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Treatment programs endangered by increase in minimum wage

Valley fever is

‘nasty stuff,’

victim says

BY SHELLEY RIDENOUR Tribune Staff Writer

Corey Schubert winces a bit as he describes how he felt while suﬀering from valley fever.

“It’s the worst thing, ever,” the Gilbert resident said. “It is really nasty stuﬀ.” Valley fever is caused by the fungus coccidioides, which grows in soils in areas with low rainfall, high summer temperatures and moderate winter temperatures. at’s a relatively small area in the United States: Maricopa, Pinal and Pima counties; the San Joaquin and Central valleys of California; southern Nevada; southern New Mexico; west Texas; southern Utah; and southeastern Washington. It also occurs in northern Mexico and parts of both Central and South America.

In Arizona, every person in one of the aﬀected counties has a 3 percent chance every year of being exposed to valley fever.

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

Kate Noll, 29, was isolated and depressed when she ﬁrst moved to Arizona with her family, before her mother discovered her lifeline: east Mesa’s Marc Community Resources.

Cheryl Noll said developmentally disabled people like Kate thrive on structure and a sense of purpose. Kate had neither during her ﬁrst three months in the East Valley. She became irrational. Her eating and sleeping habits changed. at’s why Noll and other parents of developmentally disabled children, who are now adults, are worried about whether an increase in the Arizona minimum wage will

have the unintended consequence of shutting down or curtailing the day treatment programs that developmentally disabled people need.

“If I had Kate at home all day, I would be at home,” Cheryl Noll said, forcing her to give up her job. “We would lose our (health) insurance, we would lose our home.

“Kate would be miserable. It is invaluable to us. It’s our lifeline.”

Like most parents of developmentally disabled children, David Hardaway of Chandler wondered where his daughter, Jennifer, 23, would go after she “timed out” in the public education system at age 21.

Hardaway is not alone. Arizona has 35,000 developmentally disabled persons in its Medicaid program.

“But, you’re not constantly exposed,” said Dr. John Galgiani, director of the Valley Fever Center for Excellence. On average, it takes 12.5 years of living in Arizona to be exposed enough times that you might become infected.

A diagnosis of valley fever means a fungus is growing in your lungs. When someone inhales the spore and it sticks to their lung and grows, they get valley fever.

Schubert blames himself for picking up the spores. He believes he became infected when he went outside during “a giant haboob” in July 2011. He was toting his garbage and recycling containers to the curb and now realizes he should have waited for the dust to clear ﬁrst.

Although it was nearly seven years ago, he

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Jennifer Hardaway is comforted by caregiver Mary Cattier at The Centers for Habilitation. Hardaway, who suffers from cerebral palsy and other conditions, cannot walk and can only say a few words.

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Chandler startup develops stem cell treatments for animals

BY AMANDA LUBERTO Cronkite News

Ahorse prances around an open ﬁeld in the East Valley, ready to give birth. But Cheyenne and her foal have a larger role to play in equine medicine: e birth will provide regenerative materials and stem cells that could help other animals recover from injuries.

AniCell Biotech, a Chandler-based startup, collects the amniotic materials during birth and uses them in a new regenerative treatment for tendons, ligaments, eyes and wounds in dogs and horses.

AniCell Biotech owns a ranch in Mesa where horse owners take their pregnant mares. After birth, the company takes the materials back to its lab in Chandler where Dr. Moises Barcello separates the live cells from the dead cells. He takes the cells and spins them in a mass spectrometer until they create a liquid he can use for the medicine.

AniCell creates treatments that include shots, bandages, eye implants and eye drops.

CEO Brandon Ames said he was

inspired to start his company when his daughter had to put down her horse because of a drug altercation. He knew he needed to assemble a team to discover better treatments.

“I knew of this technology (and) had been introduced to this technology, and it was just one of those things that just continued to come back time and time again,” he said. “And ﬁnally, I decided that it should be in the animal world as well.”

Ames said his products are not only changing the horses’ lives, but the lives of their owners as well. When a horse gets an injury, it can be extremely invasive and expensive.

Ames tells a story about a horse named Elmo. Elmo developed an ulcer in his eye. For most horses, the diagnosis meant blindness. Ames remembers the little girl who owned the horse saying, “Well if Elmo can’t see, I just won’t have a horse at all.”

Ames and AniCell created a contact for Elmo’s eye, and six weeks after removing the ulcer, he got his eyesight back.

In Cave Creek, Dr. Wade Walker works as an equine surgeon with the Chaparral Veterinary Medical Center.

He said he has never used amniotic stem cell treatments to save horses, but he has used bone marrow stem cell treatment.

“Definitely the most researched and used in this hospital is bone marrow stem cells,” he said. “Bone marrow derived (treatments) have very little flammatory mediators, so that’s a benefit of that.”

While there is far less research and clinical application for treatments that

use amniotic materials, Walker said these kinds of treatment are the future of equine medicine.

“ e future of stem cells will be oﬀthe-shelf stem cells,” he said. “So we can determine a horse needs it, go into our pharmacy, take it oﬀ the shelf and inject.”

Walker estimated surgeons will know a lot more about how to use these treatments in the next 10 to 15 years.

KinetX to help with NASA mission to explore asteroids

BY PETER S. CHENG Tribune Staff Writer

NASA has selected Tempe-based KinetX Aerospace to coordinate navigation and participate in the mission design team for the Lucy spacecraft expected to launch in October 2021. e spacecraft will make its ﬁrst practice run by April 2025, and complete its mission around February 2023.

Named after the early hominid fossil “Lucy” discovered in Ethiopia in the 1970s, this Lucy is searching for fossils of a diﬀerent type.

“NASA has an overall goal of trying to understand how the solar system was formed. To do that it is important to ﬁnd objects that haven’t changed much,” said KinetX President and CEO Kjell Stakkestad. “ e chance to see these objects up close, rather than looking at a Hubble telescope assessment from a distance, is super important to verify whether scientists have their theories correct.”

Stakkestad said drawing a roadmap for a space mission like Lucy is not trivial. He compared it to “a game of cosmic billiards.”

“It’s not like driving to the store, where you can start and stop. You have to try

to take into account gravity, and try to slingshot around and line yourself up in the right time and place so you can head to the next body,” he said.

e bodies in question are asteroids know as “Trojans” which orbit the

planet Jupiter. According to a fact sheet, the mission “will perform an exhaustive landmark investigation that visits six of these primitive asteroids,” and use “high-heritage remote sensing instruments to map the geology, surface color and composition, thermal and other physical properties of its targets at close range.”

Coming within a few kilometers of asteroids is complicated by the fact that their exact position is unknown, and that it takes around 30 minutes for a radio signal to travel between the spacecraft and the KinetX navigation team on earth. Stakkestad said that Lucy must have its ﬂight path preprogrammed, and then it will adjust itself with sensors to avoid colliding with its targets or missing them completely.

e project budget overall is about $500 million. Arizona will probably get around $10 million to $15 million of that, according to Stakkestad. In addition to KinetX’s involvement,

members of the science team are from both Arizona State University and the University of Arizona.

“Arizona has a remarkable capability for space work,” he said.

“What’s really interesting is that Lucy is a Discovery class mission, and two were selected this year. One is Lucy and one is called Psyche, and the principle investigator for Psyche is from ASU. ere aren’t many states that can say they have two missions going like that.”

Stakkestad said that Lucy would add to KinetX’s growing wealth of deepspace experience and that would help win future NASA contracts. He sees a bright future for Arizona as a leader in space exploration, but that future is not without obstacles.

Although the aerospace industry provides high-paying jobs, “We can’t seem to get that knowledge out to the government to explain why they need to work hard with companies to grow that capability. Most states don’t have anything close to what Arizona has,” Stakkestad said.

(Erica Apodaca/Cronkite News)

Brandon Ames cares for two horses on his ranch in Chandler. Their amniotic ﬂuids will be used at Anicell Biotech.

(Special to the Tribune)

NASA's Lucy will explore asteroid-like bodies, called "Trojans," orbiting Jupiter.

‘Never Give Up’: Ex-con makes his Tempe businesses thrive

BY MELODY BIRKETT

Tribune Contributing Writer

Lucky Barker isn’t pulling any punches these days; that’s what landed him in prison for eight years.

Since his release, he is ﬁghting in a diﬀerent way – working hard to build his two Tempe businesses, Lockdown Clothing and Fierce Printing.

Pointing to the white letters “NGU” on his navy T-shirt – typical of his store’s clothing line – he explains his philosophy on life and business: “Everything I do is NGU – Never Give Up.”

“Life has come full circle,” Barker said. “No matter how hard it is, you’re only going to get what you put into it.”

Barker’s run-in with the law occurred in 1999 when, he said, he saw a man beating up his wife in a restaurant parking lot.

“I stepped in and it went ugly and the guy ended up going to the hospital,” Barker said. “And the state of Arizona sentenced me to an eight-year sentence for aggravated assault.”

Barker, in his early 20s at the time, admits he made a big mistake.

“Obviously, I should have called the police, but instead I took matters into my own hands. It went a little sour, went a little further than it should have,” he said.

He takes full responsibility for his actions, even though his friends thought his punishment was too harsh.

“Sure, but at the same time, it is aggravated assault,” Barker said. “I grew up in a domestic-violence house, so I knew what it was like. I watched it happen to my mom.”

As a result of going to prison, Barker lost out on sports scholarships and valuable time with his family.

“But at the same time, I was on a path in my life … where I was partying a lot, I was drinking, I was doing that whole thing,” he said. “And now looking back, I feel like it saved my life a little bit.”

While in prison, Barker’s mother suﬀered a stroke and almost died. She survived but is 50 percent paralyzed and now lives with him.

“So, it was humbling, it taught me humility very quickly, it taught me I can’t beat the world.”

He made the most of his time behind bars, furthering his education by taking business courses.

Even so, calling a 10-foot-by-10-foot cell home for eight years wasn’t easy.

“It was scary to not be in control,” he said. “We’re all used to being in control of our lives and what’s going on in our lives, and you have no control.”

After getting released in 2008, he struggled to ﬁnd work.

“I went to 22 interviews on a bus, no car, for two weeks, trying to get a job and getting denied,” he recalled. “Every interview went great until that ﬁnal question on the application. I had to be honest and say, ‘Yes, I had been convicted of a felony.’”

He ﬁnally got a construction job. A year later, in 2010, he started Lockdown Clothing in his backyard with just $50.

“I was grateful and blessed to have a few people in my life who kind of extended some olive branches for me and helped me out, like Border Construction,” Barker said. “I wouldn’t have been able to build a little shop in the backyard with a roof and power if it wasn’t for their assistance. It was crucial.”

He eventually left the construction company to devote full time to Lockdown Clothing and started Fierce Printing a couple years later.

“I cut the umbilical cord,” he said. “It was super scary.”

A year after moving his backyard business to a shop, his building burned down.

Barker sub-leased a portion of another building – until the owners ran aground.

“When we got on our feet, that building went bankrupt and everyone

got kicked out,” he said.

Like everything else in his life, Barker still didn’t give up.

He took all of the savings and moved his businesses to their current location near McClintock and University drives. He now has seven employees and makes much of his money through online sales.

“I have built the business to where it operates on its own, now, which is huge,” Barker said. “And all of the employees can run the business. And now, at this point, I can focus on giving my extra time to charities and really try to help them by using my resources from the businesses I built.”

Barker has four corporate accounts, including Border Construction, and over 200 regular customers.

“I’ve had almost the same employees from Day 1 who’ve been riding the storm with me because they believe in me,” explained Barker. “ ey believe in me and they believe in the business and that’s important because you can’t ﬁnd that hardly anywhere.”

Today, Barker, 39, is a single dad of two boys, Phoenix, 4, and Harley, 8.

“Life has come full circle,” he reﬂected. “It has done a complete 360. It really has to do with what you put into it. You just can’t wait for somebody. You have to just dive in and get what you have coming. And that’s how I live every day.”

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Lucky Barker fought back from a jail term to become a businessman, launching Lockdown Clothing and Fierce Printing in Tempe.

Jennifer, who suﬀers from cerebral palsy and other conditions, cannot walk and can only say a few words, such as “yes” or “no.” She communicates mainly through facial expressions. Her condition requires expensive one-on-one care. e answer for Hardaway was the day treatment program at e Centers for Habilitation in Tempe.

“It starts with socialization. It increases communication,” Hardaway said, adding that he has noted improvement in Jennifer’s ability to function, even if it comes at a painfully slow pace.

“An organization like TCH is a lifesaver for us. Without these organizations, they graduate (from high school), and go home,” Hardaway said.

He shudders at the thought of TCH’s day treatment program closing.

“I think it’s a parent’s worst nightmare,” Hardaway said. “She would be in a state of isolation.”

It would be a cruel ripple eﬀect if there is no increase in Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s proposed budget for the developmentally disabled. at’s an impact most voters probably never considered when they approved an

initiative that raised the minimum wage from $8.05 to $10 an hour.

e initiative did not specify a “revenue source,” a constitutional question that was argued before the Arizona Supreme Court on ursday in a suit ﬁled by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce. e chamber opposed the minimum wage hike and is now trying to get it declared unconstitutional.

e issue was taken under advisement by the Supreme Court and a decision is pending. In the meantime, non-proﬁts are wondering if the Legislature will increase funding or if programs will get shuttered or curtailed. e non-proﬁts have been advised to make plans for a worst-case scenario while hoping for a funding increase from the state.

“We are aware that Prop. 206 has increased costs on industries across the state, including providers of services for the disabled. We hope to address this issue in the budget discussions that will come in the weeks and months ahead,” said Patrick Ptak, a spokesman for Ducey’s oﬃce.

Ptak said that because the suit could have an impact on the state budget, “it’s one thing we’re tracking.’’

In reaction to the initiative’s approval, the Governor’s Oﬃce was able to come

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up with $25.1 million that was intended to cover the additional costs between January and June. e actual full impact for the 2018 ﬁscal year is estimated at $73.8 million, according to the Arizona Association of Providers for People with Disabilities.

Mesa’s Marc Community Resources makes for a classic example of the problem, with 70 percent of costs tied up in salaries and the new minimum wage increasing salaries more than 20

percent, CEO John Moore said. Moore said he would drain the savings Marc has built up over the past 40 years. He said he’ll appeal to philanthropists before he shuts down the Freestone Center. at’s a move he would consider morally reprehensible and a step back into the dark ages for the disabled. Marc’s work with the developmentally disabled revolves around three

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Minimum wage hike called ‘experiment for economists’

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

Arizona’s minimum wage increase amounts to a “laboratory experiment for economists” that goes much further than a few more cents for a latte or even the crisis faced by providers of services to the developmentally disabled.

Proposition 206 increases the minimum wage during a three-yearperiod, from $8.05 an hour, to $10 as of January, to $10.50 in one year, to $11 in two years and to $12 in three years.

Lee McPheters, research professor of economics at the Seidman Research Institute at Arizona State University, said 20 states increased their minimum wage, but Arizona had the largest dollar and percentage increase.

“What will be the impact on the economy? is is a rare laboratory experiment for economists, we can only

wait and see what happens,” he wrote in an email.

But Garrick Taylor, a spokesman for the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, the measure’s most outspoken opponent, already considers the initiative a disaster. e chamber is seeking to overturn Proposition 206 as unconstitutional in a suit before the Arizona Supreme Court, saying it failed to identify a “revenue source” as required by a 2004 amendment to the state constitution.

Two interveners in the case, the state and Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy Families, argued in court documents that there is no “mandatory expenditures of state revenues,” only a potential for increased administrative costs and prioritizing, according to Supreme Court case summary.

“When you place a new burden on the state budget, you have to ﬁnd a way to

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photorapher)

David Hardaway stays close to his daughter Kimberly at The Centers for Habilitation. "“An organization like TCH is a lifesaver for us," he said.

East Valley Mayors’ Prayer

Breakfast held at college

The sixth annual East Valley Mayors’ Prayer Breakfast is Wednesday, March 15, from 7-9:30 a.m. at the Chandler-Gilbert Community College Coyote Center, 2626 E. Pecos Road.

The event brings together East Valley mayors and leaders of the faith-based community, government, businesses and nonproﬁts. They work side-by-side to address needs in the area.

Apache Junction Mayor Jeff Serdy will host.

The breakfast is open to the public. Individual tickets are $40 and available for purchase online at evmpb.org.

Mesa meeting will address new water projects

City staff and contractors will be answering questions about new Mesa water projects at a public meeting 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, March 14, at Sunland Spring Village Auditorium, 2240 S. Springwood Blvd.

Two critical waterline projects will provide and distribute water to the new Signal Butte Water Treatment Plant being built at the northeast corner of Elliot Road and Signal Butte.

Sundt and Black and Veatch, contractors for the Signal Butte Water Treatment Plant, will answer any questions about their project.

– TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

Chandler Chamber hosting job fair

Employers are looking to hire at a job fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 15, at the Chandler Chamber of Commerce, 25 S. Arizona Place, Suite 201.

Companies attending the job fair include: SBM Corp, Alorica, Delaware North, Sears Holding, Cottonwood Palo Verde, Hotel Pro, Walgreens, Verizon, Cyracom, Securitas Security, Safelite Auto Glass, Lowes, Sundt, BrightStar and United Health Group.

Jobseekers should bring resumes and dress in business attire. They should be prepared to meet with employers. Parking is available in front of the building and in the parking garage behind the building on any ﬂoor except reserved spaces.

– TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

DNA evidence led to arrest in killing of 84-year-old man

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

Afingerprint found on the outside of an 84-year-old murder victim’s car in August identified a 24-year-old man, who told police he was struggling to find a job and had nothing to do with the slaying.

Although Freddis Williams III’s story about his car breaking down at the LA Fitness parking lot did not add up, the ﬁngerprint alone was not enough evidence for an arrest in a frustrating case featuring no witnesses and no video surveillance in broad daylight.

Chandler police identiﬁed Williams in a report from their own crime lab on Aug. 23, only ﬁve days after victim Shivaswamy Hosakote was found dead inside his car from multiple stab wounds in the gym’s parking lot shortly before 11 a.m.

Shivaswamy devoted his life to serve as an engineer for Maricopa County, and as an involved member of Phoenix’s India community. Shivaswamy was always willing to help others, taking care of all of us and spreading his warmth and joy to everyone he met,” the statement said.

But the critical piece of evidence arrived about six months later, when the Arizona Department Public Safety crime lab found DNA matching that of Williams on the inside of the driver’s side door.

“With this new information, there was now additional evidence to reinforce the exterior print in this case and show that this prior print was not just accidental and Williams was actually inside the victim’s vehicle,” a detective wrote in court documents.

Detective Seth Tyler, a Chandler police spokesman, said Hosakote was an innocent victim. Police viewed the slaying of the retired engineer as a crime of opportunity, but said the motive remains murky.

“ is was a peaceful, elderly man who was going to work out. Not only is he killed but he is stabbed” multiple times by his attacker.

In a statement released to the media shortly after the slaying, Hosakote’s family praised his warmth, his wisdom and his booming laugh. It said he left behind a grieving wife. e couple had been married for 50 years.

“Shivaswamy was a kind and gentle soul who touched the lives of many.

“ e family is shocked at this sudden and senseless killing and we are unable to comprehend who would harm such a warm and generous person. We wake up every morning thinking of Shivaswamy and how he suﬀered in his last moments,” the statement continued. Hosakote was a regular at the gym, at Dobson and Warner roads, and was working out inside to avoid the summer heat during his usual walks around his neighborhood.

Police said they served a search warrant on a residence in early September where Williams lived at the time, before he ﬂed to his mother’s house in Phoenix. Detectives found some handwritten notes akin to a diary and said they documented Williams’ “life stressors,” according to court records.

“ e notes found indicated Williams was going through personal issues involving drugs and his wife. It is believed that these writings were motivation for the murder that was committed,” the document said.

Tyler said he does not have more speciﬁc information on a possible motive for the slaying, but he said it was clear that Hosakote was not speciﬁcally targeted and that the two men did not know each other.

Court documents said Williams was arrested at Sky Harbor International Airport and listed his occupation as a wheelchair attendant, a job that lasted only two days before his arrest. Williams was charged in a direct complaint with second degree murder and was held in lieu of $200,000 bond, according to court records. – Reach Jim Walsh at 480-898-5639 or at jwalsh@timespublications.com.

(Tribune News Service)

Shivaswamy Hosakote was found dead inside his car from multiple stab wounds in the parking lot of an LA Fitness in Chandler last year.

Confederate ﬂag convoy journeys peacefully through Mesa

Seven trucks ﬂying Confederate battle ﬂags drove through east Mesa on March 4 in honor of the second annual national Confederate Flag Day.

The convoy of about a dozen people passed through without incident.

The Mesa drive was among events in 16 states celebrating the day, according to the website of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

The organization honors those who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, and who believe the ﬂag represents heritage rather than hate. A local Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter organized the Mesa ride.

– TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

Mesa plumber sent to prison for stealing from employer

Michael Duane Mullet, a Mesa plumber, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing $16,700 from his employer.

In January, a jury found Mullet guilty for a fraud scheme intended to steal from Lawson Family Plumbing. From April to August 2014, Mullet convinced 34 customers to pay him directly for plumbing work. Mullet then deposited the checks into his bank account.

“Mullet stole thousands of dollars from a small family-owned business by ﬁnding a loophole in a computer software program,” said Attorney General Mark Brnovich. Mullet was discovered when a customer called Lawson Family Plumbing to report the plumber’s suspicious activity.

– TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

Chandler threat against Trump, Pence being investigated

A tweeted threat against President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence sent from Chandler is being investigated by the Secret Service. The Twitter message, with a picture of two riﬂes with scopes, reads, “Best part …… One for #killtrump and one for #killpence. Our country is about to get a whole lot more beautiful.”

Chandler police said they received information about the threat on March 6. They immediately contacted the Secret Service to report the incident. The agency was already aware of the threat.

– RALPH ZUBIATE, TRIBUNE MANAGING EDITOR

Dignity Health Chandler hospital named one of nation’s 50 best

Healthgrades, a national site that compiles information about hospitals, has named Dignity Health Chandler Regional Medical Center one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals.

Chandler Regional is among the top 1 percent of more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide for its consistent, year-over-year superior clinical performance.

In addition to this recognition, Chandler Regional also received the Best in Sepsis Award and the Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award in 2016.

For more information, go to healthgrades.com/quality. –

No lead so far found in Kyrene schools’ drinking water

State environmental health ofﬁcials have ruled drinking water free of lead in 19 of 25 Kyrene Schools, and ﬁve others in Tempe and one in Ahwatukee have yet to be tested.

Kyrene Superintendent Jan Vesely announced last week that the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality’s statewide public school drinking water leadscreening program for more than 1,000 schools gave the passing grades to the district’s elementary and middle schools in Chandler, but had not yet sent results back for any of its Tempe schools.

Vesely said tests at two Ahwatukee middle schools found faucets not used for drinking water had to be purged of lead.

ADEQ is asking local education ofﬁcials to test some 7,000 school buildings throughout the state for lead in the drinking water. The state is providing the test kits and will do the analysis.

– PAUL MARYNIAK, TRIBUNE EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Man says he sexually assaulted disabled woman

A man who says he is a sex addict assaulted a disabled woman in Mesa, police say.

The woman, who has cerebral palsy, was the girlfriend of Celzo Alejo Lopez Jacinto. On Feb. 20, she reported to Mesa police that she had been sexually assaulted several times since last fall.

The woman, who police say also has diminished mental capacity, reportedly told police that the ﬁrst sexual encounter was consensual, but that others were violent and not consensual.

Police say “he admitted he knew the victim was disabled, fragile and mentally delayed and he was too rough with her and called himself a sex addict.”

Jacinto is being held without bond on seven counts of sexual assault.

– TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

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goals: socialization, self-suﬃciency and community integrity. Some developmentally disabled clients, with a higher level of functioning, end up supporting themselves with jobs at supermarkets and other businesses. He said Marc is more capable of handling the cost increase than many other providers, because Marc also oﬀers a variety of behavioral health services that are reimbursed at a higher rate. In essence, the agencies’ behavioral health programs have been helping to compensate for the drain created by programs for the developmentally disabled.

Although the emergency state funding was helpful, it wasn’t enough for a system already underfunded at about 80 percent of its true cost, Moore said. e reimbursement for the developmentally disabled rose only 1.6 percent.

“I worry people will become isolated. I think it would have a devastating eﬀect on their treatment,” Moore said.

Shana Ellis, e Centers for Habilitation’s CEO, said her day treatment program is losing more than $8,300 a month. She said she has room

to expand and could help more disabled people, but that is not possible because she cannot aﬀord to hire staﬀ.

e Centers for Habilitation also operate 13 group homes, in Mesa, Tempe and Ahwatukee. Some residents of the group homes work if they are capable but many also come to the day program. About half of them have no relatives.

It troubles Ellis that she is paying her staﬀ the same wages as someone who works at a fast food restaurant, even though their jobs require great sensitivity, patience and skills in dealing with others.

“ e funding mechanism is a problem. We have to pay more but our rates are not automatically adjusted to compensate for that,” Ellis said.

David Hardaway shakes his head at the thought of his daughter’s life without e Centers for Habilitation.

“Sometimes you say, why me, what did I do?” Hardaway said. “It’s not about me. My job is to take care of Jenny. Organizations like TCH help me do that.”

– Reach Jim Walsh at 480-898-5639 or at jwalsh@timespublications.com.

Questions and answers about valley fever

Q: Why is it called valley fever?

A: Valley fever derives its name from its discovery in the San Joaquin Valley of California, where it was also referred to as “San Joaquin valley fever” or “desert rheumatism.”

Q: Is it contagious?

A: No. It’s a yeast inside a body and can’t spread.

Q: Who can get it?

A: Anyone who lives, visits or travels through areas where the fungus grows. People who work or recreate where the soil is disturbed have greater exposure.

Animals – including dogs, cats, horses, llamas and wildlife – can contract valley fever.

Q: How will I know if I have valley fever?

A: Symptoms usually develop within

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remembers the evening well.

“ ere was dust in the air. It was starting to swirl,” he said.

In October, three months after the dust storm, Schubert got really sick.

Although familiar with valley fever, “it never clicked to me that I had it. I thought I was having a heart attack,” Schubert said.

Another month went by and he still wasn’t feeling well, and then “all hell broke loose in my lungs,” Schubert said. He felt bad enough that he left work one day and went home to rest. e pain in his chest and arms got so bad he couldn’t even pick up the remote control for his TV. He also remembers experiencing shortness of breath.

“It was like an elephant was on my chest,” he said.

He waﬄed about what to do next, ﬁnally called his wife and headed to a hospital.

After several tests, the doctors determined he wasn’t having a heart attack, but found his lung had what they called a “white out.” Assuming it was pneumonia, he was given drugs to treat that. But antibiotics don’t help valley fever.

“I remember thinking the phrase ‘white out’ was cool. It was like a blizzard happening inside me,” Schubert said.

About 5,000 new cases of human valley fever are reported every year to the Arizona Department of Health Services.

at’s about half of the approximately 10,000 cases reported annually in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control.

his garbage and recycling containers to the curb and now realizes he should have waited for the dust to clear ﬁrst.

doctor’s order.

Schubert wasn’t recovering in spite of the antibiotics, so he visited a pulmonologist, who prescribed an antifungal medicine to treat the real problem.

He was given the drug most commonly used to treat valley fever, ﬂuconazole, but it was no walk in the park. Schubert said he felt like his stomach was getting torn apart by the medication. e pills discolored his teeth and “ripped” his stomach up.

“It’s worse than valley fever,” he said of the antifungal medication.

seven to 28 days after exposure. Common symptoms are fatigue, cough, fever, profuse sweating at night, loss of appetite, chest pain, generalized muscle and joint aches and a rash.

Q: How long will I be sick?

A: at diﬀers for everyone, ranging from months to years.

Q: Can I prevent it?

A: ere is no vaccine to prevent valley fever, but one is under development. Avoiding activities associated with dust and airborne dirt of native desert soil can reduce risk. Use common sense and stay out of blowing dust.

Q: Is there a cure or medicine I can take?

A: ere is no cure, but antifungal drugs in the “azole” family are used to treat valley fever. e most common is ﬂuconazole, but ketoconazole and itraconazole are also used.

But, oﬃcials believe more people actually contract valley fever than is reported. It’s estimated that more than 60 percent of people who are infected with the fungus either have no symptoms or experience ﬂu-like symptoms and don’t seek medical care.

Complicating the incident numbers, about one-third of the people who do seek medical attention for valley fever are not properly diagnosed, Galgiani said. Misdiagnosis is common because valley fever is prevalent in a such a small region. Many doctors have never heard of it and don’t realize they should order a blood test to check for its presence, he said.

In response to that concern, Sonora Quest Laboratories recently decided to oﬀer a patient-ordered test for valley fever. Testing for valley fever has existed for years, but the blood test previously had to be ordered by a doctor. People can now order a lab test for valley fever at Sonora Quest Laboratories without a

Fluconazole inhibits the fungus but doesn’t cure the disease, Galgiani said. So, if a person’s immune system doesn’t take over, they may have to stay on the drug forever.

ere is no way to prevent valley fever, short of moving out of the regions where it exists. But not everyone or every animal exposed to the mold contracts the disease. Likewise, not everyone who contracts valley fever gets sick, Galgiani said, and many don’t require any medical treatment because eventually their immune system takes over and cures the disease.

Schubert has learned his lesson and won’t go outside in any sort of dust storm.

“I see people out all of the time in dust storms,” he said. “I understand that, but I would highly recommend whatever you’re doing could wait. I really wish I hadn’t spent those couple of minutes outside.”

– Contact reporter Shelley Ridenour at

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Corey Schubert believes he became infected with valley fever when he went outside during “a giant haboob” in July 2011. He was toting

Teachers risk crossing the line with students

BY DEVON CORDELL Cronkite News

One case began as a technologybased English course, when the teacher leading it started sending a 13-year-old student Instagram messages and texts containing profanity, sexual comments and complaints about other students and colleagues.

Another began with a World of Warcraft game as a 16-year-old girl joined a team with her teacher and then entered into a private chat, which spiraled into online advances by the teacher and suggestions of meeting outside of school.

Both teachers have had their licenses revoked by the Arizona Board of Education. Susan Yonker taught at Willis Junior High School in Chandler and was sending the inappropriate comments. Christopher Heavin taught at Pas Charter Inc. - Metro Campus in Phoenix and tried to meet the student privately.

e cases and other recent situations illustrate a growing dilemma in schools.

Teachers are communicating with students on social media and online

platforms more than ever, building connections that can work well but can also go wrong, experts say.

Social media “makes it much easier to communicate through technology, and because of that it’s easier to blur the boundaries,” said Samantha Blevins, an attorney who represents the Arizona Education Association, a professional organization for teachers.

About 30 percent of teen social media users have teachers or coaches as friends in their network, according to a 2013 Pew Research Center study.

Social media and online platforms can accelerate learning and can keep students connected and engaged, said Beth Simek, president-elect of the Arizona PTA. But vigilance is crucial, she and others said.

“I think social media is a great thing, but we need to be diligent in ensuring that children and teachers are using it appropriately,” Simek said. “I would never ‘friend’ a student on my personal Facebook page, ever.”

Yonker was accused of exchanging “numerous inappropriate electronic messages” with a female student while teaching at Willis in the fall semester

of 2015, according to education board documents.

e conversations included profanity, sexual topics and derogatory comments about Yonker’s co-workers and other students at the school, the documents say.

e communication between the two stopped once the mother of the child found the conversations and notiﬁed the school, according to documents.

Yonker sent a letter of apology to the board, which was read to them, saying

she hadn’t previously used inappropriate language with students.

“I’ve never done it in person, so I don’t know why I had done it through messaging,” Yonker wrote, saying she had been going through a diﬃcult time in her life. “I was always one of the best teachers on our campus.”

State investigators said Heavin used a private messaging system in World of Warcraft to try to pressure the girl into

(Photo Illustration by Tea Francesca Price and Lexi Hart/Cronkite News)

Technology allows students and educators to communicate outside of school on online and social media platforms. Those communications are usually ﬁne but can occasionally cross the line, experts say.

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meeting outside of school.

“We have almost 200 pages worth of messages here, and it’s very disturbing,”

Assistant Attorney General Eric Schwarz last month told the Professional Practices Advisory Committee, which hears cases of alleged teacher misconduct. “He keeps begging her to come clean his house, wanting to pick her up places – in addition to the actual overt sexual advances made on this 16-year-old student.”

Heavin reminded the teen of his power over her grades, documents from the Board of Education investigation say.

“ ink of me when dreaming of how i grade dem papers,” he wrote in a private chat with the student, according to the investigation documents.

Educators said communication between teachers and students used to be limited. But the increase of texting, social media and online classes has expanded student and teacher interactions.

“ e majority of teachers are good people, and most districts have pretty standard social media policies,” said Blevins, who trains teachers how to best use social media.

Teachers don’t intend to misuse social

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pay for it,” Taylor said. “It’s the employee who gets the short end of the stick. You have seen your hours cut. You get laid oﬀ. Maybe the job you were after is no longer available.”

Taylor said the main issue with a higher minimum wage is that it makes hiring more expensive. He said the impact tends to fall on the employees it is supposed to help.

“When you foist mandated increased labor costs on employers, you leave the employers with few good options,” Taylor said.

But McPheters said the higher wage also can stimulate the economy somewhat by giving more people additional buying power. He said about 200,000 workers will see an immediate impact in the ﬁrst six months, but he anticipates as many as 500,000 will be aﬀected, as people with more responsibilities and a better work history expect pay raises.

He said it’s important to keep the pay raise in prospective. He estimates it aﬀects about 15 percent of the workforce, mostly in food service, building and grounds maintenance, health care and

media but sometimes conversations “go a little awry” and cross a professional line, she said.

Educators emphasize social media and other online communications are useful ways to connect with students, as long as they are used appropriately. Online communications between teachers and students are expected to rise.

“By 2019, 50 percent of all high school courses will be delivered online,” Clayton Christensen, a teacher and consultant, writes in his book, “Disrupting Class.”

Parents, students and teachers can avoid problems by making sure they understand their school’s social media policy, including standards for communication between teachers and students.

Simek advises teachers who are approached by students to “friend” or communicate beyond professional boundaries online to tell their supervisors and ask them to intervene.

“A lot of the teachers spend too much time trying to be friends with their students, and they blur that line,” Simek said. “It’s your responsibility to communicate to your class what the boundaries are. ey forget that they are there to ensure that the student is safe but also learning.”

security. Arizona has about 2.6 million workers on a payroll, and the average wage is $22 per hour.

“Economists have been studying this for years. Most economists would say this tends to cause businesses to think of how to save on labor costs,” McPheters said. “ e best workers will probably not have to worry about their jobs,” but those who are less productive or have spotty work histories might be in trouble.

McPheters leans toward mostly a shortterm impact, saying it can be difficult to sort out what factors influence the economy. He said Arizona’s economy is still heavily influenced by population growth.

“I think over time, it won’t result in any serious problems in Arizona,” he said.

McPheters said that numerous studies have determined that it is not possible for employers to pass on the full cost of a minimum wage increase to consumers, who will go elsewhere if a cup of coﬀee or a sandwich gets too expensive.

“It’s hard when the consumer has so many choices,” he said.

– Reach Jim Walsh at 480-898-5639 or at jwalsh@timespublications.com.

Pathway along Rio Salado is cyclist’s dream come true

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

Many East Valley residents might not consider the Salt River particularly scenic, envisioning its usual parched appearance and maybe a few old tires sitting in the river bottom.

But the Salt looked far diﬀerent at the grand opening of Mesa’s new Rio Salado Pathway, a cyclist’s dream come true that helps connect west Mesa with such far-ﬂung places as Chandler Heights, Phoenix and Scottsdale through a web of paved and unpaved paths along canals and freeways.

Wayne Churchman, a veteran bicyclist who has lived in Mesa for 40 years, said he has bicycled on the new path twice and loved it. He said bicyclists are able to take in the beauty of the environment because they are moving at a much slower pace than drivers.

e view from the new path’s trailhead, near Riverview Park and the city’s wastewater treatment facility, includes such area landmarks as Red Mountain and Four Peaks, along with a considerably less appealing sand and gravel operation on the Salt River Indian Community.

“You can take time to look at it,” Churchman said, referring to the view. “I love it. For years, this just sat out here. It was just sort of here.”

“It’s scenic. We’ve been stopping to look at cranes” and other wildlife.

But the 1½ mile paved pathway, which starts at the Loop 101 freeway

Cyclists, joggers, even dog walkers, can look forward to another nearly twomile section.

at section is scheduled to open in June and will connect Mesa’s two Cactus League venues, Hohokam, now home to the Oakland Athletics, and Sloan Park, the Chicago Cubs’ latest venue.

“I think you will see a lot of commuters who live in Mesa and may work in Tempe,” Churchman said.

“ is is a wonderful gateway to convert drivers to cyclists.”

Reed Kempton, another cycling enthusiast, said even beginning cyclists might take a ride on the path, realize that it’s not particularly diﬃcult, and consider commuting on their bicycle for ﬁtness.

e pathway allows bicyclists

to avoid mixing with cars, always a dangerous situation, but commuters would still need to leave the path and use arterial streets to reach their oﬃces and other places of employment, he said.

Jim Hash, Mesa’s bicycle and pedestrian program manager, has been planning a system of bicycling and jogging trails since at least 2009, when he was quoted in a newspaper article outlining his plan.

“I think it will be a big quality-of-life asset to the community,” Hash said at that time. “It would be an uninterrupted commute or day from Mesa to Phoenix and Scottsdale.”

He said it is a great pleasure for him to see the plan ﬁnally come to fruition eight years later, with the long lag time typical for such projects.

“ is is one of our most iconic

pathways,” Hash said. “ e vision was to create a loop that follows the Loop 202, San Tan and Red Mountain freeways.”

He said the Rio Salado Pathway, including its extension to Hohokam, represents major progress on the plan. Most of the remaining paths through East Mesa, Chandler and Gilbert are unpaved.

“ is is one of our most vital links. It links the whole thing together,” Hash said. “You have to think like a planner. We are not used to anything coming to fruition for 10 years or so.”

e $3.3 million project was ﬁnanced with a combination of two Federal Highway Administration grants, a 2012 Mesa parks and recreation bond issue and the Mesa local streets sales tax, according to the city.

– Reach Jim Walsh at 480-898-5639 or at jwalsh@timespublications.com.

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

The Rio Salado Pathway points to Tempe Town Lake and a soon-to-open route to Mesa’s baseball stadiums.

Girl Scout’s award-winning idea helps dogs be more active

BY RACHEL EROH Tribune Contributing Writer

AChandler Girl Scout earned her Gold Award by helping dogs from the Lost our Home Pet Rescue to get out to stretch their legs and be active.

Amanda Molina, 17, created Miles for Mutts in November to help recruit dog walkers and treadmill walkers to the shelter.

Since the creation of the program, the shelter has received 69 new volunteers and has been given one treadmill.

“With the dogs being able to get out, whether be outside with the new volunteers or on the treadmill, it helps them to be generally happier and more adoptable,” Amanda said.

Miles for Mutts puts volunteers on a fast-track training program that lasts only 45 minutes. After the training, volunteers can begin walking dogs right away.

e idea came to Amanda when the Pokémon Go app was popular last year. Seeing people going outside and moving around gave her inspiration to create a program that helps people and dogs be

active, she said.

Amanda spread the word about the program by using the hashtag #MilesforMutts on social media and by word of mouth, she said.

Even though she has already received her award, Amanda plans to stay involved in the program.

“I deﬁnitely plan on coming back to the shelter, walking dogs and helping with the cats,” Amanda said. “I want to do to whatever I can when I have the time.”

Brita Nelson, the marketing and fundraising coordinator at the rescue, said the new program helps the dogs with their leash skills and beneﬁts their health to get regular exercise.

“It’s just really great for the dogs to get outside and use all their senses,” Nelson said. “It really does help them with being more adoptable.”

Nelson said she noticed that the shelter was struggling with getting volunteers, especially since many volunteers just want to walk dogs.

“With this program, it streamlines the process. If they do want to do more for the shelter, they can come back and be trained more,” Nelson said.

Ianet Molina, the Girl Scout troop

leader and Amanda’s mother, said she was happy her daughter stayed involved in Girl Scouts and received her Gold Award.

“As a mom, I can see my daughter achieving these leadership skills which are things that are going to be transferrable to college, her life and her job,” Ianet said. “It makes me very proud.”

Ianet has been Amanda’s troop leader for 11 years and has seen many Girl Scouts become too busy as they grow older and become less involved in the troop, she said.

Amanda will be the ﬁrst in her troop to earn the Gold Award. e Gold Award is achieved by creating a project and investing a minimum of 80 hours into the program, Ianet said.

“Once the project is completed, not only do you have to have your hours in the project but you have to be able to show that it’s sustainable and it can live on after you leave,” Ianet said.

After the project is created, the program is presented to a panel that determines whether the candidate has earned their Gold Award.

Amanda’s main goal is that the program continues to gather more volunteers and beneﬁt the shelter, she said.

“I hope that this program can continue to grow and be sustainable,” she said. “I want it to be something that the shelter can maintain for years to come.”

A splash of color opens up Hindu spring festival Holi

BY SRIANTHI PERERA Tribune Staff Writer

AHindu spring festival will let people dance in a swirl of color Sunday, March 19, at Kiwanis Park in Tempe.

For the fourth year, Holi, or the Festival of Colors, is organized by Goshala, a non-proﬁt spiritual and educational organization with a mission to protect cows and spread the message of kindness. A key feature of the festivities is people playfully throwing powdered colors at each other. Colors will also rain on dancers by means of artiﬁcial rain.

“Festival of Colors emphasizes equality in people of all colors. It is where people forget their diﬀerences and celebrate equality, the cornerstone of a peaceful society,” said Naren Koka, a Tempe resident and president of Goshala.

“All misgivings are forgiven, thus there is no enmity after this day,” said Prayag Narayan Misra of Chandler, also a member. “People hug one another to show love, joy, harmony and aﬀection and get rid of hard feelings.”

To help things along, the four-hour extravaganza will feature music to the tune of 20,000 Watt, a Bollywood dance group from Arizona State University; Bollywood dancer Revathi; Michael Jackson-inspired dancer Nisha; and composer Satish, with his own brand of music.

Two giant water slides will be oﬀered for children. Food by Om Indian Bistro, Mint Indian Cuisine and others will be

available for purchase.

Established in 2010, Goshala (which means “shelter for cows” in Hindi) raises a small herd of cattle in a farm in San Tan Valley.

Although obtaining milk is not the main aim, the “ahimsa” milk – which is from cows that don’t live with the threat of slaughter – is precious to the Hindu community and is used for religious purposes.

Cows from Goshala will be present at the festival. e proceeds of the day will beneﬁt the cattle program.

“Kids and others can feed hay and bananas to baby cows, pet them gently,” Misra said. “Kindness to animals is spread in the society overall.”

In keeping with the emphasis on nature, the colors that are thrown during Holi will be environmentally sound.

“ e color run is going to keep everyone from harm’s way all throughout. It will be non-toxic, non-irritant, wholesome and safe,” organizers emphasized.

Holi is an ancient Hindu religious festival that has been embraced by other parts of Southeast Asia. e frolic of color, with its added components of music, dance, food and revelry, is celebrated at the approach of the spring equinox.

Holi will take place 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 19 at the Ruben Romero Corporate Picnic Area of Kiwanis Park, 6111 S. All America Way, Tempe. Tickets are $8 online and $10 onsite. Children under 3 years are admitted free. Tickets may be purchased at azindia.com.

(Larry Mangino/Tribune Contributor)

Girl Scout Amanda Molina and her mother Ianet hook up Fitz to a treadmill so the dog can get some exercise. Amanda’s “Miles for Mutts” idea won an award.

(Special to the Tribune)

Colorful crowds danced to Indian music at last year’s Holi festival in Tempe.

MESA

Mesa Public Schools, MCC will offer college advisors

Mesa Public Schools and Mesa Community College are partnering to increase attainment of post-secondary credentials. Six Mesa high schools will have a full-time MCC college advisor on site to assist students beginning this fall.

MCC’s Interim President Sasan Poureetezadi said MCC is committed to expanding access to college programs and services and escalating student success.

East Mesa Moose Legion slates

ﬁrst charity golf scramble

Arizona Moose Legion 93 in east Mesa is sponsoring its ﬁrst four-person charity golf scramble Saturday, March 18, at Toka Stick Golf Club, 6910 E. Williams Field Road, Mesa.

Check-in is 7 a.m. and the cost is $77 per person.

e scramble will beneﬁt the Mooseheart Child City and School, a more than century-old residential care facility in Chicago the Moose created to care for children whose families could not aﬀord to.

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Chandler

Nature Photo Contest

deadline coming this Friday e deadline to enter Chandler Recreation’s annual Nature Photo Contest is Friday, March 17.

Entries are being accepted in three categories: is Beautiful City, Creature Worth Noticing and Picture Worth A ousand Words.

Entries must come from a Chandler park, program or event and can be submitted digitally online at chandleraz. gov/naturephotocontest or in person at the Environmental Education Center, 4050 E. Chandler Heights Road.

For more information, call 480-782-2890.

27th Senior Expo coming to Chandler Community Center

Chandler’s 27th Annual Senior Expo is from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, March 15, at the Chandler Community Center, 125 E. Commonwealth Ave. e event includes free blood pressure checks and a limited number of free cholesterol and glucose tests on a ﬁrstcome, ﬁrst-served basis.

Senior Expo information is available

at 480-782-2720 and chandleraz.gov/ senior-adults.

Chandler libraries conducting March Madness Book Sale

e March Madness Book Sale will be held Friday-Sunday, March 17-19, at all four Chandler Public Library locations. Hardbacks and paperbacks will be available, starting at 25 percent oﬀ on Friday and Saturday, with deeper discounts on Sunday. Proceeds beneﬁt the Friends of the Chandler Public Library.

e four Chandler libraries are: Basha, 5990 S. Val Vista Drive; Downtown, 22 S. Delaware St.; Hamilton, 3700 S. Arizona Ave.; and Sunset, 4930 W. Ray Road.

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Bashas’ to deliver groceries through deal with Instacart

Bashas’ and Instacart have teamed to deliver groceries in as little as one hour.

e grocer and the delivery service will cover Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa in its new plan.

To use the online service, customers must visit a new Bashas’ grocery delivery website (bashas.instacart.com) and enter a delivery ZIP code. First-time users will have to create a log-in.

e delivery charge is $5.99 for grocery orders $35 and up. Customers can also sign up for an Express membership for $149 with free deliveries.

TEMPE

ASU ﬁnishes in top 5 of best online colleges

Arizona State University has been ranked the ﬁfth-best online college by College Choice.

e school was called “the gold standard of education for the country’s accredited online colleges.” e College Choice website says ASU “is world-renown both for its comprehensive listing of online degrees and for its student-friendly virtual college setting.”

College Choice examined accreditation, graduation rates, student debt numbers, job placement records and other metrics.

In the survey, Western Kentucky University was ranked ﬁrst, followed by Pennsylvania State University World Campus, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Worldwide, University of Illinois at Chicago and ASU.

For the full list, go to collegechoice. net/rankings/best-online-colleges-anduniversities.

“My hearing loss cost me three friendships that I know of, a strained relationship with my husband, two grandchildren who think I don’t understand them, boredom at church, and lost interest in attending get-togethers.”

Dr. Cassandra M. Fynes, Au.D. CCC-A Roger Knighton, M.N.S., CCC-A

Mesa watch repair business spends time on the small things

BY MELODY BIRKETT

Tribune Contributing Writer

Time stands still for a while in the quaint cottage-style house near Mesa Drive and Main Street in Mesa.

But that’s only until Jewell Collins and her nine technicians can get a watch or clock ﬁxed.

Norm’s Watch Repair has been servicing watches, clocks and jewelry for 46 years. Collins’ employees will even make house calls on grandfather’s clocks.

Collins is a second-generation owner of the family business.

Her father Norm Collins, who died in 2004, started the business. His wife died a couple of years ago.

No job is too tough for this group.

“We never say no,” said Collins. “We try to do everything, any kind of clock – the old mechanical vintage, the new quartz battery operated – and watches, any mechanical from Timex to Rolex. We work on everything.”

Norm’s also repairs crystals and bands, replaces batteries and even has

technicians to ﬁx cuckoo clocks.

Collins understands the emotions that are attached to many of the things that are brought to her.

“ ere’s so many sentimental watches and clocks that we have,” she said. “And then jewelry. You don’t want to throw

out jewelry. You got to ﬁx it. You’ve got to size it.”

Jewelry repairs include re-tipping on rings and soldering broken chains.

Once in a while, a customer will ask for some unusual repairs.

“We’ve had some vintage dishes, silver

stuﬀ that we’ve done,” added Collins. “Some music boxes that were extremely old or unusual, we have done.”

So, just how does a small business like this manage to stay in business? Collins said it’s simple.

“I think it’s because we really care about our customers, and customer service is really important to us,” she said. “We’ve got a super-good customer base. And they drive from all over. We even have people who mail stuﬀ in.”

Collins can’t estimate how many customers Norm’s Watch Repair has, but she pointed to a drawer, and said, “2,000 jobs ready for delivery.”

Norm’s isn’t going anywhere, especially with the third generation learning the business.

ree of her nine technicians are her children.

“We’ve been here a long time,” explained Collins. “I think we’re established. I think we have a pretty good reputation. We try hard to please everybody.”

Norm’s Watch Repair is closed on Saturday and Sunday but open through the week 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Gilbert students win best in state in app development challenge

Agroup of ﬁve Gilbert students from Greenﬁeld Junior High were best in the state recently in a nationwide contest to develop an innovative app.

Riley Franceschini, Blake Stringfellow, John Michael Holderﬁeld, Jacob Goude and Caleb Cook recently beat out more than 1,800 teams in Arizona to move on to the national round of Verizon’s Innovative App Contest.

With some help from their STEM teacher, Brandi McMahan, the team created a proposal for an app they call “Future Folder.”

“It helps you get organized to apply for college,” Holderﬁeld said.

McMahan said the app has suggestions for students who are applying for college, from a checklist to a portfolio outlining awards, documents, community service and the like.

Stringfellow said the contest originally began as a class assignment. e app proposal took the team about a month to complete.

“We had to write an essay and plan out what we were going to do and design the app,” Goude said.

After winning the state contest, the team moved on to the national phase. ey were not among the four middle schools and four high schools judged to be the Best in Nation winners by Verizon.

McMahan said the team did come in second in the popular vote, though.

“We were so close!” McMahan said. “However, we are all good sports and we were happy to even be in the running.”

Verizon now owns the team’s Future Folder app and can decide whether or not to develop it.

“We will be participating in the Verizon App Challenge next year.” McMahan said, “ Watch out for us!”

(Special to the Tribune

Everything about Norm’s Watch Repair is vintage, including the architecture of the shop itself.

BY ADRIANA BECERRA Tribune Staff Award

Rock shop caters to jewelry makers, artists all over the world

BY RALPH ZUBIATE Tribune Managing Editor

Don’t go trying to order from Natural Expressions Rock Shop on the internet. Owner Fred iele says the Gilbert business doesn’t need any help selling its beautiful product.

“I’d just as soon deal with a couple of companies,” iele said. “If we had web sales, it would be really crazy.” iele sells tons of rocks and minerals to companies and individuals all over the world. His products aren’t for construction but for artworks, including jewelry. Other stones are embedded or pulverized and used decoratively for murals and architecture.

Out front, a sign says the shop oﬀers “materials for the hobbyist, carver, sculptor, jewelry designer, artist, interior decorator and designers.”

“We have contacts pretty much all over the world,” he said of his suppliers. “But we have to look at a year out, decide what’s going to be popular.”

One popular rock right now is called jet. It is, as its name implies, a deep black color. It’s used mostly for high-quality jewelry.

“I shipped a big lot to Russia,” he said, “and right before that, shipped to England.”

iele’s rock business grew out of a boyhood hobby in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

“I always messed with rocks when I was a kid. I collected arrowheads since I was 7,” he said. “Once, I dug a big pit and found hundreds of arrowheads.”

Much later, iele started his shop. Natural Impressions, at 13802 E. Williams Field Road in Gilbert, is beginning its 28th year with a commercial acre of rocks, storage and working machinery.

Up front is a converted double-wide trailer ﬁlled with displays and rocks to buy. Some have already been turned into works of art, some ready to be turned into them.

Out back are tables and storage sheds full of turquoise, pyrite, quartz, amethyst, amber and dozens of other rocks, along with fossils and petriﬁed wood.

You’ll also see a vaguely familiar site if you were interested in rocks as a kid: A rock tumbler. But this tumbler is a big machine turning 14 drums ﬁlled with 20

pounds of stones each, 24 hours a day, every day. e drums squeal and squeak as the noisy process turns rough stones into a smooth and polished product. at’s not the only work done at the site. iele and his workers saw, shape and polish all their rocks.

One of the more unusual stones iele works with is zebra stone from Australia. e odd rock looks like somebody painted stripes onto it.

“ ey’ve never quite ﬁgured out how these are formed,” iele said. “Every now and then, I take 10 minutes out to try and ﬁgure it out myself.”

He also takes time to see what other products he can make with all his rocks.

“I spend about two hours a day experimenting. Sometimes, I make costly mistakes,” he said. “But there’s very little waste. Even pulverized rock is used.”

Natural Expressions is a draw for jewelry makers. Shoppers park themselves at the many tables full of polished rocks and dig through for just the right pieces.

“We have people sit three or four hours, digging through the rocks,” iele said.

Some of his best buyers are what he

calls “metaphysical people.” ey’re looking for selenite to turn into wands, quartz for crystal lamps and other newage tchotchkes. He appreciates their business.

“I’m always listening to people. I like people who have a good idea,” he said. He runs into characters in his business, and encounters some challenges. Since word of his big business has gotten around, people have showed up trying to sell rocks to him – some of them stolen.

“One guy walked around, looking at everything, then approached me and said he had a lump of pyrite to sell me,” iele said. “He brought it out show it to me. I asked him where he got it, and he said he dug it out of the ground on the other side of Phoenix.” iele’s experienced eye couldn’t be fooled.

“I knew that was a lie. at pyrite was from Peru. It was probably stolen from a museum or a collection.

“I asked him some more questions, and he said he’d get back to me, and he drove oﬀ. Never heard from him again,”

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer) Highly polished stones wait for the right buyer at the Natural Expressions Rock Shop in Gilbert.

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Cut, man-made rock brighten up a sales shelf inside the Natural Expressions showroom and store.

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Two realty businesses merging in Chandler

Chandler’s Show Appeal Realty is merging with fellow residential real estate ﬁrm Realty Executives.

e Chandler ﬁrm has 160 agents and will rebrand as Realty Executives.

Realty Executives has opened new oﬃces in Chandler, Gilbert and Pinnacle Peak and did $3 billion in sales volume last year. It’s also opening a new tech-driven oﬃce in Mesa.

Mesa accounting joining CPA ofﬁce Law & Reed

Jeremy “JR” Reed has rejoined the oﬃce of Law & Reed CPAs in Mesa.

Reed, a Mesa native and resident, has been working in the accounting profession for more than 13 years. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s in business.

He follows his father, Ron, a former Law & Reed partner since 1998 who retired in June 2015.

Jeremy originally joined the ﬁrm in March 2003 and left in July 2012.

Tempe man earns national credential

Isam Ghandour, vice president/chief estimator at Willmeng Construction, has earned the Certiﬁed Professional Estimator credential administered by the American Society of Professional Estimators.

ASPE’s Certiﬁed Professional Estimator credential is the highest form of professional recognition an individual estimator can receive.

Ghandour, from Tempe, is a member of American Society of Professional Estimators Arizona Chapter 6.

Chandler gym will give space for personal trainers to work

Trainer’s Club, a new gym in Chandler with an eye toward equipping personal trainers, will open March 25 at 6909 West Ray Road, Suite 6.

e 4,000-square foot personal training studio boasts a large turf area with a variety of accessories as well as brand new Matrix, Hoist and Torque brand equipment. e club will have a lounge and kitchen area for trainers to meet with their clients or just to relax if they have spare time between clients. Marketing, advertising and promotional support will be oﬀered to each individual trainer along with

customized business cards.

Trainer’s Club will host an oﬃcial grand opening on Saturday March 25 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.

For more information about Trainer’s Club, call 520-838-1716 or email info@trainersclubaz.com. Trainers who join with their clients before Saturday, March 25, can take advantage of preopening discounted fees.

Antenna manufacturer expanding Tempe operation

Galtronics, the world’s leading antenna manufacturer, will double the size of its workforce and grow its workspace this year.

e company will open its new 18,000-square-foot location soon. e company also intends to add at least 30 positions, including electrical, RF and mechanical engineers and support staﬀ.

Galtronics has manufactured more than 1 billion antennas since its inception in 1978. e company got its start producing antennas for Motorola 2-way radios.

Client management ﬁrm to move to Chandler

Redtail Technology, a provider of client relationship management solutions for financial services firms, is moving its Arizona office location from Scottsdale to a larger location in Chandler.

Redtail expects to double its size in Arizona over the next ﬁve years. e new 7,500-square-foot open-concept oﬃce will also be used as a training facility for all Redtail employees.

e company anticipates doubling its software development and DevOps talent by the end of the year.

Gilbert Leadership celebrates 25th anniversary with event

e Gilbert Chamber of Commerce is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Gilbert Leadership and will host a special celebration featuring keynote speaker Dr. Wally Delecki on March 31 at Life Community Church.

Gilbert Leadership began in 1992 under the guidance of Chamber President & CEO Kathy Tilque and former town councilwoman Linda Abbott. Over the past 25 years, more than 470 community members have graduated from the program. Tickets can be purchased on the Chamber’s site, http://bit. ly/2kfGLWm. Additional information on future Gilbert Leadership classes

can also be found at gilbertleadership. com.

Supply company in Tempe plans to hire 400 over 2 years

Grainger a leading supplier of products for businesses and institutions, plans to hire more than 400 new positions in this location during the next two years at its recently opened Contact Center in Tempe.

Approximately 3 million businesses and institutions worldwide rely on Grainger for products such as safety gloves, ladders, motors and janitorial supplies, along with services that include inventory management and technical support. Customers place orders online, with mobile devices, over the phone and at local branches.

e open positions include customer service representatives and supervisors, quality monitoring evaluators and real-time analysts. To learn more about Grainger and available career opportunities, visit jobs.grainger.com.

Mesa’s United Food Bank appoints interim CEO

Dave Richins has appointed to lead the United Food Bank organization as interim CEO.

Richins oﬃcially began his role on March 1.

East Valley-based United Food Bank supports its more than 200 partners in feeding hungry people throughout the region.

Richins has worked in nonproﬁt, government and corporate roles. Most recently, he served as a Mesa City Councilmember for District 1.

Women-only ﬁtness gym opening up in Chandler

Burn Boot Camp, a women-only ﬁtness center, will open its second location in the East Valley soon.

e North Carolina-based company will open in Chandler, and has one franchise in Gilbert already. e company plans to open up 10 more Valley locations by 2020.

e center oﬀers 45-minute camps comprised of various diﬀerent exercise styles and formats such as HIIT training and suspension training.

Devan Kline, CEO of Burn Boot Camp, said his franchises oﬀer free childcare for mothers who train at their facilities.

So far, the business has 60 operating locations and 250 locations licensed to open.

ROCKS

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iele said.

He also has had run-ins with shoplifters.

“I saw an old man, had to be 90, walking around,” iele said. “He had his pockets bulging from rocks. He was just slipping them in his pockets.

“He said to me, ‘Sonny, your stuﬀ doesn’t meet my high standards,’ then he just tried to walk oﬀ with rocks.”

When the weather heats up, iele takes a break from the wide-open back lot and goes on the rock show tour of the west. He just got back from a show in Tucson, and he’ll soon be on the road to Santa Fe and Farmington, New Mexico; Creed and Durango, Colorado; and other locations. He’ll end up at the Denver Gem & Mineral Show in September.

Meanwhile, he’ll continue to cut and polish rocks at his popular shop, and examples can be seen at naturalexpressions-inc.com. He’s not worried about rivals taking any business away from him. It would be a big job to overtake Natural Expressions.

“You’d better have plenty of money and plenty of storage,” iele said. –

(Ralph Zubiate/Tribune Staff)

Fred Thiele, owner of Natural Expressions, shows off some of his petriﬁed wood in a storage trailer on his acre lot.

New Chandler business carves niche in football gear

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Executive Editor

You won’t ﬁnd many businesses like the one that Chandler attorney Denise Aguilar and her ﬁancé just opened.

She and Joel Griﬃn recently opened Heads Up Helmets, a business devoted to reconditioning and recertifying football helmets.

e business plays into Griﬃn’s long involvement in football coaching – and his keen awareness of players having the best possible protection from concussions and other head injuries on the gridiron.

“With the impact that comes with contact sports, helmets and shoulder pads, as well as other athletic equipment, can break down over time,” he says on the company website, headsuphelmets. com. “Cracks and wear can compromise the integrity of the equipment, and in turn, the safety of the athlete.”

Griﬃn has coached youth league football since 1998, was acting president of the Maricopa Youth Football from

2000 to 2014, cofounded the Desert Storm Football Tournament and has coached at Mountain Pointe High School since 2014.

Several years ago, he and Aguilar, a criminal defense lawyer, “started brainstorming for something we could do in addition to our careers that would generate extra income to allow us to travel more, but was still something we enjoyed,” she said.

“Because of Joe’s involvement with the football community, and because we are both football fanatics, we ﬁgured something in that area would be perfect,” she added.

eir target market is broad.

ey’re eyeing youth football leagues as well as teams at high school, college, semi-pro and even professional levels.

helmets, then sand and repaint them.

“In Arizona, football goes on almost year-round, so we are fortunate to have business from teams that play the regular

the best service at reasonable prices,” she added.

ey also host community outreach programs, such as the “Cleat Repeat” program that encourages players to donate football cleats they have outgrown so that a child who may not be able to aﬀord a new pair of cleats each season can still have a pair that ﬁts.

e business involves inspecting helmets and all the hardware and liners attached to them, replacing bad parts, testing them with special equipment the couple was trained to use last year. In addition, they clean and sanitize the

fall season, and also club leagues that play in the spring,” she explained. “We know that maintaining equipment can be expensive for leagues and teams, so we want to make sure we are delivering

“Football can get very expensive with registration fees, uniforms, fund-raising efforts, and you’d be surprised at the number of kids out on the field wearing shoes that don’t quite fit. We will take the donations, clean and sanitize them, give them new laces, and give them to kids who can use them,” Aguilar said.

But Aguilar said she’s discovered one thing pretty quickly because they are getting busy:

“Ironically, I don’t see us being able to take the time oﬀ to do the traveling we wanted any time soon.”

Information: Heads Up Helmets, 590 N. 54th St., Chandler. 480-759-7599.

(Special to the Tribune)

Opening their football helmet reconditioning business are Denise Aguilar and Joel Grifﬁn and their employees Blake Silberschlag, left, and Jordan Somerville, far right.

Female footballer’s breakthrough is a kick in the pants to sexism

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist

The birth of the dream traces back 13 years, to a Southern California gridiron. Riverside King High was playing Paloma Valley that night. Becca Longo, age 5, was there rooting for her big brother, Bobby. One of Bobby’s King High teammates was a kicker named Heidi Garrett, a teenager with a booming leg.

Garrett set a national high school record that night in 2004 – longest ﬁeld goal ever made by a girl. e football arced 48 yards before thudding back to Earth. In the aftermath, Becca Longo’s dreams never stopped soaring.

“I watched her kick, and it was the coolest thing in the entire world,” Longo recalls. “What I’m doing now, how little girls look up to me, I looked up to (Heidi) like that. It was incredible watching her make that kick.”

Longo turns 18 next week. And what’s she doing now – besides shopping online for a prom dress – is kicking a football with great accuracy across broad distances. She kicked ﬁrst as a sophomore for the Queen

Creek boys’ team, then this past season as a senior for Basha High. Longo connected on 35 of 38 extra point tries this year, plus a 30-yard ﬁeld goal. In so doing, the placekicker with the braid and acrylic ﬁngernails caught the eye of coaches at Adams State University in Alamosa, Colorado. Last week, Longo accepted a scholarship to play for the Grizzlies in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

e fulﬁllment of this dream sent her spirits soaring higher than one of her own kickoﬀs.

“I was just so ecstatic,” says Longo. “Somebody believes in me. at was my main thing. I’ve been doubted my whole life. is gave me that little boost, like somebody out there does believe I can do this.”

Longo’s so thrilled, she may be the

only high schooler in America headed to college a week early to do extra running to acclimate to altitude. Of course, physical hard work has never fazed the 3.0 GPA student, which is how Longo made the transition from club soccer star/ track athlete/basketball player to football kicker. Key to her football development, says Longo, was meeting the Valley’s kicking Zendejas clan, who tutored her in Cardinals kicking camps and privately. It was Alex, a former kicker for U of A, who suggested, “I could kick at the next level,” says Longo.

e good news? By then, even Becca’s mom, Andrea, had warmed to the idea of her daughter – 5-feet-11, 145 pounds –on a ﬁeld with angry young men nearly twice her size.

Adams State is NCAA Division II. Competition will be more ﬁerce than at Basha, the players quicker and stronger.

“I’m not scared about any of that,” says Longo. “Yes, the other team’s players are bigger, stronger and faster, but so are mine. I love the pressure. If there was a last-second kick to win the game, I’d be jumping up and down on the sidelines

Why your next startup (or business) should be in the PHX East Valley

The six cities that make up the PHX East Valley region – Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek and Apache Junction – are known as a business community with world-class innovation. Nationally ranked for entrepreneurial activities, we have the expertise and support needed for emerging high-growth companies. Entrepreneurs ﬁnd our region to be a place where they can grow quickly with a strong local workforce and low costs to do business. Local entrepreneurs also appreciate the availability of local programs and tools that help them take “cutting edge” ideas from thought to actual business units.

In summary, here are ﬁve reasons why

your next startup should be in the PHX East Valley:

Attractive cost of living, doing business

Compared to neighboring states, the cost of living in the PHX East Valley is lower, utility rates are lower and median household income is higher. Examples include:

Our freeways and railroads connect to major markets reaching 65 million people within a day’s commute.

We have a pro-business climate with aggressive tax credits and incentive programs.

Our region “cost of living” rating (100.7) is below the national average and is 77 percent less on average than leading California markets.

Gilbert was recently named one of the Top 5 Safest Cities to Build Your Startup by Tech.Co.

Regional collaboration, skilled workforce

Continued regional business optimism is thriving in the PHX East Valley. Our talented workforce is ready to new startups and expanding businesses. Firms operating in the PHX East Valley beneﬁt from one of the largest, most skilled and most diverse talent pools in the nation. A few statistics include: e PHX East Valley has a labor force of more than 800,000, with 120,000+ college students building a talent pipeline for the future.

We are home to the nation’s most innovative school, Arizona State University and one of our country’s best community college systems: Maricopa County Community College District.

Of our population ages 25 and above, 36 percent have earned a bachelor’s degree or higher.

Asset.

Access to business resources

With a strong emphasis on innovation, incubators and co-working spaces are thriving in the PHX East Valley. A few resources available to entrepreneurs include SPARKSpot, LaunchPoint, THINKSpot, Gangplank, TechShop, Innovations Incubator, BRiC, FABRiC and ASU Entrepreneurship + Innovation State.

Access to capital investment

Startups and growing small businesses need access to capital. Resources help connect a business to federal grants, venture capitalists, banks as well as oﬀer

(Billy Hardiman/Special to the Tribune)

Becca Longo of Basha kicks an extra point at last October at Basha High. Longo will play for Adams State University in Colorado this fall.

See LEIBOWITZ on page 26

BY JOHN LEWIS Tribune Guest Contributor

Chandler was ranked the seventh hardest working city in America by Smart

The disturbing ‘monkey business’ of U.S. black-white race relations

BY NEAL A. LESTER Tribune Guest Writer

Iwas recently presenting a black history program,

“Animalization of Black Bodies: A History Lesson,” for a student group at my university. At the same time, just across town at a high school basketball game, white male students were taunting a black player on the opposing team with chest pounding, arm scratching and monkey sounds. I was not surprised by the reality of this deliberate racial insensitivity by white students, though I am fascinated by their boldness.

In the same way, I wasn’t surprised that six white students at my local Arizona neighborhood high school spelled out the n-word as a human puzzle just over a year ago, creating a national controversy. Indeed, I know well that racism has not passed over this allegedly post-racial generation of youth.

is particular way of expressing American racism, by dehumanizing black people, has a long and pronounced history, whether on high school, college

or university campuses; among local or national government oﬃcials; or even among police.

is animalization of black people has its roots in American slavery. Robert Guillaume, in the 1993 documentary, “Story of a People,” explains: “To justify slavery, black Americans had to be dehumanized. A moral and legal framework to support slavery was constructed at the same time. e

– and other black people as monkeys, chimpanzees and apes. Such perceptions of black people as less than human even show up in research: White nurses and nursing students do not believe black patients experience the same levels of pain as white patients; they are thereby more apt to give pain medicines to white patients than black ones.

e list goes on and on. Former Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch

“ I know well that racism has not passed over this allegedly post-racial generation of youth.”

distortion of the black image begins here. If it is believed that a man is inferior, subhuman, it becomes easy to treat him as a pet, a toy, an object of comic relief, a crazed lower animal who must be controlled and ruled.”

e very presence of the Obama family in the White House these last eight years created a proliferation of derogatory images of and references to them – including older daughter Malia

is referred to by the nickname “Beast Mode.” LeBron James’ 2008 Vogue cover with Gisele Bündchen connects him with King Kong. Ellen DeGeneres’ meme about running her errands while on speed runner Usain Bolt’s back ignores the history of enslaved black people being treated as beasts of burden. Serena Williams, according to one sports commentator, is more likely to appear in National Geographic than Sports

Illustrated. Entertainers Leslie Jones and Normani Kordei have received racist taunts in the form of being imagined as or called “monkey” or “ape.” Even the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. did not escape being called a “ﬁlthy, abnormal animal” by the FBI in a 1964 letter begrudging his civil rights leadership.

Add incidents, headlines, illustrations and images of black people as primates to historical pseudo-scientiﬁc eﬀorts to equate black people to animals, and you challenge the notion of a supposed 21st century post-racial United States head on. Such is the case with former Charleston Daily Mail columnist Don Surber, who described Ferguson, Missouri, teen Michael Brown as an “animal” that had to be “put down.”

It could be President Obama imagined as a chimpanzee in a 2009 New York Post cartoon about his stimulus package, Serena Williams compared to the racing horse American Pharoah or Saartjie Barrtman being paraded around Europe as a “freak show.” It could be the depiction of Little Black Sambo, who

programs that expand reach of capital providers.

A few resources available to entrepreneurs include Venture Madness, Arizona Innovation Challenge and PHX Startup Week.

This is a region primed for growth e PHX East Valley is approaching a population of 1.4 million residents with 800,000 jobs. Population estimates show that we may add another 1 million residents in the next 30 years. With these population estimates, starting a company in the PHX East Valley has a promising future.

A few recent accolades for our state: Arizona is the best state for future job

growth according to Forbes, and Chief Executive calls Arizona is the sixth best state in which to do business.

Clate Mask, co-founder and CEO of Infusionsoft (a PHX East Valley startup), recently said that the ingredients for a successful innovation hub to attract entrepreneurs is “talent with an entrepreneurial and engineering focus, capital, and government support in tightly bound communities.” at is what the PHX East Valley is striving to be, and our region is committed to your business success.

To learn more about the PHX East Valley region visit phxeastvalley.org.

– John Lewis, former mayor of Gilbert, serves as the president/CEO of the East Valley Partnership, a regional coalition of business, education, community and government leaders.

Her gender.

hoping Coach would let me go in for it.”

Longo has heard it all playing football: opposing team players asking for dates, teammates and coaches who have been nothing but supportive, the occasional grandstand chauvinist. Mostly, she pays attention to the voice in her own head, which studiously ignores the one thing everyone else ﬁxates on when they see her kick.

LESTER

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whets the appetites of three tigers in the popular 1899 children’s book by Helen Bannerman, or the reality of black babies used as alligator bait. New or old, real or imagined, these examples and countless others show that U.S. race relations inextricably connect the past with the present.

Today’s racism is not this overt Jim Crow sign from the 1940s and

“I’m not allowed to miss,” says Longo. “I’m supposed to make it. So, I go in there expecting myself to make it. I’m just doing what I’ve gotta do. We all have a job. It’s just me doing it.”

Woman’s work? It’s all woman’s work, so far as this placekicker is concerned.

– David Leibowitz has called the Valley home since 1995. Reach him at david@leibowitzsolo.com.

1950s: “No Niggers/No Jews/No Dogs.” Nor is racism just about calling someone the n-word. Racial bias, racial misrepresentation, racial assault and racial mockery all factor into American racism. Knowing American history, then, is better understanding Malcolm X’s pronouncement, “History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, [humans are] demoted to lower animals.”

– Neal Lester is Foundation Professor of English and the founding director of Project Humanities at Arizona State University.

Give Ducey a chance

There has been much said about Gov. Ducey’s budget proposal for Arizona’s public universities – $1 billion bonding plan for facilities funded from sales tax revenue universities pay.

Comments range from those who simply don’t care to those who believe it will take our universities to the next level in research thus spearheading economic development and vitality for our state. Another group, the Arizona Tax Research Association (ATRA), is saying “it is nonsense” to think that, administratively, it could be done.

Quite frankly, it is nonsense to believe it cannot be done. Is the bureaucracy so stiﬂing that our governor cannot implement innovative ﬁscal policy measures? This is the tired old thinking that has held Arizona back and keeps it on a treadmill … moving but going nowhere.

I think it is time for ATRA to reboot its thinking from the bureaucratic mode to innovation mode. This organization can start by embracing this governor’s innovative ﬁscal policy and help ﬁnd solutions rather than declaring it is nonsense and cannot be done.

– Peter Morgan – Tempe

Against universal vouchers

Private school tax credits and “universal vouchers” are bad for Arizona.

Not just because they subsidize rich parents using less-efﬁcient private schools. Not just

because they insult Arizona families with children in some of the nation’s most under-funded schools. Not just because they drain money out of the General Fund. But because they reduce the political pressure that better-off parents can exert on the lawmakers. Those better-off parents, who without a subsidy would otherwise send their kids to public schools, won’t care about funding those public schools.

This proposal uses the same principle that kept Southern segregated public schools in Black neighborhoods radically under-resourced until desegregation. Poor Black families had no power. White parents didn’t care. It creates the same dynamic that allowed unequal funding of Arizona school districts. Poorer districts’ families had little power. Well-off districts’ parents didn’t care. Only the unelected Arizona Supreme Court was able to equalize funding for all Arizona districts. This is just a small version of “divide and conquer.” The only difference: It’s a conscious plan. Not the ad-hoc product of the complex forces of history and accident. And it’s sneaky. It’s meant in a small way to distract and waste the time of people concerned about the larger issue of underfunded K-12 public schools. The majority of lawmakers don’t care now, and they haven’t cared ever since they started cutting tax revenue in the early 1990s.

Parents and K-12 public schools create mass quantities of human capital – capitalism’s most important capital.

– Ben Andrews – Phoenix`

-Tribune DV’s Porter develops under brothers’ tutelage

BY JASON P. SKODA Tribune Prep Sports Director

At the start of it all, Chad Porter was the youngest of three brothers and followed in their footsteps.

He was forced to go to a lot of practices – football for Daniel and wrestling for Jack – before eventually strapping on the helmet and headgear himself.

At the end, now that Chad is just a few months from graduation at Desert Vista, he will leave the school as the most accomplished.

“ ey were always in my corner,” Porter said. “ ey were my role models, and all I wanted to do was be better than them because of their support and their help.”

He was all-region linebacker in football and ﬁnished his wrestling career as a four-

time state qualiﬁer, three-time placer and two-time state champion.

Porter lost only once to an Arizona opponent on the mat the last two years. He is just the third under wrestler to win multiple state champions, and he’s the Tribune Wrestler of the Year.

He won the Division I 195-pound title the last two years and finished his career with a technical fall in the semifinals and a first-period pin the championship match.

“ at was a dominant performance, and it really summed up his career,” under coach David Gonzales said.

“We knew he had the opportunity to be good coming from a wrestling family. Had has a little bit of both his brothers in him. He’s tough and mean, and he is a hard worker. Chad meshed it all together and made it work.”

It all came together on February when he won the second title. But what was missing was a congratulatory hug or prematch text for Daniel, who died at the age of 30 in June after a car accident.

“It was deﬁnitely impactful not having him there, but even more during football,” Porter said. “He’d call after

First team

every game and want to hear about every single play. It was hard each week, after each game, when that call never came. I was missing something.”

e loss helped forge a terriﬁc senior year in both sports and showed the whole

All-Tribune Wrestling

Wt class Name School Yr. Comment

106 Chris Kelly Chandler Fr. Next in a long line of stud Wolf llight weights

113 Xavier Rico Queen Creek Jr. Division II state champ following in dad, Brothers’ shoes

120 Cameron Upshur Corona del Sol Jr. Quit but returned to help CDS to a title

126 Cole Bernstein Corona del Sol Sr. One of the unsung Aztecs, with fourth-place finish 132 Bryce Nickel Corona del Sol So. Third-place finish capped impressive year 138 Jacob Garcia Corona del Sol Jr. Come back win over QC’s Fernandez gives him nod 145 Gator Groves McClintock Jr. One season away from winning four state titles 152 Vincent Dolce Corona del Sol Sr. Won second state title, first for Corona

160 Brandon Konecny Corona del Sol Sr. Learned to lead at Seton,ﬁnished at CDS

170 Jason Moore Red Mountain Sr. Pulled off upsets on his way to runner-up ﬁnish

182 Anthony Saba Queen Creek Jr. Semis win at Flowing Wells gives nod over Doolen

195 Chad Porter Desert Vista Sr. Only one Arizona loss over last two years

220 Trevor Nipper Basha Sr. Physical force bullied his way to title match HVY Kolo Uaskike Skyline Sr. Undefeated season ends with four pins at state

Second team

Wt class Name School

Yr.

Comment

106 Zack Kvalve Corona So. Made big jump, gravitated to Seton group

113 Alex Rodriguez Basha So. Finished with 43 wins, fourth at state

120 Alex Wood Desert Ridge So. Jaguars seem to always produce a title contender

126 Nicholas Villalobos Queen Creek Sr. Finished with 44 wins and ﬁfth-place ﬁnish

132 Cyler Rustad Williams Field Jr. Third-place ﬁnish in DII after transfer

138 Denen Fernandez Queen Creek So. DII champion ﬁnished year at 46-1

145 Hunter Carmona Corona Sr. Two-time state placer was Aztec leader

152 Andrew Torres Marcos de Niza Jr. Worked his way into the ﬁnals

160 Marco Groves McClintock Jr. Growing in size almost as fast as he has in stature

170 Shavez Hawkins Williams Field Sr. Another transfer that helped lead his team

182 Brock Doolen Mountain View Sr. Finished off career with Division I championship

195 Briggs Conway Williams Field Sr. Nearly won DII title, losing in ﬁnal seconds 220 Isaiah Jacobs Combs Jr. Won 59 matches on his way to third-place ﬁnish HVY Cody Bartz Highland Sr. Fourth place at sectionals, third at state

Honorable mention

Korosh Eshani, Arizona College Prep; Joe Carey, Basha; Ryan Roper, Basha; Joaquin Cedillos, Campo Verde; Billy Fiore, Campo Verde; Estevan Galvez, Campo Verde; Diego Torres, Casteel; Kyle Flake, Combs; Chris Fill, Corona del Sol; Nicholas Ruffalo, Corona de Sol; Brendan Gill, Desert Vista; Brett Johnson, Desert Vista; Jordan Martinez, Desert Vista; Steven Smith, Dobson; Tanner Waite, Highland; Alejandro Torres, Marcos de Niza; Lewis Everett, Mesquite; Jacob Rasmussen, Mountain Pointe; Jeremy Hollen, Mountain View; Ben Peters, Mountain View; Hunter Richards, Mountain View, Garrett Wolfe, Mountain View; Travis Calloway, Perry; Anthony Coon, Poston Butte; Nikolas Manuel, Queen Creek; Jonathan Matuzak, Queen Creek; Christian Reyes, Queen Creek; Alex Karantinos, Red Mountain; Brian Kortez, Skyline; Nick Sanchez, Skyline; Zane McKinney, Williams Field.

(Kim Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Desert Vista’s Chad Porter is still deciding on college, with Arizona State, Embry Riddle and Colorado Mesa in the mix.

O’Sullivan takes LPGA ﬁeld again at Founder’s Cup

BY JASON P. SKODA Tribune Prep Sports Director

Hannah O’Sullivan returns to an event this week where she once had people in the golf world shaking their heads in bewilderment while considering her future prospects. It wasn’t the ﬁrst time.

O’Sullivan, 18, returns to the LPGA’s Founder’s Cup in north Phoenix, ursday through Sunday. She’s competing against the world’s best thanks to an exemption.

It’s the same event she played in while a senior at Hamilton last year. O’Sullivan shot a second-round 64, the best score of the day, to make the cut at Wildﬁre Golf Club at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa.

She ﬁnished 33rd and hopes to better that after spending the last year working solely on her golf game.

“ at was really special for me,”

O’Sullivan said. “Having seen the course, and having the support of family and friends, I’ll be more comfortable. e atmosphere of an LPGA event is very fun and such a great experience. It’s an honor to have this amazing opportunity to play against, and learn from, the players I look up to and hope to join someday.

“I know what to expect this time, and what I am capable of, but like every time I play, I have to take it one shot at a time.” e swing that produces those shots is repeated for hours on end at Whirlwind Golf Club in Chandler when

BenU’s basketball seasons come to end for women, men

Benedictine University at Mesa women’s basketball team made the championship game of the California Paciﬁc Conference and lost to UC-Merced, 57-56, on Feb. 27.

Despite the tough ending, the women’s basketball program finished 17-11 overall in its first year of existence and tied for second place in the conference regular season standings at 10-4, which qualified them for the Cal Pac Tournament.

Additionally, Emily Moore was named Cal Pac Player of the Year, the ﬁrst player to receive that award in any sport in school history. Joining her on the ﬁrst team was Erica Vasquez, while senior Felicia Foster garnered an honorable mention.

The men’s team lost in the conference semifinals to finish the year at 16-12, which improved upon last season’s win total by two games. The team also made the Cal Pac Tournament in its the first year of eligibility and tied for the best conference mark at 11-3.

it hasn’t taken her to Ireland (Curtis Cup), Germany (Junior Solheim Cup), England (British Open) and Scotland (Junior Ryder Cup).

She won the 2015 Women’s U.S. Amateur, and became the ﬁrst amateur to win on the Symetra Tour this century when she won the Gateway Open in 2015 at Longbow. Most impressively, she has made the cut in three LPGA majors.

It led her to believe that turning pro was the next step, and she de-committed from USC. But she had to pull out of the second phase of LPGA qualifying

Kincade named as ﬁrst-team All-Cal Pac performers, Richie Thornton V named second-team All-Cal Pac and Gus Leon receiving honorable mention honors from the conference.

MHB Golf tourney registration underway

Registration is underway for the second annual MHB Golf Tournament to beneﬁt My Hope Bag, a local non-proﬁt organization that supports the breast cancer community. Online registration is being accepted at myhopebag.org.

The tournament will take place Friday, May 5, at Red Mountain Ranch Country Club, 6425 E. Teton Circle in Mesa. The shotgun start begins at 7:30 a.m. Golfer check-in begins at 6 a.m.

The four-person golf scramble is $100 per golfer and includes golﬁng, continental breakfast, lunch and golf goodie bags. There will be a silent auction, rafﬂe drawing, game prizes for golfers and more. For more information, visit myhopebag.org.

Symetra Tour returns to Longbow Golf Club

The Symetra Tour, Road to the LPGA, announced

“After taking careful time over several months, Hannah decided that she wants to experience, enjoy, learn and grow through being a full-time college student over these next few years,” her father, Greg, told Golfweek magazine.

O’Sullivan played two years for Xavier and won two state medalist titles before transferring to Hamilton, where she didn’t play on the team. She loves working on her game just as much as playing in events.

It’s a vital part of being able succeed at the highest level because it is a solitary exercise. Practicing hours on end of without having teammates to goof oﬀ with during a break or without downtime takes tremendous focus. In her mind, it is going take her where she wants to go. And she gets another glimpse at it this weekend.

and reopen her recruiting. She settled on Duke in December and is enrolled for the fall semester.

“USC is a wonderful school with wonderful golf coaches, but I took a lot of time to consider and reﬂect on my options throughout the summer,” she said. “Duke is a perfect ﬁt. Everyone was so welcoming, and I look forward to joining them this fall.”

It will give O’Sullivan a chance to enjoy the college and amateur life for a few years before making golf, the game she started playing at age 6, her livelihood.

the return of the Gateway Classic at Longbow Golf Club set for the week of March 27 through April 1. The 54-hole tournament, which will feature the rising stars in women’s golf, begins on Thursday, March 30 and concludes on Saturday, April 1. It comes just two weeks after the Bank of Hope Founders Cup (March 16-19) at Wildﬁre Golf Club.

The ﬁeld of 144 professionals from the United States and more than 25 countries around the globe will compete for a tournament purse of $100,000.

The winner will earn $15,000 and take an early step toward a spot in the top 10 on the Volvik Race for the Card money list. The top 10 on the ﬁnal money list will earn LPGA Tour membership for the 2018 season.

The Tour is also hosting a junior clinic for approximately 300 kids from Mesa Public Schools in partnership with the First Tee of Phoenix on March 28. The clinic will take place at Longbow Golf Club from 9 a.m. until noon. Symetra Tour professionals will lead the clinic.

Admission and parking are free all three days of tournament play.

“Golf is a unique sport and that’s what I love about it,” she said. “It’s all on me and it takes an inner drive. I enjoy team events, the atmosphere and feeding oﬀ your teammates, but your achievements come down to your individual success. It takes quite a bit of maturity, and golf teaches you to be mature and disciplined. at’s what I love about the game.

“I am a very competitive person. I think it is a lot of fun to play, and you can always improve. It’s why I am always working on my game. Every round, every shot can always be a little better.”

– Contact Jason Skoda at (480) 898-7915 or jskoda@evtrib.com. Follow him on Twitter @ JasonPSkoda.

family that they need to make the most of every day.

Porter, and his father, William, recently returned from a church trip to Honduras, where they helped build homes and pour concrete to repair a church.

“It really made you appreciate everything you have and to never take it for granted,” Porter said. “ ey don’t have much, and we had a chance to hang out, help and make them happy.”

Porter, who is still working on college plans with Arizona State, Embry Riddle and Colorado Mesa in the mix, is ready for whatever comes his way. He has learned to be a leader, a champion competitor and a brother doing his best to represent the Porter name.

(Special to the Tribune)

Hannah O’Sullivan, 18, will get a chance to play in the LPGA event - The Founder’s Cup - in north Phoenix this week.

BenU at Mesa also had four players garner AllCal Pac honors, with Monnard Brown, who was also named Cal Pac Newcomer of the Year, and Robert

SPORTS BRIEFS

Faith

Swim class helps Muslim women exercise, preserve their modesty

BY RACHEL EROH Tribune Contributing Writer

Sara, 31, was a champion swimmer back in her home country of Iran. She swam three times a week and would go to competitions. Iran also had separate public pools for men and women, in keeping with Muslim sensibilities.

“I love swimming and I love the water,” said Sara, who asked that her last name not be used.

However, once she moved to the United States, she felt uncomfortable in public pools. After a bad experience, she never went back.

She went to a gym pool late at night because she didn’t think many people would be there. She was wearing her modest swimwear, which covers her body head to toe, and started doing her usual laps. Her exercise didn’t last for long.

“One woman stopped me and said ‘Why are you wearing that? How do I know you’re clean in the pool?’” she said. After that experience, she didn’t feel comfortable enough to go to a public pool again.

“We wear these suits to feel privacy, but then everyone watches us,” Sara said. Sara went from swimming constantly

in Iran to going without swimming for almost eight years in the U.S.

She tried other types of exercise to stay in shape but nothing made her feel happy like swimming did, she said.

“I was never satisﬁed with running and other forms of exercise,” Sara said.

She started taking her 2-yearold daughter to swim classes at SWIMkids USA in Mesa and felt comfortable in the environment, she said.

Sara began talking to the president and founder of the facility, Lana Whitehead, and explained her struggles as a Muslim woman trying to ﬁnd a safe place to swim.

SWIMkids USA had held an all-female swim class for Muslim women that started four years ago, but that class had taken a break.

When Whitehead heard about Sara’s struggles, she decided to start the class back up again. e class has been running again for less than a year now.

Now with the all-women swim class, Sara has the ability again to take part in the sport that she loves.

e women in the class get a pool all to themselves.

e male employees in the building are not allowed to be in the same area or watch them to ensure the women’s privacy.

Even though the class doesn’t bring in a lot of new people, the same women continue to keep coming back to learn more.

“It hasn’t become very large, but it’s very consistent,” Whitehead said.

She even received an award four years ago from the U.S. Swim School Association for the creation of this unusual program.

Whitehead said she believes everyone should have the opportunity to learn about water safety and also experience the beneﬁts that swimming has on the body.

“ ey’re women and they still want to do something for their bodies,” Whitehead said.

Shaunna Risinger, the instructor for the all-female swim class, has found that the women have a wide variety of experience with swimming.

ere are women like Sara who are very skilled swimmers but then there are women who have never taken a swim class before and have to be taught the basics, she said.

“I really focus on fine-tuning skills, fixing strokes and boosting their confidence,” Risinger said.

She teaches ﬁve to six classes throughout the day, and she uses her break on Fridays to teach the women’s class.

“It’s a passion,” Risinger said. “You have to love what you do if you’ve done it for as long as I have.”

Risinger wants the women to see their class time as time for themselves, without any distractions.

“I want women to see this as their time to come in, feel empowered and really focus on themselves for that 45 minutes a week,” Risinger said.

e price to attend is $40.50 per month and the class is held on Fridays at 1 p.m.

Sara is happy that she can take part in her favorite sport again and believes that all women should take a swim class to become better swimmers and beneﬁt their health, she said.

“Swimming is the kind of sport that ﬁts the nature, spirit and body of a woman,” she said. “It looks beautiful.”

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Sara watches her daughter enjoy her swim class at SWIMkids USA in Mesa. The specialized private class helps Muslim women maintain their modesty.

(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer) Zahara swims with her instructor Shaunna Risinger during the special class for Muslim women.

The Bible tells us to see the humanity in the silhouette

BY RABBI DEAN SHAPIRO Tribune Guest Writer

It’s pitch black when I start, at 6:15 a.m. By the time I’m done with my morning run, the sun has started to creep up over the 101. Faint blue appears, and the world seems to come to life.

Running has been an introduction to a whole new world: darkness.

e streets of the city are alive in the early hours, but in a more subdued way than in daytime. ere’s a particular rhythm to the morning – the workingman pulls his Ram truck out of the driveway, the train rumbles by, the jogger with the reﬂective tape sprints in the distance, I pass the man with his dog.

e man with the dog. He’s stocky, not fat, and I didn’t even notice his little, dark-haired dog the ﬁrst few times we crossed paths. I say “Good morning,”

CALENDAR

SUNDAY, MARCH 12

COLONIAL PURIM

Chabad of Mesa presents a “Colonial Purim.” The celebration includes live band, buffet lunch, quill writing, candle making, megillah reading and Circus Farm entertainment. All children in costume will get a prize. There is no charge.

DETAILS>> 11:30 a.m., 941 S. Maple, Mesa. Information: 480-659-7001, chabadmesa.com.

SUNDAYS

NEW CHURCH IN MESA

The Lawrence Memorial A.M.E.Z. Church has opened in Mesa with the Rev. Albert Bolden leading as pastor.

DETAILS>> Sunday School at 9 a.m., worship at 10 a.m., 931 E. Southern Ave., Suite 108. Information: 480-393-3001, tlmchurch.info.com, f@ TheLawrenceMemorialChurch.

VALOR CHRISTIAN OUTLINES MISSION

Valor Christian Center in Gilbert offers “great praise and worship and great messages for today’s living,” according to Pastor Thor Strandholt, associate pastor. “Our mission is evangelize, healing and discipleship through the word of God.”

DETAILS>> 10 a.m. Sundays and 7 p.m. Thursdays. 3015 E. Warner Road. Information: valorcc.com.

HORIZON SEEKS YOUNG PEOPLE

High school and middle school students meet to worship and do life together.

DETAILS>> 5 p.m. at Horizon Presbyterian Church, 1401 E. Liberty Lane. 480-460-1480 or email joel@ horizonchurch.com.

KIDS CAN LEARN

JEWISH LIFE

Children can learn and experience Jewish life. Chabad Hebrew School focuses on Jewish heritage, culture and holidays.

he says “Hello,” and we continue on our ways.

We must be neighbors, but I wouldn’t even recognize him in daylight. I don’t know his age or his race, nor whether he has an accent or facial hair. I certainly don’t know his religion, profession or struggles. I only know the outline of the man.

In a strange way, that’s true for all people. Even family members and coworkers are only known to us from the outside. We’re familiar with their opinions and reactions, but cannot know how it really feels to be them. We understand ourselves intimately, but other people remain silhouettes, even after years in relationship.

Perhaps that’s why novels and movies are so engaging. ey open doors into other people’s interior worlds, spaces that are usually cordoned oﬀ, unavailable to us. Perhaps that’s why it’s so easy to ignore other people and write oﬀ their

experiences. Perhaps that’s why we can brutalize each other.

e Hebrew Bible teaches that human beings are created in the image and likeness of God. Whether literally or metaphorically true, the phrase is understood to mean that each person possesses an inherent dignity and is entitled to respect and empathy.

Each person has a rich interior life and a meaningful subjective reality. Each possesses a lived experience and a personal truth. I likely do not know what these are, but I can assume that they exist within the soul of all my fellow human beings.

“Love the stranger as yourself,” the Hebrew Bible teaches repeatedly (see Leviticus 19:34 and Deuteronomy 10:19 for two examples). e Hebrew word for “stranger” is “ger” – the foreigner who resides amongst you.

e Hebrew Bible is certainly making a social statement. It can also be read

psychologically: All people are foreign to me; I cannot see into their souls. Nonetheless, I can trust that they all have as rich an interior life as I do, and I am to behave accordingly. I may only see a person’s outline, but I am nonetheless to treat them with the full measure of dignity with which I treat myself.

e Chassidic Jewish tradition loved stories, and tells that there’s an angel who walks in front of each and every human being. at angel holds a lamp and, quoting Genesis, proclaims in a loud voice: “Behold the image and likeness of God!”

Our human task is to see the light and hear the call, and to recognize the truth behind it: No one is a silhouette. Not even a man walking his dog in the halflight of the early morning.

— Rabbi Dean Shapiro is the spiritual leader of Temple Emanuel of Tempe. Contact him at rshapiro@emanueloftempe.org and visit his “Rabbi Dean Shapiro” page on Facebook.

DETAILS>> 9:30 a.m. to noon, for children ages 5-13 at Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 875 N. McClintock Drive, Chandler. 480-855-4333, info@ chabadcenter.com, or chabadcenter.com.

RABBINIC LIT COURSE OFFERED

Ongoing morning study of two classics of rabbinic literature by medieval philosopher Moses Maimonides (the “Rambam”). At 10 a.m., Prof. Norbert Samuelson, Grossman chair of Jewish Philosophy at ASU and TBS member, teaches “Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed: What Jews Ought to Believe.” At 11:15 a.m., TBS member Isaac Levy teaches “Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah: How Jews Ought to Behave.” Readings in both Hebrew and English.

DETAILS>> Community Room of the administration building at Temple Beth Sholom of the East Valley, 3400 N. Dobson Road, Chandler. 480-897-3636.

UNITY OFFERS A PATH

Unity of Mesa says its Sunday service offers “a positive path for spiritual living” through “transformational lessons, empowering music and various spiritual practices with an open-minded and welcoming community.”

DETAILS>> 9 and 10:45 a.m. 2700 E. Southern Ave., Mesa. Nursery available for infants through kindergarten at service times. Youth ministry classes are open in the Education Annex at 10:45 a.m. Information: 480-892- 2700, unityofmesa.org, lori@unityofmesa.org.

ALL ARE WELCOME

All on a peaceful spiritual path are welcome and honored in this inclusive, loving, thriving Unity Community. Join us for Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center’s Sunday Celebration Service DETAILS>> 10:30 a.m. Toddlers and children meet during our service. Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center, 952 E. Baseline, Suite 102, Mesa. Information: info@interfaith-community.org.

FAITH

Bars, restaurants will be shamrockin’ for St. Patrick’s Day on Friday

BY COLLEEN SPARKS Tribune Contributing Writer

East Valley bars and restaurants expect to be hopping with crowds sipping green beer, soaking up the sounds of bagpipers and dancing to bands playing Irish songs on St. Patrick’s Day.

Venue owners say they always get a big crowd for the holiday. With March 17 falling on a Friday this year, they expect an even larger turnout.

Several bars and restaurants will roll out the green carpet for customers with live bands, green beer and specials on Irish beer, Irish Car Bombs and other drinks. Many will also serve corned beef and cabbage, bangers and mash and other Irish food.

Chandler will be rocking with two events on St. Patrick’s Day. The Downtown Chandler Community Partnership will hold the Shamrockin’ Art Walk from 6 to 9:30 p.m. in Dr. A.J. Chandler Park on South Arizona Avenue.

Also at Dr. A.J. Chandler Park, Murphy’s Law Irish Pub will hold its ﬁrst annual ShamRockFest with several bands, a beer garden, leprechauns and adult beer games.

At the Art Walk, Valley band Kilted Spirit with Irish lead singer Colleen Collins will play classic rock with Irish tunes mixed in from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

“Our show is high energy and it’s interactive,” Collins said. “Everybody’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day.”

At ShamRockFest, ﬁve local rock bands will perform, along with the AZ Fire Service Pipe Band. Dancers from The Bracken School of Irish Dance in Chandler will also entertain at the festival, which runs from 4 p.m. to midnight.

holyshamrocks.com.

Music will also be on the menu in another part of Chandler on St. Patrick’s Day at Fibber Magees on West Elliot Road. Wide Awake, a U2 cover band, will perform from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., then Irish rock band The Brazen Heads will play from 3 to 6 p.m. Cockswain, another Irish rock band, will play from 7 to 11 p.m.

Fibber Magees will add an outdoor beer garden and expects to see more than 2,000 people throughout the day, general manager Matt Brennan said.

Another Irish pub, R.T. O’Sullivan’s on East Superstition Springs Boulevard in Mesa, will also have a big bash.

Irish step dancers from The Bracken School of Irish Dance will perform from 2:30 to 3 p.m., and Glendale Pipes and Drums will play from 7:30 to 8 p.m. at R.T. O’Sullivan’s. An Irish ﬁddler duo will perform several times that day, and dueling pianists will take the stage at night.

Also in Mesa, people can soak up Irish culture at The Harp Pub on South Val Vista Drive at Village Square at Dana Park.

Arizona Fire Service Pipe Band will perform from 6 to 7 p.m., and rock duo The Everyday Players will play from 7 to 11 p.m.

Anyone who wants to get an early start on their St. Patrick’s Day festivities can

Members of Glendale Pipes and Drums perform at Four Peaks Brewing Company in

on St. Patrick’s Day last year. The group will perform at Four Peaks again this year, as well as at R.T. O’Sullivan’s in Mesa.

combine for a celebration at Cuisine & Wine Bistro on West Warner Road. Coowner Mairead Buschtetz, who is Irish, and her husband, co-owner and head chef Fabrice, will make an Irish stew, Irish pea and bacon sop, and chocolate mousse with green mint.

Rock artist Ronnie Leach will perform from 7 to 10 p.m.

Green beer will be served, along with corned beef and cabbage and bangers and mash, as well as food from several food trucks. People can play human foosball, giant Battleship and cornhole.

For tickets to ShamRockFest, visit

check out singer/songwriter Celia Farran in a concert performing Irish music and storytelling at 12:15 p.m. on Sunday, March 12, at Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center on East Baseline in Mesa. In Gilbert, music and Irish food will

“It is a fun day,” Mairead Buschtetz said. “We wear shamrocks in Ireland.”

At JC’s Steakhouse on East Ray Road in Gilbert, customers can party to the sounds of musician Chuck E. Baby on St. Patrick’s Day. Drink specials will be offered.

Big crowds are also expected in Tempe on St. Patrick’s Day.

Glendale Pipes and Drums will perform from 1 to 3 p.m. at the original Four Peaks Brewing Company on East 8th Street in Tempe.

“There’s nothing quite like the sound of pipes and drums to turn up the volume on Four Peaks’ authentic St. Patrick’s Day celebration, with a pint of Kilt

Lifter Scottish Amber in your hand,” Four Peaks co-founder Jim Scussel said. Four Peaks will offer green scrambled eggs, corned beef and hash, shepherd’s pie, salmon cakes, Irish stew bread bowls and other Irish-inspired food.

Rula Bula Irish Pub & Restaurant on South Mill Avenue in Tempe will be another hot spot on St. Patrick’s Day. Rock groups will perform, as will the Tempe Town Lake Pipe Band and The McTeggart Irish Dancers.

“It’s always a blast,” Rula Bula supervisor Tiffany Hald said.

(Four Peaks Brewing Company)

Tempe

(Tina Allen/Special to the Tribune)

Dancers at The Bracken School of Irish Dance practice with dance studio owner Thomas Bracken ahead of their performances on St. Patrick’s Day.

Vintage 95 pairs ﬁne wine with just as ﬁne food

BY DAVID M. BROWN Tribune Contributing Writer

Vintage 95 is not only a ﬁne-wine lounge, as its signs say; it pairs that with ﬁne food.

More than five years at 95 W. Boston St., Chandler, Vintage 95 Wine Lounge has settled in comfortably in the city’s first post office, built in 1926.

Today, it still delivers every day, serving lunch and dinner during the week and brunch and dinner on the weekends. The daily happy hour has craft cocktails, martinis and specially priced wine bottles. Vintage 95 offers an award-winning list of 300-plus wines from around the world. Matching it, the menu features innovative covers of classic dishes using artisanal and fresh ingredients, many locally sourced.

Among the house appetizers are warm brie, charcuterie board, pork belly and bone marrow; the tapas include beef satay, shrimp cocktail and arancini. The entrees change frequently.

Staffers, including Vintage 95 general manager Grant Rembis, will offer

suggestions on pairing those foods with the right wine.

“We pair wines based on their flavor profiles, matching with the food. Our goal is finding balance with the wine’s acidity and the food’s fat content,” said Rembis, a Tempe resident who’s been with the restaurant since it opened.

He moved to the Valley from California in 2008 to attend Arizona State University, where he met his wife. He started in the food industry when he was 15 and a junior in high school.

“My mother worked in the food industry as she went through nursing school and suggested it as a ﬁrst job during high school. She felt it taught her a lot in socialization, humility and organization. The ability to have ﬂexible hours helped with school,” he said. “So, I jumped right in.”

One of his ﬁrst culinary mentors was Mark Dion at California Pizza Kitchen.

He was further inspired Jaison Sokolow at Houston’s Scottsdale.

“His guidance is what made me want to do this for the rest of my life,” Rembis said. “He taught me how and why a restaurant

is so special to guests and how to create an amazing experience each and every time for any guest.”

His wine passion comes from Ryan Brown while he worked at House of Tricks in Tempe.

Visitors to Vintage 95 can enjoy a six-

course, double-paired dinner in the warm, comfortable main room that retains the original brick walls. The ﬁrst course, the smoked tomato bisque, is the house soup.

“It’s savory and rich with a hint of

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sweetness and acidity to balance it out –the perfect way to start a meal,” Rembis said.

Rembis will pair this with a Chappellet Mountain Cuvée, a 2014 red blend from the Napa Valley AVA.

“Its big bold fruit and oak stand up and complement the tomato and smoky ﬂavors,” he said.

Next up: Scallops and cauliﬂower.

“They’re a classic combination, both having a buttery, rich ﬂavor. Fried capers and watercress brighten up the dish to make for an elegant appetizer,” the chef said.

Rembis paired this with a Domaine Long-Depaquit 2014 Chardonnay from the Chablis AOC.

“The cold climate earthy notes and minerality balance perfectly with the scallops,” he said.

A single-meal or shareable item, the chicken board with goat cheese might follow.

Rembis double-pairs this with a Domaine Serge Laporte 2014 Sauvignon Blanc from the Sancerre AOC, as the wine and goat cheese are a classic pairing. Then it’s

a Nigl “Freiheit” 2014 Grüner Veltliner from Niederösterreich.

“Its soft body and hint of spice also go well with chicken and goat cheese,” he said.

The two next courses: salmon risotto and pork chops.

“The salmon risotto is a classic; that’s why we poach our salmon so that no one part of the dish overpowers the other,” Rembis said. “The spinach and sun-dried tomatoes brighten up the ﬂavor proﬁle, and the tarragon cream rounds out the dish.”

A Lincourt 2013 Chardonnay from the Santa Rita Hills AVA and a Royal Tokaji “The Oddity” 2013 from the Tokaj PDO were offered.

“The oak helps cut through the cream in the risotto, while both have enough acid to balance with the fat in the salmon,” he said.

The pork chop was paired with a Lan Crianza 2012 Tempranillo from La Rioja DO.Ca, because of “its earth notes, almost barnyard aromas, with bright fruit that goes well with pork” and then with an M. Chapoutier “La Ciboise” 2014 Rhone Blend from the Côtes du Luberon AOC because of “its earth notes, almost gamey aromas, with bright fruit and hints of pepper that go well with pork,” he said.

Information: vintage95.com

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(Special to the Tribune)

Spark! your musical and artistic creativity at Mesa Arts Center

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI GetOut Contributing Writer

ASU Associate Professor of Music

Education Evan Tobias believes there’s music in everyone.

So, he proposed a project for Spark! Mesa’s Festival of Creativity based on that theory. Tobias created multiple areas and diverse music-making opportunities to appeal to youth, teens and adults.

“It’s designed to engage people of all ages,” Tobias said. “There are some activities for the very young and families. At night, there’s the hip-hop group Shining Soul. They are very well known for their performances,

IF YOU GO

Where: Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main Street, Mesa

When: Noon to 10 p.m. Friday, March 17, and Saturday, March 18

Cost: Free

More info: 480-644-6500, mesaartscenter.com/spark

but they’re also going to show you how to create beats.”

Since its inception, Spark! Mesa’s Festival of Creativity has offered an immersive and participatory environment to celebrate the work of creative people. Set for noon to 10 p.m. Friday, March 17, and Saturday, March 18, Spark! is purposely held during Spring Break and Spring Training.

“The original concept was we wanted a place for people of any age and any creative ability to come and feel they could express themselves creatively,” said Cindy Ornstein, Mesa Arts Center’s executive director.

“Because it is purposely scheduled to be during Spring Break for most of the schools, people come from across the Valley. Plus, it’s something free to do during spring break.”

Even though Spark! is OK for kids, it’s safe to leave them with the sitter at night.

“It’s family friendly, but in the evening, it’s a little more adult, in terms of offering swing dancing on one night, and Latin dancing on another with a dance band,” Ornstein said.

“All of the hands-on activities continue into the evening, but they change a little.

It doesn’t mean it’ll be inappropriate, but there’s a little more of a nighttime club scene environment.”

Admission to the event is free, but for $5 to $10, guests can try their hand at studio art classes. The one-hour workshops are led by Mesa Arts Center teaching artists. Workshops include ﬂameworked beads, nature’s design drawing demo, watercolor, scientiﬁc glassblowing, improv, ink and

watercolor botanical drawing, enameling on metal and acrylics.

Spark! is a truly local experience, said Ornstein, who formerly ran the Flint Cultural Center Corp. in Flint, Michigan.

“Because we have so much talent here, we decided that it would be really wonderful to focus on Arizona artists and give some Arizona artists the resources to do something big.”

(Special to the Tribune)

Spark! offers creative interactions for all ages.

Picture perfect breakfast ideal for busy families

BY JAN D’ATRI Tribune Contributing Writer

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Hi, everyone! I’m so excited to be sharing my passion for cooking with you right here every week!

I’ve been in the media in Arizona for nearly 40 years, and if you’ve connected with me on television, radio, print or social media, you know that I love the kitchen and sharing great recipes with you.

I’ve also heard loud and clear that you want simple, delicious and easy recipes that you can count on as your go-to’s. That’s why I created the One Minute Kitchen. You’ll get the recipes right here, and then you can watch the One Minute Kitchen on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, You Tube and Twitter.

Let’s cook something wonderful together!

Is putting breakfast on the table a challenge for busy moms with even busier kids?

I have the perfect solution! It’s called the Picture Perfect Breakfast, made of a bread dough frame and ﬁlled with all the foods kid love! Best things about it? You can make it the night before, kids can help and you can wrap it up and head out the door. You can make a lunch or dinner version, too.

Ingredients:

1 tube of refrigerated crescent rolls (or bread stick dough)

6 eggs

1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese (more if desired)

Toppings of your choice (see below) Salt and pepper to taste

OPTIONAL TOPPING SUGGESTIONS:

Approx. 1/4 cup each:

Chopped cooked bacon or sausage

Sliced mushrooms, sautéed

Sliced cooked potatoes

Green, yellow, orange or red peppers, diced

Diced fresh or sun-dried tomatoes

Other options:

Chopped turkey or ham

Cooked chicken, chopped or shredded Pepperoni

Directions:

In a greased shallow baking sheet (approx 9 ½ by 11 inch), line the rim with 6 to 8 of the bread strips, (twisted slightly) creating a frame of bread. Pinch together bread sticks to form a continuous frame.

Next, make one horizontal and two vertical rows with remaining bread strips, creating squares, about 3 inches in diameter. Brush bread dough with slightly beaten egg. This creates a beautiful shiny ﬁnished dough frame and it helps to “glue” the bread strips together.

Fill each square with ¼ cup cheese and ¼ cup desired topping. In a medium bowl, whisk together remaining 6 eggs and 2 tablespoons of milk. Pour egg mixture over bread picture frame and toppings, covering the bread. Add salt and pepper.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes or until bread is golden brown and eggs are cooked. Slice in squares, using the bread dough to frame each slice.

Centre, 20464 E. Riggs Road, Queen Creek. Cost: Free entry, $5 parking. rootsnboots. org.

Finding Neverland

Based on the 1998 play “The Man Who Was Peter Pan,” which was adapted into 2004’s ﬁlm “Finding Neverland,” this hit Broadway musical tells the story of J. M. Barrie and his journey that ended in one of literature’s most beloved characters.

DETAILS>> Times vary, Tuesday-Sunday, March 14-19. ASU Gammage, 1200 S. Forest Ave., Tempe. Tickets: $30-$150. 480-9653434. asugammage.com.

Roots N’ Boots

Queen Creek Rodeo

Celebrate Queen Creek’s rural heritage through a week of rodeo events, carnival rides, games, food, a petting zoo, live entertainment and other attractions. Plus, kids can participate in the Family Rodeo.

DETAILS>> WednesdaySunday, March 15-19. Horseshoe Park & Equestrian

Beyond the Bricks: Thursday Night Live

Every Thursday in March, enjoy a free outdoor concert by local bands in Tempe. This Thursday, local band Saints of Eirinn takes to the stage for an evening of Celtic, punk, country and other styles of music. Bring chairs or a blanket.

DETAILS>> 5:30-7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 16. Hayden Square Amphitheater, 404 S. Mill Ave., Tempe. Cost: Free. downtowntempe.com.

Billy Elliot The Musical

Enjoy the classic Broadway musical that tells the story of a boy, Billy Elliot, who lives in a coal-mining community and abandons boxing to take ballet. It features Elton John’s unforgettable soundtrack.

DETAILS>> Times vary, Friday-Sunday, March 17-19. Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main St., Mesa. Tickets: $31, $28 for seniors and students. 480-644-6500. mesaartscenter. com.

Chandler Fashion Center Free Spring Concert Series

Every Friday in March and April, enjoy free live music from local bands in a wide range of genres. This week, Nineball plays Classic Rock to the latest hits.

DETAILS>> 6:30-8:30 p.m., Friday, March 17. Chandler Fashion Center, 3111 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler. Cost: Free. shopchandlerfashioncenter.com.

The Doo Wop Project

Explore the long and varied history of Doo Wop, and how it inﬂuences modern music, in this innovative concert. Hear timeless bands and songs from more than half a century of hits.

DETAILS>> 7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 18. Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Avenue, Chandler. Tickets: $28-$42. 480782-2680. chandlercenter.org.

Mom’s Marketplace

Attention moms: It’s time for “the ultimate playdate.” In addition to tons of other moms to meet, you can ﬁnd supplies for prenatal, maternity, postnatal and baby stages of motherhood.

DETAILS>> 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Sunday, March 19. Kiwanis Park, 6111 S. All America Way, Tempe. Cost: Free. facebook.com/ deserteventsgenie.

Holi – Festival of Colors

Spend a Sunday hurling colored powder at friends and strangers at this Indian festival of colors. In addition to the color, enjoy live DJs, a unique “rain dance,” Indian food and plenty more fun.

DETAILS>> 11 a.m., Sunday, March 19. Kiwanis Park, 6111 S. All America Way, Tempe. Tickets: $8 online, $10 at the gate. azindia. com or azgoshala.org.

Brain Candy Live!

Former Mythbuster Adam Savage joins forces with Michael Stevens from the popular VSauce YouTube channel for an evening of cool science, jaw-dropping demonstrations and mind-blowing information. Suitable, and recommended, for all ages.

DETAILS>> 7:30 p.m., April 2. Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main St., Mesa. Tickets: $32-$137. 480-644-6500. mesaartscenter.com.

– Justin Ferris, Phoenix.org Get more ideas for fun things to do in the East Valley - and beyond - at Phoenix.org.

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