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Scottsdale's new general plan is a lock BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

NEWS................................. 4 TGen discovers COVID human-to-pet transfer.

BUSINESS................... 32 Airpark pain specialist goes global.

FOOD..................... ..........41 Meal planner adds brickand-mortar service.

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or the first time in more than 10 years. Scottsdale will soon have an updated general plan. Unofficial results in Tuesday’s election showed General Plan 2035 winning by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent with virtually

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all ballots counted by day's end Nov. 4. Proponents hailed the victory. “It will mean higher development standards, more open space, more community participation, and taking our first steps toward sustainability for the future of Scottsdale,” Scottsdale City Councilman Tom Durham. City Council must canvass the vote at either its Nov. 16 or Nov. 22 meeting and the plan

will go into effect immediately after that, said Scottsdale Principal Planner Adam Yaron. With only a quarter of the city’s registered voters apparently even bothering to cast ballots in the all-mail election, the vote puts the city back into compliance with a state law requiring cities to update their general plans

see ELECTION page 18

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espite their sacrifices in service to their country, many veterans encounter hardships when transitioning from military to civilian life. This was the main reason the Scottsdale Veterans Advisory Commission felt the need to speak up. The commission, started by former council member Guy Phillips and officially formed in October 2019, has spent the last two years working to supply resources for veterans on the city website and inform City Council of the issues plaguing local veterans.

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TGen identifies human-to-pet COVID transfer PROGRESS NEWS STAFF

cientists with a Scottsdale-based research nonprofit say a Chandler resident is the nation’s first genetically documented case of COVID-19 transmission to a pet. The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, last week announced that it has published its findings from an ongoing study in the journal “One Health.” While there are five pilot studies nationwide examining COVID in animals, the TGen study is the only one to include genomic sequencing of the virus from both pet and human samples. “This level of testing resulted from TGen’s overall efforts to monitor the virus and its potentially more-dangerous variants by sequencing as many positive human samples of the virus as possible,” TGen senior science writer Steve Yozwiak said. Hayley Yaglom, a TGen epidemiologist at the institute’s infectious-disease lab in Flagstaff and lead author of the study, said the Chandler case is “the first example we had from the project that demonstrated the likelihood of virus transmission from a pet owner to animals in the household.” “This is a great example of using genomics to gain intelligence about pathogens,” said David Engelthaler, Ph.D., director of TGen’s Pathogen and Microbiome Division, the branch of TGen studying infectious diseases. “This study shows that we can not only use genomics to help track COVID variants across the globe, but we can also use this technology to track exact transmissions, and in this case transmission from pet owners to pets.” Patient confidentiality prevents TGen from saying much about man at the center of the study’s discovery, except to say that the “pet parent” infected his dog and cat. “The pet parent was not yet vaccinated, took little precaution to protect his cat and dog and entertained guests who were not vaccinated. The owner recovered from COVID, and both his pets were asymptomatic,” Yozwiak said. The animals were confined to an apartment and “had little-to-no opportunity to be exposed to the virus and so it was highly unlikely that the pets infected their owner,” he added. “Plus, in each case examined in the study,

TGen epidemiologist Hayley Yaglom, giving one of her own dogs a hug, led the landmark study on COVID-19 transmission by a Chandler man to his pet dog and cat. (Courtesy of TGen)

it was the pet parent who exhibited COVID first,” Yozwiak said. “Worldwide, there is no documented case of COVID transmission from a pet to its pet parent.” Researchers were unable to tell if the dog or cat were infected first, or if one infected the other, “though that is a possibility,” he added. The Chandler dog and cat “were buddies who had close contact with each other,” researchers said. TGen’s infectious-disease laboratory is located in Flagstaff, and is its base for all its anti-COVID research. In this study, Yaglom and a veterinarian from the Arizona Department of Health Services visited the homes in Coconino and Maricopa counties of pet owners who have tested positive for the virus in the past two weeks and test their pets for COVID. Arizona researchers tested 39 dogs and 22 cats in 24 households and found 14 positive cases of COVID in pets among six households. TGen’s COVID animal study is conducted under a grant from the Arizona Department of Health Services. Funds come from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in coordination with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. The Chandler man and his pets “all were infected with the identical strain of coronavirus: B.1.575, an early and unremarkable version” of the COVID-cuasing virus, Yozwiak said. “Fewer than 25 documented cases ex-

ist of Arizonans infected with this strain, according to information drawn from the COVID variant tracking dashboard that TGen maintains for the CDC and ADHS,” Yozwiak added. To date, more than 46,000 positive samples of Arizonans with COVID have been genetically sequenced, he said. Researchers deduced that the virus spread from the pet parent to either the dog or cat, or both. Yaglom said the findings reinforced the need for pet owners to protect their pets by getting vaccinated. If they do get COVID, they should wear masks when they are around their pets. “As difficult as it might be for many pet owners, they should avoid cuddling, kissing, allowing pets to lick their faces, or sleeping with them,” Yozwiak added. Owners don’t have to completely isolate from their pets, Yaglom said, but they should minimize contact “as best they can” while they exhibit COVID symptoms. The study will continue through the rest of 2021 and might go into 2022 if researchers obtain additional funding, which would allow them to continue education and outreach efforts, bolstering active surveillance of the virus. Dog and cat owners who have tested positive for COVID-19 within the past two weeks are eligible to participate in the study. The tests are free. Owners must be

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cottsdale’s most notorious criminal suspect is no longer a top 10 fugitive for the FBI. The agency last week announced that Robert Fisher was dropped from its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list to number 11 to make way for the alleged leader of the notorious gang MS-13 for all of Honduras. Fugitive Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias marks the 526th addition to the list and faces charges in New York City for racketeering, cocaine importation and possession and conspiracy to possess machine guns. Archaga Carias allegedly controlled MS-13 criminal activity in Honduras and provided support and resources to the MS-13 enterprise in Central America and the United States with firearms, narcotics, and cash. “He is also allegedly responsible for supporting multi-ton loads of cocaine through Honduras to the United States and for ordering and participating in murders of rival gang members and others associated with MS-13,” the FBI said.

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Masks to stay after high court slaps down GOP ban BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

on’t expect any change in Scottsdale Unified School District’s requirement for facemasks on campus anytime soon. The Arizona Supreme Court last week voided a ban on mask mandates in public schools and a host of other legislative changes, ruling it was illegal for Republican lawmakers to pile them into a handful of budget bills. “Yesterday’s high court ruling does not change SUSD’s COVID-19 mitigation strategy,” SUSD spokeswoman Nancy Norman said. “We continue to follow the recommendations of national, state and county public health agencies upon whose guidance we have relied throughout the pandemic and require that masks be worn indoors.” Without comment, the judges rejected arguments by Assistant Attorney General Beau Roysden that there’s nothing inherently wrong with the process that lawmakers have used for years to put policy changes, like whether schools can mandate masks for staff and students, into bills that are labeled only as relating to the budget. Also, now voided are a host of other measures, ranging from a prohibition against colleges requiring vaccinations and how to teach about race in public schools to the kind of paper that counties must use for ballots and stripping Secretary of State Katie Hobbs of her powers to defend state election laws. In upholding a lower court ruling, the justices also slapped down arguments by Roysden that the Legislature alone decides whether what it puts in bills complies with the Arizona Constitution. Among those requirements is a mandate that all measures deal with only a single subject and that all bills have a title that informs the public of what changes they make. Roysden, in essence, told the justices they should butt out of legislative business. “It is not for the court to second guess that,’’ he argued. That did not go over well. “So the single subject rule is just a suggestion?’’ asked Chief Justice Robert Bru-

tinel. Justice William Montgomery got more specific, citing provisions in one challenged bill labeled only as dealing with “budget procedures.’’ “So how does dog racing relate to budget procedures?’’ he asked. “I think that’s the toughest question in this case,’’ Roysden conceded. But he maintained that people, in reading the title “budget procedures,’’ are put on notice that there may be a grab-bag of individual items in there. And that, Roysden said, is all that’s constitutionally required. With Tuesday’s order, the justices said that’s not the case. But they did not explain their decision, promising a full-blown ruling at some point in the future. That will be crucial as lawmakers, now banned from using the reconciliation bills as catch-alls, now will be looking for guidance about what they can -- and cannot -do in the future. Senate President Karen Fann, R-Prescott, said the more immediate question is what to do about the now-voided provisions. “We’re going to have to go through a get a list of what was affected and how it was affected,’’ she said. One possibility, Fann said, would be a special legislative session. There, each of the provisions that the Supreme Court nullified could be reintroduced and brought up for a vote on an individual basis, avoiding the illegal practice of bunching them together. But it remains unclear whether each could pass on its own. For example, legislation spelling out how race, ethnicity and gender can be taught in public schools had failed on its own. It was only when that language about what lawmakers called critical race theory, was put into a reconciliation bill that it passed. That forced foes to accept the allor-nothing package to get other provisions they wanted. That’s why House Minority Leader Reginald Bolding, D-Laveen, called the ruling “a win for the legislative process.’’ “It was never appropriate for the

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Residential units earmarked for Cavasson development BY J. GRABER Progress Staff Writer

he first residential units in the controversial Cavasson subdivision are under review by Scottsdale city staff. The proposed project, called The Grayhawk Residences at Cavasson, comprises 400-multi-family units on 18 acres. In the meantime, a nearby nursing facility called Vi at Cavasson is also under site review. That facility will include 238 minimal care, or independent living, units, as well as a 97-bed memory care units on just over 11 acres. The Grayhawk project is currently up for a second reading by city staff and Vi is up for a first reading, according to Scottsdale Project Coordination Liaison Greg Bloemberg, who is also lead planner for the Cavasson project. The land is already zoned for the developments, so it will not have to go

through a rezone process. The Cavasson development is allowed 1,600 units on 130 acres. The developer was required to inform residents within 750 feet of the proposed projects of its plans, but there are no residents within that radius. There has been some talk on City Council about the need to expand that radius, but Bloemberg noted the developer has met its current obligations. He also said he’s received one letter from a nearby resident expressing concern about the number of units proposed for the Grayhawk project. Residents will also be given the opportunity for public input at a public hearing for each project, though dates have not yet been set for either one. Area resident Jim Bloch hopes to rally opposition to the Grayhawk project. “The last thing this neighborhood needs is another 400 units just up the street from what appears to be 1000plus at San Artes by Mark-Taylor,” he said.

“I understand that none of the (city) council members live in this neighborhood, but at the same time, thousands of us do, and we need representation,” he continued. “We need a voice about the direction our neighborhood is going-we had none four years ago.” Cavasson is the name of the large development planned by Nationwide Realty Investors, the real estate development arm of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, just north of the Loop 101 along Hayden Road in Scottsdale. The deal the city made to secure the project – which included a $21.9 million reimbursement on $30 million worth of infrastructure improvements made by Nationwide – became a lightning rod for council candidates during last election season. Those infrastructure improvements include storm drainage and power line corridor improvements requested by the city. Nationwide also paid to widen Hayden Road adjacent to Cavasson and pay to construct a portion of

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Miller Road north of Loop 101 on the west side of the development. That reimbursement has drawn the ire of some, with Bloch calling it in the past a gift by another name. “The infrastructure was of no benefit to the city, it’s only of benefit to the development,” he’s said in the past. Calling it a reimbursement is important because the Arizona Supreme Court changed the rules earlier this year on what cities can give developers in exchange for attracting development to their borders. A bulk of the office space in the new development sits along the frontage with the Loop 101, including a 460,000-square-foot building that houses Nationwide Insurance’s regional headquarters. The second phase of the project is under construction and features at least 207,000 square feet of office space and a Hilton hotel. The third phase could include at least 192,000 square feet of office space but that has not yet been built.

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Scottsdale holiday programs need support he City of Scottsdale is currently accepting applications to become a sponsor for the Adopt-A-Senior program., which matches income-eligible seniors with sponsors who provide gifts for the Holidays. Generous donations brightened the holidays for more than 350 of Scottsdale’s low-income seniors in 2019. “We’re always looking for donations to allow us to support everyone who applies to participate,” spokeswoman Ann Porter said. At the same time, the Adopt-a-Family Thanksgiving, Adopt-a-Family Holiday and Paiute Toy Programs are also accepting applications for sponsors to provide food and gifts for the holidays. The number of eligible families who enroll in this program always exceeds the number of donors. Each year donors sup-

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“Our job isn’t necessarily to do anything but it is to inform the city of veterans' issues that could be impactful,” said commission Chair and retired Army Brigadier Gen. Peter Palmer, who was approached by Phillips himself to get on the panel. “I sit on a variety of nonprofit boards that help in veteran related issues and a colleague of mine referred me to Guy,” Palmer said. “Guy felt that the city should have a commission to specifically look at and address veteran’s issues within the city.” According to a survey released last week by the financial website wallethub.com, there’s plenty to keep the commission busy on that front. While ranking Scottsdale the third best place among 100 cities in the country for veterans to live, the city ranked only 69th for health – a category that included various data such as quality of VA facilities and the local veterans’ proximity to VA facilities. Among the three other categories that went into the overall ranking, Scottsdale ranked the best at No. 4 for quality of life, 7th for employment opportunities and 13th for economic factors such as affordability and number of veterans living in poverty.

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Scottsdale also was the top city for veterans among seven in Arizona, followed by Gilbert (No. 5 nationally), Chandler (17), Tucson (33), Mesa (37), Glendale (67) and Phoenix (72). The Scottsdale Veterans Advisory Commission’s first step was to help local officials gain an understanding of the demographic they are working with in Scottsdale. “We want to increase an understanding of veterans in Scottsdale,” Palmer said. “When we formed, the city didn’t understand what the demographic of veterans looked like.” Even though over 66 percent of veterans in Scottsdale are over the age of 65, the commission felt it was important for the city to understand that the term “veteran” can also apply to those who still serving their country in the military. “We have a lot of National Guard and Reserve members of the military who have had heavy deployments for federal missions or border missions,” Palmer said. “You have to applaud the National Guard and Reserve because most of them have other jobs that they leave behind to serve the nation.” And so the commission’s scope includes

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State high court iced scores of other ‘laws’ BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

hen the Arizona Supreme Court slapped down how lawmakers approve “budget reconciliation’’ bills last week, it quashed more than the ban on schools requiring masks of faculty and students. Its three-sentence order removed a similar prohibition against cities and counties imposing mask mandates on those in public and charter schools. Also gone is the threat of school teachers being sued by the attorney general on claims that they used public resources, ranging from email or work time, to “organize, plan or execute any activity that impedes or prevents a public school from operating for any period of time.’’ That was aimed at efforts to get teachers to stay home during COVID outbreaks at districts that don’t mandate face coverings. Universities are not precluded from requiring those on campus to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or get tested regularly,

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(House) speaker and the Senate president to load up the budget with unrelated and controversial policy items to mollify certain extreme members and avoid negotiating a bipartisan budet.’’ Tuesday’s ruling also is a setback for Gov. Doug Ducey who not only championed the ban on mask mandates but has denied some federal COVID relief dollars to schools that he said are not in compliance with state law. Now, with the law permanently struck, there is no excuse for him to withhold those funds. Tuesday’s ruling also could cause some school districts who had balked at mask mandates because of the law to now rethink that position. At stake were provisions of four measures lawmakers adopted earlier this year, all under the banner of “budget reconciliation.’’ Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper ruled earlier this year that none of the measures comply with that constitutional requirement that the title of each bill must reflect what changes it makes. And she said one of them – the one labeled only “budget procedures’’ – was so

The Arizona Supreme Court knocked down the Legislature’s effort to cram a number of measures into a budget bill without holding hearings or observing any other constitutional necessities. (Special to the Progress)

as lawmakers had voted. And workers at private firms whose employers require them to be inoculated are not entitled to a religious exemption simply because they say so. But there’s so much more that went up in a legal puff of smoke, from how

full of unrelated issues that it violated the separate requirement for all measures to deal with only a single subject. Roysden drew the task of convincing the high court that Cooper got it wrong. But it became clear, even before he said his first words, that the odds already were against him. Brutinel noted that the justices met earlier, behind closed doors, to discuss the issues. “I think it’s fair to say there’s some consensus about whether the statutory provisions violate the single subject rule and the title requirements of the Arizona Constitution,’’ he said. “I think the consensus is that they do.’’ All that left Roysden to argue that this is none of the court’s business. “This would be uncharted territory,’’ he told them. “That is a terrible idea for the court to start down this path.’’ But Montgomery said legal precedents going back more than two centuries spell out that it is precisely the role of the judiciary to judge and strike down actions by other branches of government that run afoul of the constitution. And Montgomery said there certainly are questions about whether lawmakers are in compliance.

elections are run to what happens when the next governor declares a state of emergency. And it’s all because the court declared that lawmakers – and Gov. Doug Ducey who signed the bills – played fast and loose with the Arizona Constitution.

Consider, he said, the measure labeled “K-12 budget reconciliation.’’ Among the provisions in that bill is that ban on schools mandating masks. “So how does that relate to appropriation?’’ Montgomery asked. “The legislature could say if we’re going to fund schools, we want kids to go to the schools and we think (a) mask mandate is going to deter attendance,’’ Roysden responded. “We don’t want the schools that we fund to impose these types of mandates,’’ he continued. “That is within the power of the legislature.’’ That line of thinking clearly didn’t convince the justices. Anyway, Roysden argued, no one is fooled by the title. He told the court that anyone who cares about K-12 funding would look at the title and be on notice that there might be major policy changes -- like that ban on mask mandates. That drew a skeptical response from Brutinel. “We’re all supposed to understand that ‘budget reconciliation’ means ‘anything we want’ ‘’? he asked. Roysden said those in the know do understand.

The justices, without comment, upheld a lower court ruling that four separate reconciliation bills violated constitutional requirements that they have a title that adequately informs lawmakers and the public of exactly what changes in statute were being proposed. That resulted in a dozen or so challenged provisions being voided. But the justices also found that one of the bills – labeled simply “relating to state budget procedures’’ – was so chock full of unrelated items that it also ran afoul of another constitutional requirement that all measures be limited to a single subject and related matters. For example, there were several provisions on elections, like allowing the state Game and Fish Department to register voters and mandating that there be specific kinds of paper and fraud countermeasures on future ballots. Yet the same measure, SB 1819, also sought to preclude the kind of ongoing emergency declaration that Ducey de-

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“Anybody who reads the newspaper will know,’’ he said. “I’m not going to a newspaper to decide a constitutional issue,’’ Montgomery shot back. In striking down the laws, the justices sided with attorney Roopali Desai, representing the education groups and allies who challenged the four statutes. She warned the justices against accepting the arguments that lawmakers alone get to decide what can be in budget reconciliation bills and that the courts have no role in determining whether they are complying with constitutional requirements. “That could lead to some very problematic results,’’ she said. “What’s to say that the legislature doesn’t say that about every act that they pass?’’ In voiding the statutes, the justices also rejected Roysden’s backup argument that if they were going to find the practice of budget reconciliation bills illegal they should make their ruling prospective. He said there was no way for lawmakers to know that what they were doing was unconstitutional. That would have allowed the challenged provisions to take effect.

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om East was walking his dog along the path at Paiute Park back in 2019 when he spotted a eucalyptus tree leaning heavily over the path, so he called the Scottsdale Code Enforcement Department. “They sent a policeman over while I was still there,” East recalled. “I thought, Wow that’s service!’” Not much happened after that, though. “He looked at it and said, ‘Yeah, it’s going to fall,’ but that was that,” East said. Eventually the tree, which was actually on the Shadow Ridge Apartments property, fell, taking out a section of the trail guardrail with it. So, when he recently spotted another eucalyptus tree, again on the Shadow Ridge Apartments property, that lookedg like it is going to fall, East didn’t hold out much hope anything would get done. Still, he reported the tree to the city on Oct. 8 and posted a comment on the city’s Facebook page because the tree is right over a soccer field.

He didn’t even get a police officer to come out this time. “They haven’t responded at all; I don’t know why, I haven’t been rude to them,” East said with a chuckle. But he knows it’s no laughing matter. “That thing is failing badly and somebody could be hurt badly,” East said. Ann Porter, a spokeswoman for the city, said staff is aware of the problem, but the city is limited in what it can do because the tree is on private property. “It’s not by any means the city is ignoring it or not responding,” she said. The city can trim any part of the tree that is hanging over the property line, but the city wants to hold that as a last resort because: one, it’s not great for the tree; and two, the city does not want to get into the business of trimming private property owners’ trees. “We are trying to get the owner to take care of it properly,” she said. In the meantime, East would have liked some acknowledgment that the city is working on the problem.

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However, the study’s lead author, Candace Lewis, an assistant professor who holds a joint position with Arizona State University and TGen (the Translational Genomics Research Institute), explained her research focused on social stressors rather than just physical. “We found that different organisms or the abundance of different organisms living in children’s microbiome can have really important implications for understanding how our early life environments can shape one’s health throughout the lifespan.” The term socioeconomic status refers to an index of income, educational attainment, financial security and subjective perceptions of social status and social class, according to the American Psychological Association. Lewis said understanding the early environmental exposure of children matters for the country’s overall health.

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The PAC was created to counter the Market Freedom Alliance, which spent over $39,600 in mailers and signs opposing the plan. “We were kind of blindsided the day the ballots went out the mailers went out and the signs went up,” Janik said. The most mysterious of the groups opposing the plan, The Market Freedom Alliance is a 501 (c) 4 with over a $1 million in net assets, according to its 2018 tax form – the most recent year available. A 501 (c) 4 is a nonprofit “social welfare” organization that, unlike a 501 (c) 3, has significant lobbying abilities. The group’s website lists its mission to “educate Arizona citizens on public policy initiatives impacting individuals and businesses, and advocate for policies that promote and foster business growth.” Janik chalked the negative campaign – which included a mailer that stated, “Don’t let David Ortega gamble with our city’s future” – up to members of the Republican Party trying to turn the campaign into a partisan referendum on Ortega himself. “What really bothered me the most was when you saw a sign that said ‘No David Ortega.’” she said. “This general plan represents all of us. It is not partisan.” Ortega said the passage of the general plan first and foremost stems from the voters’ desire to keep development in the city’s Old Town to a lower profile with a cap on density at 24 multi-family units per acre. However, he acknowledges attacks against the plan were also criticisms of his leadership, though he would not say who he thinks is behind The Market Freedom Alliance. “I don’t know who ‘they’ are,” he said. The Progress’ calls and emails to the Market Freedom Alliance have gone unanswered. The citizen action committee Protect Scottsdale also opposed the plan, saying it promotes high-density apartment buildings that are too high and generate too much traffic. The citizen activist group Council of Greater Scottsdale (COGS) supported the plan because of its focus on revitalizing older parts of town, as well as the fact it respects neighborhood character plans. COGS also liked the plan’s transportation element. New to General Plan 2035 are sections on tourism and education. The plan also protects horse properties in northern Scottsdale, which was a point of contention with the 2011 plan.

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active-duty military and their families as well as Army Reserve and National Guard members. Once the commission understood its demographic, it aimed to pinpoint issues like homelessness, employment opportunities and psychological issues involving the transition to civilian life. These issues are not exclusive to Scottsdale as the number of veterans experiencing homelessness has increased across Maricopa County and nationally, WalletHub noted. “The COVID-19 pandemic led to a big spike in veteran unemployment, but has now recovered to 3.9 percent, not too far above the nearly historic low of 3.2 percent seen in 2019,” said Jill Gonzalez, WalletHub analyst. “The pandemic is certain to increase homelessness among veterans, adding to the more than 37,000 veterans who were already homeless before it even started." Concerned about the loss of housing security among veterans, the commission aimed to supply resources that would inform them of benefits available to them and nonprofits that can help in tough times. “There’s about 2,000 veterans-related nonprofit organizations in the Valley and we’re trying to capture those organizations by having a speaker from an organization

Peter Palmer, who chairs the Scottsdale Veterans Advisory Commission, believes the panel’s next big challenging is addressing issues related to new veterans’ transition to civilian life.Peter Palmer is interested in aiding veterans through resources and nonproﬁt organizations. (Progress ﬁle photo)

at every commission meeting to update us on what they’re doing and what is going on,” Palmer said. “There are a lot of nonprofits that do a lot of things for veterans that nobody knows about. The key is to know they exist.” In addition to working with nonprofits, the commission has set up a veterans page on the city website where veterans can ac-

cess resources about health and wellness, legal and financial resources, education and career programs, and business and economy resources. This is extremely beneficial as WalletHub study concluded that 76 percent of Americans don’t think that the military does enough to teach financial literacy. Moreover, two of every three people think that poor financial literacy among military personnel is a threat to national security – a 7 percent increase over last year in the number of Americans who think that way. “Financially literate people who serve in the military can worry less about money problems and focus more on their duties and are also less susceptible to coercion by foreign powers,” Gonzalez., adding: “But it’s important to remember that the military is not alone in its financial literacy deficiency. “Most employers and big organizations in the U.S. fail to provide adequate information as well. Even schools don’t give students enough financial education.” Palmer is most concerned about helping new veterans ease back into being civilians. “One of the major challenges we have with younger veterans transitioning is that they’re coming from multiple deployments where they have close association with their team and being sent out into the academic world without the support

structures like they did in the military and they’re surrounded by people who don’t think like them,” he said. “They run into a sense of ‘culture shock’ which can oftentimes be misdiagnosed as PTSD or some other cognitive injury.” Because of this, Palmer has plans to address the matter at the commission’s next meeting and plans to look for resources to address this issue. As Anthony Pilota, veteran services coordinator at Purdue University told WalletHub: “I believe the biggest issue facing veterans today is the process of transitioning from the military to civilian life. When you leave the military, you lose the support network you had with your brothers and sisters in arms and return to a world and family you no longer connect with because of your military experience. “Another issue I find with veterans that transition is that the keep that military mindset of being broken is a weakness and you should never seek help or admit you are weak. "By doing this they avoid seeking mental health assistance and downplay their pain and injuries when going through their VA disability and compensation hearing.” Information: scottsdaleaz.gov/ veterans

Scottsdale honoring veterans in person this year BY ALEX GALLAGHER Progress Staff Writer

or over 30 years, Scottsdale has held a grand celebration to commemorate those who served their country and this year’s celebration includes something special: a return to normalcy. Unlike last year’s scaled-down event, Scottsdale will celebrate with a grander, in-person event on Thursday at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park. “We’re sticking with what we’ve done for many years, excluding last year,” said city spokeswoman Jan Horne. “We change the speakers and try to make it thematic but I think that people like what we have done in past years and they will be happy to gather in-person.” This year’s commemoration will feature Mayor David Ortega, the Coast Guard Auxiliary Arizona Band, Veterans Advisory Commission members and police and

fire honor guards. Also leading the event will be James Fawbush, an Army veteran who now works with the Phoenix VA Health Care System in Phoenix, bugler Gil Gifford and members of the Scottsdale Mayor’s Youth Council. The highlight of the afternoon will be a speech by keynote speaker Nikki Stratton, whose grandfather was aboard the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. “Her story is really about connecting generations with Pearl Harbor and sharing an appreciation for veterans,” said Horne. Horne also felt the timing was perfect as this will run closely with the 80th anniversary of one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. soil. “We were looking for somebody and with this year marking the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, it

This year’s Veterans Day celebration will feature a performance by the Scottsdale Police Department Honor Guard as well as several notable speakers. (Courtesy of the City of Scottsdale)

tied in perfectly.” she said. “We feel that her message will be really inspiring to others.” The entire event is aimed at reminding people of the sacrifices made by both veterans and those who still are in the military. “I look to the younger soldiers who maybe only served one tour and are often overlooked for what they did,” said Peter Palmer, the chair of the Scottsdale Veterans Advisory Commission. “But on Veterans Day, everybody recognizes them for serving and doing something bigger than themselves.” As a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Army who served for over 32 years, Palmer said it is always heartwarming to see the outpouring of support from the community on Veterans Day. “It makes you feel good seeing people

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“What we’ve done in the past years has been enjoyed by audiences and they don’t want us to change it. Every year we get a lot of repeat visitors and I think they have always appreciated what the city has done in terms of paying tribute to veterans.”

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honor the service and the time that you served,” he said. “You have Memorial Day, which honors those who died, but Veterans Day is about the units, the organizations and the experiences.” With this being one of the longest running events in the city, Horne believes that the commemoration has become something of a tradition for the people of Scottsdale. “What we’ve done in the past years has been enjoyed by audiences and they don’t want us to change it,” she said. “Every year we get a lot of repeat visitors and I think they have always appreciated what the city has done in terms of paying tribute to veterans.” Like Palmer, Horne finds the outpouring of support from the community for those who have served in the military to be heartwarming. “It’s just an opportunity for our community to get together and recognize our veterans by reminding them we appreciate their service to our country,” she said. She hopes that veterans who come out on Nov. 11 will feel appreciated. “I hope that this is an event that veterans can appreciate and the messages from our speakers are taken to heart and incorporated into our daily lives,” she said. Info: What: Scottsdale Veterans Day Commemoration When: Thursday Nov. 11 at 3 p.m. Where: McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park, 7301 E Indian Bend Road Cost: Free Info: scottsdaleaz.gov/veterans

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apt. Alexander White, a Scottsdale resident who survived a concentration camp survivor but lost his entire family to the Nazis, is the 2021 East Valley Veterans Parade Grand Marshal. The parade will begin at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, in regular format at Center Street and University Drive, Mesa, then proceed south on Center, turning west onto 1st Street and continuing to Robson. Born in 1923, in Krosno, Poland, near the Ukraine/Slovakian borders, White as a teenager lived through the liquidation of the Krosno Ghetto, then spent a year in the Luftwaffe Labor Camp and six months in the concentration camp at Krakow-Plassow. In October 1944, his name appeared

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clared in March 2020 and still exists. Also stuffed into SB 1819 was a task force to study “unreported in-kind contributions,’’ setting aside $500,000 based on questions raised by some GOP lawmakers who wanted to see if social media platforms were influencing elections. There also was a “major events fund’’ to help underwrite the costs of the 2023 Super Bowl and other sports events and even a provision removing the legal definition of what constitutes a “newspaper,’’ a maneuver that could allow free publications to accept and run legal ads. Among the not-to-be laws was what some legislators referred to as a ban on teaching “critical race theory.’’ That phrase was not in the legislation. And, in fact, what is critical race theory

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at least 18, provide consent and fill out a questionnaire. The pet must be vaccinated against rabies, mainly housed indoors, and tolerant of the handling and restraint necessary for routine veterinary care. A veterinarian is present when samples are taken. No animals are harmed in the course of this study. Pet owners must wear masks during

Scottsdale resident Alexander White, seen on the left when he was a captain in the Army, is the Grand Marshal in the East Valley Veterans Parade in Mesa. (Special to the Progress)

on a list of workers assigned to German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who was relocating his factory from Poland to

the Sudetenland to avoid advancing Soviet armies. White surmises that he ended up on

sample collection, and project staff will wear masks and gloves. Spanish-speaking staff will be available, as needed. Pet owners will be notified of test results within 3-4 weeks. For pets that test positive, owners may be asked to enable collection of additional samples. Positive tests will be reported to the Arizona State Veterinarian and ADHS. For more information about testing pet dogs or cats for COVID, or to partici-

pate in the study, emailcovidpetprojectaz@tgen.org. TGen, an affiliate of City of Hope, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to conducting groundbreaking research with life-changing results. The City of Hope is a world-renowned independent research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. Both institutes to complement each oth-

actually goes to the issue of whether there is inherent racism that effectively is baked into society and continues to have an effect. But that didn’t stop proponents from seeking to declare it illegal to bar teaching that an individual, by virtue of race, ethnicity or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed by others of the same race, ethnicity or sex, or from teaching that any individual should feel “discomfort, guity, anguish or other form of psychological distress because of their race, ethnicity or sex.’’ But there’s so much more that in the bills that the Supreme Court voided: • Precluding the state or local governments from establishing a COVID-19 “vaccine passport’’ or requiring any business to obtain proof of vaccination status of patrons; - Exempting the Department of Public Safety from certain oversight re-

quirements when it purchases body cameras for officers; • Stripping the secretary of state of the ability to defend election laws -- but only through 2022, the time that Democrat Katie Hobbs leaves office; • Moving oversight of the State Museum from the secretary of state to the legislative council; • Allowing a condominium to be terminated only if all the owners agree; • Setting up an “election integrity fund’’ to finance election security, cybersecurity measures and any post-election hand counts; • Prohibiting the Arizona Lottery from advertising at a professional sporting event; • Permitting the auditor general, an arm of the legislature, to review the process used to maintain early voter lists -- but only in Maricopa County;

Schindler’s list because his profession was listed as a glazier and painter. His specialty in glazing made him a rare commodity. Upon arrival at Schindler’s factory, he was assigned to a small area of the factory to work as a glazier. White survived the last months of the Holocaust at Schindler’s camp in Bruennlitz, Sudetenland, and was liberated on the last day of the war in Europe, May 8, 1945, from the camp – as shown in the movie “Schindler’s List.” After liberation, he made his way to Germany where, in 1950 as a refugee, he earned a medical degree from the University of Munich. Soon thereafter, he immigrated to the United States. In 1953, he married Inez Libby, a Chicagoan, and joined the U.S. Army. He

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• Petitioning the federal Election Assistance Commission to allow the state to require proof of citizenship on registration forms that allow people to vote only in federal elections; • Reimbursing liabilities of the Department of Forestry and Fire Management in excess of $250,000; • Converting the permits for dog racing, which was banned years ago, into permits for harness racing, something that does not now exist in Arizona; • Setting up a special Senate committee to review the findings of the audit of the 2020 election; • Establishing a “state permitting dashboard’’ to track authorization for public projects; • Changing the duties and responsibilities of the Study Committee on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People.

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received a commission as a first lieutenant and completed his medical field service training at Ft. Sam Houston in Texas. From 1953-1955, he served as a medical officer at USA Hospital at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. He was honorably discharged as a captain in the United States Army Reserves in 1955. Alex moved his wife and two children – soon to be three – to Chicago, where from 1956-58 he was a full-time faculty member of the Chicago Medical School. He practiced medicine in a private practice in the area for close to 50 years while continuing to teach there as an associate professor as well as a voluntary faculty member of Cook County Hospital. He retired to Scottsdale in the late 1990s, where he has become active in veteran affairs, becoming a member of the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame. At age 98, he said he remembers his military years with fondness – especially the camaraderie – and often wished he had never left the service.

Scottsdale man sentenced in Uber driver attack BY LILY PRESSON Progress Contributor

Scottsdale man has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for attacking his Uber driver. David Schoelles, 52, was sentenced to 16 days in jail for beating Miguel Ochoa in October 2020, court documents said. According to the arresting officer, Schoelles’ speech was slurred and he gave off a strong scent of alcohol as he spoke. Court documents said that Schoelles attended the Phoenix Rising game and after a few drinks, called the rideshare app to taxi home. An unidentified passenger suddenly punched Ochoa from the backseat and when the driver pulled over and asked the passengers to leave, Schoelles pushed and kicked the victim repeatedly, the documents said. Ochoa suffered a broken nose and facial lacerations. Police found Schoelles in posses-

sion of “a green pill with an imprint of a marijuana leaf ” and a “marijuana joint in dispensary packaging,” court documents said. Schoelles told police that he did not have a medical marijuana card and the incident occurred before voters okayed recreational marijuana. Schoelles was charged with aggravated assault, disorderly conduct, and possession of drug paraphernalia. The judge allowed Schoelles to work during the week and serve 16 days in jail on the weekends over the next few months, the sentencing order showed. According to the documents, the judge also sentenced Schoelles to an additional 90 days in jail beginning next August but said that “jail may be further deferred or deleted if defendant is in substantial compliance with probation terms.” “I’m so sorry and so remorseful for what happened, and I take full responsibility for my actions. I’m truly sorry. I’m sorry to the prosecutor, to

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my attorney, your honor,” Schoelles said. Schoelles also told the judge that he was starting a new job as the CEO of a company. “I think my life and my family is worth as much, even if I’m a flex delivery person, as much as a CEO,” Ochoa said. Ochoa told the judge, “Thank God I survived because it was tough. Never in my life have I felt that I was close to losing my life. “I just got to focus on myself, try to move on from this,” Ochoa said. “I really don’t expect anything from this guy honestly.” Ochoa said that he suffers from chronic headaches and still cannot breathe out of his nose properly. Uber told Ochoa it couldn’t help pay for his medical bills he incurred, according to published accounts. Ochoa no longer works for the company. Schoelles told the judge at sentencing, “I don’t know what else to add – “just that I am ashamed.”

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DeCabooter Amphitheater honors a Scottsdale icon BY DAVID M. BROWN Progress Contributor

fter receiving an offer in 1977 to become the next president of Scottsdale Community College, the late Dr. Art DeCabooter told his wife, Mary: “Well, we’ll try it for a year or so. If we like it, we’ll stay and buy a bigger home with a pool. If not, we’ll go back to the Midwest.” They did more than like Scottsdale, and played a key role in the development of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. And at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 13, the community will honor that contribution by dedicating the Art D. DeCabooter Amphitheater at the Preserve’s Pima Dynamite Trailhead. DeCabooter, who remained in his leadership role at SCC from February 1978 to July 2008, died Oct. 8, 2019, at age 78. “Scottsdale has the McDowell Sonoran Preserve today in large part because Art DeCabooter led the way forward,” read the Sept. 27, 2017, nomination to name the amphitheater at the Pima Dynamite Trailhead for him. This was presented to the city’s Preserve director, Kroy Ekblaw, who submitted it to the seven-member McDowell Sonoran Preserve Commission, which then recommended it to Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane and the City Council for approval. “’Dr. Art’ gave Scottsdale’s ‘Preserve Effort’ legitimacy and leadership from its very beginning in the early 1990s,” the nomination continued. “He opened doors and gained support from segments of the community to which the so-called ‘cactus huggers’ had little access or credibility at the time. “His principled, dedicated and inclusive leadership over the past three decades has ensured that what started as a far-fetched idea has grown into the 30,000-plus acre McDowell Sonoran Preserve, one of the largest urban pre-

The Art D. DeCabooter Amphitheater in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve is scheduled to be dedicated Saturday. Nov. 13. (Special to the Progress)

serves in the United States.” City Council voted unanimously approved the naming on Nov. 13, 2017. “By chance, it will be exactly four years from the day Council approved it to the dedication ceremony on Nov. 13, 2021,” observed Scott Hamilton, the city’s natural resources manager for the Preserve and Pinnacle Peak Park. Although not part of the official approval process, the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, a private volunteer group dedicated to stewarding the preserve, also endorsed the amphitheater’s name. “Art DeCabooter’s passion for protecting and preserving open space cannot be underestimated,” said Justin Owen, The amphitheater honors the late Dr. Art DeCa- CEO of the Conservancy, which booter, pictured here with his wife Mary on a Char- is celebrating its 30th anniverros’ couples’ ride April 25,1998, in Sedona. sary this year. (Courtesy Mary DeCabooter) “As president of Scottsdale

Community College, Art was instrumental in helping the Conservancy advocate for the creation of the McDowell Sonoran Preserve and launching our steward program,” Owen said, adding: “Naming the amphitheater in his honor is a testament to the commitment he had for ensuring education is paramount to the work we do and how we engage with our community.” Mary, his wife of 49 years, said, “Art was positive and upbeat, people trusted him and he was a fantastic listener.” They met at Indiana University, where he was pursuing a master’s degree in counseling and she a bachelor’s in elementary education. After they married, he worked on a doctorate in higher education and she a master’s in library science. A former Catholic monk, DeCabooter, an Omaha, Nebraska, native, left the priesthood because he believed he could do more for his church and the community in secular service, he told Mary. After a position as dean of students at St. Gregory’s College in Shawnee, Oklahoma, he was dean of Student Personnel at Black Hawk East College in Kewanee, Illinois, becoming provost, or president, when he was 31. After six and a half years in Illinois, he became president at SCC. The couple had three children, Kristen, David and Laura, providing them with seven grandchildren; an eighth is due in April 2022. Another early Preserve champion, Mayor Herb Drinkwater, appointed him founding chair of the city’s McDowell Sonoran Preserve Commission, a seven-member group that ensures that it will be stewarded in the public interest. DeCabooter remained in that role for 15 years. In 1994 he guided the discussions that helped create the Preserve, and the following year led the citizens’ group that en-

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uestion: What do you get when you mix a banana, dish soap, salt, meat tenderizer and a little bit of rubbing alcohol? Answer: A white, slimy glob. You don’t get just any old white, slimy glob, though. You get a white, slimy glob of banana DNA. The process works with apples too, as over 90 kids from across the Valley learned at the fourth annual Sisters in STEM event at Saguaro High School Oct. 30. The event was intended to peak the curiosity of girls between the ages of 6 and 14 in STEM-related activities. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Brothers were allowed in too. The event boasted 25 exhibits including a presentation from the Scottsdale Community College Robotics Club, the Arizona State University’s Luminos-

“I have so many friends who say why do you spend so much time on Sisters in Stem; you don’t get paid. People assume just because I don’t get paid I don’t get anything out of it, but they aren’t there when you see a kid’s face light up.” ity Lab, which brought a 3D printer, and the East Valley Astronomer’s Club, which brought several telescopes. While staging event was a group effort of over 60 volunteer Saguaro students, the majority of the work was done by senior Natalie Foster, 17, and

Gabby Garcia shows Ava Ball, 8, how to use the heat from her hand to make alcohol boil from one side of an experiment to the other as Saguaro High School’s Sabercat Robotics team hosts their “Sisters in STEM” event. (David Minton/Staff Photographer)

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junior Zoe Dailey, 16. More than a little sleep was lost in the planning and implementation of the event, Zoe said. But both Natalie and Zoe agree all of the hard work is worth it. “I have so many friends who say why do you spend so much time on Sisters in Stem; you don’t get paid,” Natalie said. “People assume just because I don’t get paid I don’t get anything out of it, but they aren’t there when you see a kid’s face light up.”

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couraged voters to approve a small sales tax increase to fund land purchases. “Herb had put Art on other committees in the past, and the Preserve was a natural for him to mediate the varying factions on the Preserve,” explained Mary, who still lives in Scottsdale. Throughout DeCabooter’s Commission tenure, and after the five public votes, the Preserve expanded from zero acres to more than 20,000. Scottsdale adopted an ordinance to govern its use and management, expanded the boundary to include the 19,000-acre northern area and began to construct trailheads and trails. Today, the Preserve comprises 30,580 acres of permanently protected open space –– the largest municipal preserve in the continental U.S. and one-third of the city –– with a multiple-use nonmotorized trail system of 232 miles and 11 major trailheads and numerous other neighborhood accesses. From the early 1990s, when the “Save the McDowells” campaign began, DeCabooter was able to unite divergent inter-

tant waterways that are essential to trade vital to our economy and way of life,” he said. According to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday, four priorities will focus efforts on sailors, readiness, capabilities, and capacity. “For 245 years, in both calm and rough waters, our Navy has stood the watch to protect the homeland, preserve freedom of the seas, and defend our way of life,” said Gilday. “The decisions and investments we make this decade will set the ma ritime balance of power for the rest of this century. We can accept nothing less than success.” Huitt and other sailors have many opportunities to achieve accomplishments during their Seaman William Huitt, a native of Scottsdale, military service. serves aboard a guided-missile destroyer oper“Earlier this year we passed ating out of Everett, Washington. our certification inspection to (Lt. Cmdr. Jake Joy/ Navy Ofﬁce of Community Outreach) ensure we’re ready for our up-

ests such as environmentalists and the business and development communities. In this effort, he ensured that education would be a major function of the Preserve. He opened the Center for Native and Urban Wildlife at Scottsdale Community College in 2000, assisted by then Councilwoman Virginia Korte. He also helped begin the McDowell Sonoran Conservancy Steward program in 1998. Today, more than 700 blue-shirted volunteers help maintain the Preserve. “Art’s steady leadership, college-president credentials coupled with the passion of hundreds of other enthusiasts to save the desert, made the magic happen,” said former Mayor Sam Kathryn Campana. DeCabooter also participated in a wide range of civic groups. He was president of the Scottsdale Charros, Scottsdale Rotary Club and the Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce. He served on the board of trustees for the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust and the advisory board for Xavier College Preparatory. In addition, he was a co-founder and board member of Scottsdale Leadership and a board member of Scottsdale Memo-

rial Health Systems, Scottsdale Foundation for the Handicapped. Campana said the amphitheater will host students who will learn about the Sonoran Desert as well as Conservancy stewards researching and learning new conservation techniques and organizations deciding how to better respect the native landscape. “It’s a most fitting tribute to a beloved environmentalist,” she said. The conceptual design for the amphitheater began in late 2017, construction started in July 2020 and has just been completed. The design of the Pima Dynamite Trailhead, including the amphitheater, was handled by Scottsdale-based Weddle Gilmore Architects, which has completed several Preserve structures. “Weddle Gilmore has an excellent understanding of the functional needs of our Preserve trailheads as well as our aesthetic goals of creating trailhead sites and buildings that look like they have been there all along,” Hamilton explained. “We strive for facilities that have a timeless feel to them and blend with the natural Sonoran Desert

“The decisions and investments we make this decade will set the maritime balance of power for the rest of this century. We can accept nothing less than success.” coming deployment.” said Huitt. “I earned a Navy Marine Corps Achievement medal in May earlier this year.” As Huitt and other sailors continue to train and perform the missions to support national defense, they take pride in serving their country in the United States Navy. “Serving in the Navy means being part of something that makes a difference,” added Huitt. “Regardless of what job you have, you’re contributing to our freedom and our way of life that we’re fortunate to have.”

surrounding.” The general contractor was Path Construction Southwest, Scottsdale, and the landscape architecture was designed by Phoenix-based Floor and Associates, which has collaborated with Weddle Gilmore on other Preserve projects. The predominant materials are rusted steel and concrete for the bench seating – all low-maintenance with colors and textures appropriate for the natural desert. A biographical sign panel is mounted next to the site. The amphitheater honors what he did and who he was. “Art was not judgmental. He was just very agreeable and likeable,” Mary said. “He was always willing to take a leadership role in whatever group he was part of, if asked. He served on multiple boards at the same time, never showing signs of distress or anxiety. “He didn’t seek those roles; he just took them on naturally. He was a workaholic visionary. He was willing to make decisions and stand behind them and he almost always made people come to an agreement.”

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“It’s not just something old, white men can do,” she said. Added Natalie: “STEM is looked at as a big scary field only geniuses can go into. STEM is something anybody can go into.” Both teens are in Saguaro High School’s robotics class and on the robotics club. Last year the girls took over leadership of the Sisters in Stem Initiative for the first time. COVID-19 made hosting the event difficult but not impossible. The two opened a number of rooms in ZOOM and put the fair on the internet. It worked so well that the two hold events online every first Friday of the month. “They have taken the helm of this all and added first Fridays and made it bigger and better,” said Saguaro Math and Science Events Coordinator Susan Lindberg, also the robotics team coach. Natalie and. Zoe took over for former Saguaro students Kayli Battel, Eli Arnold, Laney Olson – who started the Sisters in STEM initiative when a program they had been volunteering at for

“I love technology. It really does have an impact on people’s lives. It is how we put knowledge to good use and create a better world.”

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years was canceled. The event was always meant to show through fun, hands-on activities, experiments and displays, that career pursuits in STEM are just as much for girls as they are for boys. Women make up just 28 percent of

the workforce in STEM fields and men vastly outnumber women majoring in most college-level STEM pursuits, according to Scottsdale Unified School District spokeswoman Nancy Norman. There is evidence that little girls have a natural inclination toward STEM pur-

suits, but that tends to start falling off around the fourth grade, Lindberg said. Natalie figures opportunities for girls to explore STEM pursuit start drying up around that age for girls, noting, “I just I think girls have less exposure to it. People just assume boys go into STEM.” She and Zoe are just trying to give everybody the same chances they got. “I love technology,” Zoe said. “It really does have an impact on people’s lives. It is how we put knowledge to good use and create a better world.” Both want to study engineering in the future. Zoe has one more year of high school but Natalie intends to do it in Arizona State University’s Barrett, The Honors College next fall.

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A Board-certified family medicine physician and pain specialist Dr. Okky Oei has treated thousands of people with varying degrees of acute and chronic pain for more than 40 years. (Special to the Progress)

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oard-certified family medicine physician and pain specialist Dr. Okky Oei has put the patient first, treating thousands of people with varying degrees of acute and chronic pain over more than 40 years. Since opening Hope Clinic in the Airpark in 2018, however, Oei has turned his attention and time to also helping fellow therapists. And of the 20 or so therapists he has personally trained and certified at his Scottsdale clinic, several are helping Oei

expand Hope Clinic — internationally. “Of course, I’d like to see more Hope Clinics in the U S. — and Arizona, for starters,” Oei said. “But the neat part is Hope Clinic worldwide actually has begun.” Since Hope Clinic’s inception, Oei and his staff have treated all types of pain, from problems like back pain, arthritis, and hip, knee and foot pain, to carpal tunnel, tennis and golf elbow and neuropathy. What what sets Hope Clinic apart is its approach.

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s a musician, Louis McCall always imagined himself owning a recording studio rather than creating tunes in it. With his father serving as the cofounder and drummer of the California funk and R&B group Con Funk Shun and his mother a record label executive, McCall moved around frequently between his birthplace of Vallejo, California, and Gaithersburg, Maryland, before his family settled in Atlanta, just prior to the economic boom of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. His father passed away when he was 15, and it was his mother, Linda Lou McCall, that instilled the confidence in him to succeed and flourish in whatever industry he chose. “My father was extremely creative and followed his dreams of becoming a drummer,” McCall said. “But I couldn’t drum, so I knew that wouldn’t be the path for me. I instead decided I would own the recording studio rather running the studio.” After settling down in Atlanta, McCall began working in the recording industry, doing music promotion and publishing while also owning a recording studio. “My mother was instrumental in sparking my entrepreneurial spirit,” McCall said. “She gave me a lot of the business acumen and confidence to go out in the world and look at life as a business owner.” In 2004, McCall moved to the real estate industry after his mentor and business partner went into the luxury homebuilding business. After explaining to his

Louis McCall is passed the gavel in December 2020, becoming the president of the Scottsdale Area Association of Realtors. (Photo courtesy of Louis McCall)

mother about his new business venture, she encouraged his new endeavor and gifted him with a book on how to negotiate deals and find business success. “My mother always told me to pursue whatever my interest was and not feel like I needed anyone to lean on other than myself,” McCall said. “Growing up, I was able to see my parents pursue their dream and achieve success which gave me the confidence to try something new outside of the music business.” Despite visiting Arizona once, McCall packed up and headed west in late 2009 with the vision of continuing his real estate journey. Upon arriving in Arizona, McCall

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Hope Clinic not only provides pain relief through non-invasive technology, Myo-Facial release techniques, and other therapeutic approaches, but they also specialize in integrative medicine, forgoing invasive procedures and narcotic prescriptions. “We don’t use any opiates at all. We don’t prescribe anything. We don’t inject anything. And yet, our results are over 90%. We see very positive results,” Oei said. Simply put, Oei said, Hope Clinic helps the body do what it needs to do in the first place, which is repair and heal. And it’s this approach to medicine and treatment that Oei teaches fellow therapists. Oei also developed a training program that allows him to duplicate the clinic through webinars and certification. And while Hope Clinic was on its way to expanding in 2019 and 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic derailed it, Dr. Oei said, causing him to briefly furlough his staff and close both Valley locations. Within a couple months, however, he was able to reopen the Scottsdale office — and reignite expansion. “A group that became very interested in this from Indonesia happened to be here living the States. So, I trained them, and they have now started Hope Clinic Indonesia. It’s starting to expand,” Dr. Oei said. Oei’s also had an expansion in patients amid the pandemic particularly among young adults seeking pain treatment, notably related to sports and physical activity. “We see a wide variety of things and also age groups, anything from the younger to, very often, the older,” Oei said. And as a result of COVID-19, which saw many Americans working from home, Hope Clinic has treated pain related to increased laptop use, including “the back, oftentimes when the muscles get tight, and overuse of hands, arms, carpal tunnel,” Oei said. According to an April 2021 study in the journal Demography, chronic pain has significantly increased for all U.S. adult demographics, including young adults. Overall, chronic pain affects more than 20% of U.S. adults, and joint pain and lower back pain were highlighted as the most prevalent sites of pain. “The U.S. health care system focuses on procedures and medications. For

pain, however, the focus needs to shift to prevention and management, including support of self-management and interdisciplinary conservative treatment approaches,” corresponding author Dr. Anna Zajacova told Medical News Today. And that’s what Oei would like to do more of, particularly among younger patients: help them understand the source of the pain, help them manage it in a noninvasive way. “My goal and my hope is that if you can get to people earlier and really have them understand — because most people, once they know what we do, it makes sense — and it becomes then kind of a logical interest of why we do things and what they need to do,” Oei said. Oei’s interest in pain management began while he was in medical school in 1969. It was during this time that he sustained a severe back strain injury that became chronic. But when he discovered his body couldn’t tolerate any muscle relaxants or pain killers, he turned to alternative ways to manage his back pain and spasms. Fast forward to 1972 and Dr. Oei would practice family medicine. Within six months, he observed an increase in chronic pain sufferers — and his interest was piqued. Upon moving to Scottsdale in 1984, Oei was introduced to microcurrent electrical therapy and low-level cold laser, modalities that he would soon discover led to, when combined, “exponential results” in treating pain. In 2007, Oei then formed Laser Health Technologies, a company that helped develop the LaserTouchOne, a first-of-itskind product that is clinically proven to be 93% effective in reducing pain. Considered a safe alternative to medication or surgery, the product has since been cleared by the FDA for prescription and for over-the-counter use. “It’s safe and easy to use and available without a prescription. In addition, the LaserTouchOne is portable and personal — delivering drug-free, pain-free relief — and is as easy to hold and use as an electric toothbrush,” Oei said in 2010, at the time of the product’s FDA clearance for direct-to-consumer OTC distribution. After opening the Eureka Pain Relief Clinic and offering non-invasive and non-opioid treatments, Oei began train-

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CALL FOR CANDIDATES | SRP Elections Set for April 5 Nomination papers and petitions for candidates seeking the positions of President or Vice President or positions on the Boards or Councils of the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association (the “Association”) and the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (the “District”), collectively SRP, are available by request from the SRP Corporate Secretary. Email election@srpnet.com or call the SRP Elections Information Line at (602) 236-3048. Nomination papers and petitions may be filed beginning Jan. 5, 2022 and must be completed and filed with the SRP Corporate Secretary no later than 5 p.m. on Feb. 4, 2022. The SRP elections are slated for April 5 and will fill 22 positions of the Association, which manages the water operations of SRP, and 24 positions of the District, which oversees the electric operations of SRP. Applications for early voting ballots will be accepted beginning Jan. 2, 2022. Prior to that date, applications to be placed on the Permanent Early Voter List can be submitted and be in effect for the April 5 elections. Early voting ballots will be mailed beginning March 9. Qualified candidates must own qualified land or have been appointed to vote qualified land held in a qualifying trust that is within the respective boundaries of the Association or District and in the voting area they wish to represent as of Dec. 26, 2021; reside within the respective boundaries of the Association or District; and be a qualified, registered Arizona voter. SRP Board members establish policy, approve annual budgets and set prices and fees. SRP Council members amend and enact by-laws and make appointments to fill vacancies on the Boards and Councils.

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ASSOCIATION: President; Vice President; one position on the Board of Governors in each of voting districts 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10; and three positions on the Council in each of voting districts 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. All Association positions have four-year terms.

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6, 8 and 10; two at-large Board of Director positions, voting divisions 12 and 14; and three positions on the Council in each of voting divisions 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. All District positions have four-year terms. The two at-large Board of Director positions are elected on a one landowner, one vote basis. All other positions are elected on a one-vote-per-acre voting system. For example, an owner of five acres of land has five votes; an owner of one-half acre has half a vote (0.50). Voters in the District election must be qualified, registered Arizona voters. The last day to register to vote is March 7, 2022.

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went on a ride-along with his sister, who was working as a Paradise Valley police of�icer. While riding through the then-Montelucia Resort, McCall was invited by a friend who was working at the Montelucia to meet a local broker named Astria Wong, who was living at the resort. “I called Astria the next day, met with her Wednesday, we talked on Thursday and by Friday I had keys to her of�ice,” McCall said. Wong took McCall under her wing and taught him the ins and outs of Scottsdale realty. Additionally, Wong’s presence on the board of the directors of the Scottsdale Area Association of Realtors encouraged McCall to follow suit and join the association as well. “When I started with the association, I was given a wealth of knowledge about the history, community and business landscape that charted my trajectory in reference to involvement within the organization and real estate within Arizona,” McCall said. With her knowledge and experience from serving as a Realtor in the commu-

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nity, Wong advised McCall to establish himself as a leader in Arizona’s real estate industry. “I always felt like it was extremely important that I participated and got involved at the behest of her guidance,” McCall said. “She told me that you have to stay visible and let people know you are around — the best way to do that is to pursue leadership positions.” McCall took her advice in 2014 as he became the SAAR Young Professionals Committee chairman, where he could mentor young professionals and introduce them to the real estate industry. Additionally, McCall also joined the board of directors of the Arizona Association of Realtors in 2015 and the board of the Scottsdale Area Association of Realtors in 2016. All members of SAAR also belong to the Arizona Association of Realtors. Arizona Realtors represents more than 50,000 members who hold active real estate licenses and subscribe to a strict code of ethics and standards of practice established by the National Association of Realtors. In addition to providing a number of member bene�its, Arizona Realtors is

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dedicated to the protection of private property rights for all Arizonians. In December 2020, McCall took his leadership to the next level as he was installed as president of SAAR after two years of serving on the leadership team. At the ceremony during which he was passed the gavel by more than a dozen past presidents, he was sworn-in by his former mentor, Wong. As the president of SAAR, McCall leads more than 8,600 Realtors and 200 af�iliate members. “My role is to chart our path as an organization,” McCall said. “Our main goal is to be a pillar of the community and a source for those in the real estate profession.” McCall’s involvement in the community does not stop there. He has been on the board of the Suns Charities 88 since 2015, a network of business professionals that serve as the fundraising arm for Phoenix Suns Charities. Additionally, McCall is also a member and donor of the Organization of Chinese Americans, an organization aimed at advancing the well-being of Asian Paci�ic Americans. With his prospective vision, McCall looks to keep his success on a high note.

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ing other therapists and, in 2018, �inally opened Hope Clinic. “It was always a dream to be able to treat more people and, most importantly, share it with other therapists and other professionals how to do it, since this is not something that you would �ind in mainstream medicine,” Oei explains. Looking ahead, Oei hopes to not only expand Hope Clinic throughout Arizona — and worldwide — but also help others understand their pain, instead of, as he puts it, opting for a “Band-Aid therapy” that helps people feel better with temporary pain relief but doesn’t restore or heal the body. “I want people to understand that this is not the instruments. It’s really what we do to help the body do the work. We have a phenomenal body,” Oei said. “I tell patients, ‘Your miracle is your body because it was designed to repair and heal.’”

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Letters Scottsdale residents need a voice in apartment development I just read that “Grayhawk Residences at Cavasson” has filed application for a 400-unit multifamily development in pursuit of approval by the City of Scottsdale. Do you believe it will be approved? I hope not. I shall rally the neighborhood against it, should that be necessary. Will there be neighborhood input like there has been on 92nd and Shea and the Greenbelt 88 proposed developments? As you know, or ought to know, the City lied to us about their outreach to neighbors when Cavasson was approved. Speci�ically, citizens were left in the dark on this development. With emails and public comment coming in with a large percentage of the citizens/ neighbors against, Planning and Development Director Randy Grant stated that city staff did their regular process of alerting residents within 750 feet of the project. Well, there are no residences within 750 feet of the property. It was approved in total «darkness» by a dark Planning Commission and a dark majority in the council at the time 5-2. Smith and Little�ield voting against approval. Most of those council people are gone, but to our detriment in this neighborhood, the remnants of their decision shall linger for many, many years. Has not the time come to lift the dark-

ness, allow the light to shine through (transparency), allowing citizen input, not proclamation by the City Council without neighborhood input which was the case with the approval of Cavasson (Crossroads East)? And two present council members in their campaign – after the fact – voiced their disapproval of that process. That was then. We have a new way of thinking now, or so it seems. The last thing this neighborhood needs is another 400 units just up the street from what appears to be 1000+ at San Artes by Mark-Taylor. Hayden, the new Scottsdale Road, unfortunately. Ugh! I understand that none of the council members live in this neighborhood, but at the same time, thousands of us do, and we need representation. We need a voice about the direction our neighborhood is going. We had none four years ago. -Jim Bloch

Broad amnesty for immigrants would be disastrous for Arizona Over the last 18 months, more than 18,500 Arizonans lost their lives to the pandemic – mothers, fathers, sons, daughters. 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 would 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 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 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 alltime 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 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 Tucsonbased 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 a 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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tudents at Saguaro High School are no strangers to working with Scottsdale Arts Learning & Innovation, but when two programs were selected to develop a unique attraction at this year’s Canal Convergence, they jumped at it. Students in the visual arts and the robotics programs put their skills to the test in creating glass sculptures and solar-powered pedestals, respectively, for an augmented reality (AR) experience that can be enjoyed until the Convergence closes on Nov. 14. Canal Convergence began last Friday. They spent parts of their summer and worked tirelessly throughout the school year with the goal of creating something beautiful and functional. “I knew Saguaro High School had a very strong robotics team but we also have a long relationship with their visual arts department so it felt like that would be a good place to start,” said Natalie Marsh, director of Scottsdale Arts Learning & Innovation. Marsh first met with Christopher Brandt, administrative coordinator of math and science and robotics coach at Saguaro and SUSD’s fine arts curriculum coordinator. Eventually, all parties met one hot June morning at a scrap yard that the city Solid Waste Department opened just for them. Marsh, Brandt and Saguaro visual arts teacher Michelle Peacock sifted through bins of recyclable scrap to find materials for the artworks’ bases. “We were looking to find anything that would work so we could make everything out of recycled materials,” said Brandt. The team found fencing that was once

Showing off the solar-powered pedestals made by the Saguaro High robotics club are, from left, senior and club president Natalie Foster, junior Kritin Mandala and sophomore Alex Stephenson. The pedestals supported light structures made by the school’s visual arts students. (Courtesy of Saguaro High School Robotics)

a part of an old baseball park. With material found for a base, the concept-development phase began. Marsh reached out to Hoverlay, the AR company that previously worked with Scottsdale Arts Learning & Innovation, and pitched a unique idea. “I wanted to take last years’ experience and gamify it by making it something that would keep people’s attention and be fun,” Marsh said. “After I spoke to the school, I spoke to Hoverlay and asked if they could create a scavenger hunt.” Hoverlay instantly went along and Marsh once again expanded her team. She contracted artist and Saguaro alum Bobby Zokaites to manage the visual design of the AR experience and design the frames for the students’ work. Marsh also worked closely with former Saguaro robotics club president and graduate Kayli Battel, who was a Scottsdale Arts summer intern, to further develop the concept. Scottsdale Arts Learning & Innovation produced the story of an artist visiting from out-of-town who lost pages from her sketchbook at the Scottsdale Waterfront. Now, Convergence guests will look for solar- powered sculptures created by visual arts students and sit atop pedestals designed by robotics students. When a guest finds a sculpture, an animation of the creature will appear. The creatures – a scorpion, a saguaro cactus, a white amur fish and a great blue heron – will provide the guests who find them with information leading to the missing sketchbook pages. Once a page is found, guests will have to solve a riddle to capture the page. Once all the riddles are solved, a word

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will be spelled out to unlock a 360-degree immersive experience. “It’s sort of like scavenger hunt meets escape room,” said Marsh. The skeletons are intricate artworks made of recycled glass. “Because these boxes were meant to display the art, we had to construct everything around these pieces,” said Saguaro senior Natalie Foster, the robotics team president. As the art pieces grew or were altered, so were the bases to house the works. “Both of our teams had their own issues when structures changed,” said Foster. “As both of our pieces were changing into something different, we had to ensure a flow of communication to ensure that our pieces still fit tightly together.” This project confronted students with things they had never done before. Junior Kritin Mandala was tasked with welding pieces of steel for the first time in his life. “It was interesting learning from Mr. Brandt how to weld and how to keep the flow going,” Kritin said. On the visual arts side of the project, students like junior Marissa Phillips worked with glass for the first time – a task she admitted was initially intimidating. Other students got a chance to display their strengths even as they forgot at times that their work would be on public display. “It never really crossed our minds that this would be on display because we were so focused on what we were creating and we were so busy,” said senior Brian Murry. One thing that did cross the minds of the students creating the glass sculptures was that these creatures were beginning to take on a life of their own. “When you work on something for so long, it’s easy to get attached to it and want to give it a name and a personality,” Marissa said with a laugh. Once the students got an idea of a personality for each creature, they began to let their imaginations run wild. “We have such creative people in this class that when we see a sculpture or a piece, we almost make these personalities for them,” said Clara McKinley, a junior charged with creating the blue

Putting together all the pieces for the AR displays created by Saguaro students was a team effort that included, from left, Kate Dalton, Nikhil Sethi, Nina-Pearl Hamel and Brody Kladis. (David Minton/Staff Photographer)

Saguaro senior and Saguaro Sabercats Robotics President Natalie Foster and junior Zoe Dailey helped create the stands for the AR light fixtures on display in Canal Convergence. (David Minton/Progress Staff Photographer)

heron. “We all had the same idea of where the project was going so it really wasn’t hard to be creative and create a story for the sculptures.” With these personalities created, Scottsdale Arts Learning & Innovation used the students’ ideas to select voice

actors for the AR experience. The students also added more life to the designs. “With the cactus, some of us put animals on the cactus which shows the wildlife around it and makes it feel more real,” Marissa explained.

The intricate artwork that resulted from their efforts to create unique pieces the cuts the students sustained from cutting the glass. “I’ve never had to give out so may band aids,” said art teacher Michelle Peacock. The robotics team had its own share of creative hurdles to overcome while building pedestals that are 2 feet high and 3 feet tall. For example, they had to work with batteries that were nearly 60 pounds. The team also had to consider aesthetics more than it had on previous projects. “We were thinking about how our pedestals could complement the art by painting the boxes by the same color and most of the placement of the interior electronics and solar panels was based on the aesthetics,” Kritin said. “At the end of the day, we had to remember that what we made was something that complemented the art,” added sophomore Alex Stephenson, who worked on the pedestals’ electrical components. While working on the boxes, students served as a test audience for Battel’s riddles as well. “We were the test crew to see if peo-

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ple could figure out the different clues she had,” Natalie explained, admitting that a straightforward way to solve the riddles is with the help of a friend. The students created four pedestals for the sculptures and spent their final weeks performing countless tests to ensure things work right. “It adds a lot of pressure because if your part doesn’t work, then it’s on you,” Alex said. For both programs, the days leading up to Canal Convergence were when the reality set in. “It didn’t sink in until the end when we put the sculptures on the totems that this art is going to be displayed,” said junior Thea Neubeck, who mainly worked on the white amur. Now that the work is finished and ready for the public to interact with it, the students are anxious to show off their arduous work to family and friends. “I can’t wait to show this to my family and give them an introduction to glass work,” Clara said. “You don’t see this

Natalie also is excited the students can display what can happen when two seemingly different fields come together. “I want people to see that STEM and art are not opposites and how when they come together, they can create something exceptionally beautiful,” she said. “One of the reasons we really enjoy working with Scottsdale Arts Learning and Innovation is because there will be thousands of people seeing STEM and art come together to create something that’s interesting and informative.”

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Where to see their work Wiring one of the displays are, from left, Brody Kladis, Nikhil Sethi, Kate Dalton, Nina-Pearl Hamel and Christopher Brandt. (David Minton/Staff Photographer)

type of glass anywhere.” Others are excited to give the public a taste of what the next generation of artists and creative thinkers can accomplish. “I am looking forward to seeing how

this generation that was raised with technology engages with augmented reality,” Natalie said. To which Clara added: “It’s really cool that our generation can give a new thing to the world.”

What: Canal Convergence When: Through Nov. 14, 6-10 p.m. Where: Scottsdale Waterfront, 7038 E Fifth Ave. Cost: AR experience is free Info: Visitors need to download Hoverlay app and go to “scavenger hunt card” at canalconvergence.com

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eal-planner Kale Personal Chef Services, owned and operated by Scottsdale resident Kristen Madison, is adding brick and mortar to its repertoire. Up to now, Madison’s company provides meal planning services for people seeking a personalized approach to their events, as well as those seeking meal delivery or inhome food preparation. Now, she’s planning to open Organic Chef To Go – a gourmet food operation that will be located across from Scottsdale Airpark, on Hayden Road, this month. “This is going to allow Kale to expand its reach,” Madison said. “We hope to cater to our working professional demographic and families that need convenient meal options.” There will be grab-and-go options, daily meal delivery services and chef-curated catering spreads for pick-up and delivery. The Chicago area native moved to the Valley from the Midwest in 2013, the same year she started Kale Chef Services. “My passion for food came to life when I would help my mother prepare holiday dishes and desserts, but I also realized that the foods my family members were eating…well, I wanted it to be healthier,” Madison said. Before Madison became a Scottsdale entrepreneur, she worked as a private chef and nanny in Chicago. She said that the inspiration for her business came from a desire to share her love of healthy eating and to hone her passion for cooking. Her �irst step when she arrived in Arizona was to enroll in Estrella Culinary Institute. She had worked in restaurants to expand her skills, but soon realized that the atmosphere wasn’t what she was looking for.

Kristen Madison started Kale Personal Chef Services partly out of her passion for cooking healthy meals.

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“It’s hard for female chefs to work in such a male-dominated industry; I was one of two cooks working in the kitchen, and the food we were producing wasn’t essentially what I was passionate about,” she said. “I always bring my A-game, but I knew I could do something more, that I loved and customers would also love.” While still working at the restaurant, Madison started posting ads on Craigslist for personal chef and meal prep services. She found almost instant success. One of her �irst clients had recently undergone a lengthy procedure that required dietary restrictions while healing. “We cater to more than just those who want to lose weight or eat healthier,” Madison said. She explained that Kale’s menus accommodate people going through cancer treatments, terminal illnesses, bone marrow issues, and more. “We can provide not only nutrition but also some comfort while they’re going through a stressful time,” Madison said. Kale focuses on whole food diets with an

emphasis on plant-based cooking. Those who are vegetarian, vegan, gluten or dairyfree diets – or those looking for plant-based meals – might �ind what they’re looking for. Along with catering, the company offers daily private chef services and weekly meal prep. A sample of meals could include dishes like melon and prosciutto salad, smoky black bean taquitos and a pulled BBQ chicken sandwich. Madison said the inspiration for the meal plans comes from various things, and two of those are seasonality and supporting local purveyors. She explained that menus also depend on what the customer is looking for – and Madison’s mood for that week. “There’s a passion behind creating an experience for guests,” she said. “Being part of a special moment, imagining how a dish will it look or taste for a special event… writing menus is tough because it’s such a creative process.” Madison said that plant-based cooking is her favorite and she enjoys making power bowls and red lentil tacos, which she says

are hearty and �illing, even though they’re vegetarian. “West coast food and lifestyle is so much different than the Midwest,” she said. “My business now, I think, embodies vibrant, green, nutritious foods with healthier cooking techniques.” Madison said that the best part of being an entrepreneur is being part of her client’s special moments and the creative process behind picking food for an event. “Watching items that you’ve worked on for a long period come to fruition, and all of the sacri�ice it takes to get to where you are makes it worth it,” she said. On the �lip side, she said it’s tough being the sole owner because she doesn’t have anyone to bounce new ideas off of. And �inding work-life balance is a challenge – and likely will become tougher now that Madison is in the process of opening her �irst brick-and-mortar gourmet food store. To learn more about Kale Personal Chef Services, visit kalechefservice. com.

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