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2 Ahwatukee golf courses remain battle�ields

Lakes owner asking U.S. Nonpro�it seeks restraining Supreme Court to intervene order against Club West HOA

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he six-year battle over the future of the Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course could land before the nation’s highest court, owner Wilson Gee’s attorney disclosed last week.

Attorney Daniel Maynard told Superior Court Judge Campagnolo said he would be asking the high court to grant his appeal from Arizona courts’ decision

requiring Gee to restore the 18hole executive course that has been closed since 2013 and the subject of a prolonged court �ight since 2014.

Maynard is expected to ask the justices to consider the argument that ordering Gee to spend millions restoring a course that likely would not turn a pro�it violates the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which abolished

COVID-19 surge scrambles start of school year

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he �ight that pits scores of Club West homeowners against their HOA board and the new owners of the golf course intensi�ied this week as the nonpro�it that oppose s homes on the ravaged site asked a judge to stop any further efforts to advance a plan for the property until at least October. ��� LAKES ���� 11 The Club West Conservancy

Heart-rending ordeal

asked Superior Court Judge Daniel Kiley on Monday to grant a temporary restraining order preventing the HOA board and the course owners from trying to put a new proposal for the site’s development up for a homeowners vote until at least October, when the judge has scheduled a hearing on a longer ban pending a possible trial next year.

A hearing on the request that

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he new school year in Ahwatukee schools was further scrambled last week as Gov. Doug Ducey ordered campuses across the state to remain closed until at least Aug. 17.

While the governor is allowing online education to proceed, Kyrene will only do that with its new Kyrene Digital Academy and defer until Aug. 17 both its on-campus classes and its hybrid option that combines distance and inclassroom learning.

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he Tempe Union High School Governing Board last week deferred action on a move to transfer $450,000 earmarked for school resource officers at four high schools, including Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe as it unanimously approved a $113-million maintenance and operations budget and a $20.7 million capital spending plan for the 2020-21 school year that holds the line on taxes.

Superintendent Dr. Kevin Mendivil stressed that the money is still in the budget for the SROs and that the board can reallocate it at another time if it still wants to go along with a move by board members Brian Garcia and Andres Barraza to shift the funds to hiring more counselors or social workers.

“The $450,000 that was earmarked for SROs is still a part of the budget,” Mendivil said, adding, “We just have that flexibility now to make wise decisions.”

He repeated his intention “to look at the variety of ways in which we can secure additional funding from the City of Tempe and from the city of Phoenix” and suggested there might be a way to combine additional revenue from those two cities and “possible do a combination of additional support through Care 7.”

Care 7 is a crisis intervention team Tempe provides in wide range of emergencies involving people who need help and is not limited to assisting schools.

Mendivil did not elaborate on the chances of securing funding from those two cash-strapped cities, which are both facing significant revenue shortfalls because of plummeting sales and hotel tax revenues brought on by the pandemic and subsequent business closures.

Tempe City Council has discussed possible cuts in its Police Department, according to reports, and Phoenix has historically not provided SROs, saying there are too many schools within its jurisdiction.

Mendivil also reiterated his belief that resource officers provide a valuable support for students, although Garcia and other opponents have said in the past that uniformed officers on campuses intimidate students, especially students of color.

But he added, “We’re not in any hurry to make a decision on how to make that expenditure.”

The budget includes a small pay bump for Tempe Union teachers, who will earn an average $71,512 annually – up from an average annual salary of $69,525 last year. That’s a dramatic 24 percent increase since the 2017-18 school year, when the average salary was $57,876, budget documents show.

Those documents also show that overall regular education spending – covering salaries, supplies and other expenses, will increase this school year by 6.1 percent, from $76 million to just under $90 million, while special education spending will increase 6 percent, from $$26 million to $27.6 million.

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In Kyrene, so far only about 10 percent of the district’s 13,000 students have been checked in for either the Kyrene Digital Academy, the all-online program, or the hybrid, district spokeswoman Erin Helm said. She said the deadline for parents to make a choice for the first quarter will be extended.

Tempe Union deferred its new five-day in-class until Aug. 17 but will start its allonline learning program Aug. 3.

Both Kyrene and Tempe Union are requiring that all students and staff on campus and on school buses to wear face masks. Tempe Union said class sizes will be kept to 12-15 students.

“All of us want for normalcy – normalcy for school, normalcy for everyday life,” Tempe Union Superintendent Dr. Kevin Mendivil said at last’s week’s governing board meeting.

“These are not permanent times,” he continued. “We have to remind ourselves of that in doing so gives us that much-needed sense of hope. With that sense of hope, together we can face these challenges.”

The board also approved spending a total $1 million on monitors, docking stations, headsets, and cameras for the district’s distance learning program. That includes $56,170 for equipment to extend its wireless network at all seven campuses to include parking lots and other areas for student internet access.

In documents submitted to the board, the Tempe Union administration said the new equipment will “ensure students in a virtual setting can see, hear and participate actively in the learning environment.”

“The cameras allow the teacher to move around the classroom actively supporting the learning of in-person students and supporting virtual students who benefit from class discussions and teacher responses to others’ questions in a synchronous environment,” board documents added. A “synchronous environment” means inclass and online students would be in the identical lesson at any given time.

Mendivil told the board the equipment will “provide a better experience something a bit more robust than what maybe our students received in the fourth quarter.”

The $1 million is in addition to a $2 million expenditure the board approved last month so that all incoming freshmen will have laptops. That program will continue indefinitely every year, with students

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keeping the laptops throughout high school and having the option to buy them when they graduate.

East Valley districts have taken different approaches to the governor’s directive.

Chandler Unified, Mesa Public Schools and Gilbert Public Schools said their school year would begin as scheduled Aug. 5 with all students taking virtual instruction.

Tempe Elementary deferred until Aug. 17 its three options for classes.

There’s a reason why Tempe Union and other districts are shoring up their online lessons since some leaders last week expressed concern that students will show up for classes on Aug. 17 – and that anyone will be there to teach them – as the number of COVID-19 cases in Arizona continues to surge.

“A lot of parents are ready for their kids to go back,’’ said Joe Thomas, president of the Arizona Education Association. And he said teachers also are ready.

But Thomas said it’s not that simple in the days of COVID-19.

“We’re all starting to learn that there are people that we know who either they have it or their kids have it or a family member has it,’’ he said.

“So, there’s a lot of anxiety,’’ Thomas explained. “They want to be back. But they just don’t feel safe.’’

Even state schools chief Kathy Hoffman said there’s no guarantee that there will be children in classrooms on that date -or that it will be safe to open schools on Aug. 17. Instead, she sees that date really as a point when education officials will evaluate conditions at that time.

“And there is a potential for that date to shift,’’ Hoffman said.

Chris Kotterman, lobbyist for the Arizona School Boards Association, said it all may come down to how extensive COVID-19 infections remain in the state.

“We don’t know any better than anybody else what the numbers are going to look like,’’ he said. But the issue, said Kotterman, is even more basic than that.

“We do know that we have a lot of school staff who had expressed a lot of concern about coming back into the classroom when the numbers are so high,’’ he said.

Both Kotterman and Sergio Chavez, president of the Arizona Parent Teacher Association, said Aug. 17 was too early to open campuses if the current rate of COVID-19 cases is unchanged.

“I understand that kids need to be socialized,” said Chavez, who said he won’t

send his 15-year-old daughter to school Aug. 17. “Kids need to be with kids. But kids also need to be safe.”

Kim Graham, executive director of the Arizona Education Foundation, said, “Everyone, I think, wants to be back in school but only when it’s safe to be back.”

Hoffman agreed, saying any final decisions will have to be based on whether parents are willing and ready to send their children back into classrooms. “We have seen and heard directly from families and also from teachers and school staff this growing sense of anxiety and fear about returning to the school setting,’’ she said.

Hoffman said some districts already have been sending out surveys to both parents and staffers to find out if they’re ready to be in a classroom setting.

“I think that’s going to continue to be a challenge,’’ she said. “It’s really hard to address those emotions because the COVID-19 virus is with us for now. We don’t know when we’re not going to be living under these circumstances.’’

Hoffman said a lot of this is linked to the announcements by the governor on the latest efforts to curb the spread of the virus, including promoting and enforcing social distancing.

“We can’t even have groups of more than 10 people at the pool,’’ Hoffman said.

“How can we possibly open our schools safely where we know that we have classrooms of 20, 30 or more students and high schools with upwards of thousands of students and teachers all coming together.’’

Even the governor conceded that Aug. 17 start date is “aspirational.’’

Ducey’s original mid-March order got extended by another two weeks before he and Hoffman pulled the plug on the rest of the academic year, telling schools to do the best they can in remote and online education.

If nothing else, there seems to be an agreement that pushing the start date for the new year back at least two weeks – if not longer – makes sense.

“It has become clear over the past couple of weeks that it is just not safe for students and staff to congregate in-person at school facilities,’’ Hoffman said. “This was an unfortunate, but necessary decision to protect the healthy and safety of all Arizonans.’’

Thomas said it gives schools more time to consider options. And he said it may provide time to answer some questions about whether classrooms can be made healthy – or at least relatively risk free in an enclosed space.

“The Centers for Disease Control says you should be in a ventilated room,’’ Thomas said. And that, he said doesn’t mean simply having a vent in the room.

“They mean open the windows,’’ he said.

“There’s not a school that can afford to open the windows in August.’’

And until educators can feel safe, Thomas said, they’re going to be reticent to return.

How many will stay away remains unclear. Thomas said he expects to release a survey of AEA members later this week.

Allowing online instruction to begin on whatever day school districts initially set for the school year to begin “does have the benefit of starting to get teachers paid when they would normally expect to get paid,’’ said Chuck Essigs, lobbyist for the Arizona Association of School Business Officials.

Potentially more significant, he said, is that starting “classes’’ as scheduled in early August eliminates the need for schools to either extend their academic year or eliminate mid-year breaks to get the required 180 days of education necessary to qualify for full state aid.

But that online start raises other issues, starting with the fact that some students lack access to computers as well as highspeed speed internet connections to actually participate.

“That was not something we could solve over the last several weeks or months,’’ Hoffman said. But doing nothing, she said, is not an option. “Our kids need to keep learning,’’ she said. “We can’t just stop the school year and push it back and push it back. We need teachers teaching and students learning.’’

The state doesn’t provide as much aid per student for those who are in either fully online or “hybrid’’ programs, the latter being a combination of in-class and remote learning. That leaves the question of whether this early online-learning start will leave schools with less cash than they were anticipating to cover expenses, including teacher salaries.

Kotterman said there is a presumption that if schools start online only and get less state aid, the missing cash eventually will be made up. “But we still don’t have guidelines from the governor’s office and the Department of Education on exactly how that process would work and the timelines for that,’’ he said.

Howard Fischer of Capital Media Services, Cronkite News and AFN Editor Paul Maryniak contributed to this story.

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Tax surcharge measure may get on November ballot

career and technical education programs, 10 percent to help mentor new teachers, and 3 percent to increase fundhe vast majority of Arizonans may ing for the Arizona Teachers Academy get a chance to decide whether which provides free tuition at state unithe top 4 percent of wage earners versities for those who agree to go into should pay more to support education. the classroom.

Petitions filed Thursday would add a “We’re doing it because Arizona is 48th 3.5 percent tax surcharge on annual in- in the country in per-pupil funding,’’ said come above $250,000 a year for individu- David Lujan, director of the Arizona Cenals and $500,000 for married couples fil- ter for Economic Progress which helped ing jointly. The measure, if it makes the craft the proposal. “It’s time to finally give ballot and is approved, would raise about our schools the money and the resources $940 million for public education. they need.’’

Of the 435,699 signatures that backers He said state lawmakers cut funding for said they submitted, 237,645 need to be schools during the Great Recession. found valid to put the issue on the Novem“And we still aren’t back to those (preber ballot. recession) levels,’’ Lujan said. “So, this will As crafted, half of the funds would be give Arizona public schools the funding to spent both to hire teachers and classroom make real change.’’ support personnel like nurses and counAn analysis of K-12 education by legisselors, and to increase compensation. An- lative budget staffers shows the state was other 25 percent would be for classroom providing $4,163 a year per pupil in 2001. uxuryisVnow aides, school safety officers and transporgs ~ Lfigure per pupil. inyl$5,762 a RuThat ~ Cou m Are o t tation.

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is actually 4.5 percent less than in 2001.

Lujan defended putting put the financial burden for improving education on the top wage earners.

“This will not raise taxes on families that are struggling to put food on the table or struggling small business owners,’’ Lujan said. “They will not pay one additional cent in taxes with this.’’

An individual earning $400,000 a year would pay taxes at existing rates on the first $250,000, with a surcharge on the $150,000 above that. And the same scheme works for married couples “Those are people who have benefited from recent tax cuts,’’ Lujan said. “And so, we think to make Arizona’s tax code fairer and to find a good revenue source that that makes sense to do it this way.’’

Opposition is being led and financed by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Spokesman Garrick Taylor said the change will harm small businesses.

The reason, he said, is many of these businesses are organized as “S Corporations,’’ named after Subchapter S of the

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Raising the taxes on these business owners, Taylor said, will delay the state’s economic recovery.

“We are depending on small businesses to begin creating jobs again to help us recover from this downturn,’’ he said.

But Lujan countered, “This is only on the profit of the small business owners’’ and not on the total revenues of their operations.

“If a small business owner is making and taking home more than $500,000 in net profits, that’s most likely not going to be your typical small business,’’ he said.

“The vast majority of small businesses fall way under the threshold of what this is going to impact.’’

Taylor said his organization still believes the surcharge will be bad for the

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Ex-Chandler mom at center of trail of deaths

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Vallow, a one-time Chandler resident, has spent the last couple months in an Idaho jail awaiting trial for criminal charges related to the abandonment of her two children: 17-year-old Tylee Ryan and 7-year-old Joshua Vallow.

The children were reported missing in 2019 and their bodies were discovered last month in a pet cemetery on land in Idaho located near the residence of Vallow’s newest husband, Chad Daybell.

Idaho authorities have filed charges against Daybell and Vallow in relation to the corpses’ discovery but neither has been charged with their deaths. They are both in custody.

Vallow’s convoluted case has attracted international media attention and sparked several theories that paint the former

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New videos and reports released this month by the Gilbert Police Department help to support these theories by providing some first-hand testimony from Vallow’s now-deceased husband.

Charles Vallow, who had been married to Lori up until his death last summer, contacted Gilbert Police on Jan. 30, 2019, claiming his estranged wife was acting “nonsensical” and had disappeared with their two children.

“I don’t know what she’s going to do with them,” Vallow told a Gilbert officer.

After returning home from a business trip in Texas, Vallow discovered his truck had been taken from the airport’s parking lot and suspected his wife of taking it.

Vallow told Gilbert Police his wife had locked him out of their home and withdrew $35,000 from the couple’s bank account.

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Maynard’s colleague, Chris Baniszewski, advanced that argument in Arizona courts over the past few years, arguing, “The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits involuntary servitude, which is what an injunction would require. Because a contract for personal services cannot be specifically enforced, the court cannot enjoin (his client) and require it to operate a business on the property.”

The injunction Baniszewski referred to was Superior Court Judge John Hannah’s January 2018 order in a lawsuit brought

by Lakes residents Linda Swain and Eileen Breslin to have the 101-acre site restored.

Maynard’s disclosure came during a hearing on attorney Tim Barnes’ request that Gee show cause why he should not be held in contempt for ignoring that order and not beginning the course’s restoration.

Maynard had told Campagnolo he assumed the contempt proceeding would be automatically stayed because he was preparing a writ of certiorari – basically a

request for high court review – that must be filed within a specific time period after the final ruling in state court.

“My belief was we still have not exhausted all of our appellate rights and I’ve been in the process of preparing the motion application for a writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court,” Maynard said.

Because of the pandemic, the U.S. Supreme Court has extended the deadline for filing a petition for a writ from 90 days to 150 days.

In the Lakes case, that would mean Maynard has until Aug. 3 to file his request for a writ.

From there, the high court would have to determine whether it wants to hear the case and the odds of that happening are considerable.

According to the U.S. Supreme Court’s website, more than 10,000 requests for writs in both criminal and civil cases are filed annually. Of those, the court approves only between 80 and 100 – about one percent.

But those slim odds weren’t the reason why Campagnolo refused to stay further proceedings in the contempt action until the high court makes a decision. Stating

“rules are rules,” he said that Maynard will have to formally request a delay.

Whether he delays the contempt action is up in the air, since the judge set a hearing on Barnes’ contempt request for Aug. 18.

Maynard told the judge the case before him involved an unusual kind of an injunction.

“The golf course that we’re talking about has not been there for seven years,” he said. “What we’re talking about is ‘are we in violation?’ because we haven’t started rebuilding the golf course and/or running it and normally what you’re looking at in an injunction is (one) that says ‘stop what you’re doing and don’t do anything else until we decide what needs to be done.’”

Maynard also wondered what the hearing would even deal with in terms of a contempt action.

“The injunction says that we have to offer a golf course out there and we have to run it,” he said. “It doesn’t tell us what the golf course looks like. It doesn’t tell us what hours we have to run. It doesn’t tell us whether it has to have lakes on it or 18 holes or nine holes It doesn’t tell us any of those things. So, an evidentiary hearing in my opinion doesn’t bring it closer to those

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issues.”

Stating “I guess I’ll have to rule on that,” Campagnolo disagreed with Maynard’s take.

“Judge Hannah’s judgments were very clear,” he told the lawyer. “He said your client had the duty to start the golf course and then the judge was very clear that he was not going to appoint a special master, not going to monitor it, that it had to begin and if the plaintiffs believe that it wasn’t being done properly, Judge Hannah said, ‘Come back to court.’ So, I think that the injunction is clear.”

Maynard persisted as he, Barnes and the judge discussed how much time they would need for a hearing on the contempt action.

“From the plaintiffs’ point of view,” Barnes said, “the evidence is pretty clear.”

Maynard replied, “If the issue is ‘are we running a golf course out there?’ the answer is no. There is no golf course to run.”

“My client has done a number of things.

He has contacted a concept architect service for building a golf course, but one has to be built before it can be run … I’m

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was to be held July 6 was postponed after Club West’s lawyer fell ill. Lawyers and the judge were to meet later this week to discuss a new date.

The HOA board lost its effort to have Kiley dismiss the Conservancy’s lawsuit on grounds that it lacked standing despite the fact it comprises only Club West homeowners. The Conservancy is challenging the board’s assumption of the course’s “declarant rights,” which give the board a greater say over how any owner of the Club West site can develop the property.

The Conservancy contends that any action involving the course must obtain the approval of 75 percent of Club West’s approximate 2,700 homeowners. The board disputes that contention.

The Conservancy also is seeking an injunction barring the board from having anything to with the course’s owners.

Kiley has set a hearing on that motion for October and has indicated that if he grants the injunction, the Conservancy’s lawsuit would likely be scheduled for a trial next February.

But the temporary restraining order sought by the Conservancy would bar the board from taking any further steps on the course owners’ efforts to put their own plan for the site before the homeowners for a vote.

The Conservancy is seeking a restraining order after its attorney, Francis Slavin, unsuccessfully tried to get the board to halt any further action pending the outcome of the October hearing.

In its request for the restraining order, the Conservancy says the board’s refusal to wait until October sets the stage for “some act in violations of the rights of the” Conservancy that would render a ruling on its lawsuit “ineffectual.”

The board wants Kiley to throw out the request for the restraining order.

Board attorney Scott Carpenter again raised the issue of standing in his request for dismissal and also said the Conservancy’s “notions are merely speculative and do not establish actual, concrete harm.”

He also says the course owner is a duespaying member of the homeowners association and that the board has a right to discuss plans for the site.

The Club West Golf Course, closed since early 2018, has become a bone of contention between homeowners who don’t want houses on the site and the HOA board and the new course owners. (Tom Sanfilippo/Inside Out Aerial)

“The golf course has been dead for many months and the association’s membership wants this property to be discussed,” the dismissal request states, stating the Conservancy comprises only a “subset of homeowners” and that a restraining order “strips the entire community of its right to be involved in the future of property which contains membership rights in the Association.”

Meanwhile, the owners – who bought the course from Wilson Gee and renamed it the Park at Club West – last week announced through the high-powered public relations firm of Rose+Moser+Allyn Public and Online Relations and that they have changed their name from The Edge to Community Land Solutions.

The press release said Community Land Solutions is getting a landscape architect for the project and that their goal “is for a maximum amount of new park and open space along with responsible and minimal development.”

The release quoted one of the partners in the ownership group – which now numbers three men instead of the original four who were part of The Edge – but makes no mention of houses.

“We are neighbors first. We want to bring new green and open spaces to the shuttered Club West Golf Course. Our plans are community minded and will raise property values,” the release quoted co-owner Matt Shearer.

“CLS and the Neighborhood Committee are meeting on a weekly basis with the goal of distributing an initial draft park plan to the Club West Community for additional input, the release said, promising “the process includes significant time for community feedback, presentations to the HOA and homeowners, additional open houses and community events, a homeowners’ vote and approvals from the city of Phoenix.”

“We want open and transparent dialogues with all our neighbors and remain optimistic in uniting the community with a sustainable solution that removes uncertainty and enhances property values.

There is still a lot of misinformation surrounding the future redevelopment plans for the property. We are confident that the current planning process will allow us to proceed with constructive discussions based on facts,” Shearer said in the release. It identified the other two CLS principals as Bill McManus and Mike Hare.

CLS also formed a “neighborhood committee” that the release said would be studying how other golf course communities in other states reinvented themselves when the course tanked.

The committee itself stirred some controversy last week when the Club HOA board disassociated itself from the panel.

The controversy started when the board issued a statement to homeowners after

its June 25 monthly meeting that said the new owners “requested an opportunity to meet with interested homeowners to participate on an advisory team.

“The board agreed to facilitate this request by emailing an announcement and call for volunteers to the community at large. We sent the request to all 1500 Plus emails in our list of members of the community,” the communique went on, explaining how it asked respondents to its call for volunteers “to identify three things they would like to see accomplished.”

Conservancy President Matt Tyler said he and some fellow members submitted their names for consideration but none were picked and most did not even get the survey the board alluded to.

On July 1, several days after its first communication to homeowners, the board sent out another message apologizing for “any confusion our previous communications have created.”

“First and foremost, this is not a HOA sponsored committee,” it stated, saying the course owner asked the board to facilitate a way of reaching homeowners for volunteers for the CLS committee. The board also said it denied CLS a request for its list of homeowners’ emails and said, “We applaud the new owners’ attempt to include the community in discussing their property.”

In an affidavit filed with the board’s request to dismiss the restraining order request, board President Mike Hinz said Conservancy members “seek to engage in discussion with the current owner of the golf course regarding potential plans for the golf course property’s future while at the same time attempting to enjoin the Association from examining those options.”

Hinz disputed the Conservancy’s characterization of the board’s assumption of declarant rights. He also said any development of the site “would necessitate a much more arduous process than what the plaintiff references” in its request for a restraining order.

Hinz’s affidavit said any development would require “a chain of democratic events, including a special meeting called and noticed for a vote by the membership, the need for any city approvals and a possible increase in fees, which would come in the form of a special assessment levied by the Association.”

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ov. Doug Ducey’s latest executive order to slow the spread of COVID-19 last week blindsided those who work in the fitness industry and drew defiance from at least one major chain of gyms.

“We had just been getting things going,” said Maddi Briguglio, a personal trainer at Jab Fitness in Tempe. “Clients had just been getting into their routines, trying to adjust to the new changes of the maximum people and wearing masks and those types of things.”

Ducey also closed bars, water parks and movie theaters until at least July 30, citing an ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases.

Mountainside Fitness responded with founder and CEO Tom Hatten filing a lawsuit against the governor and opting to keep doors open at all locations.

The gym was cited Tuesday and the Scottsdale location’s chief operating officer was cited with a class one misde-

meanor. Phoenix police also visited the Mountainside Fitness gym at Ray Road and 48th Streets.

“The employees have been advised and officers are working to make contact with the owner,” Sgt. Mercedes told AFN when asked if that facility had been cited.

“This could be any business, anytime, anywhere,” Hatten said in a press conference Larger gyms such as Mountainside Fitness have the funding and resources necessary to fight to keep their doors open. The company ranked No. 31 on Club Industry’s Top 100 Health Clubs of 2019 list with $45 million in reported 2018 revenue.

Whether or not gyms have a direct correlation to the spread of the coronavirus is an ongoing discussion.

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“So, I don’t think there’s any direct correlation with training per se. However, if you do have positive people and positive athletes and they continue to train in close proximity to others, that’s simply not wise.”

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Michael Costa, co-owner of Burn Total Body Conditioning in Scottsdale, said, “I don’t think we were even challenged to socially distance. I mean, it was pretty easy. CDC guidelines: done. Social distancing: done. … Everyone was very much staying in their lane. To have this order with us in it was a little shocking.”

Many personal trainers were also left scrambling.

“This is my only source of income,” said Terrence Mielus, a lead personal trainer at EōS Fitness in Ahwatukee. “It is literally pulling the rug right out from under me. I can’t train clients or make money. It’s just as simple as that. It’s like a mechanic not having cars to work on. Long story short,

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Personal trainers are often independent contractors. They use a gym’s space and pay them in order to use it. Without gyms being open, some are searching for other options for work.

“The biggest thing was honestly just looking for ‘Plan B,’” Mielus said. “It’s a lot of uncertainty and a lot of questions for sure. Right now, we’re just going to wait and see how these 30 days go.

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egistration is now open for the Area Agency on Aging’s Too Many Treasures Hoarding Therapy Group.

The 14-week virtual sessions will begin in early September and run through midDecember.

The series is designed for Maricopa County residents over 60 “who are challenged by compulsive object hoarding and willing to self-identify and commit to addressing the disorder,” a spokesman said.

Groups will be limited to 12 people and online links will be provided to individuals who qualify for the program.

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claimed.

A Gilbert officer kicked down the door’s home and found the family’s residence empty. Vallow worried his wife might have done something to their children, claiming she had been “brainwashed” by religious fanatics in Utah.

“She’s lost her mind,” Vallow told the officers. “She thinks she’s a resurrected being. Her religious stuff has gone way off the deep end.”

Vallow claimed his wife believed he was some sort of imposter pretending to be Lori’s husband – referring to Charles by the name “Nick Schneider” – and threatened to use her “powers” to harm him.

“She said, ‘I will have you destroyed,’” Vallow recalled.

This 2019 incident with Gilbert Police took place six months before Charles Vallow was killed by his wife’s brother, Alex Cox, during a domestic dispute at the family’s other home in Chandler.

Cox told Chandler Police his brother-

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not trying to be obstreperous and I’m not trying to be difficult. What’s happened on this golf course was the land was allowed to go back to its natural state. It hasn’t been watered and for safety reasons, the lakes were drained. So, there is no golf course out there to run. I mean, if you

apy session.

Qualifying participants will need to complete an intake process by calling 602241-5577 by Aug. 10.

Participants must be willing to attend the 90-minute weekly sessions, engage in group activities and complete home assignments.

“The goal of the program is to help someone understand their hoarding behavior and to know that they do have the ability to make changes in their lives,” said Heidi Donniaquo, a licensed clinical social worker who manages Too Many Treasures.

The sessions, which are moderated by a licensed professional counselor, are comprised of three phases: • Understanding the causes of hoarding disorder, techniques to identify obstacles and tools to help decluttering or acquiring.

• Discovering new ways to change un-

in-law had threatened to harm the family with a baseball bat before Cox shot Vallow with his gun.

Cox last December died suddenly from what the Maricopa County Medical Examiner has determined were natural causes and was never criminally charged with killing Vallow. Lori uprooted her children from their Chandler home and relocated to Idaho shortly after her husband’s death.

When Charles Vallow contacted Gilbert Police before his death, officers seemed reluctant to intervene in the affairs of his marriage.

They told him his situation presented a “gray area” since there was not enough evidence to suggest Vallow’s wife had broken the law.

“There was no information obtained that Lori had committed a crime,” a Gilbert officer wrote in a report. “There was no information obtained that Charles and Lori’s children were in danger.”

Despite a lack of assistance from law enforcement, Vallow was encouraged by officers to obtain a petition to have Lori in-

were asking me to stipulate ‘are we running a golf course?’ I would tell you ‘no, there isn’t one but there are reasons why we’re not.’”

That prompted the judge to remark, “I think those reasons are a perfect justification for an evidentiary hearing because you’re going to have to present those reasons with evidence or facts.”

helpful behavior.

• Techniques to help avoid recurrences and to maintain progress.

Too Many Treasures has been recognized with an Aging Achievement Award by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging.

“Through the therapy groups, participants suffering from hoarding disorder are introduced to new information and techniques to help them change their current behaviors and thoughts,” Donniaquo said. “Compulsive object hoarding is a serious problem that can be managed.”

According to statistics, 5 percent of the world’s population displays some sort of clinical hoarding that affects between 700,000 and 1 million people in the United States.

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voluntarily committed at a mental health facility. The husband later got Community Bridges to authorize a petition and attempted to serve it.

“She needs some serious help,” he told officers, “I want her to get help.”

Lori Vallow contacted Gilbert Police on her own and attempted to frame her husband as the person at fault for the whole ordeal – alleging Charles had stolen her purse and cell phone.

The wife told officers she allegedly uncovered evidence of Charles having a romantic affair and reacted by moving her children into a hotel. Charles tends to be dramatic about their marital problems, Lori alleged, and didn’t want her kids around him.

“He just goes nuts sometimes,” Lori told officers in January 2019.

Melanie Gibb, a long-time friend of Lori’s, backed up her claims and went to the Gilbert Police Department with Lori to file a report against Charles.

Gibb would later turn on Lori by serving as a valuable witness during the investiga-

And after Maynard said he would be calling a golf course architect at the August hearing to discuss what it would cost to build a course, the judge said, “I’m not getting into the type of golf course or what should be built. The issue is whether he is in contempt for not following the injunction.”

The cost of restoring the course has varied widely in estimates.

pulsion to hoard often starts in childhood or the teen years but doesn’t become severe until adulthood.

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According to court affidavits, Gibb told authorities Lori called her two children “zombies” when she visited the family at their Idaho home in September 2019, when Lori’s children were last seen alive.

A couple months later, Gibb alleged Lori asked her friend to lie to police by claiming Lori’s son was living with Gibb in Arizona. Gibb refused to take part in the ruse and reported the incident to Gilbert Police in December.

As of late June, no one has been criminally charged for the deaths of Vallow’s two children. The authorities in Idaho have recently ordered additional postmortem testing be done on the children’s remains.

Six months before his death, Charles Vallow expressed wishes to possibly reconcile with his wife of 12 years and anguished he couldn’t protect Lori from whatever outside influences were tainting her thinking.

“I love her to death,” Vallow told Gilbert Police. “This is killing me.”

Barnes has presented witnesses in the past who said it would cost around $6 million to restore while consultants for True Life Ahwatukee – which at one point had planned to buy it from Gee for a community that included about 164 homes, a school and a small farm – estimated the restoration cost at more than twice that amount.

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Initiative would overturn some mandatory sentencing

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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rizona voters may be asked in November if they’re ready to overturn some mandatory sentencing laws adopted decades ago.

The initiative, if approved by voters, would carve an exception into laws that limit judges’ discretion in deciding how long someone should be imprisoned.

Those minimum and maximum ranges would remain in state law.

But it would empower judges to deviate “in the interest of justice’’ in what are defined as “non-dangerous’’ offenses, even to the point of suspending sentences and placing people on probation.

And they could consider input from victims, family members and experts, as well as other factors related to the circumstances of the case.

The same measure, dubbed the “Second Chances, Rehabilitation and Public Safety Act,’’ also would allow inmates sentenced for non-dangerous offenses to be released after serving 50 percent of their time. Now the minimum is 85 percent.

And it would end the practice of some prosecutors of “stacking’’ charges in a way that allows someone to be sentenced as a repeat offender even if they have no prior convictions.

Backers said they submitted 397,291 signatures; 237,645 need to be found valid to qualify for the ballot.

The measure is drawing fire from Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall.

“Changing the sentencing code by utilizing an initiative such as this provides absolutely no opportunity for any informed hearings, discussion, expert testimony from any affected parties and – the absolutely worst part – is that the victims have no voice whatsoever,’’ she said.

The state’s current policies on incarceration date back to 1978, when lawmakers voted to impose mandatory prison for certain crimes.

In 1993 they approved the “truth in sentencing’’ law, which says criminals must serve at least 85 percent of their term before being eligible for release. That came after complaints that even when judges

were imposing longer terms, inmates were getting out after serving only a fraction.

Attorney Roopali Desai who is involved with the initiative, said the proposed changes are not all that radical.

“What we’re doing is we’re returning to judges the discretion that we all believe they ought to have,’’ she said. “That’s why they’re judges. That’s why we have them on the court in the first place.’’

Desai said the initiative would give judges more options when the facts “don’t fit the circumstances.’’

But LaWall warned, the provisions “will result in extreme disproportionality in sentencing, identical to what existed prior to 1978.’’

“There are very liberal judges who will now have discretion if this passes to sentence repeat offenders to probation instead of prison,’’ she said. “On the other hand, other judges will sentence these same offenders to many more years than what the sentencing ranges currently provide.’’

LaWall said that prior to the sentencing guidelines, educated white offenders routinely were sentenced to probation while individuals of color charged with the same offense often were sent to prison.

“These disparities may not have been intentional,’’ she said. “But I saw them occur on a regular basis nevertheless.’’

LaWall also warned the measure would allow prosecutors who want someone sentenced as a repeat offender to cite only prior burglaries for which the person already had been tried and convicted.

LaWall said that means no enhanced penalty for people who continue to commit crimes while out on bail or awaiting sentencing.

“A person who burglarizes 30 homes in a month is still eligible for probation so long as they keep committing these crimes before they are sentenced,’’ she said.

State lawmakers actually had voted for that change in 2019 only to have it vetoed by Gov. Doug Ducey, who cited “the unintended consequences that may arise from this legislation and the effect these changes would have on victims.’’

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Legalized weed headed for November ballot

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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ackers of a campaign to legalize recreational use of marijuana submitted about 420,000 signatures on petitions Wednesday to put the issue on the November ballot.

The filing by Smart and Safe Arizona is far more than the 237,645 valid signatures needed to send the issue to voters.

That provides plenty of wiggle room if some of the petitions are declared invalid.

But it becomes only the first step in trying to convince Arizonans once again that they want to allow adults to buy and possess up to an ounce of marijuana or 12 plants.

A similar measure failed four years ago by about 4 percentage points amid an extensive campaign over whether easier access by adults leads to greater teen use.

There also was a fear by employers that it would allow workers to show up on the job stoned.

The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry already has positioned itself to oppose the 2020 measure.

Campaign Chairman Chad Campbell said the concern by the business community has been taken into account. He said this year’s version contains specific provisions allowing employers to enact and enforce policies “restricting the use of marijuana by employees or prospective employees.’’

But chamber lobbyist Garrick Taylor pointed out the Arizona Constitution specifically prohibits lawmakers from tinkering with anything voters have approved unless it “furthers the purpose’’ of the underlying initiative. And even then, it takes a three-fourths vote of both the House and Senate.

“We should not pass a new law by initiative that will be impossible to ever change or undo,’’ Taylor said.

Efforts by some lawmakers to have the Legislature address the issue in a way where it could be altered if necessary have gone nowhere as Republican legisla-

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Petitions were delivered last week to the Secretary of State with more than enough signatures to get a proposition to legalize recreational use of marijuana on the Nov. 3 ballot. (Capitol Media Services)

tive leaders have refused to even consider legalizing marijuana.

Gov. Doug Ducey has hinted in the past that he would veto any attempt to do so.

“I don’t think any state ever got stronger by being stoned,’’ the governor said during the 2016 campaign. There was no immediate response from Ducey on Wednesday.

A 2010 voter-approved law allows Arizonans with certain medical conditions and a doctor’s recommendation to obtain up to 2 1/2 ounces of marijuana every two weeks. These conditions range from glaucoma and HIV to severe and chronic pain.

At last count there were more than 245,000 individuals who were qualified.

This measure seeks to follow in the path of 11 states, including California, Nevada and Colorado, where voters or lawmakers have decided that it should no longer be a crime for adults to purchase and use marijuana for recreational purposes.

There are some provisions designed to entice backers or blunt opposition.

It would impose a 16 percent tax on sales which proponents say would generate $300 million a year in new revenues to fund community colleges, public safety, health programs and construction and repair of roads.

There also is a prohibition on sales to anyone younger than 21. And the measure would bar the sale of marijuana products that resemble humans, animals, insects, fruits, toys or cartoons or sell or advertise marijuana with names or designs that imitate food or drink brands marketed to children.

But Lisa James, heading Arizonans for Health and Public Safety, said none of that ensures that items won’t be marketed to kids.

She said the list of what’s prohibited in designs leaves a whole host of what remains legal, like gummies with marijuana in the form of sports cars.

James also said it will lead to more accidents as motorists who are high get be-

hind the wheel.

Campbell said the measure contains a ban on driving while impaired.

But he conceded there is currently no technology similar to a breath test that can determine the level of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, in someone’s blood.

And even if such a device becomes available, there is no standard in the proposal to say that a specific THC level is a presumption of driving impaired, the way someone with a blood-alcohol level is presumed to be driving drunk.

Another possible objection could come from the fact that the measure is crafted in a way to pretty much guarantee that the first of the limited number licenses to sell marijuana for recreational use will be given to existing medical marijuana dispensaries.

Campbell said that is justified.

“We don’t want a Wild Wild West implementation,’’ he said.

“We want proven operators that have operated safely who have established trust with the Department of Health Services and other agencies here,’’ Campbell said. He said they “will be able to hit the ground running and safely and effectively sell this product.’’

That preference, however, shows up in who is funding the initiative.

Virtually all of the $2.77 million reported raised in the most recent campaign filing – mostly to hire paid circulators – has come from companies that sell marijuana.

More than $1 million alone came from Harvest Enterprises, which has been buying up dispensaries and cultivators in Arizona and across the nation.

Campbell said there will be opportunities for others as the number of allowable shops increases due to population growth as well as what he said is a setaside for “social equity licensing,’’ described as promoting ownership “from communities disproportionately impacted by the enforcement of previous marijuana laws.’’ 

Contact Paul Maryniak at 480-898-5647 or pmaryniak@timespublications.com

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Pressure mounts on Ducey over rebel monuments

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ew pressure is building on Gov. Doug Ducey to reverse his defense of having monuments to the Confederacy on state-owned property.

In a letter last week, James McPherson III, president of the board of the director of the Arizona Preservation Foundation, reminded the governor of the calls in 2017 by many, including his organization, to remove the monuments following violence by white supremacists in Virginia.

“Unfortunately, nothing was done,’’ McPherson wrote.

Now, he told Ducey, it is time to finally deal with the issue “after yet another senseless killing of an African-American and the subsequent nationwide demonstrations seeking the elimination of systemic racism and bigotry.’’

But the foundation is aiming its ire at more than just the monument to Confederate soldiers, erected in the 1960s, that sits across the street from the state Capitol.

McPherson also is demanding removal from state property: a memorial to Confederate soldiers who fought for “independence and the constitutional right of self-government’’ erected a decade ago in the state-run Veteran Cemetery in Sierra Vista; a plaque at Picacho Peak State Park, where the only Arizona battle of the Civil

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War was fought, dedicated to “Confederate frontiersmen who occupied Arizona Territory, Confederate State of America;’’ and a monument marking the “Jefferson Davis Highway’’ adjacent to Route 60 east of Mesa, erected in 1943 by the Daughters of the Confederacy Arizona.

Ducey, when first asked about these in 2017, defended them as helping people “know our history.’’

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n Ahwatukee pet food and supply store will offer a class on CPR for pets this weekend.

Gordy’s Goodies Pet Food & Supplies, 15425 S. 48th St., will host the class 1011 a.m. Saturday, July 11. Cost is $20.

That same day from noon-3 p.m. Gordy

will be sponsoring a Back the Blue Pet Rescue Adoption Day with adoptable cats and kittens.

Beginner dog obedience classes are being offered weekly at 6:30 p.m. every Monday through Aug. 17 with trainer Brenda Dreyer of Ahwatukee, owner of the Foothills Canine Academy.

The store also will host a Puppy Play

Day 6-7 p.m. next Wednesday, July 15.

Puppies 10 weeks to six months old with at least one round of vaccinations can come socialize with other puppies and humans.

Gordy’s also is holding two other adoption sessions.

Arizona Pound Pups Rescue Adoption Day will run 1-4 p.m. July 18, with

adoptable dogs and cats and the Help A Dog Out Rescue Adoption Day featuring adoptable canines will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. July 25.

The community can bring in items or cash donations for the rescues anytime Gordy’s is open.

Information: 480-687-7191 or on Facebook.

Children’s Cancer Network day camp goes virtual

BY KATY SPRING AFN Guest Writer

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hen Sharon Wozny realized that kids with cancer were missing out on important learning opportunities – a result of cancer-related school absences – she went to work on a solution.

The Mesa resident and program manager for Children’s Cancer Network has a special eye for education – she spent 30 years teaching elementary school for Mesa Public Schools.

It wasn’t long before Wozny, in partnership with CCN’s executive director, Patti Luttrell, created and launched a summer STEM camp for kids fighting cancer.

“Kids with cancer miss out on so much,” said Wozny, who started volunteering for CCN in 2013 and joined the staff in 2016.

“They’re stuck in the hospital or stuck at home, too sick from the cancer and chemo to go to school, and often are isolated from friends. We wanted to give them back a piece of their childhood.”

CCN’s day camp, which launched in 2018, is offered at no cost to kids with cancer and their siblings. It focuses primarily on immersive, hands-on STEM projects and experiences to fill the gaps for kids who missed out on such learning at school.

“The camp has been a huge hit among our families,” said Luttrell. “In addition to doing really cool projects and learning new and interesting things, it’s a chance for them to spend time with other kids and forget about cancer for just a little while.”

Wozny began planning this year’s summer camp in early 2020, but she shifted

Aaron and Makenna Carroll were thrilled with the Chandler-based Children's Cancer Network virtual summer camp. (Children's Cancer Network)

gears when it became clear that COVID-19 wasn’t going anywhere.

Since children with cancer are at high risk for serious illness, she began brainstorming virtual options that would provide the same level of enjoyment, engagement and learning – without compromising kids’ safety.

“Kids are pretty Zoomed out right now, so we worked hard to come up with lessons and projects that were truly fun and engaging,” said Wozny.

The Arizona Coyotes sponsored this year’s virtual camp the week of June 15.

CCN delivered boxes of materials to campers’ families in advance, providing all needed items – like nuts, bolts, transistors and aluminum foil – for the week’s learn-

ing activities.

Gilbert mom Laura Groth sent her young daughters to CCN’s in-person camp last summer. Her 12-year-old daughter Lizzie is in remission from acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

She and her younger sisters – 10-year old Lily, 9-year-old Leilani and 7-year-old Lexi – participated in the camp again this year, this time via Zoom.

“Last year’s camp was such an amazing experience,” said Groth. “I cried with gratitude for the opportunity it provided my girls. I wasn’t sure how a virtual camp would turn out, but Sharon kept them engaged from the moment they logged on to the moment camp ended. She also provided cool ideas to extend the learning

throughout the afternoon.”

The camp’s theme – “Imagine That” – was threaded throughout the week’s projects and activities. Tuesday was all about “Imagine with STEM” and included a tiedye experiment using Sharpie markers, self-portraits using nuts and bolts, and an afternoon robot-building project.

Friday’s “Imagine Just Me” gave campers a chance to study strawberry DNA and get creative by decorating large wood initials.

Kids across Arizona joined the camp, building pool noodle monsters, making aluminum foil art, and completing a project with local artist and guest instructor, Christy Puetz.

“The camp was so much cooler than any other virtual experience my girls have taken part in,” added Groth. “We are just so thankful. CCN has touched our lives in so many ways.”

CCN continues to modify programs and create new options for delivering services and programs amid the pandemic.

The Chandler-based nonprofit organization serves families across Arizona, providing gas and grocery gift cards, hospital admission kits to help new families navigate the road ahead and adopt-a-family programs for back-to-school and the holidays.

The organization also hosts activities to boost self-confidence in young cancer fighters, programs to help siblings cope with cancer, and provide a multitude of other services and resources.

“Our focus right now is adapting our programs for the world we’re living in today,” said Luttrell.

For more information, to make a donation, or to inquire about volunteer opportunities, visit childrenscancernetwork.org.

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“I don’t think we should try to hide our history,’’ he said. “It’s not my desire or mission to tear down any monuments or memorials.’’

But McPherson told Ducey that argument holds no water.

“The removal of these monuments will not ‘change’ history or ‘erase’ it,’’ he wrote.

“What does change with such removals is what Arizona decides is worth of civic honor and recognition.’’

McPherson noted it’s not like any of these were erected close to the time of the war.

The Davis monument was moved from the New Mexico border to near Gold Canyon around 1963, when the Legislature was in a pique over the Civil Rights movement.

It isn’t just the Arizona Preservation Foundation pressuring the governor on the issue.

A separate letter to Ducey Wednesday signed by 200 veterans issued a similar call, saying these monuments “dishonor and disrespect the service of those who swore an oath to ‘support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.’ ‘’ “Make no mistake, the Confederate soldiers honored by these monuments were domestic enemies fighting for the cause of slavery, leading to the loss of nearly 620,000 lies during the Civil War,’’ the letter states.

The closest Ducey has come to acknowledging the controversy has come over the monument in Wesley Bolin Plaza across from the Capitol, the one that was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the beginning of the civil rights movement in 1961. Asked last month about new calls to remove that in the wake of protests that followed the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, the only thing Ducey would say is that he did not want to make such a decision on his own.

“There is a public process to be able to

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economy and for education.

“This will put downward pressure on economic growth and make investing in schools and teacher salaries more difficult going forward,’’ he said.

Taylor acknowledged that the Chamber led the effort to quash a similar measure two years ago.

This monument is located at Picacho Peak, the site of the western-most Civil War battles. (Special to AFN)

put something into Wesley Bolin plaza or on state property,’’ the governor said. “I think there should be a public process if someone wants to go the alternative route.’’

But it was Ducey who signed legislation in 2018 abolishing the Capitol Mall Commission which until then had the power to decide what went in -- and what came out -- of the plaza. That law now gives the power of removal exclusively to Andy Tobin, the governor’s hand-picked director of the Department of Administration.

And the other three monuments are under the purview of state agencies whose directors report to the governor.

On Wednesday, aides to Ducey refused to comment on McPherson’s letter or the whole issue of the monuments.

But it hasn’t just been the governor defending their presence.

Nicole Baker, spokeswoman for Wanda Wright, director of the Arizona Department of Veteran Service, said the monument in Sierra Vista is at the entrance to what she called a “cemetery within a cemetery.’’ These contain remains which originally were buried in the old military

Taylor said he is not saying that there is enough money in education.

Backers offered a similar proposal two years ago, only to have it challenged by the Chamber.

In a 5-2 ruling, the Arizona Supreme Court kicked it off the ballot after concluding that organizers failed to properly explain in the legally required 100-word description how much taxes rates would

cemetery that served Fort Lowell in the late 1800s but were moved to Sierra Vista.

Baker said each of the tombstones is labeled “unknown’’ because of the lack of DNA to identify remains. But she said that this section covers all who served in any fashion from the 1860s through the 1880s.

The stone marker in question was erected by the Confederate Secret Service Camp 1710, Sons of Confederate Veterans.

“While we can’t erase our nation’s history, we can certainly learn from it and help future generations plot the way forward,’’ Baker said.

McPherson has a different take.

“These monuments celebrate This monument is located at the State Capitol complex. (Special to AFN) and promote bigotry and racism,’’ he wrote to Ducey. “They are devoid of true there was no need for that because as far as Arizona history and their very presence his agency is concerned it no longer exists.

Halikowski acknowledged that the Aricontinues to hurt our African-American friends, neighbors, coworkers, and strang- zona Highway Commission voted in 1961 ers we may meet on the bus, at the lunch to designate U.S. 80 through Arizona as the “Jefferson Davis National Highway.’’ counter, or on a march for justice.’’

The current controversy mirrors what Davis was the first and only president of happened three years ago when Rep. the Confederate States of America, and Reginald Bolding, D-Laveen, led the drive Arizona was one of 15 states to adopt the to remove Confederate monuments off of highway name.

But he pointed out to the Arizona State state property.

“Any African-American and many other Board on Geographic and Historic Names individuals should not be required to use that U.S. 80 no longer exists, with the same our taxpayer dollars to keep up with the stretch of road now bearing other route upkeep and maintenance of these memo- numbers. And he said once U.S. 80 disaprials,’’ he said at the time. Bolding said that peared, so did the designation.

At the same time, however, ADOT has alwould be comparable to having monuments on public lands to those who fought lowed the monument to remain on state right of way, with an agency spokesman for the Nazis.

While the monuments all remain, Bold- saying it is “not an immediate safety hazard,’’ meaning there are no safety reasons ing did win a victory of sorts at the time.

In fighting to have the marker for the to remove it.

That rock and granite marker originally Jefferson Davis Highway removed, Bolding also pushed to have any reference to it was located along U.S. 70 at Duncan, near the New Mexico border. It was moved to scrubbed from state maps.

But John Halikowski, director of the Ari- its current location in the 1960s with state zona Department of Transportation, said approval. go up in the plan were approved.

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n Ahwatukee family is in dire need of financial help from the community and beyond as two of their three young daughters are battling an extremely rare and highly-aggressive brain disease.

Olivia Riley, 2, and her infant sister Keira, who turns 6 months old July 9, are the younger daughters of Ahwatukee residents Dave and Kendra Riley who also have a 5-year-old daughter, Eva. Both Olivia and Keira have been diagnosed with metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), a genetic brain disease that has no cure.

Treatment is not available locally and funds are being raised to help the family as they move to Italy, hopefully together, to seek treatment for Keira while pursuing weekly treatments for Olivia in France.

Heartbreaking as all of this is, what adds even more poignancy is that this is a genetic disease.

“Dave and I were devastated,” said Kendra.

“It was beyond frustrating to look back on that test and see the ‘Negative’ result for MLD. We now know they only test the five most prevalent gene mutations that lead to MLD, even though there are many more.”

“If there is one thing we hope to Eva Riley, 5, holds her baby sister Keira while 2-year-old Olivia Riley leans into her. The help change for two younger girls have been diagnosed with a genetic and degenerative brain disease new parents in that has no cure. (Pamela Nicole/Special to AFN) the future it is exNeither parent was aware they were panding the scope of genetic testing for carriers, and in fact had gone through DNA leukodystrophies,” she added. “No parent testing before having children to minimize should ever have to see their child suffer in this way and have to say goodbye to the risk of any inherited disease.

them so soon.”

It was just last November when the Rileys noticed Olivia having difficulty walking and then observed an odd vibration in the iris of one eye.

Their pediatrician referred them to an ophthalmologist, who suggested an MRI that revealed vanishing white matter in her brain.

That led to a neurologist who suggested “it was nothing” and advised them to come back in a year.

The couple instead researched other doctors and eventually discovered Dr. Vinodh Narayanan and Arizona Pediatric Neurology & Neurogenetics Associates.

Narayanan confirmed it was MLD, which has the heartbreaking description of being an “extremely rare and fatal brain disease” that destroys the protective fatty layer surrounding the nerves in the central nervous system, aggressively taking away motor function and other abilities.

and other authors.

Three of his books have been translated into German and Polish.

His latest book, “The Time Seer,” is the fifth and latest in The Endarian Prophecy epic fantasy series.

Phillips, who writes from his Ahwatukee home, is editing his latest tome, “Prophecy’s End,” the final book in The Best-selling science fiction/fantasy author Richard “Rick” Phillips of Ahwatukee and Endarian Proph- his wife Carol are avid golfers. (Special to AFN) In his decade of writing novels, Philecy that will be available by year’s end.

lips has also penned nine volumes in The Rho Agenda series, beginning with “Once Dead” and ending with “The Meridian Ascent.”

Last August, his sci-fi and fantasy novels Amazon surpassed the million-reader milestone. He has sold 100,000 more since then and a dozen of his 14 books have reached #1 on Amazon or placed in the top 10 bestselling list.

For Phillips, writing fiction started as a hobby of sorts.

“The fantasy novels originally started when I was in the military; I was just playing around,” said Phillips, who qualified as an Army Ranger after his 1979 graduation from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. “I set that book aside and af-

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Local best-selling author also a devout Toastmaster

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ack in 2010, Richard “Rick” Phillips of Ahwatukee self-published his first novel and found himself staring at boxes of books piled in his garage.

And over the next 10 years, he’s become a best-selling author with more than a million books sold and an Amazon ranking as its top best-selling science fiction author.

Imagination has had everything to do with his success, as attested by his 14 techno-thriller and fantasy books that fans eat up on Amazon and Kindle.

The Roswell, New Mexico, native creates worlds and captivating characters that have engrossed a legion of readers and listeners and impressing reviewers

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pair of Ahwatukee brothers have achieved Eagle rank, the highest awarded by the Boy Scouts.

Gage Rainwater, 17, and Garrett Rainwater, 15, of Ahwatukee Troop 278 both attend Mountain Pointe High School and are the sons of Sean and Mysti Rainwater.

Gage, a Scout the last 11 years, rehabilitated an enclosure for Colina Elementary School’s pet tortoise, Rocky, for his project.

With the help of the Home Depot on Priest Drive in Tempe, he enlisted several friends and other Scouts on the project.

He said the project was challenging because of the heat as well as following up

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After receiving Olivia’s diagnosis, David and Kendra Riley had their other two daughters tested.

As COVID-19 barreled in on the world, drastically slowing all medical issues including test results, they waited anxiously for an answer.

Just last month they finally received the results.

Like her parents, Eva is a carrier and will be unaffected by the disease.

Their baby, however, was diagnosed with MLD. “When symptoms show early in life, such as in Olivia’s case, most children aren’t expected to live past 4-6 years old,” said Kendra.

She said Olivia’s MLD has progressed so that she’s lost her vocabulary, can’t pronounce most words, has difficulty walking and experiences “moderate to severe” pain on a daily basis.

“Keira, however, is not symptomatic yet, and we must act quickly to save her life,” her mother.

It’s already been a long haul for the couple who, while waiting on the genetic testing for their other two daughters, learned that the only clinical trial in the world for MLD treatment of symptomatic patients is in Iowa.

“This treatment is not curative. It can’t reverse damage already done. The goal is to slow the rapid progression of the disease and protect and preserve her quality of life for as long as possible,” Kendra explained.

on donated materials.

Garrett, a Scout for 10 years, repainted the fence around God’s Garden Preschool at 48th Street and Elliott Road for his project.

He held a car wash to raise money for some materials and also benefited from a paint donation by Dunn Edwards on Warner Road at 48th St. “Thanks to friends, family and other Scouts for their time making our neighborhood better,” their father Sean Rainwater said.

Besides the fact the project involved working in the heat, Garrett said the other challenge he had to overcome was “keeping all volunteers motivated and working in the right direction.”

A port was successfully installed surgically, and since May, the family has traveled to Iowa City every Thursday through Sunday so doctors can administer the medicine to the 2-year-old.

“So far, we haven’t seen a difference, but we’re hopeful it will slow the disease down so we have more time with her,” Kendra said.

And now there’s an even longer journey necessitated to help assure their infant daughter has a better prognosis.

“The only treatment which can save Keira is known as gene therapy, and it’s only available in Milan, Italy,” explained Daniel “DJ” Riley, David’s brother.

DJ and his wife Nina started a GoFundMe page to augment the fundraising campaign of the nonprofit Ahwatukee-based Armer Foundation for Kids.

“Our goal is to help them raise $500,000 by the end of July. This would cover Keira’s treatment, as well as travel and lodging for the whole family during the five months they would have to stay in Italy,” he said.

“The whole family will move to Italy,” he added. “However, the treatment for Olivia is not available in Milan so this means that every week, one of them will have to travel with her to a city where treatment is available, possibly Paris.”

“We must also get Olivia’s treatments transferred to Europe and make sure that our insurance will provide us coverage during our stay so that any medical needs the rest of us have during our time there will be covered,” Kendra added.

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The parents agree that even the prospect of the gene therapy treatment in Milan was an unexpected boon. Their initial query found the clinical trial was fully enrolled with no new patients being added.

“They accepted Keira for treatment but only on ‘compassionate use’ basis. That means we will have to pay out of pocket for our family to move to Italy for five months for Keira to receive the treatment,” said Kendra.

She added that since the beginning of the MLD treatment in 2010, the San RaffaeleTelethon Institute for Gene Therapy in Milan has treated 29 patients from around the world, 26 of whom are still alive.

“The children who have received this treatment are currently walking, running, playing games and going to school – a normal life that Olivia will never experience.

But Keira could because she’s currently asymptomatic and eligible for the therapy,” said Kendra.

“While we know our time with Livvy is limited, we have so much hope for Keira because of this treatment and want to do everything we can to give Eva, and ourselves, as many happy memories as we can with her sisters.”

In addition to facing the stresses of the coronavirus pandemic, the medical hurdles faced by Olivia and Keira, the weekly treks to Iowa, the resulting expense, the Rileys are trying to ensure they can face this newest challenge in Italy together as a family.

Kendra, owner of Dawning Public Relations, said her two employees are shoulder-

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ing her agency’s workload, and David, a financial advisor at Strategy Financial Group, has “scaled back significantly,” focusing on existing clients while working remotely.

“Our team of doctors both here in the US and in Italy are speaking with our insurance carrier to hopefully work out coverage for the family during this time,” said David, who along with his two brothers Shaun and Daniel, are Desert Vista High School graduates.

“If not, we will have to separate our family.”

A $500,000 goal has been set to help the Riley family get to Italy and provide for the family’s care while there. That amount doesn’t include the costs of returning to Italy every six months for Keira’s check-ups.

Tax-deductible donations can be made through The Armer Foundation for Kids at ArmerFoundation.org, or can be sent via GoFundMe at GoFundMe.com/f/helpsave-keiras-life-from-mld.

“Many have asked how they can help us during these unthinkable times we all find ourselves in, and this is the way,” Kendra said. “Please help us raise enough funds to give our Keira the chance at a normal life; to save her life from the horrible disease that is MLD. “Your support will not only help save our daughter’s life but further the advancement of gene therapy, which has the potential to cure hundreds of rare diseases.”

She said she and her husband “are so grateful for the outpouring of support we’ve received from our friends, family, and the Ahwatukee community.”

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ter I left the military, started my science fiction series.”

Phillips served as an officer in the U.S. Army, graduating in 1989 from the Naval Postgraduate School with a master’s degree in nuclear physics.

He finished his thesis while at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, moving on to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Military Research Associate before completing his tour of duty as an Army officer.

After he got out of the Army in 1996, he became a project leader in high-tech projects for General Electric, Lockheed Martin Space Operations and General Dynamics.

“I published my first two books in 2010 and by 2013 had multiple best sellers and was making more money than I was as a senior project leader at General Dynamics, so I decided to write full-time.”

He and Carol, his wife of 38 years, moved to Arizona from Maryland. Carol founded AZ Bread Co. in 2004 and the couple settled in Ahwatukee. She sold the business in 2015.

Despite his current success as a bestselling author, Phillips still recalls his attempts to get published after his initial self-publishing venture proved disappointing.

“When I finished the first sci-fi novel, I spent a lot of money self-publishing it only to have 2,000 beautiful copies of the book sitting in my garage,” he said.

“I spent three years trying to sell them.

Then, I discovered I could self-publish free through dp.amazon.com, set my own pricing and make 70 percent in royalties, so I did that.”

Over the next two years he sold a few dozen copies a month.

“Then, in 2010, I self-published the second novel in the series ‘Immune.’ I remember how excited I was the first time I sold more than 1,000 copies in a month in September of 2010.

“In October, I sold 2,000 copies; November 3,000; December 14,000; and in January 2011, I sold more than 22,000 copies and I had the No. 1 and No. 2 bestselling science fiction novels on Amazon.”

Phillips recalled those first two books – “The Second Ship” and “Immune” quickly caught the fancy of science fiction enthusiasts.

“The Second Ship” begins in the National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New

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Agenda Inception’ prequel series about them,” he explained.

“An ex-CIA assassin, Jack ‘The Ripper’ Gregory, believes an alien mind is trying to control him.

His NSA partner, Janet Alexandra Price, doesn’t know whether Jack is crazy, or something far worse.”

That prequel includes “Once Dead,” “Dead Wrong,” and “Dead Shift.”

When his books regularly topped the charts on Amazon in the science fiction genre, Phillips figured he now had solid numbers to woo a respected publisher.

He not only got his literary agent but also secured his publisher, 47North, with whom he’s been for the last nine years.

“I’d tried for years to get an agent, but I “The Time Seer” is Phillips’ fifth and latest installment in his fantasy series couldn’t get anyone from called “The Endarian Prophecy.” (Special to AFN) a big literary agency to Mexico and sets the stage for the Rho read my novel. But when I had the No. Agenda series. The next two volumes be- 1 and No. 2 bestselling sci-fi novels on came books four and five of the expand- Amazon, I took a screen-capture of those rankings. ed series.

“Then I wrote a simple email to JankPhillips explained the premise for that low & Nesbit, one of the oldest literary series. agencies in New York. It said: ‘Hello, my “My first series is the six-book sci-fi sename is Richard Phillips and I currently ries called ‘The Rho Agenda.’ Three highhave the No. 1 and No. 2 bestselling scischool friends stumble into a cloaked cavence fiction novels on Amazon; see atern in a remote canyon in northern New tached screen-capture.

I’m interested in Mexico, formed when an alien spacecraft representation.’ crashed there.

“That was it. I didn’t send my manu“When they enter the spaceship script nor a cover letter. By the end of the through a hole in its hull, the onboard arweek I had an agent, Paul Lucas, who still tificial intelligence taps into their brains, represents me to this day.” enhancing their abilities and setting them Book reviewers have credited his miliupon a dark path where millions will die tary and science backgrounds – and his and the course of humanity changed forauspicious birthplace of Roswell, the ever,” he said. long-rumored government research cenHe recommends readers experience The Rho Agenda books in the follow- ter for UFOs – as adding authenticity to ing order: “The Second Ship,” “Immune,” his science fiction and fantasy novels.

His current project involves a heroine “Wormhole,” “The Kasari Nexus,” “The named Lorness Carol Rafel and he willAltreian Enigma” and “The Kasari Nexus.” ingly admits his wife’s personality traits “After I published the first three books of strength and tenacity influenced him in ‘The Rho Agenda’ series, two importo create the female protagonist in the tant secondary characters had become six-book fantasy series, “The Endarian so popular that I wrote a three-book ‘Rho

Prophecy.”

The audio books are released simultaneously as the printed versions.

MacLeod Andrews, an actor and muchlauded voice-over artist with more than 300 books to his credit is the narrator for eight of the nine “Rho Agenda” books Phillips has written.

Yet another passion of Phillips, besides golf – an interest he shares with his wife – incorporates public speaking and writing.

Phillips is a member of three area Toastmasters Clubs. He serves as president of the Ahwatukee Toastmasters, treasurer of Dobson Ranch Toastmasters Club, and is a member of Dobson@Sunset. The latter two clubs are in Mesa.

He said even though he’d been a senior project leader at General Dynamics and had published two novels, he joined Toastmasters after he found himself stumbling through a presentation as a guest speaker at the Arizona Authors Association.

During his 21 years in the Army and 15 with General Dynamics, he explained, “I spoke in public on a daily basis.”

After he retired and switched to fulltime writing, “that was great, but I wasn’t practicing my public speaking,” he said.

“A couple of years ago, I was invited to speak at a meeting of the Arizona Authors Association, and to my horror, when I took the stage, my adrenaline spiked and I barely made it through my talk. As I walked to my car, I made the decision that I was going to get back on the public speaking horse.

“So, I joined Ahwatukee Toastmasters on May 1, 2018, and it’s been one of the best decisions I have ever made.”

Phillips said participating in Toastmasters renewed his confidence and he enjoyed the experience enough that he joined the two other clubs.

“The people are great and include leaders in our community and some of the best and most entertaining speakers I’ve ever heard. Right now, due to Covid-19, we meet via Zoom, but I’m looking forward to when we’re able to gather again in person.”

He encouraged anyone interested in Ahwatukee Toastmasters to contact the website at ahwatukeetoastmasters.toastmastersclubs.org.

For more information on his books and audiobooks, there are several websites available including RhoAgenda. com and TheSecondShip.net.

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Foothills HOA bylaw vote debated Why Foothills residents should reject bylaw changes

My partner of 35 years and I have lived in Ahwatukee Foothills for 31 years, the most recent 18 in Cabrillo Canyon, right here in The Foothills. While in Lakewood, I served as president in our sub-association for 6 years and led their very extensive landscape renovations and maintenance committee with a team of very dedicated, passionate neighbors for eight years.

It was fun most of the time — and we got a lot done in an effort to improve the community in which we lived.

Since moving to The Foothills in 2001, I focused on my career as the local leader of Willis Towers Watson, a global human capital services (consulting mostly to F1000 level organizations) and brokerage firm.

With 800 local employees, my hands were full! I chose to retire 1-1-20, so now would like to focus on bettering our community.

When a board position became available early this year, I was honored to be selected to serve out the remainder of the term for a position that was being vacated. I’m enjoying getting to know our community better, and realizing the learning curve is steep!

I’ve also learned that the current board members are selfless, hard-working and dedicated.

Without their long service and dedication, we’d not be in nearly as good of shape financially or with our new neighbor to the south, the new 202, as we are today. My hat is off to the current board for having the community’s best interests at heart day in and day out.

As a community, we have some decisions to make. As members of The Foothills Community Association (the place we all choose to call home), we will soon be asked to cast votes on a group of proposed bylaws changes and then a few months later on new Board members to fill vacant/ rotation available seats. I will address the bylaws decision we will all need to make first, since that vote is most pressing.

There are two groups of homeowners who are working on the bylaw amendments and I think it’s important we all understand the implications of that fact.

There is a board-sanctioned bylaws committee that is working on modernizing the bylaws and progress is being made.

This committee is chaired by board Vice President Gary Reny and is ongoing.

Several homeowners are serving on this committee, including a few who have decided to go in a different direction, primarily driven by some sort of anger with our current board President Bill Fautsch and perhaps our current Treasurer Sandi Salvo.

Simply stated, this group of our neighbors has decided it is worth disrupting harmony in The Foothills with the primary motivation of removing them from office.

They have accomplished their #1 goal: Bill Fautsch has decided to not seek re-election this year in an attempt to return peace and harmony to our community. I’m sad to see Bill go. In my view, we are a better community because of his leadership.

Term limits are popular and in political environments I agree they generally make sense. And in concept, they probably make sense in The Foothills, too — as long as there are a sufficient number of dedicated, selfless, hard-working community members who understand the demands of these positions and are truly willing to step up to the task and deliver.

That said, in homeowner’s associations (including ours), this has simply not been the case historically. Therefore, the reality is that term limits in an HOA setting tend to remove board members just as they are getting a firm handle/understanding on managing our complex community.

We must be prepared to also lose valuable experience and knowledge of the community that these board members possess. I fear apathy of homeowners will lead to a return of few, if any, qualified candidates at some point in the future.

Deciding on the merits of term limits for

The Foothills requires some thought from each and every homeowner and business owner in our community. The answer is far from cut and dried.

I do not agree with each and every one of the proposed bylaw amendments proposed. For example, the lifetime disclosure requirements proposed is absurd. Requiring a potential board candidate to disclose things that may have happened 30, 40, 50 years ago is going too far.

Even running for public office or a highly sensitive financial position has a “look back period” limit of five or seven years. Well qualified candidates may have a blemish from decades ago that is completely irrelevant to them assuming a volunteer position as a leader in our community.

The group of our neighbors who are leading this effort for a few, disassociated bylaws changes insist on a single YES or NO vote for their suggested changes. They said they thought having separate voting apply to each proposed amendment would be “too complicated“ for the average FCA property owner to understand. I, for one, am insulted!

I support most but not all of the proposed amendments. Please take the time to read each of them. If you are like me and don’t like even one of the proposed amendments, you must vote “no” on the entire package deal. As I said above, there is an official bylaws review committee that is currently working on updating our governing documents, so we will have additional reforms to vote on again soon.

It’s okay to vote “no” now and still get the reforms that you think are relevant to The Foothills in this next bylaws revisions vote.

Get involved. Commit to harmony. Join me by doing your part toward making The Foothills the best place to call home in the Southeast Valley.

-Jon C. Samuelson

Term limits essential, so are other changes

Term limits are finally on the ballot for the Foothills Community Association HOA. Our HOA badly needs term limits, and I have been championing them for more than a year.

The HOA Board states that is has taken no position on term limits. But in the latest edition of its “The Foothills” magazine, its opposition is abundantly clear.

In the opening paragraph, the Board essentially attempts to make the argument that term limits are better suited for “paid positions” rather than unpaid volunteer positions. “Not everyone is in the position to make the time commitment required for this role and that makes retaining a committed and productive member of the community even more important.”

Before we dive further into the article, it is important to note that several board directors have been on the board for over a decade. So, it is quite understandable why their opening paragraph would attempt to diminish the importance of term limits.

The magazine article continues by laying out a list of pros and cons.

Our long-tenured board directors listed the following reasons against term limits.

• “Prevents accumulating knowledge, experience, and expertise” • “Limits continuity over time on projects” • “Limits timeframe and synergy with vendors and service providers” • “Risk of reduced candidate pool” The first two bullet points dealing with loss of institutional knowledge and project handover are two of the most common, but weakest, arguments made against term limits.

Every organization has to deal with the loss of institutional knowledge when someone retires or leaves the organization.

Some organizations are better at dealing with personnel change than others. Welldocumented processes, procedures, and detailed onboarding programs are some of the ways that make transitioning new per-

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Digging up the roots of racism’s serviceability

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his summer of 2020 with its global COVID-19 pandemic and crisis in racial justice makes for a very interesting time to be Black in America.

This is not to say that Black people have not always been self-aware of our blackness before now. It’s just that the awakening of white people across the globe to the inhumanity of global racism—and its myriad manifestations--means that we are all in a very peculiar moment.

Part of this peculiarity comes in the fact that white folks are for whatever reasons being forced to acknowledge their own unconscious complicities in perpetuating and sustaining racist practices from which they have benefited for hundreds of years, actually in this country since 1619 when the first Africans were brought to what is now the USA. Indeed, so much of what we witness

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sonnel easier.

The argument that the board attempts to make against term limits suggests that the ability to develop strong relationships with HOA vendors would be jeopardized due to term limits.

This argument alone should concern everyone. In fact, I would argue that this is a principal reason why term limits are needed. Up until last year, this board did not have a written procurement policy.

Procurement policies and best practices, not personal relationships with vendors, will provide our HOA community the best value.

The final argument that fewer HOA members would run for the board because of term limits simply makes no sense, and there has not been a problem finding wellqualified candidates.

It is important for everyone to understand that getting this issue on the ballot took an enormous effort. Our HOA Board directors adamantly oppose term limits; they fought hard to keep this issue off the ballot, and now they are fighting to see terms limits defeated.

now as racial, financial, healthcare, educational and social injustices are rooted in American slavery and the ways in which Black people on whose backs this country was built have arguably suffered most from systemic racism in all its many permutations.

That a “day of reckoning is upon us” seems a common sentiment among many across racial groups.

After all, organizations, institutions, and corporations are racing to unveil “Statements” as pledges of allegiance, Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben are retiring their names and logos but not their products, as Confederate flags are offering a final wave from some public buildings, and as some monuments glorifying “the good ole days” that were not so good for too many are being toppled and removed.

I remain skeptical, though, about much of this activity, not because I don’t believe in the promise of this USA as “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” but because I watch the human

Several board directors have been on the board for over a decade. It’s time for change!

I am extremely excited that our community will finally be able to vote on this important issue as part of the package of bylaws reforms.

I urge all HOA members to vote “approve” on the ballot for the bylaws reforms that they are receiving in the mail.

The homeowners who sponsor the reforms will have a Zoom meeting for HOA members on Tuesday, July 14 at 6:30 pm.

Information on how to join the meeting can be found on: TheFoothillsInfo.com.

-Rafael de Luna III

Homeowners should approve bylaw changes

The Foothills Community Association HOA will conduct a vote during July on reforms for the HOA. All HOA members will receive ballots in the mail soon. Members will be able to vote online or return their ballots by mail, and instructions for voting methods will be included with the ballot.

Please take a few moments and vote. I urge you to vote “approve” on the reform package.

capacity to lose interest in movements between crises.

Lots of white folks are doing stuff – supporting black-owned businesses, talking to their Black friends and colleagues and watching lots and lots of black stuff as though cramming for an exam.

While many applaud these latent alarm clock moments, this frenzy to fix feels slightly reductive, imagining that anyone’s lived Black experience can be understood by simply reading books or watching documentaries absent of real critical analysis and interrogation.

The emotional toll this “awakening” from white slumber or inactivity as a non-racist vs. and anti-racist is overwhelming for many Black folks I know – whether asking Black people to recommend reading lists, offer diversity trainings, or simply to validate their white allyship card or moral uprightness in some tangible way.

These observations near and far are leaving many Black folks vulnerable, angry, and fatigued.

It is essential for all Foothills homeowners to vote. There are several real estate corporations that control large blocks of votes within the HOA and, in the past, they have dominated the HOA voting process. If we, the homeowners, can come together and “approve” these reforms, we can ensure that our voices will prevail.

These HOA reforms have been put forth as a part of a grassroots effort by Foothills homeowners to ensure transparency and accountability, and to better align the HOA with the interests of the homeowners. Two of the most important reforms are: 1) term limits for board directors, and 2) board candidate disclosures.

Term limits are needed to ensure that new ideas and perspectives are periodically introduced into the board and its management of the HOA. We currently have multiple board directors who have served for more than a dozen years in leadership roles. We need fresh leadership every four years to consider new approaches to solving problems. For example, there may be other HOA vendors and service providers who would do a better job if given the chance by new board leadership.

Candidate disclosures will allow home-

Many of us are also grieving the loss of “friends” with whom we have had to sever ties because they have deeply disappointed us in their performative allyship.

They have betrayed our trust and made us reevaluate our ability to see and know confidently ourselves and other people.

Race and racism have always been threaded into the very fabric of this country, and its serviceability as a denier of basic humanity affects all of us but does not benefit us all.

Such systems of oppression exist because they are profitable. The extent to which we can dig up the roots of racism’s serviceability and see the connection between capitalism, resources and humanity – or the lack thereof – is the extent to which we can move closer toward a more just society and world. I am looking forward.

Ahwatukee resident Neal A. Lester, PhD, is Foundation Professor of English and founding director of Project Humanities at Arizona State University. owners to make well-informed voting decisions about who should manage nearly $2 million of our HOA dues every year. Candidates will be required to disclose bankruptcies, judgments, and felonies before they run for a board director position.

This reform will not prohibit someone with this history from running for the board, rather, it only requires candidates to disclose this information to voters before the election instead of after (the state already requires directors to disclose bankruptcies and judgments after they are elected).

The remaining reforms cover three other areas: procurement policy, a requirement to remove outdated items from our bylaws on an annual basis, and electronic voting.

All of the reforms are common-sense improvements, and all are greatly needed.

Please vote “approve” on these reforms.

It only takes a few minutes for your voice, as a homeowner, to be heard. Together we can lead the HOA in a more positive direction.

More information can be found at TheFoothillsInfo.com.

-Rob Doherty

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n Ahwatukee 3D printing company helped Salt River Project get more than 200 specially designed custom-fit face mask gear for critical personnel who work in the field.

Athena 3D Manufacturing, was formed last year by inventor-entrepreneur Memo Romero, and played a critical role in the development of the masks, SRP said.

Romero, an Ahwatukee resident and a mechanical engineering graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, has 28 years experience in semiconductors, power systems, thermal engineering and product development and over 20 U.S. patents.

He has designed products for NASA, the International Space Station and a number of industrial and auto companies.

He founded Athena 3D with a vision of

Athena 3D Manufacturing of Ahwatukee and Bellus 3D of California worked with SRP to make custom-fitted frames that keep a mask more securely on the face. (SRP)

how 3D printing could impact product design and partnered with HP to give engineers and designers access to bulk parts in less time.

Athena worked with SRP and Bellus 3D, a California company that has developed the Mask Fitter, a head frame that more firmly secures a mask to a per-

son’s face.

“The men and women working on power lines, in distribution operations centers, interacting with customers and ensuring water delivery, must have access to masks that achieve a near-perfect seal around each person’s nose and mouth,” SRP spokeswoman Erica Sturwold said.

SRP’s early mask models were fullrespirator style, compatible with many different filtration materials and included a silicon face-seal solution.

“The full-size masks with silicone seal kept out particulate matter, but were ultimately time consuming to produce and did not always seal across all face shapes and sizes,” Sturwold said.

The utility also was running out of N95 masks for service crews and did not want to further deplete Arizona health-

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hree area Gila River Hotels & Casinos locations are back in business after they closed for two weeks following the death of an employee from COVID-19.

Wild Horse Pass, Lone Butte and Vee Quiva reopened last week with enhanced safety procedures and health protocols.

“The decision came after thorough evaluation and enhancement of the Gila River Gaming Enterprise’s safety plan in coordination with the Gila River Indian Community Council and input from team members,” a spokeswoman said.

She said Gila River Gaming Enterprise, Inc. developed a plan that “incorporates guidance from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Arizona Department of Health Services (AZDHS), and the Gila River Indian Community. As pandemic safety practices evolve, this plan will adapt and incorporate updated best practices to ensure the highest degree of

All casinos are installing Plexiglass barriers between slot machines to reduce the possibility of COVID-19 infections among players. (Special to AFN)

safety possible.

The tribe’s three casinos – Lone Butte,

Wild Horse Pass and Vee Quiva – were among the first to reopen, along with Fort

McDowell Casino and Harrah’s Ak-Chin Hotel and Casino, on May 15 after the COVID-19 stay-at-home order ended.

But only a month later, they shut down after an employee at Lone Butte died from the coronavirus.

The family of security worker Robert Washington told local television news stations that he had diabetes and was uneasy returning to work in May but he felt he had no choice because he otherwise couldn’t afford his insulin.

“He was absolutely fearful for his future,” Washington’s daughter said. “There was no social distancing as he explained to me, there was no active sanitation.”

All employees of Gila River Hotels & Casinos were on paid leave during the twoweek closure.

“These enhanced health and safety measures go beyond CDC and AZDHS guidelines,” said Kenneth Manuel, CEO of Gila

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care organization’s supply of those masks, which are certified by the Food and Drug Administration as capable of blocking 95 percent of all particles.

“Our Health Services team has been conducting COVID-19 tests and health screens for employees and we were nervous when we noticed our supply of N95 masks was getting low,” said Jodie Broderick, manager of health services at SRP. “We’ve tested a lot of mask solutions the Transportation Services team came up with and the 3D-printed solution with the Mask Fitter attachment is clearly the best. Even for women or people with smaller faces, these pass the fit test.”

SRP had a surplus of KN95 masks, which are manufactured in China and are just as effective in blocking out air particles, according to Smart Air, a certified B Corporation that “promotes cost-effective, data-backed air filters as a solution to indoor particulate air pollution,” according to Smart Air’s website.

B Corporations are companies certified as producing products and services that balance profit with legally required to consider the impact of their decisions on their workers, customers, suppliers, community, and the environment. There are more than 2,500 around the world.

Athena helped SRP in several ways.

The company helped the utility test its fitted mask concepts and also recommended that it check out Bellus’ app, which scans a person’s face for measurements of their facial contours.

Those measurements are then used by Bellus to produce a head cradle that holds mask more closely to the face and allows a person to swap out used masks without worrying the replacement won’t fit properly.

“A lot of research and development has been done in my house,” said Chad Barrett, strategic operations manager for transportation services at SRP. “We have worked on four different iterations of the mask concept since coronavirus

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set in. Each iteration required improved design changes, printing prototypes as well as smoke testing on different face shapes and sizes to make sure the masks were keeping unwanted particles out.”

While the Food and Drug Administration will only certify the N95 mask as capable of capturing 95 percent of all air particles, Smart Air said there’s little difference between the American-made mask and its Chinese counterpart.

“Among the minor differences, only KN95 masks are required to pass fit tests while N95 masks have slightly stronger breathability standards,” it says on its website, adding that its tests show the NH95 mask is equally effective at capturing air particles.

Athena printed 900 straps that secure the Bellus Mask Fitter to a person’s face.

Sturwold said SRP’s joint project with Athena and Bellus is “an impressive effort that other local companies can replicate to address the N95 shortage,” “The combination of the Mask Fitters, head cradles, brackets and removable filters make this solution ideal for SRP employees who have been working onsite and in the field throughout the COV-

ID-19, she said. “They tested 3D designs made publicly available on the National Institute of Health 3D print exchange website and made hybrid solutions from there.”

“Working closely with SRP’s safety services team, the goal was to develop a mask that works as well as an N95 mask and is practical for SRP employees to wear while working in all various job functions across the organization,” she added.

Now in full production, the SRP Transportation Services team is getting ready to deliver its first shipment of 200 Mask Fitters to SRP employees.

Members of SRP’s Health Services team were some of the first to wear mask prototypes to determine which mask could endure smoke tests.

“They were the first to embrace the Mask Fitters for mass use,” Sturwold said.

John Hughes, supervisor of field and shop operations at SRP, said employees who tested the Mask Fitters and Athena’s straps were pleased with the project’s accomplishment.

“We’ve gotten a lot of feedback from our teams who have tested the masks

and we know these are much more durable and easier to work with than N95’s,” he said. “They don’t slide around your face, and they are much easier to breathe through.

“Our crews in the field like to be able to keep the mask around their neck when alone in their vehicles, and position it back onto their face when they are coming in contact with residential or commercial customers,” he added.

Sturwold said that while the initial shipments of the gear will go first to “critical service” personnel, “the goal is to deploy them to more of SRP’s employees.”

She added that SRP may be the first utility company in the country to deploy 3D printed Mask Fitters for a large number of employees.

“The beauty of these Mask Fitters is their simplicity, and they can be worn an unlimited number of times if well cared for,” said Barrett. “They can be wiped down and filters can be swapped out whenever damaged or soiled. We’re happy to give a comfortable, long-lasting solution to SRP employees during a time when additional safety precautions are necessary.”

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River Gaming Enterprise, Inc. “The safety of our valued team members and guests are our priority.”

“As a major employer, entertainment provider and revenue contributor to the Gila River Indian Community and the State of Arizona, we are committed to excellence,” he added. “We will continue to adapt and enhance our safety measures to provide the highest level of care and service for our team members and guests. We are doing everything we can during these unprecedented times to safeguard public health while also continuing to provide for our team members and the greater community.: Manuel also said the corporation continues to mourn Washington’s death.

“We believe that the safety protocols that we are employing will create a safe environment for our guests and team members,” concluded Mr. Manuel.

Enhanced and additional health and safety measures include: non-smoking at all properties with designated smoking areas; daily closures from 2-10 a.m. for deep-cleaning; paid leave of absence for at-risk team members and COVID-19 test-

ing for employees every two weeks; mandatory temperature checks for team members and guests upon arrival; mandatory face masks for all employees and patrons; extensive disinfection procedures training to protect workers and all visitors.

The spokeswoman said patrons will be advised to practice physical distancing.

She said casino floors and gaming tables “have been redesigned to ensure physical distancing and reduced occupancy,” including Plexiglass separations between slot machines and 100 sanitation stations on gaming floors with bright green signage.

The slot machines also enable gamblers to alert a “cleaning ambassador” if they want their machine cleaned.

“Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Gila River Hotels & Casinos will continue to monitor and rely on the latest guidance from the CDC and AZDHS,” the spokeswoman said, adding it “will update its safety protocols and procedures as necessary to include best practices as part of their continued commitment to the safety and well-being of team members, guests and the greater community.”

Indian gaming has been severely impacted by the pandemic.

“There is no other way to say it except it’s a massive impact – negative impact,” said Alan Meister, CEO of Meister Economic Consulting, which studies the gaming industry.

Meister said that while most casinos’ revenues went to zero when everything closed, tribal governments still had costs for maintaining buildings during the closure. Opening back up, he said, is how tribal governments can start to earn back that revenue.

And it’s not just tribal governments that were hurting, but also casino employees and vendors, Meister said.

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“Those secondary impacts are huge as well because that total loss of revenue at the direct level, where it’s at the casino, flows straight through to everything else.

Those end up becoming huge losses,” he said.

Officials at the Arizona Department of Gaming said they did not release guidance on how tribes should operate during the curfew, which Ducey allowed to expire June 8.

“It is within the authority of each sovereign Tribal partner to determine opening and closing times,” said Max Hartgraves, a department legislative assistant.

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ountain Pointe and Desert Vista football programs have spent the last month preparing for what is still a fall season in question due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The programs have done so with players spread out and at times in groups of 10 or less, including a coach. The situation isn’t ideal for football teams who are accustomed to participating in 7-on-7 tournaments and preparing for the of�icial start of practices. But �irst-year Mountain Pointe head coach Eric Lauer said it’s all they can do at this time.

“We are trying to set a culture and gain their trust, which was hard to do over Zoom meetings,” said Lauer, who only had about two months to get to know players before school was shut down.

“They’re all auditioning because we don’t know any of them. Especially with this situation, it has kind of put more stress on them. We want to give them a chance to prove themselves, but we are limited right now in how we do that.”

Arizona has become a hot spot for the virus in the United States, which last week led to Ducey once again shuttering bars, gyms and water parks. Additionally, he announced schools would resume session on Aug. 17, the new start date for Tempe Union.

Ducey’s announcement led to swift action from the Arizona Interscholastic Association, the governing body of high school sports. In a press release, the AIA announced the of�icial start of practices would also start Aug. 17. Originally, they were scheduled to begin July 27.

Teams initially thought they would be able to move onto a different phase in returning to play – which, for other East Valley schools, meant the use of footballs.

Now, however, most programs have shut down camps. Mountain Pointe hopes to resume workouts July 13.

“We are hungry to get back,” Mountain

senior tight end Kevin Sawitzke said. “But we also don’t want anyone to get sick. We just have to stay focused and do what we can. If we do that, all of these drills will pay off in the end.”

Senior lineMountain Pointe senior linebacker Zach Hay said he enjoyed being able to be back with his backer Zach teammates despite it being in a limited fashion. (Pablo Robles/AFN Staff Photographer) Hay said the Pointe senior offensive lineman Anthony extra measures were dif�icult at �irst, but Ortiz said. “The energy is there with all the players have been able to follow them of us. We just hope we are able to have a properly. Overall, he’s just glad to be able to be back with his teammates in some season and ball out this year.”

Earlier workouts conducted Mon- capacity.

“It was nice to get back with them,” Hay day through Thursday revolved heavily around plyometrics on Mark Lovett said. “The atmosphere out here has been Field. Lauer said the �irst two weeks of great. We even have some players staying the summer workouts were intended to just to get extra work in. Everyone wants to get after it this year.” be generic conditioning drills.

Similar exercises are being conducted Since then, the group has moved into speci�ic drills related to football. Some just under four miles away at Desert Vista. days they correlate to offense and oth- Thunder head coach Dan Hinds and his ers defense. Some of those drills involve staff implemented a strategy based entiresprints, broad jumps and a variety of other exercises.

Players are all spread out 6 feet apart during drills.

There are no high-�ives, �ist bumps or any touching allowed between players. Coaches all wear face masks.

“We all want to move on and Desert Vista senior Kekamalei Huakau is hopeful his senior season isn’t lost due to the virus. to be able to He hopes to be able to share his final year with the Thunder with friends. (Pablo Robles/AFN use footballs,” Staff Photographer)

ly on keeping groups separate at all times.

Players check in once they arrive on school grounds and immediately sit 6-feet apart along a wall with masks on until they are allowed to begin drills.

The entire team is broken up into two groups and from there into smaller ones.

The strategy is meant to limit contact between players, which has so far proven to work in even the direst circumstances.

To date, Desert Vista has had one player test positive for the virus. He began feeling ill over a weekend and did not participate in any workouts while symptomatic. Even before his test showed up as positive, the players and coach in his group were isolated. No others have showed symptoms.

“I think we came up with a great plan,” Desert Vista coach Dan Hinds said. “We worked from the top down, from the district all the way to our coaches. I also have to give our players credit.

“They’re following all the guidelines we’ve given them here and they’re doing it without question.”

Groups rotate through a variety of drills spread out along the school’s tennis courts and one of the practice �ields.

Short hurdles and ladders are utilized by the players for exercises, as well as the lines on the tennis courts.

Once �inished with workouts, each group is led to the parking lot. Social distancing is maintained throughout.

“We have to make the most out of the situation we are in,” Desert Vista junior offensive lineman Jai Rodriguez said. “Everyone has to push themselves to the limits in the hour and 15 minutes we get out here. That’s really all we can do right now.”

Kekamalei Huakau, a two-way offensive and defensive lineman for the Thunder entering his senior year, shared the same sentiment as Rodriguez.

Overall, he just hopes to be able to play out his senior season.

“It’s stressful,” Huakau said. “It’s my senior year, my senior season. I want to be able to share it with my friends.”

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