americans living in the Valley are a reflection of this diversity – composed of descendants of
Armenian Genocide survivors who came to America a century ago, as well as more recent immigrants from Armenia, Iraq, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.”
Rev. Fr. Zacharia Seribekyan, parish priest of St. Apkar Armenian Apostolic Church, said, “This event is an opportunity for Armenians in Arizona to gather and celebrate our heritage, as well as a chance to share our food, music and culture with our friends and neighbors.”
ArmeniaFest will run 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 5, at the church, 8849 E. Cholla St. Admission and parking are free. Veterans and active military personnel will receive a 10 percent food discount.
Saint Apkar Armenian Apostolic Church is Arizona’s only Armenian church and recently marked 13 years.
Info: armeniafestarizona.com.
Theaesthetics of a proposed sixstory mixed use building abutting Old Town won approval from the Scottsdale Design Review Board Oct. 20.
The board voted to recommend the approval of the project known as Scottsdale 3200 North to City Council by a 5-0 vote. Board members Ali Fakih and Doug Craig were not present.
The project includes 135 apartments and 4,000 square feet of office space on 2.4 acres near the intersection of N. Scottsdale Road and E. Earll Drive.
That would require an amendment to the Zoning Code to increase the density from the 50 dwelling units per acre that is currently allowed to 55.8 dwelling units per acre.
The nearby Carter has a density of 69 units per acre and The Griffin, which sits just north of the proposed project has a density of 57.2 units per acre.
“What we’re asking for here is a density that’s commensurate with what’s around us,” said David Gulino, a representative of the developer Desert Dreams Companies.
The higher density would allow the developer to build more, smaller apartments in order to keep rents down, Gulino said.
The project comprises one- and twobedroom apartments. A one-bedroom would be 675 square feet and a twobedroom would be 850 square feet.
“We want to hit a demographic in the market that really hasn’t been addressed,” Gulino said. “As we all know there’s been a lot of talk about a shortage in workforce housing within the downtown area. Our philosophy is, if we could do more units and they’re smaller units, we can provide those at a lesser lease rate.
“In addition, we would use more modest finishes,” he continued. “They wouldn’t be high-end, boutique apartments. What we’re proposing are more modest apartments that would be available to the work force.”
Board member Jeff Brand took exception to Gulino calling the proposal “workforce housing.”
“You’re still going to be market rate,” Brand said. “You’re providing a lower finish out of the units but it’s not an adjusted rate, right? You are trying to serve a sector that is still market rate but it’s market rate at a lower cost.”
However, Gulino said his team is working with the City Attorney’s office to establish some workforce housing, which guarantees an adjusted rent to hold down the rate.
The proposal also calls for shorter stepbacks on the two streets it faces. It calls for an extra six feet of stepback encroaching into the required area on N. Scottsdale Road and 3 feet of encroachment into the setback on N. 71st Street.
The proposal is required to have 217 parking spaces but includes 267 spaces, with 50 spaces available to ease parking
shortfalls in the area.
Parking would be housed in a threestory parking garage with one level located underground and two levels above ground. There would be screening in the garage and on top of it, which would include a pool. The walls of the garage would also include a “fin” type decoration to break up the view.
The proposal also includes 28,000 square feet of open space, though none is required by the city.
Trees would surround the property on all four sides. There would be a fire lane to the north. A courtyard and a pedestrian thoroughfare connecting Scottsdale Road and 71st Street would be on the south side of the project.
Commissioner Michal Ann Joyner liked the project but felt it was too tall.
“This is going to be the second tallest building in that area so I’m just concerned about the height,” she said. “These buildings are continuing to get higher and higher.”
Board Chairwoman Tammy Caputi said height is an issue for the Zoning Commission, not the Design Review Board. She also stated the height is an
important element of keeping rent prices down.
“One thing to consider is that a lot of comments are, ‘Why isn’t it more affordable?’ ‘Is it really affordable?’ ‘How can we get it more affordable?’ but every time we hear, ‘We want you to take off that floor.’ We want you to make it less dense.’ ‘We need that open space.’ ‘We want the highest architectural quality and design,’” Caputi said.
“I just want to point it out because there’s this tension here between how do we get more affordable housing … while insisting on less height, less density, all these things. So again I just want you to understand there’s always a balance here as we try to make that goal of actually having housing available, especially in this location, which is ideal.”
The Scottsdale Trailer Corral trailer park is currently on the site.
Gulino indicated there were 36 calls for police to the trailer park last year and called it an unsavory place. “There’s been issues in there such as domestic violence, disorderly conduct, thefts,” he said.
Park resident Darrell Blomberg took exception to Gulino’s portrayal of the park, saying it is filled with the likes of professionals, artists and teachers.
“I just want to point out that report unfairly paints the residents of Scottsdale Trailer Corral as a bunch of degenerate, homeless dregs,” Blomberg said. “That’s not us. We’re neighbors. We’re community. It’s just like where you live; we’re good people.”
Board member Shakir Gushgari moved to recommend approval of the project with the stipulation that some units are workforce housing.
However, that was deemed beyond the board’s authority so Gushgari made a second motion just to recommend approval of the project.
going to experience two consecutive quarters of negative GDP (Gross Domes tic Product) growth and with that, the economy is going to soften across the board in such a way that it becomes a technical recession.”
But the news isn’t all bad.
“In our view, it will go down as one of the milder recessions in U.S. economic history going back to post World War II,” Saks said. “Peak to trough, that is what is the GDP at the end of this year versus where it will be in middle of next year, we think the U.S. economy is going to contract about 1%. That puts it on par with a very mild down turn, such as what was experienced in 1991.”
Saks also shared with the crowd some reasons why he thinks Scottsdale’s tour ism industry “will be fine” through the recession. Those reasons included: no signs of weaknesses yet, U.S. households were able to save tremendously during the pandemic, pent up consumer de mand and businesses are still restoring necessary travel.
In the meantime, the staff of Experi ence Scottsdale was hard at work mak
ing the past year the best it could be.
“Last fiscal year, for us at Experience Scottsdale, we’ve certainly faced some major changes, and yet … the biggest change of all might have been the sim plest one, which was, frankly, trying to resume business as usual after a fiscal year that was anything but business as usual,” Experience Scottsdale CEO Ra chel Sacco told the crowd.
“We were so thrilled we could open, reopen really, our visitor centers, that we could actually return to conferences and trade shows, that we could ramp up our mission, that we could have site visits and FAM tours and bring custom ers in. And you know what? The thrilling part of all that was the results ... began to show.”
The communications team hosted 240 representatives of the media on press trips last year – “a 180% increase over the year prior,” Sacco said.
And the tourism team conducted 38 product training events to teach over 1,600 travel advisors what the Scotts dale/Paradise Valley area has offer.
And after a two-year delay, Experi ence Scottsdale revived it’s largest and longest meeting planner familiarization
tour — which shows planners that book conferences and such around Scotts dale’s resorts and amenities in a whirl wind visit.
Called the “Sensational FAM,” it’s been running for 33 years.
But the tourism industry also showed signs of evolving.
“These programs and these initia tives have really carried the day for use for over 35 years,” Sacco said. “It’s been what we do and how we stimulate this economy, and yet, they felt last year so novel ... more impactful than ever be fore. So as we hit the road, as we con ducted sales calls and crafted itinerar ies, we couldn’t quite return to business as usual as in 2019.”
But that isn’t new for the travel indus try, which has always evolved and will continue to do so into the future, she said.
“We needed some new opportunities to tell this destination story in new ways that would speak to those travelers and those meeting groups, and we did just that,” Sacco said.
So Experience Scottsdale carried its message to all of it’s major domestic markets including traditional markets
with flights to and from Phoenix and Scottsdale.
“Thanks to new funding opportunities with the Visit Arizona Initiative ... we re gained valuable market shares in one of our most important domestic markets, New York City,” Sacco said.
Experience Scottsdale advertised to New Yorkers during their daily com mutes, marking the agency’s first outof-home advertising campaign in over two years.
That campaign generated over 19 mil lion advertising impressions as Experi ence Scottsdale strategically placed its ads in high end transit stations through out New York City.
Experience Scottsdale also entered new markets and new geo-tracking data began to show travelers from those new markets were actually coming to Scott sdale.
Experience Scottsdale also leaned into digital advertising in a way it never had before.
“That allowed us to be so agile in test ing those messages and those markets, making sure we were on track and we
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The agency also launched new partnerships with travel agencies like Hopper and Kayak, allowing it to directly target consumers in the early stages of booking.
And how Experience Scottsdale reached consumers shifted as well. While television remained an important an important medium, the agency also followed consumers into streaming services.
That enabled the communications team to continue building relationships through local trade shows and local client events, while also hitting new markets like Austin and Orlando.
On the communications side, the agency leveraged relationships with broadcast experts and television personalities during summer and holiday eve time periods.
“We conducted satellite media tours and reached cities throughout the U.S. – ones we’ve never actually been in before, as an example, St. Louis and Las Vegas,” Sacco said.
Experience Scottsdale was even able to work with “The Jet Set” television show.
That aired over 1,000 times across 200 markets in the U.S. Experience Scottsdale also aired a similar show across Canada.
“Once international travel got the official green light for people to enter Canada and exit, we knew we would face robust competition from our fellow U.S. destinations,” Sacco said. “But thanks to this new emphasis that we’ve had on digital promotions, we now have a year-round presence in that important market of Canada.”
Meanwhile, the tourism team increased overseas marketing by running 20 campaigns that encompassed markets in Germany, the United Kingdom and France. Thousands of travel planners and consumers received newslet-
ters and marketing material from magazines as part of that campaign.
“One such partnership was with Abercrombie & Kent (luxury travel agency) – maybe a familiar name to you,” Sacco said. “And that landed us really great and valuable advertising space inside the famous Barrett’s Department Store (in the U.K.) in May.”
Golf saw a surge last year and Experience Scottsdale also partnered with television show “Breaking Par.”
“We produced a brand-new series on Scottsdale golf as well as new TV commercials that will reach 80 million households across 21 regional sports networks,” Sacco said. “We are all on this golf in Scottsdale.”
Also, during this last year, the agency’s “Extraordinary Memories” commercial surpassed 1 million views, a feat never before accomplished. And to build on that, the agency produced its “Let’s Get Together” commercial, which show-
cased the energy and diversity Scottsdale boasts.
The agency took steps to increase diversity, equity and inclusion across all areas of Experience Scottsdale, both internally and externally – including producing new imagery for the website and a new, upcoming video.
A customer advisory board helped Experience Scottsdale glean information about the meetings market and focus groups from multiple industries showed planners rely even more than ever on agencies like Experience Scottsdale.
Experience Scottsdale also touted that it was also chosen by the HelmsBriscoe’s Company (a third-party agency that lines up travel plans for conferences and conventions) as the 2021 destination partner of the year.
Because of relationships like that and the team’s sales efforts, Experience Scottsdale generated over sales 2,300 leads, an 85% increase over 2020.
“We even brought some participating businesses on the road with us to trade shows, like when the Native art market made their debut at IPW,” Sacco said. “That is the largest and most important international trade show in our country.”
Experience Scottsdale has also worked with the city on a five-year tourism and events strategic plan while simultaneously working to be more environmentally sensitive.
“One strategy in particular that our team is very excited about getting involved with is the positioning of Scottsdale and Paradise Valley as a thought leader in sustainable tourism,” Sacco said. “Sustainability has become so much more important to leisure groups as well as meeting groups. According to Expedia, eight in 10 travelers want to travel more sustainably and more responsibly.
“They just need better guidance on how to do it, so over the coming years, Experience Scottsdale aims to provide much better resources and guidance to our visitors and our meetings groups on how to travel to this destination more responsibly.”
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event featuring unique light-based installations and various performances that became known as Night Lights.
Night Lights was an early success, attracting esteemed artists like D.A. Therrien and Fausto Fernandez, who installed grand pieces in 2012.
And eventually the event morphed into what became known as Canal Convergence | Water + Art + Light.
Marking 10 years this year, Canal Convergence | Water + Light + Art will begin at 6 p.m. beginning Friday, Nov. 4, and running through Nov. 13 at Scottsdale Waterfront, 7038 E. 5th Ave.
This year’s event will include 15 large art pieces, live music, workshops and a slew of entertainment over 10 nights. While the exhibits and entertainment are free, some of the tours and workshops charge a small admission.
To a degree, this year’s event will be an homage to the first Canal Convergence in 2012, which featured interactive, lightbased and inflatable art installations like Scottsdale-based artist Jeff Zischke’s “Nodal Water Gardens.” Zischke’s installations, floating atop the canal, lit up the
water with a series of light hues.
The first canal event also offered artist workshops, vendors selling locally produced goods, a Saturday night happy hour and a Sunday morning bike ride along the canal.
Over the next nine years, the two-day arts festival underwent a series of iterations at different times of the year until it became a fall festival in 2018.
“There was some interest from the city in creating a real draw to Scottsdale in the fall,” recalled Scottsdale Public Art spokesman Brian Passey. “When we were doing it in the spring, it was aligned with spring training and we benefited from that with our event.
“But the city just needed a really good event that would be something to draw people in” during the fall,” Passey said, add that officials “saw the potential with Canal Convergence.”
To draw a crowd, Scottsdale Public Art expanded the event to 10 days and brought in more artwork, including a gas fire display created by Walter Productions that has become a staple the past five years.
This year, Canal Convergence will be an ode to the original event while bringing
the gusto of last year’s celebration back to the waterfront.
“This year is a little different, being our 10th anniversary, because we typically only approach maybe two or three artists each year directly to ask them to create an artwork for us and then the rest of the artworks come through an open call that we put out in the springtime,” Passey explained.
“Because it’s the 10th anniversary, we wanted to reach out to more artists who had appeared at Canal Convergence in the past to honor that history,” he said.
Among them is Zischke, who not only was part of the first Canal Convergence but also lit up the canal in 2014 with a series of neon-colored bugs titled “Water Striders.”
This year, the challenge for Zischke was to create a series of suspended artworks that would hang above the canal and cast a barrage of bright lights onto the water.
“I’ve done tons of stuff all around the world – temporary sculptures with fabric and different kinds of natural materials,” Zischke said. “So, the challenge – of course, that’s what I live for – is having artwork that is suspended.”
Walter Productions will attach 10 orbs to an underwater structure that will suspend them above the canal’s surface. That work is simply titled “ORB.”
“We have this long-standing partnership with Scottsdale Public Art and in that relationship, we are always asked to think out of the box on how to make the next year’s project exciting and unique,”
said Walter Productions founder Dr. Kirk Strawn.
This year’s installation will have two unique features, according to Strawn.
“One is this new method of positioning the sculptures in the water and the second is the interactivity that we will be doing through a kiosk that will be on the (Soleri) bridge,” Strawn said. “There’s a lot more lighting this year than in prior years and we’re going to give people the opportunity to interact with the lighting system.”
Strawn and Zischke are not the only artists who will have eye-popping pieces at Canal Convergence.
Passey said that B!g Art from Calgary, Canada, will bring back its crowd-favorite door from last year “The Door(s).” The door opened to a screen showing videos aimed at reflecting another dimension. In one video, a tyrannosaurus rex ran toward whoever opened the door.
B!g Art is not only bringing back the fan-favorite work to the waterfront but also installing a similar work at Scottsdale Fashion Square.
“One of the doors is going to be set up in Scottsdale Fashion Square and that door is going to be connected to one of the doors at the waterfront,” Passey said. “When you open up the door at the mall, you’ll be able to see through a portal to whoever’s opening up the door at the waterfront and vice versa.
“So, it’ll be kind of like a Zoom call without sound between the Scottsdale waterfront and the mall.”
WithCanal Convergence set to kick off on Nov. 4, two artists are excited to have the opportunity to light up the canal in two different ways.
Scottsdale artist Jeff Zischke, who had an installation at the first Canal Conver gence in 2012, will show off a light-based installation that will be suspended above the canal. Walter Productions will posi tion 10 orbs bove the water that will shoot flames into the night sky as part of a cho reographed show each night.
Zischke returns to the canal for the first time since spring 2014 with “SunDrops” –a suspended light piece illuminated by a central light source that almost resembles a black disco ball.
He said he drew inspiration from the sun but also from the challenge of doing something new.
“What I live for is the next challenge of creating temporary or permanent art that is dynamic,” Zischke said.
Zischke embraced the challenge with a work that will be suspended over water that provides a unique illumination.
“I was thinking of sun and then I ini tially thought of sunspots since I’ve been playing around with GOBO lights – lights
that use small circular discs to go be tween optics – and my thought was ‘what if I did this on a big scale with projector lights that created GOBO lights and cre ated these round space-like shapes?’” Zischke said.
“Then the idea of the name ‘Sun Drops’ came into mind because the pieces looked like frames of sunlight when I was plan ning it out.”
For the last six months, Zischke, with the help of some of his neighbors, was cutting away sheets of metal and plastic to create five dangling installations – a far cry from
the 30 days he spent crafting the piece he showed at the first Canal Convergence a decade ago called “Nodal Water Gardens.”
Zischke cites his longer turn time on the backlog on ordering materials he has needed for his installations.
“It’s been a crunch because to get this year has been different to get materials,” Zischke said.
He didn’t receive his last orders of pris matic plastic until a few weeks before the festival.
“SunDrops” is not the only work that Zischke will be showing off. He is also
bringing back one of his acclaimed “Water Striders” that was shown at Canal Conver gence in 2014. However, since the piece will be on land this time, he is calling it a “Desert Strider.”
Walter Productions has returned for a fifth festival to show off its latest metal and fire-based installation, called “ORB.”
This year, it has lined 10 orbs along the canal that will shoot flames several feet into the air as part of a choreographed show that happens three to four times each night.
“The idea came from the 10th anniver sary of the event,” said Walter Productions founder Dr. Kirk Strawn. “Not only are there 10 of these orbs – one for each year – but the idea of the sphere is related to the feeling of looking off into the distance at celestial bodies and how the further away they get, you see kind of a tiny point of light.
“So, thinking of things that have oc curred in the past, if we were able to look back through time to see years past, we might envision those as tiny points of light back into the past.”
Strawn was challenged with the task of finding a new way to suspend the
The One Water Brewing Showcase is returning to Canal Convergence and the Scottsdale Water Department and breweries from across the Valley see that as a great opportunity for a couple of reasons.
Breweries see this event and tasting contest as an opportunity to further ex pose Valley beer lovers to their brand.
And the city sees it as an educational opportunity to promote it’s the use of re cycled water.
“The whole beer part of it is it’s a way to educate the community since the direct potable reuse (water) is a new water re source that we can tap into eventually, and
we knew it was part of the future,” said Scottsdale Water spokeswoman Valerie Schneider.
“Part of our (potable water) permit was that we can host one beverage-based event per year where we can take our di rect potable reuse water and give it to a water-based beverage facility so they then utilize the water to make the beverage and then we have the event where the public can sample it.”
With the clearance to bring this event back after a two-year hiatus to this year’s Canal Convergence, the search began for breweries that could create a succulent beverage.
The challenge was embraced by O.H.S.O.
Check out the list of events below before planning your trip. Events start at 6 p.m. every night from Friday, Nov. 4 to Sunday, Nov. 13 at Scottsdale Waterfront, 7038 E. 5th Ave. Information: canalconvergence.com
FRIDAY, NOV. 4
One Water Brewing Showcase
When: 6-10 p.m.
Cost: TBA
SRP Canal History Tour
When: 5-6 p.m.
Cost: TBA Contact Guest Services at 480-499-8587 or boxoffice@scottsdalearts. org.
Canal Convergence Art Tour
When: 6-7 p.m.
Cost: TBA Contact Guest Services at 480-499-8587 or boxoffice@scottsdalearts. org.
Community Roundabout
When: 6-10 p.m.
Cost: Free Herberger Stage Perfor mances - Thunder Boys and The Senators
When: 6-9:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
Paper Polyhedrons with HYBYCOZO
When: 6:15-7:15 p.m.
Cost: $10
Walter Productions Fire Show
When: 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Cost: Free Silk-Screen Printing with Eli Richard
When: 7:30-9:45 p.m.
Cost: Free
One Water Brewing Showcase
When: 6-10 p.m.
Cost: TBA SRP Canal History Tour
When: 5-6 p.m.
Cost: TBA Contact Guest Services at 480-499-8587 or boxoffice@scottsdalearts. org.
Poetics of Impermanence: The 5th Element with Kristin Bauer
When: 5-6 p.m.
Cost: $10
Canal Convergence Art Tour
When: 6-7 p.m. Cost: $5
Community Roundabout When: 6-10 p.m. Cost: Free Canal Convergence Opening Celebration
When: 6-9 p.m. Cost: $35 Herberger Stage Perfor mances - Anamieke Quinn, Stanley Serrano and Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra
When: 6-9:45 p.m.
Cost: Free Floriography: The Language of Flowers
When: 6:15-7:15 p.m.
Cost: $20 Empyrean by NicoleOlson|Movement Chaos
When: 6:15-7:45 p.m. Cost: Free Container Painting with Jon Arvizu
When: 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Cost: TBA Contact Guest Services at 480-499-8587 or boxoffice@scottsdalearts. org.
Walter Productions Fire Show
When: 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Cost: Free Victorian Flower Language Collage with Angela Fraleigh and Josh Miller
When: 7:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.
Cost: Free
SUNDAY, NOV. 6
Canal Convergence Art Tour
When: 6-7 p.m.
Cost: TBA Contact Guest Services at 480-499-8587 or boxoffice@scottsdalearts. org.
Community Roundabout When: 6-9 p.m.
Cost: Free Herberger Stage Perfor mances - Nolan McKelvey Trio, Blues Man Mike and the Blues Review Band
When: 6-8:45 p.m.
Cost: Free
Cosanti Bell Carving
When: 6:15-7:15 p.m.
Cost: $40
Walter Productions Fire Show
When: 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Cost: Free Container Painting with Jon Arvizu
When: 6:30-7:30 p.m.
TBA Contact Guest Services at 480-499-8587 or boxoffice@ scottsdalearts.org. Inflatable Creation with Pneuhaus
When: 7:45-9 p.m.
Cost: $5
MONDAY, NOV. 7 Herberger Stage Performances - Eden Cislo and Zaylie Windsor
When: 6-8:30 p.m.
Cost: Free Life in Base 10 with Kathleen Stanberry
When: 6:15-9 p.m.
Cost: Free XR Frontiers in Education, Hosted by ASU Learning Figures
When: 6:15-9 p.m.
Cost: Free Walter Productions Fire Show
When: 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Cost: Free Walter Productions Fire Show
When: 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
Scottsdale Professionals Converge
When: 6-8 p.m.
Cost: $30
Herberger Stage PerformancesSteel Dads and Keven Peart
When: 6-8:45 p.m.
Cost: Free Suminagashi Paper Marbling with Jennifer Britz
When: 6:15-9 p.m.
Cost: Free
Herberger Stage PerformancesLois Roma-Deely, Amber McCrary and Cynthia Hogue and AZ BeatLab
When: 6-7 p.m.
Cost: Free Zine Making with Amber McCrary When: 6:15-9 p.m.
Cost: Free
SRP Canal History Tour
When: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Cost: TBA Contact Guest Services at 480-499-8587 or boxoffice@scottsdalearts.org.
Herberger Stage Performances - Andre DeBride and The Asim Project
When: 6-8:45 p.m.
Cost: Free Light-Up Squiggle Sculptures with Shari Keith
When: 6:15-7:15 p.m.
Cost: $15
Geometric Ornaments with Shari Keith
When: 7:15-9:45 p.m.
Cost: Free Walter Productions Fire Show
When: 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
SRP Canal History Tour
When: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Cost: TBA Please contact Guest Services at 480-499-8587 or boxof-
fice@scottsdalearts.org for the most up-to-date information.
Herberger Stage PerformancesAlexis Janae, Victor Caldee & His Cuban Connection and Gabriel Bey and Friends
When: 6 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.
Cost: Free Canal Convergence Art Tour
When: 6-7 p.m.
Cost: $5
Community Roundabout
When: 6-10 p.m.
Cost: Free Glowing Flower Corsage with The Walter Hive
When: 6:15-7:15 p.m.
Cost: $25
Walter Productions Fire Show
When: 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Cost: Free Paper Flower Making with The Walter Hive When: 7:30-9:45 p.m. Cost: Free
SRP Canal History Tour
When: 5-6 p.m.
Cost: TBA Contact Guest Services at 480-499-8587 or boxoffice@ scottsdalearts.org.
Canal Convergence Art Tour
When: 6-7 p.m.
Cost: $5
Community Roundabout When: 6-10 p.m.
Cost: Free Herberger Stage Performances - Dr. Jesse McGuire, The SunPunchers duo and Jaleo When: 6-9:45 p.m.
Cost: Free Succulent Garden with Dig It
When: 6:15-7:15 p.m.
Cost: TBD Container Painting with Jon Arvizu
When: 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Cost: TBA Please contact Guest Services at 480-499-8587 or boxoffice@scottsdalearts.org for the most up-to-date information. Seed Bombs and Botanical Drawing with Dig It and Lora Barnhiser When: 7:30-9:45 p.m.
Cost: Free
Canal Convergence Art Tour
When: 6-7 p.m.
Cost: $5
Community Roundabout When: 6-9 p.m.
Cost: Free Herberger Stage PerformancesAlex Mack and Pat Roberts and the Heymakers
When: 6-7:30 p.m.
Cost: Free Cosanti Bell Carving
When: 6:15-7:15 p.m.
Cost: $40
Container Painting with Jon Arvizu When: 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Cost: TBA Contact Guest Services at 480-499-8587 or boxoffice@scottsdalearts.org.
Walter Productions Fire Show
When: 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
Scenic River Postcards with Xico Arte y Cultura
When: 7:30-9 p.m.
Cost: Free
Brewery Arcadia, a returning brewery, and brewer Bret Waters, who saw a golden opportunity to show off his brewing prowess.
“It’s good marketing for us because we have three locations in the Scottsdale area,” Waters said. “This brewery is one of the smaller ones in the state so we’re able to do one-off, small batch things because we only brew 50 gallons at a time.
“It’s really easy for us to do on-demand things and small batches for different events.”
Waters ironically found the toughest task was tinkering with a finite potable water supply he got from the city. “We had one shot at it, because (the city) only gave us one batch of water,” Waters said.
From there, Waters swapped his brewing button-up for a lab coat and began a chemistry experiment to determine the perfect water profile for its planned beer.
“We add calcium sulfate, calcium chloride, phosphoric acid, and other different things to our water to build it to add certain levels of chlorides, sodium, and stuff like that for each different beer style,” Waters said, adding:
“So, for the One Water Brewing Showcase, we got a sheet that told us exactly what is in the water and we had to go back and compare that to what our regular water is and then build our water from that base instead of our regular base.
From there, Waters began measuring and meticulously adding salts and acids to his water until he reached the desired sugar levels needed to make what he describes as a “hoppy Kölsch” beer, which would taste similar to a pale ale that was brewed with cultured yeast.
“We built water around that style to accentuate the hops and different water profiles will do that,” Waters said.
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orbs above the water flowing through the canal.
“There is a structure that’s on the floor of the canal that allows us to suspend the orbs right at the surface of the water,” Strawn said.
Though Walter Productions used to utilize floating materials to keep its installations atop the water, Strawn feels that the new installation method will add the show’s eye-popping display.
ORB will also have added light features
Once his water was nailed down, Waters added ingredients like Pilsner malt, New Zealand cascade hops, and wheat to create a smooth, dark beer called “Comet Collision” NASA’s DART mission inspired the name.
“Right when they asked us to do this and I began writing the recipe, NASA flew a rocket into an asteroid,” Waters said. “I also happened to have some extra comet hops at the time, hence the name.”
It also helps O.H.S.O. brewery that some of the artworks on display at Canal Convergence drew inspiration from outer space.
Joining O.H.S.O. in the showcase will be AZ Wilderness Brewing Co., Desert Monks Brewing Co., Fate Brewing Co., Four Peaks Brewing Co., Goldwater Brewing Co., North Mountain Brewing, Uncle Bear’s Brewery and Walter Station Brewery. Four Peaks and Goldwater will be collaborating to create one beer.
Additionally, guests in attendance on the first and second days of Canal Convergence will have the opportunity to purchase samples of these brews and the beers will be judged by a panel of judges and media personalities during the first two days of Canal Convergence.
However, Schneider hopes that this will provoke conversations about the City’s newest efforts to sustainably keep water flowing throughout the City.
“I think it’s just a great opportunity for people to enjoy sustainability, to see what Scottsdale water is doing, how we’re thinking innovatively, and how we’re thinking about the future,” Schneider said.
When: 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4 and 5
Where: Canal Convergence, 4420 N. Scottsdale Road Info: scottsdaleaz.gov and canalconvergence.com
that guests can control via a kiosk that will be situated along the Soleri bridge when Walter Productions is not vaulting flames into the air.
With his new installation set to pop off in a few days, Strawn is as excited as ever to return to the canal.
“The scale of the orbs is larger than the sculptures that we’ve typically done in the past and the new technologies are just really improving around lighting systems and interactivity,” Strawn said. “I’m looking forward to seeing how people enjoy that.”
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Fromthe moment he walks into Desert Shadows Elementary School, Tre Hickem is the most popular guy around.
Horizon High School’s assistant defensive line coach is greeted with high-�ives and �ist bumps from students that pass him in the hallway. Horizon football players follow him. It’s a typical Thursday during the regular season at another local elementary school in the Paradise Valley School District, where Hickem takes his seniors every week to spend time and make an impact with younger students. While Horizon searches for the second win in history against Pinnacle Friday, the kids come �irst.
“The message behind this is about making young men into men,” Hickem said. “Obviously, when they’re graduating next year, I want them to be accomplished, more than just not student-athletes of the game. Just to focus on other people.”
The idea was sparked last year when Hickem realized seniors get out of school around lunch time, allowing plenty of time and the perfect opportunity for players to connect with the kids who look up to them. Hickem wanted to �ind a way to give back to the community, one of his many passions.
Understanding the role his program plays within its community is a message that Horizon coach Andy Litten has pushed onto his team for the past two seasons.
“This really just �its with all of our philosophy, our program, this is started 100% by Tre,” Litten said. “He took the initiative through his work and his passion to start reading to kids, and then involved our kids. He’s just been a great role model to our younger guys. I’m very proud of coach for taking that initiative.”
For the players, it’s an experience they remember from the time they were in elementary school. Now it’s an opportunity to give back.
“When I was younger, I had opportuni-
Horizon defensive lineman Casey Hixson reads to a group of elementary school students at one of many visits the team makes to various schools.
with the football players.
In the kindergarten class, the football players taught the students about the game of football and the importance of teamwork. Together with the students, the players built �ield goals out of pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks and tape. At the end of their �ield-goal building, the kindergarten class gave two players gift baskets with their favorite snacks ahead of their game.
ties to have a football team come out and show me and give me and so I’m trying to give back to the community,” said senior quarterback Roman Funk, “the same way they gave to me.”
On Thursday, Hickem and his players paid a visit to Desert Shadows and spent 90 minutes with kindergartners, second-graders and sixth-graders.
In a second-grade class, Horizon’s Casey Hixon and Fernando Vasquez read fables to the students and helped them point out the lessons they learned from the stories. Following the book reading, Hixon pulled a student aside and gave him a free snack bar meal ticket for their next home game on Oct. 7. Hickem had talked with teachers beforehand and knew this particular student had been working hard, especially after visiting
For the sixth-graders, Hickem and his players rewarded the students for their hard work with a free snack bar meal ticket. Students can redeem their meals at home games between Oct. 28 and Nov. 7, and it gives them a chance to experience football at Horizon. They also had a special gift for the entire team: cards and letters they made, wishing the players good luck on their upcoming games.
“We want people to understand how great an atmosphere it is,” Litten said. “It’s a celebration of football. We have music and our students section always brings it. And anytime that we can get the community involved to see that, we’re all about it.”
Hickem’s program has helped change the players’ outlook about themselves and life.
“It’s just helped me become a better person myself, seeing those kids seeing where I used to be,” Hixon said. “It’s helped me create a better image for myself in the future. And it’s helped me just support the community.”
The players’ impact on the young students starts when they enter the room and continues even after they’re gone.
“I had my �irst kid come up to me after one of the games. He came out and came and saw me,” Horizon lineman Noah Anderson said. “So it was really cool to see how excited they get when we all come. Their teachers always tell us they ask about us when we are away. It’s cool seeing how they are all super happy.”
artist An
eta Janowska has seen more than enough women walk into her suite with botched eyebrows, eyeliner or lips.
Sometimes, the work is so bad that cor rections aren’t possible.
So, she plans on opening a beauty and business school early next year to reduce the instance of poor work in the industry.
“Every day I see a lot of bad work in my industry and unhappy women coming to me for help with their eyebrows,” said Janowska, owner of Euro Glam Beauty & Design, LLC in Gilbert.
Janowska also has a studio inside Ageless Mi MedSpa at 4300 N. Miller Road, Suite 150, Scottsdale.
Ageless Mi is owned by Dr. Robin Borsa.
“She does botox and fillers,” Janows ka said. “She is a wonderful person. It’s an amazing place and the owner is so
professional.
“We have the same goals: make our wom en confident and beautiful,” Janowska added.
Janowska provides numerous eye, eye brow and lip services, including micro blading, lash extensions and lip blushing. Unfortunately, so do inexperienced artists.
As a result, women with poor cosmetic work often come to Janowska in hopes that she can fix it.
“I see clients coming for help with eye brows done by somebody else and it looks terrifying,” she said. “Mostly I can help them, but sometimes I can’t offer these poor women any help – it is too late. My heart breaks into pieces when I have to say, ‘I’m sorry we can’t help you.’”
After seeing so much work that was too far gone, Janowska realized that there was a problem she might be able to help solve.
Since she has hundreds of five-star re
Travis Strote and Haley Byfield are saving the world, one pair of leg gings at a time.
The Scottsdale residents founded Yoga Democracy, the only zero-waste manu facturers of active wear in the United States. They will showcase their new col lection and their best sellers during Ari zona Fashion Week 2022.
Yoga Democracy’s event is Friday, Nov. 4, at the Mix Center in Mesa.
“We are going to be showcasing a new collection as well as our bestsellers,” said Strote, a Navy veteran. “We are a locally made brand, seven years going. We man ufacture everything in Carefree. We will showcase what we stand for: People and planet before profit.”
A Scottsdale resident, Strote said seven
years ago there wasn’t a company serv ing women who wanted to express them
selves through yoga clothing. Most appar el firms offer plain, neutral colors.
“We are loud and unique and differ ent, and we were hoping women would embody that uniqueness,” he said. “And it worked. We’ve grown a bit over seven years. We just finalized a production facil ity in Kenya so we can make a deeper im pact for the people working for us there.”
The Carefree facility will be used for small batch runs and a sample house. It’s there that Yoga Democracy staff will do research and design for their products.
Yoga Democracy’s clothing are made with recycled water bottles and fishing nets. The excess fabric is collected and re purposed or recycled. It uses a no-water dyeing process that cuts down on waste.
“We put our excess materials in dog beds and donate them to local shelters,” he said.
“If you walk into an average dog shelter,
oe Laux, recently named CEO and managing partner of Silverhawk Private Wealth in Scottsdale, said he is excited the firm’s growth.
Company founder Paul Mershon will remain in his role as founding partner.
“Paul did an incredible job of building the company since he moved to Arizona in 1992,” Laux said. “It will always be his brainchild, and I’m extremely excited to expand on his long list of accomplishments and take Silverhawk to the next level.”
Laux was the senior private wealth advisor at Silverhawk, working with highnet-worth clients and business owners.
Joe Lauxbecause of her experience in economics.
“His duties will remain unchanged, but he will also be assuming the role of visionary for the company while overseeing operations, the team, and growth initiatives,” the firm said in a release.
Laux is a certified financial planner, certified private wealth advisor and certified exit planning advisor and is pursuing advanced training in new financial strategies.
Laux started his first business at age 17 and ran his own practice for nearly two decades.
Silverhawk is expanding its advisor base – something Laux said “allow us to have more touchpoints with each client.”
“Money is so personal, but it’s also a
means to an end as opposed to the end goal,” Laux said. “Our clients deserve financial advisors who are invested in the end goal, whatever it may be for them.”
“We’re agnostic when it comes to insurance companies and investment platforms. Our fiduciary duty dictates that we place the interests of our clients ahead of our own, so we don’t use proprietary products that may come with a conflict of interest,” he continued.
“That fiduciary duty and our focus on relationships have carried us thus far, and clients shouldn’t expect a change in principles.”
Information: silverhawkfinancial.com/ joe-laux-cfp-cpwa.
views and extensive permanent makeup beauty knowledge, Janowska figured who better than herself to teach aspiring artists how to do permanent makeup properly.
also thought she’d be best for the job
“I can help new entrepreneurs to not only have the beauty skills, but to also have the skills and knowledge for how to start and grow a business,” she said.
Before moving to the U.S., Janowska studied at Poznan University of Economics and
Business in Poland where she earned her master’s degree. Shortly after, she opened her first company and focused on financial advising.
For 20 years, she helped clients open, develop and expand their economic business activities in Poland.
In 2019, she finished school as a permanent makeup artist, following her true passion: Beauty. She then opened a second business, where she performed permanent makeup services.
It was only a few years ago that Janowska followed her dream of moving to the U.S.
EuroGlam has grown fast and now, Janowska wants to open a school to support those who want to be entrepreneurs like her.
Janowska knows that small business failure is partially due to factors like inexperience managing a business and unsuccessful marketing initiatives.
So, in addition to in-depth beauty training, Janowska will teach lessons on business fundamentals that will help create a sound business model to generate continuous profit.
“I’m absolutely convinced that there is a strong need for a professional beauty and business school where you can learn permanent makeup and microblading, but also how to grow your own business,” she said. “We have some beauty schools here, but none of these schools show how to open and stay in business.”
She sees her planned school as “giving new entrepreneurs the chance to open their own business but also stay in business.”
Her school will also be more rigorous than online beauty courses. Part of the is-
sue with poor work is that some artists get their certificates online where they aren’t required to practice on many real models, if any.
Some courses consist of just watching a few hours of training then going straight into in-person work – essentially practicing for the first time on clients.
Janowska’s school will require many practice hours on fake skin before students can work on models. This way, students will feel confident in their newly acquired skills and avoid mistakes.
“Every day, it’s not like going to work. It’s like a hobby,” she said. “You’re excited every day because you see new people, new faces. There’s nothing you can compare to when you see your clients at the end after you’ve finished their face.
“When they see their eyeliner or eyebrows, and they smile and say, ‘Oh my God!’ It’s the best feeling.”
Janowska is currently searching for a location and staff for her beauty and business school, but anticipates it opening in early 2023.
If interested in being involved in Janowska’s beauty and business school, email euroglambeauty@gmail.com. To book an appointment: euroglam.us.
the dogs are sleeping on hard concrete. Therefore, they’re uncomfortable and it lessens the chance for adoption. The dog is already on edge. Our goal is to make the dog more comfortable.”
Strote and Byfield met in yoga class in Florida. They founded Yoga Democracy in New York. As Yoga Democracy grew, the partners started looking for sewing machines for sale. They found a small production company for sale in Carefree and they bought it five years ago.
“We moved out to Carefree, and we grew it from there,” he said. “It’s been born and raised here. Previously, we were cutting and sewing on the floor of her apartment in New York City.”
Byfield is the lead seamstress and creative captain, who begins the sewing process on every single product Yoga Democracy produces.
The clothing is available on its website, yogademocracy.com, or at its flagship store in Old Town Scottsdale.
Along with showcasing Yoga Democracy activewear, the Old Town location is a micro-production facility. Shoppers can peek in back and see seamstresses
creating clothing. In addition to creating clothing, Yoga Democracy offers on-site hems and alterations. Transparency and honesty is key to Yoga Democracy, Strote said.
Strote comes from a family of entrepreneurs. His mother and sister rescue former racehorses. He got the entrepreneurial bug when he started his first company, Pit Dawg Hats.
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Inthe minds of head coach Jason Mohns and the Saguaro Sabercats, the playoffs have already begun.
That is the mindset of a team that has felt counted out, disrespected and overlooked this season. That has come even as Saguaro has had one of the toughest rated schedules in the country, with its three losses coming against New Jersey power Bergen Catholic – then No. 3 team in the country –and in-state powers Chandler and Liberty.
And even as several media outlets still consider Saguaro an Open Division team, the Arizona Interscholastic Association computer ranking formula didn’t as the Sabercats headed into their matchup against defending 6A champion Highland ct. 21.
Saguaro was outside of the Open Division, which it won last season.
“If we want to be an Open Division playoff team, this is a playoff game,” Mohns said after his team’s victory over Highland. “That’s how we are treating the rest of the season. Week 7 was the start of the playoffs for us.”
Saguaro’s mentality and game plan different right from the start against Highland by not relying on big passes or heroic runs from senior quarterback Devon Dampier, a New Mexico commit.
They were physically dominant in the trenches, their receivers found holes in the Highland secondary, and their defense held strong with their backs against the goal line on occasion. It was perhaps one of the most complete performances by the Sabercats this season, and showed that even with losing three games in one season for the �irst time since 2012, they are still Open Division worthy.
Now they’re out to prove it.
“The disrespect we’ve been getting from teams is a huge motivation,” Dampier said. “It’s burned a �ire in us. This is playoff foot-
ball. We’re going to make a statement.”
Dampier played a pivotal role in Saguaro’s run to the Open Division state title last season. He took over as the full-time starter entering the playoffs and immediately changed the dynamic of the Sabercat offense.
Opposing defenses were forced to account for Dampier’s rushing ability. That, however, led to teams overlooking his ability to throw. But he proved he is every bit of a dual-threat quarterback, and he set out to do that in bunches this season.
Dampier has thrown for 1,197 yards and nine touchdowns so far this season. He’s rushed for another 660 yards and six touchdowns. But even as he leads the team in allpurpose yards, he has had more weapons at his disposal this season than last.
Wideout Deric English is back from a knee injury that ended his season last year.
Running back Zaccheus Cooper rejoined junior Jaedon Matthews to create a dynam-
ic back�ield. JoJo Clark and Jaci Dickerson are two of the most explosive athletes in the state. Dickerson remains sidelined with an injury but is expected to return soon.
Across the board, Saguaro has more than 21 players with college scholarship offers. Yet, it feels it is still playing as an underdog right now ranked No. 6 in the Open Division – they were moved back up after beating Highland.
“We have to live up to what we had last year,” Matthews said after the win over Highland. “I think we’ve been doubted because of our record. We have to have a dog mentality, 100 percent. Everybody wants it. Especially with everything we have on the line, we want to prove we can go to the Open still even with our record.”
Even with a spot back in the Open Division rankings, Saguaro players and the coaches know there is more work to be done.
The Sabercats entered a tough matchup
Saguaro’s win over Highland on Oct. 21 put them back in the top eight for the Open. But, at No. 8, they are still on the bubble.
Friday against rival Chaparral and will face Pinnacle, who is currently ranked inside the top eight, next Friday. One slip up, and the Sabercats are likely bound for the 6A Conference tournament.
Mohns acknowledged after his team’s win Friday that there are some teams who would rather play in the 6A rather than get a lower seed in the Open Division. But not his program.
Saguaro wants another shot at Chandler and Liberty. Mohns knows his team would have to play its best brand of football against the two powers, but he’s con�ident in their ability.
First, however, the Sabercats have to get there.
“Next week is round two,” Mohns said. “To win this thing, it’s gotta be seven rounds to get into the Open, which is where we want to be. That’s plain and simple. We’re not hiding behind the fact that we want to be there.”
TheArizona Super Bowl Host Com mittee and National Football League unveiled an expanded lineup of events taking place in the lead-up to Super Bowl LVII during an Oct. 24 press conference at the Tempe Center for the Arts.
“Arizona will provide a unique back drop for a weeklong celebration heading into Super Bowl LVII which will culminate what is proving to be a remarkable 2022 NFL season,” said Peter O’Reilly, executive vice president, club business & league events for the NFL.
“We look forward to providing an in credible Super Bowl experience for the
Arizona community, our players, clubs, partners and fans.”
Events will be held across the Valley, from Mesa to Glendale leading up to the Sunday, Feb. 12, game. Jay Parry, presi dent and chief executive officer of the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee, re vealed Hance Park will host the first Offi cial Super Bowl Watch Party on gameday.
“Locating Super Bowl events through out the Valley is a testament to the col laboration and leadership of our partners and elected officials, with each communi ty having something unique to offer visi tors and locals,” she said.
Parry was quick to thank Avondale and Peoria for “their terrific support of the Su
BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff WriterFalling on the heels of a successful celebration last year, the Scott sdale Public Library system is bringing back its annual cardholder cel ebration and concert.
This year, the fanfare falls on Sat urday, Nov. 5, at Scottsdale Stadium, where library cardholders can enjoy food, drinks, games, and live music per formed by Uncorked the Band.
“This event is more of a celebration for people with library cards,” said Scotts dale Public Library community engage ment and outreach coordinator Jennifer Wong-Ortiz, “So we offer a free concert
and activities and games for the whole family and all you need to get into the concert, and the event is to show your Scottsdale Public Library card.”
The libarry hosted a similar event last year to ramp up Library Memberships and say thank you to existing cardhold ers and Wong-Ortiz says the event re ceived rave reviews.
“A year ago, we were trying to get the word out to the public and the commu nity that Scottsdale public libraries are still around,” she said. “We really want ed to try to convince (people) we’re still relevant and we’re still in the commu nity so, come get your library card, be
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she said. The ESPN Main Street Tailgate will kick off Feb. 8.
“Fans know the thrill of being caught on camera behind some of the world’s best broadcasters,” Parry said. “Now, that’s re ferred to as a photo bomb. But, as every major network converges on the Valley in February, there will be so many opportu nities
locals to earn some on-air time.”
Fox Sports, the official broadcast part ner of Super Bowl, chose Glendale for its week-long coverage leading up to the game at State Farm Stadium.
The Super Bowl Experience Presented by Lowe’s will be held at the Phoenix Convention Center, O’Reilly said, calling it the “crown jewel” of fan events. Tickets, which start at $20 or free for kids younger than 12, go on sale Dec. 17.
Super Bowl Opening Night Presented by Fast Twitch is set for Feb. 6. Fans can take part in a meet and greet with players at the Footprint Center. Tickets are $20 as well and go on sale Dec. 17.
In addition to these events, community projects are in progress across the state and will continue through February, including beautification projects, habitat restoration, a student STEAM program and youth football clinics.
The highlights include:
Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee 5K-9
Fun Run presented by PetSmart Jan. 7
Riverview Park, Mesa
Super Bowl Experience presented by Lowe’s at the Phoenix Convention Center Feb. 4 and Feb. 5, and Feb. 9 to Feb. 11
Phoenix Convention Center
Opening Night presented by Fast Twitch Feb. 6
“All of the participating players in the game are there,” he said. “It’s an incredible fan experience to see the players, helmets off, up close and personal. It really sets the tone for the week.”
Acts will be announced soon for the three-night Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest at Footprint Center.
Feb. 9 fans can watch NFL Honors Pre
Footprint Center, Phoenix
Super Bowl Gospel Celebration Feb. 8
Mesa Center for the Arts
Historic Old Town ESPN Main Street Tailgate Feb. 8 to Feb. 12
Old Town Scottsdale
Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest Feb. 8 to Feb. 11
Footprint Center, Phoenix
NFL Honors Presented by Invisalign Feb. 9
Symphony Hall, Phoenix
Super Bowl Experience presented by Lowe’s @ Hance Park Feb. 9 to Feb. 12
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“It’s such a beautiful venue,” he said. “It really shines where our biggest football stars and celebrities will walk the red car pet. That’s the night when the MVP is re vealed, same with the Rookie of the Year, the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year, Pro Football Hall of Fame Class.”
Margaret T. Hance Park, Phoenix FanDuel Party Feb. 10
Tempe Beach Park
Taste of the NFL Feb. 11
Chateau Luxe, North Phoenix
FOX Sports Broadcast Set
Programming throughout the week The Great Lawn at State Farm Stadium, Glendale
Official Super Bowl Watch Party Feb. 12
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Super Bowl Feb. 12
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Taste of the NFL will offer the country’s best chefs at Chateau Luxe on Feb. 11.
“That’s our annual purpose-driven culi nary event that takes place each year,” he said. “That’s an event featuring celebrity chefs from around the country.”
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“It’s amazing to be partnered again with you having done this with Super Bowl 49,” he said. “That was my first year in this role and I couldn’t have asked for a better partner back then. We’re a better partner right now.”
Besides leaving a strong economic impact, the Super Bowl yearns to help the community in other ways.
“We discuss how we can leave a positive legacy in the community and we do that through incredible programs,” O’Reilly said.
“We’re back here in order to do something special and put our marker out there as the greatest Super Bowl ever. We’re incredibly excited and ready to roll.”
This is the fourth time the Super Bowl has been in Arizona.
“We’ll continue to look at Arizona as a Super Bowl home,” he said. “There have been incredible games here. Hopefully, that continues with Super Bowl 57. You have the special sauce here. The people are supportive and it’s just a beautiful location to draw with locals and people from around the world.”
cause we have so much to offer.”
So began a three-month campaign spanning from September to November of 2021 to garner as many memberships as possible.
“We did a big push to get people to sign up for a library card to encourage them to use the library and we thought it’d be great to have a culminating event in addition to all the wonderful things that you can get with your library card,” Wong-Ortiz said.
The goal was to sign up 2,000 people over the three months and the library shattered that goal, signing up nearly 3,000 for cards.
Its cardholder event also saw nearly double the number of attendees the staff expected at Scottsdale Stadium.
“We weren’t quite sure how many people would want to come so we hoped for maybe 300 People at the event,” WongOrtiz said. “We got about 600. So, we consider that a success.”
Building on last year’s success, WongOrtiz says that the library is sticking to a lot of the staple events that made last year’s event a hit like – including family-
friendly dance music by a live band, face painters, and the crowd-favorite balloon artists.
“We were trying to find somebody that had both family-friendly tunes and provided a rockin’ dance sound because we know people like to get up and dance,” Wong-Ortiz said.
“Uncorked the Band came up and we looked at their setlist and it’s an eclectic mix of 90s and today’s dance classics. So we thought, ‘that’s a lot of fun and it should get a lot of people up and hopefully moving, and dancing.’”
However, the event is sandwiched between two large events down the street from Scottsdale Stadium throughout the day and Wong-Ortiz admitted she and the rest of the organizers are mindful of that.
“In the morning, the Senior Center is also having their huge arts and crafts fair as well and there’s a lot of stuff for that particular Saturday but we were just hoping that people come on over to have some fun with the band, get food and then maybe transition and go to Canal Convergence,” Wong-Ortiz said.
“It’s kind of a smooth condition from concert to the over at canal conver-
gence.”
Whether people stick around for the whole event or use it as a stop on their way to the canal, Wong-Ortiz hopes to attract a crowd and underscores that even if people don’t have a library card before getting in event, they can purchase a card at the stadium.
“Those who do not have library cards can get a library card between now and then by visiting any of our Scottsdale public library branches, or they can go online and get a card there,” Wong-Ortiz said.
“But if they don’t have their card and they just show up, we have the ability to make cards for them before the concert starts because we’ll be on-site making hybrid cards. All they need is an up-todate driver’s license.”
Scottsdale Library Cardholder Celebration
When: 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5.
Where: Scottsdale Stadium, 7408 E. Osborn Road
Cost: Free with Library Card
Info: scottsdale.libnet.info
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Tucked away in a shopping center on the southeast corner of Shea Boulevard and Scottsdale Road, the Happy Hamburger restaurant is leaving customers with a state of satisfaction that mirrors its name.
Dave Vaughan bought it over three years ago from a man whose health issues had forced him to sell just nine months after he bought it.
In the beginning, Vaughan had to do it all.
“When we first opened, I was on the grill all the time,” he said.
Today, Vaughan is able to step away from the grill most of the time, though he still does some of the cooking.
But he’s also cooking another way that takes him from the kitchen for stops around the Valley.
Vaughan plays bass in a cover band called Chapman Brothers.
“I’m a recording artist,” Vaughan said. “The band on Sony records was a rock band - modern rock, not old rock.”
But his main focus is on the restaurant.
“We’ve taken some elements of the diner and put it into a smaller place,” he said.
“We can seat about 40 people in the dining room so we have a diner feel inside. We have black and white checkered floors and we have 50s music playing. We do have a jukebox in the corner that is kind of there for show.”
The restaurant serves big half-pound burgers and Vaughan prides himself on the signature burgers that come in doubles and triples.
The most popular menu item is the double cheeseburger, though he also touts his sliders.
The burgers “are not as big as they
sound,” he said. “They’re thin patties.
The double is equal to about a quarter pounder and the triple is equal to about a half pounder.
“They’re thick patties we roll into meatballs and we slice onions really thin. We don’t dice them but slice them.
We throw those down on the grill and smash the meat into the onions. We cook it and put cheese on each one or we do hamburgers with no cheese.
“We stack them and then we steam the bun. It’s really flavorful. If you don’t like onions, we can do it without the onions. That’s our main thing.”
He said most customers order the way the burgers are featured on the menu: meat, cheese and onion grilled into the meat. No lettuce.
“We don’t put lettuce or tomato on the signature burgers…They come with shredded lettuce and pickles on the side.”
Customers also can choose homemade sauces such as chipotle, jalapeño kicker, ranch, Caesar, green chili aioli, Thousand Island and honey Dijon.
“I make my own marinara sauce because I’m originally from New York so I’m Italian,” Vaughan added. “I make a marinara sauce I use on a pizza burger which is really unique Arizona.
“Then I have chicken parmesan sliders. We added pizza sliders to the menu and obviously, we have regular sliders like cheeseburger and hamburger sliders…and we have a veggie burger with
avocado on it.”
Toppings include double jalapeños, mushrooms, green chiles, bacon and eggs.
“We have all kinds of toppings,” Vaughan said. “That’s one thing that makes us different from the franchises…It’s a little different because not everyone has those toppings.”
House and Caesar salads are also on the menu, along with a couple of chicken sandwiches.
He even offers a breakfast burger topped with hash browns and a fried egg. And his frosty shakes include a wide variety of unique flavors, including peanut butter, Oreo and others.
He offers catering service and can feed a party with his “Happy Bundles” – 10 or 20 double cheeseburgers with three or six pounds of French fries for $119 and $215, respectively.
Despite nearby competition that includes franchise burger restaurants, Vaughan has survived despite not doing any marketing in the last three years.
“The secret to success is consistency, putting out good food and word of mouth,” explained Vaughan.
“In Google and Yelp reviews, we have 5-stars. We’ve done very well. Even though you can’t see us from the street, we still seem to do good. We survived COVID because I bought it right before COVID. We sustained ourselves through take-out orders.”
Vaughan, who is hoping to open two more locations but is unsure what part of the Valley or state, offers breakfast, lunch and dinner and is open 10 a.m.9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m.7 p.m. Sunday.
Information: happyshamburgers.com, 10435 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 480-630-2330.
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Yes, I had to pry myself away from a casserole dish that was bubbling with the most delicious, flavors-of-the-fall dessert I’ve had in a very long time. This caramel pecan pear pudding is a keeper. In fact, the minute I send this column off, I think I’ll make another batch!
That pretty much sums up how I love this dish. I promise you, next week I will have a treat for you with pumpkin spice, which, I know is a favorite for many of you this time of the year. But, frankly, I’m a little burned out on the pumpkin spice anything-everything-everywhere-at all
1 cup all-purpose flour
2/3 cup sugar
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup whole milk
4 medium pears, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1 cup chopped pecans, toasted
3/4 cup boiling water
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup butter
Vanilla ice cream or whipped cream for topping
1. Preheat oven to at 375 degrees.
2. In a dry skillet over medium high heat, cook the pecans, stirring constantly, until they are toasted. Do not burn the pecans. (They continue to cook after removed from the heat.) Set aside to cool.
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Let’s give pears some love! Actually, once this delectable dessert has baked up, the pears sort of tastes like caramelized apples, so if you’re not a pear lover like me, don’t bypass this one. It’s worth it.
I’m sharing this amazing dish with you for several reasons. It’s super scrumptious, can be made ahead and warmed when you want to serve it, and best of all, it’s simple to make.
Now that I’ve given you all the reasons to whip up a batch of harvest heaven, go grab that casserole dish, some D’Anjou, Bartlett or Bosc pears, and get baking. Its winner, winner, dessert for dinner.
3. In a large bowl, add the flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, cloves and salt, mixing well to combine.
3. Pour in the milk and whisk until mixture is well combined.
4. Stir in the pear cubes and toasted pecans, mixing well.
5. Spoon the mixture into an ungreased 2-qt. baking dish or 9 x 13 inch casserole dish.
6. Bring the water to a boil. In a medium bowl, add the boiling water, brown sugar and butter, mixing well to dissolve the brown sugar, making caramel syrup.
7. Pour the syrup over the pear mixture.
8. Bake, uncovered, for 45-50 minutes. (If casserole dish looks full, place a sheet pan under the dish so the syrup doesn’t spill over into the oven.)
9. Serve warm, with ice cream or whipped cream. Caramel Pear Pudding can be made ahead and warmed just before serving. Makes about 8 servings.
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