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With the county’s exponential growth, the Parks and Recreation Department continues to plan for open space and preservation of the Sonoran Desert. In fact, Cardin said that’s been the mission all along, which is where the name for the 2030 park plan came from.
BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer
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County’s regional park system is one of the largest in the nation. It is made up of over 120,000 acres of Sonoran desert land scape which houses hundreds of miles of trails, campgrounds, nature centers, nature and rec reation programs.
Hosted by company Nancy Perry Pro ductions, The Cave Creek Car Show “Oc toberfest” will feature more than 500 cars, live music, local food and an array of door prizes for entrants and specta tors alike. Both Creekers and visitors are invited to enjoy a good, old-fashioned
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The first Cave Creek Octoberfest Car Show is scheduled to take place throughout Downtown Cave Creek Saturday, Oct. 1. (Kent Schweiss/Submitted)
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a Daisy River community town hall meeting, R.J. Cardin, director of the Maricopa County’s Parks and Recre ation Department, discussed work on the 2030 regional park system plan, “Continuing the Legacy,” along with its five key findings and recommendations.“Wethinkwe’ve done a pretty good job of addressing most of these pressing issues that we saw in 2019 or 2020 when we started this
process and what we will be looking to do now is actually write all this out,” Cardin said. “Hopefully, in October we’ll be putting that out for public review so you can give us your feedback and comment on the document. We’re very excited about where we’re going withMaricopathis.”
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“When we talk about ‘continuing the lega cy,’ this county park system goes back to 1953 when the county purchased roughly 400 acres of park land — and that was at Estrella Moun tain Regional Park — but even then they real
ave Creek’s first “Octoberfest” car show started as an idea to bring a couple small town car enthusi asts together and, while that mission remains true, it has evolved into a min iature town fair.
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“People can walk around, look at the cars, cruise up and down Cave Creek Road, go enjoy the music and it should be a really great time,” said Kent Schweiss, one of the event coor dinators.“Ithink some real good, feel good news is way overdue, so something like this that’s inspiring, kind of up lifting, I think people are really going to enjoy it. It’s not so much the trag edies and the negativity that we’ve been seeing, as it is something home town and Fourteenfun.”restaurants and bars will be participating from the 6300 to 7300 block of E. Cave Creek Road, spanning almost a mile. Participat ing businesses include Local Jonny’s, Big Earl’s, Carefree Spirits Distillery, Frontier Town, The Grotto, Harold’s, Extreme AZ, Mountain View Pub, The Road House, The Horny Toad, Janey’s Coffee Co. & Bodega, Fantastico’s, Dairy Queen and American Legion.
“The merchants were like, ‘look at what this is going to do for the town, we’re going to be selling food and drinks and merchandise in our stores,’” Schweiss said. “So, the tim ing was absolutely perfect as far as helping out the basic revenue stream in Cave Creek. We couldn’t have picked a better time.”
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While entry is free, showers can pay $10 to have their vehicle judged, with the opportunity to win an award in categories organized by class. Sch weiss said there will be around 20 winners chosen, with categories like best classic car, best muscle car and best in Guestsshow.themselves also have the chance to win prizes through raffle drawings for gift certificates, dis counts and automobile memora bilia. Winners will be picked from a jar and broadcast in the speakers around town to make sure they don’t miss out on their prize.
will both serve as home bases for the event, to make sure everyone is tak en care Schweissof. said he and his team ap proached Nancy Perry Productions, which hosts car cruises all over Ar izona, with the idea of throwing a hometown-focused automotive show several months ago. After obtaining a permit from the city, the coordina tors jumped into planning the event. Schweiss said if the event is success ful, the goal is to make it an annual “Octoberfest” event.
One of the restaurants will also display the Cave Creek Tractor Club, which consists of about 30 restored tractors.“It’sreally unique, these guys have got some of the oldest, most vintage tractors I’ve ever seen. They’re just great,” Schweiss said.
hometown gathering for the whole family from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Satur day, Oct. 1 in downtown Cave Creek.
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“Everybody knows that Cave Creek is kind of a party town, in a way, on weekends. But in this particular case, we wanted to change it a bit and make it more family-style,” said Schweiss. “So that’s when we decid ed to bring in the old-fashioned trac tors and have raffles, stuff like that.” Frontier Town and The Roadhouse
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Schweiss said there will also be a commemorative event t-shirt with the Cave Creek logo selling for $10, inspired by the community’s col lectible and well-loved Bike Week t-shirts.Admission for both cars and spec tators is free, thanks to the efforts of the event’s sponsors. Parking for spectators will be available through out town, with overflow parking available at Stagecoach Village. Sch weiss said it’s best to arrive early and to please be patient with the parking situation as they try to ac commodate everyone.
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Since the car show falls between the tourism and holiday seasons, as well as in between when the kids go back to school and when the snow birds start arriving, it also provides a unique opportunity to heighten the level of business that the community usually sees this time of year.
He said the idea is that people me ander through the area, stopping to shop, dine, drink or admire the vehi cles. Speakers will be set up through out the area, with throwbacks from the 70s to 90s playing. A few partici pating restaurants will also have live music playing during the event.
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All participating businesses will display signage for the event, and Schweiss said some are even going all out with decorative red, white or blue pennant flags and inflatable
Show cars and trucks of all makes, models and years will be showcased in the parking lot of each of the par ticipating businesses. Schweiss said currently there are more than 500 vehicles that will be in attendance. He added that several major car clubs have even committed to attend, including the Corvette, Mustang and Volkswagen bus clubs.
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“We want to really look not only 10 years out, but 50 years out and see where we’re going with this regional park system to ad dress growth and development pressures, to help identify opportunities for new park land, buffer existing parkland and expand partnerships. And then continue to look at regional scale conservation measures.”
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The final finding of the report is that de veloping sustainable funding is critical for
Specific action areas and priorities of the plan were largely guided by communi ty input. Cardin said the Parks and Recre ation Department first started working on the project in 2019, and started things off by doing a parks visitor study, economic impact study and an analysis by staff and volunteers who were out interacting with the public.
According to Cardin, the last strategic master plan for the park system was done in 2009, and he said it focused on bringing the parks together into a true system rath er than individual properties. Now, with the 2030 plan, the department is looking at connecting the park system to the larger region as a whole.
“Again, we have 120,000 acres of park land, and there are things we can do to further develop it without over-develop ing the existing park system so that it can accommodate more people in the next 10 years,” Cardin said.
The next key finding of the study is that Maricopa County Parks needs to be a lead er in the conservation and preservation of its wildlands. A few of the recommended ways to do this are to partner with federal and state agencies; use the Maricopa Asso ciation of Governments to identify coun ty and city parks, open spaces, trails and wildlife corridors to promote awareness and regional cooperation; and develop a natural resource plan at a local and region al level.
the success of the park system.
“In the late ’50s and early ’60s, the pop ulation of the county was about 800,000. By 1980, it was projected to be about 1.5 million, and at that time they realized that was a huge issue they needed to address.”
Those efforts identified the top five rea sons people visit the park (to observe the scenic beauty, enjoy physical exercise, ex perience the open space, improve physical health and relax) as well as what facilities were most important to them (trails, trail signs, restrooms, parking availability and directional signs). Cardin said it was also determined that for every $1 that was spent on a county park, there is a regional economic benefit of $4.85.
The second finding is that reinvestment is a need and a responsibility in order to con tinue to improve the existing park system.
Cardin said the goal is to have the 2030 Strategic Systems Master Plan in place by the end of this year or early next year, but it will be available for public review around October. More information about the plan can be found at maricopacoun typarks.net.
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The 2030 parks plan has been in the works since 2019 and is expected to be established by the end of this year or early next year. (Maricopa County Parks and Recreation/Submitted)
After all those conversations and the consideration of several studies about funding, trends in activity and postCOVID-19 behaviors, the 2030 Strategic System Master Plan has five main findings and recommendations.
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“We want to look at not only the coun ty parks, but how we can tie that better into the city and regional parks that have grown over the last 20 to 30 years, the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) properties and the Tonto National Forest properties,” Cardin said about the scope of the plan.
Those elements are community health and well-being, quality of life and the new economy, exceptional visitor experiences, preserving regional natural heritage, sus taining and maintaining park resources, and connecting landscapes and trails.
“We’ve got to be realistic in terms of what we can do with the funding that we have and what we aren’t able to do,” Cardin said.“Maybe there are new funding oppor tunities that are acceptable to the public but still don’t put a huge burden on the taxpayer and the tax base. It’s finding that equilibrium between what people want and what they’re willing to pay for preser vation, conservation and open space recre ation.”While the 2030 plan looks out to the next 50 years, Cardin said there are a few opportunities that are more immediately present, like working with the Tonto Na tional Forest and the Bureau of Land Man agement. In the next 10 to 30 years, Cardin said there will likely be establishment of new regional parks. Then, over the next 50 years, the Parks and Recreation Depart ment will continue working on expanding the park and connectivity.
The first is that a primary role of parks and open space is to enhance community health and well-being. Cardin pointed out the parks help not only physical health, but mental health, too. Based on this finding, recommendations are to continue revital ization of river corridors to bring nature to urban areas and low-income populations; engage and partner with nonprofit orga nizations that promote the importance of open space; and expand opportunities to
ized that population was an issue,” he ex plained.
“So, based on some of that basic infor mation, we put together a framework of some of the elements that we thought were important to address as we work through this planning process,” Cardin said.
Then, after having to press pause during the pandemic, the department held nu merous focus groups with stakeholders around the county, virtual meetings open to the public and one-on-one discussions with partners in the area like Arizona Game and Fish, the Bureau of Land Man agement and Tonto National Forest.
Another recommendation of the plan is acquiring more park land and wildlife corridors to stay ahead of growth. One aspect Cardin said they are looking into is rethinking the structure of floodplains to be able to have more urban park space in that area.
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Cort Mon roe and Chief Financial Officer Mar cie Rodriguez explained why this is being done, where the money will go and how it will impact property own ers.Rodriguez said if the override is approved, it would give the district about $5.1 million. She said 65 to
75% of that will be put toward teach er and staff salaries (not adminis trative salaries), and the remaining funds will go toward student pro grams and safety.
A breakdown of override, impact to property owners
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Monroe said one of the biggest reasons the override is needed is for teachers’ salaries.
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“There are programs as well that we want to put into place with those additional funds. We would be in creasing our student opportunities for career, technology and vocational
“Our teachers and staff are paid very low. In fact, our teachers are in the bottom 15% of salary in Marico pa County compared to other teach ers (in other school districts),” he said. “So, with inflation happening, we’re trying to increase our teacher salaries so we can retain our great teachers and also attract really good teachers.”Monroe said when it comes to keep ing and drawing in new teachers, CCUSD has to compete with neigh boring school districts, and the pay gap has a noticeable effect. Data from the Arizona Auditor General shows all of the surrounding school districts
Approval of the override would mean an increase in property tax of about $10 a month for the average homeowner.CCUSDSuperintendent
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“Out of 55 total school districts in Maricopa County, 48 of those dis tricts have an override that the vot ers or even a bond that the voters have approved,” Monroe said. “Cave
Cort Monroe, superintendent of the Cave Creek Unified School District, said funds from the over ride would allow the district to be able to increase teacher salaries, implement new programs and add safety features. (CCUSD/Submitted)
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The override would help with more than just helping with teacher salaries, though. Two other areas it would contribute to are student pro grams and safety.
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Part of the reason those districts can afford to pay their teachers more is because they all have overrides or bonds currently in place, Mon roe said. In fact, nearly every other school district in the county has an override or bond.
Creek does not have any. In fact, out of those seven districts that don’t have an override, we’re actually the largest district with 4,600 to 4,700 kids. So, we’re at a disadvantage.”
he Cave Creek Unified School District has proposed a 15% maintenance and operation budget override which would result in an increase in property tax, but, according to district officials, would have a positive overall impact on the area and will be voted on in a Tues day, Nov. 8 election.
pay more. The average teacher sala ry is $58,592 at Scottsdale Unified, $56,615 at Paradise Valley Unified, $54,693 at Deer Valley Unified and $50,030 at Cave Creek Unified.
Saturdays Oct. 8, Nov. 12, Dec. 10, Jan. 14, Feb. 11, March 11, April 8, May 13: Arizona gold mining experience from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
As part of the update, residents and visitors will discover pottery, projectile points, stone tools and other artifacts from excavations at Spur Cross Ranch during the 1980s. These items are on loan from ASU.
The Cave Creek Museum will open for the season on Saturday, Oct. 1, and un veil changes and updates to its archaeo logical wing exhibit.
“We had some stunning artwork from our collection last year, but there’s noth ing quite as bright as Beth’s blooms, blos soms, succulents and cacti,” Johnson said.
Saturday, Oct. 1: First day of the 2022-2023 season and the Cave Creek car show participants are welcomed.
The Cave Creek resident was a Suffolk County police officer who had federal disaster training in 2001. When she was called to help in a highly secured area of Ground Zero, she witnessed the horrif ic details of the terror attacks that dec imated the world’s financial center. Her new book describes her 23 days on the pile and working at the center of the res cue and recovery efforts.
Saturday, Nov. 19: Desert Discovery Days at Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 21: Stephanie Bradley discusses “The Boulders Aren’t Really the Boulders,” 2 to 3:30 p.m.
out of the Cave Creek Museum recently, Evelyn Johnson had the chance to look around and take it all in.
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Elsewhere, artist Beth Zink’s painting brightened the auditorium.
Stacey Goodman will discuss her book, “The Dust Never Settles,” a first-hand ac count from inside Ground Zero from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15.
“We have them hung in the numeri cal order they belong in. A kid’s point of view would breathe new light. They’re bright colors—the oranges, the blues and the yellows. I think it’ll be a great topic for a writing class.”
Anotherticket.program will explore Cave Creek’s haunted history. Guests will gather at Cave Creek Museum from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, with a local paranormal investigation/ghost hunt ing team that has been featured on The Travel Channel’s “Destination Fear and Ghost Adventures” and “AZ Ghost Ad ventures.”Guestsmust be 13 years and older and register for the event prior at cavecreek museum.org. The ticket cost is $30.
Sunday, Nov. 13: Kiwanis Family Fun Days: Thanksgiving on the Dude Ranch from 2 to 4 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 11: Kiwanis Family Fun Days: A Homesteader’s Christmas, 2 to 4 p.m.
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Sunday, April 16: Kiwanis Family Fun Days: Earth Day in the Sonoran Desert, 2 to 4 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 4: AZ Ghosthunters, Cave Creek’s Haunted History, 6:30 to 9 p.m.
“One wall in the archaeology wing is dedicated to a collaboration between Cave Creek Museum and the Salt Riv er Pima-Maricopa Indian Community’s Huhugam Ki Museum,” she said. “This unique wall tells their story and con tains items from their culture.”
Saturday, Jan. 28: Antique appraisal, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Education is key to the 51-year-old museum’s mission.
Sunday, March 12: Spur Cross Fair at Spur Cross Conservation Area, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 15: Stacey Goodman 2 to 4 p.m.
Saturday, April 15: TBA
Saturday, Dec. 3: Roger Naylor, “Arizona’s Scenic Roads and Hikes,” 2 to 3:30 p.m.
“It never quite looks the same,” said Johnson, the museum’s executive direc tor.“Once you swing open those doors, you’ll have foot traffic in. When it’s that pristine, I’m ready to show it off.”
Sunday, Jan. 15: Kiwanis Family Fun Days: Wild at Heart at the Cave Creek Museum, 2 to 4 p.m.
Campos, an Argentine illustrator, she said.“It’s been part of our collection for a while, but it did not et up last year. One of the reasons I’m excited about it is I want to do a children’s program where I explain to the kids that the pictures tell a story. I want them to tell me what they see in these pictures.
Guests can see pottery and fragile, ex pertly woven baskets used for carrying and storing items for everyday use. Peo ple will learn the cultural importance of these objects in ceremonial uses by an cientCavepeople.Creek Museum’s archaeological section features a life-size replica of a Hohokam house that is built from ma terials native to high-desert landscapes. Johnson said the museum model rep resents home materials found at the Seats Kay Ruins east of Cave Creek.
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Upcoming season’s programs
Sunday, Feb. 12: Kiwanis Family Fun Days: Fun & Games on Arizona’s Birthday, 2 to 4 p.m.
Tuesday, March 21: Miners’ Dinner
Reservations are recommended for the event that’s free for members. Non members can attend with a museum ad mission
“I’ve already picked out about three of hers.”Also decorating the museum is a se ries of cartoonish artwork by F. Molina
Cave Creek Museum readying to reopen its doors
Saturday, Feb. 18: Cell Phonetography Workshop for Kids with Anthony Nex, 9 to 11 a.m. For students 10 and older. Adults may join from 2 to 4 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 9: Kiwanis Family Fun Days: Be a Desert Explorer, 2 to 4 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 8: Spaghetti dinner fundraiser at Harold’s Cave Creek Corral from 4 to 7 p.m.
Saturday, March 18: TBA
Saturday, May 20: TBA
Sunday, May 21: Kiwanis Family Fun Days: Legends of the West with the Singing Cowboy, 2 to 4 p.m.
Rodriguez said she’s also gotten lots of questions from community
police are investigating af ter human remains, later identified to be 39-year-old Jennifer Beede, were found inside a container near Cave Creek Road and Carefree Highway early Saturday, Sept. 17.
According to police reports, deputies responded to a call around 6:45 a.m. of someone who had found the remains. Officers arrived on the scene and found the body of a deceased adult “inside a container,” reports said, without further clarification.
Phoenix police report a deceased adult body was found inside a container near Cave Creek Road and Carefree Highway. (Foothills Focus file photo)
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Monroe said people have been sup portive, for the most part, and can empathize with the overall mission.
Around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, police reported that the body had been identified as Beede. At this time, police are not releasing any further information.
school district go through?’ ‘Will there be oversight?’ We answer all of those questions.”
If approved, the override would be in effect for seven years. The mainte nance and operation budget would be increased by 15% for the first five years, 10% for the sixth year and 5% for the seventh year. Rodriguez said if the override were to continue, it would again be voted on by the pub lic in about four years (before the funds begin to taper off).
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members concerned about exact ly how the money will be spent and how people know it’s going where they say it’s going. She said CCUSD is subject to several different audits just in one calendar year, which is one way people can feel more confi dent in the book keeping. In addition, expenditures of the override will be presented to the governing board monthly.Bothshe and Monroe have at tended public meetings to discuss the topic and answer questions, and there are multiple online resources with“Theinformation.factsare out there and we have a lot of transparency. If you go to our website, you can find answers to all the questions that you have,” Monroe“There’ssaid.a live document with fre quently asked questions, so a ques tion you may have about this can be answered there. ‘How does this impact me?’ ‘Where does the mon ey go?’ ‘What kind of audit does the
Body found near Cave Creek Road and Carefree Highway
As for safety, Monroe said that is al ways a priority. With funds from the override, he said the district would be able to ensure it can pay the two police officers who are on campus and security guards as well as po tentially adding social workers and counselors.Ofcourse, not every property own er in the district has kids who attend a CCUSD school and, of course, not every property owner wants to see their taxes go up. However, Rodri guez and Monroe said there are ben efits to “Propertyeveryone.values can be directly tied to the quality of education in an area,” Monroe pointed out. “The fact that we’re such a high achieving
According to a report done by the National Bureau of Economic Re search, every $1 spent on public schools increases home values by $20.
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“Overall, I think it’s been very well received. I think our community re ally values our teachers and our staff and they want to see them get com petitive wages so that we don’t lose our best and brightest teachers,” he said.More information about the over ride, including the frequently asked questions page, can be found at ccusd93.org.
programs,” Rodriguez said. “One of the things that I know we’re really passionate about up here is patrio tism, and we would like to start a Ju nior ROTC program because we don’t have one of those on our high school campuses right now.”
“The state legislature took the state equalization tax off from property taxes, and that will reduce people’s tax bill by almost double what the override would increase it,” Rodri guez“Theexplained.override is a 21 cent increase and that tax reduction is 42 cents. So, they’re going to get a reduction and we’re hopeful they’ll see that on their tax bill and that will give them a little bit more comfort in knowing even with the override, it would not increase their tax bill next year.”
school district bodes very well for people’s property values.
More than increased property val ue, though, Rodriguez said there are other factors to consider. For in stance, Cave Creek has one of the low est property taxes in the state, and it will be going down again this year.
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Detectives are actively investigating to determine exactly what happened and
what led to this incident. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Phoenix Police Department at 602-262-6151. Those who wish to report anonymously can contact Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or 480-TESTI GO for Spanish speakers. This is a developing story. Information is up-to-date as of Monday, Sept. 19.
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get up to greet them. A routine was es tablished, every morning and evening the two ravens spent time with my sick horse. One day I watched one of the ravens pick up little bits of apple that had fallen from our tree and fly over the barn, dropping them in Sedona’s stall. A bird bringing my horse a treat? Friends fly to any heights to give us en couragement.AsKyleprepared for college, he wrote in his admission letter that Mr. Brown showed him that he was “more” than just autism. Kyle began to believe in himself. After Sedona died, two grieving ravens sat in the Cottonwood trees by the barn and would squawk, “caw, caw, caw.” For five days they made their sorrowful cry for their friend.
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Kyle did not talk much, had few friends and often slapped himself repeatedly in the head. He lived with his single mom and was an only child. Mr. Brown was a widower and loved to play chess. He also loved to cook. Eventually, Mr. Brown got Kyle interested in the game of chess. And life changed for both of them.
Time, kindness and attention are the currency of friendship, which are small treasures bestowed upon us that make life worth living. To witness friendship is as joyful as watching ravens commu nicate with a horse and as sorrowful as hearing their plaintive call when she is
Friendship
My colleague reluctantly moved to a new city to be closer to her daughter. She is shy and worriedly asked, “Where can I meet friends?”Friendships can form, mysteriously, against all odds. A 12-year-old boy with autism, Kyle, was asked by his 74-yearold neighbor, Mr. Brown, if he could help do some odd jobs. What started out as a few mundane weekly chores like pull ing the garbage can in an out, gradually grew to something else.
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After school, Kyle would go over to Mr. Brown’s house. Together they played chess and ate dinner. Kyle learned how to play a game, sit still and eventually stop hitting himself. He was able to hold a conversation. Mr. Brown found a kind and curious companion and Kyle found a best friend that he never had. Friend ship has no age restrictions and can be entirely unexpected.
My young horse, Sedona, became gravely ill and was placed on stall rest. Two large ravens often sat on her fence rail, sometimes pacing back and forth. I was surprised at the antics of these two huge birds. They would sit for long periods of time, while Sedona was lying down. Sometimes she would
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For two years running, this team has played beautiful basketball. They are unselfish, united, collaborative and a group that holds one another account able. In other words, the team on the floor has been everything their owner is not off it.
For 18 years of such tyranny, the league banned Sarver from running the Suns for one year and fined him $10 million, the maximum allowable under NBA bylaws.
All of us have worked for a tyrant at some point. Ask yourself, did you re ally give it everything you had when push came to shove?
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fter a year-long investigation, the NBA’s allegedly indepen dent investigation into the conduct of Phoenix Suns owner Rob ert Sarver was condensed to a tidy 43 pages. It’s a breezy read I can further synopsize into two sentences.
James went on, “I said it before and I’m gonna say it again, there is no place in this league for that kind of behavior. I love this league and I deeply respect our leadership. But this isn’t right. There is no place for misogyny, sexism and racism in any workplace.”
This leaves every Suns fan with a choice to make, a decision I find most curious at a moment when every as pect of life, from dining at Chick-fil-A to grabbing java at Starbucks, has be come a time for choosing.
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Within a day, players and pundits weighed in, with virtual unanimity
I certainly respect your right to choose otherwise. I even understand it to a degree. Bleeding orange and purple is tough to get over, and quit
ting Sarver also means quitting solid human beings like Williams and Devin Booker. It’s hard to blame an employee for the conduct of a business owner. It also makes you wonder how long play ers like Paul and Booker will want to toil in Sarver’s employ, and whether they will remain “all in” to pursue the Suns’ elusive first championship
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Yeah, me neither.
that Sarver deserved far worse, like the forced sale of the team levied against Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling in 2014.
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“I was and am horrified and disap pointed by what I read,” tweeted Suns star Chris Paul. “This conduct especial ly towards women is unacceptable and must never be repeated. … I am of the view that the sanctions fell short in truly addressing what we can all agree was atrocious behavior.”
I am no expert on friendship. But to my colleague who just I’d say if finding a friend take a
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gone. It is as special as watching an el derly man see the future potential in a young boy.
Lebron James, the most powerful player on the planet, seconded Paul’s disgust, tweeting “our league definite ly got this wrong.”
As a close observer of Suns hoops for the past quarter century, I was long ago pushed to dislike the team by Sarver’s sour demeanor, horrific roster moves and sideline narcissism.
ically, given the accusations of racism — by two incredibly talented Afri can American executives, head coach Monty Williams and general manager James Jones.
helping a neighbor with a garbage can or while learning to play chess, it can happen anywhere. Keep the faith and be open. The possibilities are endless. The results are outstanding.
Judy Bluhm is a writer and a local real tor. Have a comment or a story? Email Judy at judy@judybluhm.com.
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How do you reckon with Robert Sarver, his conduct and his team? Do you continue to give the Suns your pas sion, your sweat and blood, your cash? Or do you hop off the Suns bandwag on and refuse to enable and enrich its ownership?Forme,Ilong ago made the decision not to put another thin dime in Sarv er’s pocket, walking away from sea son tickets rather than supporting the man’s reign of error.
Still, it was hard not to pull for this iteration of the Suns squad, led — iron
Sarver, per the investigators, is not a racist or a hater of women. He’s merely a tyrant — a terrible boss and a miser ableAmonghuman.Sarver’s faults: He “said the N-word at least five times in repeating or purporting to repeat what a Black person said.” Then there’s “unequal treatment of female employees,” in dulging in “sex-related statements and conduct” and committing “harsh treat ment of employees that on occasion constituted bullying.”
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“Children of 9/11”— infants who literally entered this world on Sept. 11, 2001 — reached the age of “legal majority” this year. As they turned 21 on the most disturbing date in American history, those young adults and the rest of us were reminded to take note of the threatening changes underway to profoundly alter our polit ical process and way of life.
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On Sept. 2, three armed FBI agents ar rived at her front door. Gallagher later
an American citizen who supported the 2020 Trump Campaign with posts on social media, a banner in her yard and, presumably, her vote on Election Day.
Make no mistake: Joe Biden wasn’t spouting a boilerplate political script, he was priming the rhetorical pump for the actions that followed.
The Commander-in-Chief said as much 10 days earlier in Philadelphia, snarling that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an ex tremism that threatens the very foun dations of our Republic.”
Suburban housewife Lisa Gallagher is no “MAGA mastermind.” She is simply
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The revisions at hand are truly revo lutionary, especially the manipulation of our legal system to criminalize po litical differences. Yet they are greeted with a collective yawn and deliberate disinterest from a politicized press corps.Instead, the Fourth Estate seems in tent on playing up a phantom fifth col umn in an effort to aid the Biden Ad ministration’s ominous objectives.
sage management” rather than mere coincidence.Rightoncue, she responded “there’s an oath we always take, which is to defend and uphold our Constitution against all enemies foreign and domes tic.”While Harris at least mentioned the Constitution, she and her senior part ner in the executive branch seem intent on pursuing the illogical and dangerous notion that they can best preserve our founding document by destroying it.
“We are now as a nation fighting a threat from within. Is the threat equal or greater than we faced on 9/11?”
Note that the NBC moderator em ployed no modifier when introducing a dubious assertion as settled fact. Nope, for Chuck Todd and the “news organi zation” where he is gainfully employed, controversial partisan talking points are presented as the truth and nothing
but.To her credit, Kamala suppressed her customarily reflexive cackle, but that was probably due to prearranged “mes
sleeps amid disturbing signs of change
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How else to explain the outrageous content and conduct from former Dem ocrat political operative Chuck Todd and Vice President Kamala Harris on the Sept. 11 telecast of NBC’s “Meet the Press?”Ol’Chuck seldom disappoints power ful Democrats, and sure enough, after the obligatory mention of the 9/11 an niversary, Todd teed up the administra tion’s theme:
Editor: Many fire districts cover Arizonans in areas not covered by cities and/or towns. Located mostly in rural Arizona and along the major roadways connect ing Phoenix, Tucson, Kingman, Flagstaff and Yuma, fire districts have raised con cerns for years regarding the various limits placed on revenue growth within their districts. The current limitations have precluded many fire districts from maintaining adequate fire and emer gency medical service delivery at levels necessary to protect life and proper ty and keep firefighters safe, response times can be as long as 30 minutes or more.That can be a lifetime when you need medical attention after a car crash far from the nearest fire station or when you are one of the 1.5 million Arizonans who live in a fire district and a wildfire is bearing down on your family’s home andHowproperty.deepis
• Staff and equip a regionally deployed air/light utility/rehabilitation truck for firefighter safety
To put this simply, most of you have perused Realtor.com or Zillow or any
• Train additional firefighter paramed ics that were lost due to budget cuts
Brian P. Tobin Daisy Mountain Fire Chief
Notwithstanding the funding issues of rural fire districts, with additional funding from an initiative, the Daisy Mountain Fire District (which covers Black Canyon City, Anthem, New River, Desert Hills, Cave Creek) could:
If you are a voter who is tired of infla tion, increasing costs for literally every public service, utilities, groceries, and, yes, public education, I have some inter esting news for you.
• Expand occupational cancer screen ing for firefighters
for patients with long transport times to hospitals
While urban fire departments fre quently respond to 911 emergency calls in six or seven minutes, rural fire districts’ response times routinely can exceed 30 minutes. Not only does that create serious risk for the 1.5 million Arizonans who live in fire districts, it also impacts the residents and visitors who travel our state’s interstates and rural roadways on day trips, sightseeing tours and Strappedvacations.forfunding and short of manpower, equipment and training, Ar izona’s fire districts desperately need more resources to better serve our communities, families and businesses.
number of home search sites either out of curiosity or interest in buying or sell ing real estate. There is one thing that a realtor always wants to do, make mon ey by making you money. The more you make, usually, the more they make. So what is one of the best ways to increase your real estate value? Be lucky enough to be located in a neighborhood that has well maintained and highly rated schools.Congratulations, Cave Creek, you win! You have one of the highest rated school districts in the state and it is perform ing great service to you by increasing your real estate values. Who says? Take this quote from Realtor.com on a na tionwide study they did of real estate values where the property was located near a high performing, well maintained school, like yours in Cave Creek. Here is a quote of interest: “Home values in side top-rated school districts were 49% higher than the national median home price, according to a 2016 study by Re altor.com, which analyzed data from the residential database and school district ratings from GreatSchools.org.”
Proposition 310 couldhelp save lives
• Construct and staff new fire station(s) for better response times
• Staff and equip additional regionally deployed ambulance(s) for better re sponse times
There are a lot of reasons your home values are increasing in the Cave Creek Unified School District, but make no mis take, if your local school district begins to suffer from lack of investment (and this word will get out), you are going to start losing money — real money. Check this out with a realtor you trust, any re altor, if you do not believe the nation wide analysis from Realtor.com. If your schools decline, your property values will take a hit.
• Construct regional fire and EMS train ing center(s)
• Expand regionally deployed wild land/urban Interface fire suppression capacities
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The solution could be Proposition 310.
The second thing we’re going to talk about is crime. Cave Creek Unified is blessed with a very low crime rate. Thank your own diligence, situational awareness, block watches, terrific local police departments and towns and cities that care about safety. These are obvious keys. But thank the Cave Creek Unified School District, too. They are a major reason your crime rate is low and will remain low so long as the district main tains its facilities, quality of teachers,
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Editor:
Put forward by Arizona’s fire fighters and a bipartisan group of state legisla tors, this small temporary increase in the state’s sales tax — just one-tenth of a cent on each dollar spent — will generate about $150 million annually for the state’s fire districts. These in creased resources will take the pres sure off our firefighters and paramedics and help ensure they have the equip ment and training they need to provide fire, emergency and medical services to residents and travelers.
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Think of it this way: The next time you spend ten bucks on lunch at Mc Donald’s, this measure will cost you a penny. In return, the next time you take a day trip from the Valley to the White Mountains or drive over for a week end in Rocky Point, San Diego or Vegas, the fire districts you pass through will be far better prepared should you and your loved ones need help.
• Staff and equip regionally deployed crisis response unit(s) for urgent be havioral health issues
Voting ‘yes’ for CaveCreek schools will make you money andprotect your home
the crisis? Over the last five years, 2,000 people have died in ve hicle crashes on Arizona’s rural roads. Another 30,000 have been injured. The Daisy Mountain Fire District responds to emergencies on Interstate 17 from Carefree Highway to Sunset Point, arguably the most dangerous stretch of highway in Arizona. In the same time period, fire districts have helped fight wildfires that have claimed more than 2.2 million acres in our state.
• Initiate/expand tele-med and telestroke services for better patient care
You can add to your real estate value, the safety of your neighborhood, and your quality of life with a net return in the tens of thousands of dollars, if not more, for about $10 a month. If you have a child in the Cave Creek Unified School District, you probably are keenly aware of the value of that education and support school finance issues out of perceived self interest. Nothing wrong with that! But the simple truth is that most of you do not have a child that at tends a Cave Creek school. In fact, only about 37% of parents statewide have a child in school; even less in Cave Creek. But I’m guessing all of you pay a lot of taxes and if that’s the case, please read on. I think you might discover an invest ment with an unbelievable and real rate of return that will significantly affect yourThefinances.firstthing we’re going to do is take a quick look at what works, not only in Cave Creek, but nationwide, as one of the best if not the best way to protect your real estate value and actually increase your values in real money and equity in your home or business.
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• Train equip and staff a regional tech nical rescue team (mountain rescues, high angle rescues, mine rescues, swift water rescues, off-road rescues)
• Train equip and staff a regionally de ployed battalion chief (special ops certified) for firefighter safety
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Don’t be deceived. This isn’t about wrongdoing. It’s about “wrong think ing…” and ultimately, about “wrong vot ing…” at least in the eyes of the Biden Bunch.Therest of us, including the “children of 9/11,” can take a cue from today’s infants. Even though “Freedom from Fear” has disappeared, we can all sleep likeWebabies.canwake up every two hours and cry.Or
Five days after that, the feds sur rounded successful “My Pillow” entre preneur and outspoken Trump defend er Mike Lindell in the takeout lane of a fast food restaurant, taking away his phone.Ofcourse, all of this was preceded in August by the unprecedented raid on the home of the 45th President.
The reality is sobering. Cave Creek Unified School District, without an ap proved override, pays its teachers an average of $50,030 per year. Glendale Union pays its teachers an average of $69,498 per year. Scottsdale Unified and Paradise Valley pay significantly more and have, for many years, voter approved bonds, overrides and capital assistance measures that enable them to recruit, maintain and operate in support of every one of the things you say you want, but don’t provide in Cave Creek. Harsh, but true.
There is no trade off for failing to prop erly invest in schools that will not result in local residents from losing money or seeing a very predictable and unaccept able increase in local crime. That is not my opinion. That is the opinion of a re markable study by Harvard University and many other data analyses across the country on the impacts of highly rated schools on local neighborhoods. Har vard researcher D. J. Demming conclud ed: “the longer-term impact on adult crime” around highly rated schools is “greatly reduced.” If you know the police chief or any police officer, ask them their opinion. What crimes do they antici pate in great neighborhoods with good schools versus decaying schools and the neighborhoods around them?
assets in arguing against investing pen nies a day to maintain your schools is an argument I hope you soundly reject at the polls. Seems like a suckers bet to me, and as a taxpayer, I suggest we all work together to protect ourselves from petty arguments that threaten our homes and property values.
Dick Foreman President and CEO of the Arizona Business and Education Coalition
That’s the gamble you are taking when you vote “no” on school finance issues. The costs of your no vote makes it tough to maintain quality teachers and results
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But even if she had been on the Capi tol grounds that day, she was well with in her constitutional rights. The First Amendment affirms our basic right to freedom of speech and assembly. Yet the fear felt by this everyday American prompted her to show the agents her phone and her personal calendar to “prove” she was nowhere near Wash ington.
and student programs and services.
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recounted her experience for Fox News.
There are dozens of such studies with the same conclusion: great schools have a significant impact on lowering neigh borhood and community crime rates.
So what do the residents of the Cave Creek Unified School District want for their schools based on most recent sur veys if they approve the next financial
more likely, we’ll sleep with one eye open.
“I was crying, my knees were shaking. And even though I knew I’d done noth ing wrong, after Joe Biden’s speech the night before, I thought, ‘Oh my God, this is Lendingpolitical.’”credence to Lisa’s instinctive assessment was the false accusation that prompted the arrival of federal law enforcement officers. The agents told Lisa the FBI had received an anony mous tip that she was at The Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. She wasn’t.
How long can the district manage to maintain the excellence you benefit from, whether you have a child in the school or not? In these uncertain eco nomic times, problems don’t just get better, they get worse.
request? Better teacher and staff pay. Better safety. Better programs. Better student services and counseling, all by overwhelming numbers. And that’s ex actly what the Cave Creek school com munity is recommending.
Six days later, 35 FBI raids were con ducted, aimed at senior MAGA officials.
in program losses for students while neighboring districts market away at the very vulnerabilities you enforce by vot ing no. You have something special, Cave Creek friends. And for about 33 cents a day, you can buy insurance that will dra matically protect your investment in not only your schools, but your Cave Creek lifestyle and expectations that things are better here, and you intend to keep it thatHowway.anyone is willing to gamble your
BY ALLISON BROWN Foothills Focus Staff Writer
Rare Earth Gallery may be opening up a second location after its Rare Earth Gallery II site plan was approved by the Cave Creek planning commission. (Rare Earth Gallery/Submitted)
unique and low profile facility well suit ed on the perimeter of the town core, not impacting Cave Creek’s Western theme.”
The property for the proposed site plan is located on the east side of Cave Creek Road and North of Surrey Road. The proposal conforms to the town’s planning and zoning ordinance and does not require any special use permits or variances.Theapplicant for the project is Greg
out of this world — from space. On top of that, they have rare fossils and a large crystal collection of amethyst, fluorite, moldavite and smoky quartz. Items in the store sell anywhere from 99 cents to $99,000. Inventory includes a gemstone chart for kids to over 6-foot-tall gem cen terpieces.RareEarth Gallery opened in Cave Creek in 2012, and while it has moved locations a few times, Helfand said he wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
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More than just the town’s theme was considered, though. On the east side, the site is bordered by single-family resi dences with an alley separating the prop erty lines. At the meeting, planning com mission members asked Zimmerman if those residents would be bothered by car headlights or noise. Zimmerman said in order to screen light and noise, a solid, 6-foot-high wall is proposed to be constructed on the east property line, in addition to existing 3-foot walls. He also pointed out that proposed business hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., so there should not be any traffic at the site in the eve nings. Further, no outdoor parking light ing is proposed for the site at this time.
The current Rare Earth Gallery build ing, located on E. Cave Creek Road, is a 10,000-square-foot collection of miner als, gems, fossils, pieces of jewelry and home decor.. Wayne Helfand, owner and purveyor of the store said the store is a mixture of a rock shop and a home decor store, with everything coming from the earth.The store has 180 million-year-old Ar izona petrified wood, and pieces literally
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This is not the final approval for the Rare Earth Gallery II site. The proposal will now be presented to the town coun cil with the planning and zoning commis sion’s recommendation to approve. That meeting has not yet been scheduled. site plan approved
Zimmerman, owner of G. M. Zimmerman Ar chitect firm. In his ap plication, Zimmerman said the proposed plan is for a “commercial retail building and offstreet parking in con junction with commer cial use, as well as land scaping.” The proposed structure is 11,836 square feet.
Also in the site plan application, Zimmer man said they “have taken all possible measures to make Rare Earth Gallery II a
Rare Earth Gallery, a self-pro claimed “eighth wonder of the world” may be expanding after the Cave Creek planning commission unani mously voted to approve the Rare Earth Gallery II site plan at a Sept. 15 meeting.
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“I did not want to leave Cave Creek,” Helfand said in a previous interview with the Foothills Focus. “It’s the last fashion of old western Arizona, beside the sixth largest city in the country. Sooner or lat er, everyone comes to Cave Creek. It’s just a wonderful little funky town.”
Next to the song board was a guitar board where he determined which gui tars he would need for the tour.
Of the guitars that he plans to break out on his upcoming jaunt — which stops at the Salt River Ballroom at Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale on Saturday, Sept. 24 — Satriani will haul a seven-string guitar, a brand-new cus tom gold guitar, his famous muscle car orange guitar and, of course, his wellknown custom chrome guitar that is situated onto his body with his “Surfing With The Alien” guitar strap — an ode to his second album and biggest hit.
Although the string slayer played a small show in Tennessee to show off some guitars he painted prior to the jaunt, he admitted he has missed being on a big stage traveling from city to city.
Eight is the usual sweet spot for Sa triani as it allows him to rotate guitars about every three songs.
COST: Tickets start at $35
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Satriani is anxious to jump back out in front of a live audience, he admits that he struggled early on to determine his setlist. Two new albums that have yet to receive any stage time, “The Elephants of Mars” — which hit the airwaves in April — and 2020’s “Shape shifting” that he is trying to somehow incorporate into the mix.
“It’s hard because there are guitars that feel right and then there are guitars that look amazing. And then there are the factors of how many songs I need on a guitar that has this pickup, how many songs do I need the 24-fret gui tars for? How many songs need six or seven-string guitars for?” Satriani said. “If I could do the set with three guitars,
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“(The audience) sacrificed a lot to come see you this one evening and to be able to create a memorable experience and that’s so much more important than just his note here and that chord there.”Because of this, Satriani says that fans can expect to see a show with high energy and no singing, he said with a laugh.
Joe Satriani
With some of his axes chosen and his setlist fine tuned, Satriani began re hearsing the setlist twice a day.
WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday, September 24
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“It’s the interaction that I miss the most,” Satriani said. “I think most mu sicians will tell you that the traveling part is the worst because there’s a lot of planes, trains, automobiles, boats and ferries, it’s maddening even in the best of “Thetimes.best part is when you finally walk on stage and you forget about the missed flights and the missing luggage and the fact that you haven’t slept for days, it all fades because you’re there to celebrate the music with your best friends.”Although
Joe Satriani promises high energy and no singing at his Talking Stick Resort show. (Joe Satriani/ Submitted)
Because of this, Satriani took a cre ative approach to write his setlist by filling a whiteboard in his home studio
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“Even though we play the whole night, It’s really hard to fit in more than 25 songs (in the set) And that’s if you breeze through them really quickly,” Sa triani said with a laugh. “We have two brand-new albums that we’ve never toured behind before and then we have the hits and the fan favorites that we al ways love playing that we need to work into the set, too.”
I would, but it almost always winds up being about seven or eight guitars.”
been nearly three years since the famed legato-style guitarist Joe Satri ani has treated fans to a major tour.
Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani returns to the stage
with 50 songs to choose from and prac ticing the tunes to see how they felt un til he could whittle his list down to 25 tunes.However, that wasn’t the only white board he filled up and filed down.
“I like to walk on stage and not think about remembering anything, I’m just playing every song through muscle memory and mental memory,” Satriani said. “The thing is that if you put in all that work and you did the right amount of repetition, you can forget about it and you can just open your heart to the audi ence which is what you need to do.
to get back on the road again.”
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“I had to be ready to field questions as if I was on a television show,” she
The film features music by sing er-songwriter Duncan Sheik, who won Tony Awards for “Spring Awak ening.”“He’s great. It was great working with him,” she said. “It was very in spiring. He pushed me way out of my comfort zone. He has a very different
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“He uses a fair amount of electron ics,” she said. “It ranges from very acoustic to some of the produced songs. We do the remix version of ‘Tom’s Diner’ and ‘Luka.’ We do a lot of songs people know and a couple of new things. We love it. It’s been great
Suzanne Vega’s album
eturning to the Musical Instru ment Museum Saturday, Oct. 1, and Sunday, Oct. 2, Suzanne Vega was moved by previous visits.
Suzanne Vega recalls inspirational MIM show
is “An Eve ning of New York Songs and Stories,” recorded in 2018 during her two-week residency at New York’s Carlyle Café. (George Holz/Contributor)
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“It’s a beautiful place,” Vega said. “I remember all the beautiful instru ments and what they look like. I be gan my Instagram account there — however long ago it was.”
Vega’s shows are dubbed “An Inti mate Evening of Songs and Stories.” They will feature her on acoustic gui tar and her musical director, Gerry Leonard, on guitar.
The film debuted at SXSW in March. For the trailer, visit https://vimeo. com/680131952.“Itstartedwith an acting exercise that I was given in college a long, long time ago,” she said with a laugh.
Vega recently sent to cinemas her one-woman stage show about the life of 20th century American writer Carson McCullers in the Michael Tul ly-directed “Lover, Beloved.”
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“I had seen a picture of Carson Mc Cullers back then and I knew one or two of her stories. I remember we sort of look alike.”
I really got way into her. I ended up doing my senior thesis on her, her work and her life and how they com mingled.“It’sbeen a lifelong challenge to put her life and work on a stage in a one-woman show. It’s something I’ve gone back to time and time again. The film is the end of that journey with Carson. I’m way older than she was she died. I thought it’s time to put this down. It’s been such a plea sure and real interesting exercise for me. I’ve loved it.”
She thought McCullers would be an ideal character to play. When her college professor asked the class to come in dressed as a notable figure, Vega appeared as McCullers.
“I still have more work to do before my time is up,” she said. “I feel like I have more to say, more to do. There were certain goals set for myself as a teenager and I’ve spent my life trying
“It’s the whole process of acting to make the emotion alive in the mo ment on the stage,” Vega said. “It’s surprisingly draining. The film is an hour and 15 minutes. The one-woman show is an hour and 45 minutes. It’s me up there holding on to the audi ence as someone else. I couldn’t ad lib or change the order of things. I had to commit myself to the moment.”
and we were just sort of locked away,” he said with a smile. “I think that gave us a lot more creativity and the ability to work with artists, ironically, across the world but only via technology. We didn’t get a chance to meet up and record together, but we still did a lot of recording, and it wasOngreat.”“For the (expletive) Love,” Arrest ed Development worked with the Sugar Hill Gang, a landmark group that inspired Thomas to get into hip-hop, as well as Big Daddy Kane, Fat Man Scoop and Masta Ace and others.
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sense of melody than I do. I thought we were a good team. I thought we worked together well. Musically it’s thrilling to sing the work.”
The “Lover, Beloved” project was on Vega’s bucket list, of which there are plenty of other tasks.
tour celebrates the 30th anniver sary of Arrested Development’s 1992 de but album “3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of...” The setlist will include tracks from that album like “Mr. Wendal” and “Tennessee,” as well as songs from 2020’s “Don’t Fight Your Demons” and its follow-up “For the (expletive) Love.”
Thomas shares his views via documen taries as well, most recently 2018’s “16 Bars” and “Hoodwinked.”
Led by Speech Thomas, third from left, Arrested Development is best known for its songs “Mr. Wendal” and “Tennessee.” They’ll play this weekend’s Vortifest. (Arrested Development/Submitted)
Suzanne Vega
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1, and 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 2
all.”The
weight than it ever used to,” Thomas said. “Before, I think it was assumed that you’re the one person with one opinion. Now it could be a career changer.”
“I had a lot of interests as a child. I used to draw. I used to sculpt. I made busts out of clay. I studied dance for 10 years. I’ve done all kinds of oth er training — martial arts, the swim team for a while. It was a challenge for me as a kid to express the feelings and ideas of the moment as well as express myself emotionally and per sonally.”Vegahopes to move more on stage and be more present when she sings. Acting helped with that goal.
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Founder and frontman Speech Thomas promises more of the same when Arrest ed Development makes a rare appearance in Arizona as part of the Sedona Vortifest Musical Festival & Experience Friday, Sept. 23, and Saturday, Sept. 24, at the Se dona Performing Arts Center and Sedona Red Rock High School Stadium Fields.
In the long-form documentary, “16 Bars,” inmates in Virginia attempt to tran scend the cycle of recidivism through an artistic collaboration behind bars with Thomas. “Hoodwinked” is a three-part mini-docu series, exposing a 400-year white supremacist marketing campaign that purposely perverted the Black dias pora’s image worldwide.
“It’s a celebration,” said Thomas via Zoom from London. “It’s a full, eight-piece band, with dancing, rhyming and vocal singing. It’s going to be a full-out show. We’re going to really give everybody our
He said he and Arrested Development were prolific during COVID-19. After all, there wasn’t much else to do.
Arrested Development continues its mission
to fulfill all of those goals.
COST: Tickets start at $54.50
Hip-hop, he said, changed his life and gave him a voice.
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“We also worked with people like Kxng Crooked, who’s an underground inspi ration to me all the way to Monie Love, who is, again, someone who’s just been an inspiration. I’m just excited to be able to collaborate with these people plus way more on this record. And it’s really an op portunity to express how much we love the art form of hip-hop.”
WHERE: Musical Instrument Museum, 4725 E. Mayo Boulevard, Phoenix
“I’d like to write something a little more narrative,” she said. “I’d love to draw again. I fooled around with painting, but I can’t do everything.”
efore Lollapalooza became the Chi cago juggernaut, it was a touring summer camp of sorts with some of alt rock/hip-hop/rap’s hottest bands.
“The ‘residents’ are amazing guys, and we did some incredible music together and documented the whole thing. It was a great experience. People really respond ed to both.”
“We had all the distractions taken away
“When you run across something that you really feel like is your calling, that can be a life changer for you,” Thomas said. “It definitely was for me. Hip-hop has forever given me not only an outlet for all of my pains and hurts, but for my joys, opinions andHethoughts.”admitted, though, that sharing his inner-most thoughts can be intimidating — especially as the culture gets more po litically“Whatcorrect.yousay now has a lot more
“I’ve been doing documentaries for the last four, five years,” he said. “That’s
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“Coming from that background, I be lieve in the art of documentaries and ex pressing truths about various issues and publishing those truths. In ’16 Bars,’ I went into a jail to work with the ‘inmates’ inside of that jail. I call them ‘residents’ because I want to humanize the experi ence of those who are incarcerated.
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been exciting. It’s another way to get my thoughts out. Also, my mom comes from a publishing background. She owns the largest Black newspaper in Wisconsin, which is where I was born.
She hopes to write a book as well, to follow up to 1999’s “The Passion ate Eye: The Collected Writing of Su zanne Vega.”
In 1993, one of those acts was Arrested Development, an Atlanta-bred positive, Af rocentric hip-hop collective, who made its mark with its expansive band.
CAVE CREEK
WEDNESDAYS
Desert Foothills Library, 38443 N. School house Road, Cave Creek, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., free admission, 480-488-2286, dfla.org
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Desert Foothills Library, 38443 N. School house Road, Cave Creek, noon to 1 p.m., $10
The Mountain View Pub, 7033 E. Cave Creek Rd, Cave Creek, 2 p.m., free admission, 480-
Buffalo Chip Saloon and Steakhouse, 6823 E. Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek, 8 to 11:45 p.m., $10 tickets, $20 to ride a bull, buffalochipsa loon.com
cash per class, dfla.org
Craft N Chat
JB’s Rat Pack at Mountain View Pub
Cave Creek Car Show
NIGHTLY
Desert Foothills Library, 38443 N. School house Road, Cave Creek, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 480-488-2286, dfla.org
Enjoy casual games of Mahjongg appropriate for any level, from beginners to pros. Spend time with others and learn how the game is played, find people of your skill level, or teach a newbie the ropes.
Come watch riders rodeo on the back of a mighty bull. For children ages 3 to 6, sheep are available to ride alongside them.
Puzzle Exchange
station to appreciate the time they have left. To date, over 12,000 Death Cafés have opened up worldwide in 78 different countries.
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Those who knit or crochet are invited to the Desert Foothills Library for Craft N Chat. New and experienced crafters are welcome to join.
Come listen to live music every night at Janey’s Coffee house, performed by a variety of talented local artists. The venue has over a dozen unique performers each month, and for those looking to perform, new talent is encouraged to come by and sign up. This week, check out Glade Wilson, Sugar Thieves, Jeremy Graham, and Down with the Shine.
SEPT. 21
Live Music Wednesday with Jeremy Graham at Harold’s Corral
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Harold’s Cave Creek Corral 6895 E. Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek, 6 p.m., free admission, 480-488-1906, haroldscorral.com
Explore a variety of healing methods through Reiki, an energy healing technique meant to reduce stress and anxiety through gentle touch. The class covers the use of the techniques, as well as how to better understand them.
Join Elizabeth Boisson in an intermediate-level course of Yoga Fusion at the Desert Foothills Library from noon to 1 p.m. Thursdays. The class will start with breathing exercises and then go through different types of stretching move ments and then into Vinyasa or flow yoga.
The Foothills Focus publishes on Wednesday. The weekly calendar — a listing of entertainment events such as concerts, theatrical performances, events for schools, churches, county parks and nonprofit groups — runs every issue.
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Death Café is a discussion about death and dying, meant as a way for people to come together and talk about a topic that is often seen as taboo. Rather than a support group, Death Café is meant as a way for anyone at any
Fourteen Cave Creek businesses are showing their colors at the start of the month for “Octoberfest.” Come by any of them for special discounts, music from the 60s to the 90s, numerous prize raffles, and displays of all kinds of fun cars. 6300-7300 E. Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., free, events/cave-creek-car-show-octoberfest/ridescollective.com/
Yoga Fusion
Desert Foothills Library, 38443 N. School house Road, Cave Creek, 1 to 3 p.m., free, dfla. org
Every Wednesday, Harold’s Corral features live music and happy hour specials. Come by with the family to enjoy rib dinners and good drinks.
Desert Foothills Library, 38443 N. School house Road, Cave Creek, 11 a.m. to noon, free, 480-488-2286, dfla.org, mindbodyfocusqi.com
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SEPT. 30
Desert Foothills Library, 38443 N. School house Road, Cave Creek, 1 to 4 p.m., $5, 480488-2286, dfla.org
Janey’s Coffeehouse, 6602 E. Cave Creek Road, Cave Creek, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., cavecreekazmusic.com
Join JB’s Rat Pack at the Mountain View Pub. Join a local band and listen to traditional country rock and roll with good friends and good company.
Crafternoon – Unsupervised FRIDAYS
MONDAYS
575-7782, mountainviewpub.pub
Find new and interesting puzzles to solve, and help others find something for themselves. Drop off gently used puzzles and come exchange the old for the new all day at the library.
Downloading and using eBooks can be a confusing process at first, but is easy to figure out after a little practice. For those with questions, the Desert Foothills Library has an informal drop-in class for anyone who is confused about Libby, Cloud Library or any other apps the library offers.
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Informal Mahjongg
Desert Foothills Library, 38443 N. School house Road, Cave Creek, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., free admission, 480-488-2286, dfla.org
THURSDAYS
Events must be open to the public to be considered and generally must be held within the Foothills Focus coverage area. Events such as concerts and theatrical performances that fall outside the Foothills Focus cir culation area will be considered because there are no concert halls or theater venues within our boundaries.
Reiki Healing
OCT. 1
Submissions must reach our office by 4 p.m. Wednesday to be considered for the following Wednesday publication. Submissions must be in writing and may be emailed to Christina Fuoco-Karasinski, christina@ timespublications.com.
Death Café
FRIDAYS
Kids from the ages of 2 to 18 can craft to their heart’s content in the Imagination Lab. With no staff to act as supervision, all kids must be accompanied by an adult.
Friday Night Bull Riding & Mutton Bustin’
Desert Foothills Library, 38443 N. School house Road, Cave Creek, 1 to 2 p.m., $10 admission, 480-488-2286, dfla.org
Live Music at Janey’s Coffeehouse
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