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BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

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Six Mesa officers are suspended after two beating incidents.

COMMUNITY ........ 13 Two childhood friends find success with their boutique farm.

BUSINESS ................ 15 Both airport areas in Mesa snag big business deals.

The Mormon Church’s massive redevelopment project in the Temple District increasingly spotlights the limitations of Mesa’s historic preservation laws as downtown moves toward a major revival.

While the city ordinance protects historic districts from changes in character, it does not provide much protection from a bulldozer – nor does state law.

When City Creek Reserve, the real estate affiliate of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, applied for demolition permits for nine properties, including seven houses in the Temple District dating back to the 1940s, the city’s decision to reject them triggered a 180day moratorium to allow for negotiation and discussion of other options.

Those negotiations unfolded this week before the city’s normally low-profile Historic Preservation Board, with at least two members pleading with City Creek Reserve officials to

spare as many houses as possible and at least one resigning himself to the fact that the houses likely will get demolished.

“I will never vote for these houses to be demolished, ever,’’ said Vice Chairwoman Jan-

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Mesa Historic Preservation Board members Milagros Zingroni Greg Marek (center) and Brandon Benzing discussed the Mormon Tempe's impact on the surrounding historic neighborhood last Tuesday.

Farm-to-table dining eyed for historic home

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esa plans to join the growing movement toward fresh food and healthier eating – with a historic twist and an inspiration from an ambitious project in Phoenix.

The city is requesting proposals to convert historic Sirrine House, which dates to 19thcentury founding pioneer families, into a farm-to-fork restaurant that would stand out for its healthy cuisine and Victorian-style architecture.

“We really want it to become a destination

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restaurant, something uniquely Mesa,’’ said Jeff Robbins, an assistant Mesa downtown transformation manager. “We want to transport people back to the original Mesa.’’

Mesa also wants to reinstate a farmers market and has at least three prominent sites in mind, although none has yet been selected while the city gauges interest from possible operators.

The sites, mentioned in a briefing to the City Council, include recently renovated Pioneer Park, the parking lot at Mesa Arts Center and Mesa Civic Center.

The Civic Center offers the added dimension of being across the street from Sirrine

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House, which would be convenient if the plan to transform the house into a history-themed restaurant comes to fruition.

Jeff McVay, Mesa’s downtown transformation manager, said during a presentation to the council that the Civic Center has potential date-conflict problems because the farmers market would have to schedule around other events.

“I like the fact we are looking for partners.

This is not the city of Mesa going into the restaurant business or the farmers market business,’’ Mayor John Giles said.

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Mesa Council OKs ASU campus amid bitter debate

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

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esa’s longtime dream of bringing an Arizona State University campus to downtown is about to come true – but not without a steep price and a polarizing debate.

Despite a deep divide among speakers, who alternately praised the five-story academic building as an outstanding investment and condemned it as a source of debt, the City Council voted 5-2 on June 4 to approve the project.

The vote comes about two years after voters rejected a sales tax increase that would have financed a much larger campus. This time, Mesa chose to use enterprise fund revenues, which include utility funds.

Under questioning from Councilmember Jeremy Whittaker, a critic of the plan, City Manager Chris Brady said the $63.5 million estimated price tag inflates to about $100 million when about $5 million per year in debt service is included over a 20-year payoff.

Mesa Mayor John Giles and former Mayor Scott Smith advocated strongly for the project.

Giles said Mesa needs ASU to help produce an educated workforce highly sought by potential employers, and that Mesa lags behind other East Valley cities in educational attainment and household income.

Giles likened the ASU campus to Mesa’s investment of millions of dollars into the conversion of the former Williams Air Force Base into Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.

He said the city was criticized back in the 1990s for sinking so much money into the airport, but that it has paid off handsomely in creating 11,000 jobs and a $1.4 billion economic impact.

“The return on the investment exceeds the investment,’’ Giles said, referring to

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The Downtown Mesa landscape could change dramatically within the next five years as a result of the planned ASU campus and the mammoth Arizona Temple neighborhood project.

the ASU building. “What is the cost of not proceeding forward?’’

Without such a campus, children raised in Mesa will move to more progressive cities for high-paying jobs and visit their parents only on holidays, Giles said.

“This is going to set us up for future generations. It will be the legacy we will leave for future generations,’’ he said.

Giles voted for the ASU plan, along with Vice Mayor David Luna, Francisco Heredia and Mark Freeman and Chris Glover. Whittaker and Kevin Thompson voted against it.

“ASU is going to be transformational for downtown,’’ Luna said. “We need education. We need a spark. The spark will be ASU in downtown Mesa.’’

Heredia said critics were focusing too much on the cost and not enough on the impact, with city officials anticipating $7.4 million a year in direct revenues and up to $100 million a year in indirect revenues.

City Council candidate Jennifer Duff, who lives in a downtown historic district, said ASU offers an opportunity to reverse the decline of downtown during the past 40 years and to build upon other improvements, such as light rail.

“ASU is the perfect partner for an innovation district,’’ Duff said, alluding to the

cutting-edge technology that will have center stage at the new Mesa facility.

“Downtown Mesa is tired of barely surviving instead of thriving,” she added.

“After 40 years of waiting, this is our launch point. Let’s not miss it.’’

But opponents said they fear Mesa is sliding into deep debt, that already-high utility rates might eventually increase and that ASU should not receive a subsidy on the backs of taxpayers. They threatened retribution at the polls for supporters.

“The fact is that Mesa voters said no and we need to respect that,’’ said Mark Yarbrough, another council candidate.

“Do it the right way; put it on the ballot.’’

But City Attorney Jim Smith said it would violate state law to put the matter on the ballot for an advisory vote.

He noted the original ASU plan went to a vote because it included a sales tax increase.

Former Congressman Matt Salmon, now an ASU lobbyist, said voters rejected a far different project.

“The people have spoken. Well, they have spoken on something else,’’ he said.

But Thompson, who represents Southeast Mesa, said he doesn’t like the city making an end run around voters.

His objection came from the way the project was handled rather than the proj-

ect itself.

“I wholeheartedly support ASU. I think it can be transformative for downtown, but I listen to my constituents and I will vote no,’’ he said.

Whittaker said he is concerned about the debt service eventually drawing down reserves in the utility fund to minimal levels and contributing to even higher utility rates. He noted that Mesa residents already pay double the water rates of Gilbert residents.

“The fact remains that someone will have to pay for this,’’ Whittaker said.

“This project is being funded on the backs of hard-working people in Mesa.’’

Brady assured Whittaker that utility rates are not anticipated to rise for five years. He said the enterprise fund has been used repeatedly to invest in major projects in Mesa.

“We don’t expect the utility rates to carry the full burden,’’ Brady said, citing increased revenues from other sources, including sales taxes.

The ASU campus will be next to City Hall, on the northeast corner of Center and Main streets. It features 118,000 square feet and grants ASU a 99-year lease at $100,000 a year. ASU is responsible for $10 million in furnishings and paying $1.3 million a year for operation and maintenance.

ASU also promised the city that at least 750 students and 40 faculty members would use the building within five years.

The building is projected to open in fall 2021.

“Technology and innovation is about everything we do,’’ said Jake Pinholster, ASU’s associate dean of policy and initiatives.

He said technology is making a transition among users from information to experience. Advanced visualization, digital media and virtual reality are among the areas of innovative study planned at the campus.

Mesa teacher defends taxing the rich for education

BY HOWARD FISCHER Capitol Media Services

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Mesa high school teacher and other organizers of a ballot measure to generate $690 million a year for education are defending their plan to have all of that new money paid by what essentially would be the top 1 percent of Arizona wage earners.

Dana Naimark, president of the Children’s Action Alliance, acknowledged that the plan for an income tax surcharge would affect only individuals making more than $250,000 a year and couples with earnings above $500,000. The proposed rates would be even higher for single filers in the $500,000-plus range and married couples with incomes exceeding $1 million a year.

But Naimark pointed out that still means the lion’s share of state dollars for education is coming from the state general fund. And the majority of those dollars are raised through the state’s 5.6 percent sales tax – a levy she said has a disproportionately higher impact on those at the bottom of the income scale.

Supporters of the so-called Invest in Education Act released a statewide sur-

vey showing that 39 percent of those polled said they definitely support the proposal, with another 24 percent saying they probably would vote for it if it gets on the November ballot. That compares with 21 percent who are definitely against it and 8 percent who are leaning that way.

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Six Mesa officers suspended in 2 brutality probes

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esa police punched an unruly suspect in the face and dragged him to the ground in a recorded confrontation that alarmed Police Chief Ramon Batista.

Last week, Batista released the video himself rather than take a chance that it would fall into the possession of a media outlet, and he immediately placed four officers on administrative review during an investigation into whether they used excessive force during the May 23 incident.

“I don’t feel our officers were at their best,’’ Batista said. “I don’t feel this incident went the way it should have went.’’

In an unrelated case, two other officers were suspended in connection with the arrest and alleged beating of a teenaged robbert suspect.

Batista said the May 23 incident also would trigger a change in police policies, with new restrictions on when it is permissible to hit a suspect in the head. He said such blows would be limited to suspects showing “active aggression.’’

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He noted that officers were responding to a domestic violence incident and were told someone was trying to force their way into an apartment and that someone inside was armed with a weapon.

“At this point, we urge caution and patience rather than a rush to judgment,’’ (Special to the Tribune) Biascoechea said, Video released last week by the Mesa police chief shows four officers punch- adding: ing a suspect during a domestic violence call.

“It is also important to realize Will Biascoechea, president of the Mesa that some police issues require – in fact, Fraternal Order of Police, released a state- they demand – the use of force. Consement saying there was much more to the quently, when physical force and/or vioincident than what appeared on the film lence is applied, it is never pretty and alclip – which got the attention of national ways disturbing.’’ television news shows.

Mesa City Councilman Jeremy Whit-

taker expressed alarm over the video.

“At first glance, this video is appalling.

It would be irresponsible for me to convict these officers in the court of public opinion before they are guaranteed their constitutional right to a fair trial as I understand there is a criminal investigation,’’ Whittaker said, adding: “We hired Chief Batista last year to focus on making sure our police department is fairly serving the public. Leadership change takes time, and I have full faith he is focusing on the issues that plague our community.’’

Police later released a report and a series of bodycam videos recorded by the officers.

The videos show one man, Erick Hernandez Reyes, 20, voluntarily following police commands when he is asked to sit on a walkway inside an apartment complex in the 700 block of East Main Street.

But Robert Lee Johnson Jr., 33, Reyes’ friend, refused to sit down and instead leaned against a wall and bent his head forward. An officer wrote that he thought

ises. Ducey is counting on an expanding economy, though the state’s jobless rate, while better than a year ago, is still higher than that of the rest of the country.

And even if those dollars are there, education advocates say the new funds still won’t replace all the funds taken from public schools in previous years.

The state Department of Revenue does not produce data that corresponds exactly to the tax brackets proposed in the ballot measure.

But it does conclude that virtually all of those new dollars would come from 20,211 taxpayers at the top of the income scale. That’s out of nearly 2.8 million tax returns filed.

Naimark said the question of the inequity of the current system on the poor extends beyond the current reliance on sales taxes to fund education and the entire state budget.

She pointed out that some of the money that will help fund the promised teacher raises is coming from a new vehicle registration fee. And Naimark said that fee, estimated at $18 – the exact amount will be set by the director of the Department of Transportation – “is the same dollar amount, no matter if you drive a 2000 Honda Civic or a 2018 Tesla.’’

“This proposal puts more balance into

what is now a very unbalanced system,’’ she said.

There is not yet a formal campaign against the ballot measure, at least not officially.

Business interests started running commercials earlier this year (before the state budget was adopted) that Matthew Benson, spokesman for the Arizona Education Project said was designed to convince voters that the state’s education situation is not as bad as some would say.

Benson said the ads were to counter what he called the “negative voices’’ in education.

And since the funding plan was approved, the Republican Governors Association has been spending money on TV commercials – it has yet to disclose the cost –- extolling Ducey for “strengthening education without raising taxes.’’

Ducey himself came out against the initiative last month.

But Naimark pointed out that the live telephone survey of 646 likely voters, conducted last month, even with the ad blitz, found that 56 percent said they believe much more needs to be done for K-12 funding, with another 15 percent saying education funding needs a little more. Only 22 percent said there has been enough allocated.

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Organizers would not disclose how many of the 150,642 valid signatures they need already have been gathered.

They did acknowledge that the biggest contributor to the cause is the Arizona Education Association.

Josh Buckey who teaches 12th grade government and economics at Red Mountain High School, rejected the suggestion that the initiative is “class warfare,’’ pitting the 99 percent of those who would be unaffected against the 1 percent who would.

“Why is it when we talk about a sales tax that you don’t get the reverse on that?’’ he asked. “Why is this dubbed class warfare?’’ he continued, calling the surcharge “one piece of the puzzle’’ for funding education.

Central to the issue is whether more money is needed for K-12 education and, if so, how much.

Gov. Doug Ducey and GOP lawmakers have boasted about the plan approved earlier this year to provide enough new dollars over the next four years to boost teacher pay, on average, by 19 percent.

There also is a commitment to restore $371 million for things like books, com-

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Red Mountain High School teacher Josh Buckley last week defended the initiative that would add a surcharge to income tax levies on people earning more than $250,000 annually.

puters and buses that Ducey and his predecessors took away from state aid to schools in prior years.

The initiative is built on two issues.

First is the question of whether the state will have the additional $1 million eventually needed to fund all the prom-

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with supporting businesspeople, kicked off the 12th annual Mesa Hydration Donation Campaign on June 4 at the food bank’s warehouse in downtown Mesa with a goal of collecting 500,000 bottles of water.

The campaign stresses the critical need for donating bottles of water to help people in need during extreme summer heat. To reinforce the lifesaving message, Eagle Scout Chandler Kleese, who collected 41 pallets of water during last year’s campaign, spoke.

To get this year’s drive going, two semi-trucks – one from Walmart, the other from Heggs Auto Group – delivered pallets of bottled water.

Among those attending were Mayor John Giles, councilmember and United Food Bank board member Kevin Thompson, Fire and Medical Department Deputy Chief Forrest Smith, United Food Bank President and CEO Dave Richins, Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Sally Harrison and Heggs Auto Group general manager Al Heggs.

Surf & Ski combing through historical silk-screen frames to donate to city Employees of Surf & Ski, Mesa’s 50-year-old iconic T-shirt printing and promotional company, began going through 5,000 silk-screen frames to find those of historical value to donate to the Mesa Historical Society.

The company kept all of the screens from the past 50 years. Surf & Ski recently moved to a new facility near Southern Avenue and Power Road from 137 W. Main St. in downtown Mesa because the building is being closed for redevelopment. The new facility does not have space for 5,000 frames, the company says.

What remains in the old location are shelves of wooden frames containing logos, graphics and text from a half-century of T-shirt making.

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The facility most recently was expanded in December 2017 and has room for additional expansion, according to Ryan Sarbinoff, regional manager of the firm’s Phoenix office.

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Councilmember Mark Freeman, a retired firefighter and a longtime farmer who grows vegetables near Hohokam Stadium, said a farmers market was attempted in Mesa previously but fizzled.

Freeman knows from operating his own seasonal farmers market two months a year that more people seem to want fresh, locally grown food and are willing to pay for it. He noted that he has customers from as far away as Ahwatukee and Gold Canyon for fresh sweet corn.

“If we could have a viable farmers market I would embrace that,’’ Freeman said.

“People need to know where the food is from.’’

Freeman said there is little agriculture left in Mesa beyond his farm, leased from another owner at Brown Road and Center Street, and that some citrus groves are likely to disappear as development continues. One such grove is owned by the city near Falcon Field.

“People want fresh produce that they know they can trust. They can trust the Arizona farmer to deliver it,’’ Freeman said. “From a farmers market, it would not be as cheap. It costs you more for quality and freshness.’’

Freeman supports the Civic Center site because it is across Center Street from Sirrine House. He envisions a chef buying fresh food at the farmers market, or maybe customers asking a chef at the restaurant to cook fresh produce that they have purchased.

“I love the idea. I think it can work,’’ Freeman said.

Robbins said he believes the Sirrine House restaurant would be supported by residents and possibly by people from out of town, and even guests staying within walking distance at the Phoenix Mesa Marriott, 200 N. Centennial Way. He said the concept of pursuing com-

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City Councilman Mark Freeman likes the idea of converting the historic Sirrine House, which dates to 19th-century founding pioneer families, into a farm-to-fork restaurant that would stand out for its healthy cuisine and Victorian-style architecture.

munity agriculture, a farmers market and a restaurant specializing in locally grown food resonated in the Imagine Mesa campaign, when residents expressed their preferences in an online survey.

Robbins added that Mesa is inspired by Phoenix’s larger The Farm at Los Olivos project, in which a park is being renovated into a community farm, an education center and a restaurant. The Phoenix project appears to have attracted strong interest, including bids by six contractors.

The Greenbelt Team is overseeing the central Phoenix park’s transformation.

“When we decided to move forward, we coupled them,’’ Robbins said, alluding to the Sirrine House restaurant conversion and the farmers market.

“I don’t think it’s a fad, a passing phase,’’ said Aric Mei, a founder and partner in Greenbelt, the project’s developer. “It’s in our best interest to know where our food is from.’’

Mei is hoping his project is completed by the end of 2020. He said he is “tickled’’ that Mesa also is pursuing the farmto-fork concept, even if it’s on a smaller scale.

“We definitely see a beautiful marriage

between the farm, the education and the food service,’’ Mei said.

Although Mesa officials are hoping for a synergy between the healthy-food projects and other downtown proposals, such as the Arizona State University campus, they said the restaurant and the farmers market need not necessarily be adjacent, he said.

Sirrine House, 160 N. Center St., was built in 1896 by Mormon pioneer Joel Sirrine shortly after his marriage to Caroline Simkins. The Victorian home, which features bricks made in Lehi and ponderosa pine from Prescott, was painstakingly preserved and renovated in the 1980s and opened as a museum in 1986, according to the Mesa Historical Museum’s website.

The city-owned Sirrine House closed as a museum in 2006 during budget cuts.

It is opens one day a year for the annual historic-home tour.

There are challenges with a potential restaurant conversion.

Robbins said the house would be used only as a dining area because it is relatively small, at 890 square feet. A kitchen would be built in a separate new building

on the property. A small storage building in the back might serve as restrooms.

One possibility might be to supplement interior seating with outdoor patio dining, he said. Another idea is to return the property to its original appearance by adding a citrus grove and a pond.

Bids to convert Sirrine House into a restaurant must be submitted by June 21.

The farmers market deadline is in July.

Natalie Morris, director of food initiatives at Local First Arizona, said there is a natural thread between a restaurant serving locally grown food and a farmers market.

“I think Mesa is an area that hasn’t had a lot of access to fresh and locally grown food,’’ she said.

Morris, who teaches classes on sustainable food systems at Mesa Community College, said there are several farmers markets throughout the region and that Mesa’s could capitalize on the city’s diversity, which includes significant Hispanic and Asian populations.

“If the farmers market were anything like that, it would be a really dynamic farmers market,’’ she said. “It would set it apart.’’

Mesa ex-lawmaker’s bribe plot unfolds before jury

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ormer Mesa legislator and Corporation Commission Chairman Gary Pierce was doing political work, at least indirectly, for the owner of a water and sewer company even as he was supposed to be regulating it, according to emails written by his wife, Sherry.

The disclosure came in federal court Thursday as jurors hearing a fraud and

bribery case got to Sherry’s emails written to Kelly Norton, the ex-wife of lobbyist Jim Norton, who is on trial with Pearce, his wife Sherry and San Tan Valley utility owner George Johnson.

Jim Norton at the time was doing lobbying for Johnson and the water and sewer company that bears his name. And Kelly Norton said it was Johnson who, in exchange for giving her a contract for $6,000 a month, required she pay $3,500 of that to Sherry Pierce.

Kelly Norton earlier testified that her ex-husband, when they were married, told her the Pierces needed money.

She testified that her then husband told her Johnson would give her KNB Consulting firm a contract, “But there was one caveat: I had to hire Sherry Pierce.”

When she said she didn’t want to do, she testified, her then husband “told me that I had to do it, and he was very angry.

He told me they (the Pierces) were having financial problems and this was a way to

help out.”

Federal prosecutors contend that the consulting contract with Sherry Pierce was really a sham, designed to funnel money from Johnson through Kelly Norton and Sherry Pierce to Gary Pierce in exchange for his favorable votes on matters affecting Johnson Utilities at the commission.

Prosecutors also say that Gary Pierce was aware of the fact that the money comSee

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i.d.e.a. Museum features ‘artful play’ exhibit Imagination, problem solving and creative thinking

through the art of play are at the heart of an exhibit opening Friday, June 15, at the i.d.e.a. Museum, 150 W Pepper Place Mesa. The Artful Play! Games & Toys exhibition features art and hands-on activities that explore the process of developing and designing toys and games.

“Games and toys open the door to great together time and conversation. They also introduce us to world cultures, teach us strategy and sportsmanship, and a whole lot more,” said i.d.e.a.

Museum Executive Director Sunnee O’Rork, noting the exhibit focuses on the importance of play beyond childhood.

Planned activities include: creating a virtual pinball game, designing paper planes and test launching on target, exploring games popular around the world, building on a giant wall structure, competing in a racing game and playing life-size games, including charades on stage Paintings, sculptures, photographs and other artwork will augment the exhibit’s theme.

Information: 480-644-4332 or ideamuseum.org

Elks Lodge marks Flag Day early, celebrates today Flag Day is a national event originated in 1916 as the result of a proclamation by President Woodrow A. Wilson, but the Order of Elks began celebrating the flag four years before that.

This year, the Mesa-Buckhorn Elks Lodge #2656 will celebrate Flag Day at 2 p.m. today, June 10 at the lodge, 6718 E. Avalon St., Mesa. The ceremony will include the presentation of historical flags and stories about them, followed by a dinner open to all who attend. The event and dinner are free and open to the public.

‘People’ magazine features Mesa woman who lost 105 pounds Nissa Graun of Mesa was a small kid until her parents got divorced

when she was 8. Then, the pounds started adding up.

Graun, now 38, finally did something about it, and as a result, she is featured in the edition of People magazine that hits the street Monday, June 11. Graun lost 105 pounds.

“I was always trying to lose weight,” Graun said. “I went on my first diet at age 12.”

She tried everything from over-exercising to restricting her diet, but she would then feel deprived and go back to eating junk food. “If I didn’t get my diet under control, it could turn into diabetes,” she said.

She settled on a high-fat diet and started doing intermittent fasting, eating only between noon and 6 p.m. “It feels good to maintain the same size,” Graun said.

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Many EV kids appear in cast of Valley Children’s Theatre's ‘Peter Pan' Plenty of Gilbert, Mesa and Chandler children will appear in the East

Valley Children’s Theatre’s production of “Peter Pan,” featuring one of its largest casts in its 21-year history with 44 kids ages 8-18.

The cast and crew have been rehearsing five days a week since May 12. Artistic director Karen Rolston said, “The biggest challenge is making sure everyone has something to do during rehearsals.” The EVCT has a volunteer base of parents and cast members’ siblings who help build sets.

Desert Ridge High School sophomore and 2016 Junior Artist of the Year Elizabeth Schaible of Gilbert plays the title role; Kylie Berge, of Chandler, a sophomore at Basha High School and winner of the 2017 Supporting Actress NYA Award, plays Wendy; Captain Hook will be played by ASU Preparatory Polytechnic Academy eighth grader and Mesa resident Tre Moore, who has been in every EVCT production the last past two years.

The production is June 14-24 at the Mesa Arts Center, 1 E. Main St., Mesa, Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. $15 for adults and $11 for children.

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During the hearing before Mesa's Historic Preservation Board last week, Carl Duke, left, vice president of the Mormon Church's development arm called City Creek Reserve, handled questions about the neighborhood renovation project from city Planning Director John Wesley and board Vice Chair Janice Gennevois.

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an option quickly deemed too expensive.

“I am not against redevelopment. I think there’s a way to marry old and new,’’ Gennenois said. “It’s our duty not to lose historic properties. Once they are gone, we can never get them back.’’

Milagros Zingoni, a board member and Arizona State University professor, pleaded with City Creek to save at least one or two houses as a compromise and perhaps convert one into a restaurant.

She said it would provide a historical highlight to the redevelopment plan and noted the houses are part of Mesa’s Mormon heritage.

“We owe it to those coming after us that we have cultural value,’’ Zingoni said.

But Greg Marek, a board member and Mesa’s former historic preservation officer, said it is not feasible to build the underground parking garage without demolishing or moving the houses. He said moving houses without any unique architectural value might be too costly.

The houses derive their historic value more as a group as an example of Mesa’s post-World War II expansion from the

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Johnson was girding himself for a fight.

The officer wrote that he delivered several knee strikes but Johnson stood firm.

Eventually, the officer said he punched Johnson in the jaw three or four times and elbowed Johnson in the forehead.

That’s when several other officers pounced on Johnson and handcuffed him.

Later, an officer wrote that he thought Johnson was getting ready to spit on him as police attempted to place him on an el-

original town center and suburbanization near the Temple, he said.

“It’s a direct link to telling the story of the Temple and the city’s development,’’ Marek said.

But after learning more about the plans details, Marek said City Creek’s offer to preserve history by surveying the homes, documenting their ownership, using oral histories when possible and installing plaques in their new development looks increasingly appealing.

In the end, property rights prevail after the moratorium expires, he said.

“I think, under the circumstances, that’s the best we are going to get,’’ Marek said.

He said the conflict between historic preservation and downtown redevelopment is fueled in part by the close proximity to the light rail, which creates an incentive for higher-density development.

Eric Vondy, preservation incentives coordinator for the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, said there are 58 contributing properties in the district.

“Losing seven of them will not cause the district to be de-listed from the National Register of Historic Places,’’ Vondy said.

But if additional contributing proper-

ties were removed through demolition, and the number of historic properties dropped below 50 percent, the district would be in jeopardy, he said.

Carl Duke, vice president of City Creek Reserve, said the company has received two inquires about its offer to give the homes away and to donate a maximum of $10,000 toward a move, which could cost $70,000 to $80,000 per house.

City Creek will not pay to move the houses, Duke said. He said there are no plans for additional demolitions, although the LDS church owns more property south of the redevelopment site and north of First Avenue.

“We are not taking down structures that are not absolutely necessary to this development,’’ he said.

The board voted to approve an LDS church request to demolish its present Visitors Center, originally built in 1956 and expanded in 1981, to improve the Temple’s visibility from the light rail.

The plan features a large reflection pool and returns the Temple to its original look when it opened in the middle of a vacant field in 1928, said Bill Williams, director of Temple design.

However, after a long debate, the board

decided to delay making a recommendation to the City Council about the redevelopment plan until a future meeting.

Although a zoning change goes before the Planning and Zoning Board on June 20, the council is unlikely to act on the request until sometime in August, Planning Director John Wesley said.

When combined with the Temple renovations, the massive redevelopment plan west of the Temple seems destined to leave a huge impression on downtown Mesa. The 4.5-acre development, between Mesa Drive and Lesueur south of Main Street, is designed to maximize the light rail.

It includes three four-story buildings, two three story buildings and three twostory buildings, with the tallest buildings nearest to Mesa Drive and Main Street. A new Visitors Center/Family History Discovery Center would be located at Main and LeSueur, near the light rail.

The underground parking garage, with 450 stalls, creates room for 1.6 acres of open space.

“It’s extremely expensive, but in the long run, it’s a huge asset to Mesa,’’ said Matt Baldwin, City Creek Reserve’s director of real estate development.

evator. The officer responded by pushing Johnson’s face against the elevator door.

Another video pictured a woman identified as Johnson’s mother arriving at the scene, yelling at her son to calm down, and a second woman telling police that Johnson has trouble controlling his anger.

The report said the incident began when Carlos Diaz, the boyfriend of Reyes’ exgirlfriend, Kimberly Luevano, 20, called police and said Reyes was trying to force his way inside the apartment. Diaz also told police he was armed with a handgun.

Diaz said Reyes had left, telling the peo-

ple inside that they were “lucky he didn’t have his strap,’’ slang for a gun. Now, Reyes had returned, this time with Johnson as reinforcement. The couple’s three children were inside the apartment.

Luevano told police that Reyes had grabbed her by the neck and pinned her against a wall on a prior visit. She said he was trying to use a key to get inside but he was getting frustrated because she was holding the lock.

Eventually, Diaz handed Reyes a backpack he had left inside the apartment in exchange for the key, according to the re-

port. Johnson kicked the door open.

Reyes disputed this version, saying he had entered the apartment, was told to leave and did so to avoid getting shot. He said his only motivation was to retrieve the backpack. Police searched the backpack and found two glass pipes used for smoking marijuana.

Reyes was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct related to domestic violence and possession of drug paraphernalia, while Johnson was arrested on suspicion of hindering investigation and disorderly conduct.

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Hale Theatre seeks expansion, renovation OK

BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Tribune Staff Writer

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he Hale Centre Theatre is planning an extensive remodeling in downtown Gilbert’s Heritage District that would include a new facade and expanded facilities.

The theater, opened by David and Corrin Dietlein in 2003, currently has an understated brick facade facing Page Avenue just west of Gilbert Road.

The proposed redesign would include features inspired by early-20th-century playhouses, including a formal entry canopy and lighted vintage-style marquee.

The proposal includes imitation gaslights, vintage-style gooseneck lights and murals.

The theater became one of the first significant nighttime attractions in downtown Gilbert when it opened nearly 15 years ago.

Since then, the area has been transformed into a thriving district filled with locally owned restaurants and breweries.

The theater’s owner is seeking rezoning approval on the property that would allow for a 10,891-square-foot expansion, to include a dance studio, rehearsal space,

offices, scene-production studio, costume storage and retail space, according to a Gilbert Redevelopment Commission memo.

The project would not meet minimum parking requirements for a development of its size.

So, the owners are seeking an administrative use permit to allow off-site public parking to meet the theater’s needs.

The theater’s planned expansion features a passenger loading zone directly in front on Page Avenue to accommodate theatergoers utilizing Uber, Lyft and other rideshare services.

The loading zone would result in the removal of 12 on-street parking spaces.

A representative for Hale Centre Theatre declined to comment on the expansion because the plans are not finalized.

The amendment to the original Hale Center Theatre development agreement, which includes the new zoning amendment, and the design review for the theater redesign and expansion, is scheduled to be heard by the Town Council at its June 21 meeting.

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The Hale Theatre's design aims for an intimate theatrical experience.

in Utah, California and Arizona.

The oldest, in Glendale, California, traces its roots to Nathan and Ruth Hale, who moved from Utah to California in 1945 to pursue careers in show business before opening the Glendale Centre Theatre in 1947.

The proposed expansion at Hale Centre Theatre in Gilbert pales in comparison to

its sister theater in Sandy, Utah. That theater, which had been in West Valley City, debuted its $80 million facility last year, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

The project — which received $42 million in bond funding from the Sandy City Council — seats 900 in its Centre Stage Theatre that features a custom arena-style center stage.

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fforts to build up downtown Mesa as an arts-and-entertainment center got a boost as the National Comedy Theatre announced its plans to move there in the fall.

The improv comedy venue is moving from its decade-old location in the Fiesta District on Longmore near Southern Avenue to 214. W. Main St. “We love to hang out downtown and we see the collaboration between the businesses here,” NCT Director Kristina Lenz said. “There is a strong sense of community, and now we get to be a part of it.”

City officials hailed the move.

“Downtown is transforming, and seeing groups like NCT choose downtown confirms that Mesa is becoming a hotspot for arts and entertainment,” said Mesa Mayor John Giles.

Added District 4 city Councilman Chris Glover: “Downtown Mesa is growing and evolving, and NCT will play a big role in that transformation. Bringing another entertainment option to our

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The National Comedy Theatre will be leaving its home of a decade on South Longmore later this year to occupy a space in downtown Mesa.

downtown visitors is a big plus for the area and the city.”

NCT also is revamping its classes with a new improv workshop program designed to offer more options throughout the week for busy people.

The new venue can be configured for multiple uses – which will play to the theater’s multiple uses beyond is weekly G-rated live shows at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. It also has a “slightly uncensored” show for audiences over 17 at

9:45 p.m.

The theater not only hosts private corporate events and parties as well as workshops, but also makes it space and team available for team-building exercises.

Teams of comedians associated with the theater also bring their act to corporations and other private venues across the Valley.

The all-improvised comedy shows offer “spontaneous and interactive” routines in which audience members get to shout out suggestions, challenge the performers and decide which team of comedians is the funniest.

“No two shows are ever the same because they are completely improvised,” its website states..

The theater’s team-building efforts involve “improv games and exercises” that offer participants a chance to “learn quick-thinking skills and build confidence.”

The National Comedy Theater franchise started in 2000 in California.

Until the downtown move, the theater will remain open at 1111 S. Longmore.

Information: nctphoenix.com

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ing to his wife originated with Johnson.

But Thursday’s testimony goes a step beyond, with the emails saying some of the work Sherry Pierce was supposed to be performing for her $3,500 monthly fee from Johnson was actually being done by her husband while he was serving on the commission that regulates utilities and voting on matters affecting Johnson Utilities.

For example, one email from Sherry Pierce concerned efforts by Johnson to set up a nonprofit organization that could put money into political campaigns, but in a way to legally avoid having to disclose the true identity of donors.

The goal of putting together such a “dark money” committee, Kelly Norton said, was “to support candidates that are running for the Arizona Corporation Commission.”

In her email, Sherry said her husband, Gary, helped her with that chore.

Another email involved putting together a memo about the commission’s powers and duties.

“Gary emailed this to me last night while I was working on Christmas cards,” Sherry wrote to Kelly.

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me’’ also prepared a list of corporations that could be contacted to contribute to the nonprofit that would put money into political races.

Kelly Norton said there were other instances where Gary Pierce was providing input to Johnson about whom he should back for Pinal County supervisor.

But evidence that Gary Pierce was doing work for Johnson actually could work against prosecutors who are (Capitol Media Services) trying to prove that he Former Mesa legislator Gary Pierce is on trial for bribery in connection with his stint as chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commis- is guilty of accepting a bribe. sion.

In this case, prosecuIn another email, that Sherry Pierce tors say that Johnson created a method of wrote to Kelly Norton about an updated getting $31,500 to the Pierces to secure list of contacts at the commission Sherry his vote on two issues before the commission in 2011 through 2013. was preparing.

One was a change in policy, champi“I’m still going to have Gary check over the list again today to see if he has any oned by Gary Pierce, to allow the owners other changes or revisions,” Sherry wrote. of companies like Johnson Utilities to pass Kelly Norton said “Sherry, Gary and along the costs of their personal income

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taxes to their customers. The other was a vote by the commission increasing the book value of Johnson Utilities, a move that entitled the company to increase its rates.

Defense attorneys say that federal bribery laws do not apply when actual work is performed for a payment. And if jurors believe that Sherry and Gary were compensated by Johnson for things they actually did, it may be difficult to get a conviction.

Kelly Norton was never charged and agreed to testify for prosecutors in exchange for immunity.

She testified earlier that she decided to cooperate because “I didn’t want to go to jail.”

Kelly said the contract deal was pretty much sealed at a Sept. 28, 2011 dinner at a Mesa restaurant between the Nortons and the Pierces.

She said that when she heard the FBI was investigating, she expressed her concerns to her then husband and that he “talked about spousal privilege and how we had dotted all the I’s and crossed all the T’s, and nothing would happen, and I shouldn't worry.”

She added that her ex told her that they had documented everything “so nobody could say it wasn't a real business deal.”

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Micro Farm supplies greens to area restaurants

BY LYNETTE CARRINGTON Tribune Contributor

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ick Torpey and Jared Garcia are childhood friends from Rochester, New York, who have firm roots in East Mesa.

The duo co-own and farm at Mesa Micro Farm, a boutique sustainable urban farm in East Mesa that supplies microgreens to various Valley restaurants, chefs and markets, including Steak and Stone and Red, White and Brew.

“I always had a huge green thumb growing up and my mom had a huge vegetable garden, and I still look forward to fresh vegetables every day,” Garcia said.

Although Torpey has a background in sales and restaurants, he shares an enthusiasm for all things green.

“I grew up with a grandmother who orchestrated the gardens at a party house on the lake in Rochester for 55 years,” Torpey said. “I was digging in the dirt as a baby and until later on in life, I took care

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Nick Torpey and Jared Garcia are co-owners and farmers at Mesa Micro Farm.

of a perennial garden at my parents.”

Garcia moved to Arizona for vacation seven years ago and never looked back. He encouraged Torpey to move to the Valley.

Mesa Micro Farm has been growing since.

“We do plant- and cut-to-order,” Torpey said. “Every time we go out, we provide samples to potential clients and talk about

the microgreens we offer. What someone gets is planted specifically for them. We don’t just harvest every day. We plant and harvest when someone needs it.”

Garcia added, “Our farm space is allocated to our clients. We don’t grow a mass quantity of something then divvy it up. Take our client Pomegranate Cafe. They order 25 pounds of black oil sunflower at a time. Sixteen trays of those greens are theirs.”

Mesa Micro Farm’s products include black oil sunflower shoots, speckled pea tendrils, triton radish, wasabi mustard, arugula and red Russian kale.

Ron Siegel, owner of Red, White and Brew, has incorporated Mesa Micro Farm microgreens into his restaurant’s menu.

“We met with Nick and Jared and left it to their discretion as to which greens our guests would enjoy in salads or as garnishes,” Siegel said.

“We are thrilled to be able to offer their See

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Raised in Sunshine Acres, Mesa model fulfills her dream

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Tribune Staff Writer

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rowing up at Sunshine Acres Children’s Home in Northeast Mesa, Jenny Watwood had simple goals: become a model and travel the world.

By 19, she had accomplished both.

“When I signed (a contract) in Arizona, I said I wanted to travel the world,” Watwood said. “I modeled in Milan for five years and I had a really good experience living in Europe. Everybody is very, very creative. It was the best experience I could have had as a model.”

Now living in California, Watwood was on a recent untouched cover of Playboy and starred in Maluma’s music video “El Prestamo,” which has more than 100 million views.

Watwood grew up as the youngest of seven children in a conservative household in West Mesa.

“When I was younger, my mom needed help with two of my brothers,” Watwood said. “We lived in a really bad neighborhood.

My brothers were at Sunshine Acres until they graduated high school and could make their own decisions.”

Their mother soon landed a job as the

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Jenny Watwood was raised at Sunshine Acres, a Mesa home for children from troubled families.

Sunshine Acres chef and Watwood and her sister moved to the facility at Loop 202 and Higley Road with her.

Watwood’s mother was a former model, and the little girl heard stories about her

career. In high school, she decided to try it.

“I found a photographer on Facebook who would do a test shoot,” she said. “I borrowed money from my sister, who had a job at the time. I thought I had to have pictures before going to an agency and see if they wanted to sign me.”

The photographer submitted the pictures to a modeling agency. Watwood immediately moved to Milan, booked international campaigns and appeared in Vogue, GQ and Vanity Fair.

“I took it into my own hands,” she said.

“Nobody came up to me in Starbucks. Arizona isn’t a fashion state.”

Watwood spent the next five years working and living between Milan and the United States, establishing an impressive modeling career. While living in Milan, she was cast in the 2016 reboot of the Italian cult favorite TV series “Ciao Darwin,” which boosted her into the spotlight in that country.

Watwood is widely known in the U.S. as the love interest and partner in crime of Latin superstar Maluma in his video “El Prestamo.” The action-packed video features car chases and shoot-outs, with Watwood performing her own stunts.

“That was a lot of fun,” she said. “I’ve al-

ways said no to music videos. They don’t pay well and it’s not real acting. We’re always dancing in a corner with a drink in our hands.

This was an actual short action movie.

“I flew to Miami and shot for two days.

Maluma is such a sweetheart. He’s really humble and the experience was incredible. I got to shoot guns from the top of a moving vehicle, which was fun for me, too.”

Appearing on the cover of Playboy’s “Future” issue in a silver jumpsuit gave Watwood even more exposure.

“It wasn’t something I ever cared to do,” she said. “I thought if they wanted me on the cover, of course I’ll do it. I was very flattered.

“I like the direction they’re going now. I like that they’re talking about real topics and real things in their magazine. I thought if they were going in that direction, I’d be honored to be on the cover.”

She acknowledges that her family initially was shocked.

“But they told me they were proud of me, and they knew any decision I made would be thought through,” Watwood said. “They trust my decisions. That meant a lot to me.”

The Arizonan’s true passion is as a writer.

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She and Cuban actress Rachell Vallori are developing a female-focused TV series based on the lives of women living in Los Angeles.

“I want to eventually be a film director,” Watwood said. “That’s my main goal. I love suspenseful drama, serious movies, documentaries, things like that. I love comedies when I’m in the mood. I’m more of a serious person. That’s what I like to write about, as well.”

Watwood’s talents do not stop there. She and her boyfriend are working on a line of women’s leather clothing through the men’s luxury leather designer KILLSPENCER. Watwood is still friends with many of the

children with whom she grew up at Sunshine Acres, which inspired her to work with the Jack Brewer Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes access to education and cultural exchanges and assists in medical aid and disaster relief.

Through her work with the foundation, Watwood traveled to Haiti, where she met with villagers to address their concerns and provide communities with laptops and internet access. She donates 10 percent of all she makes to charity.

“For me, I’ve learned a lot about myself,” she said about her travels. “I learned what I was capable of. I moved to Europe alone. I had to learn to navigate through a new city without a cellphone. I had to prove myself as a person and as a model.”

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Mesa Micro Farm’s clients include Red, White and Brew and Steak and Stone.

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unique produce and we see a growing interest in healthy superfoods among our clientele. The fact that the farm is local and operated by enthusiastic and helpful owners makes procuring from Mesa Micro Farm a natural and mutually beneficial choice.”

Looking toward the future, the owners of Mesa Micro Farm seek to take on additional clients passionate about the farm-to-table food movement.

“Our goal is to be sustainable and we’d like to do this indefinitely,” Garcia said.

“It’s not going to be huge. It’s a micro farm and it always will be.”

For additional information, visit mesamicrofarm.com.

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Mesa couple’s business caters to cornhole game craze

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ornhole, a staple of backyard games, has become an organized sport with its own national governing board and even has state tournaments like next weekend’s third annual Arizona Cornhole Championship.

And that couldn’t make Todd and Erin Kisicki happier, since their three-yearold Mesa-based business, KB Kornhole, caters to the growing sport.

KB Kornhole dominates the sport’s presence in the East Valley. It supplied the equipment for any number of festivals and activities where cornhole is offered, such as last fall’s Rockin’ Taco Festival in Chandler.

Todd, national director for the American Cornhole League, and his wife are not only enthusiastic fans but also founders and organizers of the state cornhole championship, which will be held in downtown Phoenix at Ability 360 Sports & Fitness Center.

Four years ago, the couple never dreamed of starting a business built around their pastime when they were tossing resin-filled beanbags at the 2-by4-foot inclined wooden boards built by Todd’s father, Ron, in his garage.

“We thought we might start a little family business making the boards and renting them out, but we quickly learned how time-consuming that was and how we had some real competition,” recalled Todd, adding they now exclusively use boards made by Original Cornhole Company.

At the time, Todd was teaching technology at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and Erin was a social

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Erin and Todd Kisicki of Mesa turned their passion for the game cornhole into a growing business that promotes events built around this growing national pastime.

worker. They decided to try their hand at promoting a cornhole tournament to help benefit UMom New Day Centers in Phoenix.

They did so at Carriage Lane, a beanbag’s throw from their Mesa residence.

“We found we were good at it,” said Todd admitting his abilities with building their website, graphic design and using software to organize players and keep scores added to their success.

“I just started shooting out emails and making phone calls to see if anyone was interested in our organizing tournaments. And through word of mouth, we started doing more fundraisers and corporate team-building events, he ex-

plained, adding: “It was also about this time that I asked around to see if there was a state tournament, and when I learned there wasn’t, I grabbed the name – Arizona State Cornhole Championships – and ran with it.”

The first state competition was in Queen Creek; the second year, the couple decided to organize a Backyard Games Day at WestWorld, complete with vendors and food booths.

“It was a successful event, as there were a lot of people – around 1,300 – but it was tough and I lost too much money,” Todd said. “I probably made a lot of mistakes – all those things any

first-time festival organizer has done.

I decided my value is enough. I don’t need to pay for a venue. I can bring in enough people and money to help other organizations.”

This year’s Arizona State Cornhole Competition is benefiting their wheelchair basketball team.

Erin, who unlike her husband, did not leave her day job, is active in KB Kornhole events that are mainly on weekends But her passion for the company and the sport is strong.

“This community we’ve built means so much to me,” said Kisicki, assistant director of training at Child Family Support Services in Ahwatukee.

“Owning our own company is the ultimate American dream, one where everyone is welcome, valued and connected to something bigger and greater. We definitely have fun at our events, and I truly believe our mission is to bring people together, one cornhole game at a time. Regardless of where you come from or where you’re going, it’s a universal sport for everyone,” she added.

One of KB Kornhole and cornhole’s staunchest fans is Jack Edlund, who started playing cornhole about four years ago in his Augusta Ranch community in Mesa.

“Several individuals were throwing bags under an awning at the Augusta Ranch Golf Course and I asked to play.

I became hooked and played there every week,” he said, adding: “I became fascinated with the complexity of a seemingly easy game. I learned there was a more competitive tournament every Wednesday at The Hub, and See

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Both airport areas in Mesa lure big high-tech companies M Tribune News Staff

esa officials have landed two major high-tech businesses that will give a big shot in the arm to two key economic development sectors around the city’s two airports.

Piper Plastics Inc, a global provider of

high-performance polymer materials, precision-molded and machined plastic components and assemblies, announced last week that it will build its 90,000-squarefoot North American Research and Development Tech Center at 1705 N. 48th St., in Falcon Field district.

And CyrusOne, a global data center real

estate investment trust, said last week it will buy 68.227 acres in the Elliot Technology Park for a new data center cloud campus. That campus will have five building facilities to power cloud computing services for the Fortune 1000.

CyrusOne has seen tremendous demand from customers since entering the Phoenix

metro area in 2012, and the announcement of a second campus reflects growing customer demand for enhanced cloud services, the city said.

Piper’s announcement brought cheers from Mesa Mayor John Giles, who noted See

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The cornhole craze has created an industry where the game’s boards are concerned. Some keep digital scores with the press of a button while others, like the one above, have points for different holes, much like skeeball.

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I’ve been going to that tourney every since, and am now running it.”

Edlund, 52, credits KB Kornhole with the growing popularity of the sport and quality of the tournaments.

“Most of the Arizona players go to Todd’s events because they’re well run and are a very consistent format. I met Todd a few years ago and was impressed with his organization and social skills running these events. He and his wife, Erin, do an amazing job and that is why ESPN and other states across the country have used KB Kornhole to run their big tournaments,” Edlund said.

“KB Kornhole will became a national leader very soon with their exposure and all the new players they have introduced to a simple, but extremely fun sport.”

Ahwatukee resident Scott Salzetti admits to being “a newbie,” having started a year ago playing on the patio at Native Grill & Wings after watching from the sidelines for a while.

“It did take some time for me to get the nerve to throw a bag for the first time in front of others who’d been playing socially for quite a while,” said Salzetti, chief human resources officer for

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Abrazo Community Health Network.

Soon, Salzetti’s wife, Wendy, and son, Brannon, were part of the cornhole action, entering as a team at local KB Kornhole tournaments. Salzetti said they now own a set of boards and bags to practice in their own backyard so they can continue to advance in tournaments.

He, too, laud’s KB Kornhole’s finesse in organizing and running tournaments.

“Todd and Erin run seamless tournaments aligning players with competition that will match their skill level. The tournaments don’t have age restrictions so you can bring your entire family out for fun,” said Salzetti.

Chandler couple Beth Hanson and Angie Hallmark were familiar with cornhole as a tailgating activity, and they never took it seriously until they came across a tournament run by KB Kornhole.

“We absolutely love the cornhole community, and KB Kornhole has been instrumental in getting us where we are now,” said Hanson. “Todd and Erin are always so supportive and do a great job at welcoming new people. I would love to see the sport continue to grow and would especially love to see more women get involved. This is something anyone can take part in, even if you don’t

have experience.”

Fundraisers for schools, organizations and even individuals in need are a big part of KB Kornhole’s events. Mountain Pointe High School Football Boosters held their first cornhole tournament in May at Desert Foothills Park.

“KB Kornhole came recommended by booster members who have attended other events run by Todd at KB,” said Shari Vogel, co-vice president whose son Alex, a junior, plays offensive line for the Pride. “We chose them because they provide everything needed to run the tournament including the boards, sound system, registration system, and personnel to run the tournament, and all for a very reasonable fee.”

These benefits and the tournaments that return a portion to charity are close to Todd and Erin Kisicki’s hearts.

“I love that we’re able to give back to the community and have our company strive to provide cornhole for a cause,” said Erin. “Running a business means long hours and a lot of hard work, but I can’t think of a more fun adventure to be part of.”

The championships, on June 15-16, are open to the public and offer various entry divisions. Preregistration is required at KBGamesllc.com.

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that the city has been developing a hightech, advanced business hub at Falcon Field “that is growing by the minute.”

“Piper Plastics’ new North American Research and Development Tech Center is exactly what we envision for the area. Welcome to Mesa,” he said.

The company will invest $10 million to build the facility and begin operations with 130 employees, growing that payroll to more than 175 over the next three years with an average hourly wage of $20-$25 per hour, the city said.

Piper expects to begin construction next month and start operations by June 2019.

“I am very excited to welcome Piper Plastics to District 5 and the Falcon District,” Vice Mayor David Luna said. “We are very fortunate that they will be calling Mesa their new home.”

Piper Plastics manufactures products for the medical, aerospace, defense, energy, semiconductor, electronics, food packaging and other advanced technology industries.

“Falcon Field area is a great place to grow our business,” Piper President Randy White said. He said its parent company, Mitsubishi Chemical Company, chose

Mesa “due to the growing skilled and young workforce, ideal climate and excellent infrastructure in support of manufacturing business.”

The city worked with the Arizona Commerce Authority on the Piper deal.

“CyrusOne continues to see heavy demand for cloud services among new and existing customers in the Phoenix metro area. As the preeminent data center service provider for cloud services, we are always listening to our customer base in terms of where we need to be and what services we need to offer, said Kevin Timmons, CTO of CyrusOne. Giles said Southeast Mesa “is the ideal location for CyrusOne.” “They provide the cloud services that all companies need to stay on top of business and grow,” he said. “This is exactly what our predecessors envisioned when they invested in the Gateway area and created the Elliot Road Technology Corridor.”

District 6 Councilman Kevin Thompson called the company “the go-to solution for some of the world’s top companies.”

CyrusOne operates 45 data center facilities across the United States, Europe and Asia to provide customers with the flexibility and scale to match their specific IT growth needs.

CyrusOne facilities are engineered to in-

clude the power-density infrastructure required to deliver high availability, including architecture with the highest available power redundancy.

The city Elliot Road Technology Corridor – already home to Apple’s global operations command center – is beginning to attract an array of tech companies to occupy the stretch of land between Signal Butte and Hawes roads.

The city of Mesa has been active in its attempts to further spur economic development in corridor and the Mesa-Gateway region as a whole.

The corridor, which the city officially named in 2014, has the infrastructure in place to attract technology companies, such as a redundant power system that has close proximity to SRP’s Browning receiving station and 500kV, 230kV and 69kV transmission lines.

Another benefit is access to SRP’s extensive dark, or unused, fiber network. Businesses can pay SRP to tie in to the existing fiber network, which connects with major carrier network access points and data centers in the Phoenix metro area, according to SRP. Mesa also established the Elliot Road Technology Corridor Planned Area Development Overlay, which reduced entitlement time in the corridor from roughly six

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months to six weeks. The overlay encompasses areas directly north of Elliot Road from Signal Butte to Hawes roads.

In 2015, Apple committed to investing $2 billion into the facility to turn it into a command center for its global networks, according to a press release from Gov. Doug Ducey. The commitment provided a muchneeded win for the fledgling corridor.

Apple’s presence has been a boon for the city’s efforts to market the corridor as it has shone a spotlight on Mesa and given the city the opportunity to market its amenities to companies around the globe.

A nearly complete 94,000-squarefoot Dignity Health hospital will anchor El Dorado Holding’s future Elliot 202 mixed-use development on the northeast corner of Loop 202 and Elliot Road.

Several recent announcements also bode well for Mesa, notably DuPont Fabros’ decision to build a data center campus on a 56-acre site at Crismon Road just north of Elliot Road.

The corridor attracted its first hightech manufacturing tenant recently as well. Niagara Bottling announced it will begin construction this month on a 455,000-square-foot, $76 million bottling plant in the area. The plant will create 45 to 55 jobs and feature highly automated operations.

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Soak-the-rich initiative will derail state’s recovery

BY SCOT MUSSI Tribune Guest Writer

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ooking to exploit the momentum created by the recent school strike, a small coalition of liberal organizations and labor unions have launched a ballot initiative that would permanently damage Arizona’s economy.

The proposed “Invest in Education” proposition would impose a new top individual income tax bracket of 9 percent, a near doubling of the current top rate of 4.54 percent. This radical increase would give Arizona the fifth highest income tax rate in the nation, trailing only California, Hawaii, Oregon and Minnesota.

Joining the ranks of the high-income tax states would be a decision that Arizona would quickly come to regret. The

evidence is overwhelming – states with a low or no income tax have consistently outperformed high tax states in job creation and economic growth.

It is why for decades Americans have been voting with their feet and moving to states, like Arizona, with a favorable tax climate.

On net, nearly 1,000 people a day are migrating to low-income-tax states, while the same number is exiting high-tax states.

If this initiative passes, we should expect entrepreneurs, high earners and employers to take their jobs and investments elsewhere.

To justify their crushing tax hike, proponents are promising that the approximately $700 million in anticipated new revenue from the tax will go toward K-12 funding. Of course, the initiative doesn’t include any language that ensures the money will make it into the classroom,

nor does it include any reforms to improve outcomes or parental satisfaction.

They are also selling their plan on the idea that only the “rich” will pay the tax increase. In reality, small business owners and entrepreneurs will be hammered by the increase since they pay their taxes through the individual tax code.

Also unmentioned by the proponents of the initiative is that a new revenue stream for schools is no longer needed.

While the Red for Ed debate was raging on at the Legislature and in living rooms this spring, economic forecasts confirmed that Arizona would have the largest budget surplus since the Great Recession.

This tremendous news is not an accident. The rapid acceleration of projected revenue is a direct result of both local and national policies that fostered a pro-growth economic environment in Arizona.

It can be argued that lawmakers reacted

too slowly during the legislative session to allocate new funding into K-12 classrooms (close to $1 billion), but it illustrated that the best mechanism to generate more money for schools is through economic growth, not job crushing tax increases.

The impact of the largest tax increase in Arizona history would be catastrophic.

It would kill jobs, punish small business owners and send families fleeing to other states.

The proponents of this measure might think they are being clever by linking two politically attractive targets – school funding and taxing the “rich” – but we are confident that voters will see through their ploy and reject this divisive initiative if it reaches the ballot.

-Scot Mussi is president of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club.

We all have a stake in the survival of Girl Scouts

BY BETSEY BAYLESS Tribune Guest Writer

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he Boy Scouts announced they were opening their doors to girls last October.

The opinions about this range from seeing it as a disservice to boys to seeing it as providing greater equality to girls.

Some think, incorrectly, that Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are already the same organization and don’t understand the controversy.

Frankly, I see their move as a grave disservice to girls. And a cynical response to their financial problems and declining enrollment.

There are very few girl-only spaces today. Girl Scouts is one and all-girl high schools is another. I am fortunate to

have had the benefit of both.

How did I benefit? In that all-girl environment, I had every opportunity to speak and be heard and take on any and all roles and challenges. This helped shape me into a competent and confident woman, with the firm belief I could be anything I wanted to be.

The research bears me out. Recently I heard Dr. JoAnn Deak, an educator, psychologist and author, speak. She confirmed that the research shows enough time spent in a single-sex environment builds girls’ self-esteem, leadership and achievement.

Dr. Deak went on to say the research demonstrated that the presence of boys has a suppressive effect on girls.

While women’s participation in the workforce, higher education and athletics has increased, there remains strong

gender stereotypes and bias in our society regarding traits, social roles, occupations and appearance. These continue to impact girls’ choices and how society treats them.

Girls need a safe, supportive space where they can be themselves and build their confidence. A place where being female is seen as positive, with inherent strengths. Where girls learn to support and trust their female peers. A place where girls’ abilities and career aspirations are affirmed, especially in STEM. Where girls’ voices, girls’ perspectives and girls’ way of doing things are honored.

This is what Girl Scouts offers to girls.

Girls are first and given every opportunity. Girl Scouts are trailblazers, not tagalongs. And Girl Scouts is accessible to all girls.

While Boy Scouts talk about convenience for the family, a daughter is not a matter of convenience.

Girls who join Boy Scouts will have to fight for themselves in a very traditional, male-dominated space, just as they do everyday in our society. They will be reduced to being “girls in a boy’s troop.”

Girl Scouts is the premier leadership development organization for girls, offering proven, girl-centered, hands-on programs designed specifically to meet girls’ needs.

Girl Scouts is the oldest and largest girl-serving organization active in virtually every zip code in our state and in our country. We all have a stake in ensuring this essential organization continues to help girls thrive.

-Betsey Bayless was the 16th Secretary of State of Arizona from 1997 to 2003.

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God invites man to enter a deep and lasting friendship

BY DR. NATHAN MILLICAN Tribune Guest Writer

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’m convinced that most people don’t have good friends.

What does it mean to be a good friend? What characteristics define a good friend? Here are four marks of true friendship that I heard years ago from Timothy Keller, a pastor in New York City.

First is constancy. The Bible tells us “a friend loves at all times” (Proverbs 17:17).

What does this mean? It means all kinds of times. Good times and bad times. You can’t be a good friend without availability.

To be a good friend is to be there when times are difficult; a friend will not let you go to ruin.

Second, a true friend is careful. A friend is emotionally sensitive to the inner FAITH CALENDAR

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 ‘Space Station Salvation’

The deadline is June 20 to register at Calvary Lutheran Church, 1270 N. Dobson Road, Chandler, for a free vacation Bible school program “Space Station Salvation.” Children 3 years old to entering sixth grade will have age- appropriate Bible lessons, upbeat music, crafts, games, snacks and some surprises.

DETAILS>> It will run 9 a.m. at the church June 25-29.

Register at calvarychandler.net. Information: 480 963-9397 or 480 204-4297.

SATURDAY, June 23 The Father’s Heart Ministries

A program for women that focuses on Proverbs 31. Music and fellowship are included and the first 50 guests will be entered into a drawing for an on-site makeover. Continental breakfast will be provided and gift bags will be given to all registered attendees.

DETAILS>> 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Pearl’s Banquet Hall -Emerald Room, 1455 S. Stapley Drive, Mesa. The session is free but all attendees must registered at proverbs31unmasked@yahoo.com.

SUNDAYS

SPIRITUAL CENTER

The Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center offers New Thought, ACIM, Ancient Wisdom and Interfaith teachings, with uplifting music and positive messages. Ongoing classes include Qigong, A Course in Miracles, Pranic Healing, Kirtan, Drum Circle and many others.

DETAILS>> 10:30-11:45 a.m., 952 E. Baseline Road, Suite 102.

Information, 480- 593-8798 or interfaith-community.org.

HEBREW SCHOOL

Registration has opened for Chabad Hebrew School at the Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life. Classes will teach

topography of someone else’s life. If I can be happy when you’re sad, I’m not your friend, or at least I’m not being a friend in that moment. When you’re sad, I’m sad; when you’re happy, I’m happy. A friend gives the gift of emotional connection voluntarily.

Third, a true friend exudes candor.

Candor is the quality of being a truthteller. Proverbs 27:5-6 reads, “Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend.” This means there are words your friend needs to hear that are going to be painful yet they need to hear them.

Using “love” as an excuse to cover the truth is the work of an enemy. You will hear people say, “I love them too much to tell them that.” In actuality, those people are loving themselves, not their friends.

Fourth, a true friend is someone who gives honest counsel. They’re someone

who is transparent with you. A true friend is both encouraging, as well as challenging. They strike a balance between encouragement and confrontation.

Tim Keller says when we’re confronted with these qualities of friendship, there’s a feeling of longing. Why? He states that we live in a culture where we do not have the friends our heart needs.

In addition, he states, the biblical profile of friendship is crushing. One of the main reasons we do not have the friendships we long for is that we fail to exude these types of friendships.

In walks Jesus.

The night before Jesus Christ died, He was seeking to convey to His followers what He was about to do. In John 15 Jesus said, “I am laying down my life for my friends.”

When He said that, suddenly the whole history of the world could be understood

with regards to friendship. In fact, in Genesis we find that God walked with Adam in the cool of the day. Walking was a Hebrew metaphor for friendship.

God made us for friendship. God created you and me to be His friends. When we come to the Father through Jesus, we who were far off or separated from Him because of our sin are brought near through Jesus’ death and resurrection.

We’re no longer called an enemy of God but a friend. There’s the message of Christianity: enemy to friend; far-off to near; unforgiven to forgiven. And all of this is accomplished as we turn from our sins and trust in Jesus, specifically in what He did through the cross and His victorious resurrection.

children ages 5-13 about Jewish heritage, culture and holidays.

DETAILS>> Classes will be held 9:30 a.m.-noon at 875 N. McClintock Drive, Chandler. To tour the facility or register, call 480-855-4333 or e-mail info@chabadcenter.com.

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the recovery process.

DETAILS>> 6:30 p.m., Central Christian Church, 933 N. Lindsay Road, Mesa. Information: Eric at 480-924-4946.

VALOR CHRISTIAN OUTLINES MISSION

Valor Christian Center in Gilbert offers “great praise and worship and great messages for today’s living,” according to Associate Pastor Thor Strandholt. “Our mission is to evangelize, heal and disciple through the word of God.” DETAILS>> 10 a.m. Sundays and 7 p.m. Thursdays. 3015 E. Warner Road. Information: valorcc.com.

SUNDAY SERVICES

The Rev. Albert Bolden leads the Lawrence Memorial A.M.E.Z. Church in Mesa.

DETAILS>> Sunday school at 9 a.m., worship at 10 a.m.

Children’s church is every second Sunday, and children officiate the morning worship service every fifth Sunday. 931 E. Southern Ave., Suite 108. Information: 480-393-3001, tlmchurch.info@gmail.com.

SUNDAY CELEBRATION SERVICE

Inspirational messages and music to lift your spirit. A welcoming community committed to living from the heart.

Many classes and events offered. We welcome you!

DETAILS>> 10 a.m. Sundays at Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103, Tempe. Information: 480-792-1800, unityoftempe.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.

EXPLORING NINE PHASES OF QIGONG

Exploring the 3 Treasures – Jing, Qi, Shen – which are the theoretical foundation of traditional Chinese medicine and philosophy and the amazing practices of Qigong and Tai Chi. Drop-in sessions for $15. Appropriate for beginners and Qigong practitioners.

DETAILS>> 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center, 952 E. Baseline, Suite 102, Mesa. Information, 480593-8798 or interfaith-community.org.

PROSPERITY RECIPES AT UNITY

Internationally known speaker and author Maureen G. Mulvaney brings back her Prosperity Recipes class series to Unity of Tempe on Monday evenings. Cost: $10 per session DETAILS>> 6:15-8:15 p.m., Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103, Tempe. Information: 480-792-1800, unityoftempe.com.

CHURCH PRAYER CALL

The Lawrence Memorial A.M.E.Z. Church in Mesa has a prayer call every Monday.

DETAILS>> 7 p.m., 1-712-775-7085. PIN 162106#.

TUESDAYS

‘LIVING A COURSE IN MIRACLES’ Join Rev. Julianne and Mike Hay to share Jon Mundy’s, “Living a Course in Miracles” (An Essential Guide to the Classic Text). Suggested love offering $10.

DETAILS>> 7-8 p.m., Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center, 952 E. Baseline, Suite 102, Mesa. Information, 480- 593-8798 or interfaith-community.org.

CELEBRATE RECOVERY

Celebrate Recovery is a biblical program that helps us overcome our hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Through teaching, worship, and sharing in small groups, you will find genuine people devoted to help discover the power of Christ through

Dr. Nathan Millican is lead pastor of Foothills Baptist Church. Reach him at 480-759-2118 or foothillsbaptist.org.

GRIEFSHARE

Mountain Park Community Church is offering an ongoing GriefShare programs to help people deal with the pain of losing a loved one.

DETAILS>> 6:30-8 p.m., 2408 E. Pecos Road, Ahwatukee. To register: mountainpark.org and click on Launch. Information: Alex at 480-759-6200

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.

UNITY YOGA AT UNITY OF TEMPE

Center in Mind, Body & Spirit at our weekly Unity Yoga classes with Mary Jo “MJ” Kuzmick. Bring your own mat (two blankets and blocks, if you have them). Suggested love offering: $8 a class.

DETAILS>> 10 a.m., Unity of Tempe, 1222 E. Baseline Road, Suite 103, Tempe. Information: 480-792-1800, unityoftempe. com.

WEDNESDAYS

‘A COURSE IN MIRACLES’

Join a study and discussion group with Rev. Julianne Lewis.

Suggested love offering $10.

DETAILS>> Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center, 952 E. Baseline, Suite 102, Mesa. Information, 480- 593-8798 or interfaith-community.org.

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Local school talent on display at ASU passing league

BY BRIAN BENESCH Tribune Sports Editor

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ast week’s 7-on-7 passing league competition at Arizona State University offered a showcase for some of the best high school football programs in the state – including some in the East Valley.

Once again, Chandler High School had a target on its back. Coming off a third state title in four seasons, there was no doubt the Wolves are the team to beat in 6A football in 2018 – and they were in the bull’s eye at the ASU event./ Head Coach Shaun Aguano took a unique approach on June 4, though.

While many squads were eager to win the 16-team tournament, Aguano elected to give his younger players a chance to see action at the Verde Dickey Dome.

“The main thing I want to see from

them is to compete on every play. If they do that, then they’ll be OK come senior year,” Aguano said.

Chandler has won 50 games in the past four seasons, so everyone in local football knows the talent this team possesses.

He said the passing league is a nice change of pace for his players, who have grown accustomed to practicing only against teammates.

“For our kids, it’s a long spring and summer. So, a chance to compete against somebody else is awesome. That’s why we come to these passing leagues,” the coach added.

Aguano’s use of underclassmen meant the media and public couldn’t get an upclose look at one of the top QBs in the state, Jacob Conover. The senior threw for 3,715 yards, with 32 TDs and only five interceptions last season.

Aguano expects more of the same from

Conover this year.

“He’s a general on the field.

I think he does everything right in the classroom and on the football field,” the coach raved. “He (Brian Benesch/Tribune Sports total Editor) has Chandler Head Coach Shaun control of Aguano gave young players the team. exposure.

His moxie on the field and even-keeled demeanor makes him an incredible leader.”

The 6-foot-1 Conover last month committed to play college ball at BYU next

year after he graduates from Chandler High.

The Wolves’ mere presence at the camp had other coaches talking. Brock Farrel, current Highland High head coach and former assistant at Chandler, credits Aguano for establishing the program’s winning culture.

“If he wanted to run for mayor, he could,” Farrel said of Aguano. “He’s so good at building relationships. Because of that, the best kids in the state want to play for him. They get elite talent with elite game-planning. That’s hard to beat.”

When told of Farrel’s flattering mayor comment, Aguano chuckled and said, “You have to create an environment where the kids are successful in the classroom and the field. We make sure we take care of the community as well.”

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Collin Erickson tackles football competition in Europe

BY BRIAN BENESCH Tribune Sports Editor

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he game of football has taken Collin Erickson all over the world. In just the past two years, he’s traveled from Gilbert to Iowa to Germany.

Late last week, the Gilbert native and 2015 Dobson High School graduate arrived home from an eight-day trip to Europe with his current football team, the Central College Dutch.

The Division III squad, located in Pella, Iowa, travels to Europe once every three years. And this time, Erickson was able to hop on a plane alongside his teammates.

The Dutch players are responsible for choosing the destination of these offseason excursions. They decided on Germany, Austria and Switzerland at a team meeting in September.

It was an opportunity Erickson couldn’t refuse.

“It intrigued me to go back to Europe because I studied abroad my sophomore year,” Erickson said. “I definitely wanted to go back. We got to see the Swiss Alps and climb up those a little bit.”

As the journey continued to Germany, the players and coaches visited the Dachau

American college team looks like against the best Austrian football team. We knew they were a top-notch team.”

But one thing stood out to Erickson when reminiscing about the voyage overseas: his interactions with the Austrian players.

“We had a tailgate (Mario Brunnbauer/Photo-Tirol.at) of sorts with them afGilbert native Collin Erickson is flanked by a teammate and an official ter the game. We just during his visit to Germany. talked to them about concentration camp and a survivor spoke where they grew up and how they got into to the group.

American football. We picked their brains The defensive back declared the entire to understand where they are coming experience eye-opening and unforgettable. from,” he said.

Of course, there was far more to this trip With the trip in the rearview mirror, than just exploration as the team had an the junior was able to reflect on his hecexhibition game to play. tic schedule the past three years filled with Central took on the Swarco Raiders travel and football. The European visit was Triol, a top Austrian unit. A hard-fought a remarkable experience, but Erickson’s battle resulted in a 31-26 win for the Raid- journey to Central College was just as ers in this unique contest. memorable.

“It was incredible; great atmosphere The 21-year-old had his sights set on Dithere,” Erickson said of the game. “Truly vision I football after a stellar sophomore incredible to show their fans what an year at Dobson High. But an inconsistent

junior season had Erickson doubting his future in the sport.

“My junior year came and I didn’t hear from a lot of schools. I wasn’t sure I wanted to continue playing football,” he admitted. “After high school, hardly any colleges talked to me. I had to reach out myself.”

He eventually found his way to Central thanks to an unlikely college recruiter – his mother. Erickson’s mom grew up in the Iowa area, and thought the program might be a fit for her son.

The Dutch have the fourth-highest winning percentage in NCAA football since 1975, making the program a consistent contender for the Division III crown. The on and off-field connections made the choice easy for Erickson.

His decision has paid off. Last season, Erickson was among team leaders with 46 tackles and two interceptions. The team has a record of 15-5 in his two seasons.

But the special European trip and team success is not enough for him. Erickson has lofty goals for the upcoming season.

“I’d like to keep improving and take that next step,” he said. “I’d like to win the conference. My goal is to be a first-team all-conference defensive back. We’re pretty hungry to get back at it.”

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While Farrel took the time to compliment his former squad, his current group at Highland turned heads at the passing league competition.

The Chandler players may have been looking for experience, but Farrel’s teammates made their intentions clear: They wanted to win the tournament.

(Brian Benesch/Tribune Sports Editor) And by the end of the night, the Chandler freshmen played in the tournament, hoping Hawks had accomplished their first to catch coaches’ eyes for a chance to make the team goal of the season. this season.

Highland defeated Tolleson High against Tolleson. to claim the 7-on-7 title. And it was It was a small but meaningful win for almost as if Farrel called his shot prior to a team coming into the season with high practice.

“Kids who are looking like they’ll have a expectations.

“Just the fact that we’re playing and great season are Kohner Cullimore, Noah Burdick and Kaleb Herbert,” Farrell said. keeping score – we want to win,” Farrel All three players shined at the ASU said. “That’s the attitude you want to go in event, and the most electrifying play of the with. It’s just one step closer to a real state night came on a Herbert Hail Mary pass football championship.”

Both Chandler and Highland will begin that landed in Burdick’s hands in the back their march toward a championship when of the end zone.

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hen Vanessa Ramirez was a child, she sat with her mother and watched ballet folklorico dancers rehearse at a gym. This experience sparked a passion in her that led to a career in dance that began when she was 7.

As an adult, she founded the Chandlerbased studio Ballet Folklorico Quetzalli, now in its 10th year. The studio will celebrate its anniversary on June 16 with a carnival-themed show with ballet folklorico dances from different states in Mexico.

The studio’s dancers, which range in age from 3 to 46, will perform with Mariachi Sonido de Mexico and Banda Sinaloense La Llega Finix.

“The older ones definitely have more intense footwork and skirt movements, and there’s choreography across the floor and doing different shapes,” Ramirez says.

The company regularly performs around the Valley at events like Chandler’s Mariachi and Folklorico Festival and its Parade of Lights, as well as the Phoenix Zoo’s Dia del Nino event. The group has also brought its style of ballet folklorico dance to Disneyland.

Ramirez started dancing in California and continued with a company in Tucson after moving to Arizona. She hadn’t danced for quite a few years when she was enlisted to teach a recreational dance class in Chandler.

She never envisioned she would make a career out of dance.

“I think back now, and I never planned for this,” Ramirez says. “This just kind of came to me, and obviously the universe knows this is my passion. This is what I love, and I was missing it at the time.”

Ramirez says running the studio has been meaningful.

“I don’t know how I can even put into words just how special it has been to share these past 10 years of my life with such amazing children,” she says.

“The children have taught me about myself, about life, about really appreciating one another.”

Of the six girls in her original class, three are still with the studio.

“It has been wonderful to watch them grow and develop not just as dancers but

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Dazzling costumes add another dimesnion to the dazzling dance performances. as these incredibly strong young women,” she says.

“They are pursuing all these other things in their lives, but they are still committed to dance and their team.”

Some families have had multiple children

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Several generations of families have performed at the studio over the years.

take classes at the studio over the years.

Original dancer Kateri Parra started at age 7, and her younger sister joined a few years later.

The studio grown to include more than 80 students in beginning, intermediate and advanced classes.

Ramirez continues to be the primary instructor, but following an ankle injury this year, the studio’s future was in jeopardy.

However, parents and students stepped in to help.

“I think really having that sense of family, of support, is wonderful, something that just really stands out throughout the years with Quetzalli,” Ramirez says.

Grizelda Celaya, one of Ramirez’s adult students, recently began teaching beginning-level company classes.

Celaya has danced with Ballet Folklorico Quetzalli for four years but started ballet folklorico dance in junior high and took ballet, tap and jazz classes in elementary school. Although she had stayed in shape, getting back into ballet folklorico as an adult was a challenge.

“With that style of dance, there are so many regions and styles within those regions that I didn’t know of when I danced before,” Celaya says. “There was a lot that I hadn’t already learned, but the stuff that I did, I had to brush up on.”

Now she has a different approach be-

cause of a deeper association with the history and the meaning behind the dances and costumes.

“The difference would be knowing the significance behind the costumes more than I did as a child, but the excitement is still there, and I think I feel like a kid when I put them on,” Celaya says.

In her classes, Ramirez tries to instill in her students important values and skills, including poise, accountability, time management, responsibility, confidence and public speaking.

Parra has applied the skills she learned at the studio to her roles as National Honor Society president and cheerleader.

Dancing with the studio has allowed Parra to teach dance to kids from low-income families.

Ramirez regularly travels to Mexico to conferences to learn new dances and brings them back to her company.

“As instructors, as choreographers, I think it’s our duty to do that research so that we aren’t disrespecting who this belongs to and the story this is telling,” Ramirez says.

Through dance, her students connect to their cultures – just as she did, she says.

“I never really knew where I came from, where my family came from or even what it meant to be from Mexico,” Ramirez says. “It was always sadly something to be ashamed of rather than something to honor and respect, and dance taught me what my culture is. Dance taught me how beautiful it is and that I should be proud of it and proud of my parents and ancestors.”

Parra agrees. Through dance, Parra feels a bond with her grandmother, who danced ballet folklorico as a child.

“It made me feel closer to her,” Parra says.

“That’s my inspiration, and that’s why I keep dancing. I know that she wants me to keep dancing. When I’m dancing, I have a little bit of her in me.”

IF YOU GO What: Ballet Folklorico Quetzalli-AZ Where: Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler When: 6 p.m. Saturday, June 16 Tickets: $15 Info: 480-782-2680, bfq-az.org

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What brings the mouthwatering bite together is the dot of pesto mayo on the toast.

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Travolta under pressure to play Gotti accurately

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ohn Travolta had one thing in mind when John Gotti’s family asked him to play the infamous mob king in the film “Gotti”: Get it right.

“It was important for me to accurately portray the dad/husband to that family,” said Travolta during an interview at Grimaldi’s in Old Town Scottsdale.

“It took a long time to get it done.

There were increments of different actors, increments of different directors and different scripts until we decided on the right one. It was important to get it right.”

Based on the book by John Gotti Jr., “Shadow of My Father,” “Gotti” shares the story of John V. Gotti’s rise to power to take the mantle of boss of the Gambino crime family.

The film, which opens Friday, June 15, also focuses on the relationship between father and son, when John Jr. approaches his father for his blessing to leave the crime syndicate.

While in prison, Gotti is forced to re-

powerhouse like his dad,” Travolta said.

“Then the RICO Act moved in and made the mob disassemble. There wasn’t a lot of future in it anyway. At the end of the day, his dad wanted him to be happy because he loved his son, so he let him leave the group with his permission.”

Travolta, who is joined in the film by his wife, Kelly Preston, and daughter, Ella Bleu, admitted there was a lot of pressure to play the (Brian Douglas) “Teflon Don.” “It was a good pressure, John Travolta plays mobster John Gotti in the film “Gotti,” though,” he said. “I like a which opens in wide release Friday, June 15. challenge. I knew I could examine his life and priorities and de- challenge myself to really make them betermine if, for the first time, he can put lieve I was him and I did, for their criteria. the needs of his family over those of his I did my job.”

It proved to be a learning experience as crime syndicate.

“I thought it was admirable of John Jr. to well for the entire cast, including Spencer fight for getting out of the mob because Lofranco, who plays John Jr. “I learned he was a 24-hour-a-day, sevthat took a lot of courage to confront a

en-day-a-week gangster,” Travolta said.

“They helped me understand La Cosa Nostra, the integrity the original mob had, which had nothing to do with what evolved in this present day, the time in which the movie is based.

“There was honor and integrity to it in its own moral envelope. I finally understood that. I don’t think I did hither to the film.”

But “Gotti” doesn’t set out to persuade audiences to see a lighter side of John Jr. or his father, who died in 2002 in prison of throat cancer at age 61. Instead, Travolta wants the audience to make its own judgment about the family.

“I’m not a message person, per se,” Travolta said. “I don’t tune into that. I tune into, ‘Did the audience enjoy the experience? Did they get something from it subjectively?’

“So far, the people who have seen it have gotten something different from it.

That’s what I think is a good piece of art.

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Dean Condie Jensen passed away June 3, in Mesa, at age 71. Survived by his wife, Margaret Jean Hoopes; children Aliesa (Craig), Greg (Tracy), Steven (Sally), Spencer (Alison), Sterling (Lindsay), Scott (Liza) and Burkley (Jenni); and siblings Tom, Sally, Nancy, Jon and Kathy. Dean and Jean have been pillars in the East Valley community for nearly five decades, with friends in Arizona and around the world from their volunteer work and church missions in Missouri, Mexico and Indonesia. Interment at the Mesa Cemetery.

BLACKMORE, Shirley Anne (Kistner)

Shirley Anne (Kistner) Blackmore, born on April 3, 1937 in Dayton, Ohio, to the late Cora Belle Kistner and the late John Austin Kistner, passed away at age 81 on May 24, 2018 in Mesa, Arizona. Shirley was the loving wife of the late Herbert Dale Blackmore.

She was preceded in death by her son, Garry and Sandy Blackmore; brothers, Alfred, Elwood, William, John, Ray, George, and Carl Kistner; sisters, Mabel Kistner and Dorothy Wilson; sibling, Raymond Kistner; and grandchildren, Amanda and Jeremiah.

Shirley is survived by her sons, Steven and Sheila Blackmore, Jon and Melissa Blackmore; brother, David Kistner; sister in law Ada Kistner; and brother in law Willard (Bill) Blackmore; grandchildren, Brandi, Nichole, Zachariah, Austin, Sara, Hannah, Anna and Cheyenne; greatgrandchildren, Brittani, Kaylee, Curtis Madison, Myka, Danica, Chloe, Nathanial, Elighjah, Canyon, and Levi; great-greatgrandchild, Kieryan; numerous nieces and nephews, and good friends, Shirley Lytle and Jan Grimaldi.

Shirley had a passion for planting flowers and always dreamed of having a cabin in the woods. She was a member of Generation Church. Always a kind word and a positive outlook. She was a blessing to all who knew her. She will be missed dearly by her family and friends. Services will be privately held high up on her and Dads mountain.

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