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Golfers may ask Attorney Kiddie camper General to probe Club West AHWATUKEE FOOTHILLS NEWS ​TEMPE UNION CONCERNS

BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor

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he controversy over Club West Golf Course’s deterioration accelerated last week on several fronts.

Those developments included: • A group of golfers pondered asking the state Attorney General to conduct a civil or criminal investigation into what happened to the money they paid for membership in a semi-private club started by course owner Richard Breuninger and his Club West Golf Management company. They may decide tonight what to do after hearing from the investor who sued Breuninger.

• That investor, William Day, offered to assume the course’s debts and pay a delinquent $200,00 water bill if Breuninger is ousted from anything to do with Club West. Day’s lawyer, Jeffrey Proper, said his offer was rejected because it did not include any money for Breuninger himself.

• Former course owner Wilson Gee said he has formally warned Breuninger and his Inter Tribal Golf Association that they

are late on his $1.3 million mortgage and that the course may wind up in a trustee sale unless they catch up on the payments.

• Biscuits owner Lloyd Melton told AFN that he hopes to reopen his restaurant at the Club West Clubhouse once the city puts a meter for water service to his eatery in his name. (See Page 31 for details) All this activity transpired as the course’s blanket of grass disappeared, deprived of water since the city cut off service Feb. 22.

Breuninger and Inter Tribal Golf Association bought the course officially on Dec. 1 for $1.3 million, signing a note held by Gee. By that time, the over-seeding that Breuninger started about two months earlier had produced a lush green landscape.

In the meantime, he offered golfers a chance to join a semi-private club he was starting at Club West, promising a number of perks such as advance booking, preferred tee times and free cart use and balls in return for anywhere between $3,600

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Even at 2 years of age, Zaraan Fawz knows it takes some concentration to operate a LEGO robot like he did during a recent demonstration by Ahwatukeebased East Valley Engineering for Kids, which runs camps focusing on science, technology, engineering and math. For a look at some kids camps, see the special section inside.

long with the fragrance of citrus trees in bloom, another harbinger of spring in Ahwatukee is the 42nd annual Kiwanis Easter Parade and Spring Fling Carnival and Craft Fair that will be held Saturday, March 31.

This year’s theme is “Easter in Arizona.”

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There’s an “official Easter Bunny” provided by the event’s main sponsor, Ahwatukee’s Vision Community Management, and that is the only one allowed in the annual parade that travels down 48th Street between Warner and Elliot roads beginning at 10 a.m.

After the parade, the Kiwanis Club of Ahwatukee will hold its Spring Fling until 4 p.m. at Ahwatukee Park, 4700 Warner Road.

The parade route typically is packed, rain or shine, with up to 10,000 spectators who

cheer on the various floats, marching bands, youth groups and troops and other participants.

Organizing this perennially popular event is the Kiwanis Club of Ahwatukee, which currently has 32 members – up from only a dozen last year. Community volunteers, including local teens, are what keep the parade and Spring Fling afloat, said Kiwanis Club president Mike Schmitt – who is also donSee

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Uber death spotlights self-driving vehicle concerns

BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY AFN Staff Writer

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he nation’s first death associated with the self-driving car program that has called the East Valley home has reignited the debate over the safety of driverless vehicles and raised new questions over liability and fault.

A self-driving Volvo XC90 – one in Uber’s fleet of silver SUVs that have become a common sight around Tempe – hit 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg around 10 p.m. March 18 at Curry Road and Mill Avenue as she crossed the road outside a crosswalk, police said.

Based on the findings of pending investigations, negligence claims involving the accident could include arguments that Uber, the operator behind the wheel, and/ or the companies behind the technology that powers the autonomous vehicles were liable, experts said.

“We haven’t had to deal with this yet because the autonomous vehicles haven’t been hurting anyone,” said Ahwatukee attorney Mark Breyer, who handles liability cases throughout the region.

Beyond the question of fault, the crash also reignited a national debate over the safety of autonomous vehicles.

In the wake of the crash, Uber suspended its use of self-driving cars in Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto.

Toyota told Bloomberg News it would “temporarily pause” testing its driverless vehicles on public roads “because we feel the incident may have an emotional effect on our test drivers.”

On Monday, Gov. Doug Ducey suspended Uber’s testing of autonomous vehicles on Arizona roads – the day after the New York Times reported the company had had trouble with the vehicles even before the Tempe accident.

Uber issued a statement shortly after the accident that said: “Our hearts go out to the victim’s family. We are fully cooperating with authorities in their investigations of this incident.”

It said Monday it would continue a dialogue with the governor.

The Uber operator behind the wheel was not in physical control because the car was operating autonomously at about 40 mph, police said.

The Tempe Police Department’s preliminary investigation showed that impairment was likely not a factor. Uber is cooperating with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Tempe Police in the investigation.

either ... I won’t rule out the potential to file charges against the (backup driver) in the Uber vehicle.”

“The driver said it was like a flash; the person walked out in front of them.

(Her) first alert to the collision was the sound of the collision,” Moir said, adding: “It’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway.”

Moir also seemed (Special to the AFN) Investigators from the NTSB examine the Uber self-driving car that hit to pin the blame and killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe on March 18. on Herzberg by emphasizing the fact Tempe police released video evidence that she was outside the crosswalk. last week that appears to show Herzberg But Herzberg’s friend and Mesa resident walking a bicycle across the left lane Carole Kimmerle told the Guardian that before entering the right lane and being the victim “was not in any way unsafe. struck. She is walking in a dimly lit She rode a bike everywhere. She was very portion of the road and becomes visible in cautious of the laws.” the Uber’s headlights a split second before Kimmerle told the Guardian she thinks the accident. negligent homicide charges should be The dashcam footage shows the filed and that government also should be driver, identified by the police as Rafaela held accountable.

Vasquez, looking down at an object out of The police later said in a press release, the camera’s view as the accident occurred. “Chief Moir and the Tempe Police Police and the NTSB are gathering and Department would like to reaffirm that analyzing the vehicle’s technology and fault has not been determined in this case. data transmitted to Uber. The vehicle Tempe police detectives will complete was equipped with cameras that provided the investigation and it will subsequently police additional evidence. be submitted to the Maricopa County “It will definitely assist in the Attorney’s Office to determine if criminal investigation, without a doubt,” Tempe charges are warranted.”

Police Sgt. Ronald Elcock said.

Ducey signed an executive order on The investigation will likely take months March 1 that requires the vehicles to to determine who was at fault, Breyer said. comply with voluntary rules set by “The work of the detectives just got that the National Highway Traffic Safety much more complex, and we are always Administration. off from knowing” who was at fault,” he Ducey’s order also deals with the said. question of liability in the event of a traffic That complexity became apparent when violation, stating that the “person testing Police Chief Sylvia Moir made comments or operating the fully autonomous vehicle to the San Francisco Chronicle that may be issued a traffic citation or other seemed to steer fault away from Uber. applicable penalty in the event the vehicle Moir told the paper, “I suspect fails to comply with traffic and/or motor preliminarily it appears that the Uber vehicle laws.” would likely not be at fault in this accident, For the purposes of this order, the word

“person” likely refers to the company operating the autonomous vehicle, not the employee or contractor who may be behind the wheel, Breyer said.

Beyond criminal accountability, the crash also could result in a civil suit.

Breyer said the phrase “or other applicable penalty” in Ducey’s executive order likely would include civil damages.

In an interview with the Guardian, University of South Carolina assistant professor Bryant Walker Smith said that if Herzberg’s family pursued a civil case, a lawyer could claim negligence. Smith is an autonomous vehicle legal expert who also is affiliated with Stanford Law School’s The Center for Internet and Society.

Based on the findings of pending investigations, those negligence claims could include arguments that Uber, the operator behind the wheel, and/or the companies behind the technology were liable, Smith told The Guardian.

“Although this appalling video isn’t the full picture,” he later said, “it strongly suggests a failure by Uber’s automated driving system and a lack of due care by Uber’s driver” as well as by the victim.

He noted that the Uber car’s lidar and radar detection should have detected Herzberg.

He also said that Herzberg appears about two seconds before the end of the video and that an alert driver may have had time to at least swerve or attempt to brake.

Complicating the case further is that Arizona is one of the few states in the country with a pure comparative negligence or pure comparative fault law – meaning anyone involved in a crash is responsible only for their own actions The law states that “the full damages shall be reduced in proportion to the relative degree of the claimant’s fault which is a proximate cause of the injury or death, if any.”

Breyer said this could steer most, if not all, fault away from the driver.

“In reality, whoever is hired is not realistically going to have responsibility for all of the technology behind these vehicles,” he said. “Whatever comparative fault, if there is any, would probably be limited.”

Beyond the question of fault, the tragic crash has reignited a national debate over the safety of driverless vehicles.

An Ipsos study of over 1,000 adults from across the country conducted in late 2017 found that 22 percent of Americans See

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Waymo launched the Let’s Talk Self-Driving campaign last year in collaboration with Mothers Against Drunk Driving, East Valley Partnership and other groups.

The campaign emphasizes the safety benefits of selfdriving cars, including stating that 94 percent of car crashes involve human error.

While the technology does have the potential to reduce traffic accidents, Smith wrote in a blog post on The Center for Internet and Society website: “Automated driving is a challenging work in progress that may never be perfected, and I would be skeptical of anyone who claims that automated driving is a panacea – or who expresses shock that it is not.”

He also wrote, “However, this incident was uncomfortably soon in the history of automated driving. In the United States, there’s about one fatality for every 100 million vehicle miles traveled, and automated vehicles are nowhere close to reaching this many real-world miles.”

Arizona public officials have, by and large, not shared that skepticism. Uber, Waymo and the automated vehicle industry have benefited from widespread support from public officials in the state.

Uber initially came to Arizona in 2016 after the company failed to comply with California’s law governing autonomous vehicles and the state revoked registration for its vehicles.

In response, Ducey tweeted, “This is what OVERregulation looks like! #ditchcalifornia.”

Arizona eventually attracted the company with its less-cumbersome regulatory environment. At the time, the only rules governing the industry came from a one-and-a-half-page executive order signed by Ducey in 2015.

In response to the crash, a spokesman for Ducey’s office said, “Public safety is our top priority, and we are in communication with law enforcement, which is investigating the accident and gathering facts, as well as Uber.”

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mother’s concern about safety at Desert Vista High School and a disagreement over a resolution against gun violence in schools highlighted last week’s meeting of the Tempe Union High School Governing Board.

It marked the board’s second consecutive regular meeting where school safety dominated the discussion.

And while the district’s top safety official on March 7 gave an overview of measures that have been taken to protect students, Ahwatukee resident Shannon Shelby, the mother of a junior, last week expressed concern about several issues at Desert Vista.

Shelby noted that building’s doors can be locked only from the outside. She said a teacher or staffer trying to protect students from an outside threat can lock the doors from the inside, and must risk exposure to that threat in trying to secure the premises.

Shelby also said she has heard numerous rumors about some students carrying guns in their backpacks to school and asked the board to consider installing metal detectors.

She also said there are too many access points into the high school and urged the board to consider closing them.

Although the board cannot comment during the part of the meeting reserved for citizen comments, President Michelle Helm told Shelby that Superintendent Kenneth Baca would contact her.

The board voted 4-1 in approval of a resolution calling on local, state and federal officials “to prioritize the protection of students and school system employees from gun violence on campus.”

The resolution urged legislation that, among other things, “more effectively regulates access to firearms, especially by youth and those experiencing mental health issues, and urgently address access to firearms capable of quickly producing mass casualties” and provide more funds “for capital improvements shown to increase safety and security.”

The sole vote against the resolution was cast by Brandon Schmoll, the only Ahwatukee resident on the board.

He tried unsuccessfully to change some of the resolution’s wording, including a broadening out of the declaration to include all violence and not just gun vio-

lence.

“There is all kind of violence in a school,” Schmoll said, noting the prevalence of bullying on many campuses.

That drew an angry rebuke from board member DeeAnne McClenahan, “We don’t have an epidemic of violence; we have an epidemic of gun violence in our schools.”

Schmoll also said he didn’t like the idea of the board “telling the Legislature what we want them to do.”

“This is kind of a fluid situation going on with the State Legislature and the governor,” he said, citing the resolution and adding, “There are a few things in there that is not quite as forward-thinking as I wish it would be.”

McClenahan noted that the resolution, which has been circulated by the Arizona School Board Association to all districts in the state, “would not override any laws.

This is not even a policy, just a statement by the board.”

“We want our elected officials to take action and do something to prevent gun violence in our schools,” she added. “It makes sense for us to go public and say how we feel about this topic.”

The board’s vote came hours after Gov. Ducey introduced several measures he said would enhance school safety, but Ahwatukee state Sen. Sean Bowie said the same day he doubted anything would be enacted this session.

“My initial impression of the governor’s plan: While there are some good elements included, like more investment in school counselors and “enhanced” background checks, the plan falls far short on two elements that have broad bipartisan support, which are a closing of the gun show loophole and a ban on bump stocks,” he told constituents in an email.

“Both measures have 70 plus percent support among voters, and it’s what we’ve been hearing from the March for our Lives students and even our own constituents,” Bowie said.

“I imagine at least several of my Republican colleagues will be opposed to ANY gun safety legislation that comes before us, so without Democratic support, it doesn’t appear that the governor’s proposal has the votes at the moment,” he added, saying “it may be a difficult route to passage this year.”

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The resolution they approved notes that “more than 150,000 students in at least 170 primary or secondary schools in the United States, including the 14 students killed on Feb. 14, 2018, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, have experienced a campus shooting since 1999.”

Three weeks ago, John Maza, Tempe Union’s safety director, provided an overview of the “comprehensive layer to make us safe” that the district provides, stating, “One of the things I do is continually go through our sites and look at where are we vulnerable.”

“One of the major layers of security is control the people who can come onto a school site,” Maza said, saying all schools have “controlled gate accesses.”

He said the district has “invested a significant amount of funds” on “target hardening” with only a limited number of points of entry to schools, visitor signup procedures and automatic lockdown doors.”

He also said he is in the process of meeting with all seven high school principals individually as part of a “comprehensive vulnerability assessment” and that “we have great confidence in Phoenix Police Department and Tempe Police Department and our ability to work with them” to improve safety.

He noted that every classroom has a phone as well as silent panic alarms that connect directly to those police departments and that all school buses are equipped with cameras and radios.

Maza also said, “We’ve worked really hard on improving engagement with our security guards. We want our security guards to engage with our students and our public and our parents.”

He said the guards are being trained in “student risk assessments” to identify

potentially troubled youth and that the district’s silent witness program provides an additional layer of security so that students can report classmates they suspect might be in need of help.

For the first time this year, he added, security guards also are getting basic training.

“We did not have basic training of security guards before this year,” Maza said, adding that part of the training include “throwing different situations” at guards to teach them how to handle the unexpected.

“There’s high anxiety with our parents right now,” Maza said.

Some board members expressed concern about individual aspects of the district’s measures as well as some concerns they had at particular schools.

Berdetta Hodge noted that McClintock High had no gate doors, and other board members were concerned that some schools have student lockers while others do not.

Baca said members of his student advisory council have been raising questions related to gun safety on campuses.

Board members also could not agree on how often students should be put through a full-blown drill.

Schmoll said, “I think it would be helpful to have a full-blown drill” and also suggested that hallways be equipped with directional signs to more effectively guide students during an emergency.

Board member Sandy Lowe worried about the impact of frequent drills.

“We’re creating a generation of very nervous students in our schools,” Lowe said.

“I don’t think we should have drills all the time. I would imagine this creates a stress level in our students.”

Maza said, “With confidence and preparation, you decrease anxiety.”

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t’s been no secret that Tempe Union High School Superintendent Kenneth Baca is leaving his post after six years as the district’s top administrator. He submitted his resignation last fall.

Now, his next destination is known.

He’ll be taking the helm of Madison Elementary School District in July as its superintendent. The school board there chose him over two longtime Madison administrators.

In taking charge of the A-rated district, which has eight schools, Baca in some ways is returning to his roots.

Before coming to Tempe Union, he worked in Phoenix Elementary School District, starting in 2006 as director of federal programs and becoming its superintendent of business affairs a year later.

Meanwhile, the man who replaces Baca beginning July 1 has picked his second-in-command.

Current Tempe Union Associate Superintendent Kevin J. Mendivil has selected Stacia Wilson to replace him when he takes the reins of Tempe Union.

Wilson is a graduate of McClintock High School and began her career as a teacher at Desert Vista High.

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“Dr. Wilson not only understands the needs of our students, their families, and TUHSD staff, she is a vocal advocate on their behalf. Her commitment to education and to always put our students at the center of all we do will serve our district well,” Mendivil said in a statement on the district’s website.

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Tukee Talks, a quarterly opportunity organized by Tracey Church to give residents a chance to speak directly with police, will be held at 6 p.m. tomorrow, March 29, at the Ahwatukee Recreation Center, 5001 E. Cheyenne Drive.

The session will be particularly special for Church because it will include a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate both Tukee Talks’ admission to the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce and its recognition by the IRS as a certified nonprofit – meaning that contributions of food, beverages and other support can be tax deductible.

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“Several other topics were submitted for discussion and a few left over from the January meeting.”

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representatives from every HOA in Ahwatukee so that they can not only spread important crime-related information in their communities but can also serve as a kind of community alarm system when there’s a need to quickly get a notice out to as many residents as possible.

One possible item for discussion that could come up involves a rash of bike thefts, many involving expensive two-wheelers that have been taken from people’s garages and/or were parked near stores or other places in Ahwatukee.

One woman recently posted on Facebook about a theft that affected her family.

“Our big truck is too big for our garage. We park it in the driveway,” she wrote. “Apparently, my hubby forgot to lock it yesterday, so someone used the remote to open the garage early this morning. Luckily, they only took from our cars and garage. My hubby is upset because his good mountain bike was stolen, though.

“Point of this – we live in a safe neighborhood, but don’t forget to lock up all of your possessions,” she added.

Police throughout the Valley have reported that many burglaries start with a garage door that has been left open.

But Phoenix Police also say another frequent cause of burglaries stems from automatic garage door openers left in vehicles parked curbside or in driveways.

They advise that residents not only lock their cars when parked, but also take the garage-door opener inside with them.

Many of the bikes are high-end vehicles costing hundreds of dollars.

Another hot-button issue that could come up for discussion is traffic enforcement, especially when it comes to excessive speed on Ahwatukee’s main drags.

But one thing the police are powerless to stop is speeding on Pecos Road – a frequent subject on Ahwatukee social media.

Although the posted speed limit is 40 mph, many people complain of cars as well as larger vehicles violating that limit on a road where the lanes have been contorted to make way for freeway construction crews.

Just before construction began early last year, the Arizona Department of Transportation designated Pecos as a state road, giving the Department of Public Safety jurisdiction over traffic.

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Hanke was scheduled to be back in court today, March 28, as he raises questions about ADOT’s attempt to condemn about 13 acres of common grounds owned by the Foothills Reserve Homeowners Association.

Although the association and ADOT want the land condemned so that the two parties can proceed to negotiate the HOA’s compensation, Hanke has raised several issues before state Superior Court Judge Dawn Bergin.

On the one hand, he contends ADOT failed to justify the freeway and therefore has no authority to condemn the land.

But he also is challenging the method the agency wants to use to determine compensation to both the HOA and individual homeowners.

Bergin in a memo indicated that the case involves some complicated legal issues that will take time to resolve.

Most of those issues involve ADOT’s efforts to certify Foothills Reserve homeowners as a class and then base compensation to homeowners on their proximity to the freeway.

“After conducting additional research

on class certification, the court has concluded that substantial additional information and hearings will be required before certification can be considered,” the judge wrote in a memorandum,” citing her “multiple independent duties” in “determining whether class certification is appropriate.”

ADOT had offered $2 million for the parcel, but the HOA wants more.

A separate issue involves compensation for homeowners whose houses are a stone’s throw from the freeway.

Any significant delay in ADOT’s timetable could drive up costs of the $1.7 billion project.

Although Hanke has told the court that “the complexity and lack of compatibility of all homeowners” makes a class action “inappropriate,” Zeitlin and the state attorney general submitted a joint memo asserting that he has no standing in the case.

Meanwhile, Hanke said he has been watching ADOT and freeway designer-builder Connect202Partners continue to roll out heavy equipment as it prepares to cut a 200-foot-wide swatch across three mountain ridges in the southwestern portion of South Mountain Park.

He said the dump trucks alone “are 300-plus-ton GVW beasts set on two axles 20 feet apart” that are built for mining operations.

“The bounce on those two axles will break foundations and pools, but you won’t see evidence of that until a year or two late,” he said.

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Legislature OKs sales tax extension for teacher pay

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he state’s education sales tax – which supports teacher salaries – is not going away.

With more than enough votes, the state House and Senate agreed last week to extend for another 20 years the 0.6cent sales tax first approved by voters in 2000. Without that action, the levy would self-destruct on June 30, 2021, taking with it the more than $670 million a year it now raises.

Gov. Doug Ducey signed it Monday – a few hours before a federal judge ruled as unconstitutional his use of state trust funds to settle a lawsuit over the state’s chronic underfunding of public education.

Six representatives and four senators, all Republicans, refused to go along.

Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, R-Gilbert, who runs several charter schools, said he’s not against funding education. And Farnsworth said he has no opposition to keeping the current levy in place.

But Farnsworth said he opposes how it’s divided up, pointing out that just

$384 million of what’s collected is specifically earmarked for teacher salaries.

He said if that’s the top priority, then it’s time to revisit who else gets a claim on those dollars.

That list includes $72 million for universities, $18 million for community colleges – and even $25 million for low-income taxpayers, defined as individuals earning $12,500 or less, or $25,000 for couples.

Rep. Doug Coleman, R-Apache Junction, who helped craft what was approved, said this was the only way to get the votes to continue the tax and assure that schools won’t lose hundreds of millions of dollars in 2021.

Dana Naimark, president of the Children’s Action Alliance, said a constitutional provision protecting voter-approved measure has prevented lawmakers from altering the current formula approved in 2000 for dividing up the $667 million now being collected each year.

This extension, however, lacks such constitutional protections because it was approved by lawmakers.

Naimark cited statements by Senate President Steve Yarbrough, R-Chandler,

who said one of the benefits of having the extension enacted by lawmakers is that they now can “tinker’’ with the formula as needed. She said that could allow lawmakers to siphon off dollars for things like vouchers for private and parochial schools.

“We think it’s important that parents and teachers and students understand how vulnerable this is,’’ she said.

Naimark said her organization and other school advocates support the legislatively approved extension but “are counting on our elected leaders to protect this going forward.’’

Yarbrough acknowledged he wants lawmakers to revisit the formula before the new levy kicks in in 2021.

But he said that simply recognizes, as Farnsworth said, there may be some need for tweaking what was in the original.

He said some of the individual allocations within the law, citing in particular $8 million earmarked for school safety and “character education.’’

The bill puts $64 million more into teacher salaries as that amount will no longer be needed for debt service on new

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But Rep. Reginald Bolding, D-Laveen, sniffed at the contention that shows the state is doing more to improve teacher pay which, depending on whose numbers are considered, are at or near the bottom nationally.

He said that change translates into just an $18 a week pay hike – and not until 2021.

Raising the tax to a full cent was proposed by Diane Douglas, the state school superintendent. She figures bringing the levy up to a full penny that would raise an additional $400 million a year, enough to give every teacher an 11 percent raise and still have $100 million left over for capital needs.

Others also believe more money is needed.

Jim Swanson, chief executive of Kitchell Corp., told Capitol Media Services he remains convinced that the state’s K-12 school system needs far more than what the tax generates.

He and other business leaders are looking at doubling that 0.6-cent figure – or more – with the prime goal of raising teacher salaries.

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ning the Parade Boss cap for the 26th year.

Unlike other service clubs that have disbanded or seen a precipitous drop in membership, the Kiwanis Club of Ahwatukee is continuing to add members, Schmitt said.

“It’s because we have all these projects going,” he said, referring to the annual Christmas Gifts for Foster Children and summer’s Community-wide Baby Shower for teen moms in the foster care system, among others. The club also sponsors three Ahwatukee Key Clubs involving youth at Mountain Pointe and Desert Vista high schools and Horizon Honors Secondary.

“Other clubs are in bad shape,” he added. “We’re lucky we’re increasing, not declining.”

Schmitt himself was once a member of the Ahwatukee Jaycees, then responsible for the annual Ahwatukee Easter Parade, and even as a Jaycee, Schmitt was Parade Boss.

“When the Ahwatukee Jaycees died, I took the parade with me, looking for a sponsor,” he said.

He and the Kiwanis Club have been in

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charge ever since.

Each year, there are new additions to the lineup as well as the old faithful.

This year for the first time, the 39-yearold Mountainside Martial Arts Center, one of Ahwatukee’s oldest continuously operating businesses, will be participating.

The inspiration was instructor’s Mitchell Werner’s experience growing up in Ahwatukee.

“My dad, Leo Werner, was band director at Mountain Pointe High School, as he is again now, and as a child I would march along with the band. I had a great time and I wanted to share the experience with my dojo,” said Werner, 23.

He noted many of his students will be competing in the International Open in Las Vegas the same Saturday – but regardless, other students will participate.

An annual favorite is the float presented by Ahwatukee’s Mountain View Lutheran Church, which have been in every one of the previous 41 Easter Parades.

“Since Mountain View Lutheran Church started in 1975, the congregation has always been actively involved with community wide projects because that is who we are: we are part of the wider community,” said Senior Pastor Glenn M. Zorb.

He said it is one of the church’s many community activities that bring more visitors to their campus monthly than Mountain View Lutheran’s own 4,000 members.

“We work with the community because it is fun, period,” said Zorb.

“Community involvement is a case where our theological roots determine our ethical fruits. We don’t serve others because it will make God love us more, we love others because God has already loved us.”

Schmitt said he expects to reach the annual goal of 75 entrants.

Crowd favorites like the Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe high schools’ marching bands and the horse-drawn antique Wells Fargo wagon, with local kids ensconced inside, are all returning.

And what’s a parade without a grand marshal and a lively emcee? This year’s grand marshal is CBS-5 weekend anchor Sean McLaughlin, a nine-time Emmy winner.

Serving as the Easter Parade master of ceremonies for the 12th year is KTAR radio’s Becky Lynn, the afternoon drive news anchor who is no newcomer to Ahwatukee.

“I live in Tempe, right down Warner Road a few miles from the parade route.

This area has been part of our lives for a long time, its where our kids went to preschool, dance classes, doctor, our church, dining and shopping, so yes, we spend a lot of time in Ahwatukee,” she said, adding: “I announce the parade every year because I love the spirit of what a smalltown parade is supposed to be like, and there’s just not enough of that anymore.

I grew up in a small town myself and I remember putting together floats, riding on them, waving at the crowd, twirling a baton. Its a fantastic Easter celebration.”

Schmitt’s wife, Bonnie, is also a crucial component to the event.

Together, they send 300 invitations the first week of January, then carefully follow up. Schmitt said his script – read

by Becky Lynn on parade day – can take more than 14 hours to type.

“No matter how much you cut and paste, it still takes a really long time. It can run 21-22 pages and is often filled with some strange names, but Becky Lynn always sails right through it,” said Schmitt.

The one-mile parade has only encountered rain once, in 2009, and though umbrellas blossomed, the enthusiasm of See

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Lakes lawyer wants Gee, True Life to pay $200K in fees PARADE AFN News Staff

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he current and former owners of the Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course potentially face a $200,000 bill from the lawyer for residents who fought efforts to build homes on the defunct site.

Attorney Timothy Barnes has asked state Superior Court Judge John R. Hannah Jr. to order former owner Wilson Gee to pay him $42,000 and The True Life Companies to pay $128,819 for his fees in representing two homeowners who sued them to restore the course, which was closed in 2013. In addition, Barnes wants Gee and True Life to pay another $35,000 in court costs.

Hannah is presently deciding on Barnes’ request that True Life be ordered to restore the golf course and appoint a golf construction expert to oversee the work, which he wants completed in 18 months.

Barnes’ fees and the court’s expenses also must be decided by the judge, who had asked Barnes to submit a bill for consideration.

Gee is tentatively on the hook because

Barnes’ clients had started the litigation against him before he sold the course to True Life in 2015.

True Life had tried unsuccessfully to change the covenants, conditions and restrictions governing the 101-acre site so it could build about 270 single- and double-family homes as well as a fiveacre farm, a private school and additional amenities.

The developer first tried to persuade 51 percent of the Lakes’ approximate 5,400 homeowners to agree to a change, but its yearlong campaign fell short of the required number needed. It then asked the judge to void the CC&Rs requiring that the site be kept a golf course, but Hannah refused.

Barnes told the court the total payment he’s seeking is based on $325 an hour for his services, $150 an hour for a law clerk and $100 an hour for a paralegal.

Barnes noted that the case had actually begun before Gee sold the land to True Life and that he had signed an agreement with the two homeowners that he could be liable for paying their legal costs if he lost.

Gee’s lawyers requested more time to formally reply to the request and Hannah gave him a deadline of March 28.

True Life agreed on a sale price of nearly $9 million for the site, but only put $750,000 down, delaying further payments until the court case was resolved.

It’s not clear when Hannah might rule on both the issue of Barnes’ fees as well as the order concerning the course’s future.

Once that order comes down, True Life has the option of either appealing the case or simply declaring bankruptcy.

Both options could result in months if not years of more legal wrangling, leaving the defunct course remain in its current dilapidated condition.

During a three-day trial last October, witnesses for the homeowners said there are several parties that would buy the site and restore it as a golf course. They did not identify those would-be suitors.

Experts called by homeowners estimated it would cost around $6 million to restore it, although True Life’s expert put the pegged the price at more than $14 million.

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participants and spectators never waned.

The Spring Fling turns Ahwatukee Park into a family playground with artists and crafters, stage entertainment, food and drink booths and carnival rides and other children’s activities. Up to 5,000 people are once again expected to spend the afternoon, according to Kiwanis Club organizer Andi Pettyjohn, club treasurer and 26-year Kiwanian.

Five-year member Angela Ashley oversees the event’s volunteers, and the popular Easter Egg Hunt for children up to age 6 that runs throughout the day. It requires three tickets, also used for carnival rides.

“We take five or six kids at a time and hide and throw out the (plastic) eggs.

They have 30 seconds to gather as many as they can, and then exchange them for candy. We can always use more volunteers,” said Ashley.

People who want to help her out can contact her at AAshley@asfgllc.com or 480-221-6964.

Pettyjohn said vendors can still sign up for booth space until Friday.

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and $6,000 that covered membership dues through the end of next year.

Some of those golfers attended a meeting March 20 and said they were told by three representatives of Club West Golf Management that Day was responsible for paying expenses, including the water bill.

The claim drew a stinging response by Day’s lawyer, who called it “a joke and a lie.”

“My client put in $350,000 and had no obligation to put in another dime,” Proper told AFN, saying in return Day was supposed to have a 40 percent share of Club West Golf Management. “The thought that he was supposed to feed the kitty and pay the bills, including the water bills, is a fiction. I can’t believe someone said that with a straight face.”

Proper said he can prove that Day didn’t have any authority to sign checks on behalf of Club West Golf Management and that no documentation exists that suggests he had responsibility for paying its bills.

But he said that during a separate meeting last week with three representatives of Club West Golf Management, Day offered to take on all its debt – including the payment of the water bill – if Breuninger left the company.

“The bottom line is we said we’d take over the club, that we’ll pay all the bills if he leaves,” Proper said. “They made it clear Richard wants money to walk away. We’re prepared to take over the club and the debts and go forward but we will not give Richard a dime.”

Breuninger has not returned calls from AFN seeking comment.

When Day filed a lawsuit seeking to get access to the financial records of Club West Golf Management, Breuninger did not file a response in court.

Meanwhile, the semi-private club members are meeting at 6 p.m. today, March 28, at the Club West Community Center to continue a discussion they started in a meeting there March 21.

Day has agreed to attend and answer their questions and after that, the members may decide what, if anything, to do.

During the March 21 meeting, their concern focused more on the Club West Golf Course’s future than on the money they paid for membership in the semi-private – although many expressed anger as well at what happened to those fees.

“I want a golf course,” said one attendee. “I do think we’ve been lied to.”

Many of the approximate 30 golfers

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As this drone shot by Tom Sanfilippo of Inside Out Aerial from a few weeks ago shows, the Club West Golf Course quickly lost its lush green landscape when the city shut off the water Feb. 22.

who attended the March 21 meetingare longtime residents of Club West and said they had been living in the community since the course was opened in

November 1993.

Some recalled meeting with Breuninger late last year when he was pitching membership in the semi-private club and said that he held up a bottle of water and assured them that Club West would never have a water problem again.

That was an apparent reference to Gee’s decision two years ago – and again last summer – to reduce and even stop irrigation.

Gee said he could not afford some $700,000 in water bills from the Phoenix Water Services Department, which has been feeding the course with expensive potable water for more than a decade after it dismantled a pumping station that had provided cheaper waste water to the site.

“There’s only one problem and that’s ( AFN file photo) water,” said Jim Club West Golf Course owner Richard Breuninger has been warned by Lindstrom, who former course owner Wilson Gee to catch up on payments on the $1.3 had launched an million he owes on the site. unsuccessful effort

in late 2016 to have Club West residents buy and operate the course.

Lindstrom, who attended the meeting out of curiosity and did not join the semi-private club, said the course will continue to remain in jeopardy “unless a water solution is found.”

Gee is continuing engineering studies to run a pipe from an SRP canal to Club West, but it is unclear who will pay for the estimated $1.3 million cost of installing it.

Lindstrom said the Foothills HOA, which relies on its own well to irrigate its golf course, has agreed to pay a third of the cost since the pipe could be used if its well ever runs dry.

Lindstrom’s explanation made some of the golfers even angrier over how Inter Tribal Golf and Club West Golf Management have handled the course.

“The core issue is that this fellow promised us publicly the water issue was permanently solved,” said one member, urging that the group ask the state Attorney General to conduct a civil or even a criminal investigation into what many considered “consumer fraud.”

The club members decided to call on Day for his side of the story in light of what some of them said they heard from the Club West Golf Management representatives March 20 and then will again discuss what they should do.

Some totaled up the amount of money that has gone to Club West Management and suggested there could be as much as $700,000 in unaccounted money. That would include the $350,000 that Day invested, possibly close to $250,000 in semi-private club fees and $100,000 that Biscuits owner Lloyd Melton said he loaned Breuninger.

But several golfers said there also may be as much as $500,000 in greens fees that Club West Golf Management collected from players while the course was playable in November through early February.

Proper said he and Day would welcome the state Attorney General’s intervention in the case.

“We welcome that,” he said. “Bill Day has no control. He has no rights to do much of anything.”

Breuninger‘s future as the course owner also is unclear, since Gee said he’s warned him of the trustee sale in case he doesn’t catch up on his payments.

Proper said Breuninger’s monthly payment on the note is $40,000.

“I haven’t pulled the trigger yet because he (Breuninger) did make half a month’s payment,” Gee said. “He still owes half for this month and April isn’t too far away.”

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Dogs strut their stuff at annual show at Ahwatukee Park

It was a good day for senior dogs and a good day for canines named Max Sunday as the 14th annual Ahwatukee Dog Show was held at Ahwatukee Park. From left, top row: Samantha Ericson shows off her beagle Max, who won first place for cutest senior and best of the show; Max, a Boston Terrier, won placed first for best dressed and third for best kisser (he’s with owner Jeff Klein in the bottom right); Stewart, another Boston Terrier, shows his appreciation for owner Tony Brucato. Second row: Sarah and Scott Graff sport their boxer Coco’s first place trophy for most unique markings and his third place ribbon for best tail wag; Miss Phoenix, a Yorkie, struts her Sunday finest; and Joan Ropsicki gives a hug to her Rory, who won for cutest rescue dog. Bottom: Shelley Houston gives an admiring look to her Portuguese water dog, named Frank..

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Kyrene middle schools make book on reading competition

BY COTY DOLORES MIRANDA AFN Contributor

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very Thursday at 7:30 a.m., six students gather in Melissa Wicks’ Language Arts classroom at Akimel A-al Middle School.

The early birds are there to talk books for one hour before school begins.

The sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students are enrolled in the Kyrene School District’s Battle of the Books, a 10-week program sponsored by the Community Education Department that encourages reading and then pits middle school teams against one another in a final Battle of the Books (BOB) competition scheduled for April 11.

Five of the six Kyrene Middle Schools are competing. The program requires a minimum enrollment of 12, and a $116 fee, though scholarships were available, according to Kyrene Community Education program coordinator Marisa Dickerson. Ten books are assigned for

(Amy Furman/Special to AFN)

Battle of the Books participants at Aprende Middle School include, standing from left, Ariel Heinrich, Pablo Frausto and Merilyn Li and, seated from left, Andre Martinez-Jackson and Kaian Utrera.

reading.

But besides creating a multi-school reading club of sorts, BOB also prompts

a competition that over time has become rich interscholastic rivalry.

“It’s kind of like ‘Jeopardy’ meets your

spelling bee,” chuckled teacher Amy Furman, who coaches her 17-member group at Kyrene Aprende Middle School.

BOB is a nationwide program that began in the 1930s as a radio quiz show on a Chicago radio station, and is now a reading incentive program for elementary, middle and high schools.

The books are selected by Battle of the Books. There are two organizations with the same name. Kyrene uses BattleoftheBooks.com, owned by Christine House, a former librarian and educator with 30 years of experience, and one of the company’s creators.

The 10 books are pre-selected by the company, and this year’s middle school list includes both fiction and nonfiction such as “No Summit Out of Sight: the True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits” by Jordan Romero with Linda LeBlanc; and “The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle” by Avi. See

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Scout spruces up Keystone Montessori’s outdoor classrooms AFN News Staff

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hwatukee Boy Scout Rafael Debbins earned his Eagle rank with the help of fellow members of Troop 16 by helping to complete two outdoor classrooms at Keystone Montessori School.

Rafael led his team in planting planting fruit trees and bushes, trimming shrubs and removing trees, shrubs and a tortoise house.

A river rock run-off was also rebuilt.

Garden pavers and mosaic tiles were repurposed in the design as well.

Over 163 man-hours were invested on project day, with Safeway, Domino’s Pizza and Sam’s Club helping with breakfast and lunch as well as water.

Assistant Head of School Laura Hertzler said even “weather cooperated with cooler temperatures ideal for planting.”

Rafael’s fundraising effort covered the project expenses, with additional support from Whitfill Nursery in Gilbert.

He spent almost 20 work hours in

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The outdoor classrooms at Keystone Montessori enables students to study and grow fruit to eat.

pre-project preparations, and enlisted some 40 Scout volunteers and friends to help complete the project.

“The landscape update benefits the classroom communities by providing fruit for the students to harvest for classroom cook-

ing and a calm outdoor space for their studies,” Hertzler added.

The son of Carmi and Joe Debbins, Rafael is in eighth grade at Keystone Montessori.

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“Really, it’s a way to promote reading, and to have it competitive as well is hilarious,” said Furman, who has taught 23 years, the last 18 at Kyrene. “It’s a way to have kids who love reading get together with other kids who are also super-excited about it.”

Besides reading the books, the students work on sample competition questions.

All questions begin with “In which book,” and students must answer with book title and author.

The history of BOB in the Kyrene School District is a rich one, and one that almost ended with state funding cuts three years ago.

Kyrene del Pueblo teacher Kate Munn, one of the originators of Battle of the Books in Kyrene middle schools recalled its near demise – and the continuing popularity among middle school bookworms.

“In 2012, when I was a librarian at Pueblo Middle School, I joined a group of middle school librarians who ran the competition – Jennifer Leopardi of Kyrene Middle School, Rhonda Brewer of Akimel A-al, Jacque Moorefield of Centennial and Linda Todd, at that time her CMS technician. We each led a group

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at our schools, and took turns hosting and running the Final Battle,” said Munn, who is in her fourth year as a coach.

“In 2015, cuts in state funding meant that the middle school libraries would be run by technicians instead of librarians.

Middle school librarians moved into other certified teaching or elementary librarian positions,” said Munn, who now teaches seventh-grade social studies.

“I was concerned because the Battle of the Books program in Kyrene Middle Schools looked like it was going to end, and I knew how much it meant to our middle school readers. So, I made a proposal to Community Education with the help of Kelly Alexander, my principal at Pueblo, that we continue the program through Kyrene Community Education.”

And that is what saved BOB. Community Education head Teresa Rodriquez helped initiate the Battle of the Books under her department’s auspices, with Marisa Dickerson now facilitating the popular competition.

BOB coaches say their club is made up of students who enjoy reading, and others who are more into the competition.

As the “Final Battle” looms, five students and one alternate will be selected to make up each school team.

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Battle to support the team, even if they’re not one of the five, said Munn, adding: “They all dress in our BOB shirts, and the battles have a great audience turnout, with family and friends cheering on each school’s team.”

For sixth-grade student Makayla BogartGetner, the BOB group has increased her school social circle.

“Battle of the books isn’t like an ordinary book club, it’s a place where I don’t feel alone. I’m basically what you would call a picture-perfect, non-social nerd, and it gives me a chance to talk eye-to-eye with some of the kids that I never would I have imagined hanging out with,” she said.

The one exception to the minimum enrollment caveat is the club headed by Melissa Wicks at Akimel A-al.

This in her first year at the Ahwatukee middle school, having transferred from Centennial Middle School, where she led her team to last year’s Battle of the Books championship.

Wicks said, “Community Education allowed me to still work with a small group after I spoke to them about needing a year to get the program off the ground. Last year, Akimel A-al was not a participant in the battle. Since we’ve been up and running, there’s been a lot of (student) interest in joining, but those students will

have to wait until next year.”

One student who was in the tie-breaker with Centennial last year is Kira Caspers, an eighth-grader at Aprende, coached by Furman.

“Last year our team went into the tiebreaker with Centennial. It was stressful, but still fun,” said Caspers, 13, who is representing her school for the third year.

“I think our chances are pretty good for the Final Battle; everybody’s really enthusiastic about it this year.”

The Final Battle contest questions are a well-kept secret, ensconced in three sealed envelopes, each containing 20 questions and five tie-breaker questions.

In answer to the questions that always begin with ‘In which book is,” the team members confer before the team captain hoists the binder with that book title.

If judges rule against their answer, students have a short time period in which to find the exact spot in the book that provides proof their answer was correct.

Teachers Tara Camarano of Alta Dena Middle School and Nicole Schutkowsik at Centennial Middle School are also coaching their respective Battle of the Books teams.

The 2018 Battle of the Books final is scheduled for April 11 at 6 p.m. at the Kyrene Schools District Office.

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Family of Christ Lutheran holding workshops on parenting AFN News Staff

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amily of Christ Lutheran Church in Ahwatukee is hosting a three-day workshop on parenting featuring a local expert on the subject.

Sandy Kraus, an Ahwatukee resident who counsels parents through her business, Legacy Parenting, will lead the sessions, title 1, 2, 3, 4 Parents! Workshop The sessions will be held 6:30-8 p.m.

April 10, 17 and 24 at the church, 3501 E, Chandler Blvd.

Kraus holds a parent education certification from the University of Minnesota and received her certification in parent coaching from Concordia University.

She has a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and taught kindergarten and fourth grade.

“The first four to five years of a person’s life are the most critical to his or her development,” Kraus said, noting that is when “their personality and their outlook on the world develop.”

“These characteristics, whether healthy or unhealthy, will continue throughout his or her lifetime. As a child matures into an adult, the seeds which were sown

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Kraus said that time in a child’s life is also important for parents.

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Festival of Lights wine-beer festival tickets now on sale

Tickets are now on sale for the Festival of Lights Committee’s 23rd annual Wine & Beer Tasting Festival, one of Ahwatukee’s biggest social events of the year. It will be held 6:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday, April 14, at Rawhide Western Town in Chandler.

Over 50 fine wines, food pairings and local breweries will be available, along with music by Tripwire, line dancing with Carrie McNiesh, a silent auction and other activities. Tickets are $50 in advance and $60 at the door and can be purchased at any Safeway in Ahwatukee or at folaz.org.

The Festival of Lights Committee also is looking for new volunteers and interested people can drop by at 6:30 p.m. at Desert Foothills United Methodist Church, 2156 E. Liberty Lane, Ahwatukee, on the following dates: April 3 and April 10. Information: admin@folaz.org.

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren debuts in Ahwatukee

Across Arizona, more than 100,000 children are being raised by their grandparents or other relatives, according to recent statistics. Now, Duet is starting a support group in Ahwatukee to help them.

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren will hold a kickoff 9-11 a.m. today, March 28, at Mountain View Lutheran Church, 11002 S. 48th St., Ahwatukee.

The program is free. RSVP: Jenny at franzmeier@ duetaz.org, or 602-274-5022 Ext. 114 The group will meet 9-11 a.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of every month starting April 11 at the church.

The kickoff will include a presentation called “Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma.” People will learn what trauma is and how trauma may impact children. It also provides information on how to create a safe place, how to become an advocate for trauma-specific services, and how to recognize and help prevent compassion fatigue.

Odelay Bagel to sell bikes and help group for the disabled

Odelay Bagel Co., 12020 S. Warner-Elliot Loop, Ahwatukee, will be selling reconditioned bicycles 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, April 22, to help STARS/Handlebar Helpers.

STARS provides on-the-job training for people with developmental disabilities. It teaches them bike operation and maintenance. Many of the bicycles for sale have been worked on by these individuals, and the funds received from sales go back into the program to support this programming.

Desert Vista High School seniors to collect ‘e-waste’ next month

Desert Vista High School students Audrey Sears, Brendan Hicks and Ryan Hartman are holding an Electronic Waste Drive covering all used electronics 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, April 7, and Ahwatukee Foothills Family YMCA, 1030 E. Liberty Lane, Ahwatukee.

“When electronics are not recycled they often end up in landfills, further polluting the earth,” Ryan said. “These discarded electronics often contain raw materials that can be used in other electronics.

Also, some electronics contain toxic materials, such as mercury and lead, and it is imperative that these

electronics are disposed of properly.”

Prices: $5 for desktop printers, CRT TVs less than 33 inches, $50, and more than 33 inches, $60; monitors less than 18 inches, $20, and more than 18 inches: $30; TVs 20-50 inches, $60, and more than 50 inches, $80.

No household appliances will be accepted. Everything else – including cell phones, ink cartridges and other items – can be recycled for free. Some products recycled by R3Ewaste benefit Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

Information: eraseewaste.weebly.com.

Pecos Center hosting line dancing, Muscle Mania classes

Ahwatukee resident and certified fitness instructor Carrie McNeish is offering beginning and intermediate/advanced line dancing classes at Pecos Community Center in Ahwatukee beginning the week of April 1.

No partner or experience necessary. Evening classes are on Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m. for beginners and an hour later for intermediate and advanced dancers.

Daytime classes are Thursdays 11:15 a.m. for beginners and 12:15 p.m. for intermediate and advanced.

Register in person or at phoenix.gov/PARKS. Small group personal training in a comfortable environment is the focus of her Muscle Mania classes Mondays and Wednesdays for six weeks starting the first week of April.

A “drop-in” class option is available! Register in person or on line @ http://phoenix.gov/PARKS. Information: 480-221-9090, cmcneish@cox.net, or dancemeetsfitness.net.

Register for blood drive to help little Addy Troutman

Another blood drive has been scheduled to help 2-year-old Adelyn Troutman of Ahwatukee, who suffers from a rare blood disorder that requires her to get a blood transfusion every month.

The drive will be 8 a.m.-1 p.m. April 21 at Desert Foothills United Methodist Church, 2156 E. Liberty Lane, Ahwatukee.

You can schedule an appointment by calling her mom, Kami Troutman at 480-246-6332, emailing troutman.kami@gmail.com or going to bloodhero. com and clicking sponsor code Adelyn.

GOP women scholarship deadline is coming this weekend

Ahwatukee Republican Women is seeking applications from h=graduating high school seniors for the Marjorie Miner Scholarship.

The $500 scholarship is open to an Ahwatukee resident who is a registered Republican and the deadline to apply is April 1.

Applicants submit essays addressing their personal involvement volunteer service, extracurricular activities, organizations or clubs, their history of employment and future educational goals. They also fill out a form available at ahwatukeerepublicanwomen.com The award is named after Marjorie Miner, who was a precinct committee member for 22 years, president of the Tempe Republican Women’s Club and a member of Ahwatukee Republican Women.

Information: 602-300-4185, arwomen@aol.com.

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CALENDAR

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28

THURSDAY, APRIL 12

TUESDAY APRIL 24

Improve your productivity by gaining control of your workday. Eliminate roadblocks to your success and identify the distractions that hold you back. Learn how to gain peak performance in your work and business. Part of the hive@central Productivity Series presented by Margo Brown, productivity coach and founder of Wave Productivity. #IronwoodLibrary DETAILS>> 6-7:30 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Free. Registration required via the online calendar at phxlib.org.

Sundance Spa & Salon will hold a grand re-opening and ribbon cutting to celebrate its move to a new location. Champagne and hor d’oeuvres will be served.

DETAILS>>4:30-6:30 p.m. 5037 E. Elliott Road, Ahwatukee, behind Bank of America.

Do you have a New Year’s resolution to get organized but don’t know where to start? Bring your planner, bullet journal, or notebook and learn some tips on laying out your tasks and goals while exercising your creativity. Introductory bullet journal and all other supplies provided by the Friend of the Phoenix Public Library.

DETAILS>> 4-6 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 31

Passover seder slated

NefeshSoul Congregation will hold a community Passover seder and potluck.

DETAILS>> 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. Held outside the sanctuary at Valley Unitarian Universalist, 6400 W. Del Rio St., Chandler. RSVP/information: bit.ly/ nefeshseder or nefeshsoul.org.

TUESDAY, APRIL 3

Local poet to speak

“From Dreams to Paper” is the title of Ahwatukee poet David Chorlton’s topic at the Parchment and Prose Writers discussion group meeting. The group looks at all aspects of the writing process from conception to publication.

DETAILS>> 6-7:45 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333. E Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4

Book discussion club

Read the book and join each month’s lively discussion. April’s read: “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” by Matthew Desmond. May’s read: “The Whole Town’s Talking” by Fannie Flagg.

DETAILS>> 7-7:45 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.

SATURDAY, APRIL 7

Healing service with music

NefeshSoul congregation will hold a musical healing service. We invite you to explore texts and songs that can help us express a difficult time that we’re going through and provide coping skills. We’ll also offer, at the end of the program, an opportunity for you to stand at the open Ark for a private moment for your prayers and meditations.

Please join us for your own needs, for support of your loved ones, and to support others who need to know they are not alone. Free and open to all -- not just Jews.

DETAILS>> 10:15 a.m.-noon, held in the sanctuary at Valley Unitarian Universalist, 6400 W. Del Rio St., Chandler.

TUESDAY, APRIL 10 LEGO Lab

Children accompanied by an adult can stop by for fun LEGO building time.

DETAILS>> 4-5 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 6-11. Free. No registration required.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 13

Today’s the deadline

If you want to attend the Ahwatukee Foothills Friends and Neighbors “Sassy and Classy” fashion show presented by Soft Surroundings and featuring Ahwatukee women as models, today is the deadline for your check. The show is April 23 at the Ahwatukee Recreation Center 5001 E. Cheyenne Drive.

DETAILS>> Information: affanwomensgroup@ gmail.com

SATURDAY, APRIL 14

Library teen council

This group meets to plan teen events at the library. Teens can earn community service hours, make friends, have fun.

DETAILS>> 2-3 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 12-18. Free. No registration required.

TUESDAY APRIL 17

100+ Women to meet

100+ Women Who Care, a local philanthropic group of women who meet quarterly to contribute locally and connect personally to benefit well deserving charities, will meet. Guests are welcome.

DETAILS>> 5:30-7:30 p.m. Foothills Golf Club, 2201 E. Clubhouse Drive, Ahwatukee. Information: 100WWCValleyOfTheSun.org.

Writers critique group

People can bring double-spaced pages of writing to get feedback from fellow writers.

DETAILS>> 6-7:45 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18

Author to discuss her book

Ahwatukee author Katrina Shawver will discuss her book “Henry: A Polish Swimmer’s True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America.” She will take questions and sign books. The award-winning biography is about champion swimmer and coach Henry Zguda and his imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a Polish Catholic political prisoner during WWII. DETAILS>> 6-7:30 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.

SATURDAY, APRIL 21

Shred-A-Thon on tap

A Shred-A-Thon to help the Support Our Troops program will be held by members of the Ahwatukee Recreation Center.

DETAILS>> 8-11 a.m. or until the truck is filled. ARC parking lot, 5001 E. Cheyenne Drive, Ahwatukee.

Cost is $2 per box, sized 15x12x10 inches.

Learn journaling

SUNDAYS

Learn gardening from pros

Learn desert gardening by getting your hands dirty with the Ahwatukee Community Gardening Project. Share in the knowledge, the produce, and the smiles. All ages welcome Bring sun protection and water, tools optional.

DETAILS>> 8-9:15 a.m. in the northwest corner of the park at 4700 E. Warner Road, Ahwatukee, behind the guitar player at the Ahwatukee Farmers Market, which is open 9a.m.-1 p.m.

Information: acgarden.org or 480-759-5338.

Chess, knitters clubs

Two new clubs meet in Ahwatukee every Sunday­ the chess club for players at all skill levels and Knitters Anonymous for all levels of knitters and people who crochet.

DETAILS>> The Chess Club meets at 11 a.m. at Einstein’s at 48th Street and Ray Road. Knitters Anonymous meets at 2 p.m. at Sun Cup Café, 1241 E Chandler Blvd. For either club, call 480-246-1912 for more information.

Little Bytes

Kids can learn the foundations of coding and computer commands before they can write or spell!

Fun activities, apps and games will teach the fundamentals of simple logic, sequencing and coding language. #stem DETAILS>> 2-3 p.m. April 8 and 29. Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 4-7. Free. No registration required.

Big Bytes

networking and leads group. Non-Chamber members can attend one event to “check it out.” Details>> noon-1 p.m.at Native Grill and Wings 5030 E. Ray Road, Ahwatukee. Contact: Gina Jenkins 480-990-5444

LD 18 Dems meet monthly

Legislative District 18 Democrats gather monthly, usually the second Monday, to share news, opportunities, food and laughter. Meetings include guest speakers, legislative updates, how-to sessions and Q&A. Volunteer or just enjoy an evening with like-minded folks.

DETAILS>> For times and places: ld18democrats. org/calendar.

TUESDAYS

Coloring for grown-ups

Adult coloring promotes mindfulness, reduces stress, and improves cognitive motor skills. We’ll provide the markers, crayons, colored pencils, and coloring sheets; you just bring yourself and your friends!

DETAILS>> Tuesdays 1:30-3:00 p.m., Ironwood Library, 4333 E Chandler Blvd. Free. No registration required.

Estrangement support

Although rarely discussed, family estrangement is far more common than most people realize.

The estranged suffer from loneliness, lack of self-esteem, guilt, anger and depression. Desert Foothills United Methodist Church provides a support group that meets the first Tuesday of every month. The public is invited to the “Living Loss” sessions. No questions asked, and anonymity will be respected.

DETAILS>> 7 p.m., first Tuesday of every month; 2156 E. Liberty Lane, Ahwatukee. Free. Information: 480-460-1025 and office@desertfoothills.org

Chair yoga featured

Inner Vision Yoga Studio offers chair yoga to help seniors and people recovering from injuries to stay fit.

DETAILS>> 1:30-2:30 p.m., 4025 E. Chandler Blvd., Ahwatukee. $5 per class.

What do video games, robots and self-driving cars have in common? Code! You can become a coding master by learning Code.org, Kodable, Scratch, Tynker, HTML and more. Beginners welcome.

DETAILS>> 3-4 p.m., April 8 and 29. Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages 8-17. Free. No registration required.

Toastmasters sharpen skills

MONDAYS

The Ahwatukee Chamber offers Power Partners every Tuesday except the second Tuesday of the month, when attendees are encouraged to attend the Wake Up Ahwatukee Morning Mixer. Unlike our Monday Power Group, this group will be non-category specific, meaning you can have more than one member in each business category.

DETAILS>> 7:45-8:45 a.m. Jason’s Deli, 7230 W. Ray Road, Chandler. Free. Information:. Gina Jenkins, 480-990-5444.

Sign language for crawlers

Accompanied by a favorite adult, babies birth to crawling enjoy songs, music, rhymes, books, interactive stories, simple sign language words, activities to promote movement, and playtime.

DETAILS>> 10:30-11 a.m. Ironwood Library, 4333 E. Chandler Blvd. Ages birth to crawling. Free. Tickets are limited and available in the library 30 minutes before program begins.

Power Partners meet

The Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce’s Power Partners meets. It’s a category-specific

Improve your speaking skills and meet interesting people at Ahwatukee Toastmasters meetings DETAILS>> 6:45-8 a.m at the Dignity Health Community Room, 4545 E. Chandler Blvd., Ahwatukee.

Power Partners available

— Email calendar items to pmaryniak@ahwatukees.com

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Tragic video of Uber death just another thing to watch

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ AFN Columnist

O

n the morning of March 21, video of 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg being run down by a self-driving Uber vehicle in Tempe quickly became the most-watched drama on local television and across the Internet. This should come as no surprise.

A barbarous bunch getting more bloodthirsty by the day, we very much enjoy watching people die.

I’m truly sorry if that assessment sounds coarse, but some honesty appears to be in order.

For years, we’ve all read and listened to somber warnings cautioning us that “the following video may be disturbing.” We’ve also grown accustomed to reporters and anchors rationalizing about the “news value” of such videos – as if Joe on his sofa clicking on his iPad is also a National Transportation Safety Board engineer in his spare time, probing whether Uber’s li-

dar laser sensors were operating properly in Herzberg’s death.

The truth? There’s only a handful of crash investigators in the world. The rest of us just like watching accident porn.

And then gossiping about it online or with friends.

The chatter about this incident, which marks the first time a pedestrian has been killed by a self-driving vehicle operating in autonomous mode, frequently has touched on the relative safety of driverless cars versus human operators. Over and over, we have heard how Americans at the wheel claimed about 37,000 lives in 2016 – including 897 fatalities in Arizona – while, thus far, driverless cars have killed one person.

To put it mildly, that’s a really dumb argument, statistically speaking.

That’s because people in the United States drove more than 3 trillion miles in 2016, according to federal statistics. Doing the math, that means human drivers caused 1.18 fatalities for every 100 million miles driven. And self-driving vehicles?

In December, Uber announced its autonomous vehicles had just passed 2 million miles driven. That was a few weeks after Waymo, the other big player in autonomous vehicles, announced passing mile number 4 million.

“We’re finally hitting our stride,” Eric Meyhofer, the head of Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group, told Forbes in December. “We’re about 84,000 miles a week on the street at this point.”

Currently, Uber’s self-driving program in Arizona has been temporarily put on hold pending investigations by the Tempe Police, the NTSB and the National Highway Safety Administration – plus lots of posturing by state and federal politicians and bajillions of clickbait clicks by Joe on his sofa. As for the media, expect this story to continue to be big news for a few days, because it’s perfect fodder for the newest trend in journalism: the “what you need to know” list.

Newfangled reporters and editors love these lists – usually accompanied by clicky photo galleries – because they’re much

easier to compile than actual stories. Plus, they’re way faster to read while you’re sitting on your couch half-watching another Suns loss and half-watching video of a 49-year-old woman emerging from the shadows near Mill Avenue and Curry Road, walking her bicycle into the path of Uber’s self-driving Volvo SUV. Uber’s “human safety driver” – a 44-year-old convicted attempted armed robber born Rafael Vasquez, but who now identifies as Rafaela – appears distracted in the video, looking away from the road, perhaps at the laptop the company provides for note-taking and vehicle routing, or maybe at a cellphone. The last frames of the video shows Vasquez’s horrified face in the final moments before impact.

The video that should be required viewing? Footage of the rest of us clicking away to watch one of our neighbors lose her life. Why do I get the sense that far too many of us look amused at the sight?

– David Leibowitz has called the Valley home since 1995. Contact david@leibowitzsolo.com.

LETTERS

Make officials aware of funding military tech

This subject will never be headline news unless something tragic happens, but it is important that people be aware of what is happening with the military balance in the world.

The U.S. has held military superiority for all our lives, but China now has the money, the desire and the ability to develop super-high-tech weapons that could threaten the western Pacific region fairly soon.

We’ve been zooming ahead with the F-35 fighter jet, and nothing’s been able to touch it for the past few years.

But that could be changing if our elected officials are not made super-aware of the importance of keeping it funded and

advancing other areas of our military technology.

Let them know not to fall behind on our military strength.

-Peter Dempter

Peeved at lawmakers over unemployment comments

I’m a little peeved that people like Sen. Smith and Rep. Weninger think that if someone hasn’t found a new job in four weeks after a layoff or firing that they are living on the fat of the land and lazy.

They never consider the possibility that $240 a week is so little that only a fool isn’t out hustling for a new job.

Sometimes jobs are hard to find.

I spent a good six months or so unemployed – taking odd jobs, cutting costs

and spending savings to make ends meet during that time. So, I was grateful for the money from the state pool. However, $240 a week is hardly taking care “of someone from the cradle to the grave,” as one of our generous legislators called it.

-Salvatore Caputo

U.S. athletes in Olympics did best they could

It is most unfortunate that critics of the 2018 U.S. Winter Olympic team are calling the performance of our athletes “embarrassing,” as in “U.S. Embarrassing Itself in Korea.”

Apparently, we citizens and all our athletes should be embarrassed because we have not won enough Olympic medals.

Is it possible that some athletes from

the other 91 competing countries could be better? Can we not recognize that we are not the only nation in the world?

Does the ability to go downhill in a sled or sweep the ice before polished granite stones define a nation’s greatness?

When basketball forward LiAngelo Ball steals from three stores in China – that is embarrassing.

When Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte fabricates a bogus robbery attempt to cover up his drunken behavior in Brazil – that is embarrassing.

When our men and women dedicate themselves to training hard for four years, do their best, but do not finish as first in the world, we should praise them for their strong work ethic, but never label their tireless efforts “embarrassing.”

-Bob Baron

Share Your Thoughts: Send your letters on local issues to: pmaryniak@ahwatukee.com

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Foothills board elections are all about our community

BY MICHAEL OWEN AFN Guest Writer

T

he Foothills Homeowners Association is currently conducting our election for two board members.

You should have received your ballot for this year’s election this past week.

Bill Fautsch and Sandi Salvo are the incumbents running for re-election, each with 10 plus years of experience on the board. Both these members of our community have worked tirelessly and with the highest integrity to keep our community well maintained, beautiful and on very solid financial ground. They have been totally transparent in managing our association and would like to continue to do so.

It was my privilege to serve with them both on the board for four years and I am into my 10th year on the design review committee. They have conducted themselves with integrity and a proven goal of acting on behalf of all the homeowners of the Foothills community to assure a well maintained neighborhood.

Being a member of the board is a commitment of time that is beyond what

many would be willing to do for their community. Bill and Sandi are out in the community at least once or twice a week overseeing projects and reviewing matters that affect all of us. It would be helpful to understand the complexity of managing a large association such as ours.

They have been very involved in protecting our community’s interests by negotiating with ADOT and Connect 202 to protect our assets, property values and the environment as the Loop 202 project moves forward.

This has involved many site visits and meetings both in the community and offsite with ADOT, Connect 202, designers, attorneys, architects, engineers and others.

Bill and Sandi have been instrumental in negotiating contracts that are in the best interest of our community.

Our largest contract is for landscaping and maintenance. This includes caring for our many trees, valued at over $10 million, keeping our washes clear for rain/flood control, weekly trimming and mowing, lake cleanup, planting/replacing trees, bushes and flowers, irrigation maintenance and repairs and monsoon/storm

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Other responsibilities involving vendors include common wall painting, repair and maintenance; lake water and equipment maintenance; gate maintenance and repair for our gated parcels; legal representation to protect our property, assist with collections and protect our interests with regard to ADOT and Connect 202.

Also, property management services to professionally manage the business of our association; professional services of engineers and other consultants to be sure everything is done to the highest standards; professional financial services to guarantee we are getting the best return on our assets and that they are 100 percent insured by the FDIC; obtaining and maintaining appropriate insurance coverage at a competitive price.

Day-to-day operations are based on an annual budget that is meticulously prepared by the Board each fall for the following year. With the guidance of Sandi, your Treasurer, and Bill, your president, your association operates within this budget.

Any surplus at the end of the year is transferred into the reserve account to be

held for any unexpected major expenses.

The reserve account is fully funded based on a professionally prepared reserve study that anticipates expenses for major projects 30 years into the future.

Annual assessments to the homeowners are only increased when increases to normal operating expenses are anticipated going forward so as to maintain reserves for unanticipated major repairs.

With all the ongoing projects and the Loop 202 construction, it would benefit our community immensely by having these two dedicated members of our community continue serving for another term on our board.

Beware of misleading and unsubstantiated allegations floating around in our community. The old adage that “some need to make others look bad in order to make themselves look good” seems to be in use here.

If you did not receive your ballot in the mail, please contact our property manager, Pat Wontor, at pwontor@premieraz. com.

-Michael Owen has been a Foothills community resident since 1991.

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Kids Camp Children build STEM skills in engineering camp

BY COLLEEN SPARKS AFN Staff Writer

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hildren talked excitedly as they launched straw rockets, built paper towers and created images with 3-D pens in a recent science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) day camp in Ahwatukee.

Judging by the kids’ enthusiasm at a recent one-day camp, it might not be surprising to know that East Valley Engineering for Kids was named the top-producing franchise by reported gross sales for 2017 for all of the 163 Engineering for Kids locations around the world.

The East Valley operation is based in Ahwatukee but also provides many camps and events at locations in Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, Scottsdale, Peoria and downtown Phoenix.

Engineering for Kids offers STEM activities to children ages 4 to 14 in activities intended to be fun yet challenging when students are on school vacations, as well as through clubs and parties.

Programming, robotics, 3-D printing, video game design, Minecraft modding, CAD design and industrial, aerospace and mechanical engineering are part of the STEM classes, said Ron Hoagland, co-owner/program director.

He and his wife, Lan, who live in Ahwatukee, co-own the East Valley franchise, the only branch in Arizona.

“It’s pretty exciting because we started year one, we did really well,” Ron said. “The second year we were like top 10-percent. Last year, we’re like we’re going to get the number 1 spot this year.”

Lan is also happy about the recognition.

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Vienna Vargas, 9, intently manipulates a robot so that it picks up plastic rings.

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Lead instructor Tenisha Rhodes explains the ins and outs of LEGO robot operation to 8-year-old Lincoln Fielder.

“We’re excited,” she said.

“We like doing it for the community.”

Mike Cavanaugh, vice president of operations for Engineering for Kids, praised the work Ron and Lan have done with the franchise.

“It is clear that they have perfected the summer camp business model not only in their own community but had the most successful summer in the history of our company,” Cavanaugh said.

“Their summer camp success is extremely impressive; however, their willingness to help other owners all over the world is equally impressive and speaks volumes to the type of character Ron and Lan bring to their business,” he added.

Chandler City Councilmember René Lopez added: “The more exposure our kids can have to STEM, the better. The EV Engineering for Kids is another great tool we have in our community to ensure our children have every opportuniSee

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Ahwatukee kids can find fun, education at Kyrene camps AFN NEWS STAFF

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f you’re looking for a summer camp where your child will learn and have fun, you don’t have to look far.

Kyrene School District will be offering a variety of summer programs in Ahwatukee, promising a fun and educational environment for every child.

From Kids Club and after hours to preschool and Summer Academy, the district’s offerings have enough variety for even the pickiest child.

Registration is already underway online.

Summer Academy is offered at Kyrene de la Estrella and Kyrene Akimel A-al this June with new course offerings that include bioengineering, Open Art Studio, Chemistry Concoctions, Myth Busters and ancient history.

Students as young as 3 can choose up to four classes a day with preschool, after hours and Kids Club also available before or after Summer Academy.

Preschool at Kyrene de la Estrella and Kyrene Monte Vista gives incoming kindergartners and students 3 to 5 years old a full day of activities with weekly themes. Children will participate in

water days and pancake breakfasts and learn about favorite story-time characters aimed at developing a love of learning.

Families can register by the week with multiple partial day options available.

There will be special guests weekly, as well as on-site events and field trips.

Estrella and Monte Vista are also hosting Kyrene Kids Club Summer. Staff-led themes allow students to rotate hourly to different classrooms, giving them the freedom and flexibility to build their day around their interests.

Rooms include construction, art,

dramatic play, active games, science, cooking, performing arts and a game room. For students who want to travel to Chandler, Kyrene Aprende is hosting Kyrene Adventure Tours for grades three through six. Each week, students will take part in daily onsite events and field trips.

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ty to experience how much fun you can have designing, building and expressing yourself.

“Every child is different, and it is our duty to find that one spark to ignite a brighter future for them.”

Lan is a registered nurse and Ron has a background in sales and marketing in the corporate world. Their son, Preston, 5, participates in the STEM activities East Valley Engineering for Kids offers.

“We kind of looked at how Arizona stacks up in education to the United States, how the U.S. stacks up to the world in STEM education and we saw that there was a need there to do better,” Ron said.

“We were so excited that you could start kids out in this at age 4. We kind of felt like, wow, the earlier you could get kids involved in this stuff the more likely they’ll take their studies in science, math more seriously because you’re presenting it in a hands-on way.”

East Valley Engineering for Kids will have summer camps at Primavera Learning Center in Chandler, as well as at Urban Air Adventure Park in Ahwatukee, Val Vista Academy in Gilbert and other locations.

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Last month, 26 children ages 4 to 12 worked together in teams building the paper towers in a variety of colors, some nearly reaching the ceiling at the Ahwatukee site.

It was the first time East Valley Engineering for Kids held a camp at Urban Air Adventure Park in Ahwatukee, its new partner on East Ray Road just east of 48th Street.

“It’s very open-design,” Ron said.

“The objective is they have to build the highest tower that can support the most weight. There’s critical thinking involved. There’s teamwork. That’s why we’re so successful; they’re not being lectured at. It’s allowing them to be creative, to come up with solutions to problems.”

Harper Vanderwall, 7, and her brother, Hudson, 9, of Ahwatukee, enjoyed making the tower.

“Ours was almost to the ceiling,” Harper said. “My favorite thing about the camp is the 3D pens. You can create whatever you want.”

She said she would like to be a singing actress, cheerleader and engineer when she grows up. Hudson shared one of her interests.

“I want to be an engineer,” he said.

“I’ve been going to Engineering for Kids for three years now. I’m good at electronics.”

Some children in the recent class at Urban Air made rockets out of drinking straws, clay, tape and construction paper that they launched up into the air and at a target on the wall.

One group created letters and shapes that came out squishy and eventually hardened using 3Doodler Start 3D Pens.

During breaks, the children in the STEM camp got to jump and play on the trampolines at Urban Air. Tenisha Rhodes, a lead instructor for East Valley Engineering for Kids, guided children as they made letters, animals and other creations with the 3D pens.

She started working for Engineering for Kids in 2015 in the Chicago area and wanted to stay with the franchise when she moved to Phoenix in January.

“I love it,” Rhodes said. “I love teaching kids. I wanted to do something outside of the classroom. It’s really important kids have the STEM program so they can do things like this. Whenever we have a robotics challenge, the girls kill it. I would love to see more girls in STEM programs.”

Students ages 8 to 14 in a spring break East Valley Engineering for Kids drone camp at Urban Air looked at images on apps that mini drones captured from

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Lekshana Kudikala, 7, watches a robot respond to her commands during an Engineering for Kids demonstration

their cameras with younger kids drew lines on paper to program robots.

Dale Fedewa, Urban Air owner, said he is excited to be partnering with East Valley Engineering for Kids because the STEM business is “forward-thinking and teaching kids.”

“It’s a great learning experience,” Fed-

ewa said. “To partner with them is great.

Having been the parent on the other end, I would have loved something like this. Kids having fun learning makes all the difference in the world. That’s the value and the beauty of it.”

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The program gives students a chance to hone their acting skills and learn technical aspects of the stage. Students will work with a voice coach, learn choreography, learn how to apply stage make up, study costume design and discover other aspects of the theater.

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Arizona Girl Scout camps offer four unique adventures AFN News Staff

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egistration for the Girl Scouts– Arizona Cactus Pine-Council 2018 summer camps is now open for its four camp locations.

Girls can register for the Parsons Leadership Center for Girls and Women at Camp South Mountain in Phoenix, Camp Maripai or Willow Springs in Prescott, or Shadow Rim Ranch in Payson.

Each camp has its own special

offerings, along with the traditional camp activities, to accommodate the diverse interests of every girl. Yet, the purpose of Girl Scout camp remains the same: to provide girls a safe and supportive place to have fun, make new friends, learn new skills and explore the outdoors.

“Girl Scout camps are about getting girls outdoors, letting them learn through experience and building their self-confidence while helping them grow as leaders,” said Justina Burks, outdoor

program manager for the council.

“All our camps provide girls with opportunities for adventure in an environment where they can be their true selves,” Berks added. “Not only are our camps affordable, but we welcome all girls, K-12, regardless of whether they are Girl Scouts or not.”

Parsons Leadership Center is a new state-of-the-art urban camp with sessions for both day and overnight campers. The programs include STEMrelated activities, archery, swimming,

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Golden Doodles ease anxiety at Foothills Family Dental

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entophobia – a fear of dentists or dental procedures – is a real and treatable fear, according to the American Psychiatric Association.

So, Foothills Family Dental, marking its 24th year in the same Ahwatukee location at the northwest corner of East Chandler Boulevard and Desert Foothills Parkway, is easing the anxiety that a trip to the dentist might bring.

Meet Mia and Bella, two mini Golden Doodles owned by Dr. Anita Marra and her husband-office manager, Bob, who have lived in Ahwatukee for 26 years, raising two daughters.

A Golden Doodle is a golden retriever-poodle mix that is hypoallergenic and doesn’t shed.

The two dogs were born in September 2016, and once they turned a year old, the Marras began a lengthy process to have them registered as therapy dogs.

“Bob and I adopted the pair as puppies and worked with them on manners and appropriate behaviors with the idea of taking them into our community to volunteer as therapy dogs,” said Dr. Marra.

“After researching, we found the Alliance of Therapy Dogs organization.

They help train, test, register and insure therapy dogs all over the country to go out and volunteer. So, when Bella and Mia were a year old, we started the process,” she said.

The alliance, founded in 1990, provides a testing process that starts with assuring that the owners and dogs develop a good relationship and that the canines have the right temperament for therapy work.

Then, an ATD “tester/observer” monitors the owner and dog during three visits to facilities, including two medical clinics. During these supervised visits, the T/O observes, and gives advice and guidance.

There are at least 15 tester/observers within 26 miles of Ahwatukee, including Carrol Colasardo of Mesa, the current vice president and an alliance mem-

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Dr. Anita Marra and her husband-office manager, Bob, use their Golden Doodles, Mia and Bella, with patients who don't like visiting the dentist. The 18-month-old canines are specially trained and registered as therapy dogs.

ber since 2008.

Dogs made an additional insurance polMia and Bella were tested at Ban- icy available to its members that allows ner-University Medical Center in Phoe- us to take our trained therapy dogs to nix in the fall of 2017. By Christmas, work,” she added. they were done after a veterinarian cerDr. Marra had seen the benefits of tified their fecal exams for the last year therapy dogs with children and adults, were negative and that they were up to and felt it would be beneficial to her date on all vaccines, including rabies. dental patients as well.

“Once acNow, her cepted, you patients and your therhave the opapy dogs are tion to inready to share vite Bella or smiles and Mia to join joy,” said Dr. them during Marra adding their dental that the ATD procedures. registration “ I ’ v e and memberbeen overship also prowhelmed by vides liability the response – Dr. Anita Marra, insurance. of our paFoothills Family Dental “We like to tients to our give back to dogs. Both our community,” anxious pasaid Dr. Marra, who has been in prac- tients and those without dental anxiety tice for 31 years. “We started talking are requesting them. Many patients have about having our dogs interact with our even bonded with Bella or Mia to the patients, and said, ‘Why not bring them point where they request a specific dog to the office?’” for their next appointment,” she said.

“In January, the Alliance of Therapy “It’s well documented that animals

“ People love it, even those people who don’t usually like dogs. Our patients have really responded to them. ”

can provide comfort and decrease anxiety, and we are thrilled to be able to have them available both for our patients and the community at large,” she added. “If someone wants a dog, we bring them out. People love it, even those people who don’t usually like dogs. Our patients have really responded to them.”

Krista Dearing, a 15-year Ahwatukee resident, said she recently was going through several procedures and opted to have either 20-pound Bella or 17-pound Mia on her lap as she lay in the dental chair.

“It mitigates the nervousness,” she confessed. “Frankly, I dislike going to the dentist, so it’s been perfect. I’m almost 60 so there’s always something that needs done and I like that they bring out the little helpers.”

She added she has been a patient of Foothills Family Dental “not only because they have therapy dogs but because she and her husband are like family, and she’s extremely good at what she does.”

Ahwatukee resident Carol Rollins concurred, saying Dr. Marra tries “to make the patient as comfortable as possible.”

“Oh my gosh, the dogs,” she said.

“They’re just fabulous. They’re so comforting. I think when you’re nervous, they kind of take your mind off what you’re having done.”

Rollins confided that her adult daughter Carly “is the biggest baby going when it comes to going to the dentist, and she loves the dogs.”

The Marras take the dogs elsewhere to provide pet therapy.

“Rather than traveling to downtown hospital sites, we’re reaching out to our community,” she said. “We’re interested in volunteering with our dogs in schools, senior facilities, care centers, libraries, anywhere, really, where we could provide comfort.”

“We like to give back to our community,” said Dr. Marra, who’s been in practice 31 years. “We opened Foothills Family Dental 24 years ago and Ahwatukee is an amazing place, and we’re very blessed to call it home.”

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Biscuits owner vows to reopen soon at Club West AFN News Staff

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s far as owner Lloyd Melton is concerned, it should be only a matter of a few weeks at most before Biscuits restaurant reopens at Club West.

County health inspectors abruptly ordered the restaurant closed two weeks ago because Melton had not obtained their approval for using a portable tank to supply water to the establishment after the Phoenix Water Services Department turned off the tap to the course because owner Richard Breuninger owed $200,000 in delinquent bills.

“I got caught in the middle of all this,” he said, referring to the city’s action.

Melton told AFN last week that Breuninger has signed over the clubhouse to him and all he’s waiting for is the city to put the meter for water to his restaurant in his name. “All the utilities will be in my name,” he said, although he would not be responsible for paying the water bill for the course.

Inspectors for the Maricopa County Environmental Health Services Division shut down Biscuits for violating code

businesses with serious conditions constituting an imminent public health threat,” a notice stated.

“I was bringing in pure drinking water,” he said.

“I told him that I had paid my bill, but he said I couldn’t stay open.”

Melton said the shutdown came a costly surprise – especially because (Special to AFN) “I paid my water Former Club West Golf Course general manager Christa Jones and Biscuits owner Lloyd Melton were all smiles in November as Melton prepared to open bill” even though his restaurant at the club house. the meter was in the name of Inter requirements that require eateries to Tribal Golf Association. obtain water from an approved source and “I was shocked,” he said. that forbid “hauled or transported water Open only since late November, Biscuits for continuity of the supply” except in an quickly achieved considerable popularity emergency declared by the department. at Club West, attracting standing-room“Maricopa County policy requires only crowds all weekend. suspension of the operating permit of “I had three parties scheduled, too,”

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Melton added, including one for 80 people.

“People love it,” he said of his restaurant.

“I’ve known a lot of those people a long time because they came to my other Biscuits on Elliot Road.”

Melton said he continues to keep his 17 employees on the payroll, partly because they’ve been trained but also because “my employees are like family to me.”

He said the lawsuit filed by investor William Day against Breuninger over the Club West Golf Course’s financial status doesn’t reflect all the details his arrangement.

Day said Breuninger told him that Melton would be paying $10,000 a month over a three-year lease and that instead Biscuits paid a flat $100,000.

But Melton said that in return for spending more than $20,000 to equip the restaurant and the kitchen, Breuninger gave him a free year’s rent.

“They told me they needed money so I loaned them $100,000,” he said.

Melton said he filed paperwork on March 16 to have the meter put in his name and that he’s just waiting for the change to be approved.

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Tuesday, April 10 8-9 a.m.

Wake-up Ahwatukee Morning Mixer Two Men and a Truck 1610 W. 12th Place, Tempe Free for members, $15 general admission 5:30–7 p.m.

YEA! Investor Panel South Mountain Community College Library Community Room 7050 S. 24th St., Phoenix

Wednesday, April 11 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Round Robin 5037 Elliott Road, Ahwatukee

Thursday, April 12 Noon-1 p.m.

Sundance Spa Ribbon Cutting 5037 Elliott Road, Ahwatukee

Tuesday, April 3 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Member Appreciation Shred Event Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce 4435 E. Chandler Blvd. Suite 140, Ahwatukee Thursday, April 5 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.

Women in Business Luncheon Four Points by Sheraton 10831 S. 51st St., Ahwatukee.

Presenter: Rayne Griffin of Women Change Masters “Creating Your Personal Brand” Members $25/general admission $35

Tuesday, April 10 8-9 a.m.

Wake-up Ahwatukee Morning Mixer Two Men and a Truck 1610 W. 12th Place, Tempe Free for members, $15 general admission

5:30–7 p.m.

YEA! Investor Panel South Mountain Community College Library Community Room 7050 S. 24th St., Phoenix

Wednesday, April 11 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Round Robin 5037 Elliott Road, Ahwatukee

Thursday, April 12 Noon-1 p.m.

Sundance Spa Ribbon Cutting 5037 Elliott Road, Ahwatukee

Jeff Meyer handles the ribbon cutting for JMJ Marketing with Maryann McCann, Andrew Hayes, Nick Howard, Calden Simmons, Gina Jenkins, Katelyn Meyer, lisa Liddy and Nick Knight.

21st annual Chamber Masters Golf Tournament coming

BY TOM DOUGHERTY AFN Guest Writer

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he Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce the return of the 21st annual Chamber Masters Golf Tournament.

Our biggest event of the year helps the chamber to provide our business members and the community with the resources they need to grow and develop.

It’s no coincidence that Ahwatukee is one of the top places in Arizona to grow a business. This will be a fun day on the golf course that includes networking, golf, food and drink.

The tournament will be held at The Foothills Golf Club on Friday, April 20.

Registration will begin at 6:30 am, with a shotgun start beginning promptly at 7:30 am.

To simplify registration, attendants will be available at drop stations to collect bags and transport them to designated carts.

We will be raffling off tons of prizes to include trips, entertainment packages, wine, massages and much more. All proceeds for the raffle will benefit the YEA Program.

The Young Entrepreneur Academy students in grades 6-12 brainstorm business ideas, write a business plan, pitch their plan to local investors for startup funding and then launch and run their own business.

Get your warmup in at the driving range,

which will be available to players prior to tee time, and range balls are included.

At the tournament’s conclusion, a luncheon will be served and announcement of winners and the awarding of prizes will follow. The BBQ luncheon, auction and awards will begin at 12:30 p.m.

You don’t have to be a golfer to join us for lunch, and you will not want to miss seeing the winners presented with our long-standing tradition of jackets with a special flair that far surpasses the standard green of the PGA Masters.

Hole sponsors throughout the course will have some fun, entertaining games and prizes.

Long Drive and Closest to the Pin contests

for both men and ladies are always exciting. There will even be an opportunity for a major Hole-in-One prize on the par-3 holes.

Can you guess what it will be?

On behalf of the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, I would like to thank each and every one of the volunteers, staff members and the sponsors for making this happen. It is going to be a great day to celebrate Ahwatukee.

Come out and join us.

Register for the tournament: bit.ly/tukeegolf, Sponsors can sign up at bit.ly/tukeesponsor.

-Tom Dougherty is the 2018 Chamber Masters Golf Tournament chairman.

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Sharing for the common good is a biblical value

BY RABBI DEAN SHAPRIO AFN Guest Writer

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n my column last month, I defended the idea of the common good, which has come under fire in the current moment of extreme individualism.

Much of our commitment to the individual over the group comes from the Enlightenment, which pushed back against tribalism and emotion and which created the great achievements and structures of our time.

But rugged individualism and Western expansion have inspired some people to believe they owe no contribution to the institutions, both formal and informal, that support the flourishing of society and protect the vulnerable. Judaism insists that we do.

Core Jewish values, as expressed in our textual tradition, require that we see ourselves not merely as individuals, each out for themselves, but also as members of

a community. Indeed, community is at the heart of the lived Jewish experience.

Jewish communities have long been structured to protect and support others.

Consider, for example, the biblical dictate to leave the corners of our fields unharvested. Despite the personal loss incurred when we refrain from picking our fields bare, we allow the poor to collect their own sustenance.

John Locke, the influential Enlightenment philosopher, would say that since we planted the seed, tilled the soil and irrigated the field, the entire yield rightfully belongs to us. Why, then, wouldn’t we harvest as much as we could?

“You shall leave them for the poor and the stranger: I am your God,” the Torah states (Leviticus 19:10).

We diminish what’s ours because we are part of a collective. Even the most vulnerable members – the impoverished, the foreigner, the orphan – are entitled to a share. By supporting them, we improve life for all. We don’t support others because a healthy society is better for us,

but rather because it is holy to do so.

The commandment not “to stand idly by the blood of your neighbor” (Leviticus 19:16) creates the affirmative responsibility to act on behalf of others. Another person’s pain is my responsibility; I must try to alleviate it. Ignoring the suffering of others does not make me great or superior; it makes me callous and shallow.

Nor can we wait until a threat presents itself. The injunction to install a guardrail on the roofs of our buildings – the original building safety code – signals our need to anticipate and avoid harm befalling others (Deuteronomy 22:8).

Much later, the Mishnah, the earliest layer of Rabbinic Law (c. 200-500 C.E.), concluded that the residents of a shared building could compel each other to fund and install a porter’s lodge and security system.

Cities could tax residents to fund a protective wall, if that was determined to be in the city’s best interest. (Baba Batra 7b) From this we understand that it is not

“every man for himself,” but rather that all benefit from the institutions of shared concern and are obliged to maintain them – even when there is personal cost.

The rules go beyond the right of taxation to standards of usage. Residents who share a courtyard can forbid one another from opening shops in their homes, lest customers come at all hours and disturb the neighbors.

But they cannot deny someone from opening a school in their apartment, even though that, too, creates a disturbance: The value of educating the next generation trumps the neighbors’ right not to be disturbed. (Baba Batra 20b) Judaism understands that the common good can place demands on the individual. Indeed, society supports individuals in countless ways, and helps us to thrive.

We must not only take from it but are obliged to foster it in return.

first paragraph as a dismissal of values, policies or beliefs as unimportant and not worthy of rigorous, passionate debate. I’m a pastor of a Baptist church here in town, which means, among many things, I hold certain values and beliefs as very important.

Not only that, but I’ve devoted my life to knowing, studying and sharing these beliefs so others can find true meaning, fulfillment and purpose.

But what it doesn’t mean is that I have the license or justification to treat people as less than human when I engage in discussion with them.

Alan Jacobs, in his book “How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at

Odds,” shares a helpful word on this issue.

He writes: “When people cease to be people because they are, to us, merely representatives or mouthpieces of positions we want to eradicate, then we, in our zeal to win, have sacrificed empathy. We have declined the opportunity to understand other people’s desires, principles, fears. And that is a great price to pay for supposed ‘victory’ in debate.”

Jacobs’ quote is a word I’ve kept tucked away in my heart ever since I read it several months ago. I regularly interact with people who espouse beliefs and values diametrically opposed to mine.

At times, I’ve wrongly categorized them

merely as “such-and-such a person who advocates for this or that” rather than seeing them first as a person. I reduced them to merely a representative of a viewpoint that I disagreed with, and in so doing I failed to have an empathetic or compassionate posture.

Have you ever done this? My suspicion is that you struggle with this too.

Again, if you’re like me, you’ll want to do better in this area.

Differences of opinion on all things political and religious – marriage, immigration, life, sex, lifestyles, parenting, money, etc. – aren’t going away.

— Rabbi Dean Shapiro is the spiritual leader of Temple Emanuel of Tempe. Contact him at rabbi@emanueloftempe.org and the “Rabbi Dean Shapiro” page on Facebook.

Debating hot-button issues should be more winsome

BY DR. NATE MILLICAN AFN Guest Writer

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o you grow tired of the militaristic posture characterizing many individuals engaged in discussion? I sure do.

Whether it’s a fly-by political discussion with someone at Fry’s, an in-depth conversation with an acquaintance over religion or a perusal of Facebook, where people pontificate on any and all issues, I find myself emotionally exhausted and discouraged at how capable people are of being mean-spirited and unkind.

Now, please don’t misunderstand that

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Mountain View Lutheran Church, 11002 S. 48th St., Ahwatukee will be using paintings, Scripture and stations throughout the church for Holy Week meditation and prayer.

On display will be paintings by Sieger Köder (19252016), one of the best-known artists of Christian art in German-speaking Europe. The paintings (except station 1) are displayed in the Catholic Church Sankt Stephanus in Aalen-Wasseralfingen, Germany.

The meditations and prayers are written by Theo Schmidkonz, SJ and taken from the book “Kreuzweg-Er-

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So, what do we do? Isolate ourselves and pursue a bunker mentality? Engage exclusively with people who are exactly like us in every way regarding the aforementioned issues?

These options aren’t tenable or realistic in any capacity. And more than that,

fahrungen,” Schwabenverlag AG Ostfildern, 2011. They were translated into English by Hanna Loehr and Ingeborg Mack. Information: mvlutheran.org or 480-8932579.

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High school and middle school students meet to worship and do life together.

DETAILS>> 5 p.m. at Horizon Presbyterian Church, 1401 E. Liberty Lane. 480-460-1480 or email joel@horizonchurch.com.

they don’t even remotely capture how a Christian should engage with the people around them.

Let me suggest several principles that David Powlison provides in his book “Good and Angry: Redeeming Anger, Irritation, Complaining, and Bitterness,” that will help you and me engage with people in a more winsome manner: Listen rather than focusing on crafting

KIDS CAN LEARN JEWISH LIFE

Children can learn and experience Jewish life. Chabad Hebrew School focuses on Jewish heritage, culture and holidays.

DETAILS>> 9:30 a.m. to noon, for children ages 5-13 at Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N. McClintock Drive, Chandler. 480-855-4333, info@chabadcenter.com, or chabadcenter.com.

SUNDAY CELEBRATION SERVICE

Inspirational messages and music to lift your spirit. A welcoming community committed to living from the heart. Many classes and events offered. We welcome you!

DETAILS>> 10 a.m. Sundays at Unity of Tempe, 1222 E.

a comeback.

Treat people fairly, representing them accurately and recognizably; no gross caricatures.

Speak accurately and abandon prejudicial language. “Always” and “never” are rarely true and are invariably more destructive than constructive.

Speak calmly rather than with gusts of inflammatory emotion.

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MONDAYS

CLASS TARGETS THE GRIEVING

Classes for those grieving over death or divorce.

DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m., Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 739 W. Erie St., Chandler. 480-963-4127.

Submit your releases to pmaryniak@ ahwatukee.com

Overlook an offense you used to explode over.

Solve the problem rather than attacking the person.

Replace harsh words that stir up anger with gentle answers.

-Dr. Nate Millican is lead pastor at Foothills Baptist Church in Ahwatukee. Information: foothillsbaptist.org.

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Native’s new menu items restore classics, turn up the heat

BY CONNOR DZIAWURA GetOut Guest Writer

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Valley staple for nearly 40 years, Native Grill & Wings – formerly Native New Yorker – is throwing it back to the classics while also looking to the future.

Earlier this month, Native – located in Ahwatukee at 5050 E. Ray Road and 1339 E. Chandler Blvd. – started serving four former customer favorites as part of its limited-time Throwback Menu. The menu lasts through April 30.

“When we got rid of some items, we got a lot of feedback from guests – whether it be on social or through our app – saying they wanted these particular items back,” said Native PR & Marketing Coordinator Adriana Espinosa at an insider tasting event.

“So, we decided to do a limited-time-offer menu with all of our throwback items from our old-school Native days.”

The Throwback Menu includes jalapeño puffs, curly fries, cheesy garlic bread, and cheese and crackers, the latter being a surprise favorite. Formerly served at every table, the idea is simple – a plate of saltine crackers with a cheddar cheese spread.

One of – if not the – most requested

items on the limited-time menu, though, is jalapeño puffs.

“Jalapeño puffs was something that our guests craved on a regular basis,” said Steve Snyder, the IT/systems manager. He is also the executive chef at the company headquarters’ test kitchen in Chandler.

The item, as described by Snyder, is an eggroll wrapper stuffed with a sharp cheddar cheese spread and brined jalapeños. But be careful; while tasty, this item is sure to turn up the heat.

Starting with a nice crunch, one bite quickly gives way to the item’s cheesy filling and spicy jalapeños.

Though it doesn’t quite reach the levels of the infamous ghost pepper, a satisfying kick is present for the mild palate.

“Very simple, but that was the kind of food that Native was raised on,” Snyder added. “It was all simple food. People like it.”

Curly fries were restored for the

Throwback Menu “because it’s one of those things that you got to have,” Snyder said. Though not as peppery as Native’s signature fries, the classic

Rod and Kim Ticknor make community their business – just as they have made chicken wings their business in Ahwatukee for 20 years.

twist is a satisfying and essential appetizer.

But there’s a reason Native boasts such tasty fries.

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World-renowned acts to hit Chandler Jazz Festival

BY COLLEEN SPARKS GetOut Staff

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he cool, smooth and sassy sounds of trumpets, saxophones and pianos will be in the air in downtown Chandler during a huge festival next weekend.

The 19th annual Chandler Jazz Festival, on April 6 and 7 at Dr. A.J. Chandler Park, will be hotter than ever this year, organizers say.

World-renowned musicians and bands will play an eclectic mix of songs seasoned fans and those new to the scene will eat up, they added.

Blues groups will take the stage the night of April 6 and jazz bands will perform in the afternoon and night of April 7 at the downtown stage, 178 East Commonwealth Ave. People can also stroll through many

restaurants in downtown Chandler to sip drinks or indulge in food as they soak up live music both days.

Other bands will jazz up sidewalks 1-3:40 p.m. April 7.

The free festival usually attracts about 12,000 people over the two days, said Hermelinda Llamas, Chandler special events coordinator.

The city is running the festival in partnership with the Downtown Chandler Community Sponsorship. The Nash, a nonprofit jazz performance and education venue in Phoenix, is sponsoring the event and booked performers for April 7.

“The entire lineup is going to knock people’s socks off,” said Joel Robin Goldenthal, executive director of Jazz in Arizona Inc., which owns and operates The See

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Courtesy of The Nash Legendary jazz and blues singer Francine Reed will hit the stage as part of Francine Reed-Lewis Nash All Star Band on April 7 at the 19th annual Chandler Jazz Festival.

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“The streets will be filled with many different sounds of jazz, ranging from gypsy jazz to traditional and contemporary jazz,” he added. “I think this is going to be the most diverse and exciting festival in Chandler’s history. All of the artists are of the highest quality and will be performing material that’s approachable and enjoyable for everyone.”

Llamas said the music will be styles that “people of all ages can enjoy.”

“I think the one thing is that we expose them to music they don’t hear on a daily basis, or maybe they do hear it on a daily

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just for us based on our proprietary recipe,” Snyder said. “That’s why Native fries taste the way they do.”

Aside from limited-time items, however, Native boasts one other recent launch: Native Buffalo Fries. Though it also debuted this month, this one isn’t limited.

Sure to be a filling appetizer, the item starts with a base of the restaurant’s signature fries, then adds the similarly new

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basis and they get to see it up close,” she said, adding: “We provide a great experience for them and they don’t have to pay for it. They can come and go and freely get to see a lot of those different groups and bands and style of music. We give them a lot of options.”

Llamas recommends people bring blankets or lawn chairs to sit on at the festival. People may also bring factorysealed bottles of water to the park, but alcohol and weapons are not allowed.

The headliner April 6 will be Bad News Blues Band, out of Tucson, which will perform 9-10:30 p.m.

The well-known blues band has won many awards and performed around the country and in Canada, Mexico, Turkey,

World-renowned jazz drummer Lewis Nash, who got his start in Phoenix, will headline April 7.

Native sauce and a “healthy little dosage” of chicken strips, Snyder said. An extra side of the new Native sauce is also given.

To top the plate off is a medium sauce (which has a minimal kick), though this can be substituted for a variety of heat levels.

Boasting sauces and dry rubs, Native has over 20 kinds.

“It’s really cool to see the combinations,” Espinosa said.

One final addition to Native’s arsenal is its boneless wings, which are prepared inhouse. The item was completely redesigned

last year.

“We panko bread it ourselves, dredge it in buttermilk, so it’s an entirely different product than what we had served in the past,” Snyder said.

Unlike some breaded items, however, it’s not overtly dry. The breading is very light, while the flavor is strong – depending on your choice of sauce. One interesting choice is mango habanero. With one bite, the mango immediately becomes apparent.

But that’s when it hits. The habanero is quite strong, boasting a decent kick that

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Founded in 1979 by two natives of Buffalo, New York, the restaurant began as a pizza shop before transitioning to wings.

CEO Dan Chaon took over in 2010, and it rebranded from Native New Yorker to Native Grill & Wings in 2014.

“This is our brand, so we’re very proud of it,” Chaon enthused.

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ham just a hint of spice. The glaze, made with apple cider vinegar, brown mustard and cola, makes it even more yummy.

Of course, since you didn’t put the cherries on this ham we have the perfect excuse to add them into the meal on the bottom – or is it the top? – of a mouth-watering pineapple upside-down cake!

This year, ham it up with family and friends.

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1 package of white or yellow cake mix 1/2 cup of orange juice, optional 2 tablespoons butter 1/4 cup brown sugar 1 can of sliced pineapple 1 small jar of Maraschino cherries

aster is one week away, and if a big, juicy ham is on the menu, here’s a delicious way to prepare it so it’s perfect for your Sunday supper or brunch.

For this recipe, I scored the ham in diagonal cuts that form diamond shapes and inserted whole cloves where the cuts intersect, giving the

Ingredients:

Directions

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.

Score the ham about 1/8 deep on the diagonal in both directions to form a diamond shaped pattern. Place cloves where the cuts intersect. Place the ham in a large foil lined roasting pan with a rack and bake for 1½ hours.

Meanwhile, make the glaze.

In a small saucepan, whisk together brown sugar, mustard, vinegar and cola until mixture is bubbly. Cook on medium high heat until glaze has thickened, about 15 minutes or longer if needed. After 1½ hours of baking time, brush glaze over ham and return to oven, repeating several times until ham reaches 160 degrees.

Ingredients:

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8 x 8 inch cake pan.

Prepare cake batter according to package instructions. Note: If using orange juice for added flavor, reduce the amount of water called for by ½ cup. In a small skillet on medium low heat, melt together butter and brown sugar, stirring quickly to combine.

Spread evenly over bottom of the greased cake pan. Arranged sliced pineapple on top of brown sugar and add cherries in the holes of the pineapple slices. Pour cake batter over top. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until toothpick comes up clean.

Let cool for 5 minutes.

Gently loosen the edges and turn upside down onto a serving plate. Makes 1 large or 4-5 mini cakes.

Watch my how-to video: jandatri.com/recipes/one-minute-kitchen.

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BY BRIAN BENESCH AFN Sports Editor

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ongtime Desert Vista High School head baseball coach Stan Luketich’s dismissal at the end of last season was a controversial decision to say the least.

After all, Luketich was responsible for starting the baseball program in 1996 and leading the Thunder to two state championships.

But after a long run of success, Luketich was reportedly told by the administration that his players did not play with enough passion. He was simply not connecting with the group, he was told.

Enter Cody Brassfield, who knew he had big shoes to fill.

So far this year, he has done just that, leading the team to an 11-5 record so far.

Brassfield was quick to credit Luketich, a coach he worked with for the past four seasons.

“Stan is a really great friend of mine and a mentor,” he said. “Coach Luketich has tons of integrity, and we try to spread those same core values to our players. For me to take over a program that is in such great shape, it has just been a blessing.

We’ve got players who understand the culture and the climate that has been created.”

Those players are vital to Desert Vista’s success this season and Brassfield knows that. Connecting with the younger generation can be a difficult task, but in high school baseball, relationships are vital toward building a strong culture.

erations.

“The one-on-one communication is different,” Brassfield said. “We text a lot more, use social media and we have one-on-one conversations in closed-door situations a little bit more. If you call out one kid in a group setting, it gets real tough on these kids today.”

The coach has placed an emphasis on his seniors to provide leadership of their own. And the group responded by rattling off seven straight wins in the month of March. Brassfield pointed to the senior group’s leadership (Kim Carrillo/AFN Staff Photographer) off the field.

Cody Brassfield has settled in comfortably as the new head boys basball coach at Desert Vista High School.

“We have senior meetings throughout the fall. We talked Brassfield made no secret that commu- about making sure they are maintaining nication with his players is a top priority. our core values,” he says. “In addition “I’m not the same person that I was 15 to that, we have four captains. Those years ago. In the beginning, I was more captains meet and give us feedback on abrasive, yelling and screaming, trying to practice; what they see as strengths and motivate that way,” Brassfield said. weaknesses.”

“Now, especially with today’s type of That senior leadership group was on player, I have to be smarter with the way full display during last week’s seesaw I work with these players – more individ- affair with Hamilton High, winners of ualized. I have to make sure I maintain three of the past four state championrelationships in a positive way. The way ships.

I communicate with others is way differThe Thunder bench was extremely ent today.” vocal throughout the game. The players Brassfield, 40, says transparency be- seemed loose, but at the same time entween his coaching staff and players is gaged. It’s a rare combination to find in crucial. He thinks communication with sports and something that all good teams millennials is far different from past gen- seem to have.

While they are certainly a good team halfway through the season, the goal is to become great.

The squad claimed the Bob Everett Classic less than two weeks ago. The Thunder defeated Campo Verde, Skyline, McClintock, Mesquite and Williams Field by a combined score of 42-6 – not bad for a team that opened the season by losing three of its first five games prior to the tournament.

“Our kids felt like they could match up with anybody at that tournament. Our most impressive game was our Mesquite game (a 5-0 win). That was probably the toughest game we’ve played so far. I wouldn’t say we faced poor competition by any means, but we beat the teams we should have beat,” Brassfield said.

As the group warmed up for the Huskies, Brassfield continually referenced the team’s core values. He said these values translate to on-field success as it did at the Everett Classic.

Brassfield then detailed exactly what the team’s core values are, firmly saying, “H.D.P. Hard work, determination and passion.”

The first-year manager was eager to praise that leadership group he relies on so much.

He pointed to upperclassmen Zach Paquette, Brandon Childers and Eli Ankeney.

Brassfield doesn’t pat himself on the back. For him, it’s all about the players and his mentor, Stan Luketich.

-Reach Brian Benesch at bbenesch@ ahwatukee.com or 480-898-5630

Champion Thunder soccer team reaps more state honors AFN News Staff

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fter the hard work that culminated with the state title in Division 6 varsity boys soccer, individual members of the Desert Vista High School are reaping their just rewards.

The Arizona Interscholastic Association named Brendan Hicks, Ty Iannone, Max Wennes and Parker Lishwe

to the all-state first team.

In addition, the AIA named Coach Trent Elliot Coach of the Year, Brendan Hicks Conference Player of the Year and Ty Iannone Conference Defensive Player of the Year.

The Thunder last month ended a 12year drought and secured the state title with a 3-0 win over Brophy Preparatory Academy.

Elliott said a state championship was

the players’ goal all season, and they accomplished that goal in just his first season.

“Knowing them, I knew it was going to be something special,” Elliot said, adding: “We had senior leaders and everything we needed. We just needed to put the pieces together. They believed, and they believed the whole season long,” he said.

Brophy came into the tournament as the top seed and, many believed, the favorite in the championship game.

But it came as no surprise to the Thunder that they walked away with the trophy, especially for Lischwe.

“It feels amazing,” he said.

The Thunder finished the season 194-2 and were undefeated at home after their 7-2 victory over No. 10-seeded San Luis in the quarterfinals.

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Desert Vista track and field athletes eye title run

BY ERIC NEWMAN AFN Staff Writer

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esert Vista High School track and field coach Chris Hanson’s facial expression could only be described as part grimace and part understanding smile when reminded of his team’s finish its last two seasons.

In his 22nd year as the Thunder’s head coach, Hanson has led consecutive secondplace finishes at the AIA Championships the last two years, with both meets coming down to their final events – and nail-biting losses to Chandler High School.

The result is nothing new to either school.

Chandler and Desert Vista have been eyeing one another at the top of the winner’s podium at the end of nearly every season for years.

Since 2005, one of the two schools has won nearly every boys’ state tournament – Chandler has racked up six titles to Desert Vista’s four, with the most recent coming in 2015 – and the other is usually close behind.

Hanson attributes much of Desert Vista’s success in track and field to a dependable

(Eric Newman/AFN staff)

Desert Vista track and field coach Chris Hanson gives some pointers to his team during a recent practice.

set of assistant and volunteer coaches, many of whom he says could prosper as head coaches at other schools in the area.

“What makes me a good coach is the effort put in from the people around me,” he said. “It’s like anything, if you have a good staff or good kids around you, it

makes you look good yourself. To be their head coach is an honor.”

Midway through the high school season, the team is loaded again with several quality athletes, including members of Desert Vista’s state champion soccer and cross-country teams. The focus now turns

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to preparing for each race, with an eye on the state meet at the end of the season.

“We, as coaches, need to provide whatever it takes for our athletes to be successful.

That includes not only coaching, but counseling and being there for them, making a connection that we hope lasts for a long time,” Hanson said.

An example of that connection is firstyear assistant Anders Battle, who in 2010 broke – and still holds – the Thunder record in the long jump.

Battle says he hopes to continue Desert Vista’s track and field winning ways as a coach and try to motivate current athletes to aspire to improve every practice and meet.

“If you put the effort in, you will be respected. That’s the truest thing ever, and you really can tell who is just going through the motions, and who is really out there to get it,” he said. “They’ll respect you and look up to you.”

That motivation is not hard to see.

Senior distance runner Aksel Laudon said he and his teammates are not settling for anything less than the best in practice, even though they are already competing at a high level in the state after winning two meets outright this season.

“It’s not in our DNA, especially because we’ve been second two years in a row, we won’t settle for second again,” Laudon said. “Especially because we have older, faster guys on the team, we want to not be complacent with their success and work hard to continue the success and take our turn.”

As for rival Chandler, the Thunder has already outscored the Wolves in several meets this year, and many of the experienced runners on Desert Vista’s team know to keep an eye on Chandler’s top athletes, especially in highly contested events.

Laudon said the victories, though not as important as the eventual state championship meet in May, serve as confidence boosters for the Thunder. He added that the personal strides many of his teammates have achieved are noteworthy as well.

“Those wins have been a big deal. We have a lot of top-ten finishes, a lot of personal records. It’s great to see so far,” Laudon said.

However, Hanson said he and his staff do not place too much stock on wins in the regular season, knowing full well that Chandler has another gear it can reach when the stakes are highest.

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Senior distance runner Aksel Laudon said he and his teammates are not settling for anything less than the best in practice.

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He said both teams have not put forward their best line-ups at events thus far this year. He has held back some of his distance runners from competing in multiple events at certain meets.

He said Chandler usually does the same thing with their sprinters, and that the Wolves “get hot when it matters.”

He has full belief, though, that the Thunder can do the same, noting: “We haven’t seen the real Chandler yet.

We look forward to seeing them at the end of the year, at the state meet.”

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Contractors

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Bonded/Insured

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Handyman

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ce 1999

Affordable, Quality Work Sin 2010, 2011 2012, 2013, 2014

“No Job Too Small Man!”

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MALDONADO HOME REPAIR SERVICES

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• Plumbing • Electrical • Remodel • Additions • Drywall • Painting • Framing ROC #312897 • Patios • Tile & Flooring • All work guaranteed • 30 years experience

602-332-6694

solidrockstructures@gmail.com

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Not a licensed

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contractor Jim 480.593.0506 Ablehandyman2009@gmail.com

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AND so much more!

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480.335.4180 Not a licensed contractor.

Home Improvement

CHAMPION BUILT CONTRACTING INC.

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Electrical Services

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SOLID ROCK STRUCTURES, INC.

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Handyman

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Garage/Doors

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Handyman

Home Improvement

Landscape Design/Installation

Gary is Back Household Repairs

REMODEL CONTRACTOR

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Starting as Low as $25.

Install/Design

drywall, plumbing, small painting, varnish doors, grout cleaning,ceiling fans, roof turbines.

30 years experience

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ROC095639 BOND/INS'D

480-215-3373

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25 years exp. Call Now (480) 720-3840

YOUR CLASSIFIED SOURCE

NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR

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ROC#276019 • LICENSED BONDED INSURED

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RAY’S HORTICULTURE Lighting and Irrigation • Installation & Repairs • Evening & Weekend Service Only • You Pay Labor & Materials Only • ROC#312942

david@swo-of-artworks.com

480-580-4419

Owner: David “Ray” Smith

ROC 282663 * BONDED * INSURED

We Do Installs!

LED Specialists

Upgrade your existing system to LED!

Not a Licensed Contractor

$

400

480.643.9772 Not a licensed contractor

480-­940-­8196

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602.329.3396

SPRINKLER DOCTOR For All Your Irrigation and Outdoor Plumbing Needs!

Give us a call

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Plants, cacti, sod, sprinklers, granite, concrete, brick, Kool-deck, lighting and more!

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480.844.9765

House Calls Are Always FREE! We specialize in Repairs and Replacement of

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Our Technicians are Local..Experienced..Insured

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Warranty On All Work Call Dennis or Lisa

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Not a licensed contractor

Juan Hernandez

SPRINKLER

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LEE'S SPRINKLER REPAIR 30 years experience Timers - Valves Heads Leaks FREE ESTIMATES Ahwatukee Resident Call 480-282-7222

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Call 480.898.6465

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Call Pat (480) 343-0562

Landscape Maintenance

Car for Sale?

Home Remodeling

Not a licensed contractor

Juan Hernandez

Landscape Maintenance

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Call Bob 480-893-9482

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Landscape Maintenance

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BE WATER WISE..TUNE UP YOUR SYSTEM TODAY Not a licensed contractor

Licensed • Bonded • Insured Technician

Call Lance White

480.721.4146 www.irsaz.com

ROC# 256752

Landscape Maintenance

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Landscape Maintenance

Landscape Maintenance

High Quality Results

Specials Lawn Mowing Starts At $20 Full Service Starts At $70

Trim Trees All Types Gravel - Pavers Sprinkler Systems

15 + Yrs Exp! All English Speaking Crew

SONORAN LAWN

Complete Clean Ups

480-745-5230

Jose Martinez • 602.515.2767

We Only Service Ahwatukee, So We Are Always Close By To Meet Unexpected Needs

English • 602.781.0600

Painting

Painting

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Plumbing

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We Are State Licensed and Reliable!

480-338-4011

ROC#309706

SUN TECH

PAINTING INC.

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Not a licensed contractor.

Painting

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Plumbing

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Pool Service / Repair

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704.5422

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Disposals

Any Service

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ACCREDITED BUSINESS ®

Not a licensed contractor

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Pool Service / Repair Tukee Pool Service

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480.231.9651 Not a licensed contractor.

DENNIS PORTER

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480-460-7602 or 602-710-2263

See our Before’s and After’s on Facebook

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We maintain, repair and service all types of pools, equipment, filters, cleaning systems, fresh water and salt water systems

Call me, Howard:

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REMODELING - Kitchens & Bathrooms

Pool Service / Repair

Roofing

Kitchen & Bath

602-910-1485

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Let me provide you with renderings, ideas and a detailed proposal. We do flooring & granite, as well!

Advanced Concepts Remodeling ROC#147710 Bond/ins

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Remodeling

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Window Cleaning

AHWATUKEE FOOTHILLS SENIOR ASSOCIATION (AFSA)

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