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BY GARY NELSON Tribune Contributing Writer

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f you spend any time at all on the streets of Chandler, you probably have seen them.

The tricked-out Lexus models bearing Google’s corporate logo have been on the road for months. There are humans on board, but in many cases the cars are driving themselves.

And they are helping to drive society to a future with dramatically safer roadways that, ironically enough, might someday see stoplights go the way of the horse and buggy.

The East Valley is hardly alone in hosting tests of the new technology. The movement is global and on many fronts, both civilian and military. And in the view of local experts, it is unstoppable.

State Sen. Bob Worsley, R-Mesa, is closely monitoring the fast-moving field from his perch as chairman of the Senate transportation and technology committee.

“I’m speaking almost weekly to some group about because I’m such a proponent,” Worsley said.

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In a few years, he said, the impacts on the East Valley will extend far beyond the thrill of spotting a Google test car, and those impacts will produce unknown effects on human behavior.

“I think you’re going to see early adopters go to what they call a Level 4 autonomous vehicle, which is completely driverless,” he said. “It will obviate the need for textingSee

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Honor our heroes with Veterans Day parades and celebrations

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Google self-driving cars, such as this one, are becoming a common site in Chandler as the company tests its system. Google has about a dozen cars deployed in Chandler but will increase that number soon.

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very Nov. 11, we set aside the day to honor our military veterans for the sacrifices they made and the danger they faced on our behalf. Beyond a fervent “thank you” to the veterans in our lives, the Valley offers other ways we can honor former military members, from parades to ceremonies and other events.

Read on for our list of events, but first, check out these interesting Veterans Day facts courtesy of History.com.

• Veterans Day began as Armistice Day in 1919 to commemorate the first

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anniversary of the end of World War I. It became a national holiday in 1938.

President Eisenhower changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day in 1954.

In 1971, a Congressional law moved Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. However, President Ford changed it back in 1975.

The U.S. currently boasts 23.2 million military veterans, with 9.2 million veterans over the age of 65, 1.9 million veterans under the age of 35 and 1.8 million female veterans.

There are still 2.6 million living veterans who served in World War II (1941-1945).

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So, where can you go to honor these brave men and women?

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Thank you is what we say. But we mean so much more. We mean how can we help?

What can we do? To serve them. For all they’ve done to serve us.

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Group helps veterans enjoy events with free tickets

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Tempe organization gives away free tickets to the 20 million veterans worldwide, enabling them to enjoy events all over.

In 2008, Mike Focareto, a retired Naval Nuclear Engineer, was at the Super Bowl in Glendale. He noticed open seats around him and came up with a solution to sell out events while thanking our servicemen and women.

Veteran Tickets Foundation (Vet Tix) is a nonprofit that provides veterans, of any branch or era, tickets to sporting events, operas, family events, concerts and more.

All vets have to do is register with Vet Tix and provide the correct identification.

A survey is then distributed regarding interests and willingness to travel.

Chief Marketing Officer Al Maag said that once Vet Tix has tickets, they put those interested in a lottery. They try to be fair with who gets put into the lottery so that all vets have an equal opportunity.

Vet Tix is on Mill Avenue in Tempe and has a staff of 12 people. Still, they have served veterans across the United (Special to the Tribune) States.

U.S. Army veteran Todd and his family attended a Texas Rangers vs. Tampa Bay Rays game because “We have served close to 2.4 million,” of tickets he got from Vet Tix. said Maag, since starting in 2008.

Maag said that he had always thought others in a relaxed and fun environment,” To get tickets from the Veteran that Vet Tix provided tickets for those said DeLand. “This is of great benefit to who wanted to enjoy an event and create veterans who tend to isolate themselves Tickets Foundation, go to vettix. memories. and tend to not leave their homes.” org. There are steps needed to A recent survey of 28,000 veterans Vet Tix encourages vets to attend who use Vet Tix revealed that it is much events with others by giving each vet at qualify before tickets become more. least two tickets. available to individual users.

“Seventy-five percent of our population Jordan Sherwood, who served four feel as though they years in the Marine can’t afford to Corps as a combat allocate tickets,” said Sherwood, “There’s go to events, 15 photographer and an entire community around Vet Tix.” percent of them Vet Tix raises money to buy tickets as now lives in Chandler, feel uncomfortable appreciates the ability well as getting donations from producers, going out to an to take his family and athletes, organizations and individual event,” said Maag, friends with him to contributions.

“Fifty percent feel Sherwood said that instead of society events.

Vet Tix helps them More than that, trying to adapt to veterans, Vet Tix is get out of the he said Vet Tix helps helping veterans adapt to society. house.”

“There’s almost this kind of a sentiment solidify the veteran Joel DeLand, of we don’t want to share that pain that community. a former Army “When I started we have because it is such a burden, we (Special to the Tribune) infantryman from U.S. Navy Veteran Mike and his family atgoing to events with don’t want to put that on someone else,” Chicago, believes tended Idina Menzel Live in Concert with Vet my family and friends, said Sherwood. “Vet Tix gets us out that Vet Tix Tix ticket. what I realized very there. It gets us out into the population.” provides veterans Maag said Vet Tix’s main goal is to quickly is that there the opportunity to be social. honor those who serve. are other veterans,” said Sherwood.

“The benefit goes beyond the financial “We think Veterans Day is every day,” This realization is not what Sherwood aspect of free tickets, and provides the expected when first signing up.

Maag said, “We try to help people 365, opportunity to get out, and interact with “I realize they do a lot more than and I think that’s the difference.”

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different than in other areas where hardly a new idea. Engineers, in fact, $1 million prize offered for success.

A year later, he said, five teams Google has operated, providing new had laid cables under test tracks at the from page 1 challenges for the equipment. old GM facility, the idea being that succeeded. By 2007, the government and-driving laws, DUI laws. … The “We’ve experienced a haboob,” she the cables would transmit signals to was sponsoring tests in urban areas. whole idea of how to tell if someone is said—something Google won’t find vehicles and guide them along intelligent One upshot, he said, will be automated intoxicated or impaired, all of that will elsewhere. battlefields in the future. highways. be immaterial if computers are driving Future battlefields hopefully will Google has about a dozen cars deployed “We never even experimented with your car. People can text and drive all in Chandler but will increase that as it it,” Sellers said, because technology sped remain far removed from the East Valley. they want.”

But automated vehicles will change the moves into a 39,000-square-foot staging ahead of that concept.

With car companies such as Ford facility that it announced in very look of our cities, Worsley talking about deploying HAVs—highly October. said. automated vehicles—within five years, Smart cars, he said, will be Google does not plan to Worsley said it’s likely that older drivers actually build self-driving talking with one another and will stick with current technologies for cars, said spokeswoman with the smart infrastructure a while. embedded in streets and Lauren Barriere. But the “So I think it will be a mixed bag,” he project falls within the highways. Eventually, that said. “There may be some lanes and some company’s would eliminate the need for mission of roads that are dedicated for autonomous improving lives, and traffic traffic signals. vehicles because it’s dangerous for the safety is a big part of Google’s “There will be no (signal) autonomous vehicles to have people motivation. lights any more,” he said. “Cars driving with them.” will just talk to one another as In addition, she said, That has been borne out on the streets people who can’t drive they approach intersections and of Chandler, which has seen several because of, say, visual one will go and one will stop.” minor accidents between Google cars impairment might someday Chandler resident Kevin and human drivers. In August, for be able to summon a selfBiesty is helping to shape example, a Google car being driven driving car for less than the Arizona’s approach to the (GM Heritage Center/Special to the Tribune) new technology. He serves as manually at 42 mph was rear-ended by cost of a cab ride. a suspected drunk driver sailing along at Chandler Vice Mayor General Motors opened its desert proving ground in Mesa in April 1953 to deputy director for policy at test vehicles in weather and road conditions not available at the original 67 mph. the Arizona Department of Jack Sellers also is closely Milford Proving Ground in Michigan.

“Until more vehicles become monitoring the East Valley’s Transportation and spoke with autonomous,” Worsley said, “we’ll high-tech car-testing operations.

Sellers said the technology that will The Tribune from Detroit, where he was continue to have some accidents.

Sellers began working at the General reduce human error on the roads actually attending a conference on the topic.

However, the number of accidents will Motors Desert Proving Ground in 1966. is twofold—one part on the vehicles, Arizona is a hotbed of testing at the decline.”

By the time he left in 1994, he had been the other in intelligent traffic-control moment, he said. In addition to Google, Jennifer Haroon, Google’s chief of its operations manager for almost 20 systems operated by the state and cities. Uber has tested cars in the Phoenix area business operations, said the company years. The GM facility, in what is now He said the most likely initial rollout and General Motors in Scottsdale. has been testing self-driving technology southeast Mesa, closed in 2009 after a of self-driving vehicles will be small “We are welcoming it,” Biesty said. for more than seven years.

“This is exciting times for transportation half-century run that kept the company buses on regular, easily defined routes.

Google chose Chandler as its fourth on the cutting edge of automotive But less than 24 hours after Sellers on many fronts.” test site, she said, because it wanted to technology.

Nothing the state has seen so far, he made that prediction, it was overtaken work in “a community that is excited said, has suggested the technologies “I’m very pleased about it personally,” by a real-life development. about innovation and technology.” Sellers said of the fact that Google is A company called Otto, which is a won’t work.

Plus, she said, Chandler’s But with so many companies working using his city’s streets to advance division of the ride-sharing giant Uber, traffic-signal sequencing and automotive technology. In a recent announced on Oct. 25 that it had on so many fronts, he said, the exact desert environment are presentation to the East Valley teamed with Anheuser-Busch to deliver shape of the future has yet to be worked Partnership, Sellers said, he used a load of beer on a self-driving semi that out. Biesty compared the current a slide that said “Warning: Self- rolled down Interstate 25 from Fort situation with early battles over whether driving vehicles are closer Collins, Colorado, through Denver to VHS or Beta would govern the VCR industry. Eventually, one technology had than they appear.”

Colorado Springs.

But, he The driver monitored most of the 120- to win.

“As these technologies develop, the said, it’s mile trip from the sleeper berth in the state is trying to position itself so we cab.

The federal government, however, are making the right investments based did not exactly have beer deliveries on the technologies that are going to be in mind when it began pushing used,” he said.

The federal government and the states self-driving technology a decade will eventually have to standardize ago.

Worsley said the impetus vehicle equipment and the ways cars came from the horrific casualties communicate on the road, he said.

However things shake out, the future suffered by American forces as roadside bombs shattered their of driving will be vastly different than the chaotic and dangerous present on area manned vehicles in Iraq.

In 2004, Worsley said, the government roadways, the East Valley experts said.

“You can’t stuff these things back in sponsored a contest to see whether (Special to the Tribune) the bottle,” Worsley said. “Autonomous unmanned vehicles could navigate a This one is in Pittsburgh, but several Uber self-driving mapping cars have been seen in Phoenix vehicles are here with us to stay.”

150-mile desert course.

Nobody won the gathering data.

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Can robot cars stop the slaughter?

BY GARY NELSON Tribune Contributing Writer

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o you remember that plane crash last year out at Gateway, the one that killed 63 people?

You don’t?

Don’t blame your memory. There was no such plane crash. Everyone would have remembered what, by far, would have been the worst disaster in the history of the East Valley.

But those 63 people did die, one after another, in a nonstop calamity that most of us ignore until it hits home: motorvehicle crashes.

Each year, the Arizona Department of Transportation publishes an exhaustive report on the carnage. It has become a science, the dissection of hundreds of accumulated tragedies. And last year— as always—the East Valley was hit hard.

By city, here is the human toll from 2015 vehicle accidents—including pedestrians and bicyclists: • Chandler: 12 killed, 1,703 injured.

• Gilbert: 11 killed, 1,056 injured.

• Mesa: 26 killed, 2,946 injured.

• Tempe: 14 killed, 3,437 injured.

That’s more than one person killed every week, more than one person hurt every hour of the year.

The numbers for Arizona, as you would expect, are even more staggering, and they are getting worse.

Alberto Gutier, who has spent 15 years as director of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, said 895 people died on Arizona roads last year, compared with 774 in 2014. And, he said, “2016 doesn’t (Special to the Tribune) look any better.”

The primary causes are human. Most A wrong-way crash killed two people on Higley Road in Chandler in 2014. fatal crashes occur on dry, flat, level roads.

“It’s not all pretty,” Worsley said.

But drunks and speeders accounted for national fleet of cars and trucks will “There’s lots of professional drivers almost two-thirds of Arizona’s fatalities reduce accidents by 90 percent.

“Thirty-five thousand people die left out of work and there’s insurance in 2015, according to the ADOT report.

A robot, of course, can’t get drunk, and on our roads every year in the United companies that get a lot of money for it can be programmed not to speed. It States,” Worsley said. “So if we can save insurance right now that won’t in the won’t run a red light because it’s texting. 30,000 people, that seems like it’s really future. Auto repair and personal injury lawyers that’ll all be out of work.”

That’s why transportation officials are worthwhile.”

In the East Valley, using 2015 figures, But for the sake of saving lives, behind efforts like those of Google to that would work out to 57 lives saved, policy-makers are willing to let the develop self-driving motor vehicles.

“We support autonomous cars with and more than 8,000 people escaping marketplace work out the answers to serious bodily injury. whatever economic disruptions may new technology,” Gutier said.

A huge reduction in accidents won’t result from turning the wheel over to State Sen. Bob Worsley, R-Mesa, T:9.13” said experts believe a fully automated come without cost, however. robots.

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THE WEEK AHEAD The best meals for the trails at Chuck Wagon Cook-Off

The seventh annual Chandler Chuck Wagon Cook-Off will take place on Friday and Saturday at Tumbleweed Ranch in Tumbleweed Park.

The free culinary event includes authentic 1880s chuck wagons competing to cook up the best meals using slow-cook, wood-fi re methods from the time period. There will also be wagon rides, live music, vendors and storytelling.

The cook-off starts on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Tumbleweed Ranch at Tumbleweed Park is at 2250 S. McQueen, in the southeast corner of the park.

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City seeking comments on Chandler Heights Road widening

Chandler is planning to widen Chandler Heights Road from two to four lanes between Arizona Avenue and McQueen Road and is seeking public input on the design.

A meeting Wednesday from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. will go over the plan. It is at the Hamilton Branch Library Program Room, 3700 S. Arizona Ave. The roadway improvements are tentatively scheduled for late next year. For more information, call 480-898-4060.

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National Novel Writing Month at Tempe Public Library

The NaNoWriMo—National Novel Writing Month—is being observed at the Tempe Public Library on Sundays and Mondays this month.

The library will stage write-ins, which will offer writers the chance to work on their novels along with other writers.

The write-ins will take place Sundays 1-4 p.m. until Nov. 27. On Mondays, the sessions will be 6-8 p.m. until Nov. 28. Writers will meet at the library meeting room B, Tempe Public Library, 3500 S. Rural Road, Tempe.

For more information, call 480-350-5500.

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Golf event will help the disabled

The Chandler Golf Challenge on Friday benefi ts the Chandler Special Olympics and the Mayor’s Committee for People with Disabilities.

The event Friday is at 12:30 p.m. with a shotgun start at Bear Creek Golf Complex, 500 East Riggs Road.

For information or to register, contact Collette Prather, recreation coordinator, at 480-782-2709 or collette.prather@chandleraz.gov.

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Reptiles on display at expo in Mesa

The 2016 Phoenix Reptile Expo, Arizona’s largest reptile and exotic pet vendors and exhibits event, will take place Saturday and Sunday in the Mesa Convention Center.

The event will be Saturday will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults and $5 for kids.

There will also be an auction to benefi t reptile conservation.

For more information, visit phxreptileexpo.com or call 480-985-3121.

– RACHEL EROH, TRIBUNE WRITER

Metropolitan Youth Symphony to perform Fall Concert

The 35th season Fall Concert at the Mesa Arts Center takes place on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

The Metropolitan Youth Symphony will open the concert with a performance to honor veterans. Ensembles include the String Orchestra Divisions, Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the Full Symphony Orchestra.

Tickets are $8.50 or $10 and reserved tickets are on-sale from the Mesa Arts Center Box Offi ce.

The Mesa Arts Center is at 1 E. Main St. For more information, call 480644-6500.

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Discounts plentiful for veterans on holiday

BY JUSTIN FERRIS Get Out Editor

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any companies like to show their appreciation for our veterans with discounts and special offers. Here are some you’ll find this Friday, Nov. 11.

Schwab Cup Championship

Wednesday to Sunday, take in the final rounds of the PGA Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Desert Mountain Club. Active and retired military members and dependents get free admission (with a $1 verification fee) to all days of the event. Plus, receive access to the “Birdies for the Brave” Patriots’ Outpost hospitality chalet. More info: pgatour.com/champions/tournaments/ charles-schwab-cup-championship/ tickets.html.

Chompie’s

Year-round, veterans and active military personnel receive 20 percent off

one entree at any Chompie’s location.

More info: chompies.com.

Famous Dave’s BBQ

Veterans and active military personnel with ID and proof of service can enjoy a free “Two Meat Salute” at Famous Dave’s in Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa and Peoria on Friday, 11 a.m.10 p.m. More info: facebook.com/ events/1408823835825937.

Hopdoddy Burger Bar

From 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Veterans Day, all Hopdoddy locations will give 50 percent off the entire—both food and alcohol—to any parties with a veteran or active-duty service member. More info: hopdoddy.com.

Keep It Cut

Current and former Marines can get a free haircut on Thursday at Keep It Cut’s Tempe, Ahwatukee and Phoenix locations. Just show a military ID. More info: keepitcut.com.

Legoland Discovery Center

Veterans can get into Legoland Discovery Center in Tempe for free on Friday with military ID. Veteran’s families can score $10 tickets for up to six guests. More info: legolanddiscoverycenter.com/arizona/ news-events/event/13901/veteransday-2016.aspx.

Main Event Entertainment

From open to 3 p.m. on Friday, veterans and activity duty personnel with ID bowl free at Main Event Entertainment. Veterans receive one free hour for them and up to four guests, plus free shoe rentals for all. More info: mainevent.com/specials/vets-bowl-free.

County Parks Military Service Appreciation Day

On Friday, Maricopa County’s Parks and Rec Department will waive the $6 day-use entry fee for military personnel.

More info: maricopacountyparks.net.

Organ Stop Pizza

The pizza place famous for its massive Wurlitzer theater organ opens its doors Friday from 1:30-3 p.m. for the Veteran’s Day Musical Ice Cream Social. Everyone gets free admission to a concert of patriotic music. Ice cream and drinks are available for purchase—no other food will be served. RSVP to 480813-5700 ext. 945. More information: organstoppizza.com/news.

Pollack Tempe Cinemas

Fancy seeing a free movie? On Friday, all retired and active-duty military members with ID can see one of these four movies for free: “Gran Torino,” “Stripes,” “The Patriot” or “Inglourious Basterds.” More information: pollacktempecinemas. com/event/happy-veterans-day.

For more Veterans Day—and yearround—discounts, visit military.com and click on Discounts at the top of the page.

‘Down ticket’ races offer multiple choices for EV voters

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Managing Editor

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illions of dollars in bond issues, a sales tax hike and plenty of hotly contested offices highlight the “down ticket” on East Valley ballots as the 2016 election season heads to the finish line on Tuesday.

As if the races at the top of the ticket and the two statewide propositions on legalized marijuana and raising the minimum wage aren’t enough, voters in Mesa, Gilbert, Tempe and Chandler all need to look through the entire ballot for races and issues that directly affect their communities.

They include $247 million in bond issues for which Tempe seeks voter approval to cover infrastructure improvements and public safety equipment and Mesa’s request for a 0.4 of a percent increase in its sales tax rate to generate $23 million for fire and police and $15 million for Arizona State University’s downtown campus.

They also include a hotly contested three-way contest for the East Valley district on the board governing the

community college system. Candidates are outgoing Mesa Councilman Dennis Kavanaugh, former Tempe Union board member Moses Sanchez and former state legislator Laurin Hendrix of Gilbert.

Some legislative races also involve competitive campaigns—none more so than the election in the 18th Legislative District, which covers Ahwatukee as well as parts of Chandler, Tempe and Mesa.

There, neophytes Sean Bowie, an Ahwatukee Democrat and senior analyst in Arizona State University’s provost’s office, and Frank Schmuck, a Tempe Republican and commercial airline pilot, have been waging a furious campaign for the vacant State Senate seat.

The two House seats in that district are also highly competitive as Republican incumbents Jill Norgaard of Ahwatukee and Bob Robson contend with Tempe Democrat Mitzi Epstein and Green Party candidate Linda Macias.

In District 16, which covers parts of Mesa and Gilbert, Republican David Farnsworth is fighting with Democrat Scott Prior for the Senate seat, while the House races put Republicans Kelly Townsend and Doug Coleman against

Democrats Cara Prior and Sharon Stinard.

In District 17, which covers parts of Chandler and Gilbert, incumbent Sen. Steve Yarbrough faces a challenge from Democrat Dr. Steve Weichert, a physician. Jennifer Pawlik is the only Democrat running for the two House seats, while Republican candidates are incumbent J.D. Mesnard and former Chandler Councilman Jeff Wenninger.

Only one Democrat also is running for the two House seats in District 25, which covers a large part of Mesa. Kathleen Rahn is running against incumbent Republican Russell “Rusty” Bowers and newcomer Michelle Udall.

No Senate contests exist in either District 25 or 26. In LD 26, which covers much of Tempe and west Mesa, Democrat Juan Mendez is assured victory while the race for the two House seats involve Democrats Athena Salmon and Isela Blanc, Republican Steven Adkins and Green Party candidate Cara Nicole Trujillo.

Mesa contests

In Mesa, where incumbents are being

termed out, two of three open council seats were already decided in August, leaving the city’s 2nd Council District open for a race former city economic development official Shelly Allen and small-business owner Jeremy Whitaker.

The Mesa school board election also offers voters choices with three seats open and five candidates seeking election. They include incumbents Michael Nichols and Steven Peterson and newcomers Elaine Miner, Kiana Sears and Dan Hink.

Gilbert has several contests

The council race in Gilbert is highly competitive as one incumbent and three challengers battled for two at-large seats.

Candidates for council include incumbent Jared Taylor, a managing director of Heritage Academy; Scott Anderson, a natural resource manager for Coconino County; Jim Torgenson, a small businessman and chairman of the Heritage District Redevelopment Commission; and Joel Anderson, a Phoenix firefighter.

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THE WEEK IN REVIEW Google Fiber program on hold in Tempe, other cities across the country

Google has halted work on its high-speed internet project Fiber in several cities around the nation, including Tempe.

Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tempe had been on Google’s list of potential Fiber cities since 2014. Since then, the company has been working with Phoenix city officials to secure franchise agreements and other regulatory clearances, but the rollout may have been stalled due to a lawsuit from Cox Communications filed against Google in September 2015.

Many experts suggested that the Valley may not have even needed Google Fiber.

The service is currently available in nine cities including Kansas City; Austin, Texas; Atlanta; and Charlotte.

– RACHEL EROH, TRIBUNE WRITER

Gilbert student gets perfect ACT score

Ruth Kaylyn Oliver, a senior at Great Hearts Arete Preparatory Academy in Gilbert, earned a perfect score of 36 on the ACT test.

The result puts the 16-year-old among less than one-tenth of 1 percent of perfect scores. Only 2,235 out of nearly 2.1 million students who took the ACT test earned a composite score of 36, which averages the scores of the English, math, reading and science tests.

This was Oliver’s second try at the test.

She earned a 32 the fi rst time.

– TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

More traffic cams turned on in Chandler

Photo enforcement cameras have been reactivated at four intersections in Chandler.

Three cameras are along Arizona Avenue, at Warner, Ray and Ocotillo Roads. A fourth is at Dobson Road and Ray Road.

Violators caught at those intersections will be issued a warning through Nov. 30. The fi rst citations for speed and red-light violations will be issued Dec. 1.

Eleven intersections in Chandler are monitored by photo enforcement cameras.

– TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

Construction started for Chandler retail center

Construction has started on one of the retail components at the 25-acre Chandler Viridian development in the East Valley.

Winlee Development has started building a 24,000-squarefoot retail center.

The retail development is at the juncture of Loops 101 and 202 next to Chandler Fashion Square in one of the busiest commercial hubs in the state.

The development will include apartments, retail, a hotel and offi ce space.

– RACHEL EROH, TRIBUNE WRITER

Man sentenced to 3 years’ probation for claiming to be a veteran

Gilbert named one of Arizona’s safest cities from burglary

Gilbert was named #9 in Protect America’s Burglary Safe Zones list for Arizona.

Each year, the FBI releases a Uniform Crime Report detailing the number of crimes in each municipality in the nation. Protect America then turns the data into lists of burglary save zones and hot spots for each state.

For the full list of Arizona Safe Zones and Hot Spots, go to protectamerica. com/home-security-blog/safe-and-sound.

– TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

Eric Wolfe was sentenced to three years’ probation last week in Maricopa County Superior Court after falsely claiming to be a wounded warrior and veteran.

In September, Wolfe, 45, of Tempe, had pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery, admitting he had submitted altered U.S. military documents in order to have “veteran” designated on his driver’s license and obtain specialty license plates, according to court documents.

Wolfe never served in the military. He had claimed to have post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain inquiries after service in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria wars, court documents said.

Wolf was trying to raise money for his non-profi t, Project 22. The non-profi t’s goal was to pair veterans in needs of service dogs with dogs that needed new homes.

– RACHEL EROH, TRIBUNE WRITER

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he East Valley Veterans Parade kicks off at 11 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 11 in downtown Mesa, continuing the 11-11-11 tradition of Veterans Day. The parade starts on Center Street, north of University Drive, travels south on Center Street, turns west onto First Street, then goes to Robson, where it ends.

The parade honors veterans and features veterans groups. About six marching bands from area high schools are expected to participate. Historic military vehicles will travel the streets, along with entries from local service clubs and businesses. About 100 entries are expected, organizers said.

This year’s grand marshal is Steve Borden. Borden is director of the Pat Tillman Veterans Center at Arizona State University. The retired Navy captain helps veterans who are returning to higher education and the work force.

Parade organizers honor all the branches of the military in the parade, by selecting one veteran per branch as a dignitary. This year’s dignitaries include Sgt. Wayne Pomeroy, Army; Cpl. Nicholas Evans, Marine Corps; Lt. j.g. Thomas Townsend, Navy; Tech. Sgt. Mallory Dinkel, Air Force; Boatswain’s Mate Senior Chief Petty Officer Joseph MacDonald, Coast Guard; and Lt. Col. Elizabeth Paulus, Arizona Army National Guard.

The parade is followed by a free concert at the Mesa Arts Center. It runs from noon to 3 p.m.

Donations will be accepted at the concert and the money is earmarked to help support the city’s House Our Heroes program, which provides housing for homeless veterans.

Besides the music, other performers are scheduled to entertain and food trucks will set up at the concert.

The East Valley Tribune is a sponsor of the parade.

More information about the parade is available at evvp.org.

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ASU Gammage and Tempe Beach Park and watch as the Tempe parade—a sixdecade tradition—rolls past with classic cars, muscle cars, marching bands, a color guard, members of the Tempe police, and plenty of other patriotic groups. A short ceremony will follow at the park and then a picnic for participants and sponsors.

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On the Gilbert Public Schools board, incumbents Julie Smith and Sean Colvin are not seeking reelection, leaving Lily Tram as the only board member going after another four-year term.

Also running are Sheila Rogers, retired superintendent of the Douglas School District who has also been a principal and a teacher; Lori Wood and Reed Carr.

Higley’s candidates include incumbents Russell Little and Kristina Reese, and newcomers Allison Ford and Scott Glover.

Chandler races

Locally, while two candidates are vying for the last at-large City Council spot, only the three incumbents on school board whose terms are expiring in December have filed. They are Barbara Mozdzen, David Evans and Karen Bredeson-McGee. However, Chandler voters who live within the Kyrene School District boundary will have to pick from four candidates for three seats. John King is the only incumbent in that race. The other candidates are Michael Myran Myrick, Michelle Fahy and Eshe Pickett.

In the council race, finance executive

Following the East Valley Veterans Parade, the Veterans’ Benefit Concert will start. It features live entertainment from bands like Walt Richardson, Robby Roberson Band and Smootmahooty, plus food trucks and more. Any donations will go to the Housing Our Heroes program for homeless veterans.

Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main St., Mesa. 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Friday. Free.

Information: mesaaz.gov.

‘Bob and Bing’s Road to Victory’

Entertainer Bob Hope was a fixture of USO tours, and his routines and radio broadcasts for the troops—especially those with his on-air foil, Bing Crosby— are legendary. Enjoy a Veterans Day recreation of Bob Hope’s popular variety show with talented impersonators, not only for Bob and Bing, but W.C. Fields, Jack Benny and other period entertainers.

Higley Center, 4132 E. Pecos Road, Gilbert. 7:30 p.m., Friday. $31-$49.

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Matt Eberle and small-business consultant Mark Stewart are duking it out.

Tempe elections

There were no arguments filed for the election pamphlet that opposed the four bonds up for approval by Tempe voters.

They include $148 million for water and sewer improvements; $25 million for street improvements and storm drains; $20 million for police technology upgrades; and $34 million for parks and recreation infrastructure improvements; and $27 million for repairs to city buildings.

All Tempe voters also get to vote for three of six candidates for Tempe Union High School District’s governing board and, depending on where they live, either for Kyrene or Tempe Elementary school boards.

Five candidates are seeking election to Tempe Elementary board, including incumbents Teresa Devine and Rochelle Wells and newcomers Monica Trejo and Veekas Shrivastava.

For Tempe Union’s three seats, incumbents Sandy Lowe and Michelle Helm, both of Tempe, are seeking another term. The other candidates are Tempe businessman Andres Barraza, Ahwatukee lawyer Don Fletcher, Chandler parent Berdetta Hodge and Ahwatukee businessman Scott Ryan.

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Young football players ready for trip to nationals in Orlando

BY RALPH ZUBIATE Tribune Executive Editor

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he Mighty Mite Thundercats have a big job ahead of them.

Not winning football games or championships. They are looking to make a big splash at a national tournament—if they can get there.

The kids, and their parents, are trying to raise $15,000 to get to a tournament in Orlando in early December.

The team is one of eight invited nationally to play in the American Youth Football championships. They were chosen based on how well they represent AYS, and their overall performance, which is perfect so far.

The Thundercats are 10-0 and getting ready to play in the state championships on Saturday. They’ll take on the Westside Bandits, also 10-0, at ASU Sun Devil Stadium.

After winning the Southeast Valley championship and playing for the state, they’ll have to think about nationals.

There’s a lot to do to get them there, and parents from the East Valley and Ahwatukee are taking the lead.

“We have a GoFundMe page, we’re raffling off Cardinals tickets, doing

dinners,” said Olivia Harris, business manager for the team and herself the mom of a player, Davion.

“There are a lot of creative things we’re doing in order to get there. Our parents are really good.”

Harris says 22 of the team’s 26 players are going, which will cost $19,500 in airfare alone. Each player will go with a parent.

“Total, we’re buying 48 tickets,” she said.

“This is an amazing opportunity for an 8-year-old kid,” said Andy Mitchell, whose son, Cobey Bucco, is on the team.

Cobey’s sister, Emma, is a water girl, making it a family effort.

Coach Larry Davis is happy the parents are taking the point, leaving him and the kids to the business of football.

“Our parents are committed, really involved,” he said. “I tell coaches all the time, if you want to formulate a good team, you have to have good parents, getting kids to practice on time, being supportive.

“They really make it easy on us, freeing up to coach. They take care of all the business-related aspects and fundraising.”

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Coach Larry Davis oversees practice of his Mighty Mites Thundercats at Pecos Park in Ahwatukee.

The football team is practicing for a national tournament in Orlando.

Suits and dress clothes sought for veterans F Tribune Staff Report

ive Farmers Insurance agents in the East Valley are collecting professional dress wear for military veterans who are transitioning to civilian life.

Spokeswoman Jessica Lecky said Farmers Insurance wants to give gently used and dry-cleaned suits, ties and other items since more than a million military personnel will become civilians over the next couple years and many do not own appropriate business attire to go to networking events, interviews

or even to work.

Agents Jill Fiddler, Jayson Hoffer, Richard Winters, Michael Herrmann and Farmers District Manager Timothy Ahearn are actively involved with the campaign.

Called Suits for Soldiers, the campaign involves Farmers agents nationwide and has a goal of collecting 50,000 suits by the end of November.

Named a top-150 military employer and one of the top 50 employers of military spouses, Farmers is partners with Team Rubicon, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to

uniting teams of veterans and first responders in catastrophe responses.

In 2014, Farmers signed a statement of support with the Department of Defense Office of Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve to seek ways to increase opportunities for guardsmen, reservists and veterans.

Farmers also has an active veterans employee resource group, which provides important networking and career development opportunities for its employees.

Farms also encourages veterans to check its website for help transitioning

into civilian life: farmers.com/careers/ veterans-resources.

Here are the East Valley offices where clothing can be dropped off through Nov. 30: Jill Fiddler, 1525 N. Gilbert Road, Gilbert; Jayson Hoffer, 1930 S. Alma School Road, Mesa; Richard Winter, 7254 E. Southern Ave., Mesa; Timothy Ahearn, 1423 S. Higley Road, Mesa; Michael Herrmann, 6101 S. Rural Road, Tempe.

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Kyrene study debunks claims of mass teacher exodus

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Tribune Managing Editor

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first-of-its-kind study by the Kyrene School District has thrown cold water on one of the major issues in the governing board campaign—namely, that too many teachers are leaving.

The study, unveiled at the Oct. 25 board meeting, shows that 142 employees left before the current school year began.

That number not only is far lower than the 180 cited often by some candidates, but it also includes both teachers and other personnel. The same candidates have repeatedly have said they were all teachers.

The study did not break down teachers and other employees.

The candidates’ claims seem to have originated from their misinterpretation of how many showed up at a session that the district had for new teachers before the school year began.

“We invite more than just the individuals who show up the first day of school,” explained Susie Ostmeyer,

a district operations analyst who performed the study with colleague Mary Jane Rincon.

Although district officials say retention is a problem that needs to be addressed, at least one board member, outgoing Ross

doesn’t jump off the page that “ This this is a real crisis in Kyrene. ”

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Robb, said the study shows it is hardly the crisis portrayed by some candidates.

“This doesn’t jump off the page that this is a real crisis in Kyrene,” he said.

“We know there’s 90 percent of the people who stay.”

Ostmeyer told the board that the study went deeper than previous employee departure analyses because it sought to address three questions: What is the retention rate in Kyrene? What does it mean? And “How does it inform our practices?”

While 90 percent of all employees returned to work in the 2014-15 school

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and rose to 2.7 percent (15 vs. 26). The number of resignations rose from 61 two years ago to 89 in the 2015-16 school year, representing a percentage change to 9.2 percent from 6.1 percent of the workforce.

The study also found:  Kyrene employee departure rates were highest among those with two or three years on the job.  The biggest reason employees left Kyrene was because they or their spouse relocated. That constituted 13.7 percent of all resignations in 2015-16. The second

most-cited reason was job stress, with 12.5 percent. Inadequate salary and a decision to raise children were tied at 8.5 percent.  In examining the sources of dissatisfaction cited by departing employees, salary was the most-cited reason, with workload and class size virtually tying for the second most-cited reason.

Rincon and Ostmeyer said the study shows that schools face declining employee-retention rates at the local, state and national levels and that the reasons for departures vary widely, including “a mix of personal and employer factors.”

They said the district needs to sharpen the focus in exit interviews to pinpoint reasons for departures more quickly and effectively, then analyze those reasons and develop strategies for dealing with them.

They also recommended a 90-day action plan to improve employee retention rates.

Ostmeyer noted that the board may want to consider salary “mini-bumps” every three years to encourage more employees to stay at Kyrene. She said the district already has programs to offer new teachers more support.

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He can concentrate on the kids, who are giving their best, too.

“They’re playing hard, boy are they responding,” he said.

Davis, from Houston, brings reallife football experience to the kids. He was an all-conference nose guard at the University of Texas at El Paso. He had a couple briefs stints in the pro game in Canada and Europe.

“I’ve been coaching about 18 years now” with youth organizations in New Mexico, Texas and here in Arizona, Davis said. “It’s going on 10 years here.

I’m actually coaching some kids who were in diapers while I was coaching their brothers, so it’s pretty neat.”

Davis has a lot to teach the Thundercats, who were 7 to 9 years old when the season began, according to league rules.

“A lot of them are first-year players, some are second-year players,” he said.

“We do have a lot of beginners.

“We’ve had some success. A good, scrappy group of young, athletic kids.”

He also coaches junior varsity at Ahwatukee’s Desert Vista High.

“I enjoy it, I really do,” Davis said.

“But it makes for long days.”

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Larry Davis, coach of the Mighty Mites Thundercats football team, played professional football in Canada and Europe.

Harris can’t wait to get the team on the plane.

“Some of them, it’s the first time going on a plane,” she said. “This is an experience that the boys won’t ever forget.”

To contribute to the Thundercats, go to gofundme.com/mmthundercats.

– Contact Ralph Zubiate at 480-898-6825 or rzubiate@timespublications.com.

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Nominate the decorations of a neighbor, a friend or yourself. Send in an address and a photo, and write a note about why you nominated it. Please include your name, address and phone number as “official nominator” for any contenders you send along.

The nominated home, business or edifice must be in the East Valley.

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Mesa celebrates Cubs with special day, prize

In celebration of the Chicago Cubs winning their first World Series championship since 1908 with their

extra-innings Game 7 win over the Cleveland Indians, Mayor John Giles will proclaim Monday as 2016 World Series Champion Chicago Cubs Day. The Cubs’ run to the 2016 World Series championship began at Sloan Park in Mesa, where they led the Cactus League in attendance. The team has called Mesa their spring training home for more than 50 years, dating back to Rendezvous Park in the 1950s.

People are asked to wear Cubs blue on Monday to show appreciation for the Cubs.

Fans who post photos at a favorite location in Mesa with a hashtag #CubsDayMesa will have a chance to win two tickets to a Cubs Spring Training game.

Gathering of Legends for WWII vets, aircraft

WWII veterans and their aircraft will be available at the annual Gathering of Legends on Saturday at the Commemorative Air Force Airbase Museum in Mesa.

Aircraft and artifacts of the momentous time in history will be featured from 1 to 4 p.m. The Airbase Museum is at 2017 N. Greenfield Road, Mesa. For more information, call 480-924-1940 or go to azcaf.org.

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ob Bondurant, founder of a highperformance driving school in Chandler that bears his name, has added two new accolades.

He was inducted into the Corvette Hall of Fame and the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame.

The twin honors come as he prepares to mark the 49th anniversary of his Bob Bondurant School of High Performance Driving in February at wild Horse Motorsports Park in Chandler.

“It’s a wonderful affirmation that my fans and peers heartily recognize that I worked very hard for all the wins in my life and that they also recognize that at 83 years old, I go to work every day and live my passion driving and teaching,” he said in an interview. “I have never seen my career as working to live; I have always lived to work.”

Bondurant was accompanied by his wife Pat, their son Jason and other relatives and Bondurant employees at ceremonies at the National Corvette Museum.

Bondurant was honored for his distinguished record driving early second- and third-generation Corvettes in California during the late 1950s and 1960s as well as his later track achievements.

“During Corvette’s early years, Bob Bondurant helped to validate the Chevrolet Corvette as a world-class sports car, winning on racetracks both in the U.S. and abroad,” a hall spokesman said in a release.

Bondurant recalled, “Like most racers, I started on ground zero.”

After his father took him to midget-car races in the 1940s, he began competing with his Indian Scout 101 motorcycle, then drove a Morgan automobile competitively in southern California.

“I am an original California hotrodder-turned-white-hot when I started winning everything in my Corvettes,” he said.

From 1959 to 1963, Bondurant drew the world’s attention.

He won the West Coast “B” Production Championship, notching 18 of 20 races in 1958-59. In 1959, Valvoline named him Corvette Driver of the Year and he was National SCCA Driver of the Year.

In June 1964, he and friend Dan

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Pat and Bob Bondurant celebrate his induction into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame.

Gurney won the GT Class at Le Mans in France.

In 1965, again for Shelby, Bondurant won seven of his 10 races in Shelby Cobras and Daytonas to deliver to Ford and Shelby American the FIA World Manufacturer’s Championship. He is still the only American team to achieve this title.

Bondurant competed in nine Formula 1 World Championship Grand Prix events.

He joined the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame as part of its 46th class. Since 1957, this honor has been accorded to athletes, coaches, administrators and others who have significantly contributed to Arizona sports.

“Bob Bondurant and the rest of the 46th Class of the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame epitomize the make-up and caliber of our now 102 members,” said Arizona Sports and Entertainment Commission CEO Alan Young.

The driving school began in California in 1968 after Bondurant survived a neardeath accident at Watkins Glen, New York, when a steering arm on his McLaren MARK II CanAm snapped at 150 mph.

Bondurant’s first students included the late actors and racing enthusiasts Jim Garner and Paul Newman.

The only facility of its kind in the world, the school employs 61 instructors, administrative staff and technicians.

Nearly 500,000 people have taken various courses, including professional racers, executives, law enforcement officers, military specialists, performance enthusiasts and day-to-day drivers.

“When you boil it all down into a teaspoon of what we teach at Bondurant, it’s car control,” Pat Bondurant said.

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The joy of Game 7, and the disgust of the election

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ Tribune Columnist

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s the Cubs and Indians slugged their way through a November night’s classic, maybe—with apologies to our 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks—the Greatest Baseball Game Ever Played, my mind kept drifting to that other winnertake-all November contest: the 2016 election. This was a natural progression of thought brought on by timing and the unwelcome intrusion, every few minutes, of scores of political TV commercials.

There was Donald Trump again gone full moron, flapping his arms in disgusting mimicry of a handicapped reporter.

There was Hillary Clinton, made “filthy rich” by “pay-to-play politics,” taking cash from “criminals” and “dictators” and “countries that hate America.” Heck, even singer John Legend made a quizzical cameo, lending his support to Paul Penzone over Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Then, mercifully, between stints of hyperbole and hate, there was more baseball: the Indians’ epic comeback from 5-1 down; the Cubs’ flamethrower,

Aroldis Chapman, overworked and suddenly mortal; Rajai Davis’ line-drive homer to tie the game; extra innings; a rain delay; two runs for Chicago and one for Cleveland; that meek grounder to third base; and the Chicago Cubs amazingly, finally, after 108 years, champions of the baseball world.

Too bad Game 7 had to end. Too bad one of these two gutsy, grace-touched teams had to suffer the loss. Just like it’s too bad that one candidate, Trump or

commitment. Sports shelve “real life” for a precious few hours, as Game 7 did late into Wednesday. And politics? Spare me.

Should Hillary Clinton win this election, be ready to read a million sentences that begin, “If the Chicago Cubs can win a World Series and America can elect its first woman president, then ….”

Fill in the blank. The truth is, these two historic moments have zero in common save proximity on the calendar.

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Clinton, actually has to win Tuesday— or in late November, when Maricopa County finally gets done tabulating our ballots.

The pundits nowadays call politics “the ultimate team sport.” They are sadly mistaken, as this World Series and Game 7 proved beyond any last doubt.

Teams function only as well as egos can be put aside. Teams excel out of common purpose, shared passion and zealous

organizations branded, rightfully, as long-suffering losers, with decades of championship-deprived toil to show for all their fans’ collective heartbreak. Save for the Indians’ sad joke of a logo, both teams and their fan bases summoned your compassion, your sympathy and your admiration. Trump? Clinton? After spending more than a billion dollars, all they’ve created is the abiding sense that, whoever loses, he or she will richly

deserve their plaque in the political Hall of Shame.

Baseball, with the longest season in all sports, with three rounds of playoffs and one nail-biter after another, is a slow build toward one epic moment—the Cubs sharing a group hug near the pitcher’s mound. It’s an honest process, designed to winnow away the pretenders and those who come up achingly short. American presidential politics? It’s a multi-year slog through a fetid swamp, and not one that Donald Trump is likely to drain, ever.

In the final analysis, baseball stood taller Wednesday night than any pastime deserves, its champion crowned by a Game 7 finale that somehow exceeded its hype in ways we never could have imagined.

Whatever happens in politics Tuesday, whoever wins, for half of our country it surely won’t feel so pure, so joyful and so much like the very best America has to offer.

The Big Thinkers philosophize that politics is a lot like sports. Me, I think of that epic Game 7 and say, “Oh, if only.”

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

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Mesa mayor: Yes on Q1

As your mayor, the safety of Mesa families is my highest priority. Keeping our community safe requires putting our resources behind the men and women working the frontlines of Mesa’s police and fire departments.

That’s why I hope you will join me in voting YES on Question 1 this Tuesday, Nov. 8.

For years, Mesa’s public safety departments have “done more with less,” stretching our people almost to the breaking point. While the city’s population has soared, public safety staffing has fallen 30 percent. As a result, 911 response times have jumped by 75 seconds.

Question 1 directs $23 million annually toward police, fire and paramedic services.

That means Mesa will be able to hire 58 police officers, 14 firefighters, 6 engineers and 6 fire captains by 2024.

I believe these very necessary new hires

will improve 911 response times and better prepare our city to handle everything from to car crashes to house fires to massive emergencies.

Additionally, $15 million will be directed yearly toward economic development and higher education projects, including a new ASU campus downtown.

Improving education in the city will help create the skilled workforce we need to attract new jobs. And providing better technology education and STEM education for our youngest residents will better position them to compete in a 21st century economy.

Please, this Tuesday join Mesa’s public safety community, myself and leaders like Rep. Matt Salmon and Maricopa County Supervisor Denny Barney in voting yes on Question 1. Let’s work together to build a thriving “next Mesa.”

– John Giles – Mesa Mayor

A vote against Arpaio

I implore you to NOT vote for Joe Arpaio.

He’s been sheriff since 1993. In that time, has cost the taxpayers almost $50 million in lawsuit settlements and legal fees and NEVER accepted responsibility or changed his ways (trust me, the Board of Supervisors wouldn’t settle for millions if Arpaio didn’t do anything wrong). He’s squandered resources on things like investigating Obama’s birth certificate, armored cars and trips for his chief deputies but let hundreds of sex crimes go uninvestigated, failed to serve dozens of warrants and sent poorly trained officers out to some of the most vulnerable areas in the county.

As a felony sex-crimes prosecutor, I saw many shoddy investigations done by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, and I had to assume it was because Arpaio doesn’t want to do the work it takes to actually stop crime, he just wants the limelight.

He’s basically made “Toughest Sheriff in

America” a brand and believes there’s no such thing as bad publicity. His hubris knows no bounds.

He arrested the editors of a newspaper in the middle of the night on trumped up charges because they don’t like him, and launched abusive and unfounded investigations against many well-respected judges and members of the Board of Supervisors. Several of them wisely sued him and won, resulting in the taxpayers having to pay out upwards of $5 million.

He’s been investigated multiple times

by Department of Justice and right now is facing charges for criminal contempt of court. This stems from his blatant refusal to follow a federal judge’s order to stop detaining people simply because of immigration status if they haven’t committed a state crime.

His misplaced focus on immigration See

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Voting fraud: It’s real, and it’s close to undetectable now

BY TOM PATTERSON Tribune Guest Writer

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f you’re like me, you put a lot of thought into your vote. It’s the ultimate expression of responsible citizenship, your chance to help guide the future of our state and nation. Unfortunately, your vote is canceled whenever another vote is cast by anyone other than an eligible voter casting a single vote.

Voter fraud wasn’t invented as a conspiracy to thwart Donald Trump. Yes, highly placed Democrats are planning fraudulent voting schemes (again). The mainstream media studiously ignore such outrages and attack those who point them out. The press, the White House, the Clinton Foundation and crony capitalists everywhere work seamlessly with Hillary’s campaign to elect their candidate.

But that’s not a conspiracy and it’s irresponsible to claim that it is. That’s life, political style, in today’s America. It may not be fair, but other Republicans, notably Mitt Romney, received the same treatment.

Indeed, voter fraud is endemic,

ingrained in the fabric of our political culture. Democrats and the Left preposterously claim that it doesn’t exist or is exceedingly rare. They argue that safeguards, like requiring voter ID, are therefore unnecessary, a “solution in search of a problem.”

One reason this outrageous lie seems believable is that voter fraud is invisible.

With other crimes, victims are well aware they have been assaulted, robbed or otherwise damaged. When someone steals your vote, you’re not aware of anything amiss and the crime leaves little evidence.

As a result, statistics about voter fraud—what percentage of votes are cast illegally?—are impossible to produce.

But evidence is plentiful. Voter fraud is never found ... until it’s looked for. Then it pops up all over the place.

James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has bravely uncovered many instances of voter fraud at high levels. To take one example among many, he videotaped Scott Foval, the deputy political director of People for the American Way (Soros’ organization) bragging that “you know what, we’ve been busing people in [to

vote] for 50 years and we’re not going to stop now.”

Think Alan Shulkin, the Democratic Commissioner of the New York Board of Elections, might know something about what’s going on? O’Keefe secretly videotaped him complaining that rampant voter fraud commonly takes place in his jurisdiction and that it is supported by New York Mayor Bill Blasio.

After the 2008 election, ACORN, the notorious community organizing group, was forced to disband after multiple allegations of voter fraud were confirmed.

John Fund and Hans van Spakovsky in their 2012 book “Who’s Counting: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk” documented hundreds of voting-fraud cases around the nation, and many more have poured in since.

Close elections are about the only time voter fraud is investigated with any rigor.

The results are frequently shocking. In the 2004 gubernatorial race in Washington state, Democrat Christine Gregoire won over Dino Rossi by 129 votes. The State Superior Court later found that 1,400 felons voted illegally, 53 dead

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people voted and 27 double votes were discovered.

Unfortunately, the principal reform being debated, voter ID, it is too little, too late. More Americans every election are voting anonymously by mail. For fraudsters, it’s perfect. Anyone listed on our poorly maintained voter registration rolls can avoid any ID requirement and vote. Fraud becomes simple and detection virtually impossible.

Even election officials trying to do a good job are in a tough spot when “signature matching” is our sole protection against fraud. If a clerk should wrongly declare a signature invalid, angry allegations of voter suppression and bigotry would follow. Invalid signatures that are approved carry no consequences.

Clearly, the ideal election law balances assured access with protection against fraudulent voting. But to say canceling out my vote doesn’t matter means my vote didn’t matter in the first place. Voting is a precious privilege that deserves to be protected.

– East Valley resident Tom Patterson is a retired physician and former state senator. He can be reached at pattersontomc@cox.net.

Join the East Valley community in honoring and thanking our veterans, active military and their families

East Valley Veterans Parade Friday, November 11

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(which is a FEDERAL matter, but gets him great press) and inattention to the true crimes facing Maricopa County make him an embarrassment and a danger to Arizona.

His actions make him a criminal. This is NOT who we want for our top lawman in Maricopa County.

I met his opponent, Paul Penzone, when he ran for sheriff in 2012 and was impressed by his calm demeanor, true law enforcement experience and his commitment to community policing. It’s more than time for Joe to go. Vote Penzone.

– Monica Gellman – Phoenix

Trump is doing the rigging

I hate to admit it, but I agree with Donald Trump—the upcoming election is rigged against him! And I know who did the rigging: Donald J. Trump.

From the first mention of his desire to lead our country, he has deliberately and repeatedly gone out of his way to insult and denigrate nearly every demographic and cultural group in our society. From his racist comments about President Obama not being a native-born American citizen to his sexist attacks on women to his mocking of the disabled to his bigoted comments about

Hispanics, Muslims, etc., he has truly been rigging the election against himself.

About the only group he has not insulted is uneducated white males, otherwise known as his base.

When he wakes up on Nov. 9 after suffering what I believe will be the most lopsided presidential election in history, he need only look in a mirror to see who rigged the election against him.

– Edward F. Murphy – Mesa

The failed pot experiment

I wanted to express my concern about the recent developments around proposition 205.

I moved to Arizona from Washington State. In my home town, marijuana is legal.

Honesty, the legalization is not beneficial.

In Washington, there are pot shops just down the street from schools, and it has been difficult for law enforcement to prohibit minors from getting access to marijuana. Having legal marijuana also increases the number of people who drive under the influence.

Personally, I have loved the different atmosphere in Arizona, and I know part of that is that the majority of people here are not indulging in harmful substances.

In high school, there was an empty lot across the street where people would hang

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out and do drugs. Those students were often people I recognized from my classes who were underperforming or had social issues. It was so sad to me, and knowing that because of this bill they were able to find drugs even easier, I was even more depressed.

It is truly my firm belief that we must protect ourselves. Not only can marijuana lead to increased crime rates and youth engaging in recreational drugs from a young age, but it also could lead to legalization of more harmful substances.

I have heard people say that we should legalize it because people will use it anyway, but we would never legalize theft just because it will happen anyway.

– Zoralei Boysen – Vancouver, Washington

Proud to support Prop. 206

At Arizona Advocacy Network, we work hard to promote and protect the political rights of all Arizonans. Civic engagement requires the capacity to be involved, and that is why we are proud to support Proposition 206.

This November, voters have the opportunity to make Arizona a better place for hardworking people by voting “YES” on Proposition 206, which gradually raises the minimum wage over the next few years and

allows workers to earn paid sick days. It is critical to letting Arizona’s families lead more stable and enriched lives.

This citizen-led initiative reflects American values that benefit all of us and our economy. Please use your political power as an Arizona voter to invigorate our communities by voting “YES” on Prop. 206.

– Samantha Pstross – Executive Director of the Arizona Advocacy Network

Trump worse than deplorable

As accurately reported by the East Valley Tribune, many citizens have been critical of Donald Trump’s views.

By engaging in his bigoted rants, and bragging about how he is entitled to grab women by their genitals because he is a wealthy celebrity, Mr. Trump makes things abundantly clear. Mr. Trump’s actions are far worse than deplorable.

Hillary Clinton is much more qualified than Mr. Trump to be our nation’s president, and I urge others to vote for her by November 8th.

– Mario Martinez – Tempe

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Even Steven Sandwiches provide an easy way to be charitable

BY SRIANTHI PERERA Tribune Staff Writer

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ach time you consume a Reuben, Capreezy or Do Gouda at Even Stevens Sandwiches, you help feed someone else in the area.

The restaurant chain from Salt Lake City is in the Heritage Marketplace Phase 2 near the parking garage in downtown Gilbert.

It gives back to the community in one of the most direct ways possible.

“For every sandwich we serve, we provide a sandwich of equal nutrition value to the community’s hungry,” said founder Steve Down.

The local nonprofits that will benefit are Open Arms Care Center, Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley, United Food Bank and the Mesa homeless shelter run by A New Leaf.

Down also owns The Falls Event Center in Gilbert and is the author of the financial education program, Financially Fit for Life.

The restaurant chain opened in Salt Lake City in 2014 and provided 30,000 sandwiches to the needy within the first six months. The Gilbert location, its eighth, has provided nearly 2,700 sandwiches.

A ninth location will open November in Phoenix, at Van Buren Road and First Avenue.

(Will Powers/Tribune Staff Photographer)

The Gilbert location of Even Stevens has provided nearly 2,700 sandwiches to the needy, according to a running tab on one of the restaurant’s walls.

Brand Director Jamie Coates said that the company found Gilbert to be an “influential” community.

“There’s this growing workforce to support the downtown’s growth. You can make a lot of influence with your brand with your growth there and especially with the charity aspect because we’re pioneers in this social enterprise space,” she said. “There’s a lot of enthusiasm for good food there and there’s also a lot to give. It’s kind of perfect for our concept.”

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Even Stevens is open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for Sunday brunch. It promotes its robust breakfast and brunch offerings in a commercial area that’s now dotted with many other upmarket brands.

“When we select a site, we’re usually not too worried about the competition.

We’re delighted to see other businesses doing well there, but consider the value,” Coates said. “You’re getting a really handcrafted gourmet sandwich and a chef-created side or salad for under 10 bucks. There’s not really a lot of options like that in the Heritage Marketplace.”

The menu offers 12 gourmet sandwiches, including Jackfruit Torta: Jackfruit carnitas, pepitas, guacamole, salsa morita, radish, cilantro, lettuce, pickled onions on a sweet bun ($7.95) and the Banh Belly or Banh Mahi: soy glazed pork belly or sustainably caught mahi, roasted jalapeños, pickled slaw, cucumbers, garlic aioli and cilantro in a baguette ($8.85).

Breakfast is served all day and includes the vegan offering, The New Morrissey: Mexican soyrizo, marinated tofu, tots and roasted veggies on a garlic wrap ($6.75).

(Will Powers/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Even Stevens, from Salt Lake City, is open in the Heritage Marketplace Phase 2 near the parking garage in downtown Gilbert.

Craft beer and sandwich pairings are in the works, and will be offered after the restaurant obtains its liquor license.

The restaurant has also partnered with local businesses Peixoto Coffee, Noble Bread, Santan Brewing and Cotton Country Jellies to use their products in the restaurant.

But perhaps its greatest partnership is the long-term commitment to the four nonprofits.

Each time the chain chooses a market, Coates and her team visit the city months in advance to meet with nonprofits in the area and tour their facilities.

“We talk about needs, how many meals they’re serving, what kind of impact they’re making and the vision they have for the community,” Coates said. “Alleviating hunger as a social problem has to be one of their main mission claims.”

The goal is to alleviate the food costs so that the nonprofits’ funds may go into the programs they provide.

“This is the best way to really see change,” Coates said.

Even Stevens is at 384 N. Gilbert Road in downtown Gilbert. Details: 480-2195299 or evenstevens.com.

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BUSINESS BRIEFS

Humana adds two Mesa primary care locations

Iora Health and Humana are adding two Iora Primary Care practices in the East Valley.

The new practices, operated by Iora Health, accept some Medicare Advantage plans administered by Humana and do not accept Medicare Advantage plans administered by other carriers.

The new Iora Health Primary Care practices are at 9124 E. Main Street and 5110 E. Southern Ave., both in Mesa.

Tempe apartment complex sold for $8 million

Marcus & Millichap has sold Aria on Mill, a 76-unit apartment complex for $8.5 million.

The Tempe property was built in 1988. It is at 2430 S. Mill Ave., approximately one mile from Arizona State University’s main campus and less than two miles from the Mill Avenue District.

Old-fashioned haircuts discounted for veterans

V’s Barbershop in Chandler and Gilbert

is offering veterans 20 percent off any service, but not just Veterans Day. The company is also including active and reserve military and first responders in the program.

V’s Barbershop offers haircuts, straightrazor shaves, men’s facials, face massages, moustache and beard trims and shoe shines, with complimentary hot towels, neck and shoulder massages and neck shaves.

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20,000-square-foot project for mixed use breaks ground

American Airlines honors 200 long-term employees

LGE Design Build and Revelation Real Estate are building a new, 20,000-squarefoot mixed-use project in Chandler that will also be Revelation’s new headquarters.

The $5 million space will house a real estate school, a brokerage firm, title company “Magnus Title,” an event center and a bar and café.

The groundbreaking was last week.

Air-conditioning company offers $1,000 scholarship

Precision Air & Heating is offering a $1,000 scholarship to a student enrolled full-time in an accredited college or university.

Applications are open until April 30, 2017. To submit an entry, applicants are

American Airlines recently honored more than 200 employees, including four from the East Valley, celebrating at least 45 years of service, and 35 or more years for pilots.

They are: • Roberta Psarakis of Tempe, 45 years as a flight attendant • Retiring pilot Captain Robert Graham of Chandler, 38 years • Peter Mordwinow of Mesa, 45 years • William Fisher of Chandler, 50 years in airport customer service.

Entrepreneur Magazine names Beech Medical to best list

Beech Medical Group of Mesa has been named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s 360 List of “Best Entrepreneurial Companies in

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This is the Mesa integrated health solutions firm’s second notable ranking this year. In August, Inc. Magazine named it among the “5,000 fastest-growing private corporations in America.”

Inc., of Mesa, an integrated health solutions company that contracts with large employers, state agencies and insurance companies to improve patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs, has been named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s 360 List of the “Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America” The Mesa based business ranked 108 out of 360 companies nationwide.

Humana Pharmacy hiring 100 positions for Tempe location

Humana is hiring for more than 100 new, full-time jobs this month.

The company’s mail-order service, Humana Pharmacy, is seeking to fill positions at its Tempe call center, at 7333 S. Hardy Drive, Suite 102, Tempe.

Customer care specialists are full-time, permanent roles and include benefits and other perks.

To apply, go to careers.humana.com and search requisitions 165882 for the Customer Care Specialist positions and 166726 for the Pharmacy Customer Care Advocates positions.

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Prominent teams head into playoffs with sophomores at QB

BY JASON P. SKODA Prep Sports Director

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he football huddle is reserved for only a few voices.

It can get a bit chatty for the team that has the scoreboard leaning heavy in its direction, and even snippy when it’s tilting in the wrong direction.

When the chit-chat stops and the message has to be sent, the quarterback is the one everyone is looking at and listening to before going out and executing.

Four prominent teams with state championship aspirations when the playoffs started on Friday have sophomores leading from behind the center.

“There’s quite a few of them,” Williams Field coach Steve Campbell said about the young quarterbacks. “It’s a pretty special class.”

Chandler’s Jacobs Conover, Williams Field’s Zack Shepherd, Queen Creek’s Devin Larsen and Mountain Pointe’s Nick Wallerstedt have been able to lead their respective teams to success in their sophomore seasons.

Conover, Shepherd and Larsen have started all year long after competing for the job against older players, while Wallerstedt took over out of necessity when senior quarterback Noah Grover was injured in the sixth game of the year.

No matter how they ended up running the huddle, it can make for an interesting dynamic with a sophomore trying to lead before his time. After all, the seniors on the team have sweated for the program

(Billy Hardiman/Special to the Tribune)

Queen Creek quarterback Devin Larsen is one of several sophomores running the offense of state contenders creating an interesting dynamic in the huddle.

while the new guy was in middle school.

“Quarterback leadership doesn’t happen just because you play that position,” Campbell said. “Just because you are the quarterback does not mean you are a leader of the team. We have (senior wide receivers) Max (Fine) and Justis (Stokes), but they have to respect you and you develop that over time.”

Work ethic and winning goes along way in fostering that relationship, and by all accounts all four have no problem in either department.

Shepherd led the BlackHawks to an undefeated regular season, while Larsen and Conover went 8-2 and Wallerstedt went 3-0 to close out the regular season.

Conover entered the playoffs with 19 touchdowns and three interceptions while completing 70.4 percent of

his passes for 252.2 yards a game.

Shepherd had 21 touchdowns and two interceptions with a 61.0 percent completion percentage and averaged 204.4 yards a game.

Larsen had a touchdown-tointerception split of 16 to 4 while throwing for 189.3 yards and a 61.3 completion percentage.

Wallerstedt had a smaller sample size for the nationally-ranked Pride and was kept under wraps a little bit with a conservative game plan. Coaches tried to get him comfortable and keep him healthy since there were no experienced quarterbacks behind him.

Through three and half games, he completed 61.1 percent of his passes with two touchdowns and three interceptions and 101.3 yards a game.

He was given more opportunities in the season finale and responded with a 9-for-14 performance for 194 yards. He threw his first two touchdown passes and two interceptions.

“He’s getting more comfortable, and we opened it up for him,” Pride coach Norris Vaughan said. “There are going to be some drives and games where we are going to need him to make plays, and he has shown he can do it.”

They all have at this point, 11 games into the season, so being the youngest guy in the huddle isn’t that big of a deal now. The get-to-know-you phase of developing a sophomore at quarterback is over and being a vocal leader isn’t always necessary.

“Your personality has to be patient when it comes to being a leader because there are older guys who have been out there on Friday nights,” said Campbell, who started at quarterback as a sophomore at Norco High in California.

“You have to build that trust and build that relationship to the point where now you are the guy.

“It is not something you do other than doing your job. You can’t force leadership. It comes out while you work in practice, develop in practice and then it becomes your team.”

At this point in the season, it has developed about as much as it can in 2016. They all just want to keep winning and playing together as long as possible.

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

Hamilton’s Li ties for title, Huskies finish second in rainy golf final Tribune Staff Report

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he rain and lightning that rolled over South Mountain drowned out second day of the Division I girls state golf tournament.

The second delay, on Thursday around 3 p.m., made it hard to complete the second round after the two-hour delay that started the final round at Aguilla Golf Course.

It was the second time that weather

forced the girls event to be called early and revert back to the first day results— the other time was 1987.

“It was fair,” Hamilton coach Steve Spykstra said. “You can only do so much with the weather as it was.”

The Huskies finished as state runnerup to Xavier by two strokes. The Gators pushed the lead to more than 15 shots when the horns blared with the final group on the 13th hole.

“The team race wasn’t going to change

so (the cancellation) wouldn’t have made a difference,” Spykstra said. “We can play better than we did the first day, and I thought we would today but it didn’t happen.”

The Gators finished the first day at 5-over 293 and the Huskies 7-over 295.

Millennium (24 over), Red Mountain (35 over) and Corona del Sol (62 over) rounded out the top five.

Desert Ridge and Desert Vista tied for sixth at 67 over par and Highland (74

over) was ninth 15-team field.

The loss of the round didn’t change the three-way tie at the top of the individual leaderboard.

Hamilton’s Hannah Li tied for the title at 2-under 70, with Xavier’s Ashley Menne and Elizabeth Caldarelli.

“My irons and driver were absolutely great,” Li said. “I was playing OK. It makes me very happy I can say I finished See

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in first place.”

Rounding out the top 10 to earn medalist honors were Xavier’s Emily Mahar (1-under), Hamilton’s Alyzzah Vakasiuloa (even-par 70), Red Mountain’s Belle Balkan (1-over), Hamilton’s Toni St. John (3-over), Millennium’s Ava Smith (5-over), Desert Ridge’s Brooke Beyer (5-over) and Corona del Sol’s Emma Lower (5-over).

Balkan was better than last year, when she shot 36 over par in two rounds as a freshman.

“My short game has really improved,” Balkan said.

The big leap in performance has Balkan, who the player of the year for the JGAA, ready to return to the course as often as possible.

“When you see improvement like that, it makes you want to keep coming back,” she said. “I just want to play golf as much as I can and keep getting better.”

In Division II girls, Mesquite’s Tara Greig finished sixth with an 11-over par 151 finish in the two-day event at Del Urich Golf Course in Tucson on Wednesday.

Campo Verde’s Bailey Anderson was the second highest finisher from the East Valley at 18 over 158 to finish in a tie for 13, while Mesquite’s Maisey Alsen (20over 160) was 16 and Seton Catholic’s Evan Toon (30-over 170) was tied for 27th.

Mesquite was the highest finishing team as the Wildcats were eighth at 157-over 361-356—717 compared to champion Cactus Shadows, which had a two-day total of 69-over 629.

Campo Verde was 12th at 191-over 751.

In the boys DII event at Randolph Golf Course in Tucson, Williams Field finished sixth 32-over 301-307 608 and Seton Catholic was seventh at 34-over 305-305-610 on Wednesday.

Mesquite was 12th at plus 84 at 333327-660 to finishes 63 shots off the pace of team champion Catalina Foothills (21-over 300-297-597).

Seton Catholic’s Matt Schwab finished as the state runner-up at even par 144 after shooting 72 both days while champion Gavin Cohen shot 71 each day to win by two.

Other are top 10 finishers were Seton’s Alejandro de Zavala, who finished tied for seventh at 72-73-145, and Williams Field’s Logan Eatherton, who tied for ninth at 73-73—146.

The Wildcats’ Wade Klein carded a 3-over 75-72-147 for a 12th place finish.

The Division I boys tournament begins Monday at the newly renovated Grand Canyon Golf Course, formerly Maryvale Golf Course.

Hamilton finished the year as the top ranked team, while Desert Vista, Perry, Campo Verde, Desert Ridge and Red Mountain finished among the top 10.

As far as the chase for the individual title goes, it is going to take two very good rounds to pull it off.

The year ended with Desert Vista’s Brian Seo as the top-ranked player, with Hamilton’s Mason Andersen and Campo Verde’s Branden Meyer second and third.

Highland’s Brock Goyen, Perry’s Caden Christopherson, Desert Vista’s Tyler Svendson, Desert Ridge’s Damon Vilkauskas and Desert Vista’s Davis Evan all finished among the top 15.

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Assyrian church hoping to build a home of its own in Gilbert

BY RALPH ZUBIATE Tribune Executive Editor

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he Mar Yosip Parish is a church without a building.

The Chandler branch of the Assyrian Church of the East is one of only two in Arizona—the other is in Glendale. That church has the advantage of its own building. For now, Mar Yosip Parish is renting space in another church.

“We’ve been renting for over decade now,” said Marcell Murad, the youth vice president of the church.

Mar Yosip Parish has been meeting in the Chandler Seventh-Day Adventist Church for about 5 years. Before that, the church used an elementary school cafeteria on Sundays.

“The church consists of maybe 200 of us,” Murad said. “We’re not a very big congregation. But we’re all like a big family. We have our names on this church.

“But we are finally in the process of building our own church. We are building it together.”

“We have the land, but we’re trying to raise as much money as possible,” said Ashor Aziz, deacon and president of the church.

The new location is about 15 miles away from their present, temporary home. The acre lot near Recker and Guadalupe Roads is in Gilbert.

The process is moving along swiftly.

The Town of Gilbert has given its OK, and the blueprints are coming. But the expenses mount.

“At GoFundMe, we’re trying to raise up to $25,000, but we need a lot more than that to build a church,” Aziz said.

“The blueprints are coming close to $27,000. We thought we would be able to pay off the blueprints.

“We also have a couple of fundraisers coming up in February and maybe April.”

The church will go up in two phases, in two buildings.

First, a small banquet hall will be built, then an actual sanctuary.

“We were thinking we would build the hall, then use if for services,” Aziz said. “Then, we can raise more money

(Will Powers/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Deacon Andrew Aziz, president of youth and entertainment, and Marcell Murad, vice president of youth, are two of the young leaders of Chandler’s Assyrian church.

for the church.”

They hope to begin building in January.

For now, the Mar Yosip (St. Joseph) Parish meets in Chandler, with Mass taught and sung in Assyrian, a dialect of Aramaic, the language Jesus reputedly spoke. Rev. Khoshaba Sholimun leads the proud congregation.

“We are the oldest Christian church ever,” Murad said.

Most of the parishioners, who hail originally from the region from Turkey to Iraq, speak modern Assyrian.

“English was my second language,” said Murad. “I have family members in Syria, and my parents are from Iraq.

They left because of war.

“I have some family members, they won’t leave. They don’t want to leave their country.

“Some family members are fellow Assyrians. Either they leave or they die.”

Linda Mamook teaches Sunday school to the children of Mar Yosip. With this generation, the Assyrian language is a new experience.

“We teach alphabet, months of the year, vocabulary words,” she said. “The class helps them learn the language. They

(Will Powers/Tribune Staff Photographer)

Choir members sing during the Assyrian Mass of Mar Yosip Parish in Chandler.

can be more aware, more educated.”

In a Bible study for youth in another rented space, Tumbleweed Recreation Center in Chandler, Andrew Aziz teaches in a flowing mix of English and Assyrian. Aziz, a deacon and president of youth and entertainment, is Ashor Aziz’s son.

After the study, the group moves over to a gymnasium space to learn traditional dances, or just to play volleyball. Choir practice is also held at Tumbleweed.

Meeting in the tiny space in their native Assyrian language helps bond the young people of the church.

“It’s built our relationships,” Aziz said.

“The kids have been working harder than ever.”

The church is hoping to open its first building by July 2017. The rest could be ready by the end of next year, if the money comes.

Contributions to the church may be made at gofundme.com/ projectmaryosip, or to Assyrian Church of the East, P.O. Box 735, Gilbert, AZ 85299.

– Contact Ralph Zubiate at 480-898-6825 or rzubiate@timespublications.com.

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Deacon Youkhana Banyamin sings during the Mass. He is one of several deacons with Mar Yosip Parish.

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9 HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE PLANNED

The Hope’s Treasures Holiday Boutique returns this year with quality handcrafted holiday and home décor, decorations, gifts for kids and adults, stocking stuffers, jewelry, handcrafted apparel, comfort items and more.

Shoppers are invited to bring a non-perishable food item for Matthew’s Crossing food bank.

DETAILS>> Nov. 9-12, Hope Covenant Church, 1770 S. Dobson Road, Chandler. 4-8 p.m. Nov. 9; 10 a.m.6 p.m. Nov. 10-11; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 12. Information: hopechurchchandler.com

FRIDAY, NOV. 11

KINDERGARTEN/PRESCHOOL OPEN HOUSE Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic School will host parents who have small children entering kindergarten or preschool at a special open house. Children will to experience a “mini” day of school, while parents attend a presentation to learn more about the school.

All children must be 5 years old by Sept. 1, 2017, to attend the kindergarten open house and 3 years old by Sept. 1, 2017, to attend preschool open house.

DETAILS>> 8:30-11 a.m., 2117 S. Rural Road, Tempe. To reserve a space, go to olmcschool.info, email openhouse@ olmcschool.info or call 480-967-5567.

TUESDAY, NOV. 15

BETHANY CHRISTMAS BAZAAR

Christmas shopping, ornament decorating, more than 30 vendors and a movie for kids are featured at the Bethany Christian School Christmas Bazaar.

DETAILS>> > 6-8 p.m., 6304 S. Price Road, Tempe. To be a vendor, email events@bethanychristianschool.org.

SATURDAY NOV. 19 CRAFT AND VENDOR FAIR

Over 50 vendors will be selling Christmas ornaments & lighted blocks, handmade greeting cards, jewelry, soy candles, pottery, wood items, handmade purses, Mary Kay, leather goods, tea gift baskets and much more at the Love of Christ Lutheran Church’s Center of Compassion. Two food trucks will be available, and the church’s youth group will have a car wash.

DETAILS>> 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., 1525 North Power Road, Mesa.

Cost: Free. Information: loveofchristchurch.net.

HOLISTIC HEALING & HAPPINESS

This event is a gathering of Lightworkers and vendors who come together to offer a wide array of services and products. Our mission is to provide a safe space for the holistic and metaphysically minded to experience alternative therapies, spiritual healing and insights.

Lightworkers offer 20 minute sessions for $20 to $30 and vendors share great gift ideas. This is a CASH ONLY event.

DETAILS>> 2-6 p.m., Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center, 952 E. Baseline, #102, Mesa (just west of Stapley & Baseline in Paragon Business Center, northwest corner of Solomon & Baseline). Information: heatherposey70@gmail. com.

SUNDAY, DEC. 4

SPECIAL CONCERT PLANNED

Guest artists from the first annual Summer Artist in Residence Program, Chandler Gilbert Community College piano professor Piano Amanda Sherrill, and Arizona Opera soprano Melissa Solomon, will present a holiday concert of Bach, Handel, Rachmaninov and beloved classics.

DETAILS>> 2 p.m., Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 739 W. Erie St., Chandler. Admission, $15/students, $10. Children under 10 are free. Information: 480-936-4127, or Earl@ htlutheran.com.

SUNDAY, DEC. 11

‘JAZZOPERETRY’ RETURNS

After a four-year absence, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and Jazzoperetry (“Jazz-OP-ruh-tree”), Inc., will join forces to present the long-awaited return to Arizona of the contemporary Christian singer/songwriter Robert Moffat.

The Holy Trinity Chancel choir will join the Rob Moffat Chorus and instrumental ensemble to perform a musical nativity.

DETAILS>> 2 p.m., 739 W. Erie St., Chandler. Admission $15/ students $10.

Information: 480-936-4127, or Earl@htlutheran.com.

SUNDAYS

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.

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. Toddlers and children meet during our service.

DETAILS>> 10:30 a.m., 952 E. Baseline, #102, Mesa (just west of Stapley & Baseline in Paragon Business Center, northwest corner of Solomon & Baseline). Information: info@interfaith-community.org.

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.

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 a.m. Spiritual discussion group and meditation practices group. 10:15 a.m. service. 2700 E. Southern Ave., Mesa. Child care available at 9 a.m. Nursery for infants through kindergarten at 10:15 a.m. 480-8922700, unityofmesa.org, joanne@unityofmesa.org.

MONDAYS

JOIN CHRIST-CENTERED YOGA

This Flow 1-2 class (intermediate) is free and open to the

community.

DETAILS>> 6-7 p.m., Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E. Pecos Road. Greg Battle at 480-759-6200 or gbattle@moutainpark.org.

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WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY OFFERED

Classes for those grieving over death or divorce.

DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m., Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 739 W. Erie St., Chandler. 480-963-4127.

Living Word Ahwatukee women’s Bible study and fellowship that offers “a short, low-key time of praise and worship in music and message.” It’s also an opportunity to meet other Christian women in Ahwatukee.

DETAILS>> 10-11:30 a.m., Living Word Ahwatukee, 14647 W. 50th St., Suite 165, Ahwatukee. Free child care.

STRUGGLING FIND SUPPORT

GET A ‘SPIRITUAL SHOWER’

CLASS TARGETS THE GRIEVING

Support group for those struggling with how to deal with a loss in life.

DETAILS>> 7 p.m., 1825 S. Alma School Road, Room C201, Chandler. Pastor Larry Daily, 480-963-3997, ext. 141, larrydaily@chandlercc.org or chandlercc.org.

TUESDAYS

JEWISH VIEWS ON HOT-BUTTON ISSUES

A new six session course presents a non-partisan, Jewish view of the hot button 2016 election issues, such as gun control and immigration. The classes will begin Nov. 14 and run for six weeks, until Dec. 19.

DETAILS>> 7:30-9 p.m., Chabad of the East Valley, 875 N. McClintock Drive, Chandler. 480-855-4333, chabadcenter. com or info@chabadcenter.com.

DIVORCED CAN FIND COMFORT

People suffering through a divorce or separation can find understanding and caring support to face these challenges.

DETAILS>> 6:30-8:30 p.m., Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E Pecos Road, Room 117, Ahwatukee, 480-7596200 or mountainpark.org.

FINDING HEALING FOR PAIN

HOPE, an acronym for “Help Overcome Painful Experiences,” offers support for men and women who seek God’s grace and healing.

DETAILS>> 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mountain Park Community Church, 2408 E. Pecos Road. mountainpark.org.

SENIORS ENJOY ‘TERRIFIC TUESDAYS’

The program is free and includes bagels and coffee and a different speaker or theme each week. Registration not needed.

DETAILS>> 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Barness Family East Valley Jewish Community Center, 908 N. Alma School Road, Chandler. evjcc.org or 480-897-0588.

WEDNESDAYS

CELEBRATE RECOVERY MEETS

Celebrate Recovery says it “brings your relationship with the Lord closer to your heart as it heals your hurts, habits and hang-ups.” Participants can discuss issues ranging from feeling left out to addictions. “Nothing is too small or too large.”

DETAILS>> 6:20 p.m. at Mountain View Lutheran Church, 11002 S. 48th St., Ahwatukee. mvlutheran.org/

A release calls this “a 15-minute energetic tune up each week” and says the Twin Hearts Meditation “is like taking a spiritual shower: when your aura is clean, you experience a higher level of awareness. You see through things more clearly and good luck increases.”

DETAILS>> 7-9 p.m. at Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103, Tempe. 480-792-1800 or unityoftempe. com.

‘A COURSE IN MIRACLES’

Longtime “A Course in Miracles” student and teacher Rev. Julianne Lewis leads this interactive time of discussion and sharing. This group is appropriate for ACIM beginners as wells as experienced ACIM students—and everyone in between!

DETAILS>> Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center, 952 E. Baseline, #102, Mesa (just west of Stapley & Baseline in Paragon Business Center, northwest corner of Solomon & Baseline). $10 love donation. Information: revj4u@gmail. com.

THURSDAYS

KIDS CAN FIND SUPPORT

Support group for children ages 6 to 12 coping with a separation or divorce in the family. One-time $10 fee includes snacks and workbook.

DETAILS>> 6:30-8:30 p.m., 1825 S. Alma School Road, Room C202, Chandler. Pastor Larry Daily, 480-963-3997, ext. 141, larrydaily@chandlercc.org or chandlercc.org.

ULPAN INSTRUCTION AVAILABLE

Class is based on Israel’s successful Ulpan instruction.

Taught by Ilan Berko, born in Israel, schooled in the U.S. DETAILS>> 7 p.m. Chabad of the East Valley, 3875 W. Ray Road, Suite 6, Chandler. chabadcenter.com or 480-855-4333.

‘CONSERVATIONS WITH GOD’

“Conservations with God-Book 1” by Neale Donald Walsch seeks to bring people a new understanding of life and God. Join Wayne Hoffman for this lively book study group DETAILS>> 7-8:30 p.m. at Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center, 952 E. Baseline, #102, Mesa (just west of Stapley & Baseline in Paragon Business Center, northwest corner of Solomon & Baseline). $10 love donation. Information: info@ interfaith-community.org.

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The Mesa Music Festival debuted last year and aspires to be the next SXSW Festival in Austin, which started relatively small and is now a huge musical event.

Music fest brings plenty of tunes to Mesa Friday is highlighted with a keynote speech by Chester Bennington of Linkin Park. He’s the band’s lead singer and he usic should reverberate grew up in Mesa.

Linkin Park’s debut album “Hybrid throughout downtown Mesa Thursday-Sunday as the Mesa Theory” was certified diamond in 2005 and became the best-selling debut album of Music Festival returns for its second year.

The free event is largely designed as the decade. The band released five more studio albums. an opportunity for upBennington also fronts and-coming bands to Dead by Sunrise and was showcase their skills. the lead vocalist for the But, several big-name Stone Temple Pilots with performers are due in the Chester Bennington from city for the weekend.

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Rock band Fuel “We think people headlines the Saturday will come down,” for night closing concert.

Bennington’s talk, Mesa Fuel’s big hit was city spokeswoman “Shimmer,” from its first Melissa Randazzo said, album, “Sunburn,” released “even though he’s not in 1998. In 2000, the band going to play.” released a second album, Between 150 and 200 “Something Like Human.” bands are expected to It went multi-platinum (Special to the Tribune) perform throughout the and included the singles Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, weekend, Randazzo said.

“Hemorrhage (In My a Mesa native, will give a speech at Organizers expect several Hands)” and “Innocent.” the Mesa Music Festival. thousand people to catch Fuel plays at 8 p.m. on the lawn at Mesa City Plaza, 55 N. Center at least some of the shows.

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downtown Mesa, city spokesman Steve Wright said.

“We want downtown to be unique and hip and fun for families,” he said.

Wright compares the One of downtown Mesa’s Mesa Music Festival to the SXSW Festival in Austin, which started relatively small and is now a huge musical event.newest businesses, Oro Brewing Co., hosts two bands Thursday night from 9:30 to 10:45, getting an early start on the fun.

At 6 p.m. Friday, music gets into high gear at the outdoor pavilion stage at the Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main St. Five bands play until 10 p.m. there.

Eight other venues along Main Street also feature bands from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday.

Those sites are Milano’s Music at 38 W. Main St.; the Milano’s Alley, 20 W. Main St.; Backstage Attire, 138 W. Main St.; Lulubell Toy Bodega at 128 W. Main St.; Smith-olator Cookie Shop, 124 W. Main St.; Queen’s Pizzeria, 125 W. Main St.; Desert Eagle Brewing Co., 150 W. Main St.; and Jarrod’s Coffee, Tea and Gallery, 154 W. Main St. More sites are added for Saturday’s miniconcerts.

The main stages, at the Mesa City Plaza at the Mesa Arts Center have full-day lineups

If creativity is high on the list for making good music, here are some of the more unusual names of bands scheduled to play at the Mesa Music Festival: • Bag of Humans • Blue Rose Revival • Cheap Hotels • Decibel • Devil Lies Down • Drown a Deity • Friends with Benefits • Leather Tramp • Moonshine Voodoo Band • Says the Preacher • Shotgun Pearl • Sunday at Noon • Surfing Godzillas • The Beast of Bailey Downs • The Endless Pursuit • The Grass Fed Giants • The Harmless Doves • The Sink or Swim • The World in my Eyes • Thoughts Like Rockets • Vintage Wednesday • Woodfish

from noon to 10 p.m. The Arts Center has two stages.

A stage is planned at the Arizona Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame at 63 W. Main St. Milano’s has two stages again, and music returns Saturday at Backstage Attire, Lulubell, Smith-o-lator, Queen’s, Desert Eagle and Jarrod’s.

Thursday and Friday are largely consumed by a symposium at the Mesa Arts Center.

The list of speakers at those gatherings is impressive, too.

David Ellefson, the bassist for Megadeth, a record label president, producer and manager is one. Geordie Gillespie, a partner at The Hatcher and a former executive with Sony, Columbia and Virgin record companies also speaks. And, entertainment attorney Jim Kusmich and producer and manager Rene Mata are on the speaker list.

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The amount programmed for this contract is $159,000. The location and description of the proposed work are as follows:

The project is located in Maricopa County within the Phoenix Metropolitan area along three different segments of Interstate 10; Between 83rd Avenue and 75th Avenue, between 43rd Avenue and SR-51, and between I-10/I-17 Split and Broadway Road. The work involves installing fiber optic cable, conduit, CCTV cameras, and related equipment.

The proposed project is located in Pinal County at various locations within the vicinity of the City of Eloy. The work consists of removing and replacing existing sign and object marker panels.

Project plans, special provisions, and proposal pamphlets, as electronic files, are available free of charge from the Contracts and Specifications website, or they may be purchased in paper format at 1651 W. Jackson, Room 121F, Phoenix, AZ 85007-3217, (602) 712-7221.

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The City of Mesa is seeking qualified Consultants to provide design services and/or construction administration services on an on-call basis in the following area/category: Architectural Services.

All qualified firms that are interested in providing these services are invited to submit their Statements of Qualifications (SOQ) in accordance with the requirements detailed in the Request for Qualifications (RFQ).

From this solicitation, the Engineering Department will establish a list of on-call consultants for Architectural Services. This category is further defined below: The Architectural Services category refers to vertical construction projects, including construction of new buildings/facilities/pools a nd/or remodels of existing buildings and facilities. Building projects often include design disciplines or design elements such as architectural programming, architectural design, site planning, grading, drainage, demolition, site civil improvements, offsite street improvements, offsite utility extensions, site lighting, landscaping, landscape irrigation, survey, horizontal control, structural engineering, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, lighting, fire protection, special systems, security systems, data and telecommunications systems, systems furniture design, roofing, flooring, site amenities, etc. The Consultant is often asked to perform such tasks as cost estimating, value engineering, preparation of legal descriptions and exhibits, geotechnical investigations, drainage reports, utility coordination and public outreach. Architectural projects also include buildings or facilities such as storage facilities, equipment rooms, electrical buildings and other facilities that may not be generally occupied by people during normal business hours.

Projects in this category may include transportation improvements and/or water/wastewater improvements associated with the vertical building, as supporting ancillary improvements.

A Pre-Submittal Conference will not be held.

Contact with City Employees. All firms interested in this project (including the firm’s employees, representatives, agents, lobbyists, attorneys, and subconsultants) will refrain, under penalty of disqualification, from direct or indirect contact for the purpose of influencing the selection or creating bias in the selection process with any person who may play a part in the selection process. This policy is intended to create a level playing field for all potential firms, assure that contract decisions are made in public and to protect the integrity of the selection process. All contact on this selection process should be addressed to the authorized representative identified below.

RFQ Lists. This RFQ is available on the City’s website at http://mesaaz.gov/business/engineering/architectural-engineering-design-opportunities.

The Statement of Qualifications shall include a one-page cover letter, plus a maximum of 10 pages to address the SOQ evaluation criteria (excluding resumes but including an organization chart with key personnel and their affiliation). Resumes for each team member shall be limited to a maximum length of two pages and should be attached as an appendix to the SOQ. Minimum font size shall be 10 point. Please provide six (6) hard copies and one (1) CD of the Statement of Qualifications by 2:00pm on November 9, 2016. The City reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Statements of Qualifications. The City is an equal opportunity employer.

Delivered or hand-carried submittals must be delivered to the Engineering Department reception area on the fifth floor of Mesa City Plaza Building in a sealed package. On the submittal package, please display: Firm name, project number, and/or project title.

Firms who wish to do business with the City of Mesa must be registered and activated in the City of Mesa Vendor Self Service (VSS) System (http://mesaaz.gov/business/purchasing/vendor-self-service).

Questions. Questions pertaining to the Consultant selection process or contract issues should be directed to Heather Sneddon of the Engineering Department at heather.sneddon@mesaaz.gov.

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Project plans, special provisions, and proposal pamphlets, as electronic files, are available free of charge from the Contracts and Specifications website, or they may be purchased in paper format at 1651 W. Jackson, Room 121F, Phoenix, AZ 85007-3217, (602) 712-7221. The cost is $33.00.

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For Sale for $800 including transfer fees 480-577-5517 WE’RE ALWAYS HERE FOR YOU

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CLASS@TIMESPUBLICATIONS.COM

Garage Sales/ Bazaars CRAFT FAIR!!

SAT 11/12, 9AM-2PM 1st Presb. Church 161 N Mesa Dr Crafts, Jewelry, BAKE Sale, Gifts, Decorations, MORE! Food & Drink onsite. $100 in DOOR PRIZES!!

Garage Sales/ Bazaars

Miscellaneous For Sale

Holiday Craft Fair Nov 19th 9am-1pm Bethlehem Lutheran Church 2745 N. 32nd St, Mesa Pictures with Santa Claus 11am-1pm

Johann Heitzmann & Sonn Grand Piano 1870's Viennese, restored ($15k): strings, tuning pins, hammers, soundboard, ivory keys. $7500 480-438-2900

HUGE Multi Family Garage Sale!!!!

EVERYTHING FROM HOUSEHOLD ITEMS/ELECTRONICS, BOOKS, CLOTHING, BIKES & LOTS OF KID ITEMS!

Sat Nov. 12th ONLY! 7am to 2pm!

1667 W Seagull Court Chandler AZ 85286 Spirit of Hope Lutheran Church Annual Holiday Craft/Vendor Show Sat, Nov 12 8AM-2PM

Come see the handmade items, vended products & get ready for Christmas!

Door Prizes every hour.

Tell your friends!

2605 S Signal Butte, Mesa

All are welcome!

Pets/Services THE PET CLUB at 3165 Alma School Rd is now open. Our new groomer Fawn has over 15 years experience.

Phone: 480-917-6568 or 970-576-8641 for appt.

Wanted to Buy Diabetic Test Strips by the box, unused. Any type or brand.

Will pay top dollar.

Call Pat 480-323-8846

Real Estate

Holiday Boutique Event & Benefit For

For Sale Manufactured Homes

Sat Dec. 3rd. 9am- 3pm SanTan Center in Sunland Springs Village 2820 S Springwood Blvd. Mesa 85209 35+ Crafters & Vendors Represented with Holiday Treasures. Enjoy Refreshments, and Raffles with all proceeds from the raffles going to Sunshine Acres Children's Home in Mesa.

55+ Windsor Park in Mesa Has open lots waiting for your new home as well as homes for sale, already set up and ready to go. Come by and choose which option will work for you.

Contact Debbie at 480-969-7192

Watch for Garage Sales & Holiday Bazaars in Classifieds!

You will find Garage Sales easy with their yellow background.

Only $25 includes up to 1 week online

Garage Sale Fri & Sat 7a-11am Household, clothes, kitchen items, furniture, electronics, mason jars, kid items, DVDs, MORE 555 W. Lane Dr Mesa

To place an ad please call:

480-898-6465 class@timespublications.com

Meetings/Events

Meetings/Events

Women’s Life group 10-11:30 a.m. second and fourth Friday of each month. All women are invited to a Bible study and discussion of how the lessons can relate to our current lives. Every lady brings something different to the group and learns from each other to get to know new friends. Sun Lakes United Church Of Christ, Sun Lakes Country Club Chapel Center, 9230 Sun Lakes Blvd., Sun Lakes. Info: Jan Olson, 480-802-7457 or Joy King, 480-588-1882

Re|Engage marriage program 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays Whether you’d rate your marriage a two or a 10, this class will help you reconnect.

Chandler Christian Church 1825 S. Alma School Rd., Chandler Info and registration: chandlercc.org/reengage

JumpStart 11:45 A-4:30P. Saturdays JumpStart is a sidewalk Sunday school community outreach program serving “some of the poorest neighborhoods” in Chandler, offering snacks, games and teachings about Jesus to area children.

Participants meet at Faith Family Church 11530 E. Queen Creek Rd., Chandler Info: Joanne Sweeney 480-539-8933

H.O.P.E. Help Overcoming Painful Experiences 7 p.m. Tuesdays Free weekly small-group sessions helping people overcome emotional pain caused by divorce, grief, addictions and more; free childcare for children ages 10 and younger.

Desert Springs Church, Room 106, 19620 S. McQueen Rd., Chandler Info: hope4all@comcast.net, helpovercomingpainful experiences.org

Christian Business Networking, Chandler BiMonthly Chapter 7:30 a.m. second and fourth Tuesdays of the month Offers members the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and business referrals.

Chandler Christian Church, Room B202 1825 S. Alma School Rd., Chandler Info: Maia, 480-4250624, christianbusinessnetworking.com

SENIOR SONGBIRDS LOOKING FOR MALE AND FEMALE SINGERS. If you are age 50+ and love singing and entertaining, we would be happy to have you check us out at one of our rehearsals. We are all volunteers and perform weekly at assisted living and care centers.

We sing secular songs primarily from the 30's, 40's, and 50's, as well as patriotic and gospel songs, from September through May. We rehearse Wednesdays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at Pyle Adult Recreation Center, 655 East Southern Avenue, Tempe, AZ. For more information, call 480-775-0730.

Manufactured Homes For Sale

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Service Directory Automotive Services

Meetings/Events

Meetings/Events

NONDENOMINATIONAL, GREAT PRAISE AND WORSHIP, GREAT MESSAGES FOR TODAYS LIVING! OUR MISSION IS “EVANGELISM, HEALING, DISCIPLESHIP, THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD!

East Valley Jewish Couples Club Offers once-a-month social activities such as dining, movies, plays, etc. for Jewish couples in the 45- to 65-year-old age range. Info: Melissa, 480-785-0744, beadlover@cox.net

VISIT US AT ValorCC.com.

Cleaning Services

Cash For Unwanted Vehicles Free Removal for Abandoned Cars Call Chester 480-232-6381

Contractors

YOUR CLASSIFIED SOURCE

Electrical Services

Garage/Doors

HONESTY • INTEGRITY • QUALITY

GARAGE DOOR SERVICE

• Panel Changes and Repairs • Installation of Ceiling Fans • Switches/Outlets • Home Remodel

- Ahw Resident Since 1987 -

ALL RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL ELECTRICAL Call Jim Endres 480.282.7932

East Valley/ Ahwatukee

Broken Springs Replaced Nights/Weekends Bonded/Insured 480-251-8610

Not a licensed contractor

2 Guys

Plumbing & Handyman Plumbing, Electrical, Remodel & Additions, Drywall, Painting, Concrete, Tile & Flooring

ROC# 290545

BONDED & INSURED

All Work Guaranteed!

30 Years Experience • INSURED

CLASS@TIMESPUBLICATIONS.COM

Not a Licensed Contractor

Appliance Repairs

Appliance Repair Now

• Same Day Service • On-Site Repairs • Servicing All Major Brands • Quality Guaranteed

We Also Buy Used Appliances, Working or Not

480-659-1400 Licensed & Insured Concrete & Masonry

• Energy Efficient Window and Door Replacement • Custom Homes • Kitchen and Bath Remodel • Room Additions • Patio Covers and Extensions • Gazebos Owners have over 20 years of experience in Ahwatukee and over 1,000 satisfied customers.

Contact Geno Carr for a free estimate

ce 1999

Affordable, Quality Work Sin

Fencing/Gates

Block Fence * Gates

Garage/Doors

• Water Damage • Drywall Repair • Popcorn & Wallpaper Removal

• Int/Ext Painting • Patio & Carport Ceiling Resurfacing • Stucco Repairs

Since1980 Licensed & Bonded ROC 130069

GARAGE DOORS Unbeatable Customer Service & Lowest Prices Guaranteed!

10%

Discount for Seniors & Veterans

FREE

Opener & Door Lubrication with Repair

SERVICE FEE WILL BE WAIVED WITH REPAIR

www.mikesdrywallservice.com

“No Job Too Small Man!”

Call Bruce at 602.670.7038

Ahwatukee Resident/ References/ Insured/ Not a Licensed Contractor

Lowest Prices * 30 Yrs Exp Serving Entire Valley

Drywall

SPECIALIZING IN…

2010, 2011 2012, 2013, 2014

602-789-6929 Roc #057163

480-688-6849 DRYWALL, PAINTING & REMODELING SERVICE

www.EastValleyTribune.com

602-332-6694

Painting • Flooring • Electrical • Plumbing Drywall • Carpentry • Decks • Tile • More!

YOU’LL LIKE US - THE BEST!

MIKE’S

Check Our Online Classifieds Too!

Call Andy

Marks the Spot for ALL Your Handyman Needs!

“Experience You Can Count On”

Oooh, MORE ads online!

Evan Knittel Please take notice that a Freedom from Parental Control has been scheduled on 12/09/2016 at 9:00 AM in Department F1 of this court, located at 540 E. Main Street Stockton, CA 95202

Handyman

480.898.6465

If It’s Broken, We Can Fix It!

Meetings/Events

Over 28 Years Experience • ROC #246019 Bonded/Insured

I FIND THE DIRT MOST PEOPLE MISS!!

25 years experience.

Serving the East Valley. Unbelievable rates. Call Sheril at 480-399-2299

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480-626-4497 www.lifetimegaragedoorsaz.com

ACTION CONTRACTING INC. Specializing in Remodeling & Repairng

WE DO IT ALL! SINCE 1978

• Drywall & Stucco Repairs • Windows • Doors • Cabinets • Block Fences • Wrought Iron gates • Remodeling • Additions • Plumbing • Patios • Painting • Bathrooms • Kitchens • Tenant Improvements

EAST VALLEY

480-833-7353

WEST VALLEY

602-377-3860 LIC/BONDED/INSURED Res/Comm’l ROC#218802

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Home Improvement

Home Improvement

Meetings/Events Grief Care 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays A place to come share your feelings or just listen to others as we try to navigate through our grief. You don’t have to do it alone.

Epiphany Lutheran Church, south campus old church building 800 W. Ray Rd., Room 325, Chandler, a quarter mile south of Alma School Road on the north side of Ray. Info: griefcareaz@gmail.com

Landscape Maintenance

Painting

Juan Hernandez

SPRINKLER

Drip/Install/Repair

Not a licensed contrator

23 years exp.

Call Now (480) 720-3840

Juan Hernandez

TREES Sell, Deliver, Install 20% OFF! 23 Years exp (480) 720-3840

HOME IMPROVEMENT Interior/Exterior Painting 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE Dunn Edwards Quality Paint Small Stucco/Drywall Repairs

We Are State Licensed and Reliable!

Free Estimates • Senior Discounts

480-338-4011 Plumbing

Landscape Maintenance

A-Z Tauveli Prof LANDSCAPING LLC

We will give you totally new landscaping or revamp your current landscaping!

Sell Your Stuff!

Call Classifieds Today!

480.898.6465

Tree/Palm Tree Trimming • Sprinkler Systems Desertscape • Gardening • Concrete Work Block Wall • Real & Imitation • Flagstone

FREE ESTIMATES

602-471-3490 or 480-962-5149 ROC#276019 • LICENSED BONDED INSURED

CLASS@TIMESPUBLICATIONS.COM

Irrigation Repair Services Inc. Licensed • Bonded • Insured Technician

Specializing in Controllers, Valves, Sprinklers, Landscape Lighting, P.V.C. & Poly Drip Systems

Call Lance White

480.721.4146 www.irsaz.com

ROC# 256752

Painting

PAINTING FOR PENNIES Compare And Save!

Complete Interior and Exterior House Painting

VALLEY WIDE FREE ESTIMATES! Lifetime Guarantee

Licensed Bonded Insured | ROC # 301084

480-405-7808 homeimprovementclub.com

ROC#243600

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Plumbing

Pool Service / Repair

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Tree Services

Window Cleaning

MISSED THE DEADLINE?

JuanPavers Hernandez • Concrete P O O L S E RV I C E S

Water Features • Sprinkler Repair

P O O L R E PA I R

Pebble cracking, Plaster peeling, Rebar showing, Pool Light out?

I CAN HELP!

23 Years Experience • Dependable & Reliable

Call Juan at

480-720-3840 Not a licensed contractor.

Roofing

Water Heaters Installed - $469 Unclog Drains - $49.95 FREE ESTIMATES • MANY REFERRALS ANYTHING PLUMBING • SAME DAY SERVICE

Bonded/Insured • ROC #223709

480-405-7099 ItsJustPlumbSmart.com

Tree Service

• Tree Trimming • Tree Removal • Stump Grind • Queen Palm & Citrus Treatment • Deep Root Fertilization

www.usarbor.com FREE ESTIMATES

480.812.0731

PLUMBERS CHARGE TOO MUCH!!!

Beat Any Price By 10% FREE R/O FILTERS!

U.S. ARBOR

Lic #990148 • Insured

SH

ALL YOU NEED IS A PU

Tiles, shingles, flat, repairs & new work Free Estimates • Ahwatukee Resident Over 30 yrs. Experience

480-706-1453

Licensed/Bonded/Insured • ROC #236099

480.898.6465 CLASS@TIMESPUBLICATIONS.COM

Roofing

Public Notices

Call us to place your ad online!

480-898-6564 Public Notices NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL AND ABANDONED PROPERTY Notice is given that pursuant to section 331704 of the Arizona Revised Statutes, Chapter 15 - Self-Service Storage, Fast & EZ Self Storage , 101 W. Park Ave. Chandler, AZ 85225 will sell by competitive bidding on November 11, 2016 @10:40 A.M. The auction is to be held at the above address. Property to be sold as follows: boxes of misc. items, household furniture, filing cabinets, display shelves and racks, mattresses, tools, toolbox, ladder, dolly, T.V. , lamp, fridge, tricycle, belonging to the following: #017 10x20 NAAJIDAH RANAA MUSTFAA #029 5x10 GLORIA REYNOSO #119 10x20 JONATHAN GARDNER #195 10x15 GILBERT ESPARZA #220 10x15 SOPHIA MARQUEZ BC Cole Auctioneers 623-362-2904 602-618-4106 cell

Eco-Site, Inc. is proposing to install a monopole at 21216 South Lindsay Road, Chandler, AZ (33-15-17.9N, 111-43-26.8N). The height of the tower will be 27.4 meters above ground level (414.8 meters above mean sea level). The tower is anticipated to have no lights. Interested persons may review the application for this project at www.fcc.gov/asr/applications by entering Antenna Structure Registration (Form 854) file no.

A1052451 and may raise environmental concerns about the project under the National Environmental Policy Act rules of the Federal Communications Commission, 47 CFR §1.1307, by notifying the FCC of the specific reasons that the action may have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment. Requests for Environmental Review must be filed within 30 days of the date that notice of the project is published on the FCC’s website and may only raise environmental concerns. The FCC strongly encourages interested parties to file Requests for Environmental Review online at www.fcc.gov/asr/environmentalrequest, but they may be filed with a paper copy by mailing the Request to FCC Requests for Environmental Review, Attn: Ramon Williams, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554. A copy of the Request should be provided to Eco-Site at 240 Leigh Farm Rd, suite 415 Durham, NC 27707.

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Special Open House Event!

Featuring Nationally Known Hearing Aid Expert, Kurt Smelser

Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday November 8, 9 & 10

By popular request we have arranged for Kurt Smelser to visit our offices!

SIMPLY THE

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INVISBLE TECHNOLOGY IN THE

INDUSTRY

Mesa Location

Tuesday, November 8th Wednesday, November 9th

Hearing Health Care Coupon! up to

$1,000 OFF!

Peoria Location

Thursday, November 10th

Hearing Health Care Coupon!

FREE

a Pair of NuEar NOW™ Wireless Hearing Instruments

Batteries for up to 5 Years!

Discount taken off MSRP. Cannot be combined with any other offers.

Expires 11/10/16

With the purchase of a new hearing system. Limit one voucher per customer.

Expires 11/10/16

ABC Hearing Center

7165 E University Dr., Bldg. 17, Suite 167 Mesa, AZ • 480-498-2210

ABC Hearing Center

14155 N. 83rd Ave., Bldg. 7, Suite 147 Peoria, AZ • 623-565-9170

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Kurt Smelser

ABC Hearing Center is proud to have served our community with care and compassion for many years. To extend our appreciation, we are having a special event November 8th & 9th at our Mesa location and November 10th at our Peoria location.

During this event, Hearing Exams and Consultations will be FREE! Come learn about our new hearing technology – NuEar NOW and iNOW™ Made for iPhone™ hearing aids.