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BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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o say lawyers for homeowners and the owner of the Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course haven’t seen eye to eye in nearly nine years of litigation redefines the meaning of “understatement.” But it is not hard at all to see why homeowners’ attorney Tim Barnes and Lakes Course attorney Daniel Maynard immediately picked the same man to be Superior Court Judge Sara Agne’s special master in overseeing the
course’s reconstruction as it moves toward a full reopening this September. And the fact that Mark Woodward has played all the Ahwatukee golf courses except Ahwatukee Lakes doesn’t make a difference. Woodward is Mr. Golf when it comes to course construction and all the many facets it involves. Not only does the 69-year-old Mesa resident’s resumé burst with a depth of experience in creating, maintaining and rebuilding golf courses that earned him admission to the Arizona Golf Hall of Fame in 2020, but he also
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is the scion of a family of people who do the same thing. The Phoenix native ticks off a head-spinning list of relatives who are or have been superintendents – the official title of people whose career is building, designing, restoring and maintaining golf courses: “Myself, my granddad, my cousins, my cousin’s two sons, my son, my son-in-law; two or three in-laws, …my sister was a superintendent, my cousin’s husband was a super-
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Members of the Desert Vista High School Thunder are headed to Anaheim, California, tomorrow, Feb. 24, for the USA Spirit Nationals Competition, one of the nation’s most prestigious cheerleading competitions. For the story, see community page 27. (Special to AFN)
hen it comes to law enforcement generally and Phoenix Police specifically Ahwatukee’s Councilman Sal DiCiccio and South Phoenix Councilman Carlos Garcia rarely agree. But at a formal Council meeting Feb. 16, the two were united on the losing end of 6-3 vote allowing the Phoenix Police Department to acquire non-weaponized drones for a total cost not to exceed $516,000. City Manager Jeffrey Barton told Council in a memo “This equipment, which is critical for the safety of department personnel, will be used during high-risk tactical incidents to conduct highly detailed and complex investi-
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