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BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer

Cave Creek examines water shortage, drought management

Construction for the Carefree water consolidation project will cause delays on Carefree Highway from Tom Darlington Drive and Scottsdale Road, shown here as Neighbor hood A. (Carefree Water Company/Submitted)

Kreuzwiesner said town staff last worked with the water advisory committee in 2019 to develop an emergency drought and/or water curtailment plan. This is required by both Cave Creek town code and Arizona re vised statute because the town is a water provider.The2019 plan had three water reduction options. Stages one and two were voluntary see WATER PLAN page 6

ConstructionWriter to cause ‘major’ delays on Carefree Highway

“Expect major delays while these traffic restrictions are in place, 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays,” the town of Carefree said in a press Workrelease.along Carefree Highway is anticipated to contin ue through mid-November. Drivers are highly encouraged to take alternate routes while these traffic restrictions are in place. During nonconstruction hours — 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. weekdays, weekends and holidays — the construction areas will be covered with steel plates to restore normal travel on see DELAYS page 4

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Cave Creek - Carefree Area EditionTheFoothillsFocus.com Opinion: in‘MourningIt’sAmerica’ PAGE 10 Kuma’sAdventuresGreat PAGE 14Serving the communities of Cave Creek and Carefree OPINION ZoneBUSINESS......................9.................12FEATURES................14YOUTH......................20CLASSIFIEDS............222 ThisINSIDEWeek •• Whether you’re building a new home or renovating your existing one, your choices are wide open when it comes to selecting beautifully designed Milgard windows and patio doors. Strong, beautiful, long lasting and durable. Milgard windows and patio doors are designed with stunning architectural style and superior performance. Plus, you’ll feel secure in your investment with an industry leading, Full Lifetime Warranty that includes parts and labor. Milgard® offers beautiful, comfortable, energy efficient vinyl windows and doors for your home 4454 E. Thomas Rd. Phoenix • 602-508-0800 • liwindow.com Mon-Thurs 8:30-5pm • Fri 8:30-4pm • Sat 9-2pm • ROC#179513 BUSINESS ......... 12 Sfizio brings food and family together FEATURES ........ 17 A diverse future for golf is on the horizon YOUTH ............. 20 Student’s award-winning app stores milestones, memories Cave Creek Town Council and staff dis cussed a draft of a new water shortage and drought management plan that outlines five stages of water reduction and conservation measures at an Aug. 4 meeting. The plan was presented by Cave Creek Utilities Director Shawn Kreuzwiesner and was for discussion only; no action was taken. “We think this (water shortage) is the new normal,” Kreuzwiesner said about why the plan was needed. “When it will impact us, the fact that we have to say that we’re not going to get all the water supplies, I’m not sure when that will be, but we don’t have the tools in place to allow us to get to that level right now and enforce that.” According to the water shortage and drought management plan draft, its purpose is to ensure the town has policies in place to preempt, prepare for and react to water shortages or droughts in order to meet cur rent and future demands. This plan applies to both the Cave Creek Water System and the Desert Hills Water System, both of which are operated and maintained by the town.

As of Monday, Aug. 15, traffic on Carefree Highway from Tom Darlington Drive and Scottsdale Road will be delayed due to construction, with only one lane and flaggers on both ends to alternate the flow of traffic.

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“I am excited to join the Abrazo team and start collaborating with our nurses, staff and providers. Abrazo continues to invest in talent, technology and facilities, and I look forward to advancing our hos pitals’ role in serving the Northeast Val ley,” Rankin said. A former ICU and cardiac nurse, she has more than 25 years of health care leadership experience working with staff and providers to enhance hospital operations, quality care and exceptional service. Rankin said she became a nurse to fill a calling.“Mycalling into nursing was realized after the untimely death of my father due to a heart attack,” she explained. “This unfortunate tragedy served as the driving force for me to pursue a nursing career.”Throughout her career in nursing, Rankin has been in a number of different positions. When she first started out in nursing, she said she provided bedside nursing care to patients in coronary, neuro-trauma, surgical, cardiovascular, medical intensive care and emergen cy units. Then, Rankin progressed into leadership roles in nursing and hospital operations. She joins Abrazo from Mercy Hospital Northwest in Rogers, Arkansas, where she was chief operating officer and chief nursing officer. No matter the position, she has never lost sight of her passion for helping others. “Throughout my career, my deepest passion has been dedication and devo tion to my calling in nursing,” Rankin said. “Although I (now) serve in an admin istrative role, my decisions are always focused on doing the right thing for the patients and the co-workers I serve. I believe the biggest goals to accomplish would be surrounded around quality care and exceptional service to our com munities, while providing low-cost ex ceptional health care.”

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The implementation of these pipe lines is part of the Carefree water con solidation project. It will allow resi dents in the Carefree service area to be disconnected from the Cave Creek water system and reconnected to Care free while maintaining water service throughout.Theentire consolidation effort is ex pected to take 12 to 18 months to com plete. Once it is finished, the entire town of Carefree will be within the Carefree Water“Carefree,Company.like any other municipality, wants to serve its residents in the best way possible, and part of that service in cludes the water utility,” Carefree Mayor Les Peterson said in a previous state ment to The Foothills Focus. “Almost every municipality in the Val ley manages and operates their water utility to better serve their residents, and Carefree is no different. This transi tion will improve water service to Care free residents and give them a voice, through their elected officials, in the water system’s current and future oper ations.”More info about the water consolidation project, including construction details, can be found by calling calling 480-898-4100 or visiting carefreewcp.com. Valley. 623-465-1363

Rankin will serve as the chief nursing officer at the Abrazo Scottsdale Campus, a 120-bed acute care hospital at 3929 E. Bell Road that offers diverse surgical ser vices including complex orthopedic, spine, bariatric and general surgery. It also offers an emergency department, ICU and other services. Rankin said she is particularly excited about the surgical programs of fered here, as well as the investment in cardiovascular care with the new cardiac cath lab that will be opening soon.

At the Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital, located at 5227 E. Carefree Highway, Rankin will serve as the chief operating officer. This location serves patients of all ages and includes a 13-bed emergen cy department, a full imaging suite and eight inpatient rooms. Staff work side by side with first responders to serve the community and provide around-theclock emergency care. Rankin said the Cave Creek Hospital is a great fit for the see RANKIN page 8 the roadway. Residences and businesses will remain accessible. The traffic restrictions are in place so that construction crews can install water pipelines along Carefree High way, moving west toward Mountainside Drive.“Please respect our construction workers’ safety by always slowing down in construction zones and being aware of construction hazards,” the release said. “Your cooperation is greatly appre ciated and will allow us to get the proj ect completed as quickly as possible.”

Charlotte Rankin, BSN, MHA, RN, was recently hired as the new chief nursing officer and chief operating officer for Abrazo Scottsdale Campus and Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital.

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Construction on TSMC’s latest semiconductor fabrication facility is well underway. TSMC’s Arizona plant — Fab21 — occupies at least 1,100 acres and will produce tens of thou sands of semiconductor wafers once it is operational. According to a city of Phoenix analysis, the first phase of TSMC is estimated to have an eco nomic impact of $38.2 billion over 20 years.The Empire Group is active in rolling out its Village communities, which are all build-for-rent develop ments. Currently, Empire Group has six projects are under construction totaling 1,337 homes with another five communities that are targeted to start construction before the end of 2022.The Land Advisors Organization, who represented the owner in the transaction, was founded in 1987. It is the nation’s largest land brokerage firm specializing in providing deep market insights to landowners and purchasers for the most comprehen sive and effective evaluation of land in markets across the country. By integrating current local mar ket information with cutting-edge technology and geographically spe cialized professionals, Land Advisors Organization advises clients in iden tifying and capitalizing on valuable land opportunities in all economic environments.LandAdvisors Organization serves landowners and purchasers from offices in Phoenix, Tucson, Casa Grande and Prescott; Irvine, San Francisco, Century City, Pasadena, Roseville and San Diego, California; Orlando, Jacksonville and Tampa Bay, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennes see; Boise, Idaho; Las Vegas, Nevada; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Austin, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth, Tex as; Salt Lake City, Utah; Kansas City, Kansas; and Seattle, Washington.

Empire Group of Companies closes on 40 acres near TSMC for $14.37M

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“I will be working with hospital staff and physicians to enhance hospital op erations, quality care and exceptional service. As chief nursing officer I oversee clinical matters related to patient care, and provide direction for maintaining safe and excellent patient care,” she said. “On the operations side, responsibili ties include overseeing day-to-day oper ation of the hospitals. I will also serve as the Group CNO for the Abrazo network and our Carondelet sister hospitals in the Tucson area.” Abrazo Health is one of the largest health systems in Arizona, serving the greater Phoenix area with advanced programs in cardiovascular, neurosci ences, orthopedics, spine and sports medicine, trauma and emergency ser vices, surgical robotics, general surgery and maternity care. Rankin started her new positions Aug. 1, and said things have been great so far. “My arrival has been seamless,” she said. “The team here at Abrazo Scotts dale and Abrazo Cave Creek have all been kind, open and welcoming. “I look forward to working closely with this team as well as all of our Abrazo hos pitals.”

community and conveniently provides needed services close to home. Taking on multiple positions, she has a long list of responsibilities, but Rankin said she is confident she will find a steady rhythm on how to spread her time thanks to her previous experience in leadership.

The Empire Group of Companies closed on 40 acres for $14.37M near the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company north of the Valley. (Land Advisors/Submitted)

The proposed development will be named the Village at Bronco Trail. The Land Advisors Organization team of Bret Rinehart, Ryan Semro and Ben Heglie represented the Em pire Group (Principal Richard Felk er) in the $14.37 million acquisition of the property at 31st Avenue and Lone Mountain Road in Phoenix. The seller was the David McHenry Family Trust (principal David McHenry). The sales price fetched $359,370 per“Theacre.unprecedented growth of de velopment projects in proximity to the Loop 303 and I-17 is going to fos ter the need for residential housing,” Rinehart said. “The Empire Group’s proposed multifamily community will be a boon to that area. Empire Group has a great track record of serving the communities that it develops.”

The Empire Group of Companies, headquartered in Scottsdale, was founded by Richard Felker in the early 1970s. Under Felk er’s direction the company built its reputation as a leading developer of Class A mixeduse projects and luxury build-forrent na.throughoutcommunitiesArizo

The 40 acres will be turned into the Village at Bronco Trail, a residential development with approx imately 350 single-family homes for rent. (Land Advisors/Submitted)

T he Empire Group of Compa nies recently closed on 40 acres near the Taiwan Semi conductor Manufacturing Company north of the Valley where it plans to build approximately 354 single-fam ily homes for rent.

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Unable to leave the fanfare behind, the great ones inevitably hang on too long. There’s a sadness watching them fade in plain sight. Think Muhammad Ali out on his feet against Trevor Berbick, Willie Mays bat ting a feeble .211 in his last year with the Mets, Elizabeth Taylor picking up a paycheck in the TV flick “These Old Broads.”Thenthere’s former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Once a political juggernaut, a lawman sought out by presidents seeking to kiss his ring and parts further south, Arpaio, now 90, lost his fourth consecutive elec tion earlier this month for the lofty title of mayor of Fountain Hills. He lost to someone named Ginny Dickey, who beat Arpaio, once Ameri ca’s Toughest Sheriff, by 213 votes. This is despite Arpaio spending $161,000 — or about $31 for each of his 5,207 votes. The great ones never know when to bid us goodbye. I met Arpaio in 1995, a few weeks after I moved to Arizona. He was two years into his 24-year run as sheriff, a law enforcement sideshow full of bom bast and bull. The gimmicks seemed endless: pink underwear so jail inmates wouldn’t steal undergarments, Tent City tours on 117-degree days, meals of donated fruit and green baloney to save the taxpayers money. There was a roguish charm to Arpaio then, like he was in on the joke, a hound for headlines who reveled in be ing despised by reporters and liberals alike.During my early days as a columnist for the Tribune, I went to Arpaio with an insane idea: put me undercover on the chain gang. He couldn’t say “yes” fast enough. MCSO deputies sneaked me into the jail at 3 a.m., gave me a sweatstained uniform, and chained me to a crew of convicts. To a man, my fellow inmates confid ed that chain gang duty was better than sitting in the tents all day. We gathered trash from roadsides in the sweltering summer heat, passers-by constantly honking and giving us the finger. I got a column and a bunch of TV in terviews out of the deal. Arpaio got to read his name in bold news type yet again.Inthe early days, Arpaio’s mantra I BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ

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My daughter and a few of her friends have challenged me to a chicken enchi lada cook-off. Their enchiladas are pret ty boring. I have a winning recipe and perfected it until my own family is sur prised. See what cooking can do? It can shock your family! My secret weapon? Cream cheese… but don’t tell anyone. Cooking is a metaphor for life. One sim ple ingredient can magically transform ordinary into extraordinary! All right, so there are bigger fish to fry than improving cooking skills. I know that! But some adventures start at home. Like tonight, my husband may be long ing for a simple taco, but instead, he will be taking a culinary trip to Italy. Or may be India. I’ll pick the destination (I mean recipe) and whip up something that will take us far, far away. With any luck, it will be a good trip. Otherwise, there is a garbage disposal and tomorrow is a new day. Until next week… try something new. Good luck, and bon appetit. Judy Bluhm is a writer and a local Real tor. Have a comment or a story? Email her at judy@judybluhm.com. up your sleeves and try something new

Fourth election defeat a sad end for Arpaio

Can you substitute baking oil with applesauce? Hmm, this was the big question that I had to answer yes terday. You see, I have decided to try one new recipe a week, and it has not been easy. Sometimes cooking and baking is a recipe for disaster. It takes tools, ingredi ents rarely graced on our pantry shelves (like tahini), luck and imagination. I have stacks of cookbooks scattered all over the place while I look for one “new experience.” Oh, yeah, cooking delicious food is more like an extreme sport than a hobby.Oh,did I mention that beef rolled up (with a scrumptious mixture of fennel, onion and mushrooms), tied with twine and sautéed with a brown sauce is too much work? You have to pound the beef (my husband, Doug, suggested he use one of his hammers) and then tie the rolled beef in three places (again, Doug was running to the garage to get some string). Back off! Garage items need to stay out of my kitchen! That’s why chefs like to go shopping and get special kitch en twine and a meat mallet, which does look suspiciously like a hammer and string but is a lot more expensive. My most recent success was sole Par mesan, which is a mouth-watering dish that takes a lot of preparation. Come to think of it, most cooking takes time. Now I know Rachael Ray says that you can cook great meals in 30 minutes, but she has a staff and stocked kitchen. For most of us, we have a staff of one. And short cuts don’t usually result in excellence. Cooking (and eating) can be mundane. You’ve cooked this and eaten that, then suddenly, you want to try something with tilapia and marmalade. (Don’t do it!) Cooking, like life, can be one big adven ture. I did make my own spaghetti sauce from scratch, which I admit was an awful lot of work. But mamma mia, I will never buy a jar of sauce again! Sadly, my new experience with the “real thing” means that my life just got more complicated.

AROUND THE BLUHMIN’ TOWN

Foothills Focus Columnist see LEIBOWITZ page 11

BY JUDY FoothillsBLUHMFocusColumnist

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Thoughtful Americans, regardless of partisan label or political philosophy, find themselves mourning the unprece dented FBI raid on the home of a former president.Noless a liberal than Alan Dershow itz, lifelong Democrat and Harvard Law professor emeritus, wrote that the “fullscale morning raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home does not seem justified. … If it is true that the ba sis of the raid was the former president’s alleged removal of classified material from the White House, that would con stitute a double standard of justice.”

The “Reagan Renaissance” is sel dom heralded by today’s history scholars, and that’s a shame.

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Dershowitz has repeatedly warned against the criminalization of political differences, but that appears to be pre cisely what the Department of “Just Us” is doing right now. Simply stated, the Biden administra tion authorized a raid of the home of a former president, who could very well face Joe Biden as the Republican presi dential nominee again in 2024. As the shocking news spread, former Gingrich put the sordid episode into context: “If they can do this to a former and potentially future president, what can they do to you … or your cousin, or your friends, or your neighbors? And I think it’s a very scary step towards a po liceNewt’sstate.” concern is compounded by the left’s goal of adding 87,000 new IRS agents.Rest assured, when they show up at your door, they won’t be there for tea BY J.D. FoothillsHAYWORTHFocusColumnist

In a column written for “The Hill,” Dershowitz goes on to explain that two figures who have enjoyed his political support — 2016 Democratic presiden tial nominee Hillary Clinton and former national security adviser Sandy Berger — were spared raids of their homes “for comparable allegations of mishandling official records in the recent past.”

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For those who do attempt to explain it, a one-liner is usually all they can spare from their considerable labors to re vise the past so that they may pacify the “woke” among us. And predictably, their minimalist assessment goes something like this: “Ronald Reagan’s boundless optimism induced his fellow countrymen into believing it was ‘Morning in America’ again.” That’s it. But for the vast majority of Americans who were of voting age in the 1980s and experienced the “Age of Reagan” firsthand, they know it was much more. The end of “stagflation.” The restoration of a strong national defense as well as a strong economy. And yes, a consensus that “America was back.” No wonder the 40th president won a second term in a landslide of historic proportions, carrying 49 states and the District of Columbia. The television ad that typified the successful 1984 cam paign proclaimed that “It’s ‘Morning in America’ again.” As mentioned before, that line so reso nated within the national consciousness that even contemporary critics employ it in fashioning a quick dismissal of the ReaganWhileyears.conservative historian and for mer House Speaker Newt Gingrich de scribes Reagan’s distinguishing charac teristic as “cheerful persistence,” the fact is that the former radio sportscaster and Hollywood actor was likewise persistent in warning Americans about a fate con siderably less cheerful. “Freedom,” Reagan said, “is never more than one generation away from ex tinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do theReagansame…”concluded that thought in a way that sounded both presidential and prophetic: “Or one day, we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States. Where men wereSadly,free.”itnow appears that “one day” is fastWelcomeapproaching.to“Mourning in America.”

A story headlined “Cave Creek election results in a mix of old and new,” which was published in the Aug. 10 issue of The Foothills Focus, should have said Tom Augherton was the town’s first elected mayor in the 1990s.

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thought would serve him for eternity: You will never live better in jail than you live on the street. Eventually he lost sight of what made him a political rock star, instead using the sheriff’s office to target political opponents. Arpaio failed to investigate serious crimes, and he misused the people’s money like a drunken lottery winner. As American politics got meaner after the turn of the century, tough Old Joe moved his crosshairs from criminals to anyone with brown skin. In 2016, Arpaio lost to Paul Penzone, a retired Phoenix cop who has returned law enforcement focus and decorum back to the sheriff’s office. Two years later, Arpaio lost in a GOP Senate pri mary. In 2020, he lost in the Republican primary for sheriff. Last year, announcing his candidacy for mayor of Fountain Hills, he told Fox News, “What do you want me to do? Go fishing? Go golfing? I don’t do anything. My hobby is work. I’ve done that my whole life. I’m not stopping now.” Arpaio in his prime fooled me total ly. Back in 2001, “60 Minutes” did a bio piece headlined “Joe the Jailer.” How does it end for Arpaio? “It’s gonna wear out when this guy passes away giving his speech in Sun City at 9 at night and he slumps forward into his rubber chicken,” was my assess ment. “That’s when it wears out and not a moment before.” We were younger then. The moment seemed eternal. It always does with the great ones, until it does no longer. TX Simons, Agent 41722 N. Gavilan Peak Parkway, #110 Anthem, AZ to Barro’s Pizza) Business: 623-551-3700 justin.simons.j663@statefam.com crumpets… they’ll go for your “cook ie jar” instead. What else will crumble? The cornerstone of American jurispru dence — the presumption of innocence to which the accused is entitled. An earlier Congress (in which this col umnist served) enacted the “Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights” to assure that the burden of proof remained on the IRS during an audit… but like the original Bill of Rights, drafted by our founders, certain individ ual freedoms appear headed for per manent misplacement in the “lost and found” of a newly founded “Enforcement State.”What can be done to rescue our Re public? Listen again to President Rea gan: “The future is best decided by bal lots, not bullets.” Your vote can turn the current “Mourning” into “Morning” once again.That’s a promise.

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Now a young adult, Marco wanted to relive those memories and asked his dad to open a restaurant with him. The two opened Sfizio together in July 2021 and have not only had good business, but a lot of fun. “It worked out very well,” Rocco said about getting to work with his son. “And I think we work great together because he does a part of the restaurant that I don’t know very well, which is all the media, the computer, the POS (point of sale) — all the background that I am not aware of. So he takes care of that part. Of course, my job is the kitchen, the old-fashion way.” The “old-fashion way,” as he called it, draws from his Italian roots and the foods his family had there. In fact, some menu items are based on dishes Rocco had growing up, like sfizini, which is an original invention that is a take on a sandwich. Rocco said it’s an old taste wrapped in a new shape. Sfizinis are Sfizio Modern Italian Kitchen brings together food, family see BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer

Rocco Pezzano and his son, Marco, combine food, family, tradition al flavors and modern culinary creations with Sfizio, a scratch-kitchen restaurant with an authentic, Italian-fo cusedRoccomenu.was born and raised in southern Italy. At 18, he got his first job working at a bakery and then a pizza place. He said he fell in love with the food. Then, at 23, Rocco moved to the States and opened up his own restaurant. Rocco said restaurants and food are what he knows best, and it’s something he is passionate about. For him, food has always had a connection to family. He said he remembers his whole family be ing together, talking, laughing and shar ing stories, and it was always over food. “I’ve always worked in a restaurant, first with the bakery then in a pizza place for a long time. Then I decided to come here, and my passion stayed with food and restaurants. I was always cooking,” Rocco said. “When I left Italy, I missed my Italian food, things my mother used to cook, things I used to make. So, I was always trying to get that particular taste that I was so used to from the right in gredients.”Withina few years, he had opened several successful restaurants. In that time he also got married and had two kids, which changed his perspective. “I started to get a little tired with the restaurants because the hours are a lit tle different,” Rocco said. “My kids will get up early and go to school, and I’ll come home late and we never get to see each other. On weekends I would be at the restaurant, so I said I wanted to take some time and spend some time with them.”So,just like that, he left the restaurant business behind. Ten years went by, and the kids grew up. But Marco remembered growing up around the restaurant business and said it shaped him a lot. “Growing up, my father had restau rants, my uncle had his restaurant, and growing up there, it was just part of my upbringing. It was part of my way of life,” Marco said. “It was so fun and exciting for me. We were always cooking at home together. I remember one of my early birthdays, we had a lasagna crafting party, and I had a bunch of friends over and we were all creating lasagna. So it was a really core memory of my childhood.”

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He even goes so far as to import flour and tomatoes to make sure they are the best-quality ingredients. Because Sfizio is a scratch kitchen, its menu changes seasonally to feature the freshest ingre dients.Rocco said typical menu favorites are the braised short ribs that come with saffron creamy risotto and mixed sea sonal vegetables ($28), or any of the handmade, brick-oven pizzas. The restaurant also has a full bar with specialty cocktails, indoor and outdoor seating, and an all-day happy hour. Marco said he and his dad didn’t want Sfizio to be just another classic Italian diner that was “more catered towards the older people with just spaghetti and meatballs.” Instead, it’s more of a mod ern, relaxed environment, and Marco said they get a wide variety of customers.

available for lunch, including Marco’s favorite, which is actually called Marco’s Favorite on the menu. It has three meat ragu meatballs, san marzano sauce and mozzarella stuffed inside a piece of hol lowed fresh bread. That bread, along with everything at Sfizio, is made by hand and in-house. “We pride ourselves in that we are a scratch kitchen. We do everything by hand. We do all the pasta in house. … I’m really picky,” Rocco said. “I don’t compromise. I try to sometimes, but it’s hard for me to do, because I think you lose quality. I mean, it’s a lot more labor, there are a lot more steps involved, you spend more time, but I think if you go out (to eat) you want to look for quality.”

Sfizio Modern Italian Kitchen is locat ed at 21050 N. Tatum Boulevard in Phoenix. Sfizio is open for lunch and din ner from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday. Dinner is available from 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday and 4 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Happy hour is offered all day in the bar only.

Sfizio is a scratch kitchen with authentic Italian food like brick-oven pizzas and hand-crafted pastas offered in a modern space. (Sfizio/Submitted)

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Take responsibility for your life

The takeaway: when problems come, don’t go with them. What you believe and how you respond to what happens to you determines whether you retreat or advance. It’s our re sponsibility to respond to God’s abil ity. We can touch heaven to change earth if we respond to God’s power and the ability God gave us. Recently, I found a chart on the differences between successful and unsuccessful people. They had com pletely different perspectives about life. Of course, the differences are not true in every case, but certainly true in most cases. Whitney Houston said, “Success doesn’t change you. Fame does.” I’m not sure I like the terms successful and unsuccessful in this application, so I’ll use the words advancing and retreating. Advancing people read every day or grow in some way every day. Re treating people spend all their time watching television every day. Re treating people don’t lead their lives; they accept what someone else says about their lives. Advancing people compliment and build up people. Retreating people criticize and tear people down. Robbie Sherrah said, “Do you know what I like about con fident people? I rarely hear them saying a bad word about anyone.” Advancing people forgive others. Retreating people hold a grudge. Re member, forgiveness makes the fu ture possible. Advancing people talk about ideas. Retreating people talk about other people. Advancing peo ple continuously learn. Retreating people think they know it all. They shut others out by shutting them up. Advancing people accept responsi bility for their failures. Retreating people blame others and circum stances for their mistakes or failures. It was the coffee’s fault! Advancing people have a sense of gratitude. Retreating people have a sense of entitlement. Advancing people set goals and have life plans. They determine their future in the present. Retreating people never or seldom set goals. Their perspective is to live for today, which unfortu nately determines their future in the present, too. Here’s some sage advice for both groups that I recently heard. “If you are willing to look at another per son’s behavior toward you as a re flection of the state of their relation ship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a per son, then you will, over time, cease to react adversely at all.” Us humans tend to see things the way we are, not the way they really are. Now that you know the 90/10 Principle, apply it. Of course, taking responsibility for your life is more difficult than accepting your life, but remember, difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

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Author James Clear adds to this idea. “There are many situations in life you do not control, but you often contribute (positively or negatively) to them. I cannot control the rain, but I can control my clothing. I can not control your feelings, but I can control my kindness. I cannot con trol my opponent, but I can control my response to my opponent. You cannot control most outcomes in life, but you can usually influence them. Releasing your attachment to the re sults does not mean releasing your responsibility to the situation.”

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“Notice the difference? Two differ ent scenarios started the same. Both ended differently. Why? Because of how you reacted. You have no con trol over 10% of what happens in your life. Your reaction determines the other 90%.”

I recently discovered a principle of life that I knew was working but didn’t understand very well. I have spoken for years now on this principle. Stephen Covey wrote the 90/10 Principle, and I have quoted him in this article with some minor editing.“Tenpercent of life is made up of what happens to you. The other 90% of life is decided by how you react. What does this mean? We have no control over 10% of what happens to us. The other 90% is different. You determine the other 90%. How? By your reactions. You cannot control a red light. However, you can manage your response to the red light. Do not let people fool you. You can control how you “Here’sreact.anexample of how this works. You are having breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your busi ness shirt. You have no control over what has just happened. What hap pens next will be determined by how you“Youreact.curse. You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over. She breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you turn to your wife and criticize her for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table. A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change your shirt. Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish her breakfast and getting ready to go to school. She misses the bus. “Your spouse must leave immedi ately for work. You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. Because you are late, you drive 40 miles per hour in a 30 mph speed-lim it zone. After a 15-minute delay and throwing a $60 traffic fine away, you arrive at school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye. After arriving at the office 20 minutes late, you realize you for got your briefcase. “Your day has started terribly. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse. You look forward to coming home. But, when you arrive home, you find a small wedge in your rela tionship with your wife and daugh ter. Why? Because of how you react ed in the morning. Remember, when the queen and princess are happy, there is peace in the kingdom. “Why did you have a bad day? A) Did the coffee cause it? B) Did your daughter cause it? C) Did the police man cause it? D) Did you cause it? The answer is D. “You had no control over what hap pened with the coffee. How you re acted in those few seconds is what caused your bad day. Here’s what could have and should have hap pened.“Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry. You gently say, ‘It’s OK, honey, you just need to be more careful next time.’ Grabbing a towel, you go upstairs and change your shirt. You grab your briefcase and come back down in time to look through the window. Your child gets on the bus, and she turns and waves. You arrive five minutes early and cheerfully greet the staff.

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KUMA From page 14

Western Colorado makes for a very scenic drive.

Kuma rests at the Carbondale Nature Park in KumaColorado.takes a dip. Carbondale has great views for lunch.

16 THE FOOTHILLS FOCUS | THEFOOTHILLSFOCUS.COM | AUGUST 17, 2022FEATURES •• shared her burger with me. We were in no hurry, but I was up for a hike to stretch my legs. Our nice waiter sug gested the Carbondale Nature Park located on Merrill Avenue. After a while, we decided to find the park and take a nature walk. The parking is free, and dogs are most certainly welcome. In fact, if your dog is good off leash, they can freely roam in this wilderness park. There is a human restroom and some picnic tables by the parking lot. The trail is dirt but is very flat. As other dogs were passing us to head back, I could smell water on them.

Mom asked, and sure enough, a swimming hole was down just about a half-mile away. Oh boy, I quickened my pace! Before mom knew what happened, I found that water hole and jumped in! It is actually part of a little stream that runs through the area. A couple with a young puppy were trying to encourage their dog to go in, but she was scared. I got back out and coached her on how to get in. Once her paws felt the cool, refresh ing water, she was hooked. In she went!When mom and I turned around to head back, we stopped dead in our tracks: Mt. Sopris was looking at us. Wow! What an incredible view we had hiking back to the parking lot. You gotta love the Colorado Rocky Mountains!Iwasalmost dry by the time we arrived at the car, and we opted to head back to the hotel. We could have kept driving in the amazing country side, but we had a long day ahead of us to drive home to Phoenix the next day. We will need to do another loop when we revisit the area to see other places. Stay cool my friends! My mom, Lorraine Bossé-Smith, is kind enough to help me share my Great Adventures, big and small. My mom is a motivational speaker, corpo rate trainer, executive recruiter, busi ness consultant, coach, fitness expert and author of nine published books. More importantly, she’s the best dog gy mom ever. Enjoy my blog at https://bit.ly/ kuma0901 and follow me on Facebook @kumathedog or Instagram @kumaitothedog.

All the members of Desert Mashie that participated in the Mack Champ Invi tational tournament are also playing in Stephen Curry’s brand-new tournament for minority golfers. The four-time NBA champion’s Underrated Golf Tour started this year and includes an all-expense paid nationwide tour throughout the summer.

While the people who play golf aren’t necessarily considered the problem, the sports’ culture rooted in racial indifferenc es is what still resides in golf’s issues today.

“It feels like an honor, for such a super star in the world to make something for us, minorities and golfers that do not get appreciated every day,” Natalia, 13, said. “For him to appreciate us, it just means theParticipationworld.”

in the new-age tourna ments derived for minorities is starting to become habitual for these athletes, something that shows a sign of progress in the sport. With more new initiatives for junior golfers comes more positive effects the sport can have on golfers from a young age. Even for young golfers like Desert Mashie member Ashley Shaw, the tours are sparking a change and making a notable difference. “You don’t usually see a lot of peo ple who look like us playing this game,” Shaw,13, said. “And to see that there are others here, that are you know, good, and that we know what we’re doing — it’s en couraging and inspiring to keep going.”

Since then, Desert Mashie has grown to around 180 members. Nearly 30 members don’t play golf but help the organization’s growth and community efforts. “The people just support the organiza tion, support the junior program, support the things we do and food drives and rais ing funds and things of that nature, and we’re as happy to have them as we are to have, golfers, come and play,” Evans said.

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Curry started the tour to allow minori ties to have a large platform to be noticed and to have access to the sport. The tour also allows junior golfers to experience a real professional golf tour while teaching them life lessons from esteemed panel speakers at every tour stop. Curry’s five-stop tour came to Arizona in July at the Wickenburg Ranch, where a few familiar Desert Mashie faces battled it out in their home state against other top junior golfers on the tour.

Five girls from Desert Mashie participat ed in the inaugural Mack Champ Invitation al last year — a golf tournament founded by PGA golfer Cameron Champ. The invi tational hosts the best junior golfers from diverse backgrounds across the country.

The future appears to be bright for un derrepresented groups, which benefit from new initiatives and resources that didn’t exist a few years ago. Desert Mashie is one promising sign of the talent on the rise with better overall support for mi nority golfers.

“No matter whether you play Pebble Beach or you play Encanto, yardages are the same yardages, and you realize that you’re playing against this course,” Sean said. “These designers designed these courses to make it difficult for you; they don’t see race. These trees, these birds, they don’t see race.”

Mexican American sisters Natalia and Alexis Lamadrid, who both have played golf since they were four years old, were two of five Desert Mashie members. The teenagers are grateful for the experience.

Natalia Lamadrid, Ashley Shaw, Alexis Lamadrid and Myla Robinson, from left to right, are on the Underrated Tour as Desert Mashie junior members. (Yanet Aceves-Lamadrid/Submitted)

The first American-born golf profes sional was said to be John Shippen in 1896, who came from Native American and Black descent. Dr. George F. Grant, the second Black doctor to earn a dentistry degree, was the first to patent the wooden tee just a few years later in 1899.

Desert Mashie Golf Club 5362 E. Estevan Road Phoenix, AZ 85054 desertmashie.org480-216-7054

Generational ties

The new generation

And I started feeling accepted because he basically said, ‘Play the course. The course knows no Mayfair’srace.’”everlasting guidance from years ago now echoes into the new gener ation of golfers as it leads the lessons that Sean teaches to Desert Mashie’s junior golfers today.

“They say the hardest shot in golf is the first one off the tee box,” Sean said. “As a Caucasian, you really don’t know how re ally difficult that is when you’re a minority and you’ve got to hit that first shot know ing that everybody don’t think you belong there, so I practiced that first shot more thanWhatanything.”changed Sean’s approach to the game were words from former Sun Devil and PGA golfer Billy Mayfair, who forever altered his outlook on the sport. “I’ll never forget it,” Sean said. “I mean, he pretty much changed my life for golf.

Then, in the 1990s and early 2000s, Ti ger Woods changed the perspective of golf with his dominance and style of the game that created a new wave of everyday spec tators and golfers. Black culture has always been embed ded into this sport, but there are only four Black PGA golfers on tour right now out of the 260 golfers behind Tiger Woods, Cam eron Champ, Joseph Bramlett and Harold Varner III. “I think people that generally play golf are generally nice people,” Evans said. “It’s the administration of golf that has been the problem with the PGA and its racial exclu sions up until the early 1960s. You know, things of that nature; the Master’s not al lowing any African-Americans to play.”

Sean Colebrook, Encanto Golf Course tournament and junior director, found his love for golf at the age of seven after always asking his mom about his dad’s whereabouts. Colebrook grew up playing basketball and baseball, but upon learning his dad was spending his leisure time on the golf course, he latched onto his hip on the fairway and never looked back. “I fell in love with it right away, and I knew that’s what I wanted to do and that’s all I pursued was golf,” said Colebrook, who helps mentor the club’s younger members.Colebrook’s late father, George Cole brook, held nearly every position for Des ert Mashie before passing away as the tournament director in 2016. Sean took over as tournament director, following in his father’s footsteps, and still walks the course with him by way of a small golden golf necklace with his ashes. Playing golf in the 1970s and 1980s as the only minority on the course wasn’t always easy, Sean recalled. The mental strain of feeling different made it diffi cult to find comfort and belonging in the predominantly white golf clubs. It even changed his approach to the game.

With the influence that Desert Mashie, Curry’s Underrated Tour and the Mack Champ Invitational, golf is beginning to have new opportunities for underrepre sented communities that didn’t exist a few years ago. These new opportunities are helping grow and expose the sport to all communities, and leaving behind racism and discrimination, to break new bound aries on the course. New diversity initiatives in other sports have already begun to see success such as this year’s MLB draft, where four of the top five draft picks were Black players who competed in the MLB’s Dream Series, a showcase aimed at diverse and predom inantly Black high school baseball pitch ers and catchers. With these success stories and new his torical landmarks happening in other sports for minorities, the trend seems to be heading in the right direction to change golf’s current course, too.

GOLF From page 17

Naresh, Arnav’s dad, said he and his wife encourage their kids to pursue different educational and athletic op portunities. Coding was one of those opportunities, and Arnav excelled at it.“I believe learning AI and data sci ence are table stakes for all students in the future,” Naresh said. “Studying coding has developed Arnav’s ap proach to solving complex problems and, as a parent, it’s gratifying to watch his progress.” Arnav’s coding skills amped up in July 2020, during the stay-at-home period of the pandemic. His parents Arnav Hingorani is a 13-year-old math whiz, national tennis champ and taekwondo black belt — now he can add global coding competition finalist to the list, too. (Naresh Hingorani/Submitted)

TheFoothillsFocus.com @TheFoothills.Focus /TheFoothillsFocus Youth For more Youth News visit thefoothillsfocus.com 20 THE FOOTHILLS FOCUS | THEFOOTHILLSFOCUS.COM | AUGUST 17, 2022YOUTH •• ONE TEAM! JOIN THE CCUSD TEAM TODAY! Cave Creek Unified School District #93 33016 N 60th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85266 www.ccusd93.org Scan For current openingS NOW HIRING! Carpet • Tile • Grout • Upholstery • Air Duct Cleaning • Commercial & Residential Cleaning We only have one care. It’s Your Satisfaction. ANY 3 ROOMS Up to 600 sq. ft. total $9900 Prices Include: Truck Mounted Units • Pretreat Vacuum • Optical Brightener • General Soil Removal Also Available: Carpet Stretching • Carpet Repair BUSY LIFE? Call Today! Clean Today! ANY 5 ROOMS Up to 975 sq. ft. total $149.00Reg. $13900 $189.99Reg.WestMentionValleyViewforanExclusiveOffer! VALLEYWIDE SERVICE • 623-218-7044 PNPOneCareCleaning.com • pnponecarecleaningtoday@protonmail.com Student’s award-winning app stores milestones, memories BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer A rnav Hingorani started learn ing coding at 9 years old. Now, four years later, the North Scottsdale student has been named one of 18 finalists in a prestigious, global coding competition for an app he“Anyonecreated. with advanced level cod ing (was invited) to make an app that can help solve a real-world problem,” Arnav said. “There were thousands of applicants and they picked the best to be finalists, and mine ended up being one of those. … I’m honored to be one of them, you know. I think they’re all very good.”

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Arnav says he “does a lot of things,” he’s not kidding. He has fre quently participated in national ten nis tournaments, math contests and taekwondo competitions, and his hobbies include traveling and cook ing. With all these events, it’s hard to keep track of everything, which is why he created his app, My Life Resume. The app is designed to help kids upload and organize events by cat egories like academics, sports, arts or volunteer, and they can search for their events using keywords. Users can also share noteworthy events with friends and family. In addition, the app is a way to network with oth ers in the same age group with com mon interests. In July 2021, Arnav was selected to participate in BYJU’S “18u18” com petition, where 18 advanced coding students younger than 18 globally compete for recognition. As a finalist, he was then assigned a mentor to help develop his prototype into a function ing app. “I had to build the app on a certain (coding) language that was complete ly new to me. And you have to do it within about two months, so my men tor helped me to learn that language, transfer things over and then make more features,” Arnav said about de veloping his app. “The new language was certainly very interesting, but just being able to think of a problem, being creative with it and building different func tions of the app were all learning ex periences.”MyLifeResume, along with the oth er apps in the final stage of the com petition, are in the process of being published on Google Play. Arnav isn’t waiting around, though. In fact, he’s already working on a new movie rec ommendation app that uses AI and machine learning concepts to rate movies and give users recommenda tions.“Itis a very proud moment for me as a teacher to witness the success of my coding student, Arnav,” Agnihotri said. “I feel that I was able to help him learn and pass along my knowledge, technical concepts and experience in coding. I wish Arnav a bright future and all the best.”

As for Arnav, said he plans to keep learning and continue to build. Na resh said maybe Arnav will create an app that helps with tennis and combine his two hobbies. Or, Naresh joked that maybe Arnav will become a chef, because he also loves to cook in his free time. Whatever it may be, he knows his son has learned a lot and has a bright future. “In any industry, these concepts are going to be part of it,” Naresh said. “No matter what field you pick, it will interact with technology. So I think it just gives that opportunity to have a good foundation, and I think he has aspirations.”The“18u18” finalist, national ten nis champion, national math cham pion, taekwondo black belt holder and beginner chef currently attends ASU Preparatory Academy. The cur riculum is rigorous and programs are designed to be difficult, with the aim of preparing students not just for college but for careers and for life.

Having studied coding since age 9 and having already built some games using Lua in Roblox and Javascript, Arnav’s journey at BYJU’S started with learning some basics and expanded to various programming languages such as html, css, jsx, python and dart. During the summer of 2021, Ar nav’s coding teacher encouraged him to think of a problem that can be solved using technology via an app. Arnav decided to create an app for students like him to keep track of im portant personal events, milestones and memories; organize them; and share them. “I do a lot of things in my life. I do tennis, coding, math and other stuff, and I had no easy way to store all of the milestones that I got in all these different things,” he said about his in spiration for the app. “I talked with a lot of different people, and they all agreed there was no easy way to orga nize these different milestones using anWhenapp.”

THE FOOTHILLS FOCUS | THEFOOTHILLSFOCUS.COM | AUGUST 17, 2022 21YOUTH •• enrolled him in an advanced coding course at BYJU’S FutureSchool, an online learning platform that teach es math, coding, music, arts and film via one-on-one, live instruction with a teacher. Arnav said he was already advanced in math and had a knack for learning languages, so coding seemed like a natural progression and some thing he knew would be helpful to learn.“Learning to code has many ben efits,” said Richa Agnihotri, Arnav’s coding teacher at BYJU’S Future School. “First and foremost, it is a skill that is highly valued in the workforce, and jobs related to computer pro gramming are growing exponentially. Beyond the computer, coding teach es critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity and resilience.”

Arnav Hingorani created the app My Life Resume to help students like him keep track of, organize and share important personal events, milestones and memories. His app was chosen out of thousands to be a finalist in a prestigious, global coding competition and is now in the process of being uploaded to Google Play. (Naresh Hingorani/Submitted)

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