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Becoming an American
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Citizenship dream in reach for EV Brit BY SHELLEY RIDENOUR TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
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Dave Karasinski says the biggest factor in his decision to become an American was the right to vote. “This election, I want to be part of it.”
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here will likely be two celebrations of Independence Day this month for Mesa resident Dave Karasinski, originally from England. Had his paperwork been completed just a bit more quickly, he might be one of the 100 or so people who’ll become American citizens during a July 4 ceremony in Mesa. Alas, Karasinski has to wait until after his July 11 interview and citizenship test to see if he’ll get his long-awaited dream of becoming an American. He’s already excited about his American future. “I feel more patriotic about this country than I ever felt toward England or the U.K.,” Karasinski says. “Americans kind of get it. Everybody is proud to be here and knows they’re lucky to be where they are. In the U.K., I never witnessed the patriotism I see here.” Assuming all goes well on the 11th—he passes the citizenship test See
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Nano, home brew business hops in the East Valley BY MIKE BUTLER TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
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n April Fools’ Day a few months ago, Chuck Wennerlund sent word out to his many social media followers that his excavations and renovations inside of a historic building on Mesa’s Main Street had unearthed evidence of a 1920s speakeasy. Most of his friends got the joke. If you soak up urban legends, speakeasies were as common as hardware stores on the street corners of Mesa, Chandler and Gilbert back in the old days. Although no speakeasy ever let thirsty Prohibition customers through the door at
210 W. Main St., Oro Brewing Company soon will. For Wennerlund and his partner, Dave Valencia, it will be the culmination of a dream that began when they made their first five-gallon batch of homebrew a few years ago. With those first beers, they wowed themselves. With subsequent batches, they wowed their friends and colleagues in the Arizona Society of Homebrewers. Their hobby quickly scaled to 10 gallons and moved from the kitchen to the patio, then to half of the two-car garage. Awards See
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"Hops are the heart and soul of beer," says Jeffrey Haines, long-time owner of Brewers Connection in Tempe