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6 Ahwatukee schools at risk for measles BY JORDAN HOUSTON AFN Staff Writer
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t a time when state vaccination rates are on the decline, six elementary schools in Ahwatukee are at risk for a measles outbreak. Using data from the Arizona Department of Health Services, the Ahwatukee Foothills News found those six are among 90 in Phoenix with less than 95 percent of their kindergartners vaccinated for Measles Mumps Rubella. A total 148 schools in Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, Queen Creek, Ahwatukee and Tempe
are below that 95 percent threshold, the data show. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says coverage rates below that number no longer protect those who can’t be vaccinated – such as babies, people with certain medical conditions and pregnant women. Those rates come at a time when measles – once all but eradicated – has become a worldwide epidemic. Five of the six Ahwatukee schools are part of Kyrene School District. Those schools and the percentage of kindergarteners vaccinated are: Kyrene de la Colina
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School, 94 percent; Kyrene de la Sierra School, 93 percent; Kyrene de las Lomas School, 93 percent; Kyrene del Milenio, 91 percent; Kyrene de la Estrella Elementary School, 88 percent. Additionally, Keystone Montessori also reported 88 percent of its kindergarteners have been vaccinated. In all, 11 of Kyrene’s 19 elementary schools reported less than 95 percent of their kindergartners are vaccinated. Reporting a 90 to 94 percent vaccination level are Sureno, Manitas, Mirada, Cielo and Paloma; like Estrella, Ninos
see MEASLES page 18
BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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he Arizona Court of Appeals has set a date to hear oral arguments in the long-running Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course case. Lawyers for two residents suing for the course’s restoration and The True Life Companies will each get 20 minutes to make their respective case before the court on May 22. The hearing’s scheduling this month may be a sign that a ruling could come in a matter of weeks, although it had not been expected before summer. The losing side is sure to ask the state Supreme Court to weigh in. At issue is Superior Court Judge John Hannah’s January 2018 decision that the January 2018 ruling that the covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&R) governing the 101-acre site mandate the reconstruction of the course, which owner Wilson Gee closed in 2013. True Life is still a party in the case even
see LAKES page 18
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