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ABM, farmers market confident of resolving parking problem
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opes are high for a resolution of a parking dispute that threatens the 10-year-old Ahwatukee Farmers Market after the Ahwatukee Board of Management and the owners of a strip mall adjacent to its headquarters obtained a 30-day delay of a city Zoning Board hearing on the problem. Management representatives for ABM and the Ahwatukee Square Shopping Center on the northwest corner of Warner Road and 48th Street are scheduled to meet Thursday, July 13, over the strip mall company’s concern about farmers market patrons who park on the property. And while City Councilman Sal DiCiccio plans to attend along with some city parks staffers to offer a new location, both ABM General Manager Robert Blakesley and the market’s coordinator believe
they have a parking plan that will keep the market where it is. “We’re going to be good neighbors and work with everybody concerned,” said Dee Logan, senior coordinator for Arizona Community Farmers Market, which runs the Ahwatukee event as well as 10 others in the Valley. She said ABM has come up with a plan to make room for 18 more parking spaces on its property in addition to 36 it already has opened up. “They (ABM) don’t foresee an issue once the plans are presented to the shopping center owner,” she added. After the hearing delay was granted, Blakesley said: “In the past we’ve had different issues over the years and we’ve always been able to come to an agreement to mutual satisfaction so I’m not anticipating anything different at this point.” DiCiccio said part of the
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Meet Ella Marie, a 2-year-old Ahwatukee dachshund whose owner, Karen White, is escorting to a “doxie-dash” in California July 22 to race against about 100 other dachshunds. The big question for all the owners: how many dogs will get out of the starting gate and actually compete? Details: page 3.
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Ahwatukee nurse helping to aid drug-addicted newborns BY SRIANTHI PERERA AFN Staff Writer
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n Ahwatukee nurse has joined a colleague in an effort to help the youngest victims of drug addiction – newborn babies. Neonatal nurse Kelly Woody is joining fellow nurse Tara Sundem to establish Hushabye Nursery, Arizona’s first outpatient recovery center for such infants
and only the third in the nation. As a practitioner in a large medical center in the East Valley, they have seen too many babies having tremors, seizures, stiff limbs, difficulty sleeping and vomiting. These are the tiniest victims of the drugabuse epidemic sweeping the country. Their symptoms indicate Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome – infants are in withdrawal from drugs, particularly opioids, that were used by the mother
during pregnancy. In July 2015, the Arizona Department of Health Services said the rate of the syndrome has increased by 235 percent from 2008 and 27 percent since 2013. “I always thought the downtown or the west side is associated with drug use. But it’s happening here, too,” said Sundem, a Gilbert resident.
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