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SECURITY CONCERNS
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
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ithin two years – one with any luck – Club West residents will no longer have to put up with a perennial browning of their golf course every summer, no matter who owns it. That bold assurance comes from the man who is undertaking the construction of a pipeline that will irrigate the beleaguered
30 percent to 50 percent less than the city drinking water it now uses. The high cost has put the course on a bruising cycle of browning each of the last two years. Wilson Gee two years ago stopped irrigating the course in the summer, saying his city water bill of $700,000 created an excessive financial strain. This year, the city shut off service to the course in February when the See
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course with water from the cooling towers of Salt River Project’s Kyrene Generating Station. Rande Leonard, a longtime Ahwatukee businessman who owns Pecos Storage, at Pecos Road and 32nd Street, said he isn’t spearheading the project just because he likes his community. He’s a businessman and will make money off the water he sells to the course and the transportation of it. But that water will cost the course’s owner
Domestic violence disables local Giant musical woman in more ways than one
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Businessman plans a permanent water fix for Club West BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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The bullet fired during a struggle with her ex-fiancee in her Ahwatukee home tore through muscle and bone of a knuckle on Erica Rodarte’s, leaving her hand nearly useless as she faces multiple surgeries.
s a nine-year veteran aesthetician, Erica Rodarte depends on her hands to survive. But her livelihood has been jeopardized by a gunshot wound she suffered during a domestic violence incident in her Ahwatukee home that has left her frustrated with Phoenix Police – and in fear for her life. As she tried to wrestle a gun from the hands of her ex-fiance on May 26, he pulled the trigger. The bullet tore through a knuckle on the middle finger of her right hand, blowing apart bone and tendons before piercing the jaw of her attacker and hitting him in his partial denture. Her assailant nonetheless was able to run from the house and get to a hospital for treatment. Then he was released with no consequences. Now, even movements most people take for granted are almost impossible for her to perform. See
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Ahwatukee dance studio owner Kimberly Lewis is set to present “Shrek the Musical Jr.” Saturday at Mountain Pointe High School, with the title role of the gentle green ogre played by Adam Snyder. Details: See page 27