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Putt-Putt too? True Life draws line in the sand
AHWATUKEE FOOTHILLS NEWS BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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f Ahwatukee Lakes residents think a judge can force the restoration of the golf course they once had, they should think again. So says The True Life Companies in its response to the proposal that two residents’ lawyer submitted last month to Superior Court Judge John R. Hannah Jr. “This court may not dictate in any perma-
nent injunction it enters what the golf course must look like, what it must consist of or what buildings and facilities it must have,” True Life attorney Chris R. Baniszewski said in a brief filed with the judge last week. In making the bombshell assertion, Baniszewski resorts to the same 1992 Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions that the lawyer for residents Linda Swain and Eileen Breslin successfully used in blocking the developer from putting homes on the defunct 101-acre course.
That portion of the CC&Rs states that it is the owner of the course – at this point True Life – who has discretion to “modify, alter, relocate, replace, expand, abandon, demolish, cease the use of or rebuild any of the improvements or facilities related to the use of the property for golf courses,” Baniszweski contends. Noting that the judge already has rejected
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Candy is dandy for teen’s journey to businessman BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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hocolate may play a special role in people’s lives today, but for Ahwatukee teen Morgan Higginbotham, it’s practically been his life for more than a year. Yes, the Desert Vista High School junior’s days also have been booked with honors classes, cross-country and track. But chocolate has been a near obsession as a creation and a business for Morgan, a graduate of the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 Young Entrepreneurs Academy class. Less than a month ago, that obsession blossomed into a full-fledged business when Morgan debuted his Cherry Nubbs chocolate treats as a vendor at the Ahwatukee Farmers Market. He is there every Sunday, although he will take the day off Feb. 18 and return Feb. 25. Like any inventor with a dream, his road to that vendor booth was not easy. It started sometime in 2016, he said. “I just happened to notice a lot of candy has pictures of red filling but never has any in it.” So, he started tinkering with a recipe for his own cherry-filled chocolate treats – even though “cooking is one of my least favorite
(Kimberly Carrillo/AFN Staff Photographer)
Desert Vista High School junior Morgan Higginbotham relied on his determination and immediate family to produce a chocolate treat and an Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce program to help him learn how to get it to market.
things.” He spent hours working in the kitchen on a recipe, initially using his younger brother
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