June 2018 Everyone smiles for a group photo at the Las Sendas Last Day of School Pool Bash event.
Mesa Micro Farm supplies greens to area restaurants
SRP employee honored for volunteer efforts
By Lynette Carrington
By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski
Nick Torpey and Jared Garcia are coowners and farmers at Mesa Micro Farm. (Photos by Lynette Carrington)
Nick Torpey and Jared Garcia are childhood friends from Rochester, New York, who have transplanted to Mesa. The duo co-owns Mesa Micro Farm, a sustainable boutique urban farm that supplies microgreens to various Valley restaurants, chefs and markets, including Steak and Stone and Red, White and Brew. “I always had a huge green thumb growing up and my mom had a huge vegetable garden,” Garcia said. “I still look forward to fresh vegetables every day.” Although Torpey has a background in sales and restaurants, he shares an
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Raymond Powell volunteers for Veterans Sportsmen Alliance. (Photo special to Nearby News)
Mesa resident and SRP lineman Raymond Powell is passionate about two things: outdoor activities and veterans. He melded the two by volunteering for the Kingman-based Veterans Sportsman Alliance, which gets injured and disabled veterans out of the house or hospital and into the therapeutic surroundings of nature. Thanks to his work, Powell was one of five SRP employees who received the Presidents’ Volunteer Spirit Award. The award recognizes employees who are leaders in volunteerism and who serve as examples of the power of caring. “Actively supporting the communities
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