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Scottsdale Unified sets time table for superintendent selection.
OPINION ...................... 28 Council candidates tout their credentials.
ARTS................................. 33 New arts director has big plans for Scottsdale.
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Sunday, September 30, 2018
Don & Charlie’s doesn’t plan to really go away BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
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he future of Don & Charlie’s restaurant is up in the air, the restaurant possibly the site of a new hotel. But its charismatic owner has no plans to call it a career anytime soon – and may even stay at the helm of his namesake restaurant after the hotel is built. Owner Don Carson is in negotiations with OpWest Development Company to clear the way for the construction of a sixstory hotel on the site of the restaurant. Attorney John Berry, who represents the developer, said the company has contacts from several hotel brands that are interested in partnering on the development. When news broke about the hotel development earlier this year, it caused some sadness among community members and longtime visitors who lamented the loss of another Scottsdale landmark. The restaurant – long known as a hotspot for athletes, locals and tourists in town for Spring Training and other sporting events – is also famous for its top-notch steaks and barbeque.
(Kimberly Carillo/Progress Staff Photographer)
Don & Charlie's owner Don Carson is selling his restaurant, but he's hoping to reincarnate it somehow.
Though the restaurant’s menu is indicative of an earlier time – complete with chopped liver, shrimp cocktail and a selection of steaks and prime rib – the quality of those menu items is what established the restaurant as a must-visit
spot in downtown Scottsdale. Longtime Valley food critic Howard Seftel, a huge baseball fan who enjoyed the restaurant’s famous décor that features
see CARSON page 6
FDA warning late as vaping engulfs Scottsdale schools
BY JIM WALSH AND WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Staff Writers
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moking in the boys' room has morphed into vaping in the boys' and girls’ room as the national e-cigarette vaping epidemic engulfs Scottsdale schools – possibly making teenagers the next generation hooked on nicotine. The U.S Food and Drug Administration
earlier this month declared teen vaping a national epidemic and took aim at e-cigarette manufacturers, threatening them with additional regulation and forcing them to come up with plans to stop minors from buying e-cigarettes. Acting on the results of an undercover sting operation, the FDA also issued 1,300
see VAPING page 9
(Kimberly Carillo/Progress Staff Photographer)
Schools confi scate vaping devices on campus.