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Glendale eyes bigger piece of Super Bowl pie

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Glendale Star Staff Writer

BUSINESS ......... 12 Home prices increase as inventory remains low

FEATURES ......... 16 Songwriters Gathering event returns in person

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At the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee’s Jan. 24 countdown event for next year’s big game, Gov. Doug Ducey touted the festivities as an ideal way to show off the West Valley to the world.

The event is slated for Feb. 23, 2023, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale.

The desire to use football’s biggest event to showcase Arizona is reflected in the Super Bowl LVII 2023 logo, which was unveiled at the event. It features the shape of Arizona prominently and includes colors reminiscent of a desert sky at sunset, “intended to picture our endless skies here … and endless potential,” said Jay Parry, host committee president and chief executive officer.

After the speeches at the Bank of America Tower in Downtown Phoenix, Glendale city

officials said Super Bowl LVII would benefit everyone.

However, the city is ready to capture a larger share of Super Bowl revenue than it did in 2015, the last time Glendale hosted the game.

Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers said the city has many (From left) Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee board Chair David Rousmore hotels and seau; Gov. Doug Ducey; committee President and CEO Jay Parry; and Arizona Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill. (Submitted photo) restaurants than it did in 2015, so he hopes the West Valley can pared to 1,100 in 2015. attract more attendees.

Weiers also pointed out that Crystal LaGlendale City Manager Kevin Phelps goons Island Resort and Mattel Adventure added the city expects to have 2,300 hotel Park, both of which are under construction, rooms when the Super Bowl is played, comSEE SUPER BOWL PAGE 6

Chemicals pose deadly risk to firefighters

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Glendale Star Staff Writer

RELIGION........... 19 Jehovah’s Witnesses minister in prisons

OPINION............................8 BUSINESS.......................12 SPORTS ...........................14 FEATURES.......................16 RELIGION ........................18 YOUTH.............................20 CLASSIFIEDS ..................20

Seven of the 14 men and women added to the Arizona Fallen Firefighters and Emergency Paramedic Memorial at the Wesley Bolin Plaza in Phoenix on Jan. 16 died of cancer.

Both of the Peoria Fire-Medical firefighters added to the wall who passed last year, retired Capt. David Rehnke, 59, and retired Capt. David Stutzman, 65, died of cancers recognized by the Arizona Fallen Firefighter Memorial Committee as connected to their service in the fire depart-

ment.

These local losses to cancer underscore the problem of occupational cancer for firefighters. The International Fire Fighters Association has designated January as Firefighter Cancer Awareness Month to draw more attention to the issue.

Modern buildings contain a multitude of materials, and when a structure is on fire, hundreds of different chemicals in gases, vapors and particulates may be released.

Some of these chemical substances are known or suspected to cause cancer.

The IAFF wants to raise awareness

among its members so firefighters can take steps to reduce risk. The union also wants to raise public awareness to put pressure on state governments to make it easier for firefighters experiencing occupational cancer to access workers’ compensation.

During this year’s month of awareness, Arizona firefighters had a victory to celebrate: After years of wrangling, in April the state Legislature passed SB 1451, a bill that removed hurdles to accessing workers’ compensation for occupational cancer, and added breast and ovarian cancer to the

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Besides adding female cancers to the list, the bill removed a requirement in the previous law that firefighters must provide documentation of a specific exposure to a known carcinogen related to their cancer. This provision had been used by municipalities and insurance companies to deny claims.

Health scientists are still trying to fully understand cancer risks for firefighters. One of the most important studies, from 2010, studied nearly 30,000 career firefighters who served in Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco between 1950 and 2009.

Firefighters in the study were twice as likely to have malignant mesothelioma, a cancer associated with asbestos exposure. Overall, firefighters in the study had a 9% higher risk of cancer diagnoses than the general U.S. population and a 14% higher risk of cancer-related deaths.

The study provided evidence that firefighters face a “small to moderate”

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increase in cancer risk from occupational exposures.

Dr. Robert Galamaga, medical director of outpatient care centers in the Valley for Cancer Treatment Centers of America, counts firefighters among his patients.

“There’s good awareness in the firefighter community (about the risk of cancer),” he said. “I find them to be very motivated about staying healthy, about doing well, about being successful. That’s something we want to try to drive in all of our patients.”

Galamaga said early detection of cancer is a powerful weapon against the disease for firefighters and others, and advised people not to ignore symptoms.

“We have a strong feeling about prevention as it relates to cancer and try to get out into the community for screening,” he said. “We have a heavy emphasis on that, because we firmly believe that early detection gives the doctor more time to get in there and improve the outcomes.”

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Human trafficking recovery group seeks growth

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Glendale Star Staff Writer

The Dream City Foundation will hold a Stop Traffic Walk fundraiser to support human trafficking recovery in Arizona at the Peoria Sports Complex from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29.

This is the third year the group has held the walk, and the second time at the Peoria Sports Complex.

“It’s just a fantastic facility. They’re easy to work with,” Dream City Foundation Executive Director Jeff May said of the group’s choice of Peoria to host the event.

May said the walk is more than a fundraiser: The foundation also wants to raise awareness for the problem of human trafficking. The group hopes to make a difficult subject easier to talk about openly by creating a free, fun family event with activities like face painting and bounce houses.

Increasing awareness is important, May said, because contrary to popular assumptions, victims of sex trafficking come from all demographics, and sexual exploitation occurs in all parts of the Valley. May said COVID-19 has created new challenges in the fight against trafficking, as people started spending more time on social media, where many traffickers attempt to groom victims. He cited an 8% increase in attempts to recruit people for trafficking and a 40% increase in trafficking activity.

The Phoenix Dream Center is one of three recovery centers in Arizona operated by the Where Hope Lives network and supported by the Dream City Foundation. It serves victims of human trafficking ages 18 and above; another center, Streetlight USA, serves girls and boys under 18; and the third, Short Creek Dream Center, specializes in familial trafficking, which includes forced marriages of underage girls as practiced in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-day Saints based in the towns of Colorado City and Hildale on the Utah/ Arizona border.

Where Hope Lives says it serves about 200 sex trafficking survivors each year. Chief Development Officer Carlos Daniel said the Phoenix Dream Center spends about $46,000 in services for

themselves,” Sexton said. “It’s a back and forth to it. Should I stay or go?”

On average, a person in the program will leave and come back two to three times.

But Where Hope Lives believes it’s homed in on a good model for recovering victims of sex trafficking.

It reports a 94% success rate for survivors after one year in the program.

The model is to provide women and men a soft landing place where they can get the necessities, feel safe, and start to “feel important and loved.” The center provides on-site schooling, child care and behavioral health, medical services and more.

“No strings attached,” Sexton said.

Victims can literally just walk into the lobby off of the street — the The Dream City Foundation Stop Traffic Walk features games, but the mission is serious. Dream Center is located near a street (Photo courtesy of Dream City Foundation) called “The Blade,” which Daniel each resident. Costs are higher for the said is known for illegal sex work — but Streetlight USA program, because serv- many victims are referred by governing minors requires extra resources. ment agencies.

The Dream City Foundation pur“We work very closely with law enchased the Phoenix Dream Center build- forcement,” Daniel said, adding that ing, previously an Embassy Suites ho- 50% of referrals come from law entel, in 2006 to fight homelessness and forcement. addiction. The group added the human Recently, all of the residential rooms trafficking wing in 2008 after volunteers were filled, which is great news on one Brian and Skye Steele encountered a hand, because people are getting help, 13-year-old girl on the street being sold but it also means they might not be able for sex while doing community out- to accommodate a victim looking for a reach. She was the first survivor served place. by the center, and the organization reSexton understands the struggles vicports that she has graduated college and tims go through, because she is a trafficking survivor. Someone she considis married.

Pulling someone out of the grips of a ered her boyfriend started coercing her human trafficker is not easy, Adult Pro- into sex work and threatened to expose gram Director Shauna Sexton said. Traf- her to her family if she didn’t do what fickers use threats, blackmail and ma- she was told. nipulation to coerce their victims. They She said she arrived at the Dream Cenfeed victims self-defeating beliefs for ter four years ago weighing 87 pounds years. Victims may also feel a “trauma and “wearing paper clothes from a detox bond” with their abusers that competes center.”

As with her experience, “Most women with familial bonds. For someone being trafficked, they may not have any- come here with nothing,” Sexton said. one else in their life besides their abuser Today, Sexton and Daniel are leading providing them with basic necessities or the tour of the facility. Past the lobby care. there’s a large courtyard surrounded by The pull of the trauma bond and the four floors. Many of the rooms on the personal turmoil created by trafficking ground level have been converted into are powerful forces against recovery. service spaces including a medical of“They’re completely fighting with fice, open twice a week, and eye and

dental clinics.

In an open space, there’s a stage with a red cross and Psalm 29.2 written at the front. Where Hope Lives is a faith-based organization, but Sexton and Santiago said the center doesn’t push beliefs on residents — if they want to participate in spiritual programs they can, but they don’t have to.

The Dream Center has changed many architectural details from the building’s previous life as a hotel — a site of trauma for many survivors of sex trafficking.

Instead of numbers, rooms have names.

Above the ground floor are rooms for residents. The standard hotel room doors have been replaced by glass paneled doors with a homey feel. Shauna said Where Hope Lives’ partners have put a lot of work into making the interior of the residential rooms feel cozy and beautiful.

“We’re putting in rugs that are fluffy, artwork, oil diffusers, soothing sound generators,” Sexton said. The goal is to create comforting spaces that engage all five senses, which helps to put survivors in the present moment and get out of the “trauma loop,” where they are reliving their past.

Daniel and Sexton called the in-house medical office a game changer.

Sexton said many survivors arrive with medical issues, and the treatment survivors receive at the center is “trauma informed.” The doctors understand their situation. “They aren’t having to tell their story over and over and over.

It’s amazing.”

The optometry office is critical because eye care is a need that commonly gets ignored when someone is trafficked.

Sexton said residents often have the reaction, “Nobody has ever asked me if I could see. Nobody has ever cared if I could see.”

One of the strategies of the Phoenix Dream Center’s program is to create “anchor points” that keep residents in the program. The anchor points include activities, classes and services. One example is equine therapy — learning to work with horses as a way of healing.

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Glendale police awarded multiple grants

BY GLENDALE STAR STAFF In support of the Glendale Police Department’s commitment to traffic safety and vehicular collision reduction, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety awarded four grants to help make Valley roadways safer.

The specific grants, in the period of Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, are as follows: • Occupant Protection Enforcement grant, $30,000. This grant will fund occupant protection education to include child safety seat installation.

Funding will allow for supplemental staffing to educate occupants of motor vehicle restraints and enforce applicable traffic laws. Officers will participate in the National Child Passenger Safety Week.

• A DUI/Impairment Driving Enforcement grant, $64,242. This grant will educate drivers about the dangers of impaired driving and

fund the participation in DUI task forces throughout the year.

• An Accident Investigation Training grant, $69,276. This grant will fund the training, software and equipment required for Glendale’s Vehicular Crime Squad to remain qualified to conduct accident reconstructions and provide expert testimony in court.

• A Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP), $50,000. This grant will fund personnel resources to change driving behaviors and to enforce aggressive driving, excessive speed and racing.

• A Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety grant, $54,500. This grant helps educate the public and conduct enforcement of traffic laws. The grant will also be used to develop fliers, brochures and printed educational items to enhance pedestrian and bicycle safety enforcement throughout Glendale.

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are expected to be open by the Super Bowl.

“The city is a lot more well-suited” to host the game,” Weiers said. “We’re in a much, much better position to do it.”

This time around, Glendale is an official sponsor of Super Bowl LVII and will be more involved in host committee initiatives leading up to the game.

One of those initiatives is Business Connect, a program designed to support minority, women, LGBTQ+ and veteran-owned businesses through professional development workshops, networking and contract opportunities as they compete for Super Bowl-related business.

Phelps said that this year’s Business Connect program would include workshops focused on Glendale-based businesses.

“That wasn’t available to us in 2015,” Phelps said.

He added that people who attended the last Super Bowl in Glendale would be “shocked at how much development has taken place” since then. “We have so much more to show off as a community than in 2015.”

Also, during the countdown kickoff, the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee announced that former Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald had joined the committee as an executive chair.

Fitzgerald will receive the football from the Los Angeles Super Bowl committee during a ceremonial handoff on Feb. 14, the day after Super Bowl LVI. “I am thrilled to be involved with the committee and its partners, as we collectively look to make Super Bowl LVII the most successful to date,” Fitzgerald said in a statement.

The last Super Bowl hosted in Arizona in 2015 was record breaking and saw 120,000 visitors traveling to join the festivities contributing to an overall economic impact of $719 million.

Additionally, 114 million viewers tuned in to watch at home. As liaison between the NFL and the region, the host committee drives all the planning efforts in Arizona.

Committee board Chair David Rousseau and Parry said the philanthropic impact in 2015 was $2 million that was donated to 27 local nonprofits. It affected 400,000 children.

“Arizona has shown that we know how to host the Super Bowl, and the NFL has recognized how this region works together by awarding us this opportunity for the fourth time,” Rousseau said. “Our state has a platform to once again show the world that we can create an experience like no other for fans, visitors, partners, media, participating teams and residents alike.”

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have a Stop Traffic Walk in every major city in the U.S. It recently expanded the walk to San Diego.

May has been working with the Dream City Foundation for over three years. He said that sometimes people will ask him if it is depressing to work with people suffering so much trauma and injustice.

“It’s just the opposite,” he said. “It’s very inspiring, because these people are overcoming overwhelming odds. … I’ve seen people with all the cards stacked against them. Yet through Where Hope Lives, they’ve been able to find a new life.”

raised garden beds in the courtyard – that will keep them engaged.

A phrase that comes up frequently during the tour is “meeting people where they are.” The program tries to learn what survivors need to get their life back and make choices for themselves and provide a nonjudgmental space.

Sexton said that many of the staff in the program are survivors, like herself.

“Survivor-led leadership is a big deal,” Sexton said. “Knowing that you’re not going to be judged, it makes a huge difference.”

Sexton and Daniel said Where Hope Lives feels like it has a strong program down; its ambition now is to reach a greater proportion of people involved in sex trafficking. Where Hope Lives cites a statistic that only 1% of people involved in human trafficking will be recovered.

May said the group’s ambition is to

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I’m resolving to give up cussing for the new year

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Glendale Star Columnist

My 2022 New Year’s resolution made it a startling four days before I lapsed. The occasion was a hooked golf drive that hit a cart path and ricocheted out of bounds.

My response was something like, “Are you #@%^&*ing $**^%& kidding me. $#%^$ )*()* #^&*(.”

So much for eliminating profanity in 2022.

The truth is, I’ve always had something of a situational potty mouth. As a former talk radio host, I learned early on that speaking in public requires some degree of subtlety. You can get away with the occasional “damn” — provided the Lord’s name is not in front of that mild cussword — but you can only use the major offenders one time.

After which, the big bosses will summon you and you’ll be unemployed.

For the most part, I only curse around my closest guy friends, while playing golf, or when signing my federal tax returns. Still, as a gentleman of a certain age who appreciates words, I’ve been

determined for a long while to clean up my act. Especially after happening across a Wall Street Journal piece headlined, “We’re Cursing More.

Blame the #%$ Pandemic.”

As the story put it: “Pandemic stress, the melding of personal and professional spheres, and an exhausted slide toward casualness are making many of us swear more. ‘It is a perfect swearing storm,’” said Michael Adams, a linguist at Indiana University Bloomington.”

According to the Journal, CleanSpeak’s profanity-filtering software, used by companies to moderate online communities and discussion forums, has experienced a 300% increase in filtered profanity over the last year and a half.

As someone who does multiple Zoom meetings a week, I can vouch for that.

And it’s somewhat predictable: In an environment where people resemble the cast of the old “Hollywood Squares” sitting in little digital boxes and most of us are wearing sweatpants, Lululemon garb or a dress shirt and manties,

it’s only natural for the occasional “f bomb” to make its way into what was once polite conversation.

Or, as one of my friends described it, “Why wouldn’t you say bull***t in the middle of yet another bull***t meeting.”

Growing up on the playgrounds of Queens, New York, swearing was a way of fitting in. Later, on the basketball court and in the gym, it was an expression of machismo — surely frowned upon in today’s woke culture.

Fast forward another decade, to professional life, and the occasional curse word was an act of rebellion, a verbal statement that one understood the rules of the workplace but remained unafraid of bending them.

The thing is, I’m not much for going along with the crowd. So if everyone’s cursing, I’d like to stop. But that’s tougher than it sounds.

In 2009, Richard Stephens, a researcher at Keele University in the UK, tested 67 students by having them stick their arms in freezing water while swearing like a sailor. The result?

“People withstood a moderately to

strongly painful stimulus for significantly longer if they repeated a swear word rather than a non-swear word,” Stephens wrote.

“Swearing also lowered pain perception and was accompanied by increased heart rate. We interpret these data as indicating that swearing … actually produces a hypoalgesic (pain lessening) effect.”

Who knew? And swearing is way cheaper than Tylenol.

Despite the biological and social reasons for cursing, I’m going to stick with this year’s resolution, even if my perfect record isn’t intact. Part of it is wanting to seem more sophisticated as I get older.

The other reason is, for once I’d like to actually succeed at keeping a resolution. Toning down my penchant for profanity feels somewhat doable. Especially compared to my other option for a resolution.

No way am I going on another $%^&# low-carb diet this year.

resolutions. Still, part of the solution must be providing education focused on environmentalism and conservationism and opening up career opportunities for students who are passionate about improving and protecting Arizona’s water supply.

Western Maricopa Education Center (West-MEC), a career technical education public school district for high school and adult students, offers a highly sought-after, hands-on environmental sustainability program that prepares students with laboratory and technical knowledge for entry-level water services positions with some of

the largest companies in the state.

West-MEC students are learning how to solve complex problems pertaining to the water cycle, water and wastewater treatment and could be the key to protecting and preserving Arizona’s future water supply.

Instructor Rickie Timmons, an industry professional with more than 40 years’ experience in the nuclear power space, says students closely study local and statewide environmental issues to understand the core problems that the drought is presenting to the Southwestern United States.

The long-term drought was slightly

alleviated thanks to an above-average monsoon season for many portions of the state, but the fact is it took thousands of years to fill the aquifers in the Southwest, and there is simply not enough rain in this region to make up for the rate that locals are using water.

Timmons notes that it will take a diverse pool of innovative people like our emerging West-MEC students to find workable solutions to these types of problems, adding, “Looking at one potential problem, such as climate change, is a very small view of a variety of issues facing the environment —

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Arizona’s current drought is coming up on 15 years and has surpassed the worst drought in more than 110 years of official recordkeeping. Arizona’s water reservoirs are severely depleted, and according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, nearly 99% of Arizona is in some sort of drought.

So, what does this mean for Arizonans and what can be done to prevent this? The U.S. EPA and other federal agencies, state agencies and industry continue to diligently research future

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AROUND THE BLUHMIN’ TOWN

There’s no place like home

BY JUDY BLUHM

Glendale Star Columnist

Been to a hospital lately? My husband, Doug, has been there for the past week with pneumonia.

As a former registered nurse, I notice that some things never change. Hospital gowns remain pretty much the same over the years, perhaps improved by clever snaps on the shoulders for easy access of IV tubes.

They still tie in the back, exposing way too much, and are that cloudy gray/blue color of a depressing sky.

But patients proudly walk around their rooms and hallways, unfazed by what they are wearing and more focused on staying upright.

Ice chips are like little cups of diamonds. Oh, yeah, bring me a cup of cool bling. Patients who have gone through a surgery or a procedure will be given these glorious little crystals that come in white Styrofoam cups with plastic spoons. They taste like heaven to a parched mouth, represent healing and mean that greater things (like apple juice) are soon to come.

In hospitals, cold apple juice is the champagne of all drinks. Something you might not crave or even consider at home, suddenly this sweet drink seems like liquid gold. Served in little plastic containers with swivel straws, each sip is more refreshing than the last and you wonder how you ever lived without this fruity wonder.

Hospitals have made great improvements in their food. You can order a meal anytime and have a choice that resembles room service in a fine hotel. However, parking for guests is so dreadful that you might as well get a

pair of hiking boots if you are visiting a loved one, because the long walk can be daunting.

Nurses are the real heroes in hospitals. Lots of attention goes to the “first responders” in an emergency. But nurses are the first, second, in-between and last responders. They are there at the beginning until the very end.

They help you pick up all the tiny little pieces of yourself that an illness or surgery has shattered. Nurses will get you moving again, breathing right, taking first steps, sitting up and gently nudge you back to health.

Nurses command you to do things you do not want to do! Stand up, walk, cough, walk some more. I heard a patient yell, “You are killing me,” more than once as she walked around the nurses’ station, followed by a very encouraging nurse (sort of like a drill sergeant). One patient yelled, “Leave me alone. I am too sick to walk,” as he dutifully got up and went through the paces.

Hospitals have night sounds that pulse through the halls like a beating heart. The steady beeping of monitors is offset by an alarm from an IV. If hospitals are busy places in the daytime, they become quiet, reflective sanctuaries at night. Patients miss home and only the sick remain, each hoping for a better tomorrow, a chance to leave, less pain, more progress. Night is the lonely time when corridors are darkened and visitors leave.

Do you know a doctor or a nurse?

Thank them. They are worn out. Dear readers, stay well. Hospitals are great, but home is better.

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Home prices increase as inventory remains low

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crow — in MLS in Glendale and 168 active listings in Peoria. That is 50% of one month’s inventory in Glendale, up from 49.2% last month, and 48.4% of one month’s inventory in Peoria,

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The average number of days a listing spent on the market in Maricopa County increased from 31.5 days in November to 33.1 days in December.

According to The Cromford Report, 42% of sales closed in Maricopa County in December sold for over the listing price, down from 46% of November sales. The closing price per square foot continues to increase, from $274.62 in November to $281.02 in December.

In December, 364 MLS listing sales closed in Glendale and 347 in Peoria.

There are 182 active and available listings — not counting properties already under contract or pending close of es-

an average of 13.2 showings per listing, down from 14.7 in November.

The average number of showings per listing in Glendale in the $200,000 to $399,999 range remained at 12.8. Not all showings are scheduled through ShowingTime, so actual numbers are typically higher.

According to Freddie Mac, as of Jan. 13, national mortgage rates reported U.S. weekly averages of 3.45% for a 30-year fixed, 2.62% for a 15-year fixed, and 2.57% for a five-year ARM. According to MLS statistics, 77% of Maricopa County buyers financed their home purchase in December, while the rest paid cash.

Buyers using a conventional mortgage to buy a three-bedroom detached

down from 60%.

Maricopa County inventory today is 51.4% of December’s closed sales, down from 64.9% of November’s closed sales.

According to ShowingTime, the platform Realtors use to schedule most of the MLS showings, Peoria listings in the $200,000 to $399,999 range had

house with two bathrooms paid a minimum of $210,000 in Maricopa County — $305,000 in Glendale and $330,000 in Peoria.

Conventional financing made up 77% of December’s financed sales.

In December, FHA buyers in Maricopa County paid a minimum of $235,000 for a detached home with three bedrooms and two baths.

Peoria FHA buyers paid a minimum of $350,000, and Glendale FHA buyers paid $290,000. FHA buyers made up 8% of financed purchases in December.

Maricopa County VA buyers making a similar purchase paid a minimum of $229,990 — $435,000 in Peoria and $274,000 in Glendale.

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Home sales financed with VA loans made up only 6% of December’s financed sales.

The remaining financed transactions used other financing methods. For the week ending Dec. 26, 7% of Maricopa County sellers contributed to their buyer’s closing costs — a significant jump from 4% on Nov. 28, and the highest we’ve seen since February 2021.

At the other end of the market, the highest-priced home sale in Maricopa County last month sold in Paradise Valley for $10.75 million. Peoria

and Glendale saw their highest-priced home sales last month at $1.1 million.

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Arizona Coyotes update 2021-22 NHL schedule

BY GLENDALE STAR STAFF The Arizona Coyotes updated their schedule for the remainder of the 2021-22 National Hockey League regular season.

The Coyotes will play five rescheduled games during February, including Feb. 8 at Vancouver, Feb. 9 at Seattle, Feb. 11 versus Tampa Bay, Feb. 19 versus Los Angeles, and Feb. 20 versus Dallas.

In addition, the Coyotes home game versus the Seattle Kraken on March 23 has been moved to March 22. The NHL will announce TV broadcast information for these games soon.

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Friday, Jan. 28, Boston 7 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 29, Buffalo 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 1, @ Colorado 7 p.m.

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Songwriters Gathering event returns in person

BY SCOTT SHUMAKER Glendale Star Staff Writer

A Glendale event filled with history is returning in person this year after going virtual in 2021.

The Glendale Main Library will host the Arizona Songwriters Gathering from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29.

This will be the 26th year of the event, including last year’s virtual gathering.

Adult Programming Librarian Ivy Jarvis said she’s excited to hold the event in person again, adding that it’s one of the library’s largest gatherings.

Jarvis has helped organize the event for 12 years, arriving at the library a short time after the musical gathering moved there from Encanto Park in Phoenix, where it was held for over a decade.

“It’s great to be able to see folks again in person this year, and we’re doing everything we can to make people feel comfortable to attend and making accommodations for those who don’t,” she said.

To allow social distancing, more activities will be held outdoors. Food and beverages will be available for purchase from the “Diner on Wheels” food truck throughout the day.

Jarvis said the gathering brings people with many interests together. Some want to break into songwriting and connect with other songwriters and are keen to attend the lectures with industry experts and get their songs heard.

Other attendees of the free event just love listening to good music, and there will be plenty on offer for those folks. The gathering includes over 50 live music performances in 10-minute blocks throughout the day, as well as an informal round-robin style jam session.

The performance schedule culminates with a set by Arizona music legend and Hall of Fame inductee Walt Richardson.

The gathering is a partnership between the library and the Arizona Songwriters Association, co-founded in 1977 by Jon Iger. Iger said he started the association “to help my friends out because I’d had some success in the music business at a young age and learned some things, and I wanted to be able to tell my songwriter friends to watch out for this, watch out for that.”

During high school in the ’60s, Iger’s band scored a record contract with Capitol Records. While the band didn’t have a lot of traction, Iger’s career as a songwriter did, and his songs have appeared in films and television shows.

In 1996, he co-founded the Arizona Songwriters Gathering with folk singer, songwriter and storyteller Lon Austin. Over the years, the association and

BY GLENDALE STAR STAFF LiVE! @ Murphy Park returns to Downtown Glendale with two months of live entertainment in February and March.

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Thursdays to Saturdays, beginning Feb. 3.

Each night, a different act takes the stage with a focus on local talent. Chad Freeman and Redline headline with cool country Feb. 12.

Soulstice Sound electrified fans during a recent impromptu Jam Session in the

park. They will be back Feb. 11 to mix it up and share the stage with top stand-up comics for comedy night.

And Marmalade Skies returns to Glendale with its Beatles tribute in March.

The complete schedule is as follows: • December ’63: Frankie Valli Tribute, Thursday, Feb. 3.

• Mariachi Pasion: All-female mariachi band, Friday, Feb. 4.

• The Sugar Thieves: American roots and blues, Saturday, Feb. 5.

• Rhythm of the Sun: Latin variety, Thursday, Feb. 10.

• Comedy Night: Hosted by Savannah Hernandez with featured band Soulstice Sound, Friday, Feb. 11.

• Chad Freeman and Redline: Country, Saturday Feb. 12.

• Frosty and the Silver Tones: Rock, Thursday, Feb. 17.

• Sandra Bassett: Jazz, Motown, R&B, blues, Friday, Feb. 18.

• The Troubadour Experience: George Strait tribute, Saturday, Feb. 19.

• ZeeCeeKeely: Reggae, Thursday, Feb. 24.

• Johnny City Band: Top party hits,

Musicians will showcase their craft at the Arizona Songwriters Gathering.

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the annual gathering have helped foster a lot of songwriters, some of whom have gone on to write for stars, including George Strait and the Chicks.

“It’s been a really good event, helped a lot of people, helped them learn about the business, learn about writing and make a lot of connections,” Iger said.

“That’s a big part of the thing, you’ve got to make contact with people that can help you, such as people in the industry that are publishers and producers and successful writers and music supervisors and all the things that go with that.”

Jarvis said that many attendees “love the community aspect” of the Songwriters Gathering.

“It’s hard to explain the magic,” she said. “You just have to experience it. I meet the people … and they are just so passionate and kind.”

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Aesop: The frog, the log, the stork and the fork It seems like the whole world is like a simmering pan on a stove.

One wonders when it’s going to boil over. Everywhere I travel, many people feel used or even deceived by leaders or bureaucracies in every sector of society.

It reminds me of a story by comedian Jackie Mason.

“My grandfather always said, ‘Don’t watch your money; watch your health.’

So, while I was watching my health, someone stole my money. It was my grandfather.”

Aesop tells the story of the frogs who wanted a king. They annoyed Jupiter with their request until he finally tossed a log into the pond.

After that, the frogs were happy with their new leader for a while.

Soon, however, they discovered they could jump on their leader and run all over him. He offered no resistance and gave no response. Instead, he merely floated on the pond, a practice that finally exasperated the frogs who were sincere about wanting “strong leadership.”

So back to Jupiter they went, complaining about their log leader and appealing for much stronger administrative oversight. But, again, Jupiter was weary of the tiresome frogs, so he gave them a stork that stood tall above the group members. He certainly had the appearance of a leader.

The frogs were quite happy with the new situation. Their leader stalked around the pond, making impressive noises and attracting significant attention.

However, their joy turned to sorrow and then to panic when very soon the stork began eating his subjects. Do you

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see that? The “we want a king” frogs didn’t perish from their mistakes but by their mistakes. Lesson: Never be impressed by stork social media or a stork’s rhetoric; watch what they do.

Today, it seems some leaders have opted for a self-first, society-second way of leading. When that happens, personal character, truth and servanthood are often sacrificed at the altar of winning, controlling and staying in power.

That’s a bad sign. Why? Absolute power eventually corrupts absolutely 99.9% of the time. It’s getting scary when the weatherperson is the closest to telling the truth on the news.

Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said, “Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned how to obey are given the right to command.”

In other words, if you feel too big for little things, it’s probably an indicator that you are too little for big things. A wise man once said this about leaders, “Be careful who you let on your ship, because some people will sink the whole ship just because they can’t be the captain.”

Of course, the majority populace eventually gets the leaders they deserve, vote for, buy from or listen to. But as Alfred Adler, the Austrian founder of the school of individual psychology, said, “It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to

them.”

This observation might easily apply to many famous leaders or culture influencers of today’s “do-as-I-say, notas-I-do” ilk. Just because you’re up in the air and harping on something doesn’t mean you’re an angel.

Most people’s frustration is overwhelming, and the consequences are often severe for the storks, logs and frogs. The storks get blinded by their light and the light of their agenda.

The frogs become stork fodder, providing nourishment to the storks, only making matters worse. And the logs sit there, doing nothing, letting the storks walk all over them, hoping they won’t be the stork’s toilet.

Then, sooner or later, but inevitably, the storks run out of frogs to provide sustenance for their stork-driven projects or companies.

But wait, here’s some good news: There’s another leader option. I say to us frogs, let’s quit swinging back and forth between log and stork leaders.

The Scriptures enlighten us about good leadership. “Kings like to throw their weight around, and people in authority like to give themselves fancy titles. It’s not going to be that way for you (disciples). Let the senior among you become like the junior; let the leader act the part of a servant.”

A good leader motivates, doesn’t mislead and doesn’t exploit.

Intriguingly, the word “leader” is mentioned only six times in the Bible.

The word servant is mentioned 900 times. So why do we have so many leadership conferences?

Educator and motivational speaker Steve Ventura said, “If there’s any concept that’s synonymous with lead-

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We should note leaders who want the authority and privileges of leadership without leadership responsibility. A leader’s gift is for others and flows to others for everyone’s benefit.

Good leaders don’t gather for themselves. They serve others without agendas, lies, earmarks and email attachments. Authentic leadership takes personal integrity and selfless servanthood.

Coach John Wooden says, “Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” Reputation is built in a moment. Character is built in a lifetime.

You might be thinking, “Ed, you are bringing Jesus into leadership again.

Do I need Jesus’ stuff?” Dude, in today’s world, you need Jesus just to go to Walmart.

Here’s your takeaway. “When right-living people (leaders) bless the city, it flourishes; evil talk from wrong-living people (leaders) turns it into a ghost town in no time.” Proverbs 11:11. Doesn’t that ghost town sound like Aesop’s frogless pond?

There’s some common sense for you about leadership in today’s world.

Use your horse sense; it leads to stable thinking.

Ed Delph is a noted author of 10 books, as well as a pastor, teacher, former business owner and speaker. He has traveled extensively, having been to more than 100 countries. He is president of NationStrategy, a nonprofit organization involved in uplifting and transforming communities worldwide. For more information, see nationstrategy.com. He may be contacted at nationstrategy@cs.com.

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would like to forward a comment to the inmates they may. The comment is then sanitized to comply with applicable guidelines, and it becomes part of the letter so that it results in an “interchange of encouragement,” Gunderman said.

The results have been surprising.

“We thought we were encouraging them, but then we got all these letters back in return that encouraged us,” Gunderman explained.

“One (inmate) … lost his 3-year-old daughter, so we sent him a letter just telling him how much we were feeling for his loss,” Gunderman said.

Although confident in the positive power of the monthly correspondence, Gunderman eagerly anticipates the day he can visit inmates in person again.

In-person communication and contact are difficult to replace, so “we’re really hoping to get back there soon,” Gunderman said.

Everyone deserves the chance to learn Bible truths.

To learn more about Jehovah’s Witnesses and their activity, visit jw.org.

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BY JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES COVID-19 shut down access to most U.S. prisons, including the Arizona State Prison Complex-Yuma, where Shannon Gunderman volunteers with a group of Jehovah’s Witness ministers.

Without warning, inmates were cut off from a robust Bible education program that included weekly Bible-based discourses, audience discussions, individual Bible studies and video presentations.

Within weeks, Jehovah’s Witnesses pivoted their in-person ministry and activities around the country to virtual meetings and preaching through letters, telephone calls and videoconferencing.

These changes reaped unexpected results, as their prison ministry illustrates. Jehovah’s Witnesses continue to build a spiritual lifeline into their local correctional facilities in whatever way they can.

Prior to the pandemic, volunteer ministers visited the prison facility weekly, conducting small-group meetings for worship within each prison unit and occasionally baptizing someone into the faith.

When the prison facility went into lockdown in March 2020, Gunderman was determined to continue providing spiritual encouragement to the inmates, realizing that an alternate program for regular spiritual support would be needed to tide the inmates over.

Through a carefully composed monthly letter, Gunderman and fellow Jehovah’s Witnesses share Bible verses and related scriptural information to approximately 30 to 40 inmates who have shown interest in the Bible’s message. In addition to Bible-based information, the letter includes personal comments from congregants.

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The respondent must answer the petition within 30 days after the specified date of first publication and follow the form set out in N.C. R. CIV. P. 4 which states, the publication will run once a week for three consecutive weeks with qualifying newspapers under G.S. 1-597 and G.S. 1-598. Respondent does have a right to legal representation and if no answer is filed, Respondent’s parental rights will be terminated. Published: Glendale Star, Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 2022 / 44086

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ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR I Name: CALICO MOBILE PHLEBOTOMY LLC II The address of the registered office is: 2550 W Union Hills Dr Ste. 350 Phoenix Az 85027 The name of the Statutory Agent is: United States Corporation Agents, Inc. III Management of the Limited Liability Company is vested in a manager or managers. The names of each person who is a manager and each member who owns a twenty percent or greater interest in the capital or profits of the limited liability company are: MEMBERS: Rebecca Ruth Gaines and Tonya Gaines, both of 2550 W Union Hills Dr Ste. 350 Phoenix Az 85027. Published: Glendale Star, Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 2022 / 44133

ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE This publication is to be directed to the BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE unknown parent of male, Brayden AlexARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISander Gartzman, born at 3:56 A.M. in the SION FOR I Name: RATE AND town of Scottsdale, Maricopa County, RHYTHM LLC II The address of the reArizona on June 16, 2005. An action for gistered office is: 4624 W Saguaro Dr., termination of parental rights has been GLENDALE, AZ, 85304, The name of taken against you in the matter of In Re the Statutory Agent is: United States Brayden Alexander Gartzman (minor Corporation Agents, Inc. III Managechild) and Ilise Stacey Gartzman (Petiment of the Limited Liability Company is tioner) against John Doe (Respondent) vested in a manager or managers. The in the Juvenile Court of Polk County, names of each person who is a manNorth Carolina. This is an action to terager and each member who owns a minate Respondent’s parental rights. twenty percent or greater interest in the The respondent must answer the peticapital or profits of the limited liability tion within 30 days after the specified company are: MEMBER Princess A. date of first publication and follow the Brown, 624 W Saguaro Dr., GLENDALE, form set out in N.C. R. CIV. P. 4 which AZ, 85304. Published: Glendale Star, states, the publication will run once a Jan 20 27, Feb 3, 2022 / 44015 week for three consecutive weeks with qualifying newspapers under G.S. 1-597 and G.S. 1-598. Respondent does have a right to legal representation and if no answer is filed, Respondent’s parental rights will be terminated. Published: Glendale Star, Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 2022 / Notice Public 44086 Action Memorandum for Emergency Removal Action PFOS- and PFOA-Contaminated Drinking Water Luke AFB, Arizona

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The U.S. Air Force (USAF) completed an emergency removal action to address perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) concentrations above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lifetime Health Advisories (HA) which have been identified in groundwater used as a drinking water source for some residences near Luke AFB, Arizona. In three (3) privately owned drinking water wells, concentrations of PFOS and PFOA greater than the EPA lifetime HA prevent the use of the wells for potable water and triggered the need for this action. Those connected to a municipal drinking water supply are unaffected.

This Emergency Action Memorandum documents the removal action taken. This emergency action protects humans from exposure to PFOS and PFOA in drinking water at concentrations in excess of the EPA lifetime HA. The USAF is seeking public participation, review, and comment on this action.

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ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR I Name: L&D&A TOWING SERVICE LLC II The address of the registered office is: 3749 W DUNLAP AVE APT B, PHOENIX, AZ, 85051, The name of the Statutory Agent is: LUIS LEANDRO CASTRO III Management of the Limited Liability Company is vested in a manager or managers. The names of each person who is a manager and each member who owns a twenty percent or greater interest in the capital or profits of the limited liability company are: MANAGER: LUIS LEANDR O CASTRO, 3749 W DUNLAP AVE APT B, PHOENIX, AZ 85051. Published: Glendale Star, Jan 13, 20, 27, 2022 / 43871 ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION HAVE BEEN FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION FOR I Name: PREMIER LAGS LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY II The address of the registered office is: 12242 W. Grant St., AVONDALE, AZ 85323 The name of the Statutory Agent is: Kodjovi Fofovi Awudja III Management of the Limited Liability Company is vested in a manager or managers. The names of each person who is a manager and each member who owns a twenty percent or greater interest in the capital or profits of the limited liability company are: MEMBERS: Kodjovi Fofovi Awudja and Lante Adabra, both of 12242 W. Grant St., AVONDALE, AZ, 85323 Published: Glendale Star, Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 2022 / 44065

NOTICE TO CREDITORS SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA MARICOPA COUNTY In the Matter of Estate of: Ravinder Singh, adult. Case Number PB 2021-004712 NOTICE OF CREDITORS OF INFORMAL APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND/OR INFORMAL PROBATE OF A WILL NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT: 1.

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE: Annu Singh has been appointed Personal Representative of this Estate 12/29/2021 Address:541 W. Kaibab Place, Chandler, AZ 85248 2. DEADLINE TO MAKE CLAIMS. All persons having claims against the Estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or the claims will be forever barred. 3. NOTICE OF CLAIMS: Claims must be presented by delivering or mailing a written statement of the claim to the Personal Representative at (address) 541 W. Kaibab Plc, Chandler, AZ 85248 4. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. A copy of the Notice of Appointment is attached to the copies of this document mailed to all known creditors. DATED: 1/6/2022 /s/ Annu Singh Annu Singh PUBLISHED: Glendale Star, Jan. 20, 27, Feb 3, 2022/ 43925 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Mary Kathleen Anderson, (Deceased) and the Mary Kathleen Anderson Revocable Trust. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Matthew Anderson has been appointed Personal Representative of this Estate and Trustee of this trust. All persons having claims against the Estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or within sixty (60) days of receipt of this notice, whichever is later, or the claims will be forever barred. See A.R.S. 14-3803(A). Claims must be presented by delivering or mailing a written statement of the claim to the Personal Representative Matthew Anderson at 3530 E. Hazelwood St. Phoenix, AZ 85018. Dated January 10, 2022. Published: Glendale Star, Jan 20, 27, Feb 3, 2022 / 43969

SUPERIOR COURT OF ARIZONA MARICOPA COUNTY. CLERK OF THE COURT A. LEPAK, DEPUTY. JG512218 1/1 3/2 022 . C om m is s io ne r Kee l an Bodow. Karent Shiffs Kozinets. Amber Zoe Sanchez-Alcantar No address on record. Maria M Gomez, 917 N Nina Dr., Mesa AZ 85201. GUARDIANSHIP HEARING - CONTINUED. 9:13a.m This matter is digitally recorded in Courtroom 5. This is the time set for the hearing on a Petition for Appointment of a Minor filed 11/19/2021 regarding the child, Amber Sanchez-Alcantra. Present via Court Connect: Guardian ad Litem for the child, Karen Kozinets; the petitioner, Maria Gomez; petitioner's husband, Ruben Gomez Jr.; and Superior Court Interpreter Maria Korb. Discussions is held. The Court has received and reviewed Amber's birth certificate. The Court notes that no father is listed on the birth certificate. Publication needs to be accomplished upon John Do. The petitioner shall also complete a background check. The mother has signed a consent and waiver of notice. IT IS ORDERED resetting the Guardianship Title 15-Non relative Hearing on 2/28/22 at 10:45am before Honorable Keelan Stern Bodow at the Maricopa County Juvenile Court Center, Southeast Facility, 1810 S Lewis St., Mesa AZ 85210. All parties should appear via Court Connect with TEAMS. All parties and participants are encouraged to participate via the TEAMS application or website on their computer or phone. Online via Microsoft Teams at Commissioner Bodow Team Meeting (This is the Court's preferred method of participation) Check your email for a message sent by the Court that includes a direct link to enter our virtual courtroom, otherwise type the above link into the browser of your computer/device to join. You can also dial in using your phone +1-917-7814590 Access Code: 625 331 19# Please note Long distance fees may apply if dialing by phone. For privacy purposes, you can block your phone number by dialing *67. This Courtroom utilizes an electronic recording system for the Court's record. If a court reporter is needed, a written request must be filed with the Clerk of the court and a copy provided to the assigned judicial officer at least 72 hours before the commencement of the proceeding. To order a recording of the hearing, please contact the Court's Electronic Recording Services at ERS@Jbazmc.maricopa.gov or 602-506-7100. When placing your request, please provide the case number, hearing date(s), your name, telephone number, and mailing address. For electronic and in-person exhibit submission, p l e a s e v i s i t https://www.clerkofthecourt.maricopa.go v/services/exhibits-submission. The webpage will provide instructions and guidance for electronic submission as well as locations for in-person submission of exhibits. Please note that not all divisions are accepting electronic exhibits at this time. For divisions that are accepting electronic exhibits, please note that the Clerk's Office is currently only accepting electronic exhibits for trials and contested evidentiary hearings.

9:45a.m. Court adjourns.

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