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Winners to debate Wilson Gee owns Club
West Golf Course again BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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JENNIFER JERMAINE
JILL NORGAARD
GREG PATTERSON
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ON STAGE THIS WEEK
(Special to AFN)
Voters decided what candidates in Legislative District 18 will move on to the Nov. 6 election and the Clean Elections Commission set up a debate for them this week. As the fall campaign begins, see page 3 for more on last week’s primary; p. 14 for a look at Kyrene school board hopefuls; p. 18 for a look at the LD18 Senate candidates.
he golfing season may have been saved at Club West Golf Course after Wilson Gee on Tuesday regained ownership when an Ahwatukee man’s last effort to keep the site expired with a terse order from U.S. Bankruptcy Court. “I guess I own Club West again,” Gee laughed on Tuesday – minutes after no one offered to pay off the $1.3 million note that he held for Inter Tribal Golf Association, which owned the site for basically less than nine months. The trustee sale came a week after bankruptcy Judge Madeleine C. Wanslee late Aug. 28 issued an order dismissing the bankruptcy filing by ITGA and its CEO, Richard Brueninger, for failure to file a required list of creditors. Breuninger had signed the $1.3 million note Dec. 1 to buy the course, then eventually failed to make his $35,000-a-month payments on the loan. Earlier last month, he had filed the bankruptcy petition the day before the sale was initially scheduled, delaying the foreclosure temporarily. “It was really just a stalling tactic,” Gee said. While holding out the possibility that someone else may want to buy the course, Gee said he would begin working with his staff to gear up operations in the hopes that overseeding can begin in a few weeks and golf can return to Club West late this year. “We’ll go through the process like we usually do,” he said. “We’ll start working up schedules and a budget and go from there. Fortunately, we have the personnel in place who know what to do, so we can See
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Ahwatukee woman becoming a Lutheran bishop Saturday . 39
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BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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f God ever needs an assistant executive to help run things, the Rev. Deborah Hutterer might well be on the short list. Running things has been a hallmark of the Ahwatukee woman’s career and she will take on her biggest assignment yet when she is installed as the sixth bishop of the Grand Canyon Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America at a 10 a.m. service Saturday, Sept. 8, at Shepherd of the Valley Church in Phoenix. See
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Rev. Deborah Hutterer of Ahwatukee on Saturday will be installed as the new bishop of the Grand Canyon Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.