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Foothills Golf Course up for sale for $5M BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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he Foothills Golf Course is up for sale but owner Wilson Gee said it won’t face the turbulence that two of Ahwatukee’s other courses have been facing. And he said the same holds true for the community’s fourth course, the Ahwatukee Country Club, which he has not yet decided whether to sell after he unloads the Foothills and The Duke at Rancho El Dorado, a course he owns in Maricopa. “The Ahwatukee Country Club will always be a golf course – and so will the Foothills and the Duke – only because the houses are in a different configuration” from Club West, he said. “The legacy of the Foothills and Country Club will always be golf.” The future of the Club West Golf Course – now a barren piece of desert since Gee put it up for sale in 2018 – is mired in litigation over whether the four men who bought it in 2019 can sell parts of it off for new-
Owner Wilson Gee is selling the 165-acre Foothills Golf Course, and the clubhouse, for $5 million. But he said homeowners around the site need not worry that whoever buys it will try to turn it into a housing development. (Tom Sanfilippo/Inside Out Aerial) home construction. Built in 1988, the 166-acre Foothills Golf Club is priced at $5 million. That includes both
the club house and the course.
priority was coincidental. Yet, it underscored the concerns that loom over local schools as a new year is only a few days or weeks away. “I’m thankful that we have police officers at the middle schools but at the elementary schools we do not, so maybe that funding will allow that,” said Lindsay Harris, a mother of two Kyrene students. “But I would really like to hear more about what the plan is to lock down the campus so that we as parents feel comfortable bringing our kids back to school in two weeks. It’s sad
that we have to talk about it but it’s a really important situation and we need to know what the game plan is to lock down the campus completely,” Harris said. Jamie Thompson, a former Kyrene teacher, followed by telling the board, “I think it’s really important that we need to have psychologists and counselors in our schools. …These problems start with kids when they’re young. And it travels through with them. And I realized that a lot of them come from bad situations. But we
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Kyrene details its extensive safety measures BY PAUL MARYNIAK AFN Executive Editor
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ith the memory of the Texas elementary school massacre still fresh in many parents and teachers’ minds, Kyrene School District administrators last week presented a detailed plan on how they are keeping children safe. That the pre-scheduled presentation at the July 12 Governing Board occurred after the only two citizens speakers to address the board both implored it to be sure safety is a
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