November 20, 2017
Alivia Wieseler and Rula Kilano donned speakeasy attire for Grand Prix Scottsdale at Scottsdale Waterfront.
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Nurse shares story to raise awareness The Grove at McCormick Ranch for National Adoption Month mixes the modern and the familiar By Niki D’Andrea
By Jimmy Magahern
The Shoemaker family. (Photos courtesy Angela Shoemaker)
Scottsdale resident Angela Shoemaker tells a harrowing story, but it has a happy ending. Some of the details may be hard for her to talk about, but she wants to help draw attention to the fact that among other designations, November is National Adoption Month. As a neurotrauma nurse at a local hospital, Shoemaker has seen some gruesome things. But she hadn’t seen anything like the 2-year-old girl who showed up in her unit one night two years ago. “She was just broken from top to bottom,” Shoemaker said. As doctors examined the girl, her list of injuries raised red
Adoption...continued on page 10
Building a shopping center in McCormick Ranch that stands out from the rest is almost a crime against stucco, a violation of the master-planned community’s famously stringent aesthetic guidelines which stress a “harmony” of design The Grove will be a 32,000 square-foot shopping, dining and entertainment destination in the heart of North Scottsdale. built on a “community (Renderings courtesy LGE, Finn Architects, AV3 Design) consensus” of accepted styles, enforced by an actual Architectural look like a Santa Barbara-style take on Control Committee. Basically, if the Spanish Colonial architecture, with development you’re planning doesn’t The Grove...continued on page 11
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