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Concerns raised over Chandler Airport �ire safety

BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Staff Writer

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wo more people are expressing concerns about the safety of Chandler Municipal Airport – an air traffic controller and a retired Chandler Fire Department captain.

Chandler Fire Chief Tom Dwiggins said his department takes the concerns they’ve raised seriously, but contends that those concerns either do not match the facts or have been addressed.

“The response time right now to get

crash-fire-rescue to an incident at the airport is 12 minutes,” said Brad Finch, an air traffic controller at the airport.

Dwiggins disputes that. He says the response time to the airport is 5:57. The citywide response time is 5:59.

What’s more, he said, to maintain its top certification by the Center for Public Safety Excellence, Chandler Fire must have to list their response time with a 90 percent guarantee, meaning that 90 percent of the time they will make it in that time or less.

Dwiggins also said his department is one of the few to be certified by both the Center

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for Public Safety Excellence and get the top score by the Insurance Services Office.

The biggest concern expressed by the air traffic controller and the former fire captain involves the inability of Chandler Fire vehicles to gain quick access to the airport during an emergency.

“Our response times to house fires, apartments, is always great,” said Tim Klug, a retired captain in the Chandler Fire Department. “But on the airport environment, it’s a little different. … It takes considerably more

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he City of Chandler will continue to add about 12,000 new housing units over the next 10 years, but the number of children attending public schools will start to decline.

That is the conclusion of a recent demographic presentation to the Chandler Unified School District Governing Board.

Among the reasons for the downward enrollment trend is that Chandler residents are getting older.

“Our population is aging,” said Rick Brammer, a consultant with Applied Economics LLC, which did the research for the Governing Board.

A closely related reason is housing affordability, which is shut-

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City OKs $20M to help Intel’s water needs, other work

BY KEN SAIN Staff Writer

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handler City Council approved spending up to $20 million dollars on infrastructure and water rights to support Intel’s expansion of its Ocotillo campus.

The Council has also agreed to spend up to an additional $10 million for public improvements to the intersection of Alma School and Ocotillo roads if a traffic impact study shows a need.

Most of the money is going to acquire more water rights the company will need as part of its expansion, which includes two new manufacturing facilities. City officials estimate it will cost $12.1 million to acquire another 1.1 million gallons per day.

“All of the investments will be for the public benefit, not just for Intel,” said Micah Miranda, the city’s economic development director.

Miranda said it’s those other benefits to the community that allows the city to make the investment and therefore the agreement does not run afoul of the Gift Clause in the state constitution.

The rest of the funds would pay for the design, construction and financing needed to deliver potable water to Intel.

They also will cover the cost of design,

construction and financing of a transmission line to move 11 million gallons a day of reclaimed water between the city’s airport and Ocotillo water reclamation facilities.

Any money left unspent could be used on a future infrastructure project.

Intel’s expansion will bring thousands

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tion project, not only in Arizona, but in the country,” Micah told Council. “In order to make that happen the city needs to put some public infrastructure in the works.”

Mayor Kevin Hartke said this is a big step for the city.

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of jobs to Chandler.

“This is probably the state’s largest economic development project ever,” Miranda said.

Intel is expanding to help it deal with the worldwide microchip shortage that has hurt supply lines globally.

The company has spent millions in the past couple of years expanding its water treatment facilities so that it can recycle all the water used at the manufacturing facilities. “[This is] the largest private construc-

“Intel in Chandler will be the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturing plant,” Hartke gushed, “That’s really exciting and a point of pride for us.”

Miranda said development agreements like this one have helped build Chandler’s reputation as a friendly place for businesses to set up shop.

“One of the best selling points we have, is in Chandler we know how to get stuff done,” he said. “Our team is the best in the business. We can deliver on whatever we say we’re going to do.”

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orth Chandler and Ahwatukee will soon have a major outdoor sporting goods store nearby, regardless of whether the manager can fill some 60 open job slots before its soft opening.

Sportsman’s Warehouse – a 35-yearold chain that offers “low-key, unpretentious shopping” for apparel, footwear and gear for male and female aficionados of a whole range of outdoor recreational activities – is still having a soft opening Friday, Nov. 5, and a grand opening Nov. 11 at 840 North 54th St., Chandler.

The company is courting full-time and part-time employees, mostly for sales positions, and interested person can apply at careers.sportsmans.com/career.

And Sportsman’s Warehouse is being aggressive about it, offering a $500 signing bonus to new hires. Interested per-

sons can either sign up online or drop by the hiring desk at the store.

The 30,000-square-foot Chandler store is its ninth in Arizona and the 122nd in the country.

The chain has a reputation for supporting local charity events and is active in the Maintain the Terrain environmental clean-up movement.

“They love employing veterans who are experts in much of the business, and many of their employees stay for years due to the family-friendly working environment and positive atmosphere,” a company spokeswoman said.

Sportsman’s Warehouse earlier this year was purchased by the Great American Outdoors Group, also the umbrella company for Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops – which have collectively about 170 stores across the country.

In addition to Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s, Great American Outdoors Group

also owns White River Marine Group and a collection of nature-based resorts.

Jon Barker, Sportsman’s Warehouse CEO, said that for the first half of this year, store sales increased 3.4 percent over the same period in 2020.

“We believe customers are responding favorably to our brand, product assortment and customer service,” he said.

Johnny Morris, founder of Bass Pro Shops and CEO of Great American Outdoors Group, called the merger with Sportsman’s Warehouse a win-win “for our companies, outdoor enthusiasts and for the cause of conservation” and praised its company culture.

Outdoor industry analysts said that with other outdoor retailers backing away from firearm sales, the merger “could sway hunters and other outdoor sportsmen to look to the Great American Outdoors Group brands as leaders in the field.”

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Chandler Chamber session aims at lack of bias ban

BY KEN SAIN Staff Writer

I’ve heard comments like ‘everybody loves everybody in Chandler, well, what is the issue?’”

He said the job ahead for proponents is to educate the mayor and council members. Stating one council member was concerned about religion, Heumann pointed out there is a religious exemption in the ordinance that other cities have passed.

He heard another say they had concerns about criminal action and he responded there is only the possibility of civil fines, not criminal charges. Another, he said, talked about quotas. Heumann said the ordinance would have no hiring or other quotas.

Angela Hughey, co-founder and president of ONE Community, has been lobbying cities around the state to pass an ordinance. She said so far no one has been fined because of the non-discrimination ordinances.

“I’m going to give credit to the business community,” said Neil Giuliano, the former Tempe mayor and current president and CEO of Greater Phoenix Leadership. “Because for decades, nothing was happening, and then the business community started adopting policies for their employees that said, we’re going to treat all our employees the same.”

Tim Bourcet, the vice president of government and community affairs with the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, said

businesses took a lead on this issue because they want the best talent.

“I know if I’m a business owner, and I have employees with me, I want them to feel safe, I want them to feel secure,” he said. “I want them to know that where they work they can be happy, and plentiful, and part of the team.

“Because of that, they want to be located, exist and operate in communities where that is not a factor.”

The Glendale Chamber of Commerce played a key role in getting a non-discrimination ordinance passed in that West Valley city. Robert Heidt, the president and CEO of the group, said it took some convincing.

“From one of the folks in our student leadership, they said, ‘Glendale Chamber, Robert you’re out of your lane,’” he said. “And I respectfully said, ‘We put our blinker on and we merged over.’”

He called the non-discrimination ordinance a business issue and something chambers of commerce should be working on.

Hughey said LGBTQ members and their allies represent about a trillion dollars in economic buying power.

“We vote with our wallet,” she said.

“We want to live in places that are inclusive, we want to visit places that are inclusive.”

She said she has not been to Chandler in a very long time.

“I’m having a heck of a time taking my

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gate.”

On July 10, a Beechcraft Bonanza airplane skidded off the runway at Chandler Airport and caught fire. Finch said that in that case, the gates failed to open and firefighters had to put the blaze out from outside the perimeter fence.

“There were four people involved, and they would have been burned to death" except two men came to the rescue,," Finch said.

“With complete disregard for their own lives, they went down and pulled four people from that aircraft,” he said.

Assistant City Manager Steven Turner, who is the acting airport manager, said sometimes extreme heat can make the Opticom sensor that picks up emitter signals inoperable.

Turner said that prior to the July 10 event, crews checked the Opticom devices once a month. Since then, they check the devices weekly. In any case, Dwiggins said, the key system still worked so it did not delay a response.

Dwiggins said firefighters put out the blaze outside of the fence because that’s where the plane had stopepd skidding off the runway. He showed a photo of the plane to support his case.

Finch said a week before the Bonanza incident in early July, the gates failed again.

“A King Air aircraft that came in flying a patient, and there was an ambulance that was waiting for him, and the ambu-

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en Arizona cities have adopted a LGBTQ non-discrimination ordinance and Chandler is the largest city in the state that has not done so.

The Chandler Chamber of Commerce held a roundtable last week to push for one.

“It’s important because it’s good business, and it’s the right thing to do,” said Jane Poston, who chairs the Chamber board. “And I think our community – and our business community - is behind this.

Many of our businesses already have these kinds of policies.”

Chandler City Council earlier this month commissioned a study to look at the issue. Activists at the Chamber’s session Oct. 26 expressed hope the city is following a familiar path that other municipalities followed before they ended up passing a non-discrimination ordinance.

To get one, they will need four Council votes. It appears they only have two, with OD Harris and Matt Orlando expressing support. The rest of Council preferred passing a non-binding resolution.

“They need to understand that discrimination in any form is bad and we want to be a fully welcoming city,” said Rick Heumann, a former vice mayor who is taking over as the Chamber’s board chairman in 2022. “We have other cities that have passed this and we haven’t.

time to get from the gate to wherever the incident may be. When gates don’t work, it makes it even more difficult.”

Klug and Finch said that in two recent incidents, airport gates failed to open for fire crews. Fire vehicles emit a signal that the gates are supposed to pick up and open automatically when the fire engines get close.

Dwiggins says it’s the same system the Fire Department uses at any gated community in the city. But firefighters have a backup in case it doesn’t work.

“Sometimes there are issues,” Dwiggins said. “Along with the emitter system, there is a key system, where we put the key in, we turn it, and it opens the

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wife hiking in Mesa, Arizona now,” she said. “I’m having a really good time going out to eat in Scottsdale, Arizona now.

And I spend a lot of time in Glendale, Arizona now.

“When you multiply that by our friends and family, this is a missed opportunity to really have an authentic connection with LGBTQ and allied Arizonans and people who travel throughout this big, bold, beautiful state.”

Tucson was the first Arizona city to pass a LGBTQ non-discrimination ordinance in 1999. It was followed by Phoenix, Tempe, Flagstaff, Sedona, Winslow, Mesa, Scottsdale, Glendale and Tolleson.

Most of the ordinances are for all businesses no matter how small. However, Mesa exempted businesses with fewer than five employees. Glendale and Tolleson followed the Mesa version.

“It’s never easy anywhere,” Giuliano said. “You are dealing with a lot of what our culture has taught people to believe for a very long time, at least people in my generation. You have to break that down.”

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Tarwater kids connect with astronauts

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or more than a minute Tarwater Elementary School students were calling the International Space Station and all they got back in return was static.

Organizers said this is normal – and expected. They only had a brief window to make their call. They had to wait until the ISS appeared above the horizon before the radio signal would reach them.

“November-Alpha-One-Sierra-Sierra, November-Alpha-One-Sierra-Sierra, this is Whiskey-Seven-Mike-Radio-Foxtrot, Whiskey-Seven-Mike-Radio-Foxtrot, calling for a scheduled school contact, do you copy? Over.”

Only static came back.

They repeated that process about a half dozen times before a faint reply could be heard. They asked if the ISS was ready for questions. When they said yes, the students cheered.

So many things could have gone wrong that would have disappointed the stu-

Ham operator Jim Davies helps hold the microphone as Tarwater Elementary School first grader Clark Bennett uses amateur radio to ask a question of NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough on the International Space Station. (David Minton/Arizonan Staff Photographer) dents. But nothing went wrong and 10 students were able to quiz Astronaut Shane Kimbrough about his current sixmonth stay in space.

Principal Diane Hale said the first challenge to making that call last Wednesday was COVID-19. The school was approved to be one of a handful to get to speak to

the ISS last year but had to cancel because campuses were shut down.

They reapplied for this year and were one of only seven U.S. schools approved to contact the space station.

Jim Davies was one of the HAM radio operators who helped connect the school to the ISS. He said it was not an easy process.

“At the last second, one of our wires was loose and we weren’t able to transmit,” Davies said. “The smallest thing could go wrong and we don’t make the contact. When I first heard them come back it was a sigh of relief.”

The ISS travels at 17,500 miles per hour, so the window for talking to an astronaut onboard was only about 10 minutes before it would be below the horizon and the radio signal lost.

The 10 students chosen represent grades kindergarten through sixth grade. Still, Hale said all students had a chance to participate.

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CUSD, ADL denounce anti-Semitic remarks

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he Arizona chapter of the Anti-Defamation League is calling for the Chandler Unified School District to act after a woman made an anti-Semitic comment during the Oct. 27 meeting.

“We call upon CUSD to publicly demonstrate — in the strongest possible way — your commitment to fighting antisemitism and all forms of hate,” wrote Marc Krell, the associate regional director of ADL Arizona.

“ADL strongly condemns the use of antiSemitic tropes and stereotypes to promote antivaccine and anti-CRT views. This hateful rhetoric is dangerous and offensive and has no place in our schools,” he said.

During the time reserved for public comment, Melanie Rettler went on a rant about the COVID-19 vaccines and pharmaceutical companies. She ended the rant with an anti-Semitic reference.

Her remarks did not draw any immediate applause. However, as she collected her belongings and started to leave, Rettler said, “Oh, if you want to call me a

hater, go ahead,” several people clapped.

After calling up the next speaker, Board President Barb Mozdzen made a comment.

“I would also like to remind people that there are some things that we as — your comments really need to be related to what the school board can do something about. And this was not something that we can do something about. Please, please have your comments with something that is within our jurisdiction.”

The district issued a statement the following day over the incident signed by interim Superintendent Frank Narducci.

“The CUSD Governing Board and Administration condemns the hate speech that occurred during Wednesday night’s citizens comments segment of the October 27, 2021 Governing Board meeting,” he wrote. “An individual from the greater community made anti-Semitic remarks while addressing the governing board during the Citizens Comments portion of the meeting. The statement is inconsistent with the Vision, Mission and Core Values of the Chandler Unified School District.

We strongly denounce the anti-Semitic

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statement made.

“All Chandler Unified School District students, staff, and community members deserve to feel safe, respected and valued.

“The district reaffirms its commitment to use its influence as a public educational institution to teach students the value of an inclusive community and give them the tools to engage in our increasingly diverse society. Chandler Unified School District denounces hate speech at all levels.”

Rettler identified herself as a veterinarian during her comments, which were focused on what she called the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccine and Critical Race Theory. She is among a group of parents who have been regular attendees at the meetings and have focused on criticizing CRT, even though it is not taught in Chandler Unified.

The district also released a statement from the East Valley Jewish Community Center.

“We are also deeply disturbed by comments made at [Wednesday’s] CUSD board session,” wrote Rabbi Michael Beyo, the He’s CEO of the East Valley Jewish Community Center for Holocaust Education.

“The East Valley JCC applauds the Chandler Unified School District (CUSD) Governing Board and Administration and Interim Superintendent, Mr. Franklin Narducci, for leading by example and speaking out against the hatred of all people,” Beyo wrote, adding: “During the public comment period, a resident of the East Valley espoused anti-Semitic tropes. These comments are dangerous and untrue.

“While the East Valley JCC does not issue statements for individual comments from the public, in this case we must speak out.

Comments like these are ignorant and hurtful and we are grateful for community partners such as the CUSD who take a strong stand against anti-Semitism.”

Scores of people commented on various social media sites denouncing the comments. Some also critized the way Mozdzen handled the matter. Many were upset that neither she nor any other board member condemned the remark.

However, state law forbids board members from responding to public comments made during the comment portion of a meeting.

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Nomination papers and petitions may be filed beginning Jan. 5, 2022 and must be completed and filed with the SRP Corporate Secretary no later than 5 p.m. on Feb. 4, 2022.

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former Ahwatukee private school teacher accused of a sexual relationship with a student that started when she was 15 was allowed to travel out of state even though he allegedly tried to get citizenship in a foreign country to avoid arrest, according to court records.

But Justin Walters, 30, of Tempe, on Oct. 11 lost a second bid to travel outside Arizona after the girl’s lawyer complained and the prosecutor objected.

“He’s being treated as if nothing is wrong,” attorney Chase Rasmussen said, according to a legal filing by Deputy County Attorney Marcus Beecher. “He’s getting to live his life while my client is suffering with the after effects.”

Walters, a former teacher at his mother’s Desert Gardens Montessori School, faces 10 felony counts alleging a sexual relationship with the girl that began June 4, 2019, when he allegedly bought an air mattress and alcohol from Walmart and took her to the desert for a tryst in the back of his pickup truck.

According to the arrest affidavit, the girl told detectives that Walters began grooming her when she was 14 when they were on a school trip to Puerto Rico.

“The victim and Justin began messaging each other and Justin told the victim that he had feelings for her and was attracted to her,” the arrest affidavit states.

Walters had the victim create a Snapchat account and after asking her to send photos, “the victim sent Justin sexually explicit pictures,” police said, and he in turn sent her sexually explicit photos of himself.

She eventually met with Phoenix detectives last Dec. 30 – eight days after their last sexual encounter, according to the affidavit. “The victim stated she and Justin had a lot of sex,” the affidavit states.

At the time of his arrest, the school released a statement that said, “The employee who was arrested has not been associated with the school since December of 2020.”

Court records show that two days after the firl's interview with detectives, Walters fled to Turkey.

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provided in July, she and Walters were communicating while he was abroad.

“The victim disclosed that he said he was in Ukraine and then Montenegro and that he was trying to find a way to get citizenship,” Beecher told Superior Court Judge Michael Kemp. “He said getting citizenship was hard but he could do it if his family made an investment to the country of $250,000.

“The victim also disclosed that he talked to her about not wanting to go to prison and mentioned that he had a plan, which the victim interpreted as a plan to get a fake identity.”

Rasmussen provided additional information about Walters’ sojourn abroad, stating, “Justin spoke to my client herself about getting Montenegro citizenship and that his uncle was helping him with that.

“The Walters’ family was followed on social media when they left for other trips that defendant was supposed to be on,” Beecher quotes Rasmussen. “There were minors present the whole time, many of which are current students at the school.

He is not to be around any minors or members of the school. We find it hard to believe that his trip will not include minors.”

Within a few weeks of his June release from jail on a $100,000 cash bond, Walters obtained permission from a Superior Court commissioner to leave the state for a trip as long as he arranged to have electronic monitoring.

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The current St. Benedict Catholic Church building, Left, will be radically transformed into a real church edifice, Right. Parishioners planning that transformation hope to have it completed by Christmas 2022. (Photo above: David Minton/Arizonan Photographer; Rendering: HAD Architects LLC)

St. Benedict’s overcomes obstacles to a church edi�ice

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Arizonan Executive Editor

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he road to a real edifice has been a long and sometimes heartbreaking journey for the congregation of St. Benedict Catholic Church in Ahwatukee.

It began promising enough.

In June 2018, just six weeks after launching a fund drive to cover half the cost of a $7 million, 20,000-square-foot church on 48th Street south of Chandler Boulevard, the building committee had raised $2.5 million.

Hopes were high that a new building would be open on Christmas Day 2019.

But in August 2018, Father Bob Binta – the congregation’s beloved pastor and chief cheerleader for a new building – passed away after a battle with cancer.

Then, in May 2019, building campaign General Manager Eamonn Ahearne announced that the committee of dedi-

cated parishioners was dialing back its schedule after some financial soulsearching.

But the congregation was determined to replace the gymnasium-like building that has served about 1,300 families, many of them in Chandler, for more than 15 years.

And at 10 a.m. this Saturday, Nov. 6, Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmstead will lead the groundbreaking for a real church edifice on S. 48th Street south of Chandler Boulevard that parishioners aim to open by Christmas of next year.

The groundbreaking will mark a major step in a journey that began nearly seven years ago for a few dozen parishioners who have devoted countless months to raising money, poring over budgets and hashing out design ideas.

St. Benedict Building Committee Chairman Bob Prezkop said plans radi-

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Because of cost, Pastor Fr. James Aboyi, V.C., in May 2020 urged the committee to consider making the existing building look like a church.

The plans that the committee came up with so radically altered the big-box-like structure, Prezkop said, that last February “when we presented it to our parishioners, many of them said, ‘Where’s the old building? What did you do with it?’”

“Once that design was accepted,” he continued, “we then brought on our interior committee and a number of other committees to assist us with going into the detail.”

The result is a radical transformation of the existing building’s exterior and interior that is expected to cost roughly half the estimated $7.3 million that a new building would have cost.

Most of the existing building will be redesigned.

There will be a new and larger sanctuary, where Mass is held, will be built on the west side, repositioned from its current location on the building’s north side. Two sacristies are planned for priests and deacons to prepare for services and store their vestments and other essentials.

A bell tower operating on a carillon system will be built and a 100-seat chapel will be added that may afford almost 24/7 access without access to the main church.

Real pews will replace folding chairs, a new altar will be built and even a choir

loft wired for an organ will be added with two staircases and elevator. Plans call for a bride room, a “cry room,” new lighting and upgraded audio-visual and HVAC systems.

Prezkop said the overall design will increase the main part of the church’s capacity from roughly 600 to about 800 congregants.

The pandemic has proven to be no significant obstacle to the parishioners involved in the whole process as Zoom meetings with architects could be held and “when we did have face-to-face meetings we had masks and stayed six feet apart,” Prezkop said.

“One of the benefits of having a small core team was that we could move forward during the pandemic,” he added.

Prezkop anticipates construction will begin soon after the groundbreaking, but added that the Christmas 2022 opening target will depend on how quickly the congregation can get the necessary building permits from the city.

Then there are also the supply line hassles that could make getting building materials – and possibly more costly.

“We’re always concerned” about rising materials costs,” Prezkop said, “but we seem to be in decent shape right now.”

He said when the team last year realized it would have to drop “Plan A,” I was disappointed, the team was disappointed.”

“But we thought out of the box, came up with a great solution and were able to move forward to groundbreaking and, hopefully, our future Mass next year.”

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lance couldn’t get through the gates because the gates were broken,” Finch said.

“The chains had fallen off the gates.”

He said that happens often.

Pilot Marvin Wessel has been advocating for better fire security at the airport for years. In May 2020, he was testing his aircraft when a fire started in the brakes.

Most of his plane was destroyed before firefighters were able to respond and put it out. He said it took firefighters 16 minutes to reach his plane after they were called by the tower.

Wessel has filed a claim against the city seeking compensation for the loss of his plane. City officials were unable to discuss his case because it is currently under litigation.

Klug was one of the firefighters who responded to that fire, and said they were unable to get into the airport because the gates were inoperable. He said he did not know Wessel before that day.

“The gate wouldn’t open,” Klug said. “I was first to the west side, and I couldn’t make access. There was another unit on the … south side, and that gate wouldn’t work either. By the time we actually got

Chandler Fire Chief Thomas Dwiggins shows the proximity of fire stations to the Municipal Airport. (David Minton/Arizonan Staff Photographer) on the scene, to Marv Wessel’s airplane, there was really nothing we could do about it.”

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Right now, there are four Chandler fire stations and one Gilbert station within four miles of the airport’s tower.

The closest is little more than two miles away.

Wessel said Chandler is the only general aviation airport out of the top 40 its size that does not have a fire station within a mile of it.

Dwiggins said right now his biggest priority is in the northern half of the city.

Fire Station 2 has only two units and it is handling about 4,000-to-4,500 calls per year. Most city fire stations get around 2,500 calls a year.

Dwiggins said he hopes to fix that problem with the bond issue currently before voters. If Question 2 passes on Nov. 2, he said, the city will have the money to expand the current station so it can house an additional two units to deal with the high number of incidents in that area.

By comparison, Dwiggins and Turner said there have been only 57 incidents at the airport in the past three years.

The other major issue both Klug and Finch pointed to as a concern is training.

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Refreshed airport area plan aims for economic gains

BY KEN SAIN Staff Writer

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he airpark surrounding Chandler Municipal Airport is mostly developed, with only about 15 percent of vacant land remaining.

So it’s a surprising time to update the master plan. And that’s exactly what the City Council did at its Oct. 14 meeting.

“We have a series of area plans that are aging,” said Kevin Mayo, the city’s planning administrator. “They were all adopted when Chandler was in kind of the build-up mentality and growth curve. As we’re hitting under 10 percent of vacant land left in Chandler, we’re in an in-fill and development frame of mind. All of our area plans will be getting a look.”

This city is running out of room to grow, so projects need to be more focused and reflect that new reality. Still, the changes the Chandler City Council made to the Airpark Area Plan last week were pretty minor, although the plan stresses the need for its existence: “The Chandler Airpark Area represents the last great chance for economic development in the City of Chandler.”

Mayo said, “It wasn’t viewed as a complete rewrite. It was a refining of the 1998 Area Plan.”

Mayo said one goal they had was not to change any non-residential land to residential.

The Airport Master Plan, a separate document that was considered in the update of airpark area document, called encroachment by residential development, particularly apartments a threat to the airport’s viability as an economic engine for the city.

“Basically, we doubled down on the intent for employment growth,” Mayo said said.

Planners focused on which types of businesses they hope to bring to Chan-

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case, but court records do not indicate whether the offer was initially made by the County Attorney or Walters’ lawyer, Robin Puchek.

Puchek on Sept. 15 told the judge that Walters wanted to take a three-day trip to Nashville for his father’s birthday and that “there will be a majority of his immediate

The Chandler Airpark Area Plan seeks to make the most out of available land for innovation (pink shaded). (City of Chandler) dler: high tech and aviation companies, research and development firms and health care businesses.

The original Airpark Area Plan was adopted in 1998, when there was little but farmland surrounding the airport. The two exceptions were the start of a subdivision south of Queen Creek Road and the city’s water treatment facility.

Another update Council approved to its master plan involved design standards.

They are raising the bar because they want to attract top businesses and ensure the airpark is able to retain those companies.

family present for the trip.”

In that petition, Puchek also wrote, “There is a plea offer outstanding and counsel is in the process of preparing some evidence for a deviation request.”

“The defendant has been very helpful with that aspect of the case,” Puchek wrote. “It is counsel’s belief that based on the nature and number of the charges, as well as the nature of the evidence as re-

“A previous airpark area plan did not have design guidelines, so it was all regulated on a case-by-case basis through our zoning and design review process,” Mayo said.

Mayo said the hope was that all the development would have been completed around the airport by now. However, both the economic downturn caused by the banking crisis in 2008 and the COVID pandemic slowed down their momentum.

“A predecessor to me, and a predecessor for our economic development director once said, ‘One of the best resources a city can have is vacant land for

flected in the police reports and witness interviews, this case is likely to settle short of trial.”

Attorneys were to meet last week with Kemp to discuss a trial, which has been designated a “complex case” because of “voluminous discovery, number of counts, nature of charges, need for expert witnesses.”

An earlier scheduled Nov. 4 trial date

uses that you don’t even know yet.'”

Now, Mayo said that this update to the Airpark Area Plan will serve as a guide for the next 20 years to that part of the city. He said it would have been our earlier, but like so many other projects, it got delayed by the pandemic.

Mayo said now that the airpark is done, the next area they will focus on is downtown, which he said has seen tremendous growth.

And then it will be on to the next area plan.

Information: chandleraz.gov/chandlerairparkareaplan. has been pushed to Feb. 3 and the prosecution already has indicated it will seek “enhanced sentences” if Walters is convicted.

Beecher has filed six aggravating circumstances to justify a harsh sentence if Walters is convicted in a trial.

Among those aggravating circumstances is “a betrayal of trust” and “a need to protect future victims from the defendant.” ■

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Luxury pet supply sales help Chandler woman heal

BY KEN SAIN Staff Writer

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handler resident Stéphanie Rabinowitz said it didn’t take long for her life to change directions.

“It only takes one second to change your whole life around,” she said. “I was perfectly fine before that. I’m definitely not what I used to be.”

Raninowitz walked outside of her home in Washington state and tripped and fell in 2014. The city was constructing the 520 bridge near Seattle and she said workers failed to level the road after having dug it up for a trench.

“It basically wiped my life out for four years,” said Rabinowitz, who trained for triathlons before the fall. “I fell on my face, I ended up using a cane for two years. I had to go to rehab to learn to walk again.”

That even delayed her web-based business, Le Pet Luxe, dedicated to pet supplies. She has since moved to Chandler and says the business she started in 2012 is finally taking off.

“We’re definitely growing, we’re get-

ucts, from clothing and food to bowls and beds. Rabinowitz said what she specializes in is customer service. She said many customers are surprised when an actual person returns their call.

Rabinowitz said she offers quality luxury goods at reasonable prices.

She said that kind of customer care has led to great reviews and good word-of-mouth buzz that has helped build her business.

When one customer called asking for a wheelchair for her dog, Rabinowitz said she immediately started researching options.

Rabinowitz said the hottest selling item on her website this month Chandler resident Stéphanie Rabinowitz suffered a dog costumes. Some are buying serious fall when she lived in Washington and has them for Oktoberfest, others are found that her luxury pet supply business helps her buying them for Halloween. focus on recovering. (David Minton/Arizonan Staff) She said it’s important to her that the website do more than sell ting more orders, which is great,” Rabigoods. She also posts safety videos. nowitz said.

In one, she sits inside a parked car for The website offers a variety of prod- 15 minutes with a thermometer to show

how hot they can get.

Another video discusses how fireworks are behind two of the biggest days of the year where many pets run away and get lost. A timelier tip is keep your black cats inside for the rest of this month. Some children will get rough with black cats the closer it gets Halloween.

I’m just trying to give a lot of education, and [support] rights for the animals,” Rabinowitz said.

She said her business was able to survive the pandemic because she was already operating out of her Chandler home. That, and people will still take care of their pets, even during an economic downturn.

“These are their babies, you’re still going to take care of your babies, feed them, give them treats,” she said. “I was working from home before the pandemic, so I don’t mind it.”

Rabinowitz says she’s still recovering from that one second that changed her life.

She still suffers from PTSD, but focusing on her business has helped her recover.

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Mega indoor pickleball venue coming to Chandler

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Arizonan Executive Editor

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t was only a matter of time and Chandler resident Mike Rodrigues is seizing the moment.

Sometime in the first three months of 2022, he plans to open Pickleball Kingdom, a 16-court indoor facility in Chandler that will eliminate the biggest prob-

lem facing devotees of the fast-growing sport: Arizona’s weather.

And not just the 100-plus-degree temps that come with it.

“For the serious and advanced player, the elements have to go,” said Rodrigues, who is retrofitting the anchor – a Gold’s Gym – of the strip mall on the northeast corner of Rural and Ray roads where an Oct. 1 gas explosion injured four men.

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Mike Rodrigues said his Pickleball Kingdom will eliminate the biggest bane to the game: Arizona’s weather. (David Minton/Staff Photographer) “I never thought of Arizona as windy until I started playing pickleball,” he explained. “Since it is a whiffle ball, the slightest amount of breeze can carry what would have been a great cut shot and land it 2 inches out of bounds. Playing indoors will take all the extraneous elements out so that the only thing that affects your game – is your game. And that’s what the best players want, to let their game stand on its own.”

“Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in America because it’s fun,” he added.

“What’s not fun is waiting for a court, playing in the heat, and having the wind affect your game. We’ve solved all those problems.”

Along with 16 courts and air conditioning, Rodrigues has a number of amenities planned for Pickleball Kingdom: memberships, an app to make reservations, tournaments and leagues, a pro shop, locker rooms and showers, a lounge, snack bar and even beer and wine.

And he’ll be carving out times and places for birthday parties, corporate events and similar activities that are virtually impossible to arrange at a public park.

He’ll even have ball machines, similar to those used in tennis, that will spit out the whiffle balls so players can work on their swing.

Pickleball Kingdom assuredly will be the largest indoor pickleball venue in the state and one of the largest, if not the

biggest, in the country.

Rodrigues sees it as the next iteration in a sport that has taken off like wildfire – first among athletically-inclined and health-focused senior citizens and now a sport that has caught on with people of all ages.

The National Pickleball Association saw its membership increase by 650 percent between 2013 and 2019.

The Sports & Fitness Industry Association, which tracks the popularity of sports through the sale of related merchandise, estimated that from 2018 to the end of last year, the number of active pickleball players has grown from 3.1 million to 4.2 million.

That growth included a 21.3 percent increase last year over 2019 as the pandemic forced Americans to rethink social distancing and the value of socializing outdoors, the Sports & Fitness Industry Association said.

Municipalities can’t keep up with the demand for more free places to play and have spent millions of dollars over the last five years to try and feed the voracious appetite for courts.

But Rodrigues said all those facilities still have the disadvantage of weather.

“In the summer, people only play at night because it’s too hot,” he said. “But even when the weather is better, the sun is a factor since no one wants to be in for too long for fear of contracting skin

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cancer.”

Then there are the waits for court times at many public parks.

“For the novice player,” Rodrigues said, “it will simply be a much better experience. For them, reserving courts is everything since they don’t play that often, so spending half their time waiting for a court to open up is a deal breaker.”

Rodrigues’ business model differs from the few indoor facilities nationally that combine restaurants and outdoor play areas – with fewer courts.

“Those are looking to be to pickleball what Top Golf is to golf,” he said. “There’s a market and need for that. It will introduce a lot of new people to the sport and they will be able to play in a very recreational environment.

“But they will still have to deal with the sun,

heat, cold, and wind. Within that golf analogy Pickleball Kingdom would be, instead of Top Golf, a championship golf course with a driving range. The environment and expectation will be very different.”

He noted that technology “has radically improved paddles, rules are being tweaked to optimize the sport and national regulatory bodies are jockeying for position. I believe the next iteration in pickleball’s evolution is to bring the sport indoors.”

A player for only about two years, Rodrigues said he was hooked on pickleball “in less than five minutes” his first time on the courts.

“What’s so enticing about pickleball is that the initial learning curve is so short,” he said. “In 10 minutes, the average person will be able to play a somewhat decent game. That’s unheard of for most sports.

“For example, I took up golf seriously

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about two years ago. As a former college quarterback, I foolishly believed that my hand-eye coordination would allow me to breeze through the steep learning curve of that sport. Well, after tons of practice on the range, countless rounds of golf, lessons and a new set of clubs, golf is still kicking my butt.

Whether someone has athletic ability or none whatsoever, they will be able to get into their pickleball groove quickly.

Then, once a player is competent, there’s a whole new level of play that they can aspire to. You can get good quickly but never master it… which keeps you coming back to play.”

And his business will cater to that appetite for improvement with his drop-in times, leagues and tournaments.

“Since you can’t play pickleball by yourself, a universal problem is finding people to play with, ideally at or around

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Klug has raised another issue about fire safety and the airport.

“Training needs to be addressed, there has been no training on the airport environment,” said Klug, who retired from the Chandler Fire Department in May. “Right before I was hired, we did a training. All we did was take a lap around the outside of the airport to see where all the gates were. That was the extent of our airport training.”

Dwiggins said train firefighters from the four stations closest to the airport are trained and that he is considering a joint training exercise with firefighters from the Gilbert station that's closest to the airport.

“We assigned every supervisor, and every person who is not a supervisor but can potentially move up into a supervisor position, to … review our standard operating guidelines on airport response. Then they had to go to physically go to the airport, but we had a battalion chief meet them and literally … look at all the gates, talk about the access points, talk about the runway, go over all the maps, and just talk about overall response.

“We sent every truck in the city through that training.”

City officials said the training took place in April and another round in July.

An aircraft crashed into the airport’s perimter fence and burned in July after sliding off the runway. (Chandler Fire Department) Finch had cited a lack of training at the airport in his remarks Oct. 14 to City Council.

“I was really surprised to hear when he said that because it just wasn’t true,” Dwiggins said.

Krug said the chief suspended him for a day because he voiced concerns about airport safety and that the suspension was one of the factors that led him to retire.

“I went to a users group meeting, for

the airport, as an airport user, while simultaneously being employed as a firefighter,” Klug said. “I gave an opinion that I was asked for. I gave it, and I got suspended for 24 hours."

“They are going to say there was a gag order for me as a firefighter being on Marv Wessel’s incident because he put in a notice of claim. However, there wasn’t.

“There was an email that came out that requested a preservation of elec-

your same skill level,” he said.

“What we will have at Pickleball Kingdom are daily drop-in play times, where people can sign up on our mobile app and then just show up. They will be placed into games with others who are rated at the same level as they are.”

Then, he believes, the monthly tourneys and weekly leagues will further help the pickleball community “to grow, thrive, and elevate together.”

“Pickleball’s popularity is enormous and growing,” he added. “People want to play. And once they play indoors, void of all the elements but with the comforts of a club, we believe that they’ll recognize that playing indoors on dedicated, outdoor surfaced courts is the way to go.”

Enthusiasts can follow Pickleball Kingdom’s development on Facebook and by signing up for announcements at PickleballKingdom.com. tronic documentation. But there was no email or anything that stated, ‘This pilot is suing the city or put in a notice of claim for the value of aircraft. Please do not discuss this with anybody.’

“I went to that meeting and I suggested a fire station, and I made it perfectly clear that I was not in any way representing the Fire Department. I was representing myself as a frequent user of that airport.”

Dwiggins said he could not discuss the situation because it is a personnel issue.

Krug stressed that the concerns he has raised about fire safety at the airport should not reflect poorly on the Chandler’s firefighters.

“I think the men and women of the Chandler Fire Department, the line people, the ones that actually respond to the emergencies, put their lives at risk, and wade through sickness and disease every day they come to work, they are the best,” Krug said. “I spent the past 23 years, and I think the men and women are … No. 1, without question.”

And Dwiggins said he is not ruling out pushing for a station at the airport.

“It’s absolutely worth thinking about,” he said. “We’re going to look at the probability of incidents, we’re going to look the impact that it’s going to have on the entire system, we’re going to look at the consequences it has to the citizens. It’s an equation that applies values and it tells us exactly where we need to be putting resources.”

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free three-day getaway at Cabo San Lucas, a private suite at Churchill Downs, $500 worth of hypnosis weight-loss sessions and a $500 Walmart gift card are among the prizes people can win while simultaneously helping homeless veterans.

Those and other goodies will be auctioned online through Nov. 10 by Jewish War Veterans Copper State Post 619. To sign up, go to bid123.io/JWV or phone 888-577-4011 The post’s “A Hand Up 4 Vets” auction features several dozen prizes that have been assembled by a committee that has worked for months to secure more than 60 donations from generous area businesses and others.

“We wanted to create a fundraiser that would be COVID-safe for all of our retired members, the majority of whom are not as young as I am,” joked 90-yearold Auction Committee Chair and Senior Vice Commander Owen Fabert. “We

This collage represents some of the goodies up for bid in the auction. (Courtesy of JWV Post 619) decided an online auction would be a perfect way for our community to help homeless veterans for now.”

“We are thrilled about the quality and uniqueness of our auction items,” he added. “The participating organizations have really stepped up and given us a range of exciting special experiences and items.”

Proceeds will go to nonprofits such as Veterans First, which prevents home-

lessness and stabilizes the lives of women veterans; MANA House, which offers transitional living for homeless veterans; AZ Veterans Stand Down Alliance, which offers resources for thousands of homeless and at-risk vets at annual events; and US Vets-Phoenix, which serves more than 1,200 homeless veterans annually.

Auction Committee member Nancy Stutman noted that two of every five

people experiencing homelessness live in places unfit for human habitation.

“Homeless veterans require an array of services to get them back on their feet as productive, contributing citizens,” she said. “While there are service providers, they are underfunded and need support.”

Among the major gifts are three trips for two: classroom training and a chance to drive a NASCAR Monster Energy car on a professional track; a private Jockey Club Suite at the famed Kentucky thoroughbred racetrack Churchill Downs; and a two-night hotel stay and the other a three-day, four-night stay in an oceanfront hotel suite in Cabo San Lucas. The trips do not include airfare.

Another high-dollar item is an 18-inch gold diamond-and-emerald necklace that Fabert has donated.

For more adventurous folks, the auction is offering a desert flight for five in a WW2 C-45 Expeditor or a 30-minute open-cockpit flight in a WWII biplane.

Be in the know about events in Chandler Celebrate with Chandler! There are happenings of all kinds throughout the community nearly every day of the year. Everyone can find something to love in the City of Chandler, from blockbuster festivals to live concerts to cultural celebrations, signature events, and family-friendly fun.

Visit chandleraz.gov/special-events Just one example of an upcoming event, the Field of Honor Memorial Ribbon Cutting Ceremony takes place Nov. 11 at 5 p.m. at Veterans Oasis Park

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ting out young families with school-age children.

“There’s no such thing as really truly entry-level housing available in the district,” Brammer told the board.

There also are other reasons for the anticipated decline in the number of students attending CUSD schools: charter and private schools are attracting more and more students; the birth rate in Arizona has dropped by almost a third since the Great Recession; and the city is approaching build-out so most of the new developments tend to be for smaller families, many of which do not have children.

That trend will likely continue.

“We’re at the normal point of the growth curve of any city the size of Chandler,” said Kevin Mayo, the city’s planning administrator. “You start by running out to your geographical borders, and once you hit them that wave comes back in.”

With fewer and smaller spaces to develop, investors are looking to get the most money they can – which means smaller but denser projects.

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Any young couple looking for a home to raise a family is probably looking in Maricopa because of home prices.

The Maricopa Association of Governments reports the median price of home sold in Chandler was $165,000 in 2011.

Through July of this year that number has jumped to $419,950.

That has led to the city’s population getting older. MAG reports the median age for a Chandler resident was nearly two years older in 2019 than it was in 2014.

The number of residents 18 and younger has dropped by 3,462 in that six-year period.

All of that leads to fewer children in public schools.

With Chandler at about 90 percent developed, there are fewer spaces to build more housing. However, Scott Wilken, the senior planning project manager for Maricopa Association of Governments, says the city will continue to add housing.

“Cities will keep growing. Tempe is the best example of that,” he said. “They reached build-out years ago, but they’re still growing. The buildings are going up and they’re redeveloping older properties.”

With fewer options, younger fami-

lies are looking outside of Chandler for homes.

“The demographics … show a shift to an older age group, which is somewhat natural,” Brammer said. “People are staying in their houses longer, they’re living longer, house prices … are keeping people in their houses right now, because you don’t want to move because you can’t afford to buy something else.”

Brammer says there are just under 44,000 students attending CUSD schools this year – an increase of only 28 pupils from the previous year. COVID-19 pandemic forced the district’s first decline since 2000.

CUSD had 45,565 students in 2019.

Brammer said officials feared many parents who pulled their children out of public schools last year would not return, and he says the data proved that to be true.

Brammer’s company predicts CUSD will have only 42,844 students enrolled in the fall of 2030. And more than 6,400 will be children who live outside of the district but choose to attend a CUSD school.

He told the Governing Board it was evidence of the district’s good reputa-

tion that 13.3 percent of their current students live outside of the district.

Still, the competition from charter and private schools will only get stronger.

“In this 10-year period, … the number of schools increased from 14 to 24, and their enrollment increased from 4,500 to 11,500,” Brammer said. “They effectively gained 7,000 students, while the district gained 5,500.”

He said that mirrors what is happening around the rest of the state, pointing out enrollment at district schools has not increased since 2010.

The biggest reason why school enrollment will drop, Brammer argues, is that not enough babies are being born in Arizona.

The state’s birth rate dropped 19.2 percent from the time the Great Recession hit in 2008 until the recovery was under way in 2011. Brammer said usually it bounces back up after a big dip.

Not this time. From 2014 until 2020 it has dropped another 16.5 percent. The result of that is in the latest Census data.

In 2000, children 13 and younger made up 22.5 percent of the district’s population. That number remained constant in

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the 2010 Census, at 22.2 percent. In the 2020 Census it fell to 19.5 percent.

There’s a similar drop in people between the ages of 25 and 44, which are

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our whole school,” Hale said. “We’ve been collecting them for several months, then we had a committee that chose the favorites.”

Wednesday’s presentation was quite the production. Chandler Unified School District plans to post the video to its YouTube page.

In addition to the questions and answers with Kimbrough, the show included several videos and a performance by the school’s choir.

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the prime years to raise a family. They made up 47.1 percent of the population in 2000, 41 percent in 2010 and only 36.7 percent a decade later.

Brammer said there may be some short-term increase in enrollment be-

cause of a high level of construction projects already started. However, he said the district should expect a decline after that. And he expects to decline even faster as the city ages.

He gave district officials three projec-

tions. The best-case scenario for keeping enrollment high would be to get more parents to choose to public schools. And in that case, enrollment would remain about the same.

Otherwise, it’s going down.

The choir sang “ISS Is Somebody Singing” – written by Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield while he was living on the station. He had some help from the Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies in writing the song.

As the choir sang, students came out of several nearby classrooms to listen. Hale said everyone on campus has been looking forward to this event for months.

One of the videos played before contact was made had two children who are HAM radio operators explaining how

they would be talking to the ISS. There had to be line of sight, so a cloudy day could have ruined the whole event.

There were clear skies on Wednesday.

They needed a big antenna and then had to know the course the space station would take. A computer had to keep the antenna pointed at the station the entire time. The students had to constantly adjust for the Doppler effect. They needed equipment to boost the signal. And of course, the entire process had to be cleared with NASA. HAM radio operator Lionel Mongin

made the event possible. His daughters and son attend Tarwater and he approached the school, letting them know about the program.

Davies said they practiced making this contact for more than a month in order to avoid any problems.

If something went wrong, then there would be 10 very disappointed children looking at them, Mongin said.

“It was a lot of pressure on us,” he said.

Luckily, the space station answered the call.

ers “Showtime” jersey signed by Magic Johnson, three golfing experiences and a speed rep helmet signed by Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray – as well as personal care sessions such as four virtual hypnosis sessions with the Ellman Hypnosis Institute and a facial skin treatment package from Dr. David Hecht.

On the home front, Joyful Downsizing has donated two three-hour organizing sessions for people’s homes or garages.

And there are tickets to the Arizona Theater, Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival, the Chihuly/Las Noches de las Luminarias and others.

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Chandler chiropractor donates $1M to alma mater

BY KEN SAIN Staff Writer

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handler couple Dr. Arlan and Judith Fuhr say the following story is not all that uncommon.

“I was in Taiwan and we went up into the Tea Valley, where they do tea,” said Dr. Fuhr, a chiropractor. “We went into this place where they all have lunch ..., and I look over and here up on a riser, about a 6-inch riser was a guy doing Activator. He had my picture on the wall.

“So I walked over. I had a ball cap on, and I took my ball cap off, and he looked, and he looked twice, and he went, ‘The Activator god comes from heaven!’”

A moment later a woman came up to Fuhr and hugged him, saying something in Mandarin. He waited for the translation.

“I was bent over for 15 years until the Activator come to the Valley and now I can stand straight,” he recalled her saying.

The Fuhrs say something similar happens often. They recalled a woman in Australia who was told she would never walk again and a man in Pinetop who feared he had to go in for another back surgery. Both had happier endings.

That is the power of the Activator Adjusting Instrument – an invention by Dr. Fuhr and his partner, Dr. Warren Lee, that makes spinal adjustments without surgery and with little pain.

The more than 50-year-old invention is now used by 70 percent of chiropractors in the world.

Such success has allowed the Fuhrs to be generous now, most recently with a $1 million donation to Logan University near St. Louis, Missouri, for the expansion and renovation of its science center.

With that expanded center, the university said in a release, the additional 14,400 square feet will house state-of-the-art anatomy labs, a simulated imaging center, technique labs, faculty offices, additional student collaboration and study areas, and anatomage tables and 3D-simulation systems used by leading health care institutions throughout the world.

Right: Dr. Arlan Fuhr and his wife Judith of Chandler recently donated $1 million to his alma mater, Logan University in Missouri. Above: The new center will house a number of upgrades that Logan University says will greatly benefit students seeking a Doctor of Chiropractic degree. (Special to the Arizonan) “These features are important and necessary as the university continues to expand, add more degree programs and enroll even more students in both the College of Chiropractic and College of Health Sciences,” the university release stated.

Dr. Fuhr, a 1961 graduate of Logan, said, “Logan University provides a strong education rooted in science, research and evidence, and its graduates are solid and balanced in their practice.

I’ve dedicated my career to innovation so that we, as chiropractors, can help patients improve their health, and it’s an honor to give back to the university that has given me so much."In recognition of the generous gift, the university named the building after Dr. Fuhr.

That sits well with his wife, a former Chandler Unified School District Governing Board member, who said it’s best to honor someone while they’re still living than after they’re gone.

“I told the president of the college – he asked that same question, ‘What do you feel?’ I’m glad I’m here to enjoy it, ‘cause most things are named after people after

they’re gone.”

“I ran into this on the school board.

They were naming schools after people who were deceased,” Judith said. “And I said, ‘Why don’t we name them after people while they’re here?’”

Judith was born and raised in Chandler, and recalls a time when the city was mostly farms and there was only one traffic light. Dr. Fuhr grew up in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.

He chose to go to Logan, he said, because he didn’t have a lot of money then and he was offered a scholarhip.

It was Judith who pushed her husband to begin thinking about teaching online years before the pandemic forced that shift in nearly every industry. They now conduct online tutorials and seminars in five different languages around the world.

“When the pandemic hit, boy they were happy to have it,” Dr. Fuhr said. “I have to thank my wife for that.”

The Fuhrs said they decided to make the donation while they were doing estate planning.

“I said, ‘I feel we should give some-

thing now, so we can watch it grow, and be a part of it,” Judith said.

They did have one request: they wanted a museum to be part of the building.

One of the exhibits will be the original Activator that has positively changed so many lives around the world.

He was one of the people who helped Logan purchase the land for its campus in Chesterfield, Missouri, where the expanded science center is located.

“Logan has been a part of my life – well I graduated from there when I was 21,” Dr. Fuhr said. “Everything that I have today comes from that education.”

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Chandler hair salon duo aim to be a cut above

BY KEN SAIN Arizonan Staff Writer

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he key to being a business leader during a pandemic is to put people first.

So say two Chandler men who run 41 Sport Clips franchises in three states – Arizona, Oregon and Washington.

Val Hill and Jared Lee met during business school at Brigham Young University.

They were both working for Intel when they decided in 2005 to put their education to work and start their own business.

“Going through the pandemic was certainly a difficult thing,” Lee said. “We didn’t know what the status of our business was going to be. “I would say one of the key aspects that helped us, is that we didn’t lay anyone off,” Hill said.

“We continued to pay all of our people, and this was before PPP loan or any of that. We made the determination that our people are our biggest asset and we need to take care of our people.”

That meant paying them both their salaries and what they usually received in tips during the time the businesses were shut down, which was six weeks in Arizona and three months in the Pacific Northwest, without some of the help the federal government offered small businesses later.

The partners say they were able to do that because of how they managed their business before the pandemic:

Jared Lee, left, and Val Hill, visiting the Sport Clips location on 54th Street in Chandler, own 39 Sport Clips locations in three states, including Arizona and recently won an inhouse award for their work, (David Minton/Staff Photographer) they were conservative and had enough money in reserves to be able to weather rocky times.

“I think what that helped us do, is that helped us get us reopen quickly,” Hill said. “Once we were allowed to reopen, … we didn’t have to go try and find people that we laid off.”

For those efforts, the two men were named Sport Clips Business Leaders of the Year for 2020. It is the second time they’ve won that award – and they

looked at it as yet another recognition that leaving the corporate world to start their own business was the right call.

But choosing which business to go into was not easy.

“We looked at Subway, and Quiznos, and other franchises,” Lee said. “We looked at buying some land, and doing development, and building houses. We were generally in the market and looking around.”

It was Hill who suggested they look at

Dine-In Cinema that comes with a microbrewery.

Schultz says he hopes to have 20 locations open by next year – Chandler is his seventh. “We’re opening one every three weeks,” Schultz said. “It’s keeping me busy.”

So why Chandler?

“As I look around the country, there’s theaters that really matter, that are a

center point of the community,” Schultz said. “Those are the ones that we’re selecting to stand back up. It was closed and it’s a shame that the community of Chandler doesn’t have a central gathering place that’s a high-quality theater.”

The theater, at the corner of Arizona Avenue and Chandler Boulevard, previously housed Flix Brewhouse, which did not survive the pandemic.

Sport Clips. He said the fact that there was nothing else like it – a haircut chain that focused on men - is what appealed to him. He just had to convince his partner.

“What’s that, like video things for kids?” Lee recalled saying. He said his initial reaction was two dudes in the haircut business was not the right fit.

Hill suggested they go get a haircut at the Gilbert location to check it out.

After enjoying that experience, and doing more research, they bought their first three franchises. They also now own that Gilbert location they checked out 16 years ago.

For the first five years they poured any money they made back into the business, getting more franchises. That’s how they reached the 41 they operate today.

They say the reason they can operate so many locations in three different states is because of the people they hired, and the entrust to run each location.

“The key to it all is you have to have good people that you work with,” Lee said. “We have an amazing group of area managers and store managers.”

Hill agreed.

“We empower our people to … run things,” he said. “The store manager views that store as her store. They’re empowered to hire and fire, spend money to buy what they need. We don’t constrain them much.”

Putting their people first has paid off, even during a pandemic.

Downtown cinema owner ‘looks’ to sudsy future

BY KEN SAIN Staff Writer

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ook Dine-In Cinemas has big plans as the company continues to open theaters across the nation.

And the location that owner Brian Schultz opened in downtown Chandler on Oct. 14 is giving him a chance to try something new: This is the first Look

Don’t go looking for any custom-made brews just yet. Look is still in the process of getting the proper license to brew its own suds. Until then, they will offer traditional beer and other alcoholic beverages.

“We’ve been talking about doing a lot of custom blends, and we can’t wait to get that back up and started,” Schultz said.

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To run his first microbrewery, Schultz hired the woman who did that job for Flix.

“The bonus I have is I know this system,” Marisa Bernal said. “I built this system, so once we fire up, everything should be OK.” Bernal said she often gets her inspiration for a new beer flavor from the new movies being released.

“As a cinema brewery, we actually do all of our beers are going to be pushed out with big movie releases,” she said.

She talked about her process by using the upcoming release of a new Spider-Man film in December. She said she could adjust the recipe dozens of times before finding the right flavor.

Schultz is hoping it will be more than beer that brings people to his theater. He said former Flix patrons should notice some big changes.

First, Schultz said they should notice is the sound system. He says they invested in a much better sound system.

Then there is the menu itself. Schultz said they will offer everything from sushi to peanut butter and jelly sliders.

But there’s something else that patrons should notice first.

Left: City dignitaries and community leaders lined up for the ribbon cutting Oct. 14 at the new Look Dine-In Cinema in downtown Chandler. Right: Look Dine-In Cinema owner Brian Schultz said the Chandler location, his seventh, is the first with its own brewery.

(David Minton/Staff Photographer)

“One of the pillars of Look Cinemas is the non-distracting movie-going experience,” Schultz said. “We come in and we do all of the service before the main feature begins, so we don’t do service during.”

He said people can still order from

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their phones during the movie.

“When we are in the auditorium during the movie, we have ninja servers who are all in black. We have to be really careful. Dine-in movies are so great, but sometimes they can be a distraction.”

Each seat in the seven theaters has its own unique QR code that will bring up the menu when you aim your phone at it.

And maybe by January after they get a license, they’ll also be able to bring a custom-made brew.

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CUSD naming Chandler weight room after beloved coach

BY ZACH ALVIRA Arizonan Sports Editor

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hris Chick was more than just a beloved assistant football coach for Chandler High School’s powerhouse football program.

He was a friend, a mentor and an overall loving presence on campus. He wasn’t afraid to engage in conversation with anyone. And if you listened, he became even more comfortable with you.

Often, a simple conversation would turn into an hour or longer with Chick.

Not only did he enjoy the dialogue — especially when it was about football — but he genuinely enjoyed getting to know people. That, partnered with his football knowledge, is why his unexpected death in May sent shockwaves through the Arizona and Chandler football community.

Chick was just 42 years old.

“It’s still not real,” Chandler coach Rick Garretson said. “There’s not a day that goes by myself or a staff member doesn’t laugh about something with Chris. That was the influence he had on us. We are who we are because of his knowledge.”

Part of Chick’s legacy at Chandler was built in the weight room. He took pride in leading the team’s strength and conditioning efforts and would even help non-football players on campus achieve their weightlifting goals.

It didn’t matter if they played a sport or not, he treated them like one of his own.

To honor that legacy, fellow Chandler football assistant and head track and field coach Eric Richardson drafted a proposal to rename the weight room — which had recently been fully remodeled and built — after Chick. The resolution was brought to the Chandler Unified School District Governing Board at its meeting on Oct. 13. It passed 5-0.

“He deserves it,” Chandler senior strong safety Devin Dunn said. “He really motivated us and pushed us to be great in the weight room. It taught us that nothing in life would ever be easy. I think he taught us a lot of great lessons in this

Above: From left: Chandler senior defensive lineman Isaiah Johnson, head coach Rick Garretson and senior safety Devin Dunn said there isn’t a day that goes by where they don’t think of Chick and what he did for them in the weight room and on the field. (Corey Cross/Contributor) Right: The Chandler Unified School District Governing Board recently voted to rename the Chandler High School weight room after former football assistant Chris Chick, who passed away suddenly in May at 42 years old. (File Photo) room, off the field and on the field” Dunn and senior defensive lineman Isaiah Johnson recalled some of their favorite memories with Chick in the weight room. Along with his motivating personality, he also was known to crack jokes.

Often, he would enter the room and start playing his favorite rock music. The players, despite often not knowing who the artist was or the name of the song, would get amped up from the music.

If they started jumping around, Chick would join them and at times, head bang.

“The times with his music, yeah, that was fun,” Dunn said. “We had some good times with that.”

Johnson said it still doesn’t seem real Chick is no longer with them. Every day at practice he listens for his infectious laugh or boisterous yell while on the field. But it never comes.

Chick’s impact was felt on all of Chan-

dler’s players, regardless of whether they were directly coached by him or not.

There wasn’t a day that went by Chick wouldn’t gloat about the players he had in the trenches. He was their best friend, but he was also tough on them. But it made them successful.

Johnson, who would routinely go against Chandler’s starting offensive line in practice, recalled on several occasions hearing Chick yell from across the field. Sometimes, he was cheering for something one of his linemen did well. Other times he was scolding a player like most, if not all, football coaches do. But they always responded. They knew he cared about them.

“We would be hitting the bags and hear him yelling and everyone would stop and look,” Johnson said, laughing.

“He cared about the game and made sure we knew how important every detail was. He was hard on us but once you talk to him on the side, he was easy to talk to. He’s like a teddy bear.”

This season has been dedicated to Chick.

Chandler is currently in the process of

chasing its sixth straight state title and is the top-ranked team in the Open Division rankings for the third straight year.

Even with him not physically present, players and coaches know Chick is watching over them. It’s given them an extra level of motivation to continue dominating the way Chick challenged them to do in year’s past. “(Winning the title) would feel right,” Johnson said, adding what he would say to Chick if he had the opportunity.

“I would just say thank you for staying hard on us. He did it because that’s who he is and because he knew it was what he had to do for us to be successful.”

There isn’t a day that goes by that Garretson doesn’t think of Chick. Many referred to him as Garretson’s stepson because of their close bond. They sat together in the press box when Garretson was a coordinator under then-head coach Shaun Aguano. Both and the other coaches made a pact when Aguano left for Arizona State they would remain intact no matter who was picked by school administrators to take over the program.

The Chandler football community has a tight bond. But the bond between coaches on staff may be even stronger.

That’s why when Chick’s name is officially unveiled on the outer walls of the weight room, and his Jersey from his time playing for the University of California, Berkeley is hung up inside alongside the jerseys of former Chandler players who played or are currently playing in the NFL, it will be an emotional moment.

Garretson hopes to honor Chick and invite his family to the Wolves’ final home game this season against Highland on Nov. 5. Details are still being ironed out.

But no matter how the Wolves honor him this season, his name and legacy will live forever inside the walls of the weight room – his paradise.

“Having that cornerstone, having that rock, he was the rock,” Garretson said. “We took off when he took over the strength program.

“Having his name up there, it’s going to be awesome.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of James Charles Hess, Deceased NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as the Personal Representative of this estate.

All persons having claims against the estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented by delivering or mailing a written statement of the claim to undersigned Personal Representative at 10056 E. Keats Ave, Mesa Az 85209 DATED this 06, day of October 2021 /s/ Kristina Romero PUBLISHED: East Valley Tribune, dates of the October 17,24,31, 2021 / # 42024

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT STATE OF NEVADA, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ELKO CASE NO. DC-CV-21-46 Dept. I CHARLES LIZER and DENYSE E. LIZER, husband and wife, Plaintiffs, vs.

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YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. THE COURT MAY DECIDE AGAINST YOU WITHOUT YOU BEING HEARD UNLESS YOU FILE A RESPONSE WITH THE COURT WITHIN 20 DAYS. READ THE INFORMATION BELOW CAREFULLY. To the Defendant named above: A civil Complaint has been filed by the Plaintiffs against you. Plaintiffs are seeking to recover the relief requested in the Complaint, which could include a money judgment against you or some other form of relief.

If you intend to defend this lawsuit, within 20 days after this Summons is served on you (not counting the day of service), you must: File with the Clerk of the Court, whose address is shown below, a formal written response to Plaintiffs’ Complaint.

Pay the required filing fee of $198.00 to the Court, or file an Application to Proceed In Forma Pauperis and request a waiver of the filing fee.

Serve (by mail or hand delivery) a copy of your response upon the Plaintiffs whose name and address is shown below.

If you fail to respond, the Plaintiffs can request your default. The Court can then enter judgment against you for the relief demanded by the Plaintiffs in the Complaint, even though you have never appeared in Court. To enforce the judgment, Plaintiffs could take money or property from you or some other relief awarded by the Court.

If you intend to seek an attorney’s advice, do it quickly so that your response can be filed on time.

Given under my hand this 20th day of April, 2021.

CLERK OF THE COURT Rebecca Plunkett, Deputy Clerk ISSUED AT THE REQUEST OF: Robert J. Wines, Esq. Robert J. Wines, Prof. Corp.

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA IN AND FOR PINAL COUNTY Case No: DO2021-01436 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION TO ESTABLISH PATERNITY, LEGAL DECISION-MAKING, PARENTING TIME AND CHILD SUPPORT (Honorable Patrick Gard) n Re the Matter of: CORY SCHINDEHETTE, Petitioner, and MELISSA VARGAS, Respondent. TO: MELISSA VARGAS, Respondent/Mother in the above referenced matter. A Petition to Establish Paternity, Legal Decision-Making, Parenting Time,and Child Support and a Motion for Temporary Orders Re: Legal Decision-Making, Parenting Time and Child Support has been filed by Petitioner, CORY SCHINDEHETTE; NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: The Court has set a telephonic hearing on the Petition to Establish Paternity, Legal Decision-Making, Parenting Time, and Child Support on the 14th day of December, 2021 at 10:00 o’clock a.m., at the Pinal County Superior Court, located at 971 Jason Lopez Circle, Building A, Florence, Arizona 85132, before the Honorable Honorable Patrick K. Gard.

The Honorable Patrick K. Gard’s division can be reached at (520) 866-5405 and HYPERLINK "mailto:nbrokaw@courts.az.gov" nbrokaw@courts.az.gov. The hearing shall be set for 15 minutes, and the Court will not hear or take evidence at this hearing. FAILURE TO APPEAR TELEPHONICALLY AT THE HEARING MAY RESULT IN THE COURT ISSUING A CIVIL ARREST WARRANT, OR WHERE APPLICABLE, A CHILD SUPPORT ARREST WARRANT, FOR YOUR ARREST. IF YOU ARE ARRESTED, YOU MAY BE HELD IN JAIL FOR NO MORE THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE A HEARING IS HELD. Counsel and/or parties shall provide the Court’s Judicial Assistance, Natalie (520-866-5405 & HYPERLINK "mailto:nbrokaw@courts.az.gov" nbrokaw@courts.az.gov) with a telephone number, not less than two and not more than five judicial days prior to the hearing; the Court shall initiate the call as near the scheduled time as the Court’s calendar permits. Requests for reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities must be made to the office of the Judge or Commissioner scheduled to hear this case five days before your scheduled court date. If you are receiving this Notice by publication, you may obtain a copy of the Petition by submitting a written request to: Renee King, 7702 E. Doubletree ranch road, Suite 300, Scottsdale, Arizona 85258.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 27th day of October, 2021. GUYMON LAW /s/ Renee King Renee L. (Cook) King, Esq. Attorney for Petitioner.

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