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How EV prosecutor got justice for rape victims

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

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exual assault victims from the East Valley and throughout the nation are finally getting justice – even though they had to wait far too long.

In Maricopa County alone, an exhaustive quest to test a backlog of more than 4,500 sexual assault examination kits dating back 27 years is finally winding toward an end early next year with about 200 kits to go.

In Phoenix, the person who spearheaded this four-year campaign to right a wrong was Gilbert’s Jon Eliason, a former Mesa city prosecutor who served as division chief of the Special Victims Bureau at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office at the time the campaign began.

“You have all these women who went through an exam fully believing that the police would analyze it,’’ Eliason said. “I can’t imagine there was a victim who went through the examination who expected it would not be tested.

“It’s doing the right thing, bringing closure

Cesar Tirado, left, coordinated the processing of thousands of old rape kits while Maricopa County prosecutor Jon Eliason led the effort on behalf of County Attorney Bill Montgomery. (Pablo Robles/ Tribune Staff Photographer)

to victims and arresting bad guys for violent, intimate crimes,’’ Eliason said.

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“There was a fire at the Tribune offices in 1936, so most everything that predates 1936 was destroyed,” said Nate Meyers, curator of collections.

“For all intents and purposes, the collection starts in 1936 and includes everything all the way up to 2009. So yes, there are materials there from the 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, and so on – all the way back to 1936.”

How it got there is almost as much of a roller coaster as the newspaper’s past.

Although the East Valley Tribune is thriving under its present publisher, Times Media Group (whose CEO, Steve Strickbine, bought

the paper in 2016), it wasn’t the case in 2011, when the newspaper looked as though it was going to fold.

“We, as a museum, started to try to get pieces from the Tribune because the Chandler Arizonan was purchased by the Tribune and became one of the feeder papers. We were trying to save as much as we could,” Crago said.

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ounded in 1891 under a different name, the East Valley Tribune has a long and storied past.

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All that history is held in repository at McCullough-Price House, part of the Chandler Museum, and about 50 percent of it has yet to be organized and preserved according to industry standards.

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Tempe police satisfied with Starbucks’ apology

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

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t was insulting and embarrassing when a Starbucks barista on July 4 asked a group of six Tempe police officers to leave or stay out of sight of a customer who complained that they made him feel unsafe.

But when Rob Ferraro, president of the Tempe Officer’s Association, spotlighted the incident through a series of tweets, the officers received a groundswell of support and a personal apology from a Starbuck’s vice president.

In the end, the incident ignited a healthy dialogue about how cops wanted to be treated like human beings and evaluated as individuals, not scapegoated as a group based upon the actions of a few “bad actors,’’ Ferrero said.

“We’re human beings and members of the community like any other community,’’ Ferraro said.

He said it’s not fair to judge anyone as part of a group based upon broad generalities, and that everyone deserves to be judged as individuals based upon their own merits.

“To make sweeping generalities about law enforcement because of there might be some bad actors is totally unacceptable,’’ Ferraro said.

For decades, “minority groups have been fighting for just being equal,’’ Ferrero said. “Any member of our department

would be appalled if a minority group was asked to leave.’’

Once the incident was disclosed, Starbucks shifted immediately into damage control mode, dispatching Rossann Williams, executive vice president and president of U.S. retail, to Tempe to issue an apology in person during meetings with Tempe Police Chief Sylvia Moir and with the six officers who were asked to leave the Starbucks at Scottsdale and McKellips roads in Tempe.

The tweets from the Tempe Officers Association said the officers were in uniform and having coffee together before the start of a long shift when they were approached by the barista, who was polite, but still out of line, when she asked them to leave.

“This treatment of public safety workers could not be more disheartening. While the barista was polite, making such a request at all was offensive,’’ the officers association said. “Unfortunately, such treatment has become all too common in 2019.’’

The officers chose to leave the coffee shop, feeling “disappointed,’’ according to the association.

But the incident did not appear to impact business at the north Tempe Starbucks. Cars were still lined up at the drivethru window in late morning on Monday – the first business day after the holiday weekend – and employees seemed especially friendly in welcoming customers.

In its letter of apology, Starbucks es-

sentially agreed with the association and said police are welcome like any other customer. It vowed to take unspecified steps to prevent any further disrespectful incidents.

“When those officers entered the store and a customer raised a concern over their presence, they should have been welcomed and treated with dignity and the utmost respect by our partners (employees.) Instead, they were made to feel unwelcome and disrespected, which is completely unacceptable,’’ the letter said.

“Our partners rely on your service and welcome your presence, which keeps our stores and the community a safe and welcoming place,’’ the statement continued in part.

The association issued a statement saying police appreciated the apology, saying the six officers “came away from the meeting feeling heard and respected.’’

In the end, the association said it hopes the incident “re-affirms the important and strong partnership between our officer and our community.’’

Ferraro said he is glad he publicized the incident and believes it started an important dialogue about not scapegoating police. He said he feels no ill-will toward the barista. It was unclear what action, if any, was taken by Starbucks toward the barista.

“It’s part of a culture where we are trying to appease people because they might be offended,’’ Ferraro said.

who can purchase and use the drug.

That opens some major financial opportunities for major operations like Harvest which already has provided the $300,000 to Smart and Safe Arizona campaign to put the issue to voters. Another $300,000 come from Cure Leaf, another national marijuana firm, with $100,000 from MedMen cannabis dispensaries.

Current law allows those with certain medical conditions and a doctor’s recommendation to obtain up to 2 1/2 ounces of the drug every two weeks.

At last count there were slightly more than 200,000 people who had cards issued by the state Department of Health Services. And those patients smoked, ate or otherwise consumed nearly 60 tons of the drug in 2018.

Allowing recreational use – now permitted in Colorado, California and Nevada along with other states – would sharply increase the possibilities for sales.

Campaign consultant Stacy Pearson

said details for a 2020 ballot measure are still being worked out.

But Pearson told Capitol Media Services she and supporters are keenly aware that a legalization proposal on the 2016 ballot failed by about 4 percentage points amid an extensive campaign over whether easier access by adults leads to greater teen use.

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Recreational pot proponents gearing up for ballot

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Harvest Health and Recreation just completed the purchase of Leaf Life, the only medical marijuana dispensary in Casa Grande. With already existing stores and some pending acquisitions, company spokesman Alex Howe said that should bring Harvest’s total in Arizona to 13 and 140 nationwide.

And that doesn’t count cultivation and manufacturing facilities here and elsewhere.

Company President Steve White is one of the movers behind a plan to launch an initiative within the coming weeks to put a measure on the ballot in 2020 to expand

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are going to prison instead, thanks to the inexorable trail of DNA evidence and a more enlightened approach by police and prosecutors.

These criminals include Michael Joseph Paladino, 30, who was linked to sexual assaults that involving six victims about 15 years ago, when he was a minor, in Chandler, Gilbert and Mesa. One victim was 13.

Paladino was indicted in December 2017 on six counts of sexual assault and was sentenced in June to five years in prison and lifetime supervised probation as part of a plea bargain that spared the victims from testifying.

Another man who had skated was Nur Muktar. He was linked by DNA from an untested kit to a sexual assault inside a vacant Tempe apartment in 2002. Eventually, he was sentenced to seven years in prison.

With the approval of County Attorney Bill Montgomery, it was Eliason who saw a moral imperative for his office to participate when one of his prosecutors came back from a conference in 2015 and told him about an exciting – and generous – project launched by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. Vance, the son of a noted U.S. diplomat, launched a national campaign to eliminate the backlog by passing out $38 million in grants to police and prosecutors, including $1.9 million to Maricopa County in October 2015.

Vance’s grants came from forfeiture funds seized from banks accused of violating U.S sanctions. It was enough money to test 3,100 out of the 4,530 rape examination kits that had accumulated in Maricopa County since 1989.

Tempe police, one of the first Phoenix metro law enforcement agencies to embrace the program, obtained a $369,000 grant independently from Vance’s office and tested 546 kits that had accumulated since 1993.

At a New York press conference in March attended by a Tempe victim, Vance said he had obtained a promise from the U.S. Department of Justice to match his “investment’’ in testing the grants – greatly expanding his program’s impact in eliminating an alarming backlog of rape examination kits.

Eliason said this teamwork paid off in Maricopa County, with his office receiving a $1.2 million federal grant in 2016 and $1.7 million in 2017. That money went toward finishing the testing and hiring two detectives to assist in the project.

Among the detectives’ duties was combing through old police reports to prepare the kits for testing to determine which

the same mistake was never repeated by establishing the Maricopa County Sexual Assault Kit Protocol Work Group.

Future better for victims

Rape kits contain many evidence samples that police try to take from a victim as close to the time of the assault as possible. (Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

evidence would be most likely to return a “hit,’’ a DNA sample matching one already in the federal system.

Eliason said about 230 kits still need to be tested by two labs approved nationally to handle the testing, Sorenson Forensics in Utah and Bode Technologies in Virginia.

“With our $38 million investment, we have begun to rectify what has been a tragic failure of government and law enforcement at all levels – a decades-long, systemic denial of equal rights for women in the justice system,’’ Vance said.

Since Vance’s attack on the backlog started in September 2015, more than 55,000 kits have been tested in 32 jurisdictions in 20 states, with 18,803 new DNA profiles developed.

As of March, there had been 186 arrests nationwide and 64 convictions, including 47 for sexual assault.

Murder cases may be solved

The efforts have paid off in Maricopa County as well, with 12 arrests and seven convictions on Tempe cases. Eliason said more than 800 kits were tested from the East Valley cities of Mesa, Chandler and Gilbert, generating 172 hits.

The majority of those were in Mesa, where 602 kits were tested, which generated 134 hits, Mesa police Sgt. Matt Lawes said.

Sgt. Mark Marino, a Gilbert police spokesman, said all of his department’s backlog was tested as of 2018, but he said he did not know the number.

Sgt. Dan Mejia, a Chandler police spokesman, said 120 Chandler kits were tested. He said 80 cases were reviewed and closed, while 40 are pending review.

Chandler police re-evaluated three cases for potential charges. One case was

dropped when the victim did not wish to pursue further investigation, while the two others are awaiting additional DNA testing.

“Chandler detectives throughout the years have submitted cases for testing appropriately when DNA became readily available,’’ Mejia said. “So, in most of these cases, DNA was not a factor with regards to substantiating some of the elements required in a sexual assault.’’

In the West Valley, the grants paid for police departments to get 467 kits tested, with 87 DNA hits obtained.

Eliason, now division chief of the Major Offenders Bureau, said the 14 convictions stemming from testing the kits so far have been on relatively obvious cases and that the DNA information obtained from other kits may eventually lead to additional arrests years into the future.

He said he anticipates that the DNA trail from the kits will eventually lead to arrests in two homicides.

“I am confident in the next 12 months, we will be talking about a murder case,’’ Eliason said.

He said that overlooking the unexamined kits – a potential source of incriminating evidence – makes no sense from a prosecutor’s point of view.

“Here’s a way to develop cases,’’ he said.

“It’s a lot like, you go to an old gold mine, the first place you look is the tailings.’’

In several incidents, the old rape examination kits helped police establish a pattern of behavior, identifying a serial rapist, Eliason said.

“If you have three of them, they become a lot more powerful than one by itself,’’ he said.

While police and prosecutors dug into the backlog, they also sought to make sure

The study group included police, prosecutors and victims’ rights advocates who established protocols for investigating sexual assault cases.

“Every victim counts,’’ Eliason said. “It was setting standards. We want to make sure this never happens again.’’

Tasha Menaker, co-CEO of the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, praised Eliason’s efforts, but she said more work needs to be done for the legal system to treat victims with respect.

“I think it’s a positive thing,’’ Menaker said. “I’m pleased the kits are being tested now and I’m glad we have protocols in place.’’

But she said the backlog also demonstrates why many victims – an estimated 70 percent to 80 percent – don’t report sexual assaults to police, believing that the criminal justice system will ignore them.

“If you went through the effort to go through the exam and nothing happens, you feel your voice wasn’t heard,’’ Menaker said. “It’s a bigger issue than just the kits. At the end of the day, we still blame and stigmatize sexual assault victims.’’

While a sexual assault leaves an indelible scar on a women’s psyche, undergoing the 13-step rape kit examination can also be humiliating.

Throughout the metro area, victims are brought to facilities such as the Mesa Family Advocacy Center, where they can be interviewed by a detective and examined by a forensic nurse, who administers the sexual assault examination kit.

“If they have the courage to come forward, it’s a one-stop shop. You can tell the story once,’’ Lawes said.

For many years in Mesa, the sexual assaults kits had been sent to the Mesa Crime Lab the next day, with results generally coming back in about two weeks, he said.

“The backlog is not recent cases. It’s older cases when DNA testing was expensive. They were very judicious about which kits they tested,’’ Lawes said.

Many of these untested kits were on “he said-she said’’ cases in which the victim identified her attacker and consent was the key issue, Lawes said.

In some cases, DNA might tend to confirm a victim’s identification of a suspect, but it might not necessarily lead to an arrest because of the consent issue, he said.

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zle. Then, you have to overcome customs,’’ he said. “It was not possible to test everything back then. It was cost prohibitive.’’

Police understand DNA evidence much better today and take a broader approach, realizing it can not only identify suspects, but also link them to more than one incident, including cases in other states, through use of a federal databank, Tempe Detective Greg Bacon said.

“It’s something that will never happen again,’’ he said. “When you look back at the grand scheme of DNA, there may have been a disconnect on what DNA could do.’’

‘The power of DNA’

Paladino’s case seems like a classic example. In a sentencing memorandum, Jesus Acosta, his defense attorney, outlined a series of allegations that never resulted in sexual assault charges.

Gilbert police referred Paladino to juvenile authorities. He was placed on intensive probation for three years and received mental health treatment, according to a pre-sentence report.

But testing the old rape kits, dating back to 2003, linked Paladino to the series of assaults in which the victims told similar stories. The victims included a 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl.

A 17-year-old victim said Paladino dropped out of high school at the time because his nickname was “The Rapist,’’ according to a pre-sentence report. In Arizona, the age of consent is 18.

Mesa Police Sgt. Matt Lawes demonstrates how evidence is taken and then stored in rape kits that are then delivered to the city crime lab for analysis. (Kimberly Carrillo/ Tribune Staff Photographer)

In the report, Paladino claimed that he had sex with more than 200 women and had difficulty recalling details.

“He commented that his sex drive was ‘pretty high’ when he was younger and he was ‘a little rough,’ but he denied intending to hurt the women,’’ the report said.

Paladino generally claimed the sex acts were consensual, even though any sex act with an underage victim in Arizona is considered a sex crime.

“The defendant commented that when girls get upset, they accuse you of raping them,’’ the pre-sentence report said.

Acosta argued for leniency, saying that Paladino had given up drinking and had become a good family man, even running his own landscaping and auto repair

businesses.

“The defendant is deeply and sincerely sorry for his actions,’’ Acosta wrote. “Mr. Paladino has a conscience and he knows there is no excuse for his actions.’’

But a probation officer viewed Paladino much differently after reviewing reports of how his victims were traumatized, with one reporting anxiety, depression and a hospitalization.

“The defendant’s actions demonstrated he was more concerned with fulfilling his own personal sexual interests and desires than for any negative long term emotional or psychological impacts his actions could potentially have on his vic-

The sexual assault examination kit, which had been administered to Rios so many years earlier, had finally been tested as part of a national campaign by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. to clear up a huge backlog.

Tempe police had received a “hit,’’ identifying Rios’ attacker as Nur Muktar, backing up her original account. Rios had been unable to call Muktar, who had disconnected his phone. At that point, the case was going nowhere.

The detective told Rios something she thought she would never hear. Police were moving forward with plans to arrest Muktar and he would be prosecuted by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.

“It restored my faith in the system. Everyone can get justice,’’ Rios said, even if it took far too long in her case.

She said she felt vindicated. The news was jarring, but it also was what she al-

ways wanted.

“I get justice, that my story is was being heard, and that guy was going to jail for what he did.’’

Muktar, 40, who has an arrest record for several other crimes, including burglary and drug possession, was sentenced on March 8, 2018, by Superior Court Judge Peter Reinstein to seven years in prison for sexual assault and to lifetime supervised probation for attempted sexual assault. Muktar also must register as a sex offender.

Muktar pleaded guilty to the charges, sparing Rios from testifying about her attack in court.

“I didn’t need to be cross-examined and second-guessed. I’d have to relive everything again,’’ Rios said. “I will never forget’’ the attack.

“You are never quite whole again,’’ said Rios, 42, a medical transportation driver.

“It always stays in the back of your mind.’’

tims,’’ the probation officer wrote.

In the end, Paladino pleaded guilty on June 12 to one count of sexual assault and one count of attempted sexual assault. He was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Warren Granville to 5.25 years in prison and lifetime supervised probation. He also must register as a sex offender.

“Now, we understand the power of DNA,’’ Bacon said.

Rape victim tells what the rape-kit clearance meant

BY JIM WALSH Tribune Staff Writer

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he was jumped from behind, thrown to the ground and violated by an acquaintance in a vacant Tempe apartment.

For the next 15 years, Tracy Rios remained disappointed, losing her faith in the criminal justice system after she reported the sexual assault to Tempe police and identified her attacker. He was never prosecuted.

Rios went on with her life, trying not to let her unhealed emotional scar defeat her.

“I was told they couldn’t take it any further. It kind of hurt,’’ Rios said. “It’s sad. It makes us victims look like they don’t take us seriously.’’

But Rios’ world changed in early 2017 when a Tempe police cold case detective suddenly on her door and delivered some incredible news.

Instead, Rios accepted an invitation to tell her story at a press conference in New York City in March 2019, when Vance summarized the results of his rape kits campaign and she was one of four survivors to attend.

Although Rios said she was very nervous and overwhelmed by her first trip to New York City, she described the attack in graphic detail.

She had been to a friend’s birthday party on June 14, 2002. She had told Muktar she was tired and wanted a ride home.

She said Muktar told her he had one more stop to make nearby and he would drive her home after that. Rios trusted Muktar, who mysteriously had a key to an apartment.

After walking down a hallway, Rios said, she realized the apartment was vacant when she walked into the empty liv-

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ing room.

She said Muktar grabbed her from behind and threw her to the ground. She said she fought her attacker off as best she could.

Muktar eventually drove her home, telling her on the trip, “I hope we can still be friends,’’ Rios said.

She told him yes to please him, realizing she was still in jeopardy, knowing in her heart the opposite was true.

“I came home and I just cried. I knew

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work stoned.

“The opponents in 2016 weren’t wrong,’’ Pearson said.

“It makes sense to have employer protections,’’ she said. “Prohibition in a number of different industries needs to be included.’’

Pearson also said that allowing adults to buy and use marijuana won’t create the kind of situation that exists in some other places where people smoke it in public.

She said the measure will contain provisions from the Smoke Free Arizona Act which limits where people can now light up, such as in public buildings. And Pearson said there will be a specific prohibition against open use in public places, including parks and sidewalks.

“What we’re hearing is folks don’t mind the legality of it,’’ she said. “They just don’t want it in their face.’’

Less clear is whether there will be a provision automatically expunging the criminal records of those arrested and convicted in the past for marijuana possession.

But there’s also something else that could trip up this year’s version, an issue

not to take a shower because it would wash away the DNA evidence. I just cried myself to sleep,’’ Rios said.

Rios said she thanked Vance for shelling out the grants that finally got her and other survivors the justice they craved.

In turn, she said Vance praised Rios and the others for their bravery in telling their stories.

“I wanted to get my story out there to let other girls know there is justice and not to give up hope,’’ Rios said. “They let me down, but they made up for it afterwards.’’

that was raised in 2016.

That model would have given the owners of existing medical marijuana dispensaries – the people who financed the campaign – first crack at being able to sell for recreational use. That provision annoyed some voters.

Then there’s the question of local control about where and when marijuana can be sold.

Pearson said voters in Arizona appear not to want a situation that developed in Denver along the so-called ‘’green mile’’ of South Broadway Boulevard – which has multiple dispensaries, some selling only medical marijuana and others hawking the drug for adult use. There are no rules for how far apart these shops have to be.

“Folks don’t want it everywhere,’’ Pearson said.

To qualify for the ballot proponents would need at least 237,645 valid signatures on petitions by next July 2. Given the normal rate of disqualification, a more realistic goal might be north of 300,000.

Pearson declined to say how much the dispensaries and other interested parties have pledged to advance the issue; more than $6 million was spent on the losing 2016 proposal.

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to the Chandler Museum.

Members share story spaces and collection care for better productivity with limited resources.

In 2011, the Tribune’s former publisher announced to its newsroom that the paper was going digital and its files were not traveling with it when the staff moved to a new space.

Two reporters, Mike Sakal and Garin Goff, knew that the collection contained a wealth of information that just couldn’t be thrown in the trash.

They reached out to East Valley historian and president of the Mesa Preservation Foundation Vic Linoff, who contacted the members of the coalition.

The question then was, “This is bigger than any of us and this should be something that should be saved. Should we try to save it?” Crago recalled.

The affirmative answer from the coalition members was unanimous.

Linoff was told on a Tuesday or Wednesday that what was in the building was going to the dumpster by end of that week.

“I went down with a tape measure and clipboard and I wanted to see how many cubic feet of material there was and was told ‘no measuring. You’ve got to take it out right now,’” he said. “We loaded up my car and other vehicles and took it to my office so that it was all protected.”

By that point, the items were in grocerystore boxes and the organization system was gone.

“I just wanted to make sure that nothing happened to it. … Reporters were told to take what’s in your desk, everything else is going to trash,” Linoff said. “We came within a hair’s breadth of losing a substantial archive.”

Crago names Linoff and his wife, Vicki, as the “heroes of the story.”

“He knew that we, as organizations, were going to save the Tribune collection, and he had a building that wasn’t being used,” he said.

The next task was to find the best way to distribute the material because there were items from various cities.

The Tribune was established as Mesa’s first newspaper, the Evening Weekly Free Press, in 1891. For more than a century and taking in its stride dozens of new names and ownership changes, it has chartered the growth and development of the area.

The newspaper gradually snowballed by absorbing community publications such as the Tempe Daily News in 1980, Chandler Arizonan in 1983, Gilbert Tribune in 1990 and Scottsdale Progress in 1993.

Decades of the Tribune editions are stored in archives at the Chandler Museum. . (Srianthi Perera/Tribune Contributor)

The coalition decided to store it in Chandler because the city had a research library that was staffed five days a week and could provide the most accessibility to the public.

Eight years later, the archivists at the museum are still processing the find. Volunteers play a big part in the reorganizing. Grant help from Arizona Historical Society and Arizona Historical Records

Advisory Board, and funds from the city of Chandler and individual donors keep it going.

So far, the files of people’s surnames have been organized, and subject files comprising activities, events, buildings and businesses are being processed.

Slides are being organized by date.

Meyers, the curator of collections, said that the museum accepts volunteers of any age and experience level.

“There’s so much to do,” he said. Volunteers are expected to commit to helping a minimum of a few hours twice a month.

During the first year, the archives were removed from the grocery boxes and placed in bankers’ boxes.

As funds became more available, the paper, photos and slides were moved to acid-free boxes and folders.

Acid-free protection is the industry standard in archiving documents because lignan, a naturally occurring acid in wood fiber, is removed from the protective storage items.

So far, the oldNate Meyers, curator of collections at Chandler Museum, displays one of the acid-free est items noted in boxes containing old slides from the East Valley Tribune. (Srianthi Perera/Special to Tribune) the collection are

from 1911, when the Roosevelt Dam was opened, Meyers said.

The Tribune offices had a fire in 1956, and the collection picks up after that, with most items dating from the 1960s to 1980s.

There are files on presidential matters, including a Kennedy file; two boxes of files on former Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham, Justice Sandra Day O’Conner, Sen. John McCain and other Arizona stalwarts.

Then there’s the local content.

“For every image that ran in the paper, there were four to five images that didn’t run. It gives us the opportunity to get a really good sense of the East Valley,” Crago said.

Although pictures of the 1980s and 1890s seem fairly recent and less historical, Crago said they enhance the collection’s value.

“The ability to have this stuff documented is a real coup because the East Valley Tribune documented the Valley and we have the ability to then go back and see people, events, stories that were important at that point and gives us the opportunity to use that in exhibits, research, and all sorts of stuff,” he said.

Linoff said the collection is special because it represents the end of the analog era.

“By the time the paper left, everything was digital; it’s all on computer and on disk. These were the last hard records.

You have printed photographs, you have negatives, you have slides, nobody has that today, it’s now all digital,” he said.

“I’m absolutely thrilled and excited that we were able to save and conserve. We get so much of our research information from newspapers. And if this is lost, there’ll be no way to regain it,” he added.

Word is already out that the collection is available, Meyers said.

Media representatives, students, historians and researches have contacted the museum for access.

The ultimate plan is to digitize the whole collection for easy retrieval online.

A small portion of it is already available at chandlerpedia.org (see under “Named Collections”).

Crago is satisfied that the collection is now in a stable environment and not at risk.

“It’s a labor of love. Several people have had hands in this. Everybody realizes this is a resource and we don’t want to see it disappear,” he said. “It’s in Chandler, but it’s a Valley story. By sharing it broadly, everybody benefits from it.”

Details: chandlermuseum.org. To volunteer, write to Nate Meyers at nate. meyers@chandleraz.gov.

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Mesa asking residents for transportation ideas

BY JORDAN HOUSTON Tribune Staff Writer

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esa is seeking input from residents on how to better improve transportation means of all kinds throughout the city.

The city Transportation Department launched Move Mesa, a campaign designed to gather information and ideas for ways to boost the driving, walking and biking experiences in Mesa.

A two-minute resident survey posted on the department’s website features a variety of questions surrounding such commuting themes as more connected streets, better traffic flow, more bike lanes and more sustainable features incorporated into Mesa’s transportation grid.

Road-widening projects, shared-use pathways and traffic congestion are all touched upon in the survey.

“Reaching out to our residents is one way the City of Mesa plans our future,” Mayor John Giles said. “The input will help us prioritize upcoming projects that can range from more bike pathways to reducing road congestion.”

“I’m excited to see the results and learn how we can better serve the residents of Mesa,” he continued.

Some survey questions seek to determine priorities for safety – such as minimizing traffic congestion and removing bottlenecks – and others related to vehicle accidents and pedestrian safety.

Mesa is also focusing on providing “smart streets” through technology and infrastructure innovations.

Energy-efficiency technology for signals and streetlights, self-driving vehicles and synchronized traffic signals are all areas to be touched on in the future, explained transportation department spokesperson Amy McConnell.

“The survey has pretty broad questions and it’s very thematic,” she said.

“We wanted to make sue we’re getting the types of thematic things that people are most interested in so we can kind of capture the whole city.”

“We’re not asking about any specific projects at this point,” she added.

Mesa Moves was initially inspired by the previous Imagine Mesa campaign, according to McConnell.

Imagine Mesa was an interactive digi-

tal forum designed to engage Mesa residents, businesses and visitors to share ideas for shaping Mesa’s future by getting public input on community priorities back in 2017.

“The city got a ton of engagement from residents,” said McConnell. “But transportation isn’t as visible as culture departments or parks and recreation and so people know what they want for those more visible things but when it comes to infrastructure, crowdsourcing is not apples to apples.”

She said the city is now hoping to use Mesa Moves as a way to “recreate the magic” of Imagine Mesa, but in a way that would hone in on transportation priorities.

The campaign also drew part of its inspiration from the Southeast Mesa Land Use & Transportation Plan, which was tailored to update the land use and transportation portions of the 2008 Mesa Gateway Strategic Development Plan.

“Earlier this year, the Southeast Mesa Transportation studies we did had some community meetings,” said McConnell.

“We hosted two public meetings that had over 150 at each, so we were really excit-

ed to see that.

“But that was only one area of the city, so now we’re looking at this as a way to harness more ground,” she added.

Data collected from Mesa Moves will be provided to city staff to offer recommendations on proposed projects for potential implementation.

The Mesa Moves survey will be open for three months – but completing the survey is just the beginning of the information gathering process.

In the fall, the city will host a series of community meetings, interviews and focus groups to drill down into the details of what the community specifically wants regarding the transportation network.

“Transportation is a really big department and we have a lot going on,” said McConnell. “We all can make a decision on what to spend our investments on, but at the end of the day we want to be good stewards of our taxpayers – making sure we are delivering what they feel is priority one is very important.”

The survey will be open until Sept. 30 and can be found at mesaaz.gov/residents/transportation/mesa-moves.

Last big piece of private land along US 60 sold

BY JORDAN HOUSTON Tribune Staff Writer

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he last large plot of privately owned property along US 60 in Mesa has been sold.

Lee & Associates Arizona, a commercial real estate agency, said a 70-acre parcel at the northwest corner of Signal Butte Road and US 60 had been sold for $12.7 million to Bela Flor by an entity of Prudential.

The mixed-use site includes a half mile of US 60 frontage with a full diamond interchange, making it a prime location with easy access from the freeway, explained Lee & Associates Principal Brent Moser.

“The freeway visibility is very exceptional. If you look along US 60, there aren’t any large, privately owned pieces of land left,” he said. “Everything you see is owned by the state land department.”

“And it’s not a simple process to purchase a state piece; it has to go through an auction and bidding process,” he added.

The parcel also has a full traffic signal at Signal Butte and Hampton Avenue.

The development was originally planned as a Target-anchored shopping center with a mix of pads and other small shops but plans fell-through last minute.

Because of this, the parcel already has some built-in infrastructure, explained Moser, calling that a bonus.

“As things were falling apart with the national economy, right at end of the cycle of 2007 and 2008, once they [the previous buyer] got the infrastructure in, they decided not to build the project,” he said.

Now, the site is being repositioned as a mixed-use site with opportunities for retail, high-density residential, office, medical and hospitality.

The portion of land also has the upper hand in terms of its adjacency to other vibrant businesses and happenings, the principal added.

The development is surrounded by a Kohl’s, Walmart, Home Depot, Marriott Residence Inn, Mountain Vista Hospital, Sprouts, IHOP, Hobby Lobby, Firehouse

Subs and Kneaders.

It’s also projected to be near the upcoming Grande Vita, a BioCity campus designed to provide luxury spaces where seniors can “age in place” while also having access to top-notch medical services.

“I think it’s impossible to find a property where there’s a million feet of retail already in place adjacent to it,” he said.

“There are a lot of elements in place that make this a strong development site.”

Councilman Kevin Thompson, who represents District 6, told the East Valley Tribune that he is excited for the potential that this sale can bring to the district.

He hopes this parcel not only will attract a largely commercial retail base, he said, but also will fit cohesively with the rest of the city’s aesthetic.

“What I hope is that we will continue to push for the employment corridors and employment area,” he said. “Irregardless, one thing I’ll always continue to push for is quality because I think that’s what our citizens deserve – quality construction that doesn’t look mis-

matched.”

“I’m just hopeful that everything blends together and looks like a masterplanned development at the end of day,” he continued. “And not just a hodgepodge of stuff.”

The area’s characteristics have seen quite the transformation over the years.

With nothing but the Mesa Market Place flea market marking the region a decade or so ago, the area between US 60 and Baseline along Signal Butte is now densely commercialized – complete with an IMAX theater.

Moser said he thinks the sale is just another sign of east Mesa’s mushrooming growth.

“I think it represents that the real estate market is back – it’s been over a decade since we’ve seen this kind of activity,” he said.

“A project like this supports everything in place and kind of makes this a destination for this portion of the East Valley.”

Construction is expected to begin around the end of the year and will take about four to five years to complete.

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Guns and booze won’t mix at EV bar-shooting range

BY CECILIA CHAN Tribune Staff Writer

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un Club 82 in Gilbert may be offering booze and guns under one roof when it opens later this year, but the two will never mix, as far as owner Rod Ghani is concerned.

The Scottsdale CEO is building the indoor, upscale entertainment venue featuring 24 shooting lanes for laser or live fire, a VIP lounge with its own bourbon bar, retail store, a rooftop bar, outdoor patio and the Ti Ammo Restaurant and Bar, which will serve burgers and brick-oven pizzas.

The 31,000-square-foot building is under construction between entertainment behemoths Topgolf and Main Event on Santan Village Parkway, south of Ray Road.

“We are no different from other places out there,” said Ghani, who anticipates a midto late-September opening. “Any shooting range, every one of them, next to them is a bar. People can drink and go to the shooting range and no one will ever know.”

He pointed to Scottsdale Gun Club, which is less than a mile from establishments such as Loco Patron Brewery, K O’Donnell’s Sports Bar and Grill and Habaneros Mexican Grill and to the two C2 Tactical locations in the Valley. Both indoor gun ranges are within walking distance of bars and restaurants serving alcohol.

“We are safer than anyone else,” Ghani said.

Gun Club 82’s policy calls for scanning the driver’s licenses of those who purchase a drink. Once the ID is scanned, the patron will be blocked from entering the shooting area for 24 hours.

Even if one person in a group is the only one drinking, “we will scan every ID in the group so we block out the whole group,” Ghani said.

Anyone caught trying to sneak around the policy will be banned permanently from the establishment, he added.

People will be able to bring in their own guns and ammunition or rent from Gun Club 82, which will offer a full range of firearms — from handguns to machine guns.

Guns will be allowed only in the shooting area and a retail store offering over 45,000 products, including firearms, clothing and accessories.

Private lockers are available for people to stow their belongings before entering other parts of the three-story building. The locker room, shooting ranges and retail shop are separated by a wall and controlled doors from the rest of the building.

Gun Club 82 also will offer training classes for a fee, a banquet room and even

Nick Palmer, development manager, said they will monitor and get customer feedback to help improve the games.

The business also has S.M.A.R.T. technology, a shot analyzer that provides performance insights to help shooters Rod Ghani demonstrates one of the shooting range games his Gun Club 82 will offer improve their when it opens this fall in Gilbert. (Kimberly Carrillo/Staff Photographer) skills. a gunsmith on site who will build custom Ghani said he scouted over 50 locafirearms and do laser engraving. tions before picking Gilbert. The town apAlthough the concept of a shooting proved Gun Club 82 in 2017 but construcrange offering alcohol is not new, it is the tion delays pushed the project to this year, first for Arizona. according to Ghani.

And, Ghani pointed out, what is unique “It’s absolutely the right market, the deabout Gun Club 82 is it owns seven pat- mographics – the income level, families ented technologies. and interest,” he said. “All of that makes The shooting lanes come with 5th Di- this very attractive.” mension patented scoring technology — He won’t speculate on the anticipated the first reality shooting game with live foot traffic but pointed to the over 96,000 fire on a projected screen. visits to Gun Club 82’s website in the last Each lane features a user-friendly touch three months. screen monitor loaded with shooting ex“The interest is crazy,” he said. ecutrices and games, according to the The venue is targeting high-end users company. but mostly families and friends, according By the time the company opens, it will to Ghani. have over 30 games with more being addTwo corporations came in one day last ed, Ghani said. Games include Dead Hunt week inquiring about membership, he said.

Zombies, Saloon Shooting, Carnival Duck Gun Club 82 was a topic of discussion Hunting and Speed Target Shooting. on Facebook, which attracted over 300 comments from people mostly in support.

“This sounds like a fun, and safe place,” wrote Arial Leah Sims. “I may not be a huge fan of guns, but learning to shoot at a gun range interested me.

And the new technology that sounds similar to a video game would be a blast with the kids. Shoot first, then have some food and a drink.”

Gilbert resident Shannon Erting also applauded the project, saying it would raise her home’s property value.

A few like Margo Kendall weren’t convinced. “People will find a way around the license swiping requirement, have others purchase drinks for you, etc.,” she wrote. “I Gun Club 82 CEO Rod Ghani points to the retail area that will offer over don’t think this is a good 45,000 products ranging from firearms to clothing and accessories. (Kimidea.” berly Carrillo/Staff Photographer)

Wilshire Gun in Oklahoma City, which also serves alcohol, grabbed national attention in 2014 when CNN and Fox News reported on its debut.

The business has a similar lock-out policy as Gun Club 82 and employs highly trained staff and surveillance cameras to keep drinking patrons in check.

“We’re going to hit our five-year anniversary in September of this year,” said general manager Tyler Miller, who has a military background. “In those five years we only had two individuals that attempted to get onto our range after being locked out of our system and both times we caught them.”

Miller says the reason why such establishments garner attention is it’s out in the open. Just think, he said, of how many people are on shooting ranges after they have imbibed alcohol elsewhere and no one talks about that.

“We tend to discount it because we see the alcohol here,” Miller said. “Here in Wilshire we have it out in the open and we are able to address it with a coherent policy. Customers don’t see the level of control we have on this.”

He said the public tends to get the wrong idea when it hears guns and alcohol together in a sentence.

“It’s not like we got 100 patrons in there boozing it up and running out there with guns,” Miller said.

He said Wilshire has a café that serves alcohol and the upstairs Caliber Club, which has an actual bar that is rarely used during the day.

“We would have a handful of folks, 15, who want to sit up there and they want to have a private discussion or business lunch,” he said. “Most don’t even drink during the day. When people come in they don’t even bat an eyelash at this point after five years when they see the alcohol.”

Although there are fewer than 10 such establishments currently in the country, Miller sees a growing trend.

He said he gets roughly two or three phone calls a month from folks around the country interested in opening a “guntry club” — a high-end gun range with nice leather couches and offering amenities such as a cigar lounge, food and beverages, “chasing big-spend dollars in affluent markets.”

These places are less about guns and more about social spaces, offering an alterative for people who don’t want to hang out in a country club, Miller said.

“I’m committed to open six more out of state,” he said. “We believe we are the next Topgolf.”

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Blood supplies low, Red Cross pleads for donors

BY AMANDA SLEE Cronkite News

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he American Red Cross has issued an emergency call for help to address a shortage of blood across the country. The organization, which generally keeps a five-day supply of all blood types on hand, has less than a three-day supply of types A and B blood and less than a two-day supply of type O. There were about 450 fewer blood drives last week because of the Fourth of July holiday, which resulted in 17,000 fewer donations than what’s needed for patients in a week, the Red Cross said.

The emergency call is for all blood types.

“In the summertime, that is where we see the supply is low and the demand of course always remains high, if not higher in the summer time because of accidents,” said Colin Williams, who handles regional communications for the Red Cross in Arizona, New Mexico and the El Paso region.

The shortage has a number of causes.

Blood drives get canceled due to bad weather, and schools, which host blood

lected out there,” Williams said.

The Red C r o s s , which collects about 40% of the nation’s blood, depends on businesses and schools to set up b l o o d drives.

Chandler resident Karen Robinson volChandler resident Karen Robinson was proud she could donate blood as the Red Cross comes u n t e e r e d to grip with a severe shortage. (Amanda Slee/Cronkite News) for the American drives during the academic year, are out Red Cross in high school because she was for the summer. ineligible to donate blood, but this week “What happens is all these banks are she was proud to be able to give blood being affected by the same weather con- and support her daughter’s friend who’s ditions … the earthquakes out in Califor- been affected by the blood shortage. nia affect how much blood can be col“My daughter has a friend who has an

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autoimmune issue,” Robinson said. “She has to have IV therapy every three weeks … and they recently encountered a shortage of the plasma that she needed.”

Now through July 31, the American Red Cross has scheduled blood donation opportunities across metro Phoenix.

Williams said all blood types are needed, including O, which is the most versatile of all types.

“Absent of knowing a person’s blood type during an accident, let’s say they’re unconscious or incapacitated, the ability to use that type O blood … is vitally important,” Williams said.

The Red Cross last month launched the Missing Types campaign to encourage people to donate whole blood and platelets during the summer, when shortages typically occur. The letters A, B, and O, which designate the main blood groups, disappeared from various name brands. The goal was to show what happens when blood is missing during shortages.

Blood donations, despite the campaign, fell short, according to the Red Cross, with about 24,000 fewer donations across the U.S. than needed.

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Mesa boy’s love of sports undaunted by diabetes

BY ZACH ALVIRA Tribune Sports Editor

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arcus Hammack is a happy-golucky 9-year-old who always seems to light up the room with his contagious smile.

It’s not uncommon for him to put others above himself, whether it be his teammates on his baseball and basketball teams or his peers at Imagine Prep Superstition in Mesa.

But in March 2018, his grandmother noticed a change in Marcus’ demeanor while on a camping trip during spring break.

“He was being kind of disoriented and he wouldn’t get out of bed one morning,” said Alysha Hammack, Marcus’ mom. “My mom told us to keep an eye on him because she said something wasn’t right.”

Marcus showed signs of the flu. His face was flushed of color, he had trouble keeping food down and was weak. One morning, Marcus’ father, Andrew, found him lying on the bathroom floor.

He collapsed walking to the family’s truck. His eyes appeared to be sunken. He had become so weak that he couldn’t untwist the cap on a water bottle.

Alysha Hammack (left), Marcus’ mother, is impressed with the resiliency he has shown since being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in March 2018. “He takes every challenge and rises above it,” she said. (Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff)

“I took a picture of him and sent it to my mom,” Alysha said. “She told us we couldn’t wait for an urgent care to open and to get him to an emergency room.”

Marcus was immediately seen by doctors. Alysha said it was the fastest they’ve ever been seen at the ER. But had they

waited any longer, Marcus could have lost his life.

“His sugars were in the 800s and they told us he was basically going into DKA (diabetic ketoacidosis),” Alysha said.

“They gave him insulin slowly because if you do it too fast, it could cause brain

damage.

“He basically went into a coma for a couple days.”

Marcus was diagnosed with the most serious form of diabetes, Type 1, in which the pancreas can’t make insulin to regulate sugar levels. It can result in death by DKA if left untreated.

“Our whole world turned upside down,” Alysha said. “We had to go through training before we came home to learn about what we had to do. When we came home we just had to learn how to do everything.”

The American Diabetes Association estimates as many as 1.5 million people have Type 1 diabetes. People can be diagnosed at any age.

Marcus had to receive multiple daily injections of insulin when he arrived home from the hospital. Alysha and Andrew took shifts at night administering insulin every two hours.

Realizing how difficult it was for Marcus being woken up every two hours on school nights, he was equipped with a Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitoring System. Created by Mesa-based

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Mesa woman praised for early-childhood work TRIBUNE NEWS STAFF

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Mesa woman has been cited by First Things First for her volunteering work in raising public awareness of the importance of early childhood development and health.

Jeanie Pefferly was named the 2019 Southeast Maricopa Regional Champion for Young Children for First Things First’s region that covers Mesa, Gilbert and Queen Creek.

Pefferly is a bilingual care coordinator at Healing Hearts Pediatrics, which has offices located in Gilbert, Queen Creek and Chandler.

First Things First is a voter-created, statewide organization that funds early education and health programs to help kids be successful once they enter kindergarten. Decisions about how those funds are spent are made by local coun-

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cils staffed by community volunteers.

“Many organizations are working to

support early child development and health, and we can all contribute our time, our talents and/or financially to be involved in young children’s lives,” Pefferly said, adding: “Whether it is volunteering at an oral health fair or a 5k fundraising run, reading to kids at the library, organizing a playgroup for foster care, or being a member of an advisory board of a community organization, we all have something to offer. Our efforts all matter and work synergistically to benefit children everywhere.”

Pefferly has more than 16 years’ experience working in child development, parent support, home visit-

ing, advocacy and community resources and networking for children and families, including special needs.

Pefferly invited First Things First to facilitate training with pediatric providers who interact with families daily so that the medical team can learn how to raise awareness of the importance of early childhood.

The providers now consistently share the organization’s materials, paired with early childhood messages, with parents and caregivers.

“Pefferly also works with local school districts and other community partners to bring resources and early childhood information to families of young children to help build nurturing and stable environments for children and prepare them for kindergarten,” First Things

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Northwestern Mutual honors kids’ cancer network

BY COLLEEN SPARKS Tribune Contributor

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ore children and families impacted by cancer will get support and resources to build brighter futures thanks to a $50,000 grant Northwestern Mutual awarded to Children’s Cancer Network through its Gilbert office.

The financial company’s foundation gave the organization one of its 2019 Childhood Cancer Impact Awards.

Joe Morris, managing director for Northwestern Mutual–Gilbert, presented the $50,000 grant to Patti Luttrell, executive director of Children’s Cancer Network, at the cancer network’s office in Chandler.

Morris is also on the board of directors for Children’s Cancer Network, a nonprofit organization that provides gas and food cards, as well as other practical items, along with holding social events and offering many other services to families affected by cancer.

The grant will allow Children’s Cancer Network to provide more gas and grocery store gift cards to families with a child

Patti Luttrell, executive director of Children’s Cancer Network, receives a $50,000 grant from Joe Morris, managing director for Northwestern Mutual – Gilbert on June 20 at the Children’s Cancer Network headquarters. Pablo Robles/Staff Photographer)

who has cancer and help support scholarships for survivors.

Morris said he had friends who were im-

pacted by the disease.

The Northwestern Mutual office Morris heads, as well as other Valley branches,

have helped Children’s Cancer Network in many ways. It has sponsored Run to Fight Children’s Cancer, bought back-to-school items for families struck by cancer, volunteered at the organization’s lunch and fashion show and assembled goodie bags for cancer survivors.

“Being new to the board, it was just pretty cool that I was able to help deliver this check for $50,000,” he said. Northwestern Mutual launched its Childhood Cancer Program in 2012 to find cures and offer support to families and patients.

The program has given more than $20 million to the cause, with the help of its employees and financial advisors around the country, and that paid for more than 240,000 hours of research.

Northwestern Mutual’s Childhood Cancer Program also leverages nonprofit partners, including Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation and Beads of Courage, to offer patient, parent and sibling services to help families live their lives to the fullest.

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If sugar levels are too high, the pump administers insulin. If low, it can automatically stop all deliveries.

“It has arrows that tell him whether it’s going up or down and whether he needs sugar right away,” Alysha said. “That really helps especially when he is playing basketball or baseball. You don’t have to prick all the time. He can just look at his watch or phone and get a reading that way.”

The device has allowed Marcus to continue playing sports like he did before his diagnosis. He plays first base for Skyline Little League in Mesa, taking after his favorite player, Paul Goldschmidt. He also plays basketball through CCV Stars.

Marcus recently helped his baseball and basketball teams win their league championships.

“It felt good,” Marcus said. “We celebrated for that and baseball.”

Marcus said his device doesn’t get in the way when he plays. Sometimes, he forgets it’s even there.

Alysha was concerned with how kids

at his school or at local parks and swimming pools might react to the device. But there have been no issues, especially given Marcus’ positive outlook on the entire situation.

“He wears his Dexcom like it’s his badge of honor,” Alysha said. “If people ask, he just says, ‘Oh, that’s my pump. My pancreas is a quitter.’ He just goes with the punches.”

Marcus has proved to be resilient throughout his life. He was born with amniotic band syndrome, a rare condition that causes limbs and other body parts to be entangled in loose strands from the amniotic sac. He had multiple surgeries as a result, including one that was three hours long when he was just 9 months old.

“I just couldn’t help but think how much one kid has to go through,” Alysha said.

“But we know no matter what he goes through, nothing will keep him down.”

Marcus is currently in a new season of basketball, playing games every Saturday.

He runs up and down the court with the other kids, not showing any signs of his chronic illness.

He refuses to let it affect him in a negative way.

“He’s a total rock star,” Alysha said. “He takes every challenge and rises above it.”

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First spokeswoman Sheri Collins said.

“She continuously looks for new collaborations and has created an excellent network of community partners that provide resources and information that can strengthen the parenting skills of families of young children because she knows that learning begins at birth,”

Collins added.

Pefferly also created resource areas within pediatric offices so that parents and caregivers have ready access to materials that provide early childhood information, tools and tips.

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s we prepare for our first day of school, July 23, I want to take this opportunity to thank the families of more than 46,000 students for entrusting Chandler Unified School District (CUSD) with their children’s education.

We are honored you have chosen CUSD and believe our efforts to create a menu of personalized learning experiences to meet the varied interests and needs of students is unprecedented.

Our success starts with a visionary Governing Board that is providing a road map to make Chandler Unified the top school district in the nation. Expectations are high, but our staff is up for the challenge.

In 2018-19, our staff proved that by

achieving a score of 92.9 percent on our annual goals. Please visit our website at cusd80.com, where progress is carefully monitored through our 10-year strategic plan, Journey 2025.

In order to meet those high standards, our teachers and staff work hard to prepare students for life and career, create diverse paths for learning, develop global understanding, provide student-centered learning and engage parents in the success of their child.

With the support of our parents, our students value diversity, think critically and creatively. And, just as importantly, they become problem solvers, engaged learners and service-oriented citizens.

We pride ourselves in being the premier district of choice by continuing to add programs that adapt to the needs of the future workforce and interest of students.

Our newest endeavor is the development of the Institute for Cyber Operations

and Networking, which will open at Basha High this year.

This cybersecurity program will provide four years of high school curriculum, offer a pipeline to higher education in partnership with Chandler-Gilbert Community College and the University of Arizona and help address concerns of a global shortage of roughly 3.5 million cybersecurity professionals projected in the immediate future.

The cybersecurity curriculum is the latest among a number of choices and safe learning environments for our families to select.

We pride ourselves on providing outstanding educational programs at all grade levels, including: • Free full-day kindergarten • K-8 self-contained gifted programs (Chandler Academically Talented Students) • Knox Gifted Academy

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Traditional academies Mandarin Chinese and Spanish Language immersion programs • Elite Performance Academy for our serious young student-athletes • Accelerated Middle School • STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) diploma • Nationally recognized academic, fine arts and athletic programs • College preparatory advanced placement instruction • Accelerated International Baccalaureate study • Science and biotech classes that promote critical thinking • Chandler Online program • Access to a variety of quality preschool and afterschool programming Academic achievement is among the

learning is an art. We in Kyrene are very fortunate to have many master artists in our classrooms.

You only have to walk through any one of our schools to see kids working together to solve a problem, or hear a poem a student crafted on their own, to know that we are truly making a difference in the lives of children.

of a comprehensive social-emotional curriculum.

If we are truly committed to making a difference in the lives of children, the addition of counselors is a key piece in achieving that goal.

We know that providing support beyond academic interventions to all students is critical to their ability to perform at their full potential, as it helps them to develop resiliency and strategies for coping with risk factors and provides an additional layer of protective factors that will improve the overall social-emotional wellness of our students.

relevant teaching strategies and the development of practices for attracting job applicants from diverse backgrounds.

We have already begun the work of focusing on restorative justice opportunities to close discipline gaps and ensure all students are treated fairly.

In addition to our work with Corwin, we have engaged with the University of Virginia, Partnership for Leaders in Education to prioritize a set of schools who have historically had achievement, behavior and opportunity gaps.

The purpose of this initiative is to empower district and school leaders to create an equitable, inclusive and just system for every student by relentlessly pursuing transformational leadership, teaching and learning in our RISE UP schools.

Our commitment is that every child in Kyrene feels like they belong and can

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Kyrene to unveil several major initiatives, programs

BY DR. JAN VESELY Kyrene Schools Superintendent

“We are born makers. We move what we’re learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands.” – Brené Brown A new year is about to begin. All Kyrene students start school on Aug. 1, and families are encouraged to join us for Meet the Teacher nights on July 29 (elementary schools) and July 30 (middle schools).

Over the summer, I have been reading the works of researcher and storyteller Brené Brown, and I came across the quote above.

Brown says we are born makers, moving what we learn from our heads to our hearts and, finally, through our hands.

I see this in action every day in Kyrene schools.

At its best, the process of teaching and

Social-emotional learning

The year ahead welcomes several exciting initiatives across Kyrene. This year, we are expanding our efforts to provide students with social-emotional learning and supports.

We began this work two years ago with the middle school design, and are in the process of extending social-emotional learning into our elementary schools.

This work will include the addition of school counselors to our elementary campuses, as well as the implementation

Equity impact

Equity is also a key focus this year, as we work with expert partner Corwin to build systems of support that identify and eliminate bias.

This will include professional development for staff, support for culturally

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High school students must now learn financial literacy

BY DEENA LAGER Tribune Guest Writer

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s students head back to school in the coming weeks, they will be getting a new opportunity to learn the skills they need for the future.

This spring, Senate Bill 1184, also known as the financial literacy bill, passed in Arizona’s Legislature and was signed

by Gov. Doug Ducey.

The bill, which had strong bipartisan support along with the business community, makes it mandatory for all high school students to take a financial literacy class as part of their general education requirements.

The move couldn’t come at a better time for our students and the state as a whole. Indicators are found everywhere showing the struggles Americans have with their finances, and it’s clear our youth have a great deal to learn about

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highest priorities in the district, as evidenced by test scores that exceed state and national averages. Every year we ask the public to judge us by the graduates we produce. Our graduating class of 2019 experienced a banner year. In addition to state and national honors in academics, fine arts and sports, we experienced a record number of 43 National Merit Semifinalists.

Our graduates earned more than $150 million in college scholarship offers, 22,238 dual college credits and provided 113,569 service-learning hours!

Please visit our website for an extensive list of accomplishments. The commitment of our staff, students and families lead to wonderful outcomes.

As you can see, I am very proud of our students and dedicated staff.

If your children are not enrolled in our schools, I hope you will give us an opportunity to serve you. I am so sure that we can find the right school environment for your child that I invite you to contact my office at 480-812-7600 so that my staff and I can assist with placement for this year.

money management.

By the end of 2018, American consumers were looking at $67 billion in new credit card debt, while total credit debt had grown to more than a trillion dollars.

In fact, one out of every eight millennials has a debt in collections. Student loan debt is at an all-time high, more than $1.46 trillion as of 2018.

There are many reasons this is occurring, but most indicators point to a lack of basic financial literacy, or the skills and knowledge needed to make informed and effective decisions with all financial resources.

For example, a 2018 Harris Poll showed that only two out of every five adults has a household budget.

Likewise, the same percentage of Americans do not pay their bills on time, subjecting them to late fees and other penalty charges, which will inevitably have a negative effect on their credit scores.

For Arizona, the news is not all bad.

The state ranks 19th nationally by a Wal-

letHub survey for financial literacy. But we can do better and that’s what this bill is all about.

In my role as director of the Arizona 529 Family College Savings Plan (AZ 529), I spend a great deal of time talking to families and individuals about the importance of financial literacy. I want to help more students have the opportunity to attend college without taking on massive debt.

AZ 529 plans are designed to help families put money aside while earning important tax breaks. A little savings now can make a big difference in the future. Each dollar saved today for college can prevent two dollars in student loan repayment in the future.

For many families, the savings process starts with simple choices.

Do I bring lunch or eat out? Can I make coffee a few times a week instead of stopping at the coffee shop? Should I put that vacation on the credit card or save for it in advance?

thrive regardless of their race, gender, income or ability.

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New beginnings

2019-20 sees two long-sought efforts come to fruition in Kyrene. After two years as a candidate school, Kyrene Middle School has been named an official International Baccalaureate school.

The I.B. Middle Years Programme will put a global lens on all education at KMS, to help prepare students for future career and college opportunities. We have also spent the past two years “Imagining the Possibilities,” and will be welcoming the first cohort of students to a new educational model within Kyrene de las Manitas this year.

Facilities staff have been busy creating a learning studio that will include stateof-the-art technology and areas where students can build, perform and experiment with hands-on activities.

The teaching team, under the direction of a certified teacher executive designer, has been working on developing experiential/project-based lessons in preparation for the first day of school. We an-

ticipate great work to emerge from this unique approach to learning.

We are starting the new school year with a balanced budget while honoring strategic initiatives and salary increases for teachers and staff, which, in today’s education landscape, is not an easy task.

Kyrene has always had the support of its community for our bonds and overrides, which allow us to minimize severe budget deficits that other districts face.

Even so, our margin is very small, and each year, we must identify opportunities for efficiencies, that do not impact our effectiveness, so that we may continue to fund new and innovative programs that allow us to prepare our kids for the future.

This year, we invited the community to work with us in identifying budget priorities. We asked our parents, community members, teachers and site leaders to review and prioritize areas of budget reductions as well as new initiatives. This feedback informed the final budget for the 2019-20 school year.

Strategic Plan 2022

Throughout the coming year, we will continue to measure our progress against

The more tools people have for their financial lives, the easier these choices become. And that’s precisely what this bill is trying to provide – tools for soonto-be adults.

Researchers working on a study for the Federal Reserve found a direct link between financial education in school with higher credit scores and lower debt. In a different study, the same authors found that students who participated in Financial Literacy classes made decisions that led to lower student loan debt by the time they graduated from college.

While this may not be a solution for all of our financial concerns, it is certainly a step in the right direction – a step that is extremely important for the state and our future.

- Deena Lager is director of the Arizona 529 Family College Savings Program administered by the Arizona Commission for Postsecondary Education. Information: AZ529.gov.

the goals set forth in the Kyrene Strategic Plan 2022.

As I reflect on our work in recent years, I appreciate the progress we’ve made toward those goals of high-performing students, high-quality talent, collective governance, inclusive culture and creating a responsive organization.

This progress can be attributed to the hard work of our amazing school leaders, teachers and staff, the leadership and support of our Governing Board, and a highly engaged parent community.

We will continue to report our progress to the Governing Board and to our community so that we remain true to the vision for Kyrene, that all students achieve at their maximum potential to become problem-solvers, creators and visionaries of tomorrow.

I believe that each child has his or her own special gifts and talents waiting to be discovered. I look forward to seeing those gifts emerge as we progress through another exciting year.

My wish for the 2019-20 school year is that we can move learning from our students’ heads, to their hearts and through their hands, to make learning come alive for them in ways they never imagined.

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In-home EV tutoring service is family-friendly

BY CECILIA CHAN Tribune Staff Writer

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ractions and long division didn’t come easy for 9-year-old Emily Hernandez.

It came to a point when Diana Hernandez realized that the help she was giving her 5th-grade daughter wasn’t enough.

So, she turned to Tutor Doctor East Valley.

“She’s showing progress on math at home when she practices,” the Gilbert mom said. “She is enjoying math, which makes me happy.”

Emily has been meeting with her tutor twice a week for nearly a month.

What’s different about Tutor Doctor is the instructor will come to a person’s home and a key point is the tutor is matched to the learner based on learning style and personality.

“I think the single most important element is the match,” said franchise owner Kimberly Selchan, a Gilbert resident.

“Whether it’s a college student being matched with the subject or a tutor to a kid who’s lost motivation or confidence and a tutor comes in and believes in them and starts to get results. It’s amazing.”

Selchan opened her franchise in January and currently employs over 40 tutors – mostly teachers or college students who are subject-specific, such as calculus. The tutors’ backgrounds and academics are vetted thoroughly.

Tutor Doctor started 15 years ago and has locations serving more than 200,000 families in 15 countries across the world, according to the company’s website.

Selchan’s franchise has 38 students

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from Gilbert, Chandler, Mesa and Ahwatukee in all age ranges, from a 4-year-old to a 53-year-old Mesa mom who decided to go back to college and earn her degree in biochemistry.

Tutor Doctor customizes a learning plan based on a comprehensive assessment of students’ strengths and weaknesses.

Besides learning a particular subject matter, students also are taught skills such as working memory, sustained attention and performance monitoring to become better learners that serves them well after school.

For instance, Selchan said, if students are missing deadlines to turn in assignments, they are taught time-management skills.

“We’re not just tutoring in math without giving them the approach to tackle it,” she said.

Selchan regularly meets with her tutor and so she knows them, which is important in pairing them with a student. In turn, she asks students during the assessment qualities of a teacher they’ve enjoyed and other information to get clues of the person they would respond to the best.

For instance, she may have a student who thinks no one understands him or her and thus is not willing to be open to listening to anyone. She would match that student with a college student, who may have gone through that phase not too long ago.

The tutor becomes more of a mentor and guide for the student, Selchan said.

“If you get a tutor who inspires them, they will get over the hurdle,” she said.

“They will not progress unless they find a purpose.”

Emily was matched with an older tutor named Chuck.

“She thinks he’s super-nice and he is very patient with her,” Hernandez said.

“She talks about him like a grandpa.”

How often students meet with a tutor depends on their schedule and how far behind they are academically.

“If they are in the 6th grade but the assessment is closer to 4th grade, which is really common, they’d need three to four sessions a week,” Selchan said. “If they need a little edge, the average is twice a week.”

The majority of the students prefer the tutor come to their homes for instruction, according to Selchan.

The big thing is the convenience factor ,and families realize their children have already tried the institutional learning model in the classroom and need something more, Selchan said.

For Hernandez, she’s having the tutor meet with Emily at a library because there’s too much disruption at the home with two younger siblings.

Tutor Doctor’s subject offerings include math, science, language arts and test

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The business also provides tutors for special-needs students and for online tutoring.

Math, with calculus at the college-level, is the most requested by students for tutors, according to Selchan. Another popular request is test preparation for the SAT and ACT, she added.

Although Selchan comes from a sales career spanning over 20 years, Tutor Doctor was a good fit for her, she said.

Her skills in building strong teams and delivering the best to clients and employees translated well into her new gig.

“I want to help those who want help,” Selchan said. “For kids, their job is school.

We teach kids to understand how to do their job better and find its value. And when we have families that want that service and are willing to commit to the education process, the model was a win.”

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n the last 10 years, incidents of skin cancer have gone up by more than 50 percent nationwide – which means Dr. David Kelly is a pretty busy physician.

The Gilbert resident is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who deals with the ravages of skin cancer.

The job can be challenging for Kelly, one of the partners of the Center for Dermatology and Plastic Surgery – which has grown to nine clinics across the Valley, including Chandler and Gilbert, since he joined the practice in 2015.

“I do a lot of skin cancer reconstruction on the head and neck, nose, eyelids, ears,” he said, recalling how one of his more challenging surgeries involved the reconstruction of an ear.

“It basically was the entire ear,” he said.

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the sun. And the age range of patients is virtually limitless.

The sun generally inflicts most of its damage on people before they turn 30, but skin cancer can take decades to develop. Moreover, when older patients were that young, sunscreen products were not nearly as effective as they are today.

Consequently, “We definitely have a lot of patients 60, 70, 80,” Kelly said.

“But being in Arizona, we see a fair amount of younger people in their 30s Dr. David Kelly is a plastic surgeon at the Center for Dermatology and and 40s with some pretty significant skin cancers,” he Plastic Surgery. (Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer) added. “I see a lot of pediatdifferent surgeries to reconstruct the ear, ric patients that pediatricians and dermarebuild it and put new cartilage in the ear tologists send me.” to help support the ear.”

Of the 19 different medical providers He sees a lot of the damage that unpro- at the Center for Dermatology and Plastected skin can suffer from exposure to tic Surgery, Kelly is one of three different

types of physicians.

Besides dermatologists, the center also has Mohs micrographic surgeons.

Named after Dr. Frederick Mohs, the founder of micrographic surgery, the procedure removes cancerous tissue while removing as little of the healthy tissue as possible.

They usually are the physicians whom patients see before Kelly, who has two Mohs surgeons on his team, in the hope that radical reconstructive surgery might be averted.

“Most patients will come in and they have a spot that’s not healing,” Kelly said.

“So we’ll biopsy it and once we determine it actually is skin cancer, then I normally work with a Mohs surgeon.

“They’ll look at the skin underneath the microscope immediately and make sure all the skin cancer is completely gone.”

But what happens if the Mohs surgeon removes enough tissue to create disfigurement? That’s why Kelly and the Mohs sur-

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Chandler hospital offering home visits

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ome people who have asthma, pneumonia, dehydration and other pressing medical conditions will be able to get treatment and checkups at home through a new Chandler Regional Medical Center program.

CommonSpirit Health announced recently it is introducing the new hospitallevel home care operation, Home Recovery Care, which will allow many patients to avoid repeat visits to the hospital.

The Catholic healthcare nonprofit was created through the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health, and CommonSpirit Health hopes to expand its service throughout all of Dignity’s hospitals.

This type of hospital-at-home model has existed for a long time, but it has not seen widespread use.

Home Recovery Care’s complex outpatient care management provides better

Chandler Regional Medical Center is touting its new home visit services. (Special to the Tribune)

health outcomes, boosts patients’ satisfaction and reduces re-admission rates to hospitals, among other benefits, according to a news release.

When a patient is evaluated at the emergency room at Chandler Regional Medical Center, he or she can get visits as needed from a nurse in their home and regular

physician checkups through video visits over the course of 30 days.

Dr. Yagnesh Patel, vice president of medical affairs for Dignity Health – East Valley, and a longtime internal medicine specialist, said it is an “interesting program” with various benefits.

“A lot of patients desire to be treated at home rather than a hospital,” Patel said.

“Being in a hospital is stressful to a lot of people. There is a convenience factor at home.

“All the anecdotal statements we’ve heard from other patients (say) patients do recover quicker because they are at home. They feel much more safe and secure in their own environment other than being out of the house.”

Patel noted “all sorts of stuff that happens in a hospital that cannot happen at home, cross-contamination from other patients.”

“We try to prevent it. There’s still a risk,”

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geons coordinate their schedules with patients.

“I work hand in hand with them,” he said, explaining, “Nobody wants to have half their ear missing and wait a week or so to see another doctor. So, when that patient is done with having a skin cancer removed, I can do” reconstructive surgery if needed.

“It’s in my same office. I meet patients, evaluate them, talk about what we need to do, how we need to fix this, and then we try to do that the same day. That way it’s just easier for the patient.

“That makes a big difference, and that’s one of the things that attracted me to this practice.”

A Utah native, Kelly did his post-graduate medical training in North Carolina and Kentucky.

He recalled how in North Carolina, “most patients have to wait one to two weeks to get to see a plastic surgeon, so they have a bandage on their nose or the ear for a week or so. That’s just not the best way to handle things.

“It increases the risk of infection, doesn’t have as good of an outcome. So, the way it is here, it’s nicer for the patient. We can evaluate immediately.”

Kelly, whose brother is an oral sur-

Dr. David Kelly is flanked by staffers, from left, Kayla Wood, CJ Swindle, Dru Nutlouis and Courtney Cox .(Kimberly Carrillo/Tribune Staff Photographer)

geon and a longtime Gilbert resident, had an lifelong ambition to become a doctor – partly because his father is a pediatrician.

“Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to be a surgeon, but I didn’t know what kind of surgeon,” he recalled.

But then he had the chance to go to Africa and Guatemala, where he helped doctors treat children and adults with significant burn injuries and birth deformities.

And those transformations he helped

work on led him to plastic and reconstructive surgery.

“I liked the concept of plastic s u r g e r y, that we basically operate on like the entire body,” he ex p l a i n e d .

“We can operate on adults, children.

We kind of

run the gamut.

“When I was a medical student and resident, I just loved the skin cancer aspect of it – taking care of patients with large skin cancers on their face and helping them. There’s an immediate sense of satisfaction in reconstructing the nose or the ear or the eyelid or whatever.

“So that’s what attracted me, the variety. Every day is something different….

If the patient has a skin cancer on the nose, I don’t know if it’s going to be a small skin cancer or if it’s their entire

nose that I have to reconstruct. So, it’s challenge. You kind of have to use your creative skills trying to figure out how to reconstruct and how to solve their problem.”

And the potential for challenges is always there, especially since post-cancer reconstructive surgery accounts for 60 percent of reconstructive and plastic surgery that the Center for Dermatology and Plastic Surgery handles.

The rest is cosmetic, such as face and neck lifts, eyelid and breast enhancements and what Kelly called “mommy makeovers.”

Kelly – who with his wife of 18 years, Ashley, has four children ranging in age between 3 and 12 – doesn’t let the skin cancer part of his work dissuade him from hiking and running.

“That’s one of my favorite things about living here is being able to be outside most of the year,” he said.

But Kelly takes no chances and thinks everyone should follow suit – meaning a nearly slavish attention to wearing protective clothing and good sunscreen at virtually any time under the sun and getting a skin cancer checkup every year.

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he added.

The program will likely relieve some of the constraints at Chandler Regional Hospital, where there is high patient volume at times, he added.

People with certain conditions will be able to take advantage of the Home Recovery Care program, but they are not obligated to use it.

The goal is to later expand it to patients who go to Dignity Health Mercy Gilbert Medical Center and St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center.

Nurses will visit patients at their homes once a day or once every few days at their homes and be on call to address any issues. Home Recovery Care will contract with nurses at a home health company to offer the services, Patel said.

“When we send a nurse (to a) home, that nurse has to be trained to a certain degree to answer questions, to be able to monitor the recovery of the patient, changes in therapy,” he said.

Patel said some conditions this new service will be ideal to handle are skin and soft tissue infections, as well as pneumonia, congestive heart failures and exacerbations of asthma. The diagnostic work of figuring out what is wrong with a patient

will first have to be done in the hospital.

Judith Karshmer, dean of the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University, loves the idea of Home Recovery Care. She is a longtime psychiatric clinical nurse specialist.

“In a word, it’s brilliant,” Karshmer said.

“It’s exactly where healthcare needs to be moving. You can heal better at home. You

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when a patient gets hospitalized and discharged, the changes in reimbursement policies.

“If a patient is readmitted within 30 days (to the hospital), that will be a payment reduction (from a health insurance company) to the hospital. It’s a gamechanger for healthcare and I think it’s going to be the kind of thing that people are

Any of us who have ever had to spend time in a hospital as a patient, it’s noisy, there’s a lot going on, It’s not familiar.

At least if you’re home you can tolerate a lot more.

I think it’s amazingly wonderful.

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- Judith Karshmer heal better with your friends, your family, your loved ones.”

She said the home healthcare also means “less wear and tear” on the hospitals, and patients will be exposed less often to “dangerous things in the hospital.”

“This is where I think healthcare is going,” Karshmer said. “In some ways, much of this was originally motivated by

going to expect.”

Patients will feel more comfortable being ill in their own homes, she added.

“Any of us who have ever had to spend time in a hospital as a patient, it’s noisy, there’s a lot going on,” Karshmer said.

“It’s not familiar. At least if you’re home you can tolerate a lot more. I think it’s amazingly wonderful.”

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She predicted this type of home health care program will expand to more hospitals.

“It’s gonna take off,” Karshmer said. “We are going to see more and more of this.

Hospitals are going to love the fact that they’re going to be able to have a connection with their patients.”

She said there will be some challenges to it and organizers need to carefully plan what types of conditions they will treat at home.

“These are the kinds of innovative approaches to the future of health care that we at Edson College really support,” Karshmer said. “It’s about the patient and it’s not about the provider.”

For now, Humana health insurance is the only health insurance company participating in the program, helping to cover some of patients’ costs through the service out of Chandler Regional Medical Center.

However, Chandler Regional Medical Center is negotiating with other health insurance companies and Medicare to try to determine payment mechanisms, Patel said.

“It’s innovative,” he said. “It is definitely the way of the future.”

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Auschwitz visit becomes more than a history lesson

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e should be finished with Auschwitz by now.

After three-quarters of a century, the subject should be closed.

It shouldn’t be necessary to write about the place.

It shouldn’t be necessary to go there.

And it wouldn’t be, if “never again” were true.

But something deep and dark and evil roils beneath our facades, and new Auschwitzes erupt, time and again.

Sometimes the scale approaches that of the original, as in Rwanda, 1994, or the concentration camps currently being built by China for ethnic minorities.

And sometimes it’s the work of a single warped mind – slaughter at a Pittsburgh synagogue, at a Charleston church, at a New Zealand mosque.

Too many such occurrences have been the stuff of recent headlines, too much political rhetoric is steeped in hatred to sustain any hope that this is a thing of the past.

So, you go to Auschwitz – the real one, the vast murder factory in southern Poland – on a stormy summer day because, ironically enough, it is not a dead place.

It exists as a living symbol of something that still is very, very wrong.

One should not expect that an Auschwitz tour is designed to be pleasant.

For one thing, the number of visitors has soared to more than 2.2 million annually, more than 6,000 for each day of the year – meaning you have little elbow room and little time at many of the exhibits.

For another, security is super-tight, a reminder that the hatreds that spawned this place have not died. Indeed, in 1992 neo-Nazis tried to burn down a Jewish museum at the Sachsenhausen camp in Germany, seeking to erase physical evidence of their spiritual forebears’ crimes.

But then, why should a visit to Auschwitz be pleasant on any level?

If the tour guide rushes you at forcedmarch pace through the rain and thunder, remember those for whom every day here was a forced march to and from 11

The Nazis tried to hide their atrocities by demolishing this crematorium at Auschwitz, but Allied Forces got there before they could finish. (Special to the Tribune)

hours of hard labor on starvation rations.

If the basement in Barracks 11 is musty and dark and crowded, remember that this is where the first successful experiment with mass gassing took place, and remember the hundreds who died in this little space before the Nazis moved on to larger venues for their depredations.

If the security seems irksome, if you’re peeved because you have to stow your backpack before your tour, remember that at the end of the day you’ll get it back – unlike those who left their suitcases beside the rail line as they were led away to death.

Auschwitz was by no means the oldest Nazi camp, but after the Germans conquered Poland in 1939, it quickly metastasized into the largest because of its excellent railroad connections. It was a staggeringly vast complex so huge that its major portions are designated Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Auschwitz III-Monowitz.

The latter is of note because it was built by a German corporation, IG Farben, which found the use of slave labor an excellent way to reduce payroll expenses.

A typical tour will take you only to the first two Auschwitzes. Frankly, that’s enough.

The original portion, Auschwitz I, could pass as a college campus with a little spiffing up. The Nazis found the former Polish

army barracks a handy ready-made prison, but too small for their ultimate aim to rid Europe of non-Aryan undesirables.

It is here that you’ll find some of Auschwitz’s most compelling and damning exhibits.

In one room, off-limits to photography out of deference for the dead, mounds of human hair lie moldering behind glass walls.

In others, a mountain of suitcases, piles of combs and brushes, truckloads of shoes and cooking utensils. Long walls bear large portraits of victims, complete with dates of arrival and death. The Nazis did like to keep records.

One display notes the color-coded symbols used to differentiate various classes of prisoners. Yellow, of course, for the Jews. Red for political prisoners. Pink for homosexuals. Purple triangles for Jehovah’s Witnesses.

The latter, by the way, presented a special problem for the Nazis. Unwilling because of their Christian beliefs to worship Hitler or the symbols of his state, and unwilling to take up the arms of warfare, the Witnesses stood alone among Germany’s religious groups as perceived enemies of the Reich.

The Witnesses could have left Auschwitz and other camps simply by renouncing their faith, but by far the majority chose martyrdom over compromise.

This suggests that history might be different had Germany been suffused with believers of similar backbone.

Incredibly, despite the preservation of Auschwitz and other camps and despite irrefutable reams of documentary evidence, there exist individuals who insist on denying the Nazis were bent on genocide.

In answer, an easy-to-overlook exhibit is on display in Auschwitz I. It’s a portion of the memoir penned in prison by Rudolf Hoess, who was the camp’s longest-serving commandant.

Hoess recalled being summoned to Berlin in 1941, there to be told by Heinrich Himmler: “The Fuhrer has ordered that the Jewish question be solved … the existing extermination centers in the East are not in position to carry out the large actions which are anticipated. I have therefore earmarked Auschwitz for this purpose.”

Auschwitz served the purpose well.

Historians have settled on numbers to the effect that 1.3 million people – Jews, Poles, Russians and others – were sent there. Of these, 1.1 million died.

The Nazis tried to cover this up in the last days of the war by blowing up the gas chambers and crematoria in Auschwiz II, but even here their memoirs damn them.

Hoess writes that the large number of murders required a more efficient means than bullets, and that only gassing would do. Besides, he notes with no apparent sense of irony, the gassing served the purpose of sparing the tender feelings of SS troops who otherwise would have had to look women and children in the eye while shooting them.

The tour of Auschwitz I and II requires some four hours of fast-paced walking, a bus ride between the facilities and the ability to absorb a torrent of narration from a guide whose face and voice can barely conceal her anger over what went on here.

One wishes it were only history rather than a living indictment of the human capacity for blind allegiance to rulers who set themselves up as little tin gods, fanning the flames of racial and nationalistic hatred for their own selfish ends.

Never again?

Think again.

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Aidan Lee embracing hard-work mentality of Desert Ridge program ing around everywhere,” Hathcock said.

“But I told him he needed to work hard in order to earn a spot. Once he figured eremy Hathcock has built the Desert out how to work, I mean look at him, Ridge High School football team into he’s become a great player for us.” a blue-collar program since he took Lee sat out the first half of his sophoover as head coach in 2006. more season due to the Arizona InterThe team revolves around hard work scholastic Association’s transfer rule. He and dedication both on and off the field, played in just four games, catching 10 two aspects that Hathcock admits is passes for 122 yards. tough for some to get used to. But once He wanted to become a breakout playbought in to the program’s foundation, it er for Desert Ridge and his love for the often leads to success. game immediately grew to new heights.

“We are a tough program,” Hathcock With that came a new mentality toward said. “We like to get after it and that can offseason work. be tough for some kids.”

“I really started to take it serious in Desert Ridge wide receiver Aidan Lee high school,” Lee said. “I went out on learned about Hathcock’s blue-collar the field and ran routes. I got faster and mentality early on in his high school ca- stronger. I knew I could be good, so I reer. stuck with it.”

Lee began practicing with Desert Injuries plagued the Jaguars last seaRidge heading into his freshman season son. A concussion in the first game of the but chose to attend nearby Highland season resulted in quarterback Cooper High School. After his freshman sea- Schmidt sitting the rest of the year. Runson, however, former Hawks coach Pete ning back Lucas Wright missed time due Wahlheim was relieved of his duties. to a variety of injuries.

At that point, Lee asked Hathcock if he Desert Ridge’s offense changed every could return to Desert Ridge. week, but each formation gave Lee a At first, Hathcock was reluctant. chance to prove he was one of the most “We didn’t want a guy that kept mov- talented athletes in the state.

“We tried to get him the ball any way possible,” Hathcock said. “It was a tough year for all of us with injuries and guys having to step up when they weren’t ready. But we learned a lot about our character and who we are.”

The Jaguars finished the 2018 season 3-8, their worst record in Hathcock’s tenure. Despite adversity surrounding the team, Lee had 472 all-purDesert Ridge High School football coach Jeremy Hathcock has seen a vast improvement pose yards and in Aidan Lee’s work ethic since he first worked out with the program before his freshman two touchdowns. season. Hathcock expects Lee to be one of the top wideouts in the state for the 2019 “I have high

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season. (Zach Alvira/Tribune Staff)

standards for myself,” Lee said. “This year will be different. I know that to do that I have to keep grinding and getting on cue with Austin (Kolb).

“We just need to continue to work as a team, and overall we will be successful.”

Lee has shined in spring and summer passing tournaments, often overpowering defenders.

The chemistry he and junior quarterback Austin Kolb have established throughout the offseason is a vast improvement from last season, and it has started to spread to other playmakers on Desert Desert Ridge senior wideout Aidan Lee has embraced the blue-collar mentality of the Desert Ridge High School football program. His dedication to the game and Ridge’s offense. hard work during the offseason have resulted in several Division I scholarship ofLee said he’s put on fers. (Zach Alvira/Tribune Staff) nearly 20 pounds of muscle since the end of the 2018 season. posing wideouts at defensive back. Lee But despite the added weight, his speed has embraced the expectations, and has improved and he has taken the phys- has continued to put in more work to further improve his craft. ical aspect of his game to a new level.

He’s come a long way since his freshColleges have begun to take notice. man year, when Hathcock believed he Lee was offered a scholarship to was afraid of the amount of work expectNorthern Arizona University in Februed of him at Desert Ridge. Now, however, ary, his first Division I offer. His second he’s become one of the lead examples in offer came on April 2 from Army. Since the Desert Ridge program for what hard then, Lee has received offers from New work can help a player accomplish.

Mexico State, San Jose State, Abilene “He used to be one of those really good Christian and Montana State. athletes that didn’t know how to work “It started slow, but it’s been really hard,” Hathcock said.

“He lacked that vismooth,” Lee said of his recruitment. sion for himself.

“I’ve been waiting for this moment for “But I think now he knows what he is a while. I just need to stay patient and capable of.” keep doing what I am doing.”

Lee is expecting Desert Ridge to have a strong season, and he plans to contribute in a big way. He’s aiming to have at least 40 receptions for 1,000 yards and 15 touchdowns. He believes that if he can do that, it will set up the rest of his Contact Zach Alvira at zalvira@ teammates for success. timespublications.com and follow him Hathcock expects Lee to play both offense and defense this season, as he is on Twitter @ZachAlvira. confident in his ability to lockdown op-

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More high school games available online

BY JOSEPH CAULO Cronkite News

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ollege and professional sporting events aren’t the only games fans can enjoy from the comfort of their homes. Websites now livestream multiple high school games a week. All you need is a Wi-Fi connection.

This gives Arizonans the option of watching on a laptop or tablet instead of from the grandstands.

Live online content became easily accessible about six years ago when the National Federation of High Schools Network offered subscriptions to livestreams of high school sporting events across the nation.

A subscription to NFHS costs $9.95 per month, allowing viewers to watch any game any time, live or replay Due to the local demand in Arizona, websites such as AZPreps365 and PrepSpotlight.TV have also worked to bring fans even more livestreams of Arizona high school sports.

The demand for these online streams is “definitely increasing each and every year,” said Mark Koski, CEO of NFHS. “The NFHS Network has 1.1 million monthly subscribers. That subscriber base started very low, but we’ve had an average growth rate of 52.5 percent each and every year on average.”

A subscription to NFHS gives people access to every stream across the nation.

This number has especially increased within the past couple of years as demand for streams continues to grow.

Koski said the NFHS Network had about 40,000 events last year but expects to have 100,000 events this year.

“It’s really increasing the overall number of events because the demand is so great,” he said.

From high school football to water polo and everything in between, the NFHS Network is expanding to more livestreams, giving local high schools a platform to broadcast any of NFHS’ 27 recognized events.

This rise in demand for more livestreams will likely continue as the quality and availability of streams improve. Better technology and equipment being used to film the games mean a better viewing experience for fans.

“The quality (of the streams) has definitely gotten better over the last few years,” said Tyler Cerimeli, a Phoenix resident who enjoys livestreams of high school football games on the AZPreps365 website. “I remember when I first started watching the streams (in 2015), they were grainy. You couldn’t really tell what was going on, but now they’re pretty sharp.”

Cerimeli travels often for his job with U-Haul, so the streams are a practical way for him to stay connected with Arizona high school football.

“I’m usually out of town on the weekends,” Cerimeli said. “I sit in my hotel room and can watch Arizona football if I’m in New York or LA. It’s pretty cool.”

Seth Polansky, sports information coordinator with the Arizona Interscholastic Association, manages the content for the AZPreps365 website and has noticed an uptick in people viewing their high school football “Game of the Week.”

“Our highest viewed Game of the Week broadcast was the Centennial at Casteel (football) game,” said Polansky about the weekly subscription-free broadcast.

When combining the number of liveviews and replays of the game, the contest has been viewed over 2,100 times on the website.

The game featured two defending state champions in football opening the 2018 season against one another, which led to high interest and viewership among Arizonans. Nearly 1,700 people tuned in live to watch the action, the highest number of live viewers for any game streamed by AZPreps365.

That is an exceptionally high number

of live views considering that the 2018 5A state semifinal game between Notre Dame Prep and Williams Field had the second-highest rating with 590 live views. The other 12 high school football games that were streamed live on AZPreps365 as the “Game of the Week” averaged about 210 live-views per game.

Sports such as high school men’s and women’s basketball are also broadcast live on AZPreps365, and Polansky believes the website’s live sports coverage and subsequent audience as a whole will grow “as the Valley continues to expand and grow.”

Amy Faucher, executive producer for PrepSpotlight.TV and Operations Manager at School Space Media, also believes the interest in live streams isn’t receding anytime soon.

“Many people have kids and have easy access, and as technology continues to provide more and more opportunities, people will become more interested,” Faucher said. “School Space Media as a company produces over 400 games a year, and that’s continuing to grow.”

Faucher believes live streams will continue to rise in popularity in Arizona and other states.

“As sports fans become more savvy, they realize these kids are going to be professionals,” she said. “As scouting and everything continues to grow, this is just one more way for exposure for the high school kids.”

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Soap stars bring multifaceted show to Phoenix

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Progress Staff Writer

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hen “General Hospital” stars Bradford Anderson and Steve Burton decided to hit the road and promote their individual talents, fans weren’t sure what to think.

Their characters – computer nerd Damian “The Jackal” Spinelli (Anderson) and mafia hitman Jason “Stone Cold” Morgan (Burton) – are polar opposites, but their relationship works – just like offscreen.

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show, fans know they’re going to see something fun,” Burton said. “They don’t know they’re coming to see an actual show. They’re pleasantly surprised.

“They learn Jason Morgan has a personality and how Bradford can sing. Nobody knows that. He’s theatrically trained. Basically, it’s a live version of ‘Dumb and Dumber.’ You’ll definitely see a lot of dumb stuff.”

Anderson is a little less silly about the description of the show that comes to CB Live at Desert Ridge Marketplace on Monday, July 15.

“It’s 90 minutes of music and comedy based on the world of ‘General Hospital,’” Anderson said. “There are a lot of stories about ‘General Hospital,’ an interactive Q&A, and a little bit of everything.”

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The Payson Book Festival hosts area authors

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Book lovers last year flocked to the fourth annual Payson Book Festival. This year, the fest promises to be even bigger. (Marie Fasano/Guest Writer)

rea authors will be among some 90 Arizona writers who will be featured at the fifth annual Payson Book Festival.

The festival — 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. July 20 at the Mazatzal Hotel and Casino on Highway in Payson — is sponsored by the Rim County Chapter of the Arizona Professional Writers.

The free, family-friendly celebration of books and literacy offers something for all ages.

Youngsters can have fun in the Kids’ Zone with story times, activities and a puppet show produced by children.

Workshops run all day with favorite authors and Western singers.

Three Chandler authors are among the writers who will be at the book fest: Marc David is a veteran journalist whose writing career spans four decades, during which time he has covered the sports spectrum, from world boxing champions to the Olympics. He has writ-

ten for lifestyle and health magazines.

The Pennsylvania native, who now resides in Chandler, writes books, contributes articles to newspapers and is available for speaking engagements.

He is an everyday runner who enjoys travel. He has written three nonfiction books: “The Addicted Runner,” “Available Male Tale” and “1,001 Things You Didn’t Want to Know.”

First-time novelist Howard Gershkoitz’s work has appeared in print and online, in such prestigious publications as Michigan State University’s quarterly and the Arizona Consortium of the Art’s Blue Guitar. An avid science fiction fan and history buff, he’s studied at Arizona State University’s Piper Creative Writing Center in Tempe.

He writes both poetry and fiction, and has won several awards for his work, including first prize in the 2018 Tempe Creative Writing contest for his poem, “Window on the Square,” judged by ASU faculty and students.

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songs, comedy and discussions about their podcast, “That’s Awesome.”

“We finish the show with a mock theme from ‘General Hospital,’” Burton said.

The CB Live gig will feature some improvisation, but Burton and Anderson stress they will come prepared.

“Within the bits, though, there is a lot of room for us to play,” Anderson said.

“There’s no work on the audience’s part.

We do allow for a very short Q&A just for the people who have burning questions.

This is the one time they can ask Steve Burton what kind of hairspray he uses.”

“Or if I wear boxers or briefs,” Burton

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At a time of life when most people begin to slow down, Kathy Peach decided to head for the Southwest to live near family after being in Tennessee her entire life.

She followed her dream of earning a college degree and writing a children’s book. Peach graduated from Arizona State University in December 2014, with a degree in early childhood/early childhood special education.

It was during the children’s literature class where she was introduced to a

interjected playfully.

One question Burton refuses to answer is his favorite love interest.

“That’s called ‘death by answer,’” he said with a laugh. “There’s no right answer in that question.”

The two plan shows according to the location, so fans, say in Phoenix, won’t see the same show twice.

“We have such an amazing relationship with our audience,” Anderson said. “It’s so easy to have fun with them. We’re so comfortable with them. It’s an amazing room full of human beings.”

Burton and Anderson’s shows have evolved organically. It began as a concert, but then fans wanted to know if they

method of writing quality children’s literature. In developing “The Tiniest Tumbleweed,” she tries to convince readers they can believe in a life filled with limitless possibilities.

Another festival author will be Nan C. Cataldi of Ahwatukee.

Born and raised in a small town in western Pennsylvania, she raised her two children in Richmond, Virginia, and ultimately retired from the medical profession and moved out west.

Since she was youngster, she has had a talent for storytelling and a great

imagination. Her first book, “Rafie the

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could ask questions.

“We thought, ‘Let’s really craft a show,’” Anderson said. “He and I have a great energy on stage. We thought, because we were performing in comedy clubs, we could try comedy. That’s scary, right?

“We were singing cover songs, like ‘Don’t Stop Believin’.’ If you sing ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ in a room full of ’80s music fans, you’re going to be a hit. But with comedy, you’re a little more yourself and vulnerable. We were a little nervous and unsure if fans would find us funny.

But it worked. It’s really fun for us to be creative.

“We get to present something prepared just for them that’s out of our brains and

Rattlesnake, Come Home!” is a children’s picture book that recently received a fivestar review from Readers’ Favorite.

She is currently finishing the third book of the “Keys of Being” trilogy and will have a new picture book, “Silver Light and the Red Canyon,” coming in 2020.

IF YOU GO

What: Fifth annual Payson Book Festival.

Where: Mazatzal Hotel and Casino in Payson When: 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. July 20.

Tickets: Free

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heart. We’re very lucky, though. Our audience is friendly. No tomatoes are thrown.”

Anderson and Burton have been touring together for 12 years, performing close to 40 sold-out shows. Prior to that, Burton met with fans on his own.

“The great thing we get to see on the road are generations of fans who have passed on the ‘General Hospital’ ritual,” Burton said. “We see, say, four generations of fans—grandmother, mom, daughter and her daughter. It’s an amazing thing to see. It means a lot that we can shake hands, hug fans and thank them for watching the show.

“It means so much to them to see us and tell us we’ve been a part of their family.”

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For more information, please call (480) 782-3200 or you may contact us through email at chandler.housing@chandleraz.gov. For people who are deaf, deaf-blind, hard of hearing or having difficulty speaking, contact 7-1-1 to connect to Arizona Relay Service The City of Chandler Housing and Redevelopment Division is committed to fully complying with all state, federal and local laws involving non-discrimination and equal opportunity. Any person who believes he/she needs a reasonable accommodation to participate in any program of the City of Chandler Housing and Redevelopment Division should notify our office at least twenty-four hours prior to the date when the accommodation will be required.

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CALL OF ELECTION OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SPECTRUM IWDD No.48 Notice is hereby given to all qualified electors of the above District that an election to fill three (3) vacancies on the Board of Trustees created by the expiration of the three (2)year terms will be held on the 20th day of November, 2019.

In order to vote in this election, a qualified elector mnst own real property located within the district's taxable boundaries at least ninety (90) days prior to the election. Persons desiring to become a candidate for the position may obtain nomination petitions and nomination papers from: Spectrum IWDD No. 48 2928 S Spectrum Way Gilbert, AZ 85295-6276 In order for a person's name to appear on the ballot, nomination petitions and nomination papers must be received no later than August 22,2019 by: 5:00PM at: Spectmm IWDD No. 48 2928 S Spectrum Way Gilbert, AZ 85295-6276 Voters may, at time of election, write in a candidate's name of their choosing who has not submitted a timely nomination petition hut who has submitted a nomination paper to the district office listed above by Thursday, August 29,2019.

DATED this 14th day of July, 2019.

Morgan Neville Board of Trustees Chairman Spectrum Irrigation Water Delivery District #48 Published: East Valley Tribune, Jul 14, 21, 2019 / 21923

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STATE OF CALIFORNIA-DEPT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS--WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD SPECIAL NOTICE OF LAWSUIT (Pursuant to Labor Code 3716 and Code of Civil Procedure 412.20 and 412.30) WCAB NO.: ADJ11134601 TO: DEFENDANT, ILLEGALLY UNINSURED EMPLOYER: DEAN MEYER Aviso: Usted esta siendo demandado. La corte puede expedir una decision en contra suya sin darle la opportunidad de defenderse a menos que usted acute pronto. Lea la siguiente information. DOUG MELANSON, Applicant vs. DEAN MEYER, et al. Defendant(s) NOTICES: 1) A lawsuit, the Application for Adjudication of Claim, has been filed with the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board against you the named defendant by the above-named applicant(s). you may seek the advice of an attorney in any matter connected with this lawsuit and such attorney should be consulted promptly so that your response may be filed and entered in a timely fashion. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney reference service or a legal aid office. You may also request assistance/ information from an Information and Assistance Officer of the Division of Workers' Compensation. (See telephone directory.) 2) An Answer to the Application must be filed and served within six days of the service of the Application pursuant to Appeals Board rules; therefore, your written response must be filed with the Appeals Board promptly; a letter or phone call will not protect your interests. 3) You will be served with a Notice(s) of Hearing and must appear at all hearings or conferences. After such hearing, even absent your appearance, a decision may be made and an award of compensation benefits may issue against you. The award could result in the garnishment of your wages, taking of your money or property, or other relief. If the Appeals Board makes an award against you, your house or other dwelling or other property may be taken to satisfy that award in a non-judicial sale, with no exemptions from execution.

A lien may also be imposed upon your property without further hearing and before the issuance of an award. 4) You must notify the Appeals Board of the proper address for the service of official notices and papers and notify the Appeals Board of any changes in that address. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS! Issued by: WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD Name and Address of Appeals Board: WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD 160 PROMENADE CIR. 3d Floor; Sacramento, CA 95834 Name and Address of Applicant's Attorney/Form completed by: Gold Country Workers' Comp Center PC Kim La Valley PO BOX 1070; Nevada City, CA 95959 TEL: (530) 362 7188 Notice to the person served: You are served as an individual defendant.

Published: East Valley Tribune, July 7, 14, 21, 28, 2019 / 21865

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