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actus League play in 2018 was a boon for Scottsdale’s coffers as the city generated over $21 million in sales tax revenue in March last year alone – more than any other spring training city in the East Valley. The city is home to one Cactus League team, the San Francisco Giants at Scottsdale Stadium, and two others, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies, play nearby at Salt River Fields in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. With games scheduled to begin at the end of the week, money from fan spending will again

start pouring into Scottsdale’s coffers. Scottsdale’s sales tax revenue of $21,613,590 in March 2018 was its highest monthly total in fiscal year 2017-18, accounting for just under 12 percent of citywide sales tax revenues that fiscal year. Fiscal year 2017-18 ran from July 2017 through June 2018. Despite its lasting popularity, the Cactus League is not always the top sales tax draw for Scottsdale, a city that hosts a number of highprofile events at the beginning of every year, including the Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction and Waste Management Phoenix Open. In March 2017, the city brought in

$14,879,276 in sales tax revenue, the fourthhighest total that fiscal year. In March 2018, Scottsdale’s sales tax revenue was even more than Mesa, a city that is nearly twice the size of Scottsdale based on population and is home to the Chicago Cubs, the Cactus League’s biggest draw. The Cubs led the Cactus league in attendance in 2018, drawing 222,023 fans, followed by the Diamondbacks (166,063) and Giants (155,651). Mesa took in $15,827,532 in sales tax in March 2018, up from the $14,620,629 it took in the year before.

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Scottsdale teenager’s near-overdose death from a counterfeit pill laced with a powerful narcotic is the latest manifestation of a drug problem in local schools that apparently is increasing because of widespread vaping among teens. The teen’s overdose Feb. 6 involved a pill laced with fentanyl – a drug linked to a surge in overdose deaths nationwide in recent years – and led to the arrest of a 16-year-old Notre Dame student. Though the Feb. 6 overdose and subsequent arrest involved students outside the district, Scottsdale Unified School District

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Tempe, home to Tempe Diablo Stadium and the Los Angeles Angels, is not as reliant on Cactus League play to fill city coffers as other host cities. Tempe’s sales tax revenue of $8,085,000 in March 2018 was the fourth highest monthly total calculated by the city in 2017-18. That total was significantly higher than the year prior, though. Tempe’s March sales tax revenue grew by 13.6 percent in March 2018 over March 2017. Some of that growth could be attributed to the Angels, who had just signed international sensation Shohei Ohtani prior to Spring Training last year. Ohtani, a rare two-way player who could pitch and hit towering homeruns, drew an unprecedented amount of Japanese fans and media to Angels games last year. With Ohtani out with an injury this year, the Angels – and Tempe – could see Cactus League attendance slip. Beyond the East Valley, the rest of the state benefits economically from the Cactus League as well. A 2018 study from Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business indicated that the Cactus League generated a total economic output of $644.2 million for the state of Arizona, an 11 percent increase from the output estimated by a study in 2015. The study found that fans, teams and ballpark operations contribute approximately $24.2 million in taxes to the state and $7.7 million to local coffers. Much of that impact comes in the form of hotel room stays and, not surprisingly, Scottsdale’s hoteliers are a major benefactor. The city collected $3,558,035 in bed tax collections in March last year. That total accounted for nearly 18 percent of the city’s total bed tax collections last fiscal year. Scottsdale did not exceed $2.5 million in bed tax collections in any other month during that time. Mesa, which has a less robust hotel industry than Scottsdale, saw a similar trend. The city collected $790,380 in bed tax revenues in March 2018, good for 18.5 percent of its total bed tax collections in fiscal year 2017-18. The $1,133,000 in bed tax collections in Tempe in March 2018 was the second highest monthly total that fiscal year and marked 27.9 percent growth over the year prior. Though Cactus League has long been a money maker for host cities, those municipalities still make efforts to attract the most fans possible every March. Experience Scottsdale, the organization contracted by the city to promote Scottsdale as a tourist destination, conducts tar-

Scottsdale Stadium and the San Francisco Giants ranked third in the Cactus League in 2018 with a total attendance of 155,651. Overall, Cactus League attendance was down in 2018 to 1.77 million people from 1.91 million the year prior. (S..F. Giants)

geted advertising campaigns throughout the country to attract Spring Training travelers. “Scottsdale is positioned to welcome fans from across the Cactus League,” said Stephanie Pressler, director of Community Affairs for Experience Scottsdale. Pressler said the organization hosts a dedicated Spring Training website that includes schedules, maps, ticket information and special offers from hotels, venues and restaurants. She said that Experience Scottsdale’s general advertising campaigns also hit markets that are home to teams that play in the Cactus League. “Through our proprietary research, we know that our two top markets also have teams,” Pressler said. “With these large scale campaigns, we are capturing high value visitors and baseball fans alike.” The organization’s top two targeted markets are Chicago and Los Angeles. Experience Scottsdale also advertises in San Francisco, Denver and Phoenix – all cities that have baseball teams that play in or near Scottsdale during Spring Training. Beyond Experience Scottsdale’s campaigns, The City of Scottsdale’s Tourism & Events also conducts campaigns on the local level. Scottsdale and other host cities are not just competing with each other for fans’ dollars every year, either. Neighboring cities also make an effort to attract fans across municipal lines to boost sales at retailers, restaurants and hotels. Municipalities without teams like Chandler and Gilbert have funded targeted ad campaigns for this purpose. Chandler Tourism Manager Kimberly Janes said that March is a peak month for hotel occupancy in Chandler and demand for rooms is generally quite high and that

the city targets out-of-town visitors from a number of feeder cities, including coldweather communities and drive markets. Last Year, Gilbert Tourism Administrator Glenn Schlottman said the town invested in weather-related ad campaigns targeted at fans who attended baseball games at the Oakland Coliseum in California and Wrigley Field in Chicago. Those venues are the homes of the Oakland Athletics and Chicago Cubs, respectively, both teams that play Cactus League ball in nearby Mesa. The revenue rise is somewhat surprising for all cities involved considering overall Cactus League attendance was down in 2018 to 1.77 million people from 1.91 million the year prior, according to an East Valley Tribune report from April 2018. That decline was due, in part, to shortened schedules for some teams as the league hosted 24 fewer games in 2018 than it did in 2017. Both the Cubs and Giants hosted 16 home games in 2018 after having 17 and 18 home games in 2017, respectively. Some Cactus League officials also attributed the lower attendance to a slow February start. The Cactus League will get an early start again this year on Feb. 21, though it will again see its total games fall, from 234 in 2018 to 228 in 2019. Still, Cactus League President Jeff Meyer said attendance numbers could a get a big boost at the end of March when fans have the rare chance to see two of Major League Baseball’s most popular teams – the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox – face off in two games at Sloan Park in Mesa. The Red Sox’ Spring Training home is in Florida’s Grapefruit League, and the team does not typically travel to Arizona for games.

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Cactus League civic groups hit a charity grand slam BY JIM WALSH Progress Staff Writer

hen hundreds of thousands of fans jam East Valley Cactus League stadiums starting Saturday, they’ll watch famous players getting ready for a marathon season and young players desperately trying to make a team. But the real winners throughout the region have nothing to do with what happens on the field. They will either be in school, or sitting next to their parents in the stands, eating hot dogs or goofing around with their brothers and sisters. Thanks to civic hospitality organizations such as the Mesa HoHoKams, the Tempe Diablos and the Scottsdale Charros, the Cactus League maintains its traditional roots even though it has turned into a big business that stokes the tourism industry and swells sales tax receipts. Between them, the volunteer HoHoKams and Diablos raise at least $1.5 million for charities, covering everything from Little League teams to scholarships in the Maricopa County Community College District and Arizona State University. And the tradition set by spring baseball is so deep that one organization continues to raise nearly $1 million annually even without a baseball team. The Chandler Compadres have not had a Cactus League ballpark as a source of revenue for more than 20 years. While Compadre Stadium, with its distinctive blue roof and large outfield berm, has vanished and become a pleasant Cactus League memory, the Compadres have flourished and stayed true to their community service mission. Despite the long hours at Sloan Park and Hohokam Stadium in Mesa, and at Diablo Stadium in Tempe, members of the Hohokams and Diablos and the additional volunteers who help them consider their work a labor of love. Call them “hospitality hosts’’– as Doug Black from the Diablos does – or “ambassadors’’ for the Chicago Cubs and Oakland Athletics – as Tim Baughman of the Mesa HoHoKams does – the fundraising prowess of these organizations is undeniable. “What we fund them with is the bulk of their budget. If we don’t fund them, they probably don’t exist, like Little League or a cheer leading squad,’’ said Baughman, president of the HoHoKams, which donated $455,000 to East Valley charities last year. “All of that money stays in the East Valley, with an emphasis on Mesa,’’ he said. Although the HoHoKams continue to embrace youth sports as their primary

Because its relatively new ballpark hosts the Chicago Cubs, Cactus is a cash cow for the Mesa HoHoKams, which pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into charity annually, (Special to the Progress)

mission, he said other nonprofits that benefit the community in numerous other ways are also funded with grants. Among the beneficiaries are the Community Bridges behavioral health agency; Helen’s Hope Chest, which helps foster children; and Arizona Brainfood, which sends lunches home for low-income children so that they are not hungry on weekends when free school lunches are not available. Other recipients include East Valley Boys and Girls clubs and YMCAs. “There is no finer thing you can do as a Mesa HoHoKam than to take a check and deliver it to a community organization,’’ Baughman said. The Diablos, also formed to attract a Major League Baseball team to Tempe, focus heavily on education, providing 40 scholarships each year to students at the community college district and ASU. Every year, the Diablos raise about $1 million through several fundraising events, with Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim games the largest fundraiser at venerable Tempe Diablo Stadium, now the oldest and most intimate stadium in the league. Black, co-chairman for baseball, said about 60 percent of the Diablos revenue comes from parking cars. A 50-50 raffle is another big money maker, with proceeds split between the winner and charity. These raffles have significantly increased revenues in Mesa and Scottsdale as well. Tempe celebrates the central role of charity during the Cactus League every year with Tempe Diablo Day, where all revenues from a particular game are donated to the Diablos with the blessings of Arte Moreno, the Angels’ owner. The annual game is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Feb. 25, when the Angels play the Brew-

ers at Diablo. “He appreciates us, that’s the best way I can put it,’’ Black said about Moreno. “He’s very kind to the Diablos and he’s an honorary Diablo.’’ Frank Coen, the Diablos president, said it’s very easy to sum up the Diablos fundraising efforts. “We give away virtually everything,’’ he said. The Scottsdale Charros keep the civic tradition alive at Scottsdale Stadium, raising another $1 million and thoughtfully doling out the proceeds to maximize the impact on the community. A Charro is assigned to each school and the organization caters donations to their needs, said Dennis Robbins, executive director. He said the organization’s mission includes financing eight scholarships for students at Arizona State University to address the teacher’s shortage. Robbins said the Charros top priority is education. Beyond the scholarships, the Charros arrange for additional student teachers to assist full-time teachers in lowincome schools, so that students get more attention through lower teacher to student ratios. He said the focus is on keeping children motivated to learn. “We assign a Charro to every school in Scottsdale and they develop a relationship with the principal,’’ Robbins said, allowing the Charros to help in the best way possible. The civic organizations form a veritable army of volunteers, with each group sporting its own unique uniform. The HoHoKams, which date back to the late Dwight Patterson’s attraction of the Chicago Cubs to Arizona in 1951, arguably have the hardest job, but each organization

faces a unique series of challenges. The HoHoKams handle the parking and ushering duties at two ballparks, Sloan and Hohokam Stadium, using separate crews that rarely work together, said Tim Baughman, the group’s president. It’s no small task, with 185 HoHoKams assisted by another 60 volunteers during spring training, he said. “It’s a big commitment. To remain an active member in our organization, you must work three-quarters of the games,’’ Baughman said, with shifts typically lasting four to six hours. The Diablos and the Charros make a similar commitment. The Diablos have 225 members and about 50 volunteers. Diablos are required to work seven games a year, while about 100 Charros work at Scottsdale Stadium every season. “It feels more like summer camp to me. You are having some laughs with your friends,’’ Black said. “As long as people are having safe fun, it’s fun for us.’’ While there are always occasional issues when dealing with the public, “you have to laugh about it and move on with your day,’’ Black said. This year, the HoHoKams received a bit of a twist from Major League Baseball. The Oakland Athletics play only 12 home games at Hohokam Stadium, instead of the normal 15, and the Cubs play a longer 18 game schedule that includes two sellouts against the World Champion Boston Red Sox at the end of the season. The A’s are leaving early to start the regular season against the Seattle Mariners at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, March 20 and 21. These games are expected by many to serve as an emotional curtain call for Japanese star Ichiro Suzuki of the Mariners, who is considered a likely Hall of Famer. The Red Sox and other East Coast teams train in Florida and play in the Grapefruit League. Each league has 15 teams. Because of this arrangement, the Red Sox are rarely seen in Arizona during the spring. “It’s going to be pretty crazy. We are used to these games being sold out, whether it’s Boston or Kansas City,’’ Baughman said. But the payoff, as the Cactus League season comes to the end, will be higher revenues for charity, helping the HoHoKams hit their goal of raising $500,000 this year, he said. The HoHoKams see the results every year at an awards dinner attended by recipients, Baughman said. “It benefits our members to see where all of our hard work goes,’’ he said.

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SUSD board makes Kriekard ‘permanent’ – for now BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor

ine months after he took over the job on an interim basis, Dr. John Kriekard is Scottsdale School District’s permanent superintendent. In a unanimous vote, the Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board approved a contract through 2020 with Kriekard, who previously worked as a principal and assistant superintendent in the district years ago. The vote elicited applause from teachers, parents and other community members who attended the meeting and a smile from Kriekard himself. Details of the new contract were not immediately available, though Kriekard did say his pay raise would be in line with raises received by other district employees. Though he had previously said his interim role was to bring stability to the district until a new superintendent could be found, Kriekard said he was open to taking the job because he was committed to not leave SUSD without a leader. Board President Patty Beckman said

rocal,” Beckman said, adding: “He knows this community and the community knows him.” When Kriekard took over last year, the district was in disarray following the dismissal of the previous superintendent under a cloud of controversy related to school construction projects that resulted in a lawsuit by the state Attorney General. In the intervening months, he has been seen as a steadying hand and quickly earned the support of many community members who had been critical of the previous administration. “There is an advantage to havDr. John Kriekard has been hired as district superintendent. ing had a lot of experience also and (Pablo Robles/Progress Staff Photographer) this is not the first time in my career that there has been urgency his hiring will restore trust with the community and allow the district to take in a district that needs calm leadership rather than frantic panic,” he said. a positive step forward. His hiring only pushes pause on the “I know that the number one thing that resonated with (the community) about district’s search for new leadership, Dr. Kriekard was not only his experience though, since his contract only runs and his talent and his caring for our stu- through the 2019-2020 school year. Kriekard, who came out of retirement dents and our teachers, but the fact that he knows this community and it’s recip- for a third time to lead SUSD, said the

district could hire the next superintendent next spring. Beckman said she could not comment on the specific reasons for the one-year contract because the negotiations took place in an executive session, though she did give her personal viewpoint. “I will personally say that Dr. Kriekard came out of retirement to help SUSD and is happy to do so,” she said. “However, considering we will eventually need a superintendent that can guide SUSD long term, I think we all feel it is best to keep the contract to a year. We are truly grateful for his leadership. It is a gift.” The board could theoretically use an existing contract with national search firm McPherson & Jacobson. The previous board was unhappy with the candidates it found, paving the way for the offer to Kriekard. The previous board awarded a contract worth no more than $36,900 to McPherson & Jacobson last year to find candidates for the job. So far, the district has paid $12,450 under that contract. The board could cancel that contract and re-bid the project when the time

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The Navajo Elementary School campus has been closed since the end of August 2018 due to damage from an overnight fire. (Progress file photo)

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he Scottsdale Unified School District Governing Board has allocated an additional $4 million towards renovations at fire-ravaged Navajo Elementary School to make the campus asbestos free and replace aging and crumbling infrastructure. “When you put a pipe wrench on those pipes for the chillers, it will literally fall apart like paper mache,” SUSD Director of Facilities & Operations Dennis Roehler said about its aging air conditioning system. Up to $1.4 million was allocated to replace it. The board approved a rehab budget of no more than $4.257 million on 4-0 vote, with Allyson Beckham abstaining. The money will come from voter-approved bond funds. The additional improvements are not expected to affect the district’s expected timeline to return students to the Navajo campus this December, Roehler said. The school is currently undergoing asbestos abatement and rehabilitation for areas affected by the fire. The trust that administers the district’s insurance plan will only pay for all costs to remove and replace pieces of the campus affected by the fire along with books, toys, curriculum and other items damaged by the event. So far, the trust has paid out $619,800

for clean up and abatement. Though the trust has not released its total obligation towards the project, board President Patty Beckman indicated at an earlier meeting that the trust would likely pay approximately $10 million. The budget approved by the board will be in addition to those insurance funds. It includes $132,000 for asbestos abatement and hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace flooring, doors, millwork and other items that were not affected by the fire but either have reached the end of their lifecycle or contain asbestos. A $1.5-million contingency fund for unforeseen costs could be used to replace existing windows, which are not energy efficient and also include caulking laced with asbestos, Roehler said. Roehler said it would not make sense to replace the air conditioning system but leave the current windows intact, considering their “energy rating is abysmal.” The plan has the support of parents, many of whom mobilized in force to help relocate the school to a district campus three miles away in the wake of the fire. “To me, it’s a no-brainer,” parent Elie Goodman said. “The district is receiving $10 million from the trust and they only have to kick in $4 million to keep a neighborhood school that could last another 20 to 30 years when finished.”

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comes to find Kriekard’s replacement, or it could continue to work with McPherson & Jacobson under the existing contract. “(McPherson & Jacobson) have indicated … that they are kind of willing to pick up where left off, so you don’t lose money you spent and continue a search at a different time,” SUSD General Counsel Michelle Marshall said. In the meantime, Kriekard said he looks forward to the opportunity to see through several ongoing initiatives in the district, including supporting the growth of the Math and Science Academy at Saguaro High School and STEAM and STEM programs at Navajo, Laguna

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and Tavan Elementary Schools. The ongoing Coronado Success Initiative is another priority. “We have already taken steps this spring to strengthen that program,” Kriekard said. “When we look at data for Coronado High School and the Coronado feeder system, we know that has to be an emphasis on our part to help improve the academics of those schools.” Though he will not find himself in retirement again anytime soon, Kriekard said his wife – a former SUSD educator – supports his decision and that he views educating young people as one of the most important things a person can do. “I really enjoy this job on a day-to-day basis,” he said.

Despite the talk of consolidation, SuperAt an earlier meeting, Beckman had intendent John Kriekard said he thought said that discussions with staff led her to it was a smart investment and it doesn’t believe that by approving these renova- make sense to invest the school’s money tions to Navajo – one of the schools being or the insurance funds into a school that considered for a rebuild by the district – the board would close in a few years. the district could potentially push off a “There’s been no recommendation, so rebuild another 20 years. this is my personal opinion, and my perThe question of whether to allocate ad- sonal opinion is that we will look at that ditional resources to Navajo Elementary whole Granite Reef Corridor of schools School is complicated by the school’s en- and make some responsible decisions,” rollment situation. Kriekard said. “But It is currently one I don’t believe that of four elementary we will do anything schools with enrollother than return ment below 400 Navajo students to Navajo as soon as students that the district put on a that school is ready.” two-year plan late Roehler said lifelast year to boost cycle issues would enrollment by fopersist at the campus no matter how cusing on signature programs, such as the district chose to Navajo’s STEAM use it in the future. program. “No matter what – Elie Goodman, parent happens to Navajo, If the schools cannot boost entwo years down the rollment above 400 students within two road, three years down the road, four years, the district could consolidate them years down the road, the work that I am with other campuses. asking to be done … it is necessary work,” According to the Arizona School Facili- he said. ties Board, the capacity for the campus is Creating an asbestos-free campus was 859 students. also a driver behind Roehler’s recomHowever, SUSD interim Chief Financial mendation. Officer Jeff Gadd cautioned that the SFB’s Because the insurance money will numbers are solely based on square foot- only pay for areas affected by fire, the age and do not take a school’s program- rehabbed campus would still contain ming into account. some flooring and other pieces that conRoehler said many schools in SUSD of- tain asbestos when children return to the fer special programs that utilize space school next year – something Roehler differently than the SFB model would in- was adamantly against. dicate and that a district assessment with “Do we want to send the kids back to participation of Principal Matthew Pat- that school with asbestos still in the zlaff would be needed to come up with school?” he said. “Ultimately, I am rean accurate number. questing that we not do that.”

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a search warrant, police searched his Superintendent John Kriekard also ad- home and found two more pills. The dressed the issue during his governing teen’s identity was withheld because of board Feb. 12. his age. “Opioids are major problem in our soFentanyl is 100 times more potent ciety and right here in Scottsdale, I am than heroin and has caused thousands sorry to say,” Kriekof deaths in recent ard said. “Parents years. of middle school The Centers for and high school Disease Control restudents, I strongly ported that more encourage you to than 70,200 people speak again to your in the U.S. died from children about the drug overdoses in dangers of taking 2017 and a third of illegal drugs and them involved fenprescription drugs tanyl. not prescribed for “We would like to them.” take the opportuSeveral Scottdale nity to remind famiarea high schools, lies to discuss with kids the danincluding those in – John Kriekard, their SUSD, have seen gers of taking illeSUSD Superintendent gal drugs as well as drug violations on campus rise in represcription medicent years, according to data reviewed cations not prescribed to them,” Scottby The Progress. sdale Police said in a release last week. Scottsdale Police spokesman Officer “This incident could have been much Kevin Watts said the spike in violations more tragic and taken the life of a young is related to the increasing use of e- man far too soon.” cigarettes to vape nicotine and other Fentanyl has become increasingly substances, most commonly THC – the prevalent in the U.S. over the last two active ingredient in marijuana. years, especially in Arizona. “Most of these violations are initiated “The overwhelming majority of fenby school staff and then turned over to tanyl exhibits analyzed in the United our” school resource officers, Watts said. States have been fentanyl in powder “Unfortunately, we will most likely see form, but fentanyl in counterfeit pill this activity continuing due to the avail- form still represents a significant public ability of the electronic cigarettes. Our health risk and law enforcement chalofficers and school partners will contin- lenge in the near term,” according to the ue to provide education on the dangers Drug Enforcement Administration. (of) vaping as well as continue to take In 2017, the Drug Enforcement Adenforcement action when applicable,” ministration seized 172 pounds of fenWatts added. tanyl and 54,984 pills. Those numbers On Feb. 6, police found a 17-year-old jumped to 445 pounds and 379,557 boy at a Scottsdale home showing signs pills, according to information provided of opioid overdose. Police later con- by the DEA Phoenix Division. firmed the teen took a pill that was part So far this year, the DEA has seized 33 of a cache of counterfeit prescription pounds of fentanyl and 123,530 counpills containing fentanyl. terfeit pills. The teen survived after being adminis“The Mexican cartels have begun to imtered the drug naloxone by officers and port the precursor chemicals required members of Scottsdale Fire Department to mass produce fentanyl. Along with before being transferred to an area hos- this, they have acquired the equipment pital. to manufacture the pills which look like According to Scottsdale PD, the teen is legitimate pharmaceutical drugs,” DEA a student at Notre Dame Prep, a private spokesperson Erica Curry said. high school in northern Scottsdale, and Curry said the most common fentanyl got the pill from a classmate. pills encountered by the DEA in Arizona On Feb. 7, Scottsdale Police contacted resemble oxycodone, but the DEA and the suspected 16-year-old supplier, and law enforcement partners have also school officials found seven pills and ad- seized counterfeit Percocet and Xanax ditional drug paraphernalia in his car. containing fentanyl. The student was arrested for possessee OPIOIDS page 14 sion of narcotic drugs. After obtaining

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Curry said the DEA works closely with Scottsdale PD as part of a task force. The issue appears to cut across geographic and socio-economic lines as Desert Mountain High School, Coronado High School and Bella Vista Prep have all seen a significant rise in violations over the past two years. Notre Dame Prep had no drug violations reported on campus in recent years until the arrest of the student on Feb. 7. Desert Mountain, an SUSD school in northern Scottsdale, had 16 drug-related violations on campus in 2018, up from five violations in 2017, according to crime statistics available through a public database. Bella Vista Prep, a private school in northern Scottsdale, also had five drugrelated violations on campus in 2017. The number of violations was 17 in 2018, according to the database. The issue is not just a northern Scottsdale problem. Coronado High School, located in southern Scottsdale, saw its drug-related violations rise from eight in 2017 to 17 in 2018. That upward trajectory has continued into 2019.

Desert Mountain has already had five drug violations on campus through Feb. 12 of this year, up from two violations during the same timeframe in 2018. Bella Vista has had six violations this year versus three during the same time last year. Coronado has had a staggering nine violations this year versus two during the same time period last year. It is unclear how many of those violations, if any, were related to opioid or fentanyl use. The community crime database only includes that drug or drug paraphernalia were involved. Copies of the police reports on those incidents were not readily available. At the recent SUSD board meeting, the superintendent implored parents to make sure their children know what to do if someone attempts to give or sell them illicit drugs. “We are grateful to our police partners and the community organizations we work with to increase awareness about substance abuse,” Kriekard said. “Our support services office is available too to help with additional resources, counseling and support for students and families for whatever they need.”

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Ex-Chandler councilman named county supervisor BY PAUL MARYNIAK Progress Executive Editor

ormer Chandler City Council member Jack Sellers is the new Maricopa County supervisor for District 1. The four members of the board and the clerk picked Sellers, who is in his final year on the State Transportation Board, to fill out the remaining two years of Denny Barney’s term. Barney, of Gilbert, stepped down Feb. 1 to become CEO/ president of the East Valley Partnership. Seller, whose district includes Scottsdale, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, Ahwatukee, Queen Creek and Sun Lakes, bested 12 other Republicans – including eight who lost elections last year. State law required the three other Republican and one Former two-term Chancler Councilmember and current State Democratic supervisor to pick a Transportation Board member Jack Sellers was named the new county supervisor for Scottsdale. (Special for The Progress) Republican since Barney is one. Sellers’ election also ensured that the tise and said: “One of the pressing issues for our board will remain all male. Two women, former state Rep. Jill Norgaard and county over the next few years will be ASU associate president of community the intelligent extension of our Prop 400 relations Angela Creedon, were among transportation funding mechanism to Prop 500,” he said, referring to two votthose who had applied for the vacancy. Several of his new board colleagues er-approved measures that had added singled out Sellers’ expertise in trans- billions to the development of roads and portation issues, and Sellers himself in- public transportation. “I also have very good working reladicated that will be a priority for him in tionships with MAG, Valley Metro, ADOT the next two years. “We are at a point where the next sev- and the Federal Highway Administraeral years will be critical in defining our tion,” he also wrote. Sellers, whose annual salary will be transportation infrastructure for the future,” said Sellers in brief remarks after $76,000, will have an annual office budget of about $440,000 and three fullhis swearing-in. Several other supervisors also noted time staff members. He also will now his work in helping to plan for the in- have a role with the rest of the board in creasing presence of autonomous vehi- overseeing an annual budget that curcles on the road. Sellers has spoken be- rently totals nearly $2.5 billion. That money funds a wide variety of fore on the number of issues that state and local planners will have to deal with services that include: county road and to accommodate autonomous cars and, bridge construction and maintenance, the operation of all other county offices eventually, trucks. Supervisor Steve Chucri joked about such as those of the sheriff and recorder; Sellers’ longtime involvement in areas flood control and various health and sanof transportation, noting he met Sellers itation programs, including restaurant when he was working for General Mo- and supermarket inspections; Superior tors and “my family was in the car busi- Court and related operations, including the public defender, county attorney and ness.” “You look at Mr. Sellers’ background probation; and various education, culand his time on the Transportation tural and recreation programs. In his letter, Sellers touted his repuboard, and the pieces of the puzzle just tation on Chandler City Council as the fit,” Chucri said. In his application letter, Sellers also “Economic Development Council Memunderscored his transportation exper- ber.”

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Advocates want Dolphinaris shut down for good BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor

Four dolphins have died in the last 16 months at Dolphinaris, a venue near Scottsdale that offers a swim with dolphins experience. (Progress

he fourth dolphin death in 16 months at Dolphinaris has caused leading national animal welfare advocates to call for an independent and public investigation and locals to protest in support of closing the facility permanently. Following the death of 22-year-old dolphin Kai at the end of January, Dolphinaris Arizona – which is owned by Mexico-based Ventura Entertainment – on Feb. 5 announced it was temporarily closing the venue and would work with outside experts “to investigate potential factors that may have contributed to the death of dolphins at the facility since its opening in October 2016.” In the wild, bottlenose dolphins generally live to be 30 to 50 years old, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Kai’s death marked the second time a dolphin had died at the facility in about a month after 10-year-old Khloe died on Dec. 30. Dophinaris Arizona said Khloe’s death was related to a chronic illness caused by the Sarcocystis parasite.

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Ten-year-old Alia died in May 2018 from a bacterial infection, and 7-yearold Bodie died in September 2017 of a rare muscle disease, according to Dolphinaris statements. Following Bodie’s death, CBS 5 obtained records from NOAA that indicated his cause of death was actually a fungal infection. Kai’s death left Dolphinaris with four remaining dolphins – half the total it had when it opened.

Dolphin Quest, a Hawaii-based company that loaned dolphins to Dolphinaris, has since cancelled its contract and taken back the two dolphins it had remaining at the Arizona facility. Dolphinaris’ last two dolphins will be moved to other facilities while it conducts its investigation, a company statement read. Sharon Young, field director for Marine Wildlife at The Humane Society of the United States, said the rate of death at Dophinaris Arizona is unprecedented. “There are quite a few places like this, and they don’t have death rates like this,” Young said. “The concern is (the dol-

phins) were fine until they went there, and now they’re dead.” “The fact that this number of animals has died is suspicious,” she said. Dolphinaris Arizona if one of six venues worldwide and the first in the U.S. It has been a lightning rod of controversy since it announced it was coming to the Scottsdale area prior to its opening in 2016. The facility is located within the OdySea Aquarium entertainment area on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Rose has called for a truly independent probe, contending any investigation overseen by the company itself will be tainted by bias. Both Rose and Young said they have no idea what experts Dolphinaris will hire to conduct their investigation and that it could include staff members from similar facilities like SeaWorld. In a statement, Dolphinaris only said the investigative team would be made up of veterinarians, pathologists, water quality experts and animal behavioral specialists. “Even if they are cleared, I couldn’t ac-

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cept that because a shadow hangs over this biased investigation,” Rose said. Local activist and Mesa resident Laurice Dee shared similar concerns. “I am concerned about Dolphinaris Arizona bringing in ‘colleagues’ that do not work for the company (like other industry personnel) to do the investigation instead of an independent team that can be hired to do a thorough investigation,” she said. Rose, noting her organization’s stated opposition to marine mammal captivity, said “It needs to be truly independent; they wouldn’t trust us to perform an investigation for the same reason.” Rose said that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or APHIS, should spearhead the investigation. APHIS is the division of the USDA charged with overseeing regulations for facilities that house marine mammals. “The government should be managing (the investigation),” Rose said. “It should be APHIS-structured with truly independent investigators.” However, both Rose and Young acknowledged there are issues with federal law that regulates businesses like Dolphinaris. “APHIS can ask for the necropsy reports, and it could make copies, which would make them public (under The Freedom of Information Act),” she said. “But they don’t do that, and they pretty much never do that. They certainly didn’t do it when we asked them to, after the third death. There should be more action from the agency, but the law is vague.” According to APHIS records, it conducted four inspections between October 2016 and July 2018 and recorded no violations. Young, too, has problems with APHIS’ oversight. In 1994, an amendment to the Marine Mammal Protection Act handed regulatory oversight over “swim with the dolphin” programs from the National Marine Fisheries Service, a division of NOAA, to APHIS. Young argued that APHIS, unlike the Fisheries Service, does not have expertise in marine mammals like dolphins. “The oversight has been less public, and it has been a lot harder for us to get information from them than from Fisheries,” Young said. Without a public, thorough investigation, critics argue, it will be difficult to tell whether or not the environment at Dolphinaris played a role in the dolphins’ deaths.

against Dolphin captivity in Arizona. She said she does not plan to stop protesting until Dolphinaris closes its doors for good. “I will plan to protest until Dolphinaris Arizona shuts down permanently and the facility is re-purposed for human use,” she said, suggesting it could be turned into a water park for public use without dolphins. Young said she is opposed to all captive dolphin entertainment Protestors outside the Dolphinaris Arizona have been decrying the deaths of four dolphins and want the venue shut down for venues and that many good. (Special for The Progress) opportunities exist to see Dolphinaris said it is a licensed facility en to the streets to call for the perma- dolphins in their natural habitat. “We believe strongly that the public that has exceeded U.S. government stan- nent closure of Dolphinaris Arizona. should be seeing these animals in their dards and that it “is committed to apThe company has faced protests since natural environment,” she said. plying the highest zoological standards it first announced it was coming to AriRose, who said she built her career in and most recent animal welfare science zona. opposition to the captive display of mawhen attempting to provide environThe Advocates Against Dolphin Caprine mammals, said it was time for Dolments that meet the animals’ behavioral tivity in Arizona Facebook page, which phinaris to shut its doors. and physiological needs.” Dee created, has chronicled multiple “I really do think Dolphinaris needs Protestors and animal welfare advo- protests in the wake of Kai’s death. to see writing on the wall, because they cates have long argued that putting dolDee started the Facebook page three still have two animals,” she said. “How phins in Arizona’s desert environment years ago after hearing Dolphinaris many animals have to die before they poses a risk to their welfare. planned to open an Arizona location get clue?” “It would be great to be able to an- in hopes it would mobilize the public swer that question with confidence,” Naomi Rose, marine mammal scientist with the Animal Welfare Institute, said of the effect the desert has on dolphins. “But they are non-transparent in general when it comes to these animals and do not have to release the causes of death.” She said she cannot say with certainty that the desert environment contributed to deaths at Dolphinaris because the company has not released the results of necropsy reports. However, Rose, a marine mammal expert, speculated that the desert could have detrimental effects on dolphin health. “I do believe that putting them in an environment that unnaturally exposes them to pathogens they are unfamiliar with and unable to fight,” Rose said. The deaths and their frequency have caused Rose and other animal welfare advocates, both locally and nationally, to call for the public release of the necropsy reports from these deaths. “The solution is easy; make these necropsy reports public,” Rose said. “If they have nothing to hide, then what is the problem? The reports would be helpful to science, but since they treat this infor7252 E 1st Ave | Scottsdale, AZ 85251 mation as propriety, then science is also Hours: Monday - Saturday 10 - 6 | Sunday 12 - 5 stymied.” Meanwhile, local protestors have tak-

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Arabian Horse Show his ‘Hollywood’ for 43 years BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer

he Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show is a first-class show that has grown from 50 horses to nearly 2,400 steeds since its inception in 1955. And Greg Knowles, owner of Arabian Expressions in northern Scottsdale, hasn’t missed a show since 1976. Calling the show the “Hollywood of the Arabian horse world,” he said, “People become famous in Scottsdale because they compete at the highest level.” The top owners, trainers and breeders from around the world compete for a chance at winning. Knowles entered about 15 horses into this year’s show, which started on Feb. 14 and continues through Feb. 24 at WestWorld of Scottsdale. At any given time, he has about 30 horses at Arabian Expressions, a twoand-a-half-acre farm Knowles purchased in 2008. Horses are shipped to the farm from clients all over the world, and upon arrival, the horses are groomed, trained

Greg Knowles, owner of Arabian Expressions in northern Scottsdale, hasn’t missed the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show since 1976. He has entered about 15 horses into this year’s show, which continues through Feb. 24 at WestWorld of Scottsdale. (Pablo Robles/Progress Staff Photographer)

rubbed everyday, and they’re kept under lights 16 hours a day during the winter months. “That way the horses think it’s summer, and their coats want to stay warmer because of the long hours,” Knowles said. As far as training goes, the horses work five days a week. “All horses have a work list, so one might go on the treadmill or get turned out,” Knowles said. “One day a week they get turned to play

and a presentation arena, Knowles’ job is to show, buy and sell quality Arabian horses on behalf of his clients. “It’s always constantly a turn-over,” Knowles said. “They stay for this season, then after the Scottsdale show, most of them go home, and then we go hunt and recruit like a college coach for the next group.” Knowles opened Arabian Expressions in 1979, and since then, he’s cared for about 1,200 horses. The biggest challenge, he said, is keeping the horses healthy, happy and prepared. “We’re really trying to make them look like horses in the middle of winter, so even though it’s the desert, it’s cold, and we keep [all the horses] bundled,” he said. “Then the babies get sick, get rashes and funguses and colds and coughs … Babysitting these horses, keeping them healthy, is probably the biggest challenge.” Originally from Gig Harbor, Washington, located southwest of Seattle,

and prepped for the Arabian Horse Show. When groomed, the horses are hand-

free.” At Arabian Expressions, which consists of a Tuscan-style courtyard, 20 stalls

the museum, which hosts a permanent display of Scottsdale High School memorabilia. “[The museum] is an important asset in the community,” said Vicki Thomas, one of the reunion committee members. “It’s important because not only does it keep the history of Scottsdale alive, but also the fact that it hosts the Scottsdale High School memorabilia. It keeps the memory alive.” The rest of the reunion committee consists of Jeri Ahler, Tami Baker, Bryan Buzzard, Margaret Cohea, Cindy Davis, Tina McQuiston, Merrill Morrison, Charle Sanchez, Gary Saunders, Jim Schaller, Casey Shewak, Cindy Smith and Barb Southworth. Present at the presentation of the check was Scottsdale Historical Society President Steve Randall and the rest of the museum’s board members, including

treasurer Eleanor Brierley, vice president Cindi L. Eberhardt, digital archivist Bob Fowler and head of exhibits Don Hadder. They were delighted to receive the money. “It’s a wonderful feeling of community,” Brierley said. “It’s really heartwarming.” Eberhardt add- The Scottsdale High School Class of 1978 reunion committee presented the Scottsdale Historical Museum with a $500 check. The alumni raised the money at their ed, “We’re grate- 40-year reunion in October. (Pablo Robles/Special to the Progress) ful to know that we’ve got other partners out there in- tember 1923 on the north side of Indian vesting in Scottsdale’s history.” School Road on land previously owned Scottsdale High School opened in Sepsee MUSEUM page 21

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Scottsdale High School alumni strive to save its past BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer

t 2:30 p.m. Feb. 7, a group of Scottsdale High School alumni – specifically, members of the class of 1978 reunion committee – gathered at the doorstep of the Little Red Schoolhouse and Scottsdale Historical Society Museum in downtown Scottsdale. They arrived at the museum with a $500 check in hand – money they raised at their 40-year reunion held in October last year. At the reunion, former classmates reconnected, reminisced and raised money via a raffle benefiting the museum. Donated items included foursomes for golf, four cases of wine, and quilts and stained-glass pieces made by Vicki Thomas, one of the reunion committee members. The money is intended to help support

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Throughout Knowles’ decades-long Knowles fell in love with horses in 1976 career, his most monumental year was, – the year he attended his first Scotts- undoubtedly, the year 2000. dale Arabian Horse Show. He made history winning four consec“I fell in love with everything with the utive U.S. National Champion Yearling horses; I didn’t even know the difference Fillies, from 2000 to 2003. He then won between a boy and gelding,” he said, lat- the Reserve Championship in 2004 – a er explaining that a gelding is a horse feat that had never been accomplished that has been castrated. in Arabian halter competition before or Knowles would go on to work for free since. at a friend’s Arabian horse farm, clean“How it works is, you pick up the baing stalls and walking horses. And just bies, get them ready, baby sit them and a few years later, he opened up his own take care of them. You have about a year, business in 1979. and then you go show,” Knowles said. But he was far He added, “No from ready. one’s ever done it “I was a joke, with different horsbut I worked hard es. It’s like being and hard and hard, the MVP of the Suand we’d come evper Bowl five years ery year,” he said. in a row. It’d be like [Tom] Brady.” “We’d load up our cars and we lived, Knowles is also a ate and slept Scottrecognized auctionsdale. Scottsdale judge. – Greg Knowles eerHeandattended was everything.” the Knowles was so Worldwide College dedicated to the show, he showed up a of Auctioneering in 2002, later becommonth early to help them set up. ing a sought-after auctioneer. In 1999, he eventually moved to ScottAnd in 2018, he judged the 2018 U.S. sdale, trekking down from Washington National Arabian and Half-Arabian with a very important Arabian horse in Championship Show in Tulsa, Oklahoma. tow: Magic Dream, a black-bay stallion. On Feb. 20, Knowles will cross another “He was black and sexy and a real pop- first off his list: auctioneering his first ular strain,” Knowles said. “He caught self-organized auction, the United Select fire, and we didn’t mess it up.” Sale, at Cedar Ridge Scottsdale. Magic Dream made Knowles’ career. Knowles will auction off 30 horses and People from around the world, includ- the embryo rights from legendary Araing the Rolling Stones drummer Char- bian horse, Bint Bey Shah, which has offlie Watts and 49ers quarterback Steve spring in seven countries. Young, came to see the stallion and his Knowles estimates 500 to 700 people offspring. will attend the auction that he very inBut when Magic Dream turned 16, tentionally planned to take place the Knowles didn’t know what to do with week of the Scottsdale Arabian Horse him. His career had plateaued. Show. Knowles ended up selling the horse to “There’s a great marketing opportua man from South Africa. nity because all the major players in the The day Magic Dream left was one of world come through,” he said. “So we the hardest days of Knowles’ life. decided to do a big, giant auction and “The day we sold, a big semi came to spend a lot of money and try to make pick him up, take him to quarantine. I this thing work in a beautiful way and started to walk him to the trail and just sell horses for everybody.” broke down,” Knowles said. “It took me Information about the United Select about a year to put any other horse in Sale: gregknowlesauctions.com the first stall.” Magic Dream died last year, and while it was devastating for Knowles, he’ll always have the memory of seeing the stallion again five years after selling him. Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show “He looks over at me, he stops and When: Through Feb. 24 walks right over to me. He hadn’t seen Where: WestWorld, 16601 N. Pima Road me in five years,” Knowles recalled. Tickets: $10/day for general admission; “That’s when I grabbed his face and price varies hugged him. It was a big deal. I was pretWebsite: scottsdaleshow.com ty emotional about that horse.”

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by Charles Miller, a Scottsdale businessman and rancher. The school closed, however, at the end of the 1982-1983 school year and was subsequently torn down in 1991-1992 to make way for downtown commercial development. “When we graduated from high school, it was less than 100,000 people here,” Saunders said. “We realized that most people that live in Scottsdale now have no idea and have never heard of Scottsdale High.” Coming up on 40 years of the school’s closure, SHS’ history can be found only at the Scottsdale Historical Society Museum. “People can go back to Saguaro or Chaparral, but we just have a sign,” Schaller said. Brierley said the donation couldn’t have come at a better time, as the society recently purchased equipment needed to digitize photographs and other historical documents. “This is a brand-new thing for us here at the Scottsdale Historical Society, taking all the ephemera that we have, all the paper that we have and organizing it and getting it copied and getting it into a computer database,” Brierley said. The Scottsdale Historical Society has partnered with the Scottsdale Public Library to help bulk up its digital archive on Scottsdale history. The process started in 2011, and so far, they have 1,500 photos digitized. Fowler, who digitizes all photos and documents, said they likely have about 1,000 more items that need to be scanned. “We have years and years of old Scottsdale Progress and phone books and everything else from the ‘50s and ‘60s, and we gave that to the library, so they can digitize it and make it more available for the public.” The committee’s intention with the money is to keep the memories of their

high school alive. “There’s only five classes after us,” Davis said. “If [alumni] really love the school and really had a great experience and they want to keep it alive, this is the place to do it.” Hadder, who works on exhibits, said they could use additional funds for new exhibits. “We can’t raise any operational funds unless it’s from donations,” Eberhardt said. In September 2017, the museum basement flooded, causing approximately $100,000 worth of damage. During the cleanup, however, historical documents surfaced – including the original city charter and the ballots from Malcolm White’s appointment as the city’s first mayor – among other items they’ll likely digitize. Davis hopes their reunion committee’s actions will inspire other SHS alumni to do the same and help support the Scottsdale Historical Society. “We just want to challenge the other graduating classes of Scottsdale High that are still around to, when they have a reunion, to try and raise some funds,” she said. “That’s what our donation was; it wasn’t to pay for the reunion, it was for this.” Those interested in donating can visit scottsdalehistory.org.

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Founder’s Birthday Celebration

What: Scottsdale ofﬁcials and historians Marshall Trimble and Joan Fudala will provide brief tributes to Scottsdale’s founder and namesake, Chaplain Winﬁeld Scott. When: Feb. 26 at 12 p.m. Where: Scottsdale Historical Museum, 7333 E. Scottsdale Mall Cost: Free Call: 480-945-4499

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NASA’s exploration of our solar system

ASU Professor David Williams will give an illuminating update on NASA’s work at 7 p.m. at Living Water Lutheran Church, 9201 E. Happy Valley Road. All are welcome to attend this free event.

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Sunday

Scottsdale Fellowship Club, 10427 N. Scottsdale Road. Club membership is not required to attend meetings.

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Festival Sinfonia

Enjoy a performance by Festival Orchestra musicians at 3 p.m. at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church, 25150 N. Pima Road. Tickets are $49 to $76. Information: azmusicfest.org or 480-422-8449.

Story stop (Ages 0-5)

Build children’s literacy with a free picture book program from 2 to 2:15 p.m. at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-312-7323.

Sunday A’Fair

Bring a blanket and sit on the lawn to snack on great food, visit with friends and enjoy free live performances from noon to 4 p.m. at Scottsdale Civic Center Mall, 3939 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Event may be canceled due to inclement weather.

Monday

Crystal bridge at the J

Join others for duplicate bridge in a warm and friendly atmosphere between 12:30 and 4 p.m. at Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road. Light refreshments will be served throughout the day. Attendance is $10. Information: 480-483-7121.

Fast play bridge

Enjoy a game of bridge at 1 p.m. at Via Linda Senior Center at 10440 E. Via Linda. Information: 480-312-5810.

North Scottsdale fellowship club New Faces AA meeting

Find recovery from alcohol addiction alongside this support group at 7:45 a.m. at North

Let’s knit

Learn or practice knitting with others from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road. Free. Information: 480-483-7121.

Augsburg Centennial Singers concert

Enjoy a 45-voice male chorus at 7 p.m. at 9201 E. Happy Valley Road. A free-will offering will be collected. Music will include both classical and contemporary composers such as Bach and Leland B. Sateren. Information: 612-723-9819.

The Hampton Roads Conference

Scottsdale Civil War Roundtable presents James Conroy to discuss the Hampton Roads Conference where President Lincoln and Vice President Stephens conducted the only direct peace negotiations of the Civil War at 5:45 p.m. at Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Doors open at 4:30 p.m. Information: 480-699-5844.

An evening with Karen Rose and Lisa Gardener

Lisa Gardener will be joining Karen Rose to promote the release of Rose’s novel, “Say You’re Sorry,” at 7 p.m. at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, 4014 N. Goldwater Blvd. Information: 480-947-2974.

Art appreciation

Phoenix Art Museum docents will share postal art from 11 a.m. to noon at Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road. Free. Information: 480481-7033.

Mature Mavens dinner out

Wednesday

Expert HR series: the joint employment doctrine

Learn the ins and outs of what it means to be a joint employer under the NLRA, FMLA and FLSA from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at Employers Council, 7975 N. Hayden Road, Suite D-280. Admission is $20.

How did I miss that one? Book discussion group

Pick up a copy of “Another Brooklyn” by Jacqueline Woodson before the group discussion at 1 p.m. at Appaloosa Library, 7377 E. Silverstone Drive. Information: 480-312-7323.

Twos and threes together (Ages 2-3)

Young children can learn social and literacy skills from 10 to 10:30 a.m. with short stories, finger-plays and action rhymes at Mustang Library, 10101 N. 90th St. Free. Information: 480312-7323.

ESL classes

All conversation levels are encouraged to practice the English language from 1 to 3 p.m. at Mustang Library, 10101 N. 90th St. Free. Information: 480312-7323.

Thursday

21 AM connect

Enjoy breakfast and networking with fellow business professionals from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at Desert Financial Credit Union Kierland, 15505 N. Scottsdale Road. Come hungry and prepared to promote your business. Please feel free to bring business cards and sales materials. Admission is free for Scottsdale Area Chamber of

Valley of the Sun JCC invites you to make new friends and socialize at a local restaurant at 5 p.m. Dinner is separate checks. Call Bunnye at 602371-3744 for restaurant details and to make a reservation.

Festival Orchestra: concert of triumph

Listen to Tchaikovsky’s “Capriccio Italien,” Verdi’s “March from Aida” and Respighi’s “Pines of Rome” at 7:30 p.m. at La Casa de Cristo Church, 6300 E. Bell Road. Phoenix. Tickets are $25 to $82. Information: azmusicfest.org or 480-4228449.

Friday

Saturday

N. 100th St. from 5 to 9 p.m. for a movie, games and food for sale. Be sure to bring a blanket for this outdoor event.

23 Sunday

Farmers market

The Farmers Market North Scottsdale offers produce, eggs, meat, bread, baked goods, oils, honey, coffee, tea, clothing, jewelry and more weekly from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. through April 9 at The General Store, 8711 E. Pinnacle Peak Road. Information: 480-389-5117.

Old Town Scottsdale farmers market

This weekly market connects the community with local growers, food producers and community groups every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. until May 25 at Old Town Scottsdale Farmers Market, 3806 N. Brown Ave. This Saturday, stop by the table display of Scotts’ produce to celebrate Scottsdale founder Chaplain Winfield Scott’s birthday week and local legacies from 9 to 11 a.m. Information: 623-848-1234.

The Singletons Swing into Spring social

David Haas concert

David Haas, regarded as one of the pre-eminent liturgical music composers in the English-speaking world, will perform at 2 p.m. at Ascension Lutheran Church, 7100 N. Mockingbird Lane, Paradise Valley. Haas’ work appears in several hymnals of Lutheran, Catholic and a host of other Christian denominations in various languages. Tickets are $10. Information: www.ascensionparadisevalley.org.

Tail waggin’ tales (Ages 6-10)

Children can practice their reading skills with a certified therapy dog from 2 to 2:45 p.m. at Mustang Library, 10101 N. 90th St. Information: 480312-7323.

Story stop (Ages 0-5)

Enjoy cocktails, a slider bar, silent auction, live auction, raffles and live entertainment from 6 to 9 p.m. at Harley Davidson of Scottsdale, 15656 N. Hayden Road. Tickets are $75 to $125. Proceeds benefit The Singleton’s mission to support single-parent families battling cancer. Information: www. thesingletonaz.org.

Build children’s literacy with a free picture book program from 2 to 2:15 p.m. at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-312-7323.

Enjoy Chicago-style pizza and business networking from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lou Malnati’s, 17787 N. Scottsdale Road. Admission is $15 to $30.

Family caregivers are encouraged to attend a free video discussion to reduce the stress of caregiving and build resilience from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at St. Daniel the Prophet, 1030 N. Hayden Road. Registration is required. Information: 602-295-9643.

Gather with other knitters to work on individual projects, share advice and talk with others from 1 to 3 p.m. at Scottsdale Civic Center Library, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd. Information: 480-312-7323.

Gather friends, family and dogs and head to Scottsdale Civic Center Mall at 3939 N. Drinkwater Blvd. for a day of fun, festivities, inspiring speakers, dog demonstrations, music, food and more from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free.

The Rotary Club of Scottsdale strives to put “service above self” and meets Mondays at noon at McCormick Ranch Golf Club, 7505 E. McCormick Parkway. This week, the club is looking forward to its annual Spring Training outing at Salt River Fields. To learn more about the group and its outing, visit www.scottsdalerotary.org. Information: 480-945-6158.

Adult children of alcoholics

This support group is open to women wishing to move forward from growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional home. The group meets from noon to 1 p.m. at North Scottsdale Fellowship Club, 10427 N. Scottsdale Road.

Meet your neighbors for lunch

In stitches knitters group

Advanced beginner bridge

Join others in playing a fun game of bridge from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Appaloosa Library, 7377 E. Silverstone Drive. Information: 480-312-7323.

Finding Meaning and Hope: video discussion series

DogFest Phoenix 2019

Free improv workshop

Dress comfortable and prepare yourself for a morning of fun from 10 a.m. to noon at The Comedy Spot Comedy Club, 7117 E. Third Ave.

Bike-in movie

Stop by Horizon Park at 15444

Monday

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Art all around us

The Phoenix Art Museum will present expert slide talks on art from 11 a.m. to noon at Mustang Library, 10101 N. 90th St. Information: 480-312-7323.

Homework help (Ages 8-18)

Stop by the Arabian Library at 10215 E. McDowell Mountain Ranch Road. for help on any subject from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Information: 480-312-7323.

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Houses going to the dogs at fundraiser and auction BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer

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ehind a warehouse in Chandler, two Scottsdale Community Sc ottsdale College students, Rudy Arevalo, 36, and Sarah Levine, 29, are applying a fresh coat of neon-hued paint to a custom dog house they’ve spent two weeks designing and building. But this house isn’t for their own pooches; it’s for charity. Arevalo and Levine are one of 26 teams taking part in the fifth annual Design for Dogs competition Feb. 22 at the Facings of America Showroom in Scottsdale. All dog houses at the fundraising event will be auctioned off, and the money raised from the competition will benefit the Arizona Animal Welfare League (AAWL), a nonprofit organization that rescues more than 4,000 homeless aniScottsdale Community College students Rudy Arevalo and Sarah Levine modeled their custom-built dog house mals per year across the state. Both board members of SCC’s Ameri- for the upcoming Design for Dogs competition after the Reversible Destiny Ofﬁce at the Site of Reversible Destiny—Yoro at Yoro Park in Japan. The event will be held on Feb. 22 at the Facings of America Showroom in can Society of Interior Designers student Scottsdale. (Sarah Levine/Special to the Progress) chapter, this is Arevalo and Levine’s first time participating in the annual charity was mid-century,” Arevalo said. “It was that has an LED, solar-powered light event. this weird modern moment in Japan that strip, a custom-built dog bowl holder at“After we signed up for it, I was going is kind of austere but really fun – and it tached to the home, and a rug and chanthrough all the catalogs, and I was like, made a really cool dog house.” delier inside, among other features. ‘Let’s do something totally different. After sketching, Arevalo and Levine “It’s been fun,” Levine said. “We just Let’s draw attention with color,’” Arevalo designed it in just one day. wanted to create something that was said. They then spent two weeks building colorful and quirky and someone could For their dog house, they took a more the dog-house-on-wheels made of ply- look at and maybe giggle.” modern – and colorful – approach, mod- wood, stucco and PVC. Arevalo added: “I hope somebody like eling it after the Reversible Destiny OfThe hardest part of the project, Areva- really likes it as much as we put into it – fice at the Site of Reversible Destiny— lo said, was engineering the back of the and bids on it.” Yoro at Yoro Park in Japan. dog house. This is the fifth year AAWL will benefit “It looks identical,” Arevalo said. “We “At first, I wanted something square, from the Design for Dogs competition. shrunk it down and added some things, but then we decided to do the whole “We are humbled and thankful that but it looks like almost the same build- thing round, which posed a challenge in Facings of America has become such a ing.” itself,” he said. “We had the back louvered They were inspired by the building and we had to bend plywood; then, we’d after stumbling upon the photo on Ins- bend another thing of plywood over it, tagram. so it was structurally sound.” “It’s this postmodern structure built in When all is said and done, the dog the ‘90s, so it wasn’t like anything that house will come complete with a roof

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strong community partner to AAWL,” said Michael Morefield, director of marketing and communications for AAWL. “Donations are the only reason we can keep our doors open.” Last year, the event raised more than $20,000 for AAWL, the state’s oldest and largest no-kill shelter. “Every ticket sale, raffle drawing and dog house sold is saving homeless animals,” Morefield said. The AAWL team spends 12 to 14 hours driving across the state to rescue dogs from rural partners, with many of the rescued animals requiring extensive medical care, according to Morefield. Medical care can include anything from vaccines and health exams to emergency surgery or weeks-long treatment of potentially fatal diseases. “Facings of America’s donation allows us to continue this lifesaving mission and support,” Morefield said. Each attendee at the Design for Dogs event will receive four wine and beer tickets for the block party event located outside of the showroom, and food will be provided. They’ll also have a puppy kissing booth. As for the kind of dog houses attendees can expect to see, previous events included a Hobbiton-inspired home, a dog house that could literally raise the roof and a Bauhaus-style house with a functional air conditioning unit. “These dog houses are unlike anything you have seen,” Morefield said. “They are truly handcrafted works of art, but still totally functional and fun for your four-legged friend.” Information: designfordogs. org

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Design for Dogs

When: Feb. 22, 5-8 p.m. Where: Facings of America Showroom, 16421 N. 90th St. Cost: $45 in advance, $55 at the door Scottsdale Community College students, Rudy Arevalo and Sarah Levine, are one of 26 teams who have designed and built a luxury dog house for the Design for Dogs competition held on Feb. 22 at the Facings of America Showroom in Scottsdale. (Courtesy of Arizona Animal Welfare League)

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Arizona Historymakers gala is a star-studded affair BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer

ernon Swaback – renowned architect, planner and owner of Scottsdalebased firm Swaback Partners – remembers the day he arrived to Arizona. He traveled by train from Chicago and across the desert to Taliesin West, where he would work alongside Frank Lloyd Wright as the youngest student to ever be invited into the Taliesin West Fellowship. Looking out at an expansive desert, he noted the stark differences between the bustling, established city of Chicago and the vastness of the Scottsdale desert – a bare canvas at the time, before it would flourish into the city it is today. “It was like a fresh-start place where it’s all new and changing,” Swaback said. Swaback contributed heavily to that change, as his firm is responsible for some of the most significant planning projects in the state’s history, including the award-winning Arizona Biltmore estates. And now decades later, he, along with five other distinguished Arizonans, will be recognized as Historymakers at the Historical League’s 2019 Arizona Historymakers “Turquoise and Tuxedos” Gala on Feb. 23. “I just feel so honored to be included in the people of that magnitude,” Swaback said. “In terms of being a Historymaker,” he added, “perhaps I’ve been fortunate to be involved in various times of change in the Valley, but I could never have done it without not only my own people in my own firm, but also city council members, members of the community and so forth.” This year’s six new inductees include Betsey Bayless, who has served as Arizona secretary of state, Maricopa County Board supervisor, and president and CEO for Maricopa Integrated Health System; Dr. Arthur DeCabooter, former president of Scottsdale Community College; Michael J. Fox, founding director and CEO of Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West; Alfredo Gutierrez, founder of Arizona State University’s Mexican-American Student Organization; Merrill Mahaffey, a nationally recognized painter and icon within the Arizona and the Southwest arts scene; and, of course, Swaback. “Without a doubt, it is the highlight of my professional and personal careers,” said DeCabooter. Fox, who formerly served as the director and CEO of the Heard Museum, calls this recognition as a Historymaker an “immense honor.” “[Past Historymakers’] remarkable legacies are evident in the very work of my ca-

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reer, and they are the true Historymakers,” Fox said. “I’m merely the messenger to let others know that without their visionary leadership, dedication and community conscientiousness, the institutions I have been affiliated with would not have become what they have today.” Since 1992, The Historical League’s Historymakers Gala and Recognition Program has honored These gentlemen are four of six Historymakers who will be honored at the 2019 Arizona Historymakers “Turquoise & Tuxedos” Gala on Feb. 23 at the Arizona Biltmore Resort. Arizonans who Clockwise from top left: Vernon Swaback, renowned architect, planner and owner of have made a last- Scottsdale-based ﬁrm, Swaback Partners; former Scottsdale Community College President, ing contribution to Dr. Arthur DeCabooter; Scottsdale’s Museum of the West CEO, Michael J. Fox; and nationally recognized painter, Merrill Mahaffey. (Photos by Scott Baxter/Special to the Progress) the community in diverse areas, including the arts, education, “The selection committee had a very, very healthcare, communications, community tough job because the nominees were totalservice and philanthropy. ly outstanding,” Smith said. “I really liked the fact that the net is spread According to Historical League member, so wide in terms Historymakers,” said Swa- Ruth McLeod, the panel is as diverse as the back. Historymakers; They’re comprised of disThe Historymakers Gala is the Historical tinguished people from all industries, from League’s major fundraising event that used politics and sports to arts and education, to be held every three years. Starting this and they meet three times to deliberate. In addition to deliberating and voting, year, however, it will now be held every two the panel asks the nominees if they would years. “We changed it to every two years because honor the Historical League in being a Hiswe realized how important these people are torymaker. “We have yet to have one say no,” said Hisand how important it is to honor them,” said Historymakers Recognition Program Chair torical League President, Mary Garbaciak. “They’re all honored to be part of the muDiana Smith. Funds raised at the gala go toward capital seum and part of our legacy for Arizona.” The Historymakers chosen are then honimprovements and facility upgrades to the Arizona Heritage Center and the Center’s ored at both the gala and at the Historymakers Exhibit, which is slated to open at the expansion of its programs and exhibits. For this year’s gala, the Historical League Arizona Heritage Center at Papago Park in – a nonprofit organization dedicated to pre- the fall. The exhibition includes biographies, porserving Arizona’s rich cultural heritage and traits, oral histories, photos and memorapromoting continued public awareness of bilia from each Historymaker. the Arizona Historical Society – received Fox will loan to the exhibition a 1950s over 60 nominations for Historymakers. marionette puppet and stand from his childThe Historical League’s selection committee voted using a graded system. hood, a signed Muhammad Ali glove, as well

as various awards and framed pictures and letters, including a letter from Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, among other personal items. Swaback will loan a letter he received when he was a teen working at Talisien West with Wright from a law firm called Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie. DeCabooter hopes to include his walking stick that was handcrafted by his nephew, as it represents the years he spent helping to establish the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. Other items include his and his students’ mortarboards, the Alex Simons Lifetime Achievement award he received from the Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame for having started the Culinary Arts program at Scottsdale Community College, and Artie the Artichoke, SCC’s mascot. “[It] reminds me that all was not calm when I took the reigns at SCC 41 years ago,” DeCabooter said. “It went from a negative message to a very positive one.” Both Swaback and Fox emphasize the importance of not only the Historymakers Gala, but also the work of the Historical League, whose members and volunteers dedicate their own time to ensuring Arizona’s history is recorded and preserved. “I don’t think history really gets to where it matters unless there are people who are focused on it and recording how a small town gets to be what it values today,” Swaback said. “It’s not just the role of elected officials, it’s the whole community. It’s the whole spirit of people.” Fox added that the volunteers responsible for the Historymakers Gala are deserving of praise and gratitude for their own dedication and hard work. “The honor bestowed on so many of our state over nearly three decades wouldn’t be without their own commitment and conviction to the meaningfulness to present and future generations of this program,” Fox said. Since its founding in 1979, the Historical League has raised more than $1.45 million for the Arizona Heritage Center. Its members have volunteered more than 160,000 hours to the League and the Center. Information: historicalleague.org

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New craft workshop is heaven for Scottsdale DIYers BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer

hat was once a black and redhued, testosterone-pumped �itness and health club tucked within the Shea Scottsdale East Shopping Center is now a do-it-yourself, Pinterestcome-to-life workshop and boutique, Anders Ruff Workshop Scottsdale. But by no means is this home décor workshop, wherein guests knit blankets, make jewelry and paint wooden signs, among other projects, a “no boys allowed” establishment. Owned by Scottsdale residents and husband-wife team Aaren and Eric Nicks, AR Workshop is one of more than 100 workshops in the U.S. The Scottsdale location, which opened last November, is Arizona’s second store; the �irst opened in Chandler in June 2017, and the third is expected to open in Queen Creek at an undetermined date. “Everyone’s happy here; it’s like Disneyland,” Aaren said. Inside the Scottsdale location, a retail

Aaren and Eric Nicks are the owners of AR Workshop Scottsdale, a recently opened DIY shop and workshop in northern Scottsdale. (Kimberly Carrillo/Progress Staff Photographer)

shop with tote bags and other curated gifts greets customers upon entrance. But it’s the �loor-to-ceiling displays of handpainted, on-trend wood signs, frames, wall hangings and more that draw people further into the store. Baskets of multi-colored yarn sit on a

table further back in the store, ready to be transformed into warm, chunky knit blankets. Aaren and Eric take class attendees step-by-step for all projects, and all materials are prepped and provided as part of the workshop fee.

square feet includes eight �loor plans in the Terrace Apartments for independent and assisted living and two �loor plans for the memory care area, which is called Alla Vita. Liv’s business model and its range of amenities almost make aging desirable. Liv Communities COO Scott McCutcheon calls it “resort-style senior living.” For example, LivGenerations Pinnacle Peak features classes in a state-of-the art �itness center, a heated saltwater pool, yoga and meditation sessions; a walking club, non-denominational worship services, the Mosaic Art Studio and the Orchid Salon and Day Spa – along with wine tastings in the Infusions Wine Cellar, a Barley’s Bourbon Bar, Silk Tassel Tea Room, a movie theater and a dog park. A round-the-clock medical staff is on hand for residents needing greater levels of care.

“We are delighted to open our doors to the neighborhood of Pinnacle Peak, and welcome everyone to experience what makes LivGenerations such a special place for older adults to call home,” McCutcheon said. “Our community is not simply the newest, most stunning older adult community in the area, it is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece. Our team is trained and dynamically determined to assure each customer is living life to the fullest. He also called his company’s facilities “what today’s seniors demand in housing.” LivGenerations Pinacle Peak is currently accepting applications. Information: livcommunities.com

All attendees have to do is show up – and with a bottle of wine, if they’d like, as AR Workshop has a BYO license. No former art or DIY experience necessary. “My arts skills are limited, but it attests to the process, which is fairly simple,” Eric said. “Even somebody that’s not the most artistic person can do something like this.” AR Workshop typically attracts women of all ages, but Aaren and Eric said men who’ve taken classes with their girlfriends, wives or families have reacted positively to the DIY workshop. “We had a guy in here the other week making a chunky knit blanket and he was like, ‘This is awesome,’” Aaren said. “He thought it was the best thing ever.” It’s a stereotype the Nicks hope to shatter via AR Workshop – that DIY-ing isn’t just for women. “The aesthetic is more leaning toward the feminine side, but it’s �lat-out woodworking,” Aaren said. The most popular reasons people come

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n emerging major player in the Valley’s network of senior living facilities is opening its third Valley location in Scottsdale at the end of the month. Liv Communities is opening its third senior living community, LivGenerations Pinnacle Peak, at 23733 N. Scottsdale Road on Feb. 28. The $40.5-million, 110-unit property joins Liv Communities in Gilbert’s popular Agritopia community and Ahwatukee in providing a range of living arrangements for seniors – included independent and assisted living as well as memory care apartments. The three communities are essentially designed so that residents can comfortably obtain more services as they age if they need them. The Scottsdale facility’s 170,000

The dinning area for residents at LivGenerations Pinnacle Peak has a sleek modern design that even some restaurants might envy. (Special to the Progress)

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in to AR Workshop are for corporate events and team building, girls’ night out and birthday parties. AR Workshop’s list of projects is constantly changing, evolving and growing to keep up with home décor trends. Though they’ll always offer the AR Workshop staples, including plank wood projects, framed wood projects and centerpiece wood boxes, the Nicks are always open to hearing what guests want. “We get requests all the time,” Aaren said. “We’re starting jewelry stamping because there were a couple of requests for it. We don’t want to pigeonhole ourselves into just one thing.” Aaren said the owners of the AR Workshop franchise, Maureen Anders and Adria Ruff, also work closely with HGTV, and it’s how they keep up to date with the latest trends. “They keep in constant contact with all of the designers to make sure they know what’s coming up next,” she said. “It’s always a topic of discussion.” Currently, the “modern farmhouse” aesthetic is popular and will be for a few more years, according to Aaren. The most popular projects at the Scottsdale location have been the “modern

monogram” wood sign and custom painted and designed cheeseboards. AR Workshop began in 2010 under a different name, Anders Ruff, and started off as a popular graphic design, party styling, DIY blog and online shop. Anders Ruff evolved from an Etsy shop to a hands-on workshop, and within two years, they grew to more than 100 franchise locations across the country, all of which are either female-owned or owned by a husband-wife team, much like Aaren and Eric. What makes Aaren and Eric’s AR Workshop so unique is it’s not only husbandwife owned – they’re high school sweethearts with three children – Eric is also an Army veteran. He spent four years in the Army and currently works in corporate �inance in addition to co-owning AR Workshop. Aaren, a former elementary school teacher, always wanted to own her own business, and after she and Eric renovated the basement in their Pennsylvania home, they knew they wanted to venture into the DIY world. “We took on �inishing our basement, and we loved the entire process and doing it together,” Aaren said. “It was great being able to do all of the design ourselves.”

Shortly after the Nicks moved to Scottsdale about two years ago, one of Eric’s coworkers tipped them off to paint-andsip shops and how many of them are franchise operations. After a quick Google search, they found AR Workshop and immediately sent an email to the AR Workshop franchise director. And so the process began. Aaren and Eric chose the Shea Scottsdale East Shopping Center because it was centrally located and rich with foot traf�ic. “We wanted to be somewhere easy for the suburbs of Scottsdale to be able to drive to, as well as anything that’s west of us,” Aaren said. “We’ve had people walk in and sign up.” One walk-by customer was Danielle Christakos, a �loral arrangement artist who works with Alice’s Table, an online platform and community that provides women with the tools and knowledge they need to launch their own �lexible �lower arranging businesses. “I actually live in the neighborhood and was walking by the store and thought it would be the perfect venue to partner with as our brands align really well together,” Christakos said. Aaren and Eric were keen to partner up with Christakos.

At the upcoming spring �loral arranging and wood stenciling event at AR Workshop on March 21, attendees will learn �lower arranging. “My class is basically a �loral Pinterest class come to life,” Christakos said. “You learn how to create all those beautiful arrangements you see online, but though you could never do.” Christakos will bring in the �lowers, and Aaren will teach guests how to personalize the wooden box in which the �lowers will be arranged. This will be the �irst guest instructorhosted event for AR Workshop. “For guests instructors who want to can come in and teach, this gives them an avenue or a venue to do it,” Aaren said. Information: arworkshop.com/scottsdale

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Spring Floral Arranging and Wood Stenciling When: March 21 at 6 p.m. Where: 7342 E. Shea Blvd., Suite 107 Price: $75 per person, all materials included Call: 480- 281-9993

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Scottsdale General Plan ‘a beast we must address’ BY NANCY CANTOR Progress Guest Writer

hat General Plan 2035 is an elusive beast and something we must address. We tried to update it in 2011, and we could not. There was strong opposition to the land use element. Many things in a General Plan impact how land is to be used, and how surrounding properties are affected by a new build. But a General Plan is more than just a land use manual. Scottsdale boards and commissions are kind of wonky. For example, no of�icial policy requires the neighborhoods to have a voice on how new in�ill developments will impact surrounding neighborhoods. Setbacks, open space and landscap-

ing, for example, are all left up to the architects, builders, engineers and developers who are appointed to the Planning Commission and Development Review Board. The surrounding neighborhoods are left without a voice. Scottsdale does have a Neighborhood Advisory Commission, but it is not allowed to weigh in on in�ill developments. And as housing costs rise, what has happened to affordable housing for Scottsdale’s workforce? They are left in the dust as Scottsdale is becoming an international investor’s dream. This again results in many folks being displaced. Our city has a housing strategy approved by council in 2001. Citizen volunteers spent many hours working on a plan that would be practical for Scottsdale. Many volunteer hours and staff hours were exhausted on that plan.

That is another plan that has never been used. It joins many other ideas that collect dust on a shelf. Ask some of these luxury multi-family housing developers this: Can you easily include affordable options in their projects? We don’t want to detract from your project, but can you have affordable options? The answer is most frequently “Yes. Sure, we can. Nobody in Scottsdale ever asks us to do it.” Why aren’t our leadership and planners asking those questions? Without those options, many senior citizens who want to down-size must move out of our neighborhoods. These are the neighborhoods they have lived in for decades. They must move away from things that are familiar. Moving away from neighbors

they have known for years. On the other end of the equation are the young folks just starting families. They are facing single-family housing prices upwards of $400,000 or twobedroom apartments starting at $1,200 a month (and every time apartment complexes change property management companies, the rent goes up). A healthy, stable community should be able to accommodate all levels of housing needs to serve our multigenerational city. The 2035 General Plan Update holds many suggestions for how to do this and still maintain the character and quality of life we all enjoy. It is up to the leadership of the City Council, and so far, they have been AWOL. Nancy Cantor is co-chair of the Coronado Neighborhood Schools Alliance.

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Former SMoCA performance curator unveils a book BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer

ania Katan, the former Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts curator of performing arts, is a connoisseur of cultivating communities. From slapping multi-colored Post-it Notes haphazardly to the once-bare, gloomy hallway walls of her workplace to organizing an original and highly successful storytelling series in the SMoCA Lounge, Katan has never been afraid to quite literally step outside the box to engage and empower others. Her mission at SMoCA was simple: to sneak creativity back into the workplace. She felt so strongly about it that she has not only traveled the country as an inspirational speaker since parting ways with SMoCA in 2015, but she has also written a book about it, “Creative Trespassing: How to Put the Spark and Joy Back into Your Work and Life.” “Creative Trespassing” hit shelves on Feb. 12, and the book signing and launch will take place on Feb. 22 at SMoCA, where Katan’s own creative trespassing all began. In true Katan fashion, however, this won’t be your ordinary book signing event. “Typically book launches are a pretty static proposition. You have an author who cracks open the book and stands behind the podium and read stories; and then everybody claps politely and then the author leaves as if in a cloud of smoke and sits outside at the table and signs books and people thank each other,” she said. “I’m going to give a performative talk about the book.” At this performative talk, Katan will recount stories of her time spent at SMoCA – including the time she organized and staged a wrestling match in the middle of the museum – as well as deliver tools and strategies to help those in a professional rut stomp their way out with purpose and newfound creativity. “A lot of the ways I thought about creative trespassing and started to develop this concept happened when I was working at SMoCA,” she said. “I thought, what better place to return to the scene of the

Former Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts Curator of Performing Arts, Tania Katan, will return to SMoCA for the book launch and signing of her second book. (Courtesy of Tania Katan/Special to the Progress)

crime and expose those moments where I really learned how to be and how it was valuable to be a creative trespasser.” Katan also hints that the entire audience will “literally take �light” during her talk. “I can’t tell you more,” Katan said. “I will tell you that it will not be aided by any lights or special effects. That’s all I’m saying. Just show up to �ind out.” “Creative Trespassing” is intended to help readers “defy conformity,” “conjure imagination anywhere, at anytime” and “transform monotony into novelty,” according to the book synopsis. “This book is an invitation to �ind inspiration where others see only limitations because when we believe that logic and limits are subject to change, the world is full of possibilities,” Katan said. Katan started jotting down notes for what “Creative Trespassing” became about eight years ago. While at SMoCA, Katan created a web video series called “Out of the Cubicle,” where she and a videographer ran around the museum and the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and interviewed colleagues. “I didn’t want to pretend that I wasn’t stuck in this cubicle. I wanted to make

the thing the thing,” she said. Katan explained that the videos were intended to shut down the misconception that creative organizations are elitist, inaccessible and uninviting. “We’re just regular people, just like anybody else who works in an of�ice setting. And, in fact, we work in cubicles and we do mundane things and we also do extraordinary things, too,” she said. This is just one way Katan broke the mold at SMoCA. Katan went on to lead workshops and give talks at corporations. She said the more she gave inspirational talks, the more she realized that merging arts, culture and creativity into business was needed and necessary. “I started to listen and learn that there were a lot of connections and parallels between art and technology, between commerce and creativity, and that what I was doing was showing where we can connect and overlap and how we can utilize the arts to actually add layers to the technology we’re creating,” she said. Her message has been so well-received, she has been featured in prominent publications and outlets such as The New York Times, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, TIME and more. Katan has published one other book,

“My One-Night Stand with Cancer: A Memoir,” in 2005, wherein Katan recounts getting diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer at 21, and again 10 years later. Katan included her experiences with cancer in “Creative Trespassing,” as well; more speci�ically, she wrote about performing her one-woman show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. “It was the moment where I was on stage, and unbeknownst to the audience, I was going to take off my shirt at the end of the play, exposing two mastectomy scars,” she said. In the crowd were three men: One was drunk, another was dozing off, and the third was genuinely paying attention. Katan still gave the performance her best shot. “Worst case scenario, it’s a good rehearsal for me, and best case scenario, somebody enjoys it in the audience,” she said. “And there are so many ways in which that is indicative of being in the workforce or in the workplace, whether we’re giving a presentation where a boss is like just barely awake, or we’re having to pitch an idea to an all-hands meeting and not everybody is on our team.” In the end, Katan just wants readers to “get their freakin’ spark back” between the hours of 9 to 5 and, most of all, to live a freer and more awesome life. “The moment you choose to let the world see the real you – messy, imperfect, warts and all – is the moment you choose to shine, too.”

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Tania Katan “Creative Trespassing” Book Launch & Performative Talk

When: Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. Where: Virginia G. Piper Theater at SMoCA, 7380 E. Second St. Tickets: $40 per person, inc. signed book; $60 for two, inc. signed book; $75 VIP, inc. signed book, VIP reception and reserved front row seat Website: smoca.org Call: 480-874-4666

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Local artist’s Grand Canyon painting honored BY KRISTINE CANNON Progress Staff Writer

painting of Plateau Point on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon is displayed in the front of Amery Bohling Gallery as you step in. For those who have never been to the gallery that has occupied the corner of Main Street and Marshall Way in Old Town for the past four years, this painting illustrates what Bohling does best: capturing the beauty and majesty of the Grand Canyon. So, it’s only �itting Bohling’s painting “Approaching Windy Ridge,” depicting the Grand Canyon, would be chosen to grace the cover of Arizona Highways magazine’s February 2019 issue, which hit newsstands mid-January. Bohling calls this opportunity one of the most signi�icant achievements in her career, so far. “In my head, this is the top of my food chain,” and “The best thing about this opportunity is that a lot of people who are able to see some of the work I do. It’s so hard to have anyone see that you exist as an artist.”

Amery Bohling is a plein air painter and owner of Amery Bohling Gallery, located in Old Town Scottsdale. Her painting “Monsoon Canyon” (above) graces the cover of Arizona Highways magazine’s February 2019 issue. (Photos courtesy of Amery Bohling Fine Art/Special to Progress)

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painting, speci�ically plein air painting, in which painters paint outdoors. Since then, Bohling has visited three rims, rafted twice and hiked the canyon. Her all-time favorite spot in the canyon is Indian Garden Campground. “You can hang out in the grass and look up. At this little creek, there’ll be lizards and frogs and there might be deer running by,” Bohling said. “That’s what I like the most, not so much that the moment that I’m painting as it is those little moments when you’re just being quiet.” When she does paint on location at the Grand Canyon, however, she’s met with never-ending focus, a wave of inspiration and sometimes even unexpected rain and a slap in the face with ice-cold, snowy wind gusts. “Two or three years ago, I was teaching a workshop at the canyon with a few students and it was going to be beautiful – but it was terrible, like side-snow in your face,” she said. Considering the less-than-favorable conditions, Bohling was able to see the silver lining. “On those days where you’re really miserable is when you get your best reference photos,” she said. The Grand Canyon has even helped her improve her skills as an artist. “A few years ago, I didn’t know how to paint [a certain spot] because the light wasn’t strong enough and I didn’t quite know how to make it work,” she said of the piece she’s currently painting for the Grand Canyon centennial.

“You want to have a photo you took awhile ago that, as you improve as an artist, you know how to do it later. And that was one of these pieces; I know how to do it now,” she said. Her fondest memory at the Grand Canyon took place in 2015, when she attended the Celebration of Art, an annual tradition at Grand Canyon National Park that showcases plein air artists in action. “By the time I got everything out there, it was just white [from snow]; there was nothing,” she said. “So I was like, ‘Well, I can’t paint now. There was nothing to paint.” Alone, Bohling walked to the edge of the rim. “It was nothing forever and you could see your feet and the rock, but then outside of that, [the canyon] was like gone,” she said. “You could hear the wind and the canyon.” Bohling’s approach to plein air painting is to capture how she feels while standing on location. “Because when you stand there for two hours and you’re painting it, you really come to appreciate what’s happening with the colors and how the light’s moving across, and you build that into your memory,” she said. “The more base memory you have of a location, the easier it is to kind of elaborate on it.” Bohling took her �irst art class when she was 16 at the Scottsdale Artists’ School.

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And for the past 10 years, she has been teaching plein air, watercolor and Grand Canyon-speci�ic workshops at the nonSUNDAY, FEB. 17pro�it organization in the Scottsdale Arts SUNDAY FEB. 24 District. She has several workshops taking place 23rd Annual Greater Phoenix in March, April and May of this year. Jewish Film Festival “You do learn a lot about yourself from The 23rd annual Greater Phoenix Jewish Film teaching because you have to kind of put it Festival will showcase a slate of 20 independent �ilms, including the Western United States’ into words like so much of what you try to premiere of a rare multi-camera shoot from the do,” Bohling said. original Broadway run of the play about Golda On April 13-14 at SAS, Bohling will teach Meir, Israel’s only female Prime Minister. “Gola two-day workshop titled “How to Paint da’s Balcony, The Film” is a �ilm of a play. The Canyon,” where attendees can learn her �ilm festival features a rich assortment of independent Jewish cinema. tried-and-true techniques for painting the DETAILS>> Various times, Harkins Shea 14, UNESCO World Heritage Site. The fee is 7354 E. Shea Blvd., Scottsdale. For more in$210. formation on �ilms or to purchase tickets, call Bohling currently has three students 602-753-9366 or visit gpjff.org. $11 for adults who take private plein air painting lessons ($13 at the door) / $7 for active military (ID required) $150 festival pass. with her in her gallery, which she also uses as her studio. The bene�it of having her studio and galSUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24 lery in one location, she said, is it allows Composer David Haas her the opportunity to interact with every presents concert guest who visits, “whether they’re interested in seeing my works in progress or Grammy-nominated composer and concert musician, David Haas, one of the pre-eminent liturlearning to paint one of their own.” gical music composers in the English-speaking Each of Bohling’s events, including those world who has produced more than 45 collecthat take place during Scottsdale ArtWalk, tions of original music, will appear in concert at held every Thursday evening in Old Town, Ascension Lutheran Church in Paradise Valley. is designed with artists and art a�iciona- DETAILS>> 2 p.m. in the church’s Taliesin-dedos in mind to further expand and unite signed sanctuary, 7100 N. Mockingbird Lane. the local art community. “What we like doing is having a place As a full time Realtor living where it’s all about meeting people and Expertise. bringing them into the gallery, whether in Scottsdale I have local you’re buying or not,” she said. “It’s com-As a full-time real estate professional, I necessary experience see area and munity outreach, and I think that’s some-have theknowledge oftothe you through your homebuying and thing Scottsdale does really well.” selling process. am active in the community. Bohling will take part in the Native Spirit My areas of expertise include: Gold Palette ArtWalk held on Feb. 28. Working my an estimate ofwith the market valuenetwork of • Calculating Guests are welcome to peruse the gal- of your home. marketing strategies to Isellknow your local agents of homes lery and watch Bohling and fellow artist • Crafting home based on accurate information and Jerry Salinas give �igure-painting demon- research for sale before they appear on • Promoting your property to other strations. REALTORS® and buyers theand internet, I’d hate for you Bohling will also participate in the up- • Holding supervising open houses Drawing up contracts and negotiating • coming art exhibition, “Celebrating the termsto miss an opportunity to find Grand Canyon West Valley Arts Council’s • Providing guidance when you seek Opening Reception,” on March 8 in Sur- financing your special home. • Coordinating inspections, appraisals and prise. contingency dates Contact meandfor a FREE potential buyers reviewing As part of the Grand Canyon National • Screening their offers before presenting them to you Park’s centennial celebration, the exhibi- • Negotiating offers andConsultation counteroffers Buyer’s tion will feature works of the Grand Can-There's no substitute for expertise. I invite you to use mine to assist you in yon, including hers. buying or selling a home. Information: amerybohling.com

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The 2019 scribes are: Marie Benedict (“The Only Woman in the Room”), Matti Friedman (“Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel”), Ann Hood (“Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love and Food”), Tim Johnston (“The Current”) and Matthew Quirk (“The Night Agent”). The event’s moderator is Lindsey Reiser, CBS 5 News. DETAILS>> 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Westin Kierland Resort and Spa, 6902 E. Greenway Parkway, Scottsdale. $135, with $5 credit toward book purchases the day of the event. 480-3824494, bncphxba2019pr@gmail.com.

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Scottsdale Concert Band

Pianist Andrew O’Brien, an adjunct faculty instructor at Scottsdale Community College, performs the “Warsaw Concerto” with the Scottsdale Concert Band. The “Warsaw Concerto” is a short work for piano and orchestra by Richard Addinsell, written for the 1941 British �ilm “Dangerous Moonlight,” which is about the Polish struggle against the 1939 invasion by Nazi Germany.

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A newly curated collection by legendary artist Peter Max runs in a limited engagement presentation at DeRubeis Fine Art of Metal. All artworks are on exhibition and available for acquisition. DETAILS>> Various times. DeRubeis Fine Art of Metal, 7171 E. Main St., Scottsdale. Free admission. 480-941-6033, phillip@�ineartofmetal. com, derubeis�ineartscottsdale.com.

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ith Scottsdale Stadium located less than one mile – a mere two-minute drive – from downtown Scottsdale, it’s no surprise restaurants in Old Town gird themselves early for the onslaught of Cactus League spring training crowds that flock to the area throughout March. Last year’s season drew a total of 1,774,978 baseball fans to games throughout the Valley, with the Cubs vs. San Francisco Giants game at Scottsdale Stadium attracting nearly 16,000 attendees. And those 16,000 attendees have to eat and drink somewhere. Hula’s Modern Tiki in Old Town, located off First Avenue and Scottsdale Road, begins their preparation early – in November. “Each year, we do our best to staff up and prepare the staff for what’s coming,” said M. Dana Mule, the restaurant's owner. “But until you’ve been through it, you have no idea.” Basically, they pray and hope for the best. “It’s much like boxing: No matter how much you train or prepare, you know you’re still going to get punched in the face,” Mule said.

Present your game ticket stub at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row and get a penny Bud Light. Throughout the season, they’ll also offer happy hour specials, including $4 calls and featured brewery beers, $5 select wines and redneck cocktails and half-off select appetizers. (Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row/Special to the Progress)

Each year, spring training is, hands down, the busiest time of the year for Hula’s – and for good reason. According to Arizona State University’s study following last year’s Cactus League, an estimated $373 million was pumped into Arizona’s economy from late February through March. The study also states that the typical Cactus League visitor attended three games, stayed four nights and spent a median of $405 per day. At Hula’s, approximately 15 percent of its total revenue for the year is generated during Spring training, according to Mule. Two Brothers Tap House & Brewery’s spring training specials include a complimentary appetizer with purchase of an entrée with same-day game ticket, as well as new spring training-themed menu items, including the Cubbie Cosmo, Giants Juice and a Chicago-style hot dog. (Two Brothers Tap House & Brewery/Special to the Progress)

The restaurant’s gross revenue drops by almost 40 percent in April, their second-busiest month of the year, compared to March. “In our area of Old Town, spring training is the majority of the spring restaurant season,” Mule said. “A good spring training has a huge impact on our success for the year.” Hula’s starts preparing, in earnest, in January — as does Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row, located just south of Camelback, in the Entertainment District. “We start early,” said Rudy Hoeffer, general manager of Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row in Scottsdale. “Every year, come January, we start getting the venue looking great for the season.” This includes putting up the home team flags – the San Francisco Giants – and working with various partners to provide the best specials, events and overall experience. Hoeffer said the restaurant sees a significant increase in sales during Waste Management Phoenix Open and spring training.

“Spring training has a big impact on the success of our restaurant, not only financially but promotionally,” he said. “It sets us up for a great spring and summer.” According to RnR General Manager Derek Thrasher, RnR also experienced heavy crowds during Waste Management this year. “We are expecting this to be one of the busiest spring trainings to date,” he said. “With how big the Waste Management Open weekend has gotten, I am expecting it to be the same as that weekend – for five weeks.” Though located about 15 minutes north of Scottsdale Stadium, the Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia resort is at almost full capacity during the month of March due to spring training. To prepare, the resort educates its team on events taking place throughout the Valley, in order to guide guests as needed. “We offer a variety of spring training

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Italian Festival returns to Scottsdale's Waterfront BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Progress Staff Writer

rank Guzzo is proud of his Italian heritage. Born and raised in Italy’s Calabria region, Guzzo gets a little worried that his culture gets “lost in translation.” As the Italian Association of Arizona’s executive director, Guzzo is bringing his culture to Old Town Scottsdale’s “Piazza del Southbridge” as part of the sixth annual Italian Festival on Saturday, Feb. 23, and Sunday, Feb. 24. “It’s important for Americans to understand Italian culture,” he said. “I’m learning now about the impact Italians have had in Arizona.” Helmed by renowned Scottsdale chef Marcellino Verzino, this year’s event will feature live entertainment and, of course, food – gelato, pizza, handmade meatballs, sausages, pasta, wine and other delicacies. Live performances will include Sbabieratori di Asta, A Ziarella (Italian folk group), Di Gala: Phoenician Tenors, and Sima and her All-Star Trio. The Italian Association is a private, nonprofit, nonpolitical membership organization open to the Italian, Americans

and ASU students who have an interest in developing their understanding and knowledge of Italy. A portion of the proceeds from the event will go toward St. Vincent de Paul, an organization that helps feed, clothe, house and heal those in need in Arizona. Todd Coole, who’s in charge of community and donor relations for St. Vincent de Paul, said the partnership is in its fourth year. The nonprofit provides volunteers to bolster the festival, so it gets a por- Caption. (Photo credit) tion of the proceeds in return. “We’ll be in the area in front of Olive and Ivy,” Coole said. “The festival is very

authentic. We want to preserve the Italian culture and expose people to true Italian cuisine, entertainers and arts and crafts.” Classico Distributors is the festival’s wine vendor. “My role is to select the wine and make sure there’s enough of it,” said Classico’s President, Dario Soldan, who moved here Jan. 27, 1987, from Italy. “We want something easy to drink, let’s say a crowd pleaser. We choose varietals people are familiar with. “In Italian, sometimes they can’t pronounce the name. We try to keep the basic stuff. We try to get the best variety we have access to. We have to have something a little different so the guests can have an opportunity to try varietals they’re not familiar with. It’s an opportunity for us to see what kind of reaction the market has.” The festival will offer spritz, a winebased cocktail, commonly served as an aperitif in Northeast Italy. For it, Aperol pairs perfectly with chilled prosecco. “It’s been very popular for decades,” he said. “I noticed, here in the States, it’s slowly catching on,” he said. True Italian entertainment is as well. Guzzo said the flag wavers are returning. A mini cultural museum will give guests a glimpse into Italy’s history by showcasing Francesco Corni’s work. He, through a translator, will discuss his pieces.

Italian filmmaking will be the focus of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Los Angeles’ exhibit. And an artist from outside of Naples will sell cameo pins, which originate from Torre Del Greco, Italy. Galbani Cheese will sponsor a stage, and host/celebrity chef Marco Sciortino will offer cooking classes and “fun things to do with cheese for the kids,” Guzzo said. Not to be outdone, cars are on the docket, specifically Ferraris and Alfa Romeos. “Ferrari is a global brand and they’ve been gracious enough to set up a display and bring the Ferraris out,” Guzzo explained. “Alfa Romeo is bringing cars, too. Anything to do with Italy, but available here in the United States, will be here.”

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Italian Association’s Italian Festival

Where: Old Town Scottsdale’s “Piazza del Southbridge,” 7114 E. Stetson Drive, Scottsdale When: 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24 Info: italianfestivalaz.com Tickets: $10, free for children younger than 12

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resources on our website, as well as including a spring training stay package that includes all you need to grab all those pro signatures, a stadium map and other Q&A resources,” said Patrick Brophy, general manager of Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia. Overall, though, all the aforementioned restaurants are ready and excited to take on the challenge. “Cactus League has been a huge part of this city’s growth for decades,” Hoeffer said. “Just knowing that and being part of the service and hospitality industry, it is a pleasure and privilege to help add to the energy, excitement and experience that baseball brings to our city.”

Where the fans graze

Many restaurants will offer spring training specials this season; take a look at the deals below.

RnR

Specials: 50 percent off wine, spirits, beer and cocktails; $6 select appetizers and entrées Where: 3737 N. Scottsdale Road When: Monday-Wednesday, 3-6 p.m.

Two Brothers Tap House & Brewery

Specials: Complimentary appetizer with purchase of an entrée with sameday game ticket; new spring trainingthemed menu items, including Cubbie Cosmo, Giants Juice and a Chicago-style hot dog Where: 4321 N. Scottsdale Road When: Throughout spring training

Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row

Specials: One-cent Bud Light with spring training ticket stub, limit one per customer; happy hours specials, including $4 calls and featured brewery beers, $5 select wines and redneck cocktails, half-off select appetizers Where: 4420 N. Saddlebag Trail, #105 When: Penny Bud Light through April 1; happy hour from Tuesday-Friday, 4-7 p.m.

Hand Cut Burgers & Chophouse

Special: One-cent Bud Light with spring training ticket stub, limit one per customer Where: 7135 E. Camelback Road, #154 When: Through April 1

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Special: One-cent Bud Light with spring training ticket stub, limit one per customer

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Buffalo Chicken Dip Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row (Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row/Special to the Progress)

Where: 4425 N. Saddlebag Trail When: Through April 1

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Special: One-cent Bud Light with spring training ticket stub, limit one per customer Where: 4425 N. Saddlebag Trail, #105 When: Through April 1

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Special: 10 percent off order with valid spring training game ticket, same-day only Where: 4949 E. Lincoln Drive When: Throughout spring training

Taqueria Centro at Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia

Specials: Special Game Day menu, including short rib tacos, Sonoran hot dogs, 25 percent off pitchers of margarita and more Where: 4949 E. Lincoln Drive When: Throughout spring training

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Special: Free individual hummus or specialty dip with ticket or ticket stub, same-day only Where: 7014 E. Camelback Road, 7366 E. Shea Blvd. When: Throughout spring training

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Specials: $1 Bud Light draught with presentation of same-day spring training ticket, $7 Home Run Margaritas Where: 4222 N. Scottsdale Road, 8624 E. Shea Blvd. When: Throughout spring training

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Special: 20 percent off your bill with same-day ticket Where: 7345 N. Via Paseo Del Sur, 10199 E. Bell Road When: Throughout spring training

Aren’t we always looking for a great party dish? Here’s a warning on this one. If you make this recipe, you’d better double it, or some poor soul might be scraping the bottom of the pan hoping to forage the last few bites. This Buffalo Chicken Dip is that tasty! I know that for a fact because when I was testing the recipe this week, one minute there was a casserole full of hot dip. The next thing I knew, the folks in my kitchen were circling the dish, and then they quickly swooped in to devour!

I know that you can find a recipe for Buffalo Chicken Dip that has fewer ingredients, but the combination of flavors in the recipe really make it worth going back again and again. The bacon and blue cheese are fantastic. I took many folks' advice and used Frank’s Red Hot Sauce, and that really gave it the buffalo wing flavor. Finally, for over-the-top taste, I boned, chopped and threw in several pieces of fried chicken with the shredded grilled chicken breast. So now, go for a dip and enjoy every single scrumptious bite.

Ingredients: - 8 oz. cream cheese, softened - 1/2 cup sour cream - 1/4 cup mayonnaise - 6 tablespoons ranch salad dressing - 6 tablespoons Frank’s Red Hot Original Hot Sauce (or more for extra hot) - 1-1/2 pounds cooked chicken (grilled, rotisserie or fried) shredded or rough chop - 8 slices bacon, cooked crisp and chopped fine, divided - 1 (8 oz.) package sharp cheddar cheese, shredded - 4 oz. blue cheese crumbles - 1 (4 oz.) can diced green chiles - 1 (4 oz.) can chopped, diced or pickled jalapenos - 4 oz. black olives sliced, optional - 4 scallions, chopped and divided - 1 tablespoon Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning (optional, but delicious) - 1 tablespoon garlic powder - 1 teaspoon salt - 1 teaspoon pepper - 2 Roma tomatoes, diced - 2 tablespoons fresh parsley

- Flour tortillas, optional (enough to cover bottom of pan) - Carrot and celery sticks - Tortilla chips Directions: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl, mix together the cream cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise, ranch salad dressing and Frank’s hot sauce until well combined. Add chicken, chopped bacon, cheddar cheese, blue cheese, chiles, jalapenos, olives and half of the scallions. Mix to combine. Add Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning, garlic powder, salt and pepper and mix well. Line a 9X12-inch baking dish or cast iron skillet with flour tortillas. Spoon the mixture into the dish or skillet. Sprinkle remainder of bacon over top. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven. Garnish with remainder of scallions, diced tomato and fresh parsley. Serve hot or warm with tortilla chips or vegetable sticks. Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning can generally be found in the spice aisle or seafood section of grocery stores. Watch my how-to video: jandatri.com/recipe/ buffalo-chicken-enchilada-dip.

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