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City Council races head to the ﬁnish line BY KEN SAIN Managing Editor

Ruth Jones’ bid to upset incumbent Mayor Kevin Hartke in Tuesday’s election is a true underdog affair while the race to fill three other seats on City Council pits an incumbent against four challengers. Hartke, after serving two terms on Council and one term as mayor, has name recognition. He also has a huge advantage in campaign finance funds. And he’s the incumbent. Those three

advantages usually lead to victories. However, not always. There have been a handful of cases where a scrappy underdog has been able to pull off the upset, said his challenger. “Don’t count me out,” Jones said after second quarter campaign finance reports were filed through July 16th. Hartke raised only $17,226 in the second quarter of this year, but entered that period with nearly $229,000 in the bank, according to his most recent financial statement. He spent about $28,600

from April 1 through July 16, giving him more than $216,000 going into the final weeks of the primary campaign. Jones raised the least amount of any of the seven candidates on the ballot who are running for a spot on the Council. She reported raising about $8,900 and headed into the final days of the campaign with a balance of $216. “It’s not about the money, it’s never been about that,” Jones said. “The reason why I’m going to win is I’ve gone out and talked to the people who live

here. I’ve listened, and because I’ve done that, they know I care.” In the other council races, incumbent Matt Orlando is seeking a second term while members Rene Lopez and Terry Roe are termed out. Lopez is one of six Republicans seeking the nomination in Congressional District 4 to run against incumbent Greg Stanton. Roe is one of the two Republican candidates for the state House in LD12, which covSee

ELECTION on page 16

Mega development planned for Pecos-Arizona corner BY KEN SAIN Managing Editor

With the City of Chandler nearing buildout, meaning the amount of open space left to develop on is dwindling, the southwest corner of Arizona Avenue and Pecos Road stands out. It comprises nearly 50 acres of open space close to the heart of downtown and sitting just off the Loop 202 freeway, making it perhaps the most desirable open space left to develop in Chandler. And for years it has been empty land.

That could be changing soon. An application has been submitted to the city Development Services Department for a multi-use development that will include a hotel, office and retail space and multi-family housing. Called the Downtown District, the project “is designed as a high-quality mixed-use development that will create vital employment, retail and housing opportunities at the gateway to Downtown Chandler,” wrote Brennan Ray of Burch & Cracchiolo on behalf of developer Meridian West.

This is only an application. It has to go through staff review, neighborhood meetings, the Planning and Zoning Commission, and finally City Council before it can become reality. It is likely the plan will change as it goes through that process. So why did the property sit undeveloped for so long with the city at 93% of buildout? “My understanding is that there were several property owners who were interested in a corner,” said city Planning Manager David de la Torre. “It wasn’t just one proper-

ty owner, it was several property owners. “My understanding is that they couldn’t agree on which way to go, and so there was one … of those partners, [who] bought out the other ones, [it took] a long time to do that. So now that particular property owner is ready to move forward, he submitted plans.” The first of two required neighborhood meetings on the property was scheduled for July 28 – after this newspaper’s deadline – at the Crown Plaza See

PECOS on page 10

Making history

Asylum seekers from border crossings near Tucson and Yuma arrived July 20 at The Grove Church in Chandler, where volunteers help get them food, showers, fresh clothing and help with the next steps in getting to their sponsors around the country. (David Minton/Staff Photographer)

Chandler church extends helping hand to refugees BY KEN SAIN Managing Editor

For some refugees coming to the United States for a better life, a Chandler church is one of the first steps on that journey. The Grove, 2777 S. Gilbert Road, is one of five East Valley churches that host a welcome center for refugees seeking asylum. It is their first stop after turning themselves in at the Southern border and spending time in detention

centers. “We give them welcome, because they don’t know where they’re going, and they’re scared,” said Magdalena Schwartz, pastor of Vineyard Church in Gilbert. The refugees are not in this country illegally. Because they have asked for asylum, they are free to move about in America pending the outcome of a hearing on their request. See

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Elaine Woods of Chandler is beaming with a sense of pride and accomplishment after the city designated the neighborhood of Southside Village the city’s first historic conservation district. Read what she did on page 4. (David Minton/Staff Photographer)

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Chandler housing plan stirs citizens' opposition BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Managing Editor

The City of Chandler is looking to increase the amount of public housing units it has available and seeking innovative ways to pay for it. But some residents in the community are worried about the project and have started a petition drive to stop it. The city currently has 303 units available through the federal government’s Housing and Urban Development department for public use. Almost all of the people living in those units have jobs and are paying 30 percent of their monthly income in rent. But that’s not near enough to keep up with demand in a city where the cost of renting an apartment continues to soar, city officials say. The last time the city opened up its wait list for public housing nearly a year ago, it received 2,000 applications before closing the list again. The city is taking the first step toward building a new 157-unit facility at Trails End through a public-private partnership. City officials say they need to partner with private groups because it is the only way to maintain their current units. That has alarmed some residents. “We think that it’s admirable the city is interested in helping the homeless people, especially veterans and seniors,” said Les Mincus, who lives in

South Chandler. “We’re not willing to accept an agreement with HUD or any other federal departments, because the feds will likely allow illegal aliens, foreign or domestic terrorists, or convicted felons to live there.” Mincus has started a petition drive to urge city officials to refuse to get involved with the federal government. The city is turning in an application to HUD to be part of its Rental Assistance Demonstration program. Congress approved that program in 2012 to preserve and improve the nation’s public housing facilities. “The age of these properties and the amount of federal funding that is available are not sustainable in the long term,” said Amy Jacobson, the city’s housing and redevelopment manager. “The public housing multi-family units in Chandler are facing an estimated $22 million in needed capital investment and repairs over the next 20 years at a time when there is a $7.5 million deficit in federal funding to maintain those units.” Most of the city’s public housing units were built in 1972 and have significant plumbing and electrical issues that need to be addressed. City officials said they have more than $7 million of short-term needs that have to be addressed. The city’s plan to improve public housing begins with the application. It then hopes to reach a developSee

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Top: At this point, Chandler does not have all the money it needs to implement all the infrastructure upgrades it envisions for its public housing complexes. (City of Chandler) Bottom: This chart illustrates the shrinking availability of affordable housing in Chandler. (City of Chandler)

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City names its 1st Historic Conservation District An edition of the East Valley Tribune

BY KEN SAIN Managing Editor

Elaine Woods was sitting under a photo of Coy Payne, the first Black person to serve as Mayor of Chandler. She was asked what it meant to her for Southside Village to be the first Chandler neighborhood to earn a special historical district designation. It was something she and others had worked toward for nearly two years. “I am honored,” Woods said, beaming. “I count it a privilege to be a part and to have helped lead the way. What’s way more important for me, more than anything, is that the City of Chandler feels it’s necessary.” City Council approved making the Southside Village neighborhood a Historic Conservation District. The neighborhood is between Frye and Pecos and Arizona Avenue to the Union Pacific railroad tracks. In addition to being Payne’s home, it was also home to Raul Navarrette, the city’s first Hispanic mayor. The community traces its roots back to Chandler’s early days, when AJ Chandler was founding it. It was home to boxer Zora Folley, who once fought Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight title, losing in a 7th round knockout. It was Ali’s final fight before he was forced to take a threeyear break from the sport because he refused to fight in Vietnam. Folley later served on the Chandler City Council. “To start here is awesome,” Woods said. “But it’s absolutely necessary. I look at young people today … and if we don’t show them something, teach them from whence they came, the fabric of which they were formed, they won’t know a tad bit about what’s in them.” Council adopted a historical preservation program in 2020, creating four different types of districts that neighborhoods could apply for. The historical conservation designation is meant to honor any area with two or more buildings of historic signif-

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news@santansun.com Elaine Woods has been a leader in the movement to make Southside Village the city’s first historic conservation district. That includes N.J. Harris Park, which is named after her great-grandfather. (David Minton/Staff Photographer)

icance or one that was home to people who made substantial contributions to the city’s history. It does not limit any possible development. The other types of designations the city approved are “heritage site,” which is for a historic building that no longer exists; a “preservation district,” which would have stricter zoning rules; and “landmark,” which is a U.S. Housing and Urban Development designation. “The district itself, conservation, is a Chandler innovation, and it is honorary,” said Derek Horn, the city’s developmental services director. “But it does encourage preservation of the existing historic resources,” Horn explained. “So, we would want developers to come in and talk with us about any other alternatives that could be considered before taking down an historic building.” Horn said the city will work with the Southside residents to recognize important locations with signs, pylons and plaques. Southside was home to Blacks and Latinos in the city’s early days. Some of the historic buildings in the district include the Winn School (currently home

to the Salvation Army), Light and Life Church, and Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church. Woods said it took nearly two years and a lot of paperwork to earn the historical conservation district designation. There are others, including the homes were Coy Payne and Zora Folley lived, and a two-story building behind the Mount Olive church that was a roller rink for youth. Woods said the Southside area was meant to be for working folks who helped build the city. But there’s one group that she said should get special recognition. She said she has mixed emotions about the honorific nature of the district. While she wants to preserve the history, she also wants to encourage growth. “What stands out most is the homemakers, because the people of this community helped to maintain the home, of the, for lack of a better word, the powers to be in the community. We took care of our forefathers and mothers, and they took care of their homes while they went and created what we see today is the city of Chandler.”

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traditional home builder, noting builders could make far more renting units to the public. “It’s in their mission to do this type of transaction with housing authorities that are transitioning out of public housing into the Section 8, project-based platform,” Jacobson said. “They’ve had experience, they’ve done this type of project, they’ve worked on this type of financing, they’ve gone through the HUD approval process, through the RAD program, that’s the reason why we are wanting a development partner, to go through that process with us in a public place.” Leah Powell, the city’s neighborhood resources director, said the need is growing with rents increasing so much in Chandler. “We have a growing population of seniors who are about to be displaced,

or have become displaced,” Powell said. “I got a briefing from staff before I came this evening. “We have three seniors right now that are going to be displaced by the end of August. Every one of those seniors has a Section 8 voucher, but they can’t find places to live that they can afford.” Mincus said he supports trying to help the people who need it, but doesn’t like the idea of becoming tied to the federal government. He said he and his supporters already have filled several pages of his petition and he hopes to get thousands more signatures. He said the petitions will be submitted to city leaders right before the election. “They are busing illegal aliens up from the border,” Mincus said. “The citizens of Chandler do not want this.”

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Long lines greet back-to-school giveaway BY KEN SAIN Managing Editor

Chandler’s Operation Back to School backpack giveaway is the largest in East Valley. It also remains a work in progress. For Our City Chandler hosts the annual event the weekend before classes begin and residents lined up in a long queue on July 16 at Chandler High School. It was such a long line stretching onto Arizona Avenue that organizers started handing out backpacks 45 minutes early, Councilwoman Christine Ellis said. A half hour after the event’s official start time of 8 a.m., traffic was still backed up more than a half-mile on Arizona Avenue past Galveston. This year’s event was held at a single location, unlike recent years. It is part of an evolution of the 9-year-old giveaway. In the early years, people would park their cars and get other services to help them get ready for school. Chandler Unified School District returned to classrooms on July 20th. “Years ago, when we did this, we actually had people parking here, and then waiting in line because we were also offering haircuts and school uniforms and shoes,” said Mayor Kevin Hartke, who helped start this event. The mayor, who is still pastor at Trinity Christian Fellowship Church, said

Chelsea Grieve distributed backpacks to parents and guardians who waited in a long line during the Operation Back to School event July 16. (David Minton/Staff Photographer)

he saw a need for an organization to help the faith-based community get involved to make a difference in the city. That’s when he helped found For Our City Chandler. But then the COVID pandemic began, and social distancing became a priority. That’s when they decided to set up in four different locations. This year they hoped a single location with a large parking lot for cars to snake back-and-forth in an amusement

park type queue line would be enough. Most folks didn’t seem to mind the wait. In addition to the backpacks filled with school supplies appropriate for their grade, there were also goodies being handed out to people in line. Taco Bell donated 1,500 breakfast burritos and others donated water. The line moved quickly. In the end, they handed out between 2,600 and 2,700 backpacks. The few hundred that were left

over will go to Title I schools this week to be given to any students who did not get one. “It’s part of our community solution to make sure that as many kids as possible are ready to thrive when they go back to school,” Hartke said. This was the first year the event had a titled sponsor, Edwards Vacuum. There were also others in the business community who contributed. Most of the cost for the free backpacks and school supplies came from that segment of the community. “I would say about 75 to 80% is our sponsors, and the rest are individuals or small businesses that do school supply donations,” said Jose Fernandez, a member of For Our City Chandler’s board. “We had about four main sponsors that brought in most of the funds. What we do is we use that to buy supplies wholesale, stretching as far as we can.” Fernandez said they try to take the lessons learned from each event and apply them the next year. “Every year we test different things out,” he said. “So yeah, this is the first time where we just did that one location. One of the differences we made is we have more traffic in the parking lot. So snaking through, but we still have traffic out to Chandler Boulevard. So future years, we’re going to try to address that to whether that means multiple sites.”

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Chandler Uniﬁed also sees big budget increase Revised 22 vs Adopted Budget FY 23

to 4%, which amounts to a $5.2 million increase. It also agreed to hand out a number of one-time retention bonus The Chandler Unified Governing checks, which totaled nearly $5.9 million. Board got its first look at the real The average teacher salary in CUSD budget numbers for the 2022-23 school is $63,447. Last year that number was year last week and saw a lot more mon$62,637. ey and a falling tax rate. Then there were a number of new However, because of rising home programs that needed funding. The values, homeowners may actually see board approved about $7.5 million for their tax bills go up. those, and close to $2.5 million for capiLana Berry, the district’s chief finantal needs (computers, furniture, etc.). cial officer noted, “There was a huge The district is feeling the large surplus in the state funds and there was A huge boost in state education funding by the Legislature had a dramatic impact on increase in fuel prices just like most Chandler Unified’s spending plan for the new fiscal year. (CUSD) a lot of negotiation based on a number families. The state did not increase its of needs across our state, with K-12 transportation funding for districts, so property tax was $6.08 for every being one of those.” most of that increase will have to be State legislators agreed to add an $100,000 of assessed value. This year’s The CUSD Board approved a budpaid for out of the maintenance and additional $526 million in base funding, proposed tax is $5.97, a drop of 15 cents. operations funds, Berry said. get of just under $470 million, a $19.6 Berry said. She added that this is ongoMost Valley homes have increased million increase over the placeholder And Berry said the district has a ing, and not a one-time event. significantly in value, jumping 30 or budget it approved in June. healthy reserve of more than $100 milIt’s not certain if property owners more percent. However, the state limits lion in case of a recession or dramatic Most of the increase is in the mainwill see a tax increase or decrease this the increase that property owners can tenance and operations portion of the cut in funding. year. Most of the school board’s porpay in a year to 5 percent. budget, which jumped by about $17.2 Berry said they have not received tion of the property tax rate is beyond The Maricopa County Board of Sumillion to $365.8 million. The capital the final numbers on how much CUSD its control. pervisors voted to cut their tax rate by improvement fund increased just under will get in results-based funding. That’s The state sets the Qualifying Tax $2.5 million to $43.3 million. the amount districts are awarded for Rate and voters decide if they will fund the largest margin in decades. CUSD has the second lowest propThe $60.9 the district gets from the student achievements. bonds and the override increase. The erty tax rate of East Valley school federal government did not change. CUSD usually ranks first in the state only portion of the tax the Governing The increase is even greater when in that category and is anticipating at Board controls is the adjacent ways tax. districts, only trailing Gilbert Public Schools, 5.9695 and 5.7815, respectively. least $3.2 million. The district could compared to last year’s budget. That That funds improvements on property Most of the increases were approved also get around $1.3 million for the came about because the state had near district land. For example, changat previous budget meetings. a huge surplus of cash because of College Credit by Examination Incentive ing a roadway next to a school to imTheand boardreplace approved awith number of increasing tax revenues. The bipartisanCOLOR: Program. prove traffi c flow for parents dropping Right click swatch, and find correct color new projects costing $5,000 or more. budget deal decided to give substanThose final numbers are expected off, or picking up their kids. It agreed to give teachers a raise of 2 tially more to education. soon. The school board’s portion of the

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Chandler Hotel on San Marcos. The time and date for the second meeting has not been scheduled. Two neighborhood meetings are required because the developer wants to build above the 45-foot height limit with one structure 120 feet tall. “I would anticipate this being on an agenda by the end of the year,” said Lauren Schuman, the city’s senior planner. The proposal includes a six-story parking garage, four stand-alone office

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buildings, eight buildings for retail, a five-story hotel, a restaurant, and about 800 multi-family housing units. There are also two mixed-use buildings. “We don’t see very many mixed-use projects like this coming forward,” de la Torre said. “So this is a great opportunity for Chandler to get a really cool mixeduse development in place. And it’s kind of a delicate balance, too, because we don’t want it to compete with Downtown. “But it’s big enough, where we can do a different type of development that’s not going to compete with those [businesses], and it’s going to become

The 50-acre development on the southwest corner of Arizona Avenue and Pecos Road in Chandler would include a hotel, apartments and retail and office space. (City of Chandler)

its own unique thing that’s going to attract people from a wide area.” The District Downtown development is being planned by ABLA Studio. Neri Architects shared images of what

the office and retail space would look like, showing a very modern design. The hotel would be about 189,000 square feet and house around 180 rooms. A 4,000-square foot restaurant would be in front of the hotel, close to Arizona Avenue. “We need the rooms,” said Micah Miranda, city economic development director. “However, not all hotels are created equally. What we really need is more meeting and conference space – about 10,000 square feet.” Miranda said conversations are ongoing on how best to meet that need. The office space would be split up into two, two-story buildings, and a six- and four-story L-shaped buildings

across the plaza. The two, two-story buildings would be connected by a bridge over the walkway between them. There’s a total of 364,000 square feet of office space planned. The 800 multi-family housing units would be in buildings three-stories tall. There are three swimming pools included in the plan for those residents. The mixed-use buildings on the plan are near the hotel. Schumann said the developer’s plans for those buildings remain flexible so that it can better respond to the market. Depending on what the need is, they could be a mix of retail, office or residential.

Left: A total 364,000 square feet of space will be devoted to offices in the project. (City of Chandler) Below Left: The 800-unit apartment complex would include three swimming pools and stand three stories high. (Biltform Architecture Group) Below Right: Retail would be housed in eight buildings, although it is unclear whether any big brands have been identified as tenants. (City of Chandler)

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Chandler Council debates Juneteenth holiday cost BY KEN SAIN Managing Editor

There is consensus on the Chandler City Council that it recognize the Juneteenth holiday in some fashion, but what form that will take remains up for debate. Council met for a work session July 11 to consider making Juneteenth a city holiday. Doing so would give city workers June 19 (or a day close to it if it falls on a weekend) off each year. Juneteenth commemorates the anniversary of the day the final slaves in the United States were officially told they were free. It happened in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865. That was twoand-a-half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The City Council was presented three possible options: First, make no change, which would mean employees would not get a Juneteenth holiday off. The second was to make Juneteenth an official city holiday starting next June. And the third was to add another personal day so that city workers could

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take time off for Juneteenth if they wanted. Based on the discussion, it appears council members favor the third choice, though there was no definitive direction given. They asked City Manager Joshua Wright to do more research. “If we are talking about adding a holiday, then for me, having a holiday where individuals can choose, whether that’s the Chinese New Year or Cinco de Mayo or something that is meaningful to them, I think is the best way we could handle it,” said Vice Mayor Terry Roe. “It would cost less and that way we would still have recognition.” Dawn Lang, city deputy city manager and chief financial officer, said it would cost less to add what is essentially a second personal holiday because not all workers would be off at the same time. The city also would not need to pay as much in overtime, he said. It’s unclear if Council wants to add a second personal day or will tie that day to unrecognized holidays that celebrate heritage. Some of those would be Columbus Day, Cinco de Mayo, St. Patrick’s

Day, Chinese New Year, Juneteenth, and possibly others. At one point, Mayor Kevin Hartke suggested that they name the holiday after Juneteenth, but allow workers to decide when they want to take it. No matter how they handle the holiday, council members said it was important to recognize Juneteenth. This year Hartke issued a proclamation recognizing the holiday and the city held numerous events for the holiday. A lot of the discussion over making Juneteenth a holiday centered on what city services would be closed. There was an agreement pools should remain open. “Don’t shut down the pools,” Councilman Matt Orlando said, adding it’s one of two things the Council should not mess with –– the other being alleys. President Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021. The city currently gives its employees 11 holidays a year. Adding a 12th for Juneteenth would cost the city about $222,000. Lang said that cost estimate is based

on what President’s Day costs the city. Councilman OD Harris, who asked for the work session, was surprised by the cost. He asked the city manager to see if there was a way to get that down. Currently, eight Valley cities recognize Juneteenth as a holiday for their workers. They are Avondale, Buckeye, Glendale, Goodyear, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Surprise and Tempe. “What does diversity mean, when it comes to creating a new holiday?” Roe asked. “Does it just mean Juneteenth? Or does it mean it’s an opportunity for other people to celebrate what’s important to them? That’s my question.” CITY HOLIDAYS Here are the holidays that the City of Chandler currently recognizes for its employees: New Year’s Day Martin Luther King Jr. Day President’s Day Memorial Day Independence Day Labor Day

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Schwartz has been organizing the East Valley effort to help refugees settle in the U.S. since 2018. “They think, ‘Oh, we’re going to another detention center … then they get surprised when they get here. And we give them welcome.” Earlier this month, 114 refugees, including more than 20 children, arrived at The Grove to begin their journey to wherever they will be staying as they await their court date for their asylum applications. It was the largest group to arrive in Chandler since the church started hosting refugees in February. Schwartz said all of the asylum-seekers have a place to go, and that is almost always outside of Chandler. People can apply for asylum in the United States if they have suffered persecution, or fear suffering persecution, due to race, religion, nationality, being a member in a particular social group, or for political opinions. They have to be physically in the U.S. to request asylum. Many of the refugees arriving in Chandler will take a bus to Sky Harbor Airport for a flight to stay with family elsewhere in the U.S. While they are in Chandler, they are given some comforts to start their new life, such as some new clothes, shoes, hats, and purses. They are also returned all their personal items, including shoe laces, that were confiscated when they surrendered to border officials.

Left: Sister Magdalena Schwartz briefed volunteers about processing in asylum seekers from border crossings near Tucson and Yuma as they arrive at The Grove Church. Right: Asylum seekers from border crossings near Tucson and Yuma collect plastic bags with their personal effects, taken from them at the border, as they arrive at The Grove Church. (David Minton/Staff Photographer)

There is also food, beverages and if they are so inclined, a shower. When Schwartz first started organizing this effort four years ago she built a network of 14 churches that would host these events. When the COVID pandemic began, that network fell apart because of social distancing. Now, she is in the process of rebuilding it with five churches taking part. Schwartz said The Grove is the only Chandler church currently welcoming refugees. Even though the refugees are just passing through, Schwartz said she has heard some complaints because of the hot-button topic of illegal immigrants. “I do this because I’m a pastor,”

Schwartz said. “If people have a problem with this, they need to talk to the people in the government.” The Grove is not getting paid to provide this service, and most of the donations they receive come from either members of their congregation, or their friends and family. “I just put out a call on our distribution list,” said Joe Agresti, a volunteer who coordinates the event for the church. He said they have been very generous. “I can take you inside and you wouldn’t believe how much we have,” Agresti said. “I often send boxes to Magdalena for her to use at other events.”

A July 20 event got emotional when some of the refugees were reunited with their family members. The refugees also get a chance to call their family to help work out the logistics of getting to their new home. Schwartz said before COVID shut down their refugee welcome program in 2020, they had helped more than 100,000 people adjust to life in the U.S. while waiting for the outcome of their asylum hearings. “The government doesn’t give us any financial resources,” Schwartz said. “And nobody gives us money. We do this by faith, because we love Jesus.” Information: thegroveaz.com

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Around Chandler Chandler’s Citizens Academy starts in August The Chandler Police Department’s Citizen Academy will hold its next session in mid-August. Participants get an inside look at Chandler PD, including learning about the operations and resources of the department. Classes are from 6 to 9 p.m., Wednesdays from Aug. 17 through Nov. 9. To learn more about the program visit ChandlerAZ.gov or call 480-782-4960.

Man dies after confrontation with Chandler Police Chandler Police said officers shot and killed a 44-year-old man on July 17. Sgt. Jason McClimans said Tyson W. Cobb had been sought in connection with a home invasion sexual assault and was armed with a knife. The incident took place at the apartment complex near Dobson and Frye where the suspect lived. Police said he did not know the victim. An investigation is underway and police plan to release more information later.

Trampoline park to open Chandler location next year Sky Zone, the nation’s oldest indoor trampoline company, has announced it plans to open a Chandler location in the first quarter of 2023 at 1095 S. Arizona Avenue at Pecos Road.

The company already has four other Arizona locations in Scottsdale, Laveen, North Phoenix and Central Phoenix. Sky Zone started the indoor trampoline industry in the U.S. more than a decade ago. Each of its locations boast more than 60 attractions. The have something for ages toddler to senior.

Insight opens its Chandler headquarters near Airport Global tech company Insight now calls Chandler home. The company that started as a hard drive maker in Tempe in 1988 opened its global corporate headquarters July 15 at 2701 E. Insight Way, just east of Chandler Municipal Airport. The company employs 1,400 people in Arizona and now does a wide range of tech-related products. They are a $9.4 billion business that employs 12,000 people across 19 countries.

TruWest donates supplies to area school children

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TruWest Credit Union is donating 96 backpacks filled with school supplies to Galveston Elementary School. The company’s employees donated the goods as part of an annual drive. They also donated 30 laptops to the school for students to use. The drive started in late May and ended in mid-June.

City asks for stormwater management feedback

Shawnee Dog Park closed for turf maintenance The Shawnee Dog Park will be closed through Aug. 9 as city workers repair the turf. Residents are being encouraged to visit the Nozomi Dog Park (250 S. Kyrene Road); Snedigar Dog Park (Alma School just south of Ocotillo) or Paseo

Chandler is asking residents to participate in a survey to help it manage stormwater runoff better. The survey is open through Sept. 30. The city and the Flood Control District of Maricopa County entered into a partnership last year to evaluate and identify problem areas where flooding takes place in the city. The master plan they are working on is updated often and they want residents to help them know about areas where water pools after a storm. You can fill out the survey at the city’s website, chandleraz.gov.

Chandler Municipal Court starts online chat feature Chandler Municipal Court is starting a new service that allows litigants to chat online with a court clerk. It is available during normal court hours. After hours, a frequently asked questions page will be available. The Court gets about 3,400 phone calls and 4,000 visitors each month. The online chat feature is a new way it is trying to connect with residents.

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ers northern Chandler, all of Ahwatukee, and parts of Tempe and Mesa. The other council candidates are Angel Encinas, Darla Gonzalez, Jane Poston and Farhana Shifa. The write-in candidate is Cody Hannah, who said he is running to represent a younger, more diverse and more progressive Chandler. For a look at the backgrounds of the candidates on the ballot and their views on critical local issues, go to santannews.com and hit the “Election 2022” tab to view their questionnaire responses and opinion columns. For a candidate to win outright Tuesday, he or she must get just over 50% of the vote based on a complicated formula – meaning some of the council candidates end up on the Nov. 8 General Election ballot. Orlando has raised the most of the Council candidates, bringing in just under $64,000. Second is Encinas at more than $40,000. Shifa raised around $36,500.

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Gonzalez brought in about $25,000 and Poston raised more than $22,000. Hannah has not filed a campaign finance report. The Chandler Chamber of Commerce, Chandler Police and Fire all endorsed Encinas, Orlando and Poston. A lot of Poston’s campaign contributions come from firefighter groups around the Valley. A Wyoming woman donated $1,000 to Gonzalez’s campaign. A call to Gonzalez asking why a Wyoming woman is interested in the Chandler city election was not returned. She also received a $3,500 donation from former developer Ron Pratte. Shifa and Orlando also received large donations from Pratte, $3,000 each. The Chandler Chamber endorsed Hartke. However, he did not earn the endorsement of police or fire groups. Among large contributors, Queen Creek’s Pat Strattmen, owner of the Puro Cigar Bar, donated $5,000 to Hartke’s campaign. The Mayor also received a $6,500 donation from Cheryl Pollack, the CEO of Palm Paradise Corporation. In addition to voting on the candi-

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dates, Chandler voters are being asked if they will support Home Rule for another four years. Proposition 470 determines the city’s budget. If voters do not approve it, then there will be dramatic cuts – more than $100 million – to the budget to fit a formula that was imposed in the early 1980s. If they vote to approve it, then the City Council will continue to determine the budget free of any restrictions. Chandler voters have never rejected home rule. In the legislative primary, there is no contest for State Sen. J.D. Mesnard, who is unopposed in his bid for another term in Legislative District 13, which includes Ocotillo and other parts of south Chandler, Sun Lakes and part of Gilbert. Five Republicans are duking it out for the two Republican House nominations in LD13. They are Josh Askey, a controller for a large real estate firm; Realtor Liz Harris, who lost her bid for the seat in the 2020 General Election; Ron Hardin, a small-business owner who has served

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in several county and state commissions and boards; Don Maes, who does not list his occupation on his campaign website; and Julie Willoughby, a mother and HOA president who has been endorsed by GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. Besides trying to unseat incumbent Democratic state Rep. Jennifer Pawlik – the only Democrat running in the LD13 House primary – those five Republican hopefuls also are looking to succeed Rep. Jeff Weninger. A former Chandler City Council member as well as legislator, Weninger is running in the GOP primary for state treasurer. While there is no primary contest for Democrats in the LD13 House races, there is a battle between two Democrats for the Senate nomination. Educator Cynthia Hans and Realtor Michael Morris are competing for the chance to take on Mesnard in November. Voters can drop ballots off at Chandler City Hall. To find your closest polling station, visit elections.maricopa. gov/voting.

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Write-in council candidate: defund Chandler Police BY KEN SAIN Managing Editor

If you attended any of the candidate forums for Chandler City Council this year you probably came away with the idea that they all support the police department. In fact, all seven of the candidates on the ballot are not shy in mentioning it. Three of them have been endorsed by the police. It was a little too much for Chandler resident Cody Hannah. “Have they not seen the horrible brutality that has become more and more visible?” Hannah asked. That is one of the reasons he said he decided to become an official write-in candidate for Council.

Cody Hannah “When I was looking at the candidates that did announce, I noticed they

weren’t talking about the issues I care about: Climate change, defund the police.” Hannah, who is 24 and says he works in retail, filed the paperwork to be an official write-in candidate in late June. He’s not going to be on the ballot and he is getting a late start. “Frankly, I’m under no illusion about that fact,” he said. “It was always going to be a long shot.” City Council races are supposed to be non-partisan. That is being tested this year as local political parties are working to elect members of their party. But for the most part, candidates are not out announcing to a broad audience their party affiliation. Not so with Hannah. He’s a co-chair for the Arizona Green Party and said his candidacy is one of a handful his party

is pursuing this year. On the big issues in this race, Hannah is not afraid to take a stand. He’s in favor of a non-discrimination ordinance (NDO) to protect the city’s LGBTQ+ citizens, he has no problem with a limited number of chicken hens in residential backyards as long as all regulations are followed, and he is in full support of increasing public housing options. “The NDO is something that we’ve been pushing for a while now, but it seems the mayor and council just want to kick the can down the road.” Hannah said he moved to West Chandler in 2018 after graduating from high school in Tempe. He said he lives with his mother because – like many other young people in Chandler – he cannot afford to find his own place.

Arizona AG sues over Biden 'ghost guns' curbs BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

Attorney General Mark Brnovich is joining a lawsuit to bar the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from cracking down on what the agency considers “ghost guns.’’ In legal papers filed last week, Brnovich joined with challengers to argue that new rules, set to go into effect next month, violate not only the agency’s authority but exceed the ability of ATF to regulate interstate commerce. The lawsuit argues that the Biden administration is trying to do what it cannot get Congress to enact. “The final rule unconstitutionally subverts Congress’ authority, exercising quintessentially legislative powers in a manner that could never pass either (let alone both) houses of Congress today, which is precisely why defendants have no intent whatsoever to ask for legislative authorization to take such unprecedented actions,’’ the lawsuit states. “Yet under our Constitution, the president (much less unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats within the executive branch) is not a king who can exercise this sort of unbridled power unilaterally.’’ And the lawsuit is an attempt by the administration to “broadly rewrite federal gun-control laws to suit a radically

anti-gun political agenda.’’ The lawsuit was originally filed earlier this month in North Dakota by a licensed firearms dealer, Gun Owners of America, and Eliezer Jimenez, a member of that group who makes his own firearms from parts he acquires. Now Brnovich said he is joining to keep ATF from regulating unfinished, non-functional parts of guns as if they were complete firearms. In a press release, his office said that “threatens the American tradition of private firearms manufacturing that predates the Revolution.’’ And a press aide for Brnovich, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, said using state resources to join the lawsuit is justified because her boss “has a right to protect Arizona from overreach of the federal government.’’ There was no immediate comment from ATF which has yet to file a formal response to the original lawsuit. The ATF rule has its roots in plans announced by the Biden in April to rein in the proliferation of “ghost guns,’’ defined by the administration as “unserialized, privately made firearms that law enforcement are increasing recovering a crime scenes across the country.’’ Last year, the administration said, law enforcement recovered about 20,000 suspected ghost guns in criminal inves-

tigations, a tenfold increase from 2016. “Because ghost guns lack the serial numbers marked on other firearms, law enforcement has an exceedingly difficult time tracing a ghost gun found a crime scene back to an individual purchaser,’’ the White House said in a release. What ATF has proposed specifically would ban what the administration refers to as “buy build shoot’’ kits that individuals can purchase online or at a store without a background check with contents that can be readily assembled into a working firearm in as little as 20 minutes with equipment they have at home. Linked to that is a new definition the agency is proposing for a “privately made firearm,’’ something challengers say is a term that does not exist and has never existed in federal law. “That is because there is no federal prohibition on non-prohibited individuals who, like plaintiff Jimenez, privately manufacture firearms for their own personal use,’’ the lawsuit states. Nor is there is bar on selling those weapons or requiring they be marked with a serial number, recorded in the books of any dealer, or obtained only after a background check. Beyond that, the complaint says the change will force some companies to halt sales, meaning they will lay off workers. And that in turn, will increase

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College center probes ways for sustainability BY LISHA DUNLAP Contributor

For Kendra Stanger, the desert is a surprising place with an impressive ecosystem. Stanger, coordinator of the Environmental Technology Center at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, helps students learn about Arizona through programs that bring environmental lessons to life. The center isn’t just a garden. It is a program developed by a collaboration of instructors from various departments and academic disciplines who worked with students from their classes, honors programs, clubs, and community groups to experiment with sustainability theories. Through their collective knowledge, this group transformed a dusty, two-acre plot of land into an outdoor garden-based classroom. The current ETC project teaches how to convert desert mesquite pods into food. Mesquite shrubs or small trees are common in the Southwest, and their bean-like pods can be a nutritious food source to humans and wildlife. Stanger described the process of converting the pods to flour, saying, “Don’t let your mesquite pods go to waste. “They may seem like a nuisance, but they are some of the most plentiful free food products around the valley.

Kendra Stanger has a recipe for converting mesquite pods into ﬂour as part of her work as coordinator of the Environmental Technology Center at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. (Special to STSN)

Toast or dry the pods. To get rid of beetles and other undesirables that may have gotten into the pods, the center toasts them in CGCC’s ceramics kiln at 185 degrees F for about two hours. Blend and sift. Blend the remainder in a food processor or mortar and pestle until you have a flour-like consisten-

way to ﬁnd out if your mesquite tree “hasThepodsbestworth harvesting is to taste them! Here in the Valley there are several varieties, but the two most common are Honey and Velvet mesquite. ”

Mesquite is a high-protein food, highly nutritious, rich in iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium, zinc, and lysine. It digests slowly, has a high fiber and protein content and is low on the glycemic index. In a few simple steps, you can turn those pesky pods into usable flour for many different recipes. “ Stanger’s guidance to using the pods: Harvest the pods. “They are available from June-September, but it’s best if you get them right off the tree. Set up a tarp underneath the tree, shake to dislodge, and all pods that fall without pulling are ready. “The best way to find out if your mesquite tree has pods worth harvesting is to taste them! Here in the Valley there are several varieties, but the two most common are Honey and Velvet mesquite. “Take a pod from the tree, chew it just a bit, if you like the flavor, harvest from that tree. Due to cross pollination and hybridization, some won’t taste good. If you taste the pod and it’s bitter, or sucks the moisture from your mouth, move on... there are better trees.” Sort. Go through and get rid of twigs, leaves and other debris accumulated while harvesting.

cy. Sift with a mesh strainer to get all the unblended seeds or husks out. “There are some facilities that will mill your pods for you,” Stanger said. “It took me about half an hour to turn one 5-gallon bucket of already toasted pods into 2 pounds of flour using a food processor. So, if you’ve got much more than that… it might be worth the trip.” Stanger said mesquite flour is gluten free. “If you have experience baking with gluten free products, use it as you normally would another gluten free flour such as almond or coconut. Keep in mind it is on the sweet side. “If you are wanting to use it to cook or bake with like regular flour, use 1/4 cup mesquite flour and 3/4 cup regular flour for 1 full cup. Mesquite flour has been used to make tortillas, sweet breads, pancakes, cookies, muffins and cakes because it is sweet, but it can also be added to soups, gravies and sauces, casseroles, vegetable and meat dishes, and pie crusts. Instructions, videos, and recipes for using the flour are available online. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum offers ideas at https://www.desertmuseum. org/center/edu/docs/k-2_TIP_recipes. pdf. And if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or ideas, Stanger

welcomes emails to Kendra.Stanger@ cgc.edu. Projects such as the mesquite pods harvest support the Chandler-Gilbert Community College vision for its students to be prepared to lead the community into a promising and sustainable future. To find out more about

CGCC interdisciplinary Experiential Learning, visit cgc.edu/academics/experiential-learning/environmental-technology-center. https://www.cgc.edu/ degrees-certificates/sustainability. “Sustainability is more than a buzzword, it’s a way of life,” Stanger added, “and a possible career.”

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How Mesa twins beat odds of survival BY MELODY BIRKETT Contributor

Ashley and Matthew Yancey of Mesa received the exciting news in early 2020 they would become parents for the first time and their joy doubled when they learned eight weeks into her pregnancy she was expecting twins. “To say it was a surprise is probably an understatement because twins don’t run in my family or my husband’s,” said Ashley. “It was an exciting time for us.” They were planning to share the joyous news at 11 weeks but the couple’s enthusiasm soon turned to fear and sadness. Yancey started having complications and thought she was having a miscarriage. “It obviously was a very scary time,” she said. More than a little scary, in fact: It was March 2020 on a Friday, at the beginning of COVID, so doctors didn’t want to admit her to the hospital. “I just prayed and cried out to God, ‘Save my babies,’” Ashley recalled. On the following Monday, she went to see her doctor and was relieved when the physician heard two heartbeats. But it was recommended she go to a more skilled doctor. At 16 weeks, Ashley was walking to her car after a routine appointment when a medical technician ran out after her and told her to go back inside. “At that moment, my heart dropped because you know something is wrong

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when someone’s running after you and saying to come back so they can get some more ultrasounds,” said Ashley. This went on for an hour while her husband was sitting in the car, unable to come in due to COVID restrictions. Ashley was told she had Twin-toTwin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS) and needed to fly the next day to an out-ofstate . specialist. “My mind at this point was spinning,” said Ashley, who didn’t know anything about TTTS. “I was overwhelmed.” Ashley was told no one in Arizona knows the procedure for treating the syndrome and only a few doctors in the country do it. Ashley got connected to Dr. John Elliott in Phoenix, a maternal-fetal specialist known around the world for delivering multiple births. He referred the Yanceys to Dr. Henry Galan, a fetal surgeon and maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Children’s Hospital Colorado, one of a few doctors in the nation who can perform the in-utero surgery needed to save her babies’ lives. Time was of the essence so Ashley and her husband immediately flew to Denver. “We called everybody we know and prayed,” Ashley said. “We had no idea this fast-moving aggressive disease could be fine one ultrasound and the next ultrasound it could go downhill very fast.” Galan first saw Ashley on May 30, 2020. He said TTTS happens in one in 4,000-5,000 pregnancies. “But because we’re a center that these patients get referred to, we see them much more regularly,” said. Galan. “TTTS occurs in pregnancies that have a single placenta where the two umbilical cords that come into the placenta themselves have vessels that branch out like the roots of a tree on the surface of that placenta.” TTTS does not happen with non-identical twins with separate placentas. “When you have a single placenta, almost universally, you’re going to have multiple connections from one side of the placenta to the other through surface vessels,” explained Galan. “About 90% of the time there’s not a problem,” he said. “Those connections allow flow back and forth between the babies and there are no issues. There’s complete shared circulation.” But Galan said about 10% of the time,

Ashley Yancey holds on tight to her twin daughters, who encountered a dangerous medical condition after their premature birth during the pandemic. (Courtesy of the Yancey Family)

the blood flows become unbalanced so that “one baby becomes a donor while the other baby becomes a recipient and it affects each of those babies separately and in very different ways. “The one baby who’s receiving all that extra blood volume, that baby will end up having, for example, a vascular system in its body that’s super well hydrated.” But the other twin’s vascular system will become depleted. TTTS can occur at any point in pregnancy, Galan said, and “it tends to be more aggressive if it’s diagnosed earlier in pregnancy than it is later in pregnancy.” There are several stages of TTTS with the more serious stages carrying a risk of the loss of one or both twins. But he said not all TTTS patients need surgery. Once a high-risk pregnancy is diagnosed, the patient should be followed every two weeks starting at 16 weeks’ gestation until the end of the pregnancy to evaluate for its development. “Ashley’s stage of disease was severe enough that fetal surgery was needed,” said Galan. “ Ashley said doctors suggested choosing which baby should survive in case it came down to that. “But I couldn’t look at that ultrasound and decide which one so we decided to go with the 30% chance of survival for both twins even though the odds were against us,” she recalled. On June 12, 2020, Galan and his colleagues performed the in-utero surgery.

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“Through a fetoscope, we can go in and with the camera, we can visualize the connecting vessels between the two fetuses,” Dr. Galan explained. “We can feed that laser fiber down and we can laser or burn those connecting vessels…It accomplishes two things: It treats TTTS and protects both babies from themselves should one baby pass away. “At the time of surgery, we removed two liters of fluid from Ashley’s recipient baby,” said Galan. “Picture a two-liter bottle of coke. That’s how much fluid we removed from her.” Yancey successfully gave birth to Madilyn and Addilyn on Sept. 2, 2020, 12 weeks after the surgery. “I knew I had to take my chances,” she reflected. “I just wanted to give them every possible chance for survival. I didn’t want to cut their lives short.” Addilyn was the baby pumping blood for her and her sister has pulmonary valve stenosis, requiring two surgeries. “I’m glad to have her here and thriving,” said Ashley. “You can’t tell which one has a heart condition. All of Madilyn’s problems were in the placenta so she’s fine but she was very tiny.” Ashley said the twins are very close. “They walk around the house. They call each other ‘baby.’ If one gets something, like a pretzel, they’ll say, ‘baby’ and hold out their other hand and go give their sister one. Everything I do for one, I have to do for the other. “They do not like being apart. They’ve only been apart a few times like if dad takes one of them to the store. They do not like it. The other one will say, ‘baby, baby’ and walk around the house super sad because their sister isn’t there. So, we don’t separate them very much.” Ashley now wants to spread awareness of TTTS and be a help to anyone who has this disease. “If I get connected to other moms with TTTS, I’d love to talk to them,” she said. “When I found someone else who had it, I connected with them since it’s so rare.” Galan and the Yanceys developed a special bond. He routinely checks in on them. “The most gratifying part is getting the periodic updates and pictures and videos of these kids as they unfold later in life,” he said.

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Robocalls skyrocket despite federal laws BY DAISY GONZALEZ-PEREZ Cronkite News

WASHINGTON – Federal regulations aimed at blocking robocalls appear to have had some effect over the past year, but robotexts have skyrocketed in their place, according to a recent report from the Arizona Public Interest Research Group. The PIRG report said the number of phone companies that have installed spam-blocking technology since it was required last year by the Federal Communications Commission has quadrupled, and the number of spam robocalls appears to have fallen by 47% in that period. But robocalling overall is little changed in that time – and is actually up slightly in the U.S. and Arizona – while automated text messages nationwide jumped from 1 billion last July to 12 billion in June. In Arizona, robotexts almost tripled since January, to 565 million in June, according to RoboKiller, a spam-blocking tech company. To experts, this is no surprise at all. “The bad guys are going to find another way to try and get us,” said Teresa Murray, director of the consumer watchdog office for the U.S. Public

Interest Research Group. The report released this week by the ArizonaPIRG Education Fund said the number of spam robocalls in the U.S. fell 47% over the last year, from about 2.1 billion a month to 1.1 billion, citing data from YouMail, a robocall blocking firm that tracks robocall traffic. Murray attributes the drop to a sharp uptick in the number of voice providers that have installed STIR/ SHAKEN, an FCC-required technology that lets consumers see whether a call is legitimate or not. While the program got off to a relatively slow start, with 536 companies using it as of last June, the number has since increased to 1,932 phone service providers. While that has helped, Murray said, more still needs to be done. The report said 1,002 smaller providers have claimed an exemption from the STIR/ SHAKEN requirement and another 3,062 have not installed it or are using their own technology that might not be as effective. “We don’t want to pretend like the robocall problem is going away because it’s definitely not,” she said. “Like I said even one robocall a day is way too many.” And people are still getting way too many.

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YouMail data shows that while overall robocalls have fluctuated over the past year, they have been largely unchanged. It said that robocalls nationally went from 4.2 billion in July 2021 to 4.3 billion in June 2022. “Robocalls are a real challenge for me right now,” said Stephan Viehweg, an Indiana resident who was visiting Washington this week. “We have two elders in our family that require extra medical care and so we have to take phone calls and when you have new providers, I don’t always know what the phone number is.” Viehweg said his phone is “getting better at telling me whether it’s spam,” but it is still “very frustrating for us.” YouMail said the number of robocalls to Arizona phones went from 82.6 million last July to 84.4 million in June, with all five area codes in the state seeing slight changes. While robocalls have more or less flattened out under the new regulations, robotexts have exploded over the past year, because the FCC rules do not specifically regulate text messages, the PIRG report said. It’s more than just a nuisance: Those text messages can pose the same threat as the calls of harming consumers through scams.

Those can include claims of fake auto warranties, medical or insurance records, package deliveries and more that attempt to steal consumers’ personal information or get them to hand over cash. “Every day you hear of cases where people have been scammed of hundreds and thousands of dollars,” Murray said. The FCC has partnered with more than 40 state and territorial attorneys general – including Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich – to combat robocalls and robotexts. Brnovich’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Murray welcomed the partnerships. “By banding together, pooling their resources, they are not like each of them doing separate investigations about the same robocall operation they suspect is doing bad things,” said Murray. While the FCC has investigative power, states have more law enforcement authority. In the meantime, she said, consumers need to keep their guard up. “Scammers are after two things: money or your information,” Murray said. “A lot of smart people are educated and savvy. If they let their guard down they can fall victim to these scams.”

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Petition drive begins to scuttle school vouchers BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

Opponents have launched a petition drive to stall – then kill – the implementation of the most comprehensive system of private and parochial school vouchers in the nation. Gov. Doug Ducey earlier this month signed the measure, saying, “Our kids will no longer be locked in under-performing schools. “Every family in Arizona should have access to a high-quality education with dedicated teachers,” he continued. “This is truly a win for all K-12 students.” And the governor has said the law, which will allow any of the 1.1 million children in public schools to get what are called “empowerment scholarship accounts,” will make Arizona the “gold standard for educational freedom.” Ducey’s blessing was never in doubt. He has signed every voucher expansion bill that has come to his desk since becoming governor in 2015. But it’s not the last word. Beth Lewis, executive director of Save Our Schools Arizona, said signature gathering is underway to force the measure onto the November 2024 – which would put the voucher system on hold until at least 2025. The organization of teachers and education groups has until Sept. 23 to gather at least 118,823 valid signatures on petitions which would keep the new law from taking effect until the next general election. And given that date would be too late to put the issue on the November ballot, that effectively would put the whole program on hold until at least November 2024. Lewis said, though, what’s needed is a more permanent solution. “Arizona voters are absolutely exhausted with this nonsense,” she told Capitol Media Services. What started out in 2011 as a program to provide an alternative to public school for students with disabilities and special needs has grown as supporters have succeeded in adding more and more categories. The current law now provides vouchers which typically are in the range of about $7,000 to children from foster homes, military families, living on tribal reservations and attending schools rated D or F. About 11,775 students currently get such vouchers. The law that Ducey signed would remove all the restrictions so any of the 1.1 million students in public schools could get public funding to attend a private or parochial school. Parents who home school also would be in line for those funds. Lewis said the referendum drive should come as no surprise. Lawmakers approved a large expansion in 2017. Her organizations got the signatures to put that plan on hold until the 2018 election when voters quashed the legislation by a margin of 2-1.

House Majority Leader Ben Toma, R-Peoria, the architect of this year’s plan, said what happened in 2018 is irrelevant. He said some voucher supporters actually voted against that earlier plan specifically because it did not actually make all students eligible for vouchers. Instead, to get the votes, supporters had to agree to a cap of about 30,000 vouchers by 2021, a cap that would remain in place unless and until lawmakers decided otherwise. More to the point, Toma said had the measure been approved, it would have been frozen in law. That’s because the Voter Protection Act in the Arizona Constitution precludes lawmakers from repealing whatever has been enacted at the ballot and restricts alterations only to measures that “further the purpose” of the original bill. Lewis called Toma’s explanation of the failure of voucher expansion in 2018 “complete hogwash.” The lobbying of state lawmakers to approve the measure featured a parade of parents and children who said they are doing a lot better in private schools. The public campaign is likely to follow the same script. Lewis said that won’t work for a simple reason: Nothing in the referendum would take vouchers away from students who already get them. What the law would do is make more students eligible for the state dollars. And, more to the point, that would include students whose parents already pay to send their children to private schools. Estimates are that about 85,000 of these children would switch to state funding by the 2024-2025 school year at a cost of about $118 million a year. That does not bother supporters of the plan, including the governor, who was already promoting the plan on Wednesday on KTAR, even before he signed it. “Everybody listening that has a child when this law goes into effect will have access to their taxpayer dollars to send their child to the school of their choice,” Ducey said. “We’re the No. 1 state for educational freedom,” he said. “Other states are going to be following us.” Lewis, however, rejected any argument that people who already send their children to private schools without a voucher effectively are being asked to pay not only for the service they are buying but the service they are not getting from the public schools. She said that’s the way democracy works. “We all pay into the system,” Lewis said. “Like because I don’t use the fire system this year, I’m lucky enough to not use firefighters, I should give that money back?” she continued. “That’s nonsense.” There is something else that could give voucher foes some ammunition. An early version of the legislation would have required that students in private and parochial schools using these vouchers of state funds to take some See

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Ducey’s no-mask withholding of TU, Kyrene funds rejected BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

Gov. Doug Ducey cannot deny COVID relief dollars to schools that impose mask mandates or give vouchers to parents so they can remove their children from those schools, a federal judge concluded last week. That ruling by Judge Steven Logan secures $2.8 million in relief for Tempe Union High School District and $5.2 million for Kyrene School District that was withheld for those reasons in an order by Ducey last September. Inexplicably, both districts got the money anyway after applying for the funds. But it is unclear if Logan’s ruling prevents the governor from trying to withhold any other funding to make up for

But Ducey press aide C.J. Karamargin said Arizona actually received its second payment of ARPA cash of about $2.1 billion last month. There was no immediate comment from the federal agency about its earlier decision to send the dollars to Arizona anyway, about the new court ruling – and whether it would now seek reimbursement. Karamargin said the governor’s staff was still studying the decision and had no comment. The fight started in 2021 when the Republican-controlled legislature voted to bar schools from imposing mask mandates. That law was subsequently overturned by the Arizona Supreme Court which concluded it had been improperly enacted by being lumped into a

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the mysterious bureaucratic move that benefited Kyrene and Tempe Union or demanding the funds’ return. Logan rejected the governor’s argument that there is nothing in federal law that requires him to spend money from the American Rescue Plan Act only in ways that the federal agency and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen say conform with ways the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control say will fight the virus. And the judge had no more sympathy for the governor’s argument that the rules the Treasury wrote for use of the dollars exceeded the agency’s authority. In a January letter, Kathleen Victorino, the deputy chief compliance officer of the U.S. Treasury Office of Recovery Programs, warned that it is illegal for Ducey to dole out the cash Arizona is getting from the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund only to public schools that do not mandate that students and staff wear face coverings. Victorino said if Ducey did not rescind his policies the state faced having to forfeit the cash. The letter led Ducey to take the preemptive action of filing suit to block any funds from being withheld -- the lawsuit that Logan decided in favor of Yellen and the Treasury.

single piece of legislation with unrelated issues. As a result, some districts kept their masking requirements in place. What Ducey sought to do was replace that now-voided law with a financial carrot of those federal ARPA dollars. The first cash came from a program that divided up $163 million among Arizona school districts and charter schools that had received less than $1,800 per student under prior COVID relief programs. The governor said those schools that require the use of face coverings during instruction hours would not get a share of that cash. Ducey also set aside another $10 million in grants to parents whose schools continue to require masks. Those funds, up to $7,000 per child, can be used for everything from online tutoring and child care to tuition to attend private and parochial schools. Any family below 350% of the federal poverty level – about $92,750 a year for a family of four – is eligible. Ducey contended that the federal statute allocating the funds permits states to use the money “to respond to the public health emergency with respect to COVID-19 or its negative economic impacts.”

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Anni Foster, the governor’s legal counsel, said that gives states broad latitude and that Treasury impermissibly elevated public health issues over all others. Logan, however, said that “narrow” reading of just those words ignores the larger underlying purpose of the entire law: protect public health. And he said it’s clear that the funds “may not be used for programs with conditions that undermine public health guidance, as such programs would exacerbate rather than mitigate the pandemic’s fiscal effects.” Put simply, Logan said, any program that has conditions that would promote the spread of the virus – in this case, encouraging schools to scrap mask requirements in exchange for more cash – by definition “prolongs the pandemic and its resulting fiscal effects” and therefore fails to mitigate either the health or the financial impacts of the virus. He also pointed out that Treasury said that federal dollars could not be used in ways that would “undermine efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 or discourage compliance with (CDC) recommendations and guidelines.” Foster also argued unsuccessfully that the governor’s use of the funds really does address the negative economic impact of COVID-19. She said that’s because it would mean less remote or hybrid learning which “disproportionately affected low-income and minori-

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standardized tests, similar to those already administered in public schools. The results, as in the case of public schools, would have been reported on an aggregate basis. That requirement was removed from the final version by Rep. Jake Hoffman, R-Queen Creek, who said what’s happening at private schools is none of the government’s business. But voucher foes like Rep. Kelli Butler, D-Paradise Valley, said the fact that tax dollars will be flowing to those schools is precisely what gives the state an interest.

ty students.” “For parents who prioritize their child’s social, emotional, and mental health needs and believe a mask mandate would adversely impact their child, the program offers these parents the freedom and funding to enroll their students in a different program absent a mask mandate,” Foster said. She dismissed any argument that the only way to stop the spread of virus is through masks, pointing out the state offers free testing for all residents. “Schools have every ability to encourage practices recommended by the CDC and students were not prohibited from doing so,” she wrote. Logan, however, wasn’t buying it. Nor did he accept some other contentions by Foster that the law and Treasury’s rules were flawed. For example, she acknowledged that Congress does have the power to impose conditions on how the states spend federal money. But Foster said that has to be done “unambiguously” to allow states to decide whether to accept the cash and the strings attached. In this case, though, she said there is nothing in the law authorizing the program that alerts states to the possibility that the funds might be rescinded based on the changing guidelines from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control about how to prevent the spread of COVID.

“We will not know if students are using our tax dollars – $7,000 is the typical award – if they’re using that money to learn anything,” she said during legislative debate. Ducey waited until the last possible day for him to act on legislation, cutting 10 days from the time that referendum backers have to get their signatures, as the deadline falls 90 days after the end of the session, regardless of when the governor acts. Lewis, however, said she’s not concerned. “We’re teachers,” she said. “We know how to plan behind the scenes and get ready.”

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Three Chandler shopping centers – including The Falls at Ocotillo – changed owners this month in multimillion-dollar deals. The Krausz Companies, a national real estate investment and management company in Las Vegas, shelled out $24 million for The Falls, 1025-1095 W. Queen Creek Road, according to Valley real estate tracker vizzda.com. Built in phases between 2002 and 2006, the strip mall’s nearly 70,000 square feet of retail space sit on 9.17 acres. The sale price equaled $346 a square foot, vizzda said. Meanwhile, another big retail-center deal occurred in the city’s northern section two weeks ago when the Chandler Pavilions was purchased by Schnitzer Properties of Portland, Oregon, for just under $30 million, according to vizzda.. Built between 1999 and 2002 at the intersection of 54th Street and Ray Road, the Chandler Pavilions’ five buildings totaling 160,673 square feet of retail space sit on 17.97 acres. The property that was sold represents about a third of a total 400,000 square feet of retail space on that site. The center is fully leased and includes well-known brands such as REI, Bed Bath & Beyond and Sportsman’s Warehouse and is anchored by Sam’s Club and The Home Depot. Schnitzer Properties is a 70-year-old real estate investment and development company that recently changed its named from Harsch Properties The sale price was nearly three times the $10.5 million that seller Evergreen Properties paid when it bought the five buildings two years ago, vizzda says. In marketing the buildings, Evergreen

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said the Pavilions averages more than 62,000 visits a week and draws an estimated 800,000 unique visitors annually. It said about 58% of those visitors spend an average minimum of 30 minutes shopping. “Over 70% of visitors are loyal, averaging more than four visits a year,” a marketing brochure also said. The third strip mall to change owners was the 68,253-square-foot Artesian Marketplace on the souhtwest corner of Gilbert and Ocotillo roads that cardiologist Dr. Vinod Gupta of Westlake Village, California, bought from DeRito Partners for $32.5 milliion, vizzda reported last Wednesday. The deal involved five buildings constructed in 2016 on 11.5 acres and includes tenants like Goodwill and Burger King. The Fry's Marketplace building that anchors the strip mall was not part of the deal, vizzda said. The Artesian sale broke down to $476 per square foot, it added. Two downtown Chandler buildings that sold for $6.1 million earlier this month will give way to a mini-mall. Beeline Shops LLC, a subsidiary of Scottsdale-based Southwest Retail, bought the buildings at 315 and 325 S. Arizona Ave. at Frye Road, according to Valley real estate tracker vizzda.com. One of the buildings already has been razed and the other is gutted. Once construction is completed, a building totaling 6,400 square feet on less than an acre of land will have room for two more retail establishments in addition to two prospective tenants the owners already have secured. Black Rock Coffee Bar and El Taco Santo already will be located in the new structure, according to vizzda. A brochure is touting the property’s location to 15,000 daytime workers.

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Granddad’s avocado legacy inspires restaurant BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Managing Editor

A new Chandler restaurant is taking advantage of some family history and America’s love affair with a certain fruit. Patent 139 Brewing Company opened earlier this year and has adopted an avocado theme. Tim Hass, great grandson of the man who was awarded Fruit Patent 139 for the Hass Avocado, opened the brew pub at Ray and Dobson roads. You will find avocado-inspired dishes on the menu. And next month, you’ll find an avocado-inspired beer at the bar. Just don’t ask for any guacamole: they don’t make it. “It was my great grandfather, Rudolph Hass, who patented the first blackskinned avocado,” Haas explained. “It turned out it was actually an accident. He bought some farmland in La Habra Heights, was growing Fuerte avocados but they weren’t really growing very well.” Those, like most avocados in the 1920s, were green. And, like most avocados, they were difficult to grow. He purchased some seeds that he was told came from Central or South America. One of them became a tree that produced a black-skin avocado. Back in the 1920s, that was rare and the reason why he sought a patent. Now, most of the fruits sold, about 90%, are Hass Avocados.

Tim Hass and chef Jared Martinez of Patent 139 Brewing are turning their love for avocado into tasty dishes – and even beer. (David Minton/Staff Photographer)

“People loved it because of the fatty creaminess versus Fuertes (the traditional green avocados),” said Tim, who had opened up a few restaurants for others in California before deciding to open the Chandler eatery in January. “So he went on and saw it was a big success and submitted the patent back in 1935. “The green ones are very large, almost look like a small mango. The whole fat content with the black skin is what really makes it the difference. It’s buttery, creamy where the others are a little bit more hard, and not much flavor into it. The Hass avocados, those

are the ones that you get a lot of that flavor element.” Avocados show up in different ways on the menu. “Buffalo sauce (on wings) is usually your red-hot sauce, butter element,” said Jared Martinez, the restaurant’s chef. “We took avocados and replaced the butter on it. It actually created a vegan sauce. So we’re trying to utilize avocados in different ways.” One of those ways is avocado honey. How did they pull that off? “It’s bees that have only been allowed to pollinate with avocado flow-

ers,” Martinez said. “I’m not trying to be the guy who just throws avocado on everything and says, you know, it’s versatile,” Martinez said. “It is very versatile in the sense that it’s a source of fat that can actually be used in placement of egg, as well ... we can grill it.” One of their popular desserts is Avocado Crème Brûlée. Instead of using butter, they use avocados. The anniversary of Rudolph Hass getting Patent 139 approved is coming up, Aug. 27. To celebrate, Tim Hass plans to debut an avocado-inspired beer. “It’s only been done, that I know of, one other time,” Tim said. “It was at Angel City Brewery out of Los Angeles; they did an Avocado Ale on there. So this will be a little bit different. But yeah, we’re going to work with some of the local homebrew guys out here to kind of make this a new, special thing, celebrate the weekend. And, of course, it’ll be going right into Labor Day after that. So very excited to give something different here.” What will an avocado beer taste like? He said it won’t be green. “It’s actually going to add more of a creamy texture to the beer instead of, you know, some of the IPAs that are out there that are really heavy and hops and bitterness,” he said. “This will add more of a creamy texture with the malt, the German malt. You’ll get a little bit of the flavor, but not much.”

QC couple opening fitness studio in Chandler BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Managing Editor

Queen Creek resident Darin Day said he was a regular in his old gym, worked out often and thought he was in pretty good shape for his age. Then he was invited to visit a Fit Body Boot Camp by a neighbor. “I tried it, just blown away,” Day said. “I mean, the workouts are 30 minutes, so you’re in, you’re out, you’re sweaty, you’re worn out.” He became hooked, so much so that he’s about to open his own Fit Body Boot Camp in South Chandler at the corner of Arizona Avenue and Riggs. Day and his wife, MJ, plan to have their first official workouts on Aug. 1. Day said his previous workouts focused on weight training, building muscles. He said the Boot Camp workouts are more about all around fitness level. “Getting into this, it’s about strength, it’s about building a different kind of muscle, it’s about building that lean muscle that burns the calories and keeps you trim,” Day explained. “And so that’s what really appealed to me because since I joined two years ago, I’ve lost 20 pounds, but I’ve gained, you know, mass and muscle, but I’ve also dropped like 10% body fat.”

and the idea of owning his own business was appealing. Since he enjoyed the Fit Body Boot Camp, he checked out their website and came across a chance to buy a franchise. The company gives discounts to veterans. MJ served in the Army, so they qualified. As someone who has gone through a real boot camp, MJ said their workouts are not that intense and no one should be scared off by the name. She said she wants their new business to be a place that feels like family. “I belonged to another [gym], I just dropped it,” MJ said. “And they wanted to charge you for just having someone stand by you while you do your exercises. “I wasn’t getting much out of it. It’s like you standing here now, and they weren’t helping or doing anything, they were just kind of making sure I was doing my reps.” The Sun Lakes Fit Body Boot Camp will start by offering classes at Darin and MJ Day of Green Creek are about to 5 a.m. Monday-Friday. Each class lasts open Fit Body Boot Camp in South Chandler. 30 minutes and they vary the work(David Minton/Staff Photographer) outs so they don’t get repetitive. Day had worked for someone else Darin said they will have you in corporate jobs most of his adult life do something for say 40 seconds, then

take 20 seconds to catch your breath. And then repeat the process. The last morning class starts at 9:30. Darin said some parents requested that time because it allows them to drop their kids off at school before working out. Each class will have two instructors. One keeps time while the other helps people doing the workouts. “If the guy next to you can do, you know, 50 jumping jacks in a minute, and you can only do 20, if 20 is the best of your ability, that’s OK, our coaches are going to be they’re encouraging you. “They’re going to be pushing you saying, ‘Come on, maybe do one more, or do one more than you did yesterday.’ But it’s not going to be in an atmosphere where you know, he’s doing 50, you do 50.” Darin said like his wife, they want to make the workouts feel like a family gathering and not something that’s intimidating. The cost is $39 per week, but Day said they are offering a special for some founding members, $10 off a week for life. That will be good for the first 100 people who become members. If you are a member, you can come as many times a week as you like. In addition to their morning hours, they also have evening classes starting at 4 p.m. and a limited number of classes on Saturdays.

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Happy Cans finds a little known household niche BY PAUL MARYNIAK Executive Editor

Ted Jennings provides one of those services you don’t necessarily think people want, but the Gilbert man says you’d be surprised. Jennings cleans garbage cans. And his business, Happy Cans, is thriving, according to the father of five. “I have found that people care more than you would think,” he said. “Those who are reluctant to try us – but then eventually do try us out – can’t believe what a difference it makes. In our hot summers trash cans really smell awful, which makes throwing out the garbage or taking the cans to the street for trash pick-up a very unpleasant experience, to say the least.” That’s where Happy Cans comes to the rescue. “After we have cleaned them and sprayed the deodorizer in them, people don’t have to worry about the odor.” Moreover, he noted, “Trash can cleaning also reduces pests such as flies, maggots, cockroaches, mice, and rats around the house. So, it’s part of total pest control management for a homeowner. Our cleaning process even kills bacteria and viruses.” Happy Cans arose from the disruptions that the pandemic created in its early months for Jennings’ normal job – selling medical devices for 14 of the 19 years the Southern California native has lived in Gilbert. He had been an Independent sales rep selling customized surgical instru-

Ted Jennings of Gilbert and his Happy Cans business deploy high-pressured hot water to clean garbage cans. (Special to STSN)

ment trays to help protect expensive and delicate surgical instruments from being damaged during the sterilization process. When COVID first made the scene in March 2020, hospitals restricted access to visitors – including sales people who sold all but the most essential kinds of

equipment. “Since my product was not of an urgent nature,” Jennings said, “I was not able to go into hospitals to work with my contacts in the Sterile Processing Department to customize instrument trays for the instrument sets they wanted

protected. As a result, my sales pipeline decreased quickly over a few months.” Then the other longer lasting impact of the pandemic hit hospitals – and Jennings pocketbook. See

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Cornhole business grows into new venue BY JOSH ORTEGA Staff Writer

It started as a backyard game and is becoming a full-blown business this fall in Gilbert for Todd Kisicki and his wife, Erin. The couple opened KB Kornhole Games seven years ago and since then their business has taken off around the Valley. Earlier this month, they hosted their largest tournament of the year, the Arizona State Cornhole Championships at Bell Bank Park. “It’s our largest event of the season,” he said. “It’s kind of our signature event.” The tournament offered 15 different events with something for all skill levels and ages from 8-years-old to 80, and had an estimated 410 players over the weekend. He said most of his monthly events have up to 300 players and this state-level event had drawn up to 400 in previous years. It looks like a far cry from their time at Lemonade Days in Founders Park in Queen Creek in 2016 when they first started putting on events. Kisicki eventually had to find larger venues every year since then to accommodate the number of people wanting

Todd Kisicki owns KB Kornhole Games which operates one of the largest cornhole tournaments in the country, the Arizona State Cornhole Championships. (Courtesy of Todd Kisicki)

to compete in their tournaments. For those who play in their tournaments, it’s more than just the skill of throwing bean bags into a hole on a wooden board. He said the competitors that have followed him over the past six years tell him they enjoy the bond they form and

coming together as a community. “They feel like they’re part of something when they compete in these events,” he said. Kisicki also serves as the national director for the American Cornhole League and said the Valley represents one of their biggest markets in the

country. “The surrounding areas have probably one of the biggest competitive bases in the country,” he said. He hosts approximately 30 events throughout the year including competitive tournaments and fundraisers, and corporate events. That’s a decline from pre-pandemic numbers of 80 events per year. He said finding the venue space to host these large events was one of the most difficult aspects for the business until now. This fall, that problem now has a solution. The Kisickis will have a location right here in the East Valley that will provide enough space for all their future events. The Hole 9 Yards will be located at 868 North Gilbert Road and will open this fall, he said. The 20,000-square-foot facility will offer a variety of options including for private event bookings, leagues for all skill levels and open lane rentals. It will also have a full kitchen and bar with signature food and drink menus, as well as a retail shop as well with cornhole equipment and accessories. Like it says on their website: “You’ve never seen anything like it.”

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As hospitals lost more money from canceling elective surgeries, “they didn’t have the money in their budgets to invest in our products and therefore my sales opportunities diminished,” he said. Meanwhile, in May 2020, Jennings began encouraging one of his sons to clean trash cans in the neighborhood during the summer to make a little money. And while helping him get his little business off the ground, Jennings was trying to figure out a way to make some extra money since opportunities for pitching his medical devices to hospitals had become more limited.

As the pandemic-restrictions dragged on, Jennings decided he could clean garbage cans, too. “I started cleaning trash cans separately from my son but with the small pressure washer I had bought for him to get him started. As I started talking to customers, I realized that this was a service that people wanted but didn’t know how to get. “I started researching the trash can cleaning business and found that there were a few people providing this service in the U.S. but that it was in the growth phase,” he continued. “ So I found some inexpensive, used trash can cleaning equipment and with the help of my neighbor, modified it so that it would

clean better. I have since upgraded to the most modern equipment available for trash can cleaning.” Jennings developed his business out of whole cloth; it is no franchise. “My son had the idea for our logo and most things I have done with the business have been through a little research and a lot of trial and error,” he explained. Jennings cleans cans “with very high pressure at a high temperature.” “The water pressure is set to 2700 PSI and at a temperature of 230 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hot enough to kill these microorganisms,” he said. “Then we spray a deodorizer and disinfectant in the trash can to complete the process. We collect all the nasty water

in our catch basin and then at the end of the day, we dump it in a permitted dump station so no dirty water is left on the street or goes down the gutter.” Between word of mouth, social media and other marketing efforts, Jennings said, “My trash can cleaning business continues to grow every month” – so much so he’s not thinking about going back to medical devices. Jennings’ service casts a wide net, as he visits homes in Gilbert, Queen Creek, San Tan Valley, Chandler, Mesa, Tempe, and Ahwatukee. New customers also get $10 off their first cleaning to boot. For more information: HappyCansAZ.com

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Rotary mag features Sun Lakes Rotarians DR. HONORA NORTON Guest Writer

Rotary International’s Rotary Magazine, with over 1.2 worldwide subscribers, recently featured the Rotary Clubs of Gilbert and Sun Lakes as champions of a Navajo Water Project. In 2016, members of the Rotary Club of Gilbert attended a water conference in Phoenix and learned from a representative of DigDeep about its work in the Navajo Nation and how it was bringing water to the people living there. DigDeep delivers a 1,200-gallon cistern, which is then buried outside the home. Technicians plumb a sink, water heater, filter and drain line; where families don’t have electricity hookup, a solar panel is installed with battery array and electrical hookup to provide electricity to power the pump and lights. A tanker truck arrives and fills the cistern with clean water through an above ground valve and the homeowner receives training to operate, maintain and repair the system, as well as a number to call should problems incur. All this enfolds over 24 hours. The Gilbert Rotarians learned that each installation costs $4,500 and worked with Rotary International District 4185 in Mexico to co-sponsor a global grant to support the Navajo Water Project.

Gilbert and its international Partner in Mexico, the Rotary Club of San Andres Cholula, launched the first phase of Navajo Water Project. Backed by a $78,000 RI Global Grant, they provided home water systems for 18 families – the 64 individuals near Thoreau, New Mexico. The magazine said Curt ward, a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Gilbert, was a relative newcomer to the Southwest. “I moved here from Iowa in 2014, and water poverty was a new thing to Sun Lakes Rotarian John McKoy presented overview of me,” he told the magazine, Navajo Water Project featured in Rotary Magazine at a which said that even berecent Rotary Club of Sun Lakes dinner meeting. fore the pandemic, Ward (Courtesy of Sun Lakes Rotary) had begun reading about the water problems in the With the assistance of Jim Bissonett, Navajo Nation and he was shocked to RI Arizona District 5495 Rotary Foundalearn that while the average American tion Chair and RI R-Club Southwest, a uses 80 to 100 gallons of water per day, global grant was initiated. the average Navajo uses only seven. Bissonett said the real story is the “And in some cases,” Ward says, “it’s Navajo Nation is in our backyard. He less than that.” recalled the eagerness of Gary Whiting In 2019, the Sun Lakes Rotary Club of the Rotary Club of Sun Lakes, a past partnered with a sister club in Ontario, RI District Governor, offering to underCanada, and completed the second take a similar project. phase. They provided home water sysIn May 2018, the Rotary Club of tems to 33 families – that’s more than

100 individuals –with the support of a $144,000 global grant. The final tally for the third global grant for the Navajo Nation totaled $395,000; its international partner was the Rotary Club of Merida-Itzaes, Mexico and its host club was the Rotary Club of Four Peaks in Fountain Hills. Because of quarantine restrictions, DigDeep could no longer interact directly with residents of the Navajo Nation. During the first 18 months of the pandemic, DigDeep delivered more than a million gallons of water ad setup temporary water access tanks at almost 1,500 homes. The Rotary Magazine article goes into detail about the Navajo Water Project and life within the Navajo Nation. At a recent dinner meeting, Sun Lakes Rotarian John McKoy provided an overview of the Navajo Water Project and its significant impacts. McKoy, Whiting and Sun Lakes Rotarians Peter Meade and Stan Kaufman participated in the Sun Lakes portion of the Navajo Project’s RI Global Grant. McKoy and Meade presented the project at the 2018 RI International Conference in Toronto, which had over 25,000 attendees. Additionally, at the RCSL meeting, Mr. McKoy shared his childhood experiences as a member of the Oklahoma Chickasaw Nation and later in life his interactions with Sanders, Arizona, Navajo Nation schools.

EV women’s group helps never-kill animal shelter BY LEANN LANDBERG AND SUSAN BARLOW Guest Writers

When you look into the eyes of an animal you have rescued, you cannot help but fall in love. Living this, experiencing this, seeing this, time and time again is how the volunteers at Saving One Life continue to find the motivation to work grueling hours and endure the heartache of realizing how many mistreated animals there are in our community. Saving One Life is a never-kill rescue, not a no-kill shelter. Never kill means that the organization will go to extraordinary measures – beyond what no-kill shelters/rescues will do – to save an animal’s life. Animals are not euthanized unless there are truly no other options and no chance at survival. Saving One Life not only rescues animals and places them in loving homes, but they also help families with beloved pets financially and emotionally during times the families cannot afford their care. The organization often says that once an animal is part of Saving One Life, it is always part of Saving One Life. They will always be there to help when needed. In 2019 alone, the people serving this

One of the chapter’s members, Melissa Clayton, is the volunteer director at Saving One Life. Melissa strongly encourages those interested in helping to consider adoption, fostering, volunteering, or donating. While it is hard work, the payback is significant. No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as the relationship you have with your pet. 100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun is a group of like-minded, passionate women who want to connect to one another and to their communities. The ladies are leveraging their resources so their quarterly gifts of $100 per member add up to a significant donation to a local charity. Since the chapter’s inception in 2015, almost $1M has been given to The 100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun members in the East Valley raised $5,600 for local charities. This group of women the Saving One Life never-kill shelter. At the presentation were, from left, Leann Landberg, has learned that giving back is better Melissa Clayton, Crissy Haidos, Susan Barlow and Jacqueline Destremps. (Special to STSN) together. To learn more about 100+ Women Who Care Valley of the Sun low even though they welcome animals or to register for their upcoming giving nonprofit saved over 1,400 animals and circle on Aug. 18, visit 100wwcvalleyoftthat are often on death’s door. did so on less than $250,000. hesun.org Earlier this summer, 100+ Women Who They pinch every penny to ensure no Care Valley of the Sun presented Saving animal will perish. They fight for every To learn more about Saving One One Life with a donation of $5,600 on life that enters their door which is why Life, visit savingonelife.org. behalf of their East Valley members. their euthanasia rate is so astonishingly

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Birthdays mark a miracle for Gilbert boy, 6 BY CECILIA CHAN Managing Editor

After Gilbert mom Breann Vogt gave birth to her first child, a healthy 7-pound boy, she had no reason to doubt her second pregnancy would be just as uneventful. But 23 weeks in, Vogt had an unexplained premature rupture of her amniotic sac, which protects the fetus. She was put on bed rest for five and a half weeks at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa. Doctors tried to prolong the pregnancy but nonetheless, Asher arrived at 29 weeks, weighing in at 2 pounds, 6 ounces on July 18, 2016. A normal gestation is 40 weeks. “He was tiny, less than 15 inches,” Vogt recalled. “His head was only larger than a tennis ball.” Because his lungs were undeveloped, Asher was hooked up to an oscillator machine to help him breathe. Asher spent the next eight months in Banner Children’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and about three more months in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Vogt visited Asher every day during his nearly year-long stay except for the one time she was sick. “Everything that could go wrong for preemies, he had a bit of that,” Vogt said. “Vision problems, a little bit of a twisted bowel, he had clots (and) he had undeveloped lungs.” Asher also had a heart valve that wasn’t completely formed but luckily it devel-

Asher Vogt celebrated his sixth birthday July 18 and he and his Gilbert family celebrate it with deep gratitude, given the fact he was born prematurely and spent nearly a year in the hospital. (Facebook)

oped, curtailing the need for surgery, according to Vogt, who lived in Chandler before moving to Gilbert in 2017. Two weeks after the birth, Vogt was able to hold her son. “I remembered one of the nurses there came and told me about another diagnosis,” Vogt said. “I was just sobbing and holding him for the first time and was overwhelmed.” But another NICU nurse shared with Vogt about her son, also born at 29 weeks old with a similar weight as Asher. “She came and talked me off the

livery of 200 gift items such as books, stuffed animals, blankets, onesies and baby items were delivered to Banner last week on July 19. Asher celebrated his sixth birthday with friends and family, which included a pool party and a trip to Topgolf. Family members include dad Jesse and 7-year-old Colton. Vogt said Asher is gaining comprehension where the gifts that arrive to the house are going to. “We tell him, we’re taking them to the hospital where he was a baby,” Vogt said. “It’s special for him. It’s the hospital where he was born so he’s Mr. Helper with it.” Asher’s height for his age is average at 44 inches but he’s at 5th to 15th percentile for weight, according to his mom. He wears a feeding tube because his oral motor skills are delayed and he has a chronic lung condition. His lungs have scar tissue and aren’t at full capacity yet, Vogt said. Asher can run and play just like any other boy but if he has a cold, he needs to take albuterol to help with his breathing, she added. He also began his first day of school as a kindergartner at Robert Rice Elementary School on July 20. Asked how long the family plans on doing the gift drive for the hospital, Vogt said she was thinking about that herself. “I hope Asher continues up to 18,” she said. “But as long as we are in Arizona and can do it.” For those who want to follow along with Asher’s journey, go to facebook. com/AshersNICUAdventure/photos

ledge,” she said; “an angel in the moment.” Vogt said she doesn’t remember a lot of what happened in the NICU but that moment of having someone who knew what she was going through and helping her cope was a silver lining. What also helped was that Asher received gifts while in NICU over the holidays and for different things from parents whose children graduated out of the unit. “The parents would have little notes with pictures of their kiddos, where they are,” Vogt said. “I think it gives families hope when you’re in the midst of it. “It’s very scary and traumatic, emotional and stressful but when you see a light at the end of the tunnel and how other kiddos have overcome and how resilient they are just gave us hope. “It’s so powerful. It’s hard to see that when you get diagnosis after diagnosis and feel like you’re going two steps back.” On April 17, 2017 Asher finally came home. But Asher’s story doesn’t end there. Since he was treated at the hospital Asher and his family have given to date about 2,550 gifts to families with babies in the NICU and PICU, which included 1,000 books donated by Vogt’s employer Arizona Milk Producers. Vogt, who sits on the NICU Parent Advisory Board at the hospital’s Mesa campus, receives the donated toys and books from people who see her social media posts promoting the opportunity to pay it forward. The toys were delivered on the week of Asher’s birthday. The latest de-

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Seton grad wins P.E.O. Sisterhood scholarship BY KEN SAIN Managing Editor

The Chandler chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood has been looking for just the right student to nominate for the international group’s scholarship program. They found her in Seton Catholic Preparatory Class of 2022 member Rachael Martinez. The United States-based Philanthropic Educational Organization is dedicated to opening educational opportunities for women around the world. Martinez was nominated by the Chandler chapter for the STAR Scholarship, which contributes $2,500 to her education at Colgate University. “I belong to an organization that’s always looking for high school seniors that are outstanding,” said Chandler STAR Chapter Chair Maris Thomas. The Chandler chapter had only nominated one other girl, Thomas said. They were contacted by members in Pinetop, Arizona, who had a girl they wanted to nominate. Martinez, who lives in South Chandler, was the first girl from the city they nominated. Martinez ended up winning the scholarship, one of a handful the group awards each year. “Rachael’s the only one from this area [we’ve nominated], so we’re really proud of her,” Thomas said. Martinez was the student body president at Seton last year and founded the school’s National Honors Society. She became its first president. She also started the school’s Latino National Honors Society and a Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter. In her free time, she is a serious volleyball player, having earned a partial athletic scholarship to Colgate. In addition to playing for school team, she also

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Chandler resident Rachael Martinez, who graduated this year form Seton Catholic Preparatory, is on her way to Colgate University in New York State. (David Minton/Staff Photographer)

was part of a competitive club team that competes with many of the top players in the area. Each of the 6,000 chapters can nominate one young woman for the STAR Scholarship. Martinez is the only winner. She was looking forward to getting started at Colgate. In fact, she’s leaving early to begin workouts with her new volleyball teammates. “It’s such a cliché, but just the combination of academics and athletics,” Martinez said of why she chose Colgate, in Hamilton, N.Y. “I’ve always wanted to go to the East Coast. “I’ve loved the coaching staff, the culture of the team is great. And also

it’s in this cute little town ... it’s just like a Hallmark movie when it snows. I’ve seen snow twice.” Martinez has already secured one NIL (name, image, and likeness) deal, and hopes to get more. She made a deal with the gym where she works out, PITT Fitness. “So it’s just posting advertising for them,” she said. “So that’s been super fun.” Thomas said they’ve been impressed by Martinez every step of the process. When they first met her, they had to use Zoom Video because of the pandemic. At that point, she had not settled on her college course. To get the scholarship, Martinez had

to complete a lot of paperwork. Thomas said she was terrific and made every deadline. They were also impressed with her public speaking. She has not settled on a major yet. She said she’s interested in possibly joining foreign service, international relations or working in psychology. She said she’d really enjoy working with Navy SEALS in that capacity. Martinez said that’s because she’s a perfectionist and would love a chance to work with the very best. She said she wants to make a difference. “I want to make a positive impact and leave a great legacy,” Martinez said. “With the volleyball program, that means leaving a better culture than where I found it. “One of the most notable things about the honor society that I founded, is it’s going to be going on hundreds of different college applications for the kids that are leaving Seton after me.” For more information about the organization, call Maris Thomas at 480-239-6770.

Study looks at parents’ impact on kids’ mental health SANTAN SUN NEWS STAFF

Three Chandler students recently completed a lengthy study on the impact of parents’ expectations on their children’s career choices and mental well-being and concluded that the pressure is more intense than in previous generations “Overall, it is safe to say that parents’ expectations now are definitely higher than they were 30 years ago, and this has a great effect on children’s career choice (gravitating more to what the parents expect from their career), as well as a negative impact on their mental wellbeing,” concluded the study by Sripriya Srinivas, Suryatej Vakkalanka and Ruhika Nallani. As the results find, over the last 30 years, parents raised their expectations/ specifications on what career field their children should go into, and this has caused problems with the children’s mental wellbeing as well as deviances from what their career choice would

Chandler residents, from left, Sripriya Srinivas, Suryatej Vakkalanka and Ruhika Nallani recently completed research into the effect of parents’ expectations on their children’s mental well-being and career choices. (Special to SanTan Sun News)

have originally been if they chose it based purely on what they are interested in/good at,” they found. Those conclusions were based on a survey of about 121 teens and adults who volunteered for interviews. The three students set out to analyze “the effects of parents’ expectations on children’s choice of career by discussing how parent support, career field, choice in extracurriculars for their children, and other factors affect children’s choice in career.” While acknowledging that “parents can make a big impact on children, starting from a young age,” they wanted to quantify

that impact in more scientific terms. “The survey provided a deep understanding of the participants’ perceptions on the basis of their parents’ expectations,” the trio said. They had divided the respondents into two groups – those above and below 18 years of age. The trio concluded, “While the 18+ generation wasn’t influenced much by their parents, the below-18 generation is being influenced by parents’ expectations to go into a particular field.” And they found a corresponding difference between the two groups in the state of their mental health. “While the 18+ generation overwhelmingly had no negative mental health effects because of parents’ expectations, the below-18 generation has a higher ratio of teens feeling anxiety, pressured, and stressed out compared to the older generation,” they said. “This is an indication of parents’ expectations causing mental health issues for the younger generation.”

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Some high school championships will be broadcast live BY ZACH ALVIRA Sports Editor

The Arizona Interscholastic Association has partnered with Arizona’s Family to broadcast select high school championship games live on local channels beginning this season. The announcement comes after the AIA announced a three-year deal with local station, which broadcasts live on channels 3 and 5. The deal makes Arizona’s Family the “Exclusive Content Partner of the AIA,” a position previously held by Bally Sports Arizona. “We’re thrilled to have a partner in Arizona’s Family that is able to engage fans in a way that will provide a great deal of excitement around high school sports,” AIA Executive Director David Hines said in a press release. “The content fans will enjoy are more than just championship events. It’s also how the AIA impacts each school’s community. Now there will be many more opportunities to showcase the talent we have at our schools and those programs.” The three-year partnership begins with the upcoming 2022-23 school year. As a result, the 5A, 6A and Open Division football championship games will be live on Arizona’s Family channels. It is the first time since 2015 football championship will be broadcast on live television. In previous years, Fox Sports Arizona,

The Arizona Interscholastic Association partnership with Arizona’s Family to broadcast select state championship games live, would include games such as the Open Division football title match, which Chandler has played in the last three years and won in 2019 and 2020. (File photo) which later became Bally Sports Arizona, recorded championship games and

broadcasted them at a later date on a tape delay.

“I think for the notoriety of what’s going on, promoting the sport in Arizona, that’s a positive,” Chandler head football coach Rick Garretson said. “It gives everybody the ability to not have to pay but still watch the kids play and support them. I think it’s definitely a positive step for the promotion of AZ football.” Garretson has coached the Wolves to six straight state title games as both an assistant and the head coach, including last year’s Open Division state championship where they fell to Saguaro. He believes the live broadcast won’t, and shouldn’t, have much of an impact on the players’ overall mindsets for a game of that caliber. But he believes it’s good for the growth of Arizona high school football as a whole. Saguaro head football coach Jason Mohns agrees. “I think it’s a great See

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Ultimate Frisbee taking off in Arizona BY RICKY WEIPZ Cronkite News

On a Thursday night in south Tempe, two fields reserved at the Benedict Sports Complex featured typical athletic activities: drills, competition and a bit of trash-talking. Welcome to the world of ultimate Frisbee, which often is simply called “ultimate.” The sport combines elements of football and soccer while participants fling a plastic disc up and down a narrow field, looking to find their opponents’ end zone. Ultimate’s easy-to-play nature draws the interest of many. The Valley of the Sun Ultimate Organization has been around for almost 40 years creating playing opportunities for those interested in the niche sport. “I’ve enjoyed it from the beginning,” organization president Tim Streit said. “I think it’s a fun sport. There’s a lot of great things about it from the different levels that you can play it at, to the different people who can participate in it, the low amount of equipment that you need to play it and the fact that it’s self-organized.” Since its creation in 1968 by students at Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, the sport has taken off and now is played in more than 80 countries by an estimated 7 million people, according to the sport’s governing body, the World Flying Disc Federation. Ultimate is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to be part of the Games. It has a huge college participation rate, and the USA Ultimate U.S. Open is set to air on ESPN2 in August.

Valley of the Sun Ultimate just began its summer season, with players of all skill levels participating and playing under the lights at the Benedict Sports Complex in Tempe. (Photo by Ricky Weipz/Cronkite News)

Ultimate, unlike most organized sports, does not rely on referees to make foul calls. Instead, the concept of “spirit of the game” allows players to police themselves and only call fouls when necessary. “We don’t use referees at very many levels at all,” Streit said. “There are no referees at any level I play at, and that includes up to the national championship for the club team.” Of the two fields at Benedict reserved earlier this month for Valley of the Sun Ultimate, one was for the co-ed recreational league, which Streit was preparing to play in.

On the adjacent field, the organization’s club team went through some drills during practice. Cynthia Thomas was standing on a dirt path between the two fields, throwing some lighthearted heckles at the teams with her adopted husky, Colton. “I started playing with VOTS (Valley of the Sun Ultimate) at the end of my sophomore year in college,” Thomas said. “Then I started playing with ASU in about 2011, 2012.” Thomas, a graduate of Arizona State and Chandler High School, currently plays professional ultimate for the Arizona

Sidewinders. The Sidewinders, the first pro team in the state for ultimate, is made up of women and non-binary players. They recently finished in third place in the Western Ultimate League. Professional ultimate “is a bit more intense and a bit more structured,” Thomas said. “The rules are a little bit different and it’s catered to be more of a spectator sport than recreational.” She added that even though she was not playing that night, she just liked watching and embracing the people she has met over the years. Also, who does not love a little friendly trash talk? “It’s definitely the people who play ultimate that make it a fun-loving but competitive group,” Thomas said. “I think it’s a great mix of the two. We have fun tournaments throughout the year where people will dress up in costumes and go out and play in our local leagues that are running pretty much all year.” Among those tournaments is the pride and joy of Valley of the Sun Ultimate: the New Year Fest. The 38th annual event was held in January 2020, but it hasn’t been played since because of COVID-19. Streit said people were reluctant to play in the tournament during the pandemic. Even though ultimate is considered a non-contact sport, plenty of close encounters occur with other players while playing defense. His goal is to have the tournament return next January. “Traditionally, we’ve drawn teams from Seattle, Philadelphia, Canada, all around the country and beyond,” Streit said. “I think that has gotten a little smaller in recent years just because of the nature See

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Larissa Blanchard ready for big senior track season BY ZACH ALVIRA Sports Editor

Growing up in Ahwatukee, Larissa Blanchard took to soccer as her primary sport. There were moments where she believed her skills on the field would help lead her to college. That was her goal as she went through elementary and middle school at St. John Bosco Catholic School in Ahwatukee. But that began to change in high school while attending nearby Seton Catholic. She joined the Sentinel track & field team as a sophomore to help improve her speed for soccer. She didn’t realize she would quickly fall in love with the sport, specifically the hurdles. Now, as she prepares for her senior season at Perry High School in Gilbert, she is dead set on a career as a hurdler in college. “I think it was halfway through the track season my sophomore year,” Blanchard said. “I was like, ‘oh my gosh, this is really fun. I can actually do this.’ It is really an individual sport, and you don’t really have to rely on teammates to win. It was a lot more fun for me.” Blanchard enjoyed her time at Seton Catholic. Deciding to transfer to Perry wasn’t an easy decision by any means. But most of the track coaching staff at Seton Catholic had decided to step away after the 2022 season. She had her choice of schools with Arizona being an open enrollment state. She contemplated Chandler, a powerhouse program that up until last season had won five straight state titles – excluding the canceled 2020 season – and 14 since 2006. But she decided on Perry, the team that dethroned the Wolves in May. The decision was also made easily with her father living in close proximity to the school. Her mother, Ann, still lives in Ahwatukee. Beyond her living situation, Blanchard identified what has and is currently still being built at Perry. It’s a school that has appeared in and won several state championships across several different sports. Track is now one of them. “I think this is going to be a huge switch from Division III to Division I,” Blanchard said. “Especially with coaching, at Seton

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thing for AZ HS Football to have our state championships broadcast live on television,” Mohns said. “We have some of the very best programs and players in the country, and it will be great for sports fans across the state and around the country to see them perform live on the biggest stage.” Along with 5A, 6A and the Open Division football championships, Arizona’s Family will also broadcast all 5A, 6A and the new Open Division boys and girls basketball finals. The 5A and 6A baseball and soft-

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of the sport and the way that the USA Ultimate Organization sets up their club season. The January ‘fun tournament’ is not exactly fitting in the calendar the way that it used to, but it’s still good for a lot of teams.” The club level of ultimate is more competitive than the seasonal leagues put on by Valley of the Sun Ultimate. Club teams can compete for championships on the national and international stage.

there were coaches that coached multiple events. Here, it’ll be more one-on-one, which I’m excited for.” Despite being less than two years into her track career, Blanchard has already established herself as one of the better hurdlers in the state. In her first season she made it to the state track meet in five events. As a junior, she focused more on hurdles. She also competed last spring in the 100-meter dash. She knew heading into the state finals for the 100-meter hurdles Remy Romney of American Leadership Academy – Queen Creek would be among her toughest competition. But in the final race she put on one of her best performances to win gold in Division III. “It was really cool for me,” Blanchard said. “I’ve only been doing it two seasons and I did against Remy Romney, who is a really good hurdler. My first thought was, ‘this is really happening.’” Blanchard’s impressive showing this past season helped her earn an invitation to the National Outdoor Championships in Oregon. She didn’t attend, mostly because she felt she wasn’t ready for that caliber of competition just yet. However, if invited next season, she plans to go. The state championship win, coupled with her natural ability, has also helped her get on the radar of some colleges. She has talked to some locally and has even toured Arizona State. So far, her options are open. But it appears that she will eventually follow in her mother’s path to becoming a Division I track athlete. Ann was a distance runner at Ole Miss in college. So, to see her daughter follow a similar path is meaningful. “For me, it would be like the legacy lives on,” Ann said. “My whole family, we want to see it. We don’t want her track meets and her athletic career to end after her senior year. We want to see how far she can go. “I think Larissa is going to be very competitive this year. I can’t wait to see her at the state championships next year.” Perry recently announced it had promoted former assistant Jeff Gurecki as its new head girls’ track coach. He is replacing Bryan Idleman, who stepped down to spend more time with family.

Larissa Blanchard, an Ahwatukee native and resident, is currently preparing for her senior track season at Perry High School in Gilbert where she hopes to help the Pumas repeat as state champions. (Dave Minton/STSN Staff) Due to her transfer, Blanchard will have to sit out the first half of the spring season. But she plans to train with a club team with close ties to Perry this fall and winter. She is excited for the opportunity to compete for Perry as a senior and perhaps set new records for the Pumas.

She hopes to leave a legacy that centers around going for goals, no matter how new they may be. “If you feel like you want to go do something, just go do it and see how far you can get,” Blanchard said.

ball championship games will also be live. Mountain Pointe head basketball coach Kaimarr Price, who led the Pride to two straight state championship games in 2020 and 2021, said it’s a big opportunity for the players. “This is a huge opportunity for these young student athletes to have the chance to play on live TV,” Price said in a text. “High school sports provide a unique experience which they will carry the memories of throughout life.” As part of the partnership, weekly stories on Arizona’s Family channel lineup and the ability to broadcast bracket release shows done for most sports throughout

the school year. Since its inception in 2019, the Open Division football championship game has become one of the must-see events in Arizona high school sports. The first-ever championship game between Saguaro and Chandler drew thousands to Sun Devil Stadium. In recent years, baseball and softball championship games have nearly filled Farrington Stadium at ASU and Tempe Diablo. Basketball championships, since moved to Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum, have also drawn large crowds and that is only expected to grow with the addition of the Open Division for girls and boys this year.

But one constant complaint from Arizona high school sports fans has always been the lack of a working livestream. Now, that problem will likely be solved with the AIA’s new partnership with Arizona’s Family. “Arizona’s Family has always been committed to serving our community,” Vice President and General Manager of Arizona’s Family Debbie Bush said in the press release. “We know that there are so many inspiring stories coming from the high school experience and this partnership with the AIA allows us to shine a light on all the good that is happening in our local communities.”

There is a range of competition levels, but the seasonal leagues offer opportunities for new players to learn the sport or just find a community. That was the case for Olivia Pascazi, who played ultimate in high school and recently moved to the Phoenix area from Pittsburgh. “I wanted to join some type of ultimate league,” Pascazi said. “I just searched for Frisbee leagues in Tempe and VOTS came up, so I joined it and I’ve been here ever since.” Pascazi’s first time playing with VOTS came this year, and she has caught on. She

even helped her team, the Poached Eggs, score a few points. “I think there’s a lot of camaraderie,” she said. “Especially in this league, everyone’s been super helpful. Even if you know they’re on another team, they’re really helpful to newer players. I feel like in other sports I played, it’s a little more cutthroat, which, you know, sometimes can be fun for those who want to be competitive. But for newer players, it’s really nice to have that camaraderie.” Although the organization is bouncing back from the pandemic and leagues are

up and running again, Streit notes there’s always room to grow the league and the sport in general. “Our league will accept (players) 16 years old and up,” Streit said. “We have not traditionally had very much outreach to youth ultimate. There are places in the country that I know are better at that, but that’s something our organization has been lacking in. We hope to expand to that someday.” The league will have a second summer league run from August through September. Then, the fall season will begin.

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We have forgotten the world needs love now BY RABBI IRWIN WIENER Columnist

When the song “What the World Needs Now”was introduced 50 years ago, a it became an instant hit. It caught on for several reasons, but I believe, the words ring true today, more than ever. All we need do is turn our TV’s on and witness the madness that surrounds us. No longer is it necessary for the media to create sensationalism to create a following. We are the characters in an ongoing epic of melodrama and mayhem. Read the words, listen to the melody and you will find the accurate cry of the generations past and the hope, as well as the despair, of today. “What the world needs now is love, sweet love It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love No, not just for some but for everyone.” Imagine the lament of a parent who witnesses the senseless death of a child caught in the quagmire of hate. Hear the cry of people taken from their homes and indiscriminately slaughtered

because their beliefs differ from their murderers. Watch the planes drop bombs on cities and dwellings causing panic and displacement. Witness the world pontificating about issues that are so far removed from reality. Today, more than ever, we sit in our comfortable homes and stare at pictures of atrocities only read about a generation ago. The glamour of conflict has disappeared and has been replaced by the actuality of the gory details. Extremism has replaced common decency. We no longer think in terms of “Peace on Earth, good will toward men.” This has become a momentary slogan followed the next day by sameness. Do we ever stop to think about the abundance of goodness that surrounds us? Have we really considered that the more fortunate need to be concerned about those with less? Why do we concentrate on helping others at certain seasons of the year, and then forget them the other days? Look around and we can see the beauty that was created for us to enjoy. God did not cause all this to be part of our enjoyment of life, only to watch its destruction.

We were given gifts for unimaginable fulfillment, and we seem to enjoy squandering rather than participating in these treasures. Is one life worth more than the other? Do some deserve to live, and others die to satisfy the living? There is enough mercy and justice for all, not just a few. Look around. What do you see? Earth’s fields are now strewn with bodies. All the meadows are soaked with the blood of the innocent. The lights of heaven are clouded with the smoke of bombs and cannons. The rainbow, which was set to remind us of God’s compassion, has added a black stream in mourning for civilization’s ability to destroy rather than

perpetuate. We ask God to listen to our cry, but we are the ones who are not hearing the sounds of bitterness. During the most heinous period in human history (World War II), the question was asked, “Where was God?” And the answer given, “where was man?” Where are we? Where are we going? We have forgotten that “What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It’s the only thing that’s there just too little of…No, not just for some, but for everyone.” Rabbi Irwin Wiener, D.D., is the spiritual leader of the Sun Lakes Jewish Congrgation.

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Chandler teens star in Limelight’s returning ‘Joseph’ BY KATY SPRINGER GETOUT Contributor

When Limelight Performing Arts produced “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” in 2016, the show earned a slew of honors including the National Youth Arts award for “Outstanding Production.” Six years later, the theater is bringing the show back to the Mesa Arts Center. The musical will be on stage Aug. 4-14 and will feature an epic cast of nearly 50 performers ages 6-21 – including 12 kids and teens from Chandler. Set in biblical-era Canaan and Egypt, “Joseph” brings the age-old story of Jacob and his sons to vibrant new life. When Jacob gives Joseph a magnificent coat of many colors, his 11 brothers become so consumed with jealousy they sell him into slavery in Egypt. But because of Joseph’s prophetic gift for interpreting dreams, he ascends from lowly house slave to Pharaoh’s key advisor – and soon redeems the brothers who betrayed him. Despite its weighty themes, the production is upbeat and full of comic relief. With lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, it features colorful characters and costumes, modern choreography and a range of music and dance styles – from country western and calypso to bubble-gum pop and a Pharaoh who sings Elvis.

Chandler cast members in Limelight Performing Arts’ presentation of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” include, from left: Maddie Gillispie, Mia Mcfarland, Josh Boenzi, Camryn Taylor, Meredith Woodward, Kayla King, Alex Hinkle, Violet Mclennan, Zoey Harr, and Claire Willes. (David Minton/GetOut Staff Photographer)

“It’s colorful, inspiring and hilarious,” said Marie South, who, along with Limelight’s artistic director, Emma England, is directing the show. Westley Caryl, 14, is having a great time with his character. “I play the role of Judah, who is one

of the younger brothers,” he said. “He is very laidback and silly, but not the brightest out of his brothers.” Zoey Hart, 15, is part of the ensemble. She says “Joseph” is not your average production. “There are no scenes, only singing

and dance numbers, which isn’t super common in musical theater,” said Hart. “The hardest part for me is making sure I remember every single detail because if you forget the smallest piece of inforSee

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Left: Rich aromas and tasty dishes await visitors to Feringhee Modern Indian Cuisine in Chandler. (Jill McNamara Photography) Right: Madhavi Reddy owns Feringhee Modern Indian Cuisine near Chandler Fashion Center. (David Minton/GetOut Staff Photographer)

New Chandler restaurant enhances Indian cuisine BY SRIANTHI PERERA GetOut Contributor

Feringhee Modern Indian Cuisine has just opened its doors to reveal rich aromas, flavors and tastes near the

Chandler Fashion Center. Consider an average dinner: The Dum Jackfruit Biryani comes in a pot sealed with a crust of dough, which is cut by the server to release a tantalizing whiff of spicy yellow basmati rice nestling underneath. The cover prevents the air from leaking, retains moisture and

helps the rice to absorb the flavors of jackfruit and spices while steaming. The basmati and the jackfruit are layered and slow-cooked to perfection. The dish pairs deliciously with Old Delhi Butter Chicken and a raita – or yogurt – mixed with dabs of avocado and sprinkles of boondi (balled chickpea

flour sweetened and fried). Feringhee (translates to “foreigner”) is the brainchild of Madhavi Reddy, who has created an elegant restaurant to showcase food from the diverse regions of India. The dishes are traditional See

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mation, it can make or break the show.” The 90-minute production certainly is demanding, as every word in the musical is sung, every scene is choreographed, and every performer plays a key part in bringing the story together. “The ensemble is central to this production,” said South. “Most productions rely on a couple of leads to carry the show, but ‘Joseph’ isn’t like that. Every person on stage is important to the story, and that means every one of our performers needs to be a true triple threat.” “Joseph” isn’t average in other ways, too. “We threaded color through every aspect of this show,” said South. “For example, many of our set pieces look beige on the surface, but they’re lit from within and bring out that technicolor quality when we turn the

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but served with contemporary flair to elevate it from mere street food or offerings from sidewalk cafes. “In the US there’s not much appreciation for Indian cuisine – there are fine dining in other cuisines, but not Indian cuisine,” she said. “I went a little above and beyond.” Initial research in the Valley indicated a paucity of such establishments. “We thought we have to bring Phoenix up to that level. That was the interest for me to create one,” she said. “It wasn’t an easy journey for me; it was hard.” The pandemic took its toll on planning and executing her intricately developed business; the restaurant took more than three years to come to fruition. Reddy teamed with Sujan Sarkar, a creator of two modern Indian restaurant brands, and Karan Mittal, a young chef hailing from Delhi and with international experience and culinary honors. Feringhee’s menu features sharing plates, such as Masala Ricotta Kulcha (fava bean and gooseberry pickle); small plates such as Tandoori Shrimp with Bengal kasundi (a dipping sauce with mustard seeds and dried mango), lime caviar and mint chutney; and large plates such as Goan Swordfish and Kashmiri Lamb Shank. The well-stocked bar includes dozens of spirits, 65 types of wine and 20 varieties of beer, some of which are brewed locally and others as far away as India or Belgium. The cocktails are

lights on.” Ashlynn Taylor, 15, plays one of the narrators. “Playing the role of narrator requires a lot of memorization,” she said. “There are three narrators, and we often sing in three-part harmonies, which can be challenging to learn.” But the performers are up for the challenge – and they’re having fun along the way. “I’ve always enjoyed the rehearsal process,” said Ava Wright, 15, one of the narrators in “Joseph.” “I have always found it so satisfying to slowly watch all of our time and effort make its way to finally being ready for opening night.” Of course, no production of “Joseph” would be complete without a Children’s Choir. “I wanted to be a part of Joseph because it is performed on a big stage and tells the real bible story in a fun way,” said 11-year-old Alyssa Sherwood. “The Children’s Choir gets to be on stage a

lot of the show and has some special parts.” The group of youngsters is critical to the production, as they add new layers to every scene and song. The directing team and cast are eagerly anticipating the audience’s response. “At the heart of this show is a powerful message of love and unity that will resonate with children and adults,” said England. “The cast’s hard work and incredible passion will be evident in the top-notch quality of this performance.” Added Caryl, “I think the audience will love the big dance numbers like the hoedown or ‘Song of the King.’ Even just in rehearsal, you can tell that these are complete showstoppers.” Chandler thespians in the production and their roles include: Westley Caryl, Judah, 14; Madeline Gillispie, ensemble, 16; Eli Greenberg, children’s choir, 9; Zoey Hart, ensemble ,15; Kayla King, Potiphar’s wife, 18; Violet McLen-

nan, narrator, 12; Remington Rathbun, ensemble, 18; Whitney Sherwood, children’s choir, 9; Alyssa Sherwood, children’s choir, 11; Ashlynn Taylor, narrator, 15; Camryn Taylor, apple dancer/ensemble, 15; and Ava Wright, narrator, 15. Tickets for “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” are $16 plus box office fees and are available at the Mesa Arts Center box office, at MesaArtsCenter.com keyword “technicolor,” or by visiting ll-pa.org. Group discounts are available.

handcrafted using regional ingredients of India. Patrons are encouraged to savor, sip and linger. “We start from sharing plates and enjoying the atmosphere. It’s not just ‘eat your dinner and go,’” Reddy said. With a lot of specialized ingredients that are locally sourced, Feringhee prefers its diners to make advanced reservations. Currently, it is only open for dinner, from Tuesdays to Sundays, and weekends have been busy. Reservations will help to avoid turning away walk-in customers, with the extra time useful to plan resources, and the overall experience would be better for guests, Reddy said. “We want people to have a journey of whatever the cuisine we have, that’s the goal,” she said. “It needs some experience, that means it needs planning.” Because of the restaurant’s desirable location near the Price Corridor and its many corporate offices, lunch may be introduced at a later date. There is also a plan to hold musical evenings. Reddy, a Chandler resident, has been in the United States for more than 20 years. Her first foray into the restaurant industry was with Pastries n Chaat, an Indian bakery and restaurant serving casual fare, once a chain concept with six outlets across the Valley, and now operating only in Tempe. Feringhee’s location was one of the Pastries n Chaat outlets. In 2020, Reddy also established a grocery store, Saffron, with branches in Scottsdale and Phoenix and Peoria to

come. Married to a physician, Reddy has a “day job” as a business analyst in a prominent bank. She’s also raising two teenage daughters who are nearing college age. Where did she draw the inspiration to launch into the restaurant industry? “I grew up in a farming community, and my father was a landlord,” she said. This was in Telangana, located in the south-central stretch of India, in a city called Karimnagar. Bountiful harvests of produce, lavish servings of food, gatherings and festivals were the mainstays of her life, growing up. The family farm grew rice, corn and peanuts and nurtured fruit orchards. “It was all about food in our house: produce, food, welcoming people, it’s like a festival every time, people came over,” she recalled. Naturally, her passion was to study agriculture, so she obtained a bachelor of science in agriculture and a degree in business administration. Then, life happened, and she moved to Arizona in 2001 and married soon after. Her liking for produce lingered. “I always had the passion of bringing something to the Valley, doing something to the community,” she said. “I host social events at home, it was always there in me, to bring stuff to the community. What I miss back home, I want to bring to the community.” Creating Feringhee is perhaps the next best thing to returning to her roots.

She chose to paint the walls in sky blue and a shade of soft mustard in the color of unpolished rice. An enormous mural of a bedecked face of an Indian woman holds a prominent spot in the décor. Chandeliers, glass mirrors and the attending Oriental opulence beckon. “As soon as they walk in, I want them to feel Indian,” she said, of her diners. The proof of the pudding is in the eating of it. What’s for dessert? Chandler is far from the coast, but there’s no harm in indulging in a fantasy with eyes closed. The dessert was inspired by far away Chennai, which is a south Indian coastal city famous for its swaying coconut palms. It is called Tender Coconut Panna Cotta; elaneer (tender coconut cream), berries, toasted flakes of almond and coconut and passion fruit sorbet. The melt-in-the-mouth concoction is served inside a polished coconut shell sitting on a rope of coconut fiber. “It’s based on a personal memory when I was in Chennai,” Mittal said. “Elaneer payasam is the soft malai (cream) of the tender coconut. They used to make a payasam with freshly pressed coconut milk with some condensed milk and with malai on top. That was super delicious. “We created that memory.”

If you go: What: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Who: Produced by Limelight Performing Arts When: Aug. 4-14 at the Mesa Arts Center Tickets: MesaArtsCenter.com, keyword “technicolor” or ll-pa.org

Feringhee Modern Indian Cuisine is at 3491 W. Frye Road, Chandler. Details: feringhee.com

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