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ASU alumna helps the less fortunate

BY ANNIKA TOMLIN

Glendale Star Staff Writer

Phoenix Rescue Mission Director of Community Engagement Jussane Goodman knows everyone needs a little help sometimes.

She needed direction after a hiccup at Arizona State University. However, it led to a career so gratifying that she hasn’t looked back.

“I was trying to get into the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, and they didn’t accept me because I didn’t have certain communication classes,” the ASU alumna said.

“I was asked, as a transfer student, to apply for a different degree then I would eventually be able to apply and transfer to the school. I did one semester in nonprofit leadership and management because I ended up in the wrong adviser’s office.”

She previously volunteered at local

nonprofits prior to taking classes at the university level.

“I was working with youth who had aged out of the foster care system,” Goodman said.

When she heard about the degree, she sayid she would stick it out for a semester.

“However, the one semester it made it really clear that this is exactly what I should be doing,” she said.

Goodman volunteered at various nonprofits including Phoenix Dreams Center and Young Life prior to joining Phoenix Rescue Mission.

“I also did a short-term mission trip to LA Dreams Center and got to experience the Skid Row community out there,” Goodman said.

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ASU alumna Jussane Goodman helps the less fortunate at Phoenix Rescue Mission. (Submitted photo)

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Glendale Star Staff Writer

Community Colleges across the state celebrated a great win when the Senate passed SB 1453 on May 5, allowing community colleges to offer four-year degrees.

Now, they have started developing curriculums to implement into the college programs.

“This is a historic legislation for the state of Arizona. We’ve been pursuing this for 25 years. Community colleges are

open access. Adding this four-year degree to our plate just is an enhancement for the community,” said Matt Hasson, the Maricopa Community College District spokesperson.

“I shared an article on SB 1453 when Gov. Doug Ducey approved the fouryear degrees to help get the word out,” said Morgan Hunter, an Estrella Mountain Community College nursing student.

“Twenty-three states already offer this; it’s time Arizona is on board with it as well.”

Community colleges have been pushing the Legislature for years. The new legislation will help students overcome some of the barriers they face to attend community colleges.

“The SB 1453 legislation will help reduce some of the barriers our students face. Offering bachelor’s degrees at the 10 Maricopa community colleges will help save students money and provide the convenience of in-person education close to

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home,” Dr. Rey Rivera, Estrella Mountain Community College president, said in a prepared statement.

“Culturally, I find community colleges, and Maricopa community colleges in particular, much richer and more diverse,” said David J. Ortiz-Leon, a Phoenix College alumnus who now attends Arizona State University’s Barrett honors school. “I think having schools offer four-year programs allows for students to continue to be immersed in education that is built by and for the local community. There is nothing more authentic than that.”

Sen. Paul Boyer (R-Glendale), who sponsored this bill, said the new law will help rural, underserved parts of the state with higher education. In his research, he reached out to community colleges in rural areas and developed a vision for what higher education they could offer.

“What I envision moving forward is having a community college close by with an in-demand four-year degree program. I envision there might be an eastern Arizona or a Coconino college, one of the rural (areas) that have a significant demand where they wouldn’t have to move to Phoenix, Tucson or Flagstaff and they can earn a four-year (degree),” Boyer said.

Rivera firmly believes that SB 1453 presents another opportunity to address equity gaps in attainment with students from diverse backgrounds.

“Today, only 21% of Black and 15% of Latinx adults hold a bachelor’s degree compared to 34% of white and 54% of Asian adults,” he said. “The vitality of our economic future depends on closing attainment gaps and providing the workforce employers need.”

With the programs that are being offered, there is hope for a better workforce with the knowledge that students will gain in these four-year programs.

“I think everyone wants a higher education and society wants a skilled workforce. This is helping to achieve just that,” Hunter said.

Boyer, who has experience in education and who is a product of the community college system, having at-

tended Pima and Paradise Valley community colleges, has a unique point of view that he shares with his students, whom he has been teaching for years.

“I understand that college isn’t for everybody, but I encourage my students to at least consider going to a community college,” Boyer said.

As a student, Boyer had to pay for school by working full time. This is not uncommon among students who attend college and a reason why being able to obtain a four-year degree at a community college is much more valuable.

“Even though I am less than half a mile from the school, my work schedule does not allow for me to be a traditional in class student. I take classes when and where I can make them fit.

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For me, that’s nights and even weekends,” Hunter said.

Boyer said one possible way this bill would help is by offering fire science degrees in rural areas where they are most needed.

“None of the public universities offer the four-year fire science service degree — Northern Arizona University, University of Arizona and Arizona State University, none of them offer that — but there is a demand for this,” Boyer said.

Another example of an in-demand degree that will be offered is a respiratory therapy four-year degree at Gateway Community College.

Since the passing of the bill, the Maricopa Community College District has been nothing but persistent in making sure this is a success and the programs envisioned are considered.

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where we can have the most impact and curriculum around those degrees,” Hasson said. “Once all of that is done, we have to have the higher-learning commission approve all of the degree plans and curriculum.”

The four-year degrees being offered at community colleges will be more affordable than the alternative of going to a four-year university. However, the degrees will be limited due to some concessions that were made while debating the bill in the Senate.

Community colleges can only offer 5% of the current degrees offered as four-year degrees for the first five years. After the first five years, community colleges can offer 10% of the current degrees offered as four-year degrees, according to SB 1453 legislative bill.

Even though there had to be some concessions to pass the bill in the Senate, the degrees being more affordable is still attractive to students across the state.

“Community colleges offering fouryear degrees makes education more

affordable for individuals who like myself have children and a home to maintain,” said Cordero Holmes, a Rio Salado Community College student who will graduate in the spring with two associate’s degrees. “The terror of having to pay for school is lessened because I can now use the credentials attained to better my job placement while continuing my education at a lesser cost.”

In fall 2023, community colleges can start enrolling students into the fouryear programs.

“We have some incredible people on that team doing the hard work to develop these degrees and curriculum and these policy changes, and we are excited,” Hasson said.

“I think this is a huge step forward for the district, and students as well.

Even if this makes it easier for one student, that is one student who achieved a higher education made possible by these changes,” Hunter said.

Boyer said now that the Legislature has acted, it will be up to the community colleges to deliver a quality education to students who need it most.

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working with individuals who are experiencing homelessness.”

Following graduation, Goodman worked as a housing specialist assisting women to find long-term housing outside of a homeless shelter. She specialized in working with “women in domestic violence situations or fleeing from domestic violence situations, women who have mental illness, women who have substance abuse issues,” and a plethora of types of people within the homeless population.

A fellow ASU alumni and longtime friend told Goodman about the Phoenix Rescue Mission.

“There was a position at Phoenix Rescue Mission for community connections coordinator and I asked him about it,” Goodman said about joining the nonprofit in 2017. “He had been working there for a while and he encouraged me to apply.

“I applied for the position, and I was hired on. It allowed me to really work with the community and get to know the community. Get to know the

The Glendale Star different aspects of hunger insecurity, housing insecurity, the homeless community in general and the different subpopulations.”

Through that position Goodman connected with regional efforts that worked toward finding the solution to homelessness.

In 2019, Goodman was promoted to street outreach supervisor overseeing the work under that program.

Not long after, Goodman was named interim director. She was assigned the position after a few months.

She oversees the criminal justice program, Glendale Works, Hope for Hunger Food Bank, mobile pantries, community market, growing Hope Coach Street Outreach team and other programs.

“I might be a little bit of a different type of director, I like to be in the weeds,” Goodman said. “I like to know what’s going on.

“I really like to provide assistance to my team. I like my team to feel supported. I’m hardly sitting at my computer all day.”

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tween problem solving with her team, answering emails and staying connected with the community at large.

“My day is really all over the place and I get to do a little bit of high-level work but still do a bit of weeds work as well,” Goodman said.

Although she has switched to a more “heavy administrative job,” she still enjoys brainstorming with her team and providing them resources to succeed.

“I would say that my favorite part of my job is when I get to support my team that does work with the people directly,” Goodman said. “I might not get to engage with the clients on a face-to-face basis, however, I still get to be part of the everyday solutions.

“I’m a true believer in what it is that we do here. I have been able to see people’s lives change and transform. I’ve seen people walk through the gates of our recovery program and walk out a different person and I’ve been able to see their hope restored.”

Goodman said she finds it rewarding seeing not only the whole person change, but also their emotional to housing states. Goodman also knows that working for a nonprofit in a supervisor role is not the easiest job.

“The hardest part is the disconnection from clients,” Goodman explains.

She aspired to be in this role but loves to communicate with people who are “in the weeds and get to work with (clients) day in and day out.”

“Everyone goes into nonprofit work

to help,” Goodman said. “It’s definitely not a sector where you can go and get rich.

“Having those stories and experiences of how you are making an impact are vital to keep going. It reminds you why you do what you do and so I think that is really important on the front of how this position could be difficult which is this connection between you and the clients.”

Goodman has a message for students who are considering a career in the nonprofit sector or wanting to help their community.

“I encourage students to volunteer,” she said. “I wish I would have done this more. Volunteer a whole lot wherever you can. Just don’t volunteer at one location but volunteer at tons of different organizations and ones that serve different populations. I think that having that understanding of what you are interested in doing within the nonprofit capacity is just going to be a benefit to you.”

Overall, Goodman could not see herself in a different field.

“It’s really rewarding and fulfilling work,” Goodman said. “It’s hard work and sometimes challenging work but I think when you catch a glimpse of something that you started and now see it through as far as a program or service, you really get to see all of your hard efforts at play.”

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FSL ReCreación reimagines Arizona ranked 3rd ‘adult day care’ worst for public schools

BY GLENDALE STAR STAFF The Foundation for Senior Living (FSL) has introduced ReCreación, a reimagined approach to its long-time adult day programs focusing on the overall benefits of being involved in a program outside of the home for members and caregivers. The brand new Diane and Bruce Halle Adult Day Health Services Center opened in October in Glendale.

“It’s a program that surrounds not just the person we serve, but their family,” FSL Center Director Carolyn Hutchens said.

FSL’s former program focused on the medical services and “day care” aspect, leading caregivers to feel like they were ditching responsibility by sending their loved one to the centers. For many caregivers, this created guilt in an already demanding situation. Members shared that while the program has always been beneficial, the marketing of the program increased their feelings of being a burden on their families.

The new branding aims to ease those feelings, by shifting perspectives from being somewhere a member has to go to somewhere they want to be.

“Here at FSL, we are focused on enriching the lives of the people we serve,” FSL Program Administrator Jeff Tourdot said. “That’s what it means to us being able to serve you, is that you feel the human connection we are able to provide.”

ReCreación is open to any adult over 18 who is living with a physical, cognitive or developmental disability or medical condition. Through the program, FSL focuses on providing personalized help through activities that will stimulate, engage and inspire a sense of well-being in members in safe and inclusive environments.

The rebrand comes just in time for the opening of the Diane and Bruce Halle Adult Day Health Services center, with over 10,000 square feet of space designed with the needs of members in mind. The new center features a young adult activity room, a space for members in the early stages of dementia, and a kitchen area where members can take part in cooking groups through the Empowerment Kitchen program.

FSL ReCreación will be open Monday-Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

To enroll in the program, visit or call the site you or your loved one would like to attend. FSL operates three ReCreación centers in the Valley: in Tempe, in Phoenix and in Glendale. Staff can assist you in completing paperwork and complete an assessment in person to evaluate the level of care needed. A physician’s order is also required, but the staff can help provide guidance for this process as well.

To learn more about FSL or to schedule a tour, call 602-285-1800 or visit fsl. org.

The Diane and Bruce Halle Adult Day Health Services center features a young adult activity room, a space for members in the early stages of dementia, and a kitchen area where members can take part in cooking groups through the Empowerment Kitchen program.

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BY MADISON PERALES Glendale Star Staff Writer

Arizona has been ranked the third worst state for public school systems in America.

According to a study by personal finance website WalletHub, out of all 51 states (including the District of Columbia), Arizona is ranked 49th for the highest dropout rate and 51st for the highest pupil-teacher ratio.

These statistics show that Arizona has a low spending budget for the schools.

This can lead to teachers not getting paid enough and them moving to another school.

Another reason the education system might be lacking in these areas is because the spending on students is also low.

“Many variables contribute to school quality, like school climate, school environment, parental and community wealth and engagement in the school, and per-pupil expenditure,” said Comfort Okpala, a professor at North Carolina A&T State University. “Per-pupil expenditure is a reflection of the quantity and quality of resources available for school districts.”

While these statistics are daunting, in 2020 Glendale attempted to take action to improve the school systems in the area. There was a request to approve a $130 million bond to improve the schools in the area.

“If approved, the bond funds will protect money allocated for the classroom, not cause a tax rate increase and will be used to better school safety and education,” Glendale Union High School District spokesperson Kim Mesquita said in a previous Glendale Star report.

When it came time to approve the bond, voters chose against it. GUHSD didn’t respond to an interview request.

“When we’re looking at taxes and resources provided to schools, Arizona is known as a retirement haven in a lot of

aspects, and maybe, more emphasis is put on that than earlier stages of life,” said Jill Gonzalez, WalletHub analyst.

Glendale isn’t the only city attempting to improve its schools, as Peoria Unified School District openly released its school spending distribution on its website.

According to the Arizona auditor general, over 70% of Peoria’s school spending is focused on instructional and student support. The downfall in the spending is 9.8% of its funding goes toward principals, secretaries and school supplies.

While support is extremely beneficial for students, school supplies and wellpaid staff members are just as important in order to keep the school functioning properly.

When comparing a couple of cities, the common denominator to this low statistic is low teacher pay enough and a lack of technology and supplies for kids.

“When your teachers are unhappy, when they’re leaving to teach elsewhere, that shows in the quality of the school districts and even at the state level, just how much there needs to be improvement,” Gonzalez said.

Even though Arizona is ranked lowest in America for public schools, there are some pockets in the state where schools are trying to better their students’ education.

Though the dropout rate is high overall, Peoria Unified School District is breaking the norm by having a 96% graduation rate, according to spokesperson Danielle Airey.

“We offer career programs where students can work with mentors who are in the careers the students are interested in,” Airey said. “The program is offered to students as early as seventh and eighth grade.”

The opportunity gets students excited to work in a job they potentially want to pursue, which eventually leads them to finishing school.

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Grant Woods was the best of Arizonans

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Glendale Star Columnist

Every story requires a headline, so when Grant Woods left us Oct. 23 at age 67, the headline writers called him “Former Arizona Attorney General.” This is absolutely true — Grant served two terms as AG between 1990 and 1998 — but also a wretchedly poor summation of everything he encompassed as a human being.

Father of five. Grandfather to JoJo. Husband. Attorney. Writer. Talk show host. Political commentator. Playwright. Musician. Community volunteer. World-class joker. Tennis player.

Patriot. Basketball court trash talker.

Songwriter. Pain in the butt.

I’ll stop there, though the breadth of Grant’s many passions calls out for more. If it’s possible to cram a century of living into 67 years, Grant did so, which is a life lesson I will take away from having known him.

Another one is to lead with your

heart, to follow love where it takes you.

Grant was passionate about music and writing songs. In 2015, he asked me to help him drum up publicity for one of his endless side projects: songs he’d written performed by artists with Arizona ties. He had lined up a long list of talented musicians, including Nils Lofgren of the E Street Band, Lawrence Zubia of the Pistoleros, bluesman Hans Olson, and legendary local vocalists Alice Tatum and Francine Reed. I’ll confess to some initial fear that a lawyer dabbling in songwriting might be, you know, not great.

I never should have worried. My favorite track on the album is “Me and Preacher,” sung by Blaine Long. It remains on my Spotify playlist and I sing along every time it pops up. Some of Grant’s lyrics: You’ve got to try when the burning’s high/And you must believe when the pain is deep/You’ve got to march right

on, singing that gospel song. The day will come, when the Lord will set you free.

That was Grant, always marching on, singing his truth. We worked together for some clients where lawyering and public relations intersected. I admired his intelligence and charisma.

Grant was rarely the first to speak.

He never dominated the conversation.

He was the voice of wisdom, an experienced legal mind who sliced through the posturing, bad ideas, and ego clashes. He took pride in getting the team where we needed to go.

He was like that on the basketball court at lunchtime, too. Grant liked to bring the ball up court, a point guard who distributed to teammates and launch Steph Curry-length jumpshots, of which he made a surprising number.

No hoops game with Grant was complete without trash talk.

One of the guys we played with was an assistant city manager named Dave, who like Grant never met a shot he didn’t like. Grant prided himself on

getting in your face on defense. Dave, not so much. This led Grant to refer to him as “Ave” for days on end. Why? “Because there’s no D in Dave.”

At age 28, fresh out of law school, Grant served as chief of staff for then-Congressman John McCain.

Theirs was a lifelong bond marked by a mutual love of Arizona, its sports teams and its politics. Both men put people before party, service before self.

At McCain’s funeral, Grant’s eulogy gained national attention. His final summation of the great senator provides another lesson to be remembered.

“He served his country with honor,” Grant said of his friend. “He fought the good fight. He finished the race. He kept the faith.”

That was Grant Woods in a paragraph. He marched right on. He fought the good fight. He was the best of us.

with my friend, Diane.

Diane gives us thrilling reports of finding Manuel in very odd places. You see, this is what he does. Shows up, unannounced and then lounges around the house for three months. On the ceiling (would scare me over my bed), in the shower stall (stay dirty that day), on the kitchen counter (eat out) and sometimes just resting on the back of the sofa (keep standing). And in a most peculiar place, resting inside her hair curlers (wear your hair straight).

Yes, Manuel makes himself at home!

Let me tell you the story from the

beginning. Our spidey, shows up for about three months each year. The arachnid specialist at the Phoenix Zoo speculates that this tarantula has an established migration pattern which has been likely imprinted into the offspring. And since a female tarantula can live 25 years (males usually 10 to 12 years) it might be safe to say that this furry little beast is actually the son or daughter of Manuel. Or, could Manuel be Manuela?

It all started one July day, when Diane noticed something with a big belly and hairy legs walking into her house through an open door (no, it wasn’t her neighbor). Yikes, a spider of the big-

gest, furriest kind was strutting around her kitchen! Consider the kind heart and calm disposition that it takes to open your home to a big, fat spider!

Not a pet, nor a companion, just a little creature of God that strolled innocently into the house and decided to hang around. After checking out the premises and the occupant, he liked what he found and keeps coming back.

This year, Manuel arrived much later than usual, at the end of October!

Diane leaves the lights on for him, so he can catch plenty of bugs. Diane’s doggy greets Manuel like he is an old friend, sniffing the spider thoroughly

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A welcome return of an old spidey friend

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To Martin Truex Jr., racing in the NASCAR circuit means more than jockeying between competitors.

The New Jersey native and his longtime partner, Sherry Pollex, use his position to support the community with causes like ovarian and childhood cancers.

“We were so fortunate as kids to be healthy and to have great families and access to things to be successful,” Truex Jr. said. “We felt very fortunate, and we do our part to help give back to kids.”

Truex Jr. and Pollex established the Martin Truex Jr. Foundation in 2007, which started as a way to help children in need.

In 2014, Pollex was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer and the couple refocused their mission to raise awareness, boost advocacy and generate financial support for underfunded cancer initiatives specific to childhood and ovarian cancers.

Pollex’s cancer recurred in December, according to her Instagram.

“Unfortunately, my cancer is back (which is expected with Stage 3C re-

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current ovarian cancer as the cancer begins to outsmart the drugs we are on),” Pollex said in her posted message, which included photos of her and Truex Jr. in her hospital room.

“So here I am going to battle again.

“Praying my doctors can remove all of the disease so I can start chemo again soon and be out there fighting for all of you soon! Much love to all of you out there fighting or caring for a loved one that is.”

The Martin Truex Jr. Foundation recently broke ground on pediatric emergency department at Novant Health in Huntersville, North Carolina. NBC Sports reported the foundation is well known within racing circles for its Catwalk for a Cause in Statesville, North Carolina. It has steered $600,000 toward cancer ini-

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The foundation and Pollex’s organization, Sherry Strong, celebrated the grand opening of the Sherry Strong Integrative Medicine Oncology Clinic at Novant Health’s new Weisinger Cancer Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Truex Jr. will put rubber to the road on Saturday, Nov. 6, during the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway. Truex Jr. won the first race of the 2021 season in Avondale in March.

“That was my first win at the track,” he said. “I always feel like it’s a good track for me. It was one of my better tracks until they repaved it in 2011.”

Then known as Phoenix International Raceway, the track was repaved into a reconfigured 1-mile oval for about $10 million.

“It’s been hit or miss since they repaved it,” said Truex Jr., the driver of the No. 19 Auto-Owners Insurance Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing.

“The last couple of years have been tough on us. We’re definitely feeling really good about it now.”

Besides Avondale, he won Martinsville I, Darlington 1 and Richmond II this season. He is one of seven Cup Series drivers to have won multiple races this year (Kyle Larson, Alex Bowman, Ryan Blaney, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Chase Elliott).

For the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series, which starts at the Daytona 500, fans will see cars that are more cost effective for teams and safer for drivers.

It will also reportedly intensify the quality of racing, “It’s going to be a big learning curve for us,” he said. “The new car is so different, compared to what we’ve done in the past. It’ll be interesting.”

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BY LAUREN SERRATO Glendale Star Staff Writer

After the ultimate betrayal in her marriage led to divorce in 2009, Glendale resident LeTisha Jackson decided to turn her husband’s adultery into a chance to tackle what she believes is a fractured sisterhood.

While most would be quick to place blame on the cheating husbands in the scenario, Jackson created a book, “Woman to Woman: Letters from Wives to Mistresses,” in which women take the blame in their decision to tear apart another woman’s family and forget their loyalty to the sisterhood Jackson so strongly believes in.

“It may have been my husband who broke our vows. It may have been my husband who broke my trust and my spirit. But it was his mistress who broke my heart,” Jackson said. “‘Woman to Woman’ is based on my personal interactions with my ex-husband’s mistress. It’s a book that contains real-life letters from wives and mistresses, where they in effect speak woman to woman. And although it is a book that does take to task our sisters who have no problem contributing to the tearing apart of another woman’s family by of course getting involved with their husbands, it really is a sisterhood-based book. My goal is to change the dynamic in the female community.

And that’s what this book is going to do.”

When first finding out about her husband’s affair, Jackson said a book was the last thing on her mind. It wasn’t until she confronted her husband’s mistress that she decided to embark on her journey of writing her first novel.

“We had our conversation, and as I was about to leave she said, ‘Can I say one more thing? Woman to woman, I just want you to know,’ and the rest of that is really a big reveal in the book,” Jackson said.

“But what she said following those

perienced a delay after putting it aside when a publisher told her it was offensive to blame another woman. It wasn’t until Khloe Kardashian’s partner Tristan Thompson’s cheating scandal became public that Jackson decided she had to finish her book.

“When I saw all of the harsh backlash that she took from mostly all women, I said that is enough, I have had it. And what sparked me to finally finish the book was not just the backlash but just the kind of the righteous indignation that women get when another woman dares to speak the truth,” Jackson said.

“I finally deAfter several years of pageant wins and a career in modeling, Glendale resident LeTisha Jackson has cided that we as released her first book, “Woman to Woman: Letters women need is from Wives to Mistresses.” (Photo courtesy of the opportunity LeTisha Jackson) to be able to exwords, ‘Woman to woman,’ not only ternalize these feelings. broke my heart, but really made me We need to be able to say, realize what the problem was within ‘You’re another woman, our community. And when I got home, and you’re helping to tear apart another I could not forget what she said and I woman.’” wrote it down. And as I began to write Once she finished her book and it down what happened a couple hours was time to publish, Jackson admitted later, I just had pages and pages of to having trouble finding an agent and notes. And that was the beginning of publisher, so she decided to take matthe book.” ters into her own hands.

After completing her book, Jackson “Because our country has been so decided she wanted it to be a novel for pandemic-centric and politically cenall women, not just those who could re- tric in these past two years, I wasn’t late one sidedly. able to land an agent. So I just decided “It’s for wives, ex-wives, current I don’t care, I’ll do it myself. I don’t wives, but it’s also for current mistress- need anybody to put this out,” Jackson es, former mistresses. It is a book that said.

I wrote for every single woman on the Now, Jackson’s memoir has received planet starting from probably 18 years positive reviews from award-winning old,” she said. journalists, TV hosts, best-selling auWhile writing the book, Jackson ex- thors, Grammy-nominated songwriters

and TV stars, and even landed an interview on CW33’s “Morning After” TV show with Jennifer Anchondo.

With the success of her book, Jackson said part of the funds she receives from sales is going toward various research funds that support Alzheimer’s disease.

“My book is dedicated in part to my precious grandmother, who is living with dementia brought on by Alzheimer’s. … Every year I saw the advancement of the disease, and living with her by myself I recognized how very difficult it is to care for an Alzheimer’s patient.

And I saw the toll that it took and takes. So I decided that a portion of the sales from ‘Woman to Woman’ I will donate to various research companies,” she said.

As a single woman living in Glendale with plans to move to California in the near future, Jackson said she has big plans for her book and for future projects, including hosting a sit-down with journalist and TV host Bridget Smith with a live studio audience to discuss the book.

“I am starting what I really see as a sisterhood revolution. We are going to come together as women in these symposiums and hopefully around the country to bring women together to truly discuss this thing we call sisterhood and what each one of us can do as individuals to be a part of healing that sisterhood,” Jackson said.

For more information on “Woman to Woman: Letters from Wives to Mistresses,” or to purchase the book, visit letishajackson.com/shop.

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Josh West, father bring musical partnership to High Street

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Glendale father-son duo Glen and Josh West have long shared their passion for music. Constantly surrounded by the other’s music taste and influence, the duo performs around the Valley as the Josh West Trio.

Josh said he grew up listening to bands from the ’60s and ’70s who created the foundation for today’s mass-appeal, pop music. As he got older, he shared the ’90s grunge and alternative genres with his father, and the duo’s influence on one another is visible in their performances. The Josh West Trio band covers pop, rock and folk artists ranging from The Beatles to Radiohead.

The trio performs as part of the Slider Throwdown from noon to 3 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 14, in High Street, 5415 E. High Street, Phoenix.

Glen has decades of guitar-playing experience under his belt, and as a teacher, it’s no surprise that his son is a well-respected student.

“For me personally, I don’t want to do music with anyone else. It would

just kind of feel weird,” Glen said.

“We have a better relationship probably than most musicians,” Josh said.

He compared the dynamic of working with his father to that of a band of brothers collaborating. Arguments are inevitable, but at the end of the day, Josh and Glen know the disagreements are a natural part of the songwriting process. The two still have a strong bond that keeps them from taking work too seriously.

Josh and Glen are frequently collaborating on music and sharing ideas for verses and choruses. They only use melodies or lyrics they feel a strong attachment to, taking the time to discard or tweak any sounds that don’t fit into the rest of the song.

“When you spend that much time working with one person, you develop that kind of communication and a shared goal, shared style: your own musical language,” Josh said. “It’s just not something you want to give up.

We’re really protective of that.”

After years of music lessons and mutual influence, the father and son took their careers to the next level. When Josh auditioned for and later found himself competing on NBC’s “The Voice,” Glen joked that the duo would no longer be performing at farmers markets.

“When they contacted me, we switched into some kind of headspace where we were just focused and serious all the time,” Josh said. “I worked harder than I’d ever worked before to be ready for it.”

Even through intensive hours of vocal training and performance rehearsals with coaches, Josh and his father kept their lighthearted spirits alive.

Glen roamed around Universal Studios, taking in the backdrops of films such as “Back to the Future,” while Josh rehearsed. Josh said he joined recording in the studios that once hosted icons such as Paul McCartney and Tom Morello. Continuing to follow the path of his idols, he used Chris Martin of Coldplay’s favorite microphone.

Josh was a contestant on “The Voice” at only 17 years old. Now in his early 20s, he reflected on the experience and said in retrospect, the hard work mostly paid off in ways unrelated to his music career.

America learned about Josh West’s wide-ranging vocals when he was a contestant on “The Voice.” (Photos courtesy of Josh West)

“I got a lot of discipline from it just because the stakes were so high,” he said.

The two said their next single, “Smell Ya Later,” is on the way. The lyrics resemble the opposite of the previous high-pressure experience from “The Voice,” according to Josh. The lyrics tell stories of the duo’s journeys to music, which includes the frustrations or obstacles along the way. Rather than continuing the habit of being overly serious or leaving hidden messages in songs, they kept things fun and left the meaning purposefully straightforward.

“It’s very tongue-and-cheek,” Glen said. “It’s very fun to just write a lighthearted, humorous lyric.”

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Emerging leaders and second chances Here is an unusual story that happened some years ago. An executive secretary to the president of a large corporation made a costly mistake. It cost the company $50,000. She was devastated and brought her letter of resignation to the president, explaining, “I realize what a dumb thing I did. I am very sorry. I know that the mistake cost the company $50,000. So here is my letter of resignation.”

“Are you crazy?” he thundered. “I have been teaching and mentoring you every week. Now, you have made a big mistake. I have just invested $50,000 in your education, and you’re going to leave? No, ma’am. You are not going to leave. You have cost me too much to lose my investment in you.”

So, she stayed and became an extraordinary executive secretary and personal assistant. One might say that is the cheapest $50,000 the president ever spent.

I love this woman’s response. She chose to be teachable, not defensive.

She took responsibility for what she did. She grew through the problem and didn’t repeat it. She humbled herself and then got promoted, just like the Bible says in many places.

Her humility and willingness to take responsibility took her to the top. She expected the worst but received the best. Why? She was honest and hubris-free.

But it takes two parties to make this work. Notice the president in this article. He wasn’t condescending, petty or critical. The president realized that people occasionally stumble and make mistakes, sometimes huge mistakes. He

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knew there was no such thing as perfect people or a perfect business. Everyone is in the process of growing and learning. The mentor allowed his executive secretary to learn, and that allowed the executive secretary to grow. It takes a big picture leader demonstrating authentic leadership to do that.

The president even accepted the responsibility for her mistake. He understood with privilege comes responsibility. As a result, he could foster a defining moment in a new executive secretary’s life. He knew the secretary would grow from this incident, not just go through this incident. I wish every mentor and their students worked together this way.

Teamwork makes the dream work.

Jesus accepted responsibility for the 12 disciples under Him too. When Peter denied the Lord, Jesus prayed for him that he would not lose his faith. Later, when Peter foolishly cut off a soldier’s ear with a sword, Jesus supernaturally healed the soldier’s ear. Jesus, in effect, was saying to Peter, “Peter, I will repair your mistake because you are going to learn from this experience and grow.”

After this incident, Peter grew and changed the world.

I realize that some mistakes can be deadly, but honestly, most aren’t. I also recognize that if the secretary repeatedly made the same mistake, the presi-

dent would have needed to take another course of action. But couldn’t we be a bit more like the president? Forgiveness makes the future possible. Great leaders know there is a cost for developing other great leaders and employees. Jesus is our supreme example of this. His heart of compassion acted on behalf of another. The investment was high, but the returns were and continue to be higher than the investment.

To those aspiring leaders, allow me to share a bit of advice. First, be teachable, not offended. Most people learn by their failures, not their successes.

Second, strive for excellence, not perfection. Your growth on the inside fuels your growth on the outside. Finally, those who try and fail at something are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Aspiring leaders, if you want to make everyone happy but react negatively to constructive criticism, please don’t be a leader. Sell ice cream. The only perfect leaders are the ones you don’t know very well. Those leaders went through the same learning curve as you are now.

And remember, nothing in the world can keep a person with first-class thinking down, and nothing in the world can keep a person with fourth class thinking up. If you have failed in some way, remember this. Though no one can go back and make a new beginning, everyone can start from now and make a new ending. Your past refines you, not defines you.

For those in leadership or mentoring positions, allow me to give you some advice from sage leaders out there in “leadership land.” First, remember,

criticize the act, not the person. If handled correctly, failure is a teacher, not an undertaker, for most people. Second, before you try and change others, remember how hard it is to change yourself.

And leaders, remember a leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the situation, and yells, “Wrong jungle.” Sometimes you have to say what you mean, but that doesn’t give you the right to be mean when you say it.

Coach Tom Landry described how to win the Super Bowl. “My job is to get men to do what they don’t want to do to achieve something they have always wanted to achieve.”

Here’s an acrostic called L.E.A.D.E.R. I think will be helpful to you about leadership. L – Love is what you do; E – Excel incompetency; A – Act with integrity; D – Demonstrate accountability; E – Empower others; R – Respond humbly.

There’s no such thing as a winner or a loser. In God’s world, there are only winners and learners.

Story from One Minute Businessman’s Devotional by Mike Murdock.

Quote, forgiveness makes the future possible from the same book and author is on page 164.

Ed Delph is a noted author of 10 books, as well as a pastor, teacher, former business owner and speaker. He has traveled extensively, having been to more than 100 countries. He is president of NationStrategy, a nonprofit organization involved in uplifting and transforming communities worldwide. For more information, see nationstrategy.com. He may be contacted at nationstrategy@cs.com.

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The Foundation of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has determined the nominees for the 2021 National Student Production Awards, selected from high school student entries across the country in 25 programming and craft categories.

Peoria Unified School District’s Sunrise Mountain High School received five nominations in the following categories: magazine program, music video, audio/sound, director and talent – news or sports.

“The future journalists, analysts, correspondents and entertainers of the next generation will be found among these talented young nominees represented here,” said Adam Sharp, president and CEO of NATAS. “Highlighting their work and encouraging their pursuit of excellence is one of the primary mandates of our foundation.”

Ryan Kraska was nominated in four categories, Kalini Aguon-Sewell in three and Lamley Andrews in one.

While the students were nominated for their work completed in high school, they graduated from Sunrise Mountain in May 2021.

Despite having graduated from high school, Kraska admitted it is still an honor to get recognition for the work completed in the last year.

“Even though we have moved past it and we’re making better things now, it was like we were justified in our own feelings of being proud of our work.

We know that the old things we made are still worthy,” he said.

Kraska and Aguon-Sewell are currently freshmen at Arizona State University’s New American Film School.

Both agree that their time in broadcast

Ryan Kraska and Kalini Aguon-Sewell are nominees for the the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ 2021 National Student Production Awards. (Photo courtesy of Erin Dunsey)

and film in high school played a role in their decision to study at the film school.

“I can speak for both of us when I say we’ve always had a passion for film.

But if we didn’t take these classes in high school, we wouldn’t be nearly as advanced with how we make our films.

But we also wouldn’t know the behind the scenes process of everything, and we wouldn’t really be invested in the process,” Kraska said with a laugh as he admitted to basically living in the broadcast room his last two years of high school.

Aguon-Sewell added that if it wasn’t for enrolling for the class as a freshman in high school, she would have never discovered film, as she had never picked up a camera prior to that.

As their advisor on the projects, Amy Nygard said she felt such pride when she found out her students were nominated, adding that their work was far beyond what people would expect

from high school students.

“I’ve always been really impressed with the quality of work, the time, the commitment that they put into everything they do,” Nygard said. “They hold themselves to professional standards.

The kinds of things that I heard about them from the judges’ comments, just at the regional level, so many of them in the field said they really hope that these two specifically — talking about Ryan and Kalini — we really hope that we’re going to see them in our fields in the future, because they have such a promising future in film and TV and broadcasting.”

This year’s submissions from high schools around the country were successfully culled from over 2000 entries from the regional chapters of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Entries were judged by selected industry professionals and media academics.

Recipients will be announced in late

November via a web stream produced

by NATAS. “The Foundation of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is thrilled to honor the incredible work of these talented students,” said Danielle Mannion, education chair with NATAS. “The students faced extraordinary challenges and produced dynamic and compelling stories. We also wish to acknowledge the dedicated work of their teachers who supported the productions.”

Moving forward in their education, Kraska and Aguon-Sewell are sure they want to pursue a career in film but admit they’re not yet certain on which specific field they want to enter.

“I really like just sound design and audio and making sounds from things that weren’t there when you initially filmed it. So I would say I’m personally more of an audio person,” Kraska said.

“I’m pretty set on cinematography. I just really like capturing things in the best way possible and using lighting and how I frame the image to really sell the story,” Aguon-Sewell added.

Looking forward to hearing the finalists, Kraska and Aguon-Sewell agreed that win or lose, they want to continue working with Sunrise Mountain High School as mentors to younger students, similar to how Nygard served as a mentor to them.

“It gives us an opportunity to start a kind of mentorship position where we can help these kids out and make sure they get to the spot where we’re at now where they can go to film school and produce really cool stuff,” AguonSewell said.

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November 4, 2021

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CELEBRATING THE LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE OF THE GESD GOVERNING BOARD

We honor the essential role of our locally-elected Governing Board.

Brenda Bartels President

Mike Martinez Clerk

Monica Pimentel Member

Sara Smith Member

Cindy Segotta-Jones, Superintendent

Mary Ann Wilson Member

November is a month during which we have a dedicated holiday to give thanks. This month, we share our gratitude to the five individuals who advocate and support GESD. Throughout the pandemic, the GESD Governing Board has provided leadership and vision to make a difference in the lives of all GESD students, employees, and families. In addition to their service, GESD Board members take personal efforts toward professional development as individual Board members and excellence in Board service together. The Arizona School Boards Association's (ASBA) Academy of Board Development program recognizes school board members for their commitment, through ongoing professional development, to continuous improvement in service to their students, schools, and communities.

Brenda Bartels - ASBA Academy of Boardsmanship Gold Level Sara Smith - ASBA Academy of Boardsmanship Silver Level Mary Ann Wilson - ASBA Academy of Boardsmanship Copper Level Monica Pimentel - ASBA Academy of Boardsmanship Master of Boardsmanship Mike Martinez - ASBA Academy of Boardsmanship Certificate of Orientation

Thank you to the GESD Governing Board for your service to our school community!