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High school seniors devastated, but undaunted

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he members of the high school Class of 2020 face the prospect that COVID-19 will rob them of memories that many high school graduates treasure all their lives – prom, commencement and even Ditch Day. They’ve lost part-time jobs and many have seen their parents lose theirs.

Even starting college or university life – something they’ve spent most of their young lives preparing for – is clouded in uncertainty.

AFN reached out to some Ahwatukee high school seniors about the impact of school closures. These are their stories.

MORGANN KELLY

As president of the Desert Vista High School student body, Morgann Kelly

had been busy with many preparations for a big send-off for the Thunder Class of 2020.

At the same time, she was wrapping up her studies in preparation for entering Barrett, The Honors College at Arizona State University, where she plans to major in justice studies as a member of ASU’s Leadership Scholarship Program.

“I was working with my other student body officers on planning the elections,” she said. “Additionally, we were working on a plethora of fun, end of the year events for students. However, because of school closures, we have had to con-

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Desert Vista High senior Haidyn Moroz of Ahwatukee, like her classmates, wonders if she’ll get to wear her cap and gown next month now that campuses are closed for the rest of the school year.

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he Arizona Supreme Court ended the nearly seven-year legal battle over the Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course last week by refusing owner Wilson Gee’s request to hear his appeal from an order that he restore the site he closed in 2013.

Attorney Tim Barnes, representing homeowners Linda Swain and Eileen Breslin, said he would seek a hearing to compel Gee to restore the course – and possibly hold him in contempt if he refuses – as soon as the high

court sends him paperwork related to its action last week.

But Gee has other plans.

He told AFN that he wants to meet with Breslin, Swain and anyone else they want “to see if there is a middle ground” they can reach in negotiations.

“I want to sit down and try to resolve this problem to where the whole community benefits,” he said.

After the state Court of Appeals last year rejected his appeal of a January 2018 Superior Court decision that the covenants, conditions and restrictions governing the 101-acre site

require a golf course, Gee had made a similar offer.

He offered $1 million for community improvements and to pay the homeowners’ legal costs if they would agree to let him sell the course for development.

That particular offer, though, “is long gone,” Gee said.

“You know, we’re entering a recession,” he said. “It’s happening in real estate and everything else. But there’s still value in that where the community can benefit from a business

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olf at Ahwatukee’s two remaining courses and most other courses in Arizona is continuing largely uninterrupted despite the COVID-19 pandemic, although some new rules and new procedures are in place to observe social distancing guidelines and curb community spread of the virus.

But the economic collapse that the virus has occasioned has sparked some concern about the industry’s longer range future, though most connected with the industry are hoping for a quick rebound.

Wilson Gee said there has been no noticeable falloff in play at his two Ahwatukee courses, Ahwatukee Country Club and Foothills Golf Course, nor at the Duke, his course in Maricopa.

Governor Doug Ducey’s expanded list of closures in his stay-at-home order of last week may have closed some park facilities, but he continued to allow golf courses in Arizona to remain open.

Nor is Arizona alone.

Only 13 states have closed all public and private golf courses and most of those states have spiraling numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths, such as New York, New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania, a survey by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America showed late last week. Hawaii closed golf courses in public parks but is allowing private courses to operate.

Of the remaining states, 14 are weighing a possible closure but have made no decision, including Louisiana, where New Orleans has been identified as a growing hotspot for the virus, the association reported.

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MORGANN KELLY

vert to online outreach to students.”

Admitting “this wasn’t ideal,” she said the council “is doing their best to stay active” and are hoping residents and business can provide suggestions and support at their social media accounts, @ dv.studentcouncil on Instagram and @ dv_stuco on Twitter.

While she said her teachers “have been very active with Zoom sessions, assignments and communication” and feels that she and her classmates are lucky to have such amazing support staff,” she lamented, “I truly miss the classroom environment and it is definitely harder to learn from home.

Closures weren’t activated until she and the rest of the Thunder Speech and Debate Team won its 16th state championship in 17 years.

Right about now, she and many peers across Arizona would be putting the final touches on one of the big events of their high school career – getting ready for the prom.

“The Junior Class Student Council had been working so hard all year for the big day,” said Morgann, who had bought her gown months ago. She appreciates the council and Junior Class President Mackenzie Visnansky’s work “for planning such an amazing prom” even though that gown won’t be worn.

“Personally, I think it is important to put the situation into perspective,” she said of the prom. “While it is unfortunate and sad, seniors across the whole country are

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experiencing the same emotions.”

There are other experiences as well that the virus has jeopardized – including Ditch Day, the senior breakfast, senior tshirts and senior spirit week.”

Though Tempe Union has not officially canceled commencement and some of those other activities, she as been working with the senior class student council, Senior Class President, Nicole Kennedy and Student Body Spirit Director Karly Makay.

They’ve created an Instagram account – @dv2020timecapsule – and are asking seniors to send in photos, memories, future plans and other thoughts and reports.

“Additionally, we will be posting Senior Superlatives and many more fun senior events and recognitions,” Morgann said.

“Also, in collaboration with eight of Arizona’s Student Body Presidents I have created another Instagram account called @azclassof2020. We are approaching 10,000 followers and have a team of 180 Arizona student body presidents working alongside us.

“Our goal is to unify and celebrate the class of 2020, by posting year highlights, senior spotlights, planning future statewide events, creating merch in which our proceeds will go to AZ hospitals and coronavirus research. We have been contacted by multiple marketing groups and event organizers and we are looking forward to getting our agenda rolling.”

Still, losing out on graduation day looms as a possibility.

“If commencement is canceled I would be very disappointed and heartbroken,” Morgann said. “My preference, and I know I share this opinion with other seniors, is that graduation is merely postponed.

While I understand the necessary health precautions for a postponed graduation ceremony, I truly believe it is worth it.

“During this time I have spoken to many Desert Vista alumni and one message that they all share, is that you cannot replicate the feeling of graduation. How it feels to line up, how it feels to get your name called, and to receive your diploma. How it feels to move your tassel from right to left and throw your cap in the air in one celebratory ‘We did it!’ while blue and gold fireworks fill the Ahwatukee sky.

“High school graduation is something that can never be replaced, a feeling that can never be replicated. The forever photos where you’re arm in arm with your best friends, standing proudly next to your beaming grandparents and over-

whelmingly happy on the Desert Vista football field. These photos are for a lifetime of keeping and represent memories that shaped Desert Vista students into the proud, young adults that they are today.”

JD METTHAM

Desert Vista senior JD Mettham has been busily pursuing distant learning from Tempe Union as he eyes a fall start at Loras College in Iowa, where he plans to play baseball and study electromechanical engineering.

KATRINA WOLDT

Commencement is extra special for Katrina Woldt: She already had been selected as valedictorian for the Valley Christian High School Class of 2020 – a recognition of her 4.18 weighted GPA and her involvement in two bands, two choir groups and

KATRINA WOLDT

JD METTHAM

“So far the teachers have been good,” said JD, who played catcher on the Thunder baseball team throughout high school.

Campus closures hit him after he had gone through the stress of the baseball recruiting and school selection processes.

“I was just beginning to enjoy my senior year,” he said.

As for missing out on prom, he candidly replied, “It sucks, I did not go to prom last year so I never got to experience it.”

Like Morgann and other classmates, JD would like to see the district postpone rather than cancel commencement exercise “because it’s a huge accomplishment and a milestone.”

Regardless, he said, he and his family “will continue to push back our celebration but we will not cancel our graduation open house party no matter how long it takes.”

And he thinks that maybe it’s time for the country to think of something for high school seniors: “Have a national day for the class of 2020.”

cross country and track in addition to her singing with the Phoenix Children’s Chorus Encore Choir and her piano and euphonium for her church.

With plans to be part of the Honors Scholars Program at Calvin University in Michigan, where she hopes to major in biochemistry and public health, she’s found it “difficult to get work done efficiently when there aren’t structured inperson classes.”

“I also miss playing and singing in musical ensembles that make up the majority of my day,” Katrina said. “It’s all kind of disconnected from what I’ve done normally for the past 3+ years. And, I really miss giving my classmates hugs.”

She finds come comfort in the fact that Valley Christian teachers “are putting together virtual choirs and bands for which we individually record performances.

This will be an exciting new way to perform because we’ve never done anything like this before.”

But that can’t take away her disappointment about missing out on the prom, for which she bought two gowns “in case I couldn’t figure out which one to wear.”

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Richardson said “some of my time lately has been spent lobbying for governors to allow golf with obvious restrictions.”

“It is the perfect pastime for these times -- allows family, social interaction in the outdoors, with built in safeguards,” he added.

In some states where courses have been closed, golfers have started online petition campaigns demanding they be reopened, contending that players can maintain safe distances and take other precautions.

And the course superintendents group warned, “Spring is a critical time for turfgrass. If turfgrass is lost, many courses may face permanent closure. Turfgrass cannot be neglected for extended periods of time.”

It also said proper maintenance also reduces the threat of “disease carrying pests, including ticks and mosquitoes.”

Gee said courses in Arizona would have been devastated had Ducey not included them in his list of essential businesses that are permitted to remain in operation.

“This is the high season,” he said, adding that with the shut-down of dining and weddings “we’re barely hanging on right now. We have basically 100 employees on

the payroll and if they were to close the courses, those are families that would be impacted.”

“We’re entering our summer months and there won’t be any income,” Gee added. “The worst time of the year for the Phoenix golf courses is from May till September.”

Currently only three golf courses in Arizona are up for sale – including Gee’s Ahwatukee Country Club, as well as the Sundance Golf Club in Buckeye and one in Arizona City. That’s down from five that were on sale last fall.

Gee said he had not received any offers on the Ahwatukee Country Club, which he put up for sale last fall at a price of $3.2 million.

For now, golf course operators are keeping a watchful eye – as many other people are – on the overall economy and hoping the downturn doesn’t stretch too far into the summer.

If the downturn doesn’t last too long, experts are echoing Richardson’s view of the golf industry’s long-term future.

“I hope – and expect – a ‘V rebound’ where participation is pent up and therefore ‘ready’ and anxious to play again,” Richardson said.

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mpty store shelves symbolize the frustrations and fears of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mark Miller, president of the Arizona Food Marketing Alliance, in an email interview, discussed how panic led to hoarding but warehouses are being replenished, the rising popularity of grocery delivery services and the appreciation felt by industry employees who are working hard for Arizonans.

“The Arizona Food Marketing Alliance is a trade organization that helps with education, legislation, regulation and connecting, he said.

“We represent most of the food industry – this includes large local and corporate grocery chains. AFMA supports independent grocery stores throughout the state and helps the convenience store industry with the same goals.

“Our members are made up of the wholesalers, brokers and suppliers that service grocery and convenience stores

Mark Miller, president of the Arizona Food Marketing Alliance, blames panic shopping for the empty shelves in supermarkets across the state. (Special to AFN)

with their food and beverage needs.”

Question: We’ve seen customers treat grocery store workers like heroes. What is that like?

Answer: This industry is made up of some of the hardest working people you will ever meet. This includes those involved with transporting food and beverages from the distribution centers to

stores and those responsible for stocking the shelves and checking out shoppers.

The grocery and food service industry has always focused on customer service and taking care of the customer. They’ve risen to the occasion to shine and have set a new standard in delivering worldclass customer care during this, one of our nation’s biggest crises.

Q: What is Arizona’s grocery industry doing to provide an uninterrupted food supply to the state’s grocery stores?

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Our customers were unsure and frightened that they were not going to be able to get the food they needed to feed their families. The word came that the restaurants were starting to close. This started more panic throughout the industry.

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This included sanitation items, paper goods and most food items. Stores were under pressure every day to replenish merchandise that was sold out.

This panic caused most stores to put limits on the number of items that each customer could buy. These limits have helped to slow down the over buying and that is giving the industry a chance to replenish our warehouses.

Q: What do you say to people alarmed by empty shelves?

A: America has one of the best food systems in the world. Our sophisticated systems ensure that our stores have the ability to satisfy all the demands from our customers.

The uncertainty triggered hoarding on several high demand items. The hoarding caused the fear, the fear amplified the overbuying. Arizona has a large food supply that was moved very quickly into homes.

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A teacher’s journey through the shutdown nightmare

with a member of the Arizona State University community who had spent time in Wuhan, China this past winter. He was quarantined after becoming Arizona’s first known COVID-19 patient.

Fortunately, COVID-19 was not passed to my student. But kids being kids, students began joking that they felt feverish and needed to go home — the way teenagers will see rain sprinkles and say that they need to leave class before the school

floods.

None of us really thought at the time COVID-19 would shut down Westwood, or any other school in Arizona.

Still, as I left for spring break, I knew from news reports that I was going to need to step up my daily classroom cleaning routine.

Like most teachers, I use disinfectant on desks every day or so and keep a supply of tissues around for runny noses. Finding tissues in Westwood supply cabinets had become a challenge during cold and flu season this year so I made a mental note to purchase my own supply over break. I also made a plan to ration alcohol wipes, which many students request from me to wipe down desks and textbook.

But by the end of break, it became clear that I would not be putting a new cleaning routine to work anytime soon. Driving back from a trip to the Grand Canyon, I heard the news that Disneyland had closed indefinitely because of COVID-19.

Even though no formal announcement had been made about Arizona schools, I knew in my heart that if things were so bad that Disney had shut down its signature property, kids would not been gathering in classrooms anytime soon.

Just the thought of school closing for an extended period of time before the end of the year made me indescribably sad.

Sure, most teachers look forward to and appreciate their breaks from the classroom. But that does not mean that most of us don’t love and bond with our students during the nine months we are with them.

“To me what has been hardest about this is not having closure or an opportunity to prepare my students or say goodbye to them,” said Melinda Rohman, a friend who teaches Spanish at Kyrene Akimel A-al Middle School.

Rohman called the situation “heartbreaking.”

“We are missing out on all of my favorite end of year activities,” she said.

“I had a hollow feeling in my belly as I contemplated the same thing. Spring quarter typically is everyone’s favorite time of year. “ After some discussion by administrators, Westwood teachers were each given a few minutes to return to their classrooms after the end of break to gather materials we would need to teach our classes online. When I arrived, I spent some of

learning for the remainder of the school year,” district spokeswoman Erin Helm said. “This involves providing laptops to families with no other internet-capable devices in the home as well as doorstep delivery of printed curriculum resources, by request, to ensure that all students have access to the instructional materials.”

The laptop distribution at Kyrene – mirroring a similar outreach that Tempe Union officials made two weeks ago – included carefully scheduled pick up times and what Helm called “a well-spaced distribution setup ensured social distancing at all times.”

Kyrene also delivered 1,000 paper packets of curriculum materials as bus drivers coordinated the delivery with teachers.

Vesely said teachers and administrators had worked around the clock to ensure that distant learning “is consistent from school to school” and said, “Teachers are overjoyed to be connecting again with

their students.”

She also said she and her team are “committed to retaining school spirit” and that they are working to figure out how to handle end-of-the-year grade promotion ceremonies, particularly for elementary students who are winding up that phase of their education and bound for middle school next year and for eighth graders who will be high school freshmen come August.

Those ceremonies, like commencement exercises for high school seniors, are in limbo.

On the other hand, everything else at all Ahwatukee schools – from trips and carnivals to plays and celebrations – have been cancelled.

Meanwhile, the state Board of Education last week decided that Arizona’s 86,000 high school seniors won’t be prevented from graduating just because the governor shut down schools.

The board adopted an emergency rule

that bars school districts and charter schools from withholding academic credit or a diploma “solely because the student missed instructional time due to a school closure issued by the governor.’’

The rule also says that schools, in determining if a student meets the minimum course and competency requirements, may consider whether that student has successfully completed the educational opportunities that were provided during the days the schools were shuttered. That can include both online instruction and independent study through printed materials.

But the rule does have an escape clause of sorts: if a student actually has not been doing anything while at home, schools can decide that he or she met the requirements if they were “on track to meet the minimum course of study and competency requirements prior to the school closure.’’

BY CATHRYN CRENO AFN Guest Writer

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ight before spring break, I gave my Mesa Westwood High School students pieces of colorful poster paper and asked them to map out their futures in the Spanish future tense.

It was a way for them to practice grammar and to ponder things that are on the minds of most high school students: Graduation, college or trade school, first jobs, first apartments, love and marriage.

As students finished, we pinned their posters to the walls and admired them.

Some included big dreams like having a business career in Dubai or becoming doctors or lawyers.

Others detailed plans to stay in Arizona and attend state universities. Some students even wanted to buy houses for their parents when they settled into careers.

We ended the quarter in a festive mood and even talked about a year-end party for May. No one had an inkling we would not be together again after winter quarter.

My students began talking about the COVID-19 virus in late January, but only because one girl’s sister was acquainted

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Longtime Ahwatukee resident Cathryn Creno is a former education journalist and current Spanish teacher at Westwood High in Mesa. (Special to AFN)

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f they hadn’t realized it earlier, students at schools in Ahwatukee last week had plenty of reminders that Arizona’s campus shutdowns in response to COVID-19 doesn’t mean that summer vacation has begun early.

“The schools might be closed but education is not closed,” Kyrene Superintendent Jan Vesely said in a video message to parents and students, echoing similar online messages from Tempe Union and Horizon.

Kyrene also distributed more than 1,200 laptops and printed materials to ensure that children in households with no internet service weren’t losing a beat when it came to learning for the rest of the 2019-20 school year what their teachers planned to teach them in the classroom before the pandemic’s outbreak.

“Kyrene’s commitment to equity is evident in the careful planning of distance

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my time looking at and snapping photos of the students’ maps, with all of their dreams for the future – prom, graduation parties, award ceremonies were about to evaporate for the 2020 graduating class.

In the following days, I posted some Spanish music and grammar videos and phoned my 150 students to let them know I was thinking about them.

I didn’t reach everyone, but I promised those I talked to that I would get them through their Spanish classes by the end of the school year. I told everyone I spoke with how much I missed them.

By March 30, I, along with most other teachers around the state, set my own emotions aside so I could get to work on something brand new — teaching classes entirely online.

Public school educators often talk about using technology in the classroom, but typically that means students using laptops to takes notes and quizzes, using search engines for research and creating slide presentations.

Teachers use technology to project videos and slides on the classroom screen.

But there has been no need for lectures on web conferencing software because kids normally are still in the classroom.

On Monday, when many students returned to class online, that had changed.

Jim Archambault, an Advanced Placement physics teacher at Gilbert Highland High School, was online last week with the majority of his students. The previous week, they had answered online surveys about their home technology and it turned out that most kids at the middleclass school had enough equipment to continue their courses online.

Archambault said he would conduct videoconferences with students from a spare room in his home after moving a sofa and a foosball table.

He is confident that his students can take a home version of AP physics exam that will be given students this year.

But he expressed sadness that his students won’t have the full experience of doing physics experiments in class with lab partners the way they normally would.

“Online physics will be 50 percent of what they would have had in class,” he said. “You can’t learn physics just by reading about it.”

My teaching situation could be described as the mirror-image of Highland

High’s.

Many Westwood students are from low-income homes with little in the way of technology. While all have been issued laptops by the school, some lack home internet connections.

Many also lack time to attend video conferences during the school day because they are now looking after younger siblings who normally are in preschool or elementary school.

So, I have been putting links to grammar and vocabulary lessons into our classroom website and asking students to do small projects as time permits. Spanish One students recently emailed me photos of objects from their homes that they had labeled in Spanish.

Spanish Three students emailed me video or audio recordings of themselves talking about their favorite mysteries — from the construction of pyramids in central Mexico to UFOs. The lessons have been a sea change for my students, who are used to being called on in class to talk in front of groups and also writing out notes and classwork on linked paper and keeping it in three-ring binders.

As a writer, I believe that the more students write out by hand what they need to know, the better they remember it.

I’m fairly certain that every teacher in Arizona right now is coping with similar challenges.

So, Westwood principal Christopher Gilmore set up a web conference chat that has pretty much run continuously since Westwood teachers learned they would not be returning to their classrooms this spring. Questions have ranged from how to connect families to food banks to whether its school wanted us to track daily attendance in our virtual classrooms.

Little by little our questions have been answered and Gilmore, like many other education leaders around the state, has called for patience and compassion. Right now, relationships matter more than straight A’s and perfect attendance.

“I am proud of the heavy lifting, positive attitude, and ‘whatever it takes’ attitude the Westwood staff has had,” he told me in an email.

As student assignments have trickled into my email this week, I can say the same about the kids who are enrolled in my classes. I’m proud. I know they also have that “whatever it takes” attitude to come through this.

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Desert Vista High senior sets up delivery service

BY ZACH ALVIRA AFN Sports Editor

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he coronavirus and concerns for social distancing have inspired Desert Vista senior Preston Cameau to start a little business.

A state wrestling champion the last two years, Preston launched Personal Home Delivery on recently. His mother, Audrey Laurice Bilbrey, announced the launch on social media and it didn’t take long for customers to line up for his service.

“It’s weird not seeing everybody out and about like they normally are,” Cameau said, “so I figured nobody wants to go to the grocery store so why not go do it for them. At the same time, I’m helping the community out.”

Preston said he’s averaged roughly five deliveries per day, mostly for grocery runs. He offers his service for just about any kind of pickup and delivery, starting at $10 plus gratuity.

“I’ve been to Walmart, I’ve been to Costco, I’ve been to Frys,” he said. “I kind of go all over for people. Home Depot. People are putting in orders and it’s going well.”

Those interested can reach out via phone or email with a request. Sometimes, people have ordered anything they need ahead of time and give the store his information, so they allow him to pick up

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That can include, the rule says, whether the student was passing all of his or her courses. Also acceptable would be passing scores on locally or nationally administered academic assessments.

That decision ultimately would be made by local school officials.

And the rule spells out that when schools determine that students are entitled to academic credits and to graduate that they get their transcripts and diplomas “in the same manner’’ as if there had not been a closure.

Kathy Hoffman, the superintendent of public instruction and a member of the board, told Capitol Media Services that the board wants students to be given the benefit of the doubt and get to graduate, even if they didn’t do any work at all since schools were shuttered last month.

“There are definitely situations across

Desert Vista senior Preston Cameau is a champion on the wrestling mat and soon becoming one in the community as he has established a delivery service to help bring essential items to those fearful of the coronavirus. (Pablo Robles/AFN Staff)

items. Other times, he is given a list and shops for those items himself.

He maintains constant contact with patrons to let them know if something on their list is unavailable. For the most part, he’s been able to find most items on the lists he is given. Though paper products and disinfectants are still a hot commodity.

If he is able to, he finds an alternative to a product, perhaps a non-name-branded item, although he said even can be a chal-

the state where students are not going to be able to access high-quality curriculum, whether that’s because they don’t have the ability to get online, or they’re sick, or their family’s sick,’’ she said, citing “so many unique circumstances.’’

“I definitely would not encourage anybody to stop trying or stop working to access high-quality instruction and curriculum,’’ Hoffman said. “I just think we need to be honest that there’s going to be situations that don’t have the ability to meet all the typical expectations we would have during a normal school year.’’

Board of Education member Armando Ruiz worried about the larger effects of the shutdown of close to a third of the school year will have on students.

“It’s going to take from three to five years for kids to catch up,’’ he said. Ruiz was particularly focused on students in the lower grades – and particularly from families who lack access to the internet. He figures

lenge given the evolving situation with the pandemic.

“Because I go to so many stores a day, I try to do the best I can,” Preston said. “Everyone has been appreciative. It’s something they need because there are a lot of people at risk. I have a lot of support from the community.

While a healthy 19-year-old, he still takes his own precautions to not only protect himself from contracting the virus,

that category could equal about 170,000 Arizona children who do not have access to remote learning.

“I’ve heard people say you can do packets,’’ Ruiz said. “Parents are often ill-prepared to teach their kids at home.’’

He cited children in homes where the parents speak only Spanish and lack any way of getting help.

“This is going to be an ongoing challenge for our state,’’ Hoffman said. “There’s no easy solution to make it up.’’

Hoffman conceded, “This will definitely be a multi-year project. It’s not something we can fix overnight.’’

In adopting the rules for graduation, board members declined to consider several suggestions for alterations.

In a filing with the board, a group of school superintendents wanted a requirement to keep community colleges, universities and other post-secondary institutions from revoking already-issued admission

but also those he is delivering to.

He outfits himself in gloves, a mask and goggles whenever he enters a story. Once he receives the groceries or other items he is delivering, he wipes them down with disinfectant wipes he keeps inside his car.

He’s even gone as far as ordering his own foldable shopping cart, so he doesn’t run the risk of touching an infected one in any of the stores.

He expects to receive that this week and believes it will only help grow his business.

“It will eliminate the whole process of going to the store and using one of the carts there that someone else has already touched or coughed and sneezed on,” Preston said.

“It’s another way to try and stay safe.”

Preston began wrestling at Altadena Middle School, where he won a conference championship all three years. He medaled for the first time at Desert Vista as a sophomore in 2018, taking fourth place in the 160-pound weight class.

As a junior in 2019, he won his first state title in the 160-pound class. He capped off his high school wrestling career with a state-championship win in the 170-pound class in February.

His success on the mat have given him options to pursue wrestling in college.

At this point in time, he’s contemplating

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letters which were contingent on successful completion of the school year.

Hoffman, however, said the board does not regulate these institutions and has no legal right to direct what they do.

They also suggested -- and the state board did not consider -- a “better but not worse’’ grading policy that allows students to use the time schools are closed to not only take advantage of learning opportunities but also make up missed work or retake exams. That would allow teachers at the end of the school year to update grades, but only to improve them and not to lower them.

Board members in their discussion did not explain their decision not to consider those recommendations. But Hoffman said the board still could take up these issues at a regular meeting.

“Today my intention was to prioritize and take care of some of the high-need areas,’’ she said.

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ASU economist looks at virus-stricken economy ASU NOW

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ee McPheters, research professor of economics in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and director of the school’s JPMorgan Chase Economic Outlook Center, offered his analysis of the of the economy last week.

He said that while the current economic free fall is unprecedented, recovery could potentially be quick.

Question: Have you ever seen anything like this pandemic?

Answer: No. That’s despite the fact that the common flu has tended to have increasingly greater fatalities in recent years.

We have built that into our common understanding of, “This is life in the 21st century and there’s flu, but life and the economy go on.”

Here, the higher fatality rate and the panic response of consumers has really changed everything. So, in addition to the economic problems is the overlay of panic on a national scale and apparently on a global scale, in most countries.

Q: So how do economists account for something like this?

A: After the severe recession of 2008, economists adopted the term “black swan,” referring to events that are rare, unpredictable and have wide impact. The financial crisis was a black swan event.

One of the features of a black swan event is that typically, as you start working back through the history, all the analysis suggests we should have seen this coming.

In hindsight, we should have had much better and wider investment in public health.

Q: So, is it too soon to predict what will happen with the economy?

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wrestling for a Division I program and having to help pay some tuition or essentially receiving a full ride with the help of academic scholarships to a Division II, III or NAIA school.

With classes moved online due to the virus, Preston often spends his mornings

Well, people aren’t moving right now. There has been pent-up demand for housing, but I think that with in-migration grinding to a complete halt, it will have an effect on construction.

What I think we’ll see possibly is smaller businesses failing, which means commercial space available in more of the strip malls and smaller square footage offices and retail spaces because it will be hard for them to Lee McPheters, an economics professor at ASU’s W.P. Carey School of start back up.

Business, foresees a rocky road for Arizona’s economy that could extend That’s why there’s a treinto next year. (Special to AFN) mendous emphasis on tryA: We don’t have very many indica- ing to stop small businesses from failing tors that have a high level of frequency. because they employ a large percentage The stock market is a daily indicator and of people working in this country.

Q: The new federal aid plan that’s that’s why it has so much attention.

But the stock market is disconnected expected to be approved provides for from the real economy, which is jobs and a $1,200 payment to many Americans.

Will that help? output and production.

A: This has been done before. It was One indicator that economists focus on is initial claims for unemployment insurance. done in 2001 and in 2008 and economists Arizona’s labor force is about 3.5 mil- writing in economic journals, which are lion people. So 1 percent is 35,000. So, if not widely read, show that in both cases, 35,000 file for unemployment, the unem- only about 20 percent of that stimulus ployment rate goes up by 1 percent. That money was spent on consumer goods and services. might continue for several weeks.

About 50 percent was spent paying off Arizona has been running at about 4.5 percent unemployment and I expect that bills. About 30 percent held onto the money because they thought things would get to double.

Q: What about other segments of the even worse than they were.

So, the effect of mailing people a thouArizona economy?

A: The big picture is to look at the driv- sand dollars may not be that a thousand ers of the Arizona economy and one of the dollars gets into the spending stream.

We can’t say if that will be the case drivers is population growth. A big portion of our population growth is made up now.

Q: And what about all those empty of people moving here from other states. doing schoolwork before heading out to fulfill delivery orders around 12 p.m.

“I just have to manage my time really well,” he said. “I try to get as much work done as I can in the morning before going out and doing deliveries.”

Though he does charge a small fee for deliveries, Preston said he’s not in this business for the money. He admits putting

some aside for college is nice, but he ultimately aims to support those in the community that have supported him.

And if he’s able to help potentially lessen the chance of someone getting sick by doing the essential shopping for them, that’s rewarding enough.

“I can help out the community and keep families safe at home,” he said. “I’m just

store shelves?

A: You’re getting into the world of psychology there. People feel they need to do something to try to control circumstances and they believe they can do this by buying toilet paper.

There is no reason to believe there is a shortage, from my understanding. The problem is in the stocking and, to some extent, the distribution. There’s no reason to think there will be physical damage to production.

Panic buying in and of itself is somewhat of a black swan. It was totally unexpected by grocery stores and retail outlets but I guess in hindsight, they should have thought that like in a hurricane, people will empty the shelves.

Q: What could recovery look like?

A: If we see that, during that second and third quarter, the economy loses jobs, once the turnaround comes, there will probably be a rapid rehiring of all the people laid off.

It’s what economists call a V-shaped recession, a sharp dropping down and a strong comeback.

For the 2008 recession, it took Arizona about seven to eight years to come back.

Here, I would expect that we will see a comeback probably in the early part of 2021, based on history and what we saw in previous sharp downturns.

I looked at some numbers for the 1918 flu, and when the recovery got going, it was only a couple of years to get back to the prior level of employment.

But all bets are off. We just don’t know.

In the long run, we still won’t be able to incorporate this sort of thing. But the hope is, as we did with the financial crisis, after we get out of this, we’ll say, “What could we as a country do better to prepare for this sort of thing?” trying to help fight the war on the invisible enemy. I just want to help the community anyway I can.”

Those interested in his delivery service can contact him by phone at 435-6020264 or email at prestoncameau2@gmail. com. He can also be reached via Personal Home Delivery’s Facebook page at facebook.com/personalhomedelivery/.

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Indeed, while her classmates are “sad too that we don’t get to finish off our senior year normally and have a fun bonding experience before we go our separate ways,” she explained “we’re all making a lot of jokes about it to keep our spirits up.”

While there have been rumors commencement will be online, Katrina and her classmates don’t know yet what Valley Christian plans.

“I will still give my valedictorian’s address but I’m pretty sure it will be prerecorded,” she mused.

As for fall, “I’m hopeful to start college there on campus. Four months seems like enough time to get over this pandemic.

However, if the curve needs to flatten out over a longer period of time, I am good with that too. As a Christian and going to a Christian school, I know that God has a plan through all of this.

She has similar advice for all seniors: “Don’t be discouraged, have faith, God is in control. Persevere with your academic pursuits. Work on developing a hobby or talent during your free time.”

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Desert Vista senior Haidyn Moroz also is headed to ASU Barrett to study aerospace and mechanical engineering.

She misses the many on- and off-campus activities she participated in that came to an abrupt halt – including the National Charity League, National Honors

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Society and Rho Kappa.

She had been looking forward for five years to the Charity League’s senior recognition event.

“I have been playing my speech to my mom for five years now and wanted to know what it finally felt like to sit in front of the group and be recognized as I saw so many other seniors before me experience,” Haidyn said.

She also was looking forward to her prom.

“I have been looking to my senior prom since the moment I walked into Desert Vista,” she said. “It breaks my heart that I won’t be able to have this experience that most people remember their whole life.

My dress came in during the first week of quarantine and I broke out in tears because I loved it and I won’t be able to wear it.”

She, too, hopes Tempe Union simply postpones commencement exercises.

Even if they were pushed into the thick of the blistering summer, she said, “I would attend because I have been working hard and looking forward to that moment for 12 years now. Even though it won’t be the same, we deserve to have that significant experience that we all have been striving for.”

“People talk about their senior year and graduation for their whole lives, it is a memory that people are proud of and want to share with the world,” Haidyn said. “My story is going to be different. I will be telling my kids how I was forced to stay at home during the most important quarter in my senior year and I did not get to experience the things everyone else got to.

“It is not fair that we are losing out on this moment but as a class, we have overcome a lot and it has only made us stronger.”

“Walking across the stage, getting your diploma, and throwing your cap in the air after you graduate is something a senior looks forward to after 12 years of hard work because it signifies that it has finally paid off. I have been dreaming about that moment and it hurts me that I won’t get to experience what so many others have.”

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HAIDYN MOROZ

Desert Vista senior Katie Kreiner has big plans for the fall: taking up a double major in business management and entrepreneurship. She, too, is saddened by the campus’ closure.

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“Although I do feel that I am still getting the academic lessons I need through online classes and assignments, it still sucks that none of us will ever get to go back to high school,” Katie said.

She already had her gown for the prom, explaining senior proms are one of those moments “ingrained in our heads for years – that it is the most magical night of high school.”

But Katie is woeful about the abruptness of how everything about senior end came to such an abrupt halt.

“I think what upsets me most is that I had my last day of high school, my last day attending the same school as my best friends, my last day seeing all of the awesome teachers I had, and I didn’t even know it.

“I had dreamt about my last day of high school since I can remember, along with so many others, and now we don’t get to experience that dream.

“We didn’t get to do senior spirit week, senior ditch day, or even throw all of our papers in the air and say goodbye to each other. We walked through the halls of high school for the last time in our lives and not a single one of us got to say goodbye.”

“All of the seniors that were looking forward to senior night, never got it, and they played their last high school game without knowing it was the last time they would step onto that field, track or dance floor,” she continued.

“I think the reason the class of 2020 is having such a hard time is because we experienced all of our ‘lasts,’ but not a single one of us knew it, causing us to miss out

on the chance to say goodbye.”

She flatly opposes the idea of a virtual graduation, stating “the thought of walking across a computer screen to receive my diploma is depressing.”

“I don’t want to have to tell my kids that I didn’t get a real high school graduation. I don’t want my parents to miss the opportunity to see me walk across that stage in my cap and gown.

“Think back to all the emotions you felt on your night of graduation. The excitement that you were finally done with high school, the anticipation for what was to come, the nerves that you might trip on your way up the steps of that stage.

“Now imagine if you didn’t get that, but instead it was your face on a computer screen with the school administration on the other side saying ‘Congratulations you did it!’ It is just not the same.”

“It would be amazing if we were able to walk in June or July, because at least we would get to walk.”

Simultaneously, Katie keeps the situation in perspective, saying, “I am so grateful for the community I live in, and all of the people who live here. Through this difficult time, I know that everyone has their own problems, and the world is going through this together.”

And she too has a message: “Parents of class of 2020, please try to understand what your child is going through. We know that there are so many worse things happening in the world and we are not trying to be selfish.

“We are just sad with the circumstances of how our last year in high school ended.

So please, go give your child a hug, tell them you love them and that things are going to be okay, give them hope for the future, get them excited about college or whatever the next chapter of their life is, because at the end of the day, you are our support system and support is what we all need right now.”

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standpoint. But I won’t do anything without the support or of the community support. I’ve given up trying to do anything without their support.”

On the other hand, he added, if they refuse to meet or can’t reach a compromise, “Then I think I really have no other option than to take it into bankruptcy.”

Bankruptcy further muddies the defunct course’s long-term future and would temporarily stall any “show cause” hearing sought by Barnes to have the court force the site’s restoration.

A spokesman for Swain and Breslin declined comment on Gee’s desire to meet, referring instead to a statement they issued over the weekend.

In that statement, Breslin and Swain said: “This one’s for our neighbors.

“Greedy developers who sought to make a killing at our expense are being held to account. The thousands of us who watched them destroy the Lakes habitat for birds, trees, fish, wildlife and golfers have been affirmed.

“It may be weeks or months before the final order of the court is in hand – but the decision is clear: The Court has shut down the developers’ appeal, ended their case –and ordered them to pay our attorneys’ fees.

“The next step must be to restore the golf course as a community asset.

“We’re immensely grateful – to the courts, to our lead attorney, Tim Barnes, and especially to the leaders and membership of Save the Lakes Ahwatukee. This is a compelling victory that demonstrates when neighbors stick together, they can prevail.

“We also want to be clear: we intend to see our neighbors compensated for their years of worry, and the loss of full enjoyment of their homes. Because no one should have to endure that, we’ll ask the losers to pay.”

In an interview before that statement was issued, Gee asked, “What did they win?”

He reiterated his oft-stated prediction that a golf course on the site “will never be built because no one will build it.”

But he said he likely would not seek to go to federal court with a new fight over the site’s future, saying it would likely be a waste of money.

Barnes said he also will be moving to

Attorney Tim Barnes, who represents Ahwatukee Lakes homeowners Linda Swain and Eileen Breslin, plans to ask a court to enforce the golf course order.

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have the court order payment of his legal fees.

If Gee files for bankruptcy, the case could be resolved in as little as three months –– although what will happen to the site remains a question.

Gee would likely be filing as a “single asset” entity.

While some single-asset debtors before

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2005 used a bankruptcy filing to delay a pending foreclosure for as long as possible in the hopes that the market would improve enough to allow investors to recover some of their equity, Congress enacted stringent requirements that basically requires bankruptcy court to resolve the case in three months.

Barnes declined to speculate on the next moves Gee might make, but said he was “so ecstatic I almost jumped out of my chair” when he got the high court’s notice last Friday.

In his brief to the Supreme Court, Barnes described arguments by Gee and True Life “hollow.”

The True Life Companies purchased the course for $9 million in 2015 with the intention of building about 160 homes with a five-acre farm, a private school, café and amenities.

The developer put down a $750,000 down payment on the deal, which was based on its ability to win the consent of just over half the community’s approximate 5,400 homeowners to amend the CC&Rs so it could sell the land to a homebuilder.

Gee foreclosed on True Life’s note in 2018 after True Life abandoned the plan,

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but the developer had remained a part of the appeal virtually in name only.

Gee and True Life argued that forcing the restoration of the course violated the U.S. Constitutional prohibition of slavery and that the appellate court misconstrued the meaning of the site’s CC&Rs. They asserted that the CC&Rs permit the owner to “abandon, demolish, cease the use of” any golf-related activities there.

Gee closed the course in 2013, claiming he was losing money and that golfing could no longer be profitably operated there.

Swain and Breslin filed suit a year later, contending that they and many other homeowners paid premium lot prices for their houses because of the course.

They also have argued that the five lakes that once existed on the site had been constructed in a way that provided flood control in the event of heavy runoff from South Mountain during torrential rains.

True Life, which had proposed an agrihood called Ahwatukee Farms, said it had included plans for a smaller lake that would provide that same flood protection.

Barnes has maintained that Gee had

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Jobless claims swamp state officials

BY CHRISTOPHER SCRAGG Cronkite News

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ew jobless claims continued to soar to record heights in Arizona and the nation, with state filings jumping from the then-record 29,333 claims two weeks ago to 88,592 last week.

They were among the 6.6 million unemployment claims nationwide last week, twice the 3.3 million of a week earlier.

While the numbers are staggering, Arizona economists say they probably do not include all the people out of work and may be “just the top half of an iceberg which has still many claims to come.”

“Phone lines are clogged, websites are crashing, so there’s just a huge backup I think of claims yet to be filed,” said Arizona State University economics professor Lee McPheters, who was “startled” by the latest state jobless claims.

“Because of the pent-up unemployment claims that people have not been able to file, I think at least through the rest of the

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over the last several days. With product limits, we believe our customers will start to see less out of stock, and that should calm the over purchasing of items.

Q: Is the issue one in which such items as chicken and toilet paper aren’t available in grocery store warehouses, or is manufacturing and processing not keeping up with high demand no one envisioned?

A: Certain items that come from animals have a natural limit. A hen can only lay one egg over a 24- hour period. A cow can only produce so much milk in a given

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been planning to sell the course to a home developer since at least 2008 – two years after he paid $5.6 million for Ahwatukee Lakes and the Ahwatukee Country Club.

He also had argued that True Life knew what it was getting into when it agreed to buy the site nine years later.

“The trial court found that there was no evidence that the golf course could not have been operated profitably in 2008,’”

month we’re going to see huge numbers,” he said. “I just couldn’t tell you what they look like, but there is a lot more bad economic news to come.”

Experts said it is the inevitable result of non-essential businesses closing their doors and people across the country practicing social distancing.

“Anything that involved people getting together in close contact is getting shut down in an effort to control the outbreak,” said George Hammond, an economics expert at the University of Arizona.

“That is generating these unprecedented levels of claims for unemployment insurance.”

The Congressional Budget Office, noting that last week’s unemployment claims were about 10 times larger than the worst weeks of the 2007-2009 recession, released a gloomy second-quarter forecast.

“The unemployment rate is expected to exceed 10 percent during the second quarter, in part reflecting the 3.3 million new unemployment insurance claims re-

time.

Q: Is it hard to force limits on the number of products customers are allowed to buy?

A: Our stores are in the customer service business, so putting these limits on these high demand products was not an easy decision, but it was necessary.

Q: In some U.S. stores, the police or the National Guard have been brought in to restock shelves and enforce purchase limits on certain items when they become available. Your thoughts?

A: This is not the case in Arizona. The National Guard is helping with transportation and stocking in some stores. Some Barnes wrote the Supreme Court in urging it not hear the case.

He noted that Superior Court Judge John Hannah – in upholding the CC&Rs in 2018 – found that the “evidence did not show that (Gee) could not have operated the golf course profitably with adequate maintenance, at any point in time before (Gee) closed the course and stripped it.”

As for True Life, Barnes cited the testimony of two company executives, one of whom said “there was ‘no chance’ TTLC

ported on March 26 and the 6.6 million new claims reported this morning,” CBO Director Phillip Swagel said.

In the face of those numbers, the federal government is rushing to pump money back into the economy.

The $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act that President Donald Trump signed last week includes $250 billion to boost unemployment pay nationwide by $600 a week.

The Arizona Department of Economic Security said state recipients could start seeing that benefit as early as this week.

The bill also includes billions in aid to small businesses and industries and funding to send a $1,200 payment directly to most taxpayers.

The program, administered by the Small Business Administration, will make loans to struggling small businesses so they can keep workers on the payroll.

DES, which handles about 3,500 unemployment claims in a typical week, said Thursday that it has already boosted its call center workforce from 13 to 100.

An agency spokesman said in an email that there will be another “22 new staff joining the team next week, so we can process claims and ensure Arizonans in need receive the benefits to which they are entitled.”

McPheters said overwhelmed unemployment services departments like DES mean the problem is likely worse than anyone realizes – even though claims in Arizona have “essentially tripled in the most recent release that we have.”

But McPheters said the state is better positioned to climb out of the coming economic troubles than it was in the past – whenever that turnaround comes.

“Going into this downturn, compared to years past we are much more diverse now than we have been over past decades,” McPheters said.

“This is all kind of based on the idea – is it a hope, is it scientifically viable – that all of this begins to reverse after June.

That the virus infection curve starts turning down in June and things get back to normal,” he said.

would build a stand-alone golf course” and the other who testified that the company bought it “with eyes wide open” on the campaign it would have to wage to win enough homeowners to its side.

As for True Life’s argument that it would be forced into “involuntary servitude” if it was ordered to restore and run a golf course, Barnes told the high court, “TTLC made the business decision to purchase the golf course which would, upon purchase, bind TTLC to comply with the 1992 CC&Rs.”

“By itself, that voluntary decision made with full knowledge of the risks totally undermines (True Life’s) ‘involuntary servitude’ argument,” he added.

The cost of rebuilding the course has been a subject of dispute between the homeowners and Gee. Barnes presented golf course experts who estimated – nearly three years ago – that rebuilding would likely be around $6 million.

True Life commissioned a study that put the tab at more than twice that amount.

stores do have security guards on a normal basis.

While there have been a few issues, in most cases our customers have been appreciative and supportive of our employees.

Q: Several chains, such as Bashas’ and Safeway, are reserving special hours for seniors, who are thought to have the highest risk of infection. Do you expect that to continue, and what has been the response from seniors?

A: We are not sure at this point. We will continue to keep our vulnerable customers safe during this crisis.

Q: Are rural areas or any other areas

in Phoenix and elsewhere experiencing more shortages on food and other household items such as hand sanitizers and toilet paper?

A: The shortages on high demand items are consistent throughout the entire state.

Q: What are some measures that you are taking to protect workers at grocery stores and other food supply companies when it comes to the exposure to the coronavirus?

A: Several stores will be installing clear plexiglass to ensure customers and checkers have a barrier and safe distance at the checkout.

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How to be outdoors while socially distant Park Rangers and staff have enough issues to deal with at the moment.

Get outdoors in your neighborhood.

Many neighborhood and smaller local parks have plenty of space to spread out, with room for exercise routines, yoga, or simply to enjoy time outside.

Taking the activities you are already doing outside can be a great way to relieve stress and get some of that immunityboosting vitamin D. I find an isolated section of a local park with my family and set up camp chairs, where I work while the kids do their schoolwork, taking frequent soccer breaks.

Outdoor picnics are also a great idea, particularly now with our perfect weather and nightly sunset displays.

Time your trip. At the moment, area parks have been the most crowded between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Avoiding this time will cut down on interactions with other users.

Utilize your space. If you have a yard or deck, take your activities outdoors now

while you still can. Spend time walking around your neighborhood. Social isolation doesn’t prevent us from talking to neighbors, as long as we maintain some distance.

Avoid facilities. Based on current recommendations, avoiding restrooms, ramadas, tables, drinking fountains, and especially playground equipment seems like a reasonable precaution.

Plan ahead, bring your own water. Camp chairs are a great way to relax outdoors while avoiding shared facilities.

Be adaptable. Before heading out, identify several options for trails and trailheads in the event parking is full or your intended area is crowded. Be prepared to change patterns as state or city guidelines are adjusted. With continuously changing requirements and policies, assume that restrooms, water, and facilities will not be available.

Phoenix will begin to heat up soon. So, take advantage, get outside now. Do so safely, be kind to others and appreciate this perfect extended spring.

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Governor Ducey’s stay-at-home order on March 30 lists outdoor exercise activities as essential, but the order also requires appropriate physical distancing.

Numerous people have asked for suggestions on Phoenix trails and parks where one can avoid crowds. As stating specific areas will increase crowding, here are some general recommendations, based on current federal, state and city guidelines.

Avoid the main trailheads. The main parking lots and trailheads have been busy and crowded, making social distancing a challenge.

This is particularly prevalent in Phoenix, where conflicting federal, state and city guidelines have resulted in inconsistency

with regards to parks and facilities being open.

As some areas have closed to users, it is putting increased pressure on the parks which have remained open. At this time, the trails at City of Phoenix Parks, including South Mountain, remain open to users.

Some limitations have been implemented, such as restricting access to facilities and amenities and restricting parking at the busier trailheads.

Expect further limitations to be implemented in order to reduce crowds at busier areas such as Pima Canyon and Camelback.

Use official neighborhood access points instead of the main parking areas and trailhead to provide proper social distancing. The large Phoenix parks all have numerous officially designated access points beyond the crowded main trails.

Online maps of each park identify these locations, which usually have space for only a few vehicles. This provides a natural limit on the number of users.

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Local seamstresses filling protective mask gap

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s healthcare workers complain of a severe shortage of protective equipment in the fight against COVID-19, area seamstresses and some garment businesses are stepping in to bridge the gap.

Debbie Sinfield and Yvonne Leake, who founded Sew Sweet Angel Gowns three years ago, have refocused their efforts from designing infant bereavement gowns to making masks to distribute at area hospitals and clinics.

Both long-time Ahwatukee residents, they are both nurses, though Sinfield is retired. Leake is on staff at the Neighborhood Christian Clinic in downtown Phoenix.

The transition from bereavement gowns to medical masks was a no-brainer once it was apparent COVID-19 was a pandemic, said Sinfield.

“Taking care of health professionals has always been important to Sew Sweet

Debbie Sinfield models one of the masks she and Yvonne Leake have been sewing as the two Ahwatukee residents switched from making infant bereavement gowns to help healthcare workers confronting a shortage of the protective gear. (Special to AFN)

Angel Gowns in creating angel gowns for stillborn babies from donated wedding

dresses,” she said.

“Since Yvonne is a nurse and myself a re-

offset losses. The telethon features hourly entertainment from ACT students.

“Beginning at 9 a.m., every hour we’ll post a performance by one of our students and people can log on to our Facebook page to watch and then donate to ACT,” said Rubino, who founded ACT in 1998.

Rubino’s infectious enthusiasm doesn’t appear to have waned with the pandemic.

Ahwatukee Children Theatre productions that were readying for stage have, of course, been postponed. But that hasn’t stopped actors from practicing.

Amber Chen and Allie Tam, both 10, were scheduled to alternate the role of Snow White in performances scheduled for April 21 at the Salvation Army Kroc Center.

They’ve elected to run lines and prac-

tice songs virtually during the quarantine.

Chen and Tam admit it’s not ideal, but say it’s better than nothing.

“I really miss rehearsal at ACT but being with Amber through Zoom was helpful and reminded me of the fun that I have at rehearsal,” said Allie, a Chandler Traditional Academy Independence fifth grade student. “It was awesome connecting with my friend after not being able to see her.”

Amber, a fourth grader at Kyrene Monte Vista Elementary, agreed.

“I’ve really missed having play practice at ACT, so getting together with Allie through Zoom was really helpful. Not only do we work on lines and songs so when we finally do get to perform, we’ll

tired nurse, we wanted to take care of the caretakers.”

Sinfield said it was Leake who suggested looking into sewing masks for healthcare professionals.

“We spent some time doing research through medical websites and current CDC guidelines to determine which style to create, and who our target audience would be,” said Sinfield.

“Yvonne created quite a few variations and then we reached out to our nurse and physician friends and family.”

After gathering input, the design style was decided on. The women determined that the sewing could be done quickly and efficiently, using materials donated by Ahwatukee residents in response to a request on Ahwatukee 411.

“Our desire was for this mask to be used by the healthcare provider to extend the life of their N95 mask or surgical mask provided by the hospital,” ex-

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Dance studios adjust to stage-less life

BY COTY DOLORES MIRANDA AFN Contributor

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he proverbial adage “When life gives you lemons…” has a new ending for some area dance students.

It now concludes with “make cupcakes.”

Dance Studio 111 students during their self-quarantine are trying their hands at cooking lessons and other online activities created by owner/teacher Kimberly Lewis.

And Michele Rubino, founder and owner of the nonprofit Ahwatukee Children’s Theatre is also finding ways to engage her students in both theatre and choir.

As her company, like many others, is being battered by closings and stay-at-home mandates, ACT is hosting an online telethon today, April 8, to raise funds to help

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Dance Studio 111 owner Kimberly Lewis reads on YouTube to children while letting her dog cuddle.

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Ahwatukee artist’s concert a cabin fever blessing

BY LEE SHAPPELL AFN Contributor

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ost Saturdays, Chris Donnelly can be found with his guitar on the patio at Keegan’s on Ray Road, entertaining patrons as they dine or enjoy a beverage.

But on a recent Saturday afternoon, Donnelly, a retired Intel engineer turned crooner, yielded to a case of cabin fever.

He invited a handful of friends and neighbors to a front-porch concert at his home in Mirada Canyon, near 33rd Street and Ray. “I just had to get out of the house,” Donnelly said.

The ground rules were that those who came had to observe the 6-foot social-distancing rule.

These days being what they are, with the COVID-19 pandemic having disrupted nearly everything in the service industry, Donnelly’s Keegan’s gig and others

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be ready,” Amber said, adding: “But just having a friend to chat with who shares my interests has been great.”

ACT is also helping their high school and middle school show choirs rehearse

by Zoom, leading to some “chaotic sessions,” said Rubino.

Meanwhile, Innerlight Dance Studio is also scrambling to keep their students engaged as they shuttered their school at 1442 E. Chandler Blvd., Chandler, in March.

Lisa Dionisio and Jeannine Taylor purchased the studio in 2015.

“In the beginning we did things to keep the kids involved in dance but still using the social distancing guidelines,” said Dionisio. “We made bingo cards and had dance things for them to do like stretch their feet and perform certain exercises.

“We also added some stuff to help them help their parents around the house,” she continued. “They all took pictures of their completed cards and shared with each other on social media.

“Then after we found out our school was going to be closed all year, we set up online classes with the kids to help keep them involved with the sport they love.”

The Innerlight Dance bingo cards, dis-

are kaput.

That hasn’t silenced him.

“About a week ago, I thought, ‘You know what? As long as everyone stays six feet apart, I’m just going to send out a note for a few people to come on out,” he said.

“I didn’t really put it out there for a lot of people to come. That wouldn’t have been the right thing to do.”

Instead, he also live-streamed his porch concert on Facebook, anticipating that maybe a few-dozen more Ahwatukee friends might tune in. He drew 157 viewers, from coast to coast.

“The good news is 157 people didn’t show up at the house,” he said.

Donnelly, 56, has built a following with his gigs in Ahwatukee and Chandler the past couple of years after cashing in his computer chips.

He also played at CK’s Tavern and Grill, Florencia Pizza Bistro and The Irish Hare Pub, among others, before the virus swept in.

tributed online to 160 students, include the expected like “Stretch for 30 minutes” and “practice a new dance skill you recently learned” to the unexpected like “write a short story” and “clean something for your parents.”

When all tasks are fulfilled, and all spaces filled, the students are rewarded with candy.

They’ll receive their winnings when school reopens, said Dionisio.

Innerlight’s 29 online classes are priced at half the usual live class rate and include instruction in ballet, jazz, contemporary and hip hop.

Meanwhile, at Dance Studio 111, Lewis is providing a plethora of online activities on Instagram and YouTube.

On April 1, students tuned in to see “Miss Kimberly” and her daughter/sous chef Avery create chicken parmesan.

Lewis’ pasta sauce recipe had already been the subject of a lesson, and her banana bread reaped rave reviews.

But perhaps it was the cupcake baking session that attracted a wide range of participants including Ahwatukee brothers Porter and Cooper Gregg, ages 15 and 12 respectively.

“I’ve cooked and baked with Ms. Kimberly many times, but never baked cupcakes with her,” said Cooper, with Por-

The small group of invitees began arriving with lawn chairs about 15 minutes before the show, armed with bottles of wine, and set up a safe distance apart in Donnelly’s driveway.

It was good music and good cheer under a late-afternoon cloudless, sunny sky.

He intended to play for 30 minutes but the gathering was into it so the singer/songwriter/ cover artist went on for an hour with his easy-listening repertoire of rock/country/ folk music from the ’70s

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Retired Intel engineer turned singer Chris Donnelly, best known for his Saturdaynight gigs at Keegan’s patio, performs a front-porch concert at his Ahwatukee home for about 10 invited, appropriately social-distanced friends and neighbors.

He also streamed the show on Facebook, attracting an additional 157 viewers.

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ter adding he’d made cupcakes prior as well – but never before by following a livestream tutorial.

The brothers, along with older sisters Olivia and Bella Gregg, said they’re keeping busy during quarantine, not only with Dance Studio 111 cooking classes but online activities and more.

“I’m gaming, taking online classes for Desert Vista and I have a film class so I’m watching movies,” said Porter, a Desert Vista High School sophomore. “We’re taking turns making dinner for the family and tonight I’m making shrimp.

“I stay connected with my friends on FaceTime group calls. I also enjoy playing cards with my family and watch my sisters make crazy Tik Toks.”

His brother is also online with school and gaming but said the family also has together-time activities.

“We cook and bake as a family and we play card games,” said Cooper, a seventh grader at Horizon Honors Community Learning Center.

Dance Studio 111 is also helping make bedtime more appealing.

Every night, Lewis and her dog Chester, while snuggling in bed, are live hosts for the “Cozy Bedtime Story Time” on YouTube.

Not surprisingly, as the Dance Studio

111 is renowned locally for their holiday stage extravaganza, the Ahwatukee Foothills Nutcracker Ballet, one of the first reads was of “The Nutcracker.”

The books are a fun mix-up of genres, and a recent favorite book was “Dragons love Tacos.”

Discounted online dance classes began last week for Dance Studio 111 students of all ages.

Dionisio, Rubino and Lewis all agree they’re optimistically clinging to their beliefs that studios will reopen, and students will once again gather together in the various classes, rehearsals and performances.

“I will never give up on our studio.

Dance Studio 111 is a second home to so many children. We’ve been a dance studio in our community for 26 years, and we’re taking it one day at a time,” said Lewis.

“By doing this online class format it allows our staff, some of whom have been with me for 26 years, to keep working,” Lewis added. “We’re giving discounted rates for online classes. Again, this is brand new to us but this is how we have to hold classes given our situation.”

To check out what dance and acting classes are now available online, see AZACT.org, DanceStudio111.com and Innerlight Dance on Facebook.

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t least for now, homeowners in Ahwatukee and throughout the Valley are finding a ray of good news in the dark times brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Home values are holding steady and the housing market has a pulse, experts say.

While some national forecasts suggest that could all go south in a few months and that a prolonged economic downturn could result in a foreclosure rate of

as much as 40 percent, observers of the Phoenix Metro market are saying that current trend lines offer no cause for despair.

“The Greater Phoenix housing market has changed a lot less than you might expect,” was the observation last week offered by the Cromford Report, which studies the region’s housing market daily.

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Housing market alive and kicking in Ahwatukee

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s we monitor the national real estate news, we are repeatedly hearing that the real estate market has ground to a halt.

However, this is not what we are seeing on the street in the Ahwatukee Foothills market.

Ahwatukee property sales in March stayed strong with 125 closed listings at an average sale price of $422,623. This is up from the average property value of $374,840 that we saw in the 2019 Ahwatukee real estate market.

Granted, the sales that closed in March probably went under contract in February, before we before the coronavirus.

However, a look at the 160 properties that went under contract in March indicates that the market activity was strong in March.

There are 94 pending sales as of April 1. With reasonable market activity, the 94

pending sales would appear to predict at least 120 to 130 closed sales in Ahwatukee in April.

The average days on market for an Ahwatukee closed listing was 51 days in March – down from the 67 average days on market February. The listing inventory has been hovering around 130 units for the past several months.

The active listing inventory increased noticeably to 160 units on April 1.

We noted that 22 of the active listings were over $1 million. We don’t typically take note of the number of million-dollarplus properties on the market, however, 22 million-dollar-plus units or 14% of the active market is a disproportionately high number for Ahwatukee.

The Scottsdale market of homes over $1 million comprised 788 of the 1,951 up for sale – or 40 percent of the active listings there. This is in a market where last year only 10 percent of total sales were for million-plus properties.

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Scottsdale market as well.

We could be seeing a one-month aberration. However, given the stock market volatility resulting from the pandemic, investors might be liquidating assets for the purpose of shifting to a cash position in a changing market.

The simple fact is that we don’t know at this point. It is worth noting and monitoring.

No one could have predicted a month ago that the world and the real estate market would be experiencing the shifts we are currently seeing.

We are still listing properties and we are experiencing surprising and serious buyer activity and showings as our listings come on the market.

The biggest difference we are seeing is the caution buyers, sellers and agents are exhibiting with regard to social distancing, use of hand sanitizers and efforts to sanitize light switches and doorknobs.

We encourage our buyers to drive in their own vehicles to protect from any contagion. We are encouraging sellers

to leave the property for showings and to turn all of the lights on so buyers and agents don’t have to touch light switches in the property.

We encourage the buyers to enter the property ahead of us and we follow at least six feet behind. This provides the potential buyers an opportunity to see the property without the worry of social distancing and constitute safe practices to protect the buyer, seller and the agent.

We are encouraging sellers to sanitize light switches and doorknobs on their return to further protect against infection.

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lion were up 26.5 percent, Cromford said.

The bottom line, it added: “The supply ing in other lines of business. And yes, situation is even more extreme than last sales prices are still rising,” it added. month. Rapidly rising prices have done Perhaps one of the few sectors of the little to dampen demand.” market which show troubling signs is the But then the coronavirus walloped the luxury home market. country and the economy, and some storm Ahwatukee Realtor Allen Henderson re- clouds began gathering. ported that as of last weekend, 22 homes On the plus side, it said, inventory – priced over seven figures were on the Ah- which has been steadily declining in rewatukee market alone and nearly 800 in cent months – began loosening up in the Scottsdale.

Phoenix region.

Cromford had noticed that trend at the “The increase in listings is heavily skewed end of February, saying that while luxury towards the mid-price end of the market,” sales that month were 56 percent over it said. “Between (March) 15 and (March) February 2019, “With the recent negative 22, we see an overall increase of 11 percent developments in the markets for stocks in active listings without a contract.” and commodities we would anticipate the “Of course,” it added, “we were startdemand for homes over $1,000,000 to be ing from an excruciatingly low inventory less impressive when we look at numbers of active listings between $150,000 and for the next few months.” $300,000, so it is not hard to see a high Meanwhile, buyers of more modest percentage increase from such an abnormeans found greater frustration as March mally low base.” began as data for February showed closAmong the factors driving this inventory ings on homes up to $250,000 were down increase is the virtual collapse of the touralmost 19 percent from February 2019. ism and hospitality industry – which has Sales of homes between $250,000 and pretty much wrecked, at least for now, the $500,000 increased last month by 26.5 vacation rental industry, Cromford said. percent over February 2019 while closings Homeowners who last month were enPlease change 16022 S 46th Street to SOLD!!! on homes between $500,000 and $1 mil- joying the additional money they were

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Nationally, experts said the pandemic’s impact is only beginning to invade the market.

The pandemic “is likely to slow housing construction, reducing supply,” says Robert Dietz, chief economist of the National Association of Home Builders.

Residential construction is “likely to decline due to concerns of falling demand and delays in obtaining permit approval due to local government shutdowns,” says Dietz. “How large this impact will be is difficult to estimate.”

Realtor.com reported that builders in much of the nation are now encountering new problems in getting permit and engineering approvals as local government offices are closing down or going remote.

“Plus, it’s getting harder to get materials,” it said.

Realtor.com Chief Economist Danielle Hale last week said “there is a lot of volatility in the housing market right now” but said that she expected the market to come back strong if the economy can make a fairly quick rebound.

Even amid the gathering clouds, Cromford three weeks ago stressed that home-

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making through Airbnb are quickly deciding it might be a better idea to put that same house up for sale before things get any worse, Cromford indicated.

Moreover, Cromford noted, “A huge amount of wealth has been destroyed on the stock market in the last month as the indexes return to 2016 levels. This leaves cash in short supply and some owners may need to turn fixed assets in liquid assets at short notice.”

Meanwhile, Zillow said Bank of America’s downgrading of some major homebuilders is “suggesting the bank believes COVID-19 will harm consumer sentiment and slow home building.”

If that happens, it could put the brakes on a frenzy of home construction in the Valley.

Zillow Economist Jeff Tucker also expressed concern that the wave of unemployment claims foreshadows a spike in foreclosures later this year.

“The big question at the moment is to what degree measures being taken by local, state and national legislators will help limit the number of foreclosures in the months ahead,” Tucker said.

In Arizona, banks have agreed to the governor’s request that they suspend foreclosures for at least two months.

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buyers without the buyers ever being in the property.

These same technologies have become critical in our real estate practice today.

We have used electronic signatures for listing and sales contracts since their inception several years ago.

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owners for now don’t have to worry that the rapidly changing market is affecting the value of their homes – which have hit almost unprecedented levels.

“During the outbreak, there is little reason to suppose that house values will be significantly affected, up or down,” Cromford theorized.

Zillow basically predicted the same trend.

Last week, Cromford said, “The general public may be surprised how resilient the housing market is when it is not the cause of a recession.”

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The one component that is gone from our perspective is the open house. We decided to stop all open house activities for the foreseeable future.

The National Association of Realtors States that open houses and yard signs account for 7 percent of property sales.

However, the risk to the public at this time outweighs the potential benefits.

On a positive note, our HD listing videos and HD interior photos are proving to be very effective in replacing an open house. Buyers are telling us that our HD

Indeed, if it had any bad news, it was for people still in the market to buy a house.

“It should be obvious that sales prices will continue to rise for some time,” Cromford said, citing various metrics.

“Although far more listings under contract fell through during March than in a normal month, we still had more closings than in March 2019,” it added, stating the month showed “a very respectable performance given the pandemic going on in the background.

One hopeful sign for many buyers is the “sharp increase in new listings in the price range from $150,000 to $400,000 in many

videos and high definition videos allow them to pick properties they want to see and eliminate properties that do not meet their needs.

It is not business as usual in the Ahwatukee-Foothills real estate market. But as the numbers show, the real estate market is active and properties are being listed and sold.

Real Estate has been listed as an essential activity and agents who are experienced and prepared are stepping up to provide technologies to facilitate and provide for the needs and safety of buyers of the larger cities” in the Valley.

“We saw massive percentage increases in the single-family supply in Avondale, Chandler, El Mirage, Gilbert, Glendale, Laveen, Mesa, Queen Creek and Tolleson,” it said. “But then again, we saw declines in supply in Anthem, Casa Grande, Fountain Hills, Paradise Valley and especially in Arizona City.”

“I do not see closed listings dropping like a lead zeppelin over the next 3 months, though there will certainly be a lot fewer closings than agents and title companies would like,” it said.

“Lenders may be relieved by the sub-

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stantial fall in volume as they are in all sorts of pain anyway, swamped with refinancing proposals and under orders from the government that they must tolerate borrowers failing to make their monthly payments. It is likely to be a very tough time over the next 12 months for lenders and loan service companies.”

The report also had other encouraging news for homeowners, saying they should “be happy that the monthly median sales price has risen 13 percent over the past 12 months.

“That is probably a lot better than your 401-K.,” it added.

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plained Sinfield.

“We heard they were given one mask, and our intention was for ours to go on top of that,” she added. “Our cotton mask alone won’t stop the spread or provide protection by itself from the virus.”

The N95 Sinfield is the mask in acute demand for health providers as it prevents the inhalation of small, airborne infectious particles.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were mainly used in industrial settings but have now been approved for medical and hospital use by the F.D.A. She described the masks as being made from two layers of cotton with “a thick enough weave to stop some germs, but not too thick so the wearer couldn’t breathe.”

Colorful and cheerful fabrics are among those used.

It was due to the largesse of the community that much of the material, supplies and even labor was made possible to provide a much-needed, fast-turnaround for the masks.

“We already had a successful Sew Sweet system to create angel gowns, and we just changed the product to fill what turned out

Ahwatukee physican Dr. Mark MacElwee is grateful for the masks local seamstresses made for healthcare workers. (Special to AFN)

to be an immediate need,” said Sinfield.

“Most of our volunteers, supporters and dress donors are from Ahwatukee, so we put it on Facebook through the Ahwatukee 411 page. The response has been overwhelming.”

A collaboration with the family-owned and operated Formal Fashions, Inc. that was known for creating performer’s attire for musicians has helped Sew Sweet

increase their output.

“Formal Fashions have joined us in cutting patterns and using their talents to create masks. I also heard from the Ahwatukee Rec Center that their quilter’s club will join us to sew masks also,” said Sinfield.

Ahwatukee physician Dr. Mark MacElwee, who works for ValleyWise Health, the former Maricopa County Hospital, was one of the first to receive a mask.

“Over the next month, at least, masks will be very important to wear. We’re thankful to have them as extra layers of precaution in our places of work,” MacElwee said.

“I also urge everyone to wear a mask when going out to the store, going through a drive through picking up food or when doing any kind of shopping. I also recommend that if you normally wear contacts to wear glasses instead when going out into public places. Wash your glasses when you get home,” said MacElwee.

His wife, Kari MacElwee R.N., is also sewing masks, assisted by their 14-year old daughter Audra, a Valley Christian High School freshman.

A recent development for Sew Sweet Angel Gowns was the approval by St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, oper-

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After receiving some of the original cloth masks, Sew Sweet was contacted by a doctor from the hospital with the special order.

“Dr. Mike Brady asked Yvonne if we would sew them in the event that N95s would not be available. We said of course, Sew Sweet Angels would love to help.

We created a couple prototypes and two styles with their fabric. We also recruited seamstresses to help with the first run.

The first night, Yvonne cut out 195 and started sewing.”

This special order has significantly upped the work, and volunteers like Melody Lambros are more important than ever.

A massage therapist for 25 years and avid volunteer at the Phoenix Symphony, Orpheum Theatre and the Tovrea Castle, she found herself out of work and unable to pursue her beloved volunteer opportunities.

“Since COVID-19 hit, my world has taken a huge turn, Lambros said. “On March 20, I voluntarily stopped doing massages. My greatest joy is helping others feel better.”

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An Arizona native and Ahwatukee resident of 28 years, she added, “Honestly, I prayed that I’d find a place to be used, make a difference. Boom, I think the next day, I saw the Sew Sweet post desperate for seamstresses.

“I’ve sewn since I was a little girl – my Kenmore sewing machine is 38 years old.”

“As of April 1, I’ve made 115 masks,” Lambros added. “I’ve actually given a number of them to family, friends and clients, as well as Sew Sweet. It’s been such a joy.”

Lambros has created YouTube videos under Melody the Massage Therapist. And for the first time in her life, she’s applied for unemployment while answering ads for workers at area grocery stores.

In these unprecedented times, Lambros echoes the sentiments of many who are volunteering in various capacities to help lighten other’s loads.

“I love Mother Theresa and one of her sayings is “Do little things with great love.’

That’s kinda my motto. I believe we are all called to serve. Some people serve really big while the rest of us can make a difference one person at a time. Especially dur-

ing this time, we all need to keep our eyes open to opportunities to help others.”

Leake praised the community for enthusiastically stepping up to help Sew Sweet Angel Gowns provide the needed masks for healthcare workers throughout the area.

“The community of Sew Sweet Angel Gowns has really come together; someone is always dropping off fabric, hair ties, cut squares, and completed masks, As of Friday, we have created and distributed over 2, 157 masks, with many more needed,” said Leake, a 20-year Ahwatukee resident.

“We also facilitate the distribution. Our priority is for health care workers to receive the first available. We understand the needs of others, but keeping with our mission, we’ve donated to nurses at Phoenix Childrens, Valley Wise, Banner Desert, Neighborhood Christian Clinic, VA hospital, Carden NICU and others,” she said.

The women said once health care providers are covered, they will reach out to other first responders.

Sinfield and Leake encourage skilled seamstresses interested in volunteering their talents to contact them at SewSweetAngelGowns@gmail. They are also on Facebook at Sew Sweet Angel Gowns.

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through today.

“At least when I’m performing and I’m not being paid I can stop and go socialize,” he said.

“It was really fun to get responses from so many people who watched it online, too. I think with everybody home there are just a lot of people on social media right now, just keeping in touch. I haven’t seen some of these people in 40 years.”

High school friends from his youth in New Jersey, people in Colorado he met while living and working there and college friends in Pennsylvania were among the viewers.

“It’s funny. People who knew me in college knew I played. People from high school had no idea. They’re like, ‘Holy smokes, that’s Chris!’ My choir director at church, fellow high school football players, people at Intel – I’m just gratified that they enjoyed it,” he said.

Donnelly’s parents were Broadway actors and singers in the ’50s, and music was a requirement in their Irish family of seven.

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Donnelly sang in school and church choirs before picking up the guitar in college and playing pubs and restaurants.

His post-Intel part-time retirement career feels natural, although it is not his livelihood. Donnelly is concerned for those who make their living at it.

“Most of the places that do have any type of music require more than 10 people in attendance to make it work, and that’s just not going to happen now,” he said.

“There are probably 15 local musicians I know who make a living on music. They play five nights a week. It’s a fairly decent living, but going from five nights a week to zero, man, that’s tough.”

As the sun began to set and the aroma of the neighbor’s dinner cooking wafted over the lawn-chair concert amphitheater, it was over.

It was a gift to those similarly tired of being homebound.

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remember well this student’s seemingly self-congratulatory comment even after these many years: “Racism doesn’t affect me because I am white.”

She was a middle-aged, non-traditional student who was also a wife and mother; taking my three-hour evening African American literature undergraduate course soon after I joined the faculty at Arizona State University in the late 1990s.

Her honest and inoffensive comment was disappointing to hear, actually at the heart of what I was trying to achieve in my literature course: using African American literature as a vehicle through

Virus prompts open letter to President Trump

Donald, I have supported you, stood by you and espoused your virtues since day one. I even donated $25 to your campaign even though I live below the poverty level. SO, I am, once again going to share my thoughts with you.

1. President Xi has counter-punched, intentionally, with the Wuhan virus. He nor his party mates have any concern for the peoples of China. So, wasting a few lives [compared to the millions population] to retaliate against your tariffs was of no consequence to him. Just look at the party’s track record. They are to be feared and controlled.

2. You need to tally the economic costs and loss of life to our nation and advise China that any and all repayment of loans is canceled. Of course, we need to return most of our manufacturing back to the USA first. I was shocked to discover how the majority of Americans had no idea that 90 percent of our meds are

which to see and potentially understand how denying another of their humanity diminishes our own individual humanity.

This student really saw no connection between American racism and her life as a white person in Phoenix, Arizona.

For me, this student’s comment underscores the common misconception that racism is indeed a black person’s problem, failing to acknowledge that the source of racism – the illusion of white supremacy – does in fact affect everyone, this student included.

The fact that she can think that racism doesn’t affect her is in fact evidence that it does affect her. Author James Baldwin, in his preface to his play “Blues for Mister Charlie” (1964) calls American racism “a plague” that does indeed affect blacks and whites.

To imagine that a white person is not affected by racism is to deny the benefits of white privilege from which every single white person in this country benefits.

As a popular social media meme asserts: “White privilege doesn’t mean your life [as a white person] hasn’t been hard. It means your skin color isn’t one of the things making it harder.”

And in her 2012 YouTube interview with Charlie Rose, author Toni Morrison pulls back the curtain on this illusion: “The [white] people who practice racism are bereft. There is something distorted about the psyche. It’s a huge waste and it’s corruption and a distortion. It’s a profound neurosis that nobody examines for what it is. It feels crazy, it is crazy. And it has just as much a deleterious effect on white people … as it does on black people.

“What are you [as a white person] without racism [and its serviceability]?

Are you any good? Are you still strong?

Still smart? Do you still like yourself?… If you can only be tall because somebody’s on their knees, then you have a serious problem.”

Ableist language aside, Morrison here challenges the assumption that racism does not affect white people. The reality is that everyone is affected by racism.

Imagining American racism as a plague underscores the absurdity of our Jim Crow history of racial separation (1880s to 1960s) and a kind of inversion of what I am witnessing during this covid-19 pandemic.

As most know, Jim Crow laws were both written and unwritten – but always

made in China [for years and with life threatening ingredients]. China needs to be told that we are withholding the interest payments on our loans till all this is resolved.

3. Why would we accept any health care product from China? Just reflect on their past devious ways. And who is to know as to whether the products they sent to Italy and Spain may have been affected adversely, intentionally, and thereby raised the spread and death tolls in those two countries?

4. You need to get support and agreement from as many countries as possible to stand up against China’s subversive tactics. You cannot let this moment-in-time go to waste; it is our survival of the fittest moment.

5. You need to get some sleep. You look and act exhausted on your daily TV updates, which unfortunately are equally exhausting to watch, so much so that I have ceased and changed channels.

Also, get a treadmill and walk 30 minutes here and there it will be good for you in many

ways and you can watch TV news or read as you work out, as I do. You need the exercise for many reasons. Please, quit folding your arms across your chest – bad body English.

And, finally, though you have been terribly assaulted with deceitful negativity and outright lies meant to undermine every attempt you make to save our country and it’s peoples, please stop the persistent rhetoric regarding how great you are.

Substitute: What we have done instead.

And, while you are fighting these deceitfully negative and corrupt liberals, you cannot give them ammunition; so stop the school boy retaliatory remarks and put-downs.

You know there will be more to follow but I am with you all the way and praying for you night and day to stay safe to stay strong to persevere and to succeed.

God Bless you and your family’s endeavors.

Thank you.

-Jane Emery

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LETTERS

As I reflect today through this quarantine, I’m wishing all children so much boredom they find it takes them to discovering new depths and heights of their own creativity; they see what they are made of; they find their paths and their own uniqueness.

Perhaps this time will be the foundation for so much remarkable change... new scientific discoveries or ways to safeguard and prevent our earth from totally falling apart, or more ways to ascend to a higher and more conscious heart-centered way of living.

While I’m scared like everyone else, I am so curious what this time will bring forth for all of us.

How will that neighbor kid process this uncertainty to make the next great... something?

-Suzanne Whitaker

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‘You’ve had something meaningful taken from you’ Desert Vista High School U.S. and Arizona government teacher Tom Bristol last week wrote this letter to the Class of 2020.

He also is co-chair of the school’s Community Counts program, which enables students to mentor kids at Wilson Elementary School in Phoenix.

I’ve spent the last several hours with you all on my mind. To be honest, you are always on my mind, but more so now. I wanted to come up with something to say to you that might help provide some perspective or comfort when so much has been taken from you and all so suddenly.

However, this is incredibly difficult.

You all know by now that I call things as I see them and I’m not about to change that part of me now. The bottom line is that this entire situation isn’t fair.

Life rarely is, but there are things we can count on happening as a matter of routine – like senior prom, high school graduation, etc. Except for now when

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understood – rules of behavior and access for both blacks and whites that separated blacks from whites after Emancipation and through the Civil Rights Movement.

While the real reason for the racial segregation arguably was to prevent the racial intermingling and intimacies between newly freed black men and white women, the rules were persistent and illogical: Separate black and white hospitals, separate black and white waiting rooms, separate black and white cemeteries; separate black and white water fountains; separate black and white transportation sections; separate black and white schools.

The list goes on and on, and across all of these United States.

they won’t.

While I know in my mind that this is the cautious and correct decision for the health and safety of everyone, my heart can’t help but feel that you’ve had something very meaningful taken from you. Acknowledging this doesn’t take away the sting of what is being lost. It is healthy for us to acknowledge this loss.

Whatever the future holds for all of us is a mystery that will be revealed to us in its own season. We can neither predict nor script the future. Attempting to do so is for the foolish. Rather than focus on the future, I want to focus on what I do know now.

I am always here for you – today, tomorrow, next week, next month or even next year or several years from now.

Reach out. I always love to hear from you – what you’re up to, questions you have, etc. In the short term, we still have more weeks of this “new normal” or online learning as we are now calling it.

Please stay engaged, ask questions and we will learn as best as we can together moving forward. I have lots of reIt’s the actual visual aesthetic of the Jim Crow era that is not lost on me as I see folks in my not-terribly-racially/ ethnically-integrated neighborhood walk “social/ physical distancing” by staying away from each other, especially moving away from me and others by stepping off the sidewalks and even moving to another side of the street.

These movements once upon a time signaled racial separation and its irrationality.

Philosopher WEB DuBois, in his short story “On Being Crazy” (1907), describes a white man walking along a road who moves to the other side of a street when a black person is approaching him, allegedly because the black person is black and black is “dirty.”

The irony of this incident is that the white man walks in wet mud on the other side of the street to avoid the black

sources and a little bit of work posted in Schoology for you to tackle after you’ve taken some time to process everything.

Join for Google Meet office hours on Tuesday or Thursday or send me an email any time. There might be hiccups in this process (like Schoology crashing today...go figure) but know that we’ll figure it out together.

And finally, please always know that you all have such a tremendous potential to shape this country and the world moving forward. YOU MATTER. You are inheriting a country and a world that is always in desperate need of those who choose to remain engaged and who want to make a difference.

Look for the good in things, keep an open mind and heart, engage that healthy skepticism and spirited optimism. Find your place in the world.

On the surface, the goal of this class is to teach you about concrete things such as the words of the Constitution and what they mean.

Yet more importantly, my goal is to help you find a path of understanding man.

Interestingly, a couple of years ago, a white woman alone chose not to sit next to me at a theater show even though the empty seat on the front row was available in a crowded auditorium. Instead, she squeezed herself into a makeshift space farther back from the stage alongside two other white people.

In this covid-19 health crisis, racism is indeed manifested in the same way that we see sexism, ageism, homophobia, classism and other normalized institutional systems of oppression: they are blatant deniers of individual humanity.

The irony of this coronavirus scare is that the virus itself is not discriminating as it infects blacks, whites, old, young, rich, poor, women and men, celebrities and common everyday folks.

However, we see xenophobic and rac-

that your unique role in our experiment with self-government is the most important role we have in our Republic.

It is more influential than the President of the United States, more powerful than leaders of the House and Senate and more important than state Governors and legislatures across the country. Your voice and the collective voices of those around you is one of the most powerful forces on this Earth. Of course, this country and the world is not perfect.

As James Madison wrote into the Preamble to the Constitution more than 230 years ago, our goal is to create “a more perfect union.” We aren’t perfect rather we strive for “more” perfect. To borrow from Abraham Lincoln, our “Government of the People, By the People and For the People” depends on YOU. Use your voice, be involved and work for a better world in all you do. You have the power to do so much.

All my best to you, Class of 2020, both now and in the future.

With gratitude, Mr. Bristol

ist responses to it when it is problematically named the “Chinese virus” and violent attacks and other insults are directed at Asians, and as the April 2, 2020 PBS News Hour story affirms, “COVID-19 May Not Discriminate Based on Race—But US Health Care Does.”

Still, I can’t help noticing distant parallels when I see my mostly non-black neighbors moving away from me on my morning walks and me away from them.

Now, at least I know that their particular movement away from me is not necessarily because they are avoiding me or are afraid of me solely because I am a black male in 21st century America.

Ahwatukee resident Neal A. Lester, PhD, is Foundation Professor of English and founding director of Project Humanities at Arizona State University.

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iraj Gandhi thinks the completion of his drug manufacturing facility in Chandler comes at a perfect time as Arizona braces for a potential health care crisis.

His company, Medivant Health Care, plans to start producing generic drugs next month in a new facility near Kyrene Road and Chandler Boulevard in West Chandler.

Phase one of the facility will employ about 30 workers to produce up to 40,000 vials of medicine to be sold to local hospitals and medical providers.

Though the facility’s been in the works for more than a year, Gandhi said the timing of its opening comes at a moment when hospitals could see a spike in demand for basic drugs.

As more Americans continue to test positive for the COVID-19 virus, doctors are bracing for the prospect of overwhelmed emergency rooms and empty medicine cabinets.

20 years,” Gandhi said.

A report released last year by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration determined the country had a limited supply of at least 160 drugs – 67 of which had generic versions on the market.

Complex supViraj Gandhi thinks his new drug-manufacturing company in Chandler, Medivant Health ply chains have Care, can fill a critical gap in the pharmaceutical supply chain. (Pablo Robles/Staff Photographer) made it harder But long before the term “coronavirus” for manufacturers to meet the industry’s was ever spoken by public health officials, demand, the FDA report concluded, bethe nation’s health care network was al- cause so many companies have moved ready grappling with an ongoing drug their operations offshore to countries like shortage and Gandhi was looking for a India or China. way to fix it.

Not having an abundant supply of these “The problem in the U.S. has been there drugs could have catastrophic impacts has been no real addition of pharmaceu- on the quality of health care by delaying tical manufacturing capacity in the last treatments or resorting to less effective

medication, the report said.

Since the median price of these limited drugs is less than $9, Gandhi didn’t understand why more manufacturers weren’t producing cheaper drugs.

He had grown up in the pharmaceutical industry and knew all the costs associated with testing, producing, and distributing drugs. Yet, it baffled Gandhi such a rich country like the United States had a major gap in its drug supply.

“Imagine if you cannot give basic antibiotics and basic drugs to patients – why go to a hospital then?” he said.

Lidocaine, a numbing medication, is one drug with supply issues in the U.S. for several years due to manufacturing issues.

The big pharmaceutical companies are not interested in producing drugs like lidocaine, Gandhi said, because they know it probably won’t yield a huge profit margin.

But Gandhi said he’s not interested in earning billions in revenue, which is why he was willing to invest at least $10 mil-

Disease Control safe-distancing and other anti-virus guidelines, she said, adding she and her team are “adapting our processes to deliver our highest quality of service in the safest possible way.”

“Not only have we enhanced our cleaning and disinfecting procedures in our offices and in the Weeks & Mitchell are seeing some new trends in kitchens, but white remains a top field, but any em- color for homeowners. (Special to AFN) ployee or subcontractor who shows flu or cold-like systems Mitchell said.

“On the flip side, we are also asking our will stay home and/or work remotely,

current clients to notify us if they are not feeling well, so that we don’t put any of our employees and/or subcontractors in a position to fall ill.”

But the work must go on, she added.

“We have no intention of delaying our client projects in any unnecessary way and will continue to complete the work in a timely manner,” she said.

“Weeks & Mitchell is in a unique situation as current clients want their projects completed, Mitchell explained. “They don’t want to reside in a home with an unfinished bathroom, kitchen or floor longer than they have to.”

Nonetheless, she added, “there are some variables that could affect our original timeline for completion.”

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he COVID-19 pandemic has brought many businesses to a screeching halt, but that’s not the case for Weeks & Mitchell Construction.

The Ahwatukee remodeling company is putting customers’ needs first – along with safe practices to protect workers and homeowners from the virus, of course.

“As the events of the COVID-19 outbreak continue to unfold, there is no higher priority to the Weeks & Mitchell team than the safety of our clients and employees,” co-owners Holly Mitchell said.

“Our employees, subcontractors and their family members are healthy and we have instructed them to inform us immediately should they feel sick in any way.”

The company has followed Centers for

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Internet slow? Here are some tips to help

BY JOHN WOLFE AFN Guest Writer

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ow that most of us are working and learning from home, you may be noticing that some websites may be a bit slow to load and experience intermittent buffering when streaming video.

More internet devices are being used, and for longer stretches of time.

And let’s face it, we are all using the internet to stay connected to people we love while we are staying close to home.

Whether its downloading files, streaming video, gaming, hosting work meetings and family happy hours on Google Meets – sometimes all of these at once – these new and expanded uses of your home broadband network may slow things down.

While we at Cox have seen an increase in Internet traffic, our network was built to handle this. We have invested more than a billion dollars in upgrading our Arizona network to enable gigabit speeds and to

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ensure we can support our customers’ needs, especially in times like these.

There is currently more traffic and more demand on the network in residential areas and less in office buildings and stores.

And peak times have shifted from evening to throughout the day – especially the middle of the afternoon – in residential areas. We’re keeping a close eye on the health of our network and managing the network to provide a great internet experience.

There many things you can do to improve the performance of your home network and ensure a good internet experience.

For example, when your computer runs an automatic update or virus scan in the middle of the afternoon it takes up a significant amount of bandwidth.

To help, here are tips and tricks to maximize your home network performance: Disconnect devices in your home from your wifi like dishwashers, coffee makers

tracting the COVID-19 virus. Because the coronavirus weakens the immune system, those with chronic health conditions are not as strong to ward off the virus.

If this pandemic does get any worse, Gandhi said at least local hospitals will have another source for some medications. But the entire industry will need more manufacturers in the future to fix the underlying problem, he said.

The handful of generic drugs Medivant will produce won’t even “scratch the surface” at filling the nation’s gap, Gandhi added.

“It’s not even a drop in the ocean,” he said. “We’re barely making a difference.”

lion to build his own manufacturing site.

And this type of project is no easy task.

There are lots of regulations, a limited pool of trained labor, and an uncertain supply of water.

Drug manufacturers need lots of clean water to make their products and Arizona doesn’t have the best reputation for having sterile supply. Thankfully, there’s technology and equipment filtering Medivant’s water resources, Gandhi said.

More importantly, Medivant will be able to respond to the needs of doctors, Gandhi said, which will be valuable during a time when a pandemic is hanging over the health care community.

In response to the coronavirus, Gandhi said Medivant will be manufacturing at least four generic drugs to help treat cardiac disease.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned individuals with heart issues are especially Medivant's Chandler plant will be manufacturing at least four generic drugs to vulnerable to con- help treat cardiac disease. (Pablo Robles/Staff Photographer)

and refrigerators as these devices do not require wifi to function.

When viewing movies, select standard definition (SD) versus high definition (HD).

Consider lowering the resolution on your doorbell camera and other security cameras while you are at home.

Place your wifi modem/router in a centrally located area so that the signal can reach more rooms within your home. Also put it up high on a shelf or tall piece of furniture because the signal travels outward and downward.

When planning video conferencing or Google Meets get-togethers schedule them in the morning or evening hours, moving demand away from busy afternoon use.

Utilize telephone conference calls over video streaming meetings to lessen the demand on your home network.

You can plug your computer directly into your modem rather than working off your wifi.

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walls as these are common obstructions that can interfere with the signal’s ability to extend throughout your home.

If you have gamers at home, ask them to download upgrades and stream at night as gaming devices eat up a lot of bandwidth, slowing speed to other devices relying on wifi in the home.

Keep your wifi modem/router away from Bluetooth devices like smart watches as they tend to operate on the same frequency (2.4 GHZ) and can interfere with the transmission of data between your devices that use wifi.

Additionally, steer clear of locating modems near a refrigerator, microwave, baby monitors and other devices that emit electronic radiation.

Our focus is to help keep everyone connected during this unprecedented time.

For additional tips: Cox.com.

John Wolfe is senior vice president of the southwest region for Cox Communications.

For example, some suppliers “are seeing delays with their shipments.”

In even school closures have impacted them.

“We are being sensitive to our team members and/or subcontractors who are juggling childcare while still working.”

The company’s design center at 4810 E. Ray Road also remains open weekdays 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

That might give homeowners some ideas on new trends Mitchell sees in remodels that include “a shift from the farmhouse trend to a more transitional style.”

“Full-wall backsplashes are becoming more popular and it will not be uncommon to see the color blue accented in a White also is a favored color for bathrooms. (Special to AFN) kitchen, for example,” she said.

“Also, prep kitchens are on the rise. A classic, while latte colored accents are beprep kitchen provides a space for conve- coming more popular.”

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rizona’s rise as one of the premier destinations for college coaches searching for next-level quarterbacks doesn’t come as a surprise to players or coaches.

In fact, it’s been one of the main goals all along for two of the state’s premier private trainers, Dan Manucci and Mike Giovando.

But with businesses shutting down and people staying inside due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, both trainers and the players have had to make several adjustments to maintain a safe atmosphere for all involved.

“I wipe off my ball with Clorox wipes and use hand sanitizer on it and my hands,” said Christopher Arviso II, a freshman quarterback at Mountain Pointe.

“Coach Gio helps me on a lot of stuff with my form and mechanics. I also would go to his classroom schedule. He teaches me everything I need to know to move up to 6A.” Arviso transferred to Mountain Pointe from South Mountain in January. As a freshman for the 5A Jaguars, he threw for 1,255 yards and 27 touchdowns while only playing in three full games. When Mark and Marcus Carter, South Mountain’s co-head coaches last season, were hired to take over the Desert Edge program, he saw an opportunity under new Mountain Pointe coach Eric Lauer.

“I love Coach Lauer,” Arviso said. “My first practice with him and the team they all asked me where I came from and welcomed me. I just think Mountain Pointe is a good situation for me.”

Arviso will be in competition to start next season with sophomore Amier Boyd, who also transferred from South Mountain.

Less than 4 miles away at Desert Vista, another quarterback competition is heating up between three players who also receive coaching from Giovando.

“It’s cool working out with them,” Des-

Mike Giovando, who runs Elev8 Quarterback Academy, said he has limited the number of players at each of his workouts to maintain a safe environment while helping them train. (Photo courtesy Elev8 Quarterback Academy)

ert Vista junior Taron Thomas said. “I’m still a whole class ahead of them but we text all the time and especially for Jackson (Akins), I just try to explain what it’s like on varsity.”

Thomas played quarterback as a freshman for Desert Vista but transitioned to defensive back on varsity. Last season, he had 80 total tackles and three interceptions.

With the departure of Central Florida-bound quarterback Parker Navarro, Thomas has emerged as a potential starter under center and on defense along with freshman Jackson Akins and sophomore Landen Powell, who transferred from Mountain Pointe.

To help him tune up his throwing mechanics, he’s started going to Giovando’s workouts at times. But still does workouts on his own to stay safe.

“I go workout with coach Gio sometimes, but my dad and I also take what he taught me to a park on our own,” Thomas said. “At the same time, I do DB drills. It’s all about limiting the amount of people.”

Giovando knows what it takes to breed a star-caliber quarterback.

He’s trained the likes of Spencer Brasch, a standout quarterback at Higley who is now at Cal-Berkeley. Others include former Gilbert and University of Arizona quarterback Will Plummer and his brother, Jack, who plays for Purdue. Ohio State quarterback Jack Miller, who attended Chaparral, also trained with Giovando.

Perhaps one of Giovando’s most notable players, however, is former Pinnacle star Spencer Rattler, who is an early candidate for the Heisman next season.

Some of his current allotment of high school players is also impressive, with Hamilton sophomore Nicco Marchiol, a four-star rated prospect, Higley junior Kai Millner, who has picked up offers from Miami, Michigan State and others, as well as Red Mountain junior Evan Svoboda.

“A lot of these guys have been coming to me since the sixth grade, which has given us a lot of time to get the mechanics down,” Giovando said. “When you get to the point they’re at now, it’s kind of fun.”

Manucci, who played three seasons in the NFL with the Buffalo Bills, also has an impressive list of quarterbacks.

He’s coached former Hamilton and current Oregon quarterback Tyler Shough, as well as former Notre Dame Prep and Auburn quarterback Cameron Yowell.

He’s also mentored former Chandler High quarterback Darrell Garretson, who went on to play for Oregon State. Garretson’s father, Rick, is the current head coach of the Wolves.

“I tell them not to go through a workout but to grow through a workout,” Manucci said. “My passion is to teach them the right way, to respect the game and what it takes to get to that next level.”

Normally in large groups, both coaches have cut down the number of players in each training session.

Other additional measures have also been put in place, including not allowing high-fives, fist bumps and remaining 5 to 10 yards apart at all times.

Both coaches emphasize mechanics and footwork, putting each quarterback through simulation drills. Of course, they both admit it’s hard to replicate 11-on-11 football in pads while in a small group setting. But both have seen some of the drills pay off during games.

Facing a third down deep in Florida territory during the 2019 Orange Bowl, former Chandler standout Bryce Perkins escaped pressure in the pocket, leaping over a would-be tackler and stiff-arming another to throw back across his body and find his receiver in the back of the end zone. It was one of the premier highlights of the game, and it was something Perkins and Manucci worked on together.

“The hurdling was him just being a phenomenal athlete,” Manucci said. “But we would go right and make him throw back to his left accurately. Things like that just happen automatically in games, even if it seems repetitive in training.”

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“We all want to get a workout in, but be safe while doing it,” Desert Ridge junior quarterback Austin Kolb said. “We all keep a safe distance from each other, I wash my hands and just overall have good hygiene.

“This offseason I’ve been working harder, working out every day. I have to keep grinding for my team.”

Manucci and Giovando remain keen on emphasizing player safety as their main goal.

“We’ve got the wipes, we’ve got sanitizer, the kids all wash their hands and spray down the balls,” Giovando said. “We all have the same goal in mind to keep everybody safe.”

Mountain Pointe freshman quarterback Chris Arviso, who transferred from South Mountain, has seen his skills improve while attending Giovando’s training sessions but has taken extra precautions to stay safe while doing so. (Photo courtesy Christina Arviso)

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